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Speaker 1: From one and three to ten and four. That is

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Speaker 1: your Houston Texans, the story of the twenty eighteen season.

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Speaker 1: Welcome in, everybody to a Monday evening edition of Texans

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Speaker 1: All Access and Get All. I guess All Axis is

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Speaker 1: always in the evening, but I welcome you in anyway

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Speaker 1: from the Hunday Texans Radio studio. I am your host,

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Speaker 1: John Harris, and so incredibly glad to be with you.

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Speaker 1: After another win ten out of eleven, five straight on

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Speaker 1: the road. In fact, I tweeted this out. Did I

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Speaker 1: tweet this out or right this? I can't remember. I

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Speaker 1: think I tweeted it out after the game, was on

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Speaker 1: a bus, had some time kind of waiting to get

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Speaker 1: everybody in the bus, and I started thinking about, Man,

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Speaker 1: what's the Texans record on the road. Then I went

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Speaker 1: five and two. They lost the first two in New

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Speaker 1: England and Tennessee, and I was like, wow, I want

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Speaker 1: five games in a row on the road. How many

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Speaker 1: teams have done that this year? And obviously eliminates some

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Speaker 1: teams already. And then I knew there were some teams

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Speaker 1: that were out of that mix already, so I started

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Speaker 1: looking at a few schedules. Nope, this team hasn't done it.

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Speaker 1: Steelers haven't done it. Patriots haven't done it. They've been

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Speaker 1: lousy on the road. To be honest, I think the

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Speaker 1: Patriots are two and five on the road. No, like yeah,

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Speaker 1: that could be right. I'm trying to think if the

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Speaker 1: Patriots have been beaten at home. I don't think they have.

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Speaker 1: I don't believe so. But either way, I start going

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Speaker 1: through all these teams. Three teams. Three teams have won

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Speaker 1: five this year. I'm not saying that currently, but that

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Speaker 1: have won five in a row on the road this year.

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Speaker 1: La Chargers, New Orleans Saints, Houston Texans. That's it. It's

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Speaker 1: how good this team has been going on the road,

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Speaker 1: and they will have to be that and then some

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Speaker 1: this weekend against the defending champion Philadelphia Eagles. Now, if

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Speaker 1: anything is gonna get you kind of riled up and

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Speaker 1: get you ready to go, then it's gonna be in

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Speaker 1: the defending champs. You want this to be a measuring

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Speaker 1: stick of where you are as a team going on

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Speaker 1: the road to face them when they still have the

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Speaker 1: season in front of them. They're one game behind the

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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys, but they need both games because they lost

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Speaker 1: both games to Dallas, they go out to LA they

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Speaker 1: knock off the Rams thirty to twenty three. The Rams

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Speaker 1: were very giving in this season of giving because the holidays,

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Speaker 1: the Rams were very giving, especially Jared Goff, and the

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Speaker 1: Eagles took it and received the victory thirty to twenty three,

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Speaker 1: all the way to the West Coast without their starting

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Speaker 1: quarterback and knocked off a team everybody thought was the

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Speaker 1: Cats Meo was the top one of the top teams

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Speaker 1: in the league, and the Rams certainly are not that

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Speaker 1: right now. The Rams are not playing they haven't played

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Speaker 1: good ball for a number of weeks. That game against

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs, that Monday night game, they'd end this season

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Speaker 1: then best team in the league. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: you'd have an argument, but that's not the case right now, folks.

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Speaker 1: That is not the case right now. The Rams are

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Speaker 1: not in that league and the Eagles took advantage of it.

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Speaker 1: Alshow Jeff for a big night eight for one sixty.

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Speaker 1: Nick Foles did an excellent job managing the game, and

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Speaker 1: I don't use that in a negative connotation. Managing the

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Speaker 1: game is one of the top things that a quarterback

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Speaker 1: has to do, so I I do not use that

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Speaker 1: in a context that is typically used for game managers. Oh,

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Speaker 1: he's a good game manager, you know, it's the backhanded compliment. No,

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Speaker 1: Nick Foles did a hell of a job door a

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Speaker 1: football down the field. He was great last night. And

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Speaker 1: it is going to be the ultimate challenge of all

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Speaker 1: challenges to go on the road to the Northeast back

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Speaker 1: to back weeks and win games that you've had to win,

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Speaker 1: because now it's all right in front of you. Everything

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Speaker 1: that was set in the locker room after the Colts game.

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Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien talked about the players talked about it. They

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Speaker 1: all said it. After the Colts game. Everything you want

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Speaker 1: to do is still out in front of you. You

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Speaker 1: still want to win a division that's available, You still

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Speaker 1: want to get a buy to get it into the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: That's still in front It's all right there in front

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Speaker 1: of you. You want to get the double digit wins,

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Speaker 1: that's all there in front of you. Take care of

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Speaker 1: business over the next three weeks. Well, they took care

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Speaker 1: twenty nine to twenty two. And I thought about this

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Speaker 1: twenty nine points is not fifty four whatever, like the

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Speaker 1: Rams in Chiefs scored fifty four fifty one. But think

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Speaker 1: back to the twenty sixteenth season. That was in nine

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Speaker 1: and I think the offense would tell you, yeah, we

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Speaker 1: nine points. It tells you this team has got a

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Speaker 1: lot left to do, and going to Philadelphia on Sunday

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Speaker 1: is going to be part of it. Haven't been up

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Speaker 1: there since twenty ten. And ironically, the quarterback we faced

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Speaker 1: was a guy to Sean Watson grew up idolizing Mike Vick.

