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Speaker 1: What is up? Good people of Houston and Houston Texans

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Speaker 1: fans everywhere. Welcome into a Friday edition of Texans All

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Speaker 1: Access from the Hyunday Texans Radio Studio. I am your host,

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Speaker 1: John Harris, and I'm doing everything possible to get through

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Speaker 1: the next two hours with completely losing my mind. Not

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Speaker 1: a bad not a bad way, but because of the

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Speaker 1: opponent on Sunday, the Indianapolis Colts at Lucas Oil Stadium,

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Speaker 1: cannot wait. As Bart Scott said, can't wait, cannot wait

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Speaker 1: these games. And it's funny. I wrote about this a

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Speaker 1: little bit earlier today, these games against the Colts. I

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Speaker 1: look forward to them because of the rivalry that it is.

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Speaker 1: But it's equal parts stressful, exciting, dreadful, exhilarating. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's everything. It's like the hype for me. I love it.

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Speaker 1: I love these games with the Colts, and then I

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Speaker 1: hate them and I love them. It's like this love

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Speaker 1: hate relationship because the stress that's involved. Since twenty fourteen,

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Speaker 1: there's only been one game where the margin of victory

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Speaker 1: has been more than seven points, and was nine points

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Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen. The other reason it was nine was

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Speaker 1: because the Colts ended up getting a safety after the

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Speaker 1: makeshift Texas line that day gave up, gave up a safety.

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Speaker 1: The MAGA twenty two thirteen should have been twenty and thirteen.

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Speaker 1: That would have kind of, I guess solved my question

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Speaker 1: and answer that seven points is the largest margin of victory.

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Speaker 1: There's not been a double digit margin of victory since

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Speaker 1: twenty fourteen. Think about that. Since twenty fourteen, with all

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Speaker 1: the different changes and all the different quarterbacks and all

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Speaker 1: the different injuries and things that have gone on between

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Speaker 1: these two organizations, the Texans and Colts have played every

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Speaker 1: single regular season game within nine points, and most of them,

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Speaker 1: well all of them minus won in the regular season

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Speaker 1: seven points. That's crazy to think about, which makes last

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Speaker 1: year's playoff game weird because fourteen points twenty one seven

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Speaker 1: you think, I mean, the game was twenty one nothing

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Speaker 1: for a long time. The Texans got a touchdown and

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Speaker 1: we're driving to maybe get another one in the end zone,

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Speaker 1: couldn't get it in on a fourth down play. And

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Speaker 1: I don't know that fourteen points was really indicative of

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Speaker 1: how it felt, because it felt like the Colts had

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Speaker 1: really kind of taken over that game. But that's why

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Speaker 1: that game was such a weird anomaly because they had

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Speaker 1: played such close games, and play such close games, I

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Speaker 1: mean every game at Lucas Oil. I mean last year

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Speaker 1: was three points. In twenty seventeen, that was a weird

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Speaker 1: one because people were injured on either side. Twenty sixteen,

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Speaker 1: I think it was six points. Twenty fifteen, I think

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Speaker 1: it was. I think it was six points. Games at

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Speaker 1: home have been three points, three points. I mean last

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Speaker 1: year's two games up there, we win it overtime by three.

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Speaker 1: They come here, they win by three. The last time

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Speaker 1: they played. That's one that left the mark. It left

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Speaker 1: the scar, and probably a few of them, to be honest,

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Speaker 1: because your Texans took one on the chain twenty one

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Speaker 1: to seven. There was nothing about that game, about that

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Speaker 1: day that you could really feel good about. If you're

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Speaker 1: a Texans fan. Get home field advantage, t Y Hilton's

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Speaker 1: wearing a clown mask. You're about to just hand it

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Speaker 1: to and they turn it around and just give it

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Speaker 1: to you. When they scored three touchdowns early in the game,

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Speaker 1: take a twenty one and nothing lead, Gotta try and

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Speaker 1: fight back, and they did a little bit, but they

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Speaker 1: just never got any sort of rhythm. It was the

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Speaker 1: first time that Deshaun Watson had lost a game by

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Speaker 1: more than a score dating back to high school. It's phenomenal,

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Speaker 1: but the Texans did things in the offseason to make

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Speaker 1: sure that that didn't happen. But now they get to

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Speaker 1: take their renovated vehicle out for a test drive in

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Speaker 1: the Home of the five and see what it looks

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Speaker 1: like against the Indianapolis Colts. So we've got a lot

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Speaker 1: to get to tonight. We've got our deep Slant Interview

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Speaker 1: of the week, the one on one brought to you

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Speaker 1: by Exffinity with DP City. This week it is Bernardrick McKinney.

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Speaker 1: I'll give you my first community Crating Union, first glance

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Speaker 1: keys in the game, and also all of my predictions

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Speaker 1: straight up and against the spread for all NFL games

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Speaker 1: this weekend. Mark's just stop by. We'll talk about this.

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Speaker 1: I know this one always kind of triggers Mark. He

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Speaker 1: kind of has the same feeling. There's such excitement yet apprehension,

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Speaker 1: all those kind of emotions, kind of conflicting emotions kind

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Speaker 1: of coming at you. So we'll talk to Mark about that,

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Speaker 1: and then in our players segment, we've got a little

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Speaker 1: bit of b Scar TV we've got My football Story

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Speaker 1: Peter Kalmbayi, and we've got the Final World with Drew

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Speaker 1: Doherty and this week it is Aaron Fells. So plenty

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Speaker 1: going on tonight. So let's kick it off with hot reads.

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Speaker 1: each and every Friday we kick off the same way.

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Speaker 1: With a little bit of discussion with the head coach,

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Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien. Mark caught up with him earlier today. Coach,

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Speaker 1: I gotta imagine you've talked to the team a lot

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Speaker 1: about the magnitude of this being a divisional game, the

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Speaker 1: Texans and the calls, all the history involved in the matchup. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, look, it's a it's a division game on

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Speaker 1: we have a lot of history with, um, you know,

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Speaker 1: and I think that there are two evenly matched teams.

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Speaker 1: to the team that commits the least amount of stakes.

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Speaker 1: You know. I think that if we can control the

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Speaker 1: I think we'll have a shot. And uh, you know

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Speaker 1: they're they're well coached teams, gonna be a good game.

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Speaker 1: I know every week is different, but you always say

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Speaker 1: you want to get better every week. So where are

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Speaker 1: you looking to a prove you just mentioned some of

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Speaker 1: those things. I would imagine, Yeah, we have to take

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Speaker 1: the penalties. You know, we had ten penalties. I think

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Speaker 1: You know, penalties are gonna happen the way the games

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Speaker 1: on special teams which we had in the last game,

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Speaker 1: that's important to keep that going. But overall, we gotta

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Speaker 1: cut down on penalties. The cults, what did they do

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Speaker 1: well defensively that you have to keep your eye off.

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Speaker 1: They're just very well coached, very discipline, very fast athletic,

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Speaker 1: and Matt Eberflus does a really good job. He's a

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Speaker 1: very very good sound football coach. It's not like they

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Speaker 1: They're not gonna You're not gonna really let you throw

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Speaker 1: they're using their personnel. But I think in the end,

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Speaker 1: I would I would anticipate they play us a little

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Speaker 1: to see how it goes. What about on offense, we

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Speaker 1: all know they want to run the ball the cults,

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Speaker 1: but they do have other weapons that can hurt you

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Speaker 1: through the Air, Yeah, no doubt. I mean they've got,

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Speaker 1: they've got Chester, Rogers, Pascal, I mean, all these guys,

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Speaker 1: Obviously you just mentioned Mac and Hind, so they they've

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Speaker 1: What about his element in this game? Really smart guy,

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Speaker 1: doesn't make a lot of mistakes. He can run, He's

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Speaker 1: a deceptively good runner. I think you got to do

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Speaker 1: he's a very smart guy. He was trained into New England.

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Speaker 1: They're doing a great job with them in Indianapolis. So

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Speaker 1: he understands how to play the game, and we've got

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Speaker 1: to do a great job against him. Couch, thanks for

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Speaker 1: trying us, Good luck, Thank you. Annie. Let's get to

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Speaker 1: our next hot read, and that is going to be

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Speaker 1: the injury report, which on Friday is hugely important. Why

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Speaker 1: because you know who's in who's out, who's questionable, who's doubtful?

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Speaker 1: Now out for your Texans. I don't think any of

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Speaker 1: I don't know that any of those are a surprise whatsoever.

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Speaker 1: Now that does mean that in the questionable category is

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Speaker 1: now I've had this thought that J Joe would get

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Speaker 1: essentially a trash heap fine for the Colts. He's not trash,

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Speaker 1: but he was discarded by the Patriots and the Colts

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Speaker 1: said we'll take him, and he's been. He's been a

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Speaker 1: huge piece of the defense for the Colts. He is out.

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Speaker 1: Paris Campbell wide receiver rookie couldn't get himself ready to go.

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Speaker 1: I think he missed the Chiefs game as well. Paris

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Speaker 1: Campbell is out. In addition, safety Malik Hooker is doubtful.

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Speaker 1: Now you don't see doubtful often. I'm trying to remember

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Speaker 1: who was doubtful against the Texans at one point, and

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Speaker 1: who it was. But I have not seen a doubtful

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Speaker 1: Pierre de Seer starting corner, a guy that Colt fans

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Speaker 1: like to say is the DeAndre Hopkins killer, which I

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Speaker 1: don't think there is such a thing. The Seer gets

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Speaker 1: here on Texans Access. Last year's twenty one to seven

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Speaker 1: Do you remember what your answer was? Yeah, and Cam Newton.

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Speaker 1: You said a little bit of both Cam Newton first,

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Speaker 1: heart and the quarterback Timbo. What about your playing style though?

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Speaker 1: Like actually your your style on the field, where you

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Speaker 1: what I said, Tim Tebow or Cam Newton because both

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Speaker 1: scrambled both on random ball, and you know I can

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Speaker 1: see what I want to say, But now I compare

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Speaker 1: myself both them. So I think that would have been

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Speaker 1: a lot of fun to watch. Maybe you should have

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Speaker 1: like a charity ball game or something in the off season.

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Speaker 1: Everybody plays like opposite positions. That would be fun out there.

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Speaker 1: That would be fun. I mean there's already the Charity Classic.

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Speaker 1: You guys get plenty of practice with that. We'd probably

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Speaker 1: kill it. As a quarterback, I wouldn't say that now

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Speaker 1: you know my shows are getting lit bangs. Yeah, we'll

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Speaker 1: only get like full tackle. I don't think Plebrian would

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Speaker 1: That's a little more painful what I sh But like

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Speaker 1: I said, it'd be fun. I probably those some dimes

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Speaker 1: out there run the ball a little bit. Alright. Good

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Speaker 1: wishing you best to luck for the rest of the season.

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Speaker 1: Good luck getting some runs pre game prey week two. Yeah, yeah, definitely,

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Speaker 1: thanks so much. All I want to sec media days

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Speaker 1: after Bernard had been drafted and I had a chance

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Speaker 1: to interview Dan Mullen, who was the head coach time

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Speaker 1: in Mississippi State. He had recruited Bmack the Mississippi State

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Speaker 1: he said. I asked him about how do you take

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Speaker 1: a tournamental linebacker. And he's like, well, you know bart Argick,

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Speaker 1: He said a good things. Joe Parargick put in the work.

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Speaker 1: He wanted to play as a physical guy. He's a

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Speaker 1: violent guy. And I said, well, did you everything about

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Speaker 1: playing a back quarterbacks? Oh? No, he goes, but Ardric

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Speaker 1: thinks he can play quarterback. But no, no, don't let

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Speaker 1: him tell you he can. Now how he's thinking about

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Speaker 1: that because the pregame ritual for Bernardric, for Whitney djuh

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Speaker 1: someone the lunch pail crew, they play a game of

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Speaker 1: pylon football baseball. It's always it's always fun to see,

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Speaker 1: very very fun. But Bernardrick's got a big task ahead

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Speaker 1: of him on Sunday, and that is Marlon Mack and

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Speaker 1: this Colt's offensive line. That's just one of the keys.

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Speaker 1: What are my first community creating union first glance keys

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Speaker 1: to the game. Well, I'll have them for you next

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Speaker 1: right here in Texans All Access. Hey, Houston area teachers,

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Speaker 1: I am talking to you. You you you you. I

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Speaker 1: know there are a bunch of you out there. You

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Speaker 1: want to bring a little Texas football to year classroom

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Speaker 1: and signed for Toro's Matros presented by Conico Phillips. Toros

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Speaker 1: Matros is a video series designed up third and fourth

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Speaker 1: graders learned how to tackle math in the classroom. Go

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Speaker 1: to Houston Texans dot com slash Toros Math Drills to

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Speaker 1: learn more. Now I tell you that, and obviously that's

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Speaker 1: a live read. I do that each and every show.

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Speaker 1: I think maybe you do it Wednesday and Friday. But

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Speaker 1: I've done that before as a teacher. I once did

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Speaker 1: a physics test. I taught physics way back in the day,

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Speaker 1: and I did a physics test and the whole the

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Speaker 1: test was completely and totally all about the Florida Georgia

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Speaker 1: because I was in Jacksonville. The test was the same

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Speaker 1: week of Florida Georgia game The Rivalry, and every single

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Speaker 1: question was based on that game. And my students never

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Speaker 1: forgot it. They loved it. They loved it. They loved

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Speaker 1: when I brought sports into it. Whatever teaching math or physics,

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Speaker 1: it works. Toros naturals, get it done. Yeah, all your

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Speaker 1: teachers out there, that's a good and I know you

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Speaker 1: know this, but it's always good to emphasize bring some

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Speaker 1: fun stuff into the class brings some football into the classroom,

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Speaker 1: and I guarantee your students will love it. They will

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Speaker 1: understand it, and when they understand math, they will love it,

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Speaker 1: no question. I am John Harris, your host on this

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Speaker 1: Friday edition of Texas All Access from the Hunday Texans

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Speaker 1: Radio studio, and it's time to dive in, deep, deep,

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Speaker 1: deep with this matchup against the Indianapolis Colts, a team

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Speaker 1: we all know well, we are a team they know well.

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Speaker 1: It's one of those matchups twice a year, and it's

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Speaker 1: been the last since Bill Bryan's gotten here. Here's how

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Speaker 1: it goes twenty fourteen. Since twenty fourteen, there's been one

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Speaker 1: game with a margin of Patrie larger than seven points

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Speaker 1: one and that was in twenty seventeen and the margin

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Speaker 1: was only nine. But that was the year in which

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Speaker 1: the Texans everybody was just dead, and I mean everybody

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Speaker 1: and it was the same for the Colts. Andrew Luck

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Speaker 1: was out to you why Hilton was banged up. I

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Speaker 1: mean that twenty seventeen game, the finale of twenty seventeen.

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Speaker 1: I mean it was it was as oh god, I

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Speaker 1: can't even describe it. That game anyways, the Colton winning

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Speaker 1: that game twenty two to thirteen, nine point margin. No

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Speaker 1: other game since Bill O'Brien has gotten here has had

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Speaker 1: a margin bigger than seven in the regular season. Now

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Speaker 1: playoff game last year in a different story, twenty one

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Speaker 1: to seven. That was a two score game. It was

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Speaker 1: the only time that Deshaun Watson has lost, has started

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Speaker 1: at quarterback for a team and lost by more than

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Speaker 1: a score. Think about that. Even last year beginning of

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Speaker 1: the year, Patriots lost by seven, Tennessee lost by three, Giants,

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Speaker 1: lost by three. Colts in the regular season, lost by three, Eagles,

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Speaker 1: lost by two. That was it all year, and the

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Speaker 1: playoff game lost by a couple scores. So maybe there's

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Speaker 1: a score to settle here. I don't think you could

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Speaker 1: take that approach going into it. Two different teams, two

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Speaker 1: different makeups, but I know that there are plenty of

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Speaker 1: guys left over from last year's team that that loss

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Speaker 1: left a stain. There's no question, there's no doubt, and

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Speaker 1: it's that one that washes out all that easily to

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Speaker 1: lose a playoff game too. Arrivals the first time he

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Speaker 1: had played the Colts in a playoff game and it

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Speaker 1: didn't go well. So it's the first matchup since that time.

