Speaker 1: What is up? Everybody? Welcome into a Friday edition of
Speaker 1: Texans All Access and we are just one short weekend away, Saturday,
Speaker 1: Sunday Monday night, New Orleans Saints in the Superdome. Let's
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Speaker 1: John Harris Football and a Southern reporter in the Honday
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Speaker 1: Texans football. And boy do we have a lot for you.
Speaker 1: We've got my keys to the game. We've got Mark
Speaker 1: Vandemir stopping by to talk about this battle with New Orleans.
Speaker 1: I've got all of my NFL predictions or fourteen games
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Speaker 1: also going to have John the chasier of Saints dot
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Speaker 1: get the skinny on the same and then our final
Speaker 1: segment we will have devoted to our players. I devote
Speaker 1: that last segment to the players, which means a little
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Speaker 1: got plenty plenty to do tonight, and we're gonna start
Speaker 1: with some hot reads. Hot reads brought to you by
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Speaker 1: as it is each and every Friday, is the headball
Speaker 1: coach Bill O'Brien stepped into studio today spend a few
Speaker 1: minutes with Mark Vandemir, coach. How is preparation for this one?
Speaker 1: Getting ready to play in the super dumb tough building.
Speaker 1: Yeah it was. It was good week. These guys, Uh
Speaker 1: practice hard. They got better as the week went on,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know we we piped into noise. You know,
Speaker 1: it's never gonna really be actually like it will be
Speaker 1: Monday night, but these guys put it, put in a
Speaker 1: lot of effort, good preparation and uh, two good football teams,
Speaker 1: so it'll be a fun night. And also getting the
Speaker 1: new guys acclimated to playing in your system for this
Speaker 1: open er. Yeah, that was that was a process, and
Speaker 1: I think we have a really good process. You know,
Speaker 1: we call it an onboarding process. And it started right
Speaker 1: away the day they got here. And then uh, relative
Speaker 1: to our assistant coaches and the guys that we we
Speaker 1: we acquired in trades and things like that. You know,
Speaker 1: our assistant coaches worked very hard. There were some carryover,
Speaker 1: like with with LT and Kenny, those guys had, uh,
Speaker 1: they were familiar with some of the things that we
Speaker 1: do here relative to what they were doing in Miami.
Speaker 1: So it was it was a good week. Drew Brees,
Speaker 1: it seems like he's been playing since the beginning of time.
Speaker 1: So how is he different at all? I mean, he
Speaker 1: just gets better and better. I mean, these guys like
Speaker 1: Drew and Tom and uh, you know, these guys that
Speaker 1: are playing when they're forty years old, it's remarkable. I mean,
Speaker 1: to be able to uh, you know, take care of
Speaker 1: their bodies that way, prepare for each and every game,
Speaker 1: the intensity of the week, the intense of the game,
Speaker 1: and to be able to do that at forty years
Speaker 1: of age, it is just it's incredible, you know. And
Speaker 1: they've they've been fortunate because especially Tom, but also Drew,
Speaker 1: they've been in the same system for for several several years,
Speaker 1: and that's big when you have continuity of system and
Speaker 1: you're not changing systems every couple of years, you know,
Speaker 1: when you're when you're letting coaches go and things like that,
Speaker 1: you know you're in the same system and that helps too.
Speaker 1: But these guys, Drew's a Hall of Fame player and
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a big challenge for us. Everybody talks
Speaker 1: about them throwing to Camara and everything, but how tough
Speaker 1: is the running game to stop for the Saints. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they have a little bit of everything. I mean, they
Speaker 1: throw the ball to Camara, they run the ball well,
Speaker 1: they have a good offensive line that you know, good
Speaker 1: screen game. You know, they have a lot of weapons.
Speaker 1: And Drew's you know, he's the he's the conductor back there.
Speaker 1: You know. He gets them going at a good pace.
Speaker 1: And we've got to get lined up and really our
Speaker 1: focus is to be fundamentally sound and do our jobs.
Speaker 1: I think that's the big thing for us this week.
Speaker 1: What about defensively, They've really ramped up the last couple
Speaker 1: of years in that department. Yeah, I would say the
Speaker 1: last half of last year they really they really did
Speaker 1: a good job. They they were. They played a big
Speaker 1: part in that team going thirteen and three and getting
Speaker 1: to where they got to in the in the NFC
Speaker 1: Championship game. That the defense played really well. They're good
Speaker 1: on the back end. Cam Jordan, you know he can
Speaker 1: he can ruin a game by himself upfront, So we've
Speaker 1: got to do a good job of controlling that. And uh,
Speaker 1: we got to try to stay balanced and do the
Speaker 1: best we can to convert on third downs. And that's
Speaker 1: gonna be big to try to stay on the field.
Speaker 1: What about the special teams part of it? Special teams
Speaker 1: is important. We feel really good about where we are
Speaker 1: with our special teams units. Our coverage units have played
Speaker 1: really well this preseason and practiced well, and we got
Speaker 1: a lot of guys to take a lot of pride
Speaker 1: in it. So you know those guys, they'll show up
Speaker 1: Monday night and give great effort and and uh go
Speaker 1: out there and try to make plays for us. All.
Speaker 1: I know, you want to play clean, but biggest factors
Speaker 1: and pulling out the victoria. I think in the first
Speaker 1: game Vandy, it's always about tackling, you know, being able
Speaker 1: to tackle well. You know, you haven't really live tackled
Speaker 1: that much relative to the starters and things like that.
Speaker 1: I think that's a big deal. I think penalties are
Speaker 1: a big deal. I think turnovers. I think when you
Speaker 1: look at the green Bay Chicago game, the first game
Speaker 1: of the year, I mean, that's really what it came
Speaker 1: down to. It was turnovers, it was miss tackles, it
Speaker 1: was penalties. And I think that's that's something that the
Speaker 1: team that does the league makes the least amount of
Speaker 1: mistakes is the team that's gonna win. Coach, thanks a lot,
Speaker 1: good luck, Thank you, Annie. Not that any NFL team
Speaker 1: is easier to prepare for than any other, but man,
Speaker 1: preparing for the Saints right out of the shoot, that's
Speaker 1: that's a tough one. And on Monday night and in
Speaker 1: their building when it's gonna be loud and rocks, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be tough. There's no doubt. I don't end
Speaker 1: the coach for having to prepare for this one. But
Speaker 1: he's got some help. Let's get to our next hot
Speaker 1: read and that means a little tex Let's write Texans
Speaker 1: audio two box baby all right. On Thursday, Romeo Crennell
Speaker 1: went to the podium and he was asked about a
Speaker 1: guy that I think is one of the best players
Speaker 1: in the league, and that is Alvin Camara. Here's rack
Speaker 1: on Camaro. He's fast, he can run inside, you can
Speaker 1: run outside, he can run routes, he can catch the ball,
Speaker 1: he can outrun people. He's one of those that you
Speaker 1: might have to consider putting two guys on. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I think I think rax on is something putting two
Speaker 1: guys on or putting somebody different on. Like you wouldn't
Speaker 1: think to put a cornerback on a running back, would you.
Speaker 1: And you know what, that actually might not be a
Speaker 1: bad idea because when Camara's out wide, if you have
Speaker 1: a corner on him. A lot of times when running
Speaker 1: backs out wide and there's a corner lined up opposite him,
Speaker 1: teams know, okay, that's that zone because the big receivers
Speaker 1: inside of his man and the corner will go with
Speaker 1: the receiver in a linebacker more like we go to
Speaker 1: the running back. But if you treat Camara like a receiver,
Speaker 1: then maybe they're not going to be able to figure
Speaker 1: it out. Corner on him that might mean zona might
Speaker 1: mean mean that actually might play to your advantage in
Speaker 1: all honesty, so that that could actually help you. Now,
Speaker 1: the last time the Texans played the New Orleans Saints,
Speaker 1: the Texas had a lot of success, and Rack talked
Speaker 1: about why they were able to have that success against
Speaker 1: Drew Brees and twenty. You know, sometimes there were one
Speaker 1: or two unconventional calls that normally you didn't didn't expect
Speaker 1: us to be playing that particular coverage on that particular
Speaker 1: downing distance. And I think that that made a difference.
Speaker 1: Plus we had a guy I think ninety nine was
Speaker 1: going after him pretty good, and so I think that
Speaker 1: helped as well. Yeah, I think it helps. Two sacks,
Speaker 1: eight quarterback hurries, eight quarterback hurries. That's how good ninety
Speaker 1: nine was. Like how coaches trying to downplay that a
Speaker 1: little bit, like, yeah, you know, it's ninety nine was
Speaker 1: pretty darn good. Uh, yeah, he was very good. Now,
Speaker 1: when you play your first game of the year, that
Speaker 1: can be tough, really really tough. You haven't seen the
Speaker 1: Saints offense on films that show much in the preseason. Now,
Speaker 1: at least with the Saints, you have something to go on.
Speaker 1: But Rack said, that's still still tough. You better be
Speaker 1: able to adjust on the fly. If a team has
Speaker 1: been in place for a while, you kind of know
Speaker 1: what their bread and butter is, all right, But then
Speaker 1: there are other things that they might throw at you
Speaker 1: just to try to confuse you, get to catch you
Speaker 1: off balance. You don't know what those things are going
Speaker 1: to be, and so early on it's hard to try
Speaker 1: to figure those out. And so what you end up
Speaker 1: doing is have to make adjustments on the sideline when
Speaker 1: they show you something that you weren't expecting. And that
Speaker 1: I think is the magic of football. As a coach,
Speaker 1: can you adjust on the fly? Guys injured? How do
Speaker 1: you change They're doing something you haven't seen. How do
Speaker 1: you adjust? That's the part of coaching that I actually
Speaker 1: I liked. I liked a lot. I mean, you didn't
Speaker 1: love to have one of your players hurt or see
Speaker 1: something different. But I love the fact that, okay, how
Speaker 1: do we adjust this? How do we play chess? How
Speaker 1: do we play chess to their move? What do we do?
Speaker 1: I love that. I absolutely love that. Now. Romeo talked
Speaker 1: about Brendan Scarlett and we're gonna hear from b Scart
Speaker 1: later on AKA B Star TV, and he said about Brennan,
Speaker 1: here's his goal, this is what he wants from Brennan
Speaker 1: this year twenty nineteen. I expect for him to be
Speaker 1: a consistent performer, you know, and do what we ask
Speaker 1: him to do and do it on a consistent basis,
Speaker 1: you know. And that's the biggest thing, because I think
Speaker 1: he knows the system and understands what we're looking for.
Speaker 1: Now it's just a matter of doing it on the
Speaker 1: field when you have a different ability level across from you,
Speaker 1: and how you handle that and and the discipline that's
Speaker 1: involved in doing what we ask and those kind of things,
Speaker 1: and so you know, you have to put him in
Speaker 1: the game and find out. Absolutely that's what you do.
Speaker 1: You have to find out And that's a I know
Speaker 1: you hear that last part. Will you have to find out?
Speaker 1: I think coaches a lot of times they see things
Speaker 1: in practice and they're like, oh, man, I'm just not sure.
Speaker 1: I'm just not sure. But then you put a guy
Speaker 1: in the field and you're like, man, I didn't really
Speaker 1: know he could do that until I saw him do it.
Speaker 1: He wasn't doing in practice. There weren't opportunities to see
Speaker 1: him do in practice. So maybe there's something like a
Speaker 1: guy like brand Scarlett might do that we haven't seen
Speaker 1: in practice because maybe he wasn't asked to do it,
Speaker 1: or that situation didn't arise. I would say, I say
Speaker 1: this all the time, just because you haven't seen a
Speaker 1: guy to do it doesn't mean you can't do it.
Speaker 1: And I think Brand's gonna be given an opportunity. I'm
Speaker 1: money not looking forward to it all right. Next one
Speaker 1: to jukebox is offensive coordinator Tim Kelly. Out of the shoot.
Speaker 1: Everybody wants to know about new players. My offense has
Speaker 1: got plenty of new players, and Tim said, you know what,
Speaker 1: Kenny Stills Duke Johnson pretty impressive with how they've learned
Speaker 1: our system thus far. In time, you get players that
Speaker 1: can run like those two and definitely helps the cost.
Speaker 1: You know, the thing that's been impressive is that Kenny
Speaker 1: and Duke could both come in and really tried to
Speaker 1: learn the offense. So you know, their ability to run,
Speaker 1: their ability and make plays pair with everybody else on
Speaker 1: the offense. You know, it's a good thing right now.
Speaker 1: Earlier this week I did a telestrator on the growth
Speaker 1: of Deshaun Watson and how far he's come in his
Speaker 1: three years. At two and a half years, pretty much
Speaker 1: as the starting quarterback for your Houston Texans, and coach
Speaker 1: Kelly described what he's seen in the development in Deshaun
Speaker 1: Watson's game with his experience in the offense coming in,
Speaker 1: being able to command everybody, not just his position now,
Speaker 1: but being able to understand what everybody's doing on the field.
