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Speaker 1: What is up? Everybody? Welcome into a Wednesday edition of

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Speaker 1: Texas All Access, a day after Christmas edition. Hopefully you

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Speaker 1: guys had a fantastic holiday, whether you're in Houston or

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Speaker 1: State of Texas or anywhere around the world. Really, hopefully

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Speaker 1: you guys have had a great holiday season. Mine was great.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for asking. I'm your host, John Harris, football

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Speaker 1: analyst and silent reporter for your Houston Texans. We have

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Speaker 1: got plenty to do. This evening, We're gonna go behind

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Speaker 1: Enemy Sidelines with Dpcudo talk about our good friend from Jacksonville,

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Speaker 1: JP Shaddick. It's a little tougher than it was last

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Speaker 1: year when we talked to JP at this time. In fact,

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Speaker 1: on this week, we were coming off a loss to

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Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers. In the week before that was a

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Speaker 1: forty five to seven loss to the Jaguars, and I

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Speaker 1: remember seeing JP. Oh, they were living high on the

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Speaker 1: hog last year. A little different. We'll catch up with

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Speaker 1: JP Shatterick behind Enemy Sidelines. We'll also have the game

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Speaker 1: Plan general manager Brian game will stop buying talk with

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Speaker 1: Mark vander Meer. Let's have a little stippet from our

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Speaker 1: in the Lab podcast at Drew Dorry and I do

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Speaker 1: talking a little bit about the Eagles and what the

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Speaker 1: Texans have to do to stop the Jacksonville Jaguars. On Sunday,

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Speaker 1: Mark's gonna stop by for a minute. And then Andre

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Speaker 1: where you know Andre? Heism Trup's Winner nineteen eighty nine

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Speaker 1: and he's our good friend and game analyst for Texans

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Speaker 1: Radio Broadcast. He's our analyst throughout Texas Monday. Every week

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Speaker 1: on Wednesday, Mark sits down with him for a few

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Speaker 1: minutes to talk about the Texans and the state of

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Speaker 1: the Texans in his opinion. So we've got plenty to do,

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Speaker 1: so let's get roll linked with our hot reads presented

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Speaker 1: percent or more on car insurance. And we're gonna start

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Speaker 1: with a few transactions that took place actually on I

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Speaker 1: think it was either Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. And

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Speaker 1: may we've got him on Christmas Day. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: During the holidays, I start to lose track of a

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Speaker 1: lot of different things and when I did things, when

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Speaker 1: I have no idea at that point, but they've come

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Speaker 1: I look, I'm an email, I can see it actually

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Speaker 1: came out Christmas Eve in the early afternoon. The Texans

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Speaker 1: have made some transactions. This have to do with some

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Speaker 1: of the injuries that the Texas sustained in Philadelphia. So

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Speaker 1: the field that day that will be placed on the

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Speaker 1: reserve slash injured list. Brian Peters, the Marius Thomas, and

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Speaker 1: Cavon Webster. In a fortunate season for all of them,

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Speaker 1: coming to a short end and earlier than anybody really wanted,

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Speaker 1: especially Cabon Webster. I mean he had come back from

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Speaker 1: it on IR. He came back from that and you

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Speaker 1: for Cavon Webster. So Cavon Webster to Marius Thomas without

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Speaker 1: Those three will go on IR for the remainder of

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Speaker 1: the year. So the Texans made one transaction Steven Mitchell.

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Speaker 1: He will move from the practice squad moving up to

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Speaker 1: University of Southern California USC. They'll tell you out west,

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Speaker 1: a fight either way. Steven Mitchell Junior moves up to

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Speaker 1: fifty three man roster. Now. One of the transactions that

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Speaker 1: That leaves one spot, so you'll have Terrell Adams for

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Speaker 1: a little Bill O'Brian from the podium. The first thing

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Speaker 1: tremendous thing. This is how coach O'Brien started the press

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Speaker 1: Thanksgiving Meal of Texas Children's which that was very cool.

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Speaker 1: Tyrann Matthew passed out three hundred and twenty meals to

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Speaker 1: families at an elementary school in Humble Terice Wright provided

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Speaker 1: where where he's from. For a seventh annual turkey drive

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Speaker 1: John Weekes served Thanksgiving lunch and spent spent time with

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Speaker 1: just great stuff. Andre Howe. As part of Giving Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: one of Clowney's teammates to shop around for holiday gifts.

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Speaker 1: Christmas possible for sixteen families that Madge Bush Transitional Living

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Speaker 1: community efforts. Absolutely agree with coach O'Brien one thousand percent.

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Speaker 1: To hear all of those things that players have done

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Speaker 1: absolutely amazing to hear. So guys, bravo, excellent job, and

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Speaker 1: I'm glad that coach O'Brien started the press conference that

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Speaker 1: Bill Parcels, you said you are what your record says

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is a very good football team. It's

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Speaker 1: gonna be a battle. It's gonna be a very hard game.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna need all of our fans. We're gonna need

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Speaker 1: our players and our coaches to have an excellent day

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Speaker 1: on Sunday, no doubt. Everybody be in your seats before kickoff.

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Speaker 1: a like a gritty, grimy game. The Texas can win

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Speaker 1: Texas can definitely do that. Ask a lot about Deshaun Watson,

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Speaker 1: to our next podium attendee, and that was JJ. Watt said,

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Speaker 1: eleven and five win a division, you host a playoff

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Speaker 1: slash Toros Matrios to learn earn more. Here's math. Twenty

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Speaker 1: take it away, JP. How's it going today? Oh, it's

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Speaker 1: going DP. We're seventeen and here we are going to

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Speaker 1: and put something else on tape. Why not, and then

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Speaker 1: let the cards fall where they man the off season.

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Speaker 1: But that was a decision earlier this week. Get Blake

428
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Speaker 1: out there so you can run around a little bit

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Speaker 1: and give this team the best chance to win. Let's

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Speaker 1: talk about the OC there, because the last time the

431
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Speaker 1: Texans played the Jaguars, things were very different in the building.

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Speaker 1: And now you have a new offensive coordinator. How much

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Speaker 1: has that sparked the offense? I know that team's two

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Speaker 1: and two right now over the last four games. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it hasn't at all. DP It's been awful on offense,

436
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Speaker 1: To be quite honest with you, before last week. Let's

437
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Speaker 1: go to the three weeks. The first three weeks to

438
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Speaker 1: the change, they had one offensive touchdown and that was

439
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Speaker 1: when they were trailing thirty to two in a game.

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Speaker 1: And then last week they drove down the field in

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Speaker 1: the opening drive and you know, had a fantastic drive

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Speaker 1: capped off with a Fournett touchdown. Okay, here we go.

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Speaker 1: Well then it just went stale after that again, and

444
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Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, Kessler gets her kare comes

445
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Speaker 1: Bartals scrambling a little bit to set up a field

446
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Speaker 1: goal later. That's all they scored on offense was ten points.

447
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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, then they get a pick six

448
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Speaker 1: later in the game to win the game and all that.

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Speaker 1: But it has not been good on an offense. And

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Speaker 1: you know, there's the argument here, you know, should they

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Speaker 1: have fired Nathaniel Hackett the offensive coordinator. Should they have

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Speaker 1: changed the quarterback? You can argue no for either one

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Speaker 1: because Hacket's not responsible for the injury issues. You could

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Speaker 1: argue for the quarterback being changed, sure Blake who just

455
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Speaker 1: didn't look right coming out of his hand and all that,

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Speaker 1: but not much has changed. In fact, the statistics are

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Speaker 1: down a bit since that coordinator changed to put Scott

458
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Speaker 1: Milanovitch in as the play callers. So, but that's at

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Speaker 1: the end of a season like this. You can point

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Speaker 1: to a lot of things, and that's just one of them.

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Speaker 1: It is not to answer your question originally, it does

462
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Speaker 1: not sparked the offense at all that change. How much

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Speaker 1: has it helped to have Leonard Fournette back in the lineup?

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Speaker 1: I know the last time we've faced the Jaguars, he

465
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Speaker 1: was still dealing with the hamstring injury. The Jaguars had

466
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Speaker 1: just traded for Carlos Hide. He was inactive for the

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Speaker 1: game against the Texans. How have those two been working

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Speaker 1: together as a tandem. What do you foresee for Carlos

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Speaker 1: Hide long term? Does he stay on the roster heading

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Speaker 1: in the next year? Has he done enough to sort

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Speaker 1: of keep himself there in Jacksonville. You are digging some

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Speaker 1: deep holes in the questioning today. Let me tell you

473
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Speaker 1: a deep because the running back room is quite a topic.

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Speaker 1: The last couple of weeks, so two weeks ago, Carlos

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Speaker 1: Hide was a healthy scratch. So they're trying to figure out, Okay,

476
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Speaker 1: we need to get David Williams, an undrafted rookie of

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Speaker 1: practice squad guys some reps. Okay, so Leonard's not running

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Speaker 1: well for average, so we're gonna get Williams in the

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Speaker 1: air in the second half in a one score game,

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Speaker 1: and he's getting you know, five seven reps that carries

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Speaker 1: in the second and half. It's like, okay, well, what's

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Speaker 1: wrong with Leonard? What's going on there? Well, nothing's wrong

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Speaker 1: with He's healthy, you know. And then he comes out

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Speaker 1: the week after that, for Nette does and says I

485
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Speaker 1: could be in a little bit better shape. Well, that's

486
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Speaker 1: not a no you want to hear from your star

487
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Speaker 1: running back. And then last week t J Yeldo is

488
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Speaker 1: a healthy scratch and Carlos Hide is up and you know,

489
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Speaker 1: David Williams doesn't get any touches. And then Leonard Fornette

490
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Speaker 1: gets the first half and here comes Hide in the

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Speaker 1: second half with a great per carry average and looks better.

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Speaker 1: So I have no idea what's going on at running

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Speaker 1: back right now. I have no idea who's gonna be up,

494
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Speaker 1: who's gonna be down? Except for for Nett, you would

495
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Speaker 1: expect him to be up. Other than that, the last

496
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Speaker 1: couple of weeks has been kind of a figure out

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Speaker 1: who is the best option, and he says, Myron says,

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Speaker 1: it's the best group to win. That's fine. But they're

499
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Speaker 1: all capable, but you just don't know which one is

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Speaker 1: going to be up and down until game day and

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Speaker 1: then you work the plan around that. So that's the

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Speaker 1: state of the running back room. I'm glad you ad

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Speaker 1: DP right now. It's up in the air. I feel

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Speaker 1: like I should focus on some positives. So let's talk

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Speaker 1: about the Jags defense. You know, I think that all

506
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Speaker 1: of us were astounded to see that six to nothing

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Speaker 1: win over Indie, especially with Andrew Luck. You know, as

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Speaker 1: hot as he's been at the Colts, as hot as

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Speaker 1: they've been, that defense still seems to be clicking and

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Speaker 1: pretty healthy so far. What can you tell us about

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Speaker 1: some of those playmakers and how they've sort of handled

512
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Speaker 1: this season? You can tell though, Yeah, you're right, and

513
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Speaker 1: the defense has been the strength of this football team,

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Speaker 1: right if there is one. It hasn't had the effectiveness

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Speaker 1: of a year ago when they were making sacks and

516
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Speaker 1: you guys saw the ten sack game early in that season,

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Speaker 1: and they're getting to the quarterback and taking the ball

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Speaker 1: away and scoring on defense and all that. That quite

519
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Speaker 1: has not been there, but they've been effective. They've you know,

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Speaker 1: they held Kansas City to twenty three offensive points. Not

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Speaker 1: many teams in the league can say that this year.

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Speaker 1: That was early in the season. They just haven't had

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Speaker 1: that effectiveness throughout the season. Malik Jackson's had a down

524
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Speaker 1: year and he's not even at the starting lineup. Now

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Speaker 1: you're getting to the point now that where you're starting

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Speaker 1: to see that a little more guys that may not

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Speaker 1: be around in the future are out of the starting

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Speaker 1: lineup now or cut from the team. Barry Church was

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Speaker 1: cut a couple of weeks ago, so you're getting some

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Speaker 1: younger players in there. Ronnie Harrison had some play, but

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Speaker 1: now he's on injured reserve at safety. So Jared Wilson's

532
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Speaker 1: getting some play there, a younger guy, Nick de Luca,

533
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Speaker 1: a rookie, undrafted guy from North Dakota States playing strong

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Speaker 1: side linebacker. Now you're rotating some defensive linemen in there.

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Speaker 1: So I think they're just trying to figure out which

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Speaker 1: part of this group was going to be around next season,

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Speaker 1: because they feel like they have core players in Unique

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Speaker 1: and Gockway and Jalen Ramsey. Of course, AJ Boy a

539
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Speaker 1: guy who's been around here and playing well, but he

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Speaker 1: hasn't played He hasn't played up to standard of the

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Speaker 1: year ago. So they have a few guys that can

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Speaker 1: build around. They're up against the cap next year, so

543
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Speaker 1: these big defensive line in salaries. Calais Campbell, you'd love

544
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Speaker 1: to have him back around. He's have to renegotiate and

545
00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:07,359
Speaker 1: figure it out or so. Darius has played well, but

546
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Speaker 1: he's with a lot of money going off the door

547
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Speaker 1: for a nose tackle. He does play well though. Lake

548
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Speaker 1: Jackson most likely out of here. A lot of questions

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Speaker 1: on defense right now. That's that's kind of where they

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Speaker 1: are U. But they just haven't had that same home

551
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Speaker 1: run effectiveness, and a lot of it's because they've been trailing.

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Speaker 1: You know, they had fifty five sacks last year in

553
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Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, forty one of those when they had the lead. Well,

554
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Speaker 1: they haven't had the lead this year, so you can't

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Speaker 1: be as effective and have that you know, five to

556
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Speaker 1: seven step drop stuff on offense when you're when you're

557
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Speaker 1: trailing in the game, they run the ball, yeah, and

558
00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:43,239
Speaker 1: your pass rush you can't really get going either when

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Speaker 1: the opposing team is just running the ball and not

560
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Speaker 1: having to pass it as much. Um, JP, let's talk

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Speaker 1: about the offseason a little bit. You said maybe Blake

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Speaker 1: Bortle's last game as a Jaguar. What do you think

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Speaker 1: is going to happen in the draft? Is it going

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Speaker 1: to be quarterback centered? Is that what you guys are

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Speaker 1: focusing on. I know a few years ago when we

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Speaker 1: were in that position with a never one pick, everybody

567
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Speaker 1: was talking quarterbacks, you know, or do you think the

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Speaker 1: solution comes from somewhere else? I know it's not a

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Speaker 1: quarterback heavy draft class right now the way it is, Well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm kind of torn because i'd really you look ahead

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Speaker 1: a little bit, but I just don't want to look

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Speaker 1: at the draft yet. Give me one more week for

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Speaker 1: goodness sake. I hear you real football. But yes, that

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Speaker 1: is the feeling because when you don't have a franchise guy,

575
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Speaker 1: you're always looking for the franchise guy and you're still

576
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Speaker 1: trying to figure out where in the draft you're going

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Speaker 1: to be. But that's just the feeling that you know

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Speaker 1: they're going to have some offensive lineman back healthy next year,

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Speaker 1: all those guys that were banged up. You got a

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Speaker 1: running back in a running game and all that. So

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Speaker 1: you can have a quarterback and maybe another playmaker on

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Speaker 1: offense that you can get something done. So yeah, you're

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Speaker 1: asking me on December, you know, after late in December. Yes, quarterback,

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Speaker 1: I think is where this team has got ahead. They

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Speaker 1: have to do it. I mean, you got to find

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Speaker 1: a guy. And if you get if you're not with Blake,

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00:29:56,440 --> 00:29:59,440
Speaker 1: you're still dead money on Blake. So you can't just

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Speaker 1: go get a reagent and and pay twenty more million dollars.

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Speaker 1: That's thirty six million bucks in the quarterback position. That's

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Speaker 1: a lot of money going out the door. So it

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Speaker 1: just kind of adds up to a draft pick of

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Speaker 1: a quarterback. I think it will be very interesting the

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Speaker 1: offseason to see what the Jaguars team looks like, because

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Speaker 1: it sounds like it's going to be very different next year.

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Speaker 1: A lot of changes, yeah, I mean, it's just there's

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Speaker 1: the feeling, you know, and that maybe some changes on

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Speaker 1: the staff. I think the big ones are sticking around,

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Speaker 1: you know, like the head coach and all that, but

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Speaker 1: you know, some change there, maybe in the personnel department.

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Speaker 1: It's just the season of change when you when you

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Speaker 1: have those expectations to go to the AFC Title game.

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Speaker 1: Again and you you with for whatever reason, it is

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Speaker 1: big changes are coming. Good stuff from JP Shaddrick of

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Speaker 1: the Jaguars Radio Network. This division is still up for grabs.

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Speaker 1: Still don't know really how it's going to shake out,

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Speaker 1: at least the top spot anyway, So JP appreciate the

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Speaker 1: time as always and look forward to the Jaguars in

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Speaker 1: the Texan season finale on Sunday. Thanks for your time, well,

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Speaker 1: always good to talk to you. Good stuff. JP thinks.

