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Speaker 1: What is going on? Everybody? Welcome into a Monday edition

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Speaker 1: of Texans All Access from Monday Texans Radio Studio. I

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Speaker 1: am your host, John Harris, football Analyston's South one reporter

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Speaker 1: and so glad to be with you. After a win yesterday,

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Speaker 1: no on Thursday. How about that? Getting a win on

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Speaker 1: Thursday night for the second straight year gets in Miami

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Speaker 1: Dolphins forty two to twenty three made yesterday kind of weird.

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Speaker 1: I gotta be honest, it was a little it was

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Speaker 1: a little strange. Got up. It was like, wait, there's

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Speaker 1: football on. There's football on, and I don't have to

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Speaker 1: be anywhere. Wait, hold on, what do I do? I

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Speaker 1: was like, really was It's you get in such a

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Speaker 1: routine of Sunday Sunday, Sunday, Sunday, Sunday night, Sunday, Sunday, Sunday, Sunday, Thursday,

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Speaker 1: and then I'm like, wait, and it's gonna be even

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Speaker 1: more weird next week when there's a bye week. So

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Speaker 1: next Monday's show, we'll break down the game and do

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Speaker 1: all that that we do. But then we get into

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Speaker 1: a bye week and the players, the players gone for

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Speaker 1: I don't know how many days of that bye week,

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Speaker 1: but they're gone for a pretty good while, so we'll

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Speaker 1: have some things for you obviously next week, probably some

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Speaker 1: deep sunt interviews that we've done and some other things,

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Speaker 1: and trying to come up with a few more Ultimate

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Speaker 1: elevens and things like that. But I gotta get through

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Speaker 1: this week. First five and three at the halfway mark

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Speaker 1: of the season. So play Sunday against Denver in Denver.

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Speaker 1: Three o'clock kick. Here is the local time, two oh five.

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Speaker 1: They're in Denver, so if you go into the game

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Speaker 1: two oh five, it's a weird time. Usually it's twelve

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Speaker 1: time we're East coast or Central, but this time we're

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Speaker 1: five there, so if I'm doing a math, then we're

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Speaker 1: the pregame show will start at twelve, so just and

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Speaker 1: by the way, the clocks move back to So taking

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Speaker 1: all of that into your account, if we get everybody

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Speaker 1: minor miracle. But then again, the fact that it's going

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Speaker 1: then it might be a little dicey. But I think

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Speaker 1: we'll be I think we'll be okay. So Denver this

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Speaker 1: week Sunday, then bye week, then the NFC East leading

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Speaker 1: Washington Redskins on the road. Then we don't go on

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Speaker 1: the road until December fifteenth, which we talked about on Friday.

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Speaker 1: I believe that game is going to be four thirty Eastern,

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Speaker 1: three thirty Central against the Jets, then the Eagles, and

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Speaker 1: that will conclude the road schedule. Those seven weeks after

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Speaker 1: the bye, they will fly by and crawl at the

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Speaker 1: same time. It's fun. You got the holidays, you got

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Speaker 1: meaningful football. This team last year at the midway mark

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Speaker 1: was three and five. You know how the season finished. Well,

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Speaker 1: it's not fun. This team five and three, two games

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Speaker 1: up on the Jags, two games up on the Colts,

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Speaker 1: beat both of them in their buildings. In a game

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Speaker 1: and a half up on the Titans. But get the

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Speaker 1: tight on a Monday night. The next game that you

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Speaker 1: against the Titans. And it is massive. Now win these two,

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Speaker 1: Win these two on the road. Oh my gosh, i's

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Speaker 1: asking for a bunch, But win these two on the road.

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Speaker 1: I think Washington's probably a little better than we expected.

