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Speaker 1: dealer today. Now back to the show. One more knee

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Speaker 1: and it's in the books. Watson approaches, Nick Martin takes

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Speaker 1: any and it is over in Detroit that Houston Texans

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Speaker 1: down the Lions on Thanksgiving of Feast forty one to

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Speaker 1: twenty five. The Texans win back to back and up

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Speaker 1: there a record to four and seven. Oh yeah, that record, boy,

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Speaker 1: it hurts to hear four and seven. I'll tell you this.

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Speaker 1: I thought about this, but Mark and I were chatting

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Speaker 1: earlier this afternoon and we were talking about just, man,

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Speaker 1: what if the Texans had won that game in Tennessee.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the two point conversions there, it's there, it's over,

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Speaker 1: it's over. You get the two point conversion in the

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Speaker 1: ball games over And what if you get that one

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Speaker 1: and then somehow, maybe you kick the field goal down inside,

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Speaker 1: maybe you get to touchdown against the Browns, and you

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Speaker 1: beat the Browns. You'd be sitting at six and five.

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Speaker 1: The Titans would then lose to the Colts and be

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Speaker 1: six and five, and you'd be in front of them.

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Speaker 1: I know that sounds bizarre, but that's that's where you'd

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Speaker 1: be if that that's it, and that's not that's not

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Speaker 1: outside the realm of possibility, really not. Those are two

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Speaker 1: games that's exans a Titans game, for sure. You can

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Speaker 1: argue me about the Browns one I could, maybe, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I could. Maybe that was that was tough, just the

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Speaker 1: whole day was tough. But you gotta put up more

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Speaker 1: at seven points, especially when you get the ball inside

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Speaker 1: their territory I think four to seven times. But you

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Speaker 1: didn't and you're sitting at four and seven. But man,

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Speaker 1: if you get those two wins and then Tennessee loses

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Speaker 1: to the cultist week which is highly likely. All of

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Speaker 1: a sudden, you're looking at both six and five at

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Speaker 1: the end of the weekend, and you'd be ahead because

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Speaker 1: you'd have the win over them. Oh my god. Oh

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Speaker 1: either way, I don't, I don't. I just I want

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Speaker 1: to take it one win at a time, just one

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Speaker 1: game at a time. And with this game, it was

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Speaker 1: fantastic and had a lot of moments. And each and

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Speaker 1: every Tuesday, I do show called Texans Replay, and I

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Speaker 1: always look back at certain things that have happened in

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Speaker 1: Texans history, but I always start with the ultimate eleven

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Speaker 1: plays of the game of the week before, and I

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Speaker 1: love it and makes it so easy for me when

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Speaker 1: the Texans get a win, and they did, so let's

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Speaker 1: do it. Let's do y'all through eleven plays slashed moments

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Speaker 1: of the win over Detroit. And I start at number

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Speaker 1: eleven with this play, which if you look at just

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Speaker 1: the play sheet, it just says player four yard run

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Speaker 1: on third and one. Doesn't sound like a big deal, right,

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Speaker 1: but A we haven't gotten a lot of four yard

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Speaker 1: a lot of four yard runs on third and one.

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Speaker 1: Let's be honest and see it was Jordan Nakins at

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Speaker 1: on third and one. Aikins the fullback, Duke Johnson the tailback.

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Speaker 1: Good to see Duke back in there. They give a

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Speaker 1: How about that a turn ducking run by Jordan Aikins

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Speaker 1: had that reaction. It was so cool. That was at

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Speaker 1: number eleven, number ten, right before the half. The Texas

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Speaker 1: got to drive, but it bogged down up at that

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Speaker 1: give them a nine point lead? All right? Let's get

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Speaker 1: and that's Brandon Cooks. Five targets, five catches, eighty five yards.

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Speaker 1: Here's the snap. Watson fakes to hand off, the duke

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Speaker 1: then some Oh yeah, Cooks was a first down maker.

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Speaker 1: He and Fuller. My goodness, no, Fuller's every single catch

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Speaker 1: for Fuller ended up with a touchdown or first down.

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Speaker 1: flow of traffic, it's not Fuller or Cooks or Brandon Donne. Oh,

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Speaker 1: number seven. One of the three turnovers, Big number ninety

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Speaker 1: ball was wiggling around on his abdomen. It's loose, it's out.

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Speaker 1: a fumble on the play recovered by Houston. I had

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Speaker 1: that for a fact. And Brandon Dunn got into that

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Speaker 1: They got Carlos Hider receiving touchdown. CJ. Procie got one

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Speaker 1: it comes in at number six. All right, let's get

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Speaker 1: the number five and this turnover the Texans did take

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Speaker 1: advantage of with that Procise touchdown. Terrell Adams forced both

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Speaker 1: Brandon Dune got the one at number five. Bradley Roby

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Speaker 1: Come in at number five. Bradley Roby recovers a fumble

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Speaker 1: Here's the run right side, and it's fruit full up

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Speaker 1: number two here in the first quarter. Each every week,

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Speaker 1: put the five keys to the game on each side.

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Speaker 1: Five offense, five defense. And I had the same key

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Speaker 1: this week because I did last week, because the Texans

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Speaker 1: won the game against the Patriots without getting a turnover.

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Speaker 1: That was not the case on Thursday against the Detroit Lins.

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Speaker 1: The Texans did spit one on the ground TJ. Pro

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Speaker 1: Sice unfortunately after that brand and done recovery. But I

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Speaker 1: always put, hey man, a turnover would look nice. You

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Speaker 1: can get it last week. How about this week? Well

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Speaker 1: they got three. They got two onconsecutive plays and then

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Speaker 1: Roby's and it comes in at number five. All rightlet's

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Speaker 1: ready for the first preseason game that night, Thursday night.

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Speaker 1: So this is Thursday morning. I'm at some coffee shop

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Speaker 1: about the Duke Johnson deal? And I went, what, oh, oh, man,

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Speaker 1: we must have traded for Duke Johnson. And then all

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Speaker 1: these thoughts started running through my mind of all these

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Speaker 1: different things that we could do with Duke Johnson. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's a running back, great, but man as a receiver,

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Speaker 1: Holy smokes, well he showed it all off to the

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Speaker 1: Lions with the stutter in go on, Jamie Collins. That

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Speaker 1: was absolutely just sick. And that touchdown comes in at

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Speaker 1: the snap, Watson firing deep down the left side and

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Speaker 1: got him. Man, Duke, He's in rock and roll touchdown Houston.

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Speaker 1: of Duke to be able to get that ball inside

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Speaker 1: gets to number three and it's the bomb. Delay a

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Speaker 1: game pushed it, not delay game, a false start, push

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Speaker 1: the Texans back to first and fifteen. I was like,

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Speaker 1: oh man, but the way the offense is gone, I

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Speaker 1: a great Black Friday, Johnny. I mean I woke up

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Speaker 1: feeling great, and I felt great throughout the day. You know,

428
00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:54,680
Speaker 1: I'm watching the long Horns, and you know, I see

429
00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:57,280
Speaker 1: the Texans score flash up there all day because there's

430
00:22:57,280 --> 00:23:00,240
Speaker 1: no other NFL action and that's the most recent stuff.

431
00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:04,240
Speaker 1: And oh yeah the Cowboys loss, which, by the way,

432
00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:09,000
Speaker 1: that Cowboys game. And I'm not sure, like I know,

433
00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:12,760
Speaker 1: the Charter doesn't have the live TV much anymore because

434
00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:16,320
Speaker 1: we've gotten to the bigger planes. But it reminded me

435
00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:20,560
Speaker 1: of flying home in twenty twelve, because that day the

436
00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:24,199
Speaker 1: Texans beat Detroit on Thanksgiving and the Jets played the

437
00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:28,119
Speaker 1: Patriots in the night game, and that was butt fumble. Ye.

438
00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:31,960
Speaker 1: So to me, the Cowboy game reminded me of one

439
00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:36,240
Speaker 1: gigantic butt fumble game because that was like a butt

440
00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:39,959
Speaker 1: fumble for them, right, And look, we have friends in Dallas,

441
00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:42,439
Speaker 1: we have friends with the Cowboys. I actually feel Do

442
00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:45,840
Speaker 1: I feel bad for them? I probably not, but that

443
00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:48,760
Speaker 1: is horrible. I mean to play like that in front

444
00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:51,359
Speaker 1: of your fans whatever there were there, and you know,

445
00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:54,160
Speaker 1: I like Andy Dalton. I'm just perplexed why they can't

446
00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:56,320
Speaker 1: do better. But anyway, that made for a good Black

447
00:23:56,359 --> 00:23:58,800
Speaker 1: Friday to see that score flash up there. And of

448
00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:01,600
Speaker 1: course the most important thing is the Texans winning and

449
00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:03,800
Speaker 1: the way they did and the way they look Johnny,

450
00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:06,080
Speaker 1: and I'm just trying to enjoy it instead of think

451
00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:10,359
Speaker 1: about why why couldn't we beat the Cleveland Browns and

452
00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:14,159
Speaker 1: the Titans and close those games out somehow? But they

453
00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:15,879
Speaker 1: couldn't do it. And we are where we are, but

454
00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:17,679
Speaker 1: you know, we have to like where we're at as

455
00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:22,480
Speaker 1: far as yesterday goes. And they went over the Patriots, yeah, exactly,

456
00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:25,720
Speaker 1: two in a row, and against the Patriots and then

457
00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:29,840
Speaker 1: against the Midwest faux version of the Patriots up in

458
00:24:29,880 --> 00:24:33,480
Speaker 1: Detroit and we sort of talked about it during the game.

