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Speaker 1: What is going on? Everybody? Welcome you to a Wednesday

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Speaker 1: edition of Texans All Access from the Hunday Texans Radio Studio.

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Speaker 1: I am your host, John Harris in All week. Mark

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Speaker 1: is out on vacation, so I am, Well, it's Wednesday show,

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Speaker 1: so it's my show anyways. But that said, we've got

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Speaker 1: plenty for you today. We're gonna hear from Justin Reid

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Speaker 1: in the next segment. He sat down with Drew during

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Speaker 1: our Texas Media Days and I could listen to Jay

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Speaker 1: Red talk for a good while. He's a good talker,

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Speaker 1: but he is a great football player going to his

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Speaker 1: second year deep and I talked about that yesterday about

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Speaker 1: his value on this defense and how when you think

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Speaker 1: about not having Justin Reid going into this season, they're like, well,

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Speaker 1: I don't even want to think about that. So Justin

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Speaker 1: Reid will be on the show middle segment, and then

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Speaker 1: in fast segment, we're gonna go in the lab. As

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Speaker 1: Drew and I always do. It is our what if scenarios,

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Speaker 1: and I think these are good ones because last week

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Speaker 1: they all or the last time we did this, maybe

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Speaker 1: a couple weeks ago, we did are what it's They

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Speaker 1: were all singly draft related. You know, what happens if

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Speaker 1: the Texas didn't draft J. J. Watt, What happens if

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Speaker 1: they didn't draft to Shaw Watson, all that kind of stuff.

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Speaker 1: What if they would have picked Mahomes or Watson whatever?

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Speaker 1: Those are all draft Really these are a little bit more.

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Speaker 1: We got some responses from people, and they were a

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Speaker 1: little bit more on the field related changing results, if

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Speaker 1: you will, And one in particular happened in twenty eighteen,

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Speaker 1: and I know that there. Twenty eighteenth season was just

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Speaker 1: it was it was such a fine line of being

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Speaker 1: on either side. I mean, obviously there were so many

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Speaker 1: close games and to an overtime against Dallas and Indianapolis,

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Speaker 1: and then how close the game was against Buffalo, Denver, Washington.

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Speaker 1: There are all really close ball games, and then even

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Speaker 1: the losses worked close. You lost by three to Indianapolis,

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Speaker 1: here you lost by two to Philadelphia, And of course

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Speaker 1: that one's going to come up in our what if scenario,

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Speaker 1: but that to me is kind of the folk room point.

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Speaker 1: So we'll do some more what ifs on our in

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Speaker 1: the lab segment. But we're gonna kick off today's show

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Speaker 1: as we did on Monday. All Monday if you remember,

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Speaker 1: we did the ultimate eleven non quarterback offensive players that

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Speaker 1: the Texans face in twenty nineteen. Now as a recap,

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Speaker 1: here's what we came up with as the ultimate eleven

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Speaker 1: non quarterback offensive players we face. It startsman at number eleven,

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Speaker 1: Chiefs right tackle Mitchell Schwartz, number ten, Carolina running back

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Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey, number nine, Super Bowl MVP. Patriots slot receiver

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Speaker 1: Julian Edelman a number eight, Colts guard Quentin Nelson, number seven,

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Speaker 1: Tampa Bay wide receiver, Mike Evans, number six, Oakland wide receiver.

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Speaker 1: I'm still get used to that. Antonio Brown, number five,

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Speaker 1: t Y Hilton, you know who he is. Number four,

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Speaker 1: Album Kamara of the Saints, also the Saints. Number three,

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Speaker 1: Saints wide receiver, Pro bowler, Mike Thomas, number two tight end.

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Speaker 1: And I just I'm a huge fan of Travis Kelsey

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Speaker 1: the player. He's a little he's a little different off

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Speaker 1: the field. It's fine, but Travis Kelsey's just he's a dude,

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Speaker 1: absolute dude, and he crushes us. Whether he plays receiver,

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Speaker 1: he plays tight and he plays h back, he plays

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Speaker 1: whatever position on the field, he kills us. So Travis

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Speaker 1: Kelsey number two, and then number one Julio Jones whose

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Speaker 1: first name is not Julio, It's Quintorius something like that.

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Speaker 1: So either way, Julie Julio Jones at number one. Now

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Speaker 1: there were some good names that didn't make it, namely,

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Speaker 1: and man, I look back at this and I'm like,

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Speaker 1: ooh boy, Keenan Allen is the one name as a

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Speaker 1: Chargers receiver. But I tried to spread the wealth a

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Speaker 1: little bit if I could. But I'm a big fan

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Speaker 1: of Mitchell Schwartz. I know people are like Mitchell Schwartz.

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Speaker 1: Why he put him at number eleven? And Mitchell Schwartz

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Speaker 1: is a really, really good tackle and we're gonna find

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Speaker 1: that out in Week six if we didn't already know that.

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Speaker 1: So that was the offensive side of the ball. Now

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Speaker 1: we could do the quarterbacks, and maybe we'll do that

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Speaker 1: on Friday. Maybe I'll do the quarterbacks. Man, That's that's tough.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you think about the quarterbacks in order. The

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks that the Texans are facing this year starts with

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Speaker 1: future Hall of Famer Drew Brees, Super Bowl MVP Nick Foles.

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Speaker 1: Week three is potential. I think Call of Famer Philip Rivers.