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Speaker 1: Michael Vick was a quarterback for those twenty ten Philadelphia Eagles,

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Speaker 1: and he was in the midst of a great season

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Speaker 1: with them. He was fantastic. That was I remember watching

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Speaker 1: that game at a sports bar. We had a group.

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Speaker 1: My radio station ended up reserving a sports bar and

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Speaker 1: we ended up watching that game from there. I didn't

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Speaker 1: like it. I don't like watching I don't like watching

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Speaker 1: my team in a sports bar. I like watching all

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Speaker 1: kinds of games that aren't my team in a sports bar.

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Speaker 1: I don't like watching my team in a sports bar.

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Speaker 1: Thankfully my job, I don't have to. I can get

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Speaker 1: on the sidelines be heckled by people in a suite

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Speaker 1: behind our bench like I was the other night. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but it was a mic drop moment with DeAndre Hopkins

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Speaker 1: All right, let's get into our hot reads brought to

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Speaker 1: percent or more on car insurance. I like to listen

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Speaker 1: to what the players had to say after the game. Now.

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Speaker 1: I caught up with the Shawn Watson after the game,

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Speaker 1: and it was all kinds of chaos around us, because

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Speaker 1: most of the time I just do it off in

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Speaker 1: of breathe a little bit. And Amy Pastor called me over,

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Speaker 1: said hey, come over to his locker. And so when

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Speaker 1: meet me, I said, So we just kind of met

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Speaker 1: in the middle. We literally in the middle locker room

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Speaker 1: this interview, and it's absolute chaos, but I loved it.

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Speaker 1: He was great. Here's the Shawn Watson after the game

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Speaker 1: game winning drives. How's that one feeling? I don't feel

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Speaker 1: great to be able to be in the position to

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Speaker 1: the VI three I give h you know, if it's

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Speaker 1: be tie every game. He's gonna be talk, especially on

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Speaker 1: the road. And we pulled it out. What went right

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Speaker 1: don't have a bunch, so they come within this guys,

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Speaker 1: but um, you know, everyone was out there and we

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Speaker 1: were gonna pay a lot of covering. So that's what

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Speaker 1: we've been watching film and that's what they did. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: receiver number ten, it's pretty good. Take me through that

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Speaker 1: to throw tam I just saw one on one matchup

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Speaker 1: I had throw it up again him a chance. I

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Speaker 1: give him a chance and he's gonna catch it. And

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Speaker 1: then you know, we call it the same play and game.

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Speaker 1: My opportunity came down with it. What's it say about

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Speaker 1: this team to come on the road and get this

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Speaker 1: winning and then that's big and that's a great football team.

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Speaker 1: They went toe to toe with pretty much everything that

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Speaker 1: it's tough to do. And especially NFL. Everyone has great

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Speaker 1: players and they get paid. It's like we do. And uh,

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Speaker 1: you know they watched him. Just how we doing. We

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Speaker 1: came up here and cover it out Sean gratulations, staying,

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Speaker 1: good time to appreciation, calm, cool, poise, swagger, whatever you

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Speaker 1: want to call it. The man has it, ice watered it,

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Speaker 1: thins that dude has it. It is so much fun

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Speaker 1: telling you, I know you people get it because you've

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Speaker 1: been watching quarterbacks in this town since the Texans have

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Speaker 1: been back, and you're like, man, who do we get behind?

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Speaker 1: And that Shop was a very good NFL quarterback. I'll

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Speaker 1: be the first to tell you that. And at the end,

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Speaker 1: I wasn't shops biggest fan at the end, but I

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Speaker 1: knew what I was watching oh nine and ten for sure.

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Speaker 1: But now you've got a legit face of the franchise

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Speaker 1: leader's team man, and he is everything you want in

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Speaker 1: a quarterback and more. And another guy that is that

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Speaker 1: He talked about what happened on that touchdown. First one,

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Speaker 1: Sean just threw it, ull gave me a chance. Secondly,

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Speaker 1: but the second touchdown, Morse Clayborne wasn't covered. Now, I

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Speaker 1: the rest of the night, especially on a touchdown. But

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Speaker 1: hop said, hey, Clayborne didn't take the double move, so

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Speaker 1: I just had to go get him. I knew he

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Speaker 1: didn't go for the fake. It was a double move,

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Speaker 1: so I knew I just had to get a position

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Speaker 1: He boxed them out, as Nay Burrowson said, and we've

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Speaker 1: said many times, would hop ur eighty twenty. I'd even

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Speaker 1: go to ninety ten. The ball's up in the air.

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Speaker 1: Tan's coming down with it. Tan is coming down with

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Speaker 1: it now. Tan was a big reason why the Texans

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Speaker 1: moved on to win number ten. But they got a

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Speaker 1: lot of vets in that locker room, said, hop we're

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Speaker 1: not popping Champagne yet. Our goals are still ahead of us.

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Speaker 1: We can't sit here and celebrate the ten wins. So

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Speaker 1: we expect to win like this, you know, with the

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Speaker 1: So you know, our goals are still ahead of us.

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Speaker 1: We got a lot of football to to play, that

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Speaker 1: is true. Two huge ones coming up. Taking one of

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Speaker 1: the season where they're you know, some bumps and bruises

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Speaker 1: along the way. Zach Fulton was had to gut one

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Speaker 1: out this past weekend this Saturday against the Jets, coming

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Speaker 1: back from an injury in which he missed the game

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Speaker 1: against the Colts. And so that throws the chemistry off

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Speaker 1: a little bit up front. I tell people all the

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Speaker 1: time that is the most important position group on a

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Speaker 1: football team is the offensive line, because they have to

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Speaker 1: trust one another. They gotta work in sinc they gotta

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Speaker 1: work and hold blocks. So then another player can get

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Speaker 1: to the second level to maybe get a block or

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Speaker 1: a sealed on a linebacker, and that's just enough to

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Speaker 1: free up a back like Lamar Miller. And when those

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Speaker 1: things are thrown off a little bit, it makes it

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Speaker 1: tough to run the football with on a consistent level. Drey.

