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Speaker 1: What is up? Everybody? Welcome in to me Monday edition

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Speaker 1: of Texans All Access from the Monday Texans Radio studio

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Speaker 1: on a Monday, which means one, oh wait a second,

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Speaker 1: No Monday night football at night. That means two hours.

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Speaker 1: That's right, two hours for you. Glad you are with us.

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Speaker 1: No morena have football in Week seventeen. I like how

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Speaker 1: they do that. Not that I don't like seeing Monday

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Speaker 1: have Monday night football wait another night to see who's

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Speaker 1: gonna make the playoffs or not make the playoffs, and

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Speaker 1: you don't want that game to be a dud. So

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Speaker 1: you'd like to know who's playing on Monday night, and

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Speaker 1: you don't move games on Monday night, so you could

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Speaker 1: end up with a big dud. But they decided, And

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Speaker 1: I like the way Week seventeen goes. I like the

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Speaker 1: way that they can figure things such that teams that

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Speaker 1: need to know what's happening in other games are playing

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Speaker 1: at the same time, so you don't have teams mailing

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Speaker 1: it in and taking the afternoon off. But more importantly,

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Speaker 1: your Texans are ASC South champs, third time in four years,

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Speaker 1: fifth time in eight years. It's been a it's been

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Speaker 1: a wild this year for sure. And three to eleven

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Speaker 1: and five one, eleven and thirteen the only two games

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Speaker 1: they lost by two at Philly by three to Indianapolis,

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Speaker 1: and that obviously is the opponent on Saturday, three thirty five,

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Speaker 1: kick here an NRG Stadium against Indianapolis Colts. The Texas

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Speaker 1: have never played a team three times in the year.

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Speaker 1: Never happened. This will be the first. They split it.

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Speaker 1: We won thirty seven thirty four up there, they won

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Speaker 1: twenty four twenty one. Here right now, the score is

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Speaker 1: fifty eight fifty eight, and we're going into the fifth quarter.

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Speaker 1: And it makes me think of Florida State Fuoridaback in

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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety four. They played at thirty one thirty one tie.

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Speaker 1: They called to choke the dope Florida at a big lead.

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Speaker 1: Florida State came back, tied it at thirty one. They

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Speaker 1: decided to kick the extra point to tie it. And

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Speaker 1: then they met again in the Sugar Bowl and Florida

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Speaker 1: State beat them twenty three seventeen. But they called that

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Speaker 1: the fifth quarter. I guess this is the fifth quarter.

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Speaker 1: Four year season, win or go home. We're in the

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Speaker 1: Texas case win or stay home for new or for Indianapolis.

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Speaker 1: If the Colts get a win, then the Colts will

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Speaker 1: move on to Kansas City. After that. I'd like to

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Speaker 1: see the Colts have to pack up their stuff on

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Speaker 1: Sunday afternoon that I would like. I think a lot

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Speaker 1: of people in Houston would feel the same way. Appreciate

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Speaker 1: you being here. I'm your host, John Harris, Football A

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Speaker 1: and us in sideline reporter. We got plenty for year.

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Speaker 1: Buddy andre Ware's gonna stop by Spencer Tillman, John McLean

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Speaker 1: as well. I'm gonna go through all the different things

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Speaker 1: that have happened in the NFL because there's so much

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Speaker 1: going on. There's nary a team where there's not something happening,

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Speaker 1: I guess outside of teams that have gone to the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: So twelve teams make the playoffs, so all of those twelve.

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Speaker 1: Of those twenty remaining teams, eight are changing coaches, twelve

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Speaker 1: are standing PAP and even those that are that are

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Speaker 1: standing pat. For example, the Falcons, they're making changes to

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Speaker 1: almost all their coaching staff, Dan Quinn staying the coaching

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Speaker 1: staff is getting getting a shakeup. So we'll recap all

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Speaker 1: that and then I never really get a chance to

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Speaker 1: do like a retrospective replay show because when the season's over,

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Speaker 1: when we play on that Saturday or Sunday and that's

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Speaker 1: our last game of the year, we do a Texas Monday,

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Speaker 1: we do an All Access Monday, and then we're off

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Speaker 1: until after the Super Bowl, so I don't get to

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Speaker 1: do like a final replay. And I thought, after the

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Speaker 1: defensive performance yesterday, let's take a look back at the

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Speaker 1: ultimate eleven defensive plays of the year. We'll do that

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Speaker 1: with our last segment of the show. But let's get

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Speaker 1: to your hot Reads to start the show. Hot Reads

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Speaker 1: fifteen percent or more on car insurance. I love on

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Speaker 1: a day after, especially a win, to go to the

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Speaker 1: locker room and see what the guys are saying about

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Speaker 1: the win. Let's start with the manage Devion Clowney, who

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Speaker 1: was specifically pointed out by Doug Marone how disruptive Clowney

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Speaker 1: know how serious this lead is and how tough it

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Speaker 1: is it is to win the game. Came out to

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Speaker 1: I told the FBI guys to go oh and three.

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Speaker 1: We kept our composure and kept kept fighting, and we

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Speaker 1: where we started and where we ended up going, we

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Speaker 1: where we had now man great accomplisation sent to my

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Speaker 1: think it was the Devion Clowney touchdown back in Indianapolis

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Speaker 1: that really kind of kickstarted everything said it was unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: Now this division has been as competitive as any as

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Speaker 1: ten for the Colts, leven for the Texans. It was

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Speaker 1: a tough division. And j D said, this coaching staff

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Speaker 1: got us ready to go every single week. And they

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Speaker 1: and coaching us. Man, this division got a lot tough

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Speaker 1: in his division since I came in the league. When

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Speaker 1: it's tough to see these guys on your schedule to

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Speaker 1: into the playoffs, Yeah, no doubt. And one of the

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Speaker 1: things that we always wanted to see, what could Clowney

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Speaker 1: What could you do? And JD talked about bringing JJ

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Speaker 1: When you're working that hard and you come from you

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Speaker 1: compliment to jju All off his work, man, all off

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Speaker 1: his work and he worked hard. So when you worked hard,

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Speaker 1: JJ played well. Sixteen sacks for JJ and I for JD,

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Speaker 1: my goodness. But JD Clowney, what a heck of a year.

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Speaker 1: What an absolutely not a lot of people run him

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Speaker 1: Our nutrition is for keeping them healthy this year. It's

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Speaker 1: But when you've been jealing with guys and taking care

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Speaker 1: we are where we are right now. There's no doubt,

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Speaker 1: Lad Harris. Nutrition is Luke Richson in the sports performance

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Speaker 1: You don't normally see that kind of change over in

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Speaker 1: And Deshan had that at least three or four times.

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Speaker 1: He's like, I make plays, man, I don't care if

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Speaker 1: huge This is a huge point to make. There are

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Speaker 1: At the end of the day, you know, have the

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Speaker 1: But you know, as we play, you know, I just

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Speaker 1: think what was pretty funny yesterday was there were some

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Speaker 1: In the first half, he was extremely quiet with the

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Speaker 1: one hundred five passing yards and no touchdowns, no picks,

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Speaker 1: So he got it going a little bit in the

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Speaker 1: second half Andrea, and they're gonna have to find a

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Speaker 1: way to continue with those adjustments to find some room

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Speaker 1: to maneuver against the Colts. Now, what about the receiving situation,

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Speaker 1: because it's different. You don't have Damarrius Thomas. Obviously, you

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Speaker 1: have Vincent Smith, DeAndre Carter. We hope Kiki QT comes back,

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Speaker 1: and the Texans have to find a way to get

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Speaker 1: these guys open. Yeah, they're gonna feel a little bit

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Speaker 1: more confident defensively without Damarius Thomas and just the fact

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Speaker 1: that Vincent Smith's a young player. They're looking across the

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Speaker 1: board and it's like, Okay, now we can roll some

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Speaker 1: coverage towards DeAndre Hopkins, play some high lows, some inside

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Speaker 1: out and things so on and so forth. But it's

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Speaker 1: gonna take one of these other guys to really step

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Speaker 1: up against the Colts to even the secondary out where

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Speaker 1: Hopkins start to really have an effect on the game.

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Speaker 1: We know how the two games went. They're gonna try

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Speaker 1: to take away the run, and I don't know that

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Speaker 1: this is a game you go in trying to force

447
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Speaker 1: the run. Against Indianapolis. The offense seems to get going

448
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Speaker 1: when you spread things out. Deshaun has creases in which

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Speaker 1: to run through if guys aren't open, and so if

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Speaker 1: you're trying to get hop open, the best way to

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Speaker 1: do it is to spread it out. You see where

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Speaker 1: the rush is coming from. And then if you know

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Speaker 1: he's got to get rid of it, he's getting rid

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Speaker 1: of it. If not, they're gonna be plenty of running

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Speaker 1: lanes for him. And at this point in the season everything,

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Speaker 1: will you turn over everything trying to win a playoff game? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: no question, Drey. I don't know if you've ever been

458
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Speaker 1: in this situation. I feel like you have, so I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna ask, but just to get your thoughts. Regardless, when

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Speaker 1: you face a team in a division twice a year

461
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Speaker 1: and then you have to face them in the playoffs,

462
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Speaker 1: I would imagine that's pretty tricky because they know you

463
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Speaker 1: about as well as you do, and you know them

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Speaker 1: about as well as they do. I would imagine this

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Speaker 1: is pretty tricky. We've never had this situation where we

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Speaker 1: faced the team three times in a year. What do

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Speaker 1: you think is the biggest I don't know, concern or

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Speaker 1: biggest key when you do face a team three times?

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Speaker 1: You ever had that happen to you, No, the closest

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Speaker 1: I got is when we face the Redskins the opening

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Speaker 1: week of the season and they hung forty five on us,

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Speaker 1: And then we got to the NFL Championship game and

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Speaker 1: they hung forty five more on us. So they didn't

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Speaker 1: make it just end this self. It started that way

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Speaker 1: and it ended that way. It was forty five four.

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Speaker 1: But that's the closest I've gotten in a sense. It's

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Speaker 1: hard to it's it's kind of even. I would say,

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Speaker 1: it's hard to be the team three times in a season,

479
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Speaker 1: but they've both got to win under their belts. So

480
00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:23,359
Speaker 1: now it's the just who can come up with something

481
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Speaker 1: the other team hadn't seen. It also will boil down

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Speaker 1: to this mistakes, turnovers, penalties at inopportune times, because when

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Speaker 1: teams are so equally matched, like these two are, it

484
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Speaker 1: will be who makes the critical mistake in the game

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Speaker 1: that that's how it's going to play out in the

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Speaker 1: other team's favor. Trey, I have to ask you about

487
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Speaker 1: the University of Houston. We mentioned job security in the

488
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Speaker 1: NFL not so good for head coaches, not so good

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Speaker 1: in college football either, apparently, So what do you make

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Speaker 1: of the situation? I bite my tongue a little bit.

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Speaker 1: But it's unfortunate for Major M. I don't I don't

492
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Speaker 1: know which direction they're going right now as them now,

493
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Speaker 1: and you know, hopefully the right guy is hired and

494
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Speaker 1: and and in place, and it's for long term and

495
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Speaker 1: not just you allow someone to build a program. You know,

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Speaker 1: I heard that, you know, eight wins isn't enough. We

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Speaker 1: fired coaches that win eight games. Well, at the time

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Speaker 1: that was said, the university had only won eight or

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Speaker 1: more games thirteen times in the history of the school.

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Speaker 1: So you kind of got to know a little bit

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Speaker 1: about the school and how coach Yeoman built his program

502
00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:37,080
Speaker 1: and his legacy and how Jack Party went about his things.

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Speaker 1: It's longevity, it's not short term satisfaction when it comes

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Speaker 1: to building a solid program. Help. Nick Saban went seven

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Speaker 1: and six his first year at Alabama. Did they fire him? No?

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Speaker 1: And look what he built ironically, ironically, his offensive coordinator

507
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Speaker 1: was Major Applewaite in that year. So yeah, you have

508
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Speaker 1: to you have to provide guys. If you're gonna give

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Speaker 1: one guy one one thing and expect them to win

510
00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:04,000
Speaker 1: ten games a year, the next guy coming has to

511
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Speaker 1: have the same kind of tools that that guy had.

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Speaker 1: You can't cut his budget down to half of what

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Speaker 1: you were paying someone else and then expect the same results.

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Speaker 1: I said, I'm but I guess I did. Well. They're

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Speaker 1: gonna be here in the fall facing Washington State's leeches. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: and you also have Texas playing right here. Yeah. Next

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Speaker 1: year's a tough schedule. I mean, for years to come,

518
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Speaker 1: there's Boise State and down the road there's BYU down

519
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Speaker 1: the road, there's some some tough, tough opponents coming up.

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Speaker 1: And next year's schedule with UCF and a crossover game,

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Speaker 1: it's a it's a tough schedule as they've had UH

522
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Speaker 1: since they joined the AAC. Now, there have been a

523
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Speaker 1: few rumors floating around as to what University Houston's gonna do.

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Speaker 1: The prevalent one was Dan Horgerson moving from West Virginia

525
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Speaker 1: to the University of Houston. And then today we found

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Speaker 1: out news that Cliff Kingsbury had actually turned down and

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Speaker 1: I say this an air quotes because that's the way

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Speaker 1: it was presented, a lucrative offer from the University of Houston.

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Speaker 1: My goodness, I don't have any idea what's going on.

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Speaker 1: University of Houston will see I know Dana Ogston did

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Speaker 1: love the city of Houston. Love being here. Has a

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Speaker 1: lot of connections here, has a lot of people that

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Speaker 1: he knows here, friends here, whatever you want to wherever

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Speaker 1: you want to go with that. But and I love Dana.

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Speaker 1: I would love to see Dana here. But going from

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Speaker 1: a power five school to a group of five to look,

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Speaker 1: I understand Houston is not your typical group of five,

538
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Speaker 1: especially where it is and what it can mean for Dana.

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Speaker 1: I think Dana would be a great choice given the

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Speaker 1: fact that this could be a place where Dana wants

541
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Speaker 1: to stay for a while. I don't know, but to

542
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Speaker 1: be interesting to watch what happens at the University of Houston.

543
00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:47,800
Speaker 1: But love getting Dre's thoughts on what's going on at

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Speaker 1: his alma mater. All right, when we get back, it's

545
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Speaker 1: time talk to our buddy, Spencer Tillman about this team.

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Speaker 1: Spencer has been in the playoffs before, he's won Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl rings before. What's it like being a player heading

548
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Speaker 1: into the playoffs. You're banged up, you're beat up. Oh,

549
00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:06,840
Speaker 1: but the playoffs, man, that's a different beat. We'll talk

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Speaker 1: the Spencer Timin about that next right here on Texans

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Speaker 1: a Papa John's deal fifty percent off online orders pizzas

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Speaker 1: don't even need to have that on. You just gotta

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Speaker 1: that correct, Lamar Miller had one and yeah you had

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Speaker 1: Shaw Watson with one when they scored two and more

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Speaker 1: your Texans gear and hopefully you're doing that today New

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Speaker 1: Year's Eve. But that's what happens in Texans win eleven

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Speaker 1: times this year. You've had that opportunity for you and

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Speaker 1: the Houston Texans, Choose Fun. So when I think about

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Speaker 1: fun moments yesterday, I don't want to say It wasn't

589
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Speaker 1: fun all the way through, but I like the very

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Speaker 1: end when the Texans clinch the AFC South for the

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Speaker 1: third time in four years. So this is your Choose

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Speaker 1: Fund Moment of the week. Victory formation. At the fourteen

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Speaker 1: yard line, Watson takes a knee. Jacksonville has a time out,

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Speaker 1: they won't use it. That's it. The Texans have won

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Speaker 1: the AFC South for the third time in the last

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Speaker 1: four years. They beat Jecksonville twenty to three in the

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Speaker 1: regular season finale to do it, and the Texans are

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Speaker 1: headed back to the playoffs. That is right. Two thousand

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Speaker 1: and eleven, two twelve, two thousand and fifteen, two thousand

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Speaker 1: and sixteen, two eighteen AFC South Champs. It's a pretty

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Speaker 1: nice run. Now it's time to see how far this

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Speaker 1: run can go. Now it's time to take this one.

