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Speaker 1: What is up? Everybody? Welcome in today Friday edition of

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

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Speaker 1: your host football Annials, said silent reporter John Harrison's so

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Speaker 1: thrilled to be with you tonight because we are, Oh,

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Speaker 1: I don't know what are we thirty six hours maybe

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Speaker 1: a little bit more away from kickoff? Less than forty

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Speaker 1: eight that I know. We're less than forty eight hours

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Speaker 1: away from kickoff the season opener, the first time the

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Speaker 1: Texans will open on the road since twenty thirteen when

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Speaker 1: they opened at San Diego at Qualcom, which I don't

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Speaker 1: even know what it was at that time, but Qualcom

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Speaker 1: is the way that I remember it. If you're go

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Speaker 1: way back, Jack Murphy Stadium was what we should call it.

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Speaker 1: But either way, last time the Texans o bundrow was

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Speaker 1: twenty thirteen against the Chargers, walked away with a comeback victory.

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Speaker 1: Would take a comeback victory. Anything that ends in victory,

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Speaker 1: I will take it. Sunday against New England Patriots. Now

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Speaker 1: it's the fourth time the Texans will have played within

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Speaker 1: two full calendar years. How about that fourth time up there?

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Speaker 1: Now a lot of people have asked me. In fact,

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Speaker 1: my wife asked me this last night. So why do

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Speaker 1: y'all consistently go up to New England. Well, the way

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Speaker 1: that the schedule goes, you either you'll play New England

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Speaker 1: if A it's a three year rotation the AFC, so

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Speaker 1: every three years you play teams from each division. So

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Speaker 1: in twenty fifteen and SAFC East twenty eighteen and Safcast

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, or to be AFC East and twenty

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Speaker 1: fifteen the Patriots came here. That was the rotation in

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Speaker 1: sixteen and seventeen. It was all the result of the

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Speaker 1: Texans and Patriots finishing at the same spot in first

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Speaker 1: place in the divisions. The thing is, though twenty seventeen

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Speaker 1: was a little weird. Twenty seventeen should have been flipped.

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Speaker 1: Kansas City should have come We should have gone to

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Speaker 1: Kansas City and New England should have come here. But

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Speaker 1: it didn't come out that way, and there was some

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Speaker 1: that forced it to be that way. So we go

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Speaker 1: back up to New England for twenty eighteen the fourth time.

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Speaker 1: As I said, in two calendar years, I'm bringing everybody

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Speaker 1: bringing the whole shooting match, which is not something that

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Speaker 1: Texans could say last year, and it's gonna be something

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Speaker 1: hopefully they're gonna say a lot more times this year

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Speaker 1: than they were able to say last year, because after

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Speaker 1: the Kansas City game, it was never the same. It

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Speaker 1: didn't even get close. The only time last year that

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Speaker 1: we played with any semblance of all of our dudes,

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Speaker 1: if you will, was Tennessee in Week four and how

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Speaker 1: did that go? Fifty seven fourteen. That was the only

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Speaker 1: time we even got got close because in Week three one, two,

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Speaker 1: weeks one, two and three, we didn't have Will Fuller,

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Speaker 1: in Week five and beyond, we did not have Whitney

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Speaker 1: we obviously went forward with Christian Covington and then Deshaun Watson, etc. Etc.

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Speaker 1: We've got our dudes, and that includes new dudes as

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Speaker 1: well as in Aaron Colvin, Tyrant, Matthew Sineo, Callamette, Chantrell Henderson,

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Speaker 1: Zach Bolton, Johnson Batamose. A lot of nude dudes on

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Speaker 1: this team. In fact, I this was in our release,

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Speaker 1: our game release put together by one of the best

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Speaker 1: you're gonna find, om Omar, he's the best. Omar put

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Speaker 1: this together and he put this note in there, and

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Speaker 1: he said that the fifty three man roster, now, depending

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Speaker 1: on who plays, who doesn't, twenty one Texans will be

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Speaker 1: making their Texans debut. Guys like Jordan Nakins, Johnson Battamose,

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Speaker 1: Sammy Colts, Aaron Colvin, k QT, Natrell Jamerson. Well, he's

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Speaker 1: just making his Texans debut period, Jordan Thomas, Trevor Daniel Duke,

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Speaker 1: Edge of four, and on and on. Twenty one of

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Speaker 1: the fifty three man roster will be suiting up for

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Speaker 1: the Texans in the regular game, regular season game situation

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Speaker 1: for the first time. Wow, that's how things change in

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Speaker 1: the NFL, and hopefully the change has been for the

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Speaker 1: better for your Texans. Now, we've got a lot to

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Speaker 1: do on the show tonight. We've got our deep slant

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Speaker 1: interview of the week with dB City. This week gets

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Speaker 1: Homeboy dukedge of four. And I don't mean homeboy colloquially

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Speaker 1: will we. I mean it as he's from Houston from

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Speaker 1: a leaf which is Houston, a leaf, Taylor High School,

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Speaker 1: going to have the general manager, Brian Gaine the game

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Speaker 1: show as well. I will pick every single game as

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Speaker 1: And yes, I know that there have been changes in

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Speaker 1: the gambling legislation throughout the United States, has a changing

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Speaker 1: talking about games and predicting what's gonna happen in games

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Speaker 1: throughout the NFL. I will give you my keys to

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Speaker 1: the Patriots. The one thing the Patriots have done a

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Speaker 1: job by the Patriots knocking home field goals obviously when

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Speaker 1: in addition to what this offense has to do to

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Speaker 1: with Kareem Jackson's running mate Jonathan Joseph. All Right, that

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Speaker 1: But we gotta kick it off as we always do

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Speaker 1: anyone sort of lean on you for advice and where

428
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Speaker 1: to go eat. Ye, rickies are acting and you know,

429
00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:02,280
Speaker 1: tell them I was from here, and you know, they

430
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Speaker 1: asked me a couple of spots. What are you? What

431
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Speaker 1: are your recommendations? You know, it's funny because like, uh,

432
00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:09,879
Speaker 1: my recommendations for food spots were like so common, so

433
00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:13,280
Speaker 1: they were just like it was like a burger. Yeah,

434
00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:15,360
Speaker 1: they're just like, oh my god. You know, I told

435
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Speaker 1: him that's really pretty much all I eat. So we

436
00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:19,080
Speaker 1: haven't lived here in a while too, so it's probably

437
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Speaker 1: changed a lot since you were here last. Absolutely, freeways

438
00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:24,399
Speaker 1: are bigger, there's more things to do, Yeah, a lot

439
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Speaker 1: more people. I mean it's always been a big city,

440
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Speaker 1: but you know, just haven't been here for like four

441
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Speaker 1: and a half years and come back and just kind

442
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Speaker 1: of I kind of realized how great of a city

443
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Speaker 1: it is, and I'm just like wow, like I'm so

444
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Speaker 1: happy to be here. So all right, Well, on Sunday

445
00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:39,440
Speaker 1: we were traveling up to New England and you get

446
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Speaker 1: to face Tom Brady. I assume you grew up watching

447
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Speaker 1: him too. How do you not let a game like

448
00:21:43,520 --> 00:21:45,679
Speaker 1: that get too big for you? It's obviously your first

449
00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:49,119
Speaker 1: NFL game ever, not counting the preseason, But how do

450
00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:50,800
Speaker 1: you not let it get too big? You're going up

451
00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:54,000
Speaker 1: there facing these super Bowl caliber team, right, I just

452
00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:55,880
Speaker 1: I just think taking it to play at a time,

453
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Speaker 1: and you know, just knowing that everything's not gonna be perfect,

454
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Speaker 1: you know, just focusing on your assignment in their alignments,

455
00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:02,640
Speaker 1: and you know, just taking it play at a time. Yeah,

456
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Speaker 1: Whitney told me that he also gave you some advice

457
00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:07,080
Speaker 1: to not get star struck. His first one of his

458
00:22:07,119 --> 00:22:09,639
Speaker 1: first games was in Denver and he couldn't get over

459
00:22:09,640 --> 00:22:13,359
Speaker 1: the fact that he's facing Peyton Manning. Yeah, that's pretty

460
00:22:13,359 --> 00:22:15,960
Speaker 1: good advice. I thought, don't get starstruck away. Tom Brady

461
00:22:16,040 --> 00:22:20,600
Speaker 1: is good advice. Yeah, definitely. There is Houstonian a Leaf

462
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Speaker 1: Taylor High School. They get awake Forrest, but Houstonians a

463
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Speaker 1: little Houstonian Houston little North Carolina and him kind of

464
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Speaker 1: like that guy m Sot the same way. Do catch

465
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Speaker 1: for right there? All right, it's time for the game plan,

466
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Speaker 1: that's right. Brian Gaine sits down with Mark Vandermair each

467
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Speaker 1: and every week talk about the upcoming matchup, things going

468
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Speaker 1: on in the organization, acquisitions, releases, ways, all that kind

469
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Speaker 1: of stuff. Here's Mark vandimair with Brian Gaine. I know

470
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Speaker 1: it was a huge week and a busy weekend. Take

471
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Speaker 1: us through a little bit of that process, because you

472
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Speaker 1: have to make cuts and then you're seeing who's on

473
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Speaker 1: the market. How did all that go for you? First thing,

474
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Speaker 1: I think about his preparation and the preparation for our

475
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Speaker 1: preseason scouting efforts. Believe it or not, Mark starts way

476
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Speaker 1: back in May, right after the draft, and once the

477
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Speaker 1: ninety man rosters get set, we start projecting. At that stage,

478
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Speaker 1: you know, possible cut lists, possibly who could be on

479
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Speaker 1: the bubble, and possibly who's going to make every single team.

480
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Speaker 1: But to do that, you really have to have a

481
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Speaker 1: strong evaluation of your own roster. So we spend the

482
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Speaker 1: UTAs in the veteran mini camp, really deep diving into

483
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Speaker 1: evaluating every single player on our roster. Spend a ton

484
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Speaker 1: of time doing that in training camp in the early

485
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Speaker 1: portions of preseasons, so that our scouts can be equipped

486
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Speaker 1: to go out and look around the rest of the

487
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Speaker 1: league so that they can identify possibly where we can improve.

488
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Speaker 1: The second phase of that, obviously is partnering with the

489
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Speaker 1: coaches and fairly evaluating all our players that are currently

490
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Speaker 1: on our roster so that when and if those players

491
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Speaker 1: come available in the league, we have the ability to

492
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Speaker 1: compare and contrast. The third phase of that, obviously, is

493
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Speaker 1: you are constantly contingency planning, so we will always estimate

494
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Speaker 1: what we may need and if we need player Anna,

495
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Speaker 1: what's gonna be our options? What are the internal solutions,

496
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Speaker 1: and then what are the external solutions. So over this weekend,

497
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Speaker 1: our scouts were here for countless hours. I mean we

498
00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:17,040
Speaker 1: put three or four hard working weeks into the preseason

499
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Speaker 1: evaluations around the league. But when the fifty three man

500
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Speaker 1: waiver claim came down, we were awarded three players. Three players.

501
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Speaker 1: We think that could help us here as we enter

502
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Speaker 1: the season. When you get to those final players in

503
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Speaker 1: a position group, is it more about special teams with

504
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Speaker 1: those guys, or maybe they mature into great position players

505
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Speaker 1: or a combination of things. How do you weigh that out.

506
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Speaker 1: It's certainly a combination of both. But here at the Texans,

507
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Speaker 1: we're going to put a large amount of emphasis in

508
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Speaker 1: our skill in our big skill players, which basically is

509
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Speaker 1: the defensive backs, wide receivers, and the big skill guys

510
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Speaker 1: are the running backs, the tight ends, the fullback and

511
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Speaker 1: the linebackers, anybody that's going to be a backup caliber player.

512
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Speaker 1: We need their ability to contribute on fourth down and

513
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Speaker 1: special teams, and that will greatly increase their value to

514
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Speaker 1: us as it relates to the combination of the evaluation

515
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Speaker 1: at their position, but also on fourth down because we

516
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Speaker 1: want address forty six. There's twenty two starters. So the

517
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Speaker 1: balance of those players who are hoping have special teams

518
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Speaker 1: value and help can help bred seeley, you keep three quarterbacks.

519
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Speaker 1: Joe Webb, he's been an exciting player to watch in

520
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Speaker 1: the preseason. What about what he brings to the table

521
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Speaker 1: now that he's on the fifty three. I've said this

522
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Speaker 1: numerous times about Joe, being familiar with him from my

523
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Speaker 1: previous year in Buffalo. Is Joe as a football player

524
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Speaker 1: who happens to play quarterback, but he's a utility type

525
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Speaker 1: skill set where he's played quarterback in the past, he's

526
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Speaker 1: played receiver in the past. And to joe'scretit, he played

527
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Speaker 1: well on fourth down this preseason on special teams and

528
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Speaker 1: he earned the right to be on the team. So however,

529
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Speaker 1: we're going to use him, whether it's from the quarterback position,

530
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Speaker 1: the receiver position, or equally on fourth down, Joe was

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Speaker 1: a very good chance to be a contributing player for

532
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Speaker 1: us in some capacity this season. Shane Leckler was a

533
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Speaker 1: very popular, well known player in Houston. What about Trevor Daniel?

534
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Speaker 1: He must be special at least as a rookie. So

535
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Speaker 1: what are we seeing here? First and foremost, Shane Leckler

536
00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:08,960
Speaker 1: texas legend, Texans legend, and we want to honor his

537
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Speaker 1: legacy and all the things he did for us here

538
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Speaker 1: while he was a Texan. But as it relates to

539
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Speaker 1: Trevor Daniel, he is a young talented punter with a

540
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Speaker 1: lot of leg talent who in situational capacities, he's pretty

541
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Speaker 1: advanced for a young punter, meaning fifty yard line going in,

542
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Speaker 1: kicking from your own zone going out. Also the ability

543
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Speaker 1: to locate the ball in terms of touch and placement,

544
00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:34,760
Speaker 1: are angling the ball? Those are some things maybe some

545
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Speaker 1: young punters are learning once they come into the league.

546
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Speaker 1: We feel like he has an advanced skill set in

547
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Speaker 1: that area and what he needs to do is just

548
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Speaker 1: can continue to improve and be more consistent. And I

549
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Speaker 1: think he's a young talent who has a large upside

550
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Speaker 1: in this league, and we're excited to have him on

551
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Speaker 1: the team. We caught up with you at the Greenbrier

552
00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:54,200
Speaker 1: a lot evaluating position groups, and one player we didn't

553
00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:57,280
Speaker 1: get too much is Vincent Smith, the rookie receivers. So

554
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Speaker 1: tell us about him now that he's on the fifty

555
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Speaker 1: three man roster. You've heard me say this before, Mark.

556
00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:03,959
Speaker 1: We've put a large emphasis on height, weight, speed, and

557
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:05,960
Speaker 1: we feel that if we do that, we're going to

558
00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:09,159
Speaker 1: have some of those transferable skill sets show up on

559
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Speaker 1: fourth down as well. But Vincent's six foot two and change.

560
00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:14,160
Speaker 1: He's right around two hundred pounds. He was a four

561
00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:16,879
Speaker 1: four old guy coming out, so the height, weight speed

562
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Speaker 1: gave him I think some ability to advance and to develop.