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Speaker 1: Week four is in Atlanta MVP former twenty sixteen MVP

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Speaker 1: some guy named Andrew Luck after that. That's the way,

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Speaker 1: that's the way this season starts. Then there's a Derek Carr,

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Speaker 1: then there's Foals again. Then there's a Tom Brady down

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Speaker 1: the road. Then there's a Joe Flacco, who is a

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl MVP. How many Super Bowl MVPs are they

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Speaker 1: lot of Super Bowl MVPs. It also means that those

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Speaker 1: the quarterbacks. We'll rank the quarterbacks that they've got to face.

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Speaker 1: They're pretty stout. But I wanted today to do the

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Speaker 1: Ultro eleven defensive players. But my music bingar right, here

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Speaker 1: we go. We always start off with our honorable mention,

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Speaker 1: So here we go. Honorable mention didn't make it. Starting

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Speaker 1: in Denver. Chris Harris Jr. I love him as a corner,

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Speaker 1: Tyre Matthew at Kansas City, Drelle Casey Tennessee, Kevin Bayer

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Speaker 1: at Tennessee one of their safeties in the league. Here's

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Speaker 1: his name. Not a lot of people talk about as

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Speaker 1: Damario Davis from New Orleans. I think he's a heck

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Speaker 1: it only because person why, he's coming off an injury. Secondly,

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Speaker 1: he's adapting to a new system. So what his FITN

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Speaker 1: is gonna be there is gonna be interesting. Also with Baltimore,

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Speaker 1: Marlon Humphrey, Matt Judon edge rusher for Baltimore, Brandon Williams

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Speaker 1: defensive tackle for Baltimore and Ultimore's defense don't pretty good.

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Speaker 1: And Jerald McCoy with Carolina Panthers. We would have played

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Speaker 1: Gerald either way. It was just a matter of being

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Speaker 1: is remaining in the NFC South and we will play him.

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Speaker 1: So let's get to the ultimate eleven defensive players, and

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Speaker 1: unfortunately we've got to face this duo. They tie at

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Speaker 1: And I was actually watching Jacksonville the other day. I've

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Speaker 1: seen probably four or five games in Jacksonville the last

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Speaker 1: I watched him against US. You Gottack and Gackway and

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Speaker 1: And the first game that Clay's Campbell played against US

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Speaker 1: he sacked anybody and everybody. He sacked tackles, he sack quarterbacks,

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Speaker 1: he sacked running backs, he sacked everybody. Gottack, Gackway, Clay's

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Speaker 1: And we've got to face them twice. Now, a guy

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Speaker 1: that I was glad to see you go to Denver

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Speaker 1: Bradley Chubb last year is a rookie twelve sacks and

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Speaker 1: four pass rushers in that game in Denver, Vaughn and

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Speaker 1: Bradley Chubb, Clowney, and Watt all had sacks. He had

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Speaker 1: twelve sacks. He had fourteen TFLs as a rookie and

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Speaker 1: will continue to get better. He's a phenomenal player. Bradley

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Speaker 1: Chub comes in at number ten now. A guy that

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Speaker 1: doesn't get I think a lot of credit because his

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Speaker 1: offense in Atlanta really kind of steals the show. And

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Speaker 1: that's linebacker Dion Jones. Now, he's been a little bit

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Speaker 1: banged up last year he only played six games, but

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Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen when he was on the field full time,

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Speaker 1: he had one hundred and thirty eight tackles, ten TFLs.

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Speaker 1: He all said three interceptions. Even last year in just

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Speaker 1: six games, he had two interceptions. He has eight interceptions

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Speaker 1: in three pick sixes in three years, and in those

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Speaker 1: So he was on pace for about one hundred forty

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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. I think he's as good linebacker as the

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Speaker 1: Chargers for the first Actually I could have put, well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: the first of three on this list. Yeah, week three

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Speaker 1: because at every level of the defense. Yoh boy, Well,

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Speaker 1: this guy is one of the better corners in the league.

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Speaker 1: He moved from Green Bay to LA. His first year

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Speaker 1: in LA, he had seven interceptions. In twenty seventeen, he

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Speaker 1: had four. Last year he didn't have any because teams

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Speaker 1: first two years, the teams just got wise, like we're

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Speaker 1: not thrown at him. We're just not We're not gonna

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Speaker 1: top notch secondary. And we'll get to the second. Number seven.

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Speaker 1: A guy we faced twice a year in Indianapolis, A

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Speaker 1: guy wasn't all that hot on in a twenty eighteen draft,

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Speaker 1: but turned out to be an absolute dude. He tackled

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Speaker 1: anything that moved. He played fifteen games last year. He

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Speaker 1: had one hundred and sixty three tackles, twelve tackles for

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Speaker 1: He had eight total passes defense. He did anything and everything.

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Speaker 1: He was a first team All Pro. He didn't even

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Speaker 1: get selected the Pro Bowl, but he will for the

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Speaker 1: next ten, fifteen, twenty, whatever it is. Darius Leonard of

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Speaker 1: the Indianapolis Colts got to face him twice a year now.

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Speaker 1: I do think he's a really good player. I do

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Speaker 1: think also those tackle stats are a little inflated. I

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Speaker 1: would say at a good fifteen to twenty percent of

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Speaker 1: those came beyond five yards a lot of scares, but

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Speaker 1: still there were games last year and I think the

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Speaker 1: really took the game over defensively. Now, the game was

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Speaker 1: a couple of times just take the game over, and

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Speaker 1: I think his Eagles right before we played him. I

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Speaker 1: watched the first three games and I'm like, oh my gosh,

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Speaker 1: he is good. They called the manniac, and there's a

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Speaker 1: good reason for that. Darius Leonard comes in at number seven,

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Speaker 1: a number six. I didn't want to face this guy,

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Speaker 1: but Frank Clark, and he has well, he has history

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Speaker 1: with this team because in twenty seventeen it was his

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Speaker 1: hit that I think precipitated the ACL injury for de

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Speaker 1: Shaw Watson. Hopefully that doesn't happen again. We'll face Frank

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Speaker 1: Clark with the Kinston Chiefs this year. Signs a big

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Speaker 1: deal gets traded in Kansas City. How big a deal?

