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Speaker 1: What's up, everybody. Welcome into a Friday edition of Texas

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Speaker 1: All Access from the Honday Texans Radio Studio. I'm your host,

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Speaker 1: John Harris Football on our sidelowed reporter. We got a

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Speaker 1: lot to do in these two hours as we get

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Speaker 1: ready for the Cleveland Browns and Deshaun Watson and Devion

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Speaker 1: Clowney to come back to town to take on to

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Speaker 1: Texas twelve noon, coming up against Cleveland right here at

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Speaker 1: NRG Stadium. First game in December, and it's been a

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Speaker 1: while since you've gotten a w at home, so hopefully

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Speaker 1: that's what this one is. All right, we got a

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Speaker 1: lot to do. We got Nathan Zigura, who's a silod reporter. Basically,

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Speaker 1: he's the me of Cleveland. He's gonna join dpcuity. You're

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Speaker 1: going behind enemy sidelines. We're also gonna have Jordan Aikins

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Speaker 1: here for a Drews dozen in a little pregame interview.

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Speaker 1: We are also gonna have a man David Fletcher GM

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Speaker 1: at LSSC. He's got a huge role this weekend because

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Speaker 1: the Tax Act Texas Bowl is coming up. In the

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Speaker 1: announcement for the game is happening on Sunday, so we

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Speaker 1: are looking forward to that plus little in the lab

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Speaker 1: with him and Drew Doherty. So tons to do and

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Speaker 1: we kick it off each and every week with head

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Speaker 1: coach your football team. That's Lovey Smith. He sat down

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Speaker 1: Mark Vandermer talk about the Browns in this game on Sunday. Coach.

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Speaker 1: A lot of electricity in the air for Sunday's game,

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Speaker 1: extra buzz in the building. Does that affect the players

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Speaker 1: you think as they take the field. I definitely think

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Speaker 1: it affects it, that extra buzz, you know, yes, excitement,

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Speaker 1: and that's what we need a little bit right now.

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Speaker 1: We need a boost. You know, we have to play

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Speaker 1: bet and sometimes you know, just feeling energy from a

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Speaker 1: crowd can make you play a little bit better. So yes,

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Speaker 1: that's definitely what we feel around here, and we can't

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Speaker 1: wait to play. Despite everything that's been said this week

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Speaker 1: about their quarterback, stopping the ground game seems to be

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Speaker 1: job one in this one. Am I right about that? Absolutely?

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Speaker 1: We can't. We can't go into that hole of just

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Speaker 1: hey we got to stop. You know, great quarterback coming here,

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Speaker 1: are gonna all of a sudden change who we are

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Speaker 1: right now? That the fifth ranked offense in NFL. But

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Speaker 1: as a commitment to the run. We have to be

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Speaker 1: able to stop the run. They have two excellent running

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Speaker 1: back How hard is it to impersonate in practice on

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Speaker 1: the look team what Watson can bring in the improv game,

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Speaker 1: scrambling around and such. I think it's hard on any quarterback.

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Speaker 1: But you know, we have you know, Jeff driscol as

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Speaker 1: just look at our quarterback room. We have different guys

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Speaker 1: with a different skill set. So we feel like, you know,

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Speaker 1: we can get a look that way. But it's hard

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Speaker 1: to really mimic exactly how that quarterback you know, will play.

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Speaker 1: Of course, we have all of his video and everything

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Speaker 1: that he's done, but it still kind of comes back

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Speaker 1: to us. We play some more athletic quarterbacks that can

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Speaker 1: throw start number two for Kyle Allen, what do we

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Speaker 1: expect here? Does the second half last week, another week

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Speaker 1: of practice help is he gets ready for Cleveland? It

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Speaker 1: absolutely does help, you know, now, word, that's not a story.

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Speaker 1: You know, you know, he's the guys We go forward

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Speaker 1: and the week of practice. Yes, every one of those

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Speaker 1: reps that he got this past week has helped him

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Speaker 1: a lot. Just him being able to study for a

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Speaker 1: week two against this opponent. We should see better play

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Speaker 1: for the offensive line, the running game, everybody involved in that. Coach,

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Speaker 1: what's it going to take to move the ball on

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Speaker 1: that it come down to one on one play as

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Speaker 1: a whole. We have to block them. We have to

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Speaker 1: block them better. Yeah, we'll change different blocking schemes, but

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Speaker 1: most of the time it's a one on one ball

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Speaker 1: with everyone. Our running game hasn't been as effective lately

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Speaker 1: because we haven't been able to move them up up front,

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Speaker 1: and we need to be able to do that this week.

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Speaker 1: What do we have to look out for in the

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Speaker 1: kicking game in this matchup? Well, just a few things.

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Speaker 1: First all, just eliminating the penalties and not beating ourselves.

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Speaker 1: But from there, you need to make a difference play

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Speaker 1: each week. We want one, whether that be getting a

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Speaker 1: our special team. Great stuff, coach, Thanks a lot, good

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Speaker 1: luck anytime, all right, great stuff there from Lovey Smith.

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Speaker 1: We talked to him. Well, we don't see, but you do,

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Speaker 1: big game on Sunday, there's a massive match. Yes, how

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Speaker 1: the flu is apparently running rampant through the Netherlands team

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Speaker 1: darn it. Yeah, Netherlands. Oh but you have Virgil van Dyke.

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Speaker 1: That's all you need. Look, I want the USA to win, Johnny. Okay,

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Speaker 1: the Netherlands. I was actually born there, which a lot

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Speaker 1: of people might not know. It's neither here nor there.

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Speaker 1: I was born in the Netherlands. My family came over

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Speaker 1: I have cousins galore. But I'm rooting for USA, you know,

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Speaker 1: And if the Netherlands went, I'll jump back on that

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Speaker 1: bandwagon afterwards because why not. Now, interesting story, I think

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Speaker 1: it was a seventy two World Cup. Does that make sense?

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Speaker 1: My mother took me I was a little tiny kid,

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Speaker 1: That's how you did it back then. There was no cable,

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Speaker 1: even a sports fan, but she said, this is important.

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Speaker 1: You gotta go because it's that big. So this is huge.

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Speaker 1: gonna be huge? Yeah? Absolutely. I mean they had a

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Speaker 1: in the Premier League. You talk about the young scrappy Texans.

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Speaker 1: Now United States men's national team is a young scrappy

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Speaker 1: How about that tonight we got US Utah going on

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Speaker 1: Nick Chubb, right, yeah, because you could win this game

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Speaker 1: with Jacoby Brissette, who is four and one all time

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Speaker 1: know how it all works, Johnny, So that could be

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Speaker 1: saw fitz he he's like, you know, Ryan, Josh just

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Speaker 1: Bills Fitzie Jersey, so no, no in the Bills. I

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Speaker 1: last night against the New England Patriots, and it was

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Speaker 1: exactly what he was saying. He was not happy with

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Speaker 1: know where it might end up. Oh no, that Alabama

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Speaker 1: that's already even Okay, we've got to play New England

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Speaker 1: next year? Correct, do we? Maybe? Maybe because AFC East

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Speaker 1: welcome back to this Friday edition of Texas All Access.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, John Harris, Football on a sidelowe reporter.

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Speaker 1: Were less than forty eight hours away from kicking it

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Speaker 1: the years. Nathan, welcome in. I mean the last time

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Speaker 1: quarterback of the Cleveland Browns. So yeah, and the Browns

424
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Speaker 1: and the Texans have played many many times since we've

425
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Speaker 1: been doing this, and you know, neither team I think

426
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Speaker 1: is where they want to be right now. Maybe the

427
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Speaker 1: Texans are happy because they're going to have a lot

428
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Speaker 1: of good draft picks and a good opportunity to turn

429
00:21:30,240 --> 00:21:33,200
Speaker 1: the franchise around. But for the Browns standpoint, not as good.

430
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Speaker 1: Sitting here at four and seven, although coming off of

431
00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:38,080
Speaker 1: a nice win over Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Yeah,

432
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Speaker 1: big overtime win, and I was going to start with

433
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Speaker 1: that at four and seven. With Deshaun Watson coming back,

434
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Speaker 1: what are the expectations for the Browns? I see some

435
00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:49,480
Speaker 1: reports that there's still some slim playoff chances, but are

436
00:21:49,480 --> 00:21:53,080
Speaker 1: the expectations that high here heading into this month of December.

437
00:21:54,080 --> 00:21:57,040
Speaker 1: I think that we're still on the road of hope, right.

438
00:21:57,240 --> 00:21:59,560
Speaker 1: I think had we lost to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers,

439
00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:02,120
Speaker 1: the road is closed. Sorry, we'll see you next year.

440
00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:03,919
Speaker 1: And then it would have been about how does DeShawn

441
00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:05,600
Speaker 1: look in these final six games? And I think that

442
00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:08,640
Speaker 1: really is still really what we're looking at. How does

443
00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:10,600
Speaker 1: DeShawn look? But if they can keep stacking you know,

444
00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:12,359
Speaker 1: one and oh each week and add that up and

445
00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:13,960
Speaker 1: at the end of the year, you have a chance,

446
00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:16,159
Speaker 1: but the margin for error's gone. And part of that

447
00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:19,119
Speaker 1: is because the Browns lost some games early in the

448
00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:21,439
Speaker 1: season that frankly, they shouldn't have lost. They lose to

449
00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:24,359
Speaker 1: the Jets up thirteen inside of two minutes with no

450
00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:27,239
Speaker 1: timeouts left to the Jets, you miss the field goal

451
00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:29,280
Speaker 1: at the end of regulation, actually miss two in the game,

452
00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:31,520
Speaker 1: and you lose to the Chargers at home. You had

453
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Speaker 1: a chance to beat the Ravens, So the Browns kind

454
00:22:33,840 --> 00:22:36,040
Speaker 1: of let it get away from them early. Jacobe Pricett

455
00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:39,960
Speaker 1: did an unbelievable job, a tremendous human, tremendous quarterback, played

456
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Speaker 1: great for us. But yet at four and seven, now

457
00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:45,200
Speaker 1: it's every game is probably like a playoff game. You've

458
00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:47,920
Speaker 1: got to win them all, and you know it's really

459
00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:50,040
Speaker 1: going to be more about Okay, we thought it was

460
00:22:50,040 --> 00:22:52,720
Speaker 1: only six games and ended up being eleven. Now, what

461
00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:54,920
Speaker 1: do we see from Deshaun Watson that tells us about

462
00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:56,440
Speaker 1: this team this year, because there's still a lot of

463
00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:59,600
Speaker 1: talent on the roster and then going into next year.

464
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Speaker 1: But ascause they don't lose, you can still be talking

465
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Speaker 1: about the next week having meaning for the twenty twenty

466
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Speaker 1: two season. It's just so weird. He hasn't played in

467
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Speaker 1: seven hundred days from the last time he took the

468
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Speaker 1: field for a regular season game, and yet here we

469
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Speaker 1: are in Houston going to see both book ends of

470
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Speaker 1: those games. We're going to see the last game he

471
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Speaker 1: played and the first game back. So I know you've

472
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Speaker 1: been around the team obviously, you've seen him practicing and

473
00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:26,600
Speaker 1: him being with the team in the meetings. What can

474
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Speaker 1: you tell us about what these last few weeks have

475
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Speaker 1: been like just his transition into that starting role. Yeah,

476
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Speaker 1: so he came back. He's been back for six weeks.

477
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Speaker 1: He's been able to practice. Now this will be the

478
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Speaker 1: third week that he's been able to practice, and you know,

479
00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:40,520
Speaker 1: each week they've kind of ramped up a little bit

480
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Speaker 1: more of what he was doing, you know, getting some

481
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Speaker 1: first team reps than you know, he was getting second

482
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Speaker 1: team reps and some scout team reps, just to kind

483
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Speaker 1: of get him back out there. But I can tell

484
00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:52,399
Speaker 1: you he looks great. He obviously was very committed to

485
00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:55,439
Speaker 1: the plan they put together for him during this time away.

486
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Speaker 1: Physically looks great. You know, he throws a great ball.

487
00:23:58,359 --> 00:24:00,359
Speaker 1: I mean his throwing motion is so compact, he's so

488
00:24:00,359 --> 00:24:02,720
Speaker 1: accurate with the football. You can see that there's a

489
00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:07,000
Speaker 1: palpable excitement. I think that Jacoby Brissette exceeded expectations so

490
00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:10,399
Speaker 1: greatly and became so beloved even by his teammates and

491
00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:12,440
Speaker 1: the respect of his teammates that there is a real

492
00:24:12,480 --> 00:24:14,480
Speaker 1: sense if we need to win this game for Jacoby

493
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Speaker 1: being the one against Tampa Bay, and they did that,

494
00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:19,159
Speaker 1: and so now it's Deshawn's team. Jacoby's handled it with

495
00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:21,919
Speaker 1: the ultimate class and grace. But he looks good, and

496
00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:24,320
Speaker 1: I think the expectation is, you know, there's probably gonna

497
00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:26,119
Speaker 1: be a little bit of rust. There's no stimulation for

498
00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:28,879
Speaker 1: live NFL football, but he's gonna have to come in

499
00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:31,439
Speaker 1: and get acclimated pretty quickly. Now that Texans have had

500
00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:33,480
Speaker 1: their struggles. You know, you'd say that this would be

501
00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:35,480
Speaker 1: a good game to come back in based on what's

502
00:24:35,480 --> 00:24:38,879
Speaker 1: happened transpired, but it's the NFL. You can't take anybody lightly.

503
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Speaker 1: And I expect though that he will be good. This

504
00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:44,040
Speaker 1: is a very good scheme. Kevin Safanski runs a very

505
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Speaker 1: very good offense. We're a top five offense in the

506
00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:48,480
Speaker 1: league for a reason, and you know, you got Nick Chubb,

507
00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:51,720
Speaker 1: you got Kareem Hunnamary, Cooper's playing very well, Donovan People's Jones,

508
00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:54,840
Speaker 1: David and Jokus, and a great offensive line. So it's

509
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Speaker 1: a talented supporting cast. But I think he's gonna come

510
00:24:57,520 --> 00:24:59,399
Speaker 1: in and I I think he's gonna play well. Does the

511
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Speaker 1: offense change it all when Deshaun Watson's inner center? Do

512
00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:05,080
Speaker 1: they pare down the playbook for him and then open

513
00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:07,200
Speaker 1: it up later? I mean, what changes do you foresee

514
00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:09,400
Speaker 1: here from last week to this week with the offense.

515
00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:12,440
Speaker 1: I think it's going to open the playbook and significantly.

516
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Speaker 1: So you know what we do at our core, and

517
00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:17,480
Speaker 1: it's not just an outside zone team anymore. We run

518
00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:20,000
Speaker 1: a lot of pin pull, we run some power, we

519
00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:23,000
Speaker 1: run a lot of different concepts in the running game. Deshaun,

520
00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:27,800
Speaker 1: you know, in Houston, was predominantly, not exclusively, predominantly a

521
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Speaker 1: shotgun quarterback, so he are going to get to see

522
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Speaker 1: him under center. He actually likes that in some of

523
00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:34,600
Speaker 1: the play action the boot game. But the biggest change

524
00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:37,520
Speaker 1: that's going to be added to our offense now are

525
00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:39,679
Speaker 1: the read option and then the RPO game. And that

526
00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:41,520
Speaker 1: was just something that wasn't there and you could even

527
00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:43,520
Speaker 1: go watch last week. You know, a couple of times

528
00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:47,400
Speaker 1: we'd run what really was a read option, but Jacoby's

529
00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:49,760
Speaker 1: handing it off every time, and nobody's even accounting for

530
00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:51,879
Speaker 1: him in the running game. And now that's going to

531
00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:53,600
Speaker 1: open I think a lot of things up in terms

532
00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:56,600
Speaker 1: of taking advantage of Deshaun's movement skills. He also can

533
00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:58,680
Speaker 1: attack every blade of grass with his arm, like you

534
00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:01,359
Speaker 1: can throw to all three levels and accurately, So I

535
00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:03,200
Speaker 1: think it'll open some things up. Not to take anything

536
00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:06,000
Speaker 1: away from Jacoby, but just as an athlete, he is

537
00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:08,480
Speaker 1: a different quarterback and there's a reason that, you know,

538
00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:11,480
Speaker 1: despite everything that was going on, teams wanted him. He's

539
00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:14,280
Speaker 1: a game changer at that position. All right, Well, let's

540
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Speaker 1: talk about the running game. I mean, Nick Chubb is

541
00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:18,439
Speaker 1: obviously a guy that texted the scene a number of

542
00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:21,000
Speaker 1: times before, and he's just having himself such a season

543
00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:25,600
Speaker 1: already over a thousand yards rushing, twelve rushing touchdowns, had

544
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Speaker 1: the walk off touchdown and overtime against the Bucks. Are

545
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Speaker 1: you surprised that the Browns have only won four games

546
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Speaker 1: with the sort of season that Chubb's been having, especially

547
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Speaker 1: since he's put up like six games with one hundred

548
00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:39,680
Speaker 1: yards rushing. Yeah, he's got six hundred yard games. You're right,

549
00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:43,280
Speaker 1: including last week over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. To be

550
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Speaker 1: honest with you, if you came into this season and

551
00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:50,040
Speaker 1: you would have told me after eleven games that Chubb's

552
00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:53,960
Speaker 1: gonna have six one yard rushing performances, like, wouldn't you

553
00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:56,600
Speaker 1: guess a higher number of wins. I'm very curious about

554
00:26:56,600 --> 00:27:01,400
Speaker 1: this top five offense. Jacoby Brissette vast outplayed the expectations.

555
00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:04,000
Speaker 1: You know, Amari Cooper's among the league leaders and receiving

556
00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:07,679
Speaker 1: touchdowns and receiving yards. Donovan People's jones has blossomed in

557
00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:09,720
Speaker 1: the second year. Daven A joke, who prior to his

558
00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:12,080
Speaker 1: injury was top five in receptions and yards at tight end.