Speaker 1: Really working towards understanding what all twenty two were doing
Speaker 1: has really helped his leadership grow. So, you know, as
Speaker 1: rookie yeary's worried about what he was doing, but now
Speaker 1: he's able to go out there and really firmly command
Speaker 1: the huddle, knowing falling well what everybody's supposed to be
Speaker 1: doing on every single play. If there's one key point
Speaker 1: in development of a quarterback, it's that last thing, he said,
Speaker 1: knowing what everybody has to do, what everybody has to do,
Speaker 1: including the left tackle. Now the new left tackle, Leremie
Speaker 1: Tunzel is learning what he needs to do. But coach
Speaker 1: Kelly said that he's been impressed thus far and with
Speaker 1: his ability and he has a welcome addition for this
Speaker 1: offensive line. He's good, he's tough, he's smart, and he's
Speaker 1: depending on Again, just like all those guys. If you
Speaker 1: look at the guys that have come in come in
Speaker 1: the building, especially during training camp. They've all come out
Speaker 1: with the right mindset, trying to trying to learn the
Speaker 1: offense and trying to help the team win. No doubt,
Speaker 1: Larrymy Tunsilo has definitely done that. How about Carlos Hide.
Speaker 1: He's a guy maybe overlooked in all of this because
Speaker 1: of Duke Johnson's addition and Larry Ye Tunsel and Kenny Steals,
Speaker 1: but Carlos Hide traded for Martinez Rankin, has come in
Speaker 1: and Tim said, like what I've seen from the guy
Speaker 1: so far, Carlos has come in. He's done a good
Speaker 1: job with Danny trying to learn the offense and trying
Speaker 1: to catch up, because that's a tough thing right now. Right,
Speaker 1: So he's coming in working every day, being a good
Speaker 1: pro and doing a good job. Yeah, and that's what
Speaker 1: you want from a guy. It's not gonna be your
Speaker 1: top guy. Wouldn't think as running back. Maybe we'll develop
Speaker 1: that way, but I'd imagine that Duke Johnson being the
Speaker 1: first guy I would get the majority of the touches.
Speaker 1: But if Carlos High gives you something downhill running game, boy,
Speaker 1: you absolutely gotta love that. Now, one of the new
Speaker 1: guys we talked about is Duke Johnson. Coach emphasized, for
Speaker 1: as much as we all talk about boy, Duke can
Speaker 1: go on the slot, he can do all these things.
Speaker 1: Duke is a running back. Get that through your thick
Speaker 1: skulls Now. He didn't say that, I'm saying that, but
Speaker 1: here's what coach said about it. Duke has some very
Speaker 1: unique skill sets. But again, I wouldn't consider him to
Speaker 1: be a wide receiver. And thing's a running back. He's
Speaker 1: who like all of them, like Taiwan Carlos, you know,
Speaker 1: they offer a wide variety of skills in that role.
Speaker 1: And that's what you want from a modern day running back.
Speaker 1: The ability to do different things. I just think would
Speaker 1: Duke Johnson. He has such good receiving skills that sometimes
Speaker 1: you forget. Oh yeah like guys running back. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: can run through. I think he can run. I think
Speaker 1: he's gonna be given the opportunity to run it and
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna show. Yeah, I could. I could
Speaker 1: tote the rock, Baby, give me the rock. I'll handle it.
Speaker 1: So there you go, there well us And of course
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Speaker 1: car insurance. All right, this game against the Saints. From
Speaker 1: the day the schedule was announced until now, we have
Speaker 1: all been building up to this. Oh man, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be so exciting. So now that we're here, how do
Speaker 1: you beat the Saints? What are the keys to the game.
Speaker 1: We'll have your FCCU first Glanced Keys to the Game
Speaker 1: next right here on Texans Access. We might have to
Speaker 1: wait an extra day in some change for this Monday
Speaker 1: night opener against the New Orleans Saints, but it's very,
Speaker 1: very close. I think seeing the Packers and Bears on
Speaker 1: Thursday night play real football, and some would argue it
Speaker 1: was real football, but I get it that, yes, the
Speaker 1: season is here, so maybe that makes us a little
Speaker 1: bit more anxious. But either way, Monday night six, a
Speaker 1: little after six o'clock, Texans kickoff against the New Orleans Saints.
Speaker 1: So it's time for my keys to the game. This
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Speaker 1: of the Houston Texans. Now each and every Friday, as
Speaker 1: long as there's a game, sometimes we'll have a Friday
Speaker 1: show when there's a bye week all that we won't
Speaker 1: do it then, but as long as we're doing a
Speaker 1: Friday show, we I will always do my keys to
Speaker 1: the game, always offense, defense, and if the special teams
Speaker 1: make sense, then I'm gonna do special teams as well.
Speaker 1: Special team is pretty easy. Put them down deep, don't
Speaker 1: make any mistakes, don't give up any blocks like you
Speaker 1: did against the Dallas game. Gonna tackle guys to the ball,
Speaker 1: give him a drive, start inside of twenty five yard line,
Speaker 1: and don't make a massive mistake. And if you can
Speaker 1: do that, that's pretty easy. And I think I mentioned
Speaker 1: don't make a massive mistake a few times. So special
Speaker 1: teams in this one. I know that's not what Brad
Speaker 1: Seely's telling us. Guys. That's gonna be a little more involved.
Speaker 1: But you get the point. So let's jump in. Let's
Speaker 1: start with the Texans defense and what the Texans defense
Speaker 1: needs to do to get a win against the New
Speaker 1: Orleans Saint started. Number one, you've got to figure out
Speaker 1: the right way to stop the Album Camara option route.
Speaker 1: Now here's what I mean by that. In the NFC
Speaker 1: Championship game, Camara was used primarily as a receiver, but
Speaker 1: it was clear that game that he was the focus
Speaker 1: of the offensive game plan. Now they want to throw
Speaker 1: the ball to Michael Thomas, there's no question about that.
Speaker 1: But Camara is the straw sturn a drink. Camara is
Speaker 1: the Saints offense. And in that MC Championship game, they
Speaker 1: would manipulate the Rams by taking Camara, starting him out wide,
Speaker 1: motioning him into a stack, and that would get him
Speaker 1: matched up on a linebacker one on one. So did
Speaker 1: a matter where they were playing zone or man behind it,
Speaker 1: it was essentially man and man. The way that the
Speaker 1: Saints were using their formations and the way the Rams
Speaker 1: were scheming up against him, it was one on one
Speaker 1: for Camara the entire time. And it's an option route.
Speaker 1: I mean what he's got an option out or in
Speaker 1: or out. And the first time they ran this, Mark
Speaker 1: Baron kind of just faced him up and Camara's like,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take him inside, jabbed out, Baron went with him.
Speaker 1: He ran inside wide open, breeze hit him. Next time,
Speaker 1: Baron's like, no, no, you're not going inside, So he
Speaker 1: jumped inside and Camara just went right to the flat
Speaker 1: completion easy and they did that throughout the first two
Speaker 1: and a half three quarters and killing the Rams with it,
Speaker 1: but they couldn't put the Rams away. And then finally
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter over time they got some heat
Speaker 1: un Drew Breeze, they took that away and they had success.
Speaker 1: The Texas have got to find a way to do it.
Speaker 1: I don't exactly know what that's gonna be. Whether it's
Speaker 1: Zach Cuttingham, whether it's double team, whether it's in and
Speaker 1: out where it's brackets, whether it's with the slot corner
Speaker 1: on Kamara, not even putting a linebacker, putting a slat
Speaker 1: corner him, maybe putting in a corner on him. I
Speaker 1: don't know. Maybe Camaro's is a good enough receiver that
Speaker 1: you put Bradley Roby on him. I don't know. But
Speaker 1: you've got to slow that down. You have to. Number two,
Speaker 1: the Saints and Drew Brees have had a number of
Speaker 1: different tight ends, a lot of them you don't even
Speaker 1: know by name. But the last one he had that
Speaker 1: you knew the name of was Jimmy Graham, and Jimmy
Speaker 1: was a nightmare for teams to stop. Well, now he's
Speaker 1: got Jared Cook, not quite Jimmy Graham, but still a
Speaker 1: tremendous weapon. Early in training camp when I was reading
Speaker 1: about the Saints, that was the one pitch catch combination
Speaker 1: that they talked about. It wasn't breezing Thomas, wasn't breezing Kamara.
Speaker 1: It was breezing Jared Cook. Got to slow down. Jared Cook.
Speaker 1: To Sean Gibson, his history has slowed down tight ends.
Speaker 1: Can he do it against Jared Cook? That is a
Speaker 1: must win situation for the Texas defense and Sean Gibson
Speaker 1: number three. A lot of people don't know this about
Speaker 1: the Saints, but last year the Saints were sixth in
Speaker 1: the NFL, sixth in the NFL in what in rushing
Speaker 1: yards per game? So stopping the run is important, no doubt.
Speaker 1: But how being discipline gap discipline against the Saints is
Speaker 1: a must. You know, JD and JJ could make up
Speaker 1: for some of the things by making flashy plays, jumping
Speaker 1: around a guard, drop around tackle, go making plays in
Speaker 1: the backfield. I think this group is gonna be a
Speaker 1: little bit more discipline, So they might give up a
Speaker 1: two yard gain, a three yard gain, but they're not
Speaker 1: gonna give up the fifteen eighteen yard gains much because
Speaker 1: they'll be more gap discipline, and they've got to be
Speaker 1: to stop the Saints offense. Number four, Drew Brees is
Speaker 1: a legit six feet if not a shade under You've
Speaker 1: got to push the pocket at his feet and make
Speaker 1: him throw over that. That screws up his vision. It
Speaker 1: forces him to have to work on his mechanics and
Speaker 1: adjust his mechanics to get over. They've got to get
Speaker 1: rushed at his feet. If you get rushed from the edge,
Speaker 1: that's great, but he just steps up in the pocket
Speaker 1: him throws if you don't get anything at his feet.
Speaker 1: There are some quarterbacks you want to get at their feet.
Speaker 1: All quarterbacks you want to get at their feet, but
Speaker 1: they can kind of step up boom. They're six four
Speaker 1: or six five, and they can just deliver it right
Speaker 1: over the line. But if that line is pushing it
Speaker 1: Drew and you cut down on what he can visually see,
Speaker 1: that's when you're gonna have success. Number five Michael Thomas
Speaker 1: is one heck of receiver, but you can be physical
Speaker 1: with him. Marshall Lattimore proved that in training camp when
Speaker 1: Thomas came back off as a little mini holdout. Thomas
Speaker 1: struggled against Lattimar's physicality. You gotta gotta bust him up
Speaker 1: like a boxer wood. You gotta bust him up with
Speaker 1: you gotta be physical. Now, Thomas is an excellent route runner,
Speaker 1: great hands, He's a lot like hopping that he can
Speaker 1: handle all that and still catch football. But you got
Speaker 1: a better opportunity to doing that than anything else. Number six.
Speaker 1: You've got to know if Taysom Hills in the game,
Speaker 1: Taysom Hill in the game, backup, quarterback, running back, tight end,
Speaker 1: eight back, special team star. You've got to know on
Speaker 1: offense when he is in the game, where he is
Speaker 1: lined up in the game, and what is responsible. He
Speaker 1: probably is because more than like, he's gonna get the
Speaker 1: football and he's gonna do something with it. So you've
Speaker 1: got to know where number seven is at all times.
Speaker 1: All right, Texans offense facing the Saints defense, Number one,
Speaker 1: peel back, the layers. In the passing game, you have Fuller,
Speaker 1: you have Hopkins, you have Kenny Stills, Kiki, I would
Speaker 1: imagine not in this one. We have not gotten any
Speaker 1: official report. We had the injury report earlier in the show,
Speaker 1: but we have not gotten a one hundred percent that
Speaker 1: he's gonna be in. We won't know that until Saturday,
Speaker 1: when they've got to declare that forty eight hours for
Speaker 1: the game when that injury report comes out. So typically
Speaker 1: it's on Friday, but because of Monday night game, it
Speaker 1: comes on Saturday. But you can get to different areas
Speaker 1: on the field with those guys and your tight ends
Speaker 1: and your running backs. Right, middle, left, short, medium, long.
Speaker 1: That's nine boxes, nine Sudoku boxes. Hit them all. Hit
Speaker 1: them all because you can hit him all. Because you
Speaker 1: can't and do it with different people. That will make
Speaker 1: things that much more difficult for the Saints to cover everybody.
Speaker 1: Number two, it's going to be loud, statement of the
Speaker 1: obvious captain obvious right, It's gonna be loud. Communicate, I'm
Speaker 1: talking everybody. Deshawn's got to communicate with his line. Nick's
Speaker 1: gonna have to be able to communicate with him at center.
