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Speaker 1: Welcome in everybody to a Friday Nation of Texans All

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Speaker 1: Access from the Honday Texans Radio Studio. I am your host,

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Speaker 1: John Harris, football analyst and sideline reporter for your Houston

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Speaker 1: Texans on this Friday evening. Really appreciates you being with

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Speaker 1: me tonight. I know it's been a soggy evening for

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Speaker 1: many of you. It's been an emotional day here in

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Speaker 1: the building at Energy Stadium as we celebrated the life

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Speaker 1: of Bob McNair, founder, senior chairman of the Houston Texans

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Speaker 1: and a guy that is and was so well respected

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Speaker 1: throughout the NFL. But I you know, I used to

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Speaker 1: see mister McNair just walking you know, where our studio is.

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Speaker 1: We're down to the service level and that's where the

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Speaker 1: locker rooms are, and to our cafeteria, and so you know,

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Speaker 1: everybody parks and then they go down through the service

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Speaker 1: level and then up the stairs to all of our offices.

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Speaker 1: And so I would always see mister McNair just walk

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Speaker 1: through the office a lot of times on Friday days,

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Speaker 1: getting kind of a final final report, you know, what's

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Speaker 1: going on. How are we looking for the game on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: And it was just always comforting to see him throughout

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Speaker 1: the building, and it's been this year just a little different,

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Speaker 1: just the void of mister McNair than of course is

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Speaker 1: passing a couple of weeks ago on Friday, and we're

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Speaker 1: still all of us, I think, you know, dealing with

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Speaker 1: the loss of mister McNair. Last week when we took

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Speaker 1: on the Cleveland Browns, his wife, Janis McNair was down

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Speaker 1: in the sideline for the first time that I can

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Speaker 1: remember seeing her all season, and I just saw her

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Speaker 1: walk off with Hannah and Cal McNair, and I just

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Speaker 1: I was just struck by how much we're gonna miss

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Speaker 1: mister McNair. And we say goodbye today with a celebration

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Speaker 1: of life over here at the stadium. So it's been

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Speaker 1: a really, really emotional day. But as we talked about

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Speaker 1: with his passing, he was a competitive dude. He wanted

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Speaker 1: this organization to take the next step to win championships,

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Speaker 1: and that's what we gotta do. And we gotta take

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Speaker 1: that next step on Sunday afternoon against the Indianapolis Colts.

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Speaker 1: And we are less than forty eight hours away from

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Speaker 1: taking on the Colts for the second time. You remember

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Speaker 1: the first one. It was the first win of this

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Speaker 1: winning street, the first win of the year up in Indianapolis,

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Speaker 1: a house of horse for this team over the decades,

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Speaker 1: over the last well, how many how many times we've

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Speaker 1: been up there? Sixteen seventeen times we've been up there,

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Speaker 1: and it's been a rough go. And then if twenty

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Speaker 1: fifteen knocked him off, twenty sixteen knocked him off, twenty

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Speaker 1: seventeen hard to even count that year on both sides.

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Speaker 1: But then twenty eighteen went up there and knocked him off.

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Speaker 1: So three the last four we went up there. Now

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Speaker 1: we got to do it here. We lost to Matt

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Speaker 1: Hasselbeck in the Hasselbeck in a diaper game, as Mark

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Speaker 1: Sez in fifteen beat them in a huge comeback win

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Speaker 1: on a Sunday night in sixteen. Twenty seventeen played the

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Speaker 1: Colts here the very week after Deshaun had torn his

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Speaker 1: acl and went down on the final play, and there

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Speaker 1: was an opportunity on a final play about have sat

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Speaker 1: negated it and the Colts walked out of here with

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Speaker 1: a big win. Last year, they share a different story.

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Speaker 1: These teams started oh and three and one and two,

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Speaker 1: that's combined one and five to start the year after

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Speaker 1: that game. From that game going forward at thirty seven,

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Speaker 1: thirty four win for the Texans. These two teams are

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Speaker 1: combined thirteen and three Texans obviously eight no after that win,

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Speaker 1: the Colts five and three after that win. Now those

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Speaker 1: three losses common thread. Patriots to the Jets, to the

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Speaker 1: Houston on Sunday, so hopefully that trend continues with them

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Speaker 1: losing games on the road. Would love to see it.

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Speaker 1: And obviously the Texans have gotten pretty comfortable playing at home.

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Speaker 1: They lost the Giants in the first home game, but

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Speaker 1: they have won them all since. Not all been convincing.

