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Speaker 1: What is up? Everybody? Welcome to you Monday edition of

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Speaker 1: Texans All Access from the Hounday Texans Radio Studio. I'm

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Speaker 1: your host, John Harris. Wish we were meeting under better circumstances.

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Speaker 1: The Texans are through oh and three. I really would

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Speaker 1: love to say three and oh, and I almost said

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Speaker 1: three you oh, they were perfect oh and three. Unfortunately

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Speaker 1: and have not won a game since November nineteenth to

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Speaker 1: twenty seventeen. That's what we're creeping up. It won't be

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Speaker 1: a calendar year, I don't think. I hope not, and

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Speaker 1: hopefully it gets changed this weekend against Inneapolis Colts. But

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Speaker 1: things are what they are. Appreciate you being here. I'm

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Speaker 1: your host, John Harris, football anals and sideline reporter for you,

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Speaker 1: and We've talked a lot this morning. We talked two

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Speaker 1: hours about this game. I've come back and watched I

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Speaker 1: don't know how many times of this game in the

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Speaker 1: midst of watching the coaches film. As we speak, I

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Speaker 1: have it in front of me. So if at some

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Speaker 1: point I'm just like, oh, then you know that I've

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Speaker 1: brought my eyes back to something that I saw on

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Speaker 1: the film and it look Mark said something funny to me.

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Speaker 1: A little while ago, he said. I was as I

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Speaker 1: was watching the game, he said, do we win this

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Speaker 1: time around? I was like, nope, I wish we did.

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Speaker 1: And there's so many things that you can learn from it.

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Speaker 1: You can obviously see some of the things that Texans

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Speaker 1: are doing and what they're doing well and some of

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Speaker 1: the things that they need improvement upon. There's no there's

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Speaker 1: no question about that. And when you're in a building

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Speaker 1: that's ohin three as opposed to three and oh, now,

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Speaker 1: I don't I can't speak to three and ozho In

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Speaker 1: twenty fourteen, we're Tune one. In twenty fifteen, we were

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Speaker 1: one of two. It just gotten a ten point win

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Speaker 1: against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Everybody took a big side

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Speaker 1: relief and then we're getting ready for Atlanta and Atlanta

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Speaker 1: was got awful. That was a miserable trip. But we

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Speaker 1: started one of two and fifteen and sixteen Tune one.

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Speaker 1: But that week three game in twenty sixteen, a Thursday

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Speaker 1: out that news that weekend that JJ Watt was lost

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Speaker 1: for the entire twenty sixteen year. And then in twenty seventeen,

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Speaker 1: also coming off a one and two start, and that

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Speaker 1: third game was to the New England Patriots, a game

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Speaker 1: the Texans went up there and really opened up the

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Speaker 1: offense and showed the Patriots some new stuff to Shaun

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Speaker 1: Watson's second start played that game, and of course Tom

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Speaker 1: Brady bailed out the Patriots, a team that is struggling

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Speaker 1: right now. Their only win against the Texans and probably

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Speaker 1: shouldn't have been a win. Man. Can you imagine the

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Speaker 1: Patriots has started owing three and I'm telling you the

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Speaker 1: Texans won that one. They very easily could be three.

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Speaker 1: You know, but if some ads were candy and nuts,

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Speaker 1: we'd all have a merry Christmas. No, I said that wrong.

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Speaker 1: If ANNs and butts were candy and nuts, we'd all

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Speaker 1: have a merry Christmas. Yeah. Look, I'll get it right eventually.

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Speaker 1: So there you go. So locker room opened to the

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Speaker 1: immedia today, so a number of different players speaking on

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Speaker 1: what happened on Monday, on Sunday and what's going to

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Speaker 1: happen been going forward. What does this team need to do.

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Speaker 1: Let's start with Tyrn Matthew. I think Tyrant of anybody

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Speaker 1: has got as great a perspective as you can possibly

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Speaker 1: have on this thing, and he said, you know what,

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Speaker 1: we're olling three, but no finger pointing around here. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean it's disappointed, you know, sitting at one and three,

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Speaker 1: especially when we know what kind of talent were having

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Speaker 1: it's like I said yesterday, it's really gonna come down

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Speaker 1: to leadership. We know how it is when you start

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Speaker 1: losing in the league. A lot of noise goes on

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Speaker 1: a minimum. Now. One of the things that I think

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Speaker 1: about a lot, as it pertains a tyrant, is the

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Speaker 1: fact that he's signed a one year contract, and I

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Speaker 1: would love to see him stay here for a while.

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Speaker 1: I think he has a significant impact on everybody in

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Speaker 1: this organization. He said, I signed to play here because

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Speaker 1: damn well, I signed up to, you know, to play football,

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Speaker 1: to play as hard as I can. When you walk

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Speaker 1: number of them that will tell you, hey, man, own three,

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Speaker 1: that's nothing. Look where I came from. Look at the

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Speaker 1: adversity I fought through. Tyrant put that well, he put

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Speaker 1: that very well on the locker room. Today, I look

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Speaker 1: fighting this fight a long time. So, um, you know

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Speaker 1: it'll be some good that come out of it. I

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Speaker 1: believe that. You know, we have a great coach, we

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Speaker 1: when I was born, I was owing three and that

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Speaker 1: man has definitely come through adversity, There's no doubt, and

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Speaker 1: throughout the league, no doubt about that. Now, when teammates

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Speaker 1: make mistakes, it's obviously something the Texans have done as

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Speaker 1: a leader on this team responsibility Tyrant said to making

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Speaker 1: sure that we don't make those mistakes again. And this

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Speaker 1: do make mistakes. He initially encouragement is probably the best,

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Speaker 1: the best answer, But obviously we're owing three. So you know,

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Speaker 1: any mistakes from this point on has to be handled,

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Speaker 1: then coaching. So as long as leadership does it, coaches,

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Speaker 1: the coaches won't have to do it. Now leadership doesn't

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Speaker 1: do it, then the coaches will have to do it.

