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Speaker 1: Welcome to a Wednesday Atation with Texas All access from

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Speaker 1: the Hounday Texans Radios studio. Looking at that beautiful logo

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Speaker 1: right now. I am your host, John Harris, football analyst,

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Speaker 1: sideline reporter for your Houston Texans. So glad you are

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Speaker 1: certain way. So pads add a certain additional stimulus when

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Speaker 1: don't use it, then you can move it out however

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Speaker 1: you want to do it. So whatever the rules are.

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Speaker 1: We're always in compliance with those, so it doesn't necessarily

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Speaker 1: change anything. It's just the stimulus that the player has

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Speaker 1: to exert. And carrying your pads. I mean, look, everybody

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Speaker 1: knows what that's like. He's at longer in the year

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Speaker 1: you carry your pads, but you've been carrying them for

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Speaker 1: however many weeks on Sundays, so I think everybody kind

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Speaker 1: of knows what pads feel like when they put them on. Okay, Nick,

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Speaker 1: thanks a lot for joining us. Good luck this week.

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Speaker 1: Thanks guys, it's always great. Catch it up with the

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Speaker 1: GM of your used to Texans. Nick Cassa, you do

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Speaker 1: that every single Wednesday evening. Hope you like it. Coming

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Speaker 1: up next a guy that Nick Casserio signed this offseason.

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Speaker 1: The name is familiar. His two brothers have been in

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Speaker 1: this building, and now it's time for Scott Quisenberry to

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Speaker 1: make a name for himself right here with the Houston

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Speaker 1: Texans on Sunday against his former team, Deep City did

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Speaker 1: a little deep slant. What Scott Quisenberry, It's next in

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Speaker 1: the man's Texas Access Time from und of Texans Radios.

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Speaker 1: Do you appreciate you being here with me? Your host

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Speaker 1: John Harris. It's not my ninth year of doing this,

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Speaker 1: and love being with you every Wednesday at this time

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Speaker 1: during season, out of season. Love being with you. Appreciate

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Speaker 1: you guys being here. I also am a huge fan

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Speaker 1: of DP SINU and DPN. I you can hear calling

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Speaker 1: I will call a game with Randy McAvoy deep. You

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Speaker 1: will be down the sidelines for that one. And here's

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Speaker 1: my you know John Lopez and Landy Locker have been

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Speaker 1: having these lunchtime confessions. Well here's my dinner time confession.

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Speaker 1: But dpad's work to do before that, and that was

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Speaker 1: catching up with a little deep slant interview with Scott Quisenberry.

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Speaker 1: So here we go, Deepe, take it away. It's a

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Speaker 1: Deep Scent one on one presented by Vicfinity. Joining me

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Speaker 1: this week, Scotty Questenberry, Scottbars feel like I feel like

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Speaker 1: you're Squatty since then met your entire family and here

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Speaker 1: you are starting for the Texans. How does your five

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Speaker 1: feel for you? So far? Good? Definitely a little different.

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Speaker 1: Wasn't what you know, we kind of anticipated going in,

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Speaker 1: but you know, we're making it work and we're getting

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Speaker 1: better every week. Yeah, you did not know that you're

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Speaker 1: gonna be the center when you signed here this soft season,

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Speaker 1: so a lot of things changed. But how much did

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Speaker 1: just playing in the preseason help even though you weren't

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Speaker 1: with the same starting five that you're with now. Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: you always plan to be the starter, really well, at

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Speaker 1: least that's what I kind of feel. Always prepare like that,

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Speaker 1: and when your numbers called, just make sure that your

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Speaker 1: teammates trust you and believe in you and have that

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Speaker 1: respect for you, and no now building the chemistry with

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Speaker 1: the guys. Obviously, I played with Titus and j quite

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Speaker 1: a bit in the preseason, so I was pretty good.

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Speaker 1: But you know, K miss and time with injury, and

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Speaker 1: then LT miss and time in the games because you

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Speaker 1: know it's protecting him because he's just a stud and learning,

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Speaker 1: helping them to come along and kind of grow. This

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Speaker 1: whole thing hasn't been too challenging. You know, they listen,

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Speaker 1: and you know, they trust my communication skills and they

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Speaker 1: trust me to help them get into the right place,

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Speaker 1: and then they just handle the rest. All right. You

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Speaker 1: speak of communication skills. The one thing that I've heard

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Speaker 1: mentioned it that you communicate really well. You're a great

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Speaker 1: communicator sometimes maybe even an overcommunicator. Yeah, well, I mean

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Speaker 1: your position, No doubt. You'd rather you know, over communicate

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Speaker 1: the noner communicate. So I just, you know, I just

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Speaker 1: do my best to make sure that you know, we're

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Speaker 1: all on the same page. And if we're all on

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Speaker 1: the same page and it's the wrong page, you can

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Speaker 1: kind of get stuff done. That way, you can get

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Speaker 1: away with it a little bit of times, but obviously

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Speaker 1: the objective is to get everybody on the right page

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Speaker 1: all the time. Is he over communication? Maybe because those

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Speaker 1: guys are veterans and they kind of know what's happening,

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Speaker 1: and you need to do that. For some of the

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Speaker 1: younger guys on the line, like say, Kenyon, I'm you know,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I kind of treat it as if

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Speaker 1: it was the same. You know, if I had the

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Speaker 1: four greatest offensive linemen playing around me, I'd probably still help.

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Speaker 1: It's just kind of in my nature and like I said,

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Speaker 1: just trying to get everybody on the same page all

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Speaker 1: the time. The one thing I've heard about this system

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Speaker 1: with Pep Hamilton is that there is a lot more

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Speaker 1: communication expected of the center. How does it feel for you?

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Speaker 1: I know you and Pep were together with the Chargers,

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Speaker 1: he had a different role, but coming here to the Texans,

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Speaker 1: is it different from how you've played center in your

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Speaker 1: career prior? Yes, well, so my first three seasons are

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Speaker 1: two seasons in the NFL. I had the benefit of

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Speaker 1: being with Philip Rivers, who kind of just handled everything.

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Speaker 1: And then when I was with the Chargers, we drafted

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Speaker 1: Justin and Justin is a very you know, he wants

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Speaker 1: to be great and do all that stuff, but it

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Speaker 1: was a lot put on his plate really early. And

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Speaker 1: so with Pet coming in, it kind of transformed in

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Speaker 1: the center and the quarterback worked way together, way more

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Speaker 1: than ever had in the past. So I knew that

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Speaker 1: coming here that it was going to kind of be

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Speaker 1: the same way with Davis being a young quarterback still

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Speaker 1: learning and you know, us putting in the time and

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Speaker 1: being able to take stuff off of his play. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: as soon as you found out that you were the starter,

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Speaker 1: how does that work? Then you need to immediately start

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Speaker 1: getting more reps with Davis? Do you work extra with him?

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Speaker 1: How do you guys get on the same page? Is

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Speaker 1: it already in place? As far as like the snap,

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Speaker 1: you know, the center quarterback has changed, there wasn't really

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Speaker 1: any big adjustment there because we had done so much

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Speaker 1: in the training camp and in the preseason, and then

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Speaker 1: as far as just communicating, Davis trusts me to make

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Speaker 1: the right call at the beginning of the play and

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Speaker 1: if he has to do something within the framework of

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Speaker 1: the play, you know, we all trust him. So there

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Speaker 1: hasn't really been much of a crazy transition period. It's

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Speaker 1: been pretty smooth, I would say. And you know, like

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Speaker 1: I said, we're just getting better every week. Are you

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Speaker 1: an over communicator off the field as well? Something that

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Speaker 1: you're like off the field? No? Yes, if you ask

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Speaker 1: my wife, I'm not a good communicator, so I really yeah,

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Speaker 1: So I guess just when it comes to you know,

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Speaker 1: my career and my job. I guess I am, and

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Speaker 1: you know I'm working on that at home. For sure.

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Speaker 1: She must be really surprised. And when she hears all

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Speaker 1: these comments about you being an overcommunicator, well I don't

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Speaker 1: think so, because she knows how much time I put

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Speaker 1: in and how important it is to me. So not

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Speaker 1: saying that she's not. But that's really funny. I thought

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Speaker 1: you'd be. You'd go home and you'd give like a

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Speaker 1: play by play of dinner and like what you're doing

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Speaker 1: now and what everyone needs to do next. I really

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Speaker 1: wanted to picture you like that in you No, not really,

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Speaker 1: Oh disappointing. Sorry, all right. So you grow up in LA,

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Speaker 1: you went to UCLA, you play for the Chargers, and

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Speaker 1: you moved to Texas. What's Texas been like? I love Texas.

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Speaker 1: The food's been awesome. Yeah, the food in Houston's great.

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Speaker 1: The people in Houston are great. You know. I've enjoyed

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Speaker 1: my time here. The weather has definitely been an adjustment.

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Speaker 1: It's definitely hot, but not California down here, No, yeah not,

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Speaker 1: but it felt nice out there today practice so um.

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Speaker 1: But for the most part, all in all, two thumbs

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Speaker 1: up for up. Well, we know your brothers really will David?

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Speaker 1: I covered him when he was a rookie. Then Paul

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Speaker 1: was here last year. So it only is fitting that

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Speaker 1: we've got you here. And so since we know and

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Speaker 1: the fans know the three brothers as well, I had

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Speaker 1: a few questions just to get to know the three

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Speaker 1: of you better collectively. All Right, First of all, you're

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Speaker 1: the youngest, right three? Okay? So out of the three

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Speaker 1: of you, David, Paul and yourself included, who is the funniest? Me? Really?

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Speaker 1: Are you just saying that because you're biased? No, it's me,

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Speaker 1: It's true. Okay. Who's the most competitive? Me? I can

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Speaker 1: see which way this is going? All right, who's the

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Speaker 1: mama's boy? Me? Really? Is it because you're the youngest? Well,

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Speaker 1: when I was young me? Not as much me anymore?

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Speaker 1: Who is it now? I plead the fifth? But when

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Speaker 1: when we were younger, it was me for sure? Okay,

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Speaker 1: best all around high school athlete? Me? What their sports

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Speaker 1: did you play? It's me or David. David was football

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Speaker 1: and lacrosse, and then I was football, basketball, track and field.

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Speaker 1: But I mean, like, if we're really talking about it,

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Speaker 1: it's me. I did football, I did basketball, I set

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Speaker 1: the school record and shot put not too my own horn,

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Speaker 1: but I did, you did. I also did the high jump,

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Speaker 1: which a lot of people don't know. Okay, I was okay,

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Speaker 1: I jumped five ten, which is pretty good. That's great

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Speaker 1: to seventy so um overall at high school. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: go with me that. I'm so impressed that you did

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Speaker 1: the high jump. Usually got offensive lineman, defensive linemen. They're like,

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Speaker 1: shot put, Yeah, I did shot put, I said the

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Speaker 1: school record. Yeah. Up to that, yeah. I was just

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Speaker 1: kind of messing around at practice one day and then

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Speaker 1: our coach was like, you know, you could get us

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Speaker 1: points and I was like, okay, so I started doing it.

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Speaker 1: All right. I think you should lobby to be like

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Speaker 1: a receiver or something out there with this vertical and

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Speaker 1: not anymore. But you know before a goal line package

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Speaker 1: out to be all over it, but not anymore. All right?

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Speaker 1: Who is the best cook? Me? What do you make?

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Speaker 1: What's your signature? Dish um love, he's coming over for dinner?

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Speaker 1: What are you making? I do make a really good

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Speaker 1: like mediterranean chicken sandwich with like so the chickens marinated

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Speaker 1: and then like bell peppers, and then I put the

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Speaker 1: goat cheese in the oven and broil it till it's

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Speaker 1: all golden brown with tomatoes. I love Mediterranean food, my favorite,

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Speaker 1: but that's probably my go to. We're actually having them tonight. Okay,

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Speaker 1: worst cook, I don't know worse, but I would say

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Speaker 1: I'll go most basic is Paul. Paul eats like rice, rice,

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Speaker 1: ground beef, and avocado three times a day for seven

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Speaker 1: days a week. It's just not in the food or

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Speaker 1: meat head. Okay, better student me. I was like, he's

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Speaker 1: gonna say me, you were Are you really for real?

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Speaker 1: Best subject that you had? Well, the only reason I

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Speaker 1: say me best subject, I don't know. I was kind

657
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Speaker 1: of pretty good all around, but the math none of

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Speaker 1: us are really good at. But the only reason that

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Speaker 1: I say me is because I had the best GPA

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Speaker 1: in high school. I scored the best on the ACT.

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Speaker 1: I also had the best GPA in college, although I

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Speaker 1: didn't go to the most difficult college Paul went to

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Speaker 1: the most difficult college, and but I did have the

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Speaker 1: best GPA in college. So that's the reason I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: say me. But as far as best subject, I'm going

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Speaker 1: just all around, Okay, I think the ACT score is

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Speaker 1: pretty Yeah, that's A that's a solid, solid staff, So

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with me. Most musically talented. Do any

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Speaker 1: of you guys play musical instruments or sing? Well, they

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Speaker 1: both played piano when they're young. I did. I don't

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Speaker 1: know how much practice that's got lately, But we'll go

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Speaker 1: ahead and say one of them. I don't know who,

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Speaker 1: but not you. In other words, I could still say me,

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Speaker 1: but okay, I'm gonna be nice. All right. So could

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Speaker 1: the three of you take on the Watt brothers? And

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Speaker 1: who would win in that fight? Um? Yes, we could,

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Speaker 1: no doubt because Paul was in the military. Yeah, we

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Speaker 1: could two offensive linemen, defensive linemen, and then um, you know,

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Speaker 1: I played with Derek in LA so I think we

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Speaker 1: can handle them. You could take them. Yeah, it'd be

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Speaker 1: a good one though. It'd be a great fight. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'd it would be one people would want to see

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Speaker 1: for sure. Yeah. Three the three on three bot versus

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Speaker 1: the Questionberries Scotty, pleasure to meet you. Yeah, awesome, thanks guys,

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Speaker 1: Deepsiders Scott Questenberry excellent interview. Also excellent our men behind

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Speaker 1: next than Texans All Access. Texans All Access continues in

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Speaker 1: a moment, Hey doctor Phil here. I help people solve

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Speaker 1: you plugged in with the Houston Texans welcome backs. What'day

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Speaker 1: issued to Texas All Access? I'm your host John Harrison's

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Speaker 1: time for our men behind the Mics for the week,

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Speaker 1: and that means Mark Vandamir with Matt money Smith and

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Speaker 1: the Chargers. Mark take it away, joining us right now,

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Speaker 1: Texans Radio. Matt money Smith, Voice of the LA Chargers. Matt,

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Speaker 1: great to have you with us. And how's it going there?

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Speaker 1: After losing to the Jaguars, a team the Texans are

712
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Speaker 1: very familiar with, but maybe not this version. What did

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Speaker 1: you make of them and that game you just experienced

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Speaker 1: over the weekend, Well, it wasn't great. It was ugly,

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Speaker 1: it was a thrashing, and obviously the Chargers lost two

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Speaker 1: of their four most important players, and I think including

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Speaker 1: the second most important player on the team and maybe

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Speaker 1: the second and third most important player on the team.

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Speaker 1: I think Slater is number two behind Herbert. He's been

720
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Speaker 1: so good at left tackle, doesn't need help. He's blocked

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Speaker 1: the most dominant pass rushers in the league one on

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Speaker 1: one straight up and rendered them, you know, pretty much

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Speaker 1: useless for a defense. And to have him gone and

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Speaker 1: you know you don't really have an average level replacement,

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Speaker 1: there is a big mess. And obviously botha you saw

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Speaker 1: from the moment he left that game, the Jaguars offense

727
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Speaker 1: kicked into high gear and really was able to get

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Speaker 1: after the Chargers without that pass rush coming from both sides,

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Speaker 1: So it was a mass for the Chargers. As far

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Speaker 1: as the Jags go, I think I thought they were

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Speaker 1: very physical. They dominated both lines. I think they just

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Speaker 1: dominated the game. I'm a physical standpoint. I thought Doug

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Speaker 1: Peterson was masterful in his play calling. It seemed like

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Speaker 1: he was a step ahead the whole game. The Chargers

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Speaker 1: run defense had been really good coming into that game,

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Speaker 1: and between Robinson and at them really gave him fits.

