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Speaker 1: Hello, Texans, Welcome to the show, Welcome to the weekend. Wow,

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Speaker 1: it's here, and so many of you have so many

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Speaker 1: big plans. Unlike me, I'll just be hanging around getting

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Speaker 1: ready for media day on Monday. But that's a privilege, Johnny.

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Speaker 1: As we've got internal media day on Monday at Reliant Park.

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Speaker 1: Do we call the whole park Reliant? Yeah? We must

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Speaker 1: write this Reliant Stadium again, it's Reliant Park if it's

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Speaker 1: World Cup brand, and it's Houston Park, Houston Stadium, Houston Park,

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Speaker 1: poor Reliant. I mean, the stadium's named after you. I'm

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Speaker 1: going to give you love right now, Reliant. It's still

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Speaker 1: Reliant Stadium to us. I don't care what they call it,

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Speaker 1: what the FIFA people call it. It's Reliant freaking Stadium.

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Speaker 1: And that's the hill I'm on right now.

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Speaker 2: Johnny as well, you should be glad to see Reliant

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Speaker 2: Stadium back. And I think we're still training people to

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Speaker 2: say Reliant Stadium as opposed to NRG. But here's my question, Mark,

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Speaker 2: and I've thought about this, and it's funny because Sean

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Speaker 2: Panter Gass had the exact same question. So things that

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Speaker 2: happened in say two thousand and four. Right, things that

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Speaker 2: happened in twenty twenty four? Right, did they all happen

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Speaker 2: at Reliant Stadium?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Or did things that happen in twenty twenty four happen

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Speaker 2: at NRG Stadium in two thousand and four? Is Reliant

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Speaker 2: Stadium and now we're all back to Reliant? Or did

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Speaker 2: it all happen at Reliant Stadium?

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Speaker 1: It was always awkward to talk about the past when

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Speaker 1: it was NRG Stadium, right, because you knew it was

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Speaker 1: Reliant Stadium, and it's in some of the highlights. Reliant

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Speaker 1: Stadium has erupted, you know. I said that on a

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Speaker 1: couple of occasions or whatever. Reliant Stadium is rocking. I

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Speaker 1: had the Reliant leap for when the players jump up

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Speaker 1: into the stands in the bullpen section in the south

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Speaker 1: end zone. And now it's back, baby, the Reliant leap

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Speaker 1: as opposed to the NRG jump. You know. I like

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Speaker 1: a literation, Johnny, So that's what we're gonna do here.

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Speaker 1: We don't have a Lambeow leap. We have a Reliant

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Speaker 1: Remember back in two thousand and four, when the Texans

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Speaker 1: beat the Jags at NRG Stadium, whatever I would say,

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Speaker 1: because you know, it's the same company, it's just a

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Speaker 1: different part of the company or whatever. Energy is the

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Speaker 1: parent company of Reliant. So I'm just gonna go back

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Speaker 1: to everything in Texans history happened at Reliance, no matter

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Speaker 1: what the year is, because it's all good. It's all good.

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Speaker 1: It's not like we went, you know, heinz Field. They

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Speaker 1: would have a little bit more difficulty here. Was that

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Speaker 1: the ketchup sponsor or whatever. Acrasher is, right, whatever that

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Speaker 1: company does, I don't even know, all right, so let's

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Speaker 1: just stick with the ketchup. But I don't know how

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Speaker 1: to do it. If i'm them, I'm glad we don't

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Speaker 1: have that problem. You know, you and I can get

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Speaker 1: off on some tremendous tangents here. Anyway, here's what we

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Speaker 1: want to do tonight. A few minutes into the show,

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Speaker 1: because it is the twenty fifth season, we are reliving

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Speaker 1: past Texans seasons and we've only done it one time

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Speaker 1: so far, the greatest seasons in Houston Texans history. And

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Speaker 1: I think we've already hit the top two after today, Johnny,

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Speaker 1: because we've done the twenty twenty three season which might

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Speaker 1: be the most fun I've ever had during during a

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Speaker 1: regular season, right the whole Demico, Ryan's debut year, CJ Stroud,

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Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay game. We talked about all of it

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Speaker 1: when we did that episode. Today. It might be the

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Speaker 1: greatest season in the history of the franchise. No, it's

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Speaker 1: not the most victories, but it was a quantum leap

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Speaker 1: in achievement. The twenty eleven Next Man Up campaign unforgettable.

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Speaker 1: The fan base exploded. I feel like it doubled overnight

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Speaker 1: once they beat the Bengals with TJ. Yeats. But the

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Speaker 1: twenty eleven season, Johnny, I think is still the greatest

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Speaker 1: Texans season, am I Right?

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Speaker 2: Well, I think when you have obviously an expansion franchise,

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Speaker 2: the first time you do anything. And I've talked with

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Speaker 3: We Baltimore Baltimore for the first time ever.

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Speaker 2: We beat the Cowboys in Arlington for the first time ever.

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Speaker 2: you've won the division. I think that especially coming off

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Speaker 2: they remember twenty ten for oh boy, six and ten

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Speaker 2: Gary Kubiak at that point. Yes, because he had you know, six,

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Speaker 2: Game one and Arian goes nuts, he goes absolutely berserk,

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Speaker 2: And then the bottom of the defensive barrel fell out.

