Speaker 1: Welcome to everybody to a Wednesday edition of Texas All
Speaker 1: Access from the Honday Texans Radio Studio. I am your host,
Speaker 1: John Harris, so glad to be with you this evening
Speaker 1: to break it all down. And as I said on
Speaker 1: replay last night Patriots game in the rear view, it's
Speaker 1: all about the Denver Broncos with one I was gonna
Speaker 1: about to say minor exception, but actually major exception, and
Speaker 1: I'll explain what that is in just a second, but
Speaker 1: we gotta move on to the Broncos. So we got
Speaker 1: plenty of Broncos info tonight. We're gonna have our men
Speaker 1: behind the Mike's segment with Dave Logan, play by play
Speaker 1: voice of the Denver Broncos, long time play by play
Speaker 1: voice of the Denver Broncos, and Mark will catch up
Speaker 1: with him. One of the things I love about Dave
Speaker 1: Logan is he's also a highly accomplished high school football
Speaker 1: coach in the state of Colorado in Denver. He's done
Speaker 1: it at a few different schools. He actually is the
Speaker 1: state championship game on Saturday and then gonna fly to
Speaker 1: Houston to be with the team and call the game
Speaker 1: on Sunday, fascinating high school head football coach played by
Speaker 1: Plague Guy. Broadcast sounds kind of interesting, kind of like it.
Speaker 1: Then we'll go behind enemy sidelines with Dbcity and this
Speaker 1: week it's Phil Malani, who is a senior writer for
Speaker 1: Denver Broncos dot com and those the Broncos in and out,
Speaker 1: so we'll learn about the Broncos. We've got our guys,
Speaker 1: Andre Ware gonna join us talk a little bit about
Speaker 1: what he saw on Sunday for just a little bit,
Speaker 1: and then start looking ahead at the Broncos. I got
Speaker 1: my man Clint Sterner joining me, and you cannot miss that.
Speaker 1: Clint is absolutely fantastic. If you haven't heard him talk quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: talk offense, talk football, just talk in general, you're missing out.
Speaker 1: Clint Sterner is absolutely fantastic. And then Texas Bowls coming up.
Speaker 1: The Academy Sports Outdoors Texas Bowl is coming up December
Speaker 1: twenty seven on a Friday night. Secne versus Big twelve.
Speaker 1: It's coming and decision time is this weekend. So my
Speaker 1: man general manager of Lone Star Sports Entertainment, David Fletcher,
Speaker 1: gonna join me to talk all about the bowl selection process,
Speaker 1: what teams could be in play, for this game, and
Speaker 1: no Texas and Texas in and will not be here together.
Speaker 1: It would be fantastic not happen. Not going to happen.
Speaker 1: Too much politics at play for that to happen this
Speaker 1: bowl season. So we're gonna end up with a great
Speaker 1: matchup because it's sec in Big Twelve to the best
Speaker 1: conferences in college football. And we'll get that on December
Speaker 1: twenty seven. So flets he's gonna join me to talk
Speaker 1: all about that, now, says we set up the show.
Speaker 1: Let's dive into the show with our hot reads. Hot
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Speaker 1: And I'm gonna start with that one item I just
Speaker 1: mentioned about looking back, Deshaun Watson got the notice this morning.
Speaker 1: Great news about Deshaun Watson. He is named AFC Offensive
Speaker 1: Player of the Week for the third time. Third time. Now,
Speaker 1: just to give you a little bit of a background
Speaker 1: on that accomplishment. Looking at just going back and looking
Speaker 1: at Texans that have one Player of the Week awards
Speaker 1: in the same season, I first thought, okay, well, JJ
Speaker 1: Watt did it well in twenty twelve. JJ won it
Speaker 1: in Week three in Week fifteen. In twenty fourteen, he
Speaker 1: won Defensive Player of the Week in Week four in
Speaker 1: week eleven. In fifteen he won at eleven seventeen. But
Speaker 1: JJ never won it three times in a season. Shaun
Speaker 1: Watson has now done that. He has done it three
Speaker 1: times in actually eleven weeks. He won it in Week
Speaker 1: three that was out in LA when we beat the Chargers.
Speaker 1: He won it for Week five, that was his game
Speaker 1: against the Atlanta Falcons, and he did it for this
Speaker 1: win over the New England Patriots in Week thirteen. He
Speaker 1: recorded the highest passer rating by an opponent against the
Speaker 1: Patriots since Alex Smith in Week one of twenty seventeen.
Speaker 1: That doesn't happen often. He was eighteen to twenty five
Speaker 1: for two thirty four With that one forty point seven rating.
Speaker 1: The Patriots had given up four passing touchdowns all year.
Speaker 1: They gave up four on Sunday to Shawn through three
Speaker 1: of them and then caught the other from DeAndre Hopkins.
Speaker 1: A fantastic, fantastic effort by to Shaun Watson. He is
Speaker 1: three time twenty nineteen season AFC Offensive Player of the Week.
Speaker 1: Congratulations in fact, as I look at it, that's a
Speaker 1: first for the Texans that has never been done. One
Speaker 1: player winning Player of the Week three times in any
Speaker 1: one season. You're a man to Shaun Watson has done
Speaker 1: just that. That's fantastic stuff. All right, Next Hot read
Speaker 1: Texans audio juke box. Here we go. Let's hear from
Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien. How about that. We start with the head
Speaker 1: coach of your Houston Texans, And of course he strode
Speaker 1: to the podium and he was asked, how will Fuller
Speaker 1: changes things for this offense? He had a dimension to
Speaker 1: the offense. You know that helps him both phases, like
Speaker 1: you're saying, I mean, obviously in the passing game, it's
Speaker 1: obvious how he helps us. You know, he's good route runners,
Speaker 1: get great speed. But then that can help in the
Speaker 1: running game depending on how they play the side that
Speaker 1: he's aligned on, you know, it can help you run
Speaker 1: the ball over to that side a little bit better.
Speaker 1: So yeah, there's a lot of things that having him
Speaker 1: in the lineup does to help the offense. Now, this
Speaker 1: weekend's gonna be a pretty interesting one for two players
Speaker 1: in particular, one for the Broncos, one for the Texans
Speaker 1: because they used to be a Texan and a Bronco,
Speaker 1: and Krean Jackson is one of those. A's a guy
Speaker 1: that we got to know very very well in his
Speaker 1: time here in Houston. He is now he's starting safety
Speaker 1: for the Denver Broncos, and coach talked about what he's
Speaker 1: seen from the former Texan now playing safety. He's playing well.
Speaker 1: He's playing safety, he's playing aggressive, good tackler. He's doing
Speaker 1: a good job in coverage. He plays in a deep
Speaker 1: part of the field, he plays down near the box.
Speaker 1: He's he's he's playing at a really high level. He's
Speaker 1: playing very well. A guy that has played very well
Speaker 1: for the Texans is Bradley Roby. He had a tremendous
Speaker 1: night on Sunday with the pick, had a sack. He
Speaker 1: covered anybody and everybody, but mainly James White, the dangerous
Speaker 1: running back out of the backfield, and coach talked out
Speaker 1: the impact that Robe has had here for Houston. He's
Speaker 1: got a lot of a lot of talent, right He's
Speaker 1: he's got a good speed, good feet, good ball skills.
Speaker 1: The big big thing with Bradley's been health, you know,
Speaker 1: just making sure that he can be available to the team.
Speaker 1: That's the big thing, and in a feast, stays available
Speaker 1: to the team. He's healthy, then he can help. He
Speaker 1: can help us, and this defense led by Bradley Roby,
Speaker 1: is gonna have to face a rookie and only his
Speaker 1: second star. He's only been active for a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: He was on injured reserve to start the year, and
Speaker 1: that's Drew Locke and coach talked about what he's seen
Speaker 1: from the rookie out of Missouri. He played well last week.
Speaker 1: I mean he made good descisions for the team and
Speaker 1: he got him into the right plays. You could tell
Speaker 1: he knows who to go to with the ball. He's
Speaker 1: got Sutton, he's got Fant, got a lot of good
Speaker 1: receivers and you know, tight ends, and then he's got
Speaker 1: the ability to hand it off to Philip Lindsay. He
Speaker 1: was really good, very good back. So he's doing a
Speaker 1: good job. You know. I think these guys come into
Speaker 1: the league and they're ready to go. They've been well
Speaker 1: trained and they're ready to go. You heard one of
Speaker 1: those names that coach mentioned, Courtland's Sutton. I called him
Speaker 1: a poor man's young man, Julio Jones. That's kind of
Speaker 1: who I would compare him to big, physical, fast, that's
Speaker 1: pretty much everything. Here's what stood out the coach. Sixty four,
Speaker 1: two hundred and sixteen pounds. I mean, very good player,
Speaker 1: very physical guy, can run routes. The fifty fifty ball
Speaker 1: is tough to defend with him. He's really good at
Speaker 1: contested catches. So yeah, he's a He's a very difficult
Speaker 1: challenge for us this week, no doubt. Oh yeah, Courtland
Speaker 1: Sutton is what I like to call it, dude. But
Speaker 1: the Texans secondary has been up to the task lately
Speaker 1: and they should have everybody healthy, which would be really
Speaker 1: nice to take on a guy like Courtland Sutton. Now,
Speaker 1: your coach say, it's a big challenge. One of the
Speaker 1: challenges is getting back to running the football, and coach
Speaker 1: obviously was not please with the way the run game
Speaker 1: performed on Sunday Night against the Patriots and said, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's no doubt it's got to be better. We have
Speaker 1: to improve in a running game. We're gonna work hard
Speaker 1: on that this week and see if we can get
Speaker 1: it better. I mean, this is a very challenging team
Speaker 1: the Broncos to run the ball against, but we have
Speaker 1: to coaches and players alike, we've got to We've got
Speaker 1: a coach coach a better and you know, the players
Speaker 1: have to work hard to execute it better. But we've
Speaker 1: got to try to improve in a running game. There's
Speaker 1: no question that is one of these aspects. And I've
Speaker 1: actually looked at that because it was about this time
Speaker 1: last year. I think this is my right. Week fourteen, Yeah,
Speaker 1: four week four team the Texas took under the Innapolis Colts,
Speaker 1: ran it for less than ninety yards, did not run
Speaker 1: it exceedingly well. Over the last four weeks of the year.
Speaker 1: They went over one hundred against the Jags, but a
Speaker 1: good portion of that was Deshaun Watson. So running the
Speaker 1: ball at this time of year is huge. What do
Speaker 1: they say, running game and defense travels and if you
Speaker 1: got to go on the road the playoffs, that's what
Speaker 1: you've got to have for sure. So running game got
Speaker 1: to pick up. All right, Let's get to DeShawn Watson.
Speaker 1: He went to the podium today to final handle a
Speaker 1: number of different things, and he of course was asked
Speaker 1: about will Fuller see what Shaun Watson had to say
Speaker 1: about his buddy at wide receiver, what impact he makes
Speaker 1: on the offense. You have to respect everything that Will
Speaker 1: is capable of doing, especially speak, and that's one of
Speaker 1: his best traits. You know, like you said, I just
Speaker 1: in a past game, but if you want to include
Speaker 1: the run game, you know it pissed the dvs and
Speaker 1: the safety's back a little bit more, you know for
Speaker 1: run fits and so you know a stet of you know,
Speaker 1: gaining you know, for safety's supposed to runfit and being
Speaker 1: gap instead of gaining you know, three yards, you know,
Speaker 1: the running backs gaining seven and those four est of
Speaker 1: yards are big, you know, especially you know with this
Speaker 1: you know Dan age of football, where you know, defensive
Speaker 1: front's a very very stout in the run game. So everybody,
Speaker 1: you know, opens up a lot of different things. One
Speaker 1: of the key guys in that offensive front to open
Speaker 1: things up in the run game is Nick Martin. Sign
Speaker 1: the extension in the off season. It's been good to
Speaker 1: see Nick continue develop fully healthy this year. Is the guy,
Speaker 1: the man in the middle. And I remember talking about
Speaker 1: this for a number of years up up until twenty seventeen,
Speaker 1: there was always a different quarterback center combination. It was
Speaker 1: Brock with Nick, and then it was Brock with Mans,
Speaker 1: it was Hoyer with Ben Jones, it was fifty with
Speaker 1: Chris Myers, and finally the Texans got settled in twenty
Speaker 1: seventeen on the Shawn Watson and Nick Martin and Nats
Speaker 1: what it needs to be going forward, and Deshaun spoke
Speaker 1: about how Nick is such a key part of their offense.
