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Speaker 1: It is wild Card week coming up. Oh my goodness,

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Speaker 1: welcome in to Wednesday issue of Texans All Access. That's right,

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Speaker 1: we keep all Access going, we keep replay going, we

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Speaker 1: keep food Ruckers show going, we keep them all going.

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Speaker 1: As the playoffs are here. Even if you get the

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Speaker 1: texts the Texas and super Bowl, Yeah, we'll still be

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Speaker 1: doing that week, even though there'll be a bye week

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Speaker 1: no break. I would love that. I would absolutely love that.

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Speaker 1: Now my pipes wouldn't love it, but I would love that.

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Speaker 1: I might be horse by the time we get there,

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Speaker 1: But who cares? Texans? The Colts step one in the

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Speaker 1: playoffs right here at Energy Stadium, two very evenly matched

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Speaker 1: teams meeting for the third time. It's the first time

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Speaker 1: it's ever happened, the Texans facing a team three times

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Speaker 1: in a year. And the only way that can happen

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Speaker 1: is if you face them in the playoffs. Because you're

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Speaker 1: not gonna play a division team in a preseason game,

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Speaker 1: so you face the teams three times during a year

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Speaker 1: I don't think there's any other way you could do it.

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Speaker 1: Maybe if you face like, for example, an NFC team

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Speaker 1: like take two Saints for instance, in twenty fifteen, we

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Speaker 1: played him in the right in the preseason. Now we

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Speaker 1: played in the regular season. We could have played them

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Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl. That would have been kind of nice.

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Speaker 1: But that doesn't happen. Playing it a Vision team for

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Speaker 1: the third time. That's the first time that's ever happened.

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Speaker 1: Thirty seven, thirty four Texas went up there, twenty four

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Speaker 1: twenty one. Colts win here the game Saturday, three thirty five.

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Speaker 1: That's the kickoff, three thirty five on Saturday. So don't

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Speaker 1: be rolling up here at one o'clock or twelve o'clock

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Speaker 1: on Sunday. Go that's when they always plays on it. No.

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Speaker 1: Three thirty five right here narg Stadium, and it's time

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Speaker 1: to rock. It's time to rock this place. Get this

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Speaker 1: place going. Make it very difficult for former Houston citizen

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Speaker 1: Andrew Luck and his colts haven't been back in the

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Speaker 1: playoffs since twenty fourteen. In fact, I started doing a

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Speaker 1: been made t Y Hilton, Andrew Luck, Anthony Costanzo. Those

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Speaker 1: in the playoffs in which is twenty fourteen. Now Jibals

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Speaker 1: how many of those Colts defenders actually have played in

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Speaker 1: the playoffs. They're not too many of them. The squad's

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Speaker 1: relatively young team as well. Zach Cunningham never been to

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Speaker 1: he was unable to play at twenty fifteen playoffs. So

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals gotta buy and took on the Packers in

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Speaker 1: just an all time great game. That said, there'll be

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Speaker 1: a lot of guys playing their first playoff game. Seaw

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Speaker 1: say he played plenty of him in college. He played

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Speaker 1: four playoff games in college, went three and one in

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Speaker 1: on the show this evening, we got plenty for you.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna go behind enemy sidelines with Deep City as

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Speaker 1: we always do. This week it's Caroline can Deep be

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Speaker 1: with her again, even though it's only been about four

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Speaker 1: or five weeks. Lots changed, seemingly, both teams pretty confident.

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Speaker 1: Texas won the AFC South Championship. The Colts won four

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Speaker 1: then they beat the Cowboys twenty three to nothing. Just

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Speaker 1: Titans thirty three seventeen in a winner takes the in

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Speaker 1: lab with our good friend Drew Doherty. Drew's a little

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Speaker 1: hot under the collar about the proceved thoughts throughout this

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Speaker 1: And yes, the Colts great football team turned it around

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Speaker 1: at twenty eighteen, like the Texans did. Quarterback got healthy,

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Speaker 1: in front of the Colts eleven and five, ten and six.

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Speaker 1: I still think these are pretty evenly matched teams. And no.

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Speaker 1: The problem is when you see a three seed and

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Speaker 1: blow and not quite, not quite. These teams are very

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Speaker 1: saw was that this game is pretty much a pick him.

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Speaker 1: Now the line has moved all over the place. It

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Speaker 1: Essentially it's a pick him. But to show you how

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Speaker 1: The biggest spread is actually Chicago against the defenning champs.

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Speaker 1: Chicago's favored by five and a half. I think part

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Speaker 1: after that Jadeveon Clowney shot, and that's why he went

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Speaker 1: of those players with our hot reads presented to you

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Speaker 1: by Geico. Fifteen minutes can save you fifteen percent or

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Speaker 1: more on a car insurance. And today, even though it's Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: He was asked about playing in the playoffs, big players

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Speaker 1: and DeAndre essentially said, no, I'm not a diva. I

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Speaker 1: going up against the best and the stakes are high.

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Speaker 1: So really, you know, he is very even killed every

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Speaker 1: single week. It's just about you know, that opponent who

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Speaker 1: they're playing, and the things that the Colts need to

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Speaker 1: get done while going up against you know, the Houston

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Speaker 1: Texans defense who you mentioned. You have so many weapons

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Speaker 1: cross that defensive line, even in that secondary. So he's

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Speaker 1: looking forward to be able to correct the mistakes that

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Speaker 1: he said he made in those first two games, but

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Speaker 1: that it's also just about playing Colts football using the

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Speaker 1: momentum that they have this week. He's having his best

436
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Speaker 1: season yet. He's got single season career highs in several

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Speaker 1: passing categories. He's second in the NFL in passing touchdowns

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Speaker 1: with thirty nine. As far as the regular season went,

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Speaker 1: at what point in covering this team did people start

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Speaker 1: to say, hey, Andrew Luck looks like he's back. I

441
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Speaker 1: know there was so much chatter in the off season

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Speaker 1: and even when the season began, but was there a

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Speaker 1: point when you said he looks as good as new.

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Speaker 1: I know JJ Watt sort of gone through the same

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Speaker 1: thing on this end of this matchup, but how about

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Speaker 1: for Luck? Yeah, you know, I think for everyone it

447
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Speaker 1: was probably a little bit different. But I actually remember

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Speaker 1: the first time that we've played you guys on September thirtieth,

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Speaker 1: and then that Thursday now on October fourth, played against

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Speaker 1: New England in New England, and he ended up throwing

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Speaker 1: I believe the stat Obviously, it was early in the season,

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Speaker 1: so I maybe off a little bit on numbers, but

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Speaker 1: it was like over one hundred and twenty passes in

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Speaker 1: four days, and to me, I just was like, oh, okay,

455
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Speaker 1: he's fine. We don't have to talk about his strength anymore.

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Speaker 1: You know, he was going down the field on some

457
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Speaker 1: of those. The Colts were throwing the ball so much

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Speaker 1: early in this season as they were trying to establish

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Speaker 1: their run game with two rookie running backs in Marlin

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Speaker 1: Mack in a sophomore campaign, so there was a lot

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Speaker 1: of load on Andrew Luck in that those first you know,

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Speaker 1: few weeks as they get into the season. But it

463
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Speaker 1: really was that week four to week five short turnaround

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Speaker 1: on that week when he didn't look like he was

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Speaker 1: ever hurt, and I kind of we left that game thinking,

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Speaker 1: you remember, Louised to ask if this guy was ever

467
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Speaker 1: going to throw again, or you know, what is this

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Speaker 1: season going to look like for him, and for him

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Speaker 1: to throw that mini balls back to back and in

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Speaker 1: a very short turnaround. I think for me, that's when

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Speaker 1: it turned the page of Okay, we don't need to

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Speaker 1: ask about his shoulder anymore. He's back. How much has

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Speaker 1: the run game helped Andrew Luck stay healthy and stay upright?

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Speaker 1: I know we talk a lot. We're gonna talk about

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Speaker 1: the offensive Line'm gonna ask you about that, But what

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Speaker 1: you mentioned Marlon Mack. He's got nine touchdowns, nine hundred

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Speaker 1: eight yards rushing, and the Colts have never really had

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Speaker 1: a good feature back to sort of back up Andrew Luck.

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Speaker 1: So what's that like? How is that tandem work? Has

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Speaker 1: that helped his passing attempts go down? And how has

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Speaker 1: Frank Reich sort of use them all to work together

482
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Speaker 1: in the offense? Well, this offense and it seems so simple,

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Speaker 1: but when the Colts offense is complimentary as far as

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Speaker 1: the run game that's going, it kind of balances out

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Speaker 1: the amount of throws that Andrew Luck has the Colts win.

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Speaker 1: And when you have a back like Marlon Matt who

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Speaker 1: this year, it's been so fun to see him be

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Speaker 1: patient in those gaps and run behind a blocker, where

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Speaker 1: I think in his rookie year we saw him more

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Speaker 1: as kind of that outside running along the edges. But

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Speaker 1: he has absolutely stepped up this year and given Andrew

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Speaker 1: Luck a lot of options in that run game. And

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Speaker 1: also Niheim Hines. He's a running back, but he actually

494
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Speaker 1: has the most receptions for rookie in the year's pass

495
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Speaker 1: and all the other guys on that list for franchise,

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Speaker 1: they were wide receivers. So when you look at the

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Speaker 1: way that they're able to use Niheim Hines kind of

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Speaker 1: as out of the back, allowing Andrew Luck to get

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Speaker 1: rid of the ball quickly on some checkdown passes or

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Speaker 1: even passes that are signed to have Nihimhins be that

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Speaker 1: first option. That all kind of allows that that offense

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Speaker 1: to put the defense on notice is you know, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you need to cover Ti Hilton down the field, but

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Speaker 1: you also need to make sure that you're here for

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Speaker 1: Nihiem Hinds. But we also may give it to Marlon

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Speaker 1: Mack and we all know Ebron maybe open. So really

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Speaker 1: it's just the list of options that Andrew Luck has

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Speaker 1: as far as task catchers go, that it you know,

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Speaker 1: even if Y Hilton being a little bit not himself

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Speaker 1: with that ankle injury. It's still dontrelle Emmon and Zach

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Speaker 1: Pascal and Chester Rogers. There are other options for him.

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Speaker 1: So I think Andrew Luck when he goes out there,

513
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Speaker 1: he can be confident in knowing I do have more

514
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Speaker 1: time in this pocket than I've had, but I also

515
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Speaker 1: have more options to allow me to get rid of

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Speaker 1: that ball quicker that's Colt's offensive line has done a

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Speaker 1: fantastic job this year. I know when we faced the

518
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Speaker 1: Colts earlier in week before, they were banged up, but

519
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Speaker 1: right now they've got the run game going, Andrew Luck

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Speaker 1: is not taking as many sacks. What's been the key

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Speaker 1: to that chemistry? Because even throughout the season it seemed

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Speaker 1: like guys were banged up on the old line, but

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Speaker 1: you know, once things clicked for them, they didn't really

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Speaker 1: turn back. Well, what do you think has been behind that?

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Speaker 1: And when did you sort of see a training point

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Speaker 1: with them? Well? This has been a focal point of

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Speaker 1: Chris ballatt ever since he took over the roster, and

528
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Speaker 1: he admitted that last year he didn't do enough. So

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Speaker 1: it was definitely a point of focus going into the draft,

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Speaker 1: going into free agency to make sure that the offensive

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Speaker 1: line was taken care of, because we all know what

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Speaker 1: Andrew Luck can do when he had time and when

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Speaker 1: he tells me, and we're seeing that this year. So

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Speaker 1: I think really a turning point. And it sounds crazy,

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Speaker 1: but it was training camp because so Dave Deguliamo is

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Speaker 1: the offensive line coach, and he is that if you

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Speaker 1: could pick a movie character, you know what type of

538
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Speaker 1: actors should we have play an offensive line coach, you

539
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Speaker 1: would pick someone exactly like because he's just that tough,

540
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Speaker 1: hard nose, tells it like it is, you know, no

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Speaker 1: BS coach. And I think that has translated over to

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Speaker 1: these players because in training camp, the whole offensive line,

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Speaker 1: every single one of them were out at practice thirty

544
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Speaker 1: minutes twenty five minutes before anyone else, and they were

545
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Speaker 1: going through their progression being warmed up because they wanted

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Speaker 1: to be the hardest working group on the roster. And

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Speaker 1: they've done that. Now you added that personnel of Quinton

548
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Speaker 1: Nelson first round draft pick, second round draft pick, and

549
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Speaker 1: Braydon Smith, some free agent pieces that they went and

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Speaker 1: got that if filled in, and then you have Ryan Kelly,

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Speaker 1: a first round draft pick, Anthony Costanzo, a first round

552
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Speaker 1: draft pick. They've started to get the personnel that they needed,

553
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Speaker 1: but the attitude has absolutely added to that. Matt Slawson

554
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Speaker 1: also a free agent that came and he added to

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Speaker 1: that attitude of just we're gonna be tough, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: be the hardest workers, and we're going to be who

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Speaker 1: sets the tone and you see it. I mean, we

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Speaker 1: actually had a conversation earlier this week with some former

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Speaker 1: offensive lineman. We said, we could sit for an hour

560
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Speaker 1: and talk about this offensive line. And when you're able

561
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Speaker 1: to do that about a team, you know they're going

562
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Speaker 1: in the right direction because it all starts up front.

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Speaker 1: Let's switch gears and talk about the defense. Darius Leonard,

564
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Speaker 1: he didn't get the Pro Bowl nod, but he did

565
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Speaker 1: earn AFC Defensive Player of the Week after that win

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Speaker 1: over the Titans. What surprises you most about that rookie?

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Speaker 1: So many things. Darius Leonard is such a character on

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Speaker 1: and off the field. With one of his wire ups

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Speaker 1: this year has been one of the best. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he's asking offensive linement, veteran offensive linement, Hey, I'll give

571
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Speaker 1: you a dollar if you tell me what you're doing next.

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Speaker 1: What rookie has you know, the confidence to go out

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Speaker 1: there and kind of pick on the other team a

574
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Speaker 1: little bit um. But Darius Leonard does because he's always

575
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Speaker 1: played this underdog role. You know, even when he was

576
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Speaker 1: taken in the second round, there were a lot of

577
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Speaker 1: people that were saying, oh, this is definitely a bust.

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Speaker 1: What are the cults doing? And you're able to see

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Speaker 1: that when he's given you know, the coaching and the

580
00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:35,040
Speaker 1: surrounding pieces. He's such a star and he has fully

581
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Speaker 1: embraced that because he's always known how how good he

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Speaker 1: is and what he's capable of. And then he's really

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Speaker 1: I think the biggest thing that has surprised me is

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Speaker 1: how he has handled the attention. Um. He you know,

585
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Speaker 1: from South Carolina, went to a smaller school, did not

586
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Speaker 1: get the attention there, and all of a sudden he's

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Speaker 1: really the one of the bases of the defense in

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Speaker 1: the NFL and of rookies. And think the way that

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Speaker 1: he has showed his maturity and still being funny him

590
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Speaker 1: and he showed up to the facility earlier this week

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Speaker 1: in a Spider Man onesie, just a kind of nice

592
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Speaker 1: light in the mood, keep guys fun. And he is

593
00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:12,080
Speaker 1: that emotional leader. But he's just a fun guy that

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Speaker 1: hasn't changed who he is even though he is in

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Speaker 1: the spotlight. All Right, I know the Colts haven't faced

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Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson a lot. This is the only year that

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Speaker 1: they've they've had to play against him. What are they

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Speaker 1: saying as far as what Watson's able to do with

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Speaker 1: his legs and making some plays with him and what

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Speaker 1: is going to be their focal point heading into Saturday. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it is crazy that his teams are facing off for

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Speaker 1: the third time. I really can't think back of, you know,

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Speaker 1: another time where that has been that way. But Deshaun Watson,

604
00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:41,720
Speaker 1: what this team knows and what they respect so much

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Speaker 1: about him is how intelligent he is with his football IQ.