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Speaker 2: And there was a lot of discussion about, hey, Gary's

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Speaker 2: been here six, seven, eight nine, that was his fifth year.

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Speaker 3: Does he get a sixth year? Does he deserve a

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of talk in his town about does

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Speaker 2: And I was at the time kind of wondering at myself.

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Speaker 2: But in the end, being a coach's kid, I love

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Speaker 2: McNair decided, Yes, Gary's getting another year. And then you've

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Speaker 2: happen with this lockout? How is this all gonna go?

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Speaker 2: We don't know free agent? Why is what we're gonna do?

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Speaker 2: So I'll talk about, well if we get to free agency,

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Speaker 2: and I'm be awesome all this kind of stuff, and

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Speaker 2: it all comes together after JJ Watt is drafted, and

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Speaker 2: I'll I'll be honest. I was me and my family

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Speaker 2: We were huge JJ Watt fans. My parents are from Wisconsin,

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Speaker 2: We knew JJ was good, just weren't sure how they

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Speaker 2: You're like, hey, this Jonathan Joseph Daniel Manning thing is

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Speaker 2: Wade Phillips, Wow, this could be pretty good yep. But

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Speaker 2: there was not a lot of hype about it from

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Speaker 2: You built the team, you went the training camp, and

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Speaker 2: It really wasn't month after month of building up to

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Speaker 2: a sense you saw it coming, but you really didn't

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Speaker 1: Yep. The expectations in twenty eleven, I want to say

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Speaker 1: we're higher than twenty twenty three, but they're both awesome seasons.

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Speaker 1: I think this is the greatest era that we're in

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Speaker 1: in franchise history, but twenty eleven is maybe the greatest

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Speaker 1: season for reasons. You just mentioned many of them, and

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Speaker 1: twenty eleven because the last game of the regular season,

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Speaker 1: season was the Jaguars. That week at practice, Kubiak's future

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Speaker 1: was still very much in doubt. At least in the

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Speaker 1: public's mind, not in Bob McNair's mind. But what happened

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Speaker 1: that week was bum Phillips and Dan Pastorini were at

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Speaker 1: and I thought, they're going to hire Wade Phillips. This

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Speaker 1: is what's happened. Wade was available, he'd gotten let go

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Speaker 1: by the Cowboys. I had m Seed a sports Radix

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Speaker 1: roast and toast that year. I think it was for McLean.

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Speaker 1: That might have been the very first one we ever did.

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Speaker 1: And Wade was there. And when I introduced Wade Phillips,

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Speaker 1: it was at the improv. It was packed. When I

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Speaker 1: and that was Bob's plan, and that's what happened. And

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Speaker 1: you mentioned it lockout Watt drafting. Yeah, there was some

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Speaker 1: So let's go through because it's the twenty fifth year.

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Speaker 1: We're reliving some of the greatest Texans seasons and this

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Speaker 1: the preseason we saw some seedlings, but it's preseason. They

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Speaker 1: This time Manning is out. He's done, at least he's

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Speaker 1: So that was good enough shop one touchdown, two picks.

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Speaker 1: But hey, they beat the Colts that day, and it

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Speaker 1: was a wonderful way to begin the season thirty four

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Speaker 1: the Colts, Johnny, they still had not one up there,

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Speaker 1: but this was back to back at home in the

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Speaker 1: It was wonderful.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was to I remember that game in twenty

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Speaker 2: And I think the biggest thing that stood out was

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Speaker 2: how good the defense was. And you're like, this is

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Speaker 2: not twenty ten. Look, I know that's not Peyton Manning

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Speaker 2: Colts offensive players. I get it, but that's the Colt's

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Speaker 2: which is what you had to do. Yep, you had

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Speaker 2: then you wanted to see whether it could maintain itself

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Speaker 3: And you were able to do that.

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Speaker 1: Okay, at Miami. I remember this one. We at our

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Speaker 2: But it fits well about it is It fits absolutely

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Speaker 2: a cut on this back. He's on the left side

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Speaker 2: line and he makes a you know, for people that

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Speaker 2: know college football, they remember Reggie Bush against Cole Popovich's

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Speaker 2: Fresno State team, where Reggie's on the left sideline. Here

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Speaker 2: comes a defender. He puts the ball down kind of

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Speaker 2: behind his back. Let's the defender fly by. He cuts

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Speaker 2: back arian you put the ball behind his but he

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Speaker 2: kind of slowed up. Let the defender kind of fly by,

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Speaker 2: and then he cut behind him. And it really was

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Speaker 2: it was kind of a showtime move. And so I

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Speaker 2: was gonna ask you why he said showtime, because you've

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Speaker 2: never said that but if any play would be showtime,

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Speaker 2: it was that one because that cut back.

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Speaker 3: To the middle.

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Speaker 1: Fantastic play by Arion. And then they beat the Jags

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Speaker 1: at home to go five and three. Now they had

448
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Speaker 1: been four and three before. They had been five and

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Speaker 1: three before. In two thousand and nine, the next game

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Speaker 1: was Cleveland at home. They beat the Browns thirty to twelve.

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Speaker 1: They go to six and three. They had never been

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Speaker 1: six and three, and that was big at the time.

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Speaker 1: I thought, there's six and three. I've never seen that

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Speaker 1: record on a Texan slate. This is amazing. And the

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Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns game was the Brian Cushing helmet off, bloody

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Speaker 1: face game. We just did the whole schedule video based

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Speaker 1: on that. So that's a memorable moment from that game.