Speaker 1: If the quarterback and center is don't have that great relationship, man, man,
Speaker 1: they can be a lot of bad things happening, for sure,
Speaker 1: because he controls everybody up front and as he go,
Speaker 1: I go. And you know, we do only two guys
Speaker 1: that touch the ball every every single place, So we
Speaker 1: have to be on the same plage with the with
Speaker 1: the run points, the past protestions, seeing it through the
Speaker 1: same set of eyes. And you know, teams do different
Speaker 1: fronts each and you know, different you know disguises where
Speaker 1: they can you know, move and things like that. So
Speaker 1: if he's thinking one thing, I'm thinking one thing, you know,
Speaker 1: I might be thinking, you know, I'm I'm you know,
Speaker 1: picked up and really I'm hot. You know, I can
Speaker 1: get hit in the back of the head or something
Speaker 1: like that. So we just gotta be on the same
Speaker 1: page and we continue to work on that. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: don't need Deshan get it hit in the back of
Speaker 1: the head. I think everybody knows that, including Deshan. We
Speaker 1: don't need him getting hit in the back of the head.
Speaker 1: A guy that Deshan will be facing for the first
Speaker 1: time is the guy that he was in the locker
Speaker 1: room with, and that is Kareem Jackson. Of course, a
Speaker 1: big point because he was a Texan here for nine
Speaker 1: seasons and now he is leading to secondary for the
Speaker 1: Denver Broncos. And Sean said, I got a lot of
Speaker 1: respect for that guy. I call him to og him
Speaker 1: and Jjoe. But when I first got here, he was
Speaker 1: a guy that I looked though too, you know, gained
Speaker 1: a lot of information from, you know, owning off the field.
Speaker 1: We still communicate and talk and support each other. He's
Speaker 1: been having a hic of a year. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: fun to, you know, see what he did because when
Speaker 1: he was here, you know, he was very physical, mate
Speaker 1: a lot of plays in the passing game, and he
Speaker 1: was that leader. He was that heart and soul. So
Speaker 1: he can see, you know, that's what they wanted in
Speaker 1: Denver for him, and he's been given, you know, everything
Speaker 1: he had you know and have, you know, for that
Speaker 1: defensive for that team. So it's gonna be fun to
Speaker 1: be able to go against him in compete. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: just hoping that Koreer. I hope they don't meet on
Speaker 1: the field, if you know what I mean. Kareem can
Speaker 1: be a ruthless hitter man. He can bring the funk
Speaker 1: and he will not hold back in this game. There's
Speaker 1: no doubt. Now, when you have a big win like
Speaker 1: the Texans did on Sunday against the New England Patriots,
Speaker 1: it's right to ask if there will be any bit
Speaker 1: of a hangover if you will, and Deshan said, do
Speaker 1: not happening. That's not the type of guys we have
Speaker 1: in that locker room. And then the leadership we have,
Speaker 1: we're not gonna allow it. You know, Denver is a
Speaker 1: great for an eight team if you want to look
Speaker 1: at the record, but we don't look at the record.
Speaker 1: Every team is really good, and you got to turn
Speaker 1: the page and be prepared each and every week. You
Speaker 1: can't have the let ups because you will get embarrassed.
Speaker 1: And you know, we gotta come out there. You know,
Speaker 1: just how we prepared last week. We got to prepare
Speaker 1: the same way and try to go out there and
Speaker 1: make plays. They're gonna come in ready to go, and
Speaker 1: you know, we gotta come ready to go and bring
Speaker 1: a lot of energy and it's gonna be a great
Speaker 1: you know, AFC December game, So it's gonna be good.
Speaker 1: Deshan got his first win as a starter back in
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen that Week two game at Cincinnati on a
Speaker 1: Thursday night. Drew Locke got his first win last week
Speaker 1: in a crazy ending against the LA Chargers, and Seawan said, man,
Speaker 1: it means a lot to get a win in your
Speaker 1: first start. It builds a lot of confidence within that
Speaker 1: locker room, within yourself. Um, and that's where I got
Speaker 1: to start. That confidence with yourself knowing that you can
Speaker 1: can play at this level, you can win at this
Speaker 1: level because it's hard to do, especially on a consistent basis.
Speaker 1: So um yeah, man, it just changes everything. And you know,
Speaker 1: everyone is a good spirits. You know, no one likes
Speaker 1: to lose, and you know, if you're winning as a
Speaker 1: young guy, it builds that trust and that the carabiti
Speaker 1: around the locker room where you can just you know,
Speaker 1: continue to you know, bring guys along with you and
Speaker 1: guys are supporting you and things like that. But if
Speaker 1: you're losing, then you know, you can have a lot
Speaker 1: of different egos and a lot of guys turn the
Speaker 1: different ways. And that obviously is what Drew Locks trying
Speaker 1: to avoid in Denver with that obvious particular situation there
Speaker 1: as he starts, he's want to know as a start
Speaker 1: of the Broncos four and eight overall, but want to
Speaker 1: know as a starter hopefully one and one after Sunday.
Speaker 1: So there you go. That's your Texas Audio jukebox and
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Speaker 1: talk to our good friend. Andre gives a few final
Speaker 1: thoughts on the win over the Patriots, looking forward to
Speaker 1: the Broncos and a trip that Andrea has taken to
Speaker 1: New York City, not this weekend but next weekend. Why
Speaker 1: is he doing that? We'll discuss all that next on
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Speaker 1: on Sunday afternoon, I'll have the opportunity to be down
Speaker 1: on the sidelines with these next two gentlemen in my ear.
Speaker 1: And that's a good thing. Mark Vannimirs, Voice of the Texans,
Speaker 1: caught up with our good friend and game analyst Andre Ware,
Speaker 1: who's gonna be taking a pretty special trip next weekend
Speaker 1: up to New York City. Take a listen, all right,
Speaker 1: before we talk about Denver, a little final thought here
Speaker 1: on what went down Sunday night when the Texans knocked
Speaker 1: off the Patriots, and even though they didn't clinch anything
Speaker 1: that night. Andrea, what does the win do for this
Speaker 1: team in your opinion moving forward? Well, I think it
Speaker 1: gives them confidence. I mean when you have when you
Speaker 1: win a game like that against one of the better
Speaker 1: franchises in the entire NFL, I think it goes a
Speaker 1: long way for your confidence. And so they're they're gonna
Speaker 1: play with a different swagger, a different and a different
Speaker 1: manner in which they take the field from now to
Speaker 1: the end of the speed, even having that big time
Speaker 1: win under their belt, especially with it being on Sunday
Speaker 1: night football. Well, now they have the Denver Broncos here,
Speaker 1: and I might weave in some Patriots topics into these questions,
Speaker 1: but you mentioned it, they'll play maybe differently. So what
Speaker 1: does that look like here as you play a team
Speaker 1: that's four and eight coming into the game on Sunday,
Speaker 1: what do you think that's where you're at the highest
Speaker 1: of highs after beating the Patriots and then you can't
Speaker 1: really allow yourself to be a little bit overconfident with
Speaker 1: a four and eight team coming into your building. It's
Speaker 1: the four and eight team that's extremely young, A first
Speaker 1: year head coach a rookie quarterback at the helm now
Speaker 1: and Drew Lot, so it's easy to you know, to
Speaker 1: kind of get the feeling that this is when we
Speaker 1: should win, and so on and so forth. That's when
Speaker 1: you actually the concentration level of a team really has
Speaker 1: to be at its peak, at its best. So don't
Speaker 1: overlook the Broncos coming in here, because obviously they've proven
Speaker 1: the last couple of week that they can play with
Speaker 1: just about anyone. Andre where ruining us Andre. When you're
Speaker 1: playing a rookie quarterback, you often say the veteran quarterbacks
Speaker 1: don't mind being blitzed because they know where it's coming from.
Speaker 1: They know where to put the football quickly. What about
Speaker 1: a rookie, do you want to come after him, bring
Speaker 1: some extra heat after him? You do if you can
Speaker 1: hold up on the back end, because he's gonna find
Speaker 1: and that's what he'll be coached up This week is
Speaker 1: when you see certain blitzes and you've got to identify
Speaker 1: where the blitz is coming from, try to protect yourself,
Speaker 1: but then find the matchup that you feel like favors
Speaker 1: you on that particular play, and all you're looking for
Speaker 1: is to hit one of them. And so you can't
Speaker 1: allow explosive plays, and I think that'll be one of
Speaker 1: the keys to the game for the Texas defensively is
Speaker 1: to not allow explosives over the top that twenty five
Speaker 1: yards or more. And certainly you can't allow big, big
Speaker 1: time deep scores in the passing game. Otherwise you give
Speaker 1: a rookie quarterback confidence. And that's why he's in the
Speaker 1: NFL as well. He's got some talent, he's got some
Speaker 1: arm strength. You can't make it easy for him by
Speaker 1: allowing him to just drop back three quick steps and
Speaker 1: let the ball fly and have a completion happen on
Speaker 1: the other end of it. Andrea, without Titus Howard at
Speaker 1: right tackle, do you think the Texans are going to
Speaker 1: settle on Chris Clark or Rod Johnson or continue to
Speaker 1: sort of rotate them as they look for the right
Speaker 1: mix up front? How do you think they handle that
Speaker 1: moving forward? Well, it looks like it's going to be
Speaker 1: a rotation until one guy really steps up and actually
Speaker 1: takes the job. That's how it was last week, That's
Speaker 1: how it was in a prior game when Titus was out.
Speaker 1: So until somebody just steps up and claims the job,
Speaker 1: I think it'll be on a rotational basis, all right, Andrea.
Speaker 1: Around the league here, the Tennessee Titans are a big
Speaker 1: problem all of a sudden, and they knocked off the Colts. Indeed,
Speaker 1: that was a good win for them. Now they have
Speaker 1: the Raiders out on the West Coast, and the Raiders
Speaker 1: have back to back lopsided losses now one of them
Speaker 1: is to the Chiefs. What do you think of the
Speaker 1: Titans at Oakland this week? Yeah, I fully expect the
Speaker 1: Titans to go in there and win that football game.
Speaker 1: They're playing with some swagger now, they're they're they're feeling
Speaker 1: pretty good about themselves. And we both agreed that it
Speaker 1: was consistency at the quarterback position that was really missing
Speaker 1: from that roster. Tanny Hills got a few a couple
Speaker 1: of starts, a number of starts under his belt now
Speaker 1: and he is playing with tremendous confidence. I think the
Speaker 1: team is responding as an no manner on which detectives
Speaker 1: are Defensively, they're Tennessee's defenses to responding the same way
Speaker 1: because they know that they're going to get rested when
Speaker 1: they come off the field. They're being rewarded for the
Speaker 1: turnovers and they're turning them in two scores. That's a game.
Speaker 1: I think Tennessee goes in and beat the Raiders. Andre
Speaker 1: give me your thoughts on the Chiefs and the Patriots
Speaker 1: playing in Foxboro. Brady and company didn't look so hot
Speaker 1: when they were here offensively until the end of the game,
Speaker 1: of course, but they're back at home now. But the
Speaker 1: Chiefs has started to get it repped up on offense again.
Speaker 1: What do you think, Yeah, that's gonna be a tough
Speaker 1: game from New England when you when you sit and
Speaker 1: look at how they played and how they looked for
Speaker 1: you basically three quarters h and then you've got a
Speaker 1: hot team coming in that can really cause some problems.
Speaker 1: The thing about it is u and we mean and
Speaker 1: I mentioned it during the game. We talked about it
Speaker 1: during the game that when you play them in a box,
Speaker 1: which is just you know, running into their seven and
Speaker 1: eight man fronts, that's how they want to play. They
Speaker 1: got big linebackers and high power and the rest of
Speaker 1: that core. What they don't want to play is in
Speaker 1: space with those big linebackers and they try to keep
Speaker 1: base personnel on the field at all times. Bring exotic
Speaker 1: blitzers from that base personnel. Kansas City's got some electricity
Speaker 1: and fast players that can take certainly take advantage of it.