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Speaker 1: The last three years he has ten, nine and thirteen sacks.

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Speaker 1: where the weaknesses are, where the strengths are, where I'm

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Speaker 1: supposed to be. So that's what makes me confident to

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Speaker 1: go out and make plays. You brought up soccer. I

429
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Speaker 1: did an interview with you at camp last summer and

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Speaker 1: you were kicking the ball around. I think one of

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Speaker 1: the kids out there how to soccer ball. But you're

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Speaker 1: pretty pumped up about playing at Wembley. I mean, how

433
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Speaker 1: much fun is that going to be for you? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: You know, when I was a kid, my childhood dream

435
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Speaker 1: was to be a professional soccer player and play in

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Speaker 1: the Barclay Premier League, maybe for like Man City or

437
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Speaker 1: our team like Barceloa or something like that. So a

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Speaker 1: little bit, it's kind of like fulfilling a childhood dream

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Speaker 1: in a way. I still get I'm still living my

440
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Speaker 1: dream playing football, but it's like, oh man, I get

441
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Speaker 1: to go play in Wembley. That's awesome. How much fun

442
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Speaker 1: can this twenty nineteen season wind up being for you

443
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Speaker 1: guys on defense? Oh my god, it's going to be

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Speaker 1: unbelievable that I'm out of talent that we're able to

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Speaker 1: bring back this year. And now we've always had a

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Speaker 1: little bit of a younger team, but now we have

447
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Speaker 1: a whole year of experience. We had success. Last season,

448
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Speaker 1: we didn't have as much success that we'd like to have.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we did get knocked out in the first round,

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Speaker 1: but building that into this year, we're able to take

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Speaker 1: that experience knowledge from last year and incorporated into what

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Speaker 1: we're doing this year and really take that next step

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Speaker 1: and really, you know, keep on building on top of

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Speaker 1: that and getting better. So the most fun part is,

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Speaker 1: like I said earlier, is that going through a year two,

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Speaker 1: now I know all the guys, I know all the players,

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Speaker 1: their families and everything like that. We have a stronger

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Speaker 1: bond in the room, at least for me personally, because

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Speaker 1: I know all of them now, so it really helps

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Speaker 1: us play harder. Like for me, I've always wanted to

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Speaker 1: play hard. I always am going to play hard. But

462
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Speaker 1: now these guys are my brothers, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: He's spend all the time in the world together every

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Speaker 1: day of the week. Now it's like I have their

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Speaker 1: back no matter what. It brings a lot of extra

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Speaker 1: juice to the equation. Pretty sure, Justin Reid brings juice

467
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Speaker 1: to every equation, no matter what I think. He goes

468
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Speaker 1: out to have a burger and he brings juice to

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Speaker 1: the equation. I love his energy, I love his passion,

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Speaker 1: I love his desire. I'll tell you this real quick.

471
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Speaker 1: When after he had that one hundred one yard pick

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Speaker 1: six against Washing him he was phenomenal in that football game.

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Speaker 1: It's really really good. And I just saw him in

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Speaker 1: the locker room. He had a smile as big and

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Speaker 1: every week I would find him after the game and

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Speaker 1: I would just I would almost be amazed, like, man,

477
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Speaker 1: every week, you're just getting better every single week and

478
00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:06,359
Speaker 1: getting better and better and better. And I know at

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Speaker 1: the end of the year he played with that cast

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Speaker 1: on his hand, and I don't know if that limited

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Speaker 1: him a little bit, but I started thinking about all

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Speaker 1: the big plays he made, all the big places he made,

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Speaker 1: the interception against Miami on Thursday night, and interception against Dallas,

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Speaker 1: the one that got tipped and he dove and caught

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Speaker 1: it one hundred and one yard pick six, the one

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Speaker 1: that I always forget about, and I actually I don't

487
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Speaker 1: know how I forgot about this, but remember when he

488
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Speaker 1: chased down an tonio 'callaway and punched the ball out

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Speaker 1: near the goalne Callaway's running for a touchdown and Red

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Speaker 1: caught it from behind. And I think part of it

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Speaker 1: was justin I think may have blown the coverage. Maybe

492
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Speaker 1: not going back and looking at it, he might have,

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Speaker 1: but he made up for it tracking down Callaway and

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Speaker 1: punching the ball out. Man, that was one heck of

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Speaker 1: a play. So he's made tremendous plays already in his

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Speaker 1: one year career. Hopefully there's more of that to come,

497
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Speaker 1: because he's got to be a leader in the back

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Speaker 1: end for this team along with Sean Gibson, Jonathan Joseph,

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Speaker 1: those guys. They got to come together a little bit

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Speaker 1: better than they did last year to make sure the

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Speaker 1: past defense gets up to that level. Once he gets

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Speaker 1: up to that level, match with the past, rush day

503
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Speaker 1: can have defense should be back to being a top

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Speaker 1: ten defense in the league. That's where it needs to

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Speaker 1: be and Justin Reid's gonna be a big factor in

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Speaker 1: getting it there. Now one segment left, it's time for

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Speaker 1: the In the Lab crew to takeover. Drew Doherty myself.

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Speaker 1: What if is a question that I love to ask.

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Speaker 1: I love it even more to answer. We answered a

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Speaker 1: bunch of those that aren't in the Lab this week.

