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Speaker 1: What is up? Everybody? Welcome me to a Wednesday Nation

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Speaker 1: of Texans All Access from the Honday Texans Radio Studio.

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Speaker 1: I am John Harris, your host football Anaston's sideline reporter.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes I have to think about what my title is

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Speaker 1: because I think in the building I have a different

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Speaker 1: title than what it actually is. But basically I'm a

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Speaker 1: football guy, if that so. Glad to be putting this

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Speaker 1: show together for you the listener, really appreciate you being here.

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Speaker 1: We got a jam pack show as always. As always,

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Speaker 1: we've gonna go behind enemy sidelines with Dbcity. We do

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Speaker 1: that every single Wednesday, and this week it's Tennessee Titans week,

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Speaker 1: so that means it's our buddy Jim Wyatt from Titans

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Speaker 1: Online dot Com. We're gonna go with our man, Russell Baxter,

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Speaker 1: go round the NFL with him because he's got plenty

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Speaker 1: of nuggets for us. He always has got a really

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Speaker 1: good way of looking at the NFL. So we'll talk

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Speaker 1: to Russell Baxter. My man Andre Ware is in. He

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Speaker 1: spoke with Mark Vanimir earlier today, and of course we

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Speaker 1: askedre on Monday the question that has been running rampant

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Speaker 1: around here. What is your favorite non Turkey Thanksgiving food

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Speaker 1: item what is your least favorite in Both Bill O'Brien

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Speaker 1: and Brian Gaine were very clear about what they liked

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Speaker 1: and what they didn't like. Ironically, Brian Gaine told us

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Speaker 1: in the game plan that his mother made this parsnip

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Speaker 1: and Carrott mix for Thanksgiving. And guess what we had

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Speaker 1: in the cafeteria today. There was a parsnip in Carrott

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Speaker 1: mix in the cafeteria. Mind blown. I must have been

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Speaker 1: all Brian Gaine. No Brian Gaine tonight. We had him

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Speaker 1: on last night. So Andre Ware's with us and he

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Speaker 1: will obviously answer the questions we have as it pertains Thanksgiving,

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Speaker 1: to NFL football, to the Texans, to Titans, and of

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Speaker 1: course college football. He's got Louisville in Kentucky. Tougher year

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Speaker 1: for Louisville. They fired Bobby Petrino, but Kentucky's had a

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Speaker 1: really good year. I think it's a chance of Mark

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Speaker 1: Stoops end up being a finalist for the Bear Brian

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Speaker 1: team over there. So that's always right there, not the

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Speaker 1: on the tip of my tongue, but it's always right there.

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Speaker 1: That I'm always thinking about college football as is Andre

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Speaker 1: We're gonna go in the lab with MM and Drew Dorty.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna answer that question, that same question. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: we're gonna nerd out on this game against the Titans

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Speaker 1: a little bit with a few things. And then we

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Speaker 1: got three Thanksgiving games that we've got to We gotta predict,

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Speaker 1: we gotta get on the board. I do that every

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Speaker 1: single Friday. I do Texans pick him. Now I do

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Speaker 1: it a little differently. I do it both straight up

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Speaker 1: in this one, two of the three games that I'm picking,

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Speaker 1: I'm picking teams to cover the number, but to lose

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Speaker 1: the game ultimately. So to figure that out, you got Bears, Lions,

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Speaker 1: You've got Cowboys, Redskins. You've got the Saints and the Falcons.

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Speaker 1: Three division games all Thanksgiving night. This should be very

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Speaker 1: very fun, very fun. And you got a couple of

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Speaker 1: got a loaded show. Let's kick it off as we

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Speaker 1: always do with our Hot Reads. Yes, Hot Reads presented

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Speaker 1: to you by Geico fifteen minutes could save you fifteen

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Speaker 1: percent or more on car insurance. Let's hear from the guys.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk to our players, and JJ Watt was first

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Speaker 1: And he talked about defensive focus, just doing their job,

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Speaker 1: Absolutely now listen, Shaw Watson fat and you and I fat.

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Speaker 1: we're heading into this Monday night matchup. It's Thanksgiving week.

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Speaker 1: his Houston on Monday night for that game. Uh yeah,

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Speaker 1: this is I think unprecedented from me to hear of

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Speaker 1: a coach. He's in the Booze, that's where he coaches

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Speaker 1: from on Sundays, and he was experiencing some symptoms that

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Speaker 1: caused some people, including Dean, to be a little bit

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Speaker 1: of alarmed and got him to the point where he

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Speaker 1: needed medical attention. He left the press box in a wheelchair.

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Speaker 1: He went to the hospital. He stayed overnight in Indianapolis,

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Speaker 1: and again the test were they got positive results from

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Speaker 1: the test and that they felt like he was in

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Speaker 1: good enough condition to come home. And you know, I

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00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:37,760
Speaker 1: think he's gonna work, in Rabel's words, bankers hours this week,

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00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:40,120
Speaker 1: you know, maybe get there at nine, work to five.

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Speaker 1: That's certainly against what coaches do, and I think Dean

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Speaker 1: will fight him on that. Dean loves to coach, he

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00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:48,440
Speaker 1: loves being around the team, he loves you know, the players.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's one of the reasons why retirement didn't

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Speaker 1: sit well with him during the first two weeks of

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Speaker 1: January and why he got back in it. So I

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Speaker 1: expect Dean to try to do as much as they'll

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Speaker 1: let him, and if he's able to feel well and

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00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:06,520
Speaker 1: not feel like h and the coaches don't feel like

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Speaker 1: he's over exerting himself, maybe it returns to closer to

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Speaker 1: a normal week, and certainly reminiscent of twenty thirteen when

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Speaker 1: Gary Kubiak suffered his his mini stroke at halftime against

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Speaker 1: the Colts, and it was very hard to see him

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Speaker 1: go down like that, but they kept him out of

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Speaker 1: the building for a while and he sort of worked

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Speaker 1: his way back. Now when when Pease went out of

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Speaker 1: the game, it was Rabel calling the defensive please right,

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Speaker 1: And do you think he's going to be calling the

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Speaker 1: defense here on Monday night, whether or not Peas returns,

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Speaker 1: I would expect, And again it's it's somewhat early in

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Speaker 1: the week to have a great gage on it, but

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Speaker 1: I kind of suspect that it'll be peace And you know,

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Speaker 1: maybe I have a different feeling as we get closer

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Speaker 1: to Monday. I think Dean wants to do it, and

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Speaker 1: I think physically, if he's able to and they feel

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Speaker 1: like he's getting up from a health standpoint, I think

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Speaker 1: he'll do it. Mike Vrabel obviously will be in a

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Speaker 1: position where he can do it. And Mike's very involved

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Speaker 1: during the course of the week. I mean, he pokes

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Speaker 1: his head in on all these meeting rooms, especially the

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Speaker 1: defensive meeting room, and I think he'll do that even

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Speaker 1: more this week. But I would expect it to beat Dean.

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Speaker 1: But maybe if if things don't progress like everyone hopes

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Speaker 1: they will during the course of the week, maybe my

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00:23:19,040 --> 00:23:22,440
Speaker 1: mind changes. On that closer kickoff with the Titans where

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00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:24,920
Speaker 1: they are at five and five, they're now third, well

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Speaker 1: tied for second. I guess you could say in the division,

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Speaker 1: what's the attitude there about how this season has sort

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Speaker 1: of developed. Well, I think there's a sense of frustration

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Speaker 1: because you know, this team is you know, as we

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00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:40,679
Speaker 1: talked about earlier, it's been good enough to win in

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Speaker 1: pretty convincing fashion some Sundays. I mean, what they did

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Speaker 1: to the Patriots I think surprised everyone across the league,

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00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:50,800
Speaker 1: not just that the Titans won, but they just dominated

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Speaker 1: that game. And then you know, the week before the

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Speaker 1: actually winning Monday Night in Dallas, and Dallas has kind

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Speaker 1: of gotten on a little bit of a role since then,

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Speaker 1: I think everybody don't like, especially coming off to buy

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00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:06,280
Speaker 1: that Okay, things are going the right direction. And this

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00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:09,199
Speaker 1: team has kind of turned the corner, and now to

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Speaker 1: have what happened on Sunday where you lose, you know,

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Speaker 1: in convincing fashion. It was thirty eight to three. At

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00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:18,639
Speaker 1: one point, the Tights were never in the game. It

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00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:21,320
Speaker 1: couldn't really do anything right. It's hard for me to

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Speaker 1: find a positive eye that game. So to go from

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Speaker 1: being on a little bit of a roll to all

496
00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:31,280
Speaker 1: of a sudden being stuck in neutral, it's not going backward.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's just hard to it's hard to understand.

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Speaker 1: And I think, you know, Mike Vrabel has tried to

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Speaker 1: stress this week that he yes, it was a loss,

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Speaker 1: but it just counts as one. It counts the same

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Speaker 1: as a one point lost in Buffalo. It counts the

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00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:49,720
Speaker 1: same as the one point loss to the Chargers in London.

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Speaker 1: But it just felt different leaving Indianapolis. And I think

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00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:57,240
Speaker 1: the challenge this week is to is to say, hey,

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Speaker 1: you know, we've got six games left. The game against

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Speaker 1: the team that went that's leading the division. You know,

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00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:06,400
Speaker 1: we've still got a ton to play for and uh

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Speaker 1: And I think I think guys will respond to that

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00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:12,399
Speaker 1: and we'll be ready to go. You know that if

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00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:15,840
Speaker 1: you look around the AFC. You know there's a bunch

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00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:18,600
Speaker 1: of teams bunched up at five and five, and the

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00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:21,240
Speaker 1: Titans are one of those teams. Now, uh, you know

513
00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:24,840
Speaker 1: the goal is obvious to win the division, but you still,

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00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:29,359
Speaker 1: I think have to think there's a realistic expectation to

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00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:33,880
Speaker 1: uh study in the playoff hunt into December, as long

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Speaker 1: as this team can start playing well. But that's the thing,

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00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:37,680
Speaker 1: it's got to start playing well again. Can't have any

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00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:39,800
Speaker 1: more clumpters like what happened in n alts. Keep you

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Speaker 1: a rolling. My good friend NFL analysts Russell Backster next

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Speaker 1: right here in Texas Access. Welcome back to Wednesday edition

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Speaker 1: of Texas All Access. It's that time with our good

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00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:52,520
Speaker 1: friend on Twitter. You can fill him at Backs Football

523
00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:57,040
Speaker 1: Guru NFL spends own Fansided. He's the absolute best, one

524
00:25:57,040 --> 00:25:59,480
Speaker 1: of the best INNF analysts you're gonna find anywhere. It's

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Speaker 1: my man, Russ Baxter Russell. Happy Thanksgiving, my man. How

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Speaker 1: are you? I'm doing tourific looking forward to tomorrow. If

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00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:08,000
Speaker 1: you're a betting man, take me and the over on

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00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:12,439
Speaker 1: the turkey. Yeah, okay, So I'm gonna ask you, Russell

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00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:14,320
Speaker 1: the same question that we've been asking to start off

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00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:16,119
Speaker 1: with has nothing new in football, but has to do

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Speaker 1: with Thanksgiving. Take turkey out of the mix. What is

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00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:26,280
Speaker 1: your favorite Thanksgiving food? What is your least favorite Thanksgiving food?

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Speaker 1: I'm not a big sweet potatoes person. Okay, okay, but um,

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00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:36,320
Speaker 1: if I didn't have turkey, give me a plate of

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00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:43,640
Speaker 1: stuffing with sausage. Oh yes, good one, good sausage stuffing, yep,

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00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:47,520
Speaker 1: with a little cranberry sauce on the side. Okay. I

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00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:52,119
Speaker 1: that would be the vegetarian version of surf and turf.

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00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:55,199
Speaker 1: That's a good way of It's a good way of

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00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:59,199
Speaker 1: putting it because you're gonna have the sausage and um,

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00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:01,680
Speaker 1: a big even some oysters in there too would hurt.

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Speaker 1: So you know what that's being down here in Texas

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00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:08,199
Speaker 1: nearby Louisiana. I know a lot of a lot of

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00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:10,760
Speaker 1: people that I know have that oyster stuffing and love it.

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00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:14,000
Speaker 1: My it's it's not quite there for my family yet,

545
00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:16,920
Speaker 1: but I know, yeah, the stuffing is good. I love

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00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:20,080
Speaker 1: the sausage stuffing. It's a great call. Andre Ware is

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00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:23,199
Speaker 1: putting cranberries on his stuffing. How do you feel about that?

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00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:26,600
Speaker 1: I'm good with that. I know a lot of people

549
00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:30,360
Speaker 1: who the day after Thanksgiving when they make a turkey sandwich,

550
00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:33,240
Speaker 1: put the whole shebang. Yeah, on the bread. They put

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00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:36,080
Speaker 1: the turkey, the cranberry sauce, and the stuffing. Bill O'Brien

552
00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:38,679
Speaker 1: said that the other day, and he's like, I use

553
00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:41,720
Speaker 1: stuffing as a condiment, and I was like, yeah, well,

554
00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:43,639
Speaker 1: if you're putting it on a sandwich, that's that's a

555
00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:46,600
Speaker 1: pretty good one. I mean, the whole weekend to me

556
00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:49,080
Speaker 1: is what's fun because you have the big meal Thursday

557
00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:51,200
Speaker 1: and you always make way more food than you need,

558
00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:53,600
Speaker 1: so then you got it for Friday and Saturday and

559
00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:56,080
Speaker 1: then Sunday is you know, another day of NFL football,

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00:27:56,119 --> 00:27:59,840
Speaker 1: and so you're great. Well, stuffing is like, um, stuffing

561
00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:03,240
Speaker 1: is like jumbalaya, right, it actually gets better the second

562
00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:06,320
Speaker 1: and third and fourth days. That is very true. That

563
00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:08,800
Speaker 1: is very true Oyster stuffing. I mean, if you had

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00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:12,760
Speaker 1: that before, I've had I think once and so on,

565
00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:15,960
Speaker 1: and I'm trying to remember it was not it might

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00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:18,240
Speaker 1: have been at a restaurant I was working at, and stuff.

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00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:20,560
Speaker 1: It was certainly not anything my mom made or any

568
00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:23,720
Speaker 1: other role it's made or stuff like that. But um,

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00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:29,480
Speaker 1: just don't you know. To me, the more ingredients the better. Okay, Yeah,

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00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:31,480
Speaker 1: that's why. That's why I'm a big I make. I

571
00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:33,560
Speaker 1: make jumbalaia on occasion, I haven't made it in a while.

572
00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:37,639
Speaker 1: I make shrimp unduey and chicken jumbalaya. The more, the

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Speaker 1: merriam a man? All Right? For dessert, if you got

574
00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:49,680
Speaker 1: one dessert, what is it? Uh? Get the cocon A

575
00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:52,720
Speaker 1: custom pie. Oh that's a good one. I Oh, that's

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00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:54,840
Speaker 1: a good one. It's a great one. I have thought

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00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:58,160
Speaker 1: about that because followed by banana cream Yeah. I love

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00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:00,400
Speaker 1: banana cream pie. Like banana cream pie one of my

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00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:02,040
Speaker 1: one of my fairest. Now, any dessert you put in

580
00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:03,960
Speaker 1: front of me, I'm gonna eat, but but cream pie,

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Speaker 1: I absolutely, I absolutely love it. My dad makes this dessert.

582
00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:12,400
Speaker 1: My dad started cooking when I went off to college

583
00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:14,400
Speaker 1: because he would need something to do and he could.

584
00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:19,040
Speaker 1: He makes this dessert with a crust of salted pretzels

585
00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:22,960
Speaker 1: and then a layer of like a sweet light cheesecake

586
00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:26,200
Speaker 1: with some cherry filling on top. I can do. I

587
00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:27,840
Speaker 1: can eat the whole I can eat the whole thing.

588
00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:30,000
Speaker 1: Just put it in front of me and and I'm good.

589
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:33,400
Speaker 1: To go. I mean just my mother, God bless her

590
00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:35,400
Speaker 1: and stuff she used to always make for me. The note,

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00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:38,440
Speaker 1: remember the note baked cheesecake. You could make yes with

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00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:44,320
Speaker 1: cream cheese and she would top it with um can cherries. Oh,

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00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:46,440
Speaker 1: I mean it was, I mean it was. It was

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00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:49,040
Speaker 1: dirt cheap to make. When you have nine kids, everything

595
00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:52,400
Speaker 1: becomes dirt cheap to make. Yeah. Um, And but you

596
00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:54,959
Speaker 1: would have thought she got it, got it into bakery.

