WEBVTT - Lovie Smith, Christian Harris primed for Commanders | Texans All Access 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:02.280 What's happening everybody. Welcome in to a Friday edition of 0:00:02.360 --> 0:00:05.360 Texasile Access from Monday Texans Radio Studio. I'm your host, 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:08.840 John Harris, Football on the Sideline Reporter, and we are 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:11.680 less than forty eight hours away from being back at 0:00:11.880 --> 0:00:18.040 Energy Stadium, taken on the Washington Commanders. Maybe with Chase Young, 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:21.320 maybe without be a factor in the game. We'll find out. 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:24.000 But we got plenty to talk about with this game 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:27.280 this evening. We are going to hear Mike Key's a 0:00:27.280 --> 0:00:29.240 littlelater in the show. We're also gonna have my predictions 0:00:29.440 --> 0:00:31.440 where I picked games straight up and against the spread. 0:00:31.520 --> 0:00:35.040 Far fun for fun, That's a good way to talk 0:00:35.040 --> 0:00:37.280 about games going on in the NFL. We're also gonna 0:00:37.280 --> 0:00:41.400 have Anthony Armstrong from the Belief Sports podcast network. He 0:00:41.520 --> 0:00:45.519 was a former Washington Redskins receiver and he will go. 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:48.400 He will be our behind Enemy Sidelines interview with Dpcity 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:50.479 this week. We're also going to have a Drew's Dozen 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:54.680 with Christian hair As. Yeah, they played Jenga. Yeah, they 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:58.240 played Jenga, and I am very jelly, or I guess 0:00:58.240 --> 0:01:01.120 that's as the kids say, very jelly. I'm nvs. I 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:03.120 wish I could be there for that. Walston the last 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:04.960 word to Drew Doherty Love later in the show, and 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:08.640 walso here from later in the show. Oba o'karaquo, who 0:01:08.680 --> 0:01:10.720 market I had a chance to catch up with earlier 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:14.840 this week. However, we start off each and every Friday 0:01:15.000 --> 0:01:18.520 show or the last show before our game with the 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:22.440 head coach of your Houston Texans. Lovey Smith jumped into 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:25.720 the hot seat to talk to Mark vanim Here. Let's go, coach. 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:28.720 It's your third straight matchup against an NFC East team 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:30.920 and they all seem to have these tough defensive fronts. 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:34.280 In comment, tell me about dealing with what Washington brings 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:37.080 to the table in that department. Well, it does seem 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:40.039 like that. It seemed like he's as far back as 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:42.440 I can remember. Each week we're talking about a defensive 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:46.080 front and way would make some special First, you know, 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:49.640 it's always about the inside out. Both that are interior guys. 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:52.120 You know, I have two first round players inside and 0:01:52.160 --> 0:01:57.440 they play that way. They're excellent against run, strong athletic 0:01:57.960 --> 0:02:00.480 to really be able to rush the passer. And then 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:04.080 when moved to the outside again, they've invested in their 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:07.320 their front and they play that way from sweat, whether 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:10.000 it Chase Young plays or not, this is about as 0:02:10.000 --> 0:02:12.200 good a defensive line as we'll play. All right, let 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:14.440 me put your tight end group in the spotlight here. 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:18.359 No matter how you set it up personnel wise, pass blocking, 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:21.280 run blocking or pass receiving, which is more important? I 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:24.280 would imagine the answer is yes. So tell me about 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:26.880 that and how it goes into game planning. Well, it does. 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:29.919 First off, we we like to run the football, so 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:35.600 you know, having a tie someone in that traditional wide role, 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:39.639 which says that you can do both well and maybe 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:42.600 more of an instasis on what you can do. As 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:46.360 far as inline tight end blocking, we feel like we 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:50.519 have that intiguing but nowadays eventually you need to be 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:53.200 able to throw the ball and we need pass catchers 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:56.240 and we think we have good matchups whether it beatiguing. 0:02:56.880 --> 0:03:00.000 Jar Nakins has been outstanding. He's a tough matchup versus 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:05.079 a linebacker or safety. And Oj Howard kind of gives 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:09.240 you the mix, so Akin's more passed, tigging Moore run 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:16.520 Oj gives you a combination of both. And Brevin also 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:19.359 at the tight end position he can play. He can 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:23.000 also back up Troy at the fullback position too, along 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:25.520 with me in a tight end when you're dealing with 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:28.639 their offense. They have Taylor Heineke. But how much Wentz 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:30.800 tape do you look at to get ready for what 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:32.840 they might do to you offensively or try to do 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:34.920 to you. Yeah, I think you just have to make 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:37.440 a decision early on what we who we think they 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:39.520 will go with. I assume they were gonna go. We 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:41.840 assume they were gonna go with Heineken. And why wouldn't 0:03:41.880 --> 0:03:44.240 you mean, they've been playing our best football right now 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:48.360 and he's been leading them. So we have history with 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:50.600 Wentz and most of the guys that would be playing 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:52.480 in the league, But right now focus has been on 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:54.760 Heineken most of the time. What about the way they 0:03:54.840 --> 0:03:58.000 run the ball? How do you handle that same? I mean, 0:03:58.040 --> 0:04:01.160 they we've talked about, you know, earlier, about how good 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:03.640 the receivers were that they had, and they wanted to 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:08.000 be just throw it every snap offense. I think they 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:10.920 have the skill to do that, but there's a commitment 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:14.800 to the run of being of having ballance and they 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:17.640 played two running backs the majority of the time. Both 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:22.640 have size, tough football players, so they running game wise, 0:04:22.680 --> 0:04:25.440 it matches up well with a good passing attack. Last 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:27.599 time you played at home, you played well for the 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:29.880 better part of the game against the Philadelphia Eagles. That 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:31.280 was on a short week. Now you have a full 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:33.200 week of prep. What about getting the energy of the 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:35.600 home crowd behind you and that sort of thing exited 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:38.520 about the crowd cited by just at Home nurg you 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:41.800 raise no place like home, all those things, and we 0:04:41.839 --> 0:04:44.159 need them. I mean, we haven't given them a lot 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:46.920 to be to cheer about right now, but that's why 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:50.240 second half of the season, there have been a lot 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:52.880 of good things we've done putting a complete game together 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:55.480 most of the times when you haven't. The best place 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:59.120 to put a complete game together is at home. Fans 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:01.760 have been outstanding thing. And I can't wait to see 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:04.520 him in the stadium, you know, as many as possible 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:06.800 we ask him to come out and give us that 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:08.960 little bit of booths that hopefully can get us over 0:05:09.040 --> 0:05:11.760 the hump. All right, Mark, good stuff with Lovey Smith, 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:16.279 head coach of your Houston Texans, and Mark, I'm not 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:20.760 I mean, I'm for a football coach, right, and football 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:25.279 coaches are the greatest thieves. I mean that in the 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:29.320 nicest way, though, but we're always borrowing from what other 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:32.600 people do, right. A thief doesn't borrow, a thief doesn't 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:36.520 give back. Well, okay, we're the greatest borrowers. How about that? 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:39.560 Maybe that's maybe that's a little bit better. Okay, So 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:44.119 I'm gonna borrow just one little thing that I've heard, 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:47.120 borrow one little thing that I've heard from our friends 0:05:47.200 --> 0:05:50.640 John Lopez and Landry Locker, led by Figgy in the 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:56.240 Loop does this segment where they have lunchtime confessions. I 0:05:56.279 --> 0:06:01.640 am ready to confess one saying. I didn't think I 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:05.119 would confess, but I'm ready to confess. And I want 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:09.480 you to tell me whether I'm completely off base or 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:14.239 or what you really like the Cults. WHOA, you're close. 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:16.960 You really like the Titans. Okay, it's not that I 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:20.760 like the Titans. You respect the Titans. There's my confession. 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:27.479 I have come to this realization that I absolutely, totally 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:33.320 and without any bias anything, I completely respect the Titans 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:37.279 and how they go about their business. Last night against 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:40.760 the Green Bay Packers, they had no Taylor lu Wan 0:06:40.839 --> 0:06:43.120 he's been out for a while. They had no Ben 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:47.320 Jones missing his second game either. That was gonna be 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:51.760 massive they moved Brewer, who's two hundred and seventy five pounds, 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:54.880 to play center, and he went against Kenny Clark, and 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:58.280 you didn't hear Clark's name once from the second quarter on. 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:02.680 They're playing in the snow. They did get Traylon Burk's back, 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:09.280 but the receivers are Burke's Woods and Westbrook Kene. Yeah, 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:12.600 Ryan Tannehill moves back in as quarterback. They didn't do 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:16.160 anything against the Broncos really. Of course, they've got Derrick Henry. 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:21.440 Jeffery Simmons has got a really bad ankle, and they 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:24.640 go to Green Bay and beat the Packers by ten 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:29.520 on a short week on the road in mid twenties temperature. 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:34.680 I have been trying to deny the Titans. Man, they're 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:36.160 fake last year, which I do think they were a 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:38.440 little bit of a fake. They are fake last year, 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:43.240 and yet here they are. Was an offensive line that 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:47.040 featured from left to right. Now, stop me when you 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:55.280 recognize a name, Dennis Daily, Dylan Ray Duns, Aaron Brewer, 0:07:56.280 --> 0:08:01.720 Nate Davis, Nicholas Petite Rare. So you don't think those 0:08:01.720 --> 0:08:03.920 guys are going to the Pro Bowl? No, I do not. 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:08.680 And they won the game on Thursday night against the 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:12.560 Green Bay Packers. With that group, Christian Fulton went out 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:14.160 of the game. I think at corner he didn't play. 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:18.040 I don't think Caleb Farley played. Elijah Bolden wasn't quite 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:21.520 ready to go. They were blitzing a Josh Klue. And 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:23.920 the only reason I remember it is Josh Klue was 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:26.480 because that was Obo's teammate that he told us about 0:08:26.600 --> 0:08:29.040 when we talked to him on Tuesday at a Leaf 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:34.000 Taylor High School. Yeah, this is a Titans team where 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:38.800 Tannehill threw four three hundred thirty three yards behind that 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:42.600 offensive line. Yeah, he went twenty two of twenty seven. 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:47.600 He outpaced Aaron Rodgers by one hundred and six yards. 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:51.800 Derrick Henry just had eighty seven. But they found a 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:55.640 way with a rookie at wide receiver, a cast off 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:59.120 in Robert Woods at wide receiver, Austin Hooper who was 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:03.200 now on his third team, and yet they go to 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:05.360 Green Bay and win a game. Now I know the 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:07.400 other side of this is Green Bay is not very 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:11.200 good this year. The aberration that was Sunday against the 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:14.080 Dallas Cowboys obviously was an aberration because they haven't been 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:16.400 able to carry it forward. The Packers are four and seven. 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:22.320 The Packers are completely flawed defensively. It's bad. Yet these 0:09:22.400 --> 0:09:25.640 dagum Titans go and win a football game, and Mark, 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:28.400 I am just done fighting it. I'm done fighting it. 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:31.080 I have fought it. I have fought a good fight forever. 