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Speaker 1: Here's the show. What's going on? Everybody? Welcome to this

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Speaker 1: Friday edition of Texans All Access from Tampa, Florida. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's right, and the Hunday Texans Radio Studio two. I'm

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Speaker 1: your host, John Harris, football analyst and sideline reporter, making

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Speaker 1: our annual trip to Florida. It is this This time,

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Speaker 1: we're going to Tampa instead of going to Jacksonville because

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Speaker 1: we want the London instead of Jacksonville. But we're still

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Speaker 1: heading to Florida. I gotta go to Florida at least

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Speaker 1: once every year. I'll take on Jacksonville. But twenty fifteen

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Speaker 1: we went twice because we went down to Miami as

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Speaker 1: we I think we went to back to back weeks.

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Speaker 1: Actually in twenty fifteen, But we get to Florida in December.

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Speaker 1: If you're going to Florida, this is the best time

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Speaker 1: to go. It's in December. My wife and I got

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Speaker 1: married in December. It was maybe the best weather ever.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it was phenomenal. We have people coming from

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Speaker 1: didn't want to leave, like kick him out, like, hey,

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Speaker 1: of my Keys to the Game. We'll have all of

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Speaker 1: my predictions straight up and against the spread for a

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Speaker 1: big weekend in the NFL. And of course you will

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Speaker 1: hear from Bill O'Brien later in the show. So is

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Speaker 1: that enough for you? I would I would think it is.

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Speaker 1: holiday season. It's about giving, right, So I'm giving you

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Speaker 1: all of that. Our Deep Slay interview with Angel Blackson,

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Speaker 1: Drew Doherty with Max Sharping, Mark Vandermir with Bill O'Brien,

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Speaker 1: b Scar TV brings you one of the best holiday

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Speaker 1: b SCAR TV episodes ever. It might be one of

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Speaker 1: the best Player Reporter episodes we've ever had. It is hilarious. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean it is really really good. So we've got

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Speaker 1: all that for you. So let's kick it off with

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Speaker 1: And each and every Friday or last show before game day,

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Speaker 1: we have a little visit with the head coach of

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Speaker 1: Houston Texans, Bill O'Brien, who sat down with Mark vandermir

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Speaker 1: earlier today. This was in Houston, of course, Coach, you

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Speaker 1: haven't played at Tampa Bay ever, but you've had games

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Speaker 1: this season at places where you've never played before, the

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Speaker 1: Chargers in London, so that's got to help you a

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Speaker 1: little bit this. Yeah, that's a great point. I mean

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Speaker 1: Do you go to any past matchup with Arians or

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Speaker 1: All right, coach, thanks a lot, good luck, thank you.

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Speaker 1: it's up for a little Max Sharping. Yeah, the rookie

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Speaker 1: about Tampa Bay with our good friend Drew Doherty. Thanks

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Speaker 1: so much. We've got left guard Max sharping with us

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Speaker 1: you know it's a lot of things that have to

425
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Speaker 1: shake out for you to actually get a block. The

426
00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:55,639
Speaker 1: kick has to be low, miss time, and you have

427
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Speaker 1: to get pushed and get your hands up. So it's

428
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Speaker 1: just one of them things where every time we you know,

429
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Speaker 1: get out there were effort and you know, hopefully, you know,

430
00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:06,080
Speaker 1: hopefully it's this one. That's the kind of mentality we had.

431
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Speaker 1: Was it even cooler because it was at Tennessee, That's

432
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Speaker 1: the team that drafted you. Definitely definitely definitely meant a

433
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Speaker 1: lot and meant a lot, all right. So and Auburn

434
00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:15,760
Speaker 1: you blocked a couple of field goals as well. So

435
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Speaker 1: is that something that when you came into the league

436
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Speaker 1: you were like, I'm gonna block a fuel at some

437
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Speaker 1: point or is that just such a is that? I mean,

438
00:21:22,920 --> 00:21:25,520
Speaker 1: it just seems like such an unusual play, but this

439
00:21:25,560 --> 00:21:27,760
Speaker 1: is something you've done now three times, right three? Just

440
00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:31,520
Speaker 1: just the mindset of like not taking this playoff because

441
00:21:31,560 --> 00:21:33,960
Speaker 1: it actually matters, you know, to be able to keep

442
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Speaker 1: points off the board and to be able to you know,

443
00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:39,360
Speaker 1: whatever like could have been returned four points for us.

444
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Speaker 1: So it is one of them things where you just

445
00:21:41,119 --> 00:21:43,240
Speaker 1: give effort on the play each and every time, and

446
00:21:43,280 --> 00:21:46,520
Speaker 1: if it shakes your way, you know, it's a good

447
00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:48,760
Speaker 1: it's a good feeling. You've been a part of some

448
00:21:48,800 --> 00:21:51,520
Speaker 1: pretty special plays at Auburn. You were on the field.

449
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Speaker 1: I remember watching this on TV, the kick six play

450
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Speaker 1: against Alabama. So does that rank up there with probably

451
00:21:57,160 --> 00:22:00,200
Speaker 1: one of your best moments. Definitely, definitely, just just ain't

452
00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:02,359
Speaker 1: able to, you know, provide the team with some juice

453
00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:06,000
Speaker 1: and and keep points off the board. Definitely, definitely, that's

454
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Speaker 1: that's one of the things that you can't you can't

455
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Speaker 1: make up for it. All right. AJ mccarren's here this year.

456
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Speaker 1: Have you talked to him about that? He was, he

457
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Speaker 1: was on the other side of the dam. Did have

458
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Speaker 1: the same reaction to that play. But have you talked

459
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Speaker 1: about it? And I the first thing I asked when

460
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Speaker 1: I said, you know how many teams you've been on

461
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Speaker 1: where you actually been, you know, with an all them

462
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Speaker 1: player that that won that game. He was like, not, man,

463
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Speaker 1: I'll say, so that's the first thing I said, Well

464
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Speaker 1: I am, I'm here. So all right, So after your

465
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Speaker 1: big play on Sunday, who called you first? Who who

466
00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:39,320
Speaker 1: was picking the phone calling you up saying I just

467
00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:42,879
Speaker 1: saw that crazy play? Um? Well definitely definitely. Um. You know,

468
00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:45,359
Speaker 1: my sister is the family. You know that some of

469
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Speaker 1: the people that that reach out first, and but it's

470
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Speaker 1: it's a ton of phone calls, it's a ton of messages.

471
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Speaker 1: So I mean they all come through you kind of

472
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Speaker 1: see him and respond him, you know, because you're you're

473
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Speaker 1: on the field every single game, I mean been on

474
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Speaker 1: the field. You've started every single game this year. You

475
00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:05,360
Speaker 1: got here in twenty seventeen, but it was a little

476
00:23:05,359 --> 00:23:06,720
Speaker 1: bit later in the year there were a lot of

477
00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:09,520
Speaker 1: injuries going on, but you've really sort of worked your

478
00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:13,080
Speaker 1: way up to a starting role. So that's got to

479
00:23:13,119 --> 00:23:15,320
Speaker 1: be pretty cool for you because when you got here,

480
00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:17,159
Speaker 1: did you sort of expect that this is where your

481
00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:19,679
Speaker 1: career would go and then you sign the contract extend? Definitely? Definitely.

482
00:23:19,840 --> 00:23:22,480
Speaker 1: I mean the mentality was just, you know, carve out

483
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Speaker 1: your role on the team and and and make sure

484
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Speaker 1: that you're doing that role to the best of your ability.

485
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Speaker 1: And that's always what I based my you know, my

486
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Speaker 1: gameplay and my career off, you know, career off of

487
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Speaker 1: its just being a dependable guy, being able to make

488
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Speaker 1: the players when I'm puposed to make them and help

489
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Speaker 1: the team however way I can. That's always been my goal.

490
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Speaker 1: You mentioned your sister. I read this really cool story

491
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Speaker 1: about your sister that she watches the press conferences and

492
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Speaker 1: she gets really excited when Mill O'Brien talks about you

493
00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:51,119
Speaker 1: or mentions you and you have a really special relationship

494
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Speaker 1: with your sister. Right, she helped raise you, is that right? Yeah?

495
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Speaker 1: Raise me, raise me from from six six on? She

496
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Speaker 1: was there. So did she watch all of your did

497
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Speaker 1: she come to been able to come to anything? She's

498
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Speaker 1: actually moved down here, so we've we've been able to

499
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Speaker 1: so we've been able to get her to some games

500
00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:08,760
Speaker 1: and even when she was back home, when she was

501
00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:10,399
Speaker 1: able to get to some games, and that's all you

502
00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:12,760
Speaker 1: can access. You know, a lot has to happen, you know,

503
00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:15,560
Speaker 1: the schedules has to match and things like that. So

504
00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:17,720
Speaker 1: it's just good to be able to have her and

505
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Speaker 1: you know, family down here, actually being able to be

506
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Speaker 1: with them and closer with them. So you grew up

507
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Speaker 1: in Delaware, so from Delaware to Texas and now you've

508
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Speaker 1: got your family here. What do they think about Texas?

509
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Speaker 1: I mean they love it. I mean that's the first

510
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Speaker 1: thing I told him. I said, you're gonna love It's

511
00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:39,440
Speaker 1: compared to Delaware, it's gi normous, it's gigantic. Yes, it's

512
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Speaker 1: it's a different it's a different experience for someone who's

513
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Speaker 1: coming from Delaware to the South. But I was actually

514
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Speaker 1: acclimated you know, I went to Auburn and I spent

515
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Speaker 1: time with Tennessee. So but they love it. They love it,

516
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Speaker 1: so they love it. I think it's really neat that

517
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Speaker 1: you're able to have your family all with you and

518
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Speaker 1: celebrate these big moments for you. Your sister, you said,

519
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Speaker 1: she helped raise you. How cool is it now that

520
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Speaker 1: she's down here and you can sort of, you know,

521
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Speaker 1: get to spend time with her now now that you're

522
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Speaker 1: successful and you're an NFL player in the league. It's

523
00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:08,639
Speaker 1: it's awesome. It's awesome being able to see, you know,

524
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Speaker 1: see my family and being able to, you know, provide

525
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Speaker 1: for them and take care of them in the ways

526
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Speaker 1: that I can because I know my family, everybody has

527
00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:18,720
Speaker 1: sacrifice a lot for me to be here today. So

528
00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:21,080
Speaker 1: it's just awesome to be able to, you know, give

529
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Speaker 1: back to them and make sure they're you know, enjoying

530
00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:25,920
Speaker 1: the process and come into games and being able to

531
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Speaker 1: experience some of the things that I was able to experience.

532
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Speaker 1: Is that where you think you get your work ethic

533
00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:33,280
Speaker 1: from the fact that so many people had to put

534
00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:35,520
Speaker 1: so many things aside to sort of help you succeed,

535
00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:39,200
Speaker 1: and you feel like you don't want to let them down. Definitely, definitely, definitely.

536
00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:42,040
Speaker 1: I mean I just that's all I work, and I

537
00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:45,480
Speaker 1: think everybody who's able to help me get to this point,

538
00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:47,719
Speaker 1: and I you know, I always try to be you know,

539
00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:51,440
Speaker 1: helpful to you know, my family and people who helped

540
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Speaker 1: me alone this path. And I think that's you know,

541
00:25:54,359 --> 00:25:56,359
Speaker 1: that's bringing me joy to be able to be in

542
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Speaker 1: a position to be able to do that for the

543
00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:00,159
Speaker 1: people to help me. All Right, You get drafted by

544
00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:01,800
Speaker 1: the Titans in the fourth round, you spent a couple

545
00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:03,679
Speaker 1: of seasons there, then you spend a little bit of

546
00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:05,760
Speaker 1: time with the New England Patriots on the practice squad,

547
00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:08,240
Speaker 1: and then you get signed here to the Texans in

548
00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:10,639
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen. At that point in your career, where what

549
00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:13,360
Speaker 1: are you thinking is going to happen with your nful career?

550
00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:15,239
Speaker 1: Did you feel like I just got I just need

551
00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:17,280
Speaker 1: an opportunity to make a chance, or at any point

552
00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:19,800
Speaker 1: did you feel sort of discouraged like it's not really

553
00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:22,720
Speaker 1: going the way maybe you would hoped or expected. No,

554
00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:26,240
Speaker 1: because I actually, you know, just talking with my age

555
00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:29,199
Speaker 1: and he was very confident and about what was going

556
00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:31,600
Speaker 1: to happen. So at that point you know, he said,

557
00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:33,760
Speaker 1: the ball is in your court. So once the balls

558
00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:35,520
Speaker 1: in my court, I know I can handle it. Whatever

559
00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:38,600
Speaker 1: that is. So you know, the work ethic and being

560
00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:41,520
Speaker 1: able to practice and go out there and and disrupt

561
00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:45,480
Speaker 1: practice and destroy you know, offensive linement and and that

562
00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:49,320
Speaker 1: that were starting. That that that was. It was confidence

563
00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:51,399
Speaker 1: in that and I knew that all I had to

564
00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:55,159
Speaker 1: do was just work extremely hard and you know, however

565
00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:56,639
Speaker 1: it was going to shake out what however it was

566
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Speaker 1: going to be, But I know I did my best.

567
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Speaker 1: That's all. Romeo Cornell about this actually in a press conference,

568
00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:05,399
Speaker 1: I said, what did you like when you when you

569
00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:08,399
Speaker 1: guys brought Angelo here? He liked your size and you know,

570
00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:10,840
Speaker 1: how strong you were, but that you had really made

571
00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:12,800
Speaker 1: a lot of your opportunities. And so I asked him, well,

572
00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:14,520
Speaker 1: what do you like about his game now? And he said,

573
00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:17,520
Speaker 1: how how physical you are at the line of scrimmage

574
00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:19,640
Speaker 1: and even if you're double team like, you don't move

575
00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:22,000
Speaker 1: from the line of scrimmage. Is that what's something that

576
00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:24,399
Speaker 1: you think is your biggest strength of the linement? Definitely

577
00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:27,840
Speaker 1: definitely just being able to allow the linebackers or allow

578
00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:30,040
Speaker 1: other people to make plays. Because I got two linemen

579
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Speaker 1: there that that on me right at that moment. I mean,

580
00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:35,800
Speaker 1: you can't ask for anything different, Like I may not

581
00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:37,960
Speaker 1: be a part of the play, but I'm actually contributing.

582
00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:41,600
Speaker 1: And you know, we as a team, we know, but

583
00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:45,600
Speaker 1: you know, maybe it goes, you know, overshadow, but that's fine.

584
00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:47,439
Speaker 1: I mean that that's a part of my job and

585
00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:49,439
Speaker 1: I do it every day willingly and I love it.

586
00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:51,159
Speaker 1: So how do you like being part of this D

587
00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:54,240
Speaker 1: line group? You've got DJ Reader, you got DJ Dunny

588
00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:57,240
Speaker 1: Brandon Done, you got JJ, You've got some cast of characters,

589
00:27:57,240 --> 00:27:59,359
Speaker 1: and you've got Anthony Weaver who used to play D

590
00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:01,800
Speaker 1: lineman as well. So is that that's gotta be one

591
00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:05,160
Speaker 1: of the funnest groups? Great great group, a great group,

592
00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:08,000
Speaker 1: and I can't I can't ask for a group any better.

593
00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:11,120
Speaker 1: And everybody, you know, their personalities and what they bring

594
00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:13,119
Speaker 1: to the group, mix the group what it is, and

595
00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:16,080
Speaker 1: you know, we we're just basically we're just trying to

596
00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:18,560
Speaker 1: take this thing and keep going. That's it for as

597
00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:20,320
Speaker 1: long as we can. All right, I like it? All right?

598
00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:22,680
Speaker 1: Before I let you go, one final question. You used

599
00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:24,479
Speaker 1: to play basketball, and I know a lot of your

600
00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:27,600
Speaker 1: teammates have played basketball. So if you can have a

601
00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:30,600
Speaker 1: starting five of your teammates, who would you who would

602
00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:33,359
Speaker 1: you put on your team? That's that's that's tough. My

603
00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:36,800
Speaker 1: starting to five would have to be I have to

604
00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:40,200
Speaker 1: go with dj. I have to go with dj um

605
00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:44,360
Speaker 1: j Joe. Um. I'm gonna have to go with Fails

606
00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:49,200
Speaker 1: because he's a basketball game. He played European basketball. Yeah, yes,

607
00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:53,720
Speaker 1: for sure. Um okay. There was a guy that played

608
00:28:54,000 --> 00:29:02,480
Speaker 1: in college that you're missing at Clemson, another Clemson guy, Hopkins.

609
00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:12,200
Speaker 1: Oh play, I haven't seen Hot play. That's tough. That's tough.

