1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:02,520 Speaker 1: What is going on? Everybody. Welcome to a Friday edition 2 00:00:02,560 --> 00:00:06,800 Speaker 1: of Texans All Access. It's a postgame edition, which is 3 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:10,840 Speaker 1: atypical because usually on the Friday show we start previewing 4 00:00:10,880 --> 00:00:14,040 Speaker 1: the game on Sunday. But because the Texans played last night, 5 00:00:14,120 --> 00:00:17,680 Speaker 1: well we got a postgame show for you. Welcome in, everybody. 6 00:00:17,720 --> 00:00:21,040 Speaker 1: I am your host, John Harris, football Analyston's sideline reporter 7 00:00:21,079 --> 00:00:25,040 Speaker 1: and sitting in the Hunday Texans Radios studio feeling good 8 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:28,360 Speaker 1: about five and three, feeling not so good about some 9 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:32,120 Speaker 1: news we got today, but such as life in the 10 00:00:32,240 --> 00:00:35,320 Speaker 1: NFL and playing this game, and we'll get to all 11 00:00:35,560 --> 00:00:38,120 Speaker 1: of that. We've got plenty for you on the show. 12 00:00:38,240 --> 00:00:41,120 Speaker 1: Mark's gonna stop by and we're gonna discuss what we 13 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:45,240 Speaker 1: saw last night. And there were so many good things. 14 00:00:45,240 --> 00:00:47,640 Speaker 1: And you know, one thing about having the stage to 15 00:00:47,720 --> 00:00:51,519 Speaker 1: yourself on a Thursday night, anything that happens in that 16 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:59,360 Speaker 1: particular game ends up being fodder for everybody. Everybody, everybody 17 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:03,800 Speaker 1: across the country just tweets out players watching, Todd Gurley's 18 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:08,560 Speaker 1: watching tweeting out goats about DeAndre Hopkins, and you know 19 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:11,840 Speaker 1: that's what That's what happens. Everybody's watching that game. The 20 00:01:11,959 --> 00:01:14,399 Speaker 1: NFL players want to see, and especially when you have 21 00:01:14,680 --> 00:01:17,600 Speaker 1: players in this game like the Texans do, like DeShawn Watson, 22 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:21,440 Speaker 1: like DeAndre Hopkins, like Clowney, like what like Matthew They 23 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:25,280 Speaker 1: you know, people want to see what the Texans are 24 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:26,720 Speaker 1: all about. Hey, this team is four and three, they 25 00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:29,160 Speaker 1: won four in a row? Are they legit? Are they 26 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:33,160 Speaker 1: for real? And it was a huge, huge talking point 27 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:35,520 Speaker 1: last night. So Mark and I are going to talk 28 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:37,959 Speaker 1: about that and some of the other things that we saw, 29 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:41,680 Speaker 1: maybe some of the underrated aspects of last night's game, 30 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:44,720 Speaker 1: and we'll get to that very very soon. Greg Mants 31 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:48,960 Speaker 1: we talked to earlier last week and got some great 32 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:53,760 Speaker 1: thoughts from him about stepping into the lineup, and we 33 00:01:53,880 --> 00:01:57,680 Speaker 1: actually got some some questions today and cooler talk is 34 00:01:57,760 --> 00:02:01,320 Speaker 1: Greg Mants should Greg answer? Is Greg Man's gonna be 35 00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:05,080 Speaker 1: the starter going forward? And Greg has played so well, 36 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:08,600 Speaker 1: so well the last couple of weeks, it's hard not 37 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:11,000 Speaker 1: to think of him as being a starter. But zet 38 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:13,519 Speaker 1: Fulton was brought to this team. They believe in Zach, 39 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:16,480 Speaker 1: and Zach has played pretty well. That Buffalo game was 40 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:19,799 Speaker 1: tough because he banged up his ankle, his ankle at 41 00:02:19,880 --> 00:02:21,400 Speaker 1: some point. I want to say it was on an 42 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:25,480 Speaker 1: extra point. He came walking away and lipping pretty badly 43 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:29,680 Speaker 1: after during that Buffalo game, played through it, got through 44 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:33,760 Speaker 1: the game, but with two games in five days, kind 45 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:36,040 Speaker 1: of figured if he wasn't gonna be ready for Friday, 46 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:37,520 Speaker 1: it was gonna be really difficult to get ready for 47 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:40,799 Speaker 1: excuse me, for Sunday, it wasn't gonna be ready for Thursday. 48 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:43,200 Speaker 1: So my guess is that Zach Hopley with ten days 49 00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:45,360 Speaker 1: would be able to come back. But that's the greatness 50 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:47,760 Speaker 1: about having the great thing about having Greg Mance on 51 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:50,240 Speaker 1: your rosters to play off guard. He can play right guard, 52 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:52,240 Speaker 1: he could play center, and he plays them all pretty well, 53 00:02:52,280 --> 00:02:54,919 Speaker 1: and he's really excelled. I think it between Nick Martin 54 00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:58,799 Speaker 1: and Kendall Lamb, and some of that is because Nick 55 00:02:58,919 --> 00:03:01,600 Speaker 1: and excuse me, that Greg and Kendell have known each 56 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:03,840 Speaker 1: other since they've been here. They came in together with 57 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:05,919 Speaker 1: twenty fifteen. They lived together for a little bit, so 58 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:08,480 Speaker 1: there's a close relationship to there. So we'll have our 59 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:12,200 Speaker 1: discussion that we had with Greg Mance. Our deep Slant 60 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:16,320 Speaker 1: interview of the Week this week is with Brennan Scarlett, 61 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:20,160 Speaker 1: who when I and I wrote about this in observations. 62 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:23,400 Speaker 1: You know, one of the things about this particular team 63 00:03:24,120 --> 00:03:28,520 Speaker 1: that I love is the actual concept of team. These 64 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:31,320 Speaker 1: guys are all pulling for each other. Guys know what 65 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:33,520 Speaker 1: their roles are. You know, Brendan was a guy that 66 00:03:33,639 --> 00:03:36,040 Speaker 1: last year, because of the injury to Whitney Mercials, he 67 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:38,040 Speaker 1: got a lot of time and outside linebacker. This year 68 00:03:38,040 --> 00:03:41,480 Speaker 1: he's not getting that amount of time because Watt's back merciless, 69 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:43,720 Speaker 1: back clowning could jump outside a little bit. Brendan's not 70 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:46,680 Speaker 1: getting that time on defense. Now. Last night he got 71 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:49,440 Speaker 1: time in inside linebacker actually because of the injuries to 72 00:03:49,520 --> 00:03:55,080 Speaker 1: Zack Cunningham and then Peter Calmbay, Josh kys And and 73 00:03:56,080 --> 00:03:57,720 Speaker 1: Brendon Scarlett were the two guys that had to go 74 00:03:57,720 --> 00:03:59,920 Speaker 1: in inside linebacker. So so Brandon's asked to do a 75 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:05,240 Speaker 1: lot of different things. But today I saw a tweet 76 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:10,240 Speaker 1: showing that Brendan Scarlett is the highest rated special teams 77 00:04:10,240 --> 00:04:13,680 Speaker 1: player in the league. When that's a guy that's that's 78 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:16,400 Speaker 1: taking that role of special teams and said, look, I'm 79 00:04:16,400 --> 00:04:19,400 Speaker 1: gonna go dominate. I can dominate this phase and I 80 00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:21,520 Speaker 1: could stick around this organization. I can stick in the 81 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:24,600 Speaker 1: NFL by being really really good on special teams. So 82 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:27,520 Speaker 1: Brent Scarlett's gonna stop by and he's gonna talk about 83 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:29,919 Speaker 1: Shania Twain. You have to stick around to see what 84 00:04:29,960 --> 00:04:32,200 Speaker 1: I'm talking about. I got my picks for you, the 85 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:35,599 Speaker 1: Texans pick. I'm presented by Train for a chance to 86 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:38,080 Speaker 1: win great weekly prizes, So I'll have all my picks 87 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:40,960 Speaker 1: straight up and against the spread, So I'll have those 88 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:44,040 Speaker 1: for you later in the show. And when I did 89 00:04:44,080 --> 00:04:47,560 Speaker 1: Texans replay last week, and hopefully you guys tune in. 90 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:51,600 Speaker 1: It's Tuesday nights, eight o'clock. It follows Players Show and 91 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:54,640 Speaker 1: All Access on Tuesday, So six to seven, seven to eight, 92 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:59,400 Speaker 1: eight to nine is replay. After the catch in Jacksonville, 93 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:02,719 Speaker 1: the one hand did catch that DeAndre hat on Jalen Ramsey. 94 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:05,800 Speaker 1: It got me thinking about where that one sat in 95 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:11,360 Speaker 1: the pantheon of catches. And then last night happens and 96 00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:16,440 Speaker 1: yes it didn't count. I get that. But where does 97 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:19,839 Speaker 1: that one rank? Well, I'll let you know where I 98 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:22,839 Speaker 1: had him ranked prior to and then you can figure 99 00:05:22,839 --> 00:05:25,800 Speaker 1: out where it gets slotted. But Bill Ryan said it 100 00:05:25,839 --> 00:05:28,359 Speaker 1: after the game. He said, I've seen those are the 101 00:05:28,440 --> 00:05:31,479 Speaker 1: two catches that maybe are better than anything he's ever done. 102 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:34,720 Speaker 1: Were two that didn't count, and he referenced that one 103 00:05:34,720 --> 00:05:39,080 Speaker 1: against the Giants in twenty fourteen and obviously one last night. Ironically, 104 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:41,760 Speaker 1: it was penalties on Hop on both players that negated 105 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:44,200 Speaker 1: the catches. The first one because he was lined up 106 00:05:44,520 --> 00:05:46,360 Speaker 1: on the line should have been off the line. Last 107 00:05:46,440 --> 00:05:52,120 Speaker 1: night was a bogus pastor ferens, a bogus pastor of ferens. 108 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:55,520 Speaker 1: That was a lousy It was a lousy It was 109 00:05:55,560 --> 00:05:59,880 Speaker 1: lousy called. It was a lousy called game overall last night. 110 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:03,679 Speaker 1: Just things that you know, the snap, the victory formation 111 00:06:03,839 --> 00:06:08,000 Speaker 1: right before the half was handled poorly. I thought there 112 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:11,040 Speaker 1: were a couple of calls they definitely missed during a game. Now, 113 00:06:11,200 --> 00:06:13,480 Speaker 1: the flip side of that is when Justin Reid had 114 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:17,440 Speaker 1: the interception apparently, and I have to go back and 115 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:20,800 Speaker 1: watch this. Apparently Danny Amndola is being held, but I 116 00:06:20,839 --> 00:06:23,159 Speaker 1: didn't see it. So look, it can go both ways. 117 00:06:23,440 --> 00:06:26,640 Speaker 1: It just felt like there's things were not going into 118 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:29,880 Speaker 1: Texas direction. And not only that, I just felt like 119 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:34,280 Speaker 1: it was a poorly managed game from that perspective, But 120 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:36,800 Speaker 1: that can be a discussion for a different time. Just 121 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:39,760 Speaker 1: hopefully that's the last we see of that crew. Now 122 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:42,279 Speaker 1: it's getting some hot reads presented you by Geico. Fifteen 123 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:46,880 Speaker 1: minutes continue fifteen percent or more on car insurance. As 124 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:51,880 Speaker 1: I mentioned earlier, some unfortunate news came out of this one, 125 00:06:51,920 --> 00:06:54,000 Speaker 1: and we'll start with that before we getting anything else. 126 00:06:54,040 --> 00:06:59,560 Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien met with the media today and he had, 127 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:06,919 Speaker 1: unfortunately this announcement as it pertained to wide receiver Will Fuller. 128 00:07:07,680 --> 00:07:12,560 Speaker 1: Will Fuller towards ACL and be off for the season. 129 00:07:12,840 --> 00:07:17,640 Speaker 1: That's a tough one. It is just a gut punch, 130 00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:20,960 Speaker 1: tough one to take, you know. I got in the 131 00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:23,880 Speaker 1: building in twenty fourteen and twenty fourteen it was Jevion Clowney. 132 00:07:23,880 --> 00:07:25,440 Speaker 1: You didn't do it toward an ACL, but he missed 133 00:07:25,440 --> 00:07:27,800 Speaker 1: a lot of that year having to had microfracture surgery, 134 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:29,840 Speaker 1: and then twenty fifteen he was kind of up and 135 00:07:29,880 --> 00:07:32,200 Speaker 1: down and out of the lineup due to some injuries. 136 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:36,960 Speaker 1: In twenty sixteen, it was JJ and and Kevin Johnson. 137 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:39,960 Speaker 1: In twenty seventeen, it was everybody. It was DeShawn, it 138 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:43,320 Speaker 1: was Wit, it was Watt, it was everybody. And then 139 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:45,200 Speaker 1: this year he kind of felt like, man, you know, 140 00:07:45,240 --> 00:07:47,800 Speaker 1: there there have been some injuries. Maybe you can get 141 00:07:47,880 --> 00:07:49,920 Speaker 1: Dylan Cole back, maybe you get Bruce Ellington back, some 142 00:07:49,960 --> 00:07:52,760 Speaker 1: of those guys that have gone on I R. And 143 00:07:52,800 --> 00:07:55,520 Speaker 1: then you get hit with that last night, and it 144 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:58,960 Speaker 1: was it was tough, really tough to take. And being 145 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:01,000 Speaker 1: in a locker room the way that I am, I 146 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:03,120 Speaker 1: get a chance to kind of see things before everybody 147 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:06,800 Speaker 1: else does, so I kind of knew. I mean, I 148 00:08:06,840 --> 00:08:10,080 Speaker 1: did know that there was a high probability that it 149 00:08:10,120 --> 00:08:12,200 Speaker 1: was a torny ACL So I kind of went through 150 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:15,920 Speaker 1: the grieving period, if you will, last night about Will Fuller. 151 00:08:16,400 --> 00:08:19,800 Speaker 1: But coach said, you know what, injuries or just away 152 00:08:19,880 --> 00:08:22,480 Speaker 1: life in the NFL. That's the thing about this league, 153 00:08:22,520 --> 00:08:24,119 Speaker 1: you know. I think if you go through every team, 154 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:26,880 Speaker 1: everybody's dealing with injuries and so, you know, and it's 155 00:08:26,880 --> 00:08:30,239 Speaker 1: such a cliche, but you know, the coaching staff, the players, 156 00:08:30,480 --> 00:08:32,880 Speaker 1: we all have to pitch in and figure it out 157 00:08:33,040 --> 00:08:37,400 Speaker 1: and figure out how we're gonna construct the offense, and 158 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:39,920 Speaker 1: you know, maybe some things will be the same, maybe 159 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:41,800 Speaker 1: some things will be a little bit different. Most importantly, 160 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:43,920 Speaker 1: for right now, I'm very disappointed for Will. You know, 161 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:49,040 Speaker 1: because Will Will is the great. Guys, Really, I've been 162 00:08:49,040 --> 00:08:50,800 Speaker 1: playing at a high level, like you said, so I'm 163 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:53,840 Speaker 1: just disappointed for Will. Yeah, no doubt. Will's turned himself 164 00:08:53,840 --> 00:08:58,360 Speaker 1: into not only one of the most significant deep threats 165 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:01,400 Speaker 1: in the league, but one of the best receivers. He's 166 00:09:01,400 --> 00:09:05,439 Speaker 1: been doing everything everything well. I mean, I don't think 167 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:09,160 Speaker 1: there's any question about that, no doubt. Now, one of 168 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:11,280 Speaker 1: the big stories I think in the last two weeks 169 00:09:11,280 --> 00:09:15,079 Speaker 1: has been the play of the offensive line. No sacks 170 00:09:15,160 --> 00:09:19,600 Speaker 1: last night. One quarterback hit no sacks in the last 171 00:09:19,720 --> 00:09:22,200 Speaker 1: one hundred and sixteen minutes of action dating back to 172 00:09:22,240 --> 00:09:24,679 Speaker 1: the eleven minute mark of the first quarter against Jacksonville. 173 00:09:25,280 --> 00:09:28,200 Speaker 1: So it's played well and coach is happy with that, 174 00:09:28,920 --> 00:09:32,760 Speaker 1: but you gotta keep it going past A couple of 175 00:09:32,760 --> 00:09:35,320 Speaker 1: games have been good. I mean they've they've passed protected well, 176 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:39,680 Speaker 1: we've run the ball well. But like I just said 177 00:09:39,720 --> 00:09:41,280 Speaker 1: to some guys in the locker room, you know, it's 178 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:43,839 Speaker 1: a short walk, you know what I mean. So, what 179 00:09:44,320 --> 00:09:47,080 Speaker 1: have you done for me lately? Absolutely, that's what NFL is. 180 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:50,960 Speaker 1: What have you done for me lately? Now, a guy 181 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:54,080 Speaker 1: that's done a lot of things lately is Deshaun Watson. 