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Speaker 1: Hello, Texans, Welcome. It's Texans All Access a little bit

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Speaker 1: different Tuesday night, after the Huddle program, Player Show and

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Speaker 1: in advance of Texans matchup with Johnny Harris. Why don't

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Speaker 1: we bring in John Harris right now? Hello Johnny, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: let's do it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Texans matchup coming up.

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Speaker 3: I'm breaking down the Ultimate eleven plays from the win

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Speaker 3: over Cincinnati, which which took a little while. I had

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Speaker 3: to take some creative I had to take some creative stances.

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Speaker 3: So like the number three play is actually four plays

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Speaker 3: at number three, the number one play is actually two plays.

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Speaker 1: So are you like Dick Vitel and the NCAA tournament

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Speaker 1: field having about eighty teams.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 3: So it's technically the Ultimate eleven, but they all sort

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Speaker 3: of tie in. Like, for example, I'll give you a

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Speaker 3: little sneak peak, So number three is four plays because

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Speaker 3: it's the winning drive. Because it's not the winning drive,

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Speaker 3: it's actually the drive after Jamar Chase makes the touchdown

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Speaker 3: catch because it's twenty seventeen. You got to answer, right, yeah,

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Speaker 3: got answers ten seconds in the ten seconds left in

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Speaker 3: the third quarter, and the first place CJ hits Noel

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Speaker 3: Brown thirty four yards. Bang, Okay, that's the start of

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Speaker 3: the answer. Then they flipped the field for the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 3: Then hutch gets a run for like seventeen eighteen yards,

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Speaker 3: Devin hits a run for like eleven yards down to

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Speaker 3: the eight CJ scrambles in answer twenty seven to seventeen huge.

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Speaker 3: So it was like, I couldn't pick one of those

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Speaker 3: four plays. I was like, I feel like all of

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Speaker 3: them are important. Yeah, the scoring play was great, but

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Speaker 3: I felt like all four had to kind of go

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Speaker 3: right there together.

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Speaker 1: So that's why they're all at number three. So I

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Speaker 1: just gave you number three.

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Speaker 3: So but you can listen to it because it's all

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Speaker 3: your calls and it's I don't know, I just try

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Speaker 3: to tell the story of the game in a different way.

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Speaker 2: But it was just interesting to go back and watch.

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Speaker 3: I love to go back and watch the game and

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Speaker 3: then listen to and think back to what we were

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Speaker 3: talking about during the game at that time.

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Speaker 2: And you know, there were so many, like you know,

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Speaker 2: key moments.

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Speaker 3: But one of the things that stood out to me

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Speaker 3: Mark was in that game against Cincinnati. I loved how

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Speaker 3: Bobby Slowick went back to some concepts he had used

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Speaker 3: earlier in the game, late in the game, with the

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Speaker 3: big game within the game, and even though they didn't

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Speaker 3: work earlier, he thought something was there, so he went

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Speaker 3: back to it as for example, the Noah play, the

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Speaker 3: Noah play at the end, and Noah makes a great play.

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Speaker 2: We talked about this a little bit.

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Speaker 3: They ran that play on third down after the DHC interception,

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Speaker 3: so DC picks it off. There's like eight minutes left.

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Speaker 3: It's like third and four, third and five. They ran

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Speaker 3: that same play to Noah. They ran it exactly the

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Speaker 3: same and third down there and the pass just went

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Speaker 3: through Noah's hands and I can just you know, I'm

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Speaker 3: just envisioning Bobby on the sideline going, that's there if

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Speaker 3: we want it.

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Speaker 2: So in third down with fifteen seconds left, what do

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Speaker 2: you do?

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Speaker 1: He went right back to that play and that wasn't

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Speaker 1: it worked long before, right right, It was just a

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Speaker 1: few minutes later.

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Speaker 2: That was fourth in the fourth quarter. Why not it again? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, the throw to Noah, sorry, the throw of Dalton

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Speaker 3: Schultz on third down. They threw that route to to

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Speaker 3: Dalton in the first quarter, so that one they sat

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Speaker 3: on it came back to it on third and six,

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Speaker 3: which when you. I did a illustrader of that play.

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Speaker 3: There's so many things wrong with it. A. The snap

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Speaker 3: got that one, and Laramie false starts like you wouldn't believe.

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Speaker 1: Because he's anticipating inanding the play clock, he's anticipating it.

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Speaker 3: CJ's clapping his hands. He's back there just clapping his

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Speaker 3: hands like I want the ball, I want the ball.

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Speaker 3: So he's not even actually looking at Dalton. The crazy

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Speaker 3: thing is because I'm I'm right in line with that play, Mark,

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Speaker 3: I'm looking at it. Dalton is looking at CJ. And

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Speaker 3: I'm thinking, oh, does he know what play to run?

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Speaker 3: And then the Bengals played like a kind of a

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Speaker 3: then they run back to a cover three. Well, in

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Speaker 3: a cover three, there's a lot of open spots, but

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Speaker 3: the seams are open, and Dalton recognize it, CJ recognize it.

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Speaker 2: Dalton just got right in the whole scene. CJ put

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Speaker 2: it on wrote this one down as well.

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Speaker 1: And I know you love it when other guys break

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Speaker 1: down Texas plays because you do this twenty four to seven.

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Speaker 1: But so a lot of people saw that one. A

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Speaker 1: lot of people heard what you just said. CJ recognizes things.

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Speaker 1: He's got wisdom beyond his years.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, I'm twenty two.

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Speaker 1: He just turned twenty two years old, and he's doing

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Speaker 1: this to the league. All right, I'm gonna look, it's

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Speaker 1: seven o'clock Tuesday night show.

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Speaker 2: We're all over the place here.

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Speaker 1: Of course, you want a good quote here, and I

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Speaker 1: don't have the audio. But Larry Bird when he came

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Speaker 1: into the NBA, he said this later, he said, I

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Speaker 1: saw that I could play well.

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Speaker 2: I saw that.

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Speaker 1: He actually said, he went as far as to say,

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Speaker 1: this lead's nothing. I can dominate this league. That's what

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Speaker 1: Larry said about himself as a rookie. I'm not saying

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Speaker 1: CJ thinks that, but he's acting like it. He's acting like, Hey,

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Speaker 1: I could be one of the best quarterbacks in the league.

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Speaker 1: Why not? Why can't I do it? And he's going

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Speaker 1: out and doing it. The great ones Johnny make it

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Speaker 1: look easy, don't they. They make it look like, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: shouldn't everybody just throw the ball to the guy on

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Speaker 1: the run and hit him for a big play and

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Speaker 1: all Brown wide open in the secondary and you find

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Speaker 1: him shouldn't that always happen for people?

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Speaker 2: Yet it doesn't, but it happens to CJ.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we when we're talking to Demko and I asked

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Speaker 1: him a question about because the Bengals threw some stuff

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Speaker 1: at CJ early and and throughout that game, and then

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Speaker 1: it just got to a point where they're like, man,

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Speaker 1: what do we do now?

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Speaker 3: And so that's why they ran that kind of disguise.

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Speaker 3: But there's so many plays that that remind me of,

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Speaker 3: like his growth after the long throat, a tank that

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Speaker 3: gets past interference.

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Speaker 2: Uh huh. The Bengals bring big play.

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Speaker 3: Bengals bring six or seven that one more that we

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Speaker 3: could block, because I want to say we were we

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Speaker 3: weren't empty because Devon was all the way out to

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Speaker 3: and they bring more they can block.

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Speaker 1: And so I think it was Jermaine Pratt. Pratt is

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Speaker 3: And CJ knows, I gotta get rid of this thing,

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Speaker 3: and I think he knew it as soon as the

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Speaker 3: I got to get rid of this thing quickly, so

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Speaker 3: Pratt is coming off the edge, Devin just runs that

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Speaker 3: gets it right to Devin before they can even get

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Speaker 3: a hand on him, and Devin catches it. Weaves down

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Speaker 3: to about the six yard line, first down, and Devin

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Speaker 3: took it into the next play. But beating the blitz

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Speaker 3: as a rookie, like I Mark, I can't.

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Speaker 2: I don't know how he's been able to do it. Now.

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Speaker 2: This hasn't been perfect. I mean, look, he.