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Speaker 1: He knows when he uses legs, he knows when to

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Speaker 1: kind of sit back and wait on his receivers and

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Speaker 1: be patient in the pocket, and he can find the

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Speaker 1: end zone either way. So really, what this defense has

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Speaker 1: said is we want to contain him in the pocket,

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Speaker 1: and we saw that those you know, the first two games,

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Speaker 1: kind of containing him there but also getting after him

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Speaker 1: and putting a lot of pressure on him to where

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Speaker 1: he doesn't feel like he can be patient. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I really think that's just been the defense's motto all

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Speaker 1: season long, no matter who they're facing. But of course,

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Speaker 1: when the talent of the quarterback takes that step up,

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Speaker 1: the defense has to respond in a way of making

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Speaker 1: sure that Deshaun Watson doesn't feel comfortable. All right, good stuff,

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Speaker 1: Caroline can Team reporter for the Indianapolis Colts. It's gonna

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Speaker 1: be round three on Saturday for the AFC Wildcard Game. Caroline,

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Speaker 1: looking forward to seeing you back here on Saturday. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: looking forward to it. I'll see you then. Great stuff

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Speaker 1: there from TPCD and her guest, Caroline can T reporter,

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Speaker 1: Brian Gaine sat down earlier this week with Mark Vanimer

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Speaker 1: to get skinny on what's going on with this team,

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Speaker 1: how they felt about the close of the regular season,

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Speaker 1: and all that goes with this matchup with the Indianapolis Colts. Brian,

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Speaker 1: first of all, congratulations on the AFC South. I know

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Speaker 1: there's much more work to be done, but if we

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Speaker 1: press pause for just a moment, it's quite notable to

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Speaker 1: be able to win the division, particularly after the way

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Speaker 1: you started. Yeah, certainly was congratulations to the team and

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Speaker 1: to the coaches and the staff, to the mcnara family,

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Speaker 1: who I winning the AFC South a lot of hard work.

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Speaker 1: Makes me think about the journey where it all started

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Speaker 1: way back in the offseason, going through training camp, going

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Speaker 1: through preseason, the way the season started, and I think

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Speaker 1: that's where you know, you point to our leadership both

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Speaker 1: in the locker room and on the coaching side of things,

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Speaker 1: with coach O'Brien and his staff keeping the players focused

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Speaker 1: that it was a long season, one game at a time,

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Speaker 1: and I think that's been a part of the success

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Speaker 1: that we've had this year, is we've been able to,

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Speaker 1: you know, gradually focus on what's at hand at stake

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Speaker 1: that week and not look too far ahead, correct our mistakes,

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Speaker 1: and started doing more things to help us win football games.

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Speaker 1: And we strung some games together. And equally what we

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Speaker 1: did in November and December, after the buy three and

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Speaker 1: ozer in the month of November, then going three and

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Speaker 1: two here in the month of December to position ourselves

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Speaker 1: here to win the division at home in front of

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Speaker 1: our home crowd. It was exciting, right what you said

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Speaker 1: about the off season. It strikes me because it fascinates

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Speaker 1: me about this business, the fine line between winning and

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Speaker 1: losing and all the work you do in the off season,

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Speaker 1: and it comes down to sometimes a fingernail and a football,

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Speaker 1: it's that close. But that work is so important that

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Speaker 1: you put in prior to even the start of the campaign.

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Speaker 1: Certainly is you know, we spent a lot of time

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Speaker 1: on player evaluation, trying to build a championship roster here

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Speaker 1: to compete for division titles, compete for AFC titles, and

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Speaker 1: from there, we obviously always aspire to play and win

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Speaker 1: in the super Bowl. But to do that you have

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Speaker 1: to have personnel. You have to have good players. But

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Speaker 1: it requires you know, obviously, great coaches, great players, great schemes,

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Speaker 1: good personnel, plan to put a winning environment in place,

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Speaker 1: and without the support of the mc naurris, they give

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Speaker 1: us the resources to do that, that would be very

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Speaker 1: hard to do. But when you think about the off

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Speaker 1: season where things started, you know that's ultimately where where

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Speaker 1: your season obviously catapults itself. The foundation you lay through

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Speaker 1: the month of April May June, through the workouts, through

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Speaker 1: the OTAs, through the mini camps, that positions you hopefully

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Speaker 1: to compete and pursue success when when the fall comes around.

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Speaker 1: So I feel like we had a good plan in

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Speaker 1: place as it related to that got guys healthy, kept

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Speaker 1: guys healthy. We did deal with some adversity and lost

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Speaker 1: some players, but that happens around the league and I

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Speaker 1: think our staff has has managed as well. What about

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Speaker 1: facing Jacksonville's defense, we were able to move the ball

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Speaker 1: on them, and that's one of the best defenses around

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Speaker 1: and probably a pretty good test for what you're going

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Speaker 1: to see coming up here. Sure, anytime you play the

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Speaker 1: Jacksonville Jaguars defense, it all starts with the front seven.

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Speaker 1: They're they're very, very talented, and they have an elite

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Speaker 1: corner in Ramsey as well. So we had our hands full.

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Speaker 1: You had to fight tooth and nail for everything we got.

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Speaker 1: So I felt like we did enough on offense to

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Speaker 1: position ourselves to get a victory. But defense was outstanding.

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Speaker 1: The amount of yards they let up I think it

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Speaker 1: was one hundred and some yards. They had multiple three

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Speaker 1: and ounce throughout the game. They were very good on

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Speaker 1: third down, We got some turnovers, we stopped the run.

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Speaker 1: So we did a lot of things well on defense,

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Speaker 1: and our offense was able to capitalize on those things.

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Speaker 1: You've been in the league a long time, a lot

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Speaker 1: of different situations. Facing a team for the third time,

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Speaker 1: it's a unique dynamic. What about that as far as

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Speaker 1: everything that goes into preparing for that kind of matchup.

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Speaker 1: What's funny you mentioned that because I believe it's the

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Speaker 1: only playoff matchup here this weekend where it's an interdivisional

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Speaker 1: playoff game, So it's a unique circumstance too, because we

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Speaker 1: just played him in recent weeks here. We played him

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Speaker 1: in the month of December. Obviously, the first game was

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Speaker 1: way back earlier in the season, so there is a

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Speaker 1: great amount of familiarity with each other. But at the

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Speaker 1: end of the day, whoever plays best on Saturday when

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Speaker 1: we kick off here, they win the game. It certainly

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Speaker 1: helps in turn the matchups and know whin the players

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Speaker 1: and who you're going against, and who's matching up versus us,

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Speaker 1: and where our matchups are on the other side of

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Speaker 1: the ball. So it makes us very familiar with that,

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Speaker 1: you know, But we still have to put together a

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Speaker 1: game plan to win this game. Those are those two games,

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Speaker 1: and right now it's one on one, So we'll see

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Speaker 1: what happens here this week. We're gonna do everything weekend

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Speaker 1: to position ourselves to get a victory. Got the running

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Speaker 1: game going again over one hundred and thirty yards. I know,

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Speaker 1: to Shaun a big part of that, but it seems

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Speaker 1: like he's part of your running game. That's just part

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Speaker 1: of the recipe right now. Sure, he's got a great

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Speaker 1: skill set, a great physical skill set where he's a

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Speaker 1: multidimensional player. He can make all the throws. The throw

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Speaker 1: he made to DeAndre in the second half down the

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Speaker 1: sideline over Ramsey. It was an excellent catch, but it

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Speaker 1: was it was an awesome throw, Um. But the his

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Speaker 1: ability to extend to play and make plays outside the

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Speaker 1: pocket run our past. I know he ran the ball

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Speaker 1: very well for us yesterday. What I liked was that

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Speaker 1: he was protecting himself at the same time, Um, in

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Speaker 1: terms of getting the yards and needed to be getting

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Speaker 1: to be gotten, but also smart enough to make those

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Speaker 1: decisions when when he had to protect himself. What about

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Speaker 1: Andrew Luck and the Colts. Quite a comeback for him

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Speaker 1: this year, and both matchups were really competitive between you

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Speaker 1: and the Colts. The first game deep into overtime, the

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Speaker 1: second one a three point loss for the Texas at home. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they they are a formidable foe. And you could argue

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Speaker 1: that right now in the AFC, they're they're playing as

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Speaker 1: good as anybody in terms of the second half of

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Speaker 1: the season. They've had their string of wins in a

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Speaker 1: row as well. Um. I went back and I looked

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Speaker 1: at their victories here minus the Tennessee game here last

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Speaker 1: week they had three wins out of four. I think

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Speaker 1: that were three points or less total of seven points.

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Speaker 1: So they've been a lot of close matchups as well

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Speaker 1: where they won by a few points. Perhaps maybe you're

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Speaker 1: lost by a few points. But in the month of

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Speaker 1: November December, over those last three or four games, they

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Speaker 1: were in some type ballgames. So I think when you're

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Speaker 1: in those types of situations, you know those games come

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Speaker 1: down to the fourth quarter, and more than likely in

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Speaker 1: these playoffs at situations like a lot of games are

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Speaker 1: going to get decided in the fourth quarter. So we're

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Speaker 1: preparing for a very difficult matchup and we have all

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Speaker 1: week to do that, so we're going to try to

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Speaker 1: earn the right to win. What is it about playoff

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Speaker 1: intensity where it ratchets up in the postseason? Already it's

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Speaker 1: fever pitch, you would think in the regular season, and

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Speaker 1: it is, but what is it about the playoffs that

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Speaker 1: turns it up several notches? It's the best of the best,

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Speaker 1: the competition is at its highest level. But I think

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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, it really comes down

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Speaker 1: to playing smart and playing discipline, and the team that

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Speaker 1: executes the best, plays smart and plays discipline and doesn't

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Speaker 1: beat themselves. Ultimately we'll have a chance to win the

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Speaker 1: game when the fourth quarter arrives, all right, and the

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Speaker 1: players sense that, right, they know it's if you'll lose,

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Speaker 1: it's over. It's one and done. That's the kind of

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Speaker 1: situation it is. Now, what kind of other work is

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Speaker 1: going on behind the scenes this time of year for you?

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Speaker 1: Because we talk about draft prep and things like that,

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Speaker 1: and I know you had scouts back for the holidays

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Speaker 1: going over their data and that cannot stop. In fact,

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Speaker 1: you could say that the playoffs you sort of have

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Speaker 1: to ignore them on one side of your brain because

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Speaker 1: you have to prepare for the draft. Right. Well, there's

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Speaker 1: a few different things going on. Number One, you know,

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Speaker 1: whenever a season ends, whenever that concludes, we're always going

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Speaker 1: to obviously evaluate our own roster. So we're hoping to

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Speaker 1: do that down the line. So that's item number one,

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Speaker 1: So we're always evaluating our games our own team. Item

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Speaker 1: Number two is we start our pro personnel free agency

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Speaker 1: meetings here in January in preparation for when it starts

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Speaker 1: in March, and our pro scouts right now are working

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Speaker 1: hard at those evaluations, evaluating all the different positions globally

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Speaker 1: in the league, and as it relates to our college

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Speaker 1: scouting staff. They're getting ready for bull season. So right

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Speaker 1: around the corner we have the All Star Games coming

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Speaker 1: up between the East West Shrine Game and the Senior Bowl,

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Speaker 1: and our scouts are all doing their cross check assignments

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Speaker 1: as well in terms of taking a position and ranking them.

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Speaker 1: We feel like our board is kind of set and

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Speaker 1: pencil at this at this time, but the All Star

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Speaker 1: Games coming up, we get to descend and go to

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Speaker 1: those All Star Games and watch the practices, watch the games,

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Speaker 1: watch the players compete, to player interviews. So all that's

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Speaker 1: right around the corner. You talked about some of Watson's

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Speaker 1: skills a moment ago. I'm amazed about all the young

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks in the league and how good they are really,

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Speaker 1: how well they're playing, and you look at teams and

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Speaker 1: the playoffs are close to it. All the fine young

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks in the NFL and their second, third, or first year.

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Speaker 1: How do you account for that the success they're having

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Speaker 1: in the early going, or is it that they're around

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Speaker 1: good teams. Yeah, it makes me think about the process,

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Speaker 1: the evaluation process, and where these A lot of these

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Speaker 1: players you're referring to have been taken high, have been

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Speaker 1: taken in the first round been taken earlier in the draft,

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Speaker 1: So the organizations have put a premium on that position

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Speaker 1: and they're doing everything they can now to surround them

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Speaker 1: with a supporting cast to succeed, because everyone recognizes how

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Speaker 1: important it is to have that foundational piece in your

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Speaker 1: football operation, just the performance of the quarterbacks. So I

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Speaker 1: think a lot of organizations obviously recognize the importance trying

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Speaker 1: to do as much as you can to put a

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Speaker 1: winning environment, put the supporting cast around players, match them

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Speaker 1: with the right coaches, match them with the right system.

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Speaker 1: So I think it's a complimentary to a lot of

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Speaker 1: the coaches in the league that they're finding these players

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Speaker 1: and they're installing them into the offense and playing to

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Speaker 1: their strengths of what they did in college, and you

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Speaker 1: can see that translating on the field. Here. One more

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Speaker 1: thing about the Texans in twenty eighteen and as we

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Speaker 1: headed to the postseason, the improvement on special teams and

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Speaker 1: the ability to get great defensive drive starts, offensive drive starts,

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Speaker 1: those hidden yards. That's really come through big for you.

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Speaker 1: It has our two young specialists, Kayomi Fairburn or placekickers

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Speaker 1: not a real good job this year. Trevor Daniel has

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Speaker 1: been a good fine for us. He was an undrafted

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Speaker 1: free agent, So two young guys we feel the organization

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Speaker 1: can grow with. But it goes back to what we

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Speaker 1: spoke about in the past. It was getting more heightlight

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Speaker 1: speed on the field on fourth down because they got

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Speaker 1: to cover ground, they gotta have range, they got to

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Speaker 1: be able to run. So we feel like from that standpoint,

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Speaker 1: we're able to upgrade the rouster through free agency, through

853
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Speaker 1: the undrafted free agent process and at the fifty three

854
00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:18,320
Speaker 1: man cut down. And you're going to see how important

855
00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:19,839
Speaker 1: that is. I think a lot of people will see

856
00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:22,120
Speaker 1: how important that is as it relates to field position

857
00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:25,319
Speaker 1: during the playoffs, because the team that makes the least

858
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:28,040
Speaker 1: amount of mistakes, that plays smart, that plays discipline, and

859
00:40:28,120 --> 00:40:31,200
Speaker 1: plays a good fuel position and in essence forces the

860
00:40:31,200 --> 00:40:34,319
Speaker 1: other team to beat them if they're going to fourth down,

861
00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:36,840
Speaker 1: has a critical impact on that. So I got to

862
00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:38,799
Speaker 1: give a lot of credit to coach Sey and coach

863
00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:42,080
Speaker 1: Smith for having that vision as well. So we were

864
00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:44,319
Speaker 1: able to find them some players and they've incorporated them

865
00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:47,400
Speaker 1: and use them from a system standpoint in terms of

866
00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:50,040
Speaker 1: jobs and roles on special teams to put our players

867
00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:52,080
Speaker 1: in good position to make plays on fourth down. Great

868
00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:55,880
Speaker 1: stuff there from Brian Gaine, general manager of your Houston Texans.

869
00:40:55,960 --> 00:40:58,719
Speaker 1: It's not time for our stats challenge, brought to you

870
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Speaker 1: by schlumber jecause a Houston Texas dot com today registered

871
00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:05,840
Speaker 1: to take the stats challenge. Well, here's the stat third

872
00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:11,400
Speaker 1: down slash fourth down conversions the Texans most of the

873
00:41:11,440 --> 00:41:16,240
Speaker 1: year have been pretty good. But against the Colts up there,

874
00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:18,520
Speaker 1: the Colts were four to twelve and third down that's

875
00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:20,680
Speaker 1: thirty three percent. Excuse me. Up there, they were ten

876
00:41:20,719 --> 00:41:23,439
Speaker 1: to seventeen. That's a really big number. Colts were able

877
00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:26,200
Speaker 1: to stay in the game because of that. Against the Eagles,

878
00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:30,640
Speaker 1: the Eagles were nine of sixteen that's well over fifty percent.

