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Speaker 1: Welcome to everybody to you Wednesday edition of Texans All

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

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Speaker 1: John Harris Football has a silent report for your Houston

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Speaker 1: Texans and pump to be joining you on this Thanksgiving

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Speaker 1: Eve edition of Texans All Access. Oh boy, first of all,

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Speaker 1: let me start with that Happy Thanksgiving. We will not

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Speaker 1: be around tomorrow because, first of all, Thanksgiving, but we're

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Speaker 1: gonna have games all day. You've got three NFL games

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Speaker 1: and oh, by the way, we will predict them. I

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Speaker 1: will predict them later should ever against the spread. I

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Speaker 1: do that every Friday. But I gotta get least get

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Speaker 1: get these three games on record, so we'll do that

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Speaker 1: later on. But we'll have Thanksgiving games all day, so

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Speaker 1: we won't be around tomorrow, and hopefully I am able

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Speaker 1: to encapsulate the way that I feel for all of

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Speaker 1: you listening, for all the support that you all give

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Speaker 1: to me, to our department, to the Texans, to the

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Speaker 1: city of Houston. You all rock. Thank you. I give thanks,

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Speaker 1: and look, everybody gives thanks for family and friends. And

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Speaker 1: you guys are friends from far and you're kind of

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Speaker 1: a You're kind of the weird football family, probably a

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Speaker 1: couple branches extended, if you will, for me and for

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Speaker 1: a lot of people in this building. And you all

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Speaker 1: mean a lot. And I really appreciate that. My guy's

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Speaker 1: back at six ten that take care of this show,

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Speaker 1: b Mac Figgy, all the guys that make this possible, Ben,

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Speaker 1: Gary Rocket, those guys are all fantastic, of course, led

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Speaker 1: by arm and Williams. So we appreciate you guys. We

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Speaker 1: thank you all very much. So you all have a

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Speaker 1: very safe Thanksgiving tomorrow, have one where you're piling up food.

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Speaker 1: And look, I'll be straight up honest, my family's out

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Speaker 1: of town, so it's just me. So I got a

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Speaker 1: side because I've been on this thing for years. Like

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Speaker 1: I've told my wife, I don't want turkey for Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 1: I want something else. So that something else might just

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Speaker 1: be a bunch of sides tomorrow. I haven't completely decided.

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Speaker 1: I was wondering if Popeyes might be open Micael good

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Speaker 1: I know everybody likes the turkey sandwiches the day after.

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Speaker 1: I'm cool with that, but the rest of my family

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Speaker 1: didn't really like leftovers. A bunch like my son will

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Speaker 1: not eat leftover. And I mean he's a nineteen year

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Speaker 1: old boy, man boy, man man boy, whatever you're gonna

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Speaker 1: call it. He didn't like leftovers, so he didn't like

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Speaker 1: the turkey sands. Now he likes some of the others.

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Speaker 1: But you give me some mashed potatoes, some sort of

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Speaker 1: sweeptot to cast role, maybe green meat castle. Like I'm

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Speaker 1: Clint and Wade and Jeremy Brannam on Sports Radio six

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Speaker 1: ten to day when I was doing my hit with

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Speaker 1: him in the afternoon show. Those are the ones I've

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Speaker 1: goes to. The sides I gotta have. But if you

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Speaker 1: want to throw out there some I don't know, some

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Speaker 1: mac and cheese, some lobster mac and cheese. I'm a

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Speaker 1: mac and cheese, I'm totally fine with that. On Thanksgiving,

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Speaker 1: the fact that they are not here. I give thanks

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Speaker 1: for them every single day, but they're visiting a wise

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Speaker 1: family in North Carolina. So it's just me. So I

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Speaker 1: gotta figure out what I'm gonna do for Thanksgiving. So

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Speaker 1: football and I'll see you know. Maybe I'll I don't

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Speaker 1: to half Pahetas. I just I was craving it, so

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Speaker 1: my daughter's vegetarians, so that doesn't help. So anyways, I'll

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Speaker 1: talk too much about it. But Happy Thanksgiving to you all, y'all.

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Speaker 1: I mean a lot. Thank you very much for everything

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Speaker 1: every day that I stepped to put it set foot

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Speaker 1: into the studio, and I thank you. So what's on

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Speaker 1: the show tonight, Well, we're gonna hear from our quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: this hour. We're here from nineteen eighty nine Highsmoo Trophy

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Speaker 1: Clinch Starner. So we have the quarterbacks in the first hour.

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Speaker 1: In our second hour, we're gonna break into our guests

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Speaker 1: and we're gonna start with Ben Voland of the Boston Globe.

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Speaker 1: He's a senior NFL writer, So we want behind enemy

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Speaker 1: sidelines with DPCU and DP talked with Ben. Then my predictions.

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Speaker 1: We've got three NFL games, We've got some college games.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna take place before our Friday all Access show starts.

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Speaker 1: So I decided, you know what, why not mix it up?

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Speaker 1: Why I give a little NFL straight up and against

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Speaker 1: against the spread. It's rivalry weekend. Ohio State Michigan, Texas.

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Speaker 1: They found a way to do it. Somehow Oklahoma Okahoma

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Speaker 1: make predictions and then our final segment, we will have

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Speaker 1: our men behind the mics for Sunday's game. Now we

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Speaker 1: will not have Al Michaels, but we will have Bob Socy,

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Speaker 1: the voice of the New England Patriots, joining our voice

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Speaker 1: Mark Vannimer. So we got plenty to do. Let's kick

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Speaker 1: a little Texans audio jukebox to start the show. Now

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Speaker 1: we're gonna hear from head coach Bill O'Brien, and a

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Speaker 1: big talking point today is that man Stefan Gilmore, who

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Speaker 1: Do you really and can you really have an appreciation

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Speaker 1: our Texas Audio jukebox, and here from DeShawn Watson. And

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Speaker 1: Of course, with a corner like Gilmore, some people think, well,

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Speaker 1: another team, and I think Child doesn't get nearly the

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Speaker 1: credit that he deserves. And putting that that thing together,

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Speaker 1: the organization was run tight. Everybody loves it. Seems like

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Speaker 1: both teams, both Baltimore and the forty nine ers, I

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Speaker 1: love playing for their head coaches. You could see it.

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Speaker 1: The players are having fun and they're getting after it.

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Speaker 1: It's it's just that's gonna be a fun game to watch,

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Speaker 1: all right, Andre. Now, the Tennessee Titans will take on

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Speaker 1: the Colts in Indy. You've got Ryan Tannehill going out

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Speaker 1: on the road, and you have the Cults trying to

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Speaker 1: do business without Eric Ebroun and they really need this one.

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Speaker 1: What do you think of that matchup? The Colts have

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Speaker 1: tended to own the Titans, so to speak, but we'll

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Speaker 1: see how that plays out. What do you think? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I thought early in the week that Tennessee could go

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Speaker 1: there and win. But with Jacobe burst said another week

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Speaker 1: removed from his you know, knee injury, and then you're

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Speaker 1: get him t Y Hilton back who was another week

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Speaker 1: removed from his hamstring injury, that they will have enough

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Speaker 1: firepower I think in the passing game to move the

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Speaker 1: ball that way against the Texans. I think they were.

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Speaker 1: They obviously had t Y on a pitch count, and

447
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Speaker 1: we're not going to to overuse him for you know,

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Speaker 1: basically for the stretch run in the remainder of the season.

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Speaker 1: So I think they were both just kind of being

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Speaker 1: conservative in the manner in which they played the Texas.

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Speaker 1: I don't think that's the case. They can't afford it

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Speaker 1: to be the case. In Tennessee's hot It's going to

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Speaker 1: be a close, close football game. But I think Indianapolis

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Speaker 1: at home kind of squeaks one out, maybe by three

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Speaker 1: points or so, but it'll be a close game. All right,

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Speaker 1: my friend. Now, you have the Cougars and Navy coming

457
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Speaker 1: up this weekend, so you don't have to go far,

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Speaker 1: which is a nice thing, but not a nice thing

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Speaker 1: for any team that has to prepare against Navy. So

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Speaker 1: tell me about what it's like to have to get

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Speaker 1: ready for that kind of offense when you're not used

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Speaker 1: to seeing it a whole lot. Yeah, you're getting ready

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Speaker 1: for Navy, like during your bye week and during the

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Speaker 1: off season where you're committing practices to faces the triple

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Speaker 1: options so that you can't because you can't get ready

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Speaker 1: for him in a week, so you have to have

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Speaker 1: something where you can draw from that this is what

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Speaker 1: we were doing at this point in time or during

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Speaker 1: our bye week, and then you start to implement the

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Speaker 1: entire game plan. But if you're just starting to get

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Speaker 1: ready for Navy this week, you're in trouble. The best

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Speaker 1: time to play them is in a bowl game when

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Speaker 1: you've had a series of practices and then you go

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Speaker 1: face them, or the beginning of the season when you've

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Speaker 1: had an entire offseason to get ready for that game.

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Speaker 1: They are a well oiled machine. They bounced back from

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Speaker 1: last year of going three and nine and they've got

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Speaker 1: things rolling ten and one on the year. They's got

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Speaker 1: a quarterback of Malcolm Perry that is is he he

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Speaker 1: can flat out play and operate the triple option in

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Speaker 1: a defense that's different under a new coordinator, and they

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Speaker 1: move around. They cause some problems there because where they start,

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Speaker 1: where they line up, they're not going to be in

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Speaker 1: the same spot once the ball is snapped. So it's

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Speaker 1: it's a fun group to watch on both offense and defense.

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Speaker 1: To coups, and Marcus Stevenson is just tough to stop.

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Speaker 1: He is a big play waiting to happen. He had

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Speaker 1: a kick return for a touchdown last week along with

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Speaker 1: a big, big catch as well, so it should be

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Speaker 1: a great matchup. The one thing that works in the

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Speaker 1: Coup's favors Navy has never come under ten Neio Matt

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Speaker 1: Lolo the head coach. They've never come to Houston and

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Speaker 1: won a football game, so hopefully that you know, being

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Speaker 1: a Coups fan, that remains true. But this is going

495
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Speaker 1: to be a tall order for the Coups, nonetheless, because

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Speaker 1: Navy's playing for the Western side of the conference to

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Speaker 1: represent it in the championship game. If Memphis were to

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Speaker 1: come up short to Cincinnati on Friday night, okay, well,

499
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Speaker 1: good stuff, my friend will watch that one. And of

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Speaker 1: course we look forward to Senior Sunday night when the

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Speaker 1: Tech Since take on the Patriots. And Happy Thanksgiving to

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Speaker 1: you and your beautiful family too, my man. Love those

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Speaker 1: two gentlemen right there, Mark Vandimer and our game analysts,

504
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Speaker 1: college football Legend, college football analysts Andre Where all right,

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Speaker 1: we got another quarterback coming up next. Clint Sterner is

506
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Speaker 1: gonna step under center now and give us his thoughts

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Speaker 1: on Sean Watson on Tom Brady on the Patriots. That's

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Speaker 1: all next on Texas Access. Welcome back to Wednesday issue

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Speaker 1: of Texas All Access from the Monday Texas Radio studio.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host. John Harris joined now, but I'm a

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Speaker 1: good friend. You can hear him two to six in

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Speaker 1: our flag SIP Sports Radio six ten. You can see

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Speaker 1: him talking about Arkansas razorback football. It's my man, Clint Starry, Clint,

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Speaker 1: Happy Thanksgiving, my man. How you doing man? I'm doing well, man.

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Speaker 1: This is always a beautiful time of year. You got family,

516
00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:48,280
Speaker 1: football and fun. I don't know what else you need.

517
00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:50,760
Speaker 1: If that's not enough, man, you ain't living right. So

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00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:53,919
Speaker 1: it's all good on my brother. Yeah, it's it is

519
00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:58,960
Speaker 1: in Texas. You get good Texas high school football playoffs.

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Speaker 1: I know is gonna be a huge day here in

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00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:05,280
Speaker 1: the stadium. I think Katie and North Shore play at

522
00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:08,320
Speaker 1: four o'clock. So you got playoff high school football, you

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00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:12,960
Speaker 1: got the last college regular season before the championship game weekend,

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Speaker 1: and then of course you got Texans to be Patriots,

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Speaker 1: and we're gonna start there. Clint DeShawn Watson. I saw

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Speaker 1: you tweet a couple of things this week about him.

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Speaker 1: What would you like to see this Sean do in

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Speaker 1: this game and going forward to kind of take the

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Speaker 1: next step in his evolution. Yeah, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: I would like to see him hang in the pocket.

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Speaker 1: You know, I mean, we get enamored with his ability

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Speaker 1: to escape and his ability to make plays on the run,

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Speaker 1: and so many times we uh, because he makes a

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Speaker 1: good chunk play or a big play on the back

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Speaker 1: end of a scramble. Um, we we kind of just

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Speaker 1: glanced over it and move on. And I think that,

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Speaker 1: you know, in his development, and he's come along with

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Speaker 1: this year in this department. I just think the last

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks he's back slid into doing some things

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Speaker 1: and living bell in the pocket early having I call

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Speaker 1: it happy feet in the pocket. Um, when when you're

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Speaker 1: talking about quarterbacks, man, you you you oftentimes saved. I

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00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:17,960
Speaker 1: can see your mind through your feet, and if your

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Speaker 1: feet are going ninety to nothing, if you're hopping all

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Speaker 1: over the place in the pocket, that tells me you're

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Speaker 1: not seeing things clearly. And so I would just like

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Speaker 1: to see him really put an emphasis on hanging in

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Speaker 1: the pocket, hanging with the progression, believing in the in

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Speaker 1: the in the route, and the concepts that are called

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Speaker 1: and and hang in there and and make some throws,

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Speaker 1: particularly the mid range throws. You know, I think that's

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Speaker 1: uh you know that coming that comes into play in

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Speaker 1: third downs, comes into playing the red zone, um, and

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Speaker 1: it just those are things that I'd like to see

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00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:50,520
Speaker 1: him take the next step on. And as you get

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Speaker 1: into the fourth quarter this season, Clint go of me

557
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:54,800
Speaker 1: on this because I had this thought and it's gonna

558
00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:57,000
Speaker 1: I'm gonna bridge the two in just a second. But

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Speaker 1: I was watching last night Steve Boston at Duke and

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Speaker 1: on the final play of the game, Bain number twenty

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Speaker 1: three for Stephen F. Boston gets the ball at about

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Speaker 1: in the free throw line for Duke, and he's got

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Speaker 1: like three and a half seconds in the game, and

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Speaker 1: you're thinking, dude, you gotta shoot this. You gotta shoot it. Instead,

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Speaker 1: he takes it all the way to the rack and

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Speaker 1: I remember thinking, boy, three and a half seconds doesn't

567
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Speaker 1: seem like a long time, but he took every millisecond

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Speaker 1: of time. And it made me think about quarterbacks, because

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Speaker 1: three and a half seconds isn't a long time. At

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Speaker 1: quarterback world, it's a pretty long time. But it got

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Speaker 1: me thinking that quarterbacks sometimes start to feel the heat

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Speaker 1: when there's not much there that they're great ones sort

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Speaker 1: of have that feeling of like Baine did that, Hey,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna hang in here until the very very very

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Speaker 1: last second and I'll eventually find one. And the guy

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Speaker 1: that we're gonna see on Sunday night, Tom Brady has

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Speaker 1: that mastered. How often do you see that with quarterbacks,

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Speaker 1: Clint where I don't want to say it's you know,

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Speaker 1: it's ghost they're feeling ghosts, they're running away from ghosts.

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Speaker 1: But how often do you see quarterbacks bail in the

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Speaker 1: pocket when, in actuality, you probably have more time than

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Speaker 1: they actually realize to throw the football. Yeah, it's a

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Speaker 1: common problem. You know, the ones that the ones that

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Speaker 1: don't do it are using the ones that continue to

585
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Speaker 1: have success, they're the ones that that that win games,

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Speaker 1: and they're the ones that stay in the league for

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Speaker 1: twelve thirteen years and so, um, you know, it's to me,

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Speaker 1: it's it's one of those things where we're watching the

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Speaker 1: evolution of Deshaun Watson and I think early early in

590
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Speaker 1: his career in the league, it was big, explosive ways

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Speaker 1: run around and really survived because you're a young quarterback,

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Speaker 1: and you really don't know in the big scheme of things.

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Speaker 1: You don't know what the heck is going on really

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Speaker 1: relative to what you're gonna know in three or four years.

