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Speaker 1: Hello Texans. Mark Vandermayer with you with John Harris Hyunday

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Speaker 1: we are with the General John McClain, and it is

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Speaker 1: The Chargers and Texans got together last year. Everyone's talking

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Speaker 1: just not very good, Brian Horrier, you know, I'm more

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Speaker 1: power to it. I always liked him, thought he was

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Speaker 1: a really good guy. But my goodness, Brian Horrier. When

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Speaker 1: was the last time the Patriots were ten point underdogs

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Speaker 1: anywhere anywhere? I don't thousand, I don't know. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's it's it's odd they're ten point underdogs going to

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Speaker 1: Green Bay this weekend. Where's Phil Steele when you need him? General?

433
00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:52,760
Speaker 1: Is jail and Petrie in danger of replacing John Weeks

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Speaker 1: as your favorite Baylor player in the professional ranks? Led?

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Speaker 1: Jail and Petrie played thirteen years? And then I'll see

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Speaker 1: because John Wiggs is an iron man, Jalen Petrie is

437
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Speaker 1: not the greatest strong safety in NFL history. John Weiks

438
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Speaker 1: is the greatest snapper in NFL history. And if Grayland

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Speaker 1: Arnold makes more plays on special teams like you did,

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Speaker 1: he may be the best special teams player in NFL history.

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Speaker 1: And I would like to say this, and I know

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Speaker 1: you guys have talked about it this week. The special

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Speaker 1: teams have been outstanding. Frank Ross and his people need

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Speaker 1: to take a bow. And if offense and defense was

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Speaker 1: playing like special teams A P three and oh on

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Speaker 1: their way to four and oh, because those guys have

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Speaker 1: been terrific. Great stuff. General, what's going on? Gallery sports

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Speaker 1: dot com and Sports Radio six ten dot com? What

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Speaker 1: do you have for us? I am doing a column

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Speaker 1: for US Sports Radio six ten tomorrow on about Davis

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Speaker 1: Mills that played against the Chargers last year needs to

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Speaker 1: be the Davis Mill that plays Sunday. And then I've

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Speaker 1: got one of them Gallery Sports. I did about the

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Speaker 1: running game run defense against the run offense, and I

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Speaker 1: think this is the game the Texans going to turn

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Speaker 1: around that run defense. Guys. Thank you very much and

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Speaker 1: I will see you Sunday. Thank you. General John McLean

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Speaker 1: joining us every Thursday. Coming up next we do it

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Speaker 1: seven for more details. To seven. We return to Texans Radio.

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Speaker 1: Mark Maddamer John Harris with you JUNDAE Texans Radio Studio.

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Speaker 1: We are live Texans All Access. Great to have you aboard.

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Speaker 1: All right, Johnny, We're ready to play Who's Better? Are

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Speaker 1: we not? Yes? Let's go, all right, let's go all right,

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Speaker 1: let's start with Let's start with this one. Boy. I'm

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Speaker 1: having trouble this week because these are also juicy better record?

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Speaker 1: Who's Better? Better record? By week thirteen when the Texans

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Speaker 1: play that, you know Who's but I have to mention

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Speaker 1: them now Cleveland or Tennessee, Tennessee off to a one

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Speaker 1: and two start. The Browns are somehow two and one,

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Speaker 1: which a Kobe Brissette. He wasn't supposed to do this. Well,

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Speaker 1: better record by week thirteen the Browns or the Titans. Browns,

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Speaker 1: I think the Titans. Yeah, the Browns have some pretty

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Speaker 1: salty games from Week seven going forward. Now, as we

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Speaker 1: every single year, we set out in April or May

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Speaker 1: when the schedule comes out and we look at and go, oh,

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Speaker 1: this is a tough stretch. This tough stretch. This is

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Speaker 1: the easy stretch because of what you think those teams

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Speaker 1: are gonna be. But looking from Week seven going forward,

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Speaker 1: that schedule for Cleveland's pretty tough. That said, the Titans

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Speaker 1: are playing a first place schedule and they're playing the

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Speaker 1: AFC West. So and I don't buy the Titans this year.

