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Speaker 1: Kansas City because they're the defending Super Bowl champions and

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Speaker 1: they get to host that Thursday and at open or

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Speaker 1: more often than not. Last year he had the Packers

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Speaker 1: and the Bears because it was the one hundred season

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Speaker 1: and those are the oldest teams and they wanted to

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Speaker 1: kick it off that way. Then the Patriots opened on

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Speaker 1: that Sunday night against the Steelers. Well back to what

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00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:04,399
Speaker 1: we go with the defending Super Bowl champs getting that

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Speaker 1: Thursday night, and it kind of leaked out today McLean

437
00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:10,720
Speaker 1: reported it that the Texans would indeed be at Kansas

438
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Speaker 1: City Thursday night to kick off the NFL season. I

439
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Speaker 1: think it's an honor to be in that game really

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Speaker 1: for any team. Obviously if you want the Super Bowl's tremendous,

441
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Speaker 1: but to be the opponent, I think it's tremendous. And

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Speaker 1: the national stage. You talk about it when you have primetime,

443
00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:27,240
Speaker 1: you're on the national stage. Anyway, this is the first

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Speaker 1: real NFL action since the Super Bowl. And you're going

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Speaker 1: back to the scene of the playoff loss, and you

446
00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:34,119
Speaker 1: know what I'd like to say, Johnny, rip off the

447
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Speaker 1: band aid, get it done. See what happens that night.

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Speaker 1: You're absolutely right, this is the epitome of ripping off

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Speaker 1: the band. I don't know what Kansas City will be

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Speaker 1: allowed to do as far as celebration and all, but

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Speaker 1: we've watched that game from Afar just on TV a

452
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Speaker 1: number of years, watching what New England does, and they

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Speaker 1: drop the banner and then they're fireworks that go off

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Speaker 1: and the miniment or shoot their rifles or whatever they

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Speaker 1: call them out in the corner. I don't know what

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Speaker 1: Kansas City is all gonna do, but all that pomp

457
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Speaker 1: and circumstance is going to proceed the game and then

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden you're gonna get back in against

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Speaker 1: you know, basically a game in which you're going to

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Speaker 1: test where you are going into the twenty twenty season.

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Speaker 1: And I when we went to New Orleans last year

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Speaker 1: for that game against New Orleans last year, it was

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Speaker 1: a measuring stick game. I remember when when it came out,

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Speaker 1: I was like, whoa, we gotta play New Orleans on

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Speaker 1: Monday night? Oh man. And then we went toe to

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Speaker 1: toe with those guys in their building after the last

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Speaker 1: game with them was against the Rams, and they felt

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Speaker 1: like they should have gone to the Super Bowl with

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Speaker 1: that non call. So we went toe to toe with

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Speaker 1: them and should have brought a win back home, but didn't.

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Speaker 1: Either way, I remember how I felt when that game

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Speaker 1: was announced. It's like, Okay, New England in eighteen, Saints

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Speaker 1: in nineteen, Chiefs in twenty, let's rip it off and

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Speaker 1: let's just let's just go and get this thing going. Look,

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Speaker 1: I love having a tough opener in any level of

476
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Speaker 1: football because I think it really it's extra motivation for

477
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Speaker 1: the players, not that they've needed. These are pros. They

478
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Speaker 1: should be ready if you open up against Trinity or whatever.

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Speaker 1: But it's the Chiefs. It's there. We all remember what

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Speaker 1: happened there. It's got to give them a little extra

481
00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:18,199
Speaker 1: getting ready for this. Now. It's not ideal this year.

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Speaker 1: By the way, we're five minutes away from the release

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Speaker 1: of the schedule, so keep it right here and we

484
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Speaker 1: will have it off for you. It gives you a

485
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Speaker 1: little extra getting ready for the opener. This year, it's

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Speaker 1: tougher because of COVID and no OTAs, no offseason program

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Speaker 1: except virtually digitally. And I don't know how they're gonna

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Speaker 1: do training camp, if that's gonna be any different. But

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Speaker 1: they plan on releasing a schedule and a preseason schedule tonight,

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Speaker 1: so we have a lot of things to digest, and

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Speaker 1: you know, McLean was saying, well, you never know, they

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Speaker 1: might have to change some of these things, and maybe

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Speaker 1: they do, but they say they're gonna go. And look,

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Speaker 1: we still have three months. We still have three months

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Speaker 1: more than three months until the preseason opener, as it were,

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Speaker 1: So we'll see how that plays out. And we're all

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Speaker 1: excited to see how these games are put together. As

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Speaker 1: you've said numerous times, things can change. I mean just

499
00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:11,120
Speaker 1: in a week's time, think of how things have changed.

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Speaker 1: Places are reopening slowly. We don't know about a second

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00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:17,080
Speaker 1: wave all that kind of stuff, which is really nothing

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Speaker 1: that I could speak to from an expert's level. You

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Speaker 1: can't take it. But I mean, yeah, we can fake it.

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00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:27,240
Speaker 1: But wait, we just we don't know. So you know what,

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00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:31,080
Speaker 1: we unveil the schedule. Here, the dates, Here's where we're going.

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Speaker 1: Here's where we're gonna be here, the night games, here

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Speaker 1: are the noon games here, the afternoon games here. It's

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Speaker 1: this game. Here's this is what it will be if

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Speaker 1: everything holds true. And like you said, we've got some

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Speaker 1: time before before we get to that point to make

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Speaker 1: advancements in finding vaccines and testing and all that kind

512
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Speaker 1: of stuff. So, you know what, we want to leave

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Speaker 1: all that to the side and just say, here's the

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Speaker 1: schedule as we know it. That's it. Here's the schedules.

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Speaker 1: We know it. Let's take a look at it. Let's

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Speaker 1: dive into it. Yeah, we're definitely gonna dive. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know, you know right now, I feel like Ryan

518
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Speaker 1: Seacrest in Times Square on New Year's Eve and I

519
00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:10,080
Speaker 1: always watch that because I want to see how even

520
00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:13,320
Speaker 1: I recorded, even if I'm not home, because as a broadcaster,

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00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:15,080
Speaker 1: you want to see how he fills the time. And

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00:28:15,119 --> 00:28:16,840
Speaker 1: you know, we have an NFL schedule to get ready for.

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Speaker 1: He's got like the new Year, and you would think

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00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:20,400
Speaker 1: there's a lot of material, but it's like, ah, yeah,

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00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:22,479
Speaker 1: it's a great year and we're getting ready for another one.

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Speaker 1: Little did he know it would be happening in twenty

527
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Speaker 1: twenty less than three minutes away, by the way, and

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Speaker 1: our buddy John Boudrou is producing on radio, Tyler Marcott

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Speaker 1: on video, and Tyler's gonna flash the schedule up. I'll

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Speaker 1: read it live right here at six thirty, and we'll

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Speaker 1: get into the preseason as well a little bit, but

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Speaker 1: that'll be later. We want to get into the meat

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Speaker 1: of it. Instantly leaked out today that the Chiefs would

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Speaker 1: be the opener on that Thursday night to kick off

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Speaker 1: the season. Here's another thing. If that's the game, Johnny,

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Speaker 1: you have that mini buy right away. And we always

537
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Speaker 1: talk about in a season, you know, there's always a

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Speaker 1: one to two level improvement, whether whether it's years that

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Speaker 1: a player has played, but it's also what a season.

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Speaker 1: Week one to week two is big in the NFL,

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Speaker 1: I think, especially this year. So whatever happens that Thursday,

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Speaker 1: you've got ten days to get ready for the next one,

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Speaker 1: which I'm hoping is at home, that next one, which

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00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:12,640
Speaker 1: is going to be obviously another huge step. I mean,

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00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:14,960
Speaker 1: they're all big building blocks in the course of you

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Speaker 1: put it together a playoff campaign, every single one of them. Yeah,

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00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:20,920
Speaker 1: no doubt. And think last year we started on a

548
00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:23,360
Speaker 1: Monday night. We were I would say complete opposite, but

549
00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:26,520
Speaker 1: polar opposite. You instead of playing Thursday, you play Monday night.