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Speaker 1: Last year the combat is pretty interesting with JP came

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Speaker 1: by our table, you know, most of the time we'd

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Speaker 1: see him because the Jackson had been had been so

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Speaker 1: bad for so long, and be like, oh, hey, JP,

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Speaker 1: how are you doing? Kind of sympathetic. This year was

615
00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:12,440
Speaker 1: like hello newman, you know, like Seinfeld. It was just

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Speaker 1: a little bit different, a little different feeling like oh

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Speaker 1: you're the top dog now, okay, now it's on, now

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Speaker 1: it's gonna go back there. Kind of like, hey, JP,

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Speaker 1: how you doing? You're doing okay? And listen. I feel

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Speaker 1: for JP. I do we know how that was to

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Speaker 1: be around the building last year and suffer through four

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Speaker 1: and twelve. That was rough and JP's having to do

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Speaker 1: that down at Jackson he's a great dude and does

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Speaker 1: a great job there for Jaguars dot Com. All right,

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Speaker 1: we get back. It's time for the game plan with

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Speaker 1: general manager Brian Gaine talking about all that's going on.

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Speaker 1: A lot of transactions this week, so plenty of things

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Speaker 1: going on. Plus you've got postseason All star college games

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Speaker 1: coming up, Senior Bowl Combine, all that kind of stuff

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Speaker 1: is right around the corner. And you got a team

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Speaker 1: going to the playoffs. A lot of Brian Gaines play.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk about that next with him right here at

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Speaker 1: Texans All Access. Welcome back to Wednesday, this shue of

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Speaker 1: Texas All Access from the Hounday Texans Radio studio. I'm

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Speaker 1: your host, John Ayris, football analyst and sideline reporter, and

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Speaker 1: it's time for the game plan. Brian Gaine, general manager

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Speaker 1: of your Houston Texans, sat down with Mark Vannimir and

638
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Speaker 1: talked about a myriad of topics. Got college All Star

639
00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:18,840
Speaker 1: games coming up, you got Senior Bowl Combine right around

640
00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:21,120
Speaker 1: the corner, or so it seems. Plus you got a

641
00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:23,120
Speaker 1: team in the playoffs. Get a lot of transactions to

642
00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:24,920
Speaker 1: make because the injuries at this time of the year.

643
00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:28,000
Speaker 1: You just saw the transactions page earlier this week. I

644
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:29,840
Speaker 1: talked about at the beginning of the show, a lot

645
00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:32,280
Speaker 1: of stuff going on for Brian Gaine. He talked about

646
00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:35,760
Speaker 1: it all with Mark. Brian, you have a remarkable opportunity

647
00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:38,480
Speaker 1: here on Saturday. You win the game, you win the division,

648
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:40,800
Speaker 1: you get to host at least a playoff game, which

649
00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:43,560
Speaker 1: is huge this time of year to have that chance. Yes,

650
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:46,840
Speaker 1: so the biggest thing for us right now is this

651
00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:49,800
Speaker 1: is a division game, a chance for us to win

652
00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:53,120
Speaker 1: the AFC South. And in a way it kind of

653
00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:55,960
Speaker 1: helps me understand to appreciate the journey a little bit

654
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:58,720
Speaker 1: about where we started, the diversity. We faced all year

655
00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:03,960
Speaker 1: fighting back from an Owen three start bill, and I'm

656
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:07,560
Speaker 1: always talked about this with our operation with our players,

657
00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:11,520
Speaker 1: the number one significant premise for us in our football

658
00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:14,640
Speaker 1: operation is the division. So here's a chance for us

659
00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:17,200
Speaker 1: to not only you know, win the division, but get

660
00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:20,880
Speaker 1: a home game here on week seventeen versus a very

661
00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:23,400
Speaker 1: competitive opponent you know, I know, and things that haven't

662
00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:25,120
Speaker 1: gone their way. But they got a lot of talent

663
00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:27,440
Speaker 1: on this team. They're going to come in here ready

664
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Speaker 1: to fight to try to get it. Goingto the offseason

665
00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:32,680
Speaker 1: with on a high note, but for us, the divisions

666
00:33:32,720 --> 00:33:35,120
Speaker 1: at stake. The division title here is coming here in

667
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:37,720
Speaker 1: sixties and we're gonna have to fight tooth and nail

668
00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:40,680
Speaker 1: for it. I hesitate to say congratulations, but you do

669
00:33:40,760 --> 00:33:43,280
Speaker 1: have a playoff, Berth, and you got it all on

670
00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:45,840
Speaker 1: the plane on the way back from Philadelphia. Kind Of

671
00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:47,920
Speaker 1: a strange dynamic there, but it does speak to what

672
00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:49,959
Speaker 1: you were just saying, fighting back from adversity and at

673
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:53,280
Speaker 1: least getting that wildcard clitch. Yeah. Well, one of our

674
00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:56,080
Speaker 1: first goals as an organization is always going to be

675
00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:59,840
Speaker 1: to win the AFC South. So although we're very great

676
00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:03,320
Speaker 1: and happy to have a playoff Berth to know we're

677
00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:07,080
Speaker 1: going to be in the postseason, that goal still remains unclaimed,

678
00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:10,160
Speaker 1: of winning the AFC South. And that's our agenda this week,

679
00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:13,360
Speaker 1: six days to go to that game, singular focus on

680
00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:15,880
Speaker 1: playing the Jags and going to try to win the

681
00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:18,320
Speaker 1: AFC South. All right, So tell me about the wide

682
00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:20,960
Speaker 1: receiver position group here, because you've taken some hits, no

683
00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:22,640
Speaker 1: doubt about it. And I know Key, he's been in

684
00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:24,480
Speaker 1: and out of the lineup, and he lost Will a

685
00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:26,640
Speaker 1: long time ago, but the marry is going down. That

686
00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:29,480
Speaker 1: was a big blow. Yeah, we were very pleased to

687
00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:31,719
Speaker 1: have had a chance to get the Marrius at the

688
00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:34,120
Speaker 1: time of year when it occurred, and he was productive

689
00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:36,560
Speaker 1: for us. What people may or may not know is

690
00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:39,480
Speaker 1: the intangible factor, an element and impact that he had

691
00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:43,840
Speaker 1: in terms of leadership meant during the young players. His

692
00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:47,680
Speaker 1: knowledge of football, his knowledge of routes, his knowledge of coverages,

693
00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:53,399
Speaker 1: great work ethic, excellent practice player, a very competitive guy,

694
00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:56,680
Speaker 1: good communicator, very good knowledge of the game, and he

695
00:34:56,719 --> 00:34:58,279
Speaker 1: was able to in the short amount of time we

696
00:34:58,320 --> 00:35:01,359
Speaker 1: were with him here on the field, he was able

697
00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:04,640
Speaker 1: to communicate that knowledge to the young players and mentor

698
00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:06,800
Speaker 1: them and try to help them grow in other areas

699
00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:09,439
Speaker 1: of the game. So on top of that, a great

700
00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:12,560
Speaker 1: guy and great for the locker room. And I've employed

701
00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:14,600
Speaker 1: him and asked him make sure he's around here every

702
00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:17,799
Speaker 1: moment as best he can to enjoy however far our

703
00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:20,600
Speaker 1: postseason goes, because we wouldn't be in this position without

704
00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:23,600
Speaker 1: him because of injuries. You played Vincent Smith early against

705
00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:25,719
Speaker 1: New England and the opener, but he really hasn't seen

706
00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:28,120
Speaker 1: much action lately, and he sees action in the game

707
00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:30,240
Speaker 1: and he comes through for you with a big late touchdown.

708
00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:33,560
Speaker 1: What about his development. Yeah, compliments to the coaches for

709
00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:35,560
Speaker 1: having him ready to play when his number was called,

710
00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:37,960
Speaker 1: and for Vincent too. It's a long season for a

711
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:42,600
Speaker 1: young rookie, undrafted, undrafted rookie who made our team, who

712
00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:45,800
Speaker 1: has the physical potential, the height, weight, speed, just lacked

713
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:49,279
Speaker 1: the experience. And when his number was called, quarterback made

714
00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:51,880
Speaker 1: a great throw, you know, as impressive a catch that

715
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:53,360
Speaker 1: was in the back of the end zone. That was

716
00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:56,840
Speaker 1: a great, great throw, and Vincent took advantage of his

717
00:35:56,880 --> 00:36:00,759
Speaker 1: opportunity helped us position ourselves to take the lead at

718
00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:02,680
Speaker 1: that moment in the game, at a very critical moment

719
00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:05,560
Speaker 1: of the game. So proud of the moment in terms

720
00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:08,000
Speaker 1: of how both those players handled it. And when Vincent's

721
00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:10,719
Speaker 1: number was called upon, he was ready to go. Ran.

722
00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:13,319
Speaker 1: I'm blown away by the youth on offense here. Here

723
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:14,719
Speaker 1: you have a quarterback in the second year, but he

724
00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:16,600
Speaker 1: hasn't played a full two years, and then you have

725
00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:20,120
Speaker 1: Aikin's making a huge catch at one point during the comeback,

726
00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:23,160
Speaker 1: a couple of touchdown drives. Your old line is very

727
00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:25,359
Speaker 1: young when you go across the board, especially what you're

728
00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:27,480
Speaker 1: able to field out there on Sunday. What about the

729
00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:30,600
Speaker 1: youth on offense and the way they're performing under these circumstances. Yeah,

730
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:33,440
Speaker 1: when you're trying to build a a championship caliber roster,

731
00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:36,440
Speaker 1: I think you're always thinking about that delicate balance between

732
00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:38,920
Speaker 1: the short term and the long term to have a

733
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:42,799
Speaker 1: long term plan of how you're gonna sustain success, and

734
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:45,720
Speaker 1: that player acquisition process is a twenty four to seven,

735
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:48,640
Speaker 1: three hundred and sixty five day a year operation. I

736
00:36:48,680 --> 00:36:51,680
Speaker 1: think it also speaks to the philosophical alignment that Coach

737
00:36:51,719 --> 00:36:55,200
Speaker 1: O'Brien his coaching staff has with myself and our personnel

738
00:36:55,239 --> 00:36:58,359
Speaker 1: staff that we'll bring in young players and we will

739
00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:01,239
Speaker 1: develop them, we will coach them, will implement them, and

740
00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:03,719
Speaker 1: we'll find roles in jobs for them to do on

741
00:37:03,719 --> 00:37:06,719
Speaker 1: Sundays if they earn those jobs. But I think it's

742
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:09,440
Speaker 1: compliments to the coaches for having our young players ready

743
00:37:09,480 --> 00:37:13,200
Speaker 1: to play and play either in situational roles, four down

744
00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:16,719
Speaker 1: roles or roles higher than that, so that when their

745
00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:19,040
Speaker 1: number is called, you mean, you wouldn't know that they

746
00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:21,600
Speaker 1: were a rookie player or a second year player. But

747
00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:24,480
Speaker 1: it's a good partnership between the coaches and personnel because

748
00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:27,919
Speaker 1: I think there's a there's a philosophical alignment in terms

749
00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:29,400
Speaker 1: of how you want to build it that we're always

750
00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:31,279
Speaker 1: trying to win now, but we're always building for the

751
00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:34,040
Speaker 1: long term future too. Tell me about Stephen Mitchell, who's

752
00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:36,680
Speaker 1: now a member of the fifty three man roster. Stephen

753
00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:39,839
Speaker 1: was a player that we picked up via the Los

754
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:43,680
Speaker 1: Angeles Ramps who was on their practice squad and they

755
00:37:43,719 --> 00:37:45,480
Speaker 1: had released them, and then we picked them up the

756
00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:48,279
Speaker 1: following week and week as the weeks of progressed here,

757
00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:50,400
Speaker 1: Steven has done a very good job of picking up

758
00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:53,640
Speaker 1: our offense number one, showing versatility number two to play

759
00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:57,840
Speaker 1: outside or play inside. He's got speed, quickness, he's got twitch,

760
00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:01,440
Speaker 1: he's got change of direction skills, he's got route running ability.

761
00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:03,120
Speaker 1: I has got the ability to do something with the

762
00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:05,200
Speaker 1: ball after the catch, and we think even he could

763
00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:08,640
Speaker 1: play on special teams. So he's got good game day

764
00:38:08,719 --> 00:38:10,759
Speaker 1: roster value in terms of the jobs that he can

765
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:13,919
Speaker 1: do on the forty six wells, playing outside, inside, maybe

766
00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:16,040
Speaker 1: even some roles in jobs on fourth down. But he's

767
00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:18,000
Speaker 1: caught our eye here week to week and he's earned

768
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:19,960
Speaker 1: this opportunity, so we're happy to give it to him.

769
00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:22,600
Speaker 1: So many injured players. But this is the NFL and

770
00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:25,440
Speaker 1: this happened. So take me through the process. Though. You

771
00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:28,520
Speaker 1: guys have to really work closely with the athletic trainers

772
00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:31,920
Speaker 1: and whatever medical input you get from them, and the

773
00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:35,000
Speaker 1: coaching staff and the player himself. So how does that

774
00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:37,800
Speaker 1: go week to week for you? Yeah, our contingency plans

775
00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:41,319
Speaker 1: go day to day, week to week, month to month.

776
00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:43,480
Speaker 1: It is all year round in terms of having our

777
00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:46,800
Speaker 1: player available, ready list, ready to go. But we spend

778
00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:49,879
Speaker 1: a lot of time evaluating players in the preseason so

779
00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:53,160
Speaker 1: that once the season starts, all are all our ready

780
00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:55,480
Speaker 1: lists are attack and they're ready to go. We're combining

781
00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:59,680
Speaker 1: college evaluations with young players with their pro playing experience

782
00:38:59,719 --> 00:39:02,600
Speaker 1: as well. We're looking at background, We're making sure that

783
00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:04,879
Speaker 1: these guys are good character fits for us. We're making

784
00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:07,319
Speaker 1: sure that they're good and tangible profile fits for us

785
00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:09,600
Speaker 1: as well as the physical portion of it. And then

786
00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:11,680
Speaker 1: we rank our players and rank the players who are

787
00:39:11,680 --> 00:39:14,160
Speaker 1: available position to position, so that when and if the

788
00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:16,400
Speaker 1: bell rings we have to go find a solution for

789
00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:18,759
Speaker 1: the roster, we do that. Something Bill and I will

790
00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:21,440
Speaker 1: always talk about is what's the internal solution before it's

791
00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:24,160
Speaker 1: the external solution? So it's players who are currently on

792
00:39:24,200 --> 00:39:26,719
Speaker 1: the fifty three, or it's players who are on another

793
00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:29,960
Speaker 1: team's practice squad or on the proverbial street. And then

794
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:32,080
Speaker 1: as we move forward, when we're dealing with injuries week

795
00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:34,760
Speaker 1: to week, there is great coordination with our athletic training

796
00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:38,080
Speaker 1: and medical staff in terms of communicating what the issues

797
00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:40,440
Speaker 1: are to make sure that we have a strategy and

798
00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:44,759
Speaker 1: plan in place to be reactive to those injuries. But

799
00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:48,360
Speaker 1: we spend so much time being proactive getting ready for

800
00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:51,239
Speaker 1: when and if that Once we get that information from

801
00:39:51,239 --> 00:39:54,920
Speaker 1: our doctors and trainers about time potentially missed for players,

802
00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:57,960
Speaker 1: we're ready to implement our solutions at that stage. With

803
00:39:58,120 --> 00:40:01,279
Speaker 1: other teams. Practice squad player these are players that you

804
00:40:01,320 --> 00:40:03,520
Speaker 1: have some tape on, but you really haven't seen them

805
00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:06,160
Speaker 1: in three or four months maybe, and there they are

806
00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:08,799
Speaker 1: a practice squad, so you don't have any recent intelligence

807
00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:11,040
Speaker 1: on them perhaps, but you have to sort of have

808
00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:13,319
Speaker 1: a leap of faith if you make that signing right. Yeah,

809
00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:16,399
Speaker 1: we evaluate volumes and volumes of players, and we spend

810
00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:20,160
Speaker 1: a lot of time identifying specific players across the league

811
00:40:20,160 --> 00:40:24,000
Speaker 1: on rosters could be twenty to thirty players per team

812
00:40:24,239 --> 00:40:27,480
Speaker 1: every preseason to prepare for these types of situations for

813
00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:30,520
Speaker 1: those players who are might be bubble players on the

814
00:40:30,520 --> 00:40:32,759
Speaker 1: fifty three or their current teams who would end up

815
00:40:32,760 --> 00:40:34,680
Speaker 1: back on a practice squad if they don't make it,

816
00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:37,279
Speaker 1: or maybe there are guys that look like they might

817
00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:40,239
Speaker 1: not make it in another situation that might go on

818
00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:42,800
Speaker 1: the proverbial street thereafter. Those are the types of players

819
00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:44,680
Speaker 1: are spending a ton of time back of the roster

820
00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:47,560
Speaker 1: players in the preseasons so that when they end up

821
00:40:47,560 --> 00:40:51,560
Speaker 1: on a practice squad, we have evaluations already done because

822
00:40:51,600 --> 00:40:55,960
Speaker 1: their evaluations are generated from preseason of preseason exposures. The

823
00:40:56,080 --> 00:40:58,160
Speaker 1: other combination of that is most of those players are

824
00:40:58,239 --> 00:41:01,560
Speaker 1: rookie players, our second players, no more than third year players,

825
00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:03,960
Speaker 1: so rely heavily equally as well as and what we

826
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:06,440
Speaker 1: thought about those prospects as it relates to the pre

827
00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:09,120
Speaker 1: draft process. Stevie Mitchell is a good example of that.