182 00:09:54,720 --> 00:09:57,360 Speaker 1: If you think about what he's been through on Saturday morning, 183 00:09:57,960 --> 00:10:02,880 Speaker 1: maybe I guess where maybe Friday night, took off on 184 00:10:02,920 --> 00:10:06,240 Speaker 1: a twelve and a half hour trip to Jacksonville on 185 00:10:06,280 --> 00:10:09,040 Speaker 1: a bus, got there. In fact, I think he beat 186 00:10:09,120 --> 00:10:13,000 Speaker 1: us there to Jacksonville. Plays in the game, has a 187 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:15,440 Speaker 1: solid ball game, not the greatest you've ever seen, but 188 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:18,520 Speaker 1: made timely third down throws, great throw to hop for 189 00:10:18,559 --> 00:10:21,040 Speaker 1: the touchdown, move the team up and down the field, 190 00:10:21,160 --> 00:10:25,000 Speaker 1: no turnovers, gets back on his bus, drives back twelve 191 00:10:25,040 --> 00:10:30,600 Speaker 1: and a half hours on Sunday, gets back dark thirty Monday, 192 00:10:30,640 --> 00:10:34,600 Speaker 1: and then on Thursday night goes berserk sixteen to twenty 193 00:10:34,640 --> 00:10:41,200 Speaker 1: five touchdowns and was just outstanding. And Kutcha Brian said, 194 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:44,760 Speaker 1: Watson so even killed, but yet he strives to get 195 00:10:44,760 --> 00:10:47,600 Speaker 1: better every day. He's really the same guy every day. 196 00:10:47,640 --> 00:10:49,520 Speaker 1: That's what you're really looking for in a quarterback. You 197 00:10:49,559 --> 00:10:51,440 Speaker 1: really don't want an up and down guy. He's the 198 00:10:51,480 --> 00:10:54,079 Speaker 1: same guy every day. He's got a lot of confidence, 199 00:10:54,600 --> 00:10:59,920 Speaker 1: he has no fear. He loves he loves big moment, 200 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:02,600 Speaker 1: he loves when the balls in his hands, and he's 201 00:11:02,679 --> 00:11:05,920 Speaker 1: learning every day. So when you have those those those 202 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:07,920 Speaker 1: things going for you, and you're like a sponge and 203 00:11:07,920 --> 00:11:11,680 Speaker 1: you're willing to learn, work at it, get better. You know, 204 00:11:11,760 --> 00:11:14,880 Speaker 1: remember the things that you know you can improve upon 205 00:11:14,960 --> 00:11:17,559 Speaker 1: each week, remember them for the next game. Now you 206 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:20,360 Speaker 1: got something, and so you know, that's the type of guy. 207 00:11:20,360 --> 00:11:23,640 Speaker 1: He is. Absolutely brilliant night last night for the Shaun 208 00:11:23,720 --> 00:11:27,720 Speaker 1: Watson did an unbelievable job. Another guy that's done a 209 00:11:27,840 --> 00:11:31,640 Speaker 1: really solid job and getting better by the week is 210 00:11:31,679 --> 00:11:37,480 Speaker 1: Justin Reid. He's been fantastic. He had the interception last night, 211 00:11:37,559 --> 00:11:39,959 Speaker 1: had another pass breakup, had one he should have gotten 212 00:11:39,960 --> 00:11:41,880 Speaker 1: credit for. I don't know if he's getting credit because 213 00:11:42,120 --> 00:11:44,920 Speaker 1: DeVante Parker ended up making a catch, so I don't 214 00:11:44,920 --> 00:11:47,240 Speaker 1: know if Justin gets a PBu for that. But he 215 00:11:47,360 --> 00:11:50,719 Speaker 1: popped Jachim Grant popped the ball. Justin's been doing it 216 00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:53,000 Speaker 1: and to think that this guy was a third round 217 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:55,680 Speaker 1: pick is absolutely amazing. And coach talked about what Justin 218 00:11:55,880 --> 00:11:59,520 Speaker 1: has met to the defense. Justin's getting better, getting better 219 00:11:59,520 --> 00:12:01,560 Speaker 1: every time out, and he's making big plays for us. 220 00:12:01,600 --> 00:12:03,840 Speaker 1: I mean, that interception last night kind of got us going, 221 00:12:04,360 --> 00:12:07,800 Speaker 1: and that was a big play. He's got He's got 222 00:12:07,800 --> 00:12:10,360 Speaker 1: good ball skills. He really he's got a good room 223 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:13,240 Speaker 1: in there with the Vets, J Joe and those guys 224 00:12:13,280 --> 00:12:18,400 Speaker 1: Kareem obviously Tyrn guys are helping him out, and so 225 00:12:18,480 --> 00:12:20,480 Speaker 1: I think he's taking advantage of that and trying to 226 00:12:20,520 --> 00:12:24,160 Speaker 1: get better and better. Speaking of Justin Reed, let's hear 227 00:12:24,240 --> 00:12:30,360 Speaker 1: from the rookie safety from Stanford. He I believe if 228 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:33,319 Speaker 1: I saw this right online, and I'm a big, big, 229 00:12:33,640 --> 00:12:35,920 Speaker 1: huge fan of Pro Football Focus, but I think he 230 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:39,360 Speaker 1: graded out. He and Deshaw Watson were the two players 231 00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:41,640 Speaker 1: that grated out the best won a second year player 232 00:12:41,640 --> 00:12:44,760 Speaker 1: won a rookie, So pretty incredible to see what those 233 00:12:44,760 --> 00:12:49,600 Speaker 1: guys have been doing. And Justin was talking about finding 234 00:12:49,640 --> 00:12:53,480 Speaker 1: ways to improve in this league, and that is what 235 00:12:53,520 --> 00:12:56,520 Speaker 1: he's been doing. The league's all about improvement, man, and 236 00:12:56,559 --> 00:12:58,480 Speaker 1: you just gotta you just gotta keep getting better. And 237 00:12:58,520 --> 00:13:01,000 Speaker 1: that's what I've been doing. Consistently. Games slowed down more 238 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:02,720 Speaker 1: and more. You start to see a lot of the 239 00:13:02,760 --> 00:13:05,200 Speaker 1: same pass concepts show up over and over again, and 240 00:13:05,240 --> 00:13:07,640 Speaker 1: it's just those reps to build up those reps. And 241 00:13:07,679 --> 00:13:09,320 Speaker 1: I'm getting used to scene and this allow me to 242 00:13:09,320 --> 00:13:12,559 Speaker 1: react to a quicker. Absolutely, there's no doubt he has 243 00:13:12,559 --> 00:13:16,680 Speaker 1: been playing a really really high rate. Now he got 244 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:19,600 Speaker 1: to pick but he said, yeah, I left something on 245 00:13:19,640 --> 00:13:22,040 Speaker 1: the table I should have gotten in the end zone. Man, 246 00:13:22,320 --> 00:13:25,080 Speaker 1: I never had a pick six yet I saw it. Man, 247 00:13:25,240 --> 00:13:27,360 Speaker 1: I saw it. I saw it. I got Actually one 248 00:13:27,360 --> 00:13:29,040 Speaker 1: of my boys I need to go talk to about 249 00:13:29,040 --> 00:13:32,800 Speaker 1: blocking after this interview is over. But man, I wanted it. 250 00:13:32,840 --> 00:13:35,120 Speaker 1: But hey, I often scored a two plays later, so 251 00:13:35,520 --> 00:13:37,840 Speaker 1: that's what we do as complimentary offense. Yeah, it was 252 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:41,560 Speaker 1: a little bit of it was a pseudo pick six, 253 00:13:41,640 --> 00:13:43,800 Speaker 1: if you will. For just read now. A guy that 254 00:13:43,920 --> 00:13:50,520 Speaker 1: ended up getting those touchdowns was Jordan Thomas. This is 255 00:13:51,040 --> 00:13:53,600 Speaker 1: Jordan Thomas in a nutshell. Take a listen to this. 256 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:57,800 Speaker 1: He I'm not totally sure what's going on with this, 257 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:00,320 Speaker 1: but this is pretty funny. This is Jordan Thomas talking 258 00:14:00,320 --> 00:14:04,040 Speaker 1: about his touchdowns, his catches. Man, I ain't a superstar. Man. 259 00:14:04,320 --> 00:14:10,640 Speaker 1: That ain't mean. I'm just so. It was bad. It 260 00:14:10,760 --> 00:14:14,200 Speaker 1: was bad. I know, I know. I didn't think it 261 00:14:14,240 --> 00:14:16,600 Speaker 1: was that hot till I jumped up there. I like that. 262 00:14:16,640 --> 00:14:19,000 Speaker 1: It ain't is high. It is high, there's no question 263 00:14:19,080 --> 00:14:22,560 Speaker 1: about that. But Jordan Thomas got himself in the end 264 00:14:22,640 --> 00:14:28,160 Speaker 1: zone and that was fantastic and Jordan's getting used to 265 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:31,640 Speaker 1: playing tight end, and he said, by the week, I'm 266 00:14:31,640 --> 00:14:34,160 Speaker 1: getting more and more comfortable, learning more and more about 267 00:14:34,160 --> 00:14:36,520 Speaker 1: the game and what he can do. I'm still, you know, 268 00:14:36,880 --> 00:14:39,720 Speaker 1: learning things as I go. You know, it's a long season, 269 00:14:39,880 --> 00:14:43,120 Speaker 1: so I'm I'm I'm learning it each week, new things, 270 00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:46,200 Speaker 1: no doubt. And he's making a payoff two touchdowns last 271 00:14:46,320 --> 00:14:49,640 Speaker 1: night for the rookie out of Mississippi State. All right, 272 00:14:49,680 --> 00:14:52,240 Speaker 1: those are your hot reads, brought to you by Geico 273 00:14:52,280 --> 00:14:54,920 Speaker 1: fifteen minutes consider fifteen percent or more on cart and 274 00:14:55,040 --> 00:14:57,640 Speaker 1: shirts coming up. The Voice of the Texans, Mark vandermir 275 00:14:58,040 --> 00:15:01,200 Speaker 1: gives us his thoughts and and we talked about everything 276 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:03,680 Speaker 1: that we saw last night right here at Energy Stadium 277 00:15:03,720 --> 00:15:05,960 Speaker 1: in forty two twenty three win for your Texans, and 278 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:08,200 Speaker 1: then it'll be next on Texans Axis. We'll go back 279 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:10,760 Speaker 1: to a Friday edition of Texas All Axis from the 280 00:15:10,800 --> 00:15:15,360 Speaker 1: Honday Texans Radio Studio, a Friday victory edition, which that's 281 00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:17,360 Speaker 1: two years in a row on a Thursday at Mark Vandemer. 282 00:15:17,400 --> 00:15:19,560 Speaker 1: When do you think about that? I think Thursday Night 283 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:23,160 Speaker 1: Football We've mastered it. The Texans have finally mastered the 284 00:15:23,280 --> 00:15:25,200 Speaker 1: art of Thursday Night football. I don't know, it's different 285 00:15:25,200 --> 00:15:27,280 Speaker 1: every year, as Bill O'Brien might say, but I think 286 00:15:27,760 --> 00:15:30,320 Speaker 1: one of the things the guys talked about was all 287 00:15:30,360 --> 00:15:33,760 Speaker 1: the changes in the nutrition program, sports performance and everything else, 288 00:15:33,800 --> 00:15:36,440 Speaker 1: and maybe that helped them a lot this week dominate 289 00:15:36,520 --> 00:15:38,400 Speaker 1: the Dolphins, that's what they did. You know, it's funny 290 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:39,800 Speaker 1: when you watch the reply. I know, we have it 291 00:15:39,840 --> 00:15:41,960 Speaker 1: on the monitor here and you look at it and 292 00:15:42,080 --> 00:15:44,440 Speaker 1: it's not a quick start. You know, you're up fourteen 293 00:15:44,520 --> 00:15:46,640 Speaker 1: ten at the half and O'Brien, now, what twenty five 294 00:15:46,680 --> 00:15:48,880 Speaker 1: and one after leading at the half something like six 295 00:15:48,920 --> 00:15:51,360 Speaker 1: and twenty six and one. It's twenty five one at 296 00:15:51,360 --> 00:15:53,480 Speaker 1: the half last night, So twenty six and one, jeez. 297 00:15:53,640 --> 00:15:56,680 Speaker 1: I mean that's really impressive. And I think that you 298 00:15:56,760 --> 00:15:59,320 Speaker 1: saw the results in the second half. The Texans pulled away. 299 00:15:59,320 --> 00:16:00,800 Speaker 1: What did Ryan Grin tell us a week and a 300 00:16:00,800 --> 00:16:02,480 Speaker 1: half ago, this is the time of year where we 301 00:16:02,520 --> 00:16:04,720 Speaker 1: should start pulling away from other teams in terms of 302 00:16:04,960 --> 00:16:08,360 Speaker 1: the fitness and nutrition aspect of things. We'll see if 303 00:16:08,400 --> 00:16:11,320 Speaker 1: that pans out in the second half of the season. Yeah. Absolutely, 304 00:16:11,360 --> 00:16:13,480 Speaker 1: And I think one of the things that stood out 305 00:16:13,480 --> 00:16:16,960 Speaker 1: to me last night, Mark were and the news of 306 00:16:17,440 --> 00:16:20,000 Speaker 1: will Fuller retired. Talked about that in the opening segment. 307 00:16:20,040 --> 00:16:26,000 Speaker 1: I mean, it's just so frustrating to have to talk 308 00:16:26,040 --> 00:16:30,040 Speaker 1: about a twenty eighteen season without will Fuller because of 309 00:16:30,120 --> 00:16:31,960 Speaker 1: all that he had done and obviously the connection he 310 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:35,280 Speaker 1: has with the Sean. But the one thing that stood 311 00:16:35,320 --> 00:16:38,520 Speaker 1: to me last night was how many guys had to 312 00:16:38,680 --> 00:16:42,440 Speaker 1: step into roles that maybe they're not accustomed to. So 313 00:16:43,240 --> 00:16:46,200 Speaker 1: Kareem Jackson has played a lot of corner, but he's 314 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:48,040 Speaker 1: been playing very well at safety. He had to move 315 00:16:48,120 --> 00:16:50,000 Speaker 1: back to corner for the Jacksonville game. He stayed at 316 00:16:50,040 --> 00:16:53,240 Speaker 1: corner last night. Mike Tyson's in the game playing nickel 317 00:16:53,280 --> 00:16:56,760 Speaker 1: at safety. You've got Tyrant who's playing the nickel, who's 318 00:16:56,800 --> 00:17:00,640 Speaker 1: played it before, but he's played safety until they've had 319 00:17:00,640 --> 00:17:02,880 Speaker 1: all these issues at corner. He put in a trail. 320 00:17:03,040 --> 00:17:06,160 Speaker 1: Jamerson in at corner, who hasn't played at corner at all, 321 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:09,679 Speaker 1: and last year Wisconsin he played safety. Now he has 322 00:17:09,720 --> 00:17:12,520 Speaker 1: played a little corner before. So at one point when 323 00:17:12,680 --> 00:17:17,040 Speaker 1: when j Joe was down with the injury, which there 324 00:17:17,040 --> 00:17:19,520 Speaker 1: are some reports about j Joe that he could be 325 00:17:19,560 --> 00:17:22,679 Speaker 1: back and shoot at three weeks, we'll see. He's got 326 00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:26,080 Speaker 1: an MCL issue, apparently in an ankle sprain, so he's 327 00:17:26,080 --> 00:17:28,280 Speaker 1: got a little couple of things. But because then they 328 00:17:28,280 --> 00:17:31,239 Speaker 1: played one game in twenty four days, that's the kind 329 00:17:31,280 --> 00:17:33,080 Speaker 1: of situation might get him back. But I when he 330 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:36,000 Speaker 1: was down on the ground, mark, I looked out there 331 00:17:36,040 --> 00:17:39,320 Speaker 1: and Anthony Midgett had the five guys that run in 332 00:17:39,359 --> 00:17:42,160 Speaker 1: the field and nickel around him, and I just remember going, 333 00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:45,920 Speaker 1: that's five safeties. Yep, there are five safeties, and I 334 00:17:45,960 --> 00:17:47,959 Speaker 1: gotta play two of those guys at corner. And they 335 00:17:48,040 --> 00:17:51,840 Speaker 1: ended up doing a decent job of that. Josh Kaiz 336 00:17:51,840 --> 00:17:54,359 Speaker 1: and Peter callumbay, you gotta go in the game, and 337 00:17:54,520 --> 00:17:58,240 Speaker 1: it was next man up. I don't care who you are, 338 00:17:58,760 --> 00:18:00,960 Speaker 1: I don't care what job you gotta do, but you 339 00:18:01,040 --> 00:18:02,560 Speaker 1: gotta step up and make a play. And I think 340 00:18:02,560 --> 00:18:05,600 Speaker 1: a perfect example of that was there was a third 341 00:18:05,640 --> 00:18:11,440 Speaker 1: down throw in the second quarter. I think, yeah, third 342 00:18:11,480 --> 00:18:13,760 Speaker 1: down throw the second quarter, and it was one where 343 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:16,359 Speaker 1: DeVante Parker called one across the middle and it throws 344 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:18,639 Speaker 1: kind of behind him and Parker mid his great catch, 345 00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:24,120 Speaker 1: and I remember tyring and justin looking at Josh Keys 346 00:18:24,119 --> 00:18:26,480 Speaker 1: and they were kind of incredulous. They were like bro that, 347 00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:29,040 Speaker 1: like they pointed to that right there. Yeah, you gotta 348 00:18:29,040 --> 00:18:31,320 Speaker 1: be right there. And then it was as if they 349 00:18:31,400 --> 00:18:34,879 Speaker 1: both kind of simultaneously understood, hey, josh kais got back 350 00:18:34,920 --> 00:18:38,239 Speaker 1: here on Tuesday, and they kind of both patted him 351 00:18:38,280 --> 00:18:40,479 Speaker 1: on the head. Well a couple of plays later, just 352 00:18:40,520 --> 00:18:42,960 Speaker 1: as if to say, look, that's got to be your play. 353 00:18:43,160 --> 00:18:45,960 Speaker 1: Let's make the play. Two plays later, three plays letter 354 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:48,840 Speaker 1: or whatever it was. He comes barreling through hammers as 355 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:50,959 Speaker 1: while the knocks the ball out should have been a touchdown, 356 00:18:50,960 --> 00:18:53,000 Speaker 1: and of course it's Chamberson who picks up. But to me, 357 00:18:53,040 --> 00:18:56,040 Speaker 1: it was the next man up concept coming to fruition. 358 00:18:56,280 --> 00:18:59,560 Speaker 1: If that stood, that is it, I mean, not in 359 00:18:59,640 --> 00:19:02,440 Speaker 1: a nut shell. I mean that's just a fully fleshed 360 00:19:02,440 --> 00:19:05,040 Speaker 1: out example of what you're talking about. You have Kay's 361 00:19:05,119 --> 00:19:07,919 Speaker 1: hitting the quarterback ball out and Jamerson picks it up, 362 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:10,280 Speaker 1: runs it into the end. Zo two guys who who 363 00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:12,439 Speaker 1: would not have seen the field last night in a 364 00:19:12,520 --> 00:19:17,080 Speaker 1: position situation had the starters stayed healthy when you look 365 00:19:17,080 --> 00:19:19,480 Speaker 1: at Zach Cunningham and Jonathan Joseph. So that's a great 366 00:19:19,480 --> 00:19:22,160 Speaker 1: point right there. I'm still iffy on that call. I 367 00:19:22,280 --> 00:19:26,720 Speaker 1: understand the technicality of the arm coming forward. However, it 368 00:19:26,760 --> 00:19:28,800 Speaker 1: wasn't coming forward, it was getting reeled back in. He 369 00:19:28,840 --> 00:19:30,479 Speaker 1: was trying to bring them all back in. I mean, 370 00:19:30,520 --> 00:19:32,280 Speaker 1: if there's a tuck rule, there's a tuck rule. I 371 00:19:32,320 --> 00:19:34,680 Speaker 1: know it was a finger roll, but it was still 372 00:19:35,359 --> 00:19:37,439 Speaker 1: it was the ball coming out when he wanted to 373 00:19:37,440 --> 00:19:39,360 Speaker 1: bring it in. He was definitely not trying to throw 374 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:42,399 Speaker 1: it at that point. Yeah, yeah, that's it was a 375 00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:44,320 Speaker 1: weird night for the crew. But I know that's a 376 00:19:44,359 --> 00:19:47,800 Speaker 1: whole other Topico boys had a whole their topic. Oh god, 377 00:19:47,960 --> 00:19:49,680 Speaker 1: I don't I don't even want to go down that road. 378 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:54,480 Speaker 1: But it was. It was brutal, but either way, the 379 00:19:54,480 --> 00:19:57,880 Speaker 1: the it was funny because after the game, my office made, 380 00:19:57,880 --> 00:20:00,800 Speaker 1: you know, I believe, She's like, so, I don't know, 381 00:20:00,880 --> 00:20:02,960 Speaker 1: one thirty one forty five in the morning or so, 382 00:20:03,080 --> 00:20:05,760 Speaker 1: and she goes, Johnny, can you explain that play to me? 383 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:09,479 Speaker 1: And I said, and I try to start. I started 384 00:20:09,520 --> 00:20:12,760 Speaker 1: to try and explain it, and then as I'm explaining it, 385 00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:17,760 Speaker 1: I realized there's no like, there's no way that you 386 00:20:17,800 --> 00:20:20,399 Speaker 1: could describe that as not a touchdown. Yeah, there was 387 00:20:20,520 --> 00:20:23,159 Speaker 1: no way. In fact, when you threw it down to me. 388 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:25,480 Speaker 1: I said, all right, let's get the confirmation of this touchdown, 389 00:20:25,560 --> 00:20:27,560 Speaker 1: and then he says the play's overruled, and I went 390 00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:32,520 Speaker 1: with what, Well, between that the long snapper roughing penalty, 391 00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:36,639 Speaker 1: which everyone thinks is really incorrectly called, including Mike Pereira 392 00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:39,800 Speaker 1: on the Fox broadcast, and give me another one, hop 393 00:20:39,880 --> 00:20:42,920 Speaker 1: out a Hopkins catch which should have counted. Really, let's 394 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:45,000 Speaker 1: put it this way. On the Hopkins catch, if they 395 00:20:45,119 --> 00:20:48,359 Speaker 1: ruled it a catch, if they never called OPI on that, 396 00:20:48,560 --> 00:20:51,480 Speaker 1: would anybody object to that? Would anybody say, oh, that 397 00:20:51,560 --> 00:20:54,399 Speaker 1: was OPI? If anything, it's on both guys and they 398 00:20:54,400 --> 00:20:56,520 Speaker 1: were tangled up, and usually in those situations they just 399 00:20:56,560 --> 00:20:58,280 Speaker 1: kind of let it go. And what happened last week 400 00:20:58,320 --> 00:21:00,679 Speaker 1: at Jacksonville they let it go. Remember on the sideline, 401 00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:02,720 Speaker 1: he and Ramsey are tangled up. First they threw the 402 00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:04,600 Speaker 1: flag and they what they do, They picked it up. 403 00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:06,680 Speaker 1: And then when we saw the replay, what did we 404 00:21:06,720 --> 00:21:10,280 Speaker 1: all say? We went, yeah, Okay, that's a play on. Yeah, 405 00:21:10,280 --> 00:21:12,720 Speaker 1: that's a that's a that's a play on. Yeah. But 406 00:21:12,960 --> 00:21:15,480 Speaker 1: I just I loved last night from the standpoint of 407 00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:20,440 Speaker 1: the next man up. But I think, and we've said 408 00:21:20,520 --> 00:21:23,120 Speaker 1: this throughout the first half of the season. It's weird 409 00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:24,720 Speaker 1: to say the first half of the season. We played 410 00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:27,560 Speaker 1: eight games, so it's first half of the season. This 411 00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:31,520 Speaker 1: rookie class, oh gosh, I mean Keke he didn't play 412 00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:34,040 Speaker 1: last night, but he's going to and he's gonna play well. 413 00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:39,000 Speaker 1: Justin Reid, how about that? Is a baller. You know, 414 00:21:39,119 --> 00:21:40,879 Speaker 1: he looks like a guy you got late in the 415 00:21:40,880 --> 00:21:44,000 Speaker 1: first round. I know, I know, and you got him 416 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:46,679 Speaker 1: in the third round. I mean, if you're watching Derwin 417 00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:49,520 Speaker 1: James from the Chargers and you're watching Justin Reid and 418 00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:52,840 Speaker 1: you realize those two picks were two rounds apart, and 419 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:57,320 Speaker 1: you look, you go, what really? I mean, Reid's been unbelievable. Yeah, 420 00:21:57,359 --> 00:21:59,760 Speaker 1: and it's early, but he's off to a tremendous start. 