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Speaker 1: I'll go with Hot. I'll go I like that. You

611
00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:21,120
Speaker 1: you're sticking with the defense. Yeah, I'm just I'm trying

612
00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:23,920
Speaker 1: to stick with that. I've actually the guys, you know,

613
00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:27,240
Speaker 1: you know, we'll make some room for Hopkins on the

614
00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:30,440
Speaker 1: side there. Yeah, that's that's tough. That was That was

615
00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:33,320
Speaker 1: out of all the questions I ask you, that's the toughest.

616
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Speaker 1: All right, Well, hopefully you guys get to play a

617
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Speaker 1: game of basketball soon and we look forward to seeing

618
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Speaker 1: the rest of the season what it holds for you.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Angelo, thank you so much. Good stuff. They're from Popolo,

620
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Speaker 1: as deeply called Angelo Blacks, and all right, we get back.

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Speaker 1: It's time to figure out how we're gonna win this

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Speaker 1: football game on Saturday. So each and every last segment

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, John Herri's football analyst and sideline reporter.

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Speaker 1: Game tomorrow kicking off noon Houston time, one o'clock Tampa time.

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Speaker 1: So how are the Texans with the win? With the

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Speaker 1: win gonna clinch the AFC South the fourth time in

632
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Speaker 1: five years? You think about that, a win clinches the

633
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Speaker 1: AFC South for the fourth time in five years. How

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Speaker 1: Game FCCU, the Official Credit Union of the Houston Texans.

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Speaker 1: Maestro hit my music, get me going a little bit?

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Speaker 1: All right, here we go. How is it gonna get done?

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Speaker 1: Let's start with the Texans defense, this time facing a

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Speaker 1: Buccaneers offense. So the Bucks offense running four under one

641
00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:08,160
Speaker 1: hundred yards a game ninety one point four yards per game.

642
00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:11,320
Speaker 1: That's tied for twenty seventh. The NFL don't run exceedingly well,

643
00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:13,800
Speaker 1: did not run it well against the Lions at all.

644
00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:16,640
Speaker 1: They do throw it well. They throw it for over

645
00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:18,760
Speaker 1: three hundred yards a game, three hundred and eight point

646
00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:20,760
Speaker 1: eight yards per game, that is first in the NFL.

647
00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:23,920
Speaker 1: They produced four hundred plus yards per game, that's third

648
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Speaker 1: in the NFL. However, they have also lost thirty three turnovers.

649
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Speaker 1: I did not startter thirty three turnovers, twenty four of

650
00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:39,360
Speaker 1: those being interceptions. And I'm sure you'll hear that come

651
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Speaker 1: up in my keys. So what do you have to do?

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Speaker 1: N you Number one, provide a consistently changing picture per

653
00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:51,920
Speaker 1: quarterback Jamis Winston. Bill O'Brien likes to call it spinning

654
00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:56,200
Speaker 1: the dial. Now there will be in a game similar

655
00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:58,960
Speaker 1: situations that come up. Third and nine might come up twice,

656
00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:01,200
Speaker 1: or third and long might come up three four times.

657
00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:06,840
Speaker 1: Show him a different picture every time. Those twenty four

658
00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:10,560
Speaker 1: interceptions are not all a result of, Oh, he just

659
00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:12,400
Speaker 1: made a bad throw. A guy was open. He made

660
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:15,040
Speaker 1: a bad throw. A number of those, I would say

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00:32:15,040 --> 00:32:18,680
Speaker 1: a good portion of those have come because he didn't

662
00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:22,200
Speaker 1: see something that he was supposed to. He didn't see

663
00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:24,400
Speaker 1: a dropper, he didn't see a rat, he didn't see

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00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:26,800
Speaker 1: a thief in the middle. He didn't see cover two.

665
00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:30,080
Speaker 1: He didn't see the corner falling off. He didn't see

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00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:31,840
Speaker 1: a corner and cougar covers. He didn't see a lot

667
00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:36,240
Speaker 1: of those things. Keep the picture changing such that he

668
00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:39,760
Speaker 1: doesn't see something. Last week, on the first drive against

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Speaker 1: the Lions, his only interception that day, the Lions showed

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00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:45,240
Speaker 1: a little bit of a simulated pressure. They showed Gilanni

671
00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:48,640
Speaker 1: Tivy on the left side as linebacker standing up. They

672
00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:52,240
Speaker 1: dropped him, rushed off the edge with a fifth guy.

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00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:56,840
Speaker 1: Gillanni then knowing where Winston was going to throw the ball.

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00:32:56,840 --> 00:32:59,200
Speaker 1: Winston saw the pressure, said, you know what, throw where

675
00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:02,280
Speaker 1: the pressures coming from? Taive I ran right there. Winston

676
00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:05,959
Speaker 1: never saw him pick. Lions didn't do anything with it,

677
00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:09,440
Speaker 1: and that was a huge problem. They didn't score. The

678
00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:11,080
Speaker 1: Bucks got the ball and then went on a run

679
00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:16,720
Speaker 1: after that. Keep the picture changing, Key number two. Keep

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Speaker 1: it in front at all times. Now there's no Scottie Miller.

681
00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:21,920
Speaker 1: Probably the fastest guy in the Bucks. There's no Mike Evans,

682
00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:25,960
Speaker 1: there's no Chris Godwin. That doesn't matter. Jamis will throw

683
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:28,520
Speaker 1: the ball down the field, Justin Watson from Penn More

684
00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:32,320
Speaker 1: possession guy, Rashad Perriman. He can fly, he can go,

685
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Speaker 1: and he worries me a little bit because he's now

686
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Speaker 1: the number one. So how do you take him away?

687
00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:39,880
Speaker 1: What you might have doubled him. We'll get to that

688
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Speaker 1: in a little bit, but keep it in front at

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Speaker 1: all times. Now, I mentioned earlier key number three a

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Speaker 1: little I refer to this a little bit earlier in

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Speaker 1: the show. Donovan Smith is questionable. My guess is that

692
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Speaker 1: he'll play, but if he doesn't attack that side of

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Speaker 1: the rush with as many different looks as possible. Josh

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00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:03,240
Speaker 1: Wells played over there last week. He's the guy that

695
00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:05,960
Speaker 1: Texas to face before when he's with the Jags, and

696
00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:11,160
Speaker 1: it didn't go well for Wells. Keep changing the keep

697
00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:14,680
Speaker 1: changing the speed basically, and by changing speed, that's baseball,

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00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:17,520
Speaker 1: you know, metaphor, But keep changing speeds on him. Send

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00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:21,120
Speaker 1: speed guys, send power guys, send overloads. Said a lot

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Speaker 1: of different things at him, and you know what, even

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00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:25,520
Speaker 1: if thought him had spent this there. Go at him too,

702
00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:27,600
Speaker 1: because he's been dealing with knee on an ankle. I

703
00:34:27,640 --> 00:34:29,920
Speaker 1: don't know he's one hundred percent healthy, So show him

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00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:33,080
Speaker 1: a bunch of different looks on that side too. Keen.

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00:34:33,160 --> 00:34:37,759
Speaker 1: Number four, with all those receivers out, the key for

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00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:41,200
Speaker 1: the Bucks I think becomes tight ends Cambray and O. J. Howard.

707
00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:44,920
Speaker 1: They are as valuable to the Bucks this week as

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00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:49,799
Speaker 1: any of the receivers, including Perriman. So it's okay to

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00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:55,000
Speaker 1: use corners in coverage on those tight ends. So that

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00:34:55,080 --> 00:34:58,040
Speaker 1: might mean that Lonnie Johnson gets in the game to

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00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:00,839
Speaker 1: cover those guys. This might mean that you play six

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00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:04,360
Speaker 1: and seven dbs at a time and you're putting corners

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00:35:04,719 --> 00:35:08,520
Speaker 1: Lonnie Johnson, carry on Connley on Cambray and O. J. Howard.

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00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:12,440
Speaker 1: Those guys are as valuable as receivers. So maybe you

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00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:15,120
Speaker 1: double pairman and then you put corners on the two

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00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:19,600
Speaker 1: tight ends, but take them away. They're hugely important in

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00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:23,799
Speaker 1: this and lasted certainly not least. It goes back to

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Speaker 1: that number. Thirty three. Go get the football. They're gonna

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Speaker 1: be opportunities to get it. Thirty three turnovers in fifty

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Speaker 1: fourteen games. That's two almost two and a half turnovers

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00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:48,840
Speaker 1: the Bucks have lost per game. You give the Texans

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00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:51,319
Speaker 1: two and a half extra possessions in a game, and

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00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:55,680
Speaker 1: it's curtains. But go get the football. It will be there.

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00:35:55,840 --> 00:36:00,280
Speaker 1: Go get the ball. When he puts it on the ground,

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00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:02,759
Speaker 1: anybody puts on the ground, or when the ball goes

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00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:06,840
Speaker 1: in the air, go get it. You have that opportunity.

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00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:08,640
Speaker 1: And if you do all that, then you got an

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Speaker 1: opportunity to take away what the Bucks do best, and

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00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:15,200
Speaker 1: a good opportunity to win a football game. All right,

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00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:19,959
Speaker 1: Let's flip it over to the Buccaneers defense facing Shawn

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Speaker 1: Watson and Texans offense. This Bucks defense yielding just seventy

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Speaker 1: three yards per game on the ground, that's first in

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Speaker 1: the NFL. Why and I we'll get that a little bit.

734
00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:39,920
Speaker 1: Passing yards per game. They're giving up nearly two hundred

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00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:44,479
Speaker 1: and seventy seven, that's thirtieth in the league. So they've

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00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:50,440
Speaker 1: got this good, bad juxtaposition with both offense and defense.

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00:36:51,239 --> 00:36:54,520
Speaker 1: They don't run it very well, but they throw it

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Speaker 1: exceptionally well. They stop the run like nobody's business, but

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00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:01,520
Speaker 1: they haven't really been able to stop anybody throwing it.

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00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:04,480
Speaker 1: They give up two hundred and seventy seven yards per

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Speaker 1: game total offense three hundred and fifty point one. That's

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Speaker 1: fifteenth in the league. But they have generated twenty five turnovers,

743
00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:17,280
Speaker 1: so even though they've given up thirty three, they're only

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00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:20,160
Speaker 1: minus eight in turnover margins, say, minus eight, that's not

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00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:22,239
Speaker 1: a great number. You don't want to be minus eight

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00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:29,840
Speaker 1: turnover margin. However, because they've generated twenty five turnovers. That

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Speaker 1: has a lot to do with Todd Bowles eleven interceptions,

748
00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:39,640
Speaker 1: fourteen fumble recoveries. It's the ball security at a premium,

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Speaker 1: at a premium. This week. We'll get to that. And

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Speaker 1: I don't know that I put that in my keys. Maybe,

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah I did, And I'll explain in Keen number five.

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00:37:49,239 --> 00:37:54,440
Speaker 1: But let's start with keen number one. Formation window dressing. Now,

753
00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:57,040
Speaker 1: you hear coaches say this a lot, Oh, that's just

754
00:37:57,080 --> 00:38:00,840
Speaker 1: the same play we ran, but we just dressed up differently.

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00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:04,839
Speaker 1: The Texans they've been doing that a little bit more.

756
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:09,080
Speaker 1: They're running similar plays, but they dressed up differently. I

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00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:12,880
Speaker 1: called formation window dressing. Now, sometimes it doesn't matter all

758
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:20,400
Speaker 1: that much, but the Bucks secondary could have the following

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00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:26,080
Speaker 1: Carlton Davis banged up right now, second year corner, Mike

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00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:31,080
Speaker 1: Edwards at safety rookie, Andrew Adams at safety rookie, Sean

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Speaker 1: Murphy Bunting at corner rookie, and the nickel will be

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00:38:35,239 --> 00:38:42,520
Speaker 1: Jamel Dean rookie. Formation window dressing might confuse some of

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Speaker 1: those young guys in the secondary, and because of that,

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00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:50,560
Speaker 1: that might lead to some big place that would be

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00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:57,600
Speaker 1: huge all by just changing the window dressing a little bit. Now,

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00:38:57,920 --> 00:38:59,440
Speaker 1: Todd Bowls is going to do the same thing to

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00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:03,439
Speaker 1: the Sean, so you've got to recognize it. But if

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00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:07,720
Speaker 1: you can show different things formationally to the Bucks defense,

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Speaker 1: especially to the secondary, they don't have a ton of

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00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:13,840
Speaker 1: experience back there, so that might lead to a cheap touchdown.

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00:39:14,040 --> 00:39:16,399
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, they get crossed up. They've seen Oh

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00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:18,560
Speaker 1: they're crossing them. Boom. You hit with deep ball or

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00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:20,520
Speaker 1: you hit a white wide receiver. He runs a distance

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00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:25,239
Speaker 1: either way. Sometimes that formation window dressing can turn into

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00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:31,040
Speaker 1: a big play for your offense. Number two, if three

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00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:34,920
Speaker 1: guys are needed guard center, guard to handle defensive lineman,

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00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:38,160
Speaker 1: Vita Vea and dom kinsue to be able to run

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00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:43,520
Speaker 1: the ball at all, do it now the Bucks have

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00:39:43,719 --> 00:39:48,759
Speaker 1: I think four as good a combination of four two

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00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:53,720
Speaker 1: interior guys, two linebackers as you're gonna find Dom Kinsue

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00:39:53,719 --> 00:39:56,960
Speaker 1: and Vita Vea, Devin White and a linebacker and Lavante

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00:39:57,000 --> 00:40:00,279
Speaker 1: David linebacker. That's as good a four as you're gonna fine.

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00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:05,319
Speaker 1: But you may have to sacrifice one of those linebackers

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00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:10,319
Speaker 1: by making sure that you get and Sue block. Now

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00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:13,040
Speaker 1: you may know Dom Kunzue, he's been running league for

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Speaker 1: a while. Dave, you may not know. Get used to it.

787
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:19,040
Speaker 1: Get used to hearing his name. He's three hundred and

788
00:40:19,040 --> 00:40:21,160
Speaker 1: fifty pounds. He was a running back in high school.

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00:40:21,719 --> 00:40:24,160
Speaker 1: He moves as well as any He caught a touchdown

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00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:27,160
Speaker 1: pass against the Falcons this year. I would put that

791
00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:29,040
Speaker 1: in the key stop Dave in the passing game, but

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00:40:29,360 --> 00:40:31,600
Speaker 1: they haven't gone back to it that I've seen. So

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00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:36,320
Speaker 1: if you've got to occupy those two with three guys

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00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:39,279
Speaker 1: up front, then do it. You gotta be able to

795
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Speaker 1: run the football at a better clip than seventy three

796
00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:44,880
Speaker 1: yards per game than what the Bucks are giving up.

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00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:50,640
Speaker 1: Keen number three. If you're not though running it the

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Speaker 1: way that you want, how many different ways can the

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Speaker 1: Texans run the ball in a non traditional manner, bubble screen,

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Speaker 1: smoke screens are pos different kinds of things that are

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00:41:03,680 --> 00:41:06,799
Speaker 1: just extensions of the run game. Just little snag routes,

802
00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:09,400
Speaker 1: little hit drouts, little things that are just extensions of

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00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:11,080
Speaker 1: the run game. I think of the Kansas City game.

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00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:14,960
Speaker 1: Almost every catch that DeAndre Hopkins had was essentially a

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00:41:15,040 --> 00:41:18,359
Speaker 1: running play. It was just the extension of a running play. Yes,

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00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:20,440
Speaker 1: there's a risk of Deshaun Watson throwing the ball in

807
00:41:20,440 --> 00:41:23,239
Speaker 1: the air. I get that, But how many different ways

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00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:27,400
Speaker 1: can you run it? Push passes, jet sweeps. You gotta

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00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:30,960
Speaker 1: be able to quote unquote run the ball against this

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00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:33,000
Speaker 1: stop front seven, even though it might not be a

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00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:35,880
Speaker 1: traditional handoff. You gotta be able to find a way

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00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:38,200
Speaker 1: to run the football, which leads me to the the key

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00:41:38,239 --> 00:41:42,560
Speaker 1: number four. I like the combination of Duke Johnson and

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00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:46,799
Speaker 1: Carlos Hide on the field together. I like it. I

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00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:49,279
Speaker 1: think there are ways that you can play with matchups

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00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:51,440
Speaker 1: with those two on the field. You can have those

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00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:53,880
Speaker 1: two on the field with three wide receivers. You can

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00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:55,480
Speaker 1: have those two on the field with two tight ends

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00:41:55,520 --> 00:41:58,040
Speaker 1: and or receiver. You can have those two on the

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00:41:58,120 --> 00:42:00,960
Speaker 1: field with a tight end tuder. There's a lot different

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Speaker 1: combinations of personnels you can have with those two on

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00:42:03,600 --> 00:42:06,759
Speaker 1: the field, because Duke can go line up outside and

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Speaker 1: be a slot receiver if you need to. I like

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Speaker 1: that combination, and I think against a bunch of rookies,

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00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:15,120
Speaker 1: not just rookies in the secondary, but Devin White's also

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00:42:15,160 --> 00:42:18,319
Speaker 1: a rookie too, a linebacker. So I think that that

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00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:23,360
Speaker 1: combination can be a problem for the Buccaneers defense. So

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Speaker 1: don't be afraid to use it. Continue to use it.