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Speaker 1: And they just could not quite get the sticks to

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Speaker 1: their advantage very often in that game. It was third

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Speaker 1: and short, you know, pretty regularly. And I think that's

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Speaker 1: why the Jags kind of had their way and just

741
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Speaker 1: to kind of, you know, put a button on it, man,

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Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence looked, you know, like we all thought he

743
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Speaker 1: was supposed to look last year before that coaching disaster

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00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:40,440
Speaker 1: Damn near sabotaged his career. Well, that's alarming news for

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Speaker 1: Texans fans and everybody else in the AFC South. The

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Speaker 1: Texans will find out more next week. Matt mney Smith,

747
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Speaker 1: voice of the LA Chargers, joining us on Texans Radio.

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Speaker 1: What about Herbert, I know he's got the injury still

749
00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:54,319
Speaker 1: was able to throw the ball last week. I know

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Speaker 1: it wasn't a kind of game they were looking for overall,

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Speaker 1: But what do you make of him coming into week

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Speaker 1: four with the health situation. Yeah, I'll say it was

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Speaker 1: interesting just because he he had some He had some

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Speaker 1: of those Herbert Wild throws, you know, the throws that

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Speaker 1: only he can make. There was a play when Josh

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00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:15,320
Speaker 1: Allen was draped on his back and he just uncorked

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Speaker 1: a fifty four yard or to Jaalen Gitlin off one leg,

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Speaker 1: you know, pinpoint, just right in the basket. So there

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Speaker 1: was that, But then he was, you know, he was

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Speaker 1: less accurate than we're used to seeing. He was opening

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Speaker 1: up on throws. They were sailing on him. He was

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Speaker 1: short arm and some throws and we're just not used

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Speaker 1: to that. He's been so good, so accurate, puts the

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Speaker 1: ball at a spot where the receivers can catch it

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Speaker 1: exactly where he wants to put it, and that was

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Speaker 1: just kind of missing. And I don't know if that

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Speaker 1: was a sort of shake the rust off kind of thing,

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Speaker 1: or you know, just wasn't quite sure about how the

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Speaker 1: body was going to respond. And because it didn't seem

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Speaker 1: like he got a little better as the game went on,

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Speaker 1: but I, you know, just to kind of answer the

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00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:01,919
Speaker 1: question straight away, Yeah, he's affected his throwing. His game

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Speaker 1: is definitely affected by this stratured rib cartilage. All right,

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Speaker 1: So what do you think of the ground game here?

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00:36:08,239 --> 00:36:10,600
Speaker 1: You had seventy five yards against the Chiefs. I know

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00:36:10,719 --> 00:36:12,879
Speaker 1: it's the Chiefs, and those games can get away from you.

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Speaker 1: Obviously not able to run it well enough against the Jaguars.

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Speaker 1: What about the charger ground attack? Matt moving forward? So

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you, Like, coming out of the Chiefs game

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Speaker 1: and I went back and watched it, I was kind

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Speaker 1: of buying what the coaching staff was saying, which is, yeah,

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Speaker 1: the rush numbers aren't good, but you know, we were

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Speaker 1: in a ton of third shorts. You know, we were

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Speaker 1: ahead of the stick. So if you look at all

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Speaker 1: of our rushes, yeah, they're going for three yards, but

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Speaker 1: there are three yards on a third and two, or

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00:36:42,719 --> 00:36:44,879
Speaker 1: they're three yards on a third and three, and we're

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Speaker 1: getting those first downs. And that helped. And then the

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Speaker 1: Jags game happened and I was like, Okay, that's that's

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00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:53,560
Speaker 1: no longer the case that this is an issue. They

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00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:56,960
Speaker 1: can't run to the right side. They're not committed to

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00:36:56,960 --> 00:36:59,359
Speaker 1: the run game. There's nothing exotic about it. There's no

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Speaker 1: flashes is. They're just kind of handing the ball off

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Speaker 1: and expecting a line to open a hole and a

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Speaker 1: running back to make it to play. And it just

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00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:08,120
Speaker 1: seems like the most successful run games in the league

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00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:11,799
Speaker 1: now have a lot of pre snap missdirection, a lot

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Speaker 1: of counters, and we're just not quite seeing that Austin

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Speaker 1: Eckler carry four times for five yards. That's that's just unacceptable.

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Speaker 1: That's a failure on so many different levels. And I

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00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:25,400
Speaker 1: don't know, you know where to start. If it's a

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00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:29,560
Speaker 1: coaching play calling thing, if it's an offensive line blocking thing,

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00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:32,960
Speaker 1: if it's an Eckler thing, but whatever it is, it's

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00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:36,720
Speaker 1: gotta be remedied, especially with the injury to Rashaan Slater,

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00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:41,200
Speaker 1: especially with the fractured ribs of Justin Herbert. You know,

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00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:44,200
Speaker 1: on Sunday against the Texans, they are going to have

807
00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:46,279
Speaker 1: to run the ball and they're gonna have to do

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Speaker 1: it with Eckler. There's there's no excuse for Sony Michelle

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Speaker 1: to have more carries than Eckler in a game. There

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00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:54,319
Speaker 1: just is, and he doesn't have the juice the Eckler has,

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Speaker 1: So you know, I think the idea was long term.

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Speaker 1: Austin tends to break down because he's a small guy

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Speaker 1: if you give him way too much of a workload.

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Speaker 1: So let's make sure we don't give him too much

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Speaker 1: of a workload early in the season, so he's fresh

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Speaker 1: for the playoffs. Well, the playoffs are no longer you know,

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Speaker 1: something you feel really good about. They're gonna have to fight.

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Speaker 1: You know, they're gonna have a rock fight every single

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Speaker 1: Sunday for wins. So I think you're going to see

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Speaker 1: a much heavier dose than a Eckler and a much

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Speaker 1: more creative approach to the run game. Matt money Smith

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Speaker 1: joining us voice of the La Chargers. So the game

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Speaker 1: last year, obviously a lot of talk about that here

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Speaker 1: because the Texans won it and they played pretty well

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00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:35,440
Speaker 1: in that game. What is the memory there and is

826
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Speaker 1: it being brought up a lot this year heading it

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Speaker 1: to the matchup? Matt, Yeah, well yes it is. I

828
00:38:41,200 --> 00:38:43,680
Speaker 1: think it is just because it was such a weird game.

829
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Speaker 1: They win that game and you feel really good about

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Speaker 1: winning one of year last two and getting into the

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Speaker 1: playoffs pretty much with ten wins, and they lose it.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it was a pivotal turning point of the season.

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00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:58,239
Speaker 1: It was just the ultimate outlier game. You know, they

834
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Speaker 1: had fifteen guys out with COVID. They had Mike Davis

835
00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:05,800
Speaker 1: get pulled off the field after testing positive with COVID.

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Speaker 1: We spent Christmas on an airplane and confined to our

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Speaker 1: rooms because we couldn't go out because of COVID. Like,

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Speaker 1: and there was just no energy. There was no energy

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Speaker 1: on the flight, there was no energy in the hotel.

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Speaker 1: I mean you were in the stadium. There must have

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00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:24,040
Speaker 1: been what five thousand people there, There was no energy

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00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:26,160
Speaker 1: in the stadium. It was just a you know what

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00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:30,440
Speaker 1: I mean, it was just a really weird game. So

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Speaker 1: I think that's that's sort of the one thing like

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00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:35,440
Speaker 1: it was. It truly is probably one of the strangest

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Speaker 1: games I've ever been part of, Like just the way

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00:39:37,520 --> 00:39:41,080
Speaker 1: the whole thing felt. So I think if it were

848
00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:43,759
Speaker 1: a straight up while the Chargers played their asses off

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Speaker 1: and the tech things really gave them the business, then

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Speaker 1: I think it would have been talked about a lot more. Instead,

851
00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:52,440
Speaker 1: you know, everybody, I think is just so focused on

852
00:39:52,680 --> 00:39:54,480
Speaker 1: what the heck happened to this team that we thought

853
00:39:54,520 --> 00:39:57,200
Speaker 1: had the best roster on paper before the season, and

854
00:39:57,239 --> 00:39:59,600
Speaker 1: it's technically if none of those three guys that played

855
00:39:59,640 --> 00:40:01,839
Speaker 1: last we can don't play again this week. Is now

856
00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:04,759
Speaker 1: down to five Hall Pros and Pro Bowlers in Week four?

857
00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:07,400
Speaker 1: What has happened to this season and what has happened

858
00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:11,480
Speaker 1: to this team? Matt money Smith joining us and Matt

859
00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:15,080
Speaker 1: you do the Petros and Money Show. Obviously you're well

860
00:40:15,160 --> 00:40:17,520
Speaker 1: plugged into the whole LA sports scene. You used to

861
00:40:17,560 --> 00:40:20,680
Speaker 1: host Lakers pre and postgame shows. If I'm not mistaken,

862
00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:23,359
Speaker 1: how do you feel the Charges they're fitting into the

863
00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:25,799
Speaker 1: LA landscape? I know the Rams won the Super Bowl,

864
00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:28,560
Speaker 1: so that's a tough comparison right there, But what is

865
00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:30,680
Speaker 1: your assessment of how it's going so far? I know

866
00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:32,600
Speaker 1: this season's record is not where you want it to

867
00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:35,279
Speaker 1: be so far, but all that aside, well, I thought

868
00:40:35,280 --> 00:40:37,680
Speaker 1: this was a huge season for them, and I think

869
00:40:37,719 --> 00:40:39,120
Speaker 1: it is and I think they look I think if

870
00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:41,120
Speaker 1: all those guys come back this week, that Corey Linsley

871
00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:43,080
Speaker 1: comes back, and Keenan Allen comes back and he's healthy

872
00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:45,600
Speaker 1: and Jason's help you, then I still think, you know

873
00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:47,920
Speaker 1: they could they can make the playoffs. This roster is

874
00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:49,840
Speaker 1: good enough to make the playoffs. I think they have

875
00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:53,960
Speaker 1: to do that. You know, her that's a star. He's

876
00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:55,799
Speaker 1: not just a star as a superstar, and this town

877
00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:59,360
Speaker 1: loves superstars. You know, if he has another season like

878
00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:03,080
Speaker 1: his first two season and he gets the playoff win, um,

879
00:41:03,239 --> 00:41:04,919
Speaker 1: he you know, he'll be the He'll be the most

880
00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:07,440
Speaker 1: popular football player in town. He'll be more popular than

881
00:41:07,480 --> 00:41:10,200
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald because he's a quarterback, you know, and he's

882
00:41:10,320 --> 00:41:14,200
Speaker 1: a six foot six adonnas. You know that that boys,

883
00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:16,360
Speaker 1: you know, want to emulate. They want to pretend like

884
00:41:16,360 --> 00:41:19,120
Speaker 1: they're justin Herbert on their flag football team. And you know,

885
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:22,480
Speaker 1: I have three daughters. They think he's dreamy. And you know,

886
00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:25,120
Speaker 1: your your mom and your grandparents think he's the greatest

887
00:41:25,120 --> 00:41:27,359
Speaker 1: thing ever because he was an academic All American bio

888
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:30,800
Speaker 1: major and uh and and didn't want to leave Eugene

889
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:32,760
Speaker 1: so he could stay close to his fan like he's

890
00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:37,160
Speaker 1: in on every level. He's everybody's whatever you want in someone.

891
00:41:37,200 --> 00:41:41,319
Speaker 1: As the football player goes, he's it, um, you know,

892
00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:42,960
Speaker 1: and he's got to play great And I think if

893
00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:44,600
Speaker 1: they do that, then they can really make a dent

894
00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:49,279
Speaker 1: in this town because people will want to watch number ten,

895
00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:51,080
Speaker 1: and they'll want to wear his jersey, and they'll want

896
00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:53,200
Speaker 1: to come see his games, and they'll all say he's

897
00:41:53,239 --> 00:41:56,040
Speaker 1: their favorite player, and therefore the Chargers can become their

898
00:41:56,080 --> 00:41:59,760
Speaker 1: favorite football team. Matt Money Smith, boys of the Chargers

899
00:41:59,760 --> 00:42:02,320
Speaker 1: with us, all right, So the popularity of the Rams,

900
00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:04,200
Speaker 1: it's got to be there. They just won the Super Bowl.

901
00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:07,480
Speaker 1: Good team, I get it. But are the Lakers Dodgers?

902
00:42:07,520 --> 00:42:12,800
Speaker 1: Who's king in LA really in the sports scene? The Dodgers.

903
00:42:13,120 --> 00:42:17,560
Speaker 1: The Dodgers, I think at this point by by quite

904
00:42:17,560 --> 00:42:21,400
Speaker 1: a margin. Um. You know, they have a number of

905
00:42:21,440 --> 00:42:23,920
Speaker 1: homegrown stars. They still have the best picture of his

906
00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:27,239
Speaker 1: generation in Clayton Kershawn. When he goes out there every

907
00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:31,120
Speaker 1: fifth day, places packed and people go crazy. You know,

908
00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:34,560
Speaker 1: Mokeye's a superstar. Um. And then you have a lot

909
00:42:34,640 --> 00:42:38,279
Speaker 1: of fun players, you know, like Trey Turner. Um. You

910
00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:41,480
Speaker 1: have homegrown talent, you know, like Cody Bellinger even though

911
00:42:41,480 --> 00:42:44,160
Speaker 1: he's slumping. Um, they still love Cody is it? You know,

912
00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:47,440
Speaker 1: because he was an MVP. Um, you got so much

913
00:42:47,760 --> 00:42:50,880
Speaker 1: so I think, you know. And and the fact that

914
00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:53,080
Speaker 1: they've won, you know, they've won the division. You know,

915
00:42:53,160 --> 00:42:55,480
Speaker 1: they just clinched it. This year. So nine of ten

916
00:42:55,600 --> 00:42:58,480
Speaker 1: years they've been to three World Series, they've won one.

917
00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:02,000
Speaker 1: Um the Lake. There's are a bunch of mercenaries right now,

918
00:43:02,200 --> 00:43:07,400
Speaker 1: hired guns. You know, there's no homegrown talent on that team.

919
00:43:07,719 --> 00:43:10,439
Speaker 1: You know, even when they like traded for Pow, nobody

920
00:43:10,520 --> 00:43:13,680
Speaker 1: knew who Paw Gasol was. You know, Pow is just

921
00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:16,600
Speaker 1: this this European guy from the was playing for the

922
00:43:16,600 --> 00:43:20,080
Speaker 1: Grizz League. You know, Lebron James has one championships. Russell

923
00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:24,359
Speaker 1: Westbrod's been a league MVP. Anthony Davis, you know, was

924
00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:27,839
Speaker 1: you know, sort of in this this controversial exchange where

925
00:43:27,960 --> 00:43:30,600
Speaker 1: small market teams aren't allowed to hold off the big boys,

926
00:43:30,600 --> 00:43:33,680
Speaker 1: and Lebron's agency, you know, forced his way out of

927
00:43:33,719 --> 00:43:35,719
Speaker 1: there and aren't we the big bad LA market. So

928
00:43:36,120 --> 00:43:40,040
Speaker 1: it's just a weird team right now. Even it's funny,

929
00:43:40,080 --> 00:43:42,040
Speaker 1: I'll tell you. Even when they won their title, it

930
00:43:42,160 --> 00:43:44,480
Speaker 1: was just a very weird and probably because it was

931
00:43:44,520 --> 00:43:46,839
Speaker 1: the bubble as well, and it was COVID, but it's

932
00:43:46,880 --> 00:43:49,040
Speaker 1: a real weird vibe. You know, like the Dodgers are

933
00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:51,440
Speaker 1: las team. There's fifty five thousand seats you can get

934
00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:54,440
Speaker 1: in there for ten bucks, you know, and it really can.

