Speaker 1: Hello, Texans, Welcome to the program big Thursday night edition
Speaker 1: of Texans All Access. As we have John McLean coming
Speaker 1: up in the next segment, John Harris and I though,
Speaker 1: we had a chance to visit with the quarterbacks coach
Speaker 1: for your Texans, a guy who played at Humble High School,
Speaker 1: Texas A and M. He's been around the NFL and
Speaker 1: now he's the QB coach here in Houston. Gerard Johnson.
Speaker 1: All right, coach, let's talk a little bit about the Bears.
Speaker 1: But first wrap up week one for us, good quarterback play.
Speaker 1: You've seen it all camp really and into week one
Speaker 1: that has to be gratifying to you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's always good to come out with
Speaker 2: the win, especially week one. I mean for us, I
Speaker 2: mean for most teams in the NFL, it's the first
Speaker 2: time that that group is together, you know, and so
Speaker 2: say with us, we have a lot of guys coming back.
Speaker 2: Of course, he has a new addition, and so really
Speaker 2: you don't really know what it's going to be like
Speaker 2: until you get out there and battle together, you know.
Speaker 2: So for us to come out with the win was huge,
Speaker 2: But there's definitely a lot to clean up. Definitely a
Speaker 2: lot of things that we can do better. You know,
Speaker 2: I thought CJ played well, We played well enough for
Speaker 2: the win, but at the same time, we know there's
Speaker 2: things we can do to kind of make us a
Speaker 2: little more efficient so we can keep pushing along.
Speaker 3: Coach.
Speaker 4: Before the game, I was talking to Matt a little bit,
Speaker 4: Matt Burke, and he felt pretty confident about the plan
Speaker 4: they had, But then he said something that kind of
Speaker 4: resonated with me. We've talked about this a little bit
Speaker 4: going into week one, and that is it's kind of
Speaker 4: a mystery, you know, you kind of get that Scooby
Speaker 4: Doo mystery machine, like you might see something a little different.
Speaker 4: Even though we see these guys a lot, it might
Speaker 4: see a little bit different. How long did it take
Speaker 4: in week one? How long does it usually take kind
Speaker 4: of week one to go Okay, they're doing this. They
Speaker 4: did this in week eighteen, but now they're looking at
Speaker 4: like this. I would imagine as part of the thrilling
Speaker 4: job of being a coach to kind of figure that out.
Speaker 4: But how long does that kind of take as you're
Speaker 4: on the sidelines trying to figure that all?
Speaker 3: I mean, I will say at least.
Speaker 2: By halftime we can all sit down and have conversations
Speaker 2: about what we're seeing and at least at the very
Speaker 2: least you see like how they're trying to attack us,
Speaker 2: we can try to anticipate what type of game?
Speaker 3: Is this going to be a man game? Is it
Speaker 3: a zone game?
Speaker 2: You know, they trying to pressure us, Like what exactly
Speaker 2: do like big picture we think they're trying to do.
Speaker 2: But I do think that's why training camp are so important.
Speaker 2: At the end of the day, I think you're only
Speaker 2: as good as your core plays, the things that you
Speaker 2: do and you know in and out where it's a
Speaker 2: base base defense for us and offense. Just the core
Speaker 2: concepts of things we do. That's what you lean on
Speaker 2: when times get tough. So going into week one, you
Speaker 2: want to put a lot of things out there that
Speaker 2: you know, you have confidence that if we see anything
Speaker 2: that that you know, anything that may surprise us, we
Speaker 2: know that we can fall back on our training. This
Speaker 2: is the play that we just execute really well. I
Speaker 2: think our guys did a good job of that.
Speaker 1: We see practice during training camp and it's ones versus ones.
Speaker 1: It's really healthy competition. You get a lot of simulations
Speaker 1: of oh that pocket is collapsing, got to get.
Speaker 3: The ball out.
Speaker 1: How do you work on that in the regular season
Speaker 1: during the week, how do you simulate those things so
Speaker 1: you can continue to be good at it?
Speaker 3: You know, it's just you.
Speaker 2: You get good looks from your scout team, and I
Speaker 2: think Demico really demands that our guys practice hard or
Speaker 2: there's our scout players. We have a couple periods a
Speaker 2: week where we go good on good. Still of course
Speaker 2: we're never going to the ground. It's in the pretty
Speaker 2: control setting. But at the same time, like you want
Speaker 2: to keep you know, Demikos want to keep your iron sharp,
Speaker 2: but making sure we're still even we're going to scouts team,
Speaker 2: we're giving good looks. But you just try to be
Speaker 2: intentional in everything that you do. And you just still
Speaker 2: trying to find ways for me, whether it's an individual period,
Speaker 2: like I'm just trying to find ways to keep the
Speaker 2: quarterbacks uncomfortable so we can kind of manage and function
Speaker 2: in an uncomfortable setting because at the end of the day,
Speaker 2: when when the pockets burning down, it's uncomfortable and we
Speaker 2: got to thrive in that setting.
Speaker 4: Coach, I want to ask you about both your quarterbacks
Speaker 4: because it felt like watching your training camp that we
Speaker 4: saw a lot of growth in Davis Mills as much
Speaker 4: as we saw growth in CJ.
Speaker 3: Strouts.
Speaker 4: I want to ask you about the growth of both guys.
Speaker 4: What have you seen in your quarterbacks and CJ and
Speaker 4: Davis from gear one a.
Speaker 3: Year or two for CJ, but year three to year
Speaker 3: four for Davis.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think for CJ, it just starts with,
Speaker 2: you know, just the challenge of from a leadership standpoint
Speaker 2: on and off the field. He's always been abbing the
Speaker 2: guy's rally around him. But as far as on the field,
Speaker 2: just like be a fixer out there, Like what can
Speaker 2: you do to make someone else's job easier?
Speaker 3: How can you help you know, some.
Speaker 2: Of our newer players with the scheme, what can we
Speaker 2: do from a cadence standpoint? We can use more cadences
Speaker 2: now so the D line didn't get a jump on us.
Speaker 2: You know, we can do different things in motions, We
Speaker 2: can add more shifts, just kind of putting more on
Speaker 2: him from an operational standpoint to find ways to gain
Speaker 2: that extra edge, all while him still getting you know,
Speaker 2: trusting his eyes and getting the ball out on time
Speaker 2: and just playing at a high level like he did
Speaker 2: last year. And you know, I think as a quarterback,
Speaker 2: you're constantly chasing that perfect game.
Speaker 3: You know, it's really hard to do. It's a hard
Speaker 3: position in sports.
Speaker 2: And I got a lot of respect for both of
Speaker 2: those guys on just kind of their temperament and how
Speaker 2: they've improved. And then Davis, I was just it was
Speaker 2: cool to see Davis. I mean, like I said, I
Speaker 2: think Davis has started talent in the NFL. I'll be
Speaker 2: the first to say that I'm a champion of Davis,
Speaker 2: and I think he's a really good player.
Speaker 3: He's a great person.
Speaker 2: He works really hard, and I think that he's put
Speaker 2: in a lot of work for him to his reaction time,
Speaker 2: his ball placement, his accuracy, his base, his footwork, all
Speaker 2: the different things that allows his ability to come out.
Speaker 2: And that's my biggest thing for him is you know,
Speaker 2: I think he's an extremely talented quarterback, one of the
Speaker 2: top end talents in the NFL. But consistency come from
Speaker 2: efficiency and what can we do to where that.
