November 10, 2023 • 26 mins
MV visits with Bengals Voice Dan Hoard. Plus, Noah Brown stops by the studio.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Hello Texans, Welcome to the podcast. Great to have you
with us along the ride. Hit subscribe wherever you got
this from, and let's get into it here. We have
Noah Brown coming up in a little bit. He'll talk
about his one hundred and fifty three yard receiving day
and the seventy five yard catch and run that was awesome.
We'll also have at the end of the podcast, if
you want to hang around long enough, a Houston Methodist
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doctor on the rsvs that are going around COVID still
going around, is it? We'll check in with him some
Houston Methodist minutes. But let's begin here. Huge game with
the Cincinnati Bengals coming up. I mean, come on, this
is awesome. Going for five in a row up there
at Cincinnati. It all started in two thousand and nine
with the Texans victory and I wrote about this the
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twenty eleven division clincher for the first time, the twenty
fifteen beating eight no Cincinnati. At the time, the Texans
came in at five or three and five and left
with a four and five record, but a whole lot
of momentum as they eventually won the division, bouncing back
from a two to five start. That was awesome. But
this has so much national attention with CJ. Stroud versus
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Joe Burrow. So let's visit with the play by play
announcer of the Bengals, Dan Horde.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Dan, how's it going, my friend?
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Mark? Life is good? How are you doing well?
Speaker 1 (01:20):
And it's funny because you and I started to talk
a lot in twenty eleven when the Texans beat the
Bengals to win the division for the first time. And
I knew that there'd be some battles over the years,
but my goodness, these franchises have been through a lot
in the last decade plus, the Bengals obviously having recently
been to a Super Bowl. Joe Burrow outstanding quarterback, certainly
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one of the top three in the league. Tell me
how it's going right now, because I know he was
unhealthy early rough start, But right now the Bengals look
as good as any team in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
And it's all because of Joe Burrow's right calf. He
heard his cap on the second day of training camp,
missed the entire camp, and tried to play at the
beginning of the season. I'll give him credit for trying
to cut it out because he still was not completely healthy,
and in the Bengals first four games. I don't know
what the most famous statue is in Houston, but whatever
it is, picture that statue standing seven yards behind the
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line of scrimmage and staying there regardless of what was
happening on a given play. So it gave the opposition
a sitting duck target. They didn't have to worry about
their pass rush lanes. There was never the threat that
the quarterback was going to scramble. They were so limited
offensively because Joe just couldn't move well. The calf is healthy.
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He looks like the Joe Burrow of old, and as
a result, they've won four straight. They won five out
of six, and I believe they're one of the best
teams in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Yeah, besides Burrow playing well, what else is going well
for the Bengals right now?
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Dan? The defense has been good throughout even early this
season when they were losing, and in some of those
games the final score was lopsided that the defense played
well enough to win, it was just the offense couldn't
stay on the field. The defense is being put in
short field situations time and time again because the offense
was so feeble in their season opener. The Bengals didn't
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even have ten first downs against Cleveland because the offense
could do nothing. So the defense has been good throughout.
It's been really good lately. If you look at the
Bengals last two games, they faced the Bills and the
forty nine Ers. Those are two of the best offensive
teams in the league. Neither team was able to score
twenty points against Cincinnati. So a healthy Burrow and a
really good defense is a potent combo.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Dan Horde, the voice of the Cincinnati Bengals, joining us
on Texans Radio, talk to me about the running game
with Joe Mixon been inconsistent.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
It wasn't good on Monday Night against Buffalo, although he
did make a great run at the end of the
game to seal the victory. Two weeks ago against San Francisco,
they had their best rushing performance of the year. So
there at least has been a recent game where it
was good. But for the entire season, I would say
that's been a bit of a disappointment. Again, part of
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it was the offense was so limited in the first
four weeks. The defense knew that one of two things
was coming. Either a really short pass to get the
ball out of Burrow's hands before he could get hit,
or a run out of a shotgun formation, because Joe
Burrow is not capable of being under center for the
first four games of the season, so I think there
are reasons for why the run game hasn't been very good.
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But the bottom line is it has not been very good.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Dan a little bit more on Burrow here, just having
him around. I know the rookie year he got hurt,
but you saw the signs for sure, and obviously we
saw the Super Bowl appearance. What's he like to be around,
what's he like as a player, maybe in the building,
that sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Mike Turrico from NBC Sports I think coined the perfect
description for Joe Burrow's personality. He has a likable cockiness,
which are two words that you rarely put together. Usually,
cocky people are people that you don't like. Somehow, Joe
Burrow has the ability to put it to pull it off.
He's so comfortable in his own skin. He's very cool
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and confident that that permeates throughout the building. From his
first day in the Bengals locker room, you just had
the sense that all right, this guy's going to lead
us whols want to go and that's exactly the way
it played out. You mentioned the horrific knee injury his
rookie year. The next year was the year they went
to the Super Bowl, so he wasn't even one hundred
percent yet, and he took the team to the super Bowl.
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They went back to the AFC Championship Game last year,
and now they seem to be ascending toward another postseason
run based on the way they're.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Playing right now.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Outstanding.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Okay, AFC North Texans are one to one in that
division so far. You have the Ravens after the Texans.
They can't look ahead, but we can. What do you
make of the Ravens this year?
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Dan Bengals faced the Ravens in Week two again, that
was back when Burrow was in Mobile and it was
a great game. It was in Cincinnati and Baltimore won. Late.
The thought that the Ravens were going to be one
of the NFL's best teams this year because whenever Lamar
Jackson has been healthy, they've won. Now, it hasn't extended
to the postseason yet. He's only got one playoff win
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in his career, but I think if you look at
his regular season record as the Ravens starting quarterback, they've
won something like seventy five percent of the games. I
think Cleveland and Baltimore have the best defenses in the
NFL right now, or at least the AFC right now,
and again with Lamar healthy, that offense always seems to
function well. So that's going to be a big showdown
next Thursday night for the Bengals having to head to
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Baltimore and trying to beat them on the road in
the Thursday night game.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Dan Horde, Voice of the Bengals, joining us. What about
the Steelers. Texans beat them pretty decisively here at NRG Stadium,
but they find ways to win, for sure. As the
entire division is above five hundred and playoff bound at
the season ended today.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Yeah, that's right. I mean there's seven teams that go
to the playoffs in the AFC, and right now, four
of the seven the four teams from the AFC North.
