Speaker 1: What's happening everybody. Welcome in to a Friday edition of
Speaker 1: Texasile Access from Monday Texans Radio Studio. I'm your host,
Speaker 1: John Harris, Football on the Sideline Reporter, and we are
Speaker 1: less than forty eight hours away from being back at
Speaker 1: Energy Stadium, taken on the Washington Commanders. Maybe with Chase Young,
Speaker 1: maybe without be a factor in the game. We'll find out.
Speaker 1: But we got plenty to talk about with this game
Speaker 1: this evening. We are going to hear Mike Key's a
Speaker 1: littlelater in the show. We're also gonna have my predictions
Speaker 1: where I picked games straight up and against the spread.
Speaker 1: Far fun for fun, That's a good way to talk
Speaker 1: about games going on in the NFL. We're also gonna
Speaker 1: have Anthony Armstrong from the Belief Sports podcast network. He
Speaker 1: was a former Washington Redskins receiver and he will go.
Speaker 1: He will be our behind Enemy Sidelines interview with Dpcity
Speaker 1: this week. We're also going to have a Drew's Dozen
Speaker 1: with Christian hair As. Yeah, they played Jenga. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: played Jenga, and I am very jelly, or I guess
Speaker 1: that's as the kids say, very jelly. I'm nvs. I
Speaker 1: wish I could be there for that. Walston the last
Speaker 1: word to Drew Doherty Love later in the show, and
Speaker 1: walso here from later in the show. Oba o'karaquo, who
Speaker 1: market I had a chance to catch up with earlier
Speaker 1: this week. However, we start off each and every Friday
Speaker 1: show or the last show before our game with the
Speaker 1: head coach of your Houston Texans. Lovey Smith jumped into
Speaker 1: the hot seat to talk to Mark vanim Here. Let's go, coach.
Speaker 1: It's your third straight matchup against an NFC East team
Speaker 1: and they all seem to have these tough defensive fronts.
Speaker 1: In comment, tell me about dealing with what Washington brings
Speaker 1: to the table in that department. Well, it does seem
Speaker 1: like that. It seemed like he's as far back as
Speaker 1: I can remember. Each week we're talking about a defensive
Speaker 1: front and way would make some special First, you know,
Speaker 1: it's always about the inside out. Both that are interior guys.
Speaker 1: You know, I have two first round players inside and
Speaker 1: they play that way. They're excellent against run, strong athletic
Speaker 1: to really be able to rush the passer. And then
Speaker 1: when moved to the outside again, they've invested in their
Speaker 1: their front and they play that way from sweat, whether
Speaker 1: it Chase Young plays or not, this is about as
Speaker 1: good a defensive line as we'll play. All right, let
Speaker 1: me put your tight end group in the spotlight here.
Speaker 1: No matter how you set it up personnel wise, pass blocking,
Speaker 1: run blocking or pass receiving, which is more important? I
Speaker 1: would imagine the answer is yes. So tell me about
Speaker 1: that and how it goes into game planning. Well, it does.
Speaker 1: First off, we we like to run the football, so
Speaker 1: you know, having a tie someone in that traditional wide role,
Speaker 1: which says that you can do both well and maybe
Speaker 1: more of an instasis on what you can do. As
Speaker 1: far as inline tight end blocking, we feel like we
Speaker 1: have that intiguing but nowadays eventually you need to be
Speaker 1: able to throw the ball and we need pass catchers
Speaker 1: and we think we have good matchups whether it beatiguing.
Speaker 1: Jar Nakins has been outstanding. He's a tough matchup versus
Speaker 1: a linebacker or safety. And Oj Howard kind of gives
Speaker 1: you the mix, so Akin's more passed, tigging Moore run
Speaker 1: Oj gives you a combination of both. And Brevin also
Speaker 1: at the tight end position he can play. He can
Speaker 1: also back up Troy at the fullback position too, along
Speaker 1: with me in a tight end when you're dealing with
Speaker 1: their offense. They have Taylor Heineke. But how much Wentz
Speaker 1: tape do you look at to get ready for what
Speaker 1: they might do to you offensively or try to do
Speaker 1: to you. Yeah, I think you just have to make
Speaker 1: a decision early on what we who we think they
Speaker 1: will go with. I assume they were gonna go. We
Speaker 1: assume they were gonna go with Heineken. And why wouldn't
Speaker 1: you mean, they've been playing our best football right now
Speaker 1: and he's been leading them. So we have history with
Speaker 1: Wentz and most of the guys that would be playing
Speaker 1: in the league, But right now focus has been on
Speaker 1: Heineken most of the time. What about the way they
Speaker 1: run the ball? How do you handle that same? I mean,
Speaker 1: they we've talked about, you know, earlier, about how good
Speaker 1: the receivers were that they had, and they wanted to
Speaker 1: be just throw it every snap offense. I think they
Speaker 1: have the skill to do that, but there's a commitment
Speaker 1: to the run of being of having ballance and they
Speaker 1: played two running backs the majority of the time. Both
Speaker 1: have size, tough football players, so they running game wise,
Speaker 1: it matches up well with a good passing attack. Last
Speaker 1: time you played at home, you played well for the
Speaker 1: better part of the game against the Philadelphia Eagles. That
Speaker 1: was on a short week. Now you have a full
Speaker 1: week of prep. What about getting the energy of the
Speaker 1: home crowd behind you and that sort of thing exited
Speaker 1: about the crowd cited by just at Home nurg you
Speaker 1: raise no place like home, all those things, and we
Speaker 1: need them. I mean, we haven't given them a lot
Speaker 1: to be to cheer about right now, but that's why
Speaker 1: second half of the season, there have been a lot
Speaker 1: of good things we've done putting a complete game together
Speaker 1: most of the times when you haven't. The best place
Speaker 1: to put a complete game together is at home. Fans
Speaker 1: have been outstanding thing. And I can't wait to see
Speaker 1: him in the stadium, you know, as many as possible
Speaker 1: we ask him to come out and give us that
Speaker 1: little bit of booths that hopefully can get us over
Speaker 1: the hump. All right, Mark, good stuff with Lovey Smith,
Speaker 1: head coach of your Houston Texans, and Mark, I'm not
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm for a football coach, right, and football
Speaker 1: coaches are the greatest thieves. I mean that in the
Speaker 1: nicest way, though, but we're always borrowing from what other
Speaker 1: people do, right. A thief doesn't borrow, a thief doesn't
Speaker 1: give back. Well, okay, we're the greatest borrowers. How about that?
Speaker 1: Maybe that's maybe that's a little bit better. Okay, So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna borrow just one little thing that I've heard,
Speaker 1: borrow one little thing that I've heard from our friends
Speaker 1: John Lopez and Landry Locker, led by Figgy in the
Speaker 1: Loop does this segment where they have lunchtime confessions. I
Speaker 1: am ready to confess one saying. I didn't think I
Speaker 1: would confess, but I'm ready to confess. And I want
Speaker 1: you to tell me whether I'm completely off base or
Speaker 1: or what you really like the Cults. WHOA, you're close.
Speaker 1: You really like the Titans. Okay, it's not that I
Speaker 1: like the Titans. You respect the Titans. There's my confession.
Speaker 1: I have come to this realization that I absolutely, totally
Speaker 1: and without any bias anything, I completely respect the Titans
Speaker 1: and how they go about their business. Last night against
Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers, they had no Taylor lu Wan
Speaker 1: he's been out for a while. They had no Ben
Speaker 1: Jones missing his second game either. That was gonna be
Speaker 1: massive they moved Brewer, who's two hundred and seventy five pounds,
Speaker 1: to play center, and he went against Kenny Clark, and
Speaker 1: you didn't hear Clark's name once from the second quarter on.
Speaker 1: They're playing in the snow. They did get Traylon Burk's back,
Speaker 1: but the receivers are Burke's Woods and Westbrook Kene. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill moves back in as quarterback. They didn't do
Speaker 1: anything against the Broncos really. Of course, they've got Derrick Henry.
Speaker 1: Jeffery Simmons has got a really bad ankle, and they
Speaker 1: go to Green Bay and beat the Packers by ten
Speaker 1: on a short week on the road in mid twenties temperature.
Speaker 1: I have been trying to deny the Titans. Man, they're
Speaker 1: fake last year, which I do think they were a
Speaker 1: little bit of a fake. They are fake last year,
Speaker 1: and yet here they are. Was an offensive line that
Speaker 1: featured from left to right. Now, stop me when you
Speaker 1: recognize a name, Dennis Daily, Dylan Ray Duns, Aaron Brewer,
Speaker 1: Nate Davis, Nicholas Petite Rare. So you don't think those
Speaker 1: guys are going to the Pro Bowl? No, I do not.
Speaker 1: And they won the game on Thursday night against the
Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers. With that group, Christian Fulton went out
Speaker 1: of the game. I think at corner he didn't play.
Speaker 1: I don't think Caleb Farley played. Elijah Bolden wasn't quite
Speaker 1: ready to go. They were blitzing a Josh Klue. And
Speaker 1: the only reason I remember it is Josh Klue was
Speaker 1: because that was Obo's teammate that he told us about
Speaker 1: when we talked to him on Tuesday at a Leaf
Speaker 1: Taylor High School. Yeah, this is a Titans team where
Speaker 1: Tannehill threw four three hundred thirty three yards behind that
Speaker 1: offensive line. Yeah, he went twenty two of twenty seven.
Speaker 1: He outpaced Aaron Rodgers by one hundred and six yards.
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry just had eighty seven. But they found a
Speaker 1: way with a rookie at wide receiver, a cast off
Speaker 1: in Robert Woods at wide receiver, Austin Hooper who was
Speaker 1: now on his third team, and yet they go to
Speaker 1: Green Bay and win a game. Now I know the
Speaker 1: other side of this is Green Bay is not very
Speaker 1: good this year. The aberration that was Sunday against the
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys obviously was an aberration because they haven't been
Speaker 1: able to carry it forward. The Packers are four and seven.
Speaker 1: The Packers are completely flawed defensively. It's bad. Yet these
Speaker 1: dagum Titans go and win a football game, and Mark,
Speaker 1: I am just done fighting it. I'm done fighting it.
Speaker 1: I have fought it. I have fought a good fight forever.
Speaker 1: I can't fight it anymore. I am confessing. And I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna sit here and say, oh, I love the
Speaker 1: Titans this and that, but no, you respect what they're doing,
Speaker 1: what they've got. I've picked against them. I am They're
Speaker 1: gonna lose big games. I'm done doing it. My Vrabel
Speaker 1: is arguably a top five, top three coach in the league.
Speaker 1: They are just it's just amazing to watch what they're
Speaker 1: doing in Tennessee. Now we'll catch up to them in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Maybe it does, I think it absolutely, maybe
Speaker 1: it does. I think I don't think they're built for
Speaker 1: playoff success because I think last night even Tannehill was
Speaker 1: having a terrific game and then late he throws that interception.
Speaker 1: What are you doing right? You had one job and
Speaker 1: that's not to turn the ball over. You're up two scores,
Speaker 1: you're about to add a field goal. Don't force the issue.
Speaker 1: Don't let it rip unless you are absolutely sure it's
Speaker 1: going into the hands of the right person. And he
Speaker 1: throws that pick and I still can't understand what he
Speaker 1: was doing on that play, but he had a terrific
Speaker 1: game otherwise, Johnny, you know, they become they become the Colts.
Speaker 1: They be in a different way. They don't have Peyton
Speaker 1: Manning or Andrew Luck, but they're they are a nemesis
Speaker 1: now to the rest of the AFC South, John Robinson,
Speaker 1: you talk about Rabel, John Robinson, Johnny, that GM gets
Speaker 1: there in twenty sixteen, they go winning season, winning season
Speaker 1: with Malarkey, They beat the Chiefs in the playoffs with
Speaker 1: Alex Smith, and then they fire Malarkey to bring in Rabel,
Speaker 1: and Rabel comes in. They go winning season, no playoffs,
Speaker 1: and then it's playoffs, playoffs the rest of the way
Speaker 1: down the line. Now, they haven't had tremendous playoffs success
Speaker 1: other than the year they beat the Patriots on the
Speaker 1: road and the top seeded Ravens on the road. That
Speaker 1: was really Tory had to lead ANFC Championship game against
Speaker 1: the Chiefs. Yeah, but so did we the week before
Speaker 1: the round. But anyway, they are doing really well, particularly
Speaker 1: since last year they were not only snake bit by injuries,
Speaker 1: they were draggon lit by injuries. They had more than
Speaker 1: anybody else, a record amount like seventy seven players, Yeah,
Speaker 1: something like that, and the Texans had one of those
Speaker 1: records in twenty seventeen and then they broke it, whatever
Speaker 1: the case may be. And this year they're really depleted
Speaker 1: as well. And Henry right now is not running for
Speaker 1: a ton of yards. He did against the Texans, unfortunately,
Speaker 1: But Henry right now is a guy who is just
Speaker 1: trying to keep it going and suck the defense in
Speaker 1: and then they're throwing over the top. Now that they
Speaker 1: have Tannehill back, everything's much better for them in the
Speaker 1: passing game obviously without Malik Willis. And I'm with you,
Speaker 1: I think that they are a team to admire Vabel
Speaker 1: as an excellent coach. I hate them like poison. I
Speaker 1: want them to suffer, but they are not suffering enough,
Speaker 1: and it's just terrible. They they continue to overcome obstacles. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: And to your point, Henry had eighty seven yards. What
Speaker 1: was his longest rush rush? Oh it was not Packers,
Speaker 1: It was like nine yards. Nine yards is exactly what
Speaker 1: it is nine yards. They did not produce a run
Speaker 1: longer than nine yards, but they kept to it. I
Speaker 1: got for you in the win over Denver, he had
Speaker 1: fifty three yards, right, Tannehill through for two fifty five.