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Speaker 1: The Eagles this weekend, we needed them to be dead, seemingly,

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Speaker 1: and now this game, both teams they're not dying. They're

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Speaker 1: not dead yet. Elishaw Jeffrey. Huge game, which worries me

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Speaker 1: a little bit the past rush We talked about it

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Speaker 1: actually during the game, thinking ahead. I remember, I remember

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Speaker 1: you said during the break because I said something about

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Speaker 1: the Jets being good up front. You're like, wait till

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Speaker 1: next week. Well, next week's gonna hit them square in

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Speaker 1: the face with Michael Bennett and the boys up front.

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Speaker 1: As you watching us last night, you watch them throughout

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Speaker 1: the year. How difficult is this one going to Philadelphia

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Speaker 1: to take on these rascals. It's gonna be. It's gonna

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Speaker 1: be tough, Johnny, because when you start to look at

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Speaker 1: what they have just that side of the ball, it's

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Speaker 1: a front that's hard to move and hard to block.

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Speaker 1: Fletcher Cox is as good as anybody. You talk about

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Speaker 1: Aaron Donald, but that's just one and one A in

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Speaker 1: my opinion. So you're facing that monster Michael Bennett that

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Speaker 1: you just you just mentioned some other players up front.

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Speaker 1: Where they're weaker though, is in the secondary. So if

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Speaker 1: you can hold up, then Hop can do his thing,

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Speaker 1: DT can do his thing. The tight ends should be

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Speaker 1: able to get involved. It all will boil down to

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Speaker 1: trench play. Can you hold up in the trenches against

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Speaker 1: the dominant pass rush and some guys that don't give

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Speaker 1: up a lot on the ground in terms of the

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Speaker 1: running game, And I think even if Carson Wentz doesn't play,

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Speaker 1: they get they're gonna get enough good quarterback play to

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Speaker 1: put points on the board where they score thirty last

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Speaker 1: night in that game against the Rams. So they've found

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Speaker 1: another weapon in small Wooden Adams in the backfield, and

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Speaker 1: al Sean Jeffrey and Golden Tates seem they seemed to

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Speaker 1: be coming into their own. So this is a tough

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Speaker 1: football team. It's a better football team, a much better

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Speaker 1: football team then we just faced on Saturday against the Jets.

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Speaker 1: So if you're going to their place, we talked about

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Speaker 1: the elements during that game in terms of boat in

479
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Speaker 1: New York and again in Philadelphia, a long road trip.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of things about this that should concern you, Drey.

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Speaker 1: Since Lamar Jackson has taken over started quarterback of the

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Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens, they're low water mark in running to football,

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Speaker 1: it's something like one hundred ninety four yards. I mean

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Speaker 1: they've been over two hundred every other game. Obviously, he's

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Speaker 1: a huge part of that, running more than any quarterback

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Speaker 1: ever has when you look at the amount of games

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Speaker 1: started for Lamar Jackson. So what do you think, Can

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Speaker 1: they keep this up? Do they have to change it?

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Speaker 1: When are they going to change it? What are your

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Speaker 1: thoughts the running game with Lama? I don't I don't

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Speaker 1: think they're going to change the thing. I think they're

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Speaker 1: smart for allowing Lamar to be Lamar and bringing him along.

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Speaker 1: They're giving him some stuff that he did at Louisville

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Speaker 1: where he's comfortable doing those things, as well as implementing

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Speaker 1: the pro style aspects of the offense in there as well.

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Speaker 1: It's exactly what coach O'Brien did. And I said, whatever

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Speaker 1: team giraffes Lamar needs to take a page out of

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Speaker 1: how Bill O'Brien brought Deshaun Watson along where you've given

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Speaker 1: You've given him some zone reach stuff and then started

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Speaker 1: to incorporate the New England portion of the offense or

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Speaker 1: whatever it is that you want to call it. So

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Speaker 1: Baltimore has done that and they've allowed him to be

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Speaker 1: himself and he continues to develop as a passer and

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Speaker 1: just like Deshaun did, Uh, he is going to be

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Speaker 1: dangerous and he's going to make Baltimore dangerous. But uh,

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Speaker 1: there's a if there's a guy that I root for,

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Speaker 1: it's him. I got to know him last offseason. I

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Speaker 1: got to know his family, and uh, you know, I

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Speaker 1: privately root for him every single week until they faced

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Speaker 1: the Texans, no doubt, and that may be sometime here

511
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Speaker 1: in the playoffs. Oh boy, I just saw a tweet

512
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Speaker 1: a little while ago, and it's so funny that three

513
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Speaker 1: of us are on are on together because the tweet

514
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Speaker 1: essentially said, the Jacksonville Jaguars made a massive mistake. They

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Speaker 1: could have drafted Lamar Jackson. Now look what he is.

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Speaker 1: And and we were sitting here about think about draft day, Johnny.

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Speaker 1: When we were talking about it, we were sweating out,

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Speaker 1: we were scared of death that Jacksonville was gonna smarten

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Speaker 1: up and take him, and they didn't. And could you

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Speaker 1: imagine that monster in all the AFC South having to

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Speaker 1: face him twice a year with four net and that defense.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure they're kicking themselves now that they didn't pull

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Speaker 1: the trigger and draft Lamar Jackson. Yeah, Tavin Bryan better

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Speaker 1: better be a stud going forward, Drey. The Patriots aren't

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Speaker 1: quite dead yet, but they took one on the gin

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Speaker 1: for the second straight week. I'd like to be the

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Speaker 1: one that delivers the final steak in the final blow,

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Speaker 1: but the Steelers get a massive win. Yesterday against the Patriots.