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Speaker 1: Thirty to twelve win to go to six and three.

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Speaker 1: And then Johnny the Tampa Bay game. You go to

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Speaker 1: West coast of Florida to play the Buccaneers and you

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Speaker 1: basically light them on fire. I mentioned this earlier that

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Speaker 1: you had two seventy eight yard touchdown receptions by Arian

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Speaker 1: that year. Here's the other one at Tampa Bay. And

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Speaker 1: it served notice that the Texans were for real shop

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Speaker 1: fakes to give Matt looking. Matt throws it softly to

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Speaker 1: the left, cut by Foster across the thirty breaks at

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Speaker 1: tackle thirty five to forty fifty left side left, forty

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Speaker 1: five cuts inside forty thirty twenty five, twenty fifteen.

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Speaker 5: Ten five touchdown, Arian Foster. My goodness, we have many

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Speaker 5: eight yards. We are watching something special with Arian Foster.

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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, that was fun to watch. I remember

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Speaker 1: just jumping out of my seat. He was that kind

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Speaker 1: of player, the greatest back in Texans history. We've had

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Speaker 1: good backs, no one's been better than Arian. He could

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Speaker 1: take it to the house any given play, and he

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Speaker 1: did that time. These are pass receptions, the two seventy

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Speaker 1: eight yarders to go along with all his great runs.

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Speaker 2: Mark I remember watching that game and feeling like, okay,

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Speaker 2: they've won four in a row.

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Speaker 3: They look dominant.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I know Tampa Bay wasn't that great in

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Speaker 2: that particular year, but still they look dominant. Holy cow.

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Speaker 2: And then you start thinking, well, playoffs. You do the

484
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Speaker 2: whole gym of a playoffs, playoffs. You start thinking about playoffs. Yeah,

485
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Speaker 2: you still gotta win some games, but hey, this schedule

486
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Speaker 2: doesn't look daunting. The rest of the way, the way

487
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Speaker 2: they looked against Tampa Bay. Man, this really this could

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Speaker 2: be that year, This could be the year that they're

489
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Speaker 2: breaking this thing wide open.

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Speaker 3: And then Monday morning, eight am.

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Speaker 2: Hits and it's absolute death blow to the season.

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Speaker 1: In twenty eleven, absolutely because Matt Schab did the interview

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Speaker 1: on CBSTV after Tampa Bay and that those were the

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Speaker 1: days where they would just stand the quarterback up or

495
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Speaker 1: whoever the player of the game was on the field,

496
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Speaker 1: they would get a visual from a camera basically the

497
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Speaker 1: sideline camera just zoom in on the guy headset on.

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Speaker 1: I remember watching Matt down there thinking I love the

499
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Speaker 1: Texans guys doing these post games because that means you won.

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Speaker 1: And it was four in a row at that point,

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Speaker 1: and I thought, this is tremendous. And the Texans at

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Speaker 1: the time seven to three, never been seven to three

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Speaker 1: and at the time the top seed in the AFC.

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Speaker 1: But the next day we would get the news that

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Speaker 1: Matt Schab would be out for the year. As we

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Speaker 1: continue our look at twenty eleven, it's the twenty fifth season,

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Speaker 1: we're celebrating some of the great moments and memories in

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Speaker 1: Texans history. We'll continue with the money Moments of twenty

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Speaker 1: eleven next year on Texans Radio. Back to it here

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Speaker 1: on the Hunday Texans Radio Studio. Mark Vandermer and John

511
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Speaker 1: Harris with you, and since we're having some fun on

512
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Speaker 1: a Friday, we're talking about the greatest moments in Texans history.

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Speaker 1: We've been doing it throughout this twenty fifth season, the

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Speaker 1: off season, preseason, and going over some of the best seasons,

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Speaker 1: as we've only done one prior to this, the twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty three campaign. Tonight we're doing twenty eleven. And if

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Speaker 1: you're joining us just now, you've already missed the lead up.

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Speaker 1: We've done all the games up through Tampa Bay. So

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Speaker 1: it's kind of like a rewatchables of the twenty eleven season,

520
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Speaker 1: if you will, if you listen to that podcast about

521
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Speaker 1: older movies, we've done all those moments and we took

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Speaker 1: you up until the time Matt Shab gets hurt in

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Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay game late, but we didn't really know

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Speaker 1: it till the next day that he would be out

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Speaker 1: for the season, Johnny, and that was so disappointing. Matt

526
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Speaker 1: would tell me later that had the playoffs started the

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Speaker 1: next week, he would have just duct taped that thing

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Speaker 1: together and tried to play on it. But there was

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Speaker 1: no way he could go another six weeks because that's

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Speaker 1: what you had left in the regular season. So you

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Speaker 1: were gonna have to go without Shob. You had six

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Speaker 1: games left in the regular season, you were the top seed.

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Speaker 1: You knew you had a good defense at this point,

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Speaker 1: and you had Matt Leinert as your backup quarterback. And

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Speaker 1: that's not a bad thing at all. And my favorite

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Speaker 1: meme of the time was Liner in a hot tub,

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Speaker 1: because this was a picture that got some traction when

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Speaker 1: he was in college, I guess, or maybe he was

539
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Speaker 1: already a cardinal at this point, but he's in a

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Speaker 1: hot tub with like four girls and it just said Houston.