So that tells you about the strength of the division.
I'm still a little skeptical on the Steelers. I don't
know how they're doing it. They have been out gained
in every single game this season, and yet they're two
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games over five hundred. How do they do it well?
I think they're plus eight on turnover margin, so that's
a big thing. But watching their games, they seem to
make one huge game changing type defensive play in the
fourth quarter, and Kenny Pickett throws one big pass to
either George Pickens or Deontay Johnson and that seems to
be enough. They don't really just seem to do anything
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else well in the first three quarters of the game,
but they make a couple of big plays, one on offense,
one on defense in the fourth quarter, and that seems
to get them win. So it doesn't seem sustainable. It
seems to me if you get out gained every single week,
you're not going to keep winning. But credit Mike Comblin
and that group so far this year that managed to
get it done.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
What's your take on the Cleveland Browns Texans face down
December twenty fourth, Christmas Eve. Obviously Watson in and out
of the lineup. Great defense, what are your thoughts on them?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Incredible defense, that's the best defense in the NFL in
my opinion. They're two games over five hundred entirely because
of their defense. They held Arizona last week to less
than one hundred yards in the game. Clayton Tune. Houston
people are familiar with him. I think he finished at
fifty five passing yards in that game. Miles Garrett's in
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contention for not only Defensive Player of the Year, but
MVP in my opinion, he's been that good. The Bengals
could get nothing going offensively when they faced the Browns
this year, so if they get decent play out of
Deshaun going forward, that is a legitimate candidate to make
a postseason run.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
I know I asked you this years ago, Dan, but
tell me your latest on what is Cincinnati like as
a sports town. If I was an outside or asking
you that question, what's your response.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Resilient Because they're teams, whether it's Bengals fans, Reds fans,
college fans here, there have been periods where their teams
have been down for an extended period of time and
they remain loyal and it pays off when the team
makes a turnaround. So the Bengals super Bowl year a
couple of years ago is the perfect example. Anytime you're
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a fan of a team that's good, that in and
of itself is fun but if it's entirely unexpected, I
don't think it gets any better than that for a
sports fan. So that season two years ago, the Bengals
had won four games the year before, two games the
year before that, Nobody had high expectations for the team,
and they go on this storybook, fantasy like super Bowl
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run that probably would have been the greatest underdog Super
Bowl winner in history had they pulled off the win
against the Rams. Unfortunately that game got away from them
the final two minutes. But they remain on that high
from that super Bowl run and from the AFC Championship
trip last year and now watching this team ascend again
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with Joe Burrow, Bengals fans are definitely, you know, basking
in the glow of having one of the NFL's best teams.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Dan Horde, Voice of the Bengals with us.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
You also call Cincinnati Bearcats games Dan, So I know
it's a nightmare season right now, we're talking about a
dream come true with the Bengals going to the Super Bowl.
The Bearcats are owing six in the conference right now
as they embark on Big twelve play. But what's the
outlook moving into the future for.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Them, Well, it's hard for Cincinnati fans to believe this
right now because the team was in the fourteen playoffs
two years ago, so expectations have been really high around
here recently. But Cincinnati had a coaching change. Luke Fickle
did an incredible job, took the head coaching job at Wisconsin,
got a new coaching Scott Centerfield, and there's a little
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bit of a deja voo going on for longtime University
of Cincinnati football fans. When there's a coaching change, typically
there's a dip. It takes a year or two to
get their own culture in and establish the coaching staff
and the things that they want to do, and then historically,
whatever league Cincinnati has been in, within a few years,
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you're one of the better teams in the league. So
that's what I think is going to happen. I guess
you never know for sure when a new coach comes in,
but I'm basing it on the history of this program
over the past twenty five years. Give whatever coach they
hire two or three years and they're usually pretty good.
So I would expect Cincinnati to bounce back from a
tough year one under Scott Sadderfield and be solid in
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a relatively short period of time.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Have you ever had a close call calling a Bengals
game after a Bearcat Saturday?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Yes, I have more with the pregame show than the
game itself. I've never really cut it close for being
there in time for kickoff. We go on the air
ninety minutes before the game, and sometimes it's pretty close
for me to get there in time for that. In fact,
that was the case two weeks ago. The Bearcats played
a night game at Oklahoma State Stillwater, Oklahoma, Saturday night
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at eight pm. The Bengals were in San Francisco the
following afternoon, four twenty five kickoff. I got there in
time for the pregame show by about ten minutes, so
it was a little bit nerve wracking, but I answered
the bell.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
You made it okay, and I know you're going to
make it on Sunday when the Texans take on the Bengals.
Dan one more for you. What are your thoughts on
the Texans from the outside looking in?
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Well, I watched last week's game, and I think the
Texans are in the position the Bengals were three years
ago when Joe Burrow was a rookie. I mean, when
you get that guy, and you know you have that guy,
and CJ. Stroud certainly appears to be one of those guys.
You know, you can anticipate special things to come, and
I think that's what's going to happen with Houston. Obviously,
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there's a lot of draft capital that the team acquired
over the past several years, and once you have the quarterback,
everything else seems to fall into place. Between CJ and
Tank Dell and some of the other young players on
that team, I've been very impressed.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
All right, well, we'll see how impressive it is on Sunday.
Looking forward to the matchup. Dan, thanks so much for joining.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Us, Mark my pleasure. Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
There's my friend, Dan Horde, voice of the Bengals. Now
let's get into it with Noah Brown. Johnny Harris and
I checked in with him following the game against the
Tampa Bay Buccaneers and in advance of what is going
to go down at Cincinnati.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
It definitely wasn't a pretty game for four quarters, but
you know, a halftime we made a decision that we
weren't coming back in the locker room without a win, So,
you know, were in the second half. We were prepared
to do everything we could to get that done, and
we were successful in doing that.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
So you're in the second half once you to take
me through the touchdown because I've always wondered what it's
like because I was always slow and that stuck me
on defense. What is it like when all sudden the
seas open and you just have running room in front
of you? So take me through the crossing route for
a touchdown? What happened? And when did you know? Oh man,
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I'm about to house this thing.