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Speaker 1: At the end of the day, it always fallen the players.

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Speaker 1: One of the points you just heard in Bill O'Brien's

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Speaker 1: fact that the Texans have been their own worst enemy.

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Speaker 1: And obviously that's a negative. Tyrant said, you know what,

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Speaker 1: us is us. If we can get out of our way,

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Speaker 1: we can go win games. We could probably honestly wash

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Speaker 1: a row by like a total of fifteen points. We're

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Speaker 1: not that far off. Like I said, we just have

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Speaker 1: the week and then on game day, starting fast and

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Speaker 1: Everything that man said, I agree with one thousand percent.

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Speaker 1: Tyrant Matthew all right to move on to the tight

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Speaker 1: ends and start with veteran Ryan Griffin and when asked

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Speaker 1: to point out why the Texans were owing three, well,

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Speaker 1: there were a number of different reasons, and well Ryan

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Speaker 1: for sure didn't help us out. Is that the reason

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Speaker 1: we're losing games? Maybe, you know, it's a lot of

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Speaker 1: One of the big storylines after the game was the

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Speaker 1: he referenced it being not up to the standard that

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Speaker 1: more forceful than that. Ryan Griffin was asked about that

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Speaker 1: So I think everyone's doing that right now in the organization,

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Speaker 1: especially you know, my teammates as well. So in terms

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Speaker 1: curious position to be put in as a player when

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Speaker 1: you are asked that particular question, because if you say, yes,

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Speaker 1: the play calling is bad, well then oh my gosh,

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Speaker 1: it's headlines. Players are saying the play calling is bad.

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Speaker 1: But if you go the other way, then then are

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Speaker 1: looking at what they have to do better to help

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Speaker 1: I mean all of us. Now we're not on the

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Speaker 1: the players, they're all thinking, man, what can I do

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Speaker 1: Do I have to put more time in a weight room?

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Speaker 1: have to play through some knicks and injuries? Not injuries,

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Speaker 1: on with what he is saying, and that is everybody's

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Speaker 1: at what he must do to get this going in

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Speaker 1: a positive direction, and as a play caller, that's something

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Speaker 1: look at. As a tight end, Ryan Griffin has things

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Speaker 1: then do it again and then repeat that process. Right now,

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Speaker 1: I think everybody's now kind of in a funk because

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Speaker 1: it's man, we've been at this thing since training camp.

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Speaker 1: We're busting our tail, and we've been closing games. We've

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Speaker 1: been right there in games. We just haven't done what

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Speaker 1: I think Ryan's point is well taken, because I think

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Speaker 1: it's a very difficult question to have to answer as

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Speaker 1: a player, but I think Ryan handled it very well.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's move on to our rookie tight ends. Well,

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Speaker 1: actually one of them. Jordan Thomas asked today about his

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Speaker 1: his hand to ground having a block. How's that process

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Speaker 1: right now is Andre Ware and Mark started him off

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Speaker 1: well when he's back there and it's four and five wives,

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Speaker 1: And this may be the the way to have a

431
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Speaker 1: successful running game against a team that is coming into

432
00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:08,040
Speaker 1: a game is hey, we're just going to stop the run.

433
00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:10,480
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, you opened the game that way,

434
00:22:10,680 --> 00:22:12,879
Speaker 1: and they're like, wait a minute, now, we've got to

435
00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:17,200
Speaker 1: adjust our game plan. So who knows, Hopefully we'll see

436
00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:19,160
Speaker 1: a little bit more of that, because I think that's

437
00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:22,120
Speaker 1: right now, that's their best option in terms of protecting him.

438
00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:25,440
Speaker 1: You saw it a little bit with Eli yesterday, especially

439
00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:28,439
Speaker 1: early in the game. Four wives or a tight end,

440
00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:31,440
Speaker 1: it's flexed out and they were able to protect Eli. Man.

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00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:34,440
Speaker 1: That makes a lot of sense. That's a really good

442
00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:36,800
Speaker 1: point there. Andre andre Ware joining us all right, So

443
00:22:36,840 --> 00:22:40,560
Speaker 1: the Colts are next. They came close against the Eagles,

444
00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:43,400
Speaker 1: couldn't run the ball. Yesterday it was reigning in Philadelphia.

445
00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:46,840
Speaker 1: Wentz was sacked five times. I think of the Indianapolis

446
00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:50,400
Speaker 1: Colts have some young defensive players, that's what people tell

447
00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:52,479
Speaker 1: me anyway, that are going to be a threat. They

448
00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:55,399
Speaker 1: might not be flourishing just yet, but they can make plays.