828
00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:12,560
Speaker 1: He was a young prospect that we liked in the preseason,

829
00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:14,759
Speaker 1: but we thought highly of him in the pre draft

830
00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:17,759
Speaker 1: process as about possible late round, good PFA type guy,

831
00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:19,799
Speaker 1: and then when he was made available, we relied on

832
00:41:19,840 --> 00:41:23,600
Speaker 1: that information from the college background, and then equally his

833
00:41:23,719 --> 00:41:27,400
Speaker 1: pro playing experience with the Rams this preseason, Brian, the division,

834
00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:29,839
Speaker 1: this division has a chance to be the only one

835
00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:32,880
Speaker 1: in Pro football with three winning teams, and you have

836
00:41:33,239 --> 00:41:35,520
Speaker 1: you vying for the championship on Sunday, you have the

837
00:41:35,520 --> 00:41:37,440
Speaker 1: Colts and the Titans playing for some kind of playoff

838
00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:39,920
Speaker 1: Berth on Sunday. That speaks volumes about the depth of

839
00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:42,480
Speaker 1: the division. It certainly does. And I think about last

840
00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:46,560
Speaker 1: year the Jaguars were finalists in the AFC Championship game,

841
00:41:46,600 --> 00:41:49,319
Speaker 1: that Titans went to the playoffs, and now this year

842
00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:52,040
Speaker 1: here we are a position potentially to win the AFC

843
00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:54,719
Speaker 1: South with the Titans and the Colts now fighting for

844
00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:57,840
Speaker 1: a playoff spot. So it's a battle. There's three teams

845
00:41:57,880 --> 00:41:59,560
Speaker 1: right now who were three and two in this division.

846
00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:01,720
Speaker 1: We're one of the Titans and the cults of the others.

847
00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:04,560
Speaker 1: And look where the Jaguars are going to be a

848
00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:06,520
Speaker 1: formidable foe this week. You know, we have a high

849
00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:08,680
Speaker 1: amount of respect from him, as you know, they almost

850
00:42:08,719 --> 00:42:10,680
Speaker 1: beat the Patriots and went to the Super Bowl last year.

851
00:42:10,760 --> 00:42:15,399
Speaker 1: So highly competitive division, very good, very good playing going

852
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:17,040
Speaker 1: on in this division right now. There's a lot at

853
00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:21,520
Speaker 1: stake for all four teams this weekend, especially for us.

854
00:42:21,520 --> 00:42:24,279
Speaker 1: We'll focus on us, so it'd be interesting to see

855
00:42:24,280 --> 00:42:26,239
Speaker 1: how things turn out. Ryot, thanks a lot of good luck,

856
00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:30,120
Speaker 1: Thank you, great stuff there with general manager Brian Gaine.

857
00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:33,239
Speaker 1: All Right, we get back. It's time for a little

858
00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:36,520
Speaker 1: snippet from our in Lab podcast by our, I mean

859
00:42:37,040 --> 00:42:41,520
Speaker 1: me and Drew Doherty Texas TV. Dear Drew, you've seen Drew,

860
00:42:41,560 --> 00:42:43,759
Speaker 1: you know, Drew, have a little snippet from our thoughts

861
00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:46,920
Speaker 1: from the Philadelphia game. He's mad at me about something,

862
00:42:47,120 --> 00:42:49,319
Speaker 1: very mad at me, which we're probably in turn make

863
00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:52,160
Speaker 1: you guys mad at me just because he's superstitious. And

864
00:42:52,280 --> 00:42:55,680
Speaker 1: we'll talk a little bit about the Jacksonville Jaguars and

865
00:42:55,760 --> 00:42:58,200
Speaker 1: this one that will take place on Sunday next on

866
00:42:58,239 --> 00:43:02,480
Speaker 1: Texas All Access. As we begin our second hour of

867
00:43:02,560 --> 00:43:05,640
Speaker 1: action right here in Texans All Access, it's time for

868
00:43:05,680 --> 00:43:07,520
Speaker 1: our Choose Fun moment of the week, has brought to

869
00:43:07,520 --> 00:43:10,080
Speaker 1: you by Carnival. Don't forget to answer for your chance

870
00:43:10,120 --> 00:43:13,400
Speaker 1: to win a cruise every week if the Texans catch

871
00:43:13,480 --> 00:43:17,879
Speaker 1: a touchdown, and that's happened a lot this year, I think,

872
00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:21,319
Speaker 1: each and every week, I believe. So let's get to

873
00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:25,000
Speaker 1: our Choose Fun moment of the week, and for you,

874
00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:29,600
Speaker 1: I chose what was a good one? Oh, this is

875
00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:31,880
Speaker 1: a good one. How about this one? First down at

876
00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:36,600
Speaker 1: the Eagles twenty yard line. DeShawn looks it over Martin

877
00:43:36,680 --> 00:43:39,880
Speaker 1: with the snap, Parris Watson in the pocket looking bailing

878
00:43:39,880 --> 00:43:41,840
Speaker 1: out to the right side to Sean trying to square

879
00:43:41,920 --> 00:43:44,200
Speaker 1: up and throw. He does downfield. He goes got a

880
00:43:44,280 --> 00:43:48,600
Speaker 1: man Foreman touchdown to Houston. But that was fun. That

881
00:43:48,680 --> 00:43:52,480
Speaker 1: was Deontay Foreman catching a touchdown pass Carnival, the official

882
00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:56,279
Speaker 1: cruise line of the Houston Texans, choose fun. That was

883
00:43:56,280 --> 00:43:59,520
Speaker 1: fun seeing Deontay Foreman get in the end zone and

884
00:43:59,560 --> 00:44:02,279
Speaker 1: get the taking care of all right. What's also fun

885
00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:04,920
Speaker 1: is are in the Lab podcast, So Drew Doherty and

886
00:44:04,960 --> 00:44:07,800
Speaker 1: I do each in every week, and this little snippet

887
00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:10,440
Speaker 1: talking about some of that Philadelphia game moving out to

888
00:44:10,560 --> 00:44:14,120
Speaker 1: Jacksonville and why Drew dohrty is really mad at me. Well,

889
00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:15,959
Speaker 1: and he hasn't let it go yet. But let's start

890
00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:19,319
Speaker 1: with the bone. Yeah, up in the press box on

891
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:22,719
Speaker 1: the road, I leave the press box. I'm in the

892
00:44:22,719 --> 00:44:25,520
Speaker 1: press box during the game. I leave the press box

893
00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:28,200
Speaker 1: with about in between eight and ten minutes to go

894
00:44:28,280 --> 00:44:29,880
Speaker 1: because you got to get down to the field. They

895
00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:32,719
Speaker 1: hold the elevators for coaches at the back the six

896
00:44:32,760 --> 00:44:34,279
Speaker 1: minute marks. You can't get down to the field if

897
00:44:34,320 --> 00:44:37,279
Speaker 1: you want to leave before then. So I leave at

898
00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:39,799
Speaker 1: that point. Texans are down by thirteen points on the

899
00:44:39,920 --> 00:44:42,520
Speaker 1: road to the defending Super Bowl champs, and I turned

900
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:46,600
Speaker 1: turned to Deep Situ and Jesse Clark, who helps manage

901
00:44:46,600 --> 00:44:48,880
Speaker 1: the social media account here for the Texans. I say,

902
00:44:49,160 --> 00:44:52,680
Speaker 1: I'll see you guys after the comeback. Talking about the Texans.

903
00:44:53,680 --> 00:44:57,880
Speaker 1: Get down to the field. It's fourth and long. Texans

904
00:44:58,120 --> 00:45:01,480
Speaker 1: are going for it and they get stopped, so Eagles

905
00:45:01,520 --> 00:45:04,520
Speaker 1: have the ball back. That place is rocking on the sidelines.

906
00:45:06,040 --> 00:45:08,960
Speaker 1: I stand next to you, as I typically do on

907
00:45:09,080 --> 00:45:11,360
Speaker 1: road games. Yep, I saw you. I saw you comment.

908
00:45:11,400 --> 00:45:15,840
Speaker 1: I was like, hey, you know, I always anticipate you

909
00:45:15,960 --> 00:45:17,520
Speaker 1: being down there at some point in a road game,

910
00:45:17,600 --> 00:45:19,200
Speaker 1: like when I'm gonna see you. And I felt like

911
00:45:19,239 --> 00:45:20,919
Speaker 1: I was seeing you a little bit earlier this time

912
00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:22,919
Speaker 1: than than normal. But I was like, oh, hey, what's

913
00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:24,600
Speaker 1: up man, Okay, good, And it's like we don't even

914
00:45:24,640 --> 00:45:26,680
Speaker 1: gonna say anything. Really, you just kinda kind of brushed up.

915
00:45:26,719 --> 00:45:28,279
Speaker 1: Next year, I kind of stand next to you. Yea

916
00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:30,560
Speaker 1: for the rest of it. So I come and I

917
00:45:30,600 --> 00:45:34,200
Speaker 1: stand next to you. Eagles have the ball, boom, fumble,

918
00:45:34,400 --> 00:45:37,719
Speaker 1: Texans get it back. Yeah. He plays later touchdown Deonta Foreman.

919
00:45:37,760 --> 00:45:39,640
Speaker 1: We're standing next to each other, yep. And I turned

920
00:45:39,640 --> 00:45:41,239
Speaker 1: you and I go, hey, good things have been happening.

921
00:45:41,360 --> 00:45:42,880
Speaker 1: Let's not move from the spot. I don't know if

922
00:45:42,880 --> 00:45:44,720
Speaker 1: you heard me or not. I did. I heard you, Okay,

923
00:45:45,120 --> 00:45:48,080
Speaker 1: I heard you. Three and out. Texans defense forces a punt.

924
00:45:49,480 --> 00:45:51,680
Speaker 1: They bungle it. The Eagles do and it's a touchback.

925
00:45:51,719 --> 00:45:54,839
Speaker 1: Should have been down into one, should have been boom boom,

926
00:45:54,880 --> 00:45:58,080
Speaker 1: boom boom. I mean, Deshaun makes one of his Deshaun plays,

927
00:45:58,320 --> 00:46:01,799
Speaker 1: and then a few plays later to touchdown. Texans have

928
00:46:01,920 --> 00:46:05,239
Speaker 1: a thirty to twenty nine lead. They kick off and

929
00:46:05,440 --> 00:46:09,040
Speaker 1: they cover the hell out of that kickoff, drive them

930
00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:11,239
Speaker 1: out of bounds at what the ten nine yard life,

931
00:46:12,120 --> 00:46:16,120
Speaker 1: I mean, everything is rolling. And then some guy from

932
00:46:16,160 --> 00:46:20,160
Speaker 1: Philadelphia on the sideline, some worker in some capacity, comes

933
00:46:20,239 --> 00:46:22,760
Speaker 1: up to me and he hands me one of those batteries.

934
00:46:22,800 --> 00:46:25,560
Speaker 1: It's battery and nine volteries, like, hey, is this your battery?

935
00:46:25,560 --> 00:46:28,360
Speaker 1: I was like, uh no, but I tap. I was

936
00:46:28,360 --> 00:46:30,879
Speaker 1: like this your battery, and you take it and you're

937
00:46:30,880 --> 00:46:33,640
Speaker 1: like yeah, thanks, and then I didn't see you and

938
00:46:33,719 --> 00:46:36,880
Speaker 1: then their drive straight. So listen, you are the reason

939
00:46:37,280 --> 00:46:40,439
Speaker 1: you left that spot. I couldn't find you. That's why

940
00:46:40,440 --> 00:46:43,080
Speaker 1: the Texans lost. Okay, So in my defense, a couple

941
00:46:43,080 --> 00:46:49,880
Speaker 1: of things. Number one, the battery on the drive to

942
00:46:50,040 --> 00:46:54,240
Speaker 1: go ahead, the drive that resulted in the Vincent Smith touchdown.

943
00:46:54,360 --> 00:46:57,400
Speaker 1: The battery on my microphone went out, so nine volt battery.

944
00:46:57,440 --> 00:47:00,160
Speaker 1: So I always carry two batteries with me, and so

945
00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:03,640
Speaker 1: it goes out right when we're about to snap the

946
00:47:03,680 --> 00:47:06,440
Speaker 1: ball at some point. And so what I do is

947
00:47:06,560 --> 00:47:08,520
Speaker 1: I just reached my pocket, grabbed the battery. I take

948
00:47:08,560 --> 00:47:12,919
Speaker 1: the one out and I just throw it on the ground. Yeah,

949
00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:15,120
Speaker 1: and I just threw it underground, put the new one

950
00:47:15,200 --> 00:47:17,239
Speaker 1: in away we go. I didn't think much of it.

951
00:47:17,440 --> 00:47:19,080
Speaker 1: I thought at the time. I was like, I'll go

952
00:47:19,120 --> 00:47:23,080
Speaker 1: back and throw that in trash. So that was why

953
00:47:23,120 --> 00:47:26,239
Speaker 1: I did that. So then that was the battery he

954
00:47:26,280 --> 00:47:28,040
Speaker 1: was bringing back to me. Was is it yours? It

955
00:47:28,160 --> 00:47:31,520
Speaker 1: was the dead battery. So at that point, yeah, so

956
00:47:31,560 --> 00:47:33,200
Speaker 1: I take it and then I go throw it away

957
00:47:33,239 --> 00:47:35,040
Speaker 1: and it's at that point where they start to move,

958
00:47:35,520 --> 00:47:37,160
Speaker 1: so I go down to the other sideline, the other

959
00:47:37,280 --> 00:47:40,640
Speaker 1: the other aspect of this is all game long. For

960
00:47:40,760 --> 00:47:44,319
Speaker 1: whatever reason, I had horrible static on that side of

961
00:47:44,320 --> 00:47:48,120
Speaker 1: the field in my ears. Yeah, I had horrible static

962
00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:52,640
Speaker 1: the whole entire game. So I could barely hear Mark

963
00:47:52,680 --> 00:47:54,640
Speaker 1: and Andrea at certain times, Like there were times I

964
00:47:54,719 --> 00:47:57,080
Speaker 1: literally have to turn my head. You know how you

965
00:47:57,160 --> 00:47:59,480
Speaker 1: used to have those old school like nineteen eighties TVs

966
00:48:00,080 --> 00:48:03,440
Speaker 1: CRTs and you'd have to like use the antenna and

967
00:48:03,480 --> 00:48:06,000
Speaker 1: you kind of atenna. No no no, no, no, no, no, okay,

968
00:48:06,080 --> 00:48:08,759
Speaker 1: little this way, oh no, no no, no, back the other way. Okay, good, good, good,

969
00:48:08,800 --> 00:48:10,920
Speaker 1: leave it, leave it, leave it, Okay, We're good. That

970
00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:12,359
Speaker 1: was kind of the way. It wasn't my ears all

971
00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:15,000
Speaker 1: day long, and so on that side of the field,

972
00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:16,759
Speaker 1: it was really it was really I could stand in

973
00:48:16,880 --> 00:48:21,080
Speaker 1: one spot, like one spot and it was okay, but

974
00:48:21,200 --> 00:48:23,920
Speaker 1: then it started getting bad, and so it was kind

975
00:48:23,960 --> 00:48:26,440
Speaker 1: of combined with and it was bad on either side,

976
00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:28,520
Speaker 1: but I knew there was probably a little bit of

977
00:48:28,520 --> 00:48:30,440
Speaker 1: a spot I could stand. And then when they got

978
00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:32,960
Speaker 1: when they moved down there, I was like, I need

979
00:48:32,960 --> 00:48:34,920
Speaker 1: to be behind the uprights to you know, see if

980
00:48:34,960 --> 00:48:36,680
Speaker 1: the field goal goes through. If that's what they're gonna do.

981
00:48:36,760 --> 00:48:38,799
Speaker 1: Is I figured that's what they were gonna do, and

982
00:48:38,840 --> 00:48:41,319
Speaker 1: so I was kind of battling that all day. I

983
00:48:41,360 --> 00:48:43,560
Speaker 1: heard you say, hey, stand next to me, Stand next

984
00:48:43,560 --> 00:48:46,000
Speaker 1: to me. The problem was I was listening to so

985
00:48:46,080 --> 00:48:48,200
Speaker 1: much static in my ears. I was like, by the

986
00:48:48,200 --> 00:48:49,680
Speaker 1: time the game was over, I literally just written my

987
00:48:49,680 --> 00:48:51,759
Speaker 1: headphones off. I was like, oh my god, I'd read

988
00:48:51,880 --> 00:48:53,800
Speaker 1: listen to the crowd noise, then all the static and

989
00:48:53,960 --> 00:48:56,000
Speaker 1: and I mean it literally was so bad. And then

990
00:48:56,160 --> 00:48:57,840
Speaker 1: sometimes they were like I've been on the road and

991
00:48:57,880 --> 00:48:59,919
Speaker 1: a crackle, been at home and all crack a little

992
00:48:59,920 --> 00:49:02,359
Speaker 1: bit it or to go out at certain times. I mean,

993
00:49:02,400 --> 00:49:07,200
Speaker 1: like I'm used to all day on Sunday, like my ears.

