1 00:00:00,880 --> 00:00:05,760 Speaker 1: It is Texans Top one hundred Moments Tuesday. Welcome into 2 00:00:05,840 --> 00:00:09,600 Speaker 1: the show, a Tuesday edition of Texans All Access from 3 00:00:09,640 --> 00:00:14,200 Speaker 1: the Hounday Texans Radio studio, and our week of Themes 4 00:00:14,280 --> 00:00:18,599 Speaker 1: continues and today's as I said, Texans Top one hundred Moments. 5 00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:21,759 Speaker 1: And what I mean by that, Well, it's the NFL's 6 00:00:21,960 --> 00:00:26,720 Speaker 1: one hundredth season, one hundredth anniversary. And obviously the Texans 7 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:29,600 Speaker 1: we're not apart and have not been a part of 8 00:00:29,640 --> 00:00:32,680 Speaker 1: the league for a hundred years. Even the city of 9 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:35,199 Speaker 1: Houston has not been involved. And that goes for a 10 00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:38,600 Speaker 1: lot of cities. But Green Bay, Chicago, a lot of 11 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:41,199 Speaker 1: the Originals, the Giants, the Redskins, a lot of the 12 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:44,200 Speaker 1: Originals obviously have a history that covers those hundred years. 13 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:46,760 Speaker 1: We have a history that covers back to two thousand 14 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:48,600 Speaker 1: and two. But we decided, you know what, let's getting 15 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:50,239 Speaker 1: on the fund anyways, these are kind of fun to do, 16 00:00:50,960 --> 00:00:54,000 Speaker 1: and so as a group we decided, here are the 17 00:00:54,040 --> 00:00:58,080 Speaker 1: top one hundred moments, and not the best, not the 18 00:00:58,080 --> 00:01:01,040 Speaker 1: most significant, just the top on the top moments. And 19 00:01:01,080 --> 00:01:04,840 Speaker 1: I like a literation, So Top Tuesday, Top one hundred 20 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:07,160 Speaker 1: I figured, how do I do that? Oh? Yeah, that's right. 21 00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:11,319 Speaker 1: Drew Doherty and I have been doing bonus in the 22 00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:16,840 Speaker 1: labs for significant moments that have happened in this organization's history, 23 00:01:17,080 --> 00:01:23,000 Speaker 1: and for each moment we have a various media attached 24 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:25,280 Speaker 1: to it. We've got one coming up that I just 25 00:01:25,319 --> 00:01:30,240 Speaker 1: did on one of the greatest third and fifteen conversions. Ever, 26 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:33,760 Speaker 1: how did it tell straighter for moment number sixty three 27 00:01:33,880 --> 00:01:37,640 Speaker 1: TG eights twenty eleven scramble against the Cincinnati Bengals in 28 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:40,640 Speaker 1: the game that clinched to the vision? So you got that. 29 00:01:40,959 --> 00:01:43,640 Speaker 1: Sometimes we write articles, sometimes we have slide shows, we 30 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:45,760 Speaker 1: do a lot different things, and so we've kind of 31 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:47,880 Speaker 1: spread the wealth little bit. We could probably do a 32 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:50,240 Speaker 1: bonus in the lab for all of these, but we 33 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:53,400 Speaker 1: have spread the wealth, if you will, and we've come 34 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:55,200 Speaker 1: up with a few, and Drew and I have done 35 00:01:55,280 --> 00:01:59,240 Speaker 1: four of them to date. So I figured why not 36 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:02,720 Speaker 1: take a look at those on a week that well, 37 00:02:02,760 --> 00:02:04,360 Speaker 1: it's theme week, and so I thought this would be 38 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:07,640 Speaker 1: a pretty good theme if I'm being honest, to kind 39 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:09,680 Speaker 1: of go back and recap if you haven't had a 40 00:02:09,760 --> 00:02:12,240 Speaker 1: chance to check out our in the labs. And we're 41 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:16,400 Speaker 1: gonna start with the one we just did number seventy 42 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:20,399 Speaker 1: three in two twelve. It was the second year of 43 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:24,440 Speaker 1: JJ Watt's career and the last time that he had 44 00:02:24,440 --> 00:02:27,959 Speaker 1: faced the Indianapolis Colts. He'd gotten two bogus fifteen yard 45 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:30,840 Speaker 1: penalties up in the Indie well two twelve of Texans 46 00:02:31,160 --> 00:02:34,320 Speaker 1: kind of like with Indianapolis this year, with Tennessee this year, 47 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:40,080 Speaker 1: they didn't play Indianapolis until December, and then they played 48 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:42,280 Speaker 1: him twice I think in two or three weeks, not 49 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:44,360 Speaker 1: two weeks, like three or three or four weeks, I mean, 50 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:48,079 Speaker 1: but it was the twenty twelve game when JJ was 51 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:51,520 Speaker 1: at the height of his powers, if you will, and 52 00:02:51,639 --> 00:02:56,320 Speaker 1: he was just incredible that entire year at moment number 53 00:02:56,560 --> 00:03:01,560 Speaker 1: seventy three. Our bonus in the Lab is JJ Watt 54 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:05,640 Speaker 1: wrecking the Colts in twenty twelve, coming at you with 55 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:09,280 Speaker 1: a Capitol B bonus in the Lab. Drew Doherty with 56 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:11,600 Speaker 1: the good pal John Harris. Johnny, how you doing, buddy, 57 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:14,839 Speaker 1: I'm really well And this is gonna be a fun 58 00:03:14,919 --> 00:03:17,240 Speaker 1: one on this Top one hundred list. The Top one 59 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:19,520 Speaker 1: hundred countdown, one of the some of the best moments 60 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:24,400 Speaker 1: in Texans history today focuses on a game that's really 61 00:03:24,440 --> 00:03:27,680 Speaker 1: been forgotten and not talked about much, but it was 62 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:31,480 Speaker 1: an important game. In twenty twelve at home in December, 63 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:34,840 Speaker 1: the Texans beat the Colts. It was their twelfth win 64 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:37,800 Speaker 1: of the season and it clinched a division title, a 65 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:42,560 Speaker 1: second straight AFC South title. And in that game, John J. J. 66 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:48,400 Speaker 1: Watt went off off off John, But let me set 67 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:51,600 Speaker 1: the stage. The Texans at this point were eleven and two. 68 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:55,880 Speaker 1: They were coming off a Monday night nightmare in New England, 69 00:03:56,120 --> 00:03:58,720 Speaker 1: one of many nightmares in New England over the last 70 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:01,720 Speaker 1: seven eight nine years, but that was at the top 71 00:04:01,760 --> 00:04:04,120 Speaker 1: of the nightmare. I mean, you go into New England 72 00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:06,920 Speaker 1: and you're eleven and one, you are rolling, and then 73 00:04:07,240 --> 00:04:11,480 Speaker 1: you just get smoked up there, very very shaky. Look. 74 00:04:12,160 --> 00:04:14,840 Speaker 1: So Texans gotta right the ship. You go in to 75 00:04:14,920 --> 00:04:18,159 Speaker 1: New England thinking, hey, you've got a buy, you've got 76 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:20,440 Speaker 1: home field advantage locked up throughout the playoffs. If you 77 00:04:20,640 --> 00:04:22,800 Speaker 1: just keep doing what you're doing. That kind of put 78 00:04:22,839 --> 00:04:25,040 Speaker 1: that in doubt a little bit. But you gotta keep 79 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:26,560 Speaker 1: winning because it's all still in front of you. That 80 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:30,240 Speaker 1: stuff is still there for you. So you've got the 81 00:04:30,279 --> 00:04:32,560 Speaker 1: Colts coming to town the next week, and the Colts 82 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:35,880 Speaker 1: were rolling. Man. Yeah, Andrew Luck as a rookie that year, 83 00:04:36,360 --> 00:04:38,760 Speaker 1: was doing some really great things. They were nipping at 84 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:41,400 Speaker 1: your heels and right behind you. You needed a big, 85 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:44,080 Speaker 1: big game from jj Watt. You jump out to a 86 00:04:44,320 --> 00:04:47,440 Speaker 1: ten nothing lead in the first quarter. Colts get a 87 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:50,400 Speaker 1: little closer, and you go into the half with a 88 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:53,440 Speaker 1: twenty to ten lead. They keep getting closer and closer. 89 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:56,640 Speaker 1: But JJ Watt really recks things that day. Let's look 90 00:04:56,640 --> 00:04:58,640 Speaker 1: at the stat line, john I'm just gonna gonna let 91 00:04:58,640 --> 00:05:03,800 Speaker 1: you hear what he did. Ten combined tackles, three sacks 92 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:08,560 Speaker 1: for twenty two yards, six tackles for loss, four quarterback 93 00:05:08,680 --> 00:05:12,400 Speaker 1: hits at a forced fumble. That's a vintage JJ Watt day, 94 00:05:12,440 --> 00:05:15,320 Speaker 1: just littering the stat sheet, hitting all the numbers almost 95 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:18,000 Speaker 1: and he was big, Johnny. And this is a game 96 00:05:18,040 --> 00:05:22,000 Speaker 1: that most fans forget about. And because when you talk 97 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:25,159 Speaker 1: about twenty twelve season, they live on the positive side 98 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:27,200 Speaker 1: of life. They think of the Bears game that year, 99 00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:29,120 Speaker 1: they think of the Broncos game. We've talked about both 100 00:05:29,160 --> 00:05:31,080 Speaker 1: of those games in our Top one hundred moments, and 101 00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:34,240 Speaker 1: I think they forget about this game, even though it 102 00:05:34,279 --> 00:05:36,560 Speaker 1: was the first time the Texans had clinched the division 103 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:39,919 Speaker 1: at home and that was a pretty cool day. But 104 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:42,320 Speaker 1: I think because that Patriots game, it left such a 105 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:46,440 Speaker 1: there was such a residue left over after that Patriots 106 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:50,560 Speaker 1: game that it was. It was unfortunate because they had 107 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:52,880 Speaker 1: played so well that year and they just they got caught. 