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Speaker 1: I haven't. They've lost Taylor Luon, They've lost Harold Landry

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Speaker 1: to their best Trenches players, one on each side of

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Speaker 1: the ball. I think that is gonna come back at

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Speaker 1: them in some way, shape or form over the course

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Speaker 1: an extended number of games over the course of a

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Speaker 1: season to that point. So I think it's going to

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Speaker 1: be the Browns. Now. I'm not totally convinced the Browns

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Speaker 1: are gonna be go to Week thirteen or bye week

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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think the Browns are gonna be

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Speaker 1: tenants two or to you know, ten and one or

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Speaker 1: ninety two. I don't think anything like that. But I

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Speaker 1: do think through that'll be eleven games going into week thirteen,

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Speaker 1: I think they can be you know, eight in three.

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Speaker 1: I think they can be at least seven and four.

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Speaker 1: So I don't think the Tights are getting there. That's

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Speaker 1: huge at the Browns. And I'll just read it for

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Speaker 1: you right now. Atlanta this week, jeez. Then the Chargers

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Speaker 1: and who knows what happens with the injury wise and whatnot.

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Speaker 1: Then the Patriots, then the Ravens, Bengals, Dolphins, Bills, Bucks.

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Speaker 1: It gets tougher, Like you said, it'll be interesting. It

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Speaker 1: always is in this league. But you're right, man, things change.

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Speaker 1: I'm almost a week to week basis, all right, Who's

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Speaker 1: better better chance to run the ball this weekend? The

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Speaker 1: Chargers or the Texans better chance to get yards on

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Speaker 1: the ground. Neither team has rushed for one hundred yards

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Speaker 1: as a team this year. Better chance this weekend, Johnny.

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Speaker 1: But I think when pierces in the game, the Texans

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Speaker 1: have had more success in a traditional running situation. And

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Speaker 1: I bring up traditional running situation because I think the

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Speaker 1: Chargers will they'll try to run the ball with Eckler early.

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Speaker 1: I don't think they'll have success, but they want Echo

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Speaker 1: to stay involved in the game. So what do you do.

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Speaker 1: You swing them out, you run them on Texas routes,

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Speaker 1: you run circle routes, whatever you want to what to

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Speaker 1: do in a passing game, that becomes an extended portion

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Speaker 1: of your run game. Dare I bring up David Johnson.

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Speaker 1: David Johnson, I remember going to Indianapolis in twenty twenty.

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Speaker 1: He couldn't run oh year long. I mean it was

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Speaker 1: just the three, two and eleven times and he ended

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Speaker 1: up once he got on space, he was a problem.

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Speaker 1: So I think that's what the Chargers will do. And

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Speaker 1: that's what the Texas defense is up against, and that

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Speaker 1: is Eckler out in space. And that's a problem because

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Speaker 1: the tackling out in space has not being right. So

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Speaker 1: now you gotta tackle one of the better, better running backs,

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Speaker 1: or it should say better weapons because as a true

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Speaker 1: just pounded between the tackles running back, it's not been

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Speaker 1: that kind of your freckler. But you get him out,

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Speaker 1: give him seven eight catches out wide and get him

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Speaker 1: one on one in situations, he's gonna make a guy miss,

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Speaker 1: he's gonna break a tackle, and he's gonna end up

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Speaker 1: with ten to twelve yards when he catches the football.

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Speaker 1: So I think the Texans, with their offensive line and

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Speaker 1: with Petrie, I'm sorry that Petrie appears, they're gonna be

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Speaker 1: able to run the ball somewhat effectively. Now, is it

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Speaker 1: gonna be one hundred and what was the number last

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Speaker 1: ye hundred and ninety. I don't think it's one hundred

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Speaker 1: and ninety, But I do think they can get to

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Speaker 1: a C note, and I think that's got to be

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Speaker 1: where they where they aim get to a C note.