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Speaker 1: I think Denver is not as good as they thought

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Speaker 1: But you get these two, you get to seven and

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Speaker 1: three with those three home games. Look out, that's right

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Speaker 1: where you'd love to be. Say you split them and

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Speaker 1: Because this coming week the Jags are on a buy,

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Speaker 1: I don't think, although you attend to at this point,

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Speaker 1: game and a half up on the Titan to start

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Speaker 1: thinking ahead a little bit, but this team thinking one

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Speaker 1: at a time. Denver Broncos on Sunday. Let's take care

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Speaker 1: of business, all right, Let's get to some hot reads,

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Speaker 1: and essentially our hot reads this week are gonna be

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Speaker 1: sound from the Podium from Bill Obrian from Locker Room

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Speaker 1: Hot Reads, brought to you by Geico fifteen minutes could

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Speaker 1: Coach O'Brien obviously had the weekend to watch a little

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Speaker 1: film get himself ready for the Miami Dolphins. Teams banged

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Speaker 1: the year right where you know, everybody's dealing with injuries.

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Speaker 1: So you know, we've got a number of candidates there.

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Speaker 1: that's what you got to do with the forty six

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Speaker 1: When asked about Brennan Scarlett being ranked first by Pro

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Speaker 1: and he's a very tough, very instinctive guy. Great in

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Speaker 1: That's a good one. Coach, I'll go with that. That's

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Speaker 1: Spur action. The deadline is tomorrow, no doubt. Now, one

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Speaker 1: and play would be Kiki Qt, And of course coach

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Speaker 1: no fear. He brings a great attitude every single day

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Speaker 1: but I'm sure at some point you'll be keeping your

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Speaker 1: eyes on what's happening in Baton Rouge. You've covered Alabama

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Speaker 1: Alabama LSU this weekend one versus three. I believe in

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Speaker 1: the polls, do you give LSU a shot at all

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Speaker 1: against two of who has not thrown an interception at

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Speaker 1: all this year? I give him a shot because they

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Speaker 1: have They have the athletes on the defensive side of

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Speaker 1: the ball to at least, you know, contain or slow

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Speaker 1: down Alabama. It's gonna be about whether or not LSU

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Speaker 1: can throw the football because Alabama is going to stop

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Speaker 1: the run. Can they throw it with enough consistency to

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Speaker 1: score points one and then move the football consistently between

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Speaker 1: the twenties and get themselves into the red zone? Uh,

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Speaker 1: and then ultimately score when you get there, you're gonna

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Speaker 1: have to score touchdowns as opposed to kicking field goals.

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Speaker 1: So there are a lot of elements going into to

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Speaker 1: that football game. Alabama is as about a well oiled

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Speaker 1: machine uh on offense as I've seen in college football.

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Speaker 1: They can flat out score and move the football. And

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Speaker 1: they they're not a the Alabama of old where it's

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Speaker 1: it's uh, you know you're it's a continuous drive. They're

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Speaker 1: a big play offense where I didn't know that that

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Speaker 1: coach Saban would become as as uh I guess okay

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Speaker 1: with it or accepting of it as he has and uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, putting up forty forty five points. He's a

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Speaker 1: he's from the old school where you don't kind of

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Speaker 1: disrespect the other coach on the other sideline, where he

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Speaker 1: seems to be okay with with with what they're doing.

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Speaker 1: And Mike Lockley has just been money for that offense

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Speaker 1: in terms of calling plays and coordinating their offense. So

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Speaker 1: this will be a tough football game. It'll it will

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Speaker 1: ultimately all boil down to ken Ls you throw the

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Speaker 1: football against Alabama because they are going to stop the run.

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Speaker 1: There's no doubt in my mind. I cannot wait for

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Speaker 1: this weekend. First of all, the Texans are gonna be

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Speaker 1: playing on a Sunday, which helps out my homeostasis, if

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Speaker 1: you will, that's your internal balance. So that's gonna help

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Speaker 1: me a little bit, probably everybody else, because Sunday was

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Speaker 1: really weird, was it not. When you're used to seeing

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Speaker 1: a Texans game on Sunday, you just kind of getting

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Speaker 1: that routine. And we've been playing on Sunday or Sunday

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Speaker 1: night for however, long, seven straight weeks. Then you get

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Speaker 1: And Friday was awesome because you're around the building and

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Speaker 1: they're playing every TV we have in this building is

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Speaker 1: playing NFL Network and they're showing Deandre's catch and they're

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Speaker 1: showing everything else. But then you get to the weekend

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Speaker 1: and you're like, well, what am I supposed to do Sunday?

