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Speaker 1: Hello Texans, and welcome to the program. We get you

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Speaker 1: up to date as to what is happening with your

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Speaker 1: Houston Texans getting ready for a huge game. And I

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Speaker 1: say a huge game. It's got major implications on Sunday

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Speaker 1: noon at Philadelphia. This is big. And since it's such

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Speaker 1: a big weekend, we've got John Acclaimed with us in

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Speaker 1: studio from the Houston Chronicle. In general, Before we talk Texans,

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Speaker 1: I want to get to this. You are a distinguished

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Speaker 1: alumnus of Baylor University. Just named that way. This is

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Speaker 1: a tremendous honor. What's your reaction to this market is

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Speaker 1: there's four picked every year and wow, and that's all

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Speaker 1: the Baylor alums around the world, around the country, and

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Speaker 1: it's it's an incredible honor. Which my mom and dad

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Speaker 1: were still here because there were so many times they

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Speaker 1: told me, if you don't start studying, you're never gonna

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Speaker 1: amount to anything. And I didn't study except kids, journalism,

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Speaker 1: English and journalism. I studied. And it is an incredible honor.

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Speaker 1: And and I'm so bummed Mark because it's on the

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Speaker 1: Friday before the Super Bowl and I was gonna come home,

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Speaker 1: but it's at night, and I got the Hall of

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Speaker 1: Fame the next morning, and I can't seven am. So

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Speaker 1: there's no way I can do it. I told him,

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Speaker 1: I said, well, can't I do it another year? Now

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Speaker 1: you're voted this year. So anyway, it's an unbelievable honor.

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Speaker 1: I'm so appreciative. So many people have reached out because

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Speaker 1: I tweeted it. I think about seven am, and I

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Speaker 1: am just overwhelmed and humbled and bummed, and I'm not

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Speaker 1: gonna be there, but man on man for a kid

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Speaker 1: from Waco, grew up in my two bedroom, one bathhouse

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Speaker 1: and then fortunately my dad was able to save money

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Speaker 1: go to Baylor. And after I went to mcclennon Junior

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Speaker 1: College and and my first Baylor game was nineteen sixty.

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Speaker 1: I was a Cup scout and I was and I

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Speaker 1: was sold from that point on on those fighting Baylor Bear.

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Speaker 1: So thank you very much. Oh that's very cool. So

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Speaker 1: this has nothing to do with the grades you've got

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Speaker 1: or didn't get at the time. This is about what

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Speaker 1: you do it with your life. You know, somebody told me,

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Speaker 1: they said, man, you must give Baylor a lot of

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Speaker 1: money else and that I don't think so. And but

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Speaker 1: Tony BUSSELLI told me in a press box in Jacksonville

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Speaker 1: three or four years ago. As you know, he's on

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Speaker 1: Jacksonville's broadcast crew and Tony's walking by and I said, hey, Tony,

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Speaker 1: how are you doing fine? He says, you know what,

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Speaker 1: I follow you on Twitter and I know more about

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Speaker 1: Baylor than I do my own arm in modern USC

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Speaker 1: So thank you very much. Well, that's worth something to

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Speaker 1: the university, There's no doubt about it, because I feel

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Speaker 1: like I know a lot about Baylor as well. And

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Speaker 1: when I think of Baylor, I think of you. So

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Speaker 1: there's that. Thank you Mark, all right, John, So the

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Speaker 1: Texans have the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday. Back out on

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Speaker 1: the road here we are, and to me, it feels

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Speaker 1: like a playoff week, you know, because of what's at

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Speaker 1: stake here. You win these last two, we all know

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Speaker 1: what you're gonna get, and it's a two for one,

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Speaker 1: two wins for one. Bye. You still have a slight

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Speaker 1: But let's be honest here, you gotta get these two

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Speaker 1: but I think you know, obviously, it all starts with

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Speaker 1: beating the Eagles on Sunday. It's a big week. I

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Speaker 1: believe that the Texans can handle Cody Kessler and the

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Speaker 1: beat the Eagles. Lose this game, and I believe the

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Speaker 1: Texans will win the first game here in the wild

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Speaker 1: carding round and go back to Foxboro for what the

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Speaker 1: fifth time in three years, and a lot of people are,

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Speaker 1: this would seem to be the year. But you don't

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Speaker 1: want to put yourself in that situation. You have to

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Speaker 1: what that's gonna be like beat the Eagle. I know

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Speaker 1: we're not supposed to look ahead. I think it would

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Speaker 1: them to play that game there? If should they, Well,

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Speaker 1: the way the Rams have played so the Texans can

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Speaker 1: put themselves in position of tying the two thousand and

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Speaker 1: twelve team again with twelve and four record. But they

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Speaker 1: Andrew Luck. Take care of your own business. Beat the Eagles.

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Speaker 1: The Eagles have a chance now after beating the Rams,

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Speaker 1: the Eagles. They're not gonna win it unless it's a

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Speaker 1: But they're gonna get the best they got the fans,

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Speaker 1: and so you couldn't ask for a better. They got

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Speaker 1: this game. So are the Texans capable of winning? Of

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Speaker 1: course they're capable of winning. They just won ten of eleven.

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Speaker 1: But Eagles, boy, that front line is tough, falls likes

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Speaker 1: So you know the Eagles are gonna go in say

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Speaker 1: The reason that Texans, the primary reason they're where they

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Speaker 1: In other words, they've scored sixty after turnovers more than

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Speaker 1: And I asked Bill O'Brien about not fumbling too, and

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Speaker 1: The only running back who's fumbled is one by Lamar Miller,

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Speaker 1: turn it over, they're gonna win. What about getting more

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Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins is gonna get all these targets, of course,

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Speaker 1: mark Texans have been great against the run all year.

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Speaker 1: No hundred yard game, no ninety yard game, no eighty

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Speaker 1: so I think to Marius Thomas will get more plays

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Speaker 1: line of scrimmage for Hopkins and say do not let

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Speaker 1: him off the line of scrimmage. Becau Morris Claiborne had

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Speaker 1: There was nothing else Claiborne could have done differently, and

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Speaker 1: Hopkins just made an incredible kedge. But I think this

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Speaker 1: I'll say this and no surprise, the quarterback who throws

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Speaker 1: the fewest interceptions is the team that's gonna win this game. John,

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Speaker 1: the last time the Texans had a team with this

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Speaker 1: you brought it up, was twenty twelve and one of

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Speaker 1: your co workers at the Chronicle asked me, and I

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Speaker 1: think you were there, what's better this team or or

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Speaker 1: the twelve team or the eleven team? And My answer is,

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Speaker 1: I'll let you know after this season is over. Because

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Speaker 1: with two games to go in twenty twelve, they had

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Speaker 1: that had to win one of those games to get

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Speaker 1: home field advantage throughout. They lost them both and we

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Speaker 1: all know what happened. So yeah, I know the result.

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Speaker 1: I know the end of that movie. I don't know

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Speaker 1: the end of this movie. I think that this team

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Speaker 1: might have higher upside at the quarterback position. In fact,

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Speaker 1: the answer is not might, it is they definitely. But

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Speaker 1: kind of give it to Mayfield because right and Barkley

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Speaker 1: has not been able to transform Right the Giants, and

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Speaker 1: you would think, and again, I'd love to have him

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Speaker 1: on my team, say Quon Barkley, but with Eli Manning

429
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Speaker 1: and Barkley, you'd think they'd be getting a little bit

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Speaker 1: more done offensively anyway, the Browns and Bengals. Who cares?

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Speaker 1: Cowboys hosting the Buccaneers. Who cares about the Buccaneers. But

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Speaker 1: another mystery, not that the Colts beat the Cowboys, but

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Speaker 1: how convincing that victory was, and blanking Dallas first shutout

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Speaker 1: for Dallas for the first time since the Parcels era three. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and Indie's defense played great, shut down everything about that offense.

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00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:03,440
Speaker 1: Cowboy's gonna bounce back at home and they'll clinch in

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Speaker 1: the division. John Bills at the Patriots, any shot, any

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Speaker 1: snowballs shot? What's so ever? What about Josh Gordon? What

439
00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:16,320
Speaker 1: about Gronk banged up? What about all the problems they're having?

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00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:18,520
Speaker 1: And it's so typical, like the Bills don't have any

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Speaker 1: problems all the Bills have a lot of problems. I think.

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Speaker 1: I think this Josh Gordon. Obviously it's gonna be suspended again,

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Speaker 1: and so he's done at the worst possible time. I

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Speaker 1: do not see him ever getting another chance to be

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Speaker 1: able to come back and play with Tom Brady for

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Speaker 1: a team that's a Super Bowl contender and then he

447
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Speaker 1: has a relapse. Is just preposterous. I thought that was

448
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Speaker 1: gonna be a home run for the Patriots. I didn't

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Speaker 1: do It's not okay the Giants. Any shot at Indy

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Speaker 1: for the Giants, joant, no shot? What's so ever? Oh darn,

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Speaker 1: it's really okay. It's gonna come down to Tennessee hosting Indy.

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Speaker 1: But that still might not The winners still might not

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Speaker 1: get in there. They could go ten and so I'm

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Speaker 1: hoping this is not like college football where you're rooting

455
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Speaker 1: for the conference to do well. I want everybody else

456
00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:09,080
Speaker 1: in the AFC South to go down in flames. The

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Speaker 1: Texans should want to play if they're in this position.

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00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:17,119
Speaker 1: Baltimore because of a rookie quarterback, Texans are great against

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Speaker 1: the run. I don't see Baltimore coming in Russian for

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Speaker 1: two hundred something yards against him. I think Romeo Cornell

461
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Speaker 1: would have a good plan. I think they do well

462
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Speaker 1: against Derrick Henry and Marcus Mariotte has been very spotty.

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Speaker 1: And then there's Indianapolis. Not so much. If the Colts

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Speaker 1: were the sixth team in right, they're the wild card,

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Speaker 1: they'll play at the three seed. If the three seed

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Speaker 1: happened to be New England, boy, the Colts at Foxborough,

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Speaker 1: I kind of like their chances in that one, the

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Speaker 1: way they're playing right now. Can you imagine that? But

469
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Speaker 1: then you'd recede, So the visitors to the two seed

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Speaker 1: would be actually the wild card team or the other

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Speaker 1: team that won the fourth seed, fourth division winner, whoever

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Speaker 1: wins the AFC North, and let's talk about that from

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Speaker 1: the big Kansas city OAFC North winner, you know it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be Baltimore, Pittsburgh. Had Pittsburgh lost to New England,

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh would be behind the Titans and the culture. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they'd be in that group right now, all right. But

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Speaker 1: speaking of the Steelers, they're at the Saints. This is

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Speaker 1: a huge game Sunday afternoon, the night game by the ways,

479
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Speaker 1: Chiefs and Seahawks. That's a good one. What a Sunday

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Speaker 1: isn't They're gonna be a great day. Wow. I think

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Speaker 1: the Saints. Their defense is playing well, but since the

482
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Speaker 1: Cowboys Drew Brees is not, that offense is not working

483
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Speaker 1: the way it had been, they should be able to win.

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Speaker 1: It's hard to just understand the Steelers with Roethlisberger and

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Speaker 1: Juju Smith, Shooter Schuster and Antonio Brown and three starters

486
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Speaker 1: in the Pro Bowl in the offensive line, it was

487
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Speaker 1: what Samuel's Jalen Samuel's at his name kid comes in,

488
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Speaker 1: replaces James Connor and rushes for like one hundred and

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Speaker 1: forty yards and Pittsburgh to me, I don't care if

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Speaker 1: they lost three in a row, don't care if the

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Speaker 1: three at Ironsfield. They're dangerous. Playoffs every year. Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: Jacksonville beat them at hines Field last year, so they

493
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Speaker 1: they they are beatable. But man, they got some weapons.

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Speaker 1: I'm taking the Saints, but it wouldn't surprise me if

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Speaker 1: they didn't shock them. Saints struggle to be Carolina. I mean,

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Speaker 1: this is the game, and these teams that are losing

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Speaker 1: this time of year, I mean everybody wants these wins

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Speaker 1: and needs these wins. You look at New England at

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Speaker 1: the Steelers. I mean, they wanted and needed that game

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Speaker 1: and they come up short, and it speaks to the

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Speaker 1: Steelers ability to do what you just said. But the

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Speaker 1: Steelers lost in the Raiders the week before. What about Seattle?

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Speaker 1: Isn't at San Francisco when they still clinch the playoffs? Bazarre?

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Speaker 1: All right, we'll get to them in a second here.

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Speaker 1: But the Saints are their problems here on offense because

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Speaker 1: they're not scoring a lot of points. Yeah, and they

507
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Speaker 1: got the same people. It's not like injuries have rocked them.

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Speaker 1: I cannot discount the Steelers chances of winning at New Orleans.

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Speaker 1: I agree, because they're both of them are playing for

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Speaker 1: something home field advantage, and the Steelers, of course playing

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Speaker 1: to win the division. I think Baltimore is gonna lose

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Speaker 1: to the Chargers, so it's a moot. Points Steelers could

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Speaker 1: lose and still be up by half a game, all right,

514
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Speaker 1: So the Seahawks are going to host the Chiefs, and

515
00:27:13,760 --> 00:27:15,879
Speaker 1: the Seahawks lost to the Niners. I don't believe in

516
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Speaker 1: look ahead and situations, but I guess maybe it's possible,

517
00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:21,120
Speaker 1: and that might be what happened. Who knows, but they'll

518
00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:24,080
Speaker 1: be jacked up for this one in the Pacific Northwest

519
00:27:24,119 --> 00:27:25,560
Speaker 1: as the Chiefs are on the road. What do you

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Speaker 1: think of this matchup? I'm gonna pig Seattle and don't

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Speaker 1: see him losing two in a row. Pete Carroll's done

522
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Speaker 1: a great job. They have turned around their offense to

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00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:38,640
Speaker 1: run the ball very well, and they redid their offensive line.

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Speaker 1: They brought in a new coach, Mike's Laurie, who they

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Speaker 1: got rid of Tom Cable, and all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: he has changed the whole mindset. So I think they'll

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Speaker 1: run and with Russell Wilson, they'll score points because the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs defense is not that good. And I think Kansas

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Speaker 1: City will lose and the Chargers will be the number

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Speaker 1: one seed in the AFS. Let's see. Uh yeah, they'll

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Speaker 1: be in first place. The Chiefs would be a walk art. Yep,

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00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:06,959
Speaker 1: that'll happen, and you could have your AFC championship game

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Speaker 1: in a twenty seven thousand seat stadium. And if the

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Speaker 1: Texans don't beat the Eagles, they could in depth hosting

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs. Uh yeah, well, look, well, just just take

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Speaker 1: it one week at a time. Here, Bill O'Brien said,

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Speaker 1: this week, got we don't look at all those those scenarios.