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Speaker 1: The Chargers are giving up one hundred two hundred three,

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Speaker 1: get to a C note rushing, and you'll end up

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Speaker 1: being a good spot because I don't think the Chargers

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Speaker 1: are getting there against you. Okay, who's better, Johnny? Now

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Speaker 1: you know that I always talk about sports hate and

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Speaker 1: how that's okay and that's where people long in sports

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Speaker 1: and not in real life. Well so does this aspect

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Speaker 1: of things enjoying the misery of others? Right in sports?

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Speaker 1: That's okay? Right? So the Patriots struggling is something that

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Speaker 1: I enjoy. I'm just being honest with you, and it's

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Speaker 1: okay in sports in that context. All right, So who's

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Speaker 1: better the twenty twenty Patriots or the twenty twenty two Patriots.

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Speaker 1: The twenty twenty Patriots had Cam Newton and they went

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Speaker 1: seven and nine. The twenty twenty two Patriots have some

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Speaker 1: version of Mac Jones, whatever's left of him after he

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Speaker 1: heals up from this thing. And Brian Hoyer, who will

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Speaker 1: start this weekend, tell me. I mean Cam was struggling

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Speaker 1: throwing the football bo when Cam was healthy in the

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Speaker 1: first few games of the year before it all went

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Speaker 1: downhill injury wise for him. I mean, I think Cam,

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Speaker 1: how do I say this properly? I think Cam was

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Speaker 1: damaged Goods probably a year or two after he had

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Speaker 1: won the MVP and fifteen, and he was just gutting

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Speaker 1: it out, and then even in the last couple of

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Speaker 1: years in Carolina he just couldn't cut it out anymore.

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Speaker 1: So I think he kind of taped things up and

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Speaker 1: did what he could the first few games in New

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Speaker 1: England and they played some really good ball with him.

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Speaker 1: But then when he was he was injured and he

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Speaker 1: had COVID and then they sort of lost their way

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Speaker 1: with Cam this year. I don't know what the Patriots are.

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Speaker 1: I have no idea. I don't if I'm a Patriots fan.

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Speaker 1: I don't have any trust in the offensive play calling,

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Speaker 1: the offensive staff at all. I haven't seen the offense

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Speaker 1: get better each and every week. So and then last

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Speaker 1: week they gave up thirty seven points on defense to

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Speaker 1: Lamar and the Ravens. So and I know that's a

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Speaker 1: really good Ravens offense. I get it, and Lamar was hot.

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Speaker 1: But I don't know where the Patriots are better in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two than they were in twenty twenty. So

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Speaker 1: I would say the two years ago Patriots, then the

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two Patriots. And I actually haven't said this

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Speaker 1: in a very very long time, if ever, I really

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Speaker 1: wish we were playing the Patriots this year. I know

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Speaker 1: of all the years to not be playing them, but

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Speaker 1: the first time since twenty fourteen. Wow, All right, Johnny,

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Speaker 1: who's better better performance so far? Three? And Oh Philly

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Speaker 1: or three in Oh Miami? Better performance so far? I

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Speaker 1: think it's the Eagles. The first game against the Lions

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Speaker 1: had a big lead and they just were holding on

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Speaker 1: in Week one and the Lions got back in it. Now.

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Speaker 1: The Lions have got some offensive threats, so it's not

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Speaker 1: too surprising that they got that thing back within three

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Speaker 1: at the end, scoring thirty five points in the process.

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Speaker 1: But then Monday night against the Vikings it was twenty

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Speaker 1: four to seven and it wasn't even close. Last week

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Speaker 1: it was twenty four nothing against the Commanders on the

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Speaker 1: road before the Commanders even sniffed the end zone. The

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Speaker 1: Eagles to me are the best three and oh team

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Speaker 1: right now. I think if the Eagles and Dolphins were

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Speaker 1: matched up, I would make the Eagles on neutral field,

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Speaker 1: I would make the Eagles a touchdown, fay for it,

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Speaker 1: and then I would probably lay the seven and take

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Speaker 1: the Eagles, because I think the Eagles have got all

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Speaker 1: the pieces. The only thing to me that slows down

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Speaker 1: to Eagles at this point is some major injury, be

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Speaker 1: it to a J Brown, DeVante Smith obviously Jalen Hurts,

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Speaker 1: or somebody on defense. And yet if the defense is

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Speaker 1: got talented dudes, but they're more a collection of these

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Speaker 1: really interesting parts that go together really really well. So

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Speaker 1: I think the Eagles right now are the best. They're

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Speaker 1: the best team in football. I think right now for

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Speaker 1: the Eagles against the Bills. I would pick the Eagles.

