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Speaker 1: What is up? Everybody? Welcome in to a Wednesday edition

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Speaker 1: of Texas All Access from the Honday Texans the radio studio.

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Speaker 1: I am your host, football An Elson, side of our

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Speaker 1: reporter Sean Harrison's so glad to be with you as

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Speaker 1: we near a Saturday contest with the New York Jets. Wait, Saturday, Well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: this year we've played on a Thursday, we played on Sundays.

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Speaker 1: Of course, we played on a Monday night, and we're

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Speaker 1: gonna I think that's the Yeah, that's the most days

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Speaker 1: you can play on in the NFL. Thursday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday.

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Speaker 1: We'll hit the Grand Slam when we go to the

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Speaker 1: Metal Lands on Saturday to take on the New York Jets.

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Speaker 1: Four to nine. Jets, a team that has really struggled

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Speaker 1: this year, kind of getting out of its own way

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Speaker 1: in some sense, don't do really anything, really really well.

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Speaker 1: The offense has struggled, but they put up forty two

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Speaker 1: on the Colts. Earlier this year, they put up forty

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Speaker 1: seven on the Lions. Now I had to do with

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Speaker 1: special teams and knots non offensive touchdowns, but they're capable

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Speaker 1: of being anybody anytime. Case in point, look at what

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Speaker 1: they did last week to Buffalo. Buffalo beat the Jets

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Speaker 1: earlier in the year in the metal Ants forty one

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Speaker 1: to ten. Sam Darnold got him back twenty seven twenty

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Speaker 1: three just last week. So it was a long losing

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Speaker 1: streak for the Jets, but they ended it against the

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Speaker 1: division rival on the road. That should give him some

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Speaker 1: confidence going back home on his short week. And it's

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Speaker 1: not as if this team lacks talent. Jamal Adams, one

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Speaker 1: of the best safety, is one of the best defensive

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Speaker 1: players in the league. Leonard Williams. I wanna called Leo Williams.

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Speaker 1: Leonard Williams one of the better interior players on the

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Speaker 1: defensive side in the entire NFL. Robbie Anderson I called

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Speaker 1: him today when I did an interview with somebody, I

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Speaker 1: called him a poor man's will Fuller. Dude can smoke downfield.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's his talent as well, but he

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Speaker 1: can run and he's made a bunch of plays this

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Speaker 1: year from the New York yet leads him in receiving

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Speaker 1: yards and touchdowns. So it's not as if this team

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Speaker 1: is without talent. Of course, Rookie quarterbacks Sam Donald was

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Speaker 1: the number three pick in the overall draft. I think

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Speaker 1: I laid this out for you, starting with the Redskins

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Speaker 1: Washington Alex Smith number one overall pick, then came home

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Speaker 1: for Tennessee Marcus Mariota number two overall pick. In twenty fifteen.

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Speaker 1: Alex Smith was two thousand and five. Yeah, that's right,

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Speaker 1: two thousand and five, Andrew Luck number one overall pick

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Speaker 1: two twelve New York Jets, Sam Donald number three overall pick,

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Speaker 1: and then the philapp Eagles. Now here's where it gets

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Speaker 1: a little bit dice. There's a little bit of news

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Speaker 1: about Philadelphia. Carson Wentz is deal with a back injury.

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Speaker 1: So my plan, as I wrote this all out about

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Speaker 1: a month ago, was that they would face Carson Wentz

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Speaker 1: number two pick in twenty sixteen, and then face Blake

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Speaker 1: Bortles number three pick in twenty fourteen. So they were

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Speaker 1: gonna face down the stretch the last six seven games

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Speaker 1: of the year. They were gonna face no worse than

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Speaker 1: a number three overall pick in a draft. This is

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Speaker 1: one of them this week. Then again, I don't know

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Speaker 1: what's gonna happen with the Eagles. The Eagles gotta go

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Speaker 1: doesn't look like Carson Wentz is gonna play in that game.

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Speaker 1: And the Eagles lose that one, they'll pretty much be

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Speaker 1: out of the playoff race, so they may just keep

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Speaker 1: Carson Wentz shelved for the rest of the year. But

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Speaker 1: Jacksonville has already gone to Cody Kessler, so we already

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Speaker 1: know what's happening there. I still think we're gonna see

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Speaker 1: Blake Portles in that game. I just have a feeling.

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Speaker 1: I just have a feeling, and I'm pretty sure that

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Speaker 1: we're gonna see Sam Donald on Saturday for the New

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Speaker 1: York Jets. So we're gonna talk about that today with

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Speaker 1: a number of different people. We're gonna talk with Brian

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Speaker 1: Gaine for the game plan with Mark Vannimer. Mark sat

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Speaker 1: down with Brian, talked about any number of things. This

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Speaker 1: is a pretty special one out with a match for Briant.

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Speaker 1: He started his personnel career with the Jets many years

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Speaker 1: ago with Bill Parcels. Russell Baxter is gonna join us

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Speaker 1: at Backs Football Guru on Twitter. You can follow him.

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Speaker 1: He's fantastic. He'll join us talk about things going on

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Speaker 1: around the NFL and that big matchup tomorrow night. Chargers

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Speaker 1: with Bob with Shoosing, the play by play voice of

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Speaker 1: the New York Jets, and also if y'all college football,

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Speaker 1: he does college football games every single Saturday. I believe

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Speaker 1: it's with Brock Heward. So we have our men behind

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Speaker 1: the mics segment. Then Mark's gonna stop by, we'll talk

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Speaker 1: about going to New York slash New Jersey, and then

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Speaker 1: our good buddy Andre Ware as well to give his

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Speaker 1: thoughts on this weekend's matchup, some of the things he

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Speaker 1: the show. So let's get kicked off with some hot reads.

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Speaker 1: like on Wednesday to hear from the guys, the coaches,

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Speaker 1: the players, the guys, you know those guys. So today's

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Speaker 1: a little different though, because the normal schedule is awful

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Speaker 1: a little bit. Everything move is moved up a day.

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Speaker 1: But yet our radio schedule is still the same. So

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Speaker 1: a lot of the things that I end up playing

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Speaker 1: on Wednesday, well we played some of that yesterday, but

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Speaker 1: then a lot of things on Thursday. I don't get

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Speaker 1: the play I get to play on Wednesday. Like hearing

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Speaker 1: from j Debion clown And of course, Jad was asked

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Speaker 1: to start with the final play of the game against Indianapolis.

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Speaker 1: Essentially there's a bunch of knees take in after a

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Speaker 1: two minute warning. But that final play when he jumped offside.

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Speaker 1: Everybody in the Houston me He's been talking about it.

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Speaker 1: It is what everybody wanted to talk with him about.

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Speaker 1: And he finally had a chance to talk about it

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Speaker 1: and said, look, I'm mad about it, but I gotta

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Speaker 1: put it behind me. I was upset about the play,

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Speaker 1: that situation. A mistake, but really, I don't know, Heaven,

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Speaker 1: I'm passionate that's the right way to go about it.

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Speaker 1: He's got to try and put it behind him. But

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Speaker 1: I've said this a million times. The people that always

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Speaker 1: point out one play in a game, there are one

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Speaker 1: hundred and thirty hundred forty plays in the game. One

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Speaker 1: play doesn't change the whole thing. One play didn't change

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Speaker 1: the whole thing. Now, there are six to eight key plays,

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Speaker 1: but there are are all kinds of things that happen

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Speaker 1: to our football game. That jumping off sides didn't cost

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Speaker 1: the Texans that game. It didn't, but a lot of

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Speaker 1: people wanted to point to it, and a lot of

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Speaker 1: people were upset. I was upset, JD was upset, We

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Speaker 1: I've realized about him since he's been here and starting

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Speaker 1: the penultimate play of the year with the Spinerama against Dallas.

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Speaker 1: So JD's gonna go get it back. That doesn't concern me. Whatsoever,

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Speaker 1: Saturday against the New York Jets, talked about Sam Donald

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Speaker 1: There's no doubt. I think it's even more important this

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Speaker 1: know JD was frustrated on Sunday. Had to be, because

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Speaker 1: I love hearing that. Secure the wins now. Justin Reid

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Speaker 1: One of my best attributes is I learned from other people.

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Speaker 1: I've learned a ton from tiring and learning a ton

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Speaker 1: And there's a guy this week that you definitely want

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Speaker 1: thankful for that opportunity, both as a player and as

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Speaker 1: a as a front office scout. Nineteen ninety seven, I

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Speaker 1: signed as an undrafted free agent to enter the NFL

433
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Speaker 1: with the New York Jets at the time or nineteen

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Speaker 1: ninety six. Spent the year in the practice squad there

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Speaker 1: and went to training camp with him in nineteen ninety

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Speaker 1: seven and got really east from there, and then spent

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Speaker 1: the nineteen ninety seven season on the New York Giants

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Speaker 1: practice squad. In nineteen ninety nine, I got hired as

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Speaker 1: a low level scouting assistant andrew level scouting assistant by

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Speaker 1: Bill Parcels and spend seven years of the Jets climbing

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Speaker 1: through the ranks on the scouting side of things. Worked

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Speaker 1: under Bill Parcels, worked under Terry Bradway. Very grateful, very

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Speaker 1: thankful for those opportunities. I wouldn't be where I am

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Speaker 1: today without the foundation and the opportunity that I was

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Speaker 1: given at the jets years ago. What was it like

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Speaker 1: working for Bill Parcels as such a young man trying

447
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Speaker 1: to make your way sure, The best way for me

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Speaker 1: to value to express that is to say that you

449
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Speaker 1: learn things, and you saw things that perhaps you'll never

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Speaker 1: see an a manual or a textbook, and there were

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Speaker 1: hands on experiences. Very fortunate and thankful to I've had

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Speaker 1: the opportunity to learn under him. It was almost a

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Speaker 1: master's degree in football operations. To learn and see how

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Speaker 1: the whole football operation worked. Great football knowledge, and to

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Speaker 1: have that chance to sit and learn, learn underneath underneath him,

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Speaker 1: and to have those conversations about player acquisition, how to

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Speaker 1: build a winning program, how to build a proper football culture,

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Speaker 1: how to create a culture of accountability, to create an

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Speaker 1: environment conducive to winning. Also learning how the coaches and

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Speaker 1: the scouts work hand in hand, and how to build

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Speaker 1: a team through what would be I would call system

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Speaker 1: specific scouting in terms of the types of players, the

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Speaker 1: prototypical models, what they what they were, and then following

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Speaker 1: that up by just letting the board speak to you

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Speaker 1: when you pick players. So learn a ton under build,

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Speaker 1: extremely thankful ton of gratitude. I wouldn't be here today

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Speaker 1: without them. When you are watching a game, you're not

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Speaker 1: coaching it, so you're watching it every play and every

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Speaker 1: nuance of it. How do you go about it? Are

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Speaker 1: you making notes on every individual player? How do you

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Speaker 1: digest a game as you're watching it from the booth

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Speaker 1: or wherever you are? Yeah, from start to finish. You know,

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Speaker 1: when when the game starts, I'm thinking about special teams.

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Speaker 1: You know, obviously the field position is critically important, how

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Speaker 1: the field is tilting, being aware of where the injuries are,

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Speaker 1: being aware of where the matchups are, where the strengths are,

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Speaker 1: where the disadvantages may be. And then I'm evaluating as

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Speaker 1: the game goes on in terms of situations. When situations emerge,

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Speaker 1: you know, how we're managing first down, down in distance ratios,

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Speaker 1: the third down, How are we doing in those situational

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Speaker 1: game management moments. Naturally, when injuries occur, that's always our

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Speaker 1: biggest fear and are in our biggest disappointment because I

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Speaker 1: know how much much of the players put into the

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Speaker 1: preparation for the week. But if we're dealing with injuries,

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Speaker 1: then we're thinking about the contingency plan of how we

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Speaker 1: replace those players, and the coaches always have a great

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Speaker 1: plan for that when that happens, because you're on addressing

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Speaker 1: forty six, So if this happens, then we're going to

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Speaker 1: do this. If that happens, and we're going to do that.

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Speaker 1: It's part of the reason also why we're always doing

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Speaker 1: workouts and tryouts to know what's available on the proverbial

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Speaker 1: street so that when and if that opportunity arises that

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Speaker 1: we have to bring players in to replace guys, we

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Speaker 1: start that process immediately. Sunday night when you go up

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Speaker 1: to the New York area, Personally, I know you have

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Speaker 1: a lot of family up there, so you have to

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Speaker 1: deal with that. But I know you don't want to

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Speaker 1: be distracted, So how do you handle that. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: a it's a combination of both. Obviously, an opportunity to

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Speaker 1: go home and see family is always going to be

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Speaker 1: great at as a business trip. To try to focus

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Speaker 1: on that, make sure it's a business trip, get all

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Speaker 1: the ticket requests out of the way, and make sure

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Speaker 1: the family is all set so that come Saturday we

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Speaker 1: can just focus on football and focus on the game.

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Speaker 1: But I think it's a special moment when you have

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Speaker 1: a chance in this profession to combine personal and professional

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Speaker 1: because it does not happen too often. And to get

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Speaker 1: the opportunity to share my football experiences with my family.

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Speaker 1: Being the youngest of five brothers and obviously being from

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Speaker 1: New York, New Jersey that's where all my roots are,

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Speaker 1: It'll be a special experience for the family. Brian, good luck.

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Speaker 1: Thanks a lot for joining us. Thank you. That's pretty

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Speaker 1: awesome getting to go back to the place where you

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Speaker 1: grew up, see a lot of family and friends, and

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Speaker 1: see your Texans get a win. I'm kind of lucky. Oh,

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Speaker 1: I mean, well, Brian's lucky. Brian's lucky. But you know

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Speaker 1: I get to do it too, each and every week

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Speaker 1: right here when we play at home, actually back in

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Speaker 1: my home state. So I understand what Brian is going through.

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Speaker 1: This would be pretty cool for him. A couple I

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Speaker 1: think it was a couple of weekends ago. I think

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Speaker 1: it was a Cleveland Browns game. He had a bunch

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Speaker 1: of guys that played at Maine down here, kind of

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Speaker 1: like we do for our Brian University football reunion, where

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Speaker 1: we have, you know, twenty twenty five guys come down

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Speaker 1: each every year we pick a game, and this year

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Speaker 1: we picked the Buffalo game. I think it was a

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Speaker 1: Buffalo game. We have picked that game and got together

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Speaker 1: congregated somewhere around Houston on the night before. Guys did

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Speaker 1: actually had to call game the night before that and

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Speaker 1: then go to the game, and then afterwards we all

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Speaker 1: get together hang out to all these old war stories,

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Speaker 1: if you will. It's kind of good stuff. And then

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Speaker 1: Brian did that a couple of weeks ago with his

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Speaker 1: buddies from Maine, and now he gets a chance to

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Speaker 1: see his family up in New Jersey. It plays. The

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Speaker 1: Texans haven't gone much to go play. They rotate with

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Speaker 1: the AFC East every three years, and so that's why

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Speaker 1: we're playing him. But we haven't finished in the same

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Speaker 1: spot as them, and that's how you end up crossing

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Speaker 1: over with two other teams. That's why we're playing debts

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Speaker 1: where we played Denver the year. It's why we play

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Speaker 1: Cleveland this year. Last year we played Cleveland because were

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Speaker 1: playing AFC North. This year we played Cleveland because we

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Speaker 1: unfortunately both finished last in twenty seventeen. It's why we

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Speaker 1: faced Denver as well. But none of those teams gonna

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Speaker 1: finish last this year. I don't believe, at least it

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Speaker 1: doesn't seem that way. Cleveland' gotta win a few more

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Speaker 1: games to get beyond Cincinnati, but they've been played some

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Speaker 1: really good football. We obviously saw that in second half

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Speaker 1: over here, and Denver has played good football up until

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Speaker 1: last week where the Wheels kind of came up. But

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Speaker 1: they're not gonna fall any further than third because of Oakland,

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Speaker 1: even though Okland gotta win against Pittsburg Steels, which helped

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Speaker 1: everybody in that sense. But Saturday gonna be a fun day,

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Speaker 1: I would imagine for Brian Gaine and his family and

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Speaker 1: friends up there in New York, New Jersey area. All Right,

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Speaker 1: when we get back, we're gonna talk to our good buddy,

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Speaker 1: Russell Baxter, NFL analysts. You can check him out on

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Speaker 1: Twitter at back Football Guru, check out at NFL Underscore

562
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Speaker 1: Vibe as well fanside NFL spin Zone. He's all over

563
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Speaker 1: the place because he knows the game. And we'll talk

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Speaker 1: about this massive matchup on Thursday evening the Chiefs and

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Speaker 1: Chargers at Arrowhead Stadium. If the Chiefs win this one,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to say they've got a number one

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Speaker 1: seed locked up, but they'll pretty much have a number

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Speaker 1: one seed locked up. If the Chargers win, well, you

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Speaker 1: got AFC West chaos, and then there's probably some tiebreakers

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Speaker 1: that we got to figure out. And I don't have

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Speaker 1: the time to do it right now, so I won't

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Speaker 1: do it right now. But Russell Backer will help us

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Speaker 1: through it all next right here in Texans All Access.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Wednesday, ISI of Texans All Access from

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Speaker 1: the Hunday Texans Radio studio, joining me right now. How

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Speaker 1: as he does each and every week. You can follow

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Speaker 1: them on Twitter at Backs Football Guru. You also want

578
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Speaker 1: to check out his other Twitter account as well at

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Speaker 1: NFL Underscore, five Vibe Fanside, NFL spin Zone. A man,

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Speaker 1: Russell Backxer knows it all, Russell All you do him?