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Speaker 1: Y'all do such a good job with you know, poor ESPN.

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Speaker 1: I dare I say that they pay a gazillion dollars

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Speaker 1: for Monday Night football. They get the Broncos at the

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Speaker 1: Raiders of year. I mean, that's a tough schedule right there.

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Speaker 1: If I looked at that, and as ESPN, I would

543
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Speaker 1: be thinking Week sixteen, I'm getting Bronchos Raiders. I would

544
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Speaker 1: have thought maybe the Raiders might be in it, but

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't think the Broncos would be in it. As

546
00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:48,360
Speaker 1: it turns out, it's an exhibition game. And Vance Joseph

547
00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:51,720
Speaker 1: not looking good after what happened last week, He's gonna

548
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Speaker 1: be gone. You know, Gruden's all about getting a hot pick.

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Speaker 1: Is it Shanahan coming back retirement? They would he Page

550
00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:03,720
Speaker 1: wrote that they talked about that last year, but Advance

551
00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:07,920
Speaker 1: Joseph has gone. And the key is they need a quarterback.

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00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:11,160
Speaker 1: They're gonna draft a quarterback or trade for a quarterback. Now,

553
00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:14,080
Speaker 1: there's gonna be several. Joe Flacco is gonna be available,

554
00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:18,000
Speaker 1: Teddy Bridgewater, There's a lot of Nick Foles. There's a

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Speaker 1: lot of quarterbacks who are going to be available. If

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Speaker 1: you don't want to go the draft route, John, what

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Speaker 1: do you have going out of the chronicle. I'm writing

558
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Speaker 1: tomorrow about how well this team, led by Deshaun Watson

559
00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:30,800
Speaker 1: has protected the football. Aaron Wilson has a story on

560
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Speaker 1: DeAndre Carter going back to where he was cut, Yes, Philadelphia,

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Speaker 1: and then Aaron's got one Sunday about the magnitude of

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Speaker 1: this game, how much it means to this franchise. Thank

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Speaker 1: you very much, Mark as always, and Merry Christmas and

564
00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:47,640
Speaker 1: happy Holidays to you and all those Texans fans tuning

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Speaker 1: in right now. Well, thank you, John, and once again

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Speaker 1: congratulations most distinguished alumni honor from Pelly. Thank you joining

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Speaker 1: me right now, John Harris to talk about Philly and

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00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:01,240
Speaker 1: I doubt we see the special, but you'd ever know.

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Speaker 1: And if the Texans ever run a play like that,

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00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:06,320
Speaker 1: I'm gonna call it h Town Special. Just that'll be

571
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Speaker 1: the working title until it, you know, gets name something

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00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:11,480
Speaker 1: else by the players or whatever. Johnny tell me about

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Speaker 1: the Eagles with Nick Foles. What are we looking at here?

574
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Speaker 1: Because I noticed that they ran the ball pretty well

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Speaker 1: by committee against the La Rams. One of the things

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Speaker 1: they took advantage of in that Rams game was extremely

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Speaker 1: poor tackling on the Rams part Rams secondary of the

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Speaker 1: market Join in particular, who I love is he's a

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Speaker 1: shoulder tackler and I can't tell you a number of

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Speaker 1: times I thought I saw him running, hit Windell Smallwood,

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Speaker 1: hit hit Josh Adams and just bounce off. The touchdown

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Speaker 1: run was a perfect example of that by Windel Smallwood.

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Speaker 1: After the fumble the sack fumble by commute, how do

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Speaker 1: you commute? Gui Hill? I know that part, but I

585
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Speaker 1: think it's Camu Camu Grugier Hill. Anyways, he sacks forced

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Speaker 1: the funnel, They get the ball back and you're like, okay.

587
00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:57,800
Speaker 1: As watching the game, we're like, okay, just hold him here.

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Speaker 1: Rams kind of hoping that the Rams win that game

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00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:03,640
Speaker 1: so that those would kind of pack it. In next

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00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:05,840
Speaker 1: play they handle all the window Smallwood and Joiner hits

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Speaker 1: him at the four yard line in Smallwood just just

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00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:11,560
Speaker 1: spins on him, scores touchdown, standing up, and they did

593
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Speaker 1: a really good job of that. This is a really

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Speaker 1: it's a good Philadelphia offensive line. Brandon Brooks is going

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Speaker 1: to the Pro Bowl. Lane Johnson, you could argue should

596
00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:21,640
Speaker 1: be going. Jason Peters is a long time pro bowler

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00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:24,360
Speaker 1: on the left side, Jason Kelsey is one of the

598
00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:28,320
Speaker 1: better and more technically sound centers, and then Stephan Wisnowski

599
00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:30,360
Speaker 1: has been banged up, but they've done some different things there.

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Speaker 1: At the other guard position, Isaac say Male who has

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00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:34,560
Speaker 1: been in there a little bit. So they're a handful.

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00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:38,360
Speaker 1: They come downhill at you, and it's gonna be one

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00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:40,680
Speaker 1: thing for the front to have to play off those blocks.

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Speaker 1: But if the secondary and the second level linebackers aren't

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Speaker 1: tackling well, so what should be a second and nine

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00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:50,160
Speaker 1: second eight turns into a second and four because they're

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Speaker 1: not tackling well because smallwood adams are running well. That's

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Speaker 1: really what Nick Foles in this offense wants. They want

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Speaker 1: to have that situation because if they get the second

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Speaker 1: and medium, third medium Golden Tate underneath open zach Ertz

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Speaker 1: one on wit open, you got alshon Jeffrey, he can

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Speaker 1: be your big play guy and we'll be their big

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Speaker 1: play guy. But they've got so many underneath threats that

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Speaker 1: they can use. But those threats are no good. If

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Speaker 1: you stuff the running, you're looking at second and ten,

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Speaker 1: third and ten. If you're looking at those kinds of situations,

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Speaker 1: and you're sitting in a really good situation. But if

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Speaker 1: you are not tackling well and they're picking up because

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Speaker 1: they run hard. That's the one thing about small anatoms.

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Speaker 1: They both run really hard. You better bring your lunch

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Speaker 1: pail because they're gonna make you tackle all game long.

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Speaker 1: So if you do that, and you do tackle well,

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Speaker 1: and you set up second and nine, second and ten,

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Speaker 1: third and long things like that, then you're gonna be

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Speaker 1: obviously in much better shape, even more so against this team,

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Speaker 1: because once they get the second and third medium, than

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Speaker 1: it's trouble. It's a lot of trouble. What's their problem though,

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Speaker 1: Why do they have seven losses with two games to go? Well,

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Speaker 1: I think there are a couple of things. Number One,

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Speaker 1: you know, coming off a Super Bowl run, they're the

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Speaker 1: sense of urgency may not be where it's always been.

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Speaker 1: But I think one of the biggest problems that they've

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Speaker 1: had in the secondary. They have lost everybody. Jalen Mills

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00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:06,360
Speaker 1: has been banged up, Sidney Jones has been banged up.

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Speaker 1: They've lost a ton of guys back in the secondary.

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Speaker 1: So they're starting a rookie of Monte Maddox. They're starting

637
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Speaker 1: a guy Rosul Douglas is probably better as a third corner.

638
00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:16,400
Speaker 1: Their nickel, Crevon Lemonk was a guy that just got

639
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Speaker 1: there probably five six weeks ago. So they've got a

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Speaker 1: ton of an experience in the back end, and so

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Speaker 1: teams are throwing the football against them and throwing it

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Speaker 1: pretty well. Philly's not gonna run a lot of blitzes.

643
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Speaker 1: They're not gonna run a lot of different things up front.

644
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Speaker 1: They're not bringing five, six seven guys. They're not gonna

645
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Speaker 1: be like Greg Willis, Oh good, but Jim Schwartz is

646
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Speaker 1: gonna rush four. Well, that is good until you realize

647
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Speaker 1: it's Fletcher Cox and his Brandon Graham and as Chris

648
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Speaker 1: Long and it's Michael Bennett. Those are the guys coming

649
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Speaker 1: after you, so you don't have to blitz and they

650
00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:46,360
Speaker 1: still can get pressure with those four. Yeah. So there's

651
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Speaker 1: a good news bad news situation there. That front is excellent,

652
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Speaker 1: but the secondary is inexperienced. Not gonna tell you it's bad,

653
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Speaker 1: but it's inexperienced. And I think that's been probably the

654
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Speaker 1: biggest issue, is they've given up too much in the

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Speaker 1: back end throughout this year. And I think that the

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Speaker 1: second Cowboys game, the one that we just saw that

657
00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:04,360
Speaker 1: took place in Jerry World, was a perfect example of that.

658
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Speaker 1: The offense is doing whatever it can to keep them

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Speaker 1: in the game, Zach Or. It's making big place, Dallas

660
00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:11,840
Speaker 1: Goddard's making big place, but the secondary keeps giving up

661
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Speaker 1: big plays to Mariy Cooper and that was a huge

662
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Speaker 1: problem in that game. Johnny, Who's gonna win between the

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Speaker 1: Ravens and the Chargers. I think the Chargers are obviously

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Speaker 1: the easier pick, and I talked about it with the General.

665
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Speaker 1: It's kind of a Lloyd's of London. If the Ravens lose,

666
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Speaker 1: you're in by the time you take the field on Sunday.

667
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Speaker 1: But it's kind of like the Steelers and the Patriots

668
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Speaker 1: last week, where all right, you'll take the it's door

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Speaker 1: number two. I don't want the birth right now. I'll

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Speaker 1: take door number two, which is Chargers win or which

671
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Speaker 1: is Ravens win. And I want to keep the Colts

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Speaker 1: out of the playoffs. Yes, I mean that's that's a

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Speaker 1: sub goal of this whole thing. As far as I'm concerned.

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Speaker 1: I don't you know, Texans and the playoffs are not

675
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Speaker 1: I want to keep the Colts out of the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: How about that? Yeah, I would love to keep them

677
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Speaker 1: out of the playoffs too, just any just keep them away.

678
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Speaker 1: That said, you do know the col it's a little bit.

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Speaker 1: You've never faced Lamar Jackson. Now you do see Deshaun

680
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Speaker 1: Watson every day in practice, But the Ravens are a

681
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Speaker 1: whole different animal. And I think that's that's really what's

682
00:35:09,239 --> 00:35:13,520
Speaker 1: made their run figuratively and literally that special because they've

683
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Speaker 1: gone in the run game obviously because Lamar gives them that.

684
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Speaker 1: And I said, at the night of the draft, we

685
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Speaker 1: sat here, you, me and Trey, and we talked about

686
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Speaker 1: what Lamar Jackson can mean foreign offense. Look, he's not

687
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Speaker 1: gonna let you up throwing a football. He's not Drew Brees,

688
00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:28,440
Speaker 1: he is not Philip Rivers. He's not that guy. But

689
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Speaker 1: what he can do because he runs so well, is

690
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Speaker 1: he can find an open guy. And that's what happens

691
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Speaker 1: when he's running. Guys are open because they're all looking

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Speaker 1: at number eight. So I think this is gonna be

693
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Speaker 1: a really good challenge for the Chargers. And I think

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Speaker 1: the interesting part of this, though, is because you have

695
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Speaker 1: La the Chargers, and you have Kansas City kind of

696
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Speaker 1: battling for that AFC West spot. You know, both of

697
00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:53,640
Speaker 1: them can't finish in front of you, So you know, look,

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Speaker 1: if the Chargers win, then all of a sudden, we

699
00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:57,880
Speaker 1: can turn our attention to what happens in the Chiefs

700
00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:01,080
Speaker 1: and the Seahawks. Then we become big Seas fans at

701
00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:03,560
Speaker 1: that particular moment as we watch what's going on there.

702
00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:06,360
Speaker 1: I think the Chargers will win that game, but I

703
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Speaker 1: think stopping Lamar Jackson and seeing how the Chargers go

704
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Speaker 1: about doing it is going to be really really interesting

705
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Speaker 1: because you're gonna get to a point at some point

706
00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:17,400
Speaker 1: there's gonna be enough film on the Ravens where teams go, okay,

707
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:19,560
Speaker 1: we kind of got the book on them a little bit,

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Speaker 1: and they'll slow them down enough to knock them off

709
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Speaker 1: when they can't be knocked off. At this point, they

710
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Speaker 1: need every single win possible to get to the playoffs.

711
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Speaker 1: When you're running for two hundred a game and you

712
00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:31,440
Speaker 1: have that defense, you're gonna win a lot of football games. Johnny,

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Speaker 1: thanks a lot, appreciated, Mark Time. We have an extra

714
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Speaker 1: hour tonight on Texans All Access because there's no Thursday

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Speaker 1: night football. If you tuned in expected to hear Thursday

716
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Speaker 1: Night football. It's over for the year, and I feel

717
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Speaker 1: a little uneasy about that. I mean, I love this

718
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Speaker 1: time of year as the postseason approaches, especially when you

719
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Speaker 1: have a good chance to be in that post season.

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Speaker 1: But at the same time, I do enjoy Thursday Night football.

721
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Speaker 1: I know it's not cool, but it is because the games,

722
00:36:59,239 --> 00:37:02,680
Speaker 1: some of them anyway, have been awesome. Like the Texans

723
00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:05,000
Speaker 1: went over the Dolphins earlier this year, a right maybe

724
00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:07,640
Speaker 1: nationally they weren't crazy about that one, although what's not

725
00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:10,719
Speaker 1: to like about a Deshaun Watson five touchdown past performance?

726
00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:13,520
Speaker 1: But it wasn't exactly a down to the wire affair

727
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Speaker 1: as they sometimes like. What about last week with the

728
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Speaker 1: San Diego Oh I said it again, the LA Chargers

729
00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:22,400
Speaker 1: beating the Kansas City Chiefs and going for two at

730
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Speaker 1: the end of the game. That was great. But we're

731
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Speaker 1: done with Thursday I football because the NFL is I

732
00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:30,759
Speaker 1: hate to say winding down, but it's really ramping up

733
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Speaker 1: toward the postseason. But they want to get the teams

734
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Speaker 1: off that Thursday night schedule and get them on a

735
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Speaker 1: more weekly routine. Those who are going into the postseason,

736
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Speaker 1: so you'll have two games on Saturday, like last week,

737
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Speaker 1: and then the Sunday slate and next week everything on

738
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Speaker 1: Sunday as you get ready for the postseason. Anyway, to

739
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Speaker 1: talk about what is going on around the NFL, let's

740
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Speaker 1: bring a board our good buddy from the NFL Network

741
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Speaker 1: here in studio. It's James Palmer. James, how are you.

