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

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Speaker 1: Texans All Access from the Hunday Texans Radio studio. As

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Speaker 1: we are less than twenty four hours away from the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: It's right, Texans the Colts. It has never happened before.

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Speaker 1: The Texans have never played a division team in the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: As such, the Texans have never faced a team three

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Speaker 1: times in a year. That did not happen and has

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Speaker 1: not happened for the Texans until tomorrow. In Houston professional history, well,

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Speaker 1: we know, we know pretty much all about the history

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Speaker 1: with the Steelers in seventy eight and seventy nine, but

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Speaker 1: three other years eighty eight, eighty nine, ninety they played

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Speaker 1: the Browns, the Steelers, the Bengals three times in those years.

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Speaker 1: They In eighty eight they split with Cleveland regular season

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Speaker 1: and then beat Cleveland in the playoff game at Cleveland.

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Speaker 1: In eighty nine they won both regular season games against

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Speaker 1: And then in ninety they split the regular season games

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Speaker 1: since nineteen ninety that a Houston professional team has faced

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Speaker 1: a division opponent. In the playoffs. It's a long time,

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Speaker 1: a long time. This to me is sort of the

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Speaker 1: start of the second part of the right. I don't know,

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Speaker 1: maybe it's the start of the rivalry, because the rivalry

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Speaker 1: has got to be one in which both teams wins,

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Speaker 1: like Ravens Steelers. Ravens knocked off the Steelers in two

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Speaker 1: thousand and twelve, and then they would knock them out

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Speaker 1: earlier years before that, then the Steels would knock them

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Speaker 1: out two thousand and eight ten. That was a rivalry

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Speaker 1: because one team would win, another team would win. They

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Speaker 1: and it was always up in the air. A rivalry

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Speaker 1: is not one in which the same team wins all

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Speaker 1: the time. Well, the Colts have pretty much dominated this rivalry.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's a question that. But this is

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Speaker 1: an opportunity, with this being the first playoff game between

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Speaker 1: the teams, to establish Houston's leg up, if you will,

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Speaker 1: in this competition with the Indianapolis Colts. I think, and

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Speaker 1: I mentioned it a few weeks ago, I was not

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Speaker 1: surprised that the Cults are here, I said after our

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Speaker 1: and we are seeing them again. But to me, this

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Speaker 1: is an opportunity to get a leg up on the rivalry,

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Speaker 1: and I think it's gonna be a rivalry for a while.

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Speaker 1: You look at Andrew Luck, you look at how the

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Speaker 1: culture built, look at how the Texans are built. Quarterbacks, receivers.

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Speaker 1: You know they've got They've got a t Y Hilton.

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Speaker 1: I think got deannra Hoppins is better, but they got

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Speaker 1: Ar defense has got a little bit more experience, but

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Speaker 1: we've got game wreckers. They've got young guys that can

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Speaker 1: be that way. They've got money under the cap to

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Speaker 1: continue to spend. We've got money for next year to spend. Yes,

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Speaker 1: we've got to make some signings, but the teams are

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Speaker 1: pretty similar. I think this could end up being a

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Speaker 1: very big rivalry going forward, especially the two quarterbacks stay healthy.

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Speaker 1: Jacksonville Tennessee are at the hey we want into the club,

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Speaker 1: you can join the party again because your defense. Your

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Speaker 1: defense gets you there, get you an invitation. Maybe a quarterback,

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Speaker 1: a big time quarterback will bring you to the party

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Speaker 1: for sure. But these two, they could be They could

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Speaker 1: be playing in even bigger games throughout the year. Look

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Speaker 1: at the Chiefs and Chargers. Now that'll last only so

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Speaker 1: long because Philip Rivers isn't gonna play toys fifty. But

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Speaker 1: You got to Sean in his early twenties. As long

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Speaker 1: as these two stay healthy, this robbery could go bananas bananas.

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Speaker 1: So we'll talk about all that, and we got plenty

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Speaker 1: people we're talking to tonight. We got our deep sunt

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Speaker 1: Interview of the Week this week it is with Andre Howe.

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Speaker 1: We've got our keys in the game, and I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: split him up. I'm gonna do my Texans defensive keys

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Speaker 1: and then my Texans offensive keys. It's a big one,

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Speaker 1: so I need a space to kind of dive in

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Speaker 1: a little bit. We will talk to Matt Taylor. We'll

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Speaker 1: do our mend behind the Mike's segment with Mark Vanimir.

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Speaker 1: Each every week Mark catches up with the man behind

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Speaker 1: rookie Matt Taylor. Took over the job I think the

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Speaker 1: is very very good. I'll do my Texans pick him.

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Speaker 1: They're only three games to pick, but I'll pick him

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Speaker 1: straight up and against the spread. And then we'll have

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Speaker 1: our players segment. We've got Kjack TV Playoff Edition and

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Speaker 1: Playoff Edition times two. How do you feel about Alabama Clemson?

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Speaker 1: It's pretty funny. We'll get to the best of and

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Speaker 1: then our final word, which you're during this week, it

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Speaker 1: is to Debion Clowney. Well, let's jump in as we

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Speaker 1: always do on a Friday with our Hot Raids presentage

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Speaker 1: you by Geico fifteen minutes can say you're fifteen percent

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Speaker 1: or more on car insurance, and each every Friday that

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Speaker 1: means a few minutes with the head coach your Houston Texans,

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Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien, he sat down with Mark earlier today. Coach,

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Speaker 1: how much of this is changing up what you do

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Speaker 1: really well much better? I think it's it's an interesting question.

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Speaker 1: A lot of people have asked me that. I think

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Speaker 1: we're both different teams than we were in October, definitely,

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Speaker 1: You're always evolving, certain foundational things you're always gonna do.

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Speaker 1: They know that, we know that about them, But there

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Speaker 1: is an element of changing things up and being different

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Speaker 1: that has to take place in this game with luck,

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Speaker 1: I think the whole week is all about the word challenge.

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Speaker 1: You know, let's let's whatever we do, whether we play

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Speaker 1: on every play, make them earn every yard. What about

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Speaker 1: I mean they've they've really improved, and those guys are

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Speaker 1: a coach, right, No, I mean this is a this

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Speaker 1: So I think our guys, we've we've got a great

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Speaker 1: a game, all right. What are the big keys in

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Speaker 1: these two things as it pertains to Kimi Fairbairn voted

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Speaker 1: And then I thought this news was pretty cool too

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Speaker 1: about Kaymie Fairbarn actually came out the same day. I

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Speaker 1: going to receive the Kupono Award for Excellence from the

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Speaker 1: Polynesian Pro Football Hall of Fame. They recognize each year.

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Speaker 1: They just started this award, the Kupono Award for Excellence,

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Speaker 1: and last year to a Tonga Violoa and McKinsey Milton,

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Speaker 1: both Hawaiians. They got those awards. Chairman Jesse Spolu said

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Speaker 1: on behalf of the Polynesian Football of Fame Board of Directors,

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Speaker 1: we could gratulate Kaymie in a trific season, who truly

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Speaker 1: represents the very best of our Polynesian culture. They will

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Speaker 1: recognize Kayami at a celebration dinner January eighteenth, because the

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Speaker 1: Polynesian Bowl is January nineteenth in Oahuaii. Now hopefully we're

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Speaker 1: still playing. Hopefully Kaymie is gonna have to mail in

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Speaker 1: huge news, man, that's fantastic stuff. Kaymie's been great this

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Speaker 1: the Colts as well. AFC Special Teams Player of the

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Speaker 1: Each week, Deep City sits down with the player and

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Speaker 1: I feel like you sort of like attracts like you're

426
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Speaker 1: a positive person, So you're attracted other people that speak positively.

427
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Speaker 1: So you're you're you're on the sideline, you're working out

428
00:20:41,840 --> 00:20:43,760
Speaker 1: and then you're watching this team go through the beginning

429
00:20:43,760 --> 00:20:46,040
Speaker 1: of the season oh and three, and then when you

430
00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:48,359
Speaker 1: came back, they had won three straight at that point.

431
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Speaker 1: So what was that like for you to stand by

432
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Speaker 1: and watch thinking I'm going to come back and get

433
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Speaker 1: my shot. What was that like for It was great?

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Speaker 1: You know, I feel like I can help the team.

435
00:20:57,080 --> 00:20:58,919
Speaker 1: I feel like I can definitely help the team. And uh,

436
00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:01,520
Speaker 1: you know, watching watching guys struggle, but I knew that

437
00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:03,040
Speaker 1: this team was special. Though I knew we had the

438
00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:05,840
Speaker 1: guys to make it special, we just wouldn't jelling yet.

439
00:21:05,880 --> 00:21:07,640
Speaker 1: You know, I feel like, Okay, well, you're gonna keep

440
00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:09,879
Speaker 1: on keep on playing, keep on playing, and never stop.

441
00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:12,200
Speaker 1: We just never stopped and we kept on fighting, kept

442
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Speaker 1: on playing in one team straight and then you know

443
00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:15,639
Speaker 1: we're here down in the playoffs and we, you know,

444
00:21:15,680 --> 00:21:17,800
Speaker 1: trying to make this run. It's been an unbelievable year

445
00:21:17,840 --> 00:21:20,639
Speaker 1: all around you. You're watching and it's Tyrone, Matthew and

446
00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:23,000
Speaker 1: Justin Read, two guys you haven't played with before, and

447
00:21:23,040 --> 00:21:25,760
Speaker 1: then you got to sort of come in and work

448
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Speaker 1: with them in the backfield. What was that transition like

449
00:21:27,880 --> 00:21:29,720
Speaker 1: for you because you didn't really have the luxury of

450
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Speaker 1: having training camp and all these games with them. Oh,

451
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Speaker 1: I think just from you know, being around the guy

452
00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:36,440
Speaker 1: like we do IDB dinner Thursday night, so just kind

453
00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:38,280
Speaker 1: of hanging out with him, get to know him, and

454
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Speaker 1: then we get on the field together. It's like it's

455
00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:42,560
Speaker 1: like this, we never skipped the beat, and now even

456
00:21:42,560 --> 00:21:44,320
Speaker 1: now we just thought it played better in bed every game.

457
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Speaker 1: So I think it's just from being out of here,

458
00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:48,359
Speaker 1: like out here the whole time, so being here with

459
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Speaker 1: the guys, talking to the guys, not being on the field,

460
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Speaker 1: but really just get to know people. And I think

461
00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:54,320
Speaker 1: that's why this team is so good. We kind of

462
00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:56,560
Speaker 1: getting to know each other and we're playing for each other.

463
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Speaker 1: Do you think you learn anymore just because you're not

464
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Speaker 1: playing but you're watching. You have so much more time

465
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Speaker 1: to just watch everybody and what they're doing in the backfield.

466
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Speaker 1: How much better does that make you? It makes you

467
00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:08,400
Speaker 1: so much better mentally but physically still have the goddamn

468
00:22:08,520 --> 00:22:12,159
Speaker 1: and play, but mentally just seeing formations, seeing plays, you know,

469
00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:14,280
Speaker 1: seeing how the quarterback is looking this way or looking

470
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Speaker 1: that way, seeing how these guys are running this way,

471
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Speaker 1: like different routes, so you can kind of see better

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Speaker 1: William the sideline, But and it made me kind of

473
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Speaker 1: when I say, when I get back on the field,

474
00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:24,400
Speaker 1: and okay, I be ready to play, but it just

475
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Speaker 1: the physical as pick of which I wouldn't know yet.

476
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Speaker 1: You came back for that game against Jacksonville. That was

477
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Speaker 1: a rough week in the sense that you were coming

478
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Speaker 1: back for your first game and then also you lost

479
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Speaker 1: your dad earlier in the week too. What was that

480
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Speaker 1: emotionally like for you? Did it sort of help to

481
00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:40,560
Speaker 1: have the distraction of football back, if that makes any sense.

482
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Speaker 1: I know that nothing can sort of undo that tragedy,

483
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Speaker 1: but you know, did it seem like, you know, this

484
00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:48,640
Speaker 1: was more normal for you being back to football. Yeah, definitely,

485
00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:51,679
Speaker 1: definitely know. He had a heart take that Friday. So

486
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Speaker 1: I went home that Saturday and actually came back after

487
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Speaker 1: you passed, and I was gonna stay. I was gonna

488
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Speaker 1: just miss the game. They're like, yeah, could they know

489
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Speaker 1: because they told me playing that game, So I kind

490
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Speaker 1: of knew I was gonna play, and it was kind

491
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Speaker 1: of distracted from you know, my dad passes, so kind

492
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Speaker 1: of a good thing that, you know, I was back

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Speaker 1: on the field of the bad thing that my dad passed,

494
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Speaker 1: but it was kind of like, Okay, I know he

495
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Speaker 1: won't be on the field, and it kind of made

496
00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:15,159
Speaker 1: me feel better about being on the field instead of

497
00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:16,840
Speaker 1: being at home in my family. You played that game,

498
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Speaker 1: then you missed two more before you came back again,

499
00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:21,280
Speaker 1: being an actor for those two games, did you? I

500
00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:23,400
Speaker 1: know it was not related to obviously what you went through,

501
00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:25,240
Speaker 1: but what was that like going through that and then

502
00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:27,840
Speaker 1: coming back again. It's just another stepping stone. Man. It

503
00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:29,879
Speaker 1: was crazy, like, Okay, my first game back, then boom,

504
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Speaker 1: I get hurt. You know, it's like wow, like what's

505
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Speaker 1: really going on? But I feel like, you know, just

506
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Speaker 1: that patient and I had to be patient, like just

507
00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:36,919
Speaker 1: let you buy the hill and like I did the

508
00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:38,320
Speaker 1: first time, let you buy the hill and then the

509
00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:39,960
Speaker 1: hill and I was back on the field. So it's

510
00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:42,600
Speaker 1: all about patience with me because everyone talks about football shape,

511
00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:44,399
Speaker 1: like being in football shape, and I feel like for you,

512
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Speaker 1: you just sort of came in and it was it

513
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Speaker 1: wasn't preseason, it wasn't training camp. You know, it's unusual

514
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Speaker 1: in that sense that you don't really have that time

515
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Speaker 1: to sort of warm up to the game. Again. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was very unusual. Like I said, you have a

517
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Speaker 1: whole month of like tackling and doing tackling drews and

518
00:23:57,160 --> 00:23:58,640
Speaker 1: doing all this stuff, and then you play a game

519
00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:02,000
Speaker 1: or actual football game appreciation game, which really don't mean nothing.

520
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Speaker 1: But I came in like week seven full speed, you know,

521
00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:08,359
Speaker 1: all these guys in you know, midd season shape, and

522
00:24:08,359 --> 00:24:10,600
Speaker 1: I'm just caming then. But I think it was a mindset.

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Speaker 1: I said, Okay, well you know I did all this

524
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Speaker 1: so for the last five years, Like okay, Dre, you okay,

525
00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:17,480
Speaker 1: you can go out there and do it. It's just

526
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Speaker 1: football of the day. How fun was the Texas poll

527
00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:23,439
Speaker 1: that was here a few weeks lost? We lost, but

528
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Speaker 1: it was a great game to watch Man and Neil

529
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Speaker 1: Body and it was a real late game. It was

530
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Speaker 1: super late. Did you stay for the whole I didn't

531
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Speaker 1: say the whole game left the fourth quarter by offenses

532
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Speaker 1: at home, but it was a real great game. I'm

533
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Speaker 1: proud of the Vandy guy man, Like it's hard to

534
00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:38,280
Speaker 1: go to be an s SEC and have those kind

535
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Speaker 1: of you know, you gotta be really smart to go

536
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Speaker 1: to Vanderbilt, and it's hard to be with you know,

537
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Speaker 1: Aabama lgu because those guys to go to football to

538
00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:46,800
Speaker 1: scoot to play football. You know we're going to scoot

539
00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:49,200
Speaker 1: to the school spart and we played football. So it's

540
00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:50,920
Speaker 1: kind of hard to recruit against guys they just want

541
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Speaker 1: to football. But uh, it's no excuse, man, I know

542
00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:54,960
Speaker 1: I think we want to come up now. You know,

543
00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:57,240
Speaker 1: Derek Mason doing a great job there, so I'm excited

544
00:24:57,280 --> 00:24:58,760
Speaker 1: for those games. They must have been so excited to

545
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Speaker 1: have you here for their bull game. I know you're

546
00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:02,679
Speaker 1: in there. Is it the locker room. I've seen your

547
00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:05,520
Speaker 1: picture in the athletic This in the hall where you

548
00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:07,239
Speaker 1: have all the guys in May to the NFL. So

549
00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:09,760
Speaker 1: me Zach, you know Casey, Hey, we're Jordan Matthew. So

550
00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:11,560
Speaker 1: we've got all those guys. That's on on the wall

551
00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:12,920
Speaker 1: and you can see that every day. So when you

552
00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:14,399
Speaker 1: when you go into the stadium, all right, one guy

553
00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:16,600
Speaker 1: you're gonna face this weekend, Andrew Luck. You had a

554
00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:18,520
Speaker 1: big game. You only played one game against the Colts,

555
00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:20,080
Speaker 1: but that was probably your biggest game. So farre you

556
00:25:20,119 --> 00:25:22,200
Speaker 1: picked him off. You had a couple of passes. Defense,

557
00:25:22,840 --> 00:25:25,359
Speaker 1: It's hard to pick off Andrew Luck because he's so smart.

