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Speaker 1: What is up? Everybody? Welcome into a Wednesday edition of

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Speaker 1: Texans All Access. I'm your host, John Harris, football analyst

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Speaker 1: and sideline reporter. Glad to be with you on Dallas

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Speaker 1: Cowboys Week. We only get this week every four years,

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Speaker 1: and we only get Dallas Cowboys coming to Houston every

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Speaker 1: eight years. Of course, we only go to Dallas every

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Speaker 1: eight years and the regular season. That is because we

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Speaker 1: see them pretty much every year, if I remember correctly,

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Speaker 1: in the preseason, typically Week four. I actually like going

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Speaker 1: up to Jerry World. I probably shouldn't say it a lot,

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Speaker 1: but I don't care. I like going up Jerry World.

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Speaker 1: I think it's fun and I get a chance to

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Speaker 1: do the game up in the booth. In the booth

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Speaker 1: is fantastic up at eighteen. What is at stadiums? It's

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Speaker 1: easy called Jerry World. I was listening to somebody the

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Speaker 1: other day and they were talking about making a play

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Speaker 1: up in Jerry World and how cool they thought that was.

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Speaker 1: I can't remember which player it was, maybe Landing Collins.

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Speaker 1: Think it may have been Landing Collins talking about it

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Speaker 1: a couple weeks ago, going up to Jerry World. But

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys will be coming here on Sunday, and this

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Speaker 1: town will be a trick and what a sports weekend

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Speaker 1: it is going to be in Houston Friday, playoff baseball

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Speaker 1: game Astros Indians. Saturday, we've got Battle of piny Woods

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Speaker 1: here SFA and SFA NCAM Houston State, and then we've

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Speaker 1: got the Astros playoff games. So two playoff games Friday, Saturday,

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Speaker 1: Battle of piney Woods on Saturday, and then Sunday night

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Speaker 1: while the Astros will be traveling and get a day

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Speaker 1: off on Sunday, the Texans will take the stage, the

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Speaker 1: primetime stage against the Cowboys. So a lot going on

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Speaker 1: this weekend and very excited that it's all taking place.

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Speaker 1: Now we've had some of these weekends before time for

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Speaker 1: Texans will hold up. They're into the bargain. Can you

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Speaker 1: imagine if the Astros take two from the Indians at home,

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Speaker 1: we have a great piny Woods game, and then the

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Speaker 1: Texans gonna win against the Cowboys. I mean, shut it down, brother,

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Speaker 1: That's exactly what we need to have happened. So hopefully

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Speaker 1: we will have a chance to do all that. We

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Speaker 1: got a jam pack shows always on Wednesdays. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: go be hind enemy sidelines with Deep City. This week

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Speaker 1: it's David Hellman, staff writer for Dallas Cowboys dot Com.

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Speaker 1: We will also talk to our buddy Russell Baxter. We'll

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Speaker 1: go around in the NFL with him. He's got plenty

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Speaker 1: of good nuggets for us. As always, we certainly have

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Speaker 1: the men behind the mikes. You know how I feel

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Speaker 1: about our man behind the mike, Mark Van Damer. He's

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Speaker 1: been doing it since the inception of the team back

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Speaker 1: in two thousand and two, from game one. But also

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Speaker 1: I'm a big I'm a big fan of Brad Sham.

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Speaker 1: I like Brad I get a chance to hear him

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Speaker 1: because obviously we're in the state. But just a stand

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Speaker 1: up guy. Love him, and boy he can eat up

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Speaker 1: innings on the radio, if you know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: So we'll have our men behind the mics. Drew Doherty

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Speaker 1: will also stop by with a little snippet from our

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Speaker 1: in the Lab podcast, which you definitely want to check out.

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Speaker 1: We give out some unsung hero game balls and talk

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Speaker 1: about that win over the Colts a little bit. You

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Speaker 1: want the rest of that, you go to itune, Stitcher,

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Speaker 1: or tune in however you get your podcasts, and you

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Speaker 1: can hear the end the Lab Podcast in full bow.

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Speaker 1: We'll have a little snippet for that during the show

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Speaker 1: as well, and then our broadcast partner Andre where it

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Speaker 1: will stop by in the final segment give his thoughts

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Speaker 1: on this one against the Cowboys. He is a lifelong

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Speaker 1: Greater Houstonian like myself. I'm from Richard Roseberg, He's from Dickinson.

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Speaker 1: So the Cowboys take on a whole new meaning for

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Speaker 1: the two of us for sure. So we got plenty

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Speaker 1: brought to you by Geico fifteen minutes, I could say

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Speaker 1: we go right to the podium, we go to hear

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Speaker 1: from the particulars involved in this one, and we definitely

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Speaker 1: But this news came down on Wednesday morning and it

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Speaker 1: front seven destroyer, Jademion Clowney named AFC Defensive Player of

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Speaker 1: He was absolutely phenomenal. He was just incredible. Now here's

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Speaker 1: No other player in the NFL has more than one

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Speaker 1: twenty sixteen. He has forty two tackles for a loss

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Speaker 1: in that time span thirty three games, which is the

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Speaker 1: That's phenomenal. Four tackles, two sacks, four quarterback hits, four

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Speaker 1: Congratulations to j D doing it, obviously at a key

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Speaker 1: moment in the Texans season, a key moment in his career.

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Speaker 1: I'm really happy for him. And it's funny because two

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Speaker 1: Jad was a player of the game because he came

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Speaker 1: I saw him a locker room and I said, are

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Speaker 1: you ready for a tradition like no other? And he

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Speaker 1: last time we beat Hidy up here, I talked to you,

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Speaker 1: and he goes, we're doing it again. Didn't realize he

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Speaker 1: Jeemion Clowney named AFC Defensive Player of the Week. Absolutely

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Speaker 1: good stuff. If I knew how to do an applause

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Speaker 1: from coach Bill O'Brien. Coach was asked what makes Dallas

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Speaker 1: JJ Watt with five sacks his last two games. He

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Speaker 1: he plays very hard, plays hard on every snap. He's

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Speaker 1: key key QT. Coach was asked what he saw in

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Speaker 1: Qt leading up to the NFL Draft this past April.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of Qt, let's go to the man himself with

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Speaker 1: our next hot read, and it is Kiki Qt. He

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Speaker 1: he said, you don't want it. Did have a good game,

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Speaker 1: He gets that right, Oh my goodness. But this guy,

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Speaker 1: he continues to push himself no matter what he does

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Speaker 1: the injury report for today's practice. Only two DMPs today.

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Speaker 1: Brian Peters has been dealing with ankle issue and Aaron

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Speaker 1: if we'll see those guys for a few weeks. Limited participants,

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Speaker 1: a bunch of JD. Coats, QT Fuller, Fulton Hopkins, J

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Speaker 1: Thursday like the Colt on the outside. Three DMPs Trivis Frederick,

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Speaker 1: it is David Hellman, staff rider for Dallas Cowboys dot Com.

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Speaker 1: He's also an LSU grad, which makes him a big

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Speaker 1: with David DP take it away. How much fun is

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Speaker 1: if he can't go again on Sunday Night. Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: we got a preview of it last week against the Lions.

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Speaker 1: It's you know, it seems like it's been hamstring problems

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Speaker 1: for Sean for several years now. You know, he missed

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Speaker 1: five or six games last year with a hamstring. He

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Speaker 1: injured it in Week three against Seattle, couldn't go last

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Speaker 1: week against Detroit. You know, it's a scary proposition for

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys because last year when Sean Lee couldn't play,

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Speaker 1: it was a completely different defense. I mean, they couldn't

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Speaker 1: stop a nosebley when he wasn't in the lineup last year.

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Speaker 1: And it looks like they've maybe taken steps to fix that.

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Speaker 1: This year. They drafted late Vanderesh Night seemed overall to

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Speaker 1: help offset that problem. Dalen Smith has taken another big

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Speaker 1: step forward in his development after that injury that he suffered,

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Speaker 1: and they signed a really capable free agent at a

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Speaker 1: Green Bay named Joe Thomas, who has played well in stretches,

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Speaker 1: which you know, it wasn't perfect. You obviously prefer to

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Speaker 1: have an all Pro linebacker like Sean Lee available, but

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Speaker 1: they got the job done against Detroit, which is something

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Speaker 1: they couldn't say last year. So it doesn't look like

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Speaker 1: Sean's going to be available for this game, and so

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Speaker 1: I think it'll look really similar. I think they'll lean

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Speaker 1: on Jalen Smith and Layton vander esh and hope that

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Speaker 1: they can continue to play as well as they have.

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Speaker 1: All Right, David, the Cowboys obviously sitting at two and two.

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Speaker 1: Those two losses that they had came against Carolina and Seattle,

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Speaker 1: Like you mentioned, what do you think was the big

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Speaker 1: difference in those two games versus the two wins. What

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Speaker 1: was it that they were able to do in the

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Speaker 1: in the winning games that they weren't able to do

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Speaker 1: against Carolina and Seattle. Well, I think you know, I'm

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna sound like a coach for a second, but

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Speaker 1: they did not execute well in those games at all,

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Speaker 1: especially Carol Line. You go back and it looks like

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Speaker 1: a horror show. I mean, there's there's pre snap penalties,

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Speaker 1: there's holding calls. They're not able to keep Dak clean,

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Speaker 1: They're not able to keep the chains in a manageable distance.

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Speaker 1: You saw a lot of first and twenty second and fifteen,

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Speaker 1: third and eighteen in that game. And this is not

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Speaker 1: an offense that's going to succeed that way. I think

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Speaker 1: Dak Prescott is a perfectly good quarterback, but he's not

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Speaker 1: the guy that you want to dig you out of

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Speaker 1: a situation like that. They need to keep the chains moving,

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Speaker 1: they need to keep it in short downs and distances

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Speaker 1: by running with Ezekiel Elliott. And the baffling thing about

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Speaker 1: the Seattle game is they ran really well. They ran

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Speaker 1: for one hundred and sixty six yards against that Seattle defense,

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Speaker 1: but they just couldn't get anything going in their passing game.

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Speaker 1: A little bit of that was on the offensive line,

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Speaker 1: a little bit of that was on the quarterback, and

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Speaker 1: you obviously have to tip your tap to a defense

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Speaker 1: like Seattles. Which that's what's so interesting to me about

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Speaker 1: this trip to Houston is they've been pretty good when

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Speaker 1: they've been at home. They have looked pretty bad when

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Speaker 1: they've been on the road. And we all know how

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Speaker 1: much talent is on that decentse I mean, Clowney Way, merciless, Matthew.

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Speaker 1: They got a lot of guys they are, regardlessing what

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Speaker 1: their records, that are gonna make life difficult. And I'm

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Speaker 1: really curious to see how the Cowboys handle it because

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Speaker 1: their first two ORD games they have not passed that test.

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Speaker 1: So we'll see if they can learn from those experiences

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Speaker 1: in their third one certain will be a fun one

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Speaker 1: here Sunday night in Houston. David, what are some of

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Speaker 1: the storylines you guys are watching up there in Dallas

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Speaker 1: this week? Well, I think this entire season is one

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Speaker 1: way or another going to be about Dak Prescott. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott is the guy to watch. You know, he's

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Speaker 1: the league's leading rusher. He's on pace to have even

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Speaker 1: more yards than he did in twenty sixteen when he

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Speaker 1: was the rushing champ. But like I said, I mean

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Speaker 1: Nan ran for one twenty seven in Seattle, and it

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Speaker 1: didn't help the Cowboys one lick because their passing game

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Speaker 1: couldn't get going. Which this team's gonna go as the

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Speaker 1: quarterback goes, as is the case in pretty much every

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Speaker 1: NFL city, which Dak Prescott has played two good games

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Speaker 1: and gotten two wins, and he's played two bad games

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Speaker 1: and they've lost those. It's gonna be about consistency for him.

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Speaker 1: And you know, we said before this season started, this

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Speaker 1: season is going to be about Dak because you know,

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Speaker 1: you talk about contract extension, you talk about future of

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Speaker 1: the franchise. You know, can Dak be the guy to

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Speaker 1: get this team where it wants to go? And I'm

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Speaker 1: you know it's gonna be. I think it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: a week by week test for him to see if

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Speaker 1: he's up to that. We saw what it looked like

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Speaker 1: when things were good in twenty sixteen, we saw what

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Speaker 1: it looked like when things were bad last year. It's

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Speaker 1: been a little bit of a mixed bag here, but

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Speaker 1: I really think this team can be as good as

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Speaker 1: he is. And I'm just fascinated, and I know all

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Speaker 1: Cowboys fans have an eye on, you know, how he

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Speaker 1: measures up to that challenge. All right, good stuff. David Hellman,

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Speaker 1: writer for Dallas Cowboys dot Com. All of Texas will

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Speaker 1: be watching. The entire nation will be watching on Sunday

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Speaker 1: night as the Cowboys come to Houston. David, looking forward

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Speaker 1: to seeing you down here and safe travels. Absolutely, thank

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Speaker 1: you very much. Can't wait. David certainly speaks for all

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Speaker 1: of us when he says can't wait, invoking Mart Scott's

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Speaker 1: famous phrase Sunday night, We'll be here before we know it.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be electric no matter what. When these two

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Speaker 1: get together. All right, we get back our buddy Russell

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Speaker 1: Baxter will join us. We'll go around the NFL and

528
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Speaker 1: get his thoughts on Texas Cowboys and whatever else he

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Speaker 1: has seen throughout the league, including all the high scoring

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Speaker 1: and are the Patriots back for real? Russell backster next

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Speaker 1: right here in Texas All Access. Welcome back to a

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Speaker 1: Wednesday edition of Texans All Access. I am your host,

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Speaker 1: John Harris, Football Anniston Salary reporters sitting in the Hunday

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Speaker 1: Texans Radio studio, and my next guest is not but

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Speaker 1: I would love for him to come in here one

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Speaker 1: day and do a show with me. A lot that

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Speaker 1: would be very very cool. You can follow him on

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Speaker 1: Twitter at Backs Football Guru, Fans Side and fell Spin Zone.

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Speaker 1: He is fantastic. He has joined me at this time

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Speaker 1: all year long and he will continue throughout the season.

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Speaker 1: And he is Russell Baxter Russell, how you doing, my man?