742
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Speaker 1: I'm wonderful to be in this place. I don't know

743
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Speaker 1: if I've sat at this desk in this really for

744
00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:03,960
Speaker 1: in my life. I've always been in the other room.

745
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Speaker 1: I like this. Yeah, we moved here a couple of

746
00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:07,560
Speaker 1: years ago, and it's wonderful to have you on. And

747
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Speaker 1: I know we've visited like at the Combine, We've visited

748
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Speaker 1: a training camps, meetings, I think owners meetings, and here

749
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Speaker 1: you are, all right, so good to be here. You've

750
00:38:16,239 --> 00:38:18,319
Speaker 1: been here a lot this year. Yeah, it's almost like

751
00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:20,680
Speaker 1: you're working for the old folks again, the old folks

752
00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:23,600
Speaker 1: meaning CS and Houston. Yeah, you know it's and we'll

753
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:26,680
Speaker 1: go back to to where Comcast all started back in

754
00:38:26,719 --> 00:38:30,279
Speaker 1: Philadelphia on Sunday. They have the two tallest skyscrapers in

755
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Speaker 1: the skyline of Philadelphia. Are there are both Comcasts? Yeah,

756
00:38:33,239 --> 00:38:36,120
Speaker 1: that's where Comcast started, That's where the first Comcast regional

757
00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:39,319
Speaker 1: sports network is. And yeah, I've had It's been nice

758
00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:42,160
Speaker 1: because last year I was actually talking to John Weeks

759
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Speaker 1: about this. Today, he goes, oh, look at mister frontrunner

760
00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:46,840
Speaker 1: coming around. Would didn't see you? You know, in the

761
00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:49,840
Speaker 1: first three weeks, I said, listen, I listen. At NFL Network,

762
00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:52,880
Speaker 1: we covered the biggest storylines. Last year, I was mister

763
00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:55,920
Speaker 1: doom and gloom coming here. I was covering huge storylines,

764
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Speaker 1: but they were all terrible. They were all negative. To

765
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Speaker 1: Shaun Watson JJ Watt, I mean being here for those

766
00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:02,880
Speaker 1: get and so I was like, I'm happy to be

767
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:05,440
Speaker 1: here when things are going well. So I've done. I

768
00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:07,640
Speaker 1: did back to back games into the Browns game and

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Speaker 1: the Colts game. Right, they were back to back, right, yep,

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Speaker 1: I did those two. And now I'm here and I'll

771
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Speaker 1: be leaving to head up to Philadelphia a couple days

772
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Speaker 1: early to go talk to them. I've been telling people

773
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Speaker 1: that win over the Browns looks like a heck of

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00:39:17,719 --> 00:39:20,000
Speaker 1: a win right now. Oh yeah, good team, right now?

775
00:39:20,120 --> 00:39:22,080
Speaker 1: It is? It really is. I mean I did some

776
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Speaker 1: stuff with them leading into their game against Denver and

777
00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:28,799
Speaker 1: Denver went in probably a little too confident, thinking it

778
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Speaker 1: was probably the old Browns from people that I talked to,

779
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Speaker 1: and I don't know how you do that, But I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's funny because I don't think it's the smart move.

781
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:41,319
Speaker 1: But Greg Williams is making a great push right now.

782
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Speaker 1: If anything, the other guy that nobody's talking about, what

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Speaker 1: Freddie Kitchens is doing is fantastic. He's putting his name

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Speaker 1: in the hat for an oc job or me. People

785
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Speaker 1: were like around the league. I mean, he is getting

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Speaker 1: noticed for what they're doing. Why won't they keep them?

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Speaker 1: Will they keep that staff? Well, I said, I said,

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Speaker 1: that's why I don't know of keeping Greg is the

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Speaker 1: right play. But it's hard to argue with the guys

790
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Speaker 1: I've talked to up there and how they want to

791
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Speaker 1: play for them, how quickly he's changed the culture. I

792
00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:12,120
Speaker 1: think the relationship with him and Baker, the way they

793
00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:16,239
Speaker 1: have similar personalities, very outspoken, jab at each other, that

794
00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:19,200
Speaker 1: type of thing, their connection, and the way Baker has

795
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Speaker 1: obviously connected with the city so quickly. It's kind of

796
00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:24,160
Speaker 1: setting up to be like that's kind of the no brainer.

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Speaker 1: But I think keeping Freddie, what he's done with Baker.

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Speaker 1: Number one is that's your franchise. That kid is your franchise.

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Speaker 1: If this is the connection that makes him successful, I

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Speaker 1: would do anything to try to keep Freddie James Palmer

801
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Speaker 1: from NFL Network joining us here on the Hunday Texans

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Speaker 1: radio studio. What about in Denver? I know you do

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Speaker 1: a lot of work there, So what's going to happen?

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Speaker 1: And you know, Vans obviously has ties here and there's

805
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Speaker 1: a lot of guys in this building that love Vans,

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Speaker 1: like Jonathan Joseph Kareem Jackson. Will tell you what Vance

807
00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:55,640
Speaker 1: did for his career early on when he maybe had

808
00:40:55,680 --> 00:40:58,960
Speaker 1: some early struggles, and I think one of the things

809
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Speaker 1: that that does not bode well for Vance his last

810
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Speaker 1: week going into that game, he kind of calls out

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Speaker 1: two of his best players. He says, case Keenum has

812
00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:09,160
Speaker 1: to go out and make more plays for us. He

813
00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:11,080
Speaker 1: needs to be a playmaker. He had gone five straight

814
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Speaker 1: games without interception. They thought he's playing a little more

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Speaker 1: cautious than maybe they wanted him to with where they

816
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Speaker 1: were in the standings, and he wanted and he called

817
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Speaker 1: out von Miller for jumping off sides a couple of

818
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:21,719
Speaker 1: too many times, and then he says, we all need

819
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Speaker 1: to be more aggressive. We need this is crunch time.

820
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Speaker 1: Let's go out and play in these last three weeks.

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Speaker 1: And then on fourth and one he kicks a field

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Speaker 1: goal as opposed to going for it, thinking he could

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Speaker 1: get the football back and obviously doesn't. Time runs out

824
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Speaker 1: and they lose, and that that call right there, I

825
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Speaker 1: think hurt his chances moving forward. But I know with

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Speaker 1: John Elway a lot of it is going to play

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Speaker 1: into the fact for two reasons. One is vance the

828
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Speaker 1: guy obviously, Two, who's going to be available. I think

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Speaker 1: what happens elsewhere if if the Ravens somehow go crazy

830
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Speaker 1: and think John Harbush should not remain their head coach,

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Speaker 1: they can't do that. I mean, I think, I think

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Speaker 1: it's nuts. I was on the radio in Baltimore yesterday

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Speaker 1: talking with the guys about it, and my comparison is

834
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Speaker 1: directly like this. It's Andy Reid in Philadelphia. It's essentially

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Speaker 1: you've gotten used to the same thing for a really

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Speaker 1: long time and you kind of forget how good of

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Speaker 1: a coach you actually have now. Philly did say remember

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Speaker 1: when Andy left, They were like, we think he's a

839
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Speaker 1: great coach. We just need a change. It's been too

840
00:42:14,640 --> 00:42:16,759
Speaker 1: much of the same thing the last several years when

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00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:18,719
Speaker 1: Andy and the team started to fade over the last

842
00:42:18,760 --> 00:42:21,359
Speaker 1: couple of years, and that's kind of what's happening in Baltimore. Well,

843
00:42:21,440 --> 00:42:23,520
Speaker 1: it looked good for both sides in that sense, where

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Speaker 1: Philly goes and wins a Super Bowl. Andy goes and

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Speaker 1: continues and coaches brilliantly in Kansas City and plays well

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Speaker 1: with Alex Smith and obviously Patrick Mahomes. So maybe everybody

847
00:42:32,320 --> 00:42:34,280
Speaker 1: wins in that sense. I don't know if the Ravens

848
00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:36,279
Speaker 1: move on if everybody wins, because I don't know who's

849
00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:39,520
Speaker 1: available in a sense, and I think from what I'm hearing,

850
00:42:39,640 --> 00:42:43,719
Speaker 1: Black Monday might not be a very pleasurable day for

851
00:42:43,840 --> 00:42:47,240
Speaker 1: quite a few head coaches. Wow. I did interview Merrill

852
00:42:47,320 --> 00:42:50,040
Speaker 1: Reith this week. Oh he's the best, He's the greatest.

853
00:42:50,120 --> 00:42:52,120
Speaker 1: I you know, I knew this, but I never really

854
00:42:52,120 --> 00:42:55,320
Speaker 1: taught to him in this format before, but I asked him.

855
00:42:55,719 --> 00:42:58,480
Speaker 1: Andy Reid and Dick Vermil. Andy Reid went to five

856
00:42:58,560 --> 00:43:01,160
Speaker 1: NFC championship games, right to one Super Bowl, lost it.

857
00:43:01,280 --> 00:43:03,640
Speaker 1: Vermil goes to one Super Bowl, loses it. But he's

858
00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:06,640
Speaker 1: more loved than Philly. I said, I'm guessing that from

859
00:43:06,640 --> 00:43:08,480
Speaker 1: a far am I correct? What do you make of it?

860
00:43:08,520 --> 00:43:10,920
Speaker 1: I know you're from there. Yeah, I would say that's

861
00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:14,960
Speaker 1: the case. I think, um sheer personality and nothing against Andy.

862
00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:16,759
Speaker 1: I like Andy a Lott, I like covering Andy, I

863
00:43:16,840 --> 00:43:21,080
Speaker 1: like talking Andy, but Dick that that personality of where

864
00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:23,279
Speaker 1: your emotions on your sleeve just kind of it was

865
00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:27,719
Speaker 1: a you know, the clock management issues, the issues that

866
00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:30,480
Speaker 1: they had with those teams that had such beloved members

867
00:43:30,520 --> 00:43:33,719
Speaker 1: of those defenses like Brian Dawkins and guys that are

868
00:43:33,800 --> 00:43:36,520
Speaker 1: just into the fabric of Philadelphia, and to not get

869
00:43:36,560 --> 00:43:41,200
Speaker 1: those guys super Bowls really rub people the wrong way.

870
00:43:41,239 --> 00:43:44,880
Speaker 1: But I think Andy's still somewhat definitely liked in the city.

871
00:43:45,280 --> 00:43:48,160
Speaker 1: But people get in Philly. It's if you keep getting

872
00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:49,879
Speaker 1: that close and you can't get over the hump, you've

873
00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:52,239
Speaker 1: got a problem. It's not let's look at how many

874
00:43:52,239 --> 00:43:54,200
Speaker 1: times we've gotten close. That is not the way for

875
00:43:54,280 --> 00:43:56,640
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia thing. I think a lot of markets will

876
00:43:56,680 --> 00:43:58,959
Speaker 1: feel that way. You're failing at a very high level.

877
00:43:59,040 --> 00:44:01,279
Speaker 1: Exactly give me that kind of failure, yes, but after

878
00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:03,759
Speaker 1: a while, eight can we get there? Please? Exactly? I

879
00:44:03,760 --> 00:44:05,759
Speaker 1: mean It's just like the Texans that you know, are

880
00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:08,640
Speaker 1: a much lesser version of that with Bill O'Brien, when

881
00:44:08,640 --> 00:44:11,160
Speaker 1: you have three winning seasons to start, you had last

882
00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:13,480
Speaker 1: year's bottoming out, but here they are again winning season,

883
00:44:13,560 --> 00:44:16,120
Speaker 1: maybe playoffs, you hope, and you think they're gonna get there,

884
00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:19,359
Speaker 1: but they're gonna want eventually a championship exact or at

885
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:21,480
Speaker 1: least exactly. And I think he needs a little bit

886
00:44:21,480 --> 00:44:23,080
Speaker 1: more credit and all. Honestly, I thought I saw a

887
00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:26,440
Speaker 1: staff the other day. It was what was it? He

888
00:44:26,520 --> 00:44:29,000
Speaker 1: has four winning seasons in his first five years as

889
00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:32,800
Speaker 1: a head coach. Tomlin went five for five with winning seasons,

890
00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:36,520
Speaker 1: I believe, and another coach who is it went five

891
00:44:36,600 --> 00:44:38,839
Speaker 1: for five and then he's and he's the only one

892
00:44:38,880 --> 00:44:41,160
Speaker 1: behind them, I mean, and it's and I think what

893
00:44:41,280 --> 00:44:43,120
Speaker 1: he's been able to do in those early years in

894
00:44:43,200 --> 00:44:45,880
Speaker 1: terms of getting getting the most out of his team,

895
00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:47,960
Speaker 1: I don't know if he gets enough credit for what

896
00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:50,359
Speaker 1: he did those first couple of years. Yeah, he's got

897
00:44:50,440 --> 00:44:53,760
Speaker 1: it going on right now. Tell me something about this league, James,

898
00:44:53,800 --> 00:44:56,879
Speaker 1: because I can't figure it out every week. I mean,

899
00:44:56,880 --> 00:45:00,400
Speaker 1: the same you can't Carolina. You know who's good? I

900
00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:03,240
Speaker 1: can tell you who's good. I don't know who is great.

901
00:45:03,280 --> 00:45:04,799
Speaker 1: I don't know if we're gonna find out until we

902
00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:07,080
Speaker 1: get to January. I think that's the fun part about this.

903
00:45:07,120 --> 00:45:09,160
Speaker 1: I mean, I was talking to Damarius Thomas in the

904
00:45:09,160 --> 00:45:10,719
Speaker 1: locker room and I'm like, what have you seen a

905
00:45:10,760 --> 00:45:12,879
Speaker 1: season like this where you know, he was remember because

906
00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:14,520
Speaker 1: I remember one year with Peyton where we thought we

907
00:45:14,520 --> 00:45:16,000
Speaker 1: were playing well and then we were still looking at

908
00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:18,239
Speaker 1: the standings, going, man, we got to find a way

909
00:45:18,239 --> 00:45:20,040
Speaker 1: to win these last couple of games to clinch or

910
00:45:20,080 --> 00:45:22,160
Speaker 1: like we may not be in and we think we're

911
00:45:22,160 --> 00:45:24,480
Speaker 1: a really good team. And he said, this year is

912
00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:26,680
Speaker 1: kind of that type of year where it's like there's

913
00:45:26,719 --> 00:45:29,320
Speaker 1: this muddle in the middle because teams, like you said,

914
00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:32,240
Speaker 1: like all of a sudden, the Rams are having some struggles.

