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Speaker 1: I'm still alive, I'm alive to it, and then I

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00:22:01,240 --> 00:22:04,160
Speaker 1: told what I said. I told why he can't play

428
00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:06,640
Speaker 1: too much. I said, you need you need to quit

429
00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:08,840
Speaker 1: after about ten or twelve years, so I'll still be

430
00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:12,480
Speaker 1: around the piaz because I figured JJ is a lock.

431
00:22:13,280 --> 00:22:15,600
Speaker 1: We don't put receivers in for some reason on the

432
00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:19,000
Speaker 1: first ballot unless it's Randy Moss. But based on what

433
00:22:19,119 --> 00:22:22,800
Speaker 1: JJ accomplished, uh, I think he's a lock to be

434
00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:26,000
Speaker 1: a first ballot Hall of Famer, probably unanimous. Did Megatron

435
00:22:26,080 --> 00:22:28,800
Speaker 1: make the top one hundred team? No? No, okay, he's

436
00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:32,119
Speaker 1: a finalist, though, What did you think of that? Truthfully,

437
00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:34,719
Speaker 1: I wasn't part of that, and it was during the season,

438
00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:36,719
Speaker 1: and I kind of glanced at it and I taped

439
00:22:36,760 --> 00:22:39,920
Speaker 1: it and I'm gonna watch it after the Texans or finished,

440
00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:43,160
Speaker 1: and uh so I'm not distracted by having to work.

441
00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:47,040
Speaker 1: But Belichick was on that committee and he's one of

442
00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:51,159
Speaker 1: the hosts. They spent two days doing that last the season,

443
00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:55,800
Speaker 1: last offseason before last, and he's great on there too. Well,

444
00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:57,720
Speaker 1: I just wish he was like that when he's talking

445
00:22:57,720 --> 00:22:59,680
Speaker 1: to us an interview. Here's what I don't understand why

446
00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:02,120
Speaker 1: they running those shows during the season. Those shows should

447
00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:05,520
Speaker 1: be offseason shows. I'd look forward to those. It's difficult,

448
00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:07,600
Speaker 1: like you say, you're in the midst of the season

449
00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:10,520
Speaker 1: to keep track of all that. Now, my kid's been watching,

450
00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:12,040
Speaker 1: so he's sort of forcing me to do it with

451
00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:15,240
Speaker 1: better than those shows they do, like players surveys that

452
00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:19,560
Speaker 1: so and so's theft. When I found out like fifty

453
00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:23,359
Speaker 1: or sixty players vote, I played no attention of that whatsoever. Okay,

454
00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:25,840
Speaker 1: fact that Deshaun was number fifty one and Baker Mayfield

455
00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:29,240
Speaker 1: was fifty Yeah, I kind of think that'll change this offseason,

456
00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:33,280
Speaker 1: think a little bit. All right, So general, what's gonna

457
00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:36,600
Speaker 1: happen with Tom Brady? I think Tom Brady will resign

458
00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:39,280
Speaker 1: there and for like a one year deal for like

459
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Speaker 1: twenty five million. Would you sign a forty three year

460
00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:45,880
Speaker 1: old quarterback who's been in the same system. He has

461
00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:49,200
Speaker 1: more leeway there than anywhere else. He knows his coaches

462
00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:54,040
Speaker 1: what he wants. Belichick, do find somebody replaced Gronk, Get

463
00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:56,400
Speaker 1: some receivers that can run the right routes and hold

464
00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:59,760
Speaker 1: the balls. It wasn't Brady this year. It was the

465
00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:03,719
Speaker 1: players around him. And the Patriots know that. And Craft

466
00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:06,520
Speaker 1: told Peter King last week Brady wanted to be a

467
00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:09,240
Speaker 1: free agent. He thought he deserved it, so they redid

468
00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:12,159
Speaker 1: his contract so it would expire and they hope to

469
00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:15,439
Speaker 1: resign him. Okay, there's Kevin Walter, who had the biggest

470
00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:20,280
Speaker 1: touchdown catching Texans history. They won the first Division championship.

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Speaker 1: I guess Kevin Walter doesn't need a hype man because

472
00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:26,199
Speaker 1: John McClean is doing it all for him. We were

473
00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:29,160
Speaker 1: just talking about him. Hey him, wherever you go, Kevin Walter.

474
00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:33,080
Speaker 1: Kevin Walter's here, John McClean will be. Kevin'll beyond with

475
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Speaker 1: us next segment, General Dallas. Mike McCarthy is the head coach.

476
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Speaker 1: Up there your thoughts. I think it's a great ire.

477
00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:42,880
Speaker 1: I'm sorry that Jerry Jones figured it out and people

478
00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:46,000
Speaker 1: act like Sean Payton's a great coach and Mike McCarthy's not.

479
00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:49,320
Speaker 1: You put the records next to each other, they're almost identical.

480
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Speaker 1: And I hate to say it, but I think the

481
00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:54,760
Speaker 1: Cowboys did really well. Okay, and I think Carolina did

482
00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:57,840
Speaker 1: really well. Yeah, I agree. Feeling about that John down

483
00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:00,280
Speaker 1: deep as a Baylor bear. I knew he was. I

484
00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:01,920
Speaker 1: thought he was going to the Giants, and then when

485
00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:04,440
Speaker 1: I saw he got sixty two million over seven years.

486
00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:07,600
Speaker 1: Who could blame him? He man ruled it a tremendous

487
00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:09,920
Speaker 1: job at Baylor, and now they've got a lot of

488
00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:13,040
Speaker 1: agents called him. Wantn't that job. And so since the

489
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Speaker 1: ad Mike Rhodes, who used to be at You of Age,

490
00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:19,560
Speaker 1: hired him, I have full confidence he'll get a good replacement,

491
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Speaker 1: whether it's somebody on the staff like Joe McGuire or

492
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Speaker 1: somebody body if he goes outside. What about coach Judge

493
00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:28,840
Speaker 1: now for the New York Giants, Well, he said he

494
00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:31,520
Speaker 1: had a good personality, said all the right things. But

495
00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:33,359
Speaker 1: he's gonna go in there and try to be like

496
00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:37,320
Speaker 1: all these other former Patriot coaches. Is gonna go in

497
00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:40,160
Speaker 1: and the first thing, I don't know if it'll work

498
00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:43,200
Speaker 1: so well there, Like Eric Mangini, it's one thing to

499
00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:46,399
Speaker 1: strong arm the media in other places, you can't do

500
00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:48,960
Speaker 1: it in New York. And but he's sure came across

501
00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:52,120
Speaker 1: well and in his interview, and to replace him, they

502
00:25:52,119 --> 00:25:54,520
Speaker 1: can go get chat O, sha'd been there for years,

503
00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:58,800
Speaker 1: who went to Miami with Brian Flores was fired. That's

504
00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:01,600
Speaker 1: why Judge went to rest Eavers. So Judge is gone.

505
00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:04,760
Speaker 1: If Bill Belichick wants to bring on Shaight back. What John,

506
00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:06,959
Speaker 1: do you know what happened in Miami? I mean, obviously

507
00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:08,840
Speaker 1: chan Gailey got hired, but you know what happened to

508
00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:10,879
Speaker 1: those shaves there for a year and then out. I

509
00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:12,119
Speaker 1: mean the guy that he coached a lot of me

510
00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:15,159
Speaker 1: and Brian Flores and coached together forever. Obviously he was

511
00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:18,520
Speaker 1: not happy with him and dusting off chan Gailey and

512
00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:21,480
Speaker 1: the cobwebs and everything. Maybe that'll work out, but it

513
00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:24,719
Speaker 1: wouldn't have been my first choice. And it's a Cowboys.

514
00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:27,640
Speaker 1: I think Mike McCarthy was a great hire. But Dick

515
00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:32,439
Speaker 1: Nolan is I mean Mike Nolan as the coordinator. Uh,

516
00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:34,720
Speaker 1: Mike Nolan had given him a job when he was

517
00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:37,560
Speaker 1: a head coach with the forty nine ers. The head

518
00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:41,480
Speaker 1: coach is worst salary staff is usually his first when

519
00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:44,679
Speaker 1: he's doing payback for all the people that have helped him,

520
00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:46,840
Speaker 1: and the ones that figured that out after that first

521
00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:49,119
Speaker 1: year and make changes are the ones that have a

522
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Speaker 1: chance to be successful. All right, General, thanks so much

523
00:26:52,440 --> 00:27:00,600
Speaker 1: for guys. John Kevin Walter said, c can catch it

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00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:02,520
Speaker 1: all right, And we're gonna take questions from the crowd

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Speaker 1: Doherty and joining us right now, Kevin Walter. Let's here

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00:27:53,560 --> 00:28:01,120
Speaker 1: for Kevin's up, guys, Kevin, Welcome to the playoffs once again. Oh,

539
00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:03,320
Speaker 1: this is what you play for? This is it? All right?

540
00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:05,639
Speaker 1: So I'll never forget you know. It's funny because I

541
00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:10,680
Speaker 1: remember you in particular, just at practice in the divisional

542
00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:14,399
Speaker 1: round in twenty eleven and twenty twelve and thinking about

543
00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:16,280
Speaker 1: how special it was, and you just seem to be

544
00:28:16,359 --> 00:28:20,000
Speaker 1: so up for it and the enthusiasm and everything. You

545
00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:22,000
Speaker 1: were so grateful to be part of this whole thing.

546
00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:25,679
Speaker 1: And that's part of my memory of the first Texans

547
00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:29,000
Speaker 1: playoff experiences, where hey, we're still out there on the

548
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:31,320
Speaker 1: practice field and the other teams aren't. You know, you

549
00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:34,520
Speaker 1: had twenty teams sitting home. It's tough, you know. You know,

550
00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:36,280
Speaker 1: there's a lot of guys that play a decade in

551
00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:39,320
Speaker 1: this league or more they don't even sniff the playoffs, right.

552
00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:41,600
Speaker 1: It is a tough, tough time to you know, get

553
00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:43,520
Speaker 1: a shot in the opportunity to get in the playoffs.

554
00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:45,240
Speaker 1: And then you know, I'm going to start from scratch.

555
00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:47,440
Speaker 1: You go out there, you execute, play well, and keep

556
00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:50,239
Speaker 1: moving on. And this is an exciting opportunity for the

557
00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:52,760
Speaker 1: Texans and for the guys, and and I can't wait

558
00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:56,640
Speaker 1: to watch it. Kevin the win on Saturday. When when

559
00:28:56,680 --> 00:28:59,640
Speaker 1: you're watching that game, what are you thinking? Are you

560
00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:01,920
Speaker 1: kind of like the rest of us, like, oh my god,

561
00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:03,480
Speaker 1: this couldn't get any worse, and then all of a

562
00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:05,360
Speaker 1: sudden it's like, oh they may pull this thing off.

563
00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:07,000
Speaker 1: What do you think of watching that game Saturday? You

564
00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:08,840
Speaker 1: know what, they're sixteen minutes, right. I mean the first

565
00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:11,680
Speaker 1: half didn't look real well, didn't look good. Um, but

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Speaker 1: you you got a lot of explosive players, a lot

567
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:15,960
Speaker 1: of good guys out there and making plays, and it's

568
00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:19,000
Speaker 1: it's not over until it's over. So it was a

569
00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:21,520
Speaker 1: fun second half. And uh, that's one of the things

570
00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:24,560
Speaker 1: you know, this week, I definitely think you need you

571
00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:26,160
Speaker 1: need to start fast. You need to have a sense

572
00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:29,560
Speaker 1: of urgency going on the road especially. I mean that's

573
00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:31,800
Speaker 1: a huge task and uh, I know the guys will

574
00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:33,480
Speaker 1: be up for it. You're in the league a long

575
00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:36,959
Speaker 1: time play with a good chunk of quarterbacks. How energizing

576
00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:38,840
Speaker 1: is the one that's here right now? Though? And how

577
00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:40,320
Speaker 1: much would you have liked to have played with him?

578
00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:44,360
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, he's amazing. He is unbelievable. This is things

579
00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:46,000
Speaker 1: he you know, the play he had at the end

580
00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:48,040
Speaker 1: of the game set him up for that field goal.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think that's probably one of the best

582
00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:52,520
Speaker 1: players I've ever seen in the quarterback make Um, he's

583
00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:55,040
Speaker 1: a special players. Not many guys like him, and you

584
00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:58,440
Speaker 1: know he's a leader and people you know love love

585
00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:01,400
Speaker 1: playing with him. Um, love allow him and he's exciting.

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00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:03,960
Speaker 1: As a receiver, what does it like to play with

587
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:05,920
Speaker 1: a guy like that? What do you need to do

588
00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:08,280
Speaker 1: that's different? You always have to be able to improvise, right,

589
00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:09,960
Speaker 1: So you're ad on a swivel. You have to because

590
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:11,800
Speaker 1: you know some plays might not work. You know, he

591
00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:14,160
Speaker 1: might break the pocket and you gotta get open. You know,

592
00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:16,280
Speaker 1: those are those are where you get those big chunk plays.

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00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:19,280
Speaker 1: And as a receiver, you know, if you're covered and

594
00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:21,600
Speaker 1: he scrambles out, you know, get open, you know, and

595
00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:23,320
Speaker 1: that that's how you could open make these big plays.

596
00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:25,760
Speaker 1: And you see that a lot this year, Kevin. Obviously

597
00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:28,680
Speaker 1: with a win in the playoffs, we always harken back

598
00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:31,360
Speaker 1: to the first one. What do you remember about twenty

599
00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:33,520
Speaker 1: eleven taking on Cincinnati in that playoff game? What do

600
00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:35,800
Speaker 1: you remember that being here? Oh? It was great. The

601
00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:39,479
Speaker 1: crowd was electric. I mean everyone was excited. This this

602
00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:43,000
Speaker 1: place was buzzing like I've never seen a buzz before. Obviously,

603
00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:45,520
Speaker 1: JJ taking that you know that that touched on back,

604
00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:47,560
Speaker 1: that was that was something else. I always remember that.

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00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:50,880
Speaker 1: Um yeah that's twenty it was twenty eleven, right, yeah, yeah,

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00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:53,959
Speaker 1: uh yeah, I mean this the first playoff win that's huge, right,

607
00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:56,680
Speaker 1: it was huge, And you mentioned the way pick six

608
00:30:56,680 --> 00:30:59,680
Speaker 1: and it wasn't exactly like this game we just saw,

609
00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:02,320
Speaker 1: but that was a moment that turned that game around.

610
00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:04,400
Speaker 1: Really was ten ten at the time, so it wasn't

611
00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:06,880
Speaker 1: going badly or anything. It was a tie game late

612
00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:09,440
Speaker 1: in the first half, but that seemed to open up

613
00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:12,440
Speaker 1: the floodgates. It was a score. It just started the

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00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:15,080
Speaker 1: on slot that would take place in the second half happens.

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00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:18,280
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, making plays like that, it's contagious, right,

616
00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:19,760
Speaker 1: I mean, you go out there, you see something like

617
00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:23,000
Speaker 1: that happened. It's a game changing play and you continue

618
00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:25,760
Speaker 1: you get that momentum going and that offense, we continue

619
00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:27,720
Speaker 1: to move the ball played well and I don't know

620
00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:29,960
Speaker 1: the exact score of that game, but we won pretty good.

621
00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:33,440
Speaker 1: And that's what happens. You just need your big leaders

622
00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:36,360
Speaker 1: to step up, make the plays, and everyone do their job. Yea.

623
00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:39,080
Speaker 1: How about the spark wat provided this weekend with the sack,

624
00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:41,360
Speaker 1: I mean it really he He was asked, Hey, was

625
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:43,520
Speaker 1: that the spark? He said, Well, if I was a spark,

626
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:47,200
Speaker 1: then Deshaun Watson was the fire that you know went

627
00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:50,240
Speaker 1: after it. But what did you see when Watt got

628
00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:53,600
Speaker 1: that sacking, were you kind of like the rest of us, thinking, oh,

629
00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:55,840
Speaker 1: maybe there's a little bit of a chance. Oh oh, well,

630
00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:57,680
Speaker 1: of course there's always a chance. If there's time in

631
00:31:57,720 --> 00:32:00,400
Speaker 1: the clock, there's you know, there's a chance. I don't

632
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:02,640
Speaker 1: think that plays a spark. I think having him out there,

633
00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:05,720
Speaker 1: you know, start the game is a spark alone. He

634
00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:08,280
Speaker 1: could have done you know, he could have had five sacks,

635
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:10,160
Speaker 1: he could have done nothing. Just having him out there

636
00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:12,640
Speaker 1: is a huge spark for this team. I know he's

637
00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:14,160
Speaker 1: excited to be back and he's gonna do a heck

638
00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:16,760
Speaker 1: of a job this week. But yeah, you know, that

639
00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:18,680
Speaker 1: was definitely the fire. If you call that the spark,

640
00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:20,360
Speaker 1: you know that that last play with the Sean, that

641
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:22,480
Speaker 1: was the fire. When you think back to the division

642
00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:25,680
Speaker 1: around in twenty eleven, when you talk to players, they

643
00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:27,880
Speaker 1: always remember the wins. Wins are great, but they remember

644
00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:29,960
Speaker 1: the ones that got away. And that was a game

645
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:32,400
Speaker 1: against Baltimore that I don't wotly it got away, but

646
00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:35,280
Speaker 1: there were opportunities to maybe tie that thing up and

647
00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:37,320
Speaker 1: maybe get it to overtime or make you know, get

648
00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:39,600
Speaker 1: it tied and then maybe do something late. How often

649
00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:42,600
Speaker 1: do you think about that particular game, the fact that man,

650
00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:45,560
Speaker 1: we were just they were that close to going the

651
00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:47,800
Speaker 1: FC Championship. Yeah, we had a good team that ye

652
00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:50,720
Speaker 1: I'll tell you that defense played phenomenal that game. I

653
00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:54,840
Speaker 1: remember going up to Baltimore cold and guys making plays

654
00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:56,160
Speaker 1: left and right, and you know, we just needed to

655
00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:57,920
Speaker 1: make a few more plays on offense. Tell you truth,

656
00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:00,960
Speaker 1: we didn't get done. The did a heck of a job,

657
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:02,760
Speaker 1: and you know there's plays to be made out there

658
00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:05,440
Speaker 1: in offense, and you know what, we didn't do good

659
00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:07,680
Speaker 1: enough job and offense and you were wide open for

660
00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:12,080
Speaker 1: a touchdown earlier in that game, but Johnson and he

661
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:15,520
Speaker 1: was open. I mean, think about that, Oh, I know

662
00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:18,640
Speaker 1: that play exactly, that play we're talking about, I can

663
00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:21,160
Speaker 1: it feels like yesterday, but uh yeah, that could have

664
00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:23,760
Speaker 1: been an early touchdown. But you know, um, we just

665
00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:25,480
Speaker 1: didn't execute this as good as we wanted to do

666
00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:28,360
Speaker 1: an offense. What changes when you get to that next round.