Speaker 7 (14:05):
I mean, we had a pretty clean game plan.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
I think we had specific looks we were looking for
from Tampa that if we got them, we knew could
be big plays.
Speaker 7 (14:11):
So you know, we're kind of preparing for that all week.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
So I knew in the huddle that it could be
a big play, and obviously Tank through a great block
to help extend it.
Speaker 7 (14:19):
You know, you know, we capitalized.
Speaker 6 (14:20):
So when you get to the sideline, are you getting
you just see green grass? You what do you think?
You just run like all get out because the five
yard line you got Davis coming from the other side.
At that point, you've run a long way. Were you like,
this guy's not stopping me?
Speaker 7 (14:33):
From the end? Zone.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Right.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
Yeah, at that point, I'm just thinking get to the
house that. I mean, I've had two catches this year.
I got down on the three in the two yard line,
so that wasn't happening the game.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
Were you catching some grief from the receivers because I
know that happens with the running backs all the time, like,
oh man, you're supposed to be fast, you got yoked.
Were you thinking about that at all or just like getting.
Speaker 7 (14:49):
Nobody really said anything about the past too, but it
was bothering me.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
So Yeah, the Tank Dell block right there in the
receiver room, I have to think they're going to be
showing that one to everybody and maybe in the team
meeting room as well. Because unselfish play and doing the
little things that help you do your job.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
What about that component of the game.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
Noah, Man, that's huge, And to get it from a
rookie like Tank is it speaks numbers or volumes for
the kind of guy that he is and where his
head is as far as the game goes. You know,
he's willing to do anything to help us win. And
you know, whether it's him getting the ball or him
throwing the block, he'll go out there and do it.
Speaker 7 (15:26):
So super proud of tank. No.
Speaker 6 (15:28):
Yesterday, three guys end up with one hundred plus yards receiving,
which I think was the first time since twenty twenty
that that has happened. And I've thought about your receiver
room and it includes Dalton because Dalton had you know,
ten catches yesterday as well. It feels like I started
looking in they're in a one of y'all that really
cares that he got a hundred. You're happy for the team.
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Obviously you won't get yours, but you're happy for a
guy that got a hundred. Like Nico got the touchdown,
he had fifty four yards receiving. He wasn't part of
that hundred, but he was just as happy for y'all
getting a hundred. Is that the way the receiver room
is kind of the PAS catching group, like we don't
care who gets it, We just want the team to
get it.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
Absolutely, I think we all have a great appreciation for
each other's games and what we bring to the table,
and we know that there's enough for everybody, So you know,
we get excited when each other makes plays. And you know,
we feel as a receiver room that we contribute greatly
to the offense and how we go So you know,
we take pride in whoever it is out of our
room making that play.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Yep, all right, CJ. Stroud, Let's talk about him for
a moment. What are you seeing so far? Out of
the rookie sets another record yesterday we joked about it,
but it's no joke that we go for the record
books almost every time he plays.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
So what do you see from him so far?
Speaker 7 (16:37):
Noah, CJ.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Special Just it's mainly his mindset, how he prepares for
the game, the way he sees the game, and he's
able to go out there and play with total confidence.
I know a lot of times you see rookie quarterbacks
they're a little hesitant, might be late to get the
ball out. CJ knows exactly where he wants to go
and he's gonna get it there. And you know, we
have complete trusting him, you know, running through tight windows,
that he'll get it there. And he's done that excellent job.
Speaker 6 (17:00):
Okay, did I see you doing oh a little celebration
with CJ on the sideline afterwards? Yes, sir, Did you
guys have any any connection? I know there's age difference,
but did you have any connection with CJ before you
guys ended up here linking up in Houston.
Speaker 7 (17:14):
Not really.
Speaker 5 (17:15):
No, we didn't overlap at all at Ohio State. You know,
I know about him. I followed him.
Speaker 7 (17:20):
Yeah, I had left, but right, we didn't have too
much of a relationship before.
Speaker 6 (17:24):
But what is it about that? You know, we talk
about this because Mark used to call games for the
Miami Hurricanes. They always say it's a Kine thing. But
you kind of see that brotherhood with Ohio State guys too.
You know, it feels like no matter what year you played,
there's always this you know, hey, I played Ohio State,
I played out of state. Like there's always this connection
that you guys have. What is it about that place,
Ohio State where you guys have that brotherhood?
Speaker 5 (17:43):
I mean, I think the culture at Ohio State is
the is the culture there, and I don't think it
changes very much. I think we all have similar experiences
that have gone to you know, we've had to compete
in similar ways.
Speaker 7 (17:53):
You know, we just come from.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
The same type of environment that allows us to have
a little bit of chemistry off the.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Bat Noel brand with us. Noah, what kind of effect
did it have on the team. When you see what
Daria Gunbowale was able to do with his new job
as place kicker. Maybe it was just a one day job,
but you see at the half he kicks off and
he's got to handle the kicking duties for the rest
of the way. How did that affect the team? That
did that lift you guys up?
Speaker 7 (18:19):
I think it definitely gave us some energy. You know,
I can't lie.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
I've never seen Daria kick a ball before Sunday, So
for him to do that, that speaks to him as
an athlete, as a competitor, because you know, to kick
a go ahead field goal and you're not a kicker,
that's that's that's the serious thing. And he got it
done for us, and it was huge.
Speaker 6 (18:37):
As an offensive player. Did you were you guys aware
of that? Did you guys know that? Or did you
come off the field and go, wait a second, we're
kicking a field goal? Who's kicking a field goal? Were
you guys aware of that whole situation? How that kind
of play out in the second half?
Speaker 5 (18:50):
No, I mean we were aware of it coming out
a halftime because you know, we were kicking off to
them half, so we knew we were going to have
to go down and cover more kicks and stuff like that.
Speaker 7 (18:57):
So we were aware of the situation. All right.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Final Drive used a couple of timeouts early had to
use them. And then you have the catch where they
got to run up to the line quickly and spike
it right. So what's going through your head right there?
Oh my gosh, you know it's a five alarm fire, right?