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Speaker 1: What therefore you next? In Texans All Access one final

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Speaker 1: segment of this wonderful Wednesday edition of Texans All Access

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Speaker 1: from the day of Texans Radio Studio. I'm your host

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Speaker 1: John Harris, Football Anno's a solid reporter and one half

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Speaker 1: of the In the Lab crew, myself and Drew Doherty

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Speaker 1: this week. What if It's one of my favorite questions.

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Speaker 1: What if You ask it all the time if you're

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Speaker 1: a sports fan. Oh what if this? What if you

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00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:53,399
Speaker 1: signed this player or if you added this player? What

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00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:55,560
Speaker 1: if you'd won this game? Oh what if you didn't

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00:25:55,560 --> 00:25:58,959
Speaker 1: get that guy? What if you didn't have him? What if?

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Speaker 1: There some of my favorite questions and I think they're

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Speaker 1: really fun to dive into, and Joe and I did

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Speaker 1: that this week on in the Lap Here we Go.

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Speaker 1: One of them is what if the Texans had won

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Speaker 1: in twenty and eighteen at Philadelphia? That was a Week

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Speaker 1: sixteen game. I think about that one a lot. Another

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Speaker 1: one is what if the Texans had signed Drew Brees

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Speaker 1: in two thousand and six is a free agent man?

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Speaker 1: And the third and it's the whopper of them all,

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Speaker 1: and I really think the what if of them all?

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Speaker 1: And Greg Roging of Houston Chronicle brought this up, but

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Speaker 1: he I think it's the whopper of them all, and

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Speaker 1: it's what if Matt shob had not gotten injured in

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Speaker 1: two thousand eleven. Yeah, but let's start with the win

536
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Speaker 1: this season? Well, or what could have happened? That's the one.

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Speaker 1: Obviously it's the most recent one, so but I think

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Speaker 1: a lot about it. And what if the Texans had

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Speaker 1: won that game thirty twenty nine? What you know, what

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Speaker 1: if Connie's penalty is not called Alston, Jeffrey doesn't hang

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Speaker 1: out of the ball, it's got to be fourth and

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Speaker 1: long with foals and you get that win, and there

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Speaker 1: would have been so many. Now, you would have still

544
00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:05,600
Speaker 1: had to beat the Jaguars to get the buy. Yeah,

545
00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:07,720
Speaker 1: but the Jaguars are ready to mail it in, and

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00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:10,480
Speaker 1: so you really didn't have to exert all that much effort.

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Speaker 1: I think where where we ran into a little bit

548
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Speaker 1: of an issue in twenty eighteen was the fact that

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Speaker 1: you were playing every single week at the end. That

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00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:21,920
Speaker 1: bye week is so important, and I think that's that's

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Speaker 1: where I think, Man, Okay, you got the Colts in

552
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Speaker 1: the first round, It's probably it's a bad matchup because

553
00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:28,359
Speaker 1: the Cult were the Coats were on fire. They know you,

554
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:31,000
Speaker 1: they beat you a few weeks prior, and you know

555
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Speaker 1: they've got a couple of pieces you don't match up

556
00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:34,280
Speaker 1: with well you and you just didn't play well and

557
00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:36,200
Speaker 1: you were banged up. You could have really used that week.

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Speaker 1: But I think about that now. I think I think

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Speaker 1: the Texas would have had the bye tiebreaker with the Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: Not totally sure, but let's say they didn't. They would

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Speaker 1: have been the two seed. The Patriots would have been

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Speaker 1: the three seed. So that means the Patriots would have

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Speaker 1: had to play the Colts in the first round and

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Speaker 1: the Chargers would have played the Ravens. So say the

565
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Speaker 1: Chargers still win if the Colts win, If the Colts

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Speaker 1: upset the Patriots, the Colts would have gone to Kansas

567
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Speaker 1: City as they did, and the Chargers would have then

568
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Speaker 1: come here to play us. The Colts weren't gonna be

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Speaker 1: the Patriots, so one than likely the Patriots would have

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Speaker 1: come here for a division around playoff game and this

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Speaker 1: city would have been amped up for that game. There's

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Speaker 1: no doubt. I don't know if the Patriots would be

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Speaker 1: the team I would have wanted to see in the

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Speaker 1: Division around. Then again, the division around playoff game I

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Speaker 1: will take any time. But how important is that division

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Speaker 1: around game? The Patriots? Every single championship, every single super

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Speaker 1: Bowl the Patriots have gone to, they've had a buyer. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: every single one they've gone to, every single one they've won.

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Speaker 1: That's amazing. Nine nine super Bowls. I think it is. Well,

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Speaker 1: I'm counting the one from way back, is that right?

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Speaker 1: I think it's nine super Bowls because they've lost the

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Speaker 1: Giants and Giants and the Eagles. Yeah, second, the nine,

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Speaker 1: it's nine. They every single one that they have gone too.

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Speaker 1: It's they've gotten to buy that first round. Yeah, that's

585
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Speaker 1: a that's a key stat to remember. The last team

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Speaker 1: that wont it that I that I can remember playing

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Speaker 1: in the first week was the Ravens. Yeah, the Ravens

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Speaker 1: in twenty twelve had edward edwid Ray Lewis. So how

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00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:22,240
Speaker 1: important is that bye week? Vital? It's a vital, huge

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00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:24,640
Speaker 1: and that I think would have helped. They wouldn't have

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Speaker 1: gotten everybody right, but I think it would have gotten

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Speaker 1: guys a week arrest, relax. Just you did what you

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Speaker 1: had to do. Now you play that game at home.