421 00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:03,800 Speaker 1: Jordan Aikins, I really like him. Jordan Thomas obviously. I 422 00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:06,840 Speaker 1: mean last night was great. Yeah. It's funny because Aikins 423 00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:09,159 Speaker 1: had those two touchdown catches in the preseason opener in 424 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:10,840 Speaker 1: Kansas City, we all thought, oh, we're gonna see a 425 00:22:10,880 --> 00:22:12,960 Speaker 1: ton of Aikins and I think, you know, Bill O'Brien 426 00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:15,720 Speaker 1: said it himself, he wants to get them the ball more. 427 00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:17,000 Speaker 1: But I think he wants to get everybody in the 428 00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:18,600 Speaker 1: ball more. It's just a matter of all right, if 429 00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:21,040 Speaker 1: you only throw it twenty times last night, twenty four 430 00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:24,119 Speaker 1: times against Jacksonville, how about that, Johnny, back to back wins, 431 00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:27,000 Speaker 1: dominating wins. Really, as it turned out, and you only 432 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:30,200 Speaker 1: threw it forty four times in the two games combined. 433 00:22:31,280 --> 00:22:32,920 Speaker 1: Didn't we have a game this year where we threw 434 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:35,879 Speaker 1: a forty four times? Well? Probably maybe the Colts are 435 00:22:35,920 --> 00:22:37,719 Speaker 1: one of those games. And you know, when you're behind, 436 00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:40,359 Speaker 1: you're throwing a lot. I guess I get it. You know, 437 00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:42,879 Speaker 1: when you're two scores down or whatever. Often the three 438 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:45,680 Speaker 1: hundred yard games come in losses or games where it's 439 00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:47,600 Speaker 1: a shootout where your defense is kind of giving out. 440 00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:49,280 Speaker 1: Last night, when you're running the ball, you don't need 441 00:22:49,320 --> 00:22:51,040 Speaker 1: to throw it that much and certainly don't want to 442 00:22:51,119 --> 00:22:53,520 Speaker 1: risk further injury to Watson. You know, everyone makes a 443 00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:56,120 Speaker 1: big deal and they should about no sacks and only 444 00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:59,320 Speaker 1: one hit. But he only threw it twenty times. That's 445 00:22:59,359 --> 00:23:02,680 Speaker 1: the beauty of these games, these last two games. Now, 446 00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:05,159 Speaker 1: he did take some hits against the Jaguars, but they 447 00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:08,000 Speaker 1: kept them clean last night. Now, Watson, as the weekend off, 448 00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:10,040 Speaker 1: get ready for Denver. I know they have those other 449 00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:13,679 Speaker 1: injuries they have to absorb, but guess what the most important. 450 00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:15,159 Speaker 1: I don't want to award it like that because j 451 00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:17,760 Speaker 1: Joe is extremely important to this football team. But the 452 00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:19,880 Speaker 1: key guys number four here, he's the guy you got 453 00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:21,760 Speaker 1: to keep healthy no matter what. You have to hope 454 00:23:21,760 --> 00:23:24,040 Speaker 1: to keep everybody else healthy and see where it takes 455 00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:25,760 Speaker 1: you in the second half. Yeah, I thought it was interesting. 456 00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:27,639 Speaker 1: I thought back to when the team was owing three, 457 00:23:28,080 --> 00:23:31,840 Speaker 1: and I remember Tyring did an interview going into I 458 00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:34,880 Speaker 1: think it was going into the Colts game. I think 459 00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:36,800 Speaker 1: it was going into the Colts game. He's either going 460 00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:38,400 Speaker 1: into the Colts game or going into the Giants game, 461 00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:39,479 Speaker 1: but I think it was going into the Colts game 462 00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:41,600 Speaker 1: because the team was owing three, and I remember him 463 00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:46,800 Speaker 1: making a comment he said, our five star players have 464 00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:51,800 Speaker 1: to play like five star players. Yeah, and I don't. 465 00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:55,040 Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know, you know for Tyring, who 466 00:23:55,080 --> 00:23:57,760 Speaker 1: exactly he thinks is a five star player, But you 467 00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:01,200 Speaker 1: could at that point you're out, Okay, he's talking about 468 00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:03,400 Speaker 1: this guy. This, he's talking about Watch, he's talking about Hopkins, 469 00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:06,760 Speaker 1: he's talking about Fuller, he's talking about himself. He's talking 470 00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:10,360 Speaker 1: about clowning Watt. The five star players are gonna play 471 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:14,120 Speaker 1: five star players, and they've done that. But I think 472 00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:17,000 Speaker 1: what's made this five game winning streak is that the 473 00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:20,160 Speaker 1: guys that you wouldn't consider are the five star players 474 00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:24,560 Speaker 1: are doing things above and beyond the call of duty, 475 00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:27,160 Speaker 1: if you will. Like I said, next man up concept. 476 00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:30,439 Speaker 1: Jordan Thomas with two touchdowns last night, and on the 477 00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:32,879 Speaker 1: one that he caught him the fourth down play, Aikins 478 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:36,600 Speaker 1: was actually the one that that should have gotten the ball. 479 00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:38,159 Speaker 1: That's I think who they were going to throw to, 480 00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:40,400 Speaker 1: and DeShawn just had too much trash to be able 481 00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:43,000 Speaker 1: to get there. And then he works his way around 482 00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:45,280 Speaker 1: he ends up finding Jordan Thomas in away you go. 483 00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:48,960 Speaker 1: So the five star players have played like five star players, 484 00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:52,040 Speaker 1: but the I don't say the other guys that sounds 485 00:24:52,119 --> 00:24:55,119 Speaker 1: kind of weird. But the guys that you don't that, 486 00:24:55,359 --> 00:24:58,520 Speaker 1: the non high profile players have all played at a 487 00:24:58,520 --> 00:25:01,640 Speaker 1: pretty high level. I think that's been really important getting 488 00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:06,480 Speaker 1: contributions from everybody in a forty six man roster. Jordan Thomas, 489 00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:09,600 Speaker 1: by the way, and the catch he made the second 490 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:13,240 Speaker 1: one that was that was not unathletic. I mean he 491 00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:15,439 Speaker 1: had to reach to his right and get it to 492 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:17,680 Speaker 1: the ground and make sure it didn't hit the ground 493 00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:20,880 Speaker 1: and all of that. I mean, I'm looking at the frame, Johnny, 494 00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:23,199 Speaker 1: I mean, he at that frame. Man. You told us 495 00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:25,159 Speaker 1: about him when they drafted him, how he was a 496 00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:28,439 Speaker 1: wide receiver at Mississippi State and everything, and this is 497 00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:31,720 Speaker 1: just the beginning. You give him some time to really 498 00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:35,000 Speaker 1: mature as a player in the system. Play around with 499 00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:37,840 Speaker 1: Watson and on that note, here, how about this and 500 00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:39,800 Speaker 1: we'll talk to a bile Bride about this on Monday. 501 00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:44,120 Speaker 1: The scrambled drills are so paramount for this team. It's 502 00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:47,600 Speaker 1: never like they need a super highway in the end zone, 503 00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:50,320 Speaker 1: like two lanes going back and forth of receivers. Just 504 00:25:50,359 --> 00:25:54,280 Speaker 1: like everybody just scramble around because Watson's gonna buy time. 505 00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:57,439 Speaker 1: The highlight they keep showing from above where he's running 506 00:25:57,440 --> 00:26:01,640 Speaker 1: east west and or actually it is west to east, yeah, 507 00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:04,840 Speaker 1: because it's right and then left, but buying all that time. 508 00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:07,520 Speaker 1: The defense has to be frustrated out of their minds 509 00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:10,280 Speaker 1: try to track him down. It's interesting you say that, 510 00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:14,000 Speaker 1: because last night I was thinking about this when I 511 00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:15,920 Speaker 1: saw I saw a replay didn't hit me right off 512 00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:18,920 Speaker 1: the top, but I saw a replay of the play 513 00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:23,119 Speaker 1: and I went, they've worked on this the play itself, 514 00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:26,399 Speaker 1: yes they've worked on it, but they've worked on the 515 00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:29,200 Speaker 1: scramble drill. In fact, I remember being at the Greenbrier 516 00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:31,359 Speaker 1: and they were down in that far end zone where 517 00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:35,000 Speaker 1: we could stand, and I remember seeing the Sean take 518 00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:37,080 Speaker 1: a snap and then he would roll to his right, 519 00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:41,280 Speaker 1: and it was like this choreographed movement of these are 520 00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:44,280 Speaker 1: the right this is the play we got called Okay, 521 00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:46,919 Speaker 1: now he's gonna scramble, So now here's what you gotta do. 522 00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:50,160 Speaker 1: And they all kind of seemingly had some informal rules 523 00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:52,760 Speaker 1: for what they were supposed to do. They've worked on 524 00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:56,359 Speaker 1: that before, they know, and so it was interesting to 525 00:26:56,400 --> 00:26:59,960 Speaker 1: think about them working on a drill that seems so improvisation, 526 00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:04,520 Speaker 1: but there was some advanced preparation for that. Now it 527 00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:06,200 Speaker 1: was back at the Greenbriar, and I'm sure they still 528 00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:07,840 Speaker 1: work on it in practice, and we don't get to 529 00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:10,320 Speaker 1: see as much of practice as as we used to, 530 00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:12,119 Speaker 1: and didn't get to see it at the We got 531 00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:13,639 Speaker 1: to see everything at the Green Brian. So that was 532 00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:15,520 Speaker 1: one of the drills that we got to see. I 533 00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:17,359 Speaker 1: guarantee you they still work on it. Well. When you 534 00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:20,080 Speaker 1: run the play the way it's designed, it's classical music. 535 00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:22,840 Speaker 1: When you do what you just described, it's jazz. We 536 00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:25,720 Speaker 1: have a structure, but we're gonna improvise within the structure. 537 00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:30,239 Speaker 1: And Fox had an NFL Network Fox joint effort here 538 00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:33,080 Speaker 1: on national television. They had an ISOs shot of DeAndre 539 00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:36,879 Speaker 1: Hopkins during that Jordan Thomas second touchdown catch and he 540 00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:39,840 Speaker 1: start he is on the right side and he's hustling 541 00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:41,600 Speaker 1: in the back of the end zone, running over like 542 00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:44,240 Speaker 1: I gotta get a touch go get a touchdown, hustling, 543 00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:47,720 Speaker 1: sprinting to that side, staying flat in the back of 544 00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:50,520 Speaker 1: the end zone so he can create some space for himself. 545 00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:52,000 Speaker 1: But obviously the ball is going to come out at 546 00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:54,400 Speaker 1: some point. And Watson threw a touchdown pass on fourth down. 547 00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:56,280 Speaker 1: So they were very successful in the goal to go 548 00:27:56,400 --> 00:27:58,800 Speaker 1: last night. I mean, it was just a fruitful night 549 00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:01,840 Speaker 1: for the offense again, and limited throws with the twenty 550 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:04,080 Speaker 1: and they ran them all so effectively. Yeah, they did 551 00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:07,320 Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty eight yards. Lamar Miller was absolutely 552 00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:10,760 Speaker 1: fantastic outfrem Blues giving him some good stuff. Coach O'Brien 553 00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:14,560 Speaker 1: talked about gante Form potentially coming back soon, didn't know 554 00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:16,600 Speaker 1: exactly when, but talked about him, boy that would be 555 00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:19,400 Speaker 1: coming back. I mean, my goodness. I mean the way 556 00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:22,840 Speaker 1: that that Blue has been playing. They've played a lot 557 00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:26,320 Speaker 1: of Blue and Miller together. Yes, which what does that 558 00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:29,760 Speaker 1: do to the defense? Well, a few things. Think back 559 00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:32,200 Speaker 1: to the Jacksonville game. They lined up in the affirmation 560 00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:35,840 Speaker 1: and Blues at fullback, and so you're thinking, hey, that 561 00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:37,880 Speaker 1: and that's what the Cowboys did. They lined up Zeke 562 00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:40,240 Speaker 1: at fullback. Remember that Zach popped him on a third 563 00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:42,200 Speaker 1: one instead of fourth to one, and they punted. Well, 564 00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:44,680 Speaker 1: they had Zeke at fullback. I guarantee you when Jacksonville 565 00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:47,680 Speaker 1: saw Blue at fullback, they're thinking third one, Hey, hey, 566 00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:49,960 Speaker 1: Blues at fullback. And then what they do faked the 567 00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:52,800 Speaker 1: Blue flipped the Miller. He gets the first down. So 568 00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:55,480 Speaker 1: there's a little bit of deception there. But you got 569 00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:57,640 Speaker 1: two pretty good blockers, and they've done a nice job 570 00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:02,200 Speaker 1: in pass protection to help out the tackles, to help 571 00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:04,720 Speaker 1: on an interior depending on where pressure is coming from. 572 00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:06,440 Speaker 1: They've done a really good job. I liked that set 573 00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:08,240 Speaker 1: when they put both of them in there together. You 574 00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:10,480 Speaker 1: mentioned Hopkins. He was hot after that touchdown, and I 575 00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:13,720 Speaker 1: couldn't understand why. I was like, wow, he's kind of up, 576 00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:15,360 Speaker 1: say because he's talking to the official for a long 577 00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:17,800 Speaker 1: baby got held. He did, he had held, and that's 578 00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:19,480 Speaker 1: what it was, is he was going back across he 579 00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:23,960 Speaker 1: got held. Speaking of Hopkins, now we've been we've done 580 00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:27,840 Speaker 1: a lot of games together. You've done Texans games from 581 00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:32,400 Speaker 1: the beginning. You called Hurricanes games Central Michigan. I mean, 582 00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:35,000 Speaker 1: you've called games, You've been to games live, you've been 583 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:39,400 Speaker 1: to basketball, baseball, whatever the case might be. I think 584 00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:42,760 Speaker 1: I could honestly make a case for that being one, 585 00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:46,480 Speaker 1: not one of that might be the most impressive athletic 586 00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:50,400 Speaker 1: thing I've ever seen, any most impressive athletic thing. I mean, 587 00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:52,040 Speaker 1: i'll tell you what. I'll give you one while you 588 00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:54,120 Speaker 1: think of yours. I'll give you one on the one. 589 00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:56,040 Speaker 1: I was at the ninety three Sugar Bowl when the 590 00:29:56,120 --> 00:30:00,760 Speaker 1: Canes played Alabama and George Teague ran and down Lamar 591 00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:04,600 Speaker 1: Thomas and stripped the ball away from him. Lamar Thomas 592 00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:07,040 Speaker 1: caught a caught a route up the sideline Antigue was 593 00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:10,160 Speaker 1: out of position and Thomas was a sprint on the 594 00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:14,600 Speaker 1: track team and Tigue ran him down, chopped with his 595 00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:18,760 Speaker 1: right hand and ripped the ball out and got it 596 00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:24,560 Speaker 1: back for Alabama. Similarly to Hopkins play. Alabama was offside, 597 00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:27,840 Speaker 1: so the play didn't count, but it was still impressive. 