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00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:27,040
Speaker 1: What do you think is going to be the key

559
00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:29,639
Speaker 1: for facing him this Saturday. I think we've got to

560
00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:31,119
Speaker 1: go out and do our job we've been doing the

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00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:33,359
Speaker 1: whole year. You know. Uh, we've been playing pretty well

562
00:25:33,359 --> 00:25:35,480
Speaker 1: in the back game, specially last game in Jacksonville, and

563
00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:37,600
Speaker 1: uh we gotta keep that up and go out damn

564
00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:39,600
Speaker 1: play with playoff hors out man, and then we'll see

565
00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:41,320
Speaker 1: what happens. I think JJ said it best. If you

566
00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:43,359
Speaker 1: can hold every team to one hundred nineteen yards of offense,

567
00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:45,439
Speaker 1: you're gonna win. You're gonna do pretty well, all right.

568
00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:50,040
Speaker 1: Andrea helended Luck than appreciate it. Somehow, some way, that

569
00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:53,239
Speaker 1: guy finds the football. He finds it. I don't know

570
00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:56,119
Speaker 1: how the ball fights him, I think sometimes, but he

571
00:25:56,200 --> 00:26:00,199
Speaker 1: just finds the football. Interception last week against Blake Portles won.

572
00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:02,840
Speaker 1: A few weeks prior to that against Andrew Luck had

573
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Speaker 1: the one against Baker Mayfield deep in the end zone

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Speaker 1: where he did the little twenty two tap, got both

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00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:13,200
Speaker 1: feeding bounds. Toe drag swag for defensive back was pretty good.

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Speaker 1: Get a huge break up against Washington down the scene

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Speaker 1: him look like Vernon Davis was gonna make a catch,

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Speaker 1: and Drey Howe came out of nowhere and popping that

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Speaker 1: ball away. Those are the kind of plays that this

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Speaker 1: secondary must make on Saturday against Andrew Luck. Drey also

581
00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:32,399
Speaker 1: had that knockdown. He blitz late. He was in the

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Speaker 1: slotting blitz late, knocked the pass down. Look like Luck,

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00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:38,240
Speaker 1: it had a receiver opened, little check down route that

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Speaker 1: he could have got open. On third down, Drey Howe

585
00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:42,439
Speaker 1: came in, knocked it down. He get a sack on

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Speaker 1: Luck two years ago in twenty sixteen, it was big.

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00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:47,320
Speaker 1: Drey Howe plays pretty big against the Colts, and he

588
00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:52,800
Speaker 1: is gonna be a big time factor on Saturday against them,

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Speaker 1: considering all the nickel and dime the Texas are gonna

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Speaker 1: have to play against the Colts. I think Drey Howe

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Speaker 1: is a massive factor in this one, and we appreciate

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Speaker 1: him spending a few minutes with dpcuit. It's always great

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Speaker 1: stuff when DP gets a chance to dive a little

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Speaker 1: deeper with these players and it's a great interview. The

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Speaker 1: deep Slant Interview of the Week is always one of

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Speaker 1: my favorite things each in every Friday, Wednesday, Monday, doesn't

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Speaker 1: matter whatever day I'm doing radio, I'd love to listen

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Speaker 1: to what these players have to say. And how Deep

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00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:24,160
Speaker 1: conducts and finishes that interview. It's always good stuff. So

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Speaker 1: definitely check that out each and every week, and hopefully

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Speaker 1: next week we'll be doing the same thing. We'll need

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Speaker 1: another Deep Slant subject. Because the Texans have won and

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Speaker 1: we continue to do radio win, we win, So there

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Speaker 1: you go. All right, coming up, we have got to

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Speaker 1: get to my keys to the game now. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: split it up this week because it's a big one.

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Speaker 1: So I'm gonna split up and have my Texans defensive

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Speaker 1: Keys to the Game. Next we will dive in, but

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Speaker 1: we gotta get to our Choose Fund Moment of the week.

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Speaker 1: Choose Fund Moment of the Week is brought to you

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Speaker 1: In a twenty to three win over the Jaguars, there

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Speaker 1: was plenty of fun, a lot of fun. Maybe nothing

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Speaker 1: more fun then well, you know what, how about this

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Speaker 1: On second and ten at the Texans thirty five, Bortles

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Speaker 1: gets the snap and he's gonna gun it long left

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Speaker 1: side and picked off. Guess who Andre Howe, tex send

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Speaker 1: me in the end zone. Yeah, you see what I

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Speaker 1: did there? They are a deep slanting interview of the

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Speaker 1: week with Dre Howe. We finish it with a pick

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Speaker 1: Defensive Keys next on Texas All Axis. Welcome back to

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Speaker 1: a Friday night edition of Texans All Access from the

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Speaker 1: Hounday Texans Radio Studio. I am your host, John Harris,

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Speaker 1: glad to be with you as I always am on

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Speaker 1: a Friday night, five years and three times. It's the

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Speaker 1: third time my Friday show precedes a Saturday afternoon Wildcard

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Speaker 1: game right here at NRG Stadium. First, one second, one, Hey,

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Speaker 1: this one gonna be uncomfortable for sixty minutes no matter

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Speaker 1: what's going on. I don't. I told Mark this is

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Speaker 1: interesting thinking back to the Colts because in twenty sixteen,

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Speaker 1: the one game that we have beaten them here since

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Speaker 1: twenty twelve, beat them in December of twenty twelve here

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Speaker 1: then lost them up there twenty thirteen, had the big

639
00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:38,600
Speaker 1: lead at halftime, and then of course you know what

640
00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:41,360
Speaker 1: happened at halftime, and then what happened in the second half.

641
00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:45,280
Speaker 1: So starting at twenty thirteen, the Texans have only beaten

642
00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:48,080
Speaker 1: the Colts one time, and that was twenty sixteen. And

643
00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:52,760
Speaker 1: I remember in that game, I wasn't it wasn't happy. No,

644
00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:55,480
Speaker 1: I mean, it wasn't even I wasn't comfortable. It wasn't happy.

645
00:29:56,040 --> 00:30:00,640
Speaker 1: Nothing was going right at all. I mean, even when

646
00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:04,160
Speaker 1: the Texans got close or made a big play and

647
00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:05,920
Speaker 1: they turned around and gave it right back to him,

648
00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:07,560
Speaker 1: and then forget, there was a fourth down and one

649
00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:09,600
Speaker 1: and Luck went back to pass and he held it

650
00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:13,360
Speaker 1: a little bit too long and Whitney sacked him, and

651
00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:18,800
Speaker 1: anargy erupted. Oh I mean just erupted. Next play, Brock

652
00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:21,920
Speaker 1: through a pick. It's like, oh man, it was that night,

653
00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:24,840
Speaker 1: Like I was just unhappy all night. And then the

654
00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:28,680
Speaker 1: last two minutes it's like, oh, here's Lamar's touchdown, Like okay,

655
00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:30,840
Speaker 1: we pulled it close, got the ball back, and then

656
00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:32,600
Speaker 1: you start feeling like, okay, maybe there's hope. Can they

657
00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:35,280
Speaker 1: do this, can they tie this thing? Oh my gosh,

658
00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:38,720
Speaker 1: you just threw a touchdown, they tied it. Oh my gosh,

659
00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:40,440
Speaker 1: but Luck will bring him back in overt him and

660
00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:41,960
Speaker 1: then they stopped him it over time and it really

661
00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:43,880
Speaker 1: that was the only time where I ever felt good

662
00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:46,480
Speaker 1: all night was when they had when they forced the

663
00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:50,479
Speaker 1: Colts to punt in overtime. I don't know if this

664
00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:53,360
Speaker 1: one will is exactly that way, but it kind of

665
00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:56,000
Speaker 1: gives me that hint of It's not like, don't get

666
00:30:56,040 --> 00:30:59,160
Speaker 1: comfortable either way. And obviously if you're down, you're not

667
00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:01,160
Speaker 1: getting comfortable. But if you're up by seven, you're up

668
00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:04,960
Speaker 1: by ten, you're up by fourteen, there's no sense in

669
00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:07,880
Speaker 1: feeling comfortable because number twelve is on the other side.

670
00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:12,360
Speaker 1: I find it ironic that Frank Reich, twenty six years

671
00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:16,160
Speaker 1: after the fact, yesterday he had to come back against

672
00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:19,360
Speaker 1: the Oilers. So with Frank Reich and Andrew Luck, this

673
00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:21,280
Speaker 1: team is gonna never be out of things, and we

674
00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:23,760
Speaker 1: found it out when we went up there. I think,

675
00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:26,520
Speaker 1: on the flip side, this team on this sideline is

676
00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:29,400
Speaker 1: not gonna feel like they're out of things at all either.

677
00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:32,600
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna feel like they've got an opportunity.

678
00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:36,000
Speaker 1: So even if things start well, like they did the

679
00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:41,400
Speaker 1: second matchup. Here, they can go sideways. Likewise, you can

680
00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:43,760
Speaker 1: get up, they can come back, you can get down,

681
00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:47,160
Speaker 1: you can come back. It is not gonna be a

682
00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:50,400
Speaker 1: comfortable day, but hopefully in the end, if you stay

683
00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:52,479
Speaker 1: with it for three hours, at the end of it,

684
00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:55,560
Speaker 1: Texans will have more points than the Colts and obviously

685
00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:57,720
Speaker 1: walk out of there with another playoff win. And that,

686
00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:01,040
Speaker 1: my friends, brings us two are First Community Credit Union,

687
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Speaker 1: First Plans Keys to the Game, ACTUALLYCU the official Credit

688
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Speaker 1: Union of your Houston Texans. Let's dive into this one.

689
00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:14,400
Speaker 1: Let's start with the Texans defense. I've got I got

690
00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:17,240
Speaker 1: seven now. Something is it's a little bit of overlap

691
00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:21,560
Speaker 1: from from the from the second matchup, because that was

692
00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:23,360
Speaker 1: not that long ago. I think it was what four

693
00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:25,800
Speaker 1: weeks ago. It was not that long. It was less

694
00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:28,200
Speaker 1: than a month. I remember that because we played the

695
00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:33,280
Speaker 1: second the ninth, the sixteenth, Yeah, I think that's right. No,

696
00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:36,440
Speaker 1: it was the it was it was the ninth, because

697
00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:38,080
Speaker 1: we were in New York in the fifteenth. Yeah, it

698
00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:39,480
Speaker 1: was the ninth. So it was less than a month

699
00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:42,640
Speaker 1: ago that we played the Colts. And even though both

700
00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:47,200
Speaker 1: teams have changed and there's different personnel, at least from

701
00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:49,800
Speaker 1: the Texans side, in particular, at a couple of key spots,

702
00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:54,480
Speaker 1: the teams might be a little different, but they're still

703
00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:57,480
Speaker 1: pretty similar. So we'll start with the Texas defense. Number one.

704
00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:02,920
Speaker 1: I don't think there's overstating this fact at all. T

705
00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:07,120
Speaker 1: Y Hilton must stay in front. He got behind him

706
00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:10,640
Speaker 1: last matchup, sixty yard play that broke the Texans defensive backs.

707
00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:14,160
Speaker 1: That was and I'm not talking defensive backs. I'm talking

708
00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:19,720
Speaker 1: to defenses back. That was. That was hard to take.

709
00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:23,080
Speaker 1: You know, thirteen is a big factor in this one.

710
00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:26,480
Speaker 1: You've gotta be aware. Yes, he's dealing ankle. He hasn't practiced.

711
00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:29,720
Speaker 1: He didn't practice much leading up to the second matchup

712
00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:32,960
Speaker 1: and still had a gargantuan game. Now, I mentioned earlier

713
00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:35,000
Speaker 1: the Texans have not beaten the Colts but one time

714
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:38,920
Speaker 1: since twenty thirteen at home. No coincidence that t Y

715
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:41,680
Speaker 1: Hilton in that game three catches, forty nine yards done,

716
00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:44,920
Speaker 1: So they've got to keep him in check. The thing

717
00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:49,360
Speaker 1: is Andrew luck is going to find him. He's gonna

718
00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:53,520
Speaker 1: target him. So look, ten catches, eleven catches, that's fine.

719
00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:57,800
Speaker 1: Ninety five hundred yards can live with cannot live with

720
00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:00,480
Speaker 1: nine for two twenty five in a touchdown, because that

721
00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:03,240
Speaker 1: means one of those was a big play. Keep Ty

722
00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:07,680
Speaker 1: in front number two. Change the picture for Andrew Luck

723
00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:11,040
Speaker 1: as much as you can. And the reason I say

724
00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:15,439
Speaker 1: that is he is dialed into Frank Reich's offense. There

725
00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:18,640
Speaker 1: is a very just watching one film, there's a very

726
00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:22,600
Speaker 1: considerable if this, then this sort of aspect that he

727
00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:25,360
Speaker 1: has dialed in on. If he sees this from your defense,

728
00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:28,400
Speaker 1: he's going here. If he sees that from your defense,

729
00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:31,200
Speaker 1: he's going there. There. He has it dialed in. If

730
00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:33,880
Speaker 1: you play man, he knows what he's doing. If he

731
00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:36,480
Speaker 1: plays zone, he knows what he's doing. So you've got

732
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:40,960
Speaker 1: to mix things up as much as humanly possible. Change

733
00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:44,600
Speaker 1: your fronts. The sky's the rushers, the sky's the coverages.

734
00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:48,000
Speaker 1: Now Luck is probably gonna figure all that stuff out.

735
00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:51,719
Speaker 1: But maybe a receiver runs the wrong route, Maybe they

736
00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:53,960
Speaker 1: get confused because there is some an experience at the

737
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:58,360
Speaker 1: receiver position for them. Maybe that's what happens. But also

738
00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:00,800
Speaker 1: you got offensive line that got a couple of rookies

739
00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:05,480
Speaker 1: up there, so maybe you then, yes, they're very good,

740
00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:08,279
Speaker 1: but maybe you throw them something that they're not ready for.

741
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:11,440
Speaker 1: And that's what you're gonna have to be able to

742
00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:15,640
Speaker 1: rely upon. Number three. You've got to eliminate any running

743
00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:19,600
Speaker 1: game possibilities. But you're gonna have to do it, probably

744
00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:22,520
Speaker 1: with only six guys. This secondary is gonna have to

745
00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:26,640
Speaker 1: be so concerned with the receivers that your front six

746
00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:30,440
Speaker 1: is really gonna have to take care of business. Now.

747
00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:32,840
Speaker 1: I think one guy that might see the field a

748
00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:37,840
Speaker 1: little bit more on Saturday is Dylan Cole just because

749
00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:39,400
Speaker 1: of his speed and his ability to match up with

750
00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:41,600
Speaker 1: running backs out of the backfield. And that means nineteen

751
00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:45,000
Speaker 1: Hines or even Marlon Mack. But in eliminating the running

752
00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:48,360
Speaker 1: game in particular Marlon Mack, and he proved it in

753
00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:50,160
Speaker 1: the second match up here. They didn't run for a

754
00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:55,000
Speaker 1: lot of yards, but Mac in particular is a hard

755
00:35:55,400 --> 00:36:00,000
Speaker 1: running back to bring down. He runs hard, he's got elusiveness,

756
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:01,880
Speaker 1: he is quick. I think he could be one of

757
00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:03,799
Speaker 1: the we could be want to come to the next

758
00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:06,080
Speaker 1: wave of good running backs in this league. He is very,

759
00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:08,279
Speaker 1: very good. He gets some help from Jordan Wilkins to

760
00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:10,560
Speaker 1: spell him. Naim Hines is really the guy they want

761
00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:12,719
Speaker 1: to go to on third downs, they flex him out,

762
00:36:12,719 --> 00:36:14,680
Speaker 1: put him out of the backfield, they put him out wide.