559
00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:14,240
Speaker 1: That our offense would be top five, would be a

560
00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:16,919
Speaker 1: top ten scoring offense, remember it last year or we

561
00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:19,359
Speaker 1: were a top five defense, And I think everybody thought

562
00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:21,280
Speaker 1: the formula was if we can just be kind of

563
00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:23,520
Speaker 1: competent on offense, our deal be good enough, we'll run

564
00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:25,240
Speaker 1: it was Nick jobb, and we'll win a lot of games. Well,

565
00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:27,560
Speaker 1: our offense blew all of those things out of the water.

566
00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:30,600
Speaker 1: It's been our defense and our special teams that have

567
00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:33,639
Speaker 1: vastly underperformed. And so if you were to look at

568
00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:35,560
Speaker 1: isolation at any part of the offense, whether it be

569
00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:38,040
Speaker 1: Nick Chub, whether it's Amari, whether it's Jacoby Brissette, you

570
00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:39,879
Speaker 1: would say this team and we should be I mean

571
00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:42,200
Speaker 1: if you actually and you guys aren't because you're dealing

572
00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:44,199
Speaker 1: with the Texans every single Sunday. But this is a

573
00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:46,680
Speaker 1: team that should be seven and four, should be six

574
00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:49,359
Speaker 1: and five at the worst, just doing normal things like

575
00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:51,880
Speaker 1: the game we lost to the Jets two thousand, two

576
00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:54,520
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty six games in that exact scenario, the

577
00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:58,399
Speaker 1: team had won and to lose in that scenario was

578
00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:00,360
Speaker 1: the Browns in two thousand and one. So in two

579
00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:04,680
Speaker 1: decades under those auspices, and we had so many chances

580
00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:06,600
Speaker 1: early in the season that we let get away from us.

581
00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:09,199
Speaker 1: So yes, it's stunning that the record is what it is.

582
00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:11,640
Speaker 1: The Browns are probably the most talented four and seven

583
00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:14,320
Speaker 1: team in the league and maybe in a long long time.

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Speaker 1: You talk about Miles Garrett and Denzel Ward, and we've

585
00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:19,320
Speaker 1: got a young rookie corner m j Emerson who's playing

586
00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:22,800
Speaker 1: great Jeremiah Usu Cormo, a Clowney Houston Texans would know

587
00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:25,680
Speaker 1: him obviously quite well. And then offensively, all the guys

588
00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:27,720
Speaker 1: we go through, not to mention, you know, multiple time

589
00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:30,160
Speaker 1: Pro Bowlers and All pros at three of your five

590
00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:32,760
Speaker 1: spots on your offensive line. This is a team that

591
00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:35,720
Speaker 1: should be in a different position. It's not. And so

592
00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:37,960
Speaker 1: now the onus is on them to play flawless, like

593
00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:40,280
Speaker 1: they've eliminated the margin for air. And that's what they're

594
00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:41,600
Speaker 1: going to have to do is take care of business.

595
00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:44,760
Speaker 1: We can weave on paper. They just looked tremendous. And

596
00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:46,960
Speaker 1: let's talk about the defense little bit. Miles Garrett and

597
00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:50,320
Speaker 1: Jeivian Clowney, who we've seen Clowney up close and personal

598
00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:53,600
Speaker 1: for several years. Here now his second year with Miles Garrett.

599
00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:54,800
Speaker 1: So when you see the two of them on the

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Speaker 1: field together, how have you seen that chemistry improve? It

601
00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:00,760
Speaker 1: seems like the sack numbers are still quite lop sided

602
00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:03,920
Speaker 1: between the two, which is something we always saw with Clowney,

603
00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:06,880
Speaker 1: but Garrett's putting up sack numbers and both of them

604
00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:08,760
Speaker 1: just rushing off the edge or just such a force

605
00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:11,400
Speaker 1: for opposing quarterdocks. But how have you seen that duo

606
00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:13,960
Speaker 1: sort of grow over the years. Well, Jadevian was actually

607
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:16,600
Speaker 1: playing really well early in the year and he got

608
00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:18,960
Speaker 1: hurt against the Jets. He had a sextra fumble in

609
00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:21,880
Speaker 1: that game. He got hurt and missed some time, tried

610
00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:23,960
Speaker 1: to gut it out, but his snap counts have been limited,

611
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:25,840
Speaker 1: and this is kind of the first time that he's

612
00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:28,600
Speaker 1: really started to feel like he's back to himself. He

613
00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:30,760
Speaker 1: played I think something like the last thirty snaps of

614
00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:34,000
Speaker 1: the game in a row, and he and Myles combined

615
00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:36,200
Speaker 1: for a huge sack or just outside of two minutes

616
00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:37,960
Speaker 1: to force the Bucks to give us the ball back

617
00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:39,920
Speaker 1: before the Browns were able to go down and tie

618
00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:42,880
Speaker 1: the game. And then Myles got another sack in overtime

619
00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:45,280
Speaker 1: that was forced him to punt it back and the

620
00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:46,880
Speaker 1: Browns were able to go down and win the game.

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Speaker 1: Miles this dominant. He's Pro football, Folks. Is number one

622
00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:52,680
Speaker 1: graded defender period in a regardless of position this year.

623
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Speaker 1: And you know, he had a car accident. He's very

624
00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:58,479
Speaker 1: lucky to be alive. It was a crazy situation and

625
00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:01,960
Speaker 1: he's finally feeling better. Although he got dinged in net

626
00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:04,480
Speaker 1: injured shoulder last week, so we'll see what his status

627
00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:06,680
Speaker 1: is as the week goes on. But they worked very

628
00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:08,600
Speaker 1: well together and jedev and you know last year did

629
00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:10,560
Speaker 1: end up with nine sacks for the Browns, which was

630
00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:13,320
Speaker 1: the highest Seed had since his days in Houston. And

631
00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:16,560
Speaker 1: they are together a very very good duo. And if

632
00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:18,800
Speaker 1: your tackles are not up to par, one of them

633
00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:21,400
Speaker 1: will exploit the other. But what you know about Clowney,

634
00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:24,120
Speaker 1: to be true, is tremendous in the run game. Multiple

635
00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:26,760
Speaker 1: tackles for lost last week. He blew up a couple

636
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Speaker 1: of plays and so it may not always show up

637
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Speaker 1: as a sack, but he makes a lot of negative plays.

638
00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:33,720
Speaker 1: And so together they've been good. It's just it's been

639
00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:35,920
Speaker 1: little things. We have not stopped a run well. I mean,

640
00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:37,800
Speaker 1: you go when you look at it. Both running backs

641
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:39,920
Speaker 1: from Buffalo had their season highs against us. In the

642
00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:42,720
Speaker 1: same game, the Dolphins ran all over the Cleveland Browns.

643
00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:45,200
Speaker 1: Austin Eckler had more yards in week five than he

644
00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:47,480
Speaker 1: had in the first four combined running against the Browns.

645
00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:49,600
Speaker 1: And I know Damian Pierce is an excellent running back.

646
00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:51,040
Speaker 1: I have him in a lot of my fantasy leagues.

647
00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:54,760
Speaker 1: Oh well, okay, I have Chubb by the way, which

648
00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:57,880
Speaker 1: it's gonna be hard this week. He's been timing a

649
00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:00,320
Speaker 1: little bit of late and part of that ability of

650
00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:03,720
Speaker 1: Texans struggling to throw the football. But that's the Texans

651
00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:05,080
Speaker 1: are going to test the Browns in the middle of

652
00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:07,040
Speaker 1: that defense, no doubt, you know. And that's where we've

653
00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:09,440
Speaker 1: had our problems is stopping the run. Honestly, especially in

654
00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:12,720
Speaker 1: the interior, tackles have been inconsistent, and then our run

655
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:15,479
Speaker 1: fits at the second level have been inconsistent as well,

656
00:31:15,520 --> 00:31:16,960
Speaker 1: and so that's where teams have been able to really

657
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:19,600
Speaker 1: gash the Cleveland Browns this year. Great job, DEEPI and

658
00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:22,160
Speaker 1: Nathan you did pretty well too, but you're the enemy,

659
00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:24,400
Speaker 1: so we can't say you did great, but you did

660
00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:27,200
Speaker 1: well enough. Now for two guys on the good guys side.

661
00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:31,480
Speaker 1: Drew Doherty's Drews dozen. Like that literation. I do it

662
00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:35,440
Speaker 1: every single week, drews Dorty's Drews dozen. And this week

663
00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:38,640
Speaker 1: Drew is getting it. Doesn't done while he's playing Jenga

664
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Speaker 1: with tight end Jordan Akens. Great stuff here, Drew, It's

665
00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:46,040
Speaker 1: all yours. Hopefully you win this time. This gentleman from

666
00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:49,240
Speaker 1: Georgia was so good at football coming out of high

667
00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:51,720
Speaker 1: school that he went and played professional baseball for four

668
00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:54,440
Speaker 1: years as a third round pick of the Texas Rangers.

669
00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:57,160
Speaker 1: When he decided to switch back to football, went to UCF,

670
00:31:57,680 --> 00:32:00,880
Speaker 1: lit it up in college, and became air around draft

671
00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:03,840
Speaker 1: pick of the Houston Texans. Five years in the NFL.

672
00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:06,200
Speaker 1: He's having the best of them right now, talking of

673
00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:09,760
Speaker 1: course about tight end Jordan Aikins. Naturally, after a setup

674
00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:11,400
Speaker 1: like that, we gotta play some jinga. Good to see him,

675
00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:13,880
Speaker 1: my friend. You do it all right, all right, no

676
00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:16,720
Speaker 1: pulls from the top three. Every time you pull a block,

677
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:18,880
Speaker 1: you answer the question that's on there. Every time I

678
00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:21,440
Speaker 1: pull a block, you're answering the question that I asked.

679
00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:24,200
Speaker 1: So it's your turn. You good at jinga? Yeah, I'm

680
00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:26,880
Speaker 1: pretty good, I would think so. Pro sport athlete, two

681
00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:29,280
Speaker 1: different sports. Who has the best hair on the team,

682
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:32,800
Speaker 1: I'd say Troy Troy Hairston Troy, Yeah, hair is in

683
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:34,840
Speaker 1: his name. Yeah, you know what I'm saying. He got

684
00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:37,560
Speaker 1: the Carol pattern and everything going. So who has the

685
00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:41,400
Speaker 1: cleanest locker on the team. I'd say myself, either tight

686
00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:43,800
Speaker 1: ends cleaner than anybody else in the locker room. I'm

687
00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:45,680
Speaker 1: pretty sure that somebody else cleaning to me, but I

688
00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:47,600
Speaker 1: don't be observer everything like that. Yeah, you kind of

689
00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:49,480
Speaker 1: stick to the business right hand in my area and

690
00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:52,440
Speaker 1: keep it pushing a right Which teammate could what's that saying?

691
00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:55,160
Speaker 1: Is that play? Good play? Yea? Yeah? Which teammate could

692
00:32:55,160 --> 00:32:57,360
Speaker 1: play on the other side of the ball? I would say,

693
00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:01,880
Speaker 1: jo Johnathan Owens, Johnathan Noise really Yeah, he's nice in

694
00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:06,160
Speaker 1: the slot. Really interesting to hear you. Yeah, favorite potato

695
00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:12,960
Speaker 1: chip flavor, barbecue barbecue okay, ridged or flat kettle? Oh yeah,

696
00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:16,000
Speaker 1: kettle barbee. Oh, that's the best best concert you have

697
00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:20,840
Speaker 1: been to? Bone Throws and Harmony. When was that about

698
00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:24,320
Speaker 1: three four years ago? Realt? Three four years ago? Yeah, Minnesota?

699
00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:28,280
Speaker 1: Where did they play Crossroads in the order? Oh? I

700
00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:30,200
Speaker 1: would say like towards the end though, where they close

701
00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:34,120
Speaker 1: it out with them Brunch with jay Z or you

702
00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:37,760
Speaker 1: get five hundred thousand dollars, What would you choose? I say,

703
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:39,760
Speaker 1: brunch with jay Z. You do it for the knowledge, Yeah,

704
00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:42,800
Speaker 1: the stories. Yeah, you've ever been in the same room,

705
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:45,719
Speaker 1: same stadium with him? You know? Yeah? When they performed here,

706
00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:47,960
Speaker 1: him and Beyonce had their choy here. Okay remember that.

707
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:49,680
Speaker 1: I think it was like three years ago. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

708
00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:51,920
Speaker 1: good concert. It was great. Okay, it was great. What's

709
00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:54,160
Speaker 1: the last time you played some Jinger? Not so ago?

710
00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:58,600
Speaker 1: Maybe January? Okay, okay, got you? Where will your super

711
00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:02,239
Speaker 1: power be? To? Who is your favorite teammate to sit

712
00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:04,960
Speaker 1: next to on the plane? I actually sit alone on

713
00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:09,279
Speaker 1: the plane. What is your guilty pleasure song? Same milk?

714
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:14,040
Speaker 1: If you blow you see, they kind of get me going.

715
00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:17,640
Speaker 1: You know that's good? That's good. I like that one.

716
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:21,200
Speaker 1: What's your most used emoji? I'm not big on emoji.

717
00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:24,279
Speaker 1: I say the hundred pud. That's a good one. That's

718
00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:27,160
Speaker 1: a good one. Yeah, okay. Which teammate has the most

719
00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:31,360
Speaker 1: inaccurate Madden rating? Man, it's gonna be bad. But I'm

720
00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:34,200
Speaker 1: not a big Madden player. I would probably say myself,

721
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:37,000
Speaker 1: yeah too low? Yeah yeah. Do you know what your

722
00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:38,600
Speaker 1: rating is if you're not a Madden guy? I believe

723
00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:40,360
Speaker 1: the last time I'm a FANTAGMT something, I was like

724
00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:44,799
Speaker 1: a sixty nine maybe sixty eight sixty goodness? What's going

725
00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:47,399
Speaker 1: on there? Maddened people? Come on, you gotta fix that. Yeah,

726
00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:50,239
Speaker 1: have you've seen this guy play I disagree. I don't

727
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:52,799
Speaker 1: play Madden either, but my sons do and they getting

728
00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:55,400
Speaker 1: fistfights about it, so we've had to take Madden away

729
00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:58,719
Speaker 1: time or two. What was your favorite childhood TV show?

730
00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:02,200
Speaker 1: Rocket Power? Oh? Okay, I love the rocket part? Is

731
00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:06,640
Speaker 1: that a pardon my angers? Nickelodeon? Okay, okay, okay, you

732
00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:09,880
Speaker 1: want Hey Arnold? Yeah? That was also Damie Pearce is

733
00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:12,800
Speaker 1: one of his favorites. Yeah yeah, and cat Dog whereas

734
00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:17,160
Speaker 1: he pronounced it cat dog? Who want to team? Would

735
00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:21,839
Speaker 1: you not let date your sister? Do you have sisters? Yeah?

736
00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:24,919
Speaker 1: How many? I have two sisters, two sisters older younger,

737
00:35:25,080 --> 00:35:27,719
Speaker 1: one older, one younger. And are you any brothers? Yes?

738
00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:29,840
Speaker 1: I have three older brothers three. Well, okay, big family.

739
00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:34,040
Speaker 1: Who would you not want dating those sisters of yours? Were? Who?

740
00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:42,360
Speaker 1: Brevin Jordan? He loves you, but not enough to be

741
00:35:42,719 --> 00:35:45,439
Speaker 1: a future brother in law. So that's that's fine. There's

742
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:47,840
Speaker 1: nothing wrong with that. But another way, that's funny stuff

743
00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:53,359
Speaker 1: right there. Okay. Who is the most underrated artist all time?

744
00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:57,279
Speaker 1: I would say Jamie Foxx Jamie Fox Jamie Foxx as

745
00:35:57,360 --> 00:36:01,399
Speaker 1: a as a like the music side anything, I'm thinking about,

746
00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:04,360
Speaker 1: how talented the guy is. What is your spirit animal?

747
00:36:04,719 --> 00:36:10,120
Speaker 1: Either Tiger A Marvel or DC Marvel. Okay, who's your

748
00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:13,960
Speaker 1: favorite m I to say black panther, Black panther with

749
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:19,399
Speaker 1: black panther cool. Who is your favorite NFL player growing up? Oh?

750
00:36:20,719 --> 00:36:23,640
Speaker 1: Randy Moss, Randy Moss. I don't know that there's been

751
00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:26,319
Speaker 1: another player chosen other than Randy. Everybody loves random at

752
00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:28,520
Speaker 1: night understandably, so I mean he's well, I can go

753
00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:33,759
Speaker 1: Tony Guns as well. Jordan. It's been a pleasure. Thank

754
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:36,840
Speaker 1: you so much. Good game, my friend, the street lives on,

755
00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:41,200
Speaker 1: Yes it does. That's job, gentlemen. Really appreciate that. And

756
00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:44,120
Speaker 1: of course hearing the Jenga pegs fall, I don't know,

757
00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:46,719
Speaker 1: there's something romantic about that. I really love that. And

758
00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:49,880
Speaker 1: congratulations to Drew as the streak moves on. All right,

759
00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:52,279
Speaker 1: we get back. We gotta do my predictions early because

760
00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:53,759
Speaker 1: we got plenty of stuff to do in a second hour.

761
00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:55,600
Speaker 1: We gotta talk to Fletch, we gotta do our in

762
00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:58,239
Speaker 1: the lab, we gotta talk to Jordan Nakins on a

763
00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:01,000
Speaker 1: football side of things. Of course, you've got some Houston

764
00:37:01,040 --> 00:37:03,840
Speaker 1: Methodist minutes too, So let's do our predictions next and

765
00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:06,239
Speaker 1: we are rifling. We are going fast. We'll do that

766
00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:11,000
Speaker 1: right here on Texans All Access. Hey hey, hey, welcome

767
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:14,200
Speaker 1: back to your Friday edition of Texans All Access. Can

768
00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:17,279
Speaker 1: you name that sitcom? Hey, hey, hey, let's see if

769
00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:21,160
Speaker 1: you're good. It's seventies. It took place out in Los Angeles.

