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Speaker 1: What's going on? Everybody. Welcome into a Wednesday edition of

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Speaker 1: Texans All Access from Unday Texans Radio Studio and tonight

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Speaker 1: it is a pre game addition of Texans All Access.

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Speaker 1: I am John Harris, and I've taken the Hunday Texans

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Speaker 1: Radio Studio with me to the Motor City. Baby. That's right,

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Speaker 1: Detroit Town. I really want to go over to hit Town, USA.

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Speaker 1: I want to go see Motown, but not time for it,

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Speaker 1: and of course I don't think COVID allows you to

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Speaker 1: do it. So I'm just hanging a hotel talking with you,

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Speaker 1: and that's not a bad thing. I actually love that,

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Speaker 1: and we got plenty for you on the show. Mark

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Speaker 1: Vannimer is going to stop by with our men behind

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Speaker 1: the mics and wait till you hear the pipes on

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Speaker 1: Anthony Bellino from the Michigan Sports Network. He is the

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Speaker 1: in Hope. He is the stadium host were the Lions.

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Speaker 1: You see him when you're in that building, I'll see him.

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Speaker 1: I would imagine tomorrow can't wait. And I'm telling you,

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Speaker 1: when you hear these pipes, oh my god, holy smokes.

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Speaker 1: People in our business would kill to have pipes like

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Speaker 1: Anthony Bellino. So We're gonna hear from Anthony Bellino, after

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Speaker 1: we hear from Tory Petrie, who's the team reporter for

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Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions, a good friend of ours, we've gotten

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Speaker 1: to know over the years. She's got to know dep City.

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Speaker 1: Those two will break bread and talk about this game.

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Speaker 1: So we'll have that in the first hour. Then we

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Speaker 1: get to the second hour, we're gonna go in the

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Speaker 1: lab Drew Doherty and myself. One non negotiable in this game.

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Speaker 1: What has to happen for the Texans to get a win.

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Speaker 1: And it'll also be a little bit of way back

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Speaker 1: storytime from eight years ago. Where were you when the

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Speaker 1: Texans got to win over the Detroit Lions. I'm Thanksgiving

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Speaker 1: twenty twelve. We'll share those stories in the lab. We'll

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Speaker 1: do that a little bit later. Then one of the

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Speaker 1: coolest things and I go back to Tory and Deep.

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Speaker 1: They were joined by A. J. Moore and CJ. Moore,

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Speaker 1: identical twins. They've always played on the same team until

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Speaker 1: they got to the NFL, and now they will play

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Speaker 1: against each other, which is gonna be interesting. Now they won't,

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Speaker 1: I don't think, play at the same time, but maybe

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Speaker 1: special teams will see but either way, they did a

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Speaker 1: segment called no Your Bro, and it's hilarious. I had

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Speaker 1: to play it. I had to. I had to play it.

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Speaker 1: So you hear from AJ Moore, C J Moore, Tory

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Speaker 1: Petrie and dep City in No Your Bro. It's absolutely fantastic.

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Speaker 1: My bros. Drew Dohrty as you know, he's gonna finish

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Speaker 1: up with twelve questions, was Ross Blacklock. That's gonna be

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Speaker 1: fun to hear from the rookie. And then I always

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Speaker 1: gave the final word to Drew Dorty, and this week

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Speaker 1: it's Ross Blacklock. So that's a ton on the show.

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Speaker 1: A pregame edition of this show as we get ready

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Speaker 1: to take on the Detroit Lions on Thursday, eleven thirty local. Here.

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Speaker 1: When I say here, I should say Houston. Here eleven thirty,

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Speaker 1: twelve thirty actually here where I am right now. If

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Speaker 1: you're in Detroit and going into the game, which I

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Speaker 1: don't know, if they're letting fans in, I can't remember.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure all these states are different. The Steelers

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Speaker 1: didn't allow fans earlier this year, then they allowed fans,

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Speaker 1: but then in December they're not gonna have fans I

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Speaker 1: don't know, so I'm not sure what's gonna be there.

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Speaker 1: But either way, if you're there, say hey, I'd love

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Speaker 1: to see you. But it's eleven thirty kickoff if you're

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Speaker 1: in Houston, so get yourself up, watch the game, see

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Speaker 1: a win, have your thanksgiving me sounds like a good day,

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Speaker 1: to be honest with you. All Right, we're gonna kick

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Speaker 1: off this show. Because it's a pregame show. We gotta

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Speaker 1: on a pregame or the last show before a game,

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Speaker 1: which is typically Friday. We got to move it up

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Speaker 1: who sat down with Marvan and to talk about some

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Speaker 1: of the keys in this one against the Lions. Coach

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Speaker 1: tell me about a short week, A couple of things

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Speaker 1: that are very important to you when you're playing on

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Speaker 1: a Thursday, such short prep between Sunday's matchup and the

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Speaker 1: your players an opportunity to recover from a tough Sunday game,

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Speaker 1: because we played really hard for the whole game, and

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Speaker 1: Detroit offense led by quarterback Matt Stafford. He's been very

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Speaker 1: way they play offense? Well, you know what, I think

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Speaker 1: they have a good mix of offense. They run it,

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Speaker 1: a good job of keeping those guys in front of

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Speaker 1: to make Nick plays over ahead. Now three quarters against

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Speaker 1: the Browns and last game against the Patriots, the run

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Speaker 1: defense has really improved, coach, So are you seeing the

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Speaker 1: gradual improvement of the defensive unit, particular literally against the run. Well, definitely, definitely,

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Speaker 1: So in particularly last week, you know, because we're playing

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Speaker 1: So I think that build confidence in our guys and

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Speaker 1: I think that if we can keep that going, we

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Speaker 1: we're very successful overall throwing it. And we're talking to

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Speaker 1: Tim Kell and he said, well, we still have to

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Speaker 1: keep running it even if it doesn't get as much

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Speaker 1: But as Tim said, that combination of run, the ability

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Speaker 1: and so we have to do a little bit better

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Speaker 1: job in the run to help the pass. Coach. We've

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Speaker 1: asked everybody we've interviewed with the Texans this question. It

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Speaker 1: is Thanksgiving, and give me your favorite Thanksgiving food and

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Speaker 1: a dish that you could do without that you might

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Speaker 1: I'm not a peas kind of guy, so I will

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Speaker 1: thanks so much for the time, and best of luck

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Speaker 1: against the Lions. All right, thank you. Okay. I made

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Speaker 1: a comment with Tim Kelly and The Coach Show the

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Speaker 1: other night about turkey. It's controversial I just think you

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Speaker 1: there's no thing called Turkey fil at. It's chick fil A.

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Speaker 1: You don't go to turkey Raising Kanes. No, you go

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Speaker 1: to Raising Kane's chicken. Like you eat chicken. You got

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Speaker 1: a brisky, you get steak. Now, if you deep fry

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Speaker 1: a pretty cool nugget, and that is that. Deshaun Watson

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Speaker 1: his performance against the Patriots. He completed or through for

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Speaker 1: Offensive Player of the Week. It's the first honor for

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Speaker 1: interesting playing on a Thursday evening. Those games are always

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Speaker 1: to be really fun because if you're traveling, you travel

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Speaker 1: Thanksgiving Day, eleven thirty Local time, twelve thirty if you

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Speaker 1: it took Everson just about two games to get going,

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Speaker 1: but by that second game he had already set a

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Speaker 1: franchise record for quarterback hits. He had five in that

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Speaker 1: game and it was just his second game as a Lion.

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Speaker 1: So yes, he's been absolutely crucial on that defensive line.

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Speaker 1: And he came at a perfect time because Trey Flowers

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Speaker 1: went on IR right when Everson Griffin joined this team,

435
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Speaker 1: so the lines were looking for help along that defensive line.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Trey Flowers is arguably their best player on defense,

437
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Speaker 1: and when he goes on IR, he luckily had just

438
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Speaker 1: brought in a guy who could help out with getting

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Speaker 1: after the quarterback. And Everson has lived up to the billing.

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Speaker 1: And it's also helped that he's had Romeo Acquia on

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Speaker 1: that defensive line with him as well, because Romeo has

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Speaker 1: really come on this season. He's been a real big

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Speaker 1: part of that defensive line. So between Romeo and Everson,

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Speaker 1: the defensive line has improved since the beginning of the season.

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Speaker 1: All right, So that Lions defense, much like the Texans,

446
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Speaker 1: defense has given up a lot of points this year.

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Speaker 1: The Lions give up an average of twenty eight point

448
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Speaker 1: seven points. Texans maybe slightly better at twenty seven point

449
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Speaker 1: two points per game on average. So where has the

450
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Speaker 1: Lions defense struggled the most this year? Do you think? Well,

451
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Speaker 1: the biggest place they've struggled is in stopping the run.

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Speaker 1: The games that they have won this season have been

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Speaker 1: the games where they have been able to stop the run.

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Speaker 1: That's kind of their philosophy. We want to run the ball,

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Speaker 1: we want to be able to stop the run. When

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Speaker 1: they haven't been able to stop the run, those have

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Speaker 1: been the games that they've lost. They've had two games

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Speaker 1: this season where they've allowed over two hundred and fifty

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Speaker 1: yards rushing. You can't win games when you allow that

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Speaker 1: many yards in the run game. So the Lions have

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Speaker 1: really really needed to clean up that area of their game.

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Speaker 1: There have been games where they've done it better than others,

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Speaker 1: and like I said, those have been the games that

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Speaker 1: they want. So that is going to be their mo

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Speaker 1: against the Texans on Thanksgiving. They want to be able

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Speaker 1: to stop the run force the past, and they feel

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Speaker 1: like they can win when they do that. All right,

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Speaker 1: Tory before I let you go. I'm so bummed that

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Speaker 1: it's not a traditional Thanksgiving Day game with the crowd

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Speaker 1: and the halftime show and all that. But with that

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Speaker 1: being said, I love me a good halftime show. So

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Speaker 1: what has been the best one that you've covered since

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Speaker 1: you've been with the Lions. Oh goodness, man, those are

474
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Speaker 1: always so much fun. But it's also crazy because you know,

475
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Speaker 1: that's your little right back gamer. It's like, Okay, run

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Speaker 1: to the bathroom, run get a snack, come back to

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Speaker 1: your seat. So when you're covering the game, it is

478
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Speaker 1: a little bit different. But those halftime shows have really

479
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Speaker 1: been a lot of fun. I think Andy Grammar did

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Speaker 1: one a couple years ago where they had the cheerleaders

481
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Speaker 1: do a really cool routine with him out on the field.

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Speaker 1: That's the one that comes to mind. But you know,

483
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Speaker 1: it really is a shame that we won't have that.

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Speaker 1: Maybe I'll have to pull up some music on my

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Speaker 1: laptop just play it at halftime just to feel like

486
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Speaker 1: things are a little bit normal. Maybe I'll do that.

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Speaker 1: You know, deep will miss having you guys in stadium

488
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Speaker 1: on Thursday, I should say, because that Thanksgiving Day game

489
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Speaker 1: is really a blast. But I know you guys will

490
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Speaker 1: still have fun covering it from a distance. We will

491
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Speaker 1: be certainly covering it from here with the pregame show,

492
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Speaker 1: and we'll show live shots at the stadium. Wish I

493
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Speaker 1: was there as well. Hopefully these two teams can play

494
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Speaker 1: again many many times in the future, and it'll be

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Speaker 1: under normal circumstances with a very halftime show. I remember

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Speaker 1: kid Rock back in the day, great native. I thought

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Speaker 1: that was a lot of fun. I'm not a necessarily

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Speaker 1: kid Rock fan, but I thought that was a great

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Speaker 1: halftime show. Toriy, this has been great. It's been a

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Speaker 1: lot of fun. Always great catching up with you. Have

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Speaker 1: a great game and rest of the season. Oh here's

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Speaker 1: another little fun fact, just in case you're wondering. Tory

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Speaker 1: is one of the better Is one of the better

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Speaker 1: football players you're going to see? I said it, Yes,

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Speaker 1: football players. She's from Florida and she plays football in

506
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Speaker 1: a female adult football league and she's fantastic. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: don't cross Tory. She's awesome, and don't cross DP either.

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Speaker 1: Deeply would tackle you, didn't take you down if she

509
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Speaker 1: needed to. So there you go, two excellent team reporters

510
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Speaker 1: getting together to break bread for this one. Okay, we

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Speaker 1: get back. Mark vandermer goes behind the mic, not with

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Speaker 1: Lions play by play host, but someone very close to

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Speaker 1: the Lions. Anthony Bellino from Michigan Sports Network will join

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Speaker 1: the voice that Texas Mark vanderbur Next right here on

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Speaker 1: Texas All Access, it's time for the Schlumberge Stats Challenge

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Speaker 1: of the Week. And I've got one twenty nine point

517
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Speaker 1: six versus seventy one point six. What is that? That's

518
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Speaker 1: the difference in passer rating for every quarterback that has

519
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Speaker 1: faced the Patriots since twenty nineteen, and it's the Shawn

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00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:03,840
Speaker 1: Watson combined effort. In two games against the Patriots in

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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen to twenty twenty, he has fifty eight points

522
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Speaker 1: higher of a rating against the Patriots than every other

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Speaker 1: quarterback and all the quarterbacks combined. It's amazing to think about.

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Speaker 1: He has been fantastic against the Patriots and that's why

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Speaker 1: he was named AFC Offensive Player of the Week. That

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Speaker 1: was such great news. Welcome back to Texans All Access.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, John Harris, and now it's time to

528
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Speaker 1: go behind the mikes with the men that will call

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Speaker 1: the game or be involved in calling a game. You

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Speaker 1: know Mark Vandermyer is gonna call it for the Houston Texans,

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Speaker 1: and he caught up with Anthony Ballino of Michigan Sports Network,

532
00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:48,359
Speaker 1: thus pre postgame stuff for the Detroit Lions. Knows them

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Speaker 1: in and out. It's time to hear from the voice

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Speaker 1: in Anthony Billino. Joining us right now is Anthony Bollino

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Speaker 1: of the Michigan Sports Network and in game host. That

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Speaker 1: it's Lions. Anthony. How's it going today then, market, You're

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Speaker 1: doing very well. Thanks for having me. I appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, let's talk about these Lions now. What

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Speaker 1: do you think this year has been the main problem.

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Speaker 1: I know Stafford has the injury right now. I know

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Speaker 1: there have been issues with DeAndre Swift healthwise, but just

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Speaker 1: define it for us in a macro sense, what the

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Speaker 1: problems have been with the Lions. In a macro sense,

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Speaker 1: I would say, if you were trying to let's say

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Speaker 1: you were trying to hitch hitch a horse to a wagon,

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Speaker 1: right but the wagon didn't have any wheels. I think

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Speaker 1: that's where That's where the Lions are at currently right now.

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Speaker 1: A lot of expectation, a lot of hope going into

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Speaker 1: this season for this Detroit franchise in the fourth year

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Speaker 1: of Matt Patricia in Bob Quinn coming over from New England,

551
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Speaker 1: there was this belief that they were going to be

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Speaker 1: the two, that we're going to get this team over

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Speaker 1: the hump. And for this season in particular, it's been

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Speaker 1: blown leads they would you know too, multiple touchdown leads

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00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:55,920
Speaker 1: against New Orleans, against Chicago and blowing those games, going

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Speaker 1: on the road to Green Bay and defensively just being

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Speaker 1: an absolute catastrophe. I think that you can look at

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Speaker 1: the Green Bay game, you can look at the Indianapolis

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Speaker 1: Colts loss, a loss against the Minnesota Vikings last week

560
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Speaker 1: against Carolina Panthers, where defensively this team looks so out

561
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Speaker 1: of sorts that if Matthew Stafford and the offense isn't rolling,

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Speaker 1: they don't stand a chance. And it's really it's very puzzling,

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Speaker 1: very befuddling that this would be the circumstance this year,

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Speaker 1: with all the free agency acquisitions that Bob Quinn and

565
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Speaker 1: Mat Patricia wanted to make to put their defense and

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Speaker 1: put their their stamp on this defense. It just hasn't worked,

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Speaker 1: all right, So tell me what's the best way to

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Speaker 1: beat the Detroit Lions, give us the recipe on the

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Speaker 1: Texans formula for victory. I know that you're inside the building,

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Speaker 1: but you've seen how these games have played out. So

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Speaker 1: what's your opinion on that. Well, if you can, first off,

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Speaker 1: if you can attack on the perimeter, because the situation

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Speaker 1: for the Detroit Lions on the corners has not been great.

