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Speaker 1: It's over in India as the Houston Texans have defeated

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Speaker 1: the Colts twenty to sixteen, holding the Colts to sixteen points. Significant.

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Speaker 1: It's the ninth game the Texans have held their opponent

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Speaker 1: to fewer than twenty points. That's the most in the

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Speaker 1: NFL this season. And they'll be the top scoring defense

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Speaker 1: in the league once again tomorrow when the stats come out,

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Speaker 1: because the Rams gave up thirty one in a loss

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Speaker 1: to Carolina on the road today. So top yardage defense,

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Speaker 1: top scoring defense, and an offense led by c. J.

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Speaker 1: Stroud who threw for two hundred and seventy six yards

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Speaker 1: twenty two to thirty five. He did throw a pick,

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Speaker 1: but the Texans got the win by four at Indy

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Speaker 1: dre What's the pass rush Report?

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Speaker 2: Your EGb sack report the Texans had one sack in

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Speaker 2: today's game is by Sheldon Rankins. As part of Sacks

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Speaker 2: for Hunger, ACHB will donate one thousand dollars to the

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Speaker 2: Houston Food Bank every time the Texans sacked the quarterback.

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Speaker 2: The AGB Sack Attacks brought to you by EGb, the

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Speaker 2: official tailgate headquarters of the Houston Texans.

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Speaker 1: Drake coming into the game talked about slowing down or

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Speaker 1: stopping Jonathan Taylor. He had eighty five yards in this

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Speaker 1: one on twenty one carries, so they had eighty six

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Speaker 1: rushing yards total because Jones had one carry for one

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Speaker 1: that was on a botched play. So what'd you think

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Speaker 1: of that ground game defense? They did the job today?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think if you to told told us that

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Speaker 2: you'd give Jonathan Taylor twenty one carries, you'll hold him

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Speaker 2: to eighty five yards, no touchdowns, and about four yards

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Speaker 2: of carry, you would take that and run with it

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Speaker 2: right away. And that's exactly what the Texans did. They

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Speaker 2: held Jones, who threw two touchdown passes no interceptions. It's

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Speaker 2: kind of been his status quo right around two hundred

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Speaker 2: yards or so. But you would take that and get

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Speaker 2: out of here and feel like you got a pretty

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Speaker 2: good chance to win the game coming in if you

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Speaker 2: could hold Jonathan Taylor under one hundred yards rush.

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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, the Texans ran it for over one hundred one

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Speaker 1: oh eight total. That was nice to see. Stroud had

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Speaker 1: one carry, so it wasn't like he factored into this

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Speaker 1: thing at all. Nico Collins seven yards Toole was able

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Speaker 1: to rush it four times for three yards in that

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Speaker 1: tush push. But when you get sixty four yards out

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Speaker 1: of what he marks on nineteen carries nine for thirty

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Speaker 1: four for Nick Chubb. It wasn't high volume in the

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Speaker 1: average per carry three point four to three point eight, respectively,

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Speaker 1: but the Texans stuck with it. Dre They stuck with

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Speaker 1: that ground game and then got two steventy six in

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Speaker 1: the air.

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Speaker 2: Well, what it does is it allows you to kind

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Speaker 2: of keep the force the Colts to play honest defensively,

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Speaker 2: because they can't just pin their ears back and come

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Speaker 2: after CJ. But he did enough in the passing game.

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Speaker 2: They did enough running the football to stay balanced throughout

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Speaker 2: this and kind of inflict their will at times when

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Speaker 2: they really needed to. I thought Higgins played and came

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Speaker 2: up big with some receptions. So did the Dalton Schultz

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Speaker 2: as well as Nico, and timely, timely plays that needed

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Speaker 2: to be made, they made them.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Nico had five catches form ninety eight yards, goes

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Speaker 1: over four thousand in his career, fifth Texan to do that.

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Speaker 1: Higgins five for sixty five, Shultz seven for a fifty five.

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Speaker 1: Hutchinson had two catches on five targets. They were looking

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Speaker 1: for Hutchinson a lot early on third downs, dre the

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Speaker 1: Texans six for thirteen. That's getting it done pretty well

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Speaker 1: against a tough defense on the road, and the Colts

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Speaker 1: held to three for ten. So again, team win. You'd

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Speaker 1: call it that, right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you would, because you know, I think all the

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Speaker 2: areas complemented the other when the defense got stops, the

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Speaker 2: offense when I had and took care of business and

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Speaker 2: so on and so forth. So I think this is

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Speaker 2: what you would call a team win on the road

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Speaker 2: against the Colts. Colts are in trouble. I mean, they've

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Speaker 2: lost three of the last four. They've got the Jags

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Speaker 2: coming up, the Seahawks, forty nine Ers, Jags, and then

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Speaker 2: the Texans again to round out the schedule for the year.

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Speaker 2: That is as tough a finish as I think you

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Speaker 2: could get. Yeah, with the Seahawks and the forty nine

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Speaker 2: Ers thrown in there, I don't know that they get

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Speaker 2: to the finish line. And the Texans just need to

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Speaker 2: keep doing exactly what they've done and let things just

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Speaker 2: kinda play themselves out.

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Speaker 1: To back up your point, the Colts have the hardest

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Speaker 1: remaining strength of schedule in the AFC, only the Packers

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Speaker 1: have a harder strength of schedule remaining in the NFL,

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Speaker 1: and the Texans have the Chiefs coming up next week,

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Speaker 1: so we'll find out what happens with the Colts. You

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Speaker 1: still need the Jags to get a loss at least

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Speaker 1: one down the stretch and maybe to Indy. We'll see

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Speaker 1: a lot of ways to sort this thing out with

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Speaker 1: five games remaining in the regular season. But the Houston

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Speaker 1: Texans now on a bit of a role, maybe more

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Speaker 1: than a bit of a role when you talk about

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Speaker 1: winning seven of nine and four in a row. They

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Speaker 1: got it going on into Arrowhead next week. We'll talk

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Speaker 1: about that and also how is Demico Ryans overall against

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Speaker 1: the AFC South in his career. We'll run that one

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Speaker 1: by you after this. This is Texans Radio.