879
00:41:30,960 --> 00:41:34,800
Speaker 1: But of those seven that they didn't get on fourth

880
00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:37,919
Speaker 1: down and at four to four, so technically they were

881
00:41:38,239 --> 00:41:41,920
Speaker 1: thirteen to sixteen. That's a pretty good number. And the

882
00:41:42,040 --> 00:41:46,879
Speaker 1: Jets were nine of seventeen, over fifty percent on third downs. Now,

883
00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:51,480
Speaker 1: they won the game against the Jets struggled probably more

884
00:41:51,520 --> 00:41:53,400
Speaker 1: than they needed to a little bit. The Eagles, they

885
00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:55,560
Speaker 1: lost their game by two, and they gave up well

886
00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:58,000
Speaker 1: over fifty percent on third down, and they were one

887
00:41:58,040 --> 00:42:01,799
Speaker 1: hundred percent on fourth down making those conversions to what

888
00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:03,600
Speaker 1: they had. The seven they didn't make, they ended up

889
00:42:03,640 --> 00:42:06,600
Speaker 1: making them on fourth down. So essentially they were nine

890
00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:12,960
Speaker 1: of sixteen, sorry, thirteen of sixteen, which is pretty darn good. Texans.

891
00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:16,160
Speaker 1: Cannot allow that to be in this ball game. They

892
00:42:16,160 --> 00:42:18,719
Speaker 1: only scored twenty four points the first the second time,

893
00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:21,440
Speaker 1: they were four of twelve on third down. The Texas

894
00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:24,399
Speaker 1: did an excellent job here on third down. That's where

895
00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:26,400
Speaker 1: it's gotta be. Cannot be the ten of seventeen that

896
00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:28,080
Speaker 1: it was up in Indy, cannot be, the nine of

897
00:42:28,160 --> 00:42:30,840
Speaker 1: sixteen it was in Philadelphia, or the nine of seventeen

898
00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:34,440
Speaker 1: that it was against the New York Jets cannot be.

899
00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:38,719
Speaker 1: Cannot happen. So keep an eye on the third down

900
00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:41,400
Speaker 1: conversion percentage. That's not the end all be all, but

901
00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:43,399
Speaker 1: I think for this team, it tells you a pretty

902
00:42:43,440 --> 00:42:46,160
Speaker 1: good story. When they've been good on third down and

903
00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:48,719
Speaker 1: they've created a turnover two, they've won every one of

904
00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:51,840
Speaker 1: those games. When they have given up a lot of

905
00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:53,560
Speaker 1: plays on third down, giving them a lot of first

906
00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:55,839
Speaker 1: downs on third down, in Eagles case, even fourth down,

907
00:42:56,520 --> 00:42:59,200
Speaker 1: then they have struggled to put teams away. They struggled

908
00:42:59,200 --> 00:43:01,399
Speaker 1: to put the jetsuation put the Colts away the first time,

909
00:43:01,520 --> 00:43:03,560
Speaker 1: and then against Eagles and up Blues that game by two.

910
00:43:03,600 --> 00:43:07,000
Speaker 1: So keep that in mind. Third down conversion stat is

911
00:43:07,080 --> 00:43:08,920
Speaker 1: a big one. We'll keep an eye on that throughout

912
00:43:08,960 --> 00:43:11,560
Speaker 1: the game on Saturday. All right, we get backs time

913
00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:13,560
Speaker 1: for our buddy Andre Ware to stop by right here

914
00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:16,200
Speaker 1: on Texas All Access. Welcome back to our second hour

915
00:43:16,239 --> 00:43:19,279
Speaker 1: of Texans All Access on this Wednesday evening from the

916
00:43:19,320 --> 00:43:22,880
Speaker 1: Honday Texans Radio studio. I am your host, John Harrison.

917
00:43:22,880 --> 00:43:24,880
Speaker 1: I'm so used to doing shows on Wednesday, but with

918
00:43:24,960 --> 00:43:28,239
Speaker 1: the game on Saturday, we're that much closer to this one.

919
00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:32,359
Speaker 1: And thankfully, thankfully talked with Mark Vandermir a little bit

920
00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:34,160
Speaker 1: off the air, and we'll have Mark on next segment

921
00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:35,920
Speaker 1: and talk a little bit about that on the air

922
00:43:36,040 --> 00:43:38,880
Speaker 1: as well. But we figured let's talk to our buddy

923
00:43:38,880 --> 00:43:40,719
Speaker 1: Andre Ware. Mark caught up with him earlier today to

924
00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:42,799
Speaker 1: get his thoughts on a lot of things happening with

925
00:43:42,840 --> 00:43:46,239
Speaker 1: the Texans with the playoffs and also at Dre's alma mater.

926
00:43:46,400 --> 00:43:49,120
Speaker 1: You of h the Cougars have got a new football coach.

927
00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:51,960
Speaker 1: All of that with Andrea Ware right here joining us

928
00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:55,200
Speaker 1: right now? Is Andre where dre First question, it's the

929
00:43:55,200 --> 00:43:58,440
Speaker 1: biggest question. How do you slow down Andrew Luck. I

930
00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:00,560
Speaker 1: know it's a lot to ask to stop him, but

931
00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:03,160
Speaker 1: what about at least slowing him down, slowing down their

932
00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:07,720
Speaker 1: offensive production on Saturday? Well, you have somebody kidn't happen

933
00:44:07,840 --> 00:44:12,640
Speaker 1: and keep him in Indianapolis and I make the deed play. No, seriously,

934
00:44:13,320 --> 00:44:15,080
Speaker 1: I think you have to get after him. It's kind

935
00:44:15,080 --> 00:44:18,839
Speaker 1: of like the recipe for stopping Tom Brady. You've got

936
00:44:18,840 --> 00:44:20,960
Speaker 1: to get pass rush. You've got to get in his face.

937
00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:25,279
Speaker 1: You've got to disrupt his rhythm and rite as the

938
00:44:25,320 --> 00:44:30,160
Speaker 1: game starts. Not wait until, you know, making adjustments after halftime,

939
00:44:30,160 --> 00:44:32,840
Speaker 1: because then he's in the rhythm, he's hot, and he

940
00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:35,400
Speaker 1: can he can make the adjustments. But you got to

941
00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:38,040
Speaker 1: get after him with pass rush. Well, and you're gonna

942
00:44:38,040 --> 00:44:41,080
Speaker 1: do that with JJ. Watch at EVR Clowney, Whitney merciless.

943
00:44:41,320 --> 00:44:43,360
Speaker 1: You know. I think one thing about this season, Tray

944
00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:46,520
Speaker 1: is that, yeah, the Texans aren't completely healthy, but here

945
00:44:46,560 --> 00:44:49,120
Speaker 1: we are in the postseason and they've done a good

946
00:44:49,200 --> 00:44:52,160
Speaker 1: job keeping everybody as healthy as possible. With a lot

947
00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:55,399
Speaker 1: of the stars available, Will Fuller is the biggest name out.

948
00:44:55,480 --> 00:44:57,720
Speaker 1: But you would take this if I told you coming

949
00:44:57,719 --> 00:45:00,359
Speaker 1: in that these guys that I just mentioned and then

950
00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:04,160
Speaker 1: some would be available. Yeah, Jjoe being back this week.

951
00:45:04,600 --> 00:45:07,839
Speaker 1: I anticipate him being back in the lineup along with

952
00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:11,400
Speaker 1: Kareem who is certainly not not one hundred percent, but

953
00:45:11,440 --> 00:45:15,000
Speaker 1: he played like he was last weekend. So you need

954
00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:18,160
Speaker 1: all hands on deck, especially on the defensive side of

955
00:45:18,160 --> 00:45:21,000
Speaker 1: the football, to try to slow this Colts offense down.

956
00:45:21,080 --> 00:45:24,239
Speaker 1: It's been impressive actually to watch them the last couple

957
00:45:24,280 --> 00:45:26,640
Speaker 1: of weeks. This is a team that started one in five,

958
00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:30,080
Speaker 1: got it going, and got it going in all three

959
00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:34,200
Speaker 1: phases of the team. So it's it's a tall order

960
00:45:34,239 --> 00:45:36,279
Speaker 1: coming in on Saturday, all right, Now, what about the

961
00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:39,600
Speaker 1: Houston offense against this Colts defense? And the Texans ran

962
00:45:39,640 --> 00:45:42,799
Speaker 1: it a little bit better on Sunday against Jacksonville, but

963
00:45:42,840 --> 00:45:44,879
Speaker 1: they are still not where they want to be at

964
00:45:44,920 --> 00:45:47,680
Speaker 1: all with the production from the backs. What about Watson

965
00:45:47,760 --> 00:45:49,879
Speaker 1: running the football? What do you make of the way

966
00:45:49,920 --> 00:45:53,120
Speaker 1: they might put this whole ground attack together on Saturday.

967
00:45:54,120 --> 00:45:56,600
Speaker 1: You know, you look at it and it's it's you

968
00:45:56,719 --> 00:45:59,040
Speaker 1: kind of question him because it's the same guys. But

969
00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:02,520
Speaker 1: that is where it really you look at this point

970
00:46:02,600 --> 00:46:06,560
Speaker 1: in the season where guys, your bodies are wearing down

971
00:46:06,600 --> 00:46:09,120
Speaker 1: a little bit, Guys aren't one hundred percent. And I

972
00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:12,920
Speaker 1: think that's that's the case for both guard positions, and

973
00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:15,600
Speaker 1: so when you look at it, it just takes one

974
00:46:15,680 --> 00:46:20,520
Speaker 1: to throw the timing and rhythm off of an offensive line.

975
00:46:20,560 --> 00:46:24,200
Speaker 1: Boat and pass protection and certainly run blocking. They depend

976
00:46:24,239 --> 00:46:28,080
Speaker 1: on communications so much, depend on trust so much, and

977
00:46:28,120 --> 00:46:30,440
Speaker 1: when that is altered, it's hard to run the football

978
00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:32,239
Speaker 1: no matter who the run of who the back is.

979
00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:35,360
Speaker 1: Lamar missed a game a couple of weeks ago with

980
00:46:35,440 --> 00:46:38,480
Speaker 1: an ankle, so you know that he's not a hundred percent.

981
00:46:38,640 --> 00:46:41,680
Speaker 1: But with that being said, you've got to find a

982
00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:46,759
Speaker 1: way to run the football. Indianapolis has pass rushers, They've

983
00:46:46,800 --> 00:46:50,960
Speaker 1: got linebackers that can get to the passer. You can't

984
00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:54,279
Speaker 1: become a one dimensional team where you just know all

985
00:46:54,320 --> 00:46:57,359
Speaker 1: you're doing is throwing the football. You've got to keep

986
00:46:57,400 --> 00:47:00,319
Speaker 1: them honest a little bit with somewhat of a run game.

987
00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:03,320
Speaker 1: And I think that's why Dashaun was running the football

988
00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:06,680
Speaker 1: so much on Sunday, is that they needed him to

989
00:47:06,719 --> 00:47:10,040
Speaker 1: do that to keep the defense on it. Andre when

990
00:47:10,040 --> 00:47:12,080
Speaker 1: they do throw the ball. Let's say they get Kiki

991
00:47:12,160 --> 00:47:15,279
Speaker 1: q T back, DeAndre Carter has been playing well. Do

992
00:47:15,320 --> 00:47:18,040
Speaker 1: you see opportunities to get both of those guys in

993
00:47:18,080 --> 00:47:21,080
Speaker 1: the game at the same time with DeAndre Hopkins and

994
00:47:21,160 --> 00:47:23,640
Speaker 1: maybe Vincent Samanther, how do you think they might try

995
00:47:23,680 --> 00:47:26,600
Speaker 1: to put that whole thing together with q T back

996
00:47:26,640 --> 00:47:30,120
Speaker 1: and Carter still able to play. Yeah, I've been impressed

997
00:47:30,120 --> 00:47:33,719
Speaker 1: with Carter, not just from a return standpoint, but as

998
00:47:33,719 --> 00:47:37,600
Speaker 1: a receiver coming in and not just being satisfied in

999
00:47:37,800 --> 00:47:41,480
Speaker 1: one role. You give yourself an opportunity when you can

1000
00:47:41,480 --> 00:47:45,200
Speaker 1: play multiple roles, to hang around and be an actual

1001
00:47:45,320 --> 00:47:49,120
Speaker 1: part of the foundation of the team. And I think

1002
00:47:49,160 --> 00:47:51,760
Speaker 1: he's done that. Where you know, a lot of guys

1003
00:47:51,960 --> 00:47:55,080
Speaker 1: as soon as they find another returner, if you can't contribute,

1004
00:47:55,320 --> 00:47:59,320
Speaker 1: then you're usually showing the four he has contributed on offense.

1005
00:47:59,520 --> 00:48:03,239
Speaker 1: With cute back, I think there's absolutely a chance to

1006
00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:06,239
Speaker 1: get see both on the field at the same time.

1007
00:48:06,280 --> 00:48:09,840
Speaker 1: The more weapons you have against this Colts defense, the

1008
00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:13,680
Speaker 1: better off you're gonna be. So they are both playmakers

1009
00:48:13,760 --> 00:48:17,520
Speaker 1: at a position where you where you're kind of shorthanded. Andrea,

1010
00:48:17,560 --> 00:48:20,120
Speaker 1: what about the short week, because the Cults played Sunday

1011
00:48:20,239 --> 00:48:23,040
Speaker 1: night in a real tough, emotional game. Obviously they had

1012
00:48:23,040 --> 00:48:25,040
Speaker 1: to have it or they were going to miss the postseason.

1013
00:48:25,480 --> 00:48:28,640
Speaker 1: They fly back, They've got Monday off, they have three

1014
00:48:28,719 --> 00:48:30,640
Speaker 1: days in the facility, then they fly back out to

1015
00:48:30,719 --> 00:48:33,080
Speaker 1: Houston on Friday. Is it all adrenaline this time of

1016
00:48:33,160 --> 00:48:34,799
Speaker 1: year or do you think that short week with all

1017
00:48:34,840 --> 00:48:39,480
Speaker 1: the travel two flights might cost the Cult something anyway? Now,

1018
00:48:39,600 --> 00:48:41,960
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I think it's you're on an

1019
00:48:41,960 --> 00:48:44,640
Speaker 1: adrenaline high. You just want a big game to get

1020
00:48:44,640 --> 00:48:47,200
Speaker 1: you in the playoffs. And you know, players like nothing

1021
00:48:47,239 --> 00:48:49,640
Speaker 1: more than playing in games, and so the quicker they come,

1022
00:48:49,719 --> 00:48:52,360
Speaker 1: the better off you are. That's kind of how you

1023
00:48:52,400 --> 00:48:54,200
Speaker 1: look at it, that you're ready for the next one

1024
00:48:54,560 --> 00:48:57,800
Speaker 1: once your body bounces back. And so that's the tail tale.

1025
00:48:57,880 --> 00:49:02,360
Speaker 1: Can they get back to somewhat close to one hundred

1026
00:49:02,360 --> 00:49:06,240
Speaker 1: percent physically as a football team and be ready for Saturday.

1027
00:49:06,320 --> 00:49:08,960
Speaker 1: It's not that big a difference. They played later in

1028
00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:12,040
Speaker 1: the day, but it's still the same day as the Texans,

1029
00:49:12,080 --> 00:49:14,520
Speaker 1: so I'm not I know they won't use that as

1030
00:49:14,560 --> 00:49:17,640
Speaker 1: an excuse for not being prepared. All right, Let's look

1031
00:49:17,640 --> 00:49:19,480
Speaker 1: at some of the other games here, the Ravens are

1032
00:49:19,480 --> 00:49:22,160
Speaker 1: hosting the Chargers, they played just a couple of weeks ago,

1033
00:49:22,520 --> 00:49:25,799
Speaker 1: and the Ravens want it out in La. So what

1034
00:49:25,880 --> 00:49:28,160
Speaker 1: do you think of this matchup here as we get

1035
00:49:28,200 --> 00:49:31,839
Speaker 1: to wildcard weekend? Yeah? I like the Ravens in this one,

1036
00:49:31,960 --> 00:49:35,520
Speaker 1: being at home the divisional champion San Diego being a

1037
00:49:35,600 --> 00:49:39,560
Speaker 1: warm weather team. Excuse me, there it is. It's okay

1038
00:49:39,760 --> 00:49:42,680
Speaker 1: being a warm weather team. I still hadn't got used

1039
00:49:42,680 --> 00:49:46,280
Speaker 1: to them being in Los Angeles anyway. But the Chargers

1040
00:49:46,320 --> 00:49:51,279
Speaker 1: having to go from the warm climate to Baltimore where

1041
00:49:51,280 --> 00:49:54,239
Speaker 1: it's it's gonna be brisk, it's gonna be cold, who

1042
00:49:54,280 --> 00:49:57,480
Speaker 1: knows what what's waiting on them in terms of the elements.