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00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:08,400
Speaker 1: But gotta take care of business at home against a very,

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Speaker 1: very good Indianapolis Colts team, no question about it. Now,

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00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:15,960
Speaker 1: when you move into the playoffs, things change, like my

606
00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:19,719
Speaker 1: voice did just there. It changes. Everything goes up in octave.

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00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:22,720
Speaker 1: Every the pressure gets a little bit tighter, but everything's

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00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:25,400
Speaker 1: a little sharper too. You're a little bit more on point,

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Speaker 1: even though you're beat up all year long. It's the playoffs, man,

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Speaker 1: it's prime time. It's lights on all the time. We

611
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Speaker 1: talked to our buddy Spencer Tillman about that. He's been there,

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Speaker 1: He's been where the lights are brightest. He's got Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl rings from how he played in that game, and boy,

614
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Speaker 1: how fune would it be to be in that game.

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Speaker 1: So we talked to Spencer Tillman about that and many

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Speaker 1: other things going on with your Houston Texas. So here

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Speaker 1: we are in the postseason and before we get into Saturday,

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Speaker 1: your thoughts on the path to get here and what

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Speaker 1: it took for this franchise, Well, it took a kind

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Speaker 1: of an altering y'all don't know if it was intentional

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Speaker 1: or not, but I think the byproduct we all can

622
00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:06,000
Speaker 1: agree was a positive one. I think Deshaun Watson's lung

623
00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:10,600
Speaker 1: issues really ultimately forced this team to have a more

624
00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:13,680
Speaker 1: conservative approach to how they're going to manage him, and

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00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:16,600
Speaker 1: I think they stumbled, not necessarily stumbled into but they

626
00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:18,560
Speaker 1: evolved into a team that was going to be able

627
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Speaker 1: to protect him reduce the number of interceptions. At that point.

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Speaker 1: I think he had seven prior to that. It was

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Speaker 1: just amazing to watch the transformation. Call it serendipitous, call

630
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Speaker 1: it intentional. The bottom line is it gets you here

631
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Speaker 1: in the first round playoff and maybe you know, if

632
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Speaker 1: you get another win, maybe you're sitting here with a

633
00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:35,760
Speaker 1: buy to kind of get some of those guys that

634
00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:38,520
Speaker 1: are mission critical on the defense and offensive side of

635
00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:42,160
Speaker 1: the ball back health again. Mainly right now, Kiki Kuti

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Speaker 1: and others who I can see could be really a

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Speaker 1: benefit if they were available. I mean, they still tried

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Speaker 1: to augment with some step type sweep things the other day.

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00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:52,080
Speaker 1: They kind of put it on tape and let it know,

640
00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:54,440
Speaker 1: let everybody who they're gonna face know that you got

641
00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:56,960
Speaker 1: to defend it. And so that part of it was encouraging.

642
00:31:57,160 --> 00:31:59,400
Speaker 1: But it's just been a fun evolution to watch them

643
00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:02,400
Speaker 1: get to where they are and manufacture win play small

644
00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:05,880
Speaker 1: ball to some degree, smaller ball, I should say, on offense,

645
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:08,200
Speaker 1: and then that bond of defense continue to do what

646
00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:11,920
Speaker 1: it does. Spencer. When you go from regular season to playoffs,

647
00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:15,240
Speaker 1: I mean, everybody knows it's playoffs. I don't know if

648
00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:18,160
Speaker 1: it's that you play harder, but what is it when

649
00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:21,520
Speaker 1: you take that next step into the playoffs that what's

650
00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:25,280
Speaker 1: that like, that transition from regular season to all of

651
00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:27,240
Speaker 1: a sudden new season on it to the playoffs. What's

652
00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:29,680
Speaker 1: that like for a player? Well, it's a great question.

653
00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:31,480
Speaker 1: The different levels to it. Some of it has to

654
00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:34,360
Speaker 1: deal with preparations. If you're an older player, maybe you're

655
00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:38,000
Speaker 1: thinking about, hey, this could be one of the last

656
00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:40,760
Speaker 1: opportunities that I do have. Younger players being able to

657
00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:43,479
Speaker 1: tend to be able to or not be able to,

658
00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:46,239
Speaker 1: but tend to put that behind them, and it's not

659
00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:49,320
Speaker 1: as big a motivator as it is for an older guy.

660
00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:52,080
Speaker 1: But and I say that because to me, the more

661
00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:55,400
Speaker 1: cognizant you are of how fleeting success is in this league,

662
00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:57,560
Speaker 1: and it's a monster that every coach talks about all

663
00:32:57,640 --> 00:32:59,960
Speaker 1: the time. But again, depending on where that young player

664
00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:03,680
Speaker 1: is versus an older player, I think the chemistry in

665
00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:06,040
Speaker 1: the mix of this team's maturity level, there are more

666
00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:09,920
Speaker 1: guys thinking about urgency and this opportunity doesn't come along

667
00:33:10,040 --> 00:33:13,400
Speaker 1: very often. That mindset is prevailing more so than the alternate,

668
00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:15,680
Speaker 1: and I think they will police themselves. But there are

669
00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:17,400
Speaker 1: different levels to where you are. It has a lot

670
00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:19,320
Speaker 1: to do with nutrition, It has a lot to being

671
00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:21,560
Speaker 1: able to just sit back and say, look, guys, let's

672
00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:23,400
Speaker 1: create a narrative in the locker room where this is

673
00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:26,040
Speaker 1: the second season, we take a deep breath, We're not

674
00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:28,680
Speaker 1: one percent of offense. Let's continue to play to our strength.

675
00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:30,680
Speaker 1: And if you look at it from a historical standpoint,

676
00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:33,160
Speaker 1: everything about how this team is built plays into that

677
00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:35,720
Speaker 1: old statistic that we get a chance to unpack every

678
00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:39,200
Speaker 1: time this type of thing rolls around. It Only four

679
00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:41,120
Speaker 1: times in the history of the Super Bowl has a

680
00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:43,719
Speaker 1: lower rated defensive team won, So that meant of the

681
00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:46,880
Speaker 1: fifty plus super Bowls that then played, you know, you

682
00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:49,480
Speaker 1: can't have a bad defense and win a Super Bowl.

683
00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:51,680
Speaker 1: You can have an average offense and win, but the

684
00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:54,520
Speaker 1: numbers tell you if you are not good on defense,

685
00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:56,840
Speaker 1: you're not gonna win a Super Bowl. Even those greatest

686
00:33:56,840 --> 00:33:59,440
Speaker 1: show on turf teams back in Hurt Warners years had

687
00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:01,640
Speaker 1: a number two rated defense. The forty ninety teams that

688
00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:04,120
Speaker 1: I played on number two against the run, those were

689
00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:07,040
Speaker 1: great defenses, they were just overshadowed by their offenses. So

690
00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:10,239
Speaker 1: even though we're in this full out blown spread type era,

691
00:34:10,680 --> 00:34:13,720
Speaker 1: guys is still going to come back down to Chicago Houston.

692
00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:16,799
Speaker 1: The Saints teams that can play great defense is going

693
00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:20,520
Speaker 1: to be a big factor. Well, spatser to play great defense,

694
00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:22,359
Speaker 1: they have to be good against the pass. So what's

695
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:24,960
Speaker 1: it gonna take to get better in that department? Last

696
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:27,480
Speaker 1: time Luck played this TV through for three ninety nine,

697
00:34:27,520 --> 00:34:30,160
Speaker 1: we know what happened the week before this one when

698
00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:32,640
Speaker 1: Nick falls through for four seventy one. They have to

699
00:34:32,640 --> 00:34:35,640
Speaker 1: fight a way to get better. How do they do it? Well,

700
00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:38,000
Speaker 1: I think you know, you look at the tape yesterday. Well,

701
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:39,399
Speaker 1: look what the Titans were able to do. I think

702
00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:41,880
Speaker 1: they were able to held t Y Hilton's about sixty

703
00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:44,239
Speaker 1: two yards somewhere around there, and they only had I

704
00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:45,759
Speaker 1: don't know if he was targeted as much because he's

705
00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:47,759
Speaker 1: got an ankle injury that he's dealing with, but he

706
00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:50,000
Speaker 1: has been a bugaboo for the Texans since, you know,

707
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:53,080
Speaker 1: since he landed on that roster, and it's a challenge

708
00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:54,960
Speaker 1: for them. So they got to figure out their thin

709
00:34:55,080 --> 00:34:57,759
Speaker 1: on the back end. The only way you counter that

710
00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:00,600
Speaker 1: is with your rush your pass, which you have to affect.

711
00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:03,440
Speaker 1: One of the if not the smartest quarterback in the

712
00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:06,200
Speaker 1: National Football League and Andrew Luck. Since Week four they've

713
00:35:06,239 --> 00:35:09,120
Speaker 1: been able to keep this guy erect and clean. Only

714
00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:12,000
Speaker 1: sixteen sacks they've given up. That's amazing. Now, Ryan Kelly

715
00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:14,520
Speaker 1: is center has been dealing with some injuries. They need

716
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:17,520
Speaker 1: him play last yesterday, So if he doesn't line up

717
00:35:17,880 --> 00:35:20,440
Speaker 1: in our game, it's gonna be interesting to see how

718
00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:23,680
Speaker 1: that how we can affect the communication and the kind

719
00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:26,279
Speaker 1: of an imperviousness that they've had on that offensive line.

720
00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:28,640
Speaker 1: Nobody's been able to get to Andrew Luck, and so

721
00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:31,080
Speaker 1: if we can affect him, we have a chance to

722
00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:33,319
Speaker 1: have our guys on the back end cover more effectively.

723
00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:35,240
Speaker 1: But if we can, it's gonna be a long afternoon

724
00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:38,400
Speaker 1: because again, it's gonna be strength against stream, our pass

725
00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:41,080
Speaker 1: rush against their protection, and it's it's gonna be one

726
00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:43,839
Speaker 1: to watch special. How important is it to take away

727
00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:46,640
Speaker 1: their run game? Marlon Mack at a nice ball game. Now,

728
00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:49,160
Speaker 1: Texas have done a really good job taking away run games,

729
00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:51,160
Speaker 1: but as Mark pointed out, we need a good job

730
00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:54,320
Speaker 1: stopping the run game in both Indie and Houston against them.

731
00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:56,600
Speaker 1: And it's last time Andrew three for three hundred ninety

732
00:35:56,680 --> 00:35:58,880
Speaker 1: nine yards. But how important is it to try and

733
00:35:58,880 --> 00:36:01,120
Speaker 1: make them one dimensional? And then try and take away

734
00:36:01,160 --> 00:36:03,080
Speaker 1: t Y Hilton as best you can what you've made

735
00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:06,560
Speaker 1: them one dimensional? Well, you know, I don't know if

736
00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:08,799
Speaker 1: you wipe the slate and your palette clean when you

737
00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:11,239
Speaker 1: come into a new game like this, because when you

738
00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:14,040
Speaker 1: are familiar with someone, the tendency is to go into

739
00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:17,080
Speaker 1: the game taking away what has hurt you in the past.

740
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:19,480
Speaker 1: But I would argue that the challenge is to stop

741
00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:22,080
Speaker 1: the run first, and whether that means you're playing eight

742
00:36:22,120 --> 00:36:25,440
Speaker 1: in the box or you know, and leaving a safety high,

743
00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:27,719
Speaker 1: I don't know. If it comes to that and dare

744
00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:29,960
Speaker 1: someone to beat you who has owned you on the

745
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:31,520
Speaker 1: back end. I'm just being fair on that at that

746
00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:33,840
Speaker 1: time at t Y Hilton has been a beast. Or

747
00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:37,400
Speaker 1: do you entice them to test them and see exactly

748
00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:39,800
Speaker 1: how healthy that ankle is and if they are fact

749
00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:41,879
Speaker 1: going to go to him more and target him more.

750
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:43,520
Speaker 1: If it's if peers that they're not going to target

751
00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:45,719
Speaker 1: him as much, I would go straight to stop the

752
00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:48,000
Speaker 1: run game. And if you can do that and then

753
00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:51,080
Speaker 1: force them into a scenario where the run game is

754
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:54,560
Speaker 1: leading things and the throw game is tertiary or secondary,

755
00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:57,120
Speaker 1: you got a chance to really do something special. I

756
00:36:57,160 --> 00:37:00,239
Speaker 1: really believe that. So if you can't do that, it's

757
00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:02,719
Speaker 1: gonna be a long afternoon. Doesn't mean you're gonna lose,

758
00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:04,520
Speaker 1: but it's gonna be a long afternoon stopping one of

759
00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:08,600
Speaker 1: the smartest quarterbacks in this game, Spencer Tillman joining us

760
00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:11,640
Speaker 1: on Texans Monday. So, Spencer, the running game of the

761
00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:14,880
Speaker 1: Houston Texans. When you look at what the backs have

762
00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:16,480
Speaker 1: been able to do or have not been able to

763
00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:19,239
Speaker 1: do lately, they were going so well before the last

764
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:21,840
Speaker 1: four games. They got it going a little bit more yesterday.

765
00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:24,520
Speaker 1: Watson a huge part of the running game right now.

766
00:37:24,560 --> 00:37:27,200
Speaker 1: I thought this was coming at some point, maybe in

767
00:37:27,239 --> 00:37:29,719
Speaker 1: the postseason, but they're going to it now. Do you

768
00:37:29,719 --> 00:37:32,640
Speaker 1: expect it to continue? And what do you think of it? Well,

769
00:37:32,719 --> 00:37:34,520
Speaker 1: let's do or die now. I mean, you're gonna do

770
00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:36,719
Speaker 1: what you do to give you the best chance to win.

771
00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:38,759
Speaker 1: And that's one of the things I really appreciated what

772
00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:41,520
Speaker 1: Bhill O'Brien has done down the stretch. Some people and

773
00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:44,400
Speaker 1: including me, at one point in time, thought yesterday that

774
00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:46,120
Speaker 1: it was time to get number four out of the game.

775
00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:48,200
Speaker 1: But I think what you're doing is trying to put

776
00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:50,200
Speaker 1: some things on tape. Because once it's on tape, you

777
00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:52,799
Speaker 1: got to prepare for and on a short week you

778
00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:54,600
Speaker 1: put all that in a bowl and mix all that

779
00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:57,120
Speaker 1: up in those new looks that you're defending for. I

780
00:37:57,120 --> 00:38:00,399
Speaker 1: think it's going to be beneficial to the Texans. That's

781
00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:03,200
Speaker 1: a good point. Yeah, a short week for them, Yeah absolutely.

782
00:38:03,239 --> 00:38:05,960
Speaker 1: I mean we've been talking about that. The travel and Spencer,

783
00:38:06,080 --> 00:38:08,040
Speaker 1: you could you could speak to that. You got to

784
00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:09,960
Speaker 1: play a Sunday night game on the road, then you

785
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:12,160
Speaker 1: gotta get on the road back on Friday. Now, it's

786
00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:15,080
Speaker 1: a young team with Indianapolis, they don't know any better.

787
00:38:15,160 --> 00:38:17,440
Speaker 1: At some point they've got to just they gotta just

788
00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:19,320
Speaker 1: react and play and I think that's what sort of

789
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:21,400
Speaker 1: makes them scary. But on the defensive side of the

790
00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:23,120
Speaker 1: ball and for the Colts, and I don't know we

791
00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:26,520
Speaker 1: talked about this too much Spencer, but Darius Leonard, he

792
00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:29,200
Speaker 1: is a big factor. But to me, the bigger factor

793
00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:33,160
Speaker 1: is the penetration that the Colts defensive line gets up front.

794
00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:35,279
Speaker 1: We talked about the run game. I think to get

795
00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:37,200
Speaker 1: it going, you've got to be able to contain those

796
00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:40,520
Speaker 1: guys up front. It's something that Texans didn't do. But

797
00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:42,759
Speaker 1: when you have a line like that that likes to

798
00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:45,759
Speaker 1: penetrate and run up field. Spencer. You know this as

799
00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:48,000
Speaker 1: a running back. What's the biggest thing that your offense

800
00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:51,960
Speaker 1: has to do to counterbalance that? Well, you know, this

801
00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:54,760
Speaker 1: is kind of an odd analogy, but you're really getting

802
00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:57,000
Speaker 1: into the sweet spot of what the game plans should be.