994
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:09,840
Speaker 1: It was like listening to it was like listening to

995
00:49:10,960 --> 00:49:14,160
Speaker 1: rain drops and wind at the same time, like all

996
00:49:14,200 --> 00:49:15,759
Speaker 1: my ears. And so that's what I was listening to

997
00:49:15,800 --> 00:49:20,000
Speaker 1: all game. And so yeah, not exactly. And so I

998
00:49:20,080 --> 00:49:22,160
Speaker 1: found my spot and then that spot started to die,

999
00:49:22,239 --> 00:49:24,279
Speaker 1: and so that's why I ended up moving. And I'm

1000
00:49:24,320 --> 00:49:27,160
Speaker 1: just so used to moving that I'm so used to

1001
00:49:27,160 --> 00:49:28,839
Speaker 1: moving with the ball and keeping up with the ball

1002
00:49:28,880 --> 00:49:30,799
Speaker 1: and I just when when I threw the battery way,

1003
00:49:30,840 --> 00:49:32,000
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, I'll just go to the other side.

1004
00:49:32,120 --> 00:49:34,880
Speaker 1: I'm kind of planning for that, and so its ultimately

1005
00:49:34,920 --> 00:49:37,759
Speaker 1: it was my fault. So yes, I have accepted the

1006
00:49:37,840 --> 00:49:41,200
Speaker 1: blame absolutely, and it's it's not your fault. But I'll

1007
00:49:41,280 --> 00:49:45,360
Speaker 1: be damned if you didn't disappear. Completion of Jeffrey plus

1008
00:49:45,360 --> 00:49:50,720
Speaker 1: the fifteen yard It's like, golly, but yeah. Um. Vincent

1009
00:49:50,840 --> 00:49:56,160
Speaker 1: Smith is a very interesting character on this team. Okay,

1010
00:49:56,400 --> 00:49:59,000
Speaker 1: comes out of Limestone College, which I'd look it up.

1011
00:49:59,080 --> 00:50:02,080
Speaker 1: It's a small school, yeah, in South Carolina, South Carolina.

1012
00:50:02,160 --> 00:50:06,400
Speaker 1: But he came and he went to work in OTAs,

1013
00:50:07,400 --> 00:50:10,080
Speaker 1: he went to work in training camp, was really impressive

1014
00:50:10,120 --> 00:50:13,000
Speaker 1: at the Greenbrier, and he was a guy who the

1015
00:50:13,040 --> 00:50:16,239
Speaker 1: Texans were not gonna let go. They were not going

1016
00:50:16,320 --> 00:50:18,920
Speaker 1: to expose him two cuts. They were not gonna try

1017
00:50:18,960 --> 00:50:20,719
Speaker 1: to sneak him through to the practice squad because he

1018
00:50:20,719 --> 00:50:24,279
Speaker 1: wasn't gonna get stuck through. This guy made plays and

1019
00:50:24,320 --> 00:50:26,080
Speaker 1: then he's you know, he got a start early in

1020
00:50:26,080 --> 00:50:28,279
Speaker 1: the season. He played a little bit, He's caught a

1021
00:50:28,320 --> 00:50:30,640
Speaker 1: pass and then he catches the biggest pass of his

1022
00:50:30,719 --> 00:50:35,360
Speaker 1: life on Sunday, gorgeous catch got his knees and bounds.

1023
00:50:35,760 --> 00:50:39,400
Speaker 1: I mean gorgeous ball from Deshaun Watson. But you listen

1024
00:50:39,440 --> 00:50:42,560
Speaker 1: to what Watson says afterwards. You listen to what DeAndre

1025
00:50:42,680 --> 00:50:45,280
Speaker 1: Hopkins says after Do you listen to what Bill O'Brien

1026
00:50:45,320 --> 00:50:48,560
Speaker 1: said afterwards? This is a guy that they say we

1027
00:50:48,680 --> 00:50:50,080
Speaker 1: had a lot of trust him. We see what he

1028
00:50:50,120 --> 00:50:52,760
Speaker 1: does every day in practice. He's a playmaker, he's a burner.

1029
00:50:53,520 --> 00:50:56,200
Speaker 1: What does the future hold for Vincent Smith? Because I

1030
00:50:56,239 --> 00:50:58,560
Speaker 1: know you you talked about him all the time in

1031
00:50:58,600 --> 00:51:01,799
Speaker 1: August he was he had very high hopes for this

1032
00:51:01,840 --> 00:51:05,839
Speaker 1: guy and very very high praise well last year during

1033
00:51:05,840 --> 00:51:09,480
Speaker 1: the draft season being a rookie. He popped up on

1034
00:51:09,480 --> 00:51:12,200
Speaker 1: the radar screen after South Carolina Pro Day University of

1035
00:51:12,200 --> 00:51:15,560
Speaker 1: South Carolina, because Limestone is a small place, small school,

1036
00:51:15,680 --> 00:51:19,000
Speaker 1: plays with his two football Their school didn't have a

1037
00:51:19,040 --> 00:51:20,279
Speaker 1: pro day, and I don't know if they ever have.

1038
00:51:20,440 --> 00:51:23,359
Speaker 1: And so the scouts asked if Vincent would go run

1039
00:51:23,560 --> 00:51:26,279
Speaker 1: at South Carolina Pro Day, and so he did, and

1040
00:51:26,320 --> 00:51:28,440
Speaker 1: he ran at the pro day. He ran like four

1041
00:51:28,520 --> 00:51:32,000
Speaker 1: three seven, just blazed it in South Carolina Pro Day

1042
00:51:32,040 --> 00:51:34,719
Speaker 1: was shortly after the combine. It was like a week.

1043
00:51:34,760 --> 00:51:36,440
Speaker 1: It was maybe like a week or so after the combine,

1044
00:51:36,480 --> 00:51:39,239
Speaker 1: So he did not get a combined invite. He ended

1045
00:51:39,320 --> 00:51:42,120
Speaker 1: up going to that South Coina Pro Day when he

1046
00:51:42,200 --> 00:51:45,680
Speaker 1: ran four three seven. Then he had other measurables. I

1047
00:51:45,680 --> 00:51:48,680
Speaker 1: mean he was he measured six ninety. You know, he's

1048
00:51:48,680 --> 00:51:52,080
Speaker 1: got good sized height, weight, speed type stuff. But the

1049
00:51:52,080 --> 00:51:54,800
Speaker 1: four three seven was like whoa kind of got everybody's attention.

1050
00:51:55,840 --> 00:51:59,200
Speaker 1: About two or three hours after South Carolina Pro Day,

1051
00:51:59,440 --> 00:52:01,880
Speaker 1: a picture shows up and it looks like kind of

1052
00:52:01,880 --> 00:52:05,640
Speaker 1: the it looks like, um, there's a pruder film of

1053
00:52:05,680 --> 00:52:08,640
Speaker 1: the jfk assassination. And it's like from way far away,

1054
00:52:08,640 --> 00:52:12,600
Speaker 1: but you can make out that's Vincent Smith. Who's the

1055
00:52:12,600 --> 00:52:15,239
Speaker 1: other guy? I can make that out. That's Belichick. So

1056
00:52:15,360 --> 00:52:18,160
Speaker 1: Belichick had had been at South Carolina Pro Day, and

1057
00:52:18,200 --> 00:52:19,600
Speaker 1: he does he goes to a lot of pro days.

1058
00:52:19,880 --> 00:52:21,960
Speaker 1: He went to South Carolina Pro Day and talked to

1059
00:52:22,040 --> 00:52:25,359
Speaker 1: Vincent Smith afterwards. From that point forward, Vincent Smith went

1060
00:52:25,520 --> 00:52:30,239
Speaker 1: crazy on draft Twitter. I mean, he was a hot name.

1061
00:52:30,400 --> 00:52:33,200
Speaker 1: Where's he gonna go? I mean, he really he worked

1062
00:52:33,239 --> 00:52:36,000
Speaker 1: out for I don't know. It seemed like every team,

1063
00:52:36,160 --> 00:52:39,279
Speaker 1: Vince Smith became this kind of almost like a cult figure, like,

1064
00:52:39,320 --> 00:52:41,480
Speaker 1: oh my god, who is this guy? You know what's

1065
00:52:41,520 --> 00:52:43,600
Speaker 1: gonna happen? And then he ends up in Houston. I thought, well,

1066
00:52:43,719 --> 00:52:45,920
Speaker 1: what's he coming to Houston for. He's not gonna have

1067
00:52:46,040 --> 00:52:48,520
Speaker 1: much opportunity because you have Fuller here, they drafted QT.

1068
00:52:49,280 --> 00:52:52,440
Speaker 1: He got already DeAndre Hopkins here, so I'm not sure

1069
00:52:52,440 --> 00:52:54,640
Speaker 1: why he came here. I don't know how much opportunity,

1070
00:52:54,680 --> 00:52:57,880
Speaker 1: but looking back, I'm glad that he did. He the

1071
00:52:57,920 --> 00:53:00,799
Speaker 1: one thing that Bill Bill O'Brien said that really kind

1072
00:53:00,840 --> 00:53:02,720
Speaker 1: of caught my attention and I thought it was really

1073
00:53:02,719 --> 00:53:05,799
Speaker 1: interesting he said this during the Coach's Show. I asked

1074
00:53:05,880 --> 00:53:08,120
Speaker 1: him about that play and about him being ready for

1075
00:53:08,120 --> 00:53:09,600
Speaker 1: the moment, and there were a couple of things that

1076
00:53:09,600 --> 00:53:11,359
Speaker 1: stood out. Number one, that game then he started against

1077
00:53:11,400 --> 00:53:14,239
Speaker 1: New England. You could tell that in that game, the

1078
00:53:14,280 --> 00:53:15,640
Speaker 1: moment it was probably a little bit bigger than he

1079
00:53:15,680 --> 00:53:17,560
Speaker 1: was ready for at that time. It was kind of

1080
00:53:17,560 --> 00:53:19,319
Speaker 1: like WHOA. So there were some times where he wasn't

1081
00:53:19,400 --> 00:53:21,680
Speaker 1: quite sure where you need to be, and he was

1082
00:53:21,719 --> 00:53:24,359
Speaker 1: starting because Will Fuller couldn't play that game. Will wasn't

1083
00:53:24,360 --> 00:53:27,319
Speaker 1: ready till the next week at Tennessee. So you could

1084
00:53:27,360 --> 00:53:29,560
Speaker 1: tell that he was kind of unsure of himself and

1085
00:53:30,200 --> 00:53:35,120
Speaker 1: it just it didn't go great in that game. Obviously, yeah, exactly,

1086
00:53:35,440 --> 00:53:39,280
Speaker 1: not not just Vincent, but I just remember feeling like, Okay,

1087
00:53:39,600 --> 00:53:42,000
Speaker 1: one day, he's gonna get it. One day he's gonna

1088
00:53:42,000 --> 00:53:43,480
Speaker 1: get it. And I kept cheering for him because I

1089
00:53:43,520 --> 00:53:45,920
Speaker 1: want I want those guys to see, hey, you work hard,

1090
00:53:45,960 --> 00:53:48,279
Speaker 1: you're gonna get rewarded. And then against the Giant team

1091
00:53:48,320 --> 00:53:50,200
Speaker 1: made that big play that got near the end zone

1092
00:53:50,239 --> 00:53:53,400
Speaker 1: at the end. But then at that point Will was

1093
00:53:53,440 --> 00:53:57,080
Speaker 1: already back. QT was coming back against Indianapolis in week four,

1094
00:53:57,160 --> 00:53:58,920
Speaker 1: and then it looked like okay, boom, here you go.

1095
00:53:59,160 --> 00:54:02,640
Speaker 1: Will goes down there bringing de Marius, they bringing DeAndre Carter,

1096
00:54:02,800 --> 00:54:05,120
Speaker 1: and so Vincent kind of kind of Biden's time, but

1097
00:54:05,120 --> 00:54:08,000
Speaker 1: he was inactive. He kept working at it. But one

1098
00:54:08,000 --> 00:54:11,400
Speaker 1: thing that Bill said was we've coached him. He's accepted

1099
00:54:11,440 --> 00:54:15,440
Speaker 1: to coaching, and we've coached him hard, and they I

1100
00:54:15,440 --> 00:54:17,600
Speaker 1: remember a buddy of mine in high school. I'll never

1101
00:54:17,600 --> 00:54:19,520
Speaker 1: forget this. He was a sophomore, I was a senior,

1102
00:54:19,520 --> 00:54:21,760
Speaker 1: and I remember he used to think that our basketball

1103
00:54:21,800 --> 00:54:23,759
Speaker 1: coach was hard on him, and I was like, I

1104
00:54:23,840 --> 00:54:26,359
Speaker 1: was like, you should be happy, and he goes, why

1105
00:54:26,400 --> 00:54:28,640
Speaker 1: he's the coach is always on my butt about things,

1106
00:54:28,680 --> 00:54:31,040
Speaker 1: And I said, because he believes in what you can do.

1107
00:54:31,120 --> 00:54:35,160
Speaker 1: He sees the potential. So knowing that and that he's

1108
00:54:35,200 --> 00:54:37,799
Speaker 1: accepting that coaching, I mean, the coaching staff sees the

1109
00:54:37,800 --> 00:54:40,480
Speaker 1: potential in Vincent, and so they're coaching him so that

1110
00:54:40,520 --> 00:54:42,520
Speaker 1: he's ready for a moment like that. So what I

1111
00:54:42,640 --> 00:54:44,920
Speaker 1: loved about it was when he went into the game,

1112
00:54:45,960 --> 00:54:48,120
Speaker 1: he knew where to line up. He immediately lined up,

1113
00:54:48,239 --> 00:54:50,319
Speaker 1: He got himself ready to go. He knew exactly what

1114
00:54:50,320 --> 00:54:52,680
Speaker 1: he needed to do. He read coverages properly, and he

1115
00:54:52,719 --> 00:54:55,200
Speaker 1: and de Sean run the same page. He in the

1116
00:54:55,200 --> 00:54:58,719
Speaker 1: aftermath as well said he was very modest about He's like,

1117
00:54:58,760 --> 00:55:00,920
Speaker 1: I just ran my route what they coached me to do.

1118
00:55:01,560 --> 00:55:03,880
Speaker 1: And the one of the follow up questions he answered,

1119
00:55:04,080 --> 00:55:06,360
Speaker 1: he said, yeah, it's just good to have to know

1120
00:55:06,400 --> 00:55:08,040
Speaker 1: that they have that trust in me, that DeShawn had

1121
00:55:08,080 --> 00:55:09,640
Speaker 1: that trust me, that my teammates had that trust me,

1122
00:55:09,680 --> 00:55:11,120
Speaker 1: And I think that was really cool to see. HI mean,

1123
00:55:11,120 --> 00:55:13,640
Speaker 1: he was he was down because the Texans had just lost.

1124
00:55:13,920 --> 00:55:18,799
Speaker 1: He wasn't like Yippi Kaya. Yeah, look he was down,

1125
00:55:18,880 --> 00:55:22,319
Speaker 1: but he had a huge catch there, and I mean

1126
00:55:22,520 --> 00:55:24,920
Speaker 1: the future is bright. It just you go back and

1127
00:55:24,920 --> 00:55:28,080
Speaker 1: you watch the aftermath of that play and it's awesome

1128
00:55:28,200 --> 00:55:32,040
Speaker 1: seeing him and DeAndre Carter just celebrating together with Aiken's

1129
00:55:32,320 --> 00:55:34,719
Speaker 1: coming in. It's all these young guys. I mean, this

1130
00:55:34,800 --> 00:55:38,400
Speaker 1: is a young team, John, is it real waves. I mean,

1131
00:55:38,440 --> 00:55:40,919
Speaker 1: it's really fun to see and it will certainly gain

1132
00:55:41,040 --> 00:55:44,400
Speaker 1: experience and all that other good stuff the more games

1133
00:55:44,400 --> 00:55:47,720
Speaker 1: it plays, and that will happen very soon. Good stuff

1134
00:55:47,719 --> 00:55:49,399
Speaker 1: there from our end lap podcast. You want to hear

1135
00:55:49,400 --> 00:55:51,680
Speaker 1: all of that, go to wherever you get your podcast.