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Speaker 1: What I do? Now? I'll watch a little football, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'll watch this, And then you start thinking all the

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Speaker 1: things you want to do all as Mark said, the

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Speaker 1: honeydew List, and that thing is still really really long

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Speaker 1: for me, very long. I don't think it never I

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Speaker 1: don't think it ever ends, to be honest, but oh well,

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Speaker 1: I digress. Either way, it was kind of strange. So

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Speaker 1: we'll be back playing a game and it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: a little bit weird because Sunday we'll be playing at

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Speaker 1: three o'clock Central time two oh five Mountain time. You

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Speaker 1: can do the math on that. We're one hour behind.

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Speaker 1: So when we go out there, the clocks go back

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Speaker 1: an hour plus. We're back an hour as it is,

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Speaker 1: because they're gonna be on Mountain time. So that means

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Speaker 1: I could stay up and watch the entire LSU Albaman

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Speaker 1: game not falling asleep. That'll be kind of nice. And

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Speaker 1: can't get a little extra hour of sleep because we

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Speaker 1: don't kick off till two o'clock. So it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: good all the way around Alabama LSU, and you also

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Speaker 1: got an SEC East battle with Georgia and Kentucky. George

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Speaker 1: and Kentucky, so that ought to be pretty fun. I

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Speaker 1: was looking at bowl projections today, speaking of the bowls,

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Speaker 1: if you will the Academy Sports and Outdooraball projection I

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Speaker 1: saw it today, Texas Tech in Missouri. There will be

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Speaker 1: a lot of points scored if that's the case. Now,

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Speaker 1: Missouri was here last year, so I don't know how

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Speaker 1: Fletching the Gang would feel about having Missouri. And again,

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Speaker 1: I know schools and balls like to change it up

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Speaker 1: if they can. But Texa Tech Missouri would be a

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Speaker 1: pretty fun football game, There's no doubt about that. But

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Speaker 1: Missouri was in her last year and Texas Tech was

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Speaker 1: in here for the kickoff, So I don't think there's

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Speaker 1: ever been a year where we got the same team

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Speaker 1: the kickoff as we got in a bowl game. I

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Speaker 1: don't think now we've had A and M in both

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Speaker 1: the kickoff and the ball. We have LSU in the

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Speaker 1: kickoff and the ball, but I don't think they've ever

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Speaker 1: been there in the same year, so I don't know

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Speaker 1: how that works. But either way, big game in the

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Speaker 1: SEC East Georgia and Kentucky and Alabama, LSU. You got

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Speaker 1: a little double header right there on CBS, which would

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Speaker 1: be kind of fun, So Kjoe you would be fun.

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Speaker 1: And then on Sunday show you you see Texans take

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Speaker 1: on the Denver Broncos. All right, coming up next, how

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Speaker 1: Buddy Spencer Tilmann stop by. He gave us some thoughts

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Speaker 1: on the word camaraderie and what does it mean to

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Speaker 1: a football team. Talk about that next right here in

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Speaker 1: Texans Access, Watson hands off again. Miller bighole left side

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Speaker 1: he's pushed on the bounce inside the ten yard line.

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Speaker 1: Miller time first to goal Houston. That is our Choose

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Speaker 1: a run and was not a touchdown, but Texans have

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Speaker 1: been putting the ball in the air in the end

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Speaker 1: I still thought that was a Choose Fund moment of

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Speaker 1: and we're gonna be having a lot of fun this year.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the show, Texans All Access from the

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Speaker 1: Honday Texans Radio Studio. I am your host, John Harris,

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Speaker 1: football analyst and sideline reporter. That was a great run

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Speaker 1: and I did a telestrator which hopefully it will be

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Speaker 1: coming out pretty soon on that particular run and it's

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Speaker 1: it's all kinds of awesome because it's it's well blocked,

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Speaker 1: but Lamar Miller kind of improvises a little bit just

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Speaker 1: based on what he sees, and what he saw on

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Speaker 1: that play was not where the play was designed to go,

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Speaker 1: but it really opened up based on the blocking and

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Speaker 1: it was really supposed to be a kind of a

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Speaker 1: pin and pull play, a one back power play off

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Speaker 1: to the right side, and what Lamar did was based

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Speaker 1: on a blocking where the right side was blocking down

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Speaker 1: and Nick Martin was blocking down on a to tackle.