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Speaker 1: And number five, the weather might be an issue. They

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Speaker 1: have been forecasting rain all week in the Tampa area

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00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:37,839
Speaker 1: and of course being down on the sidelines all game.

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00:42:38,239 --> 00:42:41,640
Speaker 1: I follow this because I gotta know what do I

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00:42:41,680 --> 00:42:43,960
Speaker 1: need to wear? How do I need to be prepared?

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Speaker 1: And do any of my rain gear do I not like?

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Speaker 1: What do I need to be ready to go? Well?

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Speaker 1: At the beginning of the week, this was showing a

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Speaker 1: seventy percent chance of rain, but as of Friday, as

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00:43:02,560 --> 00:43:06,439
Speaker 1: of now or time this is six fifty local time,

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Speaker 1: it's showing about a ten percent chance of rain either way.

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00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:17,480
Speaker 1: Weather's going to be a factor if it rains, obviously,

841
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:20,319
Speaker 1: taking care of the balls at a premium. The other

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00:43:20,400 --> 00:43:24,719
Speaker 1: aspect is heat. Now seventy five to seventy seven is

843
00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:27,320
Speaker 1: not really all that hot. But when you've been playing

844
00:43:27,320 --> 00:43:29,759
Speaker 1: indoors or you've been playing outside, it's been a little chilly.

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00:43:30,120 --> 00:43:34,560
Speaker 1: Going outdoors could be a little steamy, and especially if

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Speaker 1: rain is coming, which it sounds like it's coming on Sunday,

847
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:39,319
Speaker 1: it's gonna be pushed back. It's gonna be human as

848
00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:43,680
Speaker 1: all get out. All that leads to this final key,

849
00:43:43,719 --> 00:43:47,719
Speaker 1: and that is ball security. Got to take care of

850
00:43:48,160 --> 00:43:53,560
Speaker 1: the football at all times. End of story. So there

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00:43:53,600 --> 00:43:55,480
Speaker 1: you go. Those are your first Community Credit Union First

852
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Speaker 1: Lance Keys to the Game. ACTUALLYCU the official Credit Union

853
00:43:58,520 --> 00:44:01,320
Speaker 1: of the Houston tex All right, coming up, it's a

854
00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:03,920
Speaker 1: voice of the Texans, Mark vandermir we'll dive into this game.

855
00:44:03,920 --> 00:44:06,360
Speaker 1: We'll get his thoughts and I want to go down

856
00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:09,040
Speaker 1: memory lane as Drew and I did with our two

857
00:44:09,480 --> 00:44:13,840
Speaker 1: eleven vision the Tampa and what Mark remembers about Big

858
00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:16,919
Speaker 1: Albert Haynesworth stepping on mat shops foot Well have that. Next,

859
00:44:16,920 --> 00:44:22,239
Speaker 1: the Texas All Access. Here we go, second hour of

860
00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:26,000
Speaker 1: the show, live from Tampa, Florida, and also the Hunday

861
00:44:26,040 --> 00:44:28,919
Speaker 1: Texans Radio studio. It's Texans All Access. I'm your host,

862
00:44:29,360 --> 00:44:32,680
Speaker 1: on this Friday in the state in which I coach

863
00:44:32,760 --> 00:44:34,719
Speaker 1: high school football many many years ago. I am John

864
00:44:34,719 --> 00:44:37,320
Speaker 1: Harris Footbayoffs and said of the reporter, and I'm joined

865
00:44:37,360 --> 00:44:41,760
Speaker 1: now by the voice of the Texans, who also Florida

866
00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:43,400
Speaker 1: matters to him because he was the voice of the

867
00:44:43,440 --> 00:44:45,719
Speaker 1: Miami Hurricanes. It is Mark Vandimir Mark, how you doing both?

868
00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:48,000
Speaker 1: This is West coast of Florida, where sol different. But

869
00:44:48,120 --> 00:44:51,440
Speaker 1: it's such a different thing because everybody knows about the snowbirds, right,

870
00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:54,960
Speaker 1: And there are some Houston area snowbirds, by the way, yeah,

871
00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:56,960
Speaker 1: there are. There are some people who come to the

872
00:44:56,960 --> 00:44:59,640
Speaker 1: Houston area or maybe a little bit south like Porto

873
00:44:59,719 --> 00:45:02,400
Speaker 1: ran and they spend the winters there and it's not

874
00:45:02,480 --> 00:45:05,600
Speaker 1: always that great, but it's great compared to Chicago. But anyway,

875
00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:09,520
Speaker 1: as far as Florida goes, east coast of Florida is

876
00:45:09,560 --> 00:45:11,759
Speaker 1: the east coast of the US, the northeast. Yes, the

877
00:45:11,840 --> 00:45:14,719
Speaker 1: west coast tends to be more Chicago Midwest than that

878
00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:17,800
Speaker 1: kind of thing. And Chicago. They also go to Phoenix,

879
00:45:17,920 --> 00:45:20,800
Speaker 1: those guys. Oh yeah, And the opposite of the summer

880
00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:24,040
Speaker 1: is the Florida people go to North Carolina. The Houston

881
00:45:24,080 --> 00:45:27,960
Speaker 1: people go to Colorado. I mean, nice, I've never done anything. Yeah,

882
00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:30,440
Speaker 1: I haven't done it. I've lived in You and I

883
00:45:30,560 --> 00:45:33,440
Speaker 1: both lived in Florida in Texas, and they're both special

884
00:45:33,440 --> 00:45:35,480
Speaker 1: in rowing where. I think about it this way. We

885
00:45:35,520 --> 00:45:38,640
Speaker 1: always make an annual trip to Florida, right, we always

886
00:45:38,680 --> 00:45:42,320
Speaker 1: go to Jacksonville. There's northeast Florida. Then there's the Tampa

887
00:45:42,360 --> 00:45:46,800
Speaker 1: Saint Pete area, there's central Florida, and then there's Miami.

888
00:45:47,040 --> 00:45:50,640
Speaker 1: Right in the areas around Miami. They're four the stink

889
00:45:51,239 --> 00:45:54,400
Speaker 1: different locations there. They might as well be four like

890
00:45:54,520 --> 00:45:57,520
Speaker 1: different states. It's true, totally different. I know people think

891
00:45:57,560 --> 00:45:59,640
Speaker 1: Texas is kind of like that because you have Austin

892
00:45:59,719 --> 00:46:02,880
Speaker 1: with a different mentality mindset than maybe Dallas in Houston,

893
00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:05,000
Speaker 1: then if you go all the way west El Paso.

894
00:46:05,320 --> 00:46:09,360
Speaker 1: But trust us, Texas is far more alike. Yes, coast

895
00:46:09,360 --> 00:46:12,279
Speaker 1: to well or border to border. I was gonna say

896
00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:15,400
Speaker 1: sideline to sideline, border to border than Florida. Florida, Like

897
00:46:15,520 --> 00:46:18,279
Speaker 1: you said, it's a melting pot that doesn't melt at all.

898
00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:20,879
Speaker 1: It's just a bunch of pieces thrown together and they

899
00:46:20,920 --> 00:46:24,760
Speaker 1: don't blend really at all. You know, in Fort Lauderdale, Miami.

900
00:46:25,120 --> 00:46:27,279
Speaker 1: When I moved to Florida and this is a while

901
00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:29,760
Speaker 1: ago to be the voice of the Hurricanes. The people

902
00:46:29,760 --> 00:46:32,240
Speaker 1: in Fort Lauderdale were like, Oh, you're gonna live in Miami,

903
00:46:32,560 --> 00:46:34,920
Speaker 1: but you're really gonna live there like it was a

904
00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:37,160
Speaker 1: war zone or something. So of course I'm living in Miami.

905
00:46:37,400 --> 00:46:40,560
Speaker 1: I want to be like, it's the Godfather, It's James

906
00:46:40,560 --> 00:46:43,360
Speaker 1: Boden gold Finger. I'm gonna live right on Miami Beach,

907
00:46:43,480 --> 00:46:47,319
Speaker 1: not South Beach, but Miami Beach. And it was great.

908
00:46:47,400 --> 00:46:49,120
Speaker 1: That was when I was between marriages. It was a

909
00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:52,439
Speaker 1: lot of fun. Yeah, twenty eleven was the last time

910
00:46:52,440 --> 00:46:54,640
Speaker 1: that we've met to Tampa. It feels like it was

911
00:46:54,719 --> 00:46:57,160
Speaker 1: long ago, and it feels like it was just yesterday. Yeah.

912
00:46:57,719 --> 00:46:59,160
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people will ask you, what

913
00:46:59,200 --> 00:47:00,799
Speaker 1: do you remember most of about it? And I know

914
00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:02,759
Speaker 1: what a lot of people will say. I remember the

915
00:47:02,800 --> 00:47:05,520
Speaker 1: game being pretty much a laugh for the Texans just

916
00:47:05,840 --> 00:47:08,040
Speaker 1: put it on Tampa Bay pretty much the whole time.

917
00:47:08,600 --> 00:47:11,080
Speaker 1: But it was also when Matt Shab went down. Yeah,

918
00:47:11,160 --> 00:47:13,920
Speaker 1: what do you remember from that situation? We didn't know

919
00:47:13,960 --> 00:47:16,160
Speaker 1: he went down till the next day. So we left

920
00:47:16,200 --> 00:47:19,879
Speaker 1: Tampa feeling really good. At seven and three, top seed

921
00:47:19,880 --> 00:47:21,920
Speaker 1: in the AFC at the time. Now you have six

922
00:47:21,960 --> 00:47:24,640
Speaker 1: games to go. But the Texans were looking good. They

923
00:47:24,640 --> 00:47:26,560
Speaker 1: had a four game winning streak going at the time.

924
00:47:26,960 --> 00:47:28,919
Speaker 1: And this is just all off the top of my head.

925
00:47:29,200 --> 00:47:32,479
Speaker 1: You're right. The game was the Texans handled them, and

926
00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:35,560
Speaker 1: it was That wasn't a coronation, it's too much to

927
00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:38,600
Speaker 1: say that. But it was an arrival, right. You went

928
00:47:38,640 --> 00:47:41,000
Speaker 1: in there and you beat them like that. And Arian

929
00:47:41,080 --> 00:47:44,919
Speaker 1: Foster had another seventy eight yard catch and run which

930
00:47:44,920 --> 00:47:46,719
Speaker 1: he had against the Titans the first game of that

931
00:47:46,760 --> 00:47:48,960
Speaker 1: four game winning streak, which turned into a seven game

932
00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:51,880
Speaker 1: winning streak, with t J. Yates helping finish off the

933
00:47:51,960 --> 00:47:54,879
Speaker 1: last three wins of that streak. But we left there

934
00:47:54,920 --> 00:47:57,960
Speaker 1: thinking this could be interesting, this could be really special,

935
00:47:58,120 --> 00:48:01,279
Speaker 1: feeling really good. Seven three, seven and three. At the

936
00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:04,640
Speaker 1: time in twenty eleven, they had never been seven and three.

937
00:48:04,840 --> 00:48:06,880
Speaker 1: I mean, the year before we all know that was disappointed.

938
00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:08,480
Speaker 1: The year before that, we know they were five and

939
00:48:08,520 --> 00:48:11,960
Speaker 1: seven at one point. Look, seven and three was uncharted. Waters,

940
00:48:12,360 --> 00:48:15,520
Speaker 1: you were on a roll, and you were coming home

941
00:48:15,719 --> 00:48:18,279
Speaker 1: and you were going into the by getting ready to

942
00:48:18,280 --> 00:48:20,239
Speaker 1: play Jacksonville. So the next day I get here to

943
00:48:20,360 --> 00:48:23,000
Speaker 1: NRG Stadium, and I'm still at Sports Radio six ten

944
00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:25,280
Speaker 1: to in the morning show. At this point and before

945
00:48:25,320 --> 00:48:28,719
Speaker 1: the press conference with Gary Kubiak, word is getting at

946
00:48:28,719 --> 00:48:30,799
Speaker 1: it's kind of leaking out Twitter or whatever that Matt

947
00:48:30,880 --> 00:48:33,319
Speaker 1: Shop could be out for the season. I'm thinking, huh,

948
00:48:33,680 --> 00:48:35,600
Speaker 1: he did, you know what? All right? So he suffered

949
00:48:35,640 --> 00:48:38,360
Speaker 1: the Liz prockagery on the field, Albert Hayesworth stepped on

950
00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:41,719
Speaker 1: his foot or whatever. He did the post game. You

951
00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:43,839
Speaker 1: know how CBS used to have the guy and they

952
00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:46,359
Speaker 1: probably still do you stand on the FIELDIX, stand right

953
00:48:46,360 --> 00:48:48,840
Speaker 1: on the numbers. That's the X, and they're gonna zoom

954
00:48:48,880 --> 00:48:50,640
Speaker 1: in and they got the headset on. They're doing the

955
00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:54,120
Speaker 1: postgame interview with the guys in the studio. He did

956
00:48:54,160 --> 00:48:56,839
Speaker 1: that one and he's like, I'll be fine. My foot now,

957
00:48:56,920 --> 00:48:59,680
Speaker 1: it's it's okay. Well, the next day out for the year.

958
00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:02,919
Speaker 1: And Shop told me later that if that was week

959
00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:06,200
Speaker 1: seventeen or something, or week sixteen, he would have wrapped

960
00:49:06,200 --> 00:49:07,839
Speaker 1: it up and played in the playoffs. Now I don't

961
00:49:07,840 --> 00:49:09,880
Speaker 1: know if he could have physically done that, but he

962
00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:13,479
Speaker 1: told me that that he was willing to try because

963
00:49:13,480 --> 00:49:15,480
Speaker 1: it meant that much to him, but with six weeks

964
00:49:15,480 --> 00:49:18,560
Speaker 1: to go, of course you couldn't do that. And the

965
00:49:18,600 --> 00:49:21,640
Speaker 1: rest is history. It is, and it made you know,

966
00:49:21,680 --> 00:49:26,200
Speaker 1: it's interesting looking back, how I mean, you wonder how

967
00:49:26,200 --> 00:49:29,040
Speaker 1: many guys have walked through this building that didn't get

968
00:49:29,080 --> 00:49:32,279
Speaker 1: the opportunity to t J. Yates had and TJ when

969
00:49:32,360 --> 00:49:35,080
Speaker 1: you talk to Texans fans, I feel like there's this

970
00:49:35,160 --> 00:49:38,320
Speaker 1: special place that TJ has a lot of Texans fans

971
00:49:38,400 --> 00:49:42,839
Speaker 1: hearts because he got the opportunity. He got the opportunity.

972
00:49:42,880 --> 00:49:44,759
Speaker 1: He's a rookie. I don't really know what he's doing,

973
00:49:44,840 --> 00:49:47,560
Speaker 1: but he just goes out there and he you know, fishes.

974
00:49:47,560 --> 00:49:49,959
Speaker 1: It finishes off the Jaguars game and it comes back

975
00:49:49,960 --> 00:49:53,440
Speaker 1: here for what I thought was one of the more physical, emotional,

976
00:49:53,480 --> 00:49:56,800
Speaker 1: intense games against the Falcons and gets that and obviously

977
00:49:56,840 --> 00:49:59,480
Speaker 1: he's from that area, so facing the Falcons, and then

978
00:49:59,520 --> 00:50:01,520
Speaker 1: of course the game against Cincinnati where he has to

979
00:50:01,600 --> 00:50:03,120
Speaker 1: drive at the end, it throws it to Walter for

980
00:50:03,160 --> 00:50:07,000
Speaker 1: the game, and it's like he becomes a cult figure

981
00:50:07,040 --> 00:50:10,160
Speaker 1: in some sense. And then it comes back. He comes

982
00:50:10,200 --> 00:50:13,719
Speaker 1: back in fifteen and does it again. Yeah, and he

983
00:50:13,760 --> 00:50:16,680
Speaker 1: will be remembered forever, in large part because Albert Haynesworth

984
00:50:16,719 --> 00:50:20,600
Speaker 1: stepped on Chob's foot. Yeah, so memories from that one.

985
00:50:20,960 --> 00:50:22,960
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. Going there every year for the

986
00:50:23,239 --> 00:50:25,399
Speaker 1: or every other year for the preseason for so long.