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Speaker 1: A man, I'm doing well. What a wild, wacky crazy

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Speaker 1: use every analogy you can. I mean, we saw some

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Speaker 1: crazy stuff last Sunday in the NFL. Yeah. We saw

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks throwing no look passes. We saw a two win

585
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Speaker 1: team knock off the Pittsburgh Steelers. I don't even know

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Speaker 1: exactly where I should begin, Russell, but I will. I

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Speaker 1: do know where I should begin, and not that I

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Speaker 1: want to, but the Texans took one on the chin

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Speaker 1: against the Indianapolis Colts, and that is a much improved

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Speaker 1: Colts team. I thought it in week four I thought

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Speaker 1: it in week fourteen. I think if the Colts getting

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Speaker 1: the playoffs, they could make life difficult for any team

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Speaker 1: they're gonna play, which could be the Texans, which could

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Speaker 1: be the Patriots, could be a lot of teams, depending

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Speaker 1: on what happens down the road. Heck, if things, if things,

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Speaker 1: the bottom drops out here in Houston, maybe the Colts

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Speaker 1: step up and win the South. Andrew Lucking at Colts team,

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Speaker 1: I don't know how they didn't score down to Jacksonville Russell.

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Speaker 1: I still I'm baffled by it. But they really found

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Speaker 1: the secret sauce the other day. How dangerous do you

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Speaker 1: think the Indianapolis Colts are as they head down the

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Speaker 1: stretching on potentially into the playoffs. Well, first thing, first,

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Speaker 1: I can understand where you didn't know when to start

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Speaker 1: because you haven't had to start for the last nine weeks.

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Speaker 1: That's true. Okay, yeah, that's true. But listen Andrew Luck

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Speaker 1: who had a big game obviously against the Texans when

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Speaker 1: the first time they played. Their offense is much improved.

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Speaker 1: They've also got a defensive Rookie of the Year candidate

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Speaker 1: Darius Leonard. But the start of that team right now

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Speaker 1: is a quarterback and the improved offensive line play, which

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Speaker 1: we haven't been able to say that about the Colts

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Speaker 1: offensive line. I was talking with somebody today, not in

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Speaker 1: our business necessarily, but listen, there's been a lot of

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Speaker 1: great outstanding rookie performances, guys like Sequon Barkley, guys like

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Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield, Philip Lindsay, somewhere during when the AP does

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Speaker 1: their voting, John, someone is going to vote for Quintin Nelson. Ye,

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Speaker 1: I'm just throwing that out there. I'm not saying he's

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Speaker 1: gonna win, but someone, at least one person will vote

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Speaker 1: for Quintin Nelson. He has made a big difference on

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Speaker 1: that Colts offensive line. And you know, Frank Wright can

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Speaker 1: tell you something about a quality offensive line paving the

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Speaker 1: way to a championship. Not saying the Colts do that,

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Speaker 1: but we saw that in Philadelphia last year. Offensive line

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Speaker 1: and offensive line depth was really the key to the

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Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles season. Yep, absolutely was. I mean when Vitai

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Speaker 1: went over to the left side and was able to

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Speaker 1: play that he the way he did, you know, it's

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Speaker 1: pretty amazing. And Russell, you bring up this point, and

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Speaker 1: I'll take it in that direction. Last year the Philadelphia

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Speaker 1: Eagles had they had Dark Peterson called the plays, Frank

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Speaker 1: Reich was the offensive coordinator, Johnny Philippo was the quarterbacks coach.

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Speaker 1: He then goes up to Minnesota as the offensive coordinator,

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Speaker 1: and Russelly doesn't even make it through the season as

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Speaker 1: Mike Zimmer fired him on Tuesday after the Monday Night

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Speaker 1: the backle, if you will, against the Seahawks. I don't

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Speaker 1: know really what that says about the way things are

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Speaker 1: going in Minnesota other than the offense is sort of

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Speaker 1: I guess been the fall guy apparently with Mike Zimmer.

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Speaker 1: How do you assess that situation in Minnesota where they

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Speaker 1: paid Kirk Cousins a lot of money, They brought in

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Speaker 1: d Philippo, now he's gone, Mike Zimmers talking about running

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Speaker 1: the ball more. They should be running it more. What

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Speaker 1: do you make of the situation in Minnesota? Well, you know, listen,

644
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Speaker 1: obviously I put this on Twitter and I'm sure you

645
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Speaker 1: saw it. The two numbers that stand out from the

646
00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:19,840
Speaker 1: NFL this year that I've heard talked about more and

647
00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:23,920
Speaker 1: retweeted and on socio media more than any other. Two numbers.

648
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Speaker 1: John has nothing to do with a football score. One

649
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Speaker 1: of them is a hundred million and the other one

650
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Speaker 1: is eighty four million. Okay, one regards John Gruden, that's

651
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Speaker 1: what happens with the Raiders, and the other regards. People

652
00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:40,400
Speaker 1: very upset in some actions that Kirk Cousins got all

653
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Speaker 1: that money. But to be fair, you know, I thought

654
00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:45,840
Speaker 1: the Vikings would be better this year because I thought

655
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Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins was going to a place where they had

656
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Speaker 1: a top notch defense and a running game. Correct. Last year,

657
00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:55,560
Speaker 1: the Vikings were seventh in the league and running the football,

658
00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:59,040
Speaker 1: and that was even with Dalvin Cook going down. Okay,

659
00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:03,000
Speaker 1: but their offensive line this year has really missed the mark.

660
00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:06,720
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook's been banged up. They are thirtieth in the

661
00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:10,040
Speaker 1: league in rushing. So I understand. You know, we have

662
00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:13,960
Speaker 1: seen it with a lot of teams, Green Bay, Pittsburgh, Minnesota,

663
00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:17,760
Speaker 1: the lack of balance. You know, it's great that all

664
00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:20,080
Speaker 1: these rule changes are going on and so on, and

665
00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:22,680
Speaker 1: it's great that quarterbacks are throwing for a lot of

666
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Speaker 1: yards and completing a high percentage of passes. But if

667
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Speaker 1: you don't have the balance, and you can't keep your

668
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Speaker 1: defense off the field. I mean, think about the Vikings

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Speaker 1: this year. Even defensively, they've been better and their ranks

670
00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:39,480
Speaker 1: are okay, But this is a team that's already given

671
00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:41,320
Speaker 1: up more points than they did all of last year,

672
00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:44,240
Speaker 1: given up more offensive touchdowns than they did all of

673
00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:48,040
Speaker 1: last year. They don't look like a dominating defense. So

674
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Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of blame to go around.

675
00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:52,360
Speaker 1: And if you're going to talk about the defense, you

676
00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:55,400
Speaker 1: have to talk about Zimmer. Obviously, it has been a

677
00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:59,000
Speaker 1: very rough year for the NFL's final four from a

678
00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:03,080
Speaker 1: year ago. One of them is above five hundred, and

679
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Speaker 1: that's the New England Patriots, yep, Vikings, Jaguars, oh gosh,

680
00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:14,760
Speaker 1: oh wow, and the Eagles. That's right, defending champions. I mean,

681
00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:17,440
Speaker 1: that's we got a six and seven, a six six

682
00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:20,320
Speaker 1: and one of four and nine and the nine and four.

683
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Speaker 1: That's your final four from New York gap Russell if

684
00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:26,440
Speaker 1: if if you were a betting man and I gave

685
00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:30,160
Speaker 1: you a hundred bucks and you had to go to Vegas,

686
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:33,719
Speaker 1: and the Seattle Seahawks are gonna pretty much lock up

687
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Speaker 1: the fifth seed. They're gonna be the fifth team in

688
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:39,000
Speaker 1: the NFC, they're gonna get that first wild card. There

689
00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:40,880
Speaker 1: are about five or six teams that are within a

690
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:43,000
Speaker 1: game of each other. You're talking about the Panthers, You're

691
00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:46,440
Speaker 1: talking about the Vikings, You're talking about even a team

692
00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:48,600
Speaker 1: like the New York Giants at five and eight are

693
00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:50,760
Speaker 1: not out of this thing. If I gave you one

694
00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:53,880
Speaker 1: hundred bucks and just said you gotta go place it

695
00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:56,040
Speaker 1: on the team you think is gonna get that sixth

696
00:33:56,080 --> 00:33:59,560
Speaker 1: seed in the NFC, which team would you put it on?

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00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:05,360
Speaker 1: Which team would you trust the most? Wow, that's your Well, listen,

698
00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:07,920
Speaker 1: you just threw me a curveball for this reason. You

699
00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:11,239
Speaker 1: use the word trust the most. Yeah, yeah, true, there

700
00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:14,879
Speaker 1: might be two different things. Really, yeah, that's exactly right. Well,

701
00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:18,120
Speaker 1: who gets in and who you trust maybe two totally

702
00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:21,120
Speaker 1: different things. It has been, you know, a year of

703
00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:23,920
Speaker 1: collapses in the NFC. This was the conference that of

704
00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:28,160
Speaker 1: a year ago, Atlanta was the only team that managed

705
00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:31,480
Speaker 1: to get back to the playoffs. Okay, now we've got

706
00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:33,879
Speaker 1: a last place Bears team in first place. We've got

707
00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:36,960
Speaker 1: a Cowboys team that you know, on the brink of

708
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Speaker 1: winning a division. Obviously, the Saints in the Rams are repeated, don't.

709
00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:44,760
Speaker 1: There's no question about that. It's hard. It is really

710
00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:48,160
Speaker 1: hard to tell. But I'm going to throw this out here,

711
00:34:48,200 --> 00:34:51,240
Speaker 1: and I'm sure people won't. We'll scratch her heads a little.

712
00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:54,920
Speaker 1: If the Packers win in Chicago this week, I wouldn't

713
00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:57,560
Speaker 1: put it past them to somehow sneak in. Yeah, it's

714
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Speaker 1: funny you say that, Russell, because that's exactly the team

715
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Speaker 1: that I thought. That's exactly the team that I thought

716
00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:07,120
Speaker 1: of was Aaron Rodgers in Green Bay. Because of Aaron

717
00:35:07,239 --> 00:35:10,439
Speaker 1: Rodgers and the fact that down the stretch of the year,

718
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Speaker 1: over how many every years he has pulled the Packers

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Speaker 1: out of the dull drums. You remember the r L

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Speaker 1: A X. I remember a few couple of years ago

721
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Speaker 1: we went to face them when they were right at

722
00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:23,920
Speaker 1: five hundred and we were like the third winning a

723
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:25,360
Speaker 1: row for them, and then they ended up winning like

724
00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:27,040
Speaker 1: three or four more down the stretch to get into

725
00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:30,920
Speaker 1: playoffs as well that particular year. So I'm just so

726
00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:34,759
Speaker 1: throw just so you understand, John, it's as much a

727
00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:38,200
Speaker 1: pick as it is indictment about the way the rest

728
00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:40,680
Speaker 1: of the conference has played. But it was funny. You

729
00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:43,800
Speaker 1: remember when Aaron Rodgers went through the schedule a couple

730
00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:46,640
Speaker 1: of weeks ago. Well, we got to beat Arizona, which

731
00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:48,480
Speaker 1: they're getting by the way, right, and we got to

732
00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:51,319
Speaker 1: beat Atlanta, and then he said something that I know

733
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:55,160
Speaker 1: rankled some people. And then we got to go to Chicago,

734
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Speaker 1: where he said, well, we kind of usually win there. Yeah, well,

735
00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:03,400
Speaker 1: kind of usually win is exactly what happens with them.

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Speaker 1: They've won in Chicago Eighth Street. I don't even think

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00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:11,200
Speaker 1: people realize that. Yeah, okay, the Bears didn't like that

738
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Speaker 1: at all, said that right. Well, here's and here's the

739
00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:16,760
Speaker 1: thing I want to just throw out there. It started

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00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:20,400
Speaker 1: with the NFC title game back in twenty that's correct.

741
00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:24,880
Speaker 1: You will remember they won in Chicago without Aaron Rodgers

742
00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:31,520
Speaker 1: a year ago. That was Brett Hunley. Yes, Rogers in Chicago.

743
00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:36,160
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. So I'm just saying I understand and listen,

744
00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:41,120
Speaker 1: the Bears. I'm not saying they're going to think they're

745
00:36:41,120 --> 00:36:43,680
Speaker 1: gonna do it. I don't know. I wouldn't put Pats

746
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Speaker 1: the Packers to pull it off. I'm just saying, um,

747
00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:50,560
Speaker 1: and again, it's more of an indictment. Do you trust

748
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:53,520
Speaker 1: Carolina who has the Saints two of the last three

749
00:36:53,560 --> 00:36:55,120
Speaker 1: weeks and is in the middle of a five game

750
00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:58,640
Speaker 1: losing streak. Yeah, okay, some of the teams near the

751
00:36:58,640 --> 00:37:03,320
Speaker 1: bottom of their divisions are playing better then something. Tampa

752
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:05,920
Speaker 1: Bay could make the cases playing as well as anyone

753
00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:10,239
Speaker 1: other than the Saints in the NFC South. Ye, Green Bay.

754
00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:13,920
Speaker 1: I don't know where to go there. Detroit is unpredictable. Okay,

755
00:37:14,239 --> 00:37:17,080
Speaker 1: you mentioned the Giants. Are they playing better than Philadelphia

756
00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:20,879
Speaker 1: and Washington? I would say so yes. So it's going

757
00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:23,200
Speaker 1: to be fascinating. I mean, are we going to get

758
00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:25,400
Speaker 1: Let me ask you, this is the sixteen going to

759
00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:28,359
Speaker 1: be eight and eight or below five hundred? Well, I'll

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00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:30,720
Speaker 1: tell you this, Russell, if that if that's sixth seed

761
00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:35,279
Speaker 1: is seven and nine, I wouldn't. I would put my

762
00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:38,040
Speaker 1: money on the New York Giants because the way they

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00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:40,319
Speaker 1: the way that they have found themselves running the ball,

764
00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:45,760
Speaker 1: Sequon Barkley, the offensive potency that the Giants can have

765
00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:49,640
Speaker 1: with Eli throwing the ball to Sterling Shepherd, Totell Beckham

766
00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:51,920
Speaker 1: junior to Evan ingram I said before the year, that

767
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:53,359
Speaker 1: was the one team that I had my eye on

768
00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:56,000
Speaker 1: because of that offense. That offense was going to be

769
00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:59,120
Speaker 1: so powerful if they could stop anybody and play all

770
00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:01,000
Speaker 1: right on defense. The other day it gets Washington, they

771
00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:03,880
Speaker 1: played all right on defense. Now they're facing in Mark Sanchez.