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Speaker 1: You know, his first sixteen starts, he didn't. He didn't

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00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:56,200
Speaker 1: he wasn't necessarily mentally ready to play relative to where

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Speaker 1: he's gonna be down the road. And then then you

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Speaker 1: see if you see Bill O'Brien and everybody associated with

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00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:05,680
Speaker 1: the Texans offense put an emphasis on getting the ball

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Speaker 1: out quick, whether it's the RPOs or it's the creative

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Speaker 1: quick game and staying in third and short and get

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Speaker 1: the ball, don't hold it, get the ball out, and

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Speaker 1: get the ball out. And now when when the ball's

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Speaker 1: not out quick immediately, then there's a problem of veiling early.

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Speaker 1: There's a problem of getting through progressions too quick. And

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Speaker 1: so I think it's a natural progression in a quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: development to go through these things. I just believe that

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Speaker 1: where the Texans are and as good as good as

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Speaker 1: I think that Sean Watson is, I think it's it's

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Speaker 1: about having a sense of urgency to get to that

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Speaker 1: point where you do. Like the kids from Stephen F. Boston,

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Speaker 1: didn't use every bit of that three and a half

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Speaker 1: seconds down to the last minute and get that easy shot.

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Speaker 1: Use every bit of that three and a half seconds

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Speaker 1: that you can because your offensive line is protecting you well,

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Speaker 1: concentrate a popular belief, use those three seconds and let

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Speaker 1: Johnson run that h post route and get that separation

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00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:07,080
Speaker 1: away from that man defender and he's got space to run.

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Speaker 1: Sit in there, let that play develop. Trust it's gonna develop,

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Speaker 1: and make that throw. It's a common problem, it's a

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Speaker 1: common part of quarterbacks developing. The question is is how

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Speaker 1: quick can Deshaun Watson get through this step of development?

623
00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:28,080
Speaker 1: And again, they could get closer and closer to that

624
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Speaker 1: total package and complete package that you need to be

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Speaker 1: in the NFL. Claire, this is maybe gonna sound like

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Speaker 1: a weird question, but facing the Patriots, is it more

627
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Speaker 1: physical or mental? Facing that defense knowing that they're gonna

628
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Speaker 1: blitz that Belichick is over there calling their defensive plays. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: They've got some really good athletes on that side. You know,

630
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Speaker 1: Stefan Gilmore is one of the best corners in the league,

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Speaker 1: and they're physical upfront, and they've got some guys that

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Speaker 1: can run around. But they're not gonna have a bunch

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Speaker 1: of Pro bowlers back there. Do you think moving the

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Speaker 1: ball against the Patriots is more about solving the mental

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Speaker 1: game or about winning physically, Well, it's obviously about both,

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Speaker 1: but I think it's more about the mental aspect of it.

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00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:15,960
Speaker 1: I mean, if this is a game where you look

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Speaker 1: at that Cowboy game, I mean they went, they went

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Speaker 1: block punt defense, voting neck, but they couldn't back back

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Speaker 1: shoulder throw touchdown. And in the very next drive they

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Speaker 1: get an interception defense bowser back, you get a field gold.

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Speaker 1: All of a sudden, New England's up Keno and bad

643
00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:37,920
Speaker 1: weather with a great defense, the game's over. And so

644
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Speaker 1: if you don't have that mental laps where you get

645
00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:44,880
Speaker 1: the punt block, the interception was caused by a really

646
00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:49,360
Speaker 1: high snap and then a poor throw by by Dak Prescott,

647
00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:53,280
Speaker 1: and those are things you just cannot afford to do

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Speaker 1: against New England, And so I would say it's more

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Speaker 1: of a mental The mental aspect of this things more

650
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Speaker 1: important than the physical because you cannot you cannot make mistakes,

651
00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:10,360
Speaker 1: and you cannot miss opportunities when New England gives you

652
00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:13,080
Speaker 1: an opportunity. And that's not just New England. John, that's

653
00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:16,759
Speaker 1: that's Baltimore, that's New Orleans, that's I mean, that's that's

654
00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:19,920
Speaker 1: all the top top eight teams in the league. You

655
00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:23,120
Speaker 1: cannot make mistakes, or at least you're gonna limit the mistakes,

656
00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:27,879
Speaker 1: like like heavily limit the mistakes over or An. You've

657
00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:31,160
Speaker 1: got to take advantage of opportunities because they they thanks

658
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Speaker 1: you are. And so I will side on the mental

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Speaker 1: aspect of it. John. Defensively, this week, when you faced

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady, you know where he's gonna be. Now, the

661
00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:43,680
Speaker 1: last three quarterbacks you face. That was not always a guarantee,

662
00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:46,480
Speaker 1: and the Colts decided they were just not gonna throw

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Speaker 1: the football. They were gonna run the ball with Jonathan

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Speaker 1: Williams in that running game. Jonathan Williams, Uh he went

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Speaker 1: to uh, yeah, where do you go to college? And

666
00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:56,920
Speaker 1: you went to Arkansas? So yeah, Arkansas put out some

667
00:34:56,920 --> 00:35:00,480
Speaker 1: good players. But Gardner Minshew, you know, was gonna move

668
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:03,160
Speaker 1: around the pocket a little bit. And obviously you knew

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Speaker 1: Lamar and the challenges he provides. But you know where

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00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:10,840
Speaker 1: Tom Brady's going to be every time or most of

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Speaker 1: the time that he drops back to pass. How much

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Speaker 1: do you think that helps the defense this week, Clint.

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Speaker 1: And how much, obviously does it hurt the defense because

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Speaker 1: it is Tom Brady, a guy that we know has

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Speaker 1: not only beaten this defense, but pretty much every defense

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Speaker 1: throughout the league. Well, I think it helps the defense, man.

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00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:31,200
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a defense that and this is

678
00:35:31,239 --> 00:35:33,839
Speaker 1: a league where if a quarterback can get outside, can

679
00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:37,080
Speaker 1: scramble around. Man, these quarterbacks and receivers and running backs

680
00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:41,680
Speaker 1: and tight end are so good at uncovering. Play callers

681
00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:45,839
Speaker 1: are so good at creating plays where the quarterbacks get

682
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:48,239
Speaker 1: outside the pocket and it just changes the game. And

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Speaker 1: so when you know where the quarterback is gonna be,

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Speaker 1: you can design games up front. You can design pressures

685
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Speaker 1: up front to attack seven and a half yards behind

686
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Speaker 1: that directly behind the center, and you can bank on

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00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:02,000
Speaker 1: the fact that that he's gonna be there. So I

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00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:06,560
Speaker 1: think the the lack of mobility by Tom Brady is

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Speaker 1: a good thing for the Texans defense. Now, the problem

690
00:36:10,239 --> 00:36:12,920
Speaker 1: is if you've got to add defenders to the blitz

691
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Speaker 1: or to the rush in order to move him, in

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Speaker 1: order to affect him, in order to hit him, get

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Speaker 1: him off his spot. His guys that they may there

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Speaker 1: may be no names outside of Edelman, but his guys

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Speaker 1: at the receiver position and at the tight end position,

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Speaker 1: and Josh McDaniels at the at the play caller position,

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00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:36,239
Speaker 1: they're pretty dang good at creating separation. They're pretty dang

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Speaker 1: good at getting the ball out quick, uh and and

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Speaker 1: and they're pretty good at moving the chains and standing

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Speaker 1: in front of the chain. So um, if we're just

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Speaker 1: talking about the lack of mobility as it relates to

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Speaker 1: the Texans defense, I think it's a I think it's

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00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:55,440
Speaker 1: a big time play. The problem is is the Patriots

704
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Speaker 1: are really really good using the entire field and find

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Speaker 1: finding mismatches. So you're kind of damned if you do,

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Speaker 1: damned if you don't. But I'll tell you what. If

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady could move around like a Kyler Murray, or

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Speaker 1: like a Dak Prescott, or even like a Deshaun Watson

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Speaker 1: moving around behind the lone of scrimmage, boy, he'd be

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00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:18,960
Speaker 1: an absolute nightmare. So I'd rather have him stationary than

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Speaker 1: they have the ability to move. I just had this

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Speaker 1: vision of Tom Brady moving sort of like Kyler Murray,

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Speaker 1: and I just I panicked for a quick high panic

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00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:30,480
Speaker 1: for a quick second. My god, oh boy, Clinton The

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Speaker 1: Niners and the Ravens play each other this week, and

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Speaker 1: it's the best defense in the league versus the best

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Speaker 1: offense in the league. If I give you one hundred

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00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:44,080
Speaker 1: bucks and I'd tell you go to Vegas and put

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Speaker 1: it down on the unit that you think will thrive

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Speaker 1: Niners defense or Ravens offense. Which one you're putting the

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Speaker 1: money on. I'm going with Ravens offense. I mean, what

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Speaker 1: they're doing is they're forcing their wheel on people, and

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Speaker 1: it's old school power run game, and they're good enough

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Speaker 1: at it to where you've got to add defenders to

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00:38:04,640 --> 00:38:06,640
Speaker 1: the box. When you add a defender to the box,

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00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:09,760
Speaker 1: there's voids in the secondary, and then they're just taking

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Speaker 1: what you give them in the secondary. It's the old school.

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Speaker 1: I liken it to the Dallas Cowboys with Troy Aikman

729
00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:19,479
Speaker 1: and Emmitt Smith. But you can pick any power run game.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna run it down your throat until you vacate

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Speaker 1: the leave a void in the secondary and vacate a

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Speaker 1: certain spot of the secondary, and then they're very efficient

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Speaker 1: at attacking that particular part of the defense. And so

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00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:38,719
Speaker 1: that's old school. It's been around forever. When you do

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Speaker 1: it really, really well. It is the toughest thing in

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Speaker 1: the game to stop. And so I'm gonna take Baltimore

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Speaker 1: in this matchup, evenly just lost their center. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: take Baltimore in this matchup. I'm buying what Lamar Jackson's

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00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:55,360
Speaker 1: putting down. Man. His development over a short period of

740
00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:59,000
Speaker 1: time has been nothing short of amazing, and I'm buying

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Speaker 1: what he's putting down. Bars being the best team in

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Speaker 1: the league right now. Yeah, I'm with you, my man.

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00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:05,359
Speaker 1: I think he's phenomenal. Okay, last one for I let

744
00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:09,800
Speaker 1: you go Tomorrow, obviously, is the combination of family, faith

745
00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:13,200
Speaker 1: in football, and of course fun. That's the fourth f

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00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:15,640
Speaker 1: in that. Now. We ask this a Bill O'Brien the

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Speaker 1: other day, and I almost I almost, I'll be honest,

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Speaker 1: I almost vomited when he said what his mother puts

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Speaker 1: on the Thanksgiving table. But you get a Thanksgiving side

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00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:30,919
Speaker 1: that you never ever are gonna eat again. You get

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00:39:30,920 --> 00:39:34,600
Speaker 1: a Thanksgiving side that has to be on every Thanksgiving

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00:39:34,640 --> 00:39:37,279
Speaker 1: table for the rest of your life. Which one are

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00:39:37,280 --> 00:39:42,760
Speaker 1: you firing? Which one are you keeping? Wow? Man, that's

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00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:44,839
Speaker 1: that's that's tough for me. I'm not a I'm not

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Speaker 1: a cranberries on the on the turkey and address that

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Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not buying that, okay um, and and

757
00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:54,799
Speaker 1: but but I tell you that the broccoli cheese rice

758
00:39:56,040 --> 00:39:59,400
Speaker 1: casserole is absolutely money for me when it's done the

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00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:02,640
Speaker 1: right way. Okay um, but gosh, I gotta put something

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Speaker 1: in stone. It's not a side man, all right. I

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Speaker 1: saw you tweet about the broccoli cheese rice, which the

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Speaker 1: cheesey rice. I'm okay with the broccoli. I'm allergic to

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Speaker 1: anything green, at least That's what I tell my kids.

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Speaker 1: That's how I get around it, because I don't need

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Speaker 1: I don't need anything green. I might eat a salad.

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Speaker 1: I'll eat a salad, but I don't even think cooked.

767
00:40:26,520 --> 00:40:29,960
Speaker 1: But that broccoli cheese rice sounded good. Man. Bill O'Brien

768
00:40:30,040 --> 00:40:33,399
Speaker 1: said his mommy used put squash on a Thanksgiving table

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Speaker 1: as a side. I'm like, no that, I no, that

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00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:43,799
Speaker 1: ain't happening. That's happened. And he said that's the one

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Speaker 1: that he fired, he got rid of. He got rid

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Speaker 1: of that one. But he said, mashed potato isn't gravy,

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Speaker 1: which I was. I was right there with I like

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Speaker 1: the doctor of my mashed potatoes saw him. I'm cool

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00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:56,439
Speaker 1: with that. So Clint, you have a tremendous Thanksgiving, my man.

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Speaker 1: Really appreciate your time as always a gift. Thanks for

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00:40:59,320 --> 00:41:01,399
Speaker 1: our friendship. Been you joining me on the show every

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Speaker 1: single weekend, my man, thank you so much. We'll talk

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00:41:03,320 --> 00:41:05,720
Speaker 1: to you next week. Absolutely, brother, y'all be good. Happy

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00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:08,799
Speaker 1: thank Giving to everybody in eighth now. Baby. You know,

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00:41:08,840 --> 00:41:10,160
Speaker 1: back in the day, I used to have a man

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00:41:10,239 --> 00:41:13,959
Speaker 1: Teddy Jay on with me, Ted Johnson, who I absolutely love.

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00:41:14,120 --> 00:41:17,640
Speaker 1: I think the world of Ted Johnson. He is fantastic.

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00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:20,760
Speaker 1: And then when Ted moved back to Boston, we lost

785
00:41:20,840 --> 00:41:22,920
Speaker 1: that part of our all access show and thought, man,

786
00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:25,759
Speaker 1: what are we gonna do? And then Clint Stner came

787
00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:28,040
Speaker 1: into our lives and I love getting a chance to

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00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:31,120
Speaker 1: catch up with Clint. We do it after home games

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00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:34,640
Speaker 1: here at Energy Stadium where he steps in studio post

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00:41:34,640 --> 00:41:37,600
Speaker 1: game with Sean Pendergast. You know how I feel about Sean.

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00:41:37,719 --> 00:41:40,080
Speaker 1: Sean and I've been together for a long time and

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00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:42,399
Speaker 1: so those two do a great job doing postgame. Sean, Seth,

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00:41:42,440 --> 00:41:44,839
Speaker 1: do you a great job on our pregame? I think,

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00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:48,120
Speaker 1: um biased when I think that's the best you could do.

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00:41:48,239 --> 00:41:51,719
Speaker 1: I mean Sean and Seth pregame, then Clint and Sean

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00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:53,719
Speaker 1: in the post game, and then me, Mark and Andre

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00:41:53,800 --> 00:41:55,319
Speaker 1: in the middle. I just feel like that's as good

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00:41:55,320 --> 00:41:58,000
Speaker 1: a broadcast as you're gonna find anywhere. But Clint Stirner

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Speaker 1: is tremendous, just tremendous. He gives it to you unfiltered,

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00:42:03,080 --> 00:42:05,919
Speaker 1: but he also gives it to you such that there

801
00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:09,120
Speaker 1: always things to learn, there's always things to get better,

802
00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:11,759
Speaker 1: and I love that. I love that aspect. It's kind

803
00:42:11,760 --> 00:42:13,480
Speaker 1: of the way that a coach looks at it, and

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00:42:13,600 --> 00:42:15,120
Speaker 1: a lot of times the way that I look at it.

805
00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:17,520
Speaker 1: It might not be right now, but there are things

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00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:19,960
Speaker 1: to do to get it better. Some people just tell

807
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:23,120
Speaker 1: you how bad everything is and then stop and leave it,

808
00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:25,160
Speaker 1: and they give you no answers for how things are

809
00:42:25,160 --> 00:42:27,239
Speaker 1: gonna get better. Clintster gives you answers for how things

810
00:42:27,239 --> 00:42:29,640
Speaker 1: are gonna get better. He's awesome and I appreciate him

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Speaker 1: being on the show this evening. Okay, we get back.

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Speaker 1: Kicking off our second hour, We're gonna go behind enemy

813
00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:37,960
Speaker 1: sidelines with DBC do this week. Is someone we have

814
00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:42,520
Speaker 1: talked to often. Ben Voland senior NFL writer for the

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00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:45,960
Speaker 1: Boston Globe has becoming a Patriots for a long time.