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Speaker 1: So Nick kicked out the defensive tackle and Julione got

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Speaker 1: Tequiko Alonso the linebackers, so basically they kind of kind

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Speaker 1: of created like an almost a cross block essentially, and

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Speaker 1: Lamar happened to see it, and he saw the whole

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Speaker 1: opening up, and so everybody was kind of going to

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Speaker 1: where Sneil Kalamente was pulling, and Lamar saw that gap

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Speaker 1: and he saw Julioni. He ran right off the Julian's block,

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Speaker 1: took it up field, made the safety miss and was

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Speaker 1: off the house. And only way he got caught was

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Speaker 1: because the guys had angles on him. But run the

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Speaker 1: football like that and there'll be a lot of fun

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Speaker 1: moments for the rest of the year. But my time

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Speaker 1: did tell straighter on that did tell straighter on the

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Speaker 1: Jordan Thomas touchdown, and then to watch the Texans do

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Speaker 1: play run defense the other night had some really good moments.

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Speaker 1: And so I had a tackle for lost my brain

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Speaker 1: and done where you can see the run defensive concept,

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Speaker 1: how it all comes together. Frank Gore had some good runs,

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Speaker 1: and Dolphins offense had some good runs. But when the

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Speaker 1: Texas put it together, but they were pretty good. And

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Speaker 1: they're gonna have to do that this week against case

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Speaker 1: Keenum and this offense, because the Broncos can run the

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Speaker 1: ball as well as anybody the Texans have seen this year.

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Speaker 1: I mean, if you think about Patriots Titans, I mean

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Speaker 1: the Texans shut the Titans down. Really the Giants. Barkley

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Speaker 1: had a few good runs in that game. Overall, I

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Speaker 1: would say that the Giants had had some success. Indianapolis

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Speaker 1: didn't run it at all, couldn't run it at all.

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Speaker 1: Dallas got shut down, the Jags got shut down. Buffalo

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Speaker 1: really couldn't do a whole lot running to football. The

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Speaker 1: Dolphins did have some success. So it's key this week

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Speaker 1: that the Texans get back on the horse from a

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Speaker 1: run defensive perspective. Now, they did lose Zack Cunningham in

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Speaker 1: that game, and Zack's a big part of the run

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Speaker 1: defense with the way that he runs to the football,

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Speaker 1: and hopefully the Texans can get him back in due time.

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Speaker 1: But they've got to be able to stop the run.

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Speaker 1: Philip Lindsay five eight hundred and eighty pound rookie undrafted

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Speaker 1: out of CEU out of Colorado, wearing Troll Davis's number thirty.

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Speaker 1: He grew up as a Broncos fan. Astral Davis TV said, Yep,

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Speaker 1: go ahead. I like the way you run, and he

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Speaker 1: has become a big time player for them. Even though

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Speaker 1: smaller and statue boy, he runs hard. So you definitely

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Speaker 1: want to check out my three telstrators that we'll have

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Speaker 1: gone up at our sites, Houston Texas dot Com, our

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Speaker 1: Texans app also have it I think in our Texas

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Speaker 1: Twitter and then I think we'll have it on Extra

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Speaker 1: got a lot of places you catch it, but you

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Speaker 1: definitely want to check it out. Now, speaking of running game,

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Speaker 1: we always go to our buddy, former running back Spencer

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Speaker 1: Tillman to get his thoughts on pretty much everything. But

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Speaker 1: one of the things that I asked Spencer was about

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Speaker 1: camaraderie and how much it means, especially to a good