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Speaker 1: Was a heck of a football game. The Patriots tried

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Speaker 1: to pull it out but only scored ten points against

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Speaker 1: the defense of the Steelers that really had been on

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Speaker 1: shaky ground lately. But they got it done yesterday. I

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Speaker 1: don't know how massive that win was for Pittsburgh. Only

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Speaker 1: they could tell you. But what about that victory yesterday

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Speaker 1: for Pittsburgh, leaving them in the fourth spot and knocking

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Speaker 1: New England down to the three. Yeah, that bad game

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Speaker 1: was based on pass rush and once Pittsburgh got dialed

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Speaker 1: in on stopping the run and they could. They could

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Speaker 1: just unlease and they were able to get to Brady.

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Speaker 1: They were moving him off his mark. It's the textbook

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Speaker 1: of what people talk about and how to affect Tom

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Speaker 1: Braden is to get him on the ground. Even if

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Speaker 1: he's hit, the ball comes out, he's taken hits. You're

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Speaker 1: clouding his vision by getting pass rush right up the middle,

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Speaker 1: all the things that you talk about. And the Steelers

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Speaker 1: were able to do that. And then Big Ben was

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Speaker 1: he did his thing yesterday enough or well enough to

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Speaker 1: get away with a win. And that's all you want that.

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Speaker 1: It had been somewhile that the Patriots had the Steeler's number,

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Speaker 1: but yesterday at Heinz Field, it was a little bit different,

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Speaker 1: different song. Andre Ware joining us on Texans Monday. All right,

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Speaker 1: let's zero in on Nick Foles here. He was here

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Speaker 1: at NRG Stadium in twenty fourteen, got knocked out of

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Speaker 1: the game. Sanchez came in for the Eagles. The Eagles

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Speaker 1: won that one. So it's been a while since they've

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Speaker 1: seen Nick Foles. But what do you think of him?

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Speaker 1: Obviously a great story winning the Super Bowl last year,

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Speaker 1: and whatever small playoff hopes they have, they're playing well

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Speaker 1: after last night, My goodness, they rest on his shoulders

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Speaker 1: along with the rest of the team. But what do

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Speaker 1: you think of of Foles? Yeah, you know what concerns

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Speaker 1: is that he played well yesterday and he hadn't played

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Speaker 1: in a while, and now there's some game action under

564
00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:51,800
Speaker 1: his belt going into this week, and they happened to

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Speaker 1: be at home facing the Texans, so that's a concern.

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Speaker 1: He's a he's a leader, he's a guy super Bowl

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Speaker 1: MVP led the team to a Super Bowl championship last year.

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Speaker 1: They looked to him. They believe in him, you know.

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Speaker 1: And there was a segment that they did listing all

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Speaker 1: the comments of teammates on this year's team about Nick

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Speaker 1: Foles and what they thought of him, and everything was

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Speaker 1: just complimentary of him being such a leader and composed

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Speaker 1: and all the lights and that's that's kind of how

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Speaker 1: he plays. You see it in his body language. You're

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Speaker 1: not going to rattle him. He's athletic enough to move

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Speaker 1: around and make plays. And the one thing about him

577
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Speaker 1: is he spreads the football, so you don't know where

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Speaker 1: it's coming from. Most guys in that situation having to

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Speaker 1: come in and play in a in a pressure situation

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Speaker 1: where there's an injury to the starter. You've worked with

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Speaker 1: a second team or a scout team. You get kind

582
00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:50,760
Speaker 1: of used to throw into a guy that's the guy

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Speaker 1: you depend on during a game that's not Nick Foles.

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Speaker 1: He spreads the ball around. And I mentioned earlier all

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Speaker 1: the weapons that are starting to contribute for Philip Delphia's offense. Well,

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Speaker 1: you get a guy that spreads it around, it makes

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Speaker 1: it that much tougher to defend them. Trey, thanks a lot. Hey,

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Speaker 1: by the way, how did your kid doing? Is um

589
00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:14,000
Speaker 1: Au basketball? We we won the We won it. We

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Speaker 1: won the championship on on on what was that Saturday?

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Speaker 1: Nay yesterday? We split one. We got beat by a

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Speaker 1: last second three pointer when we are up by yeah,

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Speaker 1: we were up by two, got hit, got hit for

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Speaker 1: a three pointer and lost one, and then we won.

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Speaker 1: Uh we ran away with a second game, So we did.

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Speaker 1: We did? Okay, all right, that's good boy. That three

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00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:42,400
Speaker 1: pointers painful though, Michael, that was that was as pain

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Speaker 1: you questioned yourself over and over was the right defensive look?

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Speaker 1: We but we we turned it over enough where we

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Speaker 1: kind of gifted them the game yesterday. But nonetheless it

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Speaker 1: hurt because we still had a chance to win it.

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Speaker 1: In the end. We were on a bus coming back

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Speaker 1: from Philly and where we were about to come back

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Speaker 1: from Philly, and I would just hear the back John

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Speaker 1: A fifty three to fourteen Dre giving me the update

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Speaker 1: on the score of the Sun's games, and I just

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Speaker 1: I loved it. I was at times of Dre. How

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Speaker 1: many is he got? You know, how many's his son?

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Speaker 1: How many points does his son have? And we just

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Speaker 1: had a I mean he killed him to not be there.

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Speaker 1: I mean obviously a job due and he did his

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Speaker 1: job well. It killed him not be there to see

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Speaker 1: his son in the tournament, but it was. It's so awesome.