Speaker 1: Nick's gonna have to be able to communicate down the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. Hops or excuse me, Deshawn's gonna have
Speaker 1: to be able to communicate with Hop and Will out
Speaker 1: on the edges. Everybody's got to be on the same page.
Speaker 1: Communication is maybe the most important thing in this entire game.
Speaker 1: Number three, take a shot early, Will Flow's back, take
Speaker 1: a shot early. Put those safeties Marcus Williams and vom
Speaker 1: bell on Nottice. We are not scared to throw it
Speaker 1: down a field. We don't care if you're there. We're
Speaker 1: gonna challenge everybody, Eli Apple, Marshall, Lattimore. We're gonna let
Speaker 1: it fly and hopefully it's fuller. But if it stills
Speaker 1: or hop don't care. Go deep. Let the sharget all
Speaker 1: that angst out. One deep throw and just like in
Speaker 1: Seattle in twenty seventeen, if you hit it all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, you put a stake in the ground and say,
Speaker 1: I guess what, boys, we'll be here all day. That's
Speaker 1: what you gotta do. Take a deep shot early. Number
Speaker 1: four Sheldon Rankins more than likely won't play in this game.
Speaker 1: He had an achilles tendant tear in December. He has
Speaker 1: been taken off Puplist because he's rehapped to a point
Speaker 1: that he can get back sooner than going on IR
Speaker 1: or PUP to start to stamp pup to start the year.
Speaker 1: They'll get him back at some point, but I don't
Speaker 1: think he's gonna be ready to go on this one.
Speaker 1: He is the saints best run defender, and the Saints
Speaker 1: were phenomenal against the run last year, second the league,
Speaker 1: better than the Texans, so very good. Rankins was a
Speaker 1: big reason why. If you're like let Sheldon Rankins, I
Speaker 1: don't really know him. I think DJ Reader against the run.
Speaker 1: Y'all know about DJ, right, that's the Saints version. He
Speaker 1: may not be in this game. So test the middle
Speaker 1: early with Duke, with Carlos Hide, test them early and
Speaker 1: see how they react and if that means they've got
Speaker 1: to go from two high safeties a single. Also, that
Speaker 1: helps up your passing game because now they're gotta be
Speaker 1: threatened by the run. So test the middle of that
Speaker 1: run game early, or that defensive tested Saints middle early
Speaker 1: with the run game and the last one it's New Orleans. Right,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna play the slots, play the slots. And what
Speaker 1: do you do when you play the slots? Hold the
Speaker 1: handle and they spin right, you spin them. Coach talks
Speaker 1: about that a lot. Gotta spin it, gotta spin the dial,
Speaker 1: spin the dial, spin the dial with the slots. What
Speaker 1: do I mean by that? Just know that every receiver
Speaker 1: that you have can go into the slot. Everyone that
Speaker 1: you have. You don't have to be status quo with
Speaker 1: fuller hop outside, stills inside. All of them can play inside,
Speaker 1: all of them can play outside. Spin the dial because
Speaker 1: the guy that gets into slot, that guy might have
Speaker 1: a ton of success play the slots in New Orleans.
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Speaker 1: the Houston Texans. How the Voice of Texas Mark Vannimer.
Speaker 1: During the week, we don't get a lot of time
Speaker 1: to share on each other's show. He does some stuff
Speaker 1: from a Wednesday show. I do some stuff for his
Speaker 1: other shows, but I don't really get a chance to
Speaker 1: jump on with him, and he doesn't get a chance
Speaker 1: to jump out with me. We're gonna change down on Fridays.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have Mark jump in and he does that
Speaker 1: next right here in Texas Axis. Welcome back to a
Speaker 1: Friday edition of Texans All Access from the Honday Texans
Speaker 1: Radio Studio. I am John Harris, football analyst and Salad reporter,
Speaker 1: and you will hear me hosting the show every Friday
Speaker 1: from sixty eight Monday Wednesday Friday six to seven Monday,
Speaker 1: sixty eight Wednesday, six to eight Friday, and on Tuesday
Speaker 1: and Thursday. Well you'll hear this next guest on every
Speaker 1: one of those shows. But it's good. We always get
Speaker 1: a chance. We don't get a chance to be in
Speaker 1: each other shows during the weekends of the season. So
Speaker 1: Mark Vannimber decided to jump on with me on Fridays. Yes,
Speaker 1: I did, and I think it's great because we got
Speaker 1: to get together. We talk a lot on Monday, we
Speaker 1: talk a lot on Sunday, and I know I'm doing
Speaker 1: elements of those shows that you host on Wednesday. Got
Speaker 1: Andre on the opposing play by playvoice when he's gracious
Speaker 1: enough to join me, like Zach Streef was this week.
Speaker 1: That was great. I want to talk to you about
Speaker 1: that because that when he was named a play by
Speaker 1: play voice, like I ran your office playing did you
Speaker 1: see this? Shocking? Matthew? You talked with him, how did
Speaker 1: how did you feel? All right? You know what was
Speaker 1: interesting to me because I asked him what the bigger
Speaker 1: challenges were and he said, actually, the things that you
Speaker 1: would find easy, like throwing it in and out of
Speaker 1: the break and the break and out a break. And
Speaker 1: you know, he actually says he found the football part
Speaker 1: of it easy. I'll say this about Streef. I have
Speaker 1: listened to him, and the call is not bad, it's solid.
Speaker 1: You know, he's not a seasoned guy doing this just
Speaker 1: for years, but he's a Saints veteran and legend if
Speaker 1: you will. And he knows football clearly, so he calls
Speaker 1: the balls and strikes and you can follow the game. Now.
Speaker 1: My biggest problem, and it's not just Zach Streep or whatever,
Speaker 1: but and I don't want to get off my long guy,
Speaker 1: but I'm about to be Johnny. That's fine. I like guys,
Speaker 1: and again Streef, I think we'll get there. But I
Speaker 1: want to hear the energy, you know, and I want
Speaker 1: to hear a commanding presence at the mic. And I
Speaker 1: think that's what we all want on the radio. We
Speaker 1: want to tune in and something special is going on there,
Speaker 1: you know, you know it's great at that was Milo Hamilton,
Speaker 1: a long time ASCROS broadcaster. I think you'd be down
Speaker 1: nine to one in the eighth and it's like, well
Speaker 1: this has happened. The drama, the tension. Now, you don't
Speaker 1: want to oversell it. You can't overstate it. You can't
Speaker 1: pretend that something's going on that's not. But his voice
Speaker 1: had so much command it kind of made just feel
Speaker 1: like I want to listen to this. I don't know,
Speaker 1: it might be a blowout, but I still want to
Speaker 1: listen to Milo's voice. He had that kind of presence,
Speaker 1: and I think Jean did too, Geen Peterson, and you
Speaker 1: know some of the other legends that we've heard from
Speaker 1: time to time. You know, baseball, you always go back
Speaker 1: to baseball. You know, Ernie Harrowell. You know, obviously Vince Scully,
Speaker 1: Vin's a little different, but Ernie Harrowell, so many of
Speaker 1: these other guys. I used to love Rick House, Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, how about Jack Buck? All right? Jack? I
Speaker 1: thought Jack Buck called a terrific football game. He used
Speaker 1: to do Monday night football for the Mutual Broadcast Network
Speaker 1: or system and then Westwood One with Hank Stram, and uh,
Speaker 1: so many of these guys are so good. But you know,
Speaker 1: there are a lot of new guys who are really good.
Speaker 1: You know, Paul Allen and does the Vikings, and Wayne
Speaker 1: Larrabee does the Packers, and I could go on and
Speaker 1: not Mitch Holt this of the of the Chiefs. There's
Speaker 1: so many good ones out there in the National Football
Speaker 1: League and beyond that, you know, I think it was
Speaker 1: interesting that Zach got that job, and I think it
Speaker 1: does open doors for former athletes to be able to
Speaker 1: do it. And I caught up with Bobby Aber yesterday
Speaker 1: and Bobby is interesting to me too because he played
Speaker 1: quarterback there. Now he's a member of the media, and
Speaker 1: I asked him what's it like to criticize athletes and
Speaker 1: he said, I'm old enough to be their dad. They
Speaker 1: don't even some of them don't even know what I
Speaker 1: did here. They don't know how to play a quarterback
Speaker 1: because I this is me talking, not him. You know,
Speaker 1: he doesn't look like a quarterback anymore. Maybe you know,
Speaker 1: it doesn't look like he used to know who he is.
Speaker 1: Drew Breese definitely knows that a bear every time Breeze
Speaker 1: breaks one of his records. And they're very few left.
Speaker 1: I think they're they're all go well, the least sacked.
Speaker 1: And he credited Tator Carl Smith. He said, you gotta
Speaker 1: ask Tayter about this. That's the nickname of Carl Smith,
Speaker 1: the Texans quarterbacks coach, so you know, and he faced
Speaker 1: Tater in the USFL. I thought that was a fun interview.
Speaker 1: And that's all gonna be up on the Vandermeer's view podcast.
Speaker 1: By the way, it's interesting you mentioned that about Carl
Speaker 1: Smith about Taytor When I was on with w WL Wednesday,
Speaker 1: I think I was on with them. He was maybe
Speaker 1: the second or third question that I asked that they
Speaker 1: asked me about about Carl Smith and his impact on
Speaker 1: DeShawn Watson and about holding football, getting the ball out,
Speaker 1: find the right guy and I and I said, look,
Speaker 1: I'm playing the games and Den played fourteen plays. But
Speaker 1: I'm curious to see how Carl, who has such a
Speaker 1: great reputation with all the court, everybody, everybody we talked
Speaker 1: to that has played for Carl or knew of Carls,
Speaker 1: like oh yeah, he's he's really gonna help with the SEAWAN,
Speaker 1: Like he's really gonna help with him. And I'm curious
Speaker 1: to see it. But they they were They asked me
Speaker 1: that question within two or three questions of the interview,
Speaker 1: and I was like, nobody's asked me about. Then I
Speaker 1: of course put it all together about the connection with
Speaker 1: Bobby Abaron and it made it made sense. But I
Speaker 1: think he's a big figure for this offense with the
Speaker 1: SEAN this year and what they're able to do. And
Speaker 1: I just I think when when you you have a
Speaker 1: head coach like like Bill and a play caller like Bill.
Speaker 1: And we know Bill can get very excitable, very emotional.
Speaker 1: He's got a lot of juice. DeShawn does too, but
Speaker 1: it's in a different way. I think Carl's a guy
Speaker 1: that can kind of be in between, whereas Bill can
Speaker 1: work with Carl, and Carl's like, Okay, I can filter
Speaker 1: the message maybe by the time it gets to the
Speaker 1: seawan if if needed, you can filter the message. So yea.
Speaker 1: So I think Carl ends up being a pretty big
Speaker 1: factor for this offense. Yeah, I think he will be.
Speaker 1: He's uh, he's got a wealth of experience. Look, I
Speaker 1: love talking to him about his history. I love talking
Speaker 1: to him about what he's been through in this league
Speaker 1: and other leagues, all of it. So I really enjoy it.
Speaker 1: And we just were presented with cookies here from some
Speaker 1: of our guy Jesse Clark in social media. Just it's
Speaker 1: gonna ruin my dinner, Johnny, But I don't care. That's okay,
Speaker 1: that's I don't care. Cares have it? Have it for dinner? Yeah,
Speaker 1: but Jeff for dinner, cookie cookies. It's got flower eggs. Listen,
Speaker 1: I got problem. I got my run in this morning.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get one before I'm gonna get two before
Speaker 1: we go to Dragos in New Orleans, and uh there
Speaker 1: we have to try to secure some hoops in Medory.
Speaker 1: Yea on Monday morning. I'm a little worried that you might,
Speaker 1: you know, be incarcerated. Okay, So here's this. Okay, so
Speaker 1: Marks mentioned this a few times. So here's what happened
Speaker 1: when we went to go play the Cowboys. When when
Speaker 1: we have a night game on the road. Now, we
Speaker 1: didn't have any last year, right, but in twenty seventeen,
Speaker 1: we played that Thursday night game in Cincinnati. Yep, And
Speaker 1: so you want to play ball. So we got Jesse,
Speaker 1: We got me SuDS Tyler Suddarth, who works and who
Speaker 1: does all of our great great features, the fifty three,
Speaker 1: he does all of those, and you and it was
Speaker 1: the four of us, and we went over to a
Speaker 1: twenty four our fitness and they were playing five on five,
Speaker 1: full court, and so we joined them. We joined him,
Speaker 1: and then we ran him off the court. Yeah, we did.
Speaker 1: And so we felt like we owned Cincinnati. So we decided,
Speaker 1: when we have a primetime game at night, let's go
Speaker 1: play some ball. The day of the game, and so
Speaker 1: that's what we did. We own up the Dallas and
Speaker 1: we were playing and we were running dudes off the court.