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Speaker 1: football team. Here's our conversation with Spencer Tilman. Spencer, your

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Speaker 1: thoughts on what DeAndre Hopkins did the other night the

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Speaker 1: catch that didn't count, and all this debate on who's

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Speaker 1: the best receiver in the league. Well, you know, again,

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Speaker 1: I know it's not like a Homer, but I don't

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Speaker 1: think there's any debate right now when you look at

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Speaker 1: the Deandre's body of work at this point, I mean,

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Speaker 1: everything that you hope to see in an elite player,

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Speaker 1: he does it. I mean, he works hard, he's extremely athletic,

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Speaker 1: he helps his quarterback out, he gets open, he's fighting,

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Speaker 1: He's fighting all the time. He's never intimidated. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he is the quintessential into in solution at wide receiver

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Speaker 1: in my opinion, And I think you're probably going to

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Speaker 1: see another aspect of his game with Will Fuller out

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Speaker 1: of the mix for the remainder of the year that

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Speaker 1: he had to rely on last year. You know when

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Speaker 1: when Will went down a couple of years ago, so

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Speaker 1: he bounced back from a very downtime because it took

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Speaker 1: him a while to get adjusted from the double coverage

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Speaker 1: looks and so forth. So it's going to be intriguing

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Speaker 1: to see what happened. But there's no question of my opinion,

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Speaker 1: he's the best in the league right now. Spencer. We

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Speaker 1: about over the years, and we talked about it probably

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Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks. But what is the value

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Speaker 1: to a good football team of great camaraderie in the

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Speaker 1: locker room? Well, that's a great question. Two the three

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Speaker 1: things that I look for when I'm a value you

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Speaker 1: looking at the culture a right, looking at the talent,

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Speaker 1: and then obviously the coach, and that matters a lot.

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Speaker 1: And so I think when you're evaluating the team, maybe

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Speaker 1: the Jaguar is probably be the greatest example. When there's disunity, discontinuity,

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Speaker 1: there's things going on off the field, and maybe we'll

641
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Speaker 1: wind this thing back to some of the off field

642
00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:23,920
Speaker 1: stuff that's happened with Denver. It matters, guys, It absolutely

643
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Speaker 1: matters when you walk in that room. I don't care

644
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Speaker 1: what the camaraderie has been like in the past. If

645
00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:29,840
Speaker 1: you've had a bad week or there's you know, stuff

646
00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:32,839
Speaker 1: going on inside the locker room that affects players you're out,

647
00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:35,600
Speaker 1: you know, your party in or whatever, and something somebody

648
00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:37,960
Speaker 1: says or what the teammate impacts you and you look

649
00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:39,839
Speaker 1: at them sideways when you come in the locker room.

650
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:42,520
Speaker 1: I mean, matour teams don't really worry about that stuff.

651
00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:44,399
Speaker 1: You're at home, you're dealing with your own person stuff,

652
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:46,759
Speaker 1: you're watching film. But there's some guys who remember there

653
00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:48,680
Speaker 1: a couple of years removed from college, many of them,

654
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Speaker 1: and they're going to be doing things that you would

655
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Speaker 1: expect people in that age group to do, and as

656
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Speaker 1: a result, you know, you get tension. Some tension is

657
00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:57,680
Speaker 1: good in the locker room, but that kind of tension

658
00:34:57,760 --> 00:35:00,600
Speaker 1: is bad. It's toxic. So I think the cl matters

659
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Speaker 1: a lot. And depending on where you are, the maturity level,

660
00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:06,719
Speaker 1: the mix of your team, it could matter more than

661
00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:09,399
Speaker 1: it does less at some places. Someplace, some teams will

662
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Speaker 1: police themselves if they've got nice maturity and key positions

663
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Speaker 1: the running back, quarterback in particular, in the secondary, to

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Speaker 1: back end, in the linebackers and the physical positions. If

665
00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:23,440
Speaker 1: you've got strong leadership on defense at the physically demanding positions,

666
00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:26,400
Speaker 1: you're going to be solid as a team. Spencer Tillman