449
00:22:56,280 --> 00:22:58,560
Speaker 1: You know. I have yet to start digging into the Colts,

450
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Speaker 1: but I was thinking about business that I was listening

451
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Speaker 1: to you guys earlier. Um, I don't know that I

452
00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:08,119
Speaker 1: could name three players on the Colts roster. That's just

453
00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:10,800
Speaker 1: being play. Gonna have a really opened the book that

454
00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:15,359
Speaker 1: started started studying. They're so new. There's so much, you know,

455
00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:20,240
Speaker 1: newness there that you just kind of forget that you

456
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Speaker 1: take for granted that, Okay, I know the Colts, but no,

457
00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:26,000
Speaker 1: we really don't know him as well as we think

458
00:23:26,040 --> 00:23:28,640
Speaker 1: we know them. I know they're playing some pretty good football.

459
00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:31,800
Speaker 1: They've been in every single game uh this year. And

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00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:35,000
Speaker 1: Andrew Luck seems to be what I saw yesterday and

461
00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:39,480
Speaker 1: watching the Philadelphia game. He seems to be back to

462
00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:43,960
Speaker 1: being himself and that gives them a chance to be successful.

463
00:23:43,960 --> 00:23:47,280
Speaker 1: It's a hard place to go to win football games.

464
00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:50,240
Speaker 1: Obviously for the Texans, they've only won their UH in

465
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Speaker 1: two trips in and now going on seventeen years. So

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Speaker 1: I know it's going to be a hard fought football game.

467
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Speaker 1: It's a divisional game that has some importance to it

468
00:24:02,119 --> 00:24:06,760
Speaker 1: in that regard as well. But this won't be an

469
00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:09,840
Speaker 1: easy chore or it will be a tall chore in

470
00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:13,439
Speaker 1: order to get the first win of the season. Hedre,

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Speaker 1: have you ever seen anything like what happened in Indianapolis?

472
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Speaker 1: I said, I know you were watching it, but Margaret,

473
00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:19,920
Speaker 1: I were talking about this earlier. On the final drive

474
00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:23,720
Speaker 1: with the Coats down by four, Luck goes in in.

475
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Speaker 1: Then the final play ended up being Jacoby Brissette thrown

476
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Speaker 1: a hail Mary. I don't know that I've ever seen

477
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Speaker 1: that happened in a game where the quarterback plays the

478
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Speaker 1: entire game, but then the other quarterback comes in and

479
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Speaker 1: throws to hail Mary. I want to say I saw

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Speaker 1: it with one of the I can't remember. Somebody had

481
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Speaker 1: a big arm at some point, but it seems sort

482
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Speaker 1: of odd at the forty six yard line they let

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Speaker 1: Brissette throw it and not Luck. Yeah to two reasons

484
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Speaker 1: for that. Johnny, we say Andrew's back and he can

485
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Speaker 1: efficiently push the ball down the field where they were

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Speaker 1: on the field. Jacoby Brissette has the stronger arm, if

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Speaker 1: you can believe that or not, in terms of just

488
00:24:58,720 --> 00:25:01,400
Speaker 1: being able to heave one and get at the length

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Speaker 1: of the field. Throw the hell Mary. Secondly, you don't

490
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Speaker 1: want to risk injury to Andrew Luck in trying to

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Speaker 1: do that where he over extends himself and then you

492
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Speaker 1: have a severe setback. So I looked at it from

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Speaker 1: that from that manner. What about the Titans and the

494
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Speaker 1: Jags in North Florida and Tennessee winning a nine to

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00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:27,040
Speaker 1: six game. First thing I thought was the weather. You know,

496
00:25:27,040 --> 00:25:29,159
Speaker 1: it must have been raining and pouring down and you know,

497
00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:33,800
Speaker 1: just an ugly football game. But it just seemed to

498
00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:38,159
Speaker 1: be a defensive battle. Tennessee is they've got some talent,

499
00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:41,720
Speaker 1: and when Mariota's in the game, he can cause some problems.

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Speaker 1: And obviously we got a chance to see what Derrick

501
00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:49,000
Speaker 1: Henry's capable of, you know, up close and personal. I

502
00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:53,119
Speaker 1: still think the Jags are the more talented team, and

503
00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:56,720
Speaker 1: maybe all of football from top to bottom, others, maybe

504
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Speaker 1: outside of the Rams because there's a tremendous amount of

505
00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:03,439
Speaker 1: talent there. But without four Nette, they're a little bit

506
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Speaker 1: different outfit. Now, last week they were able to get

507
00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:08,520
Speaker 1: buy without him, but I'm not sure how many weeks

508
00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:11,280
Speaker 1: away he is. I think it was a hamstring injury

509
00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:15,240
Speaker 1: two weeks ago that sidelined him. But when they get

510
00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:19,439
Speaker 1: him back, they're different because they're more versatile offensively. You

511
00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:22,200
Speaker 1: don't know whether the runs coming or if Blake Bortles

512
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Speaker 1: is going to pick it up and throw it, or

513
00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:28,120
Speaker 1: they can work play action. But I still like Jacksonville.

514
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Speaker 1: It was just one of those days where maybe they

515
00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:33,240
Speaker 1: felt like, we're at home, we're going to overlook the

516
00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:36,920
Speaker 1: Titans coming in here, and then they found themselves late

517
00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:38,720
Speaker 1: in the game in a ball game that they couldn't

518
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Speaker 1: pull out. Big factor in that one Mariota who came

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00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:45,880
Speaker 1: off the bench seven carries fifty one yards. Wow. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's what he can give you. When you can play

521
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Speaker 1: eleven on eleven, it's like to Sean when we were

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Speaker 1: talking about spreading it out. When you spread it out,

523
00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:57,040
Speaker 1: now all of a sudden, you're playing eleven on eleven

524
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Speaker 1: because you've got to have somebody in the middle some

525
00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:03,280
Speaker 1: lot and he's usually a linebacker who he's gonna outrun

526
00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:08,720
Speaker 1: every time spying him. And that's just definitely to your advantage.