Speaker 1: Lashaw McCoy out in space against linebackers, and Williams Kid
Speaker 1: at running back certainly can make some plays out in
Speaker 1: space against linebackers. So that's gonna be a tough tough
Speaker 1: matchup for New England defensively against Kansas City, and they
Speaker 1: can strike quickly and so with one of the better
Speaker 1: young quarterbacks in the entire NFL and Pat Mahomes, that's
Speaker 1: going to be a tough tough tour. I actually look
Speaker 1: for New England to drop its second game in a row,
Speaker 1: the Ravens taking on the Bills, and Buffalo did a
Speaker 1: good job at Dallas. They've got a really good defense
Speaker 1: and the Ravens look. San Francisco did a nice job
Speaker 1: on them. I know Weather had a lot to do
Speaker 1: with that, but what do you think is this game
Speaker 1: is going to be played in Buffalo? Yeah, you know
Speaker 1: what's impressive and mom, until you gave me the opponent
Speaker 1: for Baltimore this week that I really even quickly think
Speaker 1: about it. They've got to have one of the toughest
Speaker 1: schedules in the entire league. If you just go back
Speaker 1: and look at who they're playing when they're facing them
Speaker 1: the road schedule, and then here you have Buffalo up next,
Speaker 1: after you've played the Texans, you've played New England prior
Speaker 1: weeks before that chanceas City game against the forty nine ers,
Speaker 1: and now up here comes Buffalo, who is a good
Speaker 1: team right now, kind of controlling their own destiny in
Speaker 1: terms of a wild card race or in the wild
Speaker 1: card race. It's a tough schedule, but I expect Baltimore
Speaker 1: to win that football game. But it's still going to
Speaker 1: be a hard fought game for them to win after
Speaker 1: just going through what they did against San Francisco. All right,
Speaker 1: college football, note here Oklahoma and Baylor the rematch this weekend.
Speaker 1: What do you think her neutral feel. Baylor seemed to
Speaker 1: have their number until the fourth quarter, and then they
Speaker 1: gave up what was it a twenty five point lead,
Speaker 1: twenty five unanswered points which scored. If they just score anything,
Speaker 1: they win the game, it may be a little bit different.
Speaker 1: I just don't know that Oklahoma is playing their best
Speaker 1: football right now. Seem they seem to have hit a
Speaker 1: stumbling block along the way in the latter part of
Speaker 1: the year. I don't know if that's just you know,
Speaker 1: injuries or what you may call it, But this one,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna favor the Bears in it. They kind of
Speaker 1: have the recipe. They know what they need to change.
Speaker 1: I don't know that Oklahoma changes a whole lot. They
Speaker 1: say they are and what I've read that it's an
Speaker 1: entirely different game and they'll take a different approach to it.
Speaker 1: But Baylor seems to have the right ingredients to pull
Speaker 1: off an upset. So I'm gonna go with the Bears.
Speaker 1: LSU and Ohio State are they the two best teams
Speaker 1: in the country in your opinion? Yeah, I think there's
Speaker 1: no doubt, and I think that's the game that we're
Speaker 1: gonna get a chance to watch watch the two teams
Speaker 1: play for the national championship. They're both They've got a
Speaker 1: lot of firepower on offense, they both have dynamic playmakers
Speaker 1: on the defensive side of the ball. It is they're
Speaker 1: clearly heading heels above the rest of the field in
Speaker 1: my opinion. But don't sleep on Clemson. Dabbo will have
Speaker 1: his team ready and they'll play hard, But I just
Speaker 1: don't think that they're on the level this year with
Speaker 1: those two in Ohio State and LSU. So you're going
Speaker 1: up to New York next week and for the Heisman
Speaker 1: Trophy ceremony thirty at anniversary after you want it in
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty nine. What's that going to be like for you?
Speaker 1: I mean, just going back every year especial and getting
Speaker 1: a chance to visit with we're the guys there and
Speaker 1: and just you know, the brotherhood that we have. The
Speaker 1: ceremony is always great because there's you know, there's build
Speaker 1: up to the announcement of who's going to actually win
Speaker 1: and he really nobody knows until it's actually read that night,
Speaker 1: so it's always a special evening. New York is always special.
Speaker 1: So that'll be a good time, all right, Trey, Well,
Speaker 1: thanks a lot for the time, and we look forward
Speaker 1: to seeing you on Sunday against Denver here at NRG Stadium.
Speaker 1: All right, buddy, we'll see you there. I would so
Speaker 1: want to be on that trip to go to the
Speaker 1: Heisman ceremony. Would absolutely love it. Then again, Nashville is
Speaker 1: one of my favorite trips that we make each and
Speaker 1: every year, so U and Drey will find his way down.
Speaker 1: He does it every single Saturday Sunday we're on the road,
Speaker 1: he flies somewhere, has a game, flies that night back
Speaker 1: to wherever we are. It's amazing, it's amazing. I don't
Speaker 1: know how he does it, but he pulls it off
Speaker 1: each and every week. He's always in that boothcome game time,
Speaker 1: and he will be there this Sunday, next Sunday, and
Speaker 1: every Sunday after that or Saturday, depending on when we're playing.
Speaker 1: That's andre where all right? Coming up next, it's our
Speaker 1: pal Clint Sterner gonna join us and talk about what
Speaker 1: he saw from the Texans off fans. We saw from
Speaker 1: the Shawn Watson and is Tom Brady the same Tom
Speaker 1: Brady Clinton will give us his thoughts after the break.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to a Wednesday edition of Texans All Access
Speaker 1: from Monday Texans Radio Studio. I'm your host, John Harrison.
Speaker 1: It's that time in the show. We do this every
Speaker 1: single week. We talked to my good friend from Sports
Speaker 1: Radio six ten, former razorbackstar quarterback played for Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 1: Man knows ball. That's why we have man. He is
Speaker 1: Clint Starner. Clint, how you doing my man? Man? I'm
Speaker 1: doing well. I'm doing well. Another another week after a
Speaker 1: Texans victory makes for a good week for a man
Speaker 1: in the you know, sports stock world. My man, that's
Speaker 1: very true. There's definitely a lot to talk about. Clinton.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask you a question, and I want to
Speaker 1: I want you to elect your experience to this that
Speaker 1: I'm about to ask. The Texans get this big win
Speaker 1: against the Patriots, and for years the Patriots had just
Speaker 1: you know, warned them down and found ways to win games,
Speaker 1: and then they get this win. And I happened to
Speaker 1: as I was calling it, happen to think about this
Speaker 1: aspect of things. In nineteen ninety eight, you have the
Speaker 1: situation at Tennessee where you guys play one of the
Speaker 1: great college football games all time, but it doesn't go
Speaker 1: your way. The next year you play Tennessee and you
Speaker 1: sort of get that monkey off your back, if you will,
Speaker 1: by having that great throw at the end of Lucas
Speaker 1: for the touchdown. You get the win when you get
Speaker 1: that win against the team that maybe people didn't think
Speaker 1: you would beat, or you have this monumental win. What's
Speaker 1: the biggest key about bouncing back or coming back to
Speaker 1: next week after that win to make sure that you're
Speaker 1: focused and don't get beat by the next team because
Speaker 1: you're still thinking about that great win you had. When
Speaker 1: you have such a victory like that, well, I mean,
Speaker 1: I think the big thing is is that there's an
Speaker 1: instant release, you know. I mean, it's it's there's so
Speaker 1: much build up emotionally that goes into a game like
Speaker 1: the Texans just played. I mean, Bill O'Brien can avoid
Speaker 1: the question, but we all know that game meant a
Speaker 1: little bit more than the games before. The New England
Speaker 1: matchup means a little bit more. Deshaun Watson can be cool,
Speaker 1: calm and collected as he always is, but that game,
Speaker 1: that opportunity versus Tom Brady, was a little bit bigger
Speaker 1: than the other games leading into it. So that that
Speaker 1: call it anxiety, if you want to call it antistipatition,
Speaker 1: call it's an emotion. That's a build up to a
Speaker 1: game on Saturday or Sunday, and when you're able to win,
Speaker 1: it's an instant relief. If you lose, obviously, um you know,
Speaker 1: you go back to the drawing board. If there's no
Speaker 1: rest for the weary, you get right back on it.
Speaker 1: You try to figure out how to win. But when
Speaker 1: you in there's an instant relief and so, you know,
Speaker 1: I think bouncing back from a big victory, obviously there's
Speaker 1: some there's some stained ground that there's some getting back
Speaker 1: to the grind aspects of it, man, But when it's
Speaker 1: a game that was that big, the relief in itself
Speaker 1: allows you to go back to work with a little
Speaker 1: bit extra pepping your step the next day, two days later,
Speaker 1: you want to watch the film, you want to get
Speaker 1: back to work. You're more confident. And so for me, man,
Speaker 1: the key was just getting back on the horse and rolling.
Speaker 1: You know, it wasn't It was not difficult at all.
Speaker 1: In fact, I think the team was able to build
Speaker 1: off of it from a sense of confidence and a
Speaker 1: sense of the longing and knowing you can compete and
Speaker 1: beat the best of the best. What do you think, Clint,
Speaker 1: of the way DeShawn Watson played on Sunday? I had
Speaker 1: heard to talk about the Shawn in the game against Indianapolis,
Speaker 1: and he talked about, you know, he was probably a
Speaker 1: little quicker in that game to get out of the pocket,
Speaker 1: maybe happier feet in the pocket than you wanted to see.
Speaker 1: It felt a little different on Sunday. It felt like
Speaker 1: his recognition was quick. It felt like he was nice
Speaker 1: and starting in the pocket where he needed to be.
Speaker 1: There was one time when he obviously had to get
Speaker 1: out of the pocket and throw that ball to Kenny Stills.
Speaker 1: But overall, what'd you see from the Sean this week
Speaker 1: that you like? What are some of the things that
Speaker 1: you still feel like? Okay, he's only his third years,
Speaker 1: still work in progress. Where the things that he still
Speaker 1: needs to improve upon? But what did you see Sunday
Speaker 1: night from him? Well, I think it's a it's a
Speaker 1: constant effort, right, I mean, it's a constant learning curve.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be setbacks, and I think Indy was a setback.
Speaker 1: I think Carolina earlier in the year was a setback.
Speaker 1: Baltimore was a little bit of a setback. But there's
Speaker 1: a lot of good in between. Man and what you
Speaker 1: saw Sunday was, to me was a great game plan.
Speaker 1: First and foremost, the plan of attacking the attacking their second, third,
Speaker 1: and fourth cover guys, whether that's the linebacker or nickel,
Speaker 1: the fender, attacking those particular players on a defense that
Speaker 1: likes to play a lot of man attacking those particular players.
Speaker 1: With the tight ends with Duke Johnson and with Kenny Steeles.
Speaker 1: I think you could see that was a priority. I
Speaker 1: think you could see that Deshaun Watson early in the
Speaker 1: game was seeing things very clearly. He was getting through
Speaker 1: progressions and finding the open receiver very quickly. The primary
Speaker 1: receiver was there a lot, so that helps. But I
Speaker 1: think he had a great game, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I think in the second half, he comes out and
Speaker 1: they obviously want to take some shots, try to extend
Speaker 1: the lead a little bit and pat and get a
Speaker 1: little bit of a cushion there for the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: and they were able to do that. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: he can throw the mid range game and the deep
Speaker 1: ball really really well. From an accuracy standpoint, when he
Speaker 1: sets his feet, he throws the football is accurately and
Speaker 1: as powerfully as anybody in the game. It's a matter
Speaker 1: of when he sets his feet, does he set his
Speaker 1: feat he is he comfortable and now sometimes the defense
Speaker 1: is gonna push him off his spot. But when he's
Speaker 1: comfortable and when he's anchored, boy, he's dangerous and he's lethal.
Speaker 1: And this was a week when early in the game
Speaker 1: the game plan was special man, get it out of
Speaker 1: his hand. The primary was there, and then in the
Speaker 1: second half, they were able to extend that lead with
Speaker 1: a couple of throws, the wonderful that got overturned, the
Speaker 1: wonder steals, and then when they started chipping away with Hopkins.
Speaker 1: That was some big time quarterback play there. That that
Speaker 1: was processing pre snap, knowing where you want to go
Speaker 1: with the football, anchoring down in the pocket, and delivering
Speaker 1: a good, accurate throw, you know, in some critical situations.
Speaker 1: And so I thought he had a hell of a game.
Speaker 1: I think it was his most complete game to this point.
Speaker 1: But it doesn't surprise me, John, I mean, he's a
Speaker 1: guy that he can do that. It's it's about consistency.
Speaker 1: It's about in a sixteen game season, do you do
Speaker 1: it fourteen games or do you do it ten games?