667
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Speaker 1: joining US spencer Deshaun Watson last couple of games. He

668
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Speaker 1: throws it a combined forty four times. They've only allowed

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Speaker 1: one sack in the last two games, and obviously the

670
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Speaker 1: five touchdown passes Thursday night. What about the way they're

671
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Speaker 1: using Deshaun of these last two autings. I think it's smart.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think, you know, you can probably mimic

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Speaker 1: what Andy Reid is doing a little bit with case

674
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Speaker 1: when that second matchup they had against them. You know,

675
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Speaker 1: they go four by and they do some really cool

676
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Speaker 1: things in a grating. They're tight end in the mix

677
00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:55,400
Speaker 1: as well, which is what Texans are going to have

678
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Speaker 1: to do. And you can have some success against the

679
00:35:57,480 --> 00:35:59,839
Speaker 1: Broncos at that four by one look gave them fits

680
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Speaker 1: a couple of times. The Broncos just couldn't get lined

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Speaker 1: up in it properly. And so they'll be ready, I'm

682
00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:07,759
Speaker 1: sure for it after what Kansas City did to him.

683
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Speaker 1: But that was a hotly contested game and it's a rival.

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00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:12,799
Speaker 1: I get that, but I think you can learn some

685
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Speaker 1: things from what Casey does and then help your quarterback

686
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Speaker 1: here in Houston. So it's a big It's a big game.

687
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Speaker 1: It's gonna be a huge game, guys. I'm excited about

688
00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:22,239
Speaker 1: it because I want to see if the Texans have

689
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Speaker 1: a solution for Philip Lindsay. I mean, I'm looking at

690
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Speaker 1: this guy when they go to tights. They really do

691
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Speaker 1: some cool things. It is power in the strictest sense

692
00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:32,799
Speaker 1: of the definition. But the way he runs, he kind

693
00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:34,640
Speaker 1: of reminds me of Terrell Owence how he can bend

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Speaker 1: it back and find those voids. So you got to

695
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:40,520
Speaker 1: really play with integrity. You can't flow and vacate spots

696
00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:42,799
Speaker 1: like you know we can do sometime on defense and

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Speaker 1: get away with it. A good runner and they've got

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Speaker 1: a couple of them win they're healthy, un can do

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Speaker 1: that for you. So that's going to be an intriguing

700
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Speaker 1: matchup the run game. That's that's how they stayed in

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Speaker 1: it with Kansas City as on the ground. Yeah, the

702
00:36:54,239 --> 00:36:58,560
Speaker 1: NFL thought Philip Lindsay was too short, too small, is

703
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Speaker 1: absolutely count He does it behind a pretty good run

704
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Speaker 1: blocking offensive line spencer, which I'll segue into how the

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Speaker 1: offensive line for the Texans has looked the last couple

706
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Speaker 1: of weeks. Last couple of weeks, what have you thought

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Speaker 1: about that up front? Now they've gotten Julie on it

708
00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:16,920
Speaker 1: left and Candle at right and sort of solidified that

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Speaker 1: OFFENSI line, What do you thought about the five guys

710
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Speaker 1: and it and the tight ends as well. They've added

711
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Speaker 1: to the mix as well. What do you thought about

712
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Speaker 1: the way the offensive lines protected and open holes in

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Speaker 1: the run game. I think the combination of what Billow

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Speaker 1: is doing from a scheme standpoint and his quarterback obviously

715
00:37:32,080 --> 00:37:35,920
Speaker 1: necessitated by the injury status, and he's managing that extremely well.

