October 23, 2025 • 46 mins
Marc Vandermeer and John Harris preview the Texans-49ers Week 7 matchup, discuss team vibes and what Houston needs to do to get back on track. Plus, a special Houston Methodist segment with Dr. Akhil Mathigie.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello Texans, Welcome to the show. Mark vandermir John Harris
with you, and we'll set it up for you segment
one Thursday night.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
You know what that usually means. I'll get to that
in a moment.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
In the next segment, we're gonna do a version of
Who's Better with different sorts of questions for Johnny to
go over. So I'm looking forward to that one. It's
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Speaker 2 (00:52):
I'm ready for segment three right now.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
I know we should just lead with it right yeah
the way, Johnny absolutely for that. If you're expecting the
general well, he's got a speaking engagement. He's off, but
we will imitate his voice for the next twenty minutes.
I told you guys, this is gonna be a tough game.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
He's a nincompoop? Is that lately? Has he?
Speaker 1 (01:14):
He hasn't used nincompoop in a while. But look, we
love the general. We miss you General, and we'll do
a general type segment here, Johnny, because here we go
with the Texans against the San Francisco forty nine ers.
And you know, you and I have been in the building.
We've seen the guys at practice. We talked to a
couple of assistants, a couple of players.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
And what's your vibe on this one? Just give me
your vibe.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
I'll give you my vibe after you give me your vibe,
and we're going strictly vibe.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
That's a good question.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
I feel like I feel like everybody's anxious to get
back on the field and show everybody, Hey, we put
on tape basically on Monday night, wasn't us.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
That wasn't us.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
We got to get back out there and show everybody
that that wasn't us. And I feel like that gets
kind of the vibe just listening to the coaches talk,
listen to the players talk. They're aware of the San
Francisco forty nine ers being a really good football team.
They also know this is a really tough nut to
crack because it's a team in the forty nine ers
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that plays very, very, very well together. We talked about
this kind of throughout the week, and I really, you know,
sitting in my hotel room in Seattle watching you know,
we got we got there, I don't know, seven thirty ish,
So it kind of throws you off Sunday night football.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
You're like, oh, it should be starting to know. It's
the second half when you get there. And so I
watched that.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Second half and I'm looking defensively and Chris Collin and
Worth's got the little cry on over the top of
Tatum Bethoon and Everybody's like, who the hell is Tatum Befoon.
And I'm like, I know he is because I loved
him coming out of the draft a few years ago.
He goes undrafted. He's kind of safety sized, but in
today's game to play a linebacker, and they're pointing out
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the great plays he's made in that game, and You're like,
Tatum Bethoon, really yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
And then you.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Watch a big play made and you watch their sideline,
you watch their coaches, you see how energetic they are
for one another making a play, you realize the ViBe's
there for San Francisco's squad is just, hey, look, we
got a band together, and we gotta play as one
as best we possibly can.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
And I love a team that is like that. And
it's also a hard.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Team to beat because they don't often beat themselves, but
they don't allow one weak link.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
To get exposed, if that makes sense. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
So defensively they're always kind of covering for one another,
but they're in the right spot. They tackle well, they're physical,
they're timed up blitzes, all that kind of stuff, you know.
And then offensively, look it's it is CMC. It is
Christian McCaffrey. Let's let's not get it twisted. But this
dude's on a who whole different level, like a totally
different level. So I feel like the vibes here are
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we got to show that against a good football team
that we can come out and just dismantle one piece
at a time and walk away with a victory, Like
we got to show people that we can do that,
that we can be that team. We are that talented
to do that, but we got to step up and
do it. And I also feel like this is a
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proofing game for a lot of guys catching footballs.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Yeah, I think that they're dying to get it back
out of the field. They're dying to be back out
there showing what they can do, establishing something again, get
back on the winning track. If you get this one,
you've won three of your last four. I mean that's
a fact, yep. And maybe the Seattle game can just
be excused as a nightmare, although there are similarities obviously
between that and the other losses on the season.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
We all know that.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
But now you're at home, and if you start the
three game homestand with a winning note r it just
changes everything.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
It changes everything again.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
And by winning the back to back games going into
the bye, you felt like, Okay, they're back, but we
won't know it until they play a good team. Now
you're playing a good team, and I don't care who's hurt.
They're a good team. They played well well enough to
get a five to two record with all the injuries
they have. Johnny, I think for Tamiko Ryans and staff,
this is. It's not like last year when you starting
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to teeter a little bit. Remember losing to the Titans.
You go to seven and five. Now the Colts had
they won that day, like you already swept them, but
you started to feel because you knew it was coming.
You have tough dates coming up with the Dolphins, even
the Jags at Jacksonville. Look, we just saw what happened
this year, but you had tough dates coming up on
the horizon with the Dolphins, the Chiefs, the Ravens. You
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knew those teams were coming up, and the Dolphins were
going pretty good at the time, so you thought, uh oh,
this could go really bad after losing to the Titans
and dropping to seven and five, but Demiko rallied, the
Troops beat Jacksonville on the road. You had the buye.
Then you beat the Dolphins, which was really important because
you have the Chiefs and Ravens coming up and they
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were able to survive the season. Well, they are in
more adversity right now, so this is an even bigger
test because the Colts are sailing off into the horizon.
They're catchable because their schedule gets tougher and you get
them twice. But it's not gonna mean anything if you
don't make that date count with wins. Right now, so
the sense of urgency is that at an all time high,
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and they know it. I mean, I hate to think
what's gonna happen if they don't get this one. But
let's not even go there. We'll deal with that later.
They know, they don't know. I know they were two
and five and twenty fifteen and all that and came
back to win the division. But this is a different
complexion of season right now, the schedules that much harder.
The Colts are actually good, and you're gonna have to
deal with the situation as it is.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
There's no question.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
I think Dimiko has asked a question about this three
game homestand and you and I have talked about it.
I felt like, going back to when the schedule was announced,
I looked at that Seattle game and I just remember thinking,
or playing at ninth Central, I just remember feeling like, God, dang,
that's it.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
That is ugly.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
And the result was, you know, ugly, not ready, not away.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
It was not pretty. You're right about that.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
But I remember sitting there thinking, Okay, but we've got
three in a row at home, and that's an opportunity
to I don't want to say get well, but you've
played relatively well against the you know, in front of
your home folks for the most part, noon games on
a Sunday. You've played pretty well in that Tennessee game,
which still is kind of mysterious to me from last year.
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But that's the only time you've lost a noon game
at home since twenty twenty four. That's it, that Tennessee game.
Other than that, you've taken care of business at noon.
So hopefully that's what you're gonna you're gonna do against
San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
But Demiko said when.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
He was asked about it, he immediately I don't even
know if you let the reporter finish the question. He said, Look,
I am not worried about a three game homestand I'm
worried about the next play. Yeah, I'm worried about the play.
I'm worried about the next play. He didn't say the
next game, the next play, the next play. I like that,
and it was more so you just focus on the
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next play.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
What's the next play? What is your job on the
next play? What are you ask to do?
Speaker 1 (08:16):
I can relate to this as a play by play announcer,
and I'm gonna tell you how because I always say
this about calling football games, and this is applicable to
a lot of sports, Baseball, sure, but.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Especially in football.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
The next snap could be one of the greatest plays
in NFL history. It could be a wild, weird play
that you've never seen before. It could be something amazing.
It could be Lamar Miller ninety seven yards from the
three yard line, where it could have been just no
gain at all, and you've load up for second down
or third down, whatever it was. So I always reset
and set myself up and really try to do this.
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This is a new beginning, right. I was coaching a
kid to call games just last week, and I was saying,
you got to establish a line of scrimmage down in
distance every time you call.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
You got to do that.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
The listener deserves it needs to know it, and you
deserve to make a good call on the play, and
that's how it starts. What's the down, and be very precise.
So I think for them, be very precise. Every play
is crucial. Every play is important. Not that they're wasting plays.
But he said it for a reason. He said it
for a reason, just focus on the matter at hand.
It applies to golf as well. How many people listening
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play golf where you're having a crappy round, And what
I try to do when I'm having a crappy round
is just quit now.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
What I try to do when I'm having a crappy
round is let me just try to hit a good shot. Yeah,
a good shot right here. Who knows where it goes
from here. I'm going to hit a good shot right here,
and sometimes that really helps. Sometimes it doesn't work at all,
but hopefully it works for them, Johnny, because they need something.
This Seattle game cannot have a lingering hangover effect. You
talk about losing twice and all that. If you have
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a bad loss and look it was a one score,
people are sick of that. I get it. However, I
look at all their losses. I'm like, dang, make a
play here, make a play there. That's what this league
is all about. I don't want to sit here in
January and say, you know what, they had ten one
score games and they were two and eight. No, I
don't want to say that. I want them to start
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doing it right now, and so do they they have
control over how they feel by playing better, getting a win,
feeling a lot better next week going into play a
Denver team that is equally, if not tougher than the
forty nine ers.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Yeah, and well obviously at the Bonnecks and the Broncos.
But it's such a cliche one play at a time,
but it really honestly has to be, especially for this team.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
It has to be one play at a time.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
And when you say one play at a time, it
forces you play this play, What is my responsibility, What
are my fundamentals of my technique for that particular play?
Speaker 2 (10:53):
What do I have to do? And that's what it does.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
It forces you back to your fundamentals in your techniques.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Well, the other thing is not hanging your head if
things don't go wrong, that's right. This is where they
have to pull themselves out of the abyss.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
The funk if they do have moments, because every team
has bad moments and you have to be able to
overcome that.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
And the Seattle game was was was that there were
there were a lot of tough moments for for everybody
on that sideline, coaches, players, et cetera. It was there
were bad moments all around one that ones that were
you know, ask questions about uh this week, so you
get things corrected during your week of practice. Here's the
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other thing about San Francisco as we face them, they're
coming off a big time win. They went down to Tampa,
they got smacked. Tampa beat them up pretty good. Now
they lost Fred Warner, so that kind of played on
their mental side of things, and you could tell it
impacted them. But they got ready for that Atlanta game
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and you could tell they were not going to lose
that game. But they exerted a lot of energy. Had
annumber of injuries in that game. Christian McCaffrey had I
can't remember how many touches in it, being it was
like thirty four total touches. He was exhausted by the
end of the game. And Kyle Shanaan has thrown him
back in the game because like, we got to throw
you this pass to get us a first down. He
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gets a first down in fourth quarter, like he's that
kind of player. But you have to maybe take advantage
of them playing two hours earlier than they're used to
playing that they played emotional games Sunday night, and then
you have to channel all that anngs from the Seattle
game that you didn't do into this one against San Francisco,
and you have to and you know some people will
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talk about this, but do what you have to do
to walk out of that building Sunday afternoon with a
win nine to six, forty nine to forty six, thirty
four to three, whatever it takes to get that win,
you have to do. And I think about a lot
of games that the Texans have played under Tamika Ryans,
and I think about like this Saints game in twenty
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twenty three. Remember that game didn't play exceptionally well. Offensively,
did a couple of things, but you didn't make the backbreaking.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Mistake big stop at the end.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
You get the defense making a big stop at the end,
and you played very well together as a team, even
though offensively didn't scare a thousand points. Denver Broncos in
twenty three, same sort of thing. You get up on
them a little bit, they start coming back, they make
a run at the end, but you stick together, you
play your techniques, you play at one play at a time,
you walk out of there with a w.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Those weren't the prettiest wins in the world.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
But in twenty twenty three, when we're coming off years
of three, four and four wins or whatever it was,
any win was a good win, and I think that's
kind of the way we got to look at this one.