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Speaker 1: I got this on the meme and I just thought

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Speaker 1: that's so funny. You know, here we go, all right,

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Speaker 1: Matt Lionert.

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Speaker 3: He's got this.

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Speaker 1: Let's see what happens here? Uh, And Liner gets the

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Speaker 1: start against Jacksonville. You're going into a bye, so that's

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Speaker 1: other good news, Like we got two weeks to prepare

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Speaker 1: with a new quarterback, we got a great defense. Somebody's

549
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Speaker 1: just got to land the plane. Get us to the

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Speaker 1: postseason for the first time Liner starts against the Jags,

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Speaker 1: it's a little hurky jerky for a while, but Johnny,

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Speaker 1: he gets hurt before halftime, hurt. Lionard's out done. You

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Speaker 1: don't know he's done at the time, but he's hurt.

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Speaker 1: And this was so disappointing. It was like any given

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Speaker 1: Sunday when Dennis Quaide goes out and then Cherubini goes out,

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Speaker 1: and you get Willie Beaman in the game and TJ

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Speaker 1: Yates fifth round draft choice working from North Carolina, and

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Speaker 1: he's got to take the helm and does he ever?

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Speaker 1: What a moment, Johnny.

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Speaker 2: There was an incredible moment to watch. And I just

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Speaker 2: remember thinking at the time when Liner was in line

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Speaker 2: to start, I remember thinking, this is it. This is retribution.

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Speaker 2: You know six didn't take Reggie. You know, Matt was

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Speaker 2: in that draft with Vince Young, et cetera. Matt ends

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Speaker 2: up being I think the third quarterback taken to the

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Speaker 2: three was Cutler and Sey and Matt. I think Matt

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Speaker 2: was the third. I was like, Okay, this is Matt's revenge.

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Speaker 2: You didn't go well in Arizona, but this offense suits him.

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Speaker 2: There's gonna be some boots and some movement Matt's gonna

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Speaker 2: show that moxie he had at USC and then he

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Speaker 2: gets hurt, and I remember thinking, Okay, here comes TJ Yates,

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Speaker 2: and I'll you know, I don't know if I've ever

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Speaker 2: told TJ this.

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Speaker 3: I remember.

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Speaker 2: Going into twenty ten, TJ was the quarterback at North

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Speaker 2: Carolina and TJ I had not been very good at

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Speaker 2: North Carolina. I remember that distinctly, and I remember thinking,

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Speaker 2: he's going to his senior year. I didn't think much

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Speaker 2: of him, and that summer North Carolina had their top

580
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Speaker 2: four or five defensive players got in trouble for taking

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Speaker 2: some money.

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Speaker 3: So they've got to start the year. I want to

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Speaker 3: say it was LSU.

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Speaker 2: They got to start the year of twenty ten against LSU.

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Speaker 2: It's in Atlanta, and Yates he basically goes into you know,

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Speaker 2: like what he did rookie mode the final driving in Cincinnati,

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Speaker 2: he did it against LSU. Yeah, and you're like, wait

588
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Speaker 2: a second, But this guy's got something.

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Speaker 3: He's got a little moxie to him.

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Speaker 2: I like him a lot better than I did in

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Speaker 2: two thousand and nine, a lot better. Like this guy's

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Speaker 2: become a viable college quarterback. So when the Texans draft

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Speaker 2: him in fifth round. I felt like, hey, this is good,

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Speaker 2: this is a good move. This is a guy that

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Speaker 2: can build behind Matt shob and you know he's gonna grow,

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Speaker 2: He's gonna get better.

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Speaker 4: Okay.

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Speaker 3: I kind of like this he had to start.

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Speaker 2: I thought, oh boy, yep, or even just coming to

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Speaker 2: the game against the Jags, that thought, okay, just let

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Speaker 2: Gary just distribute the ball, get it to Arian, get

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Speaker 2: it to under it, get it to your guys, let

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Speaker 2: owen Daniel's feast. Just manage the game. Just be the caretaker.

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Speaker 2: This defense is good enough, you'll be okay. And then

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Speaker 2: he did a little bit more than that, obviously in

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Speaker 2: the Jaguars game, and then over the next couple of weeks.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, against Jacksonville, they sacked Blaine Gabbert and Luke McCown

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Speaker 1: to combine seven times in this one. I mean, Barwin

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Speaker 1: just went off in this game. This was a game

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Speaker 1: where how many did he have in this one four sacks?

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Speaker 1: Watt had two, and you know what didn't have a

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Speaker 1: ton of Sax's rookie year. I think it was only

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Speaker 1: five or six, but two of them were here in

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Speaker 1: this game. Brooks Reid added another. So you got out

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Speaker 1: of Jacksonville with the wins. So, okay, that's awesome.

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Speaker 4: TJ.

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Speaker 1: Yates had to play, but it worked out because you

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Speaker 1: beat him twenty to thirteen. What would happen next is

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Speaker 1: start number one because they didn't start the Jags game.

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Speaker 1: He came off the bench start number one for Yates

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Speaker 1: against Atlanta, and look, this is Matt Ryan Atlanta. Atlanta

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Speaker 1: is a good team. They come in and you're worried

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Speaker 1: about them. You're worried what they can do to you.

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Speaker 1: But it was another great defensive performance and just like

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Speaker 1: the Steeler game, it was seventeen to ten final score.