803
00:38:57,440 --> 00:38:59,680
Speaker 1: You know, you kind of use what is a strength

804
00:38:59,719 --> 00:39:02,440
Speaker 1: against him. I'm not saying suggesting that you're gonna have

805
00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:05,360
Speaker 1: a heavy dose of screens and things of that nature,

806
00:39:05,560 --> 00:39:07,279
Speaker 1: but at the end of this game, if you have

807
00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:10,280
Speaker 1: seven screens call I would not be shocked again, depending

808
00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:12,120
Speaker 1: on how effective they're going to be. But I'm gonna

809
00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:15,120
Speaker 1: tell you what I saw yesterday. I think is an

810
00:39:15,120 --> 00:39:19,160
Speaker 1: opportunity for the Texans r pos off of the ride

811
00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:22,040
Speaker 1: mesh point layas Campbell. They didn't block him a couple

812
00:39:22,040 --> 00:39:24,520
Speaker 1: of times, which was great. You allow him to come.

813
00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:27,759
Speaker 1: If he takes the back, you pull that and you're

814
00:39:27,760 --> 00:39:31,560
Speaker 1: looking at particularly him an eight man box. That safety

815
00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:35,240
Speaker 1: that's down, you're leaving him for Ken Lamb or Lamb

816
00:39:35,320 --> 00:39:38,120
Speaker 1: is working up through to the linebacker. You leave one safety.

817
00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:40,799
Speaker 1: Now what they use is is Ryan Griffin to go

818
00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:43,640
Speaker 1: out and block the corner. I would actually allow that

819
00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:45,520
Speaker 1: corner to get up feeling and slide him and push

820
00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:48,560
Speaker 1: him on, move the heels back of your quarterback about

821
00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:51,160
Speaker 1: a full yard and then the mesh point is deeper.

822
00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:54,000
Speaker 1: But what it does it creates a longer push to

823
00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:56,680
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage. Now of a sudden, Ryan becomes

824
00:39:56,719 --> 00:39:59,239
Speaker 1: an opportunity to throw the ball too. So if you're

825
00:39:59,239 --> 00:40:02,080
Speaker 1: a corner, you trying to get to the quarterback, are

826
00:40:02,120 --> 00:40:04,799
Speaker 1: you under the illusion that you pierce You know you've

827
00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:08,879
Speaker 1: beating your blocker. It creates an opportunity now where you've

828
00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:11,640
Speaker 1: got a one on one matchup, Number four is not

829
00:40:11,680 --> 00:40:13,880
Speaker 1: going to get hit as much. And as a defender,

830
00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:16,360
Speaker 1: you're gonna cool your jets a little bit of your corner.

831
00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:18,640
Speaker 1: And now the downside of that, it's only going to

832
00:40:18,719 --> 00:40:21,040
Speaker 1: work a couple of times. You got to pick your point,

833
00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:23,480
Speaker 1: But I'm telling you can really gash them if you

834
00:40:23,560 --> 00:40:25,640
Speaker 1: really are wise about how to play. That. To me

835
00:40:25,719 --> 00:40:28,200
Speaker 1: that that's a great opportunity for the Texans in their

836
00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:32,600
Speaker 1: run game. All right. So overall picture here, Spencer. Even

837
00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:34,719
Speaker 1: in the market a long time you played for the

838
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:37,840
Speaker 1: local professional franchise back in the day, you've seen a

839
00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:40,080
Speaker 1: lot of football. What do you think of this team's

840
00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:42,919
Speaker 1: chance is going into this second season, if you will,

841
00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:46,719
Speaker 1: I like their chances. And again I'm gonna go with

842
00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:49,960
Speaker 1: the old adage about defense wins championships, and we certainly

843
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:52,840
Speaker 1: know that the history numbers. You can't ignore that. I

844
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:56,600
Speaker 1: just wonder if we have enough offensive firepower to mix

845
00:40:56,600 --> 00:40:58,920
Speaker 1: it up to actually keep them on their heels. From

846
00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:02,280
Speaker 1: a defensive standpoint, this game ends up being lower scoring.

847
00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:04,400
Speaker 1: I think the Texans are going to win it. I

848
00:41:04,440 --> 00:41:06,239
Speaker 1: really believe that from the bottom of my heart. I

849
00:41:06,239 --> 00:41:08,440
Speaker 1: think the defense is that good. But we have to

850
00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:11,439
Speaker 1: affect Andrew Luck. If we can't affect him, it's gonna

851
00:41:11,440 --> 00:41:13,640
Speaker 1: be a long day. Spencer's dead on. You've got to

852
00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:16,160
Speaker 1: get back to the quarterback. You've got to impact him.

853
00:41:16,280 --> 00:41:18,000
Speaker 1: You've got to force him to pull the ball down

854
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:21,320
Speaker 1: and do what he did last night against the Tennessee Titans.

855
00:41:22,080 --> 00:41:25,080
Speaker 1: He'll get it. Listen, Andrew Luck does not panic much,

856
00:41:25,520 --> 00:41:27,279
Speaker 1: but every now and again you see him do something

857
00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:29,640
Speaker 1: and you're like, oh, there, you got to take advantage

858
00:41:29,640 --> 00:41:32,759
Speaker 1: of those Tennessee stayed in that game last night for

859
00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:35,800
Speaker 1: the sole purpose of doing that. They got some pressure

860
00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:39,239
Speaker 1: Andrew stepped up, wasn't sure where to go with it,

861
00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:41,960
Speaker 1: pumped it, brought it back, and then tried to get

862
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:44,120
Speaker 1: rid of it before getting sacked, and he threw it

863
00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:48,120
Speaker 1: right to jay On Brown. Pick six went from fourteen

864
00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:50,320
Speaker 1: enough then coats with the ball to fourteen to seven,

865
00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:52,920
Speaker 1: and now Tennessee was in the game at least, and

866
00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:55,960
Speaker 1: they stayed in the game until Blaine Gabbertt became Blaine Gabbertt,

867
00:41:56,840 --> 00:42:00,680
Speaker 1: and well, then you know, the rest Colts win thirty seventeen,

868
00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:04,640
Speaker 1: and Andrew Luck is coming back to Houston. Now, the

869
00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:09,320
Speaker 1: Texans against Andrew Luck in Houston. He had once in

870
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:11,400
Speaker 1: twenty fourteen, which is a little bit of a technicality

871
00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:14,799
Speaker 1: because he didn't face him in fifteen or seventeen and

872
00:42:15,040 --> 00:42:17,080
Speaker 1: didn't win either one of those games. Did face him

873
00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:19,000
Speaker 1: in sixteen and beat them in that game, came back

874
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:20,960
Speaker 1: from behind to win that one, and that was sort

875
00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:22,759
Speaker 1: of a rallying point for Luck and the Colts. On

876
00:42:22,800 --> 00:42:25,680
Speaker 1: the sideline that day, they were like, look, we were

877
00:42:25,719 --> 00:42:27,120
Speaker 1: two years ago, we had a lead and we gave

878
00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:28,960
Speaker 1: it up. We can't do that today. They did not.

879
00:42:29,120 --> 00:42:33,840
Speaker 1: They won that game that got them into the playoffs.

880
00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:37,239
Speaker 1: Saturday is a whole different day, whole different day here

881
00:42:37,239 --> 00:42:39,600
Speaker 1: at Spencer talk about it. Coach and Bryan talked about

882
00:42:39,680 --> 00:42:44,759
Speaker 1: Duringer's Coaches Show. Everything changes on playoff Saturday sunder. Depending

883
00:42:44,760 --> 00:42:47,759
Speaker 1: on what you're playing, it changes, and unless you've been there,

884
00:42:47,960 --> 00:42:50,480
Speaker 1: you'll never know. Spencer's been there. He gave us that perspective.

885
00:42:50,520 --> 00:42:53,400
Speaker 1: That was great stuff to hear from Spencer. Tillman. All right,

886
00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:56,000
Speaker 1: we get back. There were a lot of things that

887
00:42:56,080 --> 00:43:00,879
Speaker 1: happened in the NFL games coaching. I mean a lot

888
00:43:00,880 --> 00:43:03,320
Speaker 1: of things going on. We'll recap it here on Texans

889
00:43:03,400 --> 00:43:06,120
Speaker 1: All Access. Welcome into the second hour of Texans All

890
00:43:06,160 --> 00:43:08,959
Speaker 1: Access on this Monday evening. I'm your host, John Ayres

891
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:12,120
Speaker 1: football analysts and sideline reporter and so excited to be

892
00:43:12,120 --> 00:43:13,520
Speaker 1: with you for a second hour no one to night

893
00:43:13,560 --> 00:43:17,120
Speaker 1: football tonight. So we get all hours, well, actually get

894
00:43:17,160 --> 00:43:18,799
Speaker 1: both hours is a better way of saying it. So

895
00:43:18,840 --> 00:43:21,160
Speaker 1: I appreciate you being here, and I figured, you know what,

896
00:43:21,880 --> 00:43:26,080
Speaker 1: there were sixteen games yesterday. Someone didn't matter, some of

897
00:43:26,080 --> 00:43:30,400
Speaker 1: them did considering what was gonna happen with those teams.

898
00:43:30,760 --> 00:43:34,800
Speaker 1: So you know what, let's rifle through what happened yesterday

899
00:43:35,120 --> 00:43:37,839
Speaker 1: and some of the news that has now taken place

900
00:43:37,880 --> 00:43:40,960
Speaker 1: with some of those games. Let's start with your Texans

901
00:43:41,239 --> 00:43:44,040
Speaker 1: beating the Jacksonville Jaguars. Not much happening on the Texas

902
00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:46,160
Speaker 1: other than the one DAYFC South and that's big. But

903
00:43:46,200 --> 00:43:50,760
Speaker 1: the Jacksonville Jaguars shot constanto statements saying Doug Marone, Dave Caldwell,

904
00:43:51,280 --> 00:43:53,920
Speaker 1: and Tom Coughlin all coming back in the same capacity

905
00:43:53,960 --> 00:43:56,640
Speaker 1: next year. But a big piece of news came out

906
00:43:56,640 --> 00:44:02,080
Speaker 1: after the game. The Jaguars avoided Leonard Fournette's guarantees. Now

907
00:44:02,120 --> 00:44:05,759
Speaker 1: Fournette was the number four overall pick. Doug Marone told

908
00:44:05,760 --> 00:44:09,000
Speaker 1: reporters on Monday that Jacks didn't fact void the remaining

909
00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:13,400
Speaker 1: guarantees from the running backs rookie contract. Now don't know

910
00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:19,000
Speaker 1: if that's legal by the CBA, but that's what they've done.

911
00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:22,440
Speaker 1: In other words, this was the shot across the battle

912
00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:25,560
Speaker 1: leonon Fournette saying, yeah, you'll probably have run out of

913
00:44:25,640 --> 00:44:30,200
Speaker 1: room in Jacksonville. I had heard a rumor back week

914
00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:33,440
Speaker 1: seven ish, actually was week seven, we were going to

915
00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:37,719
Speaker 1: play them about Fournette, and I heard it from a

916
00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:41,160
Speaker 1: couple of people and a couple of ANTITIASA Jacksonville about

917
00:44:41,160 --> 00:44:43,640
Speaker 1: Fournette not playing in that game, and then you look

918
00:44:43,719 --> 00:44:46,440
Speaker 1: up and there's Deshawn's bust. He had driven a bus

919
00:44:46,520 --> 00:44:49,160
Speaker 1: to play that game. I meanwhile, Leonard Fournette can get

920
00:44:49,200 --> 00:44:52,920
Speaker 1: on the field. Interesting stuff. After the game, Tom Coughlin,

921
00:44:53,280 --> 00:44:55,799
Speaker 1: the executive vice president football apps for the Jags, called

922
00:44:55,800 --> 00:44:58,360
Speaker 1: out Fournette t J. Yelden for their shineline behavior, and

923
00:44:58,360 --> 00:45:00,759
Speaker 1: he said in a quote, I am disappointed the behavior

924
00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:04,480
Speaker 1: today from t J. Yellow and Leonard Fournette. They were disrespectful, selfish,

925
00:45:04,560 --> 00:45:09,000
Speaker 1: and their behavior was unbecoming that of a professional football player.

926
00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:11,160
Speaker 1: I said when he was drafted, I was not a

927
00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:13,600
Speaker 1: huge fan of Leonard Fournette. Although the Jags made a mistake,

928
00:45:13,840 --> 00:45:17,239
Speaker 1: and now it seems like they are they are having

929
00:45:17,280 --> 00:45:20,759
Speaker 1: to deal with that mistake, and we'll see for how

930
00:45:20,800 --> 00:45:22,800
Speaker 1: long if they can move him in the Officely, I

931
00:45:22,800 --> 00:45:24,960
Speaker 1: haven't imagined some people would want him. But look, I

932
00:45:25,000 --> 00:45:27,120
Speaker 1: said it that night, I'll say it again. He's a

933
00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:31,000
Speaker 1: one dimensional running back. He's a power running back. That's it.

934
00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:32,839
Speaker 1: I don't get you very far in the NFL these days.

935
00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:37,040
Speaker 1: No doubt. The Bills beat the Dolphins. Not a whole

936
00:45:37,040 --> 00:45:42,040
Speaker 1: lot going on with the Buffalo Bills other than Kyle

937
00:45:42,080 --> 00:45:45,040
Speaker 1: Williams saying goodbye, and I was sad. I love Kyle Williams,

938
00:45:45,280 --> 00:45:47,879
Speaker 1: huge fan of his from a far great career, threw

939
00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:51,000
Speaker 1: him a past Yesterday was awesome stuff, just awesome stuff.

940
00:45:51,239 --> 00:45:54,120
Speaker 1: Just loved it. But for the Dolphins it meant the

941
00:45:54,200 --> 00:45:57,400
Speaker 1: end for Adam Gays head coach. Dolphins now looking for

942
00:45:57,440 --> 00:46:00,799
Speaker 1: a coach and Mike tannem Mom who wasn't football ops,

943
00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:03,759
Speaker 1: he is no longer. Chris Greer will now take over

944
00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:05,560
Speaker 1: as the head of football OPS. He will be in

945
00:46:05,640 --> 00:46:07,560
Speaker 1: charge of finding a new head coach down in Miami.

946
00:46:07,560 --> 00:46:10,759
Speaker 1: Stephen Ross apparently unhappy with Adham Gaze. There was an

947
00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:14,920
Speaker 1: incident apparently after the Indianapolis game where the Miami Dolphins

948
00:46:14,960 --> 00:46:17,640
Speaker 1: had a ten point lead, lost that lead, and then

949
00:46:17,640 --> 00:46:20,880
Speaker 1: afterwards there were there were some there were some seeds planted.

950
00:46:20,880 --> 00:46:23,799
Speaker 1: I guess that led to today. So Dolphins looking for

951
00:46:23,840 --> 00:46:26,120
Speaker 1: a head coach and Chris Geer takes over as the

952
00:46:26,160 --> 00:46:30,000
Speaker 1: head of football OPS. Lions and Packers. Packers, they're looking

953
00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:31,920
Speaker 1: for a head coach. Lions good win for them to

954
00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:34,879
Speaker 1: go out. They finished six and ten, moving on into

955
00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:38,640
Speaker 1: next year. Patriots beat the Jets, last game for Todd Bowles.

956
00:46:38,880 --> 00:46:41,520
Speaker 1: Todd Bowles will move on. Mike mccagnet stays as the

957
00:46:41,600 --> 00:46:45,560
Speaker 1: GM Patriots move into the playoffs as the number two seed.

958
00:46:45,760 --> 00:46:50,400
Speaker 1: The Panthers walloped the Saints. Why Kyle Allen, you remember

959
00:46:50,400 --> 00:46:53,640
Speaker 1: that name? A m and University Houston fans. He was outstanding.

960
00:46:53,920 --> 00:46:57,560
Speaker 1: Sixteen to twenty seven, two touchdowns, a one to eleven rating.

961
00:46:57,760 --> 00:47:00,440
Speaker 1: He was great yesterday. What does that mean for him

962
00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:03,839
Speaker 1: going forward? Don't know, but Panthers get a win. They

963
00:47:03,880 --> 00:47:06,520
Speaker 1: moved to seven and nine after just a long, dreadful

964
00:47:06,560 --> 00:47:09,560
Speaker 1: streak of losses. The Saints finished at thirteen and three.