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00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:48,680
Speaker 1: We talked to him in fifteen twice, in sixteen, once

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00:42:48,719 --> 00:42:50,520
Speaker 1: at seventeen, once and eighteen, and now we do it

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00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:54,600
Speaker 1: again in twenty nineteen, we catch up with Ben voland

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Speaker 1: next right here in Texas Al Access, we got one

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Speaker 1: hour down water to go right here on another edition

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Speaker 1: Whnesday night, Thanksgiving Eve edition of Texas All Access from

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Speaker 1: the Day Texans Radio Studio. I am John Harris, football,

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00:43:05,920 --> 00:43:10,040
Speaker 1: analis and silent reporter and your host for this evening's proceedings,

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Speaker 1: and so glad to be with you. Patriots are coming

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00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:16,560
Speaker 1: on Sunday, and with the Patriots comes a throng of

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Speaker 1: media actually that we've gotten to know over the years

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Speaker 1: and we kind of like. In fact, our next guest

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Speaker 1: is a guy that I we had dinner with I

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Speaker 1: believe one time. I thought he was great. I think

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00:43:26,960 --> 00:43:30,400
Speaker 1: he's a really fun interview. He knows the Patriots inside

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Speaker 1: and out. And that's Ben voland from the Boston Globe.

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Speaker 1: It's time to go behind enemy sidelines with DBC two

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00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:38,440
Speaker 1: with our good friend Ben voland welcome in, Ben, how

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00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:42,080
Speaker 1: are you doing well? Excited for another Patriots Texans game,

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00:43:42,160 --> 00:43:44,520
Speaker 1: and a rarity that this game is actually going to

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Speaker 1: be down there on your turf this week. I think

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Speaker 1: the last four have all been in Foxboro, so we'll

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00:43:48,719 --> 00:43:50,960
Speaker 1: see how the Patriots doing the road this time. We

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00:43:51,040 --> 00:43:55,239
Speaker 1: definitely enjoy not making that trip up to Foxboro to

840
00:43:55,400 --> 00:43:58,200
Speaker 1: play up there. Let's start with the Patriots ten and one,

841
00:43:58,280 --> 00:44:01,480
Speaker 1: first in the AFC East, with the best defense not

842
00:44:01,520 --> 00:44:04,120
Speaker 1: only they've ever had, but maybe the NFL has ever seen.

843
00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:06,120
Speaker 1: There's a lot of talk about them not being as

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00:44:06,200 --> 00:44:08,960
Speaker 1: good offensively, But what is that feeling like in New

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Speaker 1: England and in that Boston surrounding area about this twenty

846
00:44:11,880 --> 00:44:14,839
Speaker 1: nineteen Patriots team. Yeah, it feels a little bit like

847
00:44:14,920 --> 00:44:17,279
Speaker 1: the earlier part of the dynasty when the Patriots went

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00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:20,239
Speaker 1: back to back in three and oh four and they

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00:44:20,280 --> 00:44:22,760
Speaker 1: really won those championships on the strength of their defense.

850
00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:26,839
Speaker 1: And Tom Brady was more of a quote unquote game

851
00:44:26,880 --> 00:44:29,200
Speaker 1: manager back then, and I know we realized, I know

852
00:44:29,239 --> 00:44:32,800
Speaker 1: we usually take that as a negative connotation, but Brady

853
00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:35,319
Speaker 1: really is the greatest game manager in NFL history, just

854
00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:39,040
Speaker 1: his ability to avoid the negative plays. And I think

855
00:44:39,040 --> 00:44:41,880
Speaker 1: you're seeing that this year. The offense is not playing

856
00:44:41,920 --> 00:44:45,560
Speaker 1: that well, but especially last Sunday night against the Cowboys.

857
00:44:45,719 --> 00:44:48,480
Speaker 1: The offense didn't make any mistakes in that driving rain storm.

858
00:44:48,520 --> 00:44:52,359
Speaker 1: They protected the football, they didn't commit many penalties, and

859
00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:54,520
Speaker 1: they just kind of sat back and waited for the

860
00:44:54,520 --> 00:44:57,120
Speaker 1: cretic Cowboys to make mistakes and that was good enough

861
00:44:57,160 --> 00:44:59,759
Speaker 1: to pull off the win. They've had three games this

862
00:44:59,840 --> 00:45:02,759
Speaker 1: year where they've only scored seventeen points, I believe, and

863
00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:05,399
Speaker 1: then they struggled again against the Cowboys the other night.

864
00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:08,160
Speaker 1: So they're really winning with defense and field position and

865
00:45:08,239 --> 00:45:11,840
Speaker 1: special teams. They're only eight block bunks in the NFL

866
00:45:11,960 --> 00:45:14,120
Speaker 1: all season, and the Patriots have three of them. They

867
00:45:14,160 --> 00:45:16,960
Speaker 1: got another one against the Cowboys the other night, so

868
00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:19,760
Speaker 1: they're just winning in all three phases. And the offense

869
00:45:19,920 --> 00:45:24,040
Speaker 1: is not operating at the highest level of the efficiency

870
00:45:24,080 --> 00:45:26,799
Speaker 1: that we usually see from them, but the defense has

871
00:45:26,840 --> 00:45:28,799
Speaker 1: been lights out and the special teams has been great,

872
00:45:28,880 --> 00:45:30,959
Speaker 1: and the offense has been able to do just enough

873
00:45:31,520 --> 00:45:33,960
Speaker 1: to get them to attend and one record. I definitely

874
00:45:33,960 --> 00:45:35,800
Speaker 1: want to talk to you about the Patriots special teams,

875
00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:38,000
Speaker 1: but I do remember a few weeks back, the Texans

876
00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:41,040
Speaker 1: were flying back from Baltimore after a loss and the

877
00:45:41,040 --> 00:45:44,000
Speaker 1: Patriots had won. They won seventeen to ten over the Eagles,

878
00:45:44,239 --> 00:45:46,160
Speaker 1: and you wouldn't have been able to tell from watching

879
00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:49,040
Speaker 1: the press conference, especially with Tom Brady up there. The

880
00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:51,759
Speaker 1: mood after that win was that maybe the strangest that

881
00:45:51,800 --> 00:45:54,920
Speaker 1: you had seen or were you really not surprised with

882
00:45:55,280 --> 00:45:58,560
Speaker 1: how they perceived that game considering it was a win.

883
00:45:59,640 --> 00:46:02,640
Speaker 1: It was interesting. Bill Belichick came into his press conference

884
00:46:02,640 --> 00:46:04,800
Speaker 1: and was all smiled that what a great win, and

885
00:46:05,080 --> 00:46:08,000
Speaker 1: it looked like guys are having fun out there. You know,

886
00:46:08,080 --> 00:46:11,480
Speaker 1: Belichick is the defensive pretty much the defensive coordinator this year.

887
00:46:11,560 --> 00:46:14,160
Speaker 1: So that was a fantastic game on that side of

888
00:46:14,160 --> 00:46:17,040
Speaker 1: the ball, holding the Eagle ten points and even still,

889
00:46:17,239 --> 00:46:19,600
Speaker 1: you know, the offense obviously didn't play well, but they

890
00:46:19,640 --> 00:46:22,080
Speaker 1: you know, they came out and they still secured a

891
00:46:22,160 --> 00:46:24,840
Speaker 1: nice seven point win on the road, beating a you know,

892
00:46:24,920 --> 00:46:30,040
Speaker 1: tricky Eagles team, and Brady just couldn't contain his disappointment.

893
00:46:30,120 --> 00:46:32,279
Speaker 1: He was just so MOPy up on the podium and

894
00:46:32,680 --> 00:46:34,480
Speaker 1: just couldn't even fake it. Couldn't even put on a

895
00:46:34,480 --> 00:46:36,200
Speaker 1: fake smile and say, hey, at least we got a

896
00:46:36,239 --> 00:46:38,799
Speaker 1: good team win. The offense did not play well and

897
00:46:39,239 --> 00:46:41,399
Speaker 1: has struggled for a lot of the season, as I said,

898
00:46:41,440 --> 00:46:44,319
Speaker 1: and Brady, I think is upset with some of the

899
00:46:44,360 --> 00:46:46,560
Speaker 1: weapons or lack there of, that the Patriots have put

900
00:46:46,600 --> 00:46:48,839
Speaker 1: around in this year. And you just wanted to give

901
00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:50,919
Speaker 1: Tom Brady a hug and just tell him it's gonna

902
00:46:50,920 --> 00:46:54,000
Speaker 1: be okay. I think he's done. He's made it a

903
00:46:54,040 --> 00:46:56,359
Speaker 1: point the last week and a half of being much

904
00:46:56,400 --> 00:47:00,439
Speaker 1: more positive and trying to look on the any side

905
00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:02,800
Speaker 1: of things, or at least not let his negative emotions

906
00:47:02,840 --> 00:47:05,080
Speaker 1: get the best of him. But he's kind of been

907
00:47:05,120 --> 00:47:08,319
Speaker 1: sour for a lot of the season. I think the

908
00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:11,600
Speaker 1: guy that you know, he realizes his time is probably

909
00:47:11,680 --> 00:47:14,400
Speaker 1: running out in the NFL, and for the offense to

910
00:47:14,520 --> 00:47:17,960
Speaker 1: not be operating at top efficiency right now, it's certainly

911
00:47:18,719 --> 00:47:22,440
Speaker 1: a very frustrating thing for Tom Brady. And I think

912
00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:26,040
Speaker 1: he's frustrated about having Antonio Brown quickly and then having

913
00:47:26,160 --> 00:47:29,160
Speaker 1: him taken away very quickly. And the Patriots have given

914
00:47:29,280 --> 00:47:32,200
Speaker 1: Brady some rookie wide receivers and a bunch of two faces,

915
00:47:32,640 --> 00:47:35,000
Speaker 1: you know, Mohammed Sanu, their number two guy right now,

916
00:47:35,040 --> 00:47:37,959
Speaker 1: has only been here for about four weeks. They didn't

917
00:47:37,960 --> 00:47:42,000
Speaker 1: really do a whole lot to replace Robernkowski. Left tackle

918
00:47:42,080 --> 00:47:45,279
Speaker 1: has been an issue for most of the season. They

919
00:47:45,320 --> 00:47:48,560
Speaker 1: just got Isaiah Winn back from from injured reserve. So

920
00:47:48,600 --> 00:47:51,279
Speaker 1: I think Brady's just frustrated with all the moving pieces,

921
00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:53,520
Speaker 1: and when you look at the offense, they just look

922
00:47:53,560 --> 00:47:55,920
Speaker 1: like a unit that hasn't practiced a whole lot together.

923
00:47:56,000 --> 00:47:59,680
Speaker 1: There's been some sloppiness, you know, guys running the wrong routes,

924
00:48:00,040 --> 00:48:02,560
Speaker 1: two guys in the same area, or guys running into

925
00:48:02,600 --> 00:48:05,440
Speaker 1: each other. They did a much better job against the

926
00:48:05,480 --> 00:48:07,719
Speaker 1: Cowboys the other night, but it did seem like the

927
00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:10,839
Speaker 1: game plan was probably simplified because of the rain. And yeah,

928
00:48:10,840 --> 00:48:13,640
Speaker 1: Brady is just you know, he's waiting for this offensive explosion,

929
00:48:13,880 --> 00:48:16,279
Speaker 1: and I'm not sure that it's just gonna come this year,

930
00:48:16,320 --> 00:48:18,799
Speaker 1: just because of all the moving pieces on offense. It

931
00:48:18,880 --> 00:48:21,600
Speaker 1: seems like this point every year, there's some doubts about

932
00:48:21,600 --> 00:48:23,600
Speaker 1: the Patriots. Is this the end? Is it over? And

933
00:48:23,640 --> 00:48:25,480
Speaker 1: it seems like they always seem to turn it around

934
00:48:26,040 --> 00:48:29,080
Speaker 1: when it matters most. What about Tom Brady himself, forty

935
00:48:29,080 --> 00:48:32,680
Speaker 1: two years old, ye're twenty for him, how does he look?

936
00:48:32,760 --> 00:48:34,560
Speaker 1: Does he look different to you than he does in

937
00:48:34,640 --> 00:48:37,239
Speaker 1: any other season? Because for him to be able to

938
00:48:37,239 --> 00:48:39,040
Speaker 1: play at the level that he's played at. I know

939
00:48:39,239 --> 00:48:42,880
Speaker 1: we've talked about this time and time again, how historic

940
00:48:43,040 --> 00:48:47,240
Speaker 1: his performances as of solidifying himself as a Hall of Famer.

941
00:48:47,280 --> 00:48:48,839
Speaker 1: But what do you see when you see him out

942
00:48:48,880 --> 00:48:51,960
Speaker 1: there and how he's actually performing on the field. Sure, sure,

943
00:48:52,040 --> 00:48:54,240
Speaker 1: I mean his numbers are down this year across the board.

944
00:48:54,280 --> 00:48:57,319
Speaker 1: It's one of his I think it's his worst statistical

945
00:48:57,320 --> 00:49:00,880
Speaker 1: seasons since like twenty thirteen. And but it's not age.

946
00:49:01,040 --> 00:49:02,680
Speaker 1: I don't think it's you know, him falling off a

947
00:49:02,719 --> 00:49:05,560
Speaker 1: cliff as four as two, or you know, father time

948
00:49:05,640 --> 00:49:07,759
Speaker 1: finally catching up with him. He still shuffles around the

949
00:49:07,760 --> 00:49:11,440
Speaker 1: pocket very well, still has more than enough arm strength

950
00:49:11,440 --> 00:49:14,040
Speaker 1: to get the ball wherever he needs is to. I

951
00:49:14,160 --> 00:49:16,640
Speaker 1: just think he's frustrated and really uncomfortable with some of

952
00:49:16,640 --> 00:49:19,960
Speaker 1: the pieces out there. The offensive line has been tough

953
00:49:20,080 --> 00:49:23,359
Speaker 1: this year. Before Isaiah Wayne came back. Last week, they

954
00:49:23,400 --> 00:49:25,719
Speaker 1: were playing Marshall Newhouse at left tackle. And that's a

955
00:49:25,760 --> 00:49:27,799
Speaker 1: guy that they had to sign off the street week

956
00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:30,880
Speaker 1: two as a free agent and basically just plug him

957
00:49:30,880 --> 00:49:33,640
Speaker 1: in as their left tackle. He's done that admirably as

958
00:49:33,680 --> 00:49:35,760
Speaker 1: well as you could expect from someone in that position.

959
00:49:35,800 --> 00:49:38,120
Speaker 1: But obviously, you know, he's a backup and he's a

960
00:49:38,200 --> 00:49:40,799
Speaker 1: journeyman type, and that's the type of blocking they've been

961
00:49:40,800 --> 00:49:43,640
Speaker 1: getting a left tackle, and you can see Brady's been

962
00:49:43,640 --> 00:49:45,759
Speaker 1: flinching a little bit, maybe getting rid of the ball

963
00:49:45,800 --> 00:49:47,680
Speaker 1: a little bit earlier than he needs too at time,

964
00:49:47,920 --> 00:49:51,160
Speaker 1: bailing on plays before he needs to. He doesn't take

965
00:49:51,200 --> 00:49:54,319
Speaker 1: many sacks, doesn't have too many negative plays, but does

966
00:49:54,400 --> 00:49:57,759
Speaker 1: throw the ball away a ton, which you know, it's

967
00:49:57,800 --> 00:49:59,839
Speaker 1: good and bad. Sometimes you'd like to see him keep

968
00:49:59,840 --> 00:50:02,120
Speaker 1: it going and try to make a play out of nothing.

969
00:50:02,160 --> 00:50:04,239
Speaker 1: And at the same time, it's good that he doesn't

970
00:50:04,280 --> 00:50:06,200
Speaker 1: take negative plays and he knows how to live to

971
00:50:06,200 --> 00:50:09,240
Speaker 1: see the next play. You know, other than Julian Edelman,

972
00:50:09,280 --> 00:50:12,239
Speaker 1: he just doesn't have too much faith and trust in

973
00:50:12,360 --> 00:50:15,360
Speaker 1: his receivers. I guess maybe James White as well. They

974
00:50:15,480 --> 00:50:18,400
Speaker 1: running back. But you know, tight end has been a

975
00:50:18,400 --> 00:50:20,359
Speaker 1: real issue this year. I think the Patriots have gone

976
00:50:20,440 --> 00:50:22,920
Speaker 1: from you know, having maybe the most production out of

977
00:50:22,920 --> 00:50:25,040
Speaker 1: their tight ends where they had Bronk and a few

978
00:50:25,040 --> 00:50:26,920
Speaker 1: other guys behind him. Now I think they have the

979
00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:29,560
Speaker 1: least amount of production at tight end in the NFL.