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Speaker 1: And a lot of people will tell you this. We've

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Speaker 1: talked about this over the years. The loudest they heard

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Speaker 1: the stadium, some people say was that game against the Falcons.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if it was the loudest. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if it's louder than Opening night or then the

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Speaker 1: playoff game was against Cleveland here with Demiko Ryans. I

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Speaker 1: can't measure them. I don't have the sound meter, but

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Speaker 1: I can tell you it was freaking loud. And it's

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Speaker 1: definitely the first time I felt the excitement from the

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Speaker 1: fans when the defense would take the field. They were

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Speaker 1: into the defense for the first time ever. Texans were

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Speaker 1: a good offensive team with Gary Kubiak. Now they were

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Speaker 1: a really good defensive team. And people were fired up.

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Speaker 1: The Assassin's Creed video on the board with the guys

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Speaker 1: putting on the hoods. It was really intimidating stuff. It

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Speaker 1: was loud, and the game would end like this, Ryan shotgun.

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Speaker 4: Three wide receiver set and one pack rogers.

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Speaker 1: Ryan gets the snap, there's pressure, Ryan releases it left

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Speaker 1: side of the.

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Speaker 5: End zone and and complaint. The Texans win it. They

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Speaker 5: defeated Atlanta seventeen to ten.

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Speaker 6: The rookie quarterback leads them and the defense and Arian

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Speaker 6: Foster help out big time as Houston down stuff Falcons

649
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Speaker 6: seventeen to ten and wins its ninth.

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Speaker 1: Of a year. All right, So, one of the things

651
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Speaker 1: we didn't get into was the fact that Andre Johnson

652
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Speaker 1: got hurt in that Pittsburgh game, and I believe got

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Speaker 1: hurt again in the Atlanta game, and Andre Johnson missed

654
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Speaker 1: big chunks of this season. You had to go without

655
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Speaker 1: your greatest player of the time for big parts of

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Speaker 1: the season. And that's another reason we call it the

657
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Speaker 1: next man up season. It's not just the quarterbacks. It's

658
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Speaker 1: the fact that Jacoby and Kevin Walter and anybody else

659
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Speaker 1: who could catch a pass had to help step up

660
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Speaker 1: for the departure, not departure, but the absence of Andre Johnson.

661
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Speaker 1: That was a big part of it. Johnny, that was

662
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Speaker 1: a huge day because it's set up the next one.

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Speaker 1: So I want to know what your thoughts were as

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Speaker 1: you're watching this before you're on the sideline and anything.

665
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Speaker 1: You're you're monitoring Texans games heavily, the Falcons, and now

666
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Speaker 1: you go to Cincinnati with a chance, if you get help,

667
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Speaker 1: you can possibly win the division on this December afternoon.

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Speaker 2: You know, Mark, he was interesting because I remember the

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Speaker 2: Atlanta game and back then I was doing my I

670
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Speaker 2: was doing overnights on Yahoo Sports Radio, and so I

671
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Speaker 2: would I would literally wake up at kickoffs.

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Speaker 3: It was a noon game.

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Speaker 2: It was, you know, I had to do radio that

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Speaker 2: night starting at midnight, so I would wake up literally

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Speaker 2: right before the game would start.

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Speaker 3: And so it was one of.

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Speaker 2: Those years in which I'm like a lot of a

678
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Speaker 2: lot of the noise and the things that were being heard.

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Speaker 2: It kind of was I literally was asleep for it

680
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Speaker 2: because I was doing my show at night. But I

681
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Speaker 2: remember watching the Atlanta game and I could tell just

682
00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:17,960
Speaker 2: watching that game it's one of the more physical games

683
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Speaker 2: I can ever remember. Both sides were just hammering each other.

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Speaker 2: And this is the Falcons offense.

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Speaker 3: I mean, listen to this.

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Speaker 2: They had Michael Turner, who at the time was one

687
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Speaker 2: of the better running backs in the league. They had

688
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Speaker 2: Tony Gonzalez chief Hall of Fame tight end soon to be,

689
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Speaker 2: Julio Jones wide receiver hall of Famer, and Roddy White

690
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Speaker 2: geez loaded, and the Texans defense held them to ten

691
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Speaker 2: points loaded ten. It's an amazing performance this day, it's

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Speaker 2: it's one of the performances from the defense I think

693
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Speaker 2: gets overshadowed because he the defenses in Houston have been

694
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Speaker 2: so good at various times over these last twenty five years.

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Speaker 2: I feel like this performance gets overshadowed, and to me,

696
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Speaker 2: it's one of the most inpressive physical performances I can remember.

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Speaker 2: And you're right, like, even at home, watching a game

698
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Speaker 2: at home, you could tell how loud it was in

699
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Speaker 2: the building for that particular game, and I worried that

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Speaker 2: the physical toll would kind of rear its ugly head

701
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Speaker 2: the next week against Cincinnati. I was worried about that

702
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Speaker 2: as they got into at Cincinnati game.

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Speaker 3: Mark.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it wasn't a frigid game, but it was kind

705
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Speaker 1: of a cold December afternoon. Yates getting a first road

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Speaker 1: start under his belt, and again the Bengals having a

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Speaker 1: nice season. They would eventually make the playoffs. We know

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Speaker 1: where their season ended. Andy Dalton, rookie quarterback. He'd been

709
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Speaker 1: in there from the get go, I believe, or at

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Speaker 1: least enough of the season. And the Bengals are a

711
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Speaker 1: good team. And it's clunky to say the least. You're

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Speaker 1: down sixteen to three at the half. Is it not

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Speaker 1: going to happen today? I mean, the season's gonna end.