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Speaker 1: It has been It has been a challenge all season

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Speaker 1: long when it's man to man on the outside. Desmond

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Speaker 1: Drufon had a soft tissue injury with a hamstring just

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Speaker 1: home in the same same more deal for him. Jeffreeal Couda,

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Speaker 1: the young rookie you can tell not having an offseason

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Speaker 1: program because of how COVID interrupted all of our lives.

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Speaker 1: How it has affected rookies across the league. Jeffreel Couta

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Speaker 1: is it is no exception and for the number three

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Speaker 1: overall pick in last year's draft, he has struggled mightily

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Speaker 1: in getting guys and letting guys get behind him has

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Speaker 1: been a huge problem. Amani Overarier on the other side,

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Speaker 1: he has been pretty good in his sophomore season for

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Speaker 1: the Lions. Second year kid out of Penn State, he's

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Speaker 1: probably been the bright spot. But I really think when

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Speaker 1: when teams are having a lot of success, that they're

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Speaker 1: pushing the ball down the field vertically through the air,

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Speaker 1: which we know Shaun Watson can do. And also don't

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Speaker 1: be afraid to throw over the middle, because there there

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Speaker 1: has not been a team yet who has not found

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Speaker 1: success by attacking and slot receivers across the middle. They

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Speaker 1: have just eight the Lions up. So if you could

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Speaker 1: push the ball down the field through the air, you're

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Speaker 1: going to have success. Because the other the other problem

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Speaker 1: is defensively for the Lions, they can't develop a consistent

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Speaker 1: pass rush at all, Like it's non existent at this

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Speaker 1: point right now in the season. It is really strange

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Speaker 1: because you know, Mark, if you can bring pressure with

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Speaker 1: for you could do just about anything you want. That

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Speaker 1: makes more defense a whole heck of a lot harder

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Speaker 1: to scheme against. This team. Can they can't get pressure

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Speaker 1: with four, they can't get pressure with six. So I

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Speaker 1: would say, Deshaun Watson, hey, here's the keys to the bus.

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Speaker 1: You throw it where you think it's necessary, and let's

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Speaker 1: take shots down the field. Open this thing up. Anthony Bellino,

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Speaker 1: Michigan Sports Network, In Game host of the Detroit Lions.

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Speaker 1: All right, So when things are clicking for the Lions,

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Speaker 1: what's going right, what's been their recipe for victory? For victory?

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00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:38,959
Speaker 1: They found some success in the run game. Early on,

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00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:41,280
Speaker 1: they running the ball really well with a Dedrian Peterson.

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Speaker 1: He came out of the gate storm and he has

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Speaker 1: since slowed down. DeAndre Swift looks to be that feature

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Speaker 1: back when you think about grabbing a running back in

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Speaker 1: the second round. Michael Herob Detroit Lions dot Com said

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Speaker 1: that DeAndre Swift is the guy that the Lions have

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Speaker 1: been trying to draft since Barry left. And when he

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Speaker 1: said that, I've a fell out of my chair because

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Speaker 1: it's like, really, that's this is the guy? Huh? But

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Speaker 1: he truly is. He's a guy that can run the football.

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Speaker 1: If that great vision, he can catch it out of

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Speaker 1: the backfield. Didn't play last week because he was in

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Speaker 1: the concussion protocol. But when the Lions are doing well offensively,

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Speaker 1: they've been able to establish some resemblance of a running game,

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Speaker 1: and with DeAndre Swift it might be sixty to eighty

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Speaker 1: yards rushing the football in traditional style carries, plus another

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Speaker 1: twenty to forty yards receiving that's what they want to do.

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Speaker 1: They want to be able to have guys like Kenny

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Speaker 1: Galladay available, like a Danny A. Mendola available, to have

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Speaker 1: their full compliment of weapons. For Matthew Stafford, the offensive

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Speaker 1: line has actually really been a bright spot. You might

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Speaker 1: be thinking, Okay, well, you just gave up how many

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Speaker 1: sacks and the Carolina Panthers that could manufacture a sack

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00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:42,920
Speaker 1: all season, all of a sudden they torched the Lions

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Speaker 1: offensive line. And I don't really know what the rhyme

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Speaker 1: or reason for that was outside of the fact that

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Speaker 1: you know, Jona Jackson's played really well. The draft pick

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Speaker 1: out of Ohio State, Frank Racknow at center on the

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Speaker 1: left tackle side. Taylor Decker probably had his worst game

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Speaker 1: in the last sixteen to twenty games last week against Carolina,

642
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Speaker 1: but there seemed to be soon unication issues there across

643
00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:04,160
Speaker 1: those front five. So I think that when the Lions

644
00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:06,120
Speaker 1: are playing well, the offensive line is doing a good

645
00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:08,800
Speaker 1: job and they have some resemblance of a run game,

646
00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:11,720
Speaker 1: something that Matthew Stafford just hasn't really had consistently in

647
00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:14,959
Speaker 1: his career here in Detroit, Anthony. Yeah, Matthew Stafford's been

648
00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:16,880
Speaker 1: in the league since two thousand and nine. How do

649
00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:20,959
Speaker 1: the fans feel about Matthew Stafford and maybe some media

650
00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:25,760
Speaker 1: opinionated guys as well. What's the relationship like the most

651
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:29,840
Speaker 1: polarizing athlete in Detroit? For sure, because if you bring

652
00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:32,440
Speaker 1: up Matthew Stafford's name, you're going to have part of

653
00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:34,960
Speaker 1: the crowd that says, hey, he's never been given the tools,

654
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:37,440
Speaker 1: he's never been given the opportunity. His team has never

655
00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:40,920
Speaker 1: been good enough for him to actually have real, true

656
00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:43,040
Speaker 1: success in Detroit. The other half of the crowd is

657
00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:44,960
Speaker 1: going to say, oh, yeah, but because Aaron Rodgers doesn't

658
00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:47,040
Speaker 1: have any weapons, and looking at Green Bay, he could

659
00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:48,680
Speaker 1: go out there with no defense and no weapons and

660
00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:50,800
Speaker 1: they could still win eight, nine, ten games a season.

661
00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:53,800
Speaker 1: So why is it different. I think that Matthew Staffords

662
00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:56,480
Speaker 1: some people love him, some people hate him. I was

663
00:33:56,560 --> 00:33:58,840
Speaker 1: really on the trying to give him the benefit of

664
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Speaker 1: the doubt, but I haven't seen it in the last

665
00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:02,960
Speaker 1: couple of years and think, I think you look back

666
00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:04,720
Speaker 1: to last year before he had the back injury and

667
00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:07,360
Speaker 1: the team really did, you know, drive the vehicle off

668
00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:09,879
Speaker 1: a cliff at that point to where they were six

669
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Speaker 1: and two. I believe through the first eight games and

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Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford with Darryll Bevel the offensive coordinator, things seemed

671
00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:17,160
Speaker 1: to be clicking. The offense was moving, they were putting

672
00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:19,040
Speaker 1: up points. It was like, this is what this group

673
00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:21,839
Speaker 1: is supposed to look like. They have taken a monumental

674
00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:25,520
Speaker 1: step backwards. I think Matthew Stafford has personally as far

675
00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:27,920
Speaker 1: as you know, his progression as a professional. I mean,

676
00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:30,759
Speaker 1: he's made some throws. In the Indianapolis Colts game, he

677
00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:34,200
Speaker 1: gets sacked, coughs up the football, it's a fumble. The

678
00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:36,680
Speaker 1: Colts come down and score. The very next possession, he

679
00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:38,799
Speaker 1: throws a pick six and it was it was an

680
00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:41,399
Speaker 1: interception that as a guy who is thirty two years

681
00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:43,280
Speaker 1: old and has been in this league since two thousand

682
00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:46,840
Speaker 1: and nine, you cannot throw that pass. You just can't.

683
00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:50,520
Speaker 1: And it's so there are definitely a polar rising topic,

684
00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:53,160
Speaker 1: for sure. I think most people are starting to lose

685
00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:54,799
Speaker 1: a little bit of faith though, those who have been

686
00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:57,479
Speaker 1: riding with Matthews throughout his career starting to lose faith

687
00:34:57,480 --> 00:35:00,719
Speaker 1: because we need that, you know, that quarterback that transcend

688
00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:02,960
Speaker 1: it can really propel his team forward. I think you

689
00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:05,680
Speaker 1: have won there in Houston and Deshaun Watson. This is

690
00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:08,160
Speaker 1: a young man who can take this football team and

691
00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:11,080
Speaker 1: because of his skill set, can win them football games.

692
00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:13,560
Speaker 1: That's say Matthew Stafford Candy's and manufactured a lot of

693
00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:18,000
Speaker 1: game winning drives, but it just hasn't been that consistency of, hey,

694
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Speaker 1: you know what, we have this guy, Let's try to

695
00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:22,080
Speaker 1: win a football game in the first couple of quarters

696
00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:24,840
Speaker 1: instead of waiting till thirty seconds left in the fourth quarter.

697
00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:27,680
Speaker 1: Anthony Bellino, Michigan Sports Network with us, all right, some

698
00:35:27,719 --> 00:35:30,120
Speaker 1: other topics, because I know you talk other stuff on

699
00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:32,959
Speaker 1: the Michigan Sports Network. And tell me when I saw

700
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:36,279
Speaker 1: the Palace go down, I thought, geez, the palace. You know,

701
00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:39,160
Speaker 1: I know that it's not in use for the major

702
00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:41,920
Speaker 1: sports anymore, but to me, that was kind of an

703
00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:44,239
Speaker 1: emotional thing. Was that a hot topic to you? And

704
00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:47,200
Speaker 1: how do fans feel about the way the franchises are

705
00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:50,080
Speaker 1: set up in the city of Detroit right now? Well?

706
00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:52,080
Speaker 1: I think that, you know, for the Palace, that was

707
00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:54,759
Speaker 1: a beautiful building that the names and family put so

708
00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:58,080
Speaker 1: much money into and to see that thing go by

709
00:35:58,080 --> 00:36:00,319
Speaker 1: the wayside. Even Tom Gorse when he took over the team,

710
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:03,280
Speaker 1: for the Detroit Pistons, the reinvestment there in the Palace

711
00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:06,080
Speaker 1: of Auburn Hills. I personally because I was born in

712
00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:09,680
Speaker 1: southern Detroit, so where I always wanted the team closer.

713
00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:12,320
Speaker 1: Auburn Hills was always such a drive, you know, and

714
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:14,359
Speaker 1: and and for me it was like, hey, get this

715
00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:17,720
Speaker 1: team closer to downtown. The Red Wings Joe Louis Arena.

716
00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:20,319
Speaker 1: I think that that building going down had probably had

717
00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:23,520
Speaker 1: a little bit more emotional attachment just because of the

718
00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:26,719
Speaker 1: location right there on the river, all the success that

719
00:36:26,719 --> 00:36:28,719
Speaker 1: that team had had over the you know, the twenty five,

720
00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:31,440
Speaker 1: twenty six straight years of making the playoffs. But to

721
00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:35,120
Speaker 1: lose both of those buildings from a nostalgis standpoint, very

722
00:36:35,160 --> 00:36:38,400
Speaker 1: difficult for Detroit sports fans. To have both teams, you know,

723
00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:43,040
Speaker 1: conveniently located right across the highway, literally right across Woodward

724
00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:45,719
Speaker 1: from where Ford Field in Comerica Park are at. For

725
00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:47,520
Speaker 1: the Lions and the Tigers, it is very nice to

726
00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:51,000
Speaker 1: have everything kind of essentially located downtown. The economic growth

727
00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:54,600
Speaker 1: and development has very much improved in the city. It's

728
00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:56,600
Speaker 1: not where, it's not where it needs to be. It's

729
00:36:56,640 --> 00:36:58,239
Speaker 1: not there yet, it's going to take more time. It's

730
00:36:58,239 --> 00:37:01,920
Speaker 1: going to take more spin, Budd. At the same time

731
00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:04,520
Speaker 1: it is, it's definitely been a blessing. I watched the

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00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:07,319
Speaker 1: patience level for Jim Harball right now. I guess that

733
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:10,399
Speaker 1: might be a loaded question, but tell me, I mean

734
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Speaker 1: you want to talk about no fans that are in Michigan.

735
00:37:13,239 --> 00:37:15,520
Speaker 1: I mean you look at the Michigan State Spartans. That

736
00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:18,080
Speaker 1: team isn't any good. The Michigan Wolf Means with a

737
00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:21,319
Speaker 1: lot of hype once again, big Week one win over Minnesota.

738
00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:23,040
Speaker 1: We thought Joe Milton was going to win a Heisman

739
00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:25,640
Speaker 1: before they even played a football game. That team hasn't

740
00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:27,640
Speaker 1: been any good. The Lions have been a disaster. We

741
00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:30,440
Speaker 1: can't wait for basketball season here in Michigan because at

742
00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:32,839
Speaker 1: least we have the Spartans and Wolverine's basketball programs are

743
00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:36,719
Speaker 1: pretty good. Jim Harball, the patience level is very thin

744
00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:39,520
Speaker 1: with the fan base just because it is year six

745
00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:41,560
Speaker 1: and this year has been such a disaster. I mean,

746
00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:44,319
Speaker 1: look at Saturday night triple overtime to survive on the

747
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:47,400
Speaker 1: road at Rutgers. That just I just don't think that

748
00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:49,920
Speaker 1: the fans thought that the program would be in flux.

749
00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:52,560
Speaker 1: The way that it is right now. I mean losing

750
00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:56,440
Speaker 1: Ambrey Thomas, Aiden, Hutchetson QUITTI pay Camra Grown, I mean

751
00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:59,240
Speaker 1: guys that have either opted out or have been injured

752
00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:01,560
Speaker 1: this season. If you want to talk about a lost year,

753
00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:05,200
Speaker 1: it's this year right now for the Wolverines. Anthony Bellino

754
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:07,799
Speaker 1: joining us from the Michigan Sports Network. What does the

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00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:11,600
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving Game mean to the people of Detroit and Michigan.

756
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Speaker 1: I think it means a whole heck of a lot.

757
00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:16,160
Speaker 1: It's a traditional thing. I know that. You know a

758
00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:18,600
Speaker 1: lot of folks from the national perspective want to know

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00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:21,160
Speaker 1: why are the Lions on my television right now before

760
00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:24,279
Speaker 1: the city of Detroit. For this fan base, it really

761
00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:26,279
Speaker 1: does mean a lot. It is something special now, I

762
00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:28,160
Speaker 1: will I will admit this. There seems to be some

763
00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:30,600
Speaker 1: sort of like delusion that the Lions always play really

764
00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:33,719
Speaker 1: well on Thanksgiving. But that Mark, my friend, that's just

765
00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:36,480
Speaker 1: not always the case. I think we tell ourselves that

766
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:38,920
Speaker 1: to make us feel better. But there's been some serious

767
00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:41,799
Speaker 1: heartbreak on Turkey Day, and there have been some good games.