935
00:43:54,560 --> 00:43:58,120
Speaker 1: It really encompasses the entire city. It's all you know,

936
00:43:58,160 --> 00:44:02,640
Speaker 1: it's all races, all nationality, boys, girls, women, men, grandparents,

937
00:44:02,719 --> 00:44:06,400
Speaker 1: have time, great grandparents. You know what Fernandomania meant, what

938
00:44:06,560 --> 00:44:09,879
Speaker 1: Vin meant to this city, Jackie Robinson, you know, there's

939
00:44:09,880 --> 00:44:13,520
Speaker 1: just so much there that no other franchise has and

940
00:44:13,640 --> 00:44:16,680
Speaker 1: can bank on. I always love that men behind the

941
00:44:16,760 --> 00:44:19,919
Speaker 1: mic series. It was it was my inspiration and Mark

942
00:44:19,960 --> 00:44:23,560
Speaker 1: has executed it perfectly. Every single week. Those two men

943
00:44:23,640 --> 00:44:28,240
Speaker 1: will be on the call on Sunday, Matt money Smith

944
00:44:28,239 --> 00:44:31,160
Speaker 1: with the Charters and of course Mark Vannomer with the

945
00:44:31,200 --> 00:44:33,760
Speaker 1: Houston Texans. And Mark stays with me in this next

946
00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:37,280
Speaker 1: segment because I hit him with a few lefts and rights.

947
00:44:37,560 --> 00:44:40,600
Speaker 1: We'll see how he counters that next on Texas A

948
00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:47,000
Speaker 1: Access This is Texans Radio on Sports Radio six ten,

949
00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:53,080
Speaker 1: streaming now only on Peacock. Fall in Love with Pete

950
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Speaker 1: Davidson and Kaylee Kuolco and Meet qu a new Peacock

951
00:44:58,800 --> 00:45:03,080
Speaker 1: original film about the perfect first day. Cheers Mate, that

952
00:45:03,320 --> 00:45:07,400
Speaker 1: was yeah weird? Oh not really? Or was it? That

953
00:45:07,560 --> 00:45:09,839
Speaker 1: spent the entire week with you? This night? Seven times

954
00:45:09,840 --> 00:45:11,800
Speaker 1: in a row, I'm time I'm a little confused and

955
00:45:13,160 --> 00:45:16,400
Speaker 1: to become crazy. Yeah, but it's really cute. Meet cute

956
00:45:16,600 --> 00:45:21,640
Speaker 1: screaming now only on Peacock. Only on Peacock to be

957
00:45:21,760 --> 00:45:24,000
Speaker 1: able to take it to that next level. That's what

958
00:45:24,160 --> 00:45:27,040
Speaker 1: I'm excited about. Bozova bent all wide open across the

959
00:45:27,160 --> 00:45:32,480
Speaker 1: five peason touchdown. Quston fires up Ready. This is intercepted

960
00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:36,719
Speaker 1: back to back possessions with picks for There's Texas Defense

961
00:45:37,520 --> 00:45:42,560
Speaker 1: Takeaway number three on the day. Game Day is every day,

962
00:45:42,760 --> 00:45:47,759
Speaker 1: five nights a week. The hits keep on coming. No,

963
00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:53,680
Speaker 1: It's Texans All Excess, presented by Metris Firn What Mac

964
00:45:53,800 --> 00:45:56,560
Speaker 1: Wednesday The should Texas All Access from the Monday Texans

965
00:45:56,600 --> 00:46:00,279
Speaker 1: Radio studio. John Harris here, Mark Vandermere there, Mark, I

966
00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:03,799
Speaker 1: thought about this. I was doing Texans Matchup last night.

967
00:46:04,440 --> 00:46:06,480
Speaker 1: Check that out Houston Texans dot Com, go the app

968
00:46:06,719 --> 00:46:09,319
Speaker 1: pull that down. It's very cool. Listen. I like it

969
00:46:09,719 --> 00:46:11,360
Speaker 1: because I put it together. But I was doing the

970
00:46:11,400 --> 00:46:14,200
Speaker 1: Altimate eleven for the Bears game, and I followed it

971
00:46:14,320 --> 00:46:17,799
Speaker 1: up because matchup is kind of a look back with

972
00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:20,319
Speaker 1: a look ahead, like hey, we're looking ahead to the Chargers. Hey,

973
00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:23,319
Speaker 1: let's look back when we beat them, and I was

974
00:46:23,360 --> 00:46:25,880
Speaker 1: going to go through and kind of do an altimate

975
00:46:25,880 --> 00:46:29,959
Speaker 1: eleven from that game, but I was going to exclude

976
00:46:30,280 --> 00:46:32,600
Speaker 1: anybody that is on the roster now that wasn't on

977
00:46:32,640 --> 00:46:35,799
Speaker 1: the roster last year or whatever. So I left right.

978
00:46:36,040 --> 00:46:38,480
Speaker 1: So I went and I listened to the ultimate eleven

979
00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:41,160
Speaker 1: from that game against the Chargers, and one of the

980
00:46:41,160 --> 00:46:44,520
Speaker 1: things that stands out in that game is that there

981
00:46:44,600 --> 00:46:46,720
Speaker 1: might be a few guys hurt, like Tabby or Thomas,

982
00:46:47,520 --> 00:46:49,920
Speaker 1: but the guys that made plays in that game against

983
00:46:49,960 --> 00:46:52,680
Speaker 1: the Chargers to get a win are the same guys

984
00:46:52,719 --> 00:46:54,320
Speaker 1: that are on this roster this year. It's kind of

985
00:46:54,360 --> 00:46:56,160
Speaker 1: the it's kind of the first time in a while,

986
00:46:56,520 --> 00:46:58,919
Speaker 1: but we've got a head that situation. Tabbier had to pick,

987
00:46:59,040 --> 00:47:01,399
Speaker 1: Chris Moore had a big playing that game. Filter set

988
00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:05,840
Speaker 1: made to catch down the sideline, Davis was spitting it,

989
00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:09,120
Speaker 1: Niko had the touchdown catch. Rex ran for one hundred

990
00:47:09,160 --> 00:47:12,200
Speaker 1: and forty something yards in that game, one forty nine.

991
00:47:12,520 --> 00:47:14,160
Speaker 1: The guys that made plays in that game, or all

992
00:47:14,160 --> 00:47:15,600
Speaker 1: the guys that are still on this rush, that's kind

993
00:47:15,600 --> 00:47:16,640
Speaker 1: of the first time we've been able to say that

994
00:47:16,640 --> 00:47:18,239
Speaker 1: in a while. It's kind of weird. To think about

995
00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:22,520
Speaker 1: Rex with one forty nine run Rex. Yes, never mind Pierce, Yeah,

996
00:47:22,560 --> 00:47:25,760
Speaker 1: we want to start Rex. Yeah. I say that because

997
00:47:25,800 --> 00:47:29,080
Speaker 1: you know what the narrative has been. But it's interesting

998
00:47:29,080 --> 00:47:31,040
Speaker 1: that Rex got that many yards. I know it's a

999
00:47:31,080 --> 00:47:34,000
Speaker 1: different Charger team in some ways and injuries and whatnot,

1000
00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:36,799
Speaker 1: but they're banged up again. Maybe some different guys are

1001
00:47:36,840 --> 00:47:39,799
Speaker 1: banged up. Royce Freeman also had thirty four yards in

1002
00:47:39,840 --> 00:47:43,720
Speaker 1: that game. One eighty nine on the ground for the Texans. Johnny,

1003
00:47:43,960 --> 00:47:46,200
Speaker 1: give me some of that. They have not run for

1004
00:47:46,320 --> 00:47:49,279
Speaker 1: one hundred yet, as you know, and Mills through for

1005
00:47:49,280 --> 00:47:52,000
Speaker 1: two fifty four last year. Look, we're talking a lot

1006
00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:54,440
Speaker 1: about last year. If we were in the Chargers Division,

1007
00:47:54,920 --> 00:47:58,640
Speaker 1: we'd still talk about last year, but we'd take it differently. Right,

1008
00:47:59,040 --> 00:48:02,000
Speaker 1: the Jags and the Colts this year. I know they

1009
00:48:02,080 --> 00:48:04,360
Speaker 1: beat him in Jacksonville last year, but it looks like

1010
00:48:04,400 --> 00:48:09,200
Speaker 1: a different Jaguar team. So it's hard to really gauge

1011
00:48:09,239 --> 00:48:12,360
Speaker 1: what that means relative to this. But it's an interesting point.

1012
00:48:12,480 --> 00:48:16,160
Speaker 1: You have some continuity here on a Texans team that

1013
00:48:16,239 --> 00:48:18,520
Speaker 1: had success against that squad. Here's one of the things

1014
00:48:18,520 --> 00:48:22,600
Speaker 1: that stayed not the same. We able to run the

1015
00:48:22,640 --> 00:48:24,719
Speaker 1: ball better than we ran against anybody all year. And

1016
00:48:24,760 --> 00:48:27,440
Speaker 1: there was a lot of emphasis on the Chargers fixing

1017
00:48:27,480 --> 00:48:30,200
Speaker 1: the run game, fixing the run game, fixing the run game.

1018
00:48:30,280 --> 00:48:33,120
Speaker 1: Fourth and one, sixteen to ten game, starting off the

1019
00:48:33,120 --> 00:48:37,000
Speaker 1: fourth quarter and James Robinson runs through a hole that

1020
00:48:37,160 --> 00:48:40,480
Speaker 1: is the size of this building, breaks through one tackle

1021
00:48:40,520 --> 00:48:42,040
Speaker 1: and takes into the house and that just blew the

1022
00:48:42,040 --> 00:48:43,919
Speaker 1: game wide open right there. Charger, you get to stop.

1023
00:48:43,960 --> 00:48:46,200
Speaker 1: They got the ball in midfield down six, and who

1024
00:48:46,239 --> 00:48:50,240
Speaker 1: knows what's going to happen, But they're struggling again against

1025
00:48:50,280 --> 00:48:53,680
Speaker 1: teams that can run the ball. Now it's to be

1026
00:48:53,840 --> 00:48:57,520
Speaker 1: proven still whether we are a team that are we

1027
00:48:57,560 --> 00:48:59,800
Speaker 1: one of those teams that can run the ball or

1028
00:49:00,040 --> 00:49:02,520
Speaker 1: we want the teams that can really run the ball. Like,

1029
00:49:02,640 --> 00:49:05,640
Speaker 1: what are we at this point? What are we going

1030
00:49:05,680 --> 00:49:07,920
Speaker 1: to evolve into? And I don't know, maybe this game

1031
00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:10,920
Speaker 1: against the Chargers leads us in a little bit more

1032
00:49:10,920 --> 00:49:13,719
Speaker 1: of a direction of where our identity. That's one of

1033
00:49:13,760 --> 00:49:19,120
Speaker 1: the questions I've I don't think coaches always know what

1034
00:49:19,239 --> 00:49:23,279
Speaker 1: the identity of their team is. Are we running a team?

1035
00:49:23,280 --> 00:49:24,799
Speaker 1: Are we throw a team? Do we like to do this?

1036
00:49:24,840 --> 00:49:26,920
Speaker 1: Are we good here? We're there. We physical this, we

1037
00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:29,160
Speaker 1: more finesse, We more like open it up, let's go.

1038
00:49:29,880 --> 00:49:32,319
Speaker 1: I feel like the identity of this team wants to

1039
00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:37,000
Speaker 1: be physical in the run game, defensively, take advantage of takeaways,

1040
00:49:37,040 --> 00:49:39,319
Speaker 1: and be better and run defense. And that's what they

1041
00:49:39,680 --> 00:49:41,959
Speaker 1: really want to hang their hat on. And I don't

1042
00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:44,000
Speaker 1: know if we're quite there, but it feels like that's

1043
00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:45,960
Speaker 1: the way we're going. And maybe this is a game

1044
00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:47,920
Speaker 1: against the Chargers that they can get all the way

1045
00:49:47,960 --> 00:49:50,319
Speaker 1: where they want to be. I was wondering, is that

1046
00:49:50,400 --> 00:49:54,239
Speaker 1: the best rushing performance of the year last year? And yes,

1047
00:49:54,280 --> 00:49:56,600
Speaker 1: it was with the one eighty nine on the ground

1048
00:49:57,120 --> 00:50:00,279
Speaker 1: one sixty in the opener against the Jags as the

1049
00:50:00,320 --> 00:50:03,800
Speaker 1: other Now forty of that belong to Tyrod Taylor and

1050
00:50:03,920 --> 00:50:07,960
Speaker 1: four carries, so all right, that's still one twenty. That's

1051
00:50:08,080 --> 00:50:12,279
Speaker 1: very nice last year against the Jaguars. But I think

1052
00:50:12,320 --> 00:50:13,920
Speaker 1: that they do want to be a running team. I

1053
00:50:13,960 --> 00:50:16,959
Speaker 1: know that they've said that publicly. They're running it better

1054
00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:19,239
Speaker 1: every week. He gets a little bit better, but it's

1055
00:50:19,239 --> 00:50:20,600
Speaker 1: just not where you need it to be. You know.

1056
00:50:20,680 --> 00:50:24,040
Speaker 1: Eighty yards for Pierce feel so disappointing considering the kind

1057
00:50:24,040 --> 00:50:26,680
Speaker 1: of afternoon he was having. Yet you're also encouraged at

1058
00:50:26,680 --> 00:50:28,759
Speaker 1: the same time because it's an improvement over the last

1059
00:50:28,760 --> 00:50:31,480
Speaker 1: two weeks. So heading in the right direction here with

1060
00:50:31,480 --> 00:50:34,359
Speaker 1: four yards per carry, you got to give him the ball,

1061
00:50:34,440 --> 00:50:36,919
Speaker 1: maybe even more in this game and trust him. He's

1062
00:50:36,960 --> 00:50:39,719
Speaker 1: your best offensive weapon. Look, I get it with the

1063
00:50:39,719 --> 00:50:42,680
Speaker 1: fumbles and coaches get very uneasy if they think the

1064
00:50:42,719 --> 00:50:44,319
Speaker 1: ball has a chance to go on the ground. But

1065
00:50:44,360 --> 00:50:47,360
Speaker 1: if a quarterback throws a near pick right but deflection,

1066
00:50:47,760 --> 00:50:50,560
Speaker 1: no one picks it off, it falls incomplete, you don't

1067
00:50:50,560 --> 00:50:53,040
Speaker 1: pull him from the game unless he's wildly ineffective. I

1068
00:50:53,040 --> 00:50:55,080
Speaker 1: know it's a different position, sure, but we'll see how

1069
00:50:55,080 --> 00:50:58,120
Speaker 1: they handle Pierce this week. I think Pierce will handle

1070
00:50:58,160 --> 00:51:00,400
Speaker 1: the ball that much better and hopefully take any kind

1071
00:51:00,440 --> 00:51:03,120
Speaker 1: of decision like that away from them by having ball protection,

1072
00:51:03,160 --> 00:51:06,239
Speaker 1: ball security. I think the Chargers and we said this

1073
00:51:06,280 --> 00:51:08,160
Speaker 1: back in the off season, and you knew I was

1074
00:51:08,200 --> 00:51:12,400
Speaker 1: bullish on the Chargers because that's a talented roster j C.

1075
00:51:12,600 --> 00:51:16,160
Speaker 1: Jackson and Bosa. I'm sorry and clil Mack two Bosa

1076
00:51:16,320 --> 00:51:19,440
Speaker 1: and Derwin James, but that defense is gonna be stout.