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:37.080 I can't fight it anymore. I am confessing. And I'm 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:39.319 not gonna sit here and say, oh, I love the 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:42.320 Titans this and that, but no, you respect what they're doing, 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:46.400 what they've got. I've picked against them. I am They're 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:50.520 gonna lose big games. I'm done doing it. My Vrabel 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:53.320 is arguably a top five, top three coach in the league. 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:57.280 They are just it's just amazing to watch what they're 0:09:57.320 --> 0:09:59.480 doing in Tennessee. Now we'll catch up to them in 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:02.240 the playoffs. Maybe it does, I think it absolutely, maybe 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:04.120 it does. I think I don't think they're built for 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:07.920 playoff success because I think last night even Tannehill was 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:12.280 having a terrific game and then late he throws that interception. 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:14.920 What are you doing right? You had one job and 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:17.320 that's not to turn the ball over. You're up two scores, 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:20.960 you're about to add a field goal. Don't force the issue. 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:24.079 Don't let it rip unless you are absolutely sure it's 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:26.320 going into the hands of the right person. And he 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:29.200 throws that pick and I still can't understand what he 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:31.160 was doing on that play, but he had a terrific 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:35.360 game otherwise, Johnny, you know, they become they become the Colts. 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:37.880 They be in a different way. They don't have Peyton 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:41.400 Manning or Andrew Luck, but they're they are a nemesis 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:45.199 now to the rest of the AFC South, John Robinson, 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:48.920 you talk about Rabel, John Robinson, Johnny, that GM gets 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:52.959 there in twenty sixteen, they go winning season, winning season 0:10:53.120 --> 0:10:55.960 with Malarkey, They beat the Chiefs in the playoffs with 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:59.640 Alex Smith, and then they fire Malarkey to bring in Rabel, 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:02.920 and Rabel comes in. They go winning season, no playoffs, 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:05.120 and then it's playoffs, playoffs the rest of the way 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:08.400 down the line. Now, they haven't had tremendous playoffs success 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:10.600 other than the year they beat the Patriots on the 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:12.640 road and the top seeded Ravens on the road. That 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:15.319 was really Tory had to lead ANFC Championship game against 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:17.680 the Chiefs. Yeah, but so did we the week before 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:23.280 the round. But anyway, they are doing really well, particularly 0:11:23.440 --> 0:11:27.760 since last year they were not only snake bit by injuries, 0:11:27.800 --> 0:11:30.760 they were draggon lit by injuries. They had more than 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:34.720 anybody else, a record amount like seventy seven players, Yeah, 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:36.760 something like that, and the Texans had one of those 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:39.480 records in twenty seventeen and then they broke it, whatever 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:42.120 the case may be. And this year they're really depleted 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:45.800 as well. And Henry right now is not running for 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:48.319 a ton of yards. He did against the Texans, unfortunately, 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:50.960 But Henry right now is a guy who is just 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:54.840 trying to keep it going and suck the defense in 0:11:55.240 --> 0:11:57.080 and then they're throwing over the top. Now that they 0:11:57.080 --> 0:12:00.800 have Tannehill back, everything's much better for them in the 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:03.920 passing game obviously without Malik Willis. And I'm with you, 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:07.480 I think that they are a team to admire Vabel 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:10.679 as an excellent coach. I hate them like poison. I 0:12:10.720 --> 0:12:13.920 want them to suffer, but they are not suffering enough, 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:19.120 and it's just terrible. They they continue to overcome obstacles. Absolutely, 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:23.200 And to your point, Henry had eighty seven yards. What 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:27.360 was his longest rush rush? Oh it was not Packers, 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:29.600 It was like nine yards. Nine yards is exactly what 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:32.440 it is nine yards. They did not produce a run 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:35.240 longer than nine yards, but they kept to it. I 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:37.800 got for you in the win over Denver, he had 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:41.040 fifty three yards, right, Tannehill through for two fifty five. 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:43.680 This is their model. Right now, you come up and 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:47.480 stop Henry otherwise he's gonna kill you. Now Tannehill is 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:50.080 gonna beat you with our receivers who aren't going to 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:52.680 the Pro Bowl either, and somehow we're gonna find a 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:54.720 way to win. Now. Green Bay is a damaged team. 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:57.600 Denver obviously a damaged team. Still, you have to give 0:12:57.600 --> 0:13:00.440 them credit. They came close to beating can the City 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:04.360 at Kansas City. They had Malik Willis right, they were 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:08.640 right there. And if Mahomes doesn't decide to run like crazy, 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:11.360 which he did that night, they're winning that game. So 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:13.440 credit Mahomes for finding a way to get the ball 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:14.960 in the end zone and keep the ball away from 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:17.800 the Titans. So yeah, they are a dangerous team. I 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:19.280 don't think they're gonna be the top seed in the 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:21.960 AFC or anything like that this year, but they'll be 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:24.560 in the playoffs and they'll be interesting. Seven and three, 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:26.560 They've won seven in their last eight. The only loss, 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:29.360 like you said, was to Malik Willis. Was with Malik 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:31.200 Willis playing a Chiefs and they had a lead and 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:33.760 that game went to overtime. Oh, and I forgot last 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:36.160 night they were playing without Zach Cuttingham two on defense. 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:41.000 So seven of eight, seven and three right now. Oh, 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:43.120 it's my point to finish my point about Henry. He 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:46.319 had eighty seven yards rushing. Yeah, but he had forty 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:48.680 five receiving two. It's only a couple of catches, but 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:52.680 he had one for forty two yards. He's so touchdown 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:54.960 pass and he threw a touchdown pass. So it's like 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:58.839 they're getting production from everybody. And he said, how good 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:01.640 a game did Ryan Tanniell have when he threw an 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:06.640 interception and his quarterback rating was still one twenty seven 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:10.960 point three. Suff that's incredible something. And Henry said half 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:14.319 to the game, I like it myself. I'm paraphrasing to 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:18.880 a young Paydon man. I didn't see the clip, but 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:21.000 I just read it, and I think that's funny. And 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:24.840 I hate them. Johnny. This has got to stop somehow, 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:28.000 some way. You got to rise up and stop. Okay, 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:30.720 So and we'll see what happens. You have to continue 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:34.080 to add talent and compete with those guys. Because as 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:36.160 bad as that game was here, it was pretty bad 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:38.000 on the stat sheet. It was even worse with over 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:40.720 three hundred rushing yards allowed. You know, you had a 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:43.480 chance drive in the fourth quarter, you're in the game. 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:45.560 Who knows what happens. But you haven't been able to 0:14:45.600 --> 0:14:47.800 beat them other than up there last year. You know what, 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:52.200 As I say, that's the most unbelievable thing to think about. Yes, 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:54.960 as I say, they're they're not the cults to the Texans, 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:57.440 because the Texans have still only beaten the Colts nine 0:14:57.480 --> 0:15:00.400 times in franchise history. You've beaten the Titans a ton. 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:02.760 Now they kind of they have the edge lately. I 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:05.120 get it. But you're gonna get another shot at them 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:07.160 on Christmas Eve. You never know what happened. So they 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:11.480 swept the Colts. So here are their final seven games. 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:18.440 Bengals at home, revenge at Philly that'd be hard, then 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:21.840 home Jacksonville at the Chargers had been up and down. 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:26.760 Then US at home for them, then Dallas at home 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:29.560 for them, and then at Jacksonville finished the year. I 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:31.880 can't predict anything with them, Johnny, I mean, I can't either. 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:34.120 They could have a losing record in that stretch, and 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:37.440 I wouldn't be totally shocked because these games are all close, 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:40.240 and maybe finally Tannehill gets picked off a couple of times. 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:43.200 And but that's my confessional. I'm not picking. I'm not gonna. 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:47.400 I've been so quick to pick against them, against against 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:50.320 marquee teams or what you think are marquee teams, and 0:15:50.360 --> 0:15:54.400 they just hang in a game. And with Henry it's 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:57.800 so hard. I mean, the Packers had the box packed 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:01.480 and he's still four yards here, third and short, he's 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:03.680 picking it up. And they got stuffed on a fourth 0:16:03.720 --> 0:16:06.720 down down in the red zone, if I remember correctly, 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:10.080 they got stuffed on that. It's like doesn't matter, but matter. 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:12.960 But the other right around, and they almost sacked Rogers 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:14.880 or almost got a intentional grinding in the end zone 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:18.800 for safety, so it's they could flush Rogers out, but 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:21.840 Rogers was missing guys he would normally, Oh he miss 0:16:22.280 --> 0:16:25.000 The other side of this whole equation from last night, anyway, 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:27.840 is Aaron Rodgers. And you're right after they beat Dallas, 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:29.680 you thought, okay, they get with this one last night 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:31.480 er than a game of five hundred and they can 0:16:31.520 --> 0:16:33.120 put together a run at the end of the season, 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:35.400 get them into the playoffs, and who knows what happens. 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:38.360 But now it's almost a win out situation for them. 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:41.160 They could afford maybe one more loss on the season. Yeah, 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:44.800 they have seven losses and Rodgers doesn't look like himself. 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:47.600 He doesn't look like the Aaron Rodgers we used to know. 0:16:47.960 --> 0:16:50.120 I don't know if it's too much ayahuasca. I don't 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:52.560 know what it is, but it's not clicking for him 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:57.120 right now. Eventually time father time wins out over. Everybody 0:16:57.160 --> 0:16:59.880 hasn't done it for Brady yet, but maybe he's factor 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:03.120 ring in for Aaron Rodgers among other things, maybe nagging injuries. 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:05.119 I don't know what to make of it. I'm glad 0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:07.480 you said it, because I was gonna call kombuch because 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:10.639 I couldn't remember the name of it. But hiyahuasca is 0:17:10.640 --> 0:17:12.760 a little different from iowa. Um, how you feel about 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:15.760 Sunday gets the come? All right? So I must call 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:20.639 them commodore as the commands. Dang it, all right? What 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:24.160 do you think about Sunday? I think that there's gonna 0:17:24.160 --> 0:17:28.080 be some sweet sounds coming down on the night shift. Yeah, 0:17:28.200 --> 0:17:31.520 that night when the Commodore is sing without Lionel Richie, 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:34.639 because I think there's a good shot here, Johnny. And look, 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:38.359 you know me. People think that I predict these games. 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:42.080 I don't, and I won't predict this one. Will be 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:44.760 very surprised that the Texans are right are not right 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:47.359 there again in the fourth quarter with a chance to win. 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:50.119 And I think that this is a tough situation for 0:17:50.240 --> 0:17:53.520 Washington on the short week, flying high. I know they 0:17:53.600 --> 0:17:55.440 run the ball well. I know they have that defensive 0:17:55.480 --> 0:17:58.040 front which might be better than whatever they've seen lately. 