763
00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:16,520
Speaker 1: He has the rout side of the backfield. He has

764
00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:19,279
Speaker 1: really a tough matchup for linebackers, and the Texans saw

765
00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:23,520
Speaker 1: a guy very similar to him in Darren Sproles. So

766
00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:25,680
Speaker 1: they've got to take away the running game with shirt tackling.

767
00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:28,040
Speaker 1: I'm Marlon Mack for sure, but it's really gonna have

768
00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:31,000
Speaker 1: to be that front six safeties are really gonna have

769
00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:33,640
Speaker 1: to be concerned with that play action to not bite

770
00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:37,680
Speaker 1: on that run game. That is going to be imperative.

771
00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:39,239
Speaker 1: So the front six is gonna have to take care

772
00:36:39,239 --> 00:36:45,200
Speaker 1: of business number four. The safeties Slash Nichols will need

773
00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:47,719
Speaker 1: some help on Ericy Bron, but they have to be

774
00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:50,759
Speaker 1: concerned with helping out t Y Hilton two. It's a

775
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:53,880
Speaker 1: pretty tough combination. To my point a second ago about

776
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:57,120
Speaker 1: safeties being locked in more passing game than running game.

777
00:36:57,360 --> 00:36:59,200
Speaker 1: A lot of times safety he played the run, play

778
00:36:59,239 --> 00:37:01,520
Speaker 1: the pass. They're gonna have to pick and choose their

779
00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:05,040
Speaker 1: spots when they do that, because the play action is

780
00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:07,719
Speaker 1: a real thing and can be a problem. That d

781
00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:11,000
Speaker 1: bought at Ty Hilton off play action. Andrew showed the

782
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:13,640
Speaker 1: ball one side, spawns showed the other pulled it back.

783
00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:17,000
Speaker 1: Safeties didn't bite. I'll give him credit, they didn't even bite.

784
00:37:18,239 --> 00:37:20,840
Speaker 1: But it just got t Y Hilton matched up on

785
00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:22,960
Speaker 1: a safety, which is what you don't want to have happen.

786
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:25,839
Speaker 1: If you haven't matched up on a safety, then you've

787
00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:28,879
Speaker 1: got to be bracketing with the two safeties, one in front,

788
00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:32,319
Speaker 1: one and back both and back whatever. But you've got

789
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:35,719
Speaker 1: to have him in a Hilton sandwich. But they've got

790
00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:37,839
Speaker 1: to help on eric Keybron too. Now, the one thing

791
00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:40,719
Speaker 1: Ebron will do is drop the ball. That helps you,

792
00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:43,319
Speaker 1: but you may have to leave that for Dylan Cole,

793
00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:46,960
Speaker 1: for Zach Cuttingham. Maybe one safety can be designated for

794
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:50,600
Speaker 1: the Ebron assignment. But one thing you gotta be careful of,

795
00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:53,319
Speaker 1: and this is what it worries me. Hilton Ebron lining

796
00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:55,960
Speaker 1: up together on the same side, especially if it's man

797
00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:58,919
Speaker 1: coverage or it's quarters, because quarters turns into a match

798
00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:01,760
Speaker 1: or a man coverage anyway, especially when they go vertical.

799
00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:03,520
Speaker 1: And that's how they scored a touchdown to Ibron. That's

800
00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:06,000
Speaker 1: a big worry. Number five five fifty six to the ball.

801
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:11,239
Speaker 1: That's Quinnon Nelson. That guy is a dude, and he

802
00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:13,640
Speaker 1: will hammer people. But that's where the ball is going.

803
00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:16,239
Speaker 1: They will run the ball behind him. They will pull

804
00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:19,680
Speaker 1: him to run the ball behind him. Number six, tackle

805
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:25,120
Speaker 1: and wrap up. Yes, Marlon Mack. But it's Luck that

806
00:38:25,239 --> 00:38:27,800
Speaker 1: is the problem. He doesn't just go down if you

807
00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:29,960
Speaker 1: get a hand on him. He's not Tom Brady. He's

808
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:32,040
Speaker 1: not one of these statuesque stay in a pocket guys. Now,

809
00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:34,040
Speaker 1: he will stay in a pocket. But if you get

810
00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:38,520
Speaker 1: a hand on Andrew Luck, that's not enough. You literally

811
00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:40,000
Speaker 1: have to treat him like a running back. How you

812
00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:42,279
Speaker 1: would tackle a running back. Two hands grabbing on the

813
00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:44,279
Speaker 1: top of the shoulders, not gonna happen. You gotta drive

814
00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:46,120
Speaker 1: his shoulder right through the start them and take him

815
00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:48,840
Speaker 1: down like a running back. You got rugby tackle that

816
00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:50,880
Speaker 1: guy and hope he's not throwing the balls. He's falling

817
00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:56,879
Speaker 1: out of bounds. My goodness, rap Luck up now, Mac

818
00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:59,879
Speaker 1: is the same way. For as long as I'm doing

819
00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:04,520
Speaker 1: I will remember what Marlon Mack did to Jadeveon Clowney

820
00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:08,600
Speaker 1: in Indianapolis a week seventeen. I'd never seen that before.

821
00:39:08,719 --> 00:39:11,759
Speaker 1: I'd never seen Marlon Mack break a tackle like that

822
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:14,279
Speaker 1: where he just took Clowney and stiff armed him. It

823
00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:17,640
Speaker 1: was like, what did I just see? Oh my goodness,

824
00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:23,000
Speaker 1: that can't happen. I know, jaded isn't a lot about

825
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:27,640
Speaker 1: to allow that to happen. But tackling luck and bringing it,

826
00:39:27,680 --> 00:39:31,440
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's the hard part. Even if you

827
00:39:31,560 --> 00:39:34,000
Speaker 1: just contained him such that you're holding him down and

828
00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:36,640
Speaker 1: he can't move his arms to throw, because even in

829
00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:41,040
Speaker 1: being held or being slung down, he'll throw the football.

830
00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:45,120
Speaker 1: And he almost threw an interception last week or last

831
00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:47,120
Speaker 1: time he gets the Texans because of it. He was

832
00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:49,319
Speaker 1: getting some heat and I can't remember who brought it.

833
00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:51,760
Speaker 1: It was McKinney, No, it was Whitney. It was Whitney.

834
00:39:52,239 --> 00:39:54,480
Speaker 1: Whitney was coming and Whitney was bringing him down and

835
00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:56,920
Speaker 1: he threw the ball out to Ebron on the sidelines

836
00:39:57,280 --> 00:39:59,560
Speaker 1: and Tyrons got to pick, but Ibron held him. It

837
00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:01,719
Speaker 1: was interesting because Ibram thought he was being held and

838
00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:04,120
Speaker 1: Tyron was like, yo, that dude was holding me. But

839
00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:08,160
Speaker 1: either way, just hold him. But you gotta bring a

840
00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:11,440
Speaker 1: lot of guys to the party bring him down. That

841
00:40:11,719 --> 00:40:16,240
Speaker 1: is a big figuratively and literally big worry. No question

842
00:40:17,160 --> 00:40:20,600
Speaker 1: number seven and the last one you put all those

843
00:40:20,640 --> 00:40:24,320
Speaker 1: things together, it will help you get to number seven.

844
00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:28,040
Speaker 1: But no matter what you do on first and second down,

845
00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:33,160
Speaker 1: get off the damn field on third down. Now, the

846
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:36,560
Speaker 1: Colts weren't great on third down in the game against

847
00:40:36,560 --> 00:40:41,000
Speaker 1: the Texans, but they were good on third down in

848
00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:43,840
Speaker 1: the four drive stretch that gave him twenty four points.

849
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Speaker 1: They want touchdown, touchdown, field goal, touchdown, and they were

850
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:49,799
Speaker 1: good on third down. But where they were really good

851
00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:51,880
Speaker 1: was first and second down. But the third down defense

852
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:54,120
Speaker 1: was really good for the first quarter and a half

853
00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:57,560
Speaker 1: and really good for the last quarter, but it wasn't

854
00:40:57,560 --> 00:41:00,439
Speaker 1: for that stretch where they were driving. That's really where

855
00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:03,200
Speaker 1: they I think they were like four for seven or

856
00:41:03,239 --> 00:41:05,719
Speaker 1: four for eight in that time span. The next week

857
00:41:05,920 --> 00:41:09,320
Speaker 1: against the New York Jets nine to seventeen Sam Donald

858
00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:11,279
Speaker 1: or ten of seventeen. Sam Donald did a really good

859
00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:16,319
Speaker 1: job Philadelphia nine of sixteen on third down, but on

860
00:41:16,360 --> 00:41:20,120
Speaker 1: the seven that they didn't make, they converted four to

861
00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:24,680
Speaker 1: four on fourth down. So this defense has got to

862
00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:28,919
Speaker 1: get off the field on third down. Get off the field. Now.

863
00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:31,319
Speaker 1: First and second down can help you, but we saw

864
00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:35,160
Speaker 1: in Indianapolis the first game they were great on first

865
00:41:35,160 --> 00:41:37,480
Speaker 1: and second down, and then Andrew Luck would find t

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Speaker 1: Y for twelve on third and ten, or he'd find

867
00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:46,759
Speaker 1: Zach Pascal for seventeen on third and fourteen. Get off

868
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:49,200
Speaker 1: the field on third down and then on fourth down.

869
00:41:49,239 --> 00:41:51,799
Speaker 1: It just can't happen. I know it could be fourth

870
00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:54,320
Speaker 1: and one. I know that's tough, but Nick Foles converted

871
00:41:54,360 --> 00:41:56,680
Speaker 1: off four of them. Get off the field on third down.

872
00:41:58,560 --> 00:42:01,600
Speaker 1: That is that's they down. That's why you see colleges

873
00:42:01,640 --> 00:42:04,400
Speaker 1: and guy on the sideline, graduate assistant on the sideline

874
00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:07,399
Speaker 1: for the strength conditioning staff is jumping up and down

875
00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:10,359
Speaker 1: with the money down sign. Yeah, it's the money down.

876
00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:12,160
Speaker 1: Third downs, the money down, that's the one. You got

877
00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:17,080
Speaker 1: to make the plays. You must make those plays, all right.

878
00:42:17,120 --> 00:42:20,000
Speaker 1: We just went through the Texans defensive keys of the game.

879
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:23,520
Speaker 1: We'll do our offensive keys later in addition to doing

880
00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:25,839
Speaker 1: our Texans pick them and there are only three other

881
00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:28,360
Speaker 1: games to pick, so we'll do that later in the show.

882
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:32,279
Speaker 1: But that's what your Texas defense has to do on Saturday,

883
00:42:32,600 --> 00:42:35,480
Speaker 1: and those are your first Community Credit Union first glance

884
00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:40,000
Speaker 1: defensive keys to the game against Andrew Luck and company.

885
00:42:40,040 --> 00:42:42,920
Speaker 1: Will do our offensive ones later in the show, but

886
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:45,520
Speaker 1: coming up the two men that will call the game.

887
00:42:45,880 --> 00:42:49,320
Speaker 1: Mark Vandermer the voice of the Houston Texans, with rookie

888
00:42:49,760 --> 00:42:53,919
Speaker 1: Matt Taylor, good friend of the program. Matt is a

889
00:42:53,960 --> 00:42:56,640
Speaker 1: great guy and took over the job this year and

890
00:42:56,680 --> 00:42:59,120
Speaker 1: he's had one heck of a year calling the Colts

891
00:42:59,160 --> 00:43:01,520
Speaker 1: play by play. Hope Leo'll get the permanent job and

892
00:43:01,560 --> 00:43:03,920
Speaker 1: that will happen very very soon. But Matt Taylor, the

893
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:06,440
Speaker 1: man behind the mic, joins our man behind the Mike,

894
00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:09,280
Speaker 1: Mark Van of Beer. Next on Texans All Access. Welcome

895
00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:12,840
Speaker 1: back to our second hour of Texans All Access. I

896
00:43:12,880 --> 00:43:16,120
Speaker 1: am your host, John Harris, football analyst and Silom reporter,

897
00:43:16,160 --> 00:43:18,760
Speaker 1: and I am in the Hounday Texans Radio Studio bringing

898
00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:22,319
Speaker 1: you this show yet again for the third time in

899
00:43:22,400 --> 00:43:27,040
Speaker 1: five years, on a Friday night before a Saturday afternoon

900
00:43:27,160 --> 00:43:31,160
Speaker 1: playoff game right here at NRG Stadium, the fifth in

901
00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:34,400
Speaker 1: the history of the organization. A man, it was also

902
00:43:34,480 --> 00:43:37,240
Speaker 1: close to us sitting this weekend and watching and seeing

903
00:43:37,239 --> 00:43:40,959
Speaker 1: what was going to happen, oh so close, but didn't happen.

904
00:43:41,080 --> 00:43:43,480
Speaker 1: So maybe next year. But hey, look and take care

905
00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:46,520
Speaker 1: of business on Saturday and get to that divisional round

906
00:43:46,520 --> 00:43:47,919
Speaker 1: and go see what you can do, but you gotta

907
00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:51,680
Speaker 1: take care of business one sixty minute effort at a time.

908
00:43:51,760 --> 00:43:55,800
Speaker 1: Now it's time for our men behind the Mike's segment.

909
00:43:56,480 --> 00:43:58,839
Speaker 1: I gave Mark to this homework assignment, and I gave

910
00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:01,279
Speaker 1: it to him every single week. I thought it would

911
00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:03,400
Speaker 1: be a good one where the voice of the Texans,

912
00:44:03,680 --> 00:44:06,640
Speaker 1: Mark Vandomer talks with the voice of the opponent. We've

913
00:44:06,680 --> 00:44:09,359
Speaker 1: already talked to Matt Taylor twice this year. Now it's

914
00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:11,239
Speaker 1: the third time, and we're making up I guess for

915
00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:13,880
Speaker 1: lost time because Matt is a Newbie's a rookie. He

916
00:44:13,960 --> 00:44:16,680
Speaker 1: had been the sideline reporter for the Colts, but when

917
00:44:16,719 --> 00:44:20,799
Speaker 1: Bob Lamy retired this summer, Jim Ursey decided to move

918
00:44:20,800 --> 00:44:24,000
Speaker 1: Matt Taylor into the booth. And he has done a

919
00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:25,960
Speaker 1: really good job. I've heard some of his play by

920
00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:28,840
Speaker 1: play calls. I've heard some of the the NFL film stuff,

921
00:44:28,840 --> 00:44:30,279
Speaker 1: and so I've been able to hear him. I think

922
00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:32,040
Speaker 1: he does a really good job and he is a

923
00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:35,560
Speaker 1: great guy. And he sat down with Mark Vandomir earlier

924
00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:38,440
Speaker 1: this week. Here we are for the third time this year.

925
00:44:38,520 --> 00:44:41,640
Speaker 1: Really appreciate you joining us here on Texans Radio and

926
00:44:42,160 --> 00:44:44,279
Speaker 1: did you think that this could happen when the two

927
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Speaker 1: teams met for the first time in Week four in Indianapolis. Well,

928
00:44:48,920 --> 00:44:51,000
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know what I thought back then,

929
00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:53,640
Speaker 1: because it seems like so long ago, because this season

930
00:44:53,680 --> 00:44:55,960
Speaker 1: has just been a more coaster, a wave of emotion.