965
00:47:09,680 --> 00:47:12,160
Speaker 1: But playoffs in the NFC go through the Dome. The

966
00:47:12,239 --> 00:47:15,560
Speaker 1: Saints will not play another game outside all year. How

967
00:47:15,560 --> 00:47:19,080
Speaker 1: about that? That's pretty crazy. So there you go. Cowboys, Giants.

968
00:47:20,120 --> 00:47:23,960
Speaker 1: What a great football game. Tremendous football game. I hate

969
00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:28,200
Speaker 1: to even say that, but Dallas goes for two after

970
00:47:28,239 --> 00:47:32,520
Speaker 1: a fourth and fifteen bomb from Dak Prescott to Cole Beasley.

971
00:47:32,800 --> 00:47:34,960
Speaker 1: They get the two on the throw from Prescott. The

972
00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:38,239
Speaker 1: gallop Dak Prescott was all kinds of awesome in this one.

973
00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:41,120
Speaker 1: They didn't have to win this one. Then I don't

974
00:47:41,120 --> 00:47:43,800
Speaker 1: think they could have changed spots with anybody in the playoffs,

975
00:47:44,840 --> 00:47:47,520
Speaker 1: but they went and got to win anyways. Zeke Elliott

976
00:47:47,520 --> 00:47:50,440
Speaker 1: didn't play Dak twenty seven to forty four three seven

977
00:47:50,480 --> 00:47:54,640
Speaker 1: for four touchdowns. Blake Jarwin tight end seven catches on

978
00:47:54,680 --> 00:47:57,279
Speaker 1: hundred nineteen yards, three touchdowns. That could be an X

979
00:47:57,280 --> 00:48:00,799
Speaker 1: factor going into the playoffs. The Cowboys finding a tight end.

980
00:48:01,120 --> 00:48:07,160
Speaker 1: The Falcons and Buccaneers this one nothing thirty four thirty

981
00:48:07,200 --> 00:48:12,000
Speaker 1: two pre good football game. Actually afterwards, Buccaneers Dirk Cutter gone,

982
00:48:12,120 --> 00:48:17,080
Speaker 1: head coach out. Falcons Dan Quinn head coach stays but

983
00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:22,440
Speaker 1: all of his coordinators out. Offense, defense, special teams all out.

984
00:48:22,960 --> 00:48:26,120
Speaker 1: Browns and Ravens played one hack of a game. The

985
00:48:26,239 --> 00:48:30,839
Speaker 1: Ravens win, the Ravens win the NFC North, Browns win,

986
00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:33,080
Speaker 1: The Steelers would win the NFC North, but the Ravens

987
00:48:33,120 --> 00:48:36,280
Speaker 1: get a twenty six twenty four win. The Browns looking

988
00:48:36,320 --> 00:48:38,440
Speaker 1: for a head coach. We'll see if Greg Williams stays on,

989
00:48:38,480 --> 00:48:40,759
Speaker 1: if Freddie Kitchen stays on, we'll see what happens there.

990
00:48:40,920 --> 00:48:42,920
Speaker 1: But the Ravens move on. They will take on the

991
00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:47,000
Speaker 1: Chargers this Sunday in the second AFC Wildcard playoff game

992
00:48:47,040 --> 00:48:50,160
Speaker 1: the Chargers and the Broncos. Chargers win twenty three nine

993
00:48:50,200 --> 00:48:55,279
Speaker 1: as expected. Chargers travel to Baltimore next week. The Broncos

994
00:48:55,440 --> 00:48:58,040
Speaker 1: are now looking for another head coach. Vance Joseph after

995
00:48:58,080 --> 00:49:02,680
Speaker 1: two years, is fired. Broncos looking for a head coach

996
00:49:02,719 --> 00:49:06,759
Speaker 1: for the second straight year. Raiders Chiefs Raiders. Not much

997
00:49:06,800 --> 00:49:10,560
Speaker 1: going on there, oh, other than Mike Mayock just became

998
00:49:10,600 --> 00:49:15,120
Speaker 1: their GM. Became their GM. How about that? Chiefs get

999
00:49:15,120 --> 00:49:19,520
Speaker 1: to win number one seed in the AFC, probably the

1000
00:49:19,560 --> 00:49:21,960
Speaker 1: most deserving team in the AFC to get that thirty

1001
00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:23,640
Speaker 1: five three big win for the Chiefs. They get a

1002
00:49:23,680 --> 00:49:28,279
Speaker 1: buy and they will wait for the following week. In

1003
00:49:28,320 --> 00:49:31,319
Speaker 1: the divisional round, forty nine Ers, Rams, high scoring game,

1004
00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:34,160
Speaker 1: Rams win, lock up the two seed, They'll get a buy.

1005
00:49:34,640 --> 00:49:36,839
Speaker 1: They will wait. Forty nine Ers playoff the string. They'll

1006
00:49:36,840 --> 00:49:38,799
Speaker 1: get Garoppolo back next year. But a good year for

1007
00:49:38,840 --> 00:49:42,440
Speaker 1: the most part for Nick Mullins Bears. Vikings. Bears get

1008
00:49:42,440 --> 00:49:46,200
Speaker 1: the win, finish twelve and four. How about that Vikings

1009
00:49:46,480 --> 00:49:50,840
Speaker 1: lose an opportunity to go to the playoffs. That stings.

1010
00:49:51,880 --> 00:49:55,320
Speaker 1: That leaves a mark, especially when you're paying a quarterback

1011
00:49:55,520 --> 00:49:59,919
Speaker 1: three guaranteed years of eighty four million dollars. Yikes at home,

1012
00:50:00,560 --> 00:50:06,640
Speaker 1: Bears not playing for anything, and the Vikings lose. Oh, buddy, Bears.

1013
00:50:06,680 --> 00:50:12,120
Speaker 1: Now get the Eagles in Soldier Field next Sunday. This

1014
00:50:12,200 --> 00:50:14,359
Speaker 1: is gonna be a really good wild Card weekend by

1015
00:50:14,360 --> 00:50:19,200
Speaker 1: the way, Steelers Bengals. Steelers get the win sixteen thirteen,

1016
00:50:19,239 --> 00:50:21,720
Speaker 1: they stuck around on the field to watch Brown's Ravens

1017
00:50:21,719 --> 00:50:24,840
Speaker 1: on the jumbo dron on the video board. Oh, it

1018
00:50:24,920 --> 00:50:27,640
Speaker 1: was such a gup punch to watch them react afterwards.

1019
00:50:27,920 --> 00:50:31,759
Speaker 1: Steelers finished nine six and one. Had they been able

1020
00:50:31,760 --> 00:50:34,080
Speaker 1: to get that win over Cleveland at the beginning of

1021
00:50:34,120 --> 00:50:35,839
Speaker 1: the year, the finished ten at six and I think

1022
00:50:35,880 --> 00:50:37,640
Speaker 1: that would have given them the tie breaker over the Ravens,

1023
00:50:37,760 --> 00:50:41,720
Speaker 1: but it didn't happen. The Bengals take the l Marvin

1024
00:50:41,800 --> 00:50:45,200
Speaker 1: Lewis steps away. He is done with the Bengals. Had

1025
00:50:45,239 --> 00:50:47,319
Speaker 1: a long career with the Bengals. Now the Bengals are

1026
00:50:47,400 --> 00:50:50,760
Speaker 1: in they're in the market for a new head coach.

1027
00:50:50,920 --> 00:50:52,960
Speaker 1: I don't think it's too surprising. In fact, those a

1028
00:50:52,960 --> 00:50:54,520
Speaker 1: cover of the Bengals knew this was gonna be Marvin

1029
00:50:54,560 --> 00:50:56,120
Speaker 1: Lewis's last year. He knew it was going to be

1030
00:50:56,400 --> 00:50:58,480
Speaker 1: his last year. I would think Marvin's gonna get some

1031
00:50:58,520 --> 00:51:01,719
Speaker 1: opportunities as a defensive dator with the Bengals looking for

1032
00:51:02,040 --> 00:51:05,719
Speaker 1: a head coach. So are the Arizona Cardinals. Cardinals three

1033
00:51:05,760 --> 00:51:09,399
Speaker 1: and thirteen and Steve wilkes first and only year as

1034
00:51:09,440 --> 00:51:12,799
Speaker 1: head coach. Seahawks beat them twenty seven twenty four. The

1035
00:51:12,800 --> 00:51:16,759
Speaker 1: Seahawks will move on to face Dallas and Arizona the

1036
00:51:16,960 --> 00:51:20,480
Speaker 1: number one pick in the twenty nineteen draft. Now for Arizona,

1037
00:51:20,560 --> 00:51:23,200
Speaker 1: they don't need a quarterback. The problem is you don't

1038
00:51:23,239 --> 00:51:25,640
Speaker 1: have a quarterback class. Like last year, they could have

1039
00:51:25,719 --> 00:51:28,520
Speaker 1: gotten anything they wanted in a trade last year. This

1040
00:51:28,640 --> 00:51:32,160
Speaker 1: year not so much. Not as much. I would keep

1041
00:51:32,160 --> 00:51:34,879
Speaker 1: an eye on Nick Bosa going to Arizona. That makes

1042
00:51:34,920 --> 00:51:37,080
Speaker 1: a lot of sense for them. But we'll die more

1043
00:51:37,080 --> 00:51:38,799
Speaker 1: into the draft once the Texans are out of it.

1044
00:51:38,880 --> 00:51:43,720
Speaker 1: Eagles Redskins. Eagles dominate twenty four nothing Foles. Nick Foles

1045
00:51:43,920 --> 00:51:47,080
Speaker 1: knocked out of this game though with a rib injury.

1046
00:51:47,480 --> 00:51:51,359
Speaker 1: Wonder where that came from. Eagles defense steps up, shuts out.

1047
00:51:51,360 --> 00:51:54,240
Speaker 1: The Redskins gets some help from Matt Neegie and the Bears,

1048
00:51:54,239 --> 00:51:57,600
Speaker 1: and they will face Matt Neegie's Bears next week, Redskins

1049
00:51:57,640 --> 00:52:01,040
Speaker 1: A mess on the business opp side, for sure, a

1050
00:52:01,040 --> 00:52:04,239
Speaker 1: lot of things going on there. Dan Snyder's got well,

1051
00:52:04,239 --> 00:52:07,520
Speaker 1: he's got a situation and he's got to He certainly

1052
00:52:07,640 --> 00:52:10,440
Speaker 1: has got to handle that. And then Colts Titans last night,

1053
00:52:11,040 --> 00:52:14,960
Speaker 1: Colts win thirty three seventeen, ensuring a trip to the

1054
00:52:15,000 --> 00:52:19,000
Speaker 1: playoffs for the first time since twenty fourteen. They got

1055
00:52:19,040 --> 00:52:21,920
Speaker 1: to the AC Championship game. They got hammered by New

1056
00:52:22,000 --> 00:52:24,880
Speaker 1: England in that game. The Titans playing last night without

1057
00:52:24,880 --> 00:52:30,880
Speaker 1: Brian Rackbo, without Jack Conklin, without Durell Casey, without Marcus Mariota.

1058
00:52:30,960 --> 00:52:33,680
Speaker 1: Then they hung in there. It was twenty four seventeen.

1059
00:52:34,160 --> 00:52:38,120
Speaker 1: Had the ball near midfield, Gabett with a wide Olden

1060
00:52:38,160 --> 00:52:41,880
Speaker 1: receiver and just botched the throw. The Colts would go

1061
00:52:41,880 --> 00:52:44,040
Speaker 1: on and kick a field goal, then they would score

1062
00:52:44,120 --> 00:52:47,960
Speaker 1: late touchdown. Colts win thirty three seventeen. Played on a

1063
00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:51,040
Speaker 1: Sunday night, a little bit of rainy and wet in Nashville.

1064
00:52:51,280 --> 00:52:53,279
Speaker 1: Very intense, emotional game. And now they got to turn

1065
00:52:53,280 --> 00:52:55,440
Speaker 1: around to do it on Saturday. Can they do it

1066
00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:59,000
Speaker 1: two times in a row on the road against division opponents.

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00:52:59,280 --> 00:53:02,400
Speaker 1: We will see, but a lot of news coming out

1068
00:53:02,440 --> 00:53:06,640
Speaker 1: of these sixteen games this past Sunday. All right, we

1069
00:53:06,680 --> 00:53:08,560
Speaker 1: get back. Let's talk to the man who knows it all.

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00:53:08,840 --> 00:53:11,200
Speaker 1: You know NFL, he knows the Texans. It's the General

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00:53:11,280 --> 00:53:15,040
Speaker 1: John McClain coming up on Texans Access. Welcome back to

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00:53:15,080 --> 00:53:18,239
Speaker 1: a Monday edition of the Texans All Access from the

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00:53:18,280 --> 00:53:25,040
Speaker 1: Honday Texans Radio Studio, a post regular season Monday night edition. Now,

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00:53:25,080 --> 00:53:27,120
Speaker 1: there have been years like last year, where I sort

1075
00:53:27,120 --> 00:53:30,480
Speaker 1: of hated this show because the season was over. I

1076
00:53:30,560 --> 00:53:33,560
Speaker 1: know last year we probably wanted the season to beat over,

1077
00:53:33,680 --> 00:53:37,040
Speaker 1: but it is definitively done. But we get two hours tonight,

1078
00:53:37,320 --> 00:53:40,040
Speaker 1: and we'll have two hours every single Monday for you

1079
00:53:40,200 --> 00:53:42,960
Speaker 1: until the Texans are done playing and then that's it.

1080
00:53:43,000 --> 00:53:45,680
Speaker 1: Then that'll be the last radio until after the Super Bowl.

1081
00:53:45,760 --> 00:53:47,880
Speaker 1: And then we start talking about building the team for

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00:53:48,080 --> 00:53:51,239
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. And I think when you have guys like

1083
00:53:51,360 --> 00:53:55,399
Speaker 1: number four, number ten, number ninety, number ninety nine, thirty two,

1084
00:53:55,560 --> 00:53:57,160
Speaker 1: you have those guys in the roster, you can get

1085
00:53:57,200 --> 00:54:00,160
Speaker 1: really excited about what you can do not only the

1086
00:54:00,160 --> 00:54:02,120
Speaker 1: current year, but on into the future. But we'll talk

1087
00:54:02,120 --> 00:54:04,600
Speaker 1: more about the future when the future comes up. Right

1088
00:54:04,600 --> 00:54:06,400
Speaker 1: now we're in the present and we're talking about a

1089
00:54:06,400 --> 00:54:09,560
Speaker 1: team that played us in the past. Yeah, we got

1090
00:54:09,560 --> 00:54:11,880
Speaker 1: all that going on. So a lot of things happening

1091
00:54:12,080 --> 00:54:16,280
Speaker 1: with this playoff matchup for the first time in team history,

1092
00:54:16,360 --> 00:54:19,480
Speaker 1: playing a team for the third time beat the Colts

1093
00:54:19,520 --> 00:54:22,799
Speaker 1: up in Andy thirty seven thirty four Colts knocked us

1094
00:54:22,800 --> 00:54:26,959
Speaker 1: off twenty four twenty one. Now game three playoff time,

1095
00:54:27,080 --> 00:54:30,440
Speaker 1: Wildcard weekend, the three seed to six seed the AFC

1096
00:54:30,560 --> 00:54:35,920
Speaker 1: South Champs against the number six seed wildcard Indianapolis Colts.

1097
00:54:36,920 --> 00:54:38,760
Speaker 1: How about the fact that the other wild card team

1098
00:54:38,840 --> 00:54:41,240
Speaker 1: tied for the best record in the AFC, the LA Chargers.

