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I guess that's what we'll call it, right Johnny.
With warm up show. It's a pregame show for the schedule in one hour, so in now it's less than an hour, you're gonna have the schedule. And I gotta say this, I've seen, you know how every team makes the schedule rele these videos. Yeah, yeah, everybody talks about them. The Titans had that one a couple of years ago. That was so good and I think it's the best thing the Titans have ever done is an organization. Really, you give them credit for that. I'm giving them a lot of bigger man than I thought you. I'll give them a lot of credit.
That's good. I won't give them credit for things on the football.
Yeah, okay, you know we were harkening back to the twenty fourteen draft last night and talking about Zach Mettenberger. I'll give them credit for that because I loved Zach Mettenberger and has a Texan I loved him. Every time we went up against Zach Mettenberger, Man Watt was going to eat everybody was gonna eat, We're gonna win.
It was awesome. Zach Mettenberger.
I was all about that he never beat the Texans, Diddy, I don't think he did. And you know Will Levis beat the Texans, he'll always he'll always have that to look back.
How about that anyway? I don't want to start off the show like that.
But our schedule, these video we've got two of them coming out to one of them has I'm.
Just gonna say this, here's my teaser.
It's got a huge celebrity from Houston that we've never had before, never had. I don't think we've had anything to do with this person before as the Texans.
So I am as I'm a super and and everybody tease.
Everybody knows this person, everybody, I know what people, I know who people are thinking of.
Him.
Wait, am I gonna say this. I'm not gonna reveal the It's not a gender revealed. Job schedule reveal in an hour, not a gender reveal. Now for what celebrity I'm talking about this schedule video, I'm just gonna leave it at that. I don't wanna, I don't want to give anything else away. There might be some other people involved as well, and you've I've seen it.
It's good. It's good. It's good. Yes, it's good.
That's all I say about that, because I know it'll be analyzed and picked apart and appreciated all throughout the evening and tomorrow and the days to come.
I'll tell you which one I'm most excited about other than ours.
Of course, the Rams because they put so much money into the Cowboys. Chargers.
Yeah, they do a good The Chargers did the anime a couple of years ago, but I watched again what they did last year.
They did the SIMS, so it's really good.
And looking back it makes even more sense because one of the things they do with the SIMS is they're playing the Falcons and so they had Kirk Cousins in the chain, no shirt on djaying and then all in a purple jersey, Number nine comes walking in.
Is Michael Pennach Junior beautiful?
Just looking back on it, it was like, Wow, that Chargers SIMS video is really good. That a bunch of bunch of hidden eggs or whatever they call them in that thing.
It was Easter eggs, Easter eggs.
It was we got one of those two this one that I'm referring to, So stay tuned one hour finale, it'll be all up on Texans, Instagram, Facebook, all of it. X. I'm sure we'll snap it out too, probably, I don't know. I don't know what we're doing on Snapchat lately. That's one app that I've just really dropped. Yeah, Snapchat's not I don't know. I just couldn't do it. But still will not even download TikTok because by the time something becomes viral on TikTok, I get it on Instagram anyway or X, and I just can't be addicted to another social media platform.
People give me a hard talk on like, are you kidding? This is becoming a major problem for people. They can't get off the phone. You can't get off the phone.
You can't get off the phone. There's too much good stuff. It knows exactly what you want. It's just sucking you in and you feel like one of those people in the spaceship in Wally when you're on your phone, is you know, like your bone density is evaporating before your very eyes. Okay, schedule release less than an hour. Look, look we're gonna talk like this during this hour because we don't. You know, we're not revealing the schedule right now, right, we don't have it to give to you right now, but we do have information because, like we said, there would be bits of information coming out, confirmed items of information, and there would also be some leaks that we're not so sure if this is correct or not, but we're willing to talk about it because it's out there.
Right.
So, for instance, the Texans will not be playing on Christmas. We could confirm that that is because Netflix has Christmas and they've got Lions Vikings, Cowboys Commanders.
How about that? Cowboys Commanders on Christmas and Cowboys on Thanksgiving as well.
