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Speaker 1: Happy Friday, everybody. Welcome you to another edition of Texans

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Speaker 1: All Access from the Monday Texans Radio Studio. I am

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Speaker 1: your host, John Harris, Football y Elson's silent reporter for

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Speaker 1: your Houston Texans and absolutely on fire. So excited about

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Speaker 1: heading to Baltimore for this one on Sunday against Lamar

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Speaker 1: some people think the best team in the NFL. If

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Speaker 1: you look at some of the power rankings, which I

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Speaker 1: do for Fodder, I look at a number of them.

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Speaker 1: The Ravens are anywhere from one to three. The Texans

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Speaker 1: are anywhere from like eight to twelve. So we'll see.

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Speaker 1: It's time to get it on. I can't cannot, cannot wait.

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Speaker 1: Taken off on the bird tomorrow and get up there.

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Speaker 1: Games at one. I'm actually glad it's at one. I

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Speaker 1: which is a pretty cool environment. I might have football

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Speaker 1: last time, but there's just wake up, go get to

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Speaker 1: time to get it going with Baltimore Ravens. So looking

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Speaker 1: forward to that Now on the show this evening, we

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Speaker 1: fantastic job for this team. He kicked off Turnover Fest

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Speaker 1: his thoughts. Is this the biggest regular season game in

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Speaker 1: Mark says. He's kind of downplayed it all week, but

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Speaker 1: This week we also have got my predictions. I give

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Speaker 1: in our players segment, we've got Player Reporter brought to

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Speaker 1: Each and every Friday, we do this except last Friday

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Speaker 1: up with head coach, your Houston Texas Bill O'Brien coach.

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Speaker 1: Here you are playing Baltimore, but you are coming off

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Speaker 1: the buy. So how hard is it to go from

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Speaker 1: Nice to have you, Thank you, thank you. It's good

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Speaker 1: I've heard a lot of nicknames for you. You get

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Speaker 1: you're one of the few players on this team that

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Speaker 1: have seen him before. Chargers beat the Ravens last year

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Speaker 1: in the playoffs. What do you remember about facing him

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Speaker 1: last year? He was a rookie obviously last year. What

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Speaker 1: do you remember about facing him last year? And from

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Speaker 1: watching him on film this year? Where has he changed

431
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Speaker 1: the last um? We faced him twice last year, you know,

432
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Speaker 1: but last year he was just as electrifying. But I

433
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Speaker 1: just feel like this year he just he feels he

434
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Speaker 1: seems a lot more comfortable. Not that he wasn't last year,

435
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Speaker 1: but this year he just feels more comfortable. He's running,

436
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Speaker 1: he's passing, he's orchestrating the offense. You know what. I

437
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Speaker 1: feel like the offense is gaining the juice from him,

438
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Speaker 1: and you know, just like rookies, they take the rookie

439
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Speaker 1: curves and ups and downs last year, But this year

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Speaker 1: he's full head of steam and it's gonna be a

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Speaker 1: tough task for us. A lot of the players talk

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Speaker 1: about how difficult it is to prepare for an offense

443
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Speaker 1: like that. They're probably the most complex to prepare for.

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Speaker 1: Do you think that's the case. You're for a lot

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Speaker 1: of offenses in your time, right, It's like playing the

446
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Speaker 1: Army Navy Georgia techs a college. You know, it's it's

447
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Speaker 1: an offense that you don't see weekend and week out,

448
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Speaker 1: and it's a lot of it. You have to be

449
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Speaker 1: very sound, you have to be disciplined because one one

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Speaker 1: wrong move, or one guy out of this gap, or

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Speaker 1: one guy not doing a job, it could be a

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Speaker 1: big play. All right. So we've got in the defense,

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Speaker 1: we've got the lunch Pill Crew, which are the interior

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Speaker 1: defensive lineman. Then you have the rock Boys. And I

455
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Speaker 1: asked one of the players I want to say it

456
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Speaker 1: was Brennan Scarlett or one of the linebackers about the DPS.

457
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Speaker 1: I'm like, what's the DBS group? Do you guys have

458
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Speaker 1: a group name? Do you guys? We don't have a

459
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Speaker 1: lot of handshakes, and we got a lot of handshare,

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Speaker 1: you got a lot of dances. I think we gotta

461
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Speaker 1: get a nickname soon. I think you do too. Yeah,

462
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Speaker 1: it's kind of on the second half, we gotta get

463
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Speaker 1: a nickname. You've got a lot of new players now

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Speaker 1: on the secondary, a lot of new corners added. What

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Speaker 1: do you think about the chemistry there? It's obviously something

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Speaker 1: that you guys work on all offseason, but now with

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Speaker 1: new players. How does that sort of work? Every time

468
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Speaker 1: a new guy joins, Just get them acclimated as fast

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Speaker 1: as possible. You know what, The coaches do a good

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Speaker 1: job of catching guys up on the playbook, and we

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Speaker 1: have to do a good job of communicating with them,

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Speaker 1: cass them up on the playbook and allowing them to

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Speaker 1: feel like one, you know, feel like us when they

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Speaker 1: come in. You know, it's always difficult when you come

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Speaker 1: in from a new team. So you got to make

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Speaker 1: guys as comfortable as possible and allow them to joy

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Speaker 1: the brotherhood. How about for yourself? You were undrafted and

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Speaker 1: here you are playing in the league for a number

479
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Speaker 1: of years at such a high level. When you sort

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Speaker 1: of look back at your career, is there anything that

481
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Speaker 1: you kind of wish you knew early on? Oh? Not really.

482
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Speaker 1: I think I learned from some good veterans, you know,

483
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Speaker 1: coming in early with the charges with Eric Weddo, being

484
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Speaker 1: around Philip Rivers, Dwight for any of those guys since

485
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Speaker 1: I've been there brand of flowers. So I think everything

486
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Speaker 1: happens for a reason, and I've learned, you know, every year,

487
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Speaker 1: and I'm continuing to get wiser as I go. Next year,

488
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Speaker 1: into my eighth year. But I think that being undrafted

489
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Speaker 1: and coming in the way I did it makes me

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Speaker 1: play the game and the way I played with the

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Speaker 1: chip and always being hungry and never satisfied or complacent. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you and too, Shaun Gibson, both coming sort of from

493
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Speaker 1: that similar background. What was it like going back to

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Speaker 1: LA and playing the Chargers your former team. A lot

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Speaker 1: of people have to A lot of players have to

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Speaker 1: wait a number of years before they faced their former team.

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Speaker 1: For you, you didn't have to wait that long. But

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Speaker 1: was it awkward? Was it strange? You know? What were

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Speaker 1: your emotions around? There's a lot of emotions. Honestly, I

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Speaker 1: was excited, but it was awker going to the visitor

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Speaker 1: locker room. Then got out there and got to see

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Speaker 1: a lot of the people that I've played with for

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Speaker 1: such a long time and build relationships with. But once

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Speaker 1: that ball snapped, it was it was no more friendships.

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Speaker 1: I was. I was juiced, I was excited. I might

506
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Speaker 1: have been a little bit too carried away sometimes, but

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Speaker 1: I mean that's just the way I play, you know,

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Speaker 1: playing my former team, I was gonna bring a little

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Speaker 1: bit extra out of me. Yeah, I saw a little

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Speaker 1: bit of juice because I think Philip Rivers was miked

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Speaker 1: up during the game. He singled you out during one

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Speaker 1: of the places that he's calling out a lot of things.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't know what he's talking about. That's typical Philly

514
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Speaker 1: talks a lot of that's my guy, though, that's my guy.

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Speaker 1: A lot of players really enjoyed facing him. They said,

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Speaker 1: one of the smartest quarterbacks and it was a big competitor.

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Speaker 1: All Right, I gotta ask you something. This is kind

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Speaker 1: of off the beaten path, but we do this thing

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Speaker 1: called Bescar TV. And one of the questions that he

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Speaker 1: asked was name a show that you're embarrassed to admit

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Speaker 1: you watched. And I was shocked when you said The Bachelor.

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Speaker 1: Not because it's a bad show, because I watched The

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Speaker 1: Batchelor too, but because the former batchelor, Colton Underwood, was

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Speaker 1: one of your really good friends. And that's why you

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Speaker 1: watched it. Right, So you watched that entire season and

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Speaker 1: that's your good former teammate and your friend. What were

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Speaker 1: your thoughts when you saw him. I'm happy for him.

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Speaker 1: He's doing this thing. He's made a mark for himself.

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Speaker 1: He always told us that he wanted to get into

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Speaker 1: modeling or TV once he got done playing ball, you know,

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Speaker 1: and he was a former linebacker force and we always

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Speaker 1: joked with them and said that he would do a

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Speaker 1: good job doing it. And to see him on the

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Speaker 1: big screen doing it and getting so much gigs and

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Speaker 1: offspins from it, man, it's it's awesome to see because

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Speaker 1: first he was like a contestant, and then he was

537
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Speaker 1: such a fan favorite. They brought him back as a bachelor,

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Speaker 1: and I know everyone talking, even if you don't watch

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Speaker 1: the show, you've heard the phrase the most dramatic season.

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Speaker 1: Yet I really thought that was the most dramatic season, yeah,

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Speaker 1: because it was he broke up with everybody and then

542
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Speaker 1: went after the girl that broke up with him and

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Speaker 1: they're happy together. And they're happy together. So you're watching that,

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Speaker 1: were you like, what are you thinking? This is cold?

545
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Speaker 1: Or No? I didn't know. I didn't I didn't know that.

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Speaker 1: I didn't know if it was scripted. I didn't know

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Speaker 1: how it went, you know, So I didn't know if

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Speaker 1: he was just going along with it or that was

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Speaker 1: just a build up drama. And yeah, I texted, I'm

550
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Speaker 1: not give him some crap. Every he just hit me back, laughing,

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Speaker 1: But I'm happy for him. It was awesome to, you know,

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Speaker 1: see somebody that you know, gained that start him. All right,

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Speaker 1: how about for yourself, You're not really new to Houston anymore.

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Speaker 1: You've been here for a little while. What have you

555
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Speaker 1: thought about the city? Have you been around it much?

556
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Speaker 1: What you thought about the people and the fans here.

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Speaker 1: It's awesome. It's a football state. Obviously the state of

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Speaker 1: Texas a football state, and they loved their Texas here. Um,

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Speaker 1: it's been it's been awesome. I'm living here and living

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Speaker 1: in the Parlin area out there and having my family

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Speaker 1: with me and my son being raised out here around

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Speaker 1: culture like this and good foods. You're gonna need to

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Speaker 1: get your son a little baby cowboy boots and a

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Speaker 1: little cowboy hat. I gotta get him swagged up. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: all right, good stuff. Wish best luck for the rest

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Speaker 1: of the season. All right, thank you. I saw it's

567
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Speaker 1: your little son during training camp, and mean, just the

568
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Speaker 1: most precious little boy you're ever gonna want to meet.

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Speaker 1: I saw him again in London. They got a family

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Speaker 1: picture us. I thought was just really cool to have

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Speaker 1: that in that moment in London. But Julia been there

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Speaker 1: last year with the LA Chargers. Chargers played the Titans

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Speaker 1: over there last year, so he got back to back

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Speaker 1: trips to London, not like Jared Colling. Gary Colling got

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Speaker 1: trips to London, I think three out of the last

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Speaker 1: four weeks of the year because he went with Oakland,

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Speaker 1: then had a bye week, then played Green Bay and

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Speaker 1: then got traded to Houston, played against the Raiders, then

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Speaker 1: flew to London to take on a Jackson actually ended

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Speaker 1: up two and oh, I think that's an NFL record.

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Speaker 1: Ann Conley Tuna over in London this year. But either way,

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Speaker 1: great stuff. They're from secondary mate jalil A die with

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Speaker 1: DPT City. When we get back, it'll be time for

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Speaker 1: our first Community Credit Union First Glance Keys the Game.

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Speaker 1: How will the Texans get it done against the unstoppable

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Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens. I'll discuss that next right here in Texans

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Speaker 1: All Access. It is time to buckle up, Sparky. Here

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Speaker 1: we go, big time matchup on Sunday against the Baltimore Ravens.

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Speaker 1: And that leads us to this week's first Community Credit

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Speaker 1: Union First Glance Keys to the Game. SECU is the

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Speaker 1: official credit union of the Houston Texans. This is my

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Speaker 1: favorite segment all week long because and honestly, I get

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Speaker 1: to just talk football. I talk football with you. That's

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Speaker 1: always fun. I wish you could talk back to me,

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Speaker 1: and I like talk back like your kids talk back

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Speaker 1: to you. Like my son will talk back to me

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Speaker 1: every now and again. Now I'm joking, he doesn't do that.

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Speaker 1: He's a good boy, there's no doubt about that. But

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Speaker 1: I wish I could sort of hear from you. I

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Speaker 1: hear from I hear from some people about this segment,

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Speaker 1: in particular some people I love and take care of me.

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Speaker 1: So they like it, and so I like it. So

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Speaker 1: I'm giving you the keys to the game on Sunday,

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Speaker 1: and we're gonna start with the Texans defense against the

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Speaker 1: Ravens offense. It is a unique bunch on offense, from

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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson to offensive coordinator Greg Roman to the construction

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Speaker 1: of it, with three tight ends being the majority pass

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Speaker 1: catchers with speed on the outside, a receiver but not

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Speaker 1: utilized all that much. A veteran offensive line adapting to

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Speaker 1: the new offense just as everybody else has. It's a

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Speaker 1: unique group. It is first in the league in points

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Speaker 1: per game since Week five. It is first in the

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Speaker 1: league and rush yards per game, so they are round gainers,

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Speaker 1: but they do it differently than most. And that leads

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Speaker 1: me to key number one. Disciplined eyes. Now eyes will

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Speaker 1: control everything this week. And what I mean by that

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Speaker 1: is you're gonna have to play option responsibility football. When

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Speaker 1: Lamar puts the ball in a guy's chest, who's got

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Speaker 1: that guy? Who's got Lamar? When they run midline option,

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Speaker 1: as I tellustrated, you can't have two guys chasing ghosts.

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Speaker 1: You've got to make sure that from a responsibility standpoint,

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Speaker 1: it's taken care of who's got to dive the pitch

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Speaker 1: the poll, who's got the full back, the quarterback, tailback

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Speaker 1: or in this case the running back, maybe the wide

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Speaker 1: receiver is the pitch guy. We've seen that with the

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Speaker 1: Texans a few times when the Texans run it. But

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Speaker 1: disciplined eyes read your key. They will take you to

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Speaker 1: where you need to go. They will take you to

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Speaker 1: your responsibility. Do not create unnecessary seems in the run

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Speaker 1: defense chasing ghost and what I mean what I mean

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Speaker 1: by that goes back to what I tell straighted. This week,

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Speaker 1: I did a midline option play for the Baltimore Ravens

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Speaker 1: and what that does in a midline option. Essentially, what

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Speaker 1: you're doing for most options, you're reading the outside guy

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Speaker 1: in a line of scrimmage. You read him. If he

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Speaker 1: bites on the ball fake, then the quarterback pulls it

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Speaker 1: and he runs an option with the opportunity to run

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Speaker 1: it or pitch it to one of his guys. And

639
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Speaker 1: basically what you hope is that if that guy crashes,

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Speaker 1: then he's out of the place. So basically he's chased

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Speaker 1: a ghost. Well, what the Patriots did is they didn't

642
00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:47,520
Speaker 1: have just one guy chase a ghost. They had two.

643
00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:50,440
Speaker 1: They had both the guy that didn't get blocked and

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Speaker 1: a linebacker. The way that should be played is yeah, okay,

645
00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:58,160
Speaker 1: if Lawrence guy bites on it, okay, but the linebacker can't.

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00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:01,320
Speaker 1: The linebackers gotta the keys. Hey, my defensive line, we

647
00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:04,640
Speaker 1: went inside, I gotta go outside. You've got to play

648
00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:11,200
Speaker 1: responsibility football against this group, and that takes disciplined eyes.

649
00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:17,600
Speaker 1: Now number two is really a key that it's it's

650
00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:21,600
Speaker 1: necessary every week, but it's more of a focus this

651
00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:26,920
Speaker 1: week maybe than ever because of the construction of the

652
00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:29,720
Speaker 1: Ravens run game and the guys who run the football

653
00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:31,320
Speaker 1: and there are three guys that run the ball the

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00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:34,960
Speaker 1: majority of the time, if not nearly one hundred percent

655
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Speaker 1: of the time, and that's running backs Mark Ingram and

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00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:45,320
Speaker 1: Gus Edwards and quarterback Lamar Jackson. Tackling is a major

657
00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:53,520
Speaker 1: key this week. Those two running backs are strong and powerful.

658
00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:56,440
Speaker 1: Now Ingram's a little long in the tooth. Edwards I

659
00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:58,360
Speaker 1: think it is a second or third I think second year.