0:17:58.080 --> 0:17:59.639 And they've seen a lot of good stuff lately. We 0:17:59.680 --> 0:18:02.480 heard from Lovey. You saw a great front against the Giants, 0:18:02.680 --> 0:18:05.080 you saw a great front against the Eagles, and you 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:08.440 saw a great front against the Titans before that. But somehow, 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:11.879 some way at home, Texans find a way to stay 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:15.440 in it, make plays, Mills throws a couple of touchdown passes, 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:17.879 and they don't turn it over in the fourth quarter. 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:21.080 Whereas we said last night, they're minus four on the season, 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:23.920 and the turnover margin in the fourth quarter they're plus four, 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:26.480 and quarters one through three, they got to find a 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:28.840 way to stay plus or even in the fourth quarter 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:34.440 and make the plays. To your point, if you even 0:18:34.480 --> 0:18:41.200 go back to twenty twenty one, this team has played 0:18:41.240 --> 0:18:45.000 nothing but close games that have been decided in the 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:47.760 fourth quarter. So I went back even I think in 0:18:48.160 --> 0:18:51.879 the Seattle game. I think going into the fourth quarter 0:18:51.880 --> 0:18:55.960 of the Seattle game. Yeah, the Texans were down nineteen 0:18:56.200 --> 0:19:00.880 thirteen going into the fourth quarter of that Seattle game. 0:19:00.920 --> 0:19:03.840 So that Seattle game was not quite a year ago. 0:19:03.880 --> 0:19:08.320 That was December twelfth, so that got blown out in 0:19:08.359 --> 0:19:09.800 the fourth quarter. Then you want two in a row 0:19:09.920 --> 0:19:11.720 that were actually close going in the fourth quarter, but 0:19:11.760 --> 0:19:14.679 you pulled away from Jacksonville and the Chargers. San Francisco 0:19:14.920 --> 0:19:18.000 was ten to seven going into the fourth quarter. The Titans, 0:19:18.320 --> 0:19:21.680 you were down, but you got that thing within twenty 0:19:22.320 --> 0:19:24.639 one eighteen and then again twenty eight twenty five, So 0:19:24.680 --> 0:19:26.680 that was a close game. Every game, if they have 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:29.400 played for almost a calendar year, has been a close game. 0:19:30.040 --> 0:19:34.600 So I don't think there is a way that either 0:19:34.680 --> 0:19:37.360 one of these teams run away with this thing. Yeah, 0:19:37.400 --> 0:19:39.200 and if it's a game in the fourth quarter, can 0:19:39.240 --> 0:19:41.720 you just make more plays than Taylor Heineke, And that's 0:19:41.840 --> 0:19:46.120 to me, that's the difference. But if I have If 0:19:46.160 --> 0:19:49.240 I'm Lovey Smith, I walk in and I say, I 0:19:49.320 --> 0:19:51.719 want the game to be on his shoulders. Tough as 0:19:51.760 --> 0:19:53.600 that may sound, I want the game to be on 0:19:53.640 --> 0:19:55.399 his shoulders. I want him to have to make a 0:19:55.480 --> 0:19:59.399 throw to beat us. And if they do salute, you 0:19:59.400 --> 0:20:01.959 want heinecke Key to have to have to beat you. Well, 0:20:02.000 --> 0:20:03.720 I'd love to have a lead, because I know it 0:20:03.760 --> 0:20:06.800 sounds silly like, well, got to lead, vander Man. Really, really, 0:20:06.880 --> 0:20:09.440 is that your recipe for success? Have the lead, Yes, 0:20:09.560 --> 0:20:12.399 have the lead when the clock strikes strike zero. But 0:20:12.520 --> 0:20:14.920 my point is this, have a lead in the fourth 0:20:14.960 --> 0:20:17.600 quarter where you put the pressure on the opponent to 0:20:17.720 --> 0:20:20.919 make the plays through the air in particular, and maybe 0:20:20.960 --> 0:20:23.000 you can get after him with the pass rush. Right, 0:20:23.400 --> 0:20:26.119 And I know the rushing yardage totals and everything, and 0:20:26.160 --> 0:20:28.400 I saw what Barkley did last week, but I'm here 0:20:28.440 --> 0:20:30.960 to tell you that, as bad as it looks, over 0:20:31.000 --> 0:20:34.360 one fifty allowed to a single running back, the Texans 0:20:34.400 --> 0:20:37.480 were in that game. We all saw it together. But 0:20:37.560 --> 0:20:39.720 they're not making enough plays on the offensive side of 0:20:39.720 --> 0:20:41.960 the ball in the fourth quarter in particular. Gotta find 0:20:41.960 --> 0:20:43.480 a way to do that. Don't turn it over in 0:20:43.520 --> 0:20:45.800 the red zone. Even if you kick field goals last week, 0:20:45.840 --> 0:20:48.560 you have a much better shot. Obviously, it's totally different 0:20:48.800 --> 0:20:52.280 game played out if you just have to kick fuel goals. 0:20:52.320 --> 0:20:54.200 I think it's a Davis Mills game. You're gonna be 0:20:54.200 --> 0:20:56.040 able to get your rushing yards. They're gonna move the 0:20:56.080 --> 0:20:58.680 ball in the ground as usual, the Texans will. It's 0:20:58.680 --> 0:21:02.320 gonna be about Mills and some pass protection along with that. Please, 0:21:02.320 --> 0:21:04.480 but Mills being able to adjust, Mills being able to 0:21:04.520 --> 0:21:06.720 roll out of the pocket where he is pretty effective 0:21:06.720 --> 0:21:09.000 when he does that, find a way to make plays. 0:21:09.359 --> 0:21:12.840 And it's the old cliche, lead your team to victory, right, 0:21:14.520 --> 0:21:17.160 And here's another one to go along with that. Because 0:21:17.200 --> 0:21:19.000 I was gonna I was gonna hit you with a 0:21:19.119 --> 0:21:22.040 stat or number. Ian Rappaport and some mothers have tweeted this, 0:21:23.560 --> 0:21:26.600 tweeted this earlier this afternoon, actually in the morning. Despite 0:21:26.640 --> 0:21:29.560 early optimism, it might be too early for Commanders pass 0:21:29.640 --> 0:21:31.880 rusher Chase Young to play the Sunday Versus. The Texans 0:21:31.880 --> 0:21:34.359 source said his twenty one day window closes on November 0:21:34.440 --> 0:21:36.800 twenty three, and the Falcons game of the twenty seventh 0:21:36.840 --> 0:21:40.280 sounds like a better target He's doing well, just may 0:21:40.320 --> 0:21:45.360 not be quite ready yet. Now I would absolutely love 0:21:45.359 --> 0:21:47.320 to see a game without Chase Young. But let's say 0:21:47.359 --> 0:21:51.520 Chase Young plays. How about this number front four Texans 0:21:51.520 --> 0:21:55.280 offensive line. So five offensive lineman four front, four right right, 0:21:56.520 --> 0:22:03.240 nine guys seven former first rounders. Wow. Seven. If Chase 0:22:03.280 --> 0:22:08.080 Young plays, that's a line where they went John Allen seventeen, 0:22:08.600 --> 0:22:12.040 Drawn Payne in eighteen, Montes sweating in twenty nineteen, and 0:22:12.160 --> 0:22:14.640 Chase Young in twenty twenty. They went D line, D line, 0:22:14.720 --> 0:22:17.040 D line, D line. Wow. And now what do we 0:22:17.080 --> 0:22:19.480 have in twenty twenty two arguably the most dominant D 0:22:19.560 --> 0:22:22.080 line in the NFL. They're doing great. And then on 0:22:22.119 --> 0:22:25.040 the Texans side, you have Larman Tounsil twenty sixteen, you 0:22:25.119 --> 0:22:27.439 have Ken your Green twenty twenty two, and you have 0:22:27.480 --> 0:22:31.960 Titus Howard in twenty nineteen. You have seventy eight percent 0:22:33.080 --> 0:22:37.120 of the hog mollis in that particular matchup, first rounders 0:22:37.160 --> 0:22:39.879 flip it over the other side. When the commanders are 0:22:40.000 --> 0:22:41.680 on the field. How many first rounders are out in 0:22:41.720 --> 0:22:44.960 the field? One? Can you name him? On the old 0:22:44.960 --> 0:22:48.920 line old line commanders against the Texans D line, Can 0:22:48.960 --> 0:22:53.560 you name the one first rounder. Who those nine fifty 0:22:53.560 --> 0:22:56.000 five double nickel Jerry Hughes. We always forget that because 0:22:56.080 --> 0:22:57.679 Jerry went late in the first round. Oh, you were 0:22:57.680 --> 0:22:59.359 saying on the Texans side. Over you go to the 0:22:59.440 --> 0:23:02.520 other side, rifling through their line to find a first rounder. Yeah, 0:23:02.600 --> 0:23:04.200 Jerry here, they don't have one on their line. But 0:23:04.240 --> 0:23:07.240 if you go two teams, if you go Commanders front 0:23:07.440 --> 0:23:10.880 versus Texans O line, seven of nine first rounders, If 0:23:10.920 --> 0:23:16.840 you go Commander's offensive line versus Texans front collectively only one. 0:23:16.880 --> 0:23:19.399 That's really interesting. Yeah, it's it's wild to think about, 0:23:19.400 --> 0:23:21.720 how you know, I, you know me, I always like 0:23:21.720 --> 0:23:26.560 to see how teams are built. But potentially in potentially 0:23:26.560 --> 0:23:28.679 out we'll find out more. That's probably gonna be one 0:23:28.680 --> 0:23:30.720 of those game time things we find out it Sunday 0:23:30.760 --> 0:23:34.000 at nine o'clock. Quick thought on this Kenyon Green facing 0:23:34.040 --> 0:23:37.480 all these fire breathing dragons at defensive tackle, so he 0:23:37.520 --> 0:23:41.000 faces another one this week? Does it or could it 0:23:41.400 --> 0:23:44.880 help that he's seen so many tough players that week 0:23:44.960 --> 0:23:47.400 by week, Hey, I think I need to do this 0:23:47.520 --> 0:23:50.199 instead of that and maybe this will help. Does he 0:23:50.240 --> 0:23:52.320 get better within the course of the season. In this 0:23:52.520 --> 0:23:55.639 Murderers row run or is that too much to ask. No, 0:23:55.720 --> 0:23:57.720 I don't think it's too much to ask. I think 0:23:57.720 --> 0:24:00.520 it's too much to ask for him to be pristine, perfect, 0:24:01.080 --> 0:24:04.320 But I do think he will have learned something. And 0:24:04.400 --> 0:24:07.760 the thing with Pain and Allen inside is they're both different. 0:24:07.840 --> 0:24:11.160 Pain is kind of a poor man's Dexter Lawrence. He's 0:24:11.160 --> 0:24:13.120 not quite as big as Dexter, but he has sort 0:24:13.119 --> 0:24:17.040 of the same playing style. And then you have John Allen, 0:24:17.160 --> 0:24:20.399 who when he's coming out of Alabama, he's playing defensive end, 0:24:20.920 --> 0:24:22.639 and then when they rush him on the inside, now 0:24:22.680 --> 0:24:24.800 he's just a full on defensive tackle given the fact 0:24:24.800 --> 0:24:26.639 they have sweat and they have Chase Young, so he 0:24:26.680 --> 0:24:31.440 doesn't really go outside much, but he's so stout and strong. 0:24:31.600 --> 0:24:33.760 So they're all a little bit different. So even when 0:24:33.760 --> 0:24:37.119 you think you've learned something going against Dexter Lawrence, all 0:24:37.160 --> 0:24:38.840 of a sudden, the you face with John Allen, and 0:24:38.880 --> 0:24:41.480 so now you want to attack him in a different way. 0:24:41.960 --> 0:24:43.520 And then all of a sudden, John Allen hits you 0:24:43.560 --> 0:24:45.960 with that hump move, the Reggie White hump move, which 0:24:45.960 --> 0:24:49.600 he's perfected, which is nearly I don't know how a 0:24:49.640 --> 0:24:51.680 man pulls it off. But Jonathan Allen does it perfectly, 0:24:51.760 --> 0:24:53.800 so he's gonna try that. I would imagine on Kennyan Green. 0:24:54.240 --> 0:24:56.639 But again you go back to you run the ball, 0:24:56.760 --> 0:24:59.280 and if you run it effectively, then you have an 0:24:59.280 --> 0:25:01.560 opportunity to slow them down just a little bit on 0:25:01.600 --> 0:25:04.679 the pass rush. Now they're not just you know, ears 0:25:04.680 --> 0:25:07.040 pinned back and they're giving you the best rush moves. 0:25:07.480 --> 0:25:11.720 They actually have got to work to know, Okay, was 0:25:11.760 --> 0:25:13.240 that pass rush or not? And you just need a 0:25:13.240 --> 0:25:16.719 half second sometimes split seconds as an interior guy going 0:25:16.720 --> 0:25:19.680 against some of those guys. So either way, I think 0:25:19.680 --> 0:25:22.040 he's gonna learn something and I think he is gonna 0:25:22.240 --> 0:25:25.720 having Again I said, I used to Dwayne Brown situation. 0:25:26.240 --> 0:25:28.119 Dwayne had to go against all these pass rushers. He 0:25:28.280 --> 0:25:31.720 learned and he got better doing it. I think Kenyan 0:25:31.800 --> 0:25:34.520 will would all pay off in one game where we 0:25:34.560 --> 0:25:36.200 go that's it, the light went on. I don't know 0:25:36.200 --> 0:25:37.880 if we have that, but I do think we'll see 0:25:37.880 --> 0:25:39.560 a few moments maybe the light is a dimmer and 0:25:39.560 --> 0:25:41.200 you can just turn it up at least a little bit, 0:25:41.400 --> 0:25:44.240 have an improved performance and make some hay. I like 0:25:44.520 --> 0:25:48.000 making hay, and we'll make more hay. On the other side, 0:25:48.000 --> 0:25:50.320 as I give you the exact keys to the game 0:25:50.400 --> 0:25:53.399 for win against these Commanders right here in Texas all Access. 0:25:54.640 --> 0:25:56.280 We're gonna dive into my keys to the game here 0:25:56.320 --> 0:25:59.000 in just a second, but I gotta get some props 0:25:59.400 --> 0:26:03.440 to some of our biggest fans out there today in Houston, 0:26:03.560 --> 0:26:06.359 and that is dyke In. These guys are doing big 0:26:06.400 --> 0:26:09.840 things in our city h Town. 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We could face 0:26:45.840 --> 0:26:48.439 them again in a couple of years, but that remains 0:26:48.480 --> 0:26:51.280 to be seen. We face Thember four years eight years 0:26:51.280 --> 0:26:54.959 in between trips, and so it's been eight years since 0:26:55.040 --> 0:26:59.320 the team formerly known as the Redskins. Twenty fourteen, they 0:26:59.320 --> 0:27:01.639 came here as the red Skins. Head coaches Jay Gruden, 0:27:01.960 --> 0:27:04.879 quarterbacks Robert Griffin. The third they come here at twenty 0:27:04.960 --> 0:27:07.920 twenty two and they are the Washington Commanders. To name 0:27:08.080 --> 0:27:11.720 changes since to head coaching changes since it's now Ron 0:27:11.840 --> 0:27:14.879 Rivera and the quarterback is Taylor Heineke, who used to 0:27:15.040 --> 0:27:18.080 quarterback the Texans for a very short time in twenty 0:27:18.160 --> 0:27:22.480 seventeen on Christmas Night against the Pittsburgh Steelers. That's how 0:27:22.560 --> 0:27:24.920 much things have changed since the Commanders have been here. 0:27:25.119 --> 0:27:27.240 So let's dive into my keys. Give me my music 0:27:27.280 --> 0:27:30.399 because I got I thrived with my music going, and 0:27:30.520 --> 0:27:34.359 let's talk about facing this commander's offense. Now, there is 0:27:35.640 --> 0:27:40.000 nothing about this Commander's offense that you look at the 0:27:40.080 --> 0:27:45.240 numbers and go whoa, oh boy, we're in trouble. When 0:27:45.240 --> 0:27:48.640 we get to the individual talent, there are some elite 0:27:48.680 --> 0:27:51.920 players on this offense, but as a group, they are 0:27:51.960 --> 0:27:54.360 not very The average one hundred and twelve yards per 0:27:54.400 --> 0:27:57.400 game on the ground, that's twentieth in the NFL. They 0:27:57.480 --> 0:28:00.920 throw for two eleven point seven. That's twenty six, twenty 0:28:00.920 --> 0:28:03.600 second in the NFL. Pull offense three and twenty four 0:28:03.680 --> 0:28:06.040 yards per game, it's twenty fifth in the NFL. They've 0:28:06.040 --> 0:28:08.960 turned the ball over thirteen times now. That has been 0:28:08.960 --> 0:28:12.040 more with Carson Wentz's been with Taylor Heneke. But as 0:28:12.080 --> 0:28:16.720 I heard a Commander's analysts say this week, he will 0:28:16.800 --> 0:28:20.080 throw you one, you better capitalize on it. So it's 0:28:20.080 --> 0:28:24.360 Taylor Heneke, running backs, Brian Robson, junior rookie Antonio Gibson, 0:28:25.040 --> 0:28:28.880 and then the wide receivers Curtis Samuel, Terry McLaren, Johan Dotson. 0:28:29.160 --> 0:28:32.879 Dino Vassal, secondary coach, said that might be well, he 0:28:33.000 --> 0:28:34.840 said it's the best tree. He didn't say it might be, 0:28:34.960 --> 0:28:38.080 he just said it is. It's probably the best that 0:28:38.120 --> 0:28:41.600 we faced up to this date, up to date. So 0:28:42.000 --> 0:28:44.719 gonna have their hands full, and they're gonna have their 0:28:44.720 --> 0:28:48.800 hands full without Derek Stingley. Derek Stingley is out of 0:28:48.920 --> 0:28:52.520 this game to dealing with that hamstring and became more 0:28:52.520 --> 0:28:54.959 of an issue on Wednesday. I don't know that I've 0:28:54.960 --> 0:28:56.840 seen him in a building this week. I know he's 0:28:56.880 --> 0:28:58.680 been there, but I just haven't seen him he's just 0:28:58.720 --> 0:29:01.320 getting rehabbed and get ready to go, and he is 0:29:01.720 --> 0:29:04.800 out for this game. Now. On the other side, the 0:29:04.800 --> 0:29:09.440 Commanders have out Coole Holkom, Jenny McKissick, two key pieces, 0:29:09.480 --> 0:29:12.200 one on defense, one special teams in third down situations. 0:29:12.600 --> 0:29:17.080 So those three players are out of this game. So 0:29:17.880 --> 0:29:20.120 that's gonna make it that much more problematic, especially when 0:29:20.120 --> 0:29:23.000 we get to key number two, and we'll get to 0:29:23.080 --> 0:29:25.600 that in just a second. So start at key number one. 0:29:26.680 --> 0:29:28.880 Three yards and a cloud of wins. Now you know 0:29:28.960 --> 0:29:31.040 the phrase three yards in a cloud of dust, right, 0:29:31.120 --> 0:29:34.280 it was coined way back in the sixties, probably to 0:29:35.200 --> 0:29:38.800 describe Vince Lombardi's offense. Three yards and a cloud of dust. Well, 0:29:39.000 --> 0:29:41.040 you get three yards on four downs, you get first downs, 0:29:41.080 --> 0:29:44.280 you move the chains. And that's exactly what the Commanders 0:29:44.360 --> 0:29:48.120 did against the Philadelphia nothing special. They ran for just 0:29:48.320 --> 0:29:51.400 over three yards of carry, but they ran it forty 0:29:51.600 --> 0:29:55.320 nine times. They just kept moving the sticks. Eagles kept 0:29:55.360 --> 0:29:58.200 killing the wall back and Kevin moving the sticks. With 0:29:58.440 --> 0:30:01.440 Robinson and Gibson, now they're a little different running backs. 