915
00:45:32,239 --> 00:45:35,400
Speaker 1: You're seeing the Saint struggle offensively. I think what Dallas

916
00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:37,439
Speaker 1: was able to do and expose, you know that dink

917
00:45:37,520 --> 00:45:40,080
Speaker 1: and dunk game with if you got really fast linebackers

918
00:45:40,080 --> 00:45:42,759
Speaker 1: and you have good linebackers that can take Kamara and

919
00:45:42,880 --> 00:45:45,080
Speaker 1: stuff right out of the backfield in the passing game,

920
00:45:45,560 --> 00:45:48,440
Speaker 1: what happens late in the season usually from my standpoint

921
00:45:48,560 --> 00:45:51,759
Speaker 1: is some defensive coordinator out there against these offenses is

922
00:45:51,880 --> 00:45:53,840
Speaker 1: going to go, oh, I see how I can exploit this,

923
00:45:53,960 --> 00:45:55,560
Speaker 1: and I know how I'm going to stop it. And

924
00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:58,000
Speaker 1: then they do it, and the rest of the league goes, oh, yeah,

925
00:45:58,160 --> 00:45:59,880
Speaker 1: we have the personnel to do this to stop that,

926
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:02,000
Speaker 1: and then those teams that are really rolling early on

927
00:46:02,239 --> 00:46:04,520
Speaker 1: have to make another adjustment, and everybody has to keep

928
00:46:04,560 --> 00:46:07,279
Speaker 1: making these adjustments. I've been told Cooper Cup not in

929
00:46:07,440 --> 00:46:11,480
Speaker 1: LA right now is really affecting them. But I think personally,

930
00:46:11,520 --> 00:46:14,960
Speaker 1: I think nobody from who I talk to as well

931
00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:17,600
Speaker 1: as my opinion, nobody wants to play the Chargers. I

932
00:46:17,640 --> 00:46:19,839
Speaker 1: mean nobody wants to play the Chargers. I mean they

933
00:46:19,880 --> 00:46:23,719
Speaker 1: are a physical team. Their only problem really is to

934
00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:27,200
Speaker 1: make sure Philip Rivers doesn't make two bonehead plays, and

935
00:46:27,280 --> 00:46:29,560
Speaker 1: if he doesn't, I don't think anybody wants to play

936
00:46:29,600 --> 00:46:31,040
Speaker 1: that team. I'm not sure if anyone wants to play

937
00:46:31,040 --> 00:46:34,400
Speaker 1: the Colts right now either. No. I mean Texans fans

938
00:46:34,400 --> 00:46:37,239
Speaker 1: witnessed what Andrew Luck did here and then the next

939
00:46:37,239 --> 00:46:40,160
Speaker 1: week they go and win a different way. So teams

940
00:46:40,160 --> 00:46:42,120
Speaker 1: that can win multiple ways, I think are the teams

941
00:46:42,160 --> 00:46:43,800
Speaker 1: that scare people like I just did the Ravens and

942
00:46:43,840 --> 00:46:46,640
Speaker 1: Bucks game last week in Baltimore, and the way they're

943
00:46:46,680 --> 00:46:49,400
Speaker 1: running the football is unbelievable with Lamar Jackson, but is

944
00:46:49,440 --> 00:46:52,160
Speaker 1: it sustainable. I mean, they got a great defense, one

945
00:46:52,200 --> 00:46:53,920
Speaker 1: of the best defenses in football. If they could turn

946
00:46:53,920 --> 00:46:56,279
Speaker 1: the football over, that defense is just nuts. It's so weird.

947
00:46:56,320 --> 00:46:59,160
Speaker 1: They're like first or fifth and everything except turnovers are

948
00:46:59,200 --> 00:47:00,879
Speaker 1: like second to last. They just can't get a turn

949
00:47:00,920 --> 00:47:03,040
Speaker 1: And it happened one here here, remember that, right, yea

950
00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:05,759
Speaker 1: good numbers and hey even in thirteen, I think there

951
00:47:05,760 --> 00:47:08,520
Speaker 1: were seventh overall, yeah, two and fourteen team, but they

952
00:47:08,560 --> 00:47:10,640
Speaker 1: couldn't get any turnovers exactly. And then I think the

953
00:47:10,680 --> 00:47:12,400
Speaker 1: next year they like led the league and they were

954
00:47:12,440 --> 00:47:14,560
Speaker 1: close to the top of it was almost like the

955
00:47:14,600 --> 00:47:18,000
Speaker 1: same same players that really helped this justin it helps

956
00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:19,920
Speaker 1: me together, it really does. I mean, you know, the

957
00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:23,040
Speaker 1: more I've talked to guys in the secondary and the

958
00:47:23,120 --> 00:47:28,400
Speaker 1: way offenses have gone in the direction we're headed, nobody

959
00:47:28,480 --> 00:47:32,040
Speaker 1: cares about yards. I mean nobody cares. It is how

960
00:47:32,080 --> 00:47:34,200
Speaker 1: many turnovers can you create and how good are you

961
00:47:34,239 --> 00:47:36,080
Speaker 1: in the red zone? I mean that is the only

962
00:47:36,120 --> 00:47:39,799
Speaker 1: thing that matters, because yeah, exactly so the more guys

963
00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:41,360
Speaker 1: they talked to. And this is why I think I

964
00:47:41,400 --> 00:47:44,279
Speaker 1: like this secondaries they tackle so well. The only thing

965
00:47:44,400 --> 00:47:46,359
Speaker 1: is in Denver did this when they when they played

966
00:47:46,360 --> 00:47:49,440
Speaker 1: the Steelers. We're gonna and and they beat. We're gonna

967
00:47:49,560 --> 00:47:51,759
Speaker 1: let you get not let you catch the football, but

968
00:47:52,160 --> 00:47:54,560
Speaker 1: you will play and behind you and you'll catch it

969
00:47:54,600 --> 00:47:56,640
Speaker 1: and we'll tackle you. And the more plays you have

970
00:47:56,760 --> 00:48:00,279
Speaker 1: to run during your drive, it increases our chances of

971
00:48:00,320 --> 00:48:03,160
Speaker 1: getting a turnover, and we eliminate the big plays you

972
00:48:03,200 --> 00:48:06,319
Speaker 1: tackle well, no yards after the catch. And that's the

973
00:48:06,320 --> 00:48:08,319
Speaker 1: way defense is being played now because you know these

974
00:48:08,320 --> 00:48:10,239
Speaker 1: offenses are gonna go out and get there like it's

975
00:48:10,280 --> 00:48:13,440
Speaker 1: gonna happen. So how do I extend the drive to

976
00:48:13,440 --> 00:48:16,160
Speaker 1: increase our chances of getting a turnover? And how do

977
00:48:16,200 --> 00:48:17,600
Speaker 1: we play in the red zone. I mean, it's really

978
00:48:17,600 --> 00:48:20,680
Speaker 1: the only things that are now mattering with defenses because

979
00:48:20,680 --> 00:48:24,319
Speaker 1: it's also getting incredibly hard to play defense. So that's

980
00:48:24,400 --> 00:48:25,880
Speaker 1: the other part of it. You know, these guys in

981
00:48:25,920 --> 00:48:28,120
Speaker 1: the secondary know that I just got to make the

982
00:48:28,120 --> 00:48:32,640
Speaker 1: tackle and another execute exactly. Yep. James Palmer NFL Network

983
00:48:32,719 --> 00:48:35,000
Speaker 1: joining us. So the Philadelphia Eagles, what do we make

984
00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:37,720
Speaker 1: of them after beating the Rams and oh my gosh,

985
00:48:37,719 --> 00:48:40,040
Speaker 1: they're out of it. They're gonna die a horrible football death.

986
00:48:40,120 --> 00:48:42,680
Speaker 1: But no, they're not here. They are with Nick Foles,

987
00:48:42,719 --> 00:48:46,319
Speaker 1: and they look different with Nick Foles. It's hard to

988
00:48:46,320 --> 00:48:48,920
Speaker 1: say better, but it's hard to argue that they're I

989
00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:52,400
Speaker 1: can't say they're better, James. What they are is and

990
00:48:52,440 --> 00:48:54,239
Speaker 1: they went and did this, and this maybe just made

991
00:48:54,280 --> 00:48:56,759
Speaker 1: everybody around them better. They were almost trying to do

992
00:48:56,960 --> 00:49:01,080
Speaker 1: and this is from people in Philadelphia more than my opinion.

993
00:49:01,160 --> 00:49:03,080
Speaker 1: They were trying to do too much in a sense.

994
00:49:03,120 --> 00:49:05,239
Speaker 1: If you looked at them, there's you know those last

995
00:49:05,280 --> 00:49:08,279
Speaker 1: several weeks with Carson, it's it's tons of motion. You're

996
00:49:08,320 --> 00:49:11,520
Speaker 1: moving guys, pre snap like crazy. They simplified all of

997
00:49:11,560 --> 00:49:14,359
Speaker 1: that last week against the Rams, and they wanted to

998
00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:16,760
Speaker 1: go up tempo a little bit. So losing that also

999
00:49:16,800 --> 00:49:19,399
Speaker 1: went with let's let's speed up the tempo, let's lose

1000
00:49:19,440 --> 00:49:21,279
Speaker 1: some of this motion, and let's go out and play

1001
00:49:21,320 --> 00:49:23,560
Speaker 1: exactly what Nick likes to play. And they went back

1002
00:49:23,600 --> 00:49:25,719
Speaker 1: to a lot of stuff from training camp that they liked.

1003
00:49:25,760 --> 00:49:27,480
Speaker 1: Not to say they got away from it, but maybe

1004
00:49:27,560 --> 00:49:30,040
Speaker 1: they tried to evolve it almost a little too much

1005
00:49:30,040 --> 00:49:32,080
Speaker 1: over the last several weeks, and they just kind of

1006
00:49:32,120 --> 00:49:34,520
Speaker 1: went back looked at what Nick likes to be successful

1007
00:49:34,920 --> 00:49:38,600
Speaker 1: and when they put that game plan together, which Gros

1008
00:49:38,640 --> 00:49:41,120
Speaker 1: should get a lot of credit for that, more so

1009
00:49:41,200 --> 00:49:44,160
Speaker 1: than Peterson against the Rams, and they kind of changed

1010
00:49:44,200 --> 00:49:45,719
Speaker 1: what they did in terms of gets gets the ball

1011
00:49:45,719 --> 00:49:47,360
Speaker 1: all quick. But at the same time, Nick likes to

1012
00:49:47,400 --> 00:49:50,240
Speaker 1: go downfield. And I think they played well up front.

1013
00:49:50,440 --> 00:49:52,759
Speaker 1: I mean, they've had some issues in terms of health

1014
00:49:52,840 --> 00:49:55,520
Speaker 1: upfront with Kelsey and Peters beingmbangda, but they played really

1015
00:49:55,560 --> 00:49:58,640
Speaker 1: well up front and that that front four man is

1016
00:49:58,719 --> 00:50:01,400
Speaker 1: just is killer. But they've had so many injuries on

1017
00:50:01,440 --> 00:50:04,080
Speaker 1: the back side of their secondary. I mean a guy's

1018
00:50:04,120 --> 00:50:06,040
Speaker 1: playing that weren't even part of the team like a

1019
00:50:06,080 --> 00:50:07,680
Speaker 1: month ago, you know what I mean, because of injuries.

1020
00:50:07,840 --> 00:50:10,040
Speaker 1: So I think what you've what you saw last week

1021
00:50:10,200 --> 00:50:14,120
Speaker 1: was they set Nick up to succeed and he stepped in.

1022
00:50:14,120 --> 00:50:17,480
Speaker 1: This is the super Bowl, you know, mvp um and

1023
00:50:17,520 --> 00:50:20,200
Speaker 1: they they they they play their best. And this is

1024
00:50:20,200 --> 00:50:21,839
Speaker 1: the way it's always been with Doug. They play their

1025
00:50:21,880 --> 00:50:23,960
Speaker 1: best when their backs against the wall, When when when

1026
00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:26,919
Speaker 1: they have a little bit of breathing room. Sometimes they're

1027
00:50:26,920 --> 00:50:28,520
Speaker 1: a team that lightens up a little bit when they

1028
00:50:28,600 --> 00:50:30,799
Speaker 1: have no room for error. That seems to be when

1029
00:50:30,800 --> 00:50:32,719
Speaker 1: they play their best football. Well, I hope they feel light.

1030
00:50:33,000 --> 00:50:35,640
Speaker 1: I hope they feel light and airy on Sunday, James

1031
00:50:35,880 --> 00:50:38,719
Speaker 1: for joining us problem, this is great. Joining us Right

1032
00:50:38,760 --> 00:50:42,200
Speaker 1: now is Jamie Roots, president of the Houston Texans, also

1033
00:50:42,320 --> 00:50:45,080
Speaker 1: president of Lone Star Sports and Entertainment here in the

1034
00:50:45,160 --> 00:50:47,919
Speaker 1: Honday Texans radio studio. How's it going, Jamie. I'm good, Mark.

1035
00:50:47,920 --> 00:50:49,640
Speaker 1: How are you doing? But I'm doing great. I mean,

1036
00:50:49,680 --> 00:50:51,719
Speaker 1: what a huge weekend we have upon us, and we're

1037
00:50:51,719 --> 00:50:53,719
Speaker 1: going to get into some of that, but I want

1038
00:50:53,719 --> 00:50:56,319
Speaker 1: to get into this because one week from tonight in

1039
00:50:56,360 --> 00:50:59,600
Speaker 1: this building we have the Academy Sports and Outdoors Texas

1040
00:50:59,680 --> 00:51:03,640
Speaker 1: Ball and what a good matchup. In fact, Jamie, I

1041
00:51:03,800 --> 00:51:07,399
Speaker 1: had one of the two teams most distinguished alumni here

1042
00:51:07,760 --> 00:51:14,359
Speaker 1: alumnus as alumni studio John McClean earlier and Baylor. Yeah,

1043
00:51:14,440 --> 00:51:17,040
Speaker 1: Baylor playing Vanderbilt. So how about the general being a

1044
00:51:17,200 --> 00:51:20,560
Speaker 1: most distinguished alumni. That's pretty cool, actually certainly well deserved.

1045
00:51:20,640 --> 00:51:25,120
Speaker 1: He's a legendary journalists not just in the Houston area,

1046
00:51:25,200 --> 00:51:28,839
Speaker 1: but as it relates to football across the consolutely. Absolutely.

1047
00:51:28,880 --> 00:51:31,919
Speaker 1: So tell me something now, this game, it's a big game.

1048
00:51:32,160 --> 00:51:34,879
Speaker 1: I think it's amazing that Baylor's back in a bowl.