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Speaker 3: Threw an interception with three minutes and thirty seconds to go,

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Speaker 3: and I'm sure that he's heard a lot about that

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Speaker 3: from Demico and from Bobby et cetera. But he beat

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Speaker 3: the blitz, he read disguises, he threw on the run.

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Speaker 3: I mean, with all the things that fell rookie quarterbacks,

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Speaker 3: and it feels like he's just knocking those dominoes one

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Speaker 1: Both of his intercepts, the first one turns out to

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Speaker 1: be a first down for his team, the second one

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Speaker 1: it just set up more heroes for himself. Yeah, exactly,

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Speaker 1: So neither of them have cost them a game.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I find that interesting with CJ. Stroud.

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Speaker 1: There's something about him. This is pretty obvious to say

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Speaker 1: right now. I love the start he's off to and

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Speaker 1: everybody does. And Johnny, They're getting a lot of love

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Speaker 1: around the league. They are the national pundits. You know why,

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Speaker 1: because when you're one of those guys in the ESPN

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Speaker 1: studio or NFL network or wherever you are, what's hot

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Speaker 1: to talk about right now? Oh, the Texans are hot.

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Speaker 1: This quarterback is hot. This guy is really amazing. Let's

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Speaker 1: talk about them. Well, I'm not going to go as

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Speaker 1: far as to say the Texans are now the hunted,

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Speaker 1: but they kind of are because what happens to the

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Speaker 1: other teams when they see a team get talked about

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Speaker 1: all the time. Let's wipe the smiles off their faces.

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Speaker 1: They're coming for you. You cannot sneak up on anybody anymore.

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Speaker 2: Right now.

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Speaker 1: That you did that to Cincinnati, and I think that's

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Speaker 1: the one that finally did it right. It should have

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Speaker 1: happened after you beat Jacksonville and Pittsburgh. Should have happened

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Speaker 1: the Buccaneers.

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Speaker 2: Cincinnati, we talked about it. They had a Thursday night.

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Speaker 1: Are coming up with Baltimore, huge game, But how about

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Speaker 1: that heading into Thursday night, both the Ravens and the

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Speaker 1: Bengals are coming off losses four days earlier. But anyway,

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Speaker 1: after what the Texans did at Cincinnati, there's no shot

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Speaker 1: at sneaking up on anybody. This team is a playoff

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Speaker 1: contender for sure. And Arizona's going to come in here

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Speaker 1: and try to take the lunch money and give you

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Speaker 1: their best game. And Kyler Murray whirling dervish, he is

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Speaker 1: going to give you everything he's got. So buckle up

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Speaker 1: because now you're the darlings. Yes, but people are going

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Speaker 1: to start to the opponent really not like you because

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Speaker 1: they not fear you necessarily. Maybe they do, but they

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Speaker 1: have the kind of respect that you have their attention

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Speaker 1: in a way you didn't have before.

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Speaker 2: I think psychologically, I.

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Speaker 3: Think after beating Pittsburgh, I think people were wanting, especially Nashally,

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Speaker 3: they were talking about the Texas. They were wanting to

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Speaker 3: jump on, you know, a little bit more of that

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Speaker 3: hype bandwagon. And then the Texans went to the Texas.

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Speaker 3: What ta Atlanta lost? Yeah, and now CJ ended up

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Speaker 3: making that throw a Dalton that just charged us all up.

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Speaker 2: And then of course we weren't able to hang on.

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Speaker 3: But I think at that point, I think people were like, well,

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Speaker 3: you know, CJ's an story, but you know, the team

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Speaker 3: around and whatever is not not you know, up to

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Speaker 3: snuff or whatever. How are you want to however you

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Speaker 3: want to say it. But I think everybody you say this,

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Speaker 3: what's your phrase?

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Speaker 2: All boats? What they right?

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Speaker 3: And I think that's what everybody else is doing, like, hey,

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Speaker 3: CJ's playing at this level. We got to get to

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Speaker 3: that level. We gotta we got to match that. We

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Speaker 3: got to help him out. But it's just you know,

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Speaker 3: there's there's I'll tell you what, there's a little bit

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Speaker 3: of a pied piper attitude to him. Attitude of pipe

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Speaker 3: We're gonna look, but you know, look, we're gonna play hard,

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Speaker 1: How about that not one texansz went two at the time,

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Speaker 3: And then the next week the Steelers are kind of like, eh,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and now that's gonna go away. It is a

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Speaker 2: And I feel bad for him that he can't.

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Speaker 2: Buzzer Buffalo playoffs? Playoffs? I think that might be it.

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Speaker 2: I mean, how many games have you won since then?

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Speaker 1: You go four, four and three of eleven games that

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: Something that you and I talked about with Nick Cassio

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Speaker 2: We're just over the halfway point.

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Speaker 1: see what happens from here. You're just over the halfway point.

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Speaker 1: You've got eight games to go. That is half a

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Speaker 1: I sound like the whole quartile of the court tile, whatever.

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Speaker 2: The case is with Jim Urse.

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Speaker 1: But you got a lot of football left, is my

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Speaker 2: But they've had to use what they've had to use.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they've had to navigate through this, and it's

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Speaker 2: Over one guy over another potentially.

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Speaker 3: One of the two words you just used three words,

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Speaker 3: figure it out, figure it out. I remember when Demiko

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think that's the best thing to do.

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Speaker 2: We'll figure it out. You got to do what you

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Speaker 3: So you've got and you get man Ameondolo hasn't kicked

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Speaker 1: You have two? You the fifty dollar race. I think

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Speaker 3: Five for five in field goal makes the last two

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Speaker 2: How about that.

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Speaker 3: That's incredible. That that is absolutely nuts up. That does

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Speaker 1: But you have a dude missed it at the buzzer

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Speaker 3: Oh man, I hate that for Ken Dorsey, but you

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Speaker 3: know it'll be interesting because I think the thought that

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Speaker 2: We'll show you, We'll show you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you now have to change your approach in some sense,

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Speaker 3: not that you lose that. Hey, we'll still show you,

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Speaker 3: But after the first couple of drives, even though the

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Speaker 3: I felt I felt good about how the defense was playing,

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Speaker 3: I think that's the thing to me, Mark, is we

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Speaker 1: Yeah, on the road against an AFC change game combatant

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Speaker 2: Year, and we could debate those turnovers.

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Speaker 1: You know, you turn it over on downs because you

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Speaker 3: Oh that was a touchdown too. That was a touchdown.

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Speaker 3: That was going to be a touchdown if CJ got

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Speaker 2: What was gonna happen? They were gonna remember.

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Speaker 3: The play that the Chargers ran against us in twenty

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, fourth down against remember that he used were

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Speaker 3: He just couldn't like that play call. Yeah, And so

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Speaker 1: You lost a turnover battle and still won the game

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Speaker 3: Whatever motor runs for one fifty, that would have been

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Speaker 3: one fifty. How about that Mark three hundred and fifty

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Speaker 2: When's the last time that's happened in the league? I

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Speaker 1: And I thought you're gonna ask me about the Texans,

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Speaker 1: But I'm sure there was a game where Foster went off,

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Speaker 3: But the last team and the last time it happened.

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Speaker 3: Three hundred fifty yard passer, one hundred and fifty yard receiver,

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Speaker 2: Who was it?

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Speaker 1: It's Inideapolis Colts, Peyton Manning, Marshall Falk and Torrent Small

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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety eight, twenty five years and the Texans did

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Speaker 1: So Andre in the Jacksonville game in twenty twelve had

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Speaker 2: The game went pretty good.

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Speaker 2: But think about it. Think about the three names that

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Speaker 3: I told you that the receiver and the running back

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Speaker 3: were Noah Brown and Devin Singletary at the beginning of

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Speaker 3: the year, you've been like, what Damien get hurt?

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah he did. What about all the receivers and

443
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Speaker 2: Noah Brown?

444
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Speaker 3: Like, really, I think we thought that Noah Brown would

445
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Speaker 3: be in the mix, and we kind of thought there

446
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Speaker 3: might be neo kind of a I don't wan to

447
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Speaker 3: say committee approach, but who cares whether you got a

448
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Speaker 3: number one or not or whatever. But what Noah has

449
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Speaker 3: done in the last couple of weeks has been incredible.

450
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Speaker 3: But since nineteen ninety eight, no quarterback, running back receiver

451
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Speaker 3: have hit the three fifty one fifty one fifty says

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Speaker 3: nineteen ninety eight.