598 00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:30,320 Speaker 1: But but Miami was about Thomas was about to score 599 00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:32,000 Speaker 1: and get back in the game. They had to go 600 00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:34,400 Speaker 1: back and reado the down it was incomplete, passed, Alabama 601 00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:35,720 Speaker 1: got the ball to scored again. And that was the 602 00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:38,600 Speaker 1: ball game that Seeing him run him down and then 603 00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:41,880 Speaker 1: take the ball away, literally take the ball away, that 604 00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:45,640 Speaker 1: ranks up there. But what he did last night, forget it. 605 00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:49,200 Speaker 1: I don't think I've seen anything at that level basketball baseball, 606 00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:52,600 Speaker 1: seeing guys go over walls, seeing mcdive and catches, I 607 00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:54,280 Speaker 1: don't think I've seen anything like that. I mean, the 608 00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:57,800 Speaker 1: fact that it went through the legs and the ball 609 00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:01,160 Speaker 1: doesn't touch the ground. He's the best. I mean, the 610 00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:04,040 Speaker 1: guy is the very best. And I know we go 611 00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:06,479 Speaker 1: back and forth about this week to week, but he 612 00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:08,080 Speaker 1: was getting a lot of oh yeah, he is the 613 00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:10,800 Speaker 1: best last night from all the national pundits. The fact 614 00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:14,000 Speaker 1: that the Texans did this on national television. It was 615 00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:17,080 Speaker 1: a LoveFest last night. It was a Houston LoveFest. And 616 00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:19,760 Speaker 1: I thought, who would have thought this a few weeks ago, 617 00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:23,000 Speaker 1: that the Texans would be the darlings of the NFL 618 00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:26,440 Speaker 1: a few weeks later. Yet that's what's happened now, darlings. 619 00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:28,400 Speaker 1: And it's not like it's going to be permanent. But 620 00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:30,440 Speaker 1: you know, you hope that it lasts a while. You 621 00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:33,640 Speaker 1: hope the streak does. And Bill O'Brien is very careful 622 00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:36,360 Speaker 1: how he knows. Hey, Jamie Roots likes to say to 623 00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:39,200 Speaker 1: us in the business op side of thing things, there's 624 00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:41,640 Speaker 1: nothing less relevant than the score at halftime. Now, for 625 00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:43,560 Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien, it is relevant because he's twenty six and 626 00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:45,200 Speaker 1: one and a half time. But you're a halftime of 627 00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:48,040 Speaker 1: the season right now and you're five and three, And 628 00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:50,480 Speaker 1: we would have been glad after the o and three start. 629 00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:53,000 Speaker 1: I would have taken four and four a heartbeat. Are 630 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:55,640 Speaker 1: you kidding me? At that point? But here you are 631 00:31:55,880 --> 00:32:00,160 Speaker 1: five and three, keep it rolling, yep, and God against him, 632 00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:02,320 Speaker 1: guys back healthy and hopefully Will you won't get Will 633 00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:06,080 Speaker 1: Fuller back, And that's a that's a tough one. But 634 00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:09,600 Speaker 1: but number four still playing, and he is not only 635 00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:11,760 Speaker 1: just playing, he is getting better and better by the week. 636 00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:14,600 Speaker 1: And that is exactly what you want to hear. Mark 637 00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:18,000 Speaker 1: appreciate it. Coming up next, we do our picks. I 638 00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:21,160 Speaker 1: do this every single Friday, and now we're gonna incorporate 639 00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:24,520 Speaker 1: the Texans pick them as well games straight up and 640 00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:27,640 Speaker 1: against the spread. I give you winners and winners and 641 00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:31,640 Speaker 1: more winners. 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That's right, download the 651 00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:09,080 Speaker 1: Texans mobile app to play now. So we do this 652 00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:12,719 Speaker 1: every single week, and somebody, I guess got wise. It 653 00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:14,840 Speaker 1: was like, wait a second, let's put the Texans Pick 654 00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:18,400 Speaker 1: Them with John making the picks on Friday, by the bang, 655 00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:22,080 Speaker 1: by the bang, and before you know it, we put 656 00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:26,360 Speaker 1: it all together. I love it. Finally, finally we got 657 00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:29,760 Speaker 1: this done. So let's get our picks in against the spread, 658 00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:32,040 Speaker 1: and straight up I give you both. I think the 659 00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:34,800 Speaker 1: pick them is just winners. But I'm giving you winners 660 00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:37,680 Speaker 1: and winners against the spread straight up. I should say 661 00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:41,640 Speaker 1: Texas pick them is just straight up I believe, I believe, 662 00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:44,640 Speaker 1: not totally sure on that, don't quote me on that, 663 00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:47,520 Speaker 1: but I think that's pretty much the case. So all right, 664 00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:51,200 Speaker 1: let's get into this and get our picks and let's start. 665 00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:54,880 Speaker 1: Oh wait where we start? Give me my music please, 666 00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:57,600 Speaker 1: and there we go. Okay, let's go to London. This 667 00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:02,160 Speaker 1: one'll take place at eight thirty one morning, eight thirty 668 00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:06,959 Speaker 1: Sunday morning, Philadelphia Jacksonville. Both teams three and four really 669 00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:10,760 Speaker 1: need for Philadelphia to trounce Jacksonville and this one. Now, 670 00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:14,960 Speaker 1: Jacksonville has a London field advantage. You know what what I 671 00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:18,080 Speaker 1: mean about that, They've gotten very accustomed to what they 672 00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:21,920 Speaker 1: need to do in London, whereas this I believe is 673 00:34:22,200 --> 00:34:26,680 Speaker 1: new territory for Philly. That said, no a J Boyer, 674 00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:30,600 Speaker 1: No Leonard Fournette. I think the Eagles, favored by three, 675 00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:33,800 Speaker 1: are gonna win this one straight up and cover that three. 676 00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:37,080 Speaker 1: So let's go Eagles, getting too even on the year. 677 00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:41,319 Speaker 1: Jacksonville going to three and five. Then we have our 678 00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:43,800 Speaker 1: noon games, and we'll start with the Jets in Chicago. 679 00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:46,720 Speaker 1: Jets three and four, Chicago three and four, pretty even, 680 00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:51,239 Speaker 1: you would think, right Las Vegas says Chicago's at home 681 00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:54,799 Speaker 1: a seven and a half point favorite. That is a 682 00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:56,799 Speaker 1: little too rich for me. The Jets can be up 683 00:34:56,800 --> 00:34:59,319 Speaker 1: and down. I'm expecting to be up, not to win, 684 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:01,680 Speaker 1: but to get inside that seven and a half. So 685 00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:06,120 Speaker 1: let's go Bears to win, Jets to cover. Then you 686 00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:10,000 Speaker 1: got Tampa Bay going to Cincinnati three and three against 687 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:11,760 Speaker 1: four and three. You know's a look at these games 688 00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:14,439 Speaker 1: three and three versus three and three, three and four 689 00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:17,200 Speaker 1: versus three and three, three and three verses four and three, 690 00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:20,719 Speaker 1: and you got one Tampa Bay and Cincinnati Cincinnati four 691 00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:25,760 Speaker 1: and three. They just got drilled last week last Sunday 692 00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:28,960 Speaker 1: night by the Kansas City Chiefs. They're coming home. I 693 00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:31,600 Speaker 1: think Kansas City favored by three and a half playing 694 00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:34,279 Speaker 1: a very volatile Tampa Bay team never know what to 695 00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:36,839 Speaker 1: expect from Tampa Bay. They had every opportunity to win 696 00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:39,600 Speaker 1: the game in regulation against the Browns, and then they 697 00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:42,279 Speaker 1: get there overtime fifty nine air Field go good, they win. 698 00:35:42,480 --> 00:35:46,880 Speaker 1: It's just bizarre. I don't like volatility. I'm going Cincinnati. 699 00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:48,640 Speaker 1: I think Cincinnati will cover that three and a half 700 00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:52,799 Speaker 1: and get to win at home. Seattle and Detroit are 701 00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:56,640 Speaker 1: both three and three, and Detroit's favored by three, so 702 00:35:57,320 --> 00:36:00,480 Speaker 1: kind of a numeric illiteration. If you will Troy playing 703 00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:02,440 Speaker 1: at home, I probably trust them a little bit more 704 00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:04,759 Speaker 1: than i'd do Seattle on the road. Now, Seattle has 705 00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:06,480 Speaker 1: gone on the road and played a little bit better. 706 00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:08,319 Speaker 1: This Seattle team, I think, is a little bit better 707 00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:11,000 Speaker 1: than I expect it, and they're better than some people did. 708 00:36:11,040 --> 00:36:12,920 Speaker 1: Some people thought Seattle was just gonna bounce back and 709 00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:17,239 Speaker 1: be fine. After they got rid of Richard Sherman came chancer, retired. 710 00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:21,000 Speaker 1: Earl Thomas was unhappy, and then he got hurt. He's 711 00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:23,040 Speaker 1: out for the year. I think that's gonna end up 712 00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:25,800 Speaker 1: being a big key against Detroit. I think without Earl Thomas, 713 00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:27,279 Speaker 1: Detroit coming off a game in which they ran for 714 00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:30,360 Speaker 1: two hundred and forty yards in Miami last Sunday. Texans 715 00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:33,200 Speaker 1: ran for one eighty eight last night. I'm gonna go 716 00:36:33,239 --> 00:36:35,640 Speaker 1: with Detroit at home. I think the running game, I 717 00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:38,560 Speaker 1: think Stafford mixing it up the run past balance. I 718 00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:40,799 Speaker 1: like Detroit and this one to cover the three and 719 00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:44,440 Speaker 1: to win out right at home. If you're gonna cover 720 00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:45,880 Speaker 1: the three, you're gonna win out right. So there you go. 721 00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:49,360 Speaker 1: Denver goes to Kansas City. Denver Broncos are the opponent 722 00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:52,680 Speaker 1: up next for the Houston Texans, so you get a 723 00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:55,520 Speaker 1: little scouting over the weekend of the Broncos the Kansas 724 00:36:55,560 --> 00:36:58,360 Speaker 1: The Chiefs are six and one. They hammered the Bengals 725 00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:00,880 Speaker 1: a week after losing to the Patriots. Kansas City's favored 726 00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:03,360 Speaker 1: by nine. I like Kansas City in this one. I 727 00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:06,680 Speaker 1: think Denver coming off a mini by like the Texans 728 00:37:06,719 --> 00:37:09,960 Speaker 1: are are going to be. They went to Arizona and 729 00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:12,880 Speaker 1: they knocked the Arizona out. Kansas City Chiefs team is 730 00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:16,440 Speaker 1: a little different animal, and the game was close in Denver, 731 00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:19,080 Speaker 1: very close. Patrick Mahomes had to work some magic, but 732 00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:21,960 Speaker 1: he did. I don't think magic's gonna be needed. I 733 00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:23,600 Speaker 1: think Kansas City wins is won by a couple of 734 00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:27,040 Speaker 1: touchdowns at a minimum ten, that's more than nine. So 735 00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:29,160 Speaker 1: we're going to Kansas City to win and cover that nine. 736 00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:33,920 Speaker 1: Then you got Washington taken on the New York Football Giants. 737 00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:36,440 Speaker 1: So here's the way it's going in the NFC East, 738 00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:39,560 Speaker 1: and I'm not exactly sure how to play this. The 739 00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:44,279 Speaker 1: Giants got thumped on Thursday night against Eagles. Eagles just 740 00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:50,400 Speaker 1: ran right through them. Washington is four and two, just 741 00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:55,239 Speaker 1: got through beaton Dallas atop the NFC East standings. On 742 00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:57,960 Speaker 1: the road, Washington's only a one point favorite. I would 743 00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:00,400 Speaker 1: expect it more, especially with the Giants teams won it six. 744 00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:03,960 Speaker 1: I don't know that I trust the Giants though. Eli 745 00:38:04,040 --> 00:38:05,759 Speaker 1: comes in here and he looks like the Hall of 746 00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:08,279 Speaker 1: Famer that he could potentially be. But six of the 747 00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:11,080 Speaker 1: games he's just look lousy. Minus the Carolina game. He 748 00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:12,839 Speaker 1: made some players in that Carolina game. The week after 749 00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:16,600 Speaker 1: we played them, they played Carolina, he was fantastic. And 750 00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:18,920 Speaker 1: it's been those two weeks really and then other weeks 751 00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:21,400 Speaker 1: it's just been dreadful. He has no help on the 752 00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:23,880 Speaker 1: offensive line. He's got to help a receiver. He's got 753 00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:28,319 Speaker 1: Saquon Barkley, but that having not having any help on 754 00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:31,360 Speaker 1: the offensive line is just is killing them, and Eli 755 00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:34,879 Speaker 1: doesn't do anything really outside the pocket, So I don't 756 00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:39,879 Speaker 1: trust in York Washington's assets travel. Washington's got a really 757 00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:42,600 Speaker 1: good defense and they got Adrian Peterson to pound the rock. 758 00:38:42,640 --> 00:38:44,680 Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with Washington. Basically, it's a straight up 759 00:38:44,719 --> 00:38:47,439 Speaker 1: game with a one point advantage for Washington. I'm gonna 760 00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:51,239 Speaker 1: go Washington to win out right and cover that one 761 00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:54,799 Speaker 1: point spread. Cleveland Pittsburgh matchup again. Cleveland now two four 762 00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:58,279 Speaker 1: and one after losing an overtime again Pittsburgh three two 763 00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:00,799 Speaker 1: and one. Pittsburgh's favored by eight and a half at home. 764 00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:04,439 Speaker 1: It feels a little rich. I think Cleveland stays competitive 765 00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:07,320 Speaker 1: and gets inside the eight and a half, But eventually 766 00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:09,200 Speaker 1: Pittsburgh's gonna win that game and go to four two 767 00:39:09,239 --> 00:39:13,360 Speaker 1: and one and get at the top of these stands, 768 00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:16,800 Speaker 1: get to the top of the standings. In the AFC North, 769 00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:20,839 Speaker 1: Baltimore's four and three. They got more wins, but Pittsburgh's 770 00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:23,880 Speaker 1: got two and lost column. So and we'll get to 771 00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:25,799 Speaker 1: Baltimore just a second. So I think Pittsburgh gets to 772 00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:27,239 Speaker 1: win Cleveland and get inside the eight and a half. 773 00:39:27,239 --> 00:39:29,680 Speaker 1: That's a little rich. Even though Pittsburgh play a little 774 00:39:29,680 --> 00:39:32,359 Speaker 1: better defensively, Cleveland's score a little bit, but Pittsburgh's gonna 775 00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:35,120 Speaker 1: win that game. But Cleveland gets to cover. Baltimore goes 776 00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:39,280 Speaker 1: to Carolina. Really hoping for Carolina here, really need Carolina 777 00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:41,200 Speaker 1: to step up. They got a big win on the 778 00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:44,240 Speaker 1: road last week at Philadelphia, coming from behind down seventeen 779 00:39:44,239 --> 00:39:46,600 Speaker 1: to nothing the fourth, Cam Newton led them back to 780 00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:50,839 Speaker 1: a win. Baltimore is favored in Carolina. I think given 781 00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:54,560 Speaker 1: too much credit to Baltimore, way too much credit to Baltimore. 782 00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:56,640 Speaker 1: I'm taking Carolina to win this thing straight up, and 783 00:39:56,640 --> 00:40:00,480 Speaker 1: obviously they'll get the cover against the Baltimore Ray Evans. 784 00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:02,839 Speaker 1: And then you got the Colts going out to the 785 00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:06,240 Speaker 1: East Bay, going out to Oakland to take on the Raids, 786 00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:09,919 Speaker 1: and on the road, the Colts are favored by two 787 00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:12,800 Speaker 1: and a half. Yeah, things are not great in Oakland. 