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Speaker 2: Yeah, Marry Christmas to you watching listening to the three

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Speaker 2: of us. You John, me, Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is

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Speaker 2: in the Lab presented by Exfinity. This is a fun one. John.

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Speaker 2: Texans are Division champs, Division Champs.

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Speaker 3: Vision.

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Speaker 2: Last week, you and I we were opprescient. We talked about, Hey,

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Speaker 2: if the Texans win on Sunday, it's gonna because this

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Speaker 2: guy was a Cream of the Crop award winner, and

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Speaker 2: I said, I think it's gonna because of Derek Stingley.

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Speaker 3: That's right.

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Speaker 2: Boy, didn't I look smart? But listen, it was an

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Speaker 2: obvious choice, and he more than delivered the goods. Two TFLs,

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Speaker 2: the two fourth quarter interceptions, and man, we all know

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Speaker 2: the one that closed out the game, but that other one,

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Speaker 2: the first one textbook, and it was just as important

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Speaker 2: because that was like the thirteenth play of that drive

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Speaker 2: and they're marching down the field. Imagine if they get

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Speaker 2: in the end zone, how deflating that feels, how much

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Speaker 2: that changes the tenor and the tone of the game.

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Speaker 2: Eric Stingly monstrous. So the Texans move on in that one,

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Speaker 2: and before we move on to talk about this matchup

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Speaker 2: with the Chiefs. I just want to give him a

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Speaker 2: shout out because we haven't heard much about it. Yes,

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Speaker 2: the Texans special teams pulls off that awesome fake punt.

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Speaker 2: I love fake punts. It worked out great. You and

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Speaker 2: Dell outstanding on punt out certainly was. He averaged fifteen

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Speaker 2: Perie had three, so he really moved you forward fifteen

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Speaker 2: yards every time he touched the ball on a punt

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Speaker 2: and helped you out with field position. Punt returns this

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Speaker 2: season for the Texans have been pretty good. Yeah, Punting

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Speaker 2: Tommy Rocket's been excellent. I mean he's over fifty percent

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Speaker 2: as far as getting his punts down inside the opponents

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Speaker 2: twenty ye. Brian Anger did that here a couple of

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Speaker 2: punt game, both punting and receiving and handling gunners both

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Speaker 2: even talked about it in his miked up uh you

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Speaker 2: know video that's up on Houston Texans dot com. He's like, hey,

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Speaker 2: good job on the gunners, like he is. This has

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Speaker 2: been fantastic by Frank Rossing Company. It was almost a

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Speaker 2: perfect game, almost except for the penalty, the ice.

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Speaker 1: And tossing you three points. But other than that, they

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Speaker 1: they were they were tremendous. The special teams were unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: The execution on the fake punt. I know a lot

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Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. Miami actually had punts safe on

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Speaker 1: No, it was Andre Wares at this he not only

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Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes is playing. He knows how important this one is.

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Speaker 1: He wants that bye week. They know what that means

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Speaker 2: I'm with you, all right. Let's raise a medello to

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Speaker 2: another our eighth AFC South titlehrats the Texans. That's awesome.

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Speaker 2: Second fastest clinch date. The first one was the first

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Speaker 2: one in twenty eleven. They clinched December eleventh. Oh nice,

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Speaker 2: week fourteen. Yeah, it was very very early.

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Speaker 2: but Nico cal our number twelve. And before we get

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Speaker 2: Johnn you like that? You cool?

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Speaker 2: He's been a reason this year. He's been awesome.

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Speaker 2: If you happen to see read or Hopkins, give him

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Speaker 3: I will I will tell them that for sure.

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Speaker 2: All right, hey man, we'll do this probably Monday. We

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Speaker 2: I might be elsewhere, but we're gonna do one before

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Speaker 2: the Ravens game, and hopefully we're revisiting how brilliant our

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Speaker 2: cream of the crop choices were for the Texans and

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Speaker 2: the Texans win over the Chiefs. But I love doing this.

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Speaker 2: It's a lot of fun. I know I love it.

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Speaker 2: I know you love it, and hopefully you they are

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