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Speaker 1: I love that there's no number one receiver. I think

454
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Speaker 1: that is dominal. Sometimes I think, oh, it's definitely Tank.

455
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Speaker 1: Oh wait a minute, but Brown's putting up all these numbers.

456
00:20:04,880 --> 00:20:06,520
Speaker 1: But wait a minute, he just came from out of

457
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Speaker 1: nowhere seemingly Nico's out right now, No, it's definitely Nico.

458
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Speaker 1: Now it's Robert Woods because he's a third down best friend.

459
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Speaker 1: He's the steadying force. Who's the number one nobody? Is

460
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Speaker 1: it Dalton Schultz pass catching tight end? No, it's everybody.

461
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Speaker 2: It's c J.

462
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Speaker 1: Stroud and his merry band of pass catchers. That's how

463
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Speaker 1: I define them. That's who they are, all right. Quickly

464
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Speaker 1: here on Denzel Peraman. Three games out with the suspension

465
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Speaker 1: for being too aggressive with the helmet too many times,

466
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Speaker 1: and they're gonna have to get along without him. Does

467
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Speaker 1: Henry toatoa come back? That would really help? Obviously he's

468
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Speaker 1: the leading tackler on the team going into last week.

469
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Speaker 1: Blake Cashman, Yes please, Jake Hanson, yes please. At some point, boy,

470
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Speaker 1: you're gonna have to get some play. You're gonna really

471
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Speaker 1: need Henry back. So you know Corey Littleton still here.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes we've got a like, yeah, who's still practice squad?

473
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Speaker 2: Is right? Couch back on the practice squad.

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Speaker 3: It's just tough because Denzel has been playing the run

475
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Speaker 3: really really well. Now there there, he was struggling a

476
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Speaker 3: little bit and coverage and you can tell the Bengals,

477
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Speaker 3: you know, caught on in the second half of something

478
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Speaker 3: that we talked about during the game. That was when

479
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Speaker 3: my sideline hits like, they're gonna look up Denzel wherever

480
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Speaker 3: he is. But he was instrumental in shutting the run down.

481
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Speaker 3: And when you see Denzel, you're like, wait him. He

482
00:21:28,640 --> 00:21:32,280
Speaker 3: hits like a mac truck and so he leaves. He

483
00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:36,359
Speaker 3: leaves an imprint and he tackles well, and that I

484
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Speaker 3: think was something that the Texas needed to do even better.

485
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Speaker 3: And I thought they tackled pretty well for the most

486
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Speaker 3: part the other day against the Bengals. So they're gonna

487
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Speaker 3: they're gonna miss that. I don't think there's there's any

488
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Speaker 3: question in that. However, the good news is to me,

489
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Speaker 3: Christian Harris has gotten better and better and better by

490
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Speaker 3: the week and that has been a huge, huge development

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Speaker 3: for this team.

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Speaker 2: Within the season.

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Speaker 1: Yes, and I I love seeing that because too many

494
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Speaker 1: times we might we in general collective media, whatever the

495
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Speaker 1: case may be, write a guy off or at least

496
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Speaker 1: just dismiss him because it's not showing up the way

497
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Speaker 1: you hoped. But with Christian Harris, he had that moment

498
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Speaker 1: last year. He missed all that time last year, he

499
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Speaker 1: had that moment in the Tennessee game with the pick

500
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Speaker 1: early on. This year had some moments, but there's a

501
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Speaker 1: lot of competition in that linebacking crew, right. They have

502
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Speaker 1: a lot of guys they can play, and he, within

503
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Speaker 1: the context the course of the season is responding to

504
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Speaker 1: the challenge and upping his game because I noticed him

505
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Speaker 1: a lot more and that's just for me. He's around

506
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Speaker 1: the ball, he's getting there, and that would really come

507
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Speaker 1: in handy for this week because now you're playing Arizona

508
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Speaker 1: and James.

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Speaker 2: Connor is real good.

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Speaker 1: He's a five yard per carry kind of guy, real physical, big,

511
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Speaker 1: can run very well.

512
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Speaker 2: And then you have Kyler Murray.

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Speaker 1: So not only have to deal with Connor with the

514
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Speaker 1: ground game, you got to deal with chasing Kyler Murray

515
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Speaker 1: around potentially, and he could just go nuts on you

516
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Speaker 1: with his legs and throw the ball pretty well as well.

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Speaker 3: I think one of the things about Christian is playing

518
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Speaker 3: with a little more discipline. And I don't mean it

519
00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:09,760
Speaker 3: in a bad way like, oh, he was totally undisciplined before,

520
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Speaker 3: But I just think when you're learning a new defense

521
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Speaker 3: and there's a lot asked of him because he is

522
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Speaker 3: that fast. You know how Tyler Boyd's you know, long

523
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Speaker 3: catch and run. Your DHD knocked him out of bounds.

524
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Speaker 3: Forty eight was making ground real quickly on Boyd. I

525
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Speaker 3: don't know if you would have caught him if DHD

526
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Speaker 3: wasn't there. But Christian Harris was flying down the field

527
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Speaker 3: at that point. He's now he's starting to become that guy.

528
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Speaker 3: We thought he would be kind of the chest piece.

529
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Speaker 3: But you've got speed at linebacker with Cash and with Christian,

530
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Speaker 3: and you need them on a field a lot. But

531
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Speaker 3: you need to have Henry Toatoa in there as well.

532
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Speaker 3: That rotation is kind of like a corner. You had

533
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Speaker 3: that rotation of Shaq and Stingley and Nelson rotating the

534
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Speaker 3: three getting them all out there kept everybody fresh, which

535
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Speaker 3: I thought was good with Nelson missing all week, with

536
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Speaker 3: sting coming off of IR, it kept everybody fresh. I

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Speaker 3: think the same thing in linebacker, depending on how you

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Speaker 3: go about it.

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Speaker 2: Those three guys kind of rotating.

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Speaker 3: But you also got to get something from you know,

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Speaker 3: maybe Neville hewittt in some run game situations, and with

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Speaker 3: Jake Hansen as well at linebackers, so there's gonna have

543
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Speaker 3: to be some stepping up and stepping into the void

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Speaker 3: a little bit.

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Speaker 2: Here's what I don't know.

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Speaker 1: If he's suspended, I guess you're go on a suspended

547
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Speaker 1: list or do you get to bring another Do you

548
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Speaker 1: get to bring somebody to count.

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Speaker 2: Of fifty three? I don't think it does. I don't

550
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Speaker 2: think it does either.

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Speaker 1: He goes on a suspended list, let's just make it so,

552
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Speaker 1: Johnny Yah. Yeah, I think that's what you get to

553
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Speaker 1: call the league and say this is what it needs

554
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Speaker 1: to be. If it's not so, that enables you to

555
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Speaker 1: maybe bring another guy onto the fifties.

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Speaker 2: I think so. I think that's what it is.

557
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Speaker 1: They've like we said, the IR call ups. Whoever's on

558
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Speaker 1: practice squad? How many more elevations do you have from

559
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Speaker 1: the practice squad?

560
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Speaker 2: You have that to deal with with.

561
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Speaker 1: Madam and Doola because if Fairbaron's on IR, that's four games, right, yep.

562
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Speaker 1: Amon Dola only gets three, So you're gonna have to

563
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Speaker 1: sign him at some point.

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Speaker 2: If he's still gonna be the guy. Absolutely, you assume

565
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Speaker 2: he would be. Absolutely. There are a lot of things.

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Speaker 3: I mean, this is where you know because of that,

567
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Speaker 3: because you've had the issues with IR. Yeah, it's been

568
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Speaker 3: it's been great that guys have stepped up, guys have

569
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Speaker 3: come off the couch. Like DHC, what a game he

570
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Speaker 3: played the other day. Really played well, I mean I

571
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Speaker 3: really played well. Seven tackles had to pick, really really

572
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Speaker 3: played well. Going back and watching the game just seeing

573
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Speaker 3: what he was able to do. But all those machinations

574
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Speaker 3: in the movement and this and that, it's been great.

575
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Speaker 3: We'll figure it out. But you now have to figure

576
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Speaker 3: it out with an ie on. Okay, we've only got

577
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Speaker 3: two more IR call ups and so we've got to

578
00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:39,159
Speaker 3: be we've got to be careful about that. So you

579
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Speaker 3: know the next game that if you did decide to

580
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Speaker 3: bring Kaymie back off of IR, the next game would.