788 00:40:13,560 --> 00:40:17,360 Speaker 1: Going into the twenty eighteenth season. We got Gruden, we 789 00:40:17,440 --> 00:40:20,080 Speaker 1: got Derek Carr, we got Beast Mode, we got Khalil 790 00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:22,840 Speaker 1: Mack when he signs, we got Amary Cooper, we got 791 00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:25,880 Speaker 1: we got all these players. Now, all of a sudden, 792 00:40:26,239 --> 00:40:30,080 Speaker 1: they don't have Cooper, they don't have kil Mack. Some 793 00:40:30,200 --> 00:40:32,479 Speaker 1: question whether they're actually getting to Derek Carr. They thought 794 00:40:32,480 --> 00:40:35,719 Speaker 1: they were gonna get Oakland's a mess. But if they're 795 00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:38,560 Speaker 1: gonna right the ship, this might be the opportunity to 796 00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:40,160 Speaker 1: do it, you know what. I'm going with Oakland in 797 00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:42,920 Speaker 1: an upset here to win out right. Obviously cover the 798 00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:45,799 Speaker 1: two and a half over Indianapolis. Indianapolis gets Jack Doyle 799 00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:48,440 Speaker 1: back that he'll up Andrew luck out a little bit. 800 00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:50,399 Speaker 1: But I'm gonna go with the Raiders to win this one, 801 00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:52,480 Speaker 1: get to two and five and not Indianapolis to two 802 00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:54,480 Speaker 1: and six. But maybe I'm going a little bit more 803 00:40:54,520 --> 00:40:56,600 Speaker 1: hard than head on that one. But that's why I'm 804 00:40:56,680 --> 00:41:00,640 Speaker 1: rolling Indy to lose. Oakland to win outright. Green Bay 805 00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:03,240 Speaker 1: goes to LA haven't said that in a long time. 806 00:41:03,719 --> 00:41:06,560 Speaker 1: Rams are hot seven zero. Nobody can beat him, right, 807 00:41:06,880 --> 00:41:09,480 Speaker 1: I'm not the only guy that could, And it really 808 00:41:09,520 --> 00:41:12,640 Speaker 1: is one guy. It's Aaron Rodgers. He's probably the only 809 00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:15,359 Speaker 1: guy to do it. But I don't think he does 810 00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:17,120 Speaker 1: beat them, but I do think he gets inside the 811 00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:19,040 Speaker 1: nine points. The Rams are favored by, So let's go 812 00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:22,000 Speaker 1: with the Rams to win this one. This feels thirty 813 00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:24,719 Speaker 1: five thirty one ish. It's kind of what it feels like. 814 00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:27,920 Speaker 1: So let's go Rams to win. Maybe got to score 815 00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:30,200 Speaker 1: late to do it, but the Rams will win. But 816 00:41:30,320 --> 00:41:32,719 Speaker 1: the Packers will get inside that nine points to cover 817 00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:38,160 Speaker 1: San Francisco in Arizona both one and six. San Francisco's 818 00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:40,759 Speaker 1: favored by one and a half. It's essentially a pick him. 819 00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:44,040 Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with Arizona circling the wagons here. I 820 00:41:44,040 --> 00:41:47,319 Speaker 1: don't know why, I don't feel great about it, but 821 00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:49,600 Speaker 1: I'm going to I'm going with Arizona to the circle 822 00:41:49,640 --> 00:41:53,040 Speaker 1: of wagons and get the win at home against San Francisco. 823 00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:55,200 Speaker 1: Sunday night's games should be a fun one. New Orleans 824 00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:58,359 Speaker 1: goes back to Minnesota. New Orleans hot that win last 825 00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:01,640 Speaker 1: week over the Baltimore Evens on the road. That's gonna 826 00:42:01,640 --> 00:42:04,800 Speaker 1: be very tough to duplicate. Even though New Orleans is favored. 827 00:42:05,360 --> 00:42:07,400 Speaker 1: I think Minnesota is gonna go get this one. Now. 828 00:42:07,520 --> 00:42:09,640 Speaker 1: Lan's playing well, but I think I think Minnesota at 829 00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:12,879 Speaker 1: home Adam Feland, Kirk Cousins, I think the offense puts 830 00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:14,920 Speaker 1: up some numbers. It's basically a pick. I'm gonna take 831 00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:17,000 Speaker 1: the Vikings at home to win that one on Sunday night, 832 00:42:17,160 --> 00:42:20,000 Speaker 1: and then on Monday evening the New England Patriots, the 833 00:42:20,040 --> 00:42:22,479 Speaker 1: five and two Patriots go to Buffalo two and five 834 00:42:22,520 --> 00:42:24,760 Speaker 1: and it's a mess with Derek Anderson. New England favored 835 00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:27,080 Speaker 1: by thirteen and a half. I think New England will 836 00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:31,000 Speaker 1: actually cover that and beat them by seventeen. This feels 837 00:42:31,040 --> 00:42:34,560 Speaker 1: thirty one, fourteen, thirty four ten, something like that. Let's 838 00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:37,759 Speaker 1: give New England the win and the cover on the 839 00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:41,560 Speaker 1: road against Buffalo on Monday evening. All right, we get back. 840 00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:43,719 Speaker 1: We'll have our deep slant interview of the week, and 841 00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:47,400 Speaker 1: this week it is special team's star and outside linebacker 842 00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:55,640 Speaker 1: Brennan Scarlett. Right here in Texans All Access. We are 843 00:42:55,719 --> 00:42:58,480 Speaker 1: under our second hour of Texans All Access from the 844 00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:00,920 Speaker 1: Honday Texans Radio studio. Glad to be with you. I'm 845 00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:04,759 Speaker 1: your host, John Harris, football analyst and sideline reporter for 846 00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:08,719 Speaker 1: your five in three Houston Texans start owing three, one, 847 00:43:08,840 --> 00:43:13,200 Speaker 1: five in a row at the midway point five and three. 848 00:43:13,280 --> 00:43:15,960 Speaker 1: You know, it's funny when I think back to what 849 00:43:16,120 --> 00:43:18,920 Speaker 1: I thought about this team going in and looking at 850 00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:23,120 Speaker 1: the schedule and the teams they were playing. I remember thinking, man, 851 00:43:23,120 --> 00:43:25,120 Speaker 1: if we get to six and two or five and 852 00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:27,919 Speaker 1: three after eight games, well we gotta be feeling pretty 853 00:43:27,960 --> 00:43:30,839 Speaker 1: good about that. I had no idea we would get 854 00:43:30,840 --> 00:43:33,400 Speaker 1: to five and three and do it this way. But 855 00:43:34,160 --> 00:43:37,480 Speaker 1: they've made some really good progress. I know the will 856 00:43:37,480 --> 00:43:39,400 Speaker 1: Fuller injury will be one that slows them down a 857 00:43:39,440 --> 00:43:42,640 Speaker 1: little bit, but they've got a lot of confidence on 858 00:43:42,680 --> 00:43:45,680 Speaker 1: both sides of the ball, and I think that's really 859 00:43:46,040 --> 00:43:50,640 Speaker 1: what's helped them now. And it really started with that 860 00:43:50,719 --> 00:43:53,200 Speaker 1: Jevion Clowney phone and recovery against the Colts. Yeah. I 861 00:43:53,200 --> 00:43:56,000 Speaker 1: know the Colts came back and in overtime and all that, 862 00:43:56,120 --> 00:43:58,520 Speaker 1: but that was really kind of the kickstarted this whole thing. 863 00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:01,440 Speaker 1: And I remember saying that week, look, you might need 864 00:44:01,480 --> 00:44:04,799 Speaker 1: some help. When you're kind of in the dulgrums and 865 00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:07,120 Speaker 1: you got no breaks going your way, you kind of 866 00:44:07,120 --> 00:44:10,080 Speaker 1: need the other side to give you one and get 867 00:44:10,120 --> 00:44:12,239 Speaker 1: you give you a break. And the Colts did, and 868 00:44:12,280 --> 00:44:15,160 Speaker 1: it kind of broke open the door. They got another 869 00:44:15,200 --> 00:44:17,280 Speaker 1: break later when Frank Reich went for it on fourth 870 00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:19,319 Speaker 1: down on the Texas were able to get that win 871 00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:22,520 Speaker 1: in Indianapolis. So it has been an exciting eight games 872 00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:25,600 Speaker 1: to say the least, and last night they put a 873 00:44:25,640 --> 00:44:29,319 Speaker 1: pretty thorough whipping on the Miami Dolphins. That was good stuff. Now, 874 00:44:29,440 --> 00:44:31,640 Speaker 1: a guy that had to step in at linebacker last 875 00:44:31,719 --> 00:44:34,160 Speaker 1: night in addition to all of the Special Teams duties 876 00:44:34,360 --> 00:44:37,239 Speaker 1: is Brendon Scarlett. He sat down with Deep City for 877 00:44:37,360 --> 00:44:40,080 Speaker 1: our Deep Slant Interview of the week. Deepe, take it away. 878 00:44:40,160 --> 00:44:43,160 Speaker 1: Are joining me today? Brendan Scarlett, linebacker for the Houston 879 00:44:43,160 --> 00:44:46,760 Speaker 1: Texts and Special Team's phenom. How's it going today? Brendan, Oh, wonderful, 880 00:44:47,040 --> 00:44:50,880 Speaker 1: better now that I'm Deep Slant. Thanks, you know, I appreciate. 881 00:44:50,920 --> 00:44:52,600 Speaker 1: I don't think i've had you on. Do I have 882 00:44:52,719 --> 00:44:55,160 Speaker 1: you on? Last year? I did have you on because 883 00:44:55,160 --> 00:44:57,160 Speaker 1: I know I've talked to you before, but first time 884 00:44:57,200 --> 00:44:59,920 Speaker 1: for this year. I want to ask you about Shania Twain. 885 00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:03,600 Speaker 1: Are you big Twin fan? I'm a big Shania Twain fan. Yes. 886 00:45:03,920 --> 00:45:07,080 Speaker 1: I came across the T shirt with her face on it, 887 00:45:07,400 --> 00:45:10,320 Speaker 1: and I fell in love with the shirt. Then I, 888 00:45:10,560 --> 00:45:12,480 Speaker 1: you know, did a little deep digging into the music, 889 00:45:12,600 --> 00:45:14,040 Speaker 1: fell in love with the music. Oh you saw the 890 00:45:14,080 --> 00:45:16,080 Speaker 1: shirt first and you had not heard the music. Well, 891 00:45:16,200 --> 00:45:18,640 Speaker 1: I've heard it, but I didn't I hadn't done a 892 00:45:18,680 --> 00:45:22,239 Speaker 1: deep dive into the Shania Twain archives, but she's got 893 00:45:22,280 --> 00:45:25,640 Speaker 1: some cuts for sure. The shirt definitely helped. Huh. All right, 894 00:45:25,680 --> 00:45:27,640 Speaker 1: so you were the Shania Twain shirt and then you 895 00:45:27,640 --> 00:45:31,040 Speaker 1: have this like monster game on special teams, first career 896 00:45:31,120 --> 00:45:34,320 Speaker 1: fumble recovery, recovering a blocked punt, you had a special 897 00:45:34,320 --> 00:45:37,399 Speaker 1: teams tackle all against Buffalo. I think that you need 898 00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:40,360 Speaker 1: to start wearing the shirt more often. Maybe if you're superstitious, 899 00:45:40,800 --> 00:45:43,840 Speaker 1: that's a good luck She's possibly a good luck charm. 900 00:45:44,120 --> 00:45:47,080 Speaker 1: She's possibly good luck charm. So we'll have to test. 901 00:45:48,120 --> 00:45:50,160 Speaker 1: I can't. I can't rock the shirt again too soon. 902 00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:52,960 Speaker 1: You know that'll just be a bad on on the wardrobe. 903 00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:55,480 Speaker 1: Fashion folk, you know what I mean? Yeah, I got you, 904 00:45:55,520 --> 00:45:57,000 Speaker 1: I got you. I saw that you put it was 905 00:45:57,000 --> 00:45:58,520 Speaker 1: actually the like of the week. I do this thing 906 00:45:58,560 --> 00:46:01,160 Speaker 1: called likes and stuff, and we made your Shania Twain 907 00:46:01,560 --> 00:46:04,640 Speaker 1: shirt the Like of the Week because you also wanted 908 00:46:04,640 --> 00:46:06,400 Speaker 1: someone to tag Shanai in it, which I saw a 909 00:46:06,440 --> 00:46:08,560 Speaker 1: bunch of people tagger. But had you heard has she 910 00:46:08,760 --> 00:46:11,879 Speaker 1: reached out or have you heard anything? Unfortunately I haven't 911 00:46:11,920 --> 00:46:14,000 Speaker 1: heard anything. She should at least on your shirt. I'm 912 00:46:14,040 --> 00:46:16,400 Speaker 1: just putting that out there for the universe hopefully, hopefully 913 00:46:16,440 --> 00:46:19,040 Speaker 1: at some point, you know, our paths across. But during 914 00:46:19,080 --> 00:46:22,560 Speaker 1: the game, I noticed that you're good pal and teammate 915 00:46:22,600 --> 00:46:25,640 Speaker 1: Dylan Cole who's on injured reserve, he's always tweeting at you, 916 00:46:25,680 --> 00:46:28,080 Speaker 1: tweeting at Special Teams and what a great job you 917 00:46:28,080 --> 00:46:30,040 Speaker 1: guys are doing so far. What does the identity of 918 00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:32,880 Speaker 1: this Special Teams look like right now? We got a 919 00:46:32,880 --> 00:46:36,560 Speaker 1: great group of guys, you know, between all the leaders 920 00:46:36,600 --> 00:46:39,920 Speaker 1: we got on the unit plus the younger guys, you know, 921 00:46:39,960 --> 00:46:42,040 Speaker 1: we all come in with the attitude that you know, 922 00:46:42,040 --> 00:46:44,840 Speaker 1: every week we're trying to dominate our opponents and we 923 00:46:44,960 --> 00:46:48,320 Speaker 1: prepare hard, hold each other accountable. So that's kind of 924 00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:50,680 Speaker 1: identity of the group right now. You know, we got 925 00:46:50,680 --> 00:46:54,000 Speaker 1: guys like Johnson, Battam Mossy and Brian Peters and obviously 926 00:46:54,000 --> 00:46:57,120 Speaker 1: Troll Adams and then a younger dudes Justin Reid and 927 00:46:57,520 --> 00:47:01,759 Speaker 1: Peter Columbay, Buddy aj just we got a good group 928 00:47:01,800 --> 00:47:04,839 Speaker 1: of guys and we're all, uh, we're all working really 929 00:47:04,880 --> 00:47:07,240 Speaker 1: be the best unit out there. You're under Brad Seely 930 00:47:07,320 --> 00:47:09,440 Speaker 1: and Tracy, I mean, two new guys who've done it 931 00:47:09,480 --> 00:47:11,319 Speaker 1: for a really long time. I've heard they're sort of 932 00:47:11,320 --> 00:47:14,480 Speaker 1: like Yin and Yang together. Those two travel in a 933 00:47:14,560 --> 00:47:18,040 Speaker 1: pack right wherever they coach. Like, how are they so different? 934 00:47:18,080 --> 00:47:19,680 Speaker 1: I don't really know them the same way you guys 935 00:47:19,719 --> 00:47:23,239 Speaker 1: know them. Uh, vote both very knowledgeable, so you can 936 00:47:23,280 --> 00:47:26,520 Speaker 1: kind of go to either of them, um for anything. 937 00:47:27,120 --> 00:47:29,759 Speaker 1: You know, Tracy kind of sits with the guys and 938 00:47:29,800 --> 00:47:33,600 Speaker 1: the meetings, while uh coach Seely leads leads the meetings. 939 00:47:33,640 --> 00:47:35,719 Speaker 1: So it's kind of nice to have him. He's almost like, 940 00:47:36,040 --> 00:47:37,920 Speaker 1: you know, it's like a player back there, you know, 941 00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:40,360 Speaker 1: chopping it up. So whatever questions we have, you just 942 00:47:40,360 --> 00:47:43,160 Speaker 1: cracking jokes back there. So it's just it's a good 943 00:47:43,239 --> 00:47:46,040 Speaker 1: dynamic and a coach Seely obviously been doing it a 944 00:47:46,040 --> 00:47:48,400 Speaker 1: long time, and uh, you know it takes a very 945 00:47:48,800 --> 00:47:53,359 Speaker 1: uh scientific, meticulous approach to special teams and you know, 946 00:47:53,480 --> 00:47:57,120 Speaker 1: our jobs and responsibilities and uh it pays off. Zero 947 00:47:57,160 --> 00:47:59,880 Speaker 1: punt yards given up against New England and right now 948 00:48:00,120 --> 00:48:01,720 Speaker 1: one of the best in the league in yards allowed 949 00:48:01,760 --> 00:48:03,680 Speaker 1: on kickoff returns. I just want to put that out there. 950 00:48:03,680 --> 00:48:06,759 Speaker 1: Special teams very special. Right now I want to talk 951 00:48:06,760 --> 00:48:09,920 Speaker 1: to you about yourself it's your third season out of Stanford. 952 00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:12,759 Speaker 1: You came here undrafted, and now you look back, it's 953 00:48:12,760 --> 00:48:14,600 Speaker 1: hard to imagine that you run draft. I almost feel 954 00:48:14,600 --> 00:48:16,000 Speaker 1: like I got to check that every time I look 955 00:48:16,040 --> 00:48:18,200 Speaker 1: you up. What do you think you did right to 956 00:48:18,280 --> 00:48:20,239 Speaker 1: sort of have this career and this start to the 957 00:48:20,239 --> 00:48:23,400 Speaker 1: career that you've had so far. Um, you know, I 958 00:48:23,520 --> 00:48:26,920 Speaker 1: just think the first of all, just had you know, 959 00:48:26,960 --> 00:48:29,600 Speaker 1: guys ahead of me that I've been able to learn from, 960 00:48:29,680 --> 00:48:32,120 Speaker 1: you know, to you know, learn how to prepare, learn 961 00:48:32,160 --> 00:48:35,279 Speaker 1: how to keep my body right, you know, and learn 962 00:48:35,320 --> 00:48:38,080 Speaker 1: how to just be a pro. And uh so that's 963 00:48:38,160 --> 00:48:40,200 Speaker 1: kind of something that you know, I take through the 964 00:48:40,239 --> 00:48:44,040 Speaker 1: off seasons in the season, you know, just preparing every week. 965 00:48:45,200 --> 00:48:47,560 Speaker 1: Who was that for you your first year in twenty sixteen? 966 00:48:47,640 --> 00:48:49,440 Speaker 1: Who do you think you really looked up to? I 967 00:48:49,480 --> 00:48:55,240 Speaker 1: looked up a lot to Whitney Merciless, Brian Peters, Brian Cushing, 968 00:48:56,360 --> 00:49:00,719 Speaker 1: those guys, And come the off season started working out 969 00:49:00,719 --> 00:49:03,719 Speaker 1: with Domin Kinsoue, who kind of so we train in 970 00:49:03,719 --> 00:49:05,640 Speaker 1: the off season together. So I've learned a lot from 971 00:49:05,680 --> 00:49:09,439 Speaker 1: from him. You train out in California? Is that where Oregon? Yeah? 972 00:49:09,520 --> 00:49:13,600 Speaker 1: The Nike headquarters so looked out that you're rocking the Nike. Yeah, 973 00:49:13,640 --> 00:49:17,400 Speaker 1: big Nike guy. I almost wonder when you're in Portland, Oregon, 974 00:49:17,480 --> 00:49:19,520 Speaker 1: like how much is it a football state or they're like, 975 00:49:19,760 --> 00:49:22,239 Speaker 1: I mean, obviously you've got the football programs. They were right, 976 00:49:22,360 --> 00:49:24,719 Speaker 1: but like, overall is it it's got to be so 977 00:49:24,800 --> 00:49:27,759 Speaker 1: different from what the attitude towards football in Texas I 978 00:49:27,760 --> 00:49:29,960 Speaker 1: would imagine without it out Yeah, because we don't have 979 00:49:29,960 --> 00:49:33,080 Speaker 1: a professional team out there. Uh So it's like soccer 980 00:49:33,200 --> 00:49:35,200 Speaker 1: is big sport because we got the Timbers and then 981 00:49:35,200 --> 00:49:38,200 Speaker 1: basketball off the Trailblazers. Uh So i'd say those are 982 00:49:38,239 --> 00:49:40,440 Speaker 1: kind of the leading sports. But you know, we got 983 00:49:40,440 --> 00:49:42,520 Speaker 1: some good guys that have come out of Portland, and 984 00:49:42,680 --> 00:49:45,719 Speaker 1: uh you know they are everybody who's I think that 985 00:49:45,920 --> 00:49:48,000 Speaker 1: is a professional in the league for the most part, 986 00:49:48,080 --> 00:49:50,759 Speaker 1: goes back to Portland and either trains or like has 987 00:49:50,760 --> 00:49:53,040 Speaker 1: a good deep connection with the with the city. So 988 00:49:53,480 --> 00:49:55,520 Speaker 1: it's a good close knit group. I would say, have 989 00:49:55,640 --> 00:49:57,600 Speaker 1: you ever taken any of your teammates back to Portland? 990 00:49:58,480 --> 00:50:01,399 Speaker 1: Has anyone ever tagged along with you? Of those not yet? No, 991 00:50:01,560 --> 00:50:03,920 Speaker 1: not yet. Dji reader was supposed to post to make 992 00:50:03,960 --> 00:50:07,360 Speaker 1: a trip bailed Brian Peter's supposed to make a trip bailed, 993 00:50:07,880 --> 00:50:10,560 Speaker 1: but we're gonna we're working on I think you should. 994 00:50:10,600 --> 00:50:12,879 Speaker 1: I think you should have a little field trip to Portland, Oregon. 995 00:50:12,960 --> 00:50:14,719 Speaker 1: I've actually never been. I've always wanted to go. Heard 996 00:50:14,719 --> 00:50:16,640 Speaker 1: it's a beautiful part of the country. Come on out, 997 00:50:16,840 --> 00:50:20,160 Speaker 1: I should, I should? All right, you guys, Stanford versus Clemson, Like, 998 00:50:20,280 --> 00:50:21,840 Speaker 1: is there a little battle in the locker room? You 999 00:50:21,840 --> 00:50:23,560 Speaker 1: guys are now evenly tired. I feel like we're getting 1000 00:50:23,560 --> 00:50:26,120 Speaker 1: a lot of Stanford guys in there. We are you know, 1001 00:50:26,160 --> 00:50:31,160 Speaker 1: we're cut from a solid cloth. Uh. Yeah, we got 1002 00:50:31,160 --> 00:50:32,960 Speaker 1: a good number of Stanford guys. I don't think there's 1003 00:50:33,040 --> 00:50:35,280 Speaker 1: much of a rivalry right now with the Clemson dudes. 