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Speaker 1: In the Lab, a Texans podcast that takes a different

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Speaker 1: look at things. Drew Doherty and John Harris have their

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Speaker 1: lab coats and goggles on and the Bunsen burners burning.

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Speaker 1: Here's Drew.

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Speaker 2: Hey, how's it going.

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Speaker 3: Hi, how are you doing?

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Speaker 2: I'm good. Good to see you. I'm good to see you.

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Speaker 2: And hear from you or hear you or no, talk

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Speaker 2: to you. It's the three of us, you, John, Me,

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Speaker 2: Me and gentle viewer listener.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you, you and me? Okay, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: This is a weird, weird, weird season that we're still

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Speaker 2: in the middle of. Yes, the final chapter has not

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Speaker 2: been written correct. Much could still go great, much could not.

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Speaker 2: We could be see, we could see something somewhere in

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Speaker 2: the middle. But what I want to focus on right now, John,

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Speaker 2: and you and I have talked offline about this. It's

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Speaker 2: the damnedest thing. Starting with the Patriots win. Since then,

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Speaker 2: so week six, Week six, the Texans are plus twelve

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Speaker 2: solely in that span turnover differential wise.

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Speaker 3: Meaning including the Patriots game.

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Speaker 2: Flitting the Patriots gather the plus three in that one,

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Speaker 2: they're plus three. The next week they're plus one, plus one.

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Speaker 2: They were even in a game they were plus one

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Speaker 2: and plus three, so three different games they've been plus three,

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Speaker 2: which is bonkers. But anyways, they've been plus twelve, meaning

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Speaker 2: they've taken the ball away twelve more times than they've

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Speaker 2: turned it over. Now, yes, they have turned it over

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Speaker 2: some in that span, but plus twelve. They're the third

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Speaker 2: best team overall in the NFL in the entire season.

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Speaker 2: We're on the entire season at plus nine. So they

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Speaker 2: came into that Patriots game, they were down, they were

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Speaker 2: in the bottom third of the NFL in turnover differential,

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Speaker 2: had a good week that boosts them back up, and

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Speaker 2: they've steadily risen. There's only two teams that have a

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Speaker 2: better turnover differential rate than they do right now. Only two.

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Speaker 2: I don't know what the span is since week twelve

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Speaker 2: with the rest of the NFL, but yeah, excuse me,

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Speaker 2: since week six with the rest of the NFL, but

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Speaker 2: plus twelve, I mean, you're at a plus two rate

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Speaker 2: per game. That's bananas, and it hasn't equated or it

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Speaker 2: hasn't come out to wins and losses, and it's just

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Speaker 2: it's the weirdest freaking thing. And you pick off a

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Speaker 2: guy five times and you lose, you sack a guy

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Speaker 2: eight times and you also get a pick six off

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Speaker 2: him and you lose. It was just the weirdest freaking thing.

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Speaker 2: What is going on? How is this happening? But with

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Speaker 2: the turnover stuff, like yeah, well yeah, it's mind blowing.

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Speaker 2: I mean it really is.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I think that the Detroit game was the one five interceptions.

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Speaker 3: You got five. Now I'll take you back.

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Speaker 4: You've got four extra possessions because the fifth interception out

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Speaker 4: of the where ranked in the order. But Kamari Laster

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Speaker 4: picked off Hail Mary. But you got four extra position

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Speaker 4: essions against Detroit. Because that's the way, in essence, you

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Speaker 4: need to think about a turnover. That's an extra possession

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Speaker 4: for your offense that you weren't planning on getting but

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Speaker 4: I said, take that hill Mary, at the end, you're

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Speaker 4: eleven extra possessions over seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven like

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Speaker 4: six games ish, so you're averaging about two extra possessions

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Speaker 4: per game and you just haven't been able to turn

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Speaker 3: And that to me.