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Speaker 1: Now you did return home for a week. Now you're

551
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Speaker 1: playing a short week right off the right out of

552
00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:38,320
Speaker 1: the shoote like oh man. So that as excited as

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Speaker 1: we were about playing a Monday night game, as excited

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Speaker 1: as we were about playing the Saints, because it's a

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00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:48,680
Speaker 1: night game that doesn't have a long trip, we're looking

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Speaker 1: at going we're going right into a short week, right

557
00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:54,320
Speaker 1: out of the shoot. Now play that game Thursday night,

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00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:57,320
Speaker 1: you get them mini buy and then you can get hopefully,

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Speaker 1: hopefully and I don't know what will happen after that,

560
00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:02,760
Speaker 1: hopefully will start to get in a routine of some sort,

561
00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:04,880
Speaker 1: but we get that mini buy right away, which I

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00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:07,480
Speaker 1: think I think could be very helpful in this season. Well,

563
00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:09,880
Speaker 1: we have one minute and ten seconds till we can

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Speaker 1: release this schedule legally, and by legally, I mean according

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Speaker 1: to the rules of the National Football League, and at

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Speaker 1: seven o'clock NFL Network has They're a big show Sports

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Speaker 1: Radio six ten as a show. But we got a

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Speaker 1: show right now because we are inside of one minute

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Speaker 1: until the NFL schedule comes out, and most importantly for us,

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Speaker 1: the Houston Texans schedule. I'm glad you brought up last

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Speaker 1: year just quickly, because it shows you how big every

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Speaker 1: game is. You know, you beat the Patriots, you lose

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Speaker 1: to Denver Jaguars, you beat them at home, but it

574
00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:41,840
Speaker 1: was by the hair of your chinny chinchin you got

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Speaker 1: to win, which is great, but it shows you that

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00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:46,640
Speaker 1: every game is hard, every game is difficult. Bill O'Brien

577
00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:48,280
Speaker 1: always says that people don't want to hear it, but

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00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:51,760
Speaker 1: it's so true. Every win is precious in this league,

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Speaker 1: no matter how you get it, and you just know

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00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:56,440
Speaker 1: it's going to be another adventure every year. I feel

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Speaker 1: that that power, that angst, the drama of an NFL schedule,

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Speaker 1: especially fifteen minutes before opening day. There's nothing like it.

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Speaker 1: All Right, we're down to ten seconds, Johnny, when we

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Speaker 1: can reveal the NFL schedule. Got eight? All right, I'm counting.

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00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:14,160
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be ridiculous about five seconds till we

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Speaker 1: can reveal the schedule. Houston Texans in twenty twenty, and

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00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:21,960
Speaker 1: away we go. As the Texans do open up against

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Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs that Thursday, September tenth, and week

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Speaker 1: two is the Baltimore Ravens at home, top seed in

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Speaker 1: the AFC last year, So you go, Chiefs, Ravens then

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Speaker 1: at Pittsburgh. Oh my goodness. All right, so let's keep

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Speaker 1: the whole thing up there, Tyler if we can. Wow,

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Speaker 1: I'm not. I don't have the confidence monitor. I'm just

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00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:46,719
Speaker 1: giving you the games as we go. So I'll give

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00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:49,320
Speaker 1: you the whole thing right now. Chiefs, then Ravens at

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Speaker 1: home at Pittsburgh. Then Minnesota at home. So, Johnny, first

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Speaker 1: quarter of the season, Chiefs, Ravens, Steelers, Minnesota Hello twenty twenty.

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Speaker 1: Then home to Jacksonville. So that's the first AFC South action.

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Speaker 1: That's week five, and you might think that's late to

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Speaker 1: get into the division. But the Texans have gotten into

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Speaker 1: the division at week six three three, not consecutive, but

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00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:15,400
Speaker 1: three other times in the history of the franchise. So

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Speaker 1: Jags at home on October eleventh, at Tennessee October eighteenth,

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Speaker 1: then green Bay at home October twenty fifth. Okay, then

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00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:28,600
Speaker 1: you get the buy and then the Jags again on

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Speaker 1: the road. So that second quarter of the season, Jags

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Speaker 1: at Tennessee, green Bay at home at Jacksonville with the

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Speaker 1: buying between that green Bay Jacksonville game, let me king

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Speaker 1: continue here and give you the whole thing because we're

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Speaker 1: doing radio and video here. Then November fifteenth, so you

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Speaker 1: came out of the buy and you were at Jacksonville.

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Speaker 1: Then November fifteenth, year at Cleveland, first trip to Cleveland

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Speaker 1: since twenty fourteen when Ryan Mallick got the start of

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00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:54,040
Speaker 1: the Texans and you'd beat Brian Hoyer. Then it's home

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Speaker 1: for the New England Patriots. Should be Jared Stidham. We'll

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Speaker 1: see then Thanksgiving, Johnnie, I am so sorry to your family,

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00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:04,960
Speaker 1: but you're gonna be superfending Thanksgiving Detroit. But you know what,

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00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:07,200
Speaker 1: it's It's a blessing, it really is, and you'll be

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Speaker 1: home in time for a late night dinner. It's gonna

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00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:13,560
Speaker 1: be great at Detroit again for Thanksgiving. The last time

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Speaker 1: you were up there with Thanksgiving twenty twelve, that wild

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00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:18,520
Speaker 1: game that went deep into overtime, so that is awesome.

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Speaker 1: Then the colds at home at the Bears December thirteenth,

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00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:26,200
Speaker 1: Johnny at Chicago dress warm. Let me just tell you

625
00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:29,600
Speaker 1: that that's not far off from the date they played

626
00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:31,480
Speaker 1: the Bears in two thousand and four when it was

627
00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:34,360
Speaker 1: close to zero degrees there. The Texans actually won the game.

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00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:36,400
Speaker 1: That was very It was a great day, but it

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00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:39,200
Speaker 1: was cold. Then at Indie, and it's one of those

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Speaker 1: Saturday Sunday things. December nineteenth or twentieth, could be either

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Speaker 1: day we had that the last couple of years. Played

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Speaker 1: on Saturday, both times at the Jets in twenty eighteen,

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Speaker 1: at Tampa Bay in twenty nineteen, then Cincinnati at home,

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Speaker 1: and the Titans are the regular season finale at NRG

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Speaker 1: Stadium January third. That is your twenty twenty jel Johnny. Who, Okay,

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Speaker 1: there's so many different Let's let's go back and I

637
00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:09,080
Speaker 1: think we can break this down into parts here. The

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00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:12,799
Speaker 1: first part, which will include the preseason because the preseason

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00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:15,839
Speaker 1: has at Minnesota and you played them in the regular season.

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Speaker 1: So that's a little strange there, but you're gonna you're

641
00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:19,799
Speaker 1: gonna deal with it. And you know it's the preseason.

642
00:34:20,080 --> 00:34:23,160
Speaker 1: Seattle at home August twenty. They don't have exact dates

643
00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:24,920
Speaker 1: of the preseason yet, but these are the weeks. It's

644
00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:28,040
Speaker 1: the week August thirteenth, of the seventeenth, whatever that long

645
00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:31,000
Speaker 1: weekend might be. So at Minnesota, Seattle at home, week

646
00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:34,640
Speaker 1: two of the preseason, at New Orleans week three of

647
00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:37,960
Speaker 1: the preseason, and then Dallas at home to finish off

648
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:41,040
Speaker 1: the preseason. So you know, I love seeing the Saints

649
00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:43,839
Speaker 1: and the Cowboys every year in the preseason. But that's

650
00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:45,680
Speaker 1: your preeson. We'll get back to that later. A right, Johnny,

651
00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:48,480
Speaker 1: let's digest the next three at the Chiefs, Ravens at

652
00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:53,319
Speaker 1: home at the Steelers. Your thoughts, wow, uh, you know,

653
00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:56,040
Speaker 1: once we heard that the Chiefs were the first game,

654
00:34:57,000 --> 00:34:59,960
Speaker 1: my next thought went to, okay, one of the week,

655
00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:03,160
Speaker 1: who who who are the what? Where are the where

656
00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:07,000
Speaker 1: are the Ravens on the schedule? And that to me

657
00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:09,560
Speaker 1: was the one game. And as as you see it

658
00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:11,520
Speaker 1: on the screen, there you notice it's a three twenty

659
00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:14,680
Speaker 1: five kick, which is going to be the national game.