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Speaker 1: I love that guy. Andre Ware joins us each and

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Speaker 1: every Monday. Now, before we get too high or too low,

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Speaker 1: there's always a guy that kind of levels us out,

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Speaker 1: and that's our good friend Spencer Tilman. We'll talk to

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Speaker 1: Spencer next right here in Texans All Access. One final

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Speaker 1: segment of Texas All Access from Monday Texans Radio Studio.

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Speaker 1: And then it is Monday Night Football. Panthers the Saints

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Speaker 1: NFC South battle Saints. I believe, no, I don't think

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Speaker 1: they can clinch the number one seed with a win,

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Speaker 1: but they're moving ever so closely with it. They've got

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Speaker 1: two losses, so they are eleven. Is that they eleven

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Speaker 1: and two going into this? I believe, Yeah. I think

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Speaker 1: they're eleven and two going into this. They get to

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Speaker 1: twelve and two and they got the tiebreaker over the

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Speaker 1: Rams because they beat the Rams down in New Orleans earlier,

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Speaker 1: So this will go a long way for them. And

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Speaker 1: I think the Panthers are gonna I think they'll fight,

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Speaker 1: not literally fight, but they won't battle fight either. Actually,

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Speaker 1: they'll battle fight. So I gonna throw that out there

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Speaker 1: to all my all my Texans fans. I know they

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Speaker 1: love it when the word battle fight gets thrown around.

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Speaker 1: So we'll take you up to Monday night football Panthers v. Saints.

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Speaker 1: But I gotta get into my Choose Fun moment of

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Speaker 1: the week. This one's easy. It surrought to you by Carnival.

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Speaker 1: Don't forget to answer for your chance to win a

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Speaker 1: cruise every week if the Texans catch a touchdown just

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Speaker 1: like this one. Carnival, the official cruise line of the

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Speaker 1: Houston Texans. Choose Fun. This was a lot of fun

642
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Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, Blue in the backfield Hopkins left side,

643
00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:59,160
Speaker 1: Thomas to the right, Watson looks it over under center,

644
00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:02,880
Speaker 1: fakes to and off throwing left side, wants DeAndre Hopkins

645
00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:07,000
Speaker 1: and Milke what the TD catch? Oh my goodness, he

646
00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:10,360
Speaker 1: hauls it in, shake it up as he hits the ground.

647
00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:19,200
Speaker 1: One a grab buy Hopkins another masterpiece. Masterpiece is dead on.

648
00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:20,840
Speaker 1: When I saw the ball in the air and I

649
00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:24,360
Speaker 1: saw Hopkins one on one, I just knew. I've seen

650
00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:29,200
Speaker 1: it happen Cincinnati twenty fifteen, Pittsburgh twenty seventeen against Jalen

651
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:32,360
Speaker 1: Ramsay many times. Only because they played that many times.

652
00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:35,240
Speaker 1: I've seen it against everybody. Drell Reeves didn't matter. Mo

653
00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:38,760
Speaker 1: Claiborne had no shot, No shot. Balls in the air.

654
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:41,600
Speaker 1: Boxed out by one of the best high school basketball

655
00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:43,520
Speaker 1: players in the state of South Carolina a few years ago.

656
00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:50,040
Speaker 1: Deandor Hopkins is an absolute football playing dude. And that

657
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Speaker 1: was your Choose Fun Moment of the Week, brought to

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Speaker 1: you by Carnival Official cruise line of the Houston Texans.

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Speaker 1: Choose Fun, all right, turn it over to our good

660
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Speaker 1: friend Spencer Tillman. He's always good with the little perspective check.

661
00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:05,160
Speaker 1: He helped us last week kind of get out of

662
00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:07,640
Speaker 1: some dull drums if we were feeling sorry for ourselves

663
00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:10,520
Speaker 1: and this week he's like, all right, goodwin, but we

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Speaker 1: got more to do here, Spencer Tillman. Let's bring in

665
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Speaker 1: Spencer Tillman right now from inside the game. Fox Sports

666
00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:20,120
Speaker 1: and Texas preseason TV analyst, What did you think of

667
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:23,560
Speaker 1: what went down on Saturday night against the New York Jets. Well,

668
00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:25,840
Speaker 1: I thought they won ugly. But I thought they won,

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00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:29,520
Speaker 1: which is obviously most important, and you can learn to

670
00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:32,880
Speaker 1: win that way and make key plays at strategic times.

671
00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:36,000
Speaker 1: I think you are starting to show the DNA of

672
00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:39,000
Speaker 1: what all good teams are able to do even when

673
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:41,760
Speaker 1: you're not at your best from end to end. I

674
00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:46,280
Speaker 1: think there are key players that demonstrated consistency, J J.

675
00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:48,760
Speaker 1: Watt being chief among them. I thought beginning of the

676
00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:52,760
Speaker 1: game with the sack creating a fumble, ending in the

677
00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:55,680
Speaker 1: next and the last series with the sacks, that just

678
00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:59,520
Speaker 1: shows you how engaged he was from from first kick,

679
00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:01,440
Speaker 1: you know, and so at the end of the game

680
00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:03,920
Speaker 1: you're able to take that narrative as a coach and

681
00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:05,920
Speaker 1: lift those players up. I mean JJ is the most

682
00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:09,320
Speaker 1: dependable player in that regard. On that roster, and everybody's

683
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:12,400
Speaker 1: gonna rise to that right, attempt to rise to that

684
00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:16,040
Speaker 1: level if you've got one example to you. So for me,

685
00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:18,640
Speaker 1: I see the win as good because you've got the win,

686
00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:21,279
Speaker 1: But more importantly, I look at the individual performers who

687
00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:24,680
Speaker 1: you can leverage if you're a coach, to spur higher

688
00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:28,080
Speaker 1: levels of performance on everybody else on the team. Spencer,

689
00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:31,320
Speaker 1: we have been in the city of Houston. You've played

690
00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:34,360
Speaker 1: for the professional team in Houston for a long time.