1077
00:51:19,480 --> 00:51:22,040
Speaker 1: But then j C. Jackson's been dealing with injury. Bosa

1078
00:51:22,120 --> 00:51:25,120
Speaker 1: got hurt last week and Brandon Staley said it's a

1079
00:51:25,200 --> 00:51:28,759
Speaker 1: significant injury. He's week to week. Well, if he's significant,

1080
00:51:28,760 --> 00:51:30,600
Speaker 1: you would think you're probably not gonna play this week.

1081
00:51:30,640 --> 00:51:34,480
Speaker 1: But but who knows. Clil mac is still there and

1082
00:51:34,480 --> 00:51:37,160
Speaker 1: they're gonna have Clil mack Anderwen James. You would think

1083
00:51:37,760 --> 00:51:39,919
Speaker 1: that they didn't have last year against US. But there's

1084
00:51:39,920 --> 00:51:43,040
Speaker 1: no Bosa, there's no j C. Jackson, So how can

1085
00:51:43,080 --> 00:51:45,080
Speaker 1: they go about hurting that team? And then Justin Herbert

1086
00:51:45,440 --> 00:51:48,200
Speaker 1: is the ultimate one dealing with that rip Carliage issue.

1087
00:51:48,239 --> 00:51:51,319
Speaker 1: And there's a throw in that Jaguars game and they

1088
00:51:51,320 --> 00:51:53,440
Speaker 1: were going right to left on my screen, So I

1089
00:51:53,480 --> 00:51:57,960
Speaker 1: think that was a third quarters petos a ball. I'm

1090
00:51:58,000 --> 00:52:03,040
Speaker 1: telling you two maybe Mahomes, may, maybe Rogers, definitely Josh

1091
00:52:03,080 --> 00:52:05,120
Speaker 1: Allen because Josh Shoen's got that strength. Maybe two or

1092
00:52:05,120 --> 00:52:07,040
Speaker 1: three other quarterbacks in the league make that throw. And

1093
00:52:07,040 --> 00:52:08,960
Speaker 1: he's throws one deep down the field on a dime,

1094
00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:12,759
Speaker 1: and I'm like, with rib cartilage issues, yeah, are you?

1095
00:52:12,840 --> 00:52:16,120
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? So I don't know what to

1096
00:52:16,160 --> 00:52:19,000
Speaker 1: make of this team with all the injuries that it

1097
00:52:19,040 --> 00:52:22,640
Speaker 1: has right now. And that's that's kind of concerning because

1098
00:52:23,120 --> 00:52:27,200
Speaker 1: it's like, okay, is that you know, is that the

1099
00:52:27,000 --> 00:52:29,360
Speaker 1: the injured animal in the corner that's just kind of

1100
00:52:29,360 --> 00:52:31,640
Speaker 1: cowering a little bit and then go up just pounce

1101
00:52:31,719 --> 00:52:34,440
Speaker 1: on you, or is that the animal account it's kind

1102
00:52:34,480 --> 00:52:37,879
Speaker 1: of like so beaten up that it has just no

1103
00:52:38,120 --> 00:52:40,279
Speaker 1: energy and effort to kind of break out of that.

1104
00:52:40,440 --> 00:52:42,280
Speaker 1: It's a must win, I would think for the Chargers

1105
00:52:42,560 --> 00:52:44,120
Speaker 1: to get back there. It's a must win for the

1106
00:52:44,120 --> 00:52:46,160
Speaker 1: Texans because they still have a zero and I left

1107
00:52:46,200 --> 00:52:49,120
Speaker 1: hand column, well, it's early. Everybody feels like they still

1108
00:52:49,120 --> 00:52:51,560
Speaker 1: have a chance at anc West, best division in football.

1109
00:52:51,600 --> 00:52:53,640
Speaker 1: Look at them led by the Broncos, who had two

1110
00:52:53,840 --> 00:52:56,719
Speaker 1: very shaky wins, but they got them and they're two

1111
00:52:56,719 --> 00:52:59,759
Speaker 1: and one right now. I think the Chargers they're gonna

1112
00:52:59,760 --> 00:53:01,640
Speaker 1: look at They're gonna give you everything they got. And

1113
00:53:01,719 --> 00:53:03,839
Speaker 1: we talk about injuries all the time. If you make

1114
00:53:03,920 --> 00:53:07,080
Speaker 1: it to the field, justin Herbert's gonna be, I don't

1115
00:53:07,120 --> 00:53:09,279
Speaker 1: want to say, just fine. He'll probably feel really sore

1116
00:53:09,320 --> 00:53:10,960
Speaker 1: after the game. Maybe you can get some shots in

1117
00:53:11,040 --> 00:53:13,440
Speaker 1: on him. But speaking of shots, maybe he takes one

1118
00:53:13,520 --> 00:53:16,239
Speaker 1: threat and he'll be able to sling it just like

1119
00:53:16,320 --> 00:53:18,640
Speaker 1: you mentioned right there, and if they can get anything

1120
00:53:18,680 --> 00:53:21,000
Speaker 1: going on the ground, that's obviously going to be a

1121
00:53:21,080 --> 00:53:23,080
Speaker 1: huge boost for them, because they could not run it

1122
00:53:23,080 --> 00:53:26,480
Speaker 1: at all against the Jaguars on Sunday. And by the way,

1123
00:53:26,600 --> 00:53:28,800
Speaker 1: and that's like what you said once about the Ravens

1124
00:53:28,800 --> 00:53:31,799
Speaker 1: in twenty fourteen. The Jaguars are a math problem that

1125
00:53:31,840 --> 00:53:34,640
Speaker 1: we'll deal with on the quiz later next week. We'll

1126
00:53:34,680 --> 00:53:37,319
Speaker 1: be talking about them and awful a lot. Right now,

1127
00:53:37,320 --> 00:53:39,560
Speaker 1: we gotta worry about this Charger team and hopefully get

1128
00:53:39,560 --> 00:53:43,440
Speaker 1: a first win somehow, Like you knew where I was

1129
00:53:43,480 --> 00:53:47,359
Speaker 1: going with that watching I haven't seen the whole game back,

1130
00:53:47,800 --> 00:53:50,839
Speaker 1: but getting ready for Tellustrator and watching that Chargers Jaguars game,

1131
00:53:53,280 --> 00:53:57,359
Speaker 1: like yeah, like I don't know. I do not want

1132
00:53:57,360 --> 00:54:01,360
Speaker 1: to see Texas chainsaw massacre. You not want to see Halloween.

1133
00:54:01,520 --> 00:54:04,560
Speaker 1: I do not want to see another episode of The Boys.

1134
00:54:05,080 --> 00:54:07,799
Speaker 1: If you've seen The Boys, uh, you know exactly what

1135
00:54:07,840 --> 00:54:11,239
Speaker 1: I'm super hero comedy, but it's a dark comedy kind

1136
00:54:11,280 --> 00:54:17,839
Speaker 1: of thing. It's dark, and by dark, I mean would

1137
00:54:17,840 --> 00:54:21,200
Speaker 1: you describe Deadpool as dark? No, it's a comedy comedy.

1138
00:54:21,239 --> 00:54:24,320
Speaker 1: It's a comedy superhero. It's graphic, it has some graphic moments.

1139
00:54:24,400 --> 00:54:27,120
Speaker 1: The Boys Dark. The Boys has some graphic moments. Let's

1140
00:54:27,160 --> 00:54:30,600
Speaker 1: just say that. Oh it's blue and dark. Yo. Yeah,

1141
00:54:30,640 --> 00:54:34,040
Speaker 1: it's so blue, it's almost it's almost black. It's that dark.

1142
00:54:34,400 --> 00:54:37,880
Speaker 1: I mean the first episode of the final of this

1143
00:54:38,080 --> 00:54:43,440
Speaker 1: final season, this last season at Amazon. Uh yeah, yeah, Amazon. Yeah,

1144
00:54:44,000 --> 00:54:47,640
Speaker 1: but it's got I mean, it's really My son Jack

1145
00:54:47,719 --> 00:54:51,080
Speaker 1: talked me into it and I'm like, I don't know, man,

1146
00:54:51,280 --> 00:54:54,160
Speaker 1: He's like, just watch the first episode and it was

1147
00:54:54,200 --> 00:54:57,560
Speaker 1: really intriguing. And then in the last five minutes there's

1148
00:54:57,600 --> 00:55:00,719
Speaker 1: so much red all over the play. Like, my it

1149
00:55:00,760 --> 00:55:02,680
Speaker 1: just looks like one of my English papers back in

1150
00:55:02,760 --> 00:55:08,359
Speaker 1: the day. It's gory. I mean really, But anybody that's

1151
00:55:08,360 --> 00:55:10,319
Speaker 1: seen The Boys and has stayed up on it knows

1152
00:55:10,400 --> 00:55:15,000
Speaker 1: exactly how this last this past season. The premier started,

1153
00:55:15,320 --> 00:55:19,439
Speaker 1: and it's one of the most unbelievable things I've ever seen.

1154
00:55:19,440 --> 00:55:20,880
Speaker 1: How do we get on this subject, I don't know.

1155
00:55:21,040 --> 00:55:22,960
Speaker 1: I don't know how we go. Oh because the Jaguars

1156
00:55:23,400 --> 00:55:27,080
Speaker 1: um they just do it. The Boys they're nasty. Oh

1157
00:55:27,120 --> 00:55:30,120
Speaker 1: they're nasty, nasty. Oh I don't like that at all. Graphic.

1158
00:55:30,200 --> 00:55:33,280
Speaker 1: How about Zay Jones ten catches eighty five yards against

1159
00:55:33,280 --> 00:55:35,279
Speaker 1: the Chargers. I know they're getting I mean the game

1160
00:55:35,320 --> 00:55:37,920
Speaker 1: before they got it from Christian Kirk, who had a

1161
00:55:37,920 --> 00:55:40,760
Speaker 1: couple of touchdowns, one little, a little for pitch, basically

1162
00:55:40,800 --> 00:55:43,879
Speaker 1: from Trevor Lawrence. But I don't know that Christian Kirk's

1163
00:55:43,880 --> 00:55:46,560
Speaker 1: ever gonna be completely worth the money, but he has

1164
00:55:46,600 --> 00:55:49,160
Speaker 1: been a really good signing for them to add him

1165
00:55:49,600 --> 00:55:52,480
Speaker 1: to Trevor Lawrence. I know we'll face the Jacks, but

1166
00:55:52,480 --> 00:55:54,840
Speaker 1: it's an AMC South teams who are always keeping tabs

1167
00:55:54,880 --> 00:55:57,759
Speaker 1: on him. I wonder what happened against Washington and maybe

1168
00:55:57,760 --> 00:56:00,200
Speaker 1: it was just kind of the first game and that,

1169
00:56:00,320 --> 00:56:02,160
Speaker 1: but they got the right team because it's a team

1170
00:56:02,160 --> 00:56:04,520
Speaker 1: that they own in Week two and they also gained

1171
00:56:04,600 --> 00:56:07,480
Speaker 1: confidence from that. I just don't want a twenty seventeen

1172
00:56:07,520 --> 00:56:11,359
Speaker 1: type game next. I want to win no matter what.

1173
00:56:11,640 --> 00:56:15,440
Speaker 1: But the Jags, whenever they have their chance, they take

1174
00:56:15,480 --> 00:56:18,560
Speaker 1: advantage of it because it doesn't happen very often, and

1175
00:56:18,600 --> 00:56:20,760
Speaker 1: they want to make you pay for all those wins.

1176
00:56:21,040 --> 00:56:23,640
Speaker 1: Remember all those wins he got over us over the

1177
00:56:23,719 --> 00:56:26,919
Speaker 1: last few years. Take that and take another and take another.

1178
00:56:26,960 --> 00:56:28,840
Speaker 1: And that's what the twenty seventeen game down there was

1179
00:56:28,880 --> 00:56:31,120
Speaker 1: like when they swept the Texans, but since then it's

1180
00:56:31,120 --> 00:56:33,640
Speaker 1: been all Texans wins against the Jags. But seeing what

1181
00:56:33,680 --> 00:56:36,319
Speaker 1: they did to the Chargers last weekend was definitely an

1182
00:56:36,320 --> 00:56:38,920
Speaker 1: eye open or your next two opponents swearing off against

1183
00:56:38,960 --> 00:56:42,160
Speaker 1: each other. Yeah, and the thing about getting this one

1184
00:56:42,960 --> 00:56:46,439
Speaker 1: is going down to Duvau County with confidence going down.

1185
00:56:46,800 --> 00:56:50,160
Speaker 1: We got to win. Were one tune, one played better.

1186
00:56:50,520 --> 00:56:54,520
Speaker 1: We sort of found what we wants take on the

1187
00:56:54,560 --> 00:56:57,840
Speaker 1: next division opponent, and let's go toe to toe with

1188
00:56:57,840 --> 00:57:01,120
Speaker 1: these guys. Spencer would say, demonstrated a bill. Confidence starts

1189
00:57:01,120 --> 00:57:03,440
Speaker 1: with demonstrated ability, and I kind of like that if

1190
00:57:03,440 --> 00:57:05,959
Speaker 1: you can demonstrate you can do it, you feel better

1191
00:57:06,000 --> 00:57:08,160
Speaker 1: about it, then you can do it again. So do

1192
00:57:08,200 --> 00:57:11,920
Speaker 1: it this week and against Lay. So I'll ask you, this,

1193
00:57:12,440 --> 00:57:14,560
Speaker 1: is it wrong? Is it weird that I'm not as

1194
00:57:14,600 --> 00:57:17,640
Speaker 1: tempted as I once was to say San Diego? No,

1195
00:57:17,840 --> 00:57:20,560
Speaker 1: I still feel like the Chargers should never laughed, right,

1196
00:57:20,640 --> 00:57:23,440
Speaker 1: But I'm not saying it as much. I'm trying you.

1197
00:57:23,600 --> 00:57:26,040
Speaker 1: It's gonna be weird to say Vegas. I'm gonna say

1198
00:57:26,040 --> 00:57:28,760
Speaker 1: the Raiders a lot. That's the best way to do it,

1199
00:57:28,800 --> 00:57:30,800
Speaker 1: because they were in La and I remember that. I'm

1200
00:57:30,800 --> 00:57:32,760
Speaker 1: old enough to remember when they were in LA Boys

1201
00:57:32,800 --> 00:57:36,600
Speaker 1: and Girls. Yeah, that's okay, the Raiders and the Chargers.

1202
00:57:36,640 --> 00:57:39,960
Speaker 1: That's how I I don't know. I try and look

1203
00:57:40,000 --> 00:57:42,400
Speaker 1: at it that way. But if you can have one

1204
00:57:42,480 --> 00:57:46,720
Speaker 1: thing Sunday, I mean, you can the things that that

1205
00:57:46,840 --> 00:57:51,200
Speaker 1: you've been doing well, you will continue to do well.

1206
00:57:53,400 --> 00:57:57,200
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna give you one thing. Okay, run defense

1207
00:57:57,240 --> 00:58:03,280
Speaker 1: holds them under a hundred oh or or you scored

1208
00:58:03,480 --> 00:58:06,440
Speaker 1: one touchdown in the fourth quarter, all right, and I

1209
00:58:06,520 --> 00:58:08,520
Speaker 1: don't know. All right, so this is let's make a deal.