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00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:57,760
Speaker 1: So that is fantastic. Now that we're all really hungry,

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00:29:57,800 --> 00:30:00,200
Speaker 1: including our listeners, Russell, let's talk about the day off

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00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:03,200
Speaker 1: in the middle of the segment, I know, the trip

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Speaker 1: to fans go kick in here in a second for

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00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:06,480
Speaker 1: all of us as we listened all as great food.

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00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:10,760
Speaker 1: We're talking about, Russell. The Thanksgiving Day games coming up.

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00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:13,560
Speaker 1: We'll start with the Bears and Lions. Apparently Mitchell Trubisky

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00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:15,440
Speaker 1: will be out of this, which I think is a

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00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:18,600
Speaker 1: shame for a couple of reasons. Number One, if you

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00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:21,480
Speaker 1: haven't seen the Bears, you get a chance to see

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00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:26,400
Speaker 1: them nationally, and it naturally televised broadcast because they've been very,

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00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:29,400
Speaker 1: very good. Khalil Mack when he's healthy with Leonard Floyd,

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00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:31,680
Speaker 1: that defense is really playing well, Russell, when do you

610
00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:34,800
Speaker 1: make it the Bears and how well they've played. But

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00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:37,160
Speaker 1: now they got to play without Mitchell Trubisky apparently on

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00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:39,800
Speaker 1: Thursday against the Lions. Well, they're gonna have to lean

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00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:42,160
Speaker 1: it on their defense a little more. And you know,

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00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:44,960
Speaker 1: for people out there who have and watched Mitche Trubisky

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00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:48,360
Speaker 1: progress this year, you know, last year he played seven games,

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00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:50,480
Speaker 1: I mean twelve games, he from seven touchdowns and from

617
00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:55,520
Speaker 1: seven picks. Those numbers are who have been dwarfed this year.

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Speaker 1: There are times where he tries to force a ball,

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Speaker 1: but I think he's still learning his strength and his weaknesses. Remember,

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00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:05,320
Speaker 1: I mean twelve games. Ten he's played twenty two games.

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00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:07,560
Speaker 1: He hadn't even played two full seasons. Okay, And he

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00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:09,960
Speaker 1: was correct me if I'm wrong. Was a guy at

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00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:13,160
Speaker 1: North Carolina that was not a four year starter or

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00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:19,920
Speaker 1: woe guy? Yeah, he was drafted based on potential rather

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00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:23,320
Speaker 1: than production. Okay, And there's two ways to go about it,

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00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:25,400
Speaker 1: and neither way is right and neither way is wrong.

627
00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:28,960
Speaker 1: So um, they're just gonna have to lean more on Now.

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00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:33,480
Speaker 1: I've seen Matthew Stafford, who was sacked six times in

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Speaker 1: a game. Against the Bears two weeks ago. Less than

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00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:39,520
Speaker 1: two weeks ago, I saw Matthew Stafford sacked ten times

631
00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:43,360
Speaker 1: by the Vikings Um. But this I'm just going to

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00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:46,560
Speaker 1: jump to the Lions for one second, because if there

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00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:50,720
Speaker 1: is I made the case in the NFC, I'm starting

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00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:53,200
Speaker 1: to now make a case in the NFL. I think

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00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:55,720
Speaker 1: there's no more unpredictable team in this league than the

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00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:58,280
Speaker 1: Detroit Lions. I am right there. We have seen them

637
00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:02,200
Speaker 1: knock off the Patriots, the Panthers, the Packers this year,

638
00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:05,680
Speaker 1: all at home. Now They're not going to have Kerry

639
00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:07,440
Speaker 1: On Johnson tomorrow, and I think that's a big loss

640
00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:10,680
Speaker 1: for them and so on. But they're a hard team

641
00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:14,320
Speaker 1: to get a grasp on. They are very jekyl and

642
00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:16,960
Speaker 1: hide and I know they have a brand new head coach,

643
00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:21,360
Speaker 1: but you're really not quite sure what version is going

644
00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:23,480
Speaker 1: to show up now. It also it's you know, I

645
00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:26,360
Speaker 1: don't know what Marvin Jones's status is or tomorrow, but

646
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:28,480
Speaker 1: this was a team that traded away Golden Take a

647
00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:31,920
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, so and trying to lean more

648
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:33,640
Speaker 1: on the running game. It might it might be a

649
00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:37,440
Speaker 1: big Lagarrett Blunt day tomorrow. If that's at all possible.

650
00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:40,880
Speaker 1: But I don't expect a lot of scoring in this

651
00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:42,880
Speaker 1: game because I know they went thirty four twenty two

652
00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:45,360
Speaker 1: the last time they played. I think this might be

653
00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:48,920
Speaker 1: a little tightly, uglier and a little closer to the beat. Yeah,

654
00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:51,800
Speaker 1: no doubt, Russell, when you make of jump right through

655
00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:55,560
Speaker 1: the Thanksgiving Day games. So I'll ask you what you

656
00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:59,960
Speaker 1: make of the Texans upon it last week washed read

657
00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:04,440
Speaker 1: Skins now without Alex Smith, who suffered a gruesome injury

658
00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:08,160
Speaker 1: on Sunday against the Texans. The Redskins lose, the Cowboys win.

659
00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:11,800
Speaker 1: So one game now separates the minutes, a game that

660
00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:14,080
Speaker 1: the Cowboys can make up because the Redskins beat the

661
00:33:14,080 --> 00:33:16,600
Speaker 1: Cowboys earlier at FedEx Field. What are you making the

662
00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:20,480
Speaker 1: Redskins with Colt McCoy heading into this one in Dallas. Well,

663
00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:22,400
Speaker 1: it's a team that runs the ball better than they

664
00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:24,960
Speaker 1: did a year ago. They got a lot of carries

665
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:27,640
Speaker 1: out of Adrian Peter. Someone of these teams played I

666
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:31,280
Speaker 1: think earlier their share and unless I'm mistaken, yep. It

667
00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:33,760
Speaker 1: was a twenty seventeen game. It was the first time

668
00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:37,280
Speaker 1: they had beaten the Cowboys in Washington since twenty twelve,

669
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:40,120
Speaker 1: Dallas has kind of had their number. But I think

670
00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:44,719
Speaker 1: finally the Redskins have people upfront on defense that can

671
00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:47,800
Speaker 1: match up a little better with the Cowboys offensive line.

672
00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:51,760
Speaker 1: That's been the mismatch. And you know, Colt McCoy is

673
00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:55,200
Speaker 1: he hasn't seen a lot of playing time, especially in

674
00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:57,600
Speaker 1: recent years, but it's a guy who's very familiar with

675
00:33:57,640 --> 00:34:01,680
Speaker 1: Jay Gruden system. They played better defense. I mean, you

676
00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:05,120
Speaker 1: have a very good defense, and I think maybe an

677
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:09,040
Speaker 1: underrated defense, but the Redskins, and maybe the word I'm

678
00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:13,080
Speaker 1: looking for is maybe an inconsistent defense. With the Redskins,

679
00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:16,640
Speaker 1: We've seen them getting get lit up a few times. Listen,

680
00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:18,600
Speaker 1: they lost twenty three twenty one. One of those was

681
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:22,399
Speaker 1: a pick six by Justin Reid one hundred one yard.

682
00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:24,640
Speaker 1: So it wasn't like they gave up a lot of

683
00:34:24,680 --> 00:34:28,719
Speaker 1: points to the Texans last week. This is you know,

684
00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:33,040
Speaker 1: the NFC East is bunched up at the back end here,

685
00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:35,319
Speaker 1: and I say that because the teams are not. No

686
00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:37,640
Speaker 1: one's really pulled away. Even the Giants now at three

687
00:34:37,680 --> 00:34:42,239
Speaker 1: and seven, are still hanging around Eagles. The Eagles get

688
00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:46,799
Speaker 1: two more cracks. They haven't played the Redskin yet, so

689
00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:48,200
Speaker 1: I mean, that's going to be a lot to be

690
00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:51,480
Speaker 1: said about the division. There's a lot of divisional games

691
00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:55,640
Speaker 1: left in the NFC East. And you know, if Washington

692
00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:59,440
Speaker 1: pulled this off tomorrow on the road, they would have

693
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:02,600
Speaker 1: a two game lead over Dallas and have swept them.

694
00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:06,440
Speaker 1: So I think this is an absolutely huge game for

695
00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:12,000
Speaker 1: the Redskins, but not necessarily they unequivocal must win game

696
00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:14,400
Speaker 1: because there's so much time for Again, I mean, the

697
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:16,960
Speaker 1: Redskins have four their last six in the division. They

698
00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:18,799
Speaker 1: still have another shot that the Giants. They beat the

699
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:23,120
Speaker 1: Giants on the road. So the one thing about the

700
00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:26,080
Speaker 1: Redskins is this was a team last year it was

701
00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:28,399
Speaker 1: one in five versus the NFC East. They share their

702
00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:30,480
Speaker 1: two and out, so they're sitting a little prettier. Yep,

703
00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:33,399
Speaker 1: they definitely are. And you're right about the defense. There

704
00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:36,680
Speaker 1: have been times where the Falcons and Saints scorched them in.

705
00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:39,399
Speaker 1: There are times where they've held teams in check, and

706
00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:41,600
Speaker 1: like they held Carolina at check, it was like how

707
00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:44,080
Speaker 1: do they do that? So they kind of are a

708
00:35:44,120 --> 00:35:45,960
Speaker 1: little bit check on and hide on defense in some

709
00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:49,840
Speaker 1: respects Russell. Monday night, we saw the Rams in the

710
00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:52,759
Speaker 1: Chiefs play in all time or fifty four or fifty one,

711
00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:54,680
Speaker 1: the Rams walk out of there with a win. Thank

712
00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:57,640
Speaker 1: you Rams. That helps everybody in the AFC, especially teams

713
00:35:57,680 --> 00:35:59,719
Speaker 1: that half the times are going into the playoffs. But

714
00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:02,880
Speaker 1: there's been a lot of talk about oh, this is

715
00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:05,760
Speaker 1: the way that football needs to be played going forward,

716
00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:07,759
Speaker 1: and all this kind of stuff. And yes, it was

717
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:10,200
Speaker 1: a compelling game. I don't know if the NFL wants

718
00:36:10,239 --> 00:36:14,399
Speaker 1: everything fifty four fifty one, but those two defenses, I'll

719
00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:16,640
Speaker 1: be honest. The Chief defense has not been great all year.

720
00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:21,320
Speaker 1: The Rams defense is Aaron Donald and really not much else.

721
00:36:21,520 --> 00:36:24,080
Speaker 1: So as two offenses, very very good offenses, it took

722
00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:26,719
Speaker 1: advantage of that. But I've heard so much about oh,

723
00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:29,640
Speaker 1: what this game is gonna mean going forward? This game

724
00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:32,200
Speaker 1: is gonna mean so much for the NFL going forward.

725
00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:34,440
Speaker 1: What was your take on what happened Monday and what

726
00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:37,439
Speaker 1: do you think the impact will be going forward from

727
00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:40,719
Speaker 1: this game? If any? I think given all the circumstances

728
00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:44,279
Speaker 1: of what was happening in California, this turned out to

729
00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:47,960
Speaker 1: be the best case scenario given the moment. It was

730
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:51,759
Speaker 1: an entertaining, high flying game between two nine and one teams.

731
00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:54,799
Speaker 1: There was a lot done within the communities up by

732
00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:59,200
Speaker 1: people giving out tickets to first responders and victim you know,

733
00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:02,320
Speaker 1: the victims and leads and things like that. It became

734
00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:06,040
Speaker 1: an event, and fortunately the game over exceeded the event.

735
00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:08,600
Speaker 1: I don't think this is what the NFL was looking for.

736
00:37:08,719 --> 00:37:10,560
Speaker 1: I don't think they're looking for every game to be

737
00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:12,880
Speaker 1: like the first round of the unse Double A tournament.

738
00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:18,120
Speaker 1: I think they want good competitive football, and I just

739
00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:20,640
Speaker 1: think it was one of those evenings. And it's funny

740
00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:23,600
Speaker 1: because for all the fact that there was one hundred

741
00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:26,680
Speaker 1: and five points, the third highest scoring game in NFL history,

742
00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:30,400
Speaker 1: we sold three defensive touchdowns. Yeah true, so you know,

743
00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:32,680
Speaker 1: two by the rams and one to achieved. You know,

744
00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:35,680
Speaker 1: to me, it was an entertaining game. Was it a

745
00:37:35,680 --> 00:37:38,440
Speaker 1: well played game? I wouldn't necessarily see. It was a

746
00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:41,920
Speaker 1: fun game. It's it's that it's your classic kind of

747
00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:44,279
Speaker 1: game to sit and watch on a Monday night. If

748
00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:46,200
Speaker 1: you have no rooting interest in me either of the

749
00:37:46,239 --> 00:37:49,680
Speaker 1: two teams. That's that's what it was. It was the

750
00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:53,120
Speaker 1: stars collided, and it was that, and it is has

751
00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:56,600
Speaker 1: You're right, It's invoked a lot of conversation going forward.

752
00:37:56,680 --> 00:37:59,880
Speaker 1: And you know, to me, I don't know who the

753
00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:02,239
Speaker 1: great defense is in the league this year. I don't

754
00:38:02,239 --> 00:38:04,080
Speaker 1: know if there is a great defense in this league.

755
00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:06,719
Speaker 1: But here's what I do know. I do know that

756
00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:09,719
Speaker 1: some team in the next six weeks or maybe nine

757
00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:12,560
Speaker 1: weeks is going to learn how to play better defense,

758
00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:14,440
Speaker 1: and that team is going to win the Super Bowl.

759
00:38:15,719 --> 00:38:18,879
Speaker 1: Could that team ultimately be the New Orleans Saints? If

760
00:38:18,920 --> 00:38:20,919
Speaker 1: I had to ask you right now, Russell, best team

761
00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:24,680
Speaker 1: in the league because the defense has played better for

762
00:38:24,719 --> 00:38:27,520
Speaker 1: the Saints than it has in either LA or Kansas City,

763
00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:30,799
Speaker 1: would you say that New Orleans could potentially be that team? Yes,

764
00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:34,440
Speaker 1: explosive offensively, but really kind of come around defensively over

765
00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:37,200
Speaker 1: the last couple of years. Do you think the Saints

766
00:38:37,239 --> 00:38:39,080
Speaker 1: are the best team right now? Not that it matters,

767
00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:41,360
Speaker 1: but I ask you this a lot where kind of

768
00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:43,439
Speaker 1: where we stand, kind of the state of the union

769
00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:45,120
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Are the Saints the best team in

770
00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:48,439
Speaker 1: the NFL? Yeah? They're playing the best football too. And

771
00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:51,040
Speaker 1: if you don't have a smothering defense, and I don't

772
00:38:51,080 --> 00:38:54,040
Speaker 1: think anybody does this year, there's one thing to do,

773
00:38:54,080 --> 00:38:55,880
Speaker 1: and that to keep your defense off the field and

774
00:38:55,960 --> 00:39:00,520
Speaker 1: opposed to recent years, not excluding last year where they

775
00:39:00,560 --> 00:39:02,280
Speaker 1: got off to the O and two stars and discovered

776
00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:05,520
Speaker 1: the one two punch of mark Ingram and Alvin Kamara.

777
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:09,560
Speaker 1: That running game means a lot the balance aspect in

778
00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:12,920
Speaker 1: this league. You know, Philadelphia was great against the run

779
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:15,600
Speaker 1: last year, not so great against the past. You know,

780
00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:17,640
Speaker 1: gave up five hundred and five yards to Tom Brady

781
00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:22,000
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl, but also limited some of the

782
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:24,240
Speaker 1: Patriots damage because they ran for one hundred and sixty

783
00:39:24,239 --> 00:39:29,120
Speaker 1: four yards. So it's it's almost an air of complimentary football.

784
00:39:30,120 --> 00:39:32,200
Speaker 1: You've got to be able to make plays. I think

785
00:39:32,239 --> 00:39:36,360
Speaker 1: the mistake that gets made by some teams and some

786
00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:39,680
Speaker 1: of these defenses we see where we like to label

787
00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:44,400
Speaker 1: them great, is they're so reliant on takeaways, and takeaways

788
00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:47,920
Speaker 1: is not something you can rely on. So it is

789
00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:50,719
Speaker 1: an era now where or at least this season, and

790
00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:54,000
Speaker 1: this season could wind up being a big outlier. Okay,

791
00:39:54,840 --> 00:39:57,120
Speaker 1: all the hundred yard receiving games, all the three hundred

792
00:39:57,200 --> 00:40:00,840
Speaker 1: yard passing games, not a ton of And yet it's funny,

793
00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:04,480
Speaker 1: for all of the passing games and the quarterback numbers

794
00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:07,680
Speaker 1: and the wide receivers and stuff, there's still such a

795
00:40:07,719 --> 00:40:12,960
Speaker 1: focal point on Todd Burley and Kareem Hunt and Melvin

796
00:40:13,040 --> 00:40:18,440
Speaker 1: Gordon and James Conner and Ezekiel Elliott. And again, a

797
00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:22,200
Speaker 1: team that runs the football, keeps their defense off the field,

798
00:40:22,680 --> 00:40:25,360
Speaker 1: and plays good defense is on the field, is going

799
00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:27,600
Speaker 1: to decide. I've thrown this stat out to you before,

800
00:40:28,320 --> 00:40:31,120
Speaker 1: and listen. We could have three teams scored five hundred

801
00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:33,720
Speaker 1: points this year. But here's what I know for a fact.

