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Speaker 1: it's time for Texans all access. Yes, welcome in everybody,

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Speaker 1: because I am going to stop singing for the rest

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Speaker 1: of my life. I am your host for this evening show,

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Speaker 1: John Harris, football analyst and sideline reporter for your Houston Texans,

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Speaker 1: and we are less than forty eight hours away from

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Speaker 1: doing work against the Pittsburgh Steelers at Hines Field. Kickoff

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Speaker 1: is at noon one pm local time. I don't know

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Speaker 1: whatever watching the game for whatever reason. One o'clock local time.

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Speaker 1: But twelve noon here and it's time for the Texans

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Speaker 1: at oh and two to get a win, to battle.

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Speaker 1: Stay in that thing for sixty minutes and see if

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Speaker 1: you can't get out of there with a huge win,

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Speaker 1: which would do so much for this team to come

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Speaker 1: out of these top three games against three of the

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Speaker 1: the Vikings would be absolutely massive. I mean massive, but

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Speaker 1: you gotta take them one at a time. We'll get

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Speaker 1: on the bird at about one o'clock tomorrow, get up there,

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Speaker 1: get ready for the game, and hopefully everybody's focused on

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Speaker 1: getting a win over the Steelers. Now, what do we

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Speaker 1: have for you on the show tonight, Well, we got

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Speaker 1: our Deep Slant one on one interview of the week,

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Speaker 1: brought to you by ex Affinity, and this week Deep

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Speaker 1: he sat down with Charles a mana who second year

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Speaker 1: defensive lignment from the University of Texas, got his first

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Speaker 1: sack of the year last week, and more of that

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Speaker 1: is needed. Then, my keys to the game. One key

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Speaker 1: that I didn't talk about is turnovers that just kind

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Speaker 1: of up on the Hall of Fame shelf up there.

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Speaker 1: It's always there. But I dove deep into this one

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Speaker 1: and I watched the Ravens Texans game a couple times

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Speaker 1: so I'll give you my keys to the game to

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Speaker 1: getting a win over the Pittsburgh Steelers. Then my man

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Speaker 1: Mark Vanimer joins me. We're gonna hit on any number

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Speaker 1: a Friday. Mark VanderMeer with the head coach of the

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Speaker 1: Houston Texans, Bill O'Brien, Mark, take it away coach. Last week,

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh was able to run the ball, and I know

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Speaker 1: that's gonna be a little Texans audio juke box. A

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Speaker 1: I have a good grass of what I'm gonna get.

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Speaker 1: It's just okay, now how do I play? How do

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Speaker 1: I how do I play? It? Better to become an

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Speaker 1: all around player and not just a guy that you

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Speaker 1: know can rush. Just being an all around player, And

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Speaker 1: I mean that's how I feel like you get the

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Speaker 1: respective teammates and respective league. Yeah, Judge said that you've

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Speaker 1: improved against the past and the rush. So what about

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Speaker 1: from your perspective, where do you feel like you've really improved?

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Speaker 1: That's the thing I gotta be better versus the run

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Speaker 1: just um, Like I said, playing inside pad level is

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Speaker 1: a lot more important now because I'm six six. And

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Speaker 1: then just continue to get extension understanding how different guys

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Speaker 1: get to block you, because I mean on the outside,

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Speaker 1: the blocks are very simple, so you just know inside

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Speaker 1: it could be a little bit different. And then depending

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Speaker 1: on the guy, it can be set up differently how

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Speaker 1: he's gonna how he gets to that block pass rush wise. Inside.

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Speaker 1: I think it's for me just I said, I got

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Speaker 1: whatever move I have in mind, I gotta go with

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Speaker 1: it and stick with it and run through it with it,

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Speaker 1: and it just on the fly, all right. So on Sunday,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna face Ben Roethlisberger. He's in year seventeen, so

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Speaker 1: I was doing the math a little bit. You're what

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Speaker 1: twenty three years old? So when Big Ben was a wreckie,

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Speaker 1: you were what I safe to say you were what

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Speaker 1: six years old? Is that right? Yeah? So did you

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Speaker 1: grow up watching Ben roethlis I means the first time

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Speaker 1: you're gonna face him, what is that like to pass Russia? Guy?

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Speaker 1: That you essentially grew up watching. Yeah, I mean I

458
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Speaker 1: remember a big band when they were in the Super Bowl,

459
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Speaker 1: when they played that Super Bowl game for Seahawse. I

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Speaker 1: remember the Arizona Super Bowl. So I've watched them. I mean,

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Speaker 1: just another guy on the list, you know what I'm saying,

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Speaker 1: another team that we got to play in a game

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Speaker 1: that's highly important, very very important. I said, winning is

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Speaker 1: where everything, Everything is better when you win. It's fun

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Speaker 1: when you win. So that's the main goal, that's the

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Speaker 1: first goal. But obviously I want to sack him. So

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Speaker 1: um my mind says, again, what's up? Whatever, a combination

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Speaker 1: of guard that they have out there, study them, understand

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Speaker 1: what my plan is going to be, and go with it,

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Speaker 1: and get to that quarterback by any means necessary. You

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Speaker 1: have to get to the quarterback by any means necessary.

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Speaker 1: And it's been such different quarterbacks obviously the first two

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Speaker 1: weeks you face two very young, mobile quarterbacks and now

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Speaker 1: obviously more veteran pocket passer. Does it change your approach

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Speaker 1: to the game at all, depending on what sort of

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Speaker 1: quarterback is back there for you. I mean, you just

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Speaker 1: know you have a little bit more freedom, but no,

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Speaker 1: you still got still the Russians still got You still

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Speaker 1: gotta win and then I mean different from him, he's

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Speaker 1: like six four two forty, So you definitely when you

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Speaker 1: when you do win, you have to finish. You gotta

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Speaker 1: break at the ball. You gotta raka his arm, get

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Speaker 1: him down. You can't go in for the kill shot.

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Speaker 1: You just gotta get him down because I mean he's

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Speaker 1: throughout his time and playing. You've seen them. Guys are

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Speaker 1: hanging on him and he's still throwing the ball. He

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Speaker 1: shrugs guys off, So you just gotta make sure when

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Speaker 1: you get there you tackle them and wrap him up

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Speaker 1: almost four time. What about playing in this time of COVID.

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Speaker 1: I know we talked about it in training camp how

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Speaker 1: different it was. But to get tested all the time.

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Speaker 1: I know the city went through a tropical storm and

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Speaker 1: you guys still came in and got tested during the

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Speaker 1: bye week. You're still going to get tested. What's that

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Speaker 1: been like? Have you adjusted to it a little bit more?

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Speaker 1: What's the toughest part or is it really not? Is

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Speaker 1: it really not really a big deal anymore for you? No.

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Speaker 1: I think it's just it's just it's a way of

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Speaker 1: how things are now. So it is what it is.

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Speaker 1: You guys gotta do it and go about your day.

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Speaker 1: So I mean, I think it's it is what it is,

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Speaker 1: you go with it. Not a big deal anymore. All Right, Well,

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Speaker 1: we're looking so much forward to seeing you the rest

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Speaker 1: of the year. Charles Amna who on the Deep Slant

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Speaker 1: one on one present of Vicecinity always a pleasure of Charles.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate you, Thank you. Thanks, great stuff there from Charles

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Speaker 1: Amena who who I know. I mentioned this back during

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Speaker 1: training camp, but I like to bring this up because

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Speaker 1: these guys are all it's always really really interesting. When

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Speaker 1: we think about these players, we think, okay, they're all

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Speaker 1: about football, are about football. Charles was radio intern for

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Speaker 1: two guys that I do radio with Chad Hastings in

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Speaker 1: Austin at one O four five to the Horn. He

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Speaker 1: was tremendous apparently as an intern, which when you get

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Speaker 1: to know Chuck you realize, yeah, he's that's a tremendous dude.

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Speaker 1: A lot of different ways. He gets his first sack

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Speaker 1: of the year against the Baltimore Ravens, and in going

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Speaker 1: and really watching closely, he's made significant strides. Charles has

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Speaker 1: not built like a guy that seemingly holds up against

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Speaker 1: the run extremely well, but he is really holding his

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Speaker 1: own the majority of the time. There are times he

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Speaker 1: does get knocked off. He's got to play with a

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Speaker 1: little bit lower pad level. But I think Chuck has

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Speaker 1: made some progress. He is where you can tell that

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Speaker 1: he has worked on his skill of pass rushing from

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Speaker 1: a lot of different places on the field. And his

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Speaker 1: sack the other day you could just tell. And I

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Speaker 1: actually thought when he sacked him, I thought that ball

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Speaker 1: was coming out. Man. I thought the ball was out

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Speaker 1: the way that Lamar had it and the way that

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Speaker 1: Charles was sacking him, I thought he was gonna punch

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Speaker 1: it out. And if he punches that thing out, if

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Speaker 1: he somehow could have gotten that thing loose, it would

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Speaker 1: have bounded. It would have been bouncing the other way.

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Speaker 1: And we had a couple of defenders that were running

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Speaker 1: after it would have run after it because they were

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Speaker 1: right there. They picked that thing up. Go to the house.

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Speaker 1: Place goes nuts. I mean relatively speaking, our sideline goes nuts.

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Speaker 1: Now who knows what happens at that point, But we've

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Speaker 1: seen Charles makes strides. Now, it's got to be about

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Speaker 1: consistency every down in and out, and I think about

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Speaker 1: guys that are kind of built like him, that it

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Speaker 1: took a little while for them to really kind of

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Speaker 1: hit their stride. But I think when he hits his stride,

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Speaker 1: I think Charles is going to be a really impactful

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Speaker 1: player for this defense. And that's got to start. Let's start,

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Speaker 1: it's got to continue. The rise has to continue this

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Speaker 1: week against the Pittsburgh Steelers, He's gonna have his hands

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Speaker 1: full those guards. They'll knock you off your block, those tackles.

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Speaker 1: Villaneueva massive OAKA for on the other side, he's not

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Speaker 1: got a lot of game experience, but in watching him,

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Speaker 1: dating back to his days of Western Michigan, he would

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Speaker 1: knock your you know what in a dirt. I mean,

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Speaker 1: this guy is physical. So those defenders up front have

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Speaker 1: got to play with good pad level, good pop into hands,

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Speaker 1: really get off blocks and go find a ball carrier

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Speaker 1: and square up on them and make really good tackles.

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Speaker 1: Because they don't, that could be trouble. And that's actually

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Speaker 1: one of the keys to the game. We're gonna get

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Speaker 1: into my keys to the game next. What do the

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Speaker 1: Texans have to do to get a win? Offense and

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Speaker 1: defense together as one. What do they have to do now? Turnovers,

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Speaker 1: There's no question that's first and foremost on the list.

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Speaker 1: So I didn't even mention it in the Keys to

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Speaker 1: the Game. Ball security is massive. I used it as

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Speaker 1: a key last week, and I mentioned Marlin Humphrey and

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Speaker 1: what happened in the biggest play of the game. Marlin

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Speaker 1: Humphrey punched the ball out the LJ four took it

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Speaker 1: for a touchdown. That can't happen this week. Gotta get

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Speaker 1: things under control. Ball security on one side, stripping the ball,

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Speaker 1: punching it out, picking it off, whatever you gotta do.

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Speaker 1: On the other side. I didn't mention it as a key.

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Speaker 1: That's almost always as a key, but it was so

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Speaker 1: important against the Ravens because I know that's what they do. Pittswork,

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Speaker 1: not as skilled at that as Baltimore is a particular

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Speaker 1: one guy, but Pittsburgh we'll go. We'll go get the

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Speaker 1: football that will happen. Turnovers are going to be big.

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Speaker 1: So there's your first key, even before the Keys to

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Speaker 1: the Game. Let's get to the rest of them next.

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Speaker 1: Right here on Texans All Access, I'm Bill O'Brien, and

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Speaker 1: you're listening to Texans Radio for all the latest news

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Speaker 1: and videos on our favorite team, check out Houston Texans

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Speaker 1: dot com. What are the experts predicting about this week's

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Speaker 1: big game? Extra Points Saturday nights at ten thirty or

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Speaker 1: after the late local news on ABC thirteen. We have

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Speaker 1: reached that part of tonight's program. When it's time for

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Speaker 1: our keys to the game. And when I say our,

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Speaker 1: I mean mine. John Harris Football Analyston Silin Reporter here

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Speaker 1: for your Houston Texans and Texans All access this evening,

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Speaker 1: and we know what's coming. One of the most brutal,

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Speaker 1: physical matchups the Texans will have in the twenty twenty season,

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Speaker 1: a trip to Pittsburgh at oh and two. With Pittsburgh

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Speaker 1: two and oh in an opportunity to shock the world

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Speaker 1: in some sense, Vegas only has Pittsburgh as a four

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Speaker 1: point favorite going into this one, which I'm not surprised

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Speaker 1: on one hand, and I am a little bit on

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Speaker 1: the other that Vegas has seen it at four And

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Speaker 1: in fact, I am checking as we speak to see

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Speaker 1: if that number has moved now it remains at four.

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Speaker 1: I mean, most of the time a home team gets

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Speaker 1: three points just for playing at home. Now there will

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Speaker 1: be no Steelers fans, or Texans fans for that matter.

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Speaker 1: I was surprised. I saw some Texans fans at the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs game in the open or up in Kansas City,

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Speaker 1: so I was kind of cool, but no fans. On Sunday,

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Speaker 1: I will be all by my lonesome amongst some photogs

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Speaker 1: and some other sideline reporters from a TV perspective, but

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Speaker 1: I'll have the sideline mote all to myself. What will

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Speaker 1: I see? What will I want to see? Well, it's

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Speaker 1: time for our keys to the game, and we're gonna

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Speaker 1: start with the Texans defense versus the Steelers offense. So again,

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Speaker 1: when I do these, I don't doom in any order.

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Speaker 1: I just boom boom, boom, boom boom, rapid fire. I

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Speaker 1: look at it and go care what I missed? So

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Speaker 1: all of these, because to me, they're all keys. I

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Speaker 1: think I've got to hit all of them. It doesn't

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Speaker 1: really matter what the order is. Let's just hit it

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Speaker 1: and let's roll. Now. Number one present Ben with different

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Speaker 1: looks in a few of them. Look Ben's been around

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Speaker 1: since two thousand and four. He started I think the

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Speaker 1: second or third game of the NFL. That team went

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Speaker 1: fifteen and one under his leadership, and the Steelers have

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Speaker 1: been winning ever since. The only time that the Steelers

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Speaker 1: have struggled have been those years when Ben has been

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Speaker 1: injured or when Ben has been injured. When Ben is playing,

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Speaker 1: this team has been phenomenally consistent and really good and

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Speaker 1: offensively gifted in a number of different ways. I do

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Speaker 1: think that this team of the Steelers, this offense is

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Speaker 1: not as talented as they have. Receiver corps is good,

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Speaker 1: not great. They lack really a true number one wide receiver.

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Speaker 1: They don't have an Antonio Brown, they don't have a

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Speaker 1: Hines Ward, they don't have somebody of that caliber. They've

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Speaker 1: got good receivers across the board. I don't think they

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Speaker 1: have a great one Juju Smith Schuster. They've got Deonta Johnson.

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Speaker 1: Last week, Chase Claypool got involved deep down the field.

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Speaker 1: The one thing that's been consistent is Ben Roethlisberger, and

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Speaker 1: I think missing in missing the season in twenty nineteen

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Speaker 1: was maybe a blessing in disguise for him because he

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Speaker 1: got the chance to rest his body as well as

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Speaker 1: his surgically repaired at elbow. That said, and I bring

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00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:50,080
Speaker 1: all that up because he has seen it all. He's

642
00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:53,360
Speaker 1: seen everything more than likely that the defense can throw

643
00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:55,880
Speaker 1: at him. So you've got to show him some different looks.

644
00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:58,160
Speaker 1: It seems sort of obvious that you want to do

645
00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:00,560
Speaker 1: that every single week, but you have to trust it.

646
00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:03,000
Speaker 1: You gotta trust those disguises. Don't give it away too soon,

647
00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:06,960
Speaker 1: and show him some man in play zone look. One

648
00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:09,320
Speaker 1: of the things that the Ravens did to the Texans

649
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:12,920
Speaker 1: last week. They showed man, but their players like Marcus

650
00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:16,120
Speaker 1: Peters sort of played off of that and kind of

651
00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:18,120
Speaker 1: cheated a little bit, so they gave the Shawn a

652
00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:20,320
Speaker 1: little bit of a different look, even though it looked

653
00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:23,440
Speaker 1: like man Peters fell off his guy to make that interception.

654
00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:25,280
Speaker 1: Those are some of the things that Texans are gonna

655
00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:29,240
Speaker 1: have to do, and in presenting him different looks, they've

656
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:32,680
Speaker 1: got to show that they can in zone, get their

657
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:35,280
Speaker 1: head on a swivel and find every receiver in the area.

658
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:37,760
Speaker 1: Too often we're getting our eyes caught on a quarterback

659
00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:40,680
Speaker 1: and not finding receivers in the area. But by showing

660
00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:44,520
Speaker 1: Ben some different looks, being in secondary or some rushed looks,

661
00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:47,240
Speaker 1: it could force him into some things, and obviously, when

662
00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:50,800
Speaker 1: the turnovers start to happen. Number two, this one seems obvious,

663
00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:54,400
Speaker 1: but maybe more so this week than any other. When

664
00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:57,360
Speaker 1: one on one at the line of scrimmage. Now, last

665
00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:03,680
Speaker 1: week the Ravens one. They went one on one a lots,

666
00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:05,680
Speaker 1: there's no doubt, but with their double teams, they were

667
00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:08,440
Speaker 1: able to get such movement off the ball that that

668
00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:12,120
Speaker 1: guy was already out, so everybody else was one on one.