1136
00:55:51,719 --> 00:55:53,560
Speaker 1: I would tell you wherever podcasts are sold, but they're

1137
00:55:53,600 --> 00:55:57,600
Speaker 1: not sold. They're just placed in this place where you

1138
00:55:57,600 --> 00:56:00,080
Speaker 1: can get podcasts. So it's iTunes, stitch your tune and

1139
00:56:00,080 --> 00:56:02,160
Speaker 1: however you get him, get her in the Lab podcast

1140
00:56:02,200 --> 00:56:04,080
Speaker 1: and you can hear that whole thing. All right, we

1141
00:56:04,120 --> 00:56:06,279
Speaker 1: get back Mark Vandamer's gonna stop buying and give us

1142
00:56:06,400 --> 00:56:08,640
Speaker 1: his thoughts about what he saw Sunday and what the

1143
00:56:08,640 --> 00:56:11,560
Speaker 1: Texans have got to do this weekend and some of

1144
00:56:11,560 --> 00:56:13,960
Speaker 1: those scenarios that could take place on Sunday as well.

1145
00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:16,720
Speaker 1: Right here in Texas Access, we'll go back to Wednesday

1146
00:56:16,800 --> 00:56:20,040
Speaker 1: edition of Texas All Axis from the Honday Texans Radio Studio.

1147
00:56:20,239 --> 00:56:24,480
Speaker 1: I'm your host, John Harris, getting ready for Sunday's matchup

1148
00:56:24,560 --> 00:56:29,200
Speaker 1: with the Jacksonville Jaguars. We end the season this year,

1149
00:56:29,400 --> 00:56:32,560
Speaker 1: we started with them last year. The man who called

1150
00:56:32,600 --> 00:56:35,640
Speaker 1: the action has done it every single Texans game joins

1151
00:56:35,680 --> 00:56:38,440
Speaker 1: me now the voice of Texas Mark vandemer Mark Merry Christmas.

1152
00:56:38,440 --> 00:56:40,719
Speaker 1: Hope you had a good one, Johnny, Merry Christmas. This

1153
00:56:40,840 --> 00:56:43,400
Speaker 1: is a big one, obviously, and Jacksonville is such a

1154
00:56:43,440 --> 00:56:46,480
Speaker 1: part of the Texans history. I mean, somebody milestones throughout

1155
00:56:46,520 --> 00:56:52,000
Speaker 1: the franchise's history and final games here at NRG Stadium,

1156
00:56:52,040 --> 00:56:55,360
Speaker 1: Oh seven, going five hundred three years ago, winning the

1157
00:56:55,440 --> 00:56:59,279
Speaker 1: division against the Jags. Even last year, I think you

1158
00:56:59,360 --> 00:57:02,359
Speaker 1: talked about a big step in the right direction of

1159
00:57:02,400 --> 00:57:05,240
Speaker 1: winning the division two years ago rather in twenty sixteen.

1160
00:57:05,320 --> 00:57:08,719
Speaker 1: Last year not so much. But here we are. This

1161
00:57:08,800 --> 00:57:11,880
Speaker 1: is a big one. This feels just gut reaction to

1162
00:57:11,960 --> 00:57:17,440
Speaker 1: this morning. This feels like, well, you know, the shirts

1163
00:57:17,480 --> 00:57:20,680
Speaker 1: that we've seen around the building. Bill O'Brien introduced him.

1164
00:57:20,720 --> 00:57:25,760
Speaker 1: I think in twenty sixteen grit. Yes, this feels like

1165
00:57:26,040 --> 00:57:29,960
Speaker 1: it is kind of a gritty, grindy. This doesn't feel

1166
00:57:30,000 --> 00:57:33,960
Speaker 1: like a thirty to three blowout. This feels like nineteen

1167
00:57:34,040 --> 00:57:37,640
Speaker 1: to nine or twenty three to fourteen, something like that.

1168
00:57:37,840 --> 00:57:40,240
Speaker 1: That's what this one feels like. It's a bowl game

1169
00:57:40,280 --> 00:57:44,000
Speaker 1: for Jacksonville, right and I look at what they did

1170
00:57:44,120 --> 00:57:46,640
Speaker 1: last week. The bright side of that as well, they'll

1171
00:57:46,640 --> 00:57:48,960
Speaker 1: have the undefined attention of the Texans, who would have

1172
00:57:48,960 --> 00:57:50,800
Speaker 1: been ready for this one no matter what, knowing what's

1173
00:57:50,800 --> 00:57:54,280
Speaker 1: at stake. But the fact that the Jacks beat Miami

1174
00:57:54,360 --> 00:57:56,880
Speaker 1: the way they did, I think adds a little to

1175
00:57:56,960 --> 00:58:01,520
Speaker 1: the antenna going up against this opponent this particular week.

1176
00:58:02,360 --> 00:58:04,360
Speaker 1: So that was the good part of it. The bad

1177
00:58:04,360 --> 00:58:06,640
Speaker 1: part of it is, Oh, Jacksonville still interested in playing

1178
00:58:06,640 --> 00:58:08,680
Speaker 1: professional football this year. You know, I was hoping they

1179
00:58:08,680 --> 00:58:10,479
Speaker 1: would kind of mail it in and just get ready

1180
00:58:10,480 --> 00:58:13,520
Speaker 1: for Cobo or something, but clearly they have other ideas.

1181
00:58:13,520 --> 00:58:16,800
Speaker 1: And the Blake Bortles thing is an interesting development, because

1182
00:58:16,840 --> 00:58:19,240
Speaker 1: what can Blake do for you Jacksonville. He can run

1183
00:58:19,280 --> 00:58:22,480
Speaker 1: the football and I don't know, I'm not saying they're

1184
00:58:22,480 --> 00:58:25,200
Speaker 1: gonna redo their offense for this one. But hey, those

1185
00:58:25,520 --> 00:58:27,000
Speaker 1: you know, you get a first down or two with

1186
00:58:27,040 --> 00:58:28,840
Speaker 1: your legs at a key moment, it could be a

1187
00:58:28,880 --> 00:58:32,080
Speaker 1: real touchy situation for this team. So you get better,

1188
00:58:32,120 --> 00:58:34,480
Speaker 1: get ready. Now they're very familiar with Blake and that's

1189
00:58:34,480 --> 00:58:36,840
Speaker 1: a good thing. It is. And to your point, I

1190
00:58:36,840 --> 00:58:38,600
Speaker 1: think you're absolutely right. And I think the way the

1191
00:58:38,600 --> 00:58:41,360
Speaker 1: Texans approached Blake last time is probably the way that

1192
00:58:41,400 --> 00:58:43,400
Speaker 1: they're gonna approach him this time, and that is he

1193
00:58:43,480 --> 00:58:45,880
Speaker 1: drops the throw. There's a spy on him every play,

1194
00:58:45,920 --> 00:58:48,360
Speaker 1: and that's really how they got through their best through.

1195
00:58:48,400 --> 00:58:51,080
Speaker 1: Their biggest plays against him were two fumbles they created

1196
00:58:51,440 --> 00:58:54,520
Speaker 1: when Blake tried to scramble. They had spies ready to go,

1197
00:58:54,560 --> 00:58:56,680
Speaker 1: and those spies made the tackle and those spies knock

1198
00:58:56,720 --> 00:58:58,800
Speaker 1: the ball out. It's time and the Texans were able

1199
00:58:58,800 --> 00:59:01,840
Speaker 1: to capitalize ten points off those two turnovers in twenty

1200
00:59:01,880 --> 00:59:04,160
Speaker 1: to seven game. Well, there you go. That's what it is.

1201
00:59:04,200 --> 00:59:08,200
Speaker 1: So the one thing, and Blake's gonna have to do

1202
00:59:08,240 --> 00:59:09,840
Speaker 1: that a lot with this offensive line. You just look

1203
00:59:09,880 --> 00:59:11,640
Speaker 1: at this offensive line and goes, that's not the one

1204
00:59:11,680 --> 00:59:13,840
Speaker 1: that they spent a lot of money in draft picks

1205
00:59:13,880 --> 00:59:19,959
Speaker 1: on Cam Robinson's hurt Andrew Norwell's hurt, Brandon Linder's hurt.

1206
00:59:20,440 --> 00:59:22,360
Speaker 1: Those guys are three of the top lineman in the

1207
00:59:22,400 --> 00:59:26,200
Speaker 1: AFC South, in the AFC at their respective positions. I mean,

1208
00:59:26,200 --> 00:59:27,840
Speaker 1: they want to spend a ton of money on Norwell.

1209
00:59:28,160 --> 00:59:30,040
Speaker 1: They put a second round draft pick, a high second

1210
00:59:30,080 --> 00:59:32,360
Speaker 1: round draft pick on Cam Robinson. Those guys are all out,

1211
00:59:32,360 --> 00:59:35,080
Speaker 1: so the investment didn't bay off this year due to injuries.

1212
00:59:35,120 --> 00:59:37,240
Speaker 1: But what they have there now, I think they're on

1213
00:59:37,280 --> 00:59:40,360
Speaker 1: their fourth left tackle and it's Eric Flowers. And if

1214
00:59:40,360 --> 00:59:43,600
Speaker 1: you remember back in Week three we talked about, oh man,

1215
00:59:43,640 --> 00:59:46,360
Speaker 1: I want to see Watton Clowney against Eric Flowers because

1216
00:59:46,360 --> 00:59:48,080
Speaker 1: he was with the Giants. Well, shortly there after he

1217
00:59:48,120 --> 00:59:51,080
Speaker 1: gets released. Jacksonville picked him up, claimed him on waivers

1218
00:59:51,080 --> 00:59:52,800
Speaker 1: the week we were playing them. He didn't play that one,

1219
00:59:52,800 --> 00:59:55,600
Speaker 1: but he's been playing since. So that's a guy that

1220
00:59:55,760 --> 00:59:57,680
Speaker 1: Tom Coughlin had a lot of experience with. But this

1221
00:59:57,760 --> 01:00:00,960
Speaker 1: is a whole different offensive line. Yeah, different offensive line,

1222
01:00:01,000 --> 01:00:03,680
Speaker 1: So I don't know if that gives It definitely gives

1223
01:00:03,720 --> 01:00:06,360
Speaker 1: creeds to the theory that he's gonna run, But now

1224
01:00:06,400 --> 01:00:08,760
Speaker 1: you bet you better tackle him, make a play when

1225
01:00:08,760 --> 01:00:10,600
Speaker 1: he gets out space. Well, What about the flip side

1226
01:00:10,600 --> 01:00:13,160
Speaker 1: of this one, which is Watson had the collapsed long

1227
01:00:13,320 --> 01:00:15,680
Speaker 1: last time they played took the bus ride to Jacksonville,

1228
01:00:15,680 --> 01:00:18,640
Speaker 1: they only scored twenty points. And you mentioned the stat

1229
01:00:18,800 --> 01:00:21,520
Speaker 1: of the amount of points scored for the Houston Texans

1230
01:00:21,560 --> 01:00:23,600
Speaker 1: in recent weeks since Week eleven, the fact that they're

1231
01:00:23,640 --> 01:00:25,880
Speaker 1: top three in the league in scoring points. I mean,

1232
01:00:25,880 --> 01:00:29,200
Speaker 1: that's big right there. Obviously the takeaways have helped a

1233
01:00:29,240 --> 01:00:33,320
Speaker 1: little bit, but Watson's really coming around unbelievably well. And

1234
01:00:33,880 --> 01:00:35,919
Speaker 1: here he is at home with a big moment, and

1235
01:00:35,960 --> 01:00:39,040
Speaker 1: I just know that he'll be able to seize that opportunity.

1236
01:00:39,480 --> 01:00:42,640
Speaker 1: The question is, I guess there's really you know, you

1237
01:00:42,680 --> 01:00:44,840
Speaker 1: look at this defense, Johnny. They've given up a lot

1238
01:00:44,840 --> 01:00:47,400
Speaker 1: through the air lately. The question is can Jacksonville take

1239
01:00:47,400 --> 01:00:49,160
Speaker 1: advantage of that somehow? And I don't know if they

1240
01:00:49,240 --> 01:00:51,040
Speaker 1: have the tools to do it really. You mentioned the

1241
01:00:51,040 --> 01:00:55,320
Speaker 1: old line difficulties, Bartles himself, the receiving crew isn't even

1242
01:00:55,320 --> 01:00:57,560
Speaker 1: what it was last year. You know, Bill O'Brien always

1243
01:00:57,560 --> 01:00:59,680
Speaker 1: talks about how every year is different, every week is different,

1244
01:00:59,680 --> 01:01:02,440
Speaker 1: Well years different. It's a very different Jags team than

1245
01:01:02,440 --> 01:01:05,240
Speaker 1: the one that went to the AFC Championship game, but clearly,

1246
01:01:05,240 --> 01:01:08,320
Speaker 1: based on last week, they're still playing hard. And that

1247
01:01:08,440 --> 01:01:11,880
Speaker 1: also brings me to the subtalk topic of what the

1248
01:01:11,920 --> 01:01:14,400
Speaker 1: heck is with the Miami Dolphins. When you have a

1249
01:01:14,480 --> 01:01:18,080
Speaker 1: playoff berth potentially anyway on the line and you come

1250
01:01:18,080 --> 01:01:21,520
Speaker 1: out with that performance against Jacksonville and look, I'm not

1251
01:01:21,600 --> 01:01:25,440
Speaker 1: expecting an automatic win over the Jaguars by any stretch,

1252
01:01:25,480 --> 01:01:28,120
Speaker 1: but I expected a better performance out of the Dolphins

1253
01:01:28,400 --> 01:01:30,680
Speaker 1: last week and no one got it. It sounds like

1254
01:01:30,720 --> 01:01:33,760
Speaker 1: Steven Ross is not real happy, not only with the

1255
01:01:33,840 --> 01:01:37,360
Speaker 1: performance but with a few other things. I think the

1256
01:01:37,440 --> 01:01:39,600
Speaker 1: performance just was kind of the icing on the cake

1257
01:01:39,680 --> 01:01:43,200
Speaker 1: that apparently afterwards, Ross was a little peeved. So it

1258
01:01:43,240 --> 01:01:45,200
Speaker 1: sounds like there will be changes now, maybe not a

1259
01:01:45,880 --> 01:01:48,840
Speaker 1: head coach. Does sound like they like Adam Gays at

1260
01:01:48,920 --> 01:01:51,040
Speaker 1: least it sounds like he and GM Chris Greer are

1261
01:01:51,040 --> 01:01:54,200
Speaker 1: going to stick around. But it does sound like Mike Tannenbaum,

1262
01:01:54,200 --> 01:01:57,400
Speaker 1: who has some position with the organization, who makes a

1263
01:01:57,400 --> 01:02:00,600
Speaker 1: lot of decisions, and Ryan Tannehill. Those two may not

1264
01:02:00,640 --> 01:02:03,040
Speaker 1: be long for the Miami Dolphins. So this seemed like

1265
01:02:03,080 --> 01:02:05,960
Speaker 1: it was the game that's sort of that galvanized for

1266
01:02:06,080 --> 01:02:08,560
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins fans. But here's the problem with teams that

1267
01:02:08,640 --> 01:02:12,080
Speaker 1: didn't jump on the quarterback sweepstakes last year. With these

1268
01:02:12,120 --> 01:02:15,840
Speaker 1: five rookie quarterbacks, you missed your chance. Justin Herbert's decided

1269
01:02:15,840 --> 01:02:19,080
Speaker 1: to go back to Oregon. You've got Drew Locke and

1270
01:02:19,120 --> 01:02:20,760
Speaker 1: you've got Dwayne Hatten. I don't even know if Dwayne

1271
01:02:20,760 --> 01:02:22,960
Speaker 1: Haskins is I think he has, I can't remember. Just

1272
01:02:23,040 --> 01:02:25,280
Speaker 1: like I want to say, I see those things every day,

1273
01:02:25,440 --> 01:02:27,400
Speaker 1: so they're all kind of blurning together. This guy's going,

1274
01:02:27,440 --> 01:02:30,200
Speaker 1: this guy's not, this guy's going, this guy's investigating. I'm

1275
01:02:30,200 --> 01:02:33,040
Speaker 1: not totally sure about Haskins, but that's really what it

1276
01:02:33,160 --> 01:02:36,640
Speaker 1: is at this point. It's Dwayne Haskins and Drew Locke,

1277
01:02:36,640 --> 01:02:39,040
Speaker 1: and that's it. You had the opportunity last year the Giants.

1278
01:02:39,200 --> 01:02:43,680
Speaker 1: You got Saquon Barkley, But now you're you're gonna go

1279
01:02:43,680 --> 01:02:46,600
Speaker 1: to the ELI Manning probably yet again, yeah, well or

1280
01:02:46,680 --> 01:02:49,320
Speaker 1: maybe not, though maybe they make a change and Manning's

1281
01:02:49,320 --> 01:02:53,280
Speaker 1: on the open market. Bridgewater is available for trade, yes, right,

1282
01:02:53,600 --> 01:02:56,600
Speaker 1: is there anybody else out there? Nick Foles? I don't

1283
01:02:56,640 --> 01:02:58,480
Speaker 1: know if you want to build around Nick Foles as

1284
01:02:58,560 --> 01:03:00,800
Speaker 1: great as he is, and I'll use that word great

1285
01:03:00,840 --> 01:03:02,880
Speaker 1: as he is for the Eagles in these situations. Last

1286
01:03:02,960 --> 01:03:05,760
Speaker 1: year late and this year late, and my gosh, no

1287
01:03:05,800 --> 01:03:07,560
Speaker 1: one would want to play that team in the postseason.