931
00:44:56,680 --> 00:44:59,560
Speaker 1: You know, the end of September in my mind is

932
00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:02,240
Speaker 1: like three years ago. But I mean, that's how crazy

933
00:45:02,280 --> 00:45:04,880
Speaker 1: this season has been, because you know, the colt started

934
00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:06,920
Speaker 1: out one in five and then they won nine of

935
00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:10,200
Speaker 1: their last ten, and they've had so many close games

936
00:45:10,200 --> 00:45:12,640
Speaker 1: that they've eaked out in the fourth quarter. So this

937
00:45:12,719 --> 00:45:15,360
Speaker 1: has just been a great season. It's been great for

938
00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:18,239
Speaker 1: Colts fans to get on board with this team and

939
00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:20,399
Speaker 1: get back to the postseason for the first time since

940
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Speaker 1: twenty fourteen. And the resurgence of Andrew Luck and everybody

941
00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:29,520
Speaker 1: just across the board. So many players on this team

942
00:45:29,560 --> 00:45:32,719
Speaker 1: have elevated their play, you know, playing their besttball of

943
00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:35,319
Speaker 1: their career individually. I think that's a big reason why

944
00:45:35,360 --> 00:45:39,120
Speaker 1: this team is has catapulted into the playoffs, becoming the

945
00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:42,080
Speaker 1: third team ever to make the postseason after starting a

946
00:45:42,120 --> 00:45:44,200
Speaker 1: season one and five. It's just been so much fun.

947
00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:48,600
Speaker 1: The turnaround. I mean, I think everybody agreed going into

948
00:45:48,640 --> 00:45:50,239
Speaker 1: this season for the Colt that was kind of a

949
00:45:50,280 --> 00:45:53,200
Speaker 1: rebuild year. So to see them ahead of schedule in

950
00:45:53,280 --> 00:45:56,480
Speaker 1: so many areas, it's so fun and fascinating to see.

951
00:45:56,560 --> 00:45:58,719
Speaker 1: All Right, we'll get to Andrew Lux specifically in just

952
00:45:58,800 --> 00:46:00,640
Speaker 1: a moment here map, but I wanted to ask you this.

953
00:46:00,680 --> 00:46:03,279
Speaker 1: Everyone watched Sunday night, so that's one thing. But in

954
00:46:03,360 --> 00:46:05,600
Speaker 1: recent games, I noticed that the Colts had to rally

955
00:46:05,640 --> 00:46:07,879
Speaker 1: to beat Miami at home, had to rally to beat

956
00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:12,319
Speaker 1: the Giants when they're undergoing rough outings so called rough

957
00:46:12,360 --> 00:46:14,319
Speaker 1: outings like that, but they come out on top. What's

958
00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:16,680
Speaker 1: going wrong and what do they overcome? Forget about the

959
00:46:16,719 --> 00:46:19,120
Speaker 1: early part of the year, but just the games lately

960
00:46:19,160 --> 00:46:22,520
Speaker 1: that they've pulled out in the crunch, that's a great question.

961
00:46:22,840 --> 00:46:25,279
Speaker 1: I think, you know, the most specific earning one they

962
00:46:25,360 --> 00:46:28,120
Speaker 1: had to come back and win. Wait, they were down

963
00:46:28,160 --> 00:46:31,000
Speaker 1: fourteen nothing early on to the Giants in that game.

964
00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:35,080
Speaker 1: They were given up big plays, there were some drop passes,

965
00:46:35,680 --> 00:46:38,359
Speaker 1: there were some penalties in those games. I mean, just

966
00:46:38,480 --> 00:46:42,520
Speaker 1: you know, some turnovers obviously to everything that you think

967
00:46:42,560 --> 00:46:45,359
Speaker 1: of in football that leads to a team getting down

968
00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:49,040
Speaker 1: early is what was happening to the Colts. But against

969
00:46:49,040 --> 00:46:51,280
Speaker 1: the Giants, they kind of had a coming to Jesus

970
00:46:51,440 --> 00:46:55,239
Speaker 1: moment at halftime. It was really interesting. The Colts were

971
00:46:55,280 --> 00:47:00,279
Speaker 1: down ten at the break, seventeen to seven, and they

972
00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:02,520
Speaker 1: knew if they didn't win that game, they weren't going

973
00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:04,000
Speaker 1: to have a chance. In all the lank who had

974
00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:05,680
Speaker 1: to get into the playoffs, they had to have some

975
00:47:05,800 --> 00:47:07,879
Speaker 1: help to get in. But if they didn't take care

976
00:47:07,880 --> 00:47:11,319
Speaker 1: of their own business and keep pace with Baltimore at

977
00:47:11,320 --> 00:47:13,680
Speaker 1: the time Tennessee at the time, they weren't going to

978
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Speaker 1: make the postseason. They knew that was a must win game.

979
00:47:16,200 --> 00:47:20,160
Speaker 1: So at halftime, Frank Braig said his piece. Some players

980
00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:23,480
Speaker 1: including Andrew Luck and Quentin Nelson came up and they

981
00:47:23,520 --> 00:47:25,600
Speaker 1: set their piece in front of the team. And you know,

982
00:47:25,680 --> 00:47:28,239
Speaker 1: halftime in the NFL is not that long, if only

983
00:47:28,280 --> 00:47:31,520
Speaker 1: thirteen minutes long, And so the buzzer sounds at the

984
00:47:31,600 --> 00:47:33,640
Speaker 1: end of the first half, the guys go in, they

985
00:47:33,719 --> 00:47:36,919
Speaker 1: make the adjustments. You know, people say what they needed

986
00:47:36,960 --> 00:47:39,239
Speaker 1: to say in front of the team. The Cults are

987
00:47:39,239 --> 00:47:41,400
Speaker 1: going to kick off to the Giants to start the

988
00:47:41,480 --> 00:47:43,799
Speaker 1: third quarter. There was like thirty seconds left on the

989
00:47:43,840 --> 00:47:46,680
Speaker 1: halftime clock, and the only people out there for the

990
00:47:46,719 --> 00:47:50,640
Speaker 1: Colts on the sideline were the specialists and I think

991
00:47:50,640 --> 00:47:53,800
Speaker 1: backup quarterback Jacobe Brissette. I mean, guys that were on

992
00:47:53,920 --> 00:47:56,480
Speaker 1: the kickoff team were literally running out of the tunnel

993
00:47:56,680 --> 00:47:59,480
Speaker 1: heading to the field and they kicked the ball off.

994
00:47:59,520 --> 00:48:02,440
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, that's how crazy it was to

995
00:48:02,480 --> 00:48:05,080
Speaker 1: get back on the field to start the second half.

996
00:48:05,120 --> 00:48:07,839
Speaker 1: And whatever they said, whatever they talked about at half

997
00:48:07,880 --> 00:48:10,360
Speaker 1: done at work, because the Colts rally. They ended up

998
00:48:10,400 --> 00:48:13,960
Speaker 1: winning twenty eight to twenty seven. This team just has

999
00:48:14,040 --> 00:48:17,120
Speaker 1: no ego. It's it's kind of like a college environment

1000
00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:19,919
Speaker 1: in that regard where the guys get along really well.

1001
00:48:20,320 --> 00:48:22,120
Speaker 1: There's not a lot of me guys, and that has

1002
00:48:22,120 --> 00:48:24,759
Speaker 1: served this team very well heading into this postseason run.

1003
00:48:25,200 --> 00:48:28,120
Speaker 1: Matt Taylor, voice of the Cults, joining us on Texans Radio,

1004
00:48:28,600 --> 00:48:31,000
Speaker 1: to me, it looks like Andrew luck is playing as

1005
00:48:31,040 --> 00:48:33,640
Speaker 1: well as he's ever played. Maybe it's the best he's

1006
00:48:33,640 --> 00:48:36,239
Speaker 1: ever played. How do you see it right now at

1007
00:48:36,239 --> 00:48:39,040
Speaker 1: this point of the season. Yeah, I mean, I don't don't.

1008
00:48:39,200 --> 00:48:41,319
Speaker 1: I don't think there's any doubt that this was his

1009
00:48:41,520 --> 00:48:45,400
Speaker 1: best season in the NFL. I mean thirty nine touchdown passes.

1010
00:48:46,239 --> 00:48:50,920
Speaker 1: He ranked top five in a lot of categories, including completions, attempts,

1011
00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:55,880
Speaker 1: passing yards, touchdowns, first down thrownes. He tied for third

1012
00:48:55,880 --> 00:48:59,000
Speaker 1: and not in that category. But I mean, he just

1013
00:48:59,080 --> 00:49:03,120
Speaker 1: seemed so mild in he seems so mentally healthy. Obviously

1014
00:49:03,160 --> 00:49:06,920
Speaker 1: he's physically healthy, but he and Frank Reich and Nick Siriana,

1015
00:49:06,960 --> 00:49:09,760
Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator, they're just all like the same person.

1016
00:49:10,160 --> 00:49:12,920
Speaker 1: Andrew Luck is an extension of the coaching staff and

1017
00:49:13,080 --> 00:49:16,680
Speaker 1: the playbook on the field. He threw touchdown passes the

1018
00:49:16,840 --> 00:49:20,120
Speaker 1: thirteen different players this year. He he just looks like

1019
00:49:20,160 --> 00:49:24,800
Speaker 1: he has complete mastery of the playbook. On most weeks,

1020
00:49:24,920 --> 00:49:27,080
Speaker 1: he has mastery of what the you know, the opposing

1021
00:49:27,120 --> 00:49:30,360
Speaker 1: defensives are trying to do to him. And with that

1022
00:49:30,520 --> 00:49:33,560
Speaker 1: in mind with Houston, obviously they've been very good against

1023
00:49:33,600 --> 00:49:36,120
Speaker 1: the run against the Colts in two games, but Andrew

1024
00:49:36,200 --> 00:49:39,680
Speaker 1: Luck has passed for eight hundred and sixty three yards,

1025
00:49:39,719 --> 00:49:42,839
Speaker 1: six touchdowns and one pick and has a quarterback rating

1026
00:49:42,840 --> 00:49:46,000
Speaker 1: of over one hundred in two games against the Texans,

1027
00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:48,279
Speaker 1: So they've been very good at taken away Marla Mack,

1028
00:49:48,320 --> 00:49:51,520
Speaker 1: he kind of neutralizing the Coats offensive line, but Andrew

1029
00:49:51,560 --> 00:49:54,319
Speaker 1: Luck has certainly gun damage against the Texans in the

1030
00:49:54,400 --> 00:49:58,280
Speaker 1: secondary in two games. Yeah, don't remind me, so, Matt,

1031
00:49:58,280 --> 00:50:01,000
Speaker 1: tell me what the vibe as best as you can

1032
00:50:01,160 --> 00:50:03,560
Speaker 1: see it and feel it. What the vibe is in

1033
00:50:03,560 --> 00:50:06,719
Speaker 1: Indianapolis about this game with the Cults coming back for

1034
00:50:06,800 --> 00:50:09,560
Speaker 1: the second time in four weeks. They won the matchup

1035
00:50:09,600 --> 00:50:12,520
Speaker 1: here at NRG Stadium twenty four to twenty one. How

1036
00:50:12,560 --> 00:50:15,160
Speaker 1: are the fans feeling? What's the media buzz? What is

1037
00:50:15,160 --> 00:50:17,279
Speaker 1: it like an indie heading into this one? You know,

1038
00:50:17,440 --> 00:50:20,400
Speaker 1: I think it sounds I mean, obviously from an outsider's perspective,

1039
00:50:20,480 --> 00:50:22,440
Speaker 1: you know, within the media and the fans, everybody was

1040
00:50:22,480 --> 00:50:25,440
Speaker 1: really pumped because, like I said before, I think everybody

1041
00:50:25,480 --> 00:50:28,040
Speaker 1: feels like the Colts are ahead of schedule. So to

1042
00:50:28,120 --> 00:50:30,319
Speaker 1: make the playoffs this year when there were so many

1043
00:50:30,440 --> 00:50:33,160
Speaker 1: unknowns going into this season just kind of feels like

1044
00:50:33,239 --> 00:50:36,759
Speaker 1: gravy on top of your mashed potatoes. But I think

1045
00:50:36,760 --> 00:50:40,160
Speaker 1: within the building, within the blocker room, the guys themselves,

1046
00:50:40,520 --> 00:50:43,319
Speaker 1: it kind of sounds corny and cliche, but I mean,

1047
00:50:43,440 --> 00:50:46,080
Speaker 1: starting out one in five, it's had any aspiration in

1048
00:50:46,200 --> 00:50:48,799
Speaker 1: any homes and making the playoffs, you had to win

1049
00:50:48,840 --> 00:50:50,560
Speaker 1: out or at least up your toe. You could afford

1050
00:50:50,600 --> 00:50:53,360
Speaker 1: to lose maybe one more time in ten weeks. And

1051
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Speaker 1: that's exactly what the Colts did. And so going into

1052
00:50:56,280 --> 00:50:58,799
Speaker 1: that Week seven game, the Colts were tied for the

1053
00:50:58,840 --> 00:51:01,319
Speaker 1: worst record in football. So they just took on a

1054
00:51:01,400 --> 00:51:03,839
Speaker 1: one to oh approach each week. This week, we're gonna

1055
00:51:03,840 --> 00:51:06,360
Speaker 1: beat one to ozho. In fact, they made T shirts

1056
00:51:06,360 --> 00:51:08,640
Speaker 1: with that you know mantra on it. That's kind of

1057
00:51:08,680 --> 00:51:11,719
Speaker 1: like the marketing slogan as the coat embarked on the

1058
00:51:11,719 --> 00:51:13,680
Speaker 1: playoffs is one to know. We're just trying to go

1059
00:51:13,760 --> 00:51:16,520
Speaker 1: one to know this week. We're not taking anything for granted.

1060
00:51:16,560 --> 00:51:19,600
Speaker 1: We're not worrying about when we're gonna play these guys

1061
00:51:19,719 --> 00:51:22,479
Speaker 1: or this team is up next, because if we don't

1062
00:51:22,480 --> 00:51:25,320
Speaker 1: go one and oh this week, none of that matters.

1063
00:51:25,360 --> 00:51:29,160
Speaker 1: So that's really the simplest focus they've had all year,

1064
00:51:29,520 --> 00:51:31,200
Speaker 1: and now that they're in the playoffs, I don't think

1065
00:51:31,239 --> 00:51:33,640
Speaker 1: they're gonna change that. They're not going to abbviate away

1066
00:51:33,680 --> 00:51:36,880
Speaker 1: from that mindset, that line of thinking because they know

1067
00:51:36,960 --> 00:51:39,680
Speaker 1: it's gonna be so hard to beat a team twice

1068
00:51:39,719 --> 00:51:42,200
Speaker 1: in the same season. Play of teams three times in

1069
00:51:42,280 --> 00:51:45,759
Speaker 1: the same season, so I think it goes both ways.

1070
00:51:45,800 --> 00:51:47,560
Speaker 1: In this game, the Colts and of the Texans, the

1071
00:51:47,600 --> 00:51:50,400
Speaker 1: Texas and the Coats very well, So it all boils

1072
00:51:50,440 --> 00:51:53,080
Speaker 1: down to execution and who wants it more in our

1073
00:51:53,120 --> 00:51:55,960
Speaker 1: g stadium coming up on Saturday. Matt Taylor, voice of

1074
00:51:56,000 --> 00:51:58,960
Speaker 1: the Cults joining us AFC South. Let's zoom out a bit.

1075
00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:00,920
Speaker 1: I think it's the toughest of vision in football, the

1076
00:52:00,960 --> 00:52:02,960
Speaker 1: only one with three winning teams. You just had to

1077
00:52:02,960 --> 00:52:04,520
Speaker 1: beat a team on the road that had a winning

1078
00:52:04,520 --> 00:52:07,680
Speaker 1: record in order to make the postseason, and the only

1079
00:52:07,760 --> 00:52:12,120
Speaker 1: loss lately was sixth. Nothing that Jacksonville and Jacksonville's got

1080
00:52:12,120 --> 00:52:13,839
Speaker 1: some nice wins even though they don't have too many.

1081
00:52:13,840 --> 00:52:16,000
Speaker 1: They beat the Patriots, they beat a hot Colts team.