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00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:04,800
Speaker 1: They hound the rock. There's no fancy, there's size and

661
00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:07,320
Speaker 1: there's power with those two. So you got to bring

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00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:10,840
Speaker 1: big boy pads to tackle them. And then you got Lamar.

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Speaker 1: Now when you see Lamar on TV, you're like a

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Speaker 1: like a name. He's thin, eighteen. That doesn't sound like

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Speaker 1: a whole lot, But then you think, wait a second,

666
00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:21,040
Speaker 1: six two two eighteen. That's a pretty good sized guy.

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00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:25,280
Speaker 1: And not only is he a good size, he is slippery.

668
00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:27,600
Speaker 1: That's the word I would use for him. He is slippery.

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Speaker 1: It's really hard to get a good shot on him.

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00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:33,520
Speaker 1: He's got a knack for getting skinny through a hole.

671
00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:36,240
Speaker 1: And then he can run away from you. And he's

672
00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:38,800
Speaker 1: strong and he's athletic. He'll hurdle you. If you go low,

673
00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:41,719
Speaker 1: he'll shake you off if you come with a feeble tackle.

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Speaker 1: Tackling is at a premium. Number three. This kind of

675
00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:51,720
Speaker 1: goes with number one a little bit. Well, we usually

676
00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:53,960
Speaker 1: talk about spinning the dial. Right, you've heard me use

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00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:56,080
Speaker 1: that term. Coach O'Brien's used that term. We've kind of

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00:32:56,520 --> 00:32:58,600
Speaker 1: stolen from him and used it, and we talk about

679
00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:02,760
Speaker 1: that in terms of defense, spinning the dial coverage wise

680
00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:05,920
Speaker 1: and pass rush wise. So you have the Russian coverage.

681
00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:07,920
Speaker 1: You work together, so you talk about spinning it out.

682
00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:09,560
Speaker 1: Don't show him the same rush, don't show him the

683
00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:14,080
Speaker 1: same coverage that pertains this week to playing the option.

684
00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:17,840
Speaker 1: When you play the option, you can't always have this

685
00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:20,960
Speaker 1: guy onundive, this guy on quarterback, this guy on pitch.

686
00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:23,320
Speaker 1: You've got to be able to change that up. You

687
00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:28,560
Speaker 1: got to spin the option responsibility dial because once you

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00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:30,400
Speaker 1: get locked in this is how we're gonna do it,

689
00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:33,120
Speaker 1: and you do that, do it the whole way, then

690
00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:35,040
Speaker 1: you're gonna have trouble because they're gonna figure it out.

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00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:37,120
Speaker 1: They're gonna know who they need to block. Okay, well,

692
00:33:37,120 --> 00:33:38,920
Speaker 1: you know this guy's got the pitch, so make sure

693
00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:41,200
Speaker 1: we put a guy on that so he can pitch it.

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00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:43,920
Speaker 1: And then run. Or we know this guy's got the quarterback,

695
00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:47,080
Speaker 1: let's block that guy, so Lamark and run free. Spin

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00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:52,200
Speaker 1: the dial against them from an option responsibility standpoint, and

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00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:53,720
Speaker 1: I hope you understand what we're talking about. When it

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00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:57,200
Speaker 1: comes to option, Lamar Jackson has three options. He can

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00:33:57,240 --> 00:34:02,040
Speaker 1: give the ball, he can pull it himself, or he

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00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:04,160
Speaker 1: can pitch it out to a running backer maybe sometimes

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00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:06,240
Speaker 1: even wide receiver. Now there are some options where it's

702
00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:09,200
Speaker 1: just give it, pull it, like zone read, and you

703
00:34:09,239 --> 00:34:11,520
Speaker 1: see a lot of that with the Texans. There's zone read.

704
00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:15,279
Speaker 1: The Texans add the RPO game into that, which is

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00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:18,520
Speaker 1: run pass option, and the Ravens will do a little

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00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:21,160
Speaker 1: bit of that. But there's are more just true run options.

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00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:26,440
Speaker 1: So change up who's got what responsibility? Hay On this play,

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00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:29,799
Speaker 1: We're gonna slant hard with the defensive lineman inside to

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00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:33,880
Speaker 1: take Lamar. He may not be expecting it because we've

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00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:38,000
Speaker 1: been playing outside responsibility with Mr. Now we're gonna take

711
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:39,480
Speaker 1: our guy and just slam him hard inside. You go

712
00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:43,120
Speaker 1: to Lamar and make him have to make a decision early,

713
00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:47,600
Speaker 1: but change it up on them. Spin the option responsibility

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00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:52,480
Speaker 1: dial Number four challenge the tight ends of the passing

715
00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:57,120
Speaker 1: game with corners as much as possible. What ends up

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Speaker 1: happening to teams is they see three tight ends on

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00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:02,960
Speaker 1: the field and they want a bunch of safeties or

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00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:05,719
Speaker 1: linebackers on the field, and then those tight ends start

719
00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:08,680
Speaker 1: getting out of the routes and you've got linebackers and

720
00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:12,839
Speaker 1: safeties haven't covered these tight ends. Understand that the tight

721
00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:16,839
Speaker 1: ends are the focal point of the passing game, so

722
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:20,720
Speaker 1: have corners on the field to be able to cover them. Now,

723
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:23,040
Speaker 1: the Ravens will scheme it up such that there is

724
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Speaker 1: a wide receiver out on the field, but make sure

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00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:30,560
Speaker 1: that you have corners that are available. And Lonnie Johnson

726
00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:33,360
Speaker 1: is a perfect example of a guy size wise that

727
00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:37,040
Speaker 1: can match up close as close as you're gonna get

728
00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:40,880
Speaker 1: to Hayden Hurst to Mark Andrews to Nick Boyle, but

729
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:43,719
Speaker 1: match up with corners. They run routes down the field.

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00:35:43,719 --> 00:35:46,279
Speaker 1: Makes your corners are on them. Now. I trust Justin

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00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:48,440
Speaker 1: Reid and coverage. He's covered a lot of guys in

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00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:50,680
Speaker 1: his time. Getting back to Stanford, he played some corner

733
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Speaker 1: out there, he played some nickel. He'll cover guys. He'll

734
00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:56,520
Speaker 1: cover some of those tight ends. That's fine, but I

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00:35:56,560 --> 00:36:00,759
Speaker 1: don't want is a slew of safety. He's covering tight

736
00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:05,439
Speaker 1: ends when you could have corners on them. So if

737
00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:09,040
Speaker 1: you can allow corners to be on the tight ends,

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Speaker 1: let's do it, because that is a focal point of

739
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:14,239
Speaker 1: this offense, is throwing the battle those three tight ends

740
00:36:14,719 --> 00:36:19,400
Speaker 1: and lasted certainly not least when you rush the quarterback

741
00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:22,560
Speaker 1: in Lamar in this case, envelope Jackson the pocket. You

742
00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:24,480
Speaker 1: did this pretty well against Gardner Minshew, and you forced

743
00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:26,520
Speaker 1: him to have the throw from the pocket. Now Lamar

744
00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:28,520
Speaker 1: will throw it from the pocket and will beat you

745
00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:30,880
Speaker 1: a few times from the pocket. He's not Tom Brady

746
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Speaker 1: from the pocket. He's not even Deshaun Watson from the pocket.

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00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:36,319
Speaker 1: He's not Drew Brees from the pocket. You envelop the

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00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:39,160
Speaker 1: pocket around them, all that does is give them enough

749
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Speaker 1: time to find it open receiver. Lamar is gonna look

750
00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:45,960
Speaker 1: at that first read. If that pockets closing down on him,

751
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:48,319
Speaker 1: his eyes find the rush and now you got him.

752
00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:50,279
Speaker 1: But you've got to envelop him. You can't allow a

753
00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:55,319
Speaker 1: seam which provides an escape route. So just take your

754
00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:57,719
Speaker 1: four rushers and envelop him just like a wall, like

755
00:36:57,760 --> 00:37:01,719
Speaker 1: a closing in ARCD wall it's like, oh, you know

756
00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:04,399
Speaker 1: like the you know, like the claw, but you played

757
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:06,400
Speaker 1: at David Busters that claw that comes down and it

758
00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:08,600
Speaker 1: picks up like a stuff teddy bear. That's kind of

759
00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:09,840
Speaker 1: like you want it to be kind of be like that,

760
00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:13,799
Speaker 1: just like just develop him in it. That's it. You

761
00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:18,480
Speaker 1: do that and those things. If you spin the option

762
00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:22,000
Speaker 1: responsibility to dial, you play with disciplinie, you tackle well,

763
00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:26,560
Speaker 1: you cover tight ends when at all possible with corners,

764
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:29,759
Speaker 1: and you envelop the quarterback in the pocket. You got

765
00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:33,319
Speaker 1: an opportunity to slow that Ravens offense down. Now let's

766
00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:36,160
Speaker 1: go to the other side against this Ravens defense. It

767
00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:40,400
Speaker 1: features guys maybe you don't know a lot on the

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Speaker 1: defensive side. Up front, there's no more Terrell Sucks, there's

769
00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:47,440
Speaker 1: no more CJ. Moseley names you're used to hearing that

770
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:53,520
Speaker 1: those names are gone in its place, Patrick Juanasur, LJ. Fort,

771
00:37:55,200 --> 00:38:00,640
Speaker 1: Michael Pierce, Tias Bowser names that you may not be

772
00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:03,040
Speaker 1: familiar with. Now universe Houston fans should be familiar with

773
00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:05,840
Speaker 1: Tis Bowser, names that you're maybe not familiar with. But

774
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:08,040
Speaker 1: the back end is where they've got the stars. Up

775
00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:11,840
Speaker 1: front not so much, but those guys played pretty well together.

776
00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:16,480
Speaker 1: In the secondary names you've heard of Marcus Peters, Jimmy Smith,

777
00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:24,439
Speaker 1: Branding Carr, Marlon Humphrey, Earl Thomas. I bring up those

778
00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:27,200
Speaker 1: names because the number one key against the Ravens defense

779
00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:32,120
Speaker 1: is ball security. In all caps and exclamation points. I

780
00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:36,040
Speaker 1: can't stress this enough. Marlon Humphrey, every single time a

781
00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:39,799
Speaker 1: ball carrier is around him, he looks to punch it out.

782
00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:43,440
Speaker 1: He is the Peanut Tillman of this era. His Twitter

783
00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:49,440
Speaker 1: name is fruit Punch in all caps, the punch. He

784
00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:51,400
Speaker 1: wants to punch it out. That's what he did at

785
00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:54,120
Speaker 1: Seattle in a huge moment in the game Seattle driving

786
00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:57,680
Speaker 1: to tie the game, Ball's caught, he goes to punch

787
00:38:57,680 --> 00:39:00,000
Speaker 1: it out, it comes out. He returned it for a touchdown.

788
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:07,040
Speaker 1: That secondary is lurking at all times. They want to

789
00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:09,080
Speaker 1: punch it out of every ball carry's hands. And I'm

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00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:11,920
Speaker 1: bringing it up because the Texans have not been great

791
00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:15,279
Speaker 1: with ball security the first nine games. Now they got

792
00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:18,759
Speaker 1: a lot of them back, but they think of the games.

793
00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:22,319
Speaker 1: Kansas City first play the game fumble. They've had it

794
00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:25,960
Speaker 1: throughout where they have fumbled the football, got it back,

795
00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:30,760
Speaker 1: but the ball security has got to be on point

796
00:39:31,880 --> 00:39:35,320
Speaker 1: because that secondary in particular, is lurking to take it away.

797
00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:39,479
Speaker 1: Number two one of the guys that I absolutely love.

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00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:41,400
Speaker 1: I have been a huge fan of his since he

799
00:39:41,440 --> 00:39:44,080
Speaker 1: came into the league. When I scouted him going into

800
00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:45,880
Speaker 1: the NFL, I knew this guy was gonna be a

801
00:39:45,880 --> 00:39:48,600
Speaker 1: big time player, was going to be a huge run stuffer.

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00:39:48,719 --> 00:39:52,279
Speaker 1: And that's Brandon Williams. Number ninety eight, very similar to

803
00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:54,760
Speaker 1: our number ninety eight, DJ Reader. And when John Harball

804
00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:59,040
Speaker 1: was asked about our defense, he mentioned Reader and said

805
00:39:59,040 --> 00:40:01,560
Speaker 1: he's similar to our guy, and he met Brandon Williams.

806
00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:05,840
Speaker 1: You're not gonna shut him down, but you've got to

807
00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:08,319
Speaker 1: be able to handle him. He's gonna make plays because

808
00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:10,640
Speaker 1: he's a strong beast and one heck of a football player,

809
00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:12,680
Speaker 1: but you've got to be able to handle him and

810
00:40:12,719 --> 00:40:15,200
Speaker 1: contain him as much as possible. If you let him

811
00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:17,799
Speaker 1: run wild and you just can't get him blocked, you're

812
00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:21,839
Speaker 1: gonna have trouble running the football all day long. That

813
00:40:21,880 --> 00:40:24,800
Speaker 1: guy is a man child. Number ninety eight, Brandon Williams,

814
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Speaker 1: You've got to manage him and slow him down and

815
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Speaker 1: contain him. Number three kind of working with Number one,

816
00:40:31,680 --> 00:40:34,239
Speaker 1: but this goes all the way through. Receivers must be

817
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Speaker 1: strong from snap to tackle. And what I mean by

818
00:40:37,719 --> 00:40:41,360
Speaker 1: that is as soon as the ball is snapped, those

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00:40:41,600 --> 00:40:44,120
Speaker 1: defensive backs with the ravens are looking to punish and

820
00:40:44,239 --> 00:40:46,640
Speaker 1: grab and hold and do whatever they've got to do

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Speaker 1: to slow down routes. And then through the route they're

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Speaker 1: gonna be pushing and holding and clutching and grabbing, and

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Speaker 1: then at the top of the route they're gonna be

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00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:57,359
Speaker 1: doing the same thing. And then when you go up

825
00:40:57,360 --> 00:40:59,799
Speaker 1: and get the football, they're gonna mall you and try

826
00:40:59,800 --> 00:41:01,719
Speaker 1: and get that thing away from you. And then after

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00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:03,520
Speaker 1: you've caught it, they're gonna do the same thing, try

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Speaker 1: and punch it out. These guys are as physical as

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Speaker 1: it gets. And all I have to do is remind

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00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:12,440
Speaker 1: you of DeAndre Hopkins in twenty seventeen. Halfway through the

831
00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:16,640
Speaker 1: first quarter. His jersey was torn from his armpit all

832
00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:21,400
Speaker 1: the way down to his waist torn. That's how they're

833
00:41:21,440 --> 00:41:23,879
Speaker 1: going to play on the outside. It is going to

834
00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:27,640
Speaker 1: be a physical match. You've got to be strong off

835
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Speaker 1: the snap, strong in your routes, strong at the top

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Speaker 1: of the route, strong catching the football, and then hanging

837
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Speaker 1: on that thing for dear life. Receivers are key this

838
00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:39,799
Speaker 1: week against his secondaries is as good as secondaries. They're

839
00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:43,120
Speaker 1: gonna face. But they clutch, they hold, they grab, they punch.

840
00:41:45,080 --> 00:41:47,439
Speaker 1: You've got to be able to handle that as a receiver. Crew.

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00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:52,560
Speaker 1: Number four, the blitz is coming. Know that right now.

842
00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:55,560
Speaker 1: Don Wink Martindale is not gonna let Shaun Watson sit

843
00:41:55,560 --> 00:41:57,919
Speaker 1: in the pocket. He's bringing the blitz and he's gonna

844
00:41:57,920 --> 00:42:01,080
Speaker 1: bring blit zone. He's gonna bring seven cover zero. He's

845
00:42:01,120 --> 00:42:03,360
Speaker 1: gonna bring all kinds of stuff at him. If you

846
00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:06,640
Speaker 1: pick it up, you got a chance. The Patriots struggle

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00:42:06,719 --> 00:42:08,160
Speaker 1: a few times early on in the game and then

848
00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:09,879
Speaker 1: pick it up and then allowed the Ravens to jump

849
00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:12,000
Speaker 1: out to seventeen nothing lead, and then they held on

850
00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:14,560
Speaker 1: at least until I got twenty four twenty and attacked

851
00:42:14,560 --> 00:42:17,600
Speaker 1: on another couple of touchdowns. The blitz is coming. Know

852
00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:20,400
Speaker 1: where your hots are. Guys that have hot routes, know

853
00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:23,920
Speaker 1: when to run them. Get yourself open and beat the

854
00:42:23,960 --> 00:42:30,439
Speaker 1: blitz with quick reactions and quick effective execution. And number five,

855
00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:33,520
Speaker 1: if the Ravens want to play five or six defensive

856
00:42:33,520 --> 00:42:36,560
Speaker 1: backs regularly, keep the hammer down in the run game,

857
00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:40,080
Speaker 1: block ninety eight with a couple of guys, and keep

858
00:42:40,120 --> 00:42:41,759
Speaker 1: the hammer down. If they want to play five and

859
00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:45,440
Speaker 1: six defensive backs, keep pounding the ball down her throat.