459
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Speaker 1: There was a moment in the game where I felt like,

460
00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:39,800
Speaker 1: he's done. I don't care what happens with the rest

461
00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:44,639
Speaker 1: of this game, but he's done. Matt Patricius's he's just

462
00:24:44,680 --> 00:24:47,840
Speaker 1: completely mailed in. Was right before the half, after the

463
00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:51,240
Speaker 1: Texans had the penalty that kept the drive alive. Right

464
00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:55,280
Speaker 1: before the half, Stafford gets the ball. And the thing

465
00:24:55,359 --> 00:24:58,560
Speaker 1: is is, you have Matt Prator, one of the most

466
00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:02,000
Speaker 1: explode most of kicking weapons you could have. I mean

467
00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:05,680
Speaker 1: I watched him in pregame kick it from midfield right

468
00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:10,359
Speaker 1: off the Lions logo two steps and nail it into

469
00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:12,800
Speaker 1: the cardboard cutouts that were back in the end zone.

470
00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:15,200
Speaker 1: He would have been good from sixty four to sixty five.

471
00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:17,000
Speaker 1: All they had to do was just get him there.

472
00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:21,399
Speaker 1: And they wouldn't call timeouts, they didn't stop the clock.

473
00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:23,119
Speaker 1: I mean, it was the Texans who had to stop

474
00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:25,879
Speaker 1: the clock. And it was a complete and utter mess.

475
00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:29,199
Speaker 1: And I'm just looking across the field and there were

476
00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:32,080
Speaker 1: no fans in the stands, which for me makes things

477
00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:35,000
Speaker 1: really nice because I can kind of go where I

478
00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:37,240
Speaker 1: want to. I don't have to worry about what Lion fan,

479
00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:39,600
Speaker 1: I'm gonna run into and all that like I did

480
00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:43,840
Speaker 1: in Tennessee or even in Cleveland. But it was all

481
00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:46,600
Speaker 1: I could hear in my head. We're just booze raining

482
00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:50,000
Speaker 1: down like what it would have sounded like in that building,

483
00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:53,920
Speaker 1: and I just thought, Man, I mean, we've we're gonna

484
00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:55,840
Speaker 1: go through this weekend and he's gonna still end up

485
00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:59,600
Speaker 1: being the Detroit Lions coach. Mark, he looked like a

486
00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:04,240
Speaker 1: dead coach walking on that sideline watching him throughout that game,

487
00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:07,359
Speaker 1: but in particular not taking any timeouts at the half.

488
00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:10,480
Speaker 1: I was just I was foured, and it was at

489
00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:13,280
Speaker 1: that point I realized, Okay, we're definitely gonna win this game.

490
00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:15,840
Speaker 1: It's just a matter of how many points we could

491
00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:18,680
Speaker 1: put on the board in the end, and in the

492
00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:20,600
Speaker 1: end put up forty one, the best of Texas have

493
00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:22,760
Speaker 1: done since they put up fifty three against the Falcons

494
00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:26,000
Speaker 1: last year. But Mark, I felt like that Texans could

495
00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:31,679
Speaker 1: have scored any time they wanted on Thursday, and I

496
00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:35,639
Speaker 1: felt that against the Titans this year, and I've felt

497
00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:37,520
Speaker 1: that at other times. I felt like they could have

498
00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:40,480
Speaker 1: scored anytime they wanted, and that they in the fourth

499
00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:42,680
Speaker 1: quarter pulled the dogs off because they could have even

500
00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:45,800
Speaker 1: gotten worse. Have they put another couple on the board,

501
00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:49,520
Speaker 1: and I think they could have easily done that at

502
00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:53,200
Speaker 1: some point yesterday against Alliance, Well, I think they they're

503
00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:56,960
Speaker 1: playing the way we kind of envisioned when we realized

504
00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:59,000
Speaker 1: that they couldn't run the football the way they wanted to.

505
00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:03,160
Speaker 1: Right they're throwing more, they still run it, and Duke

506
00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:05,359
Speaker 1: ran it pretty well yesterday. I thought Duke had some

507
00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:08,760
Speaker 1: nice runs yesterday. And I think because of the way

508
00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:12,080
Speaker 1: they're spreading things out now and spreading out the run

509
00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:15,680
Speaker 1: calls in the script or however you want to define that,

510
00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:18,240
Speaker 1: I believe that has a lot to do with it.

511
00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:21,840
Speaker 1: And you know, on the PFT feed this morning, for

512
00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:24,880
Speaker 1: them to talk about Watson as a possible MVP candidate,

513
00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:27,200
Speaker 1: that might seem far effect, but he's putting up the

514
00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:29,600
Speaker 1: numbers for it. Now. The record isn't there, obviously, but

515
00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:33,199
Speaker 1: he's definitely putting up MVP type numbers. You flip that

516
00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:36,720
Speaker 1: record and there's no question he's in the conversation squarely,

517
00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:38,560
Speaker 1: in the center of it, maybe at the lead of it,

518
00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:43,440
Speaker 1: but all that aside, he's playing great. They've found something. Now,

519
00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:45,840
Speaker 1: Look you'd love a shot at the good teams again,

520
00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:47,880
Speaker 1: and you're gonna get one against the Colts a week

521
00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:50,320
Speaker 1: from Sunday, no matter what they do against Tennessee this weekend.

522
00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:53,520
Speaker 1: This is a huge game a week from Sunday at NRG.

523
00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:55,840
Speaker 1: And I'm already excited about it because again, I'm gonna

524
00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:58,160
Speaker 1: take it like, let's just play a bowl game this week.

525
00:27:58,200 --> 00:27:59,879
Speaker 1: You know you're talking about one and oh every week.

526
00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:02,640
Speaker 1: To me, every week is a bowl game. It's an

527
00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:05,160
Speaker 1: end to itself. Let's just see what you can do

528
00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:07,959
Speaker 1: and take it from there. And Mark one of the

529
00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:13,400
Speaker 1: things that I really noticed. I noticed it for the Patriots,

530
00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:14,840
Speaker 1: and I think some of that had to do with

531
00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:17,040
Speaker 1: the roof being open, and it kind of being new

532
00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:20,320
Speaker 1: playing at home again after you know, a couple of

533
00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:22,000
Speaker 1: weeks on the road, or a couple of weeks on

534
00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:24,280
Speaker 1: the road. I mean, it had been forever since we

535
00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:26,159
Speaker 1: had played at home, So that was kind of nice.

536
00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:29,280
Speaker 1: But I worried a little bit about the guys yesterday.

537
00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:32,320
Speaker 1: It's a half hour earlier, and you know how creatures

538
00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:35,560
Speaker 1: a habit. Everybody is, not just players, but all of

539
00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:37,879
Speaker 1: us are. We're creatures a habit and we play the

540
00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:40,400
Speaker 1: game at twelve or one local. What you know, whether

541
00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:42,840
Speaker 1: we're Eastern or Central, whatever the case might be. But

542
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:45,400
Speaker 1: we're a half hour earlier. There are no fans in

543
00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:48,480
Speaker 1: the stands. You're playing the Lions, not a great team.

544
00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:51,480
Speaker 1: Are we gonna have any juice? Is there gonna be

545
00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:55,080
Speaker 1: any energy? Because that seems to be what and when

546
00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:58,000
Speaker 1: this team plays pretty well is when they sort of

547
00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:01,840
Speaker 1: channel that energy. They came on the field from the

548
00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:04,280
Speaker 1: far tunnel and they were on the far end, and

549
00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:06,880
Speaker 1: I was down there, and the specialists were out there

550
00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:09,520
Speaker 1: receiver to catch and passes, and then the rest of

551
00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:11,240
Speaker 1: the team came out of locker room to do their

552
00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:17,200
Speaker 1: activation and stretching and mark. It sounded like like eighth

553
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:20,720
Speaker 1: grade study hall, like just chatterbox in the whole time,

554
00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:23,840
Speaker 1: just I mean, wouldn't be quite. I mean, guys were

555
00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:26,800
Speaker 1: just talking to one another, high five in one another.

556
00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:29,960
Speaker 1: The energy and the joy that they're playing with. And

557
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:34,080
Speaker 1: I thought it was really interesting when we had kind

558
00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:40,320
Speaker 1: of an organizational wide meeting with Cal and Jas McNair,

559
00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:42,320
Speaker 1: and that was the word it was used at some point,

560
00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:45,840
Speaker 1: was joy. And you can actually see the fun and

561
00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:48,160
Speaker 1: the joy that they were kind of warming up with

562
00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:52,680
Speaker 1: and I thought, man, if they can just play kind

563
00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:55,760
Speaker 1: of this way, kind of play loose and just play

564
00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:59,560
Speaker 1: like they're having some fun, man, this could be a

565
00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:02,200
Speaker 1: really fun day. And that's really the way it turned out.