Speaker 1: This is their model. Right now, you come up and
Speaker 1: stop Henry otherwise he's gonna kill you. Now Tannehill is
Speaker 1: gonna beat you with our receivers who aren't going to
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl either, and somehow we're gonna find a
Speaker 1: way to win. Now. Green Bay is a damaged team.
Speaker 1: Denver obviously a damaged team. Still, you have to give
Speaker 1: them credit. They came close to beating can the City
Speaker 1: at Kansas City. They had Malik Willis right, they were
Speaker 1: right there. And if Mahomes doesn't decide to run like crazy,
Speaker 1: which he did that night, they're winning that game. So
Speaker 1: credit Mahomes for finding a way to get the ball
Speaker 1: in the end zone and keep the ball away from
Speaker 1: the Titans. So yeah, they are a dangerous team. I
Speaker 1: don't think they're gonna be the top seed in the
Speaker 1: AFC or anything like that this year, but they'll be
Speaker 1: in the playoffs and they'll be interesting. Seven and three,
Speaker 1: They've won seven in their last eight. The only loss,
Speaker 1: like you said, was to Malik Willis. Was with Malik
Speaker 1: Willis playing a Chiefs and they had a lead and
Speaker 1: that game went to overtime. Oh, and I forgot last
Speaker 1: night they were playing without Zach Cuttingham two on defense.
Speaker 1: So seven of eight, seven and three right now. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's my point to finish my point about Henry. He
Speaker 1: had eighty seven yards rushing. Yeah, but he had forty
Speaker 1: five receiving two. It's only a couple of catches, but
Speaker 1: he had one for forty two yards. He's so touchdown
Speaker 1: pass and he threw a touchdown pass. So it's like
Speaker 1: they're getting production from everybody. And he said, how good
Speaker 1: a game did Ryan Tanniell have when he threw an
Speaker 1: interception and his quarterback rating was still one twenty seven
Speaker 1: point three. Suff that's incredible something. And Henry said half
Speaker 1: to the game, I like it myself. I'm paraphrasing to
Speaker 1: a young Paydon man. I didn't see the clip, but
Speaker 1: I just read it, and I think that's funny. And
Speaker 1: I hate them. Johnny. This has got to stop somehow,
Speaker 1: some way. You got to rise up and stop. Okay,
Speaker 1: So and we'll see what happens. You have to continue
Speaker 1: to add talent and compete with those guys. Because as
Speaker 1: bad as that game was here, it was pretty bad
Speaker 1: on the stat sheet. It was even worse with over
Speaker 1: three hundred rushing yards allowed. You know, you had a
Speaker 1: chance drive in the fourth quarter, you're in the game.
Speaker 1: Who knows what happens. But you haven't been able to
Speaker 1: beat them other than up there last year. You know what,
Speaker 1: As I say, that's the most unbelievable thing to think about. Yes,
Speaker 1: as I say, they're they're not the cults to the Texans,
Speaker 1: because the Texans have still only beaten the Colts nine
Speaker 1: times in franchise history. You've beaten the Titans a ton.
Speaker 1: Now they kind of they have the edge lately. I
Speaker 1: get it. But you're gonna get another shot at them
Speaker 1: on Christmas Eve. You never know what happened. So they
Speaker 1: swept the Colts. So here are their final seven games.
Speaker 1: Bengals at home, revenge at Philly that'd be hard, then
Speaker 1: home Jacksonville at the Chargers had been up and down.
Speaker 1: Then US at home for them, then Dallas at home
Speaker 1: for them, and then at Jacksonville finished the year. I
Speaker 1: can't predict anything with them, Johnny, I mean, I can't either.
Speaker 1: They could have a losing record in that stretch, and
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be totally shocked because these games are all close,
Speaker 1: and maybe finally Tannehill gets picked off a couple of times.
Speaker 1: And but that's my confessional. I'm not picking. I'm not gonna.
Speaker 1: I've been so quick to pick against them, against against
Speaker 1: marquee teams or what you think are marquee teams, and
Speaker 1: they just hang in a game. And with Henry it's
Speaker 1: so hard. I mean, the Packers had the box packed
Speaker 1: and he's still four yards here, third and short, he's
Speaker 1: picking it up. And they got stuffed on a fourth
Speaker 1: down down in the red zone, if I remember correctly,
Speaker 1: they got stuffed on that. It's like doesn't matter, but matter.
Speaker 1: But the other right around, and they almost sacked Rogers
Speaker 1: or almost got a intentional grinding in the end zone
Speaker 1: for safety, so it's they could flush Rogers out, but
Speaker 1: Rogers was missing guys he would normally, Oh he miss
Speaker 1: The other side of this whole equation from last night, anyway,
Speaker 1: is Aaron Rodgers. And you're right after they beat Dallas,
Speaker 1: you thought, okay, they get with this one last night
Speaker 1: er than a game of five hundred and they can
Speaker 1: put together a run at the end of the season,
Speaker 1: get them into the playoffs, and who knows what happens.
Speaker 1: But now it's almost a win out situation for them.
Speaker 1: They could afford maybe one more loss on the season. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they have seven losses and Rodgers doesn't look like himself.
Speaker 1: He doesn't look like the Aaron Rodgers we used to know.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's too much ayahuasca. I don't
Speaker 1: know what it is, but it's not clicking for him
Speaker 1: right now. Eventually time father time wins out over. Everybody
Speaker 1: hasn't done it for Brady yet, but maybe he's factor
Speaker 1: ring in for Aaron Rodgers among other things, maybe nagging injuries.
Speaker 1: I don't know what to make of it. I'm glad
Speaker 1: you said it, because I was gonna call kombuch because
Speaker 1: I couldn't remember the name of it. But hiyahuasca is
Speaker 1: a little different from iowa. Um, how you feel about
Speaker 1: Sunday gets the come? All right? So I must call
Speaker 1: them commodore as the commands. Dang it, all right? What
Speaker 1: do you think about Sunday? I think that there's gonna
Speaker 1: be some sweet sounds coming down on the night shift. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that night when the Commodore is sing without Lionel Richie,
Speaker 1: because I think there's a good shot here, Johnny. And look,
Speaker 1: you know me. People think that I predict these games.
Speaker 1: I don't, and I won't predict this one. Will be
Speaker 1: very surprised that the Texans are right are not right
Speaker 1: there again in the fourth quarter with a chance to win.
Speaker 1: And I think that this is a tough situation for
Speaker 1: Washington on the short week, flying high. I know they
Speaker 1: run the ball well. I know they have that defensive
Speaker 1: front which might be better than whatever they've seen lately.
Speaker 1: And they've seen a lot of good stuff lately. We
Speaker 1: heard from Lovey. You saw a great front against the Giants,
Speaker 1: you saw a great front against the Eagles, and you
Speaker 1: saw a great front against the Titans before that. But somehow,
Speaker 1: some way at home, Texans find a way to stay
Speaker 1: in it, make plays, Mills throws a couple of touchdown passes,
Speaker 1: and they don't turn it over in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: Whereas we said last night, they're minus four on the season,
Speaker 1: and the turnover margin in the fourth quarter they're plus four,
Speaker 1: and quarters one through three, they got to find a
Speaker 1: way to stay plus or even in the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: and make the plays. To your point, if you even
Speaker 1: go back to twenty twenty one, this team has played
Speaker 1: nothing but close games that have been decided in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter. So I went back even I think in
Speaker 1: the Seattle game. I think going into the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: of the Seattle game. Yeah, the Texans were down nineteen
Speaker 1: thirteen going into the fourth quarter of that Seattle game.
Speaker 1: So that Seattle game was not quite a year ago.
Speaker 1: That was December twelfth, so that got blown out in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. Then you want two in a row
Speaker 1: that were actually close going in the fourth quarter, but
Speaker 1: you pulled away from Jacksonville and the Chargers. San Francisco
Speaker 1: was ten to seven going into the fourth quarter. The Titans,
Speaker 1: you were down, but you got that thing within twenty
Speaker 1: one eighteen and then again twenty eight twenty five, So
Speaker 1: that was a close game. Every game, if they have
Speaker 1: played for almost a calendar year, has been a close game.
Speaker 1: So I don't think there is a way that either
Speaker 1: one of these teams run away with this thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and if it's a game in the fourth quarter, can
Speaker 1: you just make more plays than Taylor Heineke, And that's
Speaker 1: to me, that's the difference. But if I have If
Speaker 1: I'm Lovey Smith, I walk in and I say, I
Speaker 1: want the game to be on his shoulders. Tough as
Speaker 1: that may sound, I want the game to be on
Speaker 1: his shoulders. I want him to have to make a
Speaker 1: throw to beat us. And if they do salute, you
Speaker 1: want heinecke Key to have to have to beat you. Well,
Speaker 1: I'd love to have a lead, because I know it
Speaker 1: sounds silly like, well, got to lead, vander Man. Really, really,
Speaker 1: is that your recipe for success? Have the lead, Yes,
Speaker 1: have the lead when the clock strikes strike zero. But
Speaker 1: my point is this, have a lead in the fourth
Speaker 1: quarter where you put the pressure on the opponent to
Speaker 1: make the plays through the air in particular, and maybe
Speaker 1: you can get after him with the pass rush. Right,
Speaker 1: And I know the rushing yardage totals and everything, and
Speaker 1: I saw what Barkley did last week, but I'm here
Speaker 1: to tell you that, as bad as it looks, over
Speaker 1: one fifty allowed to a single running back, the Texans
Speaker 1: were in that game. We all saw it together. But
Speaker 1: they're not making enough plays on the offensive side of
Speaker 1: the ball in the fourth quarter in particular. Gotta find
Speaker 1: a way to do that. Don't turn it over in
Speaker 1: the red zone. Even if you kick field goals last week,
Speaker 1: you have a much better shot. Obviously, it's totally different
Speaker 1: game played out if you just have to kick fuel goals.
Speaker 1: I think it's a Davis Mills game. You're gonna be
Speaker 1: able to get your rushing yards. They're gonna move the
Speaker 1: ball in the ground as usual, the Texans will. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be about Mills and some pass protection along with that. Please,
Speaker 1: but Mills being able to adjust, Mills being able to
Speaker 1: roll out of the pocket where he is pretty effective
Speaker 1: when he does that, find a way to make plays.
Speaker 1: And it's the old cliche, lead your team to victory, right,
Speaker 1: And here's another one to go along with that. Because
Speaker 1: I was gonna I was gonna hit you with a
Speaker 1: stat or number. Ian Rappaport and some mothers have tweeted this,
Speaker 1: tweeted this earlier this afternoon, actually in the morning. Despite
Speaker 1: early optimism, it might be too early for Commanders pass
Speaker 1: rusher Chase Young to play the Sunday Versus. The Texans
Speaker 1: source said his twenty one day window closes on November
Speaker 1: twenty three, and the Falcons game of the twenty seventh
Speaker 1: sounds like a better target He's doing well, just may
Speaker 1: not be quite ready yet. Now I would absolutely love
Speaker 1: to see a game without Chase Young. But let's say
Speaker 1: Chase Young plays. How about this number front four Texans
Speaker 1: offensive line. So five offensive lineman four front, four right right,
Speaker 1: nine guys seven former first rounders. Wow. Seven. If Chase
Speaker 1: Young plays, that's a line where they went John Allen seventeen,
Speaker 1: Drawn Payne in eighteen, Montes sweating in twenty nineteen, and
Speaker 1: Chase Young in twenty twenty. They went D line, D line,
Speaker 1: D line, D line. Wow. And now what do we
Speaker 1: have in twenty twenty two arguably the most dominant D
Speaker 1: line in the NFL. They're doing great. And then on
Speaker 1: the Texans side, you have Larman Tounsil twenty sixteen, you
Speaker 1: have Ken your Green twenty twenty two, and you have
Speaker 1: Titus Howard in twenty nineteen. You have seventy eight percent
Speaker 1: of the hog mollis in that particular matchup, first rounders
Speaker 1: flip it over the other side. When the commanders are
Speaker 1: on the field. How many first rounders are out in
Speaker 1: the field? One? Can you name him? On the old
Speaker 1: line old line commanders against the Texans D line, Can
Speaker 1: you name the one first rounder. Who those nine fifty
Speaker 1: five double nickel Jerry Hughes. We always forget that because
Speaker 1: Jerry went late in the first round. Oh, you were
Speaker 1: saying on the Texans side. Over you go to the
Speaker 1: other side, rifling through their line to find a first rounder. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Jerry here, they don't have one on their line. But
Speaker 1: if you go two teams, if you go Commanders front
Speaker 1: versus Texans O line, seven of nine first rounders, If
Speaker 1: you go Commander's offensive line versus Texans front collectively only one.