Speaker 3: Talent can be on display over and over and over again.
Speaker 2: Because the league isn't about who's good, is who's good
Speaker 2: the most right? Who can we call tim plays? Can
Speaker 2: we on point nine out of ten times, if not
Speaker 2: ten out of ten times. And it's a lot of
Speaker 2: hard work that goes into that. And to his credit
Speaker 2: and CJ's credit, they put a lot of hard work
Speaker 2: in their fun to coach.
Speaker 3: Gerard Johnson with us.
Speaker 1: All Right, So if you're gonna be a good quarterback,
Speaker 1: you have to take advantage of all the opportunities to
Speaker 1: get better, and sometimes you have to create them for yourself. Right,
Speaker 1: Like a basketball player can shoot jumpers in the gym.
Speaker 1: As a quarterback, what can you do? What should you
Speaker 1: do away from the building, off season, whatever the case
Speaker 1: may be, to continually improve.
Speaker 2: Oh, I mean I think what I love is man.
Speaker 2: Our guys love football, you know, so even in their
Speaker 2: off time, I mean, those guys are always doing things,
Speaker 2: try to get themselves better, whether it's their body, their diet,
Speaker 2: getting the guys to get or to throw. I know,
Speaker 2: both of them go, you know, like CJ. Gosa to
Speaker 2: his guys in California who just really fine tuned by
Speaker 2: mechanics and those things.
Speaker 3: And those guys at three d QB do a really
Speaker 3: good job.
Speaker 2: And then I just try to keep challenging them to
Speaker 2: try to find drills and for me, a reactive state,
Speaker 2: Like we're constantly a reactive state at quarterback, and so
Speaker 2: I try to add a reactionary element to as many
Speaker 2: drills as I can that they don't know what's coming
Speaker 2: next while why while still being able to maintain their fundamentals,
Speaker 2: because that's to me, that's the best you can do.
Speaker 2: To try to simulate a game and try to put
Speaker 2: them in as many really bad situations as possible and
Speaker 2: see if they can find their way out of it
Speaker 2: in a drill setting to try to, you know, prepare
Speaker 2: them for the game.
Speaker 4: You brought up something, Mark just brought it up. You
Speaker 4: brought it up, the three QB. The private quarterback coaches tutors.
Speaker 4: I mean, I've heard over the years, you know about
Speaker 4: you know, there are certain quarterback tutors that are like, hey,
Speaker 4: you know you should be listening to us versus your coaches.
Speaker 4: And there are some that are like no, no, no, your
Speaker 4: coaches want you to do this. We're just working on
Speaker 4: the mechanics. How do you kind of look at that
Speaker 4: that balance between you being the quarterback coach here with
Speaker 4: you with Houston Texas, but you got your private quarterback
Speaker 4: guys that are working with your quarterbacks throughout the offseason
Speaker 4: that kind of thing. How do you kind of kind
Speaker 4: of you kind of manage it, how do you kind
Speaker 4: of see that relationship.
Speaker 3: Well, I think that you know, it's all about trust
Speaker 3: first off.
Speaker 2: But I do think that you know, one, I lived
Speaker 2: in that world right trying the quarterback guru space for
Speaker 2: lack of a better term, for a while, and so I
Speaker 2: have a respect for what they do. I do think
Speaker 2: also me being a high school coach and my parents,
Speaker 2: my dad being a coach, like al out of respect
Speaker 2: for coaching, and it's not mutually excluded, like we're doing
Speaker 2: two different things. But I think if there's a healthy
Speaker 2: respect amongst each other to where like I understand, their
Speaker 2: whole job is to get make their client happy and
Speaker 2: to get their quarterback to throw the ball better. And
Speaker 2: then for us as coaches is what can we do
Speaker 2: to get our team better? And that fits our scheme
Speaker 2: because I think that's the that's the defining defining factors,
Speaker 2: the combination of technique versus scheme.
Speaker 3: Does this technique match what we're asking you to do
Speaker 3: from a play standpoint. I do think we're professionals.
Speaker 2: It's easier because we just tell the quarterbacks look like
Speaker 2: you guys are in control, right, You're paying someone to
Speaker 2: help to train you. So just go there with it,
Speaker 2: awareness stuff, what we're asking to do from a technique standpoint,
Speaker 2: and then you know, go get the training.
Speaker 3: Because we don't have the time here to sit and just.
Speaker 2: Work on purely getting the ball to spend two more
Speaker 2: revolutions tighter. That's just not what we do as position coaches.
Speaker 2: So I do think there's a place forward. Those guys
Speaker 2: really good job, But I think it's up to the
Speaker 2: player to really kind of set up the boundaries of
Speaker 2: here's what I'm willing to fix, here's the non negotiable.
Speaker 2: And but at the same time I talk to those guys,
Speaker 2: they talk to me. I think we all have trust,
Speaker 2: we all communicate with each other. At the end of
Speaker 2: the day, we all want what's best for the player,
Speaker 2: and whatever we got to do that, we'll get that done.
Speaker 1: Gerrod, you were with multiple NFL teams as a player.
Speaker 1: How did that help you become a good coach, being
Speaker 1: around a lot of different quarterbacks, different systems, different coaches
Speaker 1: speak to that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it just gave me my perspective. You know,
Speaker 2: every every team is different, every organization is different. Every
Speaker 2: quarterback room is different. I've seen so many players play,
Speaker 2: I've seen so many different ways to throw on the ball.
Speaker 3: I've seen so many different quarterbacks.
Speaker 2: Process, I mean, or how they process the game week,
Speaker 2: whether it's Roethlisberger or Cutler or even Russell when I
Speaker 2: was in Seattle when he was you know, young in
Speaker 2: the league, and Flakka when I was in Baltimore, and
Speaker 2: then just also quarterback coaches. So like for me as
Speaker 2: a quarterback, like you get access to a lack of
Speaker 2: our term, the c suite of any organization, right, you
Speaker 2: get access to management, whether it's you get acts to
Speaker 2: the quarterback coach, the coordinator, the head coach, the moment
Speaker 2: you put on your red jersey. And so I was
Speaker 2: able to be around a lot of really good guys,
Speaker 2: and I just think my perspective and you just you
Speaker 2: do things long enough, you just run into a bunch
Speaker 2: of experiences that kind of shape the way you think
Speaker 2: about things to where that ideally, when something comes across
Speaker 2: my desk or a situation happens, I can pull from
Speaker 2: some some experiences of mind and maybe give some insight
Speaker 2: that can you know, give a solution to the situation.
Speaker 4: Coach who played some big games last year at the
Speaker 4: end of the year, Indie playoff games, et cetera. But
Speaker 4: a Sunday night game in Houston, how cool is that?
Speaker 4: And getting ready for the Bears? What do you see
Speaker 4: on tape? And how excited are you for this one?
Speaker 4: Obviously with a big challenge against Chicago.
Speaker 3: I'm super excited. You know, I have a lot of
Speaker 3: respect for the Bears.
Speaker 2: I've got a lot of respect for you for even
Speaker 2: flues To their head coach, and a lot of the
Speaker 2: guys on that staff. We were in Indie together, Yeah,
Speaker 2: over three years with coach flues Man, and I think
Speaker 2: he's a heck of a Coach's defense is fast, they're opportunistic.
Speaker 2: I mean they they're going to try to make things uncomfortable.
Speaker 2: But at the same time, I think that, you know,
Speaker 2: I think Bobby came up with a really good plan
Speaker 2: this week and we'll see what happens on Sunday. But
Speaker 2: you know, I expect the app your atmosphere to be great.