566
00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:06,280
Speaker 1: And to your point about playing the Colts, I almost

567
00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:09,080
Speaker 1: want them to realize it's not the Colts, that is

568
00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:11,720
Speaker 1: just the next team on the schedule. And I know

569
00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:16,000
Speaker 1: that's hard because Colts Week is always such a such

570
00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:17,960
Speaker 1: a cool week. I mean, since being down on the

571
00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:22,480
Speaker 1: sidelines in twenty fourteen, every single game against the Colts

572
00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:25,840
Speaker 1: minus twenty seventeen at the end of the year, I

573
00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:28,880
Speaker 1: guess you could say twenty seventeen early on, every single

574
00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:33,200
Speaker 1: game has mattered so darn much. It's been so big

575
00:30:33,240 --> 00:30:37,160
Speaker 1: in the race for the division. It's been great games

576
00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:41,640
Speaker 1: with Luck and Watson. It's been incredible played by guys

577
00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:45,640
Speaker 1: you don't expect, like Matt Hasselbeck. But I kind of

578
00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:48,280
Speaker 1: want this version of the Texans to not even realize

579
00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:50,920
Speaker 1: it's the Colts, but it's just the next team on

580
00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:53,600
Speaker 1: the schedule. Let's just go see what happens, you know.

581
00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:56,520
Speaker 1: And if they do that, I think it's a tough

582
00:30:56,560 --> 00:31:00,200
Speaker 1: team to stop because they're kind of right. Now. This

583
00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:02,200
Speaker 1: is gonna sound weird, but it's almost like they're playing

584
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:04,600
Speaker 1: with house money, and I don't even want them to

585
00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:08,040
Speaker 1: realize that there's even a shot of having any kind

586
00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:11,040
Speaker 1: of run to get to even ninety seven. Now, they

587
00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:12,520
Speaker 1: got to win out, like you said, every game of

588
00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:15,240
Speaker 1: Bowl game, but I don't even want them to realize that.

589
00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:17,880
Speaker 1: I want them to just capture the spirit they're playing

590
00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:20,880
Speaker 1: with and just rock on. Yeah, they got to stay

591
00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:24,000
Speaker 1: loose somehow, but you know, you said it, it's like,

592
00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:28,120
Speaker 1: how tight can you be when you realize that the expectations,

593
00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:30,680
Speaker 1: you know, from the outside looking in anyway, are not

594
00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:32,880
Speaker 1: very high. I mean, people expect them to play better,

595
00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:35,280
Speaker 1: for sure, and maybe some people expect them to beat

596
00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:36,920
Speaker 1: the Colts next week, and we'll see what kind of

597
00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:40,960
Speaker 1: shape Indies in at that point. But I'm wondering how

598
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:43,480
Speaker 1: that's gonna be. And you're right, there's no way they're

599
00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:45,800
Speaker 1: gonna be able to ignore the fact that the media

600
00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:47,959
Speaker 1: is going to shower Colts questions all over with them.

601
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:49,640
Speaker 1: They're gonna be preparing for the guys and the horse

602
00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:53,600
Speaker 1: shoes and that's that. But you're right, since you joined

603
00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:57,640
Speaker 1: the Texans media crew in twenty fourteen. Every day, I'll

604
00:31:57,640 --> 00:32:00,760
Speaker 1: say this, even the one in twenty seventeen home was big.

605
00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:04,000
Speaker 1: Watson had just gotten hurt, Savage starts, Rossette is going

606
00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:05,880
Speaker 1: for them. You know you still have a chance to

607
00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:08,120
Speaker 1: make this a good season. Let's see if you know

608
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:10,480
Speaker 1: Savage was going to be your guy, so let's see

609
00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:11,960
Speaker 1: what he can do. And then they lose and then

610
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:14,640
Speaker 1: it slides out of control from there. So the latter game,

611
00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:17,760
Speaker 1: the late game that year was just a get through

612
00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:20,240
Speaker 1: it kind of thing, last game of the regular season,

613
00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:23,080
Speaker 1: And so is the one in twenty third team when

614
00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:26,040
Speaker 1: you were up there with Wade Phillips coaching on an

615
00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:29,640
Speaker 1: interim basis. But this one does look if nothing else,

616
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:32,200
Speaker 1: you have a chance. If they win on Sunday, you

617
00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:34,080
Speaker 1: have a chance to knock off the first place team.

618
00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:36,160
Speaker 1: If they lose on Sunday, you have a chance to

619
00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:38,800
Speaker 1: knock off somebody is who's ahead of you and in

620
00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:40,760
Speaker 1: the division. And if the Colts and you have a

621
00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:42,800
Speaker 1: chance to make them miserable and put a debt in

622
00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:46,640
Speaker 1: their playoff hopes. I think all of that is cool stuff,

623
00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:49,520
Speaker 1: and I'm looking forward to it. But Johnny, I'm sure,

624
00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:51,600
Speaker 1: you agree with me on this that you know you

625
00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:55,440
Speaker 1: can't overlook in victory what you would in defeat or

626
00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:58,760
Speaker 1: wouldn't in defeat or whatever. However, the Jeff Van Gundi

627
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:01,120
Speaker 1: expression goes and I don't even know if he made

628
00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:04,400
Speaker 1: that up, But the deal is this. They're definitely playing

629
00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:06,360
Speaker 1: well on offense with the passing game. They got to

630
00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:10,600
Speaker 1: run it consistently more consistently, will still say that. And defensively,

631
00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:12,920
Speaker 1: obviously they did a good job against the run, and

632
00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:14,880
Speaker 1: Detroit ultimately had to get out of that ground game.

633
00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:17,920
Speaker 1: They did have that one alarming drive early in the

634
00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:20,760
Speaker 1: third where Peterson starts to go off and has forty

635
00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:22,600
Speaker 1: rushing yards on the drive and they're handing off on

636
00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:24,760
Speaker 1: every play and all of a sudden they stopped doing it.

637
00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:26,520
Speaker 1: It's like, thank you for stop running the ball, Like

638
00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:29,600
Speaker 1: what are you doing? You were just dashing us, and

639
00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:31,959
Speaker 1: you know you got to make the opponents stop you

640
00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:35,120
Speaker 1: What coach is going to stop running the ball when

641
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Speaker 1: you're doing it so effectively. You know, Matt Patricia is

642
00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:39,959
Speaker 1: supposed to be this genius. And you see how they

643
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:41,959
Speaker 1: handle the end of the first half. You see how

644
00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:44,280
Speaker 1: they handle certain situations. Look I know he's not calling

645
00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:47,240
Speaker 1: offensive plays, but they got to figure that out. I mean,

646
00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:50,440
Speaker 1: they've got some talent, and I know they were depleted yesterday,

647
00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:52,400
Speaker 1: but they should be a whole lot better than what

648
00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:55,040
Speaker 1: they are. And it was nice to see them make

649
00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:59,000
Speaker 1: the mistakes and the Texans able to capitalize, you know, yesterday, Mark,

650
00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:03,280
Speaker 1: and I've done this. I think throughout this year, and

651
00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:07,320
Speaker 1: I think back to twenty eighteen a lot, because I

652
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:12,120
Speaker 1: feel like that twenty eighteen team, Yes, start off on three, Yes,

653
00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:14,520
Speaker 1: got on the win streak. Yeah, they beat some teams

654
00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:16,840
Speaker 1: in that win streak you could argue weren't great teams.

655
00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:21,000
Speaker 1: But they also played the second half of that year

656
00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:26,520
Speaker 1: without Will Fuller and still went eleven and five. But Mark,

657
00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:31,279
Speaker 1: I watched Will Fuller now, and I know that Will

658
00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:33,719
Speaker 1: has had you know, obviously, each and every year you

659
00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:37,080
Speaker 1: gain more experience, you get better and better, Mark, I

660
00:34:38,080 --> 00:34:42,719
Speaker 1: you know, Andre and DeAndre were such different receivers, I mean,

661
00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:45,640
Speaker 1: bigger guys. You know. You know, Dre did it with

662
00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:49,000
Speaker 1: such physical size, Hop did it with his hands. Mark,

663
00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:52,920
Speaker 1: I don't know that I've ever ever seen a faster,

664
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Speaker 1: more explosive receiver than Will Fuller. And the touchdown. The

665
00:34:59,239 --> 00:35:03,040
Speaker 1: first touchdown he catches. Now the second one was I mean,

666
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:05,759
Speaker 1: I'm still shaking my head at the double pass throwback

667
00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:10,680
Speaker 1: thing that we saw. But that first touchdown it was

668
00:35:10,719 --> 00:35:13,080
Speaker 1: amazing because I was standing about at the line of

669
00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:17,200
Speaker 1: scrimmage and when to Sean. I see Sean about to

670
00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:19,239
Speaker 1: throw the ball, and I look quickly to see like

671
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:22,560
Speaker 1: who's out there, and I see that Fuller is kind

672
00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:25,719
Speaker 1: of close to oriar Ya, and then all of a

673
00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:31,360
Speaker 1: sudden he pulls away as if Oriya is just stopped,

674
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:34,880
Speaker 1: like stopped running. And it really wasn't that. It was

675
00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:38,879
Speaker 1: like Amani was running, but Fuller was running so much

676
00:35:39,080 --> 00:35:43,120
Speaker 1: faster than him and pulling away from him. And the

677
00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:47,160
Speaker 1: thing about it is Ouya is like a four four guy,

678
00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:48,880
Speaker 1: like a low four four guy. I remember at the

679
00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:56,440
Speaker 1: combine he ran exceptionally well. Fuller runs away from those guys,

680
00:35:56,520 --> 00:35:58,640
Speaker 1: and I just I could, I mean, I know in

681
00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:01,120
Speaker 1: your ear, I was like Fuller like he was just

682
00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:05,680
Speaker 1: so wide open because in the last twenty yards he

683
00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:09,920
Speaker 1: pulled so far away. Mark, I've never seen anybody in

684
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:14,080
Speaker 1: my life on a football field where there are fast

685
00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:17,399
Speaker 1: guys out on a football field and one guy can

686
00:36:17,520 --> 00:36:22,120
Speaker 1: so easily run away from everybody. It's not even close.