772
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:06,319
Speaker 1: But if that's six seed is seven and nine, I

773
00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:08,480
Speaker 1: would put it past the New York Giants to be

774
00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:12,200
Speaker 1: that six team, And what a story that would be. Well, listen,

775
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:16,160
Speaker 1: I just actually came up with the really best answer.

776
00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:22,640
Speaker 1: I would give the six Seeds to UCF. Yeah, invite

777
00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:25,480
Speaker 1: invite him to the NFL playoffs. That would be the

778
00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:29,000
Speaker 1: right way to go, Russell. Thursday night, Tomorrow night, we

779
00:38:29,080 --> 00:38:33,600
Speaker 1: will have an AFC West Battle of two. You could

780
00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:36,160
Speaker 1: argue maybe the two best teams in the AFC, and

781
00:38:36,239 --> 00:38:38,200
Speaker 1: they just reside in the same division. I think you

782
00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:40,680
Speaker 1: could say that they're the two best teams, even though

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00:38:40,719 --> 00:38:42,759
Speaker 1: I would like for it to be the Texans, and

784
00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:44,560
Speaker 1: I think New England fans are like, hey, don't forget

785
00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:47,600
Speaker 1: about us, We're always there. But I think right now

786
00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:51,040
Speaker 1: the two best teams in the AFC are the LA

787
00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:54,359
Speaker 1: Chargers in the Kansas City Chiefs, and they take on

788
00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:56,680
Speaker 1: one another. If the Chiefs win, then they pretty much

789
00:38:56,760 --> 00:38:59,680
Speaker 1: got to buy locked up. They will have. I think

790
00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:02,160
Speaker 1: they clinch to a FC West at that point and

791
00:39:02,239 --> 00:39:05,520
Speaker 1: rented the Chargers a wildcard team. If the Chargers win,

792
00:39:05,840 --> 00:39:08,799
Speaker 1: then it becomes all kinds of chaos. But this is

793
00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:11,160
Speaker 1: a kind of game that I know that the NFL

794
00:39:11,239 --> 00:39:12,920
Speaker 1: wanted to have on Thursday night. And they've had a few.

795
00:39:12,960 --> 00:39:16,319
Speaker 1: They had the Saints in Dallas two weeks ago. They've

796
00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:18,719
Speaker 1: got this one coming up on Thursday night with the

797
00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:20,600
Speaker 1: Chargers in the Chiefs. This a heck of a football game.

798
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Speaker 1: How do you see this one? What do you think

799
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Speaker 1: of the most important things in this Chargers Chiefs battle? Well?

800
00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:28,319
Speaker 1: Health is the running back position for the Chargers. You know,

801
00:39:28,560 --> 00:39:32,719
Speaker 1: as of right now as we record this, we're not

802
00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:36,000
Speaker 1: sure one hundred percent about Austin Eckler and Melvin Gordon.

803
00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:41,240
Speaker 1: The Chiefs have Tyree Kill a little banged up. Listen,

804
00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:43,759
Speaker 1: the overwhelming factor here is the Chiefs of beating them

805
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:46,480
Speaker 1: nine in a row. Okay, they beat them opening Day

806
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Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, when a lot of people were geared

807
00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:55,200
Speaker 1: up and thinking, that's including myself. So Anthony Lynn, Philip Rivers,

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00:39:55,239 --> 00:39:59,080
Speaker 1: whoever they have to figure away to snap this losing three. Now,

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00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:03,239
Speaker 1: I will say this, the Chiefs are coming over off

810
00:40:03,280 --> 00:40:08,120
Speaker 1: a very tough game in overtime against Baltimore. I'm not

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Speaker 1: saying that that swings the different, but when you play

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Speaker 1: defense like the Chiefs, you're vulnerable. And to me, that's

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00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:20,440
Speaker 1: the thing that's impressed about the Chargers this year and

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00:40:20,520 --> 00:40:23,160
Speaker 1: the fact that they've gotten to ten and three is

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Speaker 1: they did most of that without Joey Boza and then

816
00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:27,560
Speaker 1: it is a lake. They've done some of that without

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Speaker 1: Melvin Gord. So they're finding the ways to get other

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Speaker 1: people to contribute. And again, this is a I want

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Speaker 1: to say a milestone game, but this is one of

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Speaker 1: those program changing games for the Chargers. It's Anthony Lynn's

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Speaker 1: second season. My goodness, they were nine and three to

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Speaker 1: close out where they're nineteen and six in their last

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Speaker 1: twenty five games after going oh and four last year.

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Speaker 1: So if not now, when if you're the Chargers. But

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00:40:57,600 --> 00:40:59,279
Speaker 1: I agree with you. I think these are the two

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Speaker 1: best team in the AFC, just for totally different reasons.

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Speaker 1: You want to follow him on Twitter at backs Football Guru.

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Speaker 1: You also want to follow at NFL Underscore Vibe, follow

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Speaker 1: him on Fanside and NFL spin Zone. Amando's at all

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Speaker 1: and you just heard why Russell you are the best.

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Speaker 1: My friend, thanks so much for joining me. So it's

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Speaker 1: fun stuff to connect with our good friend Russell Baxter.

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Speaker 1: First down at the Texans, thirty eight Luck under center.

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Speaker 1: Luck fakes the handoff. Here's what and he barries back

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Speaker 1: at the forty seven yard live twelve and a half

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Speaker 1: sacks for JJ Watt. No one saw it coming. Oh,

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Speaker 1: he's been banged out for two years. I say, bully

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00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:16,960
Speaker 1: on that. The man has been fantastic all year long,

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Speaker 1: and he's gonna be key for this defense down the stretch,

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Speaker 1: first hour of the show. We start off our second

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Speaker 1: hour of the show, we're gonna catch up with the

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Speaker 1: men behind the mics. Of course, you know Mark Vannimer

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Speaker 1: you know the name Bible Shoosing. If you follow Jets football,

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857
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858
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Speaker 1: by played for the New York Jets is the same guy.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk with him next. Right here in Texans All Access.

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Speaker 1: of the program, and it's time to go behind the

877
00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:51,440
Speaker 1: mics with Mark Vannim. Each every week he catches up

878
00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:54,120
Speaker 1: with the play by play voice in the booth next

879
00:43:54,200 --> 00:43:56,080
Speaker 1: to him, and this week it'll be a guy that

880
00:43:56,160 --> 00:43:58,560
Speaker 1: you hear a lot, especially if you follow college football,

881
00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:01,360
Speaker 1: because you hear him do a game on college football

882
00:44:01,360 --> 00:44:03,359
Speaker 1: each every Saturday, and then he's doing the Jets game

883
00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:06,040
Speaker 1: each every Sunday. It's Bob was choosing. He joined Mark

884
00:44:06,160 --> 00:44:08,920
Speaker 1: earlier today, Bob, tell me something. I know you've had

885
00:44:08,960 --> 00:44:10,799
Speaker 1: some good seasons, but this is one of the more

886
00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:13,799
Speaker 1: difficult ones. How do you characterize what the Jets are

887
00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:18,000
Speaker 1: going through in twenty eighteen. They are dealing with a

888
00:44:18,040 --> 00:44:23,239
Speaker 1: Brookie quarterback and that growth process. He was hurt for

889
00:44:23,280 --> 00:44:26,040
Speaker 1: a month, so that kind of stunted the growth process.

890
00:44:26,840 --> 00:44:29,160
Speaker 1: But you know they have one hundred million dollars of

891
00:44:29,239 --> 00:44:31,880
Speaker 1: cap space available next year, and the reason it's available

892
00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:34,600
Speaker 1: next year is because they didn't spend it this year.

893
00:44:35,200 --> 00:44:38,480
Speaker 1: So this is still the rebuild. You know. They kind

894
00:44:38,480 --> 00:44:41,680
Speaker 1: of tore it all down to the stud last year

895
00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:44,320
Speaker 1: with the idea that they were going to get a quarterback.

896
00:44:44,960 --> 00:44:49,000
Speaker 1: They got the quarterback, and now they need to supplement

897
00:44:49,040 --> 00:44:52,319
Speaker 1: the quarterback with just better talent next year. So they're

898
00:44:52,360 --> 00:44:56,359
Speaker 1: in a rebuild. Whether or not the coaching or even

899
00:44:56,360 --> 00:44:59,000
Speaker 1: the general manager are going to be allowed to stay

900
00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:03,239
Speaker 1: on and see the rebuilt through remains to be seen.

901
00:45:03,480 --> 00:45:07,040
Speaker 1: But I just I wasn't expecting them to win more

902
00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:09,759
Speaker 1: than five or six games this year. They've got four

903
00:45:09,760 --> 00:45:12,879
Speaker 1: wins so far for their talent level. I think that's

904
00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:16,759
Speaker 1: probably about right now. What about the game against the

905
00:45:16,760 --> 00:45:19,840
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills and the way they're playing overall the Jets.

906
00:45:19,920 --> 00:45:22,960
Speaker 1: We've seen some good games and some games that obviously

907
00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:25,359
Speaker 1: needed work. What about the effort level you're seeing at

908
00:45:25,360 --> 00:45:29,040
Speaker 1: this stage of the year out of the men wearing green? Well,

909
00:45:29,040 --> 00:45:32,160
Speaker 1: they needed that because three weeks ago they played the

910
00:45:32,160 --> 00:45:34,640
Speaker 1: Bills at home and they lost forty one to ten

911
00:45:35,480 --> 00:45:38,680
Speaker 1: to a team that couldn't score a touchdown on an

912
00:45:38,760 --> 00:45:43,760
Speaker 1: impet field in previous weeks. So you know, so much

913
00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:46,279
Speaker 1: I think of the job that Top Bowls has done

914
00:45:46,360 --> 00:45:49,440
Speaker 1: or will be judged by this year isn't even so

915
00:45:49,520 --> 00:45:52,000
Speaker 1: much wins and losses. But are they passing the eye

916
00:45:52,080 --> 00:45:55,120
Speaker 1: test because it looked like the arrows pointing up? Is

917
00:45:55,120 --> 00:45:59,160
Speaker 1: the quarterback developing? And are there young players playing well?

918
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:02,279
Speaker 1: And when you have an effort like that, I mean,

919
00:46:02,320 --> 00:46:04,680
Speaker 1: those are the kind of games that get a coach fire.

920
00:46:05,360 --> 00:46:08,279
Speaker 1: While the way they played, especially in the fourth quarter

921
00:46:08,280 --> 00:46:11,320
Speaker 1: of this beat Sunday, those are the kinds of games

922
00:46:11,320 --> 00:46:17,080
Speaker 1: that convinced ownership that maybe the coach does have you know,

923
00:46:17,200 --> 00:46:19,400
Speaker 1: the the arrow pointing up, and you know, this is

924
00:46:19,440 --> 00:46:21,960
Speaker 1: a team that was mathematically eliminated from the playoffs going

925
00:46:21,960 --> 00:46:25,239
Speaker 1: into this last weekend, so they theoretically, in terms of

926
00:46:25,280 --> 00:46:29,839
Speaker 1: at least you know, the postseason or any ramifications this year,

927
00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:32,640
Speaker 1: have nothing to play for, and yet down by two

928
00:46:32,680 --> 00:46:34,360
Speaker 1: scores in the second half, they came back on the

929
00:46:34,400 --> 00:46:38,000
Speaker 1: round of one. So that definitely said something about from

930
00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:41,000
Speaker 1: an effort level standpoint, what these players still, you know,

931
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Speaker 1: are doing in support of the coach and the coaching staff.

932
00:46:45,120 --> 00:46:46,960
Speaker 1: Bob will Shoos and voice of the New York Jets

933
00:46:47,040 --> 00:46:50,359
Speaker 1: joining us on Texas Radio. Bob, what about what we're

934
00:46:50,360 --> 00:46:53,520
Speaker 1: seeing from Sam Darnald this year? His development? Where is

935
00:46:53,560 --> 00:46:56,719
Speaker 1: he at? Where do you think he's headed? Well, the

936
00:46:56,840 --> 00:46:59,680
Speaker 1: DNA of what you need to see for a really,

937
00:46:59,760 --> 00:47:02,520
Speaker 1: really a good, long term starting quarterback in the NFL

938
00:47:02,680 --> 00:47:07,040
Speaker 1: is all there at some point this season, whether it

939
00:47:07,200 --> 00:47:11,719
Speaker 1: be throwing the deep ball, throwing with anticipation, going through

940
00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:14,279
Speaker 1: your progressions, making a play on the move. He had

941
00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:18,320
Speaker 1: a great g d Ard scramble touchdown against Buffalo this

942
00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:22,160
Speaker 1: past weekend. Every one of those things that you want

943
00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:24,640
Speaker 1: to see at some point this year, you've seen it.

944
00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:27,879
Speaker 1: And I think that's the most important thing. So he

945
00:47:27,960 --> 00:47:31,520
Speaker 1: checks every box as a guy that can play quarterback

946
00:47:31,520 --> 00:47:35,359
Speaker 1: in the NFL for over a decade. Their job now

947
00:47:35,440 --> 00:47:37,239
Speaker 1: is to give him better guys to play with. That

948
00:47:37,360 --> 00:47:40,880
Speaker 1: That's really what it is, Bob. The Texans coaches, the

949
00:47:40,960 --> 00:47:43,319
Speaker 1: players are all raving about Jamal Adams. Tell me about

950
00:47:43,400 --> 00:47:47,239
Speaker 1: him in the secondary. He's great. I mean, he is

951
00:47:47,280 --> 00:47:50,360
Speaker 1: the definition of an impact player. He is the energizer, Bunny.

952
00:47:50,480 --> 00:47:53,920
Speaker 1: I mean, when you watch Jamal Adams play, he literally

953
00:47:54,080 --> 00:47:59,719
Speaker 1: never stops his motor is you know, it's probably the

954
00:47:59,719 --> 00:48:03,240
Speaker 1: best any player in the NFL. He's just constant motions,

955
00:48:03,320 --> 00:48:05,640
Speaker 1: so he is really fun to watch. He makes at

956
00:48:05,680 --> 00:48:08,759
Speaker 1: least three or four impact plays a game. Give me

957
00:48:08,800 --> 00:48:11,280
Speaker 1: a player two that no one seems to be talking

958
00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:14,400
Speaker 1: about nationally outside of the market, that you think the

959
00:48:14,440 --> 00:48:18,200
Speaker 1: Texans fans should keep their eyes on, well, I mean

960
00:48:18,280 --> 00:48:20,040
Speaker 1: for the Jets. He hate to say up, but their

961
00:48:20,080 --> 00:48:24,520
Speaker 1: place kicker is putting up like historic numbers. Jason Myers

962
00:48:24,520 --> 00:48:27,280
Speaker 1: that they got up the scrap peat back in training

963
00:48:27,320 --> 00:48:29,880
Speaker 1: camp wasn't even part of their training camp kicking battle

964
00:48:31,160 --> 00:48:33,920
Speaker 1: you know, has been like ninety five percent this year.

965
00:48:33,960 --> 00:48:37,719
Speaker 1: He makes everything so whenever they've needed it, if it

966
00:48:37,800 --> 00:48:40,600
Speaker 1: comes down to needing a clutch deal goal, then the

967
00:48:40,680 --> 00:48:43,000
Speaker 1: Jets would probably pick their kicker over any kicker in

968
00:48:43,040 --> 00:48:46,640
Speaker 1: the NFL. And I would say the other guy that

969
00:48:46,760 --> 00:48:48,680
Speaker 1: may or may not play this weekend, I'm not sure,

970
00:48:49,280 --> 00:48:50,960
Speaker 1: but a guy that when he's been in the lineup

971
00:48:51,120 --> 00:48:53,880
Speaker 1: is the really good, solid possession receiver at Quincy and

972
00:48:53,960 --> 00:48:56,920
Speaker 1: Numa who with a sixth round pick out of Nebraska

973
00:48:57,040 --> 00:48:59,520
Speaker 1: kind of an afterthought, what has made himself into a

974
00:48:59,520 --> 00:49:04,560
Speaker 1: really good play bob Historically, Joe Nameth everybody knows him.