Speaker 7 (19:14):
Well not.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
I think we go through these situations a lot throughout
the week. And you know, another point on CJ. That
first catch, I had CJ adjust to my route. I
had ran that same route probably three times during the game,
supposed to be at fifteen yards, but they were sitting
at fifteen yards because they recognized it. He told me
to run a little bit shorter, ran shorter, He popped
the ball on me, and we're moving. So that that
just speaks to CJ and how he thinks the game
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and how he takes control.
Speaker 6 (19:37):
Of Wow, no, the catch to tank, you guys are
on the same side. It looked like you guys are
running a double posts against against quarters and we're who's
the primary receiver on that or was it just a read?
If the safety jumps you, he throws the tank. If
safety stays then at you, what was kind of the
reading that final play for you? You realize that were
you the clear out guy or were you the guy
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that he was gonna throw to if that safety didn't move?
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Yeah, No, that was just a play, you know, just
stressing the one high safety making him make a decision.
You know, on that play, we're both thinking we're the
number one option. It's on the safety to make his decision,
and he did and we capitalize.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Demiko Ryans tell me about him. I know he coaches
defensive side of the ball, but he's the head coach
and he's a person who I think a lot of
people gravitate toward and get motivated by.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
How do you see him your relationship with the head coach?
Speaker 5 (20:25):
He brings a ton of energy. I mean he never
lets us lose our EDGs, our focus. You know, he
demands a lot of us throughout the practice week, and
I think it makes it easier for us to be
calm in situations like we just had on Sunday, because
you know, we go through a lot of stress during
the weekend, and Demico make sure we're ready for it.
Speaker 6 (20:42):
No, the game in Carolina. I think was probably frustrating
for a lot of people. Obviously're frustrated for yourselves because
I know you guys were out there that day thinking, man,
we're a lot better offense. Well, was kind of the
key going from Carolina going to Tampa Bay to take
a performance that I know you guys weren't totally proud
of and Charlotte, but then turning it around and having
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an offense that just blew it out of the water
against Tampa Bay. Was there kind of a key going
through the week to get you to that point.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
You know, tighten up the focus a little bit more.
I don't think we did anything crazy different game plan wise. Oh,
I don't think we threw any wrinkles in Really, it
was just a heightened focus and everybody doing their job,
appairing a little bit better and we saw the benefit.
Speaker 7 (21:20):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
All right, No, and thanks a lot for joining us,
Good luck, appreciate it. There's Noah Brown now, As promised,
I told you, if you hang out long enough, you
get some medical information here free medical information from Houston
Methodist doctor Josh Septimus talking about RSVS and such. Doctor,
how's it going?
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Everything's great? How about you.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Doing well, and I'm glad I don't have a respiratory
illness because I know some of that is going around.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
And you and I spoke last year.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
It might have been worse last year, And I say
that with a question mark in my voice. Is that
worse or better this year? In general, respiratory illness is
going around?
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Remains to be seen, is the only answer I could
give you. It is really early in what used to
be just called flu season, but that now we would
call COVID season, blue season, and respiratories and social virus season,
so we will see.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Is it hard for the lay person to tell if
they have COVID or not without taking the test because
some of the symptoms are the same as an RSV correct.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
It's almost impossible.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
You know.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
The common cold, which we are seeing a lot of
right now, is actually none of those three. It's just rhinovirus.
And one of the unique things about COVID is that
it can look like a common cold, or even like allergies,
or it can give you the full on body aches
and high fevers and cough of the flu. Respiratories and
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social virus tends to be very focused on severe coughing,
tends to have a fever and can be very deadly
in newborns as well as in the what Paul offit
from chopped calls the elderly elderly. But these are all,
you know, potentially serious infections.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Without the season kicking into high gear. Yet, how many
or how often do you see patients that turn out
to have COVID these days?
Speaker 4 (23:15):
Well, so we saw in late summer, if you may recall,
a huge upswing in Houston, And every city is going
to be a little bit different, but in the Houston area,
huge upswing that went down at the very end of
the summer, and we've seen a slight uptick. Now we're
still not even close to where we were in the
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late summer, but we are starting to see an uptick.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
And what about masks, because I see some people wearing
masks and I don't want to ask, I don't want
to be impolite. I'm wondering, do you have COVID or
do you have an RSV and you don't want to
spread it? Or are you trying to prevent yourself from
getting one? What is your general take on that it's
got to help a little bit, or how do you
see a doctor, Well.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
You're just trying to get me into hot water. So
I think, first of all, when someone's wearing a mask
in public, we have no idea. It could be that
they have an immune problem and so they're trying to
protect themselves. It could be that they have a respiratory
tract infection and they're trying to protect others. I would
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break it down this way, if you are sick and
it is at all possible to stay home, I would,
particularly with COVID, because it's an aerosol as opposed to
just a droplet, so it's much more contagious than say
the flu. Even if you're wearing a mask, if there
is some reason why you must go out, you want
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to make sure if it's COVID, that you're wearing an
N ninety five or a kN ninety four mask, And
you know, if you've got the flu, you've got RSV. Again,
same advice. I really would try to stay home if
you can. In terms of protecting yourself. Really, the kN
ninety four and the N ninety five masks are the
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only ones that are going to effectively shield you with
any degree of certainty from COVID. And so if you
do have an immune problem, you are elderly and at risk,
and the N ninety five or a kN ninety four
mask is your best bet. Now, really, if you want
to be as you know, specific as possible, the very
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best thing you can do is get vaccinated. And that
that would be my biggest take home for your listeners.
Get your flu shot. It's not too late, but get
it as soon as possible. Get the COVID vaccine if
you are at risk. I personally recommend it for anyone
over sixty five, and think anyone who's an adult should
consider it. I'm an adult doctor and RSV you know,
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I agree that with the CDC recommendations that people should
talk to their doctor about whether they think they should
get it. I personally recommend it for anyone over seventy
five and anyone with chronic lung disease. You know, these
are these vaccines are really the best way to protect yourself,
much better than just a mask.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
All right, great information, doctor, Thanks so much for your.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Time, My pleasure anytime.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Mark, there's doctor Joshua Septimus from Houston Methodist.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
That's going to do it for the podcast.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Check out all the other ones wherever you got this
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Sports Radio six ' ten of the Bowl one hundred
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Speaker 2 (26:24):
I know you feel the same.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Have a great day, Go Texans.