660
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:17,680
Speaker 1: So there's been a lot of talk nationally about the

661
00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:20,880
Speaker 1: Texans this year, this offseason because of the things that

662
00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:23,560
Speaker 1: have happened and transpired and all the different movements and

663
00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:26,080
Speaker 1: things that have taken place. Well, the nation's gonna get

664
00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:28,800
Speaker 1: a load of the Texans Thursday night against the Chiefs

665
00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:32,000
Speaker 1: and then Sunday afternoon with Nancy Romo in the building

666
00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:34,319
Speaker 1: as the Baltimore Ravens come through, And it just hit

667
00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:37,879
Speaker 1: me as I look at the Baltimore Ravens, which that

668
00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:40,839
Speaker 1: week is our Liberty White Game. It will be the

669
00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:44,160
Speaker 1: third year of the last four that Clais Campbell will

670
00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:47,919
Speaker 1: have played in the Liberty White Game against US. It'll

671
00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:55,880
Speaker 1: be his third out of the mark to go Kansas

672
00:35:55,920 --> 00:36:00,840
Speaker 1: City Baltimore and then go to Pittsburgh. Roethlisberger back, And

673
00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:02,840
Speaker 1: by the way, the Steelers were a top five defense

674
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:06,040
Speaker 1: last year, so there's that to think about top five

675
00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:08,600
Speaker 1: defense from a year ago. Things change, but you get

676
00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:11,640
Speaker 1: Roethlisberger back. We don't know how Roethlisberger is going to be,

677
00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:14,440
Speaker 1: but his name has still Ben Roethlisberger, so that's a concern.

678
00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:17,920
Speaker 1: So at Pittsburgh and then so take all right, So

679
00:36:18,040 --> 00:36:19,640
Speaker 1: that's that's the first part here. Let's go to the

680
00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:21,759
Speaker 1: next slide here if you're will on video form, and

681
00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:24,680
Speaker 1: I know we're doing radio as well. Here Vikings and

682
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:27,239
Speaker 1: Jags at home. Now, you mentioned it when we had

683
00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:30,799
Speaker 1: McLean on earlier that Vikings. You have Dom Capers as

684
00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:33,840
Speaker 1: an assistant with them. You have Gary Kubiak as offensive coordinator.

685
00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:35,919
Speaker 1: Last time he was just the OC of a team

686
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:39,239
Speaker 1: was Baltimore in twenty fourteen, and Baltimore had its best

687
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:42,680
Speaker 1: offensive season ever at the time. Of course, Lamar Jackson

688
00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:46,000
Speaker 1: has since eclipse to that. But the Texans actually beat

689
00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:47,520
Speaker 1: the Ravens. I don't know if that has anything to

690
00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:50,799
Speaker 1: do with this, but Minnesota, Minnesota's a tough out, no doubt. Oh,

691
00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:54,400
Speaker 1: there's there's no question. I like the fact that the

692
00:36:54,440 --> 00:36:59,280
Speaker 1: two better teams in NFC North are coming to NRG Stadium,

693
00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:03,439
Speaker 1: but the fact that the Vikings and the Packers will

694
00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:07,520
Speaker 1: be coming all it both in October. But to me,

695
00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:10,520
Speaker 1: if there's a key stretch here for the Texans in

696
00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:14,040
Speaker 1: this season, I think it's here. And this is why

697
00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:17,839
Speaker 1: when you look after the bye, you have three out

698
00:37:17,880 --> 00:37:20,920
Speaker 1: of four on the road after the bye You have

699
00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:23,760
Speaker 1: five out of seven on the road right after the bye,

700
00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:26,520
Speaker 1: so you have to obviously have one period where you're

701
00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:29,080
Speaker 1: at home for a significant stretch, and it's this one,

702
00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:32,239
Speaker 1: starting with Minnesota in week four, then the Jagson next

703
00:37:32,239 --> 00:37:35,040
Speaker 1: week in week five, and then the Packers in week seven.

704
00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:38,359
Speaker 1: That three out of four stretch right there ends up

705
00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:42,359
Speaker 1: being a massively important stretch for the Texans to have

706
00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:45,200
Speaker 1: three out of those four right before the bye week

707
00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:47,520
Speaker 1: because when you come out of that bye week, now

708
00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:49,120
Speaker 1: you're going on the road. And we've talked about this

709
00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:53,960
Speaker 1: throughout Mark you were getting the majority of the playoff teams.

710
00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:57,080
Speaker 1: I think it was five of the eight teams you

711
00:37:57,120 --> 00:38:00,919
Speaker 1: were facing at home. We're playoff teams, but you're facing

712
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:03,919
Speaker 1: them at home. So that meant Minnesota, that meant Green Bay,

713
00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:06,319
Speaker 1: that meant the Ravens. Those teams are you're playing them

714
00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:08,160
Speaker 1: at home. On the road, you're only facing two teams

715
00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:11,400
Speaker 1: that went to the playoffs Kansas City in Tennessee. So

716
00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:13,680
Speaker 1: when you get a stretch of three or four like this,

717
00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:17,480
Speaker 1: you have got to take advantage. And that will not

718
00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:19,480
Speaker 1: be easy because the one road trip in there is

719
00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:22,279
Speaker 1: one to play the Tennessee Titans, and everybody thinks the

720
00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:24,879
Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans will be that much better in twenty twenty. Well,

721
00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:27,399
Speaker 1: you beat them last year in a huge game up

722
00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:31,120
Speaker 1: there in December, I mean absolutely colossal game, and you

723
00:38:31,239 --> 00:38:32,920
Speaker 1: got the better of them in that one. I mean,

724
00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:36,480
Speaker 1: I think one thing about last year that Texans obviously

725
00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:38,400
Speaker 1: won the division and the reason why is because they

726
00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:42,040
Speaker 1: bounced back from that bad day in Baltimore to beat

727
00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:44,480
Speaker 1: the Colts on a Thursday night. And by the way,

728
00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:47,319
Speaker 1: there's no Thursday night game here other than the opener. Right.

729
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:51,200
Speaker 1: Other notes of this one, and I'll wait to really

730
00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:54,520
Speaker 1: expand on this. No Monday night games, which I you know,

731
00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:56,799
Speaker 1: I don't like for some reasons because I like Monday

732
00:38:56,840 --> 00:38:59,120
Speaker 1: night football the whole pageantry of it all. But you

733
00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:01,960
Speaker 1: do get that short week after. So when I said

734
00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:03,640
Speaker 1: there's no Thursday night game other than the opener, you

735
00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:06,080
Speaker 1: do have the Thanksgiving game, which is a Thursday day game.

736
00:39:06,120 --> 00:39:08,440
Speaker 1: So that's a little bit tougher than a regular garden

737
00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:11,160
Speaker 1: variety Thursday night. There's just something about Thanksgiving though, it

738
00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:13,080
Speaker 1: gives you a little extra adrenaline. I would think as

739
00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:16,000
Speaker 1: long as that's too much turkey and stuffing. Yeah. I mean, look,

740
00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:18,760
Speaker 1: our guys have always liked and I think thirty thirty

741
00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:21,399
Speaker 1: one other teams feel the same way. They love being

742
00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:26,319
Speaker 1: on national television. And when you're on national television no

743
00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:29,839
Speaker 1: matter what, whether you're there for Thanksgiving, whether they're probably

744
00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:31,520
Speaker 1: in a Sunday night game, they're no Sunday night games.

745
00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:34,160
Speaker 1: But that first game against the Chiefs is that's Sunday

746
00:39:34,239 --> 00:39:39,840
Speaker 1: night football essentially. That's that's all. And that's Alan Chris

747
00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:41,520
Speaker 1: at least for the time being before it turns into

748
00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:44,839
Speaker 1: Drew Brees someday. But that's Alan Chris. That's Sunday night

749
00:39:44,880 --> 00:39:47,600
Speaker 1: football on a Thursday, kicking off the season. So that's

750
00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:49,799
Speaker 1: kind of got a little bit. But the one other

751
00:39:49,880 --> 00:39:51,960
Speaker 1: thing that I noticed Mark and I pointed out the

752
00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:56,239
Speaker 1: three twenty five game against Baltimore as it sits right now,

753
00:39:57,160 --> 00:40:01,120
Speaker 1: every game from Week three on Yah is a noon

754
00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:05,160
Speaker 1: or I like this. I like this a lot. I

755
00:40:05,200 --> 00:40:07,040
Speaker 1: think it's great to have that routine, you know, and

756
00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:09,160
Speaker 1: when you work in the league, it's it's a lot better.