975
00:49:04,560 --> 00:49:08,080
Speaker 1: Of course, who's the second most popular Jet in New

976
00:49:08,200 --> 00:49:11,839
Speaker 1: York historically other than name is Nameth And I guess

977
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Speaker 1: I'm right and saying name, it has to be number one,

978
00:49:13,920 --> 00:49:16,359
Speaker 1: But correct me if I'm wrong. Yeah, No, I mean

979
00:49:16,400 --> 00:49:19,680
Speaker 1: he's if you're doing the Jets Mount Rushmore, he's George Washington.

980
00:49:19,719 --> 00:49:22,239
Speaker 1: You know, he's the He's definitely the guy on you know,

981
00:49:22,440 --> 00:49:27,000
Speaker 1: on the maps head Um. That's a good question. I

982
00:49:27,280 --> 00:49:31,080
Speaker 1: probably from a more contemporary standpoint, it would be Joe Klecko.

983
00:49:31,960 --> 00:49:34,719
Speaker 1: That's what I would think, all pro three different positions,

984
00:49:35,480 --> 00:49:37,800
Speaker 1: the only guy ever to do that on the defensive

985
00:49:37,800 --> 00:49:41,839
Speaker 1: mind in NFL history. So I would say, if there's

986
00:49:41,880 --> 00:49:46,480
Speaker 1: one player that isn't in the Hall of Fame that

987
00:49:46,600 --> 00:49:49,320
Speaker 1: a fan base really rallies around and believes ought to

988
00:49:49,360 --> 00:49:51,640
Speaker 1: be in the Hall of Fame, gets Jets fans with

989
00:49:51,719 --> 00:49:55,160
Speaker 1: Joe Klecko, Bob who is enjoining us Voice of the

990
00:49:55,280 --> 00:49:58,360
Speaker 1: New York Jets, Bob, we know you do college football

991
00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:01,439
Speaker 1: and college basketball. All you're one of these guys who

992
00:50:01,480 --> 00:50:03,680
Speaker 1: works pretty much round the clock at this stuff. So

993
00:50:04,000 --> 00:50:06,399
Speaker 1: give me a story of the tightest connection you've ever

994
00:50:06,480 --> 00:50:08,480
Speaker 1: had trying to make it to a Jet game to

995
00:50:08,520 --> 00:50:11,160
Speaker 1: do the play by play. Wow. I had a game

996
00:50:11,200 --> 00:50:14,640
Speaker 1: a few years ago in Louisville where I had to

997
00:50:14,640 --> 00:50:16,640
Speaker 1: get on the last flight of the night out of

998
00:50:16,680 --> 00:50:19,880
Speaker 1: Louisville in order to get to Atlanta to then connect

999
00:50:19,960 --> 00:50:22,799
Speaker 1: to I forget where the Jets were, but I know

1000
00:50:22,840 --> 00:50:24,960
Speaker 1: I had to get to a connection out of Louisville.

1001
00:50:25,000 --> 00:50:27,799
Speaker 1: And Louisville was playing North Carolina and the game went

1002
00:50:27,920 --> 00:50:30,960
Speaker 1: like four hours and fifteen minutes. We were inside a

1003
00:50:31,040 --> 00:50:33,759
Speaker 1: cop car being driven to the airport. Not only were

1004
00:50:33,760 --> 00:50:35,680
Speaker 1: we given a police at score, thank god, but the

1005
00:50:35,680 --> 00:50:38,759
Speaker 1: guy actually put us in his State trooper car. And

1006
00:50:38,840 --> 00:50:41,720
Speaker 1: as we pulled out of the Louisville parking lot, train

1007
00:50:41,840 --> 00:50:45,800
Speaker 1: track crossing bars went down and a freight train started

1008
00:50:45,840 --> 00:50:49,440
Speaker 1: to go by, and we spat in the car for

1009
00:50:49,600 --> 00:50:52,480
Speaker 1: a solid ten or fifteen minutes while it's like nine

1010
00:50:52,560 --> 00:50:56,400
Speaker 1: hundred car freight train went by, and I think we

1011
00:50:56,520 --> 00:51:00,360
Speaker 1: got to the airport at seven thirty for a seven

1012
00:51:00,600 --> 00:51:05,520
Speaker 1: forty flight and made it out that Bob college football.

1013
00:51:05,719 --> 00:51:08,640
Speaker 1: What would you do to change it? If anything? Because

1014
00:51:08,680 --> 00:51:10,879
Speaker 1: to me it runs long. I mean I might put

1015
00:51:10,880 --> 00:51:13,359
Speaker 1: the NFL clock in there. How do you feel about

1016
00:51:13,360 --> 00:51:16,279
Speaker 1: the way the game is formatted. Yeah, I've been saying

1017
00:51:16,320 --> 00:51:18,840
Speaker 1: that for years. I think the dumbest rule in sports,

1018
00:51:19,160 --> 00:51:21,880
Speaker 1: in any sports, that's just the college football. The most

1019
00:51:21,960 --> 00:51:26,040
Speaker 1: useless rule in any sport is stopping the clock after

1020
00:51:26,120 --> 00:51:28,919
Speaker 1: every first down in college football, and at the half

1021
00:51:28,960 --> 00:51:30,840
Speaker 1: hour to the game. If you would just roll the

1022
00:51:30,880 --> 00:51:33,800
Speaker 1: clock after two day the first downs. Now, I certainly

1023
00:51:33,880 --> 00:51:37,480
Speaker 1: understand that there is, with no two minute warning, kind

1024
00:51:37,480 --> 00:51:40,399
Speaker 1: of a clock management element of stopping the clock after

1025
00:51:40,440 --> 00:51:44,680
Speaker 1: first downs. To me, either stop it after first downs

1026
00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:47,520
Speaker 1: inside of the last two minutes or maybe inside of

1027
00:51:47,520 --> 00:51:50,000
Speaker 1: the last three or four minutes even of each half,

1028
00:51:50,480 --> 00:51:52,640
Speaker 1: and then a team that's running a two minute drill

1029
00:51:52,960 --> 00:51:56,840
Speaker 1: could utilize the rule then when you actually are trying

1030
00:51:56,840 --> 00:52:01,000
Speaker 1: to run up and run another play and save time.

1031
00:52:01,560 --> 00:52:04,640
Speaker 1: But you know, when a guy catches like a ten

1032
00:52:04,760 --> 00:52:10,120
Speaker 1: yard out and gets tackled, like you know, nine seconds

1033
00:52:10,120 --> 00:52:12,280
Speaker 1: into the game for a first down, of the clock stops,

1034
00:52:12,960 --> 00:52:15,920
Speaker 1: that's just adding to the length of the game uselessly.

1035
00:52:16,080 --> 00:52:18,120
Speaker 1: So to me, that would be the number one thing

1036
00:52:18,200 --> 00:52:21,040
Speaker 1: I would change, And it so hypocritical from a player

1037
00:52:21,120 --> 00:52:24,440
Speaker 1: safety standpoint two. Yeah, we're told over and over again

1038
00:52:24,480 --> 00:52:28,920
Speaker 1: that we can't have an extra round of playoffs, or

1039
00:52:28,920 --> 00:52:32,239
Speaker 1: we can't extend the late of the season any more

1040
00:52:32,280 --> 00:52:35,120
Speaker 1: than the players already are stretched out. Now in college football,

1041
00:52:35,520 --> 00:52:39,000
Speaker 1: you know the CTE argument. You know these guys plays

1042
00:52:39,000 --> 00:52:41,760
Speaker 1: so well, then reduce the number of plays that they played.

1043
00:52:42,239 --> 00:52:44,480
Speaker 1: You know, why have four hour games where teams are

1044
00:52:44,560 --> 00:52:47,440
Speaker 1: running one hundred plays in a game? The NFL games

1045
00:52:47,480 --> 00:52:50,480
Speaker 1: have sixty five seventy plays a game on offense. And

1046
00:52:50,600 --> 00:52:52,880
Speaker 1: it's a great sport, and it's a great watch, and

1047
00:52:52,920 --> 00:52:55,360
Speaker 1: the game's over in three hours, three hours and ten minutes.

1048
00:52:55,719 --> 00:52:58,040
Speaker 1: Why do we need four hour games with you know,

1049
00:52:58,040 --> 00:53:00,680
Speaker 1: one hundred and ninety plays run between in the two teams.

1050
00:53:00,719 --> 00:53:04,399
Speaker 1: It's ridiculous, and to me, it's completely and totally eliminated.

1051
00:53:04,760 --> 00:53:06,640
Speaker 1: If he just rolled the clock after a team picks

1052
00:53:06,680 --> 00:53:09,719
Speaker 1: up a first down, you're preaching to the choir on

1053
00:53:09,800 --> 00:53:11,719
Speaker 1: that one. I know you're doing a game at the

1054
00:53:11,760 --> 00:53:15,440
Speaker 1: Pilestra this week, and I love that environment for college basketball.

1055
00:53:15,440 --> 00:53:17,320
Speaker 1: In fact, I'm so old school. I think the Atlantic

1056
00:53:17,360 --> 00:53:19,359
Speaker 1: ten should never have left the Pilestra in the first

1057
00:53:19,360 --> 00:53:22,160
Speaker 1: place for their tournament. But tell me, what's your favorite

1058
00:53:22,239 --> 00:53:24,960
Speaker 1: environment in college basketball? You get to see a lot

1059
00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:29,320
Speaker 1: of places, it's hard to be Allen's Field's House at Kansas.

1060
00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:33,480
Speaker 1: I mean, that place is just you know, Duke obviously

1061
00:53:33,600 --> 00:53:36,480
Speaker 1: is amazing, cameras, everything that anybody would think it would

1062
00:53:36,520 --> 00:53:38,680
Speaker 1: be if they haven't been there. And there's some other

1063
00:53:38,680 --> 00:53:43,080
Speaker 1: great places in the Big Ten, like Wisconsin, Michigan State, Indiana.

1064
00:53:43,120 --> 00:53:46,600
Speaker 1: I mean, those places are all great, but but Allen

1065
00:53:46,680 --> 00:53:50,200
Speaker 1: Field House in Kansas for a big Kansas home game

1066
00:53:50,680 --> 00:53:53,200
Speaker 1: is probably about as good as a guest. I'm with

1067
00:53:53,280 --> 00:53:55,040
Speaker 1: you on that one. I mean, the one time I

1068
00:53:55,080 --> 00:53:57,120
Speaker 1: was there, I couldn't even hear myself speak. It was

1069
00:53:57,200 --> 00:54:00,840
Speaker 1: that great. So and that's a good thing. Actually it's sports. Bob,

1070
00:54:00,880 --> 00:54:03,040
Speaker 1: thank you so much for the time. We appreciate it.

1071
00:54:03,080 --> 00:54:04,840
Speaker 1: We look forward to seeing you on Saturday at the

1072
00:54:04,880 --> 00:54:09,080
Speaker 1: Middle Lands. Y'all know me, I watched as much NFL

1073
00:54:09,160 --> 00:54:12,359
Speaker 1: films as humanly possible, so I loved the segments with

1074
00:54:12,480 --> 00:54:15,319
Speaker 1: Mark and the voice on the other side, and when

1075
00:54:15,360 --> 00:54:17,000
Speaker 1: I hear Bob was shuston. I've heard that voice so

1076
00:54:17,080 --> 00:54:20,440
Speaker 1: often with the Jets, but I heard every Saturday with

1077
00:54:20,520 --> 00:54:23,160
Speaker 1: college football. So hearing that voice again kind of close

1078
00:54:23,200 --> 00:54:25,120
Speaker 1: my eyes and seemed like, oh wow, this is This

1079
00:54:25,200 --> 00:54:27,680
Speaker 1: is really cool going up and taking on the Jets.

1080
00:54:27,960 --> 00:54:30,600
Speaker 1: Been up there a few times over the years, not

1081
00:54:30,800 --> 00:54:36,120
Speaker 1: since I've been on the sidelines. I think twenty twelve, twenty.

1082
00:54:36,280 --> 00:54:39,960
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think twenty twelve when the Texans were

1083
00:54:40,000 --> 00:54:43,960
Speaker 1: going good. That was the Matt Slawson Brian Cushion game. Unfortunately, boy,

1084
00:54:44,000 --> 00:54:45,840
Speaker 1: that was that was a tough one. Oh, that was

1085
00:54:45,880 --> 00:54:48,200
Speaker 1: a tough one coming out such a great twenty eleven

1086
00:54:48,280 --> 00:54:52,520
Speaker 1: season everybody, and then Brian Cushion got kneecapped illegally by

1087
00:54:52,920 --> 00:54:56,839
Speaker 1: Matt Slawson. But I digress and then face them in

1088
00:54:57,040 --> 00:55:01,680
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen, so I guess twelve fifteen. Yeah, every every

1089
00:55:01,800 --> 00:55:05,120
Speaker 1: three years it's been. But I remember going. I remember

1090
00:55:05,200 --> 00:55:07,000
Speaker 1: the Texans going up there in twenty ten because I

1091
00:55:07,040 --> 00:55:11,279
Speaker 1: was on my way to Florida for I think it

1092
00:55:11,320 --> 00:55:14,040
Speaker 1: was Thanksgiving. It in around Thanksgiving, so I was going

1093
00:55:14,120 --> 00:55:15,880
Speaker 1: to Florida. I remember listening to the entire game and

1094
00:55:15,920 --> 00:55:20,040
Speaker 1: the entire way and Mark Sanchez, oh man, Marc Santa's

1095
00:55:20,040 --> 00:55:23,480
Speaker 1: twenty ten was was okay, viable Mark Santras twenty eighteen

1096
00:55:24,920 --> 00:55:28,720
Speaker 1: not so much. So haven't been up there to face

1097
00:55:29,280 --> 00:55:34,200
Speaker 1: the Jets since twenty twelve, so that's been six years.

1098
00:55:34,239 --> 00:55:35,799
Speaker 1: But we went up there in twenty fourteen to face

1099
00:55:35,800 --> 00:55:38,000
Speaker 1: the Giants, so at least we've been in MetLife Stadium.

1100
00:55:38,000 --> 00:55:40,919
Speaker 1: Hopefully this one goes a little better than that one did.

1101
00:55:40,960 --> 00:55:44,360
Speaker 1: And of course everybody's asking about the weather. What's the

1102
00:55:44,440 --> 00:55:47,360
Speaker 1: weather gonna be like? And then I heard Deshaun getass

1103
00:55:47,400 --> 00:55:49,680
Speaker 1: this and I'm like, y'all do no. DeShawn went and

1104
00:55:49,719 --> 00:55:52,400
Speaker 1: played at Clemson. That's just in South Carolina, which just

1105
00:55:52,480 --> 00:55:56,400
Speaker 1: had a massive winter storm recently, right, And that's been

1106
00:55:56,520 --> 00:55:58,360
Speaker 1: the case. I lived in the Carolinas, I lived in

1107
00:55:58,400 --> 00:56:01,640
Speaker 1: North Carolina. I've seen weather. The Shawan seen weather. He

1108
00:56:01,800 --> 00:56:05,400
Speaker 1: played in a month soon against Notre Dame in twenty

1109
00:56:05,440 --> 00:56:10,560
Speaker 1: fifteen at home. It has happened before. It's just it's

1110
00:56:10,600 --> 00:56:12,640
Speaker 1: kind of mind boggling the weather. But it's gonna be

1111
00:56:12,680 --> 00:56:16,759
Speaker 1: fifty and maybe raining. Maybe now the wind is gonna

1112
00:56:16,760 --> 00:56:19,319
Speaker 1: be a factor. But the wind in the third quarter

1113
00:56:19,360 --> 00:56:22,600
Speaker 1: against Denver, the wind is not gonna be as bad

1114
00:56:22,640 --> 00:56:24,480
Speaker 1: as that. That win in the third quarter at Denver

1115
00:56:24,719 --> 00:56:29,839
Speaker 1: was unbelievable. There was stuff flying everywhere. The wind might

1116
00:56:29,880 --> 00:56:33,799
Speaker 1: be about the same. If it's a little worse, it's

1117
00:56:33,840 --> 00:56:36,040
Speaker 1: not that much worse. So it's not as if the

1118
00:56:36,040 --> 00:56:39,719
Speaker 1: Texas haven't played in it before. But you know, when

1119
00:56:39,719 --> 00:56:41,919
Speaker 1: you go up to the Northeast, everybody all the weather,

1120
00:56:42,040 --> 00:56:44,320
Speaker 1: the weather. Look, I've lived up there for four years,

1121
00:56:44,520 --> 00:56:47,879
Speaker 1: going to brown and Providence is even further than New York. Yeah,

1122
00:56:47,880 --> 00:56:51,120
Speaker 1: it gets cold, it gets tough. But we've seen days

1123
00:56:51,120 --> 00:56:53,799
Speaker 1: like that here. You've played on the road and things

1124
00:56:53,800 --> 00:56:55,719
Speaker 1: like that, especially if you're on the if you're on

1125
00:56:55,760 --> 00:56:58,120
Speaker 1: the Eastern Seaboard, if you're in South Carolina, North Carolina,

1126
00:56:58,200 --> 00:57:01,120
Speaker 1: may you've played in weather. You've done it before. It's

1127
00:57:01,160 --> 00:57:03,759
Speaker 1: no big deal. You just sack up and keep going.