Any win against the forty nine ers is going to
be a good win. It's a really good football team,
so to beat them and move them to five and
three is huge. So what do you have to do
to make sure your team walks out of there with aw?
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Well, how about this?
Speaker 1 (13:56):
If you do win and it's ugly, it's interesting to see. Well,
it'll be interesting and I'd love to have this happen
just to see how outsiders analyze this right, because you know,
with the health of the receivers, you know, other things
that might be issues with this football team, but particularly
the health of the receivers, it'll be impressive. I mean,
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this is the one team in the league currently you
cannot sing the Blues about any injury. I mean, they've
gone without their starting quarterback, they've got you mentioned Fred Warner,
a pro sole guy. Yeah, the list goes on and
on and it's tough to live with. Yet here they
are at five and freaking two, and so you cannot
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complain about injuries at all with them. If you got
to go with the cyclones at receiver, you got to
go with the cyclones of receivers. Time to make place,
make it happen. Yeah, nobody's a rookie anymore. Everybody's got
to step up, got to find a way to protect
and just get the ball to the right people at
the right time.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
That's the thing. You just said it.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
And Tamiko said that to me after the game in
my post came press or postgame interview with him. I
remember him distinctly saying playmakers have to make plays, and
he pointed at He kind of pointed kind of back
at the field or where he thought the field was
where we were in the locker room, and he was like,
their playmakers made plays. And when you think about that
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that Seattle game, who are their playmakers? Well, Darnold j
Sen Okay made some plays defensively.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Who are their playmakers? Well? Their front's really really good.
Oh there you go.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Ernest Jones at linebacker has been the perfect fit for
the Seahawks.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
What did he do?
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Interception? Who's the dude they putting next to him? Drake Thomas,
this little guy who you know, came out of NC State.
I was warned about him. Yeah he's good. Yeah, I
remember seeing in Ency State. I'm like this, dude, he's tiny,
he's good.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Man.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
He was incredible playmaker, made.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Play Texans very tough. Now will Anderson Junr huge play
huge play?
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Right?
Speaker 1 (15:53):
You just didn't have enough of The Nico drop was big, man.
I love Nico. He's killing himself over that, I'm sure
because that could have been almost a signature moment for
him if he catches that ball and is able to
fake out the defender, want safety and just go to
the house. I mean, that becomes a Monday night football
moment and a memory that will recall for a long time. Now,
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hopefully they would be able to win from there. But
the point is that, and look, I don't want to
just single that one out. They had a lot of
issues right on Monday Night. But the point is this,
there was a pile of stuff that you could look
at the fair bearing issue at the end. I mean
not just time and time again. They made mistakes in
that game, and the flushit phrase really does apply to
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this one. I mean you have to learn from it,
but you cannot let it live within you. You can't
dwell on it too much because you're going to be
fresh Sunday at noon. You mentioned it. You're four and
one at Sunday noon games at NRG Stadium last two years,
and you got to keep that train.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Rolling, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
And it is a You're talking about vibes, and that's
one of the things that you know, I always feel
like it's very it's difficult to manufacture good vibes that
sometimes the play on the field has to kind of
bring those out.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Yeah, it's kind of like crowd noise.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
You can get the crowds up to cheer about that
cannot always carry you, right.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
And I feel like if if Tank that could be
on the field to make a catch, that would get.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
The crowd going. I don't think it's happening miss.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Tank a lot, but you know, somebody making a big
play early in the game.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Oh yes, they kind of jazz everything up.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Maybe maybe it's a big hit, hit ball, a big play.
Their fifth from last in giveaways, which is they coughed
up the ball. They had all those turnovers against Jacksonville,
but it's definitely notable and five and two how they've
coughed the ball upright. You know, you'd think five and
two with all the injuries, they must be really good
in turnover margin.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
They're not.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
The Texans are good in turnover margin, yet they're two
and four figure that and the Texans take the ball away.
This is the number one defense in the league, the
Houston Texans taking on the number one passing offense.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
So they're not great at running the football.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
But they're good, but they're great at throwing the football.
Most of it appears to be a McCaffrey at this
stage of life.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Yeah, because there's no you know, Pearsall has been banged up,
Brandon I Yuk hasn't come back yet. You know, Juwan
Jennings is a Jwan Jennings is the epitome the Niners.
To me, this guy's a little bit too slow, you know,
good size, drafted a seventh round or whatever he was,
and he's banged up. He did a postgame interview, I
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think is after the Tampa Bay game, and he was
basically detailing all the things that were wrong with him,
and at the very end he's like, you gotta play,
got compete, and I love to compete. He's kind of
the epitome of them. Offensively. He doesn't do a ton.
But here's the thing about the Niners that you've got
to keep in mind. Even if they rock, they rock
us early, Hank tight. Just play the next play, Keep
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playing the next play, because they won't run away from you.
This is not the greatest show on turf. They're not
gonna go score thirty.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Five in the first tw nobody's run away from you.
Right right, Seattle is up two scores, but you've been
able to stay within striking distance right of every team.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Just keep no matter what's going on, as bad as
it might be, or whatever the case might be. If
they start to you know, they go up ten to
nothing or whatever it is, which would be obviously similar
to Seattle when up fourteen to nothing, they won't run
away from you. Seattle have the opportunity to, because they're
pretty explosive.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
The Niners won't. They won't.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
They won't take the game and make it thirty eight
to nothing in a heartbeat. They're not that offensively potent
from that standpoint. So just keep chipping away at it,
and every time you get the ball back threes or sevens, whatever,
keep chipping away because they won't take a game and
make it a blowout.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
They won't.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
They're not offensively gifted like that right now. And so
just stay in it, don't get don't get dog.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
The crowd will be interesting that because the faithful, that's
what they call their fan base, we have to be here.
We have the traveling Texans, they have the faithful. The
faithful will be here. They will be here, and the
plant and roll go everywhere, and they take over buildings.
I'm not saying they're gonna take over ANRG stadium, but
they'll be noticeable. In fact, I wanted to have battle
Red Day because.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Hey, you'll never know the difference.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
I always say that when the chiefs come here, let's
just have battle Red Day, and then it won't be
a factor. Now, the noise might be a factor that
they could make, but it won't be a factor. It's
battle red because we have repid h Town Day. Texans
will be in their he town uniforms. But I think
the Texans fans they're gonna wear whatever they like. Sure,
if my favorite jersey is a battle red jersey, I'm
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coming in battle red right like Liberty white, you know,
and so on. And a lot of people have the
new dark deep steel blue jerseys. So we'll see how
that is. But I'm a little concerned about this fans
that if things do go rough or are are rough
in the beginning, the reaction of the crowd like, oh
my gosh, here we go again. Stay with it, give
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it a shot. If it gets out of hand, it
gets out of hand. But I just don't think it's
going to get out of hand.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
What you can't do as an important piece, whether you're
a play caller, whether you're play caller, coach, player, or
whatever that that makes major decisions is you can't get
emotional about anything. You have to just keep your emotions
in check. And that is you know what, all right,
they're booing us. All right, they're booing us because I
ran the ball. Well, next time, I'm gonna throw it deep. No,
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what's the plan. What's the plan? Stick to your plan.
You put the plan together during the week. Stick to
your plan. Don't get emotional. Let me Mark and Andre
get emotional. Don't get emotional about anything. If you score,
feed off of that. But you know, you go out early.
Your feed off that play, play off of that emotion.
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But if you get down a little bit and the
fans do start the rain, some booze down. You gotta
do it. You can't get emotionally, you can't be like, well,
I watched it. You know you got just this the plan.
We're sticking to it and then chip away at it
and in the end, hopefully you'll put up more than
they do.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Yeah, let's hope they do it because they need it badly.
You get to three and four, if you get the victory,
with Denver coming up and a whole world of possibility
still in front of you, there's a lot of season left.
You have a golden opportunity here with all these home games,
seven home games left on the schedule, starting with Sunday.
All right, next up, we're gonna do it. Who's better?
But a different version of it? A lot of different
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questions for Johnny. We'll get to it. Then our testosterone doctor,
I don't know if I should call him that. From
Houston Methodist answering all your questions about TRT. It's all
coming up here on Texans Radio. Right back to it
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John Harris with you a reminder that Tuesday we will
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all time leading teckler in the history of the franchise,
will be there Tuesday. Texans Team Shop will be right
outside of the Texans Team Shop and Andy Khalu will
be there as well. Can't wait for it. Tuesday at
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Usually they close at six, but they stay open late
when we are there. A Legends week a week from Sunday,
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is awesome and all the legends will be there, a
huge turnout of Texans legends. That would be former players
being at NRG and that'll be a week from Sunday
against the Broncos.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Looking forward to that, ready for them. That is gonna
be fun.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
That whole week celebrating Janis, that is gonna be That
is gonna be a whole heck of.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
A lot of fun. I'm also ready for this.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Instead of Who's better, We're gonna make it various vander
questions here for you, Okay questions. I'm gonna do the
Fox NFL sounder to signal the questions. Here we go,
all right, Johnny drafted opposing player, a player on one
of our opponents. Now here's the catch. They remain on
their own team. So in this alternate universe, you get
(24:14):
to have the player, but they get to keep the
player at the same time. And a couple of them
we've already seen. All right, Okay, you're following the rules
carefully here, so this is very precise, very important stuff.