563
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Speaker 1: And to Vincent's credit, I think he got better every

564
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Speaker 1: week and he positioned himself at the finish line to

565
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Speaker 1: compete for a roster spot, and we felt like he

566
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Speaker 1: was one of the top fifty three and he earned

567
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Speaker 1: the right to be on the team. And now it's

568
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Speaker 1: his job to keep that right. And as a young

569
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Speaker 1: player in the league, when you're on the fringe of

570
00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:37,119
Speaker 1: making it and maybe not making it, you know you

571
00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:40,040
Speaker 1: have to earn that spot. Basically every week, and we're

572
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Speaker 1: hoping he's going to continue to ascend as it relates

573
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Speaker 1: to his advancement through the season. But one thing that

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Speaker 1: stood out for him for me with Vincent was like

575
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Speaker 1: you felt his speed on the field. He had he

576
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Speaker 1: had a vertical presence in the passing game, and you

577
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Speaker 1: started to see some of those straits resonate on fourth

578
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Speaker 1: down as it related to the third preseason game in

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Speaker 1: the fourth preseason game. So we're excited about his combination

580
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Speaker 1: skill set where he's going to offer up presence of

581
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Speaker 1: speed in the offense, but also that speed we're hope

582
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Speaker 1: is going to show up on fourth down. Now, what

583
00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:10,960
Speaker 1: about the new guys he added the two defensive backs

584
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Speaker 1: and the running back. Howl Howell is a young back

585
00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:17,359
Speaker 1: that we claimed off the waiver wire from the Miami

586
00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:20,640
Speaker 1: Dolphins who has a base or early down skill set,

587
00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:22,920
Speaker 1: showed some ability to catch the football. He's six foot,

588
00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:24,840
Speaker 1: two hundred and twenty pounds. He ran four to five

589
00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:27,439
Speaker 1: coming out of Florida Atlantic, but played very well on

590
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Speaker 1: special teams. So to get a game day jersey to

591
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Speaker 1: get to the forty six man roster, we're hoping that

592
00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:34,919
Speaker 1: he can show the coaches he has the ability to

593
00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:40,720
Speaker 1: contribute on fourth down. We claimed Natrelle Jamerson from the

594
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Speaker 1: New Orleans Saints. He is a defensive back by trade.

595
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Speaker 1: He has been a cornerback and safety at Wisconsin. He

596
00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:52,960
Speaker 1: was recruited as a wide receiver five two hundred pounds

597
00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:55,280
Speaker 1: two hundred and five pounds, ran four four row coming out,

598
00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:58,080
Speaker 1: got drafted in the fifth round by the Saints. We

599
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Speaker 1: feel here he can be an either or player. He

600
00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:02,560
Speaker 1: can be a safety or a corner. He played corner

601
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Speaker 1: this preseason for the Saints. Perhaps we'll just wait and

602
00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:08,240
Speaker 1: see on how he's gonna integrate into the defense here,

603
00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:10,560
Speaker 1: but we like his future as a skill set. He

604
00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:12,520
Speaker 1: has the tools and traits that we want to develop

605
00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:15,760
Speaker 1: as a defensive back. And then Aj Moore we claim

606
00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:18,680
Speaker 1: from the from the New England Patriots. And Aj was

607
00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:21,960
Speaker 1: a very good special teams player this preseason with the

608
00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:24,440
Speaker 1: New England Patriots. He's got a dominant trade of straight

609
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Speaker 1: line speed. We're hoping that's going to resonate well on

610
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Speaker 1: fourth down for us when we start the season here.

611
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Speaker 1: All right, something that fans don't see much of. I

612
00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:34,400
Speaker 1: know that every week you're probably gonna be trying guys out.

613
00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:37,160
Speaker 1: This happens around the National Football League, So this kind

614
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:39,840
Speaker 1: of thing is an ongoing thing. The fifty three man roster.

615
00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:41,760
Speaker 1: You never know when you might need guys or find

616
00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:44,160
Speaker 1: somebody that can help you these days, so that's a

617
00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:48,120
Speaker 1: twofold response. We often are proactive but also can be

618
00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:51,280
Speaker 1: reactive in the same way. So anytime a player comes

619
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Speaker 1: available that we may or have a degree of interest,

620
00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:56,800
Speaker 1: and we're always gonna review that player to some degree

621
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Speaker 1: and compare them to what we have, and then even

622
00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:01,680
Speaker 1: if we don't sign those players, we're always going to

623
00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:04,440
Speaker 1: have those guys on our ready lists. We're always ranking players,

624
00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:07,760
Speaker 1: are always prioritizing players, and then there's times and places

625
00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:10,640
Speaker 1: what look injuries happen and we have to be reactive.

626
00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:13,920
Speaker 1: But we think our proactive approach on how we evaluate

627
00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:16,400
Speaker 1: players when they do come free and when we work

628
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:19,040
Speaker 1: out guys and bring guys into for these tryouts, that

629
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Speaker 1: we're going to be ready when those moments come, when

630
00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:24,480
Speaker 1: and if injuries happen, to know who the next best

631
00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:27,360
Speaker 1: option is. But I'll always say this is that our

632
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:30,400
Speaker 1: first approach will always to be what are the internal solutions,

633
00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:32,800
Speaker 1: Who's on our practice squad, how can we balance the

634
00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:36,520
Speaker 1: roster in this situation? But if those if those scenarios

635
00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:38,600
Speaker 1: don't emerge, then we're always going to be prepared for

636
00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:42,719
Speaker 1: the external solutions. So our scouts are constantly contingency planning

637
00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:45,400
Speaker 1: so that if this injury happen or that happen, who

638
00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:47,360
Speaker 1: is the next best option? And we will do that

639
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:50,080
Speaker 1: every week of the season. And there you go, a

640
00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:52,920
Speaker 1: little duke edge for a little Briant gain as well.

641
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Speaker 1: We get back, let's dive into this matchup. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: this Friday as we start breaking down this game, and

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Speaker 1: some of the moving pieces in this one. Trying to

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Speaker 1: football against the New England Patriots. The first glance Keys

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Speaker 1: Now we'll do this twice. We'll do the offense now,

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Speaker 1: later in the show. So let's talk about this. Texans

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Speaker 1: offense had a lot of success last year in going

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Speaker 1: up to New England against that defense. Now, I think

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Speaker 1: the Patriots defense ultimately is better this year personnel wise.

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Speaker 1: But key number one is understanding personnel. And here's what

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Speaker 1: I mean by that for the Texans. And I don't

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Speaker 1: think this is difficult, but I do think it's a

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Speaker 1: key to the game. And here's what I mean by that.

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Speaker 1: Danny Shelton was brought to New England. He's one of

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Speaker 1: the better run, stuffing nose tackles. He's about five hundred

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Speaker 1: and ninety pounds, really is about three forty and as

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Speaker 1: Drew Doherty said at the Senior Ball a few years ago,

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Speaker 1: he throws dudes around like throw pillows. He is strong,

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Speaker 1: he is he can be quick in short, small spaces.

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Speaker 1: And then you've got Malcolm Brown. They did have Alan

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Speaker 1: branch In the past, they would be branching Brown and

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Speaker 1: those guys would play the run, they would go off

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Speaker 1: the field. Then they would bring on their pass rush

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Speaker 1: their past rush group. Now, that past rush group in

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Speaker 1: the past included Chandler, Jones, Rob Nikovic and some guys

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Speaker 1: that could get it off the edge. Not quite the

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Speaker 1: same this year. But what is key about that front

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Speaker 1: is how situationally based it is. And what I mean

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Speaker 1: by that is when Seanan Browner in the game, the

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Speaker 1: Patriots are absolutely, without question, unequivocally expecting the Texans to

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Speaker 1: run the ball. When you see them in the game,

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Speaker 1: ninety seventy one in the game, they are expecting the

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Speaker 1: Texans to run the ball. When you see number seventy

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Speaker 1: Adam Butler in the game, more than likely you're gonna

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Speaker 1: see him next to number ninety four Adrian Claiborne inside,

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Speaker 1: And that's the key, Adrian Claiborne outside with those two

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Speaker 1: big run stuff first, they're thinking run all day. You

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Speaker 1: run into that. It's almost like technical ball. If you're

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Speaker 1: a play technical ball a long time ago. In Tegwa

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Speaker 1: ball is pretty simple because with Tegwa ball, if you

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Speaker 1: if you picked your defense and it match the exact

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Speaker 1: play that the other guy picked. You shut the play down.

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Speaker 1: So it's sort of that way. If you have a

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Speaker 1: run called and they have the run defense in, yes

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Speaker 1: you can and you can still block it up perfectly.

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Speaker 1: You can still pop a gap and end up getting

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Speaker 1: a big play out of it. But those chances are

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Speaker 1: very slim against that particular run group. Now, when they

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Speaker 1: expect pass, like I said, Adam Butler, were coming to

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Speaker 1: game number seventy ninety four, Adrian Clayborne, we're bump inside.

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Speaker 1: You will see Derek Rivers ninety five on the outside.

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Speaker 1: You will see number ninety one Dietrich Wise in the outside.

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Speaker 1: You will see ninety eight Trey Flowers. On the outside,

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Speaker 1: you will see a conglomeration of guys that are not

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Speaker 1: Danny Shelton and Malcolm Brown. They're expecting at that point

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Speaker 1: for the Texans to throw the football. Now, can Butler

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Speaker 1: and Claiborne hold up against the run inside once? Maybe

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Speaker 1: twice possibly, but not on a consistent basis. So understanding

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Speaker 1: what personnel is in the game and then adapting, so

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Speaker 1: if you can throw when they're expecting run, if you

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Speaker 1: you are able to do that and do it effectively

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Speaker 1: if you win first down. And this may go against

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Speaker 1: how the Texans look at first down over the years.

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Speaker 1: First down has been we're gonna run the football, We're

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Speaker 1: gonna establish the run, physical up front, We're gonna establish

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Speaker 1: the running first down. This might be one of those

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Speaker 1: situations where you throw the football because you have an

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Speaker 1: could have with the other guys in the game. It's simple, seemingly,

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Speaker 1: but if you get yourself into second and ten and

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, those Jets come on the field,

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Speaker 1: so to speak. They don't really have a guy like

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Speaker 1: Chandler Jones or Nikovich, but they've got some guys that

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Speaker 1: then it's playing right into their hands. Brian Flores is

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Speaker 1: a first year defensive coordinator for the Patriots. He's gonna

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Speaker 1: get a lot of help from Bill Belichick. There's no doubt.

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Speaker 1: But if you can run when they're looking throw, if

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Speaker 1: mix things up, especially on first down, and keep them

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Speaker 1: on their heels. If you get the second and six,

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Speaker 1: trouble because now you have no idea what to do.

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Speaker 1: Now they have no idea how to play it. Do

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Speaker 1: they need to put their pass rush group in there?

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Speaker 1: What are they gonna do? Understanding their personnel? Next key

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Speaker 1: for facing the new England Patriots secondary, Who do you

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Speaker 1: want to attack and how? When the Patriots in the

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Speaker 1: past face the Texans, it was all about doubling DeAndre

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Speaker 1: Hopkins and that cost them pretty significantly in the game.

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Speaker 1: Last year. They would double Hopkins and in doing so

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Speaker 1: they left one on one coverage for Bruce Ellington, They

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Speaker 1: left one on one coverage for Ryan Griffin. So how

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Speaker 1: will the Patriots go about it this time? Because if

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Speaker 1: they double Hopkins, the same situations are going to be

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Speaker 1: afforded to the Texans offense. But Hopkins still got his

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Speaker 1: last year, He still had receptions, he still was able

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Speaker 1: to work free from Stefan Gilmour. Now, in the past,

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Speaker 1: what the Patriots did was they took Malcolm Butler and

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Speaker 1: they would put him on a number two wide receiver,

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Speaker 1: and then they would take Logan Ryan and give Ryan

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Speaker 1: all kinds of help over the top to handle Hopkins,

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Speaker 1: and then Butler handled his business one on one. Well,

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Speaker 1: there's no Butler, there's no Ryan. Well, there is a

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Speaker 1: Stefan Gilmour. And then there's a question mark who plays

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Speaker 1: the other side. Is it gonna be Eric Rowe, taller,

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Speaker 1: longer player, but a guy that has not had a

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Speaker 1: getting much help from the past rush and he's gonna

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Speaker 1: be out on an island that could be trouble for them,

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Speaker 1: They're gonna have to give Eric row some help. So

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised to see them put Rowe on

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Speaker 1: Jim will go one on one and whoever is on

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Speaker 1: the other side, be it Will Fuller or Vincent Smith

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Speaker 1: or Shammy Coates or whichever other receiver is available and

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Speaker 1: ready to go. Where it becomes an interesting call for

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Speaker 1: the Patriots is what to do about these tight ends.

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Speaker 1: I would think they're gonna try and keep Devin mccordy

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Speaker 1: on Ryan Griffin if at all possible. So that means

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Speaker 1: if there are two tight ends in the game, be

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Speaker 1: it Jordan Nakins or Jordan Thomas, that guy is gonna

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Speaker 1: see Chung number twenty three. I think that's a matchup

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Speaker 1: that any of those tight ends can win, and win

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Speaker 1: it handily. Bigger, stronger, faster. That's what they have in

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Speaker 1: those guys. So if Chung is matched up on one

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Speaker 1: of those guys, I think you can go to that well. Now,

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Speaker 1: keep an eye on Chung floating around the line of

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Speaker 1: scrimmage and watching him in the preseason. He makes more

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Speaker 1: plays near the line of scrimmage when he's there, and

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Speaker 1: he seems more comfortable there and more effective there than

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Speaker 1: lot of times when he's lined up close, he's coming.

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Speaker 1: There is no question he is coming. So knowing the

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Speaker 1: you are going to attack the passing game, figuring out

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Speaker 1: early on how they want to cover you, and then

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Speaker 1: adapting and adjusting along the way. Because last year Bruce

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Speaker 1: change the coverage a little bit, but they kept the

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Speaker 1: double on hog Kins. Now as it pertains that DeAndre

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Speaker 1: getting getting DeAndre opened doing some things to get him

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Speaker 1: the ball. Whether it's using him in the slot, we've

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Speaker 1: seen the Texans do that before. That could be something

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Speaker 1: using him on a sole receiver side, just one on one,

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Speaker 1: load up trips on one side, put DeAndre any other

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Speaker 1: and let him go to work. We've seen him do that.

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Speaker 1: There are different ways to get DeAndre just flat out

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Speaker 1: one on one, and the Texans have got to scheme

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Speaker 1: those up now. The last one we always talk about,

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Speaker 1: run the ball. Run the ball, run the ball, run

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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty yard game. We don't. I don't think

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Speaker 1: the Texans need one hundred and fifty yard rushing game

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Speaker 1: to win this game. I don't. I don't think they

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Speaker 1: need one hundred fifty yard rushing game. They ran the

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Speaker 1: ball last year thirty two times one hundred and twenty

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Speaker 1: five yards and should have won the game. So I mean,

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Speaker 1: you could say that one hundred and twenty five yards

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Speaker 1: don't know if you need to get that. Lamar had

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Speaker 1: fourteen for fifty six, Dante Foreman had eight for twenty five,

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Speaker 1: and DeShawn had eight for forty one. But I do

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Speaker 1: think if you can run the ball, if you can

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Speaker 1: get to second in five and they guess and they

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Speaker 1: put that pass rush group in there, if you can

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Speaker 1: pop something inside with Lamar Miller, if you can hammer

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Speaker 1: a little bit without Fred Blue, then I think you've

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Speaker 1: got an opportunity. Not again, not the rush for one

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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty yards, not to do anything of that caliber,

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Speaker 1: but just keep them off balance enough, Just do it enough.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how many designed runs coach will having

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Speaker 1: a game plan for to Shaun. Last year, there were

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Speaker 1: a few, there were there were a couple times where

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Speaker 1: it's just a straight out quarterback draw. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if they'll have that this year. I do know that

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Speaker 1: they will present some different pictures for the edge players,

855
00:43:58,680 --> 00:44:02,719
Speaker 1: in particular being soon read being some RPO stuff. I

856
00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:05,959
Speaker 1: do think that will be part of the game plan,

857
00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:08,959
Speaker 1: and it should be with a guy like de Sean.