Yeah, there are three teams that have Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Is it the Chiefs too? Yeah?
Okay, yeah, the chief well, the Broncos Chiefs is already announced for Christmas, and the Chiefs are playing the Cowboys on Thanksgiving, so they're Thanksgiving.
Well, that's Christmas.
That's the one that Florio hypothesized would break the regular season dealership rep right, and I think he's right about right.
So you've got Chiefs and Cowboys.
Yeah, Broncos on Christmas, Chiefs, Broncos on Christmas, Ryan's Vikings on Christmas.
Who the Cowboys playing Thanksgiving? You just said it the Chiefs.
Oh yeah, that's right, they played Chiefs. Okay, so it's confusing.
I know.
You've got a couple of teams that have got the Thanksgiving and Christmas double dip.
See how that goes for them? Yeah, Now Christmas is a Friday. Yeah, Christmas is a Friday. Better than it being a Wednesday. A lot better, a lot better better, So a lot better. Wait is it a Thursday or Friday? What am I thinking of here? No, it's a Thursday. I'm sorry, Johnny, it's a Thursday. Yeah, December twenty fifth has to be a Thursday.
The twenty first is a Sunday. Yes, twenty eighth is a Sunday. So seven six five soda. Yeah, Thursday, Thursday, Thursday, my Thursday. Okay, So Christmas I probably scared a lot of people, like.
I already made plans.
You knew it better than I did, listener, So Christmas is a Thursday, and you know, because it's not a leap year, so it's a day later than it was last year.
And Wednesday got it all right? Opening weekend?
We told you last night you've been hearing about it on this station and wherever you look at NFL information that Brazil was not going to be the Texans. It was gonna get the Chiefs and the Chargers in South Pallam.
So good luck with that.
But I think that and the Texans do not have an international game like we can, that is correct. I think this does one thing about your twenty twenty sixth schedule.
This is like a ninety nine percent lock.
Take it to the bank that the Texans are going somewhere next year. They're gonna look, if they look at teams particular individual situations, they're gonna say, you, guys haven't been anywhere since twenty nineteen. We were supposed to go to London last year. Didn't happen for whatever reason I don't even know. Oh, because we had the Hall of Fame game, all this other stuff. We're supposed to play the Biking Vikings. Yeah, now into the Jets this year. It was going to be a Statuos Deca Mexico city against who knows. It was going to be a home game in all likelihood, but the stadium's not ready. No international game. But the Texas we thought maybe they'd still go on the road. Maybe you visit the Colts, the Jags in Europe, or visit the Chargers in Brazil.
Not happening good. So we know that.
So there's a guy in Jacksonville, and whenever you bring it, begin a story like that, Yeah, there's a.
Guy in Jacksonville, right, because you know that Jacksonville goes to the state of Florida.
So it's like saying, Florida man, hashtag Florida Man. Flordia man has a lot of the schedule, allegedly. Allegedly. Now, he does get a lot of stuff, right.
He gets some stuff wrong though, right, but it appears that he's gotten a hold of the Jags schedule and he was all up in the Jags business all week long, right because.
The Jags on their app had all.
The opponents listed but an alphabetical order without dates, and everyone got all excited at first they thought it was the schedule. Yeah, but then you realize, oh, it's alphabetical order. They're just loading it up. And you know that's something you can do because teams have to load up those platforms.
Yeah, you can't do it all at once.
It's like setting a timer, like a complicated timer on your phone. It's pretty easy. You just kind of slide a little slider button and slide.
There you go.
You wake up at four fifteen. But that's it's a little different. But yeah, he got some of this. There's a Twitter account called at nerding on. I believe that's what it. What it is at nerding on is on the NFL. I can't remember if it's nerding. If you're really into this, it's NFL nerd. It's it's NFL nerd. It's at nerding on NFL. He has ninety one point two percent of the schedule nailed. In fact, I take that back, I just refreshed. He has one hundred percent of the schedule filled in.
Oh, he's got the whole thing.