1049
00:51:34,920 --> 00:51:37,680
Speaker 1: I think it's wonderful. And Vanderbilt Andre Ware I call

1050
00:51:37,760 --> 00:51:40,120
Speaker 1: him the unofficial voice of the Commodorees. He's always singing

1051
00:51:40,120 --> 00:51:42,560
Speaker 1: their praises. We have two really good Vanderbilt players on

1052
00:51:42,600 --> 00:51:45,440
Speaker 1: the Texans. Yeah, absolutely, I mean, and we're proud of

1053
00:51:45,440 --> 00:51:48,360
Speaker 1: our Vanderbilt players. We're proud of our Baylor player as well.

1054
00:51:48,480 --> 00:51:51,400
Speaker 1: So h but the Baylor Bears, I mean, really a

1055
00:51:51,520 --> 00:51:57,280
Speaker 1: dramatic turnaround plus five when improvement year over year wound

1056
00:51:57,360 --> 00:52:00,880
Speaker 1: up got themselves in bowl position. I think there's, you know,

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00:52:01,040 --> 00:52:03,880
Speaker 1: really a lot of optimism and energy for the future

1058
00:52:04,239 --> 00:52:07,560
Speaker 1: on the Vanderbilt side. Same thing. You know, they really

1059
00:52:07,600 --> 00:52:09,920
Speaker 1: came on at the end, and you've got both teams

1060
00:52:09,920 --> 00:52:13,080
Speaker 1: that are kind of arrow pointed in the right direction,

1061
00:52:13,120 --> 00:52:14,600
Speaker 1: you know, being in the bowl business for a while.

1062
00:52:14,600 --> 00:52:16,480
Speaker 1: That's really what you want is folks want to come

1063
00:52:16,480 --> 00:52:18,359
Speaker 1: out and support the teams that are on the rise

1064
00:52:18,400 --> 00:52:20,840
Speaker 1: and they think they have great prospects in the future.

1065
00:52:20,960 --> 00:52:22,960
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a number one, big twelve sec

1066
00:52:23,160 --> 00:52:26,480
Speaker 1: matchup in the state of Texas, which is a position

1067
00:52:26,560 --> 00:52:29,799
Speaker 1: the Cotton Bowl has historically had. So anytime we can

1068
00:52:29,840 --> 00:52:32,720
Speaker 1: have you know, really strong, big twelve teams like Baylor,

1069
00:52:32,880 --> 00:52:36,320
Speaker 1: great brand locally, and then Vanderbilt coming in from the outside,

1070
00:52:36,400 --> 00:52:39,160
Speaker 1: it's really what the Academy, Sports and Outdoors Texas Bowl

1071
00:52:39,200 --> 00:52:41,200
Speaker 1: is all about. Jamie. When you started up the Bowl,

1072
00:52:41,520 --> 00:52:44,240
Speaker 1: how important was it to have all these great events

1073
00:52:44,360 --> 00:52:46,840
Speaker 1: leading up to the Bowl Because Bowl week is terrific

1074
00:52:46,960 --> 00:52:51,040
Speaker 1: here and not to discount the other bowls, but my goodness,

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00:52:51,320 --> 00:52:53,759
Speaker 1: you've done an amazing job putting together a great week,

1076
00:52:53,840 --> 00:52:55,799
Speaker 1: not just the game itself. Yeah, and each year we

1077
00:52:55,960 --> 00:52:58,319
Speaker 1: kind of add to it, tweaked things. I think we've

1078
00:52:58,320 --> 00:53:01,160
Speaker 1: got a good thing going on. Our works incredibly hard

1079
00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:03,440
Speaker 1: throughout the year. I mean you really only see it

1080
00:53:03,680 --> 00:53:08,560
Speaker 1: around Bowl week in the most visible way, but they're

1081
00:53:08,600 --> 00:53:10,960
Speaker 1: working all year long. Their events in the offseason that

1082
00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:13,840
Speaker 1: we do with the golf tournament and visits to Belgian

1083
00:53:13,920 --> 00:53:16,919
Speaker 1: Children's Center, who is our beneficiary that we raised about

1084
00:53:16,960 --> 00:53:20,000
Speaker 1: a million and a half dollars for them since inceptions.

1085
00:53:20,080 --> 00:53:23,000
Speaker 1: So one of the coolest events I've ever seen for

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00:53:23,040 --> 00:53:25,799
Speaker 1: a Bowl week is is Rodeo Bowl and that's just

1087
00:53:25,880 --> 00:53:28,120
Speaker 1: not in name. I mean the Houston Livestock Show and

1088
00:53:28,200 --> 00:53:33,600
Speaker 1: Rodeo Ceo Joel Cally and his entire team get behind

1089
00:53:33,600 --> 00:53:35,920
Speaker 1: it to make it a tremendous experience for the kids.

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00:53:36,239 --> 00:53:38,600
Speaker 1: So we're gonna do that over at NRG Arena. Yeah,

1091
00:53:38,680 --> 00:53:41,160
Speaker 1: NRG Arena. That'll be our second year of doing it,

1092
00:53:41,200 --> 00:53:43,720
Speaker 1: and that really kicks off Bowl week for us. On Sunday,

1093
00:53:43,760 --> 00:53:47,040
Speaker 1: December the twenty third, our friends at Wells Fargo have

1094
00:53:47,160 --> 00:53:48,920
Speaker 1: sponsored that for it. In the same night, we've got

1095
00:53:49,000 --> 00:53:52,880
Speaker 1: a kickoff concert downtown at a new venue called The Rustic.

1096
00:53:53,239 --> 00:53:56,840
Speaker 1: And you know, all these things are in tune with

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00:53:56,920 --> 00:53:58,920
Speaker 1: the brand that we've established for the Bowl to be

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00:53:59,000 --> 00:54:03,080
Speaker 1: a celebration of the culture, heritage, and football tradition of

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00:54:03,120 --> 00:54:06,359
Speaker 1: the lone Star state. So the teams that come through

1100
00:54:06,520 --> 00:54:11,600
Speaker 1: their alumni, their leadership academically, and the coaching leadership all

1101
00:54:11,640 --> 00:54:14,200
Speaker 1: get exposed. All these things that are so great about

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00:54:14,239 --> 00:54:18,560
Speaker 1: Texas and the Texas brand of football. Awesome. All right.

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00:54:18,560 --> 00:54:20,920
Speaker 1: So that's one week from tonight Academy Sports and Outdoors

1104
00:54:20,920 --> 00:54:25,319
Speaker 1: Texas Bowl and a few days later Fan Appreciation Day,

1105
00:54:25,360 --> 00:54:28,279
Speaker 1: final regular season date here at n RG Stadium for

1106
00:54:28,280 --> 00:54:31,680
Speaker 1: the Houston Texans facing the Jacksonville Jaguars. And this is

1107
00:54:31,719 --> 00:54:34,279
Speaker 1: always a fun day because it's it's different from the

1108
00:54:34,280 --> 00:54:36,719
Speaker 1: other themes. It's all about the fan. It's all about

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00:54:36,760 --> 00:54:38,520
Speaker 1: celebrating the fan. A lot of giveaways, a lot of

1110
00:54:38,520 --> 00:54:40,279
Speaker 1: cool stuff. Well, you know, we have a theme for

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00:54:40,360 --> 00:54:43,680
Speaker 1: every game, and we've done that almost since inception of

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00:54:43,719 --> 00:54:46,759
Speaker 1: the franchise. Things been so successful that the league and

1113
00:54:46,840 --> 00:54:50,080
Speaker 1: teams across the country have confident it's great. You know,

1114
00:54:50,400 --> 00:54:53,520
Speaker 1: great ideas are never lonely for very long, right and so,

1115
00:54:53,560 --> 00:54:57,120
Speaker 1: but Fan Appreciation one day is one that is particularly

1116
00:54:57,320 --> 00:54:59,759
Speaker 1: special for us because we have such great fans, best

1117
00:54:59,760 --> 00:55:02,640
Speaker 1: fan in the National Football League. A chance for us

1118
00:55:02,680 --> 00:55:05,200
Speaker 1: to say thank you for them. And during the game,

1119
00:55:05,200 --> 00:55:08,120
Speaker 1: they'll be over a one hundred thousand dollars and giveaways

1120
00:55:08,160 --> 00:55:11,680
Speaker 1: with prizes like Pro Bowl trips and Super Bowl trips,

1121
00:55:11,680 --> 00:55:14,839
Speaker 1: and everybody will get a commemorative poster on the way out.

1122
00:55:15,200 --> 00:55:17,719
Speaker 1: It's the day that we celebrate our Tailgators with the

1123
00:55:17,880 --> 00:55:21,600
Speaker 1: HB Tailgator of the Year, so all nine winners come

1124
00:55:21,640 --> 00:55:24,880
Speaker 1: back for a chance to compete for the grand prize,

1125
00:55:24,960 --> 00:55:27,640
Speaker 1: you know, the super Bowl of tailgating here in Houston.

1126
00:55:27,680 --> 00:55:30,000
Speaker 1: And at halftime, we're teaming up again with our friends

1127
00:55:30,000 --> 00:55:32,520
Speaker 1: at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo to do the

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00:55:32,560 --> 00:55:37,560
Speaker 1: first ever Houston Texans Mutton Busting so kids will get

1129
00:55:37,560 --> 00:55:39,960
Speaker 1: a chance to compete on the floor of NRG Stadium

1130
00:55:40,040 --> 00:55:43,399
Speaker 1: for the title of Texans Mutton Buster. So you could

1131
00:55:43,440 --> 00:55:46,359
Speaker 1: have that on the field and then the games go

1132
00:55:46,400 --> 00:55:49,600
Speaker 1: to resoom afterwards. So you figured this all out? We have?

1133
00:55:49,880 --> 00:55:51,600
Speaker 1: We have. There's been a lot of work that's gone

1134
00:55:51,640 --> 00:55:54,239
Speaker 1: into it. Our friends at the at the Rodeo have

1135
00:55:54,360 --> 00:55:57,600
Speaker 1: been so supportive and helpful. Their entire committee that puts

1136
00:55:57,600 --> 00:56:01,120
Speaker 1: it on for the Rodeo in March is helping us

1137
00:56:01,120 --> 00:56:03,160
Speaker 1: to get it right. But one of the things that's

1138
00:56:03,200 --> 00:56:05,640
Speaker 1: most special for me about the Fan Appreciation Day is

1139
00:56:05,640 --> 00:56:09,520
Speaker 1: our phantom tradition. There's one fan that is selected to

1140
00:56:09,640 --> 00:56:14,080
Speaker 1: begin the national anthem for the crowd. But you know,

1141
00:56:15,239 --> 00:56:18,279
Speaker 1: Houston's most diverse city in America, and nothing brings us

1142
00:56:18,280 --> 00:56:20,319
Speaker 1: together like the game of football. It won't be an

1143
00:56:20,320 --> 00:56:23,680
Speaker 1: individual singing the anthem, it will be the entire crowd

1144
00:56:24,400 --> 00:56:27,080
Speaker 1: singing the anthem, all of us coming together. Houston such

1145
00:56:27,120 --> 00:56:30,960
Speaker 1: a patriotic town that we have no problem getting them.

1146
00:56:31,360 --> 00:56:34,560
Speaker 1: We're are in in full voice with the national anthem

1147
00:56:34,600 --> 00:56:36,720
Speaker 1: to kick off the day. I'm gonna have to be singing.

1148
00:56:36,760 --> 00:56:38,640
Speaker 1: Then I'm gonna have to try it a little bit.

1149
00:56:38,640 --> 00:56:40,359
Speaker 1: I hope it's in a good key for me, That's

1150
00:56:40,400 --> 00:56:42,400
Speaker 1: all I'm asking. And I was kind of hoping to

1151
00:56:42,400 --> 00:56:45,399
Speaker 1: do play by play for Mutton busting, but maybe we'll

1152
00:56:45,440 --> 00:56:46,920
Speaker 1: be able to squeeze it in during the half. You'd

1153
00:56:46,920 --> 00:56:48,520
Speaker 1: never know. Well, there's so many things you want to

1154
00:56:48,520 --> 00:56:51,080
Speaker 1: do on Fan Appreciation Day. We're just we're looking forward

1155
00:56:51,080 --> 00:56:53,520
Speaker 1: to bringing our fans back out to our house. We

1156
00:56:53,600 --> 00:56:56,440
Speaker 1: have such a tremendous home field advantage. Great way for

1157
00:56:56,520 --> 00:56:59,680
Speaker 1: us to end the regular season outstanding. Okay, so it's

1158
00:56:59,719 --> 00:57:02,560
Speaker 1: a huge weekend. The Texans are going up to Philadelphia

1159
00:57:02,560 --> 00:57:04,680
Speaker 1: to play the Eagles. This is a monumental game, there's

1160
00:57:04,680 --> 00:57:06,440
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. And there's a whole bunch of

1161
00:57:06,480 --> 00:57:08,120
Speaker 1: other good stuff in the league as well. I mean,

1162
00:57:08,160 --> 00:57:11,279
Speaker 1: this weekend sets up really well for the NFL. It's

1163
00:57:11,320 --> 00:57:13,920
Speaker 1: been a banner year for the league. For the Texans,

1164
00:57:13,960 --> 00:57:16,920
Speaker 1: of course, but for the entire league. Really Yeah, the

1165
00:57:16,920 --> 00:57:20,480
Speaker 1: games have been so incredibly competitive. They've never been more

1166
00:57:20,560 --> 00:57:23,720
Speaker 1: points scored on average per game at any point in

1167
00:57:23,720 --> 00:57:26,120
Speaker 1: time in the history of the National Football League, and

1168
00:57:26,160 --> 00:57:29,520
Speaker 1: the fans have responded in an incredible way. And the

1169
00:57:29,640 --> 00:57:33,160
Speaker 1: overall NFL ratings are up six percent year over year.

1170
00:57:33,280 --> 00:57:36,800
Speaker 1: This past week they're up nine percent versus the same week,

1171
00:57:36,840 --> 00:57:39,840
Speaker 1: and it's kind of interesting. It's bucking the trend nationally.

1172
00:57:39,880 --> 00:57:43,720
Speaker 1: You look at broadcast television is down six percent year

1173
00:57:43,720 --> 00:57:46,640
Speaker 1: over year. There's really only two things on television that

1174
00:57:46,680 --> 00:57:50,760
Speaker 1: are up, the NFL and Donald Trump, as evidenced by

1175
00:57:50,840 --> 00:57:54,480
Speaker 1: cable news being up six percent as well, but college footballs.