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Speaker 1: So let's get into our first Community Credit Universe Glance

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Speaker 1: Keys to the Game FUCU, the Official Credit Union of

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Speaker 1: the Houston Texans. Let's dive in to the Texans defense

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Speaker 1: against the Colts offense. What are the keys to stopping

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Speaker 1: the Colts? The number one key overall of all the

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Speaker 1: things I thought of all week comes down to two words,

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Speaker 1: rap and up. Rap up. Now, it's not so much

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Speaker 1: about the receivers. Receivers, they're not tremendous after the catch,

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Speaker 1: but they're they're decent sides receiver. I mean, Dion Kane's

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Speaker 1: a bigger guy. He's gotta like hop. My concern is

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Speaker 1: with Marlon Mack. Mac runs hard, He's got a sweet

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Speaker 1: jump cut. He has great vision, so he finds horizontal

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Speaker 1: holes sometimes, like sometimes he gets to a hole and

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Speaker 1: he looks at and goes, man, I don't like, what's

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Speaker 1: in front of me, But let me jump I'll jump

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Speaker 1: cut one way. Oh, there we go there as a hole.

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Speaker 1: I did a telestrator and you'll see it on game

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Speaker 1: day on KPRC eight thirty Sunday morning, And that's exactly

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Speaker 1: the exact play I pulled up was a run against

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Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs. Where it was it was inside zone.

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Speaker 1: May I'm been a duo play, but either way, there

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Speaker 1: were chiefs there to stop him, and he just gone

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Speaker 1: and then took a jump cut, and it was jump cut.

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Speaker 1: Make a guy miss a tackle, jump cut, Another couple

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Speaker 1: of tackles missed, and now he's off in his space.

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Speaker 1: Now I don't think he's the fastest guy in the world,

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Speaker 1: but he does not go down. Remember that twenty seventeen

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Speaker 1: game I was telling you about. I have never in

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Speaker 1: my life, ever, ever, ever, ever seen a running back

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Speaker 1: straight armed Jadeveon Clowney and put him right down into

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Speaker 1: I was standing right there. I was like, it was

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Speaker 1: right where I was, and I was like, WHOA, I've

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Speaker 1: never seen that before. Rap up. You cannot give mac

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Speaker 1: yards after contact. You're gonna get some because that's just

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Speaker 1: the virtue of a guy running hard, but you cannot

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Speaker 1: allow him to break through armed tackles, weak tackle attempts.

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Speaker 1: You got to bring everything you've got and then hands

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Speaker 1: to wrap up. Okay, that's key number one. Number two.

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Speaker 1: Last year, Eric Ebron was a major thorn in the

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Speaker 1: side and the two losses against the Texans or against

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Speaker 1: as he was against the Colts. He was tremendous and

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Speaker 1: then of course he preened the camera saying, you can't

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Speaker 1: cover him man to man. Well, I'll take my money

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Speaker 1: with Sean Gibson cover him man to man. But here's

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Speaker 1: a little bit of why it's different this week than

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Speaker 1: it was last. The Chiefs were not gonna run the

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Speaker 1: ball on you, and they were not gonna run it

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Speaker 1: very well. The Colts can run the ball, so you're

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Speaker 1: gonna need Justin Reid slashed to Sean Gibson to come

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Speaker 1: ball at Eric Ebron. Ebron becomes a big key in

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Speaker 1: this game, so first and second down run defense becomes huge,

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Speaker 1: so that you set up second and long, third and

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Speaker 1: ball on it down like this, We've got to take

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Speaker 1: care of Ebron. Now there's also Jack Doyle there, but

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Speaker 1: Ibram proved last year that he's the more dynamic of

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Speaker 1: the two and creates probably bigger issues for the Texans

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Speaker 1: because in those two losses against the Colts, Ibron was outstanding.

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Speaker 1: Couldn't stop him. The first game he dropped everything, the

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Speaker 1: second two games he went nuts. The Colts won. Eric

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Speaker 1: number three. This kind of goes a little bit with

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Speaker 1: really run the ball in the Texans this year is

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Speaker 1: when the Texans, if it's happened at all, is when

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Speaker 1: the Texans have either not wrapped up a few times

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Speaker 1: on Alvin Kamara that happened in the Saints game. Other

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Speaker 1: than that, they've done a pretty good job of being

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Speaker 1: gap discipline. Now some will say, well, Christian McCaffrey, but

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Speaker 1: it took thirty seven touches for him just to get

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Speaker 1: less than five yards per touch, So they didn't do

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Speaker 1: a horrible job against him, even he ran hard. When

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Speaker 1: they got into trouble, it's because a they have not

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Speaker 1: been gaped discipline. But I'm gonna throw this one on

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Speaker 1: top because they did not do this in the game

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Speaker 1: against the Colts in the playoffs. They did not set

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Speaker 1: the edge. In fact, there is a run by Marlin Mac.

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Speaker 1: They've got a seven to nothing lead. We have to

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Speaker 1: the midfield. They get the ball and they handed Marlin

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Speaker 1: Mac on a kind of a pin and poll play. Basically,

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Speaker 1: it take they take the tackle on the tight end,

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Speaker 1: And when the guard pulled around, there was one guy

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Speaker 1: I think it was either Zach or maybe a defensive back,

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Speaker 1: I can't remember, and the guard just buried him and

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Speaker 1: Mac just had this direct line. Because we didn't set

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Speaker 1: the edge against them. That is paramount Witty Merciless does

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Speaker 1: a good edge. But they've got to be ultra disciplined

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Speaker 1: about it. They have got to be good in their gaps.

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Speaker 1: They've got to control the interior. That's gonna be very

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Speaker 1: DJ Reader is looking forward to this game going against

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Speaker 1: the guy that Quinn Nelson. Look, everybody knows and talks

638
00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:20,120
Speaker 1: about how great Nelson is and this and that. But

639
00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:22,680
Speaker 1: if you have a great game against him, that's what

640
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:25,200
Speaker 1: starts getting you some acclaim. That's what starts getting you

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00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:28,320
Speaker 1: some attention. If you will not that, that's what drives

642
00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:31,080
Speaker 1: the LPC or even drive DJ Reader. But you have

643
00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:34,200
Speaker 1: good games against Quinn Nelson, people take notice. As a

644
00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:36,480
Speaker 1: defensive line, but you've got to do it out in

645
00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:41,160
Speaker 1: the edge as well. You cannot allow direct lines downhill

646
00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:43,120
Speaker 1: for Marlon Mack and the running backs of the Colts

647
00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:45,919
Speaker 1: to hit. So you've got to set the strongest edge

648
00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:49,520
Speaker 1: possible and then the ultra discipline your run gap assignments.

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00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:52,800
Speaker 1: Let your linebackers do the work, set the edge, dominate

650
00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:55,000
Speaker 1: the interior, and let be Mac and Zach run the

651
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:57,239
Speaker 1: football and they'll make it worth it. I guarantee you

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Speaker 1: number four, stay deep, stay in coverage. Jacoby Brissette does

653
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Speaker 1: two things. Number one, he holds the ball a little

654
00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:08,200
Speaker 1: bit longer than he should and that's just something he

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00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:11,640
Speaker 1: hasn't worked through, honestly. And the second one is he's

656
00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:15,520
Speaker 1: like Ben Roethlisberger in that Roethlisberger almost invited people to

657
00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:17,480
Speaker 1: be hitting him and hanging on him, but he was

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00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:21,560
Speaker 1: gonna hold it to the last possible instance until he

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00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:25,480
Speaker 1: found It's kind of like a radar, like they just

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00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:29,960
Speaker 1: go through it and then he would get rid of it.

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00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:33,400
Speaker 1: Brissette does the same thing. Now, Brissette is not as

662
00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:37,440
Speaker 1: cool and calm under pressure as Ben is, but Brissette

663
00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:40,560
Speaker 1: you can relax as a dB thinking, oh, they got

664
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Speaker 1: the sack and stop for a second. The receiver keeps going.

665
00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:45,080
Speaker 1: He breaks out of it, and now you're out of phase.

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00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:49,480
Speaker 1: Stay deep, stay in coverage. Last, it's certainly not at

667
00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:51,239
Speaker 1: least in this kind of goes with three stack and

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00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:55,160
Speaker 1: shed get off blocks. Don't let this Colt's offensive line

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Speaker 1: occupy blockers. And here's one. Be violent, Be quick, be violent,

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00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:04,200
Speaker 1: Be quick, be violent to get your hands, body everything

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00:36:04,239 --> 00:36:06,239
Speaker 1: through a block or have leverage and then get off

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00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:10,640
Speaker 1: the block quickly. Be violent, Be quick, and be gone.

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00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:14,960
Speaker 1: Get off that block, go find the football and make

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Speaker 1: sure mom and Mack is held in check. All right,

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Speaker 1: Let's move overard to the Texans offense against the Colts defense.

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00:36:20,120 --> 00:36:22,760
Speaker 1: The one thing that the Texans have got to handle

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00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:26,880
Speaker 1: number one, right out of the shoot. The Colts love

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00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:30,840
Speaker 1: to penetrate Marcus Hunt and Denico Autry inside. They're not

679
00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:33,240
Speaker 1: the biggest guys in the world. Now. Hunt looks he's tall,

680
00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:35,880
Speaker 1: but he's not three hundred and fifteen, three hundred and

681
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:38,880
Speaker 1: twenty pounds the deck. Autry is certainly not that, but

682
00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:41,320
Speaker 1: he's two hundred and eighty five pounds, and he's quick,

683
00:36:41,440 --> 00:36:45,680
Speaker 1: and he plays angry. Those guys penetrate. That penetration causes chaos.

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Speaker 1: So you can't allow the penetration. You must slow down

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Speaker 1: that penetration. When I talked about that word violent and quickness,

686
00:36:55,080 --> 00:36:58,120
Speaker 1: they are quick, violent, and they're relentless. They do not

687
00:36:58,239 --> 00:37:00,920
Speaker 1: stop coming. But you've got to hit him. Just like

688
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:04,160
Speaker 1: last week, keep hit him to keep coming and slow

689
00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:09,479
Speaker 1: them down. Eventually, that'll happen number two, if there's time

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00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:13,120
Speaker 1: to throw, and that's not easy this week. Now there

691
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:15,080
Speaker 1: is no Comico Turey Russian the edge but there is

692
00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:18,800
Speaker 1: a justin Houston, there's a Ben Banago, there isn't Alcady Mohammed.

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00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:20,640
Speaker 1: There are guys that can get to the quarterback from

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Speaker 1: the edge. And Marcus Hunt creates problems because he's six nine,

695
00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:28,080
Speaker 1: and Austry is a problem because he's so quick inside.

696
00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:31,799
Speaker 1: But if there is time to throw, they're gonna be

697
00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:35,200
Speaker 1: open receivers when the Colts play zone. Now, the Colts

698
00:37:35,239 --> 00:37:37,560
Speaker 1: didn't play a lot of zone against the Chiefs because

699
00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:39,480
Speaker 1: they felt like they could match up with the Chiefs

700
00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:41,880
Speaker 1: receivers because there was no Tireek and there was no Sammy.

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00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:44,279
Speaker 1: So they played a lot of man and then they

702
00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:46,360
Speaker 1: gave help over the top. I don't know if the

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00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:48,799
Speaker 1: Colts want to play man against this group of receivers,

704
00:37:49,080 --> 00:37:51,719
Speaker 1: but if it's zone, they'll get the guys open. There

705
00:37:51,719 --> 00:37:54,239
Speaker 1: were guys open all game long. In a playoff game, really,

706
00:37:54,520 --> 00:37:56,839
Speaker 1: you should't have time to throw. With time to throw,

707
00:37:57,080 --> 00:38:00,719
Speaker 1: receivers will be open in zone number three. Expect the

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Speaker 1: unexpected from Matt Everflus, the defensive coordinator. A great example

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00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:08,399
Speaker 1: of that was in the playoff game. I can't remember

710
00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:10,560
Speaker 1: who was one of the Texas running backs motioned out wide.

711
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:12,840
Speaker 1: He started back through the emotion out wide and Darius

712
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:15,800
Speaker 1: Leonard went with him, which is usually the universal signal

713
00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:18,719
Speaker 1: for man and man coverage linebacker on running back, but

714
00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:22,200
Speaker 1: the Colts played cover to zone and Leonard essentially became

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00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:26,040
Speaker 1: the rolled up cover to corner. You don't expect that.

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00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:28,279
Speaker 1: When he goes out there, You're like, that's my key,

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00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:30,880
Speaker 1: that's man, and all of a sudden are sitting there

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00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:33,959
Speaker 1: playing cover two. Now he Eberflus likes to play cover two.

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Speaker 1: But you've got to expect the unexpected pre snap. What

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00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:42,120
Speaker 1: do you see post snap? Make sure you double check.

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Speaker 1: I think it's man, but oh, Darius is staying over there.

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00:38:45,520 --> 00:38:47,400
Speaker 1: This could be covered, all right, I know what it is.

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Speaker 1: Expect the unexpected number four and this one's easy, so

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Speaker 1: I want to spend too much time on it. Please

725
00:38:55,239 --> 00:38:59,520
Speaker 1: please please. Ball carriers hang on to the dad gun

726
00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:03,839
Speaker 1: football all the way through the tackle, all the way

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00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:06,200
Speaker 1: to the ground. I don't know how many times the

728
00:39:06,239 --> 00:39:09,840
Speaker 1: ball is loose and was loose on the ground. Carlos

729
00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:11,279
Speaker 1: Hyde fumbled and there was one where he hit the

730
00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:13,520
Speaker 1: ground it popped out. Hop had one of those when

731
00:39:13,520 --> 00:39:15,680
Speaker 1: his momentum had been stopped and the ball popped out.

732
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:20,239
Speaker 1: Duke go for the end zone and scored. But because

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Speaker 1: there's momentum and he hit the ground, the ball went out.

734
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Speaker 1: And now look, I understand hitting the ground and the

735
00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:26,840
Speaker 1: ball comes out like that's physics, right, But hang on

736
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Speaker 1: to the ball. One of the biggest things about beating

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00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:33,320
Speaker 1: the Chargers earlier in the year was hanging onto the

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Speaker 1: football and not turning it over. And then the one

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00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:36,799
Speaker 1: turnover the Charger's head was a killer because the Texas

740
00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:39,880
Speaker 1: went down and scored after that. Hang on to the

741
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Speaker 1: dad going football number five. Figure out early how the

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00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:49,080
Speaker 1: Colts are going to cover the Texans tight ends Darren

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00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:52,160
Speaker 1: Fells and Jordan Nakins have been a huge problem. Now

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00:39:52,160 --> 00:39:54,120
Speaker 1: there'll be people that say, well, you know they're not

745
00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:56,960
Speaker 1: eating brown or not Jack Doyle, Yeah, they're not. They

746
00:39:56,960 --> 00:40:00,480
Speaker 1: can be even better. They can be really dynamic because

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00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:03,680
Speaker 1: both guys can block. Both guys are used to block,

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00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:06,239
Speaker 1: so when they're in the game, you don't know whether

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00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:09,560
Speaker 1: they're gonna add to the protection or they're gonna be

750
00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:12,879
Speaker 1: outlet routes or they're gonna be seam routes right down

751
00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:16,080
Speaker 1: in the middle of the field and be a huge problem.

