Speaker 1: Hello, Texans, welcome to the program.
Speaker 2: As the Texans will take on the Cowboys on Monday night,
Speaker 2: and it's Thursday. That means we have the General John
Speaker 2: McClean with us. Of course, John Harris is with us.
Speaker 2: And it's a weird day because, as we've set you
Speaker 2: up all week, four game week is different. Today is
Speaker 2: a Wednesday in football land, but it's a Thursday for us,
Speaker 2: and that's why we have John in here. And we
Speaker 2: just heard from CJ. Stroud earlier today, Tamiko Ryans. Anyway,
Speaker 2: let's get to it.
Speaker 1: Let's sink our teeth into Texans Cowboys the next edition.
Speaker 2: As I tweeted out earlier today, a picture of Billy
Speaker 2: Miller crossing the goal line first touchdown in franchise history,
Speaker 2: which happened on the first drive of Texans history in general.
Speaker 2: Is that the prevailing image to you when you think
Speaker 2: of Texans Cowboys or is it something else?
Speaker 3: No, the prevailing image for me. And I'm writing about
Speaker 3: this for Houston Texans dot com. It'll be up on
Speaker 3: Sunday night or Monday morning. I asked to Miko about
Speaker 3: it this afternoon. Was the Texans fans so loud at
Speaker 3: Texas stadium, Tony Tony Roman had to go with the
Speaker 3: silent count. That was the only time I've ever seen
Speaker 3: that happen with Texans fans on the road. And yes,
Speaker 3: of course Billy Miller was important, the defining moment for
Speaker 3: me for Texans Cowboys and this may be my lead.
Speaker 3: At the end of the game, I was on the sideline,
Speaker 3: was standing with Bob McNair and Chuck Watson, Chuck being
Speaker 3: his major minor partner back then, and Chuck was all
Speaker 3: excited talking about you know, remember don't remember the Alamo,
Speaker 3: Remember the Texans beat the Cowboys, and Bob sitting there
Speaker 3: pretty quiet, and then all of a sudden we look
Speaker 3: across the field and Jerry Jones has been over with
Speaker 3: both hands on his knees. Dave Campo has bent over
Speaker 3: with both ends on his knees because Jerry is and
Speaker 3: right by, fans started chanting, thank you, Bob, thank you Bob,
Speaker 3: And all of a sudden, the section did it. And
Speaker 3: then it just started to spread, fans chanting thank you Bob.
Speaker 3: And I looked at McNair and I said, do you
Speaker 3: hear that? And he nodded, and tears were running down
Speaker 3: his face and Chuck all of a sudden shut up
Speaker 3: and had tears in his eyes, and I started getting
Speaker 3: teary eyed listening to it spread until it was a crescendo,
Speaker 3: and then all of a sudden, the TV's run over
Speaker 3: there and get in front of Bob to shoot him,
Speaker 3: and I told him I got to get out of here.
Speaker 3: I can't let anybody see me getting teary eyed. But
Speaker 3: to know everything that he went through, and to be
Speaker 3: there with him from the get go, and to have spent
Speaker 3: so much time talking to him. When I was on
Speaker 3: the road, he called me about the NFL, What are
Speaker 3: you hearing? And tell me what he was hearing because
Speaker 3: he trusted me and knowing how much he put into it.
Speaker 3: And I remember two people told me in LA all
Speaker 3: along Houston was going to get the team and I
Speaker 3: never leave it because I know how much the NFL
Speaker 3: wanted to go to LA. And one of them was
Speaker 3: Rich McKay, whose brother JK was on the LA committee
Speaker 3: and he was telling me that, and gosh, who was
Speaker 3: the other one. My mind's gone, oh, Bruce Allen. And
Speaker 3: Bruce Allen was saying that because he had sources on
Speaker 3: that committee. And Bobby told me that too, because he
Speaker 3: said he had sources on that committee, and he said
Speaker 3: the reason was LA can't decide on how to finance
Speaker 3: the stadium, where to put a stadium where we've got
Speaker 3: all of our ducks in a row. And I was
Speaker 3: so happy for him that they were able to win
Speaker 3: that game because, and this is something else I'm writing,
Speaker 3: he told me numerous times how much Jerry Jones worked
Speaker 3: to help him get the team. Now, you would have
Speaker 3: thought Jerry wouldn't want another team in Houston, but Jerry did.
Speaker 3: He told me that there were two people of all
Speaker 3: the people he talked to, two people told him the
Speaker 3: truth all the time. One was Jerry Richardson, the late
Speaker 3: owner owner of the Panthers, who was the head of
Speaker 3: I think the expansion committee, and Jerry and Bob had
Speaker 3: been friends for a long time. And then Jerry Jones.
Speaker 3: That's one reason when Bob died and had his tribute
Speaker 3: here at the stadium, Jerry the McNair's invited him to
Speaker 3: come down and speak about Bob first. And so I'll
Speaker 3: always appreciate Jerry Jones for doing that because he's he
Speaker 3: was influential in the NFL then too, he wasn't looked
Speaker 3: on as much of a buffoon as he is now
Speaker 3: because of the fate of the Cowboys, as bad as
Speaker 3: they are. But i'd the rivalry. Texans need to win
Speaker 3: this game, of course, and get on a roll. I
Speaker 3: also have a Colin's gonna run tomorrow in Houston, Texan
Speaker 3: dot Com. Looking at six four Texans last year, six
Speaker 3: four Texans this year, how they got there. Last year's
Speaker 3: team had a three game winning streak. This year's teams
Speaker 3: lost three of four and came scored in the second half.
Speaker 3: And I'm looking at the offense, and the offense was
Speaker 3: so much better at this stage last year than it
Speaker 3: is now. And I think one of the reasons is
Speaker 3: they didn't have all these protection issues last year. Wasn't
Speaker 3: Strouds sacked thirty eight times and already's been sacked thirty
Speaker 3: five and he's on the pace for like fifty eight.
Speaker 4: Nothing to see here, Yeah, well, there is something to
Speaker 4: see there, and that's something they got to make a change.
Speaker 4: We'll get to that in a second. But okay, you guys
Speaker 4: ready for a couple of numbers. Got our rays transit
Speaker 4: have gotta be broken in one way or the other.
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 4: How many primetime games. Have these two teams played general two?
Speaker 1: Opening night and Sunday night football? And that's it. That's
Speaker 1: it too, okay. So how many games have they played
Speaker 1: at noon? Between these two teams? How many games have
Speaker 1: played at noon or during the day. I think the
Speaker 1: rest of them were new, all of them. Yeah, who
Speaker 1: won the prime time games?
Speaker 3: Texans born, both of them.
Speaker 4: Yes, who won the games they did? Yes, they went
Speaker 4: all the day games, We went all the night games.
Speaker 4: This one's at night, this one's done. But on the
Speaker 4: flip side, how many times have we ever won in Arlington?
Speaker 1: None? None, But it's time to break that.
Speaker 4: It's time to break that and keep the prime time
Speaker 4: streak alive and break the we never went in Arlington
Speaker 4: sort of things.
Speaker 1: So general to do that?
