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Speaker 1: and obviously All Access starts at six o'clock. That's how

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Speaker 1: the show, Texans All Access from the Honday Texans Radio Studio.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, John Ayris, football Anilston's sideline reporter and

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Speaker 1: in Dallas at this point, Yes, doing this from Dallas

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Speaker 1: Duke Johnson. Do enough? Okay? Over under total receptions for

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Speaker 1: four hundred ninety four targets, so that's roughly thirty over

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Speaker 1: thirty targets. I think that number will go up a

426
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Speaker 1: little bit, so I think they're gonna be more targets

427
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Speaker 1: to go around. Yeah, but I think the tight ends

428
00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:13,120
Speaker 1: are gonna share, and I think that QT is gonna

429
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Speaker 1: take his share once he's healthy, and then you know,

430
00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:17,679
Speaker 1: Hopkins and full are being healthy for sixteen games. I mean,

431
00:22:17,680 --> 00:22:20,800
Speaker 1: hop got targeted one hundred and sixty three times, so

432
00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:23,680
Speaker 1: I don't know how much more you can target him.

433
00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:28,080
Speaker 1: But I tend to think it's over too. Who's the

434
00:22:28,119 --> 00:22:32,280
Speaker 1: tight end that's gonna be that guy? That's a big

435
00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:35,200
Speaker 1: question right there, and I don't think anybody can really

436
00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:37,720
Speaker 1: answer it right now. Look, you'd have to say based

437
00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:40,639
Speaker 1: on what you're seeing right now. I don't know. Wearing situation.

438
00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:43,280
Speaker 1: Bill Obriant said he has he has a concussion. He's

439
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Speaker 1: in the protocol, So when does he get out? Is

440
00:22:46,520 --> 00:22:49,160
Speaker 1: it next week? It's got to be next week, right

441
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Speaker 1: if it? Think so? They have a touchy situation. I

442
00:22:52,280 --> 00:22:55,720
Speaker 1: would think Johnny one week from tonight, we know, yeah,

443
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Speaker 1: the early fifty three. And I say early because it's

444
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Speaker 1: gonna change over the weekend based on who else they

445
00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:02,840
Speaker 1: pick up off waivers. So they got a real big

446
00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:06,639
Speaker 1: decision to make here. Do we ir him? Do we

447
00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:09,240
Speaker 1: not ir him? It's a concussion? How bad? I don't

448
00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:11,040
Speaker 1: know how bad it is. They know how bad it is.

449
00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:14,119
Speaker 1: But these things tend to be different for different people.

450
00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:17,040
Speaker 1: Ones he coming out of it. You know, some guys

451
00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:19,560
Speaker 1: bounce out right away, some guys don't. This is a

452
00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:23,160
Speaker 1: real difficult one. I think that you know, obviously, we'll

453
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Speaker 1: know a whole lot more next week. I mean, we're

454
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Speaker 1: gonna know everything one week from tonight. This is interesting.

455
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Speaker 1: I would say, though, if I have to pick a

456
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Speaker 1: tight end, I think you're right that Aiken's fits in

457
00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:34,560
Speaker 1: in a lot of ways, But so does Thomas. You

458
00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:36,640
Speaker 1: know they're gonna use him as a blocker, that he's

459
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Speaker 1: gonna be in there. They'll have mismatches. I think that

460
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Speaker 1: they'll Whoever the tight ends are, they're gonna have groups

461
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Speaker 1: where it looks like they're getting ready to pound the ball.

462
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Speaker 1: Then whoop, we're gonna spread them out and watch what

463
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Speaker 1: we're gonna do. We're gonna throw the ball on you

464
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Speaker 1: because we have mismatches all over the place. Okay, next

465
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Speaker 1: over under Okay, number of wide receivers as listed in

466
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Speaker 1: the program, because you can make an argument Duke Johnson

467
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Speaker 1: is kind of a wide receiver. Number of wide receivers

468
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Speaker 1: that make the initial fifty three, I'm gonna set the

469
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Speaker 1: number at Wait, before the waiver claims, I'm gonna set

470
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Speaker 1: it at five and a half under? Sure, Oh, the

471
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Speaker 1: initial fifty three? Yeah, so the initial fifty three? So

472
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Speaker 1: I mean you mean one week from tonight to one

473
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Speaker 1: week from tonight three or it's actually Saturday after day

474
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Speaker 1: in the day. Oh wait, how about I do Let's

475
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Speaker 1: do it this way. What September September ninth, going into

476
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Speaker 1: the week of the Saints. So that's the opening day roster,

477
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Speaker 1: Opening day roster, Opening day fifty three not active on

478
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Speaker 1: game day Opening day roster. Set the number at five

479
00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:40,000
Speaker 1: and a half doesn't mean that all of them have

480
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Speaker 1: to be active. You're going under. I'm going under you're

481
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Speaker 1: going with what five? I'm going with five. I think

482
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Speaker 1: that they're gonna ultimately settle out five. Okay, So let

483
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Speaker 1: me throw the scenario at you. And it's gonna be

484
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Speaker 1: very difficult. It's gonna be painful to watch because somebody

485
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Speaker 1: might get picked up by another team, and I think

486
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Speaker 1: it will happen. But let me throw this scenario at you.