757
00:40:09,239 --> 00:40:11,000
Speaker 1: But I think it's also good for the players in

758
00:40:11,120 --> 00:40:13,840
Speaker 1: terms of body rhythm and things like that. But look,

759
00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:17,480
Speaker 1: the great teams play in primetime, not hold off on

760
00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:20,040
Speaker 1: the primetime here, because you do have Thanksgiving, you have

761
00:40:20,080 --> 00:40:22,840
Speaker 1: the Thursday nighter, you have that late in the season

762
00:40:22,960 --> 00:40:25,560
Speaker 1: Colts thing that they'll probably put on a Saturday, because

763
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Speaker 1: I'm guessing that game is going to be pretty large,

764
00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:29,920
Speaker 1: or large enough at least as big as Texans Tampa

765
00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:31,919
Speaker 1: Bay was last year, and they put that in front

766
00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:33,800
Speaker 1: of a national television audience even though it was a

767
00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:37,760
Speaker 1: day game. And who knows what else gets flexed along

768
00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:39,840
Speaker 1: the way. You mentioned that Ravens afternoon game. Some of

769
00:40:39,840 --> 00:40:42,400
Speaker 1: these others might get flexed either to an afternoon national

770
00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:45,839
Speaker 1: window or a Sunday night as the year goes on. Now,

771
00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:48,600
Speaker 1: this doesn't take into account anything. You know, McLean was

772
00:40:48,600 --> 00:40:52,000
Speaker 1: talking about a complete shift in scheduling if they had

773
00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:54,640
Speaker 1: to due to COVID or whatever. Look, we can't even

774
00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:56,520
Speaker 1: speculate on that. We'll be here all day. And that's

775
00:40:56,560 --> 00:40:59,680
Speaker 1: that's for a regular show six to seven weeknights here.

776
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:02,400
Speaker 1: But right now we're just grinding through this schedule, all right.

777
00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:05,240
Speaker 1: So we gave you the next set of games, Vikings Jacks,

778
00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:07,480
Speaker 1: Titans on the road, the Packers at home, the Buy

779
00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:10,160
Speaker 1: at Jacksonville, at Cleveland. All right, let's take the rest

780
00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:11,960
Speaker 1: of them here. Then you have the Patriots at home,

781
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:16,040
Speaker 1: followed by Detroit Thanksgiving. Look, that's a quick two games

782
00:41:16,040 --> 00:41:19,759
Speaker 1: stretch there where. Remember in twenty twelve we talk about

783
00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:23,439
Speaker 1: the Texans going to Detroit for Thanksgiving. That Jacksonville deep

784
00:41:23,520 --> 00:41:27,279
Speaker 1: in overtime game took place the Sunday before, So there

785
00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:29,880
Speaker 1: you were four days later playing again deep into overtime.

786
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:32,200
Speaker 1: We always talk about that in Texans history, playing ten

787
00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:35,800
Speaker 1: quarters in four days and what it costs that twenty

788
00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:38,719
Speaker 1: twelve team, maybe the greatest Texans team ever down the

789
00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:40,400
Speaker 1: stretch when they lost three out of four when they

790
00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:42,920
Speaker 1: had a chance to grab home field advantage throughout. So

791
00:41:43,239 --> 00:41:46,440
Speaker 1: you know, those games close together, having to travel for

792
00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:48,440
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving because you weren't going to play that one at

793
00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:53,080
Speaker 1: home with Detroit. That's a really notable little setup right there.

794
00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:55,680
Speaker 1: And then after Detroit again another mini buy because it's

795
00:41:55,680 --> 00:41:59,160
Speaker 1: a Thursday game and the Colts at home, and you

796
00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:00,840
Speaker 1: know mcclaim was talking about do you get one of

797
00:42:00,840 --> 00:42:03,399
Speaker 1: those two out of three against the division opponent, and yes,

798
00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:06,360
Speaker 1: you do. You get the Cults at home at the Bears,

799
00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:09,239
Speaker 1: and then the Colts on the road, and you know,

800
00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:11,880
Speaker 1: Chicago and Indie are not that far away from each other,

801
00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:13,839
Speaker 1: but you're definitely gonna fly home, Don't get me wrong.

802
00:42:14,480 --> 00:42:17,319
Speaker 1: That's that's an interesting little stretch right there, Johnny, as

803
00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:20,040
Speaker 1: we look down the stretch of twenty twenty. Yeah, it

804
00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:24,760
Speaker 1: certainly is. And here's a couple of things that I noticed,

805
00:42:24,760 --> 00:42:29,399
Speaker 1: of course, when the Bears game popped up, like okay, oh,

806
00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:34,960
Speaker 1: it's December. Okay. However, however, after we play the Browns,

807
00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:38,520
Speaker 1: and we play the Browns on November fifteenth, we have

808
00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:43,440
Speaker 1: two four six seven games after the Browns game, only

809
00:42:43,560 --> 00:42:48,759
Speaker 1: one is outside, only ones outside. These are the things

810
00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:52,080
Speaker 1: you look at as the sun. Only one is outside,

811
00:42:52,280 --> 00:42:55,200
Speaker 1: and that's the Bears game in December. I'm gonna get

812
00:42:55,239 --> 00:42:59,080
Speaker 1: every every weather thing you can have happened in December,

813
00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:01,839
Speaker 1: and Chicago is gonna happened that day just because of

814
00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:05,920
Speaker 1: that very note. But you go inside at home, Patriots,

815
00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:09,160
Speaker 1: Detroit's inside, you play the Colts at home, you're obviously

816
00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:11,880
Speaker 1: outside for the Bears, the Colts are inside, and then

817
00:43:11,920 --> 00:43:14,799
Speaker 1: you have the last two at home, so you're inside.

818
00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:20,600
Speaker 1: From November twenty second. It's a very special day in history.

819
00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:23,000
Speaker 1: By the way, all the way through the rest of year,

820
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:25,640
Speaker 1: except for that one game at Chicago. That's gonna be

821
00:43:25,840 --> 00:43:30,960
Speaker 1: a little Midwest, that little Chicago Indianapolis back to backer.

822
00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:33,960
Speaker 1: That's you know, that's the one thing. We've talked about

823
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:36,400
Speaker 1: this and mentioned this a little bit. The back to

824
00:43:36,600 --> 00:43:40,239
Speaker 1: back road games in the NFL are a whole heck

825
00:43:40,280 --> 00:43:42,839
Speaker 1: of a lot more difficult than people think. They are

826
00:43:43,480 --> 00:43:45,920
Speaker 1: very difficult. And we've done that before. We did that

827
00:43:46,040 --> 00:43:48,640
Speaker 1: in eighteen. You know, we talked about you talked about

828
00:43:48,719 --> 00:43:51,520
Speaker 1: earlier that Saturday, you know, when it goes on the schedule,

829
00:43:51,600 --> 00:43:54,960
Speaker 1: kind of that flex day, it's it's that December, Yeah,

830
00:43:55,040 --> 00:43:57,920
Speaker 1: Saturday Sunday. And it happened with the Jets in twenty eighteen,

831
00:43:58,600 --> 00:44:01,680
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, it was with the Bucks that back to

832
00:44:01,840 --> 00:44:04,839
Speaker 1: back and I don't think it was back to back

833
00:44:04,840 --> 00:44:06,560
Speaker 1: with the Bucks though, but it was back to back

834
00:44:06,560 --> 00:44:09,719
Speaker 1: with the Jets because it was Jets fly back home

835
00:44:10,200 --> 00:44:13,000
Speaker 1: and then fly back out and face Philadelphia the next

836
00:44:13,160 --> 00:44:15,000
Speaker 1: it was back to back with the Bucks from the

837
00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:18,839
Speaker 1: Titans last year. Oh yeah, that's right, it was. Yeah.

838
00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:22,359
Speaker 1: So you had that and look you won three out

839
00:44:22,360 --> 00:44:24,120
Speaker 1: of four of those in that back to back scenario.