987
00:50:25,719 --> 00:50:28,840
Speaker 1: That was a preseason Game four partner with the Texans,

988
00:50:28,920 --> 00:50:31,319
Speaker 1: and I like that trip. Okay, you know, nothing wrong

989
00:50:31,320 --> 00:50:33,160
Speaker 1: with it going to Tampa for a preseason game. You

990
00:50:33,200 --> 00:50:35,879
Speaker 1: get all day in Tampa. But it was just kind

991
00:50:35,880 --> 00:50:40,200
Speaker 1: of weird because we saw the Buccaneers fade. See the Buccaneers,

992
00:50:40,200 --> 00:50:42,200
Speaker 1: obviously they won the super Bowl the first year the

993
00:50:42,200 --> 00:50:45,120
Speaker 1: Texans were in the league, as you know, and they

994
00:50:45,160 --> 00:50:47,960
Speaker 1: were going good, you know, even a preseason game there

995
00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:50,759
Speaker 1: was kind of a big deal Game four even, But

996
00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:54,560
Speaker 1: as time went on, they faded and it was interesting

997
00:50:54,560 --> 00:50:58,719
Speaker 1: to watch that process because you saw the stadium. It

998
00:50:58,880 --> 00:51:01,920
Speaker 1: just didn't have the same vibe i've anymore. It's a

999
00:51:01,960 --> 00:51:04,640
Speaker 1: weird place. People haven't been there. They have a pirate ship. Yeah,

1000
00:51:04,680 --> 00:51:06,640
Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you about the pirate ship. I'm

1001
00:51:06,680 --> 00:51:10,640
Speaker 1: I'm curious about it. Yeah, I'm excited about it. Yeah,

1002
00:51:10,680 --> 00:51:12,600
Speaker 1: I sort of want to go up there. I think

1003
00:51:12,640 --> 00:51:16,319
Speaker 1: you should because a former Sideline reporter did all the

1004
00:51:16,320 --> 00:51:20,279
Speaker 1: time ago, Yes he did. And did he fall off? No,

1005
00:51:20,440 --> 00:51:23,680
Speaker 1: he did not fall off. But it's John Gronando. I'll

1006
00:51:23,680 --> 00:51:26,640
Speaker 1: just say he went up there and he he had

1007
00:51:26,680 --> 00:51:29,799
Speaker 1: one of the one of the great inadvertent lines in

1008
00:51:29,880 --> 00:51:33,279
Speaker 1: Texans radio history when he said, oh no, oh no,

1009
00:51:33,360 --> 00:51:35,160
Speaker 1: that was a later game. I'll say it. He said,

1010
00:51:35,200 --> 00:51:36,560
Speaker 1: I'm up here on the pirate ship with the guy

1011
00:51:36,600 --> 00:51:39,600
Speaker 1: who blows off his cannon. He said that. Now, look

1012
00:51:39,640 --> 00:51:43,480
Speaker 1: I can say it. It's fine, yeah, literal, it's a fact. Okay,

1013
00:51:43,800 --> 00:51:49,120
Speaker 1: the guy blows off the cannon when they score a touchdown. Okay.

1014
00:51:49,120 --> 00:51:53,080
Speaker 1: Oh man. So it was like, I you know what,

1015
00:51:53,480 --> 00:51:58,160
Speaker 1: there's yeah, uh with Coronado, there's a lot of things

1016
00:51:58,200 --> 00:52:00,360
Speaker 1: that I don't want to replicate that he did, so

1017
00:52:00,400 --> 00:52:02,080
Speaker 1: I might just stay on the field. But I am

1018
00:52:02,120 --> 00:52:06,319
Speaker 1: curious about that, that pirate ship. And it's also the

1019
00:52:06,360 --> 00:52:12,040
Speaker 1: location of Deshaun Watson's maybe greatest on field accomplishment. Yes,

1020
00:52:12,120 --> 00:52:16,120
Speaker 1: winning the National Championship. I love that. It's Winston and

1021
00:52:16,200 --> 00:52:20,360
Speaker 1: Watson and the ACC thing and the National Championship Quarterback

1022
00:52:20,400 --> 00:52:23,759
Speaker 1: alumni club thing. I love this stuff. Yeah, they crossed over,

1023
00:52:23,800 --> 00:52:25,919
Speaker 1: but they didn't play against each other, right, you because

1024
00:52:26,080 --> 00:52:29,239
Speaker 1: James James was suspended for that game and Four States

1025
00:52:29,239 --> 00:52:30,959
Speaker 1: still end up winning it, and Deshaun had not taken

1026
00:52:31,000 --> 00:52:36,200
Speaker 1: over as the bona fide number one starter yet, he

1027
00:52:36,280 --> 00:52:38,960
Speaker 1: had not done that. Cliff Stout sunk Cole Stout and

1028
00:52:39,040 --> 00:52:41,720
Speaker 1: started the game, and then about three series in, DeShawn

1029
00:52:41,840 --> 00:52:44,000
Speaker 1: comes in and he made some throws and I'm like,

1030
00:52:44,440 --> 00:52:48,319
Speaker 1: oh my god, this this guy's unbelievable. Holy smokes man.

1031
00:52:48,360 --> 00:52:50,640
Speaker 1: When he gets to the pros, he's gonna be phenomenal.

1032
00:52:50,800 --> 00:52:54,640
Speaker 1: And thankfully he's phenomenal with us. That's such a blessing. Really,

1033
00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:57,360
Speaker 1: I count my lucky started so often. I'm thinking, gosh,

1034
00:52:57,360 --> 00:53:00,359
Speaker 1: we have Deshaun Watson. It's the answer to almost every

1035
00:53:00,440 --> 00:53:02,640
Speaker 1: question about the team. It really is, what are we

1036
00:53:02,680 --> 00:53:04,480
Speaker 1: going to do? But we have Deshaun Watson. Well what

1037
00:53:04,520 --> 00:53:08,560
Speaker 1: about this position? Deshaun Watson? Well what about the Deshaun Watson.

1038
00:53:08,960 --> 00:53:11,720
Speaker 1: It's okay. You have Deshaun Watson. You can build everything

1039
00:53:11,719 --> 00:53:13,799
Speaker 1: around him. You have a quarterback. This is what we've

1040
00:53:13,840 --> 00:53:16,640
Speaker 1: wanted for years, somebody who could who you could rely

1041
00:53:16,760 --> 00:53:19,200
Speaker 1: on year in, year out. And look it's early, it's

1042
00:53:19,280 --> 00:53:21,319
Speaker 1: year three for him. You got to keep it going.

1043
00:53:21,800 --> 00:53:24,719
Speaker 1: That's what blows my mind about guys like Breeze and

1044
00:53:24,840 --> 00:53:28,600
Speaker 1: Brady and Manning when he was playing that year after Rogers,

1045
00:53:29,040 --> 00:53:31,680
Speaker 1: year after year. I know, I know there are occasional

1046
00:53:31,719 --> 00:53:34,640
Speaker 1: injury issues like the Stot Breeze Rogers of course, but

1047
00:53:34,960 --> 00:53:39,239
Speaker 1: not catastrophic, end of the world, end of career injuries.

1048
00:53:39,239 --> 00:53:41,440
Speaker 1: And Brady obviously just have the one year out of

1049
00:53:41,440 --> 00:53:45,280
Speaker 1: the Bazilion he's played, and that's what you want. Somebody

1050
00:53:45,320 --> 00:53:47,719
Speaker 1: can rely on year in year out, who's going to

1051
00:53:47,840 --> 00:53:49,479
Speaker 1: be there, going to be that guy. But you still

1052
00:53:49,480 --> 00:53:51,200
Speaker 1: have to put a good team around him, and you

1053
00:53:51,200 --> 00:53:53,239
Speaker 1: have to have the culture because look at Atlanta this year.

1054
00:53:53,280 --> 00:53:55,000
Speaker 1: You know, Matt Ryan is a good quarterback. We all

1055
00:53:55,040 --> 00:53:57,399
Speaker 1: know that he's a really good quarterback. But they don't

1056
00:53:57,400 --> 00:54:00,120
Speaker 1: always win. They don't always win, you know, and it's

1057
00:54:00,160 --> 00:54:02,520
Speaker 1: a weird dynamic with them. Like you've got to be

1058
00:54:02,560 --> 00:54:05,280
Speaker 1: able to put the whole thing together, but it obviously

1059
00:54:05,280 --> 00:54:08,960
Speaker 1: starts with the most important position on the field. I

1060
00:54:09,000 --> 00:54:11,560
Speaker 1: can't remember who tweeted this, Mark somebody tweeted this and

1061
00:54:11,600 --> 00:54:15,360
Speaker 1: put this out there. The three quarterbacks for the AFC

1062
00:54:15,760 --> 00:54:18,960
Speaker 1: are Lamar Jackson, Patrick Mahomes and Sean the three quarterbacks

1063
00:54:19,000 --> 00:54:24,000
Speaker 1: for the NFC are Aaron Rodgers, Russell Wilson, and No

1064
00:54:24,280 --> 00:54:25,880
Speaker 1: because he missed so much of the year. Yeah, he

1065
00:54:25,920 --> 00:54:27,960
Speaker 1: missed part of the year. I can't remember who the

1066
00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:30,480
Speaker 1: third quarterback was, but it was not Dak it was

1067
00:54:30,520 --> 00:54:33,800
Speaker 1: not Kirk Cousins, and it's not God. It was Rogers, Wilson,

1068
00:54:34,520 --> 00:54:38,279
Speaker 1: and another another quarterback in the NFC, Maymon Brees. I

1069
00:54:38,280 --> 00:54:41,120
Speaker 1: don't know, but either way, they then tweeted out the

1070
00:54:41,239 --> 00:54:44,280
Speaker 1: salaries of those guys, and it got me thinking about

1071
00:54:45,239 --> 00:54:47,600
Speaker 1: what really has kind of gone on in the AFC.

1072
00:54:48,400 --> 00:54:54,440
Speaker 1: Right because Mahomes, Watson, and Jackson are all under the

1073
00:54:54,480 --> 00:54:58,240
Speaker 1: age of twenty four. I believe they're all twenty four younger.

1074
00:54:59,040 --> 00:55:00,840
Speaker 1: I don't know that I can re remember a time

1075
00:55:02,040 --> 00:55:06,640
Speaker 1: in AFC NFC when you had a group of such

1076
00:55:06,760 --> 00:55:09,839
Speaker 1: young quarterbacks. I mean, if you think about just think

1077
00:55:09,840 --> 00:55:14,480
Speaker 1: about the playoff teams. You have Baltimore with right now, Yeah,

1078
00:55:14,520 --> 00:55:18,760
Speaker 1: Buffalo Baltimore, Lamar Jackson. You've got Kansas City with Mahomes,

1079
00:55:18,920 --> 00:55:22,480
Speaker 1: you got us with the Sean, you got Buffalo with

1080
00:55:22,560 --> 00:55:26,320
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, you got Pittsburgh with a guy named Duck Hodges.

1081
00:55:26,360 --> 00:55:28,640
Speaker 1: And now that won't stick. But you got that, then

1082
00:55:28,719 --> 00:55:32,840
Speaker 1: you've got Cleveland with Baker Mayfield. A second year, you

1083
00:55:32,920 --> 00:55:35,200
Speaker 1: got the Jets with Sam Donald the second we're getting

1084
00:55:35,239 --> 00:55:37,160
Speaker 1: away from the playoff teams. Now, of course, yeah, of

1085
00:55:37,200 --> 00:55:39,440
Speaker 1: course you're saying, but it's I don't know that. I

1086
00:55:39,440 --> 00:55:42,920
Speaker 1: can never remember a year where a division or the

1087
00:55:43,040 --> 00:55:48,360
Speaker 1: league has had so many young quarterbacks that they're trying

1088
00:55:48,640 --> 00:55:50,960
Speaker 1: to you know, I mean, they're really I mean these

1089
00:55:51,040 --> 00:55:53,879
Speaker 1: those three in particular, they're turning the corner and turning

1090
00:55:53,960 --> 00:55:56,960
Speaker 1: the corner fast. Josh Allen has played very, very well

1091
00:55:56,960 --> 00:55:59,040
Speaker 1: for Buffalo. It's a big reason why that team is

1092
00:55:59,040 --> 00:56:01,000
Speaker 1: ten and four. I don't know that I can remember

1093
00:56:01,040 --> 00:56:03,920
Speaker 1: a year where we've seen such young quarterbacks sort of

1094
00:56:03,920 --> 00:56:08,040
Speaker 1: take over. Because it's always been Brady Breeze, Rivers, Manning, Manning,

1095
00:56:08,920 --> 00:56:10,279
Speaker 1: you know, whoever else you want to throw in that

1096
00:56:10,440 --> 00:56:13,439
Speaker 1: mix from they've they've always been the guy Flacco, even

1097
00:56:13,440 --> 00:56:16,200
Speaker 1: at times, it's always been those guys. There is a

1098
00:56:16,360 --> 00:56:18,719
Speaker 1: serious changing the guard going on with the young and

1099
00:56:18,760 --> 00:56:21,719
Speaker 1: the old quarterbacks in the league. Serious, as you said,

1100
00:56:21,920 --> 00:56:23,440
Speaker 1: by the way, it is Breeze in the NFC, the

1101
00:56:23,480 --> 00:56:26,960
Speaker 1: other quarterback. But when you look at Roethlisberger getting hurt.

1102
00:56:27,200 --> 00:56:29,880
Speaker 1: When you look at Rivers playing for it, Rivers can

1103
00:56:29,920 --> 00:56:32,399
Speaker 1: still bring it, but there's some mistakes made and it's

1104
00:56:32,440 --> 00:56:34,399
Speaker 1: not all him and the team's not having a good year.

1105
00:56:34,760 --> 00:56:38,200
Speaker 1: Then you look at Manning sitting Okay, Yeah, that group

1106
00:56:38,400 --> 00:56:41,160
Speaker 1: from OH four was holding it down for so law

1107
00:56:41,800 --> 00:56:44,040
Speaker 1: and the fact that Breeze and Brady are still standing

1108
00:56:44,160 --> 00:56:46,600
Speaker 1: is pretty impressive. But I'm wondering what happens next year?

1109
00:56:46,640 --> 00:56:49,200
Speaker 1: You know, is this it for Brady indeed? Or I

1110
00:56:49,320 --> 00:56:51,320
Speaker 1: love it? How all this free agent talk? Well, Brady

1111
00:56:51,360 --> 00:56:53,760
Speaker 1: is slated to become a free agent, and the talking

1112
00:56:53,920 --> 00:56:57,920
Speaker 1: head shows are like, all right, what's a great destination

1113
00:56:58,000 --> 00:57:04,440
Speaker 1: for Tom Brady retire? Yeah? Just Lle's kitchen. Yeah. I

1114
00:57:04,440 --> 00:57:07,440
Speaker 1: don't really understand the question. It's the Patriots or bust

1115
00:57:07,480 --> 00:57:11,319
Speaker 1: for Brady. Brady's not gonna be Joe Namath in San Francisco.

1116
00:57:11,920 --> 00:57:14,399
Speaker 1: Brady is not going to be well. I was gonna

1117
00:57:14,400 --> 00:57:16,080
Speaker 1: say Peyton Manning in Denver, but that was a Super

1118
00:57:16,120 --> 00:57:19,080
Speaker 1: Bowl year. But you know what I'm saying, even Joe Montana,

1119
00:57:19,160 --> 00:57:20,960
Speaker 1: Kansas City, that works out pretty well. Give me another, right,

1120
00:57:21,040 --> 00:57:23,520
Speaker 1: Brady's not gonna be Johnny Unitius and Sandy. That's the

1121
00:57:23,520 --> 00:57:26,560
Speaker 1: best one. Joe Namath in La, I mean that's La.

1122
00:57:26,840 --> 00:57:28,920
Speaker 1: Joe Namath went to the Rams. I'm thinking of O

1123
00:57:29,120 --> 00:57:32,920
Speaker 1: j O. J. Simpson. J Yeah, Oj went to San Francisco. Yeah,

1124
00:57:33,320 --> 00:57:35,760
Speaker 1: get it to mean Emmett Smith going from Dallas to

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00:57:36,200 --> 00:57:38,800
Speaker 1: Phoenix to play for the Cardinals. Yeah, I just don't.

1126
00:57:38,800 --> 00:57:42,800
Speaker 1: I don't see Reid coming to the never yeah, never mind.