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Speaker 1: I really don't want to face that team on November third,

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Speaker 1: But maybe things change, maybe they hit a rut, maybe

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Speaker 1: there's an injury that changes things. But that's gonna be

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Speaker 1: a really tough ball game. I mean, it's gonna be tough,

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Speaker 1: but now I think it's gonna be even more so

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Speaker 1: because they're definitely hitting the stride. Jalen's coming back home

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Speaker 1: to Houston to play. He's gonna want to show it off.

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Speaker 1: So that's gonna be a really tough battle red night

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Speaker 1: against the Eagles on Thursday, November third. Yeah, when you

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Speaker 1: look at what the do have done beating the Patriots,

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Speaker 1: the Ravens, and the Bills, that schedules nice. Beating Baltimore

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Speaker 1: and Buffalo is no joke, right, But they had to

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Speaker 1: come back to beat Baltimore. I'm not taking anything away

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Speaker 1: from it. I think I can see what you're saying

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Speaker 1: about the Eagles being a dominant team and the Dolphins

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00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:20,359
Speaker 1: being opportunistic and resilient. For sure. I mean, it's three

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Speaker 1: and ozero and coming back on Baltimore at their place

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00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:26,359
Speaker 1: was phenomenal. And beating the Bills anywhere. I don't care

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Speaker 1: if they humidity had something to do with it. So

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Speaker 1: what you beat the Buffalo Bills, a nemesis in your division,

647
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Speaker 1: one of them anyway, So that's a great achievement. But

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Speaker 1: I might lean with you on the Eagles. Now, the

649
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Speaker 1: Eagles are gonna play the Jags this week, and the

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Speaker 1: Dolphins play the Bengals tonight. So do you think they

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Speaker 1: both go four and oh? Or is tonight the night

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Speaker 1: the Dolphins get beaten because of two is health issues.

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Speaker 1: I think there will be a few reasons why the

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Speaker 1: Dolphins take the l tonight. I think that Joe Burrow

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Speaker 1: is gonna it is gonna light them up. I mean,

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Speaker 1: the Dolphins are gonna play some of that that blit zero,

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Speaker 1: and I think that Joe's gonna I think Joe's gonna

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Speaker 1: light them up. And it's gonna be a high scoring game.

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Speaker 1: I think, So whatever the over runner is go over.

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Speaker 1: But I think that's I think it's more what the

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Speaker 1: Bengals do than what the Dolphins don't do. And I

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Speaker 1: do think the Eagles will stay undefeated, even though it's

663
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Speaker 1: gonna be a pretty tough ball game against Doug Peterson.

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Speaker 1: But I just think that right now. The Jags are

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Speaker 1: playing well, and they've played well. They play exceptional against

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Speaker 1: the Chargers. That was a banged up Chargers team. This

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Speaker 1: is a different animal with the Eagles. Don't get me wrong.

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00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:37,520
Speaker 1: I think the Jaguars, as we talked about it was

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Speaker 1: it was a fear like man, could these guys really

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Speaker 1: be getting it with Doug Peterson? And it looks like

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Speaker 1: they are, So that's scary. But I think the Eagles

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Speaker 1: are just playing that much better than anybody in the league.

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Speaker 1: All right, that's who's better. I might have one more

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Speaker 1: for you next, a little bit of college talk. Also,

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Speaker 1: is back random Dot of the night here on the Honday.

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Speaker 1: Texans Radio Studio goods it around on the internet finding

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Speaker 1: we're in our business and we work for Texans Radio

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Speaker 1: and on the ride with us here. All right, So

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Speaker 1: here's another interesting thing, slash funny. I went to look

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Speaker 1: at the Patriots Pro Football Reference page because I was

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Speaker 1: just checking the record of two years ago and everything

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Speaker 1: and what went into that seven and nine season with Newton.