Speaker 1: And that's that's the secret to Deshaun Watson's success is
Speaker 1: making that turn in that ten or eleven game quality
Speaker 1: play into fourteen or fifteen And that's that's just how
Speaker 1: good the guy is and how dolly and he has
Speaker 1: to be on his development. And the guy that has
Speaker 1: done that for twenty years is Tom Brady. And we
Speaker 1: talked about it during the breaks of the game, watching
Speaker 1: him in pregame, watching him during the game, Clint, I'm
Speaker 1: always fascinated to watch Brady and I'm it's great now
Speaker 1: that I get the opportunity and everybody does when the
Speaker 1: Texas play the Patriots to see our quarterback to Shawn
Speaker 1: Watson and watch him and what a joy he is
Speaker 1: to watch, but also to watch Brady because you're watching
Speaker 1: the greatest quarterbacks seemingly of all time. And I know
Speaker 1: people after the game, all the Patriots offense, a lot
Speaker 1: of people want to point the finger at Brady. I
Speaker 1: trust your quarterback knowledge more than anybody. What did you
Speaker 1: see from Brady on Sunday? Do you feel like he's
Speaker 1: lost it or is losing it, or do you feel like,
Speaker 1: hey man, there's really nobody around him to help him. Well,
Speaker 1: there's definitely nobody around him to help him. I mean,
Speaker 1: look all these folks that want to say that Brady's
Speaker 1: done and Brady's aging, and I can see it just
Speaker 1: because he struggles in a game or the offense is
Speaker 1: struggling this season. Eventually, they've been saying that for about
Speaker 1: eight years now. Eventually somebody's gonna be right, There's no
Speaker 1: doubt about it. But but when it's all said and done,
Speaker 1: there is a problem in New England with particularly the
Speaker 1: pass catchers on that football team. You take Edelman away,
Speaker 1: and they don't have a difference maker at all. They
Speaker 1: don't have a guy that can create separation and versus
Speaker 1: man demand. They don't have a real good grasp on
Speaker 1: what they want to do versus some of the different
Speaker 1: zone coverages. And so much of what Brady has had
Speaker 1: success with is having one or two guys that can
Speaker 1: be a man and then having two or three or
Speaker 1: even four guys that know the game inside and out
Speaker 1: the same way that he does, and their chemistry is
Speaker 1: how they win. And and so you see, they have
Speaker 1: a real problem outside of Edelman and the Texans. The
Speaker 1: personnel that the Texans have on the defensive side of
Speaker 1: football are going to allow them to do something to
Speaker 1: teams like New England that quite frankly, there's just a
Speaker 1: handful of teams in the league have the ability to do.
Speaker 1: And so that was a perfect storm for the Texans
Speaker 1: defense in a good and positive way, and the perfect
Speaker 1: storm for Tom Brady and Juwian Edelman in the opposite direction.
Speaker 1: I mean, they've got to find they have got to
Speaker 1: find some way to threaten the defense outside of Julian Edelman,
Speaker 1: and if they don't, it's gonna be a short run
Speaker 1: in the playoffs this year. And I don't think it
Speaker 1: has anything to do with Tom Brady being older than
Speaker 1: he was a year ago. That guy can still play.
Speaker 1: He can still win football games the way he's always
Speaker 1: won football games. The problem is is he does not
Speaker 1: have an X factor outside of Edelman, and nobody in
Speaker 1: this league, young or old, fast or a pocket or
Speaker 1: duel thread or pocket passing guy. You're not gonna win
Speaker 1: if that is your only weapon, in your best weapon.
Speaker 1: Talking with our buddy Clint Starter for Sports Radio six ten,
Speaker 1: you can hear him every single afternoon two to six,
Speaker 1: Clint staying on that same theme, but flipping the sides
Speaker 1: of the ball on the Patriots offense to the Texans defense.
Speaker 1: Of course, going into this game, everybody was worried. Okay,
Speaker 1: you haven't though JJ watt Man. You haven't gotten the
Speaker 1: pressures and the hurries and all that kind of stuff
Speaker 1: since watt has been out. But you knew where Tom
Speaker 1: Brady was gonna be. He was gonna be in that
Speaker 1: pocket and he was rarely gonna scramble. And then of
Speaker 1: course he proved everybody wrong, running about thirteen yards in
Speaker 1: about ten seconds. But it felt like defensively they had
Speaker 1: a lot of different answers than when they've had when
Speaker 1: they faced the Patriots before. They had Bradley Roby on
Speaker 1: James White a lot of the time. They had a
Speaker 1: good double on Julian Edelman a few key times, including
Speaker 1: on the Bradley Roby interception where they really took Edelman away.
Speaker 1: With Jonathan Joseph and Bernardick McKinney. What did you think
Speaker 1: overall of how the defense played up until it got
Speaker 1: to be garbage time and Brady was piling up some
Speaker 1: stats with those final two stout them. But it's a
Speaker 1: lot like the offices side of the football, man. I
Speaker 1: thought the game plan was phenomenal. I thought the execution
Speaker 1: was phenomenal, and more importantly, I thought the adjustments that
Speaker 1: were made off of their early success was was big time. Man.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, here's the deal, John is. I
Speaker 1: think you know they gotta get creative upfront and how
Speaker 1: they how they get pressure. And I thought they did
Speaker 1: it great with personnel with dropping Benardrick McKinney into a
Speaker 1: defensive line position and coupling him with Jacob Martin, Whitney
Speaker 1: Merciless and Charles o'mena who when you put those four
Speaker 1: across there, you got what I referred to as a
Speaker 1: speed rush across the board. Not a lot of size,
Speaker 1: but in obvious passing situations, you've got some shut tacklers.
Speaker 1: You've got some speed that you can both play the
Speaker 1: run and you can pressure the pastor. And so I
Speaker 1: like that package. I like that adjustment up front when
Speaker 1: they got away from DJ Reader and uh, I guess
Speaker 1: it was Doney inside. So I like that show makeup.
Speaker 1: But man, I tell you what, John, the six defensive
Speaker 1: facts that the Texans can throw out there allows them
Speaker 1: to be so multiple on the defensive side of the
Speaker 1: ball that they're gonna give offenses fits. Man. They can
Speaker 1: get back, they can play zones, they can play cover
Speaker 1: two man with four cover guys underneath that are as
Speaker 1: as good four now. And I know there's no top
Speaker 1: end Gilmore, there's no top end Sherman, there's no top
Speaker 1: end Corner right now. Um that proven that that can
Speaker 1: that can compete with those guys. But four deep they
Speaker 1: are damn good, and I'll put them up against anybody
Speaker 1: in the league. Four deep as far as the four
Speaker 1: cover guys go when they're healthy, and so when you
Speaker 1: have the afbility to do that, put those four guys
Speaker 1: across the board and then put Read and Gets in
Speaker 1: over the top in a two man situation, and then
Speaker 1: do anything below that in a man or blitz or
Speaker 1: any kind of package underneath that. Boy, you've got some
Speaker 1: You've got some weapons. Man, I know you don't have J. J. Watt.
Speaker 1: You don't ask you, Davian Clowne. You would like to
Speaker 1: have those caliber guys up front. But if you don't
Speaker 1: have them, you better have a second day that's gonna
Speaker 1: allow you to be multiple and bring pressure from different angles. Man.
Speaker 1: And these six dvs that the Texans have, I'm anxious
Speaker 1: to see them play moving forward because I think the
Speaker 1: sky's the limit for these guys that they can stay healthy. Well,
Speaker 1: it's been pretty interesting to watch, There's no question about that.
Speaker 1: All Right, Clint, let's dive into your college knowledge this weekend.
Speaker 1: You got championship weekend, but I want to focus on
Speaker 1: Georgia v. LSU Jake from and at George Offense, and
Speaker 1: they put some points up against Georgia Tech. But I
Speaker 1: think you and I could have played quarterback and receiver
Speaker 1: and scored thirty on Georgia Tech. That's not a very
Speaker 1: good program. But now it's LSU and Joe Burrow has
Speaker 1: been hot all year. They're coming off a fifty to
Speaker 1: seven win over A and M. Georgia v. LSU. You
Speaker 1: got LSU's offense against George's defense, which maybe one of
Speaker 1: the better matchups you're gonna see unit wise all year. Law,
Speaker 1: how do you see this one coming out in Atlanta
Speaker 1: with those two teams squaring off. I believe LSU skull
Speaker 1: drags Georgia, you know, I mean, it's it's tough to
Speaker 1: say that about a championship game, and George is a
Speaker 1: good football team. But when you just talk about the
Speaker 1: ability to put points on the board, there's nobody in
Speaker 1: this country's gonna doubt LSU's ability to put points on
Speaker 1: the board. They're they're averaging up around the forty eight,
Speaker 1: forty nine, maybe even higher than that after last week.
Speaker 1: They're and they're doing it convincingly, and so they're gonna
Speaker 1: score points. Jake Frym, I believe he's missing his number
Speaker 1: one receiver, his number two receiver, his got I believe
Speaker 1: he got in the fight last weekend in the end
Speaker 1: zone U and with one of the Georgia Tech players,
Speaker 1: and I believe he's out for the first half. DeAndre Swift,
Speaker 1: that they're big time running back, is banged up. I
Speaker 1: just don't know that Georgia has enough firepower to keep
Speaker 1: up with LSU's offense. And here's the other thing is
Speaker 1: I think LSU's defense they've had some they've got some
Speaker 1: young guys playing, they've had some of their veterans and
Speaker 1: their key players, a couple of them throughout the season,
Speaker 1: you know, miss some time here and there for personal
Speaker 1: reasons or for injury. When they get everybody back healthy, man, LSU,
Speaker 1: who is gonna be back to They always help me
Speaker 1: back to the old school LSU dominant defense. But they'll
Speaker 1: be much better than what you've seen throughout the season.
Speaker 1: And so I think as this thing rolls along, man,
Speaker 1: when you got when you got uh you know Jefferson
Speaker 1: and Chase that receiver, uh Clyde Edwards, Hilaire at that
Speaker 1: little running back they've got reminds me of Andrew Andrew
Speaker 1: Jones and and uh and then like a Sproles type
Speaker 1: of player. Uh. Man, they're gonna be tough to stop,
Speaker 1: and I just don't see Georgia keeping up with him.
Speaker 1: There is Clint Turney. You can hear him two to
Speaker 1: six on our flagship sports tray of six ten. You
Speaker 1: can hear him our postgame show, along with my buddy
Speaker 1: Sean Pendergass, who does the hell of a job. Clint,
Speaker 1: you're the best man. Appreciate it, brother, with tuck you
Speaker 1: next week, you got it, be good brother, Take care.
Speaker 1: So we put one hour in the books. We got
Speaker 1: one hour left to go. We're gonna kick it off
Speaker 1: with our men. Behind the Mike's Mark Vandermer catches up
Speaker 1: with the play by play voice and one of the
Speaker 1: better high school football coaches in the Denver area, Dave Logan,
Speaker 1: joins us right here in Texans All Access after the break.
Speaker 1: The Denver Broncos are coming to town on a Sunday afternoon,
Speaker 1: and with them will not be their play by play voice,
Speaker 1: Dave Logan. Why well, Dave Logan's high school team, Cherry
Speaker 1: Creek High School, is playing the state championship game in
Speaker 1: Denver or in Colorado. I think it's in Denver on
Speaker 1: Saturday evening and or Sunday afternoon. And he's gonna have
Speaker 1: to fly his way to Houston to be ready to
Speaker 1: go by noon. Central does play by play for the Broncos.
Speaker 1: Coaches high school football for one of the better programs
Speaker 1: in the state of Colorado. He's already won championships I
Speaker 1: think in twenty twelve and twenty fourteen. This guy can
Speaker 1: double dip better than anybody throughout the league. So let's
Speaker 1: meet our man behind the mic. With our man behind
Speaker 1: the that is Mark Vandermer. Here is Dave Logan, Broncos
Speaker 1: play by play man. Dave. Welcome back to Houston, as
Speaker 1: you guys haven't been here for a while. Texans played
Speaker 1: in Denver last year. How you doing, Hey, Mark, Great
Speaker 1: to be with you. It's it's it's good to be
Speaker 1: back in Houston, for sure. It's I wish the circumstances
Speaker 1: were a little bit different. Obviously. Houston's playing really good football.