1099
00:54:41,400 --> 00:54:43,920
Speaker 1: Man and the Chargers have gotta fly all the across

1100
00:54:43,920 --> 00:54:46,480
Speaker 1: the country and play the team that just beat them,

1101
00:54:48,600 --> 00:54:50,960
Speaker 1: not I say Christmas weekend, but the twenty second on

1102
00:54:50,960 --> 00:54:53,720
Speaker 1: that Saturday, Oh my gosh, just two weeks ago, Chargers

1103
00:54:53,800 --> 00:55:00,360
Speaker 1: Ravens rematch Colts, Texans rematch Seahawks, Cowboys rematch Bears Eagles,

1104
00:55:00,360 --> 00:55:03,799
Speaker 1: the only one that is not a rematch. And would

1105
00:55:03,800 --> 00:55:05,960
Speaker 1: a band had the Vikings beating the Bears at home

1106
00:55:06,680 --> 00:55:08,600
Speaker 1: in a game that wasn't gonna get the Bears anywhere.

1107
00:55:09,520 --> 00:55:11,400
Speaker 1: But the win for the Bears got the Eagles in

1108
00:55:11,400 --> 00:55:16,760
Speaker 1: the playoffs. And the thing about the Eagles two, four, five,

1109
00:55:17,560 --> 00:55:19,760
Speaker 1: five to the last six. They only lost Eagles had

1110
00:55:19,960 --> 00:55:22,920
Speaker 1: was that twenty nine to twenty three win for Dallas.

1111
00:55:22,960 --> 00:55:26,000
Speaker 1: That gave Dallas a division basically. But they won in

1112
00:55:26,080 --> 00:55:28,600
Speaker 1: that stretch. They wont at Washington, they wont at LA

1113
00:55:28,640 --> 00:55:31,359
Speaker 1: they beat US thirty two thirty. I mean, we win

1114
00:55:31,400 --> 00:55:33,200
Speaker 1: that game, we get to buy they're knocked out of

1115
00:55:33,239 --> 00:55:37,080
Speaker 1: the playoffs. That was an unbelievably important day and it

1116
00:55:37,160 --> 00:55:39,760
Speaker 1: just didn't work out for your Texans. But it's setting

1117
00:55:39,800 --> 00:55:49,160
Speaker 1: up one heck of wild card weekend. Texas Colts, Ravens, Chargers, Bears, Eagles, Seahawks, Cowboys.

1118
00:55:49,560 --> 00:55:52,680
Speaker 1: Your Saturday games are the two Texas teams. Texas taken

1119
00:55:52,680 --> 00:55:55,320
Speaker 1: out Colts, Cowboys, Seahawks, and then the other two games

1120
00:55:55,640 --> 00:55:57,960
Speaker 1: you got the Bears and the Eagles and the Ravens

1121
00:55:57,960 --> 00:56:00,239
Speaker 1: and the Chargers on the following day. So there you go,

1122
00:56:00,239 --> 00:56:03,400
Speaker 1: a short week, Gotta get ready, gotta get prepared. That'll

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00:56:03,400 --> 00:56:05,400
Speaker 1: help having a home game and we'll rock and roll

1124
00:56:05,480 --> 00:56:07,480
Speaker 1: from there. All right, guy who's covered the Texas for

1125
00:56:07,520 --> 00:56:09,960
Speaker 1: a long time, has covered all these playoff games, is

1126
00:56:09,960 --> 00:56:13,920
Speaker 1: the venerable. The general John McClain here he is with

1127
00:56:13,960 --> 00:56:16,880
Speaker 1: me and Marcus. So John, tell me something, Texas AFC

1128
00:56:17,000 --> 00:56:20,759
Speaker 1: South champions Let's just zoom out a little bit and

1129
00:56:20,920 --> 00:56:23,600
Speaker 1: look at the thirty thousand foot view. Your take on

1130
00:56:23,719 --> 00:56:29,280
Speaker 1: the regular season? Then, going from four twelve, an injury

1131
00:56:29,320 --> 00:56:33,040
Speaker 1: decimated four twelve season to eleven and five is an

1132
00:56:33,040 --> 00:56:38,279
Speaker 1: impressive accomplishment. They two two down the stretch. Not as

1133
00:56:38,320 --> 00:56:43,279
Speaker 1: hot as Indianapolis is for oh, but considering problems they

1134
00:56:43,280 --> 00:56:46,560
Speaker 1: have an offensive line in the secondary. I thought it's

1135
00:56:46,560 --> 00:56:51,200
Speaker 1: a terrific achievement. I'm just sorry Bob McNair is not

1136
00:56:51,320 --> 00:56:55,680
Speaker 1: around to experience it. Yeah, no doubt, John, What does

1137
00:56:55,680 --> 00:56:59,400
Speaker 1: it say about this organization to have won five division

1138
00:56:59,480 --> 00:57:02,120
Speaker 1: championship years three in the last four years. What do

1139
00:57:02,160 --> 00:57:04,200
Speaker 1: you think it says about the organization they obviously in

1140
00:57:04,200 --> 00:57:06,000
Speaker 1: the last eight years and done it with two different coaches.

1141
00:57:06,239 --> 00:57:08,120
Speaker 1: What do you think it says about the organization to

1142
00:57:08,160 --> 00:57:12,399
Speaker 1: have won as many AFC South championships as they have They,

1143
00:57:13,320 --> 00:57:16,040
Speaker 1: I guess would say they dominated division. Now it's going

1144
00:57:16,120 --> 00:57:18,600
Speaker 1: to get a lot tougher. So I tougher over the

1145
00:57:18,640 --> 00:57:21,720
Speaker 1: second half of the season with the Colts I think

1146
00:57:21,720 --> 00:57:23,920
Speaker 1: are as good as any team in the AFC right now,

1147
00:57:24,400 --> 00:57:27,120
Speaker 1: and with the Titans being nine and seven, I don't

1148
00:57:27,160 --> 00:57:29,880
Speaker 1: know that they would have won that game with Marcus

1149
00:57:29,920 --> 00:57:33,160
Speaker 1: Mariota being healthy. But things are looking up for the

1150
00:57:33,200 --> 00:57:36,080
Speaker 1: Titans and Texans and the Jaguars are going to have

1151
00:57:36,160 --> 00:57:38,320
Speaker 1: to cut some players to clear up the cap room

1152
00:57:38,720 --> 00:57:41,880
Speaker 1: to go after a quarterback like Nick Foles. And if

1153
00:57:41,920 --> 00:57:45,920
Speaker 1: they get Nick Foles in Jacksonville, my goodness. This division

1154
00:57:46,080 --> 00:57:49,400
Speaker 1: is going to be incredible next season. But two teams

1155
00:57:49,440 --> 00:57:52,600
Speaker 1: are still playing this season and it's a great accomplishment

1156
00:57:52,680 --> 00:57:55,720
Speaker 1: for both because the Texans, of course, roll in three,

1157
00:57:55,880 --> 00:57:58,720
Speaker 1: Colts are one in five, and both have bounced back

1158
00:57:58,840 --> 00:58:01,680
Speaker 1: big time. All right, so the Colts beat the Titans

1159
00:58:01,760 --> 00:58:03,720
Speaker 1: last night, that's not a big surprise. What do you

1160
00:58:03,760 --> 00:58:07,480
Speaker 1: think of the matchup on Saturday, general, I think it's

1161
00:58:07,480 --> 00:58:10,640
Speaker 1: going to be really hard to beat Andrew Luck. Indianapolis's

1162
00:58:10,720 --> 00:58:14,680
Speaker 1: balance defense is playing better now. The running game. The

1163
00:58:14,720 --> 00:58:18,360
Speaker 1: Texans have totally shut down the Colts running game twice,

1164
00:58:18,360 --> 00:58:21,880
Speaker 1: and Texans shut down every running game. It's almost like

1165
00:58:22,480 --> 00:58:25,160
Speaker 1: they should let him run for two hundred yards so

1166
00:58:25,280 --> 00:58:28,080
Speaker 1: Andrew Luck won't drop back forty times, but that's not

1167
00:58:28,160 --> 00:58:31,040
Speaker 1: going to happen. I think Texans will shut down the run,

1168
00:58:31,440 --> 00:58:33,960
Speaker 1: forest Luck to pass, and as great as Luck has

1169
00:58:34,040 --> 00:58:38,000
Speaker 1: played in these first two games, just towards the secondary,

1170
00:58:39,120 --> 00:58:41,439
Speaker 1: they still have won by three and the Texans won

1171
00:58:41,520 --> 00:58:45,240
Speaker 1: by three. And there's some great matchups this weekend. All

1172
00:58:45,280 --> 00:58:49,960
Speaker 1: I believe repeats of regular season games, and none that

1173
00:58:50,080 --> 00:58:53,040
Speaker 1: should be more exciting than the Colts coming in our

1174
00:58:53,080 --> 00:58:56,360
Speaker 1: g stadium to play the Texans, and that for that reason,

1175
00:58:56,400 --> 00:58:58,600
Speaker 1: I'm a little surprised that it ended up on Saturday

1176
00:58:58,640 --> 00:59:00,800
Speaker 1: in that spot. But I don't know, Maybe maybe we

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00:59:00,920 --> 00:59:03,640
Speaker 1: just do on that spot. And John, I'm with you,

1178
00:59:03,720 --> 00:59:07,240
Speaker 1: because that early Saturdays the game they care about the least.

1179
00:59:07,800 --> 00:59:10,880
Speaker 1: And I'm thinking, Okay, there's no market in La. LA

1180
00:59:11,040 --> 00:59:14,160
Speaker 1: does not care about the Chargers. I'll bet you there's

1181
00:59:14,240 --> 00:59:17,520
Speaker 1: more people in LA they'd rather see Andrew Luck and

1182
00:59:17,600 --> 00:59:20,760
Speaker 1: de Sean Watson that would rather see the Chargers. And

1183
00:59:20,800 --> 00:59:24,040
Speaker 1: then Baltimore is not a big market. I can understand

1184
00:59:24,120 --> 00:59:27,080
Speaker 1: Cowboys being the late game. They're always going to be

1185
00:59:27,120 --> 00:59:29,880
Speaker 1: the late game. But I'm with you. I thought that

1186
00:59:30,000 --> 00:59:33,880
Speaker 1: they would look more at the two exciting three point

1187
00:59:33,960 --> 00:59:37,480
Speaker 1: games and the two quarterbacks, how good the teams have been,

1188
00:59:38,000 --> 00:59:41,320
Speaker 1: but obviously that's not as important as what they believe

1189
00:59:42,000 --> 00:59:46,320
Speaker 1: will be a better draw. Hey, John, we saw yesterday

1190
00:59:46,360 --> 00:59:49,040
Speaker 1: the news about Todd Bowles. We saw the news about

1191
00:59:49,120 --> 00:59:52,040
Speaker 1: Dirk Cutter down at Tampa Bay. It looks like Steve

1192
00:59:52,080 --> 00:59:57,200
Speaker 1: Wilkes is out in Arizona. After watching the Minnesota Vikings yesterday,

1193
00:59:57,320 --> 01:00:00,400
Speaker 1: is there any chance in your opinion that Mike's Zimmer

1194
01:00:00,520 --> 01:00:04,680
Speaker 1: is not back for the Vikings? Mike Florio, who's got

1195
01:00:04,720 --> 01:00:08,320
Speaker 1: a lot of good sources, pointed out, I think at

1196
01:00:08,440 --> 01:00:12,760
Speaker 1: halftime or pregame last night, keeping out in Minnesota, he said,

1197
01:00:12,760 --> 01:00:15,560
Speaker 1: I'm not saying it's going to happen, but keeping out

1198
01:00:15,600 --> 01:00:20,040
Speaker 1: in Minnesota, I'd be surprised if Mike Zimmer got fired.

1199
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Speaker 1: You know, I don't know who was behind Kirk Cousins,

1200
01:00:23,600 --> 01:00:26,720
Speaker 1: but they thought that he's He's now four twenty five

1201
01:00:26,760 --> 01:00:30,200
Speaker 1: against teams with winning records, and so if you're going

1202
01:00:30,240 --> 01:00:31,800
Speaker 1: to get rid of him, do you get rid of

1203
01:00:31,840 --> 01:00:36,520
Speaker 1: the general manager. Jake Glazier reported that Marvin Lewis is out,

1204
01:00:37,280 --> 01:00:42,280
Speaker 1: which wouldn't surprise anybody, but Cincinnati is considered. Peter and

1205
01:00:42,400 --> 01:00:47,240
Speaker 1: King wrote this today, quoted somebody talking about the Bengals going, oh,

1206
01:00:47,280 --> 01:00:50,640
Speaker 1: you mean the thirty third franchise. You know, the Bengals

1207
01:00:50,640 --> 01:00:53,760
Speaker 1: are not progressive. They don't have a whole lot of money.

1208
01:00:54,160 --> 01:00:56,440
Speaker 1: They're not They're just kind of the dregs of the

1209
01:00:56,520 --> 01:00:59,840
Speaker 1: league and it would not be a really appealing job

1210
01:01:00,400 --> 01:01:03,520
Speaker 1: unless you're into longevity, and then it would be the

1211
01:01:03,600 --> 01:01:07,000
Speaker 1: most appealing if you get on Mike Brown's good side.

1212
01:01:08,360 --> 01:01:10,520
Speaker 1: Do they even have an indoor facility yet? I don't

1213
01:01:10,520 --> 01:01:12,600
Speaker 1: think so. I don't think they have an indoor field. Yea,

1214
01:01:12,760 --> 01:01:15,560
Speaker 1: they do. I think they. I think they still practice

1215
01:01:15,640 --> 01:01:19,880
Speaker 1: outside and I think that to get a hot they're

1216
01:01:19,880 --> 01:01:23,520
Speaker 1: gonna have to get a retrade coach, the coordinator who's desperate,

1217
01:01:23,600 --> 01:01:27,480
Speaker 1: or a college coach who's desperate. Look, practicing outside of

1218
01:01:27,480 --> 01:01:29,840
Speaker 1: December has really helped them in the postseason. Oh wait

1219
01:01:29,840 --> 01:01:33,120
Speaker 1: a minute, all right, General, tell me about Mike Mayock

1220
01:01:33,240 --> 01:01:36,560
Speaker 1: and the Oakland Well soon to be l l Las Vegas.

1221
01:01:36,720 --> 01:01:41,480
Speaker 1: I went la on, you didn't I Las Vegas raidersies

1222
01:01:41,560 --> 01:01:44,160
Speaker 1: and playing in London too? What was that rumor? What's

1223
01:01:44,160 --> 01:01:47,480
Speaker 1: going on with the Raiders. There's no way the NFL

1224
01:01:47,720 --> 01:01:51,160
Speaker 1: is going to let the Raiders play next season in London,

1225
01:01:51,320 --> 01:01:55,880
Speaker 1: No way, and I'm happy for Mike Mayock. You know,

1226
01:01:55,920 --> 01:01:59,520
Speaker 1: when you're an analyst on TV, you're never wrong. Lewis

1227
01:01:59,600 --> 01:02:03,120
Speaker 1: Rady probably get a general manager's job too, because Lewis

1228
01:02:03,280 --> 01:02:06,880
Speaker 1: Ridick's really good on ESPN. But Maya, who I think

1229
01:02:07,000 --> 01:02:12,760
Speaker 1: is the best expert analysts, especially around draft time. I

1230
01:02:13,000 --> 01:02:16,240
Speaker 1: really value his opinion. But good for him if that's

1231
01:02:16,240 --> 01:02:18,920
Speaker 1: what he wants to be a general manager. I'm glad

1232
01:02:18,920 --> 01:02:21,640
Speaker 1: he got it because Mike has put in a lot

1233
01:02:21,720 --> 01:02:25,720
Speaker 1: of years working for NFL Network and turning himself into

1234
01:02:25,720 --> 01:02:29,120
Speaker 1: the best of the business. I'm just a little surprised

1235
01:02:29,160 --> 01:02:31,560
Speaker 1: because who has finals say there. I think we all

1236
01:02:31,600 --> 01:02:33,680
Speaker 1: know the answer to that question. But maybe that's the

1237
01:02:33,720 --> 01:02:37,960
Speaker 1: best job, and he understands that that he's going to

1238
01:02:38,080 --> 01:02:41,920
Speaker 1: work with Gruden and Gruden as a final say on everything,

1239
01:02:42,480 --> 01:02:45,600
Speaker 1: and I think Mike just wants to be a general manager.

1240
01:02:45,880 --> 01:02:49,640
Speaker 1: And if Gruden turns it around, Mike will get some credit.