And he does a little Google sheets thing that is cool as hell. So he's got so he's got a color coded, he's got the whole thing. He's got color coded. He's got red for Thursday, night blue for Sunday, night purple for Monday, pink like a lighter a darker pink for Saturday, and then a lighter pink for a two B determined Saturday or Sunday. So he's he's got that. Then he's got the different he's got green for Brazil, a lighter green for Dublin London, the light blue Germany, Madrid, et cetera. He's got every single game. Okay, so every single game.
Obviously, is he right?
We don't know, We don't know, I remember, but he's pretty confident.
Was it a couple of years ago or three years ago the entire Dolphin schedule was leaked and it was wrong?
Yeah? Yeah, it was totally wrong, and.
It looked official. And Sean Pendergass brought this up this morning. He cited a graphic that had the Texans opening at home against the Broncos. Yes, and I saw it looks really official because they had a couple of correct games and it looked like an official graphic. And I also, I don't even want to say who's sent me this, but it's somebody who should know better sent me a graphic yesterday that had the Texans playing in Brazil yesterday.
Yes, I'm like, hello, where have you been? McFly? Do I know this person? You do know this?
And I was like, hello, welcome to Tuesday afternoon schedule, eve, because we're not going to zill no, right, But it looked so the graphic this person set me was so official looking and it had some correct information on there.
So it leads you to believe it must all be correct. Right, So if only life were this simple, Yeah, if you're correct about one thing, you're correct about everything. But it just doesn't work that way anyway.
Uh So that because do we know or it was reported that the Broncos open against I saw this report, So it's either it's a leak or it's confirmed, because it's hard to keep track of what's both. The Broncos open at home against the Titans.
That is correct, okay, according to according to Nerding on the NFL.
According to nerdr on.
I saw somewhere else too, and maybe they got it from the Nerding guy.
Benjamin Albright does a good job in tracking all this.
Now he's a little ornery sort oh, but he covers the Bronx. He knows this stuff pretty much inside out. He was like the first one to respond to that. I saw that tweet about Texans Broncos Week one, and he basically was like, this is wrong.
Okay, So like, okay, that was a home game, right, Texans hosting the Broncos.
Has to be a report as a report? All right?
Well, we'll see, but now we know what we think. We have pretty good clarity that the Broncos are probably hosting the Titans to open up.
That is correct. That would mean they cannot play here.
So it's all it's anybody's guests, all right, So you tell me Nerd on the This is just such fun conversation, all right. The guy, the man in Florida, who does he have the Texans? I want to know this the opener? Who does he have for the opener? And who does he have for the closer? Because you and I made a mock schedule and I want to see if he was listening to us, because if he if we nailed his prediction, then maybe he's just listening to us.
The opener.
I don't think either one of us were gotten. Now we I went with.
Brazil, right, Oh yeah, that's what we did.
We both went with kind of knew it was not Brazil, but I just throw people off the cent a little bit.
Wait, if you're picking a bracket, which this is not, but if it was or a mod draft, why would you do it?
You know is incorrect?
Well, sometimes you have said Ina, you don't want people to.
Know, Oh, you don't want people to know that. You know, Oh so you just knew that we weren't going to Brazil. But yeah, I knew it down Jacksonville. Man have us opening against.
In LA against the La Rams. It has to be the Rams. He can't be the Chargers. That's right.
It gave me the Chargers, is right, all right? So that's opening week at the Rams. That was one neither one of us would have come up with. No, we never would. We never want to put that down.
On the mix.
I would have thought divisional game or yes, you know, some something in this time zone or east yep.
I just wouldn't think West. I guess it's possible. Uh.
The Texas have not been on the West coast to open the season since the Chargers in twenty thirteen, so that would be a first for a while.
And Philip Rivers gave us a gift that night. He did. He gave us a pick pick six six Brian Cushing. Very nice.
I was hesitating there because some people still say shop through a pick six in that game, but he did not. He threw a pick almost six A and here's the ball. That was that really a good favorable position.
Twenty thirteen Unfortunately did turn into Matt throwing a number of picks.
That he was just getting warmed up that night for what was to come. Right, Sorry, Matt, that was awful, But we did rally to win that football game.