1176
00:57:54,520 --> 00:57:59,000
Speaker 1: That's all three news networks. College footballs down three percent,

1177
00:57:59,160 --> 00:58:04,160
Speaker 1: MLB down percent, Cable entertainment down ten percent, NHL twelve percent,

1178
00:58:04,160 --> 00:58:07,520
Speaker 1: and NBA fifteen percent. The NFL is up so and

1179
00:58:07,560 --> 00:58:10,120
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's the passion that our fans have

1180
00:58:10,280 --> 00:58:13,440
Speaker 1: for the game. The focus has been on the field,

1181
00:58:13,520 --> 00:58:17,280
Speaker 1: the competition that everybody loves that brings us together around

1182
00:58:17,280 --> 00:58:19,880
Speaker 1: a television to enjoy a meal or at a stadium.

1183
00:58:20,240 --> 00:58:23,800
Speaker 1: So it's really been exciting to be part of the NFL.

1184
00:58:24,200 --> 00:58:26,600
Speaker 1: Our ratings are up about twenty percent year over year.

1185
00:58:26,680 --> 00:58:29,200
Speaker 1: Our fans have been there for us, and hopefully we

1186
00:58:29,240 --> 00:58:32,200
Speaker 1: can carry this thing on for a long time into

1187
00:58:32,360 --> 00:58:35,600
Speaker 1: the month of January and into February. Let's hope Jamie

1188
00:58:35,600 --> 00:58:37,480
Speaker 1: thanks a lot for joining us. All right, Mark, there's

1189
00:58:37,600 --> 00:58:40,919
Speaker 1: Jamie Roots, president of the Houston Texans and also Lone

1190
00:58:40,960 --> 00:58:43,240
Speaker 1: Star Sports and Entertainment, and he likes to point out

1191
00:58:43,240 --> 00:58:46,520
Speaker 1: from time to time that the NRG Stadium economic impact

1192
00:58:46,600 --> 00:58:51,520
Speaker 1: for twenty seventeen, it generated over a billion dollars an

1193
00:58:51,600 --> 00:58:54,480
Speaker 1: economic impact for the city of Houston. The stadium did

1194
00:58:54,560 --> 00:58:56,960
Speaker 1: this was measured by an outside firm, and when you

1195
00:58:57,000 --> 00:58:58,960
Speaker 1: measure all the events that took place, Yes, the Super

1196
00:58:59,000 --> 00:59:01,560
Speaker 1: Bowl was part of that, not all of it, of course,

1197
00:59:01,800 --> 00:59:05,680
Speaker 1: as you have the entire Texans season, the Advocate Texas Kickoff,

1198
00:59:05,960 --> 00:59:10,160
Speaker 1: the Academy Sports and Outdoors Texas Bowl, everything. Over a

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00:59:10,200 --> 00:59:13,160
Speaker 1: billion dollars in economic impact and over a million visitors.

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00:59:13,320 --> 00:59:16,919
Speaker 1: Very cool. The impact of NRG Stadium on the city

1201
00:59:16,920 --> 00:59:21,280
Speaker 1: of Houston, Okay, also the economic impactor just impact in

1202
00:59:21,320 --> 00:59:25,600
Speaker 1: general of Patty Smith on the city of Houston is big.

1203
00:59:25,720 --> 00:59:29,280
Speaker 1: She's wonderful. She's with Harris County Houston Sports Authority and

1204
00:59:29,480 --> 00:59:34,280
Speaker 1: Patty great to have you visiting. Hello, Patty. Hello Mark.

1205
00:59:34,480 --> 00:59:36,600
Speaker 1: Well we just spoke like two or three weeks ago.

1206
00:59:36,680 --> 00:59:39,600
Speaker 1: So this is nice to have you visiting so soon relatively,

1207
00:59:39,800 --> 00:59:43,000
Speaker 1: because because I have big news. All right, let's get

1208
00:59:43,080 --> 00:59:45,280
Speaker 1: right to it. You have big news tonight from the

1209
00:59:45,320 --> 00:59:48,520
Speaker 1: Harris County Houston Sports Authority, the Houston Sports Awards. This

1210
00:59:48,600 --> 00:59:51,000
Speaker 1: is gonna be awesome. Yeah, it absolutely is, And we're

1211
00:59:51,040 --> 00:59:53,920
Speaker 1: gonna you're hearing more of me and fewer and farther

1212
00:59:54,160 --> 00:59:57,840
Speaker 1: in between, because we are approaching the February sixth date

1213
00:59:57,920 --> 01:00:01,320
Speaker 1: of the Houston Sports Awards. And last time I was

1214
01:00:01,360 --> 01:00:04,600
Speaker 1: on with you, we talked about the Lifetime Achievement Award

1215
01:00:04,800 --> 01:00:08,320
Speaker 1: that George and Barbara Bush would be recipients of. Yes,

1216
01:00:08,400 --> 01:00:11,360
Speaker 1: and we are here today to talk about because earlier

1217
01:00:11,560 --> 01:00:16,000
Speaker 1: today all the nominees have been announced and the other

1218
01:00:16,040 --> 01:00:19,880
Speaker 1: two legacy awards that go along with the Lifetime Achievement,

1219
01:00:19,960 --> 01:00:22,440
Speaker 1: the Executive of the Year, the Lifetime Achievement and the

1220
01:00:22,480 --> 01:00:27,400
Speaker 1: Sportsmanship Awards. Those three categories come to Sports Awards knowing

1221
01:00:27,440 --> 01:00:30,320
Speaker 1: that they are the recipient. All the other categories have

1222
01:00:30,400 --> 01:00:32,280
Speaker 1: nominees and will be announced that Now. It's not like

1223
01:00:32,320 --> 01:00:35,000
Speaker 1: one of those where you're announcing other nominees and oh,

1224
01:00:35,080 --> 01:00:37,360
Speaker 1: wink wink, this guy's in the audience and he happens

1225
01:00:37,360 --> 01:00:40,400
Speaker 1: to be the winner. They are the winner. Yes, okay,

1226
01:00:40,560 --> 01:00:43,560
Speaker 1: so will that's a couple of winners tonight right here. Well,

1227
01:00:43,640 --> 01:00:45,439
Speaker 1: but the rest of nominees. Now, you handed me the sheet.

1228
01:00:45,480 --> 01:00:47,720
Speaker 1: You want to go an order here, you can do it. However,

1229
01:00:48,000 --> 01:00:51,880
Speaker 1: let's do Athlete of the Year first. The nominees for

1230
01:00:52,200 --> 01:00:54,040
Speaker 1: this is like, we should do a little TV show

1231
01:00:55,000 --> 01:00:57,600
Speaker 1: Athlete of the Year. The nominees are you know, you

1232
01:00:57,680 --> 01:01:00,400
Speaker 1: and I could be up there like Good Morning Erica.

1233
01:01:00,880 --> 01:01:02,720
Speaker 1: Do the show? All right? Anyway, how many times have

1234
01:01:02,800 --> 01:01:04,720
Speaker 1: you compared us to Well, back in the day, it

1235
01:01:04,840 --> 01:01:07,760
Speaker 1: was Regis and Kelly. Yeah, then it became Michael and Kelly. Yeah,

1236
01:01:07,800 --> 01:01:09,800
Speaker 1: now it's Ryan and Kelly. You just keep changing. I

1237
01:01:10,240 --> 01:01:13,680
Speaker 1: on the other hand, Kelly stays the same. Yeah. I

1238
01:01:13,680 --> 01:01:16,080
Speaker 1: don't Seacrest. I don't get it. I don't get it.

1239
01:01:17,200 --> 01:01:19,360
Speaker 1: He has every job in America. Yeah, I mean the

1240
01:01:19,400 --> 01:01:21,560
Speaker 1: New Year's Eve gig is really nice. He took over

1241
01:01:21,600 --> 01:01:24,600
Speaker 1: for Dick Clark. That's great for him, But is he

1242
01:01:24,720 --> 01:01:26,960
Speaker 1: on like one of those other He was on an

1243
01:01:27,320 --> 01:01:29,760
Speaker 1: American idol for a while. He just takes over for people.

1244
01:01:29,920 --> 01:01:31,640
Speaker 1: He needs to get his own gig, and he's got

1245
01:01:31,680 --> 01:01:35,080
Speaker 1: a radio show in LA. He just has to maybe

1246
01:01:35,080 --> 01:01:37,400
Speaker 1: do a few transitions, a few segues, you know, like

1247
01:01:38,040 --> 01:01:40,840
Speaker 1: it's a kiss one away in LA and I'm Ryan

1248
01:01:40,880 --> 01:01:43,000
Speaker 1: Seacrest and you guys have the rest of the show.

1249
01:01:43,080 --> 01:01:44,880
Speaker 1: But they use it to get his name on the

1250
01:01:44,960 --> 01:01:47,000
Speaker 1: air anyway. Athlete of the Year Patty for the Houston

1251
01:01:47,040 --> 01:01:50,120
Speaker 1: Sports Awards. The four nominees for Athlete of the Year

1252
01:01:50,600 --> 01:01:56,560
Speaker 1: in alphabetical order, Simone Biles, Alex Bregman, James Harden, and

1253
01:01:56,680 --> 01:02:02,080
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkin. What a tough cree to any city anywhere.

1254
01:02:02,120 --> 01:02:04,240
Speaker 1: These guys could go up against anyone. Any one of

1255
01:02:04,240 --> 01:02:06,240
Speaker 1: them could win. You can make an argument for any

1256
01:02:06,280 --> 01:02:08,120
Speaker 1: of them. It's a good point because all right, so

1257
01:02:08,160 --> 01:02:12,000
Speaker 1: it's a calendar year, right, calendar year. All right, So Simone,

1258
01:02:12,160 --> 01:02:16,600
Speaker 1: I mean, it's tough to derail Simone in this. She

1259
01:02:16,800 --> 01:02:20,440
Speaker 1: was just named ESPN Athlete of the Year, ESPN Athlete

1260
01:02:20,480 --> 01:02:22,920
Speaker 1: of the Year. You're not talking about yeah, Houston, You're

1261
01:02:22,960 --> 01:02:26,040
Speaker 1: talking about period. So it's it's hard to like say

1262
01:02:26,040 --> 01:02:30,000
Speaker 1: any And then you look at well but bragman, my gosh,

1263
01:02:30,040 --> 01:02:32,480
Speaker 1: and then you look at James Harden won the MVP

1264
01:02:32,720 --> 01:02:36,240
Speaker 1: for the entire league. Yes, and DeAndre Hopkins will not

1265
01:02:36,280 --> 01:02:39,920
Speaker 1: win NFL MVP, but he's in the conversation all all

1266
01:02:39,920 --> 01:02:42,400
Speaker 1: the debates about if you could take the quarterbacks out

1267
01:02:42,400 --> 01:02:44,480
Speaker 1: of it, would he be the guy? And there's still

1268
01:02:44,480 --> 01:02:48,160
Speaker 1: some NFL season left obviously, So these are four very

1269
01:02:48,200 --> 01:02:50,160
Speaker 1: tough candidates. So we have to wait till the night

1270
01:02:50,160 --> 01:02:51,640
Speaker 1: of the Houston Sports a warths to find out the

1271
01:02:51,680 --> 01:02:54,720
Speaker 1: winner of this one. Yes, they will, like Lowell, Hope, Mile,

1272
01:02:54,760 --> 01:02:56,520
Speaker 1: they won't all four be in the room, but likely

1273
01:02:56,920 --> 01:02:59,560
Speaker 1: most of them will be in the room. Harden is

1274
01:02:59,600 --> 01:03:01,560
Speaker 1: playing at night, so he won't be in the but

1275
01:03:02,080 --> 01:03:04,520
Speaker 1: if he were to win, he will be accepting live

1276
01:03:04,600 --> 01:03:09,560
Speaker 1: via satellite. True story like it. Yes, so um yeah,

1277
01:03:09,600 --> 01:03:11,360
Speaker 1: then we'll let them know that night. They'll be as

1278
01:03:11,360 --> 01:03:14,320
Speaker 1: surprised as anyone and I won't know will How does

1279
01:03:14,320 --> 01:03:17,920
Speaker 1: the vote go from here? These will go out The

1280
01:03:17,960 --> 01:03:22,000
Speaker 1: final votes will go out on January fifteenth, or Selection Committee,

1281
01:03:22,000 --> 01:03:24,320
Speaker 1: which is made up of about forty members of the media,

1282
01:03:24,720 --> 01:03:30,400
Speaker 1: And they will get this they've already you know, nominated,

1283
01:03:30,560 --> 01:03:33,200
Speaker 1: once paired down to the top four, they'll get this

1284
01:03:33,280 --> 01:03:36,560
Speaker 1: vote again vote for that and then it'll be tabulated

1285
01:03:36,600 --> 01:03:38,919
Speaker 1: by Price Cooper's waterhouse. Would her kept in a locked

1286
01:03:38,960 --> 01:03:42,560
Speaker 1: vault and very cool? Yeah? Let out on February sixth,

1287
01:03:42,840 --> 01:03:45,920
Speaker 1: Right College Athlete of the Year. This is another interesting

1288
01:03:45,920 --> 01:03:50,080
Speaker 1: one because it's very University of Houston heavy, but likely.

1289
01:03:50,200 --> 01:03:53,000
Speaker 1: I mean all three of these guys, Rob Gray, Derk

1290
01:03:53,120 --> 01:03:56,400
Speaker 1: King At Oliver who was who won last year, all

1291
01:03:56,440 --> 01:03:59,320
Speaker 1: from the University of Houston, and Trevion Williams from Texas

1292
01:03:59,320 --> 01:04:02,440
Speaker 1: A and m Now he's a Houston kid. Now, remember

1293
01:04:02,440 --> 01:04:05,760
Speaker 1: the criteria here is you either play in Houston or

1294
01:04:05,760 --> 01:04:07,560
Speaker 1: you're from Houston. All right, So if I played for

1295
01:04:07,640 --> 01:04:10,520
Speaker 1: Stanford but I live in Houston, I'm still eligible for

1296
01:04:10,560 --> 01:04:13,280
Speaker 1: this award. Yep, you're Cassidy Cook out there diving in

1297
01:04:13,680 --> 01:04:16,760
Speaker 1: at Stanford and she goes to the Olympics, and yep,

1298
01:04:16,840 --> 01:04:19,600
Speaker 1: she's a Houston kid. Rrot Cook's sister. That's Carrot Cook's sister,

1299
01:04:19,800 --> 01:04:21,760
Speaker 1: Terrot Cook. He used to work for the Houston Texans. Yes,

1300
01:04:21,800 --> 01:04:23,640
Speaker 1: and I miss Karas. She was wonderful. Yes, all the

1301
01:04:23,640 --> 01:04:27,160
Speaker 1: Cook six, six of those Cook kids, they all dive.