487
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Speaker 1: Let's say that you decide on three running backs plus

488
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Speaker 1: a fullback. Let's say you do that. Yeah, let's say

489
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Speaker 1: that you decide on only three tight ends because now

490
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Speaker 1: you have Rome, maybe you have to put wearing on

491
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Speaker 1: R Right at that point, would it changed your thought

492
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Speaker 1: that maybe six? It might? Yeah, because special teams and

493
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Speaker 1: you know who are the corners going to be? Are

494
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Speaker 1: you keeping six seven corners? It starts getting fifty three

495
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Speaker 1: with seven corners on it or something that he had

496
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Speaker 1: eleven dbs? Yeah, no, I could see eleven dbs, but

497
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Speaker 1: I don't know if you have six, if you have

498
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Speaker 1: seven corners. But if you're keeping eleven versus five safeties

499
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Speaker 1: and six corners, well that's the thing. If you're keeping

500
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Speaker 1: eleven dbs, they better all be playing on special teams.

501
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Speaker 1: Minus j Joe minus ROBI. Everybody else is playing special

502
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Speaker 1: teams and better be darn good at it. I think

503
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Speaker 1: you're more likely to keep five safeties than you are

504
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Speaker 1: seven corners. And you, I know you're with me on this. Yeah,

505
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Speaker 1: I could see based on the talent you see on

506
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Speaker 1: the field right now. Absolutely, But but there might be

507
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Speaker 1: another corner coming. You know that's true, and I the

508
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Speaker 1: waiver claims that's listen. I think it is a sad

509
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Speaker 1: thing that Jermaine Kelly couldn't stay healthy, you know, because

510
00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:05,159
Speaker 1: actually he's a seventh round draft pick. But he's a

511
00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:08,080
Speaker 1: heck of an aff They saw some talent an now,

512
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Speaker 1: you couldn't get him on the field he was, He

513
00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:13,680
Speaker 1: was a heck of an athlete all right. Over under

514
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Speaker 1: number of rookies active on the forty six man roster,

515
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Speaker 1: I'm forty six man game day roster against the New

516
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Speaker 1: Orleans Saints. I'm setting the number at two and a half.

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Speaker 1: Who active on the forty six on the forty six

518
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm sorry, starters, my bad rookies that start,

519
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Speaker 1: My bad starting rookies against the Saints Week one, how

520
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Speaker 1: many rookies will start? I'm setting the number at two

521
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Speaker 1: and a half. All right? On defense, nobody, are you sure?

522
00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:55,359
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, I'm thinking, I'm thinking I'll throw it

523
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Speaker 1: at you. Yeah, who Charles a manna? Who? If you

524
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Speaker 1: start in nickel or a dime and you go, you

525
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Speaker 1: go sub package, could Charles start right away? I guess

526
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Speaker 1: that's possible, but posible. I'm gonna say no, for the

527
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Speaker 1: purposes of this program. Okay. On offense, now we go

528
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Speaker 1: to the offensive line. We go right now. Now, there

529
00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:14,080
Speaker 1: are a couple of things. First of all, as close

530
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Speaker 1: as you can get to a lock, would you say,

531
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Speaker 1: Max Sharping, I'm gonna start, you know, Max Sharping? They

532
00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:20,640
Speaker 1: drafted him in the second round. He looks like he's

533
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Speaker 1: been with the first unit her own eyes, Yes, of course. Okay,

534
00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:26,880
Speaker 1: so that's that's one. Howard's gonna play too. Howard's gonna

535
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Speaker 1: be on the team too, So there's two right. And

536
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Speaker 1: is he gonna start though, that's the question, because you

537
00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:33,480
Speaker 1: know Howard's dinged up or something. I don't know what

538
00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:35,439
Speaker 1: he's got. He should be okay, I guess you know.

539
00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:38,240
Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien is not. He doesn't have to report on

540
00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:41,160
Speaker 1: injuries right now, but he hasn't used a life threatening

541
00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:44,480
Speaker 1: term by the way, that's truly. I like that one

542
00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:47,760
Speaker 1: because it's it shows a sense of humor and it

543
00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:49,800
Speaker 1: makes me feel good that the players coming back soon.