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Speaker 1: Andre Ware, joining us one more for you, because everybody's

528
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Speaker 1: asking it this morning about the Patriots because they lost

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Speaker 1: last night to the lines. They're wanted two. Is this it?

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Speaker 1: Or is it too early to say that this is it?

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Speaker 1: Because they asked it when they lost to Kansas City

532
00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:25,760
Speaker 1: three years ago. Everybody asked it every time they lose

533
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Speaker 1: the game, and they lost to Kansas City last year

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00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:29,280
Speaker 1: and the opener, well, what about now? What do you

535
00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:34,399
Speaker 1: think They've They've been successful for a very long time

536
00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:38,719
Speaker 1: under coach Belichick, and I just think, you know, on

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00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:43,080
Speaker 1: a lot of levels that maybe they disrespected the linings.

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00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:47,920
Speaker 1: They only had three receivers acted yesterday, and so you

539
00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:50,959
Speaker 1: go in there with that attitude and then all of

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00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:53,600
Speaker 1: a sudden, you know, Detroit's doing their thing. I think

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Speaker 1: they had it. They had an outstanding game plan on

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00:27:56,800 --> 00:28:00,480
Speaker 1: offense and how to move the football. And you know,

543
00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:03,159
Speaker 1: you guys know how I feel about their guy under center.

544
00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:06,000
Speaker 1: I think gets one of the top two or three

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00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:11,960
Speaker 1: four arms and arm talent in the league. But but

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Speaker 1: when I saw what he was doing, and he'd being

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Speaker 1: coach Belichick with that roster, letting guys go. Nate Soldier

548
00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:23,359
Speaker 1: who had been Tom Brady, had protected Tom Brady for

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00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:26,680
Speaker 1: the last seven years, his backs after the last seven years,

550
00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:29,720
Speaker 1: and then this guy's leaving and this guy, maybe you're

551
00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:34,879
Speaker 1: starting to outsmart yourself. And I equated to Chip Kelly

552
00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:38,640
Speaker 1: when he first took the job at Philadelphia. You know,

553
00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:42,120
Speaker 1: everybody was in love Chip. He starts getting rid of

554
00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:45,600
Speaker 1: this player, this player, and then my scheme can overcome everything.

555
00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:50,400
Speaker 1: The schemes don't work without good football players. And I

556
00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:54,040
Speaker 1: thought when the Texas roster came out, it was an

557
00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:58,000
Speaker 1: excellent time to catch New England because they're going through

558
00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:01,000
Speaker 1: some transition and would just you know, couldn't get the

559
00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:04,480
Speaker 1: job done there on the road. But getting them early

560
00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:08,280
Speaker 1: in the season as they continue to adjust to a

561
00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:12,640
Speaker 1: new roster and playmakers or the lack of playmakers around

562
00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:15,760
Speaker 1: Tom Brady is the absolute right time to get him.

563
00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:18,360
Speaker 1: Is at some point this season they're going to figure

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Speaker 1: it out. It's better to get them before they figure

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00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:23,880
Speaker 1: it out than later down the line. What do you have,

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00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:26,680
Speaker 1: a college wise dragon, Yeah, I'm going to Boston College

567
00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:29,400
Speaker 1: back to the year Neck of the Woods and Boston

568
00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:33,480
Speaker 1: Ballace Chimple this weekend, both teams winning games. And I

569
00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:36,760
Speaker 1: said it during the broadcast yesterday, Earl Campbell actually called

570
00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:39,840
Speaker 1: A J. Dillon, who a lot of GMS feel like

571
00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:44,240
Speaker 1: is the best running back in college football at this

572
00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:47,200
Speaker 1: point in the season because he's so big, so powerful,

573
00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:50,080
Speaker 1: and Earl called him and paid him a nice compliment,

574
00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:53,840
Speaker 1: says when he watches and play, he reminds him of himself,

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00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:57,240
Speaker 1: and so I thought that was that was That was

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00:29:57,360 --> 00:29:59,600
Speaker 1: kind of Earl to do so. And then some some big,

577
00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:02,760
Speaker 1: big those I'm anxious to see how this young man

578
00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:06,520
Speaker 1: played this weekend. Total dude. AJ Dillon, just telling you

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00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:09,160
Speaker 1: up front that dude is a ball. All Right, we

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Speaker 1: get back. We'll have both the General and Spencer Tillman

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Speaker 1: join us right here in Texas or Access Wonder final

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

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, John Harris, glad to be with you,

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Speaker 1: plenty of do so let's jump right in to the General.