860
00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:47,600
Speaker 1: The texted to the one team. I think that can

861
00:42:47,719 --> 00:42:50,320
Speaker 1: do that to the Ravens. But they got to be

862
00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:51,960
Speaker 1: able to do that when they go five and six

863
00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:54,960
Speaker 1: defensive backs. If it's second and seven and they got

864
00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:58,839
Speaker 1: five six defensive backs on the field, pounded pounded number six.

865
00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:01,840
Speaker 1: I must say for pregame because I think there's one

866
00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:04,360
Speaker 1: thing I saw in the Patriots game that the Patriots

867
00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:06,680
Speaker 1: did in the second half. They gave the Ravens some issue.

868
00:43:07,640 --> 00:43:09,160
Speaker 1: I'll talk a little bit more about the pregame, but

869
00:43:09,239 --> 00:43:11,160
Speaker 1: there you go. Those are your first Community Credit Union

870
00:43:11,200 --> 00:43:14,279
Speaker 1: First Glance Keys to the Game SECU, the official Credit

871
00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:17,720
Speaker 1: Union of the Houston Texans. Good by Buddy. Mark vandermir

872
00:43:17,840 --> 00:43:22,320
Speaker 1: In here next to talk about his thoughts. And I

873
00:43:22,520 --> 00:43:26,960
Speaker 1: thought this week Mark was very reserved not saying biggest

874
00:43:27,040 --> 00:43:30,239
Speaker 1: game in Texans history. A lot of other people said that,

875
00:43:31,560 --> 00:43:33,880
Speaker 1: is this the biggest regular season game in quite some time?

876
00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:35,800
Speaker 1: I'll ask Mark next right here in Texans All Access.

877
00:43:36,640 --> 00:43:38,000
Speaker 1: We got one out of the books. In this Friday

878
00:43:38,080 --> 00:43:41,160
Speaker 1: edition of Texans All Access from the Hounday Texans Radio Studio,

879
00:43:41,320 --> 00:43:44,320
Speaker 1: I'm your host, John Harris, and I'm joined by the

880
00:43:44,520 --> 00:43:48,279
Speaker 1: voice of the Houston Texans, Mark vandermir Mark. Your level

881
00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:52,120
Speaker 1: of excitement for Sunday and how different is that from

882
00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:54,520
Speaker 1: every other Sunday. Well, I'm trying to pump the brakes

883
00:43:54,560 --> 00:43:57,439
Speaker 1: here a little bit because I'm super excited and we've

884
00:43:57,520 --> 00:44:00,680
Speaker 1: got the Texans coming off the bye We've got up Baltimore.

885
00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:04,400
Speaker 1: You have this three game stretch and I hate putting

886
00:44:04,440 --> 00:44:06,319
Speaker 1: it that way. I know I've been putting it that way.

887
00:44:06,680 --> 00:44:09,120
Speaker 1: I hope they're not putting it that way. It's a

888
00:44:09,280 --> 00:44:12,640
Speaker 1: weird moment here for the organization. Now weird, but but unique.

889
00:44:12,680 --> 00:44:14,759
Speaker 1: I'll just put it that way. Because you have the

890
00:44:14,920 --> 00:44:17,640
Speaker 1: Ravens and this is as big a regular season game

891
00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:19,799
Speaker 1: as we've said, as they've played in a long time

892
00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:22,040
Speaker 1: in a while. And then you have the Colts on

893
00:44:22,120 --> 00:44:25,760
Speaker 1: a short week, and the Colts on a short week, Johnny,

894
00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:28,480
Speaker 1: as you know, is its own entity. I mean, the

895
00:44:28,600 --> 00:44:33,319
Speaker 1: Colts anytime it's the Colts. Yet you have this colossal

896
00:44:33,440 --> 00:44:35,759
Speaker 1: battle a few days before. You really just have to

897
00:44:36,239 --> 00:44:39,440
Speaker 1: you know, fully focus on this thing and then flush

898
00:44:39,520 --> 00:44:41,759
Speaker 1: it and get ready for what's really a much more

899
00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:44,319
Speaker 1: important game to you. I think even if you beat

900
00:44:44,360 --> 00:44:46,400
Speaker 1: the Ravens, if you beat the Ravens, even if the

901
00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:49,279
Speaker 1: Colts lose this week into Jacksonville, you feel like, hey,

902
00:44:49,880 --> 00:44:51,680
Speaker 1: look at you. I think the media is going to

903
00:44:51,719 --> 00:44:53,920
Speaker 1: feel like this more than the Texans themselves as players

904
00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:56,640
Speaker 1: and coaches, people inside the building. But you're gonna look

905
00:44:56,680 --> 00:44:59,120
Speaker 1: at it like, hey, this is a team that's vying

906
00:44:59,239 --> 00:45:02,359
Speaker 1: for a boy vying for a number two seed, maybe

907
00:45:02,440 --> 00:45:04,960
Speaker 1: number one because the Patriots are on the horizon, but

908
00:45:05,160 --> 00:45:07,520
Speaker 1: you can never look past those boys in blues. So

909
00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:10,280
Speaker 1: it's a really unique few days and I'm super pumped

910
00:45:10,360 --> 00:45:12,719
Speaker 1: up for it because you and I we're gonna feel

911
00:45:12,760 --> 00:45:14,920
Speaker 1: and Andre, we're gonna feel like, man, we're in the NBA.

912
00:45:15,160 --> 00:45:17,279
Speaker 1: You know. We get this fast rhythm going with these

913
00:45:17,320 --> 00:45:20,560
Speaker 1: two games calling the action and it's just such a thrill.

914
00:45:20,760 --> 00:45:23,920
Speaker 1: But the game itself in Baltimore, it gives me the

915
00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:26,600
Speaker 1: heeb gbs to go up there in a way, not

916
00:45:26,719 --> 00:45:29,359
Speaker 1: like going to New England. But they've never won up there.

917
00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:33,120
Speaker 1: I remember Kyle Bowler with three consecutive passes and zero

918
00:45:33,239 --> 00:45:36,560
Speaker 1: blitz and zero cover zero whatever the Texas were running

919
00:45:36,600 --> 00:45:38,719
Speaker 1: and he puts them in field goal range at oh five.

920
00:45:38,840 --> 00:45:43,360
Speaker 1: That was another painful loss in Bowler. Yeah, Kyle Bowler,

921
00:45:43,719 --> 00:45:46,120
Speaker 1: I remember going up there in eleven twice and the

922
00:45:46,320 --> 00:45:48,759
Speaker 1: feeling of the playoff game and four turnovers, but you

923
00:45:48,840 --> 00:45:50,680
Speaker 1: only lose by seven. Could have, would have should have

924
00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:53,320
Speaker 1: up there, And of course I remember a couple of

925
00:45:53,440 --> 00:45:55,040
Speaker 1: years ago that was kind of a throwaway game. That

926
00:45:55,160 --> 00:45:57,480
Speaker 1: Monday night football game in the Texan season was just

927
00:45:57,719 --> 00:46:00,360
Speaker 1: you know, coming in for a crash landing after Watson

928
00:46:00,440 --> 00:46:03,560
Speaker 1: went out for the year. But it's so thrilling. This

929
00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:06,440
Speaker 1: is a whole new era, these two guys going at it,

930
00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:10,359
Speaker 1: Watson and Jackson. But everybody in the building knows it's

931
00:46:10,680 --> 00:46:12,640
Speaker 1: much more than that. It's much more. It's how you

932
00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:15,120
Speaker 1: deal with the little things here. Not just Jackson, but

933
00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:18,279
Speaker 1: they're running backs and you know, facing this defense, which

934
00:46:18,360 --> 00:46:20,920
Speaker 1: has gotten better since the first four games of the season.

935
00:46:20,960 --> 00:46:22,880
Speaker 1: I know Cleveland beat them, but the Ravens feel like

936
00:46:22,880 --> 00:46:26,799
Speaker 1: they're completely different teams since then. Yeah, they absolutely feel

937
00:46:26,840 --> 00:46:30,440
Speaker 1: like they're a different team. How about this this what

938
00:46:30,680 --> 00:46:33,760
Speaker 1: is it? Yourresistible force meets the immovable object or something

939
00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:39,239
Speaker 1: like that. Texans have given up three rushing touchdowns. Yeah,

940
00:46:39,360 --> 00:46:41,759
Speaker 1: all year. Yeah, I'll have a trivia question for you

941
00:46:41,880 --> 00:46:44,520
Speaker 1: in a second. It's a tough one. I had to

942
00:46:44,560 --> 00:46:47,000
Speaker 1: look it up. Okay, okay, maybe you know three rushing

943
00:46:47,080 --> 00:46:49,560
Speaker 1: touchdowns this year. Yeah, that's second of the league. Minnesota

944
00:46:49,640 --> 00:46:54,480
Speaker 1: only giving up too. The Ravens have fifteen rushing touchdowns. Yeah,

945
00:46:54,600 --> 00:46:56,840
Speaker 1: that's number one in the league. So they have fifteen

946
00:46:56,920 --> 00:47:00,600
Speaker 1: rushing touchdowns. Texas have only given up three since thrown

947
00:47:00,719 --> 00:47:03,239
Speaker 1: for fifteen. Hey, he's thrown for fifteen. But it's the

948
00:47:03,360 --> 00:47:06,399
Speaker 1: rushing touchdown aspect of it where I'm like, Wow, they've

949
00:47:06,480 --> 00:47:08,799
Speaker 1: been so good putting the ball in the end zone

950
00:47:08,840 --> 00:47:11,759
Speaker 1: when they've gotten close. To have fifteen rushing touchdowns in

951
00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:16,040
Speaker 1: nine weeks, yeah, that's unbelievable. I think you might give

952
00:47:16,120 --> 00:47:18,200
Speaker 1: up one or two this week. You could still win

953
00:47:18,239 --> 00:47:20,200
Speaker 1: and give up one or two. That doesn't mean I'm

954
00:47:20,200 --> 00:47:22,400
Speaker 1: spelling gloom and doom here for the Texans, But this

955
00:47:22,560 --> 00:47:24,319
Speaker 1: is just the way the Ravens score. You know, they

956
00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:26,879
Speaker 1: score on the ground, like you pointed out, And even

957
00:47:26,920 --> 00:47:29,919
Speaker 1: though you've done well in that category, this is gonna

958
00:47:29,920 --> 00:47:32,839
Speaker 1: be tough if we are doing more likely to happen

959
00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:36,960
Speaker 1: rushing touchdown. What about a tight end catching a TV

960
00:47:37,040 --> 00:47:39,759
Speaker 1: pass for the Ravens that's already high pop probability. Yeah.

961
00:47:40,000 --> 00:47:42,640
Speaker 1: And when you and I often talk about number, what's

962
00:47:42,680 --> 00:47:44,680
Speaker 1: the number of points it's going to take to pull

963
00:47:44,760 --> 00:47:49,040
Speaker 1: this baby out this weekend? I gotta go twenty eight thirty.

964
00:47:49,320 --> 00:47:52,120
Speaker 1: It's in that range. I feel gets it done. Really,

965
00:47:52,239 --> 00:47:53,839
Speaker 1: I think you got to get to the same number

966
00:47:53,880 --> 00:47:55,959
Speaker 1: as you did against the Chiefs. I just I feel

967
00:47:56,040 --> 00:47:59,000
Speaker 1: that way about this one, that you have to get

968
00:47:59,040 --> 00:48:01,479
Speaker 1: to thirty one. I think thirty one is the number

969
00:48:01,640 --> 00:48:04,359
Speaker 1: thirty one would make. Okay, I give you thirty one,

970
00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:06,680
Speaker 1: and then you're gonna let it play out. I look,

971
00:48:06,800 --> 00:48:09,440
Speaker 1: I if you give me thirty one, they win. I

972
00:48:09,560 --> 00:48:13,399
Speaker 1: really feel calm. I start to feel like I should

973
00:48:13,480 --> 00:48:15,279
Speaker 1: say I think thirty one wins it. Thirty one will

974
00:48:15,320 --> 00:48:18,680
Speaker 1: win it. Yeah, does twenty If you're putting thirty one,

975
00:48:19,080 --> 00:48:22,160
Speaker 1: you know you've gotten a turnover to, you've gotten some

976
00:48:22,320 --> 00:48:26,000
Speaker 1: long drives. Possibly, you've you've gotten you've made some things happen. Yeah,

977
00:48:26,040 --> 00:48:30,040
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, thirty one. This defense, this Houston defense. Look,

978
00:48:30,160 --> 00:48:32,120
Speaker 1: I know the Ravens are really good on offense, and

979
00:48:32,239 --> 00:48:35,520
Speaker 1: they'll get theirs, they'll get their points, they'll get their yards, whatever.

980
00:48:36,280 --> 00:48:39,200
Speaker 1: But I like the Texans chances of at least slowing

981
00:48:39,280 --> 00:48:42,200
Speaker 1: them down and making some key stops. Making a stop

982
00:48:42,320 --> 00:48:44,960
Speaker 1: here or there, may be able to capitalize on a

983
00:48:45,120 --> 00:48:48,319
Speaker 1: possible turnover. Maybe you get a return in this game.

984
00:48:48,680 --> 00:48:51,160
Speaker 1: You never know. They gave up a kickoff return for

985
00:48:51,239 --> 00:48:54,320
Speaker 1: a touchdown this year, So I think you have some

986
00:48:54,440 --> 00:48:57,200
Speaker 1: possibilities here. I think one of the aspects. And it's

987
00:48:57,239 --> 00:49:00,800
Speaker 1: funny because I remember this my very last year coaching.

988
00:49:01,280 --> 00:49:04,880
Speaker 1: We ran the option earlier in the year, but we

989
00:49:05,080 --> 00:49:07,000
Speaker 1: dabbled with it. You know, it was one of those

990
00:49:07,040 --> 00:49:10,920
Speaker 1: things that we did. We did, but we really we

991
00:49:11,080 --> 00:49:13,800
Speaker 1: did it infrequently. So we ran sixty five plays in

992
00:49:13,840 --> 00:49:16,399
Speaker 1: a game. We probably did it five times option, five

993
00:49:16,520 --> 00:49:18,920
Speaker 1: times HU and then you want to be well rehearsed

994
00:49:18,960 --> 00:49:21,319
Speaker 1: and running the option, don't around. But here's the thing.

995
00:49:21,920 --> 00:49:24,560
Speaker 1: As we started to run it and get better at it,

996
00:49:25,520 --> 00:49:27,040
Speaker 1: we started run it more and more, and then the

997
00:49:27,080 --> 00:49:29,400
Speaker 1: biggest game all year, I probably called it seventy five

998
00:49:29,520 --> 00:49:32,680
Speaker 1: eighty percent of the time. My thought with that is

999
00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:36,719
Speaker 1: watching these guys, especially against the Patriots, they ran the

1000
00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:41,200
Speaker 1: option a bunch a bunch, and my hope is that

1001
00:49:41,320 --> 00:49:43,360
Speaker 1: at some point they flip one out to a running

1002
00:49:43,400 --> 00:49:45,759
Speaker 1: back and it's a bad pitch. I mean, that's a

1003
00:49:45,880 --> 00:49:47,840
Speaker 1: risk you end up taking. Run. You knew run the

1004
00:49:47,880 --> 00:49:51,840
Speaker 1: options all going backwards. Running back keeps you know, was

1005
00:49:51,880 --> 00:49:53,440
Speaker 1: looking at a defender, he doesn't look at the ball.

1006
00:49:53,520 --> 00:49:56,200
Speaker 1: He drops. Well, you have that bad read. I do

1007
00:49:56,400 --> 00:49:58,600
Speaker 1: think some of their quote unquote options, like I did

1008
00:49:58,680 --> 00:50:01,279
Speaker 1: tell Stray this week on midline an option, and I

1009
00:50:01,360 --> 00:50:03,400
Speaker 1: think I pointed out on the YouTube version that it did.