1043
00:49:57,800 --> 00:50:00,319
Speaker 1: And then they got a good football team that this

1044
00:50:00,360 --> 00:50:03,399
Speaker 1: time of year they have what it takes to win

1045
00:50:03,480 --> 00:50:06,160
Speaker 1: football games in the playoffs or running game defense. And

1046
00:50:06,200 --> 00:50:10,080
Speaker 1: then Lamar Jackson's playing so pretty good football. So I

1047
00:50:10,320 --> 00:50:13,200
Speaker 1: like the Ravens to win this game. Okay, what about

1048
00:50:13,320 --> 00:50:17,480
Speaker 1: Dallas hosting Seattle? As we look at the NFC, I

1049
00:50:17,520 --> 00:50:20,920
Speaker 1: think it's it's kind of been there, done that. From

1050
00:50:20,920 --> 00:50:24,960
Speaker 1: an experienced standpoint. Russell Wilson's the you know you get

1051
00:50:25,000 --> 00:50:28,440
Speaker 1: to two teams that are even, you usually look at

1052
00:50:28,440 --> 00:50:31,840
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks and who's the better quarterback, who can outperform

1053
00:50:31,920 --> 00:50:36,120
Speaker 1: the other. Russell's been there before. I think he's the

1054
00:50:36,160 --> 00:50:39,600
Speaker 1: better quarterback. I think Seattle goes on the road and

1055
00:50:40,239 --> 00:50:43,680
Speaker 1: finds a way to win in Dallas, Okay, and rounding

1056
00:50:43,760 --> 00:50:46,359
Speaker 1: out the schedule. I'm surprised the Bears put so much

1057
00:50:46,360 --> 00:50:48,719
Speaker 1: effort at beating the Vikings because that earned them a

1058
00:50:48,800 --> 00:50:51,600
Speaker 1: date to host the Eagles. And I'd rather play the

1059
00:50:51,680 --> 00:50:54,680
Speaker 1: Vikings if I'm the Bears, especially at home. But whatever,

1060
00:50:54,880 --> 00:50:56,680
Speaker 1: they're going to host the Eagles, and the Eagles are

1061
00:50:56,680 --> 00:50:59,200
Speaker 1: piping hot coming into the postseason. I know falls is

1062
00:50:59,200 --> 00:51:01,719
Speaker 1: not one hundred set in all likelihood, but what do

1063
00:51:01,719 --> 00:51:04,920
Speaker 1: you think of that one? Yeah? I like what the

1064
00:51:04,960 --> 00:51:07,560
Speaker 1: Bears are doing. I actually think the Bears have a

1065
00:51:07,760 --> 00:51:10,520
Speaker 1: legitimate shot to get to the Super Bowl. The young

1066
00:51:10,600 --> 00:51:14,239
Speaker 1: quarterback that's playing at the top of his game, They've

1067
00:51:14,280 --> 00:51:17,560
Speaker 1: got a running game with two guys that can actually

1068
00:51:17,600 --> 00:51:20,359
Speaker 1: get it done, receivers that can make play, and then

1069
00:51:20,400 --> 00:51:23,279
Speaker 1: they have a dominant defense, and so you add all

1070
00:51:23,320 --> 00:51:27,400
Speaker 1: that together, that's all that super Bowl ingredients. I'm not

1071
00:51:27,560 --> 00:51:31,400
Speaker 1: sure that outside of New Orleans in the NFC, which

1072
00:51:31,520 --> 00:51:36,000
Speaker 1: their defense can be questionable at times. Anybody has what

1073
00:51:36,120 --> 00:51:41,560
Speaker 1: the Bears have, and they're at home hosting Philadelphia. There

1074
00:51:41,560 --> 00:51:44,840
Speaker 1: have been some question marks there. I like the Bears

1075
00:51:44,840 --> 00:51:47,960
Speaker 1: in this one. Okay, Andre, Back to the Texans here.

1076
00:51:48,120 --> 00:51:53,000
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson his first postseason appearance, and we've already seen

1077
00:51:53,000 --> 00:51:55,000
Speaker 1: that no stage is too big for him, whether it

1078
00:51:55,120 --> 00:51:58,239
Speaker 1: be college or the NFL. I kind of like, and

1079
00:51:58,280 --> 00:52:00,800
Speaker 1: I know not everything translates from Kyle to the NFL,

1080
00:52:00,840 --> 00:52:03,120
Speaker 1: but are you with me on this that having played

1081
00:52:03,239 --> 00:52:06,800
Speaker 1: in two college football playoffs in the championship game his

1082
00:52:06,920 --> 00:52:10,240
Speaker 1: last two years, that does help. It does bring something

1083
00:52:10,400 --> 00:52:15,480
Speaker 1: to this particular stage. Tony Dundee used to use that

1084
00:52:15,640 --> 00:52:19,080
Speaker 1: philosophy and drafting players that he wanted guys that have

1085
00:52:19,280 --> 00:52:23,600
Speaker 1: played on big stages and aren't afraid of big moments,

1086
00:52:23,640 --> 00:52:26,359
Speaker 1: and that's how he ran his draft, and so it's

1087
00:52:26,440 --> 00:52:30,000
Speaker 1: definitely beneficial. Deshaun's not looking at this like it's his

1088
00:52:30,080 --> 00:52:32,800
Speaker 1: first playoff game. I mean, he might say it because

1089
00:52:32,840 --> 00:52:35,319
Speaker 1: he's asked about it, but it's a game and a

1090
00:52:35,320 --> 00:52:38,200
Speaker 1: big game to him, and that's the only way he

1091
00:52:38,239 --> 00:52:42,080
Speaker 1: knows how to approach it. So with that being said,

1092
00:52:42,560 --> 00:52:45,120
Speaker 1: it's just another game for him, not to minimize the

1093
00:52:45,200 --> 00:52:48,000
Speaker 1: significance of the game, but he's going to play each

1094
00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:51,799
Speaker 1: and every one of them the same way. So there's

1095
00:52:51,840 --> 00:52:56,520
Speaker 1: no added pressure. There's no added pressure because it's his

1096
00:52:56,600 --> 00:52:59,600
Speaker 1: first playoff game. The guy just likes playing football and

1097
00:52:59,640 --> 00:53:02,719
Speaker 1: that's how he will approach this weekend. Andre and the

1098
00:53:02,719 --> 00:53:05,520
Speaker 1: Advocate of Texas kickoff. Next year we have the University

1099
00:53:05,520 --> 00:53:08,040
Speaker 1: of Houston and Washington State and it turns out to

1100
00:53:08,080 --> 00:53:12,879
Speaker 1: be Holgerson versus Leech, so they get together again as

1101
00:53:12,880 --> 00:53:15,839
Speaker 1: Holgerson used to work in Lubbick for Mike Leach, so

1102
00:53:16,239 --> 00:53:18,640
Speaker 1: turns out to be an attractive matchup in the coaching

1103
00:53:18,719 --> 00:53:22,880
Speaker 1: realm and Holgerson as a UH head coach moving forward,

1104
00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:26,680
Speaker 1: your thoughts, you know, it's it's kind of wait and see.

1105
00:53:26,920 --> 00:53:28,480
Speaker 1: There's a lot of a lot of work to be

1106
00:53:28,560 --> 00:53:32,200
Speaker 1: done in terms of the roster and recruiting and putting

1107
00:53:32,200 --> 00:53:35,040
Speaker 1: a staff together and all that. On the run where

1108
00:53:35,400 --> 00:53:38,719
Speaker 1: you know, you look at the matchup. Washington State established

1109
00:53:38,760 --> 00:53:43,279
Speaker 1: they have to replace their quarterback, but Mike Leach has

1110
00:53:43,320 --> 00:53:45,920
Speaker 1: done one heck of a job, so it is you know,

1111
00:53:46,239 --> 00:53:49,920
Speaker 1: you're talking about a coach that has been at a

1112
00:53:50,000 --> 00:53:52,600
Speaker 1: place and has built the program, and you're talking about

1113
00:53:52,680 --> 00:53:56,359
Speaker 1: one that is brand new and trying to build one.

1114
00:53:56,440 --> 00:54:00,239
Speaker 1: So let's just wait and see and see who ain't

1115
00:54:00,280 --> 00:54:02,920
Speaker 1: it puts together with a staff and how well they

1116
00:54:02,920 --> 00:54:05,319
Speaker 1: can recruit and things of that sort, and then you

1117
00:54:05,360 --> 00:54:08,080
Speaker 1: know that that date's going to come around pretty quickly.

1118
00:54:08,160 --> 00:54:11,960
Speaker 1: When when you know, college football doesn't it's just over,

1119
00:54:12,080 --> 00:54:15,040
Speaker 1: but the regular season portion of it. We still have

1120
00:54:15,080 --> 00:54:19,000
Speaker 1: a playoff game, but u or the championship game, but

1121
00:54:19,160 --> 00:54:21,480
Speaker 1: it will roll up quickly. So there's a lot of

1122
00:54:21,480 --> 00:54:24,319
Speaker 1: work to be done here in Houston before you can

1123
00:54:24,360 --> 00:54:27,680
Speaker 1: call yourself ready to take the field against the Cougars

1124
00:54:27,719 --> 00:54:31,000
Speaker 1: of Washington State so to speak. Yeah, it's Cougar versus Cougar,

1125
00:54:31,080 --> 00:54:34,319
Speaker 1: Cougar on Cougar crime. Okay, Drey. Now we've got the

1126
00:54:34,400 --> 00:54:38,359
Speaker 1: championship game coming up next week and Alabama, I mean,

1127
00:54:38,400 --> 00:54:41,600
Speaker 1: my gosh, it's just ridiculous. But Clemson has been used

1128
00:54:41,600 --> 00:54:44,880
Speaker 1: to this as a program. I know a lot of

1129
00:54:44,880 --> 00:54:47,399
Speaker 1: these guys are new faces or whatever. Every year. It's

1130
00:54:47,400 --> 00:54:50,080
Speaker 1: college football. That's how it works. But they won't be

1131
00:54:50,160 --> 00:54:52,360
Speaker 1: frightened in the moment like we were talking about with

1132
00:54:52,400 --> 00:54:55,000
Speaker 1: Watson and the NFL playoffs earlier. What do you think

1133
00:54:55,000 --> 00:54:57,319
Speaker 1: of the matchup? How does it shake out? I think

1134
00:54:57,320 --> 00:54:59,600
Speaker 1: it's I think this game will be closer than people think.

1135
00:55:00,280 --> 00:55:02,800
Speaker 1: And you've got two young quarterbacks, but Trevor Lawrence is

1136
00:55:03,280 --> 00:55:07,080
Speaker 1: years ahead of what you would think of him being

1137
00:55:07,120 --> 00:55:10,200
Speaker 1: as a true freshman, so he is not afraid of

1138
00:55:10,239 --> 00:55:13,920
Speaker 1: the moment. Clemson as an offense as talented as there

1139
00:55:14,000 --> 00:55:17,399
Speaker 1: is in the country with him running things, and so

1140
00:55:17,719 --> 00:55:20,560
Speaker 1: they've got a running game. He can certainly make all

1141
00:55:20,600 --> 00:55:23,759
Speaker 1: the throws and will. If they can protect him and

1142
00:55:23,880 --> 00:55:26,520
Speaker 1: keep the pass rush away, then Clemson will be in

1143
00:55:26,560 --> 00:55:29,279
Speaker 1: this ball game for sixty minutes. And I think the

1144
00:55:29,440 --> 00:55:32,919
Speaker 1: defense is good enough, of course missing a big, big

1145
00:55:33,080 --> 00:55:37,040
Speaker 1: piece of that, but they have enough to slow down Alabama.

1146
00:55:37,200 --> 00:55:39,640
Speaker 1: They just can't get let it get out of hand early.

1147
00:55:39,719 --> 00:55:43,760
Speaker 1: Where you've got a freshman quarterback playing from behind against

1148
00:55:44,400 --> 00:55:47,280
Speaker 1: a team the caliber of Alabama. They can stay close

1149
00:55:47,320 --> 00:55:49,200
Speaker 1: and get to the fourth quarter with a chance to

1150
00:55:49,840 --> 00:55:54,520
Speaker 1: win it, then it'll be close. But I got a

1151
00:55:54,560 --> 00:55:57,799
Speaker 1: favorite Obama to actually win the football game because they've

1152
00:55:57,800 --> 00:56:00,799
Speaker 1: been there, they've done it. They're just so talented on

1153
00:56:00,880 --> 00:56:03,200
Speaker 1: both sides of the ball. But I do think this

1154
00:56:03,239 --> 00:56:05,360
Speaker 1: will be a sixty minute football game. Hey, I know

1155
00:56:05,400 --> 00:56:07,560
Speaker 1: with these bowl games, you always talk about the do

1156
00:56:07,640 --> 00:56:10,239
Speaker 1: they want to be their factor? And we talked to

1157
00:56:10,280 --> 00:56:12,399
Speaker 1: have to worry about that with these two teams. Both

1158
00:56:12,440 --> 00:56:14,480
Speaker 1: of them want to be there. They both want to

1159
00:56:14,480 --> 00:56:20,600
Speaker 1: play one another. Clemson having been defeated by Alabama last year,

1160
00:56:20,640 --> 00:56:23,520
Speaker 1: they're looking to write that ship. The last time they

1161
00:56:23,560 --> 00:56:26,920
Speaker 1: played in the championship game on the same field, Clemson

1162
00:56:27,000 --> 00:56:30,759
Speaker 1: was victorious with Deshaun at quarterback. And so you know,

1163
00:56:30,760 --> 00:56:33,879
Speaker 1: there are a lot of storylines to this game that

1164
00:56:33,920 --> 00:56:36,640
Speaker 1: will make it a good football game for sixty minutes.

1165
00:56:37,000 --> 00:56:38,920
Speaker 1: When I look at the teams that did not get

1166
00:56:38,960 --> 00:56:42,000
Speaker 1: into the final four, right outside you look at I'm

1167
00:56:42,040 --> 00:56:45,399
Speaker 1: talking about Georgia here specifically, I wonder about that want

1168
00:56:45,400 --> 00:56:47,279
Speaker 1: to be their factor. To take nothing away from what

1169
00:56:47,320 --> 00:56:49,680
Speaker 1: the Longhorns did in the Sugar Bowl, congratulations to them,

1170
00:56:49,760 --> 00:56:51,719
Speaker 1: great win, but it just didn't look like the same

1171
00:56:51,760 --> 00:56:55,960
Speaker 1: Georgia team psychologically. Anyway, I'm with you one hundred and

1172
00:56:56,040 --> 00:56:59,839
Speaker 1: ten percent. Is that that that factors in when you

1173
00:57:01,719 --> 00:57:04,120
Speaker 1: feel like you should have been in because you played

1174
00:57:04,160 --> 00:57:06,680
Speaker 1: Alabama so closely and it got away from you right

1175
00:57:06,680 --> 00:57:09,239
Speaker 1: at the end of the game, and it was documented

1176
00:57:09,280 --> 00:57:12,040
Speaker 1: in their bowl prep the first three weeks, first three

1177
00:57:12,120 --> 00:57:16,040
Speaker 1: days of bowl prep and practices that they just weren't focused,

1178
00:57:16,040 --> 00:57:19,280
Speaker 1: and Kirby Smart had to hit the reset button. And

1179
00:57:19,400 --> 00:57:22,680
Speaker 1: when you have a team like Texas, who is who's

1180
00:57:22,680 --> 00:57:26,400
Speaker 1: basically staking their season on it. This is their national championship,

1181
00:57:26,480 --> 00:57:29,120
Speaker 1: this is their opportunity to claim that they're back and

1182
00:57:29,200 --> 00:57:31,840
Speaker 1: they want to be in the Sugar Bowl, then it

1183
00:57:32,000 --> 00:57:34,440
Speaker 1: certainly looked that way. It looked that way from the start.

1184
00:57:34,520 --> 00:57:37,840
Speaker 1: There were a lot of mistakes by Georgia and a

1185
00:57:37,880 --> 00:57:40,320
Speaker 1: lot of fumbles things, and guys are not taking care

1186
00:57:40,360 --> 00:57:43,760
Speaker 1: of the football. They just looked like they weren't interested

1187
00:57:44,200 --> 00:57:46,880
Speaker 1: in being there. And I think it's starting to filter

1188
00:57:47,000 --> 00:57:50,600
Speaker 1: out from certain players within the program. You know, I

1189
00:57:50,640 --> 00:57:52,640
Speaker 1: hate to be get off my long guy, but sometimes

1190
00:57:52,640 --> 00:57:55,760
Speaker 1: I look at the old days, even prepcs, where it

1191
00:57:55,840 --> 00:57:59,080
Speaker 1: was just going into New Year's Day and anything could happen.