1302
01:04:27,440 --> 01:04:30,680
Speaker 1: They do not all dive. They got soccer players, feels

1303
01:04:30,680 --> 01:04:33,120
Speaker 1: like it, but they're all stud d One out. They're

1304
01:04:33,120 --> 01:04:35,480
Speaker 1: like you. They moved from Florida to the Houston area

1305
01:04:35,520 --> 01:04:37,440
Speaker 1: once upon a time. Yep. But they did it to

1306
01:04:37,520 --> 01:04:39,080
Speaker 1: dive and you did. And we're all in the Woodlands.

1307
01:04:39,280 --> 01:04:42,520
Speaker 1: We're all friends. Oh really, Yeah, that's how I know. Oh,

1308
01:04:42,560 --> 01:04:44,760
Speaker 1: that's right, that's how you all right, great, look at

1309
01:04:44,800 --> 01:04:48,120
Speaker 1: all this background. I like Rob Gray too to watch.

1310
01:04:48,240 --> 01:04:51,160
Speaker 1: All right, we have to continue this. Nominates for the

1311
01:04:51,160 --> 01:04:53,800
Speaker 1: Houston Sports Awards. This is of interest to all Houston

1312
01:04:53,920 --> 01:04:56,480
Speaker 1: sports fans, so let's keep it going with high School

1313
01:04:56,560 --> 01:04:58,680
Speaker 1: Athlete of the Year. High School Athlete of the Year.

1314
01:04:58,760 --> 01:05:01,400
Speaker 1: We've got two girls, two boys boys. Keyshaw Carter from

1315
01:05:01,440 --> 01:05:06,440
Speaker 1: the Woodlands, I mean three sports star football track. The

1316
01:05:06,480 --> 01:05:09,840
Speaker 1: kid's just a stud. Grant Gannell from Saint Pius quarterback.

1317
01:05:09,880 --> 01:05:13,480
Speaker 1: He wanted the Houston Sports Awards last year. Kate Reese

1318
01:05:13,560 --> 01:05:16,160
Speaker 1: girl from sy Woods. He's a volleyball and basketball player

1319
01:05:16,160 --> 01:05:19,320
Speaker 1: in Caitlin Bannis from sy Ranch volleyball and rest. Everybody's

1320
01:05:19,360 --> 01:05:21,360
Speaker 1: north of the Mason Dixon line, which in this case

1321
01:05:21,480 --> 01:05:24,240
Speaker 1: is I ten see pretty much. This is how I

1322
01:05:24,280 --> 01:05:27,320
Speaker 1: look at life. Is Saint Pious North, Yes it is, Okay,

1323
01:05:27,440 --> 01:05:30,320
Speaker 1: yes it is. Wait a minute, yes it is so yeah,

1324
01:05:30,400 --> 01:05:32,680
Speaker 1: that's okay though, so nobody from Fort Bank County where

1325
01:05:32,680 --> 01:05:34,600
Speaker 1: I live. But I'll have to live with that. Yeah,

1326
01:05:34,640 --> 01:05:37,640
Speaker 1: your kids have time, okay, So coach, oh, believe me,

1327
01:05:37,800 --> 01:05:39,760
Speaker 1: they weren't going to win this. So this is for

1328
01:05:39,840 --> 01:05:42,080
Speaker 1: the Houston Sports Awards. These are the nominations for the

1329
01:05:42,120 --> 01:05:45,760
Speaker 1: award winners and the date of the Sports Awards is

1330
01:05:45,880 --> 01:05:50,200
Speaker 1: February sixth, sixth. Okay, Coach of the Year and they

1331
01:05:50,240 --> 01:05:54,520
Speaker 1: are Mike D'Antoni from the Houston Rockets, A J. Hinch,

1332
01:05:54,920 --> 01:06:00,280
Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien, and Kelvin Sampson of the Undefeated Universe see

1333
01:06:00,240 --> 01:06:02,400
Speaker 1: if Houston Cougars. All right, so it's calendar years. So

1334
01:06:02,440 --> 01:06:04,320
Speaker 1: he's up to a great start this year and they

1335
01:06:04,360 --> 01:06:07,200
Speaker 1: did well last year, so that was nice. I like

1336
01:06:07,280 --> 01:06:09,520
Speaker 1: the job he's doing, by the way, that new building

1337
01:06:09,520 --> 01:06:13,080
Speaker 1: and everything. That's very cool. Ye uh, this is interesting.

1338
01:06:13,160 --> 01:06:15,840
Speaker 1: So Hinch, they don't win the World Series again, so

1339
01:06:15,920 --> 01:06:19,600
Speaker 1: the World Series does not count for this award. Right,

1340
01:06:20,360 --> 01:06:22,400
Speaker 1: it's a Laska, it's a calendar year. It's calendar year.

1341
01:06:22,480 --> 01:06:25,600
Speaker 1: This is this was the twenty eighteen season. But he

1342
01:06:25,640 --> 01:06:26,840
Speaker 1: had a heck of a year. I mean, come on,

1343
01:06:27,640 --> 01:06:29,680
Speaker 1: and Mike D'Antoni a heck of a year, but they

1344
01:06:29,800 --> 01:06:34,600
Speaker 1: missed the finals. Bill O'Brien incomplete. But whatever happens by

1345
01:06:34,720 --> 01:06:36,920
Speaker 1: January one, that's it. It's in the book. So if

1346
01:06:36,920 --> 01:06:38,880
Speaker 1: they go twelve and four, that's the best he can do.

1347
01:06:39,400 --> 01:06:42,000
Speaker 1: The playoffs will not affect his standing for a winning

1348
01:06:42,000 --> 01:06:45,640
Speaker 1: Coach of the Year correct in correct in theory. Yeah,

1349
01:06:45,760 --> 01:06:47,400
Speaker 1: I mean I want to say that. I'd be hard

1350
01:06:47,440 --> 01:06:49,760
Speaker 1: pressed to say, Okay, look, if you guys are you

1351
01:06:49,800 --> 01:06:52,000
Speaker 1: have a vote and it's January fifteenth, then he just

1352
01:06:52,000 --> 01:06:55,479
Speaker 1: won on the div Yeah whatever, But I know, look, yeah,

1353
01:06:55,480 --> 01:06:57,840
Speaker 1: if he's um, you know, it's great though, I mean

1354
01:06:57,920 --> 01:07:00,400
Speaker 1: he's Look, let's hope the Texans finished really well here

1355
01:07:00,400 --> 01:07:02,520
Speaker 1: and do well. And then you look at these other coaches.

1356
01:07:02,520 --> 01:07:05,480
Speaker 1: It's fantastic to see the team's success. You know, you

1357
01:07:05,520 --> 01:07:08,160
Speaker 1: want everybody to win championships, but it's not always possible.

1358
01:07:08,200 --> 01:07:10,280
Speaker 1: But look at the high level these guys are performing

1359
01:07:10,280 --> 01:07:12,480
Speaker 1: at these coaches and A. J. Hinch is a manager,

1360
01:07:12,480 --> 01:07:15,760
Speaker 1: but I know he's a coach, right, so they called

1361
01:07:15,800 --> 01:07:18,800
Speaker 1: him skip. You can't call a baseball manager coach skip.

1362
01:07:18,800 --> 01:07:22,480
Speaker 1: And he won last year and you were there and

1363
01:07:22,640 --> 01:07:26,760
Speaker 1: his speech was just you know, he won that award

1364
01:07:26,880 --> 01:07:29,640
Speaker 1: exactly twenty five years to the day. Is that what

1365
01:07:29,680 --> 01:07:32,200
Speaker 1: he said that his father had passed away. Yes, it

1366
01:07:32,280 --> 01:07:34,520
Speaker 1: was moving and it was so moving and he's just

1367
01:07:34,560 --> 01:07:36,760
Speaker 1: such a wonderful guy. It was. It was awesome. All right.

1368
01:07:36,760 --> 01:07:40,040
Speaker 1: So executive, the Executive of the year. We have a winner.

1369
01:07:40,040 --> 01:07:43,040
Speaker 1: We're gonna announce a winner right here tonight. Who is it? Patty?

1370
01:07:43,320 --> 01:07:47,320
Speaker 1: We do um? There was some yeah, there was. There

1371
01:07:47,320 --> 01:07:49,400
Speaker 1: could have been a lot of great choices here. But

1372
01:07:50,080 --> 01:07:53,360
Speaker 1: the winner of the Executive of the Year is Tillman

1373
01:07:53,440 --> 01:07:57,400
Speaker 1: for Tita. Okay, So Tilman for Tita, And describe to

1374
01:07:57,480 --> 01:07:59,720
Speaker 1: me how that went. You were in that conversation. You

1375
01:07:59,720 --> 01:08:01,960
Speaker 1: were part of this whole deal. Well, I am not

1376
01:08:02,080 --> 01:08:05,600
Speaker 1: part of the selection committee at all. You know what happened?

1377
01:08:05,640 --> 01:08:08,960
Speaker 1: I yeah, Well, I mean everybody, of course, there's nominations.

1378
01:08:09,000 --> 01:08:12,760
Speaker 1: I mean, this category is pretty cool because executive is

1379
01:08:12,800 --> 01:08:15,120
Speaker 1: not just It can be a president, it can be

1380
01:08:15,120 --> 01:08:17,080
Speaker 1: a general manager, it can be an owner or any

1381
01:08:17,080 --> 01:08:19,400
Speaker 1: sports executive. So he bought the Rockets and they have

1382
01:08:19,520 --> 01:08:21,880
Speaker 1: their best They have the most wins they've ever had

1383
01:08:21,880 --> 01:08:23,639
Speaker 1: in the history of the franchise. They're the best record

1384
01:08:23,640 --> 01:08:25,640
Speaker 1: in the NBA. They had the MVP. Of course, we

1385
01:08:25,720 --> 01:08:27,439
Speaker 1: know they fell short of the finals, was in a

1386
01:08:27,479 --> 01:08:29,000
Speaker 1: golden state, but they had a heck of a year.

1387
01:08:29,400 --> 01:08:31,439
Speaker 1: They did have a heck of the year. And and

1388
01:08:31,479 --> 01:08:35,240
Speaker 1: then you take into consideration, which is what the Executive

1389
01:08:35,240 --> 01:08:39,000
Speaker 1: Selection Committee really UM also looked at when it came

1390
01:08:39,040 --> 01:08:41,920
Speaker 1: to Tilman and Jim Crane for that matter, what they've

1391
01:08:41,960 --> 01:08:44,759
Speaker 1: also done in the community outside of things with Tilman

1392
01:08:45,439 --> 01:08:47,160
Speaker 1: and what he's done at the University of Houston and

1393
01:08:47,200 --> 01:08:50,320
Speaker 1: building for TITA Center. So that's a big accomplish. It's

1394
01:08:50,320 --> 01:08:52,599
Speaker 1: a big accomplishment. And honestly, Jim Crane when you look

1395
01:08:52,600 --> 01:08:56,160
Speaker 1: at what Jim Crane did not only within the Astros organization,

1396
01:08:56,200 --> 01:08:58,120
Speaker 1: but all that he does in the community when he

1397
01:08:58,520 --> 01:09:01,639
Speaker 1: basically saving golf and that golf tournament here in Houston.

1398
01:09:01,760 --> 01:09:04,719
Speaker 1: So there's more to it than just wins and losses.

1399
01:09:04,760 --> 01:09:08,880
Speaker 1: And you know, Brian gained another candidate what he's done

1400
01:09:08,880 --> 01:09:12,559
Speaker 1: with the Houston Texans. So Jeff Luno, Darryl Morriman, We've

1401
01:09:12,560 --> 01:09:15,200
Speaker 1: got a lot of great executives. Once again, but Tilman

1402
01:09:15,240 --> 01:09:18,200
Speaker 1: for TITA was the one that was chosen. Another winner.

1403
01:09:18,240 --> 01:09:22,640
Speaker 1: We will announce tonight and that is Sportsmanship. Sportsmanship for

1404
01:09:22,680 --> 01:09:27,240
Speaker 1: the second consecutive year. The only winner of this award

1405
01:09:27,360 --> 01:09:31,400
Speaker 1: in its history JJ Watt from the Houston Texans. In Arguably,

1406
01:09:31,640 --> 01:09:34,519
Speaker 1: I mean, or is it that arguably? I've never understood

1407
01:09:34,520 --> 01:09:37,320
Speaker 1: how that goes. Arguably, I guess you can't argue it,

1408
01:09:37,400 --> 01:09:39,680
Speaker 1: or can you know? You can't argue it's He's the man.

1409
01:09:39,840 --> 01:09:42,880
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, he the fact that he could

1410
01:09:42,920 --> 01:09:45,400
Speaker 1: go on social media. Now, I know that was last year,

1411
01:09:45,880 --> 01:09:48,919
Speaker 1: but every year it's something with jj Watt. He never stops.

1412
01:09:49,000 --> 01:09:51,360
Speaker 1: He never stops contributing to the community. And by the way,

1413
01:09:51,400 --> 01:09:53,920
Speaker 1: this spring is gonna have a charity softball game again.

1414
01:09:54,760 --> 01:09:56,400
Speaker 1: He took a year off because he was hurt and

1415
01:09:56,439 --> 01:09:58,080
Speaker 1: it was the post Harvey thing. I don't think he

1416
01:09:58,080 --> 01:09:59,479
Speaker 1: did it because it was hurt. He might have, I

1417
01:09:59,479 --> 01:10:02,200
Speaker 1: don't want to. He was being focused and you know,

1418
01:10:02,240 --> 01:10:04,080
Speaker 1: well it was it was the Harvey effort, you know,

1419
01:10:04,120 --> 01:10:07,080
Speaker 1: and he knew that there was just forty dollars contributed

1420
01:10:07,120 --> 01:10:09,080
Speaker 1: that way. Look what he did for Santa fe kids.

1421
01:10:09,080 --> 01:10:11,160
Speaker 1: I mean, he paid for all those funerals this year.