687
00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:24,319
Speaker 1: And it makes me think that in twenty eighteen, had

688
00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:28,680
Speaker 1: Fuller stayed healthy, that really would have been I think

689
00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:31,880
Speaker 1: if Fuller state healthy in twenty eighteen, that might have

690
00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:36,280
Speaker 1: been even our shot, maybe even more so than Shabby

691
00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:39,759
Speaker 1: staying healthy in twenty eleven. That with the Seawan his

692
00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:43,400
Speaker 1: second ear, what he's got hop and he's got Fuller

693
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:46,440
Speaker 1: and they're both healthy, I think that would have been

694
00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:50,160
Speaker 1: a huge shot. And watching will Fuller every single week

695
00:36:50,239 --> 00:36:53,440
Speaker 1: makes me think that two years ago, man, they were

696
00:36:53,520 --> 00:36:55,919
Speaker 1: just really getting to a peak, and then he gets

697
00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:58,600
Speaker 1: hurt and then it had to start back at zero again.

698
00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:03,240
Speaker 1: I watching him, Mark, I don't know what the future holds,

699
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:05,440
Speaker 1: but my god, I hope it holds a future here

700
00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:08,080
Speaker 1: in Houston. You know, that's a good one. If for

701
00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:10,880
Speaker 1: the offseason, because you're right about twenty eighteen, If you

702
00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:12,719
Speaker 1: have Fuller down the stretch, you have him for that

703
00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:15,839
Speaker 1: regular season Colts game that you lost, you have him

704
00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:18,160
Speaker 1: for the Philly game that you lost and it was

705
00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:20,279
Speaker 1: super close, and imagine what Fuller could have done for

706
00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:22,640
Speaker 1: you then, and you would have been able to get

707
00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:24,919
Speaker 1: into the postseason on the buy, and that's the old

708
00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:28,319
Speaker 1: format with six teams per conference getting in. Now that

709
00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:29,920
Speaker 1: you have seven, you have only one buy. So you

710
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:32,000
Speaker 1: wouldn't have gotten it that year unless you had a

711
00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:35,200
Speaker 1: better record. But the point is that point is valid, Johnny.

712
00:37:35,239 --> 00:37:37,680
Speaker 1: I agree with you. I think he is so special

713
00:37:37,719 --> 00:37:40,200
Speaker 1: to watch. I don't want to take him for granted.

714
00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:42,520
Speaker 1: It's sad that it's the last year, but you get it.

715
00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:45,399
Speaker 1: How you really couldn't sign him to a long term

716
00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:47,720
Speaker 1: deal prior to this year. Maybe you could have. You know, actually,

717
00:37:47,719 --> 00:37:50,200
Speaker 1: now that he's healthy, you wish you did a discount

718
00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:52,759
Speaker 1: deal and you can just capitalize on that. But I

719
00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:54,440
Speaker 1: don't know what it's gonna cost. I don't know how

720
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:56,880
Speaker 1: they're gonna work it. If they do it all, do

721
00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:59,480
Speaker 1: they franchise. I have no idea how they're going to

722
00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:02,080
Speaker 1: handle Will Fuller because the people coming in you can't

723
00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:03,960
Speaker 1: even examine a track record because you don't know who

724
00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:06,799
Speaker 1: they are. So we'll see about that. But let's enjoy

725
00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:09,479
Speaker 1: it while it is going on here, and he's gonna

726
00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:11,719
Speaker 1: have well over a thousand yards staying healthy and a

727
00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:14,080
Speaker 1: hell of a campaign. A Pro Bowl campaign for Will

728
00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:18,360
Speaker 1: Fuller Pro Bowl Campaign Deshaun Watson and they're just guns

729
00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:20,440
Speaker 1: blazing right now. And here's the other thing we're seeing.

730
00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:22,600
Speaker 1: And look, we make a big deal out of it

731
00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:25,359
Speaker 1: sometimes and nobody wants to hear it. But the lack

732
00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:27,680
Speaker 1: of an offseason. I know that Bill O'Brien told us

733
00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:29,480
Speaker 1: in the offseason, well, that's where you have a veteran guy,

734
00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:31,520
Speaker 1: so they can fit right in and you know everybody

735
00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:33,560
Speaker 1: will be good to go. Johnny, here's something we never

736
00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:35,839
Speaker 1: talk about. Are you ready for this one? We never

737
00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:38,400
Speaker 1: talk about this, but we talked about it in training camp.

738
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Speaker 1: We didn't want to make too big a deal out

739
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:42,480
Speaker 1: of it at the time. But remember how we watched

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00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:44,840
Speaker 1: all those practices and they didn't have their guys on

741
00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:48,480
Speaker 1: the field. They didn't have Cooks, Cobb and Fuller on

742
00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:50,960
Speaker 1: the field and Stills all at the same time. I

743
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:52,719
Speaker 1: don't think. I don't even know if we saw one

744
00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:54,520
Speaker 1: day where they were all in the field at the

745
00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:57,200
Speaker 1: same time. I mean, we might have, but it just

746
00:38:57,239 --> 00:38:59,680
Speaker 1: didn't seem like it, like you might get Cooks out

747
00:38:59,719 --> 00:39:02,120
Speaker 1: there and he sits, you might get Cobb out there

748
00:39:02,160 --> 00:39:04,799
Speaker 1: and then you know, we never had any consistency, and

749
00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:08,640
Speaker 1: I think that affected them. You know, these were their games.

750
00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:11,040
Speaker 1: They didn't have preseason, they didn't have the joy practices,

751
00:39:11,080 --> 00:39:14,000
Speaker 1: they didn't have the OTAs. I mean, Cecil was telling

752
00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:16,799
Speaker 1: us on Tuesday, you need those OTAs. When you've got

753
00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:18,960
Speaker 1: new guys, you just have to get to know each other.

754
00:39:19,080 --> 00:39:21,080
Speaker 1: You have to throw the ball to each throw the

755
00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:23,520
Speaker 1: ball around and get the timing and everything. And I

756
00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:26,600
Speaker 1: think now you're seeing it. It took that long. Cooks

757
00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:31,520
Speaker 1: look so sharp out there right now, along with Fuller.

758
00:39:31,560 --> 00:39:33,520
Speaker 1: You don't even have Cobb and Stills right now. I

759
00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:35,160
Speaker 1: don't want to say it doesn't matter, but what did

760
00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:37,480
Speaker 1: we say. If you have those four guys, you almost

761
00:39:37,520 --> 00:39:39,600
Speaker 1: feel like any two of the four, you're in pretty

762
00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:42,040
Speaker 1: good shape. And I really do believe that. And I

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00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:44,839
Speaker 1: have Cooks and Fuller, you're in good shape. Let's hope,

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00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:47,000
Speaker 1: you know, the other guys get healthy fast enough. But

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00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:49,879
Speaker 1: I'm really enjoying what I'm seeing. And you didn't even

766
00:39:49,880 --> 00:39:52,920
Speaker 1: need to use the tight ends against Detroit, really, which

767
00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:56,040
Speaker 1: is wild considering what they did four days earlier against

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Speaker 1: the Patriots. This is incredible stuff. When we get back,

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Speaker 1: I want to talk about Brandon Cooks. You heard Mark

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Speaker 1: kenn On it right there, we're talking about four others

771
00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:08,600
Speaker 1: receiving corps. But I noticed something about Brandon Cooks on

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Speaker 1: the sideline and during this game against Detroit, and I

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Speaker 1: want to talk about that next right here in Texans

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Speaker 1: Texans All Access, and right near the end of our

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Speaker 1: last segment, Mark, you brought up Brandon Cooks and I'm

801
00:41:53,520 --> 00:41:55,879
Speaker 1: glad that you did because I was thinking about him.

802
00:41:55,920 --> 00:42:01,480
Speaker 1: So I pulled up his stat page and he has

803
00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:04,200
Speaker 1: since the Minnesota game where he didn't catch a pass,

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00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:10,520
Speaker 1: he's been phenomenal. He is caught eighty five yards worth

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00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:18,000
Speaker 1: of passes or four or five receptions in every game,

806
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:22,640
Speaker 1: meaning he's either had five or more receptions or he's

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00:42:22,680 --> 00:42:25,719
Speaker 1: had eighty three plus yards in receiving. Now sometimes he's

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00:42:25,719 --> 00:42:28,600
Speaker 1: had both. But the one thing that stood up to

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Speaker 1: me yesterday, Mark, and you know Fuller's making the touchdowns.

810
00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:38,040
Speaker 1: Brandon Cooks was doing work and I wrote about this.

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Speaker 1: I looked over one time at the sideline, and I

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00:42:42,719 --> 00:42:46,320
Speaker 1: remember this goes way back, but I was watching film

813
00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:49,640
Speaker 1: one night of my team, and back in the day,

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00:42:49,880 --> 00:42:52,200
Speaker 1: you know film, we couldn't shoot from the end zone,

815
00:42:52,239 --> 00:42:53,919
Speaker 1: and we did a shot from our press boxes wasn't

816
00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:55,920
Speaker 1: very high, so you always got the shot of the sideline.