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Speaker 1: You let teams beat each other up in a playoff

595
00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:41,360
Speaker 1: round and no doubt, no doubt, So I think that

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00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:43,160
Speaker 1: would help. That's That's one I think a lot about

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00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:47,200
Speaker 1: because getting that bye week, and I think people in

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Speaker 1: the building knew it. I think that afternoon against Philly,

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Speaker 1: I think there was just a lot more edge to

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Speaker 1: everybody afterwards because they knew They just knew it what

601
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Speaker 1: was at stake. They knew man bye week and they

602
00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:02,320
Speaker 1: and the way Leaf come from behind the offense got

603
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Speaker 1: when the offense left the field for the final time,

604
00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:07,480
Speaker 1: they were leading, Yeah, they were leading thirty to twenty nine,

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Speaker 1: and then so they kicked the extra point. Then they

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Speaker 1: kick off and special teams, huge drives, the guy out

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Speaker 1: of bound, the returner out of bounds, like the ten

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Speaker 1: or eleven yard. It was a great play by the

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Speaker 1: special cheat, so they had to go about ninety yards

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Speaker 1: the link the field to do it. Yeah, and that

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Speaker 1: that was That was unfortunately, But I thought about that

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Speaker 1: one after the year. Now you could have said, look,

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Speaker 1: what if the Texas have beaten the Giants? You know,

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Speaker 1: what if they in Week three? Yeah, what if they

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Speaker 1: beat the Titans. I just feel like the way the

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Speaker 1: season played out, it's more asking what would have happened

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Speaker 1: against the Eagles, because it was it was your last

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Speaker 1: last stumble. Yeah, it was the last. It was the

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Speaker 1: last one. And yeah, maybe you beat the Colts in

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Speaker 1: December and that would that would have definitely helped at home.

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Speaker 1: But the Eagles one was right was right there on

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Speaker 1: your play. I don't know if you played well enough

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Speaker 1: in that Colts game here the regular season game to

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Speaker 1: get a win. But you had the Eagles on the

625
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Speaker 1: ropes with two minutes left in the game and you're

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00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:04,280
Speaker 1: up one and they gotta drive nine yards. So from

627
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Speaker 1: that perspective, man, that would have given you a divisional

628
00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:10,120
Speaker 1: round game. You let playoff games play in front of you.

629
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Speaker 1: Then you plan it out and you play on that Saturday,

630
00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:16,640
Speaker 1: and just man you would have been. You would have

631
00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:18,240
Speaker 1: been a good position. Could could you have beaten the

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Speaker 1: Rams or the Saints or whoever in the Super Bowl? Now?

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Speaker 1: Who knows? But if you do get the Patriots and

634
00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:27,360
Speaker 1: you do knock them off in the division around, now

635
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Speaker 1: maybe you go to Kansas City, and I mean, who

636
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Speaker 1: doesn't want to see who doesn't want to see Watson

637
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Speaker 1: Mahomes against each other? Get the field, We're gonna see

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Speaker 1: quite a bit of that. For sure, we're gonna see

639
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Speaker 1: it in the regular season, but I get the field,

640
00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:37,200
Speaker 1: We're gonna see quite a bit of that over the

641
00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:39,360
Speaker 1: next decade. Yeah, So that's definitely one that we need

642
00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:41,320
Speaker 1: to That's a what if we need to look at all. Right,

643
00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:43,200
Speaker 1: But let's go back to oh six. And this is

644
00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:45,600
Speaker 1: a little bit more obscure. I don't hear too many

645
00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:48,160
Speaker 1: people ever bring this too many people ever bring this

646
00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:50,840
Speaker 1: one up. But Gary Kubiak is the new head coach

647
00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:54,880
Speaker 1: in Houston, David Carr is still the quarterback, but Drew

648
00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:58,280
Speaker 1: Brees is out there as a free agent, thought about

649
00:31:58,280 --> 00:32:01,479
Speaker 1: signing with the Dolphins thought about sign with the Saints

650
00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:03,719
Speaker 1: and made the decision to go in New Orleans. Yeah, well,

651
00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:05,800
Speaker 1: what if the Texans had gotten in the fray and

652
00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:08,880
Speaker 1: signed Drew Brees as the quarterback in two thousand and six, John,

653
00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:13,680
Speaker 1: what do you think happens? How's that alter the trajectory

654
00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:15,640
Speaker 1: of this franchise. I think by the time you get

655
00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:19,160
Speaker 1: to two thousand and nine, two ten, Now, once you

656
00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:20,880
Speaker 1: get Drew in here in two thousand and six, I

657
00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:24,360
Speaker 1: think what happens is everything gets gets moved up. Because

658
00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:30,280
Speaker 1: with Drew you realize, oh boy, we've got something here.

659
00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:33,880
Speaker 1: I think you just would have moved everything up, and

660
00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:37,240
Speaker 1: that I think would have been you would have seen

661
00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:40,760
Speaker 1: in two thousand and six, Holy cow, we're gonna be

662
00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:43,760
Speaker 1: pretty good. So maybe at that point, I don't want

663
00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:48,480
Speaker 1: to say that there's a there's a rush to do things,

664
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:51,440
Speaker 1: but maybe you speed things up because you realize, Okay,

665
00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:55,000
Speaker 1: we're not still expansion team building step by step by step.