Speaker 2: I think night games are always a special special on
Speaker 2: national TV. That's the ones you dream about as a kid.
Speaker 2: And I think our city is going to show up
Speaker 2: and show out and I'm looking forward.
Speaker 3: To it, all right.
Speaker 1: George had your number retired by the whole high school. Congratulations?
Speaker 3: What was that like for you?
Speaker 2: For me, it was just full startle man. I spent
Speaker 2: my childhood at that school. You know, my late father,
Speaker 2: Larry Johnson, was a coaching principal. They're an educator for
Speaker 2: over twenty years. So I was a ball boy.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: Some of my fondest memories are being three four years old,
Speaker 2: terrorizing that gym and all the staff and Umble High School.
Speaker 2: I was probably annoying the heck out of but I
Speaker 2: think that the first off coach Robert Murphy at Humble
Speaker 2: High School. I mean, it was his vision to bring
Speaker 2: us all back and kind of honors in that way,
Speaker 2: and so I got to give him all the credit.
Speaker 2: It was such a I didn't really know what to expect, man,
Speaker 2: but it was blue all expectations out the water. I
Speaker 2: think our families, all of us, and our families can
Speaker 2: say that we really enjoyed it, and it's we appreciate
Speaker 2: it because we poured so much into Your high school
Speaker 2: experience is special to everybody.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 1: So I know obviously your dad ranks high in this,
Speaker 1: but coaches who have had a big influence on you.
Speaker 1: And where does John Lopez rank in that he stopped ten?
Speaker 3: No, no doubt, you know he's top ten.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: I've had some good coaches, man, But like some of
Speaker 2: my best experiences was AU basketball.
Speaker 3: That was a huge part.
Speaker 2: How passionate in the Hoaston Hoops and John Lopez and
Speaker 2: I think Christian Beg is running it now, man. And
Speaker 2: but just those AU experiences taught me a lot about life, Yeah, traveling,
Speaker 2: you know, playing competition. I mean, so I love playing
Speaker 2: for the Houston Hoops and John was our coach, and
Speaker 2: me and Jacob and and Vince and our whole crew
Speaker 2: from I think eighth grade on. We played a lot
Speaker 2: of basketball games. But I just want to touch one
Speaker 2: more thing on the humble deal, man. Like the coolest
Speaker 2: thing for me was also the guys I went in with.
Speaker 2: So my dad coached it either was a coach or
Speaker 2: a principal with majority of the guys who also went
Speaker 2: in with me. So like David Gibbons, David Boston, bertrand
Speaker 2: Barry I were the number one. Because David Gibbons were
Speaker 2: the number one and his nickname was the Bullet. So
Speaker 2: my little League Football, Jersey was number one and I
Speaker 2: wore throughout my career. And then to hear Sammy Davis
Speaker 2: say that he wore thirty four because of David Boston
Speaker 2: he was playing. And then to hear David Boston say
Speaker 2: he worked thirty four because of bertrand Barry. It was
Speaker 2: a generational kind of thing that kind of went on
Speaker 2: as we all got to talking and Jackie Battle and
Speaker 2: all the other guys. Man, it was cool to see
Speaker 2: just kind of how we all had somebody to look
Speaker 2: up to, and I mean shout out to Humble, Texas,
Speaker 2: my hometown and the village of people that had helped
Speaker 2: raise all of us. Man, we're a product of that,
Speaker 2: and we couldn't be proud of to be from there
Speaker 2: and to be honored.
Speaker 3: Well, congratulations on that. In best of luck Sunday, Thanks jro.
Speaker 1: I appreciate Johnny that young man has head coach written
Speaker 1: all over him.
Speaker 3: Oh. I think he has a hat that says future
Speaker 3: head coach.
Speaker 1: No, he doesn't, but I feel like he should, because
Speaker 1: clearly you are looking at a future head coach in
Speaker 1: this league.
Speaker 3: You just feel it. Maybe college too. I don't know
Speaker 3: what he wants to do.
Speaker 1: We didn't talk to him about that, but I think
Speaker 1: you and I are in agreement on this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's no question. My son and I Jack.
Speaker 4: We were getting caught up on thirty Rock and one
Speaker 4: of our favorite characters, Jonah Friedlander, wears a hat, like
Speaker 4: a different hat of a different.
Speaker 3: Saying on it. Oh yeah.
Speaker 4: Immediately when you said that, that came to mind, like,
Speaker 4: oh yeah, future head coach, because it's we sat in
Speaker 4: here with a lot of coaches that were like, Okay,
Speaker 4: that guy's going to be a head coach one day.
Speaker 4: I'll give you one that fits that. That realm too,
Speaker 4: and he's very relevant right now in college as Dan Lynn. Okay,
Speaker 4: Anthony Lynn's son. We had him in here and I
Speaker 4: remember when he left our interview, were like, oh yeah,
Speaker 4: there's a future there and not just because his dad
Speaker 4: was head coach, but he's gone to USC as a
Speaker 4: defensive coordinator at USC and pitched a shut out against
Speaker 4: Utah State. Now you tos date it was the first
Speaker 4: shutout for USC since twenty eleven?
Speaker 3: How many eleven of any a shutout?
Speaker 4: Yeah, a shutout the first time they pitched the shutout
Speaker 4: in thirteen years, Daniel in and they got it. Done
Speaker 4: against LSU, got it done against Utah State. Now they're
Speaker 4: going into the Big ten. So there's gonna be some
Speaker 4: some hiccups.
Speaker 1: But that's just sounds so so not right, so weird us.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're gonna be play there Big ten schedule.
Speaker 1: Yeah what Yeah, they're supposed to be sworn enemies the
Speaker 1: PAC ten, the Big ten, Pack ten mark. Yes, it
Speaker 1: used to be called the PAC ten. Wasn't it the
Speaker 1: Pack eight? It was the pack It went to the
Speaker 1: PAC ten. Then it grew to twelve, but it stayed.
Speaker 4: Then it was the PAC twelve, but then it dissolved
Speaker 4: and became the PAC two. But now they're pulling in
Speaker 4: four for the Mount West and now it's a six pack.
Speaker 3: Okay, So you and I I think it are also
Speaker 3: an agreement on this. Give it up. Yeah, I just
Speaker 3: come on, what are you doing?
Speaker 1: You're not who you were in their press release and
Speaker 1: the Pack twelve has been this, they go through their history. Really,
Speaker 1: you're going to talk about all the teams that left you.
Speaker 4: It's crazy to do that. Here's what they're This is
Speaker 4: my thought. They're not going to be a power conference.
Speaker 4: It's not going to it's the power for now. It's
Speaker 4: the acc SEC, Big ten, Big twelve, right done.
Speaker 3: The Pac twelve is not going to be a power conference.
Speaker 3: So what's the attraction Boise joining them? Here's what they want,
Speaker 3: the name, the brand name.
Speaker 4: Keep in mind that they the Football Playoff takes the
Speaker 4: top hot the highest ranked team from the lower conferences
Speaker 4: into the playoff automatical, right, the conference champion highest ranked. Well,
Speaker 4: if you have those teams Washington State, Oregon State and
Speaker 4: they're all playing each other, that conference starts moving to
Speaker 4: the forefront above some of the other conferences in college football.
Speaker 1: So just because you have Washington State and Oregon State,
Speaker 1: that's all you're getting.