817
00:42:56,120 --> 00:42:58,959
Speaker 1: And I had my punt returner was a little guy,

818
00:42:59,239 --> 00:43:03,680
Speaker 1: and he had fumbled a punt and he spent the

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00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:06,880
Speaker 1: entire game with a football, throwing it up in the

820
00:43:06,880 --> 00:43:10,520
Speaker 1: air to himself and just catching it the whole game.

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Speaker 1: And I was watching, I was watching film, and I'm like,

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Speaker 1: why is that ball in the air, Like I kept

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00:43:15,520 --> 00:43:17,279
Speaker 1: getting mad at like why is that ball? And then

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00:43:17,320 --> 00:43:19,480
Speaker 1: I realized what it was, and then it kind of

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00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:21,920
Speaker 1: blew me away, like Okay, that's kind of cool. Yesterday

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Speaker 1: I looked at the sidelight. I said that because I

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Speaker 1: looked at the sidelight at one point and I saw

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Speaker 1: Brandon Cooks. Now, Brandon was five for five, five targets,

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00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:32,160
Speaker 1: five receptions. He didn't drop a pass, but I see

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Speaker 1: him on the sidelines. He would like flip the ball

831
00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:38,439
Speaker 1: to himself. He'd snatch it with both hands, he'd tuck

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Speaker 1: it in, and he kind of act like he was

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00:43:40,360 --> 00:43:42,960
Speaker 1: taking a couple of steps. Here's the guy that's spen

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Speaker 1: in the league for what seven years? Eight years? This

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00:43:47,360 --> 00:43:49,960
Speaker 1: is this is your number seven. I believe who for

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00:43:50,120 --> 00:43:52,839
Speaker 1: six Yeah, this is your number seven. And he's on

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Speaker 1: the sideline and he's just flipping himself the ball like

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00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:58,680
Speaker 1: he's making reception, tucking it in and then act like

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00:43:58,719 --> 00:44:01,000
Speaker 1: he's running while the d fences out on the field.

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00:44:01,040 --> 00:44:04,319
Speaker 1: And I just thought, man, this guy gets it. This

841
00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:07,360
Speaker 1: guy absolutely gets it. He's not getting the touchdowns. He

842
00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:10,759
Speaker 1: hasn't had a touchdown since the game against Jacksonville at

843
00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:13,960
Speaker 1: Jacksonville where had that long run up the sideline. But

844
00:44:14,640 --> 00:44:19,799
Speaker 1: he understands what his role is and how vital he is.

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00:44:19,840 --> 00:44:23,759
Speaker 1: He's been fantastic. And there was one Fuller catch. I

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00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:25,799
Speaker 1: think it was on a crossing route. There was a

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00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:28,120
Speaker 1: crossing route. Fuller was on the left, Cooks is on

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00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:31,759
Speaker 1: the right. Fuller work down the field a little bit

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00:44:31,800 --> 00:44:35,720
Speaker 1: by eight ten yards and crossed. Ruarier was lost again.

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00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:41,520
Speaker 1: Watson hits him and as Fuller crosses the field, I

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00:44:41,640 --> 00:44:43,960
Speaker 1: remember thinking, because I can see it from the beginning,

852
00:44:44,719 --> 00:44:49,120
Speaker 1: Cooks had just flown out of dodge. I mean, he

853
00:44:49,160 --> 00:44:52,520
Speaker 1: had to know he was not the guy. He takes

854
00:44:52,719 --> 00:44:55,200
Speaker 1: off like I've never seen him run. I mean, he

855
00:44:55,320 --> 00:45:00,480
Speaker 1: is flying up the field. He draws two defenders. One

856
00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:03,520
Speaker 1: of them is Truefont who blows his hamstring. The others

857
00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:06,200
Speaker 1: is safety, so that Cooks just goes right down the field,

858
00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:09,279
Speaker 1: takes both of them, knows he's got to be the decoy.

859
00:45:09,520 --> 00:45:11,800
Speaker 1: Fuller catches it is able to turn up the field,

860
00:45:12,120 --> 00:45:14,839
Speaker 1: ends up making about a twenty five thirty yard game,

861
00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:18,040
Speaker 1: and a large part was just Brandon Cooks doing his

862
00:45:18,160 --> 00:45:21,320
Speaker 1: job just I mean literally, you're not gonna get the ball,

863
00:45:21,320 --> 00:45:23,200
Speaker 1: Just go be a decoy, Okay, cool? And he just

864
00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:25,959
Speaker 1: goes And I thought about that and those two things

865
00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:29,319
Speaker 1: I saw yesterday, and it just were as excited as

866
00:45:29,640 --> 00:45:33,440
Speaker 1: I am about Fuller and Watson. To see a veteran

867
00:45:33,480 --> 00:45:36,840
Speaker 1: like that Mark do the things that he does, it

868
00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:41,479
Speaker 1: really it really gives credence to like why he's here.

869
00:45:41,520 --> 00:45:44,880
Speaker 1: It makes that much more sense to me now maybe

870
00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:48,200
Speaker 1: than ever before. And when I think about what the

871
00:45:48,239 --> 00:45:55,959
Speaker 1: future could be with Fuller, with Cooks, with QT cop

872
00:45:56,040 --> 00:45:59,080
Speaker 1: Maybe with that group of receivers, if you can keep

873
00:45:59,120 --> 00:46:03,080
Speaker 1: that group together for another year, my god, what could

874
00:46:03,120 --> 00:46:05,120
Speaker 1: they do? Throw in the football? You know, I think

875
00:46:05,160 --> 00:46:07,600
Speaker 1: they have to. And here's the other Now, I don't

876
00:46:07,600 --> 00:46:09,600
Speaker 1: know about Fuller again. Free agent. You never know. You

877
00:46:09,719 --> 00:46:12,560
Speaker 1: never know. But you know, everyone talks about all these

878
00:46:12,640 --> 00:46:14,480
Speaker 1: guys that they signed, and you know, it's not like

879
00:46:14,480 --> 00:46:17,160
Speaker 1: they have to get rid of everybody. Okay, contracts have

880
00:46:17,239 --> 00:46:21,000
Speaker 1: been signed, you have these players. These are not bust players.

881
00:46:21,040 --> 00:46:23,080
Speaker 1: You know, Randall Cobb went healthy, can still help your

882
00:46:23,120 --> 00:46:26,440
Speaker 1: football team. I'm sorry. So let the new guys, the

883
00:46:26,480 --> 00:46:29,440
Speaker 1: new regimes, sort it out, because they've got to look

884
00:46:29,440 --> 00:46:31,200
Speaker 1: at this and say, you know what, Okay, I once,

885
00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:33,439
Speaker 1: up at the time they had DeAndre Hopkins, but that's over.

886
00:46:33,600 --> 00:46:35,000
Speaker 1: You know, we're not going to have them. What do

887
00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:37,279
Speaker 1: we got? And what we have are these guys, and

888
00:46:37,320 --> 00:46:41,319
Speaker 1: they're pretty good. Now. You're not young, okay, you're not

889
00:46:41,360 --> 00:46:44,719
Speaker 1: looking at freshly drafted players. You don't have a young

890
00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:47,440
Speaker 1: Lavisca Chanault running around or something like that. Maybe good

891
00:46:47,480 --> 00:46:49,520
Speaker 1: draft a guy like that, who knows. But what you

892
00:46:49,600 --> 00:46:52,520
Speaker 1: do have are guys who can help you win next year.

893
00:46:53,040 --> 00:46:56,480
Speaker 1: Next year. Now, maybe this year too, like down the stretch,

894
00:46:56,560 --> 00:46:59,440
Speaker 1: keep winning, baby. But I love what you said about Cooks.

895
00:46:59,560 --> 00:47:04,279
Speaker 1: It's fine because with his speed, his big play making ability,

896
00:47:04,960 --> 00:47:07,400
Speaker 1: he still can be that possession guy for you on occasion.

897
00:47:07,480 --> 00:47:09,080
Speaker 1: Like I love the little throws to him over the

898
00:47:09,120 --> 00:47:12,759
Speaker 1: middle in a zone sense and just like so I'm

899
00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:15,360
Speaker 1: a ten yard pass and get a first down. That's good.

900
00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:18,399
Speaker 1: I like that. We're not running the ball, we're doing that.

901
00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:21,040
Speaker 1: So I love that stuff. And then you mix in

902
00:47:21,120 --> 00:47:22,920
Speaker 1: the RPOs and whatever else you get out of the

903
00:47:22,920 --> 00:47:25,440
Speaker 1: tight ends and oh, here's the other. It's not like

904
00:47:25,480 --> 00:47:27,160
Speaker 1: we buried the headline, but it's one of the headlines.

905
00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:30,440
Speaker 1: Duke Johnson. You know, two running backs catch passes for

906
00:47:30,480 --> 00:47:32,400
Speaker 1: the first time in a game since Alfred Blew an

907
00:47:32,440 --> 00:47:35,759
Speaker 1: Arian Foster did it in twenty fourteen, right, and then

908
00:47:35,800 --> 00:47:39,120
Speaker 1: you look at you look at what Duke did yesterday

909
00:47:39,360 --> 00:47:41,239
Speaker 1: was what we always thought and you brought it up

910
00:47:41,320 --> 00:47:43,920
Speaker 1: during the broadcast. Well, we always thought Duke might do

911
00:47:43,960 --> 00:47:46,440
Speaker 1: for this football team when he was acquired for the

912
00:47:46,440 --> 00:47:48,799
Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns for a third round pick. I mean, that

913
00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:52,000
Speaker 1: is the Duke Johnson that we wanted to see. And

914
00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:54,240
Speaker 1: it's not about him it's about scheme, it's about everything.