108 00:05:53,120 --> 00:05:55,640 Speaker 1: You know, everyone gets got And that was the night 109 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:58,160 Speaker 1: the Texans got got up in New England and it 110 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:00,360 Speaker 1: was hard to come back from that one, but they did. 111 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:02,400 Speaker 1: And keep in mind the last time that JJ Watt 112 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:05,800 Speaker 1: had played against the Colts, he had gotten flagged for 113 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:09,800 Speaker 1: two fifteen yard penalties, which were absolute jokes, felt like 114 00:06:09,839 --> 00:06:13,520 Speaker 1: fourteen yeah, flagged up in Indianapolis in a game in 115 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:16,120 Speaker 1: twenty eleven. That if you win that, who knows how 116 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:17,760 Speaker 1: that changes things. I mean, we said that a lot 117 00:06:17,839 --> 00:06:19,880 Speaker 1: of times, just one game could change things in the NFL. 118 00:06:19,920 --> 00:06:22,120 Speaker 1: But they don't get that game in two thousand and 119 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:25,359 Speaker 1: eleven because Dan Rolovski somehow pulls one out for the 120 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:28,960 Speaker 1: Colts and the curse of the visits to Indie continued 121 00:06:28,960 --> 00:06:30,719 Speaker 1: for a few more years. But that was the first 122 00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:33,400 Speaker 1: time late in December because the Texans kind of like 123 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:35,680 Speaker 1: the Texans to twenty nineteen, will play the Titans in 124 00:06:35,760 --> 00:06:39,720 Speaker 1: December twice. They were playing Indianapolis in December twice. When 125 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:41,359 Speaker 1: you said that about Andrew Luck, the first thing I 126 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:43,719 Speaker 1: thought about was what the Colts had done at twenty eighteen. 127 00:06:43,760 --> 00:06:46,240 Speaker 1: The Colts starts low twenty eighteen and then picked it up, 128 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:49,320 Speaker 1: and we're a really good team. Surprisingly not in this game. 129 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:51,400 Speaker 1: T Y Hilton does make a big play for the Colts. 130 00:06:51,440 --> 00:06:54,320 Speaker 1: But when you go back and watch this game as 131 00:06:54,320 --> 00:06:59,440 Speaker 1: I did, ninety nine shows up everywhere. There's a everywhere 132 00:06:59,640 --> 00:07:01,400 Speaker 1: first ten for the Colts at the end of the 133 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:03,840 Speaker 1: first quarter and they're at the thirty four of Houston. 134 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:08,000 Speaker 1: Luck fix the handoff and he's being chased by what 135 00:07:08,279 --> 00:07:14,480 Speaker 1: jje what but the sack the crowd erupts. Watch saxon 136 00:07:14,640 --> 00:07:17,280 Speaker 1: ye for fifteen yards I mean, so that pushes him 137 00:07:17,280 --> 00:07:19,120 Speaker 1: back to the forty nine. You're at midfield when you 138 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:21,120 Speaker 1: were looking like you're about to be within field goal 139 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:23,520 Speaker 1: range at closer. I mean he and he did that 140 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:27,040 Speaker 1: a few more times. He was a monster that day. 141 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:28,960 Speaker 1: You know, when we watch the game now with JJ, 142 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:32,360 Speaker 1: there are times when if you pause the television screen, 143 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:34,800 Speaker 1: if you're watching home where you're watching on film after 144 00:07:34,840 --> 00:07:37,440 Speaker 1: the game or whatever, there's this moment where you can 145 00:07:37,480 --> 00:07:39,560 Speaker 1: free frame it and go, there's there are three guys 146 00:07:39,640 --> 00:07:42,360 Speaker 1: blocking ninety nine. Everybody else is one on one, or 147 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:45,640 Speaker 1: maybe somebody's breaking free. There are three guys on ninety nine. 148 00:07:45,760 --> 00:07:48,120 Speaker 1: Teams had not figured out even that late in that 149 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:53,360 Speaker 1: year that they needed to give offensive lineman help. So 150 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:56,040 Speaker 1: there were times in that game on those sacks. And 151 00:07:56,040 --> 00:07:57,560 Speaker 1: there were a couple of times where he got back 152 00:07:57,560 --> 00:08:00,320 Speaker 1: there and he either luck moved or through it where 153 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:03,760 Speaker 1: he would go one on one against a Cults guard. 154 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:06,520 Speaker 1: And there was one time he got his hands on 155 00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:08,200 Speaker 1: one of the Colts guards. I can't remember which one 156 00:08:08,240 --> 00:08:10,000 Speaker 1: it was. He got hands on the guard, and the 157 00:08:10,120 --> 00:08:13,720 Speaker 1: guard is just like going backwards, just flailing backwards, and 158 00:08:13,720 --> 00:08:17,000 Speaker 1: then JJ sheds him and then goes and tackles Andrew Luck. 159 00:08:17,320 --> 00:08:21,640 Speaker 1: It's one of the games that won't be remembered as much. 160 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:26,480 Speaker 1: But when you hey, why was JJ Watt great? Watch 161 00:08:26,560 --> 00:08:29,400 Speaker 1: that game? Watch the twenty twelve game against the Colts 162 00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:33,600 Speaker 1: at home, because he was unbelievable, how quick he was 163 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:36,160 Speaker 1: off the ball, the power that he showed, how good 164 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:38,600 Speaker 1: his technique had gotten in just two short years, the 165 00:08:38,640 --> 00:08:41,840 Speaker 1: ability to get to the quarterback, the explosiveness the Little 166 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:44,080 Speaker 1: Swim movie has on run plays. He still has it now, 167 00:08:44,320 --> 00:08:46,520 Speaker 1: but it was even more pronounced than twenty twelve where 168 00:08:46,679 --> 00:08:49,520 Speaker 1: you bring up run plays I talked about he had 169 00:08:49,520 --> 00:08:51,920 Speaker 1: four tackles for lost. He had ten tackles total, so 170 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:56,720 Speaker 1: four TFLs. But he also had three tackles where the 171 00:08:56,760 --> 00:09:00,720 Speaker 1: guy got zero yards or just one yard, so it's 172 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:03,280 Speaker 1: almost like he had seven tackles for loss. I mean, 173 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:06,120 Speaker 1: he was wrecking shop in the run game, and then 174 00:09:06,160 --> 00:09:09,040 Speaker 1: he had the three sacks too. He was He'd swim guys. 175 00:09:09,280 --> 00:09:12,000 Speaker 1: He has that quick swim move where action years zone 176 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:14,280 Speaker 1: action is going away and he'll swim the guy that's 177 00:09:14,280 --> 00:09:16,760 Speaker 1: gonna you know, whether it's a tackle, he'll swim him 178 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:20,680 Speaker 1: quicking that flat down the line. He has mastered that technique. 179 00:09:20,760 --> 00:09:23,480 Speaker 1: He does that better than anybody I think I've ever 180 00:09:23,520 --> 00:09:25,439 Speaker 1: seen in the game of football. And then that game 181 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:27,160 Speaker 1: against the Cults he did a few time for some 182 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:30,280 Speaker 1: of those tackles, they could not handle him. You don't 183 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:32,600 Speaker 1: win that game, you don't win the division that year, right, 184 00:09:34,240 --> 00:09:36,680 Speaker 1: The Vikings came in and whooped you good. The next 185 00:09:36,679 --> 00:09:38,360 Speaker 1: week and then you went up to the Colts and 186 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:40,319 Speaker 1: he lost in Indianapolis. At the end of the season, 187 00:09:40,760 --> 00:09:43,680 Speaker 1: that was a vital, vital win, had stopped the bleeding, 188 00:09:43,960 --> 00:09:46,240 Speaker 1: and really it was kind of one of the last 189 00:09:46,320 --> 00:09:49,800 Speaker 1: bright spots until about twenty fourteen. It's a good point 190 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:52,119 Speaker 1: because you win that game and you win the Bengals 191 00:09:52,120 --> 00:09:54,480 Speaker 1: playoff game later about a month later. But I think 192 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:56,160 Speaker 1: because he had beat in the Bengals a year before 193 00:09:56,360 --> 00:09:58,079 Speaker 1: and it was a sloppy win. There's a pick six 194 00:09:58,120 --> 00:10:00,400 Speaker 1: by shop, which he was getting to be a problem, right, 195 00:10:00,520 --> 00:10:02,280 Speaker 1: But other than that, you've got the two wins to 196 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:06,440 Speaker 1: start thirteen, which were shaky, right. One Darnier went to overtime, 197 00:10:06,480 --> 00:10:08,720 Speaker 1: the other one did go to overtime, and then you lose. 198 00:10:10,040 --> 00:10:13,600 Speaker 1: But that game, for what listen to pick six against 199 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:19,080 Speaker 1: the Bengals in the playoff game was seemingly like, hey, congratulations, 200 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:24,120 Speaker 1: you've unlocked the what Yeah, And it just kept rising. 201 00:10:24,240 --> 00:10:26,680 Speaker 1: But that game against the Colts, there was something about 202 00:10:26,679 --> 00:10:29,000 Speaker 1: that game where he went too near in different levels, 203 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:31,719 Speaker 1: like he understood and I mean the team understood, look, 204 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:34,280 Speaker 1: we gotta get back on track here, and they understood 205 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:35,880 Speaker 1: that day and he was like, I gotta just take 206 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:38,880 Speaker 1: this game over, and he did, and the Cults were 207 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:40,320 Speaker 1: able to put some points up on the board. I mean, 208 00:10:40,320 --> 00:10:42,200 Speaker 1: I think they're going through whenever they've got luck at Hilton. 209 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:45,720 Speaker 1: But what was instrumental in keeping points off the board 210 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:48,160 Speaker 1: numerous times as you talked about, but it was just 211 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:52,120 Speaker 1: the overall menace that he was. Nobody for Indianapolis could 212 00:10:52,120 --> 00:10:55,040 Speaker 1: block him, no, like nobody couldn't. And then we were 213 00:10:55,080 --> 00:10:56,839 Speaker 1: times when they even try to double him, and he 214 00:10:56,960 --> 00:11:00,640 Speaker 1: beat that too. So it was probably one of the 215 00:11:00,679 --> 00:11:05,319 Speaker 1: top five most dominant physical games he's ever had, I think, 216 00:11:05,480 --> 00:11:07,640 Speaker 1: and maybe in the top three, but I know it's 217 00:11:07,679 --> 00:11:11,480 Speaker 1: definitely within the top five for sure, not just in 218 00:11:11,520 --> 00:11:13,720 Speaker 1: my mind thinking oh which ones it could be, but 219 00:11:13,880 --> 00:11:18,000 Speaker 1: from a physically dominant wreck the game play one to 220 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:20,679 Speaker 1: last play the game, that's one that will definitely that 221 00:11:20,880 --> 00:11:22,839 Speaker 1: that will remain for a long time. And we'll enda 222 00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:26,240 Speaker 1: with a personally anecdote. Your office is next door to mine. Yes, 223 00:11:26,280 --> 00:11:29,120 Speaker 1: we're in each other's offices quite often. Up on my wall, 224 00:11:29,240 --> 00:11:33,200 Speaker 1: there's a picture of Bob McNair talking to the team. Yeah, 225 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:36,480 Speaker 1: they've all got their AFC South Champ hats on, and 226 00:11:36,520 --> 00:11:38,680 Speaker 1: he's about to pass out the game ball. I'm standing 227 00:11:38,679 --> 00:11:40,760 Speaker 1: there holding to Mike getting his sounds because we were 228 00:11:40,840 --> 00:11:43,520 Speaker 1: using it for one of those postgame speeches. So it's 229 00:11:43,559 --> 00:11:45,080 Speaker 1: kind of a fun moment. It's fun to look back 230 00:11:45,120 --> 00:11:47,480 Speaker 1: at who's still on that team that's the photo because 231 00:11:47,600 --> 00:11:53,160 Speaker 1: basically it's just Jonathan Joseph and in our team. Chaplain, Well, 232 00:11:53,200 --> 00:11:55,320 Speaker 1: JJ is not in that pot. He was in the room. 233 00:11:55,320 --> 00:11:57,040 Speaker 1: But yeah, there's a photo of a bunch of play 234 00:11:57,520 --> 00:12:00,760 Speaker 1: justin four set. He's gone, James Casey gone on. Garrett Graham. 