1010
00:50:03,960 --> 00:50:07,280
Speaker 1: It doesn't look like Lamar's reading it. It's actually called

1011
00:50:08,160 --> 00:50:10,560
Speaker 1: so so on this one. You're definitely gonna pitch on

1012
00:50:10,640 --> 00:50:14,279
Speaker 1: this one, you're definitely keeping. You're definitely keeping. It's not

1013
00:50:14,440 --> 00:50:16,239
Speaker 1: it didn't look like it just based on where his

1014
00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:19,520
Speaker 1: eyes were and what what was going on. But that said,

1015
00:50:19,920 --> 00:50:23,600
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter to the defense. It still looks like option,

1016
00:50:24,040 --> 00:50:26,320
Speaker 1: and you gotta play it that way because on that

1017
00:50:26,480 --> 00:50:28,440
Speaker 1: play he ended up faking it to Gus Edwards up

1018
00:50:28,440 --> 00:50:30,560
Speaker 1: the middle and then he follows his his tight end

1019
00:50:30,600 --> 00:50:33,160
Speaker 1: through the B gap. He could very easily just give

1020
00:50:33,160 --> 00:50:35,680
Speaker 1: it to Gus Edwards. So you've got to play responsibility

1021
00:50:35,760 --> 00:50:38,640
Speaker 1: football against the option. You don't know what he's gonna do, right,

1022
00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:41,160
Speaker 1: That's that's where you get. You get kind of stuck

1023
00:50:41,200 --> 00:50:44,440
Speaker 1: with the option. But against the Patriots in particular, they

1024
00:50:44,520 --> 00:50:47,600
Speaker 1: had a number of different options, and as it had success,

1025
00:50:47,920 --> 00:50:49,520
Speaker 1: what they do they kept going back to it. They

1026
00:50:49,600 --> 00:50:51,600
Speaker 1: kept going back to it. And that's my thing about

1027
00:50:51,600 --> 00:50:55,200
Speaker 1: the option that they run it. It's not their every

1028
00:50:55,320 --> 00:50:58,040
Speaker 1: down offense. And so my hope is that, like you said,

1029
00:50:58,080 --> 00:51:00,600
Speaker 1: going back to the turnover thing, maybe we play it right.

1030
00:51:00,680 --> 00:51:02,799
Speaker 1: They pitch it out there, they drop one, they kick one,

1031
00:51:03,120 --> 00:51:05,680
Speaker 1: and maybe that's what it takes is to get that one.

1032
00:51:05,800 --> 00:51:08,560
Speaker 1: It's that one turnover based off something like that that

1033
00:51:08,680 --> 00:51:11,080
Speaker 1: works in your favor. Now you just have to play

1034
00:51:11,160 --> 00:51:14,080
Speaker 1: solid responsibility football against them. You got to know at

1035
00:51:14,080 --> 00:51:16,960
Speaker 1: all times, who's got to dive, who's got quarterback, who's

1036
00:51:16,960 --> 00:51:19,680
Speaker 1: got pitched, who's got Lamar? You spying on Lamar? Do

1037
00:51:19,719 --> 00:51:22,000
Speaker 1: you have two guys spying on Lamar? Are you reading

1038
00:51:22,040 --> 00:51:25,479
Speaker 1: your keys properly? Those are all I mean. This week

1039
00:51:25,719 --> 00:51:30,239
Speaker 1: is all about can you be disciplined enough against this

1040
00:51:30,440 --> 00:51:33,600
Speaker 1: team such that you can slow them down from those

1041
00:51:33,680 --> 00:51:35,960
Speaker 1: aspects in the run game, the run game in particular.

1042
00:51:36,000 --> 00:51:37,719
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what I like. Coming into this thing.

1043
00:51:37,960 --> 00:51:40,840
Speaker 1: You've had Romeo Coridale, Bill O'Brien, the whole brain trust,

1044
00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:43,040
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks to get ready for it. You

1045
00:51:43,120 --> 00:51:45,360
Speaker 1: had the extra practice on Monday. That's a day you

1046
00:51:45,440 --> 00:51:47,680
Speaker 1: don't normally get the tractor Trea is normally you play

1047
00:51:47,680 --> 00:51:49,279
Speaker 1: on Sunday. By coming back from the bye, they had

1048
00:51:49,280 --> 00:51:52,120
Speaker 1: an extra day of preparation. And I just like the

1049
00:51:52,160 --> 00:51:55,480
Speaker 1: way this crew played defense against Jacksonville. I know Jacksonville

1050
00:51:55,600 --> 00:51:58,319
Speaker 1: is not the Ravens. I know this, but all right,

1051
00:51:58,400 --> 00:52:01,000
Speaker 1: let's take the next step here, back out on the road.

1052
00:52:01,360 --> 00:52:03,360
Speaker 1: They love being on the road. You heard Bill O'Brien

1053
00:52:03,400 --> 00:52:05,160
Speaker 1: talk about it earlier in the show. Loves being on

1054
00:52:05,239 --> 00:52:08,800
Speaker 1: the road. Everybody's together, everybody, it's them against the world.

1055
00:52:08,840 --> 00:52:12,040
Speaker 1: They respond to this thing. I'm wondering about the traveling

1056
00:52:12,080 --> 00:52:15,319
Speaker 1: Texans turn out too, because look, everybody had to make

1057
00:52:15,360 --> 00:52:18,240
Speaker 1: the investment in London, who Act and some other places

1058
00:52:18,280 --> 00:52:20,919
Speaker 1: they've been this year, Kansas City was well represented. Under

1059
00:52:20,960 --> 00:52:24,719
Speaker 1: the circumstances, Chargers, I mean, not a cheap trip to

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00:52:24,800 --> 00:52:27,640
Speaker 1: go to LA anytime of year, and here you go.

1061
00:52:28,040 --> 00:52:30,480
Speaker 1: Now you're going to Baltimore, which is a good trip.

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00:52:30,760 --> 00:52:32,800
Speaker 1: I mean this, we talked about it in the offseason

1063
00:52:32,840 --> 00:52:35,480
Speaker 1: when the schedule came out. This is a great traveling

1064
00:52:35,560 --> 00:52:38,799
Speaker 1: Texans year. So let's see how many of them show

1065
00:52:38,920 --> 00:52:40,960
Speaker 1: up there. But you know, this is a crazy environment.

1066
00:52:41,080 --> 00:52:44,520
Speaker 1: This is nuts. They got the white stripes going, They've

1067
00:52:44,600 --> 00:52:47,600
Speaker 1: got all of this stuff happening for them in Baltimore.

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00:52:47,719 --> 00:52:50,920
Speaker 1: And I all right, you mentioned the option game, but

1069
00:52:51,000 --> 00:52:53,319
Speaker 1: what about Lamar Jackson just dropping back to pass. He's

1070
00:52:53,360 --> 00:52:55,080
Speaker 1: also dangerous in the pocket, and there are all these

1071
00:52:55,120 --> 00:52:57,600
Speaker 1: metrics that say he throws from the pocket much more

1072
00:52:57,680 --> 00:52:59,719
Speaker 1: than you think. It's not like everything's on the run

1073
00:52:59,760 --> 00:53:02,440
Speaker 1: out side of the pocket. Kirk Cousins throws more out

1074
00:53:02,480 --> 00:53:05,440
Speaker 1: of the pocket than Lamar Jackson. Somebody put that one

1075
00:53:05,480 --> 00:53:07,000
Speaker 1: out there this week, and I thought, well, it's because

1076
00:53:07,040 --> 00:53:09,440
Speaker 1: of all the bootlegs and everything. But still that's an

1077
00:53:09,440 --> 00:53:12,440
Speaker 1: interesting staff well. And the other thing too that he does,

1078
00:53:12,560 --> 00:53:15,560
Speaker 1: which we've seen Matt Stafford. Do you see Patrick Mahomes

1079
00:53:15,560 --> 00:53:18,240
Speaker 1: do it all the time and everybody you know lauds

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00:53:18,320 --> 00:53:21,520
Speaker 1: him for it. Lamar changed his arm angle he made

1081
00:53:21,560 --> 00:53:24,480
Speaker 1: it throw in the Cincinnati game. I still I had

1082
00:53:24,520 --> 00:53:27,879
Speaker 1: to watch it twice in live action, and I still

1083
00:53:27,920 --> 00:53:29,960
Speaker 1: don't know how he threw it, but he dropped down

1084
00:53:30,080 --> 00:53:32,680
Speaker 1: side arm and just flicked it, and I was like,

1085
00:53:32,800 --> 00:53:35,720
Speaker 1: how did he do that? So he's got the ability

1086
00:53:35,760 --> 00:53:37,560
Speaker 1: to do those things that change his arm slot and

1087
00:53:37,600 --> 00:53:39,920
Speaker 1: do some different things that just see other quarterbacks get

1088
00:53:40,040 --> 00:53:43,319
Speaker 1: more credit for doing that, he's actually doing as well.

1089
00:53:43,440 --> 00:53:47,160
Speaker 1: So he's you're right, say you shut down the options,

1090
00:53:47,200 --> 00:53:49,360
Speaker 1: say you shut it down, Like, hey, your options aren't

1091
00:53:49,440 --> 00:53:53,000
Speaker 1: working right, ain't happening. We're gonna force him to have

1092
00:53:53,080 --> 00:53:55,719
Speaker 1: to throw the He's got three really good tight ends.

1093
00:53:55,760 --> 00:53:59,320
Speaker 1: They don't use the receivers all that much. And that's

1094
00:53:59,600 --> 00:54:02,000
Speaker 1: the that's the one where I'm like, okay, but he

1095
00:54:02,080 --> 00:54:05,160
Speaker 1: uses the tight ends. Donore them. No, no, you can't, no, no,

1096
00:54:05,320 --> 00:54:08,719
Speaker 1: you can't ignore those receivers. But the tight end those

1097
00:54:08,800 --> 00:54:12,000
Speaker 1: guys have been ultra successful with him, and that worries

1098
00:54:12,080 --> 00:54:14,200
Speaker 1: me because that's just another way to ball control. That's

1099
00:54:14,239 --> 00:54:16,160
Speaker 1: just another way to ball control. And by the way,

1100
00:54:16,160 --> 00:54:18,080
Speaker 1: before I let it get away from me, I mentioned

1101
00:54:18,080 --> 00:54:22,359
Speaker 1: earlier Texas defense is giving up three rushing touchdowns. Right,

1102
00:54:22,600 --> 00:54:24,960
Speaker 1: who's the last player to score a rushing touchdown against

1103
00:54:24,960 --> 00:54:29,080
Speaker 1: the Texans. The last player to it happened in Week

1104
00:54:29,239 --> 00:54:34,800
Speaker 1: five when the Texans played the Falcons. Okay, so it

1105
00:54:34,960 --> 00:54:38,440
Speaker 1: was Matt Ryan, very good. I when I saw it,

1106
00:54:38,480 --> 00:54:40,120
Speaker 1: I was like, Ryan scored, and then I remembered he

1107
00:54:40,200 --> 00:54:42,959
Speaker 1: scored in that fourth down sneak that got reviewed. Yeah,

1108
00:54:43,280 --> 00:54:45,560
Speaker 1: that was the phone that had the Matt Ryan, the

1109
00:54:45,760 --> 00:54:50,840
Speaker 1: very mobile, dangerous Matt Ryan, rolling out running threat. Not

1110
00:54:50,960 --> 00:54:52,920
Speaker 1: really Matt Ryan. You want to put it this way,

1111
00:54:53,239 --> 00:54:56,400
Speaker 1: only one starting running back has scored a touchdown, a

1112
00:54:56,480 --> 00:55:00,480
Speaker 1: rushing touchdown against the Texas McCaffrey. Oh, mccaff you remember

1113
00:55:00,560 --> 00:55:02,560
Speaker 1: Lettavius Murray had that one where he broke through for

1114
00:55:02,680 --> 00:55:05,960
Speaker 1: third yards. Murray had one, and then Matt Ryans and

1115
00:55:06,040 --> 00:55:08,879
Speaker 1: then Christian McCaffrey's the only Camara Dot score on them

1116
00:55:09,760 --> 00:55:12,960
Speaker 1: as a all right, so how about that. You know

1117
00:55:13,000 --> 00:55:16,480
Speaker 1: what they don't have in Baltimore DeAndre Hopkins. And I

1118
00:55:16,600 --> 00:55:18,759
Speaker 1: was on a Baltimore radio station. I said, look, this

1119
00:55:18,960 --> 00:55:21,840
Speaker 1: guy is. He should be talked about. It's one of

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00:55:21,880 --> 00:55:26,359
Speaker 1: the best offensive players period in this league. In fact,

1121
00:55:26,480 --> 00:55:30,320
Speaker 1: he's more valuable to any team if you're doing MVP rankings,

1122
00:55:30,680 --> 00:55:33,560
Speaker 1: than how many quarterbacks in this league. I don't know

1123
00:55:33,600 --> 00:55:37,080
Speaker 1: what the number is, Johnny, but that's how valuable DeAndre

1124
00:55:37,200 --> 00:55:39,480
Speaker 1: Hopkins is. You want to talk about people who make

1125
00:55:39,520 --> 00:55:41,640
Speaker 1: other people around them better, and I know you know this.

1126
00:55:42,040 --> 00:55:45,560
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins as a receiver makes other people around him

1127
00:55:45,640 --> 00:55:48,440
Speaker 1: better because he makes quarterbacks better. He makes the other

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00:55:48,520 --> 00:55:51,919
Speaker 1: receivers better. He is such a threat and they don't

1129
00:55:51,960 --> 00:55:54,160
Speaker 1: have him. This is gonna be big for this football

1130
00:55:54,200 --> 00:55:56,640
Speaker 1: team once again. And I don't know, as much as

1131
00:55:56,680 --> 00:55:58,640
Speaker 1: we love him and see his work every week, I

1132
00:55:58,680 --> 00:56:01,040
Speaker 1: don't know if enough is said about the value of

1133
00:56:01,120 --> 00:56:05,120
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins to this football attack. DeAndre Hopkins wide receiver

1134
00:56:05,200 --> 00:56:07,840
Speaker 1: has been really good this year. DeAndre Hopkins the running

1135
00:56:07,840 --> 00:56:11,600
Speaker 1: back has been almost even better. Well one carry, well

1136
00:56:13,239 --> 00:56:16,080
Speaker 1: that No, I'm just talking about the number of short yardage,

1137
00:56:16,160 --> 00:56:18,160
Speaker 1: the short yardage throws that they've gone him. He's the

1138
00:56:18,200 --> 00:56:20,720
Speaker 1: best short yardage back we have, at least it feels

1139
00:56:20,800 --> 00:56:22,800
Speaker 1: that way. I mean, he gets the ball in a

1140
00:56:22,880 --> 00:56:25,960
Speaker 1: short yardage third and two, throw it, throw it to Deyander.

1141
00:56:26,080 --> 00:56:28,160
Speaker 1: I love that because it just it doesn't allow you

1142
00:56:28,320 --> 00:56:31,000
Speaker 1: the defense to get comfortable. This will be an interesting

1143
00:56:31,120 --> 00:56:35,000
Speaker 1: challenge because what is the I have one, what's the

1144
00:56:35,160 --> 00:56:38,560
Speaker 1: enduring image from the Monday Night game against the Ravens.

1145
00:56:38,600 --> 00:56:40,720
Speaker 1: The last time we were up there. Within the first

1146
00:56:41,360 --> 00:56:45,520
Speaker 1: what first quarter of the game, you remember DeAndre Hopkins

1147
00:56:45,680 --> 00:56:49,680
Speaker 1: Jersey was shredding from top all the way down. That's right.

1148
00:56:49,960 --> 00:56:51,600
Speaker 1: They beat the heck out of him, and he kept

1149
00:56:51,640 --> 00:56:53,880
Speaker 1: coming back, he kept making receptions and now was with

1150
00:56:54,120 --> 00:56:57,520
Speaker 1: with Tom Savage at quarterback right now he's now he's

1151
00:56:57,520 --> 00:56:59,880
Speaker 1: bringing Watson up there. Pop. It's a line. Hopefully is

1152
00:56:59,880 --> 00:57:03,880
Speaker 1: all together this I'm I'm pumped about this one I have.