770
00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:22,800
Speaker 1: Let's see you figure it out. By the end of

771
00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:27,120
Speaker 1: this segment, I will tell you what sitcom? Hey, hey, hey,

772
00:37:27,239 --> 00:37:29,239
Speaker 1: what's from see if you can't come up with it

773
00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:31,520
Speaker 1: a little bit earlier. All right, we gotta make predictions,

774
00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:34,440
Speaker 1: and I John Harris Football anal silent reporter. We'll make

775
00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:39,640
Speaker 1: all game predictions straight up and against the spread right now. Well,

776
00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:42,160
Speaker 1: I need my music first, and now we'll do it

777
00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:45,239
Speaker 1: because there's my music. All right, We've got to rock.

778
00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:47,600
Speaker 1: Steelers going to take on the Falcons. The Falcons have

779
00:37:47,719 --> 00:37:50,759
Speaker 1: played well at homes Pittsburgh on a short week's gotta

780
00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:53,680
Speaker 1: go back on the road. This one's even. I think

781
00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:56,680
Speaker 1: it's that's wrong. I think the Falcons should be favorite

782
00:37:56,680 --> 00:37:59,080
Speaker 1: in this. I'm going what the Falcons to win and obviously,

783
00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:02,040
Speaker 1: being even, they will cover. The Packers are taken on

784
00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:06,520
Speaker 1: the Bears. They might the Bears get Justin Fields back,

785
00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:11,719
Speaker 1: but the Packers might have Aaron Rodgers back, so let's

786
00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:13,719
Speaker 1: go Packers. I think the Packers just overall right now

787
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:16,640
Speaker 1: are better with no row Quan, no Robert Quinn. I

788
00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:19,160
Speaker 1: think that's prime for the Packers, even if it's Jordan's Love.

789
00:38:19,239 --> 00:38:20,480
Speaker 1: I'd go with Jordan Love for the rest of the

790
00:38:20,520 --> 00:38:22,640
Speaker 1: season just suit I had. Packers will win and they'll

791
00:38:22,680 --> 00:38:25,200
Speaker 1: cover the three points spread. Jags are taken on the Lions,

792
00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:28,880
Speaker 1: Detroit's favorite, by one, so in reality, this is essentially

793
00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:32,440
Speaker 1: pick them in Detroit. I will go with the Lions.

794
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:36,480
Speaker 1: Lions won three in a row. They had the Bills

795
00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:39,040
Speaker 1: twenty five, twenty five or twenty five seconds left. They

796
00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:42,200
Speaker 1: just happened to get Josh Allen down the stretch. I'm

797
00:38:42,239 --> 00:38:45,640
Speaker 1: going Lions to win and send the Jaguars back one

798
00:38:45,719 --> 00:38:48,520
Speaker 1: spot to four and eight. Lions will move to five

799
00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:50,160
Speaker 1: and seven with win. So let's go Detroit to win

800
00:38:50,239 --> 00:38:52,520
Speaker 1: and to cover that one point. The Jets are going

801
00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:56,640
Speaker 1: to Minnesota and miss getting no up from Vegas none.

802
00:38:56,719 --> 00:38:59,000
Speaker 1: They're only a three point favorite against Mike White and

803
00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:02,440
Speaker 1: the Jets, and I think that plays to Minnesota's hand.

804
00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:06,799
Speaker 1: They have been off since Thanksgiving night, so they've had

805
00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:10,319
Speaker 1: a little extra rest, had mini buy and I think

806
00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:12,839
Speaker 1: they will make the Jets pay for it. Vikings win

807
00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:15,880
Speaker 1: this by ten. Let's go thirty four twenty four. Vikings

808
00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:19,040
Speaker 1: win and cover the three points. This one I kind

809
00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:21,400
Speaker 1: of went back and forth on a little bit, but

810
00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:24,920
Speaker 1: not too much. The Commanders are seven and five Giants

811
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:27,080
Speaker 1: or seventy four. Giants have lost two in a row.

812
00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:31,880
Speaker 1: Washington's favored by two in New York, and that feels

813
00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:35,520
Speaker 1: right the more I thought about this. The Commanders physically

814
00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:37,560
Speaker 1: beat teams up. They beat up the Texans. I think

815
00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:39,680
Speaker 1: they'll beat up the Giants, and I think the washingt

816
00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:42,160
Speaker 1: Commanders will win this thing by more than two and

817
00:39:42,239 --> 00:39:45,600
Speaker 1: the Giants slide. Moves to three games in a road

818
00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:49,919
Speaker 1: for the Giants as Washington, who will win and cover

819
00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:53,399
Speaker 1: this game on the road, Tights taking on the Eagles.

820
00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:55,279
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a heck a football game taking place

821
00:39:55,320 --> 00:39:56,960
Speaker 1: at noon same time, So we'll keep our eyes on

822
00:39:57,040 --> 00:39:59,759
Speaker 1: this as we got eyes on Brown's Texans. Eagles f

823
00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:05,520
Speaker 1: home only in four and a half point favorite Titans

824
00:40:06,040 --> 00:40:08,880
Speaker 1: well banged up, They've been banged up, but the Eagles

825
00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:12,319
Speaker 1: are staying on that role. Now. I don't know if

826
00:40:12,320 --> 00:40:15,640
Speaker 1: the Eagles are the best team in the league, got

827
00:40:15,680 --> 00:40:18,160
Speaker 1: the best record for ten and one, but they played

828
00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:21,239
Speaker 1: really well in Philly, and I think other than one game,

829
00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:22,880
Speaker 1: but I think they played really well in phil I

830
00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:25,080
Speaker 1: think they're gonna play exeptionally well against the Titans, and

831
00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:28,200
Speaker 1: I think the Eagles in a J. Brown getting revenge

832
00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:30,560
Speaker 1: on his old team, I think the Eagles win that thing,

833
00:40:31,120 --> 00:40:33,479
Speaker 1: covering the four and a half and the Titans faults

834
00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:35,399
Speaker 1: of seven and five. Just don't think anyboy can catch

835
00:40:35,440 --> 00:40:38,840
Speaker 1: the Titans and the AFC South. The Broncos, oh god,

836
00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:41,840
Speaker 1: the Broncos are a mess. They're not going to Russell

837
00:40:41,920 --> 00:40:45,239
Speaker 1: Wilson's party and they're fighting with him on the sidelines.

838
00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:51,839
Speaker 1: It's wild. So Broncos three and eight, Ravens seven and four,

839
00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:55,640
Speaker 1: Baltimore's favorite, almost ten nine and a half, but the

840
00:40:55,800 --> 00:40:58,319
Speaker 1: ten is the mark I was thinking about. That's more

841
00:40:58,400 --> 00:41:00,560
Speaker 1: than nine and a half. So I'm going with Ravens

842
00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:04,000
Speaker 1: to win that and cover over the Broncos. Broncos won't

843
00:41:04,040 --> 00:41:06,320
Speaker 1: score more than seventeen. The Ravens will score more than that.

844
00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:08,800
Speaker 1: I don't think the Broncos got the fourteen, how about that,

845
00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:11,359
Speaker 1: So Bronco, excuse me, Ravens to win and to cover.

846
00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:14,600
Speaker 1: Seahawks taken on the Rams in our first afternoon game.

847
00:41:15,360 --> 00:41:18,759
Speaker 1: The Rams have been got awful. It's really bad. I

848
00:41:18,840 --> 00:41:22,600
Speaker 1: mean the Rams atween eight. Seahawks are favored by seven

849
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:26,160
Speaker 1: in so far. I don't love it. In fact, I

850
00:41:26,239 --> 00:41:29,879
Speaker 1: think that's right at the number. But I just can't

851
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:32,680
Speaker 1: put my faith in the Rams. I just can't. Seahawks

852
00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:35,520
Speaker 1: are gonna win that. Aaron Donalds been banged up, quarterbacks

853
00:41:35,520 --> 00:41:37,560
Speaker 1: have been banged up with the Rams. I think Seahawks

854
00:41:37,560 --> 00:41:38,960
Speaker 1: are gonna go win that. Let's give him a cover.

855
00:41:39,080 --> 00:41:40,879
Speaker 1: I think it's right at seven. I would pick thirty

856
00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:43,759
Speaker 1: four twenty seven. But let's go Seahawks to win and

857
00:41:44,120 --> 00:41:46,200
Speaker 1: to cover on the road. Dolphins taken on the forty

858
00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:49,439
Speaker 1: nine Ers. This is out in San Francisco, Santa Clara.

859
00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:51,520
Speaker 1: You will San Francisco's favor by four. I think the

860
00:41:51,600 --> 00:41:55,200
Speaker 1: forty nine Ers jump all over the Dolphins, all over them.

861
00:41:55,239 --> 00:41:57,840
Speaker 1: I think they win this by fourteen or more. Dolphins

862
00:41:57,920 --> 00:42:01,799
Speaker 1: win forty two twenty eight. I think this forty nine

863
00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:04,759
Speaker 1: Ers team is on the burge of just completely breaking out.

864
00:42:05,080 --> 00:42:09,440
Speaker 1: They're gonna Hammer. The Dolphins, Chiefs and Bengals. Chiefs are

865
00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:11,480
Speaker 1: nine and two. They have struggled with the Bengals, though

866
00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:14,279
Speaker 1: they lost the last two last year. Casey's favored by

867
00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:16,680
Speaker 1: two in Cincinnati, but I think this is the time

868
00:42:16,719 --> 00:42:19,160
Speaker 1: the Chiefs get them. The Chiefs are playing some better football,

869
00:42:19,560 --> 00:42:21,520
Speaker 1: finding a way to win games at the end, and

870
00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:24,200
Speaker 1: with a spread of two, and that's not quite a

871
00:42:24,239 --> 00:42:26,200
Speaker 1: pick them, but it's pretty not close. I'm gonna get

872
00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:29,400
Speaker 1: the Chiefs a win, even by three, that's enough. So

873
00:42:29,560 --> 00:42:32,160
Speaker 1: let's go Chiefs to win and to cover that two

874
00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:36,000
Speaker 1: Chargers Raiders. The Las Vegas Raiders are fairy body one.

875
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:37,520
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pick them in a well, it's not really

876
00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:38,920
Speaker 1: an upset. I think the Raiders is gonna win that

877
00:42:39,040 --> 00:42:42,360
Speaker 1: thing and cover that number. Coach Cowboys. Sunday Night NICs

878
00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:45,279
Speaker 1: Dallas favored by ten and a half. Let's go Cowboys.

879
00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:47,719
Speaker 1: And then Monday night, this is an ugly game. Buccaneers

880
00:42:47,760 --> 00:42:49,680
Speaker 1: are favored by three and a half. Let's take the

881
00:42:49,719 --> 00:42:52,279
Speaker 1: Buccaneers to cover that at home. All right, we got

882
00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:54,680
Speaker 1: one hour down, one hour left to go, and we

883
00:42:54,760 --> 00:42:56,600
Speaker 1: will kick off in the lab next right here in

884
00:42:56,640 --> 00:43:00,080
Speaker 1: Texas Access we got one our down one hour, have

885
00:43:00,160 --> 00:43:02,560
Speaker 1: to go right here on a Friday issue of Texas

886
00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:05,680
Speaker 1: All Access, the Browns are coming to town and Deshaun

887
00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:09,359
Speaker 1: Watson is coming with them, no surprise. We've been talking

888
00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:12,120
Speaker 1: about this for a while. Seven hundred days. It's been

889
00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:16,440
Speaker 1: seven hundred days since the last time Deshaun Watson. On Sunday,

890
00:43:16,520 --> 00:43:18,960
Speaker 1: that will be seven hundred days since Deshaun Watson took

891
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:21,960
Speaker 1: the field in a regular season capacity. And he was

892
00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:25,400
Speaker 1: wearing the Texans deep steel blue on that day in

893
00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:28,160
Speaker 1: a loss thirty eight thirty five to the Tennessee Titans,

894
00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:31,600
Speaker 1: a gut punched loss if there ever was one. And

895
00:43:31,719 --> 00:43:33,239
Speaker 1: now he'll be on another side and hopefully he goes

896
00:43:33,280 --> 00:43:36,719
Speaker 1: home with another gut punch loss. Well, Drew, Dorrty and

897
00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:39,320
Speaker 1: I talked about that, We talked about the Browns, and

898
00:43:39,840 --> 00:43:43,200
Speaker 1: we talked about one of our favorite new things to do.

899
00:43:44,360 --> 00:43:46,480
Speaker 1: And it involves one of his sons, which makes it

900
00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:50,040
Speaker 1: even better. That's right now, this is in the lamp time.

901
00:43:50,239 --> 00:43:53,760
Speaker 1: I'm Drew and it's here John. We've been thinking about

902
00:43:53,840 --> 00:43:57,640
Speaker 1: this day before the day, even the schedule. So after

903
00:43:57,840 --> 00:44:00,839
Speaker 1: the Deshaun Watson trade went down less spring a month

904
00:44:00,920 --> 00:44:04,400
Speaker 1: or so later the schedule came out. This was circled.

905
00:44:04,920 --> 00:44:07,959
Speaker 1: You knew, no matter what the records were for either team,

906
00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:11,080
Speaker 1: this is going to be a big, big week, a

907
00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:15,239
Speaker 1: big big day. And we're just a few days away now, John, Yeah,

908
00:44:15,239 --> 00:44:16,640
Speaker 1: I don't know how to feel about I've talked to

909
00:44:16,640 --> 00:44:19,279
Speaker 1: Mark about this a few times. I don't quite know

910
00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:22,719
Speaker 1: how to feel. I think Sunday, this is unprecedented. Yeah,

911
00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:26,359
Speaker 1: it's weird. It's unprecedented. It's weird. After everything that had

912
00:44:26,440 --> 00:44:30,000
Speaker 1: gone down and seeing how Deshaun is camp and handled things,

913
00:44:30,239 --> 00:44:32,960
Speaker 1: I was I was ready for the divorce. I think

914
00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:35,080
Speaker 1: like a lot of people were in Houston, like, all right,

915
00:44:35,120 --> 00:44:37,320
Speaker 1: if he wants to go, just go, go ahead and

916
00:44:37,400 --> 00:44:41,000
Speaker 1: move on. What I was hoping was that my pal

917
00:44:41,080 --> 00:44:43,960
Speaker 1: Blake Jones and the scheduling team would just have us

918
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:46,480
Speaker 1: play the Browns without it just becomes a big circus.

919
00:44:46,560 --> 00:44:49,719
Speaker 1: And now it becomes an bigger circus. And I love

920
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:53,719
Speaker 1: big circuses when it's a divisional playoff round, or it's

921
00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:55,960
Speaker 1: a playoff game, or it's a Monday night game or

922
00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:58,800
Speaker 1: something like that. I don't want a circus that's caused

923
00:44:58,840 --> 00:45:01,759
Speaker 1: by a guy that made waves to leave here for

924
00:45:01,880 --> 00:45:04,239
Speaker 1: whatever reasons, and now he's on the other side and

925
00:45:04,320 --> 00:45:06,840
Speaker 1: now you got to face him. But I feel like

926
00:45:07,080 --> 00:45:09,279
Speaker 1: Lovey Smith was on a something the other day. He said,

927
00:45:09,640 --> 00:45:12,320
Speaker 1: once we get past Sunday, then the book is closed.

928
00:45:12,360 --> 00:45:14,879
Speaker 1: It's done. It's you know, he's a brown and where

929
00:45:14,960 --> 00:45:16,719
Speaker 1: you go. We'll have to see him and get in

930
00:45:16,760 --> 00:45:19,719
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three back here at Energy Stadium. So there's

931
00:45:19,760 --> 00:45:22,360
Speaker 1: that as well. So you're gonna see him within you know,

932
00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:25,399
Speaker 1: a year or whatever. Then there's a party. Man, It's like, look,

933
00:45:25,440 --> 00:45:28,000
Speaker 1: it's the football side is he hasn't played in seven

934
00:45:28,080 --> 00:45:30,400
Speaker 1: hundred days, hasn't played a regular season football game in

935
00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:33,319
Speaker 1: seven hundred days, So how does he hold up? I'm

936
00:45:33,320 --> 00:45:34,719
Speaker 1: sure they're gonna be there's gonna be a lot of

937
00:45:34,719 --> 00:45:36,359
Speaker 1: excitement for him. There's gonna be a lot of rust.

938
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:38,239
Speaker 1: There's gonna be a lot of wanna sticking it to

939
00:45:38,320 --> 00:45:41,160
Speaker 1: the Texans sort of thing. So I don't know. I'm

940
00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:42,960
Speaker 1: curious how it all goes. But you're right, how are

941
00:45:42,960 --> 00:45:44,879
Speaker 1: you feeling about the whole thing? Not the same way.

942
00:45:44,920 --> 00:45:47,960
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a lot that goes into this, just

943
00:45:48,080 --> 00:45:52,480
Speaker 1: disappointment at on the whole at that fifty thousand foot level,

944
00:45:52,640 --> 00:45:55,680
Speaker 1: just disappointment at everything. You know that because he was

945
00:45:56,280 --> 00:45:59,479
Speaker 1: and is an excellent player. It's just a damn shame

946
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:02,279
Speaker 1: everything that went down. I mean, there were some fun,

947
00:46:02,360 --> 00:46:04,799
Speaker 1: fun times here as rookie. Ye. Then the next year

948
00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:07,480
Speaker 1: in eighteen didn't end the way you wanted to in eighteen,

949
00:46:07,560 --> 00:46:10,680
Speaker 1: but that was a hell of a fun season. Nine

950
00:46:10,719 --> 00:46:13,040
Speaker 1: a row there at one point in a bunch of

951
00:46:13,120 --> 00:46:14,840
Speaker 1: stars on both sides of the ball. It was just

952
00:46:15,440 --> 00:46:19,040
Speaker 1: just disappointment about this whole situation, no matter what happens

953
00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:22,680
Speaker 1: on Sunday, Disappointment if the Texans win, disappointment if the

954
00:46:22,719 --> 00:46:25,480
Speaker 1: Texans lose, just that it all went down this way.