802
00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:36,680
Speaker 1: There have been nine occasions where a team scored at

803
00:40:36,719 --> 00:40:39,279
Speaker 1: least five hundred and forty points in the season and

804
00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:43,160
Speaker 1: none of them won the Super Bowl. Wow. Wow, I

805
00:40:43,239 --> 00:40:46,160
Speaker 1: did not realize another. I remember the Vikings and ninety

806
00:40:46,239 --> 00:40:49,120
Speaker 1: eight being one of those way back when when teams

807
00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:51,239
Speaker 1: weren't lighting up the scoreboards sort of like they are now.

808
00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:53,560
Speaker 1: But that team was explosive, and I remember them obviously

809
00:40:53,560 --> 00:40:55,719
Speaker 1: losing to the Cardinals in the NFC Championship game. Well

810
00:40:55,760 --> 00:40:59,560
Speaker 1: that's a great stat, Russell. That is wow. There's a

811
00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:02,600
Speaker 1: reason that in this fifty two year history the Super Bowl,

812
00:41:03,080 --> 00:41:05,480
Speaker 1: no quarterback who led the league in passing yards won

813
00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:08,240
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl the same season. Yeah that makes sense.

814
00:41:08,280 --> 00:41:10,399
Speaker 1: I mean it makes sense on a number of different levels. Button,

815
00:41:10,680 --> 00:41:13,520
Speaker 1: But I think you're right your philosophy and your thought

816
00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:17,760
Speaker 1: about the team that can eventually win this Super Bowl.

817
00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:21,720
Speaker 1: And this feels even though people say, oh, it's Saints,

818
00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:24,760
Speaker 1: Ram's Chiefs, I don't know about that. I mean, I've

819
00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:27,440
Speaker 1: seen most of the league this year, and I'm with you.

820
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:29,800
Speaker 1: I think the team that can eventually find a defense

821
00:41:29,840 --> 00:41:32,319
Speaker 1: that can get a few stops and get the ball

822
00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:35,720
Speaker 1: back to a solid offense that is balanced both running

823
00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:38,000
Speaker 1: past I think that's a team that's got the opportunity,

824
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:39,880
Speaker 1: and I don't think there's any questions about that. I

825
00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:42,400
Speaker 1: think there's one team in the AFC that bears a

826
00:41:42,440 --> 00:41:45,120
Speaker 1: little watching because their defense has played better as a blade,

827
00:41:46,520 --> 00:41:49,640
Speaker 1: and that's the Pittsburgh Steelers. Yep, that's a good team

828
00:41:49,640 --> 00:41:51,799
Speaker 1: to keep an eye on, and they uglyed it up

829
00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:53,920
Speaker 1: for three and a half quarters last week at Jacksonville

830
00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:58,440
Speaker 1: against the team that Ben Roethlisberg obviously obviously has a

831
00:41:58,440 --> 00:42:02,240
Speaker 1: lot of the Jaguars on his Christmas he loved and gifts.

832
00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:06,520
Speaker 1: I remembered the five interception game last year, but they

833
00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:08,239
Speaker 1: found a way to win the game, and a team

834
00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:11,280
Speaker 1: that couldn't who won one game the first four weeks

835
00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:14,879
Speaker 1: of the season is now creeping behind the Kansas City

836
00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:18,200
Speaker 1: Chiefs for the one seeds in the AFC. Yep, yep.

837
00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:20,560
Speaker 1: They are very, very scary because of the way that

838
00:42:20,600 --> 00:42:23,200
Speaker 1: defense is playing. Russell, You're the best, my man at

839
00:42:23,320 --> 00:42:27,040
Speaker 1: Backs Football Guru, NFL Spin Zone fans side. He joins

840
00:42:27,080 --> 00:42:29,479
Speaker 1: me every week at this time, and that's why because

841
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:31,680
Speaker 1: he's the absolute best. Russell. Thank you so much, my man,

842
00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:34,520
Speaker 1: and Thanksgiving to you and your family, absolutely saying John.

843
00:42:34,640 --> 00:42:37,440
Speaker 1: Coming up next, it's our guy Andre where joins us

844
00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:40,520
Speaker 1: right here in Texas Access. We've got one hour down

845
00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:42,480
Speaker 1: and one hour to go, right here in Texas All

846
00:42:42,480 --> 00:42:47,200
Speaker 1: Access on a Wednesday edition, a day before Thanksgiving, pre

847
00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:50,239
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving Day edition of the show, Glad you with Me.

848
00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:54,280
Speaker 1: I'm your host, John Harris, football analyst and silent reporter

849
00:42:54,320 --> 00:42:57,560
Speaker 1: for your Houston Texans, a seven and three Texans team

850
00:42:57,600 --> 00:43:02,120
Speaker 1: getting ready for Monday night football against the Tennessee Titans.

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Speaker 1: Now we will have no Texas programming for you tomorrow.

852
00:43:05,320 --> 00:43:07,600
Speaker 1: Typically have All Access from six to seven and then

853
00:43:07,600 --> 00:43:11,760
Speaker 1: you have the thirty night game. But there's one game

854
00:43:11,840 --> 00:43:16,600
Speaker 1: in the afternoon. There's one game in the later afternoon

855
00:43:16,600 --> 00:43:19,239
Speaker 1: early evening, and then there's one at night, so we'll

856
00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:21,480
Speaker 1: have no Texas programming for you because there are three

857
00:43:21,520 --> 00:43:24,600
Speaker 1: games tomorrow on Thanksgiving. We'll be back to regular programming

858
00:43:24,719 --> 00:43:27,000
Speaker 1: with my six to eight show, six to eight PM

859
00:43:27,040 --> 00:43:30,319
Speaker 1: show on Friday, so just so you're aware. And then

860
00:43:30,320 --> 00:43:32,920
Speaker 1: Texas Monday, I'll be a little different because Mark and

861
00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:34,799
Speaker 1: I have got to work that night, so we're gonna

862
00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:37,279
Speaker 1: turn it over to a couple of guys and well,

863
00:43:37,320 --> 00:43:38,960
Speaker 1: we'll probably tell you a little bit more about what

864
00:43:39,040 --> 00:43:42,319
Speaker 1: Texas Monday will be like the day of Monday night

865
00:43:42,360 --> 00:43:45,919
Speaker 1: football against the Tennessee Titans. So we'll get to all

866
00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:49,920
Speaker 1: of that as we go. But just normal shows on Friday,

867
00:43:50,120 --> 00:43:53,920
Speaker 1: normal show on Friday, normal stuff. Everything's good to go

868
00:43:53,960 --> 00:43:57,359
Speaker 1: on Friday. Nothing tomorrow. You got the three games, and

869
00:43:57,440 --> 00:43:59,440
Speaker 1: we'll actually talk about those games later on. I'll give

870
00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:02,040
Speaker 1: you my pick. I typically do each and every Friday

871
00:44:02,239 --> 00:44:04,000
Speaker 1: my pick straight up and against the spread, but I

872
00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:05,719
Speaker 1: gotta do my Thanksgiving Day games, so I'll do that

873
00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:09,239
Speaker 1: later in the show to give you what I think

874
00:44:09,280 --> 00:44:14,160
Speaker 1: about Bears, Lions, Falcon, Saints, and of course Cowboys, Redskins.

875
00:44:14,520 --> 00:44:17,840
Speaker 1: Pretty interesting spread on that one, I guess Alex Smith

876
00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:20,239
Speaker 1: was worth a lot more to the Washington Redskins and

877
00:44:20,360 --> 00:44:25,000
Speaker 1: maybe we first thought, but we'll save that for later later.

878
00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:27,800
Speaker 1: All right, let's get to our buddy Andre where he

879
00:44:27,880 --> 00:44:32,560
Speaker 1: joined Mark earlier today, had some thoughts on not only well,

880
00:44:32,560 --> 00:44:34,520
Speaker 1: he gave us some thoughts the other day on Thanksgiving.

881
00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:37,560
Speaker 1: He gave us some thoughts about the cranberry with the stuffing,

882
00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:40,279
Speaker 1: which I like cranberry sauce. I'm cool with it. But

883
00:44:40,360 --> 00:44:43,319
Speaker 1: I saw this tweet the other day about one's gotta

884
00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:45,440
Speaker 1: go and it was like five different things, and the

885
00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:46,680
Speaker 1: first thing that had to go for me it was

886
00:44:46,680 --> 00:44:49,160
Speaker 1: cranberry because it was like mac and cheese. I don't

887
00:44:49,160 --> 00:44:51,320
Speaker 1: really I don't come up with a family that serves

888
00:44:51,320 --> 00:44:53,799
Speaker 1: mac and cheese on Thanksgiving, but I would love it.

889
00:44:54,280 --> 00:44:57,440
Speaker 1: I would absolutely love it. Some baked mac and cheese.

890
00:44:57,880 --> 00:44:59,799
Speaker 1: I'm all about that. If we did it, I'd be

891
00:44:59,800 --> 00:45:03,799
Speaker 1: f green me castro cool to potatoes. Are talked about that.

892
00:45:03,840 --> 00:45:05,200
Speaker 1: In fact, you and I will talk about that in

893
00:45:05,239 --> 00:45:08,279
Speaker 1: the next segment when we go in the lap. We'll

894
00:45:08,320 --> 00:45:10,520
Speaker 1: do that next. But we gotta catch your brother, buddy,

895
00:45:10,520 --> 00:45:12,840
Speaker 1: Andre Ware, who's also got a couch game this weekend,

896
00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:15,759
Speaker 1: and a game that's been fantastic the last couple of years.

897
00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:18,319
Speaker 1: Kentucky Louisville. Here's Mark with Andre. First of all, Dre,

898
00:45:18,440 --> 00:45:21,480
Speaker 1: happy Thanksgiving. How are you doing today? The same to you,

899
00:45:21,640 --> 00:45:26,400
Speaker 1: my man. I'm doing well and enjoying some nice weather.

900
00:45:26,520 --> 00:45:30,200
Speaker 1: Change for it for a second here before the rain

901
00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:33,880
Speaker 1: gets here later today or tomorrow. Yeah. Well, it's Houston.

902
00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:36,440
Speaker 1: You know, it changes by the minute. This is what

903
00:45:36,480 --> 00:45:39,680
Speaker 1: we're used to here, and Tennessee seems to change by

904
00:45:39,719 --> 00:45:41,719
Speaker 1: the minute. I don't put too much stock into what

905
00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:45,680
Speaker 1: just happened to them at Indianapolis. That was a blowout loss,

906
00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:49,160
Speaker 1: because I think Bill O'Brien's probably focusing on the fact

907
00:45:49,200 --> 00:45:51,160
Speaker 1: that they blew out the Patriots and they played well

908
00:45:51,200 --> 00:45:53,680
Speaker 1: at Dallas on a Monday night. This is a team

909
00:45:53,719 --> 00:45:55,319
Speaker 1: that can give the Texas a good game. What are

910
00:45:55,360 --> 00:45:58,160
Speaker 1: your thoughts overall as your head into the matchup. No,

911
00:45:58,320 --> 00:46:00,920
Speaker 1: I totally agree with you. And and then when you

912
00:46:00,920 --> 00:46:05,520
Speaker 1: look at the injury report and on terms of Marcus Mariota,

913
00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:09,080
Speaker 1: with it just being a stinger, it's probable that Phil

914
00:46:09,360 --> 00:46:12,479
Speaker 1: he will play this weekend, especially having an extra day

915
00:46:12,920 --> 00:46:16,400
Speaker 1: when the game's a Monday night. He was seventy six percent.

916
00:46:16,520 --> 00:46:20,919
Speaker 1: Mark in that game before leaving the injury a week ago.

917
00:46:20,960 --> 00:46:23,480
Speaker 1: He's sixty seven percent on the season, so he's having

918
00:46:23,960 --> 00:46:26,160
Speaker 1: kind of one of those years, so to speak. But

919
00:46:26,719 --> 00:46:29,480
Speaker 1: he makes all the difference in terms of forcing you

920
00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:33,120
Speaker 1: to defend eleven on eleven. They're healthier on the offensive

921
00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:37,280
Speaker 1: line with Jack Conklin and Taylor Lawan back at tackles,

922
00:46:37,320 --> 00:46:41,160
Speaker 1: and but they have been injured, and then they're starting

923
00:46:41,160 --> 00:46:43,680
Speaker 1: to get some production from Corey Davis. And you flip

924
00:46:43,719 --> 00:46:47,520
Speaker 1: over on the other side where Major l Casey is

925
00:46:47,560 --> 00:46:51,680
Speaker 1: the main stay in their offense. In their defense, Brian

926
00:46:51,719 --> 00:46:54,840
Speaker 1: and Rock Poets is having a decent year along with

927
00:46:54,880 --> 00:46:59,560
Speaker 1: Derek Morgan. It's a team that presents a lot of problems.

928
00:46:59,640 --> 00:47:04,399
Speaker 1: Needless to say, they play the Texans extremely hard each

929
00:47:04,440 --> 00:47:07,520
Speaker 1: and every week, Andre Wison, every time we get together

930
00:47:07,520 --> 00:47:10,080
Speaker 1: with yep, and they did last time. It was a

931
00:47:10,160 --> 00:47:13,279
Speaker 1: twenty to seventeen Titan victory. When you've played a team

932
00:47:13,320 --> 00:47:16,400
Speaker 1: already once before, how big a help is that, especially

933
00:47:16,440 --> 00:47:18,759
Speaker 1: if you lose the game In the sense that hey,

934
00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:20,920
Speaker 1: I mean, they're gonna have the undivided attention of the

935
00:47:20,920 --> 00:47:25,160
Speaker 1: Houston Texans and preparation as they get ready for Monday night. Yeah,

936
00:47:25,280 --> 00:47:27,840
Speaker 1: you can go through and point to some things during

937
00:47:27,840 --> 00:47:30,680
Speaker 1: the game, not so much that you relive it, but

938
00:47:30,760 --> 00:47:33,239
Speaker 1: you can point to areas in which where you know

939
00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:36,160
Speaker 1: you could have taken advantage of certain situations that might

940
00:47:36,200 --> 00:47:40,920
Speaker 1: have turned the game in your favor. Plays that created

941
00:47:41,040 --> 00:47:44,279
Speaker 1: momentum for the opponent for Tennessee in this case, that

942
00:47:44,920 --> 00:47:47,080
Speaker 1: you can allow to happen. And then you get to

943
00:47:47,120 --> 00:47:50,279
Speaker 1: go through and kind of hand pick every time we

944
00:47:50,360 --> 00:47:53,319
Speaker 1: ran this look, they did this, so you make sure

945
00:47:53,400 --> 00:47:56,520
Speaker 1: you get the right play call against that team the

946
00:47:56,640 --> 00:48:01,439
Speaker 1: second time around. So there are some tendencies that defenses

947
00:48:01,560 --> 00:48:04,799
Speaker 1: just don't change that. I think coach coach O'Brien's going

948
00:48:04,840 --> 00:48:06,880
Speaker 1: to be able to take advantage of. You brought up

949
00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:09,600
Speaker 1: Mariota's completion percentage of the fact that he can run

950
00:48:09,640 --> 00:48:11,480
Speaker 1: well with the ball. How is he doing in his

951
00:48:11,560 --> 00:48:14,279
Speaker 1: pro career versus how you thought he might do when

952
00:48:14,320 --> 00:48:17,880
Speaker 1: he came out of college. Well, I think when he's healthy,

953
00:48:17,960 --> 00:48:21,239
Speaker 1: he's doing every bit exactly what I thought he would be.

954
00:48:21,360 --> 00:48:23,200
Speaker 1: You know, he's a big guy. At six four, He's

955
00:48:23,200 --> 00:48:26,279
Speaker 1: added some pounds to his frame. He's now up over

956
00:48:26,360 --> 00:48:31,520
Speaker 1: to twenty. He can still run it's just been injuries

957
00:48:31,560 --> 00:48:35,120
Speaker 1: that have kind of curtailed his development a little bit.