858
00:44:09,320 --> 00:44:11,080
Speaker 1: The Sean ends up being one of the best offensive

859
00:44:11,120 --> 00:44:15,200
Speaker 1: lineman because you have to account for him in everything

860
00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:17,960
Speaker 1: that they do, especially in the run game. If he

861
00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:19,360
Speaker 1: puts the ball in a quarter. If he puts the

862
00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:21,560
Speaker 1: ball in running backs belly, Patriots and gotta know where

863
00:44:21,560 --> 00:44:24,359
Speaker 1: he is. But I don't know how many design runs

864
00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:28,560
Speaker 1: they'll have, but if it's just enough to keep them

865
00:44:28,600 --> 00:44:32,799
Speaker 1: off balance, just enough. And remember, sometimes the run game

866
00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:37,279
Speaker 1: is just or excuse me, the short passing game is

867
00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:39,719
Speaker 1: just an extension off the run game. So if you're

868
00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:42,239
Speaker 1: hitting those slot receivers, or you're getting the ball to

869
00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:44,839
Speaker 1: the Lamar Miller on swing routes, little flat routes, things

870
00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:46,880
Speaker 1: like that, that's just an extension the run game that

871
00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:50,560
Speaker 1: works just as well. Last year, Lamar only had one catch,

872
00:44:50,600 --> 00:44:52,239
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised to see him come up with

873
00:44:52,239 --> 00:44:55,200
Speaker 1: a few more. Yante had two. Again, I won't be

874
00:44:55,200 --> 00:44:57,040
Speaker 1: surprised to see the backs come up with a few more.

875
00:44:57,280 --> 00:44:59,279
Speaker 1: Their backs are gonna catch a ton. I won't be

876
00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:01,600
Speaker 1: surprised if these backs for the Texans are gonna catch

877
00:45:01,600 --> 00:45:04,680
Speaker 1: a few as well. So there you go, offensive keys

878
00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:07,560
Speaker 1: to the game. We come back. It's time to pick

879
00:45:07,640 --> 00:45:12,200
Speaker 1: these games. You got fourteen games on Sunday, you excuse me,

880
00:45:12,239 --> 00:45:14,440
Speaker 1: at thirteen games on Sunday, and you got two more

881
00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:16,400
Speaker 1: on Monday night. Will pick them all against the spreading

882
00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:18,400
Speaker 1: straight up next right here as we go around the

883
00:45:18,480 --> 00:46:05,040
Speaker 1: NFL on Texans of Access. We're halfway home on a

884
00:46:05,040 --> 00:46:08,960
Speaker 1: Friday edition of Texans All Access. I'm your host, John Harris.

885
00:46:09,200 --> 00:46:11,480
Speaker 1: Glad to be with you. Taking off for New England

886
00:46:11,520 --> 00:46:14,720
Speaker 1: in the morning. And by New England, look New England's area,

887
00:46:14,960 --> 00:46:17,279
Speaker 1: we'll take off for Providence. So excited to get up

888
00:46:17,280 --> 00:46:19,520
Speaker 1: to Providence. I know people's have Providence. We are excited

889
00:46:19,520 --> 00:46:20,919
Speaker 1: to go to Providence. So where I went to school

890
00:46:20,920 --> 00:46:22,919
Speaker 1: and went to Brown University, it's in Providence, Rhode Island.

891
00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:25,279
Speaker 1: So I'm looking forward to get back up there and

892
00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:28,680
Speaker 1: see the campus. Man, I haven't been back and quite sometimes,

893
00:46:28,719 --> 00:46:31,799
Speaker 1: so definitely looking forward to that. All right, I gave

894
00:46:31,800 --> 00:46:33,680
Speaker 1: you some keys to the game in the last segment. Now,

895
00:46:33,680 --> 00:46:36,840
Speaker 1: we got a lot of games this weekend. This Sunday,

896
00:46:36,920 --> 00:46:40,200
Speaker 1: starting at one o'clock Eastern twelve o'clock local time, the

897
00:46:40,360 --> 00:46:44,000
Speaker 1: NFL really gets going in earnest. We saw the Falcons

898
00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:46,320
Speaker 1: and Eagles on Thursday night. I mus say it was

899
00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:48,920
Speaker 1: a disaster of a game, but man, the first half

900
00:46:49,320 --> 00:46:53,359
Speaker 1: after rain delay, which I'm sure didn't help TV ratings

901
00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:55,080
Speaker 1: at all, and people are jumping all over the fact

902
00:46:55,120 --> 00:46:57,560
Speaker 1: that it was low TV ratings, But it was off

903
00:46:57,600 --> 00:46:58,799
Speaker 1: for an hour, and there are a lot of people

904
00:46:58,800 --> 00:47:01,960
Speaker 1: that did other things. I went out and got some groceries,

905
00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:04,040
Speaker 1: and I, in the the fact, was listening to Kevin Harland,

906
00:47:04,080 --> 00:47:08,600
Speaker 1: Boomer size and radio call on the way home. And

907
00:47:08,719 --> 00:47:10,600
Speaker 1: as I as I was coming back from the store

908
00:47:11,160 --> 00:47:15,160
Speaker 1: and Boomers, Sisson was losing his mind about the Falcons

909
00:47:15,239 --> 00:47:17,359
Speaker 1: not putting Julio Jones on the field on I think

910
00:47:17,400 --> 00:47:20,600
Speaker 1: it was fourth and one with good reason. I've never

911
00:47:20,680 --> 00:47:23,760
Speaker 1: understood this. Your best player put him on a damn field.

912
00:47:24,560 --> 00:47:26,600
Speaker 1: I was with Boomers. He kind of went on for

913
00:47:26,640 --> 00:47:28,440
Speaker 1: a little while. I'm sure people were like, what, why's

914
00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:31,680
Speaker 1: he going? They deserved it, There's no question about that.

915
00:47:31,719 --> 00:47:35,279
Speaker 1: All right, Each and every Friday, I will It'll either

916
00:47:35,320 --> 00:47:39,279
Speaker 1: be this segment or the next segment. But I go

917
00:47:39,360 --> 00:47:42,879
Speaker 1: around the NFL and instead of giving you the stories

918
00:47:42,920 --> 00:47:46,480
Speaker 1: of the day and things like that, I like to

919
00:47:46,480 --> 00:47:50,240
Speaker 1: talk about the games themselves. And there are thirteen games

920
00:47:50,239 --> 00:47:54,200
Speaker 1: on Sunday. There are two more on Monday night. We

921
00:47:54,280 --> 00:47:56,439
Speaker 1: always get that double header on Monday night. The first week.

922
00:47:56,440 --> 00:47:58,160
Speaker 1: In fact, the last time the Texans were on the road.

923
00:47:58,160 --> 00:48:00,359
Speaker 1: In twenty thirteen, they played that Money night game, Second

924
00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:02,520
Speaker 1: Money in that game and beat the Chargers, and I

925
00:48:02,560 --> 00:48:04,439
Speaker 1: think everybody was up to like one in the morning

926
00:48:04,480 --> 00:48:09,839
Speaker 1: watching that game. So let's get into it. Let's start

927
00:48:09,880 --> 00:48:12,400
Speaker 1: with these thirteen games. I will pick them against the

928
00:48:12,440 --> 00:48:16,439
Speaker 1: spread and straight up as I do all the time.

929
00:48:16,480 --> 00:48:17,960
Speaker 1: And it's just a way to talk about the game.

930
00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:19,480
Speaker 1: I'm not telling you to go to Vegas and put

931
00:48:19,480 --> 00:48:23,319
Speaker 1: all your money on this and that, but do what

932
00:48:23,360 --> 00:48:25,399
Speaker 1: you gotta do. I'll give you the spread, We'll talk

933
00:48:25,400 --> 00:48:27,040
Speaker 1: about the game, and it's just the way to kind

934
00:48:27,040 --> 00:48:29,160
Speaker 1: of bring these games all to the forefront, talk about

935
00:48:29,160 --> 00:48:31,560
Speaker 1: the NFL a little bit more. So let's get a

936
00:48:31,640 --> 00:48:35,919
Speaker 1: wait a second, Wait a second, there it is. I

937
00:48:35,960 --> 00:48:38,200
Speaker 1: need my music. I need to have my music. I

938
00:48:38,239 --> 00:48:41,759
Speaker 1: can only pick games with my music rolling. All right,

939
00:48:41,840 --> 00:48:45,800
Speaker 1: let's start. Let's go to Baltimore, where the Buffalo Bills

940
00:48:46,280 --> 00:48:50,080
Speaker 1: take on the Baltimore Ravens in a game that last year,

941
00:48:50,800 --> 00:48:56,120
Speaker 1: these two teams were in competition for that sixth playoff spot.

942
00:48:56,920 --> 00:49:01,520
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton pulled a fourth down play from nowhere and

943
00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:04,359
Speaker 1: the Bengals beat the Ravens. The Bills celebrated the Bills

944
00:49:04,360 --> 00:49:06,680
Speaker 1: went to the playoffs, lost the Jacks in the first round.

945
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:13,400
Speaker 1: This Bills squad not the same Ravens squad, similar, maybe

946
00:49:13,800 --> 00:49:16,880
Speaker 1: a little different, maybe the pressure on Joe Flacco. With

947
00:49:16,960 --> 00:49:19,719
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson drafted in the first round. This is a

948
00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:23,280
Speaker 1: Ravens team that is getting a lot a lot of hype.

949
00:49:23,400 --> 00:49:28,120
Speaker 1: I don't know why. I don't totally see it, but

950
00:49:28,320 --> 00:49:32,160
Speaker 1: this Ravens team people think gonna bounce back this year.

951
00:49:33,480 --> 00:49:38,000
Speaker 1: I suppose I guess that could happen. Baltimore is healthy,

952
00:49:38,080 --> 00:49:40,520
Speaker 1: healthier and they were last year. They'll get Marcia Yonda back.

953
00:49:41,200 --> 00:49:43,600
Speaker 1: I don't think the Ravens are a great team. That said,

954
00:49:43,680 --> 00:49:45,759
Speaker 1: I think the Bills might be one of the five

955
00:49:45,760 --> 00:49:49,600
Speaker 1: worst teams in the NFL. They will start Nathan Peterman.

956
00:49:49,640 --> 00:49:51,439
Speaker 1: The last time he started a game, he threw five

957
00:49:51,440 --> 00:49:54,920
Speaker 1: interceptions in a half. Baltimore is favored by seven and

958
00:49:54,920 --> 00:49:57,759
Speaker 1: a half. I think they beat the Bills by ten

959
00:49:57,920 --> 00:50:00,800
Speaker 1: or more at home. So let's take the Ravens to

960
00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:04,839
Speaker 1: win straight up and against the seven and a half.

961
00:50:04,880 --> 00:50:06,839
Speaker 1: Will lay the seven and a half and we will

962
00:50:06,840 --> 00:50:09,839
Speaker 1: take the multiple Ravens to win and to cover. Let's

963
00:50:09,880 --> 00:50:13,040
Speaker 1: go to Cleveland. The hard knocks. Cleveland Browns now have

964
00:50:13,239 --> 00:50:17,879
Speaker 1: stripes on their helmets. Yeay. The Steelers do not have

965
00:50:18,040 --> 00:50:21,160
Speaker 1: Levion Bell as of this point. There was a rumor

966
00:50:21,239 --> 00:50:25,400
Speaker 1: today that he would be coming back on Saturday, so

967
00:50:25,440 --> 00:50:28,200
Speaker 1: he'd get paid but potentially not play. I don't know

968
00:50:28,200 --> 00:50:30,480
Speaker 1: how that's gonna work. But there's no Levion Bell. But

969
00:50:30,520 --> 00:50:33,239
Speaker 1: there is a James Connor and he is not Levion Bell.

970
00:50:33,640 --> 00:50:35,440
Speaker 1: But that dude will run hard. He will make it

971
00:50:35,640 --> 00:50:40,520
Speaker 1: very difficult for the Cleveland Browns to stop him on

972
00:50:40,560 --> 00:50:43,480
Speaker 1: a consistent basis. Now, the Browns are better, there's no

973
00:50:43,560 --> 00:50:46,319
Speaker 1: question the Browns are better. How much better? Well, they're

974
00:50:46,360 --> 00:50:48,920
Speaker 1: only a four and a half point dog at home

975
00:50:50,040 --> 00:50:51,960
Speaker 1: after a year in which they went on in sixteen.

976
00:50:53,040 --> 00:50:55,600
Speaker 1: I don't think the Browns can win this game. I

977
00:50:55,719 --> 00:50:57,319
Speaker 1: do think it will be close. I do think it

978
00:50:57,320 --> 00:51:00,680
Speaker 1: will be within a touchdown, but I think that's about it.

979
00:51:00,760 --> 00:51:03,320
Speaker 1: I think the Steelers will grind one out. This feels

980
00:51:03,320 --> 00:51:07,239
Speaker 1: like twenty four, seventeen, twenty eight, twenty one something in

981
00:51:07,280 --> 00:51:11,239
Speaker 1: that area to Rod. Taylor will get the ball in

982
00:51:11,320 --> 00:51:14,520
Speaker 1: the end zone, but not enough. The Steelers get the wind,

983
00:51:14,600 --> 00:51:16,839
Speaker 1: they will cover the four and a half and get

984
00:51:16,840 --> 00:51:21,720
Speaker 1: the win outright. The next game on our list, Oh,

985
00:51:21,760 --> 00:51:23,799
Speaker 1: it's a division game, and by news the game, I

986
00:51:23,800 --> 00:51:27,960
Speaker 1: mean AFC South Division game the Colts. The Andrew Luck

987
00:51:28,360 --> 00:51:35,480
Speaker 1: led Colts are a three point dog. Check that a

988
00:51:35,680 --> 00:51:39,080
Speaker 1: three point favorite. Wait a second, the Colts are favored,

989
00:51:40,360 --> 00:51:42,719
Speaker 1: forget it. Andrew Luck will come back and he will

990
00:51:42,760 --> 00:51:46,600
Speaker 1: do some good things. Cincinnati's gonna go to Indianapolis and

991
00:51:46,680 --> 00:51:49,320
Speaker 1: beat them straight up in the Indianapolis favorite now the

992
00:51:49,480 --> 00:51:52,160
Speaker 1: favorite by three, SOI means they think these teams are even.

993
00:51:52,680 --> 00:51:55,799
Speaker 1: I don't think that. I think yes, having Andrew Luck

994
00:51:56,280 --> 00:51:59,000
Speaker 1: is good for the Colts. I think they're gonna want

995
00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:00,879
Speaker 1: to make a good impression for rank Reich. I think

996
00:52:00,880 --> 00:52:02,799
Speaker 1: this team will be prepared. I think they'll play hard,

997
00:52:03,120 --> 00:52:05,520
Speaker 1: but I still think that roster is limited. I think

998
00:52:05,520 --> 00:52:08,279
Speaker 1: the Bengals will come in and get the win and

999
00:52:08,400 --> 00:52:12,319
Speaker 1: win by more than three. So obviously the Bengals will

1000
00:52:12,360 --> 00:52:17,200
Speaker 1: get the cover and outright win at Indianapolis over the

1001
00:52:17,280 --> 00:52:21,520
Speaker 1: Indianapolis Colts. Man Indianapolis favored by three. Huh, let's good

1002
00:52:21,520 --> 00:52:25,040
Speaker 1: out In Miami, another AFC South Division game, the Tennessee

1003
00:52:25,080 --> 00:52:30,239
Speaker 1: Titans travel to hard Rock Stadium to take on the

1004
00:52:30,400 --> 00:52:36,360
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins now the Dolphins. I am not in the

1005
00:52:36,400 --> 00:52:39,160
Speaker 1: Dolphins corner this year. I think this could be a

1006
00:52:39,200 --> 00:52:42,399
Speaker 1: tough year for Miami and for Adam Gates. I think

1007
00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:44,600
Speaker 1: Adam Gates is a good coach. I think he did

1008
00:52:44,680 --> 00:52:46,680
Speaker 1: some work the last couple of years to get what

1009
00:52:46,800 --> 00:52:51,200
Speaker 1: he thinks are I don't say bad apples, but just

1010
00:52:51,320 --> 00:52:54,160
Speaker 1: guys that he didn't want to coach anymore out of

1011
00:52:54,200 --> 00:52:57,240
Speaker 1: that organization, especially this past year, Domikinsu and Jarvis Lander.

1012
00:52:57,360 --> 00:52:59,440
Speaker 1: He just I don't think he wanted to coach those

1013
00:52:59,440 --> 00:53:02,520
Speaker 1: guys anymore. I think it's it's as clear as that

1014
00:53:02,880 --> 00:53:05,560
Speaker 1: the Dolphins moved those guys ended up with draft picks.