955
00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:27,000
Speaker 1: Now I want the Texans to win, I'm not gonna

956
00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:30,840
Speaker 1: be as disappointed, but disappointment on a lot of different fronts.

957
00:46:30,880 --> 00:46:33,600
Speaker 1: And I think you bring up rust. I do think

958
00:46:33,600 --> 00:46:35,680
Speaker 1: he's gonna play great. They're just knowing who he is

959
00:46:35,760 --> 00:46:37,480
Speaker 1: and knowing what we've seen of him, and knowing about

960
00:46:37,480 --> 00:46:40,719
Speaker 1: his preparation, and also knowing that he's been practicing with them,

961
00:46:41,200 --> 00:46:43,800
Speaker 1: getting first team reps, not all the way through, but

962
00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:45,759
Speaker 1: getting first team reps for the last month or so.

963
00:46:46,440 --> 00:46:48,880
Speaker 1: He's not just gonna come out here looking like some

964
00:46:49,040 --> 00:46:52,839
Speaker 1: fat guy in a Beer League softball game. He's gonna play,

965
00:46:52,880 --> 00:46:55,840
Speaker 1: he's gonna get his moments, he's gonna get his plays.

966
00:46:56,080 --> 00:46:59,120
Speaker 1: He's gonna do one or two things that remind you

967
00:46:59,239 --> 00:47:01,960
Speaker 1: of the magic we saw when he was here. But

968
00:47:02,520 --> 00:47:05,719
Speaker 1: I think you can also get to him because with

969
00:47:05,960 --> 00:47:10,120
Speaker 1: that magic, sometimes there came some sacks. Yep, you know

970
00:47:10,160 --> 00:47:12,680
Speaker 1: he didn't have the best protection, but he also he

971
00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:14,800
Speaker 1: brought some of those sacks on himself. So hopefully the

972
00:47:14,880 --> 00:47:18,160
Speaker 1: tex Texans can take advantage of that. And like Mario

973
00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:20,640
Speaker 1: Addison was saying in the open locker room period yesterday,

974
00:47:20,960 --> 00:47:23,799
Speaker 1: He's like, I sacked Deshaun Watson once and I don't

975
00:47:23,840 --> 00:47:25,920
Speaker 1: know how he held onto the ball, right. I hit

976
00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:27,120
Speaker 1: him as hard as I could, and the ball did

977
00:47:27,239 --> 00:47:29,600
Speaker 1: come loose. Well, I think comes loose. That's a great point,

978
00:47:29,640 --> 00:47:32,600
Speaker 1: and that is if you get back there to sack him,

979
00:47:33,440 --> 00:47:36,120
Speaker 1: you've got to bring everything you got because it's I mean,

980
00:47:36,200 --> 00:47:39,000
Speaker 1: obviously the last last playoff game he played here in

981
00:47:39,040 --> 00:47:41,279
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. I mean, he proved it. He got he

982
00:47:41,400 --> 00:47:43,239
Speaker 1: took a car crash and spun out of it and

983
00:47:43,320 --> 00:47:45,719
Speaker 1: found a receiver and got the ball down into the

984
00:47:45,840 --> 00:47:48,480
Speaker 1: field goal range. So he's got that in him. I mean,

985
00:47:48,520 --> 00:47:52,200
Speaker 1: he's a big, strong guy. So once you get back there,

986
00:47:53,360 --> 00:47:56,239
Speaker 1: it's not just okay, I'm back here, let me try

987
00:47:56,280 --> 00:47:58,080
Speaker 1: and swipe at the ball. If you want to sack,

988
00:47:58,560 --> 00:48:01,279
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to earn it against that guy. But

989
00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:04,120
Speaker 1: one of the things we always knew here and I

990
00:48:04,200 --> 00:48:05,960
Speaker 1: went back into when I watched it in twenty eighteen,

991
00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:08,080
Speaker 1: and I know that was only the second year, but

992
00:48:08,680 --> 00:48:12,680
Speaker 1: I think this was fairly commonplace for him. He'd hold

993
00:48:12,719 --> 00:48:16,320
Speaker 1: the ball. He'd hold the ball. He's not one to

994
00:48:16,440 --> 00:48:21,520
Speaker 1: take the nickel and dime change. He wanted five bucks,

995
00:48:21,560 --> 00:48:23,239
Speaker 1: ten bucks every time he threw the ball. And so

996
00:48:23,360 --> 00:48:25,320
Speaker 1: he was going to throw at fifteen yards and beyond.

997
00:48:25,360 --> 00:48:26,560
Speaker 1: And so if he had to hold it and take

998
00:48:26,560 --> 00:48:29,640
Speaker 1: a few sacks such that he could make two or

999
00:48:29,680 --> 00:48:31,680
Speaker 1: three completions down the road, he was going to do that.

1000
00:48:31,920 --> 00:48:34,239
Speaker 1: And so you got your opportunity to get back there

1001
00:48:34,400 --> 00:48:37,000
Speaker 1: and and make sacks. And I think one of the

1002
00:48:37,080 --> 00:48:40,600
Speaker 1: areas that the Texans are gonna have to be even better.

1003
00:48:41,080 --> 00:48:44,279
Speaker 1: And you saw it again against Miami. And I said

1004
00:48:44,280 --> 00:48:48,640
Speaker 1: this to Everett, who does our pr and this magical

1005
00:48:48,719 --> 00:48:51,080
Speaker 1: stuff he's down on the sidelines with me during games,

1006
00:48:51,120 --> 00:48:53,000
Speaker 1: so he gives me all the team info and all

1007
00:48:53,000 --> 00:48:54,600
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff when players are hurt and all that.

1008
00:48:54,840 --> 00:48:58,920
Speaker 1: So we were talking, I said, every single time that

1009
00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:01,400
Speaker 1: a guy puts the ball in the belly, a quarterback

1010
00:49:01,480 --> 00:49:03,959
Speaker 1: puts the ball in the belly, we're in trouble because

1011
00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:07,839
Speaker 1: our linebackers are screaming forward. And two was probably worst

1012
00:49:07,880 --> 00:49:10,959
Speaker 1: of all because Twa was so quick. His fake would

1013
00:49:10,960 --> 00:49:15,080
Speaker 1: be it would be fake boom throw. It was that quick. Yeah,

1014
00:49:15,200 --> 00:49:19,560
Speaker 1: And so it's that's really really tough. So if there's

1015
00:49:19,560 --> 00:49:21,839
Speaker 1: anything I would think the Browns would try and try

1016
00:49:21,840 --> 00:49:24,560
Speaker 1: and use some of those RPO situations, some of those

1017
00:49:24,719 --> 00:49:29,279
Speaker 1: really quick play action you know, hearts glance route sort

1018
00:49:29,320 --> 00:49:32,359
Speaker 1: of things to get receivers and open spots. And then

1019
00:49:33,120 --> 00:49:35,200
Speaker 1: when you have enough guys that are open like that,

1020
00:49:35,480 --> 00:49:37,320
Speaker 1: your quarterback settles in. And that's the way too was

1021
00:49:37,360 --> 00:49:39,640
Speaker 1: the other day. It took two a little while he

1022
00:49:39,680 --> 00:49:42,640
Speaker 1: had fired a couple and had missed waddle through behind one.

1023
00:49:42,719 --> 00:49:45,360
Speaker 1: I think one would had too much sauce on it.

1024
00:49:45,480 --> 00:49:47,680
Speaker 1: But then when he kind of settled down and settled in,

1025
00:49:47,800 --> 00:49:50,080
Speaker 1: it was like, man, he's get what he wants out

1026
00:49:50,120 --> 00:49:51,719
Speaker 1: of play action game. So Texas got to be that

1027
00:49:51,840 --> 00:49:54,239
Speaker 1: much better against play action. But it's hard when they

1028
00:49:54,360 --> 00:49:56,120
Speaker 1: run the ball the way that they do, So it's

1029
00:49:56,160 --> 00:49:58,640
Speaker 1: gonna be a tough challenge from that perspective. But that's

1030
00:49:58,680 --> 00:50:00,800
Speaker 1: what the Texas have struggled with. All your play action

1031
00:50:00,880 --> 00:50:02,920
Speaker 1: fakes ball in the belly of a running back and

1032
00:50:03,080 --> 00:50:06,480
Speaker 1: everybody is screaming to the football. It leaves that intermediate

1033
00:50:06,520 --> 00:50:08,640
Speaker 1: area wide opening, and that does worry me on Sunday,

1034
00:50:08,719 --> 00:50:10,360
Speaker 1: especially against the guy like that that could throw it

1035
00:50:10,480 --> 00:50:12,879
Speaker 1: like that, no doubt. And we'll also see a little

1036
00:50:12,920 --> 00:50:16,920
Speaker 1: jadeveon Clowney. Oh so yeah, it was fun. I saw

1037
00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:19,120
Speaker 1: him on the sidelines of a flag football game about

1038
00:50:19,160 --> 00:50:21,120
Speaker 1: a month ago. Yeah, I have a seven year old.

1039
00:50:21,239 --> 00:50:23,480
Speaker 1: He's got a seven year old and his team was

1040
00:50:23,560 --> 00:50:26,279
Speaker 1: playing before our team played, and so I got to

1041
00:50:26,360 --> 00:50:28,040
Speaker 1: say hello and catch up with him. It was good

1042
00:50:28,040 --> 00:50:30,960
Speaker 1: to seeing him, a jolly fellow when he was around here.

1043
00:50:31,320 --> 00:50:35,040
Speaker 1: So you know he's gonna be licking his chops and

1044
00:50:35,280 --> 00:50:38,319
Speaker 1: you know at times he can take over a game. Yeah,

1045
00:50:38,480 --> 00:50:42,440
Speaker 1: so I worry him, especially because he was moved around

1046
00:50:42,440 --> 00:50:45,680
Speaker 1: a lot in Romeo Cornell's system. Yes, and a lot

1047
00:50:45,719 --> 00:50:47,759
Speaker 1: of times they'd line him up over a center. So

1048
00:50:48,880 --> 00:50:51,239
Speaker 1: you kind of worry, or at least I kind of worried.

1049
00:50:51,280 --> 00:50:53,680
Speaker 1: I'm guessing you worry a little bit as well. Still

1050
00:50:53,920 --> 00:50:55,480
Speaker 1: I don't see you still that from me, but yeah,

1051
00:50:55,480 --> 00:50:59,480
Speaker 1: you're he comes over the center and yes, screams through there.

1052
00:50:59,760 --> 00:51:02,560
Speaker 1: That worries me more than anything. You know, the more

1053
00:51:02,640 --> 00:51:06,759
Speaker 1: you play games, the more you figure out about of

1054
00:51:06,760 --> 00:51:09,440
Speaker 1: their teams. Likewise, teams figure those things out about you.

1055
00:51:09,560 --> 00:51:12,000
Speaker 1: And I think teams have realized, hey, look, we can

1056
00:51:12,080 --> 00:51:15,440
Speaker 1: exploit the Texans offensive interior, and we can exploit it

1057
00:51:15,560 --> 00:51:18,320
Speaker 1: to our benefit in a big, big way. And so

1058
00:51:18,760 --> 00:51:21,600
Speaker 1: I don't think that the Browns interior guys can do

1059
00:51:21,760 --> 00:51:24,360
Speaker 1: that as much. Yo, Tavin Bryant is quicker and twitchier

1060
00:51:24,480 --> 00:51:28,600
Speaker 1: than some of the other guys. But even those guys

1061
00:51:28,640 --> 00:51:31,080
Speaker 1: like Christian Wilkins last week, Like Christian's a bigger guy,

1062
00:51:31,760 --> 00:51:34,440
Speaker 1: but he's just using a quick swim move to get

1063
00:51:34,520 --> 00:51:36,839
Speaker 1: past guys. I mean it, it was too easy. It's

1064
00:51:36,880 --> 00:51:40,800
Speaker 1: been too easy. The offensive interior could have some missions,

1065
00:51:40,840 --> 00:51:43,239
Speaker 1: especially when Clowney gets in there, because Clowney has got

1066
00:51:43,400 --> 00:51:45,320
Speaker 1: that twitch and he's got the strength. I think that

1067
00:51:45,440 --> 00:51:46,839
Speaker 1: was the one thing that we used to talk about

1068
00:51:46,840 --> 00:51:51,480
Speaker 1: a lot. He's so strong that he can handle. I

1069
00:51:51,480 --> 00:51:54,440
Speaker 1: remember going to Baltimore in seventeen on a Monday night

1070
00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:59,520
Speaker 1: and he swam the center and then he bullrushed the

1071
00:51:59,640 --> 00:52:03,520
Speaker 1: running back and he grabbed Flacco by one arm and

1072
00:52:03,680 --> 00:52:05,640
Speaker 1: yanked him down for a sack. I just remember thinking,

1073
00:52:06,160 --> 00:52:09,759
Speaker 1: I just watched that. Holy smokes. So he's got that

1074
00:52:09,880 --> 00:52:11,319
Speaker 1: and I think he still got it in his bag

1075
00:52:11,440 --> 00:52:14,200
Speaker 1: five years earlier or five years later. And I do

1076
00:52:14,360 --> 00:52:16,800
Speaker 1: think the Browns will scheme him up to go against

1077
00:52:17,400 --> 00:52:20,080
Speaker 1: the guards in the center for the Texans, and that

1078
00:52:21,080 --> 00:52:26,840
Speaker 1: could require some help somehow. I would imagine they've got

1079
00:52:26,960 --> 00:52:29,120
Speaker 1: to give help to those guys inside because of that.

1080
00:52:29,680 --> 00:52:31,880
Speaker 1: It's not the sheer power this week. It's more the

1081
00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:36,319
Speaker 1: quickness combined with the power with Clowney. So yeah, as

1082
00:52:36,400 --> 00:52:40,680
Speaker 1: much as we're concerned about Deshaun Watson what he does,

1083
00:52:40,840 --> 00:52:43,800
Speaker 1: I think Clowney could have that game. I want to

1084
00:52:43,840 --> 00:52:45,560
Speaker 1: say this the first time Connie is played back at

1085
00:52:45,719 --> 00:52:49,680
Speaker 1: RG because with the Titans, I can't remember if he

1086
00:52:49,800 --> 00:52:52,719
Speaker 1: played in that game, I think we would have remembered this. Yeah,

1087
00:52:52,840 --> 00:52:56,280
Speaker 1: he's he was injured. He was injured at various points

1088
00:52:56,360 --> 00:52:58,520
Speaker 1: in the twenty twenty season. I think he missed that

1089
00:52:58,640 --> 00:53:00,680
Speaker 1: last game of the year in twenty twenty against US.

1090
00:53:01,120 --> 00:53:04,840
Speaker 1: So either way, he's gonna play in this game, and

1091
00:53:05,120 --> 00:53:07,480
Speaker 1: he's gonna want to make the same kind of impact

1092
00:53:07,560 --> 00:53:10,919
Speaker 1: that the Sean did and and we'll plan on making.

1093
00:53:11,040 --> 00:53:13,640
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be tough to see those guys on

1094
00:53:13,680 --> 00:53:15,640
Speaker 1: the opposite sideline. And you know, it makes you think

1095
00:53:15,680 --> 00:53:19,560
Speaker 1: back to sixteen, seventeen eighteen. You're like, man, boy, this roster,

1096
00:53:19,719 --> 00:53:22,040
Speaker 1: holy smokes, it's roster had some dudes on it, hacked

1097
00:53:22,080 --> 00:53:26,600
Speaker 1: with talent. You have them, JJ Watt, yeap, DeAndre Hopkins. Yeah,

1098
00:53:26,719 --> 00:53:29,920
Speaker 1: Will Fuller was catching touchdown. So yeah, lots of good

1099
00:53:29,920 --> 00:53:32,719
Speaker 1: players on those teams, for sure. DJ Reader excellent player.

1100
00:53:32,920 --> 00:53:35,200
Speaker 1: Miss it, we miss you know. I know Clowney told you, hey,

1101
00:53:35,239 --> 00:53:37,359
Speaker 1: we haven't been the same since Clowny. That's true, We've

1102
00:53:37,400 --> 00:53:39,640
Speaker 1: not been the same since Clowney has been gone. But

1103
00:53:39,719 --> 00:53:41,759
Speaker 1: it's even been worse since DJ Reader has been gone.

1104
00:53:42,160 --> 00:53:44,160
Speaker 1: And then you see what Cincinnati is doing it against

1105
00:53:44,160 --> 00:53:47,040
Speaker 1: the run, and you're like any one guy, But when

1106
00:53:47,080 --> 00:53:48,800
Speaker 1: that's a consistent theme and the guy has been on

1107
00:53:48,840 --> 00:53:51,799
Speaker 1: the same team. Uh yeah, DJ Reader has been he's

1108
00:53:51,840 --> 00:53:54,759
Speaker 1: been missed for sure. For sure. Hey, you and I

1109
00:53:54,920 --> 00:53:58,279
Speaker 1: were both proud dads. Yes, you've got a couple of kids.