958
00:48:35,239 --> 00:48:39,040
Speaker 1: But when he is healthy, he takes care of the football.

959
00:48:40,480 --> 00:48:43,239
Speaker 1: He's dynamic when he pulls it down, and he's a

960
00:48:43,360 --> 00:48:47,319
Speaker 1: smart runner, so he's not given his body up very much.

961
00:48:47,360 --> 00:48:50,120
Speaker 1: It's just that, you know, injuries are part of the game,

962
00:48:50,280 --> 00:48:54,120
Speaker 1: and and I think that was that's really been the

963
00:48:54,160 --> 00:48:57,680
Speaker 1: only deficiency in his game. And it's unfortunate because it's

964
00:48:57,719 --> 00:49:01,160
Speaker 1: not something that you can control as a player. You know,

965
00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:05,480
Speaker 1: you go back to Jadevian clowning injuries early. Now he's

966
00:49:05,480 --> 00:49:07,759
Speaker 1: starting to play out of his mind. So and that

967
00:49:08,200 --> 00:49:11,800
Speaker 1: just comes along with being healthy. Injuries also affecting offense.

968
00:49:11,880 --> 00:49:15,120
Speaker 1: Kiki Qt has had trouble staying on the field, but

969
00:49:15,200 --> 00:49:18,520
Speaker 1: now he's out there. Damarius Thomas just joined the team

970
00:49:18,560 --> 00:49:21,840
Speaker 1: a few weeks ago, So what about the development of

971
00:49:21,880 --> 00:49:25,200
Speaker 1: the passing game. You really need those two guys on

972
00:49:25,239 --> 00:49:27,920
Speaker 1: the field in practice, don't you to get the timing

973
00:49:27,960 --> 00:49:30,040
Speaker 1: down and get everything the way you wanted to down

974
00:49:30,040 --> 00:49:33,200
Speaker 1: to stretch here. Yeah, when you look at Kiki Qt,

975
00:49:33,600 --> 00:49:37,759
Speaker 1: that and that is a story in itself, just how

976
00:49:37,920 --> 00:49:41,719
Speaker 1: dynamic he is. Five catches last week for seventy seven

977
00:49:41,840 --> 00:49:45,520
Speaker 1: yards and they were a quiet five for seventy seven.

978
00:49:45,600 --> 00:49:48,760
Speaker 1: But every time he touches it, you know, good things happen.

979
00:49:48,880 --> 00:49:52,120
Speaker 1: So you want to get him incorporated into the offense

980
00:49:52,239 --> 00:49:55,799
Speaker 1: a little bit more. I think they found that magical

981
00:49:55,880 --> 00:49:59,680
Speaker 1: slot receiver that we've seen over time that is really

982
00:49:59,719 --> 00:50:03,440
Speaker 1: a acted the new England opense, the West Welkers, the

983
00:50:03,560 --> 00:50:05,800
Speaker 1: Julian Edelman. I think he can be that type of

984
00:50:05,840 --> 00:50:10,440
Speaker 1: addition for the Texans because of his playmaking ability after

985
00:50:10,480 --> 00:50:13,560
Speaker 1: the balls in his hands. Damarius Thomas is just gonna

986
00:50:13,600 --> 00:50:16,360
Speaker 1: take a little time. He just got to Town a

987
00:50:16,440 --> 00:50:19,520
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago and he's learning the new playbook.

988
00:50:19,960 --> 00:50:22,960
Speaker 1: This is a foreign language to him, trying to learn

989
00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:26,200
Speaker 1: it on the fly yet still be effective in game.

990
00:50:26,320 --> 00:50:28,080
Speaker 1: So that one's going to take some time. You can

991
00:50:28,080 --> 00:50:30,640
Speaker 1: get him involved in the quick game things that he

992
00:50:30,760 --> 00:50:33,359
Speaker 1: understands just from a natural position of being in the

993
00:50:33,480 --> 00:50:36,480
Speaker 1: NFL for a certain amount of time. But it is

994
00:50:36,520 --> 00:50:40,279
Speaker 1: a big, physical receiver that I look for them to

995
00:50:40,480 --> 00:50:43,200
Speaker 1: use him really a lot more down closer to the

996
00:50:43,200 --> 00:50:45,880
Speaker 1: red zone to take advantage of his size and strength.

997
00:50:46,040 --> 00:50:48,479
Speaker 1: All right, let's look around the landscape a little bit first,

998
00:50:48,480 --> 00:50:51,680
Speaker 1: of all Turkey Day game. The Cowboys traditionally host one,

999
00:50:51,680 --> 00:50:54,920
Speaker 1: and they'll have the Redskins in with Cult McCoy at quarterback.

1000
00:50:54,960 --> 00:50:57,320
Speaker 1: The Texans have played and beaten both of these teams.

1001
00:50:57,520 --> 00:51:00,799
Speaker 1: What do you make of this matchup tomorrow? Yeah, I

1002
00:51:00,880 --> 00:51:04,640
Speaker 1: actually like the Cowboys. They've had you know, they had

1003
00:51:04,680 --> 00:51:08,400
Speaker 1: at a rest period. They're healthier, they seem to be

1004
00:51:09,080 --> 00:51:11,600
Speaker 1: hitting a hitting a stride right now, and I think

1005
00:51:11,600 --> 00:51:15,480
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper is has made an even even bigger effect

1006
00:51:16,040 --> 00:51:18,799
Speaker 1: on that offense than people might People might have given

1007
00:51:18,840 --> 00:51:21,839
Speaker 1: it given a credit. They've got a deep threat now

1008
00:51:21,920 --> 00:51:24,719
Speaker 1: that you can't just send extra guys in the box.

1009
00:51:24,760 --> 00:51:27,000
Speaker 1: You have to take a safety and help over the top,

1010
00:51:27,440 --> 00:51:30,759
Speaker 1: which forces a lot of teams to play two safeties high.

1011
00:51:30,800 --> 00:51:32,719
Speaker 1: And they're able to run the ball a little bit.

1012
00:51:32,760 --> 00:51:36,480
Speaker 1: So when you when you take the congestion away from

1013
00:51:36,520 --> 00:51:40,280
Speaker 1: seven eight man fronts, that gets Ezekiel Elliott more involved.

1014
00:51:40,280 --> 00:51:42,520
Speaker 1: And that's what's gonna happen tomorrow with the Redskins. I

1015
00:51:42,520 --> 00:51:45,440
Speaker 1: don't see how they slow the Cowboys down. They've built

1016
00:51:45,520 --> 00:51:48,480
Speaker 1: some momentum. Dak has taking care of the football and

1017
00:51:48,680 --> 00:51:52,240
Speaker 1: playing well. Watching the Redskins and then all of a sudden,

1018
00:51:52,280 --> 00:51:55,160
Speaker 1: They've got pass rushers that are getting to the quarterback

1019
00:51:55,200 --> 00:51:57,919
Speaker 1: as well. And when you throw Colpe McCoy and that, yeah,

1020
00:51:57,960 --> 00:52:00,840
Speaker 1: he won't will you're throwing him men. But with a

1021
00:52:00,920 --> 00:52:03,960
Speaker 1: short week of practice, I just don't know how effective

1022
00:52:04,360 --> 00:52:07,240
Speaker 1: he can be in that regard. He knows the entire offense,

1023
00:52:07,680 --> 00:52:10,239
Speaker 1: but the reps just won't be there and enough of

1024
00:52:10,280 --> 00:52:12,880
Speaker 1: them to beat the Cowboys on Thanksgiving Day, Andre the

1025
00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:16,080
Speaker 1: Cults will have the Dolphins at their placed Sunday afternoon.

1026
00:52:16,360 --> 00:52:19,000
Speaker 1: Do the Dolphins have a snowball chance to win this thing?

1027
00:52:19,080 --> 00:52:21,239
Speaker 1: What do you make of the matchup? I don't think though,

1028
00:52:21,640 --> 00:52:24,720
Speaker 1: I really don't. I think the Colts are. They're hitting

1029
00:52:24,760 --> 00:52:27,680
Speaker 1: on all cylinders have set for weeks now. They've gotten healthy.

1030
00:52:28,040 --> 00:52:30,880
Speaker 1: Andrew Luck is playing like the Andrew Luck that we

1031
00:52:31,040 --> 00:52:34,560
Speaker 1: thought he's he was capable of becoming. And there's a

1032
00:52:34,640 --> 00:52:36,960
Speaker 1: running game that's involved in that. And then on the

1033
00:52:36,960 --> 00:52:40,000
Speaker 1: defensive sad they're doing just enough to get stops and

1034
00:52:40,040 --> 00:52:43,920
Speaker 1: giving an offense that is healthy more opportunities. They love

1035
00:52:43,960 --> 00:52:46,520
Speaker 1: the tight end. Andrews always love the tight end. Eric

1036
00:52:46,560 --> 00:52:50,239
Speaker 1: ebrom is really factoring into what they want to do.

1037
00:52:50,320 --> 00:52:53,160
Speaker 1: I don't give the Dolphins one shot. I mean, it's

1038
00:52:53,200 --> 00:52:56,080
Speaker 1: the NFL can happen. But just going on what I've

1039
00:52:56,120 --> 00:52:58,439
Speaker 1: seen and how the Colts are playing as of late,

1040
00:52:58,760 --> 00:53:01,160
Speaker 1: I don't think the Dolphins beat the Colts this week.

1041
00:53:01,400 --> 00:53:03,040
Speaker 1: You and I have not had a chance to talk

1042
00:53:03,160 --> 00:53:06,399
Speaker 1: on the air since the Monday Night game, with both

1043
00:53:06,440 --> 00:53:09,239
Speaker 1: teams scoring in the fifties and the Chiefs becoming the

1044
00:53:09,280 --> 00:53:11,840
Speaker 1: first NFL team in history to score over fifty points

1045
00:53:11,840 --> 00:53:14,520
Speaker 1: and lose. What did you make of it? Did you

1046
00:53:14,680 --> 00:53:16,799
Speaker 1: like that? Do you want to see more of that?

1047
00:53:17,080 --> 00:53:20,479
Speaker 1: What were your thoughts? Well, the first thing you point

1048
00:53:20,520 --> 00:53:22,200
Speaker 1: to is you look at the score fifty four to

1049
00:53:22,320 --> 00:53:25,120
Speaker 1: fifty one, and you think there was no defense being played,

1050
00:53:25,520 --> 00:53:29,560
Speaker 1: But there was. I mean both teams scored multiple score

1051
00:53:29,600 --> 00:53:32,279
Speaker 1: touchdowns on the defensive side of the ball, so they

1052
00:53:32,360 --> 00:53:36,160
Speaker 1: added to it. There were sacks, there were strip strip

1053
00:53:36,200 --> 00:53:39,040
Speaker 1: sacks and fumbles and you know, fumble recover. All those

1054
00:53:39,080 --> 00:53:41,279
Speaker 1: things went into the game. It was just one hell

1055
00:53:41,320 --> 00:53:44,239
Speaker 1: of a game. Honestly, Mark, I think it's the best

1056
00:53:44,320 --> 00:53:46,520
Speaker 1: NFL game I've had a chance to see. Wow, where

1057
00:53:46,520 --> 00:53:49,320
Speaker 1: I just watched it from from start to finish. Certainly

1058
00:53:49,320 --> 00:53:52,759
Speaker 1: the best Monday Night game. That I've ever seen in

1059
00:53:52,880 --> 00:53:57,120
Speaker 1: that dating back quite some time, maybe the Dallas Minnesota

1060
00:53:57,200 --> 00:54:00,879
Speaker 1: game when Tony Dorsaid broke the ninety nine yard run

1061
00:54:00,920 --> 00:54:03,879
Speaker 1: and went to the house with it. Outside of that,

1062
00:54:04,400 --> 00:54:06,960
Speaker 1: this one ranks right up there along with it, and

1063
00:54:07,600 --> 00:54:10,080
Speaker 1: I just enjoyed it. I thought it was great football.

1064
00:54:10,120 --> 00:54:14,080
Speaker 1: I thought it was great coaching from a KG veteran

1065
00:54:14,120 --> 00:54:18,040
Speaker 1: and Andy Reid to Sean mcvathe, a younger, up and

1066
00:54:18,080 --> 00:54:21,000
Speaker 1: coming coach that's gonna be around for a very very

1067
00:54:21,040 --> 00:54:24,479
Speaker 1: long period of time. It was entertaining and it gave

1068
00:54:24,520 --> 00:54:28,480
Speaker 1: you every single thing that you wanted as a football fan.

1069
00:54:28,800 --> 00:54:31,319
Speaker 1: You were like vander Kid's age when that door set

1070
00:54:31,440 --> 00:54:34,320
Speaker 1: run happened. I mean you were. Yeah. See that was

1071
00:54:34,360 --> 00:54:36,799
Speaker 1: a long time ago. Now, yeah, it was a long

1072
00:54:36,840 --> 00:54:38,719
Speaker 1: time ago, but I still remember it. I had a

1073
00:54:38,760 --> 00:54:41,719
Speaker 1: dollar bet with my uncle, and back then I had

1074
00:54:41,760 --> 00:54:44,439
Speaker 1: the vikings and a dollar was worth a lot of money.

1075
00:54:44,480 --> 00:54:46,920
Speaker 1: Those kids trying to get some now and lads in

1076
00:54:46,960 --> 00:54:50,279
Speaker 1: a pickle. So when I had to pay it up,

1077
00:54:50,280 --> 00:54:53,279
Speaker 1: and he always he if we bet, he forced me

1078
00:54:53,320 --> 00:54:55,879
Speaker 1: to pay to teach me a lesson. Yep, But that

1079
00:54:55,920 --> 00:54:57,799
Speaker 1: one lost me some money that night, and I will

1080
00:54:57,960 --> 00:55:00,400
Speaker 1: never forget the game. That's a good uncle. Make you

1081
00:55:00,520 --> 00:55:02,880
Speaker 1: stick to it, stick to your word. I know you

1082
00:55:02,880 --> 00:55:07,719
Speaker 1: have Louisville and Kentucky this week, and Kentucky is unbelievable,

1083
00:55:07,800 --> 00:55:09,839
Speaker 1: right with their facilities you were telling me, I mean

1084
00:55:09,880 --> 00:55:12,920
Speaker 1: this is sort of an under the radar sort of program.

1085
00:55:12,920 --> 00:55:16,400
Speaker 1: Maybe not so much anymore though, Yeah, I mean, what

1086
00:55:16,520 --> 00:55:19,120
Speaker 1: it reminds me of is this setup when we were

1087
00:55:19,200 --> 00:55:22,560
Speaker 1: in Dallas where the Cowboys, where the weight room is

1088
00:55:22,880 --> 00:55:25,160
Speaker 1: out overlooking or you can walk right out of their

1089
00:55:25,160 --> 00:55:28,879
Speaker 1: weight room on the two excellent practice facilities. The weight

1090
00:55:28,920 --> 00:55:34,000
Speaker 1: room is two levels, two tiers to it. Everything's there,

1091
00:55:34,040 --> 00:55:38,000
Speaker 1: a food and nutrition center where the athletes eat healthy.

1092
00:55:38,080 --> 00:55:41,000
Speaker 1: It is first rate. And you talk about when they

1093
00:55:41,040 --> 00:55:43,640
Speaker 1: did it, they did it right. They took ideas from

1094
00:55:43,640 --> 00:55:46,000
Speaker 1: a lot of places. But when I first walked in,

1095
00:55:46,080 --> 00:55:49,560
Speaker 1: I immediately thought of the Cowboys facility and just how

1096
00:55:49,640 --> 00:55:52,760
Speaker 1: nice that was. You mix that with all of a sudden,

1097
00:55:52,760 --> 00:55:56,279
Speaker 1: they're getting players. There's a lot of senior leadership on

1098
00:55:56,280 --> 00:55:58,879
Speaker 1: this team, especially on the defensive side of the ball,

1099
00:55:58,880 --> 00:56:03,040
Speaker 1: where they have a top ten pick in Josh Allen,

1100
00:56:03,120 --> 00:56:05,920
Speaker 1: maybe even a top five pick. He's the highest rated

1101
00:56:05,960 --> 00:56:09,799
Speaker 1: linebacker in the country going into this year's draft, and

1102
00:56:09,880 --> 00:56:12,960
Speaker 1: he's just having a phenomenal season. So you mixed all

1103
00:56:12,960 --> 00:56:16,520
Speaker 1: that together. I don't see how Louisville loses to a

1104
00:56:16,600 --> 00:56:19,440
Speaker 1: two and nine Excuse me how Kentucky loses to a

1105
00:56:19,520 --> 00:56:22,960
Speaker 1: two and nine Louisville team. They've got all the momentum

1106
00:56:23,000 --> 00:56:26,560
Speaker 1: going eight and three on the season. They've been building

1107
00:56:26,600 --> 00:56:29,879
Speaker 1: towards this type of finish each and every year under

1108
00:56:29,920 --> 00:56:33,080
Speaker 1: Mark Stop's leadership, and they've had They've had a great

1109
00:56:33,120 --> 00:56:37,120
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen season. Drey, Happy Thanksgiving, safe travels, and we'll

1110
00:56:37,160 --> 00:56:39,640
Speaker 1: see a Monday night. All right, buddy, Thanks a bunch

1111
00:56:39,600 --> 00:56:41,480
Speaker 1: of same to you and your family. Fight him in

1112
00:56:41,520 --> 00:56:44,200
Speaker 1: that call, I would have told Andre Thanksgiving to him

1113
00:56:44,200 --> 00:56:46,719
Speaker 1: and his family as well. Those two guys are my

1114
00:56:46,840 --> 00:56:49,759
Speaker 1: football brothers from another mother, so love them dearly and

1115
00:56:50,000 --> 00:56:52,879
Speaker 1: hope their families all have a great Thanksgiving coming up.