1210
00:58:08,600 --> 00:58:12,840
Speaker 1: Let's make a deal. Door One, you hold them under

1211
00:58:13,000 --> 00:58:17,040
Speaker 1: one hundred yards rushing on let's say twenty five carry,

1212
00:58:17,080 --> 00:58:18,880
Speaker 1: so they're under four yards to carry. The other one

1213
00:58:19,000 --> 00:58:23,840
Speaker 1: is you were guaranteed to score one touchdown in the

1214
00:58:23,880 --> 00:58:26,600
Speaker 1: fourth quarter. Keep in mind last year they ended up

1215
00:58:26,640 --> 00:58:29,560
Speaker 1: scoring twenty four. I think it was ended up being

1216
00:58:29,640 --> 00:58:33,280
Speaker 1: twenty four if I remember correctly, twenty four total points

1217
00:58:33,360 --> 00:58:36,080
Speaker 1: or twenty twenty four in the fourth quarter, because remember

1218
00:58:36,120 --> 00:58:39,080
Speaker 1: they had the Nico touchdown, they had the Tavier touchdown,

1219
00:58:39,600 --> 00:58:41,480
Speaker 1: and there was a touchdown. I want to say before

1220
00:58:41,520 --> 00:58:45,200
Speaker 1: that could be wrong, but I remember there was a

1221
00:58:45,680 --> 00:58:48,440
Speaker 1: on both sides. Both teams scored a bit in that

1222
00:58:48,520 --> 00:58:51,680
Speaker 1: fourth quarter because that game was going under. If you're

1223
00:58:51,680 --> 00:58:55,120
Speaker 1: that kind of all right, So if that like fourth

1224
00:58:55,200 --> 00:59:01,920
Speaker 1: quarter burkehead touchdown, Um, that's one one, Nico had a touchdown,

1225
00:59:02,000 --> 00:59:05,080
Speaker 1: I'm right, and then Tavier had to pick six. Yep,

1226
00:59:05,280 --> 00:59:08,760
Speaker 1: that's three touchdowns, three touchdowns in the fourth quarter. So

1227
00:59:08,800 --> 00:59:12,240
Speaker 1: I'm guaranteeing you get a touchdown and you get a touchdown.

1228
00:59:12,320 --> 00:59:15,240
Speaker 1: Oprah was there giving out touchdowns, was so great. We

1229
00:59:15,280 --> 00:59:17,360
Speaker 1: need her back. So you're saying at least one, you

1230
00:59:17,400 --> 00:59:22,200
Speaker 1: get at least one, but only one. Oh I only

1231
00:59:22,240 --> 00:59:24,800
Speaker 1: get only get one touchdown, but you're guaranteed a touchdown

1232
00:59:25,120 --> 00:59:28,040
Speaker 1: quart or you hold them to less than one hundred

1233
00:59:28,080 --> 00:59:30,440
Speaker 1: yards rushing. I'm gonna take my chances Monty on the

1234
00:59:30,440 --> 00:59:33,240
Speaker 1: t D because that's something I know. I haven't held

1235
00:59:33,280 --> 00:59:38,200
Speaker 1: anybody to a low rushing total yet. You know, Jonathan Taylor,

1236
00:59:38,240 --> 00:59:40,720
Speaker 1: don't get me started on week two and obviously what

1237
00:59:40,880 --> 00:59:42,720
Speaker 1: just happened against the Bears with the two eighty one,

1238
00:59:42,760 --> 00:59:45,320
Speaker 1: maybe I should take the under the Hundy. But Herbert

1239
00:59:45,360 --> 00:59:48,040
Speaker 1: can still throw for four hundred on you, So you

1240
00:59:48,040 --> 00:59:49,800
Speaker 1: want to lock in that touchdown I gonna lock in

1241
00:59:49,920 --> 00:59:52,439
Speaker 1: that touchdown. I'm gonna go ahead and do that. That's

1242
00:59:52,480 --> 00:59:55,080
Speaker 1: probably a bad move. What would you do? I probably

1243
00:59:55,120 --> 00:59:58,080
Speaker 1: would take touchdown the fourth quarter two just because I

1244
00:59:58,120 --> 01:00:03,880
Speaker 1: think the Chargers offensive line issues are leading to their

1245
01:00:03,960 --> 01:00:07,640
Speaker 1: run game problems, and now without Rashaw Slater, I think

1246
01:00:07,680 --> 01:00:10,280
Speaker 1: those issues are gonna be I don't want to say

1247
01:00:10,520 --> 01:00:13,120
Speaker 1: snap your fingers and you're gonna hold them under a

1248
01:00:13,240 --> 01:00:16,080
Speaker 1: hundred yards, but I think this is the most banged

1249
01:00:16,160 --> 01:00:19,040
Speaker 1: up line you're facing because of the injuries. I think

1250
01:00:19,080 --> 01:00:22,080
Speaker 1: it's probably the fourth best offensive line. And I think

1251
01:00:22,080 --> 01:00:24,400
Speaker 1: Austin Ekler, as much as I like him, I don't

1252
01:00:24,440 --> 01:00:25,840
Speaker 1: think he's in the class of any of the guys

1253
01:00:25,880 --> 01:00:28,400
Speaker 1: that you've seen at this point. I think he's good.

1254
01:00:28,440 --> 01:00:30,480
Speaker 1: I think he's really good, but I don't think he's

1255
01:00:30,480 --> 01:00:32,480
Speaker 1: the runner any of these other three have been. So

1256
01:00:32,760 --> 01:00:35,000
Speaker 1: I would take the guarantee touchdown in the fourth quarter

1257
01:00:35,440 --> 01:00:38,440
Speaker 1: and the thought that they can get it done against

1258
01:00:38,440 --> 01:00:40,600
Speaker 1: the ground. They've got to this week. They have to.

1259
01:00:40,720 --> 01:00:43,360
Speaker 1: And the point I made to love You when we

1260
01:00:43,360 --> 01:00:46,360
Speaker 1: were talking to him earlier this week was and he

1261
01:00:46,400 --> 01:00:48,479
Speaker 1: even said it too. You and you and I sitting

1262
01:00:48,480 --> 01:00:49,720
Speaker 1: here all the time, we're like, well, if you take

1263
01:00:49,760 --> 01:00:52,120
Speaker 1: those two plays out, yeah, and we all know you

1264
01:00:52,320 --> 01:00:56,120
Speaker 1: can't do it. However, if on those plays there's a

1265
01:00:56,160 --> 01:00:58,720
Speaker 1: major mistake for some reason that you know you can correct,

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Speaker 1: then you could take themselves in the fact that, okay,

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Speaker 1: maybe we will be able to do this a little

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Speaker 1: bit better. And on those runs, I mean, fields scrambled

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Speaker 1: for twenty nine yards. I got a feeling Herbert's not

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Speaker 1: gonna scramble with those ribs. I mean he might move

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Speaker 1: out of the pocket, but I don't think he's gonna scramble,

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Speaker 1: not the way. Just the worst team runs for a

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Speaker 1: first down right once, maybe twice, and you're not gonna

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Speaker 1: get burnt on a reverse again because those corners. I

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Speaker 1: would imagine a talking to all week about that. So

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01:01:23,200 --> 01:01:26,840
Speaker 1: the fifty two yard run, somebody blew a gap signment

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01:01:26,920 --> 01:01:29,080
Speaker 1: up front and somebody missed the tackle. At least one

1278
01:01:29,120 --> 01:01:32,880
Speaker 1: tackles missed tackles. You're gonna miss them. You just hope

1279
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Speaker 1: you don't miss him on a long run like that.

1280
01:01:34,400 --> 01:01:36,760
Speaker 1: But jumping out of a gap and being correct in

1281
01:01:36,760 --> 01:01:38,920
Speaker 1: your gap, that's you got it. You can fix that.

1282
01:01:38,960 --> 01:01:40,320
Speaker 1: You can fix out a lot of different ways, and

1283
01:01:40,360 --> 01:01:42,960
Speaker 1: so my hope is as love he said on the

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Speaker 1: thirty six other runs, you held them under four yards

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01:01:45,040 --> 01:01:47,600
Speaker 1: to carry. So I don't and I think the Bears

1286
01:01:47,600 --> 01:01:49,080
Speaker 1: is gonna be able to run the ball better than

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Speaker 1: the Chargers. So if you can do that and make

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Speaker 1: them purely one demential what you did last year, all

1289
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Speaker 1: of a sudden, the fourth quarter becomes a little bit

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01:01:55,800 --> 01:01:57,440
Speaker 1: easier for you, hopefully, and then you can put that

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Speaker 1: seven up on the board and walk out of the

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Speaker 1: w That's my hope. All right, I'll give you another one.

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01:02:02,320 --> 01:02:05,800
Speaker 1: Now I get to be all right, Wayne Brady, all right,

1294
01:02:05,800 --> 01:02:08,400
Speaker 1: here we go. You get to have so the fourth

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01:02:08,440 --> 01:02:11,280
Speaker 1: quarter touchdown is still one of the options. Here. Guaranteed

1296
01:02:11,320 --> 01:02:15,280
Speaker 1: one touchdown in the fourth quarter, or defense gets two picks.

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01:02:15,600 --> 01:02:18,840
Speaker 1: I'll tell you where they're going, what part of the field,

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01:02:19,400 --> 01:02:22,200
Speaker 1: how it's going to happen, what the yak is after

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01:02:22,240 --> 01:02:24,520
Speaker 1: the interception. I can't give you any of that, but

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01:02:24,560 --> 01:02:27,520
Speaker 1: I can guarantee you two picks, or your offense gets

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Speaker 1: a touchdown in the fourth quarter. Let's make a deal. Well,

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01:02:30,880 --> 01:02:35,920
Speaker 1: if history is any guide, history is any guide. The

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01:02:35,960 --> 01:02:39,520
Speaker 1: two interceptions last week, how many points did we get

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01:02:39,520 --> 01:02:43,120
Speaker 1: off those two interceptions last week. Not enough. You got

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01:02:43,280 --> 01:02:46,120
Speaker 1: zero on one possession then three on another. Did you

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01:02:46,160 --> 01:02:48,480
Speaker 1: get the did you get a no, because at that

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01:02:48,560 --> 01:02:51,320
Speaker 1: interception that Jalen hag come in the other direction, I

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01:02:51,400 --> 01:02:53,440
Speaker 1: think was the interception in the end zone. I think

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01:02:53,920 --> 01:02:56,080
Speaker 1: either way, the most you got was through after double check.

1310
01:02:56,360 --> 01:02:58,280
Speaker 1: But you didn't get much off those turnovers. And that

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01:02:58,360 --> 01:03:00,920
Speaker 1: was something that everybody we've talked to, whether it be

1312
01:03:00,960 --> 01:03:04,040
Speaker 1: at Rex or love You or Nick, talked about that

1313
01:03:04,400 --> 01:03:09,720
Speaker 1: you get interceptions. Yeah, AJ can't mention that you get interception,

1314
01:03:09,840 --> 01:03:12,880
Speaker 1: you better put at least at least three up on

1315
01:03:12,920 --> 01:03:14,960
Speaker 1: the board. So they weren't able to do that, especially

1316
01:03:15,000 --> 01:03:16,160
Speaker 1: the one in the fourth quarter. That was a big

1317
01:03:16,200 --> 01:03:18,840
Speaker 1: one because you even got great fuel position with it.

1318
01:03:19,120 --> 01:03:22,320
Speaker 1: So so you'll take the touchdown. I'll take the touchdown.

1319
01:03:22,560 --> 01:03:26,240
Speaker 1: That's unbelievable. I'll take the touch of saying this. They're due,

1320
01:03:26,280 --> 01:03:29,640
Speaker 1: they are due for a fourth quarter eruption. Yes, let's

1321
01:03:29,640 --> 01:03:32,880
Speaker 1: go score with Chargers. Come on, they're beaten up. They're

1322
01:03:32,880 --> 01:03:35,640
Speaker 1: gonna come in here, get your fans behind you. Mills

1323
01:03:35,680 --> 01:03:39,920
Speaker 1: numbers at home are a stark contrast from what he's

1324
01:03:39,960 --> 01:03:42,440
Speaker 1: done on the road. This is where he likes to play.

1325
01:03:42,720 --> 01:03:46,480
Speaker 1: The communication is better. He will be much better here.

1326
01:03:46,720 --> 01:03:48,800
Speaker 1: I don't know what that looks like. I can't define

1327
01:03:48,880 --> 01:03:51,840
Speaker 1: that numbers wise, but it's gonna be much better performance

1328
01:03:51,840 --> 01:03:53,920
Speaker 1: to the air that it's been on the road. Now

1329
01:03:53,920 --> 01:03:56,680
Speaker 1: you got pierced clicking along. Let's see if this offense

1330
01:03:56,760 --> 01:03:59,760
Speaker 1: can get rolling a little bit. Yes, find that for

1331
01:03:59,800 --> 01:04:04,920
Speaker 1: sixteen minutes, not forty five, not thirty yeah, sixty yeah.

1332
01:04:04,920 --> 01:04:06,000
Speaker 1: At the end of the day, I want to look

1333
01:04:06,000 --> 01:04:07,280
Speaker 1: at a statue. I want to look at a win,

1334
01:04:07,400 --> 01:04:09,040
Speaker 1: but I also want to look at the stat sheet

1335
01:04:09,080 --> 01:04:11,400
Speaker 1: and say, that's a full game, right work. There's a

1336
01:04:11,480 --> 01:04:14,160
Speaker 1: lot of protein and carbo hydrates and a balanced meal

1337
01:04:14,200 --> 01:04:17,880
Speaker 1: there with running, passing and takeaways and all of that.

1338
01:04:18,160 --> 01:04:21,160
Speaker 1: Give me a strawberry yogurt with chocolate chips, please, although

1339
01:04:21,160 --> 01:04:23,200
Speaker 1: I can't have chocolate chips because of gaut but that's

1340
01:04:23,200 --> 01:04:25,680
Speaker 1: a different story all together. Mark, appreciate it, Thank you,

1341
01:04:25,720 --> 01:04:27,680
Speaker 1: Thanks Johnny. It's always great to catch up with a

1342
01:04:27,720 --> 01:04:31,280
Speaker 1: voice of the Texans, of course, but also like catching

1343
01:04:31,360 --> 01:04:33,480
Speaker 1: up with my pals. You heard deep you haven't interviewed

1344
01:04:33,480 --> 01:04:35,680
Speaker 1: Scott Wesenberry. Well, your Doorty's gonna step in and do

1345
01:04:35,720 --> 01:04:37,120
Speaker 1: a little in the lab with me. Next right here

1346
01:04:37,120 --> 01:04:41,880
Speaker 1: on Texans Access More Texans Radio is on the way.

1347
01:04:42,240 --> 01:04:44,520
Speaker 1: Take a look under your bed, find stuff under there?

1348
01:04:44,680 --> 01:04:47,640
Speaker 1: What about jobs? No? Now, try your basement. There's a

1349
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Speaker 1: pair of overalls at overall you. I'm not selling two anymore,

1350
01:04:50,640 --> 01:04:53,040
Speaker 1: a perfectly good laptop that hasn't sat in your lap

1351
01:04:53,040 --> 01:04:56,240
Speaker 1: in months, and even more stuff but still no jobs.

1352
01:04:56,440 --> 01:04:59,440
Speaker 1: Well you really have both. See stuff is defined as

1353
01:04:59,480 --> 01:05:02,920
Speaker 1: household articles considered as a group. Sometimes this stuff is

1354
01:05:02,960 --> 01:05:05,960
Speaker 1: no longer needed. Wait, no longer needed. That can't be right,

1355
01:05:06,160 --> 01:05:08,960
Speaker 1: because remember those jobs you were looking for. Those are

1356
01:05:09,000 --> 01:05:12,400
Speaker 1: really needed, and they're the stuff inside your stuff, even

1357
01:05:12,440 --> 01:05:14,560
Speaker 1: inside that winter coat. Then move with you to Phoenix.

1358
01:05:14,920 --> 01:05:17,840
Speaker 1: Our job is to unlock those jobs, and it starts

1359
01:05:17,840 --> 01:05:20,720
Speaker 1: when you donate your stuff to your local Goodwill. Here's

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01:05:20,720 --> 01:05:23,000
Speaker 1: how we do it. When you donate to Goodwill, we

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Speaker 1: sell your stuff to provide job training for people right

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Speaker 1: here in your community. So, just by teaming up with Goodwill,

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01:05:29,240 --> 01:05:31,840
Speaker 1: you help create jobs. And isn't that worth parting with

1364
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Speaker 1: the leftover keytar from your eighties cover band? Goodwill? Donate stuff,

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Speaker 1: create jobs, Find your nearest donation center at Goodwill dot Org.