667
00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:30,480
Speaker 1: We always talk about the speed of the game preseason,

668
00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:32,840
Speaker 1: a regular season, regular season, the playoffs, and then you

669
00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:35,240
Speaker 1: get to the divisional round from the wild card round,

670
00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:38,720
Speaker 1: what is that like? The intensity differential? If there is

671
00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:42,080
Speaker 1: It's a total different atmosphere from being at home playing

672
00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:44,120
Speaker 1: the playoff game and then going on the road playing

673
00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:46,840
Speaker 1: in the playoff game. It is completely different. Um, it

674
00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:48,760
Speaker 1: doesn't matter, you know, we be can the city earlier year.

675
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:51,400
Speaker 1: This is a whole other game, whole another everything. So

676
00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:53,760
Speaker 1: the guys can't think like that. Um, there's gonna be

677
00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:55,960
Speaker 1: a household environment. You know. One thing in the playoffs,

678
00:33:56,040 --> 00:33:57,600
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what the weather's gonna be like. You

679
00:33:57,640 --> 00:33:59,920
Speaker 1: cannot turn the ball over. That's the main thing I've

680
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:03,160
Speaker 1: see on offense. Never turn the bowl over because especially

681
00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:07,560
Speaker 1: against Patrick Mahons, defense got to create those turnovers. Start,

682
00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:11,319
Speaker 1: start fast, and execute. Those are the main things that

683
00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:13,279
Speaker 1: I would say. You know, going on the road, you

684
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:16,480
Speaker 1: cannot have mistakes. You cannot have mistakes. Yeah, and you

685
00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:20,040
Speaker 1: guys in that Baltimore game in twenty eleven, four turnovers

686
00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:21,799
Speaker 1: in the game. You only lost by seven. I mean,

687
00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:24,600
Speaker 1: if you imagine just one or two fewer, you're probably

688
00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:26,120
Speaker 1: gonna win it, or at least be right there on

689
00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:27,600
Speaker 1: the fourth right there in the fourth quarter with a

690
00:34:27,680 --> 00:34:29,840
Speaker 1: chance to win for sure. And h yeah, turnovers is

691
00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:31,680
Speaker 1: a killer, all right. So here we have all these

692
00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:34,239
Speaker 1: fans here at the Houston Texas team shop. Yes, yes,

693
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:38,160
Speaker 1: give yourselves a round of applause. But the food flocks

694
00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:41,239
Speaker 1: outside and they're trying to win tickets tonight. They're winning

695
00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:43,480
Speaker 1: all sorts of stuff every commercial break here and it's

696
00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:46,520
Speaker 1: just a great crowd. It's a great atmosphere. And right

697
00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:49,120
Speaker 1: behind us is bud Light Plaza. And when you guys

698
00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:51,640
Speaker 1: clinched the division in twenty eleven, you came out here

699
00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:55,080
Speaker 1: and saw the fans and a lot of people showed up.

700
00:34:55,080 --> 00:34:57,879
Speaker 1: That was so impromptu as a celebration. What was that like, Oh,

701
00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:01,320
Speaker 1: that's incredible. Everyone's excited and we're excited and high fiving

702
00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:02,960
Speaker 1: each other, and you see, you know, see the support

703
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:04,959
Speaker 1: from the fans in the city. That's what it's about

704
00:35:05,080 --> 00:35:06,719
Speaker 1: right there, You know, that's what it's about. Obviously, win

705
00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:08,320
Speaker 1: that week and then you have the next opportunity to

706
00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:10,880
Speaker 1: win next week and and keep it going. But I

707
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:12,640
Speaker 1: know everyone's proud of the city. The city's proud of

708
00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:14,840
Speaker 1: the team, and that's what we're playing for. When you

709
00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:18,400
Speaker 1: caught that touchdown pass to beat Cincinnati, your former team

710
00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:20,960
Speaker 1: at the time, what's going through your mind as that

711
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:22,560
Speaker 1: ball's in the ye I know It wasn't a long

712
00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:25,520
Speaker 1: developing play was pretty quick. Yeah, as quick pop as

713
00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:28,239
Speaker 1: it was. But you knew it was coming to you, right,

714
00:35:28,239 --> 00:35:30,480
Speaker 1: I mean, you're the number one option, number one, but

715
00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:32,120
Speaker 1: you gotta look at you know, we had two outroutes

716
00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:34,759
Speaker 1: going and then if that linebacker you know, you know,

717
00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:36,720
Speaker 1: basically catches me. You know, if he if he covers

718
00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:39,040
Speaker 1: me up and I'm out of the read. He kind

719
00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:42,040
Speaker 1: of went with OD and the outroute um, and then boom.

720
00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:43,200
Speaker 1: I'm like, you know what this is coming to me?

721
00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:45,400
Speaker 1: Just just just catch the ball. It's a touchdown, you know. Yeah,

722
00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:47,479
Speaker 1: that's the easiest part, and it's you know, getting open

723
00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:49,360
Speaker 1: and give me the opportunity to catch the bones. Make

724
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:51,439
Speaker 1: sure you catch it. Is that just about rep after

725
00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:53,880
Speaker 1: rep after rep, so you're doing its second nature at

726
00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:57,399
Speaker 1: that point. Stop thinking yeah, I'm thinking no, no, catching

727
00:35:57,440 --> 00:35:59,920
Speaker 1: the balls the easiest part for me. It's the opportunity

728
00:35:59,920 --> 00:36:02,960
Speaker 1: to catch the ball. That's okay, getting open running the route.

729
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:05,000
Speaker 1: Getting open running the route. Getting open is not even

730
00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:07,000
Speaker 1: in my opinions, not even the toughest thing. It's actually

731
00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:09,160
Speaker 1: the toughest thing is getting the opportunity to target thrown

732
00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:11,000
Speaker 1: your way, because's a lot of people that can get

733
00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:12,319
Speaker 1: open this league. There's a lot of people who can,

734
00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:15,000
Speaker 1: you know, catch the ball. But his coach gonna call

735
00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:17,600
Speaker 1: your play? Is whoever the quarterbacks gonna throw it your way?

736
00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:19,160
Speaker 1: Is he gonna give you a chance as he trusts you.

737
00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:21,120
Speaker 1: That's what comes down to, right, I got you with

738
00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:24,560
Speaker 1: a quarterback too, Yeah, especially with a rookie quarterback like

739
00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:27,960
Speaker 1: you had two. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, t I'll tell

740
00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:29,839
Speaker 1: you what. The whole drive was fulfilled the plays from

741
00:36:30,040 --> 00:36:32,120
Speaker 1: O D from TJ, from you guys just making plays

742
00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:34,960
Speaker 1: left and right, Jacoby Jones in that past interference call

743
00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:39,600
Speaker 1: that whole drive, there was a play like a player

744
00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:42,600
Speaker 1: two before it. And I didn't know this until this summer,

745
00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:45,400
Speaker 1: but I've got the photo blown up in my office

746
00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:48,040
Speaker 1: of you know, you guys celebrating after the touchdown. TJ

747
00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:50,200
Speaker 1: walked by because he's a coach now and saw that

748
00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:53,160
Speaker 1: we're chit chatting, and he said, yeah, right before that,

749
00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:56,600
Speaker 1: I was gonna go throw to the right side, and

750
00:36:56,880 --> 00:36:58,359
Speaker 1: had I thrown it, it would have been a pick

751
00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:00,719
Speaker 1: six the other way. But as I was throwing, I

752
00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:02,920
Speaker 1: fell down and the ball wound up skipping to the

753
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:05,759
Speaker 1: right and going incomplete. So uh, it's kind of a

754
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:08,040
Speaker 1: nice little turn of Look, it's it's amazing here in

755
00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:11,640
Speaker 1: that eight years after the fact and knowing what happened

756
00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:13,879
Speaker 1: and everything that went after that, it would have been

757
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:16,359
Speaker 1: that would game over at that point games You guys

758
00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:18,680
Speaker 1: were trailing, yep, we were trailing. Yeah, he threw for

759
00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:21,240
Speaker 1: three hundred yards that day. That was amazing. I remember

760
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:23,200
Speaker 1: seeing the videos or the TV copy of his parents

761
00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:27,000
Speaker 1: up in the stands and the way up the stands.

762
00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:28,960
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, that was incredible. And after we

763
00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:31,400
Speaker 1: scored that, and you know, obviously the team was going crazy,

764
00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:34,240
Speaker 1: then you see his parents is going nuts. That's cool. Kevin,

765
00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:35,680
Speaker 1: What was it like in the locker room, because at

766
00:37:35,680 --> 00:37:38,360
Speaker 1: that point you did not know that you had clinched

767
00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:40,040
Speaker 1: the vision, right, So you know, you guys go in

768
00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:42,080
Speaker 1: the locker room after the win, you're celebrating the win.

769
00:37:42,680 --> 00:37:44,239
Speaker 1: What are you guys doing in locker room at that

770
00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:45,719
Speaker 1: moment with the game that was going on. I think

771
00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:48,040
Speaker 1: it was tennessee pictures on my phone. It's it's amazing.

772
00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:49,840
Speaker 1: We're sitting there all watching the small you know, a

773
00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:52,439
Speaker 1: small TV here in the in the locker room. It's

774
00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:54,560
Speaker 1: the Bengals. It probably wasn't even a flat screen. Yeah,

775
00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:57,719
Speaker 1: it definitely wasn't not a flat screen. We were all

776
00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:00,960
Speaker 1: there huddling up. I think Washington was playing Tennessee or

777
00:38:01,640 --> 00:38:04,399
Speaker 1: it was. It was the same, Yeah, playing Tennessee. Sake

778
00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:07,399
Speaker 1: locker for the Titans, and uh when when when they

779
00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:10,280
Speaker 1: sealed it? And when when Tennessee lost and we sealed it?

780
00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:13,600
Speaker 1: And it was incredible And there's nothing I think right

781
00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:15,799
Speaker 1: now you can actually duplicate that. You know, you're being

782
00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:17,400
Speaker 1: there with your buddies, you're all there with trying to

783
00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:19,520
Speaker 1: win a football game on the road, you know, getting

784
00:38:19,560 --> 00:38:22,320
Speaker 1: the division, you know, wrapped up. I mean, you cannot

785
00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:25,120
Speaker 1: replicate that. It was definitely a special time Kevin Walter

786
00:38:25,239 --> 00:38:27,520
Speaker 1: joining us. All right, So twenty twelve, what about that?

787
00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:30,239
Speaker 1: What stands out to you about that season? That season?

788
00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:32,920
Speaker 1: I think we had an opportunity to play better at

789
00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:35,000
Speaker 1: the end of the season. Um, we didn't get it done.

790
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:37,520
Speaker 1: We should have had home field advantage in my opinion,

791
00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:40,040
Speaker 1: we just didn't play well at the end of the season.

792
00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:42,799
Speaker 1: I don't know what exact record was towards the end.

793
00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:44,839
Speaker 1: You guys know that the last four games were yeah,

794
00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:46,520
Speaker 1: three out well, you lost three out of four at

795
00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:49,080
Speaker 1: the end, which but you won the playoff game at home,

796
00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:52,040
Speaker 1: which was I think a lot of people thought at

797
00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:54,359
Speaker 1: the time was so what that's a hard thing to do?

798
00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:56,440
Speaker 1: Is we all know to win a playoff game, and

799
00:38:56,480 --> 00:38:58,160
Speaker 1: you did it, but it was kind of a weird

800
00:38:58,200 --> 00:38:59,960
Speaker 1: feeling after that. And then you had to go up

801
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:03,680
Speaker 1: New England. Yes, yeah, we played Cincinnati again right here

802
00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:06,520
Speaker 1: and play well, guys making plays right, um. But then

803
00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:08,839
Speaker 1: we went up to New England and uh, just didn't

804
00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:11,400
Speaker 1: play well up there. Yeah. It's a hard place to

805
00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:13,520
Speaker 1: play in the playoffs, right, I mean, we knew we

806
00:39:13,560 --> 00:39:15,319
Speaker 1: had to go up there and play mistake free and

807
00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:19,319
Speaker 1: execute and turn the ball over, um, and you know,

808
00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:21,640
Speaker 1: we just didn't do a good enough job. Well you

809
00:39:21,719 --> 00:39:24,160
Speaker 1: knew the Bengals. Well, but let me take you back

810
00:39:24,160 --> 00:39:26,520
Speaker 1: to twenty eleven. You just mentioned the Texans playing the

811
00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:28,640
Speaker 1: Chiefs and weeks week six, and now they play them

812
00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:31,080
Speaker 1: in this divisional playoff game. And how it has you know,

813
00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:32,880
Speaker 1: one thing has nothing to do with the other. But

814
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:34,920
Speaker 1: in twenty eleven when you played the Bengals, and it

815
00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:36,920
Speaker 1: was in December, and then you played them again in

816
00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:40,120
Speaker 1: the postseason, did that help that you had faced them

817
00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:42,680
Speaker 1: before or is it really the case where hey, it's

818
00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:45,280
Speaker 1: the playoffs and everything's different. Everything's different. Every game is different.

819
00:39:45,280 --> 00:39:47,359
Speaker 1: You never know how it's gonna flow the game, but

820
00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:49,200
Speaker 1: the personnel is still the same, right, you know, you

821
00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:50,879
Speaker 1: kind of know what they hang their head on. They

822
00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:53,120
Speaker 1: know what we hang our head on. Right. Um, but

823
00:39:53,280 --> 00:39:55,200
Speaker 1: you know you gotta change up the game plan, which

824
00:39:55,239 --> 00:39:57,200
Speaker 1: we did, and you gotta you know your player a

825
00:39:57,239 --> 00:39:59,400
Speaker 1: little bit. You know the defensive back you're going against,

826
00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:01,680
Speaker 1: and this you know them a little bit, you know

827
00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:05,000
Speaker 1: because you played them before. Um, well yeah, it's definitely

828
00:40:05,040 --> 00:40:06,840
Speaker 1: a different feel, even though you just played them a

829
00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:10,040
Speaker 1: few weeks before. Cavin Walter with us at the end

830
00:40:10,080 --> 00:40:12,960
Speaker 1: of the twenty twelve season, and nobody's experienced it here,

831
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:16,319
Speaker 1: we've all talked about it getting a buy. How how

832
00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:18,879
Speaker 1: valuable do you think that would have been either either year,

833
00:40:19,120 --> 00:40:21,279
Speaker 1: like getting a buy? I mean, none of us have

834
00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:23,680
Speaker 1: experienced it, But how much do you think it would

835
00:40:23,719 --> 00:40:26,000
Speaker 1: have helped to have gotten a buy in twenty twelve

836
00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:29,000
Speaker 1: to have that first weekend off, to be like all right, okay,

837
00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:31,440
Speaker 1: get some bodies rested up, let's get ready to go.

838
00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:33,480
Speaker 1: I think that's I think that's huge. That's what you

839
00:40:33,680 --> 00:40:35,120
Speaker 1: played for. I mean, look at these guys at the

840
00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:36,680
Speaker 1: end of the season trying to wrap up the number

841
00:40:36,680 --> 00:40:38,680
Speaker 1: one or two spots because they know how important it

842
00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:40,479
Speaker 1: is to get a bye week, get you guys healthy,

843
00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:43,800
Speaker 1: you get a little extra game plan and just watching football.

844
00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:46,360
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think that's a huge advantage in my opinion,

845
00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:48,719
Speaker 1: you know, because you know, look, look look how many

846
00:40:48,719 --> 00:40:50,480
Speaker 1: times in New England has done that, right, true? I

847
00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:53,279
Speaker 1: mean they and obviously this year they got knocked out

848
00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:55,799
Speaker 1: in their recipe for success essentially. Yeah. Yeah, And the

849
00:40:55,840 --> 00:40:58,440
Speaker 1: next segment, we're all gonna take questions from the crowd here,

850
00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:00,719
Speaker 1: all of us, and it's it's gonna be unique thing

851
00:41:00,719 --> 00:41:03,359
Speaker 1: because usually when we do players shows out, it's it's

852
00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:05,200
Speaker 1: just one kind of thing. But this is going to

853
00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:08,000
Speaker 1: be for the group. But Kevin, tell me this, now,

854
00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:11,960
Speaker 1: what are you doing these days? I do you're playing?

855
00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:14,080
Speaker 1: I know you sometimes play golf and you're really good

856
00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:17,799
Speaker 1: at It's okay, but did you think about the possibility

857
00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:20,840
Speaker 1: of ever coaching? Because we were talking about TJ. Yates

858
00:41:20,840 --> 00:41:23,400
Speaker 1: and he's a he's making his way here as an

859
00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:26,160
Speaker 1: assistant for this staff. Have you ever thought about that

860
00:41:26,239 --> 00:41:29,000
Speaker 1: kind of thing? Yeah, well I thought I thought about Obviously,

861
00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:30,759
Speaker 1: I have three young kids. You know, they're ten, eight

862
00:41:30,760 --> 00:41:32,600
Speaker 1: and five right now or four, so you want to

863
00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:34,839
Speaker 1: see them at some point. I'm cool. Yeah, well I'm yeah,

864
00:41:35,040 --> 00:41:37,280
Speaker 1: right that. But I'm also coaching them, you know, coaching

865
00:41:37,360 --> 00:41:41,719
Speaker 1: baseball and flag football coaching. Thought absolutely love coaching. Um

866
00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:43,600
Speaker 1: as far as the pro or college level, I never

867
00:41:43,600 --> 00:41:46,600
Speaker 1: really gave it a thought too much. Um, I love football.