669
00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:14,720
Speaker 1: So the defense had to win those one on one

670
00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:18,160
Speaker 1: matchups to make plays. There were times when the Ravens

671
00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:20,480
Speaker 1: won those one on one matchups and that's when some

672
00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:23,120
Speaker 1: of the big plays happened. You know, the Steelers are

673
00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:24,880
Speaker 1: going to pound with some of those double teams. In

674
00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:27,040
Speaker 1: the run game, the guys that are one on one

675
00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:31,440
Speaker 1: must win. In the passing game, you must win those

676
00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:33,400
Speaker 1: one on one matchups so you don't have to sit

677
00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:36,040
Speaker 1: there and blitz with five or six, leaving the secondary

678
00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:38,360
Speaker 1: exposed and being in true cover one or true to

679
00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:40,640
Speaker 1: cover zero. You've got to be able to win your

680
00:33:40,640 --> 00:33:43,040
Speaker 1: one on one matchups, There's no doubt, Especially at the

681
00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:45,160
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage, you have to win those one on

682
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:48,680
Speaker 1: ones when you're given an opportunity. Some guys have PJ

683
00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:52,520
Speaker 1: Hall has JJ Watt has Jacob Martin has some other

684
00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:54,080
Speaker 1: guys got to step up and do the same this

685
00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:57,360
Speaker 1: week number three. We know this guy very very well.

686
00:33:57,600 --> 00:33:59,480
Speaker 1: We saw him for two straight years in twenty eighteen

687
00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:01,160
Speaker 1: and twenty nine team, and I want to say he

688
00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:03,440
Speaker 1: scored a touchdown in nearly every game, if not every game.

689
00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:05,480
Speaker 1: And that's Eric Ebron the tight end for the Steelers.

690
00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:09,200
Speaker 1: He is a receiving tight end. He is not a blocker.

691
00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:13,000
Speaker 1: He will get destroyed in the run game when he's

692
00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:14,879
Speaker 1: in there. He's more going to be a move guy

693
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:16,759
Speaker 1: than he is a guy that's gonna be in line.

694
00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:19,959
Speaker 1: When he's in line, jam him, rock him, do whatever

695
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:22,040
Speaker 1: you gotta do. Do what other teams have done to him,

696
00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:24,719
Speaker 1: and that's physically beat him up. But when he is

697
00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:27,600
Speaker 1: flexed out or it is as a receiver, he has

698
00:34:27,680 --> 00:34:31,000
Speaker 1: killed the Texans in the past. Now, the Texas did

699
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:33,279
Speaker 1: do a really good job, but Mark Andrews of the

700
00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:37,239
Speaker 1: Ravens last week really held him in check. That sort

701
00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:40,600
Speaker 1: of thing has to be the way they attack Eric Ebron.

702
00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:44,359
Speaker 1: And this time I think Lion Johnson's healthy, whereas last

703
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:47,040
Speaker 1: year was a rookie little banged up. When they face

704
00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:49,120
Speaker 1: each other in a week seven, game at Indianapolis last

705
00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:50,920
Speaker 1: year where Ebron made the great touchdown in the back

706
00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:52,719
Speaker 1: of the end zone. I think Lion Johnson could be

707
00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:55,440
Speaker 1: very key and covering a guy like Eric Ebron. Do

708
00:34:55,560 --> 00:34:59,960
Speaker 1: not air on Ebron and think that, well it's Eric Ebron,

709
00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:03,480
Speaker 1: He's not good anymore. This guy can make plays anywhere

710
00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:06,319
Speaker 1: on the field, and he has a vital piece in

711
00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:11,960
Speaker 1: Ben's passing game. There's no question Number four master man coverage. Now,

712
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:15,560
Speaker 1: I do think the Texans have actually been much better

713
00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:18,799
Speaker 1: in man coverage than they have been. I think they've

714
00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:22,840
Speaker 1: been pretty good. But the one thing that cannot happen

715
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:27,320
Speaker 1: in this situation is that when the Texans go man coverage,

716
00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:29,840
Speaker 1: you know the Steelers are going to answer with rub

717
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:31,759
Speaker 1: and or pick routs, depending on what side of the

718
00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:34,839
Speaker 1: ball you're on. The pick routes to the defense, they're

719
00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:36,480
Speaker 1: rub routes to the offense. But you know when the

720
00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:38,359
Speaker 1: Texans are a man it's coming in. One of the

721
00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:41,680
Speaker 1: biggest plays the game that really nobody talked about. In

722
00:35:41,719 --> 00:35:43,440
Speaker 1: the first half, the Ravens got down in the the one

723
00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:47,080
Speaker 1: yard line for Patrick Card's touchdown. One yard touchdown catch

724
00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:50,760
Speaker 1: was a crossing route in which two Texans who uncovering

725
00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:53,839
Speaker 1: Nick Boyle ran into another Texan covering a back out

726
00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:58,320
Speaker 1: in flat That can't happen. That cannot happen in man coverage.

727
00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:01,560
Speaker 1: That's been happening too often. I saw too often twenty nineteen.

728
00:36:01,719 --> 00:36:03,960
Speaker 1: I can remember it in a Philadelphia game in twenty eighteen,

729
00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:08,120
Speaker 1: clear as day. You've got a master man coverage. You've

730
00:36:08,120 --> 00:36:10,200
Speaker 1: got to be on different levels when you watch the Ravens.

731
00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:12,359
Speaker 1: Did you ever see the Ravens running to each other? No,

732
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:14,799
Speaker 1: they never did. I watched every single play, and at

733
00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:16,600
Speaker 1: no point when the Ravens were a man coverage did

734
00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:18,799
Speaker 1: I see a pick rout or a rub route. Get

735
00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:20,839
Speaker 1: one of those Ravens knocked off the spot. We get

736
00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:23,960
Speaker 1: knocked off too often. We've got to master man coverage.

737
00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:28,480
Speaker 1: It's been good, it can be even better as long

738
00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:31,440
Speaker 1: as guys get into the spots they're supposed to and

739
00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:35,000
Speaker 1: not knock or pick each other off. That can't happen.

740
00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:39,080
Speaker 1: And last, and certainly not least, I give you James Connor,

741
00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:43,960
Speaker 1: I give you Juju Smith, Schuster, Eric Ebron, Jaylen Sammons

742
00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:46,600
Speaker 1: when he comes in the game, and Big Ben Roethlisberger.

743
00:36:46,640 --> 00:36:48,279
Speaker 1: What do they all have in common other than the

744
00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:50,919
Speaker 1: fact they were a black and gold. They are all

745
00:36:51,239 --> 00:36:54,960
Speaker 1: really difficult to bring to the ground all the time

746
00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:57,439
Speaker 1: with one guy. There are a lot of times where

747
00:36:57,440 --> 00:36:59,319
Speaker 1: you think you've got one of those guys stop and

748
00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:02,279
Speaker 1: they will out of a tackle. That will burst through

749
00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:05,280
Speaker 1: a tackle. James Connor running the football. I think that's obvious.

750
00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:08,080
Speaker 1: But the one you don't think about has Ben Roethlisberger.

751
00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:12,239
Speaker 1: You've got to bring everything. You've got to wrap him

752
00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:14,680
Speaker 1: up and bring him to the ground. If anything, keep

753
00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:16,759
Speaker 1: that arm from going up to where he can pass it,

754
00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:19,600
Speaker 1: because I don't know how many times I've seen that

755
00:37:19,640 --> 00:37:22,440
Speaker 1: man beheld in some way, shape or form, looks like

756
00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:24,680
Speaker 1: he's going down and then he flings it twenty yards

757
00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:28,400
Speaker 1: for a first down completion. He kills teams with that.

758
00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:31,520
Speaker 1: He's hurt the Texans before with things like that. When

759
00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:35,040
Speaker 1: you get there, get him down, get that right arm

760
00:37:35,080 --> 00:37:37,080
Speaker 1: down so he can't get rid of that football. That

761
00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:41,719
Speaker 1: is key. But with this entire Steelers offensive roster, you

762
00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:45,520
Speaker 1: must bring those guys down to the ground. It is

763
00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:49,960
Speaker 1: not over until the whistle electronic or not is blown.

764
00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:53,040
Speaker 1: Got it good, Let's flip over the other side with

765
00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:58,840
Speaker 1: the Texans offense going against the Steelers defense, arguably the

766
00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:01,880
Speaker 1: best this team is faced in quite some time. This

767
00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:04,799
Speaker 1: Steelers defense is first in the league, giving up just

768
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:07,400
Speaker 1: sixty six point five yards per game on the ground

769
00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:09,759
Speaker 1: passing yards they give up two hundred and thirty eight

770
00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:11,719
Speaker 1: point five. And this is what I've said before, I

771
00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:13,960
Speaker 1: think you could throw on them. Fourteenth in the league.

772
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:17,040
Speaker 1: Their second overall in total offense allowed in three hundred

773
00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:20,040
Speaker 1: and five yards per game. But here's the key. They

774
00:38:20,040 --> 00:38:23,239
Speaker 1: have four turnovers generated in two games, three picks, one

775
00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:27,480
Speaker 1: inter set, or one fumble. That's where they thrive. Sacks.

776
00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:30,520
Speaker 1: They've got a thirty four game sack streak. They have

777
00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:35,160
Speaker 1: a sack dating back to every in every game dating

778
00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:38,440
Speaker 1: back to the Divisional playoff round in January of twenty

779
00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:41,160
Speaker 1: eighteen of the twenty seventeen season against the Jacks and

780
00:38:41,239 --> 00:38:45,759
Speaker 1: Blake Portals. That's the last time the Steelers defense did

781
00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:48,200
Speaker 1: not register a sack. Think about that. That's how good

782
00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:52,200
Speaker 1: this defense is. So let's start with the Texans offense.

783
00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:55,040
Speaker 1: Number one, and this might be the most important one.

784
00:38:55,600 --> 00:39:00,520
Speaker 1: Don't lose composure. They're gonna get theirs, there's no question.

785
00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:02,640
Speaker 1: Now hopefully not turnovers. They're gonna get there. They're gonna

786
00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:05,520
Speaker 1: get sacks, they're gonna get tackles for a loss in

787
00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:10,400
Speaker 1: the backfield. Do not lose your composure. Stay calm, stay poise,

788
00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:14,960
Speaker 1: realize next snap, next snap, you can move the ball,

789
00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:18,160
Speaker 1: throwing it on these guys if you give the shan time.

790
00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:20,360
Speaker 1: You have to be able to do that. But you

791
00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:22,520
Speaker 1: can't lose your composure. You can't get down seven enohing

792
00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:25,880
Speaker 1: to panic, like we gotta just stay calm, execute the

793
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:30,400
Speaker 1: game plan. Don't lose your composure. They're gonna come after you.

794
00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:33,359
Speaker 1: There's no doubt from a physical nature. These guys are

795
00:39:33,360 --> 00:39:36,919
Speaker 1: probably even more so than the Ravens. Relax plage, play

796
00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:41,399
Speaker 1: with the rude focus, win the next down, number two.

797
00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:47,120
Speaker 1: Show them something different. Watch this Texans offense, and every

798
00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:49,280
Speaker 1: so often there's something that you see is a little different,

799
00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:51,120
Speaker 1: Like I didn't know they had that in the game plan.

800
00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:53,680
Speaker 1: I haven't seen them running that before. If you've got

801
00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:56,279
Speaker 1: a few wrinkles for the Steelers, it's a great time

802
00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:59,239
Speaker 1: to bring it out. You've had the receiver corps altogether

803
00:39:59,280 --> 00:40:02,319
Speaker 1: now for a couple games. Deshaun's getting comfortable back there.

804
00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:04,319
Speaker 1: The offensive line's got to play a little bit better,

805
00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:06,160
Speaker 1: but they're starting to get in sync a little bit.

806
00:40:06,560 --> 00:40:08,640
Speaker 1: Show the Steelers something a little different, whether it's with

807
00:40:08,680 --> 00:40:13,520
Speaker 1: personnel groupings, whether it's with alignment, maybe a little bit unbalanced,

808
00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:16,800
Speaker 1: maybe a little bit of six offensive lineman, two running

809
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:18,799
Speaker 1: backs and back. To show them something a little bit

810
00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:23,279
Speaker 1: different this week and see if they can't adapt to you.

811
00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:26,839
Speaker 1: Maybe that works in your favor. Number three, and this

812
00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:28,920
Speaker 1: one is hugely important. That run game. Like I said,

813
00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:32,239
Speaker 1: Steelers give up what sixty six point five sixty six

814
00:40:32,280 --> 00:40:34,279
Speaker 1: and a half yards per game on the ground. Now,

815
00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:37,440
Speaker 1: dever got some on them, which leads me to this,

816
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:43,160
Speaker 1: get some movement up front. The Texans offensive line has

817
00:40:43,239 --> 00:40:46,640
Speaker 1: got to move the line of scrimmage. Now easier said

818
00:40:46,640 --> 00:40:49,399
Speaker 1: than done. There's Stefan to it right there, there's Cam

819
00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:52,600
Speaker 1: Hayward right there, there's t J. Watt, bud Dupree incomes

820
00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:55,120
Speaker 1: Tyson ah Lulu's playing very very well. And like it's

821
00:40:55,320 --> 00:40:59,000
Speaker 1: eighty thousandth year in the league, this group is very

822
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:03,160
Speaker 1: hard to move off the ball. But there are double

823
00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:05,520
Speaker 1: teams built into the run game. Those double teams have

824
00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:08,320
Speaker 1: got to knock guys off the ball. The biggest difference

825
00:41:08,480 --> 00:41:11,359
Speaker 1: I thought in the game last week against Baltimore were

826
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:14,919
Speaker 1: that the Ravens double teams moved our guys off the ball.

827
00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:19,080
Speaker 1: Our double teams on Ravens defenders did not. That's gotta change.

828
00:41:19,239 --> 00:41:22,360
Speaker 1: We've gotta get movement off the line of scrimmage and

829
00:41:22,520 --> 00:41:25,800
Speaker 1: give David Johnson and our running backs some room to

830
00:41:26,120 --> 00:41:28,520
Speaker 1: run where he's got a chance to make a decision.

831
00:41:28,719 --> 00:41:31,920
Speaker 1: When we got movement, we got the Ravens going. Then

832
00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:34,600
Speaker 1: David was able to read those blocks, cut it back

833
00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:36,799
Speaker 1: on the zone, play, stay true to it, and stay

834
00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:39,040
Speaker 1: play side and pick up a game. He didn't get

835
00:41:39,160 --> 00:41:41,080
Speaker 1: much but a couple of runs that he did have.

836
00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:44,000
Speaker 1: We got movement off the line of scrimmage. This is

837
00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:46,840
Speaker 1: not going to be easy, trust me. But double teams

838
00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:49,960
Speaker 1: have got to get guys lifted, win leverage, play with

839
00:41:50,080 --> 00:41:52,840
Speaker 1: good pad level, and get them off the ball or

840
00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:54,839
Speaker 1: those Steelers are gonna be living in the backfield all

841
00:41:55,080 --> 00:41:59,640
Speaker 1: game long. All right, Number four, This one, it's kind

842
00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:02,880
Speaker 1: of ares Waldo situation, and it's called find twenty eight.

843
00:42:03,040 --> 00:42:06,439
Speaker 1: Now twenty eight for the Steelers is Mike Hilton. He's

844
00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:09,200
Speaker 1: maybe the smallest guy on the field. It says five

845
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:13,680
Speaker 1: ninety five. Mike Hilton's probably about five eight, one hundred

846
00:42:13,719 --> 00:42:16,160
Speaker 1: and eighty pounds, yet he's one of the toughest son

847
00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:17,920
Speaker 1: of the Bucks. You're going to find out there. This

848
00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:21,560
Speaker 1: dude is a baller and might be the best nickel

849
00:42:21,680 --> 00:42:24,080
Speaker 1: in the league. And when he comes in. There are

850
00:42:24,080 --> 00:42:26,279
Speaker 1: a million different things the Steelers can do, but the

851
00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:30,279
Speaker 1: most dangerous one is him blitzing. In the twenty seventeen game,

852
00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:32,680
Speaker 1: when I believe he was a rookie on Christmas Night

853
00:42:32,719 --> 00:42:35,440
Speaker 1: here at Energy Stadium, he had not one, not two,

854
00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:39,320
Speaker 1: but three sacks and forced to fumble as well. The

855
00:42:39,400 --> 00:42:42,200
Speaker 1: other day against the Broncos, he had a sack early on.

856
00:42:42,320 --> 00:42:44,400
Speaker 1: He came out a blitz, got free and got a

857
00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:47,759
Speaker 1: sack on Drew Locke. He is a problem in a

858
00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:50,439
Speaker 1: lot of different ways, and he plays with no chill.