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Speaker 1: A message from Goodwill and the AD Council. From Goodwill

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Speaker 1: and the AD Council. From Goodwill and the AD Council,

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Speaker 1: Texans Radio, the drive continues. Welcome back to this Wednesday

1369
01:05:52,560 --> 01:05:55,439
Speaker 1: edition of Texans All Access. I'm your host, John Eric's

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Speaker 1: football analyst, Sava Reporter. It's time for the Texans Stats Challenge,

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Speaker 1: brought you by Slumberge tonight. The stat is two point six.

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Speaker 1: Two point six. No, that was done my grade point average.

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01:06:14,800 --> 01:06:17,320
Speaker 1: My grade point average actually was a four point er

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Speaker 1: in high school. In fact, today I was actually down

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01:06:21,440 --> 01:06:24,960
Speaker 1: in my old Deck of the Woods, Richmond, Texas. Little

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Speaker 1: school dedication to one of my favorite people in the world,

1377
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Speaker 1: my former English teacher, Maxine Phalan. If you're down that way,

1378
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Speaker 1: go check out Maxine Falin Elementary. Great school, great little area,

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Speaker 1: and I'm glad they named the school after her. Three

1380
01:06:38,280 --> 01:06:39,520
Speaker 1: years ago I had a chance to talk to the

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Speaker 1: school board there at the Market Saladay Independent School District

1382
01:06:42,240 --> 01:06:45,920
Speaker 1: and try and convince them to name the school after

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Speaker 1: Miss Phalan, and they did so. Miss Failing. As I

1384
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Speaker 1: said today, I love you. You are the absolute best.

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01:06:52,280 --> 01:06:55,360
Speaker 1: No one better to have named to have a school

1386
01:06:55,400 --> 01:06:59,640
Speaker 1: named after than the ultimate teacher, ultimate leader, the ultimate hero.

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01:07:00,280 --> 01:07:04,160
Speaker 1: You're the best. So that was how I spent today.

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01:07:04,640 --> 01:07:07,960
Speaker 1: That's what I did. My GPA was four point back then.

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Speaker 1: Two point six is the run average of the LA Chargers.

1390
01:07:13,400 --> 01:07:17,920
Speaker 1: They've got to stay there. That's a number that at

1391
01:07:17,920 --> 01:07:19,400
Speaker 1: the end of the game, when you look up, they've

1392
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Speaker 1: got twenty five carries at a two point six average.

1393
01:07:24,200 --> 01:07:28,520
Speaker 1: That's about sixty sixty four yards. Sixty three sixty four yards.

1394
01:07:28,720 --> 01:07:32,520
Speaker 1: That's a winning number. You can't look up and see

1395
01:07:32,800 --> 01:07:38,800
Speaker 1: two eighty one forty carries seven point data per carry. No,

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Speaker 1: this has got to be one of those Chargers average

1397
01:07:42,360 --> 01:07:45,640
Speaker 1: two point six or less kind of games. That's what

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01:07:45,680 --> 01:07:48,640
Speaker 1: they're averaging. It's time to keep them there. Now. The

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Speaker 1: flip side of that is they do like to throw

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Speaker 1: the ball, and they're effective throwing the ball. I should

1401
01:07:54,520 --> 01:07:57,160
Speaker 1: say it that way. They're effective throwing the football. But no,

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01:07:57,280 --> 01:08:00,280
Speaker 1: rashawnse later the second straight year against US, I don't

1403
01:08:00,280 --> 01:08:02,160
Speaker 1: think that offensive line is quite at the level that

1404
01:08:02,200 --> 01:08:04,880
Speaker 1: we've seen the last three weeks, especially in the run game.

1405
01:08:05,240 --> 01:08:11,800
Speaker 1: So they will use the short passing game to give

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01:08:11,840 --> 01:08:16,040
Speaker 1: them a run game component. But you can't let whenever

1407
01:08:16,080 --> 01:08:19,240
Speaker 1: they do turn in hand it to Austin Eckler, let

1408
01:08:19,320 --> 01:08:23,559
Speaker 1: him four five six yards a carry. That can't happen.

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01:08:23,880 --> 01:08:25,760
Speaker 1: I know, and Lla either probably thinking, look, this is

1410
01:08:25,760 --> 01:08:28,960
Speaker 1: our get well game on the ground. Well, you have

1411
01:08:29,120 --> 01:08:32,640
Speaker 1: to change that thinking early and often and make it

1412
01:08:32,960 --> 01:08:36,360
Speaker 1: a throwing game and let this pass rush eat. That's

1413
01:08:36,400 --> 01:08:40,080
Speaker 1: what you have to do. Two point six yards per carry.

1414
01:08:40,200 --> 01:08:45,840
Speaker 1: That stat as part of the Schlumberge Stats Challenge. Go

1415
01:08:45,880 --> 01:08:50,639
Speaker 1: to us Texans dot com to take the Schlumberge Stats Challenge.

1416
01:08:50,720 --> 01:08:52,720
Speaker 1: That's a winner. That's a key. You may hear that

1417
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Speaker 1: tomorrow or excuse me Friday. In our keys to the game,

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Speaker 1: two point six that's the magic number. I know if

1419
01:09:00,520 --> 01:09:02,640
Speaker 1: you get into threes. But you don't want them to

1420
01:09:02,680 --> 01:09:05,599
Speaker 1: be above average running the ball because they're well above

1421
01:09:05,640 --> 01:09:08,880
Speaker 1: average throwing it. Don't let them be above average and

1422
01:09:09,040 --> 01:09:12,479
Speaker 1: well above average. Shut the run game completely down, let

1423
01:09:12,479 --> 01:09:15,160
Speaker 1: this pass rush eat without reshawnse later on the edge,

1424
01:09:15,320 --> 01:09:17,640
Speaker 1: and maybe, just maybe you can get up hits on

1425
01:09:17,720 --> 01:09:22,360
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert to make him feel very uncomfortable. All Right,

1426
01:09:22,360 --> 01:09:24,240
Speaker 1: it's time for In the Lab. In the Lab is

1427
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Speaker 1: a podcast with two people myself and Drew Doherty, and

1428
01:09:28,240 --> 01:09:30,880
Speaker 1: we like to geek out. We like to geek out

1429
01:09:30,920 --> 01:09:33,360
Speaker 1: about a number of things. Numbers like two point six,

1430
01:09:33,720 --> 01:09:35,759
Speaker 1: but a few other things. We've gotta cream of the crop.

1431
01:09:35,960 --> 01:09:41,679
Speaker 1: But we lament the inability to finish the last three

1432
01:09:41,880 --> 01:09:44,679
Speaker 1: weeks to start, Drew take it away, and we've gone

1433
01:09:44,680 --> 01:09:48,720
Speaker 1: over it. Everyone else is going over it. Texans did

1434
01:09:48,720 --> 01:09:53,559
Speaker 1: not finish again. It was not much fun. Correct defense,

1435
01:09:53,600 --> 01:09:57,679
Speaker 1: gave up too many rushing yards. Not much fun. Okay,

1436
01:09:57,720 --> 01:10:00,479
Speaker 1: So there were a few good things that came out

1437
01:10:00,520 --> 01:10:05,040
Speaker 1: of Sunday's game. The best I think was and first

1438
01:10:05,040 --> 01:10:06,840
Speaker 1: of all, how are you doing. I'm doing well. I'm

1439
01:10:06,840 --> 01:10:09,479
Speaker 1: with you, though it's it's frustrating. I said this to Mark.

1440
01:10:10,240 --> 01:10:12,599
Speaker 1: I think one of the frustrating things about being that

1441
01:10:12,760 --> 01:10:14,960
Speaker 1: close is you're like, man, we're close, like we've had

1442
01:10:15,000 --> 01:10:18,320
Speaker 1: these leads in the fourth quarter and or we've been

1443
01:10:18,360 --> 01:10:20,679
Speaker 1: tide going into the fourth quarter, and just like you said,

1444
01:10:20,680 --> 01:10:23,479
Speaker 1: you can't finish. I think the thing about that is

1445
01:10:23,680 --> 01:10:27,240
Speaker 1: it's it's easy outside of looking at to go, well, well,

1446
01:10:27,280 --> 01:10:29,920
Speaker 1: mag make that play, make that one play, and you're good.

1447
01:10:30,400 --> 01:10:33,639
Speaker 1: It's it's more. It's more than that. It's putting yourself

1448
01:10:33,680 --> 01:10:36,440
Speaker 1: in position over the entire game to make that particular

1449
01:10:36,479 --> 01:10:38,640
Speaker 1: play at that point and just haven't been able to

1450
01:10:38,680 --> 01:10:40,800
Speaker 1: do it in the fourth quarter, had the ball with

1451
01:10:41,080 --> 01:10:44,960
Speaker 1: different times to take a lead or tie the game

1452
01:10:45,000 --> 01:10:46,960
Speaker 1: and say, maybe we'll come up that clutch play and

1453
01:10:47,000 --> 01:10:49,719
Speaker 1: hopefully that changes. Sitting at O two and one, hopefully

1454
01:10:49,760 --> 01:10:52,439
Speaker 1: they'll change coming up and starts with the Chargers. Yeah,

1455
01:10:52,479 --> 01:10:56,040
Speaker 1: you say, put yourself in position, and the special teams

1456
01:10:56,080 --> 01:10:58,840
Speaker 1: for the Texans did that throughout the game. They did

1457
01:10:58,880 --> 01:11:01,120
Speaker 1: in the first, the second, third, the fourth quarter. They

1458
01:11:01,120 --> 01:11:03,800
Speaker 1: were tremendous. In fact, if you were a rank the

1459
01:11:03,920 --> 01:11:08,719
Speaker 1: special team's performances in franchise history, what we saw Sunday

1460
01:11:08,760 --> 01:11:11,240
Speaker 1: has got to be within the top three all time

1461
01:11:11,840 --> 01:11:14,439
Speaker 1: for the Texans. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I don't it's

1462
01:11:14,439 --> 01:11:16,719
Speaker 1: tough to quantify it after game by game, but listen,

1463
01:11:16,800 --> 01:11:19,440
Speaker 1: listen to some of the stuff that we saw. Okay,

1464
01:11:20,000 --> 01:11:23,080
Speaker 1: Cam Johnston, all five of his punts downed inside the

1465
01:11:23,160 --> 01:11:26,640
Speaker 1: twenty Kymie favorite fairbear, and he made both of his

1466
01:11:26,760 --> 01:11:30,679
Speaker 1: field goals in that wind when he was kicking off.

1467
01:11:30,840 --> 01:11:32,200
Speaker 1: He did a good job of that. I'm gonna get

1468
01:11:32,200 --> 01:11:34,679
Speaker 1: to that in a second. Desmond King. The one punt

1469
01:11:34,720 --> 01:11:37,680
Speaker 1: return he had thirty one yards. It's set up the

1470
01:11:37,760 --> 01:11:41,360
Speaker 1: last touchdown. I mean, it got you down well inside

1471
01:11:41,360 --> 01:11:43,120
Speaker 1: the fifty on the other side of the field for

1472
01:11:43,160 --> 01:11:46,920
Speaker 1: the for the Texans offense, you convert a fake punt

1473
01:11:47,439 --> 01:11:50,120
Speaker 1: that winds up leading to a field goal later and

1474
01:11:50,240 --> 01:11:53,360
Speaker 1: it kept your defense off the field because you were

1475
01:11:53,720 --> 01:11:55,280
Speaker 1: you don't make that fake punt. The defense has to

1476
01:11:55,280 --> 01:11:57,599
Speaker 1: go out there. They're gonna be exhausted, you know, because

1477
01:11:57,640 --> 01:12:01,280
Speaker 1: they they'd had a lot of time on the field,

1478
01:12:01,280 --> 01:12:03,639
Speaker 1: and the second quarter that flips basically in the third.

1479
01:12:03,880 --> 01:12:09,519
Speaker 1: All right, but I talk about position field position ten drives.

1480
01:12:09,600 --> 01:12:12,960
Speaker 1: There were twelve drives total for the Chicago Bears offense.

1481
01:12:13,000 --> 01:12:15,800
Speaker 1: Two of them started because of interceptions, all right, right.

1482
01:12:16,800 --> 01:12:21,360
Speaker 1: The other ten punts and kickoffs by the Texans. None

1483
01:12:21,360 --> 01:12:23,679
Speaker 1: of them were better than the twenty five yard line

1484
01:12:23,680 --> 01:12:27,320
Speaker 1: because two kickoffs went into the end zone and were touchbacks.

1485
01:12:27,320 --> 01:12:30,240
Speaker 1: So the best that they had starting field position wise

1486
01:12:30,280 --> 01:12:33,160
Speaker 1: out of those ten drives was the twenty five. But

1487
01:12:33,320 --> 01:12:36,840
Speaker 1: on average after a kickoff or punt, they started at

1488
01:12:36,840 --> 01:12:39,720
Speaker 1: the sixteen point nine yard line, the seventeen yard line.

1489
01:12:39,960 --> 01:12:44,000
Speaker 1: I mean, your special teams unit did everything it could

1490
01:12:44,439 --> 01:12:46,439
Speaker 1: to help you win the game. I mean, I shudder

1491
01:12:46,479 --> 01:12:48,880
Speaker 1: to think if they have just an average Yeah, before

1492
01:12:48,960 --> 01:12:51,640
Speaker 1: you lose by double digits, I think, ye, if all

1493
01:12:51,680 --> 01:12:54,479
Speaker 1: things are the same, Yeah, with justin fields you've been

1494
01:12:54,479 --> 01:12:56,720
Speaker 1: playing as poorly as you did, You're you're probably right

1495
01:12:56,760 --> 01:13:00,280
Speaker 1: about that. And I will say this, and I don't

1496
01:13:00,280 --> 01:13:02,360
Speaker 1: want to give the defensive pass at all. When you

1497
01:13:02,400 --> 01:13:03,800
Speaker 1: give a two hundred and eighty one yards, you give

1498
01:13:03,800 --> 01:13:06,000
Speaker 1: it two hundred and eighty one yards. Yeah, but what

1499
01:13:06,120 --> 01:13:08,800
Speaker 1: ends up happening sometimes And this happened with Derrick Henry

1500
01:13:08,800 --> 01:13:11,680
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty up at Tennessee. The Texans didn't do

1501
01:13:11,760 --> 01:13:16,240
Speaker 1: a horrible job against Derrick Henry, but they jumped out

1502
01:13:16,280 --> 01:13:18,479
Speaker 1: of a gap. A linebacker jumped out of his gap.

1503
01:13:18,600 --> 01:13:21,360
Speaker 1: Zack Hunningham jumped out of his gap for some reason,

1504
01:13:21,479 --> 01:13:23,640
Speaker 1: jumped into the backside A instead of front side A.

1505
01:13:24,000 --> 01:13:26,040
Speaker 1: And that's where Henry went ninety four yards. Well, Henry

1506
01:13:26,120 --> 01:13:28,120
Speaker 1: ran for two hundred and something yards at day. Well,

1507
01:13:28,160 --> 01:13:30,400
Speaker 1: ninety four came on that run, so it was like

1508
01:13:30,439 --> 01:13:32,160
Speaker 1: one hundred and I don't know, one hundred and ten

1509
01:13:32,240 --> 01:13:34,200
Speaker 1: yards without that now it's still giving one hundred and

1510
01:13:34,200 --> 01:13:38,599
Speaker 1: ten yards but to arguably the best back in the league.

1511
01:13:39,960 --> 01:13:41,840
Speaker 1: That is not bad. But then you see that that

1512
01:13:41,920 --> 01:13:44,200
Speaker 1: grotesque total of two hundred. The reason bring it up

1513
01:13:44,240 --> 01:13:46,880
Speaker 1: is clear Herbert had a fifty two yard run, Equitimius

1514
01:13:46,880 --> 01:13:50,040
Speaker 1: had a forty one yard run justin fields, a twenty

1515
01:13:50,080 --> 01:13:53,080
Speaker 1: yards scramble, and Herbert had a nineteen yard run elsewhere.