Speaker 4: What is the is the a number one thing, the
Speaker 4: pass protection? Or is it something else?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 3: You think the other day, if he had thrown that
Speaker 3: ball quick or put more juice on it today, we
Speaker 3: wouldn't be having all of this. They would have beaten
Speaker 3: the line over correct the moon do when they get
Speaker 3: down and juice, Scruggs says, old, and Shack Mason gives
Speaker 3: up his sack. You know, things like that so as
Speaker 3: bad as they were in the second half on offense,
Speaker 3: and I've got to look up. Maybe you guys can
Speaker 3: tell me this so I don't have to look it up.
Speaker 3: How many consecutive possessions have they gone in the second
Speaker 3: half without scoring a touchdown? Back to New England? Do
Speaker 3: you know what i'f off your head?
Speaker 1: I don't know how many possessions?
Speaker 3: Well, I gotta look it up. I gotta look it
Speaker 3: up because it's going to be part of my story
Speaker 3: because it's four games worth, right, But I they almost
Speaker 3: won that game as like It's like Stroud said, he
Speaker 3: took the blame, but he said, we did go to
Speaker 3: the wire with one of the best teams in the league.
Speaker 1: They did.
Speaker 3: You lose in Green Bay, Green Bay and Lambeau and
Speaker 3: you lose on a field goal with no time left.
Speaker 3: Then you lose a field goal with no time left
Speaker 3: to a brick salesman. You know, you close, And maybe
Speaker 3: that should help them in this there's favorite six and
Speaker 3: a half points and if they're ever going to beat
Speaker 3: the Cowboys up there, this would have to be the time.
Speaker 3: Cowboys can't run the ball. Texans run defense is good.
Speaker 3: They did a great job against the Lions except for
Speaker 3: one series in the fourth quarter when they got forty
Speaker 3: seven of their yards. Great run defense, and you know,
Speaker 3: I just I like, y'all, I'm just mind boggle that
Speaker 3: intercept five passes, you don't win the game. They're plus
Speaker 3: I think they're fourth or fifth in the league and
Speaker 3: turnover differential, and if they keep that up, they're gonna
Speaker 3: win yin. They should they should win this game. Give
Speaker 3: them seven. They should sweep the Titans and the Jaguars.
Speaker 3: That'll be ten, and then you beat Miami maybe here
Speaker 3: that would be eleven. I need it to beat I
Speaker 3: needed to be eleven and six is that's what I
Speaker 3: predicted and when the schedule came out on your website.
Speaker 3: And but they need to turn around. This is a
Speaker 3: game that should be a reassurance game, to reassure everybody, fans, media, everybody, Okay,
Speaker 3: we're back on a winning track. We still have a
Speaker 3: good team. No time to panic.
Speaker 2: But if you lose, who John the Cowboys are a
Speaker 2: total mess right now. It's funny because sometimes we talk about, oh,
Speaker 2: this team's going to be really upset because they lost, well,
Speaker 2: they've lost four in a row and they continually lose players.
Speaker 2: Now they've got a couple of guys back Parsons's backland.
Speaker 2: I guess it's coming back. But still they've lost four
Speaker 2: games in a row. Now the Texans have lost too
Speaker 2: in a row. They're not going to overlook anybody. I
Speaker 2: don't care who they're playing. They're playing Trinity, They're not
Speaker 2: going to overlook them. But what about Dallas. What is
Speaker 2: the biggest part of well, the biggest ingredient in this
Speaker 2: spiral that they're in right now. I know Dak got hurt,
Speaker 2: but that wasn't that long ago. It was a couple
Speaker 2: of weeks ago. And they can't run the ball. They
Speaker 2: didn't fortify the running back position. Is it a salary
Speaker 2: cap thing where they had to pay Dak? They had
Speaker 2: to give c D money. There's no money left over
Speaker 2: cop out.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I'm asking Jerry Jones saying he couldn't afford Garry Henry's
Speaker 3: eight million a year. Of course he could look at
Speaker 3: all these other teams to sign players. Forty nine ers
Speaker 3: are given multi to you know, eighty million contracts to
Speaker 3: cornerbacks and other players. I just think Jerry Jones and
Speaker 3: every Cowboy fans say this it's passed his time being
Speaker 3: a general manager, and now he doesn't make every decision himself.
Speaker 3: He listens to Stephen Jones, he listens to Will McClane,
Speaker 3: he listens to Mike McCarthy. Now McCarthy's gone, we know
Speaker 3: he's gone. Does he want to go after Belichick? Does
Speaker 3: he want to hire Mike Rabel, Does he want to
Speaker 3: go after Ben Johnson or another hot assistant coach who
Speaker 3: wants to go there? Now, of course people want to
Speaker 3: go there. You got your quarterback, you got your number
Speaker 3: one team, and the interest and value it's the Cowboys.
Speaker 3: But he's going to ask some tough decisions about who
Speaker 3: he's going to hire to replace him. And they're going
Speaker 3: to get a high draft pick and they need him.
Speaker 3: They need to three, four to five, a lot of positions.
Speaker 3: But right now, I think the Texans would lose. I
Speaker 3: can't say this. I was going to say if they
Speaker 3: lose the turnover differential, but it didn't make a bit
Speaker 3: of difference Sunday night. But I still think let's Cowboys
Speaker 3: score defensive touchdown or a special team's touchdown, or one
Speaker 3: of them puts them down to the side the five
Speaker 3: yard line. The Cowboys are not going to move the
Speaker 3: ball on the Texans defense, and the Texans will score.
Speaker 3: I just wish Bobby Slowick. I think those early season
Speaker 3: long field goals by fair Baron made him get more conservative.
Speaker 3: We get across midfield, now, let's be careful not to
Speaker 3: turn it over because we know we got three. But
Speaker 3: it's not fair to ask fair Bear to keep doing
Speaker 3: that fifty six fifty eight yard field goals. Be more
Speaker 3: aggressive when you cross midfield. If makes him stop for
Speaker 3: nogate on first down, don't give it to him on
Speaker 3: a second Now, I'll throw it to him because he's
Speaker 3: such a good runner after he makes a catch.
Speaker 2: I was thinking, yeah, CJ. Stroud, I want the ball
Speaker 2: in his hands one way or in the absolutely. But
Speaker 2: also that's a tricky situation on third down and fourth
Speaker 2: and four. Let's just say it's fourth and four and
Speaker 2: you gotta kick it right there. You have fair Baron.
Speaker 1: You absolutely have to check that ball. But you're right you.
Speaker 2: Wanted it to be a lot closer because you cannot
Speaker 2: guarantee fifty eight yards.
Speaker 1: I can't. There's no shame in missing that.
Speaker 3: Thisss the only time I've ever said this in fifteen
Speaker 3: years I know it's coming. John Wikes had to have
Speaker 3: a snap. I can no longer say he's never had
Speaker 3: a bad snap in any time in his career because
Speaker 3: it was high and he took the blame afterward. But
Speaker 3: you shouldn't be in that situation where you have to
Speaker 3: kick those all the time. And you notice when they
Speaker 3: use the bunch formation and they put the receivers in
Speaker 3: tight and then they load the box with eight and
Speaker 3: they're running the ball and it's too obvious. So I
Speaker 3: wish slow it would just, I don't know, be more aggressive.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, with Nico back, you will. I
Speaker 3: think on the first play of the game. If I'm
Speaker 3: somewhere the first time i get around to thirty or forty,
Speaker 3: I'm going damn to Nico just to show them we're
Speaker 3: gonna do it.