1288
01:03:07,600 --> 01:03:09,480
Speaker 1: They still need Minnesota to lose and they have to

1289
01:03:09,520 --> 01:03:13,200
Speaker 1: win if they're gonna make it. But man, I just

1290
01:03:13,240 --> 01:03:15,760
Speaker 1: don't see a ton out there as usual on the

1291
01:03:15,800 --> 01:03:19,000
Speaker 1: open market as far as what exists in the NFL.

1292
01:03:19,240 --> 01:03:22,120
Speaker 1: And speaking about the quarterback drafting or lack thereof, you

1293
01:03:22,120 --> 01:03:24,320
Speaker 1: mentioned the Dolphins and the Jags too. Two years ago.

1294
01:03:24,320 --> 01:03:26,000
Speaker 1: We all know who they could would have should have had,

1295
01:03:26,320 --> 01:03:28,280
Speaker 1: and I'm glad they didn't. Last year they had Lamar

1296
01:03:28,360 --> 01:03:30,600
Speaker 1: Jackson and the Crosshairs. Two years ago they had my

1297
01:03:30,680 --> 01:03:33,200
Speaker 1: Homes Watson for Biscuits. I mean, they could have had

1298
01:03:33,240 --> 01:03:35,960
Speaker 1: anybody they want, and they don't take them. So I'm

1299
01:03:36,000 --> 01:03:38,640
Speaker 1: glad about that. So we'll see how that bodes for

1300
01:03:38,680 --> 01:03:42,120
Speaker 1: their future. But it's such an interesting division, Johnny. This

1301
01:03:42,160 --> 01:03:44,240
Speaker 1: could be the only division in football that has three

1302
01:03:44,280 --> 01:03:46,520
Speaker 1: winning teams. Now, if the Browns beat the Ravens, the

1303
01:03:46,600 --> 01:03:49,400
Speaker 1: AFC North has three winning teams as well, two of

1304
01:03:49,440 --> 01:03:50,760
Speaker 1: them at a tie, And you know that would have

1305
01:03:50,760 --> 01:03:53,960
Speaker 1: settled that right there, is this the best division in football?

1306
01:03:54,320 --> 01:03:56,920
Speaker 1: I think that you could make the argument. I'm not

1307
01:03:56,960 --> 01:04:00,040
Speaker 1: saying it automatically is, but you could certainly make a

1308
01:04:00,120 --> 01:04:01,919
Speaker 1: argument that it is. I mean, give me another one

1309
01:04:02,160 --> 01:04:04,360
Speaker 1: that's better. Is the AFC West better just because of

1310
01:04:04,360 --> 01:04:08,000
Speaker 1: the top heaviness of the Chargers and the Chiefs. Maybe,

1311
01:04:08,080 --> 01:04:10,560
Speaker 1: but I don't think it's definitive. Is the NFC West

1312
01:04:10,560 --> 01:04:12,240
Speaker 1: better because of the Rams and the way the Seahawks

1313
01:04:12,280 --> 01:04:15,280
Speaker 1: are playing. Maybe, but look at the bottom two. I

1314
01:04:15,320 --> 01:04:18,280
Speaker 1: don't see it. I don't see it there. AFC South,

1315
01:04:18,360 --> 01:04:20,200
Speaker 1: you got Tennessee. Look at the wins if we are

1316
01:04:20,240 --> 01:04:24,080
Speaker 1: going college football power ranking points here, look at the

1317
01:04:24,120 --> 01:04:26,800
Speaker 1: wins of some of these AFC South teams, some meaning

1318
01:04:27,040 --> 01:04:30,000
Speaker 1: the Cults and also the Titans, even the Jags beating

1319
01:04:30,000 --> 01:04:32,760
Speaker 1: the Patriots in Week two. I mean, the division has

1320
01:04:32,800 --> 01:04:35,560
Speaker 1: some good wins and they beat each other up. Yet

1321
01:04:35,600 --> 01:04:38,520
Speaker 1: you still have three winning teams and Jacksonville, which is

1322
01:04:38,560 --> 01:04:41,800
Speaker 1: still a very competitive football team. And I think that's

1323
01:04:41,880 --> 01:04:46,720
Speaker 1: in some ways what made Sunday that frustrating. Just a loss,

1324
01:04:47,200 --> 01:04:49,240
Speaker 1: but I think it's what made it that frustrating was

1325
01:04:49,320 --> 01:04:52,720
Speaker 1: that would have been such a great win, to hang on,

1326
01:04:52,840 --> 01:04:54,800
Speaker 1: to come from behind, to get that win, to get

1327
01:04:54,800 --> 01:04:57,520
Speaker 1: the win number eleven and get the top seed. Now

1328
01:04:57,640 --> 01:04:59,480
Speaker 1: you've got the opportunity for a top seed. I mean,

1329
01:04:59,520 --> 01:05:03,760
Speaker 1: it's everything at that point is just it's crazy. But

1330
01:05:04,320 --> 01:05:07,680
Speaker 1: that's what I hope is not lingering with this one, is, Yeah,

1331
01:05:07,760 --> 01:05:10,080
Speaker 1: what you could have had, what could have had, what

1332
01:05:10,160 --> 01:05:14,040
Speaker 1: could have happened. Forget about that, that's done. It's so

1333
01:05:14,200 --> 01:05:17,439
Speaker 1: costly and so that's why we talked about it last week.

1334
01:05:17,680 --> 01:05:20,640
Speaker 1: It was such a great opportunity and it's so costly

1335
01:05:20,720 --> 01:05:22,960
Speaker 1: this time of year to lose one game, any time

1336
01:05:23,000 --> 01:05:24,800
Speaker 1: of year to lose one game, but you can really

1337
01:05:24,880 --> 01:05:28,400
Speaker 1: see the immediate results. You're losing Week three and you're

1338
01:05:28,440 --> 01:05:30,440
Speaker 1: not thinking, well, that loss to the Giants is costing

1339
01:05:30,440 --> 01:05:32,520
Speaker 1: them the same as this last loss to the Eagles.

1340
01:05:32,720 --> 01:05:35,320
Speaker 1: But it just feels bigger because you see it right

1341
01:05:35,360 --> 01:05:36,920
Speaker 1: in front of you. Now you see the goal right

1342
01:05:36,960 --> 01:05:39,360
Speaker 1: in front of you. So, look, they played hard. You know,

1343
01:05:39,720 --> 01:05:42,200
Speaker 1: some people were comparing it to twenty twelve and what

1344
01:05:42,240 --> 01:05:44,120
Speaker 1: happened down to stretch there. Look, you can still have

1345
01:05:44,120 --> 01:05:46,320
Speaker 1: to beat Jacksonville. And if you beat Jacksonville, I'm taking

1346
01:05:46,320 --> 01:05:49,440
Speaker 1: that right off the table here because you were highly

1347
01:05:49,480 --> 01:05:51,800
Speaker 1: competitive against the Eagles. You had the lead with two

1348
01:05:51,840 --> 01:05:53,800
Speaker 1: minutes to go. Oh my gosh, you know you can't

1349
01:05:53,800 --> 01:05:56,000
Speaker 1: You had the lead with a second to go. You

1350
01:05:56,040 --> 01:06:00,560
Speaker 1: can't really compare those two. This team came out gun blazon,

1351
01:06:00,680 --> 01:06:03,240
Speaker 1: came up short in a tough place to play. I'm

1352
01:06:03,240 --> 01:06:05,560
Speaker 1: not going to compare that to the lost in Minnesota. Now,

1353
01:06:05,600 --> 01:06:07,720
Speaker 1: if they happen to follow the Jags on Sunday, we

1354
01:06:07,800 --> 01:06:10,120
Speaker 1: might have to reset things a little bit. But I

1355
01:06:10,160 --> 01:06:11,840
Speaker 1: really don't want to have to go there, So let's

1356
01:06:11,840 --> 01:06:14,800
Speaker 1: just watch it play out. Yeah, exactly. And that's the

1357
01:06:14,800 --> 01:06:17,640
Speaker 1: other thing I thought about two things where we were talking.

1358
01:06:17,760 --> 01:06:22,840
Speaker 1: Number One, I remember twenty fourteen it was Gus Bradley.

1359
01:06:22,880 --> 01:06:26,840
Speaker 1: But twenty fourteen, I remember the Jags pulling all the stops,

1360
01:06:26,960 --> 01:06:30,440
Speaker 1: double passes, all the various things they've got in the

1361
01:06:30,520 --> 01:06:33,520
Speaker 1: play in the season finale. It's coming. The other thing

1362
01:06:33,520 --> 01:06:39,160
Speaker 1: I remember was in twenty sixteen on Christmas eve Day, right,

1363
01:06:39,280 --> 01:06:42,960
Speaker 1: the Titans go down to Jacksonville and Jacksonville beats the Titans, yep,

1364
01:06:43,400 --> 01:06:45,680
Speaker 1: And they pulled out a double pass in that game,

1365
01:06:46,520 --> 01:06:51,520
Speaker 1: quarterback throwback. And that was Maron's first game. Yeah, there's

1366
01:06:51,560 --> 01:06:54,480
Speaker 1: going to be some trick up their sleeve that they're

1367
01:06:54,480 --> 01:06:56,720
Speaker 1: gonna use. You've got to be on high alert for

1368
01:06:56,920 --> 01:07:00,720
Speaker 1: anything possible to steal points, steal a possession, give them

1369
01:07:00,760 --> 01:07:03,760
Speaker 1: great fuel position, any any and all of that is

1370
01:07:04,040 --> 01:07:07,920
Speaker 1: on the table with these guys on Sunday. Here's the

1371
01:07:07,960 --> 01:07:11,160
Speaker 1: other thing. You remember twenty fourteen, it was a little

1372
01:07:11,160 --> 01:07:14,320
Speaker 1: odd for everybody in the stadium because we were focused

1373
01:07:14,360 --> 01:07:16,720
Speaker 1: on this game and a few others. But nobody in

1374
01:07:16,720 --> 01:07:19,240
Speaker 1: the bowl, if they didn't have a phone, knew what

1375
01:07:19,320 --> 01:07:21,560
Speaker 1: was going on because they did not put the scores

1376
01:07:21,680 --> 01:07:24,840
Speaker 1: up on the scoreboard. That's right, remember that, that's right.

1377
01:07:24,840 --> 01:07:27,200
Speaker 1: With the Cleveland Baltimore game. They did not put them

1378
01:07:27,280 --> 01:07:29,560
Speaker 1: up there because they didn't want the players being distracted

1379
01:07:29,560 --> 01:07:32,800
Speaker 1: by what was happening or not happening in their favor

1380
01:07:33,120 --> 01:07:35,640
Speaker 1: between Cleveland and Baltimore. And as it was, Cleveland was

1381
01:07:35,720 --> 01:07:38,640
Speaker 1: leading for a time in that game and that game, yeah,

1382
01:07:38,720 --> 01:07:40,840
Speaker 1: most of that game. Now this is a little different

1383
01:07:40,880 --> 01:07:43,200
Speaker 1: because this is a win in you're in scenario win

1384
01:07:43,360 --> 01:07:45,360
Speaker 1: well when you're already in the playoffs, but a win

1385
01:07:45,480 --> 01:07:48,920
Speaker 1: and win a division, whereas you had to win and

1386
01:07:49,000 --> 01:07:53,600
Speaker 1: look for some help Jets is going on the same time, right,

1387
01:07:53,680 --> 01:07:56,080
Speaker 1: Patriots Jets is going on the same time, and then

1388
01:07:56,200 --> 01:07:59,439
Speaker 1: Kansas City, LA is going on, Kansas City, Oakland, LA,

1389
01:07:59,560 --> 01:08:01,560
Speaker 1: and den Or those are going on at the four

1390
01:08:01,600 --> 01:08:04,800
Speaker 1: o'clock window, three o'clock window, and then the Sunday night

1391
01:08:04,800 --> 01:08:07,400
Speaker 1: game is Tennessee and Indianapolis. And you'll know at that

1392
01:08:07,480 --> 01:08:10,280
Speaker 1: point whether you'll know at that point whether you are

1393
01:08:10,400 --> 01:08:14,480
Speaker 1: going to play at home, whether you've gotten to buy,

1394
01:08:14,680 --> 01:08:17,080
Speaker 1: whether you may well maybe not and maybe not. The

1395
01:08:17,120 --> 01:08:21,280
Speaker 1: only there is a scenario where Indianapolis and Tennessee could tie, Yeah,

1396
01:08:21,479 --> 01:08:24,479
Speaker 1: could tie, and you would win a division that way.

1397
01:08:24,640 --> 01:08:28,679
Speaker 1: How to how bizarre if they end up tying. Don't

1398
01:08:28,760 --> 01:08:32,599
Speaker 1: start with I don't look you just you take care

1399
01:08:32,600 --> 01:08:34,519
Speaker 1: of your business. But it will be interesting to go

1400
01:08:34,560 --> 01:08:36,559
Speaker 1: in there on Sunday and see whether the scores are

1401
01:08:37,400 --> 01:08:40,559
Speaker 1: because I remember being down on the field that obviously

1402
01:08:40,600 --> 01:08:43,240
Speaker 1: is my first year, and I remember being down in

1403
01:08:43,280 --> 01:08:45,439
Speaker 1: the field and looking up at some point going there

1404
01:08:45,479 --> 01:08:48,080
Speaker 1: are no scores in here, there are no scores. I

1405
01:08:48,080 --> 01:08:50,080
Speaker 1: can't figure out what's going Brian didn't want them, he

1406
01:08:50,080 --> 01:08:53,160
Speaker 1: didn't want them, and I remember you and Dre kept

1407
01:08:53,160 --> 01:08:55,559
Speaker 1: talking about what was going on, and then you would

1408
01:08:55,720 --> 01:08:58,040
Speaker 1: talk about it in a fourth quarter. You were all

1409
01:08:58,120 --> 01:08:59,920
Speaker 1: you weren't doing play by play of their game, but

1410
01:09:00,080 --> 01:09:02,360
Speaker 1: you were telling people what was happening in the Browns

1411
01:09:02,439 --> 01:09:04,960
Speaker 1: Ravens game. And it was so compelling to me because

1412
01:09:05,000 --> 01:09:08,080
Speaker 1: I couldn't see anything. I'm like hanging on what you

1413
01:09:08,120 --> 01:09:10,799
Speaker 1: guys are telling me. And then during the break, she's like, oh,

1414
01:09:10,840 --> 01:09:13,479
Speaker 1: what did he do? Yeah, because it was who was

1415
01:09:13,520 --> 01:09:16,559
Speaker 1: the quarterback for the Browns Connor Shaw having a hard

1416
01:09:16,560 --> 01:09:19,680
Speaker 1: time in Baltimore, and those two matchup again in Baltimore.

1417
01:09:19,720 --> 01:09:22,120
Speaker 1: How about that? You know, four years later you have

1418
01:09:22,160 --> 01:09:26,200
Speaker 1: the same matchups with those four teams. And of course

1419
01:09:26,240 --> 01:09:28,320
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Baltimore game really is no bearing on the

1420
01:09:28,320 --> 01:09:31,200
Speaker 1: Texans depending on what happens with the Colts. No, the

1421
01:09:31,360 --> 01:09:34,000
Speaker 1: Ravens are gonna win the division or not or missed

1422
01:09:34,000 --> 01:09:36,400
Speaker 1: the playoffs. The Ravens still up. Yeah, the Ravens win

1423
01:09:36,439 --> 01:09:38,400
Speaker 1: and they're in the playoffs, and there's a possibility, there's

1424
01:09:38,400 --> 01:09:40,920
Speaker 1: a possibility for Baltimore you can get a buy but

1425
01:09:41,000 --> 01:09:43,280
Speaker 1: some things have got to happen, including us losing. But

1426
01:09:43,720 --> 01:09:47,920
Speaker 1: that said, last year, if you remember, Baltimore had a

1427
01:09:47,920 --> 01:09:52,200
Speaker 1: playoff opportunity right in front of them at home against Cincinnati.

1428
01:09:53,000 --> 01:09:55,559
Speaker 1: Cincinnati upset down, let Buffalo get into the playoffs, and

1429
01:09:55,600 --> 01:09:58,200
Speaker 1: they blew it. Yeah, Buffalo is so happy. You're in

1430
01:09:58,200 --> 01:10:01,479
Speaker 1: a road to Baker Mayfield. How about maybe how about

1431
01:10:01,479 --> 01:10:03,240
Speaker 1: the NFL tweeting out today. I don't know if you've

1432
01:10:03,240 --> 01:10:07,040
Speaker 1: seen this one, but they tweeted out today Brady and

1433
01:10:07,200 --> 01:10:09,200
Speaker 1: Baker going to a bar. So it was like a

1434
01:10:09,360 --> 01:10:11,880
Speaker 1: beginning of a joke of a joke they never finished.