1192
00:57:59,160 --> 00:58:01,320
Speaker 1: Sometimes you'd have two champions and I know that that's

1193
00:58:01,360 --> 00:58:04,959
Speaker 1: not popular, but there was a level of excitement about

1194
00:58:05,000 --> 00:58:07,560
Speaker 1: those games that just doesn't seem to be there about

1195
00:58:07,640 --> 00:58:10,040
Speaker 1: these particular games now that we have a playoff. I

1196
00:58:10,160 --> 00:58:13,480
Speaker 1: miss it. I really missed those days because you have

1197
00:58:13,600 --> 00:58:18,320
Speaker 1: would I just described where teams don't show up, guys

1198
00:58:18,400 --> 00:58:21,080
Speaker 1: don't I if I guarantee you there there are three

1199
00:58:21,120 --> 00:58:24,480
Speaker 1: or four players missing from George's roster that are have

1200
00:58:24,560 --> 00:58:26,880
Speaker 1: declared for the NFL that didn't play. Had they been

1201
00:58:26,880 --> 00:58:29,840
Speaker 1: playing for a national championship or not knowing if they

1202
00:58:29,880 --> 00:58:31,880
Speaker 1: were still in the mix for a national chip, those

1203
00:58:31,880 --> 00:58:34,640
Speaker 1: guys would have suited up and played. And it's that

1204
00:58:34,680 --> 00:58:37,600
Speaker 1: way across the board. This is the new wave of

1205
00:58:37,600 --> 00:58:40,400
Speaker 1: of how college football is is if you don't have

1206
00:58:40,440 --> 00:58:43,920
Speaker 1: an opportunity to play for a national championship, well you know,

1207
00:58:44,000 --> 00:58:46,120
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take my ball and go home and go

1208
00:58:46,160 --> 00:58:49,520
Speaker 1: on to the next phase of my football career. But

1209
00:58:49,560 --> 00:58:52,720
Speaker 1: if you now, what needs to happen is to expand it.

1210
00:58:53,240 --> 00:58:55,960
Speaker 1: There are more teams. Georgia would have still been in

1211
00:58:56,120 --> 00:58:59,360
Speaker 1: Ohio State, would have still been in the conversation and

1212
00:58:59,400 --> 00:59:01,080
Speaker 1: would have been one of the eight teams. And I

1213
00:59:01,120 --> 00:59:03,800
Speaker 1: think that's where it needs to go, is eight teams,

1214
00:59:04,240 --> 00:59:08,040
Speaker 1: where you have interests for more teams and guys aren't

1215
00:59:08,080 --> 00:59:11,400
Speaker 1: just not playing and shutting it down, and you get

1216
00:59:11,440 --> 00:59:15,920
Speaker 1: your getting performances like you did last night or with

1217
00:59:16,000 --> 00:59:19,480
Speaker 1: Texas and Georgia. All right, well said my friend. Great

1218
00:59:19,480 --> 00:59:22,920
Speaker 1: speaking with you, and we look forward to Saturday showdown

1219
00:59:23,000 --> 00:59:25,560
Speaker 1: right here at NRG. I'm looking forward to it, man.

1220
00:59:25,600 --> 00:59:28,560
Speaker 1: It'll be exciting environment and I know the fans will

1221
00:59:28,840 --> 00:59:33,280
Speaker 1: will be there. Get there early because this one will

1222
00:59:33,920 --> 00:59:36,680
Speaker 1: will be good. From from the very word goal. I've

1223
00:59:36,720 --> 00:59:39,640
Speaker 1: done two other playoff games from the sidelines with Mark

1224
00:59:39,720 --> 00:59:43,960
Speaker 1: and Dre, and I mean I'm usually here if it's

1225
00:59:43,960 --> 00:59:46,480
Speaker 1: a twelve o'clock new game, I'm usually here like six

1226
00:59:46,640 --> 00:59:49,760
Speaker 1: forty five, seven o'clock, so I'm here before anybody. But

1227
00:59:49,800 --> 00:59:53,640
Speaker 1: I see it building throughout the throughout the day because

1228
00:59:53,760 --> 00:59:55,360
Speaker 1: I'm down on the field probably about an hour and

1229
00:59:55,400 --> 00:59:57,560
Speaker 1: a half to two hours before the game, and I'm

1230
00:59:57,600 --> 00:59:58,920
Speaker 1: down there for the whole time. So I see the

1231
00:59:58,920 --> 01:00:00,920
Speaker 1: crowd phill in, I see people on the sidelines and

1232
01:00:00,920 --> 01:00:04,520
Speaker 1: their sideline passes. It's an amazing, amazing thing with the playoffs.

1233
01:00:04,600 --> 01:00:07,440
Speaker 1: It's a whole different animal, man, it is just a

1234
01:00:07,520 --> 01:00:11,800
Speaker 1: different animal being your seats be loud, it's cheez I'll

1235
01:00:11,800 --> 01:00:14,320
Speaker 1: talk about that next with Mark Vandimir. He is obviously

1236
01:00:14,400 --> 01:00:18,680
Speaker 1: called every playoff game. It's a little different, a little different.

1237
01:00:18,800 --> 01:00:21,000
Speaker 1: It's a division opponent, and it's a team that Mark

1238
01:00:21,440 --> 01:00:24,720
Speaker 1: openly I shouldn't say roots against, but doesn't care for.

1239
01:00:24,880 --> 01:00:26,680
Speaker 1: Let's put it that way. Mark Vandimer next right here

1240
01:00:26,680 --> 01:00:29,520
Speaker 1: on Texans All Access. Welcome back to Wednesday Initiative Texans

1241
01:00:29,560 --> 01:00:33,200
Speaker 1: All Access from the Hyunday Texans Radio Studio. I am

1242
01:00:33,280 --> 01:00:37,520
Speaker 1: your host, John Harris, counting down the days until Texans

1243
01:00:37,680 --> 01:00:39,840
Speaker 1: v cults like I'm a man, the voice of the

1244
01:00:39,840 --> 01:00:43,240
Speaker 1: Texans with me Mark, third time in a year, for

1245
01:00:43,240 --> 01:00:46,240
Speaker 1: the first time ever. How's that there. We've talked about

1246
01:00:46,240 --> 01:00:49,960
Speaker 1: this before, about rivalries, and we've always said that a

1247
01:00:50,080 --> 01:00:52,720
Speaker 1: rivalry goes to another level when you meet them in

1248
01:00:52,760 --> 01:00:55,680
Speaker 1: the playoffs. How do you feel about that? Yeah, I

1249
01:00:55,720 --> 01:00:58,400
Speaker 1: feel like that's the case here, but I'll talk to

1250
01:00:58,440 --> 01:01:02,040
Speaker 1: you more about it. It's Saturday night, okay, because this

1251
01:01:02,120 --> 01:01:05,280
Speaker 1: is so huge. I'm so hyped up for this one.

1252
01:01:05,680 --> 01:01:10,240
Speaker 1: It's building. It's the kind of thing where I just

1253
01:01:10,280 --> 01:01:13,560
Speaker 1: can't wait, you know, and I'm usually pretty good at Okay,

1254
01:01:13,600 --> 01:01:16,440
Speaker 1: just dial it down, wait for the moment. It's Sean

1255
01:01:16,520 --> 01:01:19,640
Speaker 1: Connery and the Intouchables. It's don't wait for it to happen.

1256
01:01:19,840 --> 01:01:22,680
Speaker 1: Don't even want it to happen, but I want it

1257
01:01:22,720 --> 01:01:24,320
Speaker 1: to happen, and I can't wait for it to happen.

1258
01:01:24,320 --> 01:01:26,840
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just happening. And it's so big because

1259
01:01:27,080 --> 01:01:30,680
Speaker 1: the Texans have only beaten the Colts eight times, Johnny eight,

1260
01:01:30,960 --> 01:01:34,880
Speaker 1: that's it in seventeen years. Wow, that's it. Now. Bill

1261
01:01:34,880 --> 01:01:38,080
Speaker 1: O'Brien has done remarkably well against this team compared to

1262
01:01:38,120 --> 01:01:41,560
Speaker 1: his predecessors, because he's three and two in Indie, which

1263
01:01:41,600 --> 01:01:44,000
Speaker 1: is incredible to me about it, and two of the

1264
01:01:44,000 --> 01:01:46,040
Speaker 1: wins are with Luck at the Helm. He's three and

1265
01:01:46,120 --> 01:01:48,800
Speaker 1: three against Andrew Luck in this building. He's not as

1266
01:01:48,840 --> 01:01:51,640
Speaker 1: successful against the Colts over time. Now, last year was

1267
01:01:51,680 --> 01:01:55,280
Speaker 1: weird with Jacobe Brissett and all of that, but he's

1268
01:01:55,320 --> 01:01:57,960
Speaker 1: done well against this team. Now they lost twenty four

1269
01:01:58,000 --> 01:02:00,280
Speaker 1: to twenty one. You know, I think this is such

1270
01:02:00,320 --> 01:02:03,400
Speaker 1: an evenly matched game when you go over and I

1271
01:02:03,440 --> 01:02:06,680
Speaker 1: know certain things are really standing out for the Cults,

1272
01:02:06,680 --> 01:02:10,000
Speaker 1: certain things stand out for the Texans, but overall, when

1273
01:02:10,040 --> 01:02:13,320
Speaker 1: you just match these two teams up, it's very even. So,

1274
01:02:13,760 --> 01:02:16,200
Speaker 1: you know, the ants, the excitement, the fact that it's

1275
01:02:16,200 --> 01:02:20,040
Speaker 1: the Cults, it's the playoffs. It's huge, It's monumental. I

1276
01:02:20,080 --> 01:02:23,720
Speaker 1: can't wait. How does it compare to the first playoff

1277
01:02:23,720 --> 01:02:26,000
Speaker 1: game you did in twenty eleven, that one you were

1278
01:02:26,040 --> 01:02:28,120
Speaker 1: so excited to be in there for the first time,

1279
01:02:28,160 --> 01:02:29,960
Speaker 1: and you know, Drew and Deep and I were discussing

1280
01:02:29,960 --> 01:02:33,360
Speaker 1: this last night a little bit that it was just unique.

1281
01:02:33,560 --> 01:02:36,280
Speaker 1: You know, it was the first time, and I was

1282
01:02:36,280 --> 01:02:38,080
Speaker 1: mentioning that, you know, I wanted to get it right

1283
01:02:38,160 --> 01:02:40,840
Speaker 1: so badly and everything, and we had a great afternoon,

1284
01:02:40,920 --> 01:02:43,880
Speaker 1: great evening. It was the perfect day, as I discussed,

1285
01:02:44,520 --> 01:02:46,800
Speaker 1: But this is different. This is a bigger stage. This

1286
01:02:46,880 --> 01:02:48,920
Speaker 1: is the best weapon at quarterback the Texans I've ever

1287
01:02:48,960 --> 01:02:52,120
Speaker 1: brought to the posts season. That includes obviously match Shop

1288
01:02:52,160 --> 01:02:54,160
Speaker 1: because things were starting to go a little bit wrong

1289
01:02:54,200 --> 01:02:56,640
Speaker 1: towards the end of twenty twelve and Shops only playoff

1290
01:02:56,680 --> 01:02:58,640
Speaker 1: appearance for the Texans. I mean, you think about it.

1291
01:02:59,080 --> 01:03:01,520
Speaker 1: You know, it hasn't been like where you have one

1292
01:03:01,640 --> 01:03:04,080
Speaker 1: quarterback going to the postseason year after year like a

1293
01:03:04,120 --> 01:03:06,439
Speaker 1: lot of these teams. I mean, imagine that, and we'll

1294
01:03:06,440 --> 01:03:08,560
Speaker 1: sit here in five years, I hope, and say, well,

1295
01:03:08,560 --> 01:03:12,040
Speaker 1: Watson's been in the playoffs five consecutive times, and you know,

1296
01:03:12,160 --> 01:03:16,960
Speaker 1: here's how he's done, and let's evaluate it. So we

1297
01:03:16,960 --> 01:03:19,040
Speaker 1: don't have that right now. This is his first time.

1298
01:03:19,520 --> 01:03:21,280
Speaker 1: The stage will not be too big for him. The

1299
01:03:21,280 --> 01:03:23,720
Speaker 1: moment will not be too big. And I think for

1300
01:03:23,840 --> 01:03:26,040
Speaker 1: a lot of the players on the roster, not everybody,

1301
01:03:26,080 --> 01:03:28,200
Speaker 1: of course, but a lot of guys have been here before.

1302
01:03:28,280 --> 01:03:31,440
Speaker 1: Wat's been here before, Hopkins has been here before. You know,

1303
01:03:31,520 --> 01:03:34,440
Speaker 1: he experienced thirty to nothing, so did what you know

1304
01:03:34,480 --> 01:03:37,040
Speaker 1: in twenty fifteen. They also know what it's like to

1305
01:03:37,080 --> 01:03:40,200
Speaker 1: win in this round and advanced to the divisional rounds.

1306
01:03:40,200 --> 01:03:42,760
Speaker 1: So that's the most important thing. You know. We always

1307
01:03:42,760 --> 01:03:44,800
Speaker 1: say the next game is the most important thing. Well,

1308
01:03:44,920 --> 01:03:47,200
Speaker 1: nothing is more important than this because it's one and done.

1309
01:03:47,480 --> 01:03:50,720
Speaker 1: It's one, it could be done. Yeah, and you're right,

1310
01:03:50,720 --> 01:03:53,560
Speaker 1: I think that. You know. The thing is what hasn't

1311
01:03:53,560 --> 01:03:56,439
Speaker 1: played in the playoff games. It's twenty fifteen, and that's

1312
01:03:56,440 --> 01:03:58,919
Speaker 1: weird to think about. But Luck and Hilton haven't played

1313
01:03:58,920 --> 01:04:01,600
Speaker 1: in the playoff games twenty fourteen. And when you look

1314
01:04:01,640 --> 01:04:06,680
Speaker 1: around that Colt's roster, there's not a lot of playoff

1315
01:04:06,760 --> 01:04:09,640
Speaker 1: experience over there. You go, that's a good cheer. You

1316
01:04:09,760 --> 01:04:12,760
Speaker 1: got Luck in Hilton, But it's not been says twenty fourteen.

1317
01:04:14,200 --> 01:04:16,840
Speaker 1: I think once, I think early. I think in I

1318
01:04:16,880 --> 01:04:18,720
Speaker 1: think it was a lot of success. I think it

1319
01:04:18,800 --> 01:04:22,080
Speaker 1: was in that twenty foeen year. I'm pretty sure it

1320
01:04:22,080 --> 01:04:24,040
Speaker 1: was in that year. Yeah. Yeah, they went to Dallas,

1321
01:04:24,600 --> 01:04:28,120
Speaker 1: and I think Ebron was a rookie on that team. Rookie, Yeah,

1322
01:04:28,120 --> 01:04:31,360
Speaker 1: I think he's a rookie on that team. So those two,

1323
01:04:31,440 --> 01:04:33,480
Speaker 1: I mean, those are the three guys. I mean we

1324
01:04:34,040 --> 01:04:36,480
Speaker 1: know it, Luck Hilton, Ebron. I mean, those are the

1325
01:04:36,480 --> 01:04:39,040
Speaker 1: guys that, in some way, shape or form, And I

1326
01:04:39,080 --> 01:04:43,120
Speaker 1: think what the Colts do is such a good job

1327
01:04:43,280 --> 01:04:47,160
Speaker 1: of handling coverage, knowing what the Texans are gonna be

1328
01:04:47,160 --> 01:04:48,840
Speaker 1: in and saying, Okay, here's what they're gonna be in.