Speaker 4: Well, that was gonna be my question, and that is
Speaker 4: how do things change? Because we talk about and I
Speaker 4: I think it can be one guy. How much does
Speaker 4: Nico change the pass protection because Nico gets opened so
Speaker 4: quickly things you want to get Nico the ball quickly because.
Speaker 1: So good after the catch. That helps your past protection.
Speaker 4: It helps you run game because you can't completely load
Speaker 4: the box It helps everything. It helps your deep passing game.
Speaker 4: Just having him back. It's one guy, but general he
Speaker 4: can have a significant impact. If he is in deep
Speaker 4: back on Monday.
Speaker 3: Night, well he better be back on Monday night. They're
Speaker 3: out there talking like he's coming back.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: The fact is two people have to cover and that
Speaker 3: takes away one from loading up the box when you
Speaker 3: want to play the run. And just his presence. I'm
Speaker 3: like you, I think first time, i'd want to throw
Speaker 3: it to him. If you're say it to twenty of
Speaker 3: the twenty five, throwing the slant, let him, let him
Speaker 3: break some tackles. But boy, when you get up around
Speaker 3: the thirty or the forty, launch it like well like
Speaker 3: they did on the play got hurt? Was that sixty
Speaker 3: seven yards?
Speaker 1: Seven yards? And do it like that?
Speaker 3: Cowboys know it's coming. You know he's and and you
Speaker 3: know you still Tank has done really well. It dropped
Speaker 3: a couple of passes, but and and Dalton Schultz got
Speaker 3: involved in the passing game there at the end. They
Speaker 3: got to get him involved in the in the uh
Speaker 3: when they get in the red zone. He had five
Speaker 3: touchdowns this time last year Tank had seven. And but
Speaker 3: you think about if Niko have never been hurt, would
Speaker 3: that have been a difference in two points to three
Speaker 3: points in that game?
Speaker 2: In the Green Bay game, getting hurt, you're winning at
Speaker 2: least one. Absolutely, and me too, and maybe all of them.
Speaker 2: I don't know, but he's that valuable to this football team.
Speaker 2: But for both of you, guys.
Speaker 5: C J.
Speaker 2: Stroud, we all listened to him today and he was
Speaker 2: talking about I've been kind of aiming. I'm paraphrasing here
Speaker 2: him aiming can start it out. Yeah, now he wants
Speaker 2: to just let it rip, he said, swing fastballs. Yeah,
Speaker 2: So what did you think of that?
Speaker 1: Related to what he's been going through lately?
Speaker 3: I think it's good. You know the touchdown pass. You
Speaker 3: wish he'd had planted his foot and just rifled it
Speaker 3: to Tank Dale And uh, but Carlton Davis man, you
Speaker 3: talk about that kid got burned here last year for
Speaker 3: three touches and then he has two interceptions. He made
Speaker 3: a great play breaking on the ball, and I remember
Speaker 3: last year once I think it was Carolina, CJ talked
Speaker 3: about he wanted to throw the ball down the field more. Well,
Speaker 3: the problem with that is, unless it's three step dropping,
Speaker 3: you launch it. You need a little time, and he
Speaker 3: hadn't done getting the time and the run blocking was awful.
Speaker 3: But a lot of that to me was the play
Speaker 3: calls and the formations. But I think we're going to
Speaker 3: see a different offense in this game. I think the
Speaker 3: defense is going to shut down their run because they're terrible.
Speaker 3: They're next to last in running, like we all thought
Speaker 3: that would be terrible. They're gonna shut it. Cooper Rush
Speaker 3: is gonna have to pass. They're acting like they'll have
Speaker 3: some formations for Trey Lance to come in. It wouldn't
Speaker 3: surprise me if Trey Lance doesn't come in as a quarterback,
Speaker 3: because I think they'll do a good job against Rush.
Speaker 4: I think with CJ the point of him saying, yeah,
Speaker 4: it's not so much John Daily gripping, but there has
Speaker 4: to be some of that kind of bravado as you
Speaker 4: play that position. He knows that, and I think what
Speaker 4: he would tell you, I'd like to know the throat
Speaker 4: to tank that we've talked about. I've talked about it
Speaker 4: a bunch. I think that play changes the entire game
Speaker 4: course and that was one in which I don't know
Speaker 4: why he didn't throw it sooner, and then when he
Speaker 4: threw it. He did kind of look like he aimed
Speaker 4: it in there. And that's one of the things that
Speaker 4: you can see on a quarterback. And when he starts
Speaker 4: aiming the football a quarterback, that's just CJ. You know
Speaker 4: you've got him because he's trying to make that pinpoint
Speaker 4: throw and he's like, God, that just finesses it, and
Speaker 4: the like, No, you got to reach back and find
Speaker 4: the fastball a little bit. Even the throw to metch You, Like,
Speaker 4: I've seen that throw of metch You a few times
Speaker 4: and it was a great there's a great throw. There's
Speaker 4: a great throw. But that's one that I think CJ
Speaker 4: in the past would probably rip it a little bit more. Ok,
Speaker 4: that one seemed to have. That was more forefinger, that
Speaker 4: was more for steamed fastball to do seam fastball, right,
Speaker 4: And I think he's saying, look, I got a two
Speaker 4: seam fastball that's as good as anybody. I gotta throw it.
Speaker 4: He's right, He's definitely right. There's no doubt about that.
Speaker 4: So general, let's take that and transition into this question.
Speaker 4: There's a guy that probably has as good as you
Speaker 4: seating fastball as there is anywhere that we've ever seen
Speaker 4: in the NFL, but he got bench for a couple
Speaker 4: of games. Now he's coming back. Anthony Richardson is back.
Speaker 4: What does it mean for the Colts doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: I don't think it matters. You know, Flacco was bad.
Speaker 3: People think he's finally hit the wall at thirty nine.
Speaker 3: And I'll wonder how much Jim Irsey was involved in
Speaker 3: the original decision, how much he's involved in this decision,
Speaker 3: or maybe they went back and said, if we're going
Speaker 3: to lose, we got to be learning, and he's got
Speaker 3: to be learning. So I don't think after two three
Speaker 3: games off that he's going to have all of a
Speaker 3: sudden it's going to be smooth sale. He's only started
Speaker 3: ten games in NFL and thirteen in college. Bow Nick
Speaker 3: started sixty in college, and so he's going to be
Speaker 3: like a roller coaster up and down. And they just
Speaker 3: got to learn to live with it, and hopefully next
Speaker 3: year he'll show a lot of progress. Back to CJ.
Speaker 3: It's great that he wants to do all these things
Speaker 3: and he would have been doing them, but the pass
Speaker 3: protection is so bad, especially up the middle. You know,
Speaker 3: you want him to plan his foot and have perfect
Speaker 3: mechanics and fire the ball, but you can't when people
Speaker 3: are coming free up the middle. And hopefully the second
Speaker 3: game Juice Scruggs plays at left guard, he won't have
Speaker 3: two holding calls. Holdings were not problem for him at center.