1516
01:13:53,280 --> 01:13:55,160
Speaker 1: That accounted for one hundred and forty one yards of

1517
01:13:55,200 --> 01:13:57,920
Speaker 1: one hundred forty or the two eighty one. Sorry, So

1518
01:13:57,960 --> 01:13:59,599
Speaker 1: that was one hundred forty one on four runs, one

1519
01:13:59,640 --> 01:14:03,639
Speaker 1: hundred forty and thirty six runs. And that really dawned

1520
01:14:03,640 --> 01:14:07,040
Speaker 1: on me, drew as I was watching, because I'm like, man, this,

1521
01:14:07,640 --> 01:14:09,040
Speaker 1: I went back and watch the game. It's like, this

1522
01:14:09,080 --> 01:14:12,240
Speaker 1: isn't this isn't as bad as I thought. I thought

1523
01:14:12,240 --> 01:14:13,800
Speaker 1: I was gonna watch this and just want to puke.

1524
01:14:14,040 --> 01:14:16,160
Speaker 1: And I'm watching, going, that's a pretty good stop here,

1525
01:14:16,240 --> 01:14:18,479
Speaker 1: it's pretty good run stop there. But it was those

1526
01:14:18,520 --> 01:14:21,800
Speaker 1: four plays that completely skewed the total. But you know what, though,

1527
01:14:22,320 --> 01:14:24,640
Speaker 1: and I'm with you, but you can't get rid of

1528
01:14:24,680 --> 01:14:27,000
Speaker 1: those four plays. That's the problem. You can't. And also

1529
01:14:27,640 --> 01:14:30,240
Speaker 1: you still were able to let them run thirty six

1530
01:14:30,360 --> 01:14:33,479
Speaker 1: times when you run over thirty times, you're usually gonna win.

1531
01:14:34,040 --> 01:14:36,360
Speaker 1: And the Texans, of they've given up what twenty eight,

1532
01:14:37,040 --> 01:14:40,200
Speaker 1: forty one and thirty something carries in each of these

1533
01:14:41,080 --> 01:14:43,040
Speaker 1: I wrote about it in Portant Drew Actually, but yeah,

1534
01:14:43,080 --> 01:14:45,120
Speaker 1: they're giving up an average or they give given up

1535
01:14:45,120 --> 01:14:48,080
Speaker 1: an average like five and change per per carry. I

1536
01:14:48,120 --> 01:14:51,320
Speaker 1: think what those four runs only the Titans are worse

1537
01:14:51,320 --> 01:14:55,920
Speaker 1: than what those four runs do and have done, is

1538
01:14:55,960 --> 01:14:59,720
Speaker 1: they're exposing where the Texans issues have come from. On

1539
01:14:59,760 --> 01:15:01,519
Speaker 1: the first one, you got a player jumping out of

1540
01:15:01,520 --> 01:15:04,280
Speaker 1: his gap and it left a massive I mean when

1541
01:15:04,280 --> 01:15:06,080
Speaker 1: they showed the end zone view of that clue Herbert

1542
01:15:06,080 --> 01:15:10,040
Speaker 1: fifty two yard run, like what the heck? Justin field scramble?

1543
01:15:10,160 --> 01:15:11,840
Speaker 1: Like you you knew you're gonna give up a scramble

1544
01:15:11,880 --> 01:15:13,519
Speaker 1: to justin fields. You just hope he wasn't gonna make

1545
01:15:13,560 --> 01:15:15,960
Speaker 1: it a seventy nine yun yard run, not twenty yard

1546
01:15:16,120 --> 01:15:19,680
Speaker 1: yard run. The forty one yard reverse run. You got

1547
01:15:19,720 --> 01:15:23,719
Speaker 1: defensive back that's eyes are in the wrong spot. He's

1548
01:15:23,760 --> 01:15:26,760
Speaker 1: watching what his key's doing, and he's just like, oh,

1549
01:15:26,840 --> 01:15:30,160
Speaker 1: instead of seeing what the receiver's doing and then going, oh,

1550
01:15:30,160 --> 01:15:32,559
Speaker 1: wait a second, I gotta go up and replace that

1551
01:15:32,600 --> 01:15:35,479
Speaker 1: turns into a forty one yard run. The tackling on

1552
01:15:35,560 --> 01:15:37,920
Speaker 1: the Herbert fifty two yard run was not good. The

1553
01:15:38,000 --> 01:15:40,680
Speaker 1: tackling on Herbert's nineteen yard run was not good. The

1554
01:15:41,520 --> 01:15:44,040
Speaker 1: tackling in the physicality on Herbert's touchdown run was not good.

1555
01:15:44,080 --> 01:15:47,560
Speaker 1: So those four runs plus the touchdown run just exposed

1556
01:15:47,680 --> 01:15:50,920
Speaker 1: really what the Texans issues have been when they've gone

1557
01:15:50,920 --> 01:15:52,679
Speaker 1: down there. Now, the flip side of that, like you said,

1558
01:15:52,760 --> 01:15:56,320
Speaker 1: is the special teams. I mean, holy smokes, it was fantastic.

1559
01:15:56,360 --> 01:15:59,080
Speaker 1: Grayland Arnold made that stop inside the ten, flying down

1560
01:15:59,120 --> 01:16:02,120
Speaker 1: as a gunner or as some teams like their coverage

1561
01:16:02,160 --> 01:16:06,519
Speaker 1: unions have been great. Staff puts really great. The fake punt.

1562
01:16:07,920 --> 01:16:10,200
Speaker 1: I had seen the Texans run a fake punt at

1563
01:16:10,200 --> 01:16:14,200
Speaker 1: some point in training camp or practice walked or whatever.

1564
01:16:14,320 --> 01:16:16,200
Speaker 1: I had seen them run it, and you they had.

1565
01:16:16,240 --> 01:16:19,080
Speaker 1: And every team has a fake punt or two or

1566
01:16:19,160 --> 01:16:22,160
Speaker 1: three in their arsenal. They all have them. They all

1567
01:16:22,160 --> 01:16:24,080
Speaker 1: have it's just a matter of when you call it.

1568
01:16:24,120 --> 01:16:26,400
Speaker 1: I think that's the key is what's the timing, what's

1569
01:16:26,400 --> 01:16:28,920
Speaker 1: the right time. The Bears came out of punt safe look,

1570
01:16:29,520 --> 01:16:33,679
Speaker 1: meaning they had their front seven front six whatever out

1571
01:16:33,720 --> 01:16:38,080
Speaker 1: on the field as if they were expecting something untoward,

1572
01:16:38,200 --> 01:16:41,120
Speaker 1: and then m J. Stewart, And what I loved about

1573
01:16:41,200 --> 01:16:44,080
Speaker 1: is how they set it up on a punt earlier.

1574
01:16:44,200 --> 01:16:46,840
Speaker 1: It caught my attention to Dario Guali went in motion,

1575
01:16:47,479 --> 01:16:52,519
Speaker 1: and I went okay, So Dari goes in motion again.

1576
01:16:53,000 --> 01:16:55,720
Speaker 1: But I didn't see that until later after the game

1577
01:16:55,800 --> 01:16:57,960
Speaker 1: because I had switched sides of the field because when

1578
01:16:58,000 --> 01:17:00,559
Speaker 1: the balls in the you know, forties, I gotta make

1579
01:17:00,560 --> 01:17:02,160
Speaker 1: a decision that I stay behind it or I go

1580
01:17:02,200 --> 01:17:05,160
Speaker 1: in front. Why, I had already moved in front thinking

1581
01:17:05,200 --> 01:17:06,639
Speaker 1: that they were going to pick up a first down

1582
01:17:06,760 --> 01:17:08,280
Speaker 1: right and that they were going to kind of move

1583
01:17:08,280 --> 01:17:10,160
Speaker 1: a little bit, so I got there in preparation. So

1584
01:17:10,200 --> 01:17:13,000
Speaker 1: I was watching it from behind, and so I see

1585
01:17:13,040 --> 01:17:15,800
Speaker 1: fake pump, like, oh man, did they get enough? And

1586
01:17:15,840 --> 01:17:17,439
Speaker 1: when you see a TV copy you can see they

1587
01:17:17,439 --> 01:17:20,000
Speaker 1: clearly got it. But it was perfectly executed as perfectly run.

1588
01:17:20,160 --> 01:17:23,720
Speaker 1: MJ sold it and then the front got enough push

1589
01:17:23,760 --> 01:17:25,320
Speaker 1: to get them enough. For the first time, I thought

1590
01:17:25,320 --> 01:17:27,840
Speaker 1: it was brilliant. Frank Ross and Sean Baker had been

1591
01:17:27,880 --> 01:17:31,479
Speaker 1: unbelievable to special teams units have been great they've put

1592
01:17:31,479 --> 01:17:34,280
Speaker 1: emphasis on that and it's really telling. And now the

1593
01:17:34,360 --> 01:17:36,080
Speaker 1: other two units have got to step up a match

1594
01:17:36,120 --> 01:17:38,000
Speaker 1: special teams and when they do, then we're gonna have

1595
01:17:38,040 --> 01:17:40,040
Speaker 1: a football team that we really like to watch. Yeah,

1596
01:17:40,040 --> 01:17:41,880
Speaker 1: but those two have to match and special teams are doing.

1597
01:17:41,920 --> 01:17:43,840
Speaker 1: Speaking to MG Stewart, he came into the game with

1598
01:17:43,880 --> 01:17:46,680
Speaker 1: four special teams tackles. He added an assist, so I

1599
01:17:46,680 --> 01:17:48,680
Speaker 1: think that goes to five now for him. That was

1600
01:17:48,880 --> 01:17:51,759
Speaker 1: that was coming in. Four was the tops on the Texans.

1601
01:17:51,760 --> 01:17:56,720
Speaker 1: So MG. Stewart quiet nice addition. Absolutely free agency for

1602
01:17:56,960 --> 01:18:00,160
Speaker 1: the texts very much. They're special teams units. Okay, I'm

1603
01:18:00,200 --> 01:18:02,600
Speaker 1: to get into who you and I think will be

1604
01:18:02,680 --> 01:18:06,519
Speaker 1: the cream of the crop, cream of the crop this

1605
01:18:06,760 --> 01:18:10,519
Speaker 1: Sunday against the Chargers, because this is a boy. This

1606
01:18:10,640 --> 01:18:13,519
Speaker 1: feels like the twenty eleven Texans or something with these guys.

1607
01:18:13,560 --> 01:18:18,280
Speaker 1: I mean their quarterback has broken ribs, they've lost their

1608
01:18:18,400 --> 01:18:22,760
Speaker 1: left tackle, there's they're all pro wide receiver is banged up.

1609
01:18:22,880 --> 01:18:26,840
Speaker 1: Ye might not play. It's it's a it's a mash unit.

1610
01:18:27,000 --> 01:18:29,240
Speaker 1: So with all that in mind, because I think that

1611
01:18:29,360 --> 01:18:31,360
Speaker 1: plays a big, big role in what we see and

1612
01:18:31,439 --> 01:18:34,879
Speaker 1: we'll see on Sunday. Who's your cream of the cropper

1613
01:18:35,000 --> 01:18:40,599
Speaker 1: to watch from the Houston Texans. Titus Howard all right,

1614
01:18:41,160 --> 01:18:44,120
Speaker 1: Two reasons mighty Titus Howard Number one. First of all,

1615
01:18:44,120 --> 01:18:46,559
Speaker 1: I don't know Joey Bosa got hurt in that game

1616
01:18:46,680 --> 01:18:50,600
Speaker 1: last week against the Jaguars Royn injury, and there's no

1617
01:18:50,720 --> 01:18:53,760
Speaker 1: talent will whether he's gonna play. He didn't play last year.

1618
01:18:53,760 --> 01:18:55,320
Speaker 1: I think it was a COVID situation the last year,

1619
01:18:55,320 --> 01:18:56,519
Speaker 1: but there were a lot of guys in the Texans side.

1620
01:18:56,520 --> 01:18:58,280
Speaker 1: I didn't play. Brandon Cooks didn't play due to COVID

1621
01:18:58,600 --> 01:19:01,360
Speaker 1: last year, so it was a in some sense and

1622
01:19:01,439 --> 01:19:04,360
Speaker 1: even matchup with injuries on both sides and COVID on

1623
01:19:04,479 --> 01:19:06,320
Speaker 1: both sides. I mean, I remember when our offensive line

1624
01:19:06,360 --> 01:19:09,679
Speaker 1: looked like that day. But I bring up Titus because

1625
01:19:10,600 --> 01:19:14,519
Speaker 1: of that Joey Bosa, and Joey likes to He'll rush

1626
01:19:14,560 --> 01:19:17,360
Speaker 1: from either side, but he likes that left side, and

1627
01:19:17,800 --> 01:19:19,920
Speaker 1: Titus has faced them before. His first game as a

1628
01:19:20,080 --> 01:19:22,679
Speaker 1: right starting, starting right tackle. He had to face Joey

1629
01:19:22,720 --> 01:19:25,479
Speaker 1: Bosa in twenty nineteen California and he had a release

1630
01:19:25,560 --> 01:19:27,759
Speaker 1: solid game against him. So Titus has had some success,

1631
01:19:28,479 --> 01:19:31,120
Speaker 1: but it's time. It's time for Tightest to be the

1632
01:19:31,200 --> 01:19:33,720
Speaker 1: first round pick we have have wanted him to be.

1633
01:19:33,920 --> 01:19:37,919
Speaker 1: It's time. There have been flashes, there's not enough dominance,

1634
01:19:38,520 --> 01:19:40,840
Speaker 1: and he could take over games. He's got the athleticism,

1635
01:19:40,960 --> 01:19:42,800
Speaker 1: he's got the power, to strength, the length, he's got

1636
01:19:42,840 --> 01:19:45,000
Speaker 1: everything you want to be able to take over a

1637
01:19:45,080 --> 01:19:47,040
Speaker 1: game and say, you know what, run the ball behind

1638
01:19:47,120 --> 01:19:49,840
Speaker 1: me on this right side, run over here. I'm gonna

1639
01:19:49,920 --> 01:19:52,640
Speaker 1: dominate this fool across from me. And it's got to

1640
01:19:52,720 --> 01:19:55,280
Speaker 1: be that sort of thing. And Tightest a lot of

1641
01:19:55,320 --> 01:19:57,479
Speaker 1: times gets caught two two and a half seconds on

1642
01:19:57,560 --> 01:19:59,280
Speaker 1: a block and it looks okay, and then that guy

1643
01:19:59,400 --> 01:20:02,200
Speaker 1: ends up some ending up on a tackle. Those things

1644
01:20:02,320 --> 01:20:05,000
Speaker 1: have got to get cleaned up. Titus has got to

1645
01:20:05,040 --> 01:20:07,080
Speaker 1: take his game to a different level. My eyes would

1646
01:20:07,080 --> 01:20:08,840
Speaker 1: be on him for a lot of his game because

1647
01:20:08,840 --> 01:20:12,519
Speaker 1: a Bosa and be that fact right there where Titus

1648
01:20:12,800 --> 01:20:15,880
Speaker 1: can take this entire offensive line to a different level

1649
01:20:16,200 --> 01:20:18,120
Speaker 1: with his play on the right side. I like it

1650
01:20:18,160 --> 01:20:20,360
Speaker 1: because if he's doing that, you're also probably gonna be

1651
01:20:20,360 --> 01:20:21,760
Speaker 1: able to run the ball. And you ran the ball

1652
01:20:21,880 --> 01:20:25,960
Speaker 1: really really well against the Chargers last year. Now Los

1653
01:20:26,000 --> 01:20:29,080
Speaker 1: Angeles comes in with an NFL worst two point six

1654
01:20:29,200 --> 01:20:32,720
Speaker 1: yards per carry average. So if there's any weekend to

1655
01:20:32,840 --> 01:20:35,479
Speaker 1: get right against the run, right now is as good

1656
01:20:35,520 --> 01:20:37,519
Speaker 1: as any. Let's do that. Let's make sure make sure

1657
01:20:37,560 --> 01:20:39,439
Speaker 1: that that happens. Maybe keep him at that two point

1658
01:20:39,520 --> 01:20:42,360
Speaker 1: six per or better. Yes, you cool with that. I'm

1659
01:20:42,400 --> 01:20:43,960
Speaker 1: cool with that. I almost went to that side of

1660
01:20:44,000 --> 01:20:46,000
Speaker 1: the ball, and then thinking of Bosa, thought about I

1661
01:20:46,040 --> 01:20:47,960
Speaker 1: thought about Titus. I like it. I'm gonna stay on

1662
01:20:48,000 --> 01:20:50,880
Speaker 1: the offense with you, but I'm gonna go with Nico

1663
01:20:51,040 --> 01:20:54,799
Speaker 1: Collins because think about what he did against those Chargers

1664
01:20:54,960 --> 01:20:57,120
Speaker 1: last year. Yep, Texans are trying to run off the

1665
01:20:57,160 --> 01:21:01,000
Speaker 1: clock late, they've got a bit of a lead and

1666
01:21:01,520 --> 01:21:03,840
Speaker 1: they throw it to Nico and instead of just diving

1667
01:21:03,880 --> 01:21:06,559
Speaker 1: down and killing the clock, he gets six first touchdown

1668
01:21:06,560 --> 01:21:08,240
Speaker 1: in his career. Yeah. Yeah, it was a really good

1669
01:21:08,280 --> 01:21:11,040
Speaker 1: They had a nice little chemistry. They saw something there.