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Speaker 2: Be the the Jets game. Yeah. And here's the other thing.

582
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Speaker 3: If you're dealing with guys that have you know, quad issues,

583
00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:54,840
Speaker 3: you know, soft tissue stuff, you start getting into cold

584
00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:55,479
Speaker 3: weather stuff.

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Speaker 2: You know, that's another factor that can that could play

586
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Speaker 2: and deal with it.

587
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Speaker 1: And then I have Tennessee on the road as well.

588
00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:04,359
Speaker 1: And we remember Tennessee in December last year around Christmas.

589
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Speaker 1: Oh not good, you've met us for a couple more questions.

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Speaker 2: Of course, all.

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Speaker 1: Right, we'll get to the power rankings. I want to

592
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Speaker 1: get into this and some national thoughts on the Texans.

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Speaker 1: It's happening here on Texans Radio, all right, continuing the

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Speaker 1: conversation here on Texans All Access. We stretch out here

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Speaker 1: on a Tuesday night, have a good time and having

596
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Speaker 1: a good time in the power rankings. Could be the

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Speaker 1: Houston Texans tenth on a lot of them. I saw them?

598
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Speaker 1: Where were they on ESPN? Because this disappointed me. Not

599
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Speaker 1: that I want to get bent out of shape about

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Speaker 1: power rankings, which have absolutely no bearing on anything. This

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Speaker 1: is the most meaningless thing. In fact, if I go

602
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Speaker 1: back twenty years ago, did we even have power rankings

603
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Speaker 1: in the NFL? It just sort of developed and now

604
00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:49,800
Speaker 1: it's this debated thing, but it's good for us.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Tuesdays they come out in most cases, and that's

606
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Speaker 3: when everybody you know puts them out, typically on a Tuesday.

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Speaker 2: So it's weird because that's today.

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Speaker 3: And then of course college football does their rankings on

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Speaker 3: Tuesday evenings. So it's always interesting with power rankings because

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Speaker 3: you're right, they don't mean a damn thing, and yet

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Speaker 3: I love reading them.

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Speaker 2: I love looking at them for recruiting.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, that doesn't matter. It's the Texans at thirteen

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00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:18,000
Speaker 1: in the ESPN Power Rankings. The Steelers are at twelve.

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Speaker 1: Are they familiar with the final score of the outing

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Speaker 1: that took place here earlier this season?

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Speaker 2: The Texans and the Steelers Steelers six and three.

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Speaker 1: I'll be rooting for them this weekend because they're playing

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Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns. We'll get to them in a moment.

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Speaker 2: Then the steelerswks at six and three.

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Speaker 1: The Bengals are a tenth, so I guess they're not

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Speaker 1: going to drop you down too far after your last

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Speaker 1: performance whatever happened. But come on, ESPN Power Rankings. The

624
00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:43,520
Speaker 1: Texans should be ahead of the Bengals, you know, same record,

625
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Speaker 1: and they just beat them.

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Speaker 3: You know how, I know that whoever put those rankings

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Speaker 3: together didn't watch the game the other day, because had

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Speaker 3: you watched the game the other day or most of

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Speaker 3: the game, you would have walked out of there going

630
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Speaker 3: the better team was wearing white.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you're right, be on a shadow of a doubt,

632
00:27:58,119 --> 00:27:59,919
Speaker 2: got a shadow question, no question.

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Speaker 1: Now they had the forty nine Ers at eighth last week.

634
00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:06,320
Speaker 1: They raised their power ranking two third, and why not?

635
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Speaker 1: They just blew the doors off Jacksonville in North Florida.

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Speaker 2: Jacks, Jacks. The Jags are hang on, hold, on hold

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Speaker 2: the phone. Where are the Jacks? Ninth?

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00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:20,959
Speaker 1: So the Jags are ninth, Cleveland eighth, Dallas seventh, Miami sixth,

639
00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:24,760
Speaker 1: Baltimore five. So Baltimore didn't take too big a hit.

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Speaker 1: They went from three to five. This is like a

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Speaker 1: college football poem, was than an NFL power record. I

642
00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:32,560
Speaker 1: think the fun way to do this is to punish

643
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Speaker 1: you badly, because allow me to take a trip to

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Speaker 1: the AFC standings. Never mind division, Johnny, you have sixteen

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00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:45,240
Speaker 1: teams per conference. So the AFC have sixteen teams. Twelve

646
00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:49,520
Speaker 1: of the teams are between four and six victories. So

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Speaker 1: twelve of the teams are between four and five and

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Speaker 1: six and three. That's a lot of teams right there.

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Speaker 1: Every single one of those teams is still very much

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Speaker 1: in this race. Even the Titans at three and six,

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Speaker 1: if they went on a tremendous run, could still be

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00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:04,320
Speaker 1: in it.

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Speaker 2: What were the Jags last year? They were two and something, right.

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Speaker 3: They were like two and seven or two and six

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Speaker 3: and went on a run. Ended up there were two

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Speaker 3: and seven. I think they ended up ten and seven.

657
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Speaker 3: I think is what it was.

658
00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:16,760
Speaker 2: They want a run. It was about this time last year.

659
00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:19,000
Speaker 3: They got through that Ravens game and you're like, oh,

660
00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:21,840
Speaker 3: maybe they got something. Then all of a sudden momentum,

661
00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:24,960
Speaker 3: Magic have beating Dallas. Yep, you know, they beat Tennessee

662
00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:26,360
Speaker 3: on that last week of the season.

663
00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:28,240
Speaker 1: So they snuck up on a lot of teams that

664
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Speaker 1: they did sneak up on anybody. Now everybody's aware of

665
00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:34,160
Speaker 1: what they can do. And what about the Titans last year?

666
00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:37,160
Speaker 1: Halfway through looking good and then they melt down with

667
00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:41,240
Speaker 1: seven consecutive losses, including the AFC South Championship game de

668
00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:44,560
Speaker 1: facto championship game between themselves and the Jaguars on that

669
00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:48,320
Speaker 1: week eighteen Saturday tilt. But the point is this, there's

670
00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:51,080
Speaker 1: so many teams of the shot Jacksonville six and three,

671
00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:53,800
Speaker 1: Miami six and three, Pittsburgh sixth and three, The Browns

672
00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:54,560
Speaker 1: are six and three.

673
00:29:54,840 --> 00:29:55,720
Speaker 2: I just want to vomit.

674
00:29:56,080 --> 00:30:00,960
Speaker 1: Then the Texans Bengals five and four, Colts are five five. Look,

675
00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:03,400
Speaker 1: I'm not even writing off the Colts, are you kidding?

676
00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:05,720
Speaker 1: I know that was a disgusting victory over the New

677
00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:07,600
Speaker 1: England Patriots ten points, what was it?

678
00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:10,440
Speaker 2: Ten to seven? Ten to six, Oh my god, ten

679
00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:10,960
Speaker 2: to six.

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Speaker 1: We'll get to them in a second game, it mack,

681
00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:16,400
Speaker 1: but the Uh yeah, I wanted the Patriots to come

682
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:19,480
Speaker 1: through in that one. But the Colts at five and five,

683
00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:23,000
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna put it past them to do something interesting.

684
00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:25,560
Speaker 1: They're one and four at home, though, how about that?

685
00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:29,480
Speaker 2: That's bizarre. Yeah, that's absolutely bizarre that they're.

686
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Speaker 1: One and four at home. Yeah, that's weird. It's a

687
00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:35,760
Speaker 1: weird situation for them. But they still have Jonathan Taylor,

688
00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:38,920
Speaker 1: They've got some defensive players who can make plays for themselves,

689
00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:42,000
Speaker 1: and you still have to take them on in Week eighteen.

690
00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:45,080
Speaker 1: If you looked at the here's the schedule, they get

691
00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:48,800
Speaker 1: a buye week coming back from Germany home Tampa. All right,

692
00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:52,680
Speaker 1: that's anybody's game at Tennessee, anybody's game at.