1015
00:53:05,600 --> 00:53:09,160
Speaker 1: Coming back, Mike Vrabel will coach his first time for

1016
00:53:09,239 --> 00:53:12,600
Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans. I would love to see the Dolphins

1017
00:53:12,680 --> 00:53:15,560
Speaker 1: knock off the Titans. I would love to see it.

1018
00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:17,960
Speaker 1: I don't think there's any way and you know what

1019
00:53:18,120 --> 00:53:22,400
Speaker 1: it happens. I think that Tennessee favored by one as

1020
00:53:22,440 --> 00:53:24,880
Speaker 1: situates to pick them. I think Tennessee goes down in Miami,

1021
00:53:25,120 --> 00:53:28,359
Speaker 1: gets an ugly win, hands Mike Rabel a game ball,

1022
00:53:28,520 --> 00:53:30,959
Speaker 1: and the Titans get ready for the Texans in Week two,

1023
00:53:31,400 --> 00:53:34,439
Speaker 1: up in Nashville, so we're going Titans to win and

1024
00:53:34,480 --> 00:53:36,680
Speaker 1: cover that. Once go to the NFC where the San

1025
00:53:36,719 --> 00:53:41,040
Speaker 1: Francisco forty nine Ers travel to take on the Minnesota Vikings.

1026
00:53:41,120 --> 00:53:45,440
Speaker 1: What a fun matchup. This is Kyle Shanahan on one side,

1027
00:53:45,640 --> 00:53:50,080
Speaker 1: once coached Kirk Cousins, who will start for the first

1028
00:53:50,120 --> 00:53:53,520
Speaker 1: time for the Minnesota Vikings. Jimmy G has not lost

1029
00:53:53,600 --> 00:53:57,200
Speaker 1: a start for the forty nine Ers. This one's gonna

1030
00:53:57,200 --> 00:53:59,799
Speaker 1: be tough. The Vikings have compiled one of the best

1031
00:54:00,040 --> 00:54:04,440
Speaker 1: defensive units in the NFL. The Vikings are favored by

1032
00:54:04,560 --> 00:54:07,359
Speaker 1: six and a half. That six and a half is key.

1033
00:54:07,400 --> 00:54:10,120
Speaker 1: If we were seven or more, I might not say this,

1034
00:54:11,040 --> 00:54:13,840
Speaker 1: but I do think at six and a half, Minnesota

1035
00:54:13,880 --> 00:54:17,279
Speaker 1: will get the cover. This feels thirty four, No, that's

1036
00:54:17,280 --> 00:54:21,360
Speaker 1: too much. I feel like twenty four seventeen. Jimmy G

1037
00:54:21,480 --> 00:54:23,200
Speaker 1: will put the ball in the end zone a little bit.

1038
00:54:23,440 --> 00:54:25,080
Speaker 1: He doesn't have the weapons that he will have in

1039
00:54:25,080 --> 00:54:27,759
Speaker 1: the future, but I think the Vikings make it happen

1040
00:54:27,880 --> 00:54:30,200
Speaker 1: just enough, and if they're able to get pressure on

1041
00:54:30,280 --> 00:54:33,120
Speaker 1: Jimmy G, he is liable to throw them one as

1042
00:54:33,120 --> 00:54:35,680
Speaker 1: he forces the ball when he gets pressure, not like

1043
00:54:35,800 --> 00:54:38,920
Speaker 1: a lot of quarterbacks, but he gets a little impatient

1044
00:54:39,400 --> 00:54:40,880
Speaker 1: and he will throw you one if you get some

1045
00:54:40,880 --> 00:54:43,200
Speaker 1: pressure on them. So Minnesota at that front, it's gonna

1046
00:54:43,200 --> 00:54:46,440
Speaker 1: have to produce pressure on Jimmy Garoppolo, and I think

1047
00:54:46,480 --> 00:54:49,759
Speaker 1: they will. Minnesota gets to win and the cover six

1048
00:54:49,800 --> 00:54:53,600
Speaker 1: and a half. Again that spread for the Vikings, and

1049
00:54:53,680 --> 00:54:55,960
Speaker 1: then you got your Texans. You know, as I've said

1050
00:54:55,960 --> 00:54:58,279
Speaker 1: a million times, I never go against heart and head.

1051
00:54:58,440 --> 00:54:59,960
Speaker 1: I don't even care if the Texans where a four

1052
00:55:00,080 --> 00:55:03,000
Speaker 1: point underdog. Texans to win and cover their six and

1053
00:55:03,040 --> 00:55:05,120
Speaker 1: a half point favorite. That's come down. That was I

1054
00:55:05,160 --> 00:55:06,680
Speaker 1: think seven and a half. Let me see what the

1055
00:55:06,680 --> 00:55:09,399
Speaker 1: most recent what's the most recent one here? It's now

1056
00:55:09,440 --> 00:55:11,920
Speaker 1: down to six in some places. That was seven and

1057
00:55:11,920 --> 00:55:13,840
Speaker 1: a half to start the week. So some money in

1058
00:55:13,920 --> 00:55:17,800
Speaker 1: Vegas or wherever is going to the Texans. People expecting

1059
00:55:17,840 --> 00:55:22,320
Speaker 1: to Texans. Enough big money on the Patriots side, which

1060
00:55:22,480 --> 00:55:25,600
Speaker 1: is to be expected when a team has not lost

1061
00:55:25,800 --> 00:55:29,000
Speaker 1: to another team ever in their particular building and they're

1062
00:55:29,000 --> 00:55:31,239
Speaker 1: playing for the fourth time in two years and they

1063
00:55:31,280 --> 00:55:34,200
Speaker 1: still Tom Brady, it's not surprising that more money would

1064
00:55:34,239 --> 00:55:36,200
Speaker 1: be going to the Patriots. So let's make them fools

1065
00:55:36,200 --> 00:55:39,399
Speaker 1: and hopefully big money loses Big Money. On Sunday, let's

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00:55:39,400 --> 00:55:42,759
Speaker 1: go down to New Orleans. The Saints are taken on

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00:55:43,080 --> 00:55:47,040
Speaker 1: the Ryan Fitzpatrick led Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Wait what Yeah,

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00:55:47,120 --> 00:55:49,600
Speaker 1: Jameis Winston suspended for the first three games of the year,

1069
00:55:49,840 --> 00:55:52,920
Speaker 1: which means fitz He's put in charge of the Tampa

1070
00:55:52,960 --> 00:55:58,160
Speaker 1: Bay offense in the Superdome. And that shows the point spread.

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00:55:58,600 --> 00:56:02,480
Speaker 1: The Saints are nine and a half point favorites, and

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00:56:02,560 --> 00:56:04,600
Speaker 1: I still don't think that's enough. I think the Saints

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00:56:04,640 --> 00:56:06,959
Speaker 1: will cover that nine and a half. The Saints will

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00:56:07,040 --> 00:56:10,719
Speaker 1: win outright. Mark Ingram will be suspended, but they still

1075
00:56:10,719 --> 00:56:14,359
Speaker 1: have Alvin Kamara and that's enough. And that defense is

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00:56:14,440 --> 00:56:17,440
Speaker 1: even better with the addition of Marcus David poured off

1077
00:56:17,440 --> 00:56:20,720
Speaker 1: the edge. The Saints will get a w and set

1078
00:56:20,719 --> 00:56:23,200
Speaker 1: the tone for another twenty eighteen. Keep in mind, the

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00:56:23,200 --> 00:56:24,960
Speaker 1: Saints lost the first two last year and then a

1080
00:56:25,000 --> 00:56:27,440
Speaker 1: great year after that. I think this year they win

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00:56:27,520 --> 00:56:30,040
Speaker 1: Week one and they still have a great year after that.

1082
00:56:30,160 --> 00:56:32,879
Speaker 1: So they'll get to win against Tampa Bay and then

1083
00:56:32,960 --> 00:56:36,320
Speaker 1: the Saints get Cleveland before they have two road trips

1084
00:56:36,320 --> 00:56:39,080
Speaker 1: to Atlanta and the Giants. So the Saints got to

1085
00:56:39,080 --> 00:56:40,719
Speaker 1: get this one to get off to a good start

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00:56:40,760 --> 00:56:48,880
Speaker 1: before Cleveland comes calling next week. Up next the Giants. Oh,

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00:56:48,920 --> 00:56:53,680
Speaker 1: the Giants. This could be This could be one of

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00:56:53,680 --> 00:56:57,000
Speaker 1: the matchups of the weekend. I think a sneaky matchup

1089
00:56:57,840 --> 00:56:59,799
Speaker 1: because when you look at the records from last year

1090
00:57:00,080 --> 00:57:03,799
Speaker 1: Jaguars ten and six, Giants three and thirteen, you think, hey,

1091
00:57:03,840 --> 00:57:06,879
Speaker 1: wait a second, this should be a blowout right now.

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00:57:06,920 --> 00:57:08,640
Speaker 1: I think the Giants are gonna be much better. If

1093
00:57:08,680 --> 00:57:10,759
Speaker 1: a team is gonna bounce back and bounce back in

1094
00:57:10,760 --> 00:57:12,240
Speaker 1: a big way, I think it could be the Giants.

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00:57:12,280 --> 00:57:16,160
Speaker 1: You add Sequon Barkley, obj comes back. Eli is still

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00:57:16,160 --> 00:57:18,160
Speaker 1: in charge. I think the defense will play a little

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00:57:18,200 --> 00:57:21,760
Speaker 1: bit better for the Giants. But it's Jalen Ramsey versus

1098
00:57:21,760 --> 00:57:27,320
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham, Junior Blake Bortles versus Eli Manning. The Giants

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00:57:27,400 --> 00:57:32,280
Speaker 1: are a three point dog at home. I kind of

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00:57:32,320 --> 00:57:35,280
Speaker 1: like that. I like it for the Giants. I'm gonna

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00:57:35,280 --> 00:57:38,680
Speaker 1: take the Giants to not only cover the three, but

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00:57:38,840 --> 00:57:41,919
Speaker 1: to win straight up in an upset of a team

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00:57:42,000 --> 00:57:45,480
Speaker 1: everybody thinks is going back to the Super Bowl. This

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00:57:45,600 --> 00:57:47,760
Speaker 1: is a big one for the Jags because after this

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00:57:48,120 --> 00:57:52,840
Speaker 1: they've got three straight home games New England, Tennessee and

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00:57:52,920 --> 00:57:56,520
Speaker 1: the Jets. They get this one, then obviously they get

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00:57:56,560 --> 00:57:58,760
Speaker 1: New England, which is gonna be tough and hopefully the

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00:57:58,800 --> 00:58:00,640
Speaker 1: Texas will beat him. So New Englan and knows it's

1109
00:58:00,640 --> 00:58:02,840
Speaker 1: got to have Week two down to Jacksonville and plays

1110
00:58:03,360 --> 00:58:06,440
Speaker 1: desperate to get that win. Man, I would love to

1111
00:58:06,440 --> 00:58:08,880
Speaker 1: see the jack jump off to Owen two. Oh, I

1112
00:58:08,880 --> 00:58:11,120
Speaker 1: would love it, But I think the Giants are gonna

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00:58:11,120 --> 00:58:14,000
Speaker 1: get the win. The Giants get to win as such,

1114
00:58:14,040 --> 00:58:17,280
Speaker 1: they will get to cover Giants over the Jags. Jalen

1115
00:58:17,360 --> 00:58:19,920
Speaker 1: Ramsey loses his mind as Odell Beckham Junior makes another

1116
00:58:19,960 --> 00:58:23,320
Speaker 1: tremendous catch and the Giants equ one out at home

1117
00:58:23,440 --> 00:58:28,160
Speaker 1: twenty one twenty over the Jacksonville Jaguars ANC West battle

1118
00:58:28,480 --> 00:58:32,320
Speaker 1: against two teams. I don't say going in opposite directions,

1119
00:58:32,680 --> 00:58:35,440
Speaker 1: but sort of flipped a little bit. Last year, I

1120
00:58:35,480 --> 00:58:38,120
Speaker 1: think everybody was on the Chiefs bandwagon and the Chargers

1121
00:58:38,120 --> 00:58:40,200
Speaker 1: were solid. This year, I think it's the other way around.

1122
00:58:40,240 --> 00:58:43,040
Speaker 1: The Chargers have got a bunch of people on the

1123
00:58:43,080 --> 00:58:49,320
Speaker 1: bandwagon and the Chiefs not restarting but retooling, if you will.

1124
00:58:49,520 --> 00:58:53,120
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes takes over at quarterback for the Chiefs, and

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00:58:53,200 --> 00:58:55,560
Speaker 1: he's gonna put a lot of pressure on the Chargers,

1126
00:58:55,920 --> 00:59:00,760
Speaker 1: especially if it's a Chargers defense without Joey Bosaw. Bosa

1127
00:59:00,840 --> 00:59:04,480
Speaker 1: was picture of today's practice in a walking boot. Does

1128
00:59:04,520 --> 00:59:07,720
Speaker 1: that mean by Sunday he will not play? Oh? That

1129
00:59:07,800 --> 00:59:12,320
Speaker 1: could be huge in this game against the Kansas City Chiefs. Now,

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00:59:12,640 --> 00:59:15,480
Speaker 1: the Chargers are still gonna end up being favored playing

1131
00:59:15,560 --> 00:59:17,760
Speaker 1: in LA. In fact, there are three and a half

1132
00:59:17,800 --> 00:59:20,560
Speaker 1: point favor I think this one is close. I think

1133
00:59:20,560 --> 00:59:23,720
Speaker 1: it's a typical AFC West battle between these two teams

1134
00:59:23,920 --> 00:59:25,960
Speaker 1: that comes down to the final gun or even goes

1135
00:59:25,960 --> 00:59:29,080
Speaker 1: into overtime. I'm gonna take the Chiefs to cover the

1136
00:59:29,120 --> 00:59:32,600
Speaker 1: three and a half, get inside that number, but the

1137
00:59:32,680 --> 00:59:35,240
Speaker 1: Chargers to win. They lost a lot of close games

1138
00:59:35,320 --> 00:59:38,360
Speaker 1: last year. I think the Chargers get a close one,

1139
00:59:38,880 --> 00:59:42,400
Speaker 1: even with or without Bosa, they will get a close one.

1140
00:59:42,640 --> 00:59:47,960
Speaker 1: This feels like twenty nine twenty six Chargers. That will

1141
00:59:48,000 --> 00:59:51,400
Speaker 1: get the Chiefs to cover the Chargers the outright win.

1142
00:59:52,320 --> 00:59:55,080
Speaker 1: That's an afternoon game in the AFC. You've also got

1143
00:59:55,080 --> 00:59:59,200
Speaker 1: another afternoon game the Redskins and Cardinals and guys. I

1144
00:59:59,240 --> 01:00:01,600
Speaker 1: will be honest with you. I have no idea what

1145
01:00:01,760 --> 01:00:04,720
Speaker 1: to think about these two teams. None and the Texas

1146
01:00:04,760 --> 01:00:09,560
Speaker 1: play the Redskins. No idea what to think about the

1147
01:00:09,600 --> 01:00:12,960
Speaker 1: Washington Redskins. Arizona's favored by a point. It's basically a

1148
01:00:13,040 --> 01:00:15,440
Speaker 1: pick him at this point. I'm going with the home team.

1149
01:00:15,640 --> 01:00:18,520
Speaker 1: I think that defense is still pretty talented in Arizona.

1150
01:00:18,720 --> 01:00:21,280
Speaker 1: Steve Wilkes the new head coach with the defensive mindset.

1151
01:00:21,720 --> 01:00:25,280
Speaker 1: I think that the Cardinals get to w Alex Smith

1152
01:00:25,280 --> 01:00:28,960
Speaker 1: will make his Redskins debut, but I don't think it's enough.

1153
01:00:29,040 --> 01:00:30,560
Speaker 1: I feel like the Cardinals are gonna get this one.

1154
01:00:30,600 --> 01:00:35,400
Speaker 1: With David Johnson back and with Christian Kirk and Larry Fitzgerald.

1155
01:00:35,760 --> 01:00:39,600
Speaker 1: I think the Cardinals end up making a statement early on.