868
00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:49,399
Speaker 1: It's something I've done for my whole life. But right

869
00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:51,680
Speaker 1: now it's kind of focusing on the kiddos. That's a

870
00:41:51,719 --> 00:41:53,960
Speaker 1: good idea. Flag football? What is it? Five on five?

871
00:41:54,280 --> 00:41:57,560
Speaker 1: It's five on five? Sure is okay? Right? Mark fancies

872
00:41:57,640 --> 00:42:01,440
Speaker 1: himself the Vince Lombardi of more like the Bill Walls,

873
00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:03,960
Speaker 1: And if you don't know, just ask him. He'll tell you. Yeah,

874
00:42:04,160 --> 00:42:06,200
Speaker 1: to make sure you have about four or five hours though. Yeah,

875
00:42:06,239 --> 00:42:09,239
Speaker 1: don't get me started off flag football. Oh yeah, But

876
00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:11,160
Speaker 1: trying to get five year old kids to run a play,

877
00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:13,160
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm like coach Boone and remember the Titans,

878
00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:15,640
Speaker 1: We've run five plays and it's like, no, Vakain, just

879
00:42:15,680 --> 00:42:18,560
Speaker 1: give it time. It's gonna work. That's that's it. That's it.

880
00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:21,840
Speaker 1: Their kids, remember, they have a very little memory. You

881
00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:24,040
Speaker 1: just have to go with it, right, No false stars,

882
00:42:24,080 --> 00:42:27,319
Speaker 1: Let's go. What are you guys doing? That's yes, and

883
00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:29,640
Speaker 1: no huddling. That's simple enough to us. You know, a

884
00:42:29,640 --> 00:42:32,040
Speaker 1: bunch of five year olds though, Yeah, and all they

885
00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:33,759
Speaker 1: want to do is is run the ball, right, They

886
00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:35,279
Speaker 1: want the ball? Won want the ball. The only one

887
00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:37,640
Speaker 1: person get the ball, not everyone. Hey, you played with

888
00:42:37,680 --> 00:42:40,040
Speaker 1: a guy named Dondred Johnson and he was pretty good.

889
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:43,080
Speaker 1: So what do you think of DeAndre Hopkins. Oh, he's

890
00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:46,160
Speaker 1: a special player, that guy. He is making plays left

891
00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:49,960
Speaker 1: and right, you know, all pro this year, many years. Um,

892
00:42:50,320 --> 00:42:52,879
Speaker 1: you know, having Andre here with him, I think that's

893
00:42:52,960 --> 00:42:57,280
Speaker 1: such a huge asset for for DeAndre. Um this obviously

894
00:42:57,480 --> 00:43:00,800
Speaker 1: they played together, but just seeing what Dres done on

895
00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:03,799
Speaker 1: and off the field is a professional is such a

896
00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:06,319
Speaker 1: big thing I think for DeAndre. And uh, that guy

897
00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:08,319
Speaker 1: makes plays, that's all he does. Make plays. Throw it

898
00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:10,480
Speaker 1: to him. He's gonna catch the ball, those fifty fifty balls,

899
00:43:10,480 --> 00:43:12,840
Speaker 1: He's gonna catch the ball way he You know, this

900
00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:15,120
Speaker 1: makes people miss too. It's run after the catch is

901
00:43:15,120 --> 00:43:17,320
Speaker 1: a special thing. Um, that's why he's one of the

902
00:43:17,360 --> 00:43:19,719
Speaker 1: best in the league. All right, Kevin Walter is with us.

903
00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:21,920
Speaker 1: We're at the Houston Texans team Shop. We're gonna take

904
00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:24,440
Speaker 1: questions from the crowd next about the Texans taking on

905
00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:26,800
Speaker 1: the Chiefs and other things that are coming up in

906
00:43:26,840 --> 00:43:30,000
Speaker 1: the conversation. Here we have discounts of up to forty

907
00:43:30,040 --> 00:43:32,040
Speaker 1: percent in the store. We're here till eight o'clock. We're

908
00:43:32,040 --> 00:43:36,040
Speaker 1: giving away tickets to Arrowhead Stadium on Sunday. It's Texans

909
00:43:36,160 --> 00:43:42,560
Speaker 1: Radio at the Texans team side. This is Whitney Merciless

910
00:43:42,600 --> 00:43:48,799
Speaker 1: and you're listening to Texans Radio. Don't touch that, Doccy.

911
00:43:51,719 --> 00:43:53,680
Speaker 1: Let's feed off each other. Let's go. The game is

912
00:43:53,880 --> 00:44:03,040
Speaker 1: Rod and Set all his bright side touchdown. Game day

913
00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:06,000
Speaker 1: is every day. I'll go still the animalst five nights

914
00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:11,200
Speaker 1: a week. The hits keep on coming. He's got it.

915
00:44:11,600 --> 00:44:17,160
Speaker 1: How about that? No. From inside NRG Stadium, it's Texans

916
00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:21,760
Speaker 1: All Excess, presented by Geico. Cover two of the program.

917
00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:26,359
Speaker 1: Here at the Boston Texans team Shop. Mark Vandermann, Shot Hiers,

918
00:44:26,440 --> 00:44:29,400
Speaker 1: Grew Dorty and Kevin Walter sticks around for another segment

919
00:44:29,520 --> 00:44:33,399
Speaker 1: here as we're gonna give away Texans Chiefs tickets this hour,

920
00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:37,719
Speaker 1: this hour, right, this hours. Okay, that's gonna be cool.

921
00:44:37,880 --> 00:44:40,839
Speaker 1: And I don't think you have to be present to win, right,

922
00:44:41,280 --> 00:44:43,440
Speaker 1: you just have to register here and then you can

923
00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:45,560
Speaker 1: just go home and wait to see if you want.

924
00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:48,560
Speaker 1: But don't go home because you're gonna be punished by us,

925
00:44:48,600 --> 00:44:53,000
Speaker 1: if you know. I'm just kidding anyway, just embarrassed and shunned, Yes, exactly,

926
00:44:53,080 --> 00:44:56,200
Speaker 1: shunned because we want whoever wins the tickets to really

927
00:44:56,200 --> 00:44:58,880
Speaker 1: be here. Look, you don't, you're not required to, but

928
00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:01,560
Speaker 1: it would be so cool. Anyway, We've got questions from

929
00:45:01,560 --> 00:45:03,600
Speaker 1: the crowd, now, Kevin, can you help us out answering

930
00:45:03,640 --> 00:45:05,760
Speaker 1: some of these? Absolutely? All right, so let's have Debbie.

931
00:45:05,760 --> 00:45:09,520
Speaker 1: What's what's your question? How are you good? Are you wonderful?

932
00:45:09,640 --> 00:45:12,560
Speaker 1: What do you think the biggest difference was between the

933
00:45:12,600 --> 00:45:16,520
Speaker 1: first and the second half of the game on Saturday? Um,

934
00:45:16,560 --> 00:45:20,319
Speaker 1: I think obviously execution, right, I mean just this executing

935
00:45:20,360 --> 00:45:23,959
Speaker 1: and doing your job and and I mean that's really

936
00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:26,080
Speaker 1: what it comes down to. I don't really have a

937
00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:30,640
Speaker 1: specific answer. Um, so yeah, I mean there's execution on

938
00:45:30,680 --> 00:45:33,359
Speaker 1: the defense side of the ball, offensive side of the ball.

939
00:45:33,640 --> 00:45:36,319
Speaker 1: All three phases, it's gotta play a little better. We're

940
00:45:36,360 --> 00:45:38,520
Speaker 1: allowed to have made plays, we're allowed to weigh in

941
00:45:38,560 --> 00:45:41,239
Speaker 1: on these two and so so for me, I think

942
00:45:41,280 --> 00:45:43,320
Speaker 1: that you know, obviously the Wat sack was big and

943
00:45:43,360 --> 00:45:46,120
Speaker 1: everybody talked about that, but if you don't do anything

944
00:45:46,120 --> 00:45:49,279
Speaker 1: on offense, then it was just a nice Wat sack, right,

945
00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:52,720
Speaker 1: So that was a huge play, not just because JJ

946
00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:55,480
Speaker 1: made a big play, but hey, you held them to

947
00:45:55,520 --> 00:45:57,560
Speaker 1: a field goal and it was sixteen points and you

948
00:45:57,560 --> 00:46:00,160
Speaker 1: still were down two touchdowns and two two point vers

949
00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:03,080
Speaker 1: and at that point the offense got going. And I

950
00:46:03,080 --> 00:46:07,239
Speaker 1: think Watson's ability to run with the football, to improvise,

951
00:46:07,360 --> 00:46:11,080
Speaker 1: to find ways out of trouble, to keep drives alive,

952
00:46:11,360 --> 00:46:14,760
Speaker 1: I think that really took hold in the second half,

953
00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:17,400
Speaker 1: and you just started to get momentum, and I think football,

954
00:46:17,600 --> 00:46:19,960
Speaker 1: the momentum in football is a very real thing. But

955
00:46:20,239 --> 00:46:23,160
Speaker 1: before that, as Bill told me at halftime, they ran

956
00:46:23,239 --> 00:46:26,480
Speaker 1: the ball the very first play after the sack and

957
00:46:26,560 --> 00:46:28,680
Speaker 1: the field goal, and then the kickoff at about the

958
00:46:28,719 --> 00:46:31,400
Speaker 1: twenty five yard line right, and they ran Duke Johnson

959
00:46:32,040 --> 00:46:34,120
Speaker 1: right at them ten yards, ran a little power play

960
00:46:34,200 --> 00:46:36,759
Speaker 1: ten yards play back up to the line of screamage.

961
00:46:36,840 --> 00:46:39,080
Speaker 1: They ran the ball through that drive and it was

962
00:46:39,120 --> 00:46:42,279
Speaker 1: a seventy five yard drive and Deshawn's twenty at the end,

963
00:46:42,400 --> 00:46:45,160
Speaker 1: Duke's ten right there, Carlos had a couple of runs

964
00:46:45,160 --> 00:46:46,719
Speaker 1: in there. I think Duke had another run in there.

965
00:46:46,920 --> 00:46:48,719
Speaker 1: They were and DeAndre had a catch. I think for

966
00:46:48,760 --> 00:46:52,880
Speaker 1: ten to fifteen. The run game picked up about seventy

967
00:46:52,960 --> 00:46:56,200
Speaker 1: seventy of that yardage on that drive. And it was

968
00:46:56,239 --> 00:46:58,920
Speaker 1: as if they just said, we're gonna go right, We're

969
00:46:58,920 --> 00:47:00,920
Speaker 1: gonna go right at them and see if they could

970
00:47:00,960 --> 00:47:03,319
Speaker 1: handle it and pound it right down their throat and

971
00:47:03,440 --> 00:47:06,520
Speaker 1: just get our guys up front going forward. And I

972
00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:09,719
Speaker 1: go back to what what Chris Ballard told Frank Riich

973
00:47:09,800 --> 00:47:12,120
Speaker 1: in the middle of last year. The Cults are struggling,

974
00:47:12,560 --> 00:47:16,200
Speaker 1: and Ballard pulled Frank right aside and said, look, Andrew

975
00:47:16,200 --> 00:47:18,600
Speaker 1: stowing the ball fifty times, we don't need that. We

976
00:47:18,640 --> 00:47:21,920
Speaker 1: got two rookies in this offensive line. Frank, run the ball,

977
00:47:22,280 --> 00:47:24,319
Speaker 1: let them come off the ball and hit somebody. And

978
00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:26,440
Speaker 1: from that point forward, the Colts ended up having one

979
00:47:26,440 --> 00:47:28,080
Speaker 1: of the best offensive lines of the league because they

980
00:47:28,120 --> 00:47:31,400
Speaker 1: were thinking about going forward and mashing somebody instead of

981
00:47:31,440 --> 00:47:34,080
Speaker 1: going back and passion, and they controlled the game with

982
00:47:34,120 --> 00:47:36,480
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage. And I think that was key

983
00:47:36,560 --> 00:47:39,000
Speaker 1: because we started controlling the game on a line of scripts.

984
00:47:39,040 --> 00:47:41,799
Speaker 1: Lineman love running the ball. They want to go forward. Yeah,

985
00:47:41,800 --> 00:47:44,600
Speaker 1: that's what they want to do. Nan. They don't want

986
00:47:44,600 --> 00:47:46,520
Speaker 1: to sit there and pass protective dance and they want

987
00:47:46,520 --> 00:47:48,520
Speaker 1: to hit someone in the mouth and go forward. Yeah. Sure.

988
00:47:48,600 --> 00:47:50,720
Speaker 1: What about the blocking part of being a wide receiver,

989
00:47:50,800 --> 00:47:52,759
Speaker 1: because you were really good at that. Well, mean, that's

990
00:47:52,840 --> 00:47:54,279
Speaker 1: part of the job, right, I Mean, you can't just

991
00:47:54,320 --> 00:47:55,960
Speaker 1: go out there and just catch passes. You got to

992
00:47:56,000 --> 00:47:57,759
Speaker 1: be the complete receiver. Go out there and hit someone

993
00:47:57,760 --> 00:47:59,480
Speaker 1: in the mouth, you know, dig a safety off for

994
00:47:59,719 --> 00:48:02,480
Speaker 1: Aran whoever's back. They're running the ball um when I

995
00:48:02,560 --> 00:48:04,360
Speaker 1: was there, And that's that's part of it, right. You

996
00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:06,040
Speaker 1: can't just be a one trick pony, right, You just

997
00:48:06,040 --> 00:48:08,200
Speaker 1: got to go out there and wear every head. That's

998
00:48:08,239 --> 00:48:10,640
Speaker 1: why the coaches loved you. No block, no rock. You

999
00:48:10,719 --> 00:48:14,040
Speaker 1: also got to think in the first half, the Bills

1000
00:48:14,239 --> 00:48:15,920
Speaker 1: kind of shot all their bullets. You know, they had

1001
00:48:15,920 --> 00:48:19,640
Speaker 1: the trick play, they played almost flawlessly, yet they were

1002
00:48:19,680 --> 00:48:22,320
Speaker 1: only up thirteen nothing. Yeah, So that happens in the

1003
00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:24,439
Speaker 1: first half they had to settle for the field goals,

1004
00:48:24,640 --> 00:48:26,879
Speaker 1: and then you got JJ Watt involved. I mean, it's

1005
00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:29,399
Speaker 1: a lot tougher to to pass, it's a lot tougher

1006
00:48:29,400 --> 00:48:30,960
Speaker 1: to run when JJ Watts on the field, and he

1007
00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:33,919
Speaker 1: was on the field basically the entire end of the game.

1008
00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:36,600
Speaker 1: So that made things tough, and eventually you had to

1009
00:48:36,600 --> 00:48:39,080
Speaker 1: know that your offense was gonna get things work in

1010
00:48:39,440 --> 00:48:42,600
Speaker 1: against that defense. They often get things working. Yeah, okay,

1011
00:48:42,719 --> 00:48:45,879
Speaker 1: sometimes it You know, Bill O'Brien always talks about that's

1012
00:48:45,880 --> 00:48:47,640
Speaker 1: a little bit. Yeah, to pot down that mike when

1013
00:48:47,640 --> 00:48:50,719
Speaker 1: we're not when we're not asking a question. Um, Bill

1014
00:48:50,760 --> 00:48:52,680
Speaker 1: o'brin always talks about a sixty minute game. What's that?

1015
00:48:52,719 --> 00:48:55,439
Speaker 1: You don't like that noise? No, no, that feedback noise

1016
00:48:55,520 --> 00:48:57,080
Speaker 1: is not a great noise. But I do like the

1017
00:48:57,120 --> 00:48:59,280
Speaker 1: noise of a question. It's not noise. It's a beautiful

1018
00:48:59,280 --> 00:49:02,840
Speaker 1: sound of your voice. What's your name? Wait, hang on,

1019
00:49:02,920 --> 00:49:05,440
Speaker 1: let's go. What's your name? Okay? My name is Shari?

1020
00:49:05,680 --> 00:49:08,800
Speaker 1: All right, Sharie? What is the key to the next

1021
00:49:08,840 --> 00:49:11,640
Speaker 1: game on the road? What is the key to winning

1022
00:49:11,640 --> 00:49:14,520
Speaker 1: the next game? Come on, Kevin, give it to me.

1023
00:49:14,920 --> 00:49:17,520
Speaker 1: The key to it is starting fast on the road,

1024
00:49:17,719 --> 00:49:19,560
Speaker 1: you cannot you cannot have a first half like we

1025
00:49:19,600 --> 00:49:21,560
Speaker 1: did last week. You gotta start fast, have a sense

1026
00:49:21,600 --> 00:49:25,680
Speaker 1: of urgency in all three phases. Um And obviously what

1027
00:49:25,719 --> 00:49:28,080
Speaker 1: I was telling you guys earlier, I think turnovers you

1028
00:49:28,120 --> 00:49:30,000
Speaker 1: have on offense, you cannot turn them all over, and

1029
00:49:30,080 --> 00:49:32,120
Speaker 1: you have to create turnovers on defense. I say that

1030
00:49:32,239 --> 00:49:35,440
Speaker 1: every game, but specifically on the road could be you know,

1031
00:49:35,480 --> 00:49:37,480
Speaker 1: it could be the weather can be bad up there.

1032
00:49:37,520 --> 00:49:39,879
Speaker 1: I'm not sure exactly what it's gonna be, but that's

1033
00:49:40,040 --> 00:49:42,640
Speaker 1: the biggest factor in this game is turnovers. In my opinion.

1034
00:49:42,840 --> 00:49:45,799
Speaker 1: Keep Jacoby jumped from headbutting a football that's moving on

1035
00:49:45,840 --> 00:49:48,080
Speaker 1: a punt. Yeah, he's not on the field, so that's

1036
00:49:48,080 --> 00:49:51,520
Speaker 1: not gonna happen. Easy leave Jacobe out of Yeah, that

1037
00:49:51,600 --> 00:49:55,120
Speaker 1: was a big play that game because point you went

1038
00:49:55,280 --> 00:49:57,160
Speaker 1: right down the field and scored right off the bat.