666
00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:56,840
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, it's hey, we can be a

667
00:32:56,880 --> 00:33:00,280
Speaker 1: factor with we can be with this guy. We can

668
00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:02,880
Speaker 1: be good. We can be really good, boy, Breeze to

669
00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:05,320
Speaker 1: Andre Johnson. I mean the number of different levels that

670
00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:08,680
Speaker 1: this can go is you got Breeze to Andre Johnson,

671
00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:11,560
Speaker 1: and then DeAndre Hopkins comes along in thirteen and you know,

672
00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:14,560
Speaker 1: obviously butterfly effect. Who knows what whether DeAndre would have

673
00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:17,720
Speaker 1: been available to you at that point, but I think

674
00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:21,640
Speaker 1: you move everything up. And at that point, if you

675
00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:26,880
Speaker 1: move everything up, I think a perfect spot to look

676
00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:30,400
Speaker 1: is the Super Bowl when Breeze took on Peyton Manning.

677
00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:32,520
Speaker 1: I mean that would have been that would have been

678
00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:35,360
Speaker 1: a twice a year deal with Breeze on one side

679
00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:38,160
Speaker 1: and Peyton Manning on the other. And at one point

680
00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:39,760
Speaker 1: you were going to break through, And it may have

681
00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:41,640
Speaker 1: been that two thousand nine season, may have been twenty

682
00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:44,200
Speaker 1: and ten, maybe it would have. Definitely if you had

683
00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:46,280
Speaker 1: gotten close to nine and ten, you would have put

684
00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:49,320
Speaker 1: it over the top. And eleven. Now, the key to

685
00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:51,160
Speaker 1: me at some point is could you have gotten a

686
00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:54,200
Speaker 1: Wade Phillips. If not Wade Phillips, could you got to

687
00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:57,000
Speaker 1: Wade Phillips like defensive coordinator that could have come in

688
00:33:57,040 --> 00:34:01,440
Speaker 1: here and really gotten the defense going when the offense

689
00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:03,840
Speaker 1: was gonna get going. Because by two thousand and eight,

690
00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:07,360
Speaker 1: two thousand and nine, you're the best offense in the league.

691
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:10,760
Speaker 1: Like it's not even close. The only team that's probably

692
00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:12,239
Speaker 1: close to you at that point as the Patriots because

693
00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:14,839
Speaker 1: they got Brady Welker Moss and that's probably the only

694
00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:17,560
Speaker 1: one that's close to you. But you have a chance

695
00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:20,239
Speaker 1: to have the best offense in a league. Can you

696
00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:22,080
Speaker 1: match it with some defense? And that's obviously with the

697
00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:24,040
Speaker 1: Saints did in two thousand and nine, so to me

698
00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:27,719
Speaker 1: kind of using mirror and I know they're they're not

699
00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:30,240
Speaker 1: the same, but you know what happens if the Texans

700
00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:32,080
Speaker 1: end up with Greg Williams in two thousand and eight,

701
00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:35,840
Speaker 1: two thousand and nine and Breeze is running things, I

702
00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:37,440
Speaker 1: think he gets good a chance to get to a

703
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:41,120
Speaker 1: title in nine or ten as you did in eleven

704
00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:45,080
Speaker 1: or twelve, and maybe better because Breezes, say Breeze stays healthy,

705
00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:49,719
Speaker 1: he stays healthy through ten or eight, nine, ten, you're

706
00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:53,160
Speaker 1: probably gonna win a ring or at a minimum, go

707
00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:56,040
Speaker 1: to one of those Super Bowls. One of those Super Bowls,

708
00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:59,120
Speaker 1: because if there was a time to catch the Patriots

709
00:34:59,239 --> 00:35:03,600
Speaker 1: in a lull, oh seven O seven was the Patriots

710
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:06,000
Speaker 1: that year. But then after that they started to fall

711
00:35:06,040 --> 00:35:09,120
Speaker 1: off a little bit. Oh eight, Brady gets hurt Castle's

712
00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:12,120
Speaker 1: got to step in oh nine. The Patriots they looked good.

713
00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:14,759
Speaker 1: They look good at nine, they did, but that was

714
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:16,800
Speaker 1: the year they lost in the first round to the Ravens.

715
00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:20,319
Speaker 1: Twenty ten, they got the two tight ends, they got

716
00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:23,040
Speaker 1: Gronk and they got Hernandez, so they started to kind

717
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:24,839
Speaker 1: of offensively get it going, but they got knocked off

718
00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:27,680
Speaker 1: in divisional round by the Jets. Two thousand and eleven,

719
00:35:27,719 --> 00:35:30,000
Speaker 1: the Patriots kind of back on track. They got to

720
00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:32,640
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, didn't win it, but got back there. Twelve,

721
00:35:32,680 --> 00:35:34,799
Speaker 1: they lost in the championship game in the Ravens, and

722
00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:38,240
Speaker 1: then from thirteen on they've just they've they've been dominated

723
00:35:38,239 --> 00:35:42,040
Speaker 1: other than them and the Broncos, you know, throughout those years.

724
00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:45,000
Speaker 1: So I feel like that would have been the time

725
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:47,840
Speaker 1: period you really needed to take advantage. The year Brady

726
00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:49,520
Speaker 1: was hurt No. Eight, the year they were kind of

727
00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:52,480
Speaker 1: down at oh nine and twenty ten, they weren't all

728
00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:55,040
Speaker 1: the way back yet. You have an opportunity to eight, nine,

729
00:35:55,120 --> 00:35:56,440
Speaker 1: ten to kind of step in there and fill the

730
00:35:56,520 --> 00:35:58,719
Speaker 1: void if you can knock off the Anneapolis Colts. But

731
00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:01,040
Speaker 1: if you got Breeze, you definitely could do all. Right,

732
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:04,200
Speaker 1: let's get to the whopper of them all. What if

733
00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:08,799
Speaker 1: match Shop does not go down in that game at

734
00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:11,400
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay and really you didn't know it had what

735
00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:13,759
Speaker 1: had happened in Tampa Bay. What if he doesn't get

736
00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:18,960
Speaker 1: hurt at Tampa Bay, Texans leave against the Buccaneers with

737
00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:21,480
Speaker 1: a victory, a big victory too, to go to seven

738
00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:25,120
Speaker 1: and three. They're rolling. Ye, what if Shop stays healthy

739
00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:27,000
Speaker 1: the rest of the way. I think they win a

740
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:30,400
Speaker 1: few more games than they would have. I think they've

741
00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:35,319
Speaker 1: got that buy that you're talking about. But ultimately, I

742
00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:36,799
Speaker 1: don't know that they do go to the super Bowl.