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Speaker 1: John McClean joined us, and you know, he sort of

586
00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:35,200
Speaker 1: sidestepped all the issues right off the bat and by sidestep,

587
00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:37,840
Speaker 1: I mean not really. Okay, your thoughts a day later,

588
00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:40,360
Speaker 1: we saw the report card, we read your stuff. What

589
00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:44,040
Speaker 1: are you thinking the day after? I think the Texas

590
00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:46,680
Speaker 1: is the most disappointing team in the league. I think

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00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:53,000
Speaker 1: that the offensive line has just been unbominable. And yesterday

592
00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:55,800
Speaker 1: I felt sorry for Watson because you know, most of

593
00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:59,280
Speaker 1: the time he's having to get out of the pocket

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00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:03,320
Speaker 1: throw on the un touchdown called back. The penalties are

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00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:06,480
Speaker 1: just mind boggling. You know, I've never seen an offensive

596
00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:09,400
Speaker 1: that's not true. I remember one time Fred Miller the

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00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:12,360
Speaker 1: Rams that a bunch of thought starts more like five

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00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:17,720
Speaker 1: or six at Tennessee. But what Julian and Davenport having

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00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:22,120
Speaker 1: four penalties and three starts as any excusable And there

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00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:24,960
Speaker 1: was four penalties on offensive line for the second week

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00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:28,040
Speaker 1: in a row. And and really they they could have

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00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:31,320
Speaker 1: won the game having a touchdown called back, an interception

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00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:33,840
Speaker 1: in the end zone. That's what's got to be frustrating

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00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:36,680
Speaker 1: for Bill O'Brien, the coaches, and the players to know

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00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:40,440
Speaker 1: they've lost by seven, three and five points and they've

606
00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:43,880
Speaker 1: been in a position to win each game and now

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00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:46,760
Speaker 1: they're owing three. John, you gotta learn to be more

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Speaker 1: honest with people about things. I mean, you really don't.

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00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:53,720
Speaker 1: You can't hold back, you can't sugarcoat things anymore. John defensively,

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Speaker 1: Mark and I've talked about this. They have such a

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Speaker 1: lousy start of the game with four possessions that go

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00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:01,800
Speaker 1: for a touchdown. Then they have four or five drives

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00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:04,880
Speaker 1: where they create punts and it looks like maybe they've

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00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:06,520
Speaker 1: gotten themselves out of a hole, and they'll get the

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00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:09,080
Speaker 1: ball back down by five, and then they give up

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Speaker 1: a seventy seven yard drive for a touchdown. At that point,

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00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:14,640
Speaker 1: we sort of it feels almost like that's symbolic of

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00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:17,800
Speaker 1: this team. Like they'll take two steps four and three

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00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:20,480
Speaker 1: steps back, and then four steps foward and five steps back.

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Speaker 1: It feels like they're symbolic kind of the whole team.

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Speaker 1: What you think about that side of the ball yesterday.

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Speaker 1: But first of all, they're playing from behind. They can't.

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Speaker 1: They haven't been consistent from start to finish. You know. J. J.

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Speaker 1: Watt's performance was the one are the few bright spots

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00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:39,640
Speaker 1: about the game. And but on that last drive to

626
00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:43,040
Speaker 1: let Ebony Manning just pick them apart, I thought that

627
00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:46,760
Speaker 1: Manning everybody knows We gotta give him a lot of credit.

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Speaker 1: He was throwing back out the ball he was he

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Speaker 1: was throwing his receivers open. They were getting open against

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Speaker 1: the coverage. I don't think they had a drop. And

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Speaker 1: their offense has played great. They played the way they

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00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:03,760
Speaker 1: did when they won two Super Bowls and the media

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00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:07,440
Speaker 1: covered the team I talked to afterwards. They were stunned

634
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:10,880
Speaker 1: at how well the offense played considering the way it

635
00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:14,480
Speaker 1: had played during the two start and scored two touchdowns total.

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00:34:15,200 --> 00:34:16,800
Speaker 1: They had not been able to get any pressure on

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Speaker 1: the pass or one sack, one interception, and then all

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00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:23,520
Speaker 1: of a sudden, they came alive against the Texans, and

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00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:26,080
Speaker 1: I thought if they could, if the Texans going to

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00:34:26,160 --> 00:34:30,000
Speaker 1: Indy could put the play an entire game the way

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Speaker 1: they played all but the last drive, and they could win.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's the thing. They've been in position to

643
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Speaker 1: win each game and they've blown it, and it's been

644
00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:42,359
Speaker 1: their own fault and they know it. John McLean joining

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Speaker 1: us on Texans Monday. John, what about the Titans and

646
00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:47,799
Speaker 1: the Jaguars. It seems like the Jaguars just have so

647
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:51,520
Speaker 1: much trouble handling the Titans. They went a field goal

648
00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:56,239
Speaker 1: battle down in North Florida, Bad Blake emerged again. Every

649
00:34:56,239 --> 00:34:58,319
Speaker 1: time Blake Bortles has a good game, like he did

650
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Speaker 1: in the previous win against New England, everybody's ready to

651
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Speaker 1: say he's turned the corner. Then he stinks it up

652
00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:06,600
Speaker 1: the way he did yesterday. That's the first time they've

653
00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:09,000
Speaker 1: lost without Leonard for Nett. They're now four and one

654
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Speaker 1: without him and who they didn't want to put. The

655
00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:14,879
Speaker 1: Titans didn't want to play Marcus Mariota because he hadn't

656
00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:17,880
Speaker 1: trouble gripping the ball. It's so funny. The Titans have

657
00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:20,440
Speaker 1: thrown for like one hundred and seventeen and one hundred

658
00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:23,080
Speaker 1: and eight yards the last two weeks and they've won

659
00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:26,839
Speaker 1: both games, both in the division. So their two and one.