840
00:44:24,200 --> 00:44:25,920
Speaker 1: Because the one you lost was Philly and that was

841
00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:28,600
Speaker 1: a really close game that you couldn't hold on to

842
00:44:28,680 --> 00:44:31,719
Speaker 1: the lead at the end. In twenty eighteen, look, yeah,

843
00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:35,680
Speaker 1: so your final four games at Chicago, at Indie, Bengals

844
00:44:35,680 --> 00:44:38,920
Speaker 1: at home, Tennessee at home, and before everyone's circles. Oh Bengals,

845
00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:41,359
Speaker 1: that's a w Okay. I get it, the Bengals at

846
00:44:41,360 --> 00:44:44,280
Speaker 1: the number one picking the draft for a reason. But hey,

847
00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:47,040
Speaker 1: I don't know what's gonna happen. Look at Denver AND's ruelock.

848
00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:51,520
Speaker 1: I just pointed out Gardner Minshew and needing a two

849
00:44:51,560 --> 00:44:54,160
Speaker 1: point conversion stop to win a game. You don't know

850
00:44:54,200 --> 00:44:57,080
Speaker 1: how this stuff's gonna play out. And I can tell

851
00:44:57,120 --> 00:44:59,760
Speaker 1: you this, All these teams are looking at the Texans saying,

852
00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:04,000
Speaker 1: that's tough. That's the Chiefs opening night. M M. They're

853
00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:08,240
Speaker 1: gonna they remember what happened. This is not gonna be Uh,

854
00:45:08,280 --> 00:45:10,800
Speaker 1: this is no lay up for the Kansas City Chiefs.

855
00:45:11,120 --> 00:45:13,319
Speaker 1: Texans beat them in the regular season, they had that lead.

856
00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:15,000
Speaker 1: I don't even go I don't even want to go

857
00:45:15,040 --> 00:45:17,880
Speaker 1: over that game anymore, Johnny, But uh, that that is

858
00:45:18,600 --> 00:45:20,239
Speaker 1: I wonder what the line is gonna be on that

859
00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:23,400
Speaker 1: one that Thursday nighter. I think everybody's gonna be super

860
00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:25,000
Speaker 1: fired up to go up there. You're gonna have to

861
00:45:25,000 --> 00:45:28,839
Speaker 1: watch them get their rings. Yeah, and then no matter

862
00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:31,920
Speaker 1: what happened the fireworks, you want to talk about dropping

863
00:45:31,960 --> 00:45:35,279
Speaker 1: the banner? I mean, all right, so things that will

864
00:45:35,320 --> 00:45:37,480
Speaker 1: go with that game. I'm not a gambling man, but

865
00:45:37,680 --> 00:45:40,080
Speaker 1: win or lose that night. Bill O'Brien's gonna talk about

866
00:45:40,080 --> 00:45:42,719
Speaker 1: turning the page real fast. I don't care that there

867
00:45:42,719 --> 00:45:46,239
Speaker 1: are ten days to get ready for the Ravens, because Ravens,

868
00:45:46,560 --> 00:45:50,160
Speaker 1: when we could put it, come up with a scenario,

869
00:45:50,440 --> 00:45:53,719
Speaker 1: what's the Ravens schedule? Who do they in Ravens to

870
00:45:54,080 --> 00:45:58,560
Speaker 1: start the season. It's it's crazy, it's crazy. I mean

871
00:45:58,600 --> 00:46:01,680
Speaker 1: you to start. If you and I were doing a

872
00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:05,799
Speaker 1: hypothetical schedule show and he said Chiefs Ravens, he'd be like, now,

873
00:46:05,840 --> 00:46:08,200
Speaker 1: that'll never happen, That'll never happen. That They'll never do

874
00:46:08,239 --> 00:46:11,000
Speaker 1: that to the Texas stretch. They stretch that out one

875
00:46:11,040 --> 00:46:14,759
Speaker 1: in September, put one in I don't know late November.

876
00:46:15,520 --> 00:46:20,360
Speaker 1: Separate those two, but no back to back. The NFL

877
00:46:20,480 --> 00:46:25,480
Speaker 1: is getting. The NFL is getting Mahomes Watson week one,

878
00:46:25,800 --> 00:46:31,279
Speaker 1: Lamar and Watson Week two. I mean right right out

879
00:46:31,320 --> 00:46:33,560
Speaker 1: of the shoot. So right out of the shoot, you're

880
00:46:33,600 --> 00:46:43,120
Speaker 1: gonna face Mahomes, Lamar, Roethlisberger, Cousins, minsheu Mania and Tannehill

881
00:46:43,200 --> 00:46:47,920
Speaker 1: and then Aaron Rodgers. I mean we talked about murderers

882
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:50,480
Speaker 1: row of quarterbacks last year, right, I mean last year

883
00:46:50,600 --> 00:46:53,000
Speaker 1: was the murderers row of quarterbacks. I called this four

884
00:46:53,080 --> 00:46:55,759
Speaker 1: game set to open the season the gauntlet, all right,

885
00:46:55,800 --> 00:47:02,360
Speaker 1: the four game gauntlet to start the season because Mahomes, Jackson, Roethlisberger,

886
00:47:02,480 --> 00:47:06,320
Speaker 1: Cousins is tough. And it's not just those guys, it's everybody.

887
00:47:06,360 --> 00:47:09,120
Speaker 1: It's the Ravens defense, it's the Steelers defense, two top

888
00:47:09,160 --> 00:47:12,120
Speaker 1: five defenses, it's whatever the chief, dude, don't prove the

889
00:47:12,239 --> 00:47:15,160
Speaker 1: Vikings defense, of course, and you know this is a

890
00:47:15,280 --> 00:47:17,360
Speaker 1: Vikings team that. Yeah, they've taken some shots over the

891
00:47:17,440 --> 00:47:19,640
Speaker 1: years because Cousins can't win big games. Look, they beat

892
00:47:19,680 --> 00:47:22,960
Speaker 1: the Saints at the super Dome in the postseason. Yea,

893
00:47:25,120 --> 00:47:28,359
Speaker 1: Cousins was huge in that games. I mean the last time.

894
00:47:28,360 --> 00:47:30,120
Speaker 1: It's funny because the last time we played the Vikings,

895
00:47:30,120 --> 00:47:31,799
Speaker 1: I was I was talking to you, and I think

896
00:47:31,840 --> 00:47:33,719
Speaker 1: we were talking about this last night when the last

897
00:47:33,760 --> 00:47:37,000
Speaker 1: time we played the Vikings, we get we get the

898
00:47:37,040 --> 00:47:40,320
Speaker 1: first quarter, quarter and a half, It's like, who is

899
00:47:40,360 --> 00:47:43,880
Speaker 1: this number nineteen guy? Who is this feeling? Who is

900
00:47:43,920 --> 00:47:45,960
Speaker 1: this that's making all these catches? And then it was

901
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:48,160
Speaker 1: from that day forward where Adam Thealan ended up being

902
00:47:48,680 --> 00:47:51,239
Speaker 1: uh one of the best receivers in the NFL. So

903
00:47:51,360 --> 00:47:54,040
Speaker 1: four years later he has now moved up the ranks

904
00:47:54,040 --> 00:47:55,880
Speaker 1: and is one of the better receivers in the NFL.

905
00:47:55,920 --> 00:47:58,040
Speaker 1: So I think we'll be much more aware of that

906
00:47:58,040 --> 00:48:01,280
Speaker 1: guy when he comes to NRG Stadium on Octoo. Sean

907
00:48:01,320 --> 00:48:05,120
Speaker 1: Pendergast obviously knows these lines, like you know, he knows

908
00:48:05,160 --> 00:48:09,080
Speaker 1: the birthdays of his kids and said that the Chiefs

909
00:48:09,120 --> 00:48:11,440
Speaker 1: by ten and a half in a look ahead line

910
00:48:11,960 --> 00:48:13,879
Speaker 1: a little while ago. So I don't know a little

911
00:48:13,920 --> 00:48:18,480
Speaker 1: while the playoff that was the playoff line was ten. Well,

912
00:48:19,480 --> 00:48:24,080
Speaker 1: let's do better than cover. We'll see. But then, you

913
00:48:24,120 --> 00:48:26,640
Speaker 1: know you mentioned the quarterbacks here. I have no idea

914
00:48:26,680 --> 00:48:28,360
Speaker 1: what kind of season Ryan Tannehill is going to have,

915
00:48:28,400 --> 00:48:30,719
Speaker 1: but I'm familiar with the work of Aaron Rodgers and

916
00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:32,360
Speaker 1: he comes to your building and the last time he

917
00:48:32,400 --> 00:48:35,120
Speaker 1: did that, he threw six touchdown passes in twenty twelve,

918
00:48:35,200 --> 00:48:37,440
Speaker 1: and he'll be here October twenty fifth, and then you

919
00:48:37,520 --> 00:48:40,400
Speaker 1: get to buy. Look, can I nitpick a little bit here, Johnny?