980
00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:32,800
Speaker 1: Ben Watson has been fine, you know, as a pickup

981
00:50:32,840 --> 00:50:36,200
Speaker 1: this year, and otherwise Matt Lacosse has been injured in

982
00:50:36,200 --> 00:50:37,640
Speaker 1: and out of the lineup. The name with Ryan to

983
00:50:37,719 --> 00:50:40,960
Speaker 1: his own, and you know, wide receiver has been a

984
00:50:40,960 --> 00:50:43,560
Speaker 1: big issue. We don't know if Mohammed Sanu and Philip

985
00:50:43,560 --> 00:50:46,120
Speaker 1: door Set are going to return to the lineup this week.

986
00:50:46,440 --> 00:50:48,960
Speaker 1: So I just think Brady's just uncomfortable with the personnelity

987
00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:52,839
Speaker 1: surrounded him with. And they've they've benefited and they've been

988
00:50:52,880 --> 00:50:55,400
Speaker 1: fortunate that the defense and special teams has given them

989
00:50:55,440 --> 00:50:58,400
Speaker 1: a lot of great deal position kept the opponents out

990
00:50:58,440 --> 00:51:00,880
Speaker 1: of the end zone, and so it's kind of masked

991
00:51:01,000 --> 00:51:04,279
Speaker 1: some of the Patriots offensive deficiencies. But you know, it's

992
00:51:04,600 --> 00:51:06,520
Speaker 1: to me, it's not aged with Tom Brady. His body

993
00:51:06,600 --> 00:51:08,840
Speaker 1: is still fine. It's just the fact that you know,

994
00:51:08,880 --> 00:51:10,680
Speaker 1: there's a lot of new pieces and he doesn't feel

995
00:51:10,719 --> 00:51:13,280
Speaker 1: very comfortable with them. Right now. Well, let's switch gears

996
00:51:13,280 --> 00:51:15,040
Speaker 1: and talk about this defense, because it seems like they

997
00:51:15,040 --> 00:51:17,960
Speaker 1: have been making headlines week after week. What makes the

998
00:51:18,040 --> 00:51:22,080
Speaker 1: secondary so good and how do they shut down receivers

999
00:51:22,080 --> 00:51:23,680
Speaker 1: the way they do. I was looking at some of

1000
00:51:23,680 --> 00:51:28,120
Speaker 1: those stats twenty interceptions, two touchdowns just in the secondary alone.

1001
00:51:28,120 --> 00:51:31,080
Speaker 1: What makes them so good and so tough to beat

1002
00:51:31,120 --> 00:51:34,200
Speaker 1: week after week. Well, the strength of the defense definitely

1003
00:51:34,280 --> 00:51:37,000
Speaker 1: is the secondary, and the Patriots are really deep there.

1004
00:51:37,400 --> 00:51:40,520
Speaker 1: Stefan Gilmore is arguably the best cornerback in the game.

1005
00:51:41,120 --> 00:51:42,759
Speaker 1: You know, you can put him on an island on

1006
00:51:43,040 --> 00:51:46,279
Speaker 1: any number one receiver and he's been fantastic. I'm not

1007
00:51:46,440 --> 00:51:48,279
Speaker 1: entirely sure if he's gonna play Hopkins or if they're

1008
00:51:48,280 --> 00:51:50,880
Speaker 1: gonna put him on Fuller. You know, sometimes the Patriots

1009
00:51:51,200 --> 00:51:53,480
Speaker 1: will put their number one corner on the number two

1010
00:51:53,520 --> 00:51:56,000
Speaker 1: receiver and then doubles the number one guy all game.

1011
00:51:56,080 --> 00:51:58,239
Speaker 1: So we might see some of that on Funday Night

1012
00:51:58,280 --> 00:52:02,840
Speaker 1: against Houston. But Gilmore been phenomenal. Underrated guys have been

1013
00:52:02,920 --> 00:52:07,680
Speaker 1: Jonathan Jones, their slot nickel corner, really speedy guy, burned

1014
00:52:07,760 --> 00:52:10,279
Speaker 1: up the track at the Combine a few years ago

1015
00:52:10,360 --> 00:52:13,759
Speaker 1: and has been a great fine for the Patriots. You know,

1016
00:52:13,800 --> 00:52:17,880
Speaker 1: they're just the death there. Jason mccordy, j C. Jackson.

1017
00:52:18,280 --> 00:52:21,879
Speaker 1: They have three excellent safeties and Devin mccordy, Patrick Chung

1018
00:52:22,000 --> 00:52:24,799
Speaker 1: Gron Harmon. A lot of versatility there. You see a

1019
00:52:24,800 --> 00:52:28,400
Speaker 1: lot of rotating you know, they'll show one coverage before

1020
00:52:28,400 --> 00:52:30,719
Speaker 1: the snap and then they're rotate into something else, and

1021
00:52:30,760 --> 00:52:34,600
Speaker 1: they're able to debate quarterbacks in the back rows. And

1022
00:52:34,760 --> 00:52:37,000
Speaker 1: you can't forget about the front seven two. You know,

1023
00:52:37,040 --> 00:52:40,600
Speaker 1: it's a little cliche, but you know, past defense, it's

1024
00:52:40,640 --> 00:52:43,480
Speaker 1: all eleven guys and a lot of those interceptions and

1025
00:52:43,600 --> 00:52:48,280
Speaker 1: touchdown are because their Patriots are bringing some blitz packages

1026
00:52:48,360 --> 00:52:51,479
Speaker 1: or they're disguising their rush really well. Dante hid Tower

1027
00:52:51,520 --> 00:52:54,880
Speaker 1: or Kyle Van Nooi, Jamie Collins, they always line up.

1028
00:52:55,160 --> 00:52:56,560
Speaker 1: A lot of times, they line up close to the

1029
00:52:56,560 --> 00:52:58,800
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. You're not quite sure who's gonna be dropping,

1030
00:52:58,800 --> 00:53:01,360
Speaker 1: who's gonna be rushing. And so early in the season,

1031
00:53:01,400 --> 00:53:04,120
Speaker 1: the Patriots played a lot of you know, young, inexperienced

1032
00:53:04,200 --> 00:53:07,839
Speaker 1: quarterbacks and they were able to bait them into backbrows

1033
00:53:08,000 --> 00:53:10,200
Speaker 1: or you know, hit them while they were throwing and

1034
00:53:10,920 --> 00:53:15,239
Speaker 1: force some deflected interception. So it's really been a team

1035
00:53:15,320 --> 00:53:19,360
Speaker 1: effort from the Patriots. In terms of past defense, the

1036
00:53:19,440 --> 00:53:22,200
Speaker 1: front seven has been excellent. The sack numbers, the interceptions,

1037
00:53:22,480 --> 00:53:25,120
Speaker 1: and then the secondary they're just so versatile, such a

1038
00:53:25,200 --> 00:53:27,640
Speaker 1: veteran group, it's all the same guys that have played

1039
00:53:27,680 --> 00:53:29,800
Speaker 1: in the last two or three Super Bowls, So you know,

1040
00:53:29,840 --> 00:53:31,719
Speaker 1: it's just guys that know how to win and know

1041
00:53:31,800 --> 00:53:34,520
Speaker 1: how to stick to their assignments. And it's been a

1042
00:53:34,520 --> 00:53:36,239
Speaker 1: lot of fun to watch this year. This has really

1043
00:53:36,920 --> 00:53:39,279
Speaker 1: been an excellent defense. Really only one team has been

1044
00:53:39,320 --> 00:53:41,840
Speaker 1: able to solve them, and that was Lamar Jackson and

1045
00:53:41,880 --> 00:53:43,919
Speaker 1: the Ravens. And there's no shame in that because they're

1046
00:53:43,920 --> 00:53:47,440
Speaker 1: putting up forty points on everyone this year with such

1047
00:53:47,480 --> 00:53:51,080
Speaker 1: a unique offensive attack. But otherwise, the Patriots have really

1048
00:53:51,120 --> 00:53:54,120
Speaker 1: been a dominant defense and I think, you know, if

1049
00:53:54,400 --> 00:53:56,719
Speaker 1: they can continue this for four or five more games,

1050
00:53:56,760 --> 00:53:58,600
Speaker 1: they're gonna be right there in the conversation with the

1051
00:53:58,600 --> 00:54:01,680
Speaker 1: two thousand Ravens in the eighty five Bears, with some

1052
00:54:01,719 --> 00:54:04,040
Speaker 1: of the best defenses of all time. Yeah, definitely, I

1053
00:54:04,080 --> 00:54:07,399
Speaker 1: definitely can't foresee that conversation happening. We mentioned special teams

1054
00:54:07,400 --> 00:54:09,120
Speaker 1: a little bit earlier. I want to ask you about

1055
00:54:09,280 --> 00:54:11,839
Speaker 1: Matthew Slater. He's been with the Patriots for twelve years.

1056
00:54:11,840 --> 00:54:14,840
Speaker 1: He had that blocked punt against Dallas. For a team

1057
00:54:14,880 --> 00:54:18,960
Speaker 1: that really does let guys go in the off season

1058
00:54:19,320 --> 00:54:21,439
Speaker 1: and bringing new guys every year, they seem to hold

1059
00:54:21,480 --> 00:54:24,080
Speaker 1: on to Matthew Slater and really value him. What makes

1060
00:54:24,160 --> 00:54:26,200
Speaker 1: him so valuable to that locker room and to the

1061
00:54:26,200 --> 00:54:29,640
Speaker 1: special teams unit. Yeah, he's been a Pro Bowl caliber

1062
00:54:29,680 --> 00:54:32,640
Speaker 1: punt gunner and special teams guy for going on twelve

1063
00:54:32,719 --> 00:54:35,920
Speaker 1: years now. And you know, Belichick, first of all, the

1064
00:54:35,960 --> 00:54:37,799
Speaker 1: guy that just puts a lot of emphasis into his

1065
00:54:37,840 --> 00:54:42,560
Speaker 1: special team. They're constantly tinkering and bringing guys in. And

1066
00:54:42,880 --> 00:54:45,600
Speaker 1: you know, they saw the Ravens released Justin Bethel, another

1067
00:54:45,680 --> 00:54:48,879
Speaker 1: gunner earlier this year, and they pounced all over him.

1068
00:54:48,920 --> 00:54:50,480
Speaker 1: And so they feel like they've got two of the

1069
00:54:50,520 --> 00:54:53,439
Speaker 1: best gunners in the NFL now, Slater and Beth Bowl.

1070
00:54:53,480 --> 00:54:57,359
Speaker 1: And you know, the Patriots I think also probably leave

1071
00:54:57,400 --> 00:55:00,440
Speaker 1: the league in guys on their roster that only play

1072
00:55:00,520 --> 00:55:02,640
Speaker 1: special teams. They must have six or seven of those

1073
00:55:02,719 --> 00:55:05,520
Speaker 1: guys that don't really have a role on offensive events

1074
00:55:05,520 --> 00:55:07,719
Speaker 1: and they just play special teams. And Slater's at the

1075
00:55:07,719 --> 00:55:10,520
Speaker 1: forefront of that. Not only is he a guy who

1076
00:55:10,560 --> 00:55:12,799
Speaker 1: just you know, he's always going to do the right thing,

1077
00:55:12,920 --> 00:55:15,359
Speaker 1: be in the right plays, make a big play on

1078
00:55:15,440 --> 00:55:18,279
Speaker 1: punt coverage or kickoff coverage, what have you. They have

1079
00:55:18,360 --> 00:55:20,440
Speaker 1: him in there for Hail Mary plays as well. Just

1080
00:55:20,640 --> 00:55:22,920
Speaker 1: a smart player, but you know what a great like

1081
00:55:23,239 --> 00:55:27,000
Speaker 1: coach and mentor for the special teams unit, because you know,

1082
00:55:27,080 --> 00:55:30,320
Speaker 1: special teams are mostly your backups. It's mostly your younger players,

1083
00:55:30,880 --> 00:55:33,439
Speaker 1: guys who are coming out of college and probably didn't

1084
00:55:33,480 --> 00:55:36,120
Speaker 1: play a whole lot of special teams at other levels

1085
00:55:36,160 --> 00:55:39,080
Speaker 1: just because they were probably defensive starters. And the Stars

1086
00:55:39,080 --> 00:55:41,440
Speaker 1: are their team and so they're playing new roles. And

1087
00:55:41,600 --> 00:55:44,320
Speaker 1: Slater as a guy, you know, he's thirty two, thirty

1088
00:55:44,320 --> 00:55:47,319
Speaker 1: three years old. His teammates and her twenty one, twenty two,

1089
00:55:47,360 --> 00:55:49,840
Speaker 1: he's a great mentor for them on special teams, great

1090
00:55:49,840 --> 00:55:52,960
Speaker 1: mentor for them in terms of how to lead their

1091
00:55:52,960 --> 00:55:55,040
Speaker 1: lives as a professional and how to handle their business

1092
00:55:55,120 --> 00:55:58,600
Speaker 1: on and off the field. So, you know, the Patriots

1093
00:55:58,640 --> 00:56:01,759
Speaker 1: have been thrilled everything Matthew Slater has given them. And

1094
00:56:02,120 --> 00:56:04,880
Speaker 1: it's that type of leadership that I think has been

1095
00:56:04,880 --> 00:56:07,040
Speaker 1: a big part of why the Patriots have been so

1096
00:56:07,080 --> 00:56:09,720
Speaker 1: successful over the past two decades. All right, good stuff,

1097
00:56:09,719 --> 00:56:13,560
Speaker 1: looking forward to it, Patriots Texans Sunday night right here

1098
00:56:13,560 --> 00:56:16,319
Speaker 1: at NRG Stadium. Thanks so much. Ben Boland, Senior NFL

1099
00:56:16,360 --> 00:56:19,000
Speaker 1: writer for The Boston Globe appreciate the time, and we'll

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00:56:19,000 --> 00:56:21,200
Speaker 1: see you here on Sunday, all right, looking forward to it.

1101
00:56:21,200 --> 00:56:23,439
Speaker 1: Thanks a lot. There has been full of senior FL

1102
00:56:23,520 --> 00:56:26,040
Speaker 1: writer for the Boston Globe and one heck of an interview.

1103
00:56:26,120 --> 00:56:28,759
Speaker 1: Glad he joins us each and every time that we

1104
00:56:28,840 --> 00:56:31,200
Speaker 1: face the Patriots. I think he's one of the best

1105
00:56:31,320 --> 00:56:34,439
Speaker 1: NFL writers you're going to find. Covers the Patriots like

1106
00:56:34,520 --> 00:56:36,880
Speaker 1: no other. There are actually some really good media members

1107
00:56:36,880 --> 00:56:41,080
Speaker 1: and a lot of good Patriots focused writers up in

1108
00:56:41,120 --> 00:56:44,200
Speaker 1: New England, and he is one of Ben Boland joining

1109
00:56:44,280 --> 00:56:47,880
Speaker 1: us right here. Now, this week gets kind of interesting

1110
00:56:48,040 --> 00:56:51,719
Speaker 1: because the games gets spread out over the Thanksgiving holiday,

1111
00:56:52,160 --> 00:56:55,320
Speaker 1: including three NFL games tomorrow. Now, you know, each and

1112
00:56:55,360 --> 00:57:00,479
Speaker 1: every Friday, I predict each in every NFL game, every

1113
00:57:00,480 --> 00:57:04,200
Speaker 1: single one. I do every game. But I can't do

1114
00:57:04,320 --> 00:57:06,400
Speaker 1: that because the games will be over by Friday. So

1115
00:57:06,480 --> 00:57:09,200
Speaker 1: I've got to predict these now. Plus there a few

1116
00:57:09,200 --> 00:57:11,080
Speaker 1: college games are taking place, so I figured, you know what,

1117
00:57:11,160 --> 00:57:13,319
Speaker 1: it's making a Schmorgan's board of football. Let's pick some

1118
00:57:13,440 --> 00:57:16,080
Speaker 1: NFL games, Let's pick some college games. Let's do our

1119
00:57:16,120 --> 00:57:20,560
Speaker 1: predictions part one today, and then let's do the remainder

1120
00:57:20,600 --> 00:57:23,640
Speaker 1: of them on Friday, as we normally do. Fair enough

1121
00:57:24,000 --> 00:57:26,000
Speaker 1: good picking them straight up and against the spread. Next

1122
00:57:26,040 --> 00:57:28,320
Speaker 1: right here in Texas All Access, Welcome back to our

1123
00:57:28,360 --> 00:57:30,800
Speaker 1: Wednesday the show, Texans All Access from the Monday Texans

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00:57:30,840 --> 00:57:33,520
Speaker 1: Radio Studio. I am John Harris and it's time for

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Speaker 1: this week's Stats Challenge, brought to you by SCHLUMBERJ. Visit

1126
00:57:37,160 --> 00:57:41,280
Speaker 1: Houston Texas dot com today register to take the stats challenge.