All right, So you get to have either Christian McCaffrey,
Jackson Smith and jigbah Phoka Nakua healthy or Tyler Warren
(24:36):
from the Indianapolis Colts pick a player, so you don't
get to remove them from their team, but you get
to have that player's services for you.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Who are you going to pick? Johnny? That is as
good a question as you have ever put in a five. Wow,
those four guys.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Now we haven't seen Warren yet, but he has been
fantastic and good. I think we miss Kate Stover a
little bit, although Dalton has played pretty well. So I
like the way Dalton's played, like a lot of what
Dalton has done, So I'm eliminate Warren. Okay, I think
the receivers have done you a decent job at times,
(25:17):
but I feel like getting the run game going is important.
And even though McCaffrey's run numbers haven't been exceptional his
fifty three receptions, but I would say probably seventy five
to eighty percent of those have been screens or checkdowns
that he can then turn into the alternate run game
if you will. I'm going CMC twenty three, Christian McCaffrey.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Yeah, because you can line them up in the slot
and put whatever running backs you want into the game
as well.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
That's right, he becomes this receiver for you. So what
the heck?
Speaker 1 (25:48):
And I think Warren, If you picked Warren, it's no
insult to Dalton.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
He's a different kind of player right now, I understand.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
I can't wait till they get Kid back, man.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
That'll be awesome.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Stover back a bit bad to compliment everybody, and he's tough.
They're all good, these players I mentioned. So now if
you could take let's put it this way, I'll allow
you to take Jonathan Taylor off the Colts for one game,
or McCaffrey off the forty nine ers. Who are you
(26:19):
gonna pick you can remove one of these players. In fact,
that's such a good question, I'll hit the sounder for it.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
I oh, so it's either McCaffrey out of the forty
nine Ers lineup or Taylor out of the Colts lineup
for one Colts.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Game when we play them.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Yeah, yeah, when we play Yeah, Taylor out.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
It got to be. It's got to be the Colts,
said Taylor, because they'll be nothing without Taylor.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
It's not so much they're nothing without Taylor, but I
don't think they're gonna be much.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
I mean, then again, you look.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
At the Niners and like, what are the Niners without
McCaffrey on the field.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Yeah, I still like that the Niners are here. The
first Colts game will be up there.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
I didn't put that in there, But I don't know.
There's something about this weekend. I feel like, if you
don't get this one, I don't know. I don't want
to think about it. I don't want to think about it. Johnny,
you gotta get this one.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
You do.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
And I've talked all week about what I think about
Christian McCaffrey, and I love the guy, but stam Horseshoe,
I want to see twenty eight sit on sidelines.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Okay, you sit. You're right, it's the horseshoe. Yeah, my horseshoes.
Stop me? What am I saying? Yeah? I thought you
would have been on board with that. I know what
am I saying?
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Okay, injury situation at receiver here with the Houston Texans,
no buenos So Jalen Knowle or Jaden Higgins, how do
I phrase this? Who do you got? One of these
guys has to shine like they've never shined before. You
got a big game out of Nole on Monday night,
(27:51):
big game for a rookie. Okay, with the four catches,
seventy plus yards all that, I still say there's a
lot there with Higgins. And I'm not saying you're only
scratching the surface, but you kind of are. Because he's
a rookie, he's going to develop. You drafted him for
a reason, you drafted him higher than null your thoughts.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
What you just said, You're right about all that.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
I mean, it's all true, but that doesn't play into
the reason I will said Jade Higgins, I think. And
the thing about it is, I mean it's really close
trying to pick between Okay, poor boy.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Which one. They both got to come up big this week.
They both have got to.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
But I feel like, and we saw this in mini camp,
we saw it in practice at the Greenbrier. There are
times that Jaden Higgins does things in a football field
that the other twenty one guys in the field at
that time with him can't do.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
They've got to tap into that a little bit more.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
He's a phenomenal athlete with tremendous speed and dexterity and agility,
but he's got to get comfortable in this offense, knowing
what rouse to run, when to run this route, when
to run that route.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
But I feel like it's Jayden Higgins.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
If you can unlock the Jayden Higgins box, I feel
like you can manufacture some touches to Jalen Knowle, little
screens they run and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
And j Nole.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
If Jane Ole stuck at a blocking on that play,
he might have a big play. But he just reacted and
he bounced it outside. He stayed inside and followed his block.
He might have gotten the first down in that play.
As crazy as it sounds. Either way, they can manufacture
some touches for j Nole it's a little harder to
do for Higgins to manufacture touches, but they've got to
make sure that he gets his targets because I think
(29:36):
Higgins can put more pressure on their perimeterive corners, and
that that I think ends up giving you an opportunity
to go deep. Get a deep ball that we haven't have.
We seen the deep ball lately, the one to Kirk
against the Ravens, I think, But other than that, I
don't real You know, CJ threw a few the other
night against Seattle, but he didn't he didn't connect. But
(29:58):
now it's time to hit a few. Jayden had a
couple steps on the corner of the other night and
see you ever threw him. I feel like if you
can unlock the box to Jade and Higgins, you're talking
about three catches for one hundred and twenty yards and a.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Tuddy okay, and I think that can happen now.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Jane ol was great the other night, but I'll live
with Jane Old five six catches for sixty yards, you know,
just kind of working the slot stuff and just getting
first downs.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
But they can break over the game play, okay.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
The big play, I think is what we need a
little bit more and Higgins can provide that.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Okay, let's get to the next one. That's a good question.
That a good question. Okay, here's another good question. Oh boy.
Now we're going to play a game called am I Crazy?
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Here?
Speaker 2 (30:36):
It is?
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Am I crazy? Then? I want to see the Colts
this weekend. I look, I respect the forty nine ers.
This is not about disrespect for them. I got a feeling.
And maybe this is just me, maybe they're not on
board with me. But if you were playing the Horseshoe
right now, as good as they're going and as tough
as you have it right now, coming off the Monday
(30:58):
night frustrating laws, this is just the team to get
your dander up, to get your blood boiling, to beat
the hated, despised, despicable Horseshoe, and that would get you going.
You would put one on them, and you'd get a
dub for yourself, and it would springboard.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
You to success.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
I want the Horseshoe right now, not gonna get them,
but that's not my feeling.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Am I crazy?
Speaker 3 (31:20):
You're not crazy, but I feel like you are crazy
to say that a little bit crazy because I.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Feel like.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
I feel like this team. You asked me a question
of vibes earlier in the show. I feel like this
team needs a little bit of positive vibes before they were.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
To take on the Colts.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Really, and so I feel like getting getting a few wins,
maybe getting a little streak going before they take on
the Colts. I think is something that this team could
use and they could build off that that confidence. And
I sensed it when I was in the locker room Baltimore,
and I just remember walking on the locker room in
Baltimore thinking, you know what, we got a bye week
(32:04):
next week's and be good to get some rest, all
that kind of stuff. I want this team to keep playing,
because the vibe that was in that locker room was
we were getting it. We're getting it. Here we go,
let's go. I think it would have done wonders for
us to continue to play. But now you got to
shake it up. I'm glad we're actually I'm actually glad
we're not so much we're playing the forty nine ers.
(32:25):
I would love the Cardinals to be the team, but
I'd rather face the Colts. We've got a little bit
of a few wins in our system, a little bit
more confidence back because twelve noon in Indianapolis or one
o'clock eastern, whatever time it is up there, when they
do daylight savings time, our guys will be ready to roll.
I just want them to have some confidence going into
(32:47):
that thing that they can just stand there and go
toe to toe with those guys as they have for
how many every years? But they can do it again.
Even though everybody wants to crown them, You want to
crown them, crown their ass, as Danny Green used to say.
But I think I think this team needs a little
bit of confidence, get a little bit of the offensive
flow going, and then go swap punches with the horseshoe
(33:08):
up there.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
This is why I never looked past the Colts. I
said it all off season. I wasn't predicting they'd be good,
but nothing surprises me in football, especially with the horseshoe.
Let's get to the next one, all right. This is
kind of a who's better better story? Joe Flacco or
name your story. Basically, I just want to talk about
(33:28):
Joe Flacco. I think it's a tremendous story, especially since
Johnny is Joe Fleco elite. I mean, that was such
a joke, right, Flacco is kind of the guy who
won a Super Bowl, but he really was berated for
being a quarterback who wasn't Tom.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Brady or Peyton Manning.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
And he had a perfect postseason in twenty twelve, won
the Super Bowl. But is the elite really one of those?
Speaker 2 (33:55):
Right?
Speaker 1 (33:55):
He's a first round raft Choyce, University of Delaware, former
Penn State or all that, and you know the kind
of I'm not gonna call it abuse, but it was
fan criticism, media criticism he took over the course of
his career, which has been a hell of a career.
And he's still going at the huge game a week
ago Thursday, and now he's got the Jets this weekend.
(34:15):
He could have another big game. And I think it's
a great story. And you saw the bit about I'm
eating dinner at the restaurant alone. I never understood those guys.
I always felt sorry for him, and now I'm like,
this is awesome. Yeah, even though he misses his family
at the same time, and everybody can relate to that.
You can relate to that. It's kind of a two
pronged thing, like, yeah, I missed a family, but this
is pretty good too.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
I mean, I like the alone time. Nothing compares to
that right now. Nothing.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
I will add a second story if you I actually
sent you. I I was down in studio today and
I saw this pop up on Instagram and I laughed uproariously. Ye,
and it's a video of I can't remember who it is.
There's two guys in the car and they've got a label.
On one it says cam Skataboo and on the other
(35:00):
one it says Jackson Dart.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
So the driver is just I don't know if he's
listening to music or whatever.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
He's just losing his mind excited, and he's just like
banging heads on the steering wheel, and he's grabbing the
other guy, Jackson Dart, and he's just like ah, and
he's just losing his mind. The two Giants, rookies, Jackson
Dart and Camp Skataboo are a great story. I know
they lost to the Broncos, but the Knicks played their
opener the other night at MSG and the crowd the
(35:29):
video board kind of panning around and all some boom,
they popped up some Giants highlights and then it was
Colin watching like wait, what is this? And then all
of a sudden they showed camp Skataboo in a Jalen
Brunson jersey. Oh nice, and the place went crazy. They
went nuts, like he's the perfect player for the perfect
(35:52):
team and the perfect spot. And maybe it lasts three years,
but we can celebrate that. It's not Joe Flacco's store.