1116
00:56:53,040 --> 00:56:55,839
Speaker 1: Next it is another one of my good friends in

1117
00:56:55,880 --> 00:56:59,200
Speaker 1: the labs, Drew Doherty. We sit down and break Brett

1118
00:56:59,200 --> 00:57:03,239
Speaker 1: on the Titans, and then we face the all important

1119
00:57:03,360 --> 00:57:07,840
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving Day question, favorite side least favorite side. We'll do

1120
00:57:07,880 --> 00:57:10,360
Speaker 1: that next right here in Texans All Access Calling on

1121
00:57:10,480 --> 00:57:12,560
Speaker 1: Houston area teachers. You want to bring a little Texas

1122
00:57:12,600 --> 00:57:15,600
Speaker 1: football to your classroom, then sign up for Toros Matris,

1123
00:57:15,640 --> 00:57:18,760
Speaker 1: presented by Conico Phillips. Toros Matris is a video series

1124
00:57:18,760 --> 00:57:20,560
Speaker 1: design to help third and fourth graders learn how to

1125
00:57:20,640 --> 00:57:24,120
Speaker 1: tackle math in the classroom. Go to Houston Texans dot

1126
00:57:24,120 --> 00:57:28,200
Speaker 1: com slash Toros Matris to learn more. Welcome back to

1127
00:57:28,240 --> 00:57:31,320
Speaker 1: the show Texans All Access on this wonderful Wednesday evening.

1128
00:57:31,360 --> 00:57:34,040
Speaker 1: Hopefully it stays dry for you the rest of the evening.

1129
00:57:34,320 --> 00:57:37,800
Speaker 1: Then sona good but hopefully it looks like Thanksgiving it

1130
00:57:37,880 --> 00:57:40,480
Speaker 1: might be sunny, so hopefully the weather is good for you.

1131
00:57:40,760 --> 00:57:43,080
Speaker 1: Now to get into our in the Lab podcast, You're

1132
00:57:43,080 --> 00:57:46,920
Speaker 1: Dorty myself, John Harris. We do a podcast each weekend.

1133
00:57:47,000 --> 00:57:52,640
Speaker 1: We dive into certain topics about the previous game, the

1134
00:57:52,760 --> 00:57:55,680
Speaker 1: upcoming game, and then sometimes we go off the beaten path.

1135
00:57:55,800 --> 00:57:57,720
Speaker 1: But essentially it's called in the Lab because we nerd

1136
00:57:57,760 --> 00:57:59,800
Speaker 1: out a little bit. And here's us nerding out this.

1137
00:57:59,840 --> 00:58:04,040
Speaker 1: We're gonna focus mainly on this upcoming Titans matchup, not

1138
00:58:04,040 --> 00:58:07,479
Speaker 1: gonna look back too much at the Redskins game. Two

1139
00:58:07,520 --> 00:58:12,240
Speaker 1: reasons why you are wary of these tennessee Titans, and

1140
00:58:12,280 --> 00:58:15,360
Speaker 1: I'll start I'm gonna I'm gonna go with one whacky.

1141
00:58:15,960 --> 00:58:19,000
Speaker 1: We saw some wacky things from those guys back in

1142
00:58:19,040 --> 00:58:23,120
Speaker 1: Week two. They were playing kind of at a disadvantage,

1143
00:58:23,120 --> 00:58:27,000
Speaker 1: and they have Mariota, they didn't have the Yeah they're

1144
00:58:27,200 --> 00:58:29,720
Speaker 1: they're two tackles. It was weird. So what they did

1145
00:58:30,040 --> 00:58:32,320
Speaker 1: they compensated, They made They came up with some things.

1146
00:58:32,320 --> 00:58:34,720
Speaker 1: They had a fake punt that they scored a touchdown

1147
00:58:34,800 --> 00:58:36,959
Speaker 1: on it. It It remains their longest past play in the season,

1148
00:58:37,000 --> 00:58:41,160
Speaker 1: does it not. They also ran the wildcat very very

1149
00:58:41,160 --> 00:58:44,960
Speaker 1: successfully on a drive that I believe resulted in a touchdown.

1150
00:58:45,200 --> 00:58:48,320
Speaker 1: And when the first quarter finished they were up fourteen zero.

1151
00:58:48,680 --> 00:58:52,080
Speaker 1: They didn't they hadn't really outplayed you as far as

1152
00:58:52,160 --> 00:58:54,120
Speaker 1: gaining yardage and all that stuff they did on the

1153
00:58:54,120 --> 00:58:56,440
Speaker 1: wildcat drive. But other than that, Texans had done a

1154
00:58:56,480 --> 00:59:00,640
Speaker 1: pretty nice job. But that's the way football goes sometimes.

1155
00:59:00,680 --> 00:59:03,040
Speaker 1: Because they were down fourteen zip and it was a

1156
00:59:03,040 --> 00:59:05,200
Speaker 1: whole they ultimately were not able to get out of

1157
00:59:05,560 --> 00:59:08,080
Speaker 1: the Texans and Tennessee won that one. It was a

1158
00:59:08,080 --> 00:59:11,800
Speaker 1: tight one. So I'm wary because of the wackiness, and

1159
00:59:11,880 --> 00:59:14,080
Speaker 1: I'm also wary because of what they were able to

1160
00:59:14,120 --> 00:59:16,440
Speaker 1: do as far as getting to the quarterback against the

1161
00:59:16,480 --> 00:59:19,640
Speaker 1: Texans last time had four sacks. They hit Deshaun Watson

1162
00:59:19,680 --> 00:59:24,080
Speaker 1: ten times, so they made things uncomfortable for him. Those

1163
00:59:24,120 --> 00:59:27,200
Speaker 1: are two reasons I'm wary. What makes you wary of

1164
00:59:27,200 --> 00:59:29,360
Speaker 1: these Titans? John, Well, you took one of mine. So

1165
00:59:29,400 --> 00:59:31,120
Speaker 1: I'll try and come up with while I'll try and

1166
00:59:31,120 --> 00:59:33,040
Speaker 1: talk myself into a second. You don't have to. We

1167
00:59:33,080 --> 00:59:35,760
Speaker 1: can agree. This is not like a stephen A. Smith.

1168
00:59:37,000 --> 00:59:38,480
Speaker 1: I don't want to cheat the people. No, No No, I'm

1169
00:59:38,520 --> 00:59:40,200
Speaker 1: not trying to. I'm not going against you. Like I

1170
00:59:40,280 --> 00:59:43,000
Speaker 1: totally agree with right. It doesn't have to be either,

1171
00:59:43,120 --> 00:59:46,320
Speaker 1: like just you know, to take it another layer with

1172
00:59:46,400 --> 00:59:48,960
Speaker 1: the pass rush, I think what worries me with that

1173
00:59:49,760 --> 00:59:55,160
Speaker 1: is the result of them getting there, the process of

1174
00:59:55,160 --> 00:59:58,640
Speaker 1: how they get there, and that is multiple ways. Harold

1175
00:59:58,720 --> 01:00:00,560
Speaker 1: Landry has been rushing really well from the edge. She

1176
01:00:00,680 --> 01:00:03,240
Speaker 1: was playing his first game of the year against us,

1177
01:00:02,360 --> 01:00:05,400
Speaker 1: a really good pick for them, and so he gives

1178
01:00:05,440 --> 01:00:07,720
Speaker 1: them the ability to just turn and burn the edge.

1179
01:00:08,200 --> 01:00:10,320
Speaker 1: But then you got drill Casey inside and then when

1180
01:00:10,360 --> 01:00:12,280
Speaker 1: they're not getting there, they can always scheme up to

1181
01:00:12,320 --> 01:00:14,520
Speaker 1: get there and they did that against us. They brought

1182
01:00:14,520 --> 01:00:17,440
Speaker 1: Logan Ryan off the slot and we missed him. You

1183
01:00:17,480 --> 01:00:21,160
Speaker 1: got a clean hit on the sean. So it's where

1184
01:00:21,160 --> 01:00:24,480
Speaker 1: they where they brought the heat from. How the heat

1185
01:00:24,600 --> 01:00:29,320
Speaker 1: got there is my concern kind of building off of

1186
01:00:29,360 --> 01:00:31,640
Speaker 1: that because it's multiple It's not just oh my god,

1187
01:00:31,680 --> 01:00:34,080
Speaker 1: we got to block this guy. Yeah, it's not just

1188
01:00:34,200 --> 01:00:38,080
Speaker 1: control drill Casey and you got an opportunity. It is okay, well,

1189
01:00:38,080 --> 01:00:41,440
Speaker 1: they are overloading this side, and so we slide the

1190
01:00:41,440 --> 01:00:43,560
Speaker 1: protection there, and then all of a sudden we slide

1191
01:00:43,600 --> 01:00:46,240
Speaker 1: the protection and then they're bringing Landry in a slot

1192
01:00:46,240 --> 01:00:48,160
Speaker 1: corner off the other side. And then you're like, well

1193
01:00:48,440 --> 01:00:50,640
Speaker 1: that gumm it. You know, you're kind of stuck that way.

1194
01:00:50,680 --> 01:00:53,120
Speaker 1: So that was that was kind of my my worry,

1195
01:00:53,120 --> 01:00:55,160
Speaker 1: and then I nerd out by going, you know, to

1196
01:00:55,280 --> 01:00:57,560
Speaker 1: that layer of okay, where does it come from? Yeah.

1197
01:00:58,480 --> 01:01:03,960
Speaker 1: The second one to me is Corey Davis, a receiver.

1198
01:01:04,880 --> 01:01:07,920
Speaker 1: He hasn't done a I don't think he's really gotten

1199
01:01:08,000 --> 01:01:11,720
Speaker 1: to that level yet, but he had a magnificent game

1200
01:01:11,720 --> 01:01:14,840
Speaker 1: against Philadelphia. I mean, he was outstanding in that game.

1201
01:01:15,560 --> 01:01:20,080
Speaker 1: And he is a big body after the catch, can

1202
01:01:20,160 --> 01:01:22,240
Speaker 1: run take it to the house on you. He can

1203
01:01:22,320 --> 01:01:25,880
Speaker 1: fifty fifty, he can make plays in the fifty fifty balls.

1204
01:01:26,120 --> 01:01:29,000
Speaker 1: He can be dynamic anywhere on the field in a

1205
01:01:29,040 --> 01:01:31,320
Speaker 1: passing game. We saw it on the screenplay. I think

1206
01:01:31,320 --> 01:01:33,439
Speaker 1: one of the biggest plays that game was the screenplay

1207
01:01:33,520 --> 01:01:35,840
Speaker 1: that eventually JJ knocked out of his hands and we

1208
01:01:35,880 --> 01:01:37,800
Speaker 1: just couldn't get on it. If you guys there couldn't

1209
01:01:37,800 --> 01:01:40,520
Speaker 1: get on it, and that changes everything, and that's game.

1210
01:01:41,080 --> 01:01:43,960
Speaker 1: But I think Corey Davis can be a problem just

1211
01:01:44,000 --> 01:01:46,800
Speaker 1: because of the size. I think our secondary has played

1212
01:01:46,880 --> 01:01:50,360
Speaker 1: much better, but the size, and then this says nothing

1213
01:01:50,360 --> 01:01:52,000
Speaker 1: to really do with the secondary. It's just more about

1214
01:01:52,040 --> 01:01:56,800
Speaker 1: Corey Davis how physically he can end up. He can

1215
01:01:56,840 --> 01:01:58,840
Speaker 1: take over a game with that size. He can go

1216
01:01:58,920 --> 01:02:00,800
Speaker 1: up and get one over your head. You can play,

1217
01:02:00,960 --> 01:02:03,560
Speaker 1: you can play the ball perfectly and then boom there

1218
01:02:03,560 --> 01:02:08,640
Speaker 1: he is. So Corey Davis is one and it's such

1219
01:02:08,680 --> 01:02:10,960
Speaker 1: a kind of piggybacked off the other one. I'll give you.

1220
01:02:12,040 --> 01:02:15,840
Speaker 1: I'll give you a third one, And to me, it's

1221
01:02:15,920 --> 01:02:20,280
Speaker 1: Dean Lewis. I think Dion Lewis. I don't think he's

1222
01:02:20,320 --> 01:02:26,320
Speaker 1: taken over as the guy, but he you know, Derrick Henry.

1223
01:02:26,400 --> 01:02:29,280
Speaker 1: If you bring enough dudes to the party, you'll slow

1224
01:02:29,400 --> 01:02:31,560
Speaker 1: him down, which is what the Texans did Sunday against

1225
01:02:31,560 --> 01:02:35,400
Speaker 1: Adrian Peter. That's what they're gonna have to do. But

1226
01:02:35,480 --> 01:02:38,680
Speaker 1: with Dean Lewis, catch the ball in the backfield, pass

1227
01:02:38,800 --> 01:02:41,720
Speaker 1: protect and then one thing I've noticed about Dean Lewis,

1228
01:02:41,760 --> 01:02:43,480
Speaker 1: and I've seen the Titans, I don't know how many times,

1229
01:02:43,560 --> 01:02:46,760
Speaker 1: even our game with them, you do not get a

1230
01:02:46,800 --> 01:02:49,920
Speaker 1: clean shot on him. And because you don't get a

1231
01:02:49,960 --> 01:02:53,960
Speaker 1: clean shot on him, he is getting yards after first contact.

1232
01:02:54,040 --> 01:02:57,360
Speaker 1: So you might be there to make a play, but

1233
01:02:57,560 --> 01:03:02,680
Speaker 1: you essentially have to envelope him with multiple players because

1234
01:03:02,720 --> 01:03:04,480
Speaker 1: if he gets out into space and you're one on

1235
01:03:04,520 --> 01:03:07,000
Speaker 1: woman and he'll embarrass you. And then if you feel

1236
01:03:07,000 --> 01:03:08,760
Speaker 1: like he's gonna shake you and you kind of brace

1237
01:03:08,840 --> 01:03:11,720
Speaker 1: for it, he'll run you over. He's a strong, compact dude,

1238
01:03:12,240 --> 01:03:15,520
Speaker 1: and so Dean Lewis to me ends up being I

1239
01:03:15,560 --> 01:03:17,360
Speaker 1: think a big factor. And he has always had good

1240
01:03:17,360 --> 01:03:19,520
Speaker 1: games against the Texans. I mean that playoff game he

1241
01:03:19,600 --> 01:03:22,160
Speaker 1: scored three different ways. He scored on a run, kick returning,

1242
01:03:22,200 --> 01:03:25,000
Speaker 1: then a reception, And he's always had good games against

1243
01:03:25,040 --> 01:03:28,040
Speaker 1: the Texans and really when the Titans, when we played

1244
01:03:28,080 --> 01:03:30,600
Speaker 1: Titans in Week two, they used Henry in that wildcat

1245
01:03:30,640 --> 01:03:33,640
Speaker 1: because they needed it. But to me, they could run

1246
01:03:33,680 --> 01:03:35,920
Speaker 1: that wildcat with Henry and then Lewis and give the

1247
01:03:35,920 --> 01:03:39,760
Speaker 1: ball to Lewis and that could be an even bigger problem.