660
00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:31,839
Speaker 1: Mike Vrabels got to be just beside himself and how

661
00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:34,120
Speaker 1: well as guys have played, and their defense has been

662
00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:36,960
Speaker 1: really good. You know, the question coming in was not

663
00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:40,360
Speaker 1: the offense, because they had Mariota, they had to Lady Walker,

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Speaker 1: they had two good running backs, they had two offensive

665
00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:46,759
Speaker 1: tackles who are number one picks, and then injuries has

666
00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:49,359
Speaker 1: screwed all that up. But their defense has stepped up

667
00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:52,040
Speaker 1: and their special teams have been real good for quite

668
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Speaker 1: a while. Although they lost to Dory Jackson their punt returners.

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Speaker 1: So how though, it was a great performance by the Titans,

670
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:02,799
Speaker 1: very close throwback football. You see all these games, whether

671
00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:05,680
Speaker 1: it's scoring thirties and forties and then you got one

672
00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:10,200
Speaker 1: ninety six, it's like they stepped back into the sixties. Well,

673
00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:13,040
Speaker 1: talk about going into the future. Patrick Mahomes has taken

674
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Speaker 1: the Chiefs on into the future. John. They score points

675
00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:21,320
Speaker 1: at an unbelievable rate. In some sense, it's not too surprising.

676
00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:24,359
Speaker 1: They've got all the pieces offensively. I don't know if

677
00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:27,399
Speaker 1: the Chiefs keep this up offensively, but they're finding ways

678
00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:30,200
Speaker 1: to win games. They win yesterday, but it felt like

679
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Speaker 1: the story of that game was Jimmy Garoppolo with the

680
00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:36,040
Speaker 1: knee injury. He is now out. I know San Francisco

681
00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:38,480
Speaker 1: could have a few options at quarterback. What do you

682
00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:41,640
Speaker 1: think San Francisco does now going forward? Do you think

683
00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:43,960
Speaker 1: they stick with CJ. Bethard or do they make a

684
00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:47,520
Speaker 1: play for a free agent quarterback, a trade for a quarterback?

685
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Speaker 1: What do you think Deniers do without Garoppolo? They're going

686
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:52,160
Speaker 1: with Bethard and I keep waiting to see all this

687
00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:55,759
Speaker 1: app cry from the media that they need to resign Kaepernick.

688
00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:59,200
Speaker 1: Cam seeing it because every other team that needs a quarterback.

689
00:36:59,239 --> 00:37:02,400
Speaker 1: You see the media talking about how they auto signed Kaepernick.

690
00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:05,839
Speaker 1: But maybe c J. Beth. He started a few games

691
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Speaker 1: last year as the rookie before they traded for Garoppolo,

692
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Speaker 1: and maybe he should be better in his second year.

693
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Speaker 1: But I think we're looking back. We overrated the forty

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Speaker 1: nine ers, some people picking them to win the division

695
00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:22,200
Speaker 1: right now. Imagine what an exciting Super Bowl would be

696
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Speaker 1: with Kansas City and the Rams. Yeah, I'd rather imagine

697
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Speaker 1: another team in there, but I guess that's what I'll

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Speaker 1: have to do if things don't turn around miraculously. John.

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Speaker 1: What about the New England Patriots losing at Detroit last night?

700
00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:39,600
Speaker 1: We always say, we always ask, and I asked Andrea

701
00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:42,080
Speaker 1: this earlier. Is this it for them? And it's been

702
00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:44,359
Speaker 1: asked many times and people have been wrong. But what

703
00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:47,239
Speaker 1: do you think about the state of the Patriots right now?

704
00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:51,520
Speaker 1: They didn't look very excited to play that game. The

705
00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:55,080
Speaker 1: Lions were, of course, and Tom Brady was off target.

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Speaker 1: Brady had played well pretty well at Jacksonville. He had

707
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Speaker 1: two touchdowns, no interceptions, but I think not giving Brady

708
00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:06,120
Speaker 1: weapons other than Gronkowski is catching up to the offense.

709
00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:10,399
Speaker 1: They're not running the ball. Their defense should have been

710
00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:13,400
Speaker 1: better based on the way they played so far. Just

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00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:15,960
Speaker 1: shows you what kind of opportunity that Jasons had to

712
00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:18,800
Speaker 1: win up there. But they'll go back to Gilette Stadium.

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Speaker 1: I think they play the Dolphins, yes, and if yeah,

714
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Speaker 1: if the Dolphins win that game, we're gonna be like, whoa.

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Speaker 1: But I'm not so I'm never gonna say they're not

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Speaker 1: going to bounce back. So I'm gonna say, yes, the

717
00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:35,960
Speaker 1: Pagrids are gonna bounce back. John, You think Hugh Jackson

718
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:38,800
Speaker 1: will make an official today in name Baker Mayfield the starter.

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Speaker 1: And if he doesn't, what's going on? Oh yeah, of

720
00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:44,400
Speaker 1: course he will. He didn't. He wanted to make sure

721
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Speaker 1: that Tyrod Taylor heard it from him. You know, he

722
00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:48,800
Speaker 1: didn't do it after the game, And of course you

723
00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:51,439
Speaker 1: can't do that. You can't have players learning it from

724
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Speaker 1: the media or social media. And Hugh Jackson's handling it

725
00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:57,680
Speaker 1: exactly the right way. And of course they're going to

726
00:38:57,719 --> 00:39:01,600
Speaker 1: be an incredible buzz in Cleveland with Baker Mayfield starting.