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Speaker 1: If you end Cincinnati's trip with a loss, means you

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Speaker 1: have other opportunities down the stretch, but you'd like to

716
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Speaker 1: get it done today and maybe get some help from

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Speaker 1: the Saints who are playing the Titans in Nashville. So

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Speaker 1: you come out of the locker room and the Bengals

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Speaker 1: have the football. You need a big play on defense,

720
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Speaker 1: and you get it one back Dalton under center. Dalton

721
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Speaker 1: fakes to give he's under pressure.

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Speaker 4: And Barwin knocks it away.

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Speaker 5: Reid with the recovery sack fumball Houston Paul in the red.

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Speaker 1: Zone, outstanding the takeaway, and then the ensuing TJ. Yeats

725
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Speaker 1: to Joel Drieson touchdown pass to get your right back

726
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Speaker 1: in it down six, the teams would trade field goals.

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Speaker 1: Now time for one final drive. Johnny, and this is

728
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Speaker 1: man when we talk about great drives in the history

729
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Speaker 1: of the franchise, I think you have to mention this

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Speaker 1: one as number one. I mean, is there anything better

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Speaker 1: as far as what could be more important to the

732
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Speaker 1: history of your football team than the TJ. Yeats led

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Speaker 1: final drive against the Bengals in twenty eleven on the road.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this was monumental. Yates would throw for three

735
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Speaker 1: hundred yards on the day and there you were. You

736
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Speaker 1: need a touchdown to win, you need a touch and

737
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Speaker 1: the extra point to get the victory, and there you are.

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Speaker 1: So let's set it up for you. The Texans get

739
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Speaker 1: the ball at their twenty yard line and Owen Daniels

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Speaker 1: we talked about it with him when we had him

741
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Speaker 1: on the show late in the season. We had him

742
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Speaker 1: on a show at the Houston Texans team shop. Eleven

743
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Speaker 1: yard reception, seven yard reception. I mean Od kind of

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Speaker 1: gets them going a little bit and an eight yard

745
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Speaker 1: reception Walter for nineteen yards down to the Cincinnati thirty five.

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Speaker 1: But all of a sudden, it's what third and fifteen

747
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Speaker 1: ft and Yates scrambles for seventeen yards to get the

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Speaker 1: first monumental and then a PI drawn by Jacobe Jones,

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Speaker 1: which was absolutely huge because that gets you basically in

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Speaker 1: point blank range for this. The Yates gets the snap,

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Speaker 1: looking to us right, throws over the middle cut touchdown.

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Speaker 5: You said, Kevin Walter, what the TV reception two seconds ago?

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Speaker 4: The Texans can take the lead with the extra point.

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Speaker 1: Wow, there it is, and you've seen the photos, You've

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Speaker 1: seen the highlight. It's the biggest TV reception in the

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Speaker 1: history of the franchise, no question. I mean there have

757
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Speaker 1: been other big ones, don't get me wrong, but that

758
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Speaker 1: one enabled you to beat the Bengals that day and

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Speaker 1: make the playoffs. Johnny, that was a big momentat y.

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Speaker 3: Such a great moment. Mark.

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Speaker 2: I did a tel straighter. It's somewhere in the Texans building.

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Speaker 2: There's a telestrator that I did for that particular play,

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Speaker 2: and it was it was kind of I don't want

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Speaker 2: to say it was a staple play, but it was

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Speaker 2: a really it was a great red zone call against

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Speaker 2: what they hadnticipated the Bengals to be in and for

767
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Speaker 2: a rookie to read it out the way that TJ

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Speaker 2: did was pretty impressive. To look back and go, Mande

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Speaker 2: was a rookie and did that. It was so incredible.

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Speaker 2: But like you said, you got the win, but now

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Speaker 2: you needed a little bit of help. I can only

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Speaker 2: imagine it was going through your mind in the box

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Speaker 2: at that point, and the post game and all the

774
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Speaker 2: locker room stuff. WHOA, what was happening at that point?

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Speaker 1: Okay, so we end the game and I just call

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Speaker 1: it Texans whin. I cannot declare them division champions. I

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Speaker 1: cannot declare that they're in the playoffs. But I say,

778
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Speaker 1: if if the Saints beat the Titans, the Texans are

779
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Speaker 1: the division champs. And I paused a little bit because

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Speaker 1: I knew NFL films would use the back end of

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Speaker 1: that call. However, in the booth postgame show, this is

782
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Speaker 1: I don't know, fifteen minutes after the Texans game is over,

783
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Speaker 1: We've got the Titans and the Saints up on the monitor. Meanwhile,

784
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Speaker 1: the team is in the locker room, no media in there.

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Speaker 1: There's no footage of this, which is too bad because

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Speaker 1: now you definitely have footage of it. There's no footage,

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Speaker 1: no camera, phone, know nothing, but the Texans locker room

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Speaker 1: glued to the TV in their world seeing what happens

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Speaker 1: with the end of that game. This is us in

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Speaker 1: the booth and I'm calling it like I'm in Nashville,

791
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Speaker 1: but we're in the booth in Cincinnati watching the final

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Speaker 1: moments of Titans Saints. And here's what it sounded like.