But it's one hell of a story that those two rookies,
Camp Scataboo and Jackson Dart have done what they've done
in New York. They lost that one to Denver the
other day, and maybe it dies like uh the Veto.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
Yeah, well, I was gonna say that maybe the Giants
lead the league in recent years and stories about players
who just have this charismatic New York thing going on,
and it might not even materialize like the Veto, but
it was fun while it last.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
Yeah, and I think this one's got a little bit
of staying power. But if there's a player that just fits,
you know, the g men, Cam Scataboo's that player, Like
they've been.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
So many memes and Instagram videos.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
I've seen the people you like, I'm Cam Scataboo and
they re runs into a wall. You know, at first,
it's just you know, he's got the personality he's got
the playing style that they're gonna love him in New
York they already do. And I just thought it was
really it was really interesting to see how the MSG
fans responded to seeing him on the video board, Like
why they giants higlight's all a sudden, They're like cam'scattery
(37:02):
when he just puts his hands up and he kind
of waves everybody and you can see all these people
like stand up and just give them ovation. I thought, man,
that's pretty cool. It's not Joe Flacco. You like Flacco better?
Flacco is a better story.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
I mean, when you're the old guy, they love you.
They love the old guy when he got old. They
adored Fitz love you, you know. And I forget who
said it was like Sonny Jurgenson or something.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
Where's mcclan when you need him?
Speaker 1 (37:28):
It was Sonny Jurgens. Insane it when you're young, they
love you. When you're middle aged in your playing career, eh,
when you're old they love you again.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
They love you when you were in New England. Great example, to.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
Quote the great Rapper logic, your old bleep is not
as good as your new bleep until your new bleep
is your old bleep.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
Oh that's good. Yeah, that's good. I like that. Yeah,
that's pretty good. Yeah, that's kind of what it is. Actually, no, no,
he did not. He did not say bleep. I got
one more for.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
You, worse uniforms.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
Oh, you'll get to pick let's go.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
You get to pick let's go, and you can add
a wild card if you like. I know here, I
have three selections right here. I hope one of them
is in the Charger yellows from last week. They were
awful and they're the sole reason why they lost to
the Colts in my opinion. Never mind all the football stuff,
those god awful uniforms. You're the Chargers, for crying out loud,
(38:25):
you have awesome uniforms. That's what you pick as an
alt all right, So the Charger Yellows, the Steeler Bumblebees,
or the ACME Packers.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
Oh okay, we're sticking with NFL.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
Oh yeah, why where do you want to go with this?
Can you want to go to other sports?
Speaker 4 (38:43):
No?
Speaker 3 (38:44):
Can we go with the camouflage Miami Hurricane Jersey. I
sent you this and I knew ruin your day, but
I needed you to see it so you could deal
with the pain it was.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
It's so bad.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
They have Camoflage Miami Herd Cane's jerseys for this weekend.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
And I just I this has to have come up
in South Florida. I haven't talked to any of my
friends in South Florida, but Johnny, it's terrible. What is
this hearken back to Let's use our imagination here and
go back to the eighties at the Fiesta Bowl they
get off the plane in the fatigue. No, somebody brought
this up though. And how did they do.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
In that game? Johnny? They lost fourteen ten. They lost
that game to Penn State.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Venezesta Verdi, the best Hurricane team ever made.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
N testa Verdi was shut down by the defensive coordinator
at Penn State. Yes, yeah, who has the same name
as the Baltimore Ravens play by play man, who we don't.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
Mention on radio. No, no, we can't mention his name.
Can't mention his name though, But yeah, they lost fourteen
to ten.
Speaker 3 (39:42):
Turn the ball over five times, Vinnie through five interceptions,
Oh my gosh, wearing the fatigue and.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
Then your half fatigue uniforms. Now, they had to have
thought of this, of course, think you lost a National
Championship after showing up in army fatigues and now you
get an army fatigue uniform. What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (39:58):
This is the dumbest thing I've ever seen.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
Yeah that I saw that. I just I shook my head.
I'm not a big alternate uniform fan.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
I get that. I saw an article earlier this year
just says in the side.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
We're wearing about Sunday tarned.
Speaker 2 (40:12):
Well, I like ours for some reason. I like these.
I like these.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
I like the h I wish this would be bad.
I wish this would be our primary. To be honest
with you, what, Yes, I love this uniform. I love
this uniform.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
I have my own. I love it. Middle Tennessee State.
Speaker 3 (40:28):
Instead of buying like ten different uniforms, they bought one
pair of blue pants, a white top, and a blue
shirt mark. They saved six hundred and fifty thousand dollars
just on not buying uniful.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
So they wear the same pants every time.
Speaker 3 (40:42):
Yeah, so they wear the same pants and then a
white top, blue top instead of having all these, you know,
all these different uniforms.
Speaker 2 (40:47):
Fifty thousand for a program like that, for the program.
Speaker 3 (40:50):
Exactly they put they took it and they put it
in il why exactly, so smart move. But the three
that you told me acme Packers, the Steelers, Bumblebees, and
the yellow.
Speaker 2 (41:00):
Oh god, the yellow is just.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
H But.
Speaker 3 (41:05):
I those Bumblebee uniforms. Somebody said this on on x
or on social media.
Speaker 2 (41:10):
Somewhere. I saw this.
Speaker 3 (41:12):
Aaron Rodgers is wearing that uniform to play against his
former team.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
Oh my gosh, I'm gonna throw up.
Speaker 3 (41:20):
And that maybe alone makes it the worst. It's not
gonna love Aaron Rodgers. But it's like the Steelers uniform
is classic, man, just from a shop where the Steelers
uniform from.
Speaker 1 (41:30):
It's the Steelers. Yes, you have won multiple super Bowls.
We've got that uniform. What do you got six? You
have six super Bowls?
Speaker 2 (41:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (41:39):
Six, you have four with nol Cower and Tomlin each
have one.
Speaker 2 (41:42):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (41:44):
Sometimes it's hard to do the camp for some of
these franchises.
Speaker 2 (41:46):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (41:47):
That is the little game we play called Vander Questions.
And next up is the segment you've all been waiting for,
Testosterone Doctor from Houston Methodist. Everything you wanted to know,
but we're afraid to ask. It's Texans Radio. Okay, Final
segment on the program. Here tonight we usually do Houston
Methodist minutes and now doctor Akille Mathigi talking about testosterone.
(42:09):
As promised, Doctor, let's get right into it. Men of
a certain age who needs testosterone. What's the situation out there,
the background of the testosterone. I'll just call it a
craze if you will.
Speaker 4 (42:21):
Yeah, absolutely so. Low testosterone is more common than we think.
Nearly forty percent of men over the age of forty
five experienced low testosterone, and that jumps up to sixty
to seventy percent of men over the age of seventy,
So it's very common. The symptoms to watch out for
are decreased muscle mats, weight gain or a difficulty losing
weight even with exercise, a lower libido or sex drive
(42:45):
move changes. It can also be associated with fatigue, difficulty sleeping,
as well as weakening of the bones. So both are
some of the symptoms to look out for.
Speaker 1 (42:55):
So when you think you have some of these symptoms,
what's the best thing to do after that?
Speaker 4 (43:00):
Doctor, So it's very simple from there. If anyone's worried
about a low testosterrone, it's it's a simple blood test
to start with. It's a test perform in the morning
between seven and nine am. You don't have to be facting.
It takes five minutes. We typically like to have at
least two values checked to confirm low testosterone, and then
if we confirm it's low, recommend a full workup with
(43:23):
the men's health specialist. This involved a full history, physical
exam to figure out why the test officer is low,
and then we have several management options from there.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
All right, so now if you determine it's low, what's
the process of therapy from there?
Speaker 2 (43:37):
How does that help? How do you go about that?
Speaker 4 (43:39):
Yeah, so in our ment health center, we have several
men's health specialists who specializes this. So once we have
two lab values confirmed low, we generally recommend a checkup,
an appointment with one of the men's health specialists, and
this involves a full history. We get a thorough history
medication use any prior testosterone or hormone use medication, and
(44:00):
then it's also involve the physical exams. From there, we
can there's several treatment options before we jump to testosteral management.
There's several lifestyle trustments that we recommend to help naturally
boost testosterone. That includes weightlifting, regular exercise, adequate sleep, nightly
stress management, as well as a high protein diet. All
(44:21):
of these can naturally boost our testosterol levels and may
mitigate the need for testosteral replacement therapy. If these lifestyle
changes don't work, then we offer testopsal replacement therapy, and
there's several treatment options in that.
Speaker 1 (44:35):
In that realm, So you hear about these injections? Do
they usually occur weekly? How does that work?
Speaker 2 (44:42):
Doctor?
Speaker 4 (44:43):
Yeah, So, injection is a very common form of testosterone
therapy management. The most common is once a week, very
easy done at home, either into the thigh muscle or
gluleas muscle. There's also longer acting forms of testosterone that
we can inject in the clinic. This patient typically comes
in once every ten weeks for that form of testosterone.
(45:04):
There's also pellets that we could place into the glueas muscle.
This is a very good option for men who don't
want to be injecting weekly themselves at HOMER, don't want
to be coming into the clinic opten. There's pellets that
we can place into the glueas muscle about every three
to four months, and that's a very good option for
long acting testosterone. There's also several other forms other than injections.
(45:25):
That includes nasal sprays, gels as well as oral tablets.
Oral tablets is something that's new on the market. There's
three FDA proof oral tablets now that are very safe
and you know, enjoyed by patients.
Speaker 1 (45:40):
That's doctor Rakhiel MCTHIGI. And like an infomercial, I'll just say,
but wait, there's more. And there's more next week when
we continue with part two of our conversation with the
doctor on the TRT craze, and we do this during
Texans Radio Houston Methodist Minutes. I thought this was a
good subject for a lot of our listeners out there
with all the commercials out there and everything else in
the TRT world. That's gonna do it for Texans All
(46:03):
Access tonight. We have Thursday Night football coming up next.
It'll be the Chargers and the Vikings. The Chargers without
the ugly yellow uniforms they wore last week. Had they
beaten the Colts like I wanted them to, I'd be
calling them beautiful yellow uniforms.
Speaker 2 (46:18):
Maybe you never know.
Speaker 1 (46:20):
Texans All Access tomorrow will have Demiko Ryan's on. We'll
have a player to be named later. We'll have Bill Davis,
Linebackers coach, on loaded show for you tomorrow to get
you ready for the Texans and San Francisco Sunday at
noon Reppin' eh Town Day. Can't wait for Game Day.
Gotta get this one. Have a great night everyone, Go Texans.