1128
00:57:03,760 --> 00:57:05,839
Speaker 1: Your NFL player, you know, a little Pop Warner, get

1129
00:57:05,880 --> 00:57:08,320
Speaker 1: that King of the Ball coach. No, you're an NFL player.

1130
00:57:08,520 --> 00:57:10,160
Speaker 1: This is what you're supposed to do. That's what the

1131
00:57:10,200 --> 00:57:12,480
Speaker 1: Texans will do on Sunday. Big thanks for Bob with

1132
00:57:12,560 --> 00:57:15,880
Speaker 1: shusing for joining us for our men behind the MIC's

1133
00:57:15,920 --> 00:57:18,800
Speaker 1: segment coming up. Speaking of men behind the mics, the

1134
00:57:18,920 --> 00:57:21,120
Speaker 1: man behind the mic for your Texans is Mark Vandom.

1135
00:57:21,120 --> 00:57:22,840
Speaker 1: He's gonna join me talking about this one next right

1136
00:57:22,840 --> 00:57:25,120
Speaker 1: here in Texas Access, we'll go back to a Wednesday

1137
00:57:25,240 --> 00:57:29,000
Speaker 1: edition of Texans All Access from the Honday Texans Radio Studio.

1138
00:57:29,200 --> 00:57:32,520
Speaker 1: I'm your host, John Harris joining me right now. Mark Vandom,

1139
00:57:32,560 --> 00:57:34,400
Speaker 1: you're the voice in Texas. Mark, are you doing. I'm

1140
00:57:34,400 --> 00:57:37,440
Speaker 1: doing great, Johnny short Week. I like this after a loss,

1141
00:57:37,560 --> 00:57:39,440
Speaker 1: especially just get right back on the horse. You know

1142
00:57:39,480 --> 00:57:41,400
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. You like this plan on Saturday stuff

1143
00:57:41,520 --> 00:57:44,680
Speaker 1: I do on occasion. I mean, maybe they don't like it,

1144
00:57:44,720 --> 00:57:46,880
Speaker 1: but I like it. You know what's the big thing?

1145
00:57:46,920 --> 00:57:49,480
Speaker 1: Like when if this were a Thursday game, the big

1146
00:57:49,560 --> 00:57:52,080
Speaker 1: narrative would be, well, you want to play right away

1147
00:57:52,080 --> 00:57:54,080
Speaker 1: to get that losing taste out of your mouth. You know,

1148
00:57:54,120 --> 00:57:56,160
Speaker 1: you have to look at the positives and anything. And

1149
00:57:56,200 --> 00:57:57,840
Speaker 1: that's the positive that you get to play a little

1150
00:57:57,840 --> 00:57:59,680
Speaker 1: bit sooner and try to get that winning feeling back,

1151
00:57:59,720 --> 00:58:03,480
Speaker 1: because it's an addictive feeling, isn't it? Like nine games

1152
00:58:03,480 --> 00:58:06,160
Speaker 1: in a row, it felt so good. And then I'm

1153
00:58:06,200 --> 00:58:08,320
Speaker 1: not saying I forgot what it was like to lose,

1154
00:58:08,360 --> 00:58:12,240
Speaker 1: because your memory comes back just like that. But it

1155
00:58:12,280 --> 00:58:14,560
Speaker 1: was such a treat all throughout the streak and I

1156
00:58:14,640 --> 00:58:16,600
Speaker 1: want to get back on another one. Please. Yeah, no,

1157
00:58:16,920 --> 00:58:20,120
Speaker 1: I'm with you on that last time in MetLife Stadium,

1158
00:58:20,120 --> 00:58:24,160
Speaker 1: against the Jets. Yes, what year twenty twelve? What do

1159
00:58:24,160 --> 00:58:26,480
Speaker 1: you remember about that night? Cushing getting hurt is the

1160
00:58:26,480 --> 00:58:28,880
Speaker 1: big one, But I also remember an early touchdown pass

1161
00:58:28,880 --> 00:58:32,720
Speaker 1: to Owen Daniels from shob on a bootleg. Yeah, it's funny.

1162
00:58:32,760 --> 00:58:34,919
Speaker 1: Those are the two things that stand out. YEA, when

1163
00:58:35,920 --> 00:58:41,040
Speaker 1: when Cushing gets hurt, what what was your prevailing thought

1164
00:58:41,080 --> 00:58:43,480
Speaker 1: at that point? I thought, this is horrible. What are

1165
00:58:43,480 --> 00:58:45,680
Speaker 1: you gonna do? Let's just see what happens the rest

1166
00:58:45,720 --> 00:58:47,720
Speaker 1: of the game. You know, when, as you know, in

1167
00:58:47,760 --> 00:58:50,320
Speaker 1: the course of a game, you're thinking, well, you're still

1168
00:58:50,320 --> 00:58:52,040
Speaker 1: in the heat of battle there, really, you know, we're

1169
00:58:52,040 --> 00:58:54,240
Speaker 1: doing our job or announcing a game. You're go and

1170
00:58:54,320 --> 00:58:57,320
Speaker 1: play to play literally, and you know, really don't have

1171
00:58:57,400 --> 00:59:00,360
Speaker 1: much time to react to it emotionally, if you will.

1172
00:59:00,520 --> 00:59:03,400
Speaker 1: But I know that Brian's from Bergen Catholic High School,

1173
00:59:03,400 --> 00:59:05,040
Speaker 1: which is not far from where my dad lives in

1174
00:59:05,080 --> 00:59:08,440
Speaker 1: New Jersey, and I just know a lot about that area,

1175
00:59:08,480 --> 00:59:11,000
Speaker 1: and I'm just I knew how important it was for

1176
00:59:11,080 --> 00:59:13,040
Speaker 1: him to come back to that area and play in

1177
00:59:13,080 --> 00:59:16,160
Speaker 1: that building, and that year in particular, I think if

1178
00:59:16,200 --> 00:59:18,960
Speaker 1: Cushing doesn't get hurt that year, Johnny, it might even

1179
00:59:18,960 --> 00:59:21,440
Speaker 1: be different down the stretch. I think they beat the Patriots,

1180
00:59:21,560 --> 00:59:24,080
Speaker 1: but I think it's closer. They'll be able to make

1181
00:59:24,120 --> 00:59:27,080
Speaker 1: more plays. I really feel like losing Demko in twenty ten,

1182
00:59:27,200 --> 00:59:30,040
Speaker 1: losing Brian in twenty twelve, those were big losses for

1183
00:59:30,080 --> 00:59:32,080
Speaker 1: this football team. Yeah, I agree with you. I remember

1184
00:59:32,120 --> 00:59:34,120
Speaker 1: when he got hurt, and I mean I was so

1185
00:59:34,160 --> 00:59:37,120
Speaker 1: mad at Matt Slawson. It was so mad. I just

1186
00:59:37,160 --> 00:59:40,160
Speaker 1: felt like, after the trip to Denver in twenty twelve,

1187
00:59:40,880 --> 00:59:43,600
Speaker 1: I felt like, this team can beat anybody. Yeah, this

1188
00:59:43,680 --> 00:59:47,160
Speaker 1: team can beat anybody anywhere, anytime. And here they are

1189
00:59:47,280 --> 00:59:49,600
Speaker 1: pretty much I don't say dominating the Jets, but they're

1190
00:59:49,840 --> 00:59:51,920
Speaker 1: they're making pretty quick work. And I see him down

1191
00:59:51,960 --> 00:59:56,160
Speaker 1: in the turf, and I just remember thinking, this is

1192
00:59:56,200 --> 00:59:59,520
Speaker 1: gonna have this is gonna have a ripple effect down

1193
00:59:59,520 --> 01:00:01,000
Speaker 1: the road. And I think you're right. I think it

1194
01:00:01,120 --> 01:00:03,920
Speaker 1: caught up to them against teams like the Patriots, and

1195
01:00:03,960 --> 01:00:05,760
Speaker 1: then down the stretch of the season when they could

1196
01:00:05,760 --> 01:00:07,520
Speaker 1: have gotten a buy and lost a few of those games.

1197
01:00:07,520 --> 01:00:10,919
Speaker 1: I mean that was it was just such a gut punch.

1198
01:00:10,960 --> 01:00:16,720
Speaker 1: And the one I think of mostly was the why

1199
01:00:16,720 --> 01:00:20,080
Speaker 1: have I drawn a blank on a the Vikings. Yeah,

1200
01:00:20,120 --> 01:00:23,000
Speaker 1: the Vikings won in twenty twelve. Here was that the

1201
01:00:23,040 --> 01:00:26,760
Speaker 1: Christian Potter game. I just feel like Cushing, I don't

1202
01:00:26,800 --> 01:00:28,600
Speaker 1: know the right way of saying that. That's a great point, right,

1203
01:00:28,680 --> 01:00:31,000
Speaker 1: I just feel like Cushing would not have allowed that. Yeah,

1204
01:00:31,040 --> 01:00:33,880
Speaker 1: that's a great point because especially then it was still

1205
01:00:33,920 --> 01:00:37,200
Speaker 1: relatively early. Watt was monstrous that year. Yeah, he was great,

1206
01:00:37,320 --> 01:00:40,560
Speaker 1: but Cushing was the heart and soul, kind of leader

1207
01:00:40,800 --> 01:00:45,280
Speaker 1: of that side of the football, still a veteran, and boy,

1208
01:00:45,320 --> 01:00:46,720
Speaker 1: they could have done a lot of things. You know,

1209
01:00:46,760 --> 01:00:49,520
Speaker 1: it's funny when it's making me think about what twenty

1210
01:00:49,560 --> 01:00:51,880
Speaker 1: eleven might have been if Mario hadn't gotten hurt. Of course,

1211
01:00:51,880 --> 01:00:54,160
Speaker 1: the big shot that year, but Mario got hurt in

1212
01:00:54,200 --> 01:00:56,000
Speaker 1: Week five and they still ended up being the second

1213
01:00:56,040 --> 01:00:58,640
Speaker 1: best defense in the league yardage wise. What would they

1214
01:00:58,680 --> 01:01:02,800
Speaker 1: have done with Mario Williams? Yeah, incredible, So you think

1215
01:01:02,800 --> 01:01:05,200
Speaker 1: about that. There are a lot of things to consider here,

1216
01:01:05,240 --> 01:01:07,400
Speaker 1: but it is what it is. And I just remember

1217
01:01:07,520 --> 01:01:09,920
Speaker 1: that night. It was a primetime game, it was their

1218
01:01:09,920 --> 01:01:11,440
Speaker 1: fifth game of the year, and the fact that they

1219
01:01:11,480 --> 01:01:14,760
Speaker 1: wanted so convincingly said to the world, all right, they're here.

1220
01:01:14,800 --> 01:01:16,840
Speaker 1: You know, Watt had a big player two at the end,

1221
01:01:16,880 --> 01:01:18,760
Speaker 1: as I recall, and it was good to beat the

1222
01:01:18,840 --> 01:01:21,840
Speaker 1: Jets because the Jets had that oh nine opener here

1223
01:01:21,880 --> 01:01:25,000
Speaker 1: with Sanchez so upset. And then in two thousand and ten,

1224
01:01:25,160 --> 01:01:28,840
Speaker 1: Sanchez two was at Santonio Holmes deep in the last

1225
01:01:28,880 --> 01:01:32,440
Speaker 1: thirty seconds of the game. I'm in the back awful

1226
01:01:32,560 --> 01:01:35,440
Speaker 1: finish there. So to beat them at the Meadowlands was

1227
01:01:35,480 --> 01:01:38,040
Speaker 1: really gratifying at the time, despite the loss of Cushing.

1228
01:01:38,120 --> 01:01:42,000
Speaker 1: I remember that twenty ten game. I remember driving from

1229
01:01:42,000 --> 01:01:43,920
Speaker 1: here to Florida. That was I think coming up on

1230
01:01:44,000 --> 01:01:46,560
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving week, if I remember correctly, because we were going

1231
01:01:46,560 --> 01:01:50,760
Speaker 1: to Florida and we were getting away for Thanksgiving, and

1232
01:01:50,800 --> 01:01:53,960
Speaker 1: so I listened. I listened to the entire entire game,

1233
01:01:54,400 --> 01:01:57,080
Speaker 1: and I'll never forget your and never forget hearing you

1234
01:01:57,520 --> 01:02:00,000
Speaker 1: with that touchdown call, because it was like the Texans

1235
01:02:00,040 --> 01:02:02,240
Speaker 1: had been ahead that whole entire game in twenty ten,

1236
01:02:02,280 --> 01:02:05,840
Speaker 1: and I thought, man, the defense is not gonna blow

1237
01:02:05,880 --> 01:02:08,880
Speaker 1: one today. That's not gonna end. Then it happened they did.

1238
01:02:09,000 --> 01:02:11,520
Speaker 1: I was like, Oh, it's funny because my kid was

1239
01:02:11,560 --> 01:02:14,320
Speaker 1: asking me about that year and I said they should have. Look,

1240
01:02:14,400 --> 01:02:16,800
Speaker 1: I can't say they should have gone ten and six

1241
01:02:16,960 --> 01:02:19,760
Speaker 1: or eleven and five. But three more wins is not

1242
01:02:19,800 --> 01:02:21,760
Speaker 1: too much to ask. No more about when you look

1243
01:02:21,760 --> 01:02:23,600
Speaker 1: at the I'm not you're not gonna win all of them.

1244
01:02:23,640 --> 01:02:25,320
Speaker 1: You're not gonna win all of them. But when you

1245
01:02:25,400 --> 01:02:31,840
Speaker 1: look at the close losses to the Chargers, Jags, Jets, Ravens, Broncos. Oh,

1246
01:02:31,880 --> 01:02:34,320
Speaker 1: here's why he asked, because he's doing a book report

1247
01:02:34,320 --> 01:02:37,880
Speaker 1: on Tim Tebow's book and Tebo who started against the

1248
01:02:37,880 --> 01:02:40,320
Speaker 1: Texans for the Broncos that year in three for three

1249
01:02:40,400 --> 01:02:49,240
Speaker 1: hundred yards defense book. Yes, your son, that's the best

1250
01:02:49,280 --> 01:02:53,120
Speaker 1: thing ever. That's that is a totally Johnny Harris in

1251
01:02:53,240 --> 01:02:56,400
Speaker 1: middle school kind of move. That is I mean, we

1252
01:02:56,480 --> 01:02:59,600
Speaker 1: used to have to remember, I'll tell you what real quick,

1253
01:03:00,160 --> 01:03:02,080
Speaker 1: never forget this. For some reason, I don't know why,

1254
01:03:02,480 --> 01:03:06,080
Speaker 1: it was current events in seventh grade, seventh grade social studies.

1255
01:03:06,080 --> 01:03:08,320
Speaker 1: It was current events and we had to bring in

1256
01:03:08,360 --> 01:03:10,360
Speaker 1: an article from the paper and then talk about the

1257
01:03:10,400 --> 01:03:13,400
Speaker 1: current event I saw. I brought in. I brought in

1258
01:03:13,440 --> 01:03:17,400
Speaker 1: the article of us winning the Little League All Star

1259
01:03:17,560 --> 01:03:20,680
Speaker 1: Championship and going on to the state tournament where I

1260
01:03:20,720 --> 01:03:22,480
Speaker 1: had a home run and I had a lot of

1261
01:03:22,520 --> 01:03:24,720
Speaker 1: those guys on the team that were in that classroom

1262
01:03:24,760 --> 01:03:27,000
Speaker 1: there I started into and they're like, oh yeah, keep

1263
01:03:27,040 --> 01:03:31,120
Speaker 1: going keeping that. Yeah. I don't know there's someone to

1264
01:03:31,160 --> 01:03:33,080
Speaker 1: pull that off. But I'm proud of him with the

1265
01:03:33,120 --> 01:03:36,080
Speaker 1: Tim Tebow and then Tim Tebow ended up as a Jet.