859
00:42:50,520 --> 00:42:53,080
Speaker 1: He got a fifteen yard penalty for hitting the quarterback

860
00:42:53,239 --> 00:42:56,400
Speaker 1: late after Locke had gone out on Jeff driscoll. He

861
00:42:56,800 --> 00:42:59,600
Speaker 1: is a monster in that defense, and he's one of

862
00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:02,759
Speaker 1: the guys nobody talks about. You gotta account for him

863
00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:05,400
Speaker 1: in the past blocking because if he has float anywhere

864
00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:08,600
Speaker 1: around the line of stammage anywhere, there's a possibility of

865
00:43:08,719 --> 00:43:10,960
Speaker 1: him coming. The running backs have got to pick him up,

866
00:43:11,200 --> 00:43:15,440
Speaker 1: square him up and stay on that block. Have to

867
00:43:15,520 --> 00:43:19,840
Speaker 1: stay on that block. Find twenty eight. That's Mighty Mouse,

868
00:43:20,160 --> 00:43:25,200
Speaker 1: Mike Hilton and number five score early finishing second half.

869
00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:29,520
Speaker 1: The one thing about whenever I hear we gotta get

870
00:43:29,560 --> 00:43:30,759
Speaker 1: off to a fest start, gotta get off to a

871
00:43:30,800 --> 00:43:33,280
Speaker 1: fast start. I think of being in Pittsburgh in twenty fourteen.

872
00:43:33,719 --> 00:43:36,840
Speaker 1: I think that was Week seven. Maybe we went to

873
00:43:36,880 --> 00:43:39,480
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh on Monday night, and all the talk leading up

874
00:43:39,520 --> 00:43:41,359
Speaker 1: to that was the Texas had to start fast. They

875
00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:43,239
Speaker 1: weren't scoring in the first half, they weren't scoring in

876
00:43:43,239 --> 00:43:46,200
Speaker 1: the first quarter, and so games were zero zero at

877
00:43:46,200 --> 00:43:49,120
Speaker 1: the end of one or zers or at halftime. The

878
00:43:49,239 --> 00:43:51,359
Speaker 1: Texans would stay in it, and they ended up winning

879
00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:53,640
Speaker 1: their share of games up to that point, but they

880
00:43:53,680 --> 00:43:55,440
Speaker 1: weren't getting off to a great start, and so it

881
00:43:55,600 --> 00:43:57,040
Speaker 1: was like, oh, I gotta start fast, got start fast.

882
00:43:57,120 --> 00:43:58,840
Speaker 1: We got to Pittsburgh and go bank bang, We're up

883
00:43:58,880 --> 00:44:02,040
Speaker 1: I think thirteen to nothing, and then all of a sudden,

884
00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:05,279
Speaker 1: the Steelers started climbing back. We had a rash of

885
00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:08,200
Speaker 1: mistakes near halftime, and the Steelers took the lead, and

886
00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:10,399
Speaker 1: then through the third quarter we couldn't get it back

887
00:44:10,480 --> 00:44:12,440
Speaker 1: going until the fourth quarter and we got it within

888
00:44:12,560 --> 00:44:14,440
Speaker 1: seven and an onside kick late in the game to

889
00:44:14,480 --> 00:44:16,120
Speaker 1: get the ball back, but by that point it was

890
00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:20,640
Speaker 1: too late. And so when you start early and start fast,

891
00:44:20,840 --> 00:44:23,440
Speaker 1: that's great, but you've got to finish it in the

892
00:44:23,560 --> 00:44:25,960
Speaker 1: back end. And that's what we didn't do. Now, obviously

893
00:44:26,040 --> 00:44:27,440
Speaker 1: that rash of mistakes in the middle, we got to

894
00:44:27,440 --> 00:44:29,839
Speaker 1: eliminate that. But that just kind of goes without saying.

895
00:44:29,880 --> 00:44:32,480
Speaker 1: You can't make mistakes against this team. But you got

896
00:44:32,600 --> 00:44:35,400
Speaker 1: to start fast, and you got to know that isn't it.

897
00:44:36,320 --> 00:44:39,239
Speaker 1: It's starting fast and playing at the level and then

898
00:44:39,400 --> 00:44:41,919
Speaker 1: finishing strong in the fourth quarter and put those jokers away.

899
00:44:42,560 --> 00:44:44,480
Speaker 1: That's what this team has got to do. Do those

900
00:44:44,560 --> 00:44:46,760
Speaker 1: things and they'll have an opportunity to go to Pittsburgh

901
00:44:46,840 --> 00:44:49,160
Speaker 1: come back with a w. All right, we come back.

902
00:44:49,560 --> 00:44:51,880
Speaker 1: My man Mark Vanimir is going to join me on

903
00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:54,160
Speaker 1: the other side. We'll talk about this game. Get our

904
00:44:54,200 --> 00:44:58,640
Speaker 1: final thoughts down on paper or on audio, either way,

905
00:44:58,840 --> 00:45:00,920
Speaker 1: probably look at it. We'll do that next on Texans

906
00:45:00,960 --> 00:45:06,640
Speaker 1: All Access. How this is Texans Radio on Sports Radio

907
00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:10,960
Speaker 1: six ten. It's Radio six ten. Here's the snap's looking

908
00:45:11,120 --> 00:45:13,920
Speaker 1: tuxt them all timing for the pylon that he's got it.

909
00:45:14,400 --> 00:45:19,759
Speaker 1: Razzle Tashole touchdown out stands and the Texans go in

910
00:45:20,120 --> 00:45:23,600
Speaker 1: front game days every day. We had a lot of

911
00:45:23,719 --> 00:45:25,480
Speaker 1: energy and we brought a lot of spark for this

912
00:45:25,680 --> 00:45:30,680
Speaker 1: organization to five nights a week. They hits keep on

913
00:45:30,920 --> 00:45:35,000
Speaker 1: coming out. The Texans say they have it and they

914
00:45:35,120 --> 00:45:42,520
Speaker 1: do No it's Texans all excess. Nothing like a Friday

915
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Speaker 1: Chat with the Voice of the Texans, Mark Vanimer. Welcome

916
00:45:46,480 --> 00:45:49,080
Speaker 1: back to this Friday edition of Texans All Access from

917
00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:53,040
Speaker 1: the Honday Texans Radio studio, and it is Mark Vandermir

918
00:45:53,120 --> 00:45:56,040
Speaker 1: on the other end. Mark, good evening. How are you

919
00:45:56,120 --> 00:45:59,880
Speaker 1: feeling less than forty eight hours away from Texans v. Stealer?

920
00:46:00,560 --> 00:46:02,879
Speaker 1: You called every one of them, you call a couple

921
00:46:02,880 --> 00:46:06,759
Speaker 1: of wins, a couple of tough losses. Hopefully this one

922
00:46:06,760 --> 00:46:08,560
Speaker 1: will go in the other direction. How you feeling, first

923
00:46:08,560 --> 00:46:13,279
Speaker 1: of all about the game itself, going to Pittsburgh this

924
00:46:13,520 --> 00:46:16,640
Speaker 1: year and taking on a really good defensive particular, Well,

925
00:46:16,680 --> 00:46:18,800
Speaker 1: I'd be surprised if they don't play well. You know,

926
00:46:18,920 --> 00:46:21,719
Speaker 1: sometimes we get into these situations where you know you're

927
00:46:21,760 --> 00:46:24,040
Speaker 1: coming off some tough games or a tough game or

928
00:46:24,080 --> 00:46:27,200
Speaker 1: whatever the situation is that might not be as positive

929
00:46:27,239 --> 00:46:30,279
Speaker 1: as we would like. And I feel like they're gonna

930
00:46:30,320 --> 00:46:32,560
Speaker 1: play well. I don't know if that's enough, though, Johnny,

931
00:46:32,600 --> 00:46:35,000
Speaker 1: I think this Steelers team is potentially pretty good. And

932
00:46:35,080 --> 00:46:36,799
Speaker 1: you know, you and I've been talking about it all week,

933
00:46:36,880 --> 00:46:39,120
Speaker 1: how they have a lot of things going for them.

934
00:46:39,239 --> 00:46:42,080
Speaker 1: You know, they have Bronthlisberger back through for three hundred

935
00:46:42,160 --> 00:46:45,879
Speaker 1: last week. They've got Connor running the ball well, They've

936
00:46:45,960 --> 00:46:48,319
Speaker 1: got a defense that looks like one of the better

937
00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:51,920
Speaker 1: defenses they've had in a long long time. And they

938
00:46:52,080 --> 00:46:54,120
Speaker 1: want to make a statement. You know, they're the ones

939
00:46:54,239 --> 00:46:57,240
Speaker 1: that want to show that they belong with the Ravens,

940
00:46:57,880 --> 00:47:00,160
Speaker 1: as you do as well. But yet a chance us

941
00:47:00,160 --> 00:47:02,680
Speaker 1: to do that last week it couldn't. But you know,

942
00:47:02,800 --> 00:47:05,279
Speaker 1: this is also one of those situations that I wanted

943
00:47:05,280 --> 00:47:07,239
Speaker 1: to get your take on it, where you know, we've

944
00:47:07,239 --> 00:47:09,399
Speaker 1: talked about this from time to time. This is Bill

945
00:47:09,480 --> 00:47:12,400
Speaker 1: O'Brien circle the wagon's time. I mean, we know that

946
00:47:12,880 --> 00:47:15,759
Speaker 1: there are very few people that do this is better

947
00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:18,360
Speaker 1: than him. Where it's like, all right, there's this is

948
00:47:18,440 --> 00:47:21,920
Speaker 1: not going well, what's gonna happen. But often when the

949
00:47:22,080 --> 00:47:24,520
Speaker 1: chips are down the most, when things just seem the

950
00:47:24,640 --> 00:47:27,800
Speaker 1: most bleak, he comes up with a coaching performance, the

951
00:47:27,880 --> 00:47:31,960
Speaker 1: team comes up with a playing performance that results in

952
00:47:32,040 --> 00:47:35,919
Speaker 1: a victory. And I'm hoping that this week that's the case. Yeah.

953
00:47:35,960 --> 00:47:38,200
Speaker 1: I mean, how many times if we said backs to

954
00:47:38,320 --> 00:47:41,960
Speaker 1: the wall, there's nobody we'd rather have than Bill O'Brien

955
00:47:42,040 --> 00:47:45,080
Speaker 1: to pull this organization out of the fire. I mean,

956
00:47:45,160 --> 00:47:47,840
Speaker 1: he just has a knack for dealing with that. And

957
00:47:47,920 --> 00:47:51,400
Speaker 1: I don't know if that just dates back to his

958
00:47:51,640 --> 00:47:54,160
Speaker 1: days at Georgia Tech with Georgio Leary, and that was

959
00:47:54,239 --> 00:47:56,319
Speaker 1: kind of the way Georgia Tech was. You know, they'd

960
00:47:56,360 --> 00:47:57,920
Speaker 1: have a couple of rough games to start and then

961
00:47:57,920 --> 00:47:59,640
Speaker 1: they just come out swinging the next few games. I

962
00:47:59,680 --> 00:48:02,160
Speaker 1: don't know if it was his experience at Penn State

963
00:48:03,760 --> 00:48:05,759
Speaker 1: or if it was our experience at Brown where we

964
00:48:05,880 --> 00:48:09,239
Speaker 1: hardly ever won when maybe that's where maybe that's where

965
00:48:09,280 --> 00:48:14,080
Speaker 1: he learned it. But it does have the feel of that.

966
00:48:14,320 --> 00:48:17,000
Speaker 1: And it's interesting, Mark because I thought back that twenty

967
00:48:17,040 --> 00:48:20,319
Speaker 1: fourteen game and in listening to a lot of people

968
00:48:20,480 --> 00:48:23,640
Speaker 1: talk about this game this week, what's the one thing

969
00:48:23,920 --> 00:48:27,000
Speaker 1: that they've said start fast. Well, that was the same

970
00:48:27,080 --> 00:48:29,719
Speaker 1: thing in twenty fourteen. If you remember twenty fourteen, we

971
00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:31,800
Speaker 1: did knock get out of the gates offensively in a

972
00:48:31,880 --> 00:48:34,040
Speaker 1: number of those games, but we didn't make any mistakes.

973
00:48:34,560 --> 00:48:38,160
Speaker 1: So scores were like zero zero three nothing after the

974
00:48:38,239 --> 00:48:40,000
Speaker 1: first quarter, and it was like, you gotta start fast,

975
00:48:40,040 --> 00:48:41,960
Speaker 1: we gotta start fast, we gotta start fast. We went

976
00:48:42,040 --> 00:48:45,839
Speaker 1: to Pittsburgh in twenty fourteen and started fast, but then

977
00:48:45,880 --> 00:48:47,600
Speaker 1: we got an ear a halftime and we tripped all

978
00:48:47,640 --> 00:48:50,560
Speaker 1: over ourselves and what was the thirteen and nothing lead

979
00:48:50,640 --> 00:48:53,600
Speaker 1: turned to a twenty four thirteen lead for the Steelers

980
00:48:53,680 --> 00:48:55,399
Speaker 1: going in a half, and it was unlike anything we'd

981
00:48:55,440 --> 00:48:59,600
Speaker 1: ever seen. So starting fast as big, but just as

982
00:48:59,680 --> 00:49:03,800
Speaker 1: much is finishing finishing the end of the half. It

983
00:49:03,960 --> 00:49:06,439
Speaker 1: both halves, and hopefully you can finish the second half

984
00:49:06,760 --> 00:49:09,080
Speaker 1: taken a knee because you've finished the first half strong.

985
00:49:09,440 --> 00:49:11,600
Speaker 1: And I thought about that mark the first two games.

986
00:49:12,480 --> 00:49:14,279
Speaker 1: I was driving today and I was thinking about this.

987
00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:18,840
Speaker 1: The first two games very easily could have been fourteen

988
00:49:18,880 --> 00:49:23,640
Speaker 1: to ten at Kansas City and could have been could

989
00:49:23,680 --> 00:49:28,000
Speaker 1: have been fourteen thirteen US against the Ravens, or worst case,

990
00:49:28,120 --> 00:49:32,360
Speaker 1: thirteen ten with the Ravens a three point lead, but

991
00:49:32,480 --> 00:49:36,000
Speaker 1: because of mistakes right before the half, miss fuel goal

992
00:49:36,120 --> 00:49:38,080
Speaker 1: now a mistake, you know it's a physical mistake, but

993
00:49:38,200 --> 00:49:40,319
Speaker 1: missed the fuel goal allowed them to kick a field

994
00:49:40,320 --> 00:49:44,120
Speaker 1: goal go up ten instead only being up four. And

995
00:49:44,280 --> 00:49:48,000
Speaker 1: then in the Ravens game, you have that fumble. The

996
00:49:48,080 --> 00:49:51,960
Speaker 1: Texas are down thirteen seven. Who knows if QT doesn't fumble,

997
00:49:51,960 --> 00:49:54,319
Speaker 1: if they don't move down, maybe score a touchdown, maybe

998
00:49:54,360 --> 00:49:56,920
Speaker 1: kick a fuel goal, ends up being thirteen to ten

999
00:49:56,960 --> 00:49:59,160
Speaker 1: at a half, maybe in fourteen thirteen in your favor,

1000
00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:02,400
Speaker 1: but you fumbled that ball, they go in, you do

1001
00:50:02,520 --> 00:50:05,279
Speaker 1: get a field goal, so you cut it to ten,

1002
00:50:06,080 --> 00:50:09,279
Speaker 1: but you're down ten when you realistically could have been

1003
00:50:09,360 --> 00:50:12,920
Speaker 1: up one. Against the Chiefs, you're down ten and you

1004
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:15,680
Speaker 1: should have really only been down four. But that end

1005
00:50:15,760 --> 00:50:20,040
Speaker 1: of first half, not only starting fast but finishing the

1006
00:50:20,200 --> 00:50:25,759
Speaker 1: halves is absolutely paramount in this game. To finish those things.

1007
00:50:25,800 --> 00:50:29,000
Speaker 1: I mean, how different those games in the second half? Yeah,

1008
00:50:29,000 --> 00:50:31,200
Speaker 1: who's to say. I mean, maybe the second half both

1009
00:50:31,239 --> 00:50:33,720
Speaker 1: the Chiefs and Ravens catch fire, and maybe it doesn't

1010
00:50:33,719 --> 00:50:35,640
Speaker 1: matter much, But I have a feeling that if you

1011
00:50:35,760 --> 00:50:39,600
Speaker 1: go into the half up one, or just down by three,

1012
00:50:40,320 --> 00:50:42,480
Speaker 1: you're feeling much better about what you can do in

1013
00:50:42,560 --> 00:50:45,160
Speaker 1: the second half as opposed to being down two scores

1014
00:50:45,400 --> 00:50:47,600
Speaker 1: when you feel like maybe you're playing better than you

1015
00:50:47,719 --> 00:50:50,839
Speaker 1: have but you just made those mistakes at the end

1016
00:50:50,840 --> 00:50:53,480
Speaker 1: of the halves that are just absolute killers. Look, that's

1017
00:50:53,520 --> 00:50:56,839
Speaker 1: this league, right, Johnny. I mean against a really good

1018
00:50:56,920 --> 00:50:59,320
Speaker 1: team like the Ravens are the Chiefs, you can't afford

1019
00:50:59,400 --> 00:51:02,239
Speaker 1: to not capitalize. Making mistakes is one thing. But as

1020
00:51:02,360 --> 00:51:04,560
Speaker 1: bad as everything went last week, you know, with the

1021
00:51:04,760 --> 00:51:08,160
Speaker 1: first half turnover, undowns, turnover with the fumble return for

1022
00:51:08,239 --> 00:51:10,840
Speaker 1: a touchdown, turnover with the pick, all of that stuff,

1023
00:51:11,320 --> 00:51:13,760
Speaker 1: as bad as that went, and as bad as allowing

1024
00:51:13,800 --> 00:51:15,520
Speaker 1: an eight minute drive to be get in the third quarter,

1025
00:51:15,640 --> 00:51:18,560
Speaker 1: but you held them to three. Right, if you scored

1026
00:51:18,640 --> 00:51:21,280
Speaker 1: a touchdown instead of a field goal on the ensuing

1027
00:51:21,440 --> 00:51:24,239
Speaker 1: drive of that eight minute drive they had, you're down

1028
00:51:24,400 --> 00:51:26,520
Speaker 1: six and you have the whole fourth quarter to go,

1029
00:51:26,640 --> 00:51:28,799
Speaker 1: and again you're not necessarily going to win the game,

1030
00:51:28,840 --> 00:51:31,560
Speaker 1: but who knows what happens. That's how you have to play.