235 00:12:00,800 --> 00:12:03,000 Speaker 1: That's a great it's a great photo. It's it's a 236 00:12:03,040 --> 00:12:05,679 Speaker 1: really good photo. And I'm glad you were in there. 237 00:12:05,679 --> 00:12:07,439 Speaker 1: And I it's funny because I said in photo all 238 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:09,559 Speaker 1: the time and I it wasn't I didn't put two 239 00:12:09,559 --> 00:12:11,680 Speaker 1: and two together, like wait a second, Oh yeah that 240 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:13,880 Speaker 1: was for this particular game. I forgot about that. So 241 00:12:14,160 --> 00:12:24,360 Speaker 1: this story in that game was J. J. Watt. I 242 00:12:24,520 --> 00:12:27,920 Speaker 1: love a little sound effect there, and that's supposed to 243 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:37,199 Speaker 1: sound like, you know, things coagulating, coming together, clashing. Whatever 244 00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:40,280 Speaker 1: you do in the live you remember chemistry. I remember chemistry. 245 00:12:40,280 --> 00:12:43,520 Speaker 1: I remember things being set on fire and chemistry. In 246 00:12:43,679 --> 00:12:47,960 Speaker 1: my Brown University, my first year. Uh my my lab 247 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:50,200 Speaker 1: partner who was from Humble, Scott Hansel, one of my 248 00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:53,880 Speaker 1: best friends of the world, setting things on fire kind 249 00:12:53,880 --> 00:12:57,680 Speaker 1: of sounded just like that, except the words following were, 250 00:12:57,960 --> 00:13:03,120 Speaker 1: oh bleep, it's on fire. Yeah, our lab Our lab 251 00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:05,319 Speaker 1: Ta kept an eye on both of us the rest 252 00:13:05,320 --> 00:13:08,040 Speaker 1: of the year. So anyways, that's kind of where that 253 00:13:08,040 --> 00:13:10,920 Speaker 1: that little uh a little blurb blah blah blah blop 254 00:13:10,960 --> 00:13:13,880 Speaker 1: comes from. So there you go, not not from Brown University, 255 00:13:13,920 --> 00:13:15,440 Speaker 1: but just kind of gives you the idea of being 256 00:13:15,480 --> 00:13:17,839 Speaker 1: in the labor Do not get a chance to geek out. 257 00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:19,960 Speaker 1: Now we get back. We're gonna stick with that twenty 258 00:13:20,120 --> 00:13:25,040 Speaker 1: twelve theme because in twenty twelve, it was a massive 259 00:13:25,120 --> 00:13:28,439 Speaker 1: Sunday night game in the rain on a Sunday night 260 00:13:28,480 --> 00:13:33,480 Speaker 1: that was just well, it was beautiful in its ugliness. 261 00:13:34,360 --> 00:13:36,840 Speaker 1: In one player in particular, mid a statement that night 262 00:13:37,240 --> 00:13:39,679 Speaker 1: his second year with the Texans against his former team. 263 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:43,240 Speaker 1: Do that next on Texans Top one hundred Tuesday right 264 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:45,640 Speaker 1: here in Texans All Access. Well, going back to Texans 265 00:13:45,720 --> 00:13:48,920 Speaker 1: All Access on this Tuesday evening, and we're staying with 266 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:52,720 Speaker 1: our theme this week, and tonight's team is Texans Top 267 00:13:53,200 --> 00:13:57,240 Speaker 1: one hundred moments, and we discussed JJ Watt against the 268 00:13:57,280 --> 00:13:59,280 Speaker 1: Colton twenty twelve, and we're gonna stay with that twenty 269 00:13:59,280 --> 00:14:03,240 Speaker 1: twelve season because we get to this moment on a 270 00:14:03,480 --> 00:14:08,679 Speaker 1: Sunday night against the Chicago Bears. Now, the Bears are 271 00:14:08,720 --> 00:14:13,600 Speaker 1: a huge piece in this for well one particular reason, 272 00:14:13,880 --> 00:14:17,080 Speaker 1: and that was a guy who was phenomenal that night. 273 00:14:17,480 --> 00:14:19,400 Speaker 1: And this comes in at number eighty nine, But Daniel 274 00:14:19,480 --> 00:14:23,320 Speaker 1: Manning set the tone early in this game and it 275 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:26,520 Speaker 1: was ugly. Whether it was ugly. Offense didn't do a 276 00:14:26,560 --> 00:14:29,280 Speaker 1: whole heck of a lot. Bears defense was phenomenal. Yeah, 277 00:14:29,280 --> 00:14:32,680 Speaker 1: Brian or Locker on a defense. Peanut Tillman, Tim Jennings 278 00:14:32,720 --> 00:14:35,640 Speaker 1: I think had double digit interceptions, he had two of 279 00:14:35,720 --> 00:14:38,280 Speaker 1: them in this game. But it was Daniel Manning who 280 00:14:38,320 --> 00:14:41,160 Speaker 1: had been with the Bears up until the lockout year 281 00:14:41,160 --> 00:14:43,880 Speaker 1: of twenty eleven, then obviously joined the Texas. He's from Texas. 282 00:14:43,880 --> 00:14:46,480 Speaker 1: He had gone Abilene Christian and came home, if you will. 283 00:14:47,200 --> 00:14:50,640 Speaker 1: But in twenty twelve against the Chicago Bears, he was 284 00:14:50,680 --> 00:14:54,640 Speaker 1: facing his former team in their building, both teams seven 285 00:14:54,680 --> 00:14:58,080 Speaker 1: and one on Sunday night football, and Drew and I 286 00:14:58,200 --> 00:15:00,400 Speaker 1: did our bonus in the Lab to se a break 287 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:04,920 Speaker 1: moment number eighty nine in our Texans Top one hundred 288 00:15:07,400 --> 00:15:10,800 Speaker 1: bonus Bonus bonus time here on in the Lab, Drew 289 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:13,200 Speaker 1: Doherty when the good pal John Harrison, Johnny, you're doing 290 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:15,320 Speaker 1: all right? Do well? Man? How are you? Drew? I'm great? 291 00:15:15,440 --> 00:15:18,120 Speaker 1: Top one hundred rolls on. This is a bonus in 292 00:15:18,160 --> 00:15:22,840 Speaker 1: the Lab and we go to Danielle Manning's night against 293 00:15:22,840 --> 00:15:26,640 Speaker 1: the Bears in twenty twelve. John, this was a fun one, 294 00:15:26,720 --> 00:15:28,440 Speaker 1: and I'm gonna set the stage in just a sec. 295 00:15:28,640 --> 00:15:31,400 Speaker 1: But Top five one of my most fun games that 296 00:15:31,520 --> 00:15:34,720 Speaker 1: I've ever covered here with the Texans. Top five really yes, 297 00:15:34,880 --> 00:15:40,000 Speaker 1: interesting way that seven and one, seven and one Houston 298 00:15:40,080 --> 00:15:44,040 Speaker 1: Texans seven and one at the time, Chicago Bears. Yeah, 299 00:15:44,040 --> 00:15:46,720 Speaker 1: Brian or Locker, Peanut Tillman. They were on a roll. 300 00:15:46,760 --> 00:15:49,240 Speaker 1: That defense was really really good. They were getting takeaways 301 00:15:49,320 --> 00:15:54,400 Speaker 1: after takeaways after takeaways. Sunday night football at Soldier Field, 302 00:15:54,840 --> 00:15:57,600 Speaker 1: Chicago is a fun place to visit, so that meant 303 00:15:57,600 --> 00:15:59,560 Speaker 1: you get to go out Saturday night have a good time. 304 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:03,280 Speaker 1: And the Texans were. They were rolling that year. Man, 305 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:05,800 Speaker 1: they were really really good. They would eventually go to 306 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:08,040 Speaker 1: eleven and one and finished twelve and four and go 307 00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:09,720 Speaker 1: to the second round of the playoffs. But I was 308 00:16:09,720 --> 00:16:11,960 Speaker 1: really pumped for this game, and there are lots of 309 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:14,480 Speaker 1: little oddities and things that I remember from it. But 310 00:16:14,680 --> 00:16:17,800 Speaker 1: let's just recap. Aaron Foster ran twenty nine times for 311 00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:21,040 Speaker 1: one hundred two yards. He caught a touchdown passes the 312 00:16:21,760 --> 00:16:25,840 Speaker 1: unbelievable only touchdown in the game, unbelievable catch. They ran 313 00:16:26,040 --> 00:16:28,320 Speaker 1: thirty five times for one hundred twenty seven yards as 314 00:16:28,320 --> 00:16:31,360 Speaker 1: a team. Matt Shop only had ninety five yards passing. 315 00:16:31,560 --> 00:16:33,640 Speaker 1: He had a pick. She actually had two picks and 316 00:16:33,760 --> 00:16:37,000 Speaker 1: one touchdown. Tim Jennings. Tim Jennings, Yeah, that was a 317 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:39,160 Speaker 1: huge year for that guy. He had like eight intercept 318 00:16:39,160 --> 00:16:41,640 Speaker 1: That was his eighth interception, I think the second one 319 00:16:41,680 --> 00:16:43,400 Speaker 1: that he got in that game. Yeah, eight that year, 320 00:16:43,760 --> 00:16:47,160 Speaker 1: November eleventh of twenty twelve. It wasn't very cold. It 321 00:16:47,280 --> 00:16:49,400 Speaker 1: was temps in the fifties and it was kind of rainy. 322 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:52,680 Speaker 1: It was not a cold night, sloppy, sloppy conditions because 323 00:16:52,680 --> 00:16:54,440 Speaker 1: of the rain in the grass. But Dan, this about 324 00:16:54,480 --> 00:16:59,240 Speaker 1: Daniel Manning. You gotta remember a year earlier, twenty eleven, 325 00:16:59,360 --> 00:17:01,360 Speaker 1: he came for the Bears. He signed on the same 326 00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:05,919 Speaker 1: day as Jonathan Joseph, and he really helped stabilize the 327 00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:09,400 Speaker 1: back end of that defense in eleven, in twelve, in thirteen, 328 00:17:09,800 --> 00:17:11,920 Speaker 1: came back in fourteen, but this was a big game 329 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:15,439 Speaker 1: for him. The night before, Gary Kubiak always had the players, 330 00:17:15,560 --> 00:17:17,800 Speaker 1: a couple of players get up and talk before the team, 331 00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:20,560 Speaker 1: and he had Danielle Manning get up and talk before 332 00:17:20,600 --> 00:17:23,000 Speaker 1: the team. And this meant something to daniel mann of course. 333 00:17:23,280 --> 00:17:25,080 Speaker 1: I mean, he had played in a Super Bowl with 334 00:17:25,080 --> 00:17:27,720 Speaker 1: those Bears. He'd return lots of kicks for those Bears. 