1127
00:57:41,320 --> 00:57:43,960
Speaker 1: All right, how about this nugget A man Omar Maju

1128
00:57:44,080 --> 00:57:46,280
Speaker 1: said this one to me. He said this to me

1129
00:57:47,080 --> 00:57:50,480
Speaker 1: and referenced me back to our game release. Each every

1130
00:57:50,480 --> 00:57:52,120
Speaker 1: week we put out a game release. It's all these

1131
00:57:52,160 --> 00:57:54,840
Speaker 1: cool stats and figures and it's really cool stuff. And

1132
00:57:54,840 --> 00:57:57,240
Speaker 1: Omar always has like a nugget that he puts in

1133
00:57:57,280 --> 00:58:01,440
Speaker 1: there that I love. This one was one he game

1134
00:58:01,480 --> 00:58:06,760
Speaker 1: and I love this one. The Texans to Be offense

1135
00:58:07,320 --> 00:58:12,400
Speaker 1: have the fewest three and outs this year. Now, what

1136
00:58:12,680 --> 00:58:15,880
Speaker 1: classifies the three and out three plays don't get anything

1137
00:58:15,960 --> 00:58:18,960
Speaker 1: off the field. Now, that doesn't mean that you get

1138
00:58:19,000 --> 00:58:21,160
Speaker 1: the ball first down, you get ten yards, or you

1139
00:58:21,200 --> 00:58:22,640
Speaker 1: get another set of downs and then you go three

1140
00:58:22,640 --> 00:58:24,400
Speaker 1: and out, You go three and then punt there. It

1141
00:58:24,680 --> 00:58:28,120
Speaker 1: is you start to drive, you go three plays, can't

1142
00:58:28,120 --> 00:58:30,120
Speaker 1: do anything with it, got a punt. The Texans have

1143
00:58:30,160 --> 00:58:34,560
Speaker 1: had one hundred and fourteen drives this year, only ten

1144
00:58:36,040 --> 00:58:39,800
Speaker 1: have resulted in three and outs. That's a percentage of

1145
00:58:40,000 --> 00:58:46,120
Speaker 1: eight point eight That's the lowest percentage in the league,

1146
00:58:46,560 --> 00:58:51,480
Speaker 1: the fewest three and outs. We've gone three and out

1147
00:58:51,640 --> 00:58:53,840
Speaker 1: on ten of one hundred and fourteen drives. As I said,

1148
00:58:53,880 --> 00:58:57,680
Speaker 1: eight point eight percent. To give you an idea of

1149
00:58:57,720 --> 00:59:04,720
Speaker 1: what that number actually is, the twenty ten Jaguars had

1150
00:59:05,000 --> 00:59:10,760
Speaker 1: nine for a season. I'm sorry through week twelve. In fact,

1151
00:59:10,800 --> 00:59:13,200
Speaker 1: Houston's ten three outs are the second fewest by a

1152
00:59:13,200 --> 00:59:16,600
Speaker 1: team through week twelve NFL history. That was the Jaguars

1153
00:59:16,640 --> 00:59:19,720
Speaker 1: in twenty ten. They had nine. Trying to remember is

1154
00:59:19,760 --> 00:59:23,920
Speaker 1: that a Chad Henny team or was that David Garrard

1155
00:59:24,040 --> 00:59:26,880
Speaker 1: Still I can't remember that twenty ten Jaguars team. Either way,

1156
00:59:26,920 --> 00:59:30,160
Speaker 1: the NFL record the lowest three and out percentage in

1157
00:59:30,200 --> 00:59:34,040
Speaker 1: a single season is the two thousand and one Saint

1158
00:59:34,080 --> 00:59:38,080
Speaker 1: Louis Rams, who finished at nine point seven percent. At

1159
00:59:38,120 --> 00:59:39,920
Speaker 1: two thousand and one Rams team is thought to be

1160
00:59:39,960 --> 00:59:41,800
Speaker 1: one of the greatest offenses all the time, The greatest

1161
00:59:41,840 --> 00:59:44,560
Speaker 1: show on turf. Now, I know a lot of people think, oh,

1162
00:59:44,600 --> 00:59:48,160
Speaker 1: wait about the Ravens. The Ravens. The Ravens have thirteen

1163
00:59:48,320 --> 00:59:51,080
Speaker 1: three and outs on one fewer drive. So they have

1164
00:59:51,160 --> 00:59:53,640
Speaker 1: thirteen three and outs one hundred and thirteen total drives.

1165
00:59:53,640 --> 00:59:56,439
Speaker 1: That's eleven point five percent. Now, they haven't had many

1166
00:59:56,480 --> 00:59:58,960
Speaker 1: three outs lately, in the fact, they haven't even had

1167
00:59:59,000 --> 01:00:01,760
Speaker 1: their punner going to field. I think for three games

1168
01:00:02,000 --> 01:00:04,280
Speaker 1: he didn't against US. I think maybe he got on

1169
01:00:04,320 --> 01:00:07,920
Speaker 1: the field for up unt. Maybe against I think he

1170
01:00:08,000 --> 01:00:09,360
Speaker 1: got on the field, but then it was a penalty

1171
01:00:09,400 --> 01:00:10,640
Speaker 1: and then he got and then he had to go

1172
01:00:10,680 --> 01:00:12,640
Speaker 1: off the field. So I don't think he punted. He's

1173
01:00:12,640 --> 01:00:16,000
Speaker 1: punted like three times since the New England Patriots game.

1174
01:00:17,240 --> 01:00:20,800
Speaker 1: That's an eleven point five percent. The Chiefs are tied

1175
01:00:20,840 --> 01:00:24,040
Speaker 1: for third Cowboys. They both have had That says tied.

1176
01:00:24,240 --> 01:00:26,160
Speaker 1: They're not quite tied. They're tied with three and outs.

1177
01:00:26,480 --> 01:00:29,520
Speaker 1: The Chiefs have had fifteen, Cowboys have had fifteen, But

1178
01:00:29,560 --> 01:00:31,840
Speaker 1: the Chiefs have had more drives a one hundred and twenty.

1179
01:00:31,880 --> 01:00:34,280
Speaker 1: So their percentage of twelve point five Cowboys is twelve

1180
01:00:34,320 --> 01:00:38,880
Speaker 1: point eight. Your Texans three and outs ten of one

1181
01:00:38,960 --> 01:00:44,600
Speaker 1: hundred and fourteen total drives eight point eight percent. That's

1182
01:00:44,600 --> 01:00:49,760
Speaker 1: a pretty salty number. That is your Schlumberge status challenge. Now,

1183
01:00:49,920 --> 01:00:53,640
Speaker 1: each and every Friday, I do my predictions for all

1184
01:00:53,640 --> 01:00:56,480
Speaker 1: the games straight up and against the spread in the NFL.

1185
01:00:57,680 --> 01:00:59,720
Speaker 1: But I've got to do a few tonight. I got

1186
01:00:59,840 --> 01:01:01,320
Speaker 1: him make sure I do a few tonight because I

1187
01:01:01,320 --> 01:01:03,160
Speaker 1: gotta get on record. I don't even know what my

1188
01:01:03,200 --> 01:01:05,400
Speaker 1: record is this year. I'd like to think it's good,

1189
01:01:05,720 --> 01:01:08,000
Speaker 1: but I don't think it is. But that's okay. I

1190
01:01:08,080 --> 01:01:10,680
Speaker 1: know I've hit a couple of home runs and Grand Slams,

1191
01:01:10,680 --> 01:01:13,440
Speaker 1: and I've also struck out mightily a few weeks. But

1192
01:01:13,520 --> 01:01:18,320
Speaker 1: that's the way it goes. So let's get my predictions,

1193
01:01:18,560 --> 01:01:21,480
Speaker 1: at least for what's going to happen on Thursday. And

1194
01:01:21,560 --> 01:01:23,680
Speaker 1: you know what, let's start a few college games that

1195
01:01:23,720 --> 01:01:26,840
Speaker 1: are happening Thursday and Friday as well, and just a

1196
01:01:26,920 --> 01:01:31,240
Speaker 1: sweeten a pot a little bit. How do you like that?

1197
01:01:31,240 --> 01:01:33,480
Speaker 1: That's a pretty good one, huh? I think? So, so

1198
01:01:33,560 --> 01:01:37,400
Speaker 1: let's do it. Let's start with the NFL early game,

1199
01:01:37,440 --> 01:01:43,280
Speaker 1: which is always in Detroit. The Bears take on the Lions.

1200
01:01:43,840 --> 01:01:45,840
Speaker 1: The Bears are five and six. The Lions are three

1201
01:01:45,960 --> 01:01:48,760
Speaker 1: seven and one. Last year, the Bears play the Lions

1202
01:01:48,760 --> 01:01:52,120
Speaker 1: on Thanksgiving, I believe, and blew them out, and I

1203
01:01:52,120 --> 01:01:54,080
Speaker 1: actually don't think it was a blowout, but there were

1204
01:01:54,080 --> 01:01:56,360
Speaker 1: a lot of turnovers. The Bears took advantage into winning

1205
01:01:56,360 --> 01:01:57,880
Speaker 1: that game. I think Chase I want to say Chase

1206
01:01:57,960 --> 01:02:01,280
Speaker 1: Daniel played in that game. The Bears are favored by four.

1207
01:02:01,400 --> 01:02:03,080
Speaker 1: I think the Lions are ready to pack it in.

1208
01:02:03,760 --> 01:02:06,920
Speaker 1: I think I think they're done. Eleven weeks of games.

1209
01:02:07,600 --> 01:02:10,920
Speaker 1: We're in week thirteens about a bye week, so thirteen weeks.

1210
01:02:11,400 --> 01:02:13,960
Speaker 1: I think the lines have just had enough. Jeff Driscoll

1211
01:02:14,520 --> 01:02:17,160
Speaker 1: is banged up. Matt Stafford I don't believe he's gonna

1212
01:02:17,200 --> 01:02:19,360
Speaker 1: play for a while. This could be a mess. I'm

1213
01:02:19,360 --> 01:02:21,760
Speaker 1: gonna take the Bears. I don't love it, but I'm

1214
01:02:21,760 --> 01:02:23,240
Speaker 1: gonna go with the Bears to get the six and

1215
01:02:23,400 --> 01:02:26,160
Speaker 1: six and start flirting with that wild card. It's gonna

1216
01:02:26,160 --> 01:02:28,720
Speaker 1: be tough over in the NFC because you've got the

1217
01:02:28,840 --> 01:02:30,920
Speaker 1: Vikings and Packers in the North, and you've got the

1218
01:02:30,960 --> 01:02:34,160
Speaker 1: Seahawks and the forty nine ers in the West. So

1219
01:02:34,640 --> 01:02:37,600
Speaker 1: you to Matt, you'd think that the loser of those

1220
01:02:37,640 --> 01:02:40,680
Speaker 1: divisions are gonna end up getting the wild cards, but

1221
01:02:40,760 --> 01:02:43,000
Speaker 1: you never know. Lions get the six and six started

1222
01:02:43,000 --> 01:02:45,280
Speaker 1: to put a little pressure on teams. Ah, who knows,

1223
01:02:45,600 --> 01:02:47,480
Speaker 1: But the Bears are gonna win this one by more

1224
01:02:47,600 --> 01:02:50,160
Speaker 1: than four, so they're gonna cover and get the win.

1225
01:02:50,560 --> 01:02:54,160
Speaker 1: Then in the afternoon, my buddy Sal Capaccio, silent reporter

1226
01:02:54,200 --> 01:02:58,160
Speaker 1: for the Bills, is gonna be in Arlington as the

1227
01:02:58,240 --> 01:03:00,640
Speaker 1: Bills take on the Cowboys. Now the Bills are eight

1228
01:03:00,680 --> 01:03:05,360
Speaker 1: and three, Cowboys six and five. There's a two game difference,

1229
01:03:06,920 --> 01:03:09,480
Speaker 1: and Dallas is favored by six and a half at home.

1230
01:03:09,880 --> 01:03:13,080
Speaker 1: I do think that Dallas plays a little bit more

1231
01:03:13,080 --> 01:03:15,280
Speaker 1: of a sense urgency. And I think that Jerry Jones

1232
01:03:15,480 --> 01:03:18,360
Speaker 1: needs to keep talking about the coaching situation because that

1233
01:03:18,400 --> 01:03:22,840
Speaker 1: seems to spur the Cowboys whenever he does so. I

1234
01:03:22,880 --> 01:03:24,840
Speaker 1: think the Bills are a better team than people think.

1235
01:03:24,920 --> 01:03:27,360
Speaker 1: Some people are sort of poop poo dating three record. Look,

1236
01:03:27,360 --> 01:03:30,040
Speaker 1: they haven't really beaten anybody that you go that was

1237
01:03:30,080 --> 01:03:33,320
Speaker 1: a great win. They did play the Patriots close sixteen

1238
01:03:33,400 --> 01:03:36,480
Speaker 1: ten up in Orchard Park. They just couldn't score that day,

1239
01:03:36,680 --> 01:03:41,040
Speaker 1: couldn't get anything done, but the defense was phenomenal. Against

1240
01:03:41,080 --> 01:03:44,120
Speaker 1: Tom Brady. I think the defense will struggle a little

1241
01:03:44,120 --> 01:03:46,600
Speaker 1: bit with the balance that Dallas will be able to

1242
01:03:46,680 --> 01:03:51,680
Speaker 1: throw at the Bills. The problem for Dallas is offensively,

1243
01:03:51,720 --> 01:03:54,800
Speaker 1: they just haven't been sharp. Now. Last week against New

1244
01:03:54,800 --> 01:03:57,400
Speaker 1: England was a monsoon, so all I am in fact,

1245
01:03:57,400 --> 01:04:01,240
Speaker 1: they've given them a pass on that too. Agreed, but

1246
01:04:01,360 --> 01:04:04,000
Speaker 1: Dallas has not beating teams with winning records this year.

1247
01:04:04,720 --> 01:04:06,960
Speaker 1: The Bills have a winning record, and not just a

1248
01:04:07,000 --> 01:04:10,000
Speaker 1: six and five winning records three. But I think the

1249
01:04:10,000 --> 01:04:12,280
Speaker 1: Cowboys will win this and I think they're gonna cover

1250
01:04:12,480 --> 01:04:18,360
Speaker 1: plan in a short week at home. Instrumental to Thursday wins,

1251
01:04:18,560 --> 01:04:20,800
Speaker 1: the Texans were able to get a win playing at

1252
01:04:20,840 --> 01:04:24,160
Speaker 1: home against Indianapolis. I think that was a factor. I

1253
01:04:24,200 --> 01:04:26,760
Speaker 1: think the Cowboys get to win and they cover the

1254
01:04:26,880 --> 01:04:30,320
Speaker 1: six and a half and then finally the Saints take

1255
01:04:30,400 --> 01:04:35,600
Speaker 1: on the Falcons. The Saints consult the way the NFC South,

1256
01:04:35,640 --> 01:04:38,280
Speaker 1: I believe with the win, I'm pretty sure that's the case.

1257
01:04:39,360 --> 01:04:42,560
Speaker 1: They are only a seven point favorite. Oh, the game

1258
01:04:42,600 --> 01:04:47,480
Speaker 1: is in is in Atlanta, and Atlanta smoked these fools

1259
01:04:47,480 --> 01:04:50,640
Speaker 1: in New Orleans. I do not think that happens again.