Speaker 1: So this new four came out and there was a
Speaker 1: guy at some point that had said first day out,
Speaker 1: first day out, and everybody in our group I didn't
Speaker 1: hear him say it, so I didn't know everybody says, oh,
Speaker 1: first day out of what out of prison? Well, not
Speaker 1: the stereotype, but he did look like he might have
Speaker 1: before he ever said that. I was thinking, that guy
Speaker 1: just has the look about him like he was do
Speaker 1: you know. And again I might be totally wrong about that,
Speaker 1: and I probably should have asked him, because he did
Speaker 1: say something to me afterwards. And I'll tell you what
Speaker 1: that was. At a moment, but you got into a
Speaker 1: little not a skirmish, but a little disagreement on about
Speaker 1: a foul call. Yeah, I got I got fined. I
Speaker 1: got hit right in the mouth, and I wasn't able
Speaker 1: to say until I landed on the ground, like foul.
Speaker 1: And I wasn't looking to see if the ball went in.
Speaker 1: And he was like, you can't wait for the ball
Speaker 1: go in or out and then make a call. And
Speaker 1: I was like, dude hit me in the mouth, and
Speaker 1: so I started pushing back, and you guys were like, yo, Johnny.
Speaker 1: I just thought, we gotta win this baby as quickly
Speaker 1: as possible and get out right dodge right. We don't
Speaker 1: want him to go back in for doing something to
Speaker 1: you or to I don't care. I was like, I
Speaker 1: don't care, as like I got fouled, and finally I
Speaker 1: was just like, shoot for it. I was like, fine,
Speaker 1: you want the ball, will beat you that way. They
Speaker 1: shot for it, they missed. We ran off the next
Speaker 1: couple of points. One a game, I had a Bruce
Speaker 1: Willis in the sixth sense type moment because he said
Speaker 1: to me afterwards, he said, Hey, when i'm your age,
Speaker 1: I want to be like you. And I thought, my age,
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, my my age? Anyway, what is that about.
Speaker 1: I'm young like everybody here. Everybody there was under thirty
Speaker 1: except for you with me. So yeah, exactly. Um, And
Speaker 1: so we're going to New Orleans and we might be
Speaker 1: looking for some ball. Yeah yeah, that'll be fun. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And you know that's a little glimpse into our lives.
Speaker 1: You know it's funny because I'm gonna do a podcast
Speaker 1: soon about our weekly routines and game day routine because
Speaker 1: I can ask that as much as anything else. What
Speaker 1: you know, you and I were talking to the Limited Partners,
Speaker 1: uh not too long ago, and we were asked about
Speaker 1: our routines and everything. Wait, were they just trying to
Speaker 1: check to see if we actually work? I think so, Oh,
Speaker 1: I think that's what it was. Yeah, yeah, we do.
Speaker 1: Uh you know, it doesn't feel like work because you're
Speaker 1: you're talking about football, you're studying football, and look, I
Speaker 1: mean we got a lot of other things going on
Speaker 1: here too as well. I'm yeah, there's no question about that.
Speaker 1: But people ask me and I'm like, I just I
Speaker 1: put the film on bro. Like that's literally my saying,
Speaker 1: but it's it's what we do. Yeah, when I when
Speaker 1: I put the film on these guys and obviously watching
Speaker 1: the preseason, there's not a whole lot there, but watching
Speaker 1: them in the last game they played in last year
Speaker 1: NFC Championship game Mark They're they're distinct worries you have
Speaker 1: facing them. I think one of the worries is a
Speaker 1: guy that wasn't even on their roster last year that
Speaker 1: joined them, Jered cook End And when the fact that
Speaker 1: I've got an answer for him, Johnny, I've got an answer.
Speaker 1: What's your answer for them? My answer for him is
Speaker 1: to Sean Gibson. And look, I'm not saying he's gonna
Speaker 1: be the Cook killer or the Cook neutralizer necessarily. And
Speaker 1: maybe they have somebody else cover him. I don't know,
Speaker 1: But all I know is that Gibson has a reputation
Speaker 1: to being good at covering tight ends. This cannot be
Speaker 1: unfamiliar to the Saints. And Cook is a good receiving
Speaker 1: tight end. And you know, Breeze is gonna look for him.
Speaker 1: Breeze is gonna look for Camara, Breeze gonna look for
Speaker 1: Michael Thomas. Look, those three guys right there you have,
Speaker 1: and I know you have more than that, but those
Speaker 1: three guys right there, you're not. It's like basketball. You're
Speaker 1: not gonna shut them down. You can't stop them. You
Speaker 1: only hope to contain them. And it's kind of like that.
Speaker 1: You'll hope to contain them. You hope to make some
Speaker 1: big plays on third dan, stop some drives, maybe get
Speaker 1: a turnover too. Maybe you can do it and just
Speaker 1: slow them down. I mean, they're at home, they're on
Speaker 1: their track, they've got their quiet. When they need it
Speaker 1: to operate their offense. I just think there's a lot
Speaker 1: going for them in this one. We talked about the
Speaker 1: NFC Championship game. I asked Aber about that. Yeah, I said,
Speaker 1: look after they kick it, isn't that kind of over?
Speaker 1: He said, Well, it's never gonna be over for the fans,
Speaker 1: you know. And the fans bring it twenty four to seven,
Speaker 1: three sixty five in that building, so they're gonna be
Speaker 1: loud the whole way through. Let's just see how it goes, Johnny,
Speaker 1: I mean maybe if you can get Here's you have
Speaker 1: to agree with me on this. You I mean, you
Speaker 1: gotta get on top of them. You have to find
Speaker 1: a way to grab the early lead. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: not saying it's impossible if you don't, but boy, how
Speaker 1: smooth would it be if you could go up seven nothing,
Speaker 1: fourteen to three, fourteen, ten even and just you know,
Speaker 1: kind of stay ahead of them in the race, just
Speaker 1: to keep putting the pressure on them, because if he
Speaker 1: has to keep putting that ball up, if he's dealing
Speaker 1: with a lead, you're dead, right, you know, you gotta
Speaker 1: I'm not dead, but I'm you know, I'm sports speak here.
Speaker 1: You gotta find a way to slow them down and
Speaker 1: get on top of them and keep the pressure on them.
Speaker 1: I think it is of the utmost importance to put
Speaker 1: the pressure on the Saints because of that building. And
Speaker 1: what I mean by that is those fans are coming
Speaker 1: in there. First of all, they're gonna be pretty gassed up.
Speaker 1: It's a night game. I mean that that's first informant.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't have mattered what happened in the FFC Championship game.
Speaker 1: It's a night in New Orleans, so they're gonna be
Speaker 1: They're gonna be gassed up. Every time the official turns
Speaker 1: on his mic. The place is gonna boo yep every flag.
Speaker 1: But if you strike first, and you strike hard, and
Speaker 1: you continue to strike, this camp be Rocky versus Apollo,
Speaker 1: and he knocks him down in the first round and
Speaker 1: it doesn't do anything for ten rounds. You've got to
Speaker 1: knock him down. And then you've got to stay on
Speaker 1: them because the more that you are that crowd gets
Speaker 1: more anxious and you feel the angst. You can feel
Speaker 1: it when it's on them, and that's what you have
Speaker 1: to do. But if you let them play loose and
Speaker 1: free and fast, you're in a world to hurt, Johnny,
Speaker 1: what do you think of this? Abar brought up a
Speaker 1: point to me, And this is a number I always
Speaker 1: like to look at when I'm thinking about how the
Speaker 1: Texans offense can do against a certain opponent, and that
Speaker 1: is opponent quarterback rating. And the opponent quarterback rating for
Speaker 1: the Saints last year was one hundred plus. All right,
Speaker 1: So anytime you have that against the defense, you might
Speaker 1: have an opportunity to do some damage with the passing game.
Speaker 1: And based on the weapons the Texans have now, I
Speaker 1: know they got to put it together quickly with whatever
Speaker 1: they do with Stills with however, tounsil fits in. But
Speaker 1: I'll take tonsil over a lot of things, even on
Speaker 1: short notice to be productive in this environment. Look, I
Speaker 1: don't think it's gonna be perfect on offense, but Jav
Speaker 1: Watson and he is the eraser of mistakes very often.
Speaker 1: Let's see how it goes. Yeah, that's you. You're absolutely right.
Speaker 1: How about this? How about this number? Sixty point six
Speaker 1: verse is one hundred seven point six? What's that? Back
Speaker 1: when the Texans played the Saints in twenty fifteen, sixty
Speaker 1: point six was Drew brees Is rating that day. She's
Speaker 1: you know what one hundred and seven point six was
Speaker 1: Brian Hoyer's rating. That that's crazy, and that shows you
Speaker 1: how great that defense was that day in twenty fifteen,
Speaker 1: and in twenty fifteen you got a lot of the same.
Speaker 1: You still have JJ Watt, you still have Witting by
Speaker 1: the way, by the way, I thought about this too.
Speaker 1: JJ Watt played the first two years of Jadeveon Clowney's
Speaker 1: career here in Houston pretty much without JD. Right, right,
Speaker 1: and fourteen and fifteen right, yea, And what was defensive
Speaker 1: player of the year in those two years? Right, yep? Okay,
Speaker 1: just just checking, yeah, just checking. I mean, yeah, we
Speaker 1: haven't had that for a while. You know, we always
Speaker 1: talked about the big three and having them on the
Speaker 1: field at the same time, Clowney, Watt, Merciless. We had
Speaker 1: it last year. Let the defense did some good things
Speaker 1: with no doubt, and there were some takeaway opportunities, no
Speaker 1: question about that. But you know, you don't have JD.
Speaker 1: So here, let's see what they do moving merc. Listen
Speaker 1: to the other side, having what read look at safety
Speaker 1: now and they've looked when Demps had seven interceptions and
Speaker 1: all of that. But Reid has a chance to be
Speaker 1: better than any safety they've ever had had a chance too.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna put them there yet, but he's got
Speaker 1: a chance to be that, Jotny. Yeah, it's a good group,
Speaker 1: and I think it's a good group buying large, right,
Speaker 1: So let's just see him. We talk about the linebackers. Look,
Speaker 1: everybody's gonna have their hands full, Camara, all the guys
Speaker 1: I mentioned this is it's gonna be tough. Like I said,
Speaker 1: they're gonna get there's they're gonna get some points. The
Speaker 1: thing is, can you have more than they do at
Speaker 1: the end of the night. How many points does it
Speaker 1: take to beat them? We talk about this a lot. Ye,
Speaker 1: give me the number, Okay, I set the number. I'm
Speaker 1: setting the number at thirty four. Thirty four. You gotta score.
Speaker 1: You're going over undered. You have to get more than
Speaker 1: thirty four to beat them. I think you can beat
Speaker 1: them with less than thirty. Yeah, but I think does
Speaker 1: have to be the thirties most NFL games, Like, I
Speaker 1: don't have this in front of me, but I think
Speaker 1: the NFL average and throughout the entirety of the league
Speaker 1: is around twenty. By the way, Johnny, I'm sure this
Speaker 1: has been brought up, but isn't it weird how the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl was thirteen to three and last night you
Speaker 1: have ten to three. What is going on? Is something
Speaker 1: happening here? I said earlier in the show. I know
Speaker 1: exactly what's happening, and I watched it last night. I
Speaker 1: said earlier in the show. Defenses are showing a lot
Speaker 1: more different looks than they've ever shown before, but none
Speaker 1: of that spread formation running game. You know, I'm not
Speaker 1: fooled when Trubisky's not keep garbage on offense? All right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess they're garbage on offense. But the Rams and
Speaker 1: Patriots are not, and the Packers are, and they're instilling
Speaker 1: a new offense. So I kind of I kind of
Speaker 1: get last night. But what I saw from the Patriots
Speaker 1: and what I saw from the Bears and Packers, I
Speaker 1: feel like there are such different looks on defense than
Speaker 1: we've seen, and I think that's contributing. My number is
Speaker 1: gonna be around thirty for this one, all right, Look,
Speaker 1: I hope it's less. I think if you get turnovers,
Speaker 1: there's a chance it can be less. So let's see
Speaker 1: how it goes. Let's see won't be six we know
Speaker 1: that Mark appreciate it. Thanks shotting. Now, this is one
Speaker 1: game I won't predict, but I will predict fourteen others.