0:30:01.560 --> 0:30:05.680 Robinson is a he's a hammerhead. He is just going 0:30:05.760 --> 0:30:10.440 to keep charging forward. He creates his own holes with 0:30:10.680 --> 0:30:14.320 his power and his run through abilities. Antonio Gibson was 0:30:14.360 --> 0:30:18.160 a former receiver in college, but he has running back 0:30:18.240 --> 0:30:19.960 skills and so they kind of use them in a 0:30:20.000 --> 0:30:21.880 lot of different ways. But between the two, I think 0:30:21.880 --> 0:30:26.840 they combined for forty carries, so three yards in a 0:30:26.920 --> 0:30:29.400 cloud of wins. That's how they're winning winning games. They're 0:30:29.480 --> 0:30:32.760 controlling the ball, they're keeping opposing offenses on the sideline, 0:30:33.200 --> 0:30:37.120 and then they're bludgeoning a defense. And like we've talked 0:30:37.160 --> 0:30:40.960 about a million times, this Texans defense is one that's 0:30:41.000 --> 0:30:44.960 been bludgeoned. Now the flip side of that is the 0:30:45.040 --> 0:30:49.120 Texans run defense was good at times against the Giants. 0:30:49.280 --> 0:30:52.000 Notice I said at times. Then there were times Sakewa 0:30:52.080 --> 0:30:55.280 Barkley ripped off some chunks. I bet if you took 0:30:55.360 --> 0:30:57.000 and I didn't do the math on this, but if 0:30:57.000 --> 0:30:58.840 you took the top three or four runs and took 0:30:58.920 --> 0:31:03.840 them out, that left thirty one thirty two carries for Barkley, 0:31:03.880 --> 0:31:05.760 and I guarantee it was for on one hundred yards. 0:31:05.760 --> 0:31:07.760 So there were times they were doing a really good 0:31:07.840 --> 0:31:09.840 job against the run. They're gonna have to be that 0:31:10.080 --> 0:31:13.560 and better against the Commanders. That's the only thing the 0:31:13.600 --> 0:31:15.600 Commanders want to do. Now it's really the only thing 0:31:15.640 --> 0:31:18.160 the Giants wanted to do. But Gibson and Robinson are 0:31:18.160 --> 0:31:21.760 not say Quon Barkley, but they're equally difficult to tackle. 0:31:22.800 --> 0:31:27.440 Number two Scary Terry. Now scary Terry becomes even more scary. 0:31:27.520 --> 0:31:31.320 Now he's not scary for the Commanders, he is scary 0:31:31.400 --> 0:31:34.800 for all opponents. He has one of the most impressive 0:31:34.880 --> 0:31:36.640 dudes you're gonna meet off the field. He's a captain 0:31:36.680 --> 0:31:39.440 Ohio State, even though he was number four wide receiver there. 0:31:39.560 --> 0:31:42.040 He's coming to the league and better superstar. He's scary 0:31:42.120 --> 0:31:44.800 for opponents. So how did the Texas account for him? 0:31:45.000 --> 0:31:47.560 They catches one hundred twenty eight yards against Eagles, and 0:31:47.680 --> 0:31:50.440 Taylor Honeken looks him up about three to four times 0:31:50.520 --> 0:31:52.320 more than he looks up any other past catcher on 0:31:52.400 --> 0:31:56.120 his team with no Stingley, How did they go about 0:31:56.240 --> 0:31:59.400 slowing down Terry McLaren? Do they let him get his 0:32:00.120 --> 0:32:02.080 just try and keep him from getting all the deep ball? 0:32:02.160 --> 0:32:05.760 So maybe like a six four ninety kind of game, 0:32:06.160 --> 0:32:09.680 but no touchdowns and everybody else gets very minimal targets 0:32:09.720 --> 0:32:12.120 and receptions. Maybe that's the way you go about it. 0:32:12.600 --> 0:32:16.160 I don't know how you fully account for him, whether 0:32:16.280 --> 0:32:19.400 it's you put Steven Nelson on him give help, or 0:32:19.800 --> 0:32:22.400 whether it's Desmond King and you give help. Either way, 0:32:22.520 --> 0:32:27.720 you do have to give some help to whomever is 0:32:27.800 --> 0:32:32.120 covering Terry McLarin. He's that good. Now. John Dotson's got 0:32:32.240 --> 0:32:35.920 his thing, but Heinekee doesn't love going to anybody else 0:32:35.960 --> 0:32:38.640 other than Terry McLaren. How will they get the ball 0:32:38.680 --> 0:32:42.040 to Curtis Samuel And that's a that's a different kind 0:32:42.040 --> 0:32:45.000 of ball of wax. And I would imagine they're gonna 0:32:45.000 --> 0:32:47.920 find ways to get the ball to Curtis Samuel in 0:32:48.160 --> 0:32:51.920 different ways. But it's McLarin he's the problem. And with 0:32:52.080 --> 0:32:55.720 no Stingley, now you've got a situation of well, how 0:32:55.760 --> 0:32:58.280 do we account for this guy? Who do we put 0:32:58.400 --> 0:33:00.480 on him? And how do we account word in man? 0:33:00.840 --> 0:33:03.000 The hope is, and my hope is that they do 0:33:03.120 --> 0:33:04.880 so well against the run that they can bring blitz 0:33:05.040 --> 0:33:07.520 is like they did in the third quarter against the Giants. 0:33:07.760 --> 0:33:10.400 They just have to be tighter and man coverage such 0:33:10.480 --> 0:33:13.479 that they don't give up something to Darius Slayton, who 0:33:13.560 --> 0:33:16.120 then is got room to run and he runs for 0:33:16.240 --> 0:33:17.760 fifty four yards of touch that they can't do that 0:33:17.920 --> 0:33:20.280 because mcclarin would do the same thing to them that 0:33:20.440 --> 0:33:23.520 Slayton did, and McLaren is that much better. Last one 0:33:24.840 --> 0:33:28.400 on offense, gritty gutting a playmaker, and that is Taylor Heneken. 0:33:28.480 --> 0:33:31.240 Now at twenty seventeen, he was with Texas for a 0:33:31.320 --> 0:33:33.520 little bit, only saw him for a handfull of plays 0:33:33.640 --> 0:33:36.000 because he end up getting hit taking a concussion, and 0:33:36.080 --> 0:33:38.360 then he wasn't back here in twenty eighteen and since 0:33:38.400 --> 0:33:40.480 then he's been on an odyssey. Well, he ended up 0:33:40.520 --> 0:33:42.800 in Washington twenty twenty late in the year and he's 0:33:42.800 --> 0:33:45.440 started the playoff game. It looked very, very good, but 0:33:45.560 --> 0:33:48.600 it says if the Commanders management didn't really you know, 0:33:48.640 --> 0:33:51.080 we got Taylor, but we'll get another guy. We got Taylor, 0:33:51.160 --> 0:33:53.520 but we'll get another guy. Well, this might be the 0:33:53.640 --> 0:33:56.520 last of we need to get another guy, because Taylor 0:33:56.560 --> 0:33:59.080 Heneke might be locking down that face of the franchise 0:33:59.160 --> 0:34:02.200 position going forward because it isn't Carson Wentz. I really 0:34:02.240 --> 0:34:05.040 wish we were facing at Carson Wentz. We're not. Heineck 0:34:05.320 --> 0:34:08.320 finds a way and that might be the best asset 0:34:08.400 --> 0:34:11.480 he has and it's a damn good one. He finds 0:34:11.600 --> 0:34:15.040 a way. The throws aren't always perfect, the runs aren't 0:34:15.040 --> 0:34:18.640 always perfect, but he finds a way to win a 0:34:18.680 --> 0:34:21.480 ball game. He finds a way to make that throw 0:34:21.880 --> 0:34:25.960 at that time when the commander's really needed. Mccolts had 0:34:26.000 --> 0:34:28.840 them beat the Colts, had them beat sixteen ten, Commanders 0:34:28.880 --> 0:34:32.400 hadn't move the ball all game long. What does what 0:34:32.520 --> 0:34:34.880 does Heineck do? Finds mccuarin deep ball, They get down 0:34:34.920 --> 0:34:36.880 into one, Heineke sneaks it in. They win the game 0:34:36.920 --> 0:34:39.680 seventeen sixty, and that's where got the winning street going 0:34:39.760 --> 0:34:44.640 for them. Heineck is a playmaker. Those guys at quarterback 0:34:44.719 --> 0:34:47.799 are very, very tough to stop. And in that way, 0:34:47.800 --> 0:34:50.960 it's kind of a case Keenum esque where nothing is perfect, 0:34:51.080 --> 0:34:54.040 but man, you trust that guy. I mean, had commanders 0:34:54.239 --> 0:34:55.880 were putting on a bunch of chains and give him 0:34:55.920 --> 0:34:57.799 a bush light the other night on the way home 0:34:59.080 --> 0:35:02.400 from the win against the Eagles. He's that guy and 0:35:02.560 --> 0:35:05.279 he's got a he's got a confidence and arrogance. So 0:35:05.400 --> 0:35:08.040 how did the text and shake that up? How do 0:35:08.239 --> 0:35:11.719 they get to him and rattle him? And that is 0:35:11.719 --> 0:35:13.560 going to be a big key they can't do that. 0:35:13.840 --> 0:35:17.000 It's a long afternoon. But if they can, maybe he 0:35:17.080 --> 0:35:19.280 throws them not only one, but maybe throws him a couple, 0:35:19.480 --> 0:35:22.200 and maybe that's enough to change what I think is 0:35:22.239 --> 0:35:24.120 going to be a very close game either way. No 0:35:24.200 --> 0:35:27.640 matter who wins, Taylor Heineke gonna be tough. Now'll throw over. 0:35:27.719 --> 0:35:29.759 The defense are giving up one hundred and eleven point 0:35:29.840 --> 0:35:32.000 three yards per game, that's twelfth in the league. They 0:35:32.360 --> 0:35:34.319 give up two hundred and thirteen yards per game three 0:35:34.320 --> 0:35:36.160 the year, that's fifteenth in the league. And they allowed 0:35:36.160 --> 0:35:38.440 three hundred twenty four yards per game that's tenth in 0:35:38.560 --> 0:35:42.160 the league. This is a salty defense. Why well, let's 0:35:42.160 --> 0:35:47.200 get to key number one, Chasing Young. Now, let's talk 0:35:47.239 --> 0:35:51.040 about this Chase Young situation. Mark and I mentioned earlier. 0:35:51.040 --> 0:35:53.959 Ian Rappaport put out a tweet earlier in the morning 0:35:54.120 --> 0:35:59.640 on Friday saying that they weren't quite sure that Chase 0:35:59.760 --> 0:36:03.759 Young was going to be ready to go. Thank you, 0:36:05.040 --> 0:36:08.320 because in this situation, Chase Young really could have just 0:36:08.520 --> 0:36:10.680 played pass rusher and that's it, and that would have 0:36:10.760 --> 0:36:14.480 made him ultra ultra dangerous. So if there is no 0:36:14.800 --> 0:36:20.239 Chasing Young, can the Texans get away with doing some 0:36:20.400 --> 0:36:23.600 things against James Smith Williams, who's played oh on the 0:36:23.680 --> 0:36:26.600 outside for Chase Young. Can they do some things in 0:36:26.760 --> 0:36:31.400 that direction? Chase Young would have created a ton of problems. There, 0:36:31.520 --> 0:36:34.600 No Chase Young, thank you. Now they're still a thought. 0:36:34.640 --> 0:36:37.520 I'm not seeing anything to date saying that he has 0:36:37.560 --> 0:36:41.279 been activated, that he is being added to the roster. 0:36:41.760 --> 0:36:44.360 That hasn't happened. And if that doesn't happen on Saturday, 0:36:44.440 --> 0:36:47.200 which typically is when it happens, Chase Young won't play. 0:36:47.320 --> 0:36:52.560 And that man as a huge cide, relig huge because 0:36:53.200 --> 0:36:56.759 I get in the key number two. The Texans still 0:36:56.800 --> 0:37:00.080 have to face that interior, and the interior of On 0:37:00.200 --> 0:37:06.160 Payne and Jonathan Allen is maybe the best duo they've faced. 0:37:06.760 --> 0:37:13.200 Fletcher Cox, Javon Hargrave, Dexter Lawrence, Leonard Williams, Jeffrey Simmons, 0:37:13.280 --> 0:37:17.440 Tier Tart. They have faced as many good duos in 0:37:17.520 --> 0:37:22.600 the last four games as they could possibly want to face. Well, 0:37:23.040 --> 0:37:26.279 this one's the best. That's my opinion. I think it's 0:37:26.280 --> 0:37:29.320 a lot of people's opinion, actually, But Jonathan Allen and 0:37:29.480 --> 0:37:35.960 Dron Payne caused nightmares for the interior. Now it probably 0:37:36.560 --> 0:37:39.680 would have been key number one, had Chase Young. Have 0:37:39.800 --> 0:37:42.520 we known about Chase Young earlier in the week Because 0:37:42.719 --> 0:37:45.520 of the way those interior defenders that I've mentioned, John 0:37:45.600 --> 0:37:48.880 Hargrave had three sacks against the Texas Dexter Lawrence had 0:37:48.920 --> 0:37:51.200 five quarterback hits in a sack and a half and 0:37:51.400 --> 0:37:55.160 dominated the game. Jeffrey Simmons and Tierra Tart just weren't 0:37:55.160 --> 0:37:57.520 going to be blocked that day. They just weren't allowing 0:37:57.600 --> 0:38:00.680 themselves to get blocked. So, but Texans not only have 0:38:00.880 --> 0:38:06.600 faced really difficult interiors, they have struggled with those interiors. 0:38:07.560 --> 0:38:10.319 So I don't know what the best way of going 0:38:10.400 --> 0:38:13.080 about blocking two guys, but you have three guys in 0:38:13.160 --> 0:38:15.520 the interior, and you've got to find a way to 0:38:15.760 --> 0:38:20.320 block those two guys effectively. And at some point in 0:38:20.440 --> 0:38:24.120 the passing game, they're going to get guard center guard 0:38:24.200 --> 0:38:28.040 one on one, and I would I would bet that 0:38:28.280 --> 0:38:31.960 after watching film, they want the rookie Kenyon Green, and 0:38:32.640 --> 0:38:35.680 Kenyon's got some room to work. There's no doubt Keny 0:38:35.719 --> 0:38:37.880 would tell you that. Everybody tells you that. I mean, 0:38:37.960 --> 0:38:43.719 it's it's evident he has room to grow. But this 0:38:43.880 --> 0:38:46.839 would be a great time for Kenyon to step up 0:38:47.280 --> 0:38:50.360 and take on those two monsters and drawn Payne and 0:38:50.560 --> 0:38:53.200 Jonathan Allen and stand up and say, man, I got this. 0:38:53.920 --> 0:38:55.640 You might have to give him some help. Now. The 0:38:55.719 --> 0:38:57.479 one of the things it's hard to do is give 0:38:57.600 --> 0:39:01.200 an interior player help from some other position, tight end, 0:39:01.320 --> 0:39:03.600 running back. Those guys are always helping the outside. I 0:39:03.640 --> 0:39:07.000 don't think the Texans tackles needed, But how do you 0:39:07.200 --> 0:39:09.200 use running backs on the inside. That's going to be 0:39:09.280 --> 0:39:11.600 the hard part. Then. I don't know how you go 0:39:11.680 --> 0:39:13.880 about doing that, but the Texans may have to do that. 0:39:14.040 --> 0:39:16.760 Belichick did that with JJ Watt. He had a running 0:39:16.760 --> 0:39:20.160 back help out the guard and put the guard one 0:39:20.200 --> 0:39:22.320 on one, but then use the running back to go 0:39:22.520 --> 0:39:25.320 help on JJ. And what the running back would do 0:39:25.520 --> 0:39:28.520 was get JJ's hands down. Well, I don't care how 0:39:28.600 --> 0:39:31.040 you use the running back or what you fullback. I 0:39:31.080 --> 0:39:33.200 don't care what you do, but those guys have got 0:39:33.320 --> 0:39:36.160 to help the interior to block Jonathan Allen and Tron 0:39:36.239 --> 0:39:39.439 Payne or it's gonna be a long freaking day. Last 0:39:39.480 --> 0:39:42.399 it's certainly not least who covers Nico. Now, this could 0:39:42.440 --> 0:39:46.160 be a battle of former Michigan Wolverine twenty seventeen recruits. 0:39:46.520 --> 0:39:49.360 Benjamin Saint Juice six three two hundred pounds actually matches 0:39:49.480 --> 0:39:52.839 up size wise with Nico. They were in the same 0:39:53.160 --> 0:39:56.360 Michian Wolverine recruiting class. Saint Juice was there for a 0:39:56.480 --> 0:39:59.319 year in seventeen, then he transferred eighteen to Minnesota. They 0:39:59.400 --> 0:40:01.520 never played again at each other after that, but they 0:40:01.600 --> 0:40:03.879 definitely have faced each other in practice. Now. I bring 0:40:04.000 --> 0:40:07.080 that up because Nico and faced favorite Moreau in practice, 0:40:07.120 --> 0:40:10.399 so he had some knowledge of how Moreau would handle things, 0:40:10.680 --> 0:40:12.359 and he used that against him on the goal line 0:40:12.400 --> 0:40:15.040 touchdown that he had. That was a beautiful route. What 0:40:15.160 --> 0:40:17.920 does Nico know about Saint Jus and how can he 0:40:18.080 --> 0:40:22.880 use that against the Washington Commander's best corner on Sunday? 0:40:23.320 --> 0:40:26.120 Keeping one on that battle twenty five v. Twelve and 0:40:26.239 --> 0:40:29.320 hope that number twelve, Nico Collins is the better of 0:40:29.520 --> 0:40:32.560 that matchup. All right, when we get back, let's go 0:40:32.680 --> 0:40:34.359 round the NFL. Just a couple of news and notes 0:40:34.440 --> 0:40:36.759 that you need for your fantasy teams. Next right here 0:40:36.880 --> 0:40:40.440 a Texas All Access Welcome Back Friday issue of Texas 0:40:40.480 --> 0:40:43.239 All Access from Monday Texans Radio Studio. I'm your host, 0:40:43.360 --> 0:40:45.960 John Harris football analyst side of the reporter for your 0:40:46.000 --> 0:40:48.360 Houston Texans. Let's go around in the NFL. Hit a 0:40:48.440 --> 0:40:51.320 couple of news and notes here quickly before we go 0:40:51.440 --> 0:40:55.480 to our second hour. The Chiefs are down not one, 0:40:56.160 --> 0:41:01.800 but two wide receivers. One got put on injured reserving Thursday. 0:41:01.840 --> 0:41:05.759 That's Mikole Hardman, Juju Smith Schuster is out due to 0:41:05.880 --> 0:41:09.400 a concussion he suffered last week in Week ten against 0:41:09.440 --> 0:41:13.279 d Jacksonville Jaguars. Now the Chiefs stone Egy, cryin in 0:41:13.320 --> 0:41:16.520 your beer. But those are probably two players on a 0:41:16.640 --> 0:41:20.680 lot of people's fantasy teams. So Mikole Hardman, ir Juju 0:41:20.760 --> 0:41:25.319 Smith Schuster out dealing with the concussion. The Bills are 0:41:25.440 --> 0:41:30.280 dealing with one hell of a storm, Holy smokes. Friday's 0:41:30.320 --> 0:41:33.759 practice was canceled due to the weather, with players and 0:41:33.920 --> 0:41:38.920 coaches set to meet virtually now. The Bills planned to 0:41:39.000 --> 0:41:42.919 travel to Detroit on Saturday, but coach Sean McDermot said 0:41:42.920 --> 0:41:47.759 Friday the details are obviously TBD at this point. McDermott 0:41:47.800 --> 0:41:49.759 told reporters, we want to head out as close to 0:41:49.800 --> 0:41:53.000 the normal time as possible. However, again, seeing what's happening 0:41:53.040 --> 0:41:54.680 around us right now, I just want to make sure 0:41:54.719 --> 0:41:56.680 that all the staff and players families are safe and 0:41:56.840 --> 0:41:59.480 dug out before we want to try to get out 0:41:59.520 --> 0:42:01.120 of here, just so everyone's mind is in the right 0:42:01.200 --> 0:42:04.520 spot knowing that their families are all safe. The game 0:42:04.600 --> 0:42:11.120 will take place on Sunday in Detroit, Bills v. Browns, 0:42:11.200 --> 0:42:15.480 and we need the Bills to win, so hopefully they 0:42:15.520 --> 0:42:17.239 can get up there and play that game, and then 0:42:17.280 --> 0:42:19.800 they have to return back there to play the Lions 0:42:19.840 --> 0:42:23.840 on Thanksgiving. So wild stuff going on right now in Buffalo. 