Speaker 1: That's really interesting. Yeah, it's it's wild to think about,
Speaker 1: how you know, I, you know me, I always like
Speaker 1: to see how teams are built. But potentially in potentially
Speaker 1: out we'll find out more. That's probably gonna be one
Speaker 1: of those game time things we find out it Sunday
Speaker 1: at nine o'clock. Quick thought on this Kenyon Green facing
Speaker 1: all these fire breathing dragons at defensive tackle, so he
Speaker 1: faces another one this week? Does it or could it
Speaker 1: help that he's seen so many tough players that week
Speaker 1: by week, Hey, I think I need to do this
Speaker 1: instead of that and maybe this will help. Does he
Speaker 1: get better within the course of the season. In this
Speaker 1: Murderers row run or is that too much to ask. No,
Speaker 1: I don't think it's too much to ask. I think
Speaker 1: it's too much to ask for him to be pristine, perfect,
Speaker 1: But I do think he will have learned something. And
Speaker 1: the thing with Pain and Allen inside is they're both different.
Speaker 1: Pain is kind of a poor man's Dexter Lawrence. He's
Speaker 1: not quite as big as Dexter, but he has sort
Speaker 1: of the same playing style. And then you have John Allen,
Speaker 1: who when he's coming out of Alabama, he's playing defensive end,
Speaker 1: and then when they rush him on the inside, now
Speaker 1: he's just a full on defensive tackle given the fact
Speaker 1: they have sweat and they have Chase Young, so he
Speaker 1: doesn't really go outside much, but he's so stout and strong.
Speaker 1: So they're all a little bit different. So even when
Speaker 1: you think you've learned something going against Dexter Lawrence, all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, the you face with John Allen, and
Speaker 1: so now you want to attack him in a different way.
Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, John Allen hits you
Speaker 1: with that hump move, the Reggie White hump move, which
Speaker 1: he's perfected, which is nearly I don't know how a
Speaker 1: man pulls it off. But Jonathan Allen does it perfectly,
Speaker 1: so he's gonna try that. I would imagine on Kennyan Green.
Speaker 1: But again you go back to you run the ball,
Speaker 1: and if you run it effectively, then you have an
Speaker 1: opportunity to slow them down just a little bit on
Speaker 1: the pass rush. Now they're not just you know, ears
Speaker 1: pinned back and they're giving you the best rush moves.
Speaker 1: They actually have got to work to know, Okay, was
Speaker 1: that pass rush or not? And you just need a
Speaker 1: half second sometimes split seconds as an interior guy going
Speaker 1: against some of those guys. So either way, I think
Speaker 1: he's gonna learn something and I think he is gonna
Speaker 1: having Again I said, I used to Dwayne Brown situation.
Speaker 1: Dwayne had to go against all these pass rushers. He
Speaker 1: learned and he got better doing it. I think Kenyan
Speaker 1: will would all pay off in one game where we
Speaker 1: go that's it, the light went on. I don't know
Speaker 1: if we have that, but I do think we'll see
Speaker 1: a few moments maybe the light is a dimmer and
Speaker 1: you can just turn it up at least a little bit,
Speaker 1: have an improved performance and make some hay. I like
Speaker 1: making hay, and we'll make more hay. On the other side,
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Speaker 1: these keys to the game against the Washington Commanders. I
Speaker 1: do meet you in every Friday right here in this
Speaker 1: particular segment. It's not a team that we face a
Speaker 1: lot face the very four years now. We could face
Speaker 1: them again in a couple of years, but that remains
Speaker 1: to be seen. We face Thember four years eight years
Speaker 1: in between trips, and so it's been eight years since
Speaker 1: the team formerly known as the Redskins. Twenty fourteen, they
Speaker 1: came here as the red Skins. Head coaches Jay Gruden,
Speaker 1: quarterbacks Robert Griffin. The third they come here at twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two and they are the Washington Commanders. To name
Speaker 1: changes since to head coaching changes since it's now Ron
Speaker 1: Rivera and the quarterback is Taylor Heineke, who used to
Speaker 1: quarterback the Texans for a very short time in twenty
Speaker 1: seventeen on Christmas Night against the Pittsburgh Steelers. That's how
Speaker 1: much things have changed since the Commanders have been here.
Speaker 1: So let's dive into my keys. Give me my music
Speaker 1: because I got I thrived with my music going, and
Speaker 1: let's talk about facing this commander's offense. Now, there is
Speaker 1: nothing about this Commander's offense that you look at the
Speaker 1: numbers and go whoa, oh boy, we're in trouble. When
Speaker 1: we get to the individual talent, there are some elite
Speaker 1: players on this offense, but as a group, they are
Speaker 1: not very The average one hundred and twelve yards per
Speaker 1: game on the ground, that's twentieth in the NFL. They
Speaker 1: throw for two eleven point seven. That's twenty six, twenty
Speaker 1: second in the NFL. Pull offense three and twenty four
Speaker 1: yards per game, it's twenty fifth in the NFL. They've
Speaker 1: turned the ball over thirteen times now. That has been
Speaker 1: more with Carson Wentz's been with Taylor Heneke. But as
Speaker 1: I heard a Commander's analysts say this week, he will
Speaker 1: throw you one, you better capitalize on it. So it's
Speaker 1: Taylor Heneke, running backs, Brian Robson, junior rookie Antonio Gibson,
Speaker 1: and then the wide receivers Curtis Samuel, Terry McLaren, Johan Dotson.
Speaker 1: Dino Vassal, secondary coach, said that might be well, he
Speaker 1: said it's the best tree. He didn't say it might be,
Speaker 1: he just said it is. It's probably the best that
Speaker 1: we faced up to this date, up to date. So
Speaker 1: gonna have their hands full, and they're gonna have their
Speaker 1: hands full without Derek Stingley. Derek Stingley is out of
Speaker 1: this game to dealing with that hamstring and became more
Speaker 1: of an issue on Wednesday. I don't know that I've
Speaker 1: seen him in a building this week. I know he's
Speaker 1: been there, but I just haven't seen him he's just
Speaker 1: getting rehabbed and get ready to go, and he is
Speaker 1: out for this game. Now. On the other side, the
Speaker 1: Commanders have out Coole Holkom, Jenny McKissick, two key pieces,
Speaker 1: one on defense, one special teams in third down situations.
Speaker 1: So those three players are out of this game. So
Speaker 1: that's gonna make it that much more problematic, especially when
Speaker 1: we get to key number two, and we'll get to
Speaker 1: that in just a second. So start at key number one.
Speaker 1: Three yards and a cloud of wins. Now you know
Speaker 1: the phrase three yards in a cloud of dust, right,
Speaker 1: it was coined way back in the sixties, probably to
Speaker 1: describe Vince Lombardi's offense. Three yards and a cloud of dust. Well,
Speaker 1: you get three yards on four downs, you get first downs,
Speaker 1: you move the chains. And that's exactly what the Commanders
Speaker 1: did against the Philadelphia nothing special. They ran for just
Speaker 1: over three yards of carry, but they ran it forty
Speaker 1: nine times. They just kept moving the sticks. Eagles kept
Speaker 1: killing the wall back and Kevin moving the sticks. With
Speaker 1: Robinson and Gibson, now they're a little different running backs.
Speaker 1: Robinson is a he's a hammerhead. He is just going
Speaker 1: to keep charging forward. He creates his own holes with
Speaker 1: his power and his run through abilities. Antonio Gibson was
Speaker 1: a former receiver in college, but he has running back
Speaker 1: skills and so they kind of use them in a
Speaker 1: lot of different ways. But between the two, I think
Speaker 1: they combined for forty carries, so three yards in a
Speaker 1: cloud of wins. That's how they're winning winning games. They're
Speaker 1: controlling the ball, they're keeping opposing offenses on the sideline,
Speaker 1: and then they're bludgeoning a defense. And like we've talked
Speaker 1: about a million times, this Texans defense is one that's
Speaker 1: been bludgeoned. Now the flip side of that is the
Speaker 1: Texans run defense was good at times against the Giants.
Speaker 1: Notice I said at times. Then there were times Sakewa
Speaker 1: Barkley ripped off some chunks. I bet if you took
Speaker 1: and I didn't do the math on this, but if
Speaker 1: you took the top three or four runs and took
Speaker 1: them out, that left thirty one thirty two carries for Barkley,
Speaker 1: and I guarantee it was for on one hundred yards.
Speaker 1: So there were times they were doing a really good
Speaker 1: job against the run. They're gonna have to be that
Speaker 1: and better against the Commanders. That's the only thing the
Speaker 1: Commanders want to do. Now it's really the only thing
Speaker 1: the Giants wanted to do. But Gibson and Robinson are
Speaker 1: not say Quon Barkley, but they're equally difficult to tackle.
Speaker 1: Number two Scary Terry. Now scary Terry becomes even more scary.
Speaker 1: Now he's not scary for the Commanders, he is scary
Speaker 1: for all opponents. He has one of the most impressive
Speaker 1: dudes you're gonna meet off the field. He's a captain
Speaker 1: Ohio State, even though he was number four wide receiver there.
Speaker 1: He's coming to the league and better superstar. He's scary
Speaker 1: for opponents. So how did the Texas account for him?
Speaker 1: They catches one hundred twenty eight yards against Eagles, and
Speaker 1: Taylor Honeken looks him up about three to four times
Speaker 1: more than he looks up any other past catcher on
Speaker 1: his team with no Stingley, How did they go about
Speaker 1: slowing down Terry McLaren? Do they let him get his
Speaker 1: just try and keep him from getting all the deep ball?
Speaker 1: So maybe like a six four ninety kind of game,
Speaker 1: but no touchdowns and everybody else gets very minimal targets
Speaker 1: and receptions. Maybe that's the way you go about it.
Speaker 1: I don't know how you fully account for him, whether
Speaker 1: it's you put Steven Nelson on him give help, or
Speaker 1: whether it's Desmond King and you give help. Either way,
Speaker 1: you do have to give some help to whomever is
Speaker 1: covering Terry McLarin. He's that good. Now. John Dotson's got
Speaker 1: his thing, but Heinekee doesn't love going to anybody else
Speaker 1: other than Terry McLaren. How will they get the ball
Speaker 1: to Curtis Samuel And that's a that's a different kind
Speaker 1: of ball of wax. And I would imagine they're gonna
Speaker 1: find ways to get the ball to Curtis Samuel in
Speaker 1: different ways. But it's McLarin he's the problem. And with
Speaker 1: no Stingley, now you've got a situation of well, how
Speaker 1: do we account for this guy? Who do we put
Speaker 1: on him? And how do we account word in man?
Speaker 1: The hope is, and my hope is that they do
Speaker 1: so well against the run that they can bring blitz
Speaker 1: is like they did in the third quarter against the Giants.
Speaker 1: They just have to be tighter and man coverage such
Speaker 1: that they don't give up something to Darius Slayton, who
Speaker 1: then is got room to run and he runs for
Speaker 1: fifty four yards of touch that they can't do that
Speaker 1: because mcclarin would do the same thing to them that
Speaker 1: Slayton did, and McLaren is that much better. Last one
Speaker 1: on offense, gritty gutting a playmaker, and that is Taylor Heneken.