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Speaker 1: Time is taking his locker, takes the snap, looking for

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Speaker 1: an open player.

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Speaker 4: He's down. The Texas have done it. They're in the playoffs.

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Speaker 4: They have won the AFC South on the first time ever.

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Speaker 4: Houston is en.

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Speaker 5: The Texans are the champions of the AFC South.

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Speaker 3: That was great.

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Speaker 2: The thing about it is if you're listening to that

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Speaker 2: clip and say, okay, h who won this game? Because

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Speaker 2: you don't say Saints win Texans, you go Texans when

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Speaker 2: ThEC you might even give credit to the Saints at

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Speaker 2: that point, which.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's the only thing that was relevant to us.

806
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Speaker 1: Was that was that and happiest playing ride home ever.

807
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Speaker 1: After making the playoffs for the first time. What a

808
00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:05,759
Speaker 1: ride that was that day. Get home, go to bud

809
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Speaker 1: Light Plaza. They set up a little stage, players out there,

810
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Speaker 1: at least two three, four thousand fans, whatever the number

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Speaker 1: was out there, and bud Light Plaza greeting the players

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Speaker 1: when they get back. You know, so impromptu, such a

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Speaker 1: great celebration, totally organic, and it was so much fun.

814
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Speaker 1: Yeats gets up there on stage. Yeats, he's a rookie.

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Speaker 1: I guess this is how it is. You just win

816
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Speaker 1: the division with what we do. I'm the third string quarterback,

817
00:41:34,520 --> 00:41:37,880
Speaker 1: just threw for three hundred on the Bengals playoff bound

818
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Speaker 1: and I got the job done today for my team.

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Speaker 1: So now what's gonna happen. There's a lot of celebrating

820
00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:46,360
Speaker 1: around the city, but you can still get a bye

821
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Speaker 1: in the first round. Top seed. I think was kind

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Speaker 1: of a pipe dream at that point. Johnny, you get

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Speaker 1: the Carolina Panthers coming in with the rooky quarterback Cam Newton.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna win this game, right wrong, twenty eight to

825
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Speaker 1: thirteen loss hangover from the BEng game. Cam Newton, they

826
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Speaker 1: run in that statue of liberty. Weird play that they

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Speaker 1: ran in that game. It was just bizarre. Now you

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Speaker 1: have a short week Thursday night, you're going to Indy.

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Speaker 1: This is something you can cross off the list. Get

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Speaker 1: your first win ever at Indianapolis. As we continue to

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Speaker 1: look back in the twenty eleven season, part of the

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Speaker 1: twenty fifth season celebration. So you're playing the Colts quarterback

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Speaker 1: by dan Or Alawski. Little do you know that he's

834
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Speaker 1: going to become an ESPN hot take artist, but he's

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Speaker 1: the quarterback for the Colts that night. This should be

836
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Speaker 1: an easy dub new He leads the Colts on a

837
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Speaker 1: late touchdown drive, hits Reggie Wayne for the go ahead score,

838
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Speaker 1: and the Colts beat the Texans nineteen sixteen on that

839
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Speaker 1: Thursday night, And it felt bad even though you're going

840
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Speaker 1: to the postseason. Look, I was on such a high.

841
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Speaker 1: I don't think anything could have really destroyed it at

842
00:42:47,600 --> 00:42:50,560
Speaker 1: that point. What was called for some bizarre penalty in

843
00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:54,160
Speaker 1: that game late It was very strange, and you lost

844
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Speaker 1: the outing. You concluded the season with the loss to Tennessee,

845
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Speaker 1: a game you didn't need, and that's set up up

846
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Speaker 1: the playoff game. And that's next here on Texans Radio.

847
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Speaker 1: Final segment on the program tonight, As we have spent

848
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Speaker 1: pretty much the entire show reliving the twenty eleven season,

849
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Speaker 1: part of our twenty fifth season celebration looking back on

850
00:43:12,080 --> 00:43:15,200
Speaker 1: the greatest seasons in Texans history. We did twenty twenty

851
00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:18,200
Speaker 1: three previously, now we're doing twenty eleven. Maybe the greatest

852
00:43:18,239 --> 00:43:21,399
Speaker 1: season ever, considering it was the breakthrough season to send

853
00:43:21,400 --> 00:43:24,960
Speaker 1: them to the playoffs. And that's where we start this segment.

854
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Speaker 1: After the finale against Tennessee. Jake the Loan played a

855
00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:31,200
Speaker 1: bunch in that game. The Texans took on the Bengals

856
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Speaker 1: at home. You'd beaten them earlier, but man, this is

857
00:43:33,560 --> 00:43:36,600
Speaker 1: the postseason. Never been here before, what's it going to

858
00:43:36,600 --> 00:43:40,040
Speaker 1: be like? The build up was absolutely incredible around the

859
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Speaker 1: city to the very first Texans playoff game. So much excitement,

860
00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:47,520
Speaker 1: so much adrenaline, Johnny, I mean, there was a lot

861
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Speaker 1: of anticipation for this one. And the game is going

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00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:54,920
Speaker 1: not great, but not terrible. It's ten to ten, getting

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Speaker 1: late in the first half. I think we all know

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Speaker 1: what's coming because it's the play that sent JJ Watt

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Speaker 1: towards superstardom and it set the Texans well on their

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Speaker 1: way to their first ever postseason victory.