Hello Texans, Welcome to the show. Mark vandermir John Harris
with you, and we'll set it up for you segment
one Thursday night.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
You know what that usually means. I'll get to that
in a moment.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
In the next segment, we're gonna do a version of
Who's Better with different sorts of questions for Johnny to
go over. So I'm looking forward to that one. It's
a little crazy at times. And in the third segment tonight, guys,
you're gonna want to stick around for this one because
you know I have Houston Methodist minutes on Thursday night
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Speaker 2 (00:52):
I'm ready for segment three right now.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
I know we should just lead with it right yeah
the way, Johnny absolutely for that. If you're expecting the
general well, he's got a speaking engagement. He's off, but
we will imitate his voice for the next twenty minutes.
I told you guys, this is gonna be a tough game.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
He's a nincompoop? Is that lately? Has he?
Speaker 1 (01:14):
He hasn't used nincompoop in a while. But look, we
love the general. We miss you General, and we'll do
a general type segment here, Johnny, because here we go
with the Texans against the San Francisco forty nine ers.
And you know, you and I have been in the building.
We've seen the guys at practice. We talked to a
couple of assistants, a couple of players.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
And what's your vibe on this one? Just give me
your vibe.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
I'll give you my vibe after you give me your vibe,
and we're going strictly vibe.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
That's a good question.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
I feel like I feel like everybody's anxious to get
back on the field and show everybody, Hey, we put
on tape basically on Monday night, wasn't us.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
That wasn't us.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
We got to get back out there and show everybody
that that wasn't us. And I feel like that gets
kind of the vibe just listening to the coaches talk,
listen to the players talk. They're aware of the San
Francisco forty nine ers being a really good football team.
They also know this is a really tough nut to
crack because it's a team in the forty nine ers
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that plays very, very, very well together. We talked about
this kind of throughout the week, and I really, you know,
sitting in my hotel room in Seattle watching you know,
we got we got there, I don't know, seven thirty ish,
So it kind of throws you off Sunday night football.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
You're like, oh, it should be starting to know. It's
the second half when you get there. And so I
watched that.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Second half and I'm looking defensively and Chris Collin and
Worth's got the little cry on over the top of
Tatum Bethoon and Everybody's like, who the hell is Tatum Befoon.
And I'm like, I know he is because I loved
him coming out of the draft a few years ago.
He goes undrafted. He's kind of safety sized, but in
today's game to play a linebacker, and they're pointing out
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the great plays he's made in that game, and You're like,
Tatum Bethoon, really yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
And then you.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Watch a big play made and you watch their sideline,
you watch their coaches, you see how energetic they are
for one another making a play, you realize the ViBe's
there for San Francisco's squad is just, hey, look, we
got a band together, and we gotta play as one
as best we possibly can.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
And I love a team that is like that. And
it's also a hard.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Team to beat because they don't often beat themselves, but
they don't allow one weak link.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
To get exposed, if that makes sense. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
So defensively they're always kind of covering for one another,
but they're in the right spot. They tackle well, they're physical,
they're timed up blitzes, all that kind of stuff, you know.
And then offensively, look it's it is CMC. It is
Christian McCaffrey. Let's let's not get it twisted. But this
dude's on a who whole different level, like a totally
different level. So I feel like the vibes here are
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we got to show that against a good football team
that we can come out and just dismantle one piece
at a time and walk away with a victory, Like
we got to show people that we can do that,
that we can be that team. We are that talented
to do that, but we got to step up and
do it. And I also feel like this is a
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proofing game for a lot of guys catching footballs.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Yeah, I think that they're dying to get it back
out of the field. They're dying to be back out
there showing what they can do, establishing something again, get
back on the winning track. If you get this one,
you've won three of your last four. I mean that's
a fact, yep. And maybe the Seattle game can just
be excused as a nightmare, although there are similarities obviously
between that and the other losses on the season.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
We all know that.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
But now you're at home, and if you start the
three game homestand with a winning note r it just
changes everything.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
It changes everything again.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
And by winning the back to back games going into
the bye, you felt like, Okay, they're back, but we
won't know it until they play a good team. Now
you're playing a good team, and I don't care who's hurt.
They're a good team. They played well well enough to
get a five to two record with all the injuries
they have. Johnny, I think for Tamiko Ryans and staff,
this is. It's not like last year when you starting
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to teeter a little bit. Remember losing to the Titans.
You go to seven and five. Now the Colts had
they won that day, like you already swept them, but
you started to feel because you knew it was coming.
You have tough dates coming up with the Dolphins, even
the Jags at Jacksonville. Look, we just saw what happened
this year, but you had tough dates coming up on
the horizon with the Dolphins, the Chiefs, the Ravens. You
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knew those teams were coming up, and the Dolphins were
going pretty good at the time, so you thought, uh oh,
this could go really bad after losing to the Titans
and dropping to seven and five, but Demiko rallied, the
Troops beat Jacksonville on the road. You had the buye.
Then you beat the Dolphins, which was really important because
you have the Chiefs and Ravens coming up and they
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were able to survive the season. Well, they are in
more adversity right now, so this is an even bigger
test because the Colts are sailing off into the horizon.
They're catchable because their schedule gets tougher and you get
them twice. But it's not gonna mean anything if you
don't make that date count with wins. Right now, so
the sense of urgency is that at an all time high,
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and they know it. I mean, I hate to think
what's gonna happen if they don't get this one. But
let's not even go there. We'll deal with that later.
They know, they don't know. I know they were two
and five and twenty fifteen and all that and came
back to win the division. But this is a different
complexion of season right now, the schedules that much harder.
The Colts are actually good, and you're gonna have to
deal with the situation as it is.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
There's no question.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
I think Dimiko has asked a question about this three
game homestand and you and I have talked about it.
I felt like, going back to when the schedule was announced,
I looked at that Seattle game and I just remember thinking,
or playing at ninth Central, I just remember feeling like, God, dang,
that's it.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
That is ugly.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
And the result was, you know, ugly, not ready, not away.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
It was not pretty. You're right about that.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
But I remember sitting there thinking, Okay, but we've got
three in a row at home, and that's an opportunity
to I don't want to say get well, but you've
played relatively well against the you know, in front of
your home folks for the most part, noon games on
a Sunday. You've played pretty well in that Tennessee game,
which still is kind of mysterious to me from last year.
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But that's the only time you've lost a noon game
at home since twenty twenty four. That's it, that Tennessee game.
Other than that, you've taken care of business at noon.
So hopefully that's what you're gonna you're gonna do against
San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
But Demiko said when.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
He was asked about it, he immediately I don't even
know if you let the reporter finish the question. He said, Look,
I am not worried about a three game homestand I'm
worried about the next play. Yeah, I'm worried about the play.
I'm worried about the next play. He didn't say the
next game, the next play, the next play. I like that,
and it was more so you just focus on the
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next play.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
What's the next play? What is your job on the
next play? What are you ask to do?
Speaker 1 (08:16):
I can relate to this as a play by play announcer,
and I'm gonna tell you how because I always say
this about calling football games, and this is applicable to
a lot of sports, Baseball, sure, but.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Especially in football.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
The next snap could be one of the greatest plays
in NFL history. It could be a wild, weird play
that you've never seen before. It could be something amazing.
It could be Lamar Miller ninety seven yards from the
three yard line, where it could have been just no
gain at all, and you've load up for second down
or third down, whatever it was. So I always reset
and set myself up and really try to do this.
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This is a new beginning, right. I was coaching a
kid to call games just last week, and I was saying,
you got to establish a line of scrimmage down in
distance every time you call.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
You got to do that.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
The listener deserves it needs to know it, and you
deserve to make a good call on the play, and
that's how it starts. What's the down, and be very precise.
So I think for them, be very precise. Every play
is crucial. Every play is important. Not that they're wasting plays.
But he said it for a reason. He said it
for a reason, just focus on the matter at hand.
It applies to golf as well. How many people listening
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play golf where you're having a crappy round, And what
I try to do when I'm having a crappy round
is just quit now.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
What I try to do when I'm having a crappy
round is let me just try to hit a good shot. Yeah,
a good shot right here. Who knows where it goes
from here. I'm going to hit a good shot right here,
and sometimes that really helps. Sometimes it doesn't work at all,
but hopefully it works for them, Johnny, because they need something.
This Seattle game cannot have a lingering hangover effect. You
talk about losing twice and all that. If you have
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a bad loss and look it was a one score,
people are sick of that. I get it. However, I
look at all their losses. I'm like, dang, make a
play here, make a play there. That's what this league
is all about. I don't want to sit here in
January and say, you know what, they had ten one
score games and they were two and eight. No, I
don't want to say that. I want them to start
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doing it right now, and so do they they have
control over how they feel by playing better, getting a win,
feeling a lot better next week going into play a
Denver team that is equally, if not tougher than the
forty nine ers.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Yeah, and well obviously at the Bonnecks and the Broncos.
But it's such a cliche one play at a time,
but it really honestly has to be, especially for this team.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
It has to be one play at a time.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
And when you say one play at a time, it
forces you play this play, What is my responsibility, What
are my fundamentals of my technique for that particular play?
Speaker 2 (10:53):
What do I have to do? And that's what it does.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
It forces you back to your fundamentals in your techniques.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Well, the other thing is not hanging your head if
things don't go wrong, that's right. This is where they
have to pull themselves out of the abyss.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
The funk if they do have moments, because every team
has bad moments and you have to be able to
overcome that.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
And the Seattle game was was was that there were
there were a lot of tough moments for for everybody
on that sideline, coaches, players, et cetera. It was there
were bad moments all around one that ones that were
you know, ask questions about uh this week, so you
get things corrected during your week of practice. Here's the
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other thing about San Francisco as we face them, they're
coming off a big time win. They went down to Tampa,
they got smacked. Tampa beat them up pretty good. Now
they lost Fred Warner, so that kind of played on
their mental side of things, and you could tell it
impacted them. But they got ready for that Atlanta game
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and you could tell they were not going to lose
that game. But they exerted a lot of energy. Had
annumber of injuries in that game. Christian McCaffrey had I
can't remember how many touches in it, being it was
like thirty four total touches. He was exhausted by the
end of the game. And Kyle Shanaan has thrown him
back in the game because like, we got to throw
you this pass to get us a first down. He
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gets a first down in fourth quarter, like he's that
kind of player. But you have to maybe take advantage
of them playing two hours earlier than they're used to
playing that they played emotional games Sunday night, and then
you have to channel all that anngs from the Seattle
game that you didn't do into this one against San Francisco,
and you have to and you know some people will
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talk about this, but do what you have to do
to walk out of that building Sunday afternoon with a
win nine to six, forty nine to forty six, thirty
four to three, whatever it takes to get that win,
you have to do. And I think about a lot
of games that the Texans have played under Tamika Ryans,
and I think about like this Saints game in twenty
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twenty three. Remember that game didn't play exceptionally well. Offensively,
did a couple of things, but you didn't make the backbreaking.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Mistake big stop at the end.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
You get the defense making a big stop at the end,
and you played very well together as a team, even
though offensively didn't scare a thousand points. Denver Broncos in
twenty three, same sort of thing. You get up on
them a little bit, they start coming back, they make
a run at the end, but you stick together, you
play your techniques, you play at one play at a time,
you walk out of there with a w.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Those weren't the prettiest wins in the world.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
But in twenty twenty three, when we're coming off years
of three, four and four wins or whatever it was,
any win was a good win, and I think that's
kind of the way we got to look at this one.