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Speaker 1: I'm good, John. How are you well? The Texans one

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Speaker 1: so that I feel I've been feeling really good. And Russell,

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Speaker 1: it's more a sense of relief when a team wins

545
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Speaker 1: after going oh and three and losing six to finish

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Speaker 1: the year last year, but Russell thirty seven, thirty four

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Speaker 1: in Indianapolis. He had a forty five forty two game

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Speaker 1: out in Cleveland. We've seen this explosion in offense, and

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Speaker 1: I know that's probably what the NFL wants, But do

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Speaker 1: you think that's something that continues? Do you think the

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Speaker 1: league is just going to be heavily slanted towards the

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Speaker 1: offense going forward? With all that offense that we saw

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Speaker 1: this last week, is that a precursor of more things

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Speaker 1: to come? Well, listen, I mean it's it's it's dramatic

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Speaker 1: turnaround just from last year. I'll just throw out this

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Speaker 1: number for what it's worth. We have played sixty three games.

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Speaker 1: Because Carolina and Washington are off last week, so sixty

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Speaker 1: three games played they share. There have already been seventy

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Speaker 1: one one yard receiving performances by players. To put that

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Speaker 1: into context, the entire year. Last year there were one

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Speaker 1: hundred and forty Wow, oh my goodness. And now go

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Speaker 1: back a couple of years and there were over two hundred. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so it was last year the anomaly or whatever. Plus

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Speaker 1: I'll be curious to see some of these teams are

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Speaker 1: gonna have to start playing some defense, sure, most notably

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Speaker 1: to Kansas City Cheap, who have given up a ton

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Speaker 1: of yards. You know, the most yards in the league

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Speaker 1: per game, the second most passing yards for the league

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Speaker 1: game per game in the league, the fourth most I'm sorry,

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Speaker 1: the fifth most rushing yard. I mean, you know, they're

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Speaker 1: well balanced, they've been bad against the run and the past,

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Speaker 1: and yet they're four and oh, I don't know if

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Speaker 1: that's something you can necessarily sustain. Some of these teams

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Speaker 1: are gonna have to run the ball, and some of

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Speaker 1: these teams are gonna have to play defense. I think

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Speaker 1: it'll settle in and maybe maybe over the next five

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Speaker 1: or six weeks, we'll see it, but I also wouldn't

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Speaker 1: be surprised later in the year the offense has got

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Speaker 1: it cranked up again. I think it's just hard to

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Speaker 1: maintain this over seventeen weeks. Yeah, absolutely, and with injuries

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Speaker 1: at various points to keep people and obviously the Texans

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Speaker 1: had one of those with will Fuller. But Russell, the

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Speaker 1: Texans put up a lot of yards, finally put up

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Speaker 1: a lot of points and do it in a place

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Speaker 1: that has over the year has been a bug a

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Speaker 1: boot of theirs. But they've now won three out of four.

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Speaker 1: They get off the Schneide with a win and now

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Speaker 1: it's the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday Night. Overall, Deshaun Watson

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Speaker 1: looked fantastic. The defense JJ watch Demion Clowney were absolutely amazing.

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Speaker 1: Clowney AFC Defensive Player of the Week. It feels like

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Speaker 1: things sort of came together and then you look up

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Speaker 1: and see Andrew luck through for about eight thousand yards

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Speaker 1: on the day. I wasn't really totally sure how to

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Speaker 1: feel other than we won. But what do you think

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Speaker 1: overall of the Texans and what do you think the

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Speaker 1: next few weeks it could look like as they face

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Speaker 1: lesser quarterbacks that are not Eli Manning and Andrew Luck

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Speaker 1: and Tom Brady as they started the year with. Well, listen,

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Speaker 1: five relief is probably a good way to put in,

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Speaker 1: but a little more than that, because if you were

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Speaker 1: going to win a game, you won a road divisional game,

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Speaker 1: and that speaks volumes because losing a Tennessee is not good.

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Speaker 1: I understand that, but losing a Tennessee is something a

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Speaker 1: lot of teams are going to do. When you can

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Speaker 1: win some road divisional games, you can separate yourself in

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Speaker 1: terms of, you know, leap frogging teams. And this is

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Speaker 1: the team that's already chasing two other teams. It's not like,

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Speaker 1: you know, you look at other teams and divisions and

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Speaker 1: so like Green Bay is, you know, just behind the Bears,

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Speaker 1: but it's only the Bears. This is a Texans team

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Speaker 1: that's already a couple of games behind both Jacksonville and Tennessee.

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Speaker 1: And both of those teams were in the playoffs last year.

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Speaker 1: So stealing one at Indie I thought was huge. Now

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Speaker 1: the next couple of weeks they play a couple of

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Speaker 1: home games against the Cowboys and against the Bills. You know,

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Speaker 1: I look with Jacksonville and Tennessee Haven coming up as well.

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Speaker 1: So I mean, that's why you don't get too high

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Speaker 1: over B and Owen's three and OZ and don't get

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Speaker 1: too low over being and three. Things happened to change

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Speaker 1: a lot for every team time that we see an

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Speaker 1: three years ago the Atlantic at Falcons were five and up,

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Speaker 1: And I remember thinking that team could go in a

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Speaker 1: super Bowl and they didn't even get to the playoffs

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Speaker 1: and we did, which was so so incredibly weird in

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Speaker 1: some way, shape or form. Russell, you mentioned Kansas City

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Speaker 1: at some point, and Patrick Mahomes has been unbelievable through

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Speaker 1: the first four games. I think the biggest thing to

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Speaker 1: me is the fact that he hasn't thrown an interception.

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Speaker 1: I think that's just absolutely incredible. But now they get

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Speaker 1: as big a test that they're gonna get. The game

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Speaker 1: is at home, but they faced the Jacksonville Jaguars, the

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Speaker 1: three and one Jaguars, who well went for two up

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Speaker 1: thirteen with twenty five seconds left against the Jets, which

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Speaker 1: created some consternation, but that to me stands out as

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Speaker 1: perhaps the game of the weekend. Jacksonville go into Kansas City.

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Speaker 1: What are you seeing with those two teams? Jacksonville three

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Speaker 1: and one in Kansas City undefeated four and oh it's

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Speaker 1: a very big two week span for the Kansas City Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: They host Jacksonville and they go to New England the

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Speaker 1: week after. So you know, they they've already knocked off

644
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Speaker 1: one defending division champion in the Pittsburgh Steelers on the road,

645
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Speaker 1: but now they're playing a team that can get after

646
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Speaker 1: a quarterback and for the most part, hasn't been one

647
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Speaker 1: of these teams that get in some wild shootouts. You know,

648
00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:32,760
Speaker 1: they bested the Patriots and the Jets fairly handily. You know,

649
00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:36,000
Speaker 1: scored thirty one points in each game, you know, one

650
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Speaker 1: a slugfest with the Giants on the road, and then

651
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Speaker 1: lost a nine to six softball game to the Tennessee Titans.

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Speaker 1: You haven't Jacksonville hasn't engaged in this forty three thirty seven,

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Speaker 1: thirty seven, thirty six stuff that we have seen for

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Speaker 1: a lot of teams around the league. And it's gonna

655
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Speaker 1: be in the recipe to see if they can slow

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Speaker 1: down Kansas City. I mean, it's gonna be there be

657
00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:02,600
Speaker 1: some fun matchups. You know. I don't know if Sammy

658
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Speaker 1: Watkins is going to be available, but you know, I

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Speaker 1: wonder if there's not gonna be a coin flip before

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Speaker 1: the game between A J. Bouyer and Jalen Ramsey and

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Speaker 1: who gets to spend more time with Tyreek Hill. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I would think that Ramsey might take some of that

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Speaker 1: because when we played Kansas City when twenty sixteen, A J.

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Speaker 1: Boyer covered Travis Kelsey and actually did it as good

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Speaker 1: a job on Travis Kelsey as anybody, So I wouldn't

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Speaker 1: be surprised. The flip side of that is when they

667
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Speaker 1: played the Patriots, Gronk was covered by Jalen Ramsey. So

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Speaker 1: the thing is they have two guys that they can

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Speaker 1: pick from to be able to do that, which I

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Speaker 1: think is absolutely fantastic. Russell, two three and one teams

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Speaker 1: meet on Sunday in Cincinnati, and if you would have

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Speaker 1: given me one hundred dollars to go to Vegas and

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Speaker 1: bet on any two teams not to be three and one,

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Speaker 1: I probably would have put it on at least Miami

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Speaker 1: for sure, and maybe with a question mark about Cincinnati.

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Speaker 1: These are two of the bigger surprise to me in

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Speaker 1: the league, Miami and Cincinnati. But this game, I feel

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Speaker 1: like the loser of this one could maybe head south,

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Speaker 1: especially if it's Miami. Well, they're gonna have to head

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00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:12,719
Speaker 1: south because they well they live in Miami. But it

681
00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:16,040
Speaker 1: feels like Miami is the team that could take an

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Speaker 1: about face right here if they end up losing this game.

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Speaker 1: But how surprising is it that these two teams are

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Speaker 1: meeting at both three and one. I'm very surprised about

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Speaker 1: Miami and I'm not totally surprised about Cincinnati. I think

686
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Speaker 1: lost in the fact that this was a team that

687
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Speaker 1: went to the playoffs five years in a row before

688
00:34:35,680 --> 00:34:37,440
Speaker 1: the last two years, and what they went out and

689
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:40,200
Speaker 1: did this year is they went out and got a

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Speaker 1: left tackle to replace Andrew Whitworth. Right, that was a

691
00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:45,320
Speaker 1: huge loss for them the year before in free agency.

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Speaker 1: And the other thing about Cincinnati have always been the

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Speaker 1: talented team. We know they don't have the postseason history.

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Speaker 1: I understand that, but you look at how they started

695
00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:58,160
Speaker 1: a year ago. They were owing three. They didn't score

696
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Speaker 1: a touchdown their first two games against Baltimore and Houston

697
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Speaker 1: on a Thursday night. John. They finished the year seven

698
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Speaker 1: and six, and I think the thing that impressed me

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Speaker 1: the most about them with the fact the last two

700
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Speaker 1: weeks of the season they took it upon themselves and

701
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Speaker 1: knocked two teams totally out of the playoffs, the Detroit

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Speaker 1: Lions and the Baltimore Ravens. So you know so much

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Speaker 1: for that, Well, you know, we have nothing to play

704
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Speaker 1: for us, right, I'm going to play very hard yep. Okay.

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Speaker 1: They went into those two games five to nine and

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Speaker 1: six and nine. Okay, so a lot of pride there

707
00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:31,719
Speaker 1: show j Marvin Lewis has done a good job. Now

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00:35:31,719 --> 00:35:33,959
Speaker 1: they're off two or three and one start got rocked

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Speaker 1: by Carolina. I don't think their defenses play in that grade,

710
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Speaker 1: even though they have a lot of talents on the

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Speaker 1: defensive front. They do get Monte's perfect back, who they

712
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Speaker 1: did not have the first four games. But you know,

713
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Speaker 1: they've made their share of adjustments. Andy Dalton and AJ

714
00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:50,439
Speaker 1: Green got that thing going again, and you know, they've

715
00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:52,760
Speaker 1: been one of the best tandems in the league this decade.

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Speaker 1: I think there's a lot to like about Cincinnati. But Miami,

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Speaker 1: I thought Miami was one of the harder teams to

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Speaker 1: figure out into the year because who they got rid

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Speaker 1: of right and the uncertainty surrounding Ryan Tannehill. They scratched

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Speaker 1: out three wins, so I give him credit for that,

721
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Speaker 1: but as far as being somebody, as far as being reliable,

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Speaker 1: for lack of a better word, they're a hard team

723
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Speaker 1: to get a gauge on. Russell Baxters joined US fansided

724
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Speaker 1: NFL spin Zone. You can follow them on Twitter at

725
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Speaker 1: backs bax Football Guru. Russell one team that had a

726
00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:30,320
Speaker 1: lot of pundits thinking super Bowl, not even super Bowl

727
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Speaker 1: but winning it all. The Minnesota Vikings and the Vikings

728
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Speaker 1: City at one two and one and just got rocked

729
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Speaker 1: last Thursday night by the La Rams. And the Rams

730
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Speaker 1: are gonna do that to a lot of teams. But

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Speaker 1: they made it look easy against Minnesota and the Vikings

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Speaker 1: City at one two and one, and now have to

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Speaker 1: go to Philadelphia, the scene of the crime last year

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Speaker 1: of the NFC Championship game. If the Vikings lose here,

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Speaker 1: it's one three and one, and it seems like it

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Speaker 1: spells trouble in Minnesota. Hey what's going on? And and

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Speaker 1: do you think b they can win in Philadelphia. Well,

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Speaker 1: I think they can win in Philadelphia. I don't think

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Speaker 1: the Eagles are quite in sync yet. I certainly haven't

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Speaker 1: seen it. I don't think Carson Wentz doesn't sync yet.

741
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Speaker 1: He's played the last couple of weeks, and I don't

742
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Speaker 1: think he looks totally comfortable yet. It's hard to believe

743
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Speaker 1: Minnesota hasn't won a game since Week one. Yeah, tie

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00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:24,640
Speaker 1: lost lost. And if you would have told me that

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00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:27,080
Speaker 1: the Vikings would have scored twenty nine points at Green

746
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Speaker 1: Bay and thirty one against the Rams and not one

747
00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:34,520
Speaker 1: either one of those games, then that's a head scratcher.

748
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Speaker 1: But their defense has not played well. Maybe their defense

749
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Speaker 1: lost the little confidence in Philadelphia last year. I know

750
00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:44,080
Speaker 1: Kase Tenham had a bunch of turnovers. But you know,

751
00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:48,920
Speaker 1: so far during this streak, we've seen poor special teams

752
00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:50,279
Speaker 1: play for them. They had a punt block for a

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00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:54,640
Speaker 1: touchdown against Green Bay. We saw horrendous offensive line play

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00:37:54,719 --> 00:37:58,360
Speaker 1: for them against Buffalo when they lost at home. And

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00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:00,839
Speaker 1: this past week their defense and again, like you said,

756
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Speaker 1: the Rams are going to do that to a lot

757
00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:05,080
Speaker 1: of teams. Again, they went out in Los Angeles and

758
00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:08,000
Speaker 1: scored thirty one points and couldn't get a win. That

759
00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:10,280
Speaker 1: offense can be explosive. Man, they were for That offense

760
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:12,600
Speaker 1: was fun to watch, but then the defense were going

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Speaker 1: the field and I know obviously that misson Everson Griffin

762
00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:19,640
Speaker 1: and that definitely hurts them, But my goodness gone, I

763
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:22,919
Speaker 1: think it's hurt them a lot. Yeah, I agree wholeheartedly.