544
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Speaker 1: But he didn't sound that there was cause for alarm

545
00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:56,560
Speaker 1: with any particular injury. Actually, so there's two, Okay, I

546
00:27:56,600 --> 00:27:59,680
Speaker 1: think that's I think. So here's your other wrinkle, here's

547
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Speaker 1: your other Okay, you're playing the Saints. Yeah, they throw

548
00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:06,399
Speaker 1: the football, right, do you start three corners? And if

549
00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:09,119
Speaker 1: you start three corners, does that mean that Lonnie Johnson starts?

550
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Speaker 1: So that's your third. That's a good one. But no,

551
00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:15,320
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna start Nickel and I'm gonna go

552
00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:19,240
Speaker 1: in the slot with Colvin in all likelihood, and I'm

553
00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:21,760
Speaker 1: gonna play my two safeties that I like the best,

554
00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:25,520
Speaker 1: whoever they are, you know, reading Gibson. But you know,

555
00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:27,879
Speaker 1: if I go dime, I gotta die on the field

556
00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:30,840
Speaker 1: or something else, you know, because A. J. Moore is

557
00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:32,920
Speaker 1: gonna make this football team based on special teams and

558
00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:34,959
Speaker 1: the fact that he's he's really one of the top

559
00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:36,800
Speaker 1: four safeties on this team right now based on the

560
00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:39,200
Speaker 1: way they line up. So you know, I know the

561
00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:41,600
Speaker 1: coaches hate depth charts by the way the depth chart

562
00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:44,040
Speaker 1: is in the release. They hate it. They gotta put

563
00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:46,600
Speaker 1: one out. Blow it up, Yeah, blow it up completely. Yeah,

564
00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:49,240
Speaker 1: you know, I get it from their standpoint. I get

565
00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:51,200
Speaker 1: it from their standpoint because you don't want to sit

566
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Speaker 1: there and like tell one player you're you're behind your

567
00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:56,640
Speaker 1: head whatever people or well there's a veteran with a

568
00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:59,120
Speaker 1: rookie like way behind him buried because he's a rookie.

569
00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:01,000
Speaker 1: But you know that guy's way ahead of the veteran.

570
00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:05,680
Speaker 1: People overreact to the words starter. Yeah, play a lot,

571
00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:08,240
Speaker 1: you know, sometime it's like basketball. Sometimes a sixth man

572
00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:13,000
Speaker 1: plays a ton. Yeah. Absolutely, all right, Dallas is on Saturday. Yes,

573
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Speaker 1: you've had some of your more memorable calls and some

574
00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:18,280
Speaker 1: of your more memorable moments against the Dallas Cowboys. You

575
00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:19,840
Speaker 1: can talk about that next right here in Texans All

576
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Speaker 1: Access one final segment of this Texans All Access addition

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Speaker 1: from Dallas. That's right, Mark Vanimir and John Harris with

578
00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:34,520
Speaker 1: you from the Metroplex bringing you this show. And Mark,

579
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Speaker 1: we we've experienced a win in the preseason in Dallas.

580
00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:44,400
Speaker 1: We've never won in Dallas, but I know it's the preseason.

581
00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:46,920
Speaker 1: I know it's a little different. But when you see

582
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Speaker 1: the Cowboys on the schedule, the two games obviously that

583
00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:52,040
Speaker 1: I think about her two thousand and two and then

584
00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:58,200
Speaker 1: last year with hopspins. What is your overall most memorable

585
00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:00,959
Speaker 1: moment from either of those two wins or any matchup

586
00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:02,960
Speaker 1: with the Cowboys at that matter. Well, let me backtrack

587
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:05,280
Speaker 1: for a moment. Because you see them on the schedule,

588
00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:07,760
Speaker 1: it's one thing. When you see them in the building,

589
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Speaker 1: that's another thing. No matter what the building is, there's

590
00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:12,680
Speaker 1: something about seeing that uniform. And you and I have

591
00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:14,720
Speaker 1: talked about this, and Andrea and I have talked about it.