Speaker 3: And Shaq Mason is giving up eight and a half sacks.
Speaker 3: Hopefully he'll improved. But you know he's he is cognizant
Speaker 3: of where the pressure comes from. And if I'm if
Speaker 3: I'm the Cowboys and I'm Mike Zimmer, I'm having Mike
Speaker 3: Mike Coh Parsons rush up the middle, not coming off
Speaker 3: the edge.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well he moves around and he's unpredictable that way.
Speaker 2: And as we say, grip it and rip it for CJ.
Speaker 2: Mike gut is and we'll talk more about this tomorrow.
Speaker 2: My gut is, just don't turn the ball over. What
Speaker 2: was that game against Miami and the David Cully year
Speaker 2: did the Texans game at five and the Dolphins got four?
Speaker 1: Did we out nine? Yeah, you're right?
Speaker 2: Nine turnover? Did we have one more takeaway than them?
Speaker 2: And he said you can't. You can't win by turning
Speaker 2: it over four times, even if you get fun or
Speaker 2: something like that. That there was a quote like that
Speaker 2: and it sounded silly. Yet I can say this. If
Speaker 2: you're turning the ball over and it's ending drives for you,
Speaker 2: that obviously stinks. They just have to avoid that because
Speaker 2: I don't think the Cowboys will be able to move
Speaker 2: the ball on the Texans at all.
Speaker 3: Don't turn it over and you're in the field, turn
Speaker 3: it over.
Speaker 1: Pawn and play. You know, they'll get the ball for you.
Speaker 2: Probably this defense will they'll be able to take the
Speaker 2: ball away from the Cowboys and you'll get good field
Speaker 2: position cash in from there.
Speaker 3: The big question, excuse me, is why can they not
Speaker 3: score touchdowns in the second half five or six games
Speaker 3: in four in a row. Why is that any issue?
Speaker 2: It's easy to say they're not adjusting general, but all right,
Speaker 2: they're not adjusting. They're not adjusting, so they need to adjust.
Speaker 2: Something happens. They look overwhelmed at times at the line
Speaker 2: of scrimmage in the second halves of these games, and
Speaker 2: it's really difficult for CJ to get going and as
Speaker 2: you said, step into throws and everything, the Jaguars are
Speaker 2: going to be at the lines. Do we even need
Speaker 2: to mention this game? It's still Mac.
Speaker 1: Jones, right, yeah, yeah, it's Mac Jones. Yeap, okay, good luckily?
Speaker 1: Would it matter? Would it matter a little bit? I
Speaker 1: think it would matter.
Speaker 2: I think I still think the Jaguars have this chance
Speaker 2: of putting up some points if Trevor's on his game
Speaker 2: and things are going right and the backs are doing
Speaker 2: their thing. Bigsby was out last week in that game.
Speaker 1: He left. I'm not sure what his status is this week.
Speaker 1: All right, So that's that. Would it matter?
Speaker 2: What about the Titans? Anything to say at all about
Speaker 2: the Titans who entertained the Vikings.
Speaker 3: The number one defense in the NFL, and they've given
Speaker 3: up more points at this stage than any number one
Speaker 3: defense in adustry.
Speaker 1: That's amazing. Well, that shows you what total yards means,
Speaker 1: after all, total yards means absolutely No.
Speaker 2: I think it does mean something because I'm gonna hang
Speaker 2: on to my number one defense in twenty sixteen for
Speaker 2: the Houst detection, and my number three defense is twenty fifteen.
Speaker 4: But the numbers matched the visuals, Like you watch a
Speaker 4: defense and went, oh, yeah, this defense is good.
Speaker 1: Then you looked at the numbers and went, oh, okay, well,
Speaker 1: yeah's that.
Speaker 3: They're kind of excited that. Will Levis was like sacks
Speaker 3: seven times, but didn't turn it over, didn't do anything stupid,
Speaker 3: had two touchdowns, one with seconds left in a blowout,
Speaker 3: and had a rating of like one eleven. They're looking
Speaker 3: at baby steps when him and their defense, but the
Speaker 3: offense doesn't help them at all.
Speaker 1: Oh, this would be a good more likely to happen,
Speaker 1: but we'll do other ones in the next segment. This
Speaker 1: is for both of you. More likely to start for
Speaker 1: his team next year? Will Levis or Anthony.
Speaker 3: Richardson Anthony Richardson, My god, Yes, Levis won't be the starter.
Speaker 1: Starter in Tennessee Chador Sanders.
Speaker 3: They're not giving up unless Dion doesn't want him there. Oh,
Speaker 3: like he's going to control where shaduer and Travis Hunter
Speaker 3: both go.
Speaker 1: Archie Manning did it and John Elway's dad did it.
Speaker 3: Jack was one player. He's saying he's gonna do it
Speaker 3: over both of them. Yeah, times change the colts. I
Speaker 3: think that's the right thing to do. I would never
Speaker 3: have gotten away from him to begin with. I thought
Speaker 3: he was so unfairly eviscerated because he told the truth
Speaker 3: about being tired for one stinking play and in flac
Speaker 3: of course, gives them no threat of a run whatsoever,
Speaker 3: and you always have to be aware of that. And
Speaker 3: the Jaguars. If it wasn't for the Jets, would the
Speaker 3: Jaguars be the most disappointing team in the league.
Speaker 2: I think, you know what, because of the Jaguars playing
Speaker 2: where they play, they'll never get too high or too
Speaker 2: low on the hot take meter on.
Speaker 3: The national Were them to be a wildcard team, yeah,
Speaker 3: then they put it out.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Bal Doug Peterson's a Super Bowl winning coach. Now he's
Speaker 3: going to be out of work.
Speaker 1: Okay, what about Chris Ballard?
Speaker 2: Is he going to be out of work because you
Speaker 2: pick a quarterback again and it's work out again. And look,
Speaker 2: I like him, but pressure is pressure and ersay is ersa.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure what he's going to do here.
Speaker 3: I think I think Chris Ballard will keep his job,
Speaker 3: and I think Anthony Richardson will be inconsistent, but they
Speaker 3: won't get rid of him, and they'll bring them back.
Speaker 3: You know, they spend a lot of time resigning their
Speaker 3: players instead of going and getting other players. And that's
Speaker 3: good for the guys on your team to see that.
Speaker 3: But Richardson is just so inconsistent and I'm guessing Doug
Speaker 3: Peterson's going to be gone. If I'm a head coach,
Speaker 3: I would rather go to Jacksonville than the Jets or
Speaker 3: the Giants or there's no pressure whatsoever. And Trevor Lawrence,
Speaker 3: I mean there's a reason everybody said he's a generational
Speaker 3: quarterback that you could still a good coach can get
Speaker 3: it out of him. I would think that would be
Speaker 3: a good job as opposed to like working for Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 3: which is what I don't know who'd want to go there. Well,
Speaker 3: I think Grabele might end up with the Cowboys.
Speaker 5: You never know.