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Speaker 1: Another team, Russell that just seemingly can't get on the

765
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Speaker 1: right side of things is Pittsburgh. There are also the

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Speaker 1: Steelers are one two and one coming off and thumping

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Speaker 1: to Baltimore and Russell. When we talked before the year,

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Speaker 1: I remember we talked a little bit about Baltimore and

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Speaker 1: I just wasn't sure. A lot of people thought, yeah,

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Speaker 1: Baltimore could be pretty good this year, and Baltimore maybe

771
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:44,640
Speaker 1: it is a lot better than people think. But Pittsburgh

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00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:48,439
Speaker 1: has been surprising. Yes, no Levion Bell, but I thought

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Speaker 1: defensively they would be better than what they are. And

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Speaker 1: it's kind of nasty. And now you've got a must

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00:38:55,239 --> 00:38:58,960
Speaker 1: win games seemingly at home against Atlanta, and Atlanta is

776
00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:00,960
Speaker 1: kind of the same way one in three. A lot

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Speaker 1: of offense, but a lot of injuries on defense for Atlanta,

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Speaker 1: as you look at those two teams, what do you

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Speaker 1: think it'll take to kind of get it going in

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Speaker 1: the right direction And which team do you think has

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00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:12,600
Speaker 1: a bigger advantage on Sunday of the must win teams,

782
00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:16,040
Speaker 1: Atlanta or Pittsburgh. Well, pittsburghs at home and that you

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Speaker 1: would think that would be enough. You know, Atlanta has

784
00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:23,480
Speaker 1: discovered a new offensive weapon in Calvin Ridley. Pittsburgh look

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00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:25,360
Speaker 1: a good team in the second half last week that

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00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:29,400
Speaker 1: it lost its confidence, which was kind of odd because

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Speaker 1: they had gotten jumped on by the Ravens early in

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Speaker 1: the game and then they seem like they regained the

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Speaker 1: momentum going into the half, but they never were able

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Speaker 1: to cape capitalize. The Steelers total forty seven total yards

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Speaker 1: in the second half. Level. Yeah, home, almost mind bottling. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: this is a pretty crucial game for the Steelers. Can't

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Speaker 1: afford to lose another home game. They're at Cincinnati the

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00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:57,360
Speaker 1: week before. Give credit to Baltimore. Baltimore is still a

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Speaker 1: very unpredictable team as well. They're at Cleveland this week,

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00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:05,080
Speaker 1: so that'll be pretty fascinating. But yeah, the Steelers and

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Speaker 1: the Falcons both teams missing their premier running back Davante Freeman,

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Speaker 1: who might be backed this week by the way for

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Speaker 1: the Falcons, and of course leaveon Bell the saga that

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00:40:15,040 --> 00:40:18,640
Speaker 1: never seems to end. But you talk about Pittsburgh's defense

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00:40:18,719 --> 00:40:21,879
Speaker 1: given up about you go back to last year when

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00:40:21,880 --> 00:40:23,759
Speaker 1: they played Green Bay on a Sunday night. It was

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Speaker 1: the week before Ryan Shazier got hurt. They're given up

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Speaker 1: about twenty seven points a game over that span, and

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Speaker 1: they've given up thirty seven offensive touchdowns in the eleven games.

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, Holy smokes. That's amazing to think about, because

807
00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:43,680
Speaker 1: if you ask somebody to say Steelers steel Kurt defense,

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00:40:43,719 --> 00:40:45,640
Speaker 1: I mean, that's the first thing that comes to my toughness.

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00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:48,879
Speaker 1: But really, a defense has struggled. You're definitely so right

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Speaker 1: about that. Russell at Backs football guru, Bax football guru,

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Speaker 1: fan Sided, NFL spin Zone man knows it all and

812
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Speaker 1: that's why we have them on this show. Russell, you're

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Speaker 1: the absolute best, my friend. We'll talk to you again

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Speaker 1: next week. Thank you. Week there is Russell Baxter, great

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Speaker 1: stuff from him on a number of different NFL teams.

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00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:09,319
Speaker 1: All right, it's time to go behind the mics with

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00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:11,080
Speaker 1: the two men that will call the game on Sunday

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Speaker 1: Night for their respective franchises. Mark Vandermair, of course for

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Speaker 1: the Houston Texans, and Brad Sham of the Dallas Cowboys. Next,

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Speaker 1: Texans All Access. Welcome back to Texans All Access on

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Speaker 1: this wonderful Wednesday evening from the Honday Texans Radio studio.

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Speaker 1: We are halfway home. One hour in the books already.

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Speaker 1: We did plenty of good stuff in the first hour,

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Speaker 1: and we've got more for you in the second. We

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Speaker 1: start that second hour with our men behind the mics,

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Speaker 1: two voices synonymous with NFL football in this state. Since

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Speaker 1: two thou two, Mark Vandermair has been the voice of

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Speaker 1: the Houston Texans, and in nineteen eighty four Brad Sham

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Speaker 1: became the play by play voice for the Dallas Cowboys.

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Speaker 1: Now he was the color analysts for games for eight

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Speaker 1: years prior to that, So dating all the way back

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Speaker 1: the nineteen seventy six, Brad Sham has been the voice

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Speaker 1: of the Dallas Cowboys and he joins Mark for our

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Speaker 1: men behind the mics. Brad, how's it going so far

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Speaker 1: for you this year? You know it's going it's going

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Speaker 1: so so Voice of the Houston Texas. You know it's

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Speaker 1: kind of like you. It's been a little up and

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00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:17,280
Speaker 1: a little down. Yeah, I can imagine that's the case,

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Speaker 1: and I know the focus is always big on the

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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys, no matter what the situation. The victory over Detroit,

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Speaker 1: what did that do? Fan base, media, the team itself.

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00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:30,040
Speaker 1: It looked like a nice win To get that the

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00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:32,160
Speaker 1: way you got it. You pulled one out of the fire.

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Speaker 1: So let me let me take them in the order

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Speaker 1: that you asked. This would get me in huge trouble,

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00:42:41,200 --> 00:42:43,680
Speaker 1: would probably will anyway. I just really don't care what

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Speaker 1: the fan base thinks. They know nothing. They react viscerally

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00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:53,120
Speaker 1: from their couches, so what the fan base thinks is

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Speaker 1: irrelevant to me. The media doesn't know a whole lot more.

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Speaker 1: In about eighty percent of the cases, the problem is

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00:43:02,880 --> 00:43:06,920
Speaker 1: not just here. I think it's true everywhere. What the

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Speaker 1: media says not only fuels the fan base, but it

853
00:43:14,480 --> 00:43:16,960
Speaker 1: will at some point get the attention of the owner

854
00:43:16,960 --> 00:43:19,520
Speaker 1: of the business, and the owner of the business at

855
00:43:19,560 --> 00:43:22,960
Speaker 1: some point is going to respond to his or her customers.

856
00:43:24,480 --> 00:43:28,000
Speaker 1: And that's why I think it's really incumbent on us

857
00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:30,400
Speaker 1: in our business to try to be responsible and know

858
00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:34,200
Speaker 1: what we're saying or writing for the team. I thought

859
00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:39,160
Speaker 1: it was really important. They know the difficulty. Every NFL

860
00:43:39,160 --> 00:43:41,520
Speaker 1: player knows the difficulty of climbing out of a one

861
00:43:41,520 --> 00:43:45,120
Speaker 1: and three hole. It's not impossible, but it's not recommended.

862
00:43:45,719 --> 00:43:49,880
Speaker 1: And they this team did not expect to be struggling

863
00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:52,759
Speaker 1: at the quarter pole of the season, and so to

864
00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:56,120
Speaker 1: be able to come back in the face of a

865
00:43:56,160 --> 00:44:01,360
Speaker 1: withering week of public criticism. And say that includes social media,

866
00:44:01,360 --> 00:44:05,520
Speaker 1: which goes directly to the players. There's no filter for it,

867
00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:08,480
Speaker 1: and you have to I think you have to work

868
00:44:08,520 --> 00:44:10,520
Speaker 1: doubly hard if you're the team to keep all that

869
00:44:10,560 --> 00:44:12,840
Speaker 1: out of their players heads. So for them to be

870
00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:15,880
Speaker 1: able to come back, be resilient, do some of the

871
00:44:15,920 --> 00:44:19,200
Speaker 1: things that they had not done well in the two

872
00:44:19,239 --> 00:44:21,680
Speaker 1: games that they've lost, come back and win the game

873
00:44:21,719 --> 00:44:24,719
Speaker 1: at the end. It's it always amazes me Mark for

874
00:44:24,800 --> 00:44:29,600
Speaker 1: such a physically violent game, how emotional this sport is

875
00:44:30,239 --> 00:44:35,480
Speaker 1: and winning is everything when you pay the price these

876
00:44:35,520 --> 00:44:38,000
Speaker 1: players do to say nothing to the coaches and the

877
00:44:38,040 --> 00:44:41,200
Speaker 1: support staff. So I think it was a big deal.

878
00:44:41,360 --> 00:44:44,840
Speaker 1: And you know, look, however it happens to the Texans,

879
00:44:45,400 --> 00:44:47,880
Speaker 1: Tell me I'm wrong, But you know, However, however, it

880
00:44:47,960 --> 00:44:50,000
Speaker 1: is that you won the game. That's a heck of

881
00:44:50,040 --> 00:44:52,799
Speaker 1: a lot better than being owned for well. Absolutely, but

882
00:44:52,920 --> 00:44:55,359
Speaker 1: some people evaluate it like figure skating, like you didn't

883
00:44:55,360 --> 00:44:57,840
Speaker 1: do the triple axel, Well, so it shouldn't count. But

884
00:44:57,920 --> 00:45:00,279
Speaker 1: it's a w So that's all that matters. Tell me

885
00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:04,680
Speaker 1: about Dak go ahead. That's exactly why I say that

886
00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:09,640
Speaker 1: I don't care. After as long as I've been doing this,

887
00:45:09,920 --> 00:45:13,239
Speaker 1: I've learned that people do not understand. There are no

888
00:45:13,360 --> 00:45:19,120
Speaker 1: style points. The only thing I went to school at Missouri, Okay,

889
00:45:19,160 --> 00:45:21,359
Speaker 1: I have no dog in the fight. The only thing

890
00:45:21,360 --> 00:45:23,840
Speaker 1: that right. In my opinion, the only thing that rivals

891
00:45:23,880 --> 00:45:28,040
Speaker 1: Cowboy fans is Texas fans. University of Texas fans will

892
00:45:28,120 --> 00:45:31,920
Speaker 1: throw a win back if it wasn't up to their specifications.

893
00:45:32,239 --> 00:45:34,200
Speaker 1: A win's a win. It's hard to win a game,

894
00:45:34,239 --> 00:45:37,200
Speaker 1: and in the NFL it's really hard to win a game,

895
00:45:37,560 --> 00:45:40,919
Speaker 1: and the figure skating fans can say whatever they want,

896
00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:44,320
Speaker 1: but a win's a win. Tell me about Dak Prescott

897
00:45:44,320 --> 00:45:48,279
Speaker 1: and how he's progressing in year three. I think he's

898
00:45:48,760 --> 00:45:53,200
Speaker 1: progressing acceptably for a third year quarterback. The people up

899
00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:55,880
Speaker 1: here love to say romo this, and Romo that, and

900
00:45:55,920 --> 00:45:57,719
Speaker 1: at this point in Tony's career, he hadn't been on

901
00:45:57,719 --> 00:46:03,080
Speaker 1: the field yet. And Prescott spoiled everybody by being otherworldly

902
00:46:03,120 --> 00:46:08,080
Speaker 1: as a rookie. And actually he was dovetailing nicely with

903
00:46:08,160 --> 00:46:09,920
Speaker 1: that the first half of last year. Then they had

904
00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:12,160
Speaker 1: some injuries in the line, they had some protection issues

905
00:46:12,320 --> 00:46:14,760
Speaker 1: the rest of the way, which caused him to start

906
00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:18,680
Speaker 1: making some bad decisions. And that that was last year.

907
00:46:18,719 --> 00:46:21,200
Speaker 1: But that was the last thing anybody saw or remembered.

908
00:46:21,719 --> 00:46:26,680
Speaker 1: So this is Babe. Waffenberg and I were talking about

909
00:46:26,719 --> 00:46:29,320
Speaker 1: this at the beginning of the game on Sunday before

910
00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:32,439
Speaker 1: the game started, I said, I hope and I said

911
00:46:32,440 --> 00:46:34,880
Speaker 1: this on the air, I hope this goes well because

912
00:46:34,880 --> 00:46:36,800
Speaker 1: if it doesn't, I think I know what these things

913
00:46:36,880 --> 00:46:39,440
Speaker 1: will do. And I've seen them Boo, Roger Staubach and

914
00:46:39,480 --> 00:46:43,960
Speaker 1: Troy Aikman. I was there when it happened. So people

915
00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:45,520
Speaker 1: don't want to think about the fact that he's a

916
00:46:45,600 --> 00:46:48,960
Speaker 1: third year quarterback. If Deshaun's not playing well, people don't

917
00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:51,760
Speaker 1: want to think about where he is in his career.

918
00:46:52,360 --> 00:46:55,640
Speaker 1: And I think both of them are And I've met

919
00:46:55,719 --> 00:46:57,880
Speaker 1: Deshaun and I've had some interactions with him and did

920
00:46:57,880 --> 00:47:00,360
Speaker 1: a program with him last year just before his injury.

921
00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:03,239
Speaker 1: I mean, I think these are two really exceptional young men.

922
00:47:03,719 --> 00:47:07,239
Speaker 1: I think they are two really grounded, intelligent young men

923
00:47:07,880 --> 00:47:13,359
Speaker 1: with great natural leadership traits and the rest of it,

924
00:47:13,800 --> 00:47:17,160
Speaker 1: the rest of it comes into play. It's the thing

925
00:47:17,160 --> 00:47:20,600
Speaker 1: that separates quarterbacks, in my opinion, is the decision making.

926
00:47:21,120 --> 00:47:23,080
Speaker 1: And it just takes a little bit of time to

927
00:47:23,160 --> 00:47:25,040
Speaker 1: make all the decisions that you want to make. And

928
00:47:25,080 --> 00:47:26,520
Speaker 1: there are some guys in the Hall of Fame who

929
00:47:26,600 --> 00:47:29,480
Speaker 1: made some bad decisions further into their career than Dak

930
00:47:29,480 --> 00:47:34,799
Speaker 1: Prescott is. So I think he's I think he's growing acceptably. Yeah.