Speaker 1: Now at twenty seventeen, he was with Texas for a
Speaker 1: little bit, only saw him for a handfull of plays
Speaker 1: because he end up getting hit taking a concussion, and
Speaker 1: then he wasn't back here in twenty eighteen and since
Speaker 1: then he's been on an odyssey. Well, he ended up
Speaker 1: in Washington twenty twenty late in the year and he's
Speaker 1: started the playoff game. It looked very, very good, but
Speaker 1: it says if the Commanders management didn't really you know,
Speaker 1: we got Taylor, but we'll get another guy. We got Taylor,
Speaker 1: but we'll get another guy. Well, this might be the
Speaker 1: last of we need to get another guy, because Taylor
Speaker 1: Heneke might be locking down that face of the franchise
Speaker 1: position going forward because it isn't Carson Wentz. I really
Speaker 1: wish we were facing at Carson Wentz. We're not. Heineck
Speaker 1: finds a way and that might be the best asset
Speaker 1: he has and it's a damn good one. He finds
Speaker 1: a way. The throws aren't always perfect, the runs aren't
Speaker 1: always perfect, but he finds a way to win a
Speaker 1: ball game. He finds a way to make that throw
Speaker 1: at that time when the commander's really needed. Mccolts had
Speaker 1: them beat the Colts, had them beat sixteen ten, Commanders
Speaker 1: hadn't move the ball all game long. What does what
Speaker 1: does Heineck do? Finds mccuarin deep ball, They get down
Speaker 1: into one, Heineke sneaks it in. They win the game
Speaker 1: seventeen sixty, and that's where got the winning street going
Speaker 1: for them. Heineck is a playmaker. Those guys at quarterback
Speaker 1: are very, very tough to stop. And in that way,
Speaker 1: it's kind of a case Keenum esque where nothing is perfect,
Speaker 1: but man, you trust that guy. I mean, had commanders
Speaker 1: were putting on a bunch of chains and give him
Speaker 1: a bush light the other night on the way home
Speaker 1: from the win against the Eagles. He's that guy and
Speaker 1: he's got a he's got a confidence and arrogance. So
Speaker 1: how did the text and shake that up? How do
Speaker 1: they get to him and rattle him? And that is
Speaker 1: going to be a big key they can't do that.
Speaker 1: It's a long afternoon. But if they can, maybe he
Speaker 1: throws them not only one, but maybe throws him a couple,
Speaker 1: and maybe that's enough to change what I think is
Speaker 1: going to be a very close game either way. No
Speaker 1: matter who wins, Taylor Heineke gonna be tough. Now'll throw over.
Speaker 1: The defense are giving up one hundred and eleven point
Speaker 1: three yards per game, that's twelfth in the league. They
Speaker 1: give up two hundred and thirteen yards per game three
Speaker 1: the year, that's fifteenth in the league. And they allowed
Speaker 1: three hundred twenty four yards per game that's tenth in
Speaker 1: the league. This is a salty defense. Why well, let's
Speaker 1: get to key number one, Chasing Young. Now, let's talk
Speaker 1: about this Chase Young situation. Mark and I mentioned earlier.
Speaker 1: Ian Rappaport put out a tweet earlier in the morning
Speaker 1: on Friday saying that they weren't quite sure that Chase
Speaker 1: Young was going to be ready to go. Thank you,
Speaker 1: because in this situation, Chase Young really could have just
Speaker 1: played pass rusher and that's it, and that would have
Speaker 1: made him ultra ultra dangerous. So if there is no
Speaker 1: Chasing Young, can the Texans get away with doing some
Speaker 1: things against James Smith Williams, who's played oh on the
Speaker 1: outside for Chase Young. Can they do some things in
Speaker 1: that direction? Chase Young would have created a ton of problems. There,
Speaker 1: No Chase Young, thank you. Now they're still a thought.
Speaker 1: I'm not seeing anything to date saying that he has
Speaker 1: been activated, that he is being added to the roster.
Speaker 1: That hasn't happened. And if that doesn't happen on Saturday,
Speaker 1: which typically is when it happens, Chase Young won't play.
Speaker 1: And that man as a huge cide, relig huge because
Speaker 1: I get in the key number two. The Texans still
Speaker 1: have to face that interior, and the interior of On
Speaker 1: Payne and Jonathan Allen is maybe the best duo they've faced.
Speaker 1: Fletcher Cox, Javon Hargrave, Dexter Lawrence, Leonard Williams, Jeffrey Simmons,
Speaker 1: Tier Tart. They have faced as many good duos in
Speaker 1: the last four games as they could possibly want to face. Well,
Speaker 1: this one's the best. That's my opinion. I think it's
Speaker 1: a lot of people's opinion, actually, But Jonathan Allen and
Speaker 1: Dron Payne caused nightmares for the interior. Now it probably
Speaker 1: would have been key number one, had Chase Young. Have
Speaker 1: we known about Chase Young earlier in the week Because
Speaker 1: of the way those interior defenders that I've mentioned, John
Speaker 1: Hargrave had three sacks against the Texas Dexter Lawrence had
Speaker 1: five quarterback hits in a sack and a half and
Speaker 1: dominated the game. Jeffrey Simmons and Tierra Tart just weren't
Speaker 1: going to be blocked that day. They just weren't allowing
Speaker 1: themselves to get blocked. So, but Texans not only have
Speaker 1: faced really difficult interiors, they have struggled with those interiors.
Speaker 1: So I don't know what the best way of going
Speaker 1: about blocking two guys, but you have three guys in
Speaker 1: the interior, and you've got to find a way to
Speaker 1: block those two guys effectively. And at some point in
Speaker 1: the passing game, they're going to get guard center guard
Speaker 1: one on one, and I would I would bet that
Speaker 1: after watching film, they want the rookie Kenyon Green, and
Speaker 1: Kenyon's got some room to work. There's no doubt Keny
Speaker 1: would tell you that. Everybody tells you that. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's evident he has room to grow. But this
Speaker 1: would be a great time for Kenyon to step up
Speaker 1: and take on those two monsters and drawn Payne and
Speaker 1: Jonathan Allen and stand up and say, man, I got this.
Speaker 1: You might have to give him some help. Now. The
Speaker 1: one of the things it's hard to do is give
Speaker 1: an interior player help from some other position, tight end,
Speaker 1: running back. Those guys are always helping the outside. I
Speaker 1: don't think the Texans tackles needed, But how do you
Speaker 1: use running backs on the inside. That's going to be
Speaker 1: the hard part. Then. I don't know how you go
Speaker 1: about doing that, but the Texans may have to do that.
Speaker 1: Belichick did that with JJ Watt. He had a running
Speaker 1: back help out the guard and put the guard one
Speaker 1: on one, but then use the running back to go
Speaker 1: help on JJ. And what the running back would do
Speaker 1: was get JJ's hands down. Well, I don't care how
Speaker 1: you use the running back or what you fullback. I
Speaker 1: don't care what you do, but those guys have got
Speaker 1: to help the interior to block Jonathan Allen and Tron
Speaker 1: Payne or it's gonna be a long freaking day. Last
Speaker 1: it's certainly not least who covers Nico. Now, this could
Speaker 1: be a battle of former Michigan Wolverine twenty seventeen recruits.
Speaker 1: Benjamin Saint Juice six three two hundred pounds actually matches
Speaker 1: up size wise with Nico. They were in the same
Speaker 1: Michian Wolverine recruiting class. Saint Juice was there for a
Speaker 1: year in seventeen, then he transferred eighteen to Minnesota. They
Speaker 1: never played again at each other after that, but they
Speaker 1: definitely have faced each other in practice. Now. I bring
Speaker 1: that up because Nico and faced favorite Moreau in practice,
Speaker 1: so he had some knowledge of how Moreau would handle things,
Speaker 1: and he used that against him on the goal line
Speaker 1: touchdown that he had. That was a beautiful route. What
Speaker 1: does Nico know about Saint Jus and how can he
Speaker 1: use that against the Washington Commander's best corner on Sunday?
Speaker 1: Keeping one on that battle twenty five v. Twelve and
Speaker 1: hope that number twelve, Nico Collins is the better of
Speaker 1: that matchup. All right, when we get back, let's go
Speaker 1: round the NFL. Just a couple of news and notes
Speaker 1: that you need for your fantasy teams. Next right here
Speaker 1: a Texas All Access Welcome Back Friday issue of Texas
Speaker 1: All Access from Monday Texans Radio Studio. I'm your host,
Speaker 1: John Harris football analyst side of the reporter for your
Speaker 1: Houston Texans. Let's go around in the NFL. Hit a
Speaker 1: couple of news and notes here quickly before we go
Speaker 1: to our second hour. The Chiefs are down not one,
Speaker 1: but two wide receivers. One got put on injured reserving Thursday.
Speaker 1: That's Mikole Hardman, Juju Smith Schuster is out due to
Speaker 1: a concussion he suffered last week in Week ten against
Speaker 1: d Jacksonville Jaguars. Now the Chiefs stone Egy, cryin in
Speaker 1: your beer. But those are probably two players on a
Speaker 1: lot of people's fantasy teams. So Mikole Hardman, ir Juju
Speaker 1: Smith Schuster out dealing with the concussion. The Bills are
Speaker 1: dealing with one hell of a storm, Holy smokes. Friday's
Speaker 1: practice was canceled due to the weather, with players and
Speaker 1: coaches set to meet virtually now. The Bills planned to
Speaker 1: travel to Detroit on Saturday, but coach Sean McDermot said
Speaker 1: Friday the details are obviously TBD at this point. McDermott
Speaker 1: told reporters, we want to head out as close to
Speaker 1: the normal time as possible. However, again, seeing what's happening
Speaker 1: around us right now, I just want to make sure
Speaker 1: that all the staff and players families are safe and
Speaker 1: dug out before we want to try to get out
Speaker 1: of here, just so everyone's mind is in the right
Speaker 1: spot knowing that their families are all safe. The game
Speaker 1: will take place on Sunday in Detroit, Bills v. Browns,
Speaker 1: and we need the Bills to win, so hopefully they
Speaker 1: can get up there and play that game, and then
Speaker 1: they have to return back there to play the Lions
Speaker 1: on Thanksgiving. So wild stuff going on right now in Buffalo.
Speaker 1: And if you have seen Orchard Park, oh my goodness,
Speaker 1: holy smokes, it's crazy. All right, It's not crazy? Is
Speaker 1: going behind enemy sidelines? Andrews doesn't. That's all next right
Speaker 1: here in Texans All Access. We got one hour down,
Speaker 1: one hour left to go. Right here on a Friday
Speaker 1: issue of Texans All Access. I'm John Harris football and
Speaker 1: a sideline reporter for your Houston Texans, and it's time
Speaker 1: to go behind enemy sidelines. And nothing like getting a
Speaker 1: former commander, former Redskin Anthony Armstrong, who was a wide
Speaker 1: receiver for the Redskins back in day and now he's
Speaker 1: part of the Believe Sports podcast network, and he caught
Speaker 1: up with Deepe to talk about this matchup against the Commanders,
Speaker 1: We're going behind enemy Sidelines with former Washington wide receiver
Speaker 1: Anthony Armstrong, now a co host on the Believed Commanders podcast. Anthony,
Speaker 1: welcome in. Have you recovered from the Monday night game
Speaker 1: that I think really caught the entire country by surprise? Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm still living. I'm still living live off of that one.
Speaker 1: Deep in a great mood. I mean that one. Usually
Speaker 1: you have to stay up late and sometimes you get
Speaker 1: let down. That was a good reason to stay up
Speaker 1: late past my bed tech. Yeah, big win. They defeat
Speaker 1: the undefeated, previously undefeated Eagles. I mean, you cover the
Speaker 1: team every single week. How surprised are you at the
Speaker 1: fact that Washington win in there, two touched on underdogs
Speaker 1: and we're able to come out with the win on
Speaker 1: the road. I'm really not that surprised at all, simply
Speaker 1: because that was a different team than what Philly faced
Speaker 1: in week three. I mean week three, you had Carson Wentz,
Speaker 1: you didn't have Brian Robinson, and frankly, you know, Carson
Speaker 1: hadn't settled it into that offense and no, so now
Speaker 1: when you had Taylor Heineck show up, there is a
Speaker 1: guy who's very seasoned in Scott Turner's offense, and you
Speaker 1: could see the way that the team responds to him
Speaker 1: being at quarterback, and that team has a different attitude
Speaker 1: with Brian Robinson carrying the ball as well. It's a
Speaker 1: totally different Washington team, much more dangerous now than they
Speaker 1: were a week three. Well, we saw Taylor Heineke back
Speaker 1: in Houston in twenty seventeen very briefly, and now I
Speaker 1: am watching the celebratory videos on the plane. He's wearing
Speaker 1: all the chains, all the necklaces, all the glasses, all
Speaker 1: the jewelry. The Commanders have gone three and one with
Speaker 1: Heineke and now with Carson Wentz possibly coming off of
Speaker 1: ir has Heineck's done enough to just really solidify himself
Speaker 1: as a starting quarterback here for the rest of the season.
Speaker 1: I think that he has, especially if you look at
Speaker 1: the fact that the entire NFC East does have a
Speaker 1: chance to make it into the playoffs. You have to
Speaker 1: give yourself a chance to actually go for that. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm a guy that says winning fixes all ales, right,
Speaker 1: so no need to try to lose and get up
Speaker 1: up the up and down the draft board win some
Speaker 1: ball games. See what he can do. You can obviously
Speaker 1: see the way this team responds with him at quarterback.