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00:40:16,120 --> 00:40:19,920
Speaker 1: So figure out Matt Everflus, how he's gonna cover these

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Speaker 1: tight ends. I would imagine going in that they want

754
00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:27,440
Speaker 1: to stop DeAndre Hopkins. They need to stop DeAndre Hopkins.

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00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:30,840
Speaker 1: That I know. They look at hop and they respect

756
00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:35,920
Speaker 1: hop immensely. They don't really respect everybody else. They respect

757
00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:39,040
Speaker 1: Will Fuller's speed, they don't really respect anybody else. I

758
00:40:39,040 --> 00:40:43,160
Speaker 1: can tell you that for a fact. So figure out

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Speaker 1: how they're covering a tight ends and then exploit the

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00:40:45,719 --> 00:40:48,960
Speaker 1: hell out of it, because I don't think that they're

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00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:51,440
Speaker 1: gonna be able to cover everybody that you have. Are

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Speaker 1: they gonna be able to give help over the top

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00:40:53,680 --> 00:40:57,600
Speaker 1: the Fuller as they're trying to maybe double Hopkins, But

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Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, the tight ends. Who's left

765
00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:02,360
Speaker 1: cover the tight ends? Who's left to cover Keiki on

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00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:04,719
Speaker 1: the inside. I don't think Key has to get to

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00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:07,600
Speaker 1: love and Catches. I don't think he will. But if

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00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:10,440
Speaker 1: you need to go to it, don't be afraid to

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Speaker 1: go to that. Well, don't do not be afraid to

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00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:15,080
Speaker 1: go to Keiki. But figure out what they're doing with

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00:41:15,080 --> 00:41:17,799
Speaker 1: the tight ends, because that's I think where you can

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00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:20,439
Speaker 1: make some money. I think the tight ends on both

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00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:24,480
Speaker 1: sides are going to have a lot of attention because

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Speaker 1: with the Colts, you know, Ibron and Jack Doyle are

775
00:41:28,040 --> 00:41:30,719
Speaker 1: gonna get attention, and somehow, some way, the Colts gotta

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00:41:30,719 --> 00:41:32,520
Speaker 1: figure out how to cover these tight ends and Jordan

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00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:36,160
Speaker 1: Aikins and Darren Fells. But the Colts have got to

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00:41:36,200 --> 00:41:38,399
Speaker 1: account for other things in the passing game as well. Look,

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00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:41,080
Speaker 1: I didn't even mention t Y Hilton. Stoping t Y

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00:41:41,120 --> 00:41:42,920
Speaker 1: Hilton is gonna be big. So you know what a

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00:41:43,120 --> 00:41:46,719
Speaker 1: sixth defensive key would be. Figure out what you're doing

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00:41:46,719 --> 00:41:48,920
Speaker 1: with t Y and if you vote to you guys

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00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:51,399
Speaker 1: to him the whole game. I'm fine with that. I'm

784
00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:55,560
Speaker 1: fine with that. The sixth offensive key would be. Now,

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00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:58,240
Speaker 1: I don't you know, find a blitz, whether it's Kennymore

786
00:41:58,360 --> 00:42:02,200
Speaker 1: whoever's coming, find the dad gum blitz, pick it up,

787
00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:05,080
Speaker 1: get rid of football and move the sticks. That blitz

788
00:42:05,200 --> 00:42:09,359
Speaker 1: was an absolute killer in the regular season lost last

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00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:12,680
Speaker 1: year and a playoff loss. No where it's coming, no

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00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:17,680
Speaker 1: when it's coming. Receivers, adjust the sean throwhat, catch football

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00:42:17,719 --> 00:42:22,040
Speaker 1: and make them pay for it. Make them pay. If

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00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:25,480
Speaker 1: you do that and do those things and follow those keys,

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00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:28,040
Speaker 1: what you have done the last couple of weeks. You

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00:42:28,080 --> 00:42:30,560
Speaker 1: can win the football game. You could absolutely win the

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00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:33,319
Speaker 1: football game. So let's go do it. Those were your

796
00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:36,600
Speaker 1: first commune craty in first glance keys to the game.

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Speaker 1: Coming up next, I'll ask Mark what he thinks. The

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Speaker 1: Voice of Texans will be next. Right here in Texans

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Speaker 1: All Access. Welcome back to our second hour of the show.

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Speaker 1: I am your host, John Harris Texas All Access from

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Speaker 1: the Honday Texans Radio Studio. I am joined now by

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Speaker 1: the Voice of the Texans, Mark. How are you, Johnny.

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00:42:55,880 --> 00:42:58,239
Speaker 1: I'm doing great. It's game weekend. I mean the Astros,

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00:42:58,280 --> 00:43:03,160
Speaker 1: congratulations on the Yankees, the hated Bombers to the Brank

805
00:43:03,239 --> 00:43:05,920
Speaker 1: that's great, and I know they're getting ready to roll.

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00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:09,280
Speaker 1: But the Texans getting ready to roll at the Colts.

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00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:13,680
Speaker 1: And look, I became a sports fan in the Northeast,

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00:43:13,719 --> 00:43:17,800
Speaker 1: so the Yankees to me were despised unless you're a

809
00:43:17,880 --> 00:43:21,600
Speaker 1: Yankee fan, of course, and Red Sox Yankees and that rivalry,

810
00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:23,799
Speaker 1: and I always, you know, kind of think of that

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00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:26,360
Speaker 1: kind of thing when I'm thinking about the Texans and

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00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:29,960
Speaker 1: the Colts, even though the Colts have owned the rivalry.

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00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:31,759
Speaker 1: We talked about this last night You mentioned four and

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00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:33,960
Speaker 1: four in the last eight regular season games, but overall,

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00:43:34,040 --> 00:43:38,080
Speaker 1: only eight wins in the entire history of the rivalry,

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00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:40,200
Speaker 1: if you can call it that with the Texans, So

817
00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:43,960
Speaker 1: that's still a behemoth to me. And the fact that

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00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:45,759
Speaker 1: the Texans have won three of their last four up

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00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:48,680
Speaker 1: there is huge, and that's great and you want to

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00:43:48,719 --> 00:43:50,920
Speaker 1: keep that thing rolling. But I never take that for

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00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:54,080
Speaker 1: granted because I remember the tough times. I remember Peyton

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00:43:54,120 --> 00:43:57,280
Speaker 1: Manning just torturing this team and all the painful losses

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00:43:57,280 --> 00:43:59,680
Speaker 1: to Andrew Luck. Of course, as recently as last year,

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Speaker 1: I remember the twenty fifteen game distinctly, and it's it's

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00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:08,160
Speaker 1: interesting because you and I I got into building in

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Speaker 1: twenty fourteen, and we talked a million times about the

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00:44:11,440 --> 00:44:13,960
Speaker 1: Colts and going to Lucasoil and the history of it,

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00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:16,759
Speaker 1: and yeah, how close it got in twenty eleven. Then

829
00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:19,920
Speaker 1: JJ gets called for those two bogus fifteen yard penalties

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00:44:19,960 --> 00:44:22,719
Speaker 1: and dan Orlovski ends up getting to win. You're like, God,

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Speaker 1: can we ever win up here? And then twenty fourteen.

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Speaker 1: I'll never get twenty fourteen because it was like, that

833
00:44:28,239 --> 00:44:31,600
Speaker 1: was my first time in Indie, and I remember thinking

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00:44:32,719 --> 00:44:34,400
Speaker 1: they could have a shot here. You know, they got

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00:44:34,480 --> 00:44:36,879
Speaker 1: a shot at twenty fourteen. The Colts had played well,

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00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:39,680
Speaker 1: but you know, we had cut that one to thirty

837
00:44:39,680 --> 00:44:41,800
Speaker 1: three twenty eight and had the ball at our place

838
00:44:41,840 --> 00:44:44,520
Speaker 1: in the Thursday night game, and then it didn't go

839
00:44:44,600 --> 00:44:46,440
Speaker 1: well and we didn't win that game. But I thought

840
00:44:46,640 --> 00:44:48,440
Speaker 1: of a good plan for him. You know, Fitz, he's back,

841
00:44:48,480 --> 00:44:50,680
Speaker 1: he's kind of rolling. Now they might have a plan

842
00:44:50,800 --> 00:44:54,000
Speaker 1: for him. And then Fitz he gets hurt. Yeah, and

843
00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:56,319
Speaker 1: they end up getting it to seventeen to ten, and

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Speaker 1: I'll never forget. They scored to tie the game at fourteen.

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00:45:00,239 --> 00:45:02,920
Speaker 1: An Arian goes in and I'm like, oh, my goodness,

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00:45:02,960 --> 00:45:06,439
Speaker 1: could just happen today? And then devier Posey got called

847
00:45:06,480 --> 00:45:09,399
Speaker 1: for all I think it was de vir Posy got

848
00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:12,359
Speaker 1: called for a flag, and then that brought it back

849
00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:14,839
Speaker 1: that kick a field goal, so now it's fourteen ten

850
00:45:14,920 --> 00:45:18,120
Speaker 1: instead of fourteen fourteen. And then they end up winning

851
00:45:18,160 --> 00:45:21,840
Speaker 1: at seventeen ten. But I realized in twenty fifteen what

852
00:45:21,960 --> 00:45:26,160
Speaker 1: that game meant to everybody. I knew, but I didn't

853
00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:30,760
Speaker 1: really know. And then when Aj picks off that pass

854
00:45:30,920 --> 00:45:35,640
Speaker 1: and it's really over over At that point, I didn't

855
00:45:35,640 --> 00:45:38,040
Speaker 1: see you guys up in the I could just hear it.

856
00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:39,600
Speaker 1: I could hear it from you guys. But I could

857
00:45:39,600 --> 00:45:41,600
Speaker 1: also see on the sidelines. There have been guys on

858
00:45:41,640 --> 00:45:45,240
Speaker 1: that sideline that had been through so many of those games,

859
00:45:45,840 --> 00:45:48,160
Speaker 1: and they were hugging and they were celebrating, and they

860
00:45:48,239 --> 00:45:50,640
Speaker 1: knew what that meant also in terms of division race.

861
00:45:50,680 --> 00:45:54,759
Speaker 1: But I knew to a lot of them, it's like whoa, like,

862
00:45:54,840 --> 00:45:57,239
Speaker 1: we did we did this. We finally we beat these

863
00:45:57,280 --> 00:45:59,759
Speaker 1: guys in their building, and we haven't done that for

864
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:03,520
Speaker 1: you know, thirteen years. At that point, we finally did it,

865
00:46:03,719 --> 00:46:05,319
Speaker 1: and then went back and did it in sixteen, and

866
00:46:05,320 --> 00:46:08,520
Speaker 1: then went back into it in eighteen. So I don't

867
00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:10,520
Speaker 1: you're right, I don't think it should ever lose its

868
00:46:10,560 --> 00:46:13,320
Speaker 1: luster because you gotta remember what that was like in

869
00:46:13,400 --> 00:46:15,680
Speaker 1: the RCA Dome, when Manning is doing his thing and

870
00:46:15,680 --> 00:46:17,480
Speaker 1: then they get in the Lucas Oil and he's continuing

871
00:46:17,480 --> 00:46:19,600
Speaker 1: to do it. Then Andrew Luck takes over, and then

872
00:46:19,600 --> 00:46:22,480
Speaker 1: you finally break through in fifteen, and you do that

873
00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:26,840
Speaker 1: and you realize winning up there no matter what. I

874
00:46:26,840 --> 00:46:29,040
Speaker 1: don't care if they're oh and fifteen, you're playing the

875
00:46:29,160 --> 00:46:31,440
Speaker 1: last game of the year. Beating them up. There is

876
00:46:31,480 --> 00:46:34,720
Speaker 1: still a special thing. It's so special. And how about

877
00:46:34,719 --> 00:46:37,680
Speaker 1: this for close? Oh nine missed field goal at the

878
00:46:37,760 --> 00:46:41,120
Speaker 1: buzzer to send it into overtime. I mean that hurt

879
00:46:41,160 --> 00:46:43,200
Speaker 1: a lot, and that was a great play by the

880
00:46:43,239 --> 00:46:45,120
Speaker 1: Texans to get it into field goal range. I think

881
00:46:45,120 --> 00:46:48,440
Speaker 1: it was shocked to Jacoby Jones. Yeah, and they missed

882
00:46:48,440 --> 00:46:51,280
Speaker 1: the kick. I mean, it's just to have so many moments.

883
00:46:51,440 --> 00:46:54,120
Speaker 1: Even in Oah Sage Rosenfels had the ball late with

884
00:46:54,160 --> 00:46:56,560
Speaker 1: a chance to tire or win. So there have been

885
00:46:56,560 --> 00:46:59,360
Speaker 1: a lot of close calls up there. You're right about fifteen.

886
00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:03,319
Speaker 1: I'll never forget leaving the broadcast booth right after the

887
00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:05,360
Speaker 1: game and just going to the restroom or something, and

888
00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:07,080
Speaker 1: I was I had my arms in the air. It

889
00:47:07,160 --> 00:47:12,680
Speaker 1: was very unobjective of me to parade the press box

890
00:47:12,880 --> 00:47:16,120
Speaker 1: like that, but I couldn't help it. And honestly, I

891
00:47:16,160 --> 00:47:19,239
Speaker 1: think that's the happiest I've ever been after a road victory.

892
00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:21,919
Speaker 1: You know, people talk, people will say, last week, oh,

893
00:47:21,960 --> 00:47:23,799
Speaker 1: this is the biggest one of the Bill O'Brien air. Look,

894
00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:26,160
Speaker 1: I don't know how to gauge last week. I can

895
00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:28,959
Speaker 1: tell you this, last week's not gonna feel that great

896
00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:31,880
Speaker 1: anymore if you lose this week. This is a huge,

897
00:47:32,280 --> 00:47:35,839
Speaker 1: huge building block right here. Division games count what like

898
00:47:35,920 --> 00:47:38,520
Speaker 1: one and a half. Really, Yeah, however, you want to

899
00:47:38,560 --> 00:47:41,439
Speaker 1: weigh it the weight of this It is on the road,

900
00:47:41,560 --> 00:47:44,200
Speaker 1: So it's not like this is a great expectation to

901
00:47:44,239 --> 00:47:47,239
Speaker 1: get it done, but hey, get it done. You've got

902
00:47:47,239 --> 00:47:49,200
Speaker 1: a good team. You got to play better. Bill O'Brien

903
00:47:49,280 --> 00:47:52,279
Speaker 1: last hour talked about it. Gotta play clean. Can't be

904
00:47:52,800 --> 00:47:57,680
Speaker 1: missing kicks, committing ten penalties. You can't be doing that

905
00:47:57,719 --> 00:48:01,480
Speaker 1: against this team because they're gonna The culture recipe is

906
00:48:01,920 --> 00:48:05,600
Speaker 1: let's play clean, let's pound the ball, let's not make

907
00:48:05,600 --> 00:48:08,080
Speaker 1: the mistakes. Let's have them make the mistakes, and if

908
00:48:08,080 --> 00:48:11,160
Speaker 1: that happens, you're gonna come away with an l and

909
00:48:11,440 --> 00:48:13,560
Speaker 1: you gotta find a way to work it out. Yeah,

910
00:48:13,600 --> 00:48:17,720
Speaker 1: that you're so right about that, because I think if

911
00:48:18,680 --> 00:48:20,759
Speaker 1: all things being same, you don't turn the ball over,

912
00:48:20,760 --> 00:48:23,160
Speaker 1: they don't throw the ball over. If that's the same,

913
00:48:23,239 --> 00:48:26,360
Speaker 1: penalties are about the same. You don't make that backbreaking mistake.