Any win against the forty nine ers is going to
be a good win. It's a really good football team,
so to beat them and move them to five and
three is huge. So what do you have to do
to make sure your team walks out of there with aw?
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Well, how about this?
Speaker 1 (13:56):
If you do win and it's ugly, it's interesting to see. Well,
it'll be interesting and I'd love to have this happen
just to see how outsiders analyze this right, because you know,
with the health of the receivers, you know, other things
that might be issues with this football team, but particularly
the health of the receivers, it'll be impressive. I mean,
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this is the one team in the league currently you
cannot sing the Blues about any injury. I mean, they've
gone without their starting quarterback, they've got you mentioned Fred Warner,
a pro sole guy. Yeah, the list goes on and
on and it's tough to live with. Yet here they
are at five and freaking two, and so you cannot
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complain about injuries at all with them. If you got
to go with the cyclones at receiver, you got to
go with the cyclones of receivers. Time to make place,
make it happen. Yeah, nobody's a rookie anymore. Everybody's got
to step up, got to find a way to protect
and just get the ball to the right people at
the right time.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
That's the thing. You just said it.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
And Tamiko said that to me after the game in
my post came press or postgame interview with him. I
remember him distinctly saying playmakers have to make plays, and
he pointed at He kind of pointed kind of back
at the field or where he thought the field was
where we were in the locker room, and he was like,
their playmakers made plays. And when you think about that
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that Seattle game, who are their playmakers? Well, Darnold j
Sen Okay made some plays defensively.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Who are their playmakers? Well? Their front's really really good.
Oh there you go.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Ernest Jones at linebacker has been the perfect fit for
the Seahawks.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
What did he do?
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Interception? Who's the dude they putting next to him? Drake Thomas,
this little guy who you know, came out of NC State.
I was warned about him. Yeah he's good. Yeah, I
remember seeing in Ency State. I'm like this, dude, he's tiny,
he's good.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Man.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
He was incredible playmaker, made.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Play Texans very tough. Now will Anderson Junr huge play
huge play?
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Right?
Speaker 1 (15:53):
You just didn't have enough of The Nico drop was big, man.
I love Nico. He's killing himself over that, I'm sure
because that could have been almost a signature moment for
him if he catches that ball and is able to
fake out the defender, want safety and just go to
the house. I mean, that becomes a Monday night football
moment and a memory that will recall for a long time. Now,
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hopefully they would be able to win from there. But
the point is that, and look, I don't want to
just single that one out. They had a lot of
issues right on Monday Night. But the point is this,
there was a pile of stuff that you could look
at the fair bearing issue at the end. I mean
not just time and time again. They made mistakes in
that game, and the flushit phrase really does apply to
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this one. I mean you have to learn from it,
but you cannot let it live within you. You can't
dwell on it too much because you're going to be
fresh Sunday at noon. You mentioned it. You're four and
one at Sunday noon games at NRG Stadium last two years,
and you got to keep that train.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Rolling, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
And it is a You're talking about vibes, and that's
one of the things that you know, I always feel
like it's very it's difficult to manufacture good vibes that
sometimes the play on the field has to kind of
bring those out.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Yeah, it's kind of like crowd noise.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
You can get the crowds up to cheer about that
cannot always carry you, right.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
And I feel like if if Tank that could be
on the field to make a catch, that would get.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
The crowd going. I don't think it's happening miss.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Tank a lot, but you know, somebody making a big
play early in the game.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Oh yes, they kind of jazz everything up.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Maybe maybe it's a big hit, hit ball, a big play.
Their fifth from last in giveaways, which is they coughed
up the ball. They had all those turnovers against Jacksonville,
but it's definitely notable and five and two how they've
coughed the ball upright. You know, you'd think five and
two with all the injuries, they must be really good
in turnover margin.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
They're not.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
The Texans are good in turnover margin, yet they're two
and four figure that and the Texans take the ball away.
This is the number one defense in the league, the
Houston Texans taking on the number one passing offense.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
So they're not great at running the football.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
But they're good, but they're great at throwing the football.
Most of it appears to be a McCaffrey at this
stage of life.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Yeah, because there's no you know, Pearsall has been banged up,
Brandon I Yuk hasn't come back yet. You know, Juwan
Jennings is a Jwan Jennings is the epitome the Niners.
To me, this guy's a little bit too slow, you know,
good size, drafted a seventh round or whatever he was,
and he's banged up. He did a postgame interview, I
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think is after the Tampa Bay game, and he was
basically detailing all the things that were wrong with him,
and at the very end he's like, you gotta play,
got compete, and I love to compete. He's kind of
the epitome of them. Offensively. He doesn't do a ton.
But here's the thing about the Niners that you've got
to keep in mind. Even if they rock, they rock
us early, Hank tight. Just play the next play, Keep
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playing the next play, because they won't run away from you.
This is not the greatest show on turf. They're not
gonna go score thirty.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Five in the first tw nobody's run away from you.
Right right, Seattle is up two scores, but you've been
able to stay within striking distance right of every team.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Just keep no matter what's going on, as bad as
it might be, or whatever the case might be. If
they start to you know, they go up ten to
nothing or whatever it is, which would be obviously similar
to Seattle when up fourteen to nothing, they won't run
away from you. Seattle have the opportunity to, because they're
pretty explosive.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
The Niners won't. They won't.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
They won't take the game and make it thirty eight
to nothing in a heartbeat. They're not that offensively potent
from that standpoint. So just keep chipping away at it,
and every time you get the ball back threes or sevens, whatever,
keep chipping away because they won't take a game and
make it a blowout.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
They won't.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
They're not offensively gifted like that right now. And so
just stay in it, don't get don't get dog.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
The crowd will be interesting that because the faithful, that's
what they call their fan base, we have to be here.
We have the traveling Texans, they have the faithful. The
faithful will be here. They will be here, and the
plant and roll go everywhere, and they take over buildings.
I'm not saying they're gonna take over ANRG stadium, but
they'll be noticeable. In fact, I wanted to have battle
Red Day because.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Hey, you'll never know the difference.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
I always say that when the chiefs come here, let's
just have battle Red Day, and then it won't be
a factor. Now, the noise might be a factor that
they could make, but it won't be a factor. It's
battle red because we have repid h Town Day. Texans
will be in their he town uniforms. But I think
the Texans fans they're gonna wear whatever they like. Sure,
if my favorite jersey is a battle red jersey, I'm
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coming in battle red right like Liberty white, you know,
and so on. And a lot of people have the
new dark deep steel blue jerseys. So we'll see how
that is. But I'm a little concerned about this fans
that if things do go rough or are are rough
in the beginning, the reaction of the crowd like, oh
my gosh, here we go again. Stay with it, give
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it a shot. If it gets out of hand, it
gets out of hand. But I just don't think it's
going to get out of hand.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
What you can't do as an important piece, whether you're
a play caller, whether you're play caller, coach, player, or
whatever that that makes major decisions is you can't get
emotional about anything. You have to just keep your emotions
in check. And that is you know what, all right,
they're booing us. All right, they're booing us because I
ran the ball. Well, next time, I'm gonna throw it deep. No,
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what's the plan. What's the plan? Stick to your plan.
You put the plan together during the week. Stick to
your plan. Don't get emotional. Let me Mark and Andre
get emotional. Don't get emotional about anything. If you score,
feed off of that. But you know, you go out early.
Your feed off that play, play off of that emotion.
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But if you get down a little bit and the
fans do start the rain, some booze down. You gotta
do it. You can't get emotionally, you can't be like, well,
I watched it. You know you got just this the plan.
We're sticking to it and then chip away at it
and in the end, hopefully you'll put up more than
they do.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Yeah, let's hope they do it because they need it badly.
You get to three and four, if you get the victory,
with Denver coming up and a whole world of possibility
still in front of you, there's a lot of season left.
You have a golden opportunity here with all these home games,
seven home games left on the schedule, starting with Sunday.
All right, next up, we're gonna do it. Who's better?
But a different version of it? A lot of different
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questions for Johnny. We'll get to it. Then our testosterone doctor,
I don't know if I should call him that. From
Houston Methodist answering all your questions about TRT. It's all
coming up here on Texans Radio. Right back to it
here in the Hyundai Texans Radio Studio. Mark Vandermere and
John Harris with you a reminder that Tuesday we will
be at the Texans team shop with another Texans radio
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show and guess who's joining us, Johnny Brian Cushings. Yeah,
all time leading teckler in the history of the franchise,
will be there Tuesday. Texans Team Shop will be right
outside of the Texans Team Shop and Andy Khalu will
be there as well. Can't wait for it. Tuesday at
six details later, We're gonna give away tickets and all
sorts of goodies, So stop by. The store will be open.
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Usually they close at six, but they stay open late
when we are there. A Legends week a week from Sunday,
we put Janis McNair into the Ring of Honor. This
is awesome and all the legends will be there, a
huge turnout of Texans legends. That would be former players
being at NRG and that'll be a week from Sunday
against the Broncos.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Looking forward to that, ready for them. That is gonna
be fun.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
That whole week celebrating Janis, that is gonna be That
is gonna be a whole heck of.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
A lot of fun. I'm also ready for this.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Instead of Who's better, We're gonna make it various vander
questions here for you, Okay questions. I'm gonna do the
Fox NFL sounder to signal the questions. Here we go,
all right, Johnny drafted opposing player, a player on one
of our opponents. Now here's the catch. They remain on
their own team. So in this alternate universe, you get
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to have the player, but they get to keep the
player at the same time. And a couple of them
we've already seen. All right, Okay, you're following the rules
carefully here, so this is very precise, very important stuff.