1082
00:52:16,040 --> 00:52:18,640
Speaker 1: What do you make of the AFC South moving forward? Yeah,

1083
00:52:18,719 --> 00:52:21,600
Speaker 1: I think I read I saw that the South had

1084
00:52:21,680 --> 00:52:24,400
Speaker 1: the most wins of any division in football, and obviously,

1085
00:52:24,480 --> 00:52:27,480
Speaker 1: to your point, three winning teams in the same division

1086
00:52:27,560 --> 00:52:30,840
Speaker 1: will do that. You know, call me crazy, but I

1087
00:52:31,000 --> 00:52:33,920
Speaker 1: think Jacksonville going forward for next season, if they can

1088
00:52:33,920 --> 00:52:36,640
Speaker 1: figure out the quarterback spot, I still think they're going

1089
00:52:36,719 --> 00:52:38,239
Speaker 1: to be a team to reckon with next year, a

1090
00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:40,120
Speaker 1: team that's going to be in the mix. You could have,

1091
00:52:40,520 --> 00:52:43,319
Speaker 1: you know, four teams that you know, it's wide open

1092
00:52:43,400 --> 00:52:46,960
Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen going after that division championship. So I mean,

1093
00:52:47,200 --> 00:52:49,520
Speaker 1: you just look at the quarterback play. Deshaun Watson's here

1094
00:52:49,560 --> 00:52:51,960
Speaker 1: to stay. I think Mariota is going to balance back

1095
00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:54,520
Speaker 1: and have another good year next year, obviously, and luck

1096
00:52:54,719 --> 00:52:57,880
Speaker 1: is in a league quarterback. Like I said, if Jacksonville

1097
00:52:57,880 --> 00:53:00,400
Speaker 1: can figure out the QB spot, they've got the pieces

1098
00:53:00,440 --> 00:53:03,279
Speaker 1: on defense. I think they've got the running back in

1099
00:53:03,360 --> 00:53:05,279
Speaker 1: four net. I don't know what his troubles are with

1100
00:53:05,400 --> 00:53:08,560
Speaker 1: the banishment now going forward, but there's still a very

1101
00:53:08,640 --> 00:53:11,759
Speaker 1: talented team, and there's so much talent spread around in

1102
00:53:11,760 --> 00:53:14,560
Speaker 1: this division that I think in just a short amount

1103
00:53:14,600 --> 00:53:17,319
Speaker 1: of time it went from maybe the worst division in

1104
00:53:17,360 --> 00:53:20,400
Speaker 1: the last you know, twenty years to maybe one of

1105
00:53:20,400 --> 00:53:24,160
Speaker 1: the more competitive divisions. And it's looking like it's going

1106
00:53:24,239 --> 00:53:26,160
Speaker 1: to be that way for the next three to five

1107
00:53:26,280 --> 00:53:29,040
Speaker 1: years if everybody can stay healthy at the key spot.

1108
00:53:29,120 --> 00:53:31,960
Speaker 1: So it's really fun those division games that obviously they

1109
00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:35,080
Speaker 1: always count the double you win and you know your

1110
00:53:35,120 --> 00:53:38,279
Speaker 1: opponent loses. But I'll tell you what those those games

1111
00:53:38,280 --> 00:53:40,400
Speaker 1: are going to be even more monstrous. They're gonna be

1112
00:53:40,400 --> 00:53:44,480
Speaker 1: even more meaningful going forward starting in twenty nineteen. So Matt,

1113
00:53:44,480 --> 00:53:48,560
Speaker 1: in your opinion, other than turnovers, what decides the game

1114
00:53:48,840 --> 00:53:52,200
Speaker 1: on Saturday, what are the key factors in pulling out

1115
00:53:52,200 --> 00:53:55,040
Speaker 1: a victory for either team? Yeah, I think it's it's

1116
00:53:55,080 --> 00:53:57,120
Speaker 1: for the Colts, they need to run the ball better

1117
00:53:57,160 --> 00:54:00,200
Speaker 1: than they have in two games against the Texans. Like

1118
00:54:00,239 --> 00:54:03,040
Speaker 1: I said, they've relied on Andrew Luck and obviously t

1119
00:54:03,320 --> 00:54:05,919
Speaker 1: Y Hilton to make some plays in the passing game.

1120
00:54:06,200 --> 00:54:08,520
Speaker 1: I mean, Hilton has over three hundred yards and I

1121
00:54:08,520 --> 00:54:12,160
Speaker 1: think thirteen catches in two games against the Texans. I

1122
00:54:12,160 --> 00:54:13,640
Speaker 1: know you guys don't want to be reminded of that,

1123
00:54:13,840 --> 00:54:17,200
Speaker 1: but he's really been a Texan killer over the course

1124
00:54:17,239 --> 00:54:20,040
Speaker 1: of his career. So obviously they're gonna need to take places,

1125
00:54:20,080 --> 00:54:22,120
Speaker 1: but they're gonna be to establish the running game a

1126
00:54:22,120 --> 00:54:25,400
Speaker 1: little bit better. But I think, judging by what I

1127
00:54:25,400 --> 00:54:29,400
Speaker 1: saw last Sunday against the Jags, Deshaun Watson ran the

1128
00:54:29,440 --> 00:54:31,719
Speaker 1: ball very effectively. I think he ran for a career

1129
00:54:31,800 --> 00:54:35,560
Speaker 1: high thirteen times and he was very effective at doing it.

1130
00:54:35,640 --> 00:54:39,000
Speaker 1: So keeping him in the pocket and not letting Deshaun Watson.

1131
00:54:39,480 --> 00:54:42,560
Speaker 1: You know, he's we call it the Saturday game versus

1132
00:54:42,560 --> 00:54:44,799
Speaker 1: the Sunday game. He still has a lot of Saturday

1133
00:54:45,160 --> 00:54:48,680
Speaker 1: college football Clemson stuff in his system and have served

1134
00:54:48,760 --> 00:54:51,600
Speaker 1: him well so far in his NFL careers. Taking that

1135
00:54:51,719 --> 00:54:55,040
Speaker 1: away from Deshaun Watson up front by this cold stepnit,

1136
00:54:55,120 --> 00:54:57,360
Speaker 1: I think is going to be paramount. Plus, they had

1137
00:54:57,400 --> 00:54:59,880
Speaker 1: to do a very good job just like they did

1138
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:03,000
Speaker 1: about a month ago on DeAndre Hopkins. Hopkins only had

1139
00:55:03,320 --> 00:55:06,839
Speaker 1: four catches for thirty six yards in that second meeting

1140
00:55:06,840 --> 00:55:09,600
Speaker 1: in NRG Stadium. I was by far his season low.

1141
00:55:09,920 --> 00:55:11,840
Speaker 1: So they have to bracket him and they also have

1142
00:55:11,920 --> 00:55:14,480
Speaker 1: to keep Watson in the pockets and make him scroll

1143
00:55:14,640 --> 00:55:18,319
Speaker 1: from the pocket to somebody other than DeAndre Hopkins. Man,

1144
00:55:18,400 --> 00:55:19,960
Speaker 1: thanks so much for the time. We look forward to

1145
00:55:19,960 --> 00:55:22,759
Speaker 1: seeing you on Saturday. Thanks so much. I appreciate it.

1146
00:55:22,760 --> 00:55:26,640
Speaker 1: Anytime there is play by play voice of the Indianapolis Colts.

1147
00:55:26,680 --> 00:55:31,279
Speaker 1: Matt Taylor, a rookie first year boy's had a heck

1148
00:55:31,280 --> 00:55:33,600
Speaker 1: of a year after last year being such a dud.

1149
00:55:33,600 --> 00:55:35,880
Speaker 1: He stepped up into the booth. Actually I think it

1150
00:55:35,920 --> 00:55:38,120
Speaker 1: was a third or fourth preseason game he stepped up

1151
00:55:38,120 --> 00:55:40,959
Speaker 1: into the booth and has taken over since and after

1152
00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:43,400
Speaker 1: starting one in five, I'm sure he's looking around, going, man,

1153
00:55:43,719 --> 00:55:46,919
Speaker 1: this is not really fun. They won night have ten.

1154
00:55:46,960 --> 00:55:50,560
Speaker 1: They only lost being to Jacksonville, a game in which

1155
00:55:50,640 --> 00:55:53,120
Speaker 1: the Jaguars did heck of a job, not only t

1156
00:55:53,280 --> 00:55:56,879
Speaker 1: Y Hilton, but just overall team defense, keeping Andrew luck

1157
00:55:56,920 --> 00:55:59,759
Speaker 1: In the Colts out of the end zone, off the scoreboard,

1158
00:56:00,120 --> 00:56:02,839
Speaker 1: shut them out only time. The Colts obviously been shut

1159
00:56:02,840 --> 00:56:04,600
Speaker 1: out all year. Will be nice for the Texans to

1160
00:56:04,600 --> 00:56:07,400
Speaker 1: throw a shut out on Saturday, but that is a

1161
00:56:07,440 --> 00:56:10,200
Speaker 1: lot more. It's a lot easier said than done. There's

1162
00:56:10,239 --> 00:56:15,520
Speaker 1: no doubt about that. Now. The Texans offense score thirty

1163
00:56:15,520 --> 00:56:18,840
Speaker 1: seven up there, the first game score twenty one. I

1164
00:56:18,960 --> 00:56:21,880
Speaker 1: thought in a game that they probably could have played

1165
00:56:21,920 --> 00:56:25,080
Speaker 1: a little bit better. Here they have an opportunity to

1166
00:56:25,080 --> 00:56:28,200
Speaker 1: put points on the board. How will they do that? Well,

1167
00:56:28,239 --> 00:56:30,640
Speaker 1: we will have our first Community Credit Union first glance

1168
00:56:31,040 --> 00:56:34,120
Speaker 1: offensive keys to the game next. In addition to our

1169
00:56:34,160 --> 00:56:37,440
Speaker 1: Texans pick them, we're gonna merge these two because we

1170
00:56:37,520 --> 00:56:39,640
Speaker 1: only have three games to do. Texans pick them, so

1171
00:56:39,680 --> 00:56:41,839
Speaker 1: we gotta pick our three playoff games. And we got

1172
00:56:41,840 --> 00:56:43,600
Speaker 1: to dive into what the offense has to do. We

1173
00:56:43,640 --> 00:56:46,440
Speaker 1: will do that all next right here on Texans All Access.

1174
00:56:47,360 --> 00:56:50,600
Speaker 1: In the words of the ever immoral Matthew McConaughey, all right,

1175
00:56:50,800 --> 00:56:53,560
Speaker 1: all right, all right, we got plenty to do in

1176
00:56:53,719 --> 00:56:57,080
Speaker 1: this segment, so let's get it kicked off. I'm your

1177
00:56:57,120 --> 00:57:00,640
Speaker 1: host the Texans All Access, John Harris, Football Anderson the Reporter,

1178
00:57:00,920 --> 00:57:05,160
Speaker 1: and I am about to break into our Texans Pick Them. Hey,

1179
00:57:05,200 --> 00:57:07,719
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1183
00:57:17,560 --> 00:57:19,320
Speaker 1: And I believe that's still going this week. I'm not

1184
00:57:19,360 --> 00:57:22,919
Speaker 1: totally sure, but I'm pretty sure that's going. You only

1185
00:57:22,920 --> 00:57:26,640
Speaker 1: pick winners. I'm gonna give you winners against the spread

1186
00:57:26,720 --> 00:57:29,120
Speaker 1: and straight up. I should say, you only pick winning

1187
00:57:29,480 --> 00:57:31,960
Speaker 1: straight up games. I pick them straight up in against

1188
00:57:31,960 --> 00:57:34,000
Speaker 1: the spread. And there are three games this week, obviously

1189
00:57:34,040 --> 00:57:35,680
Speaker 1: a fourth, but you know how I feel about the

1190
00:57:35,680 --> 00:57:39,560
Speaker 1: Texans and whatever opponent they're playing, no matter what the

1191
00:57:39,600 --> 00:57:41,920
Speaker 1: spread is, even if they were playing last year, and

1192
00:57:41,920 --> 00:57:43,480
Speaker 1: there were times last year I was like, I know

1193
00:57:43,560 --> 00:57:45,960
Speaker 1: that Texans are gonna struggle on this one, but I

1194
00:57:46,000 --> 00:57:47,960
Speaker 1: just couldn't do it. So I just leave them out

1195
00:57:47,960 --> 00:57:51,120
Speaker 1: of the conversation and pick the other three. So let's

1196
00:57:51,320 --> 00:57:56,120
Speaker 1: dive in Saturday evening. The state of Texas have got

1197
00:57:56,200 --> 00:58:00,640
Speaker 1: Saturday to itself. Saturday afternoon Texans. Saturday evening the Dallas

1198
00:58:01,200 --> 00:58:04,280
Speaker 1: Cowboys taking on the Seattle Seahawks. Now this a rematch

1199
00:58:04,280 --> 00:58:08,240
Speaker 1: from earlier in the year. Won that Seattle one, but

1200
00:58:08,440 --> 00:58:12,400
Speaker 1: it was up in Seattle and it was week three

1201
00:58:13,000 --> 00:58:16,120
Speaker 1: of the season. Seattle won that game, was their first win,

1202
00:58:16,320 --> 00:58:17,960
Speaker 1: its first win of the year, I should say, twenty

1203
00:58:17,960 --> 00:58:22,480
Speaker 1: four to thirteen, and the Cowboys moved to one in two.

1204
00:58:23,160 --> 00:58:25,320
Speaker 1: They would beat Detroit, the next week, lose to Houston,

1205
00:58:25,400 --> 00:58:30,200
Speaker 1: beat Jacksonville, loose to Washington. Then after the bye, a

1206
00:58:30,280 --> 00:58:33,520
Speaker 1: week eight bye, they lost the Tennessee in on Monday night.

1207
00:58:33,520 --> 00:58:37,200
Speaker 1: You thought, oh man, this is over. And then they

1208
00:58:37,200 --> 00:58:40,360
Speaker 1: won two four or five, six, seven, seven out of

1209
00:58:40,400 --> 00:58:45,080
Speaker 1: their final eight games to take the NFC East. Seattle

1210
00:58:45,160 --> 00:58:47,880
Speaker 1: runs the ball very well. In fact, that was kind

1211
00:58:47,920 --> 00:58:50,960
Speaker 1: of one of the sea changes that Seattle made during

1212
00:58:51,000 --> 00:58:53,600
Speaker 1: the year. They realized, you know, offensive line, we can

1213
00:58:53,600 --> 00:58:55,440
Speaker 1: help them out by running the ball better. And then

1214
00:58:55,440 --> 00:58:58,680
Speaker 1: they pounded Chris Carson, Rashot Pennion, any other running back,

1215
00:58:58,680 --> 00:59:01,880
Speaker 1: and Russell Wilson was run the ball little bit. I

1216
00:59:01,920 --> 00:59:05,280
Speaker 1: think Dallas can stop the run game. Dallas is favored

1217
00:59:05,280 --> 00:59:09,040
Speaker 1: by two, essentially to pick them. Houston's favored by one,

1218
00:59:09,360 --> 00:59:12,360
Speaker 1: Dallas favored by two, Baltimore favored by three. These are

1219
00:59:12,520 --> 00:59:16,080
Speaker 1: very tight wildcard rounds, and I started I started looking

1220
00:59:16,120 --> 00:59:20,320
Speaker 1: at historically, and by historically I mean the last few years,

1221
00:59:21,680 --> 00:59:25,680
Speaker 1: who's won these wild card games. Well, twenty fifteen all

1222
00:59:25,760 --> 00:59:29,600
Speaker 1: four wildcards. One in twenty sixteen it was the other

1223
00:59:29,600 --> 00:59:34,560
Speaker 1: way around. The division champs won last year was split.

1224
00:59:35,600 --> 00:59:38,600
Speaker 1: So we've seen kind of all over the place, and

1225
00:59:38,680 --> 00:59:41,880
Speaker 1: it's it's to be expected too, because you have a

1226
00:59:41,920 --> 00:59:44,440
Speaker 1: four to five game, and that's what this is. It's

1227
00:59:44,480 --> 00:59:47,439
Speaker 1: a four five game. And there are certain cases where

1228
00:59:47,480 --> 00:59:52,200
Speaker 1: the number five team, like with LA and Baltimore, Las

1229
00:59:52,240 --> 00:59:56,800
Speaker 1: plus two over Baltimore, but Baltimore beat LA out in LA.