1156
01:00:39,640 --> 01:00:42,439
Speaker 1: They get to win over Washington, and the Cardinals jumped

1157
01:00:42,440 --> 01:00:44,959
Speaker 1: to one and all the Redskins two oh in one.

1158
01:00:45,320 --> 01:00:49,840
Speaker 1: The Cowboys travel to Carolina. Cam Newton is back, He

1159
01:00:50,000 --> 01:00:53,960
Speaker 1: is healthy. Does he have enough weapons? They added Dj

1160
01:00:54,120 --> 01:00:57,080
Speaker 1: Moore in the draft out of Maryland. He's eventually gonna

1161
01:00:57,080 --> 01:01:00,800
Speaker 1: be a player. Christian McCaffrey is back. No more Jonathan Stewart.

1162
01:01:00,840 --> 01:01:04,960
Speaker 1: He is now a New York Giant. Dallas what do

1163
01:01:05,040 --> 01:01:07,240
Speaker 1: they have in the passing game. Well, we're about to

1164
01:01:07,280 --> 01:01:10,200
Speaker 1: find out. Carolina's favored by three. I think they cover

1165
01:01:10,360 --> 01:01:13,600
Speaker 1: and they get to win, taking the Panthers in this one,

1166
01:01:13,680 --> 01:01:17,600
Speaker 1: sending the Cowboys to OZ and one on the season.

1167
01:01:18,080 --> 01:01:21,280
Speaker 1: That will take us to Seahawks and Broncos, two teams again.

1168
01:01:21,640 --> 01:01:25,560
Speaker 1: I don't know. I have no good feel for I

1169
01:01:25,640 --> 01:01:28,840
Speaker 1: really don't read an article about the Seahawks today and

1170
01:01:28,960 --> 01:01:30,880
Speaker 1: what they've gone through the last few years. I think

1171
01:01:30,920 --> 01:01:34,920
Speaker 1: the Seahawks will play freer. I think the defense won't

1172
01:01:35,000 --> 01:01:38,400
Speaker 1: be as impactful. But they still have got Bobby Wagner,

1173
01:01:38,480 --> 01:01:41,120
Speaker 1: they still got kJ Wright, they still got Yournrid, they

1174
01:01:41,120 --> 01:01:44,480
Speaker 1: still got guys that can play Denver. They've got von Miller,

1175
01:01:44,600 --> 01:01:46,960
Speaker 1: and now they've got case Keener. This one I think

1176
01:01:47,080 --> 01:01:50,800
Speaker 1: is going to be close. Denver is favored by three.

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01:01:51,040 --> 01:01:54,120
Speaker 1: That's probably about right. It's right at it. I think

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01:01:54,840 --> 01:01:58,160
Speaker 1: Denver will get a very close win. This feels twenty one, seventeen,

1179
01:01:58,200 --> 01:02:00,480
Speaker 1: twenty eight, twenty four. Let's go to Denver to get

1180
01:02:00,480 --> 01:02:05,640
Speaker 1: to win and cover just barely. That leads us to

1181
01:02:05,840 --> 01:02:09,760
Speaker 1: Sunday Night the Packers the Bears. The Bears maybe the

1182
01:02:09,760 --> 01:02:13,440
Speaker 1: most improved talent wise team in the league. They had

1183
01:02:13,480 --> 01:02:18,160
Speaker 1: Alan Robinson, they added Khalil Mack. They now take on

1184
01:02:18,200 --> 01:02:22,600
Speaker 1: the Packers Aaron Rodgers's back. I think the Packers will

1185
01:02:22,600 --> 01:02:25,120
Speaker 1: get this win. I think the Bears are much better.

1186
01:02:25,160 --> 01:02:27,680
Speaker 1: They will get better. The Packers are seven points favorite.

1187
01:02:28,320 --> 01:02:30,240
Speaker 1: I think this is right at seven. This feels like

1188
01:02:30,960 --> 01:02:33,760
Speaker 1: twenty four to seventeen. But I'll take the Packers to win,

1189
01:02:34,040 --> 01:02:35,720
Speaker 1: and I would take it a push because I think

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01:02:35,720 --> 01:02:37,760
Speaker 1: it's right at seven. But I'll take the Packers to

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01:02:37,760 --> 01:02:40,320
Speaker 1: cover as well. That leads us to our two games

1192
01:02:40,360 --> 01:02:42,760
Speaker 1: on Monday Night. The early game of Monday Night is

1193
01:02:42,800 --> 01:02:46,760
Speaker 1: the Jets at the Lions. The Jets would be better,

1194
01:02:46,800 --> 01:02:49,480
Speaker 1: but the Sam Doarnold's opener, He's gonna start three of

1195
01:02:49,480 --> 01:02:52,360
Speaker 1: the first four games on the road. That's gonna be tough.

1196
01:02:52,680 --> 01:02:55,080
Speaker 1: Detroit under Matt Patricia, I think will be a little

1197
01:02:55,080 --> 01:02:57,600
Speaker 1: bit better coached. It would be a little bit better organized.

1198
01:02:57,880 --> 01:02:59,880
Speaker 1: I think offensively to run the ball a little bit more.

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01:03:00,000 --> 01:03:02,560
Speaker 1: Carry on. Johnson is big in that. I think the

1200
01:03:02,640 --> 01:03:06,400
Speaker 1: Lions by six and a half, it feels a bit much.

1201
01:03:06,560 --> 01:03:08,840
Speaker 1: So let's get the Lions a win. Let's get the

1202
01:03:08,920 --> 01:03:10,840
Speaker 1: Jets to cover to get inside the six and a half,

1203
01:03:10,920 --> 01:03:14,280
Speaker 1: and then you got the Rams and the Raiders. The

1204
01:03:14,400 --> 01:03:19,040
Speaker 1: Raiders are a four point dog at home. At home,

1205
01:03:19,440 --> 01:03:21,920
Speaker 1: the Raiders are only our four point dog. I think

1206
01:03:21,960 --> 01:03:24,760
Speaker 1: the Rams are gonna walk in there and curbstop the Raiders.

1207
01:03:25,000 --> 01:03:26,800
Speaker 1: I think this is gonna be a tough rebuild for

1208
01:03:26,880 --> 01:03:30,640
Speaker 1: John Gruden. The Rams will get a big win and

1209
01:03:30,760 --> 01:03:33,960
Speaker 1: obviously a big cover. So there you go. There are

1210
01:03:34,000 --> 01:03:37,880
Speaker 1: all your games this weekend. We get back. It's time

1211
01:03:37,920 --> 01:03:40,280
Speaker 1: to get to our keys to the game on the

1212
01:03:40,320 --> 01:03:45,040
Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball, wat Cloudy Merciless Matthew Joseph Johnson.

1213
01:03:45,160 --> 01:03:48,520
Speaker 1: Jackson read what does that group have to do Sunday

1214
01:03:49,240 --> 01:03:52,280
Speaker 1: to help this Texans organization get its first win in

1215
01:03:52,440 --> 01:03:54,280
Speaker 1: Julette dating. We'll talk about that next right here in

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Speaker 1: Texas Access. Welcome back to a Friday edition of Texas

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01:05:12,840 --> 01:05:15,680
Speaker 1: All Access from the Honday Texans Radio studio. So glad

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01:05:15,680 --> 01:05:19,000
Speaker 1: to be with you this evening. Hopefully you're nice and dry.

1219
01:05:19,040 --> 01:05:22,680
Speaker 1: I'm sure there drops throughout the city and we've got

1220
01:05:22,720 --> 01:05:24,760
Speaker 1: high school football going on throughout the city, and it's

1221
01:05:24,760 --> 01:05:27,760
Speaker 1: a Friday night of Texas. It's gotta be high school

1222
01:05:27,760 --> 01:05:31,080
Speaker 1: fotball going on. Right, Hopefully you are on your way

1223
01:05:31,120 --> 01:05:33,280
Speaker 1: through a game, at a game and you're listening through

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01:05:33,320 --> 01:05:36,040
Speaker 1: the app or I don't know, you're maybe maybe you're

1225
01:05:36,080 --> 01:05:40,640
Speaker 1: getting it on Saturday when you're out and about doing errands.

1226
01:05:41,200 --> 01:05:44,280
Speaker 1: But thank you for listening to Texans all access. Really

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01:05:44,280 --> 01:05:47,480
Speaker 1: appreciate that. All Right, it is time for our first

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Speaker 1: glance keys to the game, brought to you by First

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Speaker 1: Community Credit Union FCCU, the official credit union of the

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01:05:54,400 --> 01:05:58,720
Speaker 1: Houston Texans. Now, I gave you our offensive keys earlier

1231
01:05:58,720 --> 01:06:03,280
Speaker 1: in this game, and I think those are pretty pretty straightforward.

1232
01:06:03,320 --> 01:06:05,000
Speaker 1: In fact, I didn't even I don't even think in

1233
01:06:05,080 --> 01:06:08,040
Speaker 1: those that I mentioned Deshaun Watson, And the only thing

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01:06:08,040 --> 01:06:11,920
Speaker 1: I mentioned about DeShawn was the design runs and what

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01:06:11,960 --> 01:06:15,680
Speaker 1: the Texans will do. Obviously, first and foremost is protecting Deshaun.

1236
01:06:15,800 --> 01:06:19,120
Speaker 1: But I almost felt like that went without saying. So

1237
01:06:19,440 --> 01:06:22,120
Speaker 1: we talked about the offense. Let's get into the defense.

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01:06:23,200 --> 01:06:27,320
Speaker 1: Last year had a pretty upfront, had a pretty similar

1239
01:06:27,360 --> 01:06:31,360
Speaker 1: group going in that game. Had Wat had merciless, had Clowney.

1240
01:06:31,760 --> 01:06:35,160
Speaker 1: They hit Brady up one side and down the other.

1241
01:06:35,320 --> 01:06:38,920
Speaker 1: They blasted him. They ended up with five sacks. They

1242
01:06:38,960 --> 01:06:41,880
Speaker 1: had eight tackles for a loss, sorry, seven tackles for

1243
01:06:41,920 --> 01:06:44,800
Speaker 1: a loss. They had eight quarterback hits. Clowney at three,

1244
01:06:44,800 --> 01:06:47,960
Speaker 1: Watt had two, and then there was one from Merciless

1245
01:06:48,040 --> 01:06:50,760
Speaker 1: McKinney Covington. I think Gil Chris had won that forced

1246
01:06:50,760 --> 01:06:54,200
Speaker 1: to fumble. So they got after Brady last year. There's

1247
01:06:54,200 --> 01:06:57,400
Speaker 1: no question about that. Now. One thing I think the

1248
01:06:57,480 --> 01:06:59,520
Speaker 1: Texans will be able to do with all of those

1249
01:06:59,560 --> 01:07:03,640
Speaker 1: guys healthy, Reader and Covington back in the mix. One

1250
01:07:03,680 --> 01:07:05,200
Speaker 1: thing they're gonna have to do. And I learned this

1251
01:07:05,520 --> 01:07:10,480
Speaker 1: watching not America's Game, but the NFL Films now does

1252
01:07:10,520 --> 01:07:12,280
Speaker 1: two shows for the Super Bowl winner. They do one

1253
01:07:12,280 --> 01:07:13,640
Speaker 1: where they talk to the players and they call it

1254
01:07:13,640 --> 01:07:16,160
Speaker 1: America's Game, and then they had one show where they

1255
01:07:16,200 --> 01:07:18,800
Speaker 1: talked to the coaches and the coaching staff. And one

1256
01:07:18,880 --> 01:07:23,320
Speaker 1: thing that the Eagles found out, the Eagles defensive line

1257
01:07:23,360 --> 01:07:27,880
Speaker 1: found out in that game was the Patriots were sliding.

1258
01:07:27,960 --> 01:07:30,480
Speaker 1: David Andrews now that now the Eagles are are more

1259
01:07:30,520 --> 01:07:34,040
Speaker 1: a fourth three team, So plenty of times in a

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01:07:34,080 --> 01:07:37,400
Speaker 1: fourth three team the center is uncovered. Now was David Andrews,

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01:07:37,440 --> 01:07:40,840
Speaker 1: so that the center on past plays has the opportunity

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01:07:40,840 --> 01:07:43,120
Speaker 1: when he's a covered is he gonna help to the left,

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01:07:43,200 --> 01:07:44,640
Speaker 1: is he gonna help to the right, or does he

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01:07:44,640 --> 01:07:47,640
Speaker 1: help on a particular player. Well, in that game in

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01:07:47,680 --> 01:07:50,920
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl against the Eagles, Fletcher Cox is the

1266
01:07:50,960 --> 01:07:57,320
Speaker 1: best Eagles defensive linement. And Andrews would slide his protection

1267
01:07:58,160 --> 01:08:03,240
Speaker 1: two Fletcher Cox every time. So what the Eagles did

1268
01:08:04,120 --> 01:08:07,800
Speaker 1: was they put Fletcher Cox almost as a decoy to

1269
01:08:07,920 --> 01:08:11,680
Speaker 1: make sure that he drew David Andrew's block. And then

1270
01:08:11,720 --> 01:08:14,960
Speaker 1: what that did was they moved Brandon Graham, who's typically

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01:08:14,960 --> 01:08:17,960
Speaker 1: as a defense end. They moved him inside and then

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01:08:18,080 --> 01:08:21,639
Speaker 1: Graham was able to go one on one against Shack Mason.

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Speaker 1: He beat Mason, he stripped the ball from Tom Brady,

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Speaker 1: and the rest obviously is history. Now, how does that

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01:08:28,040 --> 01:08:30,320
Speaker 1: pertain to the Texans. I know there are a lot

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01:08:30,320 --> 01:08:32,760
Speaker 1: of times were what and clowney or on the outside,

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01:08:33,600 --> 01:08:36,759
Speaker 1: But if they're gonna treat that same situation, I'd almost

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01:08:36,840 --> 01:08:39,920
Speaker 1: guarantee you it's what that is the guy they're going

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01:08:39,960 --> 01:08:43,200
Speaker 1: to double. But either way, if Andrews slides to what,

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01:08:43,479 --> 01:08:46,599
Speaker 1: then clownees one on one against one of the guards.

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01:08:47,240 --> 01:08:50,360
Speaker 1: Clowning can win those matchups. If it's they want to

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01:08:50,400 --> 01:08:53,200
Speaker 1: double clowning. Then it's what going one on one and

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01:08:53,280 --> 01:08:57,120
Speaker 1: he can win those matchups. But either way, figuring out

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01:08:57,160 --> 01:09:00,360
Speaker 1: which guy it is are they sliding to what? Or

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01:09:00,400 --> 01:09:04,200
Speaker 1: are they sliding Andrews over to Clowney? Which guy are inside?

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01:09:04,200 --> 01:09:06,800
Speaker 1: Are they sliding to? Now? When what a Clowney are

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01:09:06,800 --> 01:09:10,120
Speaker 1: on the outside. They're gonna try and chip a little bit,

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01:09:10,200 --> 01:09:13,559
Speaker 1: and they're probably gonna chip on what. I would imagine

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01:09:13,600 --> 01:09:17,639
Speaker 1: more so that freed up Clowney a lot to get

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01:09:17,640 --> 01:09:20,439
Speaker 1: there last year. What we'll get the double teams. He

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01:09:20,479 --> 01:09:24,320
Speaker 1: will get the chips. It's automatic when he's out there inside.

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01:09:24,360 --> 01:09:27,040
Speaker 1: I would almost guarantee you they are not gonna allow

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01:09:27,040 --> 01:09:29,080
Speaker 1: what to go one on one against the guard. They're

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01:09:29,120 --> 01:09:31,600
Speaker 1: just they're just not going to. So that's one of

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01:09:31,640 --> 01:09:34,000
Speaker 1: the things they can do to scheme up is say, Okay,

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01:09:34,000 --> 01:09:37,120
Speaker 1: they're doubling or they're sending Andrews sliding Andrews over to what?

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01:09:38,479 --> 01:09:40,639
Speaker 1: JJ You keep rushing, but you're gonna get the double team.