914
00:48:26,360 --> 00:48:29,840
Speaker 1: There's nothing huge and special teams that happens on paper.

915
00:48:30,040 --> 00:48:33,279
Speaker 1: You should have an advantage because you should be able

916
00:48:33,320 --> 00:48:36,279
Speaker 1: to have balance in your offense. Defensively, you're one of

917
00:48:36,280 --> 00:48:38,600
Speaker 1: the better teams against the run in the league. I

918
00:48:38,719 --> 00:48:41,800
Speaker 1: was a little surprised when I looked at the numbers,

919
00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:46,440
Speaker 1: their numbers and how much they've given up on the

920
00:48:46,480 --> 00:48:49,160
Speaker 1: defensive side of the people like rushing yards. Yeah, they

921
00:48:49,239 --> 00:48:53,840
Speaker 1: really have gotten. And the thing is we in either

922
00:48:53,920 --> 00:48:56,680
Speaker 1: the playoff game or the game in December, we did

923
00:48:56,760 --> 00:48:59,360
Speaker 1: not run the ball well against them. Yeah, we really didn't.

924
00:49:00,080 --> 00:49:03,440
Speaker 1: But this is a different offensive line obviously, and Titus

925
00:49:03,440 --> 00:49:05,279
Speaker 1: won't play. So now Rod's in there. But I'll tell

926
00:49:05,280 --> 00:49:07,960
Speaker 1: you this, Rod hits with some heavy hands, so they're

927
00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:09,400
Speaker 1: gonna have to give some help I think in the

928
00:49:09,440 --> 00:49:11,960
Speaker 1: rush game. But there's no Comico Turey that I think

929
00:49:12,040 --> 00:49:15,520
Speaker 1: is bigger than people anticipate when people think Kamico ture like,

930
00:49:15,560 --> 00:49:17,560
Speaker 1: who the heck is at? Well, he was the Colt's

931
00:49:17,640 --> 00:49:20,120
Speaker 1: best pass rusher. No, no, no, they have Justin Houston.

932
00:49:20,520 --> 00:49:25,840
Speaker 1: Trust me, Comico Comico ture was the best pass rusher

933
00:49:26,040 --> 00:49:28,759
Speaker 1: on the Colts. He was better than Justin Houston, who's

934
00:49:28,800 --> 00:49:33,360
Speaker 1: more dynamic. He has a long arm, gangly, strong, fast, quick,

935
00:49:33,480 --> 00:49:37,040
Speaker 1: violent athlete, and that's really what Ballard's looking for. As

936
00:49:37,040 --> 00:49:39,600
Speaker 1: a gym of the Colts. Him going out is a

937
00:49:39,719 --> 00:49:43,160
Speaker 1: major story now. It does bring to the forefront Ben Banagu,

938
00:49:43,200 --> 00:49:46,000
Speaker 1: a rookie, and al Kady Mohammad, who Mohammad had a

939
00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:48,120
Speaker 1: really good game against us in the playoffs. So it's

940
00:49:48,160 --> 00:49:51,239
Speaker 1: not as if it gets any easier. But if you

941
00:49:51,280 --> 00:49:53,120
Speaker 1: don't turn a ball over, you don't put it on

942
00:49:53,160 --> 00:49:55,799
Speaker 1: the turf. There's no Andrew Luck to save them. And

943
00:49:55,840 --> 00:49:58,560
Speaker 1: I know, look, I have respect for Jacoby Brissette. He's

944
00:49:58,560 --> 00:50:01,160
Speaker 1: being in Texas three times, but I don't think he

945
00:50:01,200 --> 00:50:04,399
Speaker 1: can put the Colts on his back like Luck did

946
00:50:04,560 --> 00:50:07,200
Speaker 1: last year twenty eight to ten. It's like, look, let

947
00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:09,799
Speaker 1: me fire at sixty two times, Frank, let me get

948
00:50:09,800 --> 00:50:11,759
Speaker 1: this thing done as close as we possibly can't. They

949
00:50:11,760 --> 00:50:14,319
Speaker 1: don't want to do that, but if they have to,

950
00:50:14,480 --> 00:50:16,440
Speaker 1: I don't know that they can like they did last year.

951
00:50:16,480 --> 00:50:19,200
Speaker 1: They're gonna need if the call. If I'm doing a

952
00:50:19,280 --> 00:50:22,160
Speaker 1: talk show now in Indianapolis, I'm saying, let's keep this

953
00:50:22,440 --> 00:50:26,600
Speaker 1: to twenty to seventeen, win that kind of game and

954
00:50:26,719 --> 00:50:29,200
Speaker 1: just have Brissette. You just gotta get us some key

955
00:50:29,280 --> 00:50:32,440
Speaker 1: third downs here, hit the tight ends, hitty run or

956
00:50:32,560 --> 00:50:34,680
Speaker 1: run every once in a while, surprise them with an

957
00:50:34,800 --> 00:50:37,399
Speaker 1: end around run and just move the sticks and keep

958
00:50:37,440 --> 00:50:39,799
Speaker 1: them going. And that's how they're gonna look at things,

959
00:50:40,239 --> 00:50:42,840
Speaker 1: you know, and maybe pop a big play once to

960
00:50:43,120 --> 00:50:44,920
Speaker 1: t Y Hilton. I know he hasn't been going deep

961
00:50:44,960 --> 00:50:47,719
Speaker 1: to him because he camps right. And the yards per

962
00:50:47,760 --> 00:50:51,960
Speaker 1: attempt for Jacoby Brissette are not exactly luck like, that's

963
00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:54,280
Speaker 1: a big factor as well, But the identity is running

964
00:50:54,280 --> 00:50:56,520
Speaker 1: the ball. However, you pointed out the one thing that

965
00:50:56,560 --> 00:50:58,120
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people have to pay attention

966
00:50:58,160 --> 00:51:00,279
Speaker 1: to is and that's the defense. I know. So they

967
00:51:00,320 --> 00:51:03,160
Speaker 1: held the Chiefs to thirteen. They got really physical, they

968
00:51:03,160 --> 00:51:05,960
Speaker 1: beat them up. They hit my homes, okay, and that's

969
00:51:05,960 --> 00:51:08,279
Speaker 1: what they're probably thinking about the Texans. We gotta try

970
00:51:08,280 --> 00:51:10,919
Speaker 1: to hit Watson Texans line better than the Chiefs line

971
00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:13,600
Speaker 1: right now, and you gotta find a way to protect him.

972
00:51:13,600 --> 00:51:15,719
Speaker 1: And Watson's got to know they're coming after them. That's

973
00:51:15,800 --> 00:51:17,759
Speaker 1: I mean, look what happened to Ma Holmes last night.

974
00:51:18,160 --> 00:51:21,359
Speaker 1: Watson's got to know that. It's that's the game plan.

975
00:51:21,480 --> 00:51:23,239
Speaker 1: That's a big part of it. Anyway, Try to hit

976
00:51:23,320 --> 00:51:25,640
Speaker 1: the Sean, knock them around a bit, just get off

977
00:51:25,680 --> 00:51:27,680
Speaker 1: the field and third down and let the offense grind

978
00:51:27,719 --> 00:51:30,440
Speaker 1: clock and try to win a low scoring game relatively

979
00:51:30,719 --> 00:51:33,080
Speaker 1: on the t Y Hilton thing. I was asked by

980
00:51:33,360 --> 00:51:37,880
Speaker 1: Clinton Wade this when I was on Clint Show on Wednesday,

981
00:51:37,920 --> 00:51:39,799
Speaker 1: and said, what about t Y Hilton? I as well,

982
00:51:40,360 --> 00:51:42,080
Speaker 1: you don't want to get you don't want to get

983
00:51:42,239 --> 00:51:45,400
Speaker 1: too proud, like, Okay, one guy's got this. You gotta

984
00:51:45,520 --> 00:51:47,920
Speaker 1: spin the dial on t Y. You can't let them

985
00:51:48,000 --> 00:51:50,080
Speaker 1: kill you. In his PASTI situations, there's gonna be two

986
00:51:50,120 --> 00:51:52,200
Speaker 1: guys on him. I said, what makes it difficult though?

987
00:51:52,760 --> 00:51:54,600
Speaker 1: And this is I said, I don't know if I'm

988
00:51:54,600 --> 00:51:56,680
Speaker 1: gonna regret this. I almost want to invite the throws

989
00:51:56,680 --> 00:51:59,560
Speaker 1: at Ty because that takes them out of what they

990
00:51:59,600 --> 00:52:01,960
Speaker 1: do well. Yeah, what they do well is pound the rock.

991
00:52:02,080 --> 00:52:04,600
Speaker 1: Yeah you mentioned that, But I know it sounds odd

992
00:52:04,640 --> 00:52:07,399
Speaker 1: because in his fifteen games against the Texans, as Drew

993
00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:09,880
Speaker 1: sent this to us, t Y Hilton has eighty one

994
00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:13,759
Speaker 1: catches for fifteen hundred thirty yards and nine touchdowns. Those

995
00:52:13,760 --> 00:52:16,040
Speaker 1: are Pro Bowls. Those are fifteen, all right, So that's

996
00:52:16,040 --> 00:52:18,960
Speaker 1: fifteen games. That's like, that's a season's worth of games

997
00:52:18,960 --> 00:52:22,440
Speaker 1: pretty much. And it's fifteen hundred yards and nine dutchdowns

998
00:52:22,560 --> 00:52:24,520
Speaker 1: and how many catches eighty one. I mean that's a

999
00:52:24,680 --> 00:52:28,120
Speaker 1: huge yards per catch average right there. Yeah, I mean

1000
00:52:28,120 --> 00:52:30,520
Speaker 1: that's eighteen seventeen eighteen. I mean, if you have a

1001
00:52:30,560 --> 00:52:34,360
Speaker 1: fifteen hundred yard receiving season in fifteen games with only

1002
00:52:34,520 --> 00:52:37,480
Speaker 1: up with that air quotes eighty one catches, that is

1003
00:52:37,520 --> 00:52:41,200
Speaker 1: getting the job done. That's big playmaking. However, Johnny, in

1004
00:52:41,239 --> 00:52:45,120
Speaker 1: the games they've won, they've kept them pretty quiet. Even

1005
00:52:45,120 --> 00:52:47,000
Speaker 1: in the playoff game. I know he wore the clown

1006
00:52:47,040 --> 00:52:50,319
Speaker 1: maasket early on. He made some big plays, but he

1007
00:52:50,480 --> 00:52:54,200
Speaker 1: kind of quieted down. I mean, they kind of why

1008
00:52:54,360 --> 00:52:56,959
Speaker 1: they ran the ball right, and that's two hundred yards.

1009
00:52:57,200 --> 00:52:59,879
Speaker 1: To me, that's the key. That's the key. And if

1010
00:53:00,040 --> 00:53:03,040
Speaker 1: every single one of these defensive linemen front seven guys, yeah,

1011
00:53:03,120 --> 00:53:05,279
Speaker 1: don't have that number two hundred yards and I mean

1012
00:53:05,520 --> 00:53:07,080
Speaker 1: that to me has got to be something. If you

1013
00:53:07,080 --> 00:53:10,359
Speaker 1: ask him and say, look, what was the what's one

1014
00:53:10,400 --> 00:53:13,360
Speaker 1: thing you remember about the twenty eighteen season. The competitors

1015
00:53:13,400 --> 00:53:15,160
Speaker 1: and I think they all are they'll go, you know,

1016
00:53:15,200 --> 00:53:18,080
Speaker 1: it's a really good season. But the way it ended,

1017
00:53:18,120 --> 00:53:19,560
Speaker 1: the way it ended, it's kind of like the fifteen

1018
00:53:19,600 --> 00:53:22,040
Speaker 1: season we're talking about. That was a really nice comeback

1019
00:53:22,200 --> 00:53:24,760
Speaker 1: win the division for the first time in a while. However,

1020
00:53:25,400 --> 00:53:28,600
Speaker 1: how the way it ended was not good, and specifically

1021
00:53:28,600 --> 00:53:32,239
Speaker 1: for those guys having them run two hundred yards on you. Yeah, like,

1022
00:53:32,320 --> 00:53:34,759
Speaker 1: wait a second, nobody runs two hundred yards on us.

1023
00:53:34,960 --> 00:53:36,960
Speaker 1: Nobody ran two hundred yards on them, and then in

1024
00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:39,759
Speaker 1: the biggest game all year, the Colts ended up doing it.

1025
00:53:39,800 --> 00:53:43,480
Speaker 1: What do you make of the Chiefs with nine sacks

1026
00:53:43,480 --> 00:53:46,800
Speaker 1: against the Broncos Thursday night? I was shock zero sacks

1027
00:53:46,840 --> 00:53:50,160
Speaker 1: against us on that last Sunday. That's hard to make

1028
00:53:50,200 --> 00:53:52,359
Speaker 1: anything out of it, but I'm watching it came going,

1029
00:53:52,920 --> 00:53:55,520
Speaker 1: oh my god, they're nine sacks. I think there were

1030
00:53:55,520 --> 00:53:57,960
Speaker 1: six or seven in the first half alone. I don't

1031
00:53:58,080 --> 00:54:01,440
Speaker 1: know how Denver is this ad after winning a couple

1032
00:54:01,480 --> 00:54:05,279
Speaker 1: of games and then you're driven a field, You're you're

1033
00:54:05,320 --> 00:54:08,040
Speaker 1: watching Mahomes on Sunday thinking this is a good time

1034
00:54:08,080 --> 00:54:09,880
Speaker 1: to get I'm on a short week at our place.

1035
00:54:09,960 --> 00:54:12,600
Speaker 1: If I'm Denver, let's go take advantage of it. We'll

1036
00:54:12,640 --> 00:54:14,440
Speaker 1: be three and four. We're right back in the mix.

1037
00:54:14,680 --> 00:54:16,799
Speaker 1: We're right back in it. Because that would be a

1038
00:54:16,840 --> 00:54:18,640
Speaker 1: third loss on the Chiefs, and you would beating them

1039
00:54:18,680 --> 00:54:21,000
Speaker 1: your game back, right, I mean, Mike and the Chargers

1040
00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:23,359
Speaker 1: are struggling and the Raiders are not setting the world

1041
00:54:23,360 --> 00:54:25,520
Speaker 1: on fire, but they're looking pretty good. But at least

1042
00:54:25,520 --> 00:54:28,560
Speaker 1: you're in the mix at the halfway point. No. Sorry.

1043
00:54:29,200 --> 00:54:31,839
Speaker 1: Pro Football Talk had a funny tweet fire sale at

1044
00:54:31,880 --> 00:54:36,680
Speaker 1: the trade deadline back on in Denver, And that's true.

1045
00:54:37,120 --> 00:54:40,000
Speaker 1: I mean it's true. I mean, you'll I would imagine

1046
00:54:40,320 --> 00:54:42,479
Speaker 1: they're gonna I would imagine John I always gonna feeld

1047
00:54:42,480 --> 00:54:45,560
Speaker 1: calls for von Miller, Chris Harris Junior. I mean I

1048
00:54:45,560 --> 00:54:48,480
Speaker 1: don't know, really, I would absolutely. I mean, they don't

1049
00:54:48,520 --> 00:54:50,560
Speaker 1: think that's some team that's lacking a pass rush right now?