1266
01:03:36,720 --> 01:03:39,760
Speaker 1: I wish I wish we'd played the Jets more often.

1267
01:03:40,160 --> 01:03:43,520
Speaker 1: I not that we you know, I'd like the trips

1268
01:03:43,520 --> 01:03:45,640
Speaker 1: in e Urope. We've only been there since twenty fourteen,

1269
01:03:46,120 --> 01:03:48,120
Speaker 1: and really, you know, we haven't been back to play

1270
01:03:48,160 --> 01:03:50,600
Speaker 1: the Jets since twenty twelve. But I don't know going

1271
01:03:50,600 --> 01:03:53,200
Speaker 1: to New York this time of year. You know, I'm

1272
01:03:53,240 --> 01:03:55,760
Speaker 1: decided about that part. It's funny we talk about this

1273
01:03:55,800 --> 01:03:57,960
Speaker 1: from time to time, the Texans being such a young team,

1274
01:03:58,000 --> 01:03:59,800
Speaker 1: the youngest team in the league when you play some

1275
01:03:59,800 --> 01:04:02,120
Speaker 1: of the storied franchises. Now the Jets are an AFL

1276
01:04:02,160 --> 01:04:04,680
Speaker 1: team and they won that Super Bowl against the Baltimore

1277
01:04:04,720 --> 01:04:08,160
Speaker 1: Colts and everything. McClain told a story this morning on

1278
01:04:08,240 --> 01:04:10,920
Speaker 1: six ten about Kenny Stabler and the Oilers going to

1279
01:04:10,960 --> 01:04:14,120
Speaker 1: Shay Stadium to play, and I have to fact I

1280
01:04:14,160 --> 01:04:15,960
Speaker 1: fact checked him and I have to straighten him out.

1281
01:04:16,000 --> 01:04:18,760
Speaker 1: On this Tomorrow night, Richard Todd did play for the Jets.

1282
01:04:18,760 --> 01:04:20,959
Speaker 1: He thought Todd was on IR, but Todd, who whose

1283
01:04:21,040 --> 01:04:25,280
Speaker 1: name is replacement in that franchise's history, was playing. So

1284
01:04:25,480 --> 01:04:27,960
Speaker 1: apparently Todd and Stabler, both Alabama guys, went out the

1285
01:04:28,040 --> 01:04:30,919
Speaker 1: night before and by went out the night like, went

1286
01:04:30,920 --> 01:04:33,760
Speaker 1: out all night and all morning. And you know, Stabler

1287
01:04:33,800 --> 01:04:35,440
Speaker 1: got to the team meal. He was really sick, but

1288
01:04:35,480 --> 01:04:38,360
Speaker 1: he threw four tds and four picks and they lost

1289
01:04:38,360 --> 01:04:41,640
Speaker 1: a close game. Todd did not have good numbers. But

1290
01:04:41,680 --> 01:04:43,880
Speaker 1: it's just that kind of stuff. I mean, it's not

1291
01:04:43,920 --> 01:04:46,680
Speaker 1: the going out thing. It's this Richard Todd, Jenny Stabler,

1292
01:04:46,800 --> 01:04:49,680
Speaker 1: Shaye stadium. I just love the history of this league

1293
01:04:49,840 --> 01:04:51,240
Speaker 1: and it's fun to think about. Now you're at the

1294
01:04:51,240 --> 01:04:53,480
Speaker 1: metal Lands and this is the second Metal Lands Stadium,

1295
01:04:53,560 --> 01:04:55,560
Speaker 1: and I still think somehow, some way that Jets should

1296
01:04:55,560 --> 01:04:57,640
Speaker 1: be playing on Long Island. But that's just me. Yeah,

1297
01:04:57,640 --> 01:04:59,160
Speaker 1: I'm with you. I wish the Jets are playing on

1298
01:04:59,160 --> 01:05:01,880
Speaker 1: Long Island. Giants are playing Yamey. Both play in New Jersey.

1299
01:05:01,920 --> 01:05:04,280
Speaker 1: It's ridiculous, but never mind. Yeah, I mean there's no

1300
01:05:04,440 --> 01:05:07,360
Speaker 1: I mean I think that to me, the Giants had

1301
01:05:07,400 --> 01:05:10,680
Speaker 1: become synonymous with New Jersey, the Jets not as much

1302
01:05:10,720 --> 01:05:13,320
Speaker 1: like I always I always feel like the Jets are

1303
01:05:13,320 --> 01:05:16,360
Speaker 1: still online. See to me, they really don't belong in

1304
01:05:16,400 --> 01:05:19,400
Speaker 1: New Jersey. And remember the rumor was more than rumors.

1305
01:05:19,440 --> 01:05:20,920
Speaker 1: They're trying to get it done. A stadium on the

1306
01:05:20,960 --> 01:05:23,680
Speaker 1: west side of Manhattan. Yeah, right on the water that

1307
01:05:23,760 --> 01:05:25,200
Speaker 1: and I know it would have been a big mess

1308
01:05:25,240 --> 01:05:26,960
Speaker 1: traffic wise. I don't know how you pull that off

1309
01:05:26,960 --> 01:05:28,919
Speaker 1: in New York. But if they could have pulled that off,

1310
01:05:29,120 --> 01:05:31,600
Speaker 1: think about a closed roof stadium on the west side

1311
01:05:31,600 --> 01:05:33,840
Speaker 1: of Manhattan, and you could have Final fours in there

1312
01:05:34,080 --> 01:05:36,440
Speaker 1: and the kind of athletic events you could have in there.

1313
01:05:36,480 --> 01:05:38,520
Speaker 1: It would be monumental. You would have wanted to go

1314
01:05:38,560 --> 01:05:41,720
Speaker 1: anywhere else. Yeah, you would not have won. It would

1315
01:05:41,720 --> 01:05:44,680
Speaker 1: be in the Super Bowl rotation. It would be something else.

1316
01:05:44,840 --> 01:05:47,040
Speaker 1: I mean it would be it would be akin to

1317
01:05:47,120 --> 01:05:50,280
Speaker 1: the Big East Tournament times ten. In the Big East Tournament.

1318
01:05:50,320 --> 01:05:53,720
Speaker 1: You could build in Convention Center and just build up

1319
01:05:53,760 --> 01:05:56,600
Speaker 1: that whole west side. Now, look, I know New York

1320
01:05:56,720 --> 01:06:00,360
Speaker 1: hardly needs the economic help. Okay, it's New York, but

1321
01:06:00,480 --> 01:06:03,240
Speaker 1: that would have been cool. Beat The Jets take care

1322
01:06:03,280 --> 01:06:05,760
Speaker 1: of business when I when I look at this Jets team, Mark,

1323
01:06:05,880 --> 01:06:08,040
Speaker 1: and I don't know if you see the same. I

1324
01:06:08,160 --> 01:06:11,040
Speaker 1: try to figure out a way that the Jets can

1325
01:06:11,120 --> 01:06:14,000
Speaker 1: beat the Texans outright, and I can't see it. I mean,

1326
01:06:14,400 --> 01:06:17,560
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't. I rarely ever say that, but

1327
01:06:17,640 --> 01:06:21,600
Speaker 1: I just don't see it. But I'll give you what

1328
01:06:21,760 --> 01:06:24,280
Speaker 1: I This is to me the only recipe, and that

1329
01:06:24,440 --> 01:06:28,680
Speaker 1: is we spit the ball out on the turf all

1330
01:06:28,720 --> 01:06:31,640
Speaker 1: game longs and that gives them opportunities. That's it. If

1331
01:06:31,720 --> 01:06:34,640
Speaker 1: you let them hang around. And here's the other thing.

1332
01:06:34,680 --> 01:06:37,520
Speaker 1: You're you're just not playing well, maybe there's one turf,

1333
01:06:37,600 --> 01:06:39,520
Speaker 1: maybe your minds one in the margin, they got a

1334
01:06:39,520 --> 01:06:41,840
Speaker 1: short field, they scored somehow. You're just having a bad

1335
01:06:41,920 --> 01:06:45,480
Speaker 1: day offensively and whatever, and you let them hang around.

1336
01:06:45,600 --> 01:06:48,840
Speaker 1: That's when one play can get it done. Oh my gosh,

1337
01:06:48,880 --> 01:06:51,800
Speaker 1: a fumble, Oh my gosh. Uh you know, maybe a

1338
01:06:51,840 --> 01:06:54,360
Speaker 1: pick or something, or they hit on a big pass

1339
01:06:54,360 --> 01:06:56,680
Speaker 1: play where it's like somebody just fell down or whatever

1340
01:06:56,760 --> 01:06:58,960
Speaker 1: or whatever they might have played. They made a nice play.

1341
01:06:59,080 --> 01:07:01,400
Speaker 1: I was watching. I'm sure you've watched tons of Donald.

1342
01:07:01,960 --> 01:07:04,280
Speaker 1: He's not inept, you know. Donald can make some plays

1343
01:07:04,320 --> 01:07:07,160
Speaker 1: for you. And if he's as good as people think

1344
01:07:07,440 --> 01:07:09,640
Speaker 1: he's going to get better every week. Sure, and you

1345
01:07:09,720 --> 01:07:11,800
Speaker 1: hope he doesn't get better against your defense. This defense

1346
01:07:11,840 --> 01:07:14,320
Speaker 1: should be able to punish him some. But you cannot

1347
01:07:14,320 --> 01:07:16,880
Speaker 1: take this one for granted. And I know they're not.

1348
01:07:17,240 --> 01:07:19,920
Speaker 1: Now it's funny. I asked Kylie Wong about this last

1349
01:07:20,000 --> 01:07:22,960
Speaker 1: night at the Foodbruckers Texas Players Show. Do we the

1350
01:07:23,120 --> 01:07:26,560
Speaker 1: outsiders put too much into oh, you lost this week,

1351
01:07:26,600 --> 01:07:29,440
Speaker 1: so you'll be on your toes the next week versus Oh,

1352
01:07:29,480 --> 01:07:32,800
Speaker 1: you're winning and you're fat and happy versus oh, well,

1353
01:07:32,840 --> 01:07:35,080
Speaker 1: maybe you go into a game lightly. He said, there's

1354
01:07:35,120 --> 01:07:37,240
Speaker 1: not really a whole lot to that. It's really you're

1355
01:07:37,280 --> 01:07:40,040
Speaker 1: just not playing as well as you should that given week.

1356
01:07:39,760 --> 01:07:41,680
Speaker 1: I think, and he said, emotion carries you for a

1357
01:07:41,720 --> 01:07:44,280
Speaker 1: few plays, but after a while it tends to even out.

1358
01:07:44,520 --> 01:07:48,080
Speaker 1: I think, to me, what I've realized about the NFL

1359
01:07:48,520 --> 01:07:52,280
Speaker 1: is it really has I mean, I think there's your flat,

1360
01:07:53,120 --> 01:07:55,160
Speaker 1: you've got no juice, you got no energy, you need

1361
01:07:55,200 --> 01:07:57,800
Speaker 1: to a crowd. I think there's some of that, but

1362
01:07:57,880 --> 01:08:00,560
Speaker 1: I think it comes down to matchups against what it

1363
01:08:00,560 --> 01:08:03,280
Speaker 1: comes down to if you have if you have a

1364
01:08:03,320 --> 01:08:06,880
Speaker 1: liability and the other team has an asset, and those

1365
01:08:06,880 --> 01:08:09,200
Speaker 1: two are going against one another, you'll lose. There are

1366
01:08:09,240 --> 01:08:11,040
Speaker 1: just some teams you don't match up with. There's some

1367
01:08:11,120 --> 01:08:14,080
Speaker 1: players you don't match up with. Signed t Y Hilton.

1368
01:08:14,160 --> 01:08:17,559
Speaker 1: There are just some players you don't match up with. Well,

1369
01:08:17,560 --> 01:08:20,000
Speaker 1: there's some teams you don't match up with. Well, I

1370
01:08:20,040 --> 01:08:21,880
Speaker 1: look at the Jets and I think, okay, Robbie Anderson

1371
01:08:21,880 --> 01:08:24,080
Speaker 1: can run. Robbie Anderson is a poor man's will Fuller

1372
01:08:24,600 --> 01:08:30,800
Speaker 1: Crency Quincy aua solid but shouldn't beat you. Should not

1373
01:08:30,840 --> 01:08:33,720
Speaker 1: beat you. Running game should not beat you. There's not

1374
01:08:33,760 --> 01:08:35,840
Speaker 1: a Pro bowler on the offensive line going against Pro

1375
01:08:35,880 --> 01:08:38,760
Speaker 1: Bowl defensive linement. They should not beat you. But if

1376
01:08:38,760 --> 01:08:40,799
Speaker 1: you spit the bid and put the ball on the turf,

1377
01:08:41,240 --> 01:08:43,519
Speaker 1: or you don't capitalize down in the red zone, you

1378
01:08:43,560 --> 01:08:47,040
Speaker 1: know how the Jets. The Jets thirteen points against the

1379
01:08:47,080 --> 01:08:50,320
Speaker 1: Bills in the first half. Long return got got the

1380
01:08:50,320 --> 01:08:52,920
Speaker 1: ball inside the forty yard line, kicked the field goal.

1381
01:08:53,360 --> 01:08:56,360
Speaker 1: A fumble by Josh Allen didn't go anywhere, but kicked

1382
01:08:56,400 --> 01:09:00,000
Speaker 1: the field goal. Long return inside the ten yard line

1383
01:09:00,240 --> 01:09:02,000
Speaker 1: all the way down the field, got tackled at the ten.

1384
01:09:02,400 --> 01:09:05,080
Speaker 1: Two plays later, Donald threw a touchdown thirteen points. That's

1385
01:09:05,080 --> 01:09:06,880
Speaker 1: how they got. I guess special teams is gonna be

1386
01:09:06,880 --> 01:09:09,280
Speaker 1: a big focus based on these long returns you keep

1387
01:09:09,320 --> 01:09:12,280
Speaker 1: talking about. Yes, Andre Roberts has got to be a focus.

1388
01:09:12,479 --> 01:09:14,280
Speaker 1: If you forced Donald will have to go. I think

1389
01:09:14,320 --> 01:09:16,240
Speaker 1: Darnald's gonna improve him. He was my number one quarterback

1390
01:09:16,240 --> 01:09:18,880
Speaker 1: on the board. It was him that Baker and I

1391
01:09:18,920 --> 01:09:20,840
Speaker 1: thought Donald. And you know, there are guys in this

1392
01:09:20,920 --> 01:09:22,640
Speaker 1: building that spent time with the Jets that did a

1393
01:09:22,640 --> 01:09:24,960
Speaker 1: lot of study, you know, Sam Donald. They loved him,

1394
01:09:25,160 --> 01:09:28,320
Speaker 1: and for good reason. But he's still a rookie. He

1395
01:09:28,360 --> 01:09:30,320
Speaker 1: doesn't have a lot of help around him. So if

1396
01:09:30,320 --> 01:09:32,040
Speaker 1: you keep him in the well and keep him from

1397
01:09:32,120 --> 01:09:34,639
Speaker 1: dancing and make him plays, then you got an opportunity.