915
00:47:54,239 --> 00:47:55,799
Speaker 1: Not that he hasn't helped his team because they won

916
00:47:55,840 --> 00:47:57,839
Speaker 1: a lot of games last year. But the point is this,

917
00:47:58,440 --> 00:48:01,600
Speaker 1: that is a great use of number twenty five for

918
00:48:01,680 --> 00:48:03,960
Speaker 1: your football team. We want to see more of that. Yeah,

919
00:48:04,080 --> 00:48:07,520
Speaker 1: no doubt. Once. The last time that two receivers or

920
00:48:07,560 --> 00:48:12,279
Speaker 1: two running backs caught receiving touchdowns, No, that's what I meant.

921
00:48:12,360 --> 00:48:13,960
Speaker 1: I think it was twenty fourteen. I think it was

922
00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:17,279
Speaker 1: Blue and Foster, right, Oh gosh, I gotta I gotta

923
00:48:17,320 --> 00:48:20,080
Speaker 1: try and remember now. Yeah, yeah, I believe it was

924
00:48:20,120 --> 00:48:23,240
Speaker 1: that they both caught tds. And I forget the opponent

925
00:48:23,320 --> 00:48:26,000
Speaker 1: that year, and was it the Titans? You know, it

926
00:48:26,080 --> 00:48:28,040
Speaker 1: usually turns out that the Titans, because there were six

927
00:48:28,120 --> 00:48:32,520
Speaker 1: six touchdown passes against the Titans. Because that's the first

928
00:48:32,560 --> 00:48:35,319
Speaker 1: one that came to mind, was the lot one like

929
00:48:35,400 --> 00:48:38,279
Speaker 1: that with the lot TD, I was like, you know,

930
00:48:38,320 --> 00:48:40,319
Speaker 1: and I I should not this off the top of

931
00:48:40,360 --> 00:48:41,799
Speaker 1: my head, and I do, but I had to go, like,

932
00:48:41,800 --> 00:48:46,680
Speaker 1: all right, Tennessee Buffalo, INDI that year the Raiders. You know,

933
00:48:46,680 --> 00:48:49,239
Speaker 1: I'm going over the receiving end. The defensive scores so

934
00:48:49,640 --> 00:48:52,400
Speaker 1: and it's funny how they don't count the Bengal playoff

935
00:48:52,480 --> 00:48:56,160
Speaker 1: game in the stats, right, He's had three pick sixes,

936
00:48:56,400 --> 00:48:58,960
Speaker 1: but we only say two, the one against Buffalo and

937
00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:02,000
Speaker 1: the one against the De Troy Lions, because we don't

938
00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:05,120
Speaker 1: include the Bengals game. It's not a regular season staff

939
00:49:05,160 --> 00:49:07,680
Speaker 1: But you know, to a Texans fan, how do you

940
00:49:07,760 --> 00:49:09,359
Speaker 1: leave that out? You know, how do you leave out

941
00:49:09,360 --> 00:49:11,320
Speaker 1: the most iconic play of the history of the franchise,

942
00:49:11,400 --> 00:49:14,560
Speaker 1: maybe with JJ wats pick six in the playoffs, but

943
00:49:14,640 --> 00:49:16,759
Speaker 1: to see him do it yesterday, Johnny, it was like

944
00:49:17,239 --> 00:49:20,520
Speaker 1: serving up the brisket and the turkey and the dessert

945
00:49:20,600 --> 00:49:23,759
Speaker 1: and everything on one play, because that was something I've

946
00:49:23,760 --> 00:49:25,520
Speaker 1: been waiting to see. You know how close he's been

947
00:49:25,520 --> 00:49:27,759
Speaker 1: to doing something like that again. So every time he

948
00:49:27,800 --> 00:49:29,520
Speaker 1: gets his hands on one or two hands on one,

949
00:49:29,600 --> 00:49:33,080
Speaker 1: I'm like, it's another one. No, no, no, And then

950
00:49:33,200 --> 00:49:35,960
Speaker 1: yesterday it happened, and it was so satisfying. I mean

951
00:49:36,320 --> 00:49:41,480
Speaker 1: the throw that Stafford made to Hockinson where Hockinson had

952
00:49:41,480 --> 00:49:44,879
Speaker 1: to go down to the ground, get himself up and go.

953
00:49:45,920 --> 00:49:48,759
Speaker 1: I thought JJ was very close to that one. And

954
00:49:48,800 --> 00:49:51,240
Speaker 1: I saw the replay up on the board, I was like, whoa,

955
00:49:51,640 --> 00:49:56,320
Speaker 1: he was really close to that one too. So he's

956
00:49:56,440 --> 00:50:00,640
Speaker 1: just so good at finding a way to just if

957
00:50:00,640 --> 00:50:02,359
Speaker 1: he can get his hand on it. That's always thinking,

958
00:50:02,440 --> 00:50:04,399
Speaker 1: get a hand on it, tip it up, He'll find it.

959
00:50:04,800 --> 00:50:07,080
Speaker 1: He's got such good ball skills for a guy that's

960
00:50:07,080 --> 00:50:10,920
Speaker 1: nearly three hundred pounds. Oh, it was just it was

961
00:50:10,960 --> 00:50:14,200
Speaker 1: just so good to see Mark last one. We'll let

962
00:50:14,280 --> 00:50:17,120
Speaker 1: you go this weekend. We can sit back and watch

963
00:50:17,200 --> 00:50:23,480
Speaker 1: Red Zone Colts Titans in Indie on Sunday. Who you

964
00:50:23,560 --> 00:50:27,879
Speaker 1: got and one? Look, Titans beat them there last year, right,

965
00:50:27,960 --> 00:50:31,520
Speaker 1: didn't they get that one? Yeah? But I just think

966
00:50:31,560 --> 00:50:34,880
Speaker 1: that this is a cult's day. I just do. I

967
00:50:34,920 --> 00:50:38,920
Speaker 1: think the Titans have sprung some leaks on defense. You know.

968
00:50:39,080 --> 00:50:41,600
Speaker 1: I always feel like if I was a Cults fan,

969
00:50:41,840 --> 00:50:44,800
Speaker 1: i'd feel shaky about rivers. I'd feel good in many ways,

970
00:50:44,840 --> 00:50:47,359
Speaker 1: but like, where is there a bad throw coming? Because

971
00:50:47,360 --> 00:50:49,319
Speaker 1: you know it's in there, you know it's a you

972
00:50:49,360 --> 00:50:51,719
Speaker 1: know it's it's in the bucket and you're pulling out

973
00:50:51,760 --> 00:50:53,480
Speaker 1: marbles and one of them is going to be cracked,

974
00:50:53,520 --> 00:50:56,560
Speaker 1: you know, and like this is the one not a

975
00:50:56,560 --> 00:50:59,920
Speaker 1: good throw, so you know it's coming, and I'm wondering

976
00:51:00,280 --> 00:51:02,319
Speaker 1: if he's got a big one in him in the

977
00:51:02,360 --> 00:51:05,160
Speaker 1: second half. That's gonna turn the game. But if I

978
00:51:05,200 --> 00:51:08,040
Speaker 1: had to pick, I would say Colts. I would say

979
00:51:08,160 --> 00:51:11,600
Speaker 1: being at home the whole thing. I think the Titans.

980
00:51:11,680 --> 00:51:15,440
Speaker 1: They're not Johnny. It's it's a confounding team. We know

981
00:51:15,480 --> 00:51:17,480
Speaker 1: how they win, you know, we do know how they

982
00:51:17,520 --> 00:51:21,279
Speaker 1: do this. They seem so beatable, but they're capable of

983
00:51:21,320 --> 00:51:25,000
Speaker 1: beating anybody when the formula is working properly, and it

984
00:51:25,040 --> 00:51:26,919
Speaker 1: doesn't seem to be that difficult to get it working.

985
00:51:26,960 --> 00:51:30,440
Speaker 1: It's like, you know, it's the old foward at the racetrack,

986
00:51:30,520 --> 00:51:32,200
Speaker 1: you know that we can just sort of put you know,

987
00:51:32,239 --> 00:51:35,080
Speaker 1: let's get a few parts, let's stick it back together,

988
00:51:35,480 --> 00:51:38,000
Speaker 1: and it looks good and it's fast enough today and

989
00:51:38,040 --> 00:51:40,520
Speaker 1: we got to win, you know. And but if you

990
00:51:40,680 --> 00:51:42,680
Speaker 1: knock that, if you can stop the run at all,

991
00:51:42,680 --> 00:51:44,279
Speaker 1: if you can get a turnover or two, if you

992
00:51:44,280 --> 00:51:47,520
Speaker 1: can get to that defense as many teams have. I

993
00:51:47,600 --> 00:51:49,319
Speaker 1: just I like the Colts this week. So I know

994
00:51:49,320 --> 00:51:52,239
Speaker 1: it's a long explanation, but this is a hard game

995
00:51:52,280 --> 00:51:54,399
Speaker 1: for me to watch. And I'm not even being I'm

996
00:51:54,480 --> 00:51:57,560
Speaker 1: not even joking here. Watching the Titans and Colts play

997
00:51:57,640 --> 00:51:59,960
Speaker 1: for first place in the division. Johnny, I'm gonna be

998
00:52:00,120 --> 00:52:02,080
Speaker 1: like the bar bag right next to me. I can't

999
00:52:02,120 --> 00:52:04,480
Speaker 1: take this, but you know I'll be watching it. Yeah,

1000
00:52:04,520 --> 00:52:08,400
Speaker 1: I know he's here. I think this is interesting. Early

1001
00:52:08,480 --> 00:52:11,520
Speaker 1: on in the year, they beat the Jags, scored thirty three.