1031
00:51:31,800 --> 00:51:34,680
Speaker 1: You have to be able to play through those mistakes,

1032
00:51:34,840 --> 00:51:37,360
Speaker 1: even you know you don't want to make those mistakes.

1033
00:51:37,440 --> 00:51:40,240
Speaker 1: But even when you make them and you have an opportunity,

1034
00:51:40,239 --> 00:51:42,759
Speaker 1: you got to take advantage of those opportunities. Here's another

1035
00:51:42,880 --> 00:51:45,719
Speaker 1: thing in this covid era. I was thinking about this.

1036
00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:47,719
Speaker 1: You know, we talked about, well, you didn't have home

1037
00:51:47,760 --> 00:51:50,000
Speaker 1: field advantage with the seventy thousand fans last week, but

1038
00:51:50,000 --> 00:51:51,840
Speaker 1: at least you're at home and the protocols and all that,

1039
00:51:51,840 --> 00:51:55,200
Speaker 1: and you're familiar with your building. I think that and

1040
00:51:55,520 --> 00:51:57,479
Speaker 1: this is no excuse, this is not why you lost,

1041
00:51:57,560 --> 00:52:00,440
Speaker 1: but that was not a home field advantage. That was

1042
00:52:00,480 --> 00:52:03,440
Speaker 1: almost a disadvantage because yes, you're used to your building,

1043
00:52:03,480 --> 00:52:04,719
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden you're in your building and

1044
00:52:04,760 --> 00:52:07,280
Speaker 1: it's empty. And I think that the road team actually

1045
00:52:07,320 --> 00:52:10,800
Speaker 1: benefits from that, right So, and unfortunately for the Texas,

1046
00:52:10,880 --> 00:52:12,960
Speaker 1: the Steelers are used to this. Now they played a

1047
00:52:13,040 --> 00:52:16,239
Speaker 1: week in their building empty, so now they're they're used

1048
00:52:16,280 --> 00:52:18,640
Speaker 1: to it. But for the Texans going on the road,

1049
00:52:18,719 --> 00:52:21,759
Speaker 1: I mean, like, I think we're over the covid ere now,

1050
00:52:21,840 --> 00:52:23,200
Speaker 1: you know, as far as the way the teams are

1051
00:52:23,239 --> 00:52:26,840
Speaker 1: going to handle these buildings, whether they're partially full, empty, whatever,

1052
00:52:27,200 --> 00:52:31,360
Speaker 1: we're over that. Now. Just go ahead, playball, take advantage

1053
00:52:31,400 --> 00:52:33,239
Speaker 1: of it. I talked to Bill O'Brien about He said, yeah,

1054
00:52:33,239 --> 00:52:34,920
Speaker 1: we're just ready to go play now, no matter what

1055
00:52:35,000 --> 00:52:39,000
Speaker 1: the situation is. They are used to this environment. Well,

1056
00:52:39,040 --> 00:52:41,800
Speaker 1: the thing about it is the Texans first game is

1057
00:52:41,840 --> 00:52:45,000
Speaker 1: on the road, but they're actually fans and stands. I mean,

1058
00:52:45,040 --> 00:52:49,800
Speaker 1: there's there's some semblance small though it be a small

1059
00:52:49,880 --> 00:52:56,399
Speaker 1: semblance of normal, normal, normal, normalcy. Godly spit out the kumquats, John,

1060
00:52:56,760 --> 00:52:59,839
Speaker 1: There's some sense of normalcy there because there are fans there.

1061
00:53:00,080 --> 00:53:02,480
Speaker 1: There are fans when you have a third down cheering

1062
00:53:02,520 --> 00:53:06,120
Speaker 1: against you. The Ravens had gone through a situation where

1063
00:53:06,120 --> 00:53:08,040
Speaker 1: there were no fans. They had already played a game

1064
00:53:08,080 --> 00:53:10,560
Speaker 1: against the Browns, and they're building where there were no fans,

1065
00:53:10,760 --> 00:53:12,640
Speaker 1: and so that maybe gave them a little bit of

1066
00:53:12,640 --> 00:53:15,600
Speaker 1: a leg up because they were kind of already They've

1067
00:53:15,600 --> 00:53:18,759
Speaker 1: already adapted in some sense to the weird nature of

1068
00:53:19,440 --> 00:53:22,200
Speaker 1: what it was gonna be. Well, now the Texas have

1069
00:53:22,280 --> 00:53:24,000
Speaker 1: played in front of no fans, they know what it's like.

1070
00:53:24,600 --> 00:53:27,320
Speaker 1: Let's go out there and put together a solid performance

1071
00:53:27,880 --> 00:53:29,680
Speaker 1: and you know, you bring up a great point you

1072
00:53:29,719 --> 00:53:32,600
Speaker 1: talk about when you hold them to a field goal.

1073
00:53:32,640 --> 00:53:34,759
Speaker 1: After that long drive, it felt like they were on

1074
00:53:34,840 --> 00:53:37,359
Speaker 1: a field forever, which makes me think about something. I'll

1075
00:53:37,360 --> 00:53:41,759
Speaker 1: get to that in a second, but that drive took forever. Well,

1076
00:53:41,800 --> 00:53:44,319
Speaker 1: then you move the ball down and Marcus twenty three

1077
00:53:44,360 --> 00:53:47,520
Speaker 1: to ten, and I think it was the first sack

1078
00:53:47,560 --> 00:53:50,640
Speaker 1: of the Shaan on the day. They got four, but

1079
00:53:50,760 --> 00:53:53,160
Speaker 1: they all came in the second half and late in

1080
00:53:53,200 --> 00:53:55,759
Speaker 1: the third quarter was the first one. And so once

1081
00:53:55,800 --> 00:53:58,120
Speaker 1: the Texas have to throw a lot sitting duck, they're

1082
00:53:58,160 --> 00:54:00,200
Speaker 1: bringing all kinds of things at him, so be it.

1083
00:54:01,239 --> 00:54:06,080
Speaker 1: It's twenty three to ten and Brandon Cooks is open

1084
00:54:06,280 --> 00:54:09,799
Speaker 1: deep down the field and markets a touchdown. I mean

1085
00:54:10,440 --> 00:54:14,479
Speaker 1: he is. He's probably three to four yards wide open,

1086
00:54:15,320 --> 00:54:18,479
Speaker 1: and the Sean is ready to throw and he can't.

1087
00:54:19,120 --> 00:54:21,960
Speaker 1: He gets just too much pressure at his feet and

1088
00:54:22,120 --> 00:54:25,360
Speaker 1: he can't. He doesn't have enough room to launch. And

1089
00:54:25,480 --> 00:54:28,800
Speaker 1: I watched it and on the field when down on

1090
00:54:28,840 --> 00:54:30,200
Speaker 1: the field level, I remember I was looking out. I

1091
00:54:30,239 --> 00:54:33,040
Speaker 1: couldn't tell because of the angle I was. The two

1092
00:54:33,120 --> 00:54:35,160
Speaker 1: players are in line, so I couldn't tell how close

1093
00:54:35,239 --> 00:54:38,080
Speaker 1: Cooks was to the corner or to the safety. Actually,

1094
00:54:38,400 --> 00:54:40,520
Speaker 1: when I watched it back on the end zone copy,

1095
00:54:40,920 --> 00:54:43,279
Speaker 1: he's wide open and I just it's one of those

1096
00:54:43,320 --> 00:54:45,480
Speaker 1: where I'm watching, I just banged the table because I

1097
00:54:45,719 --> 00:54:49,480
Speaker 1: know that's a touchdown. That is a touchdown, and it

1098
00:54:49,640 --> 00:54:52,840
Speaker 1: changes the game. Now it's twenty three seventeen. Now you

1099
00:54:52,960 --> 00:54:55,280
Speaker 1: got something going. You hit a deep ball that always

1100
00:54:55,280 --> 00:54:57,239
Speaker 1: seems to get this team going and gets the Sean going.

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00:54:58,600 --> 00:55:01,120
Speaker 1: You know who, who knows what you can do at

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00:55:01,200 --> 00:55:05,120
Speaker 1: that point. But that Ravens eight minute drive, it seemed

1103
00:55:05,120 --> 00:55:09,440
Speaker 1: like they were forever. In twenty eleven, when the Texans

1104
00:55:09,520 --> 00:55:12,719
Speaker 1: played the Steelers, they start off the game with that

1105
00:55:13,040 --> 00:55:17,000
Speaker 1: nineteen play drive. Mark it must have felt like a

1106
00:55:17,120 --> 00:55:19,360
Speaker 1: half hour that they had the football in their possession.

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00:55:19,560 --> 00:55:21,560
Speaker 1: Do you remember that drive? What do you remember about that?

1108
00:55:22,480 --> 00:55:26,680
Speaker 1: I remember that as a game that it just felt

1109
00:55:26,719 --> 00:55:29,080
Speaker 1: like if you could beat that team on that day,

1110
00:55:29,360 --> 00:55:34,719
Speaker 1: you belonged with higher echelon in the NFL, and that

1111
00:55:35,200 --> 00:55:37,760
Speaker 1: that day signified that to me, it was a seventeen

1112
00:55:37,880 --> 00:55:40,360
Speaker 1: ten victory. Johnny, I have a picture in my office,

1113
00:55:40,400 --> 00:55:42,640
Speaker 1: you know how around the stadium in our offices, we

1114
00:55:42,680 --> 00:55:46,239
Speaker 1: have these framed photos, these large frame photos. I've got

1115
00:55:46,320 --> 00:55:49,520
Speaker 1: one of match Shop dropping back and it's a play

1116
00:55:49,560 --> 00:55:53,640
Speaker 1: action pass arian. Arian. You know they faked the hand

1117
00:55:53,680 --> 00:55:56,120
Speaker 1: off the area and he's running into the line and

1118
00:55:56,239 --> 00:55:58,760
Speaker 1: then there you have Dwayne Brown, Waite Smith, Chris Myers,

1119
00:55:58,840 --> 00:56:03,239
Speaker 1: Mike Brizel, at Eric Winston, you have James Casey and uh,

1120
00:56:03,360 --> 00:56:07,080
Speaker 1: you know as a as a blocker. And it's funny

1121
00:56:07,080 --> 00:56:09,320
Speaker 1: because all you see is Shop dropping back ready to

1122
00:56:09,440 --> 00:56:11,440
Speaker 1: plant and throw and you know it's going to be

1123
00:56:11,480 --> 00:56:15,759
Speaker 1: a completion. I mean it's because the run was so successful.

1124
00:56:16,120 --> 00:56:18,400
Speaker 1: And I love that picture and I don't know if

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00:56:18,400 --> 00:56:20,600
Speaker 1: I've ever tweeted that out. I'm gonna do that. Um,

1126
00:56:20,760 --> 00:56:22,800
Speaker 1: And I went back to look at what happens to

1127
00:56:22,880 --> 00:56:25,840
Speaker 1: the football and it's an eighteen yard catched by Andrey Johnson.

1128
00:56:25,840 --> 00:56:27,360
Speaker 1: I thought it was gonna be one of those Kubiak like,

1129
00:56:27,600 --> 00:56:29,560
Speaker 1: you know, seventy yarders, but we didn't have that in

1130
00:56:29,640 --> 00:56:31,840
Speaker 1: that game. Um, it was an eighteen yard completion to

1131
00:56:31,880 --> 00:56:34,120
Speaker 1: Andrey Johnson, who would get hurt later on in that game.

1132
00:56:34,920 --> 00:56:38,880
Speaker 1: But it's uh, it shows you that that game, the

1133
00:56:39,120 --> 00:56:43,120
Speaker 1: run was just sucking people in because both teams were pounding,

1134
00:56:43,239 --> 00:56:46,719
Speaker 1: pounding it. It was a very physical game. And they

1135
00:56:46,760 --> 00:56:49,360
Speaker 1: had two seventeen to ten victories that year against the

1136
00:56:49,400 --> 00:56:51,600
Speaker 1: Steelers and against the Falcons later on when t J.

1137
00:56:51,800 --> 00:56:56,000
Speaker 1: Yates started his first actual whole start. So yeah, I

1138
00:56:56,120 --> 00:56:59,040
Speaker 1: remember that one well and I think that, you know,

1139
00:56:59,080 --> 00:57:01,240
Speaker 1: I don't know if you can didn't like that on Sunday.

1140
00:57:01,320 --> 00:57:03,160
Speaker 1: I think this one's in the mid twenties. I think

1141
00:57:03,200 --> 00:57:06,080
Speaker 1: you gotta get like twenty four twenty seven and hope

1142
00:57:06,120 --> 00:57:08,239
Speaker 1: you hold them the less. And that's how this one

1143
00:57:08,360 --> 00:57:10,120
Speaker 1: has to play out for you. It's not a game

1144
00:57:10,160 --> 00:57:12,480
Speaker 1: in the thirties, doesn't need to be that way, and

1145
00:57:12,600 --> 00:57:14,239
Speaker 1: it's not going to be a grinded out twenty to

1146
00:57:14,360 --> 00:57:16,840
Speaker 1: seventeen win like you sometimes have in the division. You're

1147
00:57:16,840 --> 00:57:19,120
Speaker 1: not gonna have one of those on Sunday. So let's

1148
00:57:19,120 --> 00:57:20,520
Speaker 1: just hope that they can find a way to just

1149
00:57:20,920 --> 00:57:24,200
Speaker 1: get over the top here, get the offense clicking, get

1150
00:57:24,400 --> 00:57:27,440
Speaker 1: you know, get those key conversions, get a couple of

1151
00:57:27,520 --> 00:57:30,680
Speaker 1: touchdowns when you know you were settling for field goals

1152
00:57:30,760 --> 00:57:32,960
Speaker 1: like last week, and then maybe you get the victory.

1153
00:57:33,720 --> 00:57:40,800
Speaker 1: That drive against the Steelers, is that the longest drive

1154
00:57:40,840 --> 00:57:44,920
Speaker 1: in Texas history? Nineteen plays, almost eleven minutes, I think

1155
00:57:44,960 --> 00:57:48,680
Speaker 1: it was. Is that the longest in history? I remember

1156
00:57:48,760 --> 00:57:50,920
Speaker 1: going to the record books to try to figure that out.

1157
00:57:51,120 --> 00:57:54,040
Speaker 1: Of a drive that happened I think two years ago.

1158
00:57:54,280 --> 00:57:56,040
Speaker 1: I think two years ago they had a really long

1159
00:57:56,200 --> 00:58:00,080
Speaker 1: drive in one of these games. Yeah, to start that

1160
00:58:01,960 --> 00:58:05,320
Speaker 1: was the Yeah. I think this one was longer by plays,

1161
00:58:06,760 --> 00:58:08,760
Speaker 1: but I don't know the minutes. I can't remember how life.

1162
00:58:08,840 --> 00:58:10,640
Speaker 1: I want to say it took like nine to fifty

1163
00:58:10,720 --> 00:58:13,680
Speaker 1: five off the clock. I mean, you imagine starting the

1164
00:58:13,800 --> 00:58:17,480
Speaker 1: game and then you finish it with a touchdown. That's

1165
00:58:17,520 --> 00:58:20,480
Speaker 1: the most important thing is you finish it with a touchdown.

1166
00:58:20,800 --> 00:58:24,200
Speaker 1: This one has the feel like that in that I

1167
00:58:24,320 --> 00:58:26,840
Speaker 1: think these two teams will beat the absolute but Jesus

1168
00:58:26,880 --> 00:58:29,560
Speaker 1: side of each other on Sunday. I think this is

1169
00:58:29,680 --> 00:58:33,880
Speaker 1: kind of backyard brawlish. However, I do think you're right.

1170
00:58:34,000 --> 00:58:35,640
Speaker 1: I do think this is one in the twenties, and

1171
00:58:35,720 --> 00:58:38,640
Speaker 1: I think it's going to be a turnover that changes it,

1172
00:58:38,920 --> 00:58:41,200
Speaker 1: whether it's one for us or one for them. They're

1173
00:58:41,200 --> 00:58:44,920
Speaker 1: plus one a turnover margin, they have three turnovers. They

1174
00:58:45,200 --> 00:58:47,880
Speaker 1: have taken a ball away four times, so they can

1175
00:58:47,920 --> 00:58:49,240
Speaker 1: give it up as much as they can take it.

1176
00:58:49,600 --> 00:58:53,000
Speaker 1: We're second to last and turnover margin in the league.