1248
01:03:39,840 --> 01:03:41,360
Speaker 1: And they didn't throw out of the wildcat, and I

1249
01:03:41,360 --> 01:03:43,439
Speaker 1: could see that happening. I could see that. I could

1250
01:03:43,480 --> 01:03:45,520
Speaker 1: see that a little bit. But to me, Corey Davis

1251
01:03:45,560 --> 01:03:50,560
Speaker 1: and Deon Lewis, just those particular players I can be

1252
01:03:50,600 --> 01:03:53,280
Speaker 1: a problem. And notice we didn't say Marcus Mariota because

1253
01:03:53,240 --> 01:03:55,280
Speaker 1: we don't know about Mariona. We have no idea whether

1254
01:03:55,280 --> 01:03:57,439
Speaker 1: he's can play or not. So I'm kind of snow

1255
01:03:57,800 --> 01:04:01,280
Speaker 1: I'm staying away from him, just this whole whole little podcast. Yeah,

1256
01:04:01,560 --> 01:04:04,240
Speaker 1: there's no sense of talking. Yeah, and I don't know

1257
01:04:04,320 --> 01:04:08,040
Speaker 1: he's been that great really in games against you. Anyways. Okay,

1258
01:04:08,080 --> 01:04:10,560
Speaker 1: those are a couple of reasons we're each wary of

1259
01:04:10,600 --> 01:04:13,240
Speaker 1: the Titans. Here's a couple of reasons. I'm confident for

1260
01:04:13,280 --> 01:04:15,920
Speaker 1: all the two reasons above that I mentioned, the wackiness

1261
01:04:15,920 --> 01:04:18,240
Speaker 1: and the past rush, I don't think they're gonna do

1262
01:04:18,280 --> 01:04:19,880
Speaker 1: that again. I don't think they can do that again.

1263
01:04:20,160 --> 01:04:22,440
Speaker 1: I think they can surprise you like that again, because

1264
01:04:22,480 --> 01:04:26,000
Speaker 1: I think the Texans have evolved from what we saw

1265
01:04:26,040 --> 01:04:29,120
Speaker 1: in week two. Yes, I think their past protection has

1266
01:04:29,160 --> 01:04:31,920
Speaker 1: improved from what we saw in Week two, and I

1267
01:04:31,920 --> 01:04:34,920
Speaker 1: think they're they're on guard against that stuff. And you

1268
01:04:34,920 --> 01:04:37,160
Speaker 1: try the Wildcat on them this time, I think it's

1269
01:04:37,200 --> 01:04:38,920
Speaker 1: gonna get get eaten up. You know, I don't. I

1270
01:04:38,920 --> 01:04:41,440
Speaker 1: don't see that being a success the way. I just

1271
01:04:41,480 --> 01:04:46,040
Speaker 1: think they've gotten smarter and adapted. And you know, Mike

1272
01:04:46,160 --> 01:04:49,040
Speaker 1: Rabel is very creative and he might come at you

1273
01:04:49,040 --> 01:04:51,200
Speaker 1: a different way, but they're not gonna beat you the

1274
01:04:51,200 --> 01:04:53,479
Speaker 1: ways they beat you last time. That was a one

1275
01:04:53,520 --> 01:04:56,919
Speaker 1: time thing with that team versus this Texans team. I think,

1276
01:04:57,160 --> 01:05:00,280
Speaker 1: you know what I might do what sounds nuts, but

1277
01:05:00,320 --> 01:05:03,160
Speaker 1: every time they get in the Wildcat, I would stand

1278
01:05:03,200 --> 01:05:05,720
Speaker 1: up Clowney next to be mack Sure, and I would

1279
01:05:05,800 --> 01:05:08,440
Speaker 1: let Clowney key on Henry and I would let b

1280
01:05:08,520 --> 01:05:12,640
Speaker 1: mac key on the back. Yeah, and and sort of

1281
01:05:12,680 --> 01:05:14,240
Speaker 1: cross key. That's what we used to do a long

1282
01:05:14,280 --> 01:05:18,320
Speaker 1: time ago against and essentially the Wildcat is basically wing

1283
01:05:18,440 --> 01:05:21,800
Speaker 1: T football. That's that's really what it is. And when

1284
01:05:21,840 --> 01:05:23,640
Speaker 1: we played a wing T team. We used to cross

1285
01:05:23,720 --> 01:05:26,320
Speaker 1: key and it led us to the to the right back.

1286
01:05:26,400 --> 01:05:28,840
Speaker 1: So I would if I was linebacker, I would cross

1287
01:05:28,880 --> 01:05:30,520
Speaker 1: key the opposite running back because he was always coming

1288
01:05:30,520 --> 01:05:32,480
Speaker 1: my way. And the same thing for the other running back.

1289
01:05:32,640 --> 01:05:34,280
Speaker 1: And so that's how we that's how we beat teams.

1290
01:05:34,280 --> 01:05:36,479
Speaker 1: We just cross key beating regards. We just watched the backs.

1291
01:05:36,560 --> 01:05:39,520
Speaker 1: The backs took us everywhere. And that's the same thing. Henry,

1292
01:05:39,560 --> 01:05:43,240
Speaker 1: I might, I might, I might take Clowney and stand

1293
01:05:43,320 --> 01:05:46,439
Speaker 1: him up and spy on Henry that wherever he goes,

1294
01:05:46,600 --> 01:05:49,480
Speaker 1: you track his ass down. You could do that with BMAC.

1295
01:05:49,520 --> 01:05:51,080
Speaker 1: You could do it with Zach if Zach's ready to go.

1296
01:05:51,080 --> 01:05:53,240
Speaker 1: I don't know if zaxt's gonna play, but you could

1297
01:05:53,240 --> 01:05:55,840
Speaker 1: do with BMAC two, just so that you can keep

1298
01:05:55,920 --> 01:05:58,840
Speaker 1: Clowney mobile. But I guarantee you the second you stand

1299
01:05:58,960 --> 01:06:04,000
Speaker 1: him up, it creates all kinds of conflict. Yeah, every team,

1300
01:06:04,560 --> 01:06:07,880
Speaker 1: every team, what's he gonna do? No idea? What do

1301
01:06:07,880 --> 01:06:10,040
Speaker 1: we need? Oh? And what what's he gonna do? Oh?

1302
01:06:10,240 --> 01:06:14,400
Speaker 1: DJ And to that end, how many times have we

1303
01:06:14,520 --> 01:06:17,360
Speaker 1: done podcasts over the last few years, and we've talked

1304
01:06:17,360 --> 01:06:19,600
Speaker 1: on All Access and how many times have I brought

1305
01:06:19,680 --> 01:06:23,720
Speaker 1: up to you positionless defense many times, pretty much every time.

1306
01:06:24,000 --> 01:06:27,880
Speaker 1: Guess what was in SI the actual article this week

1307
01:06:27,920 --> 01:06:33,120
Speaker 1: in the magazine? What's that? John? Positionless defense, positionless players,

1308
01:06:33,200 --> 01:06:35,640
Speaker 1: the future of the NFL. Been talking about that for

1309
01:06:35,720 --> 01:06:38,280
Speaker 1: how long? For two years at the time. And clowning

1310
01:06:38,360 --> 01:06:40,640
Speaker 1: is the biggest piece of that. Clowning is the biggest

1311
01:06:40,640 --> 01:06:43,800
Speaker 1: piece because clowning you have to find every play. You

1312
01:06:44,200 --> 01:06:46,280
Speaker 1: got a pretty good idea where JJ is gonna be,

1313
01:06:47,360 --> 01:06:49,480
Speaker 1: but you have no idea where clowning is gonna be.

1314
01:06:49,800 --> 01:06:51,280
Speaker 1: You have no idea where the front's gonna be. So

1315
01:06:51,320 --> 01:06:52,720
Speaker 1: you don't know where clown is gonna be. You don't

1316
01:06:52,720 --> 01:06:55,280
Speaker 1: know where Tyrant's gonna be. You don't know where Kareem's

1317
01:06:55,280 --> 01:06:59,120
Speaker 1: gonna be. Those three guys as close as it gets

1318
01:06:59,160 --> 01:07:02,600
Speaker 1: to positionless fall, Yeah, as close as it gets, all right.

1319
01:07:02,720 --> 01:07:05,680
Speaker 1: So that's one. I don't think they can replicate that.

1320
01:07:05,680 --> 01:07:07,480
Speaker 1: That's the reason I'm that's one. That's a good one.

1321
01:07:07,480 --> 01:07:11,960
Speaker 1: Confidence Next, they're shaky. I know they beat the Patriots handily,

1322
01:07:12,440 --> 01:07:15,360
Speaker 1: but they just got walloped by the Colts thirty eight ten.

1323
01:07:15,600 --> 01:07:20,680
Speaker 1: And man, the Cowboys three weeks ago gifted them a game.

1324
01:07:20,840 --> 01:07:23,400
Speaker 1: I was watching that Dallas was in the red zone

1325
01:07:23,640 --> 01:07:26,880
Speaker 1: three times in the first quarter and came away I

1326
01:07:26,880 --> 01:07:30,400
Speaker 1: think was seven points, maybe ten points. They gifted them

1327
01:07:30,480 --> 01:07:33,280
Speaker 1: that game, and to Tennessee's credit, they came up with it.

1328
01:07:33,680 --> 01:07:36,800
Speaker 1: They took advantage of those mistakes. But I think this

1329
01:07:36,880 --> 01:07:39,800
Speaker 1: is a team that is much shakier than five and five,

1330
01:07:40,040 --> 01:07:44,160
Speaker 1: and I believe the Texans can can expose those warts.

1331
01:07:44,200 --> 01:07:46,439
Speaker 1: I really do not maybe to the two and fifty

1332
01:07:46,480 --> 01:07:48,600
Speaker 1: seven points like he did last year, but I think

1333
01:07:48,600 --> 01:07:50,520
Speaker 1: you can really put this game out of reach and

1334
01:07:50,840 --> 01:07:55,680
Speaker 1: make it, make it an easy one fairly, fairly soon good.

1335
01:07:55,680 --> 01:07:57,560
Speaker 1: I like those two now most of the time. You

1336
01:07:57,560 --> 01:08:02,320
Speaker 1: know me when you ask me that I can get football. Yes,

1337
01:08:02,720 --> 01:08:08,440
Speaker 1: that's all, um, my first one, I should maybe say

1338
01:08:08,520 --> 01:08:10,040
Speaker 1: tell my secondment, but I'll do it right off the bat.

1339
01:08:10,280 --> 01:08:15,000
Speaker 1: Let's do it, um. These guys haven't forgotten. These guys

1340
01:08:15,040 --> 01:08:17,519
Speaker 1: have not forgotten the Texans have Texans have not forgot

1341
01:08:17,600 --> 01:08:20,040
Speaker 1: what happened in Week two. Exactly. They have not forgot

1342
01:08:20,120 --> 01:08:22,920
Speaker 1: what happened in Week two. They knew they they knew

1343
01:08:22,920 --> 01:08:26,640
Speaker 1: they didn't play well that day. They knew defensively that

1344
01:08:26,680 --> 01:08:28,640
Speaker 1: they had some moments. But then they gave up some

1345
01:08:28,720 --> 01:08:31,599
Speaker 1: key drives at the end. They knew they lost an

1346
01:08:31,600 --> 01:08:35,160
Speaker 1: opportunity to win that division game on the road. They know,

1347
01:08:35,240 --> 01:08:37,280
Speaker 1: they're well aware. When I mentioned it to Tyr and

1348
01:08:37,360 --> 01:08:38,840
Speaker 1: after the game is our player of the game. And

1349
01:08:38,840 --> 01:08:40,880
Speaker 1: I was interviewing the locker room and I said, hey,

1350
01:08:41,080 --> 01:08:45,040
Speaker 1: to Tennessee Monday night, like you could tell like he knew,

1351
01:08:45,479 --> 01:08:49,040
Speaker 1: he knew what that was. That was, that was one

1352
01:08:49,120 --> 01:08:51,719
Speaker 1: that they that they gave away and now it's time

1353
01:08:51,840 --> 01:08:55,960
Speaker 1: to go set the record straight, right, And I think

1354
01:08:56,040 --> 01:08:59,680
Speaker 1: that's that's one thing. So it's not as if it's

1355
01:08:59,720 --> 01:09:01,200
Speaker 1: not as if with it, you know, sometimes in the

1356
01:09:01,240 --> 01:09:03,639
Speaker 1: seven game streak, you're like, hey, we're riding a streak, Yeah,

1357
01:09:03,920 --> 01:09:09,400
Speaker 1: riding away. Next opponent's just the next opponent. This one is,

1358
01:09:10,479 --> 01:09:13,160
Speaker 1: this is different. They knew full what means a hell

1359
01:09:13,200 --> 01:09:15,599
Speaker 1: of a lot. And it's not just because of it

1360
01:09:15,680 --> 01:09:18,920
Speaker 1: is an AFC South game. There. It's like you're saying,

1361
01:09:19,439 --> 01:09:22,040
Speaker 1: it's Monday Night. There's anger behind this one, yeah, and

1362
01:09:22,320 --> 01:09:23,840
Speaker 1: I hope that doesn't get away and they're gonna have

1363
01:09:23,880 --> 01:09:28,320
Speaker 1: to channel it. But Monday night, prime time stage only

1364
01:09:28,360 --> 01:09:33,160
Speaker 1: game in town, first time seeing a fan since what

1365
01:09:34,040 --> 01:09:36,559
Speaker 1: not Buffalo. It's like, oh, Miami, the first time since

1366
01:09:36,600 --> 01:09:38,400
Speaker 1: I mean a month, A month will have gone by,

1367
01:09:38,720 --> 01:09:40,919
Speaker 1: a month will have gone by. I mean, that's incredible

1368
01:09:40,920 --> 01:09:43,200
Speaker 1: to think about. But you gotta make this next three

1369
01:09:43,240 --> 01:09:46,040
Speaker 1: weeks nearly a month. We gotta make you're worth it. Yeah,

1370
01:09:46,080 --> 01:09:49,839
Speaker 1: and I think that they're Titans aren't sneaking up on anybody.

1371
01:09:49,840 --> 01:09:51,400
Speaker 1: And I know the NFL that doesn't really happen. But

1372
01:09:51,479 --> 01:09:53,240
Speaker 1: sometimes you can go into a game it's like, all right,

1373
01:09:53,240 --> 01:09:55,360
Speaker 1: well it's Denver and you do this, and it's Washington,

1374
01:09:55,360 --> 01:09:58,000
Speaker 1: two teams you don't face a lot. It's these guys.

1375
01:09:58,600 --> 01:10:01,680
Speaker 1: And if you remember last year, at the beginning of

1376
01:10:01,720 --> 01:10:04,519
Speaker 1: the game, the Titans came out and did their little

1377
01:10:04,600 --> 01:10:08,720
Speaker 1: dance on the bullhead at midfield and we talked about it.

1378
01:10:08,720 --> 01:10:10,479
Speaker 1: I don't know that the players knew about it, but

1379
01:10:10,880 --> 01:10:12,680
Speaker 1: they played that day, is that they knew about it.

1380
01:10:13,080 --> 01:10:15,360
Speaker 1: So that would be my first one that I'm pretty

1381
01:10:15,360 --> 01:10:23,720
Speaker 1: confident in. The second one is is Kiki qt. Yeah.