1241
01:02:50,160 --> 01:02:54,360
Speaker 1: But they paid more than I'll guarantee you Gruden is

1242
01:02:54,360 --> 01:02:57,560
Speaker 1: paying him more than the NFL network. Well, I think

1243
01:02:57,560 --> 01:03:00,640
Speaker 1: it's great for Mac because to your points about being

1244
01:03:00,640 --> 01:03:03,000
Speaker 1: on TV, you're never wrong. If the Raiders are wrong,

1245
01:03:03,040 --> 01:03:06,160
Speaker 1: it's Gruden's fault. But if they're right, then may I

1246
01:03:06,280 --> 01:03:07,880
Speaker 1: gets a little bit of that. Craig, you're I think

1247
01:03:07,880 --> 01:03:09,320
Speaker 1: you're right about that. But I think the flip side

1248
01:03:09,360 --> 01:03:11,440
Speaker 1: of it is if they're wrong, well that's all Gruden

1249
01:03:11,520 --> 01:03:15,960
Speaker 1: in some sense. John the Jacksonville Jaguars yesterday apparently at

1250
01:03:15,960 --> 01:03:17,760
Speaker 1: some point during the game or late in the game,

1251
01:03:17,840 --> 01:03:20,560
Speaker 1: or after the game, right after the game, shot Com

1252
01:03:20,680 --> 01:03:22,640
Speaker 1: put out his statement saying he was bringing back his

1253
01:03:22,760 --> 01:03:26,960
Speaker 1: triumvirate of Coughlin and Dave Caldwell and Doug Marrone. Then

1254
01:03:26,960 --> 01:03:29,480
Speaker 1: we started seeing some noise about something that happened on

1255
01:03:29,520 --> 01:03:32,480
Speaker 1: the sideline yesterday with Leonard Fournette and TJ. Yelden, And

1256
01:03:32,520 --> 01:03:36,880
Speaker 1: then we saw that Leonard Fournette's contract his guarantees might

1257
01:03:36,920 --> 01:03:39,120
Speaker 1: be avoided and that might be a sign that Jaguars

1258
01:03:39,200 --> 01:03:41,480
Speaker 1: or done with him and want to move him. It

1259
01:03:41,560 --> 01:03:44,160
Speaker 1: feels like a mess in Jacksonville compared to where it

1260
01:03:44,240 --> 01:03:47,040
Speaker 1: was last year. You have any idea what's going on

1261
01:03:47,160 --> 01:03:50,040
Speaker 1: there or what could ultimately happen with Fournette and everybody there.

1262
01:03:51,240 --> 01:03:54,280
Speaker 1: They showed Fournett on TV and he was not suited up.

1263
01:03:54,360 --> 01:03:57,480
Speaker 1: He was sitting on the bench and T. J. Yelden

1264
01:03:57,680 --> 01:04:00,480
Speaker 1: was suited up but was sitting next to him, And

1265
01:04:00,560 --> 01:04:03,360
Speaker 1: I was stunned when they gave the ball to that

1266
01:04:03,560 --> 01:04:06,720
Speaker 1: rookie Williams, who had never heard of instead of Yellvin.

1267
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Speaker 1: We've seen yelling has some pretty good games, so something

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01:04:10,280 --> 01:04:13,400
Speaker 1: was up with him. And once you start doing something

1269
01:04:13,480 --> 01:04:17,680
Speaker 1: to a player's contract, you know you have turned that

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01:04:17,800 --> 01:04:20,960
Speaker 1: player against you. And then to Tom Coughlin put out

1271
01:04:20,960 --> 01:04:25,400
Speaker 1: a statement ripping those two players for their behavior during

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01:04:25,440 --> 01:04:27,800
Speaker 1: the game because they just sat there like bumps on

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01:04:27,880 --> 01:04:31,440
Speaker 1: the log. And it has to be more to it

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01:04:31,560 --> 01:04:34,800
Speaker 1: than that. For that was the fourth overall pick. They

1275
01:04:34,880 --> 01:04:40,680
Speaker 1: passed up quarterbacks. But when you void bonuses, now they

1276
01:04:40,720 --> 01:04:45,040
Speaker 1: could trade him. You know, his contract is not any

1277
01:04:45,040 --> 01:04:48,439
Speaker 1: big deal anymore. But man, if they do, did they

1278
01:04:48,480 --> 01:04:52,000
Speaker 1: screw up that pick because he's missed eleven games in

1279
01:04:52,080 --> 01:04:54,600
Speaker 1: two years, but last year he was leading rushaur on

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01:04:54,680 --> 01:04:57,480
Speaker 1: the team that came close to going to the Super Bowl.

1281
01:04:57,600 --> 01:05:02,440
Speaker 1: So they've had disciplined problems. Back to Jalen Ramsey ripping

1282
01:05:02,560 --> 01:05:06,560
Speaker 1: players in GQ in the off season, then the discipline

1283
01:05:06,560 --> 01:05:10,240
Speaker 1: of the players in London staying out and getting in trouble.

1284
01:05:10,400 --> 01:05:15,680
Speaker 1: So that's so uncoffling and unmrone like. And I'm told

1285
01:05:15,680 --> 01:05:17,400
Speaker 1: they're going to be getting rid of a lot of

1286
01:05:17,400 --> 01:05:20,320
Speaker 1: players because they have cap problems, and the ones they

1287
01:05:20,360 --> 01:05:21,840
Speaker 1: get rid of are going to be the ones we

1288
01:05:21,920 --> 01:05:26,120
Speaker 1: know or problems behind the scenes as they try to

1289
01:05:26,160 --> 01:05:29,840
Speaker 1: find it finally get a legitimate quarterback, John, what's gonna

1290
01:05:29,840 --> 01:05:33,520
Speaker 1: happen in Denver? The most remarkable statistic in sports is

1291
01:05:33,520 --> 01:05:37,440
Speaker 1: the Broncos just had their first back to back losing

1292
01:05:37,560 --> 01:05:41,040
Speaker 1: season since seventy one and seventy two. And that's a

1293
01:05:41,160 --> 01:05:44,680
Speaker 1: bad distinction up there, because they take a lot of

1294
01:05:44,760 --> 01:05:48,680
Speaker 1: pride and not having back to back losing seasons. And

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01:05:48,800 --> 01:05:52,480
Speaker 1: they haven't just been bad, they've been pathetic. They've had

1296
01:05:52,600 --> 01:05:56,160
Speaker 1: losing streaks two years in a row. That's Joseph's gone.

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01:05:56,200 --> 01:05:58,200
Speaker 1: You know, they'll go out and try to get an

1298
01:05:58,200 --> 01:06:05,560
Speaker 1: offensive coach and maybe Alway caused his senior personnel assistant

1299
01:06:05,640 --> 01:06:09,200
Speaker 1: or whatever, Gary Kubac as so you entersted, Gary will

1300
01:06:09,240 --> 01:06:12,400
Speaker 1: say no, and then Kubiak will help him find an

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01:06:12,400 --> 01:06:18,120
Speaker 1: offensive oriented coach and the quarterback. So this Saturday, Texans

1302
01:06:18,240 --> 01:06:21,760
Speaker 1: and Colts, Luck and Watt both on the field, both

1303
01:06:21,840 --> 01:06:24,680
Speaker 1: Comeback Player of the Year candidates, who is it? Well,

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01:06:24,720 --> 01:06:29,320
Speaker 1: I'm going to vote for JJ because JJ's missed almost

1305
01:06:29,320 --> 01:06:32,400
Speaker 1: two years and he had all those injuries. I think

1306
01:06:32,480 --> 01:06:36,760
Speaker 1: Luck will win because Andrew, he's a quarterback. He gets

1307
01:06:36,760 --> 01:06:40,640
Speaker 1: more attenion, his injury, his shoulder surgery, which they thought

1308
01:06:40,680 --> 01:06:45,160
Speaker 1: his career might be over, having that primetime game last

1309
01:06:45,240 --> 01:06:48,480
Speaker 1: night with three touchdown passes. I think it'll be close.

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01:06:49,040 --> 01:06:53,400
Speaker 1: But I just think that JJ came back from more

1311
01:06:54,000 --> 01:06:57,439
Speaker 1: than Luck did, and Luck should be in the MVP race.

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01:06:57,840 --> 01:07:00,760
Speaker 1: He won't be. I'll tell you something that drives me crazy.

1313
01:07:01,360 --> 01:07:04,680
Speaker 1: Peter King this morning is listing his coaches of the

1314
01:07:04,760 --> 01:07:07,800
Speaker 1: Year and he doesn't even have O'Brien and there has

1315
01:07:07,880 --> 01:07:12,000
Speaker 1: Frank reiching, and there I'm thinking, why Frank Wich Frank?

1316
01:07:12,200 --> 01:07:16,400
Speaker 1: Would the Colts beat the Texans two times last year

1317
01:07:16,960 --> 01:07:19,520
Speaker 1: and they were both four and twelve. Texans had a

1318
01:07:19,520 --> 01:07:24,760
Speaker 1: better record, won the division. Why Frank Reich over Bill O'Briant.

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01:07:24,920 --> 01:07:29,600
Speaker 1: And the Coats don't have offensive line issues like the

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01:07:29,760 --> 01:07:33,680
Speaker 1: Texans do. They don't even have secondary issues like the

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01:07:33,800 --> 01:07:37,160
Speaker 1: Texans do. But O'Brien just can't get any love when

1322
01:07:37,200 --> 01:07:39,000
Speaker 1: it comes to coach of the year, which I think

1323
01:07:39,160 --> 01:07:42,320
Speaker 1: is ridiculous. He can't get any love locally. He's got

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01:07:42,360 --> 01:07:45,320
Speaker 1: eleven games, he's got four winning seasons in five years,

1325
01:07:45,360 --> 01:07:48,840
Speaker 1: he's got three division titles, and everyone always says how

1326
01:07:48,920 --> 01:07:51,640
Speaker 1: the team stinks and there's not enough talent. Yet somehow

1327
01:07:51,720 --> 01:07:54,720
Speaker 1: he wins all these games, but not his doing. He's

1328
01:07:54,760 --> 01:07:56,240
Speaker 1: not even the NFL Coach of the Year in his

1329
01:07:56,360 --> 01:07:59,400
Speaker 1: own town. I mean, you know, there's like one NFL

1330
01:07:59,480 --> 01:08:01,600
Speaker 1: team here away. Some people look at it. It's just

1331
01:08:01,920 --> 01:08:04,160
Speaker 1: you know, it's a Houston sports fan general, thanks so

1332
01:08:04,280 --> 01:08:06,360
Speaker 1: much for being with us. Thank you guys very much.

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01:08:06,440 --> 01:08:09,760
Speaker 1: Happy New Year. Back at you, General. Happy New Year

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01:08:09,880 --> 01:08:12,200
Speaker 1: necklace for everybody out there, Happy new Year. Hopefully you

1335
01:08:12,280 --> 01:08:14,360
Speaker 1: guys are if you're out and about tonight, you're safe

1336
01:08:14,880 --> 01:08:17,720
Speaker 1: and you're taking care of yourselves and everybody else around. You.

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01:08:18,200 --> 01:08:20,400
Speaker 1: Have a great last day of twenty eighteen and get

1338
01:08:20,400 --> 01:08:23,479
Speaker 1: ready for a great twenty nineteen. All right, we come back.

1339
01:08:24,120 --> 01:08:29,640
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you my defensive Ultimate eleven. I do

1340
01:08:29,760 --> 01:08:31,800
Speaker 1: this on Texans Replay, but I don't really have a

1341
01:08:31,920 --> 01:08:34,840
Speaker 1: chance to do this with the final show. So I

1342
01:08:34,960 --> 01:08:37,240
Speaker 1: went through the regular season and I found what I

1343
01:08:37,320 --> 01:08:39,800
Speaker 1: thought were the most impactful eleven plays of the year,

1344
01:08:40,200 --> 01:08:43,040
Speaker 1: and decided to package it together on Texans Replay that

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01:08:43,160 --> 01:08:45,280
Speaker 1: for you next. Because the defense, they had a great

1346
01:08:45,320 --> 01:08:49,439
Speaker 1: game yesterday. Let's celebrate that with the defensive all through

1347
01:08:49,479 --> 01:09:01,880
Speaker 1: eleven next right here in Texans All Access. Now, those

1348
01:09:01,920 --> 01:09:04,720
Speaker 1: of you that have followed the Texans all year long

1349
01:09:04,800 --> 01:09:06,680
Speaker 1: in our Texans radio shows, you know that. Each and

1350
01:09:06,720 --> 01:09:08,679
Speaker 1: every Tuesday night, I do a show called Texans Replay,

1351
01:09:08,880 --> 01:09:11,400
Speaker 1: and on that show, I go back, always going back,

1352
01:09:11,400 --> 01:09:15,040
Speaker 1: I always rewind. I'm never looking forward. I wouldn't promo

1353
01:09:15,120 --> 01:09:16,960
Speaker 1: the Colts game out of All Access to do that.

1354
01:09:17,200 --> 01:09:20,120
Speaker 1: So we have our replay show and we're always looking

1355
01:09:20,200 --> 01:09:23,360
Speaker 1: back at that at that instant. So we're looking back

1356
01:09:23,400 --> 01:09:26,080
Speaker 1: at great plays from the game prior. We're looking back

1357
01:09:26,120 --> 01:09:28,439
Speaker 1: at great seasons, great things that happened in years past,

1358
01:09:28,600 --> 01:09:31,400
Speaker 1: great plays from you know, the players on the team,

1359
01:09:31,479 --> 01:09:33,679
Speaker 1: you know years ago. Like for example, we're getting ready

1360
01:09:33,680 --> 01:09:35,560
Speaker 1: to take on the New York Jets. I had a

1361
01:09:35,640 --> 01:09:38,759
Speaker 1: segment looking back at the day that DeAndre Hopkins torched

1362
01:09:38,800 --> 01:09:41,679
Speaker 1: Revas Island and he torched it, he said it a flame,

1363
01:09:41,880 --> 01:09:44,160
Speaker 1: And yesterday he went to twenty Land and he blew

1364
01:09:44,200 --> 01:09:48,000
Speaker 1: it up. That was awesome. He blew up twenty Land yesterday.

1365
01:09:48,960 --> 01:09:51,880
Speaker 1: If you know about Jalen Ramsey, you know, but anyhow,

1366
01:09:51,960 --> 01:09:53,800
Speaker 1: he had a great ball game. And so that's what

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01:09:53,880 --> 01:09:55,760
Speaker 1: I do with Texans Replay. The one thing I don't

1368
01:09:55,760 --> 01:09:57,559
Speaker 1: get a chance to do at the end of long

1369
01:09:57,600 --> 01:10:00,720
Speaker 1: season is go back and do kind of a retrospective

1370
01:10:00,800 --> 01:10:04,080
Speaker 1: look at the year. And so I decided to do

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01:10:04,240 --> 01:10:07,400
Speaker 1: that with the defensive Plays of the Year, and I

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01:10:07,439 --> 01:10:09,080
Speaker 1: do it in a forum called the Ultimate Eleven. I've

1373
01:10:09,080 --> 01:10:11,639
Speaker 1: been doing this for a long long time and it's

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01:10:11,960 --> 01:10:14,559
Speaker 1: basically my list, but I use eleven because it's football,

1375
01:10:14,600 --> 01:10:16,559
Speaker 1: and you know, eleven players on football, so you can

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01:10:16,560 --> 01:10:18,200
Speaker 1: get it. But I've been doing it for that way

1377
01:10:18,280 --> 01:10:20,479
Speaker 1: a long time. And so what I did is I

1378
01:10:20,520 --> 01:10:24,280
Speaker 1: went through all the games and I found the Ultimate

1379
01:10:24,320 --> 01:10:27,800
Speaker 1: eleven Defensive Plays of the Year. Now you may have

1380
01:10:27,920 --> 01:10:30,679
Speaker 1: heard this on Christmas Night. My guess is you probably didn't,

1381
01:10:31,000 --> 01:10:32,400
Speaker 1: but you're getting a chance to hear it on Monday

1382
01:10:32,479 --> 01:10:34,160
Speaker 1: night in this Texas All Access the figure. That's a

1383
01:10:34,240 --> 01:10:37,360
Speaker 1: great way to close down today's show, to look back

1384
01:10:37,360 --> 01:10:39,840
Speaker 1: at what this defense has done this year. Here we go,

1385
01:10:40,040 --> 01:10:43,920
Speaker 1: and we start with number eleven, and it's a two

1386
01:10:44,280 --> 01:10:49,519
Speaker 1: play situation here. One happened on one drive, one happened

1387
01:10:49,640 --> 01:10:53,280
Speaker 1: on the succeeding drive. And what I'm talking about are

1388
01:10:53,320 --> 01:10:57,439
Speaker 1: the two sacks by JJ Watt and Jadeveon Clowney on

1389
01:10:57,560 --> 01:11:00,800
Speaker 1: the two final drives against the new Your Jets. Now,

1390
01:11:00,840 --> 01:11:02,800
Speaker 1: I could have picked the Washington Redskins game because he

1391
01:11:02,880 --> 01:11:05,439
Speaker 1: did the same thing that game. It was a Watton Clowney.