Hello Texans, Welcome to the podcast. Great to have you
with us along the ride. Hit subscribe wherever you got
this from, and let's get into it here. We have
Noah Brown coming up in a little bit. He'll talk
about his one hundred and fifty three yard receiving day
and the seventy five yard catch and run that was awesome.
We'll also have at the end of the podcast, if
you want to hang around long enough, a Houston Methodist
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doctor on the rsvs that are going around COVID still
going around, is it? We'll check in with him some
Houston Methodist minutes. But let's begin here. Huge game with
the Cincinnati Bengals coming up. I mean, come on, this
is awesome. Going for five in a row up there
at Cincinnati. It all started in two thousand and nine
with the Texans victory and I wrote about this the
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twenty eleven division clincher for the first time, the twenty
fifteen beating eight no Cincinnati. At the time, the Texans
came in at five or three and five and left
with a four and five record, but a whole lot
of momentum as they eventually won the division, bouncing back
from a two to five start. That was awesome. But
this has so much national attention with CJ. Stroud versus
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Joe Burrow. So let's visit with the play by play
announcer of the Bengals, Dan Horde.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Dan, how's it going, my friend?
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Mark? Life is good? How are you doing well?
Speaker 1 (01:20):
And it's funny because you and I started to talk
a lot in twenty eleven when the Texans beat the
Bengals to win the division for the first time. And
I knew that there'd be some battles over the years,
but my goodness, these franchises have been through a lot
in the last decade plus, the Bengals obviously having recently
been to a Super Bowl. Joe Burrow outstanding quarterback, certainly
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one of the top three in the league. Tell me
how it's going right now, because I know he was
unhealthy early rough start, But right now the Bengals look
as good as any team in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
And it's all because of Joe Burrow's right calf. He
heard his cap on the second day of training camp,
missed the entire camp, and tried to play at the
beginning of the season. I'll give him credit for trying
to cut it out because he still was not completely healthy,
and in the Bengals first four games. I don't know
what the most famous statue is in Houston, but whatever
it is, picture that statue standing seven yards behind the
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line of scrimmage and staying there regardless of what was
happening on a given play. So it gave the opposition
a sitting duck target. They didn't have to worry about
their pass rush lanes. There was never the threat that
the quarterback was going to scramble. They were so limited
offensively because Joe just couldn't move well. The calf is healthy.
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He looks like the Joe Burrow of old, and as
a result, they've won four straight. They won five out
of six, and I believe they're one of the best
teams in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Yeah, besides Burrow playing well, what else is going well
for the Bengals right now?
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Dan? The defense has been good throughout even early this
season when they were losing, and in some of those
games the final score was lopsided that the defense played
well enough to win, it was just the offense couldn't
stay on the field. The defense is being put in
short field situations time and time again because the offense
was so feeble in their season opener. The Bengals didn't
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even have ten first downs against Cleveland because the offense
could do nothing. So the defense has been good throughout.
It's been really good lately. If you look at the
Bengals last two games, they faced the Bills and the
forty nine Ers. Those are two of the best offensive
teams in the league. Neither team was able to score
twenty points against Cincinnati. So a healthy Burrow and a
really good defense is a potent combo.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Dan Horde, the voice of the Cincinnati Bengals, joining us
on Texans Radio, talk to me about the running game
with Joe Mixon been inconsistent.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
It wasn't good on Monday Night against Buffalo, although he
did make a great run at the end of the
game to seal the victory. Two weeks ago against San Francisco,
they had their best rushing performance of the year. So
there at least has been a recent game where it
was good. But for the entire season, I would say
that's been a bit of a disappointment. Again, part of
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it was the offense was so limited in the first
four weeks. The defense knew that one of two things
was coming. Either a really short pass to get the
ball out of Burrow's hands before he could get hit,
or a run out of a shotgun formation, because Joe
Burrow is not capable of being under center for the
first four games of the season, so I think there
are reasons for why the run game hasn't been very good.
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But the bottom line is it has not been very good.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Dan a little bit more on Burrow here, just having
him around. I know the rookie year he got hurt,
but you saw the signs for sure, and obviously we
saw the Super Bowl appearance. What's he like to be around,
what's he like as a player, maybe in the building,
that sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Mike Turrico from NBC Sports I think coined the perfect
description for Joe Burrow's personality. He has a likable cockiness,
which are two words that you rarely put together. Usually,
cocky people are people that you don't like. Somehow, Joe
Burrow has the ability to put it to pull it off.
He's so comfortable in his own skin. He's very cool
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and confident that that permeates throughout the building. From his
first day in the Bengals locker room, you just had
the sense that all right, this guy's going to lead
us whols want to go and that's exactly the way
it played out. You mentioned the horrific knee injury his
rookie year. The next year was the year they went
to the Super Bowl, so he wasn't even one hundred
percent yet, and he took the team to the super Bowl.
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They went back to the AFC Championship Game last year,
and now they seem to be ascending toward another postseason
run based on the way they're.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Playing right now.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Outstanding.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Okay, AFC North Texans are one to one in that
division so far. You have the Ravens after the Texans.
They can't look ahead, but we can. What do you
make of the Ravens this year?
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Dan Bengals faced the Ravens in Week two again, that
was back when Burrow was in Mobile and it was
a great game. It was in Cincinnati and Baltimore won. Late.
The thought that the Ravens were going to be one
of the NFL's best teams this year because whenever Lamar
Jackson has been healthy, they've won. Now, it hasn't extended
to the postseason yet. He's only got one playoff win
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in his career, but I think if you look at
his regular season record as the Ravens starting quarterback, they've
won something like seventy five percent of the games. I
think Cleveland and Baltimore have the best defenses in the
NFL right now, or at least the AFC right now,
and again with Lamar healthy, that offense always seems to
function well. So that's going to be a big showdown
next Thursday night for the Bengals having to head to
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Baltimore and trying to beat them on the road in
the Thursday night game.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Dan Horde, Voice of the Bengals, joining us. What about
the Steelers. Texans beat them pretty decisively here at NRG Stadium,
but they find ways to win, for sure. As the
entire division is above five hundred and playoff bound at
the season ended today.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Yeah, that's right. I mean there's seven teams that go
to the playoffs in the AFC, and right now, four
of the seven the four teams from the AFC North.