1422
01:10:11,400 --> 01:10:13,360
Speaker 1: And it's not just about money. I mean, the guy

1423
01:10:13,479 --> 01:10:15,439
Speaker 1: does go above and beyond, and there are a lot

1424
01:10:15,640 --> 01:10:17,479
Speaker 1: it should be pointed out there's so many athletes in

1425
01:10:17,520 --> 01:10:20,120
Speaker 1: town who do so much, oh sportsmanship wise, I mean,

1426
01:10:20,160 --> 01:10:24,559
Speaker 1: we really have tremendous athletes in the community here. You

1427
01:10:24,560 --> 01:10:26,000
Speaker 1: could go on and on. I mean, some of the

1428
01:10:26,000 --> 01:10:30,400
Speaker 1: other nominees that did come in Whitney Merciless, Kareem, Lance mccollors,

1429
01:10:30,439 --> 01:10:32,599
Speaker 1: George Springer, I mean, like you said, they go on

1430
01:10:32,640 --> 01:10:35,559
Speaker 1: and on. But but JJ Watt was the clear. Yeah,

1431
01:10:35,560 --> 01:10:37,400
Speaker 1: you don't want to take anything away from what everybody

1432
01:10:37,439 --> 01:10:39,800
Speaker 1: else does. All right, the Event of the Year, Now

1433
01:10:39,800 --> 01:10:41,200
Speaker 1: we have nominees for this one. We're not going to

1434
01:10:41,280 --> 01:10:44,599
Speaker 1: announce a winner in advance, right, No, those those three

1435
01:10:44,800 --> 01:10:50,160
Speaker 1: are so we just said, interesting nominee here. I'm not

1436
01:10:50,160 --> 01:10:52,439
Speaker 1: sure which one you're looking at. Well, actually a couple

1437
01:10:52,479 --> 01:10:53,800
Speaker 1: of them. All right, So the Event of the Year,

1438
01:10:54,240 --> 01:10:55,600
Speaker 1: all right, you can do it. I want to do

1439
01:10:55,640 --> 01:10:57,479
Speaker 1: this one, okay, all right, So the opening of the

1440
01:10:57,520 --> 01:10:59,960
Speaker 1: Fatida Center, very good. We were just talking about that. Look,

1441
01:11:00,080 --> 01:11:03,640
Speaker 1: that's the fact that you ah got football and basketball

1442
01:11:03,800 --> 01:11:08,599
Speaker 1: arena's built stadium arena. I'm surprised, not surprised totally, but

1443
01:11:08,680 --> 01:11:10,280
Speaker 1: I just thought it was going to take a lot

1444
01:11:10,360 --> 01:11:12,479
Speaker 1: more than this to get it done. They very much

1445
01:11:12,520 --> 01:11:16,000
Speaker 1: impressed me as a university getting these facilities done and

1446
01:11:16,040 --> 01:11:18,519
Speaker 1: they needed them badly and they're wonderful, all right, So

1447
01:11:18,560 --> 01:11:22,200
Speaker 1: that's big. The Texans Monday Night went over the Tennessee Titans,

1448
01:11:22,760 --> 01:11:27,760
Speaker 1: featuring honoring mister McNair. That was quite an event, it

1449
01:11:27,800 --> 01:11:30,360
Speaker 1: really was. It was an unforgettable Monday Night. No matter

1450
01:11:30,400 --> 01:11:32,519
Speaker 1: what happens the rest of this season, we will always

1451
01:11:32,560 --> 01:11:35,760
Speaker 1: talk about that night how special it was. Absolutely. I mean,

1452
01:11:35,920 --> 01:11:39,200
Speaker 1: that's that was just a no brainer. And you know

1453
01:11:39,200 --> 01:11:41,880
Speaker 1: it wasn't just one part of that night either. It

1454
01:11:42,040 --> 01:11:44,720
Speaker 1: truly was an event. It was from the minute you

1455
01:11:44,760 --> 01:11:48,400
Speaker 1: walked in the building, just kind of sensing what was

1456
01:11:48,439 --> 01:11:51,080
Speaker 1: going on on the sidelines pre game, to the game,

1457
01:11:51,160 --> 01:11:52,800
Speaker 1: to the great call, some of the great calls you

1458
01:11:52,920 --> 01:11:55,680
Speaker 1: had to you know, honoring him in half, all of it.

1459
01:11:55,680 --> 01:11:57,439
Speaker 1: It was just it was a great Lamar Miller ninety

1460
01:11:57,439 --> 01:11:59,880
Speaker 1: seven yard touchdown was which can you say, longest play

1461
01:11:59,880 --> 01:12:04,360
Speaker 1: for scrimmage and franchise history. So NBA Western Conference Finals, Yeah,

1462
01:12:04,400 --> 01:12:09,799
Speaker 1: another another good one. Ye some great games. Rodeo about

1463
01:12:09,840 --> 01:12:13,080
Speaker 1: that Rodeo Houston. Well, so that qualifies as a sporting event.

1464
01:12:13,120 --> 01:12:14,720
Speaker 1: Of course it does. It's a sport. I mean, you're

1465
01:12:14,720 --> 01:12:16,400
Speaker 1: down there on the field with those guys. Those guys

1466
01:12:16,400 --> 01:12:20,639
Speaker 1: are athletes, gals absolutely. In fact, you know this year,

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01:12:21,800 --> 01:12:24,280
Speaker 1: we do a show every year called Meet the Cowboys,

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01:12:24,439 --> 01:12:27,040
Speaker 1: and they've changed the name to Meet the Athletes, so

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01:12:27,800 --> 01:12:31,080
Speaker 1: they don't you know, they consider them athletes for sure.

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01:12:31,160 --> 01:12:33,599
Speaker 1: And that event. We all know what that event means

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01:12:33,640 --> 01:12:37,040
Speaker 1: to the city of Houston year in year out, in

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01:12:37,080 --> 01:12:41,679
Speaker 1: that twenty days span, you know, two million plus people

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01:12:41,720 --> 01:12:44,599
Speaker 1: through those grounds, and then just what they put on

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01:12:45,160 --> 01:12:48,920
Speaker 1: in one night, let alone twenties outsider. You know, I

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01:12:48,960 --> 01:12:51,439
Speaker 1: grew up on the East Coast. I come here in

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01:12:51,439 --> 01:12:53,160
Speaker 1: two thousand and two, I see the Rodeo for the

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01:12:53,160 --> 01:12:56,240
Speaker 1: first time. The first night I saw the Rodeo, I

1478
01:12:56,320 --> 01:12:59,040
Speaker 1: was absolutely blown away by this event. I mean, if

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01:12:59,040 --> 01:13:01,360
Speaker 1: you just took one night of the Rodeo, it would

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01:13:01,360 --> 01:13:04,200
Speaker 1: be incredible. But then you have twenty nights of this, Yeah,

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01:13:04,240 --> 01:13:06,040
Speaker 1: and you're there for every single one of them, there

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01:13:06,040 --> 01:13:08,240
Speaker 1: for every single one of them. Yeah. They started amazing

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01:13:08,320 --> 01:13:11,400
Speaker 1: thing amazing and this you know, twenty eighteen was was phenomenal.

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01:13:11,439 --> 01:13:14,000
Speaker 1: They started and ended with Garth Brooks. I mean, it was,

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01:13:14,200 --> 01:13:16,840
Speaker 1: it was. It was great. It always is. The moment

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01:13:16,920 --> 01:13:20,120
Speaker 1: of the year is the last category, last one? All right,

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01:13:20,680 --> 01:13:23,240
Speaker 1: go for it, all right? Uh, Simone Biles winning that

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01:13:23,280 --> 01:13:26,479
Speaker 1: World championship and um, you know, we talked about her

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01:13:26,520 --> 01:13:28,400
Speaker 1: at the beginning here as an as an athlete, but

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01:13:28,479 --> 01:13:30,560
Speaker 1: to win the way she did with her back was

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01:13:30,640 --> 01:13:32,240
Speaker 1: hurt and people you didn't even think she was going

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01:13:32,320 --> 01:13:35,439
Speaker 1: to compete, um or be able to let alone to

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01:13:35,800 --> 01:13:38,680
Speaker 1: step up. And we'll give her credit for getting gymnastics

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01:13:38,680 --> 01:13:40,360
Speaker 1: on the front page so to speak. I know it's

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01:13:40,400 --> 01:13:42,920
Speaker 1: a dated way of putting it, but on the front

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01:13:42,960 --> 01:13:46,960
Speaker 1: page without an Olympics, you know what I mean. Yeah,

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01:13:47,040 --> 01:13:50,880
Speaker 1: and considering all the other newsworthy in front pages that

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01:13:51,040 --> 01:13:53,240
Speaker 1: gymnastics in that sport has had and all that was

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01:13:53,280 --> 01:13:56,479
Speaker 1: going on at that huge and she came out and

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01:13:56,600 --> 01:13:58,679
Speaker 1: you know, said her part of it. Yeah, a lot

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01:13:58,720 --> 01:14:01,519
Speaker 1: going on there. Um. Yes, Simone Boles winning that was

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01:14:01,800 --> 01:14:05,080
Speaker 1: one of the moments. This one hill I'm sure chime

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01:14:05,200 --> 01:14:07,479
Speaker 1: right in on before I get halfway through, But I'm

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01:14:07,479 --> 01:14:10,240
Speaker 1: gonna let you call it. DeAndre Hopkins spin a rama

1505
01:14:10,479 --> 01:14:12,920
Speaker 1: against the Cowboys to set up the winning field goal.

1506
01:14:13,240 --> 01:14:15,679
Speaker 1: All Right, If I have to pick out Texans moment

1507
01:14:15,760 --> 01:14:19,479
Speaker 1: of the year so far, is it? That? Is it? Miller?

1508
01:14:20,080 --> 01:14:24,240
Speaker 1: Look football wise, it's spin a rama, that's it. But

1509
01:14:24,360 --> 01:14:27,920
Speaker 1: the Miller thing with the McNair celebration going on that

1510
01:14:28,120 --> 01:14:31,240
Speaker 1: night carries so much weight dramatically, but as a pure

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01:14:31,320 --> 01:14:34,320
Speaker 1: sporting moment, I guess I'd have to say Hopkins with

1512
01:14:34,520 --> 01:14:36,920
Speaker 1: that move, the two spin moves on the way to

1513
01:14:36,960 --> 01:14:39,280
Speaker 1: the game winning field goal against Dallas was so huge,

1514
01:14:39,360 --> 01:14:42,240
Speaker 1: and it was on the way back from Owen three.

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01:14:42,320 --> 01:14:45,240
Speaker 1: It was the second game back now they won against

1516
01:14:45,240 --> 01:14:47,320
Speaker 1: the Colts. This is the second game of the streak.

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01:14:47,760 --> 01:14:50,360
Speaker 1: It was. It was monumental. Yes, well you're getting both.

1518
01:14:50,400 --> 01:14:52,320
Speaker 1: You're getting that one in moment and you got your

1519
01:14:52,320 --> 01:14:54,479
Speaker 1: other one over there an event in the last category. Yeah,

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01:14:54,640 --> 01:14:57,960
Speaker 1: I am, thank you, all right. And then the Houston

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01:14:58,000 --> 01:15:00,720
Speaker 1: Dynamo winning the Lamar Hunt US Open Cup first time

1522
01:15:00,720 --> 01:15:03,120
Speaker 1: in history. So that was one of the moments for

1523
01:15:03,160 --> 01:15:06,280
Speaker 1: the Dynamo a good one. And back to Santa Fe again,

1524
01:15:06,400 --> 01:15:09,200
Speaker 1: Santa Fe High School. That first football game back after

1525
01:15:09,240 --> 01:15:12,559
Speaker 1: the shootings. It was. It was powerful. I mean, I know.

1526
01:15:12,720 --> 01:15:15,280
Speaker 1: Um one of the stations did a thirty minute special

1527
01:15:15,320 --> 01:15:19,640
Speaker 1: on it. Daniel Gotara did it actually, and just phenomenal

1528
01:15:19,720 --> 01:15:22,439
Speaker 1: about what that game meant to that entire community and

1529
01:15:22,479 --> 01:15:24,519
Speaker 1: how they focused on it and just some of the

1530
01:15:24,560 --> 01:15:26,880
Speaker 1: things that coach it did. They just went through a lot,

1531
01:15:26,960 --> 01:15:29,759
Speaker 1: so another great moment. What about voting for these voting

1532
01:15:29,760 --> 01:15:32,280
Speaker 1: for these, well you can We'll have it all on

1533
01:15:32,280 --> 01:15:35,519
Speaker 1: at Houston Sports Awards dot Com on the website. You

1534
01:15:35,960 --> 01:15:37,720
Speaker 1: can't vote at this point, but you can see all

1535
01:15:37,760 --> 01:15:41,240
Speaker 1: the nominees descriptions of what everybody did the voting. Final

1536
01:15:41,320 --> 01:15:45,240
Speaker 1: voting will be again on January fifteenth from our selection committee,

1537
01:15:45,240 --> 01:15:46,840
Speaker 1: members of the media, and then it'll be announced on

1538
01:15:46,840 --> 01:15:49,880
Speaker 1: February sixth that Sports Awards. Beautiful, Patty, thanks so much

1539
01:15:49,920 --> 01:15:51,800
Speaker 1: for joining us. Thank you. Oh one more thing, Yes,

1540
01:15:51,880 --> 01:15:55,080
Speaker 1: the golden ticket still the golden tickets left. If you

1541
01:15:55,080 --> 01:15:57,519
Speaker 1: want to see any and all of these events, you

1542
01:15:57,520 --> 01:16:00,120
Speaker 1: can do that for one hundred dollars only five one

1543
01:16:00,200 --> 01:16:04,040
Speaker 1: hundred chances. One winner selected that night. You win season

1544
01:16:04,080 --> 01:16:07,880
Speaker 1: tickets to everything, season tickets to the Rockets, to the Astros,

1545
01:16:07,920 --> 01:16:12,640
Speaker 1: to the Rodeo Texas Bowl, Texans tickets. You win it

1546
01:16:12,720 --> 01:16:16,839
Speaker 1: all for one person, one chance, two tickets, one hundred bucks. Beautiful.

1547
01:16:16,920 --> 01:16:20,439
Speaker 1: Thanks Patty. Thanks Patty Smith from Harris County, Houston Sports Authority.

1548
01:16:20,439 --> 01:16:21,960
Speaker 1: All Right, that's gonna do it for the show. It's

1549
01:16:22,000 --> 01:16:23,559
Speaker 1: been a long one. It's been a great one with

1550
01:16:23,640 --> 01:16:26,839
Speaker 1: John McClain and John Harris and Jamie Roots, James Palmer,

1551
01:16:26,880 --> 01:16:29,240
Speaker 1: Patti Smith. Thanks to all of you for being on

1552
01:16:29,520 --> 01:16:32,599
Speaker 1: and thanks to all of you for listening. Texans Eagles

1553
01:16:32,640 --> 01:16:36,719
Speaker 1: Sunday at noon. Let's go have a great night everyone,

1554
01:16:36,880 --> 01:16:38,040
Speaker 1: and go Texans.