1153
00:57:04,200 --> 00:57:06,960
Speaker 1: There are two things that worry me, and they're trends,

1154
00:57:07,200 --> 00:57:12,080
Speaker 1: and I know trends could change. But the home team

1155
00:57:12,680 --> 00:57:16,400
Speaker 1: has won every Ravens Texans game since twenty eleven. Home

1156
00:57:16,480 --> 00:57:18,440
Speaker 1: team has won every game. The last time the road

1157
00:57:18,480 --> 00:57:22,200
Speaker 1: team won was the Monday Night game, the comeback that

1158
00:57:22,440 --> 00:57:25,280
Speaker 1: then went the other way. That's the last home team

1159
00:57:25,320 --> 00:57:27,480
Speaker 1: to have. That's the last road team to win in

1160
00:57:27,520 --> 00:57:31,280
Speaker 1: the series, and the second one. There have been six

1161
00:57:31,440 --> 00:57:35,360
Speaker 1: teams that have come that have gone in London bye

1162
00:57:35,400 --> 00:57:38,000
Speaker 1: week and then played after that. And it's what five

1163
00:57:38,040 --> 00:57:44,160
Speaker 1: and one, I was gonna say one in five six,

1164
00:57:45,520 --> 00:57:52,480
Speaker 1: all six Rams, Bengals, Bearsiders, all of them come off

1165
00:57:52,520 --> 00:57:55,760
Speaker 1: the by and lost. Now, the Raiders lost in the

1166
00:57:55,840 --> 00:57:58,520
Speaker 1: road to the Packers. The Rams lost on the road

1167
00:57:58,640 --> 00:58:02,120
Speaker 1: to the Steelers. Those are tough trips regardless, and in

1168
00:58:02,200 --> 00:58:04,560
Speaker 1: Oakland had been on the road for however long been

1169
00:58:05,040 --> 00:58:07,000
Speaker 1: you know, the Rams have got to come back from

1170
00:58:07,040 --> 00:58:09,919
Speaker 1: London and fly to Pittsburgh. Now, I mean, we gotta

1171
00:58:09,960 --> 00:58:12,320
Speaker 1: fly to Baltimore. I get that. But that's been part

1172
00:58:12,360 --> 00:58:14,440
Speaker 1: of it too, is that you come off that by

1173
00:58:14,520 --> 00:58:16,400
Speaker 1: and then you're facing the mean, the Bengals were facing

1174
00:58:16,440 --> 00:58:18,760
Speaker 1: the Ravens, and the Bengals are you know that? That's

1175
00:58:18,840 --> 00:58:21,600
Speaker 1: me walking up to the Roulette wheel and it's Red Red, Red,

1176
00:58:21,680 --> 00:58:24,240
Speaker 1: Red Red. I'm going black. Okay, Well, I hope Black

1177
00:58:24,280 --> 00:58:28,280
Speaker 1: shows up. Deshaun Watson. Those teams don't have him, that's right,

1178
00:58:28,400 --> 00:58:30,520
Speaker 1: and he's gonna be good to go. That's a good point.

1179
00:58:30,720 --> 00:58:32,800
Speaker 1: That's a very very good point, and I'm glad you

1180
00:58:32,880 --> 00:58:35,280
Speaker 1: brought it up. Mark appreciate it. Thanks Johnny. When we

1181
00:58:35,480 --> 00:58:40,600
Speaker 1: get back a full slate of NFL games this weekend, however,

1182
00:58:40,840 --> 00:58:45,920
Speaker 1: only two games feature two teams with winning records. Texans

1183
00:58:46,000 --> 00:58:47,920
Speaker 1: Ravens is one of them. What's the other one? I

1184
00:58:47,960 --> 00:58:50,280
Speaker 1: would predict all of them straight up and against the spread.

1185
00:58:50,360 --> 00:58:53,960
Speaker 1: Next right here on Texans All Access. What's up, everybody?

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00:58:54,000 --> 00:58:57,120
Speaker 1: Happy Friday. Welcome back to Texans All Access from the

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00:58:57,200 --> 00:59:01,200
Speaker 1: Hounday Texans Radio Studio. I hope you are out enjoying

1188
00:59:01,280 --> 00:59:05,680
Speaker 1: high school football tonight, a playoff game, college game on Saturday.

1189
00:59:05,680 --> 00:59:07,600
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be pretty nice on Saturday as well,

1190
00:59:07,880 --> 00:59:10,880
Speaker 1: and then on Sunday you will be sitting in front

1191
00:59:10,920 --> 00:59:15,480
Speaker 1: of your television at twelve noon to get ready for

1192
00:59:15,840 --> 00:59:19,960
Speaker 1: this one against the Baltimore Ravens. It's time to do

1193
00:59:20,120 --> 00:59:23,400
Speaker 1: our NFL predictions. We go around the league doing it

1194
00:59:23,640 --> 00:59:26,520
Speaker 1: this way. I make predictions straight up and against the spread,

1195
00:59:26,880 --> 00:59:28,680
Speaker 1: because well why not. It's a good way to talk

1196
00:59:28,680 --> 00:59:31,600
Speaker 1: about teams, good way to talk about games, good way

1197
00:59:31,640 --> 00:59:34,760
Speaker 1: to talk about everything that's happening in the NFL not

1198
00:59:35,000 --> 00:59:38,040
Speaker 1: named Miles Garrett and Mason Rudolph. So there you go.

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Speaker 1: So let's get into these games now. Like I said,

1200
00:59:41,080 --> 00:59:42,720
Speaker 1: I pick them straight up and against the spread. Now,

1201
00:59:42,720 --> 00:59:45,440
Speaker 1: I never picked the Texans game. But one thing to

1202
00:59:45,520 --> 00:59:47,880
Speaker 1: keep in mind with these games this week, there are

1203
00:59:47,920 --> 00:59:54,000
Speaker 1: two games of I believe twelve. I believe twelve because

1204
00:59:54,000 --> 00:59:57,600
Speaker 1: there are two four teams on a bye, so I

1205
00:59:57,720 --> 00:59:59,880
Speaker 1: make twenty eight, so fourteen games. One was played last

1206
00:59:59,920 --> 01:00:05,240
Speaker 1: n that's thirteen, so yeah, twelve games, So you've got

1207
01:00:05,320 --> 01:00:09,960
Speaker 1: that going on this weekend. Of these games, you have

1208
01:00:11,240 --> 01:00:19,040
Speaker 1: two matchups two featuring two teams with winning records. One

1209
01:00:19,440 --> 01:00:22,600
Speaker 1: Patriots Eagles eight and one versus Eagles five and four,

1210
01:00:23,440 --> 01:00:27,240
Speaker 1: the other Ravens Texans Ravens seven and two Texans six

1211
01:00:27,280 --> 01:00:32,080
Speaker 1: and three. That's it. That's all. The only two games

1212
01:00:32,560 --> 01:00:37,000
Speaker 1: featuring teams with winning records, both teams with winning records.

1213
01:00:37,560 --> 01:00:39,760
Speaker 1: The rest of them five and four, three, five and one,

1214
01:00:39,960 --> 01:00:41,760
Speaker 1: four and five versus five and four, six and three

1215
01:00:41,880 --> 01:00:43,920
Speaker 1: versus two and seven, three and six, verse seven, three,

1216
01:00:43,960 --> 01:00:45,800
Speaker 1: seven to two versus three and six, two and seven

1217
01:00:45,880 --> 01:00:48,040
Speaker 1: versus one and eight. Oh my god, two and seven

1218
01:00:48,120 --> 01:00:50,440
Speaker 1: versus five and four, three, six and one versus eight

1219
01:00:50,480 --> 01:00:53,439
Speaker 1: and one, oh and nine versus five and four, six

1220
01:00:53,520 --> 01:00:55,439
Speaker 1: and four versus four and six, four and five versus

1221
01:00:55,440 --> 01:00:58,880
Speaker 1: five and four. I mean, it's kind of what the

1222
01:00:58,960 --> 01:01:01,440
Speaker 1: league has wanted. A yes, with the whole parody thing.

1223
01:01:01,600 --> 01:01:03,720
Speaker 1: I mean, Bill bron talks about all the time. Hey,

1224
01:01:03,720 --> 01:01:05,800
Speaker 1: it's at eight league, it's an eight and eight League,

1225
01:01:06,240 --> 01:01:08,400
Speaker 1: eight and eight league, what can you do to get

1226
01:01:08,440 --> 01:01:10,200
Speaker 1: above that at eight and night and get twelve and four?

1227
01:01:11,400 --> 01:01:13,880
Speaker 1: What can you do at eight and eight or not

1228
01:01:14,040 --> 01:01:17,400
Speaker 1: do to fall to four and twelve. It's a very

1229
01:01:17,560 --> 01:01:19,960
Speaker 1: fine lines, especially at this point in the season because

1230
01:01:19,960 --> 01:01:23,840
Speaker 1: so many teams involved in the race, especially in the AFC,

1231
01:01:24,040 --> 01:01:26,200
Speaker 1: that's one we're paying the most attention to. So okay,

1232
01:01:26,320 --> 01:01:28,640
Speaker 1: let's get to these games. But to do it, I

1233
01:01:28,880 --> 01:01:33,720
Speaker 1: need my music, and there it is. Let's go start

1234
01:01:33,760 --> 01:01:35,880
Speaker 1: with the Cowboys and lines. Now a little tricky with

1235
01:01:35,960 --> 01:01:38,479
Speaker 1: this one from a spread perspective because there's no line

1236
01:01:38,480 --> 01:01:42,440
Speaker 1: on this Because of the questionable nature of Matt Staffords

1237
01:01:42,600 --> 01:01:46,080
Speaker 1: not practice much this week, I don't believe he's gonna

1238
01:01:46,120 --> 01:01:49,520
Speaker 1: play with the Cowboys coming to town. The Cowboys, coming

1239
01:01:49,560 --> 01:01:51,760
Speaker 1: off a Sunday night loss to the Minnesota Vikings, have

1240
01:01:51,800 --> 01:01:55,040
Speaker 1: to go on road based Detroit. Detroit's lost carry On Johnson,

1241
01:01:55,120 --> 01:01:57,600
Speaker 1: Matt Staffords banged up last week. Jeff Driscoll did a

1242
01:01:57,720 --> 01:02:00,800
Speaker 1: few good things in instead, but Lions took one on

1243
01:02:00,840 --> 01:02:03,520
Speaker 1: the chin to the Bears. So two teams coming off losses,

1244
01:02:04,040 --> 01:02:07,640
Speaker 1: the game is in Detroit. I'm gonna give I can't

1245
01:02:07,640 --> 01:02:09,720
Speaker 1: do it. I can't pick Detroit. I just don't think

1246
01:02:09,800 --> 01:02:12,120
Speaker 1: that is a very good football team. I said that

1247
01:02:12,160 --> 01:02:13,920
Speaker 1: back in training camp, and they think it's very good. Now.

1248
01:02:13,920 --> 01:02:15,760
Speaker 1: I also said, anythink the Packers are gonna be very good.

1249
01:02:15,800 --> 01:02:18,560
Speaker 1: But what I failed to realize in Green Bay was

1250
01:02:18,720 --> 01:02:21,160
Speaker 1: we didn't see Aaron Jones. We didn't see Jamal Williams

1251
01:02:21,240 --> 01:02:22,640
Speaker 1: or a few guys who didn't see we were up

1252
01:02:22,680 --> 01:02:25,080
Speaker 1: in green Bay. Green Bay has been much better. We'll

1253
01:02:25,120 --> 01:02:27,880
Speaker 1: get to them a little bit, but no, actually will.

1254
01:02:27,960 --> 01:02:30,200
Speaker 1: We know the Packers wanna buy, won't get the Packers.

1255
01:02:30,240 --> 01:02:32,720
Speaker 1: But either way, Packers are leading the NFC North. They'll

1256
01:02:32,720 --> 01:02:35,600
Speaker 1: stay ahead in the NFC North, especially ahead of Detroit

1257
01:02:35,680 --> 01:02:39,320
Speaker 1: because Detroit will lose this one at home to Dallas Cowboys.

1258
01:02:39,320 --> 01:02:41,200
Speaker 1: And when no spread, let's take the Cowboys to win

1259
01:02:41,480 --> 01:02:45,160
Speaker 1: on the road. Now, let's get to interesting things. In Indianapolis,

1260
01:02:46,040 --> 01:02:48,560
Speaker 1: the Jaguars will take on the Colts. The Jags coming

1261
01:02:48,600 --> 01:02:52,440
Speaker 1: off the by after our trip to London. The Colts

1262
01:02:53,040 --> 01:02:57,040
Speaker 1: coming off two straight losses, two losses in which Brian

1263
01:02:57,160 --> 01:03:00,520
Speaker 1: Hoyer featured heavily started the game against Dolphins through three

1264
01:03:00,600 --> 01:03:04,120
Speaker 1: picks lost. The Dolphins came in against the Steelers actually

1265
01:03:04,160 --> 01:03:06,280
Speaker 1: did a decent job against the Steelers, but still through

1266
01:03:06,280 --> 01:03:09,320
Speaker 1: a pick six to make if Ititzpatrick lost that game.

1267
01:03:09,560 --> 01:03:13,200
Speaker 1: Jacoby Brissette is back. He will play in this one

1268
01:03:13,760 --> 01:03:16,840
Speaker 1: and they will beat the Jags by more than three.

1269
01:03:17,440 --> 01:03:19,240
Speaker 1: The Colts will come back. I don't know if t

1270
01:03:19,400 --> 01:03:21,560
Speaker 1: Y Hilton is gonna be able to play. I think

1271
01:03:21,600 --> 01:03:24,000
Speaker 1: it's gonna be questionable up until game time. My guests

1272
01:03:24,040 --> 01:03:25,920
Speaker 1: is they're gonna hold out t Y until he plays us,

1273
01:03:26,400 --> 01:03:27,920
Speaker 1: and then according to him, he will come to his

1274
01:03:28,080 --> 01:03:30,080
Speaker 1: second home here in Energy Stadium. I can't wait to

1275
01:03:30,120 --> 01:03:31,760
Speaker 1: shut him down on Thursday night. But that's a different

1276
01:03:31,800 --> 01:03:36,000
Speaker 1: story for next week. But the Jags will play hard,

1277
01:03:36,440 --> 01:03:38,680
Speaker 1: but I don't think they'll have enough. Nick Foles will

1278
01:03:38,760 --> 01:03:40,600
Speaker 1: be interesting to see what Foles bring to it, but

1279
01:03:40,720 --> 01:03:42,560
Speaker 1: I think the Colts will get the win at home

1280
01:03:42,600 --> 01:03:46,480
Speaker 1: by more than three. Bills play the Dolphins in Miami.

1281
01:03:46,920 --> 01:03:49,920
Speaker 1: The Miami Dolphins have a two game winning streak. The

1282
01:03:50,080 --> 01:03:53,720
Speaker 1: Dolphins could not come through in the clutch against the

1283
01:03:53,800 --> 01:03:58,240
Speaker 1: Browns offensively. They still struggle to put points up on

1284
01:03:58,320 --> 01:04:01,360
Speaker 1: the board that'll keep Miami game. But I do think

1285
01:04:01,400 --> 01:04:03,160
Speaker 1: in the end, Buffalo will get this win. By more

1286
01:04:03,240 --> 01:04:05,520
Speaker 1: than six. That is the spread. Buffalo is gonna go

1287
01:04:05,520 --> 01:04:07,560
Speaker 1: down to Miami and get a win, win by seven

1288
01:04:07,840 --> 01:04:10,400
Speaker 1: and put the Dolphins back on track. Get that number

1289
01:04:10,480 --> 01:04:13,120
Speaker 1: one picked. They will continue to chase the Cincinnati Bengals.

1290
01:04:13,160 --> 01:04:16,400
Speaker 1: The Broncos go to the Vikings. The Broncos have played

1291
01:04:17,040 --> 01:04:22,520
Speaker 1: much better football, much better now Brandon Allen. It's a

1292
01:04:22,680 --> 01:04:25,400
Speaker 1: little different than it is with Joe Flacco, but I

1293
01:04:25,480 --> 01:04:28,840
Speaker 1: know that the defense likes to see Brandon Allen doing

1294
01:04:28,920 --> 01:04:32,680
Speaker 1: some good things offensively. They're ten and a half point

1295
01:04:32,960 --> 01:04:36,480
Speaker 1: dog at Minnesota. Minnesota's coming off that win against Dallas

1296
01:04:36,600 --> 01:04:39,120
Speaker 1: on the road on Sunday night. I do think there

1297
01:04:39,120 --> 01:04:41,600
Speaker 1: will be a little bit of a letdown such that

1298
01:04:41,760 --> 01:04:44,640
Speaker 1: the Broncos will keep it close, the Vikings will win.

1299
01:04:44,800 --> 01:04:47,720
Speaker 1: So take the Broncos to get inside that ten and

1300
01:04:47,800 --> 01:04:49,960
Speaker 1: a half and the Vikings to get the straight up win.

1301
01:04:50,040 --> 01:04:52,480
Speaker 1: The Saints go to the Bucks. The Saints are five

1302
01:04:52,520 --> 01:04:55,080
Speaker 1: and a half point favorites. The Saints will not have

1303
01:04:55,160 --> 01:04:58,760
Speaker 1: another game like last week. If I were a betting

1304
01:04:58,800 --> 01:05:02,000
Speaker 1: man and I'm not, the game might feature The Saints

1305
01:05:02,040 --> 01:05:04,360
Speaker 1: are only five and a half point favorites. I think

1306
01:05:04,440 --> 01:05:07,120
Speaker 1: the Saints go down to Tampa Bay and put a

1307
01:05:07,200 --> 01:05:11,040
Speaker 1: two touchdown hurting on the Bucks. The Bucks have done

1308
01:05:11,120 --> 01:05:14,480
Speaker 1: some things a little better, but they're not there yet.

1309
01:05:14,960 --> 01:05:17,200
Speaker 1: They make too many mistakes. The Saints will capitalize. The

1310
01:05:17,240 --> 01:05:20,160
Speaker 1: Saints will win by definitely more than five and a half.