1004 00:50:36,160 --> 00:50:38,560 Speaker 1: If there's ever a day where Clemson plays Stanford, maybe 1005 00:50:38,680 --> 00:50:42,280 Speaker 1: that that rivalry will begin. Yeah, that's true. That's unfortunately 1006 00:50:42,400 --> 00:50:44,920 Speaker 1: right now, that's unfortunate. I want to talk to you 1007 00:50:44,960 --> 00:50:47,440 Speaker 1: about that twenty sixteen season. Would you go back and 1008 00:50:47,480 --> 00:50:49,759 Speaker 1: do anything differently now that you've been in the league 1009 00:50:49,760 --> 00:50:54,440 Speaker 1: a few years? Uh, twenty sixteen, I would change the 1010 00:50:54,480 --> 00:50:57,759 Speaker 1: way that I the way that I came in, um, 1011 00:50:58,200 --> 00:51:02,160 Speaker 1: like my first off season, before my first season, right 1012 00:51:02,239 --> 00:51:05,440 Speaker 1: like training, I was just like I was killing myself. 1013 00:51:05,560 --> 00:51:08,520 Speaker 1: I was really hard just to train because I'm okay 1014 00:51:08,520 --> 00:51:11,960 Speaker 1: in the league. You know, I like the fast, you know, 1015 00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:13,759 Speaker 1: I got to do all of this stuff, and like, 1016 00:51:14,160 --> 00:51:16,120 Speaker 1: you know, I ended up coming in with a hamstring. 1017 00:51:16,280 --> 00:51:18,640 Speaker 1: Like it was like a tough first three weeks of 1018 00:51:18,800 --> 00:51:21,040 Speaker 1: training camp. And it was just because you know, I 1019 00:51:21,120 --> 00:51:23,839 Speaker 1: was just training really hard back home. And if I 1020 00:51:23,840 --> 00:51:26,120 Speaker 1: would to do it differently, I would just would have 1021 00:51:26,160 --> 00:51:30,759 Speaker 1: taken my time and instead of harder, because you know, 1022 00:51:30,800 --> 00:51:33,680 Speaker 1: at a certain point, that's kind of how you prolong 1023 00:51:33,800 --> 00:51:36,080 Speaker 1: a career. You went on IR that year for a 1024 00:51:36,120 --> 00:51:37,960 Speaker 1: little bit in the middle, you came back for like 1025 00:51:38,000 --> 00:51:40,640 Speaker 1: the last few games of the year and then the postseason. Yeah, 1026 00:51:40,960 --> 00:51:43,600 Speaker 1: what was that process? Like, did you know that you 1027 00:51:43,640 --> 00:51:45,360 Speaker 1: were going to come back or was that you know, 1028 00:51:45,360 --> 00:51:46,959 Speaker 1: I imagine you put a lot of pressure in yourself 1029 00:51:47,000 --> 00:51:49,319 Speaker 1: to come No, I had I had a little bit 1030 00:51:49,320 --> 00:51:51,440 Speaker 1: of an idea because I was just told when they 1031 00:51:51,760 --> 00:51:54,360 Speaker 1: placed me on IR to stay ready. You know, you 1032 00:51:54,400 --> 00:51:56,320 Speaker 1: don't want it would happened like we can bring somebody 1033 00:51:56,320 --> 00:51:59,719 Speaker 1: back that you so especially down the line, as uh, 1034 00:52:00,080 --> 00:52:02,480 Speaker 1: A couple of guys ahead of me we're getting hurt. 1035 00:52:02,520 --> 00:52:04,200 Speaker 1: You know, in a couple of weeks before I was 1036 00:52:04,239 --> 00:52:06,719 Speaker 1: able to come back, I kind of had a sense that, yeah, 1037 00:52:06,719 --> 00:52:09,239 Speaker 1: this might be a good opportunity. So, you know, I 1038 00:52:09,320 --> 00:52:11,240 Speaker 1: kind of had it in my mind when they finally 1039 00:52:11,280 --> 00:52:13,440 Speaker 1: told me that I was going to be back, how exciting. 1040 00:52:13,440 --> 00:52:15,239 Speaker 1: You're undrafted, you're rooking. Then you need to play in 1041 00:52:15,239 --> 00:52:18,160 Speaker 1: a playoff game your first year. I mean, I imagine 1042 00:52:18,160 --> 00:52:20,840 Speaker 1: the emotions were just like yeah, I mean, can you 1043 00:52:20,880 --> 00:52:24,120 Speaker 1: even describe what that's like? No, I mean, did you 1044 00:52:24,160 --> 00:52:26,440 Speaker 1: think that you'd be in the NFL? Like when you're undrafted, Like, 1045 00:52:26,480 --> 00:52:28,480 Speaker 1: what was your sense of where your career was going 1046 00:52:28,520 --> 00:52:32,680 Speaker 1: to go. I always thought that I had the talent 1047 00:52:32,800 --> 00:52:36,400 Speaker 1: and the work ethic, and I always thought that I 1048 00:52:36,400 --> 00:52:38,279 Speaker 1: could play in the NFL. It was never really a 1049 00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:40,799 Speaker 1: doubt in my mind. It was, you know, I guess 1050 00:52:40,800 --> 00:52:43,680 Speaker 1: a down another folks mind, And that's kind of something 1051 00:52:43,760 --> 00:52:46,239 Speaker 1: I've carried as a chip on my shoulder a little bit. 1052 00:52:46,320 --> 00:52:51,280 Speaker 1: But for me personally, you know, my support group, my parents, coaches, 1053 00:52:51,640 --> 00:52:53,880 Speaker 1: you never told me I couldn't do it, so like 1054 00:52:54,000 --> 00:52:55,759 Speaker 1: I never had that belief. You got a lot of 1055 00:52:55,800 --> 00:52:57,880 Speaker 1: support when it comes to football. One thing that you 1056 00:52:57,920 --> 00:53:01,200 Speaker 1: don't have a lot of support for your Instagram posts. 1057 00:53:01,440 --> 00:53:03,399 Speaker 1: I feel like your teammates give you a really hard 1058 00:53:03,440 --> 00:53:07,480 Speaker 1: time about your I don't understand why. I think they're great. 1059 00:53:07,680 --> 00:53:10,440 Speaker 1: I appreciate that Brian Peters was giving you scores on 1060 00:53:10,520 --> 00:53:13,840 Speaker 1: your on your captions. He's not a fan. JJ sometimes 1061 00:53:13,920 --> 00:53:16,200 Speaker 1: gets in on that. What's happening there? You know? The 1062 00:53:16,239 --> 00:53:18,920 Speaker 1: thing is, it's like it's like the same thing as publicity. 1063 00:53:19,360 --> 00:53:24,480 Speaker 1: They say all I say, yeah, in terms of Instagram, 1064 00:53:24,840 --> 00:53:27,239 Speaker 1: all engagement is good engagement, you know what I mean. 1065 00:53:27,280 --> 00:53:28,759 Speaker 1: That's a good way to look at it. If I 1066 00:53:28,800 --> 00:53:32,000 Speaker 1: got VP and my comments, Hayden J has an occasional 1067 00:53:32,080 --> 00:53:35,920 Speaker 1: Hayden comment like, that's all right comment. What's their biggest 1068 00:53:35,920 --> 00:53:39,759 Speaker 1: beef with your captions? Uh? They're pretty um, you don't 1069 00:53:39,800 --> 00:53:44,040 Speaker 1: have to ask them. Pretty philosophical, right, I think so. 1070 00:53:44,719 --> 00:53:46,360 Speaker 1: I think that's where Instagram is headed. It's like a 1071 00:53:46,400 --> 00:53:48,919 Speaker 1: picture and then a very philosophical quote which I can't 1072 00:53:48,960 --> 00:53:51,200 Speaker 1: really pull off. But I mean, I mean, the young 1073 00:53:51,280 --> 00:53:53,399 Speaker 1: kids are doing it, and I think it looks it's 1074 00:53:53,440 --> 00:53:56,160 Speaker 1: it's a it's a it's a good Instagram voice, Oh 1075 00:53:56,200 --> 00:53:57,640 Speaker 1: for sure. I mean, I don't want to say that. 1076 00:53:57,719 --> 00:53:59,399 Speaker 1: It says a lot about you now that you said 1077 00:53:59,440 --> 00:54:02,680 Speaker 1: you can't it, but it kind of says something. I 1078 00:54:02,719 --> 00:54:04,320 Speaker 1: have to be true to me, So if that's not 1079 00:54:04,520 --> 00:54:06,520 Speaker 1: my identity, then I'm not going to pretend like it is. 1080 00:54:06,920 --> 00:54:09,440 Speaker 1: That's that's part of real. I gotta be real, and 1081 00:54:09,520 --> 00:54:12,400 Speaker 1: real is not for me. It's not having quotes like that. 1082 00:54:12,440 --> 00:54:15,600 Speaker 1: It's making fun of myself something like that. I like that. Okay, well, 1083 00:54:15,640 --> 00:54:18,440 Speaker 1: I'll have to come to you for Instagram questions. I've 1084 00:54:18,520 --> 00:54:20,399 Speaker 1: learned a lot about you through your Instagram. I learned 1085 00:54:20,400 --> 00:54:22,520 Speaker 1: that you used to be a Harry Potter book fan 1086 00:54:22,600 --> 00:54:24,440 Speaker 1: and you used to wait up all night with your 1087 00:54:24,440 --> 00:54:26,440 Speaker 1: mom to buy books. Right, that's right. I was a 1088 00:54:26,520 --> 00:54:28,759 Speaker 1: huge Harry Potter fan. I was really a big fan 1089 00:54:28,800 --> 00:54:31,480 Speaker 1: of reading when I was younger. It was like, for 1090 00:54:31,520 --> 00:54:33,480 Speaker 1: some reason, I was really into like the sci fi 1091 00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:36,520 Speaker 1: type books. So like there was this like Percy Jackson 1092 00:54:36,640 --> 00:54:38,920 Speaker 1: was that after you? But Percy Jackson I wasn't into that. 1093 00:54:39,160 --> 00:54:41,960 Speaker 1: But there was these books called like Aragon. It was 1094 00:54:42,000 --> 00:54:46,040 Speaker 1: like a dragon series. Okay, it reminds me only on 1095 00:54:46,040 --> 00:54:49,759 Speaker 1: season three. Okay, no spoilers will be thrown out, but 1096 00:54:49,760 --> 00:54:52,600 Speaker 1: that is part of my Halloween costume. I'm just really yeah, 1097 00:54:52,719 --> 00:54:57,320 Speaker 1: I just so I just finished The Red Wedding. Oh yeah, 1098 00:54:57,360 --> 00:54:59,480 Speaker 1: it's been a tough week for I can't believe nobody 1099 00:54:59,600 --> 00:55:01,960 Speaker 1: get you didn't have any spoilers about that, because when 1100 00:55:02,000 --> 00:55:03,920 Speaker 1: that came out on Twitter, I mean I had to 1101 00:55:03,920 --> 00:55:06,200 Speaker 1: like get off of Twitter for a while. So I 1102 00:55:06,239 --> 00:55:09,560 Speaker 1: wasn't even into gaming Stones until like after training camp. 1103 00:55:09,960 --> 00:55:12,280 Speaker 1: I started this like in the beginning of this season, 1104 00:55:12,480 --> 00:55:15,440 Speaker 1: and Will Fuller told me because I was telling them like, yeah, 1105 00:55:15,640 --> 00:55:18,880 Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of Rob Star. Yeah. He was 1106 00:55:18,920 --> 00:55:24,879 Speaker 1: like that's pretty much. Yeah. Yeah, Well, if you like reading, 1107 00:55:24,920 --> 00:55:26,680 Speaker 1: you should go back and maybe read the books. Although 1108 00:55:26,680 --> 00:55:28,960 Speaker 1: I think the series is like so much better than 1109 00:55:29,000 --> 00:55:31,080 Speaker 1: I sort of abandoned the books, Like I definitely read 1110 00:55:31,080 --> 00:55:33,520 Speaker 1: one and most of two. Yeah, but I thought, yeah, 1111 00:55:33,520 --> 00:55:35,760 Speaker 1: but I thought the series was just so much better. Yeah, 1112 00:55:35,760 --> 00:55:37,799 Speaker 1: you've got a lot of layers. Anything that people might 1113 00:55:37,800 --> 00:55:40,080 Speaker 1: be surprised to know about you, Oh well, I can't 1114 00:55:40,239 --> 00:55:41,920 Speaker 1: kind of you kind of gave away some of them. 1115 00:55:42,480 --> 00:55:44,960 Speaker 1: I did. Well, I had to do my research this 1116 00:55:45,160 --> 00:55:47,040 Speaker 1: and I twin thing. You know that I picked up 1117 00:55:47,040 --> 00:55:49,160 Speaker 1: that shirt at a thrift shop. I'm a big thrift guy. 1118 00:55:49,200 --> 00:55:51,000 Speaker 1: So okay, I was going to ask you about that. 1119 00:55:51,040 --> 00:55:52,560 Speaker 1: I think people would be surprised to know that you 1120 00:55:52,600 --> 00:55:56,840 Speaker 1: shop at a thrift shop. Yeah, and why in Houston 1121 00:55:56,960 --> 00:55:58,480 Speaker 1: or do you have to go to Portland for like 1122 00:55:58,480 --> 00:56:01,200 Speaker 1: the really good moment shot has a few there's some 1123 00:56:01,719 --> 00:56:05,040 Speaker 1: over on West Timer like riding that Montros area. But then, yeah, 1124 00:56:05,160 --> 00:56:07,440 Speaker 1: I got some connections on Instagram that's kind of been 1125 00:56:07,440 --> 00:56:11,160 Speaker 1: throwing me some blessing me with with some great pieces lately. 1126 00:56:11,280 --> 00:56:14,880 Speaker 1: So uh now I'm into I'm into the vintage, the 1127 00:56:14,960 --> 00:56:18,680 Speaker 1: vintage stuff because you know, not everybody's wearing it. It's original, 1128 00:56:18,760 --> 00:56:21,279 Speaker 1: It's one hundred percent original. It's almost like a one 1129 00:56:21,320 --> 00:56:24,120 Speaker 1: on one. You know, at this point twenty years later, 1130 00:56:24,280 --> 00:56:26,440 Speaker 1: it's like a one on one. It's it's almost amazing 1131 00:56:26,440 --> 00:56:28,319 Speaker 1: and miraculous that you found it. It fits you as 1132 00:56:28,360 --> 00:56:30,920 Speaker 1: a football player. I think it's hard enough to for 1133 00:56:30,960 --> 00:56:32,799 Speaker 1: normal people to find stuff that fits the mouth rift 1134 00:56:32,800 --> 00:56:36,480 Speaker 1: shop and then you just go there and off the back. Luckily, 1135 00:56:36,520 --> 00:56:39,080 Speaker 1: back in the Data East close were a little bigger, 1136 00:56:40,880 --> 00:56:45,239 Speaker 1: some extra large. Today doesn't fit me, but back in 1137 00:56:45,400 --> 00:56:48,440 Speaker 1: like the early nineties, you know, sorry, I think that 1138 00:56:48,440 --> 00:56:50,520 Speaker 1: people would be surprised to know that, as well as 1139 00:56:50,520 --> 00:56:52,520 Speaker 1: many other things. You got to follow this guy on Instagram. 1140 00:56:53,080 --> 00:56:56,560 Speaker 1: Beat up scar Yeah, and it's I think, I mean, 1141 00:56:56,600 --> 00:56:59,120 Speaker 1: I think it's great. You learn a lot of the the period. 1142 00:57:00,080 --> 00:57:03,080 Speaker 1: No sponsors yet, We're working on that, right. All right, 1143 00:57:03,080 --> 00:57:05,600 Speaker 1: good stuff, Brendan Scarlett, thanks so much, thanks for having me. 1144 00:57:05,920 --> 00:57:09,759 Speaker 1: Good stuff, good dude, good team player, understanding his role 1145 00:57:09,800 --> 00:57:13,120 Speaker 1: in this squad. There he is, Brennan Scarlett. All right, 1146 00:57:13,160 --> 00:57:16,480 Speaker 1: we can get back. I did something for Texans Replay, 1147 00:57:16,520 --> 00:57:19,480 Speaker 1: and I think it's worthy of bringing it back because 1148 00:57:19,600 --> 00:57:22,760 Speaker 1: what happened last night with DeAndre Hopkins and the catch. 1149 00:57:23,240 --> 00:57:26,160 Speaker 1: Everybody has seen it. He did it on national television 1150 00:57:26,360 --> 00:57:29,680 Speaker 1: for the entire world to see. Now before that, I 1151 00:57:29,760 --> 00:57:32,520 Speaker 1: did it all through the eleven of his best catches plays. 1152 00:57:33,440 --> 00:57:36,560 Speaker 1: Do you agree with my list? And after you hear it, 1153 00:57:36,680 --> 00:57:39,680 Speaker 1: where would you slot this catch? Is this go up 1154 00:57:39,680 --> 00:57:41,600 Speaker 1: to all the way to number one? Even though it 1155 00:57:41,680 --> 00:57:44,960 Speaker 1: didn't count. We'll have that next right here in Texans 1156 00:57:45,000 --> 00:57:48,520 Speaker 1: All Access. It is time for our choose fun moment 1157 00:57:48,640 --> 00:57:51,640 Speaker 1: of the week. I don't think anything was more fun 1158 00:57:51,760 --> 00:57:56,000 Speaker 1: than this last night. Third down, even forty five to go, 1159 00:57:56,200 --> 00:58:02,560 Speaker 1: third quarter Watson shotgun in short side left one back 1160 00:58:02,640 --> 00:58:06,840 Speaker 1: Miller on third down from the nineteen. Watson gets the snap, 1161 00:58:06,920 --> 00:58:09,400 Speaker 1: looking the shots, stepping to his left, now throwing deep 1162 00:58:09,400 --> 00:58:12,960 Speaker 1: down left side, and Hopskins on the one handed grab 1163 00:58:13,320 --> 00:58:16,240 Speaker 1: at the forty five yard lot of Miami. How does 1164 00:58:16,280 --> 00:58:18,960 Speaker 1: he do it? But it's gonna be pass interference if 1165 00:58:19,000 --> 00:58:21,760 Speaker 1: it ends up not counting. It's one of those Hopkins 1166 00:58:21,840 --> 00:58:24,880 Speaker 1: catches that you'll want to see forever, even though it 1167 00:58:24,960 --> 00:58:29,920 Speaker 1: doesn't count. Pass interference number ten offense both falls off 1168 00:58:29,960 --> 00:58:35,560 Speaker 1: set down. That might have been the best catch I've 1169 00:58:35,560 --> 00:58:37,760 Speaker 1: ever seen. It was between the legs. He got it 1170 00:58:37,800 --> 00:58:40,959 Speaker 1: with the left hand, pulled it in under his left leg, 1171 00:58:42,000 --> 00:58:44,680 Speaker 1: got the body to fall, the ball never hit the 1172 00:58:44,720 --> 00:58:48,720 Speaker 1: ground as both gods get on the ball between his legs. 1173 00:58:48,960 --> 00:58:51,960 Speaker 1: You gotta just let that one go just because of 1174 00:58:52,640 --> 00:58:56,040 Speaker 1: the beauty of the plane. You're gonna see that high 1175 00:58:56,120 --> 00:58:58,720 Speaker 1: left forever, just like the one against the Giants, and 1176 00:58:58,880 --> 00:59:01,400 Speaker 1: neither of them count. There were plenty of choose fun 1177 00:59:01,480 --> 00:59:04,200 Speaker 1: moments last night, but that is at the top. Don't 1178 00:59:04,200 --> 00:59:06,080 Speaker 1: forget to enter for your chance to win a cruise 1179 00:59:06,080 --> 00:59:08,760 Speaker 1: every week. If the Texans catch a touchdown, and they 1180 00:59:08,800 --> 00:59:11,680 Speaker 1: caught a lot of them last night from Carnival, the 1181 00:59:11,720 --> 00:59:16,160 Speaker 1: official cruise line of the Houston Texans. Choose fun now. 1182 00:59:16,480 --> 00:59:20,200 Speaker 1: I also chose that moment because it segues into this 1183 00:59:20,400 --> 00:59:23,000 Speaker 1: segment on DeAndre Hopkins. On Tuesday nights, I do a 1184 00:59:23,040 --> 00:59:25,960 Speaker 1: show called Texans Replay, and in my final segment, I 1185 00:59:26,000 --> 00:59:27,479 Speaker 1: was trying to think of what to do, and I thought, 1186 00:59:27,480 --> 00:59:30,920 Speaker 1: you know that catch that DeAndre had against Jacksonville, the 1187 00:59:30,960 --> 00:59:33,240 Speaker 1: one hander down the sideline against Jalen Ramsey, which was 1188 00:59:33,320 --> 00:59:38,200 Speaker 1: just extraordinary? Is I mean to see him do that? 1189 00:59:38,560 --> 00:59:41,240 Speaker 1: It got me thinking after I was on the bus 1190 00:59:41,320 --> 00:59:43,000 Speaker 1: and I thought, man, I started kind of just jotting 1191 00:59:43,040 --> 00:59:45,920 Speaker 1: down notes into my phone, what were the best catches 1192 00:59:45,960 --> 00:59:47,840 Speaker 1: slash plays he's ever made? And then then he started 1193 00:59:47,840 --> 00:59:51,600 Speaker 1: to come porn out, Man, here they are. Then this 1194 00:59:51,640 --> 00:59:53,800 Speaker 1: one happened last night. This is what I thought on 1195 00:59:53,840 --> 00:59:56,919 Speaker 1: Tuesday Night. Where the ultimate eleven catches slash place he's 1196 00:59:56,920 --> 01:00:00,240 Speaker 1: ever made? Where does the one last night rank? Take 1197 01:00:00,240 --> 01:00:03,160 Speaker 1: a listen and see what I thought before that catch, 1198 01:00:03,400 --> 01:00:05,720 Speaker 1: And I'll tell you after where I would put that catch. 1199 01:00:06,160 --> 01:00:08,920 Speaker 1: Let's start with number eleven. I'll play that never counted 1200 01:00:09,120 --> 01:00:12,640 Speaker 1: unfortunately and didn't count. But it's still to me the 1201 01:00:12,680 --> 01:00:15,360 Speaker 1: greatest catch he's made. And there was a twenty fourteen 1202 01:00:15,640 --> 01:00:18,880 Speaker 1: against the New York Giants. Ryan Fitzpatrick at our center 1203 01:00:19,360 --> 01:00:26,000 Speaker 1: blew in the backfield, Fitzpatrick fakes the give flag down, 1204 01:00:26,080 --> 01:00:30,600 Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick throws along and Watts Hop gives half them inside 1205 01:00:30,600 --> 01:00:34,880 Speaker 1: the thirty yard line in double coverage, big play Texans. 1206 01:00:34,920 --> 01:00:39,960 Speaker 1: What's the flag for illegal formation offense? A lot of reciting. 1207 01:00:40,000 --> 01:00:42,800 Speaker 1: He covered number seventy four who were forded as eligible 1208 01:00:43,520 --> 01:00:47,720 Speaker 1: five yard kindily first down. What a catch, bought Hop kiss. 1209 01:00:47,840 --> 01:00:50,560 Speaker 1: It was great and it doesn't to replay and it is. 1210 01:00:50,760 --> 01:00:54,000 Speaker 1: I mean, if that stood, that's the play of the 1211 01:00:54,440 --> 01:00:58,360 Speaker 1: Sunday Afternoon football. That would have been on everybody's highlight 1212 01:00:58,640 --> 01:01:01,560 Speaker 1: package today. I hadn't seen one like that in a 1213 01:01:01,600 --> 01:01:07,080 Speaker 1: long long time. Who amazing with two giants draked all 1214 01:01:07,080 --> 01:01:09,320 Speaker 1: over him. I mean, I'm still shaking my head at Dowlin. 1215 01:01:09,800 --> 01:01:13,040 Speaker 1: I still I saw it happen. And the words that 1216 01:01:12,680 --> 01:01:15,840 Speaker 1: I that I said I cannot say on radio. But 1217 01:01:16,200 --> 01:01:19,800 Speaker 1: let's just say that was phenomenal, absolutely phenomenal. That's at 1218 01:01:19,800 --> 01:01:22,760 Speaker 1: a number eleven just only because it doesn't count, and 1219 01:01:22,760 --> 01:01:25,760 Speaker 1: it didn't count. But this one counted a number ten. 1220 01:01:26,360 --> 01:01:29,640 Speaker 1: I don't think people remember this one too much, but 1221 01:01:29,720 --> 01:01:32,280 Speaker 1: I do. This was against the Jets in twenty fifteen. 1222 01:01:33,000 --> 01:01:36,760 Speaker 1: Hopkins was running an out route and well he snagged 1223 01:01:36,760 --> 01:01:39,960 Speaker 1: this one with one hand. TJ back to throw, TJ 1224 01:01:40,160 --> 01:01:42,840 Speaker 1: looking and he fires right sideline. Had it's caught fire 1225 01:01:42,880 --> 01:01:45,280 Speaker 1: Hopkins for our first down. As he steps into Hounds 1226 01:01:45,320 --> 01:01:47,520 Speaker 1: with the thirty one yard line. What I grabbed and 1227 01:01:47,680 --> 01:01:50,360 Speaker 1: a throw over and I had a briebous one hand 1228 01:01:50,760 --> 01:01:54,400 Speaker 1: just reached out snagged it. Oh my gosh. I can 1229 01:01:54,480 --> 01:01:56,920 Speaker 1: still see that catch against the Jets, and there might 1230 01:01:56,960 --> 01:01:59,480 Speaker 1: be more of that. In twenty seventeen, we went to 1231 01:01:59,520 --> 01:02:03,560 Speaker 1: Seattle and that was an unbelievable afternoon on a lot 1232 01:02:03,560 --> 01:02:06,040 Speaker 1: of different levels. But late in the game the Texas 1233 01:02:06,120 --> 01:02:10,919 Speaker 1: down by three. One of hops easier catches, I guess 1234 01:02:10,960 --> 01:02:13,960 Speaker 1: you could say, but one heck of a play took 1235 01:02:14,000 --> 01:02:17,760 Speaker 1: place late in the fourth quarter. Seventy two yards. I 1236 01:02:17,800 --> 01:02:20,520 Speaker 1: think it's the second longest play he's had as a Texan. 