1039
00:49:57,360 --> 00:49:59,359
Speaker 1: You gotta and then you get you get them off

1040
00:49:59,400 --> 00:50:01,640
Speaker 1: the field. You're like, you got all the momentum and

1041
00:50:01,680 --> 00:50:03,239
Speaker 1: they're building, You're about to take them out of the

1042
00:50:03,360 --> 00:50:05,040
Speaker 1: and he goes and fields a punt that he shouldn't

1043
00:50:05,040 --> 00:50:07,120
Speaker 1: know how many turnovers were in the game, John, I know,

1044
00:50:07,200 --> 00:50:10,160
Speaker 1: but That was a big one because that triggered momentum

1045
00:50:10,200 --> 00:50:12,120
Speaker 1: going out of the way. Yeah, it was a big

1046
00:50:12,160 --> 00:50:14,480
Speaker 1: moment and I loved you code. Well you guys agree.

1047
00:50:14,520 --> 00:50:16,160
Speaker 1: I mean, you gotta get off to a good start.

1048
00:50:16,200 --> 00:50:18,000
Speaker 1: That's great. Now I'm gonna go back to what Johnny said.

1049
00:50:18,000 --> 00:50:19,440
Speaker 1: You gotta run the football. I mean, you did it

1050
00:50:19,520 --> 00:50:21,400
Speaker 1: last time against the Chiefs. I'm not saying that's an

1051
00:50:21,400 --> 00:50:23,759
Speaker 1: automatic that you're gonna do it again, but hide it

1052
00:50:23,800 --> 00:50:25,840
Speaker 1: over one hundred yards. You're gonna find a way to

1053
00:50:25,920 --> 00:50:28,360
Speaker 1: run that football because it opens everything else up. And

1054
00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:30,440
Speaker 1: we talk about that almost every week, you know, playing

1055
00:50:30,480 --> 00:50:33,359
Speaker 1: clean running the football. But that's so healthy for your

1056
00:50:33,360 --> 00:50:35,600
Speaker 1: football team, particularly in that building where you want to

1057
00:50:35,640 --> 00:50:38,680
Speaker 1: keep Mahomes as a spectator, not on the field slinging

1058
00:50:38,719 --> 00:50:40,759
Speaker 1: the ball. I love it, and I'm gonna add to that.

1059
00:50:41,040 --> 00:50:45,360
Speaker 1: Make sure Duke Johnson and Deshaun Watson are also heavily

1060
00:50:45,360 --> 00:50:49,080
Speaker 1: involved in the run game. Have design runs for Deshaun

1061
00:50:49,160 --> 00:50:51,359
Speaker 1: Watson because you want to hammer these guys, and these

1062
00:50:51,400 --> 00:50:53,600
Speaker 1: guys can get hammered on the ground. You did it

1063
00:50:53,640 --> 00:50:55,359
Speaker 1: once against them, and I know it's a different team,

1064
00:50:55,560 --> 00:50:58,560
Speaker 1: but you can still run on them. Run it, run it,

1065
00:50:58,640 --> 00:51:00,520
Speaker 1: run it, and then run it again. After that, run

1066
00:51:00,560 --> 00:51:02,480
Speaker 1: it again. And keep in mind you can run the

1067
00:51:02,520 --> 00:51:04,879
Speaker 1: ball as I do air quotes on radio. You can

1068
00:51:04,960 --> 00:51:06,840
Speaker 1: run the ball in different ways by throwing it to

1069
00:51:06,960 --> 00:51:10,480
Speaker 1: fells Fells. Giandre had nine catches for fifty five yards

1070
00:51:10,520 --> 00:51:13,680
Speaker 1: and I'd say of those nine, probably six were runs.

1071
00:51:13,760 --> 00:51:16,200
Speaker 1: They're extended a hand off. Yeah, and the Chiefs have

1072
00:51:16,239 --> 00:51:20,000
Speaker 1: a really tough time stopping running backs in pass coverage.

1073
00:51:20,600 --> 00:51:23,000
Speaker 1: They exploit them in pass coverage. With the guy you

1074
00:51:23,040 --> 00:51:26,160
Speaker 1: just mentioned, Duke Johnson, where there's no match for him. None.

1075
00:51:26,280 --> 00:51:28,560
Speaker 1: Linebacker tries to cover Duke Johnson, You're on a lot

1076
00:51:28,560 --> 00:51:30,880
Speaker 1: of trouble. And I think that's another way you can exploit.

1077
00:51:30,920 --> 00:51:32,840
Speaker 1: That's another way to extend your run game, and I

1078
00:51:32,880 --> 00:51:34,520
Speaker 1: think that's a good way to do it. Okay, let's

1079
00:51:34,520 --> 00:51:36,839
Speaker 1: get to our next question from the crowd, and it's

1080
00:51:36,880 --> 00:51:40,520
Speaker 1: El Guappo with the question, wait, wait, hang on, let's

1081
00:51:40,520 --> 00:51:45,919
Speaker 1: get the microphone on. Did somebody turn off the mike? Okay, well,

1082
00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:49,000
Speaker 1: let's see if it's on intention. We're checking it out.

1083
00:51:50,960 --> 00:52:00,640
Speaker 1: Just ask your question of say the time, who were

1084
00:52:00,640 --> 00:52:04,839
Speaker 1: you most impressively who were we most impressed with? During

1085
00:52:04,840 --> 00:52:07,200
Speaker 1: the win satur Is this a loaded question? All right,

1086
00:52:07,239 --> 00:52:10,680
Speaker 1: so Kevin, I mean it is a tough question, right,

1087
00:52:10,680 --> 00:52:12,919
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a it's a it's as you're going first,

1088
00:52:12,920 --> 00:52:16,520
Speaker 1: so it's easy for you. Yeah, well, you know, go ahead,

1089
00:52:16,520 --> 00:52:18,600
Speaker 1: and I'll tell you what. You know, everyone, it's a

1090
00:52:18,600 --> 00:52:20,640
Speaker 1: team sport. You can't just pick one one guy out

1091
00:52:20,640 --> 00:52:22,680
Speaker 1: that's the most impressive, right, I mean, takes everyone to

1092
00:52:23,080 --> 00:52:26,320
Speaker 1: get a win, especially in the playoffs. For at any game. Um,

1093
00:52:26,360 --> 00:52:28,880
Speaker 1: you know, obviously Deshan that played, like I said earlier,

1094
00:52:28,880 --> 00:52:31,600
Speaker 1: that that played was special and that that was something else.

1095
00:52:31,640 --> 00:52:34,040
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. Um, So I'm gonna say him,

1096
00:52:34,080 --> 00:52:36,520
Speaker 1: you know, And it's easy to say JJ with his

1097
00:52:37,040 --> 00:52:39,719
Speaker 1: being here on the field, making making things happen, just

1098
00:52:39,800 --> 00:52:41,680
Speaker 1: him being out there, you know, inspires everyone else to

1099
00:52:41,760 --> 00:52:44,760
Speaker 1: go out there, um, feeling good. So you know Deshan,

1100
00:52:44,920 --> 00:52:48,000
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's my answer. That's a pretty easy answer. Well,

1101
00:52:48,560 --> 00:52:50,880
Speaker 1: it's obviously Deshan. But if I had to pick another

1102
00:52:50,960 --> 00:52:54,279
Speaker 1: guy on offense, I mean, and look, it wasn't the

1103
00:52:54,320 --> 00:52:57,080
Speaker 1: most impressive thing. But I love what Taiwan did. He's

1104
00:52:57,239 --> 00:52:59,600
Speaker 1: he's a great story. He's a special teams players in

1105
00:52:59,719 --> 00:53:03,320
Speaker 1: NFL veteran and he's made his living basically on special teams.

1106
00:53:03,360 --> 00:53:06,600
Speaker 1: But we saw in that final game, the week seventeen

1107
00:53:06,640 --> 00:53:09,480
Speaker 1: contest against the Titans, where the Texans rested so many people,

1108
00:53:09,800 --> 00:53:12,239
Speaker 1: we saw him make plays, and we saw make plays

1109
00:53:12,239 --> 00:53:14,520
Speaker 1: in training. We know that Taiwan can do things, and

1110
00:53:14,560 --> 00:53:16,960
Speaker 1: the coaches always said they knew it, and then we

1111
00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:19,680
Speaker 1: saw it. And that was really special because he took

1112
00:53:19,680 --> 00:53:22,080
Speaker 1: the football and decided, you know, I'm not just getting

1113
00:53:22,080 --> 00:53:23,399
Speaker 1: out of bands here, I'm gonna go make a play

1114
00:53:23,440 --> 00:53:25,640
Speaker 1: to win the football game. And that's exactly what happened.

1115
00:53:25,680 --> 00:53:29,160
Speaker 1: So I was impressed by that. I Drew and idew

1116
00:53:29,200 --> 00:53:30,680
Speaker 1: podcast called it in the Lab and we had this

1117
00:53:30,760 --> 00:53:32,719
Speaker 1: very question who were the creamer cross players that were

1118
00:53:32,719 --> 00:53:35,600
Speaker 1: not JJ and not DeShawn And I said, well, what

1119
00:53:35,640 --> 00:53:37,919
Speaker 1: about Hopkins? Like or you can take Hopkins. It's zero

1120
00:53:37,960 --> 00:53:41,719
Speaker 1: catches in the first half, and Trodevius White's reputation as

1121
00:53:41,760 --> 00:53:45,080
Speaker 1: a shutdown corner continues to grow. He catches one pass

1122
00:53:45,120 --> 00:53:47,520
Speaker 1: and fumbles it, and you said, do you remember what

1123
00:53:47,560 --> 00:53:49,759
Speaker 1: you said shortly there after? You were like, well, he'll

1124
00:53:49,800 --> 00:53:52,160
Speaker 1: spend the rest of the game making it, making up

1125
00:53:52,160 --> 00:53:54,480
Speaker 1: for that, right, and then he did. He got five

1126
00:53:54,520 --> 00:53:57,600
Speaker 1: passes for eighty five yards. He was an absolute dude

1127
00:53:57,600 --> 00:53:59,680
Speaker 1: the rest of the game. Tredevius White could not cover

1128
00:53:59,760 --> 00:54:03,080
Speaker 1: him the rest of the game. And then to Kevin's point,

1129
00:54:03,080 --> 00:54:07,200
Speaker 1: a little while ago, the Taiwan play hop is working

1130
00:54:07,239 --> 00:54:09,480
Speaker 1: back to de Seaan because he knows he's scrambling and

1131
00:54:09,520 --> 00:54:12,800
Speaker 1: then realizes, oh, Taiwan caught his ball. He turns around,

1132
00:54:12,840 --> 00:54:15,680
Speaker 1: he blocks White and that freed up Taiwan to get

1133
00:54:15,680 --> 00:54:17,680
Speaker 1: probably in the eight to ten yards, So he got

1134
00:54:17,680 --> 00:54:20,200
Speaker 1: a key block on that as well. So to me,

1135
00:54:20,400 --> 00:54:24,440
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins was the second half. He was He was

1136
00:54:24,600 --> 00:54:26,680
Speaker 1: maybe the best player in that building that second half.

1137
00:54:26,840 --> 00:54:31,359
Speaker 1: DeShawn routinely makes the amazing happen. I mean, we've seen

1138
00:54:31,400 --> 00:54:33,759
Speaker 1: this happen before. He's done this before. So like that

1139
00:54:33,840 --> 00:54:35,360
Speaker 1: was my original answer. But if you want to go,

1140
00:54:35,480 --> 00:54:37,919
Speaker 1: like dig a little deeper, how about Whitney merciless doing

1141
00:54:37,960 --> 00:54:40,279
Speaker 1: what he did. I mean, he's so much better like

1142
00:54:40,320 --> 00:54:42,320
Speaker 1: so many other players on this defense. When Watt is

1143
00:54:42,320 --> 00:54:44,480
Speaker 1: on the field, but he's always around the ball. It

1144
00:54:44,480 --> 00:54:47,160
Speaker 1: always seems to be around the ball. This year, in particular,

1145
00:54:47,440 --> 00:54:49,480
Speaker 1: when Watt's out there and had a sack, had a

1146
00:54:49,520 --> 00:54:51,759
Speaker 1: forced fumble, had four tackles, did a good job, and

1147
00:54:53,160 --> 00:54:55,640
Speaker 1: it really is. Yeah, he is. He leads the NFL

1148
00:54:55,680 --> 00:54:58,279
Speaker 1: and sacks in the postseason. Since twenty fifteen, he's got

1149
00:54:58,280 --> 00:55:01,600
Speaker 1: seven sacks. It's amazing. That's a huge statistic right there.

1150
00:55:01,719 --> 00:55:04,080
Speaker 1: Jacob Martin has been playing really well for this team.

1151
00:55:04,160 --> 00:55:07,560
Speaker 1: You talk about impressive. When Jacob Martin draws a bead

1152
00:55:07,640 --> 00:55:10,480
Speaker 1: on a quarterback, he's like a five year old filled

1153
00:55:10,480 --> 00:55:12,960
Speaker 1: with pepsian pop rocks. It's just like shake him up

1154
00:55:12,960 --> 00:55:16,120
Speaker 1: in whoa an, I mean, he's gone, He's The speed

1155
00:55:16,160 --> 00:55:19,120
Speaker 1: that he plays the game with is absolutely phenomenal. I

1156
00:55:19,160 --> 00:55:21,200
Speaker 1: know there's a literation there, but I prefer Coca Cola

1157
00:55:21,200 --> 00:55:24,080
Speaker 1: since their team partner. Okay, next question from the crowd, Now,

1158
00:55:24,120 --> 00:55:28,160
Speaker 1: what's your name? Okay, what's your question? How do you

1159
00:55:28,200 --> 00:55:31,520
Speaker 1: think JJ played on Saturday after being out for most

1160
00:55:31,520 --> 00:55:35,239
Speaker 1: of the season. How do we think JJ played? I

1161
00:55:35,320 --> 00:55:39,080
Speaker 1: think pretty well? How about that? What do you darn? Well?

1162
00:55:40,040 --> 00:55:42,480
Speaker 1: Pretty pretty good for sure. I certainly I am not

1163
00:55:42,480 --> 00:55:43,800
Speaker 1: going to be that guy that sits up there and

1164
00:55:43,840 --> 00:55:49,520
Speaker 1: goes that guy I expected four sacks, four forest fumbles.

1165
00:55:50,239 --> 00:55:53,000
Speaker 1: It's impressive though, because the type of injury, Kevin, And

1166
00:55:53,160 --> 00:55:54,960
Speaker 1: you know what it's like to come back from an injury.

1167
00:55:55,000 --> 00:55:57,399
Speaker 1: It is extremely difficult. He comes back from this one

1168
00:55:57,520 --> 00:56:00,759
Speaker 1: quickly and he's effective during the game. He's not he's

1169
00:56:00,800 --> 00:56:02,719
Speaker 1: just not out there. I mean, you never know with

1170
00:56:02,880 --> 00:56:05,320
Speaker 1: that peck what's gonna happen if you may be confident

1171
00:56:05,400 --> 00:56:07,040
Speaker 1: making tackles, getting out there, up in your hand in

1172
00:56:07,040 --> 00:56:10,080
Speaker 1: the dirt and playing football. Um, it didn't nothing phase

1173
00:56:10,160 --> 00:56:11,759
Speaker 1: him out there. It didn't look like he was worried

1174
00:56:11,760 --> 00:56:15,080
Speaker 1: about his pack, his show, you know, his injury. So man,

1175
00:56:15,200 --> 00:56:17,879
Speaker 1: he played lights out and I know you know he's

1176
00:56:17,920 --> 00:56:20,480
Speaker 1: excited his heck to go and play just as well,

1177
00:56:20,480 --> 00:56:22,680
Speaker 1: if not better, this weekend. So when we need him

1178
00:56:22,719 --> 00:56:24,480
Speaker 1: and he's gonna play, well, you know, we talk about

1179
00:56:24,600 --> 00:56:27,960
Speaker 1: Watson being magical, what is magical as well? I mean,

1180
00:56:28,000 --> 00:56:30,319
Speaker 1: there's just something about him. There's something about the way

1181
00:56:30,360 --> 00:56:33,640
Speaker 1: he makes a play and the way the crowd reacts

1182
00:56:33,680 --> 00:56:35,480
Speaker 1: to him. And you brought it up early, Kevin, and

1183
00:56:35,520 --> 00:56:37,879
Speaker 1: I'm glad you did. It's a completely different situation when

1184
00:56:37,880 --> 00:56:39,560
Speaker 1: you're on the road. Of course, it's not like our

1185
00:56:39,600 --> 00:56:41,799
Speaker 1: head stadium is gonna be really happy with JJ want

1186
00:56:41,840 --> 00:56:46,160
Speaker 1: is something good on Sunday. But we will and on

1187
00:56:46,200 --> 00:56:48,640
Speaker 1: the road, you know, Walt can show up really big.

1188
00:56:48,680 --> 00:56:51,080
Speaker 1: And it's funny we bring up that game against the

1189
00:56:51,160 --> 00:56:54,800
Speaker 1: Ravens in twenty eleven, that Divisional round game the Texans

1190
00:56:54,800 --> 00:56:57,160
Speaker 1: got after Joe Flacco that day, Hey Brooks read, I

1191
00:56:57,160 --> 00:56:59,080
Speaker 1: think had a couple and why did why did? You

1192
00:56:59,080 --> 00:57:01,919
Speaker 1: had a tremendous game. I mean they really got after.

1193
00:57:01,920 --> 00:57:04,880
Speaker 1: The offense played unbelievable that game. Yeah, unbelievable. And like

1194
00:57:04,880 --> 00:57:07,120
Speaker 1: I said before, on offense, we needed to make more plays,

1195
00:57:07,520 --> 00:57:09,239
Speaker 1: you know, That's what it came down to, um and

1196
00:57:09,520 --> 00:57:12,520
Speaker 1: we didn't. And we had such a good squad that year.