0:42:23.880 --> 0:42:27.120 And if you have seen Orchard Park, oh my goodness, 0:42:27.440 --> 0:42:30.680 holy smokes, it's crazy. All right, It's not crazy? Is 0:42:31.040 --> 0:42:33.960 going behind enemy sidelines? Andrews doesn't. That's all next right 0:42:34.000 --> 0:42:37.279 here in Texans All Access. We got one hour down, 0:42:37.320 --> 0:42:39.440 one hour left to go. Right here on a Friday 0:42:39.480 --> 0:42:42.080 issue of Texans All Access. I'm John Harris football and 0:42:42.200 --> 0:42:45.680 a sideline reporter for your Houston Texans, and it's time 0:42:45.800 --> 0:42:50.560 to go behind enemy sidelines. And nothing like getting a 0:42:50.800 --> 0:42:57.600 former commander, former Redskin Anthony Armstrong, who was a wide 0:42:57.640 --> 0:43:00.879 receiver for the Redskins back in day and now he's 0:43:00.960 --> 0:43:04.600 part of the Believe Sports podcast network, and he caught 0:43:04.680 --> 0:43:07.839 up with Deepe to talk about this matchup against the Commanders, 0:43:08.160 --> 0:43:11.480 We're going behind enemy Sidelines with former Washington wide receiver 0:43:11.600 --> 0:43:17.000 Anthony Armstrong, now a co host on the Believed Commanders podcast. Anthony, 0:43:17.239 --> 0:43:20.160 welcome in. Have you recovered from the Monday night game 0:43:20.320 --> 0:43:23.680 that I think really caught the entire country by surprise? Oh, 0:43:23.760 --> 0:43:26.640 I'm still living. I'm still living live off of that one. 0:43:26.680 --> 0:43:30.520 Deep in a great mood. I mean that one. Usually 0:43:30.600 --> 0:43:32.920 you have to stay up late and sometimes you get 0:43:33.040 --> 0:43:34.880 let down. That was a good reason to stay up 0:43:34.920 --> 0:43:37.600 late past my bed tech. Yeah, big win. They defeat 0:43:37.640 --> 0:43:40.680 the undefeated, previously undefeated Eagles. I mean, you cover the 0:43:40.760 --> 0:43:44.279 team every single week. How surprised are you at the 0:43:44.360 --> 0:43:47.920 fact that Washington win in there, two touched on underdogs 0:43:47.960 --> 0:43:49.440 and we're able to come out with the win on 0:43:49.480 --> 0:43:53.040 the road. I'm really not that surprised at all, simply 0:43:53.120 --> 0:43:56.280 because that was a different team than what Philly faced 0:43:56.320 --> 0:43:58.399 in week three. I mean week three, you had Carson Wentz, 0:43:58.440 --> 0:44:01.760 you didn't have Brian Robinson, and frankly, you know, Carson 0:44:01.800 --> 0:44:04.480 hadn't settled it into that offense and no, so now 0:44:04.520 --> 0:44:06.320 when you had Taylor Heineck show up, there is a 0:44:06.320 --> 0:44:08.880 guy who's very seasoned in Scott Turner's offense, and you 0:44:08.960 --> 0:44:11.160 could see the way that the team responds to him 0:44:11.200 --> 0:44:13.720 being at quarterback, and that team has a different attitude 0:44:13.760 --> 0:44:16.239 with Brian Robinson carrying the ball as well. It's a 0:44:16.360 --> 0:44:19.080 totally different Washington team, much more dangerous now than they 0:44:19.120 --> 0:44:21.439 were a week three. Well, we saw Taylor Heineke back 0:44:21.520 --> 0:44:25.120 in Houston in twenty seventeen very briefly, and now I 0:44:25.200 --> 0:44:28.399 am watching the celebratory videos on the plane. He's wearing 0:44:28.480 --> 0:44:31.040 all the chains, all the necklaces, all the glasses, all 0:44:31.040 --> 0:44:33.960 the jewelry. The Commanders have gone three and one with 0:44:34.120 --> 0:44:37.880 Heineke and now with Carson Wentz possibly coming off of 0:44:38.000 --> 0:44:42.160 ir has Heineck's done enough to just really solidify himself 0:44:42.200 --> 0:44:44.600 as a starting quarterback here for the rest of the season. 0:44:45.000 --> 0:44:47.160 I think that he has, especially if you look at 0:44:47.200 --> 0:44:49.840 the fact that the entire NFC East does have a 0:44:49.960 --> 0:44:52.040 chance to make it into the playoffs. You have to 0:44:52.120 --> 0:44:54.920 give yourself a chance to actually go for that. I mean, 0:44:55.000 --> 0:44:58.040 I'm a guy that says winning fixes all ales, right, 0:44:58.120 --> 0:45:00.239 so no need to try to lose and get up 0:45:00.840 --> 0:45:03.239 up the up and down the draft board win some 0:45:03.320 --> 0:45:05.200 ball games. See what he can do. You can obviously 0:45:05.280 --> 0:45:07.840 see the way this team responds with him at quarterback. 0:45:07.880 --> 0:45:11.200 And if you heard Terry mclorin's monologue after the game 0:45:11.320 --> 0:45:13.799 talking to Scott Van Pell, I mean he was going 0:45:13.920 --> 0:45:17.000 on for about thirty forty five seconds and he did 0:45:17.080 --> 0:45:19.719 mention Carson Wentz. So he definitely said the right thing, 0:45:19.840 --> 0:45:23.000 but you could tell how he feels about Taylor Heineke. 0:45:23.200 --> 0:45:25.320 And if I'm Ron Rivere, I'm listening to my captain, 0:45:25.480 --> 0:45:27.680 I'm listening to Terry mclaurin'. I'm gonna let for riot. 0:45:27.840 --> 0:45:29.920 I'm glad you rob up Terry McLaurin because I can 0:45:30.000 --> 0:45:33.120 see why he's happy. His usage, his numbers, everything's gone 0:45:33.200 --> 0:45:36.160 up with heine in the lineup. He's emerged as just 0:45:36.400 --> 0:45:40.160 his favorite target's averaging sixteen yards a catch. What does 0:45:40.200 --> 0:45:43.040 he do well as a top receiving threat? And did 0:45:43.120 --> 0:45:46.560 you see his usage change once Heineck was in the lineup. Oh, 0:45:47.000 --> 0:45:50.319 usage has definitely increased. The past four games with Taylor 0:45:50.360 --> 0:45:53.719 Heineke has been eight targets minimum per game. Last game 0:45:53.760 --> 0:45:56.680 he had eleven total, so that's definitely been a huge us. 0:45:56.719 --> 0:45:59.160 Has he only had that happened one time earlier in 0:45:59.200 --> 0:46:01.520 the season, and he's had two one yard games with 0:46:01.520 --> 0:46:04.400 Taylor Heineke under center, so I know he's enjoying that. 0:46:04.560 --> 0:46:06.480 But the thing that I liked the most about Terry 0:46:06.560 --> 0:46:10.160 McLaurin is he's extremely humble and he's patient. Yeah, you 0:46:10.360 --> 0:46:13.080 hear a lot about receivers being divas and they want 0:46:13.080 --> 0:46:14.880 to get the ball in their hands early and often. 0:46:15.239 --> 0:46:17.280 Earlier in the season, he didn't touch the ball early 0:46:17.520 --> 0:46:18.840 and a lot of times he had to make a 0:46:19.000 --> 0:46:21.320 late catch and he showed up as if he was 0:46:21.400 --> 0:46:23.919 getting the ball all throughout the game and basically having 0:46:23.960 --> 0:46:26.520 to suffer through that for lack of a better word. 0:46:26.760 --> 0:46:28.840 He's deserving this moment to show up and get the 0:46:28.880 --> 0:46:31.080 ball early and often to make an impact with this team. 0:46:31.560 --> 0:46:33.840 It really opens up the offense and makes it easier 0:46:34.120 --> 0:46:37.480 on everybody else on the field. Well, that Commander's offense. 0:46:37.560 --> 0:46:39.680 I mean, they just dominated in that Monday night game. 0:46:39.680 --> 0:46:41.239 I felt like every time I looked at the TV, 0:46:41.440 --> 0:46:43.239 it was the Commander's offense on the field. We didn't 0:46:43.280 --> 0:46:45.840 see much of Jalen Hurtson and Billy's offense, and a 0:46:45.880 --> 0:46:47.359 big part of that was just what they were able 0:46:47.360 --> 0:46:49.520 to do on the ground. We saw Brian Robinson and 0:46:49.680 --> 0:46:52.560 Antonio Gibson get a rushing touchdown. They also had Courtis 0:46:52.600 --> 0:46:55.479 Samuel getting carries. It seems like there's wide receivers playing 0:46:55.520 --> 0:46:58.440 running back, running backs playing wide receivers. You know what's 0:46:58.480 --> 0:47:00.880 the toughest part for opposing defense is when facing that 0:47:00.920 --> 0:47:04.000 commander's offense and all these skill players. You know, I 0:47:04.120 --> 0:47:07.680 think that the versatility that comes with Washington's offense is 0:47:07.680 --> 0:47:10.680 what's going to give any defense trouble. You talk about 0:47:10.719 --> 0:47:13.240 receivers playing running back. Antonio Gibson was a college receiver, 0:47:13.600 --> 0:47:16.000 and then you flip via versus that Curtis Samuel was 0:47:16.040 --> 0:47:18.240 a running back initially when he got the Ohio States. 0:47:18.280 --> 0:47:20.960 So being able to run routes from the backfield creates 0:47:21.000 --> 0:47:23.320 a lot of different matchups. It allows Scott Turning to 0:47:23.360 --> 0:47:26.319 get extremely creative and find different ways to get guys 0:47:26.360 --> 0:47:29.640 into spaces. I mean, you have linebackers that have to 0:47:29.719 --> 0:47:32.439 cover people that were former receivers. So it just puts 0:47:32.440 --> 0:47:35.160 a lot of strain on defenses and you can't sit 0:47:35.239 --> 0:47:38.080 back and rely on the old school tactics of hey, 0:47:38.160 --> 0:47:40.080 just go hit. They got carrying the ball because that 0:47:40.120 --> 0:47:42.000 guy might run a route right, run an option route 0:47:42.040 --> 0:47:45.200 and RPOs and there's just so much creativity nowadays that 0:47:45.400 --> 0:47:47.839 guys have to be way more versatile and how they 0:47:47.920 --> 0:47:49.799 can move around playing the run and try to play 0:47:49.840 --> 0:47:52.560 the bass. All Right, that defense has allowed just seventeen 0:47:52.640 --> 0:47:55.600 point three points per game during the last four games. 0:47:55.680 --> 0:47:58.759 So what's been the key for that front to get 0:47:58.800 --> 0:48:01.160 so much pressure on a post quarterbacks? And that's been 0:48:01.200 --> 0:48:03.480 all without Chase Young so far as well. You know, 0:48:04.040 --> 0:48:07.719 I feel like once they parted ways with their you know, 0:48:07.800 --> 0:48:10.960 Sam Mills junior, he was the defensive line coach. They 0:48:10.960 --> 0:48:15.320 brought Ryan Carrigan in elevated Scott Skanina that that defensive 0:48:15.360 --> 0:48:18.320 line has really just grown and elevated throughout the season. 0:48:18.400 --> 0:48:20.920 That anchored by John Allen and Duran Payne, those two 0:48:21.000 --> 0:48:24.120 guys caused so much havoc upfront, and it allows the 0:48:24.239 --> 0:48:27.480 other guys f e Obada's and just the ridgeways that 0:48:27.520 --> 0:48:29.680 have come in. Those guys can just work as one 0:48:29.800 --> 0:48:33.200 total unit. Montes sweat a name that you forget with 0:48:33.320 --> 0:48:35.359 so many people out here, you don't even have Chase 0:48:35.360 --> 0:48:37.640 you you mentioned that and he could show back up, 0:48:37.680 --> 0:48:40.120 and when him coming back into the into the fold, 0:48:41.000 --> 0:48:43.640 it could be dangerous. It could be very dangerous. I mean, 0:48:43.680 --> 0:48:47.440 the unit's really really performing well. They've been the foundation 0:48:47.520 --> 0:48:50.439 of that defense, the really stronghold that sets the tone 0:48:50.480 --> 0:48:53.120 for what the defense wants to do. All right, Chase Young, 0:48:53.200 --> 0:48:55.040 I mean we've seen the news that he could come 0:48:55.080 --> 0:48:57.919 back here in Week eleven against the Chexans. He hasn't 0:48:58.000 --> 0:49:00.480 played in about a year or so, coming off an 0:49:00.480 --> 0:49:02.640 acal injury. When a guy hasn't played in that long, 0:49:02.719 --> 0:49:05.040 you know, what are your expectations for when he does 0:49:05.160 --> 0:49:07.320 come back. If he does come back against the Texans, 0:49:07.880 --> 0:49:09.800 would you expect he'd be on a snap count? And 0:49:10.320 --> 0:49:12.279 you know how much rust could you expect from a 0:49:12.320 --> 0:49:15.480 guy like that. Yeah, I would expect a snap count. 0:49:15.520 --> 0:49:17.800 And I have to applaud the Washington training staff and 0:49:17.960 --> 0:49:21.439 coaching staff. They've handled injuries very well, you know. Now 0:49:21.520 --> 0:49:23.600 with Curtis Samuel and with Chase Young, I think they 0:49:23.680 --> 0:49:25.480 have those guys on the right path, taking their time 0:49:25.520 --> 0:49:27.600 to get them back on the field. But the first 0:49:27.640 --> 0:49:29.480 thing I'm paying attention to with Chaise Young is just 0:49:29.560 --> 0:49:32.120 that first time of impact where he has to deal 0:49:32.160 --> 0:49:34.239 with you know, a pulling guard or a tight end. 0:49:34.520 --> 0:49:36.600 I mean, they have a lot of you know rules 0:49:36.680 --> 0:49:40.839 now that help protect defensive lineman's knees. So somebody's gonna 0:49:40.880 --> 0:49:42.840 throw a block at him and you call it what 0:49:42.920 --> 0:49:45.000 it is. That's just how the league is. You're gonna 0:49:45.239 --> 0:49:47.200 see what do you think about your knee? Are you 0:49:47.280 --> 0:49:49.239 confident in it? Because if he's not confident in it, 0:49:49.280 --> 0:49:51.319 then there's gonna be a lot of Damian Pierce that's 0:49:51.360 --> 0:49:53.839 going to run right over that side. And they don't 0:49:53.880 --> 0:49:56.719 want to have that happen with Washington. So I think 0:49:56.760 --> 0:49:59.360 he'll be able to snap count. But I'm excited to 0:49:59.400 --> 0:50:01.920 see his loosenness, trying to see, you know, how much 0:50:01.920 --> 0:50:03.600 speed does he have off the edges. He still had 0:50:03.640 --> 0:50:06.760 that reactiveness, that change in direction that makes him so dangerous. 0:50:07.440 --> 0:50:09.040 I mean, I think they should just give him another 0:50:09.080 --> 0:50:10.960 couple of weeks to rest. I mean, just like, let 0:50:11.040 --> 0:50:12.759 him rest a little bit more and then just take 0:50:12.840 --> 0:50:15.520 his time coming back. It's not a problem to do that. 0:50:15.719 --> 0:50:18.000 I mean, that's not there's no there's nothing, there's no 0:50:18.120 --> 0:50:20.600 reason to just say we need to rush him back. Yeah, 0:50:20.640 --> 0:50:22.440 and then you have a bye week in week fourteen, 0:50:22.719 --> 0:50:25.600 you know, so if Taylor is able to continue to 0:50:25.640 --> 0:50:27.799 put a couple of wins together, I think Washington can 0:50:27.920 --> 0:50:30.359 win these next two games. You know, maybe you don't 0:50:30.360 --> 0:50:32.040 need to throw Chase Young back out there, give him 0:50:32.040 --> 0:50:34.359 a few more weeks, like you're saying, and yeah, then 0:50:34.400 --> 0:50:36.080 you have to build them by a week and now 0:50:36.120 --> 0:50:38.360 you have a fresh Chase Young heading into the end 0:50:38.400 --> 0:50:40.800 of the season. That's something that's very dangerous. I like 0:50:40.880 --> 0:50:42.799 how you're thinking. I mean, I was just selfishly saying 0:50:42.840 --> 0:50:44.480 that so the Texans wouldn't have to see him in 0:50:44.560 --> 0:50:48.440 this first game back. But as as a former, as 0:50:48.480 --> 0:50:50.600 a former wide receiver yourself, I don't know if you've 0:50:50.640 --> 0:50:53.399 ever done this, but back to back games on the road, 0:50:53.520 --> 0:50:56.920 going from Monday night and then a Sunday noon game. 0:50:57.560 --> 0:51:00.080 How tough is that for the players? I mean, do 0:51:00.160 --> 0:51:04.000 you how do you manage recovery between two very quick 0:51:04.160 --> 0:51:06.320 games together and both on the road with all that 0:51:06.440 --> 0:51:09.399 travel in between. Well, you kind of have to lose 0:51:09.440 --> 0:51:11.279 a day on the front end and on the back end, 0:51:11.760 --> 0:51:13.719 and then they're gonna probably take an extra day out 0:51:13.719 --> 0:51:15.560 of the middle of the week, so you get it. 0:51:15.600 --> 0:51:18.040 It's almost similar to that, you know, Sunday to Thursday 0:51:18.120 --> 0:51:21.640 schedule that teams have, it's gonna be a very truncated schedule. 0:51:21.719 --> 0:51:23.600 That's that ends up being a tough part because you're 0:51:23.600 --> 0:51:26.440 not I say you truncated schedule, truncated playbook. You know, 0:51:26.560 --> 0:51:28.440 maybe you don't get to add in as many wrinkles 0:51:28.440 --> 0:51:31.200 that you as you normally would, but there's a lot 0:51:31.320 --> 0:51:33.400 more mental reps. You know, hopefully at this part of 0:51:33.480 --> 0:51:36.440 the season, teams don't need a lot of physical clips 0:51:36.480 --> 0:51:38.840 to get out there and go through things. Physically. You 0:51:38.920 --> 0:51:41.320 should be able to sync up and say, hey, we 0:51:41.400 --> 0:51:43.600 ran this play before, we're going to run it again 0:51:43.680 --> 0:51:46.000 as everybody good, let's walk through it. Those type of things. 0:51:46.080 --> 0:51:48.960 So coaches will be able to adjust. But it shouldn't 0:51:48.960 --> 0:51:50.640 be that much of a problem. But you'll probably see 0:51:50.680 --> 0:51:53.120 more people's bread and butter all rights coming up. Sunday. 0:51:53.200 --> 0:51:57.239 Washington at Houston Salute to Service game. Appreciate the time 0:51:57.280 --> 0:52:00.640 former Washington wide receiver Anthony Armstrong, and you can listen 0:52:00.680 --> 0:52:02.600 to him on the Bee Leave Commander's podcast. You can 0:52:02.640 --> 0:52:07.320 also follow him at mister Armstrong thirteen on Twitter. Anthony, 0:52:07.400 --> 0:52:09.800 thank you so much for the time. Really appreciate it. Indeed, 0:52:09.840 --> 0:52:11.719 thank you deep thanks for having me man. I hope 0:52:11.760 --> 0:52:14.600 those Twitter handles are important come Tuesday morning, but it 0:52:14.800 --> 0:52:17.440 might not be for any of us, which will be 0:52:17.600 --> 0:52:20.759 sort of weird, but say I love you if that's 0:52:20.760 --> 0:52:22.040 what it is. And we have to move on to 0:52:22.120 --> 0:52:27.399 some other social media app Instagram, master, don chess piece, 0:52:27.480 --> 0:52:29.520 I don't know whatever. It's all out there right now, 0:52:29.680 --> 0:52:32.120 so it'll be weird though, because Twitter has been a 0:52:32.520 --> 0:52:35.680 huge part of all wild lives. Now. Another person who 0:52:35.760 --> 0:52:37.000 is part of all of our lives and it's a 0:52:37.040 --> 0:52:40.680 great thing is Drew Doherty. And he played Jenga while 0:52:40.719 --> 0:52:44.120 they did a Jews dozen with Christian Harris. Take a listen. 