1329
01:04:49,200 --> 01:04:50,920
Speaker 1: Here's how we can counter that. And I think a

1330
01:04:50,920 --> 01:04:53,480
Speaker 1: great example of that was the touchdown at Ebron scored

1331
01:04:53,800 --> 01:04:57,680
Speaker 1: to make a twenty fourteen in the game. Here they

1332
01:04:57,720 --> 01:04:59,920
Speaker 1: had Hilton and Ebron kind of stacked a little bit,

1333
01:05:00,280 --> 01:05:03,720
Speaker 1: and they knew that wherever Hilton went, the outside guy

1334
01:05:03,760 --> 01:05:06,080
Speaker 1: was gonna take him. And they knew that the inside

1335
01:05:06,120 --> 01:05:09,720
Speaker 1: guy was eventually gonna take Ebron. Well, Justin Reid was

1336
01:05:09,720 --> 01:05:11,720
Speaker 1: on the inside. So Ebron just broke it to the

1337
01:05:11,720 --> 01:05:15,080
Speaker 1: outside kind of behind. Hilton knew there was nobody over there.

1338
01:05:15,640 --> 01:05:17,600
Speaker 1: Luck through a great ball, sought the whole way and

1339
01:05:17,600 --> 01:05:19,520
Speaker 1: he got in the end zone. So you know, there's

1340
01:05:19,520 --> 01:05:21,880
Speaker 1: so many different things we can talk about as far

1341
01:05:21,920 --> 01:05:24,800
Speaker 1: as well, you gotta have pressure. Can the front for

1342
01:05:24,960 --> 01:05:27,360
Speaker 1: your pressure, Well you're not offensive line. It's pretty darn good.

1343
01:05:27,880 --> 01:05:30,200
Speaker 1: And they're probably gonna get Ryan kellyback, the center who

1344
01:05:30,200 --> 01:05:34,200
Speaker 1: played in the first game. But if mercill if playoff, merciless,

1345
01:05:34,200 --> 01:05:37,240
Speaker 1: playoff Clowney and playoff watch show up, Steves should be

1346
01:05:37,240 --> 01:05:39,120
Speaker 1: in pretty good shape getting into the quarterback. Then it's

1347
01:05:39,120 --> 01:05:41,480
Speaker 1: just a matter of can you keep t Y Hilton

1348
01:05:41,520 --> 01:05:44,120
Speaker 1: in front? Can you keep from throwing a deep ball?

1349
01:05:44,120 --> 01:05:45,840
Speaker 1: And I did this from my know your foe, and

1350
01:05:45,880 --> 01:05:47,440
Speaker 1: I ask you this so I won't pose it as

1351
01:05:47,440 --> 01:05:52,080
Speaker 1: a question. But since twenty twelve, he's produced fifteen plays

1352
01:05:52,440 --> 01:05:56,240
Speaker 1: just in Houston, right, fifteen plays of twenty eight yards

1353
01:05:56,280 --> 01:05:59,120
Speaker 1: or more. Yeah, you got a limit that obviously. I

1354
01:05:59,120 --> 01:06:01,800
Speaker 1: mean it's it goes without saying. If they end up

1355
01:06:01,840 --> 01:06:04,480
Speaker 1: matriculating the ball down the field, so be it. Yeah,

1356
01:06:04,480 --> 01:06:06,120
Speaker 1: but I want to force them into that mode. Now,

1357
01:06:06,120 --> 01:06:07,800
Speaker 1: I know, the Eagles had a lot of success doing

1358
01:06:07,840 --> 01:06:10,080
Speaker 1: that against the Texas, but they also hit the huge

1359
01:06:10,120 --> 01:06:14,000
Speaker 1: eighty plus yard pass play. And Luck's able to go deep.

1360
01:06:14,120 --> 01:06:17,400
Speaker 1: Luck's able to pick you apart short range because he's

1361
01:06:17,480 --> 01:06:20,560
Speaker 1: that good. I mean, he's the all encompassing quarterback. You

1362
01:06:20,600 --> 01:06:23,040
Speaker 1: know Luck, Well, we forget I think a lot of

1363
01:06:23,040 --> 01:06:26,600
Speaker 1: this is Andrew Luck is back and he's better than ever. Right,

1364
01:06:26,680 --> 01:06:29,120
Speaker 1: And when has he been this good? It's been a

1365
01:06:29,120 --> 01:06:32,000
Speaker 1: while since twenty fourteen, probably because he was backed up

1366
01:06:32,040 --> 01:06:35,680
Speaker 1: in twenty fifteen. That was Hasselbeck. Twenty sixteen he wasn't himself.

1367
01:06:35,680 --> 01:06:38,320
Speaker 1: The shoulder was already bothering him. Twenty seventeen he missed

1368
01:06:38,320 --> 01:06:40,480
Speaker 1: a whole season. Luck is back to being who he

1369
01:06:40,560 --> 01:06:43,760
Speaker 1: was and then some he's an older, wiser Andrew Luck

1370
01:06:43,800 --> 01:06:45,800
Speaker 1: with all the physical tools. The arm looks as good

1371
01:06:45,800 --> 01:06:47,960
Speaker 1: as it's ever looked. I mean, I don't know, maybe

1372
01:06:48,000 --> 01:06:50,360
Speaker 1: a few mphs, but so what, he knows what to

1373
01:06:50,400 --> 01:06:51,960
Speaker 1: put the ball, and he could put it there accurately.

1374
01:06:52,000 --> 01:06:55,480
Speaker 1: So you're dealing my I went, you know, long answer

1375
01:06:55,520 --> 01:06:58,320
Speaker 1: to a short you know question here, But you're dealing

1376
01:06:58,400 --> 01:07:00,360
Speaker 1: with one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL. Now,

1377
01:07:00,560 --> 01:07:05,240
Speaker 1: and that's where he was headed in twenty thirteen, fourteen twelve,

1378
01:07:05,240 --> 01:07:07,120
Speaker 1: when he was a rookie. That's where he was headed.

1379
01:07:07,600 --> 01:07:10,720
Speaker 1: And now he's ready to take that spot because he's healthy.

1380
01:07:11,000 --> 01:07:13,240
Speaker 1: And that's what you have to deal with in this division.

1381
01:07:13,280 --> 01:07:15,080
Speaker 1: We kind of put the whole luck thing on hold

1382
01:07:15,120 --> 01:07:16,840
Speaker 1: because it had to be because he was hurt and

1383
01:07:16,880 --> 01:07:19,360
Speaker 1: that was delightful for Texans fans and everybody else at

1384
01:07:19,400 --> 01:07:22,360
Speaker 1: the AFC South. But now he's back, here's the nightmare.

1385
01:07:22,560 --> 01:07:24,800
Speaker 1: You gotta deal with him. Yeah, and you're exactly right,

1386
01:07:24,920 --> 01:07:28,080
Speaker 1: it's a nightmare. But to that point, and going back,

1387
01:07:28,080 --> 01:07:30,200
Speaker 1: I think the Eagles game is a pretty good There

1388
01:07:30,240 --> 01:07:33,160
Speaker 1: are two things about that. Number One, in the Eagles game,

1389
01:07:34,120 --> 01:07:36,800
Speaker 1: you didn't have Kareem Jackson. You didn't have Jonathan Joseph.

1390
01:07:37,160 --> 01:07:39,440
Speaker 1: You did Kreem Jackson nearly the whole game. Yeah, then

1391
01:07:39,480 --> 01:07:42,000
Speaker 1: you lost Cable Webster I think four or five plays in.

1392
01:07:42,680 --> 01:07:45,120
Speaker 1: Then you lost Jonathan Joseph about halfway through the third quarter.

1393
01:07:45,800 --> 01:07:47,520
Speaker 1: But the one thing about that game is you gave

1394
01:07:47,600 --> 01:07:50,800
Speaker 1: up over half of Nick Fole's yards on five plays.

1395
01:07:51,320 --> 01:07:53,520
Speaker 1: So they did a great job of thinking and dunking

1396
01:07:53,520 --> 01:07:55,520
Speaker 1: and moving the ball down the field. And I think

1397
01:07:55,560 --> 01:08:00,480
Speaker 1: what's fascinating was they were they were nine of what

1398
01:08:00,600 --> 01:08:04,040
Speaker 1: were they were like nine of sixteen. I think it

1399
01:08:04,160 --> 01:08:07,840
Speaker 1: was on third downs. I think it was something like good.

1400
01:08:08,320 --> 01:08:11,040
Speaker 1: But then they were also four, four and fourth down. Yeah,

1401
01:08:11,360 --> 01:08:15,080
Speaker 1: so yeah, so they ended up converting when they didn't

1402
01:08:15,080 --> 01:08:17,679
Speaker 1: make the third downs. They ended up converting every single

1403
01:08:17,680 --> 01:08:19,360
Speaker 1: one of them. They're not out of the woods at

1404
01:08:19,800 --> 01:08:22,280
Speaker 1: fourth and three, exactly. They might go for and that

1405
01:08:22,360 --> 01:08:24,519
Speaker 1: goes with this team to exactly. But I think the

1406
01:08:24,560 --> 01:08:28,040
Speaker 1: biggest thing was is, Okay, they're dinking and duncan on you. Okay,

1407
01:08:28,040 --> 01:08:29,680
Speaker 1: they're taking little bits here and little bits there, a

1408
01:08:29,680 --> 01:08:31,000
Speaker 1: little bit there. But then all of a sudden, it's

1409
01:08:31,200 --> 01:08:35,439
Speaker 1: Sprolls for thirty seven, it's Aglar for eighty three, it's

1410
01:08:36,320 --> 01:08:41,679
Speaker 1: al Sean Jeffrey for fifty two. Those those were all touchdowns.

1411
01:08:41,680 --> 01:08:44,920
Speaker 1: I mean, if you just if you're gonna you're if

1412
01:08:44,960 --> 01:08:49,360
Speaker 1: you dictate to them, you're gonna do this, but you're

1413
01:08:49,400 --> 01:08:51,599
Speaker 1: not gonna get the big forty yard playing us. You're

1414
01:08:51,600 --> 01:08:53,800
Speaker 1: not gonna get the big sixty yard play. You're gonna

1415
01:08:53,840 --> 01:08:56,759
Speaker 1: have to go eight, ten, twelve yards at a time.

1416
01:08:57,280 --> 01:08:58,920
Speaker 1: And then once you get down in the red zone,

1417
01:08:58,920 --> 01:09:01,599
Speaker 1: we're gonna clamp down where should have fuel goals. I mean,

1418
01:09:01,840 --> 01:09:03,760
Speaker 1: that's that's really what it might be the way you

1419
01:09:03,800 --> 01:09:07,360
Speaker 1: play it. I mean, because these teams are so so

1420
01:09:07,439 --> 01:09:10,680
Speaker 1: similar and so close. I mean, there's no point differential.

1421
01:09:10,680 --> 01:09:12,559
Speaker 1: It's fifty eight fifty eight and you're going to the

1422
01:09:12,600 --> 01:09:15,120
Speaker 1: fifth quarter. I mean, that's what you're going into against

1423
01:09:15,160 --> 01:09:18,000
Speaker 1: these guys. But you're playing at home. The crowd should

1424
01:09:18,040 --> 01:09:21,760
Speaker 1: be hopefully out of control and out of control in

1425
01:09:21,800 --> 01:09:24,200
Speaker 1: a good way. What did O'Brien say though on Monday

1426
01:09:24,200 --> 01:09:27,320
Speaker 1: to us. He talks to the team about you got

1427
01:09:27,439 --> 01:09:30,240
Speaker 1: to bring the crowd with you somehow into it, right,

1428
01:09:30,320 --> 01:09:33,360
Speaker 1: because you can't rely on the crowd just to produce

1429
01:09:33,400 --> 01:09:36,360
Speaker 1: it by themselves. Make the plays that are get going

1430
01:09:36,400 --> 01:09:38,400
Speaker 1: to get the crowd into the game a little more,

1431
01:09:38,880 --> 01:09:43,120
Speaker 1: because everybody's gonna have a towel, everybody's gonna have that

1432
01:09:43,479 --> 01:09:46,840
Speaker 1: vocal cortability, and you want to create an atmosphere that's

1433
01:09:46,880 --> 01:09:50,600
Speaker 1: so unlike what they dealt with here ver. Yeah, the

1434
01:09:50,640 --> 01:09:52,439
Speaker 1: first time it was a regular season game, it was

1435
01:09:52,479 --> 01:09:54,599
Speaker 1: the third out of a three game homestand I thought

1436
01:09:54,600 --> 01:09:58,000
Speaker 1: the crowd was not exactly itself that day, still a

1437
01:09:58,040 --> 01:10:00,920
Speaker 1: really good NRG Stadium crowd. This is gonna take it

1438
01:10:01,000 --> 01:10:04,240
Speaker 1: up to eleven kind of crowd, and the Texans are

1439
01:10:04,280 --> 01:10:05,559
Speaker 1: going to need every bit of it. And I think

1440
01:10:05,560 --> 01:10:06,800
Speaker 1: you're right. I think there are a couple of things

1441
01:10:06,840 --> 01:10:08,599
Speaker 1: with that. I think there are a couple of guys

1442
01:10:08,640 --> 01:10:12,960
Speaker 1: that get this crowd to a different level. One is

1443
01:10:13,000 --> 01:10:16,719
Speaker 1: what one is clowney. When those two guys are making plays,

1444
01:10:17,400 --> 01:10:20,880
Speaker 1: the place goes crazy, It goes absolutely nuts. And then

1445
01:10:20,920 --> 01:10:22,560
Speaker 1: if you're able to end up making a play with

1446
01:10:22,600 --> 01:10:24,320
Speaker 1: the Shawan at deep Ball or something like that, this

1447
01:10:24,400 --> 01:10:27,120
Speaker 1: place goes nuts. And then the crew, then the players

1448
01:10:27,120 --> 01:10:29,960
Speaker 1: start feeding off of that. But I think the crowd

1449
01:10:29,960 --> 01:10:31,720
Speaker 1: has got to be there from the beginning. I mean,

1450
01:10:31,720 --> 01:10:33,320
Speaker 1: it's kind of chicken in the egg. The crowd's got

1451
01:10:33,320 --> 01:10:35,639
Speaker 1: to be there from the beginning. But I do think

1452
01:10:35,680 --> 01:10:39,280
Speaker 1: to Obie's point is dead on, and that is if

1453
01:10:39,280 --> 01:10:42,240
Speaker 1: you make a play, watch this crowd go to a

1454
01:10:42,280 --> 01:10:45,280
Speaker 1: different level. And that's really that's really where you want

1455
01:10:45,320 --> 01:10:48,320
Speaker 1: it to go. And then you're you're living off of that.

1456
01:10:48,360 --> 01:10:51,080
Speaker 1: And I want to say that we were flat or

1457
01:10:51,600 --> 01:10:54,559
Speaker 1: whatever the right word might bean to describe the December game.

1458
01:10:54,600 --> 01:10:56,479
Speaker 1: But I do think there was that level of hey,

1459
01:10:57,120 --> 01:10:59,120
Speaker 1: this night game streak. I think that kind of hung

1460
01:10:59,120 --> 01:11:02,559
Speaker 1: over everybody's head. Yeah, And I think maybe everybody's yeah,

1461
01:11:02,560 --> 01:11:04,320
Speaker 1: and everybody's kind of look at each other, Okay, we're

1462
01:11:04,320 --> 01:11:06,000
Speaker 1: gonna win this thing. We're gonna win this thing, right,

1463
01:11:06,000 --> 01:11:07,960
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what we've been doing. And then they

1464
01:11:08,000 --> 01:11:10,120
Speaker 1: didn't get the ball back. Yeah, So I think there's

1465
01:11:10,120 --> 01:11:12,240
Speaker 1: a sense of urgency that you got a red zone

1466
01:11:12,320 --> 01:11:14,400
Speaker 1: last time three times, just scored all three times, all

1467
01:11:14,400 --> 01:11:17,840
Speaker 1: three touchdowns. So they did the same thing when they

1468
01:11:17,840 --> 01:11:19,599
Speaker 1: got the red zone, they scored three times. Now they

1469
01:11:19,600 --> 01:11:21,800
Speaker 1: got in the red zone. Courtesy of t Y Hilton.

1470
01:11:22,040 --> 01:11:23,680
Speaker 1: I think the one thing to keep in mind is

1471
01:11:23,720 --> 01:11:26,679
Speaker 1: that the first quarter and a half this defense shut

1472
01:11:26,720 --> 01:11:30,439
Speaker 1: them down, shut them down. They had a period of

1473
01:11:30,479 --> 01:11:34,559
Speaker 1: about a quarter quarter and a half where they went nuts.