768
00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:44,800
Speaker 1: There's been some difficult losses as well. I think we

769
00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:47,320
Speaker 1: can go back to twenty twelve against the Houston Texans

770
00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:50,440
Speaker 1: in which I can't remember who was carrying the football

771
00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:54,239
Speaker 1: at the time. Yeah, justin for said it was a

772
00:38:54,239 --> 00:38:56,520
Speaker 1: seven yard run that ended up going for eighty. And

773
00:38:56,560 --> 00:38:58,839
Speaker 1: then you know, Jim Schwartz tries to challenge this thing,

774
00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:01,319
Speaker 1: and because all scoring plays reviewed and it's like now

775
00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:03,440
Speaker 1: it can be challenged, so it's just the touchdown. Say,

776
00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:05,920
Speaker 1: what kind of rule is this? NFL? Here in Detroit

777
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:08,319
Speaker 1: we learn all about making up new rules for the

778
00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:11,040
Speaker 1: NFL and helping guide their process of what they want

779
00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:12,719
Speaker 1: to keep in the rule book and not. But I

780
00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:15,399
Speaker 1: think that Thanksgiving is as a it's a special day

781
00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:18,400
Speaker 1: for the Detroit fan base and hopefully something that the

782
00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:21,520
Speaker 1: Lions can't continue, even though I'm sure most of those

783
00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:23,759
Speaker 1: folks around around the rest of the country would prefer

784
00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:25,880
Speaker 1: to see some other teams. So, in addition to Lions

785
00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:28,920
Speaker 1: duties talking sports for the Michigan Sports Network. But Michigan

786
00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:32,360
Speaker 1: has been such a hot button state politically recently, and

787
00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:34,600
Speaker 1: of course the COVID news coming out of it. How

788
00:39:34,680 --> 00:39:37,840
Speaker 1: much does that bleed into the conversation on Michigan Sports Network.

789
00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:41,160
Speaker 1: You know, Mark, here's my strategy on the whole thing

790
00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:43,719
Speaker 1: is that people are getting enough of the COVID. They

791
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:47,279
Speaker 1: they've gotten enough of the politics and everything that took

792
00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:50,200
Speaker 1: place over the over the summer with the NBA, their

793
00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:53,520
Speaker 1: their their movement for social justice and trying to bring

794
00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:56,480
Speaker 1: awareness to some certain causes. And if it's something that's

795
00:39:56,520 --> 00:39:59,880
Speaker 1: topical and and what I think is topical sports wise,

796
00:40:00,239 --> 00:40:02,520
Speaker 1: then we talk about it. But if it's if it's political,

797
00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:05,319
Speaker 1: it has anything to do with the presidential races, if

798
00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:09,360
Speaker 1: it's COVID news that has to pertain to specific games

799
00:40:09,480 --> 00:40:12,359
Speaker 1: or teams or players that I think sports fans need

800
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:14,759
Speaker 1: to know, then we'll discuss it. Outside of that, I

801
00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:16,879
Speaker 1: try to stick to I really do try to stick

802
00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:19,360
Speaker 1: to sports as much as possible because I view us

803
00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:21,919
Speaker 1: on our program in the mornings. It's morning radio. It's

804
00:40:22,120 --> 00:40:24,360
Speaker 1: something people are waking up to first thing in the morning.

805
00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:26,640
Speaker 1: How do we get them the news and information, something

806
00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:28,680
Speaker 1: that they may have missed last night, something that they

807
00:40:28,719 --> 00:40:30,960
Speaker 1: may know for today. And I really try to focus

808
00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:34,239
Speaker 1: in what's going on in between the lines. If there

809
00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:37,160
Speaker 1: are some topics like COVID affecting college basketball, how will

810
00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:39,200
Speaker 1: that work out? You know, we'll have to wait and

811
00:40:39,239 --> 00:40:42,120
Speaker 1: see the way it's forced rescheduling of games in football.

812
00:40:42,360 --> 00:40:44,760
Speaker 1: However we do it, I just always try to apply

813
00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:47,359
Speaker 1: it to the sport that we are covering. All Right,

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Speaker 1: So I've spent some time in Michigan. You and I

815
00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:52,239
Speaker 1: have discussed that. But you tell me, a guy who

816
00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:55,080
Speaker 1: was born in Michigan, what do people not know about

817
00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:57,960
Speaker 1: Michigan that they need to know? And this is your

818
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:01,120
Speaker 1: Convention and Visitors Bureau moment here, Anthony, because I know

819
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:03,399
Speaker 1: people see a lot of the negative stuff and flat

820
00:41:03,440 --> 00:41:05,399
Speaker 1: it goes back to Roger and me and news out

821
00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:07,319
Speaker 1: of Detroit and all the stuff I talked about lately.

822
00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:10,759
Speaker 1: But what else about Michigan. Okay, So if you are

823
00:41:10,840 --> 00:41:12,480
Speaker 1: if you are not from the Michigan area and for

824
00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:15,399
Speaker 1: some reason you got family member, that's that's somewhere around here.

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00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:16,880
Speaker 1: The first thing I would say is that if you

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00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:19,759
Speaker 1: have golf clubs bringing your nicks, because the golf in

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Speaker 1: mid Michigan to northern Michigan. When you start thinking about,

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Speaker 1: you know, any of the courses around Lake Mission, the

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Speaker 1: Arcadia Bluffs, the Bay Harbors, the Garlands, the Gay Alerts,

830
00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:34,200
Speaker 1: gray Land, like, there's so many areas, so many wonderful

831
00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:38,680
Speaker 1: courses all around northern Michigan that will really for an

832
00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:42,719
Speaker 1: avid golfer. Treetops Resort's another one that if you have

833
00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:45,680
Speaker 1: the opportunity to come to this state to enjoy, if

834
00:41:45,719 --> 00:41:48,239
Speaker 1: you enjoy golf, that is that is awesome and you

835
00:41:48,239 --> 00:41:49,960
Speaker 1: will have the time of your life and play some

836
00:41:50,080 --> 00:41:52,200
Speaker 1: hidden gems that you did not know it. All you

837
00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:54,240
Speaker 1: have to do is uh, you know, you could literally

838
00:41:54,239 --> 00:41:56,680
Speaker 1: just you know, type it into Google or call whoever

839
00:41:56,760 --> 00:41:59,080
Speaker 1: you're coming to visit and just say what are you know?

840
00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:01,600
Speaker 1: What courses are ones to play? And everybody has a

841
00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:03,840
Speaker 1: list of five to ten that are must plays in

842
00:42:03,880 --> 00:42:05,480
Speaker 1: their in their mind. And I think if that if

843
00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:07,719
Speaker 1: you stacked up everybody's list, you'd see a lot of

844
00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:10,160
Speaker 1: cross over there. So I would definitely say the golfing

845
00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:12,960
Speaker 1: in northern Michigan in the summertime, some of the sight

846
00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:14,400
Speaker 1: seeing that you could do if you want to go

847
00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:17,400
Speaker 1: to Mackinaw Island or go to the up during the

848
00:42:17,440 --> 00:42:19,400
Speaker 1: fall season, if you're if you're okay with being a

849
00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:21,920
Speaker 1: little bit cold, then I do think that sometimes Detroit

850
00:42:22,239 --> 00:42:25,320
Speaker 1: attracts a lot of the you know, not so positive news,

851
00:42:25,600 --> 00:42:29,440
Speaker 1: but around Detroit, the Lake Saint Clair Shore's area. I

852
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:31,960
Speaker 1: think that you know, Lake here On, there are plenty

853
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:34,799
Speaker 1: of awesome events that take place throughout the summer if

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Speaker 1: really think like Michigan. You know, people really do enjoy

857
00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:46,319
Speaker 1: about the state of Michigan. Anthony, great stuff. We really

858
00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:49,839
Speaker 1: appreciate the visit and looking forward to the game on Thanksgiving.

859
00:42:50,120 --> 00:42:52,600
Speaker 1: Thanks so much, Mark, have a great holiday. Man. You

860
00:42:52,719 --> 00:42:59,840
Speaker 1: talk about pipes, My goodness, Anthony Bellino's got some beautiful pipes.

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Speaker 1: Beautiful all right, one hour is now in the books.

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Speaker 1: We got to get to the second hour. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: kick it off with a little in the lab. Drew

864
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Speaker 1: and I gave one non negotiable something that's got to

865
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Speaker 1: this Wednesday pregame edition of Texans All Access from the

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Speaker 1: Day Texans Radio Studio. I'm your host, John Harris, glad

881
00:44:09,560 --> 00:44:12,000
Speaker 1: to be with you. I'm also one half of the

882
00:44:12,160 --> 00:44:15,120
Speaker 1: In the Lab podcast, which if you have missed it,

883
00:44:15,520 --> 00:44:18,959
Speaker 1: you have missed out. Drew Dory and I love doing

884
00:44:18,960 --> 00:44:21,320
Speaker 1: that podcast. At first, when Drew brought it to my attention,

885
00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:23,520
Speaker 1: I was like, dude, we got a million other things

886
00:44:23,560 --> 00:44:25,360
Speaker 1: we're doing. You sure we want to do a podcast?

887
00:44:26,160 --> 00:44:28,040
Speaker 1: And we've been doing it now, I think for about

888
00:44:28,080 --> 00:44:32,399
Speaker 1: three years and it's been fantastic. We really enjoyed doing it,

889
00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:35,960
Speaker 1: so figured why not kick off the second hour of

890
00:44:35,960 --> 00:44:39,160
Speaker 1: this show a little in the Lab as Drew breaks

891
00:44:39,200 --> 00:44:42,600
Speaker 1: down what we're going to do on that podcast. Here's

892
00:44:42,600 --> 00:44:45,360
Speaker 1: what's on the table of contents. We've got one non

893
00:44:45,360 --> 00:44:48,719
Speaker 1: negotiable for the Texans where they must have if they

894
00:44:48,719 --> 00:44:51,439
Speaker 1: want to win against the Lions. And then we're going

895
00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:54,440
Speaker 1: on a trip down memory lane back to twenty twelve

896
00:44:54,960 --> 00:44:58,760
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving Day, the last time the Texans were there in Detroit,

897
00:44:58,800 --> 00:45:02,759
Speaker 1: and that was a It was a memorable, memorable experience

898
00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:08,239
Speaker 1: for me. My one non negotiable is this, I want

899
00:45:08,239 --> 00:45:11,960
Speaker 1: to see more of the same defensively what we saw

900
00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:15,279
Speaker 1: last Sunday, as far as plugging up the run and

901
00:45:15,360 --> 00:45:18,560
Speaker 1: attacking and getting there in time and then getting after

902
00:45:18,600 --> 00:45:21,839
Speaker 1: the quarterback or just affecting the quarterback. Romeo Cornell talked

903
00:45:21,840 --> 00:45:24,480
Speaker 1: about it earlier today. He said they didn't always get

904
00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:26,600
Speaker 1: the sack on Sunday. They only had two sacks, but

905
00:45:27,239 --> 00:45:29,720
Speaker 1: they had a lot of quarterback hits. I think eight total.

906
00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:34,200
Speaker 1: And you combine the quarterback hits with JJ getting four

907
00:45:34,320 --> 00:45:37,080
Speaker 1: batted balls, plus I think Watkins had one and there

908
00:45:37,160 --> 00:45:40,280
Speaker 1: was another one in there somewhere else. That's affecting the quarterback.

909
00:45:40,280 --> 00:45:42,600
Speaker 1: Now it's not a sack, but it's affecting the quarterback.

910
00:45:42,880 --> 00:45:46,799
Speaker 1: That's about ten plays just right there. It doesn't really

911
00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:50,040
Speaker 1: where you are messing things up for them and making

912
00:45:50,080 --> 00:45:53,120
Speaker 1: it a lot harder. That's what I want. That's what

913
00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:55,960
Speaker 1: I need to see, because the Lions can probably do

914
00:45:56,040 --> 00:45:57,880
Speaker 1: some things running the football, and you need to bottle

915
00:45:57,920 --> 00:45:59,840
Speaker 1: that up and you need to get this win because

916
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:02,799
Speaker 1: you do. Hey, that's four on the season. You're getting

917
00:46:02,800 --> 00:46:06,960
Speaker 1: closer and closer back to five. Yeah. It's interesting about

918
00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:10,360
Speaker 1: this Lions crew because you know, people obviously have been

919
00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:13,719
Speaker 1: asking me the last couple of couple of days, what

920
00:46:13,719 --> 00:46:15,640
Speaker 1: do you think of them? And I'm like, I don't

921
00:46:15,719 --> 00:46:17,960
Speaker 1: I don't know what to think. My gut tells me

922
00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:21,480
Speaker 1: they're they're not very good. But it's Thanksgiving. That's a

923
00:46:21,560 --> 00:46:24,799
Speaker 1: game they play every year, so they're accustomed to this

924
00:46:25,280 --> 00:46:28,160
Speaker 1: very short week, play in the morning sort of thing.

925
00:46:28,200 --> 00:46:30,279
Speaker 1: You know, Look, when you play a Thursday night game,

926
00:46:31,640 --> 00:46:34,600
Speaker 1: you get it's a Thursday night game. You got all

927
00:46:34,640 --> 00:46:38,680
Speaker 1: the way till seven o'clock or seven thirty. Meanwhile, you're

928
00:46:38,719 --> 00:46:42,960
Speaker 1: gonna be spinning pregame about eight thirty, nine thirty maybe

929
00:46:43,400 --> 00:46:46,640
Speaker 1: locally there in Detroit, so it's not a lot of

930
00:46:46,680 --> 00:46:49,480
Speaker 1: time to recover. And the Texans came out of there

931
00:46:49,520 --> 00:46:54,200
Speaker 1: banged up, but drew defensively. You brought it up to me.

932
00:46:54,400 --> 00:46:58,040
Speaker 1: That was as complete a performance I think as you

933
00:46:58,080 --> 00:47:02,400
Speaker 1: could get. Yeah, they got three hundred and whatever yards passing.

934
00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:05,319
Speaker 1: They got a hundred of that on two plays, two

935
00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:09,520
Speaker 1: fifty yarders. So I thought, for the most part, if

936
00:47:09,520 --> 00:47:16,120
Speaker 1: the secondary didn't bust and just stayed and read the zones,

937
00:47:16,480 --> 00:47:19,360
Speaker 1: that that really is where they kind of got in trouble.

938
00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:22,239
Speaker 1: As when they were playing zone. They're playing, man, They're okay,

939
00:47:22,520 --> 00:47:25,600
Speaker 1: they're playing zone. That was the issue because then they'd

940
00:47:25,600 --> 00:47:28,080
Speaker 1: start trying to pass off routes as you're supposed to

941
00:47:28,120 --> 00:47:30,839
Speaker 1: in zone, and some guys were going with the wrong

942
00:47:30,960 --> 00:47:33,719
Speaker 1: route and it just you know, demere bird and a

943
00:47:33,760 --> 00:47:37,080
Speaker 1: couple of catches where you're like, man, guys, come on, now,

944
00:47:37,320 --> 00:47:39,800
Speaker 1: what is this? Is this cover three cover? What coverage

945
00:47:39,880 --> 00:47:42,239
Speaker 1: is this? Somebody's got to be there. We got to

946
00:47:42,280 --> 00:47:44,800
Speaker 1: be better about this ten games in. But that said,

947
00:47:44,840 --> 00:47:48,719
Speaker 1: I felt like overall, you got really nice performances. You

948
00:47:48,800 --> 00:47:51,520
Speaker 1: did get banged up. You lost PJ Hall, and that's

949
00:47:51,520 --> 00:47:53,879
Speaker 1: a tough one because he had been playing very well. Well.

950
00:47:53,880 --> 00:47:57,919
Speaker 1: Now it's not for Ross Blacklock to take another step. Yeah,

951
00:47:57,960 --> 00:47:59,799
Speaker 1: PJ had been one of the silver linings for you

952
00:47:59,840 --> 00:48:02,240
Speaker 1: this Yes, and had many because you've already lost seven games.

953
00:48:02,239 --> 00:48:05,520
Speaker 1: But Tyrell Adams, we talked about Pharaoh Brown, both of

954
00:48:05,520 --> 00:48:09,080
Speaker 1: those guys last week. PJ. Hall definitely deserves to be

955
00:48:09,080 --> 00:48:12,320
Speaker 1: in that conversation too, Yeah, no doubt. What I liked

956
00:48:12,520 --> 00:48:16,080
Speaker 1: really about the front seven, Drew was how everybody knew

957
00:48:16,120 --> 00:48:18,120
Speaker 1: what their fit was supposed to be in the run game,

958
00:48:18,160 --> 00:48:20,640
Speaker 1: and then they got to it and then they were physical.