1311
01:05:21,000 --> 01:05:27,760
Speaker 1: Fire Fire, Fire, Jets, Redskins. Really, Jets will win this

1312
01:05:27,840 --> 01:05:31,240
Speaker 1: game on the road. No, that's awesome, there's nothing there.

1313
01:05:31,480 --> 01:05:34,160
Speaker 1: Falcons go to the Panthers. Falcons got a huge win

1314
01:05:34,280 --> 01:05:39,520
Speaker 1: last week. They beat New Orleans by seventeen in New Orleans.

1315
01:05:40,880 --> 01:05:42,680
Speaker 1: Falans one and seven at the time, they're not two

1316
01:05:42,720 --> 01:05:45,640
Speaker 1: and seven. They go to the Panthers. The Panthers had

1317
01:05:45,680 --> 01:05:49,000
Speaker 1: a very close ball game with the Packers. How close well,

1318
01:05:49,240 --> 01:05:53,480
Speaker 1: probably about three snowy inches separated Christian McCaffrey getting the

1319
01:05:53,520 --> 01:05:56,160
Speaker 1: end zone that would have cut the lead to two

1320
01:05:56,240 --> 01:05:58,320
Speaker 1: with a chance for two point opportunity to tie and

1321
01:05:58,400 --> 01:06:02,080
Speaker 1: take an overtime in Green Bead, Carolina's favorite by five

1322
01:06:02,120 --> 01:06:04,720
Speaker 1: and a half. I think the Falcons woke up a

1323
01:06:04,760 --> 01:06:07,600
Speaker 1: little bit and may have woken up the Panthers. So

1324
01:06:07,680 --> 01:06:10,080
Speaker 1: I do think the Falcons will play very well, and

1325
01:06:10,160 --> 01:06:11,800
Speaker 1: I do think this will be close. I think the

1326
01:06:11,880 --> 01:06:15,960
Speaker 1: Panthers will win it very very close inside that five

1327
01:06:16,000 --> 01:06:18,080
Speaker 1: and a half. So will take the Falcons to cover

1328
01:06:18,560 --> 01:06:22,160
Speaker 1: and the Panthers to win straight up. That'll be the

1329
01:06:22,280 --> 01:06:24,560
Speaker 1: end of your new games obviously. Texans Ravens, which I

1330
01:06:24,680 --> 01:06:26,120
Speaker 1: never picked. Do you know, you guys know how I

1331
01:06:26,160 --> 01:06:28,160
Speaker 1: feel about that. I never picked that game because I

1332
01:06:28,240 --> 01:06:30,960
Speaker 1: will always pick it the same way. So I picked

1333
01:06:31,000 --> 01:06:33,680
Speaker 1: the Texans to win and cover no matter what. Interesting

1334
01:06:33,760 --> 01:06:37,120
Speaker 1: to Baltimore is a four point favorite. That's it. I

1335
01:06:37,240 --> 01:06:39,080
Speaker 1: mean for people that think Baltimore is the number one

1336
01:06:39,120 --> 01:06:41,640
Speaker 1: and number two team in AFC or in the league,

1337
01:06:42,000 --> 01:06:44,320
Speaker 1: it will only be a four point favorite. Home. Interesting

1338
01:06:44,560 --> 01:06:46,840
Speaker 1: Cardinals go to the forty nine Ers. The forty nine

1339
01:06:46,920 --> 01:06:51,400
Speaker 1: ers first defeat of the year last week against Seattle

1340
01:06:51,920 --> 01:06:54,920
Speaker 1: on a Monday night, a game that was highly winnable

1341
01:06:55,160 --> 01:06:57,640
Speaker 1: or highly tiable, either way you want to look at it.

1342
01:06:58,120 --> 01:07:00,360
Speaker 1: The forty nine Ers shot themselves in the foot all

1343
01:07:00,480 --> 01:07:02,920
Speaker 1: game long. Kendrick Bourne couldn't catch a cold that led

1344
01:07:02,960 --> 01:07:05,440
Speaker 1: the turnovers. It was just a problem. I think the

1345
01:07:05,480 --> 01:07:07,720
Speaker 1: forty nine Ers will bounce back. I think a defensive

1346
01:07:07,760 --> 01:07:10,040
Speaker 1: front will slow down Kyler Murray a little bit and

1347
01:07:10,120 --> 01:07:13,200
Speaker 1: that'll be enough. Ers even get to win. I don't

1348
01:07:13,240 --> 01:07:15,320
Speaker 1: like to spread at all eleven and a half. I

1349
01:07:15,360 --> 01:07:17,160
Speaker 1: don't know that I trust that. So let's go at

1350
01:07:17,200 --> 01:07:20,760
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers for the straight up win, and

1351
01:07:20,880 --> 01:07:22,560
Speaker 1: you know, let's get the forty nine ers to cover.

1352
01:07:22,840 --> 01:07:24,440
Speaker 1: I just feel like the Cardinals will play it a

1353
01:07:24,520 --> 01:07:26,520
Speaker 1: lot closer to eleven and a half. I feel like it,

1354
01:07:26,960 --> 01:07:28,800
Speaker 1: but I can't pull the trigger on it. So let's

1355
01:07:28,800 --> 01:07:30,640
Speaker 1: go forty nineers to win and cover it the eleven

1356
01:07:30,680 --> 01:07:32,920
Speaker 1: and a half. The Bengals go to the Raiders. The

1357
01:07:33,080 --> 01:07:36,640
Speaker 1: Raiders are at ten point favorite. The Raiders are the

1358
01:07:36,720 --> 01:07:39,880
Speaker 1: most improved football team in the NFL from last year

1359
01:07:39,960 --> 01:07:42,360
Speaker 1: this year. It's not even close. I watched him a

1360
01:07:42,400 --> 01:07:44,120
Speaker 1: few times last year, even though we didn't play them,

1361
01:07:44,160 --> 01:07:46,360
Speaker 1: just different games that we would scout out of the teams.

1362
01:07:47,440 --> 01:07:51,000
Speaker 1: It was a mess, but John Gruden got that team

1363
01:07:51,080 --> 01:07:54,760
Speaker 1: on track with players that nobody really knows, draft picks

1364
01:07:54,920 --> 01:07:57,800
Speaker 1: that were huge, and then miss is one of the

1365
01:07:57,840 --> 01:07:59,560
Speaker 1: best in John than Neighborood be safety I think would

1366
01:07:59,560 --> 01:08:02,000
Speaker 1: have been a huge. Now they lost Carl Joseph, Now

1367
01:08:02,000 --> 01:08:04,480
Speaker 1: that's going to be key in the secondary. I don't

1368
01:08:04,480 --> 01:08:06,360
Speaker 1: think it's a key this week. I think they beat

1369
01:08:06,400 --> 01:08:10,160
Speaker 1: the Bengals by one hundred. The Bengals are not very good.

1370
01:08:10,520 --> 01:08:12,360
Speaker 1: The Raiders get this win and they covered the ten.

1371
01:08:13,000 --> 01:08:15,080
Speaker 1: What are those games I mentioned a little while ago

1372
01:08:15,720 --> 01:08:18,760
Speaker 1: in which it features two teams with a winning record?

1373
01:08:18,840 --> 01:08:22,480
Speaker 1: Is this one? The Patriots and the Eagles in Philadelphia?

1374
01:08:22,600 --> 01:08:24,920
Speaker 1: First time that these two are meetings since the Super

1375
01:08:25,000 --> 01:08:28,160
Speaker 1: Bowl a couple of years ago. The Eagles are a

1376
01:08:28,240 --> 01:08:32,280
Speaker 1: three and a half point dog at home, and I

1377
01:08:32,320 --> 01:08:34,240
Speaker 1: don't think it matters. I think the Patriots are gonna

1378
01:08:34,280 --> 01:08:38,360
Speaker 1: come in there right the ship, gain a small measure

1379
01:08:38,400 --> 01:08:41,080
Speaker 1: of revenge and win that game by more than three

1380
01:08:41,120 --> 01:08:43,880
Speaker 1: and a half. Now I will be rooting, rooting, rooting

1381
01:08:44,760 --> 01:08:47,560
Speaker 1: for the Philadelphi Eagles to win that game, but it

1382
01:08:47,640 --> 01:08:50,200
Speaker 1: won't happen. The Patriots will rise up, get the win

1383
01:08:50,600 --> 01:08:53,120
Speaker 1: coming off the bye week and get the win over

1384
01:08:53,200 --> 01:08:55,880
Speaker 1: Philadelphia and get it by more than three and a

1385
01:08:55,880 --> 01:08:57,960
Speaker 1: half points. Your Sunday Night game that did not get

1386
01:08:58,000 --> 01:09:01,080
Speaker 1: flexed was Bears Rams. Bears got to win last week

1387
01:09:01,160 --> 01:09:04,000
Speaker 1: Trubisky through three touchdowns. It won't happen this week. The

1388
01:09:04,160 --> 01:09:06,920
Speaker 1: Rams are six and a half point favorites. Last year,

1389
01:09:07,200 --> 01:09:11,599
Speaker 1: the Bears shut the Rams down out but playing at home.

1390
01:09:11,600 --> 01:09:13,559
Speaker 1: I think the Rams a different story. Like the Rams

1391
01:09:13,680 --> 01:09:15,400
Speaker 1: put up a number here. I think they winness by

1392
01:09:15,439 --> 01:09:17,720
Speaker 1: seven or more. Give the Rams a win, they get

1393
01:09:17,760 --> 01:09:19,320
Speaker 1: the six and four. They've got to keep pace with

1394
01:09:19,439 --> 01:09:21,960
Speaker 1: Seattle in San Francisco. So let's take the Rams to

1395
01:09:22,120 --> 01:09:23,760
Speaker 1: win and to cover that six and a half and

1396
01:09:23,800 --> 01:09:28,040
Speaker 1: then down to Mexico City on Monday night. Chiefs based

1397
01:09:28,120 --> 01:09:32,240
Speaker 1: the Chargers. Chiefs are four point favorite. Now. The Chiefs

1398
01:09:32,240 --> 01:09:35,720
Speaker 1: are supposed to go to Mexico City last year, but

1399
01:09:36,080 --> 01:09:40,439
Speaker 1: the turf at a Stekastadium was not great after a

1400
01:09:40,479 --> 01:09:44,720
Speaker 1: Shakira concert. Her hips definitely didn't lie and they left

1401
01:09:44,760 --> 01:09:47,240
Speaker 1: firework burns all over that field. Couldn't play it, moved

1402
01:09:47,280 --> 01:09:49,000
Speaker 1: out to LA. It was maybe the NFL game of

1403
01:09:49,040 --> 01:09:50,800
Speaker 1: the year with the Chiefs and the Rams. I do

1404
01:09:50,960 --> 01:09:53,360
Speaker 1: not think the Chiefs in this LA team will have

1405
01:09:53,479 --> 01:09:55,640
Speaker 1: the game of the year. So I'm going with the

1406
01:09:55,760 --> 01:09:58,280
Speaker 1: Chiefs to beat the Chargers. Would love to see the

1407
01:09:58,360 --> 01:10:00,240
Speaker 1: Chargers pull the upset. Don't think it's gonna happ I

1408
01:10:00,280 --> 01:10:03,040
Speaker 1: think it's a high scoring game and the Chiefs get

1409
01:10:03,120 --> 01:10:05,600
Speaker 1: to win, they will win by a touchdown. Let's go

1410
01:10:05,680 --> 01:10:08,320
Speaker 1: with forty five thirty eight that will cover the four

1411
01:10:08,400 --> 01:10:12,200
Speaker 1: so Chiefs to win and cover on ze road down

1412
01:10:12,360 --> 01:10:15,680
Speaker 1: in Esteca Stadium in Mexico City. Look forward to seeing that.

1413
01:10:15,800 --> 01:10:19,000
Speaker 1: I always liked games in different locations, especially up front

1414
01:10:19,600 --> 01:10:21,599
Speaker 1: to like what's the look? How's it look? I remember

1415
01:10:21,640 --> 01:10:22,920
Speaker 1: going down That was one of the cool things about

1416
01:10:22,920 --> 01:10:24,920
Speaker 1: going to Mexico City, Like what did that look like? Wow?

1417
01:10:24,960 --> 01:10:26,320
Speaker 1: This is kind of we kind of need to play

1418
01:10:26,400 --> 01:10:28,760
Speaker 1: that game. But rather actually now I have up both

1419
01:10:28,920 --> 01:10:31,160
Speaker 1: rather go to London to Mexico City longer flight, I

1420
01:10:31,240 --> 01:10:33,880
Speaker 1: hate that, but we'd rather go to London to Mexico City.

1421
01:10:33,920 --> 01:10:36,720
Speaker 1: But either way, Chiefs will go down there and do

1422
01:10:36,800 --> 01:10:39,040
Speaker 1: what they couldn't do last year, that's playing Mexico City Chiefs.

1423
01:10:39,240 --> 01:10:43,040
Speaker 1: Chargers take the Chiefs to win by seven. So there

1424
01:10:43,120 --> 01:10:46,280
Speaker 1: you go there your predictions straight up and against the spread.

1425
01:10:46,320 --> 01:10:48,360
Speaker 1: All right, close the show down. We do this every

1426
01:10:48,400 --> 01:10:51,719
Speaker 1: single week, soide to turn it over to the players.

1427
01:10:52,000 --> 01:10:54,599
Speaker 1: We're gonna hear from Titus Howard. We got some Bestcar

1428
01:10:54,720 --> 01:10:59,240
Speaker 1: TV and a little bit of Texans Player Audio jukebox.

1429
01:10:59,439 --> 01:11:08,800
Speaker 1: Next on Texans All Access, We've got one final segment

1430
01:11:08,920 --> 01:11:11,840
Speaker 1: on this wonderful Friday evening for you of Texans All

1431
01:11:11,880 --> 01:11:15,599
Speaker 1: Access from Monday Texans Radio Studio. I'm your host, John

1432
01:11:15,640 --> 01:11:18,000
Speaker 1: Harrison's time to turn it over to the players. That's

1433
01:11:18,280 --> 01:11:22,679
Speaker 1: what we do in the final segment. It's all about them.

1434
01:11:23,520 --> 01:11:25,240
Speaker 1: And the first thing that we always do is give

1435
01:11:25,240 --> 01:11:28,120
Speaker 1: you a little BASCAR TV aka Player Reporter. It's brought

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Speaker 1: not overpriced this week and I love this. I wish

1439
01:11:39,600 --> 01:11:42,400
Speaker 1: that Brennan would have gone on longer with the players

1440
01:11:42,439 --> 01:11:46,920
Speaker 1: on this one. Name a TV show or movie that

1441
01:11:47,280 --> 01:11:51,479
Speaker 1: you were embarrassed to watch. Keep it locked in for

1442
01:11:51,600 --> 01:11:56,200
Speaker 1: Kenny Still's answer. It's really really good, some good answers

1443
01:11:56,240 --> 01:12:02,280
Speaker 1: in this one. Our newest edition be Scar TV back

1444
01:12:02,360 --> 01:12:05,760
Speaker 1: with another episode of b Scar TV and we got

1445
01:12:05,840 --> 01:12:11,120
Speaker 1: a very very special guest for you today. You're wide Receiver,

1446
01:12:11,320 --> 01:12:16,679
Speaker 1: mister Kenny Stills aka ken I Kenny. How are you feeling?

1447
01:12:17,640 --> 01:12:19,960
Speaker 1: I'm excited to me on be Scar TV. Honestly, I

1448
01:12:20,000 --> 01:12:22,880
Speaker 1: appreciated having me name a TV show or a movie

1449
01:12:22,960 --> 01:12:29,040
Speaker 1: you're embarrassed to admit you loved Graysonnatomy Gray's Anatomy. When

1450
01:12:29,080 --> 01:12:30,840
Speaker 1: everybody asked me that what's your favorite show, I'd be

1451
01:12:30,880 --> 01:12:32,760
Speaker 1: like Grays Naviby be like, what is that? They it's

1452
01:12:32,800 --> 01:12:35,640
Speaker 1: a girl show, like many ay just saving lives. Man,

1453
01:12:35,720 --> 01:12:37,760
Speaker 1: that's the type of guy I am. Would you ever

1454
01:12:37,880 --> 01:12:41,640
Speaker 1: be a doctor? Oh? No, No, I couldn't do it.

1455
01:12:42,120 --> 01:12:44,320
Speaker 1: I couldn't do it. What you watch? You watch these

1456
01:12:44,400 --> 01:12:47,760
Speaker 1: doctors doing the thing. See, I lived through them. I

1457
01:12:47,840 --> 01:12:49,920
Speaker 1: can't do it for myself. That's why I watched the show.