1237 01:02:21,000 --> 01:02:23,040 Speaker 1: Hop did this on a screen and running at Seattle 1238 01:02:23,400 --> 01:02:26,520 Speaker 1: empty backfield. Second down in seventh from the Houston twenty 1239 01:02:26,520 --> 01:02:29,400 Speaker 1: eight throws to Hopkins right side, winding it to the inside, 1240 01:02:29,400 --> 01:02:32,480 Speaker 1: has the thirty five to forty Hopkins across the fifty 1241 01:02:32,520 --> 01:02:35,400 Speaker 1: Hopkins with all alone, nobody in front of him, twenty 1242 01:02:35,560 --> 01:02:40,320 Speaker 1: ten five rock and roll touchdown. That was at number 1243 01:02:40,400 --> 01:02:45,520 Speaker 1: nine and number eight. DeAndre Hopkins can frequent different islands. 1244 01:02:45,560 --> 01:02:47,680 Speaker 1: He went to twenty Land the other day, and then 1245 01:02:47,760 --> 01:02:51,560 Speaker 1: number eight. He went to Revis Island and pretty much 1246 01:02:51,600 --> 01:02:54,800 Speaker 1: set the place on fire against the Jets. He was 1247 01:02:54,880 --> 01:02:58,640 Speaker 1: matched up with Vas all game long, and he torched 1248 01:02:58,720 --> 01:03:00,560 Speaker 1: him at play number eight for the sixty one yard 1249 01:03:00,600 --> 01:03:03,920 Speaker 1: touchdown catch from the Texans thirty eight yard by bootleg 1250 01:03:04,040 --> 01:03:08,000 Speaker 1: Yates with Tom Yates going dad and he's got a man, Hopkins. 1251 01:03:08,080 --> 01:03:10,120 Speaker 1: He makes fuck out of the fift three ten five 1252 01:03:10,400 --> 01:03:15,400 Speaker 1: fucking roll touchdown, just bead sixty one yards. Man. That 1253 01:03:15,680 --> 01:03:19,280 Speaker 1: was unreal to see him just roast Durell Reeves that way. Now, 1254 01:03:19,600 --> 01:03:22,080 Speaker 1: we needed to win earlier this year at Owen three 1255 01:03:22,280 --> 01:03:25,880 Speaker 1: in a bad, bad way. I'm telling you if we 1256 01:03:26,080 --> 01:03:29,800 Speaker 1: needed one in overtime after a stop, the Texans had 1257 01:03:29,880 --> 01:03:33,960 Speaker 1: the ball near midfield. Shaw Watson had twenty four seconds 1258 01:03:34,400 --> 01:03:36,720 Speaker 1: and he had his man, DeAndre Hopkins at his side. 1259 01:03:37,440 --> 01:03:40,960 Speaker 1: Watson looked for Hopkins and hop did this late in 1260 01:03:41,080 --> 01:03:44,320 Speaker 1: ot to put them in game winning field goal shape. 1261 01:03:44,800 --> 01:03:47,360 Speaker 1: First down at the Colts forty three, empty backfield. Watson 1262 01:03:47,400 --> 01:03:50,280 Speaker 1: awaits the snap. Here it is Deshan looking throws off 1263 01:03:50,280 --> 01:03:52,160 Speaker 1: in the middle and he's got Hopkins across the thirty 1264 01:03:52,200 --> 01:03:54,640 Speaker 1: to twenty five. Hopkins down on the twenty yard line. 1265 01:03:54,800 --> 01:03:58,640 Speaker 1: Everybody hustling downfield, clock running sixteen seconds to go. Boy, 1266 01:03:58,680 --> 01:04:01,400 Speaker 1: that was a huge play. Iiked it at three, kicked 1267 01:04:01,440 --> 01:04:04,560 Speaker 1: it at the game at the Horn. Texans get to win. 1268 01:04:04,880 --> 01:04:08,240 Speaker 1: Haven't lost since. At number six last year, Patrick Peterson 1269 01:04:08,440 --> 01:04:11,520 Speaker 1: came in the building from the Arizona Cardinals along with 1270 01:04:11,600 --> 01:04:14,960 Speaker 1: Tyrn Matthew at that point. A great secondary with those 1271 01:04:15,000 --> 01:04:17,640 Speaker 1: two back there and DeAndre Hopkins is gonna be matched 1272 01:04:17,680 --> 01:04:21,480 Speaker 1: up against Pat Pete all day long. And Patrick got 1273 01:04:21,600 --> 01:04:24,800 Speaker 1: him some. He got him some, but Hopkins also got 1274 01:04:24,880 --> 01:04:27,840 Speaker 1: him as well. This touchdown catch to me going one 1275 01:04:27,920 --> 01:04:31,680 Speaker 1: on one with Peterson and making the touchdown when he 1276 01:04:31,800 --> 01:04:35,000 Speaker 1: did this, and I remember Patrick Peterson patting him on 1277 01:04:35,040 --> 01:04:37,600 Speaker 1: the head after this happened. This was absolutely fantastic. And 1278 01:04:37,640 --> 01:04:40,520 Speaker 1: it comes in at number six, first down at the 1279 01:04:40,560 --> 01:04:43,040 Speaker 1: Arizona twenty eight, Tom and the gun the Savage gets 1280 01:04:43,120 --> 01:04:45,240 Speaker 1: to snap, Tom looking and he passes left side of 1281 01:04:45,240 --> 01:04:47,760 Speaker 1: the end zone and Hopkins has that, but I touchdown 1282 01:04:48,240 --> 01:04:51,480 Speaker 1: rock and roll the textsens retake the lead. I just 1283 01:04:51,520 --> 01:04:54,120 Speaker 1: remember Pat Peterson tapping him on the head as if 1284 01:04:54,160 --> 01:04:56,400 Speaker 1: to say, yeah, you got me, young buck, you got me. 1285 01:04:56,560 --> 01:04:58,560 Speaker 1: He certainly did all right. For number five. We're going 1286 01:04:58,640 --> 01:05:00,760 Speaker 1: back to twenty fifteen. That was a year to me 1287 01:05:00,920 --> 01:05:05,960 Speaker 1: when hop really made his presence known nationally, And to 1288 01:05:06,160 --> 01:05:09,200 Speaker 1: me it was you could take any any number of 1289 01:05:09,320 --> 01:05:13,080 Speaker 1: catches against the Jacksonville Jaguars that afternoon. I think he 1290 01:05:13,160 --> 01:05:15,640 Speaker 1: ended up with ten of them. But there was one 1291 01:05:15,720 --> 01:05:18,520 Speaker 1: in which he pinned the ball to his helmet. We 1292 01:05:18,640 --> 01:05:20,360 Speaker 1: know it as the helmet catch, and it comes in 1293 01:05:20,440 --> 01:05:23,520 Speaker 1: at number five. Brian stands up and pointing to the 1294 01:05:23,600 --> 01:05:27,640 Speaker 1: defense Jacksonville stacking the line. Lawyer back to throw, here's 1295 01:05:27,680 --> 01:05:29,320 Speaker 1: it out there. Have the right side wants Hop and 1296 01:05:29,400 --> 01:05:33,520 Speaker 1: he's got him Hop inside the thirty yard line. You 1297 01:05:33,560 --> 01:05:35,600 Speaker 1: can hear him get excited. That might have been me, 1298 01:05:35,680 --> 01:05:38,000 Speaker 1: To be honest with you, that might have been me. 1299 01:05:38,440 --> 01:05:41,080 Speaker 1: He caught the ball and pinned it to his head, 1300 01:05:42,000 --> 01:05:44,680 Speaker 1: pinned it through his head. That comes in at number five. 1301 01:05:44,800 --> 01:05:47,840 Speaker 1: All right, number four, We're going back just a few 1302 01:05:47,880 --> 01:05:54,479 Speaker 1: weeks Sunday night Primetime, Dallas over time. Need to play 1303 01:05:54,840 --> 01:05:56,800 Speaker 1: who you looking for? To Shawn Watson, You're looking for 1304 01:05:56,880 --> 01:06:00,360 Speaker 1: your man, DeAndre Hopkins. At number four, it is in 1305 01:06:00,440 --> 01:06:04,400 Speaker 1: overtime against the Cowboys. We know it as Spinerama. It's 1306 01:06:04,440 --> 01:06:06,920 Speaker 1: one of the most It might be number four, might 1307 01:06:07,080 --> 01:06:09,439 Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know. Number four. It's just maybe 1308 01:06:09,480 --> 01:06:12,440 Speaker 1: too low, maybe in the fans' eyes, like because it 1309 01:06:12,680 --> 01:06:17,480 Speaker 1: was beating the Cowboys and this was the key play 1310 01:06:17,560 --> 01:06:19,000 Speaker 1: to do it, maybe should be a little high on 1311 01:06:19,040 --> 01:06:22,200 Speaker 1: the list. But there are three pretty good ones in 1312 01:06:22,280 --> 01:06:25,120 Speaker 1: front of this. But at number four, Spinerama against Dallas, 1313 01:06:25,600 --> 01:06:27,720 Speaker 1: second and nine from the Houston twenty four Watson of 1314 01:06:27,760 --> 01:06:29,840 Speaker 1: the gun, two receivers left, Hopkins to the right side, 1315 01:06:29,920 --> 01:06:33,360 Speaker 1: QT in motion of the right. Watson fakes the past 1316 01:06:33,480 --> 01:06:35,600 Speaker 1: to QT now throws it down field to his left. 1317 01:06:35,680 --> 01:06:39,320 Speaker 1: Cows Hopkins all Croft forty five, fifty forty five, Dallas 1318 01:06:39,360 --> 01:06:42,600 Speaker 1: s forty thirty five. Do id very Hopkins decide the 1319 01:06:42,680 --> 01:06:46,040 Speaker 1: thirty twenty seven yard line want to catch and run 1320 01:06:46,120 --> 01:06:49,040 Speaker 1: by nuke. So when I sat with my list and 1321 01:06:49,280 --> 01:06:53,160 Speaker 1: I thought, man, where does the catch that he made 1322 01:06:53,640 --> 01:06:56,800 Speaker 1: against Jacksonville, the one hander. Where's that fall? Well, it 1323 01:06:56,880 --> 01:06:59,240 Speaker 1: comes in right here at number three, because this one 1324 01:06:59,280 --> 01:07:02,680 Speaker 1: hander is it's ridiculous. Number three. The one hander against 1325 01:07:02,760 --> 01:07:06,040 Speaker 1: Jalen Rams and the Jags on Sunday afternoon. Wats against 1326 01:07:06,080 --> 01:07:09,480 Speaker 1: the snap, airs it outdownfield upside and nuke with the 1327 01:07:09,640 --> 01:07:11,880 Speaker 1: one hand and grabbed down the sideline. He's out of 1328 01:07:11,920 --> 01:07:14,840 Speaker 1: the hounds in Jacksonville territory. Well, how do you explain 1329 01:07:14,960 --> 01:07:16,640 Speaker 1: what that man can do? I mean, how do you 1330 01:07:16,680 --> 01:07:19,960 Speaker 1: explain to somebody? It was just amazing? And I don't 1331 01:07:20,000 --> 01:07:23,720 Speaker 1: know if the play a number two, yeah, I mean, listen, 1332 01:07:23,800 --> 01:07:26,120 Speaker 1: you could switch one, two, and three and I probably 1333 01:07:26,160 --> 01:07:30,880 Speaker 1: would be okay with it, probably, but this one, unfortunately, 1334 01:07:30,920 --> 01:07:32,760 Speaker 1: it came in a game that probably a lot of 1335 01:07:32,800 --> 01:07:35,800 Speaker 1: people had turned off at some point. Playing against the Steelers. 1336 01:07:35,840 --> 01:07:38,840 Speaker 1: The Steelers are up big at that point. DeAndre Hopkins 1337 01:07:38,920 --> 01:07:41,160 Speaker 1: made perhaps the catch of the year last year against 1338 01:07:41,160 --> 01:07:43,760 Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers, and this set number two, first and 1339 01:07:43,840 --> 01:07:46,280 Speaker 1: goal at the three. Yates gets the snap, throws upside 1340 01:07:46,320 --> 01:07:48,840 Speaker 1: of the end zone. Hopkins with that joggoline grab does 1341 01:07:48,880 --> 01:07:53,800 Speaker 1: he make it? Toe tapper? Yes, touchdown DeAndre Hopkins just 1342 01:07:54,480 --> 01:07:58,360 Speaker 1: absolutely sublime. I don't know how are they how else 1343 01:07:58,440 --> 01:08:01,600 Speaker 1: to say it? That catch against Pitsburg, Oh my goodness. 1344 01:08:01,680 --> 01:08:06,800 Speaker 1: For number one. We're going in twenty fifteen Cincinnati, Monday 1345 01:08:06,920 --> 01:08:10,080 Speaker 1: night and what a night that was, What a night. 1346 01:08:10,160 --> 01:08:12,840 Speaker 1: The defense was just out of its mind. T J. 1347 01:08:13,040 --> 01:08:15,480 Speaker 1: Yates has to come in the game and in the 1348 01:08:15,560 --> 01:08:20,320 Speaker 1: fourth quarter, down six to three, they look up DeAndre 1349 01:08:20,400 --> 01:08:22,160 Speaker 1: Hopkins down the left side, right in front of me, 1350 01:08:22,240 --> 01:08:24,160 Speaker 1: and hop made this catch. And to me, this is 1351 01:08:24,280 --> 01:08:26,920 Speaker 1: number one. Yates under center blew in the backfield, two 1352 01:08:27,000 --> 01:08:32,040 Speaker 1: receivers left one of the right side of Washington. Yates 1353 01:08:32,560 --> 01:08:35,559 Speaker 1: drops back, fires left side of the end zone. Wats 1354 01:08:35,600 --> 01:08:41,280 Speaker 1: Hopkins and DeAndre with the catch, touchdown, Yates to Hopkins 1355 01:08:41,479 --> 01:08:45,080 Speaker 1: as the tech sends take the lead. You cannot write this. 1356 01:08:46,120 --> 01:08:50,120 Speaker 1: T J. Yates brings the Texans in front of the Bengals. 1357 01:08:51,520 --> 01:08:55,800 Speaker 1: So that leads two last nights. Where would you put it? 1358 01:08:57,000 --> 01:09:03,479 Speaker 1: It didn't count, obviously, but that's the most amazing physical 1359 01:09:04,280 --> 01:09:07,519 Speaker 1: activity I've ever seen on a football field. It's number one. 1360 01:09:08,400 --> 01:09:10,800 Speaker 1: Cincinnati mattered more because it was a Monday night game 1361 01:09:11,080 --> 01:09:13,479 Speaker 1: and it turned that season really around. So in hindsight. 1362 01:09:13,600 --> 01:09:16,840 Speaker 1: That one really stays up to the top. The Pittsburgh catch, 1363 01:09:17,760 --> 01:09:21,360 Speaker 1: he's the tipping it to himself like I've seen other 1364 01:09:21,400 --> 01:09:24,280 Speaker 1: guys do. That is hot. Made that one look incredible. 1365 01:09:24,880 --> 01:09:28,479 Speaker 1: The one hander against Jacksonville, He's done that. He's done 1366 01:09:28,520 --> 01:09:32,240 Speaker 1: it a few times. Last night. He's holding off Xavien 1367 01:09:32,280 --> 01:09:35,920 Speaker 1: Howard with his right hand. He snags it with his 1368 01:09:36,280 --> 01:09:39,640 Speaker 1: left hand and to secure it, he goes under his 1369 01:09:39,920 --> 01:09:43,519 Speaker 1: legs as if he's doing basketball drills. Are you kidding me? 1370 01:09:44,560 --> 01:09:48,080 Speaker 1: Would I would put that one at number one and 1371 01:09:48,240 --> 01:09:51,120 Speaker 1: I would leave the Giants won at number eleven. I'd 1372 01:09:51,160 --> 01:09:53,960 Speaker 1: probably take out what I had at number ten and 1373 01:09:54,160 --> 01:09:56,360 Speaker 1: that would just bump everybody down. I just think last 1374 01:09:56,439 --> 01:10:00,320 Speaker 1: night what he did was unbelievable. The tweets came out 1375 01:10:00,360 --> 01:10:02,679 Speaker 1: all night. We saw him from our buddy Cecil Shorts, 1376 01:10:02,680 --> 01:10:05,400 Speaker 1: saw from Todd Gurley, saw him. I thought I saw 1377 01:10:05,479 --> 01:10:10,560 Speaker 1: one from Beckham Junior. They were just incredulous as to 1378 01:10:10,680 --> 01:10:14,519 Speaker 1: what that man did on Thursday night against the Miami Dolphins. 1379 01:10:14,640 --> 01:10:17,120 Speaker 1: And what's interesting about that game is he really didn't 1380 01:10:17,160 --> 01:10:19,120 Speaker 1: have a great first half. I think he had two 1381 01:10:19,240 --> 01:10:22,160 Speaker 1: for eight in the first half. That one didn't count, 1382 01:10:22,200 --> 01:10:24,599 Speaker 1: but that just kind of broke open the damn for him. 1383 01:10:24,920 --> 01:10:27,600 Speaker 1: That really got him going. I guess maybe because it 1384 01:10:27,720 --> 01:10:30,320 Speaker 1: didn't count, but when you watch it on replay and 1385 01:10:30,320 --> 01:10:33,240 Speaker 1: you see all the different angles, it was not pass interference. 1386 01:10:33,240 --> 01:10:35,800 Speaker 1: I think that's what angers me more than anything else 1387 01:10:36,080 --> 01:10:39,960 Speaker 1: was it was not interference. So that was that was fun. 1388 01:10:40,320 --> 01:10:43,080 Speaker 1: Those plays that he's made, and I didn't even go 1389 01:10:43,160 --> 01:10:45,599 Speaker 1: back to his rookie year of twenty thirteen. There's probably 1390 01:10:45,640 --> 01:10:47,479 Speaker 1: a few there in twenty thirteen. I could have pulled in, 1391 01:10:47,640 --> 01:10:49,800 Speaker 1: but just decided to go with the time that I've 1392 01:10:49,840 --> 01:10:52,000 Speaker 1: been in the building and I've been on the sidelines 1393 01:10:52,479 --> 01:10:55,559 Speaker 1: seen him do just some stupid, ridiculous stuff. Last night 1394 01:10:55,640 --> 01:10:58,960 Speaker 1: went to a whole different level. All Right, we get back. 1395 01:10:59,120 --> 01:11:01,680 Speaker 1: We got our buddy, Greg Man, it's gonna join us, 1396 01:11:01,680 --> 01:11:03,880 Speaker 1: and we got some Houston Methodist minutes for you as well. 1397 01:11:03,960 --> 01:11:14,840 Speaker 1: Right here in Texans All Access. We've got one final 1398 01:11:14,920 --> 01:11:18,080 Speaker 1: segment of Texas All Access from the hunday Texans Radio studio. 1399 01:11:18,560 --> 01:11:22,320 Speaker 1: I am your host, a weary football analyst and sat 1400 01:11:22,400 --> 01:11:24,000 Speaker 1: on reporter John Harris. I know a lot of you 1401 01:11:24,040 --> 01:11:25,599 Speaker 1: are a lot of you went to the game last night, 1402 01:11:26,120 --> 01:11:30,000 Speaker 1: A Lottie got home at dark thirty some past midnight, 1403 01:11:30,080 --> 01:11:34,080 Speaker 1: so you got home on Friday morning technically. So it's 1404 01:11:34,120 --> 01:11:36,640 Speaker 1: been a long, long night for a lot of you. 1405 01:11:37,120 --> 01:11:39,040 Speaker 1: It's been that way for me. But it's been fun 1406 01:11:39,120 --> 01:11:41,240 Speaker 1: to go back and look at what the Texas did 1407 01:11:41,320 --> 01:11:48,320 Speaker 1: last night with the one obvious difficulty, and that came 1408 01:11:48,320 --> 01:11:51,800 Speaker 1: out of last night, which was the Willfuller injury. Torn 1409 01:11:51,880 --> 01:11:55,960 Speaker 1: acl Will out for the year, and I just hate it. 1410 01:11:56,240 --> 01:11:58,600 Speaker 1: I hate it for him, as coach Obriant said in 1411 01:11:58,640 --> 01:12:00,760 Speaker 1: our first segment, just hated for Will because he worked 1412 01:12:00,800 --> 01:12:03,240 Speaker 1: so hard at it. He added weight in the offseason 1413 01:12:03,320 --> 01:12:06,000 Speaker 1: to add ten fifteen pounds. He was doing things, and 1414 01:12:06,080 --> 01:12:07,880 Speaker 1: you just think of the great things that Will did 1415 01:12:07,960 --> 01:12:11,599 Speaker 1: this year. Then he has a seventy three yard touchdown 1416 01:12:11,680 --> 01:12:14,200 Speaker 1: catch last night. He has everything kind of going in 1417 01:12:14,240 --> 01:12:17,519 Speaker 1: the right direction, and then that happens. So this team's 1418 01:12:17,560 --> 01:12:21,320 Speaker 1: gotta find some grit, as it has all year. Find 1419 01:12:21,360 --> 01:12:24,000 Speaker 1: a way to replace the production, find a way to 1420 01:12:24,640 --> 01:12:27,800 Speaker 1: impact the deep end of the field that Will would 1421 01:12:27,840 --> 01:12:31,360 Speaker 1: impact and keep this thing rolling. Next man up, Let's 1422 01:12:31,439 --> 01:12:34,200 Speaker 1: roll now, Next man up. It's a philosophy of the 1423 01:12:34,280 --> 01:12:37,680 Speaker 1: Texans and each each and every NFL team have to 1424 01:12:37,760 --> 01:12:40,040 Speaker 1: really abide by to be honest with you, and a 1425 01:12:40,080 --> 01:12:42,720 Speaker 1: guy that epitomizes that here is Greg Mans. Had to 1426 01:12:42,720 --> 01:12:44,960 Speaker 1: step in for Zach Folding after Zach banged up his 1427 01:12:45,000 --> 01:12:47,680 Speaker 1: ankle in the Buffalo Bills game. Gutted it out and 1428 01:12:47,800 --> 01:12:52,120 Speaker 1: gets Buffalo but unable to go against Jacksonville and against Miami. 1429 01:12:52,320 --> 01:12:55,240 Speaker 1: Hopefully we'll get Zach back. But Greg has stepped into 1430 01:12:55,439 --> 01:12:58,040 Speaker 1: that role at right guard and done a really, really 1431 01:12:58,160 --> 01:12:59,640 Speaker 1: nice job. And Mark and I had a chance to 1432 01:12:59,640 --> 01:13:01,720 Speaker 1: catch up with the earlier this week to talk about it. 1433 01:13:01,880 --> 01:13:04,280 Speaker 1: What's it like for you playing guard as opposed to center. 1434 01:13:04,400 --> 01:13:07,160 Speaker 1: How is that different? Yeah, I mean, you know, it's 1435 01:13:07,240 --> 01:13:10,400 Speaker 1: it's it's a completely you know, all all spots on 1436 01:13:10,439 --> 01:13:13,320 Speaker 1: the line are so different. And um, you know, one 1437 01:13:13,360 --> 01:13:15,519 Speaker 1: of the other things is just how you flip sides. 1438 01:13:15,560 --> 01:13:18,240 Speaker 1: You know, pretty frequently it's sometimes sort of a not 1439 01:13:18,360 --> 01:13:20,919 Speaker 1: so much a mental bugaboo, but like you know, physically 1440 01:13:21,000 --> 01:13:23,880 Speaker 1: like getting your footwork right, and um, how you sit 1441 01:13:23,960 --> 01:13:26,880 Speaker 1: on things. So that's that's definitely different. Um. You know 1442 01:13:26,960 --> 01:13:29,400 Speaker 1: this year, um, I sort of been bounced around all 1443 01:13:29,479 --> 01:13:31,880 Speaker 1: three you know, from the preseason to the regular season. 1444 01:13:31,920 --> 01:13:34,400 Speaker 1: The Giants game and now I'll hear it right. So, um, 1445 01:13:34,800 --> 01:13:36,559 Speaker 1: you know, I'm sort of trying to develop an ability 1446 01:13:36,640 --> 01:13:39,680 Speaker 1: just to sort of play all three. Um as far 1447 01:13:39,760 --> 01:13:41,439 Speaker 1: as difference, as you know, you gotta you gotta lean 1448 01:13:41,560 --> 01:13:44,519 Speaker 1: on your guys. You know, Nick's really smart in the middle, Um, 1449 01:13:44,840 --> 01:13:47,280 Speaker 1: Lamb doesn't ever stop talking to me on the outside. 1450 01:13:47,360 --> 01:13:49,400 Speaker 1: So like you have guys you know you can trust, 1451 01:13:49,960 --> 01:13:51,719 Speaker 1: and so like you know, when you're when you're getting 1452 01:13:51,760 --> 01:13:53,559 Speaker 1: ready for it, they can tell you, you know, if 1453 01:13:53,640 --> 01:13:56,920 Speaker 1: something looks wrong or whatever. You've played next to a 1454 01:13:57,000 --> 01:13:58,920 Speaker 1: number of different guys over your career. I mean you started, 1455 01:13:59,120 --> 01:14:01,639 Speaker 1: you know, twenty sixteen the entire way playing in between 1456 01:14:01,680 --> 01:14:04,439 Speaker 1: two guards at the center, but you play next to 1457 01:14:04,520 --> 01:14:06,280 Speaker 1: a guy in kennel Lamb. Like how that you've you've known, 1458 01:14:06,320 --> 01:14:08,360 Speaker 1: as you said, you've not since you've been here, you've 1459 01:14:08,360 --> 01:14:11,599 Speaker 1: been close. Does that help at all on the offensive line? 1460 01:14:11,640 --> 01:14:13,360 Speaker 1: That you guys are close off the fields, that make 1461 01:14:13,400 --> 01:14:15,640 Speaker 1: things any better on the field at all? You know, 1462 01:14:15,720 --> 01:14:19,720 Speaker 1: I think that's a major key. And um, you know, 1463 01:14:19,800 --> 01:14:21,920 Speaker 1: I know you guys have heard us talk about like 1464 01:14:22,040 --> 01:14:24,559 Speaker 1: the things we did as a unit this year this offseason, 1465 01:14:24,760 --> 01:14:27,200 Speaker 1: you know, and he sort of built that chemistry because 1466 01:14:27,200 --> 01:14:29,200 Speaker 1: you need it because there's you know, never gonna be 1467 01:14:29,280 --> 01:14:31,160 Speaker 1: a year I can think of where the same five 1468 01:14:31,200 --> 01:14:35,320 Speaker 1: guys start every game. Yeah, so it does. It does 1469 01:14:35,800 --> 01:14:38,479 Speaker 1: mean you have to build you know, some some rapport 1470 01:14:38,560 --> 01:14:42,679 Speaker 1: with every guy in the line. But you know, individually speaking, 1471 01:14:42,760 --> 01:14:44,320 Speaker 1: you know, Kendall and I do have such a close 1472 01:14:44,360 --> 01:14:46,960 Speaker 1: relationship that you know, sometimes I can sort of look 1473 01:14:47,000 --> 01:14:48,479 Speaker 1: at him and nod and he knows what I'm thinking, 1474 01:14:48,720 --> 01:14:51,280 Speaker 1: you know, so you translate that to the field. You know, 1475 01:14:51,439 --> 01:14:53,120 Speaker 1: I never will have a doubt in my mind that 1476 01:14:53,200 --> 01:14:55,160 Speaker 1: he knows what I'm thinking, and I know what he's 1477 01:14:55,240 --> 01:14:58,360 Speaker 1: thinking pre snap based on alignments, you know, formation down 1478 01:14:58,439 --> 01:15:01,280 Speaker 1: in distance, like we're gonna be on the same page. 1479 01:15:01,360 --> 01:15:04,760 Speaker 1: And that's I think a major major plus. What's it 1480 01:15:04,880 --> 01:15:06,880 Speaker 1: like having Watson back there as opposed to a guy 1481 01:15:06,920 --> 01:15:10,440 Speaker 1: who doesn't run around as much because things are so unpredictable. 