1197
00:57:12,800 --> 00:57:14,840
Speaker 1: And I think about you know, I think about the

1198
00:57:14,880 --> 00:57:17,040
Speaker 1: game up in Foxboro. I think about that game. You

1199
00:57:17,040 --> 00:57:19,160
Speaker 1: don't get that many opportunities to do this, Yeah, you

1200
00:57:19,240 --> 00:57:21,640
Speaker 1: really don't. And uh, those are you know, I've played

1201
00:57:21,640 --> 00:57:23,760
Speaker 1: eleven years in the league and and you kind of

1202
00:57:23,760 --> 00:57:25,520
Speaker 1: look back at those games you're like, you know, I

1203
00:57:25,600 --> 00:57:28,600
Speaker 1: wish you could have had those back. The stadium erupted

1204
00:57:28,720 --> 00:57:31,760
Speaker 1: when JJ got the sack, but about a quarter and

1205
00:57:31,840 --> 00:57:36,560
Speaker 1: some change earlier it would have gone absolutely apoplectic because

1206
00:57:36,680 --> 00:57:38,880
Speaker 1: there was a play down where Josh Allen was down

1207
00:57:38,920 --> 00:57:41,439
Speaker 1: in the south end zone and I was standing back

1208
00:57:41,440 --> 00:57:44,560
Speaker 1: there as as the builder moving the ball out, and

1209
00:57:44,680 --> 00:57:48,240
Speaker 1: JJ anticipated a quick throw out and it literally goes

1210
00:57:48,560 --> 00:57:51,720
Speaker 1: through his hands, and I'm convinced, with no harness, he's

1211
00:57:51,800 --> 00:57:53,800
Speaker 1: probably at least hitting that ball with two hands and

1212
00:57:53,840 --> 00:57:55,960
Speaker 1: made popping it to himself. And he walks in the

1213
00:57:56,040 --> 00:57:58,760
Speaker 1: end zone with that harness, his hands probably couldn't get together,

1214
00:57:58,920 --> 00:58:01,280
Speaker 1: and it literally went right through his hands and his thumb.

1215
00:58:01,640 --> 00:58:03,320
Speaker 1: And I remember I told you right as it happened.

1216
00:58:03,360 --> 00:58:04,800
Speaker 1: I was like, oh wait, we'll right through his hands.

1217
00:58:05,080 --> 00:58:06,640
Speaker 1: And I felt bad because I was talking in the

1218
00:58:06,640 --> 00:58:09,560
Speaker 1: middle of your backswing basically. But then he went right

1219
00:58:09,600 --> 00:58:12,480
Speaker 1: through his hands. And if he catches that and walks

1220
00:58:12,480 --> 00:58:17,560
Speaker 1: in the end zone, a place probably would have fallen down.

1221
00:58:18,680 --> 00:58:20,240
Speaker 1: It would have been the same exact and the place

1222
00:58:20,240 --> 00:58:22,760
Speaker 1: would have fallen down. That would have been a surefire

1223
00:58:22,840 --> 00:58:24,960
Speaker 1: victory after that. All right, we have a lot of

1224
00:58:25,000 --> 00:58:26,880
Speaker 1: things to discuss here, but I want to thank you

1225
00:58:27,000 --> 00:58:29,000
Speaker 1: Kevin for coming buy and being part of things tonight.

1226
00:58:29,160 --> 00:58:35,000
Speaker 1: How about it for Kevin Walter, ladies? And next up?

1227
00:58:35,240 --> 00:58:37,120
Speaker 1: All right, So the Texans are in the divisional round

1228
00:58:37,120 --> 00:58:39,919
Speaker 1: for the fourth time. We're gonna talk about the other

1229
00:58:39,960 --> 00:58:43,400
Speaker 1: times and what needs to change from those visits to

1230
00:58:43,480 --> 00:58:46,200
Speaker 1: the divisional round, and also things that have to happen

1231
00:58:46,240 --> 00:58:50,360
Speaker 1: at Arrowhead at Sunday on Sunday in general, as Houston

1232
00:58:50,400 --> 00:58:52,080
Speaker 1: takes on Kansas City. And by the way, here in

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Speaker 1: a lot of discounts here in the store, and man,

1247
00:59:43,760 --> 00:59:46,040
Speaker 1: there's so much here. Every time I come to the

1248
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Speaker 1: Houston Texans Team Shop. I'm just overwhelmed with the selection.

1249
00:59:50,680 --> 00:59:53,960
Speaker 1: The selection is so good. It's just footsteps from your office, man,

1250
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Speaker 1: it is. I'm you know what. I don't come down

1251
00:59:56,240 --> 00:59:59,080
Speaker 1: here enough though, because every time I do, I end

1252
00:59:59,160 --> 01:00:01,120
Speaker 1: up spending like three hours down here, and it's just

1253
01:00:01,160 --> 01:00:03,360
Speaker 1: not a good thing for my work productivity. Yeah, that's

1254
01:00:03,360 --> 01:00:07,720
Speaker 1: all I got to say. Well, I bring my department's

1255
01:00:07,840 --> 01:00:09,640
Speaker 1: business card down here and try and load up and

1256
01:00:10,320 --> 01:00:12,880
Speaker 1: my bosses and I'm like, yeah, I better not do that. Yeah,

1257
01:00:13,000 --> 01:00:15,080
Speaker 1: well you bet. But I'll tell you what. As far

1258
01:00:15,120 --> 01:00:17,400
Speaker 1: as the holidays go, this is just a great place

1259
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Speaker 1: to go. I got a birthday coming up this Saturday,

1260
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Speaker 1: not me, but my son. Place to get some birthday gifts. Yeah,

1261
01:00:23,480 --> 01:00:25,600
Speaker 1: oh yeah, So that magnitude. This is a good place

1262
01:00:25,640 --> 01:00:27,439
Speaker 1: to It is anytime you have to give a gift,

1263
01:00:27,720 --> 01:00:30,320
Speaker 1: there's something here, no matter what the price range is. Okay.

1264
01:00:30,400 --> 01:00:34,360
Speaker 1: So that's your Houston Texans Team Shop. Inadvertent advertisement or

1265
01:00:34,440 --> 01:00:38,640
Speaker 1: unplanned advertisement. All right. So let's get to this divisional

1266
01:00:38,720 --> 01:00:41,120
Speaker 1: round fourth time in the last nine years. And we

1267
01:00:41,160 --> 01:00:44,880
Speaker 1: talked about it with Kevin that the Texans obviously went

1268
01:00:44,920 --> 01:00:49,200
Speaker 1: to the Baltimore Ravens in twenty eleven. You mentioned the

1269
01:00:49,320 --> 01:00:54,080
Speaker 1: early punt situation and three interceptions in that game. Four

1270
01:00:54,120 --> 01:00:56,520
Speaker 1: turnovers you lose by seven. You're right, you can't turn

1271
01:00:56,520 --> 01:00:58,360
Speaker 1: the ball over. Okay, that's I just felt like that

1272
01:00:58,480 --> 01:01:00,320
Speaker 1: was a moment early in a game where you kind

1273
01:01:00,320 --> 01:01:02,880
Speaker 1: of had it going your way. As Kevin said, you

1274
01:01:03,000 --> 01:01:05,000
Speaker 1: do have to start well, and they did start well.

1275
01:01:05,360 --> 01:01:08,040
Speaker 1: Both offense and defense started well. And then the one

1276
01:01:08,080 --> 01:01:10,640
Speaker 1: thing you teach a punt returner that ball is bouncing

1277
01:01:10,640 --> 01:01:14,440
Speaker 1: and get away, and then you fumble it. And I

1278
01:01:14,480 --> 01:01:16,880
Speaker 1: loved Jakobe. I mean, he's fantastic eating he knows, he

1279
01:01:16,920 --> 01:01:18,680
Speaker 1: knew when he came to Siline. But that was like

1280
01:01:19,000 --> 01:01:23,400
Speaker 1: what triggered Baltimore's momentum at that point. And then you

1281
01:01:23,680 --> 01:01:26,520
Speaker 1: ended up because the defense played so phenomenal that day.

1282
01:01:26,600 --> 01:01:28,800
Speaker 1: You udn't getting back in the game, you know, But

1283
01:01:28,840 --> 01:01:31,400
Speaker 1: it's like you dug yourself a hole because that momentum

1284
01:01:31,400 --> 01:01:34,320
Speaker 1: that they used off of that, And you're right, four turnovers,

1285
01:01:34,800 --> 01:01:37,160
Speaker 1: you lose a game by seven. You have four turnovers

1286
01:01:37,200 --> 01:01:40,720
Speaker 1: on Sunday and it's gonna be an ugly flight home. Yeah,

1287
01:01:40,760 --> 01:01:43,640
Speaker 1: even though Watson threw a couple of picks in the

1288
01:01:43,680 --> 01:01:45,960
Speaker 1: first meeting and you still want it, but we had

1289
01:01:45,960 --> 01:01:48,160
Speaker 1: and you had a fumble too. You didn't punt that.

1290
01:01:48,200 --> 01:01:50,560
Speaker 1: You did not punt at Kansas City because you had

1291
01:01:50,560 --> 01:01:53,720
Speaker 1: the three turnovers. He scored every other time except for

1292
01:01:53,760 --> 01:01:56,920
Speaker 1: the very last drive where you were killing the clock

1293
01:01:56,920 --> 01:02:00,360
Speaker 1: in victory formation. Yeah, it's that was a really weird

1294
01:02:00,440 --> 01:02:02,600
Speaker 1: game statistically when you look at it, when you look

1295
01:02:02,600 --> 01:02:04,440
Speaker 1: at the turnovers, you think, well, there's no way you're

1296
01:02:04,440 --> 01:02:06,920
Speaker 1: gonna beat a team like the Chiefs and they're building.

1297
01:02:06,960 --> 01:02:09,880
Speaker 1: But they did. And I was just asked off to

1298
01:02:09,920 --> 01:02:13,120
Speaker 1: the side here, do you think that when? How do

1299
01:02:13,160 --> 01:02:15,480
Speaker 1: you think that makes the team feel going in? And

1300
01:02:15,560 --> 01:02:17,480
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if it makes them feel anything, but

1301
01:02:17,600 --> 01:02:20,120
Speaker 1: I do believe it helps. You know, it's possible. How

1302
01:02:20,120 --> 01:02:22,320
Speaker 1: can it not help? Yeah, you know it's possible. Now,

1303
01:02:22,360 --> 01:02:24,560
Speaker 1: it doesn't make you over confident either, because my gosh,

1304
01:02:24,600 --> 01:02:26,520
Speaker 1: you're not gonna be overconfident. You know, you didn't play

1305
01:02:26,560 --> 01:02:29,240
Speaker 1: your best game and you still won the game. But

1306
01:02:29,320 --> 01:02:31,400
Speaker 1: it's a different Chiefs team. They've won six in a row.

1307
01:02:31,480 --> 01:02:34,920
Speaker 1: Coming in. I mean, so much has changed since that afternoon,

1308
01:02:35,200 --> 01:02:37,800
Speaker 1: But I gotta feel like at least the team knows

1309
01:02:37,880 --> 01:02:39,880
Speaker 1: that they've done it up there, and they know the

1310
01:02:39,960 --> 01:02:42,360
Speaker 1: lay of the land, the locker room, the field, everything.

1311
01:02:42,560 --> 01:02:44,840
Speaker 1: I think, so you go back to these these three

1312
01:02:44,880 --> 01:02:47,240
Speaker 1: other divisional games and you're asking, how's a sort of

1313
01:02:47,240 --> 01:02:50,040
Speaker 1: stand up versus those Let's go back to the very

1314
01:02:50,120 --> 01:02:53,600
Speaker 1: simplest thing, how are you armed at quarterback versus the

1315
01:02:53,600 --> 01:02:55,560
Speaker 1: other team? So the first time you had a rookie

1316
01:02:55,560 --> 01:02:58,480
Speaker 1: fifth round pick against Joe Flacco, who a year later

1317
01:02:58,520 --> 01:03:01,360
Speaker 1: would be the Super Bowl MVP. The next time you

1318
01:03:01,440 --> 01:03:04,400
Speaker 1: had Matt shop who had started to decline. I mean

1319
01:03:04,400 --> 01:03:07,000
Speaker 1: it really started that season. It did that late that season.

1320
01:03:07,040 --> 01:03:09,520
Speaker 1: Yet he was starting to decline against Brady at his

1321
01:03:09,600 --> 01:03:17,440
Speaker 1: peak in sixteen. Yet brock Osweiler going against Brady. Now

1322
01:03:17,480 --> 01:03:20,840
Speaker 1: you have Deshaun Watson going against Patrick Mahomes. I mean,

1323
01:03:20,920 --> 01:03:24,080
Speaker 1: that's a that's the best chance you've had out of

1324
01:03:24,080 --> 01:03:27,120
Speaker 1: those three, out of the four total that I think

1325
01:03:27,160 --> 01:03:28,959
Speaker 1: you have court right now. There's a lot of other

1326
01:03:29,000 --> 01:03:31,120
Speaker 1: things to go into this. I'm not saying the Texans

1327
01:03:31,160 --> 01:03:33,560
Speaker 1: should be favored, but I'm still just kind of a

1328
01:03:33,560 --> 01:03:36,880
Speaker 1: little bit surprised that it's nine and a half part.

1329
01:03:37,040 --> 01:03:38,920
Speaker 1: I am shocked by that, and I guess it's it's

1330
01:03:38,920 --> 01:03:41,240
Speaker 1: all about the money and who's gonna bet. I still

1331
01:03:41,240 --> 01:03:43,160
Speaker 1: I'm surprised about that because I would think if I

1332
01:03:43,200 --> 01:03:45,800
Speaker 1: were working in the desert, I would say, all right,

1333
01:03:45,840 --> 01:03:48,200
Speaker 1: that's way too much, Like so much money would come

1334
01:03:48,200 --> 01:03:50,120
Speaker 1: in on the Texans side to make it knock it

1335
01:03:50,160 --> 01:03:53,360
Speaker 1: down to six or five or something like that, more

1336
01:03:53,440 --> 01:03:55,360
Speaker 1: like a touchdown instead of nothing. There are a bunch

1337
01:03:55,400 --> 01:03:58,000
Speaker 1: of jokers out there that are living on DVOA and

1338
01:03:58,040 --> 01:04:01,360
Speaker 1: all the Texans dvo A whatever DA stands for, and

1339
01:04:01,480 --> 01:04:04,240
Speaker 1: PFF has come up with, here's here's what I know.

1340
01:04:04,600 --> 01:04:08,360
Speaker 1: The chief defense, as as John McClean pointed out earlier,

1341
01:04:08,800 --> 01:04:10,919
Speaker 1: they've given up less than twelve points in the last

1342
01:04:10,920 --> 01:04:13,760
Speaker 1: six games. Yeah, you wander who. They played the Chargers twice.

1343
01:04:14,000 --> 01:04:17,680
Speaker 1: The Broncos wants the Bears, that's who they played the

1344
01:04:17,360 --> 01:04:20,520
Speaker 1: Bear They can't score. Yeah, the Patriots scored sixteen on them,

1345
01:04:20,520 --> 01:04:22,520
Speaker 1: and the Patriots were lucky to get to twenty on

1346
01:04:22,560 --> 01:04:26,960
Speaker 1: the Dolphins. Ye. So, and actually the Patriots had a

1347
01:04:27,000 --> 01:04:28,880
Speaker 1: touchdown has taken away. They should have had twenty. They

1348
01:04:28,880 --> 01:04:30,960
Speaker 1: should have gone overtime in that game and not won

1349
01:04:31,040 --> 01:04:35,880
Speaker 1: that game in in Gillette. But that said, they Philip

1350
01:04:35,920 --> 01:04:39,080
Speaker 1: Rivers gives away, you know, interceptions like they're pez candy,

1351
01:04:39,240 --> 01:04:41,640
Speaker 1: and they played him twice in that whole thing. So

1352
01:04:41,800 --> 01:04:45,480
Speaker 1: they haven't faced anybody from the last six games. When

1353
01:04:45,520 --> 01:04:48,160
Speaker 1: you look at what they faced the first ten games,

1354
01:04:48,760 --> 01:04:53,800
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, M. DeShawn Watson, they faced Jacobe Brissette protted

1355
01:04:53,800 --> 01:04:55,480
Speaker 1: didn't really do a whole lot, but they ran the

1356
01:04:55,640 --> 01:04:58,520
Speaker 1: fool out of the football against him. So what they

1357
01:04:58,600 --> 01:05:00,600
Speaker 1: played in the first ten games and what they played

1358
01:05:00,600 --> 01:05:03,400
Speaker 1: in the last six, it's basically like the Patriots season

1359
01:05:03,400 --> 01:05:05,920
Speaker 1: in reverse. Everybody thought the Patriots were so great. We'll

1360
01:05:05,960 --> 01:05:08,560
Speaker 1: look at the first ten games the Patriots played. It

1361
01:05:08,640 --> 01:05:11,400
Speaker 1: was the AFC East and the NFC East. Then all

1362
01:05:11,400 --> 01:05:15,160
Speaker 1: of a sudden it was Baltimore US Kansas City. It

1363
01:05:15,320 --> 01:05:18,560
Speaker 1: lost all three games. So from that perspective, I'm not

1364
01:05:18,600 --> 01:05:21,760
Speaker 1: totally sure. Why can't. And by the way, we went

1365
01:05:21,840 --> 01:05:24,640
Speaker 1: up there and beat them in their building and probably

1366
01:05:24,640 --> 01:05:27,040
Speaker 1: should have done to buy a couple of touchdowns. So

1367
01:05:27,600 --> 01:05:29,080
Speaker 1: go for it if you want to, If you want

1368
01:05:29,080 --> 01:05:30,680
Speaker 1: to lay the nine and a half points and take

1369
01:05:30,760 --> 01:05:32,720
Speaker 1: Kansas City final, I can't. City might win a game,

1370
01:05:32,960 --> 01:05:34,320
Speaker 1: but to think that we're a nine and a half

1371
01:05:34,360 --> 01:05:37,120
Speaker 1: point dogs. Yeah, it does seem strange. And you know,

1372
01:05:37,160 --> 01:05:38,920
Speaker 1: I'm glad you brought up the game they played against

1373
01:05:38,920 --> 01:05:41,200
Speaker 1: the Colts because everyone talks about the game the Texans

1374
01:05:41,200 --> 01:05:44,200
Speaker 1: played against the Chiefs. But I harken back to that

1375
01:05:44,360 --> 01:05:48,680
Speaker 1: Colts victory at Arrowhead, and I'm thinking that's a blueprint

1376
01:05:48,720 --> 01:05:51,840
Speaker 1: maybe you can follow, maybe where you run the football

1377
01:05:51,880 --> 01:05:54,840
Speaker 1: really well, you play a hard nosed, physical game, and

1378
01:05:54,960 --> 01:05:57,080
Speaker 1: you try to punish them that way. Now, look, they

1379
01:05:57,080 --> 01:05:58,880
Speaker 1: can do their own punishing. I get it. They've got

1380
01:05:58,920 --> 01:06:01,240
Speaker 1: good players on defense. They have Terrell Suggs now is

1381
01:06:01,280 --> 01:06:03,480
Speaker 1: going to do something. They have Frank Clark playing a

1382
01:06:03,520 --> 01:06:06,960
Speaker 1: whole lot better. We can get into all the personnel,

1383
01:06:07,240 --> 01:06:10,160
Speaker 1: but to me, it could be a real physical, hard

1384
01:06:10,240 --> 01:06:12,520
Speaker 1: nosed game like the one the Colts played against them,

1385
01:06:12,640 --> 01:06:15,880
Speaker 1: where Mahomes is getting beaten up and you got to

1386
01:06:15,920 --> 01:06:19,120
Speaker 1: find a way to hit the quarterback what merciless Martin

1387
01:06:19,200 --> 01:06:22,080
Speaker 1: whoever's back there. It could and that would be delicious.