Speaker 3: If you're those schools, well, Boise State, yeah, Fresno State.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to think who all that.
Speaker 1: I know that those schools already have a situation where
Speaker 1: you could say join the Mountain West.
Speaker 3: I let's stick together. I'm with you on that. I'm
Speaker 3: with you on that.
Speaker 4: So again, that's the only that's the only positive that
Speaker 4: I can see out of this, is that the perception
Speaker 4: of whatever this new Pac ten Pack eight whatever becomes,
Speaker 4: that perception moves that champion up in the rankings traditional
Speaker 4: year and year out, and so they're gonna get a
Speaker 4: pseudo automatic bid to the playoff.
Speaker 3: Listen, I don't know.
Speaker 4: That's the only thing I can I can think of,
Speaker 4: because they're not gonna get a massive TV deal.
Speaker 3: That's not gonna happen. No, they're not going that.
Speaker 4: They might get ESPN in the c like the Washington
Speaker 4: State Organs, they have the CW now, so it's cool
Speaker 4: that they got a deal. Now, the ACC has some
Speaker 4: of the CW two. But if you pull in those schools,
Speaker 4: maybe you get the ESPN and CW money and the
Speaker 4: conference has a higher profile.
Speaker 3: I don't know. It's I've gotta have.
Speaker 1: If I'm a college conference, I gotta have ESPN or five.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I got CBS. I gotta have one of those.
Speaker 1: I gotta have somebody who's having capabilities has something.
Speaker 4: But it's come on, I mean even ESPN plus for
Speaker 4: people to go back and watch it later, especially out
Speaker 4: there games that start at nine o'clock at night, like
Speaker 4: if we're for an East Coast or we're an Eastern
Speaker 4: time on the road, I mean we go to I
Speaker 4: mean I go to bed ten fifteen, ten thirty games
Speaker 4: just kicking off. I missed all of the Texas Tech
Speaker 4: Washington State game the other night. Had to go back
Speaker 4: and watch it and watch Washington State's quarterback run run
Speaker 4: for one hundred ninety seven yards, which is weird to say.
Speaker 4: But I didn't see any of that game. I gotta
Speaker 4: get to bed, get ready for our game in the morning. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and you don't see anything. But I can go back
Speaker 4: and I can watch that game, and I think that
Speaker 4: was on Fox. But I can go back and watch
Speaker 4: the games in the ICPN Plus. But that's what you're
Speaker 4: gonna have to do. So I don't know.
Speaker 3: The whole realignment thing is just it's and the.
Speaker 1: TV landscape is crazy because ESPN itself, wait what service?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 1: So now they have Plus. They used have ESPN three,
Speaker 1: now it's Plus. The venue thing got derailed, but they're
Speaker 1: still gonna come out with another one. Like I can't
Speaker 1: keep track of it all. And I'm in this business
Speaker 1: in a big way and it's still difficult to keep
Speaker 1: track of it. Is nuts. They're making it very difficult
Speaker 1: on the consumer. Now, speaking of TV, the number one
Speaker 1: television show in the country is Sunday Night Football. The
Speaker 1: Texans are, of course part of it, facing the Chicago Bears.
Speaker 1: How big this is a rhetorical question, but I want
Speaker 1: you to expand on this.
Speaker 3: How big is this game? I think for the fans, this.
Speaker 1: Is a humongous game primetime first time in a long time. Look,
Speaker 1: we had primetime in twenty two, in primetime in twenty one,
Speaker 1: but it's not the same. This is Sunday night football,
Speaker 1: this is Carrie Underwood, this is all of it. And
Speaker 1: there's just something very special about that. And even though
Speaker 1: the Bears are not they're not the eighty five Bears,
Speaker 1: they're not Jay Cutler's Bears.
Speaker 3: They're not a great football team, but they're the Chicago Bears.
Speaker 1: They're historic, they're one of the oldest teams in the league,
Speaker 1: along with the Packers, and they're from the number three
Speaker 1: market in the country. All of that adds up to special.
Speaker 1: They're in your building.
Speaker 4: So to that end, you and I would have this conversation,
Speaker 4: well a few years ago, Oh man, how much Chicago
Speaker 4: Bears blue are we going to see in the crowd?
Speaker 4: How much Chicago Bears orange are we going to see
Speaker 4: in the crowd? I think we'll see some Sunday Night,
Speaker 4: but I got a feeling that we're not going to
Speaker 4: see too much of it. But I also like this
Speaker 4: from a Jersey game. We're going liberty white. They're going
Speaker 4: full on orange. They're wearing all orange.
Speaker 3: That's great, get them out of their tradition. Pretty cool.
Speaker 3: So from that standpoint, but to your point.
Speaker 1: Man, that is one of the most badass uniforms in
Speaker 1: the league, except when they wear orange.
Speaker 3: So go ahead wear orange. I've been thinking about this
Speaker 3: since the schedule came out. I'll never forget you called me.
Speaker 3: You called me. I was in ChB. It was with
Speaker 3: my son Jack and we're rolling through GB and I.
Speaker 4: See you call on the day they were supposed to
Speaker 4: get the schedule, and You're like, are you sitting down?
Speaker 4: And I'm like no, I'm in HB and walking around
Speaker 4: and so I'm literally an HB with the phone up
Speaker 4: to my ear and you're you're kind of outlaying some
Speaker 4: of the things that you know, and you said week
Speaker 4: two Sunday night Bears, and I that was the one
Speaker 4: that stood out to me more than anything, because I'm like,
Speaker 4: week two after Colts.
Speaker 3: On the road.
Speaker 4: Man, If we beat the Colts, oh man, this place
Speaker 4: is gonna rock. So for months I've been looking forward
Speaker 4: to this, and then we beat the Colts like okay,
Speaker 4: and then we beat the Colts in a way that
Speaker 4: it didn't anticipate us running the ball the way that
Speaker 4: we did and really kind of being the big bully
Speaker 4: on the block, like man wanted to be that bully
Speaker 4: on the block for a long time. Like when we
Speaker 4: walk in a stadium, the other team is like, oh boy,
Speaker 4: we better hitch up our breches because here they come.
Speaker 4: It's the Houston Texans, And I think, I hope that's
Speaker 4: the case on Sunday night, Like we walk in that
Speaker 4: building and there's just this collective we are the badasses,
Speaker 4: not them, and we take it to them. And then
Speaker 4: just letting his crowd eat, just letting them explode on
Speaker 4: every big play that happens, getting loud on third down,
Speaker 4: seeing Caleb with his hands up against his ears. That
Speaker 4: these rookie quarterbacks now it's changing college, but I watched
Speaker 4: it all throughout college. I'm watching these quarterbacks that have
Speaker 4: never dealt with this coach comsystem and their hands are
Speaker 4: by their ears and they just look like they're so miserable.
Speaker 4: That's the way it needs to be for Kayleb Williams.
Speaker 4: Make it miserable for him to hear anything from Shane Waldron.
Speaker 1: How will the Texans respond to all this? We'll discuss
Speaker 1: next with the General. John mcclan joins us on Texans Radio.
Speaker 1: It's Texans All Access. Mark Vandermer, John Harris with you
Speaker 1: joining us now the General, John McLain, John Sunday Night Football,
Speaker 1: the biggest show on television.
Speaker 3: There's nothing like it. Are you ready?
Speaker 5: I think the Texans are ready? And that's the key.