931
00:47:34,880 --> 00:47:38,440
Speaker 1: I'm glad you brought up the evaluation of quarterbacks in general, Brad,

932
00:47:38,520 --> 00:47:40,799
Speaker 1: because I look at a guy like Tony Romo and

933
00:47:40,840 --> 00:47:43,880
Speaker 1: when he retired, everyone thought, is he a Pro Football

934
00:47:43,880 --> 00:47:45,960
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer? And I was thinking, well, you have

935
00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:48,240
Speaker 1: to put him in the Ring of honor first, and

936
00:47:48,480 --> 00:47:51,200
Speaker 1: that's a hard thing to make. And he didn't even

937
00:47:51,239 --> 00:47:52,960
Speaker 1: go to an NFC championship game, but I know he

938
00:47:52,960 --> 00:47:55,000
Speaker 1: did a whole lot of good stuff for the franchise.

939
00:47:55,200 --> 00:47:57,919
Speaker 1: How is he remembered and how do you think that

940
00:47:58,000 --> 00:48:02,480
Speaker 1: stands now versus how he might be remembered eventually. You know,

941
00:48:02,560 --> 00:48:05,239
Speaker 1: you've just said about four really interesting things to me.

942
00:48:06,080 --> 00:48:07,880
Speaker 1: First of all, to put him in the Ring of

943
00:48:07,880 --> 00:48:09,319
Speaker 1: Honor before you put him in the Hall of Fame.

944
00:48:09,320 --> 00:48:11,000
Speaker 1: But it would be a good idea if you think

945
00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:13,520
Speaker 1: he's that player. I think the Hall of Fame voters

946
00:48:13,560 --> 00:48:24,440
Speaker 1: are influenced by that. You know, about his second years,

947
00:48:25,200 --> 00:48:30,960
Speaker 1: maybe his first full year as a starter, until oh,

948
00:48:31,080 --> 00:48:36,960
Speaker 1: maybe about two thousand and nine, Romo was the golden boy.

949
00:48:37,640 --> 00:48:41,480
Speaker 1: And you know, people forget everybody in the league, including

950
00:48:41,520 --> 00:48:44,040
Speaker 1: this team, said no, that's okay, we can get along

951
00:48:44,080 --> 00:48:47,120
Speaker 1: without you. They didn't draft him for seven rounds. So

952
00:48:47,239 --> 00:48:49,680
Speaker 1: to me, everything he did was on house money, and

953
00:48:49,840 --> 00:48:55,800
Speaker 1: he was a really exciting player now because the offense

954
00:48:55,880 --> 00:48:59,520
Speaker 1: has come slowly out of the gate. Believe me, the

955
00:48:59,640 --> 00:49:03,960
Speaker 1: last up of three years that he was playing, it

956
00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:07,160
Speaker 1: was fifty fifty as many people hated him and said

957
00:49:07,200 --> 00:49:10,080
Speaker 1: he can't win a playoff game, and he won't do this,

958
00:49:10,160 --> 00:49:11,880
Speaker 1: and he won't do that, and there's those were all

959
00:49:11,880 --> 00:49:13,960
Speaker 1: the people who said he's you know, he shouldn't be

960
00:49:13,960 --> 00:49:16,960
Speaker 1: in the league because he wasn't drafted. There that was

961
00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:20,319
Speaker 1: as many people saying that as they were saying, this

962
00:49:20,360 --> 00:49:24,240
Speaker 1: guy has got what it takes. And now, of course

963
00:49:24,560 --> 00:49:28,000
Speaker 1: when they're struggling a little and last year didn't go well,

964
00:49:28,360 --> 00:49:31,759
Speaker 1: not the quarterbacks faulted in my opinion, Well, then Tony

965
00:49:31,880 --> 00:49:34,200
Speaker 1: Romo is the greatest thing. He's got a little bit

966
00:49:34,239 --> 00:49:37,240
Speaker 1: of Johnny Unitis and John Elway and had to stop

967
00:49:37,280 --> 00:49:42,640
Speaker 1: acohol rolled up into one. And that's so faulty, it's

968
00:49:42,680 --> 00:49:48,880
Speaker 1: just flawed. So right now people think that Romo's it,

969
00:49:49,800 --> 00:49:51,839
Speaker 1: but they didn't think that when he was playing, and

970
00:49:51,880 --> 00:49:57,080
Speaker 1: that that's a luxury that's afforded to fans. And for me,

971
00:49:58,400 --> 00:50:03,440
Speaker 1: I I love the guy. I mean, I consider him

972
00:50:03,480 --> 00:50:07,680
Speaker 1: a friend and I certainly was more than privileged to

973
00:50:07,840 --> 00:50:12,799
Speaker 1: broadcast every game he played. I don't see I don't

974
00:50:12,880 --> 00:50:15,600
Speaker 1: see his accomplishments as equal to those of Hall of

975
00:50:15,600 --> 00:50:19,319
Speaker 1: Fame quarterbacks. And Jerry Jones has virtually said he's going

976
00:50:19,360 --> 00:50:22,439
Speaker 1: to be in the Ring of Honor, and I think

977
00:50:22,480 --> 00:50:26,120
Speaker 1: you can make that taste certainly, you can make it statistically.

978
00:50:26,160 --> 00:50:29,440
Speaker 1: And he was exciting and he literally came out of

979
00:50:29,440 --> 00:50:33,600
Speaker 1: nowhere to kind of resurrect their franchise. And there are

980
00:50:33,760 --> 00:50:36,360
Speaker 1: three quarterbacks in this team's ring of honor. One of

981
00:50:36,360 --> 00:50:37,959
Speaker 1: them was the guy who put them on the map,

982
00:50:38,040 --> 00:50:41,520
Speaker 1: Don Meredith, and the other two won multiple championships. To me,

983
00:50:41,600 --> 00:50:45,239
Speaker 1: that's the standard, and I'm fine with Tony being in

984
00:50:45,239 --> 00:50:48,399
Speaker 1: the room. Better explain it to Danny White, who had

985
00:50:48,440 --> 00:50:52,160
Speaker 1: the team in the NFC Championship Game his first three

986
00:50:52,280 --> 00:50:56,840
Speaker 1: years as a starter, following Roger Stauba. So that that.

987
00:50:56,960 --> 00:50:58,960
Speaker 1: But that's one of those great you know, you can't

988
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:02,399
Speaker 1: you can't be right or wrong. That's a great bar

989
00:51:02,520 --> 00:51:08,000
Speaker 1: stool or living room sofa or talk show conversation, and

990
00:51:07,360 --> 00:51:11,640
Speaker 1: there really is no right or wrong. It's just opinion. Brad.

991
00:51:11,719 --> 00:51:13,920
Speaker 1: I'm glad you brought up Danny White. Andre Ware and

992
00:51:13,920 --> 00:51:16,399
Speaker 1: I are big Danny White fans and andre War number

993
00:51:16,400 --> 00:51:19,120
Speaker 1: eleven also not because of Danny White, but he also

994
00:51:19,560 --> 00:51:22,719
Speaker 1: felt that kind of kinship with him, and I think

995
00:51:22,719 --> 00:51:25,240
Speaker 1: it's a great point about the three NFC Championship games.

996
00:51:25,840 --> 00:51:30,040
Speaker 1: Back to now DeMarcus Lawrence. How good is he? Man?

997
00:51:30,120 --> 00:51:32,359
Speaker 1: Is he really bursting out of the scene after last

998
00:51:32,400 --> 00:51:34,440
Speaker 1: year's fourteen and a half sacks and everything he's doing

999
00:51:34,480 --> 00:51:37,200
Speaker 1: this year? What kind of players he? I think he's

1000
00:51:37,200 --> 00:51:39,960
Speaker 1: really good Mark. I think he's really good. And that's

1001
00:51:40,080 --> 00:51:45,120
Speaker 1: the thing because again fans, and too often we in

1002
00:51:45,160 --> 00:51:47,920
Speaker 1: the media, we only care about things that can be

1003
00:51:48,040 --> 00:51:56,000
Speaker 1: measured statistically. So before he burst out last year, people

1004
00:51:56,080 --> 00:51:58,960
Speaker 1: did not see what he was doing in the run

1005
00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:01,960
Speaker 1: game unless you were unless you were shooting the film

1006
00:52:02,280 --> 00:52:06,279
Speaker 1: or grading it or watching it. That those guys know

1007
00:52:06,719 --> 00:52:10,320
Speaker 1: what a solid player he was before he had fourteen

1008
00:52:10,360 --> 00:52:13,160
Speaker 1: and a half sacks. And he's gotten better and better.

1009
00:52:13,520 --> 00:52:16,719
Speaker 1: He's taken a much different approach to a franchise tag

1010
00:52:16,800 --> 00:52:19,799
Speaker 1: year than a lot of players do. He's embraced it.

1011
00:52:19,880 --> 00:52:24,160
Speaker 1: He's come out roaring, and he's growing up. He is

1012
00:52:24,280 --> 00:52:28,880
Speaker 1: more of a leader in the defensive room than he

1013
00:52:28,920 --> 00:52:33,200
Speaker 1: has been before. And he's a good player. He's a

1014
00:52:33,239 --> 00:52:37,920
Speaker 1: really good player. And you know, if he if he

1015
00:52:37,960 --> 00:52:40,400
Speaker 1: has another double digit sack year, not only will he,

1016
00:52:40,440 --> 00:52:42,600
Speaker 1: as they say, get paid. Some of us think he's

1017
00:52:42,600 --> 00:52:45,400
Speaker 1: getting paid now, but you know, would be happy to

1018
00:52:45,400 --> 00:52:48,360
Speaker 1: trade for his salary. But not only will he get paid,

1019
00:52:49,040 --> 00:52:51,840
Speaker 1: but he will be regarded as one of the premier

1020
00:52:52,760 --> 00:52:56,759
Speaker 1: pass rushers in the league, and he should be. And

1021
00:52:56,800 --> 00:53:00,400
Speaker 1: I also think that kind of ignores some of the

1022
00:53:00,440 --> 00:53:02,640
Speaker 1: things he does. Very very well. I think he's a

1023
00:53:02,680 --> 00:53:06,600
Speaker 1: really good player. Brad. What's the vibe on this game

1024
00:53:07,000 --> 00:53:10,640
Speaker 1: with the Dallas Cowboys To the Houstonians. It's a big

1025
00:53:10,680 --> 00:53:13,440
Speaker 1: deal to play Dallas, no doubt. But I know to Dallas,

1026
00:53:13,440 --> 00:53:15,600
Speaker 1: you have the NFC East, you have all the other rivalries,

1027
00:53:15,840 --> 00:53:17,839
Speaker 1: and the Texans are a team you face once every

1028
00:53:17,840 --> 00:53:20,200
Speaker 1: four years they are in state. But how do you

1029
00:53:20,239 --> 00:53:21,839
Speaker 1: look at it? How do you think people look at

1030
00:53:21,840 --> 00:53:25,560
Speaker 1: it in general in the area. This is a question

1031
00:53:25,640 --> 00:53:29,280
Speaker 1: that I was just discussing with a couple of folks

1032
00:53:30,080 --> 00:53:35,080
Speaker 1: here who run a podcast for the team. And as

1033
00:53:35,280 --> 00:53:37,600
Speaker 1: is sadly the case with almost everybody in the building,

1034
00:53:37,640 --> 00:53:40,920
Speaker 1: I'm older than them, so maybe that's not said. I

1035
00:53:41,000 --> 00:53:43,680
Speaker 1: was trying to explain to them and when Now one

1036
00:53:43,719 --> 00:53:46,680
Speaker 1: of them was our sideline reporter, Christie Scales, and she's

1037
00:53:46,719 --> 00:53:51,160
Speaker 1: a Galveston native, so she understands the dynamic completely, the

1038
00:53:53,520 --> 00:53:57,800
Speaker 1: transcending football, having nothing to do with it but having

1039
00:53:57,800 --> 00:54:01,760
Speaker 1: everything to do with it. And I say this as

1040
00:54:01,840 --> 00:54:05,680
Speaker 1: objectively and lovingly as I can. I'm not talking about

1041
00:54:05,719 --> 00:54:07,759
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. I'm about the city, the area. There's an

1042
00:54:07,840 --> 00:54:11,960
Speaker 1: arrogance to Dallas. It's new money, it's a tech shram.

1043
00:54:12,000 --> 00:54:15,320
Speaker 1: When he ran this franchise, was accused of being arrogant,

1044
00:54:15,360 --> 00:54:17,200
Speaker 1: and he said, you're damn right, I am, and I

1045
00:54:17,280 --> 00:54:20,120
Speaker 1: intend to be. And he wanted to have a team

1046
00:54:20,160 --> 00:54:22,840
Speaker 1: that he could be arrogant about and a franchise that

1047
00:54:22,880 --> 00:54:26,799
Speaker 1: he could be arrogant about, and they had a lot

1048
00:54:26,800 --> 00:54:31,040
Speaker 1: of winning when the Oilers weren't getting the same kind

1049
00:54:31,080 --> 00:54:36,439
Speaker 1: of notice. And I think, based on years of doing

1050
00:54:36,520 --> 00:54:40,040
Speaker 1: I've done a lot of college sporting events and professional

1051
00:54:40,120 --> 00:54:44,720
Speaker 1: sporting events besides the NFL games in Houston, I think

1052
00:54:44,840 --> 00:54:49,319
Speaker 1: that for whatever reason I'm not saying I do not,

1053
00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:52,560
Speaker 1: I don't endorse or claim this as my attitude. I

1054
00:54:52,719 --> 00:54:59,800
Speaker 1: do say this is my opinion of the attitude in Houston.

1055
00:55:00,920 --> 00:55:03,800
Speaker 1: They don't like Dallas. They don't like anything about Dallas,

1056
00:55:04,080 --> 00:55:07,400
Speaker 1: and they especially don't like the Cowboys. And it's a

1057
00:55:07,440 --> 00:55:11,560
Speaker 1: big flipping deal if a w NBA team beats the

1058
00:55:11,719 --> 00:55:15,480
Speaker 1: Dallas w NBA and if the Texans beat the Cowboys,

1059
00:55:15,560 --> 00:55:20,000
Speaker 1: that's a big deal. And in Dallas, yeah, whatever are

1060
00:55:20,000 --> 00:55:23,520
Speaker 1: we playing Cincinnati? Oh? Houston? Okay, that's just how they are.