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Speaker 1: When I asked you that question, which is going to

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Speaker 1: be better that team or this year's team? You know

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Speaker 1: how they have all the photos across the top of

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Speaker 1: a Pro Football reference page, you know, all the greatest

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Speaker 1: players in franchise history, you know, any great Patriots obviously,

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Speaker 1: and Brady among them. I don't know if the Pro

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Speaker 1: Football Reference people are just trolling, but they have the

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Speaker 1: Patriot buccaneer. It's obviously a buccaneer jersey. It's not even

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Speaker 1: a Patriot throwback, and it's because it's a new bait.

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Speaker 1: It's a new Brady picture of him after the alleged

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Speaker 1: work was done. And it does look different. He does

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Speaker 1: look different. I mean, there's no question that that. Maybe

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Speaker 1: I don't know, Maybe I'm just a little jelly, you know,

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Speaker 1: I need a little face tightening up, some work, some

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Speaker 1: work was done at forty five. I don't know. I mean,

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Speaker 1: is going through a lot of bleep, you know what

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Speaker 1: I'm saying, yeah, what happens geez, I guess that's what

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Speaker 1: happens at forty five. I mean, yeah, so yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think it's it's a troll job, for sure. There's another

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Speaker 1: I got another thing to throw at you here, which

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Speaker 1: is very random, but writing an article this week about

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Speaker 1: the game coming up on Sunday with the Chargers Texans

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Speaker 1: have met them several times before, and you had a

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Speaker 1: little fun fact that you played the Chargers when Drew

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Speaker 1: Brees was playing for the Chargers twice week to a

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Speaker 1: franchise history and the opening day of week of year

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Speaker 1: three for the Texans, it was Week one. That was

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Speaker 1: the game where the lights went out at then Reliance

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Speaker 1: Stadium for a brief moment in the second half. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: I thought about this. I was thinking, Man, Doug Flute

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Speaker 1: played for the Chargers. Has the Yeah, I feel like

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Speaker 1: I've seen Doug flutie at a Charger uniform at NRG Stadium,

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Speaker 1: and I have. It was in the pre season of

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Speaker 1: O three, FLUTEI played against the Texans nine for fourteen

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Speaker 1: for seventy six yards. That's neither here nor there. But

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Speaker 1: the fact that Flute played against the Texas, it's kind

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Speaker 1: of cool, Yeah, because you know, he's an older school

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Speaker 1: guy and he played against this franchise. And I was

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Speaker 1: trying to think of anybody else of that ilk you know,

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Speaker 1: an old timer that is a big name like that

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Speaker 1: that's played against this team. And I think that that's

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Speaker 1: the biggest one I can find. You know of a

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Speaker 1: guy who reaches back to the eighties like that, You

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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Yeah, Um, I mean the only one,

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Speaker 1: the only one that makes any kind of sense is

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Speaker 1: Adam Viniti because he just played. He played forever um.

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Speaker 1: But that's probably you're very right foot. He's probably that one.

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Speaker 1: You probably to go back to look at the early

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Speaker 1: season or look at h O two, think about who

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Speaker 1: they played in O two. I mean maybe there's there's

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Speaker 1: somebody up and down the roster then, but I don't

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Speaker 1: know that. But Food is a great one. That's excellent. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean Emmitt Smith played in the game here at

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Speaker 1: NRG Stadium, right yep um for the Dallas Cowboys in

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00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:51,879
Speaker 1: the O two season. That's pretty what happened in that game.