1260
01:04:51,040 --> 01:04:53,480
Speaker 1: I think the Saints will go to Atlanta ready to

1261
01:04:53,600 --> 01:04:57,080
Speaker 1: prove that that was a one game fluke, and it

1262
01:04:57,160 --> 01:04:59,480
Speaker 1: really was kind of a two game fluke, really, because

1263
01:04:59,560 --> 01:05:02,040
Speaker 1: last week the Buccaneers just lit up the Atlanta Falcons

1264
01:05:02,040 --> 01:05:05,680
Speaker 1: like a Christmas tree. So I don't know Drew Brees

1265
01:05:05,760 --> 01:05:08,720
Speaker 1: gets all the way there, but I do think he's

1266
01:05:08,720 --> 01:05:12,800
Speaker 1: gonna have a typical thirty for forty game, three hundred

1267
01:05:12,880 --> 01:05:15,600
Speaker 1: fifty yards, a couple of touchdowns. They win this thing comfortably.

1268
01:05:15,640 --> 01:05:17,680
Speaker 1: I think they win by ten or more. They get

1269
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Speaker 1: that revenge. They moved to ten and two and the

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01:05:20,520 --> 01:05:24,120
Speaker 1: Falcons fall to three and nine, as the Saints get

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01:05:24,120 --> 01:05:27,320
Speaker 1: a win by more than seven, which is the key

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01:05:27,480 --> 01:05:31,000
Speaker 1: they get. They win by more than seven, so they're

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01:05:31,000 --> 01:05:33,479
Speaker 1: gonna cover and get to win. So I'm going road

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01:05:33,560 --> 01:05:38,120
Speaker 1: Team New Orleans to win and cover, Home Team Dallas

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01:05:38,280 --> 01:05:41,760
Speaker 1: to win and cover, and road Team Chicago to win

1276
01:05:42,280 --> 01:05:45,520
Speaker 1: and cover. All right, let's get to some college games

1277
01:05:45,520 --> 01:05:49,840
Speaker 1: that are gonna happen one Thursday and then a few

1278
01:05:49,880 --> 01:05:54,120
Speaker 1: on Friday, so throw them in there. Why not get

1279
01:05:54,120 --> 01:05:57,080
Speaker 1: the Egg Bowl? I love the Egg Bowl. I love

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01:05:57,080 --> 01:05:59,000
Speaker 1: the fact they play for an egg that's just I

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01:05:59,040 --> 01:06:01,960
Speaker 1: always love that the Egg Bowl will be in Starkfield,

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01:06:02,000 --> 01:06:05,200
Speaker 1: Old Miss take on Mississippi State. Miss old Miss four

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01:06:05,240 --> 01:06:08,400
Speaker 1: and seven Mississippi State five and six. Ole Miss trying

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01:06:08,400 --> 01:06:11,240
Speaker 1: to keep Mississippi State from getting too that sixth win

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01:06:11,320 --> 01:06:14,360
Speaker 1: that gets you Bowl eligibility. Missisipi State favored by two

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01:06:14,400 --> 01:06:17,920
Speaker 1: and a half. Genres Pumbly, the quarterback for ole Miss,

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01:06:18,120 --> 01:06:21,760
Speaker 1: has run like wildfire this year and that will give

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01:06:21,760 --> 01:06:25,240
Speaker 1: Missisippi States some trouble. But Tommy Stevens is a guy

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01:06:25,320 --> 01:06:28,440
Speaker 1: that Joe moorehead has relied heavily on, and Stevens should

1290
01:06:28,440 --> 01:06:32,240
Speaker 1: be ready to go. I'm gonna roll Bulldogs in a

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01:06:32,320 --> 01:06:35,880
Speaker 1: close one. I feel Bulldogs by four, which is more

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01:06:35,880 --> 01:06:37,840
Speaker 1: than two and a half. So let's go Mississippi State

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01:06:37,880 --> 01:06:42,240
Speaker 1: to win and cover over Old Miss. You got Virginia

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01:06:42,280 --> 01:06:45,200
Speaker 1: Tech and Virginia on Friday at noon. This could be

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01:06:45,240 --> 01:06:48,240
Speaker 1: a heck of football game. Virginia Tech has been playing

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01:06:48,320 --> 01:06:52,360
Speaker 1: lights out lately. Bud Foster, longtime defensive coordinator, is going

1297
01:06:52,400 --> 01:06:54,840
Speaker 1: to resign, not resign, but he's going to retire after

1298
01:06:54,880 --> 01:06:57,720
Speaker 1: this game. He has meant a lot to that program.

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01:06:57,800 --> 01:07:02,320
Speaker 1: The defense seems to be playing for Foster. Virginia's got

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01:07:02,320 --> 01:07:04,920
Speaker 1: some weapons. Rice Perkins at quarterback has done a really

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01:07:05,000 --> 01:07:08,840
Speaker 1: nice job this year. This one's at Virginia. Virginia finds

1302
01:07:08,880 --> 01:07:11,840
Speaker 1: a way to lose the Virginia deck every year somehow.

1303
01:07:11,920 --> 01:07:15,120
Speaker 1: Last year they had the game in Blacksburg, had it

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01:07:15,280 --> 01:07:17,840
Speaker 1: right in her hands and couldn't finish it. Do you

1305
01:07:17,880 --> 01:07:19,920
Speaker 1: know what I'm going with Virginia to pull this one

1306
01:07:19,920 --> 01:07:23,120
Speaker 1: out in Charlottesville. They're gonna spoil it for Bud Foster.

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01:07:23,440 --> 01:07:26,760
Speaker 1: Virginia tickets and nine and three. There'd be a small

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01:07:27,040 --> 01:07:29,000
Speaker 1: possibility that they could be playing in a New Year's

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01:07:29,040 --> 01:07:31,280
Speaker 1: Day Bowl game. But I'm gonna go with Virginia in

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01:07:31,320 --> 01:07:33,640
Speaker 1: the upset. Virginia covers the three and a half and

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01:07:33,680 --> 01:07:35,880
Speaker 1: gets to win, that's gonna be a really good eleven

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01:07:35,920 --> 01:07:39,240
Speaker 1: o'clock game, a one thirty game on Friday. I would

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01:07:39,240 --> 01:07:41,800
Speaker 1: go to Nebraska. I was favored by five and a half.

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01:07:42,240 --> 01:07:46,120
Speaker 1: Nebraska needs it to get to Bowl eligibility, but I

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01:07:46,560 --> 01:07:48,160
Speaker 1: think it's just that much better. I think I was

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01:07:48,200 --> 01:07:50,040
Speaker 1: gonna cover that five and a half. They're gonna win

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01:07:50,040 --> 01:07:53,200
Speaker 1: by a touchdown on the road, although anything when Nebraska

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01:07:53,280 --> 01:07:57,080
Speaker 1: would not surprise me. Nebraska needs it, the Big Ten

1319
01:07:57,320 --> 01:08:00,200
Speaker 1: Bowl partners need it. But it's not gonna happen in

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01:08:00,320 --> 01:08:03,200
Speaker 1: Iowa to get the win and the cover of Nebraska.

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01:08:03,280 --> 01:08:05,760
Speaker 1: Missoo is an eleven and a half point favorite at Arkansas.

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01:08:06,240 --> 01:08:09,000
Speaker 1: Lay it. Massoo's gonna win that they'll get the ball's ability,

1323
01:08:09,000 --> 01:08:11,920
Speaker 1: but they're not gonna be going to a bowlder ineligible

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01:08:12,000 --> 01:08:14,640
Speaker 1: for that. Another Friday game at two THIRTYES. This one

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01:08:14,840 --> 01:08:19,160
Speaker 1: is going to be fantastic. Cincinnati's ten and one ranked

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01:08:19,200 --> 01:08:22,120
Speaker 1: nineteenth in the country. Memphis is ten and one, eighteenth

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01:08:22,120 --> 01:08:24,800
Speaker 1: in the country, and Memphis is favored by ten and

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01:08:24,800 --> 01:08:26,679
Speaker 1: a half. And you know what, I'm gonna lay the points.

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01:08:26,720 --> 01:08:28,640
Speaker 1: I think Memphis is gonna win this by two touchdowns.

1330
01:08:28,800 --> 01:08:32,960
Speaker 1: Memphis is a really good football team, an explosive offensive

1331
01:08:32,960 --> 01:08:35,400
Speaker 1: football team. I don't know that Cincinnati's got the firepower.

1332
01:08:35,640 --> 01:08:38,839
Speaker 1: This feels like forty five thirty one kind of territory.

1333
01:08:38,840 --> 01:08:41,519
Speaker 1: But Memphis is going to get the win at home.

1334
01:08:42,240 --> 01:08:44,440
Speaker 1: So there you go. What part two of our predictions

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Speaker 1: on Friday Night, As per usual, coming up Bob Socy,

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01:08:49,200 --> 01:08:51,519
Speaker 1: play by play voice of the New England Patriots. We're

1337
01:08:51,560 --> 01:08:54,720
Speaker 1: joined our play by play voice Mark Vannimer with our

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01:08:54,720 --> 01:08:58,479
Speaker 1: men behind the mic series. Next on Texas laxis. We

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01:08:58,640 --> 01:09:01,720
Speaker 1: no further indo, let's get to I'm men behind the mics,

1340
01:09:01,760 --> 01:09:04,679
Speaker 1: Mark vander Meer on the Texas side and Bob Soci

1341
01:09:04,920 --> 01:09:07,519
Speaker 1: on the Patriots side. Bob, you're coming off the victory

1342
01:09:07,520 --> 01:09:10,920
Speaker 1: over the Dallas Cowboys. Tell me the truth now, Were

1343
01:09:10,920 --> 01:09:13,800
Speaker 1: you ever nervous during that one that it could end

1344
01:09:13,880 --> 01:09:17,439
Speaker 1: up the wrong way for your cause? Yeah? Mark, I

1345
01:09:17,439 --> 01:09:19,519
Speaker 1: think we've had a lot of nervous moments the last

1346
01:09:19,520 --> 01:09:22,479
Speaker 1: couple of weeks, frankly, between the Patriots game against the

1347
01:09:22,479 --> 01:09:25,960
Speaker 1: Eagles won by a touchdown and a game in which

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01:09:26,000 --> 01:09:29,679
Speaker 1: Philadelphia had an opportunity to tie in the final minute.

1349
01:09:29,680 --> 01:09:32,280
Speaker 1: In fact, twice they had a fourth down attemph that

1350
01:09:32,439 --> 01:09:35,639
Speaker 1: Nelson Aglore dropped in the back of the end zone

1351
01:09:35,960 --> 01:09:37,840
Speaker 1: with a minute five to go in and had a

1352
01:09:37,960 --> 01:09:40,840
Speaker 1: last second heave knocked down to five yard line. We

1353
01:09:40,920 --> 01:09:43,559
Speaker 1: learned late last year when the Patriots lost that game

1354
01:09:43,600 --> 01:09:45,759
Speaker 1: on the old hook and lateral to the Miami Dolphins.

1355
01:09:45,760 --> 01:09:48,240
Speaker 1: Never to take anything for granted, So I think, no

1356
01:09:48,560 --> 01:09:52,680
Speaker 1: matter the margin, generally when games have been late for

1357
01:09:52,760 --> 01:09:55,720
Speaker 1: this team of late, they've been anxious moments. But with

1358
01:09:55,760 --> 01:09:59,080
Speaker 1: the Cowboys game as well, a Dallas team very talented.

1359
01:09:59,120 --> 01:10:02,720
Speaker 1: As you know, Dak Prescott's having a terrific season. And

1360
01:10:02,880 --> 01:10:04,599
Speaker 1: there were a couple of plays late in that game.

1361
01:10:04,640 --> 01:10:07,439
Speaker 1: Rebacob had a long catching run for fifty plus yards,

1362
01:10:07,439 --> 01:10:08,720
Speaker 1: and you got a sense that as great as the

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01:10:08,720 --> 01:10:11,200
Speaker 1: Patriots you're playing defensively, as well as they were playing

1364
01:10:11,200 --> 01:10:15,600
Speaker 1: on special teams, not being able to add on to

1365
01:10:15,720 --> 01:10:18,080
Speaker 1: that lead like in the Philadelphia game might put them

1366
01:10:18,080 --> 01:10:20,559
Speaker 1: in a position where you know, they're defending a last minute,

1367
01:10:20,640 --> 01:10:23,240
Speaker 1: last second play, and as it turned out, that did

1368
01:10:23,280 --> 01:10:26,679
Speaker 1: not happen. They were able to run out the clock. Essentially,

1369
01:10:26,760 --> 01:10:28,559
Speaker 1: they gave the Cowboys a second runt deep in their

1370
01:10:28,560 --> 01:10:31,280
Speaker 1: own head when Dallas got the ball back. But nonetheless,

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01:10:31,720 --> 01:10:33,559
Speaker 1: you can breathe a little bit easier at that time.

1372
01:10:34,200 --> 01:10:37,240
Speaker 1: Bob Sosy, voice of the Patriots joining us. Bob, a

1373
01:10:37,280 --> 01:10:39,400
Speaker 1: lot of people are saying, what's wrong with the Patriots

1374
01:10:39,400 --> 01:10:42,920
Speaker 1: on offense? Fifth and scoring? Bob, all right, So you

1375
01:10:43,040 --> 01:10:46,960
Speaker 1: tell me what's different about the Patriots on offense? Defined

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01:10:47,000 --> 01:10:50,920
Speaker 1: the Patriots twenty nineteen offensively for US? Yeah, Mark, And

1377
01:10:50,960 --> 01:10:52,519
Speaker 1: I think when you look at the scoring, you have

1378
01:10:52,640 --> 01:10:55,840
Speaker 1: to take into account defensive scores for this team. There

1379
01:10:55,840 --> 01:10:59,080
Speaker 1: have been four of them, plus scores either by the

1380
01:10:59,120 --> 01:11:01,479
Speaker 1: special teams or set up by the special teams. And

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01:11:01,600 --> 01:11:04,960
Speaker 1: for example, in that game on Sunday against the Cowboys,

1382
01:11:04,960 --> 01:11:07,200
Speaker 1: it's a block punt that gives New England possession at

1383
01:11:07,200 --> 01:11:09,559
Speaker 1: the twelve yard line, and the Patriots, who've really struggled

1384
01:11:09,560 --> 01:11:12,360
Speaker 1: in the red zone all season long, scoring on a

1385
01:11:12,360 --> 01:11:15,759
Speaker 1: twelve year a ten yard touchdown pass. Their next scoring

1386
01:11:15,840 --> 01:11:18,639
Speaker 1: drive was set up by an interception by Stefan Gilmour

1387
01:11:18,680 --> 01:11:21,160
Speaker 1: at the Dallas twenty nine. And they don't move the

1388
01:11:21,200 --> 01:11:25,200
Speaker 1: ball much thereafter. They've been hamstrung by a number of things.

1389
01:11:25,600 --> 01:11:27,760
Speaker 1: They haven't been able to run the ball nearly as

1390
01:11:27,800 --> 01:11:30,040
Speaker 1: well as they did late last year, which you might recall,

1391
01:11:30,120 --> 01:11:32,960
Speaker 1: really was the impetus for them to reach the Super Bowl.

1392
01:11:33,000 --> 01:11:35,639
Speaker 1: They became a run first team in the final weeks

1393
01:11:35,640 --> 01:11:38,760
Speaker 1: of the regular season and then really ran through the

1394
01:11:38,840 --> 01:11:41,880
Speaker 1: Chargers in Kansas City in the playoffs. Well, this year,

1395
01:11:41,880 --> 01:11:45,479
Speaker 1: they lost Rob Gronkowski to retirement, Dwayne Allen left by

1396
01:11:45,520 --> 01:11:47,559
Speaker 1: a free agency a good blocking tight end for them,

1397
01:11:47,680 --> 01:11:50,960
Speaker 1: James Devlin a very good fullback, and really I think

1398
01:11:51,880 --> 01:11:54,400
Speaker 1: fulcom for that running attack last year. So much of

1399
01:11:54,439 --> 01:11:57,559
Speaker 1: what they did on the ground revolved around Sony Michelle

1400
01:11:57,640 --> 01:12:00,759
Speaker 1: running behind James Devlin. He went down on the injury.

1401
01:12:01,120 --> 01:12:03,519
Speaker 1: That they've had injuries at the wide receiver position or

1402
01:12:03,560 --> 01:12:06,280
Speaker 1: have lost some guys for various reasons. They signed Antonio

1403
01:12:06,360 --> 01:12:08,519
Speaker 1: Brown and he was here for a week before we

1404
01:12:08,560 --> 01:12:10,000
Speaker 1: ever got to really know him, which might not have

1405
01:12:10,000 --> 01:12:12,640
Speaker 1: been a bad thing as it turns out. And you know,

1406
01:12:12,680 --> 01:12:15,719
Speaker 1: you look at Philip doors Set coming off a head injury.