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Speaker 1: Whoever's that other guy, be a Clowney, be a reader,

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01:09:43,760 --> 01:09:46,360
Speaker 1: be at Covington. That guy must win one on one.

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01:09:46,840 --> 01:09:49,280
Speaker 1: He must win and they all can. That's the thing.

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01:09:49,600 --> 01:09:55,679
Speaker 1: They all can win inside. Now, what about Whitney. We've

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01:09:55,680 --> 01:09:57,559
Speaker 1: seen Whitney in the past. When they go to that

1303
01:09:57,680 --> 01:10:01,479
Speaker 1: diame information where wit is in the middle, Watton Clowney outside,

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01:10:01,520 --> 01:10:04,400
Speaker 1: they show the two linebackers inside, so it's essentially a

1305
01:10:04,479 --> 01:10:07,800
Speaker 1: three linebacker inside. It's Wit over the center, and then

1306
01:10:07,800 --> 01:10:11,000
Speaker 1: it's Zack and Bernardrick kind of mugging up in the

1307
01:10:11,200 --> 01:10:14,360
Speaker 1: in the b gaps over the guards, and then Watton

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01:10:14,400 --> 01:10:17,960
Speaker 1: Clowney coming from the outside. That way, they cannot help

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01:10:19,080 --> 01:10:21,200
Speaker 1: on what and Clowney with any of the inside guys

1310
01:10:21,200 --> 01:10:22,880
Speaker 1: that can only be a backer a tight end. It

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01:10:22,960 --> 01:10:25,200
Speaker 1: does it. And then Whitney's going one on one against

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01:10:25,200 --> 01:10:29,240
Speaker 1: the center, and he has whipped that center before. So

1313
01:10:29,280 --> 01:10:31,040
Speaker 1: there are a lot of different ways they can attack

1314
01:10:31,240 --> 01:10:33,960
Speaker 1: David Andrews the center. And it's because Andrews is a

1315
01:10:34,000 --> 01:10:38,120
Speaker 1: bad player, quite the contrary. But they know they have

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01:10:38,320 --> 01:10:42,599
Speaker 1: to help Thuney and Mason against Clowney, against Watt, against Reader,

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01:10:42,760 --> 01:10:47,280
Speaker 1: against coming They're gonna have to help. You're not gonna

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01:10:47,320 --> 01:10:49,639
Speaker 1: go You're not gonna go one on one. And Andrews

1319
01:10:49,720 --> 01:10:52,000
Speaker 1: is just gonna float. He's gonna slide one way or

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01:10:52,000 --> 01:10:54,880
Speaker 1: the other, depending on the most dangerous guy. For the Eagles,

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01:10:54,880 --> 01:10:57,840
Speaker 1: that was definitely Fletcher Cox against the Texans. You got

1322
01:10:57,880 --> 01:11:00,640
Speaker 1: to figure out which guy they think it is. My

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01:11:00,720 --> 01:11:02,120
Speaker 1: guest is right out of the shoot, it's gonna be

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01:11:02,160 --> 01:11:05,400
Speaker 1: what if watsonside? But if they're both outside, I could

1325
01:11:05,400 --> 01:11:08,720
Speaker 1: guarantee they're gonna get tight ends and they're gonna get

1326
01:11:08,800 --> 01:11:13,080
Speaker 1: chips all all day long. But when those guys go inside,

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01:11:13,400 --> 01:11:15,200
Speaker 1: that's where they might have the opportunity to eat a

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01:11:15,200 --> 01:11:19,400
Speaker 1: little bit. All right, that's up front. Now with the secondary,

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Speaker 1: we talk about disguises. Everybody loves Halloween, right, you get

1330
01:11:22,720 --> 01:11:25,559
Speaker 1: to dress up. Oh what are you? Oh? I went

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01:11:25,600 --> 01:11:28,280
Speaker 1: as a ghost or what are you? Oh? I went

1332
01:11:28,560 --> 01:11:33,240
Speaker 1: as Leslie Nope from Parks and Wreck. It's disguises, right,

1333
01:11:33,560 --> 01:11:36,439
Speaker 1: That's all Halloween is is you're wearing a costume or disguise. Well,

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01:11:36,439 --> 01:11:39,240
Speaker 1: the secondary for the Texans has got to wear disguise

1335
01:11:39,320 --> 01:11:42,680
Speaker 1: this week, and they've got to wear them well. And

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01:11:42,880 --> 01:11:46,559
Speaker 1: what I mean by that is in the secondary, when

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01:11:47,360 --> 01:11:50,560
Speaker 1: you play at you're gonna you know what you're gonna play.

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01:11:50,680 --> 01:11:52,439
Speaker 1: And I mean it's it's pretty simple, right, you know

1339
01:11:52,479 --> 01:11:56,439
Speaker 1: what disguises You show one thing, but it's really another.

1340
01:11:57,280 --> 01:11:59,320
Speaker 1: So that's a sensiate what the secondary needs to do.

1341
01:11:59,400 --> 01:12:02,840
Speaker 1: It's gonna show Tom Brady one thing, but it's gonna

1342
01:12:02,920 --> 01:12:06,240
Speaker 1: play another. Now Tom has seen it all, really right,

1343
01:12:06,280 --> 01:12:08,280
Speaker 1: I mean Tom's seen everything. I don't think there's anything

1344
01:12:08,280 --> 01:12:11,880
Speaker 1: that Tom hasn't seen. He's seen pretty much everything. But

1345
01:12:12,000 --> 01:12:14,800
Speaker 1: what you would like to be able to what you

1346
01:12:14,920 --> 01:12:17,880
Speaker 1: don't want to do is to give him the answers

1347
01:12:17,920 --> 01:12:20,760
Speaker 1: to the test at least make him answer the question.

1348
01:12:20,920 --> 01:12:23,240
Speaker 1: What I mean by that is they're gonna He's gonna

1349
01:12:23,280 --> 01:12:28,040
Speaker 1: do some things early on that will cause your disguise

1350
01:12:28,080 --> 01:12:31,120
Speaker 1: to blow up. And with safeties back there like Tyrn

1351
01:12:31,160 --> 01:12:34,400
Speaker 1: Matthew and Justin Reid and Creem Jackson, those guys have

1352
01:12:34,479 --> 01:12:37,800
Speaker 1: never played safety against Tom Brady. Reid and Matthew have

1353
01:12:37,880 --> 01:12:41,839
Speaker 1: never played Brady Jackson. Creem Jackson has played against Brady mostly.

1354
01:12:42,120 --> 01:12:44,160
Speaker 1: I would say ninety eight percent of the time. It's

1355
01:12:44,160 --> 01:12:46,920
Speaker 1: been over at corner, a little bit of time in

1356
01:12:46,920 --> 01:12:50,040
Speaker 1: a playoff game at safety. But point being, you gotta

1357
01:12:50,080 --> 01:12:53,479
Speaker 1: hold your water with the disguise. I know that's tough,

1358
01:12:53,520 --> 01:12:55,400
Speaker 1: and I know it's hard, especially with Brady because he'll

1359
01:12:55,439 --> 01:12:57,720
Speaker 1: do some different things. He'll get up to the line

1360
01:12:57,720 --> 01:12:59,800
Speaker 1: of scrimmage, or even being a shotgun, and he'll give

1361
01:12:59,840 --> 01:13:02,000
Speaker 1: you her account. How about hot And he'll try and

1362
01:13:02,040 --> 01:13:05,320
Speaker 1: get guys to move just slightly. If they lean one

1363
01:13:05,360 --> 01:13:09,000
Speaker 1: way or the other, Brady knows. So they're gonna have

1364
01:13:09,040 --> 01:13:11,479
Speaker 1: to hold their water with the disguises. And it might

1365
01:13:11,520 --> 01:13:14,559
Speaker 1: be something in which they get themselves maybe out of position,

1366
01:13:14,600 --> 01:13:16,759
Speaker 1: like right the snap and you gotta sprint to coverage.

1367
01:13:17,520 --> 01:13:19,800
Speaker 1: But you cannot give away the answers to the test

1368
01:13:19,880 --> 01:13:24,720
Speaker 1: with your disguises. If you cheat the disguise, he will

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01:13:24,760 --> 01:13:26,920
Speaker 1: figure it out. And you gave him the answer to

1370
01:13:26,960 --> 01:13:30,280
Speaker 1: the test. And the better your disguises, the more he's

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01:13:30,280 --> 01:13:32,720
Speaker 1: gonna have to hold the football, the more opportunity you

1372
01:13:32,760 --> 01:13:35,000
Speaker 1: have to get the big fellas there to get sacks

1373
01:13:35,000 --> 01:13:38,160
Speaker 1: and hits on a quarterback. Now we have seen in

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01:13:38,240 --> 01:13:40,880
Speaker 1: two games, the playoff game and then last year's game.

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01:13:41,240 --> 01:13:44,120
Speaker 1: I have seen Brady take a pounding both times. I

1376
01:13:44,160 --> 01:13:50,120
Speaker 1: mean I have seen him get absolutely obliterated. Christian drilled

1377
01:13:50,200 --> 01:13:53,720
Speaker 1: him from the backside. Last year, Clowney got him, Merciless

1378
01:13:53,720 --> 01:13:57,880
Speaker 1: got him. He took a pounding in the playoff game.

1379
01:13:57,960 --> 01:14:02,080
Speaker 1: Clowney knocked him every which way. And he kept getting up.

1380
01:14:02,960 --> 01:14:05,200
Speaker 1: But the thing is, some of those hits he won't

1381
01:14:05,200 --> 01:14:08,840
Speaker 1: take if he knows exactly what you're doing. The secondary

1382
01:14:08,920 --> 01:14:14,320
Speaker 1: cannot give away their disguises, cannot Now. One of the

1383
01:14:14,360 --> 01:14:16,360
Speaker 1: ways in which Brady has hurt the Texans in the

1384
01:14:16,400 --> 01:14:20,280
Speaker 1: past is what the running backs. And that's one of

1385
01:14:20,320 --> 01:14:22,759
Speaker 1: the things I anticipate the Patriots doing all year long.

1386
01:14:23,040 --> 01:14:28,439
Speaker 1: The running backs are absolutely, without question, paramount to this offense.

1387
01:14:28,800 --> 01:14:32,639
Speaker 1: Why well, there's no Amendola, there's no Edelman, there's no Cooks,

1388
01:14:32,680 --> 01:14:35,040
Speaker 1: at least not in this one. That's the only one

1389
01:14:35,080 --> 01:14:37,880
Speaker 1: that really matters to me. You're without those three guys.

1390
01:14:38,120 --> 01:14:40,920
Speaker 1: Those guys, if they were there, would account for probably

1391
01:14:41,600 --> 01:14:45,720
Speaker 1: twenty five to thirty targets. Those targets now have to

1392
01:14:45,800 --> 01:14:50,559
Speaker 1: go to James White and Rex Burkhead and potentially Sony Michelle.

1393
01:14:51,000 --> 01:14:54,200
Speaker 1: The running backs are going to see the football. The

1394
01:14:54,200 --> 01:14:57,280
Speaker 1: Patriots are okay with that because against the Texans in particular,

1395
01:14:57,280 --> 01:14:59,880
Speaker 1: because in years past, that mean Dion Lewis was getting

1396
01:15:00,040 --> 01:15:02,200
Speaker 1: one on one with Bernardrick or he's getting one on

1397
01:15:02,200 --> 01:15:03,960
Speaker 1: one with the linebacker, and that was gonna be a

1398
01:15:03,960 --> 01:15:07,400
Speaker 1: matchup that Dion Lewis could win. Well, now it's James White,

1399
01:15:08,360 --> 01:15:12,519
Speaker 1: and James White can win matchups against linebackers, but you

1400
01:15:12,520 --> 01:15:15,680
Speaker 1: have Zack Cunningham and Dylan Cole. Those are two linebackers

1401
01:15:15,680 --> 01:15:17,719
Speaker 1: that can run with any running back in the league.

1402
01:15:17,840 --> 01:15:20,639
Speaker 1: We saw Zac Cunningham last year cover Levion Bell one

1403
01:15:20,680 --> 01:15:22,680
Speaker 1: on one on a slant route and stuck to his

1404
01:15:22,760 --> 01:15:25,040
Speaker 1: hip and knocked it away. Bell had no shot. See

1405
01:15:25,160 --> 01:15:27,639
Speaker 1: Dillant Cole run with Duke Johnson all the way down

1406
01:15:27,680 --> 01:15:29,599
Speaker 1: the sideline to come up with a pick in one

1407
01:15:29,640 --> 01:15:34,120
Speaker 1: on one coverage. Those guys can run with these running backs,

1408
01:15:34,160 --> 01:15:36,840
Speaker 1: and that is probably gonna get Dylan Cole in the

1409
01:15:36,880 --> 01:15:39,479
Speaker 1: field maybe a little bit more. The game's gotta play out.

1410
01:15:39,920 --> 01:15:42,280
Speaker 1: Doesn't mean that Bernardrick comes off, but it just might

1411
01:15:42,360 --> 01:15:44,639
Speaker 1: mean that you play Dylan Cole a little bit more

1412
01:15:44,680 --> 01:15:47,400
Speaker 1: because he can run with those running backs. And maybe

1413
01:15:47,439 --> 01:15:50,879
Speaker 1: you show some different fronts to the Patriots that include

1414
01:15:50,880 --> 01:15:55,760
Speaker 1: all three linebackers Cunningham, Cole, and McKinney. But those two

1415
01:15:55,800 --> 01:15:59,000
Speaker 1: are gonna take on the challenge of staying with running backs.

1416
01:15:59,240 --> 01:16:01,400
Speaker 1: Not the easiest thing the world, but it's definitely something

1417
01:16:01,600 --> 01:16:03,519
Speaker 1: that they've got to do. You got to figure out

1418
01:16:03,520 --> 01:16:04,840
Speaker 1: what to do with Gronk. I don't know if there's

1419
01:16:04,840 --> 01:16:07,400
Speaker 1: any easy answer to that. And then, as I said earlier,

1420
01:16:07,479 --> 01:16:10,160
Speaker 1: you've got to hit Brady every single time he throws

1421
01:16:10,840 --> 01:16:13,680
Speaker 1: eight hits. Last year, it's got to be twelve. You

1422
01:16:13,680 --> 01:16:15,640
Speaker 1: never know which one's gonna turn into a turnover and

1423
01:16:15,680 --> 01:16:18,960
Speaker 1: one that you need desperately. So there you go. Those

1424
01:16:18,960 --> 01:16:21,519
Speaker 1: are your first community credit union, first glance keys to

1425
01:16:21,640 --> 01:16:24,120
Speaker 1: the defensive side of the ball. Oh and on a

1426
01:16:24,160 --> 01:16:27,360
Speaker 1: punt returns last year, amndla at two punt returns for

1427
01:16:27,479 --> 01:16:33,880
Speaker 1: fifty three yards that cannot happen. Cannot happen. Punt returns

1428
01:16:33,920 --> 01:16:36,920
Speaker 1: have got to be held under an into single digits.

1429
01:16:37,040 --> 01:16:39,240
Speaker 1: That's it. Single digit returns. That's all they can have.

1430
01:16:39,840 --> 01:16:42,200
Speaker 1: More than that ends up being trouble. Amadola is a key.

1431
01:16:42,320 --> 01:16:43,920
Speaker 1: We'll see who it is for the Patriots this year.

1432
01:16:44,000 --> 01:16:46,160
Speaker 1: All right, we get back to play a reporter. It's

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01:16:46,160 --> 01:16:48,000
Speaker 1: the final where with Drew Doherty. You listen to Texans

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01:16:48,040 --> 01:17:50,000
Speaker 1: All Access. We've got one final segment of Texans All

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01:17:50,040 --> 01:17:53,160
Speaker 1: Access for you from the hunday Texans Radio studio. I

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01:17:53,280 --> 01:17:55,800
Speaker 1: am your host, John Harris, Football annost a silent reporter,

1437
01:17:55,920 --> 01:17:58,200
Speaker 1: and I love doing the Friday show because it's the

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01:17:58,320 --> 01:18:03,400
Speaker 1: last show of ours before we have kickoff on Sunday.