693
00:30:52,520 --> 00:31:00,680
Speaker 3: Cincinnati home Pittsburgh tough at Falcons home Raiders, and then

694
00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:03,000
Speaker 3: us in the week eighteen. See that that's gotta be

695
00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:06,480
Speaker 3: the difference we've gotten from the NFC West, we got

696
00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:10,800
Speaker 3: the Cardinals, they got the Rams. The Rams beat them

697
00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:16,160
Speaker 3: by six. In the AFC West, we got the Broncos. Yeah,

698
00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:19,000
Speaker 3: they're getting the Raiders. It's like those games could be seven.

699
00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:21,240
Speaker 3: That Colts team is still kind of scary to me.

700
00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:21,640
Speaker 2: Gardner.

701
00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:24,680
Speaker 1: Minshew can just he can do some things. They've got

702
00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:25,480
Speaker 1: enough playmakers.

703
00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:28,680
Speaker 3: Josh downs Is, they're Tank Dell and he's at He

704
00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:31,240
Speaker 3: had a great it's ten to six. I think it

705
00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:33,680
Speaker 3: was ten to six. They got a third down. If

706
00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:35,400
Speaker 3: they can get off the Patris and get off the field,

707
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:39,400
Speaker 3: they got a shot. Minshew scrambles, throws one to Downs

708
00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:40,720
Speaker 3: and he lays out.

709
00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:41,320
Speaker 2: Mark.

710
00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:45,360
Speaker 3: He full on laid out twenty five yards down the field,

711
00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:46,320
Speaker 3: made to catch for a first down.

712
00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:47,880
Speaker 2: They were able to run another couple of minutes off

713
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Speaker 2: the clock.

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Speaker 1: Mark my words. Wow, that final game. I don't care

715
00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:53,479
Speaker 1: what the record is for the Colts. That is going

716
00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:54,720
Speaker 1: to be a pivotal game.

717
00:31:54,880 --> 00:32:01,400
Speaker 2: Yes, again again in a much different way, much different way.

718
00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:05,000
Speaker 1: You know it is. This thing is way too tight.

719
00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:07,400
Speaker 1: There's way too many things that can happen. Now you

720
00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:10,880
Speaker 1: bring up the Cardinals and the Broncos. I would love

721
00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:14,000
Speaker 1: to be playing the Cardinals and the Broncos a month ago. Yes,

722
00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:16,640
Speaker 1: but right now this is a different Denver team. You're

723
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Speaker 1: gonna face it a couple of weeks. This is a

724
00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:21,600
Speaker 1: different Cardinal team. We discussed that already with Kyler Murray,

725
00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:24,000
Speaker 1: James Connor. I mean, two weeks ago, you're not getting

726
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:27,080
Speaker 1: either one of these guys. Give me the Clayton tune Cardinals,

727
00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:30,720
Speaker 1: the ones that Cleveland got. That's a layup victory. That

728
00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:35,480
Speaker 1: was disgusting. How dare you give Cleveland Clayton tune? But

729
00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:37,520
Speaker 1: they had to make the Dobs trade when they did

730
00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:39,880
Speaker 1: in order to get it in before the deadline. Murray

731
00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:41,719
Speaker 1: wasn't quite They weren't going to trot Murray out there

732
00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:43,920
Speaker 1: in Cleveland, get them, let him get namored like that.

733
00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:48,160
Speaker 2: But that sucks. I'm sorry, life is unfair. You got

734
00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:48,760
Speaker 2: to deal with it.

735
00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:52,040
Speaker 3: But at least we get him here at our building. Yeah,

736
00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:54,840
Speaker 3: and as you know, CJ. Demico talked about, fill in

737
00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:57,720
Speaker 3: that building. Make it hard for Kyler, just make it

738
00:32:57,760 --> 00:33:00,560
Speaker 3: tough on him and get them frustrated, and then feed

739
00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:03,160
Speaker 3: off that juice. This team strikes me as a team

740
00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:07,560
Speaker 3: that feeds off of both positive negative juice, meaning Cincinnati's

741
00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:10,040
Speaker 3: fans are gonnamp it up, all right, watch this?

742
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:12,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, our fans amp it up. They're like, yeah, yeah,

743
00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:13,040
Speaker 2: let's go.

744
00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:15,640
Speaker 3: That feeds them too, So I'm just glad they were

745
00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:16,920
Speaker 3: playing both those games at home.

746
00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:20,640
Speaker 1: The Texans players believe, and that's what you need to

747
00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:22,880
Speaker 1: know right now, and that was clear early on in

748
00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:24,960
Speaker 1: the Bengals game, even though the Bengals scored in their

749
00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:25,480
Speaker 1: opening drive.

750
00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:26,920
Speaker 2: That's another thing about NFL games.

751
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:29,480
Speaker 1: How many times you see a team score on its

752
00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:31,640
Speaker 1: opening drive that not be heard from for a while,

753
00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:32,720
Speaker 1: sometimes never again.

754
00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:34,840
Speaker 2: Yes, straight, exact way.

755
00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:37,440
Speaker 1: So they clearly put the clamps on them, and that

756
00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:39,040
Speaker 1: was cool. You could tell they could play with the

757
00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:41,920
Speaker 1: Bengals and then some and they ended up closing out

758
00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:47,920
Speaker 1: the game in spectacular fashion. Other things we mentioned the Broncos.

759
00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:53,000
Speaker 1: The Buffalo Bills drop to five and five after losing

760
00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:54,080
Speaker 1: to Denver at home.

761
00:33:54,120 --> 00:33:56,040
Speaker 2: This is a crucial game for the Bills.

762
00:33:56,360 --> 00:33:57,960
Speaker 1: They go to six and fourth, they get the win,

763
00:33:58,520 --> 00:34:01,160
Speaker 1: they were within a missfield go the twelfth man on

764
00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:03,960
Speaker 1: the field in the field goal protection field goal blocking it,

765
00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:05,960
Speaker 1: so they don't get to win.

766
00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:07,160
Speaker 2: They go to five and five.

767
00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:09,399
Speaker 1: It's not over for them, but a lot of people

768
00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:12,800
Speaker 1: are saying this could close the window on the Bills.

769
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Speaker 1: I will not write them out of the playoff picture.

770
00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:16,600
Speaker 1: I know they're not in right now, but they've got

771
00:34:16,640 --> 00:34:18,640
Speaker 1: games on their schedule, and they've got a chance to

772
00:34:18,680 --> 00:34:20,560
Speaker 1: get right back in it if they play the way

773
00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:23,600
Speaker 1: they're capable of. But Ken Dorsey loses his job. Now

774
00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:27,160
Speaker 1: it's Joe Brady, who, once upon a time genius, Joe Brady,

775
00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:29,160
Speaker 1: who has a chance to resurrect this thing.

776
00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:30,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gonna be interesting to watch.

777
00:34:31,080 --> 00:34:34,560
Speaker 3: And they got to get Buffalo Bills Josh Allen back

778
00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:38,080
Speaker 3: and lose Wyoming Cowboys Josh Allen just you know, flipping

779
00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:40,760
Speaker 3: with the football. Even on their one of their best plays,

780
00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:44,480
Speaker 3: James Cook's run, he dribbles it fifteen yards downfield and it.

781
00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:48,040
Speaker 2: Comes right back to him. I mean, they're just they're

782
00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:51,279
Speaker 2: flipping with the ball. I was listening to that, so

783
00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:52,439
Speaker 2: I didn't see that play.

784
00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:55,200
Speaker 1: I'm listening to Harlan he said, fumbles, the ball bounces

785
00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:56,960
Speaker 1: right back to him, and he's calling the yard lines.

786
00:34:56,960 --> 00:34:59,359
Speaker 1: In between all that and thinking, what the heck does

787
00:34:59,400 --> 00:34:59,880
Speaker 1: this look like?

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Speaker 3: It looked like it looked like God Sham God with

789
00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:04,839
Speaker 3: ball on a string. Like it was incredible what he

790
00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:09,120
Speaker 3: what he did? Reference Yeah, I was like, oh my god,

791
00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:12,000
Speaker 3: were you in college when God Sham God was a pro?

792
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Speaker 2: I was just out of college. I would have. I

793
00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:15,000
Speaker 2: would have definitely gone.

794
00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:18,000
Speaker 3: I went to go see Eric Murdoch at Providence, which

795
00:35:18,040 --> 00:35:18,960
Speaker 3: was funny enough itself.