1061
00:55:23,680 --> 00:55:28,319
Speaker 1: Not the club, not the team, the people. That's to

1062
00:55:28,360 --> 00:55:31,960
Speaker 1: me a sociological fact of life in our state, and

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Speaker 1: I don't I don't endorse it. I can't explain it.

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Speaker 1: I just think that's how it is. Brad One more

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Speaker 1: for you from your point of view, from where we

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00:55:40,520 --> 00:55:42,399
Speaker 1: sit right now, what do you think of this game?

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00:55:42,440 --> 00:55:44,839
Speaker 1: What's your take on what might go down or your

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00:55:44,880 --> 00:55:48,840
Speaker 1: general feeling about Sunday Night the Cowboys and the Texans. Well,

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00:55:49,080 --> 00:55:51,879
Speaker 1: I think it's a game of two teams that really

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00:55:51,920 --> 00:55:58,279
Speaker 1: have some close to equal desperation. Both of them have

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00:55:58,480 --> 00:56:02,120
Speaker 1: some really good positive aspect and both of them have

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00:56:02,280 --> 00:56:08,359
Speaker 1: some serious flaws. And my broadcast partner Babel offen Will

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00:56:08,440 --> 00:56:10,919
Speaker 1: tweeted out, I just saw a couple of hours ago

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00:56:11,000 --> 00:56:16,320
Speaker 1: these statistical difference. Just hate that, but it exists. The

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00:56:16,480 --> 00:56:21,520
Speaker 1: statistical difference between being of making the playoffs, chances of

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00:56:21,520 --> 00:56:23,400
Speaker 1: making the playoffs if you're three and two compared to

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00:56:23,440 --> 00:56:26,480
Speaker 1: two and three, and it's like a thirty percent greater

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00:56:26,600 --> 00:56:29,040
Speaker 1: chance if you're three and two. That doesn't have anything

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00:56:29,080 --> 00:56:31,879
Speaker 1: to do with this year's Dallas team, but it is historical,

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00:56:32,600 --> 00:56:36,440
Speaker 1: statistical fact. Psychologically, I think it's a big deal, and

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00:56:36,520 --> 00:56:39,239
Speaker 1: for this team, especially if they can finally put two

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00:56:39,239 --> 00:56:43,320
Speaker 1: wins together and win a game away from home. That

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00:56:43,360 --> 00:56:49,000
Speaker 1: would be another psychological step. Without knowing hardly any of them,

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00:56:49,440 --> 00:56:52,160
Speaker 1: I feel somewhat comfortable and saying the Texans did not

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00:56:52,360 --> 00:56:55,000
Speaker 1: think they were going to start the year one and three.

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00:56:55,080 --> 00:56:57,640
Speaker 1: They think they're better than that. They think they've got

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00:56:57,800 --> 00:57:02,360
Speaker 1: playoff talent in many places on the field, and it

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00:57:02,480 --> 00:57:05,399
Speaker 1: could be it could feel like whether it is or not, Mark,

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00:57:05,760 --> 00:57:09,680
Speaker 1: I think it could feel like a season turning game

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Speaker 1: for the Texans if they can win. And because of that,

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00:57:13,640 --> 00:57:16,919
Speaker 1: and because things are so even in this league now,

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00:57:16,960 --> 00:57:19,240
Speaker 1: I think it'll be a really entertaining game to watch.

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00:57:19,680 --> 00:57:23,479
Speaker 1: I certainly feel that Brad is correct, it will be

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00:57:23,560 --> 00:57:26,400
Speaker 1: an entertaining game to watch. I just hope that the

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00:57:26,600 --> 00:57:30,080
Speaker 1: entertainment and the victory come on the Texans side of

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00:57:30,120 --> 00:57:32,080
Speaker 1: things and not on the Cowboys side of things. But

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00:57:32,760 --> 00:57:35,120
Speaker 1: love getting a chance to talk to the NFC voices

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00:57:35,160 --> 00:57:37,600
Speaker 1: and Brad Sham Obviously, being in the state, we are

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00:57:37,600 --> 00:57:39,800
Speaker 1: inundated with a lot of Cowboys just as much as

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Speaker 1: we are Texans, and so I hear Brad's voice a lot,

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Speaker 1: and I think Brad is an excellent, excellent guy. I

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Speaker 1: got a chance to meet him a few years ago,

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00:57:46,720 --> 00:57:49,400
Speaker 1: and he is fantastic. Appreciate his time spending a few

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Speaker 1: minutes with Mark. Speaking of Mark the Voice of Texans,

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00:57:52,000 --> 00:57:54,080
Speaker 1: he will join me next it we'll talk about this

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00:57:54,120 --> 00:57:56,960
Speaker 1: matchup that we get every four years, and it's one

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00:57:56,960 --> 00:57:59,520
Speaker 1: of we get in NARG Stadium every eight years. We'll

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Speaker 1: do that next right here on Texas Access, calling out

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Speaker 1: Houston area teachers. Want to bring a little Texas football

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Speaker 1: slash Toros Math Drills to learn more. Appreciate you guys

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Speaker 1: being here On a Wednesday edition of Texans All Access.

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Speaker 1: I am your host, John Harris, football analyst and side

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00:58:28,320 --> 00:58:31,560
Speaker 1: of the reporter, and I am one half of the

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Speaker 1: In the Lab podcast. The other half is Drew Doherty.

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00:58:35,240 --> 00:58:38,680
Speaker 1: This week we talked a little bit about looking back

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00:58:39,040 --> 00:58:41,000
Speaker 1: at some of the key things that we saw and

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00:58:41,120 --> 00:58:43,120
Speaker 1: we also look forward. So if you want to go

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00:58:43,120 --> 00:58:46,800
Speaker 1: to iTunes, Stitcher, tune in, however you get your podcast

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00:58:46,840 --> 00:58:49,880
Speaker 1: and subscribe to In the Lab and also Vanderbuer's view

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00:58:50,120 --> 00:58:52,760
Speaker 1: Deep Slant. You want to subscribe to all of those,

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00:58:52,840 --> 00:58:57,120
Speaker 1: We welcome you. We welcome all reviews and any thoughts

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Speaker 1: you might have. But Drew noted in the podcast the

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Speaker 1: first time we've ever done it into live because we

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Speaker 1: just started its last offseason talking about a win. And

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00:59:07,880 --> 00:59:10,640
Speaker 1: there were many heroes, if you will, in that game.

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00:59:11,360 --> 00:59:14,880
Speaker 1: But Drew and I started off with the unsung guys.

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00:59:15,760 --> 00:59:19,440
Speaker 1: And the guy that Drew mentioned, well, he put his

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Speaker 1: best foot forward on Sunday for sure. Trevor Daniel Punter

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00:59:22,920 --> 00:59:24,720
Speaker 1: gets a game ball from me. It's a good one.

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00:59:24,960 --> 00:59:27,720
Speaker 1: It's a great one. I love that first love that

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00:59:27,920 --> 00:59:32,000
Speaker 1: first three punts all inside the twenty. Okay, one was

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00:59:32,040 --> 00:59:34,720
Speaker 1: down at the two and it led to the botched

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00:59:34,800 --> 00:59:38,600
Speaker 1: snap by Ryan Kelly that Jewng Clowney pounced on for

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Speaker 1: a touchdown. The next two were fair caught inside the twenty.

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00:59:42,120 --> 00:59:44,920
Speaker 1: He had a fourth coming up that was inside the twenty,

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00:59:45,000 --> 00:59:47,120
Speaker 1: but the guy got loose for a nineteen yard return.

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00:59:47,280 --> 00:59:50,360
Speaker 1: I can't remember who it was, but kind of could

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00:59:50,360 --> 00:59:52,160
Speaker 1: have bottled him up and brought him down. And then

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00:59:52,160 --> 00:59:54,280
Speaker 1: he had a fifth one. So four of his five

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00:59:54,320 --> 00:59:57,400
Speaker 1: punts were inside the twenty. He really helped the Texans

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00:59:57,440 --> 01:00:00,240
Speaker 1: in a huge, huge way that we don't focus, we

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01:00:00,280 --> 01:00:02,760
Speaker 1: don't talk about, but the field position made the feel

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01:00:02,760 --> 01:00:05,320
Speaker 1: it a lot longer for Luck and the Colts and

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01:00:05,400 --> 01:00:08,560
Speaker 1: allowed the Texans to do some things. And uh, darn it,

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Speaker 1: I'm giving mine to Trevor Daniel, and I wish I'm

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01:00:13,640 --> 01:00:15,840
Speaker 1: happy that JJ walk got the strip sack and the

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01:00:15,880 --> 01:00:19,280
Speaker 1: Texans got the ball back. But that big play by

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01:00:19,360 --> 01:00:21,400
Speaker 1: JJ kind of obscured what I thought was my best

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01:00:21,400 --> 01:00:25,640
Speaker 1: tweet of the day because Daniel punted that ball and

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01:00:25,720 --> 01:00:27,720
Speaker 1: I that that one ball and it got down to

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Speaker 1: like the nine, So I said, Trevor Daniel's third punt

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01:00:30,600 --> 01:00:33,360
Speaker 1: of the day fair caught at the nine by mono

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01:00:33,400 --> 01:00:38,120
Speaker 1: genobly because what's his face? Just like got brushed by

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01:00:38,120 --> 01:00:41,400
Speaker 1: Sandy Coats and he fell down and flopped. That was

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01:00:41,720 --> 01:00:43,960
Speaker 1: That was fantastic. I was proud of that tweet, but

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Speaker 1: you know, got swallowed up. It was such a great gift.

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Speaker 1: I've seen that, Jeff giff whatever you caught, I've seen

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Speaker 1: it a few times. I saw the NFL posted that

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01:00:52,040 --> 01:00:55,000
Speaker 1: some some bulky Jeff Balky did and I I retweeted

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01:00:55,000 --> 01:00:57,240
Speaker 1: it somebody like around the NFL did that, and it

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01:00:57,320 --> 01:01:02,000
Speaker 1: was so so about Chester Rodgers. This is gonna sound

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01:01:02,040 --> 01:01:03,920
Speaker 1: sort of weird, but I actually cheer for Chester Rodgers

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01:01:03,960 --> 01:01:06,320
Speaker 1: a little bit when he's not playing the Texans, even

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01:01:06,360 --> 01:01:08,840
Speaker 1: though it's the Colts. I cheer for him. He is

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Speaker 1: apparently the best friend of a guy who was my

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Speaker 1: son's mentor over at west Side High School, and so

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Speaker 1: he David used to ask me. He coaches the line

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Speaker 1: over at west Side, and he used to ask me

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Speaker 1: all the time. He's like, Hey, what do you know

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01:01:23,040 --> 01:01:25,000
Speaker 1: about Chester Rodgers? What do you know about Chester Rodgers?

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Speaker 1: And I was like, well, he's signed with the Colts,

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Speaker 1: so I hope he's not very good. And he's ended

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Speaker 1: up turning out a pretty nice career for himself and

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Speaker 1: done a pretty nice job for the Colts. Um that's

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Speaker 1: a good one. I like that. I like that. All Right.

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Speaker 1: You gotta go kind of obscure, you know, because I

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01:01:41,160 --> 01:01:43,800
Speaker 1: know we know, and I know I'm not I'm explaining

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Speaker 1: this to the listener. I know you know this, but

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Speaker 1: we Hey, yeah, Clowney deserves a game ball? What deserves

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01:01:49,240 --> 01:01:52,360
Speaker 1: a game ball? Watson deserves a game ball? QT Hopkins

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01:01:52,360 --> 01:01:54,280
Speaker 1: they all deserve game balls, but we're going a little

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Speaker 1: bit more obscure we go in the lab. That's what

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Speaker 1: this is all about. So, Johnny, who's your game ball guy?

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Speaker 1: Zach Cuttingham? All right? I like it. It's weird. Um.

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Speaker 1: The pass coverage against the Giants was not very good. No,

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Speaker 1: it's not very good. And I did not think that

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Speaker 1: in all. Honestly, I didn't think either linebacker played all

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Speaker 1: that well against the Johnson thought b Mac played a

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Speaker 1: little bit better than Zach, but I've seen Zach play

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Speaker 1: much better in other other times. I just didn't think.

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Speaker 1: I didn't think looking back at the All twenty two film,

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Speaker 1: I didn't think the defense played extremely well against the Giants. Right.

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Speaker 1: So I was a little worried with with the Colts

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Speaker 1: in particular because I thought that Andrew would throw the

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Speaker 1: ball short a bunch, that they would try and isolate

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Speaker 1: those running backs Hines and Marlin macab though Marlin Mac

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01:02:47,920 --> 01:02:49,760
Speaker 1: didn't play, but Hines and Jordan Wilkins, I thought they

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Speaker 1: would trying to kick them in the passing game and

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01:02:52,360 --> 01:02:55,040
Speaker 1: they would hit the tight ends. But Zach Cuttingham had

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Speaker 1: a couple of brilliant plays. I mean, he had a

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Speaker 1: couple of really nice pass break up. I felt like

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Speaker 1: he was in better shaping coverage. It felt like he

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Speaker 1: went back to the Romeo Cornell drawing board, got his

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Speaker 1: his bleep straight, and got it right where it needs

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Speaker 1: to be. Now, there's got to still be some better

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Speaker 1: underneath coverage understanding, but I felt like that was more

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Speaker 1: about the defensive backs than it was the linebackers. I

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01:03:22,040 --> 01:03:24,200
Speaker 1: thought Zach did a really nice job on Ibron for

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Speaker 1: the most part. I want to say he hit a

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Speaker 1: couple of past defense, but I didn't know the gamebook

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Speaker 1: in front of me. But I felt like Zach was

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Speaker 1: much much better against the coltson that was vital. He

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Speaker 1: made a couple of big plays in past coverage. That's

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Speaker 1: a really good choice. And I got three little things

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Speaker 1: to follow up on that. It's good that he needs

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Speaker 1: to be heating up and because you're gonna need him

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Speaker 1: this week. Uh Ezekiel Elliott. Yes, probably, I mean he's

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Speaker 1: leading the NFL and rushing. He's probably the best running

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Speaker 1: back in the league. Yes, he rocked Niheim Hines on

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Speaker 1: that second y. It's a shame that. Okay, So for play,

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01:04:00,640 --> 01:04:04,640
Speaker 1: JJ Watt gets through and stops the run for no game,

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01:04:05,760 --> 01:04:08,640
Speaker 1: and then Hines catches the ball out of the backfield

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01:04:08,800 --> 01:04:12,520
Speaker 1: and gets planted by Cunningham. So it's third and eleven

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01:04:12,560 --> 01:04:14,280
Speaker 1: and then they get that big they get a big

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Speaker 1: like fifteen yard game, and then they go down the

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Speaker 1: field to Hilton two plays later. But that was a

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Speaker 1: good TfL right off the bat to just rock rock him.