Speaker 6: And I've gone back and watched the Bears and the
Speaker 6: Titans and how will Levis just gave that game to
Speaker 6: Chicago with three turnovers in the fourth quarter, including one
Speaker 6: of the maybe the dumbest decision I've ever seen on
Speaker 6: an interception. And you know, NBC loves it because they
Speaker 6: can say this game features the unbeaten Bears versus.
Speaker 5: The unbeaten Texans.
Speaker 6: Just About everybody that I have seen on Digson spread
Speaker 6: is six. Everybody is taking the Texans about seven or more.
Speaker 3: M That's not good. I hate that, Marvi, I absolutely
Speaker 3: hate that. General.
Speaker 4: I don't like to see unanimous across the board for
Speaker 4: the Texans for a win by by any means.
Speaker 3: But General, we'll start. We'll start here.
Speaker 4: We talked a little bit Monday about this, but we
Speaker 4: don't think Joe Mixon is gonna end up with thirty
Speaker 4: carries again. However, the run game was too good to
Speaker 4: get away from. How do you think the run game
Speaker 4: split will go amongst the running backs and what do
Speaker 4: you expect to see kind of from the run game
Speaker 4: On Sunday night against the Bears.
Speaker 6: When Damian Bears got his three carries, Bobby Sloy did
Speaker 6: something he didn't do last year. He called it straight
Speaker 6: ahead runs. He didn't require him to do his own scheme,
Speaker 6: which is good because Damien got to get it the
Speaker 6: ball go straight ahead. They had some holes and you
Speaker 6: didn't know Matt Eberflus is a really good defensive coach,
Speaker 6: and so they had to go back to the drawing board.
Speaker 6: You know, they've been looking at this game plan since
Speaker 6: the offseason, and I'm sure it was all about CJ.
Speaker 6: Stroud in the passing game as it should have been.
Speaker 6: And then the way the offensive line blocked for the
Speaker 6: run and the tight ends moving Cage Stover to full
Speaker 6: back for fifteen snaps a fullback was a genius. And
Speaker 6: so the Bears will be all geared up to stop
Speaker 6: the run. Whether they can do it remains to be seen,
Speaker 6: but that just opened up the passing game. And I'm
Speaker 6: sure NBC would love to see the Texans throw the
Speaker 6: ball because CJ's Stroud is a star. They want to
Speaker 6: see the great receivers they have, and because if you
Speaker 6: run it all the time, as you guys know, most
Speaker 6: of the time, the game is going to be close.
Speaker 6: That game against Colts was close and shouldn't have been.
Speaker 6: You know, giving up those three long pass plays at
Speaker 6: average fifty something yards was ridiculous. And safety's got to
Speaker 6: play better fighting for the ball at coverage, and I'm
Speaker 6: pretty sure they're not going to be doing that again.
Speaker 6: But after watching Caleb Williams and I was watching Mark
Speaker 6: Sanchez and Greg Cosell break down the Bears offense and
Speaker 6: specifically Caleb Williams, and neither was complimentary of Caleb Williams.
Speaker 6: Everybody's gonna make mistakes, but they talked about his eyes
Speaker 6: were never down the field, his head was always running arounds,
Speaker 6: almost like he didn't want to be in the pocket.
Speaker 6: And I would guess I would think there's a good
Speaker 6: chance that will Anderson Jr. And Daniel Hunter are not
Speaker 6: gonna get shut out on sacks a second consecutive game,
Speaker 6: because you know Williams.
Speaker 5: Is going to be on the move and vulnerable.
Speaker 1: All right, let me ask both of you this, and
Speaker 1: I've got a back part of this question as well
Speaker 1: a follow up. But did NBC put this game on
Speaker 1: Sunday Night Football because of CJ. Stroud's success last year?
Speaker 1: Not for the texans sake, but because they feel like, hey,
Speaker 1: Stroud was successful as a rookie. Caleb Williams can be too.
Speaker 1: Is that a big reason why they put this game
Speaker 1: on the schedule.
Speaker 6: Absolutely? And I think it was. And I talk to
Speaker 6: you guys I talked to on every show I did
Speaker 6: weekly about it was so unfair for people to pick
Speaker 6: the Bears to go to the playoffs with a rookie quarterback.
Speaker 6: You know, what Stroud did is unusual. You know, there
Speaker 6: have been some quarterbacks that played great as rookie, Russell Wilson,
Speaker 6: Andrew Luck, Dak Prescott, but that's rare. I think all
Speaker 6: the rookies that have played so I think that Stroud's
Speaker 6: performance last year and the Texans performance in general, lifted
Speaker 6: the bar for rooky quarterbacks. That was unfair and Caleb
Speaker 6: Williams look lost. Now they got to be able to
Speaker 6: run the ball better. The Titans totally shut that offense
Speaker 6: down if will Lews just didn't give trapped the game
Speaker 6: for him in the fourth quarter. But I think they're
Speaker 6: gonna have big time trouble against Texas defense if I'm
Speaker 6: in Caleb Williams, and you know, NBC would love this
Speaker 6: if Caleb Williams comes out on the first series, doesn't
Speaker 6: play fake, goes deep seeing if they can have the
Speaker 6: same results as Anthony Richardson did, even though he can't
Speaker 6: throw the ball as far as Anthony richards But I
Speaker 6: think early in the season this is a great young
Speaker 6: quarterback matchup. Later in the season, I don't think you'd
Speaker 6: walk Caleb Williams in there because by then people could realize, oh,
Speaker 6: he's a rookies playing like most rookies.
Speaker 4: So to your question mark, I was listening in fact
Speaker 4: our buddy Sockapaco Silom, reporter for the Buffalo Bills WGR.
Speaker 3: You can hear him there during mid days.
Speaker 4: He sent me a clipp's of, Hey, I think you
Speaker 4: might like listening to this, and it was about a
Speaker 4: two minute clip. They had Mike North, Oh, yeah, who
Speaker 4: you know very well, and it was a two minute
Speaker 4: clip talking about they were asking him about the Digs
Speaker 4: Bills Texans kind of, you know, did that game need
Speaker 4: to be in primetime because of all the storylines that
Speaker 4: are there and all that kind of stuff, And so
Speaker 4: Mike kind of took it in a Texas direction. And
Speaker 4: one of the things that I heard in that interview
Speaker 4: that stood out to me was, and this happens I
Speaker 4: think for a lot of different things.
Speaker 3: It was like when you're.
Speaker 4: Wrong about something, like I was wrong about Dwayne Brown,
Speaker 4: and so you kind of almost go the absolute opposite
Speaker 4: way and you become this big fan like I was.
Speaker 4: I was down on Dwayne Brown and then I was like, Okay,
Speaker 4: I was really wrong. Then you become this big fan
Speaker 4: of Dwayne Brown.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: They knew they were wrong about the Texans last year,
Speaker 4: the schedule makers, Mike North, Blake Jones.
Speaker 3: Et cetera.
Speaker 4: So I felt like listening to that, I was like, Okay,
Speaker 4: they're gonna give us a pretty good allotment at primetime games,
Speaker 4: like they there was some fomo about them not having
Speaker 4: the Texans in prime time. So I wasn't too surprised
Speaker 4: that we got this game with the Bears being early
Speaker 4: in week two.
Speaker 3: I was maybe a little surprised, but I think there.
Speaker 4: Was some fomo from the schedule people last year that
Speaker 4: they were like, man, we missed out.
Speaker 3: We could have had CJ. Stroud.