1382
01:10:23,760 --> 01:10:26,080
Speaker 1: And I don't want to put a lot on a rookie,

1383
01:10:26,160 --> 01:10:30,679
Speaker 1: I really don't, but when sixteen's on the field, some

1384
01:10:30,880 --> 01:10:34,719
Speaker 1: really really good things happened. Now in that game against

1385
01:10:34,760 --> 01:10:37,680
Speaker 1: the Titans in Week two. The Shawn threw for a

1386
01:10:37,720 --> 01:10:39,240
Speaker 1: ton of yards in that game. Yeah, I mean they

1387
01:10:39,240 --> 01:10:41,160
Speaker 1: moved the ball today. I mean they moved the ball

1388
01:10:41,160 --> 01:10:43,320
Speaker 1: when they wanted to. They just especially in the second

1389
01:10:43,360 --> 01:10:45,599
Speaker 1: half after it got to be fourteen nothing. They chipped away,

1390
01:10:45,640 --> 01:10:48,080
Speaker 1: chipped away, tipped away, but they kept moving it got

1391
01:10:48,080 --> 01:10:50,120
Speaker 1: it to seventeen fourteen, took the lead. Will foil the

1392
01:10:50,200 --> 01:10:53,600
Speaker 1: long deep ball if I haven't worry. That's it that

1393
01:10:53,640 --> 01:10:56,760
Speaker 1: the Texans haven't. They don't have that element, that deep

1394
01:10:56,800 --> 01:11:00,240
Speaker 1: ball element, but they do have Qt. That might be

1395
01:11:00,280 --> 01:11:01,880
Speaker 1: where your deep ball comes from. Because I can't tell

1396
01:11:01,920 --> 01:11:03,400
Speaker 1: you how many times I saw him catching deep ball

1397
01:11:03,439 --> 01:11:05,599
Speaker 1: Texas Tech. He'd be in the slot and he just

1398
01:11:05,680 --> 01:11:09,600
Speaker 1: smoked dudes, I mean just gone. But when he's on

1399
01:11:09,640 --> 01:11:13,559
Speaker 1: the field, it gives Deshaun an outlet, but an outlet

1400
01:11:13,600 --> 01:11:16,559
Speaker 1: to throw at four yards and he turns it into forty. Yeah,

1401
01:11:16,600 --> 01:11:18,800
Speaker 1: that's to me the key with Kiki Qt. He can

1402
01:11:18,880 --> 01:11:21,559
Speaker 1: get open, he's got great hands, and he definitely makes

1403
01:11:21,560 --> 01:11:24,320
Speaker 1: things happen. I've I've always been partial to the guy

1404
01:11:24,640 --> 01:11:26,880
Speaker 1: since the Texans took him. You know what, I really

1405
01:11:26,880 --> 01:11:29,720
Speaker 1: loved what I saw from him. On Sunday. He's got

1406
01:11:29,760 --> 01:11:33,720
Speaker 1: like a Honey badgerish type of you know, style of

1407
01:11:33,760 --> 01:11:36,800
Speaker 1: the field, like he was fighting for yards. Dude, He's

1408
01:11:36,800 --> 01:11:41,040
Speaker 1: great after that he was her down. He plays violently

1409
01:11:41,080 --> 01:11:43,000
Speaker 1: for a guy his size and for a guy with

1410
01:11:43,040 --> 01:11:45,680
Speaker 1: his reputation, you don't you don't expect that from him

1411
01:11:45,720 --> 01:11:48,479
Speaker 1: and the way he I mean, it took a lot

1412
01:11:48,520 --> 01:11:50,400
Speaker 1: to bring him down on a couple of those those

1413
01:11:50,439 --> 01:11:53,519
Speaker 1: past plays. When I wrote up my draft preview on

1414
01:11:53,640 --> 01:11:56,760
Speaker 1: Kiki QT, when I wrote it up before I wrote

1415
01:11:56,760 --> 01:11:59,480
Speaker 1: it back up in February, I watched him back in February,

1416
01:11:59,479 --> 01:12:01,880
Speaker 1: and I wrote it up on him. You know who

1417
01:12:01,880 --> 01:12:04,479
Speaker 1: he reminded me of from that perspective who you know who?

1418
01:12:04,479 --> 01:12:08,559
Speaker 1: He's like Julian Edelman. Yeah, yeah, he's not as big

1419
01:12:08,600 --> 01:12:11,000
Speaker 1: as Julian. Julian's much bigger than he is, like taller.

1420
01:12:11,760 --> 01:12:15,400
Speaker 1: But Edelman gets pissed off when you tackle him. Yeah,

1421
01:12:15,439 --> 01:12:18,360
Speaker 1: he tries to flick pain on you when you're trying

1422
01:12:18,360 --> 01:12:21,040
Speaker 1: to tackle him. I love the way that Julian Edelman

1423
01:12:21,080 --> 01:12:22,720
Speaker 1: plays the game, and that's what Kei reminded me of.

1424
01:12:22,720 --> 01:12:25,439
Speaker 1: When he catches the ball and he turns up to run,

1425
01:12:25,920 --> 01:12:29,559
Speaker 1: he's looking to Barish you. Yeah, I love that part

1426
01:12:29,600 --> 01:12:31,800
Speaker 1: of his game. I love it and and it's easy

1427
01:12:31,840 --> 01:12:35,240
Speaker 1: for to Sean. It's easy find sixteen throw him the football.

1428
01:12:35,479 --> 01:12:37,200
Speaker 1: There was one play that Key didn't hang on to it.

1429
01:12:37,360 --> 01:12:39,439
Speaker 1: It was kind of a tough catch. It was on him,

1430
01:12:39,479 --> 01:12:42,080
Speaker 1: but it wasn't great against Washington. But that's a guy

1431
01:12:42,120 --> 01:12:43,840
Speaker 1: I think that Sean really wants to rely on, and

1432
01:12:43,880 --> 01:12:46,320
Speaker 1: I'm totally fine with that against these guys. All right,

1433
01:12:46,400 --> 01:12:49,880
Speaker 1: let's wrap this up. O favorite side dish Thanksgiving wise

1434
01:12:50,120 --> 01:12:53,639
Speaker 1: mine mashed potatoes with a little bit of a little

1435
01:12:53,680 --> 01:12:56,200
Speaker 1: bit of wa sabi mixed in and the gravy. And

1436
01:12:56,200 --> 01:13:00,400
Speaker 1: then also recently the Italian sausage because I'm married into

1437
01:13:00,400 --> 01:13:04,519
Speaker 1: an Italian and they have I can't I can't name

1438
01:13:04,560 --> 01:13:06,920
Speaker 1: the brand here on the air, but if you're interested

1439
01:13:06,960 --> 01:13:09,840
Speaker 1: in this Italian sausage, I'm gonna get some some sausage. John.

1440
01:13:10,160 --> 01:13:13,200
Speaker 1: If you guys listeners are interested in great Italian sausage

1441
01:13:13,200 --> 01:13:15,680
Speaker 1: on the grill, dm me on Twitter or tweet at

1442
01:13:15,680 --> 01:13:17,200
Speaker 1: me on Twitter and I'll hook you up. I'll let

1443
01:13:17,200 --> 01:13:19,680
Speaker 1: you know where to get it because it's it's phenomenal

1444
01:13:19,720 --> 01:13:21,719
Speaker 1: and that's what I love. On the site, but mashed

1445
01:13:21,720 --> 01:13:24,160
Speaker 1: potatoes too. What about you? What's your favorite? Took the

1446
01:13:24,160 --> 01:13:27,519
Speaker 1: words right out of my mouth. Yeah, however, I'm not

1447
01:13:27,880 --> 01:13:29,640
Speaker 1: I won't go with through a sabi. But what I

1448
01:13:29,720 --> 01:13:32,559
Speaker 1: like is kind of a loaded mashed potatoes. So like

1449
01:13:32,600 --> 01:13:37,080
Speaker 1: if you take you take um, some red potatoes, boil them,

1450
01:13:37,280 --> 01:13:39,160
Speaker 1: smash them down, and then you put the butter to

1451
01:13:39,240 --> 01:13:41,800
Speaker 1: sour cream, the cheese, the bacon, you put all that

1452
01:13:41,880 --> 01:13:46,640
Speaker 1: in chives. Love it, love it. Now there's one of

1453
01:13:46,720 --> 01:13:48,760
Speaker 1: the dish also kind of along those lines. So if

1454
01:13:48,800 --> 01:13:51,120
Speaker 1: I don't get those, I want to have those. Yeah,

1455
01:13:51,320 --> 01:13:55,680
Speaker 1: my mom used to make this hash brown. Kind of

1456
01:13:55,720 --> 01:13:59,559
Speaker 1: hash brown is cheesy castro, cheese and stuff. Yes, like

1457
01:13:59,600 --> 01:14:04,720
Speaker 1: hash not not like the like dice dice potatoes phenomenal

1458
01:14:04,800 --> 01:14:08,080
Speaker 1: had sour cream cheese potatoes, and I think there were

1459
01:14:08,080 --> 01:14:09,920
Speaker 1: some chopped bunny in aner, which any care for too,

1460
01:14:10,120 --> 01:14:11,439
Speaker 1: but I love it so much I would eat it

1461
01:14:11,439 --> 01:14:15,599
Speaker 1: with it. So the potato part of it is bingo.

1462
01:14:16,120 --> 01:14:18,400
Speaker 1: I don't like greens, but I do like green bean

1463
01:14:18,439 --> 01:14:21,000
Speaker 1: cast rollo. I do like green bean castroll I'm I'm

1464
01:14:21,040 --> 01:14:23,920
Speaker 1: totally okay with that, so I'm good there, especially with

1465
01:14:23,960 --> 01:14:28,559
Speaker 1: like the potato strings on top or onion strings. Yeah, yeah, strings,

1466
01:14:28,600 --> 01:14:31,599
Speaker 1: totally fine. In fact, I I go get some extras

1467
01:14:31,640 --> 01:14:34,639
Speaker 1: to put on whatever my helping is now, So those

1468
01:14:34,680 --> 01:14:36,680
Speaker 1: are the those are the good ones. On the flip side, act,

1469
01:14:36,960 --> 01:14:40,280
Speaker 1: I have no use for sweet potatoes in any form, no, okay.

1470
01:14:40,600 --> 01:14:43,000
Speaker 1: And I don't care about squash either. Squash is overrated.

1471
01:14:43,120 --> 01:14:45,759
Speaker 1: And Bob said that, oh you did help put squashed

1472
01:14:45,800 --> 01:14:50,080
Speaker 1: on Thanksgiving table. I guess Ryan family butternut squash. I

1473
01:14:50,080 --> 01:14:52,720
Speaker 1: don't want any of that. I'm with you, I'm with

1474
01:14:52,720 --> 01:14:55,000
Speaker 1: you on the squash. Now. Sweet potatoes, I'm okay with

1475
01:14:55,439 --> 01:14:59,120
Speaker 1: if it's in the form of sweet potato sweepto castrole.

1476
01:14:59,600 --> 01:15:01,479
Speaker 1: You know, it's got the pecans, and it's got the

1477
01:15:01,840 --> 01:15:04,160
Speaker 1: it's got the brown sugar on top, Like, I'm okay

1478
01:15:04,200 --> 01:15:06,679
Speaker 1: with that. But pretty much anything else green you put

1479
01:15:06,680 --> 01:15:08,720
Speaker 1: out there, I'm just like, forget it, Like I'm not

1480
01:15:08,760 --> 01:15:10,320
Speaker 1: wasting my time with you and then you and I'm

1481
01:15:10,320 --> 01:15:11,920
Speaker 1: wasting my time with you and I kind of butt

1482
01:15:11,920 --> 01:15:14,400
Speaker 1: heads on pecan pie. I'm not not a huge fan

1483
01:15:14,439 --> 01:15:17,120
Speaker 1: of it. I can eat it, but I don't you know,

1484
01:15:17,160 --> 01:15:19,760
Speaker 1: it's not my it's not up on my rushmore well,

1485
01:15:19,800 --> 01:15:23,320
Speaker 1: I'll tell you this when it comes to desserts. When

1486
01:15:23,320 --> 01:15:25,960
Speaker 1: it comes to the desserts, I mean, pecan pie's great,

1487
01:15:25,960 --> 01:15:28,599
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong. But if you made me an

1488
01:15:28,600 --> 01:15:32,120
Speaker 1: apple crumble with some ice cream on top, totally fine.

1489
01:15:32,160 --> 01:15:34,880
Speaker 1: If you made me a chocolate chest pie, I'd be

1490
01:15:34,920 --> 01:15:37,639
Speaker 1: okay with that too. My dad makes this dessert. Coach

1491
01:15:37,720 --> 01:15:41,920
Speaker 1: makes a dessert. He made this dessert. It was crushed pretzels.

1492
01:15:43,120 --> 01:15:46,360
Speaker 1: Crushed pretzels as the space. Okay. Then it was like

1493
01:15:46,800 --> 01:15:51,600
Speaker 1: it was almost it was like a sweet cheesecake, but

1494
01:15:51,680 --> 01:15:56,200
Speaker 1: a little a little lighter, and then he would put

1495
01:15:56,640 --> 01:16:00,960
Speaker 1: this cherry like almost like cherry pie feeling on top. Nice.

1496
01:16:01,240 --> 01:16:03,400
Speaker 1: Oh my god, it sounds good. I would eat that

1497
01:16:03,520 --> 01:16:06,719
Speaker 1: for days. That was my favorite Thanksgiving dessert, no joke,

1498
01:16:06,920 --> 01:16:10,200
Speaker 1: literally for days. Absolutely loved its great stuff. You want

1499
01:16:10,200 --> 01:16:13,000
Speaker 1: to get the rest of the podcast, go to wherever

1500
01:16:13,040 --> 01:16:16,400
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Speaker 1: access shows. Any podcast you're looking for having to do Texans,

1503
01:16:23,160 --> 01:16:25,920
Speaker 1: We've got you covered all right. Coming up, we're gonna

1504
01:16:25,920 --> 01:16:28,519
Speaker 1: go around the NFL some stories hitting around the NFL,

1505
01:16:28,640 --> 01:16:31,439
Speaker 1: and I gotta pick the three games for Thanksgiving, giving

1506
01:16:31,439 --> 01:16:33,720
Speaker 1: you my thoughts about them, because you gotta pick them

1507
01:16:33,720 --> 01:16:35,160
Speaker 1: straight up and get the spread. And we'll do that

1508
01:16:35,200 --> 01:16:38,280
Speaker 1: next right here in Texans All Access, it's time for

1509
01:16:38,320 --> 01:16:40,680
Speaker 1: our Choose Fun Moment of the week, brought to you

1510
01:16:40,760 --> 01:16:43,559
Speaker 1: by Carnival. Don't forget to enter for your chance to

1511
01:16:43,600 --> 01:16:47,440
Speaker 1: win a cruise every week. If the Texans catch a touchdown,

1512
01:16:48,040 --> 01:16:51,760
Speaker 1: and with that as a backdrop, let's do this as

1513
01:16:51,800 --> 01:16:56,839
Speaker 1: our Choose Fun moment. One. DeAndre Hopkins from DeShawn Watson,

1514
01:16:57,200 --> 01:16:59,519
Speaker 1: first dab at the Washington sixteen. Watson in the gun

1515
01:16:59,600 --> 01:17:01,639
Speaker 1: gets the now throws left side of the end zone

1516
01:17:01,680 --> 01:17:05,800
Speaker 1: called Hopkins touchdown. Houston, Man, what a play design. I

1517
01:17:06,000 --> 01:17:09,120
Speaker 1: love this play design. Look, it's a tremendous throw. It's

1518
01:17:09,160 --> 01:17:12,720
Speaker 1: a leazer. I'm telling you he put some sauce on

1519
01:17:12,760 --> 01:17:14,800
Speaker 1: that throw. But what I love about is it really

1520
01:17:14,800 --> 01:17:18,080
Speaker 1: put Josh Norman in conflict. They ran, they were out

1521
01:17:18,080 --> 01:17:22,160
Speaker 1: of trips and DeAndre was the in. He was the

1522
01:17:22,280 --> 01:17:26,320
Speaker 1: number two receivers, So Demarius was outside DeAndre number two

1523
01:17:26,720 --> 01:17:29,479
Speaker 1: and Kiki number three, so the number from outside in

1524
01:17:30,280 --> 01:17:32,720
Speaker 1: and so Keki bubbled out to the sideline, so that

1525
01:17:32,800 --> 01:17:36,200
Speaker 1: drew one guy and then Demarrius ran a post and

1526
01:17:36,240 --> 01:17:40,160
Speaker 1: then DeAndre count ran a little stutter and wheel and

1527
01:17:40,360 --> 01:17:43,080
Speaker 1: all it took was Josh Norman just biting on Demarrius

1528
01:17:43,080 --> 01:17:45,760
Speaker 1: for just a second and then he just zipped it.

1529
01:17:46,120 --> 01:17:48,439
Speaker 1: I mean that ball had sauce on it going to

1530
01:17:48,479 --> 01:17:52,080
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins for the touchdown. That was really fun and

1531
01:17:52,080 --> 01:17:53,519
Speaker 1: that's why I was our Choose Fund Moment of the

1532
01:17:53,520 --> 01:17:57,480
Speaker 1: Week from Carnival, the official cruise line of the Houston Texans.

1533
01:17:57,600 --> 01:18:01,240
Speaker 1: Choose Fun. Welcome back to the show. I'm your host,

1534
01:18:01,640 --> 01:18:05,639
Speaker 1: John Herrets, football analyst and sideline reporter. Now we've got

1535
01:18:06,240 --> 01:18:11,000
Speaker 1: games this weekend or I'm sorry, games tomorrow. You've got

1536
01:18:11,000 --> 01:18:15,040
Speaker 1: Bears Lions, You've got the Cowboys Redskins, and you've got

1537
01:18:15,040 --> 01:18:17,760
Speaker 1: Falcon Saints. So you got the division game, Division game,

1538
01:18:17,800 --> 01:18:22,800
Speaker 1: Division game. Awesome stuff for Thanksgiving. Now you also have

1539
01:18:22,920 --> 01:18:24,560
Speaker 1: I think a couple of college games. In fact, I

1540
01:18:24,640 --> 01:18:27,080
Speaker 1: think you have the Egg Bowl tomorrow. You've got the

1541
01:18:27,120 --> 01:18:31,639
Speaker 1: egg Bowl on Thanksgiving as well. I'm pretty sure that's yeah.