All right, So you get to have either Christian McCaffrey,
Jackson Smith and jigbah Phoka Nakua healthy or Tyler Warren
(24:36):
from the Indianapolis Colts pick a player, so you don't
get to remove them from their team, but you get
to have that player's services for you.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Who are you going to pick? Johnny? That is as
good a question as you have ever put in a five. Wow,
those four guys.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Now we haven't seen Warren yet, but he has been
fantastic and good. I think we miss Kate Stover a
little bit, although Dalton has played pretty well. So I
like the way Dalton's played, like a lot of what
Dalton has done, So I'm eliminate Warren. Okay, I think
the receivers have done you a decent job at times,
(25:17):
but I feel like getting the run game going is important.
And even though McCaffrey's run numbers haven't been exceptional his
fifty three receptions, but I would say probably seventy five
to eighty percent of those have been screens or checkdowns
that he can then turn into the alternate run game
if you will. I'm going CMC twenty three, Christian McCaffrey.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Yeah, because you can line them up in the slot
and put whatever running backs you want into the game
as well.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
That's right, he becomes this receiver for you. So what
the heck?
Speaker 1 (25:48):
And I think Warren, If you picked Warren, it's no
insult to Dalton.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
He's a different kind of player right now, I understand.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
I can't wait till they get Kid back, man.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
That'll be awesome.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Stover back a bit bad to compliment everybody, and he's tough.
They're all good, these players I mentioned. So now if
you could take let's put it this way, I'll allow
you to take Jonathan Taylor off the Colts for one game,
or McCaffrey off the forty nine ers. Who are you
(26:19):
gonna pick you can remove one of these players. In fact,
that's such a good question, I'll hit the sounder for it.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
I oh, so it's either McCaffrey out of the forty
nine Ers lineup or Taylor out of the Colts lineup
for one Colts.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Game when we play them.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Yeah, yeah, when we play Yeah, Taylor out.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
It got to be. It's got to be the Colts,
said Taylor, because they'll be nothing without Taylor.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
It's not so much they're nothing without Taylor, but I
don't think they're gonna be much.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
I mean, then again, you look.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
At the Niners and like, what are the Niners without
McCaffrey on the field.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Yeah, I still like that the Niners are here. The
first Colts game will be up there.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
I didn't put that in there, But I don't know.
There's something about this weekend. I feel like, if you
don't get this one, I don't know. I don't want
to think about it. I don't want to think about it. Johnny,
you gotta get this one.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
You do.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
And I've talked all week about what I think about
Christian McCaffrey, and I love the guy, but stam Horseshoe,
I want to see twenty eight sit on sidelines.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Okay, you sit. You're right, it's the horseshoe. Yeah, my horseshoes.
Stop me? What am I saying? Yeah? I thought you
would have been on board with that. I know what
am I saying?
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Okay, injury situation at receiver here with the Houston Texans,
no buenos So Jalen Knowle or Jaden Higgins, how do
I phrase this? Who do you got? One of these
guys has to shine like they've never shined before. You
got a big game out of Nole on Monday night,
(27:51):
big game for a rookie. Okay, with the four catches,
seventy plus yards all that, I still say there's a
lot there with Higgins. And I'm not saying you're only
scratching the surface, but you kind of are. Because he's
a rookie, he's going to develop. You drafted him for
a reason, you drafted him higher than null your thoughts.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
What you just said, You're right about all that.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
I mean, it's all true, but that doesn't play into
the reason I will said Jade Higgins, I think. And
the thing about it is, I mean it's really close
trying to pick between Okay, poor boy.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Which one. They both got to come up big this week.
They both have got to.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
But I feel like, and we saw this in mini camp,
we saw it in practice at the Greenbrier. There are
times that Jaden Higgins does things in a football field
that the other twenty one guys in the field at
that time with him can't do.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
They've got to tap into that a little bit more.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
He's a phenomenal athlete with tremendous speed and dexterity and agility,
but he's got to get comfortable in this offense, knowing
what rouse to run, when to run this route, when
to run that route.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
But I feel like it's Jayden Higgins.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
If you can unlock the Jayden Higgins box, I feel
like you can manufacture some touches to Jalen Knowle, little
screens they run and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
And j Nole.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
If Jane Ole stuck at a blocking on that play,
he might have a big play. But he just reacted and
he bounced it outside. He stayed inside and followed his block.
He might have gotten the first down in that play.
As crazy as it sounds. Either way, they can manufacture
some touches for j Nole it's a little harder to
do for Higgins to manufacture touches, but they've got to
make sure that he gets his targets because I think
(29:36):
Higgins can put more pressure on their perimeterive corners, and
that that I think ends up giving you an opportunity
to go deep. Get a deep ball that we haven't have.
We seen the deep ball lately, the one to Kirk
against the Ravens, I think, But other than that, I
don't real You know, CJ threw a few the other
night against Seattle, but he didn't he didn't connect. But
(29:58):
now it's time to hit a few. Jayden had a
couple steps on the corner of the other night and
see you ever threw him. I feel like if you
can unlock the box to Jade and Higgins, you're talking
about three catches for one hundred and twenty yards and a.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Tuddy okay, and I think that can happen now.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Jane ol was great the other night, but I'll live
with Jane Old five six catches for sixty yards, you know,
just kind of working the slot stuff and just getting
first downs.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
But they can break over the game play, okay.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
The big play, I think is what we need a
little bit more and Higgins can provide that.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Okay, let's get to the next one. That's a good question.
That a good question. Okay, here's another good question. Oh boy.
Now we're going to play a game called am I Crazy?
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Here?
Speaker 2 (30:36):
It is?
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Am I crazy? Then? I want to see the Colts
this weekend. I look, I respect the forty nine ers.
This is not about disrespect for them. I got a feeling.
And maybe this is just me, maybe they're not on
board with me. But if you were playing the Horseshoe
right now, as good as they're going and as tough
as you have it right now, coming off the Monday
(30:58):
night frustrating laws, this is just the team to get
your dander up, to get your blood boiling, to beat
the hated, despised, despicable Horseshoe, and that would get you going.
You would put one on them, and you'd get a
dub for yourself, and it would springboard.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
You to success.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
I want the Horseshoe right now, not gonna get them,
but that's not my feeling.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Am I crazy?
Speaker 3 (31:20):
You're not crazy, but I feel like you are crazy
to say that a little bit crazy because I.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Feel like.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
I feel like this team. You asked me a question
of vibes earlier in the show. I feel like this
team needs a little bit of positive vibes before they were.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
To take on the Colts.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Really, and so I feel like getting getting a few wins,
maybe getting a little streak going before they take on
the Colts. I think is something that this team could
use and they could build off that that confidence. And
I sensed it when I was in the locker room Baltimore,
and I just remember walking on the locker room in
Baltimore thinking, you know what, we got a bye week
(32:04):
next week's and be good to get some rest, all
that kind of stuff. I want this team to keep playing,
because the vibe that was in that locker room was
we were getting it. We're getting it. Here we go,
let's go. I think it would have done wonders for
us to continue to play. But now you got to
shake it up. I'm glad we're actually I'm actually glad
we're not so much we're playing the forty nine ers.
(32:25):
I would love the Cardinals to be the team, but
I'd rather face the Colts. We've got a little bit
of a few wins in our system, a little bit
more confidence back because twelve noon in Indianapolis or one
o'clock eastern, whatever time it is up there, when they
do daylight savings time, our guys will be ready to roll.
I just want them to have some confidence going into
(32:47):
that thing that they can just stand there and go
toe to toe with those guys as they have for
how many every years? But they can do it again.
Even though everybody wants to crown them, You want to
crown them, crown their ass, as Danny Green used to say.
But I think I think this team needs a little
bit of confidence, get a little bit of the offensive
flow going, and then go swap punches with the horseshoe
(33:08):
up there.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
This is why I never looked past the Colts. I
said it all off season. I wasn't predicting they'd be good,
but nothing surprises me in football, especially with the horseshoe.
Let's get to the next one, all right. This is
kind of a who's better better story? Joe Flacco or
name your story. Basically, I just want to talk about
(33:28):
Joe Flacco. I think it's a tremendous story, especially since
Johnny is Joe Fleco elite. I mean, that was such
a joke, right, Flacco is kind of the guy who
won a Super Bowl, but he really was berated for
being a quarterback who wasn't Tom.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Brady or Peyton Manning.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
And he had a perfect postseason in twenty twelve, won
the Super Bowl. But is the elite really one of those?
Speaker 2 (33:55):
Right?
Speaker 1 (33:55):
He's a first round raft Choyce, University of Delaware, former
Penn State or all that, and you know the kind
of I'm not gonna call it abuse, but it was
fan criticism, media criticism he took over the course of
his career, which has been a hell of a career.
And he's still going at the huge game a week
ago Thursday, and now he's got the Jets this weekend.
(34:15):
He could have another big game. And I think it's
a great story. And you saw the bit about I'm
eating dinner at the restaurant alone. I never understood those guys.
I always felt sorry for him, and now I'm like,
this is awesome. Yeah, even though he misses his family
at the same time, and everybody can relate to that.
You can relate to that. It's kind of a two
pronged thing, like, yeah, I missed a family, but this
is pretty good too.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
I mean, I like the alone time. Nothing compares to
that right now. Nothing.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
I will add a second story if you I actually
sent you. I I was down in studio today and
I saw this pop up on Instagram and I laughed uproariously. Ye,
and it's a video of I can't remember who it is.
There's two guys in the car and they've got a label.
On one it says cam Skataboo and on the other
(35:00):
one it says Jackson Dart.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
So the driver is just I don't know if he's
listening to music or whatever.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
He's just losing his mind excited, and he's just like
banging heads on the steering wheel, and he's grabbing the
other guy, Jackson Dart, and he's just like ah, and
he's just losing his mind. The two Giants, rookies, Jackson
Dart and Camp Skataboo are a great story. I know
they lost to the Broncos, but the Knicks played their
opener the other night at MSG and the crowd the
(35:29):
video board kind of panning around and all some boom,
they popped up some Giants highlights and then it was
Colin watching like wait, what is this? And then all
of a sudden they showed camp Skataboo in a Jalen
Brunson jersey. Oh nice, and the place went crazy. They
went nuts, like he's the perfect player for the perfect
(35:52):
team and the perfect spot. And maybe it lasts three years,
but we can celebrate that. It's not Joe Flacco's store.