Speaker 4: Yes they got us in the Saturday night game on primetime,
Speaker 4: but they're like, Okay, we missed out. So when I
Speaker 4: heard that that interview, I was like, all right, we're
Speaker 4: getting some primetime games and we may get them, you know,
Speaker 4: get them early against the Chicago Bears.
Speaker 1: General Monday morning, are we talking about what were they
Speaker 1: thinking putting this game on the schedule or is it
Speaker 1: a closer game than many expect, because hey it's the NFL.
Speaker 1: It's week to week. Texans looked great on offense last week.
Speaker 1: You know they could even look better on defense. Look
Speaker 1: pretty good against the run, of course the deep ball.
Speaker 1: But what do you think I.
Speaker 5: Think the Texans are going to blow them out.
Speaker 6: There's no reason to pick the Bears after that offensive
Speaker 6: showing they couldn't run the ball, they couldn't basketball. The
Speaker 6: only way they were gonna win that game is turnovers.
Speaker 6: They had John Toanoen's who turned a block hunt for
Speaker 6: a touchdown. Then they had that pick six that Will
Speaker 6: Levis gift trap for him. Titans couldn't score in the
Speaker 6: fourth quarter because they kept turning the ball over. The
Speaker 6: Texans don't turn it over. That's one of the best
Speaker 6: things about CJ. Stroud is he just doesn't turn it over.
Speaker 6: I thought it's very interesting. I've been listening to all
Speaker 6: these doomsday predictions that if you start zero and two,
Speaker 6: there's only eleven percent gence you're going to make the playoffs.
Speaker 5: And I don't hear anybody.
Speaker 6: Say, oh, well, the Texans started oh to last year
Speaker 6: won the division, won a playoff game. Twenty eighteen, he
Speaker 6: started oh two won a division in a playoff game.
Speaker 5: So it's not impossible.
Speaker 6: Even though the statistics say, yeah, it's it's it's illogical
Speaker 6: to expect it.
Speaker 5: And I went back in a column that.
Speaker 6: I have on Houston Texans dot com today, last time
Speaker 6: Texas started two and oh it was two thousand and sixteen.
Speaker 1: And.
Speaker 6: So I think they're gonna win this game. Anly one
Speaker 6: thing this team has. You know, when Bill O'Brien was there,
Speaker 6: nobody said Bill was a great coach. People think Demiko
Speaker 6: is a great coach. He's gonna be You're going to
Speaker 6: prove that he's a great coach, he's got a great staff,
Speaker 6: and he's gonna lose Bobby Slowek after the season to
Speaker 6: Rod Johnson can step up and replace him. They've got
Speaker 6: Demiko's got a really good coaching staff, and we all
Speaker 6: know how that's important. And not only that, he's got
Speaker 6: the quarterback. He's got a good running back with a
Speaker 6: lot to prove. I can't wait for the Buffalo game.
Speaker 6: I don't know how that didn't end up in primetime.
Speaker 6: I'm guessing there was a lot of fighting over it,
Speaker 6: because you don't just take any game you want put
Speaker 6: it on primetime. Can't wait for that one, and so
Speaker 6: this one, I think that it could be lopsided. I
Speaker 6: think it could be ugly, and I think the people
Speaker 6: at NBC could be going, oh my god, what did
Speaker 6: we tell you putting the Bears on. They bought into
Speaker 6: the hype about Chicago and Caleb Williams.
Speaker 4: Okay, let me ask both of you this, because I
Speaker 4: feel pretty confident about this game too. And sometimes when
Speaker 4: I feel over confident about a game, like last year
Speaker 4: Week two against the Colts, Oh boy, I felt really confident.
Speaker 4: Oh I felt really really confident going in and then
Speaker 4: bang bang, it's fourteen nothing. So I'll ask you both,
Speaker 4: what is the formula for the Texans to lose this game?
Speaker 7: Like?
Speaker 4: What should we be worried about heading into the game. Look,
Speaker 4: I'm a Houston football fan. I've been a Houston football
Speaker 4: fan for a long time, so there is still that
Speaker 4: part of me that always is kind of like, all right,
Speaker 4: we can't get too confident with anything. So what is
Speaker 4: the formula for the Bears to win this game?
Speaker 3: General?
Speaker 6: You go first, block part returned for a touchdown or
Speaker 6: a block part to set up a.
Speaker 5: Short touchdown run.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think Frank Ross probably well if he had Harry,
Speaker 6: he'd been pulling it all out, and I think this
Speaker 6: it would because Stroud dead.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he had an interception of the day called back
Speaker 5: and a tip ball. That's another thing.
Speaker 6: He didn't have a lot of tip balls over the
Speaker 6: middle at Rick Kochet into the hands of safeties or corners.
Speaker 6: I think the only way it would happen is if
Speaker 6: like defensive back slips and falls and somebody gets away
Speaker 6: for a touchdown or turnovers or kick returns for touchdowns.
Speaker 5: It's not going to.
Speaker 6: Be the Bears lining up and beating the Texans on
Speaker 6: both sides.
Speaker 5: Of the balls. It's not going to happen.
Speaker 1: I can't remember the last time the Texans went into
Speaker 1: a primetime game and we were talking with this kind
Speaker 1: of tone.
Speaker 3: I can't remember.
Speaker 1: I think actually it was twenty eleven going to Indianapolis
Speaker 1: Thursday night football, second to last week of the season,
Speaker 1: and they lost that game.
Speaker 3: Was that Orlowski?
Speaker 1: That was Orlowski Orlosky quarterback to the Colts to a
Speaker 1: win that night, And it was just one of those
Speaker 1: games where just nothing worked. And I think, Johnny, to
Speaker 1: answer your question, it is something similar to what the
Speaker 1: General said. You have a couple of turnovers, there's some sloppiness,
Speaker 1: and it's the old Spencer Tillman. How do you run
Speaker 1: with a full cup of success or don't drink the
Speaker 1: rap poison or human nature. You're playing a team that
Speaker 1: you quote should beat, But it's the NFL, and weird
Speaker 1: things happen every single week.
Speaker 3: I I'm sure that so.
Speaker 1: Many survivor pools ended last week because people took the
Speaker 1: Bengals over the Patriots, thinking no shot New England at
Speaker 1: Cincinnati to open the season in Burrows allegedly healthy, There's
Speaker 1: no way you're gonna lose that game, all right, general, that.
Speaker 6: Was stupid, but because the Bengals are terrible starters. They
Speaker 6: have been in since Zach Taylor and Joe Burrow got there,
Speaker 6: So of course we thought they were gonna win. But
Speaker 6: to say no way when they're such bad starters, Yeah,
Speaker 6: that was because I think more about the Bengals playing
Speaker 6: really bad, not having receivers at one hundred percent or
Speaker 6: two Higgins at all, and I don't seem to make it,
Speaker 6: and his staff, letting his team, letting this team have
Speaker 6: have downers. Now they may turn the ball over, everybody
Speaker 6: does at some point. They're not gonna come out flat.
Speaker 6: You know, the crowd is gonna be like the Cleveland
Speaker 6: playoff game. It's gonna be wild. It's gonna be crazy,
Speaker 6: and you just hope everybody would get in their seat
Speaker 6: when they's supposed to.
Speaker 5: And uh, I can't wait to see it. It's exciting.
Speaker 6: For the longest time, I thought we were never going
Speaker 6: to have another primetime game in Houston because I never
Speaker 6: thought we were gonna get the franchise, and the first
Speaker 6: one they had they won. And now they're back in
Speaker 6: primetime and I think people are just gonna I think
Speaker 6: it's gonna get a really good audience because people want
Speaker 6: to see Strout and so I think it's going to
Speaker 6: have a great audience, and if it's close, it'll be
Speaker 6: better for TV. But I don't think it's gonna be close.