1127
00:57:42,840 --> 00:57:46,440
Speaker 1: You had to go there on conversation and went there

1128
00:57:46,800 --> 00:57:49,960
Speaker 1: the league actually, and this is look the NFL office

1129
00:57:50,360 --> 00:57:52,160
Speaker 1: and it's a lot of different people working there. I

1130
00:57:52,160 --> 00:57:54,840
Speaker 1: guess this is just standard procedure that they're gonna go

1131
00:57:54,880 --> 00:57:57,040
Speaker 1: to the former teams of whoever's in that top one

1132
00:57:57,120 --> 00:58:00,360
Speaker 1: hundred list. Yes they did. They notified pr pod Away

1133
00:58:00,920 --> 00:58:07,080
Speaker 1: and Reid a former a former Texa really really, because

1134
00:58:07,120 --> 00:58:09,440
Speaker 1: there are guys who played for this team that you

1135
00:58:09,560 --> 00:58:12,360
Speaker 1: kind of forget about that had good careers like Eric Molds,

1136
00:58:14,240 --> 00:58:18,160
Speaker 1: Jake the loam Oh Jake, the lom Look, Andre Johnson.

1137
00:58:18,200 --> 00:58:20,600
Speaker 1: He was on the show yesterday. So we sat here

1138
00:58:20,600 --> 00:58:24,000
Speaker 1: and talked for a while after the show our interview

1139
00:58:24,120 --> 00:58:26,160
Speaker 1: ended and this didn't make the interview, but we were

1140
00:58:26,160 --> 00:58:28,240
Speaker 1: talking about that eleventh season with the Bay And you

1141
00:58:28,280 --> 00:58:30,640
Speaker 1: mentioned the Atlanta win, which was seventeen to ten. There

1142
00:58:30,680 --> 00:58:33,600
Speaker 1: was another seventeen to ten victory that year over the Steelers,

1143
00:58:34,000 --> 00:58:36,680
Speaker 1: and he really I'm not revealing anything here, but he

1144
00:58:36,760 --> 00:58:39,760
Speaker 1: said that that win. He thinks that win turned the

1145
00:58:39,800 --> 00:58:44,840
Speaker 1: whole organization. Beating a good Steelers team with Ben Roethlisberger

1146
00:58:45,240 --> 00:58:47,800
Speaker 1: here the way they did, they had an eleven minute

1147
00:58:47,880 --> 00:58:50,280
Speaker 1: drive in the first half, things like that. That was

1148
00:58:50,320 --> 00:58:53,880
Speaker 1: an organization changer right there. Even though they didn't they

1149
00:58:53,880 --> 00:58:56,440
Speaker 1: eventually went three and three to start the season before

1150
00:58:56,440 --> 00:58:59,840
Speaker 1: they took off. That win that gave them confidence to

1151
00:58:59,840 --> 00:59:01,560
Speaker 1: know that they could beat really good teams. Yeah, that

1152
00:59:01,640 --> 00:59:04,040
Speaker 1: was that was a big That was huge. I mean

1153
00:59:04,080 --> 00:59:07,920
Speaker 1: when you beat a a team of that particular caliber,

1154
00:59:08,800 --> 00:59:11,200
Speaker 1: I mean it I don't want to say it goes out.

1155
00:59:11,440 --> 00:59:13,920
Speaker 1: He dead right, He's so right about that. I think

1156
00:59:13,960 --> 00:59:16,040
Speaker 1: that absolutely and it gives you walk into the locker

1157
00:59:16,120 --> 00:59:18,160
Speaker 1: room like, man, we beat the Steelers. Man. Yeah. And

1158
00:59:18,200 --> 00:59:22,800
Speaker 1: I think it works at all levels, you know, high school, college, pro.

1159
00:59:22,920 --> 00:59:25,640
Speaker 1: It doesn't really matter what level you're on. You beat

1160
00:59:25,640 --> 00:59:28,000
Speaker 1: a good team or a team that's traditionally good, you

1161
00:59:28,040 --> 00:59:30,200
Speaker 1: beat them no matter what. Like Hey, we beat this team,

1162
00:59:30,240 --> 00:59:32,000
Speaker 1: we can beat any team. I mean, how many coaches

1163
00:59:32,000 --> 00:59:34,440
Speaker 1: have said that over the years, Hey, you meet that team,

1164
00:59:34,520 --> 00:59:36,120
Speaker 1: you can definitely beat the team you're about the face,

1165
00:59:36,160 --> 00:59:39,360
Speaker 1: you beat the Patriots, you can beat anybody. Don't lose

1166
00:59:39,360 --> 00:59:43,200
Speaker 1: to Denver. But they beat the Titans, and that was

1167
00:59:43,240 --> 00:59:45,520
Speaker 1: a really good win. Yeah, and now we'll see what

1168
00:59:45,600 --> 00:59:48,200
Speaker 1: happens against Tampa Bay. Because I'm not gonna say it's

1169
00:59:48,240 --> 00:59:50,920
Speaker 1: anybody's guests, but this could this could be a wild

1170
00:59:51,000 --> 00:59:53,280
Speaker 1: game with Winston, this is a good team you're playing.

1171
00:59:53,360 --> 00:59:57,560
Speaker 1: You're without Martin McKinney on defense, there without two Pro

1172
00:59:57,640 --> 01:00:02,160
Speaker 1: Bowl receivers Godwin and Mike Evans, and probably their fastest guy,

1173
01:00:02,280 --> 01:00:07,240
Speaker 1: Scottie Miller. So like pick your poison with I mean,

1174
01:00:07,760 --> 01:00:11,720
Speaker 1: it really is anybody's guests as to what happens on Saturday,

1175
01:00:11,920 --> 01:00:15,200
Speaker 1: But mark winning the division if the Texans are able

1176
01:00:15,240 --> 01:00:17,640
Speaker 1: to do it this weekend, and it can happen one

1177
01:00:17,720 --> 01:00:19,920
Speaker 1: or two ways. It can happen with the Texans winning

1178
01:00:20,000 --> 01:00:23,520
Speaker 1: that's the easiest way, or the Saints beat the Titans

1179
01:00:23,560 --> 01:00:25,760
Speaker 1: in Nashville. Don't talk to me about ties, but they

1180
01:00:25,760 --> 01:00:27,440
Speaker 1: figure it. Yeah, they figure in as well. And I

1181
01:00:27,440 --> 01:00:31,800
Speaker 1: don't worry about ties. But what will it mean to

1182
01:00:31,840 --> 01:00:35,960
Speaker 1: win four out of five AFC South titles on the

1183
01:00:36,000 --> 01:00:38,440
Speaker 1: last five, I'll go six out of nine here, because

1184
01:00:38,480 --> 01:00:40,200
Speaker 1: that's what it would be. It would be because you

1185
01:00:40,200 --> 01:00:42,800
Speaker 1: didn't win it in fourteen and fifteen and thirteen and

1186
01:00:42,800 --> 01:00:47,160
Speaker 1: fourteen thirteen you were two and fourteen and the fourteen

1187
01:00:47,200 --> 01:00:49,280
Speaker 1: season you were nine at seven but didn't win the division,

1188
01:00:49,280 --> 01:00:51,640
Speaker 1: didn't make the playoffs. Look, I think would mean a

1189
01:00:51,680 --> 01:00:53,920
Speaker 1: ton for the Bill O'Brien a rather be able to

1190
01:00:53,960 --> 01:00:57,560
Speaker 1: do this. And everybody's taking their best shot at you.

1191
01:00:57,560 --> 01:01:00,520
Speaker 1: You know the Texans. Look, they're not the pat It's okay,

1192
01:01:00,520 --> 01:01:04,600
Speaker 1: we understand this, right. However, in this division, you are

1193
01:01:04,600 --> 01:01:08,400
Speaker 1: getting everybody's best game. Yep, no one is. Wow. We'll

1194
01:01:08,440 --> 01:01:11,520
Speaker 1: look past the Texans in the AFC South like you

1195
01:01:11,600 --> 01:01:14,560
Speaker 1: might look at you, meaning the fans out there listening.

1196
01:01:14,720 --> 01:01:16,600
Speaker 1: Some people might look at Jacksonville. All that should be

1197
01:01:16,600 --> 01:01:19,440
Speaker 1: a layup game. For Jacksonville to beat the Texans is

1198
01:01:19,480 --> 01:01:21,640
Speaker 1: a huge deal. That's why two years ago when they

1199
01:01:21,720 --> 01:01:23,480
Speaker 1: did it, they were taking advantage. They were just like,

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01:01:23,600 --> 01:01:27,080
Speaker 1: let's have at it, and they had that big blow. Yeah,

1201
01:01:27,160 --> 01:01:29,840
Speaker 1: I mean this is this is really cool stuff. Now

1202
01:01:29,920 --> 01:01:31,920
Speaker 1: you want to take the next step. Don't get me wrong, like,

1203
01:01:32,000 --> 01:01:34,480
Speaker 1: don't talk to me about I understand they haven't won

1204
01:01:34,520 --> 01:01:36,680
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, they haven't gotten to the AFC Championship game.

1205
01:01:36,680 --> 01:01:39,960
Speaker 1: But this would be very cool. But it's not the end.

1206
01:01:40,040 --> 01:01:42,120
Speaker 1: And they'll be the first to tell you they've got

1207
01:01:42,120 --> 01:01:43,880
Speaker 1: to do better in the postseason this year, but they

1208
01:01:43,920 --> 01:01:45,560
Speaker 1: got to get there first, and the way to do

1209
01:01:45,600 --> 01:01:48,000
Speaker 1: it is to win tomorrow. Yeah, step one, Mark, appreciate it.

1210
01:01:48,040 --> 01:01:51,160
Speaker 1: Thanks Johnny. Coming up next, I make every prediction straight

1211
01:01:51,240 --> 01:01:54,040
Speaker 1: up and against the spread right here in Texans all access.

1212
01:01:55,280 --> 01:01:58,600
Speaker 1: All right, let's dive in. We've got a big weekend

1213
01:01:58,600 --> 01:02:02,840
Speaker 1: of NIFL football and it starts on Saturday. So let's

1214
01:02:03,200 --> 01:02:05,880
Speaker 1: do our prediction straight up and against the spread. I

1215
01:02:05,920 --> 01:02:08,160
Speaker 1: should say hour because that implies that I'm throwing other

1216
01:02:08,200 --> 01:02:10,600
Speaker 1: people into max. These are mine. I am all on

1217
01:02:10,640 --> 01:02:12,320
Speaker 1: record or what my record is. But I know it's

1218
01:02:12,360 --> 01:02:14,840
Speaker 1: probably close to ninety percent straight up and probably about

1219
01:02:14,880 --> 01:02:18,360
Speaker 1: eighty five percent against the spread. And if you believe

1220
01:02:18,400 --> 01:02:20,280
Speaker 1: that I got some riverfront property to sell you right

1221
01:02:20,320 --> 01:02:24,040
Speaker 1: here in Houston. All right, let's do this and make

1222
01:02:24,040 --> 01:02:25,840
Speaker 1: our predictions straight up against the spread. Now, the first

1223
01:02:25,840 --> 01:02:27,400
Speaker 1: game of the weekend is Texans Bucks. And you know

1224
01:02:27,400 --> 01:02:30,400
Speaker 1: how I feel. I do not pick games straight up

1225
01:02:30,600 --> 01:02:33,160
Speaker 1: or against the spread involved in the Texans because I

1226
01:02:33,360 --> 01:02:34,880
Speaker 1: can never mess with my heart in my head. I

1227
01:02:35,000 --> 01:02:37,400
Speaker 1: just go with it and hopefully the Texans will win.

1228
01:02:37,600 --> 01:02:40,240
Speaker 1: And when the AFC South four and it will be

1229
01:02:40,240 --> 01:02:42,200
Speaker 1: the fourth out of five years. As we talked with

1230
01:02:42,240 --> 01:02:45,320
Speaker 1: Marketing previous segments. So let's kick it off in Foxborough

1231
01:02:45,760 --> 01:02:48,080
Speaker 1: where the Patriots eleven and three or taking the Bills

1232
01:02:48,160 --> 01:02:49,919
Speaker 1: ten and four. This would be the game right after

1233
01:02:50,000 --> 01:02:52,720
Speaker 1: hours on Saturday. But Patriots are favored by six and

1234
01:02:52,760 --> 01:02:55,720
Speaker 1: a half. Now, I do think the Patriots will win.

1235
01:02:56,400 --> 01:02:58,840
Speaker 1: Julian Edelman is banged up. It is something to keep

1236
01:02:58,880 --> 01:03:03,000
Speaker 1: an eye on. He isnabowl, but he's banged up. But

1237
01:03:03,120 --> 01:03:06,720
Speaker 1: the Bills, I believe, have to win this and next

1238
01:03:06,760 --> 01:03:09,360
Speaker 1: week and hope the Patriots lose. I think the Bills

1239
01:03:09,360 --> 01:03:12,080
Speaker 1: lose the tiebreaker, but either way, I think the Patriots

1240
01:03:12,080 --> 01:03:18,080
Speaker 1: win an ugly, ugly game like seventeen thirteen. Last one

1241
01:03:18,160 --> 01:03:21,360
Speaker 1: was sixteen ten up in Buffalo. It's gonna be like that.

1242
01:03:22,200 --> 01:03:23,920
Speaker 1: But either way, the Bills are gonna get inside that

1243
01:03:23,960 --> 01:03:26,520
Speaker 1: six and a half, So take the Patriots to win

1244
01:03:26,640 --> 01:03:30,880
Speaker 1: the Bills to get inside that number. Then your evening nightcap,

1245
01:03:30,920 --> 01:03:33,360
Speaker 1: if you will, the Rams taken on the forty nine ers.

1246
01:03:33,840 --> 01:03:36,440
Speaker 1: The Rams have got to stay alive by winning the

1247
01:03:36,440 --> 01:03:39,520
Speaker 1: final two games. That's just step one. Then it needs

1248
01:03:39,560 --> 01:03:43,000
Speaker 1: some help to have the Vikings lose the last two games.

1249
01:03:43,080 --> 01:03:44,760
Speaker 1: That's gonna be tough. Although the Vikings do play the

1250
01:03:44,760 --> 01:03:47,040
Speaker 1: Packers and we'll get to that in a little bit,

1251
01:03:47,080 --> 01:03:50,080
Speaker 1: and it's in Minnesota. You got a log jam with

1252
01:03:50,120 --> 01:03:53,000
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers having lost last week to the Falcons.

1253
01:03:53,400 --> 01:03:56,000
Speaker 1: You have four teams in the NFC at eleven and three.

1254
01:03:56,400 --> 01:03:58,600
Speaker 1: If forty nine Ers aren't one, the Seahawks are another,

1255
01:03:58,840 --> 01:04:02,280
Speaker 1: the Saints and the Pass all eleven and three. Now,

1256
01:04:03,320 --> 01:04:08,080
Speaker 1: the forty Nineers play the Rams, the Saints go to Tennessee,

1257
01:04:08,200 --> 01:04:11,000
Speaker 1: the Packers face the Vikings, and the Seahawks get a

1258
01:04:11,200 --> 01:04:13,760
Speaker 1: visit from the Cardinals. So it would feel as if

1259
01:04:14,720 --> 01:04:17,720
Speaker 1: it seems as if the Seahawks have the easiest path.

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Speaker 1: But we'll see. As it were, back to the Rams

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01:04:21,000 --> 01:04:23,120
Speaker 1: forty nine Ers game. Forty nine Ers are six and

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01:04:23,160 --> 01:04:25,080
Speaker 1: a half point favorite. I think it's a little rich

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01:04:25,600 --> 01:04:27,920
Speaker 1: although the Rams didn't play well. I think the Rams

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01:04:27,920 --> 01:04:30,640
Speaker 1: bounce back the forty nine ers find a way to

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Speaker 1: eke out a win. So take the Niners to win

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01:04:35,080 --> 01:04:37,560
Speaker 1: in the Rams to get inside that six and a half.

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Speaker 1: Then we go to Sunday's games and we go to Atlanta,

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01:04:42,440 --> 01:04:45,000
Speaker 1: where Jacksonville's taken on Atlanta. You got two five and

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Speaker 1: nine teams. You got the Jags having fired executive vice

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01:04:49,400 --> 01:04:52,960
Speaker 1: president Tom Coughlin this week. You've got Doug Marone and

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01:04:53,040 --> 01:04:55,760
Speaker 1: Dave Caldwell and seemingly a short lease, so to speak.

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Speaker 1: And you got the Falcons coming off a huge win

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01:04:58,920 --> 01:05:01,360
Speaker 1: over the forty nine ers out in San Francisco. Atlanta's

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01:05:01,360 --> 01:05:04,560
Speaker 1: favored by seven. I think that's just right. And usually

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01:05:04,560 --> 01:05:07,720
Speaker 1: when it's just right, I take the home team and

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01:05:07,760 --> 01:05:10,320
Speaker 1: I lay the point. So I'm gonna say take Atlanta

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01:05:10,400 --> 01:05:12,560
Speaker 1: to win and to cover, to win this thing by

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01:05:12,600 --> 01:05:16,720
Speaker 1: ten or more. Mintshumniall eke out a few points, but

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01:05:16,760 --> 01:05:19,400
Speaker 1: I think the Falcons will feel it a little bit

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01:05:19,640 --> 01:05:22,280
Speaker 1: and get a win at a minimum and get that

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01:05:22,320 --> 01:05:24,560
Speaker 1: cover of seven points. The Ravens go to the Browns.