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Speaker 1: I forgot nineteen to ten, thank you. Drew Brees and

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Speaker 1: Flute both played in that game in OH three, I'm

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Speaker 1: talking about in the preseason. I'll give you a thousand

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Speaker 1: dollars of monopoly money if you can name the third

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Speaker 1: quarterback for the Chargers in two thousand and three. Let's

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Speaker 1: go with, Oh, gosh, somebody named Wheeland. No Cleo Lemon

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Speaker 1: oh now a wide receivers coach for Jacksonville State. That's random. Okay,

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Speaker 1: give me a sneak preview of one of the keys

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Speaker 1: for Sunday when the Texans take on the now LA Chargers. Well,

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to give the one that I have

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Speaker 1: for extra points. I don't think. Okay, I'm trying to

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Speaker 1: remember which ones I came, which ones I gave on

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Speaker 1: extra points. Tune in to find out if you did. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I think offensively, Derwin James is a major key. You

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Speaker 1: gotta know where he is, and you gotta know what

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Speaker 1: his responsibility is. Wherever he is. Um if he's near

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Speaker 1: a lone screamage, you gotta account for him the run game.

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Speaker 1: So the Texas offense has to account for Derwin James,

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Speaker 1: and then Davids has got to find some easy throws. Defensively,

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Speaker 1: I think, even though I fear Austin Ackler becoming a

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Speaker 1: wide receiver. You got to completely eliminate the traditional running game,

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Speaker 1: just completely eliminated early on. Know what kind of game

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Speaker 1: it is? You know, OBU should tell us that all

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Speaker 1: the time. Hey, it's this kind of game, it's that

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Speaker 1: kind of game. Know what kind of game it is.

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Speaker 1: Let the game declare itself early and hopefully that I'll

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Speaker 1: mean that it's the traditional run game out the window.

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Speaker 1: At that point, I'll give you a key. I want

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Speaker 1: you to double Pierce's catch total. All right, he had

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Speaker 1: catches last week. I want at least four receptions for Pierce.

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Speaker 1: I know the carries are gonna be there. He's gonna

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Speaker 1: carry twenty plus. You're gonna do that. He carried twenty

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Speaker 1: times in a game in which you didn't do well

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Speaker 1: on third down. I want more catches by Pierce, more

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Speaker 1: ball in space activity by Pierce, and I think that's

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Speaker 1: really going to help out the offensive situation. So fine,

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Speaker 1: maybe create a bit ways to get him the ball.

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Speaker 1: I don't know about screens. You know those those traditional

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Speaker 1: screen you know the five wide screen that that's not

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Speaker 1: a high percentage play. It really isn't. It's not many

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Speaker 1: times do we see that go for nothing or two

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Speaker 1: yards or something you know, I mean, and this goes

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Speaker 1: back multiple eras for the Houston Texans, it's one of

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Speaker 1: those things, Johnny, best college game this weekend that's on

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Speaker 1: your radar. What are you thinking about? Boy ncy State

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Speaker 1: Clemson is gonna be fun. Those teams that are undefeated

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Speaker 1: NC states in the top ten and playing another top

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Speaker 1: ten team for the first time I think in the

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Speaker 1: history of the program or dating back to the sixties.

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Speaker 1: And think Alabama Arkantsas'll be fun. Arkansas coming off a

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Speaker 1: loss to a m obviously, and then in the Big twelve,

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Speaker 1: Oklahoma State Baylor is always a really really fun game.

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Speaker 1: I think that's gonna be kind of a surprising one

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Speaker 1: with Baylor getting to win in Iowa State last week.

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Speaker 1: Oklahoma State coming off of bye I think it's gonna

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Speaker 1: be a really fun game at McClean Stadium and Baylor.

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Speaker 1: So this is another good weekend of games. Every conference

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Speaker 1: has got a It's a good one. Drey's got a

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Speaker 1: great one Friday night. Michael Pennocks and Washington going to

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Speaker 1: La taking on UCLA. That's gonna be a fun, fun

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Speaker 1: ball game on Friday night. So looking forward to out

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Speaker 1: for sure. Excellent Drey's got that Friday night window again.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Johnny, always appreciated, always fun. Texans Chargers Sunday

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Speaker 1: at noon. Another show tomorrow night. It's gonna be big.

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Speaker 1: Lovey Smith will be on to kick it off, and

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Speaker 1: Johnny's got your Keys to the game and a whole

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Speaker 1: lot of other great stuff going on for Friday Night

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Speaker 1: Texans All Access. Thank you Chris for producing. Have a

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Speaker 1: great evening coming up Thursday night football Dolphins at the Bengals.

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