592
00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:17,560
Speaker 1: We've all three talked about it. Certain uniforms in this

593
00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:20,240
Speaker 1: league just kind of get the blood boiling. The Raiders

594
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Speaker 1: because you think about when you were a kid. Now,

595
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Speaker 1: a lot of young people listening, you know, some of

596
00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:26,720
Speaker 1: the guys who work in art department are like the Raiders,

597
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:30,520
Speaker 1: the team on Hard Knocks. Let me tell you the

598
00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:34,520
Speaker 1: Raiders were really good back and that they were unbelievable,

599
00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:37,360
Speaker 1: and there was the Auras. There was an aura about

600
00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:41,360
Speaker 1: the Raiders too. Yeah, there was something about them that

601
00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:43,360
Speaker 1: every time they came to town. And there were some

602
00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:45,239
Speaker 1: good teams in the seventies and the eighties, But there

603
00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:48,960
Speaker 1: was something about the Raiders, a little nastier, just a

604
00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:53,240
Speaker 1: little different kind of the outlaw nature. Jal Davis, Jack Tatum.

605
00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:56,360
Speaker 1: I mean, they were just a little different breed. Now

606
00:30:56,560 --> 00:31:00,360
Speaker 1: Dallas is like that, but in a different way. Alice

607
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:02,720
Speaker 1: is the team people love to hate, or if you're

608
00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:05,560
Speaker 1: a Cowboys fan, you love them. So it's a polarizing

609
00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:08,800
Speaker 1: team and when you see them, it just brings that

610
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:11,360
Speaker 1: out in you. And I even feel it in a

611
00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:14,280
Speaker 1: preseason game when I see them warm up on the field,

612
00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:17,320
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, it's the Dallas Cowboys, let's go. There's just

613
00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:20,400
Speaker 1: something about playing them, even in a preseason context. I

614
00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:22,280
Speaker 1: was okay with this being Game four. In fact, I

615
00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:25,400
Speaker 1: liked it being Game four because Game four does have

616
00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:27,920
Speaker 1: less meaning in terms of starters not playing at all that,

617
00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:30,760
Speaker 1: but the Cowboys somehow made it more fun and I

618
00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:34,320
Speaker 1: loved playing up there in Game four as opposed to

619
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Speaker 1: in Houston in Game four. All Right, so the one

620
00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:41,800
Speaker 1: that sticks out, Game one's always going to stick out

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Speaker 1: of my mind. But it was Game one. You could

622
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Speaker 1: have been playing anybody and it would have stuck out

623
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Speaker 1: because it's the first game the fact that it was

624
00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:51,680
Speaker 1: the Cowboys just amped it up even more. What do

625
00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:55,080
Speaker 1: you remember about that game being announced as the first one.

626
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Speaker 1: I remember talking to Tony Wiley, who was our communications

627
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Speaker 1: director at the time, and even when I interviewed with

628
00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:05,720
Speaker 1: I interviewed with Tony Wiley, Jamie Roots, Kim Babbiak who

629
00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:08,920
Speaker 1: was marketing at the time, and UH and the radio

630
00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:11,640
Speaker 1: station people, Laura Morrison, Bill Van Riisena was a five.

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Speaker 1: I think there was one other person in there. Who

632
00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:18,080
Speaker 1: else was in there but five people and me five.

633
00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:22,360
Speaker 1: Now he wasn't in there five people versus me, anyway,

634
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Speaker 1: I was. I held it together. But I was talking

635
00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:28,640
Speaker 1: to Tony off to the side, like afterwards or whatever,

636
00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:30,560
Speaker 1: and he said we might open against the Cowboys on

637
00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:33,880
Speaker 1: Sunday Night Football, and I thought that would be oh bic.

638
00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:37,440
Speaker 1: I was a way to launch the franchise. So once

639
00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:39,640
Speaker 1: that got announced, so he kind of knew it. But

640
00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:43,320
Speaker 1: once that got announced, that was just everybody had such

641
00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:45,800
Speaker 1: a build up to it, and Johnny it was event central,

642
00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:49,960
Speaker 1: I mean the week of the Cowboy game, and I

643
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:51,360
Speaker 1: think it went off. For the first four or five

644
00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:53,760
Speaker 1: years of the franchise, we had an event or two

645
00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:56,680
Speaker 1: every day around town like I was doing. It was events,

646
00:32:56,800 --> 00:32:59,040
Speaker 1: r us event, event, event, event, I was doing my

647
00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:02,520
Speaker 1: radio show and just to build up, like, please, let's

648
00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:04,240
Speaker 1: just get to the game. I need to get It's

649
00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:08,840
Speaker 1: an expected father feeling or maybe expected mother, like I

650
00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:11,840
Speaker 1: gotta get it out. I gotta get this game out.

651
00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:16,840
Speaker 1: And finally we get to the building and it was unforgettable.