1474
01:11:34,840 --> 01:11:40,280
Speaker 1: It was touchdown, touchdown, fuel it was touchdown, fuel goal, touchdown. No,

1475
01:11:40,439 --> 01:11:43,400
Speaker 1: it was touchdown, touchdown, fuel goal, one more touchdown. That

1476
01:11:43,479 --> 01:11:45,479
Speaker 1: was it. Four drives, it was bang bang bang bang,

1477
01:11:45,600 --> 01:11:47,960
Speaker 1: separated by half. That was it, and that was it.

1478
01:11:47,680 --> 01:11:49,680
Speaker 1: Well was it. But that's how but that's how they

1479
01:11:49,720 --> 01:11:53,360
Speaker 1: can surgically take you apart like an NBA team going

1480
01:11:53,400 --> 01:11:57,880
Speaker 1: on a monster run or whatever. Exactly, the run played good,

1481
01:11:57,960 --> 01:12:01,439
Speaker 1: d early, they failed to capitalize on their opportunities to

1482
01:12:01,520 --> 01:12:04,360
Speaker 1: jump on top and really get it going. I mean,

1483
01:12:04,400 --> 01:12:06,600
Speaker 1: if you're able to get out to a fourteen to

1484
01:12:06,720 --> 01:12:09,519
Speaker 1: three kind of advantage here, I mean, I imagine this

1485
01:12:09,680 --> 01:12:12,559
Speaker 1: building right, Yeah, but the game is far from over

1486
01:12:12,920 --> 01:12:16,519
Speaker 1: because you have Andrew Luck on the other sideline. So yeah,

1487
01:12:16,920 --> 01:12:19,839
Speaker 1: I think it's it's interesting to see. And coach O'Brien

1488
01:12:19,920 --> 01:12:23,160
Speaker 1: was talking about the coaching staff like how he respects

1489
01:12:23,160 --> 01:12:25,880
Speaker 1: all coaching staffs in this league and his staff and

1490
01:12:25,920 --> 01:12:29,040
Speaker 1: the reverence they have for everybody in the league because

1491
01:12:29,600 --> 01:12:33,759
Speaker 1: it's respect. And then some you look at the amount

1492
01:12:33,760 --> 01:12:36,160
Speaker 1: of work they go through and in the postseason, you're

1493
01:12:36,200 --> 01:12:39,519
Speaker 1: trying to get to your players that this is not

1494
01:12:39,560 --> 01:12:40,960
Speaker 1: only do they have to be ready to go on

1495
01:12:41,000 --> 01:12:43,800
Speaker 1: a given Sunday. This is not a given Sunday. This

1496
01:12:43,880 --> 01:12:48,040
Speaker 1: is the playoffs. This is it. You have to find

1497
01:12:48,080 --> 01:12:51,400
Speaker 1: your peak performance somehow, and I just have a feeling

1498
01:12:51,479 --> 01:12:53,600
Speaker 1: that the Texans will be able to achieve that to

1499
01:12:53,680 --> 01:12:56,519
Speaker 1: a greater level than the Colts. Maybe I'm just hoping here,

1500
01:12:56,960 --> 01:12:59,400
Speaker 1: but I just think that that'll be the case now,

1501
01:12:59,439 --> 01:13:02,519
Speaker 1: Frank right, coming straight off a Super Bowl staff and

1502
01:13:02,600 --> 01:13:04,960
Speaker 1: saw what it took to do that. But I also

1503
01:13:05,000 --> 01:13:07,800
Speaker 1: believe that the Cults are going to be in an

1504
01:13:07,880 --> 01:13:11,040
Speaker 1: environment on Saturday that the Eagles were not in last

1505
01:13:11,080 --> 01:13:13,559
Speaker 1: year because they were at home, and even as great

1506
01:13:13,560 --> 01:13:15,960
Speaker 1: as their home crowd is, I really believe that the

1507
01:13:16,080 --> 01:13:18,080
Speaker 1: NRG Stadium face Fille, They're going to come through for

1508
01:13:18,120 --> 01:13:19,760
Speaker 1: the Texans on Saturday. And I think one of the

1509
01:13:20,000 --> 01:13:22,000
Speaker 1: biggest things that one of the biggest things they did

1510
01:13:22,040 --> 01:13:25,240
Speaker 1: on Sunday night against the Titans was they went bank

1511
01:13:25,280 --> 01:13:27,880
Speaker 1: Bank fourteen nothing. The crowd was on his hands. The

1512
01:13:28,040 --> 01:13:29,840
Speaker 1: crowd was on its hands for most of the night

1513
01:13:29,840 --> 01:13:31,800
Speaker 1: at that point because now we're going to do that again,

1514
01:13:32,040 --> 01:13:34,160
Speaker 1: crawling up hill, and I think that's the one thing

1515
01:13:34,160 --> 01:13:36,559
Speaker 1: that you gotta avoid. Now you went up seven nothing

1516
01:13:36,600 --> 01:13:39,680
Speaker 1: on them and landed the first blow. I don't think

1517
01:13:39,720 --> 01:13:42,519
Speaker 1: they relaxed, but it was kind of like, we're ahead,

1518
01:13:43,000 --> 01:13:45,680
Speaker 1: we're ahead, we're heading home. We don't lose, right, and

1519
01:13:45,720 --> 01:13:48,040
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden it was like a barrage. Yeah,

1520
01:13:48,160 --> 01:13:50,639
Speaker 1: Luck started, you know, raying Haymakers on him, and Hilton

1521
01:13:50,760 --> 01:13:53,599
Speaker 1: was doing whatever he wanted to, and then they figured, yeah,

1522
01:13:53,640 --> 01:13:55,800
Speaker 1: that was enough. It's such a sixty minute game with

1523
01:13:55,840 --> 01:13:57,599
Speaker 1: these guys, So when you have to approach it, you

1524
01:13:57,600 --> 01:14:00,160
Speaker 1: have to approach this like you have to approach just

1525
01:14:00,240 --> 01:14:02,280
Speaker 1: one like you're playing seventy minutes, just like you did

1526
01:14:02,360 --> 01:14:05,040
Speaker 1: up in Indie. Yeah, like it's gonna go overtime, and

1527
01:14:05,240 --> 01:14:06,960
Speaker 1: that's the way you have to approach it. And if

1528
01:14:07,160 --> 01:14:09,800
Speaker 1: just at the end of sixty year head, great, but

1529
01:14:10,000 --> 01:14:12,639
Speaker 1: you got to approach this like you're willing to step

1530
01:14:12,640 --> 01:14:15,840
Speaker 1: out there for how many of her placement takes until

1531
01:14:15,880 --> 01:14:18,880
Speaker 1: you get the leading Johnny call Houston methodist. If this

1532
01:14:18,920 --> 01:14:23,360
Speaker 1: thing goes into overtime, I don't know deal with that.

1533
01:14:23,920 --> 01:14:26,560
Speaker 1: Oh man, I don't know if I could deal with overtime.

1534
01:14:26,760 --> 01:14:31,040
Speaker 1: I just the amount of stress. It's great stress though,

1535
01:14:31,080 --> 01:14:33,040
Speaker 1: this is beautiful. This is why you're in this thing

1536
01:14:33,479 --> 01:14:37,400
Speaker 1: because of moments of games like this. I mean, that's

1537
01:14:37,400 --> 01:14:41,400
Speaker 1: how you started this segment. It's the cults. It's a rivalry.

1538
01:14:41,439 --> 01:14:43,360
Speaker 1: They might not look at it that way, but maybe

1539
01:14:43,360 --> 01:14:45,320
Speaker 1: they do because the Texans, let's face it, I mean,

1540
01:14:45,360 --> 01:14:47,559
Speaker 1: you've won five of the last eight division titles. Okay,

1541
01:14:47,600 --> 01:14:49,360
Speaker 1: so they look at you a lot differently than they

1542
01:14:49,360 --> 01:14:53,639
Speaker 1: did ten years ago when you were one and fifteen

1543
01:14:53,680 --> 01:14:56,719
Speaker 1: in the first sixteen matchups with Indie one and fifteen.

1544
01:14:56,880 --> 01:14:59,000
Speaker 1: WHOA how about that? I wrote about this at Houston

1545
01:14:59,040 --> 01:15:02,639
Speaker 1: Texans dot Com. All there the whole history of the series.

1546
01:15:03,080 --> 01:15:06,920
Speaker 1: My personal sports hatred for the Indianapolis Colts the most

1547
01:15:06,920 --> 01:15:10,360
Speaker 1: despised team in the league for me, there it is.

1548
01:15:10,600 --> 01:15:13,640
Speaker 1: But you can have and we can all have scoreboard

1549
01:15:13,680 --> 01:15:17,840
Speaker 1: on them with the only playoff win against them. To me,

1550
01:15:18,000 --> 01:15:21,880
Speaker 1: that's you know, that's all it is this postseason. It's

1551
01:15:21,920 --> 01:15:25,400
Speaker 1: not good enough, but it's something, you know, to win

1552
01:15:25,439 --> 01:15:27,680
Speaker 1: another playoff game. It's not like beating the Raiders with

1553
01:15:27,760 --> 01:15:29,840
Speaker 1: Connor Cook. Okay, and I don't I don't poop poo

1554
01:15:29,840 --> 01:15:33,720
Speaker 1: any playoff win, but this is considerably more difficult and

1555
01:15:33,840 --> 01:15:35,960
Speaker 1: it would be worth more, I think, in a in

1556
01:15:36,080 --> 01:15:38,479
Speaker 1: terms of just value of the win and the way

1557
01:15:38,520 --> 01:15:41,439
Speaker 1: we would look at at it. Historically, we have faced

1558
01:15:41,479 --> 01:15:46,120
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton, Andy Dalton, Alex Smith, and Connor Cook. Yeah,

1559
01:15:46,200 --> 01:15:49,559
Speaker 1: now you're facing Andrew Luck. The flip side is they

1560
01:15:49,680 --> 01:15:55,760
Speaker 1: faced t J. Yates, match shob Brian Hoyer and Brock Oswiler.

1561
01:15:56,040 --> 01:15:57,920
Speaker 1: Now did they get the face to Shaw Watson. So

1562
01:15:58,240 --> 01:16:00,519
Speaker 1: to me, of all the playoffs, I mean the playoff,

1563
01:16:00,640 --> 01:16:03,240
Speaker 1: the wild card round is to me is amazing. You

1564
01:16:03,320 --> 01:16:05,639
Speaker 1: got Dak facing off with Russell Wilson, you got Lamar

1565
01:16:05,720 --> 01:16:08,880
Speaker 1: Jackson going against Philip Rivers. You've got Nick Foles going

1566
01:16:09,120 --> 01:16:11,759
Speaker 1: up against Mitch Trubisky. It's probably the worst quarterback matchup,

1567
01:16:11,960 --> 01:16:14,000
Speaker 1: but it's a hell of a match. It's a great matchup.

1568
01:16:14,000 --> 01:16:15,760
Speaker 1: And then you got Watson luck. I think this of

1569
01:16:16,240 --> 01:16:18,320
Speaker 1: the quarterback matchups you could have on a weekend. It's

1570
01:16:18,320 --> 01:16:21,120
Speaker 1: great for the league. It's unbelievable. Mark appreciate it. Thanks Johnny.

1571
01:16:21,280 --> 01:16:23,639
Speaker 1: Let's close this one down tonight with my good friend

1572
01:16:23,720 --> 01:16:27,200
Speaker 1: Drew Doherty. We went in the lab this week. We'll

1573
01:16:27,200 --> 01:16:29,000
Speaker 1: have that for you next right here in Texas Access.

1574
01:16:29,320 --> 01:16:31,439
Speaker 1: We've got one final segment of Texas All Access on

1575
01:16:31,479 --> 01:16:35,000
Speaker 1: this Wednesday evening with me your host, John Harris Football

1576
01:16:35,000 --> 01:16:37,360
Speaker 1: also southn Reporter. It's time going to lab with my

1577
01:16:37,400 --> 01:16:40,840
Speaker 1: buddy Drew Doughty and Drew this week a little fired

1578
01:16:40,960 --> 01:16:45,600
Speaker 1: up with the idea that the Texans are in for

1579
01:16:45,760 --> 01:16:48,120
Speaker 1: a lot of trouble. I'll let him explain. There's a

1580
01:16:48,160 --> 01:16:53,479
Speaker 1: lot of hand ringing because good term, very good terms.

1581
01:16:54,240 --> 01:17:00,120
Speaker 1: This matchup culture, it's a matchup for the tex h

1582
01:17:01,000 --> 01:17:06,719
Speaker 1: But I want to name some names, okay, t J Yates, Okay,

1583
01:17:06,920 --> 01:17:10,800
Speaker 1: Matt Shob Okay, Brian Hoyer, brock Oswalder. Those are the

1584
01:17:10,840 --> 01:17:14,599
Speaker 1: four quarterbacks of the previous Texans playoff teams. Fearsome, foursome,

1585
01:17:14,720 --> 01:17:17,639
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not knocking those guys. Okay. They all

1586
01:17:18,120 --> 01:17:20,320
Speaker 1: help the Texans get to those playoffs. These were all

1587
01:17:20,360 --> 01:17:23,040
Speaker 1: fun teams to cover. Matt Shob was the best of

1588
01:17:23,120 --> 01:17:27,680
Speaker 1: that bunch, clearly, and in twenty twelve, that's the best

1589
01:17:27,760 --> 01:17:33,799
Speaker 1: Texans team twelve and four wrote one loss, one loss wise. Yes, okay,

1590
01:17:34,320 --> 01:17:39,160
Speaker 1: but let's let's let's look at some numbers blindly. Okay, John, Okay,

1591
01:17:39,680 --> 01:17:45,200
Speaker 1: blind numbers. I'm gonna give you some blind numbers, all right.

1592
01:17:45,360 --> 01:17:51,160
Speaker 1: First one is twenty two touchdowns, nine interceptions, and a

1593
01:17:51,320 --> 01:17:57,320
Speaker 1: completion percentage of sixty four point three. So twenty two nine,

1594
01:17:57,840 --> 01:18:01,880
Speaker 1: excuse me, twenty two twelve sixty four point three great,

1595
01:18:01,920 --> 01:18:05,080
Speaker 1: two touchdowns, twelve picks, sixty four point three. Okay. Now

1596
01:18:05,120 --> 01:18:07,240
Speaker 1: I want to give you another set of those same numbers.

1597
01:18:08,479 --> 01:18:13,360
Speaker 1: But it's twenty six, it's nine to twenty six touchdowns,

1598
01:18:13,880 --> 01:18:19,080
Speaker 1: nine interceptions, completion percentage of sixty eight point three. Those

1599
01:18:19,120 --> 01:18:23,639
Speaker 1: are both Texans quarterbacks. Which Texans quarterback is which twenty

1600
01:18:23,680 --> 01:18:26,479
Speaker 1: six nine sixty eight or the first number twenty two

1601
01:18:26,600 --> 01:18:30,479
Speaker 1: twelve sixty four. Well, they can't be t J Yates

1602
01:18:30,720 --> 01:18:33,800
Speaker 1: and Ryan Hoyer because neither we're going played a full year.

1603
01:18:34,560 --> 01:18:37,000
Speaker 1: And I know to Sewn only through nine interceptions, so

1604
01:18:37,160 --> 01:18:39,320
Speaker 1: I know the twenty and plus, I know the twenty

1605
01:18:39,360 --> 01:18:41,879
Speaker 1: six plus the five Mikes thirty one thirty one touchdowns

1606
01:18:41,880 --> 01:18:44,760
Speaker 1: accounted four, So the twenty six nine at sixty eight

1607
01:18:44,880 --> 01:18:48,040
Speaker 1: is to Shaun. The twenty two, twelve and sixty four

1608
01:18:48,280 --> 01:18:51,320
Speaker 1: must be then mattch Shop in twenty twelve. That's right,

1609
01:18:51,760 --> 01:18:56,479
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson statistically had a better season this year than Shopped.

1610
01:18:56,520 --> 01:19:01,680
Speaker 1: It just just overall of yes, But on top of that,

1611
01:19:02,720 --> 01:19:06,240
Speaker 1: let's talk about where he's trending, which direction he's been playing,

1612
01:19:06,360 --> 01:19:09,360
Speaker 1: because that Shop that year kind of had a tough

1613
01:19:09,840 --> 01:19:13,280
Speaker 1: December and it really went all apart the next year

1614
01:19:13,320 --> 01:19:17,680
Speaker 1: in twenty thirteen, whereas Deshaun Watson has not thrown an

1615
01:19:17,720 --> 01:19:21,560
Speaker 1: interception since before Thanksgiving the Washington game two in that

1616
01:19:21,720 --> 01:19:25,519
Speaker 1: one and then before that, it was Week six, Week six,

1617
01:19:25,720 --> 01:19:32,800
Speaker 1: John Okay seventeen touchdowns, two interceptions down the stretch, outstanding.