1482 01:15:10,720 --> 01:15:13,240 Speaker 1: He can escape problems. He can also all of a sudden, 1483 01:15:13,280 --> 01:15:15,360 Speaker 1: he's in front of you, he's behind you, to your side. 1484 01:15:15,400 --> 01:15:17,680 Speaker 1: I mean, how does that work for you? You know, 1485 01:15:18,800 --> 01:15:23,720 Speaker 1: he's special and I remember last year in training camp, 1486 01:15:23,800 --> 01:15:25,840 Speaker 1: you know, we're just doing the first couple of days 1487 01:15:26,720 --> 01:15:28,639 Speaker 1: and like, you know, a couple of us looked around 1488 01:15:28,640 --> 01:15:30,160 Speaker 1: because we were working with him when he was at 1489 01:15:30,160 --> 01:15:31,840 Speaker 1: two back in training camp, and we just said, man, 1490 01:15:31,920 --> 01:15:33,640 Speaker 1: he's got whatever it is. You know, I don't know 1491 01:15:33,720 --> 01:15:36,600 Speaker 1: what it is, but he just sort of had it. 1492 01:15:36,800 --> 01:15:39,080 Speaker 1: And you know, when you're out there, you just want 1493 01:15:39,120 --> 01:15:41,200 Speaker 1: to you want to block forever for the guy, you know, 1494 01:15:41,520 --> 01:15:44,560 Speaker 1: as far as him moving around, I mean, you know, 1495 01:15:44,920 --> 01:15:47,479 Speaker 1: if he if he can, let him do what he does, 1496 01:15:47,640 --> 01:15:49,519 Speaker 1: you know, And I'm just gonna try to hold whoever 1497 01:15:49,600 --> 01:15:51,040 Speaker 1: I have in front of me off for as long 1498 01:15:51,080 --> 01:15:53,800 Speaker 1: as I can. All right, what about the O and 1499 01:15:53,840 --> 01:15:57,400 Speaker 1: three start and how you guys felt and the need 1500 01:15:57,479 --> 01:15:59,280 Speaker 1: to tune out the noise and all of that. The 1501 01:15:59,400 --> 01:16:04,000 Speaker 1: way you guys stuck together, Well, you know, I think 1502 01:16:04,040 --> 01:16:07,479 Speaker 1: that starts with the leaders, you know, like guys who 1503 01:16:07,520 --> 01:16:10,120 Speaker 1: have been there before. You know. I think JJ, I 1504 01:16:10,200 --> 01:16:12,920 Speaker 1: think of Tyro and I think of you know, Drey Howe, 1505 01:16:13,000 --> 01:16:15,240 Speaker 1: I think of j Joe, you know, I think of 1506 01:16:15,360 --> 01:16:18,120 Speaker 1: hop Um, I think of guys who've been there before. 1507 01:16:18,320 --> 01:16:22,160 Speaker 1: You know, I was thinking, what was it my rookie year? 1508 01:16:22,200 --> 01:16:24,680 Speaker 1: We were two and five, right, you know, before we 1509 01:16:24,800 --> 01:16:26,800 Speaker 1: really and we made the playoffs, So like none of 1510 01:16:26,840 --> 01:16:32,479 Speaker 1: the guys were panicked, you know. And obviously, I mean 1511 01:16:32,520 --> 01:16:34,320 Speaker 1: I could tell you guys like I don't even look 1512 01:16:34,360 --> 01:16:36,080 Speaker 1: at social media, like on all those things because I 1513 01:16:36,120 --> 01:16:38,320 Speaker 1: don't want to know about it good or bad, you know. 1514 01:16:38,479 --> 01:16:39,840 Speaker 1: So like I can tell you a lot of guys 1515 01:16:39,880 --> 01:16:42,559 Speaker 1: don't pay attention to that stuff, and like tuning out 1516 01:16:42,640 --> 01:16:44,240 Speaker 1: outs I noise, Like we didn't even know what was 1517 01:16:44,280 --> 01:16:46,040 Speaker 1: going on, you know, because we thought if we could 1518 01:16:46,080 --> 01:16:48,120 Speaker 1: just get one, you know, we could start rolling it 1519 01:16:48,200 --> 01:16:50,880 Speaker 1: the right way. And you know, we're starting to roll 1520 01:16:50,920 --> 01:16:52,640 Speaker 1: it the right way. In the off season, we all 1521 01:16:52,680 --> 01:16:55,640 Speaker 1: talked about strength and conditioning and nutrition and everything like that. 1522 01:16:56,000 --> 01:16:58,000 Speaker 1: Is this the time of year where you really expect 1523 01:16:58,040 --> 01:17:00,160 Speaker 1: that to pay the dividends? I mean, how does all 1524 01:17:00,200 --> 01:17:02,880 Speaker 1: that work out for you physically? Sure? Um, you know, 1525 01:17:02,960 --> 01:17:04,920 Speaker 1: I think with this short week we need to you know, 1526 01:17:05,040 --> 01:17:08,240 Speaker 1: double down on it. But as far as the whole year, 1527 01:17:08,320 --> 01:17:11,160 Speaker 1: I think, at least for me personally, I felt it 1528 01:17:11,240 --> 01:17:14,320 Speaker 1: the whole year. You know, people have noticed that we 1529 01:17:14,439 --> 01:17:17,760 Speaker 1: all look a little leaner, especially upfront, and um, it's 1530 01:17:17,800 --> 01:17:22,240 Speaker 1: helping and everything. Movement, flexibility, you know, holding onto blocks, 1531 01:17:23,680 --> 01:17:26,360 Speaker 1: it's it's it's it's really cool just to sort of 1532 01:17:26,400 --> 01:17:28,519 Speaker 1: see how it's all working. As far as going forward, 1533 01:17:30,720 --> 01:17:32,720 Speaker 1: as long as everyone you know, stays the course, I 1534 01:17:32,760 --> 01:17:36,240 Speaker 1: think absolutely it'll help going forward because in years prior, 1535 01:17:36,360 --> 01:17:38,800 Speaker 1: it was when you know, guys would put on ten 1536 01:17:38,920 --> 01:17:42,519 Speaker 1: pounds up front, and you know, just because you can't, um, 1537 01:17:43,880 --> 01:17:45,880 Speaker 1: you can't take as many reps as the season goes on, 1538 01:17:46,000 --> 01:17:48,760 Speaker 1: obviously just because of time, so you know, guys would 1539 01:17:48,800 --> 01:17:50,960 Speaker 1: still be eating the same way and gaining weight. So 1540 01:17:51,040 --> 01:17:52,880 Speaker 1: this year, now that we're focusing so much on that, 1541 01:17:53,000 --> 01:17:56,280 Speaker 1: I'm excited to see really like this week and then 1542 01:17:56,439 --> 01:17:59,080 Speaker 1: like four weeks down the line, even in that regard, 1543 01:17:59,640 --> 01:18:03,040 Speaker 1: xos off there from Greg Mans. All right, it's time 1544 01:18:03,080 --> 01:18:07,759 Speaker 1: for some Houston Methodist Minutes. Mark Takeaway. It's Houston Methodist 1545 01:18:07,840 --> 01:18:11,679 Speaker 1: Minutes joining us right now. Doctor Alicia robis show from 1546 01:18:11,760 --> 01:18:15,360 Speaker 1: Houston Methodist the Woodlands Hospital. How's it going, doctor, It's 1547 01:18:15,400 --> 01:18:17,800 Speaker 1: going very well. Thank you. Well, it's great to have 1548 01:18:17,880 --> 01:18:20,000 Speaker 1: you on the show. And we're talking about sports psychology 1549 01:18:20,120 --> 01:18:22,880 Speaker 1: right now. I love this subject because it applies to 1550 01:18:22,960 --> 01:18:25,920 Speaker 1: so many different things. And we always look at golfers, 1551 01:18:26,160 --> 01:18:29,600 Speaker 1: place kickers, people like that, but everybody feels pressure. What 1552 01:18:29,840 --> 01:18:33,200 Speaker 1: kind of athletes do you work with? Doctor, I worked 1553 01:18:33,200 --> 01:18:35,920 Speaker 1: with a lot of different athletes. Since I am an 1554 01:18:35,960 --> 01:18:38,400 Speaker 1: ex gymnast, I have a special market to a lot 1555 01:18:38,479 --> 01:18:43,160 Speaker 1: of the gymnasts around the Houston Metroplex. Woodlands is home 1556 01:18:43,240 --> 01:18:46,639 Speaker 1: of the World Championship Center for Simone Biles, which Methodist 1557 01:18:46,640 --> 01:18:50,959 Speaker 1: also sponsors, and we have lots of dancers, we have golfers, 1558 01:18:51,000 --> 01:18:54,240 Speaker 1: we have runners. So sports psychology is really high up 1559 01:18:54,280 --> 01:18:57,200 Speaker 1: here and a lot of athletes use it to be successful. 1560 01:18:57,600 --> 01:19:00,799 Speaker 1: As a spectator, I always find a bit difference between 1561 01:19:00,840 --> 01:19:04,519 Speaker 1: a sport like gymnastics and you mentioned dancing. These things 1562 01:19:04,680 --> 01:19:07,760 Speaker 1: you have to be perfect basically to win. But in 1563 01:19:07,840 --> 01:19:09,879 Speaker 1: other sports you can make a lot of mistakes. Baseball, 1564 01:19:09,960 --> 01:19:12,400 Speaker 1: if you get a hit every three times or once 1565 01:19:12,439 --> 01:19:16,000 Speaker 1: every three times, you're making millions. It's different in other sports. 1566 01:19:16,080 --> 01:19:17,720 Speaker 1: Do you find that to be the case or some 1567 01:19:17,840 --> 01:19:20,519 Speaker 1: of the fundamentals the same? You know, the fundamentals are 1568 01:19:20,760 --> 01:19:24,760 Speaker 1: really about the same. In a performance type sport like 1569 01:19:24,920 --> 01:19:28,439 Speaker 1: dance or gymnastics or even golf. You know you have 1570 01:19:28,680 --> 01:19:31,880 Speaker 1: to be one hundred percent every time. There are certain 1571 01:19:31,960 --> 01:19:34,120 Speaker 1: situations that you can make up for it, and you 1572 01:19:34,200 --> 01:19:36,680 Speaker 1: can still catch up kind of like in football or 1573 01:19:36,760 --> 01:19:39,719 Speaker 1: in baseball, but you you gotta be one hundred percent, 1574 01:19:39,760 --> 01:19:42,960 Speaker 1: and even sometimes my best elite athletes always strive to 1575 01:19:43,000 --> 01:19:45,240 Speaker 1: be about one hundred and fifty percent. All right, So 1576 01:19:45,479 --> 01:19:48,360 Speaker 1: what are some of the common problems people have in sport? 1577 01:19:48,439 --> 01:19:52,000 Speaker 1: You know, my wife plays tennis at a reasonably high 1578 01:19:52,120 --> 01:19:55,200 Speaker 1: level for a club tennis player, and she says sometimes 1579 01:19:55,560 --> 01:19:57,640 Speaker 1: she has some days where it's just really difficult to 1580 01:19:57,800 --> 01:20:00,880 Speaker 1: hit the ball accurately and it gets her head. So 1581 01:20:01,320 --> 01:20:03,800 Speaker 1: how do you prevent something from getting in somebody's head? 1582 01:20:03,800 --> 01:20:06,160 Speaker 1: And this happens at all sports to all athletes on occasion, 1583 01:20:06,160 --> 01:20:09,040 Speaker 1: I would imagine absolutely, And that does take a lot 1584 01:20:09,120 --> 01:20:12,160 Speaker 1: of work to really focus on the positive try and 1585 01:20:12,320 --> 01:20:15,560 Speaker 1: drown out the negative. We use a lot of different resources, 1586 01:20:15,680 --> 01:20:20,880 Speaker 1: like you know, imagery and positive reaffirmations and all of 1587 01:20:20,920 --> 01:20:22,479 Speaker 1: the things that everybody goes well, that's kind of a 1588 01:20:22,520 --> 01:20:25,120 Speaker 1: bunch of hokey mess, but it really does work. And 1589 01:20:25,200 --> 01:20:28,519 Speaker 1: even when I was a gymnast at LSU, we actually 1590 01:20:28,640 --> 01:20:31,080 Speaker 1: had a group setting where we would sit all as 1591 01:20:31,080 --> 01:20:34,160 Speaker 1: a group as a team and visualize all of our 1592 01:20:34,200 --> 01:20:37,439 Speaker 1: bar routines and visualize our beam routines and try and 1593 01:20:37,560 --> 01:20:40,559 Speaker 1: see us hitting them one hundred percent perfect, because if 1594 01:20:40,600 --> 01:20:43,400 Speaker 1: you only see the negative, it's so hard to not 1595 01:20:43,600 --> 01:20:46,400 Speaker 1: focus on that negative, focus on the fall, focus on 1596 01:20:46,880 --> 01:20:49,400 Speaker 1: you know, hitting it out of bounds, focusing on missing 1597 01:20:49,479 --> 01:20:52,559 Speaker 1: that dunk. So you really have to see yourself doing 1598 01:20:53,040 --> 01:20:56,320 Speaker 1: the positive in order to be successful, So you just 1599 01:20:56,520 --> 01:20:59,040 Speaker 1: try and not focus on the bad. I once heard 1600 01:20:59,120 --> 01:21:03,280 Speaker 1: Karl Malone in an interview talking about having free throw difficulties, 1601 01:21:03,320 --> 01:21:05,880 Speaker 1: and he said, at some point you have to work 1602 01:21:05,920 --> 01:21:08,519 Speaker 1: that stuff out by yourself in a gym. Do you 1603 01:21:08,600 --> 01:21:10,560 Speaker 1: find that to be the case that going back to 1604 01:21:10,640 --> 01:21:13,840 Speaker 1: the fundamentals is truly helpful as far as just practicing 1605 01:21:14,200 --> 01:21:18,080 Speaker 1: the craft itself. Absolutely, you know, for golfers, we practice 1606 01:21:18,439 --> 01:21:20,840 Speaker 1: how do you set up, how do you see your 1607 01:21:20,960 --> 01:21:23,960 Speaker 1: swing go, What is your strokes supposed to be, how 1608 01:21:24,000 --> 01:21:25,519 Speaker 1: are you going to hit the ball? Are you hitting 1609 01:21:25,520 --> 01:21:28,080 Speaker 1: at the right angle? Making sure all the basics work, 1610 01:21:28,200 --> 01:21:30,720 Speaker 1: but making sure you know what your basics are doing. 1611 01:21:31,080 --> 01:21:33,400 Speaker 1: Just like if you were doing a running drill or 1612 01:21:33,439 --> 01:21:35,640 Speaker 1: a hurdles drill, you got to make sure you can 1613 01:21:35,680 --> 01:21:38,479 Speaker 1: clear the hurdle. You have to believe you can, but 1614 01:21:38,640 --> 01:21:41,000 Speaker 1: you have to work on the basic skill free throws 1615 01:21:41,040 --> 01:21:43,360 Speaker 1: are an excellent example. You know, if you miss and 1616 01:21:43,400 --> 01:21:46,400 Speaker 1: you miss and you miss, odds are you're probably gonna 1617 01:21:46,439 --> 01:21:48,760 Speaker 1: keep missing. But eventually you start hitting, and then you 1618 01:21:48,880 --> 01:21:52,080 Speaker 1: see yourself hitting, and you continue to believe you can hit, 1619 01:21:52,160 --> 01:21:55,120 Speaker 1: and eventually your percentage goes up. It doesn't make it 1620 01:21:55,160 --> 01:21:56,880 Speaker 1: one hundred percent, but if we had a hundred percent 1621 01:21:56,920 --> 01:21:59,200 Speaker 1: free throw shooter, they'd be making a lot more money. 1622 01:21:59,439 --> 01:22:03,320 Speaker 1: What about the rigors of professional football, say, and getting 1623 01:22:03,439 --> 01:22:06,559 Speaker 1: through a season like that where it's highly physical. All 1624 01:22:06,600 --> 01:22:08,920 Speaker 1: sports are, I get it, but it's a collision sport 1625 01:22:08,960 --> 01:22:11,879 Speaker 1: and you have to sort of survive through that grueling 1626 01:22:12,040 --> 01:22:14,560 Speaker 1: kind of schedule and perform at a high level. I 1627 01:22:14,640 --> 01:22:16,560 Speaker 1: think for our football players, we take care of a 1628 01:22:16,640 --> 01:22:19,920 Speaker 1: lot of college players as well as high school players, 1629 01:22:20,040 --> 01:22:23,639 Speaker 1: and visualizing, knowing the plays, knowing the routes that you're 1630 01:22:23,640 --> 01:22:26,479 Speaker 1: supposed to go, knowing that your defender is going to 1631 01:22:26,560 --> 01:22:29,040 Speaker 1: help you, knowing that you've got a blocker, Knowing that 1632 01:22:29,120 --> 01:22:31,960 Speaker 1: you're supposed to throw at a certain angle towards the 1633 01:22:32,040 --> 01:22:34,559 Speaker 1: player that's gonna be there, even though when you look 1634 01:22:34,640 --> 01:22:36,840 Speaker 1: up they're not quite there yet, you know. I think 1635 01:22:36,920 --> 01:22:39,880 Speaker 1: a lot of visual imagery is very helpful in sports 1636 01:22:39,960 --> 01:22:43,160 Speaker 1: like football at any level, and knowing that you know 1637 01:22:43,320 --> 01:22:46,000 Speaker 1: the plays by heart in your eyes when your eyes 1638 01:22:46,040 --> 01:22:48,400 Speaker 1: are closed, means that you're just going to run the 1639 01:22:48,520 --> 01:22:50,519 Speaker 1: route and do what you're talented enough to do. And 1640 01:22:51,120 --> 01:22:53,360 Speaker 1: that starts at a very young level at peee leagues 1641 01:22:53,400 --> 01:22:55,760 Speaker 1: as well as high schools. So they've got to be 1642 01:22:55,800 --> 01:22:57,920 Speaker 1: able to learn those plays. They've got to be able 1643 01:22:58,000 --> 01:23:01,120 Speaker 1: to memorize the direction that the next player that you're 1644 01:23:01,120 --> 01:23:03,360 Speaker 1: aiming for is going to be in that spot, and 1645 01:23:03,479 --> 01:23:05,519 Speaker 1: if not, where is player number two? And where is 1646 01:23:05,520 --> 01:23:08,120 Speaker 1: player number three? Where are your options? I also have 1647 01:23:08,160 --> 01:23:10,800 Speaker 1: a note here on overtraining. Is this a real thing 1648 01:23:10,920 --> 01:23:15,240 Speaker 1: as far as that leading to poor performance mentally? Overtraining 1649 01:23:15,360 --> 01:23:18,320 Speaker 1: isn't as common in things like football and baseball. It's 1650 01:23:18,400 --> 01:23:20,719 Speaker 1: much going to be more likely in my running sports, 1651 01:23:20,760 --> 01:23:23,920 Speaker 1: in my gymnastics sports, in my performance sports, because a 1652 01:23:24,000 --> 01:23:26,760 Speaker 1: lot of people figure if you do, you know, an 1653 01:23:26,800 --> 01:23:29,360 Speaker 1: hour of work in your sports, it maybe five hours 1654 01:23:29,520 --> 01:23:32,400 Speaker 1: is better, and in certain situations that can really be 1655 01:23:32,560 --> 01:23:35,680 Speaker 1: detrimental to an athlete. I have more overtraining in my 1656 01:23:35,880 --> 01:23:39,519 Speaker 1: gymnastics and my running sports than probably anything else, because 1657 01:23:39,560 --> 01:23:42,720 Speaker 1: they do spend more time not recovering, and if you 1658 01:23:42,840 --> 01:23:45,280 Speaker 1: don't truly recover. This is why a lot of the 1659 01:23:45,360 --> 01:23:50,600 Speaker 1: best running groups have cycles of training where you have 1660 01:23:50,880 --> 01:23:53,000 Speaker 1: a build up over three to four weeks and then 1661 01:23:53,040 --> 01:23:56,200 Speaker 1: you have a recovery week. This really does get the 1662 01:23:56,240 --> 01:23:59,000 Speaker 1: body to reset so that you can rest, you can 1663 01:23:59,040 --> 01:24:02,240 Speaker 1: recover from injury, but you also reset the brain, and 1664 01:24:02,360 --> 01:24:05,479 Speaker 1: the brain does need some time to sleep. To not 1665 01:24:05,720 --> 01:24:08,120 Speaker 1: have a six hour workout every day, maybe do a 1666 01:24:08,200 --> 01:24:11,960 Speaker 1: one or a two hour workout. Those recovery times for muscles, 1667 01:24:12,000 --> 01:24:16,160 Speaker 1: for joints, for brain, for tissue, for just everything in 1668 01:24:16,240 --> 01:24:19,439 Speaker 1: general really does keep your body from burning out. Over 1669 01:24:19,560 --> 01:24:22,240 Speaker 1: training can be exhausting and also mimics a lot of 1670 01:24:22,320 --> 01:24:25,680 Speaker 1: depression situations, and athletes can be putting in hours and 1671 01:24:25,800 --> 01:24:28,439 Speaker 1: hours and hours and all of a sudden their performance 1672 01:24:28,520 --> 01:24:30,640 Speaker 1: starts to decline, and it can be very scary for 1673 01:24:30,720 --> 01:24:33,679 Speaker 1: them because they are technically doing everything they were taught 1674 01:24:33,720 --> 01:24:36,800 Speaker 1: to do that maybe they're doing too much, maybe they're 1675 01:24:36,880 --> 01:24:40,360 Speaker 1: not getting proper rest time, and they're increasing the risk 1676 01:24:40,400 --> 01:24:43,679 Speaker 1: of injury rather than decreasing it. It's great information. Doctor, 1677 01:24:43,800 --> 01:24:46,120 Speaker 1: Thanks so much for joining us. Thank you so much 1678 01:24:46,160 --> 01:24:49,600 Speaker 1: for calling Doctor Alicia Robis Show from Houston Methodist the 1679 01:24:49,600 --> 01:24:53,559 Speaker 1: Woodlands Hospital. For the fall sports season, Houston Methodist Orthopedic 1680 01:24:53,840 --> 01:24:57,200 Speaker 1: Sports Medicine is offering convenient sports injury clinics for student 1681 01:24:57,240 --> 01:24:59,599 Speaker 1: athletes all around the Houston area. The clinics are open 1682 01:24:59,640 --> 01:25:02,759 Speaker 1: Saturday mornings in Baytown, Clear Lake, West, Houston, Katie Sugar 1683 01:25:02,840 --> 01:25:05,360 Speaker 1: Lad and Willowbrook. For a more information, log on to 1684 01:25:05,439 --> 01:25:09,160 Speaker 1: Houston Methodist dot org. Slash Athlete the official healthcare provider 1685 01:25:09,200 --> 01:25:12,519 Speaker 1: of the Houston Texans. Houston Methodist Leading Medicine and that 1686 01:25:12,680 --> 01:25:15,599 Speaker 1: will do it, folks. That's the final call on this show. 1687 01:25:15,680 --> 01:25:19,280 Speaker 1: A lot of people to thank for their participation. Bill O'Brien, 1688 01:25:19,439 --> 01:25:26,320 Speaker 1: Jordan Thomas, Justin Reid, Mark Vanimir Dpcity, Brennan Scarlett, Greg Manz. 1689 01:25:27,040 --> 01:25:28,880 Speaker 1: Gotta thank DeAndre Hopkins for all the plays so I 1690 01:25:28,920 --> 01:25:32,200 Speaker 1: could do an ultimate eleven in his plays. Absolutely fantastic. 1691 01:25:32,560 --> 01:25:34,360 Speaker 1: You guys are the best for listening. Thanks to my 1692 01:25:34,479 --> 01:25:38,640 Speaker 1: guys back in studio. Sports Radio six ten. Got a 1693 01:25:38,720 --> 01:25:40,640 Speaker 1: lot of weary people around the city and get some 1694 01:25:40,720 --> 01:25:43,920 Speaker 1: restless weekend watch the Jags and Eagles and hopefully the 1695 01:25:44,000 --> 01:25:46,200 Speaker 1: Texans can go up too on the Jags with Eagles win, 1696 01:25:46,320 --> 01:25:49,000 Speaker 1: and you know, cheer for the Raiders, keep Colts as 1697 01:25:49,040 --> 01:25:52,280 Speaker 1: far back as humanly possible. Not let Andrew Luck think 1698 01:25:52,320 --> 01:25:54,479 Speaker 1: he's got a shot in this whole thing. That would 1699 01:25:54,520 --> 01:25:57,000 Speaker 1: be nice. But you get to enjoy some football, enjoy 1700 01:25:57,120 --> 01:26:00,519 Speaker 1: some family, and then start getting ready for Denver on Monday. 1701 01:26:00,640 --> 01:26:02,960 Speaker 1: As a reminder, we will have Texans Monday at eight am. 1702 01:26:03,200 --> 01:26:04,960 Speaker 1: We have the Bill O'Briant Show at five, we'll have 1703 01:26:05,120 --> 01:26:08,120 Speaker 1: All Access at six, and I'll take you right up 1704 01:26:08,120 --> 01:26:11,240 Speaker 1: to the Monday night football game New England at Buffalo. 1705 01:26:11,600 --> 01:26:14,120 Speaker 1: We'll see that everybody, and as always, go Texans.