Speaker 1: And if you heard Terry mclorin's monologue after the game
Speaker 1: talking to Scott Van Pell, I mean he was going
Speaker 1: on for about thirty forty five seconds and he did
Speaker 1: mention Carson Wentz. So he definitely said the right thing,
Speaker 1: but you could tell how he feels about Taylor Heineke.
Speaker 1: And if I'm Ron Rivere, I'm listening to my captain,
Speaker 1: I'm listening to Terry mclaurin'. I'm gonna let for riot.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you rob up Terry McLaurin because I can
Speaker 1: see why he's happy. His usage, his numbers, everything's gone
Speaker 1: up with heine in the lineup. He's emerged as just
Speaker 1: his favorite target's averaging sixteen yards a catch. What does
Speaker 1: he do well as a top receiving threat? And did
Speaker 1: you see his usage change once Heineck was in the lineup. Oh,
Speaker 1: usage has definitely increased. The past four games with Taylor
Speaker 1: Heineke has been eight targets minimum per game. Last game
Speaker 1: he had eleven total, so that's definitely been a huge us.
Speaker 1: Has he only had that happened one time earlier in
Speaker 1: the season, and he's had two one yard games with
Speaker 1: Taylor Heineke under center, so I know he's enjoying that.
Speaker 1: But the thing that I liked the most about Terry
Speaker 1: McLaurin is he's extremely humble and he's patient. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: hear a lot about receivers being divas and they want
Speaker 1: to get the ball in their hands early and often.
Speaker 1: Earlier in the season, he didn't touch the ball early
Speaker 1: and a lot of times he had to make a
Speaker 1: late catch and he showed up as if he was
Speaker 1: getting the ball all throughout the game and basically having
Speaker 1: to suffer through that for lack of a better word.
Speaker 1: He's deserving this moment to show up and get the
Speaker 1: ball early and often to make an impact with this team.
Speaker 1: It really opens up the offense and makes it easier
Speaker 1: on everybody else on the field. Well, that Commander's offense.
Speaker 1: I mean, they just dominated in that Monday night game.
Speaker 1: I felt like every time I looked at the TV,
Speaker 1: it was the Commander's offense on the field. We didn't
Speaker 1: see much of Jalen Hurtson and Billy's offense, and a
Speaker 1: big part of that was just what they were able
Speaker 1: to do on the ground. We saw Brian Robinson and
Speaker 1: Antonio Gibson get a rushing touchdown. They also had Courtis
Speaker 1: Samuel getting carries. It seems like there's wide receivers playing
Speaker 1: running back, running backs playing wide receivers. You know what's
Speaker 1: the toughest part for opposing defense is when facing that
Speaker 1: commander's offense and all these skill players. You know, I
Speaker 1: think that the versatility that comes with Washington's offense is
Speaker 1: what's going to give any defense trouble. You talk about
Speaker 1: receivers playing running back. Antonio Gibson was a college receiver,
Speaker 1: and then you flip via versus that Curtis Samuel was
Speaker 1: a running back initially when he got the Ohio States.
Speaker 1: So being able to run routes from the backfield creates
Speaker 1: a lot of different matchups. It allows Scott Turning to
Speaker 1: get extremely creative and find different ways to get guys
Speaker 1: into spaces. I mean, you have linebackers that have to
Speaker 1: cover people that were former receivers. So it just puts
Speaker 1: a lot of strain on defenses and you can't sit
Speaker 1: back and rely on the old school tactics of hey,
Speaker 1: just go hit. They got carrying the ball because that
Speaker 1: guy might run a route right, run an option route
Speaker 1: and RPOs and there's just so much creativity nowadays that
Speaker 1: guys have to be way more versatile and how they
Speaker 1: can move around playing the run and try to play
Speaker 1: the bass. All Right, that defense has allowed just seventeen
Speaker 1: point three points per game during the last four games.
Speaker 1: So what's been the key for that front to get
Speaker 1: so much pressure on a post quarterbacks? And that's been
Speaker 1: all without Chase Young so far as well. You know,
Speaker 1: I feel like once they parted ways with their you know,
Speaker 1: Sam Mills junior, he was the defensive line coach. They
Speaker 1: brought Ryan Carrigan in elevated Scott Skanina that that defensive
Speaker 1: line has really just grown and elevated throughout the season.
Speaker 1: That anchored by John Allen and Duran Payne, those two
Speaker 1: guys caused so much havoc upfront, and it allows the
Speaker 1: other guys f e Obada's and just the ridgeways that
Speaker 1: have come in. Those guys can just work as one
Speaker 1: total unit. Montes sweat a name that you forget with
Speaker 1: so many people out here, you don't even have Chase
Speaker 1: you you mentioned that and he could show back up,
Speaker 1: and when him coming back into the into the fold,
Speaker 1: it could be dangerous. It could be very dangerous. I mean,
Speaker 1: the unit's really really performing well. They've been the foundation
Speaker 1: of that defense, the really stronghold that sets the tone
Speaker 1: for what the defense wants to do. All right, Chase Young,
Speaker 1: I mean we've seen the news that he could come
Speaker 1: back here in Week eleven against the Chexans. He hasn't
Speaker 1: played in about a year or so, coming off an
Speaker 1: acal injury. When a guy hasn't played in that long,
Speaker 1: you know, what are your expectations for when he does
Speaker 1: come back. If he does come back against the Texans,
Speaker 1: would you expect he'd be on a snap count? And
Speaker 1: you know how much rust could you expect from a
Speaker 1: guy like that. Yeah, I would expect a snap count.
Speaker 1: And I have to applaud the Washington training staff and
Speaker 1: coaching staff. They've handled injuries very well, you know. Now
Speaker 1: with Curtis Samuel and with Chase Young, I think they
Speaker 1: have those guys on the right path, taking their time
Speaker 1: to get them back on the field. But the first
Speaker 1: thing I'm paying attention to with Chaise Young is just
Speaker 1: that first time of impact where he has to deal
Speaker 1: with you know, a pulling guard or a tight end.
Speaker 1: I mean, they have a lot of you know rules
Speaker 1: now that help protect defensive lineman's knees. So somebody's gonna
Speaker 1: throw a block at him and you call it what
Speaker 1: it is. That's just how the league is. You're gonna
Speaker 1: see what do you think about your knee? Are you
Speaker 1: confident in it? Because if he's not confident in it,
Speaker 1: then there's gonna be a lot of Damian Pierce that's
Speaker 1: going to run right over that side. And they don't
Speaker 1: want to have that happen with Washington. So I think
Speaker 1: he'll be able to snap count. But I'm excited to
Speaker 1: see his loosenness, trying to see, you know, how much
Speaker 1: speed does he have off the edges. He still had
Speaker 1: that reactiveness, that change in direction that makes him so dangerous.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think they should just give him another
Speaker 1: couple of weeks to rest. I mean, just like, let
Speaker 1: him rest a little bit more and then just take
Speaker 1: his time coming back. It's not a problem to do that.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's not there's no there's nothing, there's no
Speaker 1: reason to just say we need to rush him back. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then you have a bye week in week fourteen,
Speaker 1: you know, so if Taylor is able to continue to
Speaker 1: put a couple of wins together, I think Washington can
Speaker 1: win these next two games. You know, maybe you don't
Speaker 1: need to throw Chase Young back out there, give him
Speaker 1: a few more weeks, like you're saying, and yeah, then
Speaker 1: you have to build them by a week and now
Speaker 1: you have a fresh Chase Young heading into the end
Speaker 1: of the season. That's something that's very dangerous. I like
Speaker 1: how you're thinking. I mean, I was just selfishly saying
Speaker 1: that so the Texans wouldn't have to see him in
Speaker 1: this first game back. But as as a former, as
Speaker 1: a former wide receiver yourself, I don't know if you've
Speaker 1: ever done this, but back to back games on the road,
Speaker 1: going from Monday night and then a Sunday noon game.
Speaker 1: How tough is that for the players? I mean, do
Speaker 1: you how do you manage recovery between two very quick
Speaker 1: games together and both on the road with all that
Speaker 1: travel in between. Well, you kind of have to lose
Speaker 1: a day on the front end and on the back end,
Speaker 1: and then they're gonna probably take an extra day out
Speaker 1: of the middle of the week, so you get it.
Speaker 1: It's almost similar to that, you know, Sunday to Thursday
Speaker 1: schedule that teams have, it's gonna be a very truncated schedule.
Speaker 1: That's that ends up being a tough part because you're
Speaker 1: not I say you truncated schedule, truncated playbook. You know,
Speaker 1: maybe you don't get to add in as many wrinkles
Speaker 1: that you as you normally would, but there's a lot
Speaker 1: more mental reps. You know, hopefully at this part of
Speaker 1: the season, teams don't need a lot of physical clips
Speaker 1: to get out there and go through things. Physically. You
Speaker 1: should be able to sync up and say, hey, we
Speaker 1: ran this play before, we're going to run it again
Speaker 1: as everybody good, let's walk through it. Those type of things.
Speaker 1: So coaches will be able to adjust. But it shouldn't
Speaker 1: be that much of a problem. But you'll probably see
Speaker 1: more people's bread and butter all rights coming up. Sunday.
Speaker 1: Washington at Houston Salute to Service game. Appreciate the time
Speaker 1: former Washington wide receiver Anthony Armstrong, and you can listen
Speaker 1: to him on the Bee Leave Commander's podcast. You can
Speaker 1: also follow him at mister Armstrong thirteen on Twitter. Anthony,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for the time. Really appreciate it. Indeed,
Speaker 1: thank you deep thanks for having me man. I hope
Speaker 1: those Twitter handles are important come Tuesday morning, but it
Speaker 1: might not be for any of us, which will be
Speaker 1: sort of weird, but say I love you if that's
Speaker 1: what it is. And we have to move on to
Speaker 1: some other social media app Instagram, master, don chess piece,
Speaker 1: I don't know whatever. It's all out there right now,
Speaker 1: so it'll be weird though, because Twitter has been a
Speaker 1: huge part of all wild lives. Now. Another person who
Speaker 1: is part of all of our lives and it's a
Speaker 1: great thing is Drew Doherty. And he played Jenga while
Speaker 1: they did a Jews dozen with Christian Harris. Take a listen.
Speaker 1: Today's competitor was born and raised in Baton Rouge. She's
Speaker 1: a graduate of You High and then he went on
Speaker 1: to Alabama where he was a star for the Crimson Tide.
Speaker 1: He made grown men hug the day he was drafted
Speaker 1: by the Houston Texans in the third round. Those grown men,
Speaker 1: of course his head coaches general manager. But we're talking
Speaker 1: about Christian Harris. You've been starting the last three games
Speaker 1: or so, You've got four games under your belt, and
Speaker 1: now you got a Jinga contest finally. Yeah, we got
Speaker 1: a little Yeah, I'm ready, I'm ready, all right to
Speaker 1: recap the rules. You can't take anything off the top
Speaker 1: three and you can only pull a block and put
Speaker 1: it on with one hand. So your first All right,
Speaker 1: what's your favorite game to play? Oh? No, for sure,
Speaker 1: we pull out the cards. I'm never losing. Do you
Speaker 1: still play at all? I mean with with my family allowed,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie like or we'll play the my
Speaker 1: message games now. Oh yeah, you know you can play
Speaker 1: that play pool on there. If you were a dog,
Speaker 1: what type would you be? What type of dog would
Speaker 1: you be? If you're adult, I'd probably say a Doberman.
Speaker 1: I just really wanted Doberman, so yeah, and then yeah,
Speaker 1: I just like Doberman. So that's really I think you're
Speaker 1: gonna remember put on top. You think you're gonna get
Speaker 1: a Doverman sometime soon, hopefully in the offseason. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: can't write nowe at no time. So yeah, man, it's
Speaker 1: been a world. Yeah, that's a lot going on right now,
Speaker 1: but probably in the off season for sure. Okay, Doberman.
Speaker 1: Did you grow up with Doberman's at all? I actually
Speaker 1: had a toggle lab that was my players dog. Okay,
Speaker 1: that was your first dog was a chocolate lab. What
Speaker 1: is your zodiac sign though, Capricorn? Capricorn, yeah, January. Who
Speaker 1: is your celebrity looking like? I don't like this? What's wrong?
Speaker 1: Everybody tell me I look like little Yadi because I
Speaker 1: got little braids and stuff. It's a yes. And don't
Speaker 1: go look up that picture. I won't. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: do that. You have my vow? Oh? What's your go
Speaker 1: to karaoke song? I haven't no karaoke recently, like in
Speaker 1: a long time, but trying to throw out any random
Speaker 1: song if there's any Michael Jackson all days, like, I'll
Speaker 1: probably be able to, you know, get that out of
Speaker 1: my system. You got a favorite? Michael Jackson's probably Thriller.
Speaker 1: It's just you can't miss. It's always good around Halloween.