1050
00:54:50,680 --> 00:54:53,479
Speaker 1: Is King? Hey, you think von Miller could help us? Well,

1051
00:54:53,520 --> 00:54:55,480
Speaker 1: you know what I'm asking for? If I'm alway, well,

1052
00:54:55,520 --> 00:55:00,479
Speaker 1: what's what's the current price? He's gonna get that for Vaughan.

1053
00:55:00,600 --> 00:55:03,719
Speaker 1: But I well, you never know, Johnny, you never know

1054
00:55:03,840 --> 00:55:05,719
Speaker 1: you might get it, because again, you're the team that

1055
00:55:05,760 --> 00:55:07,799
Speaker 1: scares me to death that might do oh gosh, no,

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00:55:08,120 --> 00:55:10,760
Speaker 1: yes they won't do it. Yes they would, they would

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00:55:10,800 --> 00:55:13,000
Speaker 1: do it. You think that absolutely, And you all know

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00:55:13,040 --> 00:55:15,160
Speaker 1: we're thinking of the Patriots. Of course, there's no doubt

1059
00:55:15,560 --> 00:55:18,120
Speaker 1: two ones. They wouldn't give up two ones though. But

1060
00:55:19,080 --> 00:55:25,000
Speaker 1: the Patriots have fourteen fourteen draft picks heading into the

1061
00:55:25,080 --> 00:55:30,359
Speaker 1: twenty twenty draft. Fourteen and not picking fourteen. I think

1062
00:55:30,400 --> 00:55:33,080
Speaker 1: they just have one. But they've got such other ammunition

1063
00:55:33,160 --> 00:55:37,160
Speaker 1: though that Oh my gosh, you feeling you could squeeze

1064
00:55:37,239 --> 00:55:40,239
Speaker 1: them for their one this year and then a bunch

1065
00:55:40,239 --> 00:55:42,240
Speaker 1: of other stuff to go with it. It wouldn't be ones.

1066
00:55:42,600 --> 00:55:45,480
Speaker 1: But the Broncos are not one player away. They need

1067
00:55:45,560 --> 00:55:48,200
Speaker 1: to build this with second, third, fourth rounders that end

1068
00:55:48,280 --> 00:55:51,080
Speaker 1: up turning into players. Yeah, that's what they need. So

1069
00:55:52,120 --> 00:55:56,400
Speaker 1: I don't boy, have they fallen from grace so quickly

1070
00:55:56,680 --> 00:55:59,800
Speaker 1: relatively right? I mean they've really taken a die. I

1071
00:55:59,840 --> 00:56:02,920
Speaker 1: mean that twenty fifteen defense, just you know the Marcus

1072
00:56:02,920 --> 00:56:06,200
Speaker 1: where retires, you know, keeps leave, goes to the Rams.

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00:56:06,880 --> 00:56:08,920
Speaker 1: T J. Ward has let go, and all of a sudden,

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00:56:08,960 --> 00:56:11,200
Speaker 1: even those are key pieces for that defense. And then

1075
00:56:11,200 --> 00:56:13,640
Speaker 1: all of sudden Vaughan looks around. It's like that Will Smith,

1076
00:56:13,920 --> 00:56:16,480
Speaker 1: you know, gift at the end of Fresh Prince. He

1077
00:56:16,560 --> 00:56:19,799
Speaker 1: looks around, where's everybody? And all he sees is Chris

1078
00:56:19,800 --> 00:56:22,200
Speaker 1: Harris I mean, that's it. You know, Robi's you know

1079
00:56:22,320 --> 00:56:25,120
Speaker 1: here with us. It's like there's nobody he recognizes. And

1080
00:56:25,200 --> 00:56:28,279
Speaker 1: obviously Bradley Chubb is there, and okay, we got this

1081
00:56:28,360 --> 00:56:32,959
Speaker 1: great combination. But then Chub is you know, down got hurt.

1082
00:56:33,080 --> 00:56:35,520
Speaker 1: But you think that's the long term planet quarterback of

1083
00:56:35,520 --> 00:56:37,520
Speaker 1: the film, It's got to be Flacco. There's no way.

1084
00:56:37,560 --> 00:56:39,319
Speaker 1: I mean, well, I know Flacco's not it, but I'm

1085
00:56:39,320 --> 00:56:43,120
Speaker 1: wondering what he's thinking. Elway, Well, he's got to be thinking, hey,

1086
00:56:43,200 --> 00:56:45,640
Speaker 1: let's see what we got. Yeah, let's see, we got it,

1087
00:56:45,719 --> 00:56:47,719
Speaker 1: Drew Lock, let's see. I mean a second round pick.

1088
00:56:48,040 --> 00:56:50,319
Speaker 1: May may not. I'm out to anything. But he's been

1089
00:56:50,360 --> 00:56:52,040
Speaker 1: injured so he can't. I don't think he can come

1090
00:56:52,080 --> 00:56:55,920
Speaker 1: back until another week or two. But Flacco's not Flacco's

1091
00:56:55,960 --> 00:56:58,359
Speaker 1: not the answer. There's there's no not that offensive line.

1092
00:56:58,960 --> 00:57:01,640
Speaker 1: But here's the thing. Always been there long enough to

1093
00:57:01,640 --> 00:57:05,120
Speaker 1: pick how many different quarterbacks? Right? Oh? I know, I

1094
00:57:05,200 --> 00:57:07,799
Speaker 1: know it hasn't worked out. And where it also hasn't

1095
00:57:07,800 --> 00:57:09,840
Speaker 1: worked out is on the offensive line too. That's the

1096
00:57:09,880 --> 00:57:12,120
Speaker 1: other The other place they were leaking like a sieve

1097
00:57:12,239 --> 00:57:14,480
Speaker 1: last night was brutal. They couldn't pick up the blitz

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00:57:14,480 --> 00:57:17,920
Speaker 1: to save their lives. And it was it was bad.

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00:57:18,000 --> 00:57:20,280
Speaker 1: It was really truly bad. I don't know if I

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00:57:20,320 --> 00:57:22,600
Speaker 1: took a ton out of it, other than the fact

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00:57:22,680 --> 00:57:26,000
Speaker 1: that the Texans house that defense. I mean, didn't you

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00:57:26,000 --> 00:57:30,160
Speaker 1: expect zero didn't you expect sort of the Broncos to

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00:57:30,240 --> 00:57:32,720
Speaker 1: take over after Mahomes went out, like Bud's time for

1104
00:57:32,720 --> 00:57:35,440
Speaker 1: them to make them. No, Philip lindsay, run Freeman, run

1105
00:57:35,480 --> 00:57:37,840
Speaker 1: those two guys. Not so much. Yep, not gonna happen.

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Speaker 1: Mark appreciate it. Thanks Joinnning. Coming up next, we're gonna

1107
00:57:40,280 --> 00:57:43,520
Speaker 1: go round the NFL and do it my way. You'll

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00:57:43,520 --> 00:57:45,520
Speaker 1: find out what that means next right here in Texas Access.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's dive back into this show, Texas All

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Speaker 1: Access on this wonderful Friday evening, and boy it is

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00:57:51,880 --> 00:57:56,320
Speaker 1: one derful outside and on Sunday when we be playing

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00:57:56,360 --> 00:58:01,680
Speaker 1: inside Lucasoil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indie, Anna, Welcome back to

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Speaker 1: the show the Honday Texans Radio Studio. I am your host,

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00:58:05,160 --> 00:58:07,720
Speaker 1: John Harris, and I love going around the NFL. I

1115
00:58:07,720 --> 00:58:09,880
Speaker 1: love talking about the league. I love everything that's going

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00:58:09,960 --> 00:58:14,560
Speaker 1: on with the league. The controversy about refs and officiating

1117
00:58:14,600 --> 00:58:16,560
Speaker 1: and all that kind of stuff, and then talking about

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00:58:16,560 --> 00:58:19,440
Speaker 1: the things that are going on. I love I love

1119
00:58:19,480 --> 00:58:21,360
Speaker 1: talking about it. I love talking about the Texans. I

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00:58:21,400 --> 00:58:25,240
Speaker 1: love talking about the NFL and what's happening. And I

1121
00:58:25,320 --> 00:58:28,480
Speaker 1: always have this segment as a way to talk about

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00:58:28,520 --> 00:58:32,320
Speaker 1: the NFL and I make predictions. So that's kind of

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00:58:32,320 --> 00:58:35,320
Speaker 1: how I weave in my talk about the NFL. And

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00:58:35,440 --> 00:58:38,640
Speaker 1: I would have gotten one right last night. I thought

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00:58:38,640 --> 00:58:40,920
Speaker 1: the Chiefs are gonna hammer the Broncos. The Chiefs did

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00:58:41,000 --> 00:58:43,120
Speaker 1: hammer the Broncos. But as we met you earlier in

1127
00:58:43,160 --> 00:58:48,800
Speaker 1: the show, the big news Patrick Mahomes injured in that loss. Ye,

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Speaker 1: And I'll be honest, I hated seeing that. I hated it.

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00:58:53,840 --> 00:58:56,000
Speaker 1: I like Patrick Mahomes. I like Patrick Mahomes the person.

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00:58:56,160 --> 00:58:58,840
Speaker 1: I like Patrick Mahomes a player. I like him every

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00:58:58,880 --> 00:59:01,960
Speaker 1: day but last Sunday when we're playing him. But I

1132
00:59:02,000 --> 00:59:04,760
Speaker 1: think Patrick Mahomes is what's good about this league. I

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00:59:04,960 --> 00:59:08,400
Speaker 1: love that he's an AFC, so matchups with Mahomes and

1134
00:59:08,440 --> 00:59:12,280
Speaker 1: Watson can happen hopefully every year from here on out.

1135
00:59:12,320 --> 00:59:14,960
Speaker 1: I mean, that was fun Sunday, and obviously more fun

1136
00:59:15,000 --> 00:59:17,760
Speaker 1: because the Texans one. But I hated to see that.

1137
00:59:18,480 --> 00:59:22,240
Speaker 1: But from predictions standpoint, I thought that was gonna happen.

1138
00:59:22,480 --> 00:59:27,880
Speaker 1: Broncos offense was awful. Put it this way, the Texans

1139
00:59:27,960 --> 00:59:32,360
Speaker 1: gave up zero sacks the Chiefs. The Chiefs said nine

1140
00:59:32,800 --> 00:59:37,360
Speaker 1: sacks and Joe Flacco. How does that compute? Well, I'll

1141
00:59:37,440 --> 00:59:40,480
Speaker 1: let you figure it out. But the Broncos fall to

1142
00:59:40,640 --> 00:59:44,000
Speaker 1: two and five as a Chiefs move to five and two.

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00:59:44,000 --> 00:59:46,000
Speaker 1: What the Texas are trying to get to on Sunday

1144
00:59:46,040 --> 00:59:49,160
Speaker 1: with the game against the colt Now, let's get our

1145
00:59:49,240 --> 00:59:51,960
Speaker 1: predictions going for this weekend straight up, and it gets

1146
00:59:52,000 --> 00:59:57,120
Speaker 1: the spread. But mikes, Joe my music please, and there

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00:59:57,120 --> 01:00:00,680
Speaker 1: it is. Okay, Let's start in the eight l where

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Speaker 1: things have not gone well for dan quinn Ou. After

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01:00:04,920 --> 01:00:08,720
Speaker 1: a one in one start, the Falcons have lost four

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01:00:09,240 --> 01:00:13,120
Speaker 1: in a row, including last week when Devote Freeman scored

1151
01:00:13,200 --> 01:00:15,680
Speaker 1: under two minutes left in the game and Matt Bryant

1152
01:00:16,280 --> 01:00:21,680
Speaker 1: shit wide left the extra point. I mean by wide left,

1153
01:00:21,800 --> 01:00:26,560
Speaker 1: I mean not even close. You knew it was missed immediately.

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01:00:27,800 --> 01:00:31,000
Speaker 1: They get to host the La Rams. The Rams have

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01:00:31,200 --> 01:00:34,120
Speaker 1: lost three in a row. But the Rams made a

1156
01:00:34,160 --> 01:00:36,760
Speaker 1: big actually a few big Moves traded Marcus Peters to

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01:00:36,800 --> 01:00:41,800
Speaker 1: the Ravens. They traded four Jalen Rams. Now how much

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01:00:41,880 --> 01:00:44,400
Speaker 1: that matters, I don't know. But Jalen Rams against Julio

1159
01:00:44,520 --> 01:00:50,280
Speaker 1: Jones is worth the price of admission. But the Rams

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01:00:50,280 --> 01:00:53,480
Speaker 1: are gonna, I think, bounce back and they're gonna do

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Speaker 1: a number on the Falcons. I think the Falcons will

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Speaker 1: keep it close for a little while, but I think

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01:00:56,960 --> 01:00:58,400
Speaker 1: the Rams are gonna win this game. The Rams of

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Speaker 1: favored by three. I think they win by more than three.

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Speaker 1: So go Rams to win and cover the three. Now,

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Speaker 1: there are some rough games on the schedule this week.

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01:01:07,160 --> 01:01:09,400
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna go ahead and say that there are some. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean forty nine Ers, Redskins, Jaguars at Bengals. This

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01:01:15,560 --> 01:01:18,720
Speaker 1: isn't one of them. But the point spread tells you

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Speaker 1: what Vegas thinks of the Miami Dolphins. The Dolphins went

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01:01:21,640 --> 01:01:25,240
Speaker 1: for two last week with six seconds left, down by one,

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01:01:26,400 --> 01:01:29,840
Speaker 1: stopped at the goal line, loose to the Redskins. Gave

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Speaker 1: the Redskins their first win of the year. The reds

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Speaker 1: The Dolphins now go to Miami, all right too, a

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Speaker 1: buffalo excuse, they're from Miami. Sorry. The Buffalo Bills are

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Speaker 1: favored by seventeen. I can't go with that. I think

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Speaker 1: Buffalo's got one of the best defenses in the league,

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Speaker 1: if not the best. Josh Allen is improving each and

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01:01:51,080 --> 01:01:54,000
Speaker 1: every week. Bills coming off a bye, the Bills are fresh.

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Speaker 1: You would think they're gonna spank the Dolphins. I just

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01:01:56,400 --> 01:02:00,240
Speaker 1: don't know that the Bills right now are worthy of

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Speaker 1: being a seventeen point favorite of anybody. So I am

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01:02:03,200 --> 01:02:04,560
Speaker 1: gonna take the Bills to win, but I think the

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Speaker 1: Dolphins get inside that seventeen agains the way it'll happen.

1185
01:02:07,720 --> 01:02:10,680
Speaker 1: The Jaguars go to the Bengals. The Bengals are b

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01:02:10,880 --> 01:02:15,640
Speaker 1: a d bad. The Jags haven't been able to score lately.

1187
01:02:15,880 --> 01:02:18,520
Speaker 1: Now DJ Chark is racking up from receiving yards, but

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01:02:18,640 --> 01:02:21,560
Speaker 1: Gardner Mitchell a tough game against the saints stout defense.

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Speaker 1: The Jags are favored by four on the road. This

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01:02:24,240 --> 01:02:26,200
Speaker 1: is where the Jaguars can start to make up some

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01:02:26,320 --> 01:02:30,040
Speaker 1: ground on somebody, anybody. They gotta go to Cincinnati to

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01:02:30,040 --> 01:02:32,160
Speaker 1: do it. Since Natti's looking at it, thinking, but wait,

1193
01:02:32,160 --> 01:02:33,640
Speaker 1: we can get our first win of the year and

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01:02:33,760 --> 01:02:36,240
Speaker 1: not happen. The Bengals will follow own seven. The Jaguars

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01:02:36,280 --> 01:02:38,000
Speaker 1: are gonna win and the Jags will cover that four.