652
00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:19,040
Speaker 1: You know, the whole Bob Trumpy, I've told this story,

653
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:22,479
Speaker 1: but you know Don Cricky and Bob Trumpy. Don Creaky

654
00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:25,080
Speaker 1: wasn't there, but Bob Trumpy was, and he told me

655
00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:26,840
Speaker 1: they'll be lucky to get the snap off. It's an

656
00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:28,920
Speaker 1: expansion team, come on whatever. I was like, you don't

657
00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:31,720
Speaker 1: give us a shot. He said, no, I mean a shot,

658
00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:33,560
Speaker 1: no way. You'll be lucky to stay in the game

659
00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:36,840
Speaker 1: by halftime Texans one at nineteen to ten, and the

660
00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:40,240
Speaker 1: rest is history. But I'll tell you I remember being

661
00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:42,280
Speaker 1: there in two thousand and six at the Old Place

662
00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:47,320
Speaker 1: in Irving and on being ahead at the half six

663
00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:51,800
Speaker 1: to three and unable to win. I mean, eventually it

664
00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:54,600
Speaker 1: was three touchdown receptions for Terrell Owens in that game.

665
00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:57,440
Speaker 1: Then twenty ten, they just blew the doors off the

666
00:33:57,480 --> 00:33:59,240
Speaker 1: Texans here that was really painful. I mean that was

667
00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:01,520
Speaker 1: when the defense, that's when that's when you started looking

668
00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:06,440
Speaker 1: is not gonna be really the Texans started four and two.

669
00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:09,080
Speaker 1: You know what. That year reminded me of the Oswylder

670
00:34:09,160 --> 00:34:12,120
Speaker 1: good start, the six and three start with Oswylder, where

671
00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:13,800
Speaker 1: it's like on the road you were getting your doors

672
00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:17,000
Speaker 1: blown off, but at home you were actually playing well.

673
00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:20,040
Speaker 1: This is the opposite. The Texans were doing pretty well.

674
00:34:20,080 --> 00:34:21,640
Speaker 1: They had the one game with Arian, with the two

675
00:34:21,680 --> 00:34:23,839
Speaker 1: thirty one, they had the game against Kansas City here

676
00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:26,719
Speaker 1: among the four wins, but also on the road doing

677
00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:29,560
Speaker 1: some things with the Washington game and overtime and everything.

678
00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:32,000
Speaker 1: But the two losses at home were to the Giants

679
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:36,000
Speaker 1: and the Cowboys and lop side in fashion. Anyway, flash

680
00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:38,160
Speaker 1: forward the one you were a part of, the first

681
00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:42,319
Speaker 1: one in twenty fourteen. That that one. If I if

682
00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:45,080
Speaker 1: I could pick any Texans game to turn into a

683
00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:48,200
Speaker 1: win and without affecting the postseason or whatever, although that

684
00:34:48,200 --> 00:34:50,560
Speaker 1: would have it would have won, though, but just to

685
00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:52,799
Speaker 1: turn into a win just for the sake of the memory,

686
00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:55,200
Speaker 1: it would be the one in Dallas in twenty fourteen.

687
00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:58,840
Speaker 1: Because of the Red Clad the battle red clad Texans

688
00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:03,160
Speaker 1: fans that were there. That was a spectacle and to

689
00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:05,799
Speaker 1: beat them that day would have been the sweetest thing

690
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:09,960
Speaker 1: in overtime. Oh my goodness, Mark, I've never experienced anything

691
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:13,840
Speaker 1: like that in my life because the only time that

692
00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:17,880
Speaker 1: I could ever remember being at a neutral site game,

693
00:35:18,040 --> 00:35:21,479
Speaker 1: which essentially that turned out to be. And I'll never

694
00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:26,719
Speaker 1: get on the way home reading that Tony Romo had

695
00:35:26,719 --> 00:35:28,799
Speaker 1: said we had to go to a silent count in

696
00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:32,000
Speaker 1: our own building, and I just remember if there was,

697
00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:36,000
Speaker 1: if there's a poster quote for the traveling Texans, that

698
00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:40,799
Speaker 1: was it. And I remember Romo making that play, and

699
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:42,360
Speaker 1: you know that what I'm talking about. He drops the

700
00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:46,600
Speaker 1: path and JJ JJ jumped the snap. He got off

701
00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:50,080
Speaker 1: on the like I think he was moving before the

702
00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:53,279
Speaker 1: ball was snapped, but he still was far enough back

703
00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:56,400
Speaker 1: that he didn't break the neutral zone. Tyrant Smith doesn't

704
00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:58,440
Speaker 1: even know what happened, Like Tyrant's reaching for him and

705
00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:02,600
Speaker 1: Watts buy him and somehow Romo made him miss. I

706
00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:04,960
Speaker 1: don't know, he ducked under him, JJ went over him.