1388
01:06:22,120 --> 01:06:24,280
Speaker 1: But how much more delicious would it be knowing that

1389
01:06:24,280 --> 01:06:27,280
Speaker 1: you've got Hopkins, that you've got will Fuller, and you've

1390
01:06:27,320 --> 01:06:29,760
Speaker 1: got Kenny Stills who don't have will Fuller. You don't know,

1391
01:06:29,880 --> 01:06:32,080
Speaker 1: but you could do this. It would be a don't

1392
01:06:32,120 --> 01:06:34,720
Speaker 1: wouldn't you don't get sign up for that? Sign me

1393
01:06:34,800 --> 01:06:37,160
Speaker 1: up for Will Fuller, please, I would be surprised this

1394
01:06:37,240 --> 01:06:39,439
Speaker 1: time if he's not out there. I was on six

1395
01:06:39,600 --> 01:06:41,760
Speaker 1: ten in Kansas City. They have a sports radio six

1396
01:06:41,800 --> 01:06:44,360
Speaker 1: ten up there, and they were asking me about Will

1397
01:06:44,400 --> 01:06:46,800
Speaker 1: Fuller and when the difference he makes and they've seen

1398
01:06:46,840 --> 01:06:49,640
Speaker 1: the numbers, but how would you describe it? And I said, well,

1399
01:06:49,680 --> 01:06:51,960
Speaker 1: you know in college basketball, because I know they're really

1400
01:06:52,000 --> 01:06:54,760
Speaker 1: into it up there in Kansas City where you're facing

1401
01:06:54,840 --> 01:06:57,200
Speaker 1: Syracuse and that two three zone, and how do you

1402
01:06:57,240 --> 01:06:59,160
Speaker 1: beat a two three zone? Will you flex it? You

1403
01:06:59,240 --> 01:07:01,400
Speaker 1: mix it up, the ball around, you find the open.

1404
01:07:01,560 --> 01:07:03,920
Speaker 1: If that's what Fuller does. He flexes the defense, He

1405
01:07:04,160 --> 01:07:06,840
Speaker 1: gets them to spread out, he moves them around. And

1406
01:07:07,000 --> 01:07:10,200
Speaker 1: it's not just Fuller as the burner, Fuller as the accomplished,

1407
01:07:10,280 --> 01:07:13,880
Speaker 1: precise route runner that he is really helps the cause.

1408
01:07:14,000 --> 01:07:16,600
Speaker 1: And you know, they were asking me about Hopkins as well,

1409
01:07:16,640 --> 01:07:18,760
Speaker 1: and we all saw what Hopkins did the last time

1410
01:07:18,800 --> 01:07:21,000
Speaker 1: with the fifty five yards. You said he was more

1411
01:07:21,040 --> 01:07:23,560
Speaker 1: like a running back at times, extended handoffs, things like that.

1412
01:07:23,680 --> 01:07:25,840
Speaker 1: He's a running back, he's a tight end. He's just

1413
01:07:25,960 --> 01:07:27,920
Speaker 1: your best friend as a quarterback when you need to

1414
01:07:27,960 --> 01:07:29,880
Speaker 1: move the sticks, and that's what he was in that game.

1415
01:07:29,920 --> 01:07:31,840
Speaker 1: And I thought it was a huge game for DeAndre

1416
01:07:32,360 --> 01:07:35,400
Speaker 1: and he's been playing so well, playing the physical brand

1417
01:07:35,440 --> 01:07:38,160
Speaker 1: of football you need to play. So yeah, I agree.

1418
01:07:38,160 --> 01:07:41,200
Speaker 1: If you're able to have Stills, Fuller, Hopkins out there,

1419
01:07:41,440 --> 01:07:43,240
Speaker 1: you got Johnson, you got high to it over one

1420
01:07:43,280 --> 01:07:45,280
Speaker 1: hundred last time. I mean, that's really going to help

1421
01:07:45,320 --> 01:07:48,800
Speaker 1: your cause obviously, you know. And I'm surprised that people

1422
01:07:48,800 --> 01:07:51,160
Speaker 1: aren't giving them more of a shot from the outside

1423
01:07:51,200 --> 01:07:53,280
Speaker 1: looking in. But it's fine. I think it's great for

1424
01:07:53,320 --> 01:07:55,480
Speaker 1: the team and I think it's wonderful for the team.

1425
01:07:55,480 --> 01:07:59,160
Speaker 1: Everybody pick the Chiefs to win on national media, Please

1426
01:07:59,240 --> 01:08:00,960
Speaker 1: do it. I mean, it's the same fan base and

1427
01:08:01,080 --> 01:08:03,280
Speaker 1: media base I was talking. You know, I think that

1428
01:08:03,400 --> 01:08:05,560
Speaker 1: Chiefs could be sixteen and oh this year. You know,

1429
01:08:05,600 --> 01:08:07,320
Speaker 1: I really think, do you know how hard it is

1430
01:08:07,320 --> 01:08:09,600
Speaker 1: to win every single game in the NFL. I mean,

1431
01:08:09,640 --> 01:08:11,560
Speaker 1: that's just there's a word for it. I can't say

1432
01:08:11,560 --> 01:08:13,640
Speaker 1: it on the radio, but that's just ridiculous. And to

1433
01:08:13,720 --> 01:08:16,360
Speaker 1: the point about having the three receivers Tennessee found out.

1434
01:08:16,720 --> 01:08:19,080
Speaker 1: Tennessee found out. When you have those three receivers on

1435
01:08:19,080 --> 01:08:21,960
Speaker 1: the field, what do you do? Who do you double?

1436
01:08:22,120 --> 01:08:24,479
Speaker 1: Are you gonna double DeAndre? Are you gonna double Fuller?

1437
01:08:25,280 --> 01:08:27,200
Speaker 1: You're probably not gonna double Kenny Stills. But then all

1438
01:08:27,200 --> 01:08:28,719
Speaker 1: of a a sudden, you got Kenny match up on Logan

1439
01:08:28,800 --> 01:08:31,479
Speaker 1: Ryan one on one, two touchdowns. Logan Ryan is much

1440
01:08:31,520 --> 01:08:33,960
Speaker 1: better than the third corner on Kansas City. So who

1441
01:08:33,960 --> 01:08:36,160
Speaker 1: are you gonna cover Kenny with? And then are you

1442
01:08:36,200 --> 01:08:38,120
Speaker 1: gonna give some help with one of the other guys

1443
01:08:38,160 --> 01:08:40,719
Speaker 1: with Tyrann Matthews? So where does Tyrant go? There's Tyrant

1444
01:08:40,760 --> 01:08:42,599
Speaker 1: kind of be a wild card and float and well,

1445
01:08:42,640 --> 01:08:44,000
Speaker 1: you know, he might just plus play in the middle.

1446
01:08:44,040 --> 01:08:46,040
Speaker 1: And you've got a lot of decisions you gotta make

1447
01:08:46,040 --> 01:08:49,160
Speaker 1: if you're Kansas City, because with Stills there, with Fuller

1448
01:08:49,840 --> 01:08:52,599
Speaker 1: in Hopkins, they had a hard enough time figuring out

1449
01:08:52,640 --> 01:08:54,400
Speaker 1: how they were gonna release when they were stacked and

1450
01:08:54,479 --> 01:08:56,320
Speaker 1: things like that. And now all of a sudden, let's

1451
01:08:56,360 --> 01:08:58,639
Speaker 1: bring Kenny into this. Let's put them in a trips

1452
01:08:58,640 --> 01:09:01,200
Speaker 1: formation and see what you're gonna do. Because Tennessee they

1453
01:09:01,200 --> 01:09:03,960
Speaker 1: could handle it. So if you can't play man coverage.

1454
01:09:04,160 --> 01:09:06,479
Speaker 1: You just can't play man coverage because those three guys

1455
01:09:06,479 --> 01:09:08,360
Speaker 1: are on the field. You're limited in some of the

1456
01:09:08,360 --> 01:09:10,519
Speaker 1: things that you're gonna be able to do, which now

1457
01:09:10,560 --> 01:09:12,400
Speaker 1: opened some of the things in the run game. So

1458
01:09:12,800 --> 01:09:15,120
Speaker 1: that's where it all can really kind of play together.

1459
01:09:15,200 --> 01:09:17,800
Speaker 1: It needs to play together, all right. Going off of

1460
01:09:17,840 --> 01:09:20,920
Speaker 1: that and kind of expanding on that, they are much

1461
01:09:20,920 --> 01:09:22,760
Speaker 1: healthier on defense knock on wood than they were the

1462
01:09:22,760 --> 01:09:26,400
Speaker 1: first time around, except they just lost a rookie safety

1463
01:09:27,120 --> 01:09:30,320
Speaker 1: wants very very important. I mean, so how do they

1464
01:09:30,360 --> 01:09:33,120
Speaker 1: compensate for that? He was bringing up a guy basically

1465
01:09:33,160 --> 01:09:35,799
Speaker 1: who's been a special teamer and a special team standout.

1466
01:09:35,920 --> 01:09:39,000
Speaker 1: But that's a different beast when you're playing special teams

1467
01:09:39,000 --> 01:09:41,400
Speaker 1: in the regular season and here you go, you got

1468
01:09:41,400 --> 01:09:43,719
Speaker 1: to guard one of these three guys in the postseason. Well,

1469
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Speaker 1: it depends on how they're gonna do it. If they're

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01:09:45,520 --> 01:09:49,640
Speaker 1: gonna go with Tyrant and with Sorenson, you definitely have

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01:09:49,720 --> 01:09:51,919
Speaker 1: an advantage there. Now if you want to use Sorenson

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01:09:51,920 --> 01:09:54,120
Speaker 1: more in a linebacker role and put Ourmani Watts back

1473
01:09:54,160 --> 01:09:56,360
Speaker 1: there and play at Texas and am. What you know

1474
01:09:56,360 --> 01:09:58,240
Speaker 1: about Armani is he wants to hit you, but he

1475
01:09:58,280 --> 01:10:01,760
Speaker 1: can't cover you, so he'll he'll want to you get

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01:10:01,800 --> 01:10:03,640
Speaker 1: in his area and he's playing his zone. I mean,

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01:10:03,680 --> 01:10:06,559
Speaker 1: he'll stroke you, he'll hit you, but he's not the

1478
01:10:06,600 --> 01:10:08,920
Speaker 1: best tackler in the world. But he's a pretty physical guy.

1479
01:10:09,240 --> 01:10:11,400
Speaker 1: But he's not gonna be able to cover anybody. Thorne

1480
01:10:11,479 --> 01:10:13,720
Speaker 1: Hill could cover he if you needed thorn Hill to

1481
01:10:13,760 --> 01:10:15,479
Speaker 1: go in and lock somebody up, because he had played

1482
01:10:15,479 --> 01:10:19,160
Speaker 1: two years of corner at UVA. So he's an athlete

1483
01:10:19,160 --> 01:10:22,200
Speaker 1: and he was playing really well when he went down.

1484
01:10:22,479 --> 01:10:25,479
Speaker 1: That's a much bigger loss Drew than anybody even knows

1485
01:10:25,520 --> 01:10:27,920
Speaker 1: to lose a rookie safety. This guy is a big

1486
01:10:27,960 --> 01:10:32,160
Speaker 1: time athlete. He what his presence allowed Tyring to do

1487
01:10:32,400 --> 01:10:34,080
Speaker 1: a lot of different things for them, just kind of

1488
01:10:34,080 --> 01:10:36,840
Speaker 1: float and do some things. Thorn Hill's presence allowed him

1489
01:10:36,840 --> 01:10:38,960
Speaker 1: to do that. Now I'm curious to see how they're

1490
01:10:38,960 --> 01:10:41,160
Speaker 1: gonna do that with Sorenson and with Matthew and then

1491
01:10:41,200 --> 01:10:43,600
Speaker 1: Watson involved. All right, next segment, we're here at the

1492
01:10:43,640 --> 01:10:46,920
Speaker 1: Houston Texans team shop. Next segment, a little bit more

1493
01:10:47,000 --> 01:10:49,880
Speaker 1: on this matchup on Sunday that kicks off at two

1494
01:10:50,040 --> 01:10:52,880
Speaker 1: oh five. Some of the unsung heroes that need to

1495
01:10:52,920 --> 01:10:56,040
Speaker 1: make plays on Sunday, and other stuff going on around

1496
01:10:56,040 --> 01:10:58,439
Speaker 1: the league, including the coaching hires. Who made the best hire?

1497
01:10:58,479 --> 01:11:01,559
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that. Maybe long shot hired that's going

1498
01:11:01,600 --> 01:11:03,880
Speaker 1: to work out for a certain team. We'll talk about that.

1499
01:11:04,040 --> 01:11:07,200
Speaker 1: John Jenkins. John Jenkins did not get hired, did he?

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01:11:07,760 --> 01:11:10,200
Speaker 1: Long shot? Okay? Long shot that? Yeah, that's that's a

1501
01:11:10,360 --> 01:11:13,559
Speaker 1: very long shot. And what's Cleveland doing? Okay, And we're

1502
01:11:13,600 --> 01:11:15,880
Speaker 1: here at the Houston Texans Teams Shop. One more segment

1503
01:11:15,880 --> 01:11:17,640
Speaker 1: to go. We'll give away the tickets. Let's do it

1504
01:11:17,760 --> 01:11:23,960
Speaker 1: Texans Radio. I'm Bill O'Brien and you're listening to Texans Radio.

1505
01:11:24,200 --> 01:11:26,880
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1506
01:11:27,280 --> 01:11:31,000
Speaker 1: Check out Houston Texans dot com. What are the experts

1507
01:11:31,000 --> 01:11:35,799
Speaker 1: predicting about this week's big game? Watch Texans Extra Points

1508
01:11:35,920 --> 01:11:38,960
Speaker 1: Saturday nights at eleven or after the late Glocal news

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01:11:39,040 --> 01:11:44,960
Speaker 1: on ABC thirteen all or at the Houston Texans Team Shop.

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01:11:44,960 --> 01:11:47,320
Speaker 1: Of the great crowd Here tonight Texans and the Chiefs

1511
01:11:47,400 --> 01:11:51,200
Speaker 1: Sunday at two oh five. Oh man, I am so

1512
01:11:51,320 --> 01:11:53,439
Speaker 1: excited for this one. How can you not be? The

1513
01:11:53,520 --> 01:11:56,120
Speaker 1: city is on fire for this team. After what happened

1514
01:11:56,200 --> 01:12:00,000
Speaker 1: last week? And you're at the doorstep of doing something

1515
01:12:00,080 --> 01:12:04,200
Speaker 1: thing you've never done before. But there's an obstacle, and

1516
01:12:04,280 --> 01:12:06,599
Speaker 1: that is the Kansas City Chiefs, And my gosh, they

1517
01:12:06,640 --> 01:12:09,920
Speaker 1: are good. How awesome is tonight? I mean we were

1518
01:12:09,920 --> 01:12:12,040
Speaker 1: gonna miss it this week. We normally go to food

1519
01:12:12,120 --> 01:12:14,479
Speaker 1: ruckers on a Tuesday and a lot of familiar faces

1520
01:12:14,479 --> 01:12:16,600
Speaker 1: are there that make those events so fun. And we

1521
01:12:16,680 --> 01:12:18,599
Speaker 1: got a bunch of other faces that we haven't seen.

1522
01:12:18,840 --> 01:12:21,120
Speaker 1: It's just so much fun. It infuses a little bit

1523
01:12:21,120 --> 01:12:24,360
Speaker 1: more spirit, yea into some spirit that was already high

1524
01:12:24,439 --> 01:12:27,240
Speaker 1: to begin with. This is thank you to you guys

1525
01:12:27,240 --> 01:12:33,439
Speaker 1: for ye showed out. So guys are the best. Though

1526
01:12:33,600 --> 01:12:36,880
Speaker 1: I didn't get a milkshake tonight. Wait, if y'all, I mean,

1527
01:12:36,920 --> 01:12:39,320
Speaker 1: if y'all to you know, plan ahead, somebody would have

1528
01:12:39,320 --> 01:12:42,000
Speaker 1: gotten market tried chicken in front of him. Well, this

1529
01:12:42,080 --> 01:12:44,160
Speaker 1: thing is, we have those food trucks out here, but

1530
01:12:44,200 --> 01:12:47,000
Speaker 1: there's no dessert food truck. No, there's no dessert food truck.