1435
01:10:11,920 --> 01:10:15,160
Speaker 1: But they flashed their numbers on this tweet, and they're

1436
01:10:15,280 --> 01:10:17,960
Speaker 1: very similar, except Watson. It's better numbers than both of them.

1437
01:10:18,280 --> 01:10:20,680
Speaker 1: So just don't give me numbers. Come on whatever, you know,

1438
01:10:20,720 --> 01:10:22,760
Speaker 1: I know Brady's having a rough time right now. He's hurt.

1439
01:10:22,800 --> 01:10:25,000
Speaker 1: I'm not making making excuses for Brady. In fact, I

1440
01:10:25,040 --> 01:10:27,559
Speaker 1: think he should take the rest of his career office.

1441
01:10:27,720 --> 01:10:30,639
Speaker 1: But it was interesting to me. You would be really interesting,

1442
01:10:30,640 --> 01:10:32,839
Speaker 1: and seeing the Patriots have to play on wild card weekend,

1443
01:10:33,160 --> 01:10:35,839
Speaker 1: that would be super interesting. You know, look the Jets

1444
01:10:36,040 --> 01:10:38,559
Speaker 1: snowballs chant. I think they have a snowballs chance, maybe

1445
01:10:38,560 --> 01:10:40,840
Speaker 1: even a little bit more than a snowballs chance. You're

1446
01:10:40,880 --> 01:10:43,439
Speaker 1: gonna have to be opportunistic you're gonna have to get

1447
01:10:43,439 --> 01:10:46,320
Speaker 1: a breaker too. Darnold has some game. We saw it

1448
01:10:46,439 --> 01:10:49,839
Speaker 1: up close and personal. The Patriots are running the football

1449
01:10:50,000 --> 01:10:52,840
Speaker 1: very well right now. Maybe Brady's not feeling so hot.

1450
01:10:52,880 --> 01:10:54,439
Speaker 1: Maybe they can find a way. I don't know. I'm

1451
01:10:54,479 --> 01:10:56,479
Speaker 1: hoping that that's the case and the Texans find a

1452
01:10:56,479 --> 01:10:58,880
Speaker 1: way to beat the Jaguars. Yeah, I mean that's I

1453
01:10:58,920 --> 01:11:01,479
Speaker 1: think that's the biggest thing. And Bill O'Brian mentioned the words,

1454
01:11:01,479 --> 01:11:05,240
Speaker 1: and and JJ had said the same thing early today's

1455
01:11:05,280 --> 01:11:07,760
Speaker 1: press conference. You gotta take care of your own business man.

1456
01:11:07,960 --> 01:11:10,639
Speaker 1: You take care of your own house. If you do that,

1457
01:11:11,200 --> 01:11:13,760
Speaker 1: then and just let all the other dominoes falls, they're

1458
01:11:13,760 --> 01:11:16,160
Speaker 1: gonna fall. You take care of your house. You take

1459
01:11:16,200 --> 01:11:18,040
Speaker 1: care of your house. You walk out of there's Division

1460
01:11:18,120 --> 01:11:21,719
Speaker 1: champs for the third time in four years, and you're

1461
01:11:22,320 --> 01:11:24,200
Speaker 1: you know, you were owing three. I saw this. I

1462
01:11:24,280 --> 01:11:27,040
Speaker 1: can't remember who had tweeted this. I wish I could

1463
01:11:27,040 --> 01:11:30,880
Speaker 1: give credit. Oh, Brett Coleman. Bret Coleman tweeted this. The

1464
01:11:30,960 --> 01:11:34,599
Speaker 1: Texans chance of making the playoffs when they were owing

1465
01:11:34,680 --> 01:11:39,120
Speaker 1: three was like point one percent. The Colts chance of

1466
01:11:39,200 --> 01:11:41,719
Speaker 1: making the playoffs at one in five was like pointz

1467
01:11:42,240 --> 01:11:45,840
Speaker 1: percent something like that. So the Texans meeting the Annapolis

1468
01:11:45,840 --> 01:11:49,880
Speaker 1: Colts in the playoff, the percentage chance was so infinitestable

1469
01:11:49,960 --> 01:11:54,519
Speaker 1: you couldn't even almost calculate it. And garbage almost staring

1470
01:11:54,600 --> 01:11:57,240
Speaker 1: right at that. Yeah, I know, that's that's the likeliest

1471
01:11:57,280 --> 01:12:01,000
Speaker 1: matchup anyway, based on odds. Now, but we see to

1472
01:12:01,080 --> 01:12:03,160
Speaker 1: your point that you just made. We see what odds

1473
01:12:03,160 --> 01:12:05,479
Speaker 1: really mean, and that's not a whole lot. Look, if

1474
01:12:05,479 --> 01:12:08,439
Speaker 1: they win it, if they win the division, already they're

1475
01:12:08,479 --> 01:12:10,040
Speaker 1: going to the postseason for the fifth time in the

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Speaker 1: last eight years. If they win the division, they win

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Speaker 1: for the fifth time in the last eight years. They

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Speaker 1: have six winning seasons in the last eight years. That's

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01:12:17,120 --> 01:12:19,080
Speaker 1: strong stuff. Really, there aren't too many teams in the

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01:12:19,160 --> 01:12:21,120
Speaker 1: league that can say that. They're certainly in the top

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say right now because I figured this out

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01:12:23,040 --> 01:12:25,400
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, and I'm sure it hasn't

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01:12:25,479 --> 01:12:28,120
Speaker 1: changed much. They're in the top six seven teams in

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Speaker 1: the league in the ability to do that over that

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01:12:31,000 --> 01:12:34,040
Speaker 1: kind of span of time, but still not enough for them.

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Speaker 1: They want to win a championship. I'm just saying that

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01:12:36,160 --> 01:12:38,160
Speaker 1: it's a tough league. Like we all know, getting to

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01:12:38,240 --> 01:12:41,360
Speaker 1: the postseason nothing you should pooh pooh. Let's see if

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01:12:41,400 --> 01:12:43,960
Speaker 1: they can finish the job and win the division title

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01:12:43,960 --> 01:12:45,479
Speaker 1: and go on from there. I mean, it's gonna be

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01:12:45,520 --> 01:12:48,560
Speaker 1: extremely exciting. I know it was disappointing to lose to Philadelphia,

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01:12:48,640 --> 01:12:51,799
Speaker 1: but extremely exciting next week as they ventured into the playoffs.

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01:12:51,920 --> 01:12:54,519
Speaker 1: No doubt, Mark appreciate it. Thanks Johnny. Coming up next,

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01:12:54,600 --> 01:12:57,200
Speaker 1: it's our good friend Andre Ware right here in Texas

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01:12:57,160 --> 01:13:00,759
Speaker 1: Boxas we've got one final segment of Texans All Access

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Speaker 1: from the Honday Texans Radio studio on this Wednesday evening.

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Speaker 1: I am your host, John Harris, football analyst and silent reporter.

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01:13:07,640 --> 01:13:10,639
Speaker 1: And for those of you out there driving around out

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01:13:10,640 --> 01:13:14,519
Speaker 1: in the wet weather, thank you for listening. Really appreciate that.

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Speaker 1: But y'all stay safe. I know it's been tough this

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01:13:17,040 --> 01:13:18,800
Speaker 1: afternoon this evening for a lot of people in the

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01:13:18,800 --> 01:13:21,080
Speaker 1: Houston area and will probably get a little bit worse.

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01:13:21,880 --> 01:13:24,240
Speaker 1: I'm not a meteorologist. I'm just going by what the

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01:13:24,240 --> 01:13:27,880
Speaker 1: weather people tell me, so hopefully you guys are safe

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01:13:27,920 --> 01:13:31,800
Speaker 1: and sound. But appreciate you listening to this Wednesday edition

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Speaker 1: of Texans All Access. We get ready for Jacksonville on Sunday. Now,

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01:13:36,000 --> 01:13:37,760
Speaker 1: the man they will call the action. The men they

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01:13:37,800 --> 01:13:39,479
Speaker 1: will call the action. Of course, I'll be down on

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01:13:39,520 --> 01:13:42,519
Speaker 1: the sidelines. Mark vandermir and our game analyst and good

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Speaker 1: friend Andre Ware. Mark caught up with Andrea earlier today.

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Speaker 1: Joining us right now is Andre Ware, who's on assignment

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01:13:50,280 --> 01:13:54,040
Speaker 1: doing a bowl game. Andre. How much prep is there

1513
01:13:54,080 --> 01:13:56,800
Speaker 1: in doing a bowl game? What's the difference between bowl

1514
01:13:56,840 --> 01:14:01,320
Speaker 1: games and regular season from your vantage point in the booty, Well,

1515
01:14:01,320 --> 01:14:03,160
Speaker 1: I think it's just about the same. I mean, you

1516
01:14:03,800 --> 01:14:06,040
Speaker 1: kind of go into each game with the same amount

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01:14:06,040 --> 01:14:08,880
Speaker 1: of prep, same amount of time that you would you

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01:14:08,880 --> 01:14:11,320
Speaker 1: would put into a regular season game. You know, it's

1519
01:14:11,320 --> 01:14:14,080
Speaker 1: like one of those where as a player, if you're

1520
01:14:14,080 --> 01:14:16,880
Speaker 1: going to the playoffs, you're not trying to do get

1521
01:14:16,960 --> 01:14:19,920
Speaker 1: break your routine, so to speak. You just want to

1522
01:14:19,920 --> 01:14:22,439
Speaker 1: stay in routine from week to week. And that's that's

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01:14:22,520 --> 01:14:25,240
Speaker 1: kind of how our approach doing games as well. But

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01:14:25,479 --> 01:14:28,360
Speaker 1: you know, it's two teams that I haven't had a

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01:14:28,439 --> 01:14:31,320
Speaker 1: chance to see. I've seen TCU in recent years, but

1526
01:14:31,439 --> 01:14:34,360
Speaker 1: not cal So there may be a little extra work

1527
01:14:34,400 --> 01:14:38,240
Speaker 1: in that regard, but none that really takes me out

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01:14:38,240 --> 01:14:41,559
Speaker 1: of my own element, Andre. The Texans are not running

1529
01:14:41,560 --> 01:14:43,840
Speaker 1: the ball the way they want. Last three games not

1530
01:14:44,000 --> 01:14:46,760
Speaker 1: working out, And you brought it up earlier. When you

1531
01:14:46,840 --> 01:14:49,759
Speaker 1: have either one of the two guards out, it feels

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01:14:50,240 --> 01:14:54,040
Speaker 1: City of Calamette or Zach Fulton. It just doesn't seem

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01:14:54,080 --> 01:14:56,320
Speaker 1: to be the same. He looks so young up there.

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01:14:56,360 --> 01:14:58,559
Speaker 1: When you take one or both of those guys out,

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01:14:58,600 --> 01:15:01,760
Speaker 1: your thoughts on what it's going to take too improve. Yeah,

1536
01:15:01,280 --> 01:15:05,400
Speaker 1: it's about far the most important position group as a whole,

1537
01:15:05,960 --> 01:15:08,120
Speaker 1: because all five of those guys have to work and

1538
01:15:08,200 --> 01:15:11,719
Speaker 1: sync in terms of timing and who's passing, which blocker

1539
01:15:11,800 --> 01:15:15,080
Speaker 1: off to who, and pass protection and especially when you're

1540
01:15:15,160 --> 01:15:18,800
Speaker 1: running the football, who's got who? And when that chemistry

1541
01:15:18,920 --> 01:15:22,840
Speaker 1: is disrupted, it becomes tougher when it's all thrown off.

1542
01:15:22,840 --> 01:15:26,200
Speaker 1: And so they've had injuries the last couple of weeks

1543
01:15:26,320 --> 01:15:29,200
Speaker 1: up front, and that's I think that is a direct

1544
01:15:29,240 --> 01:15:31,760
Speaker 1: correlation with why they're struggling running the football. You mix

1545
01:15:32,240 --> 01:15:36,439
Speaker 1: that with an unhealthy Lamar Miller who was having an

1546
01:15:36,439 --> 01:15:40,360
Speaker 1: outstanding year, all of a sudden he has got the

1547
01:15:40,400 --> 01:15:45,320
Speaker 1: bugaboo with an ankle and chemistry problems upfront. That's spells trouble. Andre,

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01:15:45,439 --> 01:15:48,439
Speaker 1: we are joining us dray what about the development of

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01:15:48,479 --> 01:15:51,320
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson. Here we are late in year two, didn't

1550
01:15:51,320 --> 01:15:53,960
Speaker 1: play much in year one, and the Texans are scoring

1551
01:15:54,000 --> 01:15:56,040
Speaker 1: a lot of points. In fact, and since week eleven

1552
01:15:56,080 --> 01:15:58,040
Speaker 1: they're third in the league and points score. That's not

1553
01:15:58,080 --> 01:16:01,160
Speaker 1: too shabby. No, it's not. And I think I said

1554
01:16:01,160 --> 01:16:04,800
Speaker 1: it during last week's broadcast. And anytime you have him

1555
01:16:04,840 --> 01:16:07,439
Speaker 1: on the field, and a healthy Deshaun Watson, you've got

1556
01:16:07,479 --> 01:16:09,680
Speaker 1: a chance to win. And I don't care what's around him.

1557
01:16:10,000 --> 01:16:13,879
Speaker 1: The kid just figures out a way to get it done.

1558
01:16:14,000 --> 01:16:17,439
Speaker 1: Damarius Thomas goes out and and we're still in that

1559
01:16:17,479 --> 01:16:21,760
Speaker 1: ballgame at the very end until Philadelphia drives it down

1560
01:16:21,800 --> 01:16:24,120
Speaker 1: and kicks a thirty five yard game winning field goal.

1561
01:16:24,200 --> 01:16:26,880
Speaker 1: But you feel pretty good about your chances with him.

1562
01:16:27,680 --> 01:16:31,120
Speaker 1: And what's amazing about it all is he's just he's

1563
01:16:31,160 --> 01:16:33,880
Speaker 1: only in his second year, so you know it's going

1564
01:16:33,920 --> 01:16:37,200
Speaker 1: to get better the longer he's in a system and

1565
01:16:37,320 --> 01:16:40,400
Speaker 1: not changing from system to system each year. There's a

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01:16:40,479 --> 01:16:43,040
Speaker 1: foundation in which to build from each and every year

1567
01:16:43,080 --> 01:16:46,000
Speaker 1: he comes to training camp, and therefore you can expand

1568
01:16:46,080 --> 01:16:49,960
Speaker 1: on that and really take advantage of everything that he

1569
01:16:50,040 --> 01:16:54,080
Speaker 1: does athletically, So it's just been fun to watch. He

1570
01:16:54,240 --> 01:16:58,120
Speaker 1: is mature beyond his years, and the playmaking ability is

1571
01:16:58,160 --> 01:17:01,240
Speaker 1: really just off the chart. The Texans have been really

1572
01:17:01,240 --> 01:17:04,120
Speaker 1: good against the run. Blake Bortles will start for the

1573
01:17:04,200 --> 01:17:07,320
Speaker 1: Jaguars on Sunday. The question is can they take advantage

1574
01:17:07,439 --> 01:17:09,920
Speaker 1: of some of the difficulty the Texans have been having

1575
01:17:10,000 --> 01:17:13,160
Speaker 1: stopping the past. Your take on what the Jags are

1576
01:17:13,160 --> 01:17:15,880
Speaker 1: going to throw at the Texans offensively, Oh, I think

1577
01:17:16,320 --> 01:17:19,280
Speaker 1: you know they won't. They won't differ from what they

1578
01:17:19,320 --> 01:17:21,639
Speaker 1: always like to do, and that's to try to run

1579
01:17:21,680 --> 01:17:26,599
Speaker 1: the football. And with Blake, with Bortles not having started

1580
01:17:26,600 --> 01:17:28,479
Speaker 1: in a couple of weeks, they want to protect him,

1581
01:17:28,560 --> 01:17:31,679
Speaker 1: especially early, until he gets some footing in the game

1582
01:17:31,720 --> 01:17:35,000
Speaker 1: and by that you've run the football. But I think

1583
01:17:35,040 --> 01:17:38,680
Speaker 1: they will also try to exploit some things later as

1584
01:17:38,720 --> 01:17:41,519
Speaker 1: he settled into the game, they'll start throwing it around

1585
01:17:41,560 --> 01:17:44,640
Speaker 1: a little more. Remember it took a few turnovers and

1586
01:17:44,680 --> 01:17:48,160
Speaker 1: he was actually pulled in the game against the Texans

1587
01:17:48,840 --> 01:17:51,600
Speaker 1: that week because he kept fumbling. Now, you know, you

1588
01:17:51,920 --> 01:17:54,720
Speaker 1: take those away, who knows what type of ball game

1589
01:17:54,800 --> 01:17:59,000
Speaker 1: you have, So that'll be the number one key for

1590
01:17:59,200 --> 01:18:02,320
Speaker 1: the Jaguars is just to not turn the football over,

1591
01:18:02,400 --> 01:18:04,719
Speaker 1: and by not doing that, I'm pretty sure they think

1592
01:18:05,000 --> 01:18:07,040
Speaker 1: they've got a pretty good shot of winning this thing.