1392
01:11:05,479 --> 01:11:07,719
Speaker 1: It was a Watt sack of Clowney sack. I believe

1393
01:11:07,760 --> 01:11:10,800
Speaker 1: in either back to back plays or they butted up

1394
01:11:10,840 --> 01:11:14,200
Speaker 1: against one another in that the one was the first down,

1395
01:11:14,240 --> 01:11:16,280
Speaker 1: one was third down. Maybe, but I picked the two

1396
01:11:16,320 --> 01:11:20,559
Speaker 1: against the Jets. Maybe recency bias, I guess. But they

1397
01:11:20,600 --> 01:11:23,600
Speaker 1: were huge and the first one was JJ Watt that

1398
01:11:24,600 --> 01:11:28,439
Speaker 1: came in on a huge third down. He came up

1399
01:11:28,479 --> 01:11:30,880
Speaker 1: with this sack which was fourteen and a half on

1400
01:11:30,960 --> 01:11:33,840
Speaker 1: the year for him at the time, and he nailed

1401
01:11:33,840 --> 01:11:37,200
Speaker 1: down Sam Donald to force a long fourth down on

1402
01:11:37,439 --> 01:11:40,040
Speaker 1: third and seven. Donald in the backfield and J. J.

1403
01:11:40,320 --> 01:11:43,040
Speaker 1: Watt has him. The Paula ruling on the field is

1404
01:11:43,040 --> 01:11:47,240
Speaker 1: that the quarterback four progress was stocked has a sack

1405
01:11:47,640 --> 01:11:50,479
Speaker 1: on third and long. His second of the game. Yeah,

1406
01:11:50,520 --> 01:11:52,760
Speaker 1: excuse Brad Allen for jumping in there. Then on the

1407
01:11:52,880 --> 01:11:56,080
Speaker 1: final drive, after getting a stop on fourth down, Devion

1408
01:11:56,200 --> 01:11:59,400
Speaker 1: Clowney got to Sam Donald on third down, third down

1409
01:11:59,479 --> 01:12:02,679
Speaker 1: and tens from there, it's twenty five. Darnald shotgun. Here's

1410
01:12:02,720 --> 01:12:05,960
Speaker 1: the snap, Darnald with a pocket collapsing. Here's a sack

1411
01:12:06,120 --> 01:12:10,559
Speaker 1: ripped down JAF Devion Clowney gets home to bring down

1412
01:12:10,760 --> 01:12:13,960
Speaker 1: Darnold And that was number eight for the three time

1413
01:12:14,240 --> 01:12:18,720
Speaker 1: pro bowler, ja Deviion Clowney number ten. I think it's

1414
01:12:18,720 --> 01:12:23,040
Speaker 1: a play that doesn't get often mentioned in kind of

1415
01:12:23,120 --> 01:12:26,160
Speaker 1: looking back at the year, and it happened in Jacksonville.

1416
01:12:26,280 --> 01:12:31,080
Speaker 1: The Texans had a thirteen and nothing lead into second half.

1417
01:12:32,479 --> 01:12:35,479
Speaker 1: A pump by Trevor Daniel had pinned the Jaguars deep

1418
01:12:35,600 --> 01:12:39,080
Speaker 1: in their own territory, and Blake Portles dropped the pass,

1419
01:12:39,160 --> 01:12:40,840
Speaker 1: didn't see what he liked and did what he does

1420
01:12:40,880 --> 01:12:43,479
Speaker 1: a lot of times against the Texans. He scrambled, but

1421
01:12:43,760 --> 01:12:46,559
Speaker 1: Zach cutting him, tracked him down and forced this fumble.

1422
01:12:46,600 --> 01:12:50,320
Speaker 1: Two plays later, Shaw Watson hit DeAndre Hopkins for a

1423
01:12:50,400 --> 01:12:52,719
Speaker 1: touchdown that made it twenty to nothing. At play number

1424
01:12:52,840 --> 01:12:55,840
Speaker 1: ten on the defensive side. It's this Zach cutting him

1425
01:12:55,920 --> 01:13:00,200
Speaker 1: forced fumble at Jacksonville third down and seven Portleton the gun.

1426
01:13:00,280 --> 01:13:03,959
Speaker 1: Here comes Matthew and Bortos escapes to his right. Bortles

1427
01:13:04,040 --> 01:13:07,000
Speaker 1: fumbles that's picked up at the thirteen yard line by

1428
01:13:07,120 --> 01:13:11,320
Speaker 1: Kareem Jackson. What a play that was by Zach Cuttingham

1429
01:13:11,439 --> 01:13:15,000
Speaker 1: spying on Bortles, got some help from Duke gadget for Cuttingham,

1430
01:13:15,120 --> 01:13:17,920
Speaker 1: then reaches in and pokes it away. What a play

1431
01:13:18,080 --> 01:13:21,439
Speaker 1: that comes in at number ten. Zach Cuttingham featured a

1432
01:13:21,479 --> 01:13:23,519
Speaker 1: few times in the Ultimate eleven. Just say it now.

1433
01:13:23,800 --> 01:13:26,840
Speaker 1: Play number nine is not really a defensive play, the

1434
01:13:26,920 --> 01:13:30,120
Speaker 1: special teams play, and it's not actually one that the

1435
01:13:30,240 --> 01:13:34,360
Speaker 1: Texans converted or really kind of made a play if

1436
01:13:34,439 --> 01:13:37,640
Speaker 1: you will, But I had nowhere really to put it.

1437
01:13:37,680 --> 01:13:39,519
Speaker 1: It's not offensive play. It's not even to play. Its

1438
01:13:39,520 --> 01:13:42,080
Speaker 1: special teams play. But if you now you will give

1439
01:13:42,080 --> 01:13:44,160
Speaker 1: credit to the defense because there are more defensive players

1440
01:13:44,200 --> 01:13:46,840
Speaker 1: on the field at this moment, and it's in Denver

1441
01:13:48,080 --> 01:13:52,439
Speaker 1: thanks to Brandon McManus and this missed game winning fuel

1442
01:13:52,479 --> 01:13:55,880
Speaker 1: goal at the gun. McManus sets up from near the

1443
01:13:56,040 --> 01:13:58,639
Speaker 1: right hash mark fifty one yard attempt for the win.

1444
01:13:58,800 --> 01:14:01,600
Speaker 1: The snap is down because white right, why right? Why right?

1445
01:14:01,640 --> 01:14:04,720
Speaker 1: It's no good, that's why right. The Texas within it.

1446
01:14:05,479 --> 01:14:11,200
Speaker 1: Nineteen seventeen, Houston prevails. The Texans have won there six

1447
01:14:11,600 --> 01:14:17,679
Speaker 1: straight game and a cameo of me, sorry, I felt

1448
01:14:17,720 --> 01:14:20,120
Speaker 1: so bad about that. Later Mark had a great call

1449
01:14:20,240 --> 01:14:22,960
Speaker 1: and then I screwed it up by screaming wide right.

1450
01:14:23,000 --> 01:14:24,519
Speaker 1: But that's why I do. I tell him what's whether

1451
01:14:24,560 --> 01:14:26,479
Speaker 1: it's wide right? Why left? I'm always in his ear

1452
01:14:27,000 --> 01:14:29,320
Speaker 1: and I was just a little bit too loud, I

1453
01:14:29,400 --> 01:14:31,760
Speaker 1: guess on that one. But what a moment that was

1454
01:14:31,840 --> 01:14:33,920
Speaker 1: in Denver to go into the buy six and three

1455
01:14:34,520 --> 01:14:36,800
Speaker 1: after trading Ford Marius. He was playing back in his

1456
01:14:37,280 --> 01:14:39,680
Speaker 1: former city in Denver. That was a That was a

1457
01:14:39,840 --> 01:14:42,880
Speaker 1: wild afternoon against the never Broncos, no doubt about that.

1458
01:14:43,000 --> 01:14:46,680
Speaker 1: Now at number eight, this one features a player, and

1459
01:14:47,479 --> 01:14:51,040
Speaker 1: it's featuring a player in a loss, which is a

1460
01:14:51,120 --> 01:14:56,719
Speaker 1: little weird. But on the first day of the home schedule,

1461
01:14:56,800 --> 01:15:00,519
Speaker 1: the Texas facing New York Giants, J Watt and not

1462
01:15:00,600 --> 01:15:02,240
Speaker 1: at his sack in the first two games. He played

1463
01:15:02,360 --> 01:15:04,439
Speaker 1: very well in the first in the second half against

1464
01:15:04,479 --> 01:15:06,200
Speaker 1: the New England Patriots, and I thought he had played

1465
01:15:06,200 --> 01:15:08,240
Speaker 1: exceptionally well in the game against Tennessee. He just didn't

1466
01:15:08,240 --> 01:15:11,839
Speaker 1: have any drop back opportunities to go rush to quarterback.

1467
01:15:12,240 --> 01:15:14,360
Speaker 1: But the New York Giants gave him plenty. You know

1468
01:15:14,560 --> 01:15:16,400
Speaker 1: that day he came up with not one, not two,

1469
01:15:16,439 --> 01:15:20,599
Speaker 1: but three sacks, and number eight JJ Watt gets Eli

1470
01:15:20,680 --> 01:15:23,680
Speaker 1: Manning three times. And it started like this, third down

1471
01:15:23,760 --> 01:15:27,560
Speaker 1: and five at the Houston six Manning shotgun. Here's the

1472
01:15:27,640 --> 01:15:30,080
Speaker 1: snap Watt coming into the back. Then the ball is

1473
01:15:30,120 --> 01:15:34,800
Speaker 1: out striped sack there he is JJ Watt and then

1474
01:15:35,000 --> 01:15:39,000
Speaker 1: number two three receivers right Manning and the gun. Here's

1475
01:15:39,000 --> 01:15:42,640
Speaker 1: the snap Manning being Chase Manning sacked again J J.

1476
01:15:42,960 --> 01:15:45,600
Speaker 1: Watt and pits chucking out the game. And then of

1477
01:15:45,720 --> 01:15:48,840
Speaker 1: course number three to three sack game for ninety nine

1478
01:15:48,920 --> 01:15:51,360
Speaker 1: comes in. At number eight, Manning takes the snap. I'm

1479
01:15:51,439 --> 01:15:55,599
Speaker 1: third and ten, there's travela. There's another sack for J. J. Watt,

1480
01:15:56,600 --> 01:15:59,479
Speaker 1: the hat trick. Now, as we moved on to number seven,

1481
01:15:59,479 --> 01:16:01,880
Speaker 1: I think this is a guy number seven that has

1482
01:16:01,920 --> 01:16:05,080
Speaker 1: been phenomenal all year long. He ended up as a

1483
01:16:05,120 --> 01:16:07,519
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl alternate, And if the Pro Bowl had done

1484
01:16:07,520 --> 01:16:09,680
Speaker 1: it right and they had taken a nickel position, I

1485
01:16:09,800 --> 01:16:14,040
Speaker 1: think that Kareem Jackson would absolutely have made the Pro

1486
01:16:14,160 --> 01:16:17,840
Speaker 1: Bowl and still should, to be honest with you, in Denver,

1487
01:16:18,040 --> 01:16:21,759
Speaker 1: I thought he played maybe one of the best games

1488
01:16:22,120 --> 01:16:25,519
Speaker 1: I have ever seen him play, and he put a

1489
01:16:25,680 --> 01:16:28,840
Speaker 1: hit on Philip Lindsay. Philip Lindsay, undrafted rookie going to

1490
01:16:28,880 --> 01:16:32,599
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl, struggling against the Texans that night, really struggled.

1491
01:16:33,560 --> 01:16:35,559
Speaker 1: He ran out to the flat in case Keenum tried

1492
01:16:35,560 --> 01:16:37,760
Speaker 1: to find him a little swing pass and twenty five

1493
01:16:38,439 --> 01:16:41,840
Speaker 1: was waiting for him. With this hit at number seven,

1494
01:16:42,160 --> 01:16:45,240
Speaker 1: Creem Jackson announces his presence with authority on the rookie

1495
01:16:45,280 --> 01:16:48,400
Speaker 1: Philip Lindsay. First down Broncos at their forty five keenom

1496
01:16:48,439 --> 01:16:50,320
Speaker 1: to throw and he swings it out of the backfield

1497
01:16:50,479 --> 01:16:54,080
Speaker 1: and Landsay with that catch by Jackson, jarred at loose,

1498
01:16:54,080 --> 01:16:57,720
Speaker 1: so it's ain completion. Another big hit by creeb. What

1499
01:16:57,880 --> 01:17:00,479
Speaker 1: a day he's having. Boy, he can hear the crowd

1500
01:17:00,640 --> 01:17:05,760
Speaker 1: just go, oh man, he got stroked. How about that?

1501
01:17:05,840 --> 01:17:07,880
Speaker 1: All right? Let's we want to number six and again

1502
01:17:08,080 --> 01:17:12,600
Speaker 1: it's that man, Zach Cuttingham coming up big along with

1503
01:17:12,920 --> 01:17:16,599
Speaker 1: his buddy Bernardrick McKinney. McKinney going to the Pro Bowl,

1504
01:17:17,040 --> 01:17:22,200
Speaker 1: and these two teamed up on a play that well,

1505
01:17:22,280 --> 01:17:25,360
Speaker 1: it preceded one of the biggest offensive plays of the year.

1506
01:17:25,439 --> 01:17:27,640
Speaker 1: And you heard that in the previous segment, and it

1507
01:17:27,720 --> 01:17:32,840
Speaker 1: occurred against the Tennessee Titans inside the five yard line,

1508
01:17:33,920 --> 01:17:37,559
Speaker 1: face the fourth and one. Now, they've got Dereck Henry,

1509
01:17:38,240 --> 01:17:40,800
Speaker 1: one of the young emerging backs in the league who

1510
01:17:40,840 --> 01:17:43,559
Speaker 1: has had a tremendous year, most of that coming after

1511
01:17:43,720 --> 01:17:49,640
Speaker 1: this game. They had Da Lewis, then Marcus Mariota. They

1512
01:17:49,680 --> 01:17:51,160
Speaker 1: had all those guys on fourth and one. They could

1513
01:17:51,200 --> 01:17:53,800
Speaker 1: have given the ball too, but instead they gave it

1514
01:17:53,880 --> 01:17:57,320
Speaker 1: to Luke Stocker. After the game, Mike Rabel said, yeah, look,

1515
01:17:57,360 --> 01:17:58,920
Speaker 1: I know the Texans. I know what they do down

1516
01:17:58,920 --> 01:18:01,320
Speaker 1: in the goal line. This is a good play for

1517
01:18:01,880 --> 01:18:04,800
Speaker 1: what they were in. Well, if that was the case,

1518
01:18:05,040 --> 01:18:08,040
Speaker 1: the Titans did not execute. Luke Stocker took a hand off,

1519
01:18:08,479 --> 01:18:11,479
Speaker 1: he needed thirty six inches and he got negative three

1520
01:18:12,080 --> 01:18:15,840
Speaker 1: because Zach Cuttingham and Bernard McKinney stoned him and got

1521
01:18:15,880 --> 01:18:18,759
Speaker 1: the ball back for the Texans at number six. Cuttingham

1522
01:18:18,880 --> 01:18:21,280
Speaker 1: McKinney team up on fourth and one against the Titans

1523
01:18:21,320 --> 01:18:23,639
Speaker 1: in Week twelve, fourth down and less of the yard

1524
01:18:23,720 --> 01:18:27,880
Speaker 1: inside the Houston three toa Mariota under center. He hands

1525
01:18:27,920 --> 01:18:30,080
Speaker 1: off the stalker the tight head. He's pushed back. I

1526
01:18:30,080 --> 01:18:33,080
Speaker 1: don't know if he's got it. Texans celebrating and they

1527
01:18:33,240 --> 01:18:37,200
Speaker 1: turned back Tennessee on fourth down. Boy, that was a

1528
01:18:37,240 --> 01:18:39,000
Speaker 1: good one. I was standing right there at the line

1529
01:18:39,080 --> 01:18:40,920
Speaker 1: and I knew immediately he didn't get it. And I

1530
01:18:41,040 --> 01:18:42,439
Speaker 1: was yelling at Marks here he didn't get it. He

1531
01:18:42,520 --> 01:18:45,280
Speaker 1: didn't get it. A lot of times. It's hard to

1532
01:18:45,360 --> 01:18:47,040
Speaker 1: tell because of where you are, but I could tell

1533
01:18:47,080 --> 01:18:48,720
Speaker 1: the way the line judge was running in like I

1534
01:18:48,800 --> 01:18:51,639
Speaker 1: knew right away he did not get it. He got Stone.