Speaker 1: He'll he'll definitely be in demand and then.
Speaker 3: They'll get as because he's got to have a running back.
Speaker 1: Yep. General, what do you have going on in Houston,
Speaker 1: Texas dot Com?
Speaker 3: You mentioned a couple of Friday, I will have a
Speaker 3: column on UH Texans offense at six and four this
Speaker 3: year compared to six and four last year, and then Monday,
Speaker 3: I'll have one with my best memories of the Texans
Speaker 3: and Cowboys rivalry, starting with Jerry Jones helping Bob get
Speaker 3: the contract and Bob rewarded him by sticking it.
Speaker 1: Up his UH but okay on opening night September eighteen.
Speaker 3: Thank you guys very much.
Speaker 1: I kind of got more likely to happen.
Speaker 2: We've got questions and Johnny's got answers, Nico mix in
Speaker 2: AFC South teams, other stuff. It's Texans Radio. Okay, great
Speaker 2: to have you listening here. Thursday night football coming up.
Speaker 2: But first John Harris sticks around and we do the
Speaker 2: game that we he loves so much more likely to happen.
Speaker 2: All right, Johnny, you ready to go.
Speaker 1: Let's do it. I love this. It's been a little while.
Speaker 2: It's been until we've done that, so it's more of
Speaker 2: an off season thing, but I like to bring it
Speaker 2: around during the season on occasion more likely to happen.
Speaker 1: Let's get to the first.
Speaker 2: One, shall we more likely to happen Nico Collins gets
Speaker 2: to one hundred receiving yards or Joe Mixon gets to
Speaker 2: one twenty five. I'm not gonna go with the century
Speaker 2: mark for Joe. I'm gonna say one twenty five. Dallas
Speaker 2: has been giving it up on the ground lately, so
Speaker 2: Mixon has a good opportunity here.
Speaker 1: What do you think, Johnny? Hmm? I like this one.
Speaker 4: I feel like Nico. Okay, Now, a couple of things.
Speaker 4: First of all, I want to make it really clear.
Speaker 4: You and I last week never said Nico was playing, right.
Speaker 4: We never said he was playing never. In fact, I
Speaker 4: was the one that said, I know how this is going. Yeah,
Speaker 4: And I had no incident from I just knew the
Speaker 4: way that it was going. I'm glad you brought this up.
Speaker 4: One second.
Speaker 2: This is why people need to listen to Texans radio.
Speaker 2: We told you basically last week he was unlikely to
Speaker 2: play based on the fact that he was out for
Speaker 2: four games. He came back for one practice, you think
Speaker 2: he's good to go for Sunday night, And then people
Speaker 2: were telling me, oh, he's got to go. He practiced,
Speaker 2: blah blah blah. No, you want to ramp him up.
Speaker 2: This is serious stuff. The bigger games are coming up
Speaker 2: down the stretch anyway, going absolutely.
Speaker 4: And make that clear, because I just happened to be
Speaker 4: listening to Sean Seth this morning and they were talking
Speaker 4: about it, and I was like, man, I was not.
Speaker 1: We did not say that. We did not even suggest.
Speaker 4: In fact, when people would say, hey, just off to
Speaker 4: the side, Nico playing, I would be like, no, yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean this is what I think all along.
Speaker 1: And it really came true.
Speaker 4: So we're hoping, hoping that Nico does in fact play
Speaker 4: against the Cowboys on Monday Night. And if he does,
Speaker 4: I think Nico getting to one hundred. I think Joe
Speaker 4: gets over one hundred. But man, what twenty five is
Speaker 4: such a tough number to get to put it there,
Speaker 4: you know, that's so hard to get Like Vegas, I
Speaker 4: think they're gonna try and get Nico involved.
Speaker 1: I don't think he will be any kind of decoy.
Speaker 4: I think he's gonna end up making a big chunk
Speaker 4: play that takes up a decent chunk of that hundred.
Speaker 1: So I'm going Nico over one hundred.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because Nico could go for like fifty five on
Speaker 2: one match, right, and then piece it together the rest
Speaker 2: of the way.
Speaker 1: Ye, Joe won five.
Speaker 2: You're right, that's a bigger threshold to pass, and that's
Speaker 2: why I put it there.
Speaker 1: Let's get to the next I'm likely to happen, all right,
Speaker 1: more likely.
Speaker 2: To finish in last place in the AFC South, the
Speaker 2: Tennessee Titans or the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Speaker 1: Hood you got now set it up for you.
Speaker 2: The Titans are two and seven and they'll take on
Speaker 2: the Vikings this week then of course here at at
Speaker 2: RG Stadium playing the Texans, Washington, Jacksonville, Cincinnati, Indy Jacksonville
Speaker 2: and the Texans again, and the other team in this
Speaker 2: mix would certainly be the jackson Bill Jaguars.
Speaker 4: I think that it's going to be the Tennessee Titans. Okay,
Speaker 4: It's what I've felt all along. It sounds as if
Speaker 4: Trevor Lawrence is gonna be ready for our game after
Speaker 4: their bye. So the Jacks have got this week at Detroit,
Speaker 4: then they've got the bye week, then they've got us
Speaker 4: so in Jacksonville. Yeah, I think that's an opportunity for
Speaker 4: Jacksonville at that point. Maybe not not to beat us,
Speaker 4: they're definitely I don't think they're gonna beat Detroit with
Speaker 4: Mac Jones, But I like what the Jaguar schedule looks
Speaker 4: like for them.
Speaker 2: Tennessee the Jet after US, Tennessee on the road, the
Speaker 2: Jets at home, Raiders on the road, Titans at home,
Speaker 2: Cults on the road.
Speaker 4: I feel pretty good about that for them, so as
Speaker 4: opposed to Tennessee, which I just don't feel good about
Speaker 4: Tennessee at all. I don't think Tennessee has good vibes
Speaker 4: going whatsoever. They already had their bye week. They came
Speaker 4: out of there by losing four to five. Yeah, only
Speaker 4: when they got was one against the Patriots, which they
Speaker 4: had to go to overtime wents they probably shouldn't get.
Speaker 4: They still got the Vikings US twice, Commanders Bengals, and
Speaker 4: then Colts Jaguars. It so I think Tennessee's gonna end
Speaker 4: up finishing in last place.
Speaker 2: All right, So Tennessee finishes last. Now, what about the
Speaker 2: Colts having in total meltdown, because the Jags could win
Speaker 2: three maybe four possibly if they got hot.
Speaker 1: You'll put that in the air quotes.
Speaker 2: What if they win three more, they'll end up with
Speaker 2: five and the Colt and they play the Colts again
Speaker 2: and they beat.
Speaker 1: The Colts, they sweep the Colts, and they both end
Speaker 1: up with five. That's entirely possible. It is entirely possible.
Speaker 2: And the Colts get sent to third or possibly fourth.
Speaker 2: That'd be amazing, Listen. I want the sections to be
Speaker 2: for that. But you know what, I will throw a
Speaker 2: little private party the Colts finish in la place.
Speaker 4: Especially to me, there was all this offseason talk about,
Speaker 4: oh wait, you see these cults.