959
00:48:20,880 --> 00:48:22,960
Speaker 1: And one of my keys last week, because I wrote

960
00:48:22,960 --> 00:48:24,839
Speaker 1: and know your foe with my keys to the game

961
00:48:25,360 --> 00:48:28,400
Speaker 1: was you have to out physical the physical because the

962
00:48:28,440 --> 00:48:30,120
Speaker 1: Patriots are going to try and pound it down your

963
00:48:30,120 --> 00:48:33,320
Speaker 1: throat and you better answer. And I felt like after

964
00:48:33,360 --> 00:48:36,800
Speaker 1: the first drive the Texans did. Now the Lions, I

965
00:48:36,840 --> 00:48:40,200
Speaker 1: don't think are as physical. They don't run the ball

966
00:48:40,360 --> 00:48:42,960
Speaker 1: nearly as well. But you have to make sure there

967
00:48:43,040 --> 00:48:46,400
Speaker 1: is no run game because if you put it on

968
00:48:46,440 --> 00:48:50,840
Speaker 1: Matt Stafford and now you're bringing Read and Lonnie and

969
00:48:51,120 --> 00:48:56,200
Speaker 1: Murray and the linebackers, Stafford's not gonna know what hit him.

970
00:48:56,200 --> 00:48:57,719
Speaker 1: And I think that's gonna you're gonna end up going

971
00:48:57,760 --> 00:49:00,720
Speaker 1: whoa wait a second, man. Maybe this defense has something

972
00:49:01,239 --> 00:49:04,000
Speaker 1: if it can stop the run and force teams to

973
00:49:04,080 --> 00:49:06,200
Speaker 1: have to throw. Boy, that's a that's not a bad

974
00:49:06,280 --> 00:49:09,000
Speaker 1: position to be in, so that would be kind of nice.

975
00:49:09,120 --> 00:49:17,640
Speaker 1: My my non negotiable is no sacks, and I don't

976
00:49:17,680 --> 00:49:21,640
Speaker 1: care play. That's asking a lot. It just happened this

977
00:49:21,719 --> 00:49:24,359
Speaker 1: last weekend, but that's the first time all season long

978
00:49:24,800 --> 00:49:27,680
Speaker 1: Deshaun's not gotten sacked. But right, and I'm gonna but

979
00:49:27,719 --> 00:49:30,239
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go on top of that, I say no

980
00:49:30,320 --> 00:49:35,919
Speaker 1: sacks because whenever you face the team that doesn't rush

981
00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:39,919
Speaker 1: the passer very well, you have to make sure that

982
00:49:40,040 --> 00:49:42,200
Speaker 1: you're not all of a sudden giving up three and

983
00:49:42,239 --> 00:49:45,080
Speaker 1: four sacks to blitzers and guys that normally don't get

984
00:49:45,120 --> 00:49:48,920
Speaker 1: sacks because that charges up their defense. Yeah, it gets

985
00:49:48,960 --> 00:49:52,040
Speaker 1: them going. It's one of those things in it, you know,

986
00:49:52,320 --> 00:49:56,839
Speaker 1: being a non negotiable. I'm not saying, Okay, you're right,

987
00:49:56,960 --> 00:50:00,480
Speaker 1: no sacks, that's that's a big deal, but you've got

988
00:50:00,520 --> 00:50:03,719
Speaker 1: to make sure that it is no sacks because this

989
00:50:03,760 --> 00:50:06,839
Speaker 1: is a defense that doesn't deserve them. They're not a

990
00:50:06,880 --> 00:50:11,160
Speaker 1: good pass rushing team. Last week against PJ. Walker, they

991
00:50:11,239 --> 00:50:15,200
Speaker 1: had one sack, but the sack was for zero yards,

992
00:50:15,840 --> 00:50:20,239
Speaker 1: so they didn't create a negative pass play through the

993
00:50:20,280 --> 00:50:25,920
Speaker 1: pass rush for PJ Walker. They had one, one quarterback

994
00:50:26,000 --> 00:50:31,120
Speaker 1: hit and one sack. That's it. And PJ Walker, for

995
00:50:31,160 --> 00:50:33,360
Speaker 1: as good as he is, is not the Shawn Watson.

996
00:50:33,840 --> 00:50:37,160
Speaker 1: So you keep the Shawn upright. It's a secondary They

997
00:50:37,200 --> 00:50:41,560
Speaker 1: got torched by an XFL MVP. What can DeShawn Watson do?

998
00:50:42,440 --> 00:50:45,839
Speaker 1: So it's a secondary age. Banged up Jeffrey Okuda has

999
00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:49,080
Speaker 1: been banged up. It's not been great. They like to

1000
00:50:49,080 --> 00:50:51,520
Speaker 1: play man coverage. I don't think anybody could play man

1001
00:50:51,520 --> 00:50:55,600
Speaker 1: coverage against this receiving group. So if you don't get

1002
00:50:55,600 --> 00:50:58,440
Speaker 1: in long down and distance because the Shaun's not getting sacked,

1003
00:50:58,960 --> 00:51:01,600
Speaker 1: you should be able to be at how you want it. Drew,

1004
00:51:01,840 --> 00:51:03,840
Speaker 1: I don't care if we have one rushing yard anymore

1005
00:51:03,880 --> 00:51:07,359
Speaker 1: the rest of the year. I don't care. I don't care.

1006
00:51:07,680 --> 00:51:10,440
Speaker 1: It's just fun winning. Who cares if you balance offense out.

1007
00:51:10,520 --> 00:51:13,200
Speaker 1: Let's just win. That's what Sunday. It was fine with me.

1008
00:51:13,840 --> 00:51:16,840
Speaker 1: I mean it's fine you too, Yeah, I mean the

1009
00:51:17,160 --> 00:51:20,000
Speaker 1: Lions run defense isn't that great, and I care these

1010
00:51:20,080 --> 00:51:22,080
Speaker 1: years I have the other years it's like, okay, what

1011
00:51:22,239 --> 00:51:24,640
Speaker 1: what can you exploit? Oh? The Lions defense is not

1012
00:51:24,760 --> 00:51:26,719
Speaker 1: very good against the run. You're not great against the pass.

1013
00:51:26,719 --> 00:51:28,359
Speaker 1: You're not great against the run. You gotta exploit the run.

1014
00:51:28,960 --> 00:51:33,520
Speaker 1: You know what the Texans are what we are. They

1015
00:51:33,520 --> 00:51:37,200
Speaker 1: are a throwing team with dynamic talents at wide receiver,

1016
00:51:37,600 --> 00:51:40,440
Speaker 1: an incredible group of tight ends, and a pass catching

1017
00:51:40,480 --> 00:51:44,719
Speaker 1: group of running backs. So go with it. Yeah, and

1018
00:51:44,800 --> 00:51:47,840
Speaker 1: if that's what passes, get short yarrage passes. If you

1019
00:51:47,840 --> 00:51:50,080
Speaker 1: want to have the run, that there's your there's your run.

1020
00:51:50,400 --> 00:51:53,799
Speaker 1: Get little offs tikiki to duke for six sets. That's like,

1021
00:51:53,920 --> 00:51:55,640
Speaker 1: that's a hell of a good run if you get those.

1022
00:51:55,920 --> 00:51:59,440
Speaker 1: If I remember right, drew the very first play of

1023
00:51:59,520 --> 00:52:03,840
Speaker 1: the drug it was twenty four twenty and the Texans

1024
00:52:03,880 --> 00:52:05,840
Speaker 1: got the ball back after the Patriots had kicked the

1025
00:52:05,840 --> 00:52:09,359
Speaker 1: fuel goal, and you had to answer, you want to

1026
00:52:09,360 --> 00:52:11,520
Speaker 1: touchdown and you should have had a touchdown letter that drive,

1027
00:52:11,600 --> 00:52:14,200
Speaker 1: Jordan Nakins gets yanked down. But if I remember correctly,

1028
00:52:14,520 --> 00:52:16,879
Speaker 1: and I'm double checking and talking at the same time,

1029
00:52:16,920 --> 00:52:19,000
Speaker 1: so I can't do Alexeth Paine does, but I'm trying.

1030
00:52:19,719 --> 00:52:22,640
Speaker 1: But yeah, the first play of that drive after they

1031
00:52:22,760 --> 00:52:26,799
Speaker 1: kicked the field goal was a pass. As I say,

1032
00:52:26,880 --> 00:52:29,480
Speaker 1: air quotes out to the right to CJ. Prosie for

1033
00:52:29,560 --> 00:52:32,759
Speaker 1: four yards. It was just a long toss sweep. So

1034
00:52:33,160 --> 00:52:35,400
Speaker 1: if that's the way they're gonna throw, they're gonna run it.

1035
00:52:35,520 --> 00:52:37,760
Speaker 1: I don't care. I don't care. If there's not a handoff,

1036
00:52:37,840 --> 00:52:39,440
Speaker 1: I don't care. I don't care. If the Shawn Watson's

1037
00:52:39,440 --> 00:52:41,040
Speaker 1: the leading rushing for the rest of the year, I

1038
00:52:41,080 --> 00:52:42,799
Speaker 1: don't care. I don't think you can fix the run

1039
00:52:42,800 --> 00:52:46,680
Speaker 1: issues this year. You can't go in your off season,

1040
00:52:46,760 --> 00:52:48,840
Speaker 1: for sure, but you just can't next this year, I

1041
00:52:48,840 --> 00:52:51,880
Speaker 1: don't think. So at that point, forget it. Strew it,

1042
00:52:52,719 --> 00:52:55,239
Speaker 1: throw it, throw it, throw it. And this is a

1043
00:52:55,239 --> 00:52:58,080
Speaker 1: team you can throw it effectively as long as you

1044
00:52:58,120 --> 00:53:00,719
Speaker 1: don't give up any sacks to people don't deserve it,

1045
00:53:00,719 --> 00:53:03,440
Speaker 1: and the Lions with this pass rush don't deserve it.

1046
00:53:03,520 --> 00:53:07,319
Speaker 1: Cool with me, all right, So do what you did

1047
00:53:07,320 --> 00:53:11,120
Speaker 1: on Sunday defensively against the Lions. That's mine, I guess, Patriots,

1048
00:53:11,440 --> 00:53:15,040
Speaker 1: that's mine and yours is just keep throwing it. I'm

1049
00:53:15,040 --> 00:53:16,640
Speaker 1: cool with that. I'm totally cool of that. You don't

1050
00:53:16,640 --> 00:53:18,560
Speaker 1: need to run. You're not good at running, so don't run.

1051
00:53:18,680 --> 00:53:20,960
Speaker 1: You're great at passing. Let's do what you're right at,

1052
00:53:21,280 --> 00:53:24,760
Speaker 1: all right, and let's go down memory lane. Now. Yeah, okay,

1053
00:53:25,280 --> 00:53:29,720
Speaker 1: twenty twelve. Going into that game, the Texans were nine

1054
00:53:30,320 --> 00:53:36,480
Speaker 1: and one. Two weeks prior, they've beaten the Bears on

1055
00:53:36,520 --> 00:53:39,120
Speaker 1: Sunday Night football in a slug fest. The Bears were

1056
00:53:39,120 --> 00:53:41,640
Speaker 1: seven and one. You were seven and once, so three

1057
00:53:41,640 --> 00:53:45,800
Speaker 1: weeks earlier, I guess, yeah, yeah, two seven and one teams.

1058
00:53:45,920 --> 00:53:48,640
Speaker 1: You came out the victor and their season went downhill

1059
00:53:48,719 --> 00:53:50,440
Speaker 1: right after that. So it was kind of one of

1060
00:53:50,440 --> 00:53:55,120
Speaker 1: those weird things. This Sunday before Thanksgiving you go deep

1061
00:53:55,200 --> 00:53:59,120
Speaker 1: into overtime and beat the Jaguars. It was a tough game,

1062
00:53:59,200 --> 00:54:02,960
Speaker 1: but it's Andre Johnson walk off touchdown, So that was awesome.

1063
00:54:03,320 --> 00:54:06,560
Speaker 1: But what's not awesome is playing on overtime game and

1064
00:54:06,560 --> 00:54:08,680
Speaker 1: then flipping around and playing this Thursday morning game, which

1065
00:54:08,719 --> 00:54:10,680
Speaker 1: is what the Texans had to do. But they were

1066
00:54:10,800 --> 00:54:14,000
Speaker 1: nine and one, they were playing on fumes, and for

1067
00:54:14,040 --> 00:54:17,080
Speaker 1: the first, you know, a couple quarters, it showed they

1068
00:54:17,080 --> 00:54:19,200
Speaker 1: were not very good. And you know, you if you

1069
00:54:19,239 --> 00:54:20,800
Speaker 1: go back and watch this game, John and you and

1070
00:54:20,880 --> 00:54:22,400
Speaker 1: I have talked about this, I think a couple of

1071
00:54:22,440 --> 00:54:27,319
Speaker 1: years ago, you can start to see the slipping and

1072
00:54:27,840 --> 00:54:29,640
Speaker 1: kind of the foreshadowing of what was to come with

1073
00:54:29,719 --> 00:54:33,480
Speaker 1: Matt Schaub. He had a few passes that were they

1074
00:54:33,480 --> 00:54:36,759
Speaker 1: should have been taken back to the house, but you know,

1075
00:54:37,640 --> 00:54:40,239
Speaker 1: a defensive back just flat dropped it. You know, it

1076
00:54:40,480 --> 00:54:42,480
Speaker 1: could have been this could have been a blowout by

1077
00:54:42,480 --> 00:54:45,000
Speaker 1: the Lions. But I mean that's if sputs candets. But

1078
00:54:45,120 --> 00:54:47,280
Speaker 1: you could start to see the cracks in the veneer

1079
00:54:48,719 --> 00:54:53,160
Speaker 1: at knowing what we know now. So prior to the game,

1080
00:54:53,600 --> 00:54:55,440
Speaker 1: I'm coming up in the elevator and it's one of

1081
00:54:55,440 --> 00:54:58,440
Speaker 1: those big cargo elevators that you could put a lot

1082
00:54:58,480 --> 00:55:00,360
Speaker 1: of stuff, Yeah, there were, It was just people in

1083
00:55:00,400 --> 00:55:02,759
Speaker 1: this one, and I'm on the right wall and there's

1084
00:55:02,760 --> 00:55:06,839
Speaker 1: a guy leaning against the wall and I was like, oh, well,

1085
00:55:06,840 --> 00:55:09,040
Speaker 1: that's awesome. In my mind, I'm thinking that's Trent Green.

1086
00:55:09,120 --> 00:55:11,480
Speaker 1: He's calling the game today. That'd be a good time.

1087
00:55:12,040 --> 00:55:15,359
Speaker 1: He's gonna be the color commentator. Not thinking well, no,

1088
00:55:15,400 --> 00:55:18,520
Speaker 1: it's it's a Jim Nads. It's a CBS production, so

1089
00:55:18,520 --> 00:55:20,319
Speaker 1: he's not gonna be calling him. Anyways, I thought Trent

1090
00:55:20,400 --> 00:55:22,239
Speaker 1: Green was in the elevator with me and then on

1091
00:55:22,280 --> 00:55:26,160
Speaker 1: the other wall kind of entertaining everybody and talking to

1092
00:55:26,760 --> 00:55:28,520
Speaker 1: everyone in the elevator. And you know how I always say,

1093
00:55:28,520 --> 00:55:31,560
Speaker 1: there's always a comedian and a crowded elevator. There literal

1094
00:55:31,719 --> 00:55:33,880
Speaker 1: literally was a comedian in the crowded elevator. It was

1095
00:55:33,920 --> 00:55:38,040
Speaker 1: Tim Allen of Home of Toy Story fame, and he

1096
00:55:38,160 --> 00:55:41,400
Speaker 1: wasn't telling jokes, but he was talking. But it my

1097
00:55:41,480 --> 00:55:44,400
Speaker 1: theory held there there was a comedian in the crowded elevator,

1098
00:55:44,600 --> 00:55:46,640
Speaker 1: and I was like, that's really cool. Tim Allen and

1099
00:55:46,920 --> 00:55:50,200
Speaker 1: Trent Green in the same elevator. So we go, and

1100
00:55:50,560 --> 00:55:53,000
Speaker 1: we go. I go to the press box. Pretty cool

1101
00:55:53,040 --> 00:55:54,719
Speaker 1: press box. It's one of those open air ones, so

1102
00:55:54,719 --> 00:55:58,719
Speaker 1: it's really loud. Yeah, and I'm sitting next to Nick

1103
00:55:58,800 --> 00:56:01,840
Speaker 1: Skirfield on my right and Evan Cootch he used to

1104
00:56:01,880 --> 00:56:05,080
Speaker 1: do media relations for us, great job. He was on

1105
00:56:05,120 --> 00:56:07,520
Speaker 1: my left and I don't know what Nick was doing.