1232
01:04:22,440 --> 01:04:25,200
Speaker 1: But it was interesting. Last week. We had Brandon dunne

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Speaker 1: on at the fund Ruckers show on Tuesday night, and

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Speaker 1: so I can't remember how, but Cunningham came up and

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Speaker 1: he goes, I'm not calling him by his name. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna call him forty one. I'm not gonna call him

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Speaker 1: by his name till he has a good game. He

1238
01:04:35,360 --> 01:04:37,600
Speaker 1: could play better, and I know he's gonna play better,

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01:04:38,120 --> 01:04:40,560
Speaker 1: but forty one forty one's gonna be okay. So I

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Speaker 1: bet you he's along the same lines as you. I

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Speaker 1: bet he's calling him Cunningham again, because that was a

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Speaker 1: good I like that choice, John, that's a really good,

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Speaker 1: good one. Okay. Since I hog the the game ball,

1244
01:04:53,680 --> 01:04:57,040
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you the key turning point or key point.

1245
01:04:57,120 --> 01:04:59,760
Speaker 1: Key series doesn't have to be limited to one thing,

1246
01:04:59,840 --> 01:05:02,120
Speaker 1: but go for it. What is it? I got wanted

1247
01:05:02,160 --> 01:05:04,200
Speaker 1: that weekend bandon this back and forth if you okay?

1248
01:05:04,480 --> 01:05:08,960
Speaker 1: But I felt like the crucial there was a very

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01:05:08,960 --> 01:05:12,400
Speaker 1: there was a crucial moment in the game in the defense,

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01:05:12,480 --> 01:05:15,200
Speaker 1: although struggled in the fourth quarter, I felt like the

1251
01:05:15,360 --> 01:05:20,640
Speaker 1: defense came up with a stop after a turnover, I

1252
01:05:20,680 --> 01:05:22,720
Speaker 1: want to say, for the first time all year, and

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01:05:22,800 --> 01:05:26,680
Speaker 1: it was vital. Twenty eight to seventeen. Luck had just

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01:05:26,760 --> 01:05:30,160
Speaker 1: driven the Colts down. He gets the score, they've texts

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01:05:30,200 --> 01:05:32,680
Speaker 1: have been up twenty eight ten after that long drive. Yep,

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01:05:33,320 --> 01:05:36,200
Speaker 1: they come right back down and score on a shorter drive.

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01:05:37,080 --> 01:05:39,600
Speaker 1: And I kept thinking, well, now it's just back to

1258
01:05:39,680 --> 01:05:41,680
Speaker 1: work time. We're gonna have to grind this a little

1259
01:05:41,680 --> 01:05:44,880
Speaker 1: bit because Will Fuller had been out of the game,

1260
01:05:45,120 --> 01:05:48,120
Speaker 1: and you can turn an eight play series into a

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01:05:48,160 --> 01:05:50,120
Speaker 1: two play series if you got Fuller, because he's going

1262
01:05:50,160 --> 01:05:53,400
Speaker 1: down the field and they had taken that long drive

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Speaker 1: and start third quarter, and so I thought, twenty eight seventeen,

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01:05:56,920 --> 01:05:59,440
Speaker 1: just get back to work, go down, answer the fuel goal.

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01:05:59,480 --> 01:06:01,800
Speaker 1: They just answer their score, the field goal, answer their scorings,

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01:06:01,840 --> 01:06:03,960
Speaker 1: some kind of points three or seven, be great, you've

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01:06:04,000 --> 01:06:07,480
Speaker 1: got seven, Just answer it. Sean throw's interception Pierre to

1268
01:06:07,480 --> 01:06:09,000
Speaker 1: see her makes a really nice play. It was not

1269
01:06:09,040 --> 01:06:11,120
Speaker 1: a great throws a little bit behind hot, but either way,

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01:06:11,200 --> 01:06:15,360
Speaker 1: they get the interception and they're in Texans territory, and

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Speaker 1: so I'm like, oh man, here we go. This is

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01:06:18,600 --> 01:06:22,320
Speaker 1: gonna be dicey. First play get nine yards, so it's

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01:06:22,360 --> 01:06:27,720
Speaker 1: second and one. Then in succession, Merciless tackle for a loss,

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01:06:27,800 --> 01:06:31,880
Speaker 1: loss of three, third and four, Clowney tackle for a

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01:06:31,920 --> 01:06:34,280
Speaker 1: loss loss of three. It's fourth and seven, and that

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01:06:34,440 --> 01:06:36,960
Speaker 1: put them in no man's land, probably too far for

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01:06:37,040 --> 01:06:39,080
Speaker 1: a field goal, probably too close to punt, so they

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01:06:39,080 --> 01:06:41,880
Speaker 1: decided to go for it. Ericy Brown false starts. Now

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01:06:41,880 --> 01:06:44,960
Speaker 1: it's fourth and twelve. Now they're a punt ye, So

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01:06:45,680 --> 01:06:50,080
Speaker 1: twenty eight seventeen could easily have been twenty eight twenty four.

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01:06:50,160 --> 01:06:53,040
Speaker 1: And at that point, because it's the third quarter, they

1282
01:06:53,080 --> 01:06:55,080
Speaker 1: can kick the extra point and make it twenty twenty

1283
01:06:55,080 --> 01:06:57,280
Speaker 1: four and not feel bad about it. But because they

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01:06:57,280 --> 01:07:00,200
Speaker 1: had to score later and then the head to for

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01:07:00,240 --> 01:07:03,280
Speaker 1: two because they were down eleven, so that kept points

1286
01:07:03,320 --> 01:07:06,720
Speaker 1: off the board. So to me, they're two unknown spots.

1287
01:07:06,840 --> 01:07:08,560
Speaker 1: The second one I'll wait to see what you come

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01:07:08,640 --> 01:07:11,520
Speaker 1: up with. But to me, that one right there was

1289
01:07:11,520 --> 01:07:15,560
Speaker 1: as key to drive as anything to keep them off

1290
01:07:15,560 --> 01:07:17,960
Speaker 1: the board after that touchdown. To make the twenty seventeen

1291
01:07:18,040 --> 01:07:22,880
Speaker 1: after turnover was absolutely massive. I like that one. Mine

1292
01:07:24,040 --> 01:07:28,360
Speaker 1: my key turning point, my key thing. First drive of

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Speaker 1: the second half. Yeah, you go eight twenty one, you

1294
01:07:32,160 --> 01:07:36,840
Speaker 1: burn eight and a half minutes off the clock. Okay,

1295
01:07:36,920 --> 01:07:39,040
Speaker 1: you get a touchdown, you up twenty eight to ten

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01:07:39,120 --> 01:07:42,440
Speaker 1: at that point. But what that did, I think was

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01:07:43,240 --> 01:07:46,120
Speaker 1: ultimately it kept the game out of reach from that

1298
01:07:46,240 --> 01:07:48,959
Speaker 1: fake kept it kept them from running away really because

1299
01:07:48,960 --> 01:07:51,000
Speaker 1: they started gashing you on defense aside from the one

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01:07:51,040 --> 01:07:54,160
Speaker 1: you brought up. But they shoot up so much clock

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01:07:54,280 --> 01:07:57,840
Speaker 1: on that that it closed the window on how much

1302
01:07:57,840 --> 01:07:59,840
Speaker 1: they could score, how much they could get after you.

1303
01:07:59,880 --> 01:08:03,280
Speaker 1: I loved what I saw their fifteen plays on that drive, John,

1304
01:08:03,800 --> 01:08:05,880
Speaker 1: You know many times they faced third down on drive

1305
01:08:06,320 --> 01:08:09,760
Speaker 1: once only one time. Now, it wasn't perfect. They had

1306
01:08:09,760 --> 01:08:12,640
Speaker 1: some penalties, they had some some gaffs they're on the drive,

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01:08:12,840 --> 01:08:15,320
Speaker 1: but they kept moving the chains. They kept doing it

1308
01:08:15,360 --> 01:08:18,080
Speaker 1: on first and second down, and I really like I

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01:08:18,160 --> 01:08:21,680
Speaker 1: loved how they executed on it because they, like we

1310
01:08:21,680 --> 01:08:24,520
Speaker 1: saw throughout this whole game, they mixed it up offensively.

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01:08:24,880 --> 01:08:28,320
Speaker 1: They really took advantage of everything, every weapon they have

1312
01:08:28,400 --> 01:08:31,080
Speaker 1: at their disposal for the most part, and I thought

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Speaker 1: that was a beautiful drive. It was to me, I

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Speaker 1: think that was the best drive of the year. Fifteen

1315
01:08:36,400 --> 01:08:39,640
Speaker 1: plays didn't face third down, but once I love that

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01:08:39,680 --> 01:08:41,840
Speaker 1: one they had. I want to say there was a

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01:08:41,840 --> 01:08:44,000
Speaker 1: holding penalty. There was some sort of penalty they had there,

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01:08:44,120 --> 01:08:46,080
Speaker 1: like two I think, and they got and I want

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01:08:46,120 --> 01:08:47,719
Speaker 1: to say they got them in back to back plays

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01:08:47,800 --> 01:08:51,280
Speaker 1: or near back to back plays. But then, as I

1321
01:08:51,280 --> 01:08:53,800
Speaker 1: said going into the week, sometimes you need some help

1322
01:08:53,840 --> 01:08:56,200
Speaker 1: from any other team, and they got an illegal hands

1323
01:08:56,320 --> 01:08:58,519
Speaker 1: the face call which gave them an automatic first down,

1324
01:08:58,520 --> 01:09:00,240
Speaker 1: which kind of reset everything. So there was I got

1325
01:09:00,280 --> 01:09:04,200
Speaker 1: three or four play sequence where it was penalty, penalty,

1326
01:09:04,200 --> 01:09:06,000
Speaker 1: could penalty back to first down, So it was like

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01:09:06,040 --> 01:09:07,880
Speaker 1: they almost gotta watched each other out. But I kept

1328
01:09:07,880 --> 01:09:10,040
Speaker 1: looking up and seeing the time go off. I was like, wow.

1329
01:09:10,600 --> 01:09:12,640
Speaker 1: And here's the one thing that stood out to me

1330
01:09:12,800 --> 01:09:15,439
Speaker 1: Drew about that drive in particular, is that there's two things.

1331
01:09:15,520 --> 01:09:19,559
Speaker 1: Number one was we've seen those clock killing drives in

1332
01:09:19,560 --> 01:09:21,960
Speaker 1: the past from the Texans with Bill O'Brien as coach,

1333
01:09:22,000 --> 01:09:25,400
Speaker 1: we've seen that before. Yeah, but the majority, if not all,

1334
01:09:25,439 --> 01:09:29,160
Speaker 1: of them have gone for three ye not seven. Gotten

1335
01:09:29,200 --> 01:09:31,439
Speaker 1: down there and they've gotten close, and it's like, oh

1336
01:09:31,520 --> 01:09:33,600
Speaker 1: darn it. We ran off eight minutes o'clock, but we

1337
01:09:33,680 --> 01:09:37,280
Speaker 1: only got three. This one went for seven. The second

1338
01:09:37,320 --> 01:09:43,519
Speaker 1: part that I remember was the touchdown play. Hopkins and

1339
01:09:43,680 --> 01:09:48,600
Speaker 1: Watson had had connected for the fade route earlier, but

1340
01:09:48,720 --> 01:09:51,920
Speaker 1: they did it on Milton number twenty eight. When they

1341
01:09:51,960 --> 01:09:54,720
Speaker 1: came out on that play, they were aligned such that

1342
01:09:54,920 --> 01:09:59,240
Speaker 1: Hopkins was out to the right against Nate Hairston and

1343
01:10:00,160 --> 01:10:03,599
Speaker 1: watching and I see the two. I see Hopkins sort

1344
01:10:03,600 --> 01:10:06,880
Speaker 1: of kind of make a motion with his hand, and

1345
01:10:06,920 --> 01:10:09,360
Speaker 1: I see Watson look at him like and he kind

1346
01:10:09,360 --> 01:10:11,800
Speaker 1: of points, and then Watson points out the mic and

1347
01:10:11,800 --> 01:10:13,519
Speaker 1: then he kind of looks at Hopping kind of nods

1348
01:10:13,560 --> 01:10:15,160
Speaker 1: at him, and they kind of look over there, and

1349
01:10:15,160 --> 01:10:17,880
Speaker 1: I watched Hairston and Hairston literally backs up like a

1350
01:10:17,880 --> 01:10:20,320
Speaker 1: step like he kind of backs up, and I'm like, Oh,

1351
01:10:20,320 --> 01:10:22,559
Speaker 1: this is gonna be fun. He takes a snap and

1352
01:10:22,640 --> 01:10:25,439
Speaker 1: runs the quarterback sweep the other way. Yeah, And I thought,

1353
01:10:25,760 --> 01:10:27,880
Speaker 1: I wonder how much Brilli. I wonder how much they

1354
01:10:27,920 --> 01:10:32,120
Speaker 1: noticed that how much that was. Yeah, that was preconceived, like, hey,

1355
01:10:32,200 --> 01:10:33,960
Speaker 1: let's kind of throw them off this little I'm sure

1356
01:10:33,960 --> 01:10:37,160
Speaker 1: they probably came up with this body language. It was

1357
01:10:37,160 --> 01:10:38,720
Speaker 1: really neat because I just happened to see that. I

1358
01:10:38,800 --> 01:10:41,240
Speaker 1: was like, that's that's awesome, that's really cool because I

1359
01:10:41,240 --> 01:10:43,760
Speaker 1: thought I almost thought they were calling or shot at first,

1360
01:10:43,760 --> 01:10:45,799
Speaker 1: and I thought that would have been cool too, because

1361
01:10:46,160 --> 01:10:48,439
Speaker 1: you know, really, I mean, Hairston's a smaller guy, so

1362
01:10:48,479 --> 01:10:50,439
Speaker 1: he just gotta get it up high for Hopkins go

1363
01:10:50,520 --> 01:10:52,040
Speaker 1: up over him. But then when he took off and

1364
01:10:52,080 --> 01:10:54,120
Speaker 1: started running to the left and he started laughing, I

1365
01:10:54,120 --> 01:10:55,439
Speaker 1: didn't even know what the result is gonna be. I

1366
01:10:55,439 --> 01:10:57,960
Speaker 1: just started laughing like that was pretty cool. And then

1367
01:10:57,960 --> 01:11:00,280
Speaker 1: he got in the end zone. They replayed it and

1368
01:11:00,560 --> 01:11:02,439
Speaker 1: he got in. But that was a that was a

1369
01:11:02,760 --> 01:11:05,960
Speaker 1: That was a really great way to finish the drive.