691
00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:37,600
Speaker 1: You've seen professional football here in Houston for a long time.

692
00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:40,360
Speaker 1: You probably more so than anybody can speak to this.

693
00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:44,040
Speaker 1: Is there anybody that has ever caught the football? And

694
00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:46,600
Speaker 1: I'm throwing Andre Johnson at this mix two? Is there

695
00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:49,719
Speaker 1: anybody that you look at as a receiver or a

696
00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:53,600
Speaker 1: pass catcher where you go DeAndre Hopkins is below that

697
00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:57,359
Speaker 1: particular person. Has there been anybody better that you can

698
00:34:57,440 --> 00:35:01,239
Speaker 1: remember that can go get the football like DeAndre High? No,

699
00:35:01,719 --> 00:35:03,720
Speaker 1: that's the period. I mean, that's that's an easy question

700
00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:06,600
Speaker 1: to answer. And I've been around from the great ones

701
00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:11,680
Speaker 1: that some people have probably even forgotten. Drew Hill, Heyward Jeffries.

702
00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:14,319
Speaker 1: I mean, we've Webster Slaughter. There's been a lot of

703
00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:16,680
Speaker 1: great receivers that have come through here over the years,

704
00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:19,399
Speaker 1: andre As you mentioned them more recently, but no one

705
00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:22,120
Speaker 1: has the hand strength. And I think if you're trying

706
00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:26,000
Speaker 1: to define what this guy is, Andre Dendre Hopkins is

707
00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:29,880
Speaker 1: kind of like um. He doesn't really fit into a category.

708
00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:33,480
Speaker 1: He creates one. He is sudden if you're playing, impressed man.

709
00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:36,719
Speaker 1: He is patient if you are off coverage. He runs

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00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:40,319
Speaker 1: routes with the exacting kind of technique that only I've

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00:35:40,360 --> 00:35:43,440
Speaker 1: seen Jerry Rice run. I mean, we've seen over the

712
00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:46,200
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks. Unfortunately, the sat Go route burn

713
00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:48,279
Speaker 1: us a couple of times, but he can run that

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00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:51,640
Speaker 1: route with the plum and efficiency he can. He can

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00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:54,880
Speaker 1: settle in zones and find windows and know how to

716
00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:57,520
Speaker 1: slightly position his body in such a way where the

717
00:35:57,600 --> 00:35:59,480
Speaker 1: quarterback is going to put the ball where he needs

718
00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:01,120
Speaker 1: to be able to at it and no one else

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00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:03,400
Speaker 1: has a chance. And he doesn't need a huge marginal

720
00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:07,400
Speaker 1: area era we talk about his catch radius, all those things.

721
00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:10,400
Speaker 1: He makes the quarterback's jobs much easier because he's a

722
00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:12,320
Speaker 1: complete player. I mean, the only thing you got to

723
00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:14,160
Speaker 1: be careful of when you talk about the op is

724
00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:18,680
Speaker 1: you know, you run out of superlatives. And fortunately he's

725
00:36:18,719 --> 00:36:21,600
Speaker 1: the type of personality you don't have to worry about him,

726
00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:23,239
Speaker 1: you know, not being able to run well with a

727
00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:25,919
Speaker 1: full cup of success. This guy is a pros pro.

728
00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:30,360
Speaker 1: On top of that, he's gifted beyond measure. And again

729
00:36:30,520 --> 00:36:32,600
Speaker 1: there's not more that you can say than that he

730
00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:35,520
Speaker 1: is an elite receiver, the best ever that's caught the

731
00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:38,640
Speaker 1: ball in Houston, to my opinion, Specier second half against

732
00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:40,680
Speaker 1: the Colts, they started to run the ball better, but

733
00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:43,120
Speaker 1: it never really materialized on the ground against the the

734
00:36:43,280 --> 00:36:47,239
Speaker 1: or Jets. What's happening up front in that department, Well,

735
00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:49,279
Speaker 1: they think the week prior you had some success with

736
00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:51,760
Speaker 1: the zone or running game, and I think that probably

737
00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:54,000
Speaker 1: the week over a week is not as consistent as

738
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:56,319
Speaker 1: it needs to be. What's people figure out what you're

739
00:36:56,320 --> 00:36:58,480
Speaker 1: trying to do. It's their job, whether it's the receiver

740
00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:02,520
Speaker 1: taking away choice route, whether it's your run game. You know,

741
00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:05,920
Speaker 1: try to disrupt your zone scheme and with penetration, and

742
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:09,880
Speaker 1: that's what certain will destroy his own blocking scheme concept

743
00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:12,000
Speaker 1: quicker than anything else. So if you can look at

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00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:13,799
Speaker 1: Indian app to look how often they played on the

745
00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:15,879
Speaker 1: other side of the line of scrimmage. Their job will

746
00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:19,800
Speaker 1: just to disrupt our ability to block his zone well.

747
00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:22,000
Speaker 1: And if you've got a good back that's got instincts,

748
00:37:22,040 --> 00:37:24,759
Speaker 1: he's going to the ball, will find a mistake. And

749
00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:28,360
Speaker 1: with the zone concepts, if you just continue to push, push, push, push,

750
00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:30,799
Speaker 1: something will break at some point in time. You've got

751
00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:33,440
Speaker 1: living individual battles going on out there, and if you

752
00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:35,879
Speaker 1: if a good instinctive back and find one of them,

753
00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:38,000
Speaker 1: you're going to have success with them. But if you've

754
00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:41,680
Speaker 1: got a disruptive defense man, all it takes is one

755
00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:44,040
Speaker 1: person to screw it up and then you're in trouble.