1458
01:12:50,520 --> 01:12:53,479
Speaker 1: I lived through the doctors. I feel like I watched

1459
01:12:53,479 --> 01:12:55,519
Speaker 1: the show so much. Whenever something going on with me,

1460
01:12:56,320 --> 01:12:57,920
Speaker 1: I'd be like, I'd be like, oh, man, I've seen

1461
01:12:57,960 --> 01:12:59,720
Speaker 1: this on Gray's Navity. This is what's wrong with me.

1462
01:12:59,760 --> 01:13:03,320
Speaker 1: I'm I need to go to the doctor. I look.

1463
01:13:03,400 --> 01:13:07,600
Speaker 1: He stumbled upon The Notebook one day. I was just

1464
01:13:07,760 --> 01:13:10,639
Speaker 1: watching TV, regular TV. I didn't have like a guide

1465
01:13:10,800 --> 01:13:14,160
Speaker 1: or anything, scrolling through the channels. This movie was real good.

1466
01:13:14,160 --> 01:13:15,519
Speaker 1: And next thing I know, I got to a commercial

1467
01:13:15,560 --> 01:13:17,519
Speaker 1: back and they're like, oh, you're watching the Notebook, And

1468
01:13:17,560 --> 01:13:20,799
Speaker 1: I was like, definitely. She had a couple of tears.

1469
01:13:22,080 --> 01:13:24,519
Speaker 1: That was my next question. You cried in the movie?

1470
01:13:24,960 --> 01:13:29,800
Speaker 1: Were you alone? Yeah? I was alone. I cried and

1471
01:13:29,840 --> 01:13:32,360
Speaker 1: I was myself. The next day I had to tell somebody.

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Speaker 1: So I got to school. I was in like high

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01:13:34,439 --> 01:13:36,880
Speaker 1: school or something, and I had to tell one of

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Speaker 1: my friends, Like bro. Yesterday, I was watching The Notebook

1475
01:13:40,439 --> 01:13:44,040
Speaker 1: and and I cried. It's okay to show your emotions.

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01:13:46,240 --> 01:13:48,640
Speaker 1: I appreciate you opening up with that, man. Thank you.

1477
01:13:49,439 --> 01:13:55,960
Speaker 1: SpongeBob square Pants. Who was your favorite character, SpongeBob or Plankton?

1478
01:14:00,000 --> 01:14:03,640
Speaker 1: I was really good The Bachelor, and it's really a

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01:14:03,800 --> 01:14:07,439
Speaker 1: show that women love to watch. But I watched it

1480
01:14:07,880 --> 01:14:10,280
Speaker 1: because my boy Cole was on there, and I played

1481
01:14:10,320 --> 01:14:12,960
Speaker 1: ball with Colton at the Charges originally for a year,

1482
01:14:13,320 --> 01:14:15,720
Speaker 1: so I had to support him and interested to see

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01:14:15,760 --> 01:14:18,080
Speaker 1: how he was going to do it. Okay, so here

1484
01:14:18,160 --> 01:14:21,920
Speaker 1: we go with the justifications. Were going to games. We

1485
01:14:22,040 --> 01:14:23,400
Speaker 1: had to put it out there. I gotta put it

1486
01:14:23,439 --> 01:14:27,880
Speaker 1: out there. Drop a comment, give some feedback, some constructive criticism.

1487
01:14:28,160 --> 01:14:29,880
Speaker 1: Let's know how we can improve, how can we get

1488
01:14:29,960 --> 01:14:32,640
Speaker 1: better because we are always in the endless pursuit of

1489
01:14:32,840 --> 01:14:38,400
Speaker 1: high quality content. It's your boy, be Scar and we yeah. Now,

1490
01:14:38,479 --> 01:14:41,480
Speaker 1: Bradley Roby, don't you ever say you're embarrassed to watch SpongeBob.

1491
01:14:41,640 --> 01:14:46,000
Speaker 1: It's one of the greatest TV shows known to man kind. Signed.

1492
01:14:46,240 --> 01:14:50,080
Speaker 1: My two kids love SpongeBob. I love that he did Plankton.

1493
01:14:50,240 --> 01:14:53,439
Speaker 1: What you can't see because you're just listening, is he

1494
01:14:53,520 --> 01:14:56,280
Speaker 1: did the little hands like Plankton does. If you're watched SpongeBob,

1495
01:14:56,360 --> 01:14:59,519
Speaker 1: you know Plankton is, you know what Plankton does. Bradley

1496
01:14:59,560 --> 01:15:03,320
Speaker 1: did that perfectly. It was absolutely fantastic. All right, this

1497
01:15:03,520 --> 01:15:07,200
Speaker 1: type of a little Texans player audio jukebox. All right,

1498
01:15:08,360 --> 01:15:10,280
Speaker 1: a lot of locker room time. Will the last couple

1499
01:15:10,360 --> 01:15:12,600
Speaker 1: of days and the guys were asked a number of

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01:15:12,640 --> 01:15:16,120
Speaker 1: different questions, and we'll start with Jonathan Joseph and what

1501
01:15:16,320 --> 01:15:20,360
Speaker 1: word comes to mind when he thinks of Lamar Jackson Dynamic. Um,

1502
01:15:20,439 --> 01:15:23,160
Speaker 1: he's obviously as dominatic dynamic as they come in this league.

1503
01:15:23,240 --> 01:15:24,840
Speaker 1: As a player I've I've seen in a long time,

1504
01:15:25,360 --> 01:15:27,160
Speaker 1: I haven't seen any guys do that with their football

1505
01:15:27,200 --> 01:15:29,439
Speaker 1: in the hand, playing the quarterback position. So it's a

1506
01:15:29,479 --> 01:15:31,320
Speaker 1: big tough task for us. But obviously as a team,

1507
01:15:31,360 --> 01:15:32,960
Speaker 1: you know, we prepared each and every week, you know,

1508
01:15:33,040 --> 01:15:34,599
Speaker 1: for different guys in this week, you know it would

1509
01:15:34,600 --> 01:15:36,519
Speaker 1: be a big challenge. But I think with more than radio. Honestly,

1510
01:15:36,560 --> 01:15:38,200
Speaker 1: it's been impressive. You know, it would be my last

1511
01:15:38,240 --> 01:15:40,200
Speaker 1: time raving about him a little bit, but you know

1512
01:15:40,479 --> 01:15:42,519
Speaker 1: it's fun to watch. Obviously, coming in in college, you

1513
01:15:42,520 --> 01:15:44,519
Speaker 1: know he took a lot of criticism. He wouldn't made

1514
01:15:44,560 --> 01:15:46,000
Speaker 1: to get it done at this level. I think um

1515
01:15:46,080 --> 01:15:47,639
Speaker 1: Hardbar and those guys over they have done a fine

1516
01:15:47,720 --> 01:15:50,479
Speaker 1: job of utilizing his skill set. And obviously you got

1517
01:15:50,560 --> 01:15:52,160
Speaker 1: to tip your hat at him from being tough enough

1518
01:15:52,200 --> 01:15:54,280
Speaker 1: to running this league and take hits and you know,

1519
01:15:54,400 --> 01:15:56,320
Speaker 1: get his team to where they're at right now. But

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01:15:56,439 --> 01:15:59,160
Speaker 1: J Joe, everybody knows about Lamar Jackson. Did they have

1521
01:15:59,200 --> 01:16:01,640
Speaker 1: anybody else on offense? That's a lot because obviously they

1522
01:16:01,680 --> 01:16:03,679
Speaker 1: got those running backs there, you know, leaded by Ingram,

1523
01:16:03,840 --> 01:16:05,599
Speaker 1: they got tight ends, they got wide outs, they got

1524
01:16:05,640 --> 01:16:08,040
Speaker 1: speed at those positions also. So as much as you

1525
01:16:08,120 --> 01:16:09,720
Speaker 1: like to just key on Jackson, you know, if you

1526
01:16:09,880 --> 01:16:11,439
Speaker 1: pay too much tension to him, he got other guys

1527
01:16:11,439 --> 01:16:13,240
Speaker 1: that can beat you as well. Carlos Hides had a

1528
01:16:13,360 --> 01:16:16,120
Speaker 1: ton of success for the Texans this year. What's been

1529
01:16:16,200 --> 01:16:20,160
Speaker 1: the secret coach DV my office, the line coach, Ob

1530
01:16:20,960 --> 01:16:24,080
Speaker 1: coach Tim pretty much the whole offense. You know, everybody

1531
01:16:24,120 --> 01:16:26,040
Speaker 1: just believe it. They't be giving me a chance, you know,

1532
01:16:26,240 --> 01:16:29,720
Speaker 1: to you know, play my game and you know, just

1533
01:16:29,840 --> 01:16:32,040
Speaker 1: do what I do best. Here, Zach Cuttingham, I think

1534
01:16:32,160 --> 01:16:33,760
Speaker 1: is stringing together one of the better seasons for the

1535
01:16:33,800 --> 01:16:37,040
Speaker 1: inside linebacker in the AFC. He is the man in

1536
01:16:37,040 --> 01:16:39,560
Speaker 1: the middle alongside but Archer McKinney, but around him in

1537
01:16:39,600 --> 01:16:42,080
Speaker 1: that secondary in particular, they've had to add some new

1538
01:16:42,240 --> 01:16:46,040
Speaker 1: players recently, and this week it was Vernon Hargraves. What's

1539
01:16:46,080 --> 01:16:49,000
Speaker 1: the key to making sure that gets done properly? It's way,

1540
01:16:49,160 --> 01:16:50,960
Speaker 1: you know, every guy that comes in, just getting them

1541
01:16:51,000 --> 01:16:53,360
Speaker 1: in the system, make sure that we're communicating with them,

1542
01:16:53,840 --> 01:16:55,760
Speaker 1: you know, helping them to ease into it, you know,

1543
01:16:56,280 --> 01:16:59,479
Speaker 1: you know, just building that relationship with him. Let's close

1544
01:16:59,560 --> 01:17:02,240
Speaker 1: with the show on Watson, who has some thoughts on

1545
01:17:02,360 --> 01:17:05,599
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, someone he's very close to. I'm a proud quarterback,

1546
01:17:05,640 --> 01:17:08,840
Speaker 1: proud friend. You know. It's just you know, all the

1547
01:17:08,880 --> 01:17:12,280
Speaker 1: criticism he was getting when he was coming out. He's

1548
01:17:12,360 --> 01:17:14,920
Speaker 1: definitely a guy that I've always encouraged and you know,

1549
01:17:15,080 --> 01:17:17,559
Speaker 1: talked to an off season and you know, always been

1550
01:17:17,720 --> 01:17:19,679
Speaker 1: since you know, college days. You know when we played

1551
01:17:19,680 --> 01:17:22,080
Speaker 1: against each other, always been friends with him. So he's

1552
01:17:22,120 --> 01:17:24,560
Speaker 1: a guy that's been, you know, doing with everything that

1553
01:17:24,720 --> 01:17:27,360
Speaker 1: everyone that's all the naysayers have, you know, it said

1554
01:17:27,360 --> 01:17:30,200
Speaker 1: that he couldn't do. And even more so, you know

1555
01:17:30,880 --> 01:17:33,040
Speaker 1: his career is very, very bright and he's gonna continue

1556
01:17:33,080 --> 01:17:35,200
Speaker 1: to do great things. All Right, there's a little taste

1557
01:17:35,200 --> 01:17:39,479
Speaker 1: of Texans player audio jukebox. Now it's time for the

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01:17:39,560 --> 01:17:42,600
Speaker 1: Final Word with Drew Doherty. Each and every Friday, the

1559
01:17:42,840 --> 01:17:46,719
Speaker 1: last thing you hear from this show is Drew Doherty

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01:17:47,040 --> 01:17:50,960
Speaker 1: sitting down with one of your favorite Texans in this

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01:17:51,160 --> 01:17:55,320
Speaker 1: week it is Rookie Tightest Howard. Let's talk about that

1562
01:17:55,560 --> 01:17:58,200
Speaker 1: rookie season. How much have you learned in the last

1563
01:17:58,400 --> 01:18:01,960
Speaker 1: two months? How different player are you? Game one week

1564
01:18:02,040 --> 01:18:05,840
Speaker 1: one two now totally different? Each week you just learn

1565
01:18:05,920 --> 01:18:09,719
Speaker 1: new things. You learn different going against different players, different

1566
01:18:09,760 --> 01:18:12,080
Speaker 1: schemes for different teams. So it just makes you a

1567
01:18:12,120 --> 01:18:15,040
Speaker 1: better player and an overall perspective because you're learning more

1568
01:18:15,080 --> 01:18:16,920
Speaker 1: and more about the game each and every week. What

1569
01:18:17,080 --> 01:18:19,280
Speaker 1: you learn about yourself over the bye week because it's

1570
01:18:19,280 --> 01:18:21,880
Speaker 1: a time for relaxation and time for rejuvenation. But that

1571
01:18:22,160 --> 01:18:24,760
Speaker 1: wasn't all the things that you did wasn't no, it

1572
01:18:25,080 --> 01:18:27,479
Speaker 1: was it was more about, you know, just tuning in

1573
01:18:27,600 --> 01:18:29,200
Speaker 1: on your body. You know, give me a chance to

1574
01:18:29,240 --> 01:18:30,920
Speaker 1: you know, give me your body a chance to risk

1575
01:18:31,000 --> 01:18:34,040
Speaker 1: and recovery, watching xtra film, looking at yourself, seeing what

1576
01:18:34,160 --> 01:18:36,200
Speaker 1: you might need to you know, work on for the

1577
01:18:36,400 --> 01:18:38,760
Speaker 1: second half of the season. But also like you say,

1578
01:18:38,840 --> 01:18:42,160
Speaker 1: you know, just enjoy yourself being relaxing. Uh, you know,

1579
01:18:42,200 --> 01:18:44,160
Speaker 1: if you're trying to sit back and chill, you know,

1580
01:18:44,479 --> 01:18:47,000
Speaker 1: take him out of football something and just you know,

1581
01:18:47,560 --> 01:18:50,800
Speaker 1: be yourself, you know, a week knowing that after that

1582
01:18:50,920 --> 01:18:53,360
Speaker 1: week overways back to football. Yeah. So how are you

1583
01:18:53,439 --> 01:18:55,680
Speaker 1: feeling after the week that you just went through As

1584
01:18:55,760 --> 01:18:57,560
Speaker 1: far as the by goes, you missed some time with

1585
01:18:57,640 --> 01:18:59,400
Speaker 1: the injury, but you played before the buy, then you

1586
01:18:59,439 --> 01:19:02,040
Speaker 1: get the week off physically, how are you I'm feeling

1587
01:19:02,080 --> 01:19:04,439
Speaker 1: pretty good. Actually, the buy kind of helped me out

1588
01:19:04,479 --> 01:19:06,720
Speaker 1: a lot. Gave me a chance to you know, sit back,

1589
01:19:07,000 --> 01:19:09,479
Speaker 1: you know, some extra recovery time and just really just

1590
01:19:09,680 --> 01:19:11,360
Speaker 1: like I said, I could men some time before the

1591
01:19:11,479 --> 01:19:14,400
Speaker 1: break and the bye week came gave me like extra weeks,

1592
01:19:14,439 --> 01:19:16,880
Speaker 1: you know, just make sure my body in the best

1593
01:19:16,920 --> 01:19:18,920
Speaker 1: position it can be for the second half of the season.

1594
01:19:19,040 --> 01:19:20,920
Speaker 1: How fulfilling was it to be able to come back

1595
01:19:20,960 --> 01:19:22,880
Speaker 1: from the injury play the way you guys played. I

1596
01:19:22,960 --> 01:19:25,160
Speaker 1: mean it's not often that you beat a team like

1597
01:19:25,320 --> 01:19:27,840
Speaker 1: twenty three points in the NFL. How good did it

1598
01:19:27,920 --> 01:19:29,680
Speaker 1: feel to come back and be a part of that

1599
01:19:29,880 --> 01:19:32,040
Speaker 1: that winning effort? Great man? I was, you know, so

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01:19:32,160 --> 01:19:34,280
Speaker 1: excited that I got a chance, you know, to play

1601
01:19:34,360 --> 01:19:36,000
Speaker 1: in that game, just to be there and play for

1602
01:19:36,080 --> 01:19:38,400
Speaker 1: my teammates, you know, play for organization and get a

1603
01:19:38,439 --> 01:19:41,160
Speaker 1: win over in London. It was great, man, and kind

1604
01:19:41,160 --> 01:19:43,200
Speaker 1: of gave us, you know, me momentum for the second

1605
01:19:43,320 --> 01:19:44,880
Speaker 1: half of the season. Let me know, I came back

1606
01:19:45,000 --> 01:19:47,200
Speaker 1: from injury and you know, fought the odds. You know,

1607
01:19:47,360 --> 01:19:49,479
Speaker 1: I thought that was gonna be out long enough, I expected,

1608
01:19:49,720 --> 01:19:51,160
Speaker 1: But I came back in time, you know, to help

1609
01:19:51,240 --> 01:19:53,000
Speaker 1: my team get a win. And just so that long

1610
01:19:53,080 --> 01:19:55,559
Speaker 1: playing around back made it a lot easier. Yeah, would

1611
01:19:55,560 --> 01:19:58,400
Speaker 1: a win a long happy playing right back. Yeah. You know,

1612
01:19:58,479 --> 01:20:00,760
Speaker 1: you just brought up the word momentum, and I think

1613
01:20:00,800 --> 01:20:04,360
Speaker 1: that's that's key because over the last five games, Deshaun

1614
01:20:04,439 --> 01:20:07,639
Speaker 1: Watson's been sacked just seven times. Now, there are many

1615
01:20:07,720 --> 01:20:09,840
Speaker 1: things that go into pass protection. A lot of it's

1616
01:20:09,840 --> 01:20:11,920
Speaker 1: the offensive line, but there are many other factors in them.