727
00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:03,799
Speaker 1: Now we all knew it was coming, just a matter

728
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Speaker 1: of win. Spencer Tillman also joined us this morning, and

729
00:39:06,760 --> 00:39:09,399
Speaker 1: I couldn't help after starting oing three, but think about

730
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Speaker 1: the nineteen ninety three oilers, and I started with that

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Speaker 1: question for Spencer. Spencer in nineteen ninety three, that famous year,

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Speaker 1: you guys had a ton of expectations a ton, and

733
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Speaker 1: you come out of the gates really slow. You come

734
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Speaker 1: out what one in three or one in four or

735
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Speaker 1: whatever it was. And it's one of the seasons a

736
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Speaker 1: lot of people, if you lived in Houston talk about

737
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Speaker 1: because it's one where you guys rebounded. You had a

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Speaker 1: lot of veterans on that team. You had a lot

739
00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:37,560
Speaker 1: of very accomplished veterans on this team. This one's a

740
00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:40,120
Speaker 1: little different, but you still have a lot of guys

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Speaker 1: that have been around and won a lot of football games,

742
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Speaker 1: but dealing with the expectations, they haven't played well. What

743
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Speaker 1: got you guys going in ninety three or in that

744
00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:52,000
Speaker 1: year when you had a lot of expectations, What got

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Speaker 1: you guys going in the right direction? And do you

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Speaker 1: think something similar can happen for this team as well?

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Speaker 1: Or the two teams so polar opposite diametrically opposed that

748
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Speaker 1: it can't be that same way to have have to do

749
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Speaker 1: it differently. John, that's a very insightful question, and the

750
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Speaker 1: answer is important. I mean, it is vastly important. The

751
00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:12,200
Speaker 1: team needs to know it, fans need to know it.

752
00:40:13,040 --> 00:40:15,799
Speaker 1: The same reason teams can bounce back after difficult start

753
00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:18,040
Speaker 1: is the same reason why a kid may drop out

754
00:40:18,040 --> 00:40:20,640
Speaker 1: of high school when they lose hope to graduate, they

755
00:40:20,719 --> 00:40:23,120
Speaker 1: drop out. When a team lose hope to win, that's

756
00:40:23,160 --> 00:40:25,680
Speaker 1: when they shut down. But the one thing that we

757
00:40:25,719 --> 00:40:28,320
Speaker 1: had in common with those that team you mentioned is talent.

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00:40:28,719 --> 00:40:31,600
Speaker 1: We were replete with talent. That team that you just

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Speaker 1: mentioned have more talent than the forty nine or team.

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Speaker 1: We want back to back Super bowls with that much,

761
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Speaker 1: I will go to my grade making that commitment and

762
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Speaker 1: that statement. So this team have talent, and for the

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Speaker 1: most part, that talent is healthy. The ones that were

764
00:40:45,719 --> 00:40:48,400
Speaker 1: key cards and the offense and the defense last year

765
00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:51,480
Speaker 1: that weren't available are available now. So there's no rational

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Speaker 1: reason why you can't think if we're thinking the same way,

767
00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:57,399
Speaker 1: if the coaches are seeing what our assets are making

768
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Speaker 1: the right decisions and deploying them accordingly. According to the

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00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:03,160
Speaker 1: game plan that works, and don't be afraid to change.

770
00:41:03,160 --> 00:41:05,640
Speaker 1: Look that defensive front you were facing was pretty style,

771
00:41:05,719 --> 00:41:08,960
Speaker 1: pretty athletic, and so if something is not working, forget

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Speaker 1: the fact that you were the number one rushing team

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Speaker 1: in the league and the abbreviated two games that we

774
00:41:12,920 --> 00:41:15,040
Speaker 1: had had to this point. The bottom line is not

775
00:41:15,120 --> 00:41:17,879
Speaker 1: working today. So be confident enough to do some things

776
00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:19,640
Speaker 1: that are different. And to the extent that you're willing

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00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:21,440
Speaker 1: to do that, I think it's important. I mean, they

778
00:41:21,440 --> 00:41:22,959
Speaker 1: pay their guys a hell of a lot of money

779
00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:25,360
Speaker 1: to stop them from doing what you're coaching your guys

780
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:27,440
Speaker 1: a lot to do. I mean, we got great coaches,

781
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:29,600
Speaker 1: we got great confidence. We're just not doing our best

782
00:41:29,680 --> 00:41:32,640
Speaker 1: job right now. At this moment. We're gonna be bounced back.

783
00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:34,839
Speaker 1: The Texans are going to be back. But listen, they

784
00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:38,120
Speaker 1: got to understand and listen, John, you are around the

785
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:39,840
Speaker 1: college game a lot. You watch this. I had the

786
00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:43,319
Speaker 1: same conversation with Scott Frost. He understood exactly what at

787
00:41:43,320 --> 00:41:45,480
Speaker 1: Nebraska really quick. I know, we're probably up against it.