So that tells you about the strength of the division.
I'm still a little skeptical on the Steelers. I don't
know how they're doing it. They have been out gained
in every single game this season, and yet they're two
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games over five hundred. How do they do it well?
I think they're plus eight on turnover margin, so that's
a big thing. But watching their games, they seem to
make one huge game changing type defensive play in the
fourth quarter, and Kenny Pickett throws one big pass to
either George Pickens or Deontay Johnson and that seems to
be enough. They don't really just seem to do anything
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else well in the first three quarters of the game,
but they make a couple of big plays, one on offense,
one on defense in the fourth quarter, and that seems
to get them win. So it doesn't seem sustainable. It
seems to me if you get out gained every single week,
you're not going to keep winning. But credit Mike Comblin
and that group so far this year that managed to
get it done.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
What's your take on the Cleveland Browns Texans face down
December twenty fourth, Christmas Eve. Obviously Watson in and out
of the lineup. Great defense, what are your thoughts on them?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Incredible defense, that's the best defense in the NFL in
my opinion. They're two games over five hundred entirely because
of their defense. They held Arizona last week to less
than one hundred yards in the game. Clayton Tune. Houston
people are familiar with him. I think he finished at
fifty five passing yards in that game. Miles Garrett's in
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contention for not only Defensive Player of the Year, but
MVP in my opinion, he's been that good. The Bengals
could get nothing going offensively when they faced the Browns
this year, so if they get decent play out of
Deshaun going forward, that is a legitimate candidate to make
a postseason run.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
I know I asked you this years ago, Dan, but
tell me your latest on what is Cincinnati like as
a sports town. If I was an outside or asking
you that question, what's your response.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Resilient Because they're teams, whether it's Bengals fans, Reds fans,
college fans here, there have been periods where their teams
have been down for an extended period of time and
they remain loyal and it pays off when the team
makes a turnaround. So the Bengals super Bowl year a
couple of years ago is the perfect example. Anytime you're
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a fan of a team that's good, that in and
of itself is fun but if it's entirely unexpected, I
don't think it gets any better than that for a
sports fan. So that season two years ago, the Bengals
had won four games the year before, two games the
year before that, Nobody had high expectations for the team,
and they go on this storybook, fantasy like super Bowl
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run that probably would have been the greatest underdog Super
Bowl winner in history had they pulled off the win
against the Rams. Unfortunately that game got away from them
the final two minutes. But they remain on that high
from that super Bowl run and from the AFC Championship
trip last year and now watching this team ascend again
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with Joe Burrow, Bengals fans are definitely, you know, basking
in the glow of having one of the NFL's best teams.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Dan Horde, Voice of the Bengals with us.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
You also call Cincinnati Bearcats games Dan, So I know
it's a nightmare season right now, we're talking about a
dream come true with the Bengals going to the Super Bowl.
The Bearcats are owing six in the conference right now
as they embark on Big twelve play. But what's the
outlook moving into the future for.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Them, Well, it's hard for Cincinnati fans to believe this
right now because the team was in the fourteen playoffs
two years ago, so expectations have been really high around
here recently. But Cincinnati had a coaching change. Luke Fickle
did an incredible job, took the head coaching job at Wisconsin,
got a new coaching Scott Centerfield, and there's a little
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bit of a deja voo going on for longtime University
of Cincinnati football fans. When there's a coaching change, typically
there's a dip. It takes a year or two to
get their own culture in and establish the coaching staff
and the things that they want to do, and then historically,
whatever league Cincinnati has been in, within a few years,
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you're one of the better teams in the league. So
that's what I think is going to happen. I guess
you never know for sure when a new coach comes in,
but I'm basing it on the history of this program
over the past twenty five years. Give whatever coach they
hire two or three years and they're usually pretty good.
So I would expect Cincinnati to bounce back from a
tough year one under Scott Sadderfield and be solid in
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a relatively short period of time.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Have you ever had a close call calling a Bengals
game after a Bearcat Saturday?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Yes, I have more with the pregame show than the
game itself. I've never really cut it close for being
there in time for kickoff. We go on the air
ninety minutes before the game, and sometimes it's pretty close
for me to get there in time for that. In fact,
that was the case two weeks ago. The Bearcats played
a night game at Oklahoma State Stillwater, Oklahoma, Saturday night
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at eight pm. The Bengals were in San Francisco the
following afternoon, four twenty five kickoff. I got there in
time for the pregame show by about ten minutes, so
it was a little bit nerve wracking, but I answered
the bell.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
You made it okay, and I know you're going to
make it on Sunday when the Texans take on the Bengals.
Dan one more for you. What are your thoughts on
the Texans from the outside looking in?
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Well, I watched last week's game, and I think the
Texans are in the position the Bengals were three years
ago when Joe Burrow was a rookie. I mean, when
you get that guy, and you know you have that guy,
and CJ. Stroud certainly appears to be one of those guys.
You know, you can anticipate special things to come, and
I think that's what's going to happen with Houston. Obviously,
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there's a lot of draft capital that the team acquired
over the past several years, and once you have the quarterback,
everything else seems to fall into place. Between CJ and
Tank Dell and some of the other young players on
that team, I've been very impressed.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
All right, well, we'll see how impressive it is on Sunday.
Looking forward to the matchup. Dan, thanks so much for joining.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Us, Mark my pleasure. Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
There's my friend, Dan Horde, voice of the Bengals. Now
let's get into it with Noah Brown. Johnny Harris and
I checked in with him following the game against the
Tampa Bay Buccaneers and in advance of what is going
to go down at Cincinnati.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
It definitely wasn't a pretty game for four quarters, but
you know, a halftime we made a decision that we
weren't coming back in the locker room without a win, So,
you know, were in the second half. We were prepared
to do everything we could to get that done, and
we were successful in doing that.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
So you're in the second half once you to take
me through the touchdown because I've always wondered what it's
like because I was always slow and that stuck me
on defense. What is it like when all sudden the
seas open and you just have running room in front
of you? So take me through the crossing route for
a touchdown? What happened? And when did you know? Oh man,
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I'm about to house this thing.
Speaker 7 (14:05):
I mean, we had a pretty clean game plan.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
I think we had specific looks we were looking for
from Tampa that if we got them, we knew could
be big plays.