1106
00:56:07,600 --> 00:56:10,520
Speaker 1: But they play the entrance music for the Texans to

1107
00:56:10,520 --> 00:56:14,640
Speaker 1: come out, Yeah, and here we play No Your Enemy

1108
00:56:14,719 --> 00:56:17,360
Speaker 1: by Green day there that day they were playing the

1109
00:56:17,400 --> 00:56:21,799
Speaker 1: Spice Girls Tell Me what You Want? So Evan and

1110
00:56:21,840 --> 00:56:24,839
Speaker 1: I are just howling with laughter. I was like, that's clever, touche.

1111
00:56:24,960 --> 00:56:27,680
Speaker 1: Way to go, Detroit Lions. I like that that's funny stuff.

1112
00:56:27,719 --> 00:56:30,520
Speaker 1: So you know, we're going along, and then in one

1113
00:56:30,520 --> 00:56:32,759
Speaker 1: of the breaks, I'm just kind of watching, you know,

1114
00:56:32,800 --> 00:56:36,000
Speaker 1: the broadcast, and they're coming out of the break and

1115
00:56:36,160 --> 00:56:39,160
Speaker 1: you can see you can't hear what speed And said,

1116
00:56:39,200 --> 00:56:41,399
Speaker 1: but you see the close captioning, and it was like

1117
00:56:41,440 --> 00:56:47,160
Speaker 1: this Wednesday on CBS, Jim Caviezel, and I was like, Oh,

1118
00:56:47,239 --> 00:56:49,520
Speaker 1: that wasn't Trent Green. That was Jim Caviezel, the guy

1119
00:56:49,560 --> 00:56:52,480
Speaker 1: to play that the Passion movie. He was in some

1120
00:56:52,520 --> 00:56:54,360
Speaker 1: other movie about Golfer. I don't know, but he was

1121
00:56:54,360 --> 00:56:56,120
Speaker 1: coming up. So I was in the same elevator with

1122
00:56:56,120 --> 00:57:00,960
Speaker 1: Tim Allen and Jim Caviezel. You know what else he did? Huh?

1123
00:57:01,239 --> 00:57:06,520
Speaker 1: The NBA to NBA TV did a documentary on the Rockets,

1124
00:57:07,400 --> 00:57:09,600
Speaker 1: remember that. It was a few years ago called Clutch City,

1125
00:57:10,239 --> 00:57:14,240
Speaker 1: and they interviewed all the all the Rockets, Rudy, Rudy

1126
00:57:14,280 --> 00:57:19,840
Speaker 1: tu Dream, Kenny Smith, Vernon Maxwell, they interviewed Ah Drexler,

1127
00:57:20,080 --> 00:57:26,000
Speaker 1: they interviewed everybody. A retrospective like you know, twenty Jim

1128
00:57:26,080 --> 00:57:30,200
Speaker 1: Conviezel was the narrator for that um for that documentary.

1129
00:57:30,200 --> 00:57:33,120
Speaker 1: Don't I don't know why, I don't know why I

1130
00:57:33,320 --> 00:57:35,040
Speaker 1: thought about that sports fan. I think he's like a

1131
00:57:35,080 --> 00:57:37,680
Speaker 1: real yeah, sporty guy, so he probably figured out a

1132
00:57:37,720 --> 00:57:40,080
Speaker 1: way to, you know, wiggle his way to that's good

1133
00:57:40,120 --> 00:57:43,760
Speaker 1: for good for Jim cavizel Um. And then I'm almost

1134
00:57:43,800 --> 00:57:45,360
Speaker 1: done with my trip down memory land and I'll get

1135
00:57:45,360 --> 00:57:48,800
Speaker 1: to yours. Yeah, so they're losing. It did not look

1136
00:57:48,800 --> 00:57:50,720
Speaker 1: like the Texans were gonna win that game because Calvin

1137
00:57:50,760 --> 00:57:53,520
Speaker 1: Johnson was at the height of his powers and doing

1138
00:57:53,840 --> 00:57:57,760
Speaker 1: whatever he wanted. And then after the break, I don't

1139
00:57:57,800 --> 00:58:00,640
Speaker 1: know what changed, but the Texans kind of kept him

1140
00:58:00,640 --> 00:58:03,200
Speaker 1: from blowing him out of the water. And then the

1141
00:58:03,920 --> 00:58:06,720
Speaker 1: first set touchdown run happened, which shouldn't have been a

1142
00:58:06,720 --> 00:58:11,040
Speaker 1: touchdown run. Jim Schwartz through the flag. That meant couldn't

1143
00:58:11,040 --> 00:58:14,400
Speaker 1: review the play touchdown, and I thought there was going

1144
00:58:14,480 --> 00:58:17,480
Speaker 1: to be a riot. Those fans were booing mercilessly, they

1145
00:58:17,480 --> 00:58:20,840
Speaker 1: were throwing stuff on the field. It was a tense,

1146
00:58:21,320 --> 00:58:25,520
Speaker 1: tense situation, but it absolutely swung the momentum and got

1147
00:58:25,520 --> 00:58:28,960
Speaker 1: the Texans back into that game. High it up. I

1148
00:58:29,000 --> 00:58:31,720
Speaker 1: think each kicker missed a chance to win it in overtime,

1149
00:58:31,840 --> 00:58:35,160
Speaker 1: and then finally the Texans do win. It deep into overtime,

1150
00:58:35,400 --> 00:58:37,360
Speaker 1: and I was at that point. I'd helped set up

1151
00:58:37,360 --> 00:58:39,520
Speaker 1: the live stream, so I was right outside the locker

1152
00:58:39,560 --> 00:58:41,720
Speaker 1: room as they're coming up the tunnel. And I've never

1153
00:58:41,760 --> 00:58:44,240
Speaker 1: ever seen this, but it looked like the Texans had lost,

1154
00:58:44,280 --> 00:58:47,360
Speaker 1: just judging by body language, by facial expressions, and it

1155
00:58:47,440 --> 00:58:49,720
Speaker 1: was like, oh, that's clearly the team that lost. I

1156
00:58:49,800 --> 00:58:52,960
Speaker 1: knew they hadn't, but they were coming up. They were exhausted,

1157
00:58:52,960 --> 00:58:55,640
Speaker 1: They'd played two and a half games in about four

1158
00:58:55,720 --> 00:58:59,200
Speaker 1: or five days. They were wrecked. So that was a

1159
00:58:59,240 --> 00:59:00,960
Speaker 1: fun trip for me. I mean, I didn't play two

1160
00:59:00,960 --> 00:59:03,200
Speaker 1: and have football games, and I loved going to that

1161
00:59:03,480 --> 00:59:04,680
Speaker 1: had a lot of fun and it was just one

1162
00:59:04,720 --> 00:59:07,560
Speaker 1: of those memorable Texans days for me. And by the end,

1163
00:59:07,720 --> 00:59:12,400
Speaker 1: when the sun set on Thanksgiving Day, the Houston Texans

1164
00:59:12,440 --> 00:59:15,960
Speaker 1: were ten and one. About that imagine that could be

1165
00:59:15,960 --> 00:59:20,160
Speaker 1: four and seven, but for this year. Yeah, you know,

1166
00:59:20,440 --> 00:59:23,720
Speaker 1: well at that time, I was doing overnight national radio

1167
00:59:24,280 --> 00:59:27,160
Speaker 1: and I was doing it here in Houston, and my

1168
00:59:27,160 --> 00:59:29,480
Speaker 1: wife said, look, can you is there a possibility of

1169
00:59:29,480 --> 00:59:33,920
Speaker 1: getting away for Thanksgiving? And I said, well, I said maybe.

1170
00:59:34,360 --> 00:59:39,640
Speaker 1: I said we could leave Wednesday morning and spend the weekend,

1171
00:59:39,880 --> 00:59:42,120
Speaker 1: and that basically would just be in two days and

1172
00:59:42,480 --> 00:59:45,200
Speaker 1: you know, being away from radio, and then I could

1173
00:59:45,240 --> 00:59:48,960
Speaker 1: be back for Sunday night. And so like, all right,

1174
00:59:49,040 --> 00:59:51,240
Speaker 1: let's go, and I said, I said, but one condition,

1175
00:59:51,240 --> 00:59:53,440
Speaker 1: I said, Texans are planning on Thanksgiving, I'd really like

1176
00:59:53,520 --> 00:59:57,360
Speaker 1: to watch it. Plus they're playing Detroit, and the city

1177
00:59:57,360 --> 01:00:01,480
Speaker 1: of Detroit was one of my biggest affiliates, and so

1178
01:00:02,480 --> 01:00:04,120
Speaker 1: I felt like, I mean, I needed to watch it

1179
01:00:04,440 --> 01:00:07,000
Speaker 1: for both reasons. Wanted the Texas to win. But during

1180
01:00:07,000 --> 01:00:09,200
Speaker 1: that week leading up to it, I mean, the Detroit

1181
01:00:09,240 --> 01:00:11,120
Speaker 1: fans were just all over me because they knew I

1182
01:00:11,200 --> 01:00:12,840
Speaker 1: was a Houston fan. I lived in Houston all that

1183
01:00:13,080 --> 01:00:16,960
Speaker 1: So I'm watching that game and my wife was like

1184
01:00:17,000 --> 01:00:18,600
Speaker 1: that day, she's like, okay, it's fine, just let me

1185
01:00:18,640 --> 01:00:21,600
Speaker 1: know when a game's over. You know, typical three hour game,

1186
01:00:21,760 --> 01:00:24,560
Speaker 1: you know whatever, this game goes into overtime. She keeps

1187
01:00:24,600 --> 01:00:27,800
Speaker 1: asking me, is over yet? Like? No, is it over yet? No?

1188
01:00:28,120 --> 01:00:30,120
Speaker 1: I was like, you won't believe what happened. She doesn't

1189
01:00:30,160 --> 01:00:33,840
Speaker 1: want to hear it's Thanksgiving? Okay, Well what happened? Like

1190
01:00:33,880 --> 01:00:36,360
Speaker 1: she waited for all these all these different things are

1191
01:00:36,400 --> 01:00:39,040
Speaker 1: happening and I'm like, and so finally she just had it,

1192
01:00:39,080 --> 01:00:41,080
Speaker 1: and so she took the kids out to the beach

1193
01:00:42,480 --> 01:00:46,120
Speaker 1: by the time overtime started. And so as overtime's happening,

1194
01:00:46,160 --> 01:00:48,720
Speaker 1: I'm like falling off the couch. I'm like, this is unbelieving.

1195
01:00:48,800 --> 01:00:51,200
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, and then finally Shane Graham hits at

1196
01:00:51,240 --> 01:00:54,520
Speaker 1: Fiel goal, and I can I can completely understand the

1197
01:00:54,560 --> 01:00:57,280
Speaker 1: feeling because I was sitting there in a couch exhausted. Yeah,

1198
01:00:57,320 --> 01:01:00,400
Speaker 1: so I can only imagine. And I knew, I just knew.

1199
01:01:01,640 --> 01:01:04,240
Speaker 1: The last thing I remember saying to somebody, I think

1200
01:01:04,240 --> 01:01:07,240
Speaker 1: I went to the Jaguars game that Sunday the Sunday before,

1201
01:01:07,280 --> 01:01:08,800
Speaker 1: and I just said, man, the last thing you can

1202
01:01:08,880 --> 01:01:13,080
Speaker 1: have is over time today, because then you gotta play

1203
01:01:13,280 --> 01:01:17,000
Speaker 1: in that game. Oh and I just think that that

1204
01:01:17,280 --> 01:01:20,240
Speaker 1: those two games took so much out of them. And

1205
01:01:20,480 --> 01:01:22,280
Speaker 1: I know people say, oh, no, you got you had

1206
01:01:22,320 --> 01:01:24,320
Speaker 1: the mini buy and then you had a week for

1207
01:01:24,400 --> 01:01:27,600
Speaker 1: the Patriots. No no, no, no, no no no. So you

1208
01:01:27,640 --> 01:01:30,400
Speaker 1: had you play Thanksgiving and a week from the next

1209
01:01:30,400 --> 01:01:32,680
Speaker 1: Sunday you went up and you beat Tennessee pretty soundly.

1210
01:01:32,840 --> 01:01:36,480
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, a week a week later, so you

1211
01:01:36,520 --> 01:01:39,280
Speaker 1: got to eleven and one before you actually for the roof.

1212
01:01:40,560 --> 01:01:43,680
Speaker 1: The thing about it is when you're just out of gas,

1213
01:01:43,680 --> 01:01:45,120
Speaker 1: you're out of gas. I feel like going up to

1214
01:01:45,120 --> 01:01:47,360
Speaker 1: New England, they were like that game. They just they

1215
01:01:47,400 --> 01:01:51,520
Speaker 1: look so they looked exhausted still, and I think a lot,

1216
01:01:51,560 --> 01:01:55,400
Speaker 1: a lot a large part of that was playing those

1217
01:01:55,480 --> 01:01:59,680
Speaker 1: two games in the span of five days. I mean,

1218
01:01:59,680 --> 01:02:03,400
Speaker 1: it was incredible. So games over, I go back on

1219
01:02:03,440 --> 01:02:09,040
Speaker 1: the air on Sunday and I start my show. My

1220
01:02:09,080 --> 01:02:12,280
Speaker 1: show started at midnight my time, one am, Detroit time,

1221
01:02:13,920 --> 01:02:17,200
Speaker 1: and I start my show and I can see my

1222
01:02:17,440 --> 01:02:20,520
Speaker 1: bank of calls and I can only hold nine or ten.

1223
01:02:20,680 --> 01:02:23,400
Speaker 1: I think ten. I could hold ten. By the time

1224
01:02:23,400 --> 01:02:28,120
Speaker 1: I got to twelve or two. Every line was taken,

1225
01:02:28,480 --> 01:02:33,640
Speaker 1: was filled, and they all had the same comment. Jim Schwartz,

1226
01:02:33,760 --> 01:02:38,920
Speaker 1: red flag ref suck Lions should have won. Every comment

1227
01:02:39,200 --> 01:02:41,440
Speaker 1: was about that game within the first two minutes of

1228
01:02:41,480 --> 01:02:43,840
Speaker 1: me being back on the A And the rule got

1229
01:02:43,920 --> 01:02:47,680
Speaker 1: changed months after that in the offseason, largely because of

1230
01:02:47,720 --> 01:02:50,680
Speaker 1: that call. Yes, largely because of that call. And you

1231
01:02:50,760 --> 01:02:54,160
Speaker 1: know it happened. I think later in the year Mike

1232
01:02:54,240 --> 01:02:57,280
Speaker 1: McCarthy did it and you could see like five packers

1233
01:02:57,680 --> 01:03:00,560
Speaker 1: staffers like try and dive on the field the flag

1234
01:03:00,600 --> 01:03:02,760
Speaker 1: as if he didn't do it for that same reason.