1593
01:18:07,400 --> 01:18:10,320
Speaker 1: We don't don't get it twisted. The Texans are going

1594
01:18:10,360 --> 01:18:13,680
Speaker 1: to get their best shot and every every bit of

1595
01:18:13,680 --> 01:18:16,840
Speaker 1: it to try to play the spoiler role in this

1596
01:18:16,920 --> 01:18:20,639
Speaker 1: deal and sending the Texans on the road, so they've

1597
01:18:20,680 --> 01:18:24,679
Speaker 1: they've got a vested interest in how the season ends

1598
01:18:24,920 --> 01:18:28,120
Speaker 1: as well. Guys are playing for jobs. Then they are

1599
01:18:28,120 --> 01:18:30,400
Speaker 1: not going to fold the ten up coming to Houston

1600
01:18:30,760 --> 01:18:33,640
Speaker 1: and just roll over and let the Texans have this one.

1601
01:18:33,680 --> 01:18:36,120
Speaker 1: This will be a hard fought game and the Texans

1602
01:18:36,120 --> 01:18:38,920
Speaker 1: fans will also be scoreboard watching what's going on in

1603
01:18:39,000 --> 01:18:41,360
Speaker 1: Foxborough between the Patriots and the Jets. Do you give

1604
01:18:41,360 --> 01:18:43,280
Speaker 1: the Jets any kind of shot to get this one?

1605
01:18:43,320 --> 01:18:46,160
Speaker 1: The Patriots ran the ball so well last week against Buffalo,

1606
01:18:46,240 --> 01:18:48,840
Speaker 1: but the passing numbers were not good. Brady throws a

1607
01:18:48,880 --> 01:18:52,000
Speaker 1: couple of picks, bad quarterback rating. He's got a banged

1608
01:18:52,040 --> 01:18:55,519
Speaker 1: up knee. Reportedly, Yeah, I think he took the words

1609
01:18:55,520 --> 01:18:57,280
Speaker 1: out out of my mouth. I think it's a health

1610
01:18:57,320 --> 01:19:00,679
Speaker 1: issue with the Patriots at the wrong time this point

1611
01:19:00,720 --> 01:19:03,280
Speaker 1: into the season, but I don't see him having much

1612
01:19:03,320 --> 01:19:05,799
Speaker 1: of a problem with the Jets. Sam Darnold has played

1613
01:19:06,200 --> 01:19:08,960
Speaker 1: some outstanding football the last couple of weeks. He's thrown

1614
01:19:09,000 --> 01:19:11,040
Speaker 1: it around pretty good. But I don't think it's going

1615
01:19:11,080 --> 01:19:15,439
Speaker 1: to be enough to beat the Patriots on Sunday. That's

1616
01:19:15,880 --> 01:19:20,880
Speaker 1: that's just a tall order in any stadium, let alone

1617
01:19:21,400 --> 01:19:27,000
Speaker 1: with you're facing the facing a team that is a

1618
01:19:27,080 --> 01:19:29,439
Speaker 1: mainstay in the playoffs in the final week of the

1619
01:19:29,520 --> 01:19:32,560
Speaker 1: season when they know they have to have one. I

1620
01:19:32,600 --> 01:19:34,160
Speaker 1: don't I don't see the chet I don't give the

1621
01:19:34,240 --> 01:19:36,080
Speaker 1: Jets much of a chance in that one. All right,

1622
01:19:36,120 --> 01:19:38,559
Speaker 1: So the Titans and the Cults are playing Sunday night,

1623
01:19:38,680 --> 01:19:41,679
Speaker 1: and somebody's going to the playoffs. If the Texans lose,

1624
01:19:41,720 --> 01:19:43,840
Speaker 1: they'll win the division. If the Texans win, it'll be

1625
01:19:43,840 --> 01:19:46,439
Speaker 1: a wildcard berth on the line. But what do you

1626
01:19:46,520 --> 01:19:51,160
Speaker 1: think of that matchup as the Titans will host Indie. Yeah,

1627
01:19:51,200 --> 01:19:56,000
Speaker 1: I'm not sure that If Marcus Mariotto will be back,

1628
01:19:56,040 --> 01:19:58,760
Speaker 1: I'm doubting it, and they'll have to start Blaine Gabbert

1629
01:19:59,240 --> 01:20:01,519
Speaker 1: in that game. I just like the way the Colts

1630
01:20:01,520 --> 01:20:04,120
Speaker 1: are playing and the way the Titans are built. It's

1631
01:20:04,120 --> 01:20:06,760
Speaker 1: to run the football. You're talking about one of the

1632
01:20:06,760 --> 01:20:09,040
Speaker 1: better run defenses in the league. And the Colts and

1633
01:20:09,080 --> 01:20:11,519
Speaker 1: the way they've played in the last last half of

1634
01:20:11,520 --> 01:20:15,080
Speaker 1: the season. Andrew luck is playing some outstanding football. They're

1635
01:20:15,080 --> 01:20:18,640
Speaker 1: getting enough to win games, and even when they're not

1636
01:20:18,680 --> 01:20:21,240
Speaker 1: scoring early, they find a way to get on the scoreboard,

1637
01:20:21,240 --> 01:20:24,200
Speaker 1: like they did last week and scored just enough points

1638
01:20:24,840 --> 01:20:28,160
Speaker 1: to beat the Giants. So if I if I'm looking

1639
01:20:28,160 --> 01:20:30,840
Speaker 1: at this one, I'm gonna favor the Colts in this

1640
01:20:30,880 --> 01:20:33,439
Speaker 1: one and uh and then just kind of see where

1641
01:20:33,439 --> 01:20:37,000
Speaker 1: it falls. But it'll be a close game for a while.

1642
01:20:37,439 --> 01:20:39,120
Speaker 1: I just like the Colts to pull it out in

1643
01:20:39,160 --> 01:20:42,520
Speaker 1: the end. What do you make of Baltimore and Cleveland?

1644
01:20:42,680 --> 01:20:46,040
Speaker 1: It'll be in Baltimore and Cleveland's playing so well lately.

1645
01:20:46,320 --> 01:20:49,680
Speaker 1: The Ravens are tricky game because you look at it,

1646
01:20:49,840 --> 01:20:53,599
Speaker 1: you know the Browns have not closed up shop. They

1647
01:20:53,680 --> 01:20:58,080
Speaker 1: are They've played very well. Baker Mayfields has I think

1648
01:20:58,240 --> 01:21:02,519
Speaker 1: surpassed everybody's expectations as a rookie quarterback, and it's taking

1649
01:21:02,520 --> 01:21:04,800
Speaker 1: care of the football. He's making plays. They found a

1650
01:21:04,880 --> 01:21:08,000
Speaker 1: running game in Nick Chubb, and the defense has played

1651
01:21:08,120 --> 01:21:11,160
Speaker 1: very well, so it's a young team playing with some

1652
01:21:11,240 --> 01:21:14,400
Speaker 1: confidence at the end of the season. This will be

1653
01:21:14,400 --> 01:21:17,120
Speaker 1: a tough one for Baltimore though. There you know, they

1654
01:21:17,160 --> 01:21:20,360
Speaker 1: have all the ingredients that you need this this time

1655
01:21:20,400 --> 01:21:23,280
Speaker 1: a year, and it's not turning the ball over. They've

1656
01:21:23,320 --> 01:21:27,080
Speaker 1: got a running game, and they certainly got arguably one

1657
01:21:27,080 --> 01:21:29,679
Speaker 1: of the top two or three defenses, maybe the top

1658
01:21:29,760 --> 01:21:34,400
Speaker 1: defense in the NFL, and that that travels it is.

1659
01:21:34,720 --> 01:21:37,920
Speaker 1: It proved it last week in their ball game, and

1660
01:21:38,280 --> 01:21:41,560
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson can can just knock the wind out of

1661
01:21:41,600 --> 01:21:45,040
Speaker 1: you at any second. So but when you put it

1662
01:21:45,080 --> 01:21:47,640
Speaker 1: all together, that's a hard game to pick. Really, I

1663
01:21:47,680 --> 01:21:50,320
Speaker 1: would say Baltimore because I think their defense is just

1664
01:21:50,320 --> 01:21:53,040
Speaker 1: a little bit better than what Cleveland has faced in

1665
01:21:53,479 --> 01:21:55,840
Speaker 1: the past couple of weeks. But it wouldn't surprise me

1666
01:21:55,880 --> 01:21:58,200
Speaker 1: at all if the Browns won that game. Well, the

1667
01:21:58,320 --> 01:22:03,120
Speaker 1: Steelers outside looking in, and it's a weird situation when

1668
01:22:03,160 --> 01:22:06,519
Speaker 1: you look at all the talent on Pittsburgh's roster. I

1669
01:22:06,560 --> 01:22:08,120
Speaker 1: know it was a tough one with the Saints, but

1670
01:22:08,200 --> 01:22:10,000
Speaker 1: that lost to the Raiders a couple of weeks ago.

1671
01:22:10,000 --> 01:22:11,880
Speaker 1: It is really killing them right now. What's wrong with

1672
01:22:11,920 --> 01:22:14,760
Speaker 1: the Steelers. In your opinion, Yeah, that I think that

1673
01:22:15,040 --> 01:22:17,439
Speaker 1: you're exactly right. I think they felt like they could

1674
01:22:17,520 --> 01:22:20,160
Speaker 1: roll their helmets on the field against the Raiders and

1675
01:22:20,160 --> 01:22:21,960
Speaker 1: then found themselves in the ball game and it was

1676
01:22:22,000 --> 01:22:24,200
Speaker 1: just a little bit too late. And then last week

1677
01:22:24,240 --> 01:22:27,080
Speaker 1: against New Orleans, just you know, the you know, when

1678
01:22:27,120 --> 01:22:29,240
Speaker 1: they're on the bad end of a bad call and

1679
01:22:30,040 --> 01:22:31,960
Speaker 1: ultimately I think could cost him the game and not

1680
01:22:32,000 --> 01:22:34,360
Speaker 1: only the game, but maybe a shot to get in

1681
01:22:34,400 --> 01:22:37,360
Speaker 1: the playoffs. But they just seem to be late starters.

1682
01:22:37,640 --> 01:22:41,120
Speaker 1: They start games, you know, slowly and u and then

1683
01:22:41,120 --> 01:22:43,880
Speaker 1: they've got to play catchup. And when you're facing teams

1684
01:22:43,880 --> 01:22:47,160
Speaker 1: like the Rams and teams that can score points excuse

1685
01:22:47,160 --> 01:22:49,519
Speaker 1: me another Rams, but the Saints teams that can score

1686
01:22:49,560 --> 01:22:52,679
Speaker 1: points and jump you early, then that makes that makes

1687
01:22:52,720 --> 01:22:55,120
Speaker 1: it tough on yourself. And it just seems to have

1688
01:22:55,200 --> 01:22:58,040
Speaker 1: been out of rhythm all year. No Lady on Bell

1689
01:22:58,080 --> 01:23:01,479
Speaker 1: and now now no Jane Connor, and they're still trying

1690
01:23:01,479 --> 01:23:05,080
Speaker 1: to band aid and tape it together. They've been you know,

1691
01:23:05,200 --> 01:23:07,640
Speaker 1: in games, they just can't seem to finish them. And

1692
01:23:07,680 --> 01:23:12,120
Speaker 1: it's it's been defense when they need stops one stop

1693
01:23:12,200 --> 01:23:14,040
Speaker 1: here and there in a game. They just can't seem

1694
01:23:14,040 --> 01:23:16,799
Speaker 1: to get them the defensive play you know in spurts,

1695
01:23:16,880 --> 01:23:19,439
Speaker 1: but when they really need stops, they can't seem to

1696
01:23:19,439 --> 01:23:22,519
Speaker 1: get them. I just think it's funny that in the AFC,

1697
01:23:22,960 --> 01:23:26,960
Speaker 1: the top three Seeds, Patriots, Chiefs, Texans have all lost

1698
01:23:27,000 --> 01:23:29,759
Speaker 1: two of their last three games heading into the final

1699
01:23:29,840 --> 01:23:33,280
Speaker 1: weekend of the regular season. So everybody's got problems. Whoever

1700
01:23:33,320 --> 01:23:35,840
Speaker 1: gets hot is going to come through. Well, you know,

1701
01:23:35,960 --> 01:23:39,080
Speaker 1: it's it's the old saying that if you're everybody wants

1702
01:23:39,080 --> 01:23:40,720
Speaker 1: to knock off the King of the Hill, and if

1703
01:23:40,720 --> 01:23:43,000
Speaker 1: you're one of the three teams standing there looking down,

1704
01:23:43,800 --> 01:23:46,479
Speaker 1: you can best believe you're gonna get everybody's best shot,

1705
01:23:47,360 --> 01:23:50,600
Speaker 1: especially down the stretch. And when guys are out of

1706
01:23:50,600 --> 01:23:52,640
Speaker 1: the playoffs or teams are out of the playoffs and

1707
01:23:52,640 --> 01:23:54,840
Speaker 1: guys are playing for jobs, they're gonna get an extra

1708
01:23:54,880 --> 01:23:59,120
Speaker 1: effort there. And when you have teams that are looking up,

1709
01:23:59,160 --> 01:24:03,240
Speaker 1: that are buying for playoff spots, you're gonna get their

1710
01:24:03,240 --> 01:24:06,400
Speaker 1: best effort as well. So I think that's that's all

1711
01:24:06,439 --> 01:24:09,400
Speaker 1: mixed in that last two out of the last three

1712
01:24:09,400 --> 01:24:12,439
Speaker 1: week losses for those top two top three teams. All right,

1713
01:24:12,479 --> 01:24:15,160
Speaker 1: Andrea have a great bowl and we will talk to

1714
01:24:15,160 --> 01:24:18,240
Speaker 1: you on Sunday looking forward to the big, drama filled

1715
01:24:18,280 --> 01:24:20,960
Speaker 1: final weekend of the NFL regular season. Yeah, it should

1716
01:24:20,960 --> 01:24:23,160
Speaker 1: be a good one Sunday, looking forward to it. There

1717
01:24:23,360 --> 01:24:27,040
Speaker 1: is Andrea Ware and ninety nine Heisman Trophy winner University

1718
01:24:27,120 --> 01:24:31,800
Speaker 1: Houston legend, NFL first round draft pick. The man's credentials

1719
01:24:31,840 --> 01:24:36,639
Speaker 1: are stout and covering TCU and COW in the bowl game.

1720
01:24:36,760 --> 01:24:40,080
Speaker 1: So you got Dre doing that on ESPN radio. I think, oh,

1721
01:24:40,080 --> 01:24:42,720
Speaker 1: listen to that maybe then the TV broadcast and check

1722
01:24:42,720 --> 01:24:45,200
Speaker 1: out the man, Andre Ware with TCU and Cow. Should

1723
01:24:45,240 --> 01:24:47,240
Speaker 1: be a fun bowl game. TCU get that last win

1724
01:24:47,320 --> 01:24:49,160
Speaker 1: of the year to get the six wins. It was

1725
01:24:49,160 --> 01:24:51,639
Speaker 1: a tough year, a lot of injuries, especially quarterback position.

1726
01:24:51,880 --> 01:24:53,960
Speaker 1: So TCU get into the bowl game doesn't look like much.

1727
01:24:53,960 --> 01:24:57,040
Speaker 1: They're used to playing in higher level bowl games as

1728
01:24:57,080 --> 01:24:58,519
Speaker 1: they did a few years ago with the team that

1729
01:24:58,560 --> 01:25:01,000
Speaker 1: went to the Peach Bowl. But this is a team

1730
01:25:01,040 --> 01:25:03,080
Speaker 1: that fought through it got the six wins. You get

1731
01:25:03,080 --> 01:25:05,040
Speaker 1: the extra bowl practices and you have a good bowl

1732
01:25:05,080 --> 01:25:07,920
Speaker 1: win before you get to spring practice. Second catapult you

1733
01:25:08,120 --> 01:25:10,920
Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen, So Dre will be calling TCU and

1734
01:25:11,400 --> 01:25:14,280
Speaker 1: Cal old Gary Patterson versus I didnt get up and

1735
01:25:14,320 --> 01:25:17,960
Speaker 1: coming coach Justin Wilcox's head coach for Cal. So that'll

1736
01:25:18,000 --> 01:25:20,960
Speaker 1: do it. A big thanks to dpcity, JP Shatrick, to

1737
01:25:21,120 --> 01:25:25,920
Speaker 1: Drew Doherty, to Mark Vanimir, to Andre Ware, to all

1738
01:25:25,960 --> 01:25:29,080
Speaker 1: of you for listening, to of course Brian Gaine. You

1739
01:25:29,120 --> 01:25:31,960
Speaker 1: guys are the best. We will see you tomorrow and

1740
01:25:32,040 --> 01:25:33,200
Speaker 1: as always, go Texans.