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01:05:24,720 --> 01:05:28,160
Speaker 1: Here's a trivia question. The last team to beat Baltimore

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01:05:28,640 --> 01:05:32,920
Speaker 1: was yes, the Cleveland Browns, and that was in Baltimore.

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01:05:33,240 --> 01:05:36,720
Speaker 1: Now they play in Cleveland. The Browns have a wild

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01:05:36,760 --> 01:05:41,600
Speaker 1: hair outside shot of getting to the playoffs, but they've

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01:05:41,640 --> 01:05:43,720
Speaker 1: got to beat the Ravens, and the Ravens are trying

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01:05:43,720 --> 01:05:46,560
Speaker 1: to stay where they are so they can have home

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01:05:46,680 --> 01:05:51,560
Speaker 1: field throughout the playoffs and everybody comes to Mt. Bank Stadium.

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01:05:51,760 --> 01:05:56,200
Speaker 1: Baltimore's favored by ten. I think the Browns in Division.

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01:05:56,240 --> 01:05:59,840
Speaker 1: I don't like double digits in division, especially when teams

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01:05:59,840 --> 01:06:01,920
Speaker 1: have not completely packed it in. Now the Browns are

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01:06:02,000 --> 01:06:05,360
Speaker 1: a mess, but they find a way to rise up

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01:06:05,360 --> 01:06:08,240
Speaker 1: against teams that have got a pulse, and the Ravens

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01:06:08,280 --> 01:06:10,240
Speaker 1: have more than the pulse. I think the Browns will

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01:06:10,280 --> 01:06:15,080
Speaker 1: lose but cover. The Ravens win this, but the Browns

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Speaker 1: keep it inside ten points. At home, Saints travel Titans.

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01:06:20,600 --> 01:06:24,400
Speaker 1: Titans are a two and a half point dog at home.

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01:06:25,040 --> 01:06:27,640
Speaker 1: The Saints have got to have it. Drew Brees was phenomenal.

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01:06:27,680 --> 01:06:30,200
Speaker 1: They played Monday night. It was highly emotional. Drew Brees

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01:06:30,280 --> 01:06:33,360
Speaker 1: at the all time passing touchdown record. He was twenty

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01:06:33,440 --> 01:06:36,760
Speaker 1: nine and thirty. They did everything right. Usually to come

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01:06:36,800 --> 01:06:40,280
Speaker 1: down after that game is pretty harsh and the Titans

1303
01:06:40,480 --> 01:06:45,120
Speaker 1: have got to have it, if anything, for their playoff hopes.

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01:06:45,160 --> 01:06:48,400
Speaker 1: If the Texans lose and the Titans win, then Sunday

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01:06:48,480 --> 01:06:51,960
Speaker 1: next Sunday becomes all about the Division for the Titans

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01:06:52,160 --> 01:06:55,280
Speaker 1: right here at Energy Stadium. I'm going heart and head

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01:06:55,280 --> 01:06:58,040
Speaker 1: on this one. I want the Saints to win. I

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01:06:58,080 --> 01:06:59,880
Speaker 1: will pick the Saints to win and to cover that

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01:07:00,080 --> 01:07:03,080
Speaker 1: two and a half hood at Let's go Saints. The

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01:07:03,200 --> 01:07:09,000
Speaker 1: Panthers travel to the Colts. The Colts are not dead yet.

1311
01:07:09,560 --> 01:07:15,360
Speaker 1: They're hanging on to the smallest sliver of breath for

1312
01:07:15,440 --> 01:07:18,320
Speaker 1: a wild card and they're playing the Panthers. And the

1313
01:07:18,320 --> 01:07:20,880
Speaker 1: Panthers have not played well since Ron Rivera was let

1314
01:07:20,880 --> 01:07:22,960
Speaker 1: go a few weeks ago. They've not won. They have

1315
01:07:23,040 --> 01:07:25,160
Speaker 1: not won in a whop. This is the Panthers m

1316
01:07:25,400 --> 01:07:28,920
Speaker 1: seemingly down the stretch the last couple of seasons. They fade.

1317
01:07:29,200 --> 01:07:32,800
Speaker 1: Indianapolis is favorite at home. Buy about a touchdown. Let's

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01:07:32,800 --> 01:07:36,320
Speaker 1: get the Colts a win and a cover as they

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01:07:36,360 --> 01:07:39,080
Speaker 1: beat the Panthers at home. The Bengals go to the Dolphins.

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01:07:39,960 --> 01:07:44,600
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I don't. Cincinnati's favored by one. Am I

1321
01:07:44,680 --> 01:07:48,160
Speaker 1: reading this right? Cincinnati's favored by one going down in Miami.

1322
01:07:48,400 --> 01:07:51,720
Speaker 1: No way, Miami wins. Take Miami to win and obviously

1323
01:07:51,760 --> 01:07:53,960
Speaker 1: then cover. Steelers go to the Jets and the Steelers

1324
01:07:54,120 --> 01:07:58,040
Speaker 1: I gotta have this one. If the Steelers lose, no

1325
01:07:58,080 --> 01:08:01,960
Speaker 1: matter what, the Texans are guaranteed a playoff spot. Steelers

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01:08:02,000 --> 01:08:04,520
Speaker 1: will not lose. They're favored by three at the Jets.

1327
01:08:04,840 --> 01:08:06,720
Speaker 1: The Jets are a mess. Nobody wants to play for

1328
01:08:06,760 --> 01:08:10,240
Speaker 1: Adam Gays in the offensive side. The Steelers win, and

1329
01:08:10,360 --> 01:08:12,960
Speaker 1: they win by more than three. The Giants and Redskins

1330
01:08:12,960 --> 01:08:15,720
Speaker 1: are both three and eleven, so nobody cares at this

1331
01:08:15,840 --> 01:08:18,439
Speaker 1: point unless you're putting together a mock draft. Let's take

1332
01:08:18,439 --> 01:08:23,200
Speaker 1: the Redskins to win and beat Eli Manning in Washington.

1333
01:08:23,240 --> 01:08:26,600
Speaker 1: The Lions travel to the Broncos. Allions are not a

1334
01:08:26,720 --> 01:08:29,679
Speaker 1: very good football team. Watch him Thanksgiving. They played okay,

1335
01:08:29,800 --> 01:08:32,960
Speaker 1: couldn't stop anybody. I watched him against the Buccaneers. Couldn't

1336
01:08:32,960 --> 01:08:35,280
Speaker 1: stop anybody. I think they'll have a hard time stopping

1337
01:08:35,360 --> 01:08:38,360
Speaker 1: the Broncos going back home. The Broncos are favored by seven.

1338
01:08:38,800 --> 01:08:42,599
Speaker 1: If the Broncos a win and a cover, all you

1339
01:08:42,600 --> 01:08:45,920
Speaker 1: know is that Matt Patricia still staying. The Raiders go

1340
01:08:45,960 --> 01:08:48,920
Speaker 1: to the Chargers. You're playing this one for respect. On

1341
01:08:48,960 --> 01:08:51,639
Speaker 1: the Chargers side, I think the Raiders have that same

1342
01:08:51,720 --> 01:08:54,559
Speaker 1: small sliver of hope for a playoff bid. The Chargers

1343
01:08:54,560 --> 01:08:58,400
Speaker 1: are favored by seven. That's too rich. I think the

1344
01:08:58,479 --> 01:09:01,960
Speaker 1: Chargers win, but the Raiders play that within seven. I'll

1345
01:09:02,000 --> 01:09:05,479
Speaker 1: leave it that way. Cowboys and Eagles, Oh boy. NFC

1346
01:09:05,600 --> 01:09:10,320
Speaker 1: East on the line. Dak Prescott's hurting, but Dallas is

1347
01:09:10,360 --> 01:09:13,559
Speaker 1: favorite by a point and a half. In Philly, I

1348
01:09:13,600 --> 01:09:16,559
Speaker 1: don't like it. I'm gonna go with Philly to eke

1349
01:09:16,800 --> 01:09:21,439
Speaker 1: out a win and take a lead in the NFC East.

1350
01:09:22,000 --> 01:09:23,640
Speaker 1: A little bit of an upset there at Philly. The

1351
01:09:23,680 --> 01:09:27,040
Speaker 1: Seahawks and a visit from the Cardinals. The Cardinals can

1352
01:09:27,080 --> 01:09:30,320
Speaker 1: put up some points, but the Seahawks got a gift

1353
01:09:30,400 --> 01:09:34,000
Speaker 1: last week they played in Carolina. They held onto a lead,

1354
01:09:34,040 --> 01:09:36,000
Speaker 1: but the gift came in the form of the Falcons

1355
01:09:36,000 --> 01:09:38,320
Speaker 1: beating the Niners. They don't need a gift this week.

1356
01:09:38,360 --> 01:09:41,200
Speaker 1: The Seahawks pound the Cardinals. They win nap by more

1357
01:09:41,240 --> 01:09:42,800
Speaker 1: than nine and a half. We'll take the Seahawks to

1358
01:09:42,880 --> 01:09:45,439
Speaker 1: win in to cover. The Chiefs travel to Chicago. The

1359
01:09:45,520 --> 01:09:49,920
Speaker 1: Chiefs are a six point favorite on the road, Mitchell Trubisky.

1360
01:09:50,120 --> 01:09:52,760
Speaker 1: If you're gonna do anything, this is that time you're

1361
01:09:52,800 --> 01:09:55,800
Speaker 1: facing Pat Mahomes, so the first time you faced one

1362
01:09:55,840 --> 01:09:58,439
Speaker 1: of the quarterbacks from the twenty seventeen draft. You need

1363
01:09:58,479 --> 01:10:01,960
Speaker 1: to win heart and head bears with the upset, and

1364
01:10:02,000 --> 01:10:04,439
Speaker 1: then Monday Night Packers take on the Vikings. The Vikings

1365
01:10:04,439 --> 01:10:05,800
Speaker 1: are favorite at home, and I'm gonna go with the

1366
01:10:05,880 --> 01:10:09,559
Speaker 1: Vikings in that building. We're going skull all the way.

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01:10:09,600 --> 01:10:12,200
Speaker 1: All Right, we get back. It's our players segment right

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01:10:12,200 --> 01:10:20,160
Speaker 1: here on Texans All Access. All right, we got one

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01:10:20,360 --> 01:10:23,920
Speaker 1: final segment from Tampa, Florida on this Friday edition of

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01:10:24,040 --> 01:10:27,880
Speaker 1: Texans All Access, also from the Hounday Texans Radio Studio.

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01:10:27,960 --> 01:10:31,120
Speaker 1: I am John Harris, your host, and I am so

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01:10:31,200 --> 01:10:33,600
Speaker 1: glad to be with you as we get ready for

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01:10:33,800 --> 01:10:38,800
Speaker 1: Week sixteen, Game fifteen, and this one taking on the

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01:10:38,920 --> 01:10:42,960
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The Texans have won the last two

1375
01:10:43,000 --> 01:10:46,160
Speaker 1: meetings twenty fifteen and twenty eleven, and that's as far

1376
01:10:46,200 --> 01:10:48,240
Speaker 1: as my brain can go back. I'm sure they meant

1377
01:10:48,240 --> 01:10:50,200
Speaker 1: two thousand and seven. I know they meant down seven.

1378
01:10:50,640 --> 01:10:52,760
Speaker 1: Just trying to remember what happened, and I don't have

1379
01:10:52,840 --> 01:10:55,960
Speaker 1: the information in front of me, So just go with me.

1380
01:10:56,040 --> 01:10:58,120
Speaker 1: The fact that Texans won the last two. We're gonna

1381
01:10:58,120 --> 01:10:59,640
Speaker 1: make it three in a row. We're gonna make it

1382
01:10:59,680 --> 01:11:02,519
Speaker 1: two tune a row in the season. If they can

1383
01:11:02,520 --> 01:11:04,200
Speaker 1: make a tune a row in the season, they will

1384
01:11:04,240 --> 01:11:10,640
Speaker 1: be AFC South champs as they leave the field on Saturday.

1385
01:11:11,040 --> 01:11:15,040
Speaker 1: It's also the spot where Shan Watson won his national

1386
01:11:15,400 --> 01:11:20,040
Speaker 1: championship with Clemson. So yeah, this place has got some

1387
01:11:20,120 --> 01:11:22,920
Speaker 1: memories for some guys, and it's got some memories for

1388
01:11:23,040 --> 01:11:25,439
Speaker 1: a guy in Vernon Hargraves who's going back to where

1389
01:11:25,439 --> 01:11:28,000
Speaker 1: he started his career and hopefully VH three can have

1390
01:11:28,080 --> 01:11:30,240
Speaker 1: himself a great game and show the Bucks what they

1391
01:11:30,400 --> 01:11:32,400
Speaker 1: missed out on in what the Texans game. And I

1392
01:11:32,439 --> 01:11:34,960
Speaker 1: would imagine he is going to see some significant time

1393
01:11:35,160 --> 01:11:38,960
Speaker 1: playing against this Buccaneers team that throws the ball a

1394
01:11:39,000 --> 01:11:42,400
Speaker 1: lot and throws it very well a lot, as in

1395
01:11:42,560 --> 01:11:45,240
Speaker 1: three hundred and nine yards per game number one in

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01:11:45,479 --> 01:11:50,920
Speaker 1: the NFL. All right, we always turn segment six, as

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01:11:50,960 --> 01:11:53,599
Speaker 1: I in my world, because it's segment six three each hour,

1398
01:11:54,080 --> 01:11:58,040
Speaker 1: the last segment of the show into our players segment,

1399
01:11:58,880 --> 01:12:03,920
Speaker 1: and we always kick it off with our buddy Brennan

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01:12:04,320 --> 01:12:09,200
Speaker 1: Scarlett b scar TV this week best and worst holiday

1401
01:12:09,479 --> 01:12:13,960
Speaker 1: present guys have ever gotten? Get a little cameo though,

1402
01:12:14,439 --> 01:12:17,920
Speaker 1: right off the bat from Jordan Thomas. Check this out.

1403
01:12:19,840 --> 01:12:24,799
Speaker 1: You might get stuff. Hello, we're here with Brendan Scarlett,

1404
01:12:25,000 --> 01:12:30,040
Speaker 1: outside linebacker fifty seven fifty seven on the field, number

1405
01:12:30,080 --> 01:12:36,600
Speaker 1: one in your hearts. I mean, don't let me And

1406
01:12:36,640 --> 01:12:40,200
Speaker 1: I was lying. I was lying, what is the best

1407
01:12:40,240 --> 01:12:43,600
Speaker 1: holiday gift you've ever received? When I was younger, I

1408
01:12:43,680 --> 01:12:46,680
Speaker 1: always won the video game, so I got the PlayStation.

1409
01:12:46,880 --> 01:12:50,120
Speaker 1: And then that's when Ncubla was out, so nc double

1410
01:12:50,160 --> 01:12:55,800
Speaker 1: at football with the PlayStation. Two yeahs too. When I

1411
01:12:55,840 --> 01:13:00,519
Speaker 1: was body eleven, Um, moms came across some money and

1412
01:13:00,760 --> 01:13:03,479
Speaker 1: U she bought me my first pet of Jordan's Man,

1413
01:13:04,040 --> 01:13:08,519
Speaker 1: first pet of Jordan's Which Jordan's worth the Levins Jordan's

1414
01:13:08,560 --> 01:13:12,320
Speaker 1: Levins o dope, which color way worth? It? Black and

1415
01:13:12,320 --> 01:13:14,560
Speaker 1: white baby with a little little specs of red in

1416
01:13:14,640 --> 01:13:18,720
Speaker 1: that joint. Wow. Shout out to moms hooking it up

1417
01:13:19,120 --> 01:13:21,880
Speaker 1: with the Jays. When the first Xbox came out, I

1418
01:13:21,920 --> 01:13:26,320
Speaker 1: got that in two thousand and seven, I think, And

1419
01:13:26,360 --> 01:13:28,920
Speaker 1: I was let my mom got it funny, My grandma

1420
01:13:28,960 --> 01:13:31,880
Speaker 1: actually got it fun when it first dropped. When the

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01:13:32,000 --> 01:13:34,880
Speaker 1: first drop, so you know, I was living probably my

1422
01:13:35,040 --> 01:13:37,599
Speaker 1: bb gun. It had to be. When I was like seven,

1423
01:13:37,800 --> 01:13:40,000
Speaker 1: my mom and dad got me a F four look

1424
01:13:40,000 --> 01:13:43,080
Speaker 1: for Christmas. They said, you know what I'm saying. I

1425
01:13:43,120 --> 01:13:45,760
Speaker 1: went outside, you know and played on it while they

1426
01:13:45,760 --> 01:13:49,000
Speaker 1: were sleep, you know what I mean. And then when

1427
01:13:49,040 --> 01:13:51,519
Speaker 1: I woke back up to get on it, it was broke.