Speaker 1: Well, general, this is a weird week of the AFC
Speaker 1: South because I really enjoy watching the Cleveland Browns and
Speaker 1: the New York Jets lose football game. But the Browns
Speaker 1: are playing the Jaguars and the Jets are playing the Titans,
Speaker 1: So I guess I have to root for the opponents
Speaker 1: in this situation. But let's start with the Jets at
Speaker 1: Tennessee with Aaron Rodgers. Short week, a lot of travel.
Speaker 1: You traveled to the West Coast, you got back Tuesday morning,
Speaker 1: you got to get out of plane Saturday. Go to Nashville,
Speaker 1: and they're desperate for a win after their opening day
Speaker 1: debacle at Chicago where they blew the lead. What do
Speaker 1: you think of the Titans hosting New York.
Speaker 6: I think the Titans defense is good enough to keep
Speaker 6: them in it. But if Will Levis plays anywhere close
Speaker 6: to the will he played in that first game, it
Speaker 6: could get ugly. And I think Aaron Rodgers for not
Speaker 6: playing As long as he had not played, I thought
Speaker 6: he was fine. The problem is that great quote unquote
Speaker 6: Jets defense couldn't stop the run. But I think the
Speaker 6: Jets were winning. And as far as the Jaguars and
Speaker 6: the Browns, I want to see Watson lose. And so
Speaker 6: you shouldn't fear of the Jaguars. Beat them twice. You know,
Speaker 6: you beat them twice, you don't have to worry about them.
Speaker 6: So I'm open that the Jaguars beat the Browns. The
Speaker 6: brown start oh too. And I guess Watson couldn't say, Hey,
Speaker 6: twenty eighteen, I did this. I had a good friend
Speaker 6: of mine who covered the Browns for thirty five years,
Speaker 6: say he's forgotten how to play.
Speaker 5: And so I went back.
Speaker 6: In Washington and is does Watson does not bear any
Speaker 6: resemblance to the quarterback who was here in twenty twenty.
Speaker 6: Now it's been a while since he's played. Maybe he'll
Speaker 6: play better, but he got boot at home. Now, he's
Speaker 6: got more legal issues, and it won't be long before
Speaker 6: they start chanting we want Jamis.
Speaker 5: If they blow this game and start oh.
Speaker 4: Two, it's not easier to say we want Flacco. We
Speaker 4: want Flacco than we want Jamis. But yes, but either way, yeah,
Speaker 4: you know, even Deshaun got the twenty eighteen season wrong
Speaker 4: because he had us losing four in a row and
Speaker 4: then winning eleven straight.
Speaker 3: When either way, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I guess it's six years ago, so it's hard to
Speaker 4: find it find the right thing to happen. General, the
Speaker 4: Packers more than likely will not have Jordan Love. It's
Speaker 4: probably gonna be well, it's not probably, it's gonna be
Speaker 4: Malik Willis and or Sean Clifford than terrible. Do you
Speaker 4: give the Packers a shot of even beating the Colts
Speaker 4: at Lambeau without Jordan Love?
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 6: And I don't think for a second he's gonna play.
Speaker 6: He's got a strained mcl Why I playing early in
Speaker 6: the season when it's all about what you do in November, December, January.
Speaker 6: It's just seventeen games you don't beat too. I don't
Speaker 6: care what people say about oh and two. And he
Speaker 6: can't play the leason hundred percent. You're just asking for
Speaker 6: trouble now. Malik Willis has been awful. The other guy
Speaker 6: hadn't even played. That's one reason Nick Casario was so
Speaker 6: smart to extend Davis Mills for five million. That was
Speaker 6: a great move because I think we all believe that
Speaker 6: they're in good hands if something happens to Stroud like
Speaker 6: it did last season. And I went back and was
Speaker 6: looking at games that Davis had his first two years
Speaker 6: and looking at the talent he played with compared to
Speaker 6: what he would have now if he was playing and
Speaker 6: there's no comparison. And so the quarterback year are in
Speaker 6: good shape. They are not in good shape in Green Bay.
Speaker 6: I think there's a chance Coults are going into Lambeau
Speaker 6: and come away with a victory.
Speaker 1: I just can't fathom why you would think Malik Willis
Speaker 1: would be a capable backup. I get having him on
Speaker 1: the team as a project, but look at the Browns
Speaker 1: themselves in the preseason. They loaded up at the quarterback
Speaker 1: position Huntley Winston, DR DTRTR get the initials mixed up, DTR.
Speaker 1: I love it when a name is an acronym that
Speaker 1: works out well for a lot of people.
Speaker 3: General Tonight Bill's Dolphins, Who do you like.
Speaker 5: Miami's at home?
Speaker 6: Miami has the great offense. They got injuries and running back,
Speaker 6: but their wide receivers are okay. Unless the police detain
Speaker 6: Twrey Dale and he misses the game. I think the
Speaker 6: Dolphins are gonna win this game, and then the Bills
Speaker 6: will play them in Orchard Park in November and beat
Speaker 6: the pants off of them when it's.
Speaker 5: Cool and windy.
Speaker 4: Beat the pants off and when it's cool and windy.
Speaker 4: There's something about that that sounded not so good.
Speaker 3: General. Okay, here we go, real fast, rapid fire.
Speaker 4: It's a rapid fire part of the segment here with
Speaker 4: the General and Mark. I'm gonna hit you. With the
Speaker 4: one and O teams playing against each other. There are
Speaker 4: six matchups. Okay, you give me the winner, just straight
Speaker 4: up winner.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 4: Thursday Night Buffalo, Miami, General, Miami, Mark Bills.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 4: Next one, New Orleans goes to Dallas, both of them.
Speaker 4: One and Oh General.
Speaker 5: As much as I hate to say it, Cowboys.
Speaker 3: I have to agree.
Speaker 4: Okay, Tampa Bay's one and Oh goes to Detroit. That
Speaker 4: was a great playoff game last year. Detroit eaked it out. Mark,
Speaker 4: Tampa General.
Speaker 5: Lions can't take against Detroit at all.
Speaker 3: Oh, how about that? Okay, it's the Sam Donald Bowl.
Speaker 4: San Francisco's one and Oh doesn't look like Christian McCaffrey
Speaker 4: is gonna play take it on the Minnesota Vikings one
Speaker 4: and oh this game is in Minneapolis. Does Sam Donald
Speaker 4: stay hot before the Texans arrived?
Speaker 3: General?
Speaker 4: Niners or Vikings? Remember Vikings beat the Niners last year
Speaker 4: in Minnesota? Does that happen again?
Speaker 3: In General?
Speaker 5: Vikings was the upset?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I want this to happen.
Speaker 1: I want them fat and happy with the Texans come
Speaker 1: in and just stab the goose.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, let's go to Sunday.
Speaker 4: Still in the early games, the Seahawks negative bodyclock one
Speaker 4: and oh going to plake on the Patriots a surprising
Speaker 4: one and oh can the Seahawks stay two?
Speaker 5: And oh?
Speaker 4: Or the Patriots another upset? Mark Seahawks or Patriots in Foxboro?
Speaker 3: I think New England wins it and kind of with
Speaker 3: you General, Yah, Patriots trees. What's the line on that one?
Speaker 3: Where Sean when you need them?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Never mind him?