1177
00:58:53,080 --> 00:58:56,880
Speaker 1: So that's and not only that we're second to last

1178
00:58:56,920 --> 00:59:01,320
Speaker 1: in turnover margin. But off those turnovers, teams outside of

1179
00:59:01,360 --> 00:59:04,800
Speaker 1: the interception, the teams have capitalized on that, which obviously

1180
00:59:05,200 --> 00:59:08,320
Speaker 1: we can't have happened at all. What'd you think last

1181
00:59:08,400 --> 00:59:14,040
Speaker 1: night of Jags losing to Miami and Fitzpatrick doing what

1182
00:59:14,200 --> 00:59:16,919
Speaker 1: he typically does on TV? I thought he was great.

1183
00:59:16,960 --> 00:59:19,240
Speaker 1: What do you think of Miami v. Jackson? If fitz

1184
00:59:19,320 --> 00:59:22,040
Speaker 1: he doesn't turn it over, he's a deadly quarterback. Yes,

1185
00:59:22,200 --> 00:59:24,920
Speaker 1: he's been around way too long. He knows stuff. He

1186
00:59:25,000 --> 00:59:27,520
Speaker 1: could make plays with his feet, he could extend plays.

1187
00:59:27,800 --> 00:59:30,280
Speaker 1: He's a good passer, Johnny. But if he turns it over,

1188
00:59:30,920 --> 00:59:33,160
Speaker 1: you know, that's that's the big problem with them. You

1189
00:59:33,240 --> 00:59:35,320
Speaker 1: know I heard people talking today like why aren't they

1190
00:59:35,360 --> 00:59:37,640
Speaker 1: playing TA? You know, well, they're not playing TA because

1191
00:59:37,680 --> 00:59:40,280
Speaker 1: fitz he knows the offense, and he knows protections and

1192
00:59:40,360 --> 00:59:42,200
Speaker 1: he knows things like that, and you never know what's

1193
00:59:42,200 --> 00:59:44,400
Speaker 1: happening with a rookie behind the scenes. I think when

1194
00:59:44,440 --> 00:59:46,680
Speaker 1: the Jags look the jet I don't want to say

1195
00:59:46,680 --> 00:59:48,680
Speaker 1: they are who we thought they were. I think Minshi's

1196
00:59:48,720 --> 00:59:52,320
Speaker 1: pretty good, but you know they're they're not that talented,

1197
00:59:52,480 --> 00:59:54,920
Speaker 1: especially with chark Out. You know, he's a big weapon

1198
00:59:55,040 --> 00:59:58,080
Speaker 1: for them. They're not that talented, so you know, yeah,

1199
00:59:58,080 --> 01:00:01,000
Speaker 1: they can be young and scrappy. It's it only goes

1200
01:00:01,080 --> 01:00:04,080
Speaker 1: so far, you know. And the Dolphins are pretty stout actually,

1201
01:00:04,520 --> 01:00:06,919
Speaker 1: And for them, they felt like, look, if we don't

1202
01:00:06,920 --> 01:00:08,400
Speaker 1: win this one, where you know, we might as well

1203
01:00:08,440 --> 01:00:11,360
Speaker 1: go play ta you know, thanks for Tua. They didn't

1204
01:00:11,360 --> 01:00:14,040
Speaker 1: really do that, but you know, they might as well

1205
01:00:14,080 --> 01:00:16,800
Speaker 1: go get ready for the future. But for the Jags,

1206
01:00:16,840 --> 01:00:18,720
Speaker 1: it's funny because I kind of root for the Jags

1207
01:00:18,760 --> 01:00:20,280
Speaker 1: because of what we always talk about. We know a

1208
01:00:20,320 --> 01:00:22,200
Speaker 1: lot of people there, but I don't you know, I

1209
01:00:22,520 --> 01:00:25,240
Speaker 1: can't have them winning because of the divisional race. So

1210
01:00:25,360 --> 01:00:27,720
Speaker 1: it's it's a weird dynamic. Johnny. We need the Vikings

1211
01:00:27,800 --> 01:00:30,080
Speaker 1: to step up this oh you know, you can ill

1212
01:00:30,120 --> 01:00:32,600
Speaker 1: afford the Titans going three and oh especially if you

1213
01:00:32,680 --> 01:00:35,280
Speaker 1: don't get this one. Oh my gosh. That really that

1214
01:00:35,360 --> 01:00:37,120
Speaker 1: puts you three games behind. Now you have two that

1215
01:00:37,160 --> 01:00:39,320
Speaker 1: you're gonna play against them, but it's gonna be tough

1216
01:00:39,360 --> 01:00:41,919
Speaker 1: to win them both. A long way to go, of course,

1217
01:00:42,040 --> 01:00:43,880
Speaker 1: but hey, this is what it's all about. It's the

1218
01:00:43,920 --> 01:00:47,240
Speaker 1: football drama and we'll see how it plays. Mark. I

1219
01:00:47,320 --> 01:00:50,680
Speaker 1: appreciate chopping out with me. Thank you, my friend, Thank you, Johnny.

1220
01:00:50,960 --> 01:00:53,760
Speaker 1: Will we get back It's time? From my predictions, I

1221
01:00:53,840 --> 01:00:55,640
Speaker 1: pick them straight up and against the spread. I do

1222
01:00:55,760 --> 01:00:58,720
Speaker 1: it every single week. You do not want to miss it.

1223
01:00:59,040 --> 01:01:03,560
Speaker 1: That's next in Texas boxss. If you love podcast and

1224
01:01:03,720 --> 01:01:09,040
Speaker 1: you love the Texans, you'll love our Texans podcast, now

1225
01:01:09,120 --> 01:01:16,080
Speaker 1: available on iTunes and Houston Texans dot com. What are

1226
01:01:16,120 --> 01:01:20,560
Speaker 1: the experts predicting about this week's big game? Extra points?

1227
01:01:20,720 --> 01:01:23,160
Speaker 1: Saturday night, It's at ten thirty or after the late

1228
01:01:23,240 --> 01:01:26,920
Speaker 1: local news on ABC thirteen. Welcome back to this Friday

1229
01:01:27,040 --> 01:01:30,840
Speaker 1: edition of Texans All Access. I'm your host, John Harris,

1230
01:01:30,920 --> 01:01:34,920
Speaker 1: Football Analysis, silent reporter for your Houston Texans Kickoff twelve

1231
01:01:35,080 --> 01:01:37,880
Speaker 1: noon on Sunday, and that will be the kickoff time

1232
01:01:38,120 --> 01:01:40,560
Speaker 1: for the rest of the year. Hopefully it's not because

1233
01:01:40,680 --> 01:01:43,000
Speaker 1: maybe the one of the Texas games will get flexed

1234
01:01:43,080 --> 01:01:45,240
Speaker 1: into Sunday night, but that's down the road. They're all

1235
01:01:45,280 --> 01:01:48,360
Speaker 1: at noon right now, except for that Thanksgiving game against Detroit,

1236
01:01:48,800 --> 01:01:51,120
Speaker 1: so that should be pretty easy. Now, if you're in

1237
01:01:51,200 --> 01:01:53,880
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh for some reason, even though you can't go to

1238
01:01:53,920 --> 01:01:56,520
Speaker 1: the game, it'll be at one o'clock Eastern twelve o'clock Central.

1239
01:01:56,840 --> 01:02:00,280
Speaker 1: Looking forward to that now one of my favorites segments

1240
01:02:00,320 --> 01:02:03,680
Speaker 1: to do all week long because it's rapid fire and

1241
01:02:03,800 --> 01:02:05,440
Speaker 1: it's sort of a contest. It's a game to me

1242
01:02:05,480 --> 01:02:07,880
Speaker 1: to see what I can do. And that is my

1243
01:02:08,360 --> 01:02:13,200
Speaker 1: predictions for all NFL games, straight up and against the spread.

1244
01:02:13,360 --> 01:02:15,960
Speaker 1: And look, I don't do anything against the spread. I'm

1245
01:02:16,000 --> 01:02:17,800
Speaker 1: not like you're one of these East Coast guys. Look,

1246
01:02:17,840 --> 01:02:18,880
Speaker 1: I got you a lock of the year, and I

1247
01:02:18,920 --> 01:02:20,640
Speaker 1: got one for you every single week. Now. It's not me.

1248
01:02:20,760 --> 01:02:22,520
Speaker 1: I just like to talk about the games and talk

1249
01:02:22,560 --> 01:02:27,040
Speaker 1: about him in this particular way. So are we ready?

1250
01:02:27,040 --> 01:02:31,360
Speaker 1: We got thirteen games on Sunday, one Monday night and

1251
01:02:31,480 --> 01:02:33,400
Speaker 1: one on Monday Night's pretty good, it'll be pretty fun

1252
01:02:33,520 --> 01:02:35,600
Speaker 1: and we'll get to that one. Well, let's kick it

1253
01:02:35,680 --> 01:02:38,880
Speaker 1: off with all of our games on Sunday, but first

1254
01:02:40,040 --> 01:02:43,960
Speaker 1: my music and there it is. Okay, it's time to

1255
01:02:44,000 --> 01:02:47,240
Speaker 1: get started. Now, let's go to the atl where the

1256
01:02:47,360 --> 01:02:51,720
Speaker 1: Chicago Bears at two and oh with Mitchell Trubisky playing

1257
01:02:52,000 --> 01:02:55,439
Speaker 1: pretty well. He's not crushing it, but he is playing

1258
01:02:55,520 --> 01:02:58,800
Speaker 1: pretty well. It's a three and a half point spread

1259
01:03:00,000 --> 01:03:03,800
Speaker 1: of the Falcons, who are o in two the Falcons

1260
01:03:03,800 --> 01:03:06,640
Speaker 1: are oh in two on the year. Matt Ryan's lighting

1261
01:03:06,680 --> 01:03:08,720
Speaker 1: it up three hundred and sixty two yards per game,

1262
01:03:08,880 --> 01:03:12,960
Speaker 1: sixty eight percent completion, six touchdowns, the one interception. But

1263
01:03:13,080 --> 01:03:16,280
Speaker 1: what the Falcons are not getting is a consistent running game,

1264
01:03:16,600 --> 01:03:21,760
Speaker 1: and of course the defense has been brutally bad. Mitchell Trubiska,

1265
01:03:21,800 --> 01:03:23,440
Speaker 1: in the other hand, has been very good as well.

1266
01:03:23,920 --> 01:03:26,800
Speaker 1: Passing percent is not very good fifty nine percent, but

1267
01:03:27,240 --> 01:03:30,160
Speaker 1: he has five touchdowns and just two interceptions. They're getting

1268
01:03:30,400 --> 01:03:32,120
Speaker 1: a little bit out of the run game with David

1269
01:03:32,160 --> 01:03:34,480
Speaker 1: Montgomery averaging seventy three yards in the ground. But the

1270
01:03:34,520 --> 01:03:37,760
Speaker 1: big thing is the Bears defense is playing as you

1271
01:03:37,960 --> 01:03:42,520
Speaker 1: would expect. So this Bears defense versus Falcons offense is

1272
01:03:42,520 --> 01:03:45,000
Speaker 1: going to be one heck of a battle. I just

1273
01:03:45,080 --> 01:03:47,840
Speaker 1: don't know that I can trust Atlanta at home, but

1274
01:03:48,040 --> 01:03:51,439
Speaker 1: it's a desperate situation. And on Thursday night you saw

1275
01:03:51,480 --> 01:03:54,120
Speaker 1: a desperate Dolphins team going to Duval County and get

1276
01:03:54,160 --> 01:03:57,200
Speaker 1: a win at home in Mercedes ben Stadium. I'm gonna

1277
01:03:57,200 --> 01:04:01,240
Speaker 1: give the Falcons the win, but I won't give him

1278
01:04:01,320 --> 01:04:02,760
Speaker 1: the cover. I think this one will be a one

1279
01:04:02,840 --> 01:04:05,400
Speaker 1: or two point game, very very close. Maybe he got

1280
01:04:05,480 --> 01:04:08,800
Speaker 1: to knock at home at the very end to win

1281
01:04:08,880 --> 01:04:10,240
Speaker 1: it by one or two. But I'm gonna give the

1282
01:04:10,280 --> 01:04:13,720
Speaker 1: Falcons the win and the Bears the cover at four

1283
01:04:13,880 --> 01:04:16,320
Speaker 1: at three and a half being the spread. All right,

1284
01:04:16,400 --> 01:04:19,760
Speaker 1: then a great ball game up in Buffalo. The La

1285
01:04:19,960 --> 01:04:22,760
Speaker 1: Rams have got it back together two and oh a

1286
01:04:22,880 --> 01:04:25,320
Speaker 1: win over Dallas, went on the road at Philly. Now

1287
01:04:25,360 --> 01:04:27,720
Speaker 1: they got to go back on the road to take

1288
01:04:27,800 --> 01:04:29,800
Speaker 1: on the Bills. I do think the Rams maybe stayed

1289
01:04:29,840 --> 01:04:32,880
Speaker 1: on the East coast to take on the Buffalo Bills.

1290
01:04:33,160 --> 01:04:35,600
Speaker 1: The Bills are a one and a half point favorite.

1291
01:04:35,720 --> 01:04:40,240
Speaker 1: Josh Allen. What a huge performance last week. He brings

1292
01:04:40,320 --> 01:04:43,840
Speaker 1: the Bills, gets him ahead, Dolphins take a lead, he

1293
01:04:43,880 --> 01:04:47,000
Speaker 1: brings him back from behind. He's been all kinds of fabulous.

1294
01:04:47,000 --> 01:04:50,000
Speaker 1: Stefon Diggs was outstanding last week and at game against Miami.

1295
01:04:50,120 --> 01:04:53,000
Speaker 1: Diggs leads the Bills with eight receptions a game at

1296
01:04:53,000 --> 01:04:55,360
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty yards a game, does have one touchdown,

1297
01:04:55,560 --> 01:05:00,200
Speaker 1: but Josh Allen seventy percent completion percentage for three and

1298
01:05:00,280 --> 01:05:02,920
Speaker 1: sixty four yards per game, no picks, and six touchdowns

1299
01:05:02,960 --> 01:05:05,840
Speaker 1: in two games. But Jared Goff's been pretty darn good

1300
01:05:05,880 --> 01:05:08,960
Speaker 1: to sixty nine percent completion, three touchdowns, two hundred and

1301
01:05:08,960 --> 01:05:11,200
Speaker 1: seventy one yards per game. But the Rams aren't running

1302
01:05:11,200 --> 01:05:13,280
Speaker 1: the ball very well, and that worries me. Against the Bills,

1303
01:05:13,360 --> 01:05:15,760
Speaker 1: team that I think gets a big win at home,

1304
01:05:16,040 --> 01:05:18,439
Speaker 1: the one and a half point spread, the Bills will cover,

1305
01:05:18,760 --> 01:05:21,760
Speaker 1: and the Bills will get a win at home and

1306
01:05:21,880 --> 01:05:25,440
Speaker 1: go to three and oh on this young season. Then

1307
01:05:25,480 --> 01:05:28,120
Speaker 1: we got a matchup of two teams that, man, I

1308
01:05:28,120 --> 01:05:29,520
Speaker 1: don't know what to think of. You either wanted. I

1309
01:05:29,600 --> 01:05:32,360
Speaker 1: think this game may tell the story of what these

1310
01:05:32,400 --> 01:05:35,280
Speaker 1: two teams are. The Washington football team is one on

1311
01:05:35,400 --> 01:05:39,520
Speaker 1: one one opening weekend against Philadelphia and then got trounced

1312
01:05:39,560 --> 01:05:43,320
Speaker 1: out in Arizona. The Browns, they got hammered by the Ravens,

1313
01:05:43,560 --> 01:05:45,840
Speaker 1: turned around and won a close, high scoring ball game

1314
01:05:45,880 --> 01:05:48,560
Speaker 1: against the Bengals. Both teams won and one. The spread

1315
01:05:48,680 --> 01:05:52,840
Speaker 1: here is seven in favor of the home Cleveland Browns.

1316
01:05:53,000 --> 01:05:56,440
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield a little bit better last week against the Bengals.

1317
01:05:56,600 --> 01:06:00,360
Speaker 1: The run game is still the key. OBJ said, Look,

1318
01:06:00,440 --> 01:06:02,240
Speaker 1: I'm just not gonna get touches this year. We're a

1319
01:06:02,360 --> 01:06:05,840
Speaker 1: running team, and I do think that could give Washington

1320
01:06:06,000 --> 01:06:08,360
Speaker 1: a little bit of an issue. But This is a

1321
01:06:08,440 --> 01:06:12,840
Speaker 1: great test for the Cleveland offensive line. Unfortunately, I just

1322
01:06:12,960 --> 01:06:17,280
Speaker 1: don't think that Washington. I don't think Washington's pass rush

1323
01:06:17,680 --> 01:06:22,480
Speaker 1: is enough to overcome how little they have offensively. Terry

1324
01:06:22,560 --> 01:06:25,240
Speaker 1: McLaren has been great, six catches a game for ninety

1325
01:06:25,240 --> 01:06:27,920
Speaker 1: three yards a game. Antonio Gibson and the run game

1326
01:06:28,000 --> 01:06:30,360
Speaker 1: just not getting it done at Dwayne Haskins has been okay,

1327
01:06:30,920 --> 01:06:32,960
Speaker 1: but he's just sort of in a caretaker all right now.