Speaker 7 (14:11):
So you know, we're kind of preparing for that all week.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
So I knew in the huddle that it could be
a big play, and obviously Tank through a great block
to help extend it.
Speaker 7 (14:19):
You know, you know, we capitalized.
Speaker 6 (14:20):
So when you get to the sideline, are you getting
you just see green grass? You what do you think?
You just run like all get out because the five
yard line you got Davis coming from the other side.
At that point, you've run a long way. Were you like,
this guy's not stopping me?
Speaker 7 (14:33):
From the end? Zone.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Right.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
Yeah, at that point, I'm just thinking get to the
house that. I mean, I've had two catches this year.
I got down on the three in the two yard line,
so that wasn't happening the game.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
Were you catching some grief from the receivers because I
know that happens with the running backs all the time, like,
oh man, you're supposed to be fast, you got yoked.
Were you thinking about that at all or just like getting.
Speaker 7 (14:49):
Nobody really said anything about the past too, but it
was bothering me.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
So Yeah, the Tank Dell block right there in the
receiver room, I have to think they're going to be
showing that one to everybody and maybe in the team
meeting room as well. Because unselfish play and doing the
little things that help you do your job.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
What about that component of the game.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
Noah, Man, that's huge, And to get it from a
rookie like Tank is it speaks numbers or volumes for
the kind of guy that he is and where his
head is as far as the game goes. You know,
he's willing to do anything to help us win. And
you know, whether it's him getting the ball or him
throwing the block, he'll go out there and do it.
Speaker 7 (15:26):
So super proud of tank. No.
Speaker 6 (15:28):
Yesterday, three guys end up with one hundred plus yards receiving,
which I think was the first time since twenty twenty
that that has happened. And I've thought about your receiver
room and it includes Dalton because Dalton had you know,
ten catches yesterday as well. It feels like I started
looking in they're in a one of y'all that really
cares that he got a hundred. You're happy for the team.
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Obviously you won't get yours, but you're happy for a
guy that got a hundred. Like Nico got the touchdown,
he had fifty four yards receiving. He wasn't part of
that hundred, but he was just as happy for y'all
getting a hundred. Is that the way the receiver room
is kind of the PAS catching group, like we don't
care who gets it, We just want the team to
get it.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
Absolutely, I think we all have a great appreciation for
each other's games and what we bring to the table,
and we know that there's enough for everybody, So you know,
we get excited when each other makes plays. And you know,
we feel as a receiver room that we contribute greatly
to the offense and how we go So you know,
we take pride in whoever it is out of our
room making that play.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Yep, all right, CJ. Stroud, Let's talk about him for
a moment. What are you seeing so far? Out of
the rookie sets another record yesterday we joked about it,
but it's no joke that we go for the record
books almost every time he plays.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
So what do you see from him so far?
Speaker 7 (16:37):
Noah, CJ.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Special Just it's mainly his mindset, how he prepares for
the game, the way he sees the game, and he's
able to go out there and play with total confidence.
I know a lot of times you see rookie quarterbacks
they're a little hesitant, might be late to get the
ball out. CJ knows exactly where he wants to go
and he's gonna get it there. And you know, we
have complete trusting him, you know, running through tight windows,
that he'll get it there. And he's done that excellent job.
Speaker 6 (17:00):
Okay, did I see you doing oh a little celebration
with CJ on the sideline afterwards? Yes, sir, Did you
guys have any any connection? I know there's age difference,
but did you have any connection with CJ before you
guys ended up here linking up in Houston.
Speaker 7 (17:14):
Not really.
Speaker 5 (17:15):
No, we didn't overlap at all at Ohio State. You know,
I know about him. I followed him.
Speaker 7 (17:20):
Yeah, I had left, but right, we didn't have too
much of a relationship before.
Speaker 6 (17:24):
But what is it about that? You know, we talk
about this because Mark used to call games for the
Miami Hurricanes. They always say it's a Kine thing. But
you kind of see that brotherhood with Ohio State guys too.
You know, it feels like no matter what year you played,
there's always this you know, hey, I played Ohio State,
I played out of state. Like there's always this connection
that you guys have. What is it about that place,
Ohio State where you guys have that brotherhood?
Speaker 5 (17:43):
I mean, I think the culture at Ohio State is
the is the culture there, and I don't think it
changes very much. I think we all have similar experiences
that have gone to you know, we've had to compete
in similar ways.
Speaker 7 (17:53):
You know, we just come from.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
The same type of environment that allows us to have
a little bit of chemistry off the.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Bat Noel brand with us. Noah, what kind of effect
did it have on the team. When you see what
Daria Gunbowale was able to do with his new job
as place kicker. Maybe it was just a one day job,
but you see at the half he kicks off and
he's got to handle the kicking duties for the rest
of the way. How did that affect the team? That
did that lift you guys up?
Speaker 7 (18:19):
I think it definitely gave us some energy. You know,
I can't lie.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
I've never seen Daria kick a ball before Sunday, So
for him to do that, that speaks to him as
an athlete, as a competitor, because you know, to kick
a go ahead field goal and you're not a kicker,
that's that's that's the serious thing. And he got it
done for us, and it was huge.
Speaker 6 (18:37):
As an offensive player. Did you were you guys aware
of that? Did you guys know that? Or did you
come off the field and go, wait a second, we're
kicking a field goal? Who's kicking a field goal? Were
you guys aware of that whole situation? How that kind
of play out in the second half?
Speaker 5 (18:50):
No, I mean we were aware of it coming out
a halftime because you know, we were kicking off to
them half, so we knew we were going to have
to go down and cover more kicks and stuff like that.
Speaker 7 (18:57):
So we were aware of the situation. All right.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Final Drive used a couple of timeouts early had to
use them. And then you have the catch where they
got to run up to the line quickly and spike
it right. So what's going through your head right there?
Oh my gosh, you know it's a five alarm fire, right?
Speaker 7 (19:14):
Well not.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
I think we go through these situations a lot throughout
the week. And you know, another point on CJ. That
first catch, I had CJ adjust to my route. I
had ran that same route probably three times during the game,
supposed to be at fifteen yards, but they were sitting
at fifteen yards because they recognized it. He told me
to run a little bit shorter, ran shorter, He popped
the ball on me, and we're moving. So that that
just speaks to CJ and how he thinks the game
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and how he takes control.