0:52:44.400 --> 0:52:47.960 Today's competitor was born and raised in Baton Rouge. She's 0:52:47.960 --> 0:52:49.920 a graduate of You High and then he went on 0:52:50.000 --> 0:52:53.120 to Alabama where he was a star for the Crimson Tide. 0:52:53.320 --> 0:52:56.400 He made grown men hug the day he was drafted 0:52:56.440 --> 0:52:58.839 by the Houston Texans in the third round. Those grown men, 0:52:58.880 --> 0:53:01.160 of course his head coaches general manager. But we're talking 0:53:01.200 --> 0:53:04.080 about Christian Harris. You've been starting the last three games 0:53:04.160 --> 0:53:06.160 or so, You've got four games under your belt, and 0:53:06.280 --> 0:53:08.359 now you got a Jinga contest finally. Yeah, we got 0:53:08.400 --> 0:53:10.200 a little Yeah, I'm ready, I'm ready, all right to 0:53:10.280 --> 0:53:12.520 recap the rules. You can't take anything off the top 0:53:12.640 --> 0:53:15.080 three and you can only pull a block and put 0:53:15.120 --> 0:53:17.279 it on with one hand. So your first All right, 0:53:17.360 --> 0:53:19.560 what's your favorite game to play? Oh? No, for sure, 0:53:19.680 --> 0:53:21.719 we pull out the cards. I'm never losing. Do you 0:53:21.760 --> 0:53:23.920 still play at all? I mean with with my family allowed, 0:53:23.920 --> 0:53:25.800 I'm not gonna lie like or we'll play the my 0:53:25.960 --> 0:53:28.319 message games now. Oh yeah, you know you can play 0:53:28.400 --> 0:53:30.960 that play pool on there. If you were a dog, 0:53:31.320 --> 0:53:33.439 what type would you be? What type of dog would 0:53:33.480 --> 0:53:35.320 you be? If you're adult, I'd probably say a Doberman. 0:53:35.560 --> 0:53:37.960 I just really wanted Doberman, so yeah, and then yeah, 0:53:38.160 --> 0:53:40.480 I just like Doberman. So that's really I think you're 0:53:40.480 --> 0:53:42.319 gonna remember put on top. You think you're gonna get 0:53:42.320 --> 0:53:44.920 a Doverman sometime soon, hopefully in the offseason. Yeah, I 0:53:44.960 --> 0:53:46.799 can't write nowe at no time. So yeah, man, it's 0:53:46.840 --> 0:53:48.759 been a world. Yeah, that's a lot going on right now, 0:53:48.880 --> 0:53:51.440 but probably in the off season for sure. Okay, Doberman. 0:53:51.440 --> 0:53:53.200 Did you grow up with Doberman's at all? I actually 0:53:53.239 --> 0:53:56.000 had a toggle lab that was my players dog. Okay, 0:53:56.160 --> 0:53:57.960 that was your first dog was a chocolate lab. What 0:53:58.160 --> 0:54:02.680 is your zodiac sign though, Capricorn? Capricorn, yeah, January. Who 0:54:02.880 --> 0:54:07.160 is your celebrity looking like? I don't like this? What's wrong? 0:54:07.520 --> 0:54:09.400 Everybody tell me I look like little Yadi because I 0:54:09.440 --> 0:54:12.080 got little braids and stuff. It's a yes. And don't 0:54:12.120 --> 0:54:13.960 go look up that picture. I won't. Yeah, I don't 0:54:14.000 --> 0:54:17.320 do that. You have my vow? Oh? What's your go 0:54:17.440 --> 0:54:20.719 to karaoke song? I haven't no karaoke recently, like in 0:54:20.800 --> 0:54:23.440 a long time, but trying to throw out any random 0:54:23.520 --> 0:54:26.680 song if there's any Michael Jackson all days, like, I'll 0:54:26.719 --> 0:54:28.360 probably be able to, you know, get that out of 0:54:28.360 --> 0:54:30.720 my system. You got a favorite? Michael Jackson's probably Thriller. 0:54:31.480 --> 0:54:34.240 It's just you can't miss. It's always good around Halloween. 0:54:34.360 --> 0:54:37.319 I mean it's good all the time, but perfect time. Really. 0:54:37.600 --> 0:54:40.520 What is your most used emoji? What's the one that 0:54:40.640 --> 0:54:43.640 you're like thinking and you're like this looking up? Yeah, 0:54:43.640 --> 0:54:45.960 I just I'm always sitting that Okay, Yeah, I'm always 0:54:45.960 --> 0:54:48.200 sitting out that's the one. Yeah, I guess we'll go too, 0:54:48.320 --> 0:54:50.280 for sure. That is a good one. What's your guilty 0:54:50.480 --> 0:54:53.440 pleasure song? It comes on in the car and you're 0:54:53.480 --> 0:54:55.520 by yourself and you start singing it. But if you 0:54:55.600 --> 0:54:57.799 were in the car with other people, you might turn 0:54:57.840 --> 0:55:00.800 the channel or you might not sing it. Where's that 0:55:00.960 --> 0:55:03.680 is it? There goes my baby by Usher? I think 0:55:03.719 --> 0:55:05.319 that's a song. It used to be on my dad's 0:55:05.400 --> 0:55:07.239 ring tone from my mom, and it's just like a 0:55:07.320 --> 0:55:09.600 song that's like always in my head. Every time I 0:55:09.719 --> 0:55:11.520 hear it, I get to blurding that out. Okay, I'm 0:55:11.560 --> 0:55:13.600 not saying that around nobody. I got you, but that 0:55:13.760 --> 0:55:15.680 is a nice memory. It's what your parents and there. 0:55:15.760 --> 0:55:17.839 Let's that's cool. That's what I can't see that around. 0:55:17.880 --> 0:55:20.880 Nobody get it. That one thing I wouldn't put here 0:55:20.920 --> 0:55:22.800 to do that. Oh what other sport could you be 0:55:22.920 --> 0:55:25.440 a pro at? I played basketball and track when I 0:55:25.560 --> 0:55:28.719 was little. My height me being six one, I don't 0:55:28.760 --> 0:55:31.759 know if basketball would be I probably say track. What events? 0:55:31.800 --> 0:55:34.680 Did you run a track? One? Two hundred? All right? 0:55:34.840 --> 0:55:36.800 Yeah the whole time? The good stuff? Did you do 0:55:36.840 --> 0:55:38.840 any field events? No? I was all my brother. I 0:55:38.880 --> 0:55:40.680 had a bigger brother. Yeah, he did all of those things. 0:55:40.840 --> 0:55:43.360 What did he do? So? I put this kid's javelin, 0:55:43.600 --> 0:55:45.239 she's a big guy. Yeah, they made him run the 0:55:45.239 --> 0:55:47.440 four hundred for fun or he wanted to for fun. Man, 0:55:47.480 --> 0:55:49.719 he should have run needed tocathon. If you could run 0:55:49.760 --> 0:55:52.560 the four and do all the field events, hey, man, athlete, 0:55:52.840 --> 0:55:54.960 I can. I'm doing no field events that I'm a screen. 0:55:55.960 --> 0:55:58.720 What's your first memory as a kid. My first memory, 0:55:58.760 --> 0:56:00.400 I don't want to relate it to football, but it 0:56:00.560 --> 0:56:02.920 is probably more related to football. My favorite moment, it 0:56:03.000 --> 0:56:05.120 was like my first year playing football. I was playing 0:56:05.120 --> 0:56:07.160 with the South bat Rood DRAMs. Okay, I was like 0:56:07.320 --> 0:56:09.759 playing running back, so it's flag football and I had 0:56:09.800 --> 0:56:12.200 a play in the so one player. I was just 0:56:12.320 --> 0:56:13.920 wondering one way and then I got on my tippy 0:56:13.960 --> 0:56:15.680 toes and like change direction. It was like got my 0:56:15.719 --> 0:56:18.160 first touchdown. So it's like a big moment for me 0:56:18.239 --> 0:56:22.600 and my family. That's all five six and we're really 0:56:22.640 --> 0:56:24.479 four or five. Yeah, that's when I first started playing. 0:56:24.520 --> 0:56:27.160 So putting on a move, that's awesome. So I'd be 0:56:27.200 --> 0:56:31.759 like Reggie Bus which teammate is the best hype man? 0:56:31.840 --> 0:56:34.280 I like that one best hype man. I like Willow, 0:56:34.320 --> 0:56:36.920 Garrett Willow. He just always has energy and he's like 0:56:37.040 --> 0:56:39.600 Louisiana guy. Too, So he gotta just already turns me 0:56:39.680 --> 0:56:41.759 up every time I see him. So, yeah, there's a 0:56:41.800 --> 0:56:44.080 crew of you guys from Louisiana. Yeah met him staying 0:56:44.400 --> 0:56:47.279 Yeah for sure. So and it's like closer areas Ben 0:56:47.400 --> 0:56:49.880 Rouge is like forty five minutes I think from New Orleans. 0:56:50.280 --> 0:56:52.400 So I mean, yeah, we got a good little connection 0:56:52.440 --> 0:56:54.640 going on. It's not bad. He was a hype man. 0:56:54.680 --> 0:56:57.319 Who which of your teammates calms you down the most? 0:56:57.680 --> 0:56:59.759 So anybody that does that, it meets do that, or 0:57:00.160 --> 0:57:02.600 I'd probably say, I mean, I do it myself trying 0:57:02.600 --> 0:57:04.719 to call myself down. But if I's like looking up 0:57:04.719 --> 0:57:07.239 to it, probably be older guys. Okay, yeah, just like 0:57:07.360 --> 0:57:09.839 you know, you get to asking questions. They called me down, Like, yeah, 0:57:09.920 --> 0:57:12.000 Kirko is like a mentor for me here basically, so 0:57:12.239 --> 0:57:14.160 he helped me out. Seems like a wise guy. You know, 0:57:15.080 --> 0:57:18.080 God's out of knowledge. What would your superpower be if 0:57:18.120 --> 0:57:20.480 I could choose just be the fastest, like flash as 0:57:20.520 --> 0:57:23.480 fast as possible, like speed of light. What's your favorite 0:57:23.600 --> 0:57:26.800 cheat meal? You guys all eat pretty darn well these days, 0:57:26.840 --> 0:57:28.480 but what when you kind of let yourself go out? 0:57:28.520 --> 0:57:30.160 What is it I'd much rather go home if it 0:57:30.280 --> 0:57:31.880 was like for a cheap meal and bad roots, and 0:57:32.040 --> 0:57:34.720 it'll be like crawfish at you with some like fry fish, 0:57:35.160 --> 0:57:40.200 fry shrimp. Nice. Yes, to get that, my mom. They 0:57:40.240 --> 0:57:45.280 always you're making me, you're making me hung of course 0:57:45.360 --> 0:57:48.400 I have. It's delicious. Who is your favorite teammate to 0:57:48.480 --> 0:57:51.120 sit next to on the plane? Probably Sting? Now I 0:57:51.200 --> 0:57:53.320 sitting next to Sting already, but I mean that's just 0:57:53.400 --> 0:57:55.520 my boy. We're joking around all the time on the 0:57:55.560 --> 0:57:57.880 way there on the way back, So yeah, probably for 0:57:57.960 --> 0:58:00.480 sure Sting. So he's pretty quiet when he's talking with 0:58:00.560 --> 0:58:02.840 the media and folks like that. But not a quiet guy. 0:58:02.920 --> 0:58:05.560 Huh No, I mean he's he's a jugster for sure. 0:58:05.560 --> 0:58:06.920 I mean he'll probably be a little side of you 0:58:06.960 --> 0:58:08.520 first meeting him, but you know, once you get to 0:58:08.600 --> 0:58:10.720 know him, he's pretty hilarious. And you guys have known 0:58:10.800 --> 0:58:13.080 each other for a while. You'll played seven on seven. 0:58:13.120 --> 0:58:17.400 I think, Yeah, you guys have been around for a 0:58:17.520 --> 0:58:23.400 long time together. That's pretty cool. Before we go, would 0:58:23.440 --> 0:58:26.520 you want brunch with jay Z or five hundred thousand 0:58:26.520 --> 0:58:29.240 dollars brunch with jay Z? I would love to pick 0:58:29.280 --> 0:58:31.720 his brain. Okay, you want the knowledge of cash. Yeah, 0:58:31.800 --> 0:58:34.760 the cash it for me. Well with me, you just 0:58:34.840 --> 0:58:37.200 get a victory. So this has been fun. Christian Harris 0:58:37.240 --> 0:58:42.680 appreciate time Drew goes down, Down goes Dorty. Dorty loses 0:58:42.720 --> 0:58:45.200 to Christian Harris. A good job, Christian, way to take 0:58:45.320 --> 0:58:48.680 on Drew. Now this weekend, a lot of games going 0:58:48.720 --> 0:58:51.560 on in the NFL. I'm going to pick them, talk 0:58:51.640 --> 0:58:54.520 about key storylines and everything going on with the NFL 0:58:55.120 --> 0:58:58.560 neck straight up and against it spread, for fun, for fun. 0:58:58.600 --> 0:59:02.200 I pick it all the games right here in text access. Oh, 0:59:02.400 --> 0:59:05.440 we've reached my favorite part of the show, where I 0:59:05.720 --> 0:59:09.480 John Harris Football and a Southern reporter for your Houston Texans. 0:59:10.360 --> 0:59:13.520 Get well, I get competitive here because it's time for 0:59:13.640 --> 0:59:16.280 my picks. I make every pick pick in every game 0:59:16.480 --> 0:59:19.600 on Sunday and Monday, straight up and against the spread, 0:59:19.720 --> 0:59:23.480 for fun, for fun. I am required by legal to 0:59:23.600 --> 0:59:26.440 say that because it is for fun. It's always fun 0:59:26.520 --> 0:59:29.640 to just talk about NFL teams NFL games, right, So 0:59:29.840 --> 0:59:33.360 let's go get me my music and let's rock and 0:59:33.600 --> 0:59:37.400 start in Atlanta where the Bears are taking on the Falcons. 0:59:37.480 --> 0:59:41.280 Justin Fields has been all kinds of awesome running the football. 0:59:41.480 --> 0:59:44.200 But the Falcons are favored by three at home, and 0:59:44.280 --> 0:59:47.520 I'm taking the Falcons to win. They're not gonna slow 0:59:47.560 --> 0:59:50.880 down justin fields, but the Bears defense won't slow down 0:59:50.960 --> 0:59:53.880 Marcus Mariota and the Falcons to camp. I just said 0:59:53.920 --> 0:59:56.520 that Marcus Mariota and the Falcons will not be stopped 0:59:56.520 --> 0:59:59.080 by the Bears. Yeah, I just said that again. So 0:59:59.280 --> 1:00:02.640 taking Lanta to win and to cover that three point 1:00:02.920 --> 1:00:07.440 spread the Browns. The Bills will play at Ford Field. 1:00:07.720 --> 1:00:12.040 They will not play in the snow gasm that is 1:00:12.120 --> 1:00:15.080 going on right now in Orchard Park, So removing that 1:00:15.160 --> 1:00:17.680 game to Detroit and hopefully the Bills can get there. 1:00:18.240 --> 1:00:20.920 Buffalo's favorite by eight. I don't know if I love that. 1:00:21.400 --> 1:00:23.200 I think the Bills has got to do whatever possible 1:00:23.240 --> 1:00:25.160 to get a win. I think they will, but the 1:00:25.360 --> 1:00:29.560 Browns We're gonna get inside that eight Bills win, Browns 1:00:29.680 --> 1:00:33.320 get inside the eightian Eagles are taken on the Colts 1:00:33.800 --> 1:00:39.959 in Indianapolis, Philadelphia, the seven point favorite at Indie after 1:00:40.120 --> 1:00:42.120 playing on a Monday night where they got beat. Now, 1:00:42.280 --> 1:00:47.160 I don't think things are completely fixed in Indianapolis, but 1:00:47.600 --> 1:00:51.720 I think the competitive Jones is absolutely there for them. Now. 1:00:52.560 --> 1:00:54.360 I don't think Coats win. I think Eagles will win, 1:00:55.240 --> 1:00:58.760 but the Colts, with Matt Ryan back as the starting quarterback, 1:00:59.040 --> 1:01:02.880 will keep this thing within seven. Let's go Eagles twenty 1:01:03.560 --> 1:01:07.680 nine twenty five. It's a weird score. Let's go thirty 1:01:07.720 --> 1:01:10.760 one twenty seven. That's a little bit more standard. Eagles win, 1:01:11.200 --> 1:01:14.840 but the Colts will cover that seven. Jets are going 1:01:14.880 --> 1:01:17.240 to the Patriots. Man, this might be one of the 1:01:17.320 --> 1:01:19.000 better games of the day. Now, it won't be a 1:01:19.080 --> 1:01:21.080 lot of scoring. They over under for this is thirty eight. 1:01:22.040 --> 1:01:24.960 Patriots are favorite by three and a half. I still 1:01:25.120 --> 1:01:27.960 think there's a little bit of Fougaysy with the Jets. 1:01:28.040 --> 1:01:29.360 Not all the way and I was pumping up the 1:01:29.440 --> 1:01:32.400 Jets coming into the season, but I think there's just 1:01:32.520 --> 1:01:37.200 a little bit there. Zach Wilson still not white there yet, 1:01:37.760 --> 1:01:41.040 hasn't put a team on his back going against the Patriots. 1:01:41.080 --> 1:01:43.920 I think they'll frustrate him again. They frustrated him in 1:01:43.920 --> 1:01:45.520 a match him a few weeks ago. I think the 1:01:45.600 --> 1:01:49.160 Patriots get to sweep and covered the three and a 1:01:49.200 --> 1:01:52.480 half against the Jets. The Rams are taken on the Saints. 1:01:53.360 --> 1:01:57.320 The Saints are a three point favorite in the Dome. However, 1:01:58.080 --> 1:02:01.800 Matt Stafford is off the injury list. He is ready 1:02:01.840 --> 1:02:05.240 to go, and for that reason, I'm given the road 1:02:06.480 --> 1:02:11.800 underdog a straight up win against the Saints. I do 1:02:12.200 --> 1:02:16.760 not trust the Saints at all at all, not like 1:02:16.840 --> 1:02:21.520 I trust his Rams. But put it this one. If 1:02:21.560 --> 1:02:23.640 the Rams were to lose and the Texans would have win, 1:02:24.520 --> 1:02:26.400 the Rams would have the same number of losses as 1:02:26.440 --> 1:02:30.240 the Texas. Think about that for a second, not one 1:02:30.920 --> 1:02:34.120 loss separating them now, So I don't think that's gonna happen. 1:02:34.120 --> 1:02:36.400 I do think the Texas are gonna win, but the 1:02:36.560 --> 1:02:41.560 Rams will pull the upset on the road against the Saint. 1:02:41.600 --> 1:02:43.960 Saints are two and four at home. I think the 1:02:44.040 --> 1:02:45.800 Rams are gonna get them. Let's go to this game. 1:02:45.840 --> 1:02:47.840 I think this game is gonna be. This one's all 1:02:47.920 --> 1:02:50.080 kinds of interesting, and it gave me probably the biggest 1:02:50.840 --> 1:02:55.640 level of additive if you will. Lions going to take 1:02:55.720 --> 1:03:00.600 on the Gyman. Now, the Lions from one two in 1:03:00.600 --> 1:03:04.320 a row. That it's called a wintry. The Giants are 1:03:04.360 --> 1:03:08.080 only favored by three, And I'm telling you, if we 1:03:08.160 --> 1:03:11.040 had had any bit of fire shown, any bit of 1:03:11.080 --> 1:03:13.880 firepower in the first quarter and not turn the ball 1:03:13.960 --> 1:03:16.360 over in the fourth quarter two times in the red zone. 1:03:17.080 --> 1:03:19.200 We would have beaten the Giants last week and probably 1:03:19.200 --> 1:03:23.600 beat him by a touchdown. For that reason, I'm picking 1:03:24.440 --> 1:03:28.040 the Giants to win by more than three. The Lions 1:03:28.040 --> 1:03:30.480 are talented, but two in a row it stops. The 1:03:30.600 --> 1:03:33.040 Giants are favored by three. I'm picking the Giants to 1:03:33.200 --> 1:03:38.880 get that win over the Lions in MetLife Stadium. Giants 1:03:38.920 --> 1:03:41.160 are formed one at home. Lions did get that win 1:03:41.320 --> 1:03:43.320 last week on the road to They're one in three 1:03:43.400 --> 1:03:46.120 because they got that against Chicago, They'll have a little 1:03:46.120 --> 1:03:50.240 bit easier time. Lions will stopping the Giants because there's 1:03:50.320 --> 1:03:53.520 no justin fields. But Daniel Jones can't get loose. But 1:03:53.600 --> 1:03:57.640 the Giants find ways to win. Panthers Ravens now. The 1:03:57.720 --> 1:04:03.160 Panthers are struging. Thirteen is a tough number, though I 1:04:03.360 --> 1:04:07.240 think the Ravens at home. Favored by thirteen, I think 1:04:07.280 --> 1:04:09.160 the Panthers will get inside that number. I do think 1:04:09.160 --> 1:04:11.520 the Ravens win this game, but give the Panthers a 1:04:11.600 --> 1:04:14.480 cover inside that thirteen. I don't know how, but they're 1:04:14.520 --> 1:04:18.440 gonna find a way. Afternoon games. Raiders take it on 1:04:18.520 --> 1:04:20.760 the Broncos. The Broncos two and a half point favorites 1:04:20.760 --> 1:04:23.640 at home. They'll get a measure revenge against the Raiders. 