Speaker 1: I'm already owing one for the week, so I gotta
Speaker 1: make it up all my NFL predictions against the spread
Speaker 1: and straight up. Next right here in Texans Alexis, we've
Speaker 1: got one hour in the books. On this Friday edition
Speaker 1: of Texans All Access, our last show before your Texans
Speaker 1: kickoff the year against the New Orleans Saints on The
Speaker 1: game will be on Monday, and typically we have Texans
Speaker 1: Monday on that Monday after the first game, but because
Speaker 1: the first time since twenty thirteen, we're playing on Monday night,
Speaker 1: we will have a excuse me, modified Texans Monday that
Speaker 1: we have the game Monday night, and then we'll go
Speaker 1: into our all of our regular shows next week, so
Speaker 1: we'll have all that. So this is the last show
Speaker 1: that we will have before that game on Monday Night
Speaker 1: against the Saints. Rimmer kickoff six ten lo after six o'clock.
Speaker 1: I think six ten is the actual time that the
Speaker 1: ball will be kicked off by either either Kymie Fairbairn
Speaker 1: or Thomas Warstead. So you've got that to look forward
Speaker 1: to of course, I'm Monday and Boy's coming. I can't wait,
Speaker 1: cannot wait. Had a game on Thursday night last night.
Speaker 1: Here's what I find interesting about I enjoyed the game.
Speaker 1: I listen. I don't always love fifty four fifty one.
Speaker 1: I like games being ten to three. Sometimes defense make
Speaker 1: it some plays. There were some defenders making some great
Speaker 1: plays last night. I do find this interesting. Everybody talking about, oh,
Speaker 1: this new world that we live in the NFL, this
Speaker 1: new world. The last two games that have counted in
Speaker 1: the NFL thirteen to three, ten to three, twenty nine
Speaker 1: total points, twenty nine total points. So not a whole
Speaker 1: lot going on in those two games offensively, But that's
Speaker 1: okay because defensively, it's all right if you have a
Speaker 1: defensive game. I like defensive games every now and again.
Speaker 1: And look, the offenses are gonna get cranked up and
Speaker 1: they're gonna get going. You're not gonna have a thirteen
Speaker 1: to three Super Bowl again. But I think it just
Speaker 1: goes to show that, yeah, maybe the defenses are catching up.
Speaker 1: I told you this earlier, as we recorded are in
Speaker 1: the lab Our bonus in the lab for the number
Speaker 1: one Texans moment, and we were recording it. After I
Speaker 1: got thought, I said, you know, one of the things
Speaker 1: you're starting to see, I feel like I'm seeing a
Speaker 1: little bit more of the defenses. How much more creative
Speaker 1: teams are getting defensively, Where guys are lining up pre snap,
Speaker 1: where they're going pre snap, what they're doing. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's not just spot drop zone. We're gonna we're gonna
Speaker 1: show this look and it's man, there are a lot
Speaker 1: of different things that we're seeing from defenses that it's
Speaker 1: making it. It's making it pretty fun, making it very
Speaker 1: very fun. Now, what's fun is a full slate of
Speaker 1: games in the NFL that count in Week one counts baby.
Speaker 1: So on this show, we always spend the first segment
Speaker 1: of the second hour going through each game. I give
Speaker 1: you my predictions. I go on the record and tell
Speaker 1: you who's gonna win and who is going to win
Speaker 1: or lose against the spread. Yes, look, it's not meant
Speaker 1: to be a gambling segment, quote unquote, but it's just
Speaker 1: the way to talk about the games. Hey, Vegas has
Speaker 1: put this line out here, Here's how I feel about it. Now.
Speaker 1: When it comes to the Texans, I never picked those
Speaker 1: because I don't go against my heart in my head,
Speaker 1: So I'm not ever gonna pick the Texans game. I'll
Speaker 1: just always tell you they're gonna cover, they're gonna win.
Speaker 1: How about that. That's the way I always That's the
Speaker 1: way I always feel about it. But that's so I
Speaker 1: leave the Texans out. But there are fourteen other games
Speaker 1: this weekend, including the other Monday night game, which is
Speaker 1: the Raiders and the Broncos, which is gonna follow the
Speaker 1: Texans game on Monday Night. So we're gonna pick them all.
Speaker 1: We're gonna pick them against spread. But we need my music,
Speaker 1: and I think I hear it, and there it is.
Speaker 1: That's my music. So let's get kicked off. Noon games.
Speaker 1: On Sunday, the Cleveland Browns hosts the Tennessee Titans. It
Speaker 1: is the offseason Darling in the ball the Cleveland Browns,
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield, O BJ Jarvis, Landry, Miles Garrett, a ton
Speaker 1: of talent, Cleveland new head coach, and a ton of
Speaker 1: expectations that sometimes can be the most difficult opponent. The
Speaker 1: actual opponent in this one of the Tennessee Titans. Now,
Speaker 1: we want the AFC South teams to lose. I think
Speaker 1: there's a part of me that wants the Titans to
Speaker 1: go in there and kick the Browns right in the teeth.
Speaker 1: And so all this preseason hype sort as it wants
Speaker 1: for the Bears. All is hyper about the Bears. Oh
Speaker 1: they've got a kicker. The kicker made a field will
Speaker 1: to start the game. These guys are going to the
Speaker 1: super Bowl and they got smacked right in the teeth.
Speaker 1: Now will that happened for the Browns? I don't think so.
Speaker 1: The Browns are favored about five and a half. I
Speaker 1: think the Browns win this one by a touchdown, which
Speaker 1: is more than the spread. So we're going Browns to
Speaker 1: win outright, Browns to cover that five and a half.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's gonna end up being pretty. This
Speaker 1: feels like a I don't know, a twenty one twelve,
Speaker 1: twenty four thirteen kind of game. But I do you
Speaker 1: think the Browns are gonna win this? And I think
Speaker 1: they're gonna cover the spread. I just am not a
Speaker 1: believer in the Titans. I haven't been for a couple
Speaker 1: of years. And they got to the playoffs one year,
Speaker 1: one a wild card game, and they've they've been surprising
Speaker 1: at times. You know, they beat the Patriots, but I
Speaker 1: just haven't been impressed. They're not a team that I
Speaker 1: think can get beyond. They have a certain ceiling, a
Speaker 1: ceilings nine and seven, and they're not gonna beyond it.
Speaker 1: So Browns beat Titans in Cleveland, then the Ravens and
Speaker 1: the Dolphins. Ravens go down to Miami to take on
Speaker 1: the Dolphins. No Larmie Tounseil, no Kenny Steals, but they
Speaker 1: do have a Ryan Fitzpatrick and Ryan Fitzpatrick history has
Speaker 1: been to play very very well in Week one in Baltimore,
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson leads that offense. I'm gonna give Lamar Jackson
Speaker 1: and Baltimore the edge in this one. I think the
Speaker 1: raven will go on to Miami and win this game.
Speaker 1: I don't think they will cover six and a half
Speaker 1: point spread on the road. I don't like that. Even
Speaker 1: though I don't think the Dolphins are gonna be good,
Speaker 1: I think the Ravens are gonna have to do a
Speaker 1: little work to find their pass rush. I think Lamar
Speaker 1: might struggle a little bit. He's going back near home
Speaker 1: for him, so I think you should be a lot
Speaker 1: of pressure. But in the end, the Ravens will have
Speaker 1: a little bit much again. Another ugly game. This feels
Speaker 1: like twenty to eighteen, you know, fifteen to twelve sort
Speaker 1: of game. But I'm gonna give the Ravens the edge
Speaker 1: in this one to win. The Dolphins are gonna get
Speaker 1: inside that six and a half point number. Falcons go
Speaker 1: to the Vikings. This is the one I struggled with
Speaker 1: probably a lot, because I think the Falcons are gonna
Speaker 1: surprise teams this year. I think the Falcons are gonna
Speaker 1: be better now, they're healthier on the defensive side of
Speaker 1: the ball. Minnesota's favored by four at home. But my
Speaker 1: other surprise team and a surprise team, I just think
Speaker 1: the Vikings are the better team and the best team
Speaker 1: in the NFC North. I think they've got the most weapons,
Speaker 1: not and have never been the biggest believer in Kirk Cousins,
Speaker 1: but I do think with Feeling and Diggs, with Dalvin
Speaker 1: cookback healthy, with Garret Bradberry out center, They've got some
Speaker 1: help up front. The defense you know, is always there.
Speaker 1: So I think Minnesota's gonna win this game. I think
Speaker 1: they're gonna win by more than four. I'm gonna take
Speaker 1: Minnesota to win and cover against the Atlanta Falcons. It
Speaker 1: would not shock me at off Atlanta win in there
Speaker 1: and put a number on the Vikings. I just feel
Speaker 1: like with Atlanta's firepower offensively and Guy's healthy defensively, Grady
Speaker 1: Jarrett back in the fold, They're gonna be a tough
Speaker 1: nut to crack. They're gonna be tough for us on
Speaker 1: Founders Day here on October sixth. That said, the Vikings
Speaker 1: their pre stout team, especially playing at home. Taking the
Speaker 1: Vikings to win and to cover that four the bills
Speaker 1: of the Jets. Boy went back and forth on this one.
Speaker 1: The Jets are two and a half point favorite at home.
Speaker 1: Typically home favorites or home teams get three points, so
Speaker 1: Vegas feels like Buffalo's not a bad pick here. And
Speaker 1: I think Buffalo is gonna be very very good defensively.
Speaker 1: I think they're going to be excellent, But this feels
Speaker 1: like a low scoring game. I think Levion bell It
Speaker 1: is going to be a factor. It's his first games
Speaker 1: is twenty seventeen. I'm gonna roll with the Jets on
Speaker 1: this one. Very close, as in three points close, but
Speaker 1: three is more than two and a half. So I
Speaker 1: got the Jets to win and to cover at home
Speaker 1: in Week one over the Buffalo Bills. Philadelphia gets a
Speaker 1: visit from the Washington Redskins. The Redskins will have case
Speaker 1: Keendom starting. It doesn't sound like they'll have Trent Williams
Speaker 1: in the starting lineup. They've settled on Darius geist as
Speaker 1: they're running back. Adrian Peterson may be inactive in this one,
Speaker 1: and the Redskins defensively will be okay. They've ad Atlantic Collins,
Speaker 1: so I think the Redskins are gonna be a tough
Speaker 1: out at times. I think Philadelphia is way too good.
Speaker 1: I think Philadelphia has weapons all over the field. I'm
Speaker 1: going Philadelphia to win this and I never like to
Speaker 1: do this in the NFL. A double edged spread, I
Speaker 1: hate those. But Philias favery by ten. I think they
Speaker 1: win by a couple of touchdowns. I think Washington is
Speaker 1: going to struggle all year long. I think offensively it
Speaker 1: is going to be a nightmare. I think Philadelphia wins
Speaker 1: this thing. It might be heck, it might be twenty
Speaker 1: one to seven, but they're gonna win by a couple
Speaker 1: of touchdowns. Take the Eagles to win and cover in
Speaker 1: that twelve o'clock game. Another twelve o'clock game, the Rams
Speaker 1: go to the Panthers. Now, the Rams are favored by
Speaker 1: one and a half at Carolina at new That's a
Speaker 1: body clock game, as a buddy of mine used to
Speaker 1: put it. But I still think the Rams are a
Speaker 1: better team. They're arrested, they should be fresh. You still
Speaker 1: don't know exactly what you have with Cam Newton. The
Speaker 1: Panthers playing at home. They've got some guys you look
Speaker 1: at and say, he could be a good weapon, he
Speaker 1: could be a weapon. You know, Christian McCaffrey's a weapon,
Speaker 1: but where is Cam and his health? Defensively, I think
Speaker 1: the Panthers are going to be very very tough, very tough,
Speaker 1: especially in the front seven. I think they can be
Speaker 1: hadding a secondary a little bit, even though Eric reads
Speaker 1: back there and I think he adjusted his brother. Those
Speaker 1: are two of the better safeties in the league. Dante
Speaker 1: Jackson's emerging gab But I still think you can attack
Speaker 1: them throwing the football, but can you get it off?
Speaker 1: I think the Rams will do enough, a little Girly,
Speaker 1: a little Darryl Henderson. I think they'll run the ball
Speaker 1: enough to beat the Panthers by a few. So let's
Speaker 1: go Rams to get a road win and to get
Speaker 1: a road wind cover over the Carolina Panthers. Then your
Speaker 1: last twelve o'clock games, the Chiefs and the Jacks, Jags
Speaker 1: at home. Nick Foles will start. He's fine. Apparently the
Speaker 1: oblique was a little bit of an issue, but he's
Speaker 1: a full participant in practice. He should be okay. And
Speaker 1: the Chiefs come call him. With that offense, with Tyreek,
Speaker 1: with me, Kole Hardman, with Sammy Watkins, they're gonna put
Speaker 1: the Jaguars all blast. But can the Chiefs protect against
Speaker 1: one of the best pass rush trios Clays Campbell, Josh
Speaker 1: Allen and Yannick and Gockway, the guy that scares me
Speaker 1: to death. I think the Chiefs can. Can they win
Speaker 1: about three and a half? Yeah, I just don't know
Speaker 1: that the Jacks are gonna score. I don't think the
Speaker 1: Chiefs defense is all that in the bag of chips.