Speaker 1: The Broncos are once again sort of trying to find themselves,
Speaker 1: but always great to come back, all right, So Dave,
Speaker 1: tell me what the Broncos are doing well right now
Speaker 1: this year. I know the record is not at all
Speaker 1: where you want it to be at four and eight,
Speaker 1: but I see a lot of games that have come
Speaker 1: down to the wire. So there are some good things happening.
Speaker 1: What are they Well, I think that you you look
Speaker 1: at this team defensively, and you would say they have
Speaker 1: been a pretty good defense. They certainly have not given
Speaker 1: up a lot of points. You know, they've been able
Speaker 1: to stop the run for the most part. You're gonna
Speaker 1: lose Derek Wolf now with that dislo kid at elbow
Speaker 1: for the remaining four games of the season. But and
Speaker 1: I also think that from time to time they've they've
Speaker 1: had a good rushing attack, not a consistently good running attack,
Speaker 1: but they have shown signs in certain games of being
Speaker 1: able to run the ball. But it's it's it's not
Speaker 1: been enough. They've not generated enough points. Their their third
Speaker 1: worst in the league in terms of scoring. And in
Speaker 1: today's football, you've you've got to be able to score.
Speaker 1: You've got to be able to at times create dynamic
Speaker 1: plays on offense, and they just with the exception of
Speaker 1: Courtland Sutton and Philip Lindsay, they just haven't been able
Speaker 1: to do that on a consistent basis. Well, tell me
Speaker 1: about Lindsay, because here he is having another nice year.
Speaker 1: What does he bring to the table. You know, Mark,
Speaker 1: I think, and I'm biased in this regard because I
Speaker 1: went to the University of Colorado and grew up in Denver,
Speaker 1: same as Philip Lindsay. So I've watched this kid ever
Speaker 1: since he was probably nine or ten years old play football.
Speaker 1: I think, pound for poundy may be the toughest player
Speaker 1: in the league. And you know, he's whatever he's listed at.
Speaker 1: He's about one eighty, but he runs like he's about
Speaker 1: two fifteen. Every time he carries the ball. Some of
Speaker 1: the things he does just amazes me, and I wonder,
Speaker 1: is this the play that he's not going to be
Speaker 1: able to get back up from. But he's a dynamic player.
Speaker 1: He's got very quick feet, as I said, exceptionally tough
Speaker 1: runs with great pad level. And he and Courtland Sutton
Speaker 1: really are there too, Maine and maybe even take out
Speaker 1: the word Maine. They're they're two threats on offense. There
Speaker 1: are guys that I think are young emerging stars in
Speaker 1: this league. The Broncos just need more of a complimentary
Speaker 1: cast to help those guys out. All right, What about
Speaker 1: Drew Locke start number two coming up this weekend? What
Speaker 1: do you think? Yeah? I liked him in the first start,
Speaker 1: I thought, as much as we could tell. I thought
Speaker 1: he was very composed. He's got a big arm, nice
Speaker 1: quick release. It didn't look like it was too big
Speaker 1: for him, which I think the Broncos were somewhat concerned about.
Speaker 1: I think that there was hesitancy to really put him
Speaker 1: out there and to give him a shot, And that
Speaker 1: tells me. The club never said it, but that would
Speaker 1: tell me that that maybe they didn't think he was
Speaker 1: mentally quite ready with all the verbiage involved in this
Speaker 1: particular offensive system. Him coming from Missouri, and he told
Speaker 1: me last week that some of his calls were two
Speaker 1: and three words, and he said that in some of
Speaker 1: the Bronco terminology used five or six words simply to
Speaker 1: describe the formation. So it's a lot. It's been intensive
Speaker 1: for him in terms of learning that. But I liked
Speaker 1: what I saw. I think, you know, I'm not ready
Speaker 1: to say that he's going to be the quarterback of
Speaker 1: the future, but I'm not ready to say he won't.
Speaker 1: I think it was a good starting point for a
Speaker 1: really talented young guy. Dave Logan, voice of the Broncos,
Speaker 1: joining us on Texans Radio. What's it like being around
Speaker 1: Vic Fangio as a head coach. I remember him here
Speaker 1: as a defensive coordinator in the early days of the Texans. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I really have enjoyed Vic this year. He's a football
Speaker 1: guy twenty four to seven. He's an old school football coach.
Speaker 1: He believes in playing good defense. He believes in all
Speaker 1: the things that I think a lot of coaches believed in,
Speaker 1: you know, twenty twenty five years ago. And it's not
Speaker 1: to say that he can't relate to some of these
Speaker 1: younger guys, but I mean, this is a guy that
Speaker 1: you know, he doesn't have many hobbies. He's a guy
Speaker 1: that lives and breeds football. Really smart man. Defensively, he's
Speaker 1: done a nice job. They've done a number of injuries,
Speaker 1: for sure. They signed Bryce Callahan the offseason, one of
Speaker 1: their big free agent acquisitions. He hasn't played it down
Speaker 1: because of a foot injury. They lose, as I said
Speaker 1: Derek Wolfe, they lost Bradley Chubb early in the season,
Speaker 1: who I think is one of the best young pass
Speaker 1: rushers in the game to a torn ACL So he's
Speaker 1: had a compromised set of defenders. But I think Vixed
Speaker 1: done a nice job given the cast that he adhered it.
Speaker 1: Dave I know we've talked about this a little bit before,
Speaker 1: but what the listeners might not know about you is,
Speaker 1: in addition to being the voice of the Broncos, you
Speaker 1: coach high school football in Colorado. So tell me where
Speaker 1: you're at at this stage of the season. Well, we've
Speaker 1: made it to the state championship game that comes up
Speaker 1: on Saturday, so we're excited about that. We play a
Speaker 1: really good team in Columbine. I will miss the Broncos
Speaker 1: charter and there's no way for me to get to
Speaker 1: Houston other than to catch a flight to Dallas Saturday
Speaker 1: night late and then to drive. So I'm warning everybody
Speaker 1: on the highway, whatever highway that would be, that sometime
Speaker 1: late or early Sunday morning, at about two or three
Speaker 1: in the morning, there'll be a car cruising down the
Speaker 1: highway trying to get to Houston to get set to
Speaker 1: do the game. But it's been a great runs twenty
Speaker 1: seven years as a high school head high school coach,
Speaker 1: and I've really enjoyed it. Well, you're in the Colorado
Speaker 1: Sports Hall of Fame, which is very cool for a
Speaker 1: variety of reasons. I mean, I got to imagine that
Speaker 1: was you had a lot of ground to cover in
Speaker 1: your acceptance speech with the playing days, the broadcasting at
Speaker 1: high school coaching. But tell me, how how is it
Speaker 1: coaching these kids when you're also so connected with an
Speaker 1: NFL team and the contrast involved and all that goes
Speaker 1: into it. Dave, Yeah, it's you know what, Mark, this
Speaker 1: is my thirtieth year broadcasting the Broncos game. So I
Speaker 1: started a little bit before I became a head football coach.
Speaker 1: But what I have found is I tried simply to
Speaker 1: separate my two lives, so to speak. I really don't
Speaker 1: ever talk about with my kids my playing days, what
Speaker 1: happens in terms of calling NFL games, because I want,
Speaker 1: you know, I want that interaction to be about them.
Speaker 1: It's it's their time. My time has come and gone
Speaker 1: as a player, and certainly you know it does. However,
Speaker 1: I think because I'm still very close to the game,
Speaker 1: it enables me to sort of see, whether with my
Speaker 1: eyes in person or on coach's tape, it enables me
Speaker 1: to see some of the things that you might be
Speaker 1: able to transition into some of the ideas that you
Speaker 1: implement with your high school kids over the years. But
Speaker 1: it's it's it's been a great, great run and you
Speaker 1: know what it's It's one of the things that I
Speaker 1: think as we start to get a little bit older,
Speaker 1: involvement with youth and trying to impact young people, especially
Speaker 1: young boys, I think is really important and it also
Speaker 1: for me, keeps me young. What have you noticed about
Speaker 1: the way kids have changed over the span of time
Speaker 1: that you've been coaching. Are there a lot of differences
Speaker 1: or our kids kids? How do you look at that
Speaker 1: side of things? Yeah, I think it's I think it's
Speaker 1: an interesting question. I think I think kids still want discipline.
Speaker 1: To me, kids still want structure, and maybe there's less
Speaker 1: of that now than there was a quarter of a
Speaker 1: century ago when I first started coaching high school football.
Speaker 1: But I think the two biggest things that I have
Speaker 1: since that have changed over a long period of time.
Speaker 1: I mean social media obviously has impacted a lot of people.
Speaker 1: And we talk all the time I do as a
Speaker 1: head coach to my players in terms of listen, you
Speaker 1: got to be careful what you post because in ten years,
Speaker 1: when you're done with your college and you're out there
Speaker 1: in the real world trying to seek employment, everything you
Speaker 1: post today as a sixteen year old is going to
Speaker 1: come back and somebody's going to be looking at that,
Speaker 1: and that's that's hard for high school kids to sort
Speaker 1: of wrap their head around, right and so, and I
Speaker 1: think parents' involvement is is different. I do think that
Speaker 1: I've been blessed to have some pretty good parents over
Speaker 1: twenty seven years. But you do find the parent that
Speaker 1: thinks his son should be recruited by USC when he
Speaker 1: was in eighth or ninth grade. I mean, that's just
Speaker 1: sort of the world in which we live. I don't
Speaker 1: like it. I certainly don't like the colleges can offer
Speaker 1: e eighth graders and ninth graders scholarships. Makes absolutely no
Speaker 1: sense to me in that regard. But you know it,
Speaker 1: Mark that ever asked me. So that's well to your
Speaker 1: point about the permanency of things. When you and I
Speaker 1: were kids, they said, that's going on your permanent record,
Speaker 1: and there was no permanent record. Really that's right, but
Speaker 1: now there is digitally. That's exactly right. And again, you know,
Speaker 1: when you're you think when you and I back in
Speaker 1: the day sixteen seventeen, we did some dumb things, but
Speaker 1: it wasn't chronicled. You know, we were able to sort
Speaker 1: of learn from that. We either got disciplined by our
Speaker 1: parents or teachers or administrators. You know. Nowadays when kids
Speaker 1: do those things, unfortunately, it's there and it's there forever.
Speaker 1: So I think it's much tougher, honestly, growing up today
Speaker 1: as a fifteen or sixteen year old as compared to
Speaker 1: what it was twenty five years ago. Dave won more
Speaker 1: for you. What are people in Denver saying about the
Speaker 1: Houston Texans heading into this weekend's game. Well, I mean
Speaker 1: they know that Houston. I mean, I think most people
Speaker 1: here watched the Patriots Texans game over the weekend and
Speaker 1: they know they know that Houston's one of the I
Speaker 1: think one of the emerging teams in the AFC. I
Speaker 1: mean Deshaun Watson, I love his game. He's surrounded with
Speaker 1: good receivers. You know, to me as a former wide
Speaker 1: receiver in the league, I look at Hopkins and his
Speaker 1: ability to catch the ball, and that's the kind of
Speaker 1: guy that you think back in terms of and you
Speaker 1: call the games mark. But he reminds me of an
Speaker 1: old school guy too many times now because the balls
Speaker 1: in the air all the time, you know, players don't
Speaker 1: value catching the ball when the ball is thrown to
Speaker 1: you catch the ball. But DeAndre Hopkins, at least from
Speaker 1: my point of view watching him casually, he reminds me
Speaker 1: of guys that, you know, back in the day when
Speaker 1: I played in the eighties, if you've had four or
Speaker 1: five ball thrown to you, you know you basically give
Speaker 1: up your soul to make a catch because you weren't
Speaker 1: going to get another pass thrown to you if you didn't.
Speaker 1: He's that guy, So I have great respect for him
Speaker 1: and love how Deshaun Watson is playing too. Excellent points. Dave,
Speaker 1: thanks so much for joining us. Good luck getting here,
Speaker 1: be safe, and we look forward to Senior on Saturday. Mark,
Speaker 1: that is absolutely fascinating to have a state championship game
Speaker 1: on Saturday as a coach and turn around and call
Speaker 1: a Broncos game on Sunday. Who quite the life for one,
Speaker 1: Dave Logan, all right, we return. We're gonna go behind
Speaker 1: enemy sidelines kind of again, but we're gonna do it
Speaker 1: in a different way with tib Sidu, who caught up
Speaker 1: with Phil Milani from Denver Broncos dot com. What are
Speaker 1: the writers there? He will join us and give us
Speaker 1: his thoughts on this one on Sunday when we get back.