1328
01:06:33,000 --> 01:06:35,120
Speaker 1: He's got to make some plays. I don't think this

1329
01:06:35,320 --> 01:06:37,320
Speaker 1: is the game he'll do it. Although the Browns are

1330
01:06:37,320 --> 01:06:39,600
Speaker 1: going out thirty eight and thirty, so this could be

1331
01:06:39,640 --> 01:06:42,120
Speaker 1: a little high scoring and we think which you think

1332
01:06:42,160 --> 01:06:44,680
Speaker 1: would favor the Browns and I think it will. But

1333
01:06:44,800 --> 01:06:46,360
Speaker 1: this game is going to be a lot closer than

1334
01:06:46,400 --> 01:06:50,600
Speaker 1: you think. I'm thinking twenty seven twenty three Browns at

1335
01:06:50,680 --> 01:06:54,680
Speaker 1: home get the win, the Washington football team gets the cover.

1336
01:06:54,800 --> 01:06:58,480
Speaker 1: With that seven point spread, Titans go to the Vikings.

1337
01:06:59,240 --> 01:07:02,320
Speaker 1: Here we go. Titans are favored by three on the road.

1338
01:07:03,840 --> 01:07:05,880
Speaker 1: I have not been impressed thus far, and I don't know,

1339
01:07:06,000 --> 01:07:09,320
Speaker 1: maybe it's just maybe the inner hatred for the Titans.

1340
01:07:09,320 --> 01:07:11,080
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I was not impressed. With them

1341
01:07:12,080 --> 01:07:14,360
Speaker 1: playing the Broncos a Monday night, I feel like the

1342
01:07:14,440 --> 01:07:17,640
Speaker 1: Broncos make one catch for Jerry Judy, call their timeouts

1343
01:07:17,640 --> 01:07:19,320
Speaker 1: at the end of the game, have one shot to

1344
01:07:19,400 --> 01:07:22,919
Speaker 1: win it. Who knows, but they didn't. And then last

1345
01:07:22,960 --> 01:07:27,600
Speaker 1: week the Titans narrowly escaped with the thirty three thirty

1346
01:07:27,600 --> 01:07:29,480
Speaker 1: win over the Jaguars. And look what the Jaguars that

1347
01:07:29,520 --> 01:07:31,520
Speaker 1: against the Dolphins. So I don't know how good the

1348
01:07:31,560 --> 01:07:34,680
Speaker 1: Titans are. And no Aj Brown in this one. And

1349
01:07:34,800 --> 01:07:37,760
Speaker 1: if any team is desperate, it's the Vikings at O

1350
01:07:38,120 --> 01:07:40,960
Speaker 1: into and at home. They lose this one. They then

1351
01:07:41,040 --> 01:07:44,240
Speaker 1: come to Houston, oh and three, I don't think it happens.

1352
01:07:44,440 --> 01:07:46,520
Speaker 1: I think that Kirk Cousins is going to reach back.

1353
01:07:46,800 --> 01:07:49,680
Speaker 1: He's gonna find something in that Gary Kubiak offense, and

1354
01:07:49,800 --> 01:07:53,280
Speaker 1: the Vikings will finally get things going in the right direction,

1355
01:07:53,360 --> 01:07:56,360
Speaker 1: at least for one week. Before they come to Houston.

1356
01:07:56,600 --> 01:08:01,040
Speaker 1: The Vikings in and upset, They slow down Derek Hannon, somehow,

1357
01:08:01,480 --> 01:08:04,040
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook finds his way in the running game, and

1358
01:08:04,200 --> 01:08:07,840
Speaker 1: the Vikings get an upset win at home over the

1359
01:08:08,000 --> 01:08:11,840
Speaker 1: favored Titan. So obviously Vikings to win and to cover.

1360
01:08:12,440 --> 01:08:15,080
Speaker 1: I think this is gonna be a It's a must

1361
01:08:15,160 --> 01:08:17,240
Speaker 1: win for the Vikings because the way the Packers are

1362
01:08:17,320 --> 01:08:20,960
Speaker 1: planned brown the Bears both two and oh. If there's

1363
01:08:21,080 --> 01:08:22,519
Speaker 1: any way for the Vikings to get back in this,

1364
01:08:22,640 --> 01:08:25,479
Speaker 1: they gotta have this and they know it. Then we

1365
01:08:25,640 --> 01:08:30,080
Speaker 1: go to Gillette Stadium, another noon Central kick where the

1366
01:08:30,520 --> 01:08:34,439
Speaker 1: Raiders are taken on the Patriots, and the Raiders are

1367
01:08:34,479 --> 01:08:39,040
Speaker 1: coming off one of those wins that can either take

1368
01:08:39,120 --> 01:08:42,599
Speaker 1: a team to another level or it can over inflate

1369
01:08:42,680 --> 01:08:44,800
Speaker 1: a team it thinks it's better than it is. The

1370
01:08:44,880 --> 01:08:47,400
Speaker 1: next week they get brought down to reality. I think

1371
01:08:47,400 --> 01:08:50,600
Speaker 1: the Raiders are somewhere in between. Darren Waller was fantastic

1372
01:08:51,160 --> 01:08:53,519
Speaker 1: against the Saints on that Monday night. Derek Carr did

1373
01:08:53,560 --> 01:08:55,920
Speaker 1: a really nice job managing the offense, get the ball

1374
01:08:55,960 --> 01:08:57,880
Speaker 1: where it needed to go, get in the ball out quickly,

1375
01:08:58,160 --> 01:09:01,679
Speaker 1: and then obviously Josh Jacobs in the game just massive

1376
01:09:01,920 --> 01:09:04,240
Speaker 1: as they really controlled that thing from about the second

1377
01:09:04,280 --> 01:09:07,439
Speaker 1: quarter on to win over the Saints. The Patriots went

1378
01:09:07,520 --> 01:09:10,560
Speaker 1: out to Seattle. Man, I'm telling you that was a

1379
01:09:10,720 --> 01:09:14,000
Speaker 1: really good flag and Cam Newton has played very very well.

1380
01:09:14,120 --> 01:09:16,200
Speaker 1: He is averaging two hundred and seventy six yards per

1381
01:09:16,280 --> 01:09:18,960
Speaker 1: game through the air, completing over seventy one percent of

1382
01:09:19,040 --> 01:09:21,559
Speaker 1: his passes, and he leads the team in rushing who

1383
01:09:21,600 --> 01:09:24,960
Speaker 1: with sixty one yards per game. The Raiders are a

1384
01:09:25,040 --> 01:09:27,920
Speaker 1: five and a half point dog. I feel like that

1385
01:09:28,280 --> 01:09:30,559
Speaker 1: might be the one thing that gets them, Like, hey, guys,

1386
01:09:31,320 --> 01:09:35,120
Speaker 1: you went on dominated the Saints at home. This is

1387
01:09:35,200 --> 01:09:38,439
Speaker 1: not a home field advantage thing for the New England Patriots.

1388
01:09:38,760 --> 01:09:41,120
Speaker 1: I think the Raiders go out there and at least

1389
01:09:41,160 --> 01:09:43,559
Speaker 1: get inside the number. I'm taking the Raiders to cover

1390
01:09:43,880 --> 01:09:47,760
Speaker 1: Patriots very close. It feels like a three point ball game.

1391
01:09:48,000 --> 01:09:50,760
Speaker 1: Patriots win, Raiders get a cover with a five and

1392
01:09:50,760 --> 01:09:52,639
Speaker 1: a half point spread. See what I'm telling you about

1393
01:09:52,640 --> 01:09:55,200
Speaker 1: the spread for the Texans game. The Steelers only favored

1394
01:09:55,240 --> 01:09:57,920
Speaker 1: by four at home. The Patriots are favored by five

1395
01:09:57,920 --> 01:10:00,120
Speaker 1: and a half over the Raiders. The Raiders are who.

1396
01:10:00,800 --> 01:10:05,599
Speaker 1: So somewhere somebody believes that either the Steelers aren't as

1397
01:10:05,640 --> 01:10:08,280
Speaker 1: good as they are or that the Texans are better

1398
01:10:08,479 --> 01:10:10,320
Speaker 1: than a lot of people think. All right, Another New

1399
01:10:10,479 --> 01:10:13,439
Speaker 1: Kick Central time game, the forty nine Ers taken on

1400
01:10:13,520 --> 01:10:17,519
Speaker 1: the Giants at MetLife Stadium's a second weekend or row.

1401
01:10:17,600 --> 01:10:20,080
Speaker 1: The forty nine Ers will play in MetLife Last week

1402
01:10:20,160 --> 01:10:22,200
Speaker 1: the Niners played. There a lot of complaints about the

1403
01:10:22,240 --> 01:10:24,840
Speaker 1: sticky turf. The NFL has been out to investigate it,

1404
01:10:25,280 --> 01:10:27,920
Speaker 1: saying that the MetLife turf is fine. They'll play this week,

1405
01:10:28,080 --> 01:10:31,920
Speaker 1: but the forty nine ers are down seemingly everybody, including

1406
01:10:32,000 --> 01:10:36,639
Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo, leaving Nick Mullins to start for the forty

1407
01:10:36,720 --> 01:10:39,639
Speaker 1: nine ers to take on the Giants. Joe Judge's Giants

1408
01:10:39,720 --> 01:10:42,880
Speaker 1: are o in two and lost set Quon Barkley for

1409
01:10:43,120 --> 01:10:45,160
Speaker 1: the year. I think the forty nine ers at one

1410
01:10:45,200 --> 01:10:48,479
Speaker 1: and one will get another win, this time over the Gmen.

1411
01:10:48,560 --> 01:10:50,800
Speaker 1: The San Francisco forty nine Ers only favored by three

1412
01:10:50,800 --> 01:10:52,760
Speaker 1: and a half. I like the forty nineers who win

1413
01:10:52,880 --> 01:10:55,559
Speaker 1: this by seven to ten. Take the forty nine ers

1414
01:10:55,640 --> 01:10:58,679
Speaker 1: to win and cover that three and a half against

1415
01:10:58,720 --> 01:11:03,960
Speaker 1: the g All right, another noon kit game to owing

1416
01:11:04,040 --> 01:11:09,160
Speaker 1: two teams that have really exciting offenses. The Cincinnati Bengals

1417
01:11:09,160 --> 01:11:11,960
Speaker 1: are owing two, but Joe Burrow has really shown what

1418
01:11:12,160 --> 01:11:13,960
Speaker 1: he can do. They lose by three at homes to

1419
01:11:14,040 --> 01:11:18,080
Speaker 1: the Chargers. Almost gotta win. Aj Green called the OPI

1420
01:11:18,520 --> 01:11:21,200
Speaker 1: that negated a go ahead touchdown and they scored thirty

1421
01:11:21,240 --> 01:11:23,679
Speaker 1: points against the Browns and the second one lost by five.

1422
01:11:24,080 --> 01:11:26,280
Speaker 1: They can put the ball in the end zone. The Eagles,

1423
01:11:26,680 --> 01:11:29,080
Speaker 1: when they're on track and they're protecting Carson Wentz, they

1424
01:11:29,120 --> 01:11:32,720
Speaker 1: can be as exciting as any offense out there. It's

1425
01:11:32,760 --> 01:11:35,200
Speaker 1: now time to show it. I think the Eagles are

1426
01:11:35,439 --> 01:11:38,960
Speaker 1: more desperate than the Bengals. The Bengals playing with Joe

1427
01:11:39,040 --> 01:11:42,479
Speaker 1: Burrow every single week. It's fun, it's exciting, But I

1428
01:11:42,560 --> 01:11:44,960
Speaker 1: don't know if it's the feeling of we have to

1429
01:11:45,200 --> 01:11:48,240
Speaker 1: win this game. The Eagles, it is a have to win.

1430
01:11:48,840 --> 01:11:51,200
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson's got to be feeling the pressure a little bit.

1431
01:11:51,520 --> 01:11:56,000
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz has thrown two touchdowns and four interceptions on

1432
01:11:56,160 --> 01:11:59,400
Speaker 1: the year. I think that changes. This Bengals defense is

1433
01:11:59,479 --> 01:12:02,679
Speaker 1: exactly what Philadelphia needed. Philadelphia's favored by four and a half.

1434
01:12:02,920 --> 01:12:05,880
Speaker 1: I think the Eagles get the win, they get the cover,

1435
01:12:06,240 --> 01:12:08,479
Speaker 1: and this one is going over the forty seven and

1436
01:12:08,520 --> 01:12:10,840
Speaker 1: a half. Trust me, twenty eight twenty one gets you there.

1437
01:12:10,920 --> 01:12:13,240
Speaker 1: These teams will get there. There's no doubt about that.

1438
01:12:13,439 --> 01:12:16,360
Speaker 1: All right. Talked about Texans and Steelers. Pittsburghs are four

1439
01:12:16,439 --> 01:12:18,639
Speaker 1: point favorite. I'd never go against my heart in my head,

1440
01:12:18,920 --> 01:12:21,360
Speaker 1: Texas to win and to cover. So let's move on

1441
01:12:22,920 --> 01:12:26,080
Speaker 1: to a matchup at three or five Central time, and

1442
01:12:26,160 --> 01:12:30,280
Speaker 1: that's the Jets against the Colts. Let's make this one quick.

1443
01:12:30,680 --> 01:12:32,720
Speaker 1: The Colts are one and one. Jonathan Taylor one up

1444
01:12:32,760 --> 01:12:35,000
Speaker 1: for one hundred yards last week and its first rushing

1445
01:12:35,080 --> 01:12:37,280
Speaker 1: touchdown in the league. That's what the Colts are. The

1446
01:12:37,479 --> 01:12:40,080
Speaker 1: Jets are gonna be picking Trevor Lawrence at the end

1447
01:12:40,120 --> 01:12:44,200
Speaker 1: of the year, more than likely, unless Sam Donald doesn't

1448
01:12:44,200 --> 01:12:46,639
Speaker 1: about face, which I'm not seeing right now. Trevor Lawrence

1449
01:12:46,680 --> 01:12:48,920
Speaker 1: would make all kinds of sense. Glad. I just put

1450
01:12:48,960 --> 01:12:50,960
Speaker 1: it this way. The Colts are gonna win. The spread

1451
01:12:51,000 --> 01:12:52,760
Speaker 1: on this one is eleven and a half. The Coults

1452
01:12:52,800 --> 01:12:54,679
Speaker 1: are gonna bury that. They're gonna win by two touchdowns.

1453
01:12:54,720 --> 01:12:56,560
Speaker 1: Colts will go to tune one. I would love to

1454
01:12:56,600 --> 01:12:59,680
Speaker 1: see the Jets upset them, but yeah, I don't think so.

1455
01:13:00,439 --> 01:13:03,120
Speaker 1: They don't think that's gonna happen. Oh gosh, all right,

1456
01:13:03,280 --> 01:13:05,280
Speaker 1: so we want again. It could be very intriguing. Now,

1457
01:13:05,680 --> 01:13:08,160
Speaker 1: there are key injuries on both sides here for the

1458
01:13:08,280 --> 01:13:12,120
Speaker 1: Panthers and the Chargers out at SOFI Stadium. The Chargers

1459
01:13:12,120 --> 01:13:14,160
Speaker 1: are favored by just under a touchdown six and a

1460
01:13:14,200 --> 01:13:18,800
Speaker 1: half points. But the Panthers are without mister ninety nine

1461
01:13:19,200 --> 01:13:22,280
Speaker 1: Madden rating, Christian McCaffrey. He's out for about forty six

1462
01:13:22,360 --> 01:13:24,960
Speaker 1: weeks with that ankle issue. The Chargers are gonna be

1463
01:13:25,040 --> 01:13:27,080
Speaker 1: without Tarrod Taylor, but that actually might not be a

1464
01:13:27,160 --> 01:13:29,559
Speaker 1: bad thing for the Chargers because it puts Justin Herbert

1465
01:13:29,960 --> 01:13:33,320
Speaker 1: back in charge. I think this Chargers offense watching against

1466
01:13:33,360 --> 01:13:36,439
Speaker 1: the Chiefs was very dynamic with Herbert, He's gonna make

1467
01:13:36,479 --> 01:13:40,400
Speaker 1: some mistakes. There's no question in playing at home at SOFI.

1468
01:13:40,760 --> 01:13:42,559
Speaker 1: That was a game they should have had last week.

1469
01:13:42,880 --> 01:13:45,160
Speaker 1: No doubt they will not lose this game. They win

1470
01:13:45,240 --> 01:13:47,840
Speaker 1: this game by seven, maybe more than that. I feel

1471
01:13:47,880 --> 01:13:50,680
Speaker 1: like ten to fourteen over the Panthers. Teddy Bridgewater will

1472
01:13:50,680 --> 01:13:53,120
Speaker 1: put up yards, not enough points. Chargers win this thing

1473
01:13:53,320 --> 01:13:56,919
Speaker 1: by ten to fourteen. Keep an eye on the Chargers

1474
01:13:57,000 --> 01:13:59,680
Speaker 1: defense might be without Melvin Ingram. That could hurt them

1475
01:13:59,680 --> 01:14:02,439
Speaker 1: a little bit. Tyrod Taylor's definitely out, so Herbert gets

1476
01:14:02,479 --> 01:14:04,960
Speaker 1: another start. We'll see what he's able to do for

1477
01:14:05,120 --> 01:14:07,360
Speaker 1: the Chargers. I think the Chargers will get that win

1478
01:14:07,600 --> 01:14:09,760
Speaker 1: and beat the Panthers buy more than six and a half.

1479
01:14:10,520 --> 01:14:13,880
Speaker 1: Then another three. This one had three twenty five Central time.

1480
01:14:13,920 --> 01:14:19,080
Speaker 1: The Bucks taken on the Broncos in Denver last week.