1230
00:59:57,240 --> 00:59:59,680
Speaker 1: And we'll get to that one a second. But this

1231
00:59:59,720 --> 01:00:03,120
Speaker 1: one is Seattle Dallas, very very close. Two points, two

1232
01:00:03,120 --> 01:00:05,920
Speaker 1: points favored for Dallas. I think Dallas wins this one

1233
01:00:05,960 --> 01:00:09,560
Speaker 1: and covers. I think Dallas at home. I think one

1234
01:00:09,560 --> 01:00:12,360
Speaker 1: of the things that Dallas did last week, letting Dak

1235
01:00:12,360 --> 01:00:15,440
Speaker 1: Prescott play the whole game against the Giants, was big

1236
01:00:15,480 --> 01:00:17,320
Speaker 1: for him. I think it was big for his confidence,

1237
01:00:18,120 --> 01:00:21,080
Speaker 1: and I think he'll carry that forward. Here's the one

1238
01:00:21,120 --> 01:00:24,760
Speaker 1: thing that does worry me a little bit. Xavier schofieldos

1239
01:00:24,760 --> 01:00:27,120
Speaker 1: out of the lineup for the Cowboys, and when he

1240
01:00:27,160 --> 01:00:30,479
Speaker 1: was inserted into the lineup offensive line, Annamar Cooper's insert

1241
01:00:30,520 --> 01:00:32,880
Speaker 1: a wide receiver and it one's probably more important than

1242
01:00:32,880 --> 01:00:35,240
Speaker 1: the other, but Xavier really helped the offensive line because

1243
01:00:35,240 --> 01:00:37,400
Speaker 1: Connor Williams was really struggling. Well. Connor Williams looks like

1244
01:00:37,400 --> 01:00:39,800
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to step in for Xavier this week.

1245
01:00:40,280 --> 01:00:42,480
Speaker 1: That could be a problem against a stout defensive front

1246
01:00:42,480 --> 01:00:45,880
Speaker 1: for the Seahawks, but I think Dallas's defense will slow

1247
01:00:45,920 --> 01:00:50,080
Speaker 1: down Seattle. In Jerry World, I think Dallas gets to win.

1248
01:00:50,560 --> 01:00:53,000
Speaker 1: They win by more than two, so they'll cover and win.

1249
01:00:53,240 --> 01:00:57,960
Speaker 1: Dallas over Seattle. LA goes to Baltimore. Baltimore is favored

1250
01:00:57,960 --> 01:01:00,960
Speaker 1: by three, and the Chargers of cooled off a little bit.

1251
01:01:01,920 --> 01:01:05,760
Speaker 1: They've got to travel twice like the Colts. They traveled

1252
01:01:05,760 --> 01:01:09,080
Speaker 1: at Denver last week played on Sunday. That was not

1253
01:01:09,200 --> 01:01:11,520
Speaker 1: a long trip, but then they got to fly across

1254
01:01:11,680 --> 01:01:14,880
Speaker 1: country and play on Sunday. They've at least got the

1255
01:01:14,920 --> 01:01:18,560
Speaker 1: extra day, so that could help Baltimore. That's a little

1256
01:01:18,560 --> 01:01:21,760
Speaker 1: bit more routine, whereas Tennessee, I'm sorry, Indianapolis had to

1257
01:01:21,760 --> 01:01:26,360
Speaker 1: play Sunday night, turn around, and then play Saturday afternoon.

1258
01:01:27,040 --> 01:01:30,160
Speaker 1: The little extra rest that Baltimore gets that extra day

1259
01:01:30,640 --> 01:01:36,120
Speaker 1: may help for LA. But the Chargers just didn't play well.

1260
01:01:36,840 --> 01:01:39,840
Speaker 1: I think the Chargers will bounce back. I'm taking the

1261
01:01:40,000 --> 01:01:44,040
Speaker 1: Chargers in an upset. I think the playoff opportunity from

1262
01:01:44,040 --> 01:01:46,560
Speaker 1: the Mark Jackson's a great one. But I think in

1263
01:01:46,600 --> 01:01:50,760
Speaker 1: the end the Chargers with Philip Rivers are gonna play

1264
01:01:50,800 --> 01:01:53,240
Speaker 1: a little bit more desperate, which gonna be good and bad.

1265
01:01:53,720 --> 01:01:55,080
Speaker 1: But I think this case is gonna be good. I

1266
01:01:55,120 --> 01:01:57,600
Speaker 1: think the Chargers walk out of here with a narrow win,

1267
01:01:58,600 --> 01:02:02,000
Speaker 1: get ready to go to Kansas City, and the Chargers

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Speaker 1: get to win the upset, and obviously the cover in

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Speaker 1: Philadelphia goes to Chicago on Sunday. That'll be your Sunday

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Speaker 1: evening game. But these four games are really tight. Now,

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Speaker 1: this one's got the biggest spread, which is a little

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Speaker 1: bit surprising. But maybe some of that has to do

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Speaker 1: with the Nick Foles thing. I don't know. Maybe some

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Speaker 1: of it is because Chicago, I think, is being a

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Speaker 1: little bit overvalued. I think Chicago's played well. Yeah, they

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01:02:24,440 --> 01:02:27,320
Speaker 1: shot down the Rams at home. They've played very well.

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Speaker 1: They beat the Vikings. Just thump the Vikings. I just

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01:02:30,480 --> 01:02:33,960
Speaker 1: saw the Eagles. We just saw the Eagles. That is

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01:02:33,960 --> 01:02:35,720
Speaker 1: a good football team. Now, that was at home and

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01:02:35,760 --> 01:02:39,520
Speaker 1: they gave up thirty thirty points to US. I don't

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01:02:39,560 --> 01:02:41,960
Speaker 1: think the Bears offense is our offense. Now. They can

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01:02:41,960 --> 01:02:44,720
Speaker 1: do some different things, but I just don't think that

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01:02:44,760 --> 01:02:48,640
Speaker 1: Trubisky can hurt them the way that DeShawn did. I'm

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01:02:48,680 --> 01:02:51,840
Speaker 1: picking it upset here. It's a six point spread. I

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01:02:51,920 --> 01:02:54,800
Speaker 1: know Chicago is plus three twelve and four verses nine

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01:02:54,840 --> 01:02:57,920
Speaker 1: and seven. But the defending champs got back in. That's

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Speaker 1: what they needed. It's thirty years since the Fog Bowl.

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01:03:04,240 --> 01:03:06,760
Speaker 1: I think that Philadelphia is gonna put a fog over Chicago.

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01:03:07,120 --> 01:03:11,040
Speaker 1: I think Philadelphia gets the upset and the win on

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Speaker 1: the road. How about that taking two upsets on Sunday,

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01:03:15,400 --> 01:03:18,919
Speaker 1: both road teams, taking both home teams taking the state

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Speaker 1: of Texas on Saturday, taking the road teams on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: So there you go. All right, now we got to

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Speaker 1: get into our offensive Keys to the Game, presented to

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Speaker 1: you by First Community Credit Union, the official credit union

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Speaker 1: of your Houston Texans. So let's get it started. We

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Speaker 1: did the defensive earlier. If you go on a second, wait,

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Speaker 1: he's like, whatever, I did the defensive once earlier in

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Speaker 1: the show. So go get your podcast, the Texans All Access,

1300
01:03:43,520 --> 01:03:45,600
Speaker 1: and you can listen to what I had to say

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01:03:45,600 --> 01:03:49,240
Speaker 1: about the Texas defense. And at that point I went

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01:03:49,320 --> 01:03:52,640
Speaker 1: beyond stopping t Y Hilton, but it's stopping t By Hilton.

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01:03:52,640 --> 01:03:54,560
Speaker 1: So here we go jump into our keys in no

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01:03:54,600 --> 01:03:58,760
Speaker 1: certain order. Number one, one of the things that Colts

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01:03:58,840 --> 01:04:04,320
Speaker 1: do run is they jump into a double a gap

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01:04:04,520 --> 01:04:09,640
Speaker 1: defensive tackle. Look, so the A gap is in between

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Speaker 1: the guard and the center. So most of the time

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Speaker 1: what you have, if you're playing a four man front

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01:04:14,920 --> 01:04:18,479
Speaker 1: is you have one defensive tackle that's just outside the guard,

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01:04:18,520 --> 01:04:21,000
Speaker 1: so he almost in between the guard and tackle, and

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Speaker 1: then one that might be in between the center and

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Speaker 1: the guard. They take both of them and they put

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Speaker 1: them in between the center and the guard. What that

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Speaker 1: does is it demands a double team on one of them,

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01:04:30,320 --> 01:04:33,280
Speaker 1: so it ties up the three interior blockers. Why is

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Speaker 1: that important, I'll give you one hundred and sixty one

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01:04:35,920 --> 01:04:39,360
Speaker 1: reasons why Because it allows Darius Leonard to run the

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Speaker 1: ball pretty much unabated. So the Texans have got to

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01:04:42,920 --> 01:04:46,439
Speaker 1: handle that double a gap look and handle it well.

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01:04:47,120 --> 01:04:50,720
Speaker 1: And that's hard. That is really really hard. But it's

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Speaker 1: imperative that one of those guards able to at some

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01:04:55,560 --> 01:04:59,000
Speaker 1: point get off to the next level. It gave them

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Speaker 1: a lot of trouble and all so it gives them

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01:05:00,600 --> 01:05:03,160
Speaker 1: trouble is they can mix and match the guys they

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Speaker 1: have in there. It can be Marcus Hunt with Nico

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01:05:05,200 --> 01:05:08,200
Speaker 1: Autry and they're quick and they they'll just penetrate. Then

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01:05:08,240 --> 01:05:11,480
Speaker 1: they'll put in Grover Stewart and Hassan Ridgeway and they're

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01:05:11,560 --> 01:05:13,880
Speaker 1: bigger and more stout, but they'll just run and penetrate.

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01:05:14,320 --> 01:05:16,240
Speaker 1: All they want to do is just create a problem.

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01:05:16,280 --> 01:05:18,800
Speaker 1: They just get in there and spinner stances and just

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01:05:18,960 --> 01:05:22,000
Speaker 1: blow up field. That's all they're trying to do. So

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Speaker 1: if you're running in kind of gap play, it's a problem.

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Speaker 1: A zone play is a problem. Even though you think, oh,

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Speaker 1: it's outside zone, we'll be able to but they penetrate,

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Speaker 1: and what they do is in penetrating, they create a bubble.

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Speaker 1: What you gotta do, is a running back, is beat

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01:05:36,440 --> 01:05:39,520
Speaker 1: the bubble, hopefully and then cut back underneath them. But

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01:05:39,640 --> 01:05:42,080
Speaker 1: that's easier said than done. But that double a gap book.

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01:05:42,120 --> 01:05:44,440
Speaker 1: The Texas have got to have an answer for. They've

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Speaker 1: got to. But those guys up front, Autrey Hunt, Ridgeway, Stewart,

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01:05:50,000 --> 01:05:53,520
Speaker 1: those guys are all different, and they're strong as oxen

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01:05:54,160 --> 01:05:58,040
Speaker 1: oxen oxen, and they'll go straight up the field. That

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01:05:58,240 --> 01:06:01,240
Speaker 1: is a problem. It's a huge problem. It was a

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01:06:01,280 --> 01:06:04,120
Speaker 1: huge problem for Tennessee. The other night. However, Tennessee ran

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01:06:04,200 --> 01:06:06,320
Speaker 1: for ninety eight yards and sixteen carries or all Derick

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01:06:06,320 --> 01:06:10,840
Speaker 1: Henry carries, so almost almost I think it was under

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01:06:10,880 --> 01:06:13,919
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, ninety three yards because it was just under

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01:06:13,920 --> 01:06:16,960
Speaker 1: six yards per carry. So you can't run the football,

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01:06:17,160 --> 01:06:19,960
Speaker 1: but you gotta handle that. Look number two nowhere, safety

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01:06:20,080 --> 01:06:21,600
Speaker 1: Lee Cooker is lurking in the middle of the field

1351
01:06:21,600 --> 01:06:23,720
Speaker 1: at all times. I think the Sean is very aware

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01:06:23,760 --> 01:06:26,680
Speaker 1: of him. He faced him in college. He's very aware

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01:06:26,680 --> 01:06:28,960
Speaker 1: of him as well. He should be. He's one of

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01:06:29,000 --> 01:06:30,880
Speaker 1: the better safeties I think in the league. He's come

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01:06:30,920 --> 01:06:32,919
Speaker 1: back from an acl taire last year and he's played

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01:06:33,040 --> 01:06:34,880
Speaker 1: very well. But keep the ball out of the middle

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01:06:34,880 --> 01:06:36,080
Speaker 1: of the field. Do not throw it late in the

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Speaker 1: middle of the field because he can go get it.

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Speaker 1: Number three and I mentioned him a just just a

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Speaker 1: second ago. You must get a hat on the maniac

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Speaker 1: Darreus Leonard, number fifty three every single play. One of

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Speaker 1: the reasons that they use that double a gap look

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01:06:51,440 --> 01:06:54,920
Speaker 1: is to get Leonard free. They want fifty three running

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Speaker 1: to the football and that's one of the ways they've

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01:06:56,480 --> 01:06:59,240
Speaker 1: decided they can do it. But he will be over

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01:06:59,280 --> 01:07:03,920
Speaker 1: aggressive at times getting to the football, so countering play action,

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01:07:04,240 --> 01:07:07,440
Speaker 1: some screens. Baby, he's very smart. He'll sniff out screens.

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Speaker 1: But the Texans had some experience with him because they

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Speaker 1: coached him at the Senior Bowl. Now they got to

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Speaker 1: kind of channel some of that into what they can

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Speaker 1: do against him on Saturday to keep him out of

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Speaker 1: the mix. He's a problem. Now. I was one hundred

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Speaker 1: sixty one tackles here. There are some, and by some,

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Speaker 1: I would say a decent percentage that are eight ten

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Speaker 1: yards down field. Even if you take out thirty tackles,

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Speaker 1: forty tackles. He's still got over one hundred and twenty

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Speaker 1: at that point. He's a problem, and that look is

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01:07:43,080 --> 01:07:44,920
Speaker 1: a problem. So when they get in that double a

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01:07:45,000 --> 01:07:47,360
Speaker 1: gap look, they've got to be able to contain it

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Speaker 1: with an Ion fifty three, get on him, latch on him,

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01:07:51,400 --> 01:07:56,680
Speaker 1: dulling him off. KI number three, number four, Jabal Sheered.

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Speaker 1: I cannot tell you how tired I am of seeing

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01:08:01,560 --> 01:08:03,560
Speaker 1: Jabal Sheared. Everyone wants talk about t Y Hilton. T

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01:08:03,640 --> 01:08:06,040
Speaker 1: Y Hilton kills the Texans. Ty Hilton t why Hilton

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01:08:06,040 --> 01:08:11,400
Speaker 1: does kill the Texans. Jabal Sheared does it, maybe not

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01:08:11,480 --> 01:08:15,240
Speaker 1: equally on the defensive side, but he has a similar

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01:08:15,280 --> 01:08:19,760
Speaker 1: like impact on the defensive side. He ended the game

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01:08:19,760 --> 01:08:22,280
Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen with a big sack. He is hard

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01:08:22,280 --> 01:08:25,360
Speaker 1: to block. He one of the biggest plays I thought

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01:08:25,400 --> 01:08:31,080
Speaker 1: in the game against the Colts was down in the

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01:08:31,120 --> 01:08:33,360
Speaker 1: first It was in the first half. The Texans had

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Speaker 1: great fuel position and they tried to run at Jabal Sheared,

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01:08:38,760 --> 01:08:41,599
Speaker 1: and Sheared took the offensive linement. I don't remember which

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01:08:41,600 --> 01:08:43,800
Speaker 1: one it was, but I just remember seeing offensive lit

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01:08:43,800 --> 01:08:47,120
Speaker 1: me go backwards and the offensive linement went backwards. To

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01:08:47,160 --> 01:08:51,040
Speaker 1: a point where the running back cut underneath Sheared tackle

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Speaker 1: him for a four yard loss. Texans weren't able to

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01:08:54,560 --> 01:08:57,880
Speaker 1: do anything where it had to punt Jabal Sheared is

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Speaker 1: a problem. Don't like seeing him on the other side.

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Speaker 1: He's long, he's strong, he's awkward, and there are times

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01:09:05,600 --> 01:09:08,559
Speaker 1: where you look up into the ball shot didn't do anything.