788
00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:47,839
Speaker 1: He knew what he was dealing with. If you went

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00:41:47,840 --> 00:41:50,640
Speaker 1: back and looked at his press conference when he took

790
00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:53,200
Speaker 1: that job. And again this has nothing to do with

791
00:41:53,480 --> 00:41:55,920
Speaker 1: wives and spouses and all that stuff. The bottom line

792
00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:57,840
Speaker 1: is even put his family and in that it was

793
00:41:57,880 --> 00:42:00,279
Speaker 1: one by himself. But the sun is coming. I call

794
00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:04,000
Speaker 1: him to resurrect the program. He didn't want anybody in

795
00:42:04,080 --> 00:42:06,040
Speaker 1: his family to be touched by that. He made that

796
00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:09,279
Speaker 1: clear because he understood the forms that we're embracing him

797
00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:11,600
Speaker 1: now will be the same one that we're turning on

798
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Speaker 1: him if they ended up going three. So he has

799
00:42:14,239 --> 00:42:17,719
Speaker 1: a big picture purview of things. The challenge here is

800
00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:20,680
Speaker 1: everybody's expectation was not like that. We didn't come in

801
00:42:20,719 --> 00:42:22,839
Speaker 1: with this. We've got to assist the culture. We've got

802
00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:24,919
Speaker 1: to change all that. We were ready to run, we're

803
00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:27,000
Speaker 1: really to sprint. So now as you get popped in

804
00:42:27,040 --> 00:42:29,120
Speaker 1: the mouth a little bit, how do you respond? But

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Speaker 1: I have to go back, and I think it was

806
00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:33,840
Speaker 1: Eptitius said the crisis doesn't make the team or demand.

807
00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:36,759
Speaker 1: It really exposes what's already there. So we're gonna find

808
00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:38,759
Speaker 1: out what the team is comprised of. But I think

809
00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:41,920
Speaker 1: the talent is there. That's what gives us hope. Spencer,

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Speaker 1: one more for you here on the defense, because I

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Speaker 1: look at the way the defense is played in the

812
00:42:46,400 --> 00:42:49,560
Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien era, they get better as the season goes along.

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Speaker 1: I don't know why that is, because usually you figure

814
00:42:52,640 --> 00:42:55,040
Speaker 1: offense is ahead of the defense, or a defense as

815
00:42:55,040 --> 00:42:58,239
Speaker 1: ahead of the offense rather in most football situations. But

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Speaker 1: what do you think of this unit? They had a

817
00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:02,960
Speaker 1: rough first half. They got it going, but then again

818
00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:05,960
Speaker 1: they needed a clutch stop at the end. Couldn't get

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Speaker 1: it like last week. And I know they're wanting to

820
00:43:08,600 --> 00:43:11,040
Speaker 1: work on that, wanting to improve that, but it happened again.

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Speaker 1: Mark offenses are so eclectic. Even the Happitleist Giants coming

822
00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:18,000
Speaker 1: into this was not a very good offensive team. They

823
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:20,719
Speaker 1: were struggling to score points. But once they figure out

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Speaker 1: what they do, and you listen to Odell Beckham and

825
00:43:22,719 --> 00:43:25,239
Speaker 1: some of the players, you know, Shepard and company, all

826
00:43:25,239 --> 00:43:27,040
Speaker 1: of those guys who were playing in the slop position.

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Speaker 1: They said that they had success because they were relaxed.

828
00:43:29,520 --> 00:43:32,160
Speaker 1: They were having fun just playing the game. And when

829
00:43:32,200 --> 00:43:34,600
Speaker 1: you can play that way, you know on the offensive

830
00:43:34,600 --> 00:43:37,160
Speaker 1: side of the ball things work. Now. Defensively, it's about

831
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Speaker 1: calder punching. What I look forward to determine whether or

832
00:43:39,560 --> 00:43:42,080
Speaker 1: not a defense is having success is what do you

833
00:43:42,200 --> 00:43:44,919
Speaker 1: do against an offense that's having success in the second half.

834
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Speaker 1: They scored on the first four possessions, but they the

835
00:43:48,680 --> 00:43:52,359
Speaker 1: Texans totally slip in the second half. I don't worry

836
00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:54,759
Speaker 1: about the cloth start for defense. That doesn't bother me

837
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Speaker 1: at all. I want to see how you respond to

838
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Speaker 1: the success that they're having on the offensive side of

839
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Speaker 1: the ball, and me the tectis get more than a

840
00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:03,319
Speaker 1: passing great on that. And if you want to talk

841
00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:06,680
Speaker 1: about individual player, JJ Watt is back, y'all, he's back,

842
00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:08,759
Speaker 1: and so that's what I look at. I'm not really

843
00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:11,680
Speaker 1: worried about Romeo or the defense of having a quote

844
00:44:11,719 --> 00:44:15,080
Speaker 1: unquote flow response to it. That's to be expected. You know.

845
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Speaker 1: Offense tends to do that if you're good. In this

846
00:44:17,560 --> 00:44:20,240
Speaker 1: era that we're in right now, things are so complex

847
00:44:20,320 --> 00:44:22,279
Speaker 1: you it's about how you respond to it. So you

848
00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:24,360
Speaker 1: get the guys into the halftime, they look, this is

849
00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:26,560
Speaker 1: what they're doing successfully. Now here's how we're going to

850
00:44:26,680 --> 00:44:28,680
Speaker 1: counter that. And then when you can put the script

851
00:44:28,719 --> 00:44:31,440
Speaker 1: on them and then deny them three the first one,

852
00:44:31,480 --> 00:44:34,240
Speaker 1: two three and outs as opposed to fourth scoring drives

853
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Speaker 1: consecutively in the first half, that's amazing. That tells me

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Speaker 1: your defense is playing at a high level. Huge thanks

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Speaker 1: to Mark, to Andre, to Spencer, to John McClain, to

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Speaker 1: George Thomas, Ryan Griffin, Tyrn, Matthew and everybody who listen

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Speaker 1: participate on this show. Really appreciate it. We'll see tomorrow, Buddy.

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Speaker 1: It is always Go Texans.