Speaker 1: I think the Chiefs defense is still a shade a
Speaker 1: shade under average. So I do think the Jags might
Speaker 1: do a few things. Ornette is gonna get the rock
Speaker 1: and he's gonna pound a little bit, and they control it.
Speaker 1: But I think big place for the Chiefs is gonna
Speaker 1: get them a win. And a cover of that three
Speaker 1: and a half point spread on the road. Let's get
Speaker 1: to the three oh five games and start with the
Speaker 1: Colts and the Bolts. It should rhyme, right, Colts, but
Speaker 1: they're not. They don't Colts. Bolts. They don't Colts and
Speaker 1: Chargers out in La. Chargers will not have Melvin Eagle,
Speaker 1: the Chargers will not have Derwin James. The Chargers will
Speaker 1: not have Russell Okum. But the Chargers will have Joey
Speaker 1: Bosa and Melvin Ingram. That is gonna be a problem
Speaker 1: for the Colts. Jacobe Brissette has stepped in signed a
Speaker 1: two year, thirty million dollars deal. He is ready to roll,
Speaker 1: but can the Chargers put heat on him. He likes
Speaker 1: to hold the football, and I say likes he holds
Speaker 1: the football. I think he likes dude. He holds the football,
Speaker 1: and I think the Chargers secondary is very good even
Speaker 1: without Derwin James. I'm gonna give the Charges the edge
Speaker 1: in this one. The Chargers are favored by six and
Speaker 1: a half. I think they win this by a touchdown.
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be a close game throughout, but
Speaker 1: it feels like a thirty four to twenty seven. That's seven.
Speaker 1: That's more than six and a half. I'm gonna take
Speaker 1: charges to win and cover at home in front of
Speaker 1: twenty eight thousand strong. Yeah, those sarcasm fun Bengals taking
Speaker 1: on the Seahawks. I think the Bengals are in a
Speaker 1: lot of trouble this year. I think the Bengals could
Speaker 1: be one of the worst teams. Andy Dalton at quarterback,
Speaker 1: I don't think he's the issue, but I don't know
Speaker 1: how much he's around him. With Aj Green out defensively
Speaker 1: and have not buying any of it, the Seahawks added Clowney.
Speaker 1: They are very good on the offensive front. They can
Speaker 1: run the ball. Russell Wilson signed a big deal in
Speaker 1: the offseason. They've added a couple of weapons at receiver,
Speaker 1: DK Metcalf being one of them. If he plays. He's
Speaker 1: been banged up. But defensively, the Seahawks are as good
Speaker 1: as it gets. I think they make life miserable for Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: Seahawks will win and cover the nine and a half
Speaker 1: Giants and Cowboys. I went back and forth on this one,
Speaker 1: not because I think the Cowboys could lose. I absolutely
Speaker 1: feel that the Cowboys gonna win this game. That's seven
Speaker 1: and a half spread is getting me a little bit
Speaker 1: because I do think the Giants will surprise people at
Speaker 1: some point. Sa Quan might be the best back in
Speaker 1: the league in his second year, and I know Zeke
Speaker 1: comes back for the Cowboys. Where is he in his conditioning?
Speaker 1: Can he carry it eighteen to twenty times? Can he
Speaker 1: get eighteen to twenty touches? I don't know, so I'm
Speaker 1: going back and forth. I do think the Giants are
Speaker 1: gonna get inside the seven and a half. The Cowboys
Speaker 1: is gonna win. That defense is nasty. I think Cowbo's
Speaker 1: gonna be very good this year, much as it pains
Speaker 1: me to say Cowboys will be good. The Cowboys are
Speaker 1: very good, but the Giants. I think he will keep
Speaker 1: this one close close inside that seven and a half,
Speaker 1: Lions go to the Cardinals. I struggled with this one.
Speaker 1: I have no idea what they expect for the Cardinals.
Speaker 1: I mean, I kind of do, but I'm not sure
Speaker 1: that Cliff will go full Texas Tech air raid buy in.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think the Cardinals will put up
Speaker 1: some points. I don't think the Lions are very good,
Speaker 1: but the Lions are favorite, so you know what let's
Speaker 1: go with the Cardinals to upset the Lions and Cliff
Speaker 1: Kingsbury's debut. How about that? So obviously Arizona will cover
Speaker 1: the two and a half. Caylin Murray is gonna put
Speaker 1: up some points, third the ball over a few times,
Speaker 1: but I think the Cardinals will do just enough to
Speaker 1: win this one, and that as a dog will give
Speaker 1: them a cover and win. How about that? Forty nine
Speaker 1: Ers go to Tampa Bay, Tampa Bay's favorite by one.
Speaker 1: I think this is Vegas's way of saying, they just shiit,
Speaker 1: just made it pick him. San Francisco's got across country
Speaker 1: the Bucks with Bruce Arians now Jameis Winston, who knows
Speaker 1: what he does, but he's got Mike Evans. He always
Speaker 1: can rely on Evans, and offensively, I think they'd be
Speaker 1: very good. I don't know where the pass rush comes, though,
Speaker 1: So you know what, Let's go San Francisco in a
Speaker 1: mild upset to win and obviously to cover Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: favorite by one. George Kittle is big for the Niners
Speaker 1: and good Niners behind Jimmy Garoppolo do just enough with
Speaker 1: no pass rush really from the Bucks to get that win.
Speaker 1: Steelers Patriots Patriots at home. Steelers a five and a
Speaker 1: half point dog in this one. And every year I
Speaker 1: hear people the Patriots are dead, They're too old, they
Speaker 1: can't do it. Not again. That defense is what and
Speaker 1: this is the one thing I've said about that defense.
Speaker 1: It's almost that the Patriots kind of shed their own
Speaker 1: skin last year when they became an information power run
Speaker 1: team and relied on their defense, kind of like they
Speaker 1: did back in two thousand and one. They kind of
Speaker 1: went full circle, and I think the Patriots defense will
Speaker 1: do that again. The Steelers will score a few, but
Speaker 1: with no ab got relied to Juju and Jude is
Speaker 1: a great player, but you just take one weapon out.
Speaker 1: I think the Steelers are going to do a great
Speaker 1: job in finding a way to take away Juju Smith Schuster.
Speaker 1: I think that might open some things up for James Washington.
Speaker 1: But I think the run game will work for the
Speaker 1: Steelers to a point. They'll keep it close, as in
Speaker 1: under the five and a half when we're gonna get
Speaker 1: the win at home, but the Patriots will not get
Speaker 1: the covers. The Steelers will cover that five and a
Speaker 1: half and then Monday night the Broncos and Raiders Denver
Speaker 1: has moved to a two and a half point favorite
Speaker 1: vic Fangio in his first game as a head coach.
Speaker 1: I do not believe in Joe Flacco at all. The
Speaker 1: Raiders are a mess with Antonio Brown thing I should
Speaker 1: say once you take Antonio Brunt out of it. They
Speaker 1: don't have a ton of talent, but they're probably a
Speaker 1: little bit more cohesive and on the same page more
Speaker 1: so than were last year. Let's go with the Broncos
Speaker 1: to cover that two and a half and win at home.
Speaker 1: All right, those year game day predictions coming up. Next,
Speaker 1: We've got John de Chaser, senior writer for the New
Speaker 1: Orleans Saints at Saints dot Com. He talks with dpcity
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Speaker 1: learn more. All Right, it's time to go behind enemy sidelines,
Speaker 1: as we do each and every Friday, This week, dpcity
Speaker 1: sits down with John de Chaser, senior writer for Saints
Speaker 1: dot Com, to learn a little bit more about Monday
Speaker 1: Night's opponent. Well, we are super excited about heading to
Speaker 1: the Superdome, which from what I remember, is really really cold,
Speaker 1: so I'll be sure to bundle up, bring some coats
Speaker 1: and jackets for that first Monday Night game. I would
Speaker 1: recommend that, yes, very much. All right, it is such
Speaker 1: a big game for both teams. Let's talk about the Saints.
Speaker 1: What the buzz has been like in the building and
Speaker 1: in the city. Obviously, everybody remembers what happened the last
Speaker 1: time the Saints took the field, that NFC Championship loss.
Speaker 1: How much has that been a storyline in the off season.
Speaker 1: Are people still talking about that game or if they
Speaker 1: sort of move forward towards the twenty nineteen season, Well,
Speaker 1: people are still talking about it. I mean that's natural.
Speaker 1: I mean you can't have that kind of ending to
Speaker 1: a season and not talk about it or try to
Speaker 1: gloss over it. It's obviously a storyline. Now, you know,
Speaker 1: the team says they're pasted, and of course that's what
Speaker 1: they're going to say, that's what they're supposed to say,
Speaker 1: but you can't be human and that not affects you somewhat.
Speaker 1: So I'm sure they're drawing some kind of inspiration off
Speaker 1: of it. I'm certain I would, I mean, use it
Speaker 1: for as much hue as you possibly could. I think
Speaker 1: that's what they're in the process of doing during this
Speaker 1: off keep and during the Yeah, it's it's been a fuel,
Speaker 1: and yet it hadn't been overwhelming. I mean, I think
Speaker 1: they've done as your job of pushing it into the
Speaker 1: background and not letting get dominant their headlines. I mean,
Speaker 1: they want to create their own narratives and they understand that,
Speaker 1: you know, following in that from last season isn't going
Speaker 1: to help them this season. Stuff. You know, they're trying
Speaker 1: to move on as best they can, and I think
Speaker 1: they've done a pretty good job of it. If they're
Speaker 1: trying to move on, it certainly doesn't help it. In
Speaker 1: Week two, they face the Rams. Has anyone really been
Speaker 1: talking about the fact that they're going to turn around
Speaker 1: have to play that same team in a week Not really.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure it's going to be a dominant
Speaker 1: storyline during that week. But I mean, you know, as
Speaker 1: best they can to trying to take it one segment
Speaker 1: at a time, one unit at the time. I guess
Speaker 1: they would call it. But you know, I know it's
Speaker 1: going to come up a lot and and they're gonna say,
Speaker 1: you know, it's a different team and a different season,
Speaker 1: and it pretty much is a lot of it. You know,
Speaker 1: you can't ignore the obvious storylines. I mean, it's going
Speaker 1: to be a difficult game. You're playing against the team
Speaker 1: that you know came unto your building one the NSC
Speaker 1: Championship game, and you feel like you're a team that
Speaker 1: were that was good enough to go to the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl and win it, and yet dwelling on last Eaton's
Speaker 1: outcome even going to do a melodic good this year,
Speaker 1: and I get you'll use it for some shoel I
Speaker 1: would imagine, but you know, again, that's a really good
Speaker 1: team and if you're worried about what happened last year,
Speaker 1: then you'll get punched in the mouth this year and
Speaker 1: can have it, you know, just kind of the multipile
Speaker 1: and yourself. You know, the best thing to do is
Speaker 1: just concentrated as best they can on the beginning of
Speaker 1: the season and they can't really be looking past the
Speaker 1: text at the RAMS because they have a really difficult
Speaker 1: to getting a seatsons schedule. Those first four games are
Speaker 1: pretty stout, and you throw in Seattle and you throw
Speaker 1: in Dallas. Also, they're trying to separate them as best
Speaker 1: they can. Let's talk about Drew Brees. He's heading into
Speaker 1: his nineteenth season. Has his approach to the game change
Speaker 1: it all? I'm sure you've had your share of training
Speaker 1: camps and off seasons watching him work, But do you
Speaker 1: see anything different about him? And what is this key
Speaker 1: to longevity? I'm sure that's something everybody wants to know
Speaker 1: that they could bottle up. They probably could, They probably would.
Speaker 1: You know, the thing about him is, you know, he's
Speaker 1: the same. He's the same every year and that probably
Speaker 1: is why he is, you know, as great as he
Speaker 1: is and the first ballot Hall of Famer um. He's
Speaker 1: a guy who approaches it the exact same way mentally,
Speaker 1: and you know he's had to make some confessions physically outviously,
Speaker 1: because you can't be the same guy you know at
Speaker 1: thirty nine or forty as your word twenty nine or thirty,
Speaker 1: So you know, he's had to modify his diet, he
Speaker 1: had to modify his workout regiment. You know, he's on
Speaker 1: a little bit of a pitch count during training camp.