Speaker 1: Wait he is see Anthony Richardson. He's gonna be awesome.
Speaker 1: Look at the things he can do. It was like
Speaker 1: a circus act in something. It's like, step right.
Speaker 4: Up and see the quarterback from Gainesville six foot five
Speaker 4: to forty five.
Speaker 1: He complete passes, Well, it doesn't matter, but he could
Speaker 1: throw it eighty yards like it was like this Carnival Barker.
Speaker 4: All off season long, coming from Indianapolis. And then you realize, oh, yeah,
Speaker 4: he's not good at quarterback. Yeah, that's playing that position.
Speaker 4: So there's a possibility. When you look at the Colt
Speaker 4: schedule too. We talked about this. They still they got
Speaker 4: to go to the Jets. They got the Lions, the Broncos,
Speaker 4: and they got the Titans and the Patriots.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, the Titans are capable of upsetting somebody, and
Speaker 2: I hope it's not here at NRG Stadium following the
Speaker 2: Cowboy game because they still have that defense that can
Speaker 2: at least slow you down. Yeah, and offensively, Okay, not
Speaker 2: much to look at there, but it's the NFL, baby,
Speaker 2: and that's what we always like to point out. Like
Speaker 2: we said this week a couple of times, the twenty
Speaker 2: twenty two textans should serve as inspiration for bad teams
Speaker 2: trying to keep games close, if not pull off upsets.
Speaker 1: Yes, I'm still going Titans in the sun. Okay, let's
Speaker 1: do that. Still go in there next.
Speaker 2: One please, I'm likely to happen more likely to be
Speaker 2: the NFC two seed. Okay, the NFC two seed, because
Speaker 2: the Lions. I'm gonna give them the one that's gonna
Speaker 2: do it, the one. Okay, if Philly's in second at
Speaker 2: seven and two. And I talked to an Eagles fan
Speaker 2: this morning that said, listen, they were terrible at Dallas.
Speaker 2: I said, didn't they win big? I didn't see that really,
Speaker 2: I'm just looking at some of the numbers of it.
Speaker 2: They said, listen, they made mistake after they were not
Speaker 2: impressive in that blowout win. I'm thinking, well, that's good
Speaker 2: for the Texans if the Cowboys are that bad. But
Speaker 2: we can get to that another time. But you have
Speaker 2: the Eagles in the second seed right now. The three
Speaker 2: seed is the Falcons tied saying record with the Cardinals.
Speaker 1: Falcons currently have the tiebreaker. So what do you think here?
Speaker 2: The Vikings obviously have a better record than those games,
Speaker 2: sort of the Commanders, but you got to win your division.
Speaker 1: So when we look at seedings. That's what we're looking
Speaker 1: at here.
Speaker 2: So is it the Eagles, the Falcons, or the Cardinals
Speaker 2: getting that two seed in the NFC?
Speaker 4: So, at first glance, I think it's the Eagles because
Speaker 4: I think the Eagles would with Saquon the way Saquan's playing,
Speaker 4: Jalen always, can you know, the run game travels.
Speaker 1: I think the defense is getting better.
Speaker 4: I think all those Georgia guys are starting to kind
Speaker 4: of jive a little bit now. And Cooper Dejan was
Speaker 4: a great draft pick for them, Quinn and Mitchell was
Speaker 4: a great draft pick for them. All the draft capital
Speaker 4: that Howie Roseman ended up accumulating, he then made really
Speaker 4: good picks with right, Well, it seems that way right now,
Speaker 4: and so I think that's gonna make them even more dangerous.
Speaker 1: Here's my wild card, no pun intended. What is it?
Speaker 1: Deer's on a Cardinals? Yeah, well, I was gonna say.
Speaker 1: Here's their schedule.
Speaker 2: They have Seattle twice, and Seattle's four and five. Seattle
Speaker 2: to beat anybody, but they're struggling. They have the Patriots
Speaker 2: and the Panthers, all right, They're at Carolina, the Patriots
Speaker 2: at home, They're at the Rams. And that Rams home
Speaker 2: field is not a home field advantage. Talk to Dallas
Speaker 2: about home field advantage that isn't really one.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: The Rams know all about that at their place, and
Speaker 2: then they finished with the forty nine ers at Arizona.
Speaker 2: So I think this is a pretty good schedule for
Speaker 2: the Cardinals on the way out. But Johnny, the Falcons,
Speaker 2: what is up with them? Because the Falcons are six
Speaker 2: and four, same record as the Cardinals. They've got the Broncos, Chargers,
Speaker 2: tough defenses to face, Vikings, then the Raiders on the road.
Speaker 2: It's Vegas and whatever happens in Vegas stays there, including losses.
Speaker 1: No they don't.
Speaker 2: They go with you and the Giants Commanders Panthers on
Speaker 2: the way out. So you know, Giants can and Panthers
Speaker 2: two so called easier games down the stretch. I don't know, Oh,
Speaker 2: I don't know where to go with this one, but
Speaker 2: I think one of those two teams could possibly clip
Speaker 2: the Eagles, because the Eagles always seem like they're one
Speaker 2: snap away from implosion.
Speaker 4: To me, the Falcons are like a restaurant you've gone to.
Speaker 4: You went through this restaurant for the first time, and
Speaker 4: you're like Oh my god. They made this meal, I'm
Speaker 4: telling you, and you tell all your friends about it. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you're like, man, y'all have got to go to this restaurant.
Speaker 4: Let's just call it, you know, Kirko's Grill. You go
Speaker 4: to Kirko's Grill, and I'm telling you, this restaurant is fantastic.
Speaker 4: They made me this Jamaican jerk burger that you're gonna love.
Speaker 4: So your friends go over there, Yeah, and they get
Speaker 4: really mad at you because they're like, well, wait a second,
Speaker 4: you told us this place is great.
Speaker 1: This place is garbage. They had a bad day, and
Speaker 1: they had a bad day.
Speaker 4: The Falcons, to me, are one of those teams that
Speaker 4: when it has a bad day, it's a bad day.
Speaker 1: There's no reason.
Speaker 4: I know, Division games and all that, there is no
Speaker 4: reason the Falcons should have lost to the Saints. I
Speaker 4: don't care if Derek Carr is back or they brought
Speaker 4: back the reincarnation of Drew Brees.
Speaker 1: I just feel like the Falcons are going to give
Speaker 1: you up and down. I'm doing my hand with the
Speaker 1: up and down.
Speaker 4: Yep, you know, I just I can't. I can't buy
Speaker 4: the Falcons. But what I think the Cardinals are doing.
Speaker 4: They're the roller coaster that just keeps going up and
Speaker 4: up and up. Yeah, and just the vibe just watching
Speaker 4: that game. And I wasn't watching the full thing. I
Speaker 4: was watching it on red Zone, But every time they
Speaker 4: kept going back to that game, the Cardinals defense was
Speaker 4: just all over it. He's the offense. The offense was
Speaker 4: just getting it done, and I'm like, they've got something.
Speaker 4: They've got the run game, They've got a sneaky hot
Speaker 4: offensive line. They got Trey mc broughte at tight end,
Speaker 4: and they got Maserati mar About at ryde receiver.