1370
01:11:06,080 --> 01:11:09,000
Speaker 1: Not the deception so much, but just the fact that

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Speaker 1: they were able to take that drive all the way

1372
01:11:10,720 --> 01:11:13,599
Speaker 1: down and get points. I felt like that the one

1373
01:11:13,640 --> 01:11:17,240
Speaker 1: thing about remember the movie water Boy, How could I forget?

1374
01:11:17,920 --> 01:11:21,679
Speaker 1: Remember the game against Louisiana University or whatever it's called,

1375
01:11:22,120 --> 01:11:24,440
Speaker 1: and Dan Fouts is calling a game of Brent Musburger,

1376
01:11:24,680 --> 01:11:27,320
Speaker 1: and he kept saying, it's last game of the year, Brent,

1377
01:11:27,479 --> 01:11:29,680
Speaker 1: you gotta let it all hang out, remember that, And

1378
01:11:29,680 --> 01:11:32,120
Speaker 1: he kept saying it, and finally Brent was like, I know,

1379
01:11:32,320 --> 01:11:34,280
Speaker 1: do you remember that. Yeah, that's kind of the voice

1380
01:11:34,280 --> 01:11:37,720
Speaker 1: that was reverberating in my head, except it was you're

1381
01:11:37,720 --> 01:11:39,920
Speaker 1: all in three. You gotta let it all hang out.

1382
01:11:40,160 --> 01:11:41,519
Speaker 1: And they did, and that was kind of the way

1383
01:11:41,560 --> 01:11:43,439
Speaker 1: I felt like they approached the entire day with some

1384
01:11:43,479 --> 01:11:46,080
Speaker 1: design runs obviously to Shaun on that one, some things

1385
01:11:46,120 --> 01:11:48,080
Speaker 1: they did with moving to Shaun in the pocket, with

1386
01:11:48,120 --> 01:11:49,960
Speaker 1: some of the orbit motion, jet sweet motion, all that

1387
01:11:50,040 --> 01:11:54,000
Speaker 1: kind of stuff that they that they utilized, and I

1388
01:11:54,040 --> 01:11:56,280
Speaker 1: hope they continue to do it. Um. That was it

1389
01:11:56,320 --> 01:11:58,560
Speaker 1: was fun to watch. It was effective. They've got to

1390
01:11:58,560 --> 01:12:00,080
Speaker 1: execute a little bit more down the red zone, as

1391
01:12:00,080 --> 01:12:02,000
Speaker 1: Bill O'Brian would tell you. But I thought against a

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01:12:02,120 --> 01:12:04,840
Speaker 1: very young, athletic, confident defense, they move the ball and

1393
01:12:04,880 --> 01:12:07,080
Speaker 1: then you really needed to. Yeah, and you score thirty

1394
01:12:07,080 --> 01:12:10,559
Speaker 1: points on that defense. Thirty seven in total. Pretty good,

1395
01:12:10,680 --> 01:12:15,160
Speaker 1: pretty good afternoon. Yes, it certainly was a good afternoon,

1396
01:12:15,200 --> 01:12:19,679
Speaker 1: and one will always remember thirty seven thirty four over

1397
01:12:19,920 --> 01:12:22,360
Speaker 1: the Indianapolis Colts on the road. Now it's on of

1398
01:12:22,400 --> 01:12:24,640
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, and Drew and I talked about that on

1399
01:12:24,680 --> 01:12:27,280
Speaker 1: the podcast. So go to the in the Lab podcast

1400
01:12:27,760 --> 01:12:31,759
Speaker 1: Withdrew and myself. Also again check out Vandermeer's view Deep Slant.

1401
01:12:31,800 --> 01:12:33,840
Speaker 1: We got some great Texans podcasts up there. You can

1402
01:12:33,880 --> 01:12:36,679
Speaker 1: get all the Texans all access on a podcast. However

1403
01:12:36,720 --> 01:12:39,280
Speaker 1: you get them iTunes, Stitcher, tune in, however you find

1404
01:12:39,280 --> 01:12:42,280
Speaker 1: your podcast, definitely go subscribe and you can obviously hear

1405
01:12:42,320 --> 01:12:44,400
Speaker 1: what Drew and I had to say about the Cowboys

1406
01:12:44,760 --> 01:12:47,120
Speaker 1: looking ahead. All right, we get back into our good

1407
01:12:47,160 --> 01:12:49,760
Speaker 1: buddy Andre Ware joining the show and give us his

1408
01:12:49,880 --> 01:12:52,760
Speaker 1: thoughts on we shall Sunday and looking ahead to the

1409
01:12:52,840 --> 01:12:55,080
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys, having that chance to call a lot of

1410
01:12:55,120 --> 01:12:58,160
Speaker 1: these Texans Cowboys games when the Texans one of two

1411
01:12:58,200 --> 01:13:00,120
Speaker 1: thousand and two is quite memorable and marking on Dre.

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01:13:00,240 --> 01:13:02,160
Speaker 1: We're at the call and they're up next right here

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01:13:02,160 --> 01:13:05,240
Speaker 1: in Texans Access this week Stats Challenge brought to you

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Speaker 1: by Schlumberge. Visit Houston Texans dot com today to register

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01:13:08,960 --> 01:13:11,479
Speaker 1: to take the Stats Challenge. All Right, we're gonna do

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01:13:11,479 --> 01:13:14,600
Speaker 1: a little math, obviously, because stats and math kind of

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01:13:14,640 --> 01:13:18,920
Speaker 1: run together. Jeveon Clowney has forty two tackles for a

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01:13:19,000 --> 01:13:22,000
Speaker 1: loss in the last thirty three games. That's his last

1419
01:13:22,040 --> 01:13:24,599
Speaker 1: two seasons plus the first four games of this year,

1420
01:13:24,600 --> 01:13:26,439
Speaker 1: which are three games because he didn't playing Week two.

1421
01:13:26,600 --> 01:13:29,080
Speaker 1: Forty two tackles for a loss in thirty three games,

1422
01:13:29,200 --> 01:13:32,280
Speaker 1: one point three tackles for a loss for Jeveon Clowney

1423
01:13:32,600 --> 01:13:35,760
Speaker 1: per game. That puts him second in the league over

1424
01:13:35,800 --> 01:13:38,200
Speaker 1: that entire span. Let's do all the show. We got

1425
01:13:38,240 --> 01:13:40,680
Speaker 1: one final segment and we always devote that to our

1426
01:13:40,720 --> 01:13:43,600
Speaker 1: good buddy. Andre Ware talks a little bit about that

1427
01:13:43,640 --> 01:13:47,599
Speaker 1: cult twin the Cowboys on the horizon and he's going

1428
01:13:47,640 --> 01:13:51,760
Speaker 1: to see last year's national champs. Oh not Alabama, the

1429
01:13:51,800 --> 01:13:54,240
Speaker 1: other one. What does it mean to you when the

1430
01:13:54,400 --> 01:13:58,000
Speaker 1: local professional football franchise faces the Cowboys? What's that like

1431
01:13:58,160 --> 01:14:01,760
Speaker 1: for you personally? I've never been a Cowboy fan. Even

1432
01:14:01,840 --> 01:14:04,559
Speaker 1: growing up, there were you know, cowboy fans all around me.

1433
01:14:04,640 --> 01:14:08,559
Speaker 1: Some of my best friends to this day are Cowboy fans,

1434
01:14:08,560 --> 01:14:13,040
Speaker 1: and I was never really um in that in that

1435
01:14:13,040 --> 01:14:16,479
Speaker 1: that group, so to speak. But it'll be good to

1436
01:14:16,479 --> 01:14:19,880
Speaker 1: see him come in to me. It's just a you know,

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01:14:20,360 --> 01:14:22,360
Speaker 1: I'm certainly on the side of the Texans in this

1438
01:14:22,479 --> 01:14:25,599
Speaker 1: when I think it's an opportunity to see two really

1439
01:14:25,640 --> 01:14:29,639
Speaker 1: good football teams, you know, do battle on Sunday night.

1440
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Speaker 1: And what's your recollection when you think about the game

1441
01:14:32,080 --> 01:14:35,759
Speaker 1: and the build up that inaugural game in Texans history,

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01:14:36,000 --> 01:14:38,559
Speaker 1: Oh god, I remember it like it was yesterday. It

1443
01:14:38,640 --> 01:14:40,720
Speaker 1: was just you know, a lot of emotion, a lot

1444
01:14:40,760 --> 01:14:44,599
Speaker 1: you could sense it around the stadium. Uh, first first

1445
01:14:44,640 --> 01:14:48,600
Speaker 1: game enfranchise history. You're not never really knowing what to expect.

1446
01:14:49,240 --> 01:14:52,439
Speaker 1: And then you know, with it being the Cowboys, it

1447
01:14:52,560 --> 01:14:56,200
Speaker 1: couldn't be a more you know, a right setting, so

1448
01:14:56,280 --> 01:14:59,880
Speaker 1: to speak. But when you when you well, I think

1449
01:15:00,040 --> 01:15:03,599
Speaker 1: back to that one, there were some plays made Billy

1450
01:15:03,680 --> 01:15:07,679
Speaker 1: Miller obviously with the biggest play in that ball game,

1451
01:15:07,760 --> 01:15:11,880
Speaker 1: but but David Carr playing some some outstanding football and

1452
01:15:12,439 --> 01:15:14,679
Speaker 1: then figuring out a way that it was a young team,

1453
01:15:14,720 --> 01:15:17,679
Speaker 1: it was just a symbol that found a way to win,

1454
01:15:18,040 --> 01:15:20,760
Speaker 1: you know, the first game in franchise history. And that's

1455
01:15:20,800 --> 01:15:24,200
Speaker 1: something that that will never be taken away from that group.

1456
01:15:24,760 --> 01:15:27,439
Speaker 1: All right. So this group here just came off a

1457
01:15:27,520 --> 01:15:30,960
Speaker 1: win against the Colts and the Cowboys had maybe somewhat

1458
01:15:31,000 --> 01:15:33,360
Speaker 1: similar kind of thing where they needed elite field goal

1459
01:15:33,360 --> 01:15:35,559
Speaker 1: to beat Detroit and they got it. So what do

1460
01:15:35,560 --> 01:15:38,080
Speaker 1: you think of Dallas coming in? What's your overall feeling

1461
01:15:38,160 --> 01:15:41,799
Speaker 1: of the Dallas Cowboys as we enter week five? Well,

1462
01:15:41,840 --> 01:15:44,519
Speaker 1: it's you know that there there's somewhat healthy in a

1463
01:15:44,600 --> 01:15:48,240
Speaker 1: sense where you, oh, they're given a couple of sacks

1464
01:15:48,320 --> 01:15:50,639
Speaker 1: or so, but Dak is kind of finding his way

1465
01:15:50,680 --> 01:15:55,519
Speaker 1: without a big time number one or two receiver, I

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01:15:55,560 --> 01:15:59,400
Speaker 1: would even add that in this offense, So he's kind

1467
01:15:59,439 --> 01:16:01,519
Speaker 1: of finding way and holding the ball a little long.

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01:16:01,560 --> 01:16:03,320
Speaker 1: And they've given up some sacks, but it seems as

1469
01:16:03,320 --> 01:16:08,360
Speaker 1: though they're playing some better football up front. They are

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01:16:08,400 --> 01:16:10,880
Speaker 1: healthy on the offensive line, so there won't be any

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Speaker 1: easy ones. You're gonna have to earn sacks in this

1472
01:16:13,680 --> 01:16:17,720
Speaker 1: game or quarterback knock downs for that matter. And oh,

1473
01:16:17,800 --> 01:16:19,479
Speaker 1: by the way, as you try to get those, you

1474
01:16:19,560 --> 01:16:21,719
Speaker 1: got to worry about a guy that's wearing number twenty

1475
01:16:21,720 --> 01:16:25,640
Speaker 1: one and Ezekiel Elliott that can certainly rip it up

1476
01:16:25,640 --> 01:16:29,160
Speaker 1: as well. So this will be a test because they

1477
01:16:29,200 --> 01:16:32,439
Speaker 1: want to establish the run run play action from that,

1478
01:16:33,240 --> 01:16:36,920
Speaker 1: and then once you think you might have a beat

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01:16:37,000 --> 01:16:40,240
Speaker 1: on those two things that can pull it down and

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Speaker 1: run for first downs and make plays in his own right.

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01:16:43,600 --> 01:16:46,759
Speaker 1: So it's when you look at it from a defensive standpoint,

1482
01:16:47,000 --> 01:16:49,760
Speaker 1: is this will be one of their tougher games I

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01:16:49,880 --> 01:16:52,519
Speaker 1: think this season. But just because of the way that

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01:16:52,720 --> 01:16:55,840
Speaker 1: Cowboys like to operate. What do you think about being

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01:16:56,000 --> 01:16:58,479
Speaker 1: home but having a lot of Cowboy fans in the building.

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Speaker 1: It's not going to be like the Steelers game and

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01:17:00,200 --> 01:17:02,400
Speaker 1: last year, but it'll be significant and it won't be

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01:17:02,439 --> 01:17:05,080
Speaker 1: like when the Texans visited Dallas four years ago, but

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01:17:05,160 --> 01:17:07,840
Speaker 1: you will have a lot of Cowboy fans. And how

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01:17:07,880 --> 01:17:11,840
Speaker 1: will Watson of the offense deal with that? At home? Oh?

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Speaker 1: I might I might disagree with you a little bit

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Speaker 1: on that one. In terms of it, the Steelers travel well,

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01:17:18,479 --> 01:17:22,200
Speaker 1: but this is right up the street and they're everywhere.