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Speaker 1: So whether that was induced or whether it was forced,

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Speaker 1: it's certainly opened up the opportunity to challenge an offensive

718
00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:44,840
Speaker 1: line to take more of a covenant kind of relationship

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Speaker 1: with their quarterback where they're going to protect him no

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Speaker 1: matter what. In the combination Julian and Davenport on the

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Speaker 1: second play, I think of the second half on the

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Speaker 1: big run that Lamar Miller had. It was a pin

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Speaker 1: and pull tie technique where you got Nick blocking back

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Speaker 1: and you had I think was sine Lamente was pulling,

725
00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:03,920
Speaker 1: the guard was coming back the opposite direction, and he

726
00:38:04,040 --> 00:38:06,359
Speaker 1: popped that thing open man in the way you left

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Speaker 1: the end man on block, which I thought was really

728
00:38:08,520 --> 00:38:11,000
Speaker 1: great because it's going to open up another kind of

729
00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:14,600
Speaker 1: mirror play opportunity for them down the road. But that play,

730
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Speaker 1: to me, it's not power but it's got an attitude

731
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Speaker 1: of power. Power by the strict sense of definition, you

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Speaker 1: got to leave blockers going on. So it's a little

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Speaker 1: bit different. But pen and pull technique can be just

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Speaker 1: as effective and as impressive, particularly if you're integrating the

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Speaker 1: double team. But if you go back and look at

736
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Speaker 1: that particular play and there's some others that had some

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Speaker 1: really cool stuff in it, Cinea when he pulled, he

738
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Speaker 1: actually had no one to block on the back end.

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Speaker 1: There was a little you know, pencilmic defensive back that

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00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:41,520
Speaker 1: kind of came up. But you could have bent that

741
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Speaker 1: play back the other way. You can't argue with it

742
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Speaker 1: when you get fifty eight yards out of it. But

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Speaker 1: you what you can smile about is, hey, if I

744
00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:51,480
Speaker 1: wanted to read this differently because teams say, hey, look

745
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Speaker 1: this is where they loaded up on his last time

746
00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:55,920
Speaker 1: and had success, that thing can bend all the way

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Speaker 1: back to other direction as well, and number twenty six

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Speaker 1: Curtly is capable of doing that. I'm excited about the

749
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Speaker 1: way the offensive line is playing right now. They found

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Speaker 1: the mix and you listen to Kendall talk about where

751
00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:08,480
Speaker 1: they are right now as a group. They sound confident

752
00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:12,480
Speaker 1: and you know, that's where confidence come from. Demonstrated ability.

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Speaker 1: You do what they did last week, and I'm telling

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00:39:14,719 --> 00:39:16,880
Speaker 1: you you may not be the best offensive line, but

755
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Speaker 1: when you have confidence and you're working in concert with

756
00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:22,319
Speaker 1: your partner, you're gonna have great success. What's it like

757
00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:25,480
Speaker 1: to play in Denver? As far as the altitude goes,

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Speaker 1: I know there are gonna be a lot of questions

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00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:29,960
Speaker 1: about that this week. Do people make too big a

760
00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:33,319
Speaker 1: deal out of this? I think they do. I think

761
00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:37,400
Speaker 1: ultimately you can control that. You know, to what impact

762
00:39:37,520 --> 00:39:40,040
Speaker 1: Bill allows that to impact preparation, I think it's going

763
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Speaker 1: to be virtually zero. I think you go in, you

764
00:39:42,440 --> 00:39:44,880
Speaker 1: challenge your team to take care of themselves nutritional wives

765
00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:47,800
Speaker 1: and by the way, if you're not in shape and

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Speaker 1: you can't do anything about it now, nothing's going to

767
00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:52,960
Speaker 1: change in the time period now and come game time

768
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:55,120
Speaker 1: that's going to affected that altitude. It is going to

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Speaker 1: be what it is. But I think I think they'll

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00:39:57,600 --> 00:40:00,680
Speaker 1: be fine. I just think it's a little bit over now.

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Speaker 1: If you are running pace and tempo and that's going

772
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Speaker 1: to be who you are, just make sure your guys

773
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Speaker 1: are in shape because it will impact you if you're

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Speaker 1: doing an ordinate amount of plays and asking your vertical

775
00:40:11,680 --> 00:40:13,680
Speaker 1: game to really carry you. I don't think the Tectans

776
00:40:13,719 --> 00:40:15,440
Speaker 1: have to do that. I think if they take care

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Speaker 1: of the football, you know, they can get sixty two

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Speaker 1: to sixty eight plays in there, maybe fifty five plays

779
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Speaker 1: in there, and still come out with the win. I

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Speaker 1: think it can be a huge benefit for him. Spencer,

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Speaker 1: You've been doing this a long time inside the game forever.