335 00:17:27,960 --> 00:17:30,600 Speaker 1: He was a good safety for those Bears, and he 336 00:17:30,640 --> 00:17:33,399 Speaker 1: was coming back home. So what does he do. Well, 337 00:17:33,520 --> 00:17:36,800 Speaker 1: He picks off a pass, he forces a fumble, and 338 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:40,399 Speaker 1: he causes a mini firestorm because at one point he 339 00:17:40,520 --> 00:17:43,800 Speaker 1: high five Brian Orlocker and that was some of those 340 00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:48,320 Speaker 1: are two like guys who'd been through slugfests together. Bears fans, 341 00:17:48,400 --> 00:17:49,960 Speaker 1: some of them were kind of ticked off of that 342 00:17:50,520 --> 00:17:53,359 Speaker 1: with Urlocker doing that. But he had a huge game 343 00:17:53,520 --> 00:17:55,640 Speaker 1: and it showed, and he was one of the key 344 00:17:55,760 --> 00:17:58,159 Speaker 1: reasons the Texans were able to come out victorious and 345 00:17:58,160 --> 00:18:00,600 Speaker 1: go to eight and one in that one that the 346 00:18:00,600 --> 00:18:04,120 Speaker 1: first fumble was one of the better hits that I've seen. 347 00:18:04,320 --> 00:18:07,520 Speaker 1: It was a clean hit and it was the first 348 00:18:07,560 --> 00:18:10,280 Speaker 1: play of the game. Yep ran a little look the 349 00:18:10,320 --> 00:18:12,320 Speaker 1: tight end stop route could have been a sail route, 350 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:15,360 Speaker 1: caught the ball, and as he caught the ball, Manning 351 00:18:15,760 --> 00:18:18,080 Speaker 1: thrilled him. I've said that, I said this last week. 352 00:18:18,119 --> 00:18:20,040 Speaker 1: I've been going back on some of the years and 353 00:18:20,119 --> 00:18:22,760 Speaker 1: going back, especially games in eleven and twelve, because I 354 00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:25,040 Speaker 1: was doing overnight radio at that time, so I remember 355 00:18:25,119 --> 00:18:28,240 Speaker 1: things happening, but trying to remember some of the things 356 00:18:28,280 --> 00:18:30,040 Speaker 1: like I can. I can think back to some of 357 00:18:30,080 --> 00:18:32,679 Speaker 1: the games that I've been since twenty fourteen. I can 358 00:18:32,760 --> 00:18:34,760 Speaker 1: remember some of the things that happened, like little things 359 00:18:34,760 --> 00:18:37,040 Speaker 1: in those games. Thinking back to twenty twelve, I remember 360 00:18:37,320 --> 00:18:40,200 Speaker 1: arians catch and the catches unbelievable. So I went back 361 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:43,639 Speaker 1: and I watched the game and it's the very first play. Yeah, 362 00:18:43,800 --> 00:18:48,520 Speaker 1: catches the ball and Manning just just rocked him, rocked him. 363 00:18:48,560 --> 00:18:52,440 Speaker 1: I knew it was coming. I saw that hit and 364 00:18:52,480 --> 00:18:54,439 Speaker 1: I was like WHOA. I was in my office and 365 00:18:54,480 --> 00:18:56,760 Speaker 1: I was just like WHOA. A couple of people heard 366 00:18:56,760 --> 00:18:59,280 Speaker 1: me outside and I was like, man but in that 367 00:18:59,320 --> 00:19:01,560 Speaker 1: game I thought was interesting about this year, and I've 368 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:04,600 Speaker 1: said this for a long time, I feel like if 369 00:19:04,680 --> 00:19:07,080 Speaker 1: you can have and I know the game's a little 370 00:19:07,119 --> 00:19:09,520 Speaker 1: different now, but still, if you could set the tone 371 00:19:09,520 --> 00:19:13,600 Speaker 1: with a physical hit early in the game, it really 372 00:19:13,760 --> 00:19:16,879 Speaker 1: sets the tone. And I felt like watching that game 373 00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:21,200 Speaker 1: throughout after that hit, the Texans were clearly the more 374 00:19:21,320 --> 00:19:23,800 Speaker 1: physical team there was it. I mean, I think Jjoe 375 00:19:23,880 --> 00:19:25,359 Speaker 1: ended up in a fifteen year a penalty for this, 376 00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:28,879 Speaker 1: but he destroyed one of the receivers. Manning had another 377 00:19:28,920 --> 00:19:31,120 Speaker 1: big hit later on, and then you had the Tim 378 00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:34,960 Speaker 1: Dobbins hit that ended up knocking the cutler out of 379 00:19:34,960 --> 00:19:38,520 Speaker 1: the game. So Demand's hit kind of set the tone 380 00:19:38,560 --> 00:19:41,320 Speaker 1: for that entire game. And I guarantee you because the 381 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:43,520 Speaker 1: night before he had said what that meant to him. 382 00:19:43,760 --> 00:19:45,720 Speaker 1: Then he has that hit on the first play. That's 383 00:19:45,720 --> 00:19:47,280 Speaker 1: one of the things where as a teammate or as 384 00:19:47,320 --> 00:19:50,560 Speaker 1: a Texan, you just go, huh, Okay, he's backing up 385 00:19:50,560 --> 00:19:53,040 Speaker 1: what he talked about. This does mean something. We've got 386 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:55,439 Speaker 1: to up our play to match his. Yeah, he popped 387 00:19:55,520 --> 00:19:57,119 Speaker 1: Davis with that big hit on the first play, and 388 00:19:57,160 --> 00:20:00,480 Speaker 1: then he picked off a pass intended for Davis later 389 00:20:00,480 --> 00:20:02,919 Speaker 1: in the game and all the first quarter. Yeah, I 390 00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:05,760 Speaker 1: mean it was wild. A couplet a little anomalies from 391 00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:08,800 Speaker 1: that game, active and inactive. Some guys who were not 392 00:20:08,880 --> 00:20:10,800 Speaker 1: on the field that night for the Texans, Ben Tate, 393 00:20:11,119 --> 00:20:14,680 Speaker 1: Brandon Brooks, Owen Daniels, Sean Cody. They were fighting through 394 00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:17,840 Speaker 1: little injuries, so those guys didn't play. Alshon Jeffrey did 395 00:20:17,840 --> 00:20:21,439 Speaker 1: not play for the Bears. Neither did Amobia Koye former 396 00:20:21,440 --> 00:20:25,359 Speaker 1: Houston Texans. Neither did chat Ozuou former Houston Texan, former 397 00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:28,440 Speaker 1: mister irrelevant. Oh yeah, so yeah, it was a wild game. 398 00:20:28,520 --> 00:20:31,920 Speaker 1: Texans never trailed. They went up three nothing, Bears would 399 00:20:31,920 --> 00:20:33,800 Speaker 1: tie it in the second quarter. Then they went back 400 00:20:33,880 --> 00:20:36,520 Speaker 1: up ten to three in the second quarter. The Texans did. 401 00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:39,480 Speaker 1: Bears got to within ten six, but then Shane Graham 402 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:42,359 Speaker 1: kicked a field goal forty two yards in the fourth 403 00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:45,400 Speaker 1: with four forty nine remaining. Thirteen six was the final. 404 00:20:45,600 --> 00:20:47,200 Speaker 1: That was a fun one, John, That was a really 405 00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:49,440 Speaker 1: fun game. It really was. And if you didn't bring 406 00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:52,080 Speaker 1: up Daniel Manning, he should have been the top guy. 407 00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:54,440 Speaker 1: If I remember correctly. Sunday Night Football gave it to 408 00:20:54,480 --> 00:20:56,640 Speaker 1: the offensive line at Terry and Foster like they gave 409 00:20:56,680 --> 00:20:59,560 Speaker 1: game balls afterwards, and they should. They ran the ball 410 00:21:00,040 --> 00:21:02,320 Speaker 1: and pounded with those conditions. And I'll tell you this, 411 00:21:02,359 --> 00:21:04,119 Speaker 1: And I walked in your office as I was watching 412 00:21:04,119 --> 00:21:05,439 Speaker 1: that game. What I tell you, I was like, Man, 413 00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:07,439 Speaker 1: I don't know that we give enough Creditarian Foster. That 414 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:09,520 Speaker 1: guy was great. He was. He was absolutely incredible. But 415 00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:11,960 Speaker 1: as I watched the remainder of that game, Tim Dobbins 416 00:21:12,119 --> 00:21:14,760 Speaker 1: was a guy that was sort of thought of. I 417 00:21:14,760 --> 00:21:17,320 Speaker 1: don't know. People will remember him for the roof building 418 00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:19,640 Speaker 1: incident or whatever it was, and he missed OTAs because 419 00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:21,720 Speaker 1: he's building a roof or something, and people remember for 420 00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:26,879 Speaker 1: that that game he was outstanding. If it wasn't Daniel Manning, 421 00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:29,160 Speaker 1: it was Tim Dobbins, and not just because the Jay 422 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:32,480 Speaker 1: Cutler hit and he destroyed Color and it was I 423 00:21:32,520 --> 00:21:34,399 Speaker 1: don't did he get I think he had a fifteen 424 00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:37,960 Speaker 1: yard apenaly for that. I think he did. But Color 425 00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:39,520 Speaker 1: ended up not coming back in the game in the 426 00:21:39,560 --> 00:21:41,800 Speaker 1: second half and they put in Jason Campbell and that 427 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:43,840 Speaker 1: was just not gonna happen against that defense. It just 428 00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:46,720 Speaker 1: wasn't gonna happen. They generated turnovers, but it all started 429 00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:48,679 Speaker 1: at first play the game. The tone was set by 430 00:21:48,760 --> 00:21:54,480 Speaker 1: Daniel Manning. I remember what. Daniel Manning was drafted by 431 00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:56,840 Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears, and I know this because the guy 432 00:21:56,840 --> 00:21:59,359 Speaker 1: who drafted him is now the GM with Indianapolis Colts. 433 00:21:59,760 --> 00:22:02,760 Speaker 1: And I just remember thinking, man Abilene Christian, and I 434 00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:05,120 Speaker 1: mean I remember the Bears had gone to the Abilene 435 00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:07,520 Speaker 1: Christian well a couple of years. I think it was 436 00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:08,960 Speaker 1: a couple of years prior got by the name of 437 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:12,800 Speaker 1: Johnny Knox, his wide receiver, and he blew up the combine. 438 00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:14,800 Speaker 1: He ran I think in the four three range, just 439 00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:18,880 Speaker 1: he had will Fuller like speed and just blew it up. 440 00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:22,240 Speaker 1: That forced a few scouts, Chris Ballard included, to go 441 00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:23,960 Speaker 1: back and look at Johnny Knox, and he kept going 442 00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:26,959 Speaker 1: back to Abilene Christian and he finally got Daniel Manning. 443 00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:32,840 Speaker 1: That was a key figure with the Bears, but they 444 00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:36,040 Speaker 1: also weren't totally sure how to prioritize him going into 445 00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:38,479 Speaker 1: the lockout of twenty eleven. You remember that crazy lockout 446 00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:40,680 Speaker 1: of twenty eleven. I mean it was it was nuts, 447 00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:43,520 Speaker 1: and the Bears couldn't really figure out how to prioritize 448 00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:45,639 Speaker 1: the need to be a guy with our defense is 449 00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:48,800 Speaker 1: probably good without him. Well, the Texans defense was better 450 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:53,159 Speaker 1: with Manning than Chicago's I guess was without Manning and 451 00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:54,960 Speaker 1: Manning and Jjo came in at twenty eleven. That had 452 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:56,919 Speaker 1: a great year in twenty eleven and is twenty twelve. 