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01:09:08,560 --> 01:09:10,519
Speaker 1: He didn't do anything. He can be lying in weeds

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01:09:11,120 --> 01:09:14,080
Speaker 1: and doing nothing for a quarter quarter and a half

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01:09:14,160 --> 01:09:16,360
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, boom here he comes. Huge play,

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01:09:16,960 --> 01:09:24,000
Speaker 1: huge play, Please block ninety three number five. Now this

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01:09:24,080 --> 01:09:28,280
Speaker 1: kind of goes with one and four. Established the line

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Speaker 1: of scrimmage early and keep pounding them at the point

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01:09:32,160 --> 01:09:35,640
Speaker 1: of attack. The one thing about the Colts they in

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01:09:35,680 --> 01:09:38,080
Speaker 1: the last how many ever games they've been able to

1410
01:09:38,160 --> 01:09:43,040
Speaker 1: dictate offensive or defensively. Now they shut out the Cowboys.

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Speaker 1: But one thing to keep in mind against the Cowboys,

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01:09:45,000 --> 01:09:48,799
Speaker 1: the Cowboys had three drives early on of ten plus plays,

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01:09:49,680 --> 01:09:51,479
Speaker 1: and then they fell behind, and then they felt like

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01:09:51,520 --> 01:09:55,639
Speaker 1: they had to throw the football and that got them

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01:09:55,640 --> 01:09:59,080
Speaker 1: into a lot of trouble. But the Cowboys early on

1416
01:09:59,160 --> 01:10:01,280
Speaker 1: established a lot of grimmage and then got away from it.

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01:10:02,280 --> 01:10:04,240
Speaker 1: The Texans have got to be able to establish a

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Speaker 1: line of scrimmage against the Colts because it's two things

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01:10:07,560 --> 01:10:10,400
Speaker 1: that happen. Two things happen. Number one, to keep Andrew

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Speaker 1: Luck on the sideline. Number two, like up in Indianapolis,

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01:10:14,520 --> 01:10:16,960
Speaker 1: you wear them down and they don't want to keep

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01:10:17,000 --> 01:10:22,439
Speaker 1: taking a physical punishment. Now that's a load. They are

1423
01:10:22,479 --> 01:10:25,000
Speaker 1: a load up front. They run different waves of guys

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01:10:25,040 --> 01:10:28,880
Speaker 1: at you. But keep pounding, keep pounding. I think it

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01:10:28,920 --> 01:10:32,479
Speaker 1: will pay off. Because the Colts got a lead last time,

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01:10:32,640 --> 01:10:36,080
Speaker 1: the Texans had to get away from that. But if

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01:10:36,120 --> 01:10:38,360
Speaker 1: they can establish a lead, then one of the best

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01:10:38,360 --> 01:10:41,479
Speaker 1: ways to keep Andrew Luck from impacting games keep on

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01:10:41,479 --> 01:10:43,280
Speaker 1: the sideline. Well, you can do that with a run

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01:10:43,360 --> 01:10:47,519
Speaker 1: game and offensive line. It just takes over physically. Number six.

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Speaker 1: That's my last one. Take the profit, not the hits.

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01:10:52,479 --> 01:10:54,240
Speaker 1: Now what I mean by that is that Coucher Brian

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01:10:54,360 --> 01:10:55,800
Speaker 1: is used just phrase with us, and I love it.

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01:10:56,720 --> 01:10:59,519
Speaker 1: Take the profit. If there's a guy running a five

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01:10:59,600 --> 01:11:01,559
Speaker 1: yard out in a twenty yard route and the twenty

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01:11:01,640 --> 01:11:03,640
Speaker 1: yard route isn't quite open, and I want to and

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01:11:04,000 --> 01:11:06,160
Speaker 1: DeShawn wants to hold it for him, this might be

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01:11:06,200 --> 01:11:08,840
Speaker 1: the week to say look, take five. I'll get to

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01:11:08,920 --> 01:11:13,640
Speaker 1: twenty later. Take the profit when it's there, take it.

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Speaker 1: I know that that sounds seemingly easy, but Deshaun is

1441
01:11:19,520 --> 01:11:22,800
Speaker 1: wired to create big plays and make big plays, so

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01:11:22,880 --> 01:11:26,720
Speaker 1: he wants those guys downfield to get open. But if

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01:11:26,760 --> 01:11:30,160
Speaker 1: that's not materializing, thousand, one, thousand and two, I gotta

1444
01:11:30,200 --> 01:11:31,960
Speaker 1: get I gotta get rid of it. The clock in

1445
01:11:32,040 --> 01:11:35,599
Speaker 1: his head has got to tell him there's Blue, there's Miller,

1446
01:11:35,880 --> 01:11:39,719
Speaker 1: there's a tight end. Take it now, third and seven

1447
01:11:40,040 --> 01:11:43,040
Speaker 1: and they're sitting at four yards and maybe not, but

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01:11:43,680 --> 01:11:46,360
Speaker 1: if they're in a situation where you've got to be

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01:11:46,400 --> 01:11:48,960
Speaker 1: able to create a big play, those plays will come.

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01:11:50,000 --> 01:11:53,080
Speaker 1: But if it's first and ten, drive the twenty five

1451
01:11:53,120 --> 01:11:56,559
Speaker 1: after a kickoff and blues out in the flat for three,

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01:11:56,680 --> 01:12:00,160
Speaker 1: take three. If Miller's you know, Arollo angle out or

1453
01:12:00,240 --> 01:12:02,880
Speaker 1: circle route for five, take five, because he might make

1454
01:12:02,880 --> 01:12:05,760
Speaker 1: a guy miss, it might turn into twelve tight end

1455
01:12:05,760 --> 01:12:09,439
Speaker 1: out in a flat. Take it. Take the profit, not

1456
01:12:09,600 --> 01:12:13,920
Speaker 1: the hits. Those little completions start adding up after a while.

1457
01:12:14,280 --> 01:12:16,720
Speaker 1: Look at what Nick Foles did to the Texans. That's

1458
01:12:16,720 --> 01:12:19,719
Speaker 1: what he did. It was just dinkin duncan, dinkin Duncan

1459
01:12:19,800 --> 01:12:23,599
Speaker 1: dncon duct. He got his big plays, didn't he. He

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01:12:23,680 --> 01:12:25,680
Speaker 1: hit the fifty two yard to Jeffrey, he hit the

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01:12:25,720 --> 01:12:27,960
Speaker 1: eighty three yard at Agla. The big plays will come.

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01:12:28,120 --> 01:12:31,000
Speaker 1: That's the kind of approach that the sean Canna have.

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01:12:31,040 --> 01:12:32,640
Speaker 1: Take the little ones, take the little ones, take the

1464
01:12:32,680 --> 01:12:35,800
Speaker 1: little ones, boom big one because the little ones add

1465
01:12:35,880 --> 01:12:38,760
Speaker 1: up and then the big one breaks the back. That

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01:12:39,520 --> 01:12:41,080
Speaker 1: I think is the way the Texans can be able

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01:12:41,120 --> 01:12:43,040
Speaker 1: to win this game. So there you go. Those your

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01:12:43,040 --> 01:12:47,400
Speaker 1: first Community Credit Union, first glance offensive keys to the game,

1469
01:12:47,600 --> 01:12:51,080
Speaker 1: the keys to a win hopefully over the Indianapolis Colts

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Speaker 1: on Saturday. All right, when we get back, it's our

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Speaker 1: players segment we gotta get to know best of which

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Speaker 1: is fantastic. We've got a little k Jack TV Playoff edition,

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01:13:02,280 --> 01:13:04,120
Speaker 1: and we've got the final Word with Drew Dorty in

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01:13:04,120 --> 01:13:07,360
Speaker 1: this week it is to Devion Clowney. All that next

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Speaker 1: right here, all Texans All Access. We've got one final

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Speaker 1: segment of Texans All Access from the Honday Texans Radio Studio.

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Speaker 1: I am John Harris, your host. Glad to be with

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Speaker 1: you for this pregame all Access edition of All Access.

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Speaker 1: Is that the way it goes. I don't know either way.

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Speaker 1: Game tomorrow three thirty five, and it's time to turn

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Speaker 1: it over to the players. We always do that on

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Speaker 1: Friday evening in our final segment. It's the players segment,

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Speaker 1: and we started off with kay Jack TV brought to you,

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Speaker 1: as he tells you very often by Arctic, the official

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Speaker 1: dot com. Arctic Coolers overbuilt, not overpriced. The question this week,

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Speaker 1: how about a big game on Monday night? Alabama versus Clemson.

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Speaker 1: Keep in mind krim Jackson, a former Crimson Tide All American,

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Speaker 1: asking the questions, kareem take it away? Mmmmmmmm mmmm that

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Speaker 1: need to be my intro music. Okay, kay Jack TV

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Speaker 1: telling weeks my mans first one of the year, first

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Speaker 1: of the year. Man, man, you know what, I'm sorry,

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry. That's selfish with me. You know you my

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01:14:34,000 --> 01:14:37,920
Speaker 1: guy moving forward? If you don't answer them something right,

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Speaker 1: I don't know about any more appearances on k Jack TV.

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Speaker 1: Now think about it now, who you got in the

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Speaker 1: National Championships? Alabama or Clemson? Oh? Oh okay, let's see it.

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Speaker 1: I gotta ride with him I'm gonna ride with my boy.

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Speaker 1: Who you got Nasal championship Alabama or Clemson? I would

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Speaker 1: never your appearances on k Jack TV on the line

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Speaker 1: right here. You gotta give it to Nick. Save me.

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01:15:05,640 --> 01:15:08,559
Speaker 1: Nick's been there, done it. I mean that's too be

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01:15:08,560 --> 01:15:10,960
Speaker 1: good for walking. I didn't even ask de Sean this question.

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Speaker 1: Who you got in that Sea championship Alabama Clemson road talking.

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01:15:15,240 --> 01:15:18,120
Speaker 1: You're here it there, you're here there, You're here it

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01:15:18,200 --> 01:15:22,639
Speaker 1: right there, ladies and gentlemen, rod tid who you got default?

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01:15:22,680 --> 01:15:24,600
Speaker 1: I didn't know where the time it is? Man? Some

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Speaker 1: Clemson Tigers. I'm tigers about all right. The fans request

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Speaker 1: you all the time on Kjack TV. But because you

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Speaker 1: just share the Clemson Tyson, the Clemson Tigers. No more

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01:15:37,280 --> 01:15:41,200
Speaker 1: appearances with Desauan on Kjack TV because he's talking about

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Speaker 1: Clemson Tigers. We're gonna roll time, baby, We're gonna keep

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01:15:44,400 --> 01:15:46,200
Speaker 1: it going. Man, let me here one time they say

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01:15:46,280 --> 01:15:48,920
Speaker 1: road tide one time, roll time. Okay, all right, you're

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01:15:48,960 --> 01:15:51,639
Speaker 1: here it right there, man, John Weeks Kjack TV. Man,

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01:15:51,680 --> 01:15:56,040
Speaker 1: we out sick Comparson. Oh my gosh, I love Weeks

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Speaker 1: here getting in that sick compared at the very end.

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Speaker 1: The Bears feel pretty good about themselves after a big

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Speaker 1: window or Vanderbilt here in the Texas Bowl Academy Sports

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01:16:04,479 --> 01:16:09,519
Speaker 1: Outdoors Texas Bowl was absolutely fantastic. Now we've had a

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Speaker 1: really good year of get to know each Each week

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01:16:12,479 --> 01:16:15,800
Speaker 1: we have a player that joins the show forget to

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01:16:15,800 --> 01:16:18,400
Speaker 1: know what Drew Doherty asked him so kind of off

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01:16:18,400 --> 01:16:21,559
Speaker 1: the wall questions, and this week it's a best of

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01:16:22,280 --> 01:16:25,080
Speaker 1: the best of get to know what Drew Doherty right

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01:16:25,080 --> 01:16:32,160
Speaker 1: here in our players segment, It's time to get to

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01:16:32,160 --> 01:16:34,400
Speaker 1: know DeAndre Hopkins. It's time to get to know JJ.

1528
01:16:34,680 --> 01:16:37,800
Speaker 1: Watch the new and improved Nick Martin, the bigger Nick Martin,

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01:16:37,960 --> 01:16:43,080
Speaker 1: John Christian, could you mean know Ala? Make it okay? No,

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Speaker 1: you don't need lipstick for this. I can't fit through

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01:16:45,439 --> 01:16:47,640
Speaker 1: that door because my shoulders are so wide. I like this,

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Speaker 1: I lift a little bit. But it's the swimming that's

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01:16:51,760 --> 01:16:53,760
Speaker 1: kind of made it like big. I'm a bet all

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Speaker 1: of mine. I know where I The swimming didn't make

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01:16:55,800 --> 01:16:58,960
Speaker 1: you that big? You mistaken for? JJ Watt. Hey, do

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01:16:59,000 --> 01:17:01,519
Speaker 1: you ever get a mistaken for? On weeks? Absolutely all

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01:17:01,520 --> 01:17:03,759
Speaker 1: the time. Yeah, he says the same thing about you.

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01:17:04,520 --> 01:17:07,360
Speaker 1: Where we look almost like done it? Go man, how

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01:17:08,520 --> 01:17:11,920
Speaker 1: did you make that catch? How? And you're you're you're

1540
01:17:11,960 --> 01:17:16,240
Speaker 1: supposed to say which one? Right? You're right, you're right,

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01:17:16,400 --> 01:17:19,599
Speaker 1: slut man. Sometimes I ask myself out, I'm not gonna lie.

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01:17:20,600 --> 01:17:24,200
Speaker 1: Some of my catches amazed me myself. Um, but practice

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01:17:24,200 --> 01:17:26,320
Speaker 1: makes perfect man, Like you said, you're seeing the catches

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01:17:26,360 --> 01:17:28,920
Speaker 1: at practice. There I make. What's one food that if

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01:17:28,920 --> 01:17:30,840
Speaker 1: you could just eliminate for the face of the earth,

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01:17:30,960 --> 01:17:32,360
Speaker 1: you never have to eat it. Nobody else has to

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01:17:32,400 --> 01:17:38,400
Speaker 1: eat it. What you're gonna eliminate? Mushroom? Mushrooms? Yeah? Broccoli, broccoli, Okay, okay,

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01:17:38,520 --> 01:17:41,759
Speaker 1: broccoli because from missus stority, that's from being yeah missus

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Speaker 1: SORTI yeah, it's pretty good. Hit it. It's nice cookid

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01:17:44,760 --> 01:17:47,320
Speaker 1: thank you. You're a nice guy. So I appreciate. I mean,

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01:17:47,360 --> 01:17:49,000
Speaker 1: I wish if this happened to me everywhere I went.

1552
01:17:49,160 --> 01:17:51,040
Speaker 1: You say you're not a singer hunt No, no, well

1553
01:17:51,080 --> 01:17:52,880
Speaker 1: in the shower, you know what, I right, in my

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01:17:52,920 --> 01:17:55,600
Speaker 1: apartment or Frank Sinatra and exactly, but in front of

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01:17:55,640 --> 01:18:03,840
Speaker 1: people frost this no man? Whatso I know that my

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01:18:03,960 --> 01:18:09,240
Speaker 1: life will never be the same because girls, you can't

1557
01:18:09,360 --> 01:18:12,599
Speaker 1: and chase the way you walk, the way I talk,

1558
01:18:13,160 --> 01:18:19,200
Speaker 1: I cannot explain. I will stay with you through the

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01:18:20,000 --> 01:18:30,600
Speaker 1: sand and downs. Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello, I've ready to

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01:18:30,640 --> 01:18:36,720
Speaker 1: go at that. Um you know, I don't know. I

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01:18:36,960 --> 01:18:40,120
Speaker 1: think's the same color everything, pants, shoe shirt? What's it

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Speaker 1: gonna be? Black? Probably black? I pray glove black. You

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01:18:44,280 --> 01:18:46,800
Speaker 1: looking at a guy right now who is actually one

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01:18:46,800 --> 01:18:50,320
Speaker 1: of the biggest sneaker sneakerheads on the team sneakerheads. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'll come and I don't maybe all with three hundred

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01:18:52,960 --> 01:18:56,040
Speaker 1: prayers of shoes three h Yeah. I always got to

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Speaker 1: see you, John, I'd like getting to know you, and

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01:18:59,200 --> 01:19:02,360
Speaker 1: I appreciate you coming. Always been to see you. Joe's

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01:19:02,439 --> 01:19:05,439
Speaker 1: been an absolute thank you. Let's see, let's try again.