Speaker 1: This week's Stats Challenge is brought to you by Schlumberge.
Speaker 1: Visit Houston Texas dot com today to register to take
Speaker 1: the stats Challenge Today, it's all about passer rating. I
Speaker 1: mentioned earlier in the show, Deshaun Watson named AFC Offensive
Speaker 1: Player the Week. That's the third time that it has
Speaker 1: happened this year. Through three touchdowns, caught another through for
Speaker 1: two hundred and thirty six. I think somewhere in that range.
Speaker 1: He's thrown for more this year. He's thrown for more
Speaker 1: in losses actually this year, but his rating against the
Speaker 1: Patriots is one forty point seven. That was the highest
Speaker 1: rating yielded by the Patriots all year long. And it's
Speaker 1: not even close. Lamar Jackson was in the hundreds range.
Speaker 1: The only other time that anybody had been anywhere near
Speaker 1: the ninety mark, Lamar Jackson went over one hundred. But
Speaker 1: the Shawn Watson passer rating one forty point six against
Speaker 1: the New England Patriots. That is a stat that I
Speaker 1: don't know if it'll be topped this year against that defense.
Speaker 1: But that's how good Deshaun was on Sunday night against
Speaker 1: the New England Patriots. Okay, it's time to go behind
Speaker 1: enemy sidelines with dpcity. In this week, Denver Broncos dot
Speaker 1: com writer Phil Malanney gives his thoughts about what he's
Speaker 1: seen from the Broncos. Philip lindsay, what they see in him,
Speaker 1: and of course Big Fangio's the first year coach. Both
Speaker 1: these teams coming off big wins, the Broncos coming off
Speaker 1: at twenty three to twenty win to their division rival Chargers.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about Drew Locke in his debut two touch downs,
Speaker 1: an interception, no sacks in the win. What did he
Speaker 1: do well? Where can he improve? What do you think?
Speaker 1: Guys were really excited. They were feeding off his energy
Speaker 1: that first drive he went out there, I'm a little
Speaker 1: bit of those dinners. But then he settled down and
Speaker 1: you know, I think that everybody was pretty happy with
Speaker 1: how he played. They kind of minimize the playbook a
Speaker 1: little bit for him. They let him do what he
Speaker 1: does well, got outside of the pocket a little bit,
Speaker 1: and then it helps to have a guy like Courtland
Speaker 1: Sutton who just goes up and makes some huge patches
Speaker 1: for him. I know last week Vic Fangio said that
Speaker 1: both it could be Locke, it could be branded Allan.
Speaker 1: What was the deciding factor in going with Locke over Allan?
Speaker 1: And do you think that this is who the starting
Speaker 1: quarterbacks can be for the foreseeable future or could we
Speaker 1: still see some more changes with Denver. No, Locke is
Speaker 1: going to be the guy. He went out there and
Speaker 1: he did enough. You know, during the week they wanted
Speaker 1: to see how Locke practiced. He did well enough. He
Speaker 1: had commanded the huddle, he could do the pok you know,
Speaker 1: those kind of things. So he showed enough in practice.
Speaker 1: They didn't name a starter until when he ran out
Speaker 1: there on the field. I mean, so that was a
Speaker 1: little bit of a strange situation, but they saw enough
Speaker 1: from him and he said, hey, you don't need to
Speaker 1: wait anymore. Next week, Locke is definitely the starter, and
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be the start of the rest
Speaker 1: of the way. You mentioned Courtland Sutton. He had those
Speaker 1: two touchdowns in the win over the Chargers. What makes
Speaker 1: him so hard to defend? And how is it that
Speaker 1: he's able to develop that chemistry so quickly, especially with
Speaker 1: all the different quarterbacks that you've had under center this year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Locke is the third quarterback that they've started this year
Speaker 1: or so he's cycled through him. But you know, suddenly
Speaker 1: I think he's really taken a big step. This is
Speaker 1: the second season. You know, we saw some flashes of
Speaker 1: that as a rookie. The thing that makes him so
Speaker 1: hard to defend is his size and his stride. I mean,
Speaker 1: his first couple of steps off the line of scrimmage,
Speaker 1: he really drives into the defensive back and then it
Speaker 1: gets them off balanced a little bit, and then he's
Speaker 1: been able to make some incredible catches this year. I
Speaker 1: mean the touchdown he had on that first drive that
Speaker 1: was so big because they let everybody calm down a
Speaker 1: little bit. Lot kind of settled in after that, and
Speaker 1: then you know they were often running. But he's really
Speaker 1: been able to make these big plays down the field.
Speaker 1: Last season, he was more of like a fifty fifty
Speaker 1: kind of guy. He'd go up and just you know,
Speaker 1: high point the ball. Over the offseason, he said he
Speaker 1: worked on his route running. His whole route tree is
Speaker 1: complete now and he's really been able to play what
Speaker 1: a lot of people around here think is a Pro
Speaker 1: Bowl level. Speaking of the Pro Bowl, I saw Philip
Speaker 1: Lindsay there last year, even though he was out for
Speaker 1: the season. By the time the Pro Bowl came around.
Speaker 1: He was really just setting the world on fire as
Speaker 1: an undrafted Ricky running back last year, and it doesn't
Speaker 1: seem to be slowing down much in his second season,
Speaker 1: even with all the changes that going on there in
Speaker 1: the offense. Where have you seen the most growth from
Speaker 1: lindsay this year just being able to do it more
Speaker 1: on a consistent basis. Last year he would bust a
Speaker 1: couple of big plays law you know, down the field,
Speaker 1: would he catch the ball melton space and then take off.
Speaker 1: This year, he's really developed his running game a little
Speaker 1: bit more. He's more patient to let the blocks develop
Speaker 1: and then once he sees the whole he can burst
Speaker 1: through it. He's so fast, his feet are so quick.
Speaker 1: And then on top of all that, he's still got
Speaker 1: this chip on his shoulder from being an undrafted guy.
Speaker 1: He just plays with such tenacity, and he just changes
Speaker 1: when he goes on the field, because in the locker
Speaker 1: rooms such a nice guy. Once he steps onto the field,
Speaker 1: he becomes this other guy and you know, he runs hard.
Speaker 1: Rarely does he just go out of bounds. When he's
Speaker 1: taken one to the sideline, he puts his foot in
Speaker 1: the ground and makes you tackle him. So he just
Speaker 1: brings a different energy and attitude to that running back room.
Speaker 1: I know when the season started for the Broncos is
Speaker 1: a bit of a rough go. They went oh and
Speaker 1: four before winning back to back games against the Chargers
Speaker 1: and the Titans. It's the first season for Vic Fangio
Speaker 1: as the head coach. What do you think was the
Speaker 1: key to really turning things around for the Broncos this
Speaker 1: year and overcoming some diversity early on? It was sort
Speaker 1: of a strange start to the season. The Broncos lost
Speaker 1: on Monday Night Football in Oakland and then they lost
Speaker 1: on a last second field goal to the Bears, So
Speaker 1: then you know they were owing two and you know,
Speaker 1: he heard all these statistics about how ohen two teams
Speaker 1: will make the playoffs and that sort of thing. And
Speaker 1: then once they became Owen smart, I think they just said,
Speaker 1: let's forget about you know, what's at the end of
Speaker 1: the season and that type of thing. Just focus on
Speaker 1: a week to week type of thing. They were able
Speaker 1: to win two games in a row, but really this
Speaker 1: whole season has been a roller coaster for them. Joe
Speaker 1: Flacco gets injured against the Colts, he's done for the season,
Speaker 1: and then they didn't feel like Drew Lock was quite
Speaker 1: ready enough to go. Right after that, Locke hurt his
Speaker 1: thumb in the preseason, so he had been on a
Speaker 1: r for the whole time. So then they start Brandon Allen.
Speaker 1: He beat the Browns and they were able to get
Speaker 1: something rolling a little bit. Then they go on the road,
Speaker 1: there's two games, they start Drew Lock, and then they
Speaker 1: have a big win against Chargers. So it's it's really
Speaker 1: been this up and down season. The one constant throughout
Speaker 1: all of that, though, has been the defense. This Broncos
Speaker 1: defense is pretty tough. They're top five and a lot
Speaker 1: of categories, and they're the that's the side of the
Speaker 1: ball that's really been keeping the Broncos in some of
Speaker 1: these games. On the offensive side of the ball, they
Speaker 1: haven't been able to score more than twenty four points
Speaker 1: all season, so that's been an area where they keep
Speaker 1: getting into fourteen twenty points or so and then the
Speaker 1: offense stalls out. So the defense has been the side
Speaker 1: of the ball that's really been keeping the Broncos around
Speaker 1: all season on. It's even more impressive considering early on
Speaker 1: in the season, the Broncos lost Bradley Chubb for the year,
Speaker 1: who really stepped up in his place, and how can
Speaker 1: you replace a guy like that that's just so talented
Speaker 1: as a past. Yeah, there were so much expectations for
Speaker 1: Bradley Chubb this season, especially because of what Vic Angel
Speaker 1: was able to do last year with Claire Mack in Chicago.
Speaker 1: The expectations were through the roof for him. Similar body
Speaker 1: type to Khalil Mack. And you know the book ends
Speaker 1: there with Bradley Chubb on one side and bon Miller
Speaker 1: on the other side. They thought that those two were
Speaker 1: just going to put up huge numbers this season. And
Speaker 1: you know, when Chubb went down, that was tout to
Speaker 1: the shock to the locker room. And then they've really
Speaker 1: been doing it by committee replacing his side of the ball.
Speaker 1: They have an undrafted free agent in Malik Reid. He's
Speaker 1: stepped up as a rookie. He's played some big minutes
Speaker 1: down the stretch, justin Hollins as a rookie out of Oregon.
Speaker 1: They just had him in there and they just sort
Speaker 1: of cycled through through guys in spot trying to get
Speaker 1: some some sacks or some Kuoby pressers there on the
Speaker 1: other side of the ball, Von Miller has not put
Speaker 1: up the huge numbers that we've expected. You know, he's
Speaker 1: had double digit sacks in the last I think it's
Speaker 1: five years straight. M not been able to quite get
Speaker 1: back to that level so far this season. He missed
Speaker 1: the game last week against the chart Jeers, and his
Speaker 1: status for this this upcoming game against Affectives is really
Speaker 1: up in the air. Yeah, I was gonna ask you
Speaker 1: about von Miller because it seems like he never misses
Speaker 1: any games. It's been years since he's missed a game. Also,
Speaker 1: defensive end, Derek Wolf went down with the elbow injury.
Speaker 1: What can you tell us about his status? Looks like
Speaker 1: he may be done for the season. Is that correct? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Victor and Dia said that Derek Wolf most likely done
Speaker 1: for the season. He dislocated his elbow on such a
Speaker 1: fluke play. It was a false start by the Chargers
Speaker 1: and half the guys were still playing. They didn't hear
Speaker 1: the whistle and a teammate rolls up into a fell
Speaker 1: over hurt his elbow. So he has done for the season.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's gonna need surgery, But for Derek
Speaker 1: Wolf personally, this was the final year of his contract,
Speaker 1: so his future and demor is sort of up in
Speaker 1: the air right now. As for von Miller, he has
Speaker 1: played in ninety one consecutive regular season game. He had
Speaker 1: a long streak of ninety five games, including a playoffs,
Speaker 1: so that was a surprise to see him not be
Speaker 1: able to go last week. He's dealing with a bit
Speaker 1: of a knee injury. He went out there during pregame
Speaker 1: warm months and tried to test it out and ultimately decided, hey,
Speaker 1: it's not worth it. Um Sangio or Monday said that
Speaker 1: he thinks that he'll be able to play this week,
Speaker 1: but he was not able to say that with one
Speaker 1: hundred percent certainty. A reporter asked him if surgery was
Speaker 1: going to be needed, and he said he didn't think so.
Speaker 1: So sort of up in the air right now. And
Speaker 1: in fact, I think that the last time von Miller
Speaker 1: missed a game, it was because he toured acl and
Speaker 1: that happened the last time the Broncos played a regular
Speaker 1: season game in Houston. Yeah, I thought that was what
Speaker 1: twenty thirteen or so twenty thirteen, Yeah, towards the end
Speaker 1: of the season. That was a game when that was
Speaker 1: the Peyton Manning game. I was there exactly. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: a season to forget. But yeah, wow, that's amazing. Ninety
Speaker 1: five straight games for von Miller, tremendous. All right, let's
Speaker 1: talk about Kareem Jackson. How has he adjusted to life
Speaker 1: in Denver? I see the he's continued his success with
Speaker 1: Kajack TV over there. What do Broncos fans like about
Speaker 1: seeing Kajack out there? Yeah, Kajack has been a tremendous
Speaker 1: addition to the locker room. All the guys love his
Speaker 1: veteran presence. He's just a funny guy in the locker room. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we tried to keep we saw the Kajack from you guys.