1:04:23.680 --> 1:04:26.520 One of the two Raiders wins against the Broncos, the 1:04:26.600 --> 1:04:29.400 other one Boar, you know, Broncos are gonna win this one, 1:04:29.440 --> 1:04:31.920 though I don't know how because the Broncos are just 1:04:32.280 --> 1:04:34.400 treading on life support right now. I don't know how 1:04:34.440 --> 1:04:37.280 it's gonna happen, but Broncos are gonna win at home 1:04:37.400 --> 1:04:39.360 and cover that two and a half. Cowboys take on 1:04:39.440 --> 1:04:44.840 the Vikings in Minnesota eight one Minnesota. Dallas is at 1:04:44.880 --> 1:04:46.920 one point five, one and a half point favorite in 1:04:47.000 --> 1:04:50.600 no way. Vikings, with that win over Buffalo, continue on 1:04:50.680 --> 1:04:53.920 the ascent. They beat Dallas in Minnesota and definitely do 1:04:54.000 --> 1:04:55.960 it by more than one and a half. Bengals taken 1:04:56.040 --> 1:04:58.240 on the Steelers. The Steelers are just not a good 1:04:58.280 --> 1:05:00.640 football team right now. In the bank Goals will beat 1:05:00.720 --> 1:05:04.280 them and cover that four points spread and then Sunday 1:05:04.880 --> 1:05:07.400 Key News here for the Chargers. They will get Mike 1:05:07.480 --> 1:05:09.960 Williams and potentially Key now and back. The Chiefs lost 1:05:10.000 --> 1:05:12.800 to wide receivers. The Chiefs are favored by only five. 1:05:13.640 --> 1:05:15.959 We're still taking the Chargers to get inside that number, 1:05:16.040 --> 1:05:18.520 but the Chiefs will still find a way to win. 1:05:18.720 --> 1:05:20.320 And the forty nine Ers taken on the Cardinals in 1:05:20.400 --> 1:05:23.840 Mexico City, Semansco's favorite by eight. I'm gonna get the 1:05:23.840 --> 1:05:25.600 Cardinals to cover, but it's the Niners will go get 1:05:25.640 --> 1:05:28.240 the win in Mexico City. All right, when we get back, 1:05:28.520 --> 1:05:31.600 Obo coron Quo, Drude Ordy's final work. That's next on 1:05:31.680 --> 1:05:35.880 Texas Access. We got one final segment of this Friday 1:05:35.960 --> 1:05:38.960 issue of Texans All Access. Si'm your host, John Harris's 1:05:38.960 --> 1:05:41.000 football analysts, and we got a lot to do. In 1:05:41.080 --> 1:05:45.440 this segment. We got Drew's final word with Christian Harris. 1:05:46.160 --> 1:05:48.840 But we're gonna kick it off with Mark and I 1:05:49.080 --> 1:05:53.440 catching up with Obo okron Quo. This is fun. He 1:05:53.560 --> 1:05:56.000 went to a Leaf Taylor, And so a Leaf Taylor 1:05:56.120 --> 1:05:57.880 is not too far away from where I lived for 1:05:57.920 --> 1:06:00.280 the last ten eleven years, and now I live in 1:06:00.280 --> 1:06:03.160 a different spot of town. But I know a leaf 1:06:03.400 --> 1:06:05.680 seemingly pretty well. Well, I was going to high school. 1:06:05.800 --> 1:06:07.440 It's not a leaf, but we used to play a leaf. 1:06:07.480 --> 1:06:09.920 Elsick and Hastings and Ali Taylor didn't exist. It does 1:06:10.080 --> 1:06:14.360 now in one of their graduates, Zobo Cono, this is fun, 1:06:14.640 --> 1:06:16.480 all right, joining us right now in the Hunday Texans 1:06:16.600 --> 1:06:21.040 Radio studio Albonia Ocarnquo. Welcome, Obo, Hello, thanks for having me. 1:06:21.160 --> 1:06:26.200 All right, so I got the correct pronunciation of your well, okay, 1:06:26.760 --> 1:06:29.200 that's good. Sorry, Obo, I'm going straight Obo, I can 1:06:29.320 --> 1:06:32.040 do that, all right. Well, yeah, we during the game 1:06:32.120 --> 1:06:33.680 when I'm doing the play by play, I just say 1:06:33.760 --> 1:06:36.240 Obo because we're in the heat of battle there and 1:06:36.280 --> 1:06:38.600 I don't want to screw it up. But I've got it. 1:06:38.760 --> 1:06:41.560 It's good. And we have Daria on the show also tonight, 1:06:41.600 --> 1:06:44.080 so this is great. And you guys are cousins right 1:06:44.280 --> 1:06:49.320 or not? Really? Oh? Are we outing you right now? 1:06:49.600 --> 1:06:56.160 We're cousins. Quotation marks marks That Nigerian connected is strong. Well, 1:06:56.200 --> 1:07:00.240 you've had participation in the NFL camp in Africa, right, yes, 1:07:00.240 --> 1:07:02.960 sir with us seeing those guys very nice. What does 1:07:03.000 --> 1:07:04.840 that like for you to go over there? It was 1:07:04.920 --> 1:07:06.320 really cool. It was an honor to be able to 1:07:06.400 --> 1:07:08.720 go to Africa and you know, do the first like 1:07:08.800 --> 1:07:11.240 a real official American football there, you know, go and 1:07:11.320 --> 1:07:13.720 throw that combine. It was really cool. How often had 1:07:13.720 --> 1:07:15.280 you been over there, was the first time you've done 1:07:15.280 --> 1:07:16.800 something like that? That was the first time I've done 1:07:16.840 --> 1:07:18.520 something like that there? Would you go back and do 1:07:18.600 --> 1:07:20.600 it again? And what was what was the most rewarding 1:07:20.640 --> 1:07:22.840 part of going over there and doing that? I'll definitely 1:07:22.920 --> 1:07:24.520 go back. In the most rewarding part, I think it 1:07:24.600 --> 1:07:26.440 was just giving those guys who wouldn't have got the 1:07:26.480 --> 1:07:29.400 opportunity otherwise, you know, opportunity to really show what they 1:07:29.440 --> 1:07:31.760 could do. So when you're sitting over there and you're trying, 1:07:32.040 --> 1:07:34.720 I mean, were these were these individuals that had never 1:07:34.800 --> 1:07:37.920 seen football, had played other sports? Well, what was kind 1:07:37.960 --> 1:07:39.920 of the situation for you when you went over there? 1:07:39.960 --> 1:07:42.120 Did they know anything about football? They knew something, but 1:07:42.160 --> 1:07:45.040 a lot of them were basketball players, so translated really well, yeah, 1:07:45.400 --> 1:07:48.240 and so pretty good athletes, very good athletes. How was 1:07:48.320 --> 1:07:50.680 it to teach the game to people that really didn't 1:07:50.720 --> 1:07:53.760 know it? Um? It was. It was interesting because you know, 1:07:54.640 --> 1:07:56.680 throughout all rules that they knew of the sports that 1:07:56.760 --> 1:07:59.160 they regularly played, you know, so so it was cool. 1:07:59.160 --> 1:08:01.400 It was like just uh, I guess playing with like 1:08:01.840 --> 1:08:04.200 like a blank canvas. Yeah, yeah, just being able to 1:08:04.320 --> 1:08:06.640 like give them all their foundations to the game. It 1:08:06.720 --> 1:08:11.480 was cool, very cool. Well, in Senegal, there's an NBA academy, right, 1:08:11.840 --> 1:08:14.080 do you foresee a day where we'll have an NFL 1:08:14.120 --> 1:08:19.320 academy something more permanent over there in Africa's goal Africa. 1:08:20.040 --> 1:08:23.320 When this I s and done, you know, have an 1:08:23.439 --> 1:08:26.519 academy with a pipeline. There already is a pipeline. Will 1:08:26.600 --> 1:08:29.880 just get a lot bigger, bigger pipe. Yeah, no doubt. 1:08:29.920 --> 1:08:33.240 And there obviously has been a significant connection here in Houston. 1:08:33.280 --> 1:08:34.800 You grew up, you went to a Leaf Taylor. I 1:08:34.920 --> 1:08:37.920 was sharing this beforehand. Um, I'm so old that when 1:08:37.960 --> 1:08:40.040 I went to high school the Market Soliday, we didn't 1:08:40.040 --> 1:08:42.160 even play Taylor. We played else like in Hastings because 1:08:42.160 --> 1:08:45.880 Taylor didn't even exist. Back when you were playing you 1:08:46.240 --> 1:08:47.760 you had a few, You had a few players on 1:08:47.880 --> 1:08:49.640 your roster at a Leaf Taylor. Did you not when 1:08:49.680 --> 1:08:51.680 you were growing up? Who did you have on your 1:08:51.760 --> 1:08:53.360 roster that ended up? I want to say, you had 1:08:53.360 --> 1:08:55.040 an NFL player in that roster? Who do you have that? 1:08:55.360 --> 1:08:57.080 I just played him a couple of weeks ago. Joshua 1:08:57.160 --> 1:09:01.280 Kaloo Oh Joshua for the Tennant See Titans. He was 1:09:01.320 --> 1:09:05.439 on my roster he he played returners, safety, quarterback. He 1:09:06.200 --> 1:09:08.240 was just an athlete for US Okay, So I'm asking 1:09:08.280 --> 1:09:09.600 a question. I'm sure a lot of people in the 1:09:09.640 --> 1:09:11.840 state of Texas would want to know, why did you 1:09:11.920 --> 1:09:15.320 pick Oklahoma instead of maybe a school in Texas because 1:09:15.360 --> 1:09:19.719 it's a Texas school basically it is. Oh, I'm sorry. 1:09:20.000 --> 1:09:22.639 Was it a tough decision to go to Oklahoma? When? 1:09:22.680 --> 1:09:24.800 I mean when I visited, I knew I wanted to 1:09:24.840 --> 1:09:27.519 go there. I feel like they had everything I needed 1:09:27.560 --> 1:09:29.120 and they were going to get me to the next level. 1:09:29.160 --> 1:09:31.679 So what was the biggest thing that sold John Oklahoma? 1:09:31.800 --> 1:09:33.720 Was Coach Stoops still there when he there? I think 1:09:33.720 --> 1:09:37.320 it was Coach Stops just the way he's able to 1:09:37.360 --> 1:09:39.840 connect with his players. You know it was you knew 1:09:39.960 --> 1:09:42.360 you were going into a family to family or ento team. 1:09:42.439 --> 1:09:44.200 You know, it's a nice campus too. A lot of 1:09:44.240 --> 1:09:47.479 people don't realize how nice it is there. Uh So, 1:09:47.680 --> 1:09:50.360 tell me about the story of you taking up football 1:09:50.360 --> 1:09:52.920 as a sport, right. Did your father not want you 1:09:53.000 --> 1:09:55.960 to play? I thought i'd read something like that. I 1:09:56.000 --> 1:09:57.880 wouldn't say he didn't want me to play, but he 1:09:57.920 --> 1:10:00.400 didn't want me to play for like, for you know, 1:10:00.800 --> 1:10:02.160 you didn't want me to just play just to play. 1:10:02.200 --> 1:10:05.160 You wanted me to focus on school. Okay, So when 1:10:05.200 --> 1:10:08.040 I started playing, um, I guess I didn't tell them, 1:10:08.600 --> 1:10:10.680 you know, right, because I didn't want them to like 1:10:11.000 --> 1:10:13.960 stop it before it started, you know. So I only 1:10:14.000 --> 1:10:16.920 started playing because one of my coaches, who's also my 1:10:17.000 --> 1:10:19.560 health teacher, thought I should play, you know, and I 1:10:19.680 --> 1:10:23.120 was just like, mmm, I'll give it a trial. You know, 1:10:23.400 --> 1:10:27.040 were you doing other sports before that? Now? You know? 1:10:27.200 --> 1:10:29.720 I was. I was a little artsy kid. Okay, what 1:10:29.880 --> 1:10:33.160 kind of art? Tell us? I liked writing, I love music, 1:10:33.360 --> 1:10:36.280 I liked taking pictures. Um but I was doing stuff 1:10:36.320 --> 1:10:39.160 like that. I'll skateboard a little bit too. And your 1:10:39.200 --> 1:10:42.240 health teacher says, you know what football? Yeah, and I 1:10:42.400 --> 1:10:46.519 was just like, m all right, I'll give it a shot. 1:10:46.880 --> 1:10:49.559 That's pretty amazing. Like give it a shot, all right, 1:10:49.760 --> 1:10:51.599 and you just go to the NFL with it. I mean, 1:10:52.360 --> 1:10:55.599 that's taking and doing the best with your particular shot. Okay, 1:10:55.640 --> 1:10:59.400 So my asses, because you said you're I've got a 1:10:59.520 --> 1:11:01.760 number of My wife is an our teacher, wasn't our 1:11:01.760 --> 1:11:03.800 teacher should artist? My daughter's an artists and acting and 1:11:03.840 --> 1:11:05.760 all that kind of stuff. So when you get on 1:11:05.840 --> 1:11:08.680 the field, where do you where do you have to 1:11:08.760 --> 1:11:12.400 go mentally to kind of find that football violence that 1:11:12.520 --> 1:11:14.680 you need to have out in the field, Like what 1:11:14.920 --> 1:11:17.120 where did that come from? To be able to find 1:11:17.240 --> 1:11:19.800 that and be that successful on the defensive side of 1:11:19.880 --> 1:11:22.720 the ball for not having played growing up? I think, Um, 1:11:23.560 --> 1:11:26.120 I think when I play, that's like it's like my 1:11:26.240 --> 1:11:29.840 old TiO ego, you know, because that's so busy. Yeah, hunt, 1:11:29.840 --> 1:11:33.160 because in real life I'm super I'm self spoken, I'm 1:11:33.160 --> 1:11:35.640 not really too loud, you know, but but when I'm 1:11:35.680 --> 1:11:38.640 on the field, I'm running around screaming and you know, 1:11:38.920 --> 1:11:40.519 I don't even know who that guy is on Sunday. 1:11:40.640 --> 1:11:43.160 But you didn't start playing until relatively late in high school. 1:11:43.240 --> 1:11:45.760 So was it a surprise to you when that came 1:11:45.800 --> 1:11:49.080 out between the lines, that side of your personality. Yeah 1:11:49.200 --> 1:11:51.640 it was, Yeah, it definitely was. And as I got 1:11:51.720 --> 1:11:54.200 more comfortable, it got a little it got a little crazier, 1:11:54.280 --> 1:11:56.599 you know, So it was it was fun to meet 1:11:56.640 --> 1:11:58.519 that side of me, I guess. But if you're an 1:11:58.600 --> 1:12:02.240 ARTSI and you're into ing, and I'm not saying you're 1:12:02.280 --> 1:12:05.200 putting on an act because obviously been pretty successful. But 1:12:05.439 --> 1:12:07.240 it's almost like you're stepping out of your body. You're 1:12:07.240 --> 1:12:09.200 going into a different role, is it not. Yeah, yeah, 1:12:09.200 --> 1:12:11.400 you can say that for sure. That's interesting. I mean 1:12:11.439 --> 1:12:13.920 I never never really thought about that because you just 1:12:14.040 --> 1:12:16.160 see guys that go on in the field, and especially 1:12:16.200 --> 1:12:18.840 on defense when they're defensively dominant, like man, you see 1:12:18.880 --> 1:12:21.960 the violent hands, you see everything, and you would think, Okay, 1:12:21.960 --> 1:12:24.240 that guy grew up playing the game. And then obviously 1:12:24.320 --> 1:12:26.040 it's not when did you When did you start as 1:12:26.040 --> 1:12:29.320 a senior junior year? That's when you first was it 1:12:29.400 --> 1:12:31.320 the first time you had played football? Heard you dabbled 1:12:31.360 --> 1:12:34.559 it in before, it like, but just wasn't It wasn't 1:12:34.600 --> 1:12:36.439 really I didn't really think it was for me. And 1:12:36.600 --> 1:12:40.479 so no football coaches walked the hallway, were like come on, man, 1:12:40.600 --> 1:12:42.639 come on, they weren't in your ear at all, because 1:12:42.640 --> 1:12:44.080 I know a lot of football coaches that would have 1:12:44.080 --> 1:12:45.760 been in your ear a long time before that. And him, 1:12:45.800 --> 1:12:48.360 my gross bred until like end of sophomore. Yeah you know, 1:12:48.479 --> 1:12:50.599 so then I like shot up to like six one, 1:12:50.800 --> 1:12:52.680 six two, and then it was like, okay, who's this 1:12:52.720 --> 1:12:55.200 guy walking through the hallways? You know? Yeah, at a 1:12:55.360 --> 1:12:58.640 leaf tailor. They're like, hey, so you go to Oklahoma 1:12:59.000 --> 1:13:01.960 and did you think NFL right away or did you 1:13:02.040 --> 1:13:04.720 think this could happen or were you just trying to 1:13:04.760 --> 1:13:07.519 get acclimated to college. I was still trying to get 1:13:07.520 --> 1:13:09.880 acclimated to the ball in general. So I think I 1:13:10.000 --> 1:13:12.920 learned most of my like my football knowledge in Oklahoma, 1:13:13.040 --> 1:13:15.080 you know, playing there, and I think after the first 1:13:15.080 --> 1:13:17.360 couple of years I saw the NFL was like definitely 1:13:17.439 --> 1:13:21.000 like a possibility, you know. So that's amazing to think 1:13:21.040 --> 1:13:23.439 about your game the other day against the Giants. I 1:13:23.560 --> 1:13:26.759 told coach after the game, because I'm always I'm always 1:13:26.760 --> 1:13:28.640 in march here talking to him, even though if I'm 1:13:28.680 --> 1:13:29.920 not on the air, I'm still talking to him, so 1:13:29.960 --> 1:13:31.800 I kind of help him with who's making tackles, who's 1:13:31.800 --> 1:13:35.040 making place I said, your name a bunch against the Giants. 1:13:35.040 --> 1:13:36.920 It felt like it was the most impactful game you've had. 1:13:37.400 --> 1:13:39.800 Was there something that clicked or just that was your 1:13:39.920 --> 1:13:41.640 that was your day? What's been kind of been going on? 1:13:41.720 --> 1:13:43.479 Because that was probably your best performance. I felt like 1:13:43.520 --> 1:13:45.280 this year old bow I would just trusting the scheme, 1:13:45.520 --> 1:13:49.479 you know, just playing hard and um just trying to 1:13:49.680 --> 1:13:52.000 empty the tank, you know, but within the guidelines of 1:13:52.080 --> 1:13:54.800 what the defense is asking for. You know, Um, the 1:13:54.960 --> 1:13:57.080 defense is like it's made for us for like a 1:13:57.200 --> 1:13:59.320 D line. Yeah, you know, make a bunch of plays 1:13:59.360 --> 1:14:01.200 behind the line, im you know if you put us 1:14:01.200 --> 1:14:04.000 in position too. So you said something right away that 1:14:04.160 --> 1:14:08.920 I always think about trust the scheme. How how tough 1:14:09.080 --> 1:14:11.280 is that for players to be like, Okay, coaches wanted 1:14:11.320 --> 1:14:13.280 me to do this, but my natural instinct says this, 1:14:13.760 --> 1:14:15.760 but you know what, I gotta trust me. How tough 1:14:15.920 --> 1:14:19.000 is that to trust the scheme? I mean, yeah, it's tough, 1:14:19.120 --> 1:14:22.080 you know, because I feel like everybody feels like they 1:14:22.080 --> 1:14:24.519 see they see something, you know. But it's like if 1:14:24.560 --> 1:14:26.240 you if you just trust the scheme, you know, and 1:14:26.360 --> 1:14:28.400 you do it consistently more times than not, like good 1:14:28.439 --> 1:14:31.360 things will happen for you. Oh oknqua with us. All right? 