1428
01:13:52,400 --> 01:13:55,759
Speaker 1: What's the worst holiday present you ever received? My older

1429
01:13:55,760 --> 01:14:02,280
Speaker 1: brother man for Christmas, he got me some white shocks

1430
01:14:01,000 --> 01:14:05,519
Speaker 1: straight from pay Last Man and it was too big. Hey,

1431
01:14:05,560 --> 01:14:08,400
Speaker 1: shout out to Shaquille O'Neil making affordable sneakers for the

1432
01:14:08,479 --> 01:14:13,519
Speaker 1: kids out there. Like a legit ugly sweater. One of

1433
01:14:13,560 --> 01:14:15,160
Speaker 1: my eight teams got it for me. It was a

1434
01:14:15,200 --> 01:14:17,519
Speaker 1: bad sweater, bro but it's really ugly, but you gotta

1435
01:14:17,560 --> 01:14:19,479
Speaker 1: play like it's nice. And I had to wear it

1436
01:14:19,560 --> 01:14:22,479
Speaker 1: for her and trying to, you know, make it look tight,

1437
01:14:22,600 --> 01:14:25,080
Speaker 1: but it just wasn't happy. I had to thug it out.

1438
01:14:25,760 --> 01:14:29,120
Speaker 1: So when you open that gift, like, what's what's the reaction?

1439
01:14:29,160 --> 01:14:31,680
Speaker 1: Because like you gotta act kind of like, you know,

1440
01:14:31,800 --> 01:14:36,600
Speaker 1: like you like it, but oh I like this, yeah,

1441
01:14:36,640 --> 01:14:38,160
Speaker 1: you know you put it up to you to see

1442
01:14:38,200 --> 01:14:40,599
Speaker 1: the side of it, look at it. I don't know

1443
01:14:40,640 --> 01:14:43,680
Speaker 1: why our family feel like they'd be getting like a

1444
01:14:43,680 --> 01:14:46,040
Speaker 1: fresh sweater and when they know it's bad like and

1445
01:14:46,080 --> 01:14:48,760
Speaker 1: then they give it to you so happy, like you know,

1446
01:14:48,840 --> 01:14:54,920
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna like this. Thanks for coming on the show, man, Ben,

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01:14:55,000 --> 01:15:00,200
Speaker 1: just a wonderful guest. The number thirty three j off

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01:15:00,200 --> 01:15:05,839
Speaker 1: from the countryside. That mud roding bb gun shooting dog.

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01:15:07,120 --> 01:15:13,679
Speaker 1: All right, we're moving and brand Scarlett certainly means dog

1450
01:15:13,680 --> 01:15:16,639
Speaker 1: in a good way. A. J. Moore is I'm so

1451
01:15:16,680 --> 01:15:18,840
Speaker 1: glad that guy is with this team. Man. He does

1452
01:15:18,880 --> 01:15:21,479
Speaker 1: some really good things for this team and came on

1453
01:15:21,560 --> 01:15:25,599
Speaker 1: the field in specialized third down situations the other day,

1454
01:15:25,840 --> 01:15:29,840
Speaker 1: drew a holding penalty, got some pressure, recovered the block

1455
01:15:29,920 --> 01:15:32,880
Speaker 1: field goal. This some great things. He's a great guy

1456
01:15:32,920 --> 01:15:37,479
Speaker 1: to have around and ironically he is very very close

1457
01:15:37,520 --> 01:15:39,559
Speaker 1: to Jordan Thomas, who you heard at the beginning of

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Speaker 1: went to the well, he had the locker room podium,

1464
01:16:05,160 --> 01:16:08,320
Speaker 1: let's put it that way. After he was voted to

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01:16:08,520 --> 01:16:13,040
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl, and he met with the media on

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01:16:13,080 --> 01:16:15,400
Speaker 1: the day after he was sick, and he was asked

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01:16:15,400 --> 01:16:17,960
Speaker 1: how he felt about being sick and how he was

1468
01:16:18,000 --> 01:16:22,280
Speaker 1: feeling on that day and he said, swell, yeah, he

1469
01:16:22,560 --> 01:16:25,920
Speaker 1: uh yeah, he was not really. I don't want to

1470
01:16:25,920 --> 01:16:27,960
Speaker 1: say they're talking to mood, but he wasn't wanting to

1471
01:16:28,000 --> 01:16:31,360
Speaker 1: talk about being ill. But that's okay. Hop said he

1472
01:16:31,439 --> 01:16:35,439
Speaker 1: was feeling swell. Well. Obviously, the Pro Bowl was a

1473
01:16:35,439 --> 01:16:37,920
Speaker 1: big deal. That was a huge deal. Here's what he

1474
01:16:37,960 --> 01:16:41,120
Speaker 1: had to say about going to the Pro Bowl. That

1475
01:16:41,200 --> 01:16:43,680
Speaker 1: means a lot to be Pro Bowl. Um, you know,

1476
01:16:43,760 --> 01:16:45,880
Speaker 1: there's a lot of people that vote, you know, and

1477
01:16:46,200 --> 01:16:48,120
Speaker 1: you know they watched football a lot, so you know,

1478
01:16:48,160 --> 01:16:50,000
Speaker 1: there's a lot of a lot of my peers out here.

1479
01:16:50,280 --> 01:16:52,160
Speaker 1: It's had a great season as well that could have

1480
01:16:52,200 --> 01:16:54,040
Speaker 1: got voted in. So, um, it means a lot. You know,

1481
01:16:54,160 --> 01:16:56,639
Speaker 1: thank you know, thank the plans voted. Yeah. I love that.

1482
01:16:56,840 --> 01:16:59,800
Speaker 1: He's always thankful of his fans, and he said that. Yeah,

1483
01:17:00,120 --> 01:17:03,800
Speaker 1: he he deserved it, and there's no question he deserved it.

1484
01:17:04,040 --> 01:17:07,920
Speaker 1: A word, Carr, I expect to be at the you know,

1485
01:17:08,040 --> 01:17:10,360
Speaker 1: the top of you know, anything that I do, I

1486
01:17:10,400 --> 01:17:12,160
Speaker 1: do no matter what position it is, no matter what

1487
01:17:12,280 --> 01:17:14,439
Speaker 1: sport is. I try to be the best of everything

1488
01:17:14,479 --> 01:17:17,280
Speaker 1: I do. So, um, you know that's that's that's my mission,

1489
01:17:17,320 --> 01:17:18,840
Speaker 1: That's why I worked for But you know, it's a

1490
01:17:18,880 --> 01:17:21,120
Speaker 1: lot of people I hear it also great, um, you know,

1491
01:17:21,160 --> 01:17:23,719
Speaker 1: so to be considered at the top, that's on them. Yeah,

1492
01:17:23,800 --> 01:17:26,600
Speaker 1: he's put on a show this year. Said though, that

1493
01:17:26,680 --> 01:17:28,840
Speaker 1: Saturday's game is not gonna be easy. It's a lot

1494
01:17:28,840 --> 01:17:31,680
Speaker 1: of young guys, very aggressive, and they obviously want to

1495
01:17:31,680 --> 01:17:33,960
Speaker 1: make a name against Hopkins. It's a good team. You know,

1496
01:17:34,000 --> 01:17:36,880
Speaker 1: those guys have some some injuries, but you know, they

1497
01:17:36,920 --> 01:17:39,040
Speaker 1: still got a good team over there. So we gotta

1498
01:17:39,040 --> 01:17:41,360
Speaker 1: come out and focus and um, you know, to take

1499
01:17:41,400 --> 01:17:43,719
Speaker 1: at play by play, and they've got a great offense.

1500
01:17:43,760 --> 01:17:46,200
Speaker 1: Hop those a great offense. When he sees it, they

1501
01:17:46,320 --> 01:17:49,320
Speaker 1: got a great offense. Now, there would have been three

1502
01:17:49,360 --> 01:17:52,160
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl receivers in this game, three the eight in

1503
01:17:52,280 --> 01:17:56,040
Speaker 1: this game. However, you will not see Mike Evans or

1504
01:17:56,080 --> 01:17:59,479
Speaker 1: Chris Godwin doesn't matter, Hop said, they got themselves a

1505
01:17:59,479 --> 01:18:01,519
Speaker 1: pretty good offense led by a guy that hopp the

1506
01:18:01,560 --> 01:18:04,719
Speaker 1: scene before and Jameis Winston. Jamis is throwing the ball,

1507
01:18:05,360 --> 01:18:07,960
Speaker 1: you know, four hundred and how many yards back to back,

1508
01:18:08,560 --> 01:18:11,600
Speaker 1: So you know he's a good quarterback. Um, you know

1509
01:18:11,760 --> 01:18:13,960
Speaker 1: that's a good defense we're going against. So we gotta

1510
01:18:13,960 --> 01:18:16,200
Speaker 1: come out and play. Yeah, there's no question. They definitely

1511
01:18:16,280 --> 01:18:19,759
Speaker 1: gotta come out play. I think they know that more

1512
01:18:20,040 --> 01:18:23,599
Speaker 1: than more than anything, more than anything, they know they

1513
01:18:23,640 --> 01:18:25,519
Speaker 1: gotta play. So let's flip it over the other side

1514
01:18:25,520 --> 01:18:28,240
Speaker 1: of the ball. And here a little bit from Jonathan

1515
01:18:28,320 --> 01:18:31,599
Speaker 1: Joseph and he went a little further into the Jamis

1516
01:18:31,840 --> 01:18:35,080
Speaker 1: can play situation. Yeah, I think we all know Jamis

1517
01:18:35,080 --> 01:18:38,920
Speaker 1: can play. But hearing from j Joe that the guy

1518
01:18:38,920 --> 01:18:40,920
Speaker 1: that's been around for a while, he's seen a lot

1519
01:18:40,920 --> 01:18:43,920
Speaker 1: of quarterbacks, he knows James can sling it. Obviously, everybody

1520
01:18:43,920 --> 01:18:46,880
Speaker 1: talks about his turnovers or whatever that is. I think,

1521
01:18:46,920 --> 01:18:49,120
Speaker 1: you know, I see a guy's you know, being a

1522
01:18:49,160 --> 01:18:51,000
Speaker 1: good decision maker, you know, getting the ball out of

1523
01:18:51,040 --> 01:18:52,600
Speaker 1: his hands quickly, he knowing way he wanted to go

1524
01:18:52,600 --> 01:18:55,160
Speaker 1: with the ball. He's obviously passing for a lot of yards,

1525
01:18:55,400 --> 01:18:57,160
Speaker 1: you know, and he's playing some good football down the stretch,

1526
01:18:57,160 --> 01:18:58,640
Speaker 1: and he's putting their team in winning position in a

1527
01:18:58,680 --> 01:19:01,640
Speaker 1: lot of these games. Now, they last saw Jamis in

1528
01:19:01,680 --> 01:19:05,160
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen. That was Week three. That was Jamison's rookie year.

1529
01:19:05,880 --> 01:19:08,800
Speaker 1: He's changed a lot and come a long way, said

1530
01:19:08,840 --> 01:19:11,439
Speaker 1: J Joe. He's always growing as a quarterback as a leader.

1531
01:19:11,560 --> 01:19:12,800
Speaker 1: You know, he likes to get out there in front

1532
01:19:12,800 --> 01:19:14,080
Speaker 1: of his team and be the leader from him. And

1533
01:19:14,120 --> 01:19:16,280
Speaker 1: he's always been that guy coming out of college. And

1534
01:19:16,320 --> 01:19:19,040
Speaker 1: I think he's a natural leader, likes lead by example. Yeah,

1535
01:19:19,040 --> 01:19:21,519
Speaker 1: obviously he was young, dam but coming in to the game,

1536
01:19:21,560 --> 01:19:23,280
Speaker 1: I think he handled himself a whale and back the end.

1537
01:19:23,520 --> 01:19:25,760
Speaker 1: I can remember correct us three or four years ago,

1538
01:19:26,160 --> 01:19:27,960
Speaker 1: but I think now you look at a guy, he's

1539
01:19:28,000 --> 01:19:30,000
Speaker 1: way light years ahead of that. He you know, he

1540
01:19:30,040 --> 01:19:31,519
Speaker 1: may make a turn over here there, but he comes

1541
01:19:31,600 --> 01:19:35,000
Speaker 1: right back. He's not gunshot. He's confident he can orchestrate

1542
01:19:35,000 --> 01:19:36,960
Speaker 1: the offense. Whale. So I see a guy that's you know,

1543
01:19:36,960 --> 01:19:39,479
Speaker 1: obviously able to drive, and he'll be the captain and

1544
01:19:40,320 --> 01:19:41,960
Speaker 1: one of the words. So he didn't mention this one.

1545
01:19:42,000 --> 01:19:44,519
Speaker 1: He mentioned here and that it is Jamish is fearless.

1546
01:19:44,720 --> 01:19:45,960
Speaker 1: You see a lot of guys in this league. You

1547
01:19:46,000 --> 01:19:47,519
Speaker 1: make that turnover in the skate to make the next

1548
01:19:47,520 --> 01:19:49,680
Speaker 1: throw or the next play. That's not him. You know,

1549
01:19:49,680 --> 01:19:51,400
Speaker 1: if he turns the ball over, he understands what's the

1550
01:19:51,479 --> 01:19:53,000
Speaker 1: mistake he made. He comes right back out there and

1551
01:19:53,040 --> 01:19:54,680
Speaker 1: his foot hits the ground. He's getting that ball out

1552
01:19:54,680 --> 01:19:57,360
Speaker 1: to whoever it is. Bruce Arians is now the coach

1553
01:19:57,400 --> 01:19:59,880
Speaker 1: with Jamison. That's a combination. And a lot of people

1554
01:20:00,080 --> 01:20:03,719
Speaker 1: talked about when that decision by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers

1555
01:20:03,840 --> 01:20:07,000
Speaker 1: was made to hire Bruce Arians, and we all went,

1556
01:20:07,080 --> 01:20:10,519
Speaker 1: whoa wait a second, might take a little while, but

1557
01:20:10,680 --> 01:20:15,120
Speaker 1: this combination, Oh boy, Jed just said the offense though,

1558
01:20:15,280 --> 01:20:17,519
Speaker 1: hadn't changed the whole lot. Bruce Arians, that's what he's doing.

1559
01:20:17,800 --> 01:20:19,360
Speaker 1: I just remember the receivers he had when he was

1560
01:20:19,360 --> 01:20:21,280
Speaker 1: into since then, I mean he was in Pittsburgh, those

1561
01:20:21,320 --> 01:20:25,679
Speaker 1: guys you know, Nate and Santonio Hans and those guys

1562
01:20:25,760 --> 01:20:28,120
Speaker 1: speed he had, and then he went to Arizona and

1563
01:20:28,200 --> 01:20:30,040
Speaker 1: he had those guys some speed on the side because

1564
01:20:30,080 --> 01:20:31,880
Speaker 1: he had my guy crossing palm of his quarterback. So

1565
01:20:31,920 --> 01:20:33,960
Speaker 1: I've always watched him and then you know, he come

1566
01:20:33,960 --> 01:20:36,160
Speaker 1: over to Tampa Bay and they Quiley did put together

1567
01:20:36,280 --> 01:20:38,400
Speaker 1: Mike Evans and those two thousand yard receivers. They got

1568
01:20:38,400 --> 01:20:40,800
Speaker 1: over there and has some young guys and he's always

1569
01:20:40,840 --> 01:20:42,720
Speaker 1: been able to, you know, find talent and use it

1570
01:20:42,720 --> 01:20:45,200
Speaker 1: will in his scheme. Yeah, there's no question Bruce arians

1571
01:20:45,240 --> 01:20:47,120
Speaker 1: knows what he's doing. So there you go. A little

1572
01:20:47,120 --> 01:20:51,080
Speaker 1: Texans audio jukebox from two of the more veteran members

1573
01:20:51,120 --> 01:20:53,519
Speaker 1: of this squad, DeAndre Hopkins going to his fourth Pro

1574
01:20:53,560 --> 01:20:59,479
Speaker 1: Bowl and Jonathan Joseph in his fourteenth season. And as

1575
01:20:59,520 --> 01:21:01,320
Speaker 1: my math correct on that, I think that's right, two

1576
01:21:01,360 --> 01:21:03,559
Speaker 1: thousand and six was the first you fourteenth season? How

1577
01:21:03,600 --> 01:21:07,360
Speaker 1: about that? The venerable Jonathan Joseph? All right. We always

1578
01:21:07,439 --> 01:21:11,360
Speaker 1: hand over the final word of the show to our

1579
01:21:11,360 --> 01:21:13,280
Speaker 1: good friend Drew Doherty, and this week he caught up

1580
01:21:13,320 --> 01:21:17,000
Speaker 1: with rookie guard Max Sharping. Thanks so much. We've got

1581
01:21:17,080 --> 01:21:20,519
Speaker 1: left guard Max Sharping with us and Max, how has

1582
01:21:20,720 --> 01:21:24,080
Speaker 1: the rookie season gone so far? I mean we're nine

1583
01:21:24,080 --> 01:21:26,120
Speaker 1: and five, so I think it's been going pretty well.