1110
00:53:58,280 --> 00:54:01,000
Speaker 1: I got five kids. Yeah, we are stories about what

1111
00:54:01,120 --> 00:54:05,040
Speaker 1: are youngsters are accomplishing. You're you're a little older. I

1112
00:54:05,040 --> 00:54:07,680
Speaker 1: always love hearing about the year two and whether they're

1113
00:54:08,160 --> 00:54:11,279
Speaker 1: designing a new mainframe computer like the Whopper, but like

1114
00:54:11,400 --> 00:54:14,880
Speaker 1: the Whopper on steroids, or you know, appearing in the

1115
00:54:15,000 --> 00:54:17,040
Speaker 1: latest movie or whatever. I love hearing that stuff, and

1116
00:54:17,120 --> 00:54:19,839
Speaker 1: I pepper you with all sorts of good news. But hey,

1117
00:54:19,920 --> 00:54:21,680
Speaker 1: my two of my oldest daughters are going to be

1118
00:54:21,719 --> 00:54:25,359
Speaker 1: in the Nutcracker performance here soon. Nice yep, my little

1119
00:54:25,400 --> 00:54:29,360
Speaker 1: guy on a flag football championship. My other guy was

1120
00:54:29,400 --> 00:54:32,200
Speaker 1: an All star and seven seven the baby she says

1121
00:54:32,280 --> 00:54:35,479
Speaker 1: lots of words. Yes, last night I had a proud

1122
00:54:35,600 --> 00:54:37,279
Speaker 1: dad moment and I shared it with you and the

1123
00:54:37,320 --> 00:54:41,520
Speaker 1: rest of the little crew because it involved you. You

1124
00:54:42,440 --> 00:54:46,040
Speaker 1: like a heroin dealer got me addicted to the pro

1125
00:54:46,239 --> 00:54:50,800
Speaker 1: foot Plum Networks mock draft simulator. It's now listen. You

1126
00:54:50,880 --> 00:54:53,000
Speaker 1: and I do mock draft simulators all the time. We

1127
00:54:53,080 --> 00:54:55,640
Speaker 1: did it all last spring. Yeah, that was PF and

1128
00:54:56,000 --> 00:54:58,600
Speaker 1: Draft Network head. There great ones, great ones, but this

1129
00:54:58,800 --> 00:55:00,920
Speaker 1: one has taken it to a new level because it

1130
00:55:01,320 --> 00:55:05,400
Speaker 1: does the simulation. But when you since you're the Texans,

1131
00:55:05,440 --> 00:55:07,239
Speaker 1: you have the first overall pick when the when the

1132
00:55:07,320 --> 00:55:11,600
Speaker 1: draft starts, you've got six people wanting to make trades

1133
00:55:11,640 --> 00:55:13,720
Speaker 1: with you. You got all these variations so you can trade.

1134
00:55:13,960 --> 00:55:15,560
Speaker 1: You got all these new picks. You got picks for

1135
00:55:15,680 --> 00:55:18,480
Speaker 1: down the road. Well, i'd done it a few times

1136
00:55:18,719 --> 00:55:21,480
Speaker 1: and my oldest son, Robert, who's a third grader, saw

1137
00:55:21,560 --> 00:55:24,320
Speaker 1: me doing that, and he's, what's that? What's going on?

1138
00:55:24,880 --> 00:55:28,600
Speaker 1: He's he's my absorber. He looks, he listens, he internalizes,

1139
00:55:28,920 --> 00:55:31,520
Speaker 1: doesn't say much. Yeah, And so last night I put

1140
00:55:31,600 --> 00:55:33,680
Speaker 1: the baby to sleep and that's a you know, it's

1141
00:55:33,680 --> 00:55:36,840
Speaker 1: like a twenty five minute process with bath and putting

1142
00:55:36,840 --> 00:55:38,920
Speaker 1: the bottle in and getting her down, and I come

1143
00:55:38,960 --> 00:55:42,360
Speaker 1: back out and sitting at the island on my computer

1144
00:55:42,640 --> 00:55:46,120
Speaker 1: is Robert and Oliver looking over his shoulder and he's saying,

1145
00:55:46,800 --> 00:55:48,560
Speaker 1: you know, he comes out, he's like, Dad, who should

1146
00:55:48,560 --> 00:55:54,280
Speaker 1: I take between kay Sean Bow today and be Jean Robinson?

1147
00:55:54,320 --> 00:56:00,600
Speaker 1: They know, be Jean Robins. But they've discovered the mulator Yeah,

1148
00:56:00,600 --> 00:56:02,360
Speaker 1: they're making trades. And I sent you one of his

1149
00:56:02,760 --> 00:56:04,719
Speaker 1: his little drafts he did lesson. It was pretty darn good.

1150
00:56:04,760 --> 00:56:07,759
Speaker 1: I'm telling you right now. The Texas fans would love

1151
00:56:07,920 --> 00:56:11,000
Speaker 1: that draft. Love it because it's got a quarterback and

1152
00:56:11,080 --> 00:56:14,000
Speaker 1: it's got some offensive skill players that people know. Uh.

1153
00:56:14,040 --> 00:56:16,200
Speaker 1: And the defensive skill player that he took, a defensive

1154
00:56:16,200 --> 00:56:18,640
Speaker 1: player that they took was Brian Berse from Atta Clemson. Yeah,

1155
00:56:19,160 --> 00:56:21,879
Speaker 1: which I would be very very happy. Beef in the middle. Yeah,

1156
00:56:22,000 --> 00:56:24,160
Speaker 1: some beef and some quickness in the middle with Bersee.

1157
00:56:25,080 --> 00:56:27,719
Speaker 1: That would have been a really you would have walked

1158
00:56:27,760 --> 00:56:30,759
Speaker 1: out there going, nice job, Nick Cassio. If you come

1159
00:56:30,760 --> 00:56:32,160
Speaker 1: out of that, I think fans would have been very

1160
00:56:32,239 --> 00:56:35,719
Speaker 1: very excited about that. So uh, I was. It was

1161
00:56:35,800 --> 00:56:38,640
Speaker 1: like I was a proud heroin Wheeler knowing that I

1162
00:56:38,719 --> 00:56:43,439
Speaker 1: had dealt my products. Showed it to me. He didn't

1163
00:56:43,680 --> 00:56:47,360
Speaker 1: push it. Yeah, and I didn't push the the simulator

1164
00:56:47,400 --> 00:56:49,760
Speaker 1: on these guys. He just saw it. He's like, what's

1165
00:56:49,840 --> 00:56:52,520
Speaker 1: he doing? So when I came out, I was like, yeah, man,

1166
00:56:52,600 --> 00:56:55,160
Speaker 1: they really are like you, you know, proud dad moment

1167
00:56:55,200 --> 00:56:57,800
Speaker 1: and Oliver was chirping and say you should do this,

1168
00:56:57,880 --> 00:56:59,480
Speaker 1: and you should like he always does. So it was

1169
00:56:59,560 --> 00:57:01,000
Speaker 1: it was kind of fun, and it was it was

1170
00:57:01,040 --> 00:57:04,640
Speaker 1: Ali adding to it was Ali like, oh no, no, no, no.

1171
00:57:04,840 --> 00:57:07,880
Speaker 1: Bijean is almost like a non negotiable. They want him

1172
00:57:08,160 --> 00:57:09,920
Speaker 1: on the Texans. It's like they figure out any way

1173
00:57:10,080 --> 00:57:12,479
Speaker 1: possible to getting sure that they get him. We're drafted

1174
00:57:12,520 --> 00:57:16,920
Speaker 1: in sixth round, but we're gonna make sure. It's hilarious.

1175
00:57:16,960 --> 00:57:19,760
Speaker 1: It's really fun to see. So yeah, that they're gonna

1176
00:57:19,760 --> 00:57:21,760
Speaker 1: be after my laptop when I get home at night

1177
00:57:21,880 --> 00:57:24,160
Speaker 1: every night, I want to do that. I'm not mad

1178
00:57:24,160 --> 00:57:25,720
Speaker 1: about it. I'm really not mad about it. I could

1179
00:57:25,720 --> 00:57:28,040
Speaker 1: think could be in the much worse things. All right,

1180
00:57:28,040 --> 00:57:30,920
Speaker 1: I gotta admit the music's addictive. I just gotta admit

1181
00:57:31,040 --> 00:57:34,680
Speaker 1: that upfront. I mean, the little you know, bubbling in

1182
00:57:34,760 --> 00:57:37,040
Speaker 1: the back. I just it's it's addictive. I hear that

1183
00:57:37,200 --> 00:57:39,560
Speaker 1: all the time. Of course we hear it this podcast,

1184
00:57:39,640 --> 00:57:44,160
Speaker 1: so I'd love hearing it. So appreciate droffsto Bay And yeah, uh,

1185
00:57:44,400 --> 00:57:47,040
Speaker 1: the mock draft simulators are fun. All that different trades

1186
00:57:47,080 --> 00:57:49,360
Speaker 1: you can make. I mean, it's just it's a blast.

1187
00:57:49,760 --> 00:57:53,200
Speaker 1: I mean it's none of it makes sense at all.

1188
00:57:53,360 --> 00:57:56,880
Speaker 1: But you know, you'll love it. Nonetheless, speaking of love it,

1189
00:57:56,920 --> 00:57:59,840
Speaker 1: I love the Taxac Texas Pole. My man David Fletcher

1190
00:58:00,160 --> 00:58:04,680
Speaker 1: LSSC stop by. We talked about that next Texans All Access.

1191
00:58:05,360 --> 00:58:08,160
Speaker 1: What's up, everybody? Welcome back to a Friday edition of

1192
00:58:08,240 --> 00:58:12,360
Speaker 1: Texans All Access. Appreciate you being here with me. John Harris,

1193
00:58:12,480 --> 00:58:17,440
Speaker 1: football Analysts sideline reporter for your Houston Texans. And I

1194
00:58:17,560 --> 00:58:21,920
Speaker 1: know we have got some massive fans out there, and

1195
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Speaker 1: I want to give props to some of our biggest

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Speaker 1: loves David Fletcher and you're thinking, wait, wait, Dave Fletcher

1207
00:59:01,640 --> 00:59:03,480
Speaker 1: heard the name before. Yeah, he's been on Texas All

1208
00:59:03,480 --> 00:59:06,200
Speaker 1: Access with me plenty of times. He is the GM

1209
00:59:06,280 --> 00:59:09,400
Speaker 1: of Loadstar Sports Entertainment, Executive director of the Tax Act,

1210
00:59:10,080 --> 00:59:13,040
Speaker 1: Tax Act Texas Bowl. Easy for me to say. And

1211
00:59:13,160 --> 00:59:15,880
Speaker 1: he's got a well, he's got big goings on this weekend.

1212
00:59:16,000 --> 00:59:19,920
Speaker 1: This is the weekend in college football that we settle

1213
00:59:20,000 --> 00:59:22,240
Speaker 1: it all well, at least what the balls are gonna be,

1214
00:59:22,560 --> 00:59:25,640
Speaker 1: what the playoff is gonna be, and what the matchup

1215
00:59:25,800 --> 00:59:29,920
Speaker 1: for the Texas Bowl will be. I got my eye

1216
00:59:30,000 --> 00:59:34,000
Speaker 1: on a matchup. I'll see if David agrees with me

1217
00:59:34,800 --> 00:59:37,360
Speaker 1: or not, but I think either way, Texas Bowl is

1218
00:59:37,400 --> 00:59:39,000
Speaker 1: gonna have a good one. And Fletch and I talked

1219
00:59:39,000 --> 00:59:41,480
Speaker 1: about that right here. All right, I got my good

1220
00:59:41,560 --> 00:59:45,560
Speaker 1: friend in here with me, David Fletcher, GM L S

1221
00:59:45,760 --> 00:59:50,560
Speaker 1: s E, Loadstar Sports Entertainment, and the Tax Act Texas

1222
00:59:51,000 --> 00:59:54,120
Speaker 1: Bowl is coming up on December twenty eight. First of all, Fletch,

1223
00:59:54,280 --> 00:59:55,600
Speaker 1: how you doing, my man? This is a good time

1224
00:59:55,600 --> 00:59:57,800
Speaker 1: of here for you, is it? Oh? Great to see you, Johnny.

1225
00:59:57,840 --> 01:00:00,440
Speaker 1: It always is fun talking about college football, and now

1226
01:00:00,840 --> 01:00:03,520
Speaker 1: we get to talk about postseason college football. Yeah, a

1227
01:00:03,600 --> 01:00:06,320
Speaker 1: lot of fun. Man. It's been a crazy year. Yeah, definitely,

1228
01:00:06,400 --> 01:00:08,959
Speaker 1: it's been a crazy year. And for those that don't

1229
01:00:09,040 --> 01:00:14,040
Speaker 1: know TAXAC Texas Bowl, Big twelve versus SEC and Fletch,

1230
01:00:14,080 --> 01:00:17,200
Speaker 1: I'll ask you first, let's start the conference championship games.

1231
01:00:18,120 --> 01:00:21,680
Speaker 1: How much of a domino effect does that have on

1232
01:00:21,880 --> 01:00:25,120
Speaker 1: the Texas Bowl. What happens this weekend with these conference

1233
01:00:25,240 --> 01:00:28,480
Speaker 1: championship games? Or do you look at it as things

1234
01:00:28,520 --> 01:00:31,920
Speaker 1: are pretty set in what we're looking at for the

1235
01:00:32,000 --> 01:00:33,280
Speaker 1: Texas Bowl, how do you kind of look at this

1236
01:00:33,320 --> 01:00:35,200
Speaker 1: weekend and how does it impact things? Yeah? I think

1237
01:00:35,320 --> 01:00:37,960
Speaker 1: this year in particular, you know, there's a lot of

1238
01:00:38,040 --> 01:00:41,440
Speaker 1: things that are already in place at this point. Starting

1239
01:00:41,480 --> 01:00:44,680
Speaker 1: on the Big twelve side, you've got a purple haste,

1240
01:00:44,840 --> 01:00:47,280
Speaker 1: just like we had here in last year's TAXAC Texas Bowl,

1241
01:00:47,520 --> 01:00:52,120
Speaker 1: two purple teams in Kansas State, the defending Texas Bowl

1242
01:00:52,240 --> 01:00:57,760
Speaker 1: champions against the undefeated TCU horn Frogs. So, you know,

1243
01:00:57,840 --> 01:01:00,640
Speaker 1: I think that game it's been well Docu minute, Johnny.

1244
01:01:00,760 --> 01:01:02,840
Speaker 1: Kansas State's going to the Sugar Bowl. No matter what

1245
01:01:03,240 --> 01:01:06,200
Speaker 1: um they will win or lose, they'll be there. TCUs

1246
01:01:06,240 --> 01:01:08,200
Speaker 1: got their eyes on a much bigger prize as if

1247
01:01:08,280 --> 01:01:13,840
Speaker 1: they complete the undefeated season, they will head to the playoff,

1248
01:01:13,920 --> 01:01:16,479
Speaker 1: which is a really exciting development for the Big Twelve

1249
01:01:16,560 --> 01:01:19,200
Speaker 1: and for TCU great fan base, and so you know

1250
01:01:19,360 --> 01:01:23,160
Speaker 1: that that that dynamic in Dallas, UM is one that

1251
01:01:23,280 --> 01:01:26,080
Speaker 1: doesn't really affect our universe. UM. We've got a good

1252
01:01:26,120 --> 01:01:28,160
Speaker 1: idea of what our options will be UH and we'll

1253
01:01:28,200 --> 01:01:32,360
Speaker 1: certainly talk about those momentarily. But UM SEC is a

1254
01:01:32,400 --> 01:01:35,440
Speaker 1: little bit different. I think you know, if you if

1255
01:01:35,520 --> 01:01:38,640
Speaker 1: you look at LSU and Georgia, UM, tough loss for

1256
01:01:38,800 --> 01:01:40,720
Speaker 1: LSU at A and M to finish the season, took

1257
01:01:40,760 --> 01:01:43,480
Speaker 1: a little luster off of this weekend's game, but nevertheless

1258
01:01:43,880 --> 01:01:47,320
Speaker 1: it is the SEC championship. So yeah, with a win,

1259
01:01:47,440 --> 01:01:50,720
Speaker 1: Georgia will continue their their their defense of their national title.

1260
01:01:51,160 --> 01:01:54,439
Speaker 1: UM and UH. With a an LSU win, that could

1261
01:01:54,480 --> 01:01:57,400
Speaker 1: get interesting. Might might change the numbers, might change the

1262
01:01:57,520 --> 01:02:01,280
Speaker 1: math of what the the SEC has available. And in turn,

1263
01:02:01,400 --> 01:02:05,640
Speaker 1: given the way our selection works, we do not have

1264
01:02:05,840 --> 01:02:09,560
Speaker 1: a direct selection on the SEC side. The conference chooses

1265
01:02:09,560 --> 01:02:12,280
Speaker 1: our team, so that could change the math a little bit.