1531
01:12:47,040 --> 01:12:51,080
Speaker 1: But I'm telling you I had the wings stuffed. I'll

1532
01:12:51,120 --> 01:12:53,479
Speaker 1: tell you what. I'll tell you what. The Texans do

1533
01:12:53,520 --> 01:12:55,840
Speaker 1: it on Sunday. Let's meet again. Next week. How about

1534
01:12:55,880 --> 01:13:00,000
Speaker 1: that's it again next week? And I need a dessert

1535
01:13:00,160 --> 01:13:03,120
Speaker 1: food truck next Let's get somebody on that. Okay, there's

1536
01:13:03,160 --> 01:13:05,160
Speaker 1: somebody out there. Let's see with the food truck going. Well,

1537
01:13:05,200 --> 01:13:07,040
Speaker 1: we'll be there, we'll be There's gonna be nine food

1538
01:13:07,080 --> 01:13:09,840
Speaker 1: trucks here next week. Yeah, it's fine, Johnny, tell me,

1539
01:13:09,960 --> 01:13:12,559
Speaker 1: tell me this the third phase of the game. By

1540
01:13:12,560 --> 01:13:14,640
Speaker 1: the way, Kevin Walter is still here shopping. I mean,

1541
01:13:14,720 --> 01:13:16,840
Speaker 1: Kevin Walter, it's like a regular customer here at the

1542
01:13:16,880 --> 01:13:20,200
Speaker 1: Houston Texas team shop buying stuff. But it's awesome. Look

1543
01:13:20,240 --> 01:13:21,960
Speaker 1: at him. Look at that. Yeah, I don't think that's

1544
01:13:21,960 --> 01:13:26,559
Speaker 1: gonna fit you, Kevin. Okay, he wears tight clothing. He's

1545
01:13:26,600 --> 01:13:30,680
Speaker 1: showing off his muscles. Yeah, it's it's horrible the way

1546
01:13:30,680 --> 01:13:33,799
Speaker 1: he's let himself go after his playing career. Isn't it amazing?

1547
01:13:33,880 --> 01:13:36,320
Speaker 1: He when you see he and Andre Johnson together, like,

1548
01:13:36,360 --> 01:13:39,479
Speaker 1: are y'all still playing? I mean, it's amazing. No, like

1549
01:13:39,560 --> 01:13:43,080
Speaker 1: we So I'll tell him. I'll tell you a story

1550
01:13:43,120 --> 01:13:45,040
Speaker 1: about and while he's in the store here, he was

1551
01:13:45,080 --> 01:13:46,679
Speaker 1: once out to dinner with a bunch of the Texans

1552
01:13:46,760 --> 01:13:48,439
Speaker 1: back in that era. You know, they were out with

1553
01:13:48,479 --> 01:13:51,080
Speaker 1: a bunch of the guys, and we were out with

1554
01:13:51,120 --> 01:13:54,080
Speaker 1: a bunch of couples, and all the ladies at our

1555
01:13:54,120 --> 01:14:00,200
Speaker 1: table were like, who is that? You know, Like, why

1556
01:14:00,240 --> 01:14:02,439
Speaker 1: is your voice like that when you ask that question?

1557
01:14:03,200 --> 01:14:06,599
Speaker 1: Who is that? Yes? I mean it was just kind

1558
01:14:06,600 --> 01:14:08,599
Speaker 1: of funny. I'm like, the food is not even here

1559
01:14:08,680 --> 01:14:11,280
Speaker 1: yet anyway, Sorry, what we're gonna say? No, I was

1560
01:14:11,280 --> 01:14:13,360
Speaker 1: gonna say, these guys don't look like they've added one

1561
01:14:13,439 --> 01:14:15,720
Speaker 1: pound since they played. I put the helmet up the

1562
01:14:15,800 --> 01:14:18,640
Speaker 1: very next day. I had five pounds added. I was like,

1563
01:14:18,680 --> 01:14:20,880
Speaker 1: I'm gone, like, I don't. I don't let myself go.

1564
01:14:20,960 --> 01:14:23,439
Speaker 1: Those two guys look like they can play tomorrow. Yeah

1565
01:14:23,479 --> 01:14:27,719
Speaker 1: they do. I mean Cushing, Andre Yeah, Dan on the staff,

1566
01:14:27,760 --> 01:14:32,679
Speaker 1: I mean j yeah, I give it five years. So, Johnny.

1567
01:14:32,720 --> 01:14:35,320
Speaker 1: The third phase of the game, special teams, that has

1568
01:14:35,400 --> 01:14:38,519
Speaker 1: got to be big. It's big every week, but you know,

1569
01:14:38,560 --> 01:14:40,640
Speaker 1: every week, I feel like it's a revelation. Hey, you

1570
01:14:40,680 --> 01:14:43,720
Speaker 1: can actually pin them back deep, you can extend the

1571
01:14:43,840 --> 01:14:46,160
Speaker 1: length of their needed drives to get into the end zone.

1572
01:14:46,200 --> 01:14:48,439
Speaker 1: You can do things to them that will hurt them

1573
01:14:48,520 --> 01:14:50,679
Speaker 1: with that third phase of the game. Yeah, and Drew

1574
01:14:50,760 --> 01:14:52,960
Speaker 1: said it was funny because I got on the bus

1575
01:14:53,560 --> 01:14:56,040
Speaker 1: after that Kansas City game We're all feeling great about it,

1576
01:14:56,040 --> 01:14:59,080
Speaker 1: and saw Tracy and Tracy Smith, and I was talking

1577
01:14:59,080 --> 01:15:02,360
Speaker 1: to Tracy coach Special Teams with Rad Seely and and

1578
01:15:02,439 --> 01:15:04,240
Speaker 1: he said, yeah, I was talking to Brian Anger and

1579
01:15:04,280 --> 01:15:06,080
Speaker 1: Brian said it was the first time in his nine

1580
01:15:06,160 --> 01:15:08,320
Speaker 1: year career that's happened. And I was like, what, he

1581
01:15:08,360 --> 01:15:10,400
Speaker 1: goes that he didn't punt in a game, And I'm like,

1582
01:15:10,439 --> 01:15:14,040
Speaker 1: wait a second, going back through him like Jacksonville didn't punt.

1583
01:15:14,439 --> 01:15:18,479
Speaker 1: He didn't punt today. Holy cow, he didn't punt today. Now,

1584
01:15:18,520 --> 01:15:22,280
Speaker 1: I'd much rather have punts than three turnovers. But you

1585
01:15:22,560 --> 01:15:25,599
Speaker 1: weren't more than likely going to punt in those situations anyways,

1586
01:15:25,600 --> 01:15:27,639
Speaker 1: and obviously you fumbled them the first play of the game,

1587
01:15:27,680 --> 01:15:29,800
Speaker 1: which you were able to overcome all of that. But

1588
01:15:30,360 --> 01:15:34,760
Speaker 1: Brian has been such a great fit because his hang

1589
01:15:34,880 --> 01:15:38,280
Speaker 1: time allows those two gunners to get down AJ and

1590
01:15:38,360 --> 01:15:41,200
Speaker 1: crossing or AJ in Taiwan, to get down there and

1591
01:15:41,280 --> 01:15:43,679
Speaker 1: be in the face of the returner. And they're gonna

1592
01:15:43,720 --> 01:15:46,439
Speaker 1: need it because Mike Miko Hardman is as good as

1593
01:15:46,439 --> 01:15:49,240
Speaker 1: it gets running back punts and kicks. That changed the

1594
01:15:49,240 --> 01:15:52,479
Speaker 1: game against the Chargers, it's ten seven and a half.

1595
01:15:52,479 --> 01:15:54,600
Speaker 1: The Chargers go down to score, it's fourteen ten to

1596
01:15:54,720 --> 01:15:57,519
Speaker 1: kick off. Hardman takes the hundred yards the other way.

1597
01:15:57,520 --> 01:16:00,120
Speaker 1: It's seventeen fourteen and the game flipped right back to

1598
01:16:00,200 --> 01:16:02,240
Speaker 1: Kansas City in a game that they had to win.

1599
01:16:02,439 --> 01:16:05,120
Speaker 1: He talks about how you know there are very few

1600
01:16:05,160 --> 01:16:07,600
Speaker 1: returns when Anger punts the ball right, Well, when you

1601
01:16:07,600 --> 01:16:09,200
Speaker 1: look at punting stats, and I don't want to delve

1602
01:16:09,240 --> 01:16:12,519
Speaker 1: too deep in the punting stats because but you have

1603
01:16:12,840 --> 01:16:14,439
Speaker 1: a guy who can just boom it and that's his

1604
01:16:14,720 --> 01:16:16,960
Speaker 1: you know, he punts it, and where the guy catches it,

1605
01:16:17,000 --> 01:16:19,040
Speaker 1: that's how far the punt went, and then the net

1606
01:16:19,560 --> 01:16:23,200
Speaker 1: is where he was tackled afterwards. Basically, how much the

1607
01:16:23,240 --> 01:16:26,120
Speaker 1: difference between how much was punted and how much was returned, Well,

1608
01:16:26,160 --> 01:16:28,639
Speaker 1: usually there's a pretty big disparity, like five six yards.

1609
01:16:28,680 --> 01:16:30,840
Speaker 1: A lot of times between those two numbers, it's like

1610
01:16:30,880 --> 01:16:32,559
Speaker 1: one and a half yards with that guy, and he

1611
01:16:32,600 --> 01:16:35,519
Speaker 1: has been excellent all season long. He hasn't had a

1612
01:16:35,560 --> 01:16:37,720
Speaker 1: punt too much, but when he has, over half of

1613
01:16:37,800 --> 01:16:39,400
Speaker 1: them are down inside the twenty, and it gives a

1614
01:16:39,439 --> 01:16:41,559
Speaker 1: defense a little bit more breathing room, a little more

1615
01:16:41,600 --> 01:16:43,120
Speaker 1: of a chance to kind of tea off on guys.

1616
01:16:43,200 --> 01:16:46,599
Speaker 1: And I don't know if if Saturday's game was any indication,

1617
01:16:46,680 --> 01:16:48,599
Speaker 1: but there was not a There was not a kickoff return.

1618
01:16:49,160 --> 01:16:51,280
Speaker 1: Thank god, there was not a kickoff return. If you

1619
01:16:51,320 --> 01:16:53,639
Speaker 1: know what I'm talking about, well, because we all remember

1620
01:16:53,720 --> 01:16:57,439
Speaker 1: what's happened against Kansas City. But I'm thinking this with Hardman,

1621
01:16:57,840 --> 01:16:59,400
Speaker 1: you probably want to kick it out of the back

1622
01:16:59,400 --> 01:17:01,599
Speaker 1: of the end well, but it might be easier said

1623
01:17:01,600 --> 01:17:03,800
Speaker 1: than done with the weather factors say that that's gonna

1624
01:17:03,800 --> 01:17:05,240
Speaker 1: be a factor. That's gonna be a factor, and if

1625
01:17:05,240 --> 01:17:07,760
Speaker 1: you do end up getting win, that's a problem. It's

1626
01:17:07,760 --> 01:17:10,719
Speaker 1: going to be key for Kaimi to get the hank time,

1627
01:17:10,720 --> 01:17:13,160
Speaker 1: which he can do off his kickoffs. He can get

1628
01:17:13,200 --> 01:17:15,519
Speaker 1: great hank time off those kicks and get them down there,

1629
01:17:15,640 --> 01:17:19,280
Speaker 1: and he is excellent pinning guys into the corner where

1630
01:17:19,280 --> 01:17:22,080
Speaker 1: they've really got one escape route, and that is straight line,

1631
01:17:22,120 --> 01:17:24,000
Speaker 1: just go down the sideline, whereas you kick in the

1632
01:17:24,479 --> 01:17:26,640
Speaker 1: middle of the field where the eye or the e

1633
01:17:26,880 --> 01:17:28,360
Speaker 1: is the Chiefs in the end zone, and he's got

1634
01:17:28,400 --> 01:17:30,479
Speaker 1: an opportunity to start one way and go the other

1635
01:17:30,800 --> 01:17:33,080
Speaker 1: that's where the big returns come in. Texans are number

1636
01:17:33,080 --> 01:17:35,960
Speaker 1: one in the league in opponent drive start bad drive

1637
01:17:36,000 --> 01:17:38,880
Speaker 1: start after a kickoff. But a lot of that is

1638
01:17:38,920 --> 01:17:41,840
Speaker 1: about making the right decision let's not kick off to

1639
01:17:41,920 --> 01:17:44,000
Speaker 1: them on this particular play, because if you do it

1640
01:17:44,000 --> 01:17:45,880
Speaker 1: at the wrong time or against the wrong team or

1641
01:17:45,920 --> 01:17:48,480
Speaker 1: the wrong guy, well, they can really ruin that statistic

1642
01:17:48,520 --> 01:17:51,160
Speaker 1: for you. So sometimes I'm thinking, well, why are you

1643
01:17:51,240 --> 01:17:52,559
Speaker 1: kicking out of the back of the end zone. You're

1644
01:17:52,600 --> 01:17:54,840
Speaker 1: the number one team in the league and holding him down. Well,

1645
01:17:54,880 --> 01:17:56,800
Speaker 1: you are number one because you know where to pick

1646
01:17:56,840 --> 01:17:59,680
Speaker 1: your spots. Also, yeah, they punish the Buccaneers with that.

1647
01:18:00,400 --> 01:18:01,960
Speaker 1: Years were not good on special teams and they know,

1648
01:18:02,360 --> 01:18:04,240
Speaker 1: let's kick it just shy of the goal line and

1649
01:18:04,320 --> 01:18:06,439
Speaker 1: make them return it. They were popping them at like

1650
01:18:06,439 --> 01:18:08,920
Speaker 1: the fifteen yard line consistent. It was amazing the field

1651
01:18:08,960 --> 01:18:12,360
Speaker 1: position change in that Tampa game. Every single drive was

1652
01:18:12,720 --> 01:18:15,040
Speaker 1: inside the twenty and Mark Mark would say it, look,

1653
01:18:15,200 --> 01:18:17,960
Speaker 1: if you use the twenty five as you're kind of baseline,

1654
01:18:18,600 --> 01:18:20,800
Speaker 1: that twenty five is what you get for a touchback.

1655
01:18:21,200 --> 01:18:23,639
Speaker 1: If you get if you get anything inside the twenty five,

1656
01:18:23,640 --> 01:18:26,080
Speaker 1: that's to win for your kickoff. Coverage, you get outside

1657
01:18:26,120 --> 01:18:28,680
Speaker 1: twenty five, that's one for the kickoff return team. They

1658
01:18:28,680 --> 01:18:31,240
Speaker 1: didn't even sniff the twenty five when they return to

1659
01:18:31,280 --> 01:18:33,200
Speaker 1: ball that you get them inside the twenty more often

1660
01:18:33,240 --> 01:18:35,240
Speaker 1: than not, you're feeling really good. I mean, longfield we

1661
01:18:35,280 --> 01:18:37,559
Speaker 1: all know now, sometimes it doesn't work out. Didn't Buffalo

1662
01:18:37,680 --> 01:18:40,479
Speaker 1: a big drive from their four yard line? Sometimes it happens, okay,

1663
01:18:40,560 --> 01:18:43,960
Speaker 1: not a touchdown drive though, right, And didn't Kansas City

1664
01:18:44,000 --> 01:18:46,240
Speaker 1: go ninety one yards in the first drive after we

1665
01:18:46,280 --> 01:18:47,960
Speaker 1: stopped them and there was a penalty and put them

1666
01:18:47,960 --> 01:18:50,400
Speaker 1: back on the nine. You know, that's the other thing

1667
01:18:50,800 --> 01:18:53,799
Speaker 1: about playing clean. It's not just turnovers. It's those yellow

1668
01:18:53,840 --> 01:18:56,599
Speaker 1: flags and you got to cut down on those if

1669
01:18:56,600 --> 01:18:58,400
Speaker 1: you're going to have a chance in this game or

1670
01:18:58,800 --> 01:19:01,320
Speaker 1: come out on top. And look, we'll see how it goes.

1671
01:19:01,360 --> 01:19:03,320
Speaker 1: I mean, you never know how it's gonna play out.

1672
01:19:03,560 --> 01:19:06,280
Speaker 1: The funny thing about this this business, to me, this

1673
01:19:06,320 --> 01:19:09,599
Speaker 1: whole thing that we love called NFL football, is you know, Saturday,

1674
01:19:09,640 --> 01:19:12,400
Speaker 1: I'm driving to the game and I'm thinking, we don't

1675
01:19:12,439 --> 01:19:14,880
Speaker 1: know what's going to happen. It's gonna be a three

1676
01:19:14,920 --> 01:19:19,000
Speaker 1: hour movie and the script is not written. Who knows

1677
01:19:19,080 --> 01:19:22,000
Speaker 1: what it's gonna be. And then afterwards we have this

1678
01:19:22,120 --> 01:19:25,439
Speaker 1: amazing drama to talk about with all that transpired, and

1679
01:19:25,439 --> 01:19:27,400
Speaker 1: you fell behind sixteen nothing and you pull it out

1680
01:19:27,400 --> 01:19:29,960
Speaker 1: in overtime, and wow, it's more than three hours, and

1681
01:19:30,280 --> 01:19:33,760
Speaker 1: what a tremendous thing that is. You know, we we

1682
01:19:33,800 --> 01:19:35,880
Speaker 1: all witnessed this piece of history. We all want to

1683
01:19:35,880 --> 01:19:38,160
Speaker 1: see it again on Sunday. Not exactly the same way.