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Speaker 4: Dalton gets to snap throws it, it's intercepted. Wat takes

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Speaker 4: it across the fifteenth.

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Speaker 5: Ten five brock and roll touchdown, Texans pick six.

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Speaker 4: Tabra catabra. Just like that, the Texans.

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Speaker 1: Take the lead.

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Speaker 4: Tever Reliance Stadium has erupted.

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Speaker 1: Reliant Stadium.

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Speaker 4: Here we go.

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Speaker 1: It was that then and it's that now and JJ

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Speaker 1: Watt picked six. It will live in Texans glory forever.

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Speaker 1: And Watt's career was really launched in front of the

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Speaker 1: national audience that night. There were no primetime games that year.

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Speaker 1: You were coming off twenty ten. You didn't have any

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Speaker 1: primetimers other than the Thursday Night or at Indye, which

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Speaker 1: at the time, the Thursday night game had no Jews. Really,

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Speaker 1: so great for JJ to get that, and it's set

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Speaker 1: up a second half where you would absolutely dominate. I

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Speaker 1: mentioned Andre Johnson in the previous segment battling injuries that year,

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Speaker 1: but he would be in the postseason, and you knew

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Speaker 1: you had to get eighty in the end zone at

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Speaker 1: some point bof set a Yates back to throw, looking

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Speaker 1: popping out, firing deep down the left side.

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Speaker 4: What's Idray Johnson? How's about the five reason?

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Speaker 5: Andre Sjohson welcome to the playoffs.

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Speaker 4: Forty yards.

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Speaker 1: Andre scores in his first ever playoff game. Johnny, I'll

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Speaker 1: finish off the highlights here because Andre got in the

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Speaker 1: end zone. Now there's one other guy we really want

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Speaker 1: to make sure it gets into the end zone on

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Speaker 1: this very special afternoon slash evening. The game began at

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Speaker 1: three thirty Saturday afternoon. You know the time for this

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Speaker 1: postseason affair. Let's go Andre Johnson to the short side, left,

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Speaker 1: here's the give Foster to the right side, looking for

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Speaker 1: the corner. Has the thirty five the thirty twenty five

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Speaker 1: right sideline, twenty.

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Speaker 4: Fifteenth, Ten breaks a tackle.

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Speaker 5: Five rock and roll touchdown Arian Fuster forty two yards.

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Speaker 1: Arion caps it off and the Texans dominate in their

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Speaker 1: first ever playoff game, smashing the Cincinnati Bengals. Oh, how

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Speaker 1: sweet it was. As Jean would say, that was great.

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Speaker 1: We won't get into what happened the next year. The

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Speaker 1: final score on that day thirty one to ten. Mark.

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Speaker 1: What happened after that? They advanced, didn't they? Yeah, they

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Speaker 1: lost to the Ravens. We've talked about that game an

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Speaker 1: awful lot. Twenty to thirteen. It's a seven point lost

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Speaker 1: Jakobe with the muff punt, Yates threw three picks. A

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Speaker 1: tough way to end it. But I don't think anybody

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Speaker 1: was disappointed with the season. Of course, you were elated

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Speaker 1: with the progress of the franchise. It's just too bad

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Speaker 1: that you couldn't get it together offensively to hold out

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Speaker 1: of the football and get into the next round, which

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Speaker 1: would be the AFC Championship game. And boy, that feels

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Speaker 1: familiar as I described that, because it's exactly what happened

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Speaker 1: this past season. You turn the ball over too much

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Speaker 1: with a great defense, they just couldn't hold on and

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Speaker 1: you lose by seven to the Ravens in twenty eleven

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Speaker 1: to cap the season. And that was a rough way

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Speaker 1: to conclude the campaign. But Johnny, what a special season

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Speaker 1: it was.

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Speaker 3: You know that Ravens game.

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Speaker 2: I just remember watching at the very end they're showing

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Speaker 2: what and cushing and the defense shaking hands of the

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Speaker 2: Ravens offense. I thought, man, that group played its guts out.

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Speaker 2: You wait till next year. They're going to be back

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Speaker 2: at it, and they were, and JJ became Defensive Player

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Speaker 2: of the Year. There's a photo somewhere in the building

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Speaker 2: of the locker room and Gary Kubiak giving Andre Johnson

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Speaker 2: the game ball. Yeah, it's somewhere in our building and

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Speaker 2: it is one of my favorite photos. I think he

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Speaker 2: used to be in Drew's office and it was one

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Speaker 2: of my favorite photos because it's Andre getting the game

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Speaker 2: ball from Kubiak and the whole place is, you know,

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Speaker 2: clapping and going crazy.

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Speaker 3: Beautiful.

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Speaker 1: Great way to finish it off, Johnny, Thank you, and

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Speaker 1: we'll do more seasons, more moments as the twenty fifth

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Speaker 1: season runway continues into the twenty twenty six campaign. So

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Speaker 1: thanks so much for listening. If you missed some of

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Speaker 1: this show Reliving twenty eleven, go back to the podcast

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Speaker 1: on the Odyssey app or later on Spotify, Houston Texans

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Speaker 1: dot com, wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, Area forty

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Speaker 1: five is coming up. Have a great weekend, Go Texans,