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Speaker 1: Now Here we are at the halfway point. Nobody knows

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00:40:30,920 --> 00:40:32,799
Speaker 1: where it's going. But they're five and three, they've won

784
00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:35,640
Speaker 1: five in a row. I'm saying it's as exciting an

785
00:40:35,640 --> 00:40:38,560
Speaker 1: opportunity as they've ever had, considering what they have going

786
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Speaker 1: at quarterback especially and on the defensive front. And your

787
00:40:42,480 --> 00:40:47,680
Speaker 1: thoughts on the overall situation here midway point of the season. Well,

788
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Speaker 1: it's a positive one. But you know, I'm trying to

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Speaker 1: be balancing when I say it. Coaches don't have the

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00:40:53,680 --> 00:40:57,560
Speaker 1: ability or desire to look ahead past where they are

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Speaker 1: right now. Players should have the same mindset, but it's

792
00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:01,759
Speaker 1: hard not to peak at that schedule down the road

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Speaker 1: and smile just a little bit. And I can do

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Speaker 1: that from the standpoint of how we look at it,

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Speaker 1: because you don't have to line up and get anybody

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00:41:07,280 --> 00:41:10,320
Speaker 1: in the mouse. But I think what it does pretend

797
00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:12,719
Speaker 1: is how well do you run with the full couple

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Speaker 1: of success? That's really the question, you know, is everything

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Speaker 1: in your preparation going to be the same now as

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Speaker 1: it was when things weren't as bright. I mean, five

801
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:23,080
Speaker 1: weeks ago, we're trying to keep guys off the end

802
00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:25,440
Speaker 1: of a ledge, and things have changed, and we know

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Speaker 1: that the weight of one NFL game is like losing

804
00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:31,799
Speaker 1: twelve baseball games, and so it's a huge thing. So

805
00:41:32,040 --> 00:41:34,440
Speaker 1: it can change just as quickly as it did for

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00:41:34,520 --> 00:41:37,640
Speaker 1: the positive. And so the team I'm looking for is consistency.

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00:41:37,680 --> 00:41:40,279
Speaker 1: One that's gonna have their hard hat and lunch pail

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00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:42,359
Speaker 1: in their hand, come to work, do everything the same,

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00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:44,959
Speaker 1: take care of themselves off the field. So I don't

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00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:47,080
Speaker 1: care what the schedule is looking like. I don't care

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Speaker 1: what we've done. I'm looking at where we are right now,

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Speaker 1: and that's my mindset. And you take them again, as

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Speaker 1: trite as it sounds, as cloche as it sound, only

814
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Speaker 1: what matters in the NFL is right now. And that's

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Speaker 1: the way the Great Commissioner P Rosel wanted when calling

816
00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:02,600
Speaker 1: that phrase any given Sunday. It was all about parody

817
00:42:02,719 --> 00:42:04,560
Speaker 1: and that's the way it is. Again, it's no more

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Speaker 1: balanced than it's ever been in the history of the league.

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Speaker 1: Right now, great stuff, Spencer, thanks so much for joining us.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate it. All right, guys, take care and there

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Speaker 1: you have, Folks to the show in the books. Get

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Speaker 1: ready for the Denver Broncos this week. Big thanks to Mark,

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00:42:18,239 --> 00:42:22,120
Speaker 1: to Andre, Spencer, Tillman, to all of you for joining

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Speaker 1: the show. We got Monday Night football tonight. Now the

825
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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills could help us out a little bit. That's

826
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Speaker 1: gonna be tricky playing in Buffalo, so anything can happen.

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Speaker 1: But it's the Patriots, so that's gonna be tough. So

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Speaker 1: Patriots Bills up next. Read here in Sports Radio six

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Speaker 1: ten our flagship. Appreciate you guys listening. You are the best.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much. We'll see tomorrow and as always,

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Speaker 1: go Texans.