796
00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:22,319
Speaker 2: Emt they called it Brown play Providence in basketball when

797
00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:24,200
Speaker 2: you were at Bread I did. We never did well.

798
00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:26,759
Speaker 1: We never did with the dunkin Donuts Center or whatever

799
00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:29,800
Speaker 1: they were, we never did well. They typically played that

800
00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:32,040
Speaker 1: one early in the season, like when we were we

801
00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:34,319
Speaker 1: were still practicing, so a lot of times I didn't

802
00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:35,799
Speaker 1: end up getting a chance to go to that, and

803
00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:37,719
Speaker 1: then one time we I can't remember why I didn't go,

804
00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:39,320
Speaker 1: but yeah.

805
00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:41,120
Speaker 3: We played him, but it was it was never good.

806
00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:44,160
Speaker 3: But God sham God was after that. But all Austin

807
00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:46,279
Speaker 3: Kurzier was like three or four years after I was out,

808
00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:48,480
Speaker 3: But I would have definitely gone on seeing him.

809
00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:49,439
Speaker 2: But that was James Cook.

810
00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:52,279
Speaker 1: It just felt like the it just feels like the

811
00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:56,240
Speaker 1: bills are just so messy. Yeah, and and and and everything.

812
00:35:56,239 --> 00:35:59,279
Speaker 1: It's just like yeah, and I don't I don't get it.

813
00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:00,880
Speaker 1: If like Sean mc it's a good coach. But you

814
00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:04,600
Speaker 1: know what Sean McDermott did Leslie Frasier. I don't know

815
00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:05,080
Speaker 1: what happened.

816
00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:07,320
Speaker 3: I don't know the story behind it, but Sean McDermott

817
00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:09,680
Speaker 3: took on defensive play calling duties after being just a

818
00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:12,720
Speaker 3: head coach for a while, and you take on more

819
00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:14,799
Speaker 3: as the head coach, don't do it.

820
00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:17,160
Speaker 1: I just think it's that it's difficult. That's a big

821
00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:20,040
Speaker 1: loss for them. I think that loss is bigger than

822
00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:22,719
Speaker 1: whatever Dorsey is not doing for them, because it takes

823
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:25,640
Speaker 1: McDermott's attention away from things. I don't care what a

824
00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:29,160
Speaker 1: head coach says. The more you do yeah, the less

825
00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:32,040
Speaker 1: you're doing some other things. And even Peyton, I'm watching

826
00:36:32,040 --> 00:36:35,320
Speaker 1: his face buried in the Denny's menu, and I'm thinking,

827
00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:37,640
Speaker 1: I know he's a good coach, and obviously Denver's playing

828
00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:39,080
Speaker 1: a whole lot better. And we'll talk about them in

829
00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:41,880
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks, but I still don't like it.

830
00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:44,920
Speaker 1: Sometimes when they do that, it just makes me feel

831
00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:47,280
Speaker 1: like certain other things are not getting enough attention.

832
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:49,239
Speaker 3: And I know that that. Some people say, well, hey,

833
00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:51,920
Speaker 3: wait a second, you guys are hypocrites. Demko the defensive

834
00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:54,359
Speaker 3: play color. Yeah, but he's got Matt Burke next to him.

835
00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:57,239
Speaker 3: Matt Burke has been a defensive coordinator. Matt Burke and

836
00:36:57,280 --> 00:36:59,480
Speaker 3: he worked very very closely with that I don't know

837
00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:02,719
Speaker 3: that the McDermot has that in Buffalo to have that particular

838
00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:05,520
Speaker 3: role to help him with that.

839
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Speaker 1: So have we seen time management mistakes? Have we seen organization? No,

840
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:11,920
Speaker 1: we've seen packed.

841
00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:14,520
Speaker 2: Off a phenomenal operation from the sideline.

842
00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:15,959
Speaker 1: Look, I'm not going to say they're gonna do everything

843
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:19,680
Speaker 1: perfect for the rest of eternity, but they have handled

844
00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:23,120
Speaker 1: themselves very well. However that operation is going whoever's in

845
00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:25,799
Speaker 1: his headset, however they have it going on, You tell

846
00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:28,120
Speaker 1: me this. I need this information when that occurs, so

847
00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:30,719
Speaker 1: I know what to call it. Whatever they're doing is

848
00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:33,480
Speaker 1: working right now, so you can't argue with it. If

849
00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:37,000
Speaker 1: it's not, then you can start hypothesizing and complaining or

850
00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:38,440
Speaker 1: picking it apart or whatever.

851
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:38,960
Speaker 2: Yeah.

852
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:40,879
Speaker 3: Absolutely, I mean the fact that the Bills have twelve

853
00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:44,400
Speaker 3: guys on the field for a field goal attempt is unforgivable.

854
00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:48,200
Speaker 3: I cannot actually, because there were two timeouts that happened

855
00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:50,520
Speaker 3: in between all of that, and then somebody's like, well,

856
00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:52,120
Speaker 3: you know we didn't.

857
00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:55,719
Speaker 2: We went from dime to field goal block. There's no

858
00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:57,440
Speaker 2: excuse on a field you.

859
00:37:57,400 --> 00:37:59,879
Speaker 1: Had almost a full play clock. Absolutely, the game clock

860
00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:02,960
Speaker 1: eight times before that. Yeah, absolutely, Johnny thanks a lot.

861
00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:03,880
Speaker 2: Appreciate it. Mark, thank you.

862
00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:06,680
Speaker 1: Coming out, final segment before we make way for Texans

863
00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:10,120
Speaker 1: match up. Biggest stories of the year not named CJ.

864
00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:10,560
Speaker 2: Straut.

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Speaker 1: We'll get into that and then some with Drew Doherty

866
00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:16,080
Speaker 1: next year on Texans Radio. Bringing it back here on

867
00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:19,719
Speaker 1: Texans Radio, Mark Vandermayer and Drew Doherty with you. So, Drew,

868
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:23,160
Speaker 1: you had that hour visit with Travis Johnson and George

869
00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:26,360
Speaker 1: Bant And I'm a little jelly about that because I

870
00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:28,919
Speaker 1: love doing anything with Travis on the air.

871
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:31,439
Speaker 2: And how was he How did you feel it went?

872
00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:35,000
Speaker 4: It was awesome. I mean, when you're with Travis, Travis's

873
00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:37,080
Speaker 4: life of the party. Travis was running the show and

874
00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:38,919
Speaker 4: it was a good time. I just kind of got

875
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:41,000
Speaker 4: us into the segment, got us out of the segment,

876
00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:44,000
Speaker 4: spiced in a few questions, and then you know, Travis

877
00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:47,239
Speaker 4: and George they had fun talking. Think about it. George

878
00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:49,520
Speaker 4: has been in the NFL for eight years now. Yeah,

879
00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:52,560
Speaker 4: he played with somebody that Travis, you and I know

880
00:38:52,640 --> 00:38:56,600
Speaker 4: pretty darn well, Dwayne Brown. So they talked about that

881
00:38:56,960 --> 00:38:59,800
Speaker 4: a lot of basketball chatter too, because George was a

882
00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:03,480
Speaker 4: great basketball player. His wife, he says even better, and

883
00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:07,000
Speaker 4: so we talked about how the children that they have

884
00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:10,480
Speaker 4: will soon and one day become like they're basically like

885
00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:12,239
Speaker 4: the Promised ones or the Chosen ones.

886
00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:13,480
Speaker 2: Agents are listening.

887
00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:16,279
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, So it was fun being in there with them,

888
00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:19,560
Speaker 4: and I think I think George appreciated it, because Travis

889
00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:24,359
Speaker 4: appreciates what George has gone through is doing and man,

890
00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:26,719
Speaker 4: George has been a rock on the right side of

891
00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:29,319
Speaker 4: the offensive line. And you know what he said about

892
00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:31,479
Speaker 4: one of the big takeaways from from what I had,

893
00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:35,319
Speaker 4: you know, unprompted, he talked about the catalyst for the

894
00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:37,920
Speaker 4: offensive line room has been Titus Howard.

895
00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:39,839
Speaker 2: Interesting, George is.