1542
01:18:31,640 --> 01:18:33,680
Speaker 1: You got the Egg Bowl tomorrow. Missisippi State going all

1543
01:18:33,720 --> 01:18:36,679
Speaker 1: miss Missisippi State. Thaveryboy Levin they do want a little

1544
01:18:36,800 --> 01:18:39,320
Speaker 1: they want they want that one. Ole miss got him

1545
01:18:39,400 --> 01:18:41,719
Speaker 1: last year. Briesland speaks to fumble and waving the camera,

1546
01:18:41,760 --> 01:18:44,479
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. Briesland speaks now chief anyhow,

1547
01:18:44,520 --> 01:18:47,240
Speaker 1: Mississippi State, Mississippi. I wanted to talk to A. J.

1548
01:18:47,439 --> 01:18:49,600
Speaker 1: Moore about whether he had a little deal with all

1549
01:18:49,600 --> 01:18:52,000
Speaker 1: the Mississippi State guys, a little bet with them in

1550
01:18:52,040 --> 01:18:55,439
Speaker 1: the in the locker room. But now I didn't get

1551
01:18:55,439 --> 01:18:56,840
Speaker 1: a chance to talk to him. You also got Carro

1552
01:18:56,960 --> 01:18:59,800
Speaker 1: State there for so you got the three big time

1553
01:19:00,439 --> 01:19:04,320
Speaker 1: NFL games, and you got the two Cairode State air Force.

1554
01:19:04,400 --> 01:19:07,240
Speaker 1: That's a rivalry. Air force favored by fifteen in that one.

1555
01:19:07,439 --> 01:19:10,000
Speaker 1: By the way, you want to talk about a bad beat,

1556
01:19:10,360 --> 01:19:12,719
Speaker 1: not a gambling beat, but just a bad beat in general,

1557
01:19:13,000 --> 01:19:17,439
Speaker 1: Cairodo State has got I think it was Utah State

1558
01:19:17,600 --> 01:19:20,840
Speaker 1: beat last I think it was last week. They had

1559
01:19:20,920 --> 01:19:23,280
Speaker 1: him on the last play of the game. They threw

1560
01:19:23,320 --> 01:19:28,120
Speaker 1: one for the end zone and caught it four. Yeah,

1561
01:19:28,120 --> 01:19:29,800
Speaker 1: it was Utah State. Utah State one of the best

1562
01:19:29,800 --> 01:19:33,040
Speaker 1: teams in the country. It's twenty nine, twenty four quarterback

1563
01:19:33,120 --> 01:19:36,559
Speaker 1: launches one they catch in the end zone, touchdown, last

1564
01:19:36,600 --> 01:19:41,080
Speaker 1: play whole sideline goes nuts. They celebrate, and the receiver

1565
01:19:41,240 --> 01:19:44,320
Speaker 1: stepped out of bounds before he caught the ball. So

1566
01:19:44,360 --> 01:19:46,720
Speaker 1: he got in the end zone and caught it, got

1567
01:19:46,760 --> 01:19:48,439
Speaker 1: a foot down in the end zone, but he had

1568
01:19:48,479 --> 01:19:51,280
Speaker 1: stepped out on his route, and they went back and

1569
01:19:51,320 --> 01:19:54,160
Speaker 1: looked at it on replay and noticed that and negated

1570
01:19:54,200 --> 01:19:56,880
Speaker 1: the touchdown and Cairade State lost. I mean, you talked

1571
01:19:56,880 --> 01:19:59,519
Speaker 1: about a gut punch. Oh, and it was it was

1572
01:19:59,600 --> 01:20:02,200
Speaker 1: clear he had stepped out of bounce. But oh my gosh,

1573
01:20:02,200 --> 01:20:04,560
Speaker 1: what a gut punch. I mean, you're talking about a

1574
01:20:04,560 --> 01:20:06,519
Speaker 1: horrible way to lose the game. So Calrod State takes

1575
01:20:06,520 --> 01:20:08,960
Speaker 1: on Air Force, Bispy State taken on All Miss. But

1576
01:20:09,040 --> 01:20:12,439
Speaker 1: you got your three NFL games. So let's do what

1577
01:20:12,520 --> 01:20:17,160
Speaker 1: we always do when there are games afoot, we predict them.

1578
01:20:17,400 --> 01:20:20,200
Speaker 1: Actually I pricked them, and you guys kind of play

1579
01:20:20,200 --> 01:20:22,479
Speaker 1: a long going. Ah, you're an idiot. Oh I like

1580
01:20:22,640 --> 01:20:24,639
Speaker 1: that one, John c. That's how you do this. You

1581
01:20:24,640 --> 01:20:27,639
Speaker 1: hear me make my picks, and then you're like, you're

1582
01:20:27,640 --> 01:20:29,600
Speaker 1: a moron. You don't know what you're talking about. And

1583
01:20:29,680 --> 01:20:32,800
Speaker 1: then if I agree with you on one of your

1584
01:20:32,920 --> 01:20:35,519
Speaker 1: you know, you're like, oh, John's so smart. I mean,

1585
01:20:35,560 --> 01:20:39,360
Speaker 1: he just he knows everything. One not everything, but I

1586
01:20:39,640 --> 01:20:42,040
Speaker 1: would like to think that I know football in some respects.

1587
01:20:42,080 --> 01:20:45,679
Speaker 1: So either way, let's do it. But I do need

1588
01:20:45,720 --> 01:20:48,639
Speaker 1: a little bit of my music. Let's get my music going. Yeah,

1589
01:20:48,680 --> 01:20:50,160
Speaker 1: all right, let's do it. Now. We're gonna do this

1590
01:20:50,200 --> 01:20:55,280
Speaker 1: on Friday too, because we've got two four, six, eight, ten, eleven.

1591
01:20:55,360 --> 01:21:00,120
Speaker 1: We got twelve games on sat On Sunday and Monday,

1592
01:21:00,960 --> 01:21:02,680
Speaker 1: and you got three. So only two teams are off,

1593
01:21:02,680 --> 01:21:05,639
Speaker 1: the Rams and Chiefs, and they probably needed after that money.

1594
01:21:05,720 --> 01:21:08,280
Speaker 1: I came that took place in La and I thought

1595
01:21:08,320 --> 01:21:10,719
Speaker 1: Russell Baxter put it perfectly. It was such an event

1596
01:21:10,920 --> 01:21:12,680
Speaker 1: with all of us going on. It was such an

1597
01:21:12,680 --> 01:21:15,360
Speaker 1: amazing event. So we got the music goal, it's time

1598
01:21:15,560 --> 01:21:19,439
Speaker 1: to do this. Here are your three games, start with

1599
01:21:19,520 --> 01:21:26,400
Speaker 1: Chicago and Detroit. Chicago playing without Mitchell Trubisky. He's doubtful

1600
01:21:26,400 --> 01:21:29,400
Speaker 1: and injury report. They could have just set out, but

1601
01:21:29,479 --> 01:21:33,919
Speaker 1: it does appear that Chase Daniel will start for the Bears.

1602
01:21:35,040 --> 01:21:38,720
Speaker 1: That's why I'm going with Detroit, and not just for that.

1603
01:21:38,800 --> 01:21:40,600
Speaker 1: I think Chase Daniels one of the better backups in

1604
01:21:40,640 --> 01:21:42,559
Speaker 1: the league. To be honest, I think Chase Daniel could

1605
01:21:42,560 --> 01:21:44,880
Speaker 1: give some team an opportunity to win. I think Chase

1606
01:21:44,960 --> 01:21:46,439
Speaker 1: Daniel could be a lot like Nick Foles if you

1607
01:21:46,479 --> 01:21:48,240
Speaker 1: put him in the last four or five games of

1608
01:21:48,240 --> 01:21:51,400
Speaker 1: the year, because quarterbacks hurt. I think that would work

1609
01:21:51,400 --> 01:21:55,280
Speaker 1: out well. Detroit is a dog at home, three and

1610
01:21:55,320 --> 01:21:57,880
Speaker 1: a half point dog at home. But as Russell pointed out,

1611
01:21:57,880 --> 01:22:00,599
Speaker 1: look at the teams that the Lions have beaten this year,

1612
01:22:01,400 --> 01:22:03,200
Speaker 1: and then look at the teams that they've lost too.

1613
01:22:03,680 --> 01:22:05,960
Speaker 1: They've lost to kind of the dregs of the league,

1614
01:22:06,600 --> 01:22:08,519
Speaker 1: but they've beaten some of the best in the league,

1615
01:22:08,920 --> 01:22:10,360
Speaker 1: and the Bears right now are one of the best

1616
01:22:10,360 --> 01:22:13,120
Speaker 1: in the league. So I'm going with Detroit to not

1617
01:22:13,160 --> 01:22:15,240
Speaker 1: only get inside of three and a half, I'm going

1618
01:22:15,280 --> 01:22:18,160
Speaker 1: with the upset over the Bears. Lions to win and

1619
01:22:18,320 --> 01:22:23,719
Speaker 1: to cover against Chicago. Then I get to Washington Dallas

1620
01:22:23,720 --> 01:22:25,960
Speaker 1: in the afternoon. This game will be at three thirty

1621
01:22:25,960 --> 01:22:29,080
Speaker 1: local time. The Redskins obviously six and four after we

1622
01:22:29,120 --> 01:22:30,720
Speaker 1: took care of him last week or the twenty three

1623
01:22:30,760 --> 01:22:33,280
Speaker 1: twenty one win. Dallas gets a last second win over

1624
01:22:33,320 --> 01:22:37,000
Speaker 1: Atlanta on the road, where last year things went completely

1625
01:22:37,120 --> 01:22:40,960
Speaker 1: south against Atlanta. Pass rush. Dallas is favored by seven

1626
01:22:40,960 --> 01:22:43,400
Speaker 1: and a half. Now Colt McCoy is gonna start and

1627
01:22:43,439 --> 01:22:45,960
Speaker 1: play for the Washington Redskins. Mark Sanchez signed to me

1628
01:22:46,000 --> 01:22:48,439
Speaker 1: the backup Dallas. I would imagine it's gonna come after

1629
01:22:48,520 --> 01:22:52,920
Speaker 1: Colt McCoy, and I think this is good for Washington,

1630
01:22:53,600 --> 01:22:55,120
Speaker 1: not that Dallas is gonna come after him, but I

1631
01:22:55,120 --> 01:22:56,640
Speaker 1: think the fact that Colt doesn't have a lot of

1632
01:22:56,680 --> 01:22:59,080
Speaker 1: time to prepare, just go do it, just go play.

1633
01:22:59,160 --> 01:23:01,320
Speaker 1: He's done it before. I'm on Monday night in Dallas

1634
01:23:01,720 --> 01:23:05,559
Speaker 1: in Arlington. I think there's an opportunity for him to

1635
01:23:05,600 --> 01:23:09,160
Speaker 1: do that again, but only to keep it close and

1636
01:23:09,240 --> 01:23:11,560
Speaker 1: the spread of seven and a half. I think Washington

1637
01:23:11,600 --> 01:23:14,960
Speaker 1: will get inside the number, but Dallas will win. So

1638
01:23:15,040 --> 01:23:17,120
Speaker 1: expect Dallas to win like a three or four point game.

1639
01:23:17,200 --> 01:23:20,360
Speaker 1: So twenty one seventeen twenty seventeen, very similar score to

1640
01:23:20,439 --> 01:23:22,920
Speaker 1: the previous game. I think that's what we'll get in

1641
01:23:23,000 --> 01:23:25,400
Speaker 1: this one. But I think Dallas does win at home,

1642
01:23:26,200 --> 01:23:29,120
Speaker 1: but Washington gets inside the number. So you'll have a

1643
01:23:29,240 --> 01:23:32,800
Speaker 1: tie atop the NFC East with two six and five

1644
01:23:32,840 --> 01:23:36,960
Speaker 1: teams Dallas and Washington after this one is done. But

1645
01:23:37,160 --> 01:23:40,120
Speaker 1: given the win to Dallas and the cover to Washington,

1646
01:23:40,439 --> 01:23:42,640
Speaker 1: Atlanta goes to New Orleans. Everybody in their brother is

1647
01:23:42,680 --> 01:23:44,439
Speaker 1: telling New Orleans how great they are. I said the

1648
01:23:44,520 --> 01:23:46,599
Speaker 1: Rust a little while ago, I said, New Orleans best

1649
01:23:46,640 --> 01:23:48,439
Speaker 1: team in the league right Why because they could score

1650
01:23:48,439 --> 01:23:50,920
Speaker 1: in anybody. And the defense is probably of the teams

1651
01:23:51,080 --> 01:23:53,559
Speaker 1: the Chiefs, the Rams, the Saints that we all talk about,

1652
01:23:53,640 --> 01:23:56,400
Speaker 1: the Patriots, even the Saints are the best defense of

1653
01:23:56,439 --> 01:23:58,200
Speaker 1: that group. I don't care what the numbers aren't the

1654
01:23:58,320 --> 01:23:59,960
Speaker 1: numbers in front of me, but I can tell you

1655
01:24:00,040 --> 01:24:02,519
Speaker 1: the Saints have got ballers at each and every level,

1656
01:24:02,560 --> 01:24:04,640
Speaker 1: and it does I don't think for this one, but

1657
01:24:04,680 --> 01:24:06,840
Speaker 1: Marcus Davenport's gonna be coming back pretty soon, and that

1658
01:24:06,920 --> 01:24:08,760
Speaker 1: rookie has given them something in the pass rush too.

1659
01:24:08,800 --> 01:24:10,679
Speaker 1: I think the Saints have the best defense of that crew.

1660
01:24:10,840 --> 01:24:13,360
Speaker 1: That's said. This is a bounce back situation for Atlanta,

1661
01:24:13,520 --> 01:24:16,439
Speaker 1: and it bounce back situations. This year, especially on the road,

1662
01:24:16,479 --> 01:24:19,080
Speaker 1: Atlanta has been pretty good. They went to Washington when

1663
01:24:19,120 --> 01:24:20,640
Speaker 1: it did not look good for them and they came

1664
01:24:20,720 --> 01:24:22,320
Speaker 1: up with a big win against the Redskins, and the

1665
01:24:22,360 --> 01:24:25,040
Speaker 1: Redskins in the Saints a little different, but I still

1666
01:24:25,080 --> 01:24:27,120
Speaker 1: think Atlanta is gonna get it done, at least getting

1667
01:24:27,120 --> 01:24:29,360
Speaker 1: inside the number. New Orleans is gonna win this one close.

1668
01:24:29,560 --> 01:24:31,400
Speaker 1: This feels like a seven to ten point game, and

1669
01:24:31,400 --> 01:24:33,200
Speaker 1: you're like, wait a second. Once the spread it's twelve

1670
01:24:33,240 --> 01:24:35,080
Speaker 1: and a half. So that's a little too rich for

1671
01:24:35,160 --> 01:24:37,720
Speaker 1: my blood. So I'm going with Atlanta to cover the

1672
01:24:37,800 --> 01:24:40,320
Speaker 1: New Orleans with the win. So to recap, I got

1673
01:24:40,400 --> 01:24:43,400
Speaker 1: Detroit to upset the Bears and obviously cover the three

1674
01:24:43,400 --> 01:24:45,240
Speaker 1: and a half points to get inside those three and

1675
01:24:45,240 --> 01:24:50,479
Speaker 1: a half points, Washington to cover, but Dallas to win,

1676
01:24:50,640 --> 01:24:55,440
Speaker 1: Atlanta to cover New Orleans to win. So there you go,

1677
01:24:55,439 --> 01:25:00,400
Speaker 1: got your games in. We'll take the remaining twelve games

1678
01:25:00,800 --> 01:25:02,960
Speaker 1: on Friday, as we do every single week with our

1679
01:25:02,960 --> 01:25:05,000
Speaker 1: Texans pick them, but we definitely had to get on

1680
01:25:05,040 --> 01:25:06,920
Speaker 1: record for these three. I've been pretty good on my

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Speaker 1: Thursday games lately, but I had to both against the

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Speaker 1: spread and straight up. I've been pretty good, but we

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Speaker 1: had to get those three in for Thanksgiving. And with

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Speaker 1: that said, a happy Thanksgiving to all of you. I

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Speaker 1: give thanks to everybody that's been a part of the show,

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Speaker 1: everybody who listens my guys back at six ten to

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Speaker 1: keep me on the air. What we get a chance

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Speaker 1: to do, what I get a chance to do every

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Speaker 1: single week, it's because of you, guys. I can't thank

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Speaker 1: you enough. Have a great Thanksgiving again. All three games

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Speaker 1: will be in our flagship Sports Trade of six ten,

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Speaker 1: so no Texans program tomorrow. We'll be back on Friday

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Speaker 1: with our normal show from six to eight, so hopefully

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Speaker 1: you'll join me. Then. Thank you for joining me tonight.

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Speaker 1: We'll see you on Friday, everybody, and as always, go Texans.