Speaker 1: I mean it's good all the time, but perfect time. Really.
Speaker 1: What is your most used emoji? What's the one that
Speaker 1: you're like thinking and you're like this looking up? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just I'm always sitting that Okay, Yeah, I'm always
Speaker 1: sitting out that's the one. Yeah, I guess we'll go too,
Speaker 1: for sure. That is a good one. What's your guilty
Speaker 1: pleasure song? It comes on in the car and you're
Speaker 1: by yourself and you start singing it. But if you
Speaker 1: were in the car with other people, you might turn
Speaker 1: the channel or you might not sing it. Where's that
Speaker 1: is it? There goes my baby by Usher? I think
Speaker 1: that's a song. It used to be on my dad's
Speaker 1: ring tone from my mom, and it's just like a
Speaker 1: song that's like always in my head. Every time I
Speaker 1: hear it, I get to blurding that out. Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: not saying that around nobody. I got you, but that
Speaker 1: is a nice memory. It's what your parents and there.
Speaker 1: Let's that's cool. That's what I can't see that around.
Speaker 1: Nobody get it. That one thing I wouldn't put here
Speaker 1: to do that. Oh what other sport could you be
Speaker 1: a pro at? I played basketball and track when I
Speaker 1: was little. My height me being six one, I don't
Speaker 1: know if basketball would be I probably say track. What events?
Speaker 1: Did you run a track? One? Two hundred? All right?
Speaker 1: Yeah the whole time? The good stuff? Did you do
Speaker 1: any field events? No? I was all my brother. I
Speaker 1: had a bigger brother. Yeah, he did all of those things.
Speaker 1: What did he do? So? I put this kid's javelin,
Speaker 1: she's a big guy. Yeah, they made him run the
Speaker 1: four hundred for fun or he wanted to for fun. Man,
Speaker 1: he should have run needed tocathon. If you could run
Speaker 1: the four and do all the field events, hey, man, athlete,
Speaker 1: I can. I'm doing no field events that I'm a screen.
Speaker 1: What's your first memory as a kid. My first memory,
Speaker 1: I don't want to relate it to football, but it
Speaker 1: is probably more related to football. My favorite moment, it
Speaker 1: was like my first year playing football. I was playing
Speaker 1: with the South bat Rood DRAMs. Okay, I was like
Speaker 1: playing running back, so it's flag football and I had
Speaker 1: a play in the so one player. I was just
Speaker 1: wondering one way and then I got on my tippy
Speaker 1: toes and like change direction. It was like got my
Speaker 1: first touchdown. So it's like a big moment for me
Speaker 1: and my family. That's all five six and we're really
Speaker 1: four or five. Yeah, that's when I first started playing.
Speaker 1: So putting on a move, that's awesome. So I'd be
Speaker 1: like Reggie Bus which teammate is the best hype man?
Speaker 1: I like that one best hype man. I like Willow,
Speaker 1: Garrett Willow. He just always has energy and he's like
Speaker 1: Louisiana guy. Too, So he gotta just already turns me
Speaker 1: up every time I see him. So, yeah, there's a
Speaker 1: crew of you guys from Louisiana. Yeah met him staying
Speaker 1: Yeah for sure. So and it's like closer areas Ben
Speaker 1: Rouge is like forty five minutes I think from New Orleans.
Speaker 1: So I mean, yeah, we got a good little connection
Speaker 1: going on. It's not bad. He was a hype man.
Speaker 1: Who which of your teammates calms you down the most?
Speaker 1: So anybody that does that, it meets do that, or
Speaker 1: I'd probably say, I mean, I do it myself trying
Speaker 1: to call myself down. But if I's like looking up
Speaker 1: to it, probably be older guys. Okay, yeah, just like
Speaker 1: you know, you get to asking questions. They called me down, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: Kirko is like a mentor for me here basically, so
Speaker 1: he helped me out. Seems like a wise guy. You know,
Speaker 1: God's out of knowledge. What would your superpower be if
Speaker 1: I could choose just be the fastest, like flash as
Speaker 1: fast as possible, like speed of light. What's your favorite
Speaker 1: cheat meal? You guys all eat pretty darn well these days,
Speaker 1: but what when you kind of let yourself go out?
Speaker 1: What is it I'd much rather go home if it
Speaker 1: was like for a cheap meal and bad roots, and
Speaker 1: it'll be like crawfish at you with some like fry fish,
Speaker 1: fry shrimp. Nice. Yes, to get that, my mom. They
Speaker 1: always you're making me, you're making me hung of course
Speaker 1: I have. It's delicious. Who is your favorite teammate to
Speaker 1: sit next to on the plane? Probably Sting? Now I
Speaker 1: sitting next to Sting already, but I mean that's just
Speaker 1: my boy. We're joking around all the time on the
Speaker 1: way there on the way back, So yeah, probably for
Speaker 1: sure Sting. So he's pretty quiet when he's talking with
Speaker 1: the media and folks like that. But not a quiet guy.
Speaker 1: Huh No, I mean he's he's a jugster for sure.
Speaker 1: I mean he'll probably be a little side of you
Speaker 1: first meeting him, but you know, once you get to
Speaker 1: know him, he's pretty hilarious. And you guys have known
Speaker 1: each other for a while. You'll played seven on seven.
Speaker 1: I think, Yeah, you guys have been around for a
Speaker 1: long time together. That's pretty cool. Before we go, would
Speaker 1: you want brunch with jay Z or five hundred thousand
Speaker 1: dollars brunch with jay Z? I would love to pick
Speaker 1: his brain. Okay, you want the knowledge of cash. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the cash it for me. Well with me, you just
Speaker 1: get a victory. So this has been fun. Christian Harris
Speaker 1: appreciate time Drew goes down, Down goes Dorty. Dorty loses
Speaker 1: to Christian Harris. A good job, Christian, way to take
Speaker 1: on Drew. Now this weekend, a lot of games going
Speaker 1: on in the NFL. I'm going to pick them, talk
Speaker 1: about key storylines and everything going on with the NFL
Speaker 1: neck straight up and against it spread, for fun, for fun.
Speaker 1: I pick it all the games right here in text access. Oh,
Speaker 1: we've reached my favorite part of the show, where I
Speaker 1: John Harris Football and a Southern reporter for your Houston Texans.
Speaker 1: Get well, I get competitive here because it's time for
Speaker 1: my picks. I make every pick pick in every game
Speaker 1: on Sunday and Monday, straight up and against the spread,
Speaker 1: for fun, for fun. I am required by legal to
Speaker 1: say that because it is for fun. It's always fun
Speaker 1: to just talk about NFL teams NFL games, right, So
Speaker 1: let's go get me my music and let's rock and
Speaker 1: start in Atlanta where the Bears are taking on the Falcons.
Speaker 1: Justin Fields has been all kinds of awesome running the football.
Speaker 1: But the Falcons are favored by three at home, and
Speaker 1: I'm taking the Falcons to win. They're not gonna slow
Speaker 1: down justin fields, but the Bears defense won't slow down
Speaker 1: Marcus Mariota and the Falcons to camp. I just said
Speaker 1: that Marcus Mariota and the Falcons will not be stopped
Speaker 1: by the Bears. Yeah, I just said that again. So
Speaker 1: taking Lanta to win and to cover that three point
Speaker 1: spread the Browns. The Bills will play at Ford Field.
Speaker 1: They will not play in the snow gasm that is
Speaker 1: going on right now in Orchard Park, So removing that
Speaker 1: game to Detroit and hopefully the Bills can get there.
Speaker 1: Buffalo's favorite by eight. I don't know if I love that.
Speaker 1: I think the Bills has got to do whatever possible
Speaker 1: to get a win. I think they will, but the
Speaker 1: Browns We're gonna get inside that eight Bills win, Browns
Speaker 1: get inside the eightian Eagles are taken on the Colts
Speaker 1: in Indianapolis, Philadelphia, the seven point favorite at Indie after
Speaker 1: playing on a Monday night where they got beat. Now,
Speaker 1: I don't think things are completely fixed in Indianapolis, but
Speaker 1: I think the competitive Jones is absolutely there for them. Now.
Speaker 1: I don't think Coats win. I think Eagles will win,
Speaker 1: but the Colts, with Matt Ryan back as the starting quarterback,
Speaker 1: will keep this thing within seven. Let's go Eagles twenty
Speaker 1: nine twenty five. It's a weird score. Let's go thirty
Speaker 1: one twenty seven. That's a little bit more standard. Eagles win,
Speaker 1: but the Colts will cover that seven. Jets are going
Speaker 1: to the Patriots. Man, this might be one of the
Speaker 1: better games of the day. Now, it won't be a
Speaker 1: lot of scoring. They over under for this is thirty eight.
Speaker 1: Patriots are favorite by three and a half. I still
Speaker 1: think there's a little bit of Fougaysy with the Jets.
Speaker 1: Not all the way and I was pumping up the
Speaker 1: Jets coming into the season, but I think there's just
Speaker 1: a little bit there. Zach Wilson still not white there yet,
Speaker 1: hasn't put a team on his back going against the Patriots.
Speaker 1: I think they'll frustrate him again. They frustrated him in
Speaker 1: a match him a few weeks ago. I think the
Speaker 1: Patriots get to sweep and covered the three and a
Speaker 1: half against the Jets. The Rams are taken on the Saints.
Speaker 1: The Saints are a three point favorite in the Dome. However,
Speaker 1: Matt Stafford is off the injury list. He is ready
Speaker 1: to go, and for that reason, I'm given the road
Speaker 1: underdog a straight up win against the Saints. I do
Speaker 1: not trust the Saints at all at all, not like
Speaker 1: I trust his Rams. But put it this one. If
Speaker 1: the Rams were to lose and the Texans would have win,
Speaker 1: the Rams would have the same number of losses as
Speaker 1: the Texas. Think about that for a second, not one
Speaker 1: loss separating them now, So I don't think that's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: I do think the Texas are gonna win, but the
Speaker 1: Rams will pull the upset on the road against the Saint.
Speaker 1: Saints are two and four at home. I think the
Speaker 1: Rams are gonna get them. Let's go to this game.
Speaker 1: I think this game is gonna be. This one's all
Speaker 1: kinds of interesting, and it gave me probably the biggest
Speaker 1: level of additive if you will. Lions going to take
Speaker 1: on the Gyman. Now, the Lions from one two in
Speaker 1: a row. That it's called a wintry. The Giants are
Speaker 1: only favored by three, And I'm telling you, if we
Speaker 1: had had any bit of fire shown, any bit of
Speaker 1: firepower in the first quarter and not turn the ball
Speaker 1: over in the fourth quarter two times in the red zone.
Speaker 1: We would have beaten the Giants last week and probably
Speaker 1: beat him by a touchdown. For that reason, I'm picking
Speaker 1: the Giants to win by more than three. The Lions
Speaker 1: are talented, but two in a row it stops. The
Speaker 1: Giants are favored by three. I'm picking the Giants to
Speaker 1: get that win over the Lions in MetLife Stadium. Giants
Speaker 1: are formed one at home. Lions did get that win
Speaker 1: last week on the road to They're one in three
Speaker 1: because they got that against Chicago, They'll have a little
Speaker 1: bit easier time. Lions will stopping the Giants because there's
Speaker 1: no justin fields. But Daniel Jones can't get loose. But
Speaker 1: the Giants find ways to win. Panthers Ravens now. The
Speaker 1: Panthers are struging. Thirteen is a tough number, though I
Speaker 1: think the Ravens at home. Favored by thirteen, I think
Speaker 1: the Panthers will get inside that number. I do think
Speaker 1: the Ravens win this game, but give the Panthers a
Speaker 1: cover inside that thirteen. I don't know how, but they're
Speaker 1: gonna find a way. Afternoon games. Raiders take it on
Speaker 1: the Broncos. The Broncos two and a half point favorites
Speaker 1: at home. They'll get a measure revenge against the Raiders.
Speaker 1: One of the two Raiders wins against the Broncos, the
Speaker 1: other one Boar, you know, Broncos are gonna win this one,
Speaker 1: though I don't know how because the Broncos are just
Speaker 1: treading on life support right now. I don't know how
Speaker 1: it's gonna happen, but Broncos are gonna win at home
Speaker 1: and cover that two and a half. Cowboys take on
Speaker 1: the Vikings in Minnesota eight one Minnesota. Dallas is at
Speaker 1: one point five, one and a half point favorite in
Speaker 1: no way. Vikings, with that win over Buffalo, continue on
Speaker 1: the ascent. They beat Dallas in Minnesota and definitely do
Speaker 1: it by more than one and a half. Bengals taken
Speaker 1: on the Steelers. The Steelers are just not a good
Speaker 1: football team right now. In the bank Goals will beat
Speaker 1: them and cover that four points spread and then Sunday
Speaker 1: Key News here for the Chargers. They will get Mike
Speaker 1: Williams and potentially Key now and back. The Chiefs lost
Speaker 1: to wide receivers. The Chiefs are favored by only five.