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Speaker 1: The last three have been They beat the Dolphins by nineteen,

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Speaker 1: by sixteen. I gotta come in here and take care

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Speaker 1: of business. Now we're almost We're almost there, So I

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Speaker 1: gotta withhold Mike excitement a little bit. But we got

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Speaker 1: a lot to do on the show. We got our

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Speaker 1: hot reads coming up in a little bit. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: hear from Bill O'Brien just a second, and we got

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Speaker 1: our deep slent interview of the week. This week it

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Speaker 1: is with Damarius Thomas, got my keys to the game, offense, defense,

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Speaker 1: and special teams. We'll go behind the mics with our

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Speaker 1: Men behind the Mics segment with Matt Taylor, the voice

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Speaker 1: of the Indianapolis Colts. Well odd to say that Bob

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Speaker 1: Lamy had been the guy for so long in Indianapolis,

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Speaker 1: but he retired back in preseason and Matt took over

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Speaker 1: Matt Taylor will join us with our Men behind the Mics.

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Speaker 1: I've got my Texans pick him where I'm picking games

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Speaker 1: straight up against the spread for all fifteen games this weekend.

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Speaker 1: And then we got our Players segment, a little bit

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Speaker 1: NFL tight end and current Texans GM Brian Gaine with

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Speaker 1: the game plan. So we got plenty to do. But

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Speaker 1: as I said, we kick it off every single day

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Speaker 1: and every single show with hot reads and they're brought

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Speaker 1: to you by Geico. Fifteen minutes you can say you're

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Speaker 1: fifteen percent or more on car insurance. And because it

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Speaker 1: is Friday, and because we are that close to the game,

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Speaker 1: it's time to catch up with the head coach of

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Speaker 1: your Houston Texans, Bill O'Brien and Mark Vandamir did earlier today. Coach,

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Speaker 1: how are the Cults different in your opinion from the

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Speaker 1: last meeting? You always said Andrew Luck, same guy going

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Speaker 1: into that one, and he proved that. But how has

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Speaker 1: that team evolved over the course of time. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: mean they've evolved in many ways. I think teams that

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Speaker 1: And that's what I always say. It's an improvement league.

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Speaker 1: I think that when you watch the Colts, they've they're

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Speaker 1: doing some things on defense are a little bit different.

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Speaker 1: You know, they have a really good system, a very

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Speaker 1: disciplined system, but they've added to it. I don't want

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Speaker 1: Y Hilton Ebron. I mean, these guys are hard to

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Speaker 1: one of the better offensive inside offensive line. But we've

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Speaker 1: we talk about mobile quarterbacks, guys who can extend plays

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Speaker 1: and such, but Luck has not a little of everything,

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Speaker 1: a lot of everything. He could be a pocket guy

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Speaker 1: He'll do a good job in the pocket. He's very strong,

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Speaker 1: What about your running game, coach, How have you been

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Speaker 1: I think that you have to give credit to the players.

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Speaker 1: The offensive line. The tight ends have really improved. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Sean has done a great job of really understanding the

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Speaker 1: And so I think it's a combination of all those

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Speaker 1: it's simple math. I mean, you know, if you're depending

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Speaker 1: and you know, we're trying to get the ball to

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Speaker 1: I think it always comes down to ball security, vanity.

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Speaker 1: We did a great job against Cleveland. There were some

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Speaker 1: can't we can't let that happen. But if we can

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Speaker 1: special teams, covering kicks, getting some return yards. You know,

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Speaker 1: continue that. Thanks a lot, coach, good luck, thank you.

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Speaker 1: that is the all important Friday injury report. Now why

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Speaker 1: is it all important? Well, first of all, your week fourteen,

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Speaker 1: Week fourteen, Week fourteen, I think that's right, Yeah, week fourteen.

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Speaker 1: But you're also talking about the status report. So this

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Speaker 1: gives Zach some time to rest that ankle a little

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Speaker 1: the Texans. That leaves six offensive line. You'd like to

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Speaker 1: seven on the fifty three man roster, so they're they're

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Speaker 1: see how that impacts the forty six man roster and

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Speaker 1: what they do, whether they need to bring up a

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Speaker 1: go into the game with just sixth linemen with Mance

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Speaker 1: with the starting four, So thinking Davenport, Snail, Martin, Mance, Lamb,

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Speaker 1: and then Martis ranking considering last week the Lamb got

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Speaker 1: a soggy Friday evening throughout the city of Houston. You guys,

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Speaker 1: John Harris, Football Analyston's sideline reporter, and it's time for

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Speaker 1: Damarrius Thomas has been a very intriguing figure and a

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