1617
01:20:12,240 --> 01:20:15,000
Speaker 1: What have you guys been doing lately offensive line wise?

1618
01:20:15,080 --> 01:20:18,920
Speaker 1: It's been so successful, so good. Really, just straining, like

1619
01:20:19,040 --> 01:20:21,080
Speaker 1: to finish every a lot of times. Man, if you

1620
01:20:21,120 --> 01:20:23,519
Speaker 1: realize when guys get sacked because you know, guys stop

1621
01:20:23,680 --> 01:20:26,080
Speaker 1: on them play Coach dal stresses us, you know, straining

1622
01:20:26,080 --> 01:20:29,120
Speaker 1: to finish and you know, just tuning in too each play,

1623
01:20:29,320 --> 01:20:31,240
Speaker 1: taking the one play at the time and not if

1624
01:20:31,240 --> 01:20:33,240
Speaker 1: you mess up to play before, don't dwell on. You know,

1625
01:20:34,000 --> 01:20:36,680
Speaker 1: every play is a new play and just playing hard man,

1626
01:20:36,960 --> 01:20:38,640
Speaker 1: just knowing it. We got a great quarterback in the

1627
01:20:38,720 --> 01:20:41,479
Speaker 1: Sean and we can protect him. You know, he's gonna

1628
01:20:41,520 --> 01:20:43,600
Speaker 1: take us a long way. I imagine. It is a

1629
01:20:43,640 --> 01:20:46,439
Speaker 1: little bit tiring having to block for those extra few seconds,

1630
01:20:46,520 --> 01:20:48,559
Speaker 1: but is it all the more rewarding when you get

1631
01:20:48,560 --> 01:20:50,640
Speaker 1: to watch the film the next couple of days and

1632
01:20:50,720 --> 01:20:53,040
Speaker 1: you see some of the miraculous stuff that he did

1633
01:20:53,120 --> 01:20:55,519
Speaker 1: that you guys were able to allow him that time

1634
01:20:55,600 --> 01:20:57,400
Speaker 1: for Oh yeah, of course. Man. It's just like to

1635
01:20:57,439 --> 01:21:00,600
Speaker 1: play when he was playing Raiders and kicked in the

1636
01:21:00,640 --> 01:21:02,840
Speaker 1: eye and he fixes his helmet and all that, and

1637
01:21:02,880 --> 01:21:05,000
Speaker 1: still through the testdown and bays plays like that that

1638
01:21:05,120 --> 01:21:07,000
Speaker 1: you look at him as like if I can just

1639
01:21:07,840 --> 01:21:10,280
Speaker 1: get him more time, and he making plays like that

1640
01:21:10,320 --> 01:21:12,760
Speaker 1: and we didn't give him time. Like I said, it's

1641
01:21:12,800 --> 01:21:15,000
Speaker 1: no measurement on how far you can take us as

1642
01:21:15,000 --> 01:21:17,639
Speaker 1: a former quarterback yourself. Is it kind of just mind

1643
01:21:17,680 --> 01:21:19,920
Speaker 1: blowing him because I imagine you made great plays when

1644
01:21:19,960 --> 01:21:21,960
Speaker 1: you're in high school, but I don't know that you

1645
01:21:22,000 --> 01:21:23,639
Speaker 1: were making plays like that and I don't have any

1646
01:21:23,880 --> 01:21:25,920
Speaker 1: any tape of what you did way back when. But

1647
01:21:26,280 --> 01:21:28,200
Speaker 1: you can appreciate that a little bit more, can't you.

1648
01:21:28,600 --> 01:21:31,879
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'm very appreciative And like me playing quarterback

1649
01:21:32,000 --> 01:21:33,840
Speaker 1: kind of like lets me know how to show and

1650
01:21:33,960 --> 01:21:36,680
Speaker 1: feels like getting sacked and you know, just being back

1651
01:21:37,840 --> 01:21:39,920
Speaker 1: had that feeling like all these guys are gonna be

1652
01:21:39,960 --> 01:21:42,280
Speaker 1: able protecting me. This player do I gotta worry about?

1653
01:21:42,320 --> 01:21:44,320
Speaker 1: You know that you got coming from a blind side

1654
01:21:44,360 --> 01:21:47,200
Speaker 1: of this side. So it made me work a little

1655
01:21:47,240 --> 01:21:50,439
Speaker 1: extra harder for him because I've been in that position before,

1656
01:21:50,560 --> 01:21:52,680
Speaker 1: so I don't like to, you know, let him get hit.

1657
01:21:52,960 --> 01:21:55,519
Speaker 1: All season long, Texans have been one of the four

1658
01:21:55,600 --> 01:21:58,680
Speaker 1: or five best running teams in the NFL. You know

1659
01:21:58,760 --> 01:22:00,760
Speaker 1: you're in that top five out of where his first

1660
01:22:00,840 --> 01:22:03,360
Speaker 1: yards per game? How how much pride you guys as

1661
01:22:03,400 --> 01:22:06,120
Speaker 1: an offensive line taking that and run blocking and you know,

1662
01:22:06,280 --> 01:22:09,439
Speaker 1: clearing these holes for Duke, for Carlos side especially. Yeah,

1663
01:22:09,479 --> 01:22:11,320
Speaker 1: we come in each game and with a mindset that

1664
01:22:11,400 --> 01:22:14,080
Speaker 1: we can run the ball on anymore. Uh, you know,

1665
01:22:14,240 --> 01:22:16,280
Speaker 1: just it's all like I said, some mindset. If you

1666
01:22:16,360 --> 01:22:18,920
Speaker 1: can come in and you can establish a run game,

1667
01:22:19,080 --> 01:22:21,559
Speaker 1: it's only going to open up the passing game. If

1668
01:22:21,600 --> 01:22:23,720
Speaker 1: you can't run the ball, they're just gonna sit back

1669
01:22:23,760 --> 01:22:25,360
Speaker 1: and can't pass the ball. So we come in each

1670
01:22:25,439 --> 01:22:29,040
Speaker 1: game with dirty, nasty attitude and say, hey, we want

1671
01:22:29,040 --> 01:22:31,240
Speaker 1: to run the ball, so we might won't have to

1672
01:22:31,280 --> 01:22:33,559
Speaker 1: pass the ball because if we can run the ball

1673
01:22:33,600 --> 01:22:36,360
Speaker 1: all game, we can run the ball score and they

1674
01:22:36,439 --> 01:22:38,519
Speaker 1: won't have to be in loan third down. So we

1675
01:22:38,560 --> 01:22:40,880
Speaker 1: had to pass the ball. And that's when everybody coming

1676
01:22:40,920 --> 01:22:42,840
Speaker 1: all those crazy blitzes and stuff, and it's hard to

1677
01:22:42,880 --> 01:22:46,320
Speaker 1: protect because they're blitzing so many people. So I might

1678
01:22:46,400 --> 01:22:48,280
Speaker 1: say every game, you know, we want to establish a

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Speaker 1: run and that starts up front. So we got good

1680
01:22:51,880 --> 01:22:55,080
Speaker 1: you know, older guys like Laramie, Zach and Nick you

1681
01:22:55,160 --> 01:22:57,360
Speaker 1: know who, they talk talk to me in Max. You know,

1682
01:22:57,439 --> 01:23:00,400
Speaker 1: they just help us throughout the week on what we're

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01:23:00,439 --> 01:23:03,000
Speaker 1: looking for. And these guys and the Washingtons film and

1684
01:23:03,479 --> 01:23:06,200
Speaker 1: after practice what can we do to be better and

1685
01:23:06,360 --> 01:23:09,000
Speaker 1: be prepared for the game, the upcoming game, and that

1686
01:23:09,080 --> 01:23:11,400
Speaker 1: has helped us Easton get better Easton every week. Well,

1687
01:23:11,439 --> 01:23:13,839
Speaker 1: let's talk about this upcoming game. What is the challenge

1688
01:23:13,920 --> 01:23:16,599
Speaker 1: in front of you guys with this Baltimore Ravens front seven?

1689
01:23:16,680 --> 01:23:18,720
Speaker 1: How good are they and what sort of challenges do

1690
01:23:18,800 --> 01:23:21,720
Speaker 1: they pose? Oh? Yeah, that's a big, pretty big front.

1691
01:23:21,760 --> 01:23:24,120
Speaker 1: It's very challenged defense, one of the best defenses in

1692
01:23:24,160 --> 01:23:27,120
Speaker 1: the NFL. Challenge, you know, just to like establish a

1693
01:23:27,240 --> 01:23:30,320
Speaker 1: run and protect the shun's that's our job. Each and

1694
01:23:30,400 --> 01:23:34,599
Speaker 1: every we established run, protection shun. It doesn't change for anyone.

1695
01:23:34,640 --> 01:23:37,320
Speaker 1: We treat everyone the same because this is the NFL.

1696
01:23:37,400 --> 01:23:40,280
Speaker 1: Everyone's good. We're gonna establish a run, you know, protect

1697
01:23:40,360 --> 01:23:42,519
Speaker 1: to shun and that's see what it takes us. Pretty

1698
01:23:42,520 --> 01:23:46,400
Speaker 1: simple recipe for success. Huh, established a run, protect a sean.

1699
01:23:46,560 --> 01:23:49,200
Speaker 1: There you go. One last thing, what's it like being

1700
01:23:49,240 --> 01:23:51,920
Speaker 1: a rookie and being a starter up front with a

1701
01:23:52,040 --> 01:23:54,080
Speaker 1: fellow rookie. Fellow starter and Max Sharp and you guys

1702
01:23:54,120 --> 01:23:56,320
Speaker 1: are kind of always gonna be linked because you were

1703
01:23:56,320 --> 01:23:58,880
Speaker 1: taking first first round, he was taking in the second round. Great,

1704
01:23:59,040 --> 01:24:01,160
Speaker 1: you know me knowing Max is over there, he just

1705
01:24:01,320 --> 01:24:03,640
Speaker 1: you know, we hope we like we challenge each other,

1706
01:24:03,760 --> 01:24:07,080
Speaker 1: like to play at a high level. Every week. I

1707
01:24:07,200 --> 01:24:09,519
Speaker 1: help him out, He helps me out. We was roommates

1708
01:24:09,640 --> 01:24:12,080
Speaker 1: all through trading camp. If it's some something I didn't know,

1709
01:24:12,680 --> 01:24:14,720
Speaker 1: or a techniqu that I didn't know, he would show me.

1710
01:24:14,800 --> 01:24:17,360
Speaker 1: If it was filmed that I need help watching, then

1711
01:24:17,400 --> 01:24:19,760
Speaker 1: he understood it better than me. He would help me,

1712
01:24:19,840 --> 01:24:22,120
Speaker 1: or I would help him, and vice versa. So us

1713
01:24:22,200 --> 01:24:25,080
Speaker 1: coming in together as rookies and both of us starting together.

1714
01:24:25,280 --> 01:24:27,160
Speaker 1: You know, he's kind of we both feed off each

1715
01:24:27,160 --> 01:24:29,839
Speaker 1: other energy. And I said, we got some great veterans

1716
01:24:29,880 --> 01:24:32,479
Speaker 1: in the room who you know, help us out, and

1717
01:24:32,800 --> 01:24:36,280
Speaker 1: you know, they teach us all their ropes and stuff.

1718
01:24:36,320 --> 01:24:38,000
Speaker 1: So I feel like we got a group you know,

1719
01:24:38,080 --> 01:24:40,360
Speaker 1: they can play pat together for a long time and

1720
01:24:40,880 --> 01:24:43,080
Speaker 1: you know, help his team win a lot of football games,

1721
01:24:43,200 --> 01:24:45,000
Speaker 1: all right. We hope one of those wins comes on

1722
01:24:45,120 --> 01:24:47,720
Speaker 1: Sunday against the Baltimore Ravens. Titus Howard, thanks so much

1723
01:24:47,720 --> 01:24:49,679
Speaker 1: for the time, best of luck in Baltimore, and best

1724
01:24:49,680 --> 01:24:51,680
Speaker 1: of luck the rest of the season. Yes, sir, thank

1725
01:24:51,720 --> 01:24:54,160
Speaker 1: you for having that man right there. Teddy's Howard has

1726
01:24:54,160 --> 01:24:57,960
Speaker 1: made a significant impact on this offensive line moving over

1727
01:24:58,000 --> 01:25:00,240
Speaker 1: the right tackle spot. He's played a little left guard,

1728
01:25:00,280 --> 01:25:02,519
Speaker 1: he's played some right tackle, and he's locked in on

1729
01:25:02,560 --> 01:25:05,040
Speaker 1: that right tackle position opposit to Laramy Tunsil, and hopefully

1730
01:25:05,360 --> 01:25:07,559
Speaker 1: those two will be in the lineup ready to roll

1731
01:25:07,760 --> 01:25:10,559
Speaker 1: on Sunday for one of the bigger regular season games

1732
01:25:10,800 --> 01:25:14,800
Speaker 1: the Texans have had in quite some time. And that

1733
01:25:15,280 --> 01:25:17,600
Speaker 1: I've kind of downplayed it all week. I've heard it

1734
01:25:17,720 --> 01:25:20,479
Speaker 1: on sports talk radio. I've heard the guys on six

1735
01:25:20,560 --> 01:25:23,599
Speaker 1: ten talk about it this week. I read it, read

1736
01:25:23,600 --> 01:25:26,479
Speaker 1: it on social media talking about how big this one is.

1737
01:25:27,520 --> 01:25:28,960
Speaker 1: And you can't treat it like that it's just the

1738
01:25:29,040 --> 01:25:31,519
Speaker 1: next team on the schedule. But we all know how

1739
01:25:31,560 --> 01:25:34,920
Speaker 1: big it is. The players know. They see Lamar Jackson

1740
01:25:34,960 --> 01:25:37,000
Speaker 1: on the other side, they know the Ravens are seven

1741
01:25:37,040 --> 01:25:39,519
Speaker 1: and two. There are only two games this week of

1742
01:25:39,720 --> 01:25:43,759
Speaker 1: team with both teams with winning records, and the Ravens

1743
01:25:43,840 --> 01:25:45,960
Speaker 1: the Chiefs, the Patriots and the Texans are all got

1744
01:25:46,000 --> 01:25:48,960
Speaker 1: this round robin. And right now the Ravens are one

1745
01:25:49,000 --> 01:25:51,440
Speaker 1: and one, having lost the Chiefs would beat the Patriots.

1746
01:25:51,640 --> 01:25:54,000
Speaker 1: The Texans are one and oh, having beaten the Chiefs,

1747
01:25:54,280 --> 01:25:57,120
Speaker 1: with the Ravens and Patriots still left to go, you

1748
01:25:57,160 --> 01:26:00,000
Speaker 1: can make a significant statement and a lot of people

1749
01:26:00,200 --> 01:26:02,320
Speaker 1: that think the Texans will go win, they'll think, oh,

1750
01:26:02,360 --> 01:26:04,760
Speaker 1: they'll play it close. No, it's time to go up there.

1751
01:26:05,479 --> 01:26:08,960
Speaker 1: Maybe not shock the world, but make a statement. That

1752
01:26:09,120 --> 01:26:13,840
Speaker 1: statement starts at noon on Sunday, one o'clock in Baltimore.

1753
01:26:14,000 --> 01:26:16,240
Speaker 1: We'll see you then, everybody, huge, thanks to all who

1754
01:26:16,320 --> 01:26:18,800
Speaker 1: participate on the show tonight. Thank you so much, to

1755
01:26:18,920 --> 01:26:21,160
Speaker 1: my guys back at six to ten. Appreciate you guys,

1756
01:26:21,360 --> 01:26:23,240
Speaker 1: and of course all your listeners out there. You are

1757
01:26:23,280 --> 01:26:26,760
Speaker 1: the very best. We'll see you on Sunday. Thank you

1758
01:26:26,800 --> 01:26:28,200
Speaker 1: so much, and let's always go Texans.