1002
00:52:11,520 --> 00:52:13,600
Speaker 1: They beat the Vikings, they scored thirty one. They beat

1003
00:52:13,640 --> 00:52:15,759
Speaker 1: the Bills, they scored forty two. They beat US, they

1004
00:52:15,760 --> 00:52:22,120
Speaker 1: scored forty two. Taylor Luan gets hurt. They lost the Steelers.

1005
00:52:22,120 --> 00:52:24,960
Speaker 1: They scored twenty four. They lost the Bengals, they scored

1006
00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:29,680
Speaker 1: twenty They beat the Bears, needed a fumble return, they

1007
00:52:29,719 --> 00:52:33,560
Speaker 1: scored twenty four. They lost to the Colts, they scored seventeen.

1008
00:52:34,760 --> 00:52:37,000
Speaker 1: It was only last week against the Ravens where they

1009
00:52:37,040 --> 00:52:40,040
Speaker 1: got back to the thirty mark for the first time

1010
00:52:40,480 --> 00:52:44,239
Speaker 1: since they played US. They have. As much as I

1011
00:52:44,280 --> 00:52:48,360
Speaker 1: hate to admit it, Taylor Luan out for them is

1012
00:52:48,400 --> 00:52:51,680
Speaker 1: a major major factor. And I think it'll rear it's

1013
00:52:51,760 --> 00:52:53,960
Speaker 1: ugly head against the Colts too. I think the Colts

1014
00:52:53,960 --> 00:52:57,840
Speaker 1: will exploit the Titans without Taylor Luan again. But the

1015
00:52:58,040 --> 00:53:05,719
Speaker 1: scoring went from thirty three to twenty four twenty seventeen, seventeen,

1016
00:53:05,760 --> 00:53:09,080
Speaker 1: and then finally back up to thirty against the Ravens, which,

1017
00:53:09,120 --> 00:53:14,319
Speaker 1: by the way, is a total and complete mess at

1018
00:53:14,360 --> 00:53:17,920
Speaker 1: this time of year. Oh yeah, yeah, goodness, hold right,

1019
00:53:18,040 --> 00:53:20,759
Speaker 1: most yes, the total mess. I mean the thing about

1020
00:53:20,760 --> 00:53:24,239
Speaker 1: the Cults of the Titans, though, the really disappointing thing

1021
00:53:24,280 --> 00:53:26,560
Speaker 1: is that they've had losable games each of the last

1022
00:53:26,560 --> 00:53:28,919
Speaker 1: couple of weeks and they haven't lost them. And it's

1023
00:53:28,920 --> 00:53:31,480
Speaker 1: just to see them pull out these wins, the Ravens

1024
00:53:31,480 --> 00:53:33,720
Speaker 1: for the Titans and last week the Packers for the Cults.

1025
00:53:33,880 --> 00:53:36,439
Speaker 1: I mean, I penciled these down as these are gonna

1026
00:53:36,440 --> 00:53:38,880
Speaker 1: be tough. They might lose these, and they should lose them, darted,

1027
00:53:38,960 --> 00:53:42,720
Speaker 1: because you know, God favors the Texans and the AIRFC South,

1028
00:53:42,760 --> 00:53:45,120
Speaker 1: but apparently not this year so far. So we'll see

1029
00:53:45,160 --> 00:53:47,839
Speaker 1: how it goes. And you know, it's too bad, So

1030
00:53:47,920 --> 00:53:50,919
Speaker 1: sad you didn't be Cleveland and the Titans, because you'd

1031
00:53:50,920 --> 00:53:52,799
Speaker 1: still be right in it anyway, with these games in

1032
00:53:52,840 --> 00:53:54,879
Speaker 1: front of you that sort of help you control your

1033
00:53:54,880 --> 00:53:57,839
Speaker 1: destiny to a degree, maybe to a large degree. Oh look,

1034
00:53:57,880 --> 00:54:00,799
Speaker 1: we'll watch you know the Texans where they are, see

1035
00:54:00,800 --> 00:54:02,960
Speaker 1: what happens on Sunday, and then play the Culture week

1036
00:54:02,960 --> 00:54:05,480
Speaker 1: from Sunday and hopefully get that one at NRG and Johnny,

1037
00:54:05,520 --> 00:54:07,960
Speaker 1: if they get that one, I think winning out is

1038
00:54:07,960 --> 00:54:12,719
Speaker 1: a real possibility. But you know that that'll especially if

1039
00:54:12,719 --> 00:54:14,799
Speaker 1: it's convincing. You know, if it's a ten point win,

1040
00:54:15,120 --> 00:54:18,200
Speaker 1: they look pretty good doing it, beating Indie at home.

1041
00:54:18,239 --> 00:54:21,160
Speaker 1: I will say, you know what, this could happen, This

1042
00:54:21,200 --> 00:54:23,000
Speaker 1: could happen. I know it's a lot to ask, but

1043
00:54:23,160 --> 00:54:25,600
Speaker 1: I'll definitely be going for that. Look, I'm you know me.

1044
00:54:25,840 --> 00:54:28,080
Speaker 1: I want every game. I want everyone to come true.

1045
00:54:28,080 --> 00:54:30,840
Speaker 1: And you talked about twenty eighteen. You know, maybe, just maybe.

1046
00:54:30,840 --> 00:54:32,799
Speaker 1: But all you got now is the next one. That's

1047
00:54:32,840 --> 00:54:35,240
Speaker 1: all you can do is watch that that well said,

1048
00:54:35,320 --> 00:54:37,400
Speaker 1: all you got is the next one. Mark, appreciate it.

1049
00:54:37,440 --> 00:54:40,359
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. All right, Johnny, thank you. Oh

1050
00:54:40,360 --> 00:54:42,560
Speaker 1: it's great to catch you up. My good friend, my boss,

1051
00:54:42,600 --> 00:54:46,080
Speaker 1: the voice of the Texans, Mark Vandermere here on a

1052
00:54:46,160 --> 00:54:49,160
Speaker 1: Friday edition of Texans All Access. All right, we got

1053
00:54:49,160 --> 00:54:51,880
Speaker 1: one segment down, and we got a weekend full of

1054
00:54:52,000 --> 00:54:55,600
Speaker 1: NFL games to predict. I do it every Friday. I

1055
00:54:55,640 --> 00:55:03,160
Speaker 1: cannot wait. I can't not not do it? Wait, can't Okay,

1056
00:55:03,160 --> 00:55:08,600
Speaker 1: I'm all confused. I'm doing predictions. Next stick Around, Kick Around,

1057
00:55:09,520 --> 00:55:12,440
Speaker 1: Kick Around. We got one final segment of this edition

1058
00:55:12,640 --> 00:55:16,760
Speaker 1: of Texans All Access from the Monday Texans Radio studio.

1059
00:55:16,920 --> 00:55:19,879
Speaker 1: I am your host, John Harris, thrilled to be with

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Speaker 1: you following a forty one to twenty five win for

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Speaker 1: your Texans in Detroit two and oho on Thanksgiving? How

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Speaker 1: about that two and oh on Thanksgiving? That's awesome to say.

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Speaker 1: And obviously both games are taking place in Detroit. I

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Speaker 1: start thinking, well, they're always gonna take take place in Detroit? Right?

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Speaker 1: Are we gonna play this game every eight years? And

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Speaker 1: I thought, no, wait a second, we could potentially go

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Speaker 1: to Dallas in twenty twenty two. That could be a

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Speaker 1: Thanksgiving game. I don't know that I would make it

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Speaker 1: as such, but either way, it's good to get Thanksgiving

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Speaker 1: Day wins, no doubt. Now, nice little quirk both teams

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Speaker 1: that one. Oh how about this? This math is awesome?

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Speaker 1: There here are your Toros matris A. Both winning teams yesterday,

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Speaker 1: Texans and the Washington football team scored forty one points.

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Speaker 1: How about that? The two losing teams combined for forty

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Speaker 1: one points. Oh. I love stuff like that. I love it.

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Speaker 1: But those games are in our rear view. Let's move ahead.

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Speaker 1: We've got NFL games that we have got to predict,

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Speaker 1: including a couple of big ones, one in particular in Indianapolis,

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Speaker 1: and we will get to that one soon. But let's

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Speaker 1: do it. Let's do predictions for all of our games,

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Speaker 1: straight up and against the spread. And let's start now.

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Speaker 1: But first I need my music, please, Okay? There it is,

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Speaker 1: so that allows us to get going. And it starts

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Speaker 1: in Atlanta as the Las Vegas Raiders visit at six

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Speaker 1: and four off a grueling, tough loss Sunday Night to

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs. The Raiders end up splitting with the Chiefs,

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Speaker 1: but that would have been nice to get a sweep.