Speaker 1: With Michael Wilson, they put it together again.
Speaker 4: Go back to what I just said about Philadelphia Harry
Speaker 4: Roseman accumulating all those draft picks and then making the
Speaker 4: right picks.
Speaker 1: It looks like many Austin Ford has done the same thing.
Speaker 4: And he's also getting his quarterback to play at a
Speaker 4: high level in conjunction with all those draft picks that
Speaker 4: they've had that are panting out in Arizona. So from
Speaker 4: that standpoint, I feel like the Falcons are that team.
Speaker 4: Nobody's really gonna mention it in this can't quit on
Speaker 4: the Vikings yet, but I feel like Sam Darnold is
Speaker 4: really pushing the expiration date. Oh, he's really pushing.
Speaker 1: He's pushing it.
Speaker 2: It's like, you know what, the milk, as long as
Speaker 2: it's mixed with some coffee will be there, Okay, but.
Speaker 1: You're getting it close to putting it in the cereal
Speaker 1: and wasting your cereal bowl.
Speaker 2: How about this for the Eagles Commanders. That's Thursday night
Speaker 2: for the fall Rams, Ravens, Panthers, Steelers Commanders again, and
Speaker 2: then Cowboys Giants on the way out. This could get
Speaker 2: a little bit of a rotten to be a rocky
Speaker 2: road for them. And they lost to the Falcons week too.
Speaker 2: So if it turns into a tie breaker with not
Speaker 2: so Hot Atlanta, Atlanta already has that head to head
Speaker 2: matchup in their favor.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say this, I was thinking about this. So
Speaker 1: are we play Tennessee Jacksonville? Correct? So we play those two.
Speaker 4: We've already finished with the Colts, that'll finish with the Giant,
Speaker 4: So we have one division game the last four weeks
Speaker 4: of the year. I feel like the schedules really weird
Speaker 4: because the Steelers didn't play a division game until this week.
Speaker 1: This is their first division game.
Speaker 4: We'll have all of ours done with just one left
Speaker 4: to go, which is the most you can have, all right,
Speaker 4: So at least you can have because you got to
Speaker 4: have one in Week eighteen. It feels like the way
Speaker 4: they've put the division games in people's schedules, Like you
Speaker 4: were just reading that schedule right there, who's at the Commanders,
Speaker 4: That was the Commander schedule you're reading? It was like
Speaker 4: three division games those Eagles. Three division games close the year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Commanders, Cowboys, Giants for the Eagles to close the year,
Speaker 2: You're absolutely right.
Speaker 1: And the other thing is this with the Texans.
Speaker 2: I think the league went, we have to construct this
Speaker 2: Saturday Wednesday thing with the Christmas Day games, so we
Speaker 2: want those to be really good teams or at least
Speaker 2: appealing teams to the nation. And the Texans were piping
Speaker 2: hot offseason. Steelers are always piping hot with the Ravens
Speaker 2: and the Chiefs piping hot, so let's get a little
Speaker 2: mix going. That's why certainly the Texans would have at
Speaker 2: least one Day Vision game in the final three, but
Speaker 2: they had to set up that mini round Rock Day
Speaker 2: between Saturday and Christmas that what Week sixteen and Week seventeen.
Speaker 1: I got one more for you here, and more likely
Speaker 1: to happen, more likely to happen, and this is most likely.
Speaker 2: Well, actually it's a more likely the best team with
Speaker 2: a losing record more likely to be the best team
Speaker 2: with a losing record. I've only got three because we
Speaker 2: have more teams with losing records than this, But this
Speaker 2: is the cream of the crop with losing records. The Bucks,
Speaker 2: the Rams, and the Bengals. They all have losing records.
Speaker 2: But I think those are all teams that you know
Speaker 2: you can beat anybody on any day, and I guess
Speaker 2: you could say that about any team. Bengals are four
Speaker 2: and six on the year. And let's pull up the Bucks.
Speaker 2: So they are four and six on the year, they
Speaker 2: have a bye, and who else did I say?
Speaker 1: The Rams?
Speaker 2: They just lost Monday night an ambush game by the
Speaker 2: Miami Dolphins. The Rams are four and five.
Speaker 4: So these teams are These three teams are very very
Speaker 4: similar in one regard, and That's where I'm going with this.
Speaker 4: They have had or they have tremendous receiving cores, right,
Speaker 4: but they're all banged up.
Speaker 1: When they've been banged up, they've lost.
Speaker 4: When they've all played together, they play well you know,
Speaker 4: Pookah and Puka and Cup were hurt and they were loosing,
Speaker 4: The Rams were losing games.
Speaker 2: That didn't hold for him on Monday night though, because
Speaker 2: both those guys play they did.
Speaker 1: It's the only time all year really that's kind of
Speaker 1: held true. That's why I call it an ambush.
Speaker 2: Nobody knew that the Dolphins were gonna be Wait a minute,
Speaker 2: there's still the Dolphins with Tua.
Speaker 1: This is still possible. Yeah, they kind of are.
Speaker 4: And t Higgins and Jamar Chase, one of them has
Speaker 4: been banged up or the Higgins has been in and
Speaker 4: out of the lineup. And then you've got down in
Speaker 4: Tampa where all the receivers are hurt right now and
Speaker 4: don't know the status of Mike Evans and Chris Godwin.
Speaker 4: When those teams all they have the receivers with those
Speaker 4: quarterbacks Matt Stafford in La Baker Mayfield in Tampa, and
Speaker 4: Joe Burrow Cincinnati, they're lethal, Yeah they're lethal, but they
Speaker 4: haven't been healthy enough. And so to me, I think
Speaker 4: the best of those teams to me, ends up being
Speaker 4: the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. When Godwin and Evans are both healthy,
Speaker 4: That to me is the most dangerous crew because I
Speaker 4: think defensively it's the most complete group of those three. Now,
Speaker 4: the Rams front is really good, really good. A lot
Speaker 4: of young guys fist Verse Byron Young, Kobe Turner, those
Speaker 4: a second, first year, second year guys. Secondary is starting
Speaker 4: to come around a little bit. Cameron Kinchen's a rookie
Speaker 4: at safety, has been really really good. But the Bucks
Speaker 4: from from the front to the back, they're pretty good.
Speaker 1: How about this. They just can't stay healthy. Receivers killing them.
Speaker 2: They've lost four in a row, Ravens, Falcons, Chiefs, forty
Speaker 2: nine Ers. Yeah, tough teams and all close games, right,
Speaker 2: close games. Well ten to the Ravens, but everybody gets
Speaker 2: banged up. They lose to the Falcons by five, Chiefs
Speaker 2: by six yea and nine by three, and Chiefs went overtime,
Speaker 2: and they're battling John Ye without those receivers.
Speaker 1: And the forty nine Ers are the last play of
Speaker 1: the game.
Speaker 4: Baker has made some I mean they're down twenty to
Speaker 4: seventeen the other day to the Niners. It's fourth down,
Speaker 4: they're in their territory. They got to go for it.
Speaker 1: I don't think they have any timeouts.