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Speaker 1: That was a bad. Come on, here's a man, Christian

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01:19:16,720 --> 01:19:21,320
Speaker 1: Covington and Zach Cuttingham. Did you hear that? Wow? That

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01:19:21,439 --> 01:19:25,400
Speaker 1: was phenomenal. You started band in the locker room, or

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01:19:25,439 --> 01:19:27,960
Speaker 1: at least the singing group. I don't know, like B

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01:19:28,040 --> 01:19:32,720
Speaker 1: two K or Backstreet Boys. Oh, it could be like

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01:19:33,360 --> 01:19:35,840
Speaker 1: ninety eight degrees, but it could be like ninety eight

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01:19:36,080 --> 01:19:38,080
Speaker 1: defensive line. I don't know. They gotta come up with him,

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01:19:38,080 --> 01:19:39,640
Speaker 1: They gotta come up with a singing group name, a

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01:19:39,640 --> 01:19:42,960
Speaker 1: boy band name, because they'd be pretty good. That was

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01:19:43,120 --> 01:19:44,760
Speaker 1: that was really good. That was good stuff on get

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01:19:44,760 --> 01:19:47,760
Speaker 1: to know all right. It is the third piece of

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01:19:47,760 --> 01:19:51,920
Speaker 1: our Players segment. Every single week it is time for

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01:19:52,560 --> 01:19:56,200
Speaker 1: the Final Word with Drew Dorty, and this week it

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01:19:56,360 --> 01:19:59,320
Speaker 1: is Jadevion Clowney. I think it's the first time that

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01:19:59,320 --> 01:20:01,880
Speaker 1: we've had him befo our Final Word and he is

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01:20:01,960 --> 01:20:04,800
Speaker 1: fantastic here with Drew Dorty. You will love this. I

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01:20:04,800 --> 01:20:07,880
Speaker 1: love talking to j D after the games, win or lose.

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01:20:08,880 --> 01:20:10,720
Speaker 1: I love getting a chance to catch up with him.

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01:20:10,760 --> 01:20:14,080
Speaker 1: He is he's so honest about things. But when we

1589
01:20:14,240 --> 01:20:16,519
Speaker 1: when we went, I'll never forget. After the Buffalo game

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01:20:17,520 --> 01:20:21,000
Speaker 1: this year, in the locker room came up with that win,

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01:20:21,040 --> 01:20:23,120
Speaker 1: I talked to j Joe And after I talk to

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Speaker 1: the players, I go around and I congratulate everybody and

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01:20:25,560 --> 01:20:28,639
Speaker 1: I get over to get over to j D. And

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01:20:28,960 --> 01:20:31,760
Speaker 1: before I even get to JD, I hear him coming.

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01:20:31,800 --> 01:20:33,720
Speaker 1: He sees me and he's like, you're talking to me

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01:20:33,800 --> 01:20:37,120
Speaker 1: next week, bro, And I was like, okay. And then

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01:20:37,120 --> 01:20:38,479
Speaker 1: so I went over and I talked to him and

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01:20:38,520 --> 01:20:40,720
Speaker 1: he was just he was so excited for j Joe.

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01:20:40,760 --> 01:20:44,000
Speaker 1: He's so happy. But he was like, we're going to Jacksonville,

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Speaker 1: right like, yeah, we're going to Jacksonville, Goes, I'm talking

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01:20:46,600 --> 01:20:49,040
Speaker 1: to you after the game went down to Jacksonville. Dominated

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01:20:49,040 --> 01:20:50,639
Speaker 1: that game and I did. I talked to him as

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01:20:50,640 --> 01:20:52,679
Speaker 1: player of the game. Right now, he talks to Drew

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01:20:52,680 --> 01:20:56,679
Speaker 1: Dorty on the final word, Drew, we have the game

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01:20:56,680 --> 01:20:58,360
Speaker 1: record with us. I'm not going to call you an

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01:20:58,360 --> 01:21:00,240
Speaker 1: outside linebacker. I'm not gonna call you to it's ven.

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01:21:00,240 --> 01:21:01,680
Speaker 1: I'm gonna call you a game record because that's what

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01:21:01,800 --> 01:21:05,760
Speaker 1: opposing coaches, opposing offensive coordinators, opposing quarterbacks have called you

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01:21:05,800 --> 01:21:07,760
Speaker 1: all season long. I do this every single week where

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01:21:07,760 --> 01:21:09,960
Speaker 1: I kind of comb the other teams for quotes in

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01:21:10,040 --> 01:21:13,000
Speaker 1: jadeveon Clowney, they call you a game record. This defense

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01:21:13,120 --> 01:21:16,120
Speaker 1: is fourth in the league and scoring defense nineteen point

1613
01:21:16,160 --> 01:21:19,000
Speaker 1: eight points allowed. That's been huge this year. You guys

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01:21:19,040 --> 01:21:20,760
Speaker 1: still think the best is yet to come, though, don't

1615
01:21:20,760 --> 01:21:23,800
Speaker 1: you always. I think we've got a much improved team,

1616
01:21:23,880 --> 01:21:27,200
Speaker 1: but we can make bigger steps this week going to

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01:21:27,280 --> 01:21:31,280
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Got a good yealing both play much better. Yeah,

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01:21:31,320 --> 01:21:33,840
Speaker 1: and you're always energized to play games, But it's a

1619
01:21:33,840 --> 01:21:35,840
Speaker 1: little different when the playoffs are here. The last time

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01:21:35,840 --> 01:21:37,560
Speaker 1: we saw you in this building. In the playoffs, you

1621
01:21:37,640 --> 01:21:40,360
Speaker 1: wreck shop, you get the interception. How pumped up are

1622
01:21:40,439 --> 01:21:43,400
Speaker 1: you for the postseason. It's gonna be about bringing the energy.

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01:21:43,520 --> 01:21:45,400
Speaker 1: We always talk about energy every week. We got to

1624
01:21:45,439 --> 01:21:46,760
Speaker 1: come in and bring the energy and not think we

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01:21:46,840 --> 01:21:49,400
Speaker 1: bring the energies to this. To the home field with

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01:21:49,960 --> 01:21:52,000
Speaker 1: defense behind us, it could be a big game. Yeah,

1627
01:21:52,000 --> 01:21:53,479
Speaker 1: you bring up the energy that you guys bring me

1628
01:21:53,560 --> 01:21:55,840
Speaker 1: and you talk about the home field advantage. How much

1629
01:21:55,840 --> 01:21:57,760
Speaker 1: does that noise help you? Guys help a lot. When

1630
01:21:58,040 --> 01:22:00,920
Speaker 1: opposing quarterbacks can't hear the kadens getting the snap count

1631
01:22:00,960 --> 01:22:04,320
Speaker 1: down off this line, sometimes they fall start and anything

1632
01:22:04,439 --> 01:22:07,040
Speaker 1: but and energy, like I said, is in a building

1633
01:22:07,040 --> 01:22:08,760
Speaker 1: the man and we love to hit the fans and

1634
01:22:08,880 --> 01:22:10,760
Speaker 1: making a lot of noise and just kind of get

1635
01:22:10,760 --> 01:22:13,040
Speaker 1: our energy going. No doubt, this quarterback is a guy

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01:22:13,120 --> 01:22:15,800
Speaker 1: you really need that energy against. He's had some success

1637
01:22:15,800 --> 01:22:18,439
Speaker 1: in this league. You've had success against him, though. I mean,

1638
01:22:18,479 --> 01:22:20,080
Speaker 1: this is a guy that you guys have gotten to.

1639
01:22:20,280 --> 01:22:22,479
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we gotta get to him this week. That's

1640
01:22:22,479 --> 01:22:24,120
Speaker 1: what it's gonna take. The front I think we put

1641
01:22:24,160 --> 01:22:25,720
Speaker 1: a lot of pressure on our s up front. Uh,

1642
01:22:26,040 --> 01:22:28,479
Speaker 1: don't come down to that. Us against them up front.

1643
01:22:28,560 --> 01:22:31,200
Speaker 1: We gotta get out to the quarterback. We take pride

1644
01:22:31,200 --> 01:22:32,600
Speaker 1: of that. So it's gonna be big this week. I

1645
01:22:32,640 --> 01:22:34,000
Speaker 1: want to talk about that front a second. But what

1646
01:22:34,080 --> 01:22:35,680
Speaker 1: makes Andrew look so good? Why is he such a

1647
01:22:35,680 --> 01:22:38,960
Speaker 1: great quarterback? Smart? Very very smart? He can read your

1648
01:22:39,040 --> 01:22:40,960
Speaker 1: hand man, He get the ball out. Guys, he got

1649
01:22:41,000 --> 01:22:43,160
Speaker 1: great players around him, not just him, but he's a

1650
01:22:43,160 --> 01:22:45,360
Speaker 1: great player. Can you do an impersonation of him when

1651
01:22:45,360 --> 01:22:47,040
Speaker 1: you hit him pretty hard? Yeah, he don't even he

1652
01:22:47,080 --> 01:22:49,120
Speaker 1: haven't been saying much later. He just got a good

1653
01:22:49,200 --> 01:22:51,240
Speaker 1: job and good job. I like, all right, man, get

1654
01:22:51,280 --> 01:22:53,240
Speaker 1: out of here. It's a little different in that. Yeah, yeah,

1655
01:22:53,560 --> 01:22:56,240
Speaker 1: is different. You brought up that front. They're pretty impressive.

1656
01:22:56,240 --> 01:22:58,000
Speaker 1: They're pretty good. Why are they better this year? What

1657
01:22:58,040 --> 01:23:01,160
Speaker 1: have they done well? Probably communicating a better and probably

1658
01:23:01,720 --> 01:23:05,240
Speaker 1: they bring out Rocky and who's playing screaming good football

1659
01:23:05,320 --> 01:23:07,280
Speaker 1: up front? Nelson, It's gonna be a big challenge this

1660
01:23:07,320 --> 01:23:09,519
Speaker 1: week with our defense up front against them. How much

1661
01:23:09,600 --> 01:23:12,200
Speaker 1: fun have you had this year? It's you, It's Whitney, merciless,

1662
01:23:12,200 --> 01:23:14,400
Speaker 1: being healthy, It's JJ Wapping healthy. The rest of these

1663
01:23:14,400 --> 01:23:17,200
Speaker 1: guys that probably upfront don't get enough credit. But how

1664
01:23:17,280 --> 01:23:19,439
Speaker 1: much fun has this been for you up front on defense?

1665
01:23:19,600 --> 01:23:21,560
Speaker 1: Oh it's very fun, man. We got a lot of

1666
01:23:21,640 --> 01:23:23,639
Speaker 1: great blad love friend and like you said, people don't

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01:23:23,680 --> 01:23:26,200
Speaker 1: even really notice, like DJ read A stouting on the

1668
01:23:26,240 --> 01:23:30,000
Speaker 1: inside and Blacks and playing solid football and inside with

1669
01:23:30,120 --> 01:23:31,799
Speaker 1: them guys playing the way they played on the inside,

1670
01:23:31,880 --> 01:23:33,439
Speaker 1: making much of you just for us on the edges

1671
01:23:33,479 --> 01:23:35,759
Speaker 1: to make plays because guys have to bounce the football.

1672
01:23:35,800 --> 01:23:38,000
Speaker 1: You can't run down here. So it's great for us

1673
01:23:38,000 --> 01:23:40,120
Speaker 1: and be Man coming down here the way he's been

1674
01:23:40,160 --> 01:23:42,120
Speaker 1: coming all season. We just make a lot of plays. Yeah,

1675
01:23:42,160 --> 01:23:44,320
Speaker 1: you bring up running the ball all season long. Run

1676
01:23:44,360 --> 01:23:47,639
Speaker 1: defense has been stout against these guys. Listen to the numbers,

1677
01:23:47,680 --> 01:23:50,720
Speaker 1: thirty one carries for combined sixty eight yards. I mean

1678
01:23:50,720 --> 01:23:53,240
Speaker 1: it's basically you're giving up two yards of carry against

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Speaker 1: the Colts. Yeah, so that's gonna take again this week. Man,

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Speaker 1: solid front in the run games, always stopping to run

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01:23:58,479 --> 01:24:00,760
Speaker 1: first and try to get out of the quarterback. But

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01:24:00,880 --> 01:24:03,559
Speaker 1: like I said, it's gonna take a total defensive league.

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01:24:03,600 --> 01:24:06,320
Speaker 1: Stopeest guys is a good team we're playing against. They

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Speaker 1: know us, we know them gonna come to play though.

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Speaker 1: Last thing, it's nice having the quarterback you have on

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Speaker 1: your Sideay, yeah, I love that guy. It's pretty fun.

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Speaker 1: You go, you enter with Deshaun Watson there, it's a

1688
01:24:16,000 --> 01:24:17,800
Speaker 1: whole different ball of wax. And then yeah, I just

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Speaker 1: like to watch him. I tell the guys man that's

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Speaker 1: her him. Get the ball back to him, no matter

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01:24:21,320 --> 01:24:22,840
Speaker 1: what happened. When he gets the ball, we know it's

1692
01:24:22,840 --> 01:24:25,400
Speaker 1: something exciting gonna happen if you go backwards first, we

1693
01:24:25,520 --> 01:24:27,479
Speaker 1: like he's gonna make up for it. But he's a

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01:24:27,479 --> 01:24:29,679
Speaker 1: great player. Then we love to have him on our team.

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Speaker 1: All right. You speak for a lot of folks when

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Speaker 1: you say that, Jadevion Clowney the best of luck on Saturday,

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Speaker 1: take care of those colts, and hope we're we're talking

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Speaker 1: to you again real soon, I hope. So thank you.

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Speaker 1: There is Jadevion Clowney, as you're called the game record

1700
01:24:41,439 --> 01:24:44,360
Speaker 1: because he is. He is part linebacker, part the lineman,

1701
01:24:44,520 --> 01:24:49,200
Speaker 1: part outside linebacker, and full time game wrecker. And that's

1702
01:24:49,240 --> 01:24:54,240
Speaker 1: gotta be his m on Saturday. This is as important

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Speaker 1: a game in the city of Houston football wise, as

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Speaker 1: the Texas have played maybe maybe ever maybe since the

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01:25:00,400 --> 01:25:03,840
Speaker 1: first one against Dallas in two thousand and two, there

1706
01:25:03,880 --> 01:25:07,000
Speaker 1: have been some very important playoff games in this city.

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01:25:07,479 --> 01:25:12,240
Speaker 1: There's never been one against a rival like this, never

1708
01:25:12,280 --> 01:25:14,840
Speaker 1: played a team three times in a year. And that

1709
01:25:14,960 --> 01:25:19,839
Speaker 1: game will happen Saturday. Get in your seats early, be loud,

1710
01:25:20,439 --> 01:25:25,200
Speaker 1: be the true twelfth Man. Copyrighted by the Aggies. I

1711
01:25:25,240 --> 01:25:30,040
Speaker 1: know Texas eggs, you know, but be that be a problem.

1712
01:25:31,240 --> 01:25:34,880
Speaker 1: Help the defense, carry the offense. It's time to go

1713
01:25:34,960 --> 01:25:38,960
Speaker 1: get this one. Knock these guys out. Gotta do it.

1714
01:25:40,160 --> 01:25:45,919
Speaker 1: Andrew lucks from Houston. That doesn't live in Houston obviously anymore.

1715
01:25:46,160 --> 01:25:48,280
Speaker 1: But I would love for this to be a really

1716
01:25:48,400 --> 01:25:51,080
Speaker 1: rough homecoming. He's won a lot of games in this

1717
01:25:51,120 --> 01:25:56,679
Speaker 1: building the high school player, as a pro player, I'd

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01:25:56,720 --> 01:25:59,040
Speaker 1: like for that not to be the case. For the

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01:25:59,120 --> 01:26:02,040
Speaker 1: first playoff game ever between these two teams, I'd like

1720
01:26:02,200 --> 01:26:04,160
Speaker 1: for it to be the Texans one to know, not

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Speaker 1: the Colts. A big thanks to everybody who participated in

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Speaker 1: the show. Bill O'Brien, Mark Vandamir DP, Senior, Dre Howe,

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01:26:10,280 --> 01:26:15,840
Speaker 1: Matt Taylor, Jdemion Clowney, Kay Jack, Kareem Jackson, and everybody

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Speaker 1: else that helped on this show. Thank you. We will

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Speaker 1: see tomorrow three thirty five. Everybody, and as always, go Texans.