1235
01:03:02,800 --> 01:03:06,600
Speaker 1: It's just the reactive nature of it. And man, you

1236
01:03:06,680 --> 01:03:09,720
Speaker 1: talk about hot holy cowt. I mean, I'm just of

1237
01:03:09,760 --> 01:03:11,600
Speaker 1: course egging it on, like, oh well, you know, the

1238
01:03:11,960 --> 01:03:13,960
Speaker 1: Texans would have won without it, you know, all this

1239
01:03:14,080 --> 01:03:17,000
Speaker 1: kind of stuff, and they're I mean, they're just not

1240
01:03:17,120 --> 01:03:19,400
Speaker 1: falling on it and just they're just going for it,

1241
01:03:19,440 --> 01:03:21,840
Speaker 1: and I'm just reeling them in. And I had the

1242
01:03:21,880 --> 01:03:25,800
Speaker 1: best time just having fun with them because my team

1243
01:03:25,840 --> 01:03:28,080
Speaker 1: won a big game and they won a controversial game

1244
01:03:28,120 --> 01:03:31,120
Speaker 1: and I was letting them have it. But yeah, deston

1245
01:03:31,200 --> 01:03:33,760
Speaker 1: Florida for that game finished and I ran out to

1246
01:03:33,800 --> 01:03:36,520
Speaker 1: the beach and had some fun with the kids, and

1247
01:03:36,560 --> 01:03:39,560
Speaker 1: it was it was a really cool Thanksgiving memory back

1248
01:03:39,560 --> 01:03:41,840
Speaker 1: in twenty twelve. And hopefully hopefully it's another one on

1249
01:03:41,920 --> 01:03:44,960
Speaker 1: twenty twenty. Oh yeah, I totally have to agree with myself.

1250
01:03:45,080 --> 01:03:47,560
Speaker 1: I hope it's a really fun one on twenty twenty.

1251
01:03:47,600 --> 01:03:51,520
Speaker 1: All right, when we get back. Speaking of fun, A J. Moore,

1252
01:03:51,920 --> 01:03:56,640
Speaker 1: Deep City, C. J. Moore, Tory Petrie, We're gonna have

1253
01:03:56,680 --> 01:04:00,640
Speaker 1: a lot of fun. No, You're bro is up next

1254
01:04:00,680 --> 01:04:09,479
Speaker 1: on Texans All Access. That's all I'm gonna say. WELLOK,

1255
01:04:09,480 --> 01:04:11,960
Speaker 1: back to this Wednesday edition of Texans All Access. I

1256
01:04:12,000 --> 01:04:14,800
Speaker 1: am your host, John Harris, football analysts and Southern reporter

1257
01:04:15,120 --> 01:04:19,000
Speaker 1: for your Houston Texans, and I would like to call

1258
01:04:19,120 --> 01:04:22,280
Speaker 1: all Houston area teachers and ask them whether they want

1259
01:04:22,320 --> 01:04:26,760
Speaker 1: them help in the classroom helping teach their kids math.

1260
01:04:27,240 --> 01:04:33,120
Speaker 1: If so. Toros Matrials sponsored by Conico Phillips. This is

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01:04:37,680 --> 01:04:40,920
Speaker 1: learn how to tackle math in the classroom. Go to

1263
01:04:40,960 --> 01:04:45,520
Speaker 1: Houston Texans dot com slash Toros Math Trials to learn more.

1264
01:04:45,760 --> 01:04:49,720
Speaker 1: Big thanks to Conical Phillips for helping these kids in

1265
01:04:49,840 --> 01:04:53,000
Speaker 1: Houston learn math. And I'm telling you you throw football

1266
01:04:53,080 --> 01:04:58,240
Speaker 1: in there, males in particular, but not just males, They're

1267
01:04:58,240 --> 01:05:01,720
Speaker 1: gonna love it because it's different and it gives it context.

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Speaker 1: That's why it's so awesome. Now, what's really awesome or

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01:05:06,480 --> 01:05:12,600
Speaker 1: when two identical twins meet up on the football field. A. J.

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01:05:12,800 --> 01:05:15,760
Speaker 1: Moore and C. J. Moore the twins. Now, I'll tell

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01:05:15,800 --> 01:05:18,680
Speaker 1: you this quick story. Back when Jordan Thomas was here

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01:05:18,680 --> 01:05:23,439
Speaker 1: and was rookie in twenty eighteen, he played at Mississippi State,

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01:05:23,440 --> 01:05:26,360
Speaker 1: but Old Miss was playing Texas Tech, and I knew

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01:05:26,400 --> 01:05:28,760
Speaker 1: there was probably a connection with Old Miss and Mississippi

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01:05:28,800 --> 01:05:30,840
Speaker 1: State for him, so I asked him, I said, do

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01:05:30,920 --> 01:05:35,280
Speaker 1: you know anybody on the Old Miss roster? Do you

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01:05:35,320 --> 01:05:38,720
Speaker 1: know anybody? And thought for a second. He goes, well,

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01:05:38,760 --> 01:05:41,840
Speaker 1: you know, I'm really good friends with the Twins. I

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01:05:41,920 --> 01:05:44,200
Speaker 1: ain't quite no. He acted as if I should know

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01:05:44,240 --> 01:05:46,360
Speaker 1: who that was, and I was like, I didn't kind

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01:05:46,360 --> 01:05:50,000
Speaker 1: of know who it was. And we continue to talk.

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01:05:50,080 --> 01:05:52,040
Speaker 1: In a little while later I realized, oh, he's talking

1283
01:05:52,080 --> 01:05:54,560
Speaker 1: about Oh he's talking about the Moors. Oh, okay, all right.

1284
01:05:54,600 --> 01:05:57,280
Speaker 1: Because c J Moore was still playing at Old Miss

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01:05:57,360 --> 01:06:02,080
Speaker 1: at the time. A J. Moore was, I believe with

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01:06:02,160 --> 01:06:05,040
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins or maybe the Patriots, one or the other,

1287
01:06:06,000 --> 01:06:10,880
Speaker 1: and he was about six hours away from being a

1288
01:06:10,960 --> 01:06:14,800
Speaker 1: Houston Texan because the Texans ended up claiming AJ Moore

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01:06:14,920 --> 01:06:17,120
Speaker 1: on waivers. So when AJ got here, I put it

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01:06:17,120 --> 01:06:20,840
Speaker 1: together like, oh, the Twins, I get it. Well. CJ,

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01:06:21,200 --> 01:06:25,040
Speaker 1: after his career with Old Miss, ended up in Detroit

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01:06:26,520 --> 01:06:31,800
Speaker 1: and back during the COVID time frame. Tory Petrie is

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01:06:31,840 --> 01:06:35,080
Speaker 1: a team reporter. You hurt earlier along with Deep City.

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01:06:35,760 --> 01:06:39,000
Speaker 1: They sat down in Houston and Detroit with the two

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01:06:39,040 --> 01:06:42,880
Speaker 1: twins ended a bang up segment. This time, they decided

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01:06:42,920 --> 01:06:45,520
Speaker 1: to push it even further and do a segment called

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01:06:45,880 --> 01:06:51,960
Speaker 1: no Your Bro. This is absolutely phenomenal. They didn't know

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01:06:52,160 --> 01:06:56,240
Speaker 1: each other was gonna be on the call with Deep

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01:06:56,440 --> 01:06:58,240
Speaker 1: and with Tory. They just felt like they were going

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01:06:58,280 --> 01:07:02,240
Speaker 1: to be doing individual interviews with each other. All four

1301
01:07:02,280 --> 01:07:06,880
Speaker 1: of them got on a call and hilarious stuff took place.

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01:07:07,360 --> 01:07:12,080
Speaker 1: This is Aj and c J. Moore playing No Year

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01:07:12,240 --> 01:07:15,680
Speaker 1: Bro with DPCU and Tory Petrie. All right, so what

1304
01:07:15,760 --> 01:07:19,120
Speaker 1: could be better than interviewing one NFL safety? We say

1305
01:07:19,280 --> 01:07:23,680
Speaker 1: two NFL safeties identical twin NFL safeties in fact, that

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01:07:23,760 --> 01:07:26,600
Speaker 1: play on opposing teams. Welcome in. I'm dp Saidey. I've

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01:07:26,640 --> 01:07:30,120
Speaker 1: got tex And safety Aj Moore along with his twin brother,

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01:07:30,760 --> 01:07:34,360
Speaker 1: Lions safety c J. Moore, and my good friend Lions

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01:07:34,400 --> 01:07:38,120
Speaker 1: team reporter Tory Petrie joining us for this really special

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01:07:38,800 --> 01:07:41,360
Speaker 1: group interview. I guess you could call well, guys, it's

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01:07:41,360 --> 01:07:42,720
Speaker 1: so much fun to be here. I love that we

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01:07:42,760 --> 01:07:44,760
Speaker 1: can have this reunion again. We did this in the

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01:07:44,840 --> 01:07:47,880
Speaker 1: off season while we were all in quarantine. We're bringing

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01:07:47,880 --> 01:07:50,400
Speaker 1: the gang back together again today. Guys. I just got

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01:07:50,400 --> 01:07:52,360
Speaker 1: to ask you, first of all, how does it feel

1316
01:07:52,400 --> 01:07:53,840
Speaker 1: to know you guys are going to get to play

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01:07:53,880 --> 01:07:56,000
Speaker 1: against each other in an NFL game, and not just

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01:07:56,080 --> 01:07:59,760
Speaker 1: any NFL game, the Thanksgiving Day game go ahead, see day.

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01:08:00,360 --> 01:08:03,760
Speaker 1: Uh it feels great. Um, it's it's super exciting. It's

1320
01:08:03,800 --> 01:08:07,960
Speaker 1: something we've always dreamed about and to be playing on

1321
01:08:08,040 --> 01:08:11,280
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving Day a big tradition for us here in Detroit

1322
01:08:11,760 --> 01:08:14,680
Speaker 1: against my twin bro. Like I said, it's a blessing

1323
01:08:14,720 --> 01:08:19,200
Speaker 1: and I'm looking forward to it. Just the piggyback of

1324
01:08:19,320 --> 01:08:24,880
Speaker 1: what he said. Man, it's it's it's unbelievable. Man. It's

1325
01:08:25,080 --> 01:08:28,240
Speaker 1: definitely a dream come true, something that we've always look

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01:08:28,280 --> 01:08:31,640
Speaker 1: forward to doing, and it's a very big deal for

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01:08:31,680 --> 01:08:35,160
Speaker 1: the family. Um, I'm gonna I hate that they're not

1328
01:08:35,200 --> 01:08:36,639
Speaker 1: going to be able to make it to the game

1329
01:08:38,080 --> 01:08:41,920
Speaker 1: due to the COVID restrictions and stuff, but I'm definitely

1330
01:08:41,920 --> 01:08:44,920
Speaker 1: sure they're going to be glued to the TV ready

1331
01:08:44,960 --> 01:08:47,920
Speaker 1: to watch us compete against each other. And we love

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01:08:47,920 --> 01:08:50,240
Speaker 1: to see a little bit of brotherly competition. So we

1333
01:08:50,360 --> 01:08:53,400
Speaker 1: figured instead of just doing a normal interview where we

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01:08:53,439 --> 01:08:55,640
Speaker 1: just ask you questions. We figured we'd make it a

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01:08:55,680 --> 01:08:59,920
Speaker 1: little bit of a competition and figured, hey, why not

1336
01:09:00,080 --> 01:09:01,800
Speaker 1: the play a little fun game while we're at it

1337
01:09:01,800 --> 01:09:03,200
Speaker 1: to get you know you guys better and see how

1338
01:09:03,240 --> 01:09:05,080
Speaker 1: well you two actually know each other. So we're gonna

1339
01:09:05,080 --> 01:09:07,519
Speaker 1: play a game. We have not invented it, but it's

1340
01:09:07,560 --> 01:09:09,800
Speaker 1: called no Your Bro. You guys each have a white

1341
01:09:09,800 --> 01:09:13,400
Speaker 1: board and Tory and I are going to ask you

1342
01:09:13,439 --> 01:09:16,439
Speaker 1: guys some questions and the answer will be either AJ

1343
01:09:16,840 --> 01:09:20,280
Speaker 1: or CJ, and we're gonna see how you guys, how

1344
01:09:20,320 --> 01:09:21,840
Speaker 1: well you two know each other, and we want to

1345
01:09:21,880 --> 01:09:24,400
Speaker 1: get to know you as well. Cool, you're ready to

1346
01:09:24,400 --> 01:09:27,720
Speaker 1: get started, And if you guys have any fun or

1347
01:09:27,720 --> 01:09:30,439
Speaker 1: embarrassing stories about each other, feel free to throw those

1348
01:09:30,479 --> 01:09:34,000
Speaker 1: into Absolutely you just want to say that, all right,

1349
01:09:34,200 --> 01:09:37,800
Speaker 1: I'll start with the first question. Who spends more time

1350
01:09:37,920 --> 01:09:46,759
Speaker 1: on social media? AJ? I can't even like if? All right, agent,

1351
01:09:48,960 --> 01:09:53,960
Speaker 1: what's the backwards? What's your favorite social media? What are

1352
01:09:54,000 --> 01:09:58,640
Speaker 1: you always on? What are you always doing on your phone? Oh?

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01:09:58,640 --> 01:10:01,240
Speaker 1: Well are you asking that? Yeah, since you're the one

1354
01:10:01,240 --> 01:10:05,439
Speaker 1: that's always on social media? So zach zeb Za give

1355
01:10:05,520 --> 01:10:09,440
Speaker 1: us great pictures here at the texting. So I'm always

1356
01:10:09,520 --> 01:10:13,439
Speaker 1: wanting to post some pictures. You know, there's a great

1357
01:10:13,479 --> 01:10:16,920
Speaker 1: quality photos. So I always like to just post them

1358
01:10:16,920 --> 01:10:19,759
Speaker 1: and stuff and and just re look at him sometime.

1359
01:10:19,840 --> 01:10:24,120
Speaker 1: And I don't know, see he's worried about Instagram posts.

1360
01:10:24,360 --> 01:10:31,719
Speaker 1: We're over putting working. Wow, Well, I guess someone's gonna

1361
01:10:31,720 --> 01:10:34,120
Speaker 1: look at those pictures of himself. They're not gonna look

1362
01:10:34,160 --> 01:10:38,559
Speaker 1: at is gonna approve all those pictures? All right, Tory,

1363
01:10:38,600 --> 01:10:40,880
Speaker 1: go for it, all right. I can already tell the

1364
01:10:40,920 --> 01:10:42,800
Speaker 1: trash talk is heating up over here. I want to

1365
01:10:42,800 --> 01:10:46,320
Speaker 1: know which one is the funnier twin. He's just he's

1366
01:10:46,360 --> 01:10:50,599
Speaker 1: super silly and uh, he's just goofy, just a great

1367
01:10:50,600 --> 01:10:52,639
Speaker 1: guy to be around. I always gonna make you laugh.

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01:10:53,560 --> 01:10:56,759
Speaker 1: M Yeah, this guy always trying to be super serious

1369
01:10:56,760 --> 01:10:59,240
Speaker 1: and locked in. You know. It's it's it's it's cool

1370
01:10:59,240 --> 01:11:02,160
Speaker 1: to be loose sometimes, and I try to get him

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01:11:02,160 --> 01:11:04,280
Speaker 1: to loose it up a little bit. I feel like

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01:11:04,400 --> 01:11:05,880
Speaker 1: I want to hang out with CJ because I think

1373
01:11:05,880 --> 01:11:08,800
Speaker 1: AJ is pretty funny. AJ is pretty funny. So if

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01:11:08,800 --> 01:11:11,320
Speaker 1: you're the funnier one, it must be like a lot

1375
01:11:11,360 --> 01:11:14,719
Speaker 1: of a lot of laughs the two of you together. Okay,

1376
01:11:14,840 --> 01:11:18,000
Speaker 1: there was a little bit of brotherly love in addition

1377
01:11:18,040 --> 01:11:20,320
Speaker 1: to the trash shock. We got the trash shock in there,

1378
01:11:20,360 --> 01:11:23,280
Speaker 1: but we also got some appreciation. Yeah, it still love.

1379
01:11:23,360 --> 01:11:27,559
Speaker 1: They still love. It's still Lowe always. Okay. So who

1380
01:11:27,680 --> 01:11:30,600
Speaker 1: is better at pulling off pranks? Okay? I have a

1381
01:11:30,680 --> 01:11:38,640
Speaker 1: story behind? What do you mean? What if it's if

1382
01:11:38,680 --> 01:11:43,840
Speaker 1: it's both? Put both? Are you ready? Are you ready? Real? Wait?