1266
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Speaker 1: So we will certainly keep an eye not only as

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01:02:14,640 --> 01:02:18,840
Speaker 1: college football fans but also as interested parties as it

1268
01:02:18,920 --> 01:02:21,760
Speaker 1: will I think in some ways affect our our selection

1269
01:02:21,840 --> 01:02:24,480
Speaker 1: opportunities come this Sunday when we find out who's coming

1270
01:02:24,520 --> 01:02:26,840
Speaker 1: to the game later this month. Well, that's the part

1271
01:02:26,880 --> 01:02:29,479
Speaker 1: two that I think some people as they think about

1272
01:02:29,520 --> 01:02:33,240
Speaker 1: Bowl games on the SEC side, SEC chooses for you,

1273
01:02:33,360 --> 01:02:35,920
Speaker 1: but Big twelve you have that opportunity to choose. Is

1274
01:02:35,960 --> 01:02:37,840
Speaker 1: that correct? And how does that kind of go down

1275
01:02:38,160 --> 01:02:40,760
Speaker 1: over the weekend? I'm sure it's well before the weekenders

1276
01:02:40,800 --> 01:02:42,720
Speaker 1: you're kind of talking through all the different scenarios. How

1277
01:02:42,720 --> 01:02:44,640
Speaker 1: does that go for you? It's been a fun time

1278
01:02:44,680 --> 01:02:46,760
Speaker 1: of year for me. I mean, a lot of lobby

1279
01:02:46,840 --> 01:02:48,480
Speaker 1: and a lot of talking with friends, a lot of

1280
01:02:48,560 --> 01:02:51,520
Speaker 1: trying to figure out what will be available, what won't

1281
01:02:51,640 --> 01:02:53,480
Speaker 1: And you know, at the end of the day we're

1282
01:02:53,480 --> 01:02:55,280
Speaker 1: going to end up given the fact that we have

1283
01:02:55,360 --> 01:02:58,200
Speaker 1: two incredible conference partners with a great match up here

1284
01:02:58,240 --> 01:03:01,000
Speaker 1: in Houston, There's no doubt about that. But but it

1285
01:03:01,160 --> 01:03:04,000
Speaker 1: is it is one that creates a number of different

1286
01:03:04,000 --> 01:03:07,200
Speaker 1: scenarios and you try and find the best way to

1287
01:03:07,560 --> 01:03:10,520
Speaker 1: navigate what's best for our market, for the fans here,

1288
01:03:10,600 --> 01:03:14,120
Speaker 1: for the teams, the things we know we will be

1289
01:03:14,680 --> 01:03:17,200
Speaker 1: incredible at. We know that the experience here is second

1290
01:03:17,240 --> 01:03:20,200
Speaker 1: and none. We know we have a venue unlike any

1291
01:03:20,240 --> 01:03:22,440
Speaker 1: other in the country, one of the premier destinations in

1292
01:03:22,600 --> 01:03:25,880
Speaker 1: NRG Stadium. Um, we know that this market has supported

1293
01:03:25,920 --> 01:03:28,480
Speaker 1: college football and football as a whole very very well,

1294
01:03:29,040 --> 01:03:30,680
Speaker 1: and we know we're gonna put on a great show.

1295
01:03:30,840 --> 01:03:33,000
Speaker 1: So um, we put a lot of work into all

1296
01:03:33,040 --> 01:03:37,120
Speaker 1: those elements. The teams themselves, they certainly matter. At the

1297
01:03:37,240 --> 01:03:39,560
Speaker 1: end of the day, though, We're we're gonna put on

1298
01:03:39,800 --> 01:03:42,640
Speaker 1: as good an experience as we possibly can for the fans,

1299
01:03:43,040 --> 01:03:46,280
Speaker 1: for the teams while they're here, and for our conference partners,

1300
01:03:46,320 --> 01:03:48,320
Speaker 1: no matter who's in the game, no doubt. I know

1301
01:03:48,400 --> 01:03:50,080
Speaker 1: you definitely will do that. All right, let's get to

1302
01:03:50,360 --> 01:03:54,320
Speaker 1: some possible. CBS Sports put this one up the other

1303
01:03:54,480 --> 01:03:58,920
Speaker 1: day and I thought could be interesting. O'caoma stayed on

1304
01:03:59,000 --> 01:04:02,080
Speaker 1: the big twelveth side, Kentucky on the SEC side. Now,

1305
01:04:02,120 --> 01:04:05,280
Speaker 1: you don't have to shoot anything down or bring anything up,

1306
01:04:05,360 --> 01:04:08,800
Speaker 1: but Oklahoma State Kentucky as a matchup. If Will Levis

1307
01:04:08,880 --> 01:04:11,000
Speaker 1: ended up playing, I think it would be really really interesting.

1308
01:04:11,680 --> 01:04:15,200
Speaker 1: But Oklahoma State Kentucky is that something that possibly could

1309
01:04:15,280 --> 01:04:18,480
Speaker 1: end up on the radar screen. Think anything's possible, Johnny,

1310
01:04:19,440 --> 01:04:21,960
Speaker 1: That's true, That is very very true. It is, you know,

1311
01:04:22,040 --> 01:04:25,400
Speaker 1: two seven and five teams there Kentucky. You mentioned Will

1312
01:04:25,480 --> 01:04:27,840
Speaker 1: Levis up and down around his health and his play

1313
01:04:27,920 --> 01:04:31,200
Speaker 1: this year. They've had a great program they've built around

1314
01:04:31,480 --> 01:04:34,200
Speaker 1: coach Stoops there and uh, you know on the Oklahoma

1315
01:04:34,240 --> 01:04:37,560
Speaker 1: State side, Spencer Sanders again, very very similar story there,

1316
01:04:37,840 --> 01:04:40,280
Speaker 1: based on his health. That's how the teams played this year,

1317
01:04:40,360 --> 01:04:43,080
Speaker 1: up and down seven and five. Hated seeing them lose,

1318
01:04:43,160 --> 01:04:45,840
Speaker 1: but you know their rivalry game, their fan base certainly

1319
01:04:45,880 --> 01:04:48,880
Speaker 1: did in Bedlam. But you know, at the end of

1320
01:04:48,880 --> 01:04:53,240
Speaker 1: the day, two teams that have have had a really

1321
01:04:53,440 --> 01:04:55,960
Speaker 1: good track record of success over the years, two very

1322
01:04:56,000 --> 01:04:58,600
Speaker 1: well known coaches would be a fun matchup a lot

1323
01:04:58,640 --> 01:05:01,360
Speaker 1: offense and that one fletch in a situation like this

1324
01:05:01,480 --> 01:05:03,600
Speaker 1: in the in the Big Twelve, like for example, Oklahoma

1325
01:05:04,440 --> 01:05:08,800
Speaker 1: finishes six and six, it's not often that Oklahoma has

1326
01:05:08,880 --> 01:05:12,720
Speaker 1: been not knocking on the Conference championship door, not in

1327
01:05:12,800 --> 01:05:15,880
Speaker 1: the CFP door, or you know, on a New Year's

1328
01:05:15,880 --> 01:05:21,080
Speaker 1: six is there is there a desire from your side

1329
01:05:21,280 --> 01:05:24,200
Speaker 1: to maybe bring somebody not just this year, but any year,

1330
01:05:24,600 --> 01:05:26,520
Speaker 1: to bring a team to the Bowl that has not

1331
01:05:26,840 --> 01:05:30,520
Speaker 1: been here, something like Oklahoma, maybe Oklahoma State was here

1332
01:05:30,560 --> 01:05:32,520
Speaker 1: in nineteen I believe that was the last ye year

1333
01:05:32,560 --> 01:05:35,080
Speaker 1: here against against Sex Sam. Does that play a role

1334
01:05:35,160 --> 01:05:37,280
Speaker 1: the fact that, hey, there's a good fit like for

1335
01:05:37,400 --> 01:05:40,480
Speaker 1: Oklahoma's case, Oklahoma's got a great fan base here in

1336
01:05:40,480 --> 01:05:42,320
Speaker 1: the city of Houston. I don't think we've ever been

1337
01:05:42,400 --> 01:05:44,840
Speaker 1: in this Bowl game. If we've got an opportunity, how

1338
01:05:44,960 --> 01:05:46,920
Speaker 1: much sense does it make for a team like Oklahoma,

1339
01:05:47,160 --> 01:05:48,680
Speaker 1: The fact that they haven't been here. I think you

1340
01:05:48,760 --> 01:05:51,439
Speaker 1: read my script off the paper here, Johnny. You look

1341
01:05:51,480 --> 01:05:54,880
Speaker 1: any you said it. A tremendous national brand, very loyal

1342
01:05:55,000 --> 01:05:57,280
Speaker 1: fan base, did not have the season that they wanted

1343
01:05:57,320 --> 01:06:00,320
Speaker 1: to have, but but have earned an opportunity to playing

1344
01:06:00,360 --> 01:06:03,440
Speaker 1: the postseason. And UM, have not played in our game before,

1345
01:06:03,600 --> 01:06:06,480
Speaker 1: so certainly a factor as we look at, um, you know,

1346
01:06:06,680 --> 01:06:08,160
Speaker 1: the team that we'll be able to select on the

1347
01:06:08,200 --> 01:06:12,000
Speaker 1: big twelveth side. UM, you never you never turn away

1348
01:06:12,000 --> 01:06:15,680
Speaker 1: an opportunity to consider a brand like Oklahoma. And so

1349
01:06:16,040 --> 01:06:17,840
Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna look at that as as a

1350
01:06:18,000 --> 01:06:20,600
Speaker 1: as a positive. And UM, you know, they they're building

1351
01:06:20,640 --> 01:06:25,560
Speaker 1: something there. UM after a very strange transition. UM last

1352
01:06:25,600 --> 01:06:28,320
Speaker 1: off season. You know, they really did a did a

1353
01:06:28,400 --> 01:06:31,120
Speaker 1: fantastic job finished out last year in San Antonio coach

1354
01:06:31,240 --> 01:06:33,560
Speaker 1: Venables in his first year up and down with a

1355
01:06:33,640 --> 01:06:35,480
Speaker 1: lot of injuries and a lot of things that, um,

1356
01:06:35,720 --> 01:06:37,800
Speaker 1: you know happened throughout the football season as you know,

1357
01:06:38,000 --> 01:06:40,760
Speaker 1: so um. But but they're an incredible program and one

1358
01:06:40,840 --> 01:06:42,200
Speaker 1: that we would love to see here at some point

1359
01:06:42,520 --> 01:06:44,520
Speaker 1: on the SEC side. You're talking about the SEC will

1360
01:06:44,560 --> 01:06:47,600
Speaker 1: pick it for you, Fletch. And there are some teams

1361
01:06:47,680 --> 01:06:49,800
Speaker 1: obviously in that realm, one that I think would be

1362
01:06:49,880 --> 01:06:51,919
Speaker 1: really exciting to see here because we've seen this team

1363
01:06:51,960 --> 01:06:55,240
Speaker 1: before and that's Arkansas, a team that's been in this

1364
01:06:55,360 --> 01:06:59,200
Speaker 1: game before. But we all know how Arkansas travels. And

1365
01:06:59,480 --> 01:07:00,960
Speaker 1: I was doing this with Mark. Mark and I are

1366
01:07:01,000 --> 01:07:03,440
Speaker 1: actually talking one day and we're like, man as Oklahoma

1367
01:07:03,440 --> 01:07:06,439
Speaker 1: and Arkansas once the last time they played, it would

1368
01:07:06,520 --> 01:07:09,120
Speaker 1: feel like or you would think those two teams would

1369
01:07:09,160 --> 01:07:11,040
Speaker 1: play a lot more than they have. And the last

1370
01:07:11,040 --> 01:07:13,200
Speaker 1: time they played, I think Clint Sterner was playing quarterback

1371
01:07:13,240 --> 01:07:16,720
Speaker 1: for Arkansas shortly thereafter. So getting a team like Arkansas

1372
01:07:16,880 --> 01:07:19,560
Speaker 1: in here, what does that do for the Texas Bowl

1373
01:07:19,560 --> 01:07:21,640
Speaker 1: If Arkansas ends up being the pick for the SEC.

1374
01:07:22,640 --> 01:07:25,520
Speaker 1: I mean, Arkansas is a is another one of those

1375
01:07:25,560 --> 01:07:29,360
Speaker 1: incredible brands with a huge following in this region. UM,

1376
01:07:29,840 --> 01:07:32,720
Speaker 1: that type of recipe is a recipe for success, not

1377
01:07:32,880 --> 01:07:35,800
Speaker 1: only for those of us that are putting together these events,

1378
01:07:35,880 --> 01:07:37,760
Speaker 1: but for the fans. You know, they have the energy

1379
01:07:37,880 --> 01:07:40,600
Speaker 1: of of incredible rivals who haven't played in a really

1380
01:07:40,680 --> 01:07:43,160
Speaker 1: long time. UM. Is something that that just adds to

1381
01:07:43,240 --> 01:07:46,920
Speaker 1: that uniqueness of the postseason. And UM, you know Arkansas

1382
01:07:47,000 --> 01:07:49,920
Speaker 1: is a team, UM. You know that that has been

1383
01:07:50,000 --> 01:07:52,320
Speaker 1: up and down this year, lost lost a heartbreaker up

1384
01:07:52,360 --> 01:07:55,360
Speaker 1: in Dallas to a no early in the season, had

1385
01:07:55,400 --> 01:07:58,920
Speaker 1: some injuries and and ultimately, UM, you know, finished their

1386
01:07:58,960 --> 01:08:01,320
Speaker 1: season on a tough note with a loss to our

1387
01:08:01,600 --> 01:08:05,800
Speaker 1: to Missouri. UM. But but you put those type of teams,

1388
01:08:06,120 --> 01:08:08,680
Speaker 1: you know, especially Old South in this region, Old South

1389
01:08:08,800 --> 01:08:11,840
Speaker 1: West Conference, Old Big Eight, you know, teams that have

1390
01:08:12,480 --> 01:08:15,080
Speaker 1: regional rivalries together and you put the record, you throw

1391
01:08:15,120 --> 01:08:16,640
Speaker 1: the records out, You just put them out in the

1392
01:08:16,680 --> 01:08:19,040
Speaker 1: field and you see what happens. And for fans, that's

1393
01:08:19,080 --> 01:08:21,479
Speaker 1: a great experience. And that's something that's really cool about

1394
01:08:21,520 --> 01:08:23,400
Speaker 1: the Bull season as a whole, is the opportunity to

1395
01:08:23,479 --> 01:08:26,000
Speaker 1: see those those matchups, either the ones that you don't

1396
01:08:26,000 --> 01:08:28,120
Speaker 1: get to see very often or the ones you wish

1397
01:08:28,160 --> 01:08:29,720
Speaker 1: you could see a lot more and that and that's

1398
01:08:29,760 --> 01:08:32,479
Speaker 1: something you know, if you put together Arkansas with any

1399
01:08:32,520 --> 01:08:34,519
Speaker 1: of the teams that that um, you know, are are

1400
01:08:35,280 --> 01:08:39,639
Speaker 1: potentially available to us, with Oklahoma, Baylor, Oak State, UM,

1401
01:08:39,800 --> 01:08:42,240
Speaker 1: even Kansas, you know you look at that, at that universe,

1402
01:08:42,320 --> 01:08:44,840
Speaker 1: that there's some um, there's some magic in those And

1403
01:08:44,960 --> 01:08:46,960
Speaker 1: of course Texas Tech and them had had a lot

1404
01:08:47,040 --> 01:08:50,320
Speaker 1: of fun together. Um just in the last few years

1405
01:08:50,320 --> 01:08:51,920
Speaker 1: to go back to the Biluma years, a little little

1406
01:08:51,960 --> 01:08:56,559
Speaker 1: energy from that. Oh yeah, no, no question. So I'm

1407
01:08:56,640 --> 01:08:59,680
Speaker 1: sitting here right now or are on Sunday? Where do

1408
01:08:59,720 --> 01:09:02,320
Speaker 1: you sit in the big twelve side of things? What

1409
01:09:02,800 --> 01:09:04,800
Speaker 1: decision or what choice do you have? What's the number

1410
01:09:04,800 --> 01:09:07,400
Speaker 1: of choice? So we sit in the third selection after

1411
01:09:07,520 --> 01:09:11,519
Speaker 1: the CFP has selected their teams, and so um the

1412
01:09:11,640 --> 01:09:13,960
Speaker 1: Alamo Bowl in San Antonio is ahead of us and

1413
01:09:14,120 --> 01:09:18,200
Speaker 1: the Cheese At Bowl in Orlando is also ahead of

1414
01:09:18,280 --> 01:09:21,759
Speaker 1: us in that order. So UM, well we'll be watching

1415
01:09:22,000 --> 01:09:24,720
Speaker 1: seeing how things unfold relative to the CFP the New

1416
01:09:24,840 --> 01:09:27,320
Speaker 1: Year's six and then those two events ahead of us.

1417
01:09:27,560 --> 01:09:30,840
Speaker 1: UM come Sunday afternoon, and um, you know, certainly working

1418
01:09:30,880 --> 01:09:33,120
Speaker 1: with our our partners at ESPN to try and figure

1419
01:09:33,160 --> 01:09:36,760
Speaker 1: out and advance of that what we think our realities are.

1420
01:09:37,240 --> 01:09:39,000
Speaker 1: And uh, like I said, a lot of lobby and

1421
01:09:39,000 --> 01:09:40,519
Speaker 1: a lot of politics and a lot of talking going

1422
01:09:40,560 --> 01:09:43,000
Speaker 1: on these days, which is a fun part of the job.