Speaker 4: Uh wait, what's the line on Patriots Patriots?
Speaker 3: Seahawks Patriots Seahawks one Eastern? What do you think it is?
Speaker 3: I think it's New England by one.
Speaker 4: No, it's Seattle three and a half, Seattle three and
Speaker 4: a half on the road.
Speaker 1: They have no faith in the you know what the Patriots.
Speaker 1: It's not like the Patriots set the world on fire.
Speaker 1: They just beat a bad Bengals effort, not a bad team,
Speaker 1: make mistakes and ran the ball. Well yeah yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean that works. And then the last one, uh, the
Speaker 1: Chicago Bears. The Bears want to know, Texans want to know.
Speaker 1: Are you picking against the Texans? Either one of you?
Speaker 3: Come on, stop, General, one more for you Monday night.
Speaker 5: Fu Wait, I don't get to pick if.
Speaker 1: You pick the Bears dead. If you picked the Bears
Speaker 1: your fire, General, Yeah you already dead. You already said
Speaker 1: it's a blowout. So the Eagles and the Falcons hook
Speaker 1: up on Monday Night. Kirk Cousins, this is weird. They
Speaker 1: know his physical situation, They put him out there obviously limited.
Speaker 1: What are they doing, General, they draft panics? What is
Speaker 1: the deal? What is the plan here in Atlanta? It's
Speaker 1: a mess already.
Speaker 6: Apparently they're trying to justify bait him one hundred and
Speaker 6: eighty million, and they played him in a shotgun to
Speaker 6: protect him when most of his success has come under
Speaker 6: center with play action and next gen stats, had every
Speaker 6: movie made, they turned it and compared it the way
Speaker 6: he was before he suffered the achilles injury and it
Speaker 6: was not even close. He is so much slower in
Speaker 6: every way.
Speaker 1: Man, I don't want to see any next gen stats
Speaker 1: on me ever. Okay, that's that's all I'm saying, because
Speaker 1: you cannot.
Speaker 3: Run hot again with I'm just talking about in life.
Speaker 1: Because this league, everything is out there. Johnny's showing me
Speaker 1: the NFL Plus plus package.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Pro package.
Speaker 1: You can download every tackle that Petrie had. It's ridiculous
Speaker 1: what you can get here. Anyway, general, what do you
Speaker 1: have for us on Houston Texans dot com.
Speaker 6: I've got a column that was posted this morning about
Speaker 6: the running game, and only two times in team history
Speaker 6: have they ranked in the top five, never number one.
Speaker 6: Right now they're number one in rushing.
Speaker 3: All right, thanks so much for joining us. We appreciate it.
Speaker 5: Thank you guys very much.
Speaker 1: As always, Coming up, let's stay Healthy with Houston Methodist Minutes.
Speaker 1: What about Jordan Love's knee injury? How does that affect
Speaker 1: an athlete? And we'll get into some other things as
Speaker 1: well as Texans All Access continues. Back to it here
Speaker 1: on Texans All Access. Mark VanderMeer with you and Houston
Speaker 1: Methodist Minutes let's get to this on knee injuries, the MCL.
Speaker 1: We heard about this with Jordan Love sprain. Do you
Speaker 1: need surgery? How does all that work? What are some
Speaker 1: of the nuances? Well, doctor nader Iu will tell us some.
Speaker 7: Doctor yeah, Mark, So first off, the MCL, it is
Speaker 7: a ligament and it's located more in the inside portion
Speaker 7: of your knee, the side that we call the medial
Speaker 7: side the MCL. When you have any kind of injury
Speaker 7: to it, there are certain grades of sprains that are present,
Speaker 7: and these can vary from grade one, two, and three.
Speaker 3: One being the.
Speaker 7: Least severe, where there's maybe just some tightness into the area,
Speaker 7: and three whenever there's a complete tear of it. Typically
Speaker 7: for grade ones and grade twos, this would require a
Speaker 7: period of rest, rehabilitation, and perhaps some breaking, and this
Speaker 7: can be variable on how long it would need to go. Typically,
Speaker 7: for grade ones, these can go week to week, Grade
Speaker 7: twos can be up to six weeks. For grade threes,
Speaker 7: depending on the area where there is a big tear,
Speaker 7: this may require some sort of surgical consultation and typically
Speaker 7: for those that would mean something season ending.
Speaker 1: Well, I know that some weekend Warriors walk around for years,
Speaker 1: maybe literally with a slight tear, and maybe some professional
Speaker 1: athletes play with a slight tear. Is that possible? Talk
Speaker 1: about that part of it. When you have just a
Speaker 1: little bit of a tear and you might be able
Speaker 1: to live with it for a while.
Speaker 3: How does that work?
Speaker 7: Yeah, so there are incidents where you can have partial
Speaker 7: tears in some of these soft tissues, and in some
Speaker 7: cases it may be in an area which doesn't have
Speaker 7: a very good blood supply that goes into it and
Speaker 7: therefore it doesn't heal very well. So essentially, if it
Speaker 7: is something that may not completely heal, you can still
Speaker 7: do things like bracing and rehabilitation where you strengthen everything
Speaker 7: else around that part of the knee to help with
Speaker 7: offsetting some of the tension being placed onto there. Bracing
Speaker 7: can also help with giving more stability to that area,
Speaker 7: so that way you can still return back into activities
Speaker 7: with a reduction of risk of re injury.
Speaker 1: All right, this next one, there might not be a
Speaker 1: simple answer to this, but could you explain why the
Speaker 1: recovery time from an ACL surgery is so much better,
Speaker 1: so much faster than it used to be.
Speaker 7: Why is that, doctor, Well, you know, acls are a
Speaker 7: knee injury that we have more studies on compared to
Speaker 7: any other part of the knee, and so we have
Speaker 7: a lot of resources devoted into figuring out why they
Speaker 7: get injured and what we need to do for recovery.
Speaker 7: We've also advanced technology and surgeries for these so that
Speaker 7: way we can do things to get them back into play.
Speaker 7: You know, years ago, it often meant that it was
Speaker 7: something career ending and then eventually got to the point
Speaker 7: where you could return in your career, albeit that it
Speaker 7: may have persistent symptoms that go on when you return
Speaker 7: to play, and the recovery time could have been many months. Nowadays,
Speaker 7: we do have better technology with the understanding that we
Speaker 7: know right now with ACLS, that we can get them
Speaker 7: better faster, knowing that still with this type of injury,
Speaker 7: it can be catastrophic and it can take a lot
Speaker 7: of time for not just the actual surgery itself, but
Speaker 7: for the recovery and being able to return back into
Speaker 7: play at the level that they were at pre injury.
Speaker 1: All right, great information, doctor, thank you very much for
Speaker 1: joining us.
Speaker 7: No problem, Thank you, Mark.
Speaker 1: Doctor Nader Ayub of Houston Methodist, the official healthcare provider
Speaker 1: of the Houston Texans, Houston Methodist leading medicine. All right,
Speaker 1: coming up on the Friday Night show, Dimiko Ryans right
Speaker 1: out of the shoot. We will hear from him. Also
Speaker 1: a little bit later on in the show, Jonathan Alexander
Speaker 1: of the Houston Chronicle is going to join us. We're
Speaker 1: going to get together with Bears broadcasters, have a little
Speaker 1: back and forth with them in advance of the Sunday
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Speaker 1: so you can greet that when they come out of
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Speaker 1: a way that we haven't seen for a long long time.
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