1383
01:11:43,880 --> 01:11:48,280
Speaker 1: That dude look weird? And no, I know it does? What?

1384
01:11:48,439 --> 01:11:54,800
Speaker 1: All right? All right? Three? Two? Poor go It's like,

1385
01:11:54,800 --> 01:11:59,360
Speaker 1: what are they writing? I was scared for you. I

1386
01:12:00,000 --> 01:12:04,519
Speaker 1: felling be in uh in high school? So you know

1387
01:12:04,840 --> 01:12:10,160
Speaker 1: I'm the better speller for sure. Okay, So I mean

1388
01:12:10,360 --> 01:12:13,320
Speaker 1: as identical twins? Have you guys ever switched places? Is

1389
01:12:13,320 --> 01:12:15,599
Speaker 1: that your story? Because I really hope that's the story.

1390
01:12:15,720 --> 01:12:20,920
Speaker 1: All right, what's the story? Sixth grade? We were well,

1391
01:12:20,960 --> 01:12:25,080
Speaker 1: that's a part of our elementary or whatever, and um, yeah,

1392
01:12:25,120 --> 01:12:29,240
Speaker 1: we we decided to switch classes on our teachers, and

1393
01:12:30,280 --> 01:12:32,640
Speaker 1: I switched to his class. He came into mind and

1394
01:12:33,760 --> 01:12:35,720
Speaker 1: they didn't figure it out for like we had read,

1395
01:12:35,800 --> 01:12:37,800
Speaker 1: we had to give it up ourselves. Yeah, and I

1396
01:12:37,920 --> 01:12:40,240
Speaker 1: just got tired of being in his class because gave

1397
01:12:40,320 --> 01:12:42,639
Speaker 1: us too much work. So I was like, I can't

1398
01:12:42,680 --> 01:12:44,800
Speaker 1: do I can't do this anymore. So I just told

1399
01:12:44,840 --> 01:12:51,200
Speaker 1: on myself. So you went for three days, three days,

1400
01:12:53,000 --> 01:12:56,760
Speaker 1: three days. Your friends must have known, though, the classmates

1401
01:12:56,840 --> 01:13:00,760
Speaker 1: must have known, right, I think they knew. I think

1402
01:13:00,800 --> 01:13:03,240
Speaker 1: they knew. But the teacher never figured it out, and

1403
01:13:03,320 --> 01:13:05,360
Speaker 1: she always would come help me because I didn't know

1404
01:13:05,400 --> 01:13:09,760
Speaker 1: how to do AJ's work. I was just like, yo,

1405
01:13:10,439 --> 01:13:13,479
Speaker 1: I'm CJ. And she was like, you know, shock, But

1406
01:13:13,920 --> 01:13:17,240
Speaker 1: it was it was funny. That's amazing. I love that

1407
01:13:17,320 --> 01:13:19,800
Speaker 1: so much. Okay, here's your next question. Which one of

1408
01:13:19,840 --> 01:13:23,560
Speaker 1: you is more likely to miss a flight? Uh? You

1409
01:13:26,120 --> 01:13:30,880
Speaker 1: you got it? Well? Who's in Florida? And it was

1410
01:13:30,920 --> 01:13:33,120
Speaker 1: an early morning flight. I mean it's pretty simple. It

1411
01:13:33,160 --> 01:13:36,160
Speaker 1: was an early morning flight. But instead of just throwing

1412
01:13:36,240 --> 01:13:40,000
Speaker 1: all of his clothes in one bag and just getting

1413
01:13:40,040 --> 01:13:42,439
Speaker 1: the uber and just getting to the airport at one time,

1414
01:13:43,200 --> 01:13:47,479
Speaker 1: he wants to wash his clothes. And the clothes wasn't

1415
01:13:48,360 --> 01:13:50,559
Speaker 1: all the way dry yet, so they were a little damp,

1416
01:13:51,000 --> 01:13:55,800
Speaker 1: but the dryer was broke. But throw the clothes in

1417
01:13:55,880 --> 01:13:58,920
Speaker 1: the bag living another day, you know what I'm saying.

1418
01:13:59,439 --> 01:14:02,400
Speaker 1: Just throw it in the bag and list go. So

1419
01:14:03,280 --> 01:14:06,720
Speaker 1: he misses the uber, misses the flight, has the book

1420
01:14:06,760 --> 01:14:09,360
Speaker 1: a hold on the flight. Everything all because of some

1421
01:14:09,479 --> 01:14:13,080
Speaker 1: damp clothes. And that's crazy. Well, at that point you

1422
01:14:13,160 --> 01:14:15,040
Speaker 1: might have just you might as well just bought new

1423
01:14:15,040 --> 01:14:20,599
Speaker 1: clothes when you got there in the whole flight, right, Hey,

1424
01:14:20,640 --> 01:14:23,040
Speaker 1: but his clothes were dry. I mean, there's nothing like

1425
01:14:23,160 --> 01:14:27,559
Speaker 1: opening up a wet suitcase. The sad thing is they

1426
01:14:27,680 --> 01:14:32,040
Speaker 1: never got fully dry. It was it was just a

1427
01:14:32,160 --> 01:14:36,280
Speaker 1: bad situation. That's bad. Maybe next time, wash the clothes

1428
01:14:36,320 --> 01:14:39,559
Speaker 1: when you get home. Is that kind of the lesson? That? Okay? Crazy?

1429
01:14:39,680 --> 01:14:42,040
Speaker 1: All right? Well, speaking of clothes, I want to know

1430
01:14:42,080 --> 01:14:45,680
Speaker 1: who's got the better style, who's got who's more fashionable

1431
01:14:45,800 --> 01:14:54,080
Speaker 1: than broy? Come on, like there's some excitement behind What

1432
01:14:54,120 --> 01:14:59,840
Speaker 1: do you mean? I'm coming with swag? I talked this

1433
01:14:59,840 --> 01:15:03,800
Speaker 1: g everything he knows about Swag. Let you get there

1434
01:15:04,400 --> 01:15:11,760
Speaker 1: and that that's love right there, that's respect, that's respect. Yeah,

1435
01:15:11,840 --> 01:15:17,840
Speaker 1: all right, Sea, How would you describe AJ's sense of style? Okay, Uh,

1436
01:15:17,880 --> 01:15:20,840
Speaker 1: it's pretty sharp. He's a he's a clean guy. Uh

1437
01:15:21,880 --> 01:15:24,439
Speaker 1: you know he he's really learning to put some stuff

1438
01:15:24,479 --> 01:15:27,880
Speaker 1: together pretty well. And I must say, you know it

1439
01:15:27,920 --> 01:15:31,120
Speaker 1: looks pretty good. So I've kind of adopted a little

1440
01:15:31,120 --> 01:15:35,680
Speaker 1: bit of the swag and added it to my you know,

1441
01:15:36,160 --> 01:15:39,000
Speaker 1: to my closet. But he does have a pretty nice,

1442
01:15:39,640 --> 01:15:44,080
Speaker 1: pretty nice closet, pretty you know, really nice style. He's

1443
01:15:44,120 --> 01:15:47,320
Speaker 1: gotten better, for sure. He's getting a little more confidence

1444
01:15:47,360 --> 01:15:52,040
Speaker 1: here and there with different outfits. But no, no, no,

1445
01:15:52,360 --> 01:15:54,920
Speaker 1: he's doing well. He's doing well. He's a sharp guy,

1446
01:15:54,960 --> 01:15:57,519
Speaker 1: for sure. Did you used to take stuff out of

1447
01:15:57,560 --> 01:16:01,120
Speaker 1: his closet when you guys were kids? Oh? CJ was,

1448
01:16:02,000 --> 01:16:06,360
Speaker 1: he claims all of so, Mom baught we had the

1449
01:16:06,400 --> 01:16:09,439
Speaker 1: same clothes growing up. Well, like he got a pair,

1450
01:16:09,880 --> 01:16:13,400
Speaker 1: I got a pair, But if he lost his, he

1451
01:16:13,439 --> 01:16:17,320
Speaker 1: would seek mine and claim my shoes or my shirt,

1452
01:16:17,600 --> 01:16:22,479
Speaker 1: my jeans. Every time. It never fails. Sometimes sometimes I

1453
01:16:22,520 --> 01:16:25,400
Speaker 1: don't buy something because I know he has it, and

1454
01:16:25,439 --> 01:16:32,040
Speaker 1: I'm like, I just wit it is yeah, giving money right,

1455
01:16:32,920 --> 01:16:37,120
Speaker 1: think smart. I love it. I love the scouting report

1456
01:16:37,200 --> 01:16:40,200
Speaker 1: on each other's styles. Okay, last one from me here.

1457
01:16:40,240 --> 01:16:42,439
Speaker 1: We talked to you guys back in quarantine. We did

1458
01:16:42,920 --> 01:16:46,040
Speaker 1: a little virtual conversation back then when you guys were

1459
01:16:46,080 --> 01:16:50,200
Speaker 1: back home in Mississippi. I want to know which one

1460
01:16:50,280 --> 01:16:53,799
Speaker 1: of you guys with the longest during quarantine without showering.

1461
01:16:53,800 --> 01:17:00,080
Speaker 1: Who got the grungiest during quarantine? He ja, what boy?

1462
01:17:00,640 --> 01:17:06,080
Speaker 1: Are you ready? Yes? We think so three two, one go?

1463
01:17:07,840 --> 01:17:10,960
Speaker 1: Whoa whoa? Now oh so we get mixed results on

1464
01:17:11,000 --> 01:17:17,719
Speaker 1: this one. Ouny so neither showering during quarantine, we showed.

1465
01:17:17,840 --> 01:17:20,679
Speaker 1: But AJ would literally sit on the game for days

1466
01:17:22,160 --> 01:17:24,960
Speaker 1: the floor, play the game for days and be like, bro,

1467
01:17:26,000 --> 01:17:32,040
Speaker 1: like I can feel myself like stop this, bro. But

1468
01:17:32,760 --> 01:17:35,320
Speaker 1: the only reason he's saying this is because he said

1469
01:17:35,360 --> 01:17:40,920
Speaker 1: it about himself. Though that's not what was the game

1470
01:17:40,920 --> 01:17:45,000
Speaker 1: of choice though? During quarantine? What game? Pretty much two

1471
01:17:45,080 --> 01:17:49,160
Speaker 1: K the whole time? Oh fortnight, don't forget that scratch

1472
01:17:49,200 --> 01:17:54,639
Speaker 1: of Madden for sure. Yeah, but yeah Madden in two K?

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Speaker 1: All right, I like it. I guess we'll never know

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01:17:57,680 --> 01:18:00,400
Speaker 1: who went the longest without showering, so that's fine. I

1475
01:18:00,400 --> 01:18:02,280
Speaker 1: feel like we learned a lot. I feel like we

1476
01:18:02,360 --> 01:18:05,680
Speaker 1: learned a lot about you guys, I know, and I

1477
01:18:05,720 --> 01:18:07,760
Speaker 1: love that you two did not even know that the

1478
01:18:07,800 --> 01:18:09,320
Speaker 1: other was going to be on this call, So I

1479
01:18:09,360 --> 01:18:12,800
Speaker 1: feel like that was that was definitely when you called me,

1480
01:18:12,840 --> 01:18:15,200
Speaker 1: I was like, wait, why are you Is he about

1481
01:18:15,200 --> 01:18:18,800
Speaker 1: to be on his call? Or something. All right, guys, well,

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01:18:18,800 --> 01:18:21,120
Speaker 1: thanks so much for joining us and playing along with

1483
01:18:21,160 --> 01:18:23,360
Speaker 1: our fun little game of no your bro. Obviously you

1484
01:18:23,400 --> 01:18:25,639
Speaker 1: two know each other really well, so best of luck

1485
01:18:25,680 --> 01:18:27,760
Speaker 1: for the rest of the season, and hopefully we can

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01:18:27,800 --> 01:18:32,760
Speaker 1: do this again soon. Cool CJ. Get Ready to get

1487
01:18:32,800 --> 01:18:36,040
Speaker 1: beat is over next week. I'm telling you, man, that

1488
01:18:36,160 --> 01:18:40,800
Speaker 1: was cracked up. I was hysterically laughing at certain points

1489
01:18:41,240 --> 01:18:44,439
Speaker 1: during that interview. That was excellent stuff. And appreciate the

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01:18:44,520 --> 01:18:47,920
Speaker 1: Moors for being a part of it. It was really

1491
01:18:47,960 --> 01:18:51,959
Speaker 1: really cool. All right, we get back. It's our Drew's

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01:18:52,280 --> 01:18:57,800
Speaker 1: twelve questions. It's our final word, and it's with the

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01:18:57,840 --> 01:19:01,360
Speaker 1: same guy, Rookie Ross blacklock X right here on Texans

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Speaker 1: We want a funnel segment of this Wednesday edition of

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Speaker 1: Texans All Access. I'm your host, John Harris, and we're

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01:20:02,560 --> 01:20:06,960
Speaker 1: gonna dive right in to Drew's dozen questions this week,

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01:20:07,320 --> 01:20:11,519
Speaker 1: Ross black Clock. We always love having rookies on Drew's dozen.

1509
01:20:11,560 --> 01:20:13,599
Speaker 1: It's the first time I've got to go one on

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01:20:13,600 --> 01:20:17,479
Speaker 1: one and ask some weird stuff of Ross A black Block.

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01:20:18,160 --> 01:20:19,640
Speaker 1: It's good to talk with you. Ross. You're doing all

1512
01:20:19,680 --> 01:20:22,599
Speaker 1: right today, sir. I'm doing good. Let's get all right.

1513
01:20:22,760 --> 01:20:26,840
Speaker 1: We gotta describe the perfect Thanksgiving plate. What's on it?

1514
01:20:27,840 --> 01:20:31,560
Speaker 1: Mac and cheese, I gotta have it, Turkey, gotta have it,

1515
01:20:31,920 --> 01:20:34,800
Speaker 1: chicken just depends feeling like turkey or whatever. You know.

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01:20:34,960 --> 01:20:40,879
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna judge. Some form of greens, yams, and dress, okay.

1517
01:20:41,080 --> 01:20:43,599
Speaker 1: And what about the dessert. I'm not big a dessert guy,

1518
01:20:43,640 --> 01:20:45,880
Speaker 1: but I go over some type of poe maybe like

1519
01:20:46,040 --> 01:20:51,240
Speaker 1: sweet potato pipe or like keylon pop. Okay. Not a

1520
01:20:51,280 --> 01:20:54,160
Speaker 1: sweets guy. That's interesting. What are some favorite Christmas movies?

1521
01:20:54,479 --> 01:20:57,640
Speaker 1: Home alone. Yeah, come alone. It kind of reminds me

1522
01:20:57,640 --> 01:20:59,639
Speaker 1: of myself. I was always the kid doing boy chaps

1523
01:20:59,680 --> 01:21:01,720
Speaker 1: in the house for my sisters. Yeah, whenever. That one

1524
01:21:01,720 --> 01:21:03,640
Speaker 1: scene when he was getting robbed by those burglars and

1525
01:21:03,640 --> 01:21:05,000
Speaker 1: he had all the booby traps set up in the

1526
01:21:05,000 --> 01:21:08,439
Speaker 1: house remind me Loup for myself. But that inspire you

1527
01:21:08,560 --> 01:21:11,000
Speaker 1: for some of these booby traps with your sisters, it did.

1528
01:21:11,240 --> 01:21:14,639
Speaker 1: It made me want to do it. Anyway, Which booby

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01:21:14,640 --> 01:21:17,160
Speaker 1: traps did we not see in the movie that showed

1530
01:21:17,200 --> 01:21:20,519
Speaker 1: up in the black block household? M the dental floss.