1423
01:09:43,080 --> 01:09:45,920
Speaker 1: And ultimately, you know, we'll make a selection of a

1424
01:09:46,040 --> 01:09:48,800
Speaker 1: very deserving team. We'll have a fantastic opponent on the

1425
01:09:48,880 --> 01:09:52,879
Speaker 1: other side, and come December twenty eighth, Prime time ESPN

1426
01:09:53,280 --> 01:09:55,960
Speaker 1: right here at RG Stadium, gonna be another fun showcase

1427
01:09:56,000 --> 01:09:58,639
Speaker 1: in the Taxact Texas Bowl. It absolutely is flash there's

1428
01:09:58,640 --> 01:10:01,479
Speaker 1: no doubt, and you mentioned earlier case date locked into

1429
01:10:01,560 --> 01:10:05,439
Speaker 1: Sugar Bowl. No matter what happens, TCU loses, I would

1430
01:10:05,439 --> 01:10:09,080
Speaker 1: imagine they would end up in a New Year's sixth ball,

1431
01:10:09,320 --> 01:10:11,600
Speaker 1: is my guest, with only one loss coming out of

1432
01:10:11,600 --> 01:10:14,160
Speaker 1: the big twils. Are you you kind of a feeling that, Okay,

1433
01:10:14,240 --> 01:10:15,920
Speaker 1: we know these two teams are going to end up

1434
01:10:16,000 --> 01:10:18,880
Speaker 1: in those in those particular balls out to the cee

1435
01:10:18,880 --> 01:10:22,519
Speaker 1: aps picked and those make it any easier for you

1436
01:10:22,680 --> 01:10:26,280
Speaker 1: to know that going in or is it better in

1437
01:10:26,400 --> 01:10:28,120
Speaker 1: some sense over the weekend to kind of have a

1438
01:10:28,160 --> 01:10:30,479
Speaker 1: little bit of WHOA, we didn't see that coming and

1439
01:10:30,600 --> 01:10:32,120
Speaker 1: now all of a sudden that's changed up maybe the

1440
01:10:32,200 --> 01:10:33,360
Speaker 1: things that we want to be able to do with

1441
01:10:33,439 --> 01:10:37,800
Speaker 1: the game. Yeah, a certainty doesn't hurt, and so we

1442
01:10:38,000 --> 01:10:40,840
Speaker 1: know we have a very good understanding of really those

1443
01:10:40,960 --> 01:10:44,559
Speaker 1: those top two as we've talked about. UM, I don't

1444
01:10:44,680 --> 01:10:47,120
Speaker 1: want to speak for the Alamo Bowl, but I feel

1445
01:10:47,160 --> 01:10:49,160
Speaker 1: pretty confident based on the season that the University of

1446
01:10:49,240 --> 01:10:51,960
Speaker 1: Texas had that there's a high likelihood that they're in

1447
01:10:52,080 --> 01:10:54,880
Speaker 1: San Antonio. So those three spots on the Big twelve

1448
01:10:54,960 --> 01:10:57,599
Speaker 1: side helped to create certainty with us to some degree

1449
01:10:58,080 --> 01:11:00,559
Speaker 1: on how we can plan and create the right experience

1450
01:11:00,640 --> 01:11:03,320
Speaker 1: and work in advance to to really hit the ground

1451
01:11:03,360 --> 01:11:06,600
Speaker 1: running when these teams are selected. And UM, for for

1452
01:11:06,680 --> 01:11:09,320
Speaker 1: the fans, you know that that means that, UM, you know,

1453
01:11:09,439 --> 01:11:11,920
Speaker 1: they can start planning a little bit earlier, they can

1454
01:11:11,960 --> 01:11:15,519
Speaker 1: start thinking about where they're gonna go. Certainly for the teams, UM,

1455
01:11:15,600 --> 01:11:19,479
Speaker 1: the opportunity to work quickly. I mean these are short windows.

1456
01:11:19,640 --> 01:11:21,840
Speaker 1: You know, you have a season that's set two, three,

1457
01:11:21,920 --> 01:11:24,679
Speaker 1: ten years in advance, and then you get to the postseason.

1458
01:11:24,760 --> 01:11:26,680
Speaker 1: You get two weeks to figure it out exactly. So

1459
01:11:27,240 --> 01:11:29,439
Speaker 1: you know it is it is, it is a part

1460
01:11:29,479 --> 01:11:32,519
Speaker 1: of the equation that does help. Um, We've had a

1461
01:11:32,600 --> 01:11:35,680
Speaker 1: lot of the teams that are available based on what

1462
01:11:35,800 --> 01:11:40,280
Speaker 1: we think UM here in at Argy Stadium in recent years,

1463
01:11:40,600 --> 01:11:43,240
Speaker 1: I've got a lot of great relationships there, so UM,

1464
01:11:43,400 --> 01:11:45,519
Speaker 1: you know, I think we're well positioned to be able

1465
01:11:45,520 --> 01:11:48,600
Speaker 1: to create an incredible experience for the teams, for the

1466
01:11:48,720 --> 01:11:50,320
Speaker 1: fans and do it in a in a in a

1467
01:11:50,400 --> 01:11:52,600
Speaker 1: quick manner so that people can get to planning and

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Speaker 1: and and get to to getting excited about the match

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01:11:55,960 --> 01:11:57,519
Speaker 1: up ahead of them that it's just gonna be a

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01:11:57,640 --> 01:12:01,880
Speaker 1: fantastic event for that would like to go. When the

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01:12:01,920 --> 01:12:04,519
Speaker 1: announcement is made or even before the announcement submitted, how

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01:12:04,560 --> 01:12:06,880
Speaker 1: can they go get tickets? Yeah, tax Act Texas Bowl

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01:12:06,960 --> 01:12:09,640
Speaker 1: dot Com is our website. We go on sale this

1474
01:12:09,840 --> 01:12:13,040
Speaker 1: Sunday morning, So selection Sunday you have a chance to

1475
01:12:13,120 --> 01:12:15,320
Speaker 1: get in and get your seats. As you see and

1476
01:12:15,439 --> 01:12:18,400
Speaker 1: how things are unfolded, tax Act Texas Bowl dot Com

1477
01:12:18,920 --> 01:12:20,760
Speaker 1: have a chance to get in with your groups right now,

1478
01:12:20,960 --> 01:12:23,639
Speaker 1: so you can just check out the website there for details.

1479
01:12:24,160 --> 01:12:26,080
Speaker 1: I would I would say this, Johnny M. You know,

1480
01:12:26,880 --> 01:12:28,320
Speaker 1: this is a game that is one of the most

1481
01:12:28,360 --> 01:12:31,960
Speaker 1: attended games in the country. Houston has always supported college

1482
01:12:32,000 --> 01:12:35,920
Speaker 1: football in a big, big way. We fully expect and

1483
01:12:36,479 --> 01:12:40,240
Speaker 1: will be creating an experience that matches what those expectations are.

1484
01:12:40,280 --> 01:12:42,519
Speaker 1: Come to summer twenty eighth. For the teams, though, I'd

1485
01:12:42,560 --> 01:12:44,040
Speaker 1: say this, and this is something I talked to Chris

1486
01:12:44,160 --> 01:12:46,599
Speaker 1: Climbing about back in May and even text with him

1487
01:12:46,680 --> 01:12:50,040
Speaker 1: just last week, the head coach at Kansas State. You know,

1488
01:12:50,200 --> 01:12:52,800
Speaker 1: this is the game where six of the last eight years,

1489
01:12:52,920 --> 01:12:55,640
Speaker 1: the winner of our game has played in the New

1490
01:12:55,760 --> 01:12:57,960
Speaker 1: Year's six the next year. So this is a game

1491
01:12:58,000 --> 01:13:00,479
Speaker 1: that you're gonna have two teams that are building for

1492
01:13:00,600 --> 01:13:03,280
Speaker 1: next year right now, and they know how important winning

1493
01:13:03,320 --> 01:13:05,960
Speaker 1: this game, having the fan support for this game and

1494
01:13:06,320 --> 01:13:08,760
Speaker 1: putting on a good show is for their future. And

1495
01:13:08,960 --> 01:13:12,080
Speaker 1: I would expect nothing different out whoever comes together come

1496
01:13:12,120 --> 01:13:15,080
Speaker 1: December twenty eighth. It's gonna be fascinating, and my man

1497
01:13:15,200 --> 01:13:17,280
Speaker 1: David Fletcher is gonna be at the forefront of all

1498
01:13:17,280 --> 01:13:19,439
Speaker 1: of it. Fletcher the best man. Thank you very much. Thanks.

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01:13:20,320 --> 01:13:23,439
Speaker 1: I've always thought that Fletch had a great job, and

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01:13:23,439 --> 01:13:25,360
Speaker 1: I want to say it envied it because it's tough,

1501
01:13:26,000 --> 01:13:30,280
Speaker 1: really tough. Case in point the Liberty Bowl was gonna

1502
01:13:30,360 --> 01:13:35,720
Speaker 1: put together Missouri in Kansas. That's a rivalry that in

1503
01:13:35,840 --> 01:13:37,960
Speaker 1: the Big eight Big twelve. Me they've been a rivalry

1504
01:13:38,000 --> 01:13:42,760
Speaker 1: forever until Missouri left the Big twelve to go to

1505
01:13:42,760 --> 01:13:47,000
Speaker 1: the SEC. That is a that's a hatred rivalry. I mean,

1506
01:13:47,080 --> 01:13:50,200
Speaker 1: that's one where there is hatred between the teams, there's

1507
01:13:50,240 --> 01:13:53,280
Speaker 1: no doubt. I mean, that's a that's the Kansas Missouri

1508
01:13:53,439 --> 01:13:56,800
Speaker 1: version of Texas Texas A and am Auburn Alabama. There's

1509
01:13:56,840 --> 01:14:00,240
Speaker 1: there's pure hatred amongst those teams. And so Liberty Bowls like, man,

1510
01:14:00,560 --> 01:14:04,720
Speaker 1: we got this SEC Big twelve, like the Texas Ball

1511
01:14:04,760 --> 01:14:10,240
Speaker 1: has put together Missouri and Kansas, and Missouri goes, nope, well,

1512
01:14:10,320 --> 01:14:12,960
Speaker 1: we don't want to play that game, Like wait, what

1513
01:14:13,680 --> 01:14:17,719
Speaker 1: you got that? Wait this could be awesome, this would

1514
01:14:17,880 --> 01:14:20,280
Speaker 1: I mean this the ball is probably thinking we've got

1515
01:14:20,360 --> 01:14:23,240
Speaker 1: this on. This is gonna be fantastic. Nope, Missouri says, Nope,

1516
01:14:23,360 --> 01:14:27,320
Speaker 1: not playing the ball, okay, and now you got to

1517
01:14:27,360 --> 01:14:30,400
Speaker 1: pick somebody else. That's what fletches up against. In some sense.

1518
01:14:30,479 --> 01:14:32,760
Speaker 1: It doesn't happen every year like that for every ball,

1519
01:14:33,320 --> 01:14:35,080
Speaker 1: but the balls are kind of at the whims of

1520
01:14:35,120 --> 01:14:37,560
Speaker 1: the schools, the conferences, especially in the SEC, because the

1521
01:14:37,680 --> 01:14:39,880
Speaker 1: SEC picks where it wants its team to go, So

1522
01:14:40,840 --> 01:14:43,160
Speaker 1: tough stuff there for liberty ball. But hopefully we're gonna

1523
01:14:43,160 --> 01:14:45,880
Speaker 1: get not hopefully we will get a great matchup one

1524
01:14:45,920 --> 01:14:49,559
Speaker 1: way or the other. Finding out on Sunday, probably around

1525
01:14:49,560 --> 01:14:52,880
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter into the game, I would think we'll

1526
01:14:52,920 --> 01:14:54,479
Speaker 1: find out what that matchup is gonna be. All Right,

1527
01:14:54,520 --> 01:14:56,599
Speaker 1: we get back, We got to hear from Jordan Nakins

1528
01:14:56,680 --> 01:14:59,519
Speaker 1: with Drew's Final Word, and we got some Houston Methodist minutes,

1529
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:01,800
Speaker 1: and anything that we missed we'll clean up in that

1530
01:15:01,960 --> 01:15:06,519
Speaker 1: last segment right here on Texans All Access. We got

1531
01:15:06,600 --> 01:15:08,679
Speaker 1: one final segment of this edition of Texans All Access

1532
01:15:08,840 --> 01:15:11,639
Speaker 1: from the Honday Texans Radio studio. I'm your host, John

1533
01:15:11,680 --> 01:15:15,080
Speaker 1: Harris Football and a sideline reporter, and we've got plenty

1534
01:15:15,200 --> 01:15:18,920
Speaker 1: to do. In this segment, we gotta hear from Jordan

1535
01:15:18,960 --> 01:15:23,120
Speaker 1: Nakins again, because there's always a Drews dozen side and

1536
01:15:23,240 --> 01:15:26,760
Speaker 1: then there's the football Drew Dory side. We call that

1537
01:15:26,840 --> 01:15:28,720
Speaker 1: one Drews Final Words. So we'll get the Drews Final

1538
01:15:28,800 --> 01:15:33,360
Speaker 1: Word here in just a second. But every Friday we

1539
01:15:33,520 --> 01:15:37,080
Speaker 1: get in some Houston Methodist Minutes. Mark Vanimer sits down

1540
01:15:37,120 --> 01:15:39,400
Speaker 1: with one of the great doctors at Houston Methodists and

1541
01:15:39,560 --> 01:15:43,240
Speaker 1: cranks out this content for you. Joining us right now

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01:15:43,360 --> 01:15:47,360
Speaker 1: on Houston Methodist Minutes. It's Rachel Poe, athletic trainer for

1543
01:15:47,479 --> 01:15:50,519
Speaker 1: Houston Methodist. Rachel, how's it going today? I'm doing well.

1544
01:15:50,600 --> 01:15:52,800
Speaker 1: How are you doing great? You and I are going

1545
01:15:52,840 --> 01:15:56,920
Speaker 1: to help people right now. New Year's workouts. People start

1546
01:15:56,960 --> 01:15:59,479
Speaker 1: them after the holidays. Oh my gosh, I ate too

1547
01:15:59,600 --> 01:16:01,519
Speaker 1: much over the holidays. I need to start my New

1548
01:16:01,600 --> 01:16:04,400
Speaker 1: Year's work out. How do they do it early? Let's

1549
01:16:04,400 --> 01:16:08,400
Speaker 1: do a preemptive strike on the holiday, eating the holiday

1550
01:16:08,439 --> 01:16:10,840
Speaker 1: five or ten pounds, whatever it is. Rachel, what are

1551
01:16:10,880 --> 01:16:13,880
Speaker 1: your initial thoughts on this besides maybe try to eat

1552
01:16:13,880 --> 01:16:18,000
Speaker 1: a little bit less going into the holidays. Well, I'm

1553
01:16:18,040 --> 01:16:20,880
Speaker 1: a big holiday person. I think you know, indulge as

1554
01:16:20,960 --> 01:16:23,120
Speaker 1: much as you'd like, but be mindful, you know of

1555
01:16:23,640 --> 01:16:25,519
Speaker 1: of how you're going to feel maybe the next day

1556
01:16:25,680 --> 01:16:28,800
Speaker 1: or the next few weeks. I think the big thing is,

1557
01:16:29,040 --> 01:16:31,000
Speaker 1: you know, when you're trying to get a jump on it, though,

1558
01:16:31,560 --> 01:16:34,640
Speaker 1: to really consider what your goals are going to be

1559
01:16:35,120 --> 01:16:37,880
Speaker 1: and what your personal preferences are going to be when

1560
01:16:37,920 --> 01:16:42,280
Speaker 1: it comes to maybe starting a new workout routine. You

1561
01:16:42,360 --> 01:16:45,880
Speaker 1: know your goals, you know most of us always say, right, oh,

1562
01:16:45,920 --> 01:16:48,360
Speaker 1: I just want to lose weight. Lose weight. I think

1563
01:16:48,400 --> 01:16:50,320
Speaker 1: it's important too to think about the things that you

1564
01:16:50,439 --> 01:16:53,639
Speaker 1: want to gain. Right, So, maybe I'm going I want

1565
01:16:53,640 --> 01:16:57,240
Speaker 1: to gain cardiovascular fitness. What does that look like? Well,

1566
01:16:57,320 --> 01:16:59,080
Speaker 1: I'm going to start swimming, or I'm going to start

1567
01:16:59,439 --> 01:17:02,320
Speaker 1: going for walks riding a bike, right, or maybe my

1568
01:17:02,439 --> 01:17:04,640
Speaker 1: goals are to gain muscle. Okay, I'm going to get

1569
01:17:04,680 --> 01:17:06,400
Speaker 1: in the gym. I'm going to learn, you know, some

1570
01:17:06,560 --> 01:17:10,200
Speaker 1: things about lifting, or you know, maybe it's just more abstract.

1571
01:17:10,240 --> 01:17:12,920
Speaker 1: I want to gain confidence. I want to gain you know,

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01:17:13,080 --> 01:17:15,519
Speaker 1: just overall wellness. I think it's important to kind of

1573
01:17:15,600 --> 01:17:17,800
Speaker 1: frame it that way, in a positive way, rather than

1574
01:17:17,880 --> 01:17:22,520
Speaker 1: thinking about losing something and loss I like that psychologically

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01:17:23,040 --> 01:17:27,080
Speaker 1: tell me something. Yes, yes, I read sometimes about if

1576
01:17:27,160 --> 01:17:30,680
Speaker 1: you want to lose weight, maybe gaining muscle is not

1577
01:17:31,120 --> 01:17:33,000
Speaker 1: the only way to go, but a good way to

1578
01:17:33,040 --> 01:17:35,120
Speaker 1: go in addition to some cardio and how do you

1579
01:17:35,200 --> 01:17:38,519
Speaker 1: balance that out? Also? Are we talking about becoming young

1580
01:17:38,680 --> 01:17:42,040
Speaker 1: Arnold Schwarzenegger here, or does a little go a long way.