920
00:48:40,560 --> 00:48:42,880
Speaker 1: Of course, because I've picked a few knits on this

921
00:48:42,920 --> 00:48:45,600
Speaker 1: program before. I'd like to buy a little bit later.

922
00:48:45,640 --> 00:48:47,400
Speaker 1: But I'll live with it. It's okay. I'd like to

923
00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:49,279
Speaker 1: buy a little bit. And maybe the buy earlier this

924
00:48:49,360 --> 00:48:53,080
Speaker 1: year is good because the week lack of offseason program. Yeah,

925
00:48:53,080 --> 00:48:55,040
Speaker 1: I mean, i'd like it the next week, but it's fine.

926
00:48:55,239 --> 00:48:58,520
Speaker 1: This is I'm just nitpicking. It's actually I'd much rather

927
00:48:58,560 --> 00:49:01,040
Speaker 1: have it than than say October four or eleventh. Okay,

928
00:49:01,040 --> 00:49:03,759
Speaker 1: So I don't want it too early, but you know,

929
00:49:03,840 --> 00:49:05,800
Speaker 1: maybe maybe you do need it a little bit earlier

930
00:49:05,800 --> 00:49:07,800
Speaker 1: this year because of the lack of offseason conditioning and

931
00:49:07,880 --> 00:49:10,920
Speaker 1: all that. I have no idea what kind of season

932
00:49:10,960 --> 00:49:13,120
Speaker 1: Jacksonville is gonna have. You and I talked about Cleveland

933
00:49:13,200 --> 00:49:16,120
Speaker 1: last night. Everybody makes fun of Cleveland. You know, they

934
00:49:16,120 --> 00:49:18,239
Speaker 1: had massive hype going into last year and we all

935
00:49:18,280 --> 00:49:20,720
Speaker 1: know what happened, and Freddie Kitchens lost his job because

936
00:49:20,760 --> 00:49:23,160
Speaker 1: of it. But you had two receivers with seventy two

937
00:49:23,160 --> 00:49:25,640
Speaker 1: catches or more you had Nick Chubb, who's top three

938
00:49:25,680 --> 00:49:28,040
Speaker 1: in the league and rushing, or top four you have

939
00:49:28,239 --> 00:49:30,680
Speaker 1: you know, Baker Mayfield can make plays in a variety

940
00:49:30,680 --> 00:49:32,960
Speaker 1: of ways. This is gonna be a tough road trip.

941
00:49:33,120 --> 00:49:35,400
Speaker 1: And you have lost up there before. Who was the

942
00:49:35,440 --> 00:49:38,160
Speaker 1: head coach of the Cleveland Browns when you lost up

943
00:49:38,160 --> 00:49:41,920
Speaker 1: there in two thousand and seven trivia question? It was

944
00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:45,680
Speaker 1: Wrong Cornell who won ten games that year but somehow

945
00:49:45,760 --> 00:49:48,600
Speaker 1: didn't make the playoffs. But he would this year with

946
00:49:48,719 --> 00:49:53,480
Speaker 1: a seven game entry out of each conference into the postseason.

947
00:49:53,520 --> 00:49:55,520
Speaker 1: And I think as we look at the schedule, that's

948
00:49:55,520 --> 00:49:58,279
Speaker 1: another thing to remember here. Another thing to remember is

949
00:49:58,280 --> 00:50:00,440
Speaker 1: the Texans have never been to the postseas as a

950
00:50:00,480 --> 00:50:03,760
Speaker 1: wild card. They've always gotten in by winning the division.

951
00:50:04,280 --> 00:50:06,239
Speaker 1: Is this a year where that happens? You know, we

952
00:50:06,320 --> 00:50:08,279
Speaker 1: have to after we're off the year here, we're gonna

953
00:50:08,280 --> 00:50:10,120
Speaker 1: look at the schedules of the other teams, and I

954
00:50:10,160 --> 00:50:12,200
Speaker 1: know there's gonna be a lot of digesting of that.

955
00:50:12,440 --> 00:50:16,200
Speaker 1: How does a Titan schedule look? Look the Cults. You know,

956
00:50:16,840 --> 00:50:19,600
Speaker 1: everyone's discounting the Jags, but they kind of did that

957
00:50:19,640 --> 00:50:22,120
Speaker 1: before twenty seventeen, even though that team loaded up. There

958
00:50:22,160 --> 00:50:24,600
Speaker 1: was very little credibility going into the season until they

959
00:50:24,600 --> 00:50:27,200
Speaker 1: came into NRG Stadium on Opening Day and did what

960
00:50:27,239 --> 00:50:30,600
Speaker 1: they did. So there's a lot to consider here as

961
00:50:30,800 --> 00:50:33,080
Speaker 1: as you look at the entire body of work. By

962
00:50:33,120 --> 00:50:34,880
Speaker 1: the way, we're gonna have Bill O'Brien in just a

963
00:50:34,920 --> 00:50:37,920
Speaker 1: few moments here with Drew Doherty talking about the schedule,

964
00:50:38,480 --> 00:50:41,040
Speaker 1: how it looks to him, some notable things to him

965
00:50:41,080 --> 00:50:44,439
Speaker 1: about the twenty twenty campaign. I mean, Mark, listen, it's

966
00:50:44,480 --> 00:50:47,160
Speaker 1: it's the NFL. We've we've realized this. There are no layups.

967
00:50:47,200 --> 00:50:50,520
Speaker 1: I mean, last year we end up beating we beat

968
00:50:50,560 --> 00:50:52,759
Speaker 1: the Patriots on a Sunday night. It's like, now we

969
00:50:52,840 --> 00:50:55,239
Speaker 1: get into this part of the schedule, we'll we should roll.

970
00:50:55,640 --> 00:50:57,919
Speaker 1: Andrew Lotte comes in here and it opens a can

971
00:50:58,000 --> 00:51:02,280
Speaker 1: of you know what on all of us. So the schedule,

972
00:51:02,360 --> 00:51:06,080
Speaker 1: what it looks like today, you might look at it

973
00:51:06,120 --> 00:51:08,600
Speaker 1: and as the season goes on you're like, wow, this

974
00:51:08,640 --> 00:51:10,600
Speaker 1: is really kind of rounding into shape the way that

975
00:51:10,680 --> 00:51:12,680
Speaker 1: we like. I mean, it was good to catch the

976
00:51:12,760 --> 00:51:15,239
Speaker 1: Ravens in week two, it was it was good to

977
00:51:15,239 --> 00:51:18,440
Speaker 1: catch the Vikings in week four. Man the Chiefs really

978
00:51:18,840 --> 00:51:24,880
Speaker 1: turned a corner after Week one, as they've really incorporated clydedwards,

979
00:51:24,880 --> 00:51:28,640
Speaker 1: de layering to the offense and all these different things. Likewise,

980
00:51:28,760 --> 00:51:31,160
Speaker 1: you could run into the Colts in December and go, boy,

981
00:51:31,200 --> 00:51:33,880
Speaker 1: they've really gotten their act together from what they were earlier.

982
00:51:34,200 --> 00:51:37,640
Speaker 1: And you get the Colts both in December this year,

983
00:51:38,320 --> 00:51:41,879
Speaker 1: both in December this year, and I said, I said,

984
00:51:41,920 --> 00:51:43,680
Speaker 1: I'd be willing to go. I'd be willing to go

985
00:51:43,719 --> 00:51:45,600
Speaker 1: back to the old way of going up there in December,

986
00:51:45,680 --> 00:51:48,560
Speaker 1: like having the second part of that season series on

987
00:51:48,640 --> 00:51:51,400
Speaker 1: the road and in December. And I got my wish.