1670
01:21:11,400 --> 01:21:14,800
Speaker 1: He took advantage, Davis Mills took advantage touchdown. Need to

1671
01:21:14,800 --> 01:21:16,840
Speaker 1: see a little bit more. I think from Nico he's

1672
01:21:16,880 --> 01:21:18,479
Speaker 1: starting to come on. I think he's playing a little

1673
01:21:18,479 --> 01:21:21,439
Speaker 1: bit better each game. Had a nice game the other day.

1674
01:21:21,520 --> 01:21:23,000
Speaker 1: But I think he can do more. I think he

1675
01:21:23,080 --> 01:21:26,080
Speaker 1: will do more, and I'm looking to that and for that,

1676
01:21:27,080 --> 01:21:29,240
Speaker 1: not just in the first, second and third quarter, like

1677
01:21:29,280 --> 01:21:31,080
Speaker 1: we mentioned, but in the fourth. Let's get him a

1678
01:21:31,160 --> 01:21:33,639
Speaker 1: big pass because he's done it before in the fourth

1679
01:21:33,760 --> 01:21:37,519
Speaker 1: with Mills. Let's replicate that. Let's keep that going because

1680
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Speaker 1: the Texans gotta gotta gotta get a win. I mean,

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01:21:40,280 --> 01:21:43,519
Speaker 1: this is just they've been blown out. They've had the

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01:21:43,680 --> 01:21:45,840
Speaker 1: lead in the first they've had the lead in two

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01:21:45,880 --> 01:21:47,479
Speaker 1: of the games of the fourth quarter, they were tied

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01:21:47,479 --> 01:21:49,559
Speaker 1: at the start of the fourth quarter of this last one.

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01:21:50,120 --> 01:21:53,840
Speaker 1: Let's finish him off and let's have Nico help do that. Yeah,

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01:21:53,880 --> 01:21:56,040
Speaker 1: it'd be nice to get that went out pick ribbon

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Speaker 1: day at home. Getting back home, it's gonna be nice

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01:21:59,120 --> 01:22:02,320
Speaker 1: because we went two on the road. Then we get

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01:22:02,400 --> 01:22:04,880
Speaker 1: this one game at home. Then we don't come back

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01:22:04,960 --> 01:22:09,760
Speaker 1: home until November. Think about it. Think about it. When

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Speaker 1: you walked off the field after you played the Colts

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01:22:12,240 --> 01:22:15,519
Speaker 1: and tied them, you had only one more game until

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01:22:15,560 --> 01:22:18,439
Speaker 1: Halloween week. Yeah, at home, because the buy is mixed

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01:22:18,479 --> 01:22:20,840
Speaker 1: in there. If you road trips are mixed in back

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01:22:20,840 --> 01:22:23,760
Speaker 1: to back road trips back to back weeks, then you

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01:22:23,840 --> 01:22:26,600
Speaker 1: come home for this one. Then you go at Jacksonville

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01:22:26,760 --> 01:22:29,599
Speaker 1: bye week, at Las Vegas before you come home again.

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Speaker 1: So you were hoping that you could steal one in

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01:22:32,640 --> 01:22:34,960
Speaker 1: some sense at Denver. I mean, and before the season started,

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01:22:35,000 --> 01:22:36,599
Speaker 1: you're like, man, you think you could catch Denver at

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01:22:36,600 --> 01:22:38,320
Speaker 1: the right time and steal one. You were right there

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01:22:38,360 --> 01:22:41,280
Speaker 1: to do it. Could you go to Chicago and beat Chicago?

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01:22:41,360 --> 01:22:43,400
Speaker 1: The passing game struggle? Can you finish them off? And

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01:22:43,479 --> 01:22:45,360
Speaker 1: you just couldn't make the plays through the interception in

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01:22:45,360 --> 01:22:47,720
Speaker 1: the end zone. He through the interception at the end

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01:22:47,720 --> 01:22:51,680
Speaker 1: of the game, and you just couldn't take full advantage

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01:22:52,160 --> 01:22:54,280
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter. Those games were right for the picking,

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01:22:54,520 --> 01:22:56,559
Speaker 1: I mean for people saying, hey, they could be three

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01:22:56,560 --> 01:22:58,360
Speaker 1: and oh, yeah they could be three, and oh they

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01:22:58,439 --> 01:23:00,760
Speaker 1: could be three and oh but they just haven't made

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01:23:00,800 --> 01:23:02,880
Speaker 1: those plays in the final fifteen minutes. It's time to

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01:23:02,920 --> 01:23:04,880
Speaker 1: do it for a full sixty minutes and really show

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01:23:04,960 --> 01:23:07,080
Speaker 1: what this team can do before they go take on

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Speaker 1: what has now become a twenty twenty two juggernaut down

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01:23:09,760 --> 01:23:14,680
Speaker 1: in Duval County to Jacksonville Jaguarars. But that, my dear

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01:23:14,760 --> 01:23:17,800
Speaker 1: friend John Harris, is for next week. Well I am

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01:23:17,880 --> 01:23:20,280
Speaker 1: John Harris. Sorry, Well the third person. I just got

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01:23:20,320 --> 01:23:22,639
Speaker 1: third person cut on myself in some way in shape

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01:23:22,720 --> 01:23:25,320
Speaker 1: or form. Yeah, I kind of did. I didn't meet

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01:23:25,360 --> 01:23:28,640
Speaker 1: too but Jaguars for next week. Take care of the

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01:23:28,880 --> 01:23:32,000
Speaker 1: business at hand, and that would be the La Chargers

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01:23:32,240 --> 01:23:35,679
Speaker 1: on Sunday noon kick. So that's a ten am body

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01:23:35,760 --> 01:23:37,880
Speaker 1: clock game for the Chargers. I kind of like that.

1724
01:23:38,760 --> 01:23:41,479
Speaker 1: They've got guys banged up. You gotta take advantage of

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01:23:41,600 --> 01:23:46,840
Speaker 1: it and get that first win of the year. All right,

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Speaker 1: we get back, Let's go round the NFL presented by

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Speaker 1: water Burger. That's next right here in Texas All Access.

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Speaker 1: more Xons Radio. We want to Finn a segment of

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Speaker 1: this edition of Texans All Access. I'm your host, John

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Speaker 1: Harris Football. I know a sideline reporter and a huge

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Speaker 1: NFL segment this week, and it starts actually with the

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Speaker 1: opponent the Texans are playing on Sunday in that LA Chargers.

1768
01:26:05,479 --> 01:26:09,400
Speaker 1: This not great news for the Chargers. Joey Bosa will

1769
01:26:09,560 --> 01:26:12,800
Speaker 1: miss well, he'll miss this game and that's all that

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01:26:12,920 --> 01:26:16,280
Speaker 1: really matters. He is going on. I are going to

1771
01:26:16,479 --> 01:26:22,519
Speaker 1: have surgery on that I think is a bicep excuse

1772
01:26:22,560 --> 01:26:26,400
Speaker 1: to check that Groyd Chargers pass rusher Joey Bosa, as

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01:26:26,439 --> 01:26:30,439
Speaker 1: reported by Uni Rappaport, will have surgery imminently from expert

1774
01:26:30,600 --> 01:26:34,200
Speaker 1: doctor William Myers at the Vinceerra Institute in Philadelphia to

1775
01:26:34,320 --> 01:26:38,240
Speaker 1: correct a core muscle injury. Recovery time can vary, but

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01:26:38,400 --> 01:26:42,000
Speaker 1: Bosa on irs out more than a month. That sounds

1777
01:26:42,120 --> 01:26:46,360
Speaker 1: like what JJ Watt had back in sixteen. I think

1778
01:26:46,400 --> 01:26:50,479
Speaker 1: it was he will go on injured reserve. He should

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01:26:50,560 --> 01:26:55,120
Speaker 1: be back later in the season. Later in the season

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01:26:56,000 --> 01:27:00,080
Speaker 1: does not matter why because the Texas don't play the

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01:27:00,200 --> 01:27:02,800
Speaker 1: Chargers later in the season. Now, if they were somehow,

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01:27:02,800 --> 01:27:05,479
Speaker 1: I mean the playoffs miraculously, then they have to worry

1783
01:27:05,479 --> 01:27:09,439
Speaker 1: about it. Then No Joey Bosa second year in a row.

1784
01:27:09,439 --> 01:27:11,839
Speaker 1: I think last year, if I remember correctly, was COVID.

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01:27:12,880 --> 01:27:17,760
Speaker 1: Ray Shawn Slater is gonna be lost for the year.

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01:27:18,439 --> 01:27:20,679
Speaker 1: So Ray Shawn Slater's out. So that's two Pro Bowlers

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01:27:20,720 --> 01:27:24,280
Speaker 1: for the charters that are out of this one against

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01:27:24,320 --> 01:27:27,679
Speaker 1: the Texans. Justin Herbert, Pro Bowl quarterback, has been dealing

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01:27:28,040 --> 01:27:33,240
Speaker 1: with the rib cartilage situation. Did play last week against

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01:27:33,280 --> 01:27:35,800
Speaker 1: the Jags. Some would say, not great, they can get

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01:27:35,800 --> 01:27:38,880
Speaker 1: a win. They only scored ten points. Muddy played. I

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01:27:38,920 --> 01:27:42,760
Speaker 1: would guess in a must win situation where both teams,

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01:27:42,800 --> 01:27:47,120
Speaker 1: I would imagine Herbert's going to play. But one other

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01:27:47,400 --> 01:27:49,760
Speaker 1: aspect of this with a rib injury, gotta get up

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01:27:50,000 --> 01:27:53,240
Speaker 1: in a plane all that. I don't know how that

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01:27:53,320 --> 01:27:57,920
Speaker 1: all works. So Justin Herbert, I'm guessing Herbert's playing. Also

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01:27:58,000 --> 01:28:00,639
Speaker 1: more than likely going to play back after missing last

1798
01:28:00,640 --> 01:28:03,040
Speaker 1: week is Keenan Allen, and then Keenan Allen ends up

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01:28:03,080 --> 01:28:07,760
Speaker 1: being a big major factor in what the Chargers want

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01:28:07,800 --> 01:28:09,559
Speaker 1: to do. I think it ends up being a controlled

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01:28:09,600 --> 01:28:13,519
Speaker 1: passing game with Keenan Allen and with Austin Ackle out

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01:28:13,520 --> 01:28:16,120
Speaker 1: of the backfield. We'll see if Mike Williams is gonna

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01:28:16,160 --> 01:28:21,040
Speaker 1: be ready and able to go. But information and news

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01:28:21,080 --> 01:28:23,559
Speaker 1: coming out of the Chargers not good for the Chargers.

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01:28:24,680 --> 01:28:30,120
Speaker 1: But can the Texans take advantage of it? That's the

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01:28:30,240 --> 01:28:33,960
Speaker 1: whole thing. Obviously with Joey Bosa, there's also Khalil Mack

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01:28:34,680 --> 01:28:37,519
Speaker 1: and there's Derwood James, So the Chargers have two players

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01:28:37,680 --> 01:28:40,320
Speaker 1: in Mac and Derwain James they didn't have in the

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01:28:40,360 --> 01:28:43,600
Speaker 1: matchup last year. Jason Jackson's another one to keep an

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01:28:43,640 --> 01:28:47,080
Speaker 1: eye on the corner. Has not been able to get

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01:28:47,160 --> 01:28:50,920
Speaker 1: fully back. We'll see if the free agent signee for

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01:28:51,000 --> 01:28:56,200
Speaker 1: the Chargers does make it back for Sunday against the Texans.

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01:28:56,280 --> 01:29:00,240
Speaker 1: So a lot of question marks about the hell of

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01:29:00,360 --> 01:29:04,679
Speaker 1: the Chargers at this particular moment. One thing I don't

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01:29:04,720 --> 01:29:07,960
Speaker 1: know that that we talked about Miles Garrett had a

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Speaker 1: car accident, and I want to it was this weekend,

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01:29:12,000 --> 01:29:16,559
Speaker 1: I believe, but he was not in the Browns team

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01:29:16,720 --> 01:29:20,519
Speaker 1: building on Wednesday. It was a car crash that he had,

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01:29:20,600 --> 01:29:24,440
Speaker 1: single car crash on Monday. Garrett suffered shoulder and biceps

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01:29:24,880 --> 01:29:28,200
Speaker 1: strained in the crash, but coach Kevin Stefanski said he

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Speaker 1: would be at the team facility tomorrow, I mean Tuesday,

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01:29:31,080 --> 01:29:34,320
Speaker 1: as he continues to recover. So he was not there

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Speaker 1: on Wednesday. Now, Texas don't play the Browns for a while,

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01:29:37,320 --> 01:29:38,800
Speaker 1: but I know there are a lot of Aggies out

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01:29:38,840 --> 01:29:41,599
Speaker 1: there that want to know what other Aggies are doing.

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Speaker 1: And look, Miles Garrett is one of the best players.

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01:29:43,680 --> 01:29:45,840
Speaker 1: And really, I don't know why this is really kind

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01:29:45,840 --> 01:29:48,080
Speaker 1: of flown under the radar. I don't know. Maybe it's

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01:29:48,080 --> 01:29:49,560
Speaker 1: just because I've been checked out this week with a

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01:29:49,640 --> 01:29:51,720
Speaker 1: lot going on. I just haven't heard people talking or

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01:29:51,760 --> 01:29:55,679
Speaker 1: writing a lot about Miles Garrett being banged up after

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01:29:55,800 --> 01:30:00,639
Speaker 1: that single car crash on Monday. All Right, that's gonna

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Speaker 1: do it for tonight's show. A big thanks to Mark Vanimer,

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Speaker 1: to Nick Cassaro, to DP sued Too, Scott Quisenberry, to

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Speaker 1: map Money Smith, of the Chargers and of course my

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Speaker 1: main man Drew Doherty and are in the Lab podcast,

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Speaker 1: and a big thanks to all of you for being here.

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Speaker 1: You guys are the best. You make every single show

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Speaker 1: fun to do because I know you're out there listening

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Speaker 1: supporting us. So thank you, thank you, thank you. We'll

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Speaker 1: see you tomorrow and as always, go Texans. This is

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Speaker 1: Texans Radio on Sports Radio six ten. I'm more resourceful

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