Speaker 1: Really a funny guy in the locker room and then
Speaker 1: out on the field, a serious, no nonsense kind of guy.
Speaker 1: At least he has been so far here in Denmo
Speaker 1: because he doesn't miss tackles. He brings a physical presence there.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, the one game he missed for
Speaker 1: the Broncos this season against the Jaguars, Leonard Fournette ran
Speaker 1: for more than two hundred yards and you plug him
Speaker 1: back in the next weekend, the running game goes away.
Speaker 1: So he's been tremendous. The safety position in Sanjio's scheme
Speaker 1: is so important. They have to come up and stop
Speaker 1: the run. They played deep, they get a lot of
Speaker 1: freedom to operate, and they hopped out his fellow safety
Speaker 1: and Justin Simmons. Simmons is having a career season this year,
Speaker 1: and I think a lot of that has to do
Speaker 1: with just what Kate jack has been able to bring
Speaker 1: to that that secondary. I'm glad to see he's having
Speaker 1: success on TV. We've continued as legacy with b scar
Speaker 1: TV with Brennan Scarlett. So all's well, that ends well.
Speaker 1: And two former two players facing former teams this week,
Speaker 1: Bradley Roby facing the Broncos and Kareem Jackson facing the
Speaker 1: Texans for the first time in their career should be interesting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right. We talked to Justin Simmons today and he
Speaker 1: was saying that jack was got up in front of
Speaker 1: the Yard movies and said, Okay, here's some of these
Speaker 1: guys tendemcs, here's what to look for. So you know,
Speaker 1: I'm sure that happens everywhere when you're facing your former team.
Speaker 1: And yeah, Bradley Roby, we miss him around here. He
Speaker 1: was a great guy. Of course, no flies on secondary win.
Speaker 1: The Broncos went on and won Super Bowl fifties. So
Speaker 1: I saw that he had a big game last week
Speaker 1: against the Patriots in interception and a sack, so I'm
Speaker 1: sure he'll be hungry to face his former team too. Well,
Speaker 1: he's dead on. Bradley Robia has been fantastic for us,
Speaker 1: the former Bronco. Of course, you got Cream Jackson, the
Speaker 1: former Texans. That Texas offense will have to face. The
Speaker 1: interesting day for those two gentlemen for sure. All Right,
Speaker 1: we get back. It's time to talk Academy Sports and
Speaker 1: Outdoors Texas Bowl with the GM with old Star Sports
Speaker 1: and Entertainment David Fletcher coming up after the break. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to Wednesday addition to Texas All Access from the
Speaker 1: Honday Texans Radio studio. I am John Harris, Paul Hilson,
Speaker 1: silent reporter for your Houston Texans. I am joined now
Speaker 1: because we could talk Texans. Well, my friend David Fletcher
Speaker 1: comes by. That means we're talking about the Academy Sports
Speaker 1: and Outdoors Texas Bowl and it's coming soon. Fletch. I
Speaker 1: feel the excitement you sitting five feet away from you, brother,
Speaker 1: How do you feeling I'm feeling excited, Johnny. You are
Speaker 1: right on, man. It's a great time a year. Man,
Speaker 1: it's the most wonderful time of the year. As the
Speaker 1: great ESPN commercials have put in our heads for years
Speaker 1: and years. It's bowl season. We're right around the corner
Speaker 1: and we're excited about this weekend because we're gonna find
Speaker 1: out who's gonna play in this year's Academy Sports and
Speaker 1: Outdoors Texas Bowl on Friday, December twenty seventh. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: ask you this question, and you don't have to say
Speaker 1: what you want to happen, but do you watch Championship
Speaker 1: weekend hoping certain things happen to maybe put certain teams
Speaker 1: in position to come to the Bowl? Do you have
Speaker 1: that or you just kind of watch it and as
Speaker 1: a college football fan and just with the chips fall
Speaker 1: where they may. Oh, I'm definitely a little bit of both.
Speaker 1: You know, we go the middle road there. Certainly, you know,
Speaker 1: um there there are matchups this week and still a
Speaker 1: lot of football lef be played. Definitely impacts how things
Speaker 1: shake out for us in Houston. But at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, it's just fun to see, you know,
Speaker 1: these great teams they've played all regular season long. Now
Speaker 1: we've got a chance to kind of crown our first
Speaker 1: round of champions and see how it plays out on
Speaker 1: the CFP side and beyond. So you know, for us,
Speaker 1: we definitely have an eye on it, but control, we control.
Speaker 1: We're just gonna have some fun, watch some great football
Speaker 1: this weekend. Now, for those people that sometimes pay attention,
Speaker 1: sometimes don't, but may not be totally clued into how
Speaker 1: it actually works, you have the Big Twelve in the SEC,
Speaker 1: which is a tremendous matchup to have. How do the ball?
Speaker 1: How do the teams get selected for the ball? How
Speaker 1: does it happen? Because I know I know how it goes,
Speaker 1: but I know the fans are probably listenable. Well you
Speaker 1: pick this one, you pick that one, right, you get
Speaker 1: the matchup you want. It isn't quite like that. How
Speaker 1: does it work? Not quite that way? You know, it's
Speaker 1: almost nowhere close to that way, right, but it is,
Speaker 1: But it is, you know, for us, a great opportunity
Speaker 1: to have, as you mentioned, Big Twelve in SEC, to
Speaker 1: two elite conferences, to very geographically regional conferences and to
Speaker 1: the best in the country. So you know, for us
Speaker 1: on the Big twelve side, we have a selection here
Speaker 1: in Houston. That is the third selection after the New
Speaker 1: Year's six games, including the CFP, So your final four
Speaker 1: after those are slotted. The Alamobol, the Valero Alamobole in
Speaker 1: San Antonio, the Camping World Bowl in Orlando, and then
Speaker 1: the Academy Sports and Outdoors Texas Bowl get to select
Speaker 1: their teams on the big twelve side. So that's pretty
Speaker 1: cut and dry. You look at the board, you see
Speaker 1: who's there, You move forward. On the SEC it's a
Speaker 1: little bit different, the same process with the New Year's
Speaker 1: six games, the CFP, they picked their teams. The Citrus
Speaker 1: Bowl in Orlando then selects the next team, and then
Speaker 1: our game here in Houston joins five other games where
Speaker 1: the conference selects the participants, and that's based on a
Speaker 1: variety of things, matchups and geography and previous histories and
Speaker 1: rivalries and everything else. They just kind of look at
Speaker 1: the pie and they take input from us, They take
Speaker 1: input from the schools, and they try and put together
Speaker 1: a puzzle as best they can. So it's a little
Speaker 1: bit different, a little bit more nerve racking for us
Speaker 1: on the SEC side because we're just sitting here like
Speaker 1: everybody else waiting to see what we get. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: So you have input on the Big twelve side to
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure you haven't put on the SEC side.
Speaker 1: But it's just a it's a different animal because I
Speaker 1: think a lot of people hear about the Bowl and
Speaker 1: they're think, well, you're selecting this and you're selecting that.
Speaker 1: It's like, not quite sparky, you just hang on. So,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a really it's a really interesting aspect
Speaker 1: of the bulls. The whole bowl season to me is
Speaker 1: that part of it. Obviously, once the CFP gets slot
Speaker 1: up with those four teams and then the new Year's
Speaker 1: six bowls and then at that point it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: well who's got a choice? Sees in the pool? All
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. It's fascinating me. So on the
Speaker 1: Big twelve side, So possibility of teams that could be here. Now,
Speaker 1: one thing you did say about matchups, because when I
Speaker 1: think of teams that could be the egg ball with
Speaker 1: how that one ended, Mississippi State got Bowl eligible. They did,
Speaker 1: but they played Kansas State this year, so you can't.
Speaker 1: Can you put that matchup together? It would be highly unlikely. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's what I thought. So it is something that they've
Speaker 1: factor in is trying to not have repeats from the
Speaker 1: from the season or repeats from previous you know, most
Speaker 1: recent years. Right, you don't want to send a team
Speaker 1: to the same place, um if if the system allows it,
Speaker 1: but certainly with the selection we do have some say
Speaker 1: in how that works out. And so you know, when
Speaker 1: you look at the Big Twelve, you've got a great
Speaker 1: matchup this Saturday morning, Baylor and Oklahoma the rematch up
Speaker 1: in Dallas. Um, I think those two, yes, it is,
Speaker 1: it is. I think those two are gonna put on
Speaker 1: a heck of a show. Don't feel we're gonna have
Speaker 1: any opportunity for either one of them. It's just not
Speaker 1: a reality, right Yeah. So, um, but stay tuned. You're
Speaker 1: Baylor Bears are going to be back here to start
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty season right here at NRG Stadium. And
Speaker 1: we'll talk more about that down the road as they
Speaker 1: face the old Miss Rebels on the On the rest
Speaker 1: of the conference, you've got a really a kind of
Speaker 1: a log jam for the remaining six teams that were
Speaker 1: um that were eligible this year. You got Texas, you
Speaker 1: got Kansas State, you got Oklahoma State and you got
Speaker 1: Iowa State. So you know each of those have have
Speaker 1: their strengths and their weaknesses for each of the matchups. UM.
Speaker 1: As I mentioned, Once those UM CFP games are selected
Speaker 1: and we see what's left in the pool, UM, that's
Speaker 1: when the selections start to play out. So I look
Speaker 1: at that board, it's certainly possible that the loser of
Speaker 1: the UM the Big twelfth Championship game could be left
Speaker 1: out UM and if so, they'll enter that that that
Speaker 1: ranking as well. But I think we're really seeing that
Speaker 1: the most likely scenario is four teams could potentially be
Speaker 1: available to us, and you've got some great, great teams.
Speaker 1: They're great brands between those four, and so UM really
Speaker 1: excited to see how that plays out, UM and UM
Speaker 1: and I think anyway you shake it up, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a lot of fun to see what one of
Speaker 1: those four teams has on the field. Now, those teams
Speaker 1: that you mentioned, Kansas State, Texas those to have both
Speaker 1: been here. I was State as I was. I don't
Speaker 1: think I was State's been here in the state, has
Speaker 1: not been to the to the Academy Sports and Outdoors
Speaker 1: Texas Bowl. They have not been here, having Matt Campbell
Speaker 1: here would be very very interesting. That's a really interesting
Speaker 1: football team to watch. It's a great team to watch Matton,
Speaker 1: and congratulations to him an extension yesterday, and great work
Speaker 1: by Jamie Pollard and UM the Iowa State administration. You know,
Speaker 1: he he's built an unbelievable machine up there in names.
Speaker 1: A team that was in every single game this year yea,
Speaker 1: every single game that they lost. UM and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: would be exciting to see them here. Last year they
Speaker 1: were back in Texas at the Valero Albuma Bowls. So
Speaker 1: you know, Iowa State has not been here. Oklahoma State
Speaker 1: has not been here either. They played they played in
Speaker 1: the kickoff game in twenty thirteen against Mississippi State and
Speaker 1: Prescott and dek Prescott, but have not been to the
Speaker 1: Academy Sports Outdoors Texas Bowls. Interesting, you know eight four
Speaker 1: they finished in the top twenty five of the final
Speaker 1: regular season ranking yesterday at twenty five. UM and a
Speaker 1: team that you know, Mike Gunny has been been around
Speaker 1: the block for a long long time. A great job
Speaker 1: building that brand up. A tremendous amount of cowboys in
Speaker 1: the in the drivable parts. So a team that high
Speaker 1: powered fun to watch and uh and uh got a
Speaker 1: lot of people around here. That's that's something that certainly
Speaker 1: is something the peaks our interest. Well, we don't have
Speaker 1: to dive deep in this. This is a weird question,
Speaker 1: but it got me thinking because I I'd like to
Speaker 1: see Oklahoma State here because I want to see Chuba
Speaker 1: Hubbard up close. Yeah. Would you ever pick a bowl game?