756
00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:47,080
Speaker 1: So I think that's part of the problem. I think

757
00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:49,640
Speaker 1: that we're just not as good and that run blocking

758
00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:52,239
Speaker 1: scheme overall, whether it's all or whatever we're trying to do,

759
00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:53,799
Speaker 1: we don't do a whole lot of power. But if

760
00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:55,680
Speaker 1: we were doing more of it, I think it would

761
00:37:55,680 --> 00:37:58,120
Speaker 1: still be an issue. So it's just an area improvement

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00:37:58,120 --> 00:38:02,600
Speaker 1: that we've got to get better at. Spencer. Defensively, they're

763
00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:05,319
Speaker 1: gonna face the quarterback a little different than what they've seen.

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00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:08,520
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield, Andrew Luck and Sam Darnold could all create

765
00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:10,759
Speaker 1: out of the pocket, you could have a great pass

766
00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:13,279
Speaker 1: rush and those are big guys and they could get

767
00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:14,759
Speaker 1: out and make plays. We saw that with Sam the

768
00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:16,399
Speaker 1: other night. We saw it with Luck, and we saw

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Speaker 1: it with Baker. Now presumably it's Nick Foles. Now are

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00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:21,120
Speaker 1: assuming a little bit because of that back injury that

771
00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:23,640
Speaker 1: Carson wentzays, maybe it is Wins. My guess is it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be Nick Foles and he's a little bit more

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00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:29,320
Speaker 1: statuesque back there. Do you think that helps the pass

774
00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:33,319
Speaker 1: rush or do you think that Philadelphia's offensive line, which

775
00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:36,279
Speaker 1: held the Rams to I think one sack last night,

776
00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:39,719
Speaker 1: do you think that's more of the issue because they're

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00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:41,759
Speaker 1: now gonna have falls back there and they know he's

778
00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:44,120
Speaker 1: gonna be statuesque and they're gonna give him better protection

779
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:45,959
Speaker 1: as supposed to Wins, who would take off and bail

780
00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:48,640
Speaker 1: and make a play. How tough is the task against

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00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:51,440
Speaker 1: the offensive line than mitigated by the fact that you

782
00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:54,200
Speaker 1: know where Foles is gonna be on every throw. Well,

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00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:56,640
Speaker 1: if Philadelphia's line play like they did last night, it's

784
00:38:56,640 --> 00:38:59,120
Speaker 1: gonna be tough. I mean it's again, whether he's statuesque

785
00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:01,719
Speaker 1: or not giving him time to throw. That's the reason

786
00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:04,200
Speaker 1: why this guy's reigning MVP and Super Bowl. I mean

787
00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:07,240
Speaker 1: he does what he does. He's a backup quarterback because

788
00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:10,040
Speaker 1: he's the reigning MVP of the Super Bowl. So the

789
00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:12,879
Speaker 1: key is and I think this is the X factor here.

790
00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:15,279
Speaker 1: Last year they were a top five rushing team. Right

791
00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:17,920
Speaker 1: they're ranked around twenty seven twenty eight. Now, that's going

792
00:39:17,960 --> 00:39:19,879
Speaker 1: to be the key. If you can make him one

793
00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:22,840
Speaker 1: dimensional and then you can drop in some zone blest combination,

794
00:39:23,120 --> 00:39:26,040
Speaker 1: you can have success against him. And I think Rack

795
00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:29,759
Speaker 1: is the ideal coach to devise a scheme where you've

796
00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:32,279
Speaker 1: got a team that's playing one handed. That is to say,

797
00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:34,960
Speaker 1: your run game is in check, and then you are

798
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:39,040
Speaker 1: able to deploy different zone bliss combinations with elite pass

799
00:39:39,120 --> 00:39:41,640
Speaker 1: rushers that can affect the quarterback. I don't care how

800
00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:44,000
Speaker 1: good their offensive line. For text, you're not gonna keep

801
00:39:44,080 --> 00:39:47,160
Speaker 1: You're not gonna pitch a shutout with merciless and maybe

802
00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:49,000
Speaker 1: not in the order of importance here, but with what

803
00:39:49,360 --> 00:39:52,880
Speaker 1: merciless clowney, all of those guys up front will eventually

804
00:39:52,920 --> 00:39:55,480
Speaker 1: get to the quarterback. So I think that's really the key.

805
00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:57,719
Speaker 1: The key is the run game is not as good

806
00:39:57,719 --> 00:40:00,239
Speaker 1: as it was a year ago. That's the difference answer.

807
00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:02,040
Speaker 1: It might be a silly question. There was no doubt

808
00:40:02,120 --> 00:40:03,759
Speaker 1: that the Texans were going to go into this one

809
00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:06,120
Speaker 1: guns blazing because they know how important it is to

810
00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:08,800
Speaker 1: get to win number eleven with what's on the line.