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01:17:22,520 --> 01:17:24,759
Speaker 1: You know, you can't find them when the Cowboys are losing,

1495
01:17:25,320 --> 01:17:28,759
Speaker 1: but they are everywhere at the beginning of a season.

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01:17:29,280 --> 01:17:32,080
Speaker 1: So right down forty five, and then I'm not just

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01:17:32,160 --> 01:17:35,559
Speaker 1: talking about those that live in Dallas coming down for

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01:17:35,640 --> 01:17:40,160
Speaker 1: the game. They are, you know, sprinkles and big sprinkles

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01:17:40,200 --> 01:17:42,320
Speaker 1: of them right here in the city of Houston. And

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01:17:42,360 --> 01:17:45,680
Speaker 1: so those tickets will be gobbled up. They will be

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01:17:45,840 --> 01:17:50,080
Speaker 1: well represented in this one. So yeah, it's it's it's

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01:17:50,200 --> 01:17:53,920
Speaker 1: this can be a wilder atmosphere as wild as it's

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01:17:53,920 --> 01:17:57,960
Speaker 1: it's ever been because both teams really need to win

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01:17:58,560 --> 01:18:02,120
Speaker 1: to to kind of stay up and stay in pace

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01:18:02,240 --> 01:18:06,200
Speaker 1: with what's going on in their respective division. So this

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01:18:06,200 --> 01:18:09,880
Speaker 1: this will be a hard fought, wild football game, and

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01:18:09,920 --> 01:18:12,000
Speaker 1: the fans will be a big, big part of it.

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01:18:12,439 --> 01:18:14,479
Speaker 1: And if you're watching in the offense, you've got to

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01:18:14,479 --> 01:18:17,120
Speaker 1: deal with some crowd noise in your own building, perhaps, right,

1510
01:18:18,120 --> 01:18:21,240
Speaker 1: you do, because you know, I never figure out how

1511
01:18:21,320 --> 01:18:24,679
Speaker 1: they get in the other teams. I'm talking other teams fans,

1512
01:18:24,760 --> 01:18:27,559
Speaker 1: but they are in there. And yeah, he will definitely

1513
01:18:27,600 --> 01:18:31,879
Speaker 1: have to deal with some crowd noise from Cowboys fans

1514
01:18:32,400 --> 01:18:36,400
Speaker 1: as well as some pretty good bookend defensive ends. And

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01:18:36,520 --> 01:18:40,360
Speaker 1: Charlton and DeMarcus Lawrence on the other side, they they

1516
01:18:40,360 --> 01:18:43,479
Speaker 1: can bring some heat and disrupt some things. So I

1517
01:18:43,520 --> 01:18:46,639
Speaker 1: think they've gotten like fourteen sacks on the season as

1518
01:18:46,640 --> 01:18:49,960
Speaker 1: a team. So this will be this bit to ball game, Yeah,

1519
01:18:50,000 --> 01:18:52,920
Speaker 1: no question about it. What about Watson now it's week five?

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01:18:53,560 --> 01:18:56,040
Speaker 1: How about his development? Oddrey, what are you seeing? Yeah?

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01:18:56,080 --> 01:18:58,960
Speaker 1: I mean, from a personal standpoint for him, it was

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01:18:59,000 --> 01:19:01,280
Speaker 1: one of his better games. I mean, I was saying

1523
01:19:01,280 --> 01:19:05,599
Speaker 1: that he needed to up his completion percentage for the season.

1524
01:19:05,720 --> 01:19:07,519
Speaker 1: He was able to do that last week, having he

1525
01:19:07,600 --> 01:19:10,800
Speaker 1: completed like sixty nine percent of his passes, which is

1526
01:19:10,840 --> 01:19:15,559
Speaker 1: insane for having. Basically, you're in a shootout and so

1527
01:19:16,600 --> 01:19:19,679
Speaker 1: you know you're dealing the ball around and there're gonna

1528
01:19:19,680 --> 01:19:22,760
Speaker 1: be some drops, there's gonna be some misses, some throwaways

1529
01:19:22,880 --> 01:19:25,720
Speaker 1: in which you know you're trying to preserve some some

1530
01:19:25,800 --> 01:19:28,800
Speaker 1: time on the clock, but to still walk away from

1531
01:19:28,880 --> 01:19:32,360
Speaker 1: it at sixty nine percent was unbelievable. To cut touchdown

1532
01:19:33,120 --> 01:19:35,800
Speaker 1: a couple of touchdown passes, he added a touchdown run.

1533
01:19:35,840 --> 01:19:39,559
Speaker 1: He did everything within his power to keep this offense

1534
01:19:39,600 --> 01:19:42,560
Speaker 1: and this team in the ball game, and then ultimately

1535
01:19:42,640 --> 01:19:45,640
Speaker 1: when there was an opportunity to go win it, he

1536
01:19:45,800 --> 01:19:48,840
Speaker 1: proved again that he's solid in that department as well.

1537
01:19:48,880 --> 01:19:51,600
Speaker 1: But kudos to everybody involved on that side of the

1538
01:19:51,640 --> 01:19:56,400
Speaker 1: ball because they had to. They changed tackles. Kendall Lamb

1539
01:19:56,479 --> 01:20:01,080
Speaker 1: started that game at right tackle instead of Julian Davenport.

1540
01:20:02,800 --> 01:20:08,519
Speaker 1: Will Fuller goes down, steps up and sets a franchise

1541
01:20:08,680 --> 01:20:11,559
Speaker 1: record I mean it was just one player after another,

1542
01:20:11,680 --> 01:20:14,400
Speaker 1: talk about the next man up. They've been able to

1543
01:20:14,400 --> 01:20:18,320
Speaker 1: do it so big. My hat goes off to that

1544
01:20:18,520 --> 01:20:21,679
Speaker 1: entire group because I thought maybe it was with exception

1545
01:20:21,720 --> 01:20:24,840
Speaker 1: of being able to run with consistency, I think it

1546
01:20:24,920 --> 01:20:28,040
Speaker 1: was the best offensive look that we've seen in quite

1547
01:20:28,040 --> 01:20:31,960
Speaker 1: some time. QT and Coach O'Brian both said after the

1548
01:20:32,000 --> 01:20:34,160
Speaker 1: game that there were plays left on the field for him,

1549
01:20:34,240 --> 01:20:37,080
Speaker 1: yet he had eleven catches. What do you think about

1550
01:20:37,120 --> 01:20:39,559
Speaker 1: what he's adding to this offense of what the ceiling

1551
01:20:39,640 --> 01:20:42,240
Speaker 1: might be. Well, you know, now there's film on him,

1552
01:20:42,280 --> 01:20:46,720
Speaker 1: so defensive coordinators will start the game plan with him

1553
01:20:46,760 --> 01:20:50,840
Speaker 1: in mind. I'm thinking is new. Nobody had seen him,

1554
01:20:50,920 --> 01:20:53,920
Speaker 1: They didn't know what to expect, didn't really think that

1555
01:20:54,040 --> 01:20:56,920
Speaker 1: coach O'Brien would feature him or use him as much

1556
01:20:56,920 --> 01:21:00,879
Speaker 1: in the game plan as he did. And so once

1557
01:21:01,760 --> 01:21:04,639
Speaker 1: that game was over the clock, kids zeros, he can

1558
01:21:04,680 --> 01:21:07,599
Speaker 1: best believe that everybody around the league knew exactly who

1559
01:21:07,920 --> 01:21:10,639
Speaker 1: number sixteen was and he's going to have their attention

1560
01:21:10,720 --> 01:21:13,800
Speaker 1: going forward, along with the DeAndre as well as Willfuller.

1561
01:21:13,920 --> 01:21:16,760
Speaker 1: So it really gives you a bunch of weapons. The

1562
01:21:16,840 --> 01:21:19,080
Speaker 1: tight ends are starting to come around as well as

1563
01:21:19,120 --> 01:21:22,559
Speaker 1: Jordan Akin's had a couple of catches, Thomas has had

1564
01:21:22,640 --> 01:21:25,559
Speaker 1: his moments through the season, and Ryan Griffin has made

1565
01:21:25,600 --> 01:21:27,840
Speaker 1: some tough catches. So there are plenty of weapons that

1566
01:21:27,880 --> 01:21:31,880
Speaker 1: are starting to really develop along with Deshaun Watson, and

1567
01:21:32,560 --> 01:21:35,759
Speaker 1: that could make it make this offense, so to speak,

1568
01:21:35,960 --> 01:21:39,880
Speaker 1: very very interesting. Trebiskey, Mahomes and Watson, you're looking at

1569
01:21:39,880 --> 01:21:42,360
Speaker 1: a potential Class of O four kind of thing because

1570
01:21:42,400 --> 01:21:45,280
Speaker 1: that class had Roethlisberger and Rivers and Manning and Rivers

1571
01:21:45,320 --> 01:21:46,960
Speaker 1: didn't even play the first year. And I know it's

1572
01:21:47,120 --> 01:21:49,600
Speaker 1: very early here, but it's going to be fun to

1573
01:21:49,640 --> 01:21:52,679
Speaker 1: watch these guys developed because they all look pretty good early. Yeah,

1574
01:21:53,120 --> 01:21:55,640
Speaker 1: Mahomes has been insane. I mean, he has yet to

1575
01:21:55,680 --> 01:21:57,840
Speaker 1: throw an interception, and it does look like he's gonna

1576
01:21:57,840 --> 01:22:01,120
Speaker 1: throw one anytime soon, maybe on a tip ball. And

1577
01:22:01,439 --> 01:22:04,200
Speaker 1: I'm like, that's kind of the equivalent of having the

1578
01:22:04,280 --> 01:22:07,599
Speaker 1: perfect round in golf, where you just maybe not birdie

1579
01:22:07,600 --> 01:22:09,519
Speaker 1: every hole, but you're putting it birdie and you're making

1580
01:22:09,520 --> 01:22:11,400
Speaker 1: a majority of them and you said an all time

1581
01:22:11,479 --> 01:22:14,040
Speaker 1: low for yourself. Well that's what he's doing that that

1582
01:22:14,520 --> 01:22:17,120
Speaker 1: that's my equivalent when you go through an entire NFL

1583
01:22:17,200 --> 01:22:20,640
Speaker 1: season or football season period on any level and you

1584
01:22:20,680 --> 01:22:24,519
Speaker 1: don't throw an interception, and so he is. He is

1585
01:22:24,560 --> 01:22:27,240
Speaker 1: dealing it. Man, He's got some kind of arm talent.

1586
01:22:27,360 --> 01:22:30,360
Speaker 1: I haven't seen anything like it in a very, very

1587
01:22:30,400 --> 01:22:34,240
Speaker 1: long time. Where the mobility is there, the arm strength

1588
01:22:34,320 --> 01:22:37,640
Speaker 1: is there. He can throw from different angles, both stationary

1589
01:22:37,680 --> 01:22:40,800
Speaker 1: and on the move. The smarts are there in terms

1590
01:22:40,800 --> 01:22:43,120
Speaker 1: of knowing where to go with a football, getting off

1591
01:22:43,880 --> 01:22:47,000
Speaker 1: the first the first progression and getting through the entire

1592
01:22:47,040 --> 01:22:50,720
Speaker 1: progression of a progression of an offensive plant. It's fun

1593
01:22:50,760 --> 01:22:53,360
Speaker 1: to watch, and so it's a it's a dynamic class.

1594
01:22:53,360 --> 01:22:56,639
Speaker 1: When you talk about the three of them. Trabisky last

1595
01:22:56,640 --> 01:23:00,040
Speaker 1: week insane five touchdowns in the first half, and and

1596
01:23:00,200 --> 01:23:03,759
Speaker 1: with the Shawn's doing U. Yeah, it definitely will rival

1597
01:23:04,360 --> 01:23:06,240
Speaker 1: the four player All Right, what do you have going

1598
01:23:06,240 --> 01:23:10,679
Speaker 1: on in college? Going down to UCF the nation's longest

1599
01:23:10,720 --> 01:23:14,040
Speaker 1: wind streak in terms of seeing UCF, and they'll face

1600
01:23:14,439 --> 01:23:18,680
Speaker 1: MU and getting ready to really dig into SMU. And

1601
01:23:19,120 --> 01:23:20,960
Speaker 1: here in a little bit of kind of gotten through

1602
01:23:21,120 --> 01:23:24,439
Speaker 1: UCF and ready to go to the other way. But

1603
01:23:24,479 --> 01:23:26,519
Speaker 1: this will be a good matchup. Must things are coming

1604
01:23:26,520 --> 01:23:29,040
Speaker 1: off a big win this past week where they put

1605
01:23:29,120 --> 01:23:31,600
Speaker 1: up sixty three points. They made a switch a quarterback

1606
01:23:32,120 --> 01:23:34,240
Speaker 1: where they feel that, you know, they look as though

1607
01:23:34,240 --> 01:23:37,720
Speaker 1: they're playing with a lot of confidence and feel as sol.

1608
01:23:37,960 --> 01:23:40,800
Speaker 1: So it'll be a big chore defensively whether or not

1609
01:23:40,840 --> 01:23:43,839
Speaker 1: they can stop that. Actually get a handle on McKenzie

1610
01:23:43,920 --> 01:23:47,360
Speaker 1: milky who can just flat out through it. He's not

1611
01:23:47,439 --> 01:23:50,400
Speaker 1: a big guy, just about five to eleven, but he is.

1612
01:23:50,840 --> 01:23:53,400
Speaker 1: He is so dynamic with the football. We just talked

1613
01:23:53,439 --> 01:23:57,280
Speaker 1: about quarterbacks, Well, he's kind of that. On the collegiate level.

1614
01:23:57,320 --> 01:23:59,320
Speaker 1: This year or it has been the last couple of years,

1615
01:23:59,520 --> 01:24:01,840
Speaker 1: they have, folks, no show in the books. Big thanks

1616
01:24:01,840 --> 01:24:05,080
Speaker 1: to everybody who participated to my guys back in studio

1617
01:24:05,200 --> 01:24:06,840
Speaker 1: keeping the show on the straight and narrow. Thank you

1618
01:24:06,920 --> 01:24:09,640
Speaker 1: very much, but most of you guys are listening. Without you,

1619
01:24:09,680 --> 01:24:11,840
Speaker 1: we don't have a show. Appreciate you, Thank you very much.

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Speaker 1: We'll see tomorrow. Let's always go Texans.