988
00:51:51,440 --> 00:51:53,400
Speaker 1: I got. I don't know why I asked this, I

989
00:51:53,400 --> 00:51:55,920
Speaker 1: don't know why I requested this, but you know me,

990
00:51:56,040 --> 00:51:58,239
Speaker 1: I love the drama of going to Indian December. I

991
00:51:58,320 --> 00:52:01,800
Speaker 1: just I always love that, love going up there. Now

992
00:52:01,960 --> 00:52:03,960
Speaker 1: now that they've had success up there, I love going

993
00:52:04,040 --> 00:52:08,000
Speaker 1: up there, and I just think that's that's potentially a

994
00:52:08,120 --> 00:52:10,239
Speaker 1: killer game, you know, for both squads. It could be

995
00:52:10,239 --> 00:52:13,040
Speaker 1: a huge game in this division, going a long way

996
00:52:13,080 --> 00:52:16,120
Speaker 1: toward determining who wins it. Now, quick look at the preseason,

997
00:52:16,120 --> 00:52:19,440
Speaker 1: we mentioned it at Minnesota, Seattle at home, at New Orleans,

998
00:52:19,480 --> 00:52:22,640
Speaker 1: and Dallas at home. Now that at Minnesota. Part of

999
00:52:22,680 --> 00:52:25,720
Speaker 1: this you might think, well, has this ever happened before?

1000
00:52:25,760 --> 00:52:28,560
Speaker 1: But twenty seventeen New England at the Greenbriar, Right, Not

1001
00:52:28,600 --> 00:52:33,280
Speaker 1: only did you play them in the regular season Week three,

1002
00:52:32,520 --> 00:52:37,279
Speaker 1: you practiced against them at the Greenbriar, you played them

1003
00:52:37,280 --> 00:52:40,000
Speaker 1: in the preseason at home. You had plenty of familiarity,

1004
00:52:40,040 --> 00:52:42,719
Speaker 1: and it didn't stop you from scoring points that day. Really,

1005
00:52:42,760 --> 00:52:45,080
Speaker 1: I mean, he went toe to toe with the Patriots

1006
00:52:45,080 --> 00:52:51,279
Speaker 1: and Watson's start his second start ever, right, So yeah, no, Mike,

1007
00:52:51,960 --> 00:52:53,640
Speaker 1: this is the part I'm curious about. When I saw

1008
00:52:53,680 --> 00:52:55,880
Speaker 1: a preseason schedule, the first thing what I would have

1009
00:52:55,880 --> 00:52:59,600
Speaker 1: thought in a normal situation, right is we're going to

1010
00:52:59,640 --> 00:53:04,479
Speaker 1: minnesot to practice or Seattle's coming up. That's what I'm saying.

1011
00:53:04,520 --> 00:53:07,200
Speaker 1: I like, I think COVID is a bigger factor in

1012
00:53:07,440 --> 00:53:10,719
Speaker 1: stopping that from happening than say, the fact that you

1013
00:53:10,760 --> 00:53:13,000
Speaker 1: played them in the regular season and Week four. I

1014
00:53:13,000 --> 00:53:14,839
Speaker 1: could be wrong because Bill O'Brien has done it before.

1015
00:53:14,920 --> 00:53:17,560
Speaker 1: Maybe he hates the idea now because you mentioned that

1016
00:53:17,560 --> 00:53:20,239
Speaker 1: the Patriots saw some plays and maybe they've scouted them,

1017
00:53:20,280 --> 00:53:24,120
Speaker 1: and uh yea happen. Yeah, we saw that happen. With

1018
00:53:24,360 --> 00:53:27,960
Speaker 1: and Belichick was quick to point it out through his bellustrator.

1019
00:53:28,800 --> 00:53:32,560
Speaker 1: That's right, he revealed he did. He did, he revealed it.

1020
00:53:32,640 --> 00:53:36,160
Speaker 1: So maybe that's something that the Texans and other teams

1021
00:53:36,160 --> 00:53:38,680
Speaker 1: have learned from and maybe they're not gonna do. I

1022
00:53:38,800 --> 00:53:41,279
Speaker 1: tend to think that COVID ends up being more of

1023
00:53:41,320 --> 00:53:44,360
Speaker 1: the reason if we don't have those joint practices. I

1024
00:53:44,400 --> 00:53:46,640
Speaker 1: think COVID is more the reason than anything else, and

1025
00:53:47,000 --> 00:53:51,279
Speaker 1: very understandable, very understandable if that's the case, because I

1026
00:53:51,320 --> 00:53:54,160
Speaker 1: think planning these things you mentioned it. I think John

1027
00:53:54,200 --> 00:53:56,400
Speaker 1: McClain was talking about it on radio in the first

1028
00:53:56,400 --> 00:53:59,960
Speaker 1: segment that the scheduling, it's not just let us smooth

1029
00:54:00,080 --> 00:54:03,680
Speaker 1: dates around. It's building availability, which should be okay, let's

1030
00:54:03,719 --> 00:54:08,080
Speaker 1: face it, but hotels and airlines and all of it.

1031
00:54:08,120 --> 00:54:10,120
Speaker 1: I mean, there's so much that goes into moving one

1032
00:54:10,200 --> 00:54:12,480
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty two hundred people around when it's all

1033
00:54:12,480 --> 00:54:15,719
Speaker 1: said and done, game to game, and having these big,

1034
00:54:15,800 --> 00:54:18,000
Speaker 1: huge hotels in these cities. I mean, this is the

1035
00:54:18,040 --> 00:54:20,279
Speaker 1: stuff people don't want to hear, but it's a reality

1036
00:54:20,400 --> 00:54:22,880
Speaker 1: for all of these NFL teams. If you're gonna mess

1037
00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:25,600
Speaker 1: with this schedule the way it is all right, Well,

1038
00:54:25,600 --> 00:54:28,080
Speaker 1: that's gonna do it. For the video portion of this,

1039
00:54:28,120 --> 00:54:30,480
Speaker 1: we're gonna stay on radio for you, but we're all

1040
00:54:30,520 --> 00:54:35,120
Speaker 1: going to enjoy Drew Doherty speaking with Bill O'Brien about

1041
00:54:35,160 --> 00:54:38,640
Speaker 1: the schedule. Let's listen in to what the coach had

1042
00:54:38,680 --> 00:54:44,200
Speaker 1: to say to Drew Doherty in just a moment here.

1043
00:54:44,239 --> 00:54:48,239
Speaker 1: We will have that for you, I promise, as they

1044
00:54:48,400 --> 00:54:53,520
Speaker 1: did have a chance to meet. Here we go, Bill,

1045
00:54:53,560 --> 00:54:55,960
Speaker 1: before we get into the schedule. I know you wanted

1046
00:54:56,000 --> 00:54:58,279
Speaker 1: to recognize a few folks, and some folks were very

1047
00:54:58,280 --> 00:55:02,200
Speaker 1: special to all of us during this co the nineteen pandemic. Yeah,

1048
00:55:02,160 --> 00:55:04,799
Speaker 1: I appreciate that, Drew. You know, always good to talk

1049
00:55:04,800 --> 00:55:07,080
Speaker 1: to you, and very exciting time of the year here.

1050
00:55:08,200 --> 00:55:10,920
Speaker 1: You know, today is one of those days on the

1051
00:55:11,000 --> 00:55:13,680
Speaker 1: NFL calendar that everybody looks forward to and for our

1052
00:55:13,760 --> 00:55:17,439
Speaker 1: organization and our fans. You know, it's just it's it's

1053
00:55:17,480 --> 00:55:19,600
Speaker 1: a day that every single year I've been here that

1054
00:55:19,680 --> 00:55:22,719
Speaker 1: people are really excited about. But obviously this year is

1055
00:55:22,760 --> 00:55:24,840
Speaker 1: a little bit different, and I think it's really really

1056
00:55:24,880 --> 00:55:29,480
Speaker 1: important on behalf of the mcnairs and our organization, our players,

1057
00:55:29,480 --> 00:55:33,160
Speaker 1: our coaches, everybody involved with our organization. To start off

1058
00:55:33,160 --> 00:55:37,440
Speaker 1: by expressing our condolences to you know, all the families

1059
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Speaker 1: who have lost loved ones to this virus, and to

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Speaker 1: thank the healthcare workers and the essential employees he's around

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Speaker 1: the country who are fighting this pandemic, you know, their

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Speaker 1: continued service and unrelenting work over the last couple of months.