We did out on the West Coast.
So going back, this would be the first time that we well it was gonna be regardless of when we play, it's the first time that we will have played a regular season game in SOFI.
Okay, And this is the one thing I also love.
We have two games at SOFI, we have one game in Indianapolis. We have eight road games, so eight minus three is five. We only go outside five times, outside outside five times in the twenty seventeen what are the.
Potential The potential weather hazards are Baltimore, Baltimore.
City, Kansas City, Jacksonville, Tennessee.
Jacksonville. No, I'm not going to call that a weather hazard. It could be actually, you know it's possibly whoa.
Whoa whoa, whoa whoa whoa whoa.
I know, you get to sit up in your beautiful booth in Jacksonville. But twenty twenty one, I got just a da louge came down on me. In twenty twenty one, Yeah, Davis made that great throat of filled Torset got us down there for a touchdown. I got hammered. That was hamm and cold rain. Now, there have been times where it's been decently cold. Two thousand and four, Jacksonville was super cold. It was the day after Christmas and it was super cold. Yeah, all right, so but I'll tell you this, it can't be I'll tell you this though, I would much rather have Jacksonville later in the year than earlier in the year because it can get very salty.
Yeah, a little warlier into the warm, okay, little warm.
And we all know Nashville is definitely a weather hazard because of what happened in twenty twenty two there.
Right, because that was the second to last game of the year that was freezing and it was delayed by an hour and it was awful, Right, So that was what we went cold, Texans won.
Texas won. So I'm cold.
I'm fine with it. I don't care what the weather is. We walk out of there. We went to Buffalo in twenty one and it rained the entire game. We lost forty to nothing. I don't like that.
Well, we went to Jacksonville. We wanted twenty twenty one in a downpour. Yeah, it was great. Same with Tennessee that year. Downpour was great. So there's there.
Look, there's a potential if there's no roof, there's a potential for weather anywhere you go.
You know, you keep winning this division, you're gonna keep playing Kansas City every year as long as they keep winning their division.
Well, and if you keep winning the division, you're gonna play one of three teams. Well, they're gonna play three teams, Baltimore, Buffalo, Kansas City, outside, outside, outside. Now the new stadium in Buffalo, will see how that gets impacted because they've got kind of like a shelf. When does that open twenty seven? I think because.
Titan's opening a couple of years. I don't think twenty six.
Think in Buffalo's and if we both win a division, we would be up there that year.
So next year at Buffalo News Stadium Titans new Stadium, I think twenty seven.
I want twenty seven. I think that's right. Let mean double check on that.
But you know I saw it last year when we were there, and I thought, you know, put some drywall on it, throw some seats in there, you'll be good to go for twenty six.
Come on, I think the Titans.
Twenty six for Buffalo, definitely twenty seven for Tennessee. Okay, now I'm almost positive of that, all right, But.
Who does Jacksonville man, who allegedly has the entire schedule? Now, who does he have the Texans closing with? So are my fave my favor meaning the Colts?
But here or there? Here? All right? Have we ever finished with the Colts here? And we kighteen? I don't think we have, thinking I'm thinking I don't think we have either.
I'm thinking it's Titans schedule real fast, tightan schedule is scheduled.
To be open in twenty twenty seven.
Okay, so really, gosh, it looks so so if the Bills, if the Bills went division, we went in division.
We will go see that new stadium in twenty sixth. And you know we're gonna see the Titans soon enough. Yep.
If it's true that the Texans closed with the Colts, yeah, the first time you'll ever closed with the Colts here. You've done it there obviously in twenty twenty three.
Was great. But here the clothes are uh.
No, definitely have closed with the Titans here definitely have closed with the Jaguars here, yes, have not done.
It with the Colt of those never with the Colts. Here we go.
But if that's true, Nerding on NFL says, we are closing with the Colts at home in week eighteen.
And you and I have that on our mock schedule. We both had us closing.
We had closing with the Colts good for us.
So if he's missed a lot, we're right.