1407
01:12:15,720 --> 01:12:18,360
Speaker 1: Mohammedan Now player they acquired, has an ankle injury, so

1408
01:12:18,720 --> 01:12:21,200
Speaker 1: that it was available against the Cowboys. And they've had

1409
01:12:21,240 --> 01:12:23,839
Speaker 1: incorporated a couple of rookies, including a free agent Jacobe

1410
01:12:23,840 --> 01:12:27,400
Speaker 1: Myers and the aforementioned Nikkil Harry who missed most of

1411
01:12:27,400 --> 01:12:30,599
Speaker 1: the season because of a preseason hamstring injury. And even

1412
01:12:30,680 --> 01:12:33,200
Speaker 1: Julian Edelman, as reliable as he is, he's been banged

1413
01:12:33,240 --> 01:12:35,400
Speaker 1: up of late. And then on the offensive line, mark

1414
01:12:35,600 --> 01:12:39,120
Speaker 1: the center, David Andrews, a very unheralded player in this offense,

1415
01:12:40,400 --> 01:12:45,200
Speaker 1: was felled by the blood clots that reached his lungs

1416
01:12:45,320 --> 01:12:48,280
Speaker 1: and is unavailable for the season, and the hope is

1417
01:12:48,320 --> 01:12:50,200
Speaker 1: that he'll be back for next year, and he's an

1418
01:12:50,240 --> 01:12:52,960
Speaker 1: inviable piece on that offensive line is the team captain,

1419
01:12:53,080 --> 01:12:56,400
Speaker 1: keeping everybody organized and together, and Isaiah when the first

1420
01:12:56,479 --> 01:12:58,200
Speaker 1: round pick from there out of George as the left

1421
01:12:58,200 --> 01:13:00,599
Speaker 1: tackle has missed most of the season. He just got

1422
01:13:00,680 --> 01:13:03,040
Speaker 1: him back after he went on IR in the wake

1423
01:13:03,120 --> 01:13:06,000
Speaker 1: of Week two. So they've had a lot of different

1424
01:13:06,160 --> 01:13:09,960
Speaker 1: pieces offensively. I think They've been searching constantly for chemistry.

1425
01:13:10,000 --> 01:13:12,200
Speaker 1: Brady's been under a lot of pressure, and they just

1426
01:13:12,240 --> 01:13:14,080
Speaker 1: have been oddest sink in a lot of different ways.

1427
01:13:14,080 --> 01:13:16,200
Speaker 1: And I think it really starts with the inability to

1428
01:13:16,280 --> 01:13:18,439
Speaker 1: run the ball first, as they did late last year,

1429
01:13:18,960 --> 01:13:22,320
Speaker 1: because they were able to offset in some part last

1430
01:13:22,400 --> 01:13:26,840
Speaker 1: year their inability to strike downfield well. Thus far of late,

1431
01:13:27,160 --> 01:13:30,679
Speaker 1: this offense has been unable to hit on the chunk plays,

1432
01:13:31,200 --> 01:13:33,839
Speaker 1: but at the same time unable to sustain any consistent

1433
01:13:33,920 --> 01:13:37,360
Speaker 1: running game. Bob Selc, Voice of the Patriots, joining us in. Bob,

1434
01:13:37,439 --> 01:13:40,360
Speaker 1: you mentioned Brady. What kind of Tom Brady are we seeing?

1435
01:13:40,439 --> 01:13:43,560
Speaker 1: And does the quote lack of production? I see the

1436
01:13:43,640 --> 01:13:46,200
Speaker 1: yards per attempt down and things like that, But is

1437
01:13:46,200 --> 01:13:49,360
Speaker 1: that because of the other factors you just mentioned injuries

1438
01:13:49,400 --> 01:13:52,080
Speaker 1: and experienced at the past catching positions or is it

1439
01:13:52,120 --> 01:13:55,200
Speaker 1: a combination of things. I think it's a combination of things.

1440
01:13:55,240 --> 01:13:58,240
Speaker 1: Mark I think is largely due to some of those

1441
01:13:58,240 --> 01:14:01,280
Speaker 1: things that I tried to lay out. He was certainly

1442
01:14:01,360 --> 01:14:05,559
Speaker 1: inconsistent with throws in particular, and a couple of games, like,

1443
01:14:05,680 --> 01:14:08,599
Speaker 1: for example, the Eagle game, might have missed some reason,

1444
01:14:08,640 --> 01:14:10,280
Speaker 1: but you could see that. I think that was a

1445
01:14:10,280 --> 01:14:13,160
Speaker 1: game in which he was affected right away by pressure.

1446
01:14:13,680 --> 01:14:16,600
Speaker 1: With Brady, there's always that awareness no one understands the

1447
01:14:16,600 --> 01:14:20,240
Speaker 1: opposition's strength and weaknesses, and his own team strength and

1448
01:14:20,280 --> 01:14:22,120
Speaker 1: weakness is better than Tom. And he got a sense

1449
01:14:22,160 --> 01:14:24,760
Speaker 1: he was anty from the start in that particular game

1450
01:14:24,800 --> 01:14:27,240
Speaker 1: against the Eagles, and so the offense was out of

1451
01:14:27,280 --> 01:14:30,160
Speaker 1: swords and he was not happy whatsoever. Became big news

1452
01:14:30,200 --> 01:14:33,360
Speaker 1: here for a week about his reaction in the aftermath

1453
01:14:33,400 --> 01:14:37,120
Speaker 1: of that Eagles game, despite the team winning over Philadelphia.

1454
01:14:37,200 --> 01:14:40,800
Speaker 1: I think last week against the Cowboys, he was very impressive,

1455
01:14:40,800 --> 01:14:42,800
Speaker 1: but the numbers aren't going to show it. And a

1456
01:14:43,120 --> 01:14:49,040
Speaker 1: very windy, rainy on a very windy, rainy, cold night,

1457
01:14:49,439 --> 01:14:52,680
Speaker 1: Brady was able to cut through that wind and rain

1458
01:14:52,920 --> 01:14:54,840
Speaker 1: or a number of throws that should have been caught.

1459
01:14:55,240 --> 01:14:57,240
Speaker 1: I thought he threw the ball as well against the

1460
01:14:57,280 --> 01:15:01,280
Speaker 1: Cowboys as he has really in the last month or two,

1461
01:15:01,400 --> 01:15:04,080
Speaker 1: and he ironically enough went down on the injury report

1462
01:15:04,600 --> 01:15:07,719
Speaker 1: listed with an elbow injury on Friday of last week.

1463
01:15:08,160 --> 01:15:10,680
Speaker 1: So you know, it's a case of the numbers not

1464
01:15:10,840 --> 01:15:13,519
Speaker 1: being tom Brady like. It's the case at times of

1465
01:15:13,600 --> 01:15:16,639
Speaker 1: Tom Brady not looking like his old self. But then

1466
01:15:16,680 --> 01:15:19,000
Speaker 1: as we saw on Sunday at age forty two, he

1467
01:15:19,080 --> 01:15:22,280
Speaker 1: looked like Tom Brady at his young self, throwing the

1468
01:15:22,280 --> 01:15:25,400
Speaker 1: ball extremely well, even if the numbers didn't reflect it. Bob,

1469
01:15:25,479 --> 01:15:27,360
Speaker 1: So see voys of the Patriots with us, So, Bob,

1470
01:15:27,400 --> 01:15:29,599
Speaker 1: the other side of the football now the defense number

1471
01:15:29,600 --> 01:15:31,720
Speaker 1: one and scoring in the National Football League. And my

1472
01:15:31,720 --> 01:15:34,400
Speaker 1: buddy John Harris, who does sideline for us and I

1473
01:15:34,439 --> 01:15:37,080
Speaker 1: know you know him, says that Jamie Collins appears to

1474
01:15:37,120 --> 01:15:39,599
Speaker 1: be the straw that stirs the drink on that side

1475
01:15:39,600 --> 01:15:42,240
Speaker 1: of the football. What do you think He's one of them?

1476
01:15:42,240 --> 01:15:44,920
Speaker 1: And Stephan Gilmore as another for sure. And you know

1477
01:15:44,920 --> 01:15:46,880
Speaker 1: there are a number of other guys like Don Day,

1478
01:15:46,960 --> 01:15:49,559
Speaker 1: high Tower, Kyle Van Noise really come into his own

1479
01:15:50,120 --> 01:15:51,960
Speaker 1: on this team over the last couple of years. But

1480
01:15:52,000 --> 01:15:55,759
Speaker 1: I think Collins is really the first indication this spring

1481
01:15:56,360 --> 01:15:58,840
Speaker 1: he was the first indication this spring that this defense

1482
01:15:58,880 --> 01:16:01,000
Speaker 1: could truly be something special. We knew the way they

1483
01:16:01,000 --> 01:16:02,920
Speaker 1: finished last year and the job they did again from

1484
01:16:02,960 --> 01:16:05,559
Speaker 1: rams of the Super Bowl, and with the experience coming

1485
01:16:05,600 --> 01:16:08,160
Speaker 1: back in two thousand nineteen, that the Patriots would be

1486
01:16:08,200 --> 01:16:14,280
Speaker 1: stronger defensively than offensively, particularly without Ground in retirement. Then

1487
01:16:14,280 --> 01:16:16,400
Speaker 1: when we saw Jamie Collins mark in the spring, he

1488
01:16:16,439 --> 01:16:19,479
Speaker 1: looked like a different guy than when we last saw

1489
01:16:19,600 --> 01:16:22,160
Speaker 1: him just before being traded away from the Patriots in

1490
01:16:22,200 --> 01:16:24,720
Speaker 1: two thousand and sixteen. He looked like the player just

1491
01:16:24,800 --> 01:16:29,560
Speaker 1: out of Southern misdrafted in the second round in two thirteen,

1492
01:16:30,000 --> 01:16:33,800
Speaker 1: as a freakish athlete, very active all over the place.

1493
01:16:33,840 --> 01:16:36,040
Speaker 1: And you could see it, even going back to OTA's

1494
01:16:36,320 --> 01:16:39,559
Speaker 1: knocking down passes. They're running all over the field. And

1495
01:16:39,600 --> 01:16:42,320
Speaker 1: there was the sense that what was deemed a weakness

1496
01:16:42,320 --> 01:16:46,160
Speaker 1: of the Patriots going in in two eighteen, the linebacking

1497
01:16:46,240 --> 01:16:49,559
Speaker 1: corn the defense as a whole, was now not only

1498
01:16:49,560 --> 01:16:51,720
Speaker 1: a strength of this team but could really be a

1499
01:16:51,760 --> 01:16:56,040
Speaker 1: dominating strength. And you had Kyle van Noy and Dante

1500
01:16:56,120 --> 01:16:59,519
Speaker 1: Hietower healthy as versatile pieces. But more than that, he

1501
01:16:59,560 --> 01:17:02,000
Speaker 1: had Jamie Collins, a guy with his speed and athletics

1502
01:17:02,040 --> 01:17:05,799
Speaker 1: as are making plays with it, rushing the quarterback, forcing fumbles,

1503
01:17:05,840 --> 01:17:09,800
Speaker 1: recovering fumbles, intercepting passes. He had a sixty plus interception

1504
01:17:09,960 --> 01:17:13,240
Speaker 1: return for a touchdown against the Dolphins in a week

1505
01:17:13,320 --> 01:17:16,080
Speaker 1: two And then you have the secondary that has covered

1506
01:17:16,080 --> 01:17:18,720
Speaker 1: extremely well. I mentioned Gilmore. He shut out of Mary

1507
01:17:18,800 --> 01:17:21,400
Speaker 1: Cooper last week in a Cowboys game. The one catch

1508
01:17:21,439 --> 01:17:24,920
Speaker 1: Cooper had was nullified by a penalty. He was over

1509
01:17:25,040 --> 01:17:27,680
Speaker 1: water fish I think a big pardon because there was

1510
01:17:27,680 --> 01:17:29,800
Speaker 1: another play that was over wold as an incomplete pass,

1511
01:17:30,160 --> 01:17:32,320
Speaker 1: so he didn't have a catch in that game. Amari

1512
01:17:32,360 --> 01:17:36,439
Speaker 1: Cooper against Gilmore, who's been equally effective against any other

1513
01:17:36,439 --> 01:17:39,000
Speaker 1: receiver the Patriots of assign him to this year. It's

1514
01:17:39,040 --> 01:17:41,320
Speaker 1: gonna be a great matchup, of course, seeing the former

1515
01:17:41,360 --> 01:17:44,120
Speaker 1: South Carolina Gamecock go up against the Clemson Tiger we

1516
01:17:44,200 --> 01:17:47,760
Speaker 1: presume this weekend in Houston. Beyond that, though, I think

1517
01:17:47,800 --> 01:17:50,840
Speaker 1: that Jonathan Jones has really developed into a very good

1518
01:17:50,840 --> 01:17:53,479
Speaker 1: player for the Patriots a versat to cornerback, and he's

1519
01:17:53,520 --> 01:17:56,719
Speaker 1: playing extremely well at a high level as a slot corner.

1520
01:17:56,960 --> 01:17:59,640
Speaker 1: Devin mccaudy looks as good as he's ever looked. He's

1521
01:17:59,680 --> 01:18:03,080
Speaker 1: at five interceptions, albeit early in the season. But the

1522
01:18:03,120 --> 01:18:06,840
Speaker 1: way he's organized that defense, he's enabled them to show

1523
01:18:06,880 --> 01:18:09,240
Speaker 1: a lot of looks pre snap and then give you

1524
01:18:09,320 --> 01:18:12,320
Speaker 1: something completely different once the ball is snap. You'll see

1525
01:18:12,320 --> 01:18:15,719
Speaker 1: a lot of one down lineman, two down linemen sets,

1526
01:18:15,920 --> 01:18:19,000
Speaker 1: some zero coverages, some coverages where there are no deep

1527
01:18:19,040 --> 01:18:21,719
Speaker 1: safeties initially and then you see the safeties dropped back

1528
01:18:21,760 --> 01:18:25,080
Speaker 1: and coverage. They've done a great job of confusing on quarterbacks.

1529
01:18:25,200 --> 01:18:27,360
Speaker 1: It's going to be more difficult to do obviously against

1530
01:18:27,400 --> 01:18:30,599
Speaker 1: de Shaun Watson and the Texan stuff. Bob Sosey, voice

1531
01:18:30,600 --> 01:18:33,360
Speaker 1: of the New England Patriots, joining us on Texans Radio.

1532
01:18:33,880 --> 01:18:36,240
Speaker 1: All right, what are they saying about the Texans in

1533
01:18:36,360 --> 01:18:38,880
Speaker 1: New England? What do you think of the Texans heading

1534
01:18:38,920 --> 01:18:42,400
Speaker 1: into this one? As you ventured to NRG Stadium, Well Mark,

1535
01:18:42,479 --> 01:18:46,320
Speaker 1: you know sports talk radio in this marketplace, and there

1536
01:18:46,320 --> 01:18:49,840
Speaker 1: are narratives that people will cling to and they will

1537
01:18:49,880 --> 01:18:54,760
Speaker 1: hold onto those forever. For example, with Tom Rady and

1538
01:18:55,000 --> 01:18:58,000
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick and the situation with the Rose in two

1539
01:18:58,000 --> 01:19:01,280
Speaker 1: thousand and seventeen, there was reported belief friction by the

1540
01:19:01,400 --> 01:19:03,640
Speaker 1: end of that campaign. And anytime there's a ticcome for

1541
01:19:03,680 --> 01:19:06,080
Speaker 1: this team along the way you've been as the Patriots

1542
01:19:06,160 --> 01:19:08,800
Speaker 1: or ten and one. If Brady seems I'm happy about

1543
01:19:08,800 --> 01:19:11,360
Speaker 1: the offense against Philadelphia, we'll guess what they're talking about.

1544
01:19:11,840 --> 01:19:14,080
Speaker 1: Before the Patriots play of the Cowboys, they're still talking

1545
01:19:14,120 --> 01:19:16,880
Speaker 1: about what took place in twenty seventeen or what might

1546
01:19:16,880 --> 01:19:19,479
Speaker 1: not have taken place in twenty seventeen. And so the

1547
01:19:19,760 --> 01:19:23,320
Speaker 1: narrative here locally about the Texans, I think, is one

1548
01:19:23,360 --> 01:19:26,680
Speaker 1: that goes back even to Gary Kubiak's coaching tenure, when

1549
01:19:26,680 --> 01:19:30,160
Speaker 1: the Texans really built themselves into a contending team in

1550
01:19:30,200 --> 01:19:32,599
Speaker 1: the AFC but could not get over the New England. Hum.