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Speaker 1: Mahomes brings them from behind, brings the Chiefs from behind

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Speaker 1: to beat the Raiders. That moved the Raiders to six

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Speaker 1: and four. The Falcons are three and seven they lost

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Speaker 1: last week. Somebody's gonna get a one game winning streak started.

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Speaker 1: I think it'll be the Raiders on the road. Although

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Speaker 1: this is an east closed East coast nine am body

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Speaker 1: clock situation for the Raiders, I don't think it matters.

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Speaker 1: The Raiders just better than the Falcons. Unfortunately, you'd like

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Speaker 1: for the Falcons to win as Texans fans, but they won't.

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Speaker 1: Raiders will win and they will cover the three points

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Speaker 1: that they are favored the Chargers. They also go to

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Speaker 1: the East Coast and they take on the Buffalo Bills. Now,

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Speaker 1: I thought the spread in this one who would be

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Speaker 1: a little bit higher than five, But that's given Justin

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Speaker 1: Herbert a little bit of respect, and the man probably

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Speaker 1: deserves it. He's been pitching it really well. But the

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Speaker 1: Chargers are down Melbanie from Casey Hayward, Uchennan Wosu kills

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Speaker 1: the pass rush or hurts the pass rush. Josh Allen's

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Speaker 1: gonna deal all day. The Bills will move to eight

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Speaker 1: and three coming off the by they'll cover the five.

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Speaker 1: I feel as good about this one as pretty much

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Speaker 1: any game this weekend. Bills win and win this thing

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Speaker 1: by way more than five. Chargers fall to three and

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Speaker 1: eight on the year. Giants taking on the Bengals three

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Speaker 1: and seven against two seven and one. The Bengals without

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Speaker 1: Joe Burrow he got hurt last week. It's going to

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Speaker 1: be Brandon Allen playing quarterback for the Bengals against the Giants,

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Speaker 1: and Giants been playing pretty well and As a result,

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Speaker 1: the Giants are favored in this one by six. I

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Speaker 1: don't like that. Brandon Allen can come in and do

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Speaker 1: some things. Bengals will win this game, but they'll cover.

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Speaker 1: The Giants will one out, but the Bengals will get

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Speaker 1: inside that six points give the Giants the win, the

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Speaker 1: Bengals the cover all right, the game then, I know

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Speaker 1: people in this town will be watching. And as Mark

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Speaker 1: and I talked about it earlier this hour, it's odd.

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Speaker 1: It's weird for two other teams to be playing and

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Speaker 1: playing for first place in the ANFC South, but that's

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Speaker 1: where we are right now. Unfortunately, with the Titans and

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Speaker 1: the Colts. The Colts are favored by three at home,

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Speaker 1: and they beat the Titans by seventeen last time. I

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Speaker 1: am taking all that I have and throwing it all

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Speaker 1: on the Colts to win this one and cover that three.

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Speaker 1: I don't think there's any way that Tennessee will come

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Speaker 1: in there and get this win. Tennessee got to win

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Speaker 1: an Indie last year. It's a totally different team. I

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Speaker 1: don't think the Titans have a shot. The Titans played

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Speaker 1: a banged up soon to be Covid addled Ravens team

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Speaker 1: last week. Colts are a different animal on that turf

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Speaker 1: inside coming off that Packers win, Colts win, Colts cover.

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Speaker 1: Colts go to eight and three, Titans go to seven

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Speaker 1: and four, and in my scenario I presented earlier at

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Speaker 1: the Texans hung on in Tennessee and found a way

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Speaker 1: to score more than seven points in Cleveland, the Texans

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Speaker 1: would be six and five, and with a loss by

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Speaker 1: the Titans, the Texans would move ahead of them in

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Speaker 1: Oh God, I can't. I can't even Colts to win

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Speaker 1: Culture cover. Another noon game, the Panthers are taken on

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Speaker 1: the Vikings. The Panthers got to win last week with

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Speaker 1: PJ Walker at the helm, TB five will be back

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Speaker 1: and he steps in against his former squad, the Minnesota Vikings.

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Speaker 1: The Vikings at four and six. I like what the

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Speaker 1: Panthers are doing this year. I think the Panthers are

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Speaker 1: very difficult to stop, even without Christian McCaffrey to line

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Speaker 1: up the last how many ever games. But the Vikings

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Speaker 1: at home, I'm rolling with it. Vikings are a three

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Speaker 1: point favorite. That's probably about right where I would say

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Speaker 1: this one is. But I'll go a shade over. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna give the Vikings the win and the cover over

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Speaker 1: the Panthers the eras Zona Cardinals, they fly east to

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Speaker 1: take on the New England Patriots. Cardinals six and four

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Speaker 1: after that loss to Seattle last Thursday, the Patriots at

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Speaker 1: four and six after the loss through the Texans at home.

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Speaker 1: New England's a two point dog. It's not quite a

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Speaker 1: pick them, but it's pretty darn close in that case.

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm doing. I'm going upset here. I'm

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Speaker 1: going upset New England Patriots to upset the Cardinals outright.

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Speaker 1: Patriots win, Patriots cover. It's obviously they're a two point underdog.

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Speaker 1: I think they're gonna do it. I think they're gonna

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Speaker 1: be a bad weather situation. I think that's gonna give

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Speaker 1: Kyler Murrays some issue, and I think the Patriots win

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Speaker 1: an upset. I don't really want it to happen. I

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Speaker 1: don't think we need it to happen, but it's gonna happen.

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Speaker 1: I can't believe I just said that. The Dolphins take

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Speaker 1: on the Jets in New Jersey. Sam Donald's back of

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Speaker 1: the lineup for the Jets. He'll start Miami. I don't

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Speaker 1: know that anything's been declared yet about Fits or Tula.

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Speaker 1: But either way, the Dolphins are gonna get this win,

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Speaker 1: and I think they're gonna do it by a shade

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Speaker 1: more than the seven points they're favored by on the road.

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Speaker 1: I really want to see the Jets win. But then again,

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Speaker 1: I really don't want to see the Jets win now.

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Speaker 1: I say that because then the Jets would be tied

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Speaker 1: with the Jaguars, and the Jaguars could eventually end up

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Speaker 1: with Trevor Lawrence. I don't like that at all. Dolphins win,

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Speaker 1: Dolphins cover, Browns taken on the Jags, the aforementioned Jags.

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Speaker 1: The Jags will start Mike Glennon. Cleveland's favored by seven.

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Speaker 1: That's not enough. There's no Miles Garrett still. But the

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Speaker 1: Browns are gonna get this win in Duvall County. Mike

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Speaker 1: Glennon may throw them ten points and the Browns will

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Speaker 1: win and cover on the road. Then let's get to

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Speaker 1: our afternoon games. Sunday Afternoon Saints the Broncos. The Broncos

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Speaker 1: get a big win last week, beating the Dolphins, upsetting

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Speaker 1: the Dolphins in Denver. We need the Saints to win

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Speaker 1: this thing. In Denver. Saints are favored by six that's

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Speaker 1: about right. The Saints better stop that running game. Boy,

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Speaker 1: they better stop the running game. I think the Saints will.

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Speaker 1: It's get the Saints to win and the small cover.

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Speaker 1: This won't be a blowout. It's gonna be closer than

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Speaker 1: we think. And the experts think. The Saints get to

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Speaker 1: win and the cover. On the road, the Niners take

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Speaker 1: on the Rams's always gonna be a battle no matter where.

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Speaker 1: The forty nine ers sick coming off the bye week,

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Speaker 1: the Niners, the Rams are feeling good, good, great about

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Speaker 1: that win over the Bucks on Monday night. Matt Fox

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Speaker 1: sef Matt Gay hits the field goal to beat the

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Speaker 1: Bucks and that gets the Rams to the top of

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Speaker 1: the NFC West. The Rams are favored by six and

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Speaker 1: a half, and that's not enough. The Rams will win

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Speaker 1: this thing by ten. At home, the Chiefs take on

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Speaker 1: the Buccaneers. Boy, this is gonna be a really good

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Speaker 1: afternoon game. The Bucks at seven and four at home

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Speaker 1: didn't look great, didn't look horrible against the Rams, but

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Speaker 1: couldn't finish. The Chiefs find way, and we'll find a

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Speaker 1: way again. The favorite of three and a half, you

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Speaker 1: don't white, So I'm giving the Chiefs the win, but

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Speaker 1: the Bucks get inside that three and a half. The

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Speaker 1: Bears the Packers on Sunday night, the Bears are going

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Speaker 1: down to defeat even though Mitch Trabiski is back book it.

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Speaker 1: Monday night, Seahawks taken onto Eagles. Seahawks blow out the Eagles.

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Speaker 1: The Seahawks are favored by five and a half on

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Speaker 1: the road. The Seahawks a win, just like the playoff game.

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Speaker 1: And then Tuesday the Ravens taking on the Steelers. I'm

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Speaker 1: not even gonna pick that game because I don't even

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Speaker 1: know if it's going to be played at this point.

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Speaker 1: All right, that's a show. Appreciate you guys hanging around

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Speaker 1: hanging with me. A big thanks to Mark for stopping by,

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Speaker 1: to Deepe, to Lonnie Johnson, all of you for listening.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much. My guys back in studio at

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Speaker 1: Sports Radio six ten, thank you very much. We'll see

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Speaker 1: you on Monday. And there's always go Texans. Welcome to

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