1618
01:19:33,000 --> 01:19:35,160
Speaker 1: I mean, this guy is on a roll. And now,

1619
01:19:35,560 --> 01:19:38,439
Speaker 1: so that's just one thing, one part trending. So overall

1620
01:19:38,600 --> 01:19:42,519
Speaker 1: he's better. Trending wise, he's better. Let's talk about what

1621
01:19:42,760 --> 01:19:45,719
Speaker 1: this guy did in primetime. Now, the Texans did fine

1622
01:19:45,800 --> 01:19:50,000
Speaker 1: in primetime that year. Everyone remembers the blowout loss against

1623
01:19:50,040 --> 01:19:52,519
Speaker 1: the Packers and a blowout loss on the road against

1624
01:19:52,520 --> 01:19:55,360
Speaker 1: the Patriots. Understanding, but they also did win a tough

1625
01:19:55,439 --> 01:19:58,000
Speaker 1: one against the seven and one team on Sunday Night

1626
01:19:58,040 --> 01:20:00,439
Speaker 1: football in Chicago. They won a Monday nif ball game

1627
01:20:00,520 --> 01:20:03,040
Speaker 1: at the Jets, so they did not and they won

1628
01:20:03,120 --> 01:20:06,040
Speaker 1: on Thanksgiving Day in overtime against the Line. So I

1629
01:20:06,080 --> 01:20:09,280
Speaker 1: mean they won three nationally televised games. They lost two

1630
01:20:09,320 --> 01:20:12,040
Speaker 1: that year, Texans played four this year. They won all

1631
01:20:12,080 --> 01:20:15,080
Speaker 1: four of them. In those games, Deshaun Watson threw a

1632
01:20:15,120 --> 01:20:18,360
Speaker 1: combined ten touchdowns and was only picked off once. He

1633
01:20:18,560 --> 01:20:21,760
Speaker 1: was He completed seventy eight percent of his passes in

1634
01:20:21,880 --> 01:20:25,960
Speaker 1: those games, and he also ran for score. So overall,

1635
01:20:26,760 --> 01:20:31,000
Speaker 1: the trend and in primetime nationally televised games You've got

1636
01:20:31,040 --> 01:20:35,800
Speaker 1: the much better quarterback. And that's why I just am

1637
01:20:36,160 --> 01:20:39,120
Speaker 1: kind of pissed off at some of this this stuff

1638
01:20:39,160 --> 01:20:41,719
Speaker 1: we're seeing. Like I understand, like to be respectful because

1639
01:20:41,720 --> 01:20:44,640
Speaker 1: the Colts are very good Andrew Luck is very good. Yea,

1640
01:20:44,760 --> 01:20:47,880
Speaker 1: this defense is much better, that offensive line much much better.

1641
01:20:48,400 --> 01:20:52,920
Speaker 1: But everything is different now with this number four at quarterback.

1642
01:20:53,000 --> 01:20:55,760
Speaker 1: I'm an optimistic guy. You know that I was optimistic

1643
01:20:55,840 --> 01:20:58,160
Speaker 1: in each of those playoffs seasons. I've never been this optimistic.

1644
01:20:58,400 --> 01:21:00,479
Speaker 1: I was never this optimistic with Warren and that's the

1645
01:21:00,479 --> 01:21:04,599
Speaker 1: best quarterback the city's ever had. But I think bigger

1646
01:21:04,640 --> 01:21:06,080
Speaker 1: things are happening, and I think it could happen as

1647
01:21:06,120 --> 01:21:09,200
Speaker 1: soon as this year. A couple of things. First of all,

1648
01:21:09,320 --> 01:21:13,480
Speaker 1: I am not raining on your parade. I am. I'm

1649
01:21:13,680 --> 01:21:17,840
Speaker 1: I've been tired all year of you know, listening to well,

1650
01:21:17,920 --> 01:21:19,960
Speaker 1: they haven't done this and they haven't done that. It's like,

1651
01:21:20,800 --> 01:21:23,080
Speaker 1: come on, man. First of all, I think the AFC

1652
01:21:23,280 --> 01:21:26,439
Speaker 1: is as tight and as close as it has ever been.

1653
01:21:27,400 --> 01:21:29,160
Speaker 1: The Chiefs end up being a number one seed at

1654
01:21:29,160 --> 01:21:31,600
Speaker 1: twelve and four, the Texans were one game behind that

1655
01:21:31,720 --> 01:21:34,040
Speaker 1: they were tied with the Patriots. With that record, they

1656
01:21:34,040 --> 01:21:37,280
Speaker 1: were one game ahead of the Colts. And look, I

1657
01:21:37,400 --> 01:21:39,840
Speaker 1: understand the Colts won nine of the last ten. They

1658
01:21:39,880 --> 01:21:42,240
Speaker 1: beat the Texans here where the Texans beat them up there.

1659
01:21:42,800 --> 01:21:46,719
Speaker 1: So I think the team's relatively speaking, are pretty close.

1660
01:21:46,840 --> 01:21:50,240
Speaker 1: But I think from the standpoint of Texans played on

1661
01:21:50,320 --> 01:21:53,800
Speaker 1: Sunday afternoon here home, you didn't have to travel. I

1662
01:21:53,840 --> 01:21:56,720
Speaker 1: haven't traveled since the Philadelphia. The Colts will have had

1663
01:21:56,760 --> 01:22:00,799
Speaker 1: to travel Sunday, play us, sorry, Saturday, play a Sunday

1664
01:22:00,840 --> 01:22:03,080
Speaker 1: night game, get back early Monday morning. It's good. I

1665
01:22:03,080 --> 01:22:06,040
Speaker 1: haven't even thought about this. They have to play Sunday

1666
01:22:06,080 --> 01:22:08,920
Speaker 1: a Saturday afternoon, so they got to travel two weeks

1667
01:22:08,920 --> 01:22:12,360
Speaker 1: in a row. Now we've seen some teams, and you

1668
01:22:12,400 --> 01:22:15,080
Speaker 1: know what the Colts did that. The Colts did that

1669
01:22:15,160 --> 01:22:18,519
Speaker 1: to us. After going to Jacksonville, they went they lost

1670
01:22:18,560 --> 01:22:20,240
Speaker 1: to Jacksonville sixth to nothing, had to go back on

1671
01:22:20,280 --> 01:22:22,080
Speaker 1: the road the second week and then came here and

1672
01:22:22,120 --> 01:22:24,840
Speaker 1: they played like their season was at risk. I was.

1673
01:22:25,040 --> 01:22:27,200
Speaker 1: I don't know that we played we were playing with

1674
01:22:27,320 --> 01:22:29,479
Speaker 1: that nine game streak kitting hanging over our heads. I

1675
01:22:29,560 --> 01:22:31,400
Speaker 1: don't think we played with a sense of urgency in

1676
01:22:31,479 --> 01:22:34,040
Speaker 1: that game. I think, and as crazy as it sounds,

1677
01:22:34,400 --> 01:22:37,120
Speaker 1: I kind of feel like in that game, we kept

1678
01:22:37,160 --> 01:22:39,560
Speaker 1: looking at each other going Okay, well, like we'll win it.

1679
01:22:40,000 --> 01:22:41,680
Speaker 1: We just you know, we'll get the ball, Like, look,

1680
01:22:41,720 --> 01:22:43,280
Speaker 1: we're gonna get to stop here in third and one

1681
01:22:43,479 --> 01:22:44,960
Speaker 1: again the game, and we're gonna go win the game.

1682
01:22:44,960 --> 01:22:47,640
Speaker 1: That's what we've been doing. And then we never got

1683
01:22:47,680 --> 01:22:51,080
Speaker 1: the ball back. So I kind of felt like, but

1684
01:22:51,240 --> 01:22:53,040
Speaker 1: we didn't. I don't think we played well in that game,

1685
01:22:53,040 --> 01:22:55,439
Speaker 1: and I think the Colts played exceptionally well in that game. Now,

1686
01:22:56,960 --> 01:22:58,599
Speaker 1: I think there are some things right, and I think

1687
01:22:58,640 --> 01:23:03,439
Speaker 1: there are some things that that I mean to me,

1688
01:23:03,520 --> 01:23:05,320
Speaker 1: there's one There's one and only one key in this game,

1689
01:23:06,280 --> 01:23:09,280
Speaker 1: and that is t Y Hilton can't go nine for

1690
01:23:09,479 --> 01:23:11,800
Speaker 1: two hundred. It just can't. It can't happen. You're not

1691
01:23:11,840 --> 01:23:14,439
Speaker 1: gonna win that game. And even with t Y going off,

1692
01:23:14,479 --> 01:23:16,240
Speaker 1: you still had a chance. If you've gotten ball back

1693
01:23:16,320 --> 01:23:17,720
Speaker 1: one time, you had a chance to go down there

1694
01:23:17,720 --> 01:23:19,840
Speaker 1: and win that game. And how different would life be

1695
01:23:19,960 --> 01:23:22,720
Speaker 1: at that point if you do, because you knocked the

1696
01:23:22,760 --> 01:23:26,080
Speaker 1: Colts out. More than likely you knocked the Colts out

1697
01:23:26,200 --> 01:23:28,680
Speaker 1: because at that point they get if they lose that game,

1698
01:23:28,800 --> 01:23:30,719
Speaker 1: they're gonna lose another they're not gonna come back against

1699
01:23:30,760 --> 01:23:33,840
Speaker 1: the Giants, so they're out. So then you get to buy,

1700
01:23:34,920 --> 01:23:39,080
Speaker 1: and maybe if you get I mean, just thinking back

1701
01:23:40,000 --> 01:23:42,720
Speaker 1: to it, it's kind of frustrating because you not only

1702
01:23:42,760 --> 01:23:44,120
Speaker 1: would you gonna buy, you being the normbre team in

1703
01:23:44,120 --> 01:23:46,720
Speaker 1: the AFC. Yeah, and you'd sit there and you'd watch

1704
01:23:46,760 --> 01:23:48,240
Speaker 1: this weekend and you and I would be talking about, Hey,

1705
01:23:48,280 --> 01:23:49,560
Speaker 1: we're gonna get a couple of days off here, what

1706
01:23:49,600 --> 01:23:52,439
Speaker 1: are we gonna do with it? But that said, you didn't.

1707
01:23:52,479 --> 01:23:54,000
Speaker 1: You didn't do that, you didn't take care of business,

1708
01:23:54,040 --> 01:23:55,720
Speaker 1: and so now you gotta play that week and you

1709
01:23:55,800 --> 01:23:59,320
Speaker 1: know what, you hold t Y Hilton in check. You

1710
01:23:59,479 --> 01:24:01,559
Speaker 1: keep Andrew Luck from going off. And the other night,

1711
01:24:02,160 --> 01:24:05,160
Speaker 1: the other night, it took a couple of turnovers for

1712
01:24:05,280 --> 01:24:07,519
Speaker 1: the Colts to get beyond twenty four points, and that

1713
01:24:07,600 --> 01:24:09,880
Speaker 1: was a Titans defense that was playing without Drell Casey,

1714
01:24:10,240 --> 01:24:14,400
Speaker 1: playing without Bryan Rackpo, and they still they got twenty

1715
01:24:14,439 --> 01:24:16,040
Speaker 1: four points, and it was like then they kind of

1716
01:24:16,080 --> 01:24:18,000
Speaker 1: shut it down and they didn't do anything really the

1717
01:24:18,040 --> 01:24:20,559
Speaker 1: rest of the night until they got the turnovers at

1718
01:24:20,600 --> 01:24:23,000
Speaker 1: the end of the game. So I think from that standpoint,

1719
01:24:23,000 --> 01:24:24,800
Speaker 1: if we just keep the hammer down on these guys

1720
01:24:25,439 --> 01:24:28,080
Speaker 1: and don't let up. At twenty eight to ten up

1721
01:24:28,120 --> 01:24:30,560
Speaker 1: in Indie, when we were up twenty eight ten was

1722
01:24:30,680 --> 01:24:32,479
Speaker 1: seven and a half because we had that was seven

1723
01:24:32,520 --> 01:24:34,000
Speaker 1: minutes left in the third quarter. We had twenty to

1724
01:24:34,160 --> 01:24:35,800
Speaker 1: ten lead. We had just gone in an eight minute

1725
01:24:35,840 --> 01:24:37,640
Speaker 1: drive to start to start the half. It was the

1726
01:24:37,760 --> 01:24:41,200
Speaker 1: chokehold of all chokehold drives this season. Yeah, and amazing,

1727
01:24:41,360 --> 01:24:44,479
Speaker 1: and we just blinked and then they went two minutes

1728
01:24:44,520 --> 01:24:47,720
Speaker 1: and they got themselves back in the ballgame. But you know,

1729
01:24:47,800 --> 01:24:49,320
Speaker 1: that's the thing. You got to keep the hammer down

1730
01:24:49,360 --> 01:24:51,519
Speaker 1: with luck. I almost think I almost think the Colts

1731
01:24:51,560 --> 01:24:54,439
Speaker 1: are better off playing two minute and being in two

1732
01:24:54,439 --> 01:24:56,280
Speaker 1: minute the whole time. So maybe if you get a lead,

1733
01:24:56,320 --> 01:24:57,960
Speaker 1: that's what you're gonna get from them. But then again,

1734
01:24:58,360 --> 01:25:01,160
Speaker 1: if they make mistakes and then we get the ball back,

1735
01:25:02,040 --> 01:25:04,160
Speaker 1: we're gonna be We're gonna put them in a world

1736
01:25:04,200 --> 01:25:05,800
Speaker 1: a hurt, in a defense in a world a hurt.

1737
01:25:06,040 --> 01:25:08,680
Speaker 1: If you would like to hear all of that podcast

1738
01:25:08,840 --> 01:25:11,920
Speaker 1: in the Lab or Deep Slant or vandom resview and

1739
01:25:12,040 --> 01:25:16,439
Speaker 1: go to wherever your podcasts are readily available to you iTunes, Stitcher,

1740
01:25:16,560 --> 01:25:19,559
Speaker 1: tune in however you get your podcasts, go get all

1741
01:25:19,600 --> 01:25:21,320
Speaker 1: of them there. You can also get Texans All Access.

1742
01:25:21,439 --> 01:25:23,519
Speaker 1: If you miss this show, you might be listening to

1743
01:25:23,640 --> 01:25:26,280
Speaker 1: it right now on podcasts, So go get all the podcasts.

1744
01:25:26,320 --> 01:25:27,519
Speaker 1: You can hear the rest of what we had to

1745
01:25:27,560 --> 01:25:31,479
Speaker 1: say on in the lab. Great stuff from Drew Doherty

1746
01:25:31,840 --> 01:25:35,120
Speaker 1: and great stuff from everybody who joined me tonight DPCD

1747
01:25:35,280 --> 01:25:39,519
Speaker 1: with Caroline Can, Brian Gaine, Mark vandamer Andre where Drew Doherty.

1748
01:25:39,960 --> 01:25:41,880
Speaker 1: Gott to thank all of them, gott to thank all

1749
01:25:41,920 --> 01:25:45,080
Speaker 1: of you for listening and being here every single Wednesday.

1750
01:25:45,320 --> 01:25:47,160
Speaker 1: Gotta go get this one. We still have our shows

1751
01:25:47,200 --> 01:25:50,200
Speaker 1: tomorrow and Friday, and then it's game time on Saturday,

1752
01:25:50,280 --> 01:25:53,920
Speaker 1: three thirty five kickoff. Be here, be loud, and let's

1753
01:25:53,960 --> 01:25:55,800
Speaker 1: go get this one. We'll talk more about the next

1754
01:25:55,840 --> 01:25:57,240
Speaker 1: couple of days. I'll give you my keys to a

1755
01:25:57,360 --> 01:25:59,960
Speaker 1: victory on Friday evening. I don't think they're gonna be

1756
01:26:00,200 --> 01:26:02,200
Speaker 1: much different than they were the first time or the

1757
01:26:02,280 --> 01:26:05,720
Speaker 1: second time. Hopefully they're executed the third time. We'll see

1758
01:26:05,760 --> 01:26:07,280
Speaker 1: that everybody and has always go Texans