896
00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:42,640
Speaker 4: Playing the spot where Titus has played the last few years,

897
00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:45,719
Speaker 4: but Titus was injured and for the good of the team,

898
00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:48,880
Speaker 4: the selflessness from Titus Howard, he's been playing left guard

899
00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:50,400
Speaker 4: and he got into that a little bit and it

900
00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:52,799
Speaker 4: was really cool hearing him talk about it and hearing

901
00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:54,920
Speaker 4: what he said. And he thinks, you know, what we

902
00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:57,960
Speaker 4: saw in the run game in particular last Sunday is

903
00:39:58,040 --> 00:39:59,719
Speaker 4: maybe a sign of things to come. He thinks they're

904
00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:02,520
Speaker 4: kind of putting it all together and gelling And that's

905
00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:04,279
Speaker 4: cool with me because they were able to run it

906
00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:08,360
Speaker 4: thirty times with Devin Singletary. It's still erupt down the

907
00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:10,919
Speaker 4: field in the passing game with all the explosive plays,

908
00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:13,400
Speaker 4: which is something I talked about on the plane in

909
00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:16,560
Speaker 4: my nineteen forties announcer voice. Johnny talked about you guys

910
00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:17,839
Speaker 4: talk about it. Oh yeah, you did.

911
00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:20,560
Speaker 1: You did get into that in your nineteen forties voice.

912
00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:23,960
Speaker 1: They need explosive plays and they got them, and Noah

913
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:26,719
Speaker 1: Brown is just an explosive play machine. I mean, how

914
00:40:26,719 --> 00:40:29,160
Speaker 1: many catches did he have over twenty five yards?

915
00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:31,440
Speaker 4: The guy all but all but one of them, and

916
00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:33,719
Speaker 4: the one he didn't his helmet got ripped up and

917
00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:36,360
Speaker 4: ripped off, and they tacked on like fifteen more yards.

918
00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:36,760
Speaker 2: Almost.

919
00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:39,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, when he doesn't get it to twenty yards, you

920
00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:42,440
Speaker 1: thinking what's wrong on Noah Brown's catching.

921
00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:45,799
Speaker 4: He's averaging twenty three yards and change per catch since

922
00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:46,600
Speaker 4: he got back from injury.

923
00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:47,880
Speaker 2: It's over the last four crazy.

924
00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:50,080
Speaker 1: You can't make this stuff up all right along those

925
00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:52,399
Speaker 1: lines though, because your a reporter drew through and through

926
00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:57,040
Speaker 1: biggest stories not named CJ. Stroud on this team, and

927
00:40:57,239 --> 00:40:59,960
Speaker 1: I don't even know where to begin. Especially in recent weeks,

928
00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:02,960
Speaker 1: there's just so much you can choose from if you

929
00:41:03,080 --> 00:41:06,480
Speaker 1: don't include the quarterback. What are the biggest stories on

930
00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:09,680
Speaker 1: the Houston Texans. You don't have to go on any particular.

931
00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:12,279
Speaker 4: Order here, Yeah, in no particular order. I think right there,

932
00:41:12,360 --> 00:41:16,400
Speaker 4: that explosiveness. We've seen somebody as a pass catcher just

933
00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:19,720
Speaker 4: erupt and it's been a different face and a different

934
00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:23,560
Speaker 4: name almost every week. You know, Nico Collins has done it,

935
00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:25,960
Speaker 4: Tank Dell has done it. We've seen Noah Brown do

936
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:28,439
Speaker 4: it the last few weeks, Dalton Schultz. I mean that's

937
00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:31,319
Speaker 4: four names right there. And I still think we're gonna

938
00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:33,520
Speaker 4: see Robert Woods factor into that and be one of

939
00:41:33,560 --> 00:41:36,680
Speaker 4: those guys that cracks the sentry mark in a game.

940
00:41:37,200 --> 00:41:40,319
Speaker 4: So hey, why not Mechi? That could happen too.

941
00:41:40,440 --> 00:41:41,359
Speaker 2: I can't wait for that.

942
00:41:41,680 --> 00:41:43,960
Speaker 1: That is going to be a party when Mechi has

943
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:48,279
Speaker 1: a breakout game, four five, six, catches, big numbers, touchdown.

944
00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:50,840
Speaker 1: I can't wait for his first touchdown. That's going to

945
00:41:50,880 --> 00:41:52,840
Speaker 1: be huge. Can you imagine what that's going to do

946
00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:55,920
Speaker 1: for the team when they see Mechi catch a touchdown pass? Yeah,

947
00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:58,000
Speaker 1: it's gonna be huge because he's already doing the little

948
00:41:58,040 --> 00:42:01,839
Speaker 1: dirty work things blocking downfield. We had a great visit

949
00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:03,959
Speaker 1: with Ben McDaniels last week, and one of the things

950
00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:06,840
Speaker 1: I played the cut last night on The Demico Ryan

951
00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:09,759
Speaker 1: Show because it paints a picture of how important these

952
00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:12,239
Speaker 1: guys are to each other in the receiving room. We

953
00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:15,560
Speaker 1: talk about what they're doing as pass catchers, but as blockers.

954
00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:17,239
Speaker 2: He said, what work can you do on a play?

955
00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:19,400
Speaker 1: You know, I'm paraphrasing here, what else can you do

956
00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:22,520
Speaker 1: to affect the outcome of every particular play The ball's

957
00:42:22,560 --> 00:42:23,080
Speaker 1: not coming to you.

958
00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:24,160
Speaker 2: It's kind of like basketball.

959
00:42:24,239 --> 00:42:25,960
Speaker 1: Sure, you can set a pic, you can do this,

960
00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:27,200
Speaker 1: you can do that, you can play d you can

961
00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:28,000
Speaker 1: rebat well.

962
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:29,560
Speaker 2: In football, you can block.

963
00:42:29,640 --> 00:42:33,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, and Tank Dell with the Noah Brown big seventy

964
00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:36,080
Speaker 1: five yarder in the Tampa Bay game, all the other

965
00:42:36,120 --> 00:42:38,520
Speaker 1: guys blocking Mechi. This is what led me into this,

966
00:42:38,840 --> 00:42:41,920
Speaker 1: Mechi blocking well downfield when he's in the game, selfless,

967
00:42:42,160 --> 00:42:44,480
Speaker 1: he knows Hey, that's how you attract the attention to

968
00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:47,640
Speaker 1: the coaches not getting the ball a ton because he's

969
00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:49,200
Speaker 1: not in the game a ton And they have a

970
00:42:49,239 --> 00:42:51,840
Speaker 1: lot of guys making big plays right now. But you

971
00:42:51,920 --> 00:42:55,040
Speaker 1: have a lot of guys doing the little things outside

972
00:42:55,080 --> 00:42:56,960
Speaker 1: of catching the football that are making a difference.

973
00:42:57,080 --> 00:43:01,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, I just said Woods and Mechi. Don't forget Xavier Hutchinson.

974
00:43:01,040 --> 00:43:02,960
Speaker 4: He could factor into that group as well, because we've

975
00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:05,520
Speaker 4: seen him on the end of rounds and yeah, why

976
00:43:05,560 --> 00:43:07,640
Speaker 4: not him. He was an All American last year. I mean,

977
00:43:07,680 --> 00:43:09,279
Speaker 4: that's that's nothing to sneeze at it, I Wills.

978
00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:11,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, if they had even more injuries, which

979
00:43:11,680 --> 00:43:13,520
Speaker 1: I don't want to see, he could factor in a

980
00:43:13,560 --> 00:43:15,799
Speaker 1: lot more. Obviously CJ would be looking for him. But

981
00:43:15,880 --> 00:43:20,239
Speaker 1: CJ is so democratic with the football, you know, he

982
00:43:20,440 --> 00:43:23,720
Speaker 1: just you you have a catch, and you have a catch,

983
00:43:23,800 --> 00:43:26,160
Speaker 1: and no, it just happens to catch thirty yard passes.

984
00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:29,240
Speaker 1: But everybody gets the ball and it's wonderful to see.

985
00:43:29,280 --> 00:43:34,120
Speaker 1: All right, other stories. The defense has had moments, There's

986
00:43:34,160 --> 00:43:37,600
Speaker 1: no question about that. There's still a top ten rushing

987
00:43:37,680 --> 00:43:40,040
Speaker 1: d which I like a lot. And here's a little

988
00:43:40,040 --> 00:43:44,480
Speaker 1: factoid for you. Bottom five teams in the league and

989
00:43:44,600 --> 00:43:47,440
Speaker 1: rushing defense. Now, we were familiar with that group from

990
00:43:47,640 --> 00:43:48,239
Speaker 1: se We've.