743
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:39,040
Speaker 1: I know that's the everyone says, Oh, they're in the

744
00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:41,840
Speaker 1: super Bowl, they win it. Yeah, I still just I

745
00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:46,600
Speaker 1: don't know that they win it that year. But I

746
00:36:46,640 --> 00:36:49,799
Speaker 1: do think they win more games in December to set

747
00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:52,960
Speaker 1: themselves up for more in January. I think they might

748
00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:56,880
Speaker 1: get to the championship game, but I'm not sure still

749
00:36:56,920 --> 00:37:00,000
Speaker 1: that they win it. Well, because you still had the Patriots, Okay, yeah, exactly,

750
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:03,560
Speaker 1: you still you still have the Patriots, and that was

751
00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:05,960
Speaker 1: a good twenty eleven teams, a good team. You still

752
00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:10,120
Speaker 1: had Welker on that team, you had Gronk becoming Gronk,

753
00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:12,759
Speaker 1: you had Hernandez. They just they were made. They were

754
00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:19,239
Speaker 1: made a little differently. So um, it's I don't think

755
00:37:19,239 --> 00:37:22,560
Speaker 1: it's outside the round possibility to think that AFC Championship game.

756
00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:26,719
Speaker 1: I don't say a lock. But could they have beat

757
00:37:26,880 --> 00:37:28,480
Speaker 1: First of all, did they get they if they get

758
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:31,399
Speaker 1: the buy, can they win one game at home? While

759
00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:33,200
Speaker 1: I think they could which shop, I think they could

760
00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:35,480
Speaker 1: have totally you get a buy. Think about this way

761
00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:38,560
Speaker 1: the bye that would have been the first playoff game

762
00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:41,400
Speaker 1: here since ninety three. It would have been Um, it

763
00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:43,760
Speaker 1: would have been electric. Now they would have been carrying

764
00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:46,080
Speaker 1: a lot of pressure. But and you're are you likely

765
00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:49,879
Speaker 1: playing the Ravens here instead of playing them there? Man,

766
00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:51,759
Speaker 1: that's a good question. And if you are, I think

767
00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:55,479
Speaker 1: you which shob, I think you roll in that game.

768
00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:57,560
Speaker 1: I think you win by seven points. I think you can.

769
00:37:57,640 --> 00:37:59,040
Speaker 1: I think you can win that game. So that puts

770
00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:01,120
Speaker 1: you in the championship game. Going in New England in

771
00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:06,120
Speaker 1: twenty eleven. Now at that point, do you feel like

772
00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:07,880
Speaker 1: you're playing with house money? First time you've ever been

773
00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:10,040
Speaker 1: AFC Championship game? Do you play kind of like the

774
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:12,680
Speaker 1: Jaguars did in twenty seventeen where you didn't have a

775
00:38:12,719 --> 00:38:14,200
Speaker 1: care in the world. You're just playing and all of

776
00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:15,560
Speaker 1: sudden you look up, you're like, hey, we're ahead of

777
00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:17,520
Speaker 1: these guys in the fourth quarter. You know, could you

778
00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:21,759
Speaker 1: have finished it in the fourth quarter. I contend the

779
00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:26,600
Speaker 1: Patriots probably that year would have beat you, but I

780
00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:28,000
Speaker 1: think it would And I know people will say, well,

781
00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:30,560
Speaker 1: you're twenty twelve. The Patriots hammered the Texans. That's a

782
00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:32,520
Speaker 1: different team. It was definitely a different team at a

783
00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:35,279
Speaker 1: different time. I think one of the big things you

784
00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:38,239
Speaker 1: had going in twenty eleven was you had Cush. Yeah,

785
00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:40,319
Speaker 1: Cushing was the MVP of the team in the year.

786
00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:42,440
Speaker 1: When you go back and you watch twenty eleven and

787
00:38:42,560 --> 00:38:45,520
Speaker 1: you see how good Cush what? Oh my goodness, I

788
00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:49,000
Speaker 1: was watching the playoff game the other day. Oh he was.

789
00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:52,239
Speaker 1: He was unbelievable. So if you got shob plus, you

790
00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:54,960
Speaker 1: have less questions up front on the right side, right

791
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:59,040
Speaker 1: you're not starting two rookies and Ben Jones exactly. And

792
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:03,160
Speaker 1: it's a great point. So I think twenty I've I've

793
00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:06,040
Speaker 1: always says I've felt like twenty eleven was the shot

794
00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:09,040
Speaker 1: that was the best shot at a middlem to get

795
00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:12,560
Speaker 1: the FC Championship game, Yeah, to get to the super Bowl.

796
00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:14,920
Speaker 1: Now you get the Super Bowl. He play the Giants.