1439
01:18:03,680 --> 01:18:06,120
Speaker 1: So I'm kind of the I'm kind of the last word,

1440
01:18:06,200 --> 01:18:07,760
Speaker 1: if you will. Now, we're gonna get the final word

1441
01:18:07,800 --> 01:18:10,479
Speaker 1: to Drew here in just a little bit. But we

1442
01:18:10,560 --> 01:18:13,200
Speaker 1: got plenty to do in this final segment, including one

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01:18:13,240 --> 01:18:16,080
Speaker 1: of my favorite segments of the entire week, and it's

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Speaker 1: Jackson has been our player reporter for I think a

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01:18:32,600 --> 01:18:35,240
Speaker 1: couple of years now, and he's really kind of taken

1449
01:18:35,320 --> 01:18:38,680
Speaker 1: to the role. And when our crew went in the

1450
01:18:38,800 --> 01:18:44,000
Speaker 1: locker room on Wednesday, he didn't even miss a beat.

1451
01:18:44,120 --> 01:18:46,360
Speaker 1: He ran right over, grabbed the mic and was like,

1452
01:18:46,600 --> 01:18:50,080
Speaker 1: this is kjack TV, this is my show. Here's player Reporter.

1453
01:18:50,200 --> 01:18:53,320
Speaker 1: We're Kareem Jackson. All right, Well, then jump right in.

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01:18:53,439 --> 01:18:57,679
Speaker 1: A couple of questions, may not do it the longest? Brother?

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01:18:58,120 --> 01:19:02,320
Speaker 1: You are here? You here? Brother, which teammate would you

1456
01:19:02,400 --> 01:19:06,360
Speaker 1: let run your Instagram for a day? Oh? That's a

1457
01:19:06,439 --> 01:19:09,040
Speaker 1: good question, man, be honest, I probably let you run

1458
01:19:09,080 --> 01:19:12,519
Speaker 1: on my Instagram for a dirt. That's a great choice.

1459
01:19:13,720 --> 01:19:16,920
Speaker 1: Why why would you say men on Instagram? Man? You

1460
01:19:17,040 --> 01:19:19,600
Speaker 1: know you know I should never seen Jack's post. You

1461
01:19:19,640 --> 01:19:25,280
Speaker 1: know this man suited him boarded. Uh it might it

1462
01:19:25,360 --> 01:19:28,360
Speaker 1: might be you. I've seen all them kicks, you out

1463
01:19:28,520 --> 01:19:31,799
Speaker 1: all the clothes. He got a magazine cover. Brian Peters,

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01:19:31,960 --> 01:19:34,360
Speaker 1: Brian Peters. Somebody else said that to Day too. What

1465
01:19:34,520 --> 01:19:36,720
Speaker 1: what's so interesting about Brian Peters? Man? He you know,

1466
01:19:36,920 --> 01:19:39,240
Speaker 1: he does a great job with like, you know, portrait

1467
01:19:39,280 --> 01:19:41,240
Speaker 1: mode on him, on him, sell on the phone. So

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01:19:41,360 --> 01:19:44,680
Speaker 1: he's so he got that, he got the filters all day.

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01:19:44,720 --> 01:19:46,519
Speaker 1: I mean, I could look jacked up something. He's gonna

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01:19:46,560 --> 01:19:50,320
Speaker 1: edit that joint album. Probably Whitney. You let Whitney run

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01:19:50,360 --> 01:19:52,280
Speaker 1: your Instagram for a day. Why is that? Because he

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01:19:52,400 --> 01:19:56,880
Speaker 1: barely posts anything? So okay, that's smart. I literally running

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01:19:56,920 --> 01:19:59,240
Speaker 1: for a day, you let me run it. You're the

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01:19:59,360 --> 01:20:02,599
Speaker 1: third person that said that the day who can't run

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01:20:02,640 --> 01:20:06,200
Speaker 1: your Instagram? Man right there? But nargic McKinney, why why

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01:20:06,320 --> 01:20:08,840
Speaker 1: why did you say that? Man right over there? Because

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01:20:08,840 --> 01:20:10,880
Speaker 1: that's a that's a wow that's a wow. Man. I

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01:20:10,920 --> 01:20:12,920
Speaker 1: don't know where he might try to put up. Who

1479
01:20:13,000 --> 01:20:15,960
Speaker 1: can't run your Instagram for a day? Peters? Why is that?

1480
01:20:16,200 --> 01:20:19,720
Speaker 1: It's my artist nemesis? Oh okay, okay, Well that's that's

1481
01:20:19,720 --> 01:20:23,240
Speaker 1: a good reason. Why probably hot. You won't let hot

1482
01:20:23,320 --> 01:20:27,160
Speaker 1: running hot pretty interestion on Instagram? Why not? Because he

1483
01:20:27,240 --> 01:20:31,120
Speaker 1: go live every morning like everybody. He waking everybody else

1484
01:20:31,120 --> 01:20:34,080
Speaker 1: with the notification. Yeah, he do stay live a lot.

1485
01:20:35,000 --> 01:20:37,559
Speaker 1: All right, man, just a bad emotion right here kJ TV.

1486
01:20:37,680 --> 01:20:40,439
Speaker 1: We out, baby, that's all the questions we had. Man,

1487
01:20:41,240 --> 01:20:42,840
Speaker 1: that was a short, and that was a pretty short.

1488
01:20:43,720 --> 01:20:46,360
Speaker 1: You ain't gonna I just had a couple, that's all. Well,

1489
01:20:46,360 --> 01:20:48,679
Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask you some questions. This is my show.

1490
01:20:48,840 --> 01:20:50,880
Speaker 1: You can't ask me questions on my show. Man only

1491
01:20:51,000 --> 01:20:53,000
Speaker 1: person control. This is me. I thought it. We're having

1492
01:20:53,040 --> 01:20:57,720
Speaker 1: a conversation. We had it now, so appreciate you. We

1493
01:20:58,160 --> 01:21:00,160
Speaker 1: we're gonna have you back on the locker room, yes,

1494
01:21:00,200 --> 01:21:02,840
Speaker 1: and we're gonna have you back home. Yeah. Ok all

1495
01:21:02,920 --> 01:21:10,000
Speaker 1: right man. There are certainly some personalities in the locker room,

1496
01:21:10,120 --> 01:21:14,080
Speaker 1: to say the least, Gary Jackson leads the group, But

1497
01:21:14,560 --> 01:21:17,320
Speaker 1: to me, the best thing about player reporter is the

1498
01:21:17,560 --> 01:21:21,320
Speaker 1: yin and yang of Kareem Jackson and Bernardrick McKinney. But

1499
01:21:21,479 --> 01:21:23,760
Speaker 1: Ardrick Wilson, dude, I don't know the haircut did it

1500
01:21:23,840 --> 01:21:26,160
Speaker 1: for him? He looks completely different by the way. My goodness,

1501
01:21:26,160 --> 01:21:27,479
Speaker 1: I didn't even recogniz him when he came in the

1502
01:21:27,520 --> 01:21:29,519
Speaker 1: locker room. What that haircut? It took me a second.

1503
01:21:29,560 --> 01:21:33,000
Speaker 1: But then again, as I heard somebody remark on Sports

1504
01:21:33,080 --> 01:21:34,639
Speaker 1: Radio six ten the other day, and I don't remember

1505
01:21:34,640 --> 01:21:37,240
Speaker 1: who it is, six four, two fifty five. Yeah, you

1506
01:21:37,320 --> 01:21:39,040
Speaker 1: can kind of figure it out at some point, because

1507
01:21:39,280 --> 01:21:42,559
Speaker 1: it'll make him like that too often. Now. Kareem Jackson

1508
01:21:42,720 --> 01:21:46,040
Speaker 1: has been air since two ten, Jonathan Joseph has been

1509
01:21:46,080 --> 01:21:47,720
Speaker 1: here since two thousand and eleven, and those two have

1510
01:21:47,800 --> 01:21:51,160
Speaker 1: been running buddies ever since. And Drew Doherty has the

1511
01:21:51,240 --> 01:21:55,000
Speaker 1: final word this week with Jonathan Joseph. Thank you so much, fellas.

1512
01:21:55,040 --> 01:21:59,120
Speaker 1: We've got cornerback Jonathan Joseph here and it's always fun

1513
01:21:59,520 --> 01:22:02,320
Speaker 1: starting the season off, and it's even more exciting when

1514
01:22:02,360 --> 01:22:04,200
Speaker 1: you take on the New England Patriots. We'll get to

1515
01:22:04,240 --> 01:22:07,360
Speaker 1: that in a moment. How are you feeling. I'm feeling fine, man,

1516
01:22:07,439 --> 01:22:10,280
Speaker 1: You know, I'm You're thirteen training counts behind me. So

1517
01:22:10,360 --> 01:22:12,200
Speaker 1: I made it out of there healthy. I'm scay. So

1518
01:22:12,520 --> 01:22:14,200
Speaker 1: I'm just looking forward to the regular season, man, and

1519
01:22:14,320 --> 01:22:16,280
Speaker 1: just you know, ready to get things kicked off and started. Yeah,

1520
01:22:16,280 --> 01:22:18,200
Speaker 1: you got me excited because I heard about that interview

1521
01:22:18,280 --> 01:22:20,439
Speaker 1: with the guys on Sports Radio sixteen. You said, you're

1522
01:22:20,520 --> 01:22:22,360
Speaker 1: feeling great, You're ready for this year. It's gonna be

1523
01:22:22,400 --> 01:22:25,000
Speaker 1: a fantastic year. Sammy Coats, we talked with him. He

1524
01:22:25,080 --> 01:22:27,840
Speaker 1: believes it. He said, Yeah, that guy's looking like he's

1525
01:22:28,439 --> 01:22:30,320
Speaker 1: at the top of his game. What's got you saying that?

1526
01:22:30,400 --> 01:22:31,960
Speaker 1: What makes you think that way? It's just the work

1527
01:22:32,040 --> 01:22:33,960
Speaker 1: that I put in. You know, me and my teammates,

1528
01:22:34,000 --> 01:22:36,880
Speaker 1: all of us come in each and every day and

1529
01:22:37,439 --> 01:22:39,840
Speaker 1: you just try to hit the grind. You know, never

1530
01:22:39,920 --> 01:22:43,639
Speaker 1: complain about it, never be satisfied. At the same time, also,

1531
01:22:43,960 --> 01:22:45,559
Speaker 1: so you know, at this point of stage in my career,

1532
01:22:45,640 --> 01:22:47,280
Speaker 1: you know, I have no choice but to put it

1533
01:22:47,320 --> 01:22:48,840
Speaker 1: out on the line. So every time I have a

1534
01:22:48,920 --> 01:22:50,040
Speaker 1: chance to go on in the field, I want to

1535
01:22:50,040 --> 01:22:51,879
Speaker 1: give him my all and give it that to my teammates,

1536
01:22:52,200 --> 01:22:54,240
Speaker 1: and I owe him that. Yeah, and you talk about

1537
01:22:54,240 --> 01:22:55,960
Speaker 1: that grind, the grind was a little bit different this

1538
01:22:56,040 --> 01:22:58,720
Speaker 1: offseason with Luke Richardson and his crew. You guys, I

1539
01:22:58,880 --> 01:23:01,240
Speaker 1: think and what I've heard and what I've seen, you've

1540
01:23:01,360 --> 01:23:05,040
Speaker 1: ramped up and you're getting into prime form four week

1541
01:23:05,120 --> 01:23:06,640
Speaker 1: one for the rest of the season, arn't. You're not

1542
01:23:06,720 --> 01:23:09,599
Speaker 1: at a different level than you have been in years past, right?

1543
01:23:09,840 --> 01:23:11,960
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you know, it's a new thing for us,

1544
01:23:12,120 --> 01:23:14,240
Speaker 1: and we've been sticking to the stands and playing sticking

1545
01:23:14,280 --> 01:23:17,080
Speaker 1: the course. And I think you look throughout training camp,

1546
01:23:17,160 --> 01:23:19,519
Speaker 1: we've been on the good side of injury knock on wood.

1547
01:23:19,720 --> 01:23:22,000
Speaker 1: We haven't had many injuries and things like that. You know,

1548
01:23:22,400 --> 01:23:23,600
Speaker 1: you're going to have a few here and there, but

1549
01:23:23,640 --> 01:23:25,360
Speaker 1: I think the grand scheme of things to have as

1550
01:23:25,400 --> 01:23:27,120
Speaker 1: many guys healthy week one, and I think we're looking

1551
01:23:27,120 --> 01:23:30,360
Speaker 1: at that right now. So I think me personally, it's

1552
01:23:30,400 --> 01:23:32,320
Speaker 1: just going through the whole process again, like going through

1553
01:23:32,360 --> 01:23:36,280
Speaker 1: combine training, you know, stretching each and every day, phone rolls,

1554
01:23:36,840 --> 01:23:39,679
Speaker 1: soft tissue things. So just being able to prepare myself

1555
01:23:39,720 --> 01:23:41,559
Speaker 1: for a full long journey at sixteen weeks of being

1556
01:23:41,760 --> 01:23:43,400
Speaker 1: at one hundred percent and not telling off late in

1557
01:23:43,439 --> 01:23:45,320
Speaker 1: the year, and that kind of lends itself to these

1558
01:23:45,400 --> 01:23:48,120
Speaker 1: high expectations as a team, as a defense, you guys have,

1559
01:23:48,280 --> 01:23:50,479
Speaker 1: doesn't it. Oh absolutely, We've been there before and we

1560
01:23:50,560 --> 01:23:52,200
Speaker 1: got a lot of the same guys still here. And

1561
01:23:52,240 --> 01:23:53,720
Speaker 1: it's been a little turn up on this roster, but

1562
01:23:53,720 --> 01:23:55,600
Speaker 1: that's the way football is in this league. But I

1563
01:23:55,680 --> 01:23:57,320
Speaker 1: think at the same time, when you have the guys

1564
01:23:57,360 --> 01:23:59,600
Speaker 1: that we have on this team, our expectation levels at

1565
01:23:59,640 --> 01:24:02,160
Speaker 1: all time high. And you know, throughout last year a

1566
01:24:02,200 --> 01:24:03,840
Speaker 1: couple of years before that, we've been right at the

1567
01:24:03,880 --> 01:24:05,720
Speaker 1: top of this division, and you know, we want to

1568
01:24:05,760 --> 01:24:07,519
Speaker 1: get right back there, and we understand how hard it

1569
01:24:07,680 --> 01:24:09,200
Speaker 1: is to get back to the top of this division.

1570
01:24:09,439 --> 01:24:10,920
Speaker 1: But at the same time, we just got to put

1571
01:24:10,960 --> 01:24:12,080
Speaker 1: it in the work because we have the guys who

1572
01:24:12,080 --> 01:24:13,640
Speaker 1: are capable of getting it done, no doubt. You got

1573
01:24:13,680 --> 01:24:15,599
Speaker 1: those guys up front that have done that and done

1574
01:24:15,600 --> 01:24:17,720
Speaker 1: it spectacularly. But let's talk about the guys behind you,

1575
01:24:17,800 --> 01:24:20,320
Speaker 1: the safeties. There's some new faces back there and some

1576
01:24:20,479 --> 01:24:23,080
Speaker 1: faces that haven't been in that spot that you know

1577
01:24:23,280 --> 01:24:25,560
Speaker 1: very well. Tell me about the safety crew behind you.

1578
01:24:26,160 --> 01:24:28,400
Speaker 1: Thank you got a lot of interesting guys back there.

1579
01:24:28,439 --> 01:24:33,040
Speaker 1: You obviously have tiring kareem justin those guys. I think

1580
01:24:33,360 --> 01:24:36,280
Speaker 1: that like having three corners back, there three guys that

1581
01:24:36,320 --> 01:24:38,479
Speaker 1: can run really well, play the ball, and tackle, and

1582
01:24:38,520 --> 01:24:41,320
Speaker 1: I think this this league to come to. Some teams

1583
01:24:41,400 --> 01:24:43,320
Speaker 1: have different schemes for different guys, but I think our team,

1584
01:24:43,360 --> 01:24:45,400
Speaker 1: our scheme fits for guys that can run, tackle and cover.