Speaker 1: We're still taking the Chargers to get inside that number,
Speaker 1: but the Chiefs will still find a way to win.
Speaker 1: And the forty nine Ers taken on the Cardinals in
Speaker 1: Mexico City, Semansco's favorite by eight. I'm gonna get the
Speaker 1: Cardinals to cover, but it's the Niners will go get
Speaker 1: the win in Mexico City. All right, when we get back,
Speaker 1: Obo coron Quo, Drude Ordy's final work. That's next on
Speaker 1: Texas Access. We got one final segment of this Friday
Speaker 1: issue of Texans All Access. Si'm your host, John Harris's
Speaker 1: football analysts, and we got a lot to do. In
Speaker 1: this segment. We got Drew's final word with Christian Harris.
Speaker 1: But we're gonna kick it off with Mark and I
Speaker 1: catching up with Obo okron Quo. This is fun. He
Speaker 1: went to a Leaf Taylor, And so a Leaf Taylor
Speaker 1: is not too far away from where I lived for
Speaker 1: the last ten eleven years, and now I live in
Speaker 1: a different spot of town. But I know a leaf
Speaker 1: seemingly pretty well. Well, I was going to high school.
Speaker 1: It's not a leaf, but we used to play a leaf.
Speaker 1: Elsick and Hastings and Ali Taylor didn't exist. It does
Speaker 1: now in one of their graduates, Zobo Cono, this is fun,
Speaker 1: all right, joining us right now in the Hunday Texans
Speaker 1: Radio studio Albonia Ocarnquo. Welcome, Obo, Hello, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: All right, so I got the correct pronunciation of your well, okay,
Speaker 1: that's good. Sorry, Obo, I'm going straight Obo, I can
Speaker 1: do that, all right. Well, yeah, we during the game
Speaker 1: when I'm doing the play by play, I just say
Speaker 1: Obo because we're in the heat of battle there and
Speaker 1: I don't want to screw it up. But I've got it.
Speaker 1: It's good. And we have Daria on the show also tonight,
Speaker 1: so this is great. And you guys are cousins right
Speaker 1: or not? Really? Oh? Are we outing you right now?
Speaker 1: We're cousins. Quotation marks marks That Nigerian connected is strong. Well,
Speaker 1: you've had participation in the NFL camp in Africa, right, yes,
Speaker 1: sir with us seeing those guys very nice. What does
Speaker 1: that like for you to go over there? It was
Speaker 1: really cool. It was an honor to be able to
Speaker 1: go to Africa and you know, do the first like
Speaker 1: a real official American football there, you know, go and
Speaker 1: throw that combine. It was really cool. How often had
Speaker 1: you been over there, was the first time you've done
Speaker 1: something like that? That was the first time I've done
Speaker 1: something like that there? Would you go back and do
Speaker 1: it again? And what was what was the most rewarding
Speaker 1: part of going over there and doing that? I'll definitely
Speaker 1: go back. In the most rewarding part, I think it
Speaker 1: was just giving those guys who wouldn't have got the
Speaker 1: opportunity otherwise, you know, opportunity to really show what they
Speaker 1: could do. So when you're sitting over there and you're trying,
Speaker 1: I mean, were these were these individuals that had never
Speaker 1: seen football, had played other sports? Well, what was kind
Speaker 1: of the situation for you when you went over there?
Speaker 1: Did they know anything about football? They knew something, but
Speaker 1: a lot of them were basketball players, so translated really well, yeah,
Speaker 1: and so pretty good athletes, very good athletes. How was
Speaker 1: it to teach the game to people that really didn't
Speaker 1: know it? Um? It was. It was interesting because you know,
Speaker 1: throughout all rules that they knew of the sports that
Speaker 1: they regularly played, you know, so so it was cool.
Speaker 1: It was like just uh, I guess playing with like
Speaker 1: like a blank canvas. Yeah, yeah, just being able to
Speaker 1: like give them all their foundations to the game. It
Speaker 1: was cool, very cool. Well, in Senegal, there's an NBA academy, right,
Speaker 1: do you foresee a day where we'll have an NFL
Speaker 1: academy something more permanent over there in Africa's goal Africa.
Speaker 1: When this I s and done, you know, have an
Speaker 1: academy with a pipeline. There already is a pipeline. Will
Speaker 1: just get a lot bigger, bigger pipe. Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 1: And there obviously has been a significant connection here in Houston.
Speaker 1: You grew up, you went to a Leaf Taylor. I
Speaker 1: was sharing this beforehand. Um, I'm so old that when
Speaker 1: I went to high school the Market Soliday, we didn't
Speaker 1: even play Taylor. We played else like in Hastings because
Speaker 1: Taylor didn't even exist. Back when you were playing you
Speaker 1: you had a few, You had a few players on
Speaker 1: your roster at a Leaf Taylor. Did you not when
Speaker 1: you were growing up? Who did you have on your
Speaker 1: roster that ended up? I want to say, you had
Speaker 1: an NFL player in that roster? Who do you have that?
Speaker 1: I just played him a couple of weeks ago. Joshua
Speaker 1: Kaloo Oh Joshua for the Tennant See Titans. He was
Speaker 1: on my roster he he played returners, safety, quarterback. He
Speaker 1: was just an athlete for US Okay, So I'm asking
Speaker 1: a question. I'm sure a lot of people in the
Speaker 1: state of Texas would want to know, why did you
Speaker 1: pick Oklahoma instead of maybe a school in Texas because
Speaker 1: it's a Texas school basically it is. Oh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: Was it a tough decision to go to Oklahoma? When?
Speaker 1: I mean when I visited, I knew I wanted to
Speaker 1: go there. I feel like they had everything I needed
Speaker 1: and they were going to get me to the next level.
Speaker 1: So what was the biggest thing that sold John Oklahoma?
Speaker 1: Was Coach Stoops still there when he there? I think
Speaker 1: it was Coach Stops just the way he's able to
Speaker 1: connect with his players. You know it was you knew
Speaker 1: you were going into a family to family or ento team.
Speaker 1: You know, it's a nice campus too. A lot of
Speaker 1: people don't realize how nice it is there. Uh So,
Speaker 1: tell me about the story of you taking up football
Speaker 1: as a sport, right. Did your father not want you
Speaker 1: to play? I thought i'd read something like that. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't say he didn't want me to play, but he
Speaker 1: didn't want me to play for like, for you know,
Speaker 1: you didn't want me to just play just to play.
Speaker 1: You wanted me to focus on school. Okay, So when
Speaker 1: I started playing, um, I guess I didn't tell them,
Speaker 1: you know, right, because I didn't want them to like
Speaker 1: stop it before it started, you know. So I only
Speaker 1: started playing because one of my coaches, who's also my
Speaker 1: health teacher, thought I should play, you know, and I
Speaker 1: was just like, mmm, I'll give it a trial. You know,
Speaker 1: were you doing other sports before that? Now? You know?
Speaker 1: I was. I was a little artsy kid. Okay, what
Speaker 1: kind of art? Tell us? I liked writing, I love music,
Speaker 1: I liked taking pictures. Um but I was doing stuff
Speaker 1: like that. I'll skateboard a little bit too. And your
Speaker 1: health teacher says, you know what football? Yeah, and I
Speaker 1: was just like, m all right, I'll give it a shot.
Speaker 1: That's pretty amazing. Like give it a shot, all right,
Speaker 1: and you just go to the NFL with it. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's taking and doing the best with your particular shot. Okay,
Speaker 1: So my asses, because you said you're I've got a
Speaker 1: number of My wife is an our teacher, wasn't our
Speaker 1: teacher should artist? My daughter's an artists and acting and
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. So when you get on
Speaker 1: the field, where do you where do you have to
Speaker 1: go mentally to kind of find that football violence that
Speaker 1: you need to have out in the field, Like what
Speaker 1: where did that come from? To be able to find
Speaker 1: that and be that successful on the defensive side of
Speaker 1: the ball for not having played growing up? I think, Um,
Speaker 1: I think when I play, that's like it's like my
Speaker 1: old TiO ego, you know, because that's so busy. Yeah, hunt,
Speaker 1: because in real life I'm super I'm self spoken, I'm
Speaker 1: not really too loud, you know, but but when I'm
Speaker 1: on the field, I'm running around screaming and you know,
Speaker 1: I don't even know who that guy is on Sunday.
Speaker 1: But you didn't start playing until relatively late in high school.
Speaker 1: So was it a surprise to you when that came
Speaker 1: out between the lines, that side of your personality. Yeah
Speaker 1: it was, Yeah, it definitely was. And as I got
Speaker 1: more comfortable, it got a little it got a little crazier,
Speaker 1: you know, So it was it was fun to meet
Speaker 1: that side of me, I guess. But if you're an
Speaker 1: ARTSI and you're into ing, and I'm not saying you're
Speaker 1: putting on an act because obviously been pretty successful. But
Speaker 1: it's almost like you're stepping out of your body. You're
Speaker 1: going into a different role, is it not. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you can say that for sure. That's interesting. I mean
Speaker 1: I never never really thought about that because you just
Speaker 1: see guys that go on in the field, and especially
Speaker 1: on defense when they're defensively dominant, like man, you see
Speaker 1: the violent hands, you see everything, and you would think, Okay,
Speaker 1: that guy grew up playing the game. And then obviously
Speaker 1: it's not when did you When did you start as
Speaker 1: a senior junior year? That's when you first was it
Speaker 1: the first time you had played football? Heard you dabbled
Speaker 1: it in before, it like, but just wasn't It wasn't
Speaker 1: really I didn't really think it was for me. And
Speaker 1: so no football coaches walked the hallway, were like come on, man,
Speaker 1: come on, they weren't in your ear at all, because
Speaker 1: I know a lot of football coaches that would have
Speaker 1: been in your ear a long time before that. And him,
Speaker 1: my gross bred until like end of sophomore. Yeah you know,
Speaker 1: so then I like shot up to like six one,
Speaker 1: six two, and then it was like, okay, who's this
Speaker 1: guy walking through the hallways? You know? Yeah, at a
Speaker 1: leaf tailor. They're like, hey, so you go to Oklahoma
Speaker 1: and did you think NFL right away or did you
Speaker 1: think this could happen or were you just trying to
Speaker 1: get acclimated to college. I was still trying to get
Speaker 1: acclimated to the ball in general. So I think I
Speaker 1: learned most of my like my football knowledge in Oklahoma,
Speaker 1: you know, playing there, and I think after the first
Speaker 1: couple of years I saw the NFL was like definitely
Speaker 1: like a possibility, you know. So that's amazing to think
Speaker 1: about your game the other day against the Giants. I
Speaker 1: told coach after the game, because I'm always I'm always
Speaker 1: in march here talking to him, even though if I'm
Speaker 1: not on the air, I'm still talking to him, so
Speaker 1: I kind of help him with who's making tackles, who's
Speaker 1: making place I said, your name a bunch against the Giants.
Speaker 1: It felt like it was the most impactful game you've had.
Speaker 1: Was there something that clicked or just that was your
Speaker 1: that was your day? What's been kind of been going on?
Speaker 1: Because that was probably your best performance. I felt like
Speaker 1: this year old bow I would just trusting the scheme,
Speaker 1: you know, just playing hard and um just trying to
Speaker 1: empty the tank, you know, but within the guidelines of
Speaker 1: what the defense is asking for. You know, Um, the
Speaker 1: defense is like it's made for us for like a
Speaker 1: D line. Yeah, you know, make a bunch of plays
Speaker 1: behind the line, im you know if you put us
Speaker 1: in position too. So you said something right away that
Speaker 1: I always think about trust the scheme. How how tough
Speaker 1: is that for players to be like, Okay, coaches wanted
Speaker 1: me to do this, but my natural instinct says this,
Speaker 1: but you know what, I gotta trust me. How tough
Speaker 1: is that to trust the scheme? I mean, yeah, it's tough,
Speaker 1: you know, because I feel like everybody feels like they
Speaker 1: see they see something, you know. But it's like if
Speaker 1: you if you just trust the scheme, you know, and
Speaker 1: you do it consistently more times than not, like good
Speaker 1: things will happen for you. Oh oknqua with us. All right?
Speaker 1: So you were a Big twelve defensive Player of the
Speaker 1: Year and now oh you is going to go into
Speaker 1: the SEC. Do you have feelings or a reaction about that.
Speaker 1: I think we're gonna dominate this, see, just like we
Speaker 1: dominated the Big twelve. All right. Well that's why this
Speaker 1: here is a little bit of a down year. You
Speaker 1: know he got this, we got faith in Brent ventiable?
Speaker 1: What's Brent there when you were there? Or he was artist?