1551
01:19:32,720 --> 01:19:36,519
Speaker 1: So there's that wait and see, we'll see it, will

1552
01:19:36,560 --> 01:19:38,920
Speaker 1: believe it when we see it attitude on the part

1553
01:19:38,960 --> 01:19:42,240
Speaker 1: of I think the people in local sports talk circles

1554
01:19:42,240 --> 01:19:44,840
Speaker 1: and some of the calumnists for the people that follow

1555
01:19:44,880 --> 01:19:46,880
Speaker 1: the game closely, they know what Deshaun Watson and the

1556
01:19:46,920 --> 01:19:49,360
Speaker 1: Texans did a couple of years ago coming in here

1557
01:19:49,600 --> 01:19:52,200
Speaker 1: early in the season, and how good the Texans played

1558
01:19:52,240 --> 01:19:54,280
Speaker 1: against the Patriots. But I think they also are aware

1559
01:19:54,400 --> 01:19:57,839
Speaker 1: that the Texans really posed a test in the playoffs

1560
01:19:57,840 --> 01:20:00,799
Speaker 1: several years ago that would have not off the Patriots

1561
01:20:00,800 --> 01:20:02,960
Speaker 1: a fact, would have derailed them. I think he had

1562
01:20:03,120 --> 01:20:06,320
Speaker 1: at Houston, had Deshaun Watson as opposed to Brock Gotswiller

1563
01:20:06,960 --> 01:20:08,720
Speaker 1: in that game. And I think there's a lot of

1564
01:20:08,760 --> 01:20:11,920
Speaker 1: respect here among the people that cover the team regularly

1565
01:20:11,960 --> 01:20:14,920
Speaker 1: on the beat for the Texans. Now, the Will Fuller

1566
01:20:15,800 --> 01:20:19,360
Speaker 1: addition in this game being healthy after his performance on

1567
01:20:19,400 --> 01:20:22,720
Speaker 1: Sunday as a big factor. I think the ability of

1568
01:20:22,800 --> 01:20:25,200
Speaker 1: Duke Johnson to catch the ball out of the backfield.

1569
01:20:25,520 --> 01:20:29,000
Speaker 1: What Carlos Hyde has given the Texans, I think that

1570
01:20:29,120 --> 01:20:32,320
Speaker 1: it's a more complete offense. And this Patriots defense hashown

1571
01:20:32,360 --> 01:20:35,000
Speaker 1: some vulnerabilities against the run this year, and I think

1572
01:20:35,000 --> 01:20:36,760
Speaker 1: if the Texans are committed to it, and it's going

1573
01:20:36,840 --> 01:20:38,720
Speaker 1: to be a very interesting game for New England. And

1574
01:20:38,760 --> 01:20:42,000
Speaker 1: they've always had problems in my tenure defending mobile quarterbacks.

1575
01:20:42,160 --> 01:20:44,200
Speaker 1: And in the case of Dshaun you know better than

1576
01:20:44,240 --> 01:20:47,880
Speaker 1: I far better just what he can do keeping plays

1577
01:20:47,920 --> 01:20:51,080
Speaker 1: alive and allowing some of those receivers to get open.

1578
01:20:51,120 --> 01:20:52,719
Speaker 1: And it's going to be a hard cover to stay

1579
01:20:52,720 --> 01:20:55,360
Speaker 1: with Fuller and Hopkins, you know once he starts moving

1580
01:20:55,360 --> 01:20:56,880
Speaker 1: around back there. So I think there's a lot of

1581
01:20:56,880 --> 01:20:59,519
Speaker 1: respect the offensive line obviously is a lot better with Tunsel.

1582
01:21:00,000 --> 01:21:02,160
Speaker 1: The defense just looks different to people. There's not the

1583
01:21:02,160 --> 01:21:05,360
Speaker 1: star power without wat In Clowney. But I think again,

1584
01:21:05,479 --> 01:21:08,600
Speaker 1: if you follow football closely, if you've watched the Patriots

1585
01:21:08,720 --> 01:21:12,680
Speaker 1: against the Texans, you know what Merciless and McKinney have

1586
01:21:12,840 --> 01:21:15,439
Speaker 1: done and the problems they've created against New England. So

1587
01:21:15,960 --> 01:21:19,040
Speaker 1: we're anticipating, I know in our broadcast booth, we're anticipating

1588
01:21:19,040 --> 01:21:22,120
Speaker 1: a great game on Sunday. Well, we're anticipating not playing

1589
01:21:22,200 --> 01:21:24,680
Speaker 1: Josie here at the stadium. By the way, just so

1590
01:21:24,800 --> 01:21:27,360
Speaker 1: you know that, I already talked to the people, because

1591
01:21:27,400 --> 01:21:30,240
Speaker 1: you know, sometimes they do play it Bob here, as

1592
01:21:30,240 --> 01:21:33,240
Speaker 1: if they have no idea what's going on in Foxborough.

1593
01:21:33,280 --> 01:21:34,439
Speaker 1: When I hear it, I'm thinking, no, no no, no, no,

1594
01:21:34,439 --> 01:21:38,840
Speaker 1: no no, don't play that song anyway, and especially Sunday night,

1595
01:21:39,160 --> 01:21:41,240
Speaker 1: Bob says, he voice of the Patriots with us. All right,

1596
01:21:41,240 --> 01:21:44,519
Speaker 1: you were talking about mobile quarterbacks. Well, speaking of Monday

1597
01:21:44,560 --> 01:21:47,840
Speaker 1: night football, Lamar Jackson goes nuts, and he went nuts

1598
01:21:47,840 --> 01:21:51,280
Speaker 1: against the Texans, had success against the Patriots. So what

1599
01:21:51,400 --> 01:21:53,559
Speaker 1: do you think of the Ravens as the Patriots still

1600
01:21:53,560 --> 01:21:56,599
Speaker 1: have the stiff arm on them in the overall AFC standings,

1601
01:21:56,640 --> 01:21:58,720
Speaker 1: but of course lost the game head to head. What

1602
01:21:58,760 --> 01:22:01,280
Speaker 1: do you think of Baltimore? Yea, adding Baltimore is terrific

1603
01:22:01,400 --> 01:22:04,599
Speaker 1: right now. The Patriots fell behind him that game seventeen nothing,

1604
01:22:04,800 --> 01:22:07,720
Speaker 1: and it was a case where I think offense and

1605
01:22:07,800 --> 01:22:12,160
Speaker 1: defense alike were complicit. The Patriots defense could not in

1606
01:22:12,200 --> 01:22:16,240
Speaker 1: any way simulate the speed of Lamar Jackson and what

1607
01:22:16,320 --> 01:22:19,120
Speaker 1: we saw in that game in their preparation for it,

1608
01:22:19,200 --> 01:22:22,240
Speaker 1: and I think that the players were a bit overwhelmed

1609
01:22:22,280 --> 01:22:24,360
Speaker 1: to the outside and talking to some of the Patriots

1610
01:22:24,439 --> 01:22:26,920
Speaker 1: before and after that game, you know, it's one thing

1611
01:22:26,960 --> 01:22:29,600
Speaker 1: to watch a guy like Lamar Jackson on film and

1612
01:22:29,600 --> 01:22:31,120
Speaker 1: then when you see him in person, have to go

1613
01:22:31,160 --> 01:22:33,120
Speaker 1: against it. And there were times when it looked like

1614
01:22:33,160 --> 01:22:36,160
Speaker 1: the Patriots had Jackson and the Ravens dead to write,

1615
01:22:36,200 --> 01:22:39,120
Speaker 1: and yet Baltimore gets a key third down conversion here

1616
01:22:39,200 --> 01:22:41,280
Speaker 1: or a big play there. And I think the way

1617
01:22:41,320 --> 01:22:43,599
Speaker 1: they utilized the tight ends caused a lot of problems

1618
01:22:43,920 --> 01:22:47,000
Speaker 1: for the Patriots along with the fullback will regard the

1619
01:22:47,120 --> 01:22:49,880
Speaker 1: defense for Baltimore, I thought was somewhat suspecting one end.

1620
01:22:49,920 --> 01:22:52,400
Speaker 1: The Patriots once they got into rhythm offensive lead moved

1621
01:22:52,400 --> 01:22:55,240
Speaker 1: the ball extremely well. They really self destructed. They were

1622
01:22:55,320 --> 01:22:57,599
Speaker 1: driving to the lead. In the third quarter, Julian Edelman

1623
01:22:58,200 --> 01:23:01,320
Speaker 1: fumbled on a catcher on an early down. All the

1624
01:23:01,360 --> 01:23:04,320
Speaker 1: Patriots were in good position near midfield. I think it

1625
01:23:04,320 --> 01:23:07,680
Speaker 1: was a first down play and Marlon Humphrey scooped it

1626
01:23:07,760 --> 01:23:09,280
Speaker 1: up and ran it back for a touchdown. And that

1627
01:23:09,320 --> 01:23:11,679
Speaker 1: was the backbreaker because the Patriots relating to the ball

1628
01:23:11,680 --> 01:23:16,280
Speaker 1: back much After that, the Ravens went on two really

1629
01:23:16,320 --> 01:23:21,519
Speaker 1: long drives to time consuming scoring drives that put the

1630
01:23:21,560 --> 01:23:23,720
Speaker 1: game out of reach. And it reminded me Mark and

1631
01:23:24,000 --> 01:23:25,800
Speaker 1: of all the years but I used to call Navy

1632
01:23:25,840 --> 01:23:29,320
Speaker 1: football watching the triple option, the problems that it would

1633
01:23:29,320 --> 01:23:31,920
Speaker 1: present two teams at the start of games because you

1634
01:23:31,960 --> 01:23:35,320
Speaker 1: couldn't really simulate it in practice. And then once you

1635
01:23:35,400 --> 01:23:38,840
Speaker 1: got into the game, how you find yourself on the

1636
01:23:38,880 --> 01:23:42,400
Speaker 1: sideline as an offense just watching that clock tick away

1637
01:23:42,680 --> 01:23:45,679
Speaker 1: while the other team's offense is picking up a third

1638
01:23:45,720 --> 01:23:49,200
Speaker 1: and three, a third and four and continuing to drive

1639
01:23:49,280 --> 01:23:52,519
Speaker 1: the ball down field and need more time, limiting the

1640
01:23:52,520 --> 01:23:56,200
Speaker 1: possessions and basically leaving you with too little too lay

1641
01:23:56,240 --> 01:23:58,200
Speaker 1: with which to work. And I think the Patriots again.

1642
01:23:58,240 --> 01:24:00,479
Speaker 1: In that game, they were they were dominated in that game.

1643
01:24:00,520 --> 01:24:02,320
Speaker 1: They got some help from the Ravens with some turnovers

1644
01:24:02,320 --> 01:24:05,519
Speaker 1: and putting a muff kicked by Cyrus Jones, but the

1645
01:24:05,600 --> 01:24:08,200
Speaker 1: Ravens were dominant and it's going to be I think,

1646
01:24:08,200 --> 01:24:10,479
Speaker 1: a very difficult challenge the way they're playing right now

1647
01:24:10,520 --> 01:24:12,439
Speaker 1: to beat them. But you and I both know in

1648
01:24:12,479 --> 01:24:15,439
Speaker 1: this league it's hard to sustain that kind of success,

1649
01:24:15,720 --> 01:24:18,479
Speaker 1: and once you get to January, especially if the Patriots

1650
01:24:18,520 --> 01:24:20,840
Speaker 1: can get them in Fox or anybody else in Fox Crew,

1651
01:24:20,880 --> 01:24:24,040
Speaker 1: I like New England's chances as much as anybody. Bob

1652
01:24:24,080 --> 01:24:27,160
Speaker 1: one more quick one for you, Buffalo. You played them once.

1653
01:24:27,280 --> 01:24:30,160
Speaker 1: The Patriots will take them on again. They're sitting there

1654
01:24:30,160 --> 01:24:32,799
Speaker 1: at eight and three heading into the weekend. How good

1655
01:24:32,840 --> 01:24:36,000
Speaker 1: are the Bills? They're steamrolling their way toward a wild card,

1656
01:24:36,040 --> 01:24:37,840
Speaker 1: it would appear. What do you think of the Bills?

1657
01:24:38,640 --> 01:24:40,400
Speaker 1: I think a lot of the Bill's defense, Mark and

1658
01:24:40,439 --> 01:24:43,040
Speaker 1: I always have under Sean McDermot, I think they're very disciplined,

1659
01:24:43,280 --> 01:24:46,200
Speaker 1: the two safeties there. The defensive line gets a lot

1660
01:24:46,200 --> 01:24:48,799
Speaker 1: of credit for good reason, but against the Patriots in particular,

1661
01:24:49,240 --> 01:24:52,639
Speaker 1: a player in Hide have played extremely well, and they've

1662
01:24:52,640 --> 01:24:56,120
Speaker 1: covered the Patriots very well and at times really frustrated Brady.

1663
01:24:56,360 --> 01:24:58,479
Speaker 1: Over the course of the last few years, it's been

1664
01:24:58,520 --> 01:25:00,840
Speaker 1: their offense that has been locking and in the game

1665
01:25:00,880 --> 01:25:03,920
Speaker 1: against the Patriots earlier this year, but like late last season,

1666
01:25:04,000 --> 01:25:08,040
Speaker 1: Josh Allen was seemingly confused at times. He eventually got

1667
01:25:08,120 --> 01:25:10,800
Speaker 1: hurt in that game running on a hit over the

1668
01:25:10,800 --> 01:25:13,120
Speaker 1: middle of the field by Jonathan Jones and the Patriots

1669
01:25:13,120 --> 01:25:16,160
Speaker 1: and de Ron Harmon, but Allen did not play well.

1670
01:25:16,320 --> 01:25:19,280
Speaker 1: And I think again there's a case if the Bills

1671
01:25:19,320 --> 01:25:23,080
Speaker 1: get better quarterback play, and seemingly they have gotten that

1672
01:25:23,160 --> 01:25:25,640
Speaker 1: over the course of the last few weeks, then I

1673
01:25:25,680 --> 01:25:27,760
Speaker 1: think that they stand a chance not only to make

1674
01:25:27,800 --> 01:25:30,479
Speaker 1: the playoffs, but to advance at least a round in

1675
01:25:30,520 --> 01:25:33,240
Speaker 1: the playoffs, given their defense and how they play. But

1676
01:25:33,520 --> 01:25:36,040
Speaker 1: I will say this, in the games against the Patriots,

1677
01:25:36,080 --> 01:25:40,000
Speaker 1: the Buffalo has had a tendancy even under mcdermots as

1678
01:25:40,080 --> 01:25:42,000
Speaker 1: more as the Bill. As much as the Bills have

1679
01:25:42,120 --> 01:25:47,360
Speaker 1: been improved in terms of their discipline and their ability

1680
01:25:47,400 --> 01:25:51,000
Speaker 1: to get lined up correctly and not self destruct under

1681
01:25:51,040 --> 01:25:54,560
Speaker 1: McDermott as opposed to Rex Ryan, they has still in

1682
01:25:54,600 --> 01:25:56,719
Speaker 1: the case of this year's game, McDermott, I think himself

1683
01:25:56,960 --> 01:26:00,160
Speaker 1: they have still made one or two critical mistakes, so

1684
01:26:00,240 --> 01:26:02,439
Speaker 1: maybe mentally they've psyched themselves out, and I thought the

1685
01:26:02,439 --> 01:26:04,639
Speaker 1: coach of the Bills did that a bit this year

1686
01:26:05,280 --> 01:26:09,559
Speaker 1: and have eventually lost to the Patriots in close games

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Speaker 1: or allowed close games to become lopsided games. But I

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Speaker 1: have a lot of respect for the Bills. They had

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Speaker 1: a tough schedule coming up. They're really going to be

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Speaker 1: tested to starting with a Thanksgiving game against Dallas, a

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Speaker 1: team that I think is very talented having just seen them,

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Speaker 1: and there it is shows in the books. Big thanks

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Speaker 1: to Mark, to Andre, to Clint, to DP, to Ben

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Speaker 1: voland to Bob Socie to all of you for listening.

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Speaker 1: As always, have a happy Thanksgiving. We'll see you on Friday,

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Speaker 1: and as always, go Texas.