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Speaker 4: The you can go one step further of the weirdness

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Speaker 4: since New England, since that game, because Damian Pierce had

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Speaker 4: the other's another touchdown in that second half was Digs. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: maybe Digs after the turnover. So you had two touchdowns

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Speaker 4: so that would be Green Bay going forward, Derek Barnett

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Speaker 4: So Derek Barnett Jimmy Ward have touchdowns and the offense

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Speaker 4: has a touchdown. That's right there the crux of the issue,

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Speaker 4: and that's that's in the second half. You know, finishing games,

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Speaker 4: and you know there are a lot of different theories

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Speaker 2: There's still one answer to no, there's no answer to any.

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Speaker 4: There's there's no clean answer like, oh, it's this guy,

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Speaker 4: and sometimes one of the people don't want to hear it.

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Speaker 4: But sometimes it just comes down to bad luck. And

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Speaker 4: I mean that in Underdemiko, they've turned teams over I

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Speaker 3: But sometimes it just comes down to bad luck. You

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Speaker 4: If CJ sees tank earlier in that game against Detroit

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Speaker 4: I think after winning Detroit, there's no way we're losing

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Speaker 3: To Tennessee at home.

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Speaker 4: But I think this offense is in a in a

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Speaker 4: And when you know, you think about if your car

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Speaker 4: gas it, you're just gonna create a bigger and bigger

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Speaker 4: like an even bigger tire rut a little bit.

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Speaker 3: Right, there's you've gotta you've got to.

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Speaker 2: Be one of the tires right the ward on one

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Speaker 4: You've got to do something outside of just harder, you

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Speaker 4: know what I mean, it's gotta there's gotta be something

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Speaker 4: different than that. You could keep working hard and try

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Speaker 4: got to kind of jolted back into into you know,

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Speaker 4: and hopefully at some point that can happen. Maybe not,

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Speaker 4: I don't know. Maybe that's what this season is going

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Speaker 4: to teach all of us. Drew, I don't know, but

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Speaker 4: I know I know people are upset. Look, most upset

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Speaker 4: people are the offensive staff's his team not getting games.

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Speaker 4: I mean, the defensive staff was probably pretty upset with

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Speaker 2: Oh I was gonna say, yeah, I was gonna say that.

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Speaker 2: all three phases they made some whoppers of mistakes. Yep,

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Speaker 2: you saw Kyane Fareburn throwing his helmet off at the end.

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Speaker 2: But Kanye, he also made a fifty yard field goal.

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Speaker 2: times that set you back. Defense. Yeah you get eight sacks,

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Speaker 2: Yeah you score, but also you might ice the game

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Speaker 2: if you wrap up and bring Pollard down there inside

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Speaker 2: first I mean, there's all sorts of every single phase

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Speaker 2: and you know, it was a collective loss, which stinks.

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Speaker 3: But this is what I wrote, Drew and Harris his

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Speaker 3: this is a paragrap.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, scrawing a lot on that too.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but it's you know, when you you wonder often, Okay,

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Speaker 4: could we have prevented the bad things that happened? Okay,

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Speaker 4: So as I read this, think about the bad things

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Speaker 3: Could these have been prevented? Texans had a penalty and

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Speaker 4: Wiped out a forty eight yard Damian Pierce return illegal

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Speaker 4: Nearly gave up a touchdown because the returner didn't down

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Speaker 4: Had consecutive false starts on third down on the first

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Speaker 3: The Titans were backed up.

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Speaker 4: Titans were backed up, Robert Woods came up and fuelled

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Speaker 3: You're already in fieldal range.

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Speaker 4: he held. Hey got a ten yearl penalty. Now that

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Speaker 4: And to me, of all of them, that's the one

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Speaker 4: the board. It would have been the go ahead touchdown.

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Speaker 4: But it's the what we twelve we were week twelve

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Speaker 4: that shouldn't be happening. Those are the things that shouldn't

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Speaker 3: We can't have that.

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Speaker 4: But those kind of things, you know, like the holding

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Speaker 3: It never should have happened. It never should have happened.

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Speaker 4: There was a double team on Simmons, but Shaq Mason

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Speaker 2: Hey, I'm thankful for you. Like I said, I'm thankful

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Speaker 2: I was employed, I had my health, I was not hungry,

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Speaker 2: to be with you. We'll see you again soon. This

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Speaker 2: is in the Lab presented by Infinity