1481
01:14:19,160 --> 01:14:21,760
Speaker 1: The Broncos hung in there with Pittsburgh. I mean hung

1482
01:14:21,840 --> 01:14:23,400
Speaker 1: in there. I don't know if that's the right way

1483
01:14:23,400 --> 01:14:25,559
Speaker 1: of saying it, but they lost Drew Lock, Courtland, Sutton,

1484
01:14:25,600 --> 01:14:27,680
Speaker 1: Torn acl and they're still in that game in the

1485
01:14:27,720 --> 01:14:32,000
Speaker 1: fourth quarter. Lost twenty six twenty one. The Bucks seemingly

1486
01:14:32,080 --> 01:14:36,040
Speaker 1: got on track. Fournette ran it well, Tom threw it well,

1487
01:14:36,640 --> 01:14:40,280
Speaker 1: Ronald Jones ran it well. They played a solid ball

1488
01:14:40,360 --> 01:14:43,080
Speaker 1: game and gotta win at home over the Panthers. Now

1489
01:14:43,160 --> 01:14:45,599
Speaker 1: they're five and a half point favorite on the road. Look,

1490
01:14:45,680 --> 01:14:49,519
Speaker 1: the Broncos have lost Drew Lock, Von Miller and Courton, Sutton,

1491
01:14:49,840 --> 01:14:54,040
Speaker 1: Courtland Sutton for the foreseeable future. Sutton and Millard done

1492
01:14:54,080 --> 01:14:56,920
Speaker 1: for the year. Apparently don't know about Drew Lock yet.

1493
01:14:57,240 --> 01:15:00,639
Speaker 1: That's too much firepower to lose the Buck of anybody

1494
01:15:00,720 --> 01:15:02,919
Speaker 1: with Tom Brady will know how to beat the Broncos.

1495
01:15:03,200 --> 01:15:05,479
Speaker 1: Give the Bucks a win and they'll win by a touchdown.

1496
01:15:05,520 --> 01:15:07,559
Speaker 1: I'll cover the five and a half on the road.

1497
01:15:07,640 --> 01:15:10,320
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay goes to two one. The Broncos all two

1498
01:15:10,720 --> 01:15:13,719
Speaker 1: and three last year. To kick off the twenty nineteen season,

1499
01:15:13,880 --> 01:15:17,920
Speaker 1: the Lions went to Arizona. They kicked the season off

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01:15:18,000 --> 01:15:21,960
Speaker 1: with a tie. That will not happen this week. The

1501
01:15:22,080 --> 01:15:25,880
Speaker 1: Cardinals are playing exceptionally well. Kyler Murray is an early

1502
01:15:26,080 --> 01:15:30,639
Speaker 1: MVP candidate. He leads them in both passing and rushing,

1503
01:15:30,760 --> 01:15:33,360
Speaker 1: averaging seventy nine yards a game on the ground. Three

1504
01:15:33,400 --> 01:15:35,640
Speaker 1: our rushing touchdowns already, that's more. There's more of the

1505
01:15:35,760 --> 01:15:39,280
Speaker 1: passing touchdowns he's got two. The Lions are kind of

1506
01:15:39,360 --> 01:15:42,479
Speaker 1: a mess, which is not too surprising, to be honest

1507
01:15:42,520 --> 01:15:44,360
Speaker 1: with you. There are five and a half point dogs.

1508
01:15:44,520 --> 01:15:48,240
Speaker 1: I think Arizona wins at home. They cover that five

1509
01:15:48,280 --> 01:15:50,919
Speaker 1: and a half. This feels like a circle the wagons

1510
01:15:51,000 --> 01:15:53,519
Speaker 1: thing for the Lions, but I don't know what they're

1511
01:15:53,520 --> 01:15:56,759
Speaker 1: circling their wagons around. All indications are that Matt Patricia

1512
01:15:56,840 --> 01:15:59,720
Speaker 1: has just rubbed everybody raw there in Detroit. I think

1513
01:16:00,000 --> 01:16:02,320
Speaker 1: Troy it falls two oh and three. Cardinals get a

1514
01:16:02,400 --> 01:16:06,000
Speaker 1: win and cover that five and a half point spread.

1515
01:16:06,400 --> 01:16:08,760
Speaker 1: Then the last of year three, twenty five Central time

1516
01:16:08,880 --> 01:16:13,639
Speaker 1: kicks the Cowboys taken on the Seahawks. Oooho, Buddy over

1517
01:16:13,800 --> 01:16:17,240
Speaker 1: under on this is fifty seven and a half. Oh

1518
01:16:17,400 --> 01:16:21,280
Speaker 1: my gosh, that's the enormous number. You know what, thirty

1519
01:16:21,320 --> 01:16:23,439
Speaker 1: to twenty nine gets you there, So let's go over

1520
01:16:23,560 --> 01:16:27,760
Speaker 1: that total somehow Subway and the Seahawks are favored by

1521
01:16:27,920 --> 01:16:30,720
Speaker 1: four and a half over the Cowboys. I'm telling you,

1522
01:16:30,840 --> 01:16:34,280
Speaker 1: Dek Prescott has been unbelievable through two games. Three hundred

1523
01:16:34,280 --> 01:16:36,639
Speaker 1: and fifty eight yards. He let him back from down

1524
01:16:36,800 --> 01:16:39,080
Speaker 1: nineteen going to the fourth quarter and second half. I

1525
01:16:39,120 --> 01:16:41,759
Speaker 1: mean they win forty to thirty nine over the Falcons.

1526
01:16:41,840 --> 01:16:45,240
Speaker 1: Should have probably never happened, but it did. The Seahawks

1527
01:16:45,320 --> 01:16:47,040
Speaker 1: get a win at home over the Patriots. A goal

1528
01:16:47,080 --> 01:16:51,320
Speaker 1: line stand gets it done. Russell Wilson is averaging three

1529
01:16:51,439 --> 01:16:54,599
Speaker 1: hundred and five yards a game, completing eighty two point

1530
01:16:54,720 --> 01:17:01,000
Speaker 1: five percent of his passes, nine touchdowns. Good grief, Seahawks win,

1531
01:17:01,680 --> 01:17:04,439
Speaker 1: Seahawks cover. It's a big one for Seattle at home,

1532
01:17:04,479 --> 01:17:07,639
Speaker 1: and I think that's what happens. But of anything, go over.

1533
01:17:08,040 --> 01:17:11,880
Speaker 1: Your Sunday night game is Packers at Saints. Saints. I'm

1534
01:17:11,920 --> 01:17:15,640
Speaker 1: second quarter on against the Raiders on Monday night. Did

1535
01:17:15,720 --> 01:17:18,679
Speaker 1: not look good. Just didn't look good, didn't look solid.

1536
01:17:18,720 --> 01:17:20,560
Speaker 1: They didn't look like they had their game together. I

1537
01:17:20,640 --> 01:17:23,879
Speaker 1: think they bounced back, but the Packers' offense is on fire.

1538
01:17:24,320 --> 01:17:26,479
Speaker 1: But this is a make or break game for the Saints,

1539
01:17:26,640 --> 01:17:29,439
Speaker 1: and in those situations, I'm going with the desperate team.

1540
01:17:29,520 --> 01:17:32,559
Speaker 1: The desperate team the Saints. They're a three point favorite.

1541
01:17:32,680 --> 01:17:35,600
Speaker 1: I think that's right at the number. So let's go

1542
01:17:35,720 --> 01:17:40,080
Speaker 1: with the Packers getting the cover, with Saints getting the win. Yeah,

1543
01:17:40,080 --> 01:17:41,920
Speaker 1: it'll be like a one or two point game, that's

1544
01:17:41,960 --> 01:17:43,400
Speaker 1: the way I feel, but the Saints are going to

1545
01:17:43,479 --> 01:17:46,880
Speaker 1: get that win a desperate situation. Then the game of

1546
01:17:46,920 --> 01:17:48,720
Speaker 1: the weekend on a Monday night. It's probably the best

1547
01:17:48,760 --> 01:17:50,920
Speaker 1: Monday night game there's been since the Chiefs went out

1548
01:17:50,960 --> 01:17:53,200
Speaker 1: to the Rams in twenty eighteen, and they played that

1549
01:17:53,280 --> 01:17:57,080
Speaker 1: on a Monday night, the Chiefs go to Baltimore. Having

1550
01:17:57,120 --> 01:17:59,280
Speaker 1: seen both teams, I asked us to John mcclanny other

1551
01:17:59,400 --> 01:18:01,680
Speaker 1: night which team he think was better. I think it's

1552
01:18:01,720 --> 01:18:04,080
Speaker 1: the Ravens because the defense is that much better and

1553
01:18:04,160 --> 01:18:06,800
Speaker 1: the Ravens offense has multiple ways to hurt you. I

1554
01:18:06,920 --> 01:18:09,320
Speaker 1: still think that Chiefs defense is not a great unit,

1555
01:18:10,000 --> 01:18:12,400
Speaker 1: not a great above average, Yes, not a great unit.

1556
01:18:12,600 --> 01:18:16,719
Speaker 1: Ravens defense is excellent and way above average. For that reason.

1557
01:18:16,760 --> 01:18:19,439
Speaker 1: I'll give the win to the Baltimore Ravens. They will

1558
01:18:19,479 --> 01:18:21,880
Speaker 1: cover that three and a half as well. Moving the

1559
01:18:21,960 --> 01:18:24,320
Speaker 1: Chiefs to tune one, the Ravens get to three and oh.

1560
01:18:24,600 --> 01:18:27,280
Speaker 1: The Ravens to me are the best team in football.

1561
01:18:27,600 --> 01:18:29,320
Speaker 1: And seeing him up close, I had a good chance

1562
01:18:29,360 --> 01:18:32,120
Speaker 1: to compare it, and I think the Ravens are that team.

1563
01:18:32,520 --> 01:18:34,880
Speaker 1: It's going to be really hard to beat them down

1564
01:18:34,920 --> 01:18:36,960
Speaker 1: the road, There's no question about that. Okay, we got

1565
01:18:37,000 --> 01:18:39,760
Speaker 1: one segment left. That means it's time for It's time

1566
01:18:39,840 --> 01:18:43,560
Speaker 1: for Drew's final word, and this week it's with a

1567
01:18:44,080 --> 01:18:47,960
Speaker 1: young defensive star who has been a lynchpin since he's

1568
01:18:48,000 --> 01:18:49,920
Speaker 1: gotten here in twenty eighteen. We'll have that for you

1569
01:18:50,040 --> 01:18:55,840
Speaker 1: next on Texans Access. Texans All Access continues in a moment,

1570
01:18:59,080 --> 01:19:02,000
Speaker 1: what are the experts predicting about this week's big game?

1571
01:19:03,000 --> 01:19:06,240
Speaker 1: Extra points Saturday nights at ten thirty or after the

1572
01:19:06,320 --> 01:19:10,080
Speaker 1: late local news on ABC thirteen. We've got one fast

1573
01:19:10,120 --> 01:19:15,200
Speaker 1: segment is Friday edition three Pittsford Steelers game Texas All

1574
01:19:15,240 --> 01:19:18,599
Speaker 1: Access from the Monday Texas Radio Studio. I am John

1575
01:19:18,720 --> 01:19:21,599
Speaker 1: Harris again. Another reminder, I can't remind you this enough.

1576
01:19:22,120 --> 01:19:27,760
Speaker 1: Twelve o'clock kick We've had a Thursday night, a Sunday afternoon,

1577
01:19:28,320 --> 01:19:32,800
Speaker 1: and now a run of twelve o'clock games. Hopefully a

1578
01:19:32,960 --> 01:19:35,479
Speaker 1: game or maybe two could get flexed to Sunday night,

1579
01:19:35,680 --> 01:19:38,320
Speaker 1: but as of right now, all noon games, the exception

1580
01:19:38,520 --> 01:19:41,400
Speaker 1: being the Detroit Lions Thanksgiving game, which will go a

1581
01:19:41,439 --> 01:19:43,960
Speaker 1: little bit earlier than twelve. That's down the road. We

1582
01:19:44,000 --> 01:19:46,280
Speaker 1: won't worry about that till we get closer to Thanksgiving.

1583
01:19:46,640 --> 01:19:49,320
Speaker 1: Noon kickoffs. So anybody ask you what times the game noon?

1584
01:19:49,640 --> 01:19:51,920
Speaker 1: What about this game noon? What about that game noon?

1585
01:19:52,160 --> 01:19:54,960
Speaker 1: What about the other game? Noon? All new kickoffs from

1586
01:19:55,040 --> 01:19:58,040
Speaker 1: here on out. We'll have the game fourty on Sports

1587
01:19:58,120 --> 01:20:01,600
Speaker 1: Radio six ten, Mark on Drey and myself will have

1588
01:20:01,800 --> 01:20:05,080
Speaker 1: you covered. We'll have the pregame show with Sean and

1589
01:20:05,360 --> 01:20:07,960
Speaker 1: with Seth Payne. That's always a fun listen in the morning.

1590
01:20:08,800 --> 01:20:11,479
Speaker 1: Ak Whiskey Johnson. If you have not heard those two together,

1591
01:20:11,560 --> 01:20:15,000
Speaker 1: they're fantastic. The postgame is with Sean Pendergast and Clint Sterner.

1592
01:20:15,320 --> 01:20:18,360
Speaker 1: They're fantastic. I love those three guys. Sean and I

1593
01:20:18,439 --> 01:20:20,800
Speaker 1: did radio for a long time together, so you know,

1594
01:20:20,840 --> 01:20:23,479
Speaker 1: we're boys from way back. And Clinton Seth know the

1595
01:20:23,520 --> 01:20:26,000
Speaker 1: game as well as anybody you're gonna find, so really

1596
01:20:26,120 --> 01:20:30,400
Speaker 1: good coverage from beginning to end. Pregame will kick off

1597
01:20:30,479 --> 01:20:34,639
Speaker 1: at nine o'clock local time, game at twelve. Pregame will

1598
01:20:34,640 --> 01:20:38,000
Speaker 1: follow about ten to fifteen minutes after all of us

1599
01:20:38,080 --> 01:20:40,559
Speaker 1: are done in Pittsburgh with the radio call. That's when

1600
01:20:40,600 --> 01:20:43,559
Speaker 1: Sean and Clint will get it going at that point.

1601
01:20:43,680 --> 01:20:46,160
Speaker 1: Now each and every Friday, I turn it over to

1602
01:20:46,280 --> 01:20:49,840
Speaker 1: Drew Doherty for the final word with Drew Doherty. This

1603
01:20:50,040 --> 01:20:54,200
Speaker 1: week it is with former Stanford star three year starter

1604
01:20:54,400 --> 01:20:57,200
Speaker 1: for the Texans, a guy the team drafted in the

1605
01:20:57,360 --> 01:21:00,479
Speaker 1: third round and we're lucky to find him there in

1606
01:21:00,520 --> 01:21:02,640
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, and he has become a lynchpin in the

1607
01:21:02,720 --> 01:21:05,160
Speaker 1: secondary for this defense, for this team, and that is

1608
01:21:05,479 --> 01:21:08,639
Speaker 1: Justin Reid. Drew, take it away, Justin. Let's start here.

1609
01:21:09,000 --> 01:21:11,720
Speaker 1: How hungry is this Texans team at oh and two

1610
01:21:12,120 --> 01:21:14,360
Speaker 1: just to get a win? Definitely not a good taste

1611
01:21:14,360 --> 01:21:17,880
Speaker 1: in the mouth, but very hungry. The guys, especially this week,

1612
01:21:17,960 --> 01:21:20,439
Speaker 1: the energy has been great. Guys have really tackled the

1613
01:21:20,479 --> 01:21:23,479
Speaker 1: adversity of the situation that we're facing. We're not afraid

1614
01:21:23,520 --> 01:21:25,599
Speaker 1: of it, and we're ready to go challenge him no doubt,

1615
01:21:25,680 --> 01:21:28,320
Speaker 1: and you know you talked about a change week one

1616
01:21:28,360 --> 01:21:31,320
Speaker 1: to week two, there was a step taken defensively. You

1617
01:21:31,320 --> 01:21:33,439
Speaker 1: didn't end the way you guys wanted to, and you're

1618
01:21:33,479 --> 01:21:36,160
Speaker 1: not satisfied at all with that result. But taking a

1619
01:21:36,200 --> 01:21:38,680
Speaker 1: step week two to week three, you're very confident that

1620
01:21:38,920 --> 01:21:41,360
Speaker 1: that's going to happen, aren't you. Yeah, from week one

1621
01:21:41,479 --> 01:21:43,280
Speaker 1: week two, we've gotten a lot better, especially on the

1622
01:21:43,360 --> 01:21:46,840
Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball, eliminating the X plays. We've

1623
01:21:46,840 --> 01:21:48,800
Speaker 1: gotten even better in the run. We can continue to

1624
01:21:48,840 --> 01:21:51,000
Speaker 1: get better in a run, and that's what the emphasis

1625
01:21:51,080 --> 01:21:53,439
Speaker 1: this week has been. Just continue to be a dominant defense,

1626
01:21:53,800 --> 01:21:56,760
Speaker 1: really hold this team to little no points, and go

1627
01:21:56,840 --> 01:21:58,160
Speaker 1: out there and do all parts to make sure we

1628
01:21:58,240 --> 01:22:00,360
Speaker 1: get a dub. It really only takes one win to

1629
01:22:00,400 --> 01:22:03,599
Speaker 1: get the ball rolling. We've seen that two to three

1630
01:22:03,680 --> 01:22:05,840
Speaker 1: years ago in twenty eighteen whenever we got that and

1631
01:22:05,880 --> 01:22:08,640
Speaker 1: win on nine wins straight. So there's no reason we

1632
01:22:08,720 --> 01:22:10,880
Speaker 1: can't do that again. You know we could go. Bill

1633
01:22:10,920 --> 01:22:15,080
Speaker 1: O'Brien pointed out the week one the Texans missed twenty tackles.