Speaker 1: And I know there's a lot of reasons why you
Speaker 1: would pick a team on the big twelfth side to
Speaker 1: be in there. Would you ever pick it based on
Speaker 1: a player, like you want to see that player in
Speaker 1: this game? I know I would like to see Chuba Hubbard,
Speaker 1: So I'd have to like step out of the room
Speaker 1: while you picked it because I'd be like, Fletchick State,
Speaker 1: I want Hubbard here. Would you ever do that for
Speaker 1: a player? Well, I think it's hard to just, especially
Speaker 1: in the sport like football, to tie it back to
Speaker 1: one player. I mean, we've had some great, great players
Speaker 1: on this game, from you know the Leonard Fournett's, the
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes, Patrick Mahomes, the Jamal Adams. Uh, you know
Speaker 1: Drew Locke, who we're going to see this weekend only
Speaker 1: through from about four hundred yards the last time he
Speaker 1: was in this building. So I know rome better not
Speaker 1: do that again. I know, I know Romeo is says
Speaker 1: looking at that, and uh probably got that tape up
Speaker 1: to see what he can can dissect from that. But uh,
Speaker 1: just a lot of great players have been here in
Speaker 1: this game, and that's a that's a big part of
Speaker 1: our tradition. So you know, we'll we'll have a lot
Speaker 1: of great players regardless of the matchup. Certainly exciting when
Speaker 1: you talk about certain ones like two behover that that
Speaker 1: would be fun to see on a on a Friday
Speaker 1: night here in Houston. Okay, let's go to the SEC side.
Speaker 1: The teams that are in the mix. I mentioned Mississippi State.
Speaker 1: I would think there they could be in the mix.
Speaker 1: It feels like what the SEC. It's maybe a little
Speaker 1: bit more tenuous, isn't the right word. But because you
Speaker 1: could have, you won't have two teams in the CFP,
Speaker 1: I would imagine. I don't think there's any way LSU
Speaker 1: and Georgia get in. I don't think, but George, if
Speaker 1: Georgia wins close, I mean, yeah, maybe l shoos the
Speaker 1: one that falls before. I don't know. I guess maybe
Speaker 1: It depends how that goes, so maybe they do get
Speaker 1: So my point with that is, if the Big Twelve
Speaker 1: gets a team in, it's totally gonna be one team
Speaker 1: and the CFP, if they get another team in the
Speaker 1: New York, they would get two there. The SEC. It
Speaker 1: feels like, well, you could have possibly two in the
Speaker 1: CFP and then a few others you're gonna get in
Speaker 1: New Year six. It feels like it's a little bit
Speaker 1: more kind of up in the air in the SEC side.
Speaker 1: But one are the teams that you're looking at potentially
Speaker 1: being here to oppose those Big twelve squads? Well, I
Speaker 1: think you start with who won't be here. I think
Speaker 1: we're very confident that that LSU, Georgia, and Florida, they're
Speaker 1: all based on their ranking in the great seasons they've
Speaker 1: had that they look to be prime candidates. Probably not
Speaker 1: those New Year's six games. Um, you know, Alabama and
Speaker 1: Auburn just had a heck of a game last weekend. Um,
Speaker 1: be interesting to see how the championship weekend plays out
Speaker 1: to fate for those schools. So then you start looking
Speaker 1: at who's left, and you've got a group of Kentucky,
Speaker 1: Tennessee Mississippi Stadies you mentioned, and the fight in Texas Aggies,
Speaker 1: Texas A and M. So we we think that those four,
Speaker 1: you know, again not having a selection, but but based
Speaker 1: on the conference's decision, are the for most likely plus
Speaker 1: whoever else works out based on how the weekend plays out.
Speaker 1: So when you start looking at those teams, you know,
Speaker 1: Kentucky and Tennessee, you know SEC East teams both seven
Speaker 1: and five finished strong on both sides. You know, it's
Speaker 1: been interesting to see what Jeremy Prude's been able to do.
Speaker 1: He was all but fired week six, you know, and
Speaker 1: yet they've stormed back at six and one, big wins
Speaker 1: over both Kentucky and Mississippi State, among others. So be
Speaker 1: interesting to see where they land. Mississippi State the Egg Bowl,
Speaker 1: quite an interesting finish to that. Joe mooreheads fired up
Speaker 1: to get into the bowl season again. And you know
Speaker 1: they're a team that's bendy Houston before playing Oklahoma State
Speaker 1: in the kickoff game in twenty thirteen. And then of
Speaker 1: course the Texas Saggy's you know, and what A and
Speaker 1: M has been able to do under Jimbo Fisher. They
Speaker 1: continue to build that program. Of course, have a long
Speaker 1: history of playing great events here in Houston, and a
Speaker 1: lot of Aggie alums right here in the area, so
Speaker 1: you know, it'll be interesting to see how it plays out.
Speaker 1: I mean when you look at THET, A and M
Speaker 1: in particular, I know that's that's certainly something that has
Speaker 1: come up a lot this week. I mean their five
Speaker 1: losses were to all top ten teams, right, yeah, and
Speaker 1: how many of them did they play that We're either
Speaker 1: one or two in a country, It's crazy. I mean
Speaker 1: at least three HM, Alabama, George, Alabama, Clemson, LSU. Georgia
Speaker 1: was number four when they played them, yeah, yes, And
Speaker 1: then the fifth loss was to Auburn at home, I
Speaker 1: mean Alabama. Oh yeah, Auburn Alabama. Sorry, you're right, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: So I mean they lost to you know, top eleven teams.
Speaker 1: I think for and having you know, been on Texaggs
Speaker 1: for how many years I have losing the LSU, I
Speaker 1: think fans, I think Aggies were kind of like, okay,
Speaker 1: we didn't really expect them to go in. We didn't
Speaker 1: expect them to lay a fifty to seven eggs either.
Speaker 1: But if you watched an m all year, you realize
Speaker 1: Jimbo's done really good things with that program. Weekend in
Speaker 1: week out. Yes, lost to Clemson, lost Alabama. If you
Speaker 1: get may be a call to go your way. You
Speaker 1: got a shot against Georgia at Georgia and the rain,
Speaker 1: but it didn't and then of course you ran to
Speaker 1: the bus others LSU that I have a feel in
Speaker 1: that game for LSU was circled all year after seventy four,
Speaker 1: seventy two, the year before. I'm just listening to the
Speaker 1: LSU players that burned a hole in them, I think
Speaker 1: all offseason. They lost that seven overtime game in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 1: But the benefit of having A and M. I won't
Speaker 1: even say and A and M or Texas in the
Speaker 1: bold just given the proximity of those teams, you know,
Speaker 1: having a team like Baylor here last year, the proximity
Speaker 1: of geography. How much does that play into for you, Fletcher,
Speaker 1: It's a great factor. I mean we are the Texas
Speaker 1: Bowl right, um, no question, and how you said it,
Speaker 1: we would absolutely love A and M versus versus Texas.
Speaker 1: There's no question that that would be a great rivalry
Speaker 1: to see renewed and two great institutions in our state.
Speaker 1: We don't have control over that. Sure, the SEC ultimately
Speaker 1: is selecting who comes to our game, and so UM
Speaker 1: putting that aside, though, anytime you can't have a Texas team,
Speaker 1: it's it's a great boost for our game. UM certainly
Speaker 1: welcome the opportunity though, to see some of the great
Speaker 1: teams around the country from other parts. You know, we've
Speaker 1: had Vanderbilt, We've had in Ury, We've had Kansas State,
Speaker 1: U had Arkansas, So you know, I think those are
Speaker 1: all Um. That's what's so much fun about this event
Speaker 1: is it's a true celebration of the culture, heritage and
Speaker 1: football tradition. You get all these people traveling in to
Speaker 1: our community during a period where there typically isn't a
Speaker 1: whole lot going on, and they're brought around the table
Speaker 1: by football and music. And you know, I know, I
Speaker 1: know many of the fans today. I saw it on
Speaker 1: social media. We're excited to see our Carback Love Street
Speaker 1: Tech fest artists. We announced it today Casey Donna Hue
Speaker 1: Band coming to NRG Stadium to kick off the festivities
Speaker 1: on the twenty seventh prior to the game. So you've
Speaker 1: got football, you've got music, you've got food, drinks, all
Speaker 1: the great passion and pageantry of college football underneath the
Speaker 1: Friday night lights right here at NRG. It's shaping up
Speaker 1: to be one of, if not our best game ever,
Speaker 1: and we're incredibly excited. Tickets are on sale, so you
Speaker 1: know you don't want to miss Academy Texas Bowl dot Com.
Speaker 1: You want to get them this week. Prices go up
Speaker 1: on Saturday, so get in now, come out here. It's
Speaker 1: one of the best best events we do in this
Speaker 1: community each and every year, a true celebration of college football.
Speaker 1: And let's not forget Houston is a pretty darn good
Speaker 1: place for college football. The recruiting aspects, all the alums,
Speaker 1: and that championship game coming here in twenty four. We're
Speaker 1: building our way up to it. It would not be
Speaker 1: possible without the continued support of this community and everything
Speaker 1: they do to support college football. So if you're a
Speaker 1: fan of one of the schools that end up here,
Speaker 1: that's awesome. We're looking forward to hosting you. If you're not,
Speaker 1: you just love college football, no better place to be
Speaker 1: than RG Stadium. And it'll be a big weekend for
Speaker 1: us because we got tight yeah, so huge. Why not
Speaker 1: get it kicked off in the right way? I know Sunday,
Speaker 1: we'll be busy, not only with our Texans get into
Speaker 1: WYE as they faced the Broncos, but mid afternoon we'll
Speaker 1: be announcing our our selections and our participants for this
Speaker 1: year's game. Yeah, so you definitely want to be tune
Speaker 1: in for that. I have. I remember in years past
Speaker 1: Mark has announced during the game what the game actually is.
Speaker 1: So you definitely want to be listening to radio broadcast
Speaker 1: if you don't, because you'll get that, and then I
Speaker 1: believe either you or Jamie talking after the game speaking
Speaker 1: of that or during the game will be available as
Speaker 1: much as y'all want to listen to us. You there
Speaker 1: you go. I can't wait. I mean, you know how
Speaker 1: I feel about Bowl season, Fletch, I absolutely love it.
Speaker 1: I know you guys, this is what you do, is
Speaker 1: what you live for us is such a marquee event
Speaker 1: for launch our sports and entertainment, and you guys do
Speaker 1: a hell of a job with it and every team
Speaker 1: that's come here. When I run through those people down
Speaker 1: the road, whether it's SEC media days or even at
Speaker 1: the Combine, you know, I see people that played in
Speaker 1: that Bowl game and they're like, man, that was fun.
Speaker 1: You know that was such a great time. And last
Speaker 1: year with all the bowl games out there were the
Speaker 1: best bowl game all year that was not a CFP
Speaker 1: or even in year's Day six. And you right, better
Speaker 1: than those games was the one you had right here
Speaker 1: with Baylor and Vanderbilt. And look where Baylor is now,
Speaker 1: exactly right. I was talking talking with Mac Roads and
Speaker 1: Matt Rule a couple of weeks ago, and that's exactly
Speaker 1: what they said. The win here in Houston was a
Speaker 1: catalyst for their success. You know, it just makes everybody
Speaker 1: feel that much better in the off season. You've got
Speaker 1: that story for recruits. You've got an opportunity to play
Speaker 1: on a big stage and you can talk about what
Speaker 1: you're doing and how you're building. I mean, we saw
Speaker 1: it with Texas two years ago and then they went
Speaker 1: into the Sugar Bowl last year. You're seeing it with
Speaker 1: Baylor this year. UM. You know that that's a great
Speaker 1: part about the college football postseason is that you know
Speaker 1: there's a lot of teams out there that will um
Speaker 1: use this as a catalyst from even better, better, better
Speaker 1: season next year. And you know, we're excited about this year.
Speaker 1: Kademy Texas Bowl dot Com Get your tickets now. Before
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Speaker 1: Absolutely and uh we'll find out who's gonna be joining
Speaker 1: us come December twenty seven. That's gonna be fun. FLTs,
Speaker 1: appreciate your brother a huge show this evening. A big
Speaker 1: thanks to David Fletcher, to Mark Vandomir, to Dave Logan,
Speaker 1: to my buddy Andre Ware, of course our pal Clint
Speaker 1: s Turner, DPC do Filmlani, all of you for listening.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. We will see you tomorrow and
Speaker 1: as always, go Texans