1584
01:21:26,520 --> 01:21:29,160
Speaker 1: You know, it's always can be better. From my end

1585
01:21:29,200 --> 01:21:31,160
Speaker 1: when I'm looking at film and stuff, But it's going

1586
01:21:31,280 --> 01:21:33,600
Speaker 1: pretty well. What's been the biggest challenge so far for you?

1587
01:21:34,000 --> 01:21:37,759
Speaker 1: I think just you know, adjusting to the different game speed.

1588
01:21:37,960 --> 01:21:40,240
Speaker 1: Obviously it's a big step up from college. But you're

1589
01:21:40,240 --> 01:21:42,680
Speaker 1: just trying to do your best every single play when

1590
01:21:42,680 --> 01:21:45,760
Speaker 1: you're in there and get the job done. In Week three,

1591
01:21:45,760 --> 01:21:47,960
Speaker 1: you've been in the starting lineup since before you got in,

1592
01:21:48,120 --> 01:21:51,400
Speaker 1: Texans were seeing the quarterback. It's sacked five times a game.

1593
01:21:51,520 --> 01:21:53,599
Speaker 1: You can't blame everything on the offensive line. It's pass

1594
01:21:53,640 --> 01:21:56,960
Speaker 1: protection as a whole. Since you've been in, the Texans

1595
01:21:56,960 --> 01:21:59,680
Speaker 1: have averaged two point four sacks a game. So that

1596
01:21:59,760 --> 01:22:02,439
Speaker 1: number got cut in half. It's a collective effort, I know.

1597
01:22:02,720 --> 01:22:05,960
Speaker 1: But what's changed. I think just across the whole offense.

1598
01:22:06,040 --> 01:22:08,679
Speaker 1: We buckled down a little bit, made sure we knew

1599
01:22:08,720 --> 01:22:12,120
Speaker 1: what communication had to be made between wide receiver and

1600
01:22:12,240 --> 01:22:15,559
Speaker 1: quarterback if he's hot, running backs, where they're looking us,

1601
01:22:15,600 --> 01:22:19,800
Speaker 1: where we're looking to protect, and you know, just collectively

1602
01:22:19,840 --> 01:22:23,360
Speaker 1: as an offensive line, focusing on that, making sure we

1603
01:22:23,439 --> 01:22:25,760
Speaker 1: knew that because we knew we had to keep de

1604
01:22:25,920 --> 01:22:28,880
Speaker 1: four up right. What's it like playing in between Laramie

1605
01:22:28,880 --> 01:22:31,719
Speaker 1: Tunsel and Nick Martin. It's awesome. What have you learned?

1606
01:22:31,720 --> 01:22:33,080
Speaker 1: What have you learned? What sort of stuff of you?

1607
01:22:33,360 --> 01:22:35,920
Speaker 1: I've learned that Laramie Tunsel is the best left half

1608
01:22:36,000 --> 01:22:39,080
Speaker 1: in the NFL, and that Nick Martin is very good

1609
01:22:39,080 --> 01:22:41,800
Speaker 1: at what he does. Those guys help out every single play.

1610
01:22:42,000 --> 01:22:44,519
Speaker 1: Even from a confident standpoint. I mean, you know, you guys,

1611
01:22:44,680 --> 01:22:46,519
Speaker 1: you have two guys there that have played here for

1612
01:22:46,560 --> 01:22:48,400
Speaker 1: a long time or in the league for a long

1613
01:22:48,439 --> 01:22:50,519
Speaker 1: time at a high level. It just kind of gives

1614
01:22:50,520 --> 01:22:52,519
Speaker 1: you confidence to go out there and do what you

1615
01:22:52,600 --> 01:22:54,519
Speaker 1: do because those guys are gonna have your back, and

1616
01:22:54,560 --> 01:22:56,320
Speaker 1: I'm guessing you've picked up a lot of little tricks

1617
01:22:56,320 --> 01:22:58,439
Speaker 1: of the trade just being around them and seeing them

1618
01:22:58,479 --> 01:23:00,720
Speaker 1: and actually playing in a game them, Because I can't

1619
01:23:00,760 --> 01:23:04,120
Speaker 1: imagine you'll learn the same stuff you do in practice

1620
01:23:04,160 --> 01:23:06,639
Speaker 1: that you do in a game. Yeah, I mean, obviously

1621
01:23:06,720 --> 01:23:08,960
Speaker 1: practice reps and game reps are a lot different. So

1622
01:23:09,120 --> 01:23:12,160
Speaker 1: you're trying to simulate that in practice obviously as best

1623
01:23:12,160 --> 01:23:14,320
Speaker 1: you can. But when it's out there live, you're learning

1624
01:23:14,320 --> 01:23:17,240
Speaker 1: stuff from each other. How to communicate what you're what

1625
01:23:17,280 --> 01:23:20,080
Speaker 1: they're kind of looking at on a defensive perspective, what

1626
01:23:20,160 --> 01:23:22,920
Speaker 1: you have to focus on, stuff like that. So, what's

1627
01:23:22,960 --> 01:23:26,439
Speaker 1: the challenge this week with this front in Tampa Bay?

1628
01:23:26,479 --> 01:23:28,760
Speaker 1: Because you got some guys who've seen some things, done

1629
01:23:28,800 --> 01:23:30,880
Speaker 1: some things in the league, haven't they. Yeah, this is

1630
01:23:31,080 --> 01:23:34,160
Speaker 1: one of the most experienced fronts probably in the league overall.

1631
01:23:34,200 --> 01:23:37,639
Speaker 1: They're very experienced stuff front, got great, great guys all

1632
01:23:37,640 --> 01:23:39,400
Speaker 1: across the front really, so it's going to be a

1633
01:23:39,400 --> 01:23:41,240
Speaker 1: big challenge for us. Yeah, and Don mckinsue is one

1634
01:23:41,240 --> 01:23:43,280
Speaker 1: of them. He's somebody that Texans fans are familiar with.

1635
01:23:43,280 --> 01:23:44,840
Speaker 1: Don't know how much you'll see of him is where

1636
01:23:44,840 --> 01:23:46,680
Speaker 1: you playing where he plays, might see a lot, might

1637
01:23:46,680 --> 01:23:48,559
Speaker 1: see not too much of him. But when you have

1638
01:23:48,600 --> 01:23:50,880
Speaker 1: a guy like that who's got that pedigree, what do

1639
01:23:50,920 --> 01:23:52,880
Speaker 1: you think It's a good way to gauge where you

1640
01:23:52,960 --> 01:23:54,960
Speaker 1: are as a player, And you know you have to

1641
01:23:55,000 --> 01:23:57,840
Speaker 1: come every single player ready to give your best because

1642
01:23:58,040 --> 01:23:59,680
Speaker 1: like you said, he's a great player, been doing it

1643
01:23:59,680 --> 01:24:01,439
Speaker 1: for a long time at a high level. So you

1644
01:24:01,479 --> 01:24:03,960
Speaker 1: just have to trust in your technique, really work on

1645
01:24:04,040 --> 01:24:06,080
Speaker 1: that this week and getting the playbook, make sure I

1646
01:24:06,120 --> 01:24:08,040
Speaker 1: know exactly what I'm supposed to do on every play

1647
01:24:08,080 --> 01:24:10,559
Speaker 1: where my help is who I'm supposed to be looking

1648
01:24:10,600 --> 01:24:12,880
Speaker 1: at stuff like that, So just trying to don't do

1649
01:24:12,960 --> 01:24:15,640
Speaker 1: too much, just do your job. How much of a

1650
01:24:15,760 --> 01:24:17,679
Speaker 1: challenge is it when you have a flip around where

1651
01:24:17,720 --> 01:24:21,080
Speaker 1: the game comes one day sooner than Sunday. Yeah, I mean,

1652
01:24:21,120 --> 01:24:24,400
Speaker 1: I think anytime you have a little bit less time

1653
01:24:24,479 --> 01:24:26,400
Speaker 1: until the game, you kind of have to lock in

1654
01:24:26,439 --> 01:24:29,760
Speaker 1: on film, study a little bit more. You know, less

1655
01:24:29,760 --> 01:24:31,880
Speaker 1: and less time to prepare, so you have to really

1656
01:24:32,320 --> 01:24:35,240
Speaker 1: lock it down and know what you're doing. And communication

1657
01:24:35,280 --> 01:24:37,840
Speaker 1: across the front Nick getting the call out to all

1658
01:24:37,880 --> 01:24:39,760
Speaker 1: of us, to Sean in the huddle, making sure we

1659
01:24:39,760 --> 01:24:41,920
Speaker 1: all know the play, all stuff like that has to

1660
01:24:41,960 --> 01:24:45,760
Speaker 1: be on point. Last thing early in the week around Tuesday,

1661
01:24:46,000 --> 01:24:49,120
Speaker 1: I saw you walking through the halls of NRG Stadium

1662
01:24:49,240 --> 01:24:52,360
Speaker 1: and a big cold front had rolled through the night before.

1663
01:24:52,640 --> 01:24:56,120
Speaker 1: It's chilly for us Houstonians. You're in there wearing a

1664
01:24:56,200 --> 01:25:00,919
Speaker 1: short sleeve shirt and shorts walking in the My immediate

1665
01:25:00,960 --> 01:25:05,040
Speaker 1: thought was what is this guy thinking? And then I remembered, oh,

1666
01:25:05,200 --> 01:25:06,880
Speaker 1: he grew up in Green Bay. I think I looked

1667
01:25:06,880 --> 01:25:09,639
Speaker 1: at my phone it was thirty nine degrees or so

1668
01:25:09,880 --> 01:25:11,760
Speaker 1: when I woke up, and I was like, oh, good day,

1669
01:25:12,880 --> 01:25:16,599
Speaker 1: good day for me, A nice warm balmy Green Bay day, right,

1670
01:25:16,600 --> 01:25:19,120
Speaker 1: it would be a fantastic day in the winter. That is,

1671
01:25:19,280 --> 01:25:21,760
Speaker 1: you're you're out there in the shorts, T shirt and

1672
01:25:21,880 --> 01:25:24,120
Speaker 1: Green Bay in that weather. Are you playing some cold weather?

1673
01:25:24,160 --> 01:25:27,280
Speaker 1: Obviously in high school and in college played in snow.

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01:25:27,320 --> 01:25:30,000
Speaker 1: I'm guessing did you cover a couple of times? Did

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01:25:30,000 --> 01:25:34,040
Speaker 1: you go sleeveless? Yes? Sleeveless? Yeah, h yep, sleeves. I

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01:25:34,080 --> 01:25:36,800
Speaker 1: still have gloves on. I can't play without gloves just

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01:25:36,960 --> 01:25:39,400
Speaker 1: the way it is now. No, definitely sleeveless. You know,

1678
01:25:39,520 --> 01:25:43,200
Speaker 1: got gotta show the guns off. Okay, you should have

1679
01:25:43,280 --> 01:25:44,760
Speaker 1: rolled with that. You should have just stuck with the

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01:25:44,800 --> 01:25:47,000
Speaker 1: physique thing. That would have been funny and we would

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01:25:47,000 --> 01:25:48,960
Speaker 1: have we would have stayed with that. But I understand,

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01:25:49,000 --> 01:25:51,479
Speaker 1: I understand what well Max sharpping. Best of luck on

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01:25:51,520 --> 01:25:53,720
Speaker 1: Saturday against the Bucks. Best of luck the rest of

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01:25:53,720 --> 01:25:55,360
Speaker 1: the way. We appreciate your time, Thank you, thank you

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01:25:55,400 --> 01:25:57,519
Speaker 1: very much for having me. That man has grown by

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01:25:57,600 --> 01:26:00,559
Speaker 1: leaps and bounces throughout the year at guard, he said,

1687
01:26:00,600 --> 01:26:05,160
Speaker 1: struggles as every rookie does, but he has been solid

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01:26:05,520 --> 01:26:07,400
Speaker 1: to say the league, Max Sharp, He's gonna be a

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01:26:07,400 --> 01:26:09,880
Speaker 1: good football player for a very long time. So We

1690
01:26:09,920 --> 01:26:14,000
Speaker 1: appreciate Max and j Joe and Hop and b Scar

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01:26:14,360 --> 01:26:16,559
Speaker 1: doing a great job with b Scar TV. That was

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01:26:16,560 --> 01:26:20,040
Speaker 1: one of my favorite Brendan Scarlett television episodes that we've

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01:26:20,040 --> 01:26:22,599
Speaker 1: ever had. AKA Player Reporter brought to you by Artick.

1694
01:26:23,479 --> 01:26:25,640
Speaker 1: And now we get ready for the game on Saturday,

1695
01:26:25,960 --> 01:26:30,040
Speaker 1: kickoff twelve noon. If you're in Tampa going a game,

1696
01:26:30,120 --> 01:26:33,000
Speaker 1: it's one o'clock Eastern time. Remember you're in Eastern Time

1697
01:26:33,560 --> 01:26:36,679
Speaker 1: and cannot wait. This Saturday is one of the greatest

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01:26:36,680 --> 01:26:40,960
Speaker 1: football days I think I've ever seen. With everything that's

1699
01:26:41,000 --> 01:26:45,479
Speaker 1: going on with bowl games, would say championship games, it

1700
01:26:45,720 --> 01:26:50,040
Speaker 1: all becomes spoiled in some sense if the Texans don't

1701
01:26:50,040 --> 01:26:54,040
Speaker 1: get a win. So it's simple as this all season

1702
01:26:54,600 --> 01:26:57,600
Speaker 1: by the time the schedules announced in April, to OTAs

1703
01:26:57,600 --> 01:27:00,320
Speaker 1: and mini camps, to the break, the training camp, the

1704
01:27:00,320 --> 01:27:03,800
Speaker 1: preseason games, the season, all the way and it comes

1705
01:27:03,800 --> 01:27:08,240
Speaker 1: down to this. Win this game, win the division. Sixty

1706
01:27:08,280 --> 01:27:13,360
Speaker 1: minutes away from winning the division four times in five years.

1707
01:27:14,880 --> 01:27:19,320
Speaker 1: That would be an amazing accomplishment. Now, you still can

1708
01:27:19,360 --> 01:27:21,400
Speaker 1: have other things happen over the weekend to get you

1709
01:27:21,360 --> 01:27:24,120
Speaker 1: in the playoffs and also get you the division title.

1710
01:27:24,840 --> 01:27:26,920
Speaker 1: But to go in a a locker room and start putting

1711
01:27:26,920 --> 01:27:29,519
Speaker 1: on hats and T shirts is the goal of every

1712
01:27:29,560 --> 01:27:32,559
Speaker 1: player that will get on a plane this weekend. It

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01:27:32,720 --> 01:27:35,679
Speaker 1: isn't the only goal, but it's the most immediate goal.

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01:27:37,200 --> 01:27:42,680
Speaker 1: We will see you on Saturday tomorrow. Don't miss it.

1715
01:27:42,760 --> 01:27:47,160
Speaker 1: Pregame show on radio starts at nine o'clock. You'll hear me.

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01:27:47,320 --> 01:27:51,000
Speaker 1: Around ten, you hear Mark and Andre, John McClain, a

1717
01:27:51,040 --> 01:27:53,360
Speaker 1: myriad of others. Sean at SETH will have you in.

1718
01:27:53,360 --> 01:27:56,439
Speaker 1: Then post game you're gonna have Sean and Clint Sterner,

1719
01:27:56,600 --> 01:27:59,040
Speaker 1: and then of course in between, Mark, Andre and myself

1720
01:27:59,080 --> 01:28:00,799
Speaker 1: will bring you the game right here on our flagship

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01:28:00,840 --> 01:28:03,719
Speaker 1: Sports Radio six ten. A big thanks to everybody involved

1722
01:28:03,720 --> 01:28:05,840
Speaker 1: on the show tonight. Thank you to all of you

1723
01:28:05,840 --> 01:28:09,080
Speaker 1: for listening. Take care, We will see you tomorrow and

1724
01:28:09,120 --> 01:28:10,320
Speaker 1: as always, go Texans.