1:14:31.400 --> 1:14:33.120 So you were a Big twelve defensive Player of the 1:14:33.240 --> 1:14:35.200 Year and now oh you is going to go into 1:14:35.240 --> 1:14:38.439 the SEC. Do you have feelings or a reaction about that. 1:14:39.320 --> 1:14:41.040 I think we're gonna dominate this, see, just like we 1:14:41.120 --> 1:14:44.479 dominated the Big twelve. All right. Well that's why this 1:14:44.640 --> 1:14:46.280 here is a little bit of a down year. You 1:14:46.360 --> 1:14:50.840 know he got this, we got faith in Brent ventiable? 1:14:51.000 --> 1:14:53.160 What's Brent there when you were there? Or he was artist? 1:14:53.240 --> 1:14:54.799 I mean I missed him on his way to Clayea, 1:14:54.800 --> 1:14:58.360 you missed him on about what about Stoops filling in 1:14:58.439 --> 1:15:00.559 as the interim after a Lincoln ride He left last 1:15:00.600 --> 1:15:02.599 year during Bowl season. That was kind of cool. Yeah, 1:15:03.760 --> 1:15:06.680 he's one of those guys. Uh, you can you can 1:15:06.680 --> 1:15:08.679 call him off the couch and he can go clutching 1:15:08.920 --> 1:15:11.080 and the Rose both if if acts two? You know 1:15:11.960 --> 1:15:13.920 I played that you played that Rose Ball? Was that 1:15:14.360 --> 1:15:16.800 that was your finally twenty seven team? Was your final season? Right? 1:15:17.040 --> 1:15:20.280 That was my last Folle game? So how often do 1:15:20.280 --> 1:15:26.439 you think back to that night? Uh? Yeah? Why ask 1:15:26.560 --> 1:15:29.000 because you remember the great wins and the great sacks 1:15:29.040 --> 1:15:31.040 and the great plays, but that one, the one that 1:15:31.120 --> 1:15:34.479 got away? Yeah? And the Rose Bowl. Can you just 1:15:34.600 --> 1:15:36.240 see plays over and over again as you look back 1:15:36.760 --> 1:15:39.320 last play? Oh, Like, I see that play all the time. 1:15:39.360 --> 1:15:41.400 Every time I see a toss crack, I think about 1:15:41.439 --> 1:15:43.600 that play. That was the play they ran. Yeah, that 1:15:43.680 --> 1:15:46.160 was the last player man. And we see toss crack 1:15:46.240 --> 1:15:49.160 this year few times too. Oh my goodness, Oh boy, 1:15:49.160 --> 1:15:51.360 you were part of a Super Bowl team last year, right, 1:15:51.439 --> 1:15:53.920 so here you are with the Houston Texans and a 1:15:54.040 --> 1:15:56.840 lot of young players. It's a struggle right now. Got 1:15:56.920 --> 1:15:59.160 eight games left in the regular season. What do you 1:15:59.160 --> 1:16:01.000 say to the young players? You're a leader on this team. 1:16:01.040 --> 1:16:02.880 What do you say to the young players about hanging 1:16:02.920 --> 1:16:05.360 in there and keep pushing and keep doing your best 1:16:05.400 --> 1:16:07.400 and the good times will start coming at at some 1:16:07.520 --> 1:16:09.519 points as long as as a shot, Like we need 1:16:09.600 --> 1:16:11.000 to just you know, play as hard as we can. 1:16:11.120 --> 1:16:13.720 You know, there's a lot of talent, a talent, a 1:16:13.800 --> 1:16:15.519 lot of young talent. You know, these guys are gonna 1:16:15.520 --> 1:16:17.320 be really good players for a long time. You know, 1:16:17.360 --> 1:16:20.000 I just tell them right now, like like just just 1:16:20.120 --> 1:16:23.439 try to like trust and trust everything. Trust everybody, play 1:16:23.479 --> 1:16:25.280 as hard as you can, and like good things will happen. 1:16:25.400 --> 1:16:28.240 You know. We work really hard every day I practice, 1:16:28.280 --> 1:16:32.400 you know, so like eventually something something, you know, if 1:16:32.439 --> 1:16:34.920 we stay consistent, something has to do that's to go 1:16:35.040 --> 1:16:37.000 in our favorite you know, and that's all we try 1:16:37.000 --> 1:16:40.920 to appreciate them. Okay, let's get to the actual real question. 1:16:41.320 --> 1:16:44.000 How did you feel when you open the ring box 1:16:44.080 --> 1:16:48.840 and saw your Super Bowl ring? That pretty good day. Yeah. 1:16:49.479 --> 1:16:51.320 It blow you away when you open up and look 1:16:51.400 --> 1:16:53.479 at it. Yeah, it did. It did. And when I 1:16:53.520 --> 1:16:56.000 saw how big it was, I was just like wow, 1:16:56.160 --> 1:16:58.600 like is it even wearable? Oh? Bo? I mean is 1:16:58.640 --> 1:17:02.000 it the size of us small hand? Yeah, it's like 1:17:02.200 --> 1:17:08.040 it's like an egg. It's like what I can't remember it. 1:17:08.040 --> 1:17:09.840 Does it twist off? Does it pop off? Yeah? It 1:17:09.960 --> 1:17:13.120 twists off, and it shows inside of a sofa stadium 1:17:13.160 --> 1:17:15.840 where we actually won the game, So which is at 1:17:15.880 --> 1:17:18.760 your home. I would imagine for everybody thinks about Super Bowl, 1:17:18.760 --> 1:17:20.200 they go to a different location, but you actually are 1:17:20.200 --> 1:17:22.439 playing your home stadium. What was that like? No? Super cool? 1:17:22.560 --> 1:17:25.360 You know, after the game, like we're already with our families. Yeah, 1:17:25.520 --> 1:17:28.320 you know, to just go to dinner. It was cool. 1:17:28.360 --> 1:17:30.360 It was really It was a really nice night. That 1:17:30.680 --> 1:17:33.640 is really interesting. You're with your families, you get to 1:17:33.680 --> 1:17:36.439 sleep in your own bed. You know, you want your finger. 1:17:37.520 --> 1:17:39.080 You don't get the egg that night, Yeah, you don't 1:17:39.080 --> 1:17:41.160 get it at night. But still. Yeah. You guys like 1:17:41.240 --> 1:17:43.640 Donald showed everybody he had he had his thoughts. I 1:17:43.680 --> 1:17:45.200 mean that was the first thing he thought about was 1:17:45.439 --> 1:17:47.600 I made a sack, I get a ring, I mean 1:17:47.680 --> 1:17:49.080 it was that simple. He did the math. You get 1:17:49.120 --> 1:17:51.280 it later on. Ohbo message for the fans here, because, 1:17:51.320 --> 1:17:52.840 like we said, eight games to go, you get a 1:17:52.880 --> 1:17:55.240 home game this Sunday against Washington, a team that won 1:17:55.320 --> 1:17:58.600 on Monday Night football against Philly, previously undefeated. And I 1:17:58.680 --> 1:18:00.920 know you're familiar with that team, so familiar with the tape. 1:18:01.040 --> 1:18:02.280 What do you have to say to the fans as 1:18:02.320 --> 1:18:05.400 we get ready for Sunday? We're really close, this team 1:18:05.560 --> 1:18:08.559 is really competitive. We got a lot of fighting us. 1:18:08.600 --> 1:18:10.360 There's a lot of a lot of season left, you know, 1:18:10.520 --> 1:18:12.599 so you know, just stayed of course with us. We're 1:18:12.640 --> 1:18:14.320 gonna get it together, all right. Thanks a lot for 1:18:14.439 --> 1:18:16.760 joining us. Good luck, Obo, Thank you. I thought last 1:18:16.800 --> 1:18:19.479 week against the Giants was Obo's best game. Played to 1:18:19.560 --> 1:18:22.680 run extremely well. I told him about that obviously during 1:18:22.720 --> 1:18:25.559 the interview. I think he had a really solid ball game. 1:18:25.640 --> 1:18:28.120 So hopefully he gets more quality. Raps is able to 1:18:28.280 --> 1:18:30.479 do his thing on Sunday against the Commanders and the 1:18:30.560 --> 1:18:33.880 Texans can walk out with a victory. Now, to get 1:18:33.880 --> 1:18:39.559 a victory, this next guest needs to have himself another 1:18:39.680 --> 1:18:41.599 ball game like he's had the last couple and that's 1:18:41.680 --> 1:18:45.120 Christian Harris, rookie linebacker. I'll tell you this quick story 1:18:45.240 --> 1:18:49.479 on Sunday against the Giants. Giants first drive and then 1:18:49.520 --> 1:18:52.880 moving the ball, okay, and they run sae Quon Barkley 1:18:53.040 --> 1:18:55.920 away from Christian Harris, so it's to the offenses left, 1:18:56.040 --> 1:18:59.479 defense is right, and Christian was on the defensive left, 1:18:59.520 --> 1:19:03.520 so he's all the way away from the play. I'm 1:19:03.600 --> 1:19:06.439 telling you. Barkley started off to the left side, and 1:19:06.439 --> 1:19:09.479 I'm like, oh, he's got something. And then all of 1:19:09.520 --> 1:19:11.000 a sudden, I could see how the corner of my 1:19:11.120 --> 1:19:16.160 eye could see this blur and Christian Harris was flying 1:19:16.280 --> 1:19:20.840 from the other side and wam he hit Barkley right 1:19:21.280 --> 1:19:26.240 in the helmet. And I heard it through my headphones. 1:19:27.439 --> 1:19:30.200 Now that's pretty tough. It MetLife, which is a pretty 1:19:30.240 --> 1:19:33.200 loud environment. I gotta have Mark and Andre turned up 1:19:33.280 --> 1:19:37.160 pretty loudly in my ears. So I hear the hit 1:19:37.520 --> 1:19:41.360 as Mark's calling the play, and I just immediately went, WHOA, 1:19:42.600 --> 1:19:45.280 I could, hell, I could. I heard Mark kind of 1:19:45.439 --> 1:19:48.519 hesitate for a second because he didn't quite know why 1:19:48.560 --> 1:19:50.720 I said that to him, and then I was like, 1:19:50.920 --> 1:19:52.280 and then, of course I'm always in his ear, I 1:19:52.320 --> 1:19:55.040 said Christian Harris, and he said, oh okay, because then 1:19:55.040 --> 1:19:56.960 he saw the replay and he got it because Christian 1:19:57.000 --> 1:20:00.680 Harris blasted Sae Kwon Barkley. Need more of that from 1:20:00.800 --> 1:20:04.120 this guy and Drew Doherty's final word with Christian Harris 1:20:04.479 --> 1:20:07.439 Linebacker Christian Harris is the guest now on the player 1:20:07.560 --> 1:20:10.880 pregame special Christian. Great to be with you. Four games 1:20:10.920 --> 1:20:12.799 in now, because you missed some time because of the injury. 1:20:12.840 --> 1:20:15.000 Put four games in you get the bulk of the 1:20:15.040 --> 1:20:17.600 snaps at first one you've started the last three. How 1:20:17.720 --> 1:20:19.719 much have you grown? What have you learned in that span? 1:20:19.880 --> 1:20:22.000 I mean, I've learned a lot really, honestly. I think 1:20:22.040 --> 1:20:23.360 one of the biggest things for me is to just 1:20:23.479 --> 1:20:25.280 you know, slow my tempo down and trust my pace, 1:20:25.439 --> 1:20:27.760 trust my preparation that I put in going into these 1:20:27.800 --> 1:20:29.720 weeks for these games. I mean, I know stage is 1:20:29.720 --> 1:20:31.760 a lot bigger people can say that with you know, 1:20:31.920 --> 1:20:34.640 just better players and it being an NFL, But you know, 1:20:34.680 --> 1:20:36.760 I think the concept of football stays the same. It's 1:20:36.760 --> 1:20:39.759 still the child's game. So continuously finding ways to remind 1:20:39.800 --> 1:20:41.439 myself for that or have guys do that for me 1:20:41.560 --> 1:20:43.719 help me out a lot so with all that in mind, 1:20:44.040 --> 1:20:46.040 what is something that you like that you've done, and 1:20:46.120 --> 1:20:48.160 what's something that you want to get better at. I'm 1:20:48.200 --> 1:20:50.559 liking how I'm able to utilize my speed, saying yo, 1:20:50.600 --> 1:20:52.240 how I can make players with that. But I think 1:20:52.320 --> 1:20:55.519 just from a physicality standpoint, I think I want to 1:20:55.560 --> 1:20:57.519 do better with that and using my hands a little 1:20:57.560 --> 1:20:59.880 more more, trusting myself with my reads and just when 1:21:00.000 --> 1:21:01.479 I'm seeing, just so I can play a lot faster. 1:21:01.640 --> 1:21:03.280 You know, you're one of many rookies both sides of 1:21:03.280 --> 1:21:05.080 the ball, whether you were drafted or not, that have 1:21:05.280 --> 1:21:08.400 started and contributed so far the season of the Texans. 1:21:08.479 --> 1:21:09.960 Is there kind of a kinship, kind of a bond 1:21:10.080 --> 1:21:11.920 with you guys that are first your players right now? 1:21:12.120 --> 1:21:13.760 Most definitely, I think a lot of it comes from 1:21:13.800 --> 1:21:15.960 just us being in the SEC played against Austin, like 1:21:16.080 --> 1:21:18.479 I played against DP, and I know guys like Staying 1:21:18.560 --> 1:21:21.200 so we already I mean I trained with Petrie Exos 1:21:21.280 --> 1:21:23.880 for the combine, so I got a chance to already 1:21:23.880 --> 1:21:26.720 build a relationship with these guys coming in, so we 1:21:26.800 --> 1:21:28.680 all blend in pretty well. With that. You want to 1:21:28.720 --> 1:21:30.519 win now, you want to win this game one every 1:21:30.560 --> 1:21:32.600 single week but for the future, that's got to be 1:21:32.680 --> 1:21:35.240 kind of cool knowing that you all are part of something, right, yeah, 1:21:35.320 --> 1:21:36.840 one percent. I mean it is good to be part 1:21:36.880 --> 1:21:38.479 of something. And I mean, you know, hopefully you know, 1:21:38.520 --> 1:21:40.360 bring some more wins to this organization. And I mean 1:21:40.400 --> 1:21:41.920 it really starts right now. Like I said, we're trying 1:21:41.920 --> 1:21:43.519 to win now. So it's just a matter of attacking 1:21:43.560 --> 1:21:45.400 that right now. You guys, as a defense, you want 1:21:45.400 --> 1:21:47.120 to stop the run better. What are some ways that 1:21:47.320 --> 1:21:49.479 can happen? You know, physicality, think you know on the 1:21:49.520 --> 1:21:52.519 second level with linebackers, me and myself personally, just doing 1:21:52.560 --> 1:21:54.040 better with my hands and when it comes to the 1:21:54.080 --> 1:21:56.160 point of attack, just trying to be more consistent with that. 1:21:56.360 --> 1:21:58.599 I think, you know, as a whole collectively, if we're 1:21:58.640 --> 1:22:01.479 more consistent on defense, so in that same energy from 1:22:01.520 --> 1:22:03.959 first or fourth quarter will be a lot better. Washington 1:22:04.080 --> 1:22:06.240 is the opponent this weekend. You see a familiar face 1:22:06.439 --> 1:22:09.040 and Brian Robinson across the way. As a team they 1:22:09.160 --> 1:22:11.360 rate at forty nine times on Monday night. What's a 1:22:11.439 --> 1:22:14.759 challenger with Robinson's has he has he done anything differently 1:22:14.800 --> 1:22:16.720 than what you were accustomed to see him back in 1:22:16.720 --> 1:22:18.519 Tusca Louson. I mean I see him, you know, I 1:22:18.600 --> 1:22:20.360 see him play his game and just do a lot 1:22:20.439 --> 1:22:22.040 better with that. I mean, just run it even harder 1:22:22.080 --> 1:22:24.200 than he did at Alabama. You know, you're getting a 1:22:24.240 --> 1:22:26.599 lot faster, good vision. So he's a great all around back. 1:22:26.680 --> 1:22:28.559 I mean it's a great challenge for me. I'm excited. 1:22:28.640 --> 1:22:30.600 So and what is quarterback Taylor Heide? What does he 1:22:30.680 --> 1:22:33.479 present to you guys? He's more elusive than I think 1:22:33.520 --> 1:22:36.680 people would think, making extent plays, and he runs, you know, 1:22:36.760 --> 1:22:38.800 he does his job fitting in their scheme, I mean 1:22:38.920 --> 1:22:40.840 pretty well. Like I think all other players do that 1:22:40.920 --> 1:22:42.599 pretty well. And I mean they did this last weekend 1:22:42.760 --> 1:22:44.680 coming off a big w so yeah, I mean they all. 1:22:45.000 --> 1:22:46.840 Like I said, it'll present pretty good challenges for us. 1:22:46.960 --> 1:22:48.519 When you get ready for a game. What time you 1:22:48.560 --> 1:22:50.519 wake up in the morning for a noon contest, probably 1:22:50.520 --> 1:22:53.160 around like seven thirty seven. Yeah. Are you able to 1:22:53.200 --> 1:22:55.000 eat much before the game? Yeah, I mean I'll eat 1:22:55.040 --> 1:22:56.439 around like eight or nine. I mean we don't play 1:22:56.560 --> 1:22:58.080 till twelve, so I have enough time to you know, 1:22:58.240 --> 1:23:00.559 eat and get it all digested to get high and stuff, 1:23:00.560 --> 1:23:02.160 so I'll be ready for it. Anything you're listening to 1:23:02.320 --> 1:23:04.360 before the game gets going. In the morning, I wake 1:23:04.439 --> 1:23:06.680 up with like a this morning praise, like I got 1:23:06.760 --> 1:23:08.880 this little gospel playlist I got my mom sent me, 1:23:09.280 --> 1:23:11.880 and then was after that. It's mainly probably gonna a 1:23:11.920 --> 1:23:14.759 little young young boy, young boy closer to the field. 1:23:14.960 --> 1:23:17.519 But yeah, that's about it. You ramp things up, I mean, yeah, 1:23:18.200 --> 1:23:20.320 start off. We're hoping you ramp it up to wins. 1:23:20.560 --> 1:23:22.880 We appreciate the time, Christian Harris, test of luck and 1:23:23.000 --> 1:23:25.880 we'll talk to you again. Appreciate that. The pride of 1:23:25.920 --> 1:23:29.600 bad ruge right there, Christian Harris, I'm gonna play a 1:23:29.680 --> 1:23:33.400 big role in this one. Another reminder, Christian Harris grew 1:23:33.479 --> 1:23:35.519 up with a gun name Derek Stingley. Sting will not 1:23:35.760 --> 1:23:39.960 play on Sunday. He is ruled out deal with the hamstring. 1:23:40.600 --> 1:23:43.160 Cole Holcom and Jady McKissick are both out on the 1:23:43.240 --> 1:23:46.960 Commander's side, So we'll find out this weekend whether Chase 1:23:47.040 --> 1:23:51.559 Young is officially inner out. What we heard this morning 1:23:51.760 --> 1:23:55.280 was that more than likely not going to be ready 1:23:55.360 --> 1:23:57.800 to go, which you know, we'll see how that plays 1:23:57.840 --> 1:23:59.599 out for the commanders. But time to get a dub 1:23:59.720 --> 1:24:03.720 at all. It's been a while how long. December twenty six, 1:24:03.920 --> 1:24:07.320 twenty twenty one. That's how long it's been. So let's 1:24:07.320 --> 1:24:09.840 go get this dub at home against Heineken and the 1:24:09.920 --> 1:24:12.160 boys and have a good time and a big thanks 1:24:12.439 --> 1:24:15.720 to so many people that participated in this show. You 1:24:15.800 --> 1:24:20.360 heard Christian Harris JR. Doherty, Dpcity, Anthony Armstrong, Mark Vanimir, 1:24:20.640 --> 1:24:23.720 Lovey Smith and all of you guys out there for 1:24:23.880 --> 1:24:27.320 listening my guys back at sports Radio six ten. You 1:24:27.400 --> 1:24:30.000 guys are very special. You make it all worth it. 1:24:30.240 --> 1:24:34.679 We'll see you on Sunday, bright and early kicks at noon, 1:24:34.840 --> 1:24:36.640 getting your seats be loud. Let's go get a win 1:24:36.720 --> 1:24:39.839 over Washington and as always, go Texans.