1581
01:17:42,160 --> 01:17:44,200
Speaker 1: How do you feel about that? Right? I think a

1582
01:17:44,280 --> 01:17:46,560
Speaker 1: little definitely goes a long way. I think even just

1583
01:17:46,720 --> 01:17:50,639
Speaker 1: making those small healthy choices throughout your day, taking the stairs,

1584
01:17:51,240 --> 01:17:54,880
Speaker 1: parking a little further away, maybe choosing the grilled over

1585
01:17:54,960 --> 01:17:59,600
Speaker 1: the fried version of something. But also I think I

1586
01:17:59,720 --> 01:18:02,639
Speaker 1: think too, you know, yeah, if you're if you're working out,

1587
01:18:02,720 --> 01:18:05,080
Speaker 1: you're going to gain muscle. And I think sometimes that

1588
01:18:05,200 --> 01:18:07,639
Speaker 1: frustrates people when they step on the scale and they say,

1589
01:18:07,720 --> 01:18:10,320
Speaker 1: I don't understand I've been working out, Why am I

1590
01:18:10,400 --> 01:18:13,559
Speaker 1: not losing weight? Well, the number on the scale may

1591
01:18:13,640 --> 01:18:16,519
Speaker 1: not change much for you because you're losing fat but

1592
01:18:16,680 --> 01:18:19,680
Speaker 1: gaining muscle, so that the pounds may be different, But

1593
01:18:19,800 --> 01:18:22,320
Speaker 1: the way you feel, the way maybe your clothes, that

1594
01:18:22,600 --> 01:18:25,320
Speaker 1: that's going to change over time. How much can you

1595
01:18:25,400 --> 01:18:28,120
Speaker 1: do at home without going to an actual gym? What

1596
01:18:28,200 --> 01:18:31,800
Speaker 1: do you recommend just to get started exercises people can

1597
01:18:31,840 --> 01:18:34,400
Speaker 1: maybe even do in their living room. Yeah. I think

1598
01:18:34,960 --> 01:18:37,280
Speaker 1: working out at home is great. I think we learn

1599
01:18:37,360 --> 01:18:39,120
Speaker 1: not in the pandemic, that a lot of us can

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01:18:39,200 --> 01:18:42,120
Speaker 1: do more than we think at home. You know, at

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01:18:42,200 --> 01:18:45,479
Speaker 1: home yoga is great for just overall, you know, balance,

1602
01:18:45,800 --> 01:18:49,120
Speaker 1: your core strength, It makes you feel good in the morning.

1603
01:18:49,240 --> 01:18:51,760
Speaker 1: To get your day started. You can go for a

1604
01:18:51,800 --> 01:18:53,800
Speaker 1: walk in your neighborhood, go for a job in your

1605
01:18:53,800 --> 01:18:56,759
Speaker 1: neighborhood if you're feeling a little more adventurous. I personally

1606
01:18:56,840 --> 01:18:59,160
Speaker 1: I don't have a gym membership at all, but I

1607
01:18:59,360 --> 01:19:02,080
Speaker 1: go for run regularly because it's something that I know

1608
01:19:02,240 --> 01:19:06,519
Speaker 1: I can maintain and I can do from home anytime. Rachel,

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01:19:06,640 --> 01:19:10,400
Speaker 1: great information. We really appreciate the visit. Thanks a lot, Yes, sir,

1610
01:19:10,680 --> 01:19:14,479
Speaker 1: thank you. Rachel Poe, athletic trainer with Houston Methodist, the

1611
01:19:14,560 --> 01:19:18,240
Speaker 1: official healthcare provider of the Houston Texans. Houston Methodist dot org,

1612
01:19:18,479 --> 01:19:22,439
Speaker 1: Houston Methodist Leading Medicine. Man. Holiday season is so important

1613
01:19:22,439 --> 01:19:25,400
Speaker 1: to get your walks in, not at not just at

1614
01:19:25,520 --> 01:19:28,040
Speaker 1: malls or many anybody go to the mall now for

1615
01:19:28,160 --> 01:19:31,840
Speaker 1: Christmas shopping. I'm sure you do. I'd imagine maybe not. Man.

1616
01:19:32,280 --> 01:19:34,360
Speaker 1: That actually, as crazy as it would get, it actually

1617
01:19:34,439 --> 01:19:36,200
Speaker 1: is kind of fun. I always used I used to

1618
01:19:36,280 --> 01:19:39,600
Speaker 1: love going to malls for Christmas shopping, and now I

1619
01:19:39,600 --> 01:19:41,760
Speaker 1: don't know if I do that as much, but still

1620
01:19:41,800 --> 01:19:44,040
Speaker 1: fun nonetheless, So if you're doing it, great. I don't

1621
01:19:44,040 --> 01:19:47,040
Speaker 1: know what Jordan Nakins does for his Christmas shopping, but

1622
01:19:47,120 --> 01:19:48,800
Speaker 1: I do know he plays football and plays it very

1623
01:19:48,840 --> 01:19:50,880
Speaker 1: well for the Texans. And he sat down with Drew

1624
01:19:50,920 --> 01:19:54,840
Speaker 1: Dohorty for Drew's final word, Drew, take it away, Jordan,

1625
01:19:54,920 --> 01:19:57,600
Speaker 1: always good to be with you. Like, what do the

1626
01:19:57,720 --> 01:20:00,559
Speaker 1: Texans need to do on the whole? Turn things around?

1627
01:20:00,600 --> 01:20:02,760
Speaker 1: Get a w on Sunday. I'll just say, come out

1628
01:20:02,760 --> 01:20:04,280
Speaker 1: with a hall on fire, come out with the energy

1629
01:20:04,360 --> 01:20:06,559
Speaker 1: and you know the hearts to win and just give

1630
01:20:06,600 --> 01:20:08,680
Speaker 1: it everything. We haven't started early. You know, it's been

1631
01:20:08,720 --> 01:20:11,040
Speaker 1: a tough season on the whole. You've had a really

1632
01:20:11,080 --> 01:20:13,280
Speaker 1: good season since Week three, since you got back in

1633
01:20:13,320 --> 01:20:15,320
Speaker 1: the lineup. There's only one guy in the NFL that

1634
01:20:15,360 --> 01:20:17,400
Speaker 1: plays tight ended. It has more yards per catch than

1635
01:20:17,439 --> 01:20:21,160
Speaker 1: your fourteen point three per what's going on? Man? I'm

1636
01:20:21,240 --> 01:20:23,920
Speaker 1: just hungry, man. I want to play the game. I

1637
01:20:24,000 --> 01:20:25,559
Speaker 1: have a lot to prove and you know I'm playing

1638
01:20:25,560 --> 01:20:27,559
Speaker 1: with a chip on my show down, playing with vengeance,

1639
01:20:27,600 --> 01:20:29,479
Speaker 1: so you know, anytime I get the ball in trying

1640
01:20:29,479 --> 01:20:31,639
Speaker 1: to cross that follow line. And we saw that on Sunday.

1641
01:20:31,680 --> 01:20:32,960
Speaker 1: It was a tough day on the whole, but that

1642
01:20:33,120 --> 01:20:34,400
Speaker 1: was one of the players of the game. I'll say

1643
01:20:34,400 --> 01:20:36,760
Speaker 1: it's the play of the game because you got the ball,

1644
01:20:37,040 --> 01:20:40,320
Speaker 1: you attack the goal line with anger in your eyes

1645
01:20:40,360 --> 01:20:42,760
Speaker 1: and your heart. What was it like once you get

1646
01:20:42,800 --> 01:20:45,760
Speaker 1: there and you realize it's me and that's this guy Minoimo?

1647
01:20:45,880 --> 01:20:48,639
Speaker 1: You know, I mean, I'm definitely not looking to lose,

1648
01:20:48,720 --> 01:20:50,760
Speaker 1: so you know you're gonna get my best shot. And

1649
01:20:51,120 --> 01:20:54,160
Speaker 1: you know, he definitely got me good early in the game.

1650
01:20:54,240 --> 01:20:55,880
Speaker 1: So when I seen him, you know, it was a rematch.

1651
01:20:55,920 --> 01:20:58,120
Speaker 1: It I wasn't going down twice. All right, Let's talk

1652
01:20:58,160 --> 01:21:01,160
Speaker 1: about the weekend or week ahead. This is a very

1653
01:21:01,240 --> 01:21:03,120
Speaker 1: odd matchup. Listen, You've been in the league long enough.

1654
01:21:03,120 --> 01:21:05,000
Speaker 1: You're gonna play against guys that used to be here

1655
01:21:05,200 --> 01:21:07,000
Speaker 1: a lot, and that happens. But this is a little

1656
01:21:07,040 --> 01:21:09,479
Speaker 1: different to Shaun Watson as a quarterback. How odd does

1657
01:21:09,560 --> 01:21:11,519
Speaker 1: that make that, you know, no bad blood and no

1658
01:21:11,640 --> 01:21:13,599
Speaker 1: love laws. We'll see how I goes. You know, hopefully

1659
01:21:13,640 --> 01:21:15,000
Speaker 1: we come out with a win. Yeah. Another guy that

1660
01:21:15,040 --> 01:21:16,479
Speaker 1: you played with that's gonna be on the other side

1661
01:21:16,479 --> 01:21:19,799
Speaker 1: of the ball is Jadeveon Clowney. We know what Clowney

1662
01:21:19,840 --> 01:21:21,920
Speaker 1: can do. That's a good front seven as a whole.

1663
01:21:21,960 --> 01:21:23,479
Speaker 1: How does that factor into what you have to do

1664
01:21:23,560 --> 01:21:25,360
Speaker 1: as a tight end. You know, I just it just

1665
01:21:25,439 --> 01:21:27,160
Speaker 1: made me focus more and you know, and you know,

1666
01:21:27,360 --> 01:21:29,160
Speaker 1: I just want to be out there more and define

1667
01:21:29,280 --> 01:21:30,680
Speaker 1: is good to play against those guys. You know, I

1668
01:21:30,720 --> 01:21:32,439
Speaker 1: have chemistry with those guys and I kind of know

1669
01:21:32,520 --> 01:21:34,240
Speaker 1: that game a little bit. So you know it's going

1670
01:21:34,320 --> 01:21:36,120
Speaker 1: to be fine. You see who wins. Yeah, you guys

1671
01:21:36,160 --> 01:21:38,320
Speaker 1: have played them quite a bit over the last few seasons.

1672
01:21:38,720 --> 01:21:42,479
Speaker 1: What's the most challenging part of that defense? Especially upfront? Man,

1673
01:21:43,000 --> 01:21:45,400
Speaker 1: they're just athletes. Man, They're very strong. They just can

1674
01:21:45,439 --> 01:21:47,040
Speaker 1: turn it on whenever they want to. You know, so

1675
01:21:47,400 --> 01:21:49,200
Speaker 1: every player, you can't take a playoff. You got to

1676
01:21:49,240 --> 01:21:51,720
Speaker 1: combady and come prepare so you know, made the best

1677
01:21:51,760 --> 01:21:53,960
Speaker 1: man win. All season long, Texans have run the ball

1678
01:21:54,040 --> 01:21:56,360
Speaker 1: really well with Damian Pierce except for the last few weeks.

1679
01:21:56,600 --> 01:21:58,360
Speaker 1: What's got to change? And what can you guys do

1680
01:21:58,439 --> 01:22:01,360
Speaker 1: to help kickstart that change? Perhaps just the urgency and

1681
01:22:01,560 --> 01:22:03,960
Speaker 1: you know, to move the defensive line. You know, just

1682
01:22:04,080 --> 01:22:06,080
Speaker 1: come out with the want to. You know, I think

1683
01:22:06,120 --> 01:22:07,920
Speaker 1: blocking is a want too, and to give you your

1684
01:22:07,960 --> 01:22:09,680
Speaker 1: best and move the front line and Damon let him

1685
01:22:09,680 --> 01:22:11,320
Speaker 1: do what you do. All right, One last thing, what

1686
01:22:11,360 --> 01:22:13,320
Speaker 1: do you eat game day? For a nooner here at

1687
01:22:13,400 --> 01:22:16,600
Speaker 1: ten RG before the game? As before the game, I

1688
01:22:17,320 --> 01:22:19,880
Speaker 1: may have like a scoop of eggs and two pieces

1689
01:22:19,880 --> 01:22:22,080
Speaker 1: of bacon. I'm not a big time before the game.

1690
01:22:22,160 --> 01:22:25,120
Speaker 1: So since you brought what do you eat after after

1691
01:22:25,200 --> 01:22:29,320
Speaker 1: the games? You know my lady she throws now mostly

1692
01:22:29,400 --> 01:22:31,640
Speaker 1: like Puerto Rican foods. Puerto Rican food Yeah, she's full

1693
01:22:31,680 --> 01:22:33,439
Speaker 1: blood Puerto Rican. Sell you know, I get the best.

1694
01:22:33,520 --> 01:22:35,559
Speaker 1: You know? There you go, all right, Well, I hope

1695
01:22:35,600 --> 01:22:38,600
Speaker 1: it's a bounciful Puerto Rican feast after a w for you,

1696
01:22:38,720 --> 01:22:40,960
Speaker 1: Jordan Nakins, thanks so much for the time. Best of

1697
01:22:41,040 --> 01:22:42,880
Speaker 1: luck to you this game and the rest of the way.

1698
01:22:43,120 --> 01:22:46,320
Speaker 1: Appreciate you, all right, all right, man, We appreciate Jordan

1699
01:22:46,360 --> 01:22:50,120
Speaker 1: Nakins for being a part of this show. He is

1700
01:22:50,600 --> 01:22:52,920
Speaker 1: just since he got here as a rookie and twenty

1701
01:22:52,960 --> 01:22:55,400
Speaker 1: eighteen never felt like a rookie, which I mean he

1702
01:22:55,479 --> 01:22:58,599
Speaker 1: spent his quote unquote rookie years in the minor leagues.

1703
01:22:58,640 --> 01:23:00,719
Speaker 1: He learned how to be a professional. We always appreciate

1704
01:23:00,840 --> 01:23:03,439
Speaker 1: him jumping on the show, whether it's Withdrew or Deep

1705
01:23:03,640 --> 01:23:06,240
Speaker 1: or Me and Mark. He's been fantastic and He's been

1706
01:23:06,280 --> 01:23:08,600
Speaker 1: fantastic this year, and hopefully the Texans can find a

1707
01:23:08,680 --> 01:23:12,000
Speaker 1: way to get him the football on Sunday again. This

1708
01:23:12,200 --> 01:23:14,760
Speaker 1: offense really seems to go when eighty eight gets his

1709
01:23:14,800 --> 01:23:18,400
Speaker 1: hands on the ball. Last week against the Miami Dolphins,

1710
01:23:18,880 --> 01:23:22,519
Speaker 1: when Jordan Nakins caught a pass, got up the field,

1711
01:23:23,160 --> 01:23:26,120
Speaker 1: took on Javon Holland and rammed him into the end zone,

1712
01:23:26,360 --> 01:23:28,479
Speaker 1: scoring a touchdown, the second touchdown on the day for

1713
01:23:28,560 --> 01:23:32,280
Speaker 1: the Texans. Now, we can't look past the fumble that

1714
01:23:32,640 --> 01:23:36,760
Speaker 1: was returned for a touchdown, but that for Jordan is

1715
01:23:36,840 --> 01:23:39,120
Speaker 1: such a rare instance. I would think that's behind him.

1716
01:23:39,160 --> 01:23:42,760
Speaker 1: But really need him to play a great game. Need

1717
01:23:42,880 --> 01:23:44,880
Speaker 1: for a number of different things to happen on Sunday.

1718
01:23:45,160 --> 01:23:47,120
Speaker 1: Need for pressure to get to Deshaun Watson, need to

1719
01:23:47,200 --> 01:23:50,480
Speaker 1: make mistakes. Need to be able to block the interior

1720
01:23:50,520 --> 01:23:54,439
Speaker 1: of the Browns defense. It's not like other interiors the

1721
01:23:54,520 --> 01:23:57,439
Speaker 1: Texans have faced, but now they can't let Clowney and

1722
01:23:57,600 --> 01:23:59,880
Speaker 1: Garrett go to work on the outside. Titus Howard has

1723
01:23:59,920 --> 01:24:02,200
Speaker 1: to play much better than you did last week. Texas

1724
01:24:02,280 --> 01:24:03,640
Speaker 1: gotta be able to run the ball, get Dami it

1725
01:24:03,680 --> 01:24:05,400
Speaker 1: Pierced back involved, and if he's not gonna run it.

1726
01:24:05,520 --> 01:24:07,960
Speaker 1: Throw it to him. Kyle Allen has to get comfortable

1727
01:24:08,120 --> 01:24:11,599
Speaker 1: very very early. The defense has to tackle well, they

1728
01:24:11,640 --> 01:24:13,400
Speaker 1: have to build a wall up front, as I point

1729
01:24:13,400 --> 01:24:15,320
Speaker 1: it out on a telstrator, and then they gotta go

1730
01:24:15,400 --> 01:24:19,040
Speaker 1: tackle Nick Choll with all that they have. Brandon Cooks

1731
01:24:19,160 --> 01:24:20,840
Speaker 1: is gonna be out of this one. Derek Stingley's gonna

1732
01:24:20,840 --> 01:24:23,120
Speaker 1: be out, So you're missing two huge cogs. But the

1733
01:24:23,160 --> 01:24:25,680
Speaker 1: Browns are missing David and Joku. So you gotta rise

1734
01:24:25,800 --> 01:24:30,400
Speaker 1: up and you gotta make plays. And look, there's there's

1735
01:24:30,439 --> 01:24:34,040
Speaker 1: no retribution and win or whatever happens for Deshaun Watson.

1736
01:24:34,479 --> 01:24:36,640
Speaker 1: He's just now the quarterback on the other side. It's

1737
01:24:36,680 --> 01:24:38,880
Speaker 1: gonna look weird and odd, but you just gotta go

1738
01:24:38,920 --> 01:24:42,000
Speaker 1: attack him and see that you can't come home with

1739
01:24:42,160 --> 01:24:44,360
Speaker 1: the first win in three hundred and forty three days

1740
01:24:44,360 --> 01:24:47,600
Speaker 1: at Energy Stadium in a regular season game. That is

1741
01:24:47,920 --> 01:24:50,640
Speaker 1: the goal. But that's it for the show, and a

1742
01:24:50,720 --> 01:24:53,679
Speaker 1: big thanks to Jorge Nakins, to Drew Doherty, Deep City,

1743
01:24:53,840 --> 01:24:59,640
Speaker 1: Nathan Zigura, Lovey Smith, Mark Vandimir, David Fletcher and all

1744
01:24:59,680 --> 01:25:02,599
Speaker 1: of your for listening. Appreciate you guys more than you'll

1745
01:25:02,640 --> 01:25:04,519
Speaker 1: ever know. Thank you so much and we'll see you

1746
01:25:04,560 --> 01:25:06,839
Speaker 1: on Sunday and as always, go Texans.