1585
01:24:45,720 --> 01:24:47,200
Speaker 1: And we got all those guys back. They've played a

1586
01:24:47,200 --> 01:24:49,280
Speaker 1: lot of football other than Justin but you know, he's

1587
01:24:49,320 --> 01:24:51,600
Speaker 1: our first draft pick this year, so we try to

1588
01:24:51,600 --> 01:24:53,559
Speaker 1: catch him up to speed and through out training camp. Man,

1589
01:24:53,720 --> 01:24:55,719
Speaker 1: I think us as a group, the more we communicate

1590
01:24:55,720 --> 01:24:57,120
Speaker 1: and play out there on the field together, the bed

1591
01:24:57,120 --> 01:24:58,640
Speaker 1: off we would be. So it kind of goes hand

1592
01:24:58,680 --> 01:25:00,240
Speaker 1: in hand with the corners in the safety. Tell me

1593
01:25:00,280 --> 01:25:02,760
Speaker 1: about preparing for Tom Brady. How do you prepare for

1594
01:25:02,840 --> 01:25:05,160
Speaker 1: a guy who's done so much? How do you prepare

1595
01:25:05,200 --> 01:25:08,200
Speaker 1: for TV twelve? Just don't overthink it. You know they're

1596
01:25:08,200 --> 01:25:10,160
Speaker 1: gonna run their same offense, They're gonna run their plays,

1597
01:25:10,160 --> 01:25:12,200
Speaker 1: they're gonna execute at the high level. I think it's

1598
01:25:12,200 --> 01:25:14,400
Speaker 1: about just going out there and competing each and every play,

1599
01:25:14,439 --> 01:25:16,439
Speaker 1: each and every snap, and just putting your will up

1600
01:25:16,439 --> 01:25:18,439
Speaker 1: against their wheel. I think that's the one way you

1601
01:25:18,520 --> 01:25:19,960
Speaker 1: have to go out there and approach the game against

1602
01:25:20,000 --> 01:25:22,080
Speaker 1: those guys, because they're gonna, you know, throw a few

1603
01:25:22,120 --> 01:25:23,599
Speaker 1: wrinkles that you're here and there, But for the most part,

1604
01:25:23,600 --> 01:25:25,120
Speaker 1: they're gonna use their bread and butter and do what

1605
01:25:25,160 --> 01:25:27,160
Speaker 1: they do really well and what they've done over time.

1606
01:25:27,439 --> 01:25:29,240
Speaker 1: And I think for us, it's just about going out

1607
01:25:29,240 --> 01:25:31,599
Speaker 1: and executing our defense and sticking to the game player. Yeah,

1608
01:25:31,640 --> 01:25:33,920
Speaker 1: and their wide receiver corps has been tinkered with. There's

1609
01:25:33,920 --> 01:25:36,120
Speaker 1: a lot of faces that you haven't seen before. There.

1610
01:25:36,200 --> 01:25:38,320
Speaker 1: What do you have to prepare for When you prepare

1611
01:25:38,360 --> 01:25:41,000
Speaker 1: for those pass catchers, they always find a guy, so

1612
01:25:41,240 --> 01:25:42,880
Speaker 1: you know, you can never count it out. And I

1613
01:25:42,920 --> 01:25:45,800
Speaker 1: don't really get into up to looking against the guys

1614
01:25:45,840 --> 01:25:47,559
Speaker 1: that's actually in there. You know, obviously got to cover

1615
01:25:47,640 --> 01:25:49,240
Speaker 1: those guys, so you can't take a guy for granted.

1616
01:25:49,400 --> 01:25:51,800
Speaker 1: But it's more so the scheme, the players. They're running

1617
01:25:52,120 --> 01:25:54,400
Speaker 1: route concepts and things like that, so that's what we

1618
01:25:54,479 --> 01:25:57,160
Speaker 1: want to put more focus on than actually a guy. Obviously,

1619
01:25:57,200 --> 01:25:58,920
Speaker 1: they're gonna have their playmakers and guys that like they

1620
01:25:58,960 --> 01:26:00,839
Speaker 1: go to. But I think the more you can understand

1621
01:26:00,960 --> 01:26:03,360
Speaker 1: route concepts, what they wanting to do in certain situations,

1622
01:26:03,400 --> 01:26:04,680
Speaker 1: you can have a better grass with what they want

1623
01:26:04,680 --> 01:26:06,960
Speaker 1: to do from offensive standpoint. So with that in mind, though,

1624
01:26:07,080 --> 01:26:09,360
Speaker 1: how do you compensate and go against a guy like

1625
01:26:09,720 --> 01:26:12,120
Speaker 1: Rob Gronkowsky. I know that's not necessarily going to be

1626
01:26:12,200 --> 01:26:14,240
Speaker 1: the guy you're matched up with every time or at all,

1627
01:26:14,400 --> 01:26:16,360
Speaker 1: but he's such a playmaker. He's one of the best

1628
01:26:16,439 --> 01:26:18,320
Speaker 1: that's ever played the game at tight end. You got

1629
01:26:18,400 --> 01:26:20,599
Speaker 1: to challenge him each and every play. You know, obviously

1630
01:26:20,800 --> 01:26:23,280
Speaker 1: he's all pro in this league for a reason, and

1631
01:26:23,400 --> 01:26:25,080
Speaker 1: he has Brady throw him the ball, so you know

1632
01:26:25,160 --> 01:26:28,040
Speaker 1: he's gonna make catches here and there, some spectacler, some

1633
01:26:28,200 --> 01:26:30,040
Speaker 1: you gotta let him earn, you know. At the same time,

1634
01:26:30,080 --> 01:26:31,800
Speaker 1: you can't give him anything cheap. You can't give him

1635
01:26:31,800 --> 01:26:34,080
Speaker 1: those running cash plays to where you know he's making

1636
01:26:34,120 --> 01:26:35,599
Speaker 1: thirty and forty yard games. You got to make him

1637
01:26:35,600 --> 01:26:37,360
Speaker 1: earn it each and every play. And I think if

1638
01:26:37,400 --> 01:26:39,400
Speaker 1: you just stick to that script, you know things can

1639
01:26:39,439 --> 01:26:42,080
Speaker 1: play out in no favor. Jonathan Joseph, it's always fantastic

1640
01:26:42,120 --> 01:26:44,479
Speaker 1: talking with your best of luck at Foxboro. We'll see

1641
01:26:44,479 --> 01:26:47,400
Speaker 1: you against Suit no doubt. Thanks a lot. Kareem Jackson

1642
01:26:47,560 --> 01:26:51,519
Speaker 1: and Jonathan Joseph player reporter and our final word with

1643
01:26:51,840 --> 01:26:54,200
Speaker 1: Drew Doherty. Now I bring up those two. Those two

1644
01:26:54,680 --> 01:26:57,639
Speaker 1: are the only two remaining in the secondary that started

1645
01:26:57,720 --> 01:27:01,559
Speaker 1: last year against Tom Brady and the Patriots offense. Kareem

1646
01:27:01,600 --> 01:27:03,920
Speaker 1: at one corner at Jonathan Joseph at the other. The

1647
01:27:04,000 --> 01:27:05,840
Speaker 1: starting safeties were Corey Moore, who is now at the

1648
01:27:05,840 --> 01:27:08,720
Speaker 1: Indianapolis Colts and Andre Howe, who is fighting his way

1649
01:27:08,760 --> 01:27:13,439
Speaker 1: back from Hodgkins lymphoma. Marcus Gilchrist also came into that game.

1650
01:27:13,880 --> 01:27:16,439
Speaker 1: Jonathan Banks also came into this game. This is a

1651
01:27:16,560 --> 01:27:21,439
Speaker 1: completely and totally revamped secondary. Even Kareem is moving to

1652
01:27:21,640 --> 01:27:25,439
Speaker 1: safety and has moved to safety. So instead of more

1653
01:27:26,000 --> 01:27:30,519
Speaker 1: In Gilchrist and how You're Roland at safety with Kareem Jackson,

1654
01:27:30,800 --> 01:27:34,400
Speaker 1: Justin Reid and the Honey Badger Tyron Matthew instead of

1655
01:27:34,800 --> 01:27:38,120
Speaker 1: Kareem and j Joe and Jonathan Banks, I'm the corners.

1656
01:27:38,560 --> 01:27:42,519
Speaker 1: You're gonna have Jonathan Joseph, Kevin Johnson, and you're gonna

1657
01:27:42,560 --> 01:27:47,160
Speaker 1: have Aaron Colvin. That secondary has been revamped. This organization

1658
01:27:47,320 --> 01:27:50,000
Speaker 1: saw last year that it needed it, and it definitely

1659
01:27:50,120 --> 01:27:52,880
Speaker 1: has done that. It has made some changes and Jonathan

1660
01:27:53,000 --> 01:27:56,760
Speaker 1: Joseph is really the only guy going back to his

1661
01:27:57,080 --> 01:28:01,120
Speaker 1: normal starting cornerback spot, Kevin Johnson as well, but Aaron

1662
01:28:01,160 --> 01:28:03,720
Speaker 1: Colvin brought to the mix, Justin Reid Tyler, Matthew All

1663
01:28:03,760 --> 01:28:06,880
Speaker 1: brought in, and Kareem Jackson moving over to safety, all

1664
01:28:08,000 --> 01:28:10,360
Speaker 1: for the thought of being better in games like this

1665
01:28:10,640 --> 01:28:14,000
Speaker 1: when you face one of the greats, or face the

1666
01:28:14,200 --> 01:28:16,400
Speaker 1: great the greatest of all time. I think Tom Brady

1667
01:28:16,439 --> 01:28:18,200
Speaker 1: is the greatest of all time, but I'll lead it

1668
01:28:18,280 --> 01:28:22,400
Speaker 1: open to interpretation for you. But facing a guy like this, obviously,

1669
01:28:22,880 --> 01:28:26,920
Speaker 1: it makes for a very difficult afternoon, and yet one

1670
01:28:27,000 --> 01:28:31,040
Speaker 1: you'll never you'll never forget. And this Texans secondary has

1671
01:28:31,160 --> 01:28:36,880
Speaker 1: faced Tom Brady starting in twenty twelve, faced him, and

1672
01:28:36,920 --> 01:28:39,519
Speaker 1: I'm talking Kareem Jackson and Jonathan Joseph faced him in

1673
01:28:39,600 --> 01:28:43,080
Speaker 1: twenty twelve, lost both games. Faced him in thirteen, lost

1674
01:28:43,160 --> 01:28:45,679
Speaker 1: that game, faced him in fifteen, lost that game, faced

1675
01:28:45,760 --> 01:28:48,200
Speaker 1: him twice in sixteen, lost both of those, faced him

1676
01:28:48,240 --> 01:28:51,080
Speaker 1: once in seventeen, lost that one. It's time for that

1677
01:28:51,200 --> 01:28:57,599
Speaker 1: to change, Time for that to change. Winning a road

1678
01:28:57,640 --> 01:29:02,160
Speaker 1: game would be huge. The Texans have not won a

1679
01:29:02,479 --> 01:29:09,120
Speaker 1: Sunday road game since December eleventh of twenty sixteen. The

1680
01:29:09,280 --> 01:29:11,439
Speaker 1: only road win they had last year was on Thursday

1681
01:29:11,479 --> 01:29:14,439
Speaker 1: Night against the Cincinnati Bengals, and they lost the last

1682
01:29:14,479 --> 01:29:17,559
Speaker 1: one of the twenty sixteen season at Tennessee December eleven,

1683
01:29:17,680 --> 01:29:22,559
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, at Indianapolis, the last road win on a Sunday.

1684
01:29:24,040 --> 01:29:25,920
Speaker 1: That at some point is going to change this year,

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01:29:26,080 --> 01:29:30,000
Speaker 1: and hopefully it changes after Week one. The Patriots the

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Speaker 1: defending AFC champs is Mark and I talked about last week.

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01:29:32,800 --> 01:29:34,560
Speaker 1: The last team to lose a Super Bowl and go

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01:29:34,600 --> 01:29:37,599
Speaker 1: back and win one was nineteen seventy two, the Dolphins

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01:29:37,720 --> 01:29:42,000
Speaker 1: in Super Bowl seven. The Patriots field vulnerable on paper.

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01:29:42,400 --> 01:29:46,200
Speaker 1: What does that mean? Means absolutely nothing because twelveth bowing

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01:29:46,240 --> 01:29:49,320
Speaker 1: the trigger, Bill Belichick is calling the plays and Josh

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01:29:49,439 --> 01:29:53,120
Speaker 1: McDaniels is leading the offense. Other than that, a lot

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01:29:53,200 --> 01:29:56,400
Speaker 1: has changed for them. Brian Flores new defensive coordinator, the

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01:29:56,560 --> 01:30:01,439
Speaker 1: defense adding Danny Shelton and Adrian Clayborne. Offensively, all the

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01:30:01,520 --> 01:30:06,320
Speaker 1: tackles except Marcus Cannon are gone. They brought in Trent

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01:30:06,439 --> 01:30:08,880
Speaker 1: Brown to be one tackle. How long can he stay up?

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01:30:09,040 --> 01:30:12,040
Speaker 1: The inside is solid. We know that who catches the

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01:30:12,080 --> 01:30:14,240
Speaker 1: football outside of Gronk and Hogan, There's a lot of

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01:30:14,320 --> 01:30:16,360
Speaker 1: questions about the Patriots, But there are a lot of

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01:30:16,439 --> 01:30:19,240
Speaker 1: questions about the Texans. Is Watson fully healthy? Is he

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01:30:19,360 --> 01:30:22,360
Speaker 1: ready completely to go? We think he is. JJ Watt,

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01:30:22,400 --> 01:30:25,280
Speaker 1: same question we think he is. How can the Texans

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01:30:25,320 --> 01:30:28,120
Speaker 1: attack this defense? What can they do? Can they put

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01:30:28,200 --> 01:30:31,120
Speaker 1: up thirty plus points again? With the Sean back in charge?

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01:30:32,640 --> 01:30:35,519
Speaker 1: This should be a fun one. Looking forward to it

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01:30:35,680 --> 01:30:39,280
Speaker 1: on Sunday more than I can even tell you, I

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01:30:39,400 --> 01:30:42,280
Speaker 1: feel like trying to put it in words will not

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01:30:42,400 --> 01:30:47,240
Speaker 1: even do it. Justice Game Kick twelve pm right there

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Speaker 1: on Sports Radio six ten. Pregame show nine o'clock fcl

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01:30:51,160 --> 01:30:54,240
Speaker 1: Dental pregame show will be with Sean Pendergaston, Mike Meltzer

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01:30:54,800 --> 01:30:57,920
Speaker 1: and then after this Texans team hopefully get to win

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01:30:58,479 --> 01:31:00,920
Speaker 1: that Sean Pendergaston, Paul Gallant, we'll be breaking that down.

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01:31:01,000 --> 01:31:03,519
Speaker 1: I'll jump in on the show from Foxborough before we

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Speaker 1: take off and hopefully come back here. One to oh.

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01:31:06,600 --> 01:31:09,200
Speaker 1: That's the goal. One to oh every single week, and

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01:31:09,280 --> 01:31:12,439
Speaker 1: it starts on Sunday up in Massachusetts. In the words

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01:31:12,439 --> 01:31:17,080
Speaker 1: of the immortal Bart Scott, can't wait, cannot wait. Coming

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01:31:17,160 --> 01:31:20,400
Speaker 1: up next right here on our flagship a fantasy football

1719
01:31:20,439 --> 01:31:22,200
Speaker 1: show that it's gonna be awesome. Brought to you by

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01:31:22,240 --> 01:31:26,880
Speaker 1: the Fantasy Four, Kyle King, Joe George, Brian McDonald and

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01:31:27,160 --> 01:31:29,840
Speaker 1: Josh Beard. You're gonna love it. Keep it tuned right

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01:31:29,880 --> 01:31:32,160
Speaker 1: here on Sports Radio six ten. Let's go to New England.

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Speaker 1: Get something dumb people haven't done it ever to make

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Speaker 1: Sun of the first see that everybody as always go Texans,