453 00:22:57,440 --> 00:23:00,240 Speaker 1: And Drew told the story there about how to Niel 454 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:02,880 Speaker 1: Manning spoke to the team and how much that man 455 00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:05,600 Speaker 1: And sometimes you forget about that because there's so much 456 00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:08,200 Speaker 1: movement in the league and then you think about, man, 457 00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:10,159 Speaker 1: how much is this one gonna mean for guys? And 458 00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:12,880 Speaker 1: Sunday night, I mean, the records were, what the seven 459 00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:15,400 Speaker 1: to one, seven and one. It was a huge game 460 00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:17,720 Speaker 1: for both the other guy and I mentioned this was 461 00:23:17,760 --> 00:23:20,399 Speaker 1: Tim Dobbins. Tim Dobbins was incredible, but it was Daniel 462 00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:23,880 Speaker 1: Manning setting the tone. And I'm a big, big believer 463 00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:26,879 Speaker 1: in the fact that you set the tone early. If 464 00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:30,680 Speaker 1: you make a physical statement early, that resonates. It resonates 465 00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:34,400 Speaker 1: in your building, it resonates on your sideline, it resonates 466 00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:36,919 Speaker 1: throughout the stadium. I mean, it's just and it was 467 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:39,000 Speaker 1: such a big hit and it was legal. I mean 468 00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:40,920 Speaker 1: it was a legal hit. Yes, it was seven years ago. 469 00:23:41,359 --> 00:23:43,400 Speaker 1: That's one of the things that I've noted going back 470 00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:45,200 Speaker 1: and watching some of these games, just kind of get 471 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:47,639 Speaker 1: a feel for what those games were like, who was 472 00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:50,040 Speaker 1: on the field, all that kind of stuff. The things 473 00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:53,000 Speaker 1: that you could get away with just seven years ago. 474 00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:56,679 Speaker 1: It's kind of crazy. So things have changed a little bit. 475 00:23:56,760 --> 00:24:00,679 Speaker 1: But that hit by Daniel Manning, big time legal hit, 476 00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:03,040 Speaker 1: and they's set the tone that night for a big win. 477 00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:06,800 Speaker 1: In Moment number eighty nine on the Texans Top one 478 00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:09,160 Speaker 1: hundred Moments. All right, we got two on the flip side, 479 00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:13,240 Speaker 1: two guys that as pass rushers have been as good 480 00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:15,840 Speaker 1: as they get in In one game they actually combined 481 00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:20,000 Speaker 1: for seven sacks and the other well, let's just say 482 00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:23,320 Speaker 1: that turned down for what became a sensation at an 483 00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:25,560 Speaker 1: Energy Stadium'll do that next on Texas Top one hundred 484 00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:28,160 Speaker 1: Moments on this Tuesday edition in Texas All Access one. 485 00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:31,920 Speaker 1: Final segment of this Texans Top one hundred Moment Tuesday. Man, 486 00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:33,800 Speaker 1: I wish moment I could change that word to make 487 00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:38,040 Speaker 1: it alliteration. Texans Top one hundred theme Now, I don't know. 488 00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:40,000 Speaker 1: It's our theme day and that's why I've been doing 489 00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:43,960 Speaker 1: this week. We've got life in the NFL. Yesterday we 490 00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:48,159 Speaker 1: got Texans Top one Home one hundred Moments, Today Podcast Celebration, Tomorrow, 491 00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:51,520 Speaker 1: we've got the Great Americans on Thursday. You have to 492 00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:53,280 Speaker 1: stick around for that. And then we got the Leadership 493 00:24:53,359 --> 00:24:56,639 Speaker 1: Council on Friday. Hint hit you might hear from some 494 00:24:56,720 --> 00:24:59,520 Speaker 1: of the Texans coaches just saying, So that's what we've 495 00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:02,640 Speaker 1: got going for you this first week in July as 496 00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:04,520 Speaker 1: we get ready for training camp. I'm your host, John 497 00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:06,960 Speaker 1: Harris Football on Us and Silom Reporter, and it's time 498 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:10,240 Speaker 1: to get into one of my favorite moments on the 499 00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:13,240 Speaker 1: Top one hundred, in large part because of the story 500 00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:15,200 Speaker 1: that I tell you. This came in at number ninety 501 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:19,000 Speaker 1: four in twenty fourteen when JJ Watt went through an 502 00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:23,920 Speaker 1: incredible just different level. Here it is Top one hundred 503 00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:26,199 Speaker 1: moment number eighty nine. JJ Watting gets the bills in 504 00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:32,760 Speaker 1: twenty fourteen. Bonus in the Lab time friend Knows and 505 00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:34,359 Speaker 1: for those of you just now joining us for the 506 00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:36,840 Speaker 1: very first time, every single Tuesday, John and I do 507 00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:39,359 Speaker 1: in the Lab we kind of go in depth into 508 00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:43,239 Speaker 1: a certain subject or peculiar part of what's going on 509 00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:45,720 Speaker 1: with the Texans, both in the past or the present, 510 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:48,639 Speaker 1: maybe in the future too, but today we're focusing on 511 00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:52,560 Speaker 1: a top one hundred Texans moment. JJ Watt the one 512 00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:55,879 Speaker 1: man wreck and Crew versus the Buffalo Bills back in 513 00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:58,760 Speaker 1: two fourteen. So let me set the stage for you, John, 514 00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:02,440 Speaker 1: just to refresh yeah memories. Yeah, it was Week four. 515 00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:05,439 Speaker 1: The Texans were two and one, coming off a pretty 516 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:09,159 Speaker 1: ugly loss up in New York to the Giants. You 517 00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:12,600 Speaker 1: got the Bills in town. Ryan Fitzpatrick was your quarterback 518 00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:16,760 Speaker 1: and before the game he made an impassioned, very fiery 519 00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:21,159 Speaker 1: pregame speech where he said, basically, this one means something 520 00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:23,280 Speaker 1: to me, after saying he was not a man of 521 00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:26,440 Speaker 1: many words. So they come to town on that September 522 00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:29,160 Speaker 1: twenty eighth, and they jumped out to a ten seven lead. 523 00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:32,240 Speaker 1: Did the Bills that was scored the half? Yeah, Well, 524 00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:36,320 Speaker 1: with thirteen and a half minutes to go, they're driving again. EJ. 525 00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:40,160 Speaker 1: Manuel's a quarterback. They're at the Texans twenty and they're 526 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:43,159 Speaker 1: poised to at least go up thirteen seven, maybe go 527 00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:46,199 Speaker 1: up seventeen seven, go up double digits on the Texans 528 00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:51,359 Speaker 1: in the third quarter, and then this happened. Manuel puts 529 00:26:51,359 --> 00:26:54,399 Speaker 1: the leg down gets the snap, quick throw and picked 530 00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:58,040 Speaker 1: off what to his lapt thirty thirty five, forty fting, 531 00:26:58,359 --> 00:27:01,439 Speaker 1: what's gonna go all the way up? Thirty pup plotting 532 00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:06,840 Speaker 1: put ten five rock and roll J J Watt pick six? 533 00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:12,080 Speaker 1: What else can he do? Eighty two yards k K Watt. 534 00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:15,959 Speaker 1: Now that was the year of JJ Watt twenty fourteen. 535 00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:19,320 Speaker 1: Two weeks earlier, he'd caught his first touchdown pass ever 536 00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:22,159 Speaker 1: at Oakland. Yes, he would catch two more touchdown passes 537 00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:25,119 Speaker 1: that season. He'd also have a fumble return for a 538 00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:28,240 Speaker 1: touchdown against the Colts on a Thursday night or here, 539 00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:30,359 Speaker 1: and he was a defensive Player of the Year. I mean, 540 00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:33,080 Speaker 1: he was just he was a comment. But this one 541 00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:37,520 Speaker 1: was different because it was the first time the Texans 542 00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:41,639 Speaker 1: here at Energy Stadium played that turndown for what song 543 00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:45,639 Speaker 1: by Lil John. Normally, there's you know, they've sold so 544 00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:48,679 Speaker 1: many things that the Texans marketing corporate development team does 545 00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:51,800 Speaker 1: a phenomenal job. They sell so many assets that you 546 00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:53,560 Speaker 1: go to break, oh, well, you gotta get this, this 547 00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:56,359 Speaker 1: and this in basically commercial wise, and we've got to 548 00:27:56,400 --> 00:27:59,680 Speaker 1: get They just decided we're not doing that this instance 549 00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:02,560 Speaker 1: because what JJ watch just did and what we can 550 00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:05,840 Speaker 1: keep sustaining and fueling with the fans, it's pretty remarkable. 