Speaker 1: But he's a guy also who when he has those
Speaker 1: fit days during training camp, they bother him. He doesn't
Speaker 1: like to miss work. And you get to you know,
Speaker 1: you don't get to be as great as your breath
Speaker 1: is without being a little bit selfish that way. You know,
Speaker 1: you want to get all the reps, you want to
Speaker 1: get all the first team reps, you want to get
Speaker 1: all the third team rerets. If you can get him
Speaker 1: as much work as you can possibly get. And that's
Speaker 1: the approach he's always had. He's a guy who who
Speaker 1: doesn't cut corners. He takes the long way and whatever
Speaker 1: the right way is, if it's the long way, that's
Speaker 1: the round he's gone. He's really been good about that
Speaker 1: in his NFL career and so it's benefited him greatly
Speaker 1: for the Saint Again, you know, you make some concessions
Speaker 1: to what happens physically, so you know, but what he's
Speaker 1: made the concessions too, is he's now sharper mentally. He
Speaker 1: knows what's happening before it happens, and so he's made
Speaker 1: able to take advantage from that standpoint. So there's really
Speaker 1: been a great process to see, you know, and a
Speaker 1: lot of athletes don't necessarily age gracefully. He has aged
Speaker 1: quite gracefully. I think a big story of the off
Speaker 1: season we were all watching during training camp was getting
Speaker 1: his favorite target, Michael Thomas, the wide receiver, signed to
Speaker 1: a long term contract. Now he's going to be the
Speaker 1: highest paid wide receiver in the NFL. What sets Michael
Speaker 1: Thomas apart from the other receivers and makes him so
Speaker 1: hard to cover he is foracious. He's a guy who's
Speaker 1: he wants every ball. He's extremely physical. If he sees
Speaker 1: one on one coverage in his mind and in the
Speaker 1: same mind, I think that's a win because he's extremely physical.
Speaker 1: It's it's a center back one to put his hands
Speaker 1: on Michael Thomas, He's going to end up paying a
Speaker 1: price playing a man to man. You know, he might
Speaker 1: not run a four three forty, but by the end
Speaker 1: of the game you will feel his presence because he
Speaker 1: will have bruised you up if you're going to play
Speaker 1: a man to man and he's got some fantastic hands,
Speaker 1: you know. The Saints always call it a strong hand.
Speaker 1: You can call it whatever you want to strong, sticky,
Speaker 1: whatever you want to call it. It's Walton his ascenity.
Speaker 1: And if it's been his catch radius, he's pretty much
Speaker 1: gonna come down with it. And that's been a great
Speaker 1: luxury for Drew Brees to have. I mean, he's got
Speaker 1: a guy who is a legitimate bone aside number one receiver,
Speaker 1: another guy that's a lot of fun to watch, Alvin Kamara,
Speaker 1: that Saint Sin Latavius Murray in the offseason sort of
Speaker 1: give that one two punch to the ground game. Does
Speaker 1: that change Kamara's role? Not at all? I mean, And
Speaker 1: then the thing about him is, you know the samet
Speaker 1: one they want to try to keep album. Probably they're around,
Speaker 1: you know, sixteen eighteen touches a game, a certain amount
Speaker 1: of runs, a certain amount of reception, and you know
Speaker 1: he's called eighty one passes the previous two seasons, his
Speaker 1: first two NFL season, eighty one passes eighty running recessions
Speaker 1: each season. They want to keep him to a certain
Speaker 1: amount of touches to keep him fresh. And yet we
Speaker 1: saw at the beginning of the last season, Mark everyone
Speaker 1: was suspended the first four games of the season. I
Speaker 1: want to see Alvin's touches the world up around the
Speaker 1: mid twenties, you know, maybe twenty six such as per game.
Speaker 1: He's able to handle that kind of load. Would it
Speaker 1: show up later in the season, Probably would, But because
Speaker 1: he's a guy who you know, you don't want to
Speaker 1: have him running between the tackles all game long, but
Speaker 1: he's capable of doing that. He's a guy who canst balance.
Speaker 1: His phenomenal. He's got receivers hands. They say he's one
Speaker 1: of the smartest people in the room in terms of
Speaker 1: adapting and learning what you want to do offensively. He's really,
Speaker 1: really a good player. I mean, you know, watching him
Speaker 1: is a treat. Watching people to try to get him
Speaker 1: off his feet is a treat because he's the guy
Speaker 1: who is balance is phenomenal. I don't know if you've
Speaker 1: seen some of the YouTube videos of him or some
Speaker 1: of the videos that have been on Twitter of him
Speaker 1: exhibiting his balance, but you know, he's a phenomenal guy.
Speaker 1: He's a he's a freakish type athlete. Doesn't look like
Speaker 1: he's moving real fan, but people really catch him from behind,
Speaker 1: it doesn't look like he's over thirting himself. He removes
Speaker 1: real mood, but he's extremely effective. He's stronger than he looks.
Speaker 1: When it's time, he'll he'll get skinny. So you know,
Speaker 1: people don't really get good, solid square hits on albun Kamara,
Speaker 1: which is phenomenal for a guy who who touches it
Speaker 1: and is in a lot of traffic when he touches
Speaker 1: a lot of time. We're talking with John Dashesier of
Speaker 1: New Orleans Saints dot Com. John a lot of transactions
Speaker 1: over the weekend. The Texans added a few former Miami Dolphins,
Speaker 1: and it looks like the Saints did too. They added
Speaker 1: Kiko Alonso, the former Dolphins linebacker via trade. Do you
Speaker 1: expect him to play on Monday Night? And if so,
Speaker 1: what does he bring to that Saints defense? Well, I
Speaker 1: think he's gonna play. Now, I don't know how much
Speaker 1: of a role he's going to play, but of the
Speaker 1: Saint starting linebackers should be intact, and that's a J. Klein, Da,
Speaker 1: Mario Davis, and Alex Denzeloni. Alex Denzeloni was injured for
Speaker 1: the latter part of pre season, so he missed some work.
Speaker 1: Bringing in Alonzo is an insurance policy for him. But
Speaker 1: I think he's going to play something. How much that
Speaker 1: I don't know, because Rick Robertson is the main backup
Speaker 1: for that three linebackers. Also there's a rookie Kate Nellis,
Speaker 1: who makes the fifty three Mayor roster. He also is
Speaker 1: the backup. I think Alonso is going to get some
Speaker 1: stuffed It might be primarily special teams here in his
Speaker 1: first game for him, because he's trying to learn the system.
Speaker 1: But we know he's a guy, he's a veteran, he
Speaker 1: knows defenses. He's seen the Saints play defense, and so
Speaker 1: he's able to play all three positions. And during the
Speaker 1: amount of time that the Saint have had him, they
Speaker 1: probably just isolated on a position for him to play
Speaker 1: right now, whether it be Fam or Mike or Will,
Speaker 1: but they've probably isolated on a position and a few
Speaker 1: assignments for him. In that way, he can work him
Speaker 1: in slowly at the poster, trying to have him learn
Speaker 1: all three positions. But I expect him to get some
Speaker 1: staff at linebacker. I expect him to place on on
Speaker 1: special teams. He's a guy who's got a reputation as being,
Speaker 1: you know, a pretty physical player. He's a guy who
Speaker 1: whose motor runs pretty high, so he'll be a good
Speaker 1: addition to that linebacking corps. It seems like a lot
Speaker 1: of continuity for the Saints offense. I've got a lot
Speaker 1: of starters returning from last year. How does this Saints
Speaker 1: team compare to the one that you saw last year? Well,
Speaker 1: on paper, it looks pretty good, but you know, you
Speaker 1: don't get anything, anything handed over, and nothing leaks over
Speaker 1: from last year to this year. They've got a new center,
Speaker 1: a rookie Eric McCoy, and that's going to be a
Speaker 1: challenge a little bit, especially when you're talking about a
Speaker 1: guy like JJ White along Houston's defensive line, because we
Speaker 1: know JJ wat moves up and down that line, and
Speaker 1: so you know there's some times he'll line up over
Speaker 1: the guards and you know he'll move in at the
Speaker 1: sense of tackle, and that's going to be a challenge
Speaker 1: for a rookie center. Fortunately for him, he's got some
Speaker 1: veteran guards next to him. But JJ a lot doesn't
Speaker 1: care for you, a veteran or a rookie. He's going
Speaker 1: to play well anyway. So that's gonna be something for
Speaker 1: the thing to contend with. But for the most part,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of continuity on this team, there's few
Speaker 1: people moving into a starting role, and really beside that
Speaker 1: that rookie center. So you know, you expect to see
Speaker 1: some continuity, and yet you know you're not guaranteed anything
Speaker 1: by what's on paper. You just hope those guys, they
Speaker 1: hope that they're able to start fast. They really played
Speaker 1: well as a unit the number one offense and defense
Speaker 1: during preseason, but we know how those stats in those
Speaker 1: games can be a bit misleading. So now you want
Speaker 1: to see how it happens when you're going out there
Speaker 1: against a team that's really scheming against you and see
Speaker 1: if you can execute. All Right, John, we've had to
Speaker 1: wait all offseason per Week one. We got a few
Speaker 1: more days that we're gonna have to wait. So what
Speaker 1: are some of the top storylines that you're gonna be
Speaker 1: covering for the Saints this week? Well, I mean, you
Speaker 1: obviously have to look at the at some of the
Speaker 1: guys who are receiving, specifically who's going to be some
Speaker 1: of the backup receivers, because if they've had some nice
Speaker 1: young guys flashed during the preseason, but they've pretty much
Speaker 1: stuck with the units that they had last year. A
Speaker 1: couple of guys backing up in Austin carr As as
Speaker 1: well as Keith Kirkwood, and those two guys are gonna
Speaker 1: have to show a pretty big ball. I'm looking forward
Speaker 1: to seeing Jared Cook at tight end because I think
Speaker 1: Jared Cook at tighter and could be a real weapon
Speaker 1: for the Saints offensively. He is a big target and
Speaker 1: he's when I say big, he's six four six five
Speaker 1: six six two thirty two forty and he looks at
Speaker 1: the part. I mean. He is a guy who had
Speaker 1: a great season for Fokland last year, and he can
Speaker 1: give this offense the kind of weapon at tight end,
Speaker 1: that guy who runs down that scene and he's opposite
Speaker 1: Michael Thomas that they probably hadn't had in a couple
Speaker 1: of years, so he could be a big factor. I'm
Speaker 1: looking forward to seeing him work with Drew Brees. He
Speaker 1: didn't get a chance to work with him at all
Speaker 1: during the preseason because both guys were pretty much held
Speaker 1: out for the majority of preseason. Then when Brees did
Speaker 1: go into the third preseason game, Cook was a little
Speaker 1: bit thing though, so the Saints didn't risk it. But
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to seeing him out there in this
Speaker 1: offense because I think he can give you a lot
Speaker 1: of mismatches. Whether it be against a linebacker or a
Speaker 1: safety or a corner, it really doesn't matter enough to
Speaker 1: win it. If he's covered. Drew Brees is going to
Speaker 1: throw it and he's gonna trust Jarrett Cook to go
Speaker 1: up and get it because of that size advantage, because
Speaker 1: of that physical advantage, whether it be speed or wherever
Speaker 1: it is. He's a guy who he didn't have to
Speaker 1: be open to be open, since you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So I'm really looking forward to seeing him in this offense.
Speaker 1: Great stuff there from John the Chaser of Saints dot
Speaker 1: Com and of course our own DPT suo. Coming up next,
Speaker 1: it's our players segment. I always save this for the
Speaker 1: very end. Drew Doherty has a player interview this week.
Speaker 1: It's number four. That's right. DeShawn Watson joins us, and
Speaker 1: we also have b Scar TV. Huh yeah, I'll explain
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Speaker 1: There's Texans All Access on his wonderful Friday evening. Well,
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Speaker 1: Brandon Dunne aka DJ Dunney, Welcome to b SCAR TV.
Speaker 1: Thanks for coming on the show. Excuse we got some
Speaker 1: interference in the back. Which teammate would you want to
Speaker 1: swap closets with? Come on, baby, this is easy. Lea night.
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins or Deshin Watson one or the two. That's
Speaker 1: some swag on him. Hop got all Day exclusive brand
Speaker 1: name everything. Give a smaller guy with the effect like
Speaker 1: the sizes and stuff, or like they're clothes automatically figure
Speaker 1: DeShawn Watson. Oh my gosh, Default, welcome to be Scar
Speaker 1: TV man. I appreciate you coming on, appreciate you having me.
Speaker 1: So we've been asking a question. I'm who who would
Speaker 1: want to swap closets with? Which teammate? You have been
Speaker 1: the answer for the majority of the people to come
Speaker 1: on the show. I can see that you know, you
Speaker 1: know you gonna be dripped out, something like drifted out.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with you, man. Yeah, I'm gonna You're
Speaker 1: the first one. I'm gonna keep it real. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: keep it real. Everybody said D four and I totally
Speaker 1: understand because Default got some swat. But I've just been
Speaker 1: waiting on somebody's to say me, which one would you
Speaker 1: not want to swap closets for? Who's the answering? Who
Speaker 1: is it? Hey? I would not shop, I mean s
Speaker 1: I just or work. There's no shot I have the
Speaker 1: worst closet in this locker room. I think that's an
Speaker 1: outrage be back, I take that, okay, I probably well
Speaker 1: with PK. It might be it might be pekk nasty.