811
00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:12,399
Speaker 1: But the fact that the Eagles beat the Rams last night,

812
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:14,719
Speaker 1: does that perk their ears up even more? Does that

813
00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:17,359
Speaker 1: enable the coaches to get through to them even more

814
00:40:17,440 --> 00:40:19,440
Speaker 1: this week? How does that affect them? Yeah, everybody's got

815
00:40:19,520 --> 00:40:21,359
Speaker 1: rabbit ears, you know, to some degree. We don't talk

816
00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:23,279
Speaker 1: about it a lot, but again I think I think

817
00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:26,480
Speaker 1: ultimately you kind of appreciate the fact that Pittsburgh did

818
00:40:26,520 --> 00:40:29,080
Speaker 1: you a solid too. So when the stars aligned, I

819
00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:31,560
Speaker 1: go back to that old action, Guys, how well do

820
00:40:31,640 --> 00:40:34,000
Speaker 1: you run with the full cup of success? Because if

821
00:40:34,040 --> 00:40:36,440
Speaker 1: you do, if things continue to play out well and

822
00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:38,840
Speaker 1: you win and you get that, by what are you

823
00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:40,600
Speaker 1: going to do with that? By you know, what do

824
00:40:40,719 --> 00:40:42,759
Speaker 1: you what are you going to do? I mean, that

825
00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:44,879
Speaker 1: can change your routine, That can change what has been

826
00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:47,560
Speaker 1: common for this franchise. To be sure that the times

827
00:40:47,560 --> 00:40:49,799
Speaker 1: that we've been in the playoffs in recent years, we've

828
00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:52,560
Speaker 1: been playing in that wildcard round at first round, But

829
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Speaker 1: what do you do with that timeoff? How are you

830
00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:55,960
Speaker 1: going to handle it? How are you going to police yourself?

831
00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:58,760
Speaker 1: So all the cliche things that we talk about, anything

832
00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:02,200
Speaker 1: that is a departure from the norm, you've got to

833
00:41:02,239 --> 00:41:04,840
Speaker 1: be prepared to handle that. And so that bothers me

834
00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:07,680
Speaker 1: or concerns me more than anything else would that would

835
00:41:07,680 --> 00:41:09,759
Speaker 1: take place on the fields. What's going to disrupt what

836
00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:12,360
Speaker 1: would have been a routine for us? And so you know,

837
00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:14,640
Speaker 1: I listen, I think it's great to Pittsburgh did something

838
00:41:14,640 --> 00:41:17,320
Speaker 1: they weren't able to do since two thousand. That was incredible.

839
00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:20,200
Speaker 1: I mean, the stars couldn't be aligning anymore. The Texans

840
00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:22,000
Speaker 1: just need to continue to improve and do what they

841
00:41:22,040 --> 00:41:24,880
Speaker 1: do and control the pieces that is, you know, on

842
00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:27,680
Speaker 1: the coverage on the outside, not let the slant go burnus,

843
00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:29,719
Speaker 1: because teams are going to continue to challenge you until

844
00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:32,080
Speaker 1: you can prove that you can defend it. So, and

845
00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:36,800
Speaker 1: it's really simple, man, Spencer's right. It is simple. It's

846
00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:39,120
Speaker 1: sometimes a lot more simple than we make it. But

847
00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:42,880
Speaker 1: it can be simple, and hopefully Sunday will be well,

848
00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:44,720
Speaker 1: it's not gonna be easy. It's not gonna be simple.

849
00:41:44,719 --> 00:41:47,200
Speaker 1: In Philadelphia, that's for sure. But doing the things that

850
00:41:47,239 --> 00:41:50,040
Speaker 1: you need to do in executing your game plan, you

851
00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:52,040
Speaker 1: can do that, you can do that. Are you gonna

852
00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:54,000
Speaker 1: have enough? Well, it's the talented team. They're going to

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Speaker 1: face a very talented team that they're gonna face. Fletcher

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00:41:57,840 --> 00:42:03,680
Speaker 1: Cox maybe the the best interior player behind Aaron Donald.

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00:42:03,719 --> 00:42:06,080
Speaker 1: That's not a Texan. I mean, look, I'm happy with

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00:42:06,200 --> 00:42:09,040
Speaker 1: JJ Watt, Merciless and Clowney, but they got some dudes

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00:42:09,040 --> 00:42:11,759
Speaker 1: over there, Michael Bennett. Texas did play Michael Bennett last year,

858
00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:14,000
Speaker 1: so they've got at least a little bit of individual

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00:42:14,040 --> 00:42:18,360
Speaker 1: personnel understanding. But they haven't seen Foal since twenty fourteen.

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00:42:19,160 --> 00:42:22,000
Speaker 1: They're gonna see some big receivers Al Sean Jeffrey from

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00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:25,799
Speaker 1: South Carolina, Nelson Aguilar, but a secondary has given up

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00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:28,799
Speaker 1: a lot of yards but played much better. And I

863
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:31,680
Speaker 1: think the secondary played better because the front was incredible.

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00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:33,840
Speaker 1: So Texans are gonna have to find a way to

865
00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:37,560
Speaker 1: protect the Shawn Watson, let him deal if you will

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00:42:37,880 --> 00:42:39,960
Speaker 1: get the ball out to his weapons. Let's get this

867
00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:42,799
Speaker 1: offense cranked up and go up to Philly and try

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00:42:42,840 --> 00:42:45,120
Speaker 1: and come out of there with a w Right now

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00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:48,359
Speaker 1: Vegas thinks these teams are even it's a pick them.

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00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:50,160
Speaker 1: Let's go up there and get win number eleven. But

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00:42:50,160 --> 00:42:51,400
Speaker 1: we got a lot of time to talk about it

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00:42:51,440 --> 00:42:53,760
Speaker 1: this week. Appreciate you guys for being here, to Spencer,

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00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:57,080
Speaker 1: to Andre, to Mark to you all. Appreciate you so much.

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00:42:57,080 --> 00:42:59,440
Speaker 1: With C tomorrow, Buddy, get ready for Panthers Saints right

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00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:01,279
Speaker 1: here in our flags. Just worked Radio six ten and

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00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:02,600
Speaker 1: as always, go Texans.