1684
01:19:38,160 --> 01:19:40,599
Speaker 1: I'd like to have a stress free environment where three

1685
01:19:40,640 --> 01:19:42,960
Speaker 1: touchdown leading the fourth quarter, but that might be too

1686
01:19:43,040 --> 01:19:45,000
Speaker 1: much to ask it about you guys. I couldn't full

1687
01:19:45,040 --> 01:19:48,080
Speaker 1: asleep that night, no way. How many people I trouble

1688
01:19:48,040 --> 01:19:50,439
Speaker 1: to sleep with Saturday night? Yeah, say they're all raising

1689
01:19:50,520 --> 01:19:54,040
Speaker 1: my hand. Yeah. Watch people were like, no, I was

1690
01:19:54,080 --> 01:19:57,880
Speaker 1: hammered and I just went right out. For some I'm

1691
01:19:57,880 --> 01:20:01,200
Speaker 1: sure there was something that felt that way, throwing that too. Yeah. Yeah,

1692
01:20:01,320 --> 01:20:04,000
Speaker 1: well you're a home and not driving, okay, privacy of

1693
01:20:04,080 --> 01:20:06,519
Speaker 1: your own home. But what's interesting about what you said, though, Mark,

1694
01:20:06,720 --> 01:20:09,120
Speaker 1: is if I would have come to you and said, look,

1695
01:20:09,479 --> 01:20:12,400
Speaker 1: this is how the game is gonna go for this

1696
01:20:12,439 --> 01:20:15,639
Speaker 1: Texans team that's been up and been down, it kind

1697
01:20:15,640 --> 01:20:17,120
Speaker 1: of been up and been down. If I would have

1698
01:20:17,160 --> 01:20:18,760
Speaker 1: told you that was how the game was gonna go,

1699
01:20:18,800 --> 01:20:20,960
Speaker 1: you'd have been like, yeah, I can see that. I

1700
01:20:21,000 --> 01:20:23,200
Speaker 1: absolutely could see it. But then when it plays out,

1701
01:20:23,240 --> 01:20:26,439
Speaker 1: you're like, holy cow, that was amazing how it played out.

1702
01:20:26,479 --> 01:20:27,880
Speaker 1: But if I'd have told you it was going to

1703
01:20:27,960 --> 01:20:30,000
Speaker 1: go that way, you would have been like, yeah, I

1704
01:20:30,000 --> 01:20:32,400
Speaker 1: could totally see that. Considering this team and how hot

1705
01:20:32,439 --> 01:20:34,840
Speaker 1: it can be for stretches and then how cold it

1706
01:20:34,880 --> 01:20:36,880
Speaker 1: can be for stretches, I could have absolutely seen it

1707
01:20:36,920 --> 01:20:39,479
Speaker 1: going that way. But then the way it played out

1708
01:20:39,600 --> 01:20:42,760
Speaker 1: was just incredible. In that Kansas City interview I did today,

1709
01:20:42,760 --> 01:20:45,200
Speaker 1: they described our season as it's been a very up

1710
01:20:45,240 --> 01:20:47,960
Speaker 1: and down year for the Texans. Well, to me, more

1711
01:20:48,080 --> 01:20:50,160
Speaker 1: ups than downs, okay. I mean when you go ten

1712
01:20:50,160 --> 01:20:53,120
Speaker 1: and six and win your division, that's more ups than downs.

1713
01:20:53,280 --> 01:20:55,120
Speaker 1: I get what they're saying, because he had a couple

1714
01:20:55,160 --> 01:20:57,599
Speaker 1: of games there that weren't pretty, Okay, Denver not pretty,

1715
01:20:57,600 --> 01:21:00,880
Speaker 1: in Baltimore not pretty, but more stand downs. And I

1716
01:21:00,880 --> 01:21:03,000
Speaker 1: know there's the one two two thing. You know, one

1717
01:21:03,080 --> 01:21:05,160
Speaker 1: lost two wins, one lost two wins, and it's played

1718
01:21:05,160 --> 01:21:07,320
Speaker 1: out all the way up until let's just see if

1719
01:21:07,320 --> 01:21:09,479
Speaker 1: it plays out again on Sunday, I'll take that and then,

1720
01:21:09,720 --> 01:21:11,640
Speaker 1: you know, try to break the streak next week. But

1721
01:21:11,720 --> 01:21:14,599
Speaker 1: the point is this, you know, I think that they've

1722
01:21:14,600 --> 01:21:17,719
Speaker 1: created a lot of great moments this year. They're gonna

1723
01:21:17,720 --> 01:21:20,080
Speaker 1: have to create another one on the road, which is

1724
01:21:20,120 --> 01:21:21,800
Speaker 1: a place they like to be. I mean, they love

1725
01:21:21,840 --> 01:21:23,840
Speaker 1: they'd rather be here at home, of course, but they

1726
01:21:23,840 --> 01:21:25,760
Speaker 1: don't mind being on the road. They feel like they're

1727
01:21:25,760 --> 01:21:28,280
Speaker 1: good on the road. You know. Bill O'Brien's always been

1728
01:21:28,360 --> 01:21:30,759
Speaker 1: very clear about that. They feel like it's he doesn't

1729
01:21:30,800 --> 01:21:32,760
Speaker 1: say these words them against the world, but I think

1730
01:21:32,760 --> 01:21:36,240
Speaker 1: it's the mentality. You know, they're in the hotel, they're sequestered,

1731
01:21:36,520 --> 01:21:38,960
Speaker 1: they bond, they ban, they go out there and do

1732
01:21:39,000 --> 01:21:41,840
Speaker 1: the job and very often they've won some big games

1733
01:21:41,840 --> 01:21:43,840
Speaker 1: on the road under Bill O'Brien, and let's see if

1734
01:21:43,840 --> 01:21:45,360
Speaker 1: they can do it again. A couple of other things

1735
01:21:45,360 --> 01:21:48,760
Speaker 1: around the league here, guys, we talked about Dallas with

1736
01:21:48,800 --> 01:21:52,879
Speaker 1: John McClain and Mike McCarthy, Matt Rule and Carolina. Anybody

1737
01:21:52,920 --> 01:21:54,800
Speaker 1: on board with that. I think he's a good move

1738
01:21:54,880 --> 01:21:58,120
Speaker 1: for Carolina. You got a seven year deal, So to me,

1739
01:21:58,200 --> 01:22:01,599
Speaker 1: what that speaks of is that's what it took. Matt

1740
01:22:01,680 --> 01:22:04,320
Speaker 1: Rule come in here, change the culture the way it

1741
01:22:04,360 --> 01:22:07,200
Speaker 1: should be. We'll keep adding players to the mix. With

1742
01:22:07,360 --> 01:22:10,840
Speaker 1: Keekley and with McCaffrey and Shack Thompson and Dj Moore,

1743
01:22:11,160 --> 01:22:14,160
Speaker 1: there's already a decent foundation there. But you come in

1744
01:22:14,200 --> 01:22:15,960
Speaker 1: and set the culture the way you want, the way

1745
01:22:16,000 --> 01:22:19,080
Speaker 1: it should be, and find the quarterback and you'll be

1746
01:22:19,080 --> 01:22:20,880
Speaker 1: fine that when you get a seven year deal. That's

1747
01:22:20,920 --> 01:22:23,960
Speaker 1: what basically you're telling that coach, you've got some time

1748
01:22:24,320 --> 01:22:26,720
Speaker 1: to build it the right way. Yeah, after what he

1749
01:22:26,800 --> 01:22:29,240
Speaker 1: did at Temple and what he did it the situation

1750
01:22:29,280 --> 01:22:32,280
Speaker 1: he inherited it Baylor. Hard to argue against that guy

1751
01:22:32,320 --> 01:22:34,400
Speaker 1: get an NFL job, And this is how much respect

1752
01:22:34,439 --> 01:22:36,920
Speaker 1: he had. After a one and eleven year at Baylor,

1753
01:22:37,680 --> 01:22:40,519
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, Chris Ballard called him to come to be

1754
01:22:40,560 --> 01:22:42,439
Speaker 1: the coach for the Indianapolis. They knew how good he

1755
01:22:42,520 --> 01:22:45,600
Speaker 1: was and they wanted him to be the coach of

1756
01:22:45,640 --> 01:22:48,760
Speaker 1: the Indianapolis. Coach. That's pretty amazing, right there, Johnny. All Right,

1757
01:22:48,800 --> 01:22:52,960
Speaker 1: So with Judge in New York coaching the Giants, I've

1758
01:22:53,040 --> 01:22:55,719
Speaker 1: said this before. What was I saying before this hire? Johnny?

1759
01:22:55,720 --> 01:22:57,840
Speaker 1: Why doesn't somebody go after a special teams type guy

1760
01:22:58,120 --> 01:23:00,280
Speaker 1: who might just be a good lead or and he

1761
01:23:00,320 --> 01:23:03,160
Speaker 1: can hire good coordinators and take it from there. And

1762
01:23:03,320 --> 01:23:05,080
Speaker 1: I'm not saying he is or is it. I don't

1763
01:23:05,120 --> 01:23:07,040
Speaker 1: know how he's gonna do, but I like the out

1764
01:23:07,040 --> 01:23:09,080
Speaker 1: of the box sort of thinking there. It's the John

1765
01:23:09,120 --> 01:23:12,000
Speaker 1: Harbob model. If you will go ahead and try it,

1766
01:23:12,040 --> 01:23:14,400
Speaker 1: you know you're looking for a really good leader in

1767
01:23:14,439 --> 01:23:17,280
Speaker 1: addition to everything else. You don't just necessarily need the

1768
01:23:17,320 --> 01:23:19,960
Speaker 1: mad scientist x's and o's on either side of the football.

1769
01:23:20,080 --> 01:23:22,240
Speaker 1: As long as he as long as Joe Judge is

1770
01:23:22,320 --> 01:23:25,599
Speaker 1: Joe Judge is not Bill Belichick, I think it'll be fine.

1771
01:23:25,960 --> 01:23:27,680
Speaker 1: And I think that's something that he's got. He's never

1772
01:23:27,760 --> 01:23:29,880
Speaker 1: been a head coach, he said today. It was pretty interesting.

1773
01:23:29,880 --> 01:23:31,639
Speaker 1: They asked him, like, have you ever been a head coach?

1774
01:23:31,680 --> 01:23:33,719
Speaker 1: He's like, no, but I've been a kindergarten pe teacher,

1775
01:23:33,920 --> 01:23:36,479
Speaker 1: and I can tell you as a kindergarten pe teacher

1776
01:23:36,520 --> 01:23:40,080
Speaker 1: or as an NFL head coach, the difficulty levels about

1777
01:23:40,080 --> 01:23:42,400
Speaker 1: the same. Trying to hurt a bunch of five and

1778
01:23:42,439 --> 01:23:44,639
Speaker 1: six year olds into the gym. Come on, I mean,

1779
01:23:44,680 --> 01:23:48,280
Speaker 1: that's forget about it. No, if he said single mom. Okay,

1780
01:23:48,439 --> 01:23:50,679
Speaker 1: single working mom would be like, all right, you got

1781
01:23:50,680 --> 01:23:53,160
Speaker 1: the job, because that is really tough. Like you should

1782
01:23:53,240 --> 01:23:55,200
Speaker 1: hire a single working mom to be the coach of

1783
01:23:55,200 --> 01:23:58,400
Speaker 1: an NFL team. She knows how to handle her business, Okay,

1784
01:23:58,600 --> 01:24:02,599
Speaker 1: dealing with those kids, the job, managing time, Okay, I

1785
01:24:02,640 --> 01:24:05,160
Speaker 1: know I'm being facetious, but it's you know, there are

1786
01:24:05,160 --> 01:24:07,360
Speaker 1: other jobs. I'll tell you what. You want to hire

1787
01:24:07,360 --> 01:24:10,799
Speaker 1: a manager of a certain situation. Look for a shift

1788
01:24:10,800 --> 01:24:13,120
Speaker 1: manager at a fast food restaurant, a really good one.

1789
01:24:13,360 --> 01:24:16,240
Speaker 1: Those people know how to handle things. Yeah, employee issues,

1790
01:24:16,360 --> 01:24:18,479
Speaker 1: my goodness, they've had their share. And it's looking like

1791
01:24:18,520 --> 01:24:22,360
Speaker 1: another NFL hiring cycle is going to pass Mike leach

1792
01:24:22,400 --> 01:24:26,880
Speaker 1: By because he takes the Mississippi State job. I'm telling

1793
01:24:26,920 --> 01:24:29,880
Speaker 1: you he does. He does absolutely well. He's gonna have

1794
01:24:29,920 --> 01:24:31,479
Speaker 1: to do a little bit better to get one right

1795
01:24:31,680 --> 01:24:33,760
Speaker 1: saying he's gonna have to light it up. And I

1796
01:24:33,800 --> 01:24:35,920
Speaker 1: know he has on occasion, but maybe for a couple

1797
01:24:35,920 --> 01:24:37,640
Speaker 1: of years in a row and then maybe does this

1798
01:24:37,800 --> 01:24:41,000
Speaker 1: in the SEC West. The SEC West now has ed

1799
01:24:41,120 --> 01:24:44,439
Speaker 1: Orgeron and as Jimbo Fish, it as Nick Saban, it

1800
01:24:44,520 --> 01:24:47,960
Speaker 1: has Lane Kiffin who will be here to kick off

1801
01:24:48,000 --> 01:24:50,600
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty season as they take on Baylor, and

1802
01:24:51,000 --> 01:24:54,240
Speaker 1: now you throw Mike Leach into that. By the way, um,

1803
01:24:54,320 --> 01:24:55,800
Speaker 1: let's just put it in a budget. I'm putting a

1804
01:24:55,800 --> 01:24:57,880
Speaker 1: budget request on air. I'd like to go to the

1805
01:24:57,920 --> 01:25:00,280
Speaker 1: SEC Media Days next years. Okay, So can we make

1806
01:25:00,320 --> 01:25:01,920
Speaker 1: that happen because I would like to be there for

1807
01:25:01,920 --> 01:25:03,960
Speaker 1: the whole thing, because it's going to be fantastic. You

1808
01:25:04,000 --> 01:25:07,559
Speaker 1: could interview Drew though, and he sounds like Mike Leacher. Yeah.

1809
01:25:07,720 --> 01:25:10,040
Speaker 1: That The thing of it is is it would be

1810
01:25:10,200 --> 01:25:14,240
Speaker 1: legit planic and that's what you want to and that's right. See.

1811
01:25:14,680 --> 01:25:19,960
Speaker 1: Uh does Cliff Kingsbury's possible success help Mike Leach? Oh,

1812
01:25:20,240 --> 01:25:22,479
Speaker 1: I was teasing. I mean, I think he does want

1813
01:25:22,479 --> 01:25:24,880
Speaker 1: the NFL. Absolutely would love to coach in the NFL.

1814
01:25:24,960 --> 01:25:27,640
Speaker 1: But I don't know that there obviously there hasn't been

1815
01:25:27,640 --> 01:25:29,559
Speaker 1: the interest from the league for That's the thing is

1816
01:25:29,600 --> 01:25:32,760
Speaker 1: if Kingsbury does really well and Leech does well Mississippi,

1817
01:25:34,000 --> 01:25:36,240
Speaker 1: I know, I know, I know, but that would be interesting.

1818
01:25:36,400 --> 01:25:39,200
Speaker 1: I think that would that might help him a little bit, right,

1819
01:25:40,479 --> 01:25:43,400
Speaker 1: I mean it might. It'll be interesting to see if

1820
01:25:43,520 --> 01:25:46,000
Speaker 1: you know, owners would look at Mike Leach in a

1821
01:25:46,000 --> 01:25:49,439
Speaker 1: particular way. But you know, Steve Spurry did not have success.

1822
01:25:49,479 --> 01:25:52,040
Speaker 1: He brought in an offense that was very successful in college,

1823
01:25:52,040 --> 01:25:54,920
Speaker 1: and Steve just wasn't the right fit for the NFL.

1824
01:25:55,080 --> 01:25:57,760
Speaker 1: Maybe Leech ends up being a good fit. Maybe his

1825
01:25:58,200 --> 01:26:01,040
Speaker 1: uh I would you say quirky to me? Ends up working?

1826
01:26:03,000 --> 01:26:06,479
Speaker 1: I think Martian he's from Mars. Yeah, yeah, I mean,

1827
01:26:06,560 --> 01:26:09,240
Speaker 1: could you imagine Mike Leach coaching this group, Like, just

1828
01:26:09,280 --> 01:26:11,800
Speaker 1: close your eyes and think of Mike Leach coaching our

1829
01:26:11,840 --> 01:26:15,320
Speaker 1: guys not gonna work? Interesting? Is there a shed out

1830
01:26:15,360 --> 01:26:18,600
Speaker 1: there on the field? Just kidding, kidding, I am kidding.

1831
01:26:19,760 --> 01:26:21,719
Speaker 1: When are we giving away these tickets? By the way, Brook,

1832
01:26:21,720 --> 01:26:25,599
Speaker 1: When are the tickets being given away during the next break? Yeah? Okay,

1833
01:26:25,600 --> 01:26:27,880
Speaker 1: all right, so we're gonna do that. So if you were,

1834
01:26:28,080 --> 01:26:30,960
Speaker 1: if you registered today and you're listening in, we will

1835
01:26:31,040 --> 01:26:33,120
Speaker 1: let you know. Okay, and the fans here in the

1836
01:26:33,160 --> 01:26:35,160
Speaker 1: store are about to know. And it's not going to

1837
01:26:35,200 --> 01:26:38,480
Speaker 1: be great radio necessarily, especially if somebody's not here who registered,

1838
01:26:38,479 --> 01:26:39,720
Speaker 1: but we have a lot of people are here who

1839
01:26:39,720 --> 01:26:42,880
Speaker 1: are very curious about that. Anyway, we're gonna get ready

1840
01:26:42,880 --> 01:26:46,160
Speaker 1: for Sunday. The Texans taking on the Chiefs two oh five.

1841
01:26:46,280 --> 01:26:48,080
Speaker 1: We're gonna be on the air starting at a level

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Speaker 1: go back to the studio there and they will be

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01:27:04,000 --> 01:27:08,360
Speaker 1: live all night long and all throughout the Texans stay

1849
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Speaker 1: in the playoffs, which we hope lasts several more weeks.

1850
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