Speaker 1: I mean I missed him on his way to Clayea,
Speaker 1: you missed him on about what about Stoops filling in
Speaker 1: as the interim after a Lincoln ride He left last
Speaker 1: year during Bowl season. That was kind of cool. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's one of those guys. Uh, you can you can
Speaker 1: call him off the couch and he can go clutching
Speaker 1: and the Rose both if if acts two? You know
Speaker 1: I played that you played that Rose Ball? Was that
Speaker 1: that was your finally twenty seven team? Was your final season? Right?
Speaker 1: That was my last Folle game? So how often do
Speaker 1: you think back to that night? Uh? Yeah? Why ask
Speaker 1: because you remember the great wins and the great sacks
Speaker 1: and the great plays, but that one, the one that
Speaker 1: got away? Yeah? And the Rose Bowl. Can you just
Speaker 1: see plays over and over again as you look back
Speaker 1: last play? Oh, Like, I see that play all the time.
Speaker 1: Every time I see a toss crack, I think about
Speaker 1: that play. That was the play they ran. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: was the last player man. And we see toss crack
Speaker 1: this year few times too. Oh my goodness, Oh boy,
Speaker 1: you were part of a Super Bowl team last year, right,
Speaker 1: so here you are with the Houston Texans and a
Speaker 1: lot of young players. It's a struggle right now. Got
Speaker 1: eight games left in the regular season. What do you
Speaker 1: say to the young players? You're a leader on this team.
Speaker 1: What do you say to the young players about hanging
Speaker 1: in there and keep pushing and keep doing your best
Speaker 1: and the good times will start coming at at some
Speaker 1: points as long as as a shot, Like we need
Speaker 1: to just you know, play as hard as we can.
Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot of talent, a talent, a
Speaker 1: lot of young talent. You know, these guys are gonna
Speaker 1: be really good players for a long time. You know,
Speaker 1: I just tell them right now, like like just just
Speaker 1: try to like trust and trust everything. Trust everybody, play
Speaker 1: as hard as you can, and like good things will happen.
Speaker 1: You know. We work really hard every day I practice,
Speaker 1: you know, so like eventually something something, you know, if
Speaker 1: we stay consistent, something has to do that's to go
Speaker 1: in our favorite you know, and that's all we try
Speaker 1: to appreciate them. Okay, let's get to the actual real question.
Speaker 1: How did you feel when you open the ring box
Speaker 1: and saw your Super Bowl ring? That pretty good day. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It blow you away when you open up and look
Speaker 1: at it. Yeah, it did. It did. And when I
Speaker 1: saw how big it was, I was just like wow,
Speaker 1: like is it even wearable? Oh? Bo? I mean is
Speaker 1: it the size of us small hand? Yeah, it's like
Speaker 1: it's like an egg. It's like what I can't remember it.
Speaker 1: Does it twist off? Does it pop off? Yeah? It
Speaker 1: twists off, and it shows inside of a sofa stadium
Speaker 1: where we actually won the game, So which is at
Speaker 1: your home. I would imagine for everybody thinks about Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: they go to a different location, but you actually are
Speaker 1: playing your home stadium. What was that like? No? Super cool?
Speaker 1: You know, after the game, like we're already with our families. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, to just go to dinner. It was cool.
Speaker 1: It was really It was a really nice night. That
Speaker 1: is really interesting. You're with your families, you get to
Speaker 1: sleep in your own bed. You know, you want your finger.
Speaker 1: You don't get the egg that night, Yeah, you don't
Speaker 1: get it at night. But still. Yeah. You guys like
Speaker 1: Donald showed everybody he had he had his thoughts. I
Speaker 1: mean that was the first thing he thought about was
Speaker 1: I made a sack, I get a ring, I mean
Speaker 1: it was that simple. He did the math. You get
Speaker 1: it later on. Ohbo message for the fans here, because,
Speaker 1: like we said, eight games to go, you get a
Speaker 1: home game this Sunday against Washington, a team that won
Speaker 1: on Monday Night football against Philly, previously undefeated. And I
Speaker 1: know you're familiar with that team, so familiar with the tape.
Speaker 1: What do you have to say to the fans as
Speaker 1: we get ready for Sunday? We're really close, this team
Speaker 1: is really competitive. We got a lot of fighting us.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of a lot of season left, you know,
Speaker 1: so you know, just stayed of course with us. We're
Speaker 1: gonna get it together, all right. Thanks a lot for
Speaker 1: joining us. Good luck, Obo, Thank you. I thought last
Speaker 1: week against the Giants was Obo's best game. Played to
Speaker 1: run extremely well. I told him about that obviously during
Speaker 1: the interview. I think he had a really solid ball game.
Speaker 1: So hopefully he gets more quality. Raps is able to
Speaker 1: do his thing on Sunday against the Commanders and the
Speaker 1: Texans can walk out with a victory. Now, to get
Speaker 1: a victory, this next guest needs to have himself another
Speaker 1: ball game like he's had the last couple and that's
Speaker 1: Christian Harris, rookie linebacker. I'll tell you this quick story
Speaker 1: on Sunday against the Giants. Giants first drive and then
Speaker 1: moving the ball, okay, and they run sae Quon Barkley
Speaker 1: away from Christian Harris, so it's to the offenses left,
Speaker 1: defense is right, and Christian was on the defensive left,
Speaker 1: so he's all the way away from the play. I'm
Speaker 1: telling you. Barkley started off to the left side, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, he's got something. And then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, I could see how the corner of my
Speaker 1: eye could see this blur and Christian Harris was flying
Speaker 1: from the other side and wam he hit Barkley right
Speaker 1: in the helmet. And I heard it through my headphones.
Speaker 1: Now that's pretty tough. It MetLife, which is a pretty
Speaker 1: loud environment. I gotta have Mark and Andre turned up
Speaker 1: pretty loudly in my ears. So I hear the hit
Speaker 1: as Mark's calling the play, and I just immediately went, WHOA,
Speaker 1: I could, hell, I could. I heard Mark kind of
Speaker 1: hesitate for a second because he didn't quite know why
Speaker 1: I said that to him, and then I was like,
Speaker 1: and then, of course I'm always in his ear, I
Speaker 1: said Christian Harris, and he said, oh okay, because then
Speaker 1: he saw the replay and he got it because Christian
Speaker 1: Harris blasted Sae Kwon Barkley. Need more of that from
Speaker 1: this guy and Drew Doherty's final word with Christian Harris
Speaker 1: Linebacker Christian Harris is the guest now on the player
Speaker 1: pregame special Christian. Great to be with you. Four games
Speaker 1: in now, because you missed some time because of the injury.
Speaker 1: Put four games in you get the bulk of the
Speaker 1: snaps at first one you've started the last three. How
Speaker 1: much have you grown? What have you learned in that span?
Speaker 1: I mean, I've learned a lot really, honestly. I think
Speaker 1: one of the biggest things for me is to just
Speaker 1: you know, slow my tempo down and trust my pace,
Speaker 1: trust my preparation that I put in going into these
Speaker 1: weeks for these games. I mean, I know stage is
Speaker 1: a lot bigger people can say that with you know,
Speaker 1: just better players and it being an NFL, But you know,
Speaker 1: I think the concept of football stays the same. It's
Speaker 1: still the child's game. So continuously finding ways to remind
Speaker 1: myself for that or have guys do that for me
Speaker 1: help me out a lot so with all that in mind,
Speaker 1: what is something that you like that you've done, and
Speaker 1: what's something that you want to get better at. I'm
Speaker 1: liking how I'm able to utilize my speed, saying yo,
Speaker 1: how I can make players with that. But I think
Speaker 1: just from a physicality standpoint, I think I want to
Speaker 1: do better with that and using my hands a little
Speaker 1: more more, trusting myself with my reads and just when
Speaker 1: I'm seeing, just so I can play a lot faster.
Speaker 1: You know, you're one of many rookies both sides of
Speaker 1: the ball, whether you were drafted or not, that have
Speaker 1: started and contributed so far the season of the Texans.
Speaker 1: Is there kind of a kinship, kind of a bond
Speaker 1: with you guys that are first your players right now?
Speaker 1: Most definitely, I think a lot of it comes from
Speaker 1: just us being in the SEC played against Austin, like
Speaker 1: I played against DP, and I know guys like Staying
Speaker 1: so we already I mean I trained with Petrie Exos
Speaker 1: for the combine, so I got a chance to already
Speaker 1: build a relationship with these guys coming in, so we
Speaker 1: all blend in pretty well. With that. You want to
Speaker 1: win now, you want to win this game one every
Speaker 1: single week but for the future, that's got to be
Speaker 1: kind of cool knowing that you all are part of something, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: one percent. I mean it is good to be part
Speaker 1: of something. And I mean, you know, hopefully you know,
Speaker 1: bring some more wins to this organization. And I mean
Speaker 1: it really starts right now. Like I said, we're trying
Speaker 1: to win now. So it's just a matter of attacking
Speaker 1: that right now. You guys, as a defense, you want
Speaker 1: to stop the run better. What are some ways that
Speaker 1: can happen? You know, physicality, think you know on the
Speaker 1: second level with linebackers, me and myself personally, just doing
Speaker 1: better with my hands and when it comes to the
Speaker 1: point of attack, just trying to be more consistent with that.
Speaker 1: I think, you know, as a whole collectively, if we're
Speaker 1: more consistent on defense, so in that same energy from
Speaker 1: first or fourth quarter will be a lot better. Washington
Speaker 1: is the opponent this weekend. You see a familiar face
Speaker 1: and Brian Robinson across the way. As a team they
Speaker 1: rate at forty nine times on Monday night. What's a
Speaker 1: challenger with Robinson's has he has he done anything differently
Speaker 1: than what you were accustomed to see him back in
Speaker 1: Tusca Louson. I mean I see him, you know, I
Speaker 1: see him play his game and just do a lot
Speaker 1: better with that. I mean, just run it even harder
Speaker 1: than he did at Alabama. You know, you're getting a
Speaker 1: lot faster, good vision. So he's a great all around back.
Speaker 1: I mean it's a great challenge for me. I'm excited.
Speaker 1: So and what is quarterback Taylor Heide? What does he
Speaker 1: present to you guys? He's more elusive than I think
Speaker 1: people would think, making extent plays, and he runs, you know,
Speaker 1: he does his job fitting in their scheme, I mean
Speaker 1: pretty well. Like I think all other players do that
Speaker 1: pretty well. And I mean they did this last weekend
Speaker 1: coming off a big w so yeah, I mean they all.
Speaker 1: Like I said, it'll present pretty good challenges for us.
Speaker 1: When you get ready for a game. What time you
Speaker 1: wake up in the morning for a noon contest, probably
Speaker 1: around like seven thirty seven. Yeah. Are you able to
Speaker 1: eat much before the game? Yeah, I mean I'll eat
Speaker 1: around like eight or nine. I mean we don't play
Speaker 1: till twelve, so I have enough time to you know,
Speaker 1: eat and get it all digested to get high and stuff,
Speaker 1: so I'll be ready for it. Anything you're listening to
Speaker 1: before the game gets going. In the morning, I wake
Speaker 1: up with like a this morning praise, like I got
Speaker 1: this little gospel playlist I got my mom sent me,
Speaker 1: and then was after that. It's mainly probably gonna a
Speaker 1: little young young boy, young boy closer to the field.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that's about it. You ramp things up, I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: start off. We're hoping you ramp it up to wins.
Speaker 1: We appreciate the time, Christian Harris, test of luck and
Speaker 1: we'll talk to you again. Appreciate that. The pride of
Speaker 1: bad ruge right there, Christian Harris, I'm gonna play a
Speaker 1: big role in this one. Another reminder, Christian Harris grew
Speaker 1: up with a gun name Derek Stingley. Sting will not
Speaker 1: play on Sunday. He is ruled out deal with the hamstring.
Speaker 1: Cole Holcom and Jady McKissick are both out on the
Speaker 1: Commander's side, So we'll find out this weekend whether Chase
Speaker 1: Young is officially inner out. What we heard this morning
Speaker 1: was that more than likely not going to be ready
Speaker 1: to go, which you know, we'll see how that plays
Speaker 1: out for the commanders. But time to get a dub
Speaker 1: at all. It's been a while how long. December twenty six,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. That's how long it's been. So let's
Speaker 1: go get this dub at home against Heineken and the
Speaker 1: boys and have a good time and a big thanks
Speaker 1: to so many people that participated in this show. You
Speaker 1: heard Christian Harris JR. Doherty, Dpcity, Anthony Armstrong, Mark Vanimir,
Speaker 1: Lovey Smith and all of you guys out there for
Speaker 1: listening my guys back at sports Radio six ten. You
Speaker 1: guys are very special. You make it all worth it.
Speaker 1: We'll see you on Sunday, bright and early kicks at noon,
Speaker 1: getting your seats be loud. Let's go get a win
Speaker 1: over Washington and as always, go Texans.