551 00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:08,639 Speaker 1: So they played for the entirety of that break right 552 00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:11,720 Speaker 1: after that touchdown, Yeah, little John, And they would show 553 00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:13,919 Speaker 1: people in the crowd going bananas, and then they come 554 00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:15,920 Speaker 1: back to JJ on the bench and he'd looked somebody 555 00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:17,840 Speaker 1: in the crowd would roar. It was just like it 556 00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:20,159 Speaker 1: was ping pong and back and forth. And that was 557 00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:22,680 Speaker 1: the start of what was just a really fun season 558 00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:26,520 Speaker 1: to see in twenty fourteen. He was unbelievable in twenty fourteen, 559 00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:28,800 Speaker 1: and a lot of times when you say that, sometimes 560 00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:32,600 Speaker 1: it's hyperbole or you're maybe using the word unbelievable in 561 00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:34,920 Speaker 1: the wrong way. But he was the number one player 562 00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:36,919 Speaker 1: in the league is voted on by the players. I mean, 563 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:40,320 Speaker 1: he was just he was just incredible. And in that game. 564 00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:43,080 Speaker 1: It's funny because after the game, I remember seeing something 565 00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:46,080 Speaker 1: on Twitter from from a Bills fan saying, you know, 566 00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:49,080 Speaker 1: they did a really good job on JJ. Well minus 567 00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:51,840 Speaker 1: the interception, he didn't have a sack that day. Yeah, 568 00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:54,120 Speaker 1: but he had nine quarterback hits, Joe, I know, And 569 00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:57,240 Speaker 1: it's funny that quarterback. It's funny because whoever it's Buffalo 570 00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:00,720 Speaker 1: JJ hi a second against us, and I was like, bro, 571 00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:04,720 Speaker 1: did you see the nine times that EJ Manuel got 572 00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:07,000 Speaker 1: stroked wh when JJ was getting back there? It was 573 00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:08,640 Speaker 1: one of the It was one of the better games 574 00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:11,840 Speaker 1: that he played. I'll tell you this funny story about 575 00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:15,320 Speaker 1: that game. My involved with my wife. My wife, we 576 00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:18,600 Speaker 1: have been here since two thousand and seven and I 577 00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:20,480 Speaker 1: covered the team since two thousand and seven with the 578 00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:22,440 Speaker 1: radio station I was with in twenty four teens, my 579 00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:24,480 Speaker 1: first year down on the sidelines, the first year with 580 00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:26,720 Speaker 1: you and the team here with the Texans. My wife 581 00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:29,280 Speaker 1: had never shown any interest in going to a Texas game. 582 00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:32,320 Speaker 1: So we get to week four. We've gone through the 583 00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:34,880 Speaker 1: preseason and we traveled the whole Columbia and we traveled 584 00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:37,240 Speaker 1: in New York and she says, well, when do I 585 00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:38,840 Speaker 1: get tickets to go to a game? And I looked 586 00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:40,760 Speaker 1: at her and said what, Like, what do you mean? 587 00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:42,719 Speaker 1: Like you've never wanted to go? I said, you want 588 00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:44,880 Speaker 1: to go? She goes, yeah, yeah, I want to go. 589 00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:47,680 Speaker 1: And I was like, okay, well, now I'm in a building. 590 00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:49,720 Speaker 1: Let me see if I can pull some strings. And 591 00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:53,120 Speaker 1: so I asked Mark, I said, I said, Mark, Page 592 00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:54,400 Speaker 1: wants to go to the game. She wants to bring 593 00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:56,320 Speaker 1: a couple of friends, like, she's never been to a 594 00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:59,160 Speaker 1: game at Energy, but can you get her? And he's like, 595 00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:01,760 Speaker 1: oh yeah, yeah, yeah, they get great tickets. He gets 596 00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:03,960 Speaker 1: he gets some great tickets. Three of them go to 597 00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:06,080 Speaker 1: the game. Texas win to go to three to one. 598 00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:09,680 Speaker 1: JJ has an interception. It's an unbelievable day for a while. 599 00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:12,360 Speaker 1: I mean, it's incredible. I mean the place just went 600 00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:14,840 Speaker 1: electric when you made the interception. It was incredible. So 601 00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:17,360 Speaker 1: we get home and my wife is really excited, like 602 00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:18,960 Speaker 1: she's telling me about all the different things about it, 603 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:20,600 Speaker 1: and I'm like, this is really cool. I mean, I'm 604 00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:23,680 Speaker 1: really excited about that. And I was like, that was 605 00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:26,120 Speaker 1: pretty cool. And JJ had the interception and then got quiet. 606 00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:30,600 Speaker 1: I was like, that was cool when you got the interception, right, 607 00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:34,320 Speaker 1: She goes, we didn't see it. I was like, wait 608 00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:35,920 Speaker 1: a second, what do you mean you didn't see it? Now, 609 00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:38,120 Speaker 1: this is I think one of the one of the 610 00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:39,640 Speaker 1: things when you go to an NFL game for the 611 00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:41,960 Speaker 1: first time you have to keep this in mind. And 612 00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:45,200 Speaker 1: she didn't because it's right after the half. It's right 613 00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:47,280 Speaker 1: after the half when I coached in high school, we 614 00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:49,680 Speaker 1: had twenty five minutes. I think here in Texas you 615 00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:53,040 Speaker 1: make it thirty. Colleges you get twenty. And so my 616 00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:55,040 Speaker 1: wife had been to high school games in college games 617 00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:57,239 Speaker 1: with me, or had gone to mind so they were 618 00:30:57,360 --> 00:31:01,200 Speaker 1: longer halftimes. So they were in line getting something to 619 00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:04,760 Speaker 1: eat when the crowd just started erupting. Yeah, and they 620 00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:06,720 Speaker 1: looked up and they saw it. She saw it on TV, 621 00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:10,160 Speaker 1: but she didn't see it happen live. I was like, 622 00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:12,720 Speaker 1: the first game she gets to see that game, and 623 00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:16,720 Speaker 1: what has that play? Was bananas? Man, it doesn't even 624 00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:21,479 Speaker 1: see because he's getting something and it's such a short halftime. 625 00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:24,800 Speaker 1: That's what I think people forget sometimes. And Mark talks 626 00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:26,720 Speaker 1: about this a lot. He's like, when you're on the road, 627 00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:28,840 Speaker 1: get the ball to start the second half because a 628 00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:31,880 Speaker 1: lot of the fans are getting something to drink or 629 00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:33,360 Speaker 1: getting some And I'm like, well, let me tell you 630 00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:36,840 Speaker 1: the story about Buffalo Bills twenty fourteen and Page Harris, 631 00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:40,760 Speaker 1: because that's that can happen. What was I mean the 632 00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:43,840 Speaker 1: nine quarterback hurries to me, Yeah, the interception stood out, 633 00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:45,840 Speaker 1: but it's the nine quarterback hurries. He was in he 634 00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:47,920 Speaker 1: was in EJ Manuel's lap the entire I mean Manuel 635 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:49,600 Speaker 1: was just throwing, like getting the rid of the ball 636 00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:51,280 Speaker 1: because JJ was was on top of it. But on 637 00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:53,360 Speaker 1: that play he was not, you know, he was he 638 00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:56,280 Speaker 1: flared out and it's am I'm stunned that he's not 639 00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:59,920 Speaker 1: done this again because he's come so close, oh so close, 640 00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:03,200 Speaker 1: at least twice a season every year since excluding the 641 00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:05,880 Speaker 1: two injured years. But he almost did it against the 642 00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:08,160 Speaker 1: Colts this year. Yeah, I mean he was very very 643 00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:10,720 Speaker 1: close to do it against the Colts. Fact, Luck pulled 644 00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:13,400 Speaker 1: it down. He saw JJ, he pulled it down, and 645 00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:15,680 Speaker 1: then as a defensive van when you're rushing the quarterback, 646 00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:18,400 Speaker 1: you'd think they'd throw it behind you. But when he chumped, 647 00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:20,520 Speaker 1: he was so far on the passing lane. And when 648 00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:24,520 Speaker 1: he jumped, Luck pulled it down, stepped towards the line 649 00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:27,160 Speaker 1: of scrimmage and through in front of JJ, out to 650 00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:29,600 Speaker 1: his wide receiver. I was, I was amazed. I mean, 651 00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:30,880 Speaker 1: he would have he would have picked it off the 652 00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:34,200 Speaker 1: one and I remember was Tennessee at Tennessee Week two. Yes, 653 00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:37,800 Speaker 1: that would have changed the game. He jumped right out 654 00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:40,320 Speaker 1: in front and Gabert went to throw and pulled it 655 00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:43,240 Speaker 1: down and if he throws it jj he walks in 656 00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:44,760 Speaker 1: the end zone. I mean, it's it's a game changer, 657 00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:46,520 Speaker 1: if you think about it, it's a season changer because 658 00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:48,520 Speaker 1: they make that play. Who's to say they get on 659 00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:51,840 Speaker 1: the same run. Now, just that game changes. You're now 660 00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:54,680 Speaker 1: eleven