Speaker 1: I have some bad news that I gotta break to you.
Speaker 1: We have this question where it's been which teammate would
Speaker 1: you want to swap closets with? Right, like a lot
Speaker 1: of people saying defaut and hop and one person to
Speaker 1: send me. Then there's also the follow up question which
Speaker 1: teammate would you not want to swap closets with? And
Speaker 1: you've been brought up as bad person? Wow, they said that.
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Speaker 1: And that will be wrapping up uh this week's show
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Speaker 1: fantastic job. He did a great job. The only thing
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Speaker 1: Scar TV. I think that was excellent and a really
Speaker 1: good question. Of course, everybody's saying the Sean. I love
Speaker 1: the Sean. Yeah, I'm dripped out. I mean to have
Speaker 1: a quarterback with swag and dripped like that, dah Man,
Speaker 1: do you know how many years we did not have
Speaker 1: a quarterback like that? And speaking of d four, Deshaw
Speaker 1: Watson is our final word with Drew Dorty. I can't
Speaker 1: wait to hear this. Drew got a chance to catch
Speaker 1: you up with Sean a couple of days ago, and
Speaker 1: and I Drew just walked out of studio just all So.
Speaker 1: I think that's what happens when you talk to de Sean.
Speaker 1: You just walk away with smiles, feeling good. I know
Speaker 1: we all feel good about having DeShawn as the starting
Speaker 1: quarterback as the face of the franchise. And I thought
Speaker 1: about this, and I'll drop this little nugget on you.
Speaker 1: One of my favorite things to do is to look
Speaker 1: at the media guide, and I look at how a
Speaker 1: team was built. And I've looked at NFL teams over
Speaker 1: the years, how teams were built, how many draft picks
Speaker 1: have they had. How long have those players been with
Speaker 1: the team. How many free agents have they signed? They
Speaker 1: trade guys and so. Looking at our hour how this
Speaker 1: team was built. It got me thinking the other day,
Speaker 1: But Sean got here in twenty seventeen, Right, it's only
Speaker 1: two years ago. Only fourteen players are still on this
Speaker 1: roster that were added to the team before DeShawn got here. Wow.
Speaker 1: I was like, man, he's gonna turn twenty four in
Speaker 1: September and he is one of the senior members of
Speaker 1: this fifty three man roster. He's the leader of this team.
Speaker 1: He's dripped out, as he said, he's got swag, he's
Speaker 1: everything you want a quarterback to lead you in a
Speaker 1: game at the Superdome, and he has the final word
Speaker 1: with your doherty. Thank you so much, fellas. We've got
Speaker 1: quarterback to Shawn Watson with us and to Shaun, game
Speaker 1: day is finally here, twenty nineteen, finally here. How excited
Speaker 1: are you to actually get to play a regular season game.
Speaker 1: I'm very excited just to be able to, you know,
Speaker 1: put all the work that we put in an off
Speaker 1: season to kind of go out there and show what
Speaker 1: we got. It's a new opportunity. It's a gray opportunity
Speaker 1: for the Houston Testins to be able to show what
Speaker 1: you know, what two Doyen nineteen is gonna bring. You know,
Speaker 1: this is what we prepare for all off seasons. So
Speaker 1: it's finally here. Does it seem like it's been an
Speaker 1: eternity since you were last on a football field. I
Speaker 1: mean it's technically been nine months, but it seems like
Speaker 1: so much longer than that in many many ways, right,
Speaker 1: A little bit, a little bit, but as far as
Speaker 1: like training account, training account flew by. You know, before
Speaker 1: training account it took, you know, forever, everyone was, you know,
Speaker 1: ready to kind of get things kicked off and going.
Speaker 1: But been a while, and uh, you know, we fins
Speaker 1: finally here and you got a pretty salty opponent. This
Speaker 1: Saints defense. They can do some things right. You know,
Speaker 1: they're let up front by Cameron Jordan. They've got Marshawn
Speaker 1: Lattimore out on the edge. Identity wise, when you think
Speaker 1: of the Saints defense, what's one of the first things
Speaker 1: that comes to mind? How would you describe them? Some
Speaker 1: guys that play hard, play, physical, play, discipline. They do
Speaker 1: what they do, they play together and they bring a
Speaker 1: lot of energy to the team to that Superdome. How
Speaker 1: much of a challenge does this defense present for you, guys? Man?
Speaker 1: Every week, He's gonna be a challenge. It's a different
Speaker 1: type of challenge, and you know we're gonna be up
Speaker 1: for that challenge and and ready to go. They're gonna
Speaker 1: make plays, We're gonna make plays. We're both pros, two
Speaker 1: very good teams going ahead ahead on Monday Night and
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a fun time. Okay, let's talk about
Speaker 1: this offense. Many many changes, many constants still, but let's
Speaker 1: start with Larry may Tunsell. He's your left tackle out there.
Speaker 1: What was it like when you heard this guy's coming
Speaker 1: to town and this guy's gonna be out there for you?
Speaker 1: Very sad and just being able to get a new
Speaker 1: edition to come help this team, especially this offense, you know,
Speaker 1: take it to another level. And he's a great addition,
Speaker 1: very quiet, hard working guy who you know, he's kind
Speaker 1: of adapted to the team very very quickly. You know,
Speaker 1: he's a guy that's going to help this offense. In
Speaker 1: line to help myself about that future. You've had new
Speaker 1: teammates come to the squad during the season. Before the
Speaker 1: season what's it like when somebody like that comes into
Speaker 1: the locker room? What do you do as one of
Speaker 1: the leaders of the team, the leader of the team,
Speaker 1: and making him feel welcome, making him feel like a
Speaker 1: part of the squad, just make him feel comfortable and
Speaker 1: figure out what things he'd like to do with just
Speaker 1: kind of just casual talk. Honestly, I'm the type of
Speaker 1: person that goes off energy, and you know, I just
Speaker 1: trying to ask regular questions, not so much about football
Speaker 1: because I know he's a professional and he you know,
Speaker 1: we traded for him for a reason, you know, so
Speaker 1: he got the football party, just really trying to get him,
Speaker 1: get to know him as a person. Pass protection on
Speaker 1: the whole. You're pretty positive and pretty optimistic about where
Speaker 1: it was headed even before Tunsel came in, weren't you
Speaker 1: for sure? Yeah, I'm always gonna be positive, always, you know,
Speaker 1: looking on the right track. And those guys up front
Speaker 1: knowe that too. You know. I'm always gonna keep you know, Craig,
Speaker 1: you those guys to continue to get better and they're
Speaker 1: going to be the same for me as a quarterback,
Speaker 1: you know, and being the leader of this team in
Speaker 1: this offense, so we all on the same page, and
Speaker 1: we hold each other to a higher standard, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna contain a guy that you have a variety of
Speaker 1: pass catchers both at receiver and tight end and even
Speaker 1: at running back as well. Gotta be licking your chops
Speaker 1: with all the different things you guys can do on
Speaker 1: offense throwing the ball around right, No, for sure, you
Speaker 1: know my job is just a fine open guy. Make
Speaker 1: sure you know I protect the ball throwing in the pocket,
Speaker 1: but also just trying to get the ball to the
Speaker 1: playmakers and let them may play. That's what they get
Speaker 1: paid for. So you know, my job is trying to
Speaker 1: get the ball out quick and give it to those
Speaker 1: guys and let them do the thing you talk about.
Speaker 1: One of those playmakers, Will full Or You guys have
Speaker 1: played eleven games together in your career, eleven touchdowns in
Speaker 1: eleven games. When he catches a touchdown from you, it
Speaker 1: goes for on average thirty yards a pop. You gotta
Speaker 1: love having will Fuller back. What's he mean to this offense?
Speaker 1: What's he mean to you? I mean he's a lot.
Speaker 1: I mean he's another dynamic guy that anytime he touches
Speaker 1: the ball, you never know what's gonna happen. He's a
Speaker 1: great route runner, great teammate, and he's smart. He has
Speaker 1: a great football IQ, and he brings a lot of energy,
Speaker 1: silent energy as I like to call it, because he
Speaker 1: don't really say too much, but you can tell when
Speaker 1: he's on the field. So the guy that's gonna help
Speaker 1: this offense to do a lot of things. You need
Speaker 1: some guys that are silent though, because there's some other
Speaker 1: guys that can talk on this team now for sure. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you let the guys that that like to talk and
Speaker 1: can back it up and let them do their thing,
Speaker 1: and that other guys just kind of just sit back
Speaker 1: and watch. Hey, let's wrap this up. You got another
Speaker 1: new pass catcher and Kenny Stills. You got a new
Speaker 1: running back and Duke Johnson. Those guys are both pretty
Speaker 1: dynamic in their own rights. How do they fit in
Speaker 1: early on? You think in this offense fit in well,
Speaker 1: especially with Kenny, He's done a lot of similar things
Speaker 1: and in previous offenses being able to, you know, get
Speaker 1: him going and around. You know, two professionals, really three
Speaker 1: professionals with you know, I'm DeAndre Carter, you know, Will
Speaker 1: Fuller and DeAndre Hopkins. They all in the same room,
Speaker 1: so they're bringing them along well. And then Duke Keith
Speaker 1: right when he got here and once we traded for him,
Speaker 1: he's kind of picked up everything from the get go.
Speaker 1: He's always been a guy that you know, picked up
Speaker 1: football stuff and he's IQ is on top level. So
Speaker 1: those two guys are doing a great job and gonna
Speaker 1: be ready to play. The lights will be bright, the
Speaker 1: crowd will be loud, and you're gonna be loving it all,
Speaker 1: won't you. For sure? This is what I do. DeShawn Watson,
Speaker 1: many thanks, best of luck in twenty nineteen, and best
Speaker 1: of luck on Monday night football against the Saints. I
Speaker 1: appreciate that something about hearing that man's voice get ready
Speaker 1: for a big game like the one we're gonna have
Speaker 1: on Monday night against the New Orleans Saints. You feel good,
Speaker 1: You feel good, you feel confident. I know he feels confident.
Speaker 1: I don't know if there's ever a time when he
Speaker 1: does not feel confident. I remember that first start against Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: that Thursday night game. We had twenty one guys and
Speaker 1: the injury report that Monday after the Jags game, he
Speaker 1: just got beat up. He's starting for the first time.
Speaker 1: It's his birthday, just turned twenty two, and he's got
Speaker 1: to start a Nashville TV on the road without a
Speaker 1: tight end. And it wasn't a night in which we
Speaker 1: put up huge numbers. We definitely did not do that.
Speaker 1: But he plays all game long. And I just remember
Speaker 1: him getting on the bus and he had on this
Speaker 1: kind of lure tuxedo and he had his headphones on.
Speaker 1: He was kind of the last one to get in
Speaker 1: the bust and there was one spot and it was
Speaker 1: right behind the driver, and he sat there and he
Speaker 1: was just listening to his music and every so often
Speaker 1: I would look up and I would just see him
Speaker 1: kind of his head kind of going side to side
Speaker 1: with the music, and it was like there wouldn't hair
Speaker 1: in the world. It was just football. It was just ball.
Speaker 1: That was all it was. And then he gets nailed
Speaker 1: by Geno Atkins. It's third and fifteen. He runs forty
Speaker 1: nine yards for the touchdown, and you fell like working
Speaker 1: to be all right, boys. He has a great last
Speaker 1: drive that led to a field goal clinched that win.
Speaker 1: The next week in New England, he just completely had
Speaker 1: them off kilter. I mean, it was just amazing. And
Speaker 1: when you have him at the Helm. You feel good.
Speaker 1: You feel good, and we should all feel good about
Speaker 1: going to New Orleans and taking on one of the
Speaker 1: better teams in the NFL. And that's the hard part.
Speaker 1: You're taking on one of the better teams in the NFL.
Speaker 1: You'd like to start off with, I don't know, a
Speaker 1: team maybe at the bottom where you could maybe get
Speaker 1: a sure win at home. And then I feel good
Speaker 1: and all the fans feel good. But we'll go right
Speaker 1: into the lines, damn baby, going right in and we're
Speaker 1: gonna be led by number four and number ten and
Speaker 1: ninety nine, and we got one shot to take these guys.
Speaker 1: And when you walk in that Superdome and you take
Speaker 1: on the big bully, you bust them right straight in
Speaker 1: the face. And hopefully that's what the Texans do on
Speaker 1: Monday Night. A big thanks to everybody for this show,
Speaker 1: to Drew dorty De Shaun Watson, to Bestcar TV and
Speaker 1: everybody on it, the dp C, to John Chaser, to
Speaker 1: Mark Vandermer, to all of you for listening. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much and we will see you on Monday night.
Speaker 1: And as always, go Texas.