1634
01:22:15,560 --> 01:22:18,519
Speaker 1: It looked like in week two you guys really changed

1635
01:22:18,600 --> 01:22:20,960
Speaker 1: that and got better in that regard. Would you agree

1636
01:22:21,000 --> 01:22:23,120
Speaker 1: with that assessment and how much further do you think

1637
01:22:23,160 --> 01:22:25,479
Speaker 1: you guys need to go there? Yeah, I think a

1638
01:22:25,520 --> 01:22:27,640
Speaker 1: lot of that was just knocking to rust off. You know,

1639
01:22:27,800 --> 01:22:30,160
Speaker 1: that first game was still a little bit like a

1640
01:22:30,240 --> 01:22:32,720
Speaker 1: preseason game, not to make excuses for it, but we

1641
01:22:32,800 --> 01:22:35,000
Speaker 1: didn't have those reps in order to really knock the

1642
01:22:35,040 --> 01:22:38,080
Speaker 1: rust off. So what I noticed, especially in our game

1643
01:22:38,520 --> 01:22:40,439
Speaker 1: was that the second game the tackling was a lot better.

1644
01:22:40,479 --> 01:22:42,439
Speaker 1: We cut the miss tackles down in half, and it

1645
01:22:42,439 --> 01:22:44,960
Speaker 1: will continue to get better, especially going into this week.

1646
01:22:45,280 --> 01:22:47,400
Speaker 1: When you met with the media on Thursday, you said

1647
01:22:47,439 --> 01:22:50,200
Speaker 1: something very interesting. You were asked about one of the

1648
01:22:50,240 --> 01:22:54,120
Speaker 1: biggest differences playing during these times of COVID. You said,

1649
01:22:54,160 --> 01:22:56,600
Speaker 1: there's a lot more trash talking. So of course that

1650
01:22:56,680 --> 01:22:58,960
Speaker 1: made my ears perk up. How much of a trash

1651
01:22:59,000 --> 01:23:01,960
Speaker 1: talker were you pre COVID? How much of a trash

1652
01:23:02,000 --> 01:23:04,800
Speaker 1: talker are you now? And what sort of trash do

1653
01:23:04,960 --> 01:23:07,920
Speaker 1: you talk? Are you a subtle guy? Are you allowed guy?

1654
01:23:07,920 --> 01:23:09,920
Speaker 1: How's it gonna give us the full breadth there? What's

1655
01:23:09,960 --> 01:23:11,800
Speaker 1: going on? It's kind of funny that you said that

1656
01:23:12,000 --> 01:23:14,800
Speaker 1: pre COVID. I didn't really talk a lot of trash

1657
01:23:14,880 --> 01:23:16,880
Speaker 1: at all. I'm more let my play speak for myself,

1658
01:23:17,080 --> 01:23:19,160
Speaker 1: you know, so loud all the time. Most of the

1659
01:23:19,160 --> 01:23:23,120
Speaker 1: time you couldn't hear it anyway. Post COVID, I've definitely

1660
01:23:24,000 --> 01:23:27,840
Speaker 1: increased my trash talking to guys on the field, you know,

1661
01:23:28,120 --> 01:23:30,680
Speaker 1: definitely made the game a lot more fun, and you know,

1662
01:23:30,760 --> 01:23:32,840
Speaker 1: it keeps all of us involved in it. It's talking

1663
01:23:32,880 --> 01:23:35,559
Speaker 1: about you know, guys being locked up like that, you're

1664
01:23:35,560 --> 01:23:38,200
Speaker 1: not catching the bar, you know, just just things. I'm sure.

1665
01:23:38,360 --> 01:23:39,960
Speaker 1: I don't know if they let everything be heard on

1666
01:23:40,000 --> 01:23:41,760
Speaker 1: the TV copies of what we say down there, but

1667
01:23:41,800 --> 01:23:44,599
Speaker 1: it definitely keeps the game intense, keeps it fun. I'm

1668
01:23:44,640 --> 01:23:47,160
Speaker 1: guessing you can handle your business for a few reasons,

1669
01:23:47,280 --> 01:23:51,160
Speaker 1: but mainly a you have a big brother and be

1670
01:23:51,800 --> 01:23:54,559
Speaker 1: your Stanford grad so you're really smart. So you're doing

1671
01:23:54,600 --> 01:23:56,560
Speaker 1: all right in that regard as far as either cleverness

1672
01:23:56,680 --> 01:24:00,280
Speaker 1: of jabs that you're throwing verbally, yeah, yeah, but some

1673
01:24:00,360 --> 01:24:02,840
Speaker 1: good trash shoguns. Don't overthink it. Keep it simple and

1674
01:24:02,960 --> 01:24:04,720
Speaker 1: just let him know that you hear you know what

1675
01:24:04,720 --> 01:24:06,439
Speaker 1: I mean, Let him know that you're the dominant one

1676
01:24:06,479 --> 01:24:08,519
Speaker 1: on the field, that you're going to be strapping them

1677
01:24:08,520 --> 01:24:10,519
Speaker 1: all day that you're going to be making plays, and

1678
01:24:10,640 --> 01:24:12,080
Speaker 1: just let him hear, you know, me getting their head

1679
01:24:12,120 --> 01:24:14,439
Speaker 1: a little bit. You don't have to overthink it or

1680
01:24:14,560 --> 01:24:16,879
Speaker 1: make it make it too hard for them to understand

1681
01:24:16,960 --> 01:24:19,559
Speaker 1: what she's saying to him. Keep it short and sweet,

1682
01:24:20,040 --> 01:24:21,560
Speaker 1: all right, You're gonna have to keep it short and

1683
01:24:21,600 --> 01:24:25,240
Speaker 1: sweet with this quarterback. Ben Roethlisberger has been there and

1684
01:24:25,320 --> 01:24:27,479
Speaker 1: done that for quite a long time. When you watch

1685
01:24:27,600 --> 01:24:30,840
Speaker 1: tape of him, can you see how savvy a veteran

1686
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Speaker 1: he is. Can you see the little things, the subtle

1687
01:24:32,800 --> 01:24:35,599
Speaker 1: things that he's able to do to manipulate a defense

1688
01:24:35,640 --> 01:24:37,920
Speaker 1: to move the ball down the field. Yeah, you can

1689
01:24:37,960 --> 01:24:41,240
Speaker 1: definitely see his experience, especially in him just recognizing defenses.

1690
01:24:41,320 --> 01:24:43,240
Speaker 1: I mean he's done this since I was three years old,

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01:24:43,720 --> 01:24:46,920
Speaker 1: So he's definitely able to recognize what a lot of

1692
01:24:47,040 --> 01:24:49,400
Speaker 1: calls are. You know, so if the skuys is going

1693
01:24:49,439 --> 01:24:53,000
Speaker 1: to be super important. Also, his size, him being you know,

1694
01:24:53,320 --> 01:24:57,120
Speaker 1: six twelve, him being able to really see the field

1695
01:24:57,280 --> 01:24:59,680
Speaker 1: really clearly is also an advantage for him, and his

1696
01:25:00,000 --> 01:25:03,280
Speaker 1: also helps him try and not get sacked by him

1697
01:25:03,320 --> 01:25:04,720
Speaker 1: just being able to get to get rid of the

1698
01:25:04,760 --> 01:25:06,920
Speaker 1: ball while he's being hit. But those are all things

1699
01:25:06,960 --> 01:25:09,080
Speaker 1: that we've talked about and we've game planning for in

1700
01:25:09,160 --> 01:25:12,080
Speaker 1: the week leading up to the game on Sunday. So yeah,

1701
01:25:12,160 --> 01:25:14,040
Speaker 1: and those are some good things that he possesses. He

1702
01:25:14,120 --> 01:25:17,479
Speaker 1: also has pretty nice complimental weapons to throw too. Now,

1703
01:25:17,560 --> 01:25:20,519
Speaker 1: wide receiver Juju Smith Schuster gets the lion share of

1704
01:25:20,520 --> 01:25:24,240
Speaker 1: the attention. But Chase Claypool he's making some waves as

1705
01:25:24,280 --> 01:25:26,639
Speaker 1: a rookie, is he not. Yeah, I think he's done

1706
01:25:26,800 --> 01:25:28,200
Speaker 1: a good job for him. You know, there's a lot

1707
01:25:28,200 --> 01:25:31,240
Speaker 1: of special in reps. Catches a deep ball pretty good too. Also,

1708
01:25:31,400 --> 01:25:33,720
Speaker 1: number eighteen I think is a dynamic weapon for him.

1709
01:25:34,160 --> 01:25:36,200
Speaker 1: Tight Ends wise is a guy who played his college

1710
01:25:36,240 --> 01:25:39,880
Speaker 1: ball just down the road at Rice in vance McDonald.

1711
01:25:40,080 --> 01:25:42,719
Speaker 1: How impressive is he? I know it's been a little

1712
01:25:42,760 --> 01:25:44,960
Speaker 1: bit quiet for him so far this season, but he's

1713
01:25:45,000 --> 01:25:47,840
Speaker 1: somebody that can do some damage. Canny, Yeah, reliable that

1714
01:25:48,280 --> 01:25:50,439
Speaker 1: a solid player, has been there a while and knows

1715
01:25:50,479 --> 01:25:53,880
Speaker 1: the system very well. They also had Eric Ebron formerly

1716
01:25:53,960 --> 01:25:56,120
Speaker 1: with the Colts that's over there, a little bit more

1717
01:25:56,200 --> 01:25:58,600
Speaker 1: shifty as far as with his route running. Not as

1718
01:25:58,680 --> 01:26:02,000
Speaker 1: good of a blocker as McDonald is That McDonald's the

1719
01:26:02,120 --> 01:26:05,000
Speaker 1: number one guy right now. Erki run is the number two,

1720
01:26:05,240 --> 01:26:07,200
Speaker 1: but two talented players and guys that we're going to

1721
01:26:07,280 --> 01:26:09,519
Speaker 1: keep an eye out for. All Right, your hands are full,

1722
01:26:09,600 --> 01:26:12,080
Speaker 1: but their hands are full every week in the NFL,

1723
01:26:12,160 --> 01:26:14,720
Speaker 1: and before we leave, you won the Spirit of the

1724
01:26:14,760 --> 01:26:17,400
Speaker 1: Bull Award here in the organization. And just recently this week,

1725
01:26:17,479 --> 01:26:19,880
Speaker 1: you had some really cool stuff go on with an

1726
01:26:19,920 --> 01:26:22,920
Speaker 1: initiative you had with some med students here in the area.

1727
01:26:23,000 --> 01:26:25,400
Speaker 1: Can you just kind of tell the listeners and explain

1728
01:26:25,560 --> 01:26:27,880
Speaker 1: what went down there and how that related to what

1729
01:26:28,000 --> 01:26:30,640
Speaker 1: you were going through this summer with them? Yeah, give

1730
01:26:30,680 --> 01:26:33,160
Speaker 1: them back. Community has been a big passion of mine

1731
01:26:33,560 --> 01:26:35,920
Speaker 1: throughout my whole life. I've always just enjoyed helping people.

1732
01:26:36,000 --> 01:26:40,240
Speaker 1: So throughout the COVID situation, seeing our frontline healthcare workers

1733
01:26:40,560 --> 01:26:41,960
Speaker 1: and all the work they're doing in the field, it

1734
01:26:42,040 --> 01:26:44,599
Speaker 1: really inspired me to try and help the next wave

1735
01:26:44,680 --> 01:26:49,160
Speaker 1: of healthcare workers. Most people are taking online university classes

1736
01:26:49,200 --> 01:26:51,680
Speaker 1: from home right now, so I thought that an impactful

1737
01:26:51,800 --> 01:26:55,719
Speaker 1: way to help the next generation would be to donate

1738
01:26:55,960 --> 01:26:59,599
Speaker 1: laptops or tablets to medical students that might be struggling

1739
01:26:59,640 --> 01:27:02,360
Speaker 1: to take those online classes because maybe they have an

1740
01:27:02,360 --> 01:27:04,639
Speaker 1: old computer that doesn't function property or maybe they don't

1741
01:27:04,640 --> 01:27:07,120
Speaker 1: have a computer at all. So I got together and

1742
01:27:07,280 --> 01:27:10,800
Speaker 1: partnered with HB and Microsoft, and we're able to donate

1743
01:27:10,840 --> 01:27:15,240
Speaker 1: twenty tablets to Baylor School of Medicine students. And you know,

1744
01:27:15,760 --> 01:27:17,960
Speaker 1: yesterday we got to confirm that all those students receive

1745
01:27:18,040 --> 01:27:20,400
Speaker 1: the tablets. So it was definitely really cool to see.

1746
01:27:20,880 --> 01:27:23,840
Speaker 1: That's outstanding work. Very generous of you. You walk the

1747
01:27:23,920 --> 01:27:26,200
Speaker 1: walk and you talk to talk on and off the field.

1748
01:27:26,240 --> 01:27:28,400
Speaker 1: It's always good to check up with you. Justin Reid,

1749
01:27:28,479 --> 01:27:30,639
Speaker 1: best of luck Sunday against the Steelers, and we'll talk

1750
01:27:30,640 --> 01:27:33,680
Speaker 1: to you again very very soon. Appreciate you, Drew. Now,

1751
01:27:33,760 --> 01:27:36,080
Speaker 1: I hope that Justin Reid plays football for a very

1752
01:27:36,240 --> 01:27:39,800
Speaker 1: very long time for this organization. I want him here

1753
01:27:39,880 --> 01:27:41,680
Speaker 1: for the duration of his career and for as long

1754
01:27:41,800 --> 01:27:44,360
Speaker 1: as the man can play football. But I'm telling you

1755
01:27:44,760 --> 01:27:48,120
Speaker 1: he can do anything that he wants to do when

1756
01:27:48,240 --> 01:27:50,080
Speaker 1: his career is over. If he wants to coach, he

1757
01:27:50,200 --> 01:27:52,280
Speaker 1: wants to be a general manager, he wants to own

1758
01:27:52,320 --> 01:27:54,439
Speaker 1: a darned football team, He's going to be able to

1759
01:27:54,520 --> 01:27:57,560
Speaker 1: do that and do it as a superstar. He is

1760
01:27:57,600 --> 01:27:59,599
Speaker 1: going to be fantastic. If he goes into business, if

1761
01:27:59,600 --> 01:28:03,040
Speaker 1: he goes to broadcasting, he is going to be excellent

1762
01:28:03,479 --> 01:28:06,559
Speaker 1: at whatever he decides that he wants to do. I hope,

1763
01:28:06,600 --> 01:28:09,760
Speaker 1: in some way, shape or form, that Justin Reid goes

1764
01:28:09,960 --> 01:28:15,080
Speaker 1: into something in which he helps people. He can brighten

1765
01:28:15,160 --> 01:28:20,160
Speaker 1: up everybody's day just sharing that smile. I mean, he's

1766
01:28:20,240 --> 01:28:24,600
Speaker 1: just absolutely fabious. His commercials hb Are so funny. The

1767
01:28:24,680 --> 01:28:26,160
Speaker 1: one he did the other day with the Shawn that

1768
01:28:26,200 --> 01:28:31,400
Speaker 1: I saw on social media just absolutely fantastic. So big

1769
01:28:31,479 --> 01:28:35,559
Speaker 1: thanks for Justin joining the show. Charles A. Manner who

1770
01:28:35,640 --> 01:28:37,880
Speaker 1: joined the show, big thanks to him. Deep City did

1771
01:28:37,920 --> 01:28:41,280
Speaker 1: excellent job with that interview. Mark Vanimer joined me, thank him.

1772
01:28:41,360 --> 01:28:44,160
Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien joined Mark earlier in the show. We had

1773
01:28:44,240 --> 01:28:47,200
Speaker 1: my keys, we had my predictions. So I thank myself

1774
01:28:47,360 --> 01:28:50,479
Speaker 1: for the contributions. But mainly I think my man b

1775
01:28:50,600 --> 01:28:53,679
Speaker 1: porterback in studio, and I think all of you for listening.

1776
01:28:53,760 --> 01:28:56,519
Speaker 1: We couldn't do this without you, even in these crazy times.

1777
01:28:56,560 --> 01:28:59,360
Speaker 1: As we all say, we don't get this done without

1778
01:28:59,400 --> 01:29:02,160
Speaker 1: all of you. We appreciate you and love you. Texans fans.

1779
01:29:02,479 --> 01:29:05,479
Speaker 1: Sunday at noon time for this Texans team to turn

1780
01:29:05,520 --> 01:29:07,400
Speaker 1: a season around by getting a big win on the

1781
01:29:07,520 --> 01:29:09,360
Speaker 1: road in a tough place to play. We'll see you

1782
01:29:09,439 --> 01:29:13,120
Speaker 1: than everybody and as always, go Texans. You've been listening

1783
01:29:13,240 --> 01:29:18,280
Speaker 1: to Houston Texans Football, brought to you by Reliant Energy, Forward,

1784
01:29:18,600 --> 01:29:24,719
Speaker 1: Texas Lottery, Geico, and buy Kushata. This is Texans Radio.