and I'm sorry, you're twelve and four. You're the 661 00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:56,760 Speaker 1: number two seed, you get to buy all that kind 662 00:32:56,760 --> 00:32:59,760 Speaker 1: of stuff changes. Yeah, But I thought it was the 663 00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:02,440 Speaker 1: two against Tennessee, and more I think about it, more 664 00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:05,680 Speaker 1: impressive and more impressed. I am by what Gabber did 665 00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:08,560 Speaker 1: on that play. And then later in the game when 666 00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:10,720 Speaker 1: Scarlett batted the ball back to him, he was smart 667 00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:12,760 Speaker 1: enough to just throw it out of bounce because it 668 00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:15,880 Speaker 1: would have it was a better situation for him. Anyway, 669 00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:18,480 Speaker 1: I forgot. We're not talking about Blaine Gabert here any 670 00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:22,000 Speaker 1: We're talking about the Buffalo Bills in twenty fourteen and 671 00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:24,080 Speaker 1: what J. J. Watt did that day. It was a fun, 672 00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:25,959 Speaker 1: fun day and it was it's cool. I was up 673 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:27,760 Speaker 1: on the deck. I think I was getting ready to 674 00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:29,480 Speaker 1: have to I was gonna have to do some scores 675 00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:32,160 Speaker 1: or something. But because that went down, they were like 676 00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:35,000 Speaker 1: hold and I just watched, soaked it all in as 677 00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:38,560 Speaker 1: turned down for what was played, played and played and 678 00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:48,280 Speaker 1: played again. I remember that year distinctly. It was my 679 00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:50,160 Speaker 1: first year down on the sidelines, and I just remember 680 00:33:50,360 --> 00:33:53,960 Speaker 1: n RG Rocky. They would start that during a television 681 00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:58,880 Speaker 1: break and the stadium would nearly fall down. It was 682 00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:04,000 Speaker 1: unbelievable how not only the crowd fed off of it, 683 00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:06,680 Speaker 1: JJ fed off it was. It was unblue. I mean 684 00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:08,680 Speaker 1: later in that year against the Colts, and this won't 685 00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:11,640 Speaker 1: make the top one hundred moments. He was in such 686 00:34:11,680 --> 00:34:16,040 Speaker 1: a groove that twenty fourteen season that when we were 687 00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:18,400 Speaker 1: trailing to Colts thirty three twenty one on at Thursday night, 688 00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:24,880 Speaker 1: I remember Mark Vannimer essentially saying, JJ, makeup play and 689 00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:26,560 Speaker 1: then he picked up the FuMB old Randy and to 690 00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:28,920 Speaker 1: make it thirty three twenty eight, And I thought that 691 00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:32,000 Speaker 1: that's the one moment I remember distinctly energy stadium. I 692 00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:34,000 Speaker 1: thought the place was going to fall down. I thought 693 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:36,120 Speaker 1: it was gonna fall down. I mean it was, it 694 00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:40,120 Speaker 1: was electric. Mark's call in my ear, it was and 695 00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:43,560 Speaker 1: I was crazy. But against the Bills that was great 696 00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:45,920 Speaker 1: because it wasn't win. Also on a win was a 697 00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:48,600 Speaker 1: key game at twenty fifteen, and it's a game a 698 00:34:48,640 --> 00:34:51,440 Speaker 1: lot of people forget about. But when people come up 699 00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:53,000 Speaker 1: to me and say, oh, man, I love Whitney Worseless. 700 00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:54,840 Speaker 1: He's everything, and you know we want the Texans to 701 00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:57,560 Speaker 1: be all that kind of stuff. It really was this 702 00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:02,080 Speaker 1: game in twenty fifteen where Whitney went through a different level. 703 00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:05,000 Speaker 1: Here's number seventy seven on the Texans Top one hundred moments. 704 00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:12,279 Speaker 1: Whitney Merciless has a day against the tense Titans. We're 705 00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:14,560 Speaker 1: going back in time. Man, it's the Texans Top one 706 00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:18,600 Speaker 1: hundred moments, and today we're focusing on our good pal, 707 00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:23,560 Speaker 1: Whitney Merciless. Whitney's had some games, had some moments in 708 00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:26,680 Speaker 1: his time as a Texan. None well, maybe one or two, 709 00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:30,759 Speaker 1: but very few as good as his game on November first, 710 00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:34,400 Speaker 1: twenty fifteen, here an Energy Stadium against the Tennessee Titans 711 00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:37,960 Speaker 1: with their quarterback Zach Mettenburger. This was an interesting time. 712 00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:40,000 Speaker 1: The Texans came into the game two and five, John 713 00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:43,640 Speaker 1: they were reeling at that point. Their quarterback for that 714 00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:47,200 Speaker 1: one was Brian Hoyer, so Mallet had been replaced, and 715 00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:50,320 Speaker 1: this was just an odd, odd time of year Whitney 716 00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:56,440 Speaker 1: Merciless goes off. Now it was Zach Mettenburger. Nonetheless, Whitney 717 00:35:56,480 --> 00:36:00,160 Speaker 1: Merciless had himself a game seven tackles, three and a 718 00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:03,840 Speaker 1: half sacks for twenty four yards, four tackles for loss, 719 00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:06,440 Speaker 1: and a quarterback hit. I mean he was a monster. 720 00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:09,560 Speaker 1: And John this was this is not something that took 721 00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:12,480 Speaker 1: too long for him. He got Andrews on a tackle 722 00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:16,080 Speaker 1: for loss two yards in the first quarter, and then 723 00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:19,600 Speaker 1: he started going to work. He and JJ tackle Dexter 724 00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:23,000 Speaker 1: mccluster after a nine yard game. The next play he 725 00:36:23,120 --> 00:36:26,000 Speaker 1: sacks met and Burger. I mean just having a rough 726 00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:27,799 Speaker 1: time he gets I mean he really sacked him four 727 00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:30,640 Speaker 1: and a half times because he got called yeah flag, 728 00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:32,279 Speaker 1: he got his hand on he got his hand on 729 00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:35,359 Speaker 1: Met Murger. And you know, this was such an interesting one, 730 00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:38,759 Speaker 1: Drew because if you remember, this was one week after 731 00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:42,640 Speaker 1: the Texans had just gotten destroyed in Miami. Uh, if 732 00:36:42,640 --> 00:36:44,239 Speaker 1: you remember that trip to Miami, it's one of the 733 00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:46,920 Speaker 1: worst ships I can ever remember that we're taking malt 734 00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:50,240 Speaker 1: missed a plane. He gets released on Monday. Then Aaron 735 00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:52,960 Speaker 1: Foster tears his achilles in that game. That was the 736 00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:56,120 Speaker 1: last time he suited up for the Houston Texans, and 737 00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:59,520 Speaker 1: then the Dolphins did whatever they wanted to that day. 738 00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:02,960 Speaker 1: Lamar had about eight thousand yards on like ten carries. 739 00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:04,520 Speaker 1: Every time he touched it, he went to the house, 740 00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:07,080 Speaker 1: it seemed. And I was a torrential downpour in the 741 00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:10,200 Speaker 1: middle of the game, like five minutes, just and it 742 00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:12,120 Speaker 1: was done. And then the sun came back out. Yeah, 743 00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:14,000 Speaker 1: it was hot. It was It was bizarre. By the 744 00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:16,120 Speaker 1: end of the game, I was in shoes and no socks. 745 00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:18,040 Speaker 1: I was on my third pair of pants. I had 746 00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:21,920 Speaker 1: a pull over with no shirt underneath. It was a disaster. 