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Speaker 1: The Vikings go to the Lions. The Lions play on

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Speaker 1: Monday Night. Should have won that game in Lambeau. Should

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Speaker 1: have won that game. Very poor officiating, some back calls

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Speaker 1: down the stretch cost the Lions. Lions now two two

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Speaker 1: and one. Now Lions cost themselves too by offensively kind

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01:02:55,240 --> 01:02:56,960
Speaker 1: of going into a shell a little bit in second half.

1202
01:02:57,400 --> 01:03:00,320
Speaker 1: That said, the Vikings seem to break out of an

1203
01:03:00,360 --> 01:03:04,720
Speaker 1: offensive shell. Stefan Digg's fantastic last week. Kirk Cousins fantastic

1204
01:03:04,720 --> 01:03:08,440
Speaker 1: against the Eagles. My Minnesota is favored by two. I'm

1205
01:03:08,440 --> 01:03:11,840
Speaker 1: gonna flip the script. I'm going upset here. I'm going

1206
01:03:11,920 --> 01:03:15,600
Speaker 1: Lions to win at home and the upset over the Vikings,

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01:03:15,600 --> 01:03:18,720
Speaker 1: so obviously the Lions will cover. How about that Lions

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Speaker 1: to win and cover against the Vikings. Packers gonna visit

1209
01:03:22,680 --> 01:03:26,080
Speaker 1: from the raiding. Now the Packers get that Monday night

1210
01:03:26,120 --> 01:03:30,640
Speaker 1: win over the Lions. Took advantage the animation Crosby Field

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Speaker 1: go at the end to do it. Didn't look like

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Speaker 1: they were gonna be able to, but they did. But

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01:03:34,520 --> 01:03:39,560
Speaker 1: the receiving core is banged up something big time. The

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Speaker 1: Raiders come from that game in London, then had a

1215
01:03:42,600 --> 01:03:45,280
Speaker 1: bye week last week, but they continue to be on

1216
01:03:45,320 --> 01:03:48,120
Speaker 1: the road. That's gonna catch up to them at some point.

1217
01:03:48,280 --> 01:03:50,760
Speaker 1: I think it catches up to them here slightly. I

1218
01:03:50,800 --> 01:03:53,080
Speaker 1: think the Packers are better team, so I'm gonna get

1219
01:03:53,080 --> 01:03:55,480
Speaker 1: the Packers to win, but I'm gonna give the Raiders

1220
01:03:55,960 --> 01:03:58,480
Speaker 1: the cover to five and a half point spread. I

1221
01:03:58,520 --> 01:04:00,280
Speaker 1: think the Raiders will get inside that with the are

1222
01:04:00,280 --> 01:04:02,600
Speaker 1: gonna end up winning this one by four. That's less

1223
01:04:02,600 --> 01:04:04,360
Speaker 1: than five and a half to give the Packers the

1224
01:04:04,400 --> 01:04:08,840
Speaker 1: win and the Raiders the cover. Then you got Texans Colts.

1225
01:04:08,840 --> 01:04:10,880
Speaker 1: This is essentially a pick him. Indie's favored by one,

1226
01:04:11,320 --> 01:04:13,240
Speaker 1: and you know how I always feel heart and head

1227
01:04:13,240 --> 01:04:15,240
Speaker 1: can't go against it and always pick the Texans to

1228
01:04:15,240 --> 01:04:18,440
Speaker 1: win and cover, and hopefully they will. Let's go to

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01:04:18,440 --> 01:04:21,040
Speaker 1: the Cardinals Giants. Like I told you, there's some lousy games,

1230
01:04:21,280 --> 01:04:24,880
Speaker 1: but there's been treating stuff in some of these lousy games.

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01:04:25,360 --> 01:04:30,520
Speaker 1: This one features the top two rookie quarterbacks taken Kyle

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01:04:30,640 --> 01:04:34,080
Speaker 1: Murray taking number one overall, the Giants Daniel Jones taking

1233
01:04:34,160 --> 01:04:39,960
Speaker 1: number six overall. They meet the Giants without offensive help.

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01:04:40,040 --> 01:04:44,440
Speaker 1: Last week, Daniel Jones was in some trouble. The Cardinals

1235
01:04:45,200 --> 01:04:48,440
Speaker 1: gotta win, as somebody put on Twitter, and this is

1236
01:04:48,760 --> 01:04:51,400
Speaker 1: very interesting to think about that the Cardinals and made

1237
01:04:51,400 --> 01:04:52,760
Speaker 1: a few goal against the Lions at the end of

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01:04:52,800 --> 01:04:55,440
Speaker 1: the ballgame or an overtime. The Cardinals at the same

1239
01:04:55,480 --> 01:04:58,360
Speaker 1: record as the La Rams. Cliff Kingsbury's got it done

1240
01:04:58,680 --> 01:05:03,040
Speaker 1: to beat the Bengals. They beat the Falcons, two teams

1241
01:05:03,080 --> 01:05:05,200
Speaker 1: that you could argue whether it should have beaten or not.

1242
01:05:05,240 --> 01:05:07,120
Speaker 1: They're better than the Bengals. I think you're on par

1243
01:05:07,240 --> 01:05:10,640
Speaker 1: with the Falcons as a team watch and I think

1244
01:05:10,640 --> 01:05:13,280
Speaker 1: they're better than the Giants. But going to New York

1245
01:05:13,320 --> 01:05:16,040
Speaker 1: improving it are two different things. But you know what,

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01:05:16,040 --> 01:05:18,760
Speaker 1: I'm gonna ride the hot hand here. I'm gonna ride

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01:05:19,320 --> 01:05:21,920
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray for the Cardinals to get a win. The

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01:05:21,920 --> 01:05:24,240
Speaker 1: Giants are favored by three because Vegas doesn't really know

1249
01:05:24,280 --> 01:05:26,080
Speaker 1: what to do with it, but I'm gonna ride Kyler Murray.

1250
01:05:26,080 --> 01:05:28,439
Speaker 1: I think the Cardinals are a little bit of wave.

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01:05:28,560 --> 01:05:30,120
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get them to three three and one with

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01:05:30,120 --> 01:05:33,560
Speaker 1: a win and obviously a cover over the Giants. The

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01:05:33,640 --> 01:05:38,520
Speaker 1: forty nine ers travel East. They will play at nine

1254
01:05:38,560 --> 01:05:43,200
Speaker 1: o'clock am body clock game against the Redskins. I know

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01:05:43,280 --> 01:05:45,560
Speaker 1: this one means a lot to Kyle Shanahan, it means

1256
01:05:45,560 --> 01:05:47,080
Speaker 1: a lot to Dan Snyder two. But I don't think

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01:05:47,080 --> 01:05:49,320
Speaker 1: the Redskins are playing for Dan Schneider, to be honest

1258
01:05:49,320 --> 01:05:51,800
Speaker 1: with you. And they well they're playing for Bill Calahan,

1259
01:05:51,880 --> 01:05:54,160
Speaker 1: but I don't think they're all that triggered about that either.

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01:05:54,760 --> 01:05:56,280
Speaker 1: I think the forty nine ers are gonna win this.

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Speaker 1: I think the forty nine ers want to get in

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Speaker 1: and get out. I think points is a little too rich.

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Speaker 1: I think the forty nine ers win. I think it's

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Speaker 1: a it's a low scoring game, seventeen nine, thirteen three,

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Speaker 1: something like that. I don't think it gets above ten.

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Speaker 1: So let's go with the forty nine Ers to win.

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Speaker 1: The Redskins, who somehow get that cover. And then you

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01:06:20,800 --> 01:06:26,120
Speaker 1: got AFC South got the Titans at home with Marcus

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01:06:27,360 --> 01:06:31,880
Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill at quarterback taking on big Philly style Philip Rivers,

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Speaker 1: and the LA Chargers. Well, the Chargers at some point

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01:06:35,280 --> 01:06:40,439
Speaker 1: are too talented to play as they're playing. They just

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Speaker 1: shoot themselves in the foot all over the place. I

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Speaker 1: do not see the Titans playing any better with Ryan

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Speaker 1: Tannehill than they did with Marcus Mariota. But it's at home,

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Speaker 1: and I will give the Titans the edge. This is

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Speaker 1: no more than a three point game, and I don't

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Speaker 1: like that because the spread is two and a half.

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01:07:00,280 --> 01:07:02,240
Speaker 1: So I think Tennessee is going to get to win,

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Speaker 1: and you know what, I'm gonna give them the cover.

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Speaker 1: I hope it doesn't happen. I hope it doesn't happen.

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01:07:06,840 --> 01:07:09,440
Speaker 1: I hope the Charges going there and wallop them. But

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Speaker 1: I think the Titans will find something. They'll reach back

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01:07:13,200 --> 01:07:15,080
Speaker 1: for something this one time, and they'll get it, and

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Speaker 1: they'll get a narrow win. Seventeen thirteen, twenty one, seventeen

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Speaker 1: twenty War twenty. They'll cover that two and a half barely. Well.

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Speaker 1: Give the Titans to win and to cover. The Saints

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Speaker 1: go to the Bears, te Bridgewater four and oh as

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Speaker 1: a starter and doing a bang up job going to

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Speaker 1: face the Bears. I think the Bears coming off a bye.

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Speaker 1: I think the Bears have been overrated throughout. Mitch Drubisky

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Speaker 1: has been back at practice. I don't care if it's

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Speaker 1: Rubisky or Daniel. It doesn't matter to me, really, I

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01:07:43,320 --> 01:07:46,480
Speaker 1: think the Saints are just that much better. Chicago's favored

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01:07:46,520 --> 01:07:48,960
Speaker 1: by three and a half. I can't see that at all.

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking the Saints to win and to obviously cover

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01:07:52,520 --> 01:07:54,960
Speaker 1: that three and a half. Ravens and Seahawks, this might

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Speaker 1: be one of the better games of the day. The

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Speaker 1: Ravens go out to Seattle, Earl Thomas going back to

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Speaker 1: the seat of the crime, if you will, well actually

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01:08:02,440 --> 01:08:05,320
Speaker 1: where he played his ball. The Seahawks five and one

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Speaker 1: legit MVP candidate Russell Wilson has been doing a bang

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Speaker 1: up job. Seattle is only favored by three. I think

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01:08:11,600 --> 01:08:14,200
Speaker 1: that if any defense is gonna slow down Lamar Jackson,

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01:08:14,240 --> 01:08:17,080
Speaker 1: it's gonna be Seattles. I think Seattle is gonna force

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01:08:17,200 --> 01:08:20,120
Speaker 1: him to have to throw and albeit and I said

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01:08:20,120 --> 01:08:22,080
Speaker 1: this many times, I think Lamar throws and better. People

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Speaker 1: think I think it's gonna cost him to this one.

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Speaker 1: I think I think the Seahawks get a comfortable win.

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Speaker 1: This feels like a ten point victory. Take the Seahawks

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Speaker 1: to beat the Ravens by more than three. Seahawks to

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Speaker 1: win and cover Eagles, Cowboys both teams three and three

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Speaker 1: in the NFC East. That's saying something because you got

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Speaker 1: three three Eagles, three and three Cowboys, two and five

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Speaker 1: through four Giants, and one of five Redskins. The winner

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Speaker 1: of this goes to first place. I think it's gonna

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Speaker 1: be the Cowboys. I think Cowboys bounce back at home

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01:08:52,400 --> 01:08:54,439
Speaker 1: and get the dub their two and a half point favorite.

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01:08:54,439 --> 01:08:56,120
Speaker 1: I think the Eagles will bounce back and play better,

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01:08:56,439 --> 01:08:59,719
Speaker 1: but I think the Cowboys sense of urgency has got

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01:08:59,760 --> 01:09:01,960
Speaker 1: to be high, and I think it will. And then

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Speaker 1: on Monday Night, the Patriots take on the Jets. Jets, Jets, Jets.

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Speaker 1: I would love to see the Jets pull it up set.

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01:09:13,160 --> 01:09:15,479
Speaker 1: I think Sam Donald's gonna get some stuff done. C. J.

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01:09:15,680 --> 01:09:19,439
Speaker 1: Mosley's on his way back, Levon Bell, Robbie Anderson, the Jets.

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01:09:19,439 --> 01:09:23,200
Speaker 1: With Donald a quarterback, they're a live dog. They're a

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01:09:23,240 --> 01:09:26,240
Speaker 1: live dog now, and they beat the Pats. I don't

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01:09:26,280 --> 01:09:28,280
Speaker 1: think they're gonna beat the Pats. But nine and a

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01:09:28,320 --> 01:09:31,519
Speaker 1: half that's the spread. I don't know if I love that,

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01:09:32,479 --> 01:09:34,680
Speaker 1: but I'm not dumb, so I'm gonna go Patriots to

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01:09:34,760 --> 01:09:37,519
Speaker 1: win and to cover that nine and a half. Now,

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01:09:37,600 --> 01:09:40,920
Speaker 1: it might be a late fourth quarter touchdown that gets

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01:09:40,920 --> 01:09:42,600
Speaker 1: to cover. I do think the Jets will stay in

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01:09:42,600 --> 01:09:45,519
Speaker 1: this one for a little while when Donald in the game.

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01:09:45,600 --> 01:09:47,240
Speaker 1: And by the way, how did the Jets getting two

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01:09:47,240 --> 01:09:49,559
Speaker 1: Monday night games within the first seven weeks of the year,

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01:09:49,920 --> 01:09:52,960
Speaker 1: had the Browns? They got this one? Either way, give

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01:09:53,000 --> 01:09:58,760
Speaker 1: the Patriots to win and the small cover. That'll work

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01:09:59,560 --> 01:10:02,280
Speaker 1: Patriot It's winning code. So there you go, all right.

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Speaker 1: Coming up next, it's our players segment. We bounce around

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01:10:05,840 --> 01:10:08,760
Speaker 1: the players the locker room, we get some sound from

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01:10:09,040 --> 01:10:12,960
Speaker 1: p SCAR TV, we get my football story, and we

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01:10:13,000 --> 01:10:16,200
Speaker 1: also get the final word with Drew Doherty. We got

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01:10:16,200 --> 01:10:18,639
Speaker 1: all that next in our final segment of Texas Access.

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Speaker 1: We've got one final segment of this Friday edition of

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Speaker 1: Texas All Access from the Hyunday Texans Radio Studio. I

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01:10:27,520 --> 01:10:31,080
Speaker 1: am John Harris, your host, football Addison sideline reporter. But

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01:10:31,240 --> 01:10:34,559
Speaker 1: a great show thus far. We've had a ton of

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Speaker 1: participation on the show. Now in the final segment each

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01:10:38,680 --> 01:10:41,840
Speaker 1: and every Friday, I like to turn it over to

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01:10:41,920 --> 01:10:45,200
Speaker 1: the players. In fact, I even give the players the

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01:10:45,280 --> 01:10:48,920
Speaker 1: microphone in this segment, not the full segment, but for

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01:10:49,000 --> 01:10:52,640
Speaker 1: one part in particular. So we've got a lot to

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01:10:52,680 --> 01:10:55,240
Speaker 1: do in this final segment with the players, We've got

1354
01:10:55,800 --> 01:10:58,679
Speaker 1: my football story, We've got the final word Drew Doherty.

1355
01:10:58,880 --> 01:11:01,519
Speaker 1: But we are going to kick off that final segment

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Speaker 1: as we do each and every week with Player Reporter.