1531
01:21:21,080 --> 01:21:24,519
Speaker 1: The dental floss. I used it as um string, used

1532
01:21:24,520 --> 01:21:27,040
Speaker 1: to tie on stuff. Sometimes my sisters would trip over

1533
01:21:27,080 --> 01:21:29,599
Speaker 1: and she won't even see it. There'll be soil hilarious

1534
01:21:30,720 --> 01:21:36,559
Speaker 1: ental floss trip wars. What's something that you like getting

1535
01:21:36,560 --> 01:21:42,519
Speaker 1: complimented on? It's not football related? My character? Your character? Okay,

1536
01:21:42,800 --> 01:21:45,400
Speaker 1: that's a big thing for me, not bad. What are

1537
01:21:45,400 --> 01:21:49,040
Speaker 1: some of your nicknames? Growing up? People call me Rose,

1538
01:21:49,640 --> 01:21:52,640
Speaker 1: Rose like just like that's me. That's everybody know me.

1539
01:21:52,680 --> 01:21:54,920
Speaker 1: That's what Rose. I don't expect you to call me that,

1540
01:21:54,960 --> 01:21:57,120
Speaker 1: but you know how people never think, right, Ross is

1541
01:21:57,160 --> 01:22:00,320
Speaker 1: my real name? I don't understand it, but it's my name.

1542
01:22:00,680 --> 01:22:03,479
Speaker 1: But right now here, this is the first place that

1543
01:22:03,560 --> 01:22:06,559
Speaker 1: people ever called me RB, like a coach calls me RB.

1544
01:22:06,960 --> 01:22:09,080
Speaker 1: No other person in the world is calling RV. But

1545
01:22:09,080 --> 01:22:10,800
Speaker 1: I'm is getting you don't get used to it now

1546
01:22:11,400 --> 01:22:13,479
Speaker 1: and probably like Big Ross. So I like those three

1547
01:22:13,600 --> 01:22:15,640
Speaker 1: right now. But Rose definitely the first one who's a

1548
01:22:15,680 --> 01:22:18,720
Speaker 1: teammate that makes you laugh. Man, here's a bunch. There's

1549
01:22:18,760 --> 01:22:20,640
Speaker 1: a couple of them, just the D line group in

1550
01:22:20,680 --> 01:22:23,960
Speaker 1: general hilarious, but probably Brandon Dunn's. He reminds me one

1551
01:22:23,960 --> 01:22:27,080
Speaker 1: of my old players that LJ. Carr's in jails. I

1552
01:22:27,120 --> 01:22:30,280
Speaker 1: played the TC with Just funny dude, just says crazy,

1553
01:22:30,280 --> 01:22:34,519
Speaker 1: funny stuff. Just keeps everybody in a good move Brandon.

1554
01:22:34,840 --> 01:22:36,760
Speaker 1: And he's handy with the ox cord too, isn't he?

1555
01:22:36,960 --> 01:22:39,479
Speaker 1: He is handy with the ox cord. J Dunney, He's

1556
01:22:39,520 --> 01:22:41,519
Speaker 1: always got the good stuff playing. All right, let's rank

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01:22:41,600 --> 01:22:48,639
Speaker 1: the Rosses Ross Blacklock, Rick, Ross, Diana, Ross, Bob Ross

1558
01:22:49,360 --> 01:22:57,439
Speaker 1: and Ross from Friends. What's the order? Ross as in me, Rick, Ross, Okay, Diana,

1559
01:22:57,760 --> 01:23:02,960
Speaker 1: we'll do Friends from Ross all right, We'll do the Ross,

1560
01:23:02,960 --> 01:23:06,080
Speaker 1: Bob Ross, Bob ross. That's a good official ranking. Okay,

1561
01:23:06,080 --> 01:23:10,080
Speaker 1: what's a planet you would visit? Mm, that's tough, plued

1562
01:23:10,720 --> 01:23:13,479
Speaker 1: just because it's so far away. So I wonder what's

1563
01:23:13,479 --> 01:23:15,800
Speaker 1: that fluedo? It might it might as well see and

1564
01:23:15,880 --> 01:23:18,519
Speaker 1: as smile as the smallst planet, right as well? It is. Yeah,

1565
01:23:18,600 --> 01:23:21,720
Speaker 1: it's the smallest planet and there's a lot of controversy

1566
01:23:21,800 --> 01:23:24,599
Speaker 1: surrounding it. But that's for another time. What's a magical

1567
01:23:24,640 --> 01:23:29,800
Speaker 1: power you wish you had? Invisibility? Invisibility? Okay, you're not

1568
01:23:29,840 --> 01:23:32,439
Speaker 1: the first of the Texans who said that, so it's

1569
01:23:32,439 --> 01:23:34,679
Speaker 1: a good one. I like that. I don't know what happened,

1570
01:23:34,680 --> 01:23:37,439
Speaker 1: I'll do. What was your favorite TV show as a kid?

1571
01:23:38,600 --> 01:23:44,080
Speaker 1: Favorite TV shows a kid? Probably? All right? What about now?

1572
01:23:44,120 --> 01:23:47,720
Speaker 1: What's your favorite TV show? Now? Power? Power? Okay, all right?

1573
01:23:48,320 --> 01:23:53,479
Speaker 1: Last one? What non human from a TV show or

1574
01:23:53,520 --> 01:23:57,200
Speaker 1: a movie would you most like to add to the

1575
01:23:57,240 --> 01:24:02,800
Speaker 1: Houston Texans defense? Non human? Yes, Superman count He's not

1576
01:24:02,840 --> 01:24:07,960
Speaker 1: really a human? Absolutely counts. Yeah, we want Superman. That's perfect.

1577
01:24:07,960 --> 01:24:11,080
Speaker 1: That's the greatest answer. I Some have said Chewbacca, which

1578
01:24:11,120 --> 01:24:14,200
Speaker 1: is a good one too, but Superman. That's you can't

1579
01:24:14,200 --> 01:24:17,320
Speaker 1: lose with Superman. You do it up game over. Yeah,

1580
01:24:17,320 --> 01:24:20,880
Speaker 1: it's like Bobby Bouchet times a billion. And since we're

1581
01:24:20,880 --> 01:24:24,160
Speaker 1: staying consistent, it's the final word. But Druid Lardy in

1582
01:24:24,160 --> 01:24:28,880
Speaker 1: this week, it's Ross Blacklock. We've got Ross Blacklock with

1583
01:24:29,000 --> 01:24:31,800
Speaker 1: us the rookie and let's start there. You're a young guy.

1584
01:24:32,040 --> 01:24:34,320
Speaker 1: How much have you grown as a football player since

1585
01:24:34,360 --> 01:24:37,479
Speaker 1: the start of the season to write about now? Yeah,

1586
01:24:37,520 --> 01:24:40,640
Speaker 1: I can say, um, there's definitely been interesting journey so

1587
01:24:40,760 --> 01:24:43,000
Speaker 1: far a couple of months. It's in the NFL, I

1588
01:24:43,000 --> 01:24:46,080
Speaker 1: can tell. It's each game I'm improving in certain parts

1589
01:24:46,720 --> 01:24:48,640
Speaker 1: of the game, in my technique and stuff like that.

1590
01:24:48,640 --> 01:24:50,559
Speaker 1: It just all comes down to rips. You know. I'm

1591
01:24:50,560 --> 01:24:52,799
Speaker 1: missing that offseason kind of hurt us a lot of rookie.

1592
01:24:52,840 --> 01:24:55,040
Speaker 1: So I'm playing the game and catch up right now.

1593
01:24:55,080 --> 01:24:57,759
Speaker 1: But I see myself coming along from quite well fast,

1594
01:24:58,160 --> 01:25:00,320
Speaker 1: slower than I that I want to. But as long

1595
01:25:00,360 --> 01:25:03,840
Speaker 1: as you see improvement, you know it's getting me. That's good. Yeah,

1596
01:25:03,840 --> 01:25:07,639
Speaker 1: And Romeo Cornell talked about that on Tuesday of Thanksgiving week.

1597
01:25:07,640 --> 01:25:10,599
Speaker 1: He said he's gonna get more playing times as long

1598
01:25:10,640 --> 01:25:13,280
Speaker 1: as he keeps improving. And we've seen that improvement. How

1599
01:25:13,360 --> 01:25:16,000
Speaker 1: encouraging is it? It's exciting to watch inside it and

1600
01:25:16,120 --> 01:25:19,840
Speaker 1: see can never be too satisfied a comfortable abilities and talents.

1601
01:25:19,840 --> 01:25:22,519
Speaker 1: There's always a next level that you can take yourself too.

1602
01:25:22,600 --> 01:25:24,360
Speaker 1: So that's what I'm trying to do every day, just

1603
01:25:24,479 --> 01:25:27,240
Speaker 1: become a better rookie, established myself in the league, and

1604
01:25:27,280 --> 01:25:30,519
Speaker 1: just help his team out anyway, organization out anyway. I

1605
01:25:30,560 --> 01:25:33,400
Speaker 1: can't twin games. Hey, how come you guys as a

1606
01:25:33,479 --> 01:25:36,320
Speaker 1: unit we're so effective against the run last Sunday against

1607
01:25:36,360 --> 01:25:39,439
Speaker 1: the Patriots. I think we all just decided to put

1608
01:25:39,439 --> 01:25:41,400
Speaker 1: our foot down, you know. I think that game was

1609
01:25:41,439 --> 01:25:43,479
Speaker 1: a statement game for us. We should have won last

1610
01:25:43,479 --> 01:25:45,160
Speaker 1: week and now with the big run game for us

1611
01:25:45,400 --> 01:25:48,439
Speaker 1: if defense played well until that last drive that last week.

1612
01:25:48,520 --> 01:25:49,800
Speaker 1: So I think this week was just kind of a

1613
01:25:49,800 --> 01:25:51,880
Speaker 1: statement game for us that we wanted to establish that

1614
01:25:52,520 --> 01:25:54,240
Speaker 1: do you guys can't run the ball unless we're gonna

1615
01:25:54,240 --> 01:25:55,880
Speaker 1: have to make you throw the ball, make them other

1616
01:25:55,920 --> 01:25:58,800
Speaker 1: Patriots one dimensional. So that's just what we have to

1617
01:25:58,880 --> 01:26:01,920
Speaker 1: keep doing. Following with Detroit. Yeah, how encouraging is that

1618
01:26:01,960 --> 01:26:03,960
Speaker 1: you're able to do it? What about the rest of

1619
01:26:04,160 --> 01:26:06,559
Speaker 1: the season. How encouraging is it for you? It is

1620
01:26:06,880 --> 01:26:08,559
Speaker 1: we can do it. It's just it just don't matter

1621
01:26:08,720 --> 01:26:10,240
Speaker 1: if we want to do it and when we want

1622
01:26:10,280 --> 01:26:12,000
Speaker 1: to do it. We gotta keep grinding it out each

1623
01:26:12,000 --> 01:26:13,559
Speaker 1: and every week and just become bit at the ring

1624
01:26:13,680 --> 01:26:16,640
Speaker 1: game and phases of the game. And if you do it,

1625
01:26:16,680 --> 01:26:20,080
Speaker 1: you're gonna do it against a Detroit Lions team that's

1626
01:26:20,120 --> 01:26:23,040
Speaker 1: coming off of twenty nothing loss. But what do you

1627
01:26:23,040 --> 01:26:24,920
Speaker 1: know about their offensive line? What have you seen from

1628
01:26:24,760 --> 01:26:26,120
Speaker 1: them on tape? What do you got to prepare for?

1629
01:26:26,600 --> 01:26:29,160
Speaker 1: They're a good team. Every every team NFL is good.

1630
01:26:29,200 --> 01:26:31,840
Speaker 1: Everybody has firepower. They got a lot of speed guys

1631
01:26:31,840 --> 01:26:34,680
Speaker 1: on their team. They're running backs Adrison Peterson and then

1632
01:26:34,720 --> 01:26:38,120
Speaker 1: they Gottawift questionable to play. So they're both really really

1633
01:26:38,160 --> 01:26:40,479
Speaker 1: really good back. So we just got a anchor down

1634
01:26:40,479 --> 01:26:42,320
Speaker 1: and just blow up this weekend and just be ready

1635
01:26:42,360 --> 01:26:46,600
Speaker 1: to take on what's what's coming. Hey, you're from this area,

1636
01:26:46,920 --> 01:26:49,000
Speaker 1: you know about Adrian Peterson, but you don't have to

1637
01:26:49,040 --> 01:26:51,280
Speaker 1: be from Texas to know about that guy. What are

1638
01:26:51,280 --> 01:26:54,599
Speaker 1: your thoughts on him both now and what you saw

1639
01:26:54,640 --> 01:26:56,680
Speaker 1: of him when you were a little guy growing up. Yeah,

1640
01:26:56,720 --> 01:26:58,360
Speaker 1: I'm a little I was little when I was watching

1641
01:26:58,400 --> 01:27:00,400
Speaker 1: and play back in his prolem So now I'm about

1642
01:27:00,400 --> 01:27:03,320
Speaker 1: to go play against him, which is the same, but

1643
01:27:03,720 --> 01:27:05,640
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a really fun experience. I plan on,

1644
01:27:05,760 --> 01:27:08,320
Speaker 1: you know, just playing my technique of doing the best

1645
01:27:08,320 --> 01:27:09,920
Speaker 1: as I can. He's also excited to be able to

1646
01:27:09,920 --> 01:27:11,559
Speaker 1: play again, said, guy who's been the league so long.

1647
01:27:11,600 --> 01:27:13,719
Speaker 1: It has a lot of respects in this league. So

1648
01:27:13,760 --> 01:27:16,679
Speaker 1: I would like to respectfully, you know, play my best

1649
01:27:16,720 --> 01:27:19,839
Speaker 1: towards him and just with this team. So he's really excited.

1650
01:27:20,720 --> 01:27:23,080
Speaker 1: What about Matthew Stafford, It's a quarterback who also has

1651
01:27:23,120 --> 01:27:25,200
Speaker 1: been around a while. He can move an offense. What

1652
01:27:25,240 --> 01:27:27,040
Speaker 1: have you seen from him so far this season? And

1653
01:27:27,200 --> 01:27:28,839
Speaker 1: what do you need to prepare for as a defensive

1654
01:27:28,840 --> 01:27:31,599
Speaker 1: lineman when you're facing that that type of quarterback. Yeah,

1655
01:27:31,760 --> 01:27:33,840
Speaker 1: just he's not a big runner, but he can't run.

1656
01:27:33,840 --> 01:27:35,840
Speaker 1: He has a he has ability to make you miss.

1657
01:27:36,160 --> 01:27:38,479
Speaker 1: Great thrower. Like he said, he's a bet. He's been

1658
01:27:38,520 --> 01:27:40,080
Speaker 1: a league for a very very long time, so he

1659
01:27:40,120 --> 01:27:41,880
Speaker 1: knows that he's doing back there. He's got to be

1660
01:27:41,960 --> 01:27:44,720
Speaker 1: cognisant of all the checks that he makes and get

1661
01:27:44,800 --> 01:27:46,559
Speaker 1: used to the rhythm and flow if it's not counts

1662
01:27:46,600 --> 01:27:48,320
Speaker 1: and stuff like that, and just you know, just be

1663
01:27:48,400 --> 01:27:51,479
Speaker 1: aware of you know, their situation and how they how

1664
01:27:51,520 --> 01:27:53,559
Speaker 1: they see their team. They see this in a certain way,

1665
01:27:53,600 --> 01:27:55,639
Speaker 1: we see them in a a certain way. So any form

1666
01:27:55,640 --> 01:27:58,000
Speaker 1: of trick or the trick games or stuff like that,

1667
01:27:58,120 --> 01:27:59,960
Speaker 1: he's got to be prepared for it. And that's gonna

1668
01:28:00,000 --> 01:28:02,280
Speaker 1: do it. A big thanks to Ross, to Drew, to

1669
01:28:02,360 --> 01:28:07,960
Speaker 1: the Moor's, Tory, Petrie deep City, Mark Vanimir and Anthony Bellino,

1670
01:28:08,040 --> 01:28:15,200
Speaker 1: Romeo Cornell, thank you so much. We'll see tomorrow Thanksgiving Lions. Texans. Boy,

1671
01:28:15,240 --> 01:28:17,880
Speaker 1: I'm excited. Can't wait see you that everybody, and let's

1672
01:28:17,880 --> 01:28:24,000
Speaker 1: always go Texans. Welcome to Texans All Access. We are

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