707
00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:08,360
Speaker 1: Romo stands back up and throws one fifty yards downfield

708
00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:10,360
Speaker 1: of Terrence Williams, and I'm like Wat's gonna make that.

709
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:12,040
Speaker 1: I mean, at that point, the Texans had kind of

710
00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:14,960
Speaker 1: controlled the game and then he makes that play and

711
00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:16,640
Speaker 1: it's like, oh my goodness, and then they kind of

712
00:36:16,719 --> 00:36:18,640
Speaker 1: ran off with it. But the way the Texans came back,

713
00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:25,000
Speaker 1: and here's my my enduring image of that game. It

714
00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:27,880
Speaker 1: was I think it was seventeen ten. I believe it

715
00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:29,839
Speaker 1: was seventeen ten. But the Texans were driving the fourth

716
00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:33,520
Speaker 1: quarter and they ran out there. I think they're on

717
00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:35,000
Speaker 1: the one or two yard I handed the Arian a

718
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:36,600
Speaker 1: couple of times. I think it was the second time.

719
00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:39,239
Speaker 1: He got in over on the right side, and so

720
00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:43,680
Speaker 1: Dre was on the left side of the formation. And

721
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:48,320
Speaker 1: when Arians scored, Dre was over there with a corner.

722
00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:49,800
Speaker 1: It was just man and man coverage, and Dre was

723
00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:51,759
Speaker 1: over there in the corner. And so he scored, and

724
00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:54,920
Speaker 1: Andre was standing in the end zone and there was

725
00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:57,880
Speaker 1: just this throng of Texans fans kind of in that

726
00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:01,160
Speaker 1: end zone, and he didn't go over celebrate with the team.

727
00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:04,080
Speaker 1: He just happened to catch. He was on my side.

728
00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:06,560
Speaker 1: He looked up and he was just fist pumping and

729
00:37:06,719 --> 00:37:09,840
Speaker 1: like almost like he was air high fiving all the fans,

730
00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:13,120
Speaker 1: and I just was like, this is really cool. What

731
00:37:13,239 --> 00:37:18,600
Speaker 1: a moment like this is so cool? And you know,

732
00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:22,320
Speaker 1: and I remember Arian he scored. He scored in the

733
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:24,080
Speaker 1: third quarter on a run where he kind of that

734
00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:25,799
Speaker 1: was a best drive. They went up tempo and he

735
00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:27,640
Speaker 1: got a run. He kind of sliced through off the

736
00:37:27,719 --> 00:37:30,680
Speaker 1: left side, and I remember coming off the sidelines and

737
00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:33,160
Speaker 1: usually he would just kind of come off, high five

738
00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:35,560
Speaker 1: everybody and go, you know, back this to the bench.

739
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:38,960
Speaker 1: He started kind of walking like right at me, and

740
00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:41,040
Speaker 1: he was going and there were fans like right behind

741
00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:43,279
Speaker 1: me in that lower section, and he walked by me

742
00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:46,400
Speaker 1: and he was like pointing down and he was screaming,

743
00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:50,200
Speaker 1: this is our house, this is our house, and and

744
00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:52,720
Speaker 1: I heard it perfectly, and I was like, that's pretty

745
00:37:52,719 --> 00:37:55,560
Speaker 1: cool that game. You're right, I think if there was

746
00:37:55,640 --> 00:37:58,080
Speaker 1: any one of them that we could we could flip

747
00:37:58,160 --> 00:38:01,640
Speaker 1: that into a win. But I remember being on the

748
00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:03,960
Speaker 1: on the bus on the way back and I and

749
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:05,600
Speaker 1: I turned to you, and I turned to Dre. You

750
00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:07,719
Speaker 1: guys were sitting behind me, and I was like, I've

751
00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:09,840
Speaker 1: never been a part of anything like that. That was nuts.

752
00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:12,680
Speaker 1: I mean, that was one of the greatest games to

753
00:38:12,760 --> 00:38:16,120
Speaker 1: be a part of because of the rivalry of Houston Dallas,

754
00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:18,840
Speaker 1: because our fans had showed up to to you know,

755
00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:22,080
Speaker 1: mass support. But then you look up and you go

756
00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:24,880
Speaker 1: but we lost the darn days lost the darn. But

757
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:29,040
Speaker 1: it eclipses regular seasons and the meaning of the records

758
00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:32,520
Speaker 1: and everything. It's it's Houston Dallas, it's in Texas, it's

759
00:38:32,560 --> 00:38:35,239
Speaker 1: the state championship. I was gonna say, it's kind of

760
00:38:35,239 --> 00:38:36,959
Speaker 1: like a bowl game. It's kind of like a heavyweight fight.