1535
01:18:51,760 --> 01:18:54,160
Speaker 1: What a hit. It was like he ran into a wall.

1536
01:18:54,280 --> 01:18:56,799
Speaker 1: Stocker was running forward and then went like a direct

1537
01:18:56,960 --> 01:19:00,400
Speaker 1: ninety degree angle because Zack in him and back finished

1538
01:19:00,479 --> 01:19:02,400
Speaker 1: him with a great stop right there. And that's play

1539
01:19:02,479 --> 01:19:06,280
Speaker 1: number six, number five. Oh, it's that man, JJ Watt.

1540
01:19:06,920 --> 01:19:10,320
Speaker 1: Earlier in the year, starting in the Giants game, he

1541
01:19:10,600 --> 01:19:13,360
Speaker 1: was coming up with a strip sack a week and

1542
01:19:13,520 --> 01:19:16,240
Speaker 1: this one against the coltson Week four came it a

1543
01:19:16,360 --> 01:19:23,120
Speaker 1: huge time. Texas were up fourteen to ten, and Andrew

1544
01:19:23,200 --> 01:19:26,320
Speaker 1: Luck went back to pass and here came JJ Watt.

1545
01:19:26,920 --> 01:19:31,040
Speaker 1: With a huge strip sack. Duke gets you four. Recovered

1546
01:19:31,040 --> 01:19:33,639
Speaker 1: the fumble, Texas would go on to score a few

1547
01:19:33,680 --> 01:19:36,360
Speaker 1: plays later on a Watson the Hopkins touchdown to give

1548
01:19:36,439 --> 01:19:39,439
Speaker 1: them a twenty one to ten lead. Play number five.

1549
01:19:39,960 --> 01:19:42,479
Speaker 1: J J. Watts striped sack on Andrew Luck in week

1550
01:19:42,560 --> 01:19:45,519
Speaker 1: four at Indie, Luck gets the snap, Luck stepping up

1551
01:19:45,560 --> 01:19:48,000
Speaker 1: in the pocket. Luck, the ball is out. The Texans

1552
01:19:48,080 --> 01:19:50,479
Speaker 1: have it at the eight yard line. Duke got youa

1553
01:19:50,600 --> 01:19:54,000
Speaker 1: four with the rock first in goal Houston. Like I said,

1554
01:19:54,000 --> 01:19:56,720
Speaker 1: a couple of plays later, DeAndre Hopkins would go up

1555
01:19:57,120 --> 01:20:00,600
Speaker 1: over at Indianapolis defender and May could catch for a

1556
01:20:00,680 --> 01:20:03,880
Speaker 1: touchdown to give them a twenty one to tend lead

1557
01:20:04,080 --> 01:20:07,600
Speaker 1: at that point in the game. Let leads just to

1558
01:20:07,720 --> 01:20:10,680
Speaker 1: number four. In that same game, leading up into this

1559
01:20:11,120 --> 01:20:14,800
Speaker 1: game at Andy, the Texans were oh and three. And

1560
01:20:15,000 --> 01:20:17,120
Speaker 1: I've I've said this before. I'd done a number of

1561
01:20:17,160 --> 01:20:20,120
Speaker 1: interviews and even all Access that week. And when you're

1562
01:20:20,200 --> 01:20:23,559
Speaker 1: kind of in a funk, you need something to happen

1563
01:20:23,680 --> 01:20:26,280
Speaker 1: for you, you need a little bit of help sometimes. Well,

1564
01:20:26,320 --> 01:20:29,600
Speaker 1: the Indianapolis Colts gave that help to the Texans. It

1565
01:20:29,680 --> 01:20:32,160
Speaker 1: with a seven to nothing lead. The Colts were backed

1566
01:20:32,200 --> 01:20:35,960
Speaker 1: up deep after a great Trevor Daniel punt. After getting

1567
01:20:36,000 --> 01:20:40,000
Speaker 1: stoned on first down, Andrew Luck went back in the shotgun.

1568
01:20:40,520 --> 01:20:43,920
Speaker 1: But Ryan Kelly, the center, was not completely aware that

1569
01:20:44,080 --> 01:20:47,439
Speaker 1: Andrew was in the shotgun, and he bots the snap.

1570
01:20:48,000 --> 01:20:49,439
Speaker 1: And I was at an angle. I could see you

1571
01:20:49,520 --> 01:20:52,000
Speaker 1: right away, so when he moved his hand, initially I

1572
01:20:52,160 --> 01:20:54,960
Speaker 1: was like, oh, false start, false start. But then he continued.

1573
01:20:55,439 --> 01:20:57,920
Speaker 1: And when he continued he snapped it as if Andrew

1574
01:20:58,000 --> 01:21:01,200
Speaker 1: was under center. The ball hit his backside, it dropped.

1575
01:21:02,120 --> 01:21:04,639
Speaker 1: Luck tried to get on it, but he didn't because

1576
01:21:04,760 --> 01:21:07,719
Speaker 1: Jadeveon Clowney dove on top of him from the opposite

1577
01:21:07,760 --> 01:21:10,560
Speaker 1: side and got the football. Now, at the time we

1578
01:21:10,680 --> 01:21:12,439
Speaker 1: thought it was Brandon Dunn because Dunn came out of

1579
01:21:12,479 --> 01:21:15,360
Speaker 1: the pile with it, but it was Clowney who had

1580
01:21:15,400 --> 01:21:19,519
Speaker 1: the touchdown and in the pile. I talked to Brandon

1581
01:21:19,520 --> 01:21:21,880
Speaker 1: had done about that, and I asked him, I said, man,

1582
01:21:21,880 --> 01:21:23,560
Speaker 1: I tried to give you a touchdown. He said, no,

1583
01:21:23,760 --> 01:21:25,760
Speaker 1: he goes under the pile. Clowney was screaming at me

1584
01:21:25,840 --> 01:21:28,240
Speaker 1: and gave him the ball. So JD came up with

1585
01:21:28,320 --> 01:21:32,519
Speaker 1: this play right here at number four against Indianapolis second

1586
01:21:32,560 --> 01:21:35,719
Speaker 1: and ten for the Colts. Two. Luck they dropped a snap,

1587
01:21:35,920 --> 01:21:38,240
Speaker 1: Luck falls on it. There's a scrum, he might not

1588
01:21:38,439 --> 01:21:41,559
Speaker 1: have it. The Texans are saying touchdown, no signal yet,

1589
01:21:41,960 --> 01:21:45,759
Speaker 1: Watt is celebrating. Carl Jeffers has a look, we're waiting

1590
01:21:45,800 --> 01:21:49,760
Speaker 1: for the signal, and it's a touchdown for Huston. Well,

1591
01:21:49,840 --> 01:21:52,880
Speaker 1: that was big. That started really everything at that point.

1592
01:21:53,160 --> 01:21:55,160
Speaker 1: That was big. That was a number four. Devion Clowny's

1593
01:21:55,200 --> 01:21:59,280
Speaker 1: full recovery touchdown against Indianapolis. Get to number three, and

1594
01:21:59,400 --> 01:22:02,800
Speaker 1: now the theme of pick sixes start coming to the fray.

1595
01:22:03,400 --> 01:22:04,960
Speaker 1: And then one of number three comes from a guy

1596
01:22:05,000 --> 01:22:07,639
Speaker 1: we've already mentioned in this all through eleven. In this segment,

1597
01:22:08,640 --> 01:22:13,000
Speaker 1: Zack Cuttingham against the Cleveland Browns. Zach made one heck

1598
01:22:13,080 --> 01:22:15,960
Speaker 1: of an interception and then wove his way all the

1599
01:22:16,000 --> 01:22:17,920
Speaker 1: way down to the pylon and he was ruled out

1600
01:22:18,000 --> 01:22:22,160
Speaker 1: of bounds, but upon review, he scored a pick six,

1601
01:22:22,240 --> 01:22:25,280
Speaker 1: the first one of his careers for reception is a Texan. Texan.

1602
01:22:25,720 --> 01:22:27,559
Speaker 1: Zach Cuttingham comes in at number three with his pick

1603
01:22:27,640 --> 01:22:31,080
Speaker 1: six against the Browns. First Dawn Browns at their twenty

1604
01:22:31,160 --> 01:22:33,479
Speaker 1: eight seven and a half to go second quarter, Houston

1605
01:22:33,600 --> 01:22:36,800
Speaker 1: leads ten nothing. Here's the snap, Clowney on the way,

1606
01:22:36,840 --> 01:22:40,760
Speaker 1: Mayfield fling Caffield. This is picked off Cuttingham towards left

1607
01:22:41,400 --> 01:22:45,000
Speaker 1: twenty five twenty the fifteen left sideline ten five going

1608
01:22:45,120 --> 01:22:49,320
Speaker 1: for the pylon, and they're gonna mark him out, swam Colton.

1609
01:22:49,360 --> 01:22:53,200
Speaker 1: It just gave us the verdict. Cunningham got the ball

1610
01:22:53,280 --> 01:22:58,240
Speaker 1: over the pylon. It's a touchdown for Houston. An interception

1611
01:22:58,400 --> 01:23:02,040
Speaker 1: returned for a TD and a brilliant job by Cunningham

1612
01:23:02,240 --> 01:23:05,719
Speaker 1: along the sideline to stay in bounds, got the foot

1613
01:23:05,800 --> 01:23:10,000
Speaker 1: in and got the ball over the pylon, one armed,

1614
01:23:10,320 --> 01:23:15,880
Speaker 1: and the Texans get another TD, pick six by Cunningham

1615
01:23:16,160 --> 01:23:18,800
Speaker 1: the hard way. All right, it's get to our final two.

1616
01:23:19,040 --> 01:23:23,599
Speaker 1: And I had some internal back and forth since I'm

1617
01:23:23,600 --> 01:23:25,760
Speaker 1: the one who comes up with all of this, and

1618
01:23:25,800 --> 01:23:30,080
Speaker 1: I had to decide between two plays. And it was

1619
01:23:30,160 --> 01:23:32,160
Speaker 1: really clear to me like what the top two plays were,

1620
01:23:32,479 --> 01:23:35,080
Speaker 1: but I wasn't sure what order, And then I thought about,

1621
01:23:35,240 --> 01:23:40,400
Speaker 1: you know what, the when it happened, it is probably

1622
01:23:40,880 --> 01:23:45,040
Speaker 1: a little bit more important than length of pick six

1623
01:23:45,800 --> 01:23:49,840
Speaker 1: if you catch my drift. So at number two, this

1624
01:23:50,000 --> 01:23:52,760
Speaker 1: one was massive and it's really hard to make one one,

1625
01:23:52,840 --> 01:23:55,599
Speaker 1: number two, one, number one, But I went at number

1626
01:23:55,640 --> 01:24:01,679
Speaker 1: two with Justin Reid's first ever pick six one hundred

1627
01:24:01,680 --> 01:24:06,000
Speaker 1: and one yards against Washington. This broke the Redskins back

1628
01:24:06,240 --> 01:24:08,479
Speaker 1: up in Washington earlier this year. This comes in a

1629
01:24:08,600 --> 01:24:12,040
Speaker 1: number two third and goal at the nine. Here's the snap,

1630
01:24:12,479 --> 01:24:15,280
Speaker 1: Smith looking firing to the end zone and its center

1631
01:24:15,360 --> 01:24:18,240
Speaker 1: Spton brought out by Reid and he takes it right

1632
01:24:18,280 --> 01:24:22,200
Speaker 1: side across the forty, the fifty, the forty of Washington.

1633
01:24:22,479 --> 01:24:25,640
Speaker 1: No one's gonna get him a pick six coast to

1634
01:24:25,800 --> 01:24:30,160
Speaker 1: coast one hundred and one yards. Now, I thought immediately

1635
01:24:30,280 --> 01:24:33,759
Speaker 1: it was a Texans record. Well, my buddy Marcus Coleman

1636
01:24:33,880 --> 01:24:36,360
Speaker 1: had one one hundred and two yards against the Chiefs

1637
01:24:36,400 --> 01:24:39,320
Speaker 1: back in two thousand and four, so Marcus has still

1638
01:24:39,360 --> 01:24:42,400
Speaker 1: got the record, but Justin was, well, he was thirty

1639
01:24:42,439 --> 01:24:46,880
Speaker 1: six inches away. Yeah, it happens. It happens. He'll have

1640
01:24:46,960 --> 01:24:50,040
Speaker 1: another opportunity at some point to maybe go break that record.

1641
01:24:50,160 --> 01:24:52,240
Speaker 1: But that comes in at number two, and you know

1642
01:24:52,360 --> 01:24:55,000
Speaker 1: at that point when it comes into number one, when

1643
01:24:55,040 --> 01:25:00,520
Speaker 1: it happened matters, And it came at the most opportune

1644
01:25:00,560 --> 01:25:03,920
Speaker 1: time against the Buffalo Bills. After the Texans tied to

1645
01:25:04,000 --> 01:25:08,040
Speaker 1: score at thirteen. The second play of the following drive,

1646
01:25:08,280 --> 01:25:12,639
Speaker 1: Jonathan Joseph did this to get the twenty to thirteen

1647
01:25:12,720 --> 01:25:15,120
Speaker 1: win over at the Buffalo Bills, and it is number

1648
01:25:15,240 --> 01:25:18,280
Speaker 1: one on our Defensive Plays of the Year Ultimate eleven

1649
01:25:18,600 --> 01:25:21,280
Speaker 1: second of ten bills. So there are twenty five. Peterman

1650
01:25:21,360 --> 01:25:23,800
Speaker 1: takes the snap, he's looking left. He throws that way.

1651
01:25:23,840 --> 01:25:26,880
Speaker 1: It's picked off by Tonal Than Joseph. Hcalf upteen ten

1652
01:25:27,000 --> 01:25:30,800
Speaker 1: five broke and roll. The Texans go in front Huma

1653
01:25:31,000 --> 01:25:34,960
Speaker 1: pick six. I'm telling you what a day that was.

1654
01:25:35,920 --> 01:25:38,360
Speaker 1: I thought when z Jones caught that ball was over man.

1655
01:25:38,520 --> 01:25:41,559
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, I thought it was over. J Joe

1656
01:25:41,920 --> 01:25:44,080
Speaker 1: hell of a play, hell of a player. Glad he's

1657
01:25:44,080 --> 01:25:45,800
Speaker 1: with us, and hopefully we'll get a chance to see

1658
01:25:45,920 --> 01:25:49,439
Speaker 1: him on Saturday against the Inneapolis Colts. Back in this lineup.

1659
01:25:49,640 --> 01:25:51,800
Speaker 1: We can use him, There's no question about that. There

1660
01:25:51,840 --> 01:25:54,679
Speaker 1: you go, there's your show. Big thanks to Andre Ware,

1661
01:25:54,760 --> 01:25:57,320
Speaker 1: to Spencer tillm and to John McClain, to all of

1662
01:25:57,439 --> 01:25:59,680
Speaker 1: you for listening. Thank you so much. We will see

1663
01:25:59,760 --> 01:26:01,400
Speaker 1: him aw and as always, go Texans.