But it's one hell of a story that those two rookies,
Camp Scataboo and Jackson Dart have done what they've done
in New York. They lost that one to Denver the
other day, and maybe it dies like uh the Veto.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
Yeah, well, I was gonna say that maybe the Giants
lead the league in recent years and stories about players
who just have this charismatic New York thing going on,
and it might not even materialize like the Veto, but
it was fun while it last.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
Yeah, and I think this one's got a little bit
of staying power. But if there's a player that just fits,
you know, the g men, Cam Scataboo's that player, Like
they've been.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
So many memes and Instagram videos.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
I've seen the people you like, I'm Cam Scataboo and
they re runs into a wall. You know, at first,
it's just you know, he's got the personality he's got
the playing style that they're gonna love him in New
York they already do. And I just thought it was
really it was really interesting to see how the MSG
fans responded to seeing him on the video board, Like
why they giants higlight's all a sudden, They're like cam'scattery
(37:02):
when he just puts his hands up and he kind
of waves everybody and you can see all these people
like stand up and just give them ovation. I thought, man,
that's pretty cool. It's not Joe Flacco. You like Flacco better?
Flacco is a better story.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
I mean, when you're the old guy, they love you.
They love the old guy when he got old. They
adored Fitz love you, you know. And I forget who
said it was like Sonny Jurgenson or something.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
Where's mcclan when you need him?
Speaker 1 (37:28):
It was Sonny Jurgens. Insane it when you're young, they
love you. When you're middle aged in your playing career, eh,
when you're old they love you again.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
They love you when you were in New England. Great example, to.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
Quote the great Rapper logic, your old bleep is not
as good as your new bleep until your new bleep
is your old bleep.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
Oh that's good. Yeah, that's good. I like that. Yeah,
that's pretty good. Yeah, that's kind of what it is. Actually, no, no,
he did not. He did not say bleep. I got
one more for.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
You, worse uniforms.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
Oh, you'll get to pick let's go.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
You get to pick let's go, and you can add
a wild card if you like. I know here, I
have three selections right here. I hope one of them
is in the Charger yellows from last week. They were
awful and they're the sole reason why they lost to
the Colts in my opinion. Never mind all the football stuff,
those god awful uniforms. You're the Chargers, for crying out loud,
(38:25):
you have awesome uniforms. That's what you pick as an
alt all right, So the Charger Yellows, the Steeler Bumblebees,
or the ACME Packers.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
Oh okay, we're sticking with NFL.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
Oh yeah, why where do you want to go with this?
Can you want to go to other sports?
Speaker 4 (38:43):
No?
Speaker 3 (38:44):
Can we go with the camouflage Miami Hurricane Jersey. I
sent you this and I knew ruin your day, but
I needed you to see it so you could deal
with the pain it was.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
It's so bad.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
They have Camoflage Miami Herd Cane's jerseys for this weekend.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
And I just I this has to have come up
in South Florida. I haven't talked to any of my
friends in South Florida, but Johnny, it's terrible. What is
this hearken back to Let's use our imagination here and
go back to the eighties at the Fiesta Bowl they
get off the plane in the fatigue. No, somebody brought
this up though. And how did they do.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
In that game? Johnny? They lost fourteen ten. They lost
that game to Penn State.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Venezesta Verdi, the best Hurricane team ever made.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
N testa Verdi was shut down by the defensive coordinator
at Penn State. Yes, yeah, who has the same name
as the Baltimore Ravens play by play man, who we don't.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
Mention on radio. No, no, we can't mention his name.
Can't mention his name though, But yeah, they lost fourteen
to ten.
Speaker 3 (39:42):
Turn the ball over five times, Vinnie through five interceptions,
Oh my gosh, wearing the fatigue and.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
Then your half fatigue uniforms. Now, they had to have
thought of this, of course, think you lost a National
Championship after showing up in army fatigues and now you
get an army fatigue uniform. What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (39:58):
This is the dumbest thing I've ever seen.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
Yeah that I saw that. I just I shook my head.
I'm not a big alternate uniform fan.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
I get that. I saw an article earlier this year
just says in the side.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
We're wearing about Sunday tarned.
Speaker 2 (40:12):
Well, I like ours for some reason. I like these.
I like these.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
I like the h I wish this would be bad.
I wish this would be our primary. To be honest
with you, what, Yes, I love this uniform. I love
this uniform.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
I have my own. I love it. Middle Tennessee State.
Speaker 3 (40:28):
Instead of buying like ten different uniforms, they bought one
pair of blue pants, a white top, and a blue
shirt mark. They saved six hundred and fifty thousand dollars
just on not buying uniful.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
So they wear the same pants every time.
Speaker 3 (40:42):
Yeah, so they wear the same pants and then a
white top, blue top instead of having all these, you know,
all these different uniforms.
Speaker 2 (40:47):
Fifty thousand for a program like that, for the program.
Speaker 3 (40:50):
Exactly they put they took it and they put it
in il why exactly, so smart move. But the three
that you told me acme Packers, the Steelers, Bumblebees, and
the yellow.
Speaker 2 (41:00):
Oh god, the yellow is just.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
H But.
Speaker 3 (41:05):
I those Bumblebee uniforms. Somebody said this on on x
or on social media.
Speaker 2 (41:10):
Somewhere. I saw this.
Speaker 3 (41:12):
Aaron Rodgers is wearing that uniform to play against his
former team.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
Oh my gosh, I'm gonna throw up.
Speaker 3 (41:20):
And that maybe alone makes it the worst. It's not
gonna love Aaron Rodgers. But it's like the Steelers uniform
is classic, man, just from a shop where the Steelers
uniform from.
Speaker 1 (41:30):
It's the Steelers. Yes, you have won multiple super Bowls.
We've got that uniform. What do you got six? You
have six super Bowls?
Speaker 2 (41:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (41:39):
Six, you have four with nol Cower and Tomlin each
have one.
Speaker 2 (41:42):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (41:44):
Sometimes it's hard to do the camp for some of
these franchises.
Speaker 2 (41:46):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (41:47):
That is the little game we play called Vander Questions.
And next up is the segment you've all been waiting for,
Testosterone Doctor from Houston Methodist. Everything you wanted to know,
but we're afraid to ask. It's Texans Radio. Okay, Final
segment on the program. Here tonight we usually do Houston
Methodist minutes and now doctor Akille Mathigi talking about testosterone.
(42:09):
As promised, Doctor, let's get right into it. Men of
a certain age who needs testosterone. What's the situation out there,
the background of the testosterone. I'll just call it a
craze if you will.
Speaker 4 (42:21):
Yeah, absolutely so. Low testosterone is more common than we think.
Nearly forty percent of men over the age of forty
five experienced low testosterone, and that jumps up to sixty
to seventy percent of men over the age of seventy,
So it's very common. The symptoms to watch out for
are decreased muscle mats, weight gain or a difficulty losing
weight even with exercise, a lower libido or sex drive
(42:45):
move changes. It can also be associated with fatigue, difficulty sleeping,
as well as weakening of the bones. So both are
some of the symptoms to look out for.
Speaker 1 (42:55):
So when you think you have some of these symptoms,
what's the best thing to do after that?
Speaker 4 (43:00):
Doctor, So it's very simple from there. If anyone's worried
about a low testosterrone, it's it's a simple blood test
to start with. It's a test perform in the morning
between seven and nine am. You don't have to be facting.
It takes five minutes. We typically like to have at
least two values checked to confirm low testosterone, and then
if we confirm it's low, recommend a full workup with
(43:23):
the men's health specialist. This involved a full history, physical
exam to figure out why the test officer is low,
and then we have several management options from there.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
All right, so now if you determine it's low, what's
the process of therapy from there?
Speaker 2 (43:37):
How does that help? How do you go about that?
Speaker 4 (43:39):
Yeah, so in our ment health center, we have several
men's health specialists who specializes this. So once we have
two lab values confirmed low, we generally recommend a checkup,
an appointment with one of the men's health specialists, and
this involves a full history. We get a thorough history
medication use any prior testosterone or hormone use medication, and
(44:00):
then it's also involve the physical exams. From there, we
can there's several treatment options before we jump to testosteral management.
There's several lifestyle trustments that we recommend to help naturally
boost testosterone. That includes weightlifting, regular exercise, adequate sleep, nightly
stress management, as well as a high protein diet. All
(44:21):
of these can naturally boost our testosterol levels and may
mitigate the need for testosteral replacement therapy. If these lifestyle
changes don't work, then we offer testopsal replacement therapy, and
there's several treatment options in that.
Speaker 1 (44:35):
In that realm, So you hear about these injections? Do
they usually occur weekly? How does that work?
Speaker 2 (44:42):
Doctor?
Speaker 4 (44:43):
Yeah, So, injection is a very common form of testosterone
therapy management. The most common is once a week, very
easy done at home, either into the thigh muscle or
gluleas muscle. There's also longer acting forms of testosterone that
we can inject in the clinic. This patient typically comes
in once every ten weeks for that form of testosterone.
(45:04):
There's also pellets that we could place into the glueas muscle.
This is a very good option for men who don't
want to be injecting weekly themselves at HOMER, don't want
to be coming into the clinic opten. There's pellets that
we can place into the glueas muscle about every three
to four months, and that's a very good option for
long acting testosterone. There's also several other forms other than injections.
(45:25):
That includes nasal sprays, gels as well as oral tablets.
Oral tablets is something that's new on the market. There's
three FDA proof oral tablets now that are very safe
and you know, enjoyed by patients.
Speaker 1 (45:40):
That's doctor Rakhiel MCTHIGI. And like an infomercial, I'll just say,
but wait, there's more. And there's more next week when
we continue with part two of our conversation with the
doctor on the TRT craze, and we do this during
Texans Radio Houston Methodist Minutes. I thought this was a
good subject for a lot of our listeners out there
with all the commercials out there and everything else in
the TRT world. That's gonna do it for Texans All
(46:03):
Access tonight. We have Thursday Night football coming up next.
It'll be the Chargers and the Vikings. The Chargers without
the ugly yellow uniforms they wore last week. Had they
beaten the Colts like I wanted them to, I'd be
calling them beautiful yellow uniforms.
Speaker 2 (46:18):
Maybe you never know.
Speaker 1 (46:20):
Texans All Access tomorrow will have Demiko Ryan's on. We'll
have a player to be named later. We'll have Bill Davis,
Linebackers coach, on loaded show for you tomorrow to get
you ready for the Texans and San Francisco Sunday at
noon Reppin' eh Town Day. Can't wait for Game Day.
Gotta get this one. Have a great night everyone, Go Texans.
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