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Speaker 1: That's been extraordinary for me and my family to watch,

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Speaker 1: all of us being at home, we've been able to

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Speaker 1: watch these these heroes, you know, work to save these lives,

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Speaker 1: and it's been unbelieable to watch. I know we're gonna

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Speaker 1: get into the schedule Drew here in a second and

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Speaker 1: start looking ahead. And I think it's just really important

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Speaker 1: to continue to support and acknowledge the heroes, uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: in our city of Houston, our great city of Houston,

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Speaker 1: and obviously around the country, around the world. Uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: as we as we we set our sights on the season,

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Speaker 1: whenever that season is going to begin. Uh, it's important

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Speaker 1: to recognize those folks. So I appreciate you let me

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Speaker 1: start off with that, Drew. Yeah, amen to all of that.

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Speaker 1: You just kind of touched on it. We do know

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Speaker 1: this slate of games, but we also know that we

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Speaker 1: got to be prepared, perhaps to be flexible because of

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Speaker 1: what's going on in the world, don't we There's no

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Speaker 1: doubt about it. I think, you know, all of us

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Speaker 1: within our own homes right now, we're seeing what's going

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Speaker 1: on around the world. And you know, look, at the

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Speaker 1: end of the day, there will be football played. Football

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Speaker 1: will be played. When that is played, you know, we'll

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Speaker 1: have to see how that goes. But right now we're

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00:56:56,480 --> 00:56:59,719
Speaker 1: on we're on schedule to have a season, and I

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00:56:59,760 --> 00:57:04,160
Speaker 1: know that the mcnairs and the Houston Texans organization is

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00:57:04,200 --> 00:57:06,920
Speaker 1: going to take every precaution necessary to make sure that

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Speaker 1: people are safe. Players are safe, coaches are safe, everybody

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Speaker 1: involved in the organization. Then obviously to the great fans

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00:57:14,480 --> 00:57:17,720
Speaker 1: of the Houston Texans that we're safe too. So you know,

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Speaker 1: we're looking forward to the day when the season begins,

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00:57:20,360 --> 00:57:24,480
Speaker 1: but you know, just really important to take it one

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00:57:24,520 --> 00:57:27,200
Speaker 1: day at a time and do the right take the

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00:57:27,280 --> 00:57:31,760
Speaker 1: right steps necessary to ensure everybody's safety and health, no doubt.

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Speaker 1: And when the season begins, it begins in a big

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00:57:33,960 --> 00:57:37,560
Speaker 1: way in primetime Thursday night Football. It's the first game

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Speaker 1: of the entire NFL schedule. It's against the reigning Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl champions. How exciting is that for you guys as

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00:57:44,200 --> 00:57:46,120
Speaker 1: a team, getting that challenge right out of the gate

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00:57:46,200 --> 00:57:48,760
Speaker 1: without a doubt. You know, everybody wants to start off

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Speaker 1: the season and on national television. We're able to do

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00:57:51,120 --> 00:57:54,120
Speaker 1: that playing a great opponent obviously Super Bowl champions led

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Speaker 1: by Andy Reid, and it's gonna be a big challenge

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Speaker 1: for us. Our guys looking forward to that. You get

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00:57:58,200 --> 00:57:59,960
Speaker 1: to see Lamar Jackson and the Ravens at home. I

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Speaker 1: know you love playing in front of the Energy Stadium, Faithful.

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Speaker 1: What a two step off the start of the season though, Yeah,

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00:58:04,960 --> 00:58:08,040
Speaker 1: tough two opponents to start the season with. They're all tough, right, Drew.

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Speaker 1: But you know, I think coming back home to be

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00:58:10,160 --> 00:58:13,080
Speaker 1: able to play Baltimore, another great team, playoff team, great

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Speaker 1: coach to staff, like you said, Lamar Jackson, excellent players

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Speaker 1: on that team, going to be a great experience for us,

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Speaker 1: A great opportunity for our players to be able to

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Speaker 1: play in front of a you know, our hometown fans

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Speaker 1: and play against a great opponent. Now, I know you

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Speaker 1: love your pecan pie on Thanksgiving Day, but you're gonna

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00:58:28,600 --> 00:58:31,400
Speaker 1: get the Lions in the morning at that time. What's

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00:58:31,400 --> 00:58:33,360
Speaker 1: it like playing on a holiday like that when the

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00:58:33,360 --> 00:58:35,360
Speaker 1: whole whole nation is going to be watching. That's another

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00:58:35,560 --> 00:58:38,520
Speaker 1: great opportunity, just such an NFL tradition to be one

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Speaker 1: of the teams to be able to play the Detroit Lions.

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Speaker 1: If we're always on Thanksgiving, coach in that game before

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Speaker 1: and you know, it's an exciting game to be a

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Speaker 1: part of, and another really tough NFC North opponent, national

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00:58:50,280 --> 00:58:53,040
Speaker 1: TV game. That's what it's all about, right, Football and

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00:58:53,080 --> 00:58:56,000
Speaker 1: Turkey on Thanksgiving and will be a big part of that. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And then in the month of December, three divisional games,

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Speaker 1: You've got the twice in three weeks, and you finish

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Speaker 1: the entire season with the Titans at home. Do you

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00:59:04,840 --> 00:59:07,320
Speaker 1: like that? Playing the AFC South a lot of times

1132
00:59:07,320 --> 00:59:09,080
Speaker 1: in the month of December, And it seems like it's

1133
00:59:09,080 --> 00:59:11,960
Speaker 1: always that way. You know, the NFL wants those rivalry

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00:59:12,000 --> 00:59:14,000
Speaker 1: games late in the year and there's a lot on

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00:59:14,040 --> 00:59:16,080
Speaker 1: the line in those games, and we have a ton

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Speaker 1: of respect that the teams in our division and we'll

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Speaker 1: be ready for those opportunities. Bill O'Brien, We appreciate your time.

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Speaker 1: We know how busy you are. Best of luck and

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Speaker 1: we hope to see you again very very soon. Thank you, Drew.

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Speaker 1: Good to see you all right. That's Coach with Drew

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Speaker 1: Doherty and that entire interview, it goes a lot longer

1142
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Speaker 1: than that. He can be seen on Houston Texans dot Com.

1143
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Speaker 1: He says a lot of stuff about the rest of

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00:59:38,760 --> 00:59:42,320
Speaker 1: the opponents, Johnny and just with about a ninety seconds left.

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Speaker 1: You know, he was very clear to say, and McClain

1146
00:59:45,440 --> 00:59:47,040
Speaker 1: talked about it too at the beginning of the show.

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Speaker 1: Great to put a schedule out, but we just don't

1148
00:59:49,680 --> 00:59:51,920
Speaker 1: know until we know that this is going to be

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Speaker 1: something that you can actually do, and this is the goal,

1150
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Speaker 1: this is the quest that I just hope he gets done. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm with you on that. I was. I was

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Speaker 1: glad to hear Coach echo his thoughts for all the

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Speaker 1: frontline workers and everybody that's been instrumental. His life been

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Speaker 1: instrumental a lot of people's lives. We've obviously been instrumental

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Speaker 1: over the last how many ever months to help fight

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Speaker 1: the coronavirus in COVID nineteen. So that's what's throw out

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Speaker 1: to me from that. But I'm sure when Coach got

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Speaker 1: to look at the schedule. They said, Okay, who are

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Speaker 1: the first three or four opponents, Let's get to work

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Speaker 1: on them. And they know those They know those opponents,

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Speaker 1: at least those first two for sure. And the Ravens

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Speaker 1: faced the Chiefs in week three. So we have the

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Speaker 1: round robin early with these three AFC powerhouses, these three

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Speaker 1: AFC contenders. So that's gonna be good. Johnny, thanks a

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Speaker 1: lot for your time tonight, and you and I will

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Speaker 1: be on the air tomorrow elaborating more on this schedule

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Speaker 1: on what is up with the Texans moving forward toward

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty campaign. Sports Radio six ten has their

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Speaker 1: big special coming up at just a few seconds here,

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Speaker 1: and you can go to Houston Texans dot com, get

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Speaker 1: the schedule, get the O'Brien video, get a whole bunch

1172
01:00:59,800 --> 01:01:04,000
Speaker 1: of content on the twenty twenty schedule, which opens up

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Speaker 1: against the Kansas City Chiefs in front of the nation

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Speaker 1: on a Thursday night. Thanks a lot to John Boudreau

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Speaker 1: for producing and also Tyler Marcott back at video headquarters.

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Speaker 1: Have a great night everyone the six ten specials next,

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Speaker 1: Go Texans.