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Speaker 1: SCAR TV and Brendan Scarlett is getting more and more

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Speaker 1: comfortable in his role as host. This week, it's a

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Speaker 1: group project. Brennan, take it away. We're back with another

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Speaker 1: episode of b SCAR TV, and I have to say

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Speaker 1: I am very excited about our next guest, one of

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01:11:42,000 --> 01:11:45,360
Speaker 1: my close friends, a brother. You might say, I don't

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Speaker 1: think blood can make us any closer. DJ, thanks for

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Speaker 1: coming on the show. Man. I'm well, how are you good? Man?

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Speaker 1: I'm good to good. If you have to do a

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Speaker 1: group project, who in this locker room do you not

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Speaker 1: want in your group? Dog? Nasty man? You know Standford

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Speaker 1: guy stand for guy as well too, you know, be mad.

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01:12:05,240 --> 01:12:07,080
Speaker 1: I can't even understand when he made calls, so I

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01:12:07,080 --> 01:12:08,960
Speaker 1: don't want him. I don't want to sit and talk

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Speaker 1: to you stuff and be mad. Carlos carl S Watkins.

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Speaker 1: That was a quick answer. He says he'll bring them

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Speaker 1: snacks and he isn't bringing any snacks. Okay, So who

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Speaker 1: would you want to have in your group? I'm taking Will.

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Speaker 1: I'm taking my boy Will. He went to Notre Dame.

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01:12:24,240 --> 01:12:26,280
Speaker 1: You know that's a that's a smart college. It's a

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01:12:26,320 --> 01:12:28,799
Speaker 1: guy that you rely on him to run the right route.

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01:12:29,520 --> 01:12:32,360
Speaker 1: You know he'll show up on time. You know, consistent

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01:12:32,439 --> 01:12:35,000
Speaker 1: on the field. I'm pretty shure, be consistent doing this

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01:12:35,080 --> 01:12:38,000
Speaker 1: group project we gotta work on. That's also gonna be

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01:12:38,040 --> 01:12:40,320
Speaker 1: a swaggy group. Y'all gonna show up swag You got

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01:12:40,400 --> 01:12:43,320
Speaker 1: the shades? Will got you know what Will got? No,

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01:12:43,400 --> 01:12:47,040
Speaker 1: we might do a history on dreadlocks. You know who you?

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01:12:47,040 --> 01:12:50,120
Speaker 1: You're pretty smart, you take good initiative, and you're one

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01:12:50,160 --> 01:12:51,960
Speaker 1: of those guys. You'll put us in a group text

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01:12:52,640 --> 01:12:57,400
Speaker 1: make sure we get it done. Justin Reid, just Jay read, smart, tough, dependable,

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01:12:57,479 --> 01:13:02,719
Speaker 1: exactly um dealing Dylan Cole. This might be an easy answer.

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Speaker 1: Who would you pick for a group project other than myself?

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01:13:09,040 --> 01:13:12,280
Speaker 1: It's a group project? Du oh, okay, Justin Reid. If

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01:13:12,320 --> 01:13:17,320
Speaker 1: you could choose another person. Um, let's see who what

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01:13:17,520 --> 01:13:23,439
Speaker 1: the Stanford or Calorum here? Um, I'll go to Zach

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01:13:24,680 --> 01:13:27,560
Speaker 1: Zach who conn again? This is ridiculous you when we

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01:13:27,600 --> 01:13:29,840
Speaker 1: go three? Yeah, tick a third? All right, b Mac

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Speaker 1: We're gonna end on that. H Dylan. I appreciate you

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Speaker 1: coming on, brother, and we're moving fantastic stuff for player

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Speaker 1: of the guys that I would love to have on

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01:14:01,400 --> 01:14:06,120
Speaker 1: a group project is Peter callambye. He is from Charlotte.

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01:14:06,640 --> 01:14:10,160
Speaker 1: He went to Stanford and he ended up in Houston. Now,

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01:14:10,479 --> 01:14:11,839
Speaker 1: Peter and I have a little bit of a connection.

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01:14:11,880 --> 01:14:14,600
Speaker 1: First of all, from Charlotte. He have a bunch of

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01:14:14,600 --> 01:14:18,360
Speaker 1: family lives in Charlotte. But his uncle is a Brown

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01:14:18,520 --> 01:14:21,200
Speaker 1: Universe Brown University football olah. In fact, I think he

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01:14:21,240 --> 01:14:24,240
Speaker 1: was a couple of years after two, three years after

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01:14:24,280 --> 01:14:26,280
Speaker 1: I was there, may have been a freshman when I

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01:14:26,320 --> 01:14:29,080
Speaker 1: was a senior, trying to remember. But his uncle went

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01:14:29,120 --> 01:14:31,760
Speaker 1: to Brown and in fact I saw his uncle when

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01:14:31,800 --> 01:14:35,040
Speaker 1: we went up to play in Washington last year. So

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01:14:35,680 --> 01:14:40,920
Speaker 1: that's that's my connection to Peter. But Peter's a fantastic

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01:14:40,960 --> 01:14:43,320
Speaker 1: guy to have on this roster. Smart. He would be

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01:14:43,400 --> 01:14:45,920
Speaker 1: great to have in a group project. If you just

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01:14:45,920 --> 01:14:47,880
Speaker 1: put all the Stanford guys in a group project, that

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01:14:47,920 --> 01:14:51,120
Speaker 1: would be very, very interesting. Well, how about my football

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01:14:51,280 --> 01:14:56,680
Speaker 1: story this week with Peter Callumbite of Charlotte, North Carolina

1420
01:14:57,600 --> 01:14:59,960
Speaker 1: went to two hundred fourteen pick in the NFL Draft.

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01:15:00,200 --> 01:15:03,439
Speaker 1: Do you can text and select Peter Columbayan linebacker out

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01:15:03,439 --> 01:15:07,639
Speaker 1: of Stanford. So I started playing football when I was ten.

1423
01:15:07,960 --> 01:15:09,759
Speaker 1: I was always a big kid, but I was always

1424
01:15:09,720 --> 01:15:12,559
Speaker 1: a chubby kid. Eighth grade, I kind of blossomed into

1425
01:15:12,560 --> 01:15:16,840
Speaker 1: an athlete. Well in high school that's really what made

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Speaker 1: me who I am today. I was a freshman, I

1427
01:15:19,200 --> 01:15:22,640
Speaker 1: made the varsity football team. I was playing primarily defensive man.

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01:15:22,720 --> 01:15:25,880
Speaker 1: At the time. We won the state championship and stay

1429
01:15:25,920 --> 01:15:29,000
Speaker 1: semifinal game. I caught an interception and I was kind

1430
01:15:29,000 --> 01:15:34,760
Speaker 1: of the beginning of me being a linebacker. Stanford was

1431
01:15:34,800 --> 01:15:37,840
Speaker 1: just beautiful. It was in California. I was really looking

1432
01:15:37,880 --> 01:15:40,920
Speaker 1: for a good mix of academics and athletics, and on

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01:15:41,000 --> 01:15:42,800
Speaker 1: top of that, it's a really good school. I was

1434
01:15:42,840 --> 01:15:45,760
Speaker 1: a straight A student. I tell Stanford and it was

1435
01:15:45,800 --> 01:15:52,479
Speaker 1: the best season in my life. I got Drafford. I

1436
01:15:52,600 --> 01:15:54,960
Speaker 1: was just eating palau watching the draft, you know, talking

1437
01:15:55,000 --> 01:15:57,960
Speaker 1: to my friends, kind we're getting ready to draft you

1438
01:15:57,960 --> 01:15:59,720
Speaker 1: here in the next few minutes. I was kind of

1439
01:15:59,760 --> 01:16:01,960
Speaker 1: just I relieved that it was over, that I knew

1440
01:16:01,960 --> 01:16:06,120
Speaker 1: where I was going. What I hit levels hip clean,

1441
01:16:06,240 --> 01:16:08,960
Speaker 1: hit my teeth hurt. I'm just ready to play more

1442
01:16:09,040 --> 01:16:11,080
Speaker 1: on defense than keep being a dog on special teams.

1443
01:16:11,080 --> 01:16:12,639
Speaker 1: And that's that's what I want to do this year.

1444
01:16:12,640 --> 01:16:16,360
Speaker 1: And that's what you guys are gonna see. That just

1445
01:16:16,360 --> 01:16:19,320
Speaker 1: gives you a little sneak peek behind the curtain, if

1446
01:16:19,320 --> 01:16:22,840
Speaker 1: you will, of what Peter Cambay has done to get

1447
01:16:22,880 --> 01:16:24,400
Speaker 1: to where he's got it. You know, it's interesting when

1448
01:16:24,400 --> 01:16:26,560
Speaker 1: they talk about Stanford. He's guys talking about Stanford. I

1449
01:16:26,800 --> 01:16:28,599
Speaker 1: went there out of the university. I was very fortunate

1450
01:16:28,600 --> 01:16:31,920
Speaker 1: to have gone there. But I always I've always been

1451
01:16:32,160 --> 01:16:37,120
Speaker 1: curious about places like Stanford, Northwestern Rice. Now Rice is

1452
01:16:37,160 --> 01:16:39,120
Speaker 1: obviously right here in Houston, so I didn't know a

1453
01:16:39,160 --> 01:16:42,880
Speaker 1: lot about Rice, and it was one that It's funny

1454
01:16:42,880 --> 01:16:45,960
Speaker 1: because I never really considered staying in Houston or staying

1455
01:16:46,000 --> 01:16:48,360
Speaker 1: in Texas to go to college because I really wanted

1456
01:16:48,320 --> 01:16:50,600
Speaker 1: to play football and I didn't feel like I was

1457
01:16:50,600 --> 01:16:53,240
Speaker 1: gonna be able to play football at places like Stanford

1458
01:16:53,320 --> 01:16:55,800
Speaker 1: or Rice or wake Forest. But I'm always intrigued by

1459
01:16:55,840 --> 01:16:59,280
Speaker 1: those places, especially Stanford being out on the West Coast.

1460
01:16:59,760 --> 01:17:02,760
Speaker 1: I have heard how beautiful it is. In fact, the

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Speaker 1: young man I coached many many years ago, he was

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01:17:05,760 --> 01:17:08,320
Speaker 1: my quarterback my final year. He was a sophomore when

1463
01:17:08,320 --> 01:17:10,799
Speaker 1: I coached him, and I left his final two years. Well,

1464
01:17:10,920 --> 01:17:15,880
Speaker 1: he called me after during the summer of a senior

1465
01:17:15,920 --> 01:17:18,439
Speaker 1: summer before a senior year, He's like, coach, I just

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Speaker 1: went up to Stanford and I was like, whoa, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he was awesome. The farm it's so cool, and so

1468
01:17:24,520 --> 01:17:27,840
Speaker 1: I've always been envious to that. And Nathan Edwards, who

1469
01:17:28,000 --> 01:17:30,439
Speaker 1: is just a superstar in our PR department. He is

1470
01:17:30,479 --> 01:17:32,880
Speaker 1: a huge Stanford fan because he's from up in that

1471
01:17:32,920 --> 01:17:34,919
Speaker 1: neck of the woods. And I know when we practiced

1472
01:17:35,000 --> 01:17:38,960
Speaker 1: up there in twenty sixteen, Uh yeah, twenty sixteen, I

1473
01:17:39,000 --> 01:17:40,800
Speaker 1: missed my opportunity to go. I always wanted to go

1474
01:17:40,840 --> 01:17:42,439
Speaker 1: see it, So I know that was one of the

1475
01:17:42,439 --> 01:17:45,800
Speaker 1: things that you heard say you heard Peter say drew

1476
01:17:45,880 --> 01:17:48,519
Speaker 1: him out to the West Coast to play for Stanford,

1477
01:17:48,520 --> 01:17:50,519
Speaker 1: and look, you're playing for David Shaw. You're going to

1478
01:17:50,520 --> 01:17:54,880
Speaker 1: win championships. Great program. And obviously we are selfish in

1479
01:17:55,040 --> 01:17:59,080
Speaker 1: Houston because we have Stanford grads. We have Justin Reid,

1480
01:17:59,160 --> 01:18:02,640
Speaker 1: we have End Scarlett, we have Peter Calumbay. We've had

1481
01:18:02,680 --> 01:18:05,320
Speaker 1: others that have come through this building, Johnson BATTAMOSEI. You know,

1482
01:18:05,320 --> 01:18:08,639
Speaker 1: guys that have come from Stanford have been valuable pieces

1483
01:18:08,680 --> 01:18:12,200
Speaker 1: for this team last how many every years? So good

1484
01:18:12,200 --> 01:18:17,080
Speaker 1: stuff there for my football story. Now, our final word

1485
01:18:17,120 --> 01:18:21,680
Speaker 1: with Juw Doherty this week is a guy that I

1486
01:18:21,760 --> 01:18:23,960
Speaker 1: know a lot of people did not think he was

1487
01:18:23,960 --> 01:18:29,240
Speaker 1: even gonna make the roster in twenty nineteen, and when

1488
01:18:29,320 --> 01:18:32,640
Speaker 1: he started in in OTA's and I saw him at

1489
01:18:32,640 --> 01:18:35,120
Speaker 1: the beginning of training camp, I was like, there is

1490
01:18:35,240 --> 01:18:40,520
Speaker 1: no way in hades he is not gonna make this roster. Absolutely,

1491
01:18:40,560 --> 01:18:45,360
Speaker 1: without question, Darren Fells will make this roster. He has to.

1492
01:18:46,120 --> 01:18:48,519
Speaker 1: He has to be is a true why tight end

1493
01:18:49,080 --> 01:18:51,160
Speaker 1: tight ends were a little bit banged up even but

1494
01:18:51,560 --> 01:18:56,080
Speaker 1: even when the Titans weren't Darren Fells he was catching everything.

1495
01:18:56,520 --> 01:18:58,519
Speaker 1: There was one day at training camp or Darren kind

1496
01:18:58,520 --> 01:19:00,519
Speaker 1: of struggled. He had a couple of jobs. That was it.

1497
01:19:00,640 --> 01:19:02,840
Speaker 1: Other than that, he was stellar and he had to

1498
01:19:02,840 --> 01:19:06,760
Speaker 1: be because the tenant competition was steep. But Darren is

1499
01:19:06,800 --> 01:19:10,800
Speaker 1: a great background, played professional basketball, and you saw that

1500
01:19:10,800 --> 01:19:13,200
Speaker 1: coming to the forefront the other day when he scored

1501
01:19:13,640 --> 01:19:16,000
Speaker 1: his first touchdown against the Falcons on the steam route,

1502
01:19:16,160 --> 01:19:19,200
Speaker 1: made a little a little shimmy to the outside, went

1503
01:19:19,200 --> 01:19:21,800
Speaker 1: back inside linebacker and Sean hit him touchdown. He did

1504
01:19:21,800 --> 01:19:24,519
Speaker 1: the eurostep layup that was kind of nice. And then

1505
01:19:24,520 --> 01:19:27,080
Speaker 1: his second touchdown, he went down to see him and

1506
01:19:27,280 --> 01:19:29,920
Speaker 1: he just he caught the ball above his head and

1507
01:19:29,920 --> 01:19:31,600
Speaker 1: he's kind of held it there, you know, like he

1508
01:19:31,680 --> 01:19:34,280
Speaker 1: was kind of posting up on a guy. It was cool.

1509
01:19:34,320 --> 01:19:38,599
Speaker 1: He's got a great background. Because of that, he came

1510
01:19:38,600 --> 01:19:40,759
Speaker 1: back to play college football. He's been in the NFL.

1511
01:19:40,800 --> 01:19:42,880
Speaker 1: I think this is a sixth or seventh year, I believe.