761
00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:39,440
Speaker 1: You know, it's a fight, it's a one off. It

762
00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:42,600
Speaker 1: really felt that way, and it was sad to lose

763
00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:46,560
Speaker 1: that for sure, But you're right. I mean, the fans support,

764
00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:49,799
Speaker 1: the atmosphere in the building that day. I've been a

765
00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:51,640
Speaker 1: part of a few things like that, and I'm sure

766
00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:54,360
Speaker 1: you know the Red River rivalry feels like that on

767
00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:57,719
Speaker 1: a really good day. Uh Aggie's long horns. Back in

768
00:38:57,760 --> 00:39:00,399
Speaker 1: the day, they show this is ridiculous that they don't.

769
00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:04,399
Speaker 1: I was a part of in the Northeast the year

770
00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:05,960
Speaker 1: the U Mass went to the Final four as the

771
00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:08,400
Speaker 1: voice of U Mask. It was UMass Boston College in

772
00:39:09,160 --> 00:39:11,719
Speaker 1: Boston Garden, the new at the time they called it

773
00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:15,680
Speaker 1: the Fleet Center, but it was half U Mass half BC,

774
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:19,640
Speaker 1: I mean down the middle, and it was a blood bath.

775
00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:22,600
Speaker 1: It was great, you know, So to be part of

776
00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:25,000
Speaker 1: those things, that's what this was like. It looked like

777
00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:27,120
Speaker 1: half and half, like we have to give you half

778
00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:29,480
Speaker 1: the house us the like they were obligated to because

779
00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:33,000
Speaker 1: that's what it was. It was crazy. Now when now

780
00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:35,839
Speaker 1: last year it wasn't quite fifty fifty. Now, I will

781
00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:38,279
Speaker 1: say the Cowboys fans did show up. I mean they

782
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:40,360
Speaker 1: they showed up last year, but they definitely did not

783
00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:44,879
Speaker 1: have not even building. It wasn't fifty fift like that.

784
00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:47,040
Speaker 1: They did show up, but Johnny, you know they're they're

785
00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:49,400
Speaker 1: wolves in sheep's clothing. I mean, they live among us.

786
00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:52,320
Speaker 1: It's true. They do. Saw them claim to be Texans

787
00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:54,440
Speaker 1: fans when they're not playing the Cowboys, and I believe them.

788
00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:56,680
Speaker 1: And I think their season ticket members too. We we

789
00:39:56,800 --> 00:39:59,640
Speaker 1: liked the Cowboys, but well, we'll watch the Texans when

790
00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:01,359
Speaker 1: the cow Away aren't playing, and we'll leave me season

791
00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:03,600
Speaker 1: ticket bappers because we live in Houston. I'm like, all right,

792
00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:06,640
Speaker 1: we'll take they we'll take your admission fee, and we

793
00:40:06,760 --> 00:40:09,920
Speaker 1: appreciate the support. I still don't get it. But it's okay.

794
00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:14,040
Speaker 1: It's okay, and someday you'll have to make a choice

795
00:40:15,040 --> 00:40:17,680
Speaker 1: because we'll meet in the super Bowl. I really would

796
00:40:17,719 --> 00:40:19,400
Speaker 1: love to see that in my lifetime. I don't know

797
00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:21,799
Speaker 1: that I could handle that. I really I don't know

798
00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:23,920
Speaker 1: that I could. I don't know that I can handle it.

799
00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:26,080
Speaker 1: But if it's the super Bowl, I probably would be

800
00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:27,480
Speaker 1: able to handle it, because it's like, we got that

801
00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:29,560
Speaker 1: a super Bowl, Now, of course you can handle it.

802
00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:32,120
Speaker 1: Would be the best thing ever. Oh my gosh, this

803
00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:35,960
Speaker 1: state of ten. You talk about events, there would be

804
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:37,960
Speaker 1: more events in the day than we would have minutes

805
00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:39,720
Speaker 1: in the day. I mean, there would be an event

806
00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:42,640
Speaker 1: every I mean there would be an event taking ten

807
00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:45,560
Speaker 1: thousand milligrams of vitamin C every day. You know, I'd like,

808
00:40:45,719 --> 00:40:49,479
Speaker 1: I have to savor this. I have to savor every moment.

809
00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:52,120
Speaker 1: You know, probably about a month and a half, two

810
00:40:52,120 --> 00:40:53,680
Speaker 1: months ago, I was kind of going back and watching

811
00:40:53,719 --> 00:40:57,200
Speaker 1: some games. Hopspins is gonna go down as one of

812
00:40:57,200 --> 00:41:00,480
Speaker 1: the more iconic places this franchise history, especially in his career.