747 00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:24,920 Speaker 1: And then I had the interview go Joe Bran after 748 00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:27,120 Speaker 1: the game, and with all that had gone on with 749 00:37:27,239 --> 00:37:29,799 Speaker 1: the mallet situation, and then there was there was talk 750 00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:32,480 Speaker 1: ahead of time about coach O Brian being upset about 751 00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:35,000 Speaker 1: with Mallett. Wanted him to just get hit the bricks, 752 00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:37,279 Speaker 1: and he was talked out of it, whatever the case 753 00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:40,000 Speaker 1: might be. So I remember that Monday press conference. I 754 00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:41,880 Speaker 1: remember him going up to the podium and we're like, 755 00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:44,200 Speaker 1: oh boy, here we go. You know, after that one, 756 00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:46,480 Speaker 1: this is gonna get juicy. And I remember at some 757 00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:48,680 Speaker 1: point he started answering questions and he got like one, 758 00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:50,279 Speaker 1: he got one or two questions, and he turned it 759 00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:52,719 Speaker 1: to Amy and he said, Amy, I'll stay up here 760 00:37:52,719 --> 00:37:54,960 Speaker 1: as long as I need to. Yeah, And I remember 761 00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:57,600 Speaker 1: that taking a very long time. He was up there 762 00:37:57,640 --> 00:37:59,239 Speaker 1: for a good thirty to thirty five minutes and he 763 00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:02,960 Speaker 1: answered pretty much everything, and I just remember turn it. 764 00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:05,200 Speaker 1: I turned to Mark and I was like, there's nobody 765 00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:08,360 Speaker 1: I'd rather have up there right now than him, because 766 00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:10,879 Speaker 1: he's dealt with so much when he was at Penn State, 767 00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:12,799 Speaker 1: the things he had to deal with backs against the wall. 768 00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:14,440 Speaker 1: I was like, that's the guy I went up there 769 00:38:14,719 --> 00:38:16,719 Speaker 1: at this time more than anybody else. And so going 770 00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:19,680 Speaker 1: into that Tennessee game, I was curious to see how 771 00:38:19,719 --> 00:38:22,200 Speaker 1: they were going to respond. And the first play that 772 00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:25,280 Speaker 1: Whitney makes in that game was a tackle for a loss. 773 00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:27,600 Speaker 1: And I remember that the Texans had pinned the Titans 774 00:38:27,719 --> 00:38:29,960 Speaker 1: down deep into the north end zone and so they 775 00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:32,000 Speaker 1: were down inside I think it was inside the ten, 776 00:38:32,239 --> 00:38:33,719 Speaker 1: and then they got backed up I think a little 777 00:38:33,719 --> 00:38:36,279 Speaker 1: bit more. They tried to run at Whitney, and they 778 00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:40,480 Speaker 1: took tight end solo block on Whitney, and Whitney jacked 779 00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:42,719 Speaker 1: him up and just drove the tight end back like 780 00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:46,000 Speaker 1: two yards, saw the running back shed the tight end 781 00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:49,680 Speaker 1: tackle the running back and I was like, yo, that's 782 00:38:49,719 --> 00:38:53,680 Speaker 1: something that Whitney had not done in years prior to that, right, 783 00:38:53,719 --> 00:38:56,359 Speaker 1: And I just remember watching Mike Rabel work with him 784 00:38:56,480 --> 00:38:59,360 Speaker 1: constantly about you know, getting off of blocks and doing it. 785 00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:01,800 Speaker 1: I mean, and I watched him get on Whitney and 786 00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:04,759 Speaker 1: just coach him hard and witty, taking that coaching, and 787 00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:06,840 Speaker 1: it was and it was like now you're seeing it. 788 00:39:06,880 --> 00:39:09,560 Speaker 1: And it was from that making that play forward. He 789 00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:12,120 Speaker 1: went off. He went off. He had the four and 790 00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:15,400 Speaker 1: a half sacks. Obviously one got taken away because the flag. 791 00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:20,239 Speaker 1: But Tennessee could not block him, could not block him. 792 00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:22,360 Speaker 1: He just kept getting back there and I was like, 793 00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:25,640 Speaker 1: this is unreal. And on the day he had three 794 00:39:25,719 --> 00:39:27,959 Speaker 1: and a half and JJ had two and a half. 795 00:39:28,120 --> 00:39:31,120 Speaker 1: JJ had ten quarterback hits. He also forced to fumble. 796 00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:33,320 Speaker 1: I mean, it was a weird, weird game because the 797 00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:38,040 Speaker 1: Texans punted eight yeah times. They ran for fifty six 798 00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:41,640 Speaker 1: yards on twenty three carries. Hoyer had a decent game 799 00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:44,560 Speaker 1: twenty three to thirty five, two hundred thirty five yards, 800 00:39:44,719 --> 00:39:48,520 Speaker 1: two touchdowns, no interceptions. But if you punt eight times. Yeah, 801 00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:51,080 Speaker 1: you're not moving the offense all that. No. I remember 802 00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:53,400 Speaker 1: him hitting one touchdown was to Nate Washington, hit him 803 00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:56,120 Speaker 1: on a deep route. It was a great throw and 804 00:39:56,160 --> 00:39:58,160 Speaker 1: he hit him. But the real story in this one, 805 00:39:58,360 --> 00:40:00,480 Speaker 1: and it would be the story for this team in 806 00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:03,360 Speaker 1: twenty fifteen, because this is when a little bit of 807 00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:06,960 Speaker 1: the streak started because you had them in win this game. Essentially, 808 00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:09,200 Speaker 1: they held the Titans to six points. Then you get 809 00:40:09,239 --> 00:40:11,920 Speaker 1: the bye week, then you go to Cincinnati, held Cincinnati 810 00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:14,560 Speaker 1: to six points, then face the Jets. Gave up a 811 00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:17,800 Speaker 1: few points to the Jets, but that was the Hopkins 812 00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:20,120 Speaker 1: beat to Durelle Reads day. But then the next time 813 00:40:20,160 --> 00:40:22,520 Speaker 1: they got on the field against the Saints. This was 814 00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:26,000 Speaker 1: twenty fifteen. Drew Brees and Champaid have been together since 815 00:40:26,040 --> 00:40:28,200 Speaker 1: two thousand and six. It was the first time that 816 00:40:28,520 --> 00:40:31,759 Speaker 1: offense had not scored a touchdown. You can argue the 817 00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:34,560 Speaker 1: six points. You can argue it's the greatest performance by 818 00:40:34,560 --> 00:40:39,000 Speaker 1: the Texans defense in Bill O'Brien's tenure. That stretch Tennessee, Cincinnati, 819 00:40:39,239 --> 00:40:41,359 Speaker 1: the Jets, and the Saints, and even that Saints game. 820 00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:42,759 Speaker 1: I know the Saints were down that year, but it's 821 00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:46,200 Speaker 1: still Drew Brees. Yeah, it's still a Hall of Favor quarterback. Well, yeah, exactly, 822 00:40:46,239 --> 00:40:48,280 Speaker 1: it doesn't matter to me. It's it's it's Drew Brees 823 00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:50,920 Speaker 1: and that offense. It's you know, continuity, it's seeing the 824 00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:52,759 Speaker 1: same thing. Oh, I would love to see this defense 825 00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:54,520 Speaker 1: do the same thing in Week one this year. But 826 00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:58,080 Speaker 1: then later in that year, you had the game at Indianapolis, 827 00:40:58,440 --> 00:41:01,600 Speaker 1: you shut them down. First win in the defense. I mean, 828 00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:04,640 Speaker 1: JJ was that was his third Defensive Player of the 829 00:41:04,719 --> 00:41:07,560 Speaker 1: Year award. Yeah, that's that's when his health started to 830 00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:10,080 Speaker 1: come undone there right in that year, right had the 831 00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:12,600 Speaker 1: broken hand and then but really the bigger issue was 832 00:41:12,880 --> 00:41:17,120 Speaker 1: basically his midsection. Yeah, his entire midsection. But the defense 833 00:41:17,239 --> 00:41:19,680 Speaker 1: was able to keep it together because they got the 834 00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:23,440 Speaker 1: contributions from Whitney, Merciless and really that year and in 835 00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:26,600 Speaker 1: this game, if you remember, early in this game, on 836 00:41:26,719 --> 00:41:30,120 Speaker 1: one of Tennessee's early drives, JD had gone down. He 837 00:41:30,320 --> 00:41:32,239 Speaker 1: was on the right side, I believe, and there was 838 00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:34,160 Speaker 1: a play going the opposite him, and he started to 839 00:41:34,239 --> 00:41:36,239 Speaker 1: trail it and he got cut down from behind. He 840 00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:38,200 Speaker 1: got cut blocked from behind, and when he land he 841 00:41:38,320 --> 00:41:40,839 Speaker 1: land on his hip or his oblique or whatever. Yea, 842 00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:42,560 Speaker 1: so he had to come out of that game. Whitney 843 00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:44,120 Speaker 1: went in and then just tore it up. And then 844 00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:48,879 Speaker 1: from that point forward Whitney was just incredible. I really 845 00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:51,320 Speaker 1: want the last thing to you that you here today 846 00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:54,840 Speaker 1: to be that in the Lab sound effect to be 847 00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:57,319 Speaker 1: stuck in your head all day. Probably will be mine too, 848 00:41:57,520 --> 00:41:59,480 Speaker 1: so it'll be for all of us. But the big 849 00:41:59,520 --> 00:42:02,080 Speaker 1: thanks did through who is My in the Lab partner? 850 00:42:02,440 --> 00:42:06,239 Speaker 1: Do these bonus in the labs. They've been really really funded. Do. 851 00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:09,920 Speaker 1: Our theme we continues tomorrow with a podcast celebration. We 852 00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:15,080 Speaker 1: have three different podcasts and hopefully maybe a forthcoming this 853 00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:18,400 Speaker 1: fall that may have something to do with Texans, may not, 854 00:42:19,200 --> 00:42:20,600 Speaker 1: may have something to do with me, and may not, 855 00:42:20,719 --> 00:42:22,000 Speaker 1: we'll see. But we have three of them right now. 856 00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:25,560 Speaker 1: If anymresviewed Deep Slant and also in the Lab, and 857 00:42:25,719 --> 00:42:28,480 Speaker 1: we're gonna celebrate those podcasts and use it as kind 858 00:42:28,520 --> 00:42:30,839 Speaker 1: of an opportunity to promote them as well. We will 859 00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:33,160 Speaker 1: do that tomorrow as our theme we continues here this 860 00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:36,439 Speaker 1: first week in July. Thank you so much for listening. 861 00:42:36,520 --> 00:42:38,840 Speaker 1: Thank you this Texans for creating those top moments and 862 00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:40,799 Speaker 1: you want to check out more to Houston Texans dot com. 863 00:42:40,840 --> 00:42:43,759 Speaker 1: We're counting on one down each and every day till 864 00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:47,240 Speaker 1: the beginning of the regular season against the New Orleans Saints, 865 00:42:47,600 --> 00:42:50,920 Speaker 1: so go check it out. They're great stuff written, whether 866 00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:53,520 Speaker 1: it's audio, whether it's visual, whether it's tell strator, it 867 00:42:53,719 --> 00:42:55,480 Speaker 1: can be any and all of those things, so go 868 00:42:55,600 --> 00:42:57,879 Speaker 1: make sure you're checking those out at Houston Texans dot 869 00:42:57,920 --> 00:43:00,279 Speaker 1: com and all of our social channels. Appreciate you guys. 870 00:43:00,280 --> 00:43:02,520 Speaker 1: Will see tomorrow for a podcast celebration. Thanks for listening 871 00:43:02,560 --> 00:43:03,600 Speaker 1: and is always Go Texans.