991
00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:51,000
Speaker 4: Bins from nineteen, twenty, twenty one, twenty two.

992
00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:54,239
Speaker 1: You're not there this year now, but three of those

993
00:43:54,360 --> 00:43:57,400
Speaker 1: five on the bottom you're facing in the next four

994
00:43:57,440 --> 00:44:02,960
Speaker 1: weeks because Arizona, Denver and even the Jets are at

995
00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:05,640
Speaker 1: the bottom five of the league and rushing d and

996
00:44:05,719 --> 00:44:07,960
Speaker 1: I was surprised about the Jets, but there they are.

997
00:44:08,440 --> 00:44:11,440
Speaker 1: Jacksonville isn't. But I think that's pretty good for what

998
00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:13,440
Speaker 1: you talked about. Can you get the rushing running game

999
00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:14,239
Speaker 1: going consistently?

1000
00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:14,480
Speaker 2: Now?

1001
00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:16,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, I do too. And I do think we need

1002
00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:22,760
Speaker 4: to be careful about the Cardinals because despite that team number,

1003
00:44:23,320 --> 00:44:25,359
Speaker 4: James Connor, you know, he was out for about four

1004
00:44:25,400 --> 00:44:28,040
Speaker 4: games and he was back last week. When he's when

1005
00:44:28,040 --> 00:44:30,239
Speaker 4: he's got the ball, probably haven't given it to him

1006
00:44:30,320 --> 00:44:33,120
Speaker 4: enough because he's going over five to carry, So gotta

1007
00:44:33,160 --> 00:44:36,280
Speaker 4: be careful about him. But yeah, as a as a whole,

1008
00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:39,480
Speaker 4: that's a fun slate of games you got coming up

1009
00:44:39,480 --> 00:44:42,200
Speaker 4: because you you feasted on a bad run defense.

1010
00:44:42,239 --> 00:44:43,880
Speaker 2: Cincinnati is not a very good run defense.

1011
00:44:44,080 --> 00:44:46,719
Speaker 4: Now they got DJ Reider, but they're struggling as far

1012
00:44:46,800 --> 00:44:49,960
Speaker 4: as getting guys to the ground there up in Cincinnati.

1013
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:52,200
Speaker 4: But yeah, let's get going, man, because if you guys

1014
00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:54,520
Speaker 4: start running and you can keep on stopping the run,

1015
00:44:54,560 --> 00:44:56,840
Speaker 4: it's it's gonna lend itself to some phenomenal things for

1016
00:44:56,880 --> 00:44:57,239
Speaker 4: your team.

1017
00:44:57,480 --> 00:44:59,319
Speaker 1: Johnny and I talked about this a bit, but I

1018
00:44:59,360 --> 00:45:01,040
Speaker 1: think the place kicking is a story.

1019
00:45:01,080 --> 00:45:01,560
Speaker 2: The last come.

1020
00:45:01,600 --> 00:45:02,319
Speaker 4: Absolutely it is.

1021
00:45:02,360 --> 00:45:05,040
Speaker 1: You know when you have and he I've been saying

1022
00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:09,440
Speaker 1: field goals factored prominently in, you know, down the stretch

1023
00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:12,719
Speaker 1: of these last two games, and two different players kicked

1024
00:45:12,719 --> 00:45:15,160
Speaker 1: them and neither one is fair Baron. But he brought

1025
00:45:15,239 --> 00:45:17,680
Speaker 1: up fair Baron kicked the fifty yarder in the first

1026
00:45:17,680 --> 00:45:18,799
Speaker 1: half of the Tampa Bay game.

1027
00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:20,360
Speaker 2: You had three big field goals.

1028
00:45:20,360 --> 00:45:23,400
Speaker 1: You needed every one of them, right, Three big field

1029
00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:25,719
Speaker 1: goals in the last two games by three different people.

1030
00:45:25,840 --> 00:45:30,720
Speaker 4: That's remark Three major field goal opportunities, like you're saying,

1031
00:45:31,040 --> 00:45:33,040
Speaker 4: and three different guys doing it. And one of whom's

1032
00:45:33,960 --> 00:45:35,960
Speaker 4: a running back, you know, fan was in here. He's like,

1033
00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:38,279
Speaker 4: I didn't even know he could do that. He was

1034
00:45:38,280 --> 00:45:40,240
Speaker 4: stunned by it. And he's like, why didn't the punter

1035
00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:42,359
Speaker 4: just could kick it? And that was a big question

1036
00:45:42,400 --> 00:45:44,040
Speaker 4: work for about a week and a half. Nobody knew

1037
00:45:44,080 --> 00:45:47,000
Speaker 4: why Cam Johnson didn't punt or didn't kick right. But

1038
00:45:47,040 --> 00:45:49,920
Speaker 4: then we heard from Frank Ross last week it's because

1039
00:45:49,960 --> 00:45:54,560
Speaker 4: of the Australian punters, the way they swing their leg

1040
00:45:54,680 --> 00:45:57,839
Speaker 4: is different and you want to Yeah, so that's why

1041
00:45:58,440 --> 00:45:59,600
Speaker 4: sorry has a soccer background.

1042
00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:03,239
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, he talked about kicking down as opposed to

1043
00:46:03,360 --> 00:46:07,920
Speaker 1: kicking up or whatever. How it's a very different motion. Okay,

1044
00:46:08,160 --> 00:46:11,040
Speaker 1: I guess I know, but they know they know better

1045
00:46:11,080 --> 00:46:13,759
Speaker 1: than we do. And if Johnston I got a feeling,

1046
00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:16,279
Speaker 1: if Johnston really wanted to kick that thing, he'd say, listen,

1047
00:46:16,520 --> 00:46:19,279
Speaker 1: I'm gonna kick it night, We're gonna do this. But

1048
00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:22,759
Speaker 1: they knew that the better thing was Darry because they've

1049
00:46:22,760 --> 00:46:25,000
Speaker 1: seen him do it in practice just for fun, and

1050
00:46:25,040 --> 00:46:26,880
Speaker 1: they figured, what the heck, let's let him do it.

1051
00:46:26,920 --> 00:46:29,279
Speaker 4: The great Pat McAfee didn't really kick field goals, but

1052
00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:30,600
Speaker 4: he was their kickoff guy.

1053
00:46:30,840 --> 00:46:33,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was a punter, but he kicked off and he.

1054
00:46:33,080 --> 00:46:35,000
Speaker 4: Did it deep. And then way back when in the

1055
00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:37,440
Speaker 4: eighties and nineties, Chris Gardaki, he was in the NFL

1056
00:46:37,480 --> 00:46:38,840
Speaker 4: for a bit. He kicked and punted.

1057
00:46:38,920 --> 00:46:42,359
Speaker 1: Yeah, well the Tampa Bay the Tampa Bay putter kicked

1058
00:46:42,400 --> 00:46:45,000
Speaker 1: off for them, So whatever, all right, Drew, thanks a

1059
00:46:45,040 --> 00:46:46,799
Speaker 1: lot for joining us. I know there was a quick visit,

1060
00:46:46,840 --> 00:46:47,839
Speaker 1: but we'll catch up soon.

1061
00:46:47,960 --> 00:46:48,600
Speaker 4: Thanks so much.

1062
00:46:49,320 --> 00:46:52,359
Speaker 1: Texans matchup is coming up here with John Harris as

1063
00:46:52,400 --> 00:46:55,160
Speaker 1: he goes over everything to do with the game on

1064
00:46:55,280 --> 00:46:58,960
Speaker 1: Sunday and previewing the Cardinals game in the way that

1065
00:46:59,040 --> 00:47:02,520
Speaker 1: only he can. So listen in to Texans matchup, and

1066
00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:05,040
Speaker 1: we'll have a full show Wednesday night, six o'clock. Nick

1067
00:47:05,120 --> 00:47:08,600
Speaker 1: Casario joins us plenty to say about what is going

1068
00:47:08,640 --> 00:47:12,200
Speaker 1: on with this two game winning binge and let's make

1069
00:47:12,239 --> 00:47:15,640
Speaker 1: it a bigger binge. Sunday, Arizona, twelve noon, Tickets, Houston

1070
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Speaker 1: Texans dot com. Thanks for listening, Go Texans.