1398
01:09:34,640 --> 01:09:36,840
Speaker 1: But if you start letting him get creative and he

1399
01:09:36,880 --> 01:09:38,759
Speaker 1: pulls off one of those late in the season teboat

1400
01:09:38,800 --> 01:09:41,120
Speaker 1: kind of moments, yep, and you're in trouble. Well that's

1401
01:09:41,160 --> 01:09:43,559
Speaker 1: the thing. And by the way that tebow came, I'll

1402
01:09:43,600 --> 01:09:46,400
Speaker 1: just never forgot that by all high and U late

1403
01:09:46,439 --> 01:09:50,160
Speaker 1: interception by the tech sans just awful. He walks over

1404
01:09:50,200 --> 01:09:53,120
Speaker 1: the sideline and he was like nobody's riding. I was

1405
01:09:53,160 --> 01:09:56,960
Speaker 1: like oh man, that stinks that that season, by the way,

1406
01:09:56,960 --> 01:09:59,000
Speaker 1: to finish that point, should have had three more wins

1407
01:09:59,760 --> 01:10:03,160
Speaker 1: very conservatively, should have had another winning season as they

1408
01:10:03,200 --> 01:10:05,280
Speaker 1: did the year before. But that's that. That's all I'm

1409
01:10:05,320 --> 01:10:07,120
Speaker 1: gonna say about that. Yeah, you know where that Yeah

1410
01:10:07,160 --> 01:10:09,680
Speaker 1: twenty ten. Yeah, I mean I could see there's so

1411
01:10:09,680 --> 01:10:11,519
Speaker 1: many close games there that could have gone the other way.

1412
01:10:11,720 --> 01:10:14,800
Speaker 1: Defense just wasn't good enough. Defense better be good enough

1413
01:10:14,880 --> 01:10:17,599
Speaker 1: on on Saturday. So the interview you're playing tonight, Bob

1414
01:10:17,640 --> 01:10:21,240
Speaker 1: was shooes him with the Jets. It's tonight, right, correct,

1415
01:10:22,120 --> 01:10:25,040
Speaker 1: you know, asking him about who's the second most popular

1416
01:10:25,080 --> 01:10:28,280
Speaker 1: all time Jet. It was not an easy answer for him.

1417
01:10:28,400 --> 01:10:31,040
Speaker 1: He's the voice of the Jets. I mean it's not

1418
01:10:31,200 --> 01:10:34,320
Speaker 1: and I guess it's tough for most franchise as. You know,

1419
01:10:34,320 --> 01:10:37,400
Speaker 1: who's the most popular text in Well, it's water Drey Johnson.

1420
01:10:37,920 --> 01:10:40,280
Speaker 1: So you have to make a decision there. And Andrey's retired,

1421
01:10:40,320 --> 01:10:42,240
Speaker 1: so you know, his career has been put to bed. Watt,

1422
01:10:42,240 --> 01:10:43,960
Speaker 1: who knows what happens. I mean, he's having a great

1423
01:10:44,000 --> 01:10:45,760
Speaker 1: year here. I mean, you know, you got others that

1424
01:10:45,800 --> 01:10:49,160
Speaker 1: are kind of adding to it, hoping and sewn and

1425
01:10:50,120 --> 01:10:52,639
Speaker 1: but name it is obviously number one with the Jets,

1426
01:10:53,200 --> 01:10:55,000
Speaker 1: and then you go from there and it's not easy,

1427
01:10:55,040 --> 01:10:58,680
Speaker 1: you know, he asked. He talked about Cleiko click. I

1428
01:10:58,720 --> 01:11:01,320
Speaker 1: could see Cleo Clark goes close, kind of stayed around

1429
01:11:01,400 --> 01:11:03,599
Speaker 1: Jaska Gaston. I was kind of a freak show. Yeah,

1430
01:11:03,960 --> 01:11:06,719
Speaker 1: but he's a fun freak show man. He was married?

1431
01:11:06,840 --> 01:11:08,920
Speaker 1: Was he married or just going out with Brigitte Nielsen

1432
01:11:09,000 --> 01:11:11,960
Speaker 1: who also was still Sylvester stallone. Have you seen Creed two?

1433
01:11:13,080 --> 01:11:16,639
Speaker 1: Don't tell me anything, do not. I have not seen

1434
01:11:17,120 --> 01:11:19,320
Speaker 1: you've seen it. I want to see it with my son,

1435
01:11:19,520 --> 01:11:23,519
Speaker 1: and you know what I saw. He loved it. You know,

1436
01:11:23,600 --> 01:11:25,360
Speaker 1: with small children, you don't get to the movies as

1437
01:11:25,400 --> 01:11:29,680
Speaker 1: much as you know, so movies these days, you know,

1438
01:11:29,800 --> 01:11:31,519
Speaker 1: a star is born. It was gone in like two

1439
01:11:31,560 --> 01:11:33,360
Speaker 1: weeks and it's a massive hit movie. I wanted to

1440
01:11:33,400 --> 01:11:34,840
Speaker 1: go see it. We just gotta go to the ANC

1441
01:11:35,000 --> 01:11:36,800
Speaker 1: Championship Games, so we travel somewhere so you can see

1442
01:11:36,880 --> 01:11:38,200
Speaker 1: it on a plane. All right, that'd be nice, that

1443
01:11:38,240 --> 01:11:39,960
Speaker 1: would be very en First, you gotta bake the playoffs,

1444
01:11:40,000 --> 01:11:42,479
Speaker 1: that's true. We gotta take care of one. I want

1445
01:11:42,479 --> 01:11:45,440
Speaker 1: to go as a as a participant, not as a spectator,

1446
01:11:46,160 --> 01:11:48,920
Speaker 1: Mark appreciate it. Thanks Johnny. Coming up next, it's our

1447
01:11:48,960 --> 01:11:51,960
Speaker 1: good buddy andre Ware right here in Texas All Access.

1448
01:11:52,520 --> 01:11:54,400
Speaker 1: Let's close it down to night with our good friend

1449
01:11:54,640 --> 01:11:57,559
Speaker 1: andre Ware. Market a chance to catch up with him

1450
01:11:57,560 --> 01:12:00,599
Speaker 1: earlier today. Joining us right now is on Trey Ware

1451
01:12:00,760 --> 01:12:04,040
Speaker 1: and Drey. It's a weird time of year because I

1452
01:12:04,120 --> 01:12:06,719
Speaker 1: would imagine for you you're doing college football every weekend,

1453
01:12:06,800 --> 01:12:09,280
Speaker 1: but this time of year you don't exactly slow down,

1454
01:12:09,320 --> 01:12:11,960
Speaker 1: but it becomes bowl season. What bowls are you doing?

1455
01:12:12,080 --> 01:12:15,439
Speaker 1: And how do you approach those games versus regular season games?

1456
01:12:15,800 --> 01:12:19,679
Speaker 1: Doing what you do as an analyst? Yeah, it's it's

1457
01:12:20,040 --> 01:12:21,920
Speaker 1: that kind of that time of year where you you

1458
01:12:22,000 --> 01:12:26,280
Speaker 1: almost get actually a little busier when bowl games, especially

1459
01:12:26,400 --> 01:12:30,080
Speaker 1: midweek bowl games start to take place, and you get

1460
01:12:30,560 --> 01:12:33,360
Speaker 1: assigned to a couple of those. I've got the Frisco

1461
01:12:33,520 --> 01:12:38,880
Speaker 1: Bowl up u in Frisco, Texas, where San Diego State

1462
01:12:38,960 --> 01:12:43,040
Speaker 1: will play Ohio. And then the very next week on

1463
01:12:43,120 --> 01:12:47,320
Speaker 1: a Wednesday night in the Arizona the Cheese It which

1464
01:12:47,439 --> 01:12:51,519
Speaker 1: is cal and TCU. So those two coming up in

1465
01:12:51,680 --> 01:12:56,479
Speaker 1: conjunction to the Texans travel and so on and so forth.

1466
01:12:56,560 --> 01:12:59,439
Speaker 1: So do a series of games in a in a

1467
01:13:01,400 --> 01:13:04,920
Speaker 1: very limited, limited couple of days, so to speak. So

1468
01:13:05,040 --> 01:13:08,960
Speaker 1: it takes an extra a little bit extra concentration. What

1469
01:13:09,240 --> 01:13:12,479
Speaker 1: is your memory of bowl time? I know that the

1470
01:13:12,640 --> 01:13:14,840
Speaker 1: Heisman year, you guys couldn't go to a bowl. And

1471
01:13:14,920 --> 01:13:17,120
Speaker 1: by the way, side note here, we were talking to

1472
01:13:17,439 --> 01:13:19,120
Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien about this as well. You know, when he

1473
01:13:19,200 --> 01:13:20,800
Speaker 1: was at Penn State, they couldn't go to a bowl

1474
01:13:21,160 --> 01:13:23,320
Speaker 1: and he said, why punished those kids for something they

1475
01:13:23,360 --> 01:13:25,439
Speaker 1: had nothing to do with? And the same could apply

1476
01:13:25,560 --> 01:13:27,920
Speaker 1: to your team. You guys had nothing to do with

1477
01:13:27,960 --> 01:13:31,120
Speaker 1: the infractions, coaching, players, everything, yet you had to suffer

1478
01:13:31,160 --> 01:13:34,080
Speaker 1: the brunt of the punishment. Yeah, I remember like it

1479
01:13:34,200 --> 01:13:38,360
Speaker 1: was yesterday, and I actually met the guy who put

1480
01:13:38,479 --> 01:13:42,240
Speaker 1: us on probation for something that happened when most of

1481
01:13:42,360 --> 01:13:45,240
Speaker 1: us were in fourth and fifth grade. And so we

1482
01:13:45,400 --> 01:13:49,519
Speaker 1: served the brunt of that that penalty by not being

1483
01:13:49,600 --> 01:13:51,479
Speaker 1: able to go to a bowl game that year. And

1484
01:13:52,439 --> 01:13:56,800
Speaker 1: so the Heisman season in itself, the closer we got

1485
01:13:56,880 --> 01:14:00,160
Speaker 1: towards the end of the season kind of became our

1486
01:14:00,240 --> 01:14:03,800
Speaker 1: de facto bowl game, and you could tell, guys, we're

1487
01:14:03,840 --> 01:14:07,800
Speaker 1: playing harder. That's why I've mean so much to all

1488
01:14:07,880 --> 01:14:10,599
Speaker 1: of us, not just myself, but all of us as

1489
01:14:10,640 --> 01:14:15,800
Speaker 1: a team. Because the effort level went up, the conversation

1490
01:14:16,439 --> 01:14:22,639
Speaker 1: started to really energize itself, and ultimately we pulled it off.

1491
01:14:22,720 --> 01:14:25,280
Speaker 1: And so it was it was quite something. It never

1492
01:14:25,400 --> 01:14:29,800
Speaker 1: been won by a player that was on probation, and

1493
01:14:30,840 --> 01:14:33,599
Speaker 1: I don't think it'll ever be done again. So it's

1494
01:14:33,640 --> 01:14:36,320
Speaker 1: something kind of unique and in the history books that

1495
01:14:36,840 --> 01:14:40,320
Speaker 1: that nineteen eighty nineteen we will all share in forever.

1496
01:14:40,680 --> 01:14:43,160
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the eighty eight team schedule and I

1497
01:14:43,240 --> 01:14:45,439
Speaker 1: know we're just messing around here, but it's the holiday season.

1498
01:14:45,520 --> 01:14:48,280
Speaker 1: We're having some fun today. This schedule, tray. I mean,

1499
01:14:48,320 --> 01:14:50,759
Speaker 1: if the Coups could play a schedule like this today,

1500
01:14:50,880 --> 01:14:56,799
Speaker 1: my goodness. You know, Missouri, Baylor, Aggie's, Arkansas, TCU, Texas,

1501
01:14:57,479 --> 01:15:01,439
Speaker 1: Texas Tech, it's loaded. You guys had a phenomenal record.

1502
01:15:01,479 --> 01:15:05,760
Speaker 1: What you only lost twice that year? Yeah, and those two, uh,

1503
01:15:06,000 --> 01:15:09,439
Speaker 1: we needed that season. In eighty nine, we needed the

1504
01:15:09,600 --> 01:15:13,160
Speaker 1: ball maybe one more time against Arkansas we lost forty

1505
01:15:13,200 --> 01:15:15,840
Speaker 1: six thirty nine, needed one more possession in that game.

1506
01:15:16,280 --> 01:15:18,200
Speaker 1: And then at A and M we had our chances.

1507
01:15:18,240 --> 01:15:21,040
Speaker 1: We lost seventeen thirteen. It was probably the lowest game

1508
01:15:21,600 --> 01:15:23,320
Speaker 1: that I was ever a part of while I was

1509
01:15:23,479 --> 01:15:27,439
Speaker 1: up at the University of Houston. But we we we

1510
01:15:27,600 --> 01:15:29,920
Speaker 1: put one on the ground a couple of times going

1511
01:15:30,040 --> 01:15:34,439
Speaker 1: in that ultimately won the game at at Kyle Field

1512
01:15:34,479 --> 01:15:37,040
Speaker 1: for for the AGAs. So it was, yeah, it was

1513
01:15:37,120 --> 01:15:41,720
Speaker 1: we had to lace them up every single Saturday when

1514
01:15:42,080 --> 01:15:45,120
Speaker 1: there were no off weeks, even non conference games. We

1515
01:15:45,320 --> 01:15:48,800
Speaker 1: played Arizona State and uh and teams of that, and

1516
01:15:49,200 --> 01:15:53,040
Speaker 1: you know, a bat magnitude that year. So we we

1517
01:15:53,479 --> 01:15:57,400
Speaker 1: we challenged ourselves and we had a very talented football

1518
01:15:57,439 --> 01:16:00,200
Speaker 1: team across the board that we were will and to

1519
01:16:00,240 --> 01:16:03,560
Speaker 1: go play anybody anywhere. One more college football one for

1520
01:16:03,720 --> 01:16:05,960
Speaker 1: you as we're getting ready for the Academy Sports and

1521
01:16:06,000 --> 01:16:09,360
Speaker 1: Outdoors Texas Bowl here December twenty seventh with Vanderbilt and

1522
01:16:09,439 --> 01:16:14,120
Speaker 1: Baylor that bowl game in eighty eight. You play Rice

1523
01:16:14,200 --> 01:16:16,320
Speaker 1: on November twenty six and beat them, then you're playing

1524
01:16:16,320 --> 01:16:19,000
Speaker 1: in the Aloha Bowl, which is a month later. What

1525
01:16:19,200 --> 01:16:21,840
Speaker 1: is it like when there's a month between games and

1526
01:16:21,960 --> 01:16:24,200
Speaker 1: you have to handle that as an athlete the coaching

1527
01:16:24,320 --> 01:16:26,920
Speaker 1: staff because all these schools are going through that right now,

1528
01:16:27,240 --> 01:16:30,160
Speaker 1: and of course Baylor and Vanderbilt among them getting ready

1529
01:16:30,200 --> 01:16:32,760
Speaker 1: to play here. Well, it kind of gets you out

1530
01:16:32,800 --> 01:16:35,880
Speaker 1: of rhythm mark because you get as a player, and

1531
01:16:36,040 --> 01:16:39,360
Speaker 1: especially as the quarterback, you get in a routine, and

1532
01:16:39,560 --> 01:16:42,360
Speaker 1: once the routine is broken, it's hard to get back

1533
01:16:42,400 --> 01:16:45,320
Speaker 1: in that routine. That's why you have heard me many

1534
01:16:45,439 --> 01:16:48,160
Speaker 1: times say I don't like bye weeks because when a

1535
01:16:48,240 --> 01:16:51,240
Speaker 1: team is playing well, people who say, oh, well, we

1536
01:16:51,320 --> 01:16:53,360
Speaker 1: need to get healthy, but it takes you out of

1537
01:16:53,400 --> 01:16:57,519
Speaker 1: your routine, and that fifteen days of practice and nobody

1538
01:16:57,600 --> 01:17:01,680
Speaker 1: else you're not seeing another uniform. That's tough to come

1539
01:17:01,720 --> 01:17:06,679
Speaker 1: back from. And then it's why I think offenses usually

1540
01:17:06,800 --> 01:17:10,400
Speaker 1: take a while to get going in bowl games because

1541
01:17:10,960 --> 01:17:14,640
Speaker 1: you haven't really played or practiced at a speed that

1542
01:17:15,200 --> 01:17:18,280
Speaker 1: simulates what you're going to face the next week. There

1543
01:17:18,400 --> 01:17:21,120
Speaker 1: that you faced for twelve weeks in a row or

1544
01:17:21,240 --> 01:17:24,560
Speaker 1: thirteen weeks in a row. It's a different element to it.