Speaker 4: Left Baker's got Nick Bosa with both hands on his
Speaker 4: like forearm. Baker continues to drag him basically and throws
Speaker 4: the ball to a Shot White for a first down.
Speaker 4: Then he gets them all the way down in close.
Speaker 4: They can't put it in the end zone. They have
Speaker 4: to kick the field goal for the tie, and then
Speaker 4: Jake Moody finally makes one. The Niners should have probably
Speaker 4: won that game outright. But still the fact that he
Speaker 4: pulled off that drive with those receivers and they're in
Speaker 4: one of them that anybody knows absolutely, not one Trey Palmer.
Speaker 4: You on who Trey Palmer is? Nope, not Shot White
Speaker 4: running back? You knowing no, because you have fan on
Speaker 4: your fantasy team. He brought them all the way down
Speaker 4: to me. Baker has been fantastic. He's just run into
Speaker 4: a buzz on the last four weeks.
Speaker 1: All Right.
Speaker 2: Final thoughts on practice next plus Houston Methodist minutes, foot injuries,
Speaker 2: they plague athletes.
Speaker 1: Do you have something?
Speaker 2: We have a Houston Methodist doctor coming your way as well.
Speaker 2: It's all happening here on Texans All Access.
Speaker 1: All Right.
Speaker 2: Final segment on Texans Radio tonight in advance of Thursday
Speaker 2: Night Football Washington and Philly.
Speaker 1: That should actually be a good one.
Speaker 2: No effect at all on the Houston Texans, but fun
Speaker 2: to watch NFL football on any occasion. I am still
Speaker 2: not totally into the app format though I like it
Speaker 2: when I'm watching it, But then if I want to
Speaker 2: flick around to other channels, like there's another college game
Speaker 2: going on, there's NBA stuff going on, there's college basketball. Now,
Speaker 2: I can't flip around without exiting the Amazon app. And
Speaker 2: I think we all have that problem. I'm a flipper,
Speaker 2: all right. During commercials, I like to flip around, maybe
Speaker 2: halftime whatever. So the watching experience while on the game
Speaker 2: is fine, and we could argue about al Michaels, Kirk, Herbstreet, whatever.
Speaker 2: But while I'm watching a game, I'm okay. While I'm
Speaker 2: wanting to flip around to channels, I'm not okay. And
Speaker 2: the post game they are trying to figure out some
Speaker 2: real groundbreaking stuff. The Nicky Glazer appearances have been controversial.
Speaker 2: I think some of the jokes were funny, but the
Speaker 2: first time nobody wanted to laugh because it was awkward.
Speaker 2: The second time laugh track. We'll see how they developed
Speaker 2: that as we move along here, moving along into Texans practice.
Speaker 2: As you know, Nico Collins was out there. It was
Speaker 2: good to see him. Will Anderson not out there, Kamari
Speaker 2: Lassiter not out there, Derek Stingley Junior not out there.
Speaker 2: So we'll find out as the week progresses. And we
Speaker 2: are only starting the week for the Houston Texans as
Speaker 2: far as practice goes, because as we all know, what
Speaker 2: is happening is Monday night football. So that's game week Sunday.
Speaker 2: Today's game week Wednesday, even though it's Thursday. Don't get
Speaker 2: me started, but do get me started on Houston Methodist
Speaker 2: Minutes with doctor Jason Auero talking about foot injuries.
Speaker 1: Doctor, how's it going.
Speaker 5: I'm doing well, Mark, thank you for having me on.
Speaker 2: Well, thanks for being on. Let's talk foot injuries. And
Speaker 2: as I say that, it's funny in sports sometimes a
Speaker 2: coach you'll say, this guy's got a foot, this guy's
Speaker 2: got a hand. Well, a foot injury obviously is the
Speaker 2: meaning there. What is the most common foot injury that
Speaker 2: athletes get?
Speaker 5: You know, I think in contact sports like this, I
Speaker 5: mean we're you know, most common injuries are going to
Speaker 5: be sprains of various joints, whether it's in the midfoot,
Speaker 5: such as what we call a lisprank sprain, which is
Speaker 5: a injury, ligamentous injury or dislocation in the midfoot. Also,
Speaker 5: a turf toe injury is also very common, which is
Speaker 5: basically a hyper extension or hyperflexition injury to the big
Speaker 5: toe that results in a sprain of that joint capsule.
Speaker 5: Both of those could be very debilitating to an athlete.
Speaker 1: All right, what about planter fascheitis.
Speaker 5: So, yeah, that's one of the more common ones, and
Speaker 5: both athletes and spectators alike, I think, you know, it's
Speaker 5: probably one of the most common things that I see
Speaker 5: come into the office, and really planto fasciitis is an
Speaker 5: inflammation of the fascia that lines the bottom of our
Speaker 5: foot that connects from our heel out to the toes.
Speaker 5: It's important for kind of support of our arch and
Speaker 5: with every step we take, that fash is under a
Speaker 5: lot of tension, and over time people can develop develop
Speaker 5: micro tearing and inflammation within that fashion, which results on
Speaker 5: a lot of pain. People get up when they wake
Speaker 5: up in the morning, get out of bed, they feel,
Speaker 5: you know, first step pain, and you know, and athletes
Speaker 5: it tends to persist, you know, you know, it's the
Speaker 5: beginning of practice. Sometimes we'll have a period of time
Speaker 5: where it warms up and it's better for a while,
Speaker 5: but then you know, after practice or game, it tends
Speaker 5: tends to inflame again, and so it tends to repeat itself.
Speaker 1: So what's the best treatment for that? Because I know
Speaker 1: it takes a while to go away.
Speaker 5: It does, it can be very chronic, and I think
Speaker 5: it's it's really important that anybody that has this is
Speaker 5: doing a daily stretching program, So working on both stretching
Speaker 5: the calf must lature and the achilles tendon as well
Speaker 5: as stretching the planner fashion. I think daily icing of
Speaker 5: the planner fashion also helps. You can take a water bottle,
Speaker 5: stick it in your freezer and then put it on
Speaker 5: the floor and basically roll that underneath your arch to
Speaker 5: do kind of an ice massage. Anti inflammatory medication Adavila leive.
Speaker 5: You know, those things are also helpful, you know, for
Speaker 5: people that are not responding to those things. You know,
Speaker 5: you know, sometimes surgery is indicated, but most of the
Speaker 5: time this is a self limiting condition. Ninety percent of
Speaker 5: people this will resolve on its own. It's given enough time.
Speaker 2: There's doctor Jason Awero of Houston Methodist. It's the official
Speaker 2: healthcare provider of the Houston Texans. Logout to Houston Methodist
Speaker 2: dot org for more information Houston Methodist Leading Medicine. There's
Speaker 2: doctor Jason Awero of Houston Methodist. Houston Methodist dot org
Speaker 2: the official healthcare provider of the Houston Texans. Houston Methodist
Speaker 2: Leading Medicine. Tomorrow Big Show Assistant coaches are going to
Speaker 2: meet the media and we are scheduled to catch up
Speaker 2: with Special Teams Coordinator Frank Ross, among other things happening
Speaker 2: on the program.
Speaker 1: Can't wait. Have a great night, Go Texans.