813
00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:03,479
Speaker 1: But in this matchup, and because it's Dallas, we're gonna

814
00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:05,840
Speaker 1: remember that play forever. Ye. I went back and I

815
00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:10,320
Speaker 1: was watching the game. We almost didn't have it because

816
00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:15,760
Speaker 1: remember Kareem almost picked off Yack. He cut in front

817
00:41:16,440 --> 00:41:18,160
Speaker 1: of a route. I believe it was Cole Beasley and

818
00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:19,879
Speaker 1: he cut in front of the route. It was like,

819
00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:22,319
Speaker 1: I don't know, eight seconds left, it would have been

820
00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:23,960
Speaker 1: picked six and he would have been going the other

821
00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:25,400
Speaker 1: direction with all the women. It would have been a

822
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:27,880
Speaker 1: complete and total pick six. And we I mean, he

823
00:41:27,960 --> 00:41:32,200
Speaker 1: was that close. A Hobspins was to have that happened,

824
00:41:32,239 --> 00:41:35,080
Speaker 1: to have a walk off pick six against the Dallas,

825
00:41:35,120 --> 00:41:37,360
Speaker 1: because you're right, it would have been left. Are you

826
00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:39,680
Speaker 1: kidding me? It would have the place would have come

827
00:41:39,719 --> 00:41:43,440
Speaker 1: down as it was, I mean, Hobspins. It blew everyone's

828
00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:46,359
Speaker 1: mind because you just felt like, all right, they could

829
00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:48,000
Speaker 1: drive for the winning field goal here, but it's gonna

830
00:41:48,040 --> 00:41:50,200
Speaker 1: be a matriculate the ball down the field kind to drive.

831
00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:53,680
Speaker 1: But you got Hopspins and they were actually running out

832
00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:55,360
Speaker 1: of time and overtime, right, I mean it was the

833
00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:57,040
Speaker 1: six was coming down a little bit. I mean it was.

834
00:41:57,080 --> 00:41:59,520
Speaker 1: It was. It was getting late, right because the Cowboys

835
00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:02,320
Speaker 1: had a driven. They took some time off the clubs.

836
00:42:02,360 --> 00:42:04,680
Speaker 1: Why he one of the reasons why he was criticized

837
00:42:04,719 --> 00:42:06,279
Speaker 1: for not going for it on forth that right, but

838
00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:07,799
Speaker 1: how much time do you think you have left? Right,

839
00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:09,319
Speaker 1: did you think you're gonna get the ball back? Yeah,

840
00:42:09,480 --> 00:42:11,520
Speaker 1: to get the ball back in a ten minute overtime.

841
00:42:11,680 --> 00:42:15,239
Speaker 1: It's just that that play. And I remember there's a

842
00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:19,840
Speaker 1: great piece of micd up where where Deandore had fumbled

843
00:42:19,840 --> 00:42:22,200
Speaker 1: earlier in the game. And he comes back over the

844
00:42:22,239 --> 00:42:26,480
Speaker 1: sidelines and and Bill doesn't say a whole lot to him,

845
00:42:26,520 --> 00:42:28,320
Speaker 1: you know, just hang on the ball. He knew it,

846
00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:30,719
Speaker 1: and he just said, I'll get it back. I'll get

847
00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:34,640
Speaker 1: it back, and I'll never forget. When he gets finally tackled,

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Speaker 1: you know, most guys didn't get tackled. The bullet balls

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Speaker 1: like three points of pressure. It's like tuck run. Here

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Speaker 1: Hopkins finally gets tackled and he's got the ball in

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Speaker 1: his vice gripts and he's literally like holding it to

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Speaker 1: show everybody I still have this thing. I got it back.

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Speaker 1: It was like just that moment of seeing him with

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Speaker 1: the ball in both of his hands, like, you will

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Speaker 1: not get this ball out of my hands. I was

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Speaker 1: like some reason that moment, just that part of it.

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Speaker 1: The spin is it was great, but him saying, you

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Speaker 1: will not get this ball out. And when he stands up,

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Speaker 1: the best shot is like there's a shot of somebody

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Speaker 1: in the in the north end zone that had a can.

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Speaker 1: It's towards the sideline, and when he starts spinning and running,

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Speaker 1: the whole team is like coming off the sideline. It's

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Speaker 1: as they knew. It just felt like that was the

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Speaker 1: walk off. It was us no pressure. At least he

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Speaker 1: had won the week before. He said, it wasn't that

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Speaker 1: much pressure. Mark appreciate it. Thanks There. It is Saturday

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Speaker 1: There it is folks will see tomorrow and has always

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Speaker 1: go Texans