1545
01:17:24,680 --> 01:17:27,920
Speaker 1: So offenses tend to struggle a little bit. Defenses tend

1546
01:17:28,000 --> 01:17:30,840
Speaker 1: to dominate early in bowl games and so on and

1547
01:17:30,920 --> 01:17:34,600
Speaker 1: so forth. So I wish they would speed him up.

1548
01:17:34,880 --> 01:17:37,720
Speaker 1: I think that with that break in between, you could

1549
01:17:37,760 --> 01:17:40,639
Speaker 1: squeeze in another game or so and move that sucker

1550
01:17:40,760 --> 01:17:44,920
Speaker 1: to six to eight teams without without any problem. Andrea,

1551
01:17:44,960 --> 01:17:48,320
Speaker 1: it's not like six to eight playoff teams. I'm sorry, Yeah, yeah,

1552
01:17:48,479 --> 01:17:50,400
Speaker 1: I got you, and I think you have a lot

1553
01:17:50,400 --> 01:17:54,439
Speaker 1: of agreement there, Sam Darnold. They beat the Bills, the

1554
01:17:54,600 --> 01:17:57,160
Speaker 1: Jets did last week. It's not like he lit it up,

1555
01:17:57,200 --> 01:17:59,000
Speaker 1: but he made plays to win the game. They came

1556
01:17:59,040 --> 01:18:00,920
Speaker 1: from behind to do it. What do you think the

1557
01:18:01,000 --> 01:18:03,840
Speaker 1: Texans are seeing here in Sam Darnold's Saturday afternoon at

1558
01:18:03,880 --> 01:18:06,920
Speaker 1: the Middlelands. Well, you know, you've got a guy that

1559
01:18:07,080 --> 01:18:09,880
Speaker 1: has some mobility, but not a lot. So it's not

1560
01:18:10,080 --> 01:18:12,640
Speaker 1: like you're you know, you're facing the likes of an

1561
01:18:12,680 --> 01:18:15,679
Speaker 1: Andrew Luck. He moves similarly, but not quite as well

1562
01:18:16,160 --> 01:18:20,320
Speaker 1: as Andrew does that he completed a high percentage last

1563
01:18:20,360 --> 01:18:23,479
Speaker 1: week to help his team pull out one against Buffalo.

1564
01:18:23,880 --> 01:18:26,720
Speaker 1: They put twenty seven points on the board. They've been

1565
01:18:26,760 --> 01:18:28,920
Speaker 1: able to score points with the exception of the New

1566
01:18:28,960 --> 01:18:32,439
Speaker 1: England game and the first game against Buffalo, they've been

1567
01:18:32,479 --> 01:18:35,160
Speaker 1: able to put some points on the board. So it's

1568
01:18:35,200 --> 01:18:38,160
Speaker 1: a dangerous team in that regard, and with him as

1569
01:18:38,600 --> 01:18:41,800
Speaker 1: as their leader. As a rookie starter, he's had his

1570
01:18:41,880 --> 01:18:46,519
Speaker 1: bumps and bruises twelve touchdowns to fifteen interceptions, about mid

1571
01:18:46,680 --> 01:18:50,439
Speaker 1: fifties in terms of completion percentage. Where you can't allow

1572
01:18:50,760 --> 01:18:53,400
Speaker 1: the Jets to get going is in the running game

1573
01:18:53,439 --> 01:18:58,040
Speaker 1: with a guy like Isaiah Crowell or Elijah McGuire, where

1574
01:18:58,120 --> 01:19:02,200
Speaker 1: they give him comfort in being able to do something

1575
01:19:02,280 --> 01:19:05,680
Speaker 1: and take some pressure off of a rookie quarterback. You

1576
01:19:05,800 --> 01:19:08,719
Speaker 1: want to make sure that you keep all the pressure

1577
01:19:08,760 --> 01:19:11,720
Speaker 1: on his shoulders and at some point he starts to

1578
01:19:11,880 --> 01:19:15,720
Speaker 1: feel it throughout the game. The Texans clearly didn't run

1579
01:19:15,800 --> 01:19:17,640
Speaker 1: the ball well against the Colts, and they've got to

1580
01:19:17,680 --> 01:19:19,200
Speaker 1: get back to that. I mean, that's what's really been

1581
01:19:19,240 --> 01:19:21,400
Speaker 1: carrying them, or one of the things that's been carrying

1582
01:19:21,439 --> 01:19:23,280
Speaker 1: them during this streak third in the league. What's it

1583
01:19:23,320 --> 01:19:26,040
Speaker 1: going to take to do better in that department? Well,

1584
01:19:26,160 --> 01:19:29,639
Speaker 1: I think it's a healthy Zach Bolton, to be quite honest.

1585
01:19:29,920 --> 01:19:33,799
Speaker 1: You know, I talk a lot about chemistry and especially

1586
01:19:33,920 --> 01:19:37,280
Speaker 1: chemistry on an offensive line, and it just kind of

1587
01:19:37,360 --> 01:19:41,680
Speaker 1: goes to show you just how important one fifth of

1588
01:19:41,840 --> 01:19:44,960
Speaker 1: an offensive line is, and with him out of the lineup,

1589
01:19:45,040 --> 01:19:48,200
Speaker 1: they weren't able to move and control the line of

1590
01:19:48,320 --> 01:19:52,040
Speaker 1: scrimmage and all of a sudden, the Colts, who were

1591
01:19:52,080 --> 01:19:54,880
Speaker 1: only giving up a little bit over a hundred yards

1592
01:19:55,120 --> 01:19:57,800
Speaker 1: on the ground, they were able to kind of shut

1593
01:19:57,840 --> 01:20:00,960
Speaker 1: the Texans down in that regard. Now they're still the

1594
01:20:01,080 --> 01:20:05,519
Speaker 1: third best rushing offensive attack in the NFL, So it's

1595
01:20:05,560 --> 01:20:09,559
Speaker 1: not like they can't re energize, rejuvenate themselves and get

1596
01:20:09,600 --> 01:20:12,360
Speaker 1: this going against the Colts, who give up about a

1597
01:20:12,640 --> 01:20:14,840
Speaker 1: little over one hundred and thirty yards on the ground.

1598
01:20:14,880 --> 01:20:17,840
Speaker 1: You feel like against the three four defense, you should

1599
01:20:17,920 --> 01:20:21,400
Speaker 1: be able to run the football. Against that type of front,

1600
01:20:21,439 --> 01:20:24,400
Speaker 1: it creates a lot of good blocking angles for the

1601
01:20:24,560 --> 01:20:27,640
Speaker 1: offensive line and the tight ends and such and so

1602
01:20:27,800 --> 01:20:30,000
Speaker 1: on and so forth. So I feel good about their

1603
01:20:30,080 --> 01:20:31,960
Speaker 1: chances to run the football. I think they're gonna have

1604
01:20:32,120 --> 01:20:36,439
Speaker 1: to when you factor in the elements into the game

1605
01:20:36,560 --> 01:20:39,840
Speaker 1: in New York, being outdoors and being a little bit chilly,

1606
01:20:39,920 --> 01:20:41,880
Speaker 1: and who knows what else you're gonna get I think

1607
01:20:42,080 --> 01:20:45,280
Speaker 1: is rain in the forecast. So the running game itself

1608
01:20:45,439 --> 01:20:48,800
Speaker 1: is going to be of an extreme importance. All Right,

1609
01:20:48,880 --> 01:20:52,200
Speaker 1: The Cowboys are playing the Colts this week. Who do

1610
01:20:52,280 --> 01:20:54,120
Speaker 1: you got and what do you think of this matchup?

1611
01:20:54,720 --> 01:20:59,080
Speaker 1: Who that'll give me a good football football game? Because

1612
01:20:59,160 --> 01:21:03,280
Speaker 1: vot teams are playing well right now. Um, that game's

1613
01:21:03,320 --> 01:21:07,639
Speaker 1: in Indianapolis, Yes, yeah, Well I would favor the Coats

1614
01:21:07,760 --> 01:21:11,160
Speaker 1: only for that reason that it's in Indianapolis, it's on

1615
01:21:11,280 --> 01:21:15,479
Speaker 1: the road, and uh and and defensively, they looked last

1616
01:21:15,560 --> 01:21:18,519
Speaker 1: week like they turned the corner with some good young

1617
01:21:18,680 --> 01:21:21,680
Speaker 1: players that that really looked good on that side of

1618
01:21:21,720 --> 01:21:24,600
Speaker 1: the ball, a healthy Andrew Luck, they got somewhat of

1619
01:21:24,640 --> 01:21:28,200
Speaker 1: a running game, so I think they can control the ball,

1620
01:21:29,080 --> 01:21:33,519
Speaker 1: not allow a guy, you know, the receivers of Dallas

1621
01:21:33,600 --> 01:21:36,479
Speaker 1: to get over the top of Maury Cooper and the likes,

1622
01:21:36,880 --> 01:21:38,920
Speaker 1: and then and then just kind of keep it close

1623
01:21:39,000 --> 01:21:41,599
Speaker 1: and win the game at the end. When it comes

1624
01:21:41,680 --> 01:21:44,559
Speaker 1: down to a game like that, I'm gonna choose Andrew

1625
01:21:44,680 --> 01:21:47,360
Speaker 1: Luck in a close ball game because he's been there

1626
01:21:47,680 --> 01:21:50,840
Speaker 1: a few more times than Dak Prescott. But Dallas is

1627
01:21:50,880 --> 01:21:54,000
Speaker 1: on a roll that that game really could go either way.

1628
01:21:54,080 --> 01:21:56,360
Speaker 1: But I would favor the Coats in a close one.

1629
01:21:56,680 --> 01:21:59,120
Speaker 1: Being at home, I was afraid you'd say that. Well,

1630
01:21:59,280 --> 01:22:03,200
Speaker 1: the Giant destroyed whatever was left of Washington last week,

1631
01:22:03,479 --> 01:22:07,040
Speaker 1: and they'll have the Titans at the Middlelands twenty four

1632
01:22:07,120 --> 01:22:09,320
Speaker 1: hours after the Texans play the Jets in that building.

1633
01:22:09,720 --> 01:22:13,360
Speaker 1: So what do you think of Titans Giants in New York? Oh,

1634
01:22:13,840 --> 01:22:17,000
Speaker 1: the way that the Titans were able to run the football.

1635
01:22:19,400 --> 01:22:21,360
Speaker 1: I kind of like what they what they were able

1636
01:22:21,400 --> 01:22:23,720
Speaker 1: to do, Derrick Henry, Can you duplicate that? I don't

1637
01:22:23,760 --> 01:22:27,000
Speaker 1: think it'll be quite that number, but they'll they will

1638
01:22:27,040 --> 01:22:30,840
Speaker 1: have some success running the football, and the Giants are

1639
01:22:30,880 --> 01:22:33,840
Speaker 1: just kind of playing the spoiler role right now, not

1640
01:22:33,960 --> 01:22:37,519
Speaker 1: a whole lot to play for. I like the Titans

1641
01:22:37,640 --> 01:22:40,320
Speaker 1: going on the road in New York there, you know,

1642
01:22:40,400 --> 01:22:43,880
Speaker 1: it's colon Nashville right now, and they've gotten an opportunity

1643
01:22:43,920 --> 01:22:47,680
Speaker 1: to practice outdoors or this week, So I kind of

1644
01:22:47,760 --> 01:22:51,519
Speaker 1: like their chances to remain in it and alive and

1645
01:22:51,920 --> 01:22:54,400
Speaker 1: beating the Giants. All right, I got one more for you.

1646
01:22:54,479 --> 01:22:56,840
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make you commissioner of the UIL, and you

1647
01:22:56,920 --> 01:23:00,599
Speaker 1: have full power, full absolute power to I don't want

1648
01:23:00,600 --> 01:23:03,840
Speaker 1: to get you in trouble here. But are there too

1649
01:23:03,880 --> 01:23:07,439
Speaker 1: many weeks of playoffs? Would you rather see a couple

1650
01:23:07,600 --> 01:23:09,880
Speaker 1: more regular season games for all these high school teams

1651
01:23:09,960 --> 01:23:12,439
Speaker 1: and fewer teams in the playoffs? Or is it good

1652
01:23:12,479 --> 01:23:13,800
Speaker 1: the way it is? We have to win? What is

1653
01:23:13,840 --> 01:23:16,560
Speaker 1: it six games to win a championship. I hate the

1654
01:23:16,600 --> 01:23:19,320
Speaker 1: way it is right now, Okay, quite honest, I absolutely

1655
01:23:19,439 --> 01:23:21,840
Speaker 1: can't stand it. So you're not gonna give me any

1656
01:23:21,920 --> 01:23:24,680
Speaker 1: trouble there. When I was in high school, if you

1657
01:23:24,720 --> 01:23:26,840
Speaker 1: didn't win your district, you didn't make the playoffs. It

1658
01:23:27,000 --> 01:23:30,479
Speaker 1: was one team that win. I can even see two teams.

1659
01:23:30,840 --> 01:23:35,720
Speaker 1: But when you go four deep, you saturated. It's it's

1660
01:23:35,760 --> 01:23:38,240
Speaker 1: of no interest to me to see a team win

1661
01:23:38,360 --> 01:23:41,640
Speaker 1: two district games, go two and eight and then get

1662
01:23:41,720 --> 01:23:44,960
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. I mean, at that point, you're telling

1663
01:23:45,040 --> 01:23:48,560
Speaker 1: me it's about money more so than it is the

1664
01:23:48,760 --> 01:23:54,320
Speaker 1: health and the well being and the competition of these

1665
01:23:54,439 --> 01:23:58,800
Speaker 1: high school kids. And so I can't stand having the

1666
01:23:59,240 --> 01:24:02,960
Speaker 1: big five, a little five, a big six, a little sign.

1667
01:24:03,200 --> 01:24:05,040
Speaker 1: I can't stand all of that. If you're five A,

1668
01:24:05,240 --> 01:24:07,519
Speaker 1: you're five eight. If you're six A, you're six A.

1669
01:24:07,880 --> 01:24:11,120
Speaker 1: Let's go play. We had twelve hundred seventy five students

1670
01:24:11,479 --> 01:24:14,360
Speaker 1: in my high school when we were five eight. We

1671
01:24:14,479 --> 01:24:17,200
Speaker 1: were the smallest five A high school in the state

1672
01:24:17,280 --> 01:24:21,520
Speaker 1: of Texas. Yet we could go play against anybody, anybody

1673
01:24:21,600 --> 01:24:24,080
Speaker 1: in the state and feel pretty good about our tenses.

1674
01:24:24,160 --> 01:24:28,639
Speaker 1: So don't give me. This enrollment here, this school has

1675
01:24:28,760 --> 01:24:32,040
Speaker 1: more players and a bigger pool to choose from. It

1676
01:24:32,160 --> 01:24:33,640
Speaker 1: might be a bigger pool, but it may not be

1677
01:24:33,720 --> 01:24:36,040
Speaker 1: as good at players as they have somewhere else. So

1678
01:24:37,479 --> 01:24:39,519
Speaker 1: I would scale that thing back. If you made me

1679
01:24:39,880 --> 01:24:43,320
Speaker 1: commissioner or the UIL, I would certainly scale back, make

1680
01:24:43,360 --> 01:24:47,280
Speaker 1: it more competitive, and you certainly wouldn't see the playoffs

1681
01:24:47,640 --> 01:24:51,040
Speaker 1: with a two game, two game season in terms of

1682
01:24:51,080 --> 01:24:53,439
Speaker 1: the winning column. And that'll do with the show is

1683
01:24:53,439 --> 01:24:56,160
Speaker 1: in the books. A big thanks to everybody who participate tonight, GM,

1684
01:24:56,240 --> 01:25:00,559
Speaker 1: Brian Gaine, Russell, Baxter, Bob was shoosing Mark Vanimeron Andre Ware.

1685
01:25:00,600 --> 01:25:03,360
Speaker 1: Appreciate everybody back at six ten who kept us on

1686
01:25:03,400 --> 01:25:05,920
Speaker 1: the straight and era tonight. We'll see you tomorrow and

1687
01:25:06,000 --> 01:25:07,160
Speaker 1: as always, go Texans,