1512
01:19:43,160 --> 01:19:45,519
Speaker 1: But he's been fantastic. And I think with the Browns

1513
01:19:45,600 --> 01:19:48,960
Speaker 1: right now, I mean we have Duke Johnson, Carlos Hide,

1514
01:19:49,160 --> 01:19:54,080
Speaker 1: and Darren Fells, guys that were not even really key

1515
01:19:54,080 --> 01:19:57,760
Speaker 1: pieces in the Browns offense. They've come here and they've

1516
01:19:57,800 --> 01:20:01,280
Speaker 1: been massive pieces for this offense. And Darren Fells with

1517
01:20:01,320 --> 01:20:04,599
Speaker 1: his leadership, the way he is, just how he managed,

1518
01:20:04,680 --> 01:20:07,599
Speaker 1: he is so fun to have around his locker room.

1519
01:20:07,840 --> 01:20:13,400
Speaker 1: He has kind of this this elderly statesman wisdom. And

1520
01:20:13,479 --> 01:20:15,360
Speaker 1: he's not an old guy. I mean he's not, but

1521
01:20:15,880 --> 01:20:18,519
Speaker 1: he just he doesn't play old, that's for sure. But

1522
01:20:18,560 --> 01:20:20,840
Speaker 1: he has this sage wisdom and he saw it last

1523
01:20:20,920 --> 01:20:22,639
Speaker 1: year on the sideline with the Browns. He's very good

1524
01:20:22,640 --> 01:20:24,640
Speaker 1: with Baker Mayfield. I think he's been very good to

1525
01:20:24,640 --> 01:20:28,759
Speaker 1: have around his locker room. But he has been producing lately.

1526
01:20:29,600 --> 01:20:33,000
Speaker 1: Two touchdowns a game against the Falcons, six catches and

1527
01:20:33,040 --> 01:20:36,759
Speaker 1: a key one on the go ahead drive against the Chiefs.

1528
01:20:37,200 --> 01:20:40,040
Speaker 1: He's been all that and a bag of chips. Drew

1529
01:20:40,120 --> 01:20:44,080
Speaker 1: Doherty had the opportunity to catch up with Darren Fells.

1530
01:20:44,240 --> 01:20:46,800
Speaker 1: Here's the final word, Drew Doherty with defels, thanks like

1531
01:20:46,880 --> 01:20:49,400
Speaker 1: that tight end Darren Fells with us and Darren you're

1532
01:20:49,479 --> 01:20:51,840
Speaker 1: leading the team. And touchdown catches with Will Fuller, you've

1533
01:20:51,880 --> 01:20:54,720
Speaker 1: got three. That's your career best as well. You were

1534
01:20:54,760 --> 01:20:57,760
Speaker 1: one of twenty five new faces on this roster who

1535
01:20:57,760 --> 01:21:00,799
Speaker 1: were not playing here last year. How come you've settled

1536
01:21:00,800 --> 01:21:02,880
Speaker 1: in so easily. I mean, it's just an atmosphere that

1537
01:21:02,880 --> 01:21:06,040
Speaker 1: we're in. Coach makes it a very family oriented atmosphere

1538
01:21:06,040 --> 01:21:07,400
Speaker 1: with the team, and it's just one of those things

1539
01:21:07,439 --> 01:21:09,200
Speaker 1: when you bond with your teammates and you get along

1540
01:21:09,200 --> 01:21:11,080
Speaker 1: with them, it's easy to fit in. It looks like

1541
01:21:11,520 --> 01:21:13,200
Speaker 1: it's a pretty fun offense to be a part of.

1542
01:21:13,280 --> 01:21:16,000
Speaker 1: Your one of many weapons that's in this offense, and

1543
01:21:16,040 --> 01:21:17,960
Speaker 1: you guys have really spread the ball around. We saw

1544
01:21:17,960 --> 01:21:19,840
Speaker 1: it last weekend, We've seen it all season long. How

1545
01:21:19,880 --> 01:21:21,920
Speaker 1: accurate is that statement this is a fun offense to

1546
01:21:22,040 --> 01:21:25,760
Speaker 1: play in. That's extremely accurate. I mean, Deshaun definitely he

1547
01:21:26,120 --> 01:21:28,200
Speaker 1: has got Like most teams that you play with, they

1548
01:21:28,240 --> 01:21:30,679
Speaker 1: have like certain favorite targets here and there for certain

1549
01:21:30,720 --> 01:21:33,640
Speaker 1: favorite players in the offense. Deshaun definitely doesn't have a

1550
01:21:33,760 --> 01:21:36,040
Speaker 1: key favor Like he reads the offense, He plays to

1551
01:21:36,280 --> 01:21:39,000
Speaker 1: the offense and if you're open, he's gonna find you. Yeah,

1552
01:21:39,080 --> 01:21:42,320
Speaker 1: you led the team in reception yardage last week sixty

1553
01:21:42,400 --> 01:21:44,439
Speaker 1: nine yards. It's really a testament to what you just

1554
01:21:44,479 --> 01:21:46,920
Speaker 1: talked about, spreading the ball around to a lot of

1555
01:21:46,960 --> 01:21:49,439
Speaker 1: different guys. It was a lot like an extension of

1556
01:21:49,479 --> 01:21:52,160
Speaker 1: the running game, wasn't it. It definitely is the show

1557
01:21:52,720 --> 01:21:55,639
Speaker 1: that we have a pretty physical offense. Everybody, like you said,

1558
01:21:55,680 --> 01:21:58,080
Speaker 1: everybody's going to be involved, and when you get that chance,

1559
01:21:58,120 --> 01:21:59,920
Speaker 1: you need to make plays when it comes your way.

1560
01:22:00,040 --> 01:22:02,840
Speaker 1: And everybody out there show that they can do something

1561
01:22:02,880 --> 01:22:04,360
Speaker 1: when they have the ball in their hands. And it's

1562
01:22:04,360 --> 01:22:06,400
Speaker 1: fun when you have an offense that everybody gets along

1563
01:22:06,400 --> 01:22:08,920
Speaker 1: real well, and no one is very selfish in the mindset.

1564
01:22:08,960 --> 01:22:12,280
Speaker 1: Everybody's here with the team and to get the win. Actually,

1565
01:22:12,320 --> 01:22:15,000
Speaker 1: you joked with me in the offseason how you're a

1566
01:22:15,200 --> 01:22:17,680
Speaker 1: left left tackle or a right right tackle because you're

1567
01:22:17,680 --> 01:22:20,080
Speaker 1: described as being a blocking tight end. Yeah, tell me

1568
01:22:20,080 --> 01:22:22,439
Speaker 1: about how has the past protection grown just since you've

1569
01:22:22,439 --> 01:22:25,640
Speaker 1: gotten here back in April May. I'm gonna stick with

1570
01:22:25,680 --> 01:22:28,280
Speaker 1: that where I'm still blocking tight end. But like you said,

1571
01:22:28,280 --> 01:22:31,439
Speaker 1: the offensive line has made some extreme growth since I

1572
01:22:31,479 --> 01:22:33,120
Speaker 1: first got here, and I think the biggest thing is

1573
01:22:33,160 --> 01:22:34,920
Speaker 1: just getting used at offense and getting used to the

1574
01:22:34,960 --> 01:22:37,519
Speaker 1: guy right next to you. They've shown to me that

1575
01:22:37,600 --> 01:22:39,920
Speaker 1: they are really good guys and they're here to protect

1576
01:22:39,920 --> 01:22:41,840
Speaker 1: the sean and keep them clean. Has it mainly just

1577
01:22:41,920 --> 01:22:45,479
Speaker 1: been continuity and chemistry because the talent was always there,

1578
01:22:45,560 --> 01:22:47,800
Speaker 1: just needed to play together and get those reps in together.

1579
01:22:48,160 --> 01:22:50,320
Speaker 1: That's definitely the biggest thing when it comes to the

1580
01:22:50,400 --> 01:22:52,240
Speaker 1: offense is chemistry, and you have to be able to

1581
01:22:52,280 --> 01:22:54,000
Speaker 1: know what the guy next to who's gonna do. Same

1582
01:22:54,040 --> 01:22:55,920
Speaker 1: thing when it comes to route running, knowing exactly where

1583
01:22:55,920 --> 01:22:57,360
Speaker 1: the guy is going to be when he needs to

1584
01:22:57,400 --> 01:22:59,599
Speaker 1: be there. And then same thing when you're running the ball.

1585
01:22:59,640 --> 01:23:01,160
Speaker 1: You gotta trust that the guy in fun of you's

1586
01:23:01,200 --> 01:23:03,320
Speaker 1: gonna protect you and get you to the open gap.

1587
01:23:03,400 --> 01:23:05,200
Speaker 1: All right, You've got the most unifil experience in a

1588
01:23:05,280 --> 01:23:08,080
Speaker 1: tight end room with this crew, but you've never played

1589
01:23:08,120 --> 01:23:11,880
Speaker 1: against the Indianapolis cults amazingly, No, that's kind of interesting. Yeah,

1590
01:23:11,880 --> 01:23:14,120
Speaker 1: how nasty from what you've seen is this front seven

1591
01:23:14,160 --> 01:23:16,280
Speaker 1: that you guys are going against. They're a very talented group,

1592
01:23:16,320 --> 01:23:18,760
Speaker 1: they're very discipline and what they're gonna bring to us,

1593
01:23:18,800 --> 01:23:20,360
Speaker 1: and it's one of those things that we need to

1594
01:23:20,479 --> 01:23:22,760
Speaker 1: come out and be prepared for that and everybody's and

1595
01:23:22,840 --> 01:23:25,160
Speaker 1: then getting their film study and getting ready for this

1596
01:23:25,320 --> 01:23:27,439
Speaker 1: front seven for sure. Yeah, what's it like playing a

1597
01:23:27,439 --> 01:23:29,599
Speaker 1: division opponent? You've done it many many times in your career,

1598
01:23:29,640 --> 01:23:31,599
Speaker 1: but this kind of amps it up to another level.

1599
01:23:31,640 --> 01:23:33,880
Speaker 1: Does It's a different beast out there when you come

1600
01:23:33,880 --> 01:23:36,599
Speaker 1: to a divisional game and rivals at that. But it's

1601
01:23:36,600 --> 01:23:38,519
Speaker 1: one of those things that it's like a playoff game.

1602
01:23:38,640 --> 01:23:40,080
Speaker 1: You have to get out there. You gotta get your

1603
01:23:40,120 --> 01:23:41,640
Speaker 1: paths a lot lower than your youth too, got to

1604
01:23:41,720 --> 01:23:43,840
Speaker 1: bring your a game playing and play out It's one

1605
01:23:43,840 --> 01:23:45,760
Speaker 1: of those things where it's it's fun, It's gonna be

1606
01:23:45,760 --> 01:23:47,439
Speaker 1: a fun game, and it's also it's gonna be a

1607
01:23:47,479 --> 01:23:50,600
Speaker 1: tough one. All right. You played international basketball professionally for

1608
01:23:50,720 --> 01:23:54,559
Speaker 1: about four years. You're in places like Finland, France, Belgium, Mexico, Argentina.

1609
01:23:54,600 --> 01:23:57,880
Speaker 1: What was the fiercest rivalry game you played overseas. Oh,

1610
01:23:58,320 --> 01:24:00,719
Speaker 1: that's a tough one. I would probably would say Mexico

1611
01:24:00,880 --> 01:24:03,880
Speaker 1: was actually pretty pretty intense. What was the team you

1612
01:24:03,960 --> 01:24:05,679
Speaker 1: were on and what was the team you're playing against?

1613
01:24:05,720 --> 01:24:08,000
Speaker 1: Why was it such an intense game? I would say

1614
01:24:08,120 --> 01:24:11,240
Speaker 1: I was in Mexic ally and we played against HLAPA,

1615
01:24:11,560 --> 01:24:14,280
Speaker 1: and I don't know if it was a rivalry or

1616
01:24:14,280 --> 01:24:16,519
Speaker 1: if it was just more because they were defending champs

1617
01:24:16,560 --> 01:24:18,599
Speaker 1: and we were trying to make a name for ourselves

1618
01:24:18,640 --> 01:24:21,800
Speaker 1: out there that it just peaked. This crazy game and

1619
01:24:22,120 --> 01:24:24,479
Speaker 1: fans going crazy and a couple of fights here and there. Yeah,

1620
01:24:24,520 --> 01:24:26,920
Speaker 1: oh yeah, were you involved? No? I mean I'm very

1621
01:24:27,080 --> 01:24:29,000
Speaker 1: soft spoken as you can tell, and takes a lot

1622
01:24:29,040 --> 01:24:31,400
Speaker 1: to get me rolled up. You're monestbab didn't want to

1623
01:24:31,439 --> 01:24:32,720
Speaker 1: mess with you because they knew you're you know you

1624
01:24:32,800 --> 01:24:35,639
Speaker 1: had a football future, right, probably well, Darren Fells, best

1625
01:24:35,720 --> 01:24:37,680
Speaker 1: of luck on Sunday against the Colts. Thanks so much

1626
01:24:37,680 --> 01:24:39,280
Speaker 1: for the time and looking forward to seeing what you

1627
01:24:39,320 --> 01:24:40,960
Speaker 1: got left the rest of the season. I appreciate it.

1628
01:24:41,040 --> 01:24:42,599
Speaker 1: Thanks for having me. I had a chance to interviewed

1629
01:24:42,640 --> 01:24:45,639
Speaker 1: Darren as the play of the game after the Falcons game,

1630
01:24:45,720 --> 01:24:49,640
Speaker 1: and he was just so humble yet great game, I mean,

1631
01:24:49,680 --> 01:24:52,360
Speaker 1: tremendous game. There's two touchdowns, I mean the last time

1632
01:24:52,479 --> 01:24:54,960
Speaker 1: at tight ended two touchdowns of the game, but actually

1633
01:24:55,000 --> 01:24:57,120
Speaker 1: happened a couple of weeks prior with your nakeds. But

1634
01:24:57,320 --> 01:25:00,640
Speaker 1: the tight end has been killing, just absolutely killing. It

1635
01:25:00,720 --> 01:25:03,720
Speaker 1: would love to see either one or both get in

1636
01:25:03,760 --> 01:25:05,799
Speaker 1: the end zone this week. But I just was struck

1637
01:25:05,880 --> 01:25:10,080
Speaker 1: by his presence, his thoughtfulness, his humility. Bare Fells is

1638
01:25:10,080 --> 01:25:12,559
Speaker 1: a great guy to have around this locker room. There's

1639
01:25:12,600 --> 01:25:14,439
Speaker 1: no question there are a lot of people to thank

1640
01:25:14,640 --> 01:25:18,639
Speaker 1: for tonight's show. Let's start with Mark Vandomir, Bill O'Brien DPC,

1641
01:25:18,760 --> 01:25:23,439
Speaker 1: to Bernardrick McKinney, to everybody participate in the player's segment

1642
01:25:23,520 --> 01:25:28,400
Speaker 1: b SCAR TV, Darren Fells, Drew Thaherty to Peter Calumbady,

1643
01:25:29,080 --> 01:25:32,360
Speaker 1: to all of you for listening. Thank you so very much.

1644
01:25:32,800 --> 01:25:36,640
Speaker 1: We will see you Sunday in Lucas Oil Stadium for

1645
01:25:36,720 --> 01:25:38,280
Speaker 1: the biggest game of the year. Why is it the

1646
01:25:38,320 --> 01:25:40,760
Speaker 1: biggest because it's the next one time to take on

1647
01:25:40,840 --> 01:25:43,080
Speaker 1: a Colts. Let's go. We'll see on Sunday everybody, and

1648
01:25:43,160 --> 01:25:44,120
Speaker 1: as always, go Texans.