Speaker 6 (19:37):
Of Wow, no, the catch to tank, you guys are
on the same side. It looked like you guys are
running a double posts against against quarters and we're who's
the primary receiver on that or was it just a read?
If the safety jumps you, he throws the tank. If
safety stays then at you, what was kind of the
reading that final play for you? You realize that were
you the clear out guy or were you the guy
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that he was gonna throw to if that safety didn't move?
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Yeah, No, that was just a play, you know, just
stressing the one high safety making him make a decision.
You know, on that play, we're both thinking we're the
number one option. It's on the safety to make his decision,
and he did and we capitalize.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Demiko Ryans tell me about him. I know he coaches
defensive side of the ball, but he's the head coach
and he's a person who I think a lot of
people gravitate toward and get motivated by.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
How do you see him your relationship with the head coach?
Speaker 5 (20:25):
He brings a ton of energy. I mean he never
lets us lose our EDGs, our focus. You know, he
demands a lot of us throughout the practice week, and
I think it makes it easier for us to be
calm in situations like we just had on Sunday, because
you know, we go through a lot of stress during
the weekend, and Demico make sure we're ready for it.
Speaker 6 (20:42):
No, the game in Carolina. I think was probably frustrating
for a lot of people. Obviously're frustrated for yourselves because
I know you guys were out there that day thinking, man,
we're a lot better offense. Well, was kind of the
key going from Carolina going to Tampa Bay to take
a performance that I know you guys weren't totally proud
of and Charlotte, but then turning it around and having
(21:02):
an offense that just blew it out of the water
against Tampa Bay. Was there kind of a key going
through the week to get you to that point.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
You know, tighten up the focus a little bit more.
I don't think we did anything crazy different game plan wise. Oh,
I don't think we threw any wrinkles in Really, it
was just a heightened focus and everybody doing their job,
appairing a little bit better and we saw the benefit.
Speaker 7 (21:20):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
All right, No, and thanks a lot for joining us,
Good luck, appreciate it. There's Noah Brown now, As promised,
I told you, if you hang out long enough, you
get some medical information here free medical information from Houston
Methodist doctor Josh Septimus talking about RSVS and such. Doctor,
how's it going?
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Everything's great? How about you.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Doing well, and I'm glad I don't have a respiratory
illness because I know some of that is going around.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
And you and I spoke last year.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
It might have been worse last year, And I say
that with a question mark in my voice. Is that
worse or better this year? In general, respiratory illness is
going around?
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Remains to be seen, is the only answer I could
give you. It is really early in what used to
be just called flu season, but that now we would
call COVID season, blue season, and respiratories and social virus season,
so we will see.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Is it hard for the lay person to tell if
they have COVID or not without taking the test because
some of the symptoms are the same as an RSV correct.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
It's almost impossible.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
You know.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
The common cold, which we are seeing a lot of
right now, is actually none of those three. It's just rhinovirus.
And one of the unique things about COVID is that
it can look like a common cold, or even like allergies,
or it can give you the full on body aches
and high fevers and cough of the flu. Respiratories and
(22:47):
social virus tends to be very focused on severe coughing,
tends to have a fever and can be very deadly
in newborns as well as in the what Paul offit
from chopped calls the elderly elderly. But these are all,
you know, potentially serious infections.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Without the season kicking into high gear. Yet, how many
or how often do you see patients that turn out
to have COVID these days?
Speaker 4 (23:15):
Well, so we saw in late summer, if you may recall,
a huge upswing in Houston, And every city is going
to be a little bit different, but in the Houston area,
huge upswing that went down at the very end of
the summer, and we've seen a slight uptick. Now we're
still not even close to where we were in the
(23:36):
late summer, but we are starting to see an uptick.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
And what about masks, because I see some people wearing
masks and I don't want to ask, I don't want
to be impolite. I'm wondering, do you have COVID or
do you have an RSV and you don't want to
spread it? Or are you trying to prevent yourself from
getting one? What is your general take on that it's
got to help a little bit, or how do you
see a doctor, Well.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
You're just trying to get me into hot water. So
I think, first of all, when someone's wearing a mask
in public, we have no idea. It could be that
they have an immune problem and so they're trying to
protect themselves. It could be that they have a respiratory
tract infection and they're trying to protect others. I would
(24:18):
break it down this way, if you are sick and
it is at all possible to stay home, I would,
particularly with COVID, because it's an aerosol as opposed to
just a droplet, so it's much more contagious than say
the flu. Even if you're wearing a mask, if there
is some reason why you must go out, you want
(24:38):
to make sure if it's COVID, that you're wearing an
N ninety five or a kN ninety four mask, And
you know, if you've got the flu, you've got RSV. Again,
same advice. I really would try to stay home if
you can. In terms of protecting yourself. Really, the kN
ninety four and the N ninety five masks are the
(24:59):
only ones that are going to effectively shield you with
any degree of certainty from COVID. And so if you
do have an immune problem, you are elderly and at risk,
and the N ninety five or a kN ninety four
mask is your best bet. Now, really, if you want
to be as you know, specific as possible, the very
(25:21):
best thing you can do is get vaccinated. And that
that would be my biggest take home for your listeners.
Get your flu shot. It's not too late, but get
it as soon as possible. Get the COVID vaccine if
you are at risk. I personally recommend it for anyone
over sixty five, and think anyone who's an adult should
consider it. I'm an adult doctor and RSV you know,
(25:45):
I agree that with the CDC recommendations that people should
talk to their doctor about whether they think they should
get it. I personally recommend it for anyone over seventy
five and anyone with chronic lung disease. You know, these
are these vaccines are really the best way to protect yourself,
much better than just a mask.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
All right, great information, doctor, Thanks so much for your.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Time, My pleasure anytime.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Mark, there's doctor Joshua Septimus from Houston Methodist.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
That's going to do it for the podcast.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Check out all the other ones wherever you got this
one related to your Houston Texans at Cincinnati Sunday at noon,
Sports Radio six ' ten of the Bowl one hundred
point three FM have it for you and I cannot wait.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
I know you feel the same.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Have a great day, Go Texans.
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