797
00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:18,200
Speaker 1: I think I think he can beat the Giants if

798
00:39:18,239 --> 00:39:20,120
Speaker 1: you get there. Yeah, I think you can beat the

799
00:39:20,120 --> 00:39:22,480
Speaker 1: Giants of the Yeah. I think it would have been

800
00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:23,800
Speaker 1: tough for getting out of the FFC and beating in

801
00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:25,360
Speaker 1: New England at New England. To me, that's what it

802
00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:29,400
Speaker 1: comes down to with Shob with Cush healthy in twenty eleven,

803
00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:34,239
Speaker 1: can you beat New England in New England to go

804
00:39:34,280 --> 00:39:37,080
Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl? And a people will hear this

805
00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:39,600
Speaker 1: and say they were beat New England New England That

806
00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:42,640
Speaker 1: twenty eleven team was wired a little bit differently, especially

807
00:39:42,719 --> 00:39:44,880
Speaker 1: with Kush being there. And then if you've got Shob,

808
00:39:45,280 --> 00:39:47,400
Speaker 1: now you're still locked in offensively to things that you

809
00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:50,279
Speaker 1: can do. And we love TJ. I mean, I mean,

810
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:54,000
Speaker 1: he's he's a Texas legend, you know for what he's

811
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:55,960
Speaker 1: been able to do and now he's back with the organization.

812
00:39:56,480 --> 00:39:59,120
Speaker 1: But even he'll tell you those man he's thrown it

813
00:39:59,160 --> 00:40:01,560
Speaker 1: through fire in those games, shops, going into situations where

814
00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:04,160
Speaker 1: he's seeing teams. He's seen the Ravens again, he's seen

815
00:40:04,160 --> 00:40:06,759
Speaker 1: the Ravens before you know, he's seen Cincinnati, he's you know,

816
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:09,399
Speaker 1: he's not phazed by any of that. And it would

817
00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:11,520
Speaker 1: have been, hey, let's take a one shot deal against

818
00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:13,560
Speaker 1: the Patriots to go to the super Bowl. I'm with

819
00:40:13,560 --> 00:40:16,840
Speaker 1: you on that, Drew. I think could. I think it

820
00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:19,040
Speaker 1: would have been a really good game. But I think

821
00:40:19,040 --> 00:40:21,960
Speaker 1: in the end, Patriots playing at home probably win that

822
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:23,520
Speaker 1: buy a field goal or so. Yeah, I think you

823
00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:27,040
Speaker 1: go a little further than losing in the divisional round

824
00:40:27,040 --> 00:40:29,399
Speaker 1: on the road. Yeah. I think maybe it's you win

825
00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:31,480
Speaker 1: a one, you win a divisional round game at home,

826
00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:33,120
Speaker 1: and go to the title game. But I still just

827
00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:37,359
Speaker 1: I don't know. I just don't see him overcoming that hump.

828
00:40:37,520 --> 00:40:41,440
Speaker 1: I think I think that's true. I think the flip.

829
00:40:41,520 --> 00:40:43,200
Speaker 1: The other one that kind of goes along with this.

830
00:40:43,480 --> 00:40:47,040
Speaker 1: The corollary in some sense is what if in twenty

831
00:40:47,080 --> 00:40:49,440
Speaker 1: twelve you don't stub your toe down the stretch and

832
00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:52,359
Speaker 1: you win one or two those games at home, so

833
00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:57,279
Speaker 1: you get to buy in twenty twelve. Yeah, and that

834
00:40:57,440 --> 00:40:59,239
Speaker 1: I think about that a lot, because then obviously you

835
00:40:59,280 --> 00:41:01,279
Speaker 1: can avoid the page Patriots and you get back in

836
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:04,480
Speaker 1: that similar situation of can you win the divisional around,

837
00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:05,799
Speaker 1: and I'm trying to think who they would have played

838
00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:08,600
Speaker 1: that division around. Probably the Ravens. Probably the Ravens now

839
00:41:08,680 --> 00:41:10,719
Speaker 1: that was Now that was tough though, because you had

840
00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:13,800
Speaker 1: smoked the Ravens on battle Red Day earlier that season.

841
00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:17,560
Speaker 1: Because the Broncos and Patriots both got buys, right, and

842
00:41:17,640 --> 00:41:19,719
Speaker 1: they were both pretty good in twenty twelve, and trying

843
00:41:19,719 --> 00:41:23,080
Speaker 1: to remember records, but they I mean, boy, that was

844
00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:27,480
Speaker 1: stacked in twenty twelve. Holy smokes, I think twenty eleven.

845
00:41:27,560 --> 00:41:30,839
Speaker 1: I just I just feel like with Cushing being healthy,

846
00:41:31,239 --> 00:41:35,600
Speaker 1: that really changed. That changed everything. It just changed. You are, okay?

847
00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:39,000
Speaker 1: So the Texas finished twelve and four, the Patriots were

848
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:42,520
Speaker 1: twelve and four, the Broncos were thirteen and three. Obviously

849
00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:44,800
Speaker 1: the Patriots had to buy because they beat the Texans.

850
00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:47,760
Speaker 1: So if you win one of those games down the stretch,

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Speaker 1: you get a buy. Yeah. But again, who's probably your

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Speaker 1: division around opponent home at home? The New England Patriots.

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Speaker 1: Now you gotta take on a twenty twelve Patriots at home?

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Speaker 1: Oh boy? Yeah, oh boy, is right. I don't know

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Speaker 1: how that would have gone big. Thanks to Drew for

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Speaker 1: stopping by. Thank you to Justin Reed, Thank you guys

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Speaker 1: for listening. Really appreciate you. We'll see you tomorrow and

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Speaker 1: as always, go Texas.