We really could celebrate being right once like a you know, broken clock twice a day. So that's pretty cool stuff right there. We're all curious with the primetime games because I predicted four. And by the way, at seven, Johnny and I'll go on YouTube for the Houston Texans account because we're on YouTube right now in Sports Radio six tens page Live.
Hello, Hello, everybody.
Do you want to know what Nerding on NFL has for us as far as primetime primetime games?
I do. Would you like to know? Because I predicted four? You predicted too. I am so wrong.
Here's the chronicle predicted according to Nerding on NFL, I am so wrong.
And according to Nerding on the NFL, you are so right for four.
Okay, here's what. Here's what Nerding on the NFL has. Uh And it's nice because they have my color codes and now I now I visually can do it in my head.
Week two Monday nighter. Bucks? Okay?
Here week two? So last year week too, we got a Sunday nighter. It's the Bears. This year we get a Monday nighter.
That's what Nerding on NFL says. So Nerding on NFL says, Bucks Monday nights. Weird? Opening at home? That seems weird.
I'm not saying it's impossible, right, but opening NFC NFC, Yeah, that seems kind of strange.
Have we ever done that most of the time? When have we played NFC team in Week two or Week one?
Kay?
Who'd you open with? In twenty ten? It was Colts and then went to Washington. I'm trying to think of that.
We Yeah, that's true.
Week one Washington here, twenty fourteen, Week two Raiders.
Oh well, I was gonna say twenty eighteen, but that was the Giants was week three?
Okay?
And Week one twenty eighteen was Patriots. Oh, pat went Patriots Titans?
Giants?
We want Patriots?
We went Patriots Titans the road than the Giants, if that.
That is true, if that Rams Bucks, yeah, duo to open up the season.
Is the first time we've gone NFCNFC. I think it's got to be. I think it's got to be. I can't imagine another scenario the case. Okay, now this next one, but you know what was seventeen games to get the extra Nfcah, speaking NFC, there are some teams.
In NFC we have to go to.
Okay, the next primetime game that Nerding on NFL has is Week seven. Wait for this, okay, Monday night? Okay at Seattle. Oh my, No, that's crap. They wouldn't do that. They wouldn't do that to us. Oh man, they would not do that to us. The first two primetimers are Monday nighters, one and home against Tampa Bay and one on the road Seattle Monday Night.
I want to know what this guy's track record is. I don't know.
His chart looks pretty official.
Well, yeah, but you could write anything on the charge and balances out.
That's another thing. It's got to balance out.
It doesn't have to balance out. At some point you figure out.
Okay, you want to know our next primetime case that I figured.
One of these West Coast games, whether it be the Chargers, the Rams, or the Seahawks, would be a primetime game, because I don't want him to be a primetime game.
So I figured none of them would be only because look, here's another thing. And look, we talk about a lot of things. We take a lot of different angles on these shows, and one of the angles is work life balance or.
Whatever whatever you want to call it. But I understand one thing very clearly.
I actually want as many primetime games as possible because that means you're good. And the peacher go through this every year, and the really good teams survived every year. The Chiefs survived every year. They thrive through it. The Patriots when they were rolling thrive through it. The Steelers they get near the max, if not the max, every single year.
Now so do the Cowboys.
And we know they don't do that great every year, but they're coming off going into last year, three consecutive twelve win seasons, and you know they get the full compliment of primetime games.
Yep. So good for them for having those good regular seasons.
In the midst of primetime, your routine is all jarred up and it's not about us.
Of course, it's about the players.
It's about what the players are experiencing, their bodies, their recovery time, their ability to ramp up for the next outing, all of that stuff. So that's why I bring this up. When the Texans had all the noon starts in twenty twenty three.
How did they do pretty well? Pretty well? You know, with a routine. They needed the routine every week every week. Last year, what did Demiko riots do in the preseason?
He had two preseason home games and he said, We're gonna go noon noon because I want to get the guys used to playing at noon. We're playing a lot of new games now, obviously not all the games are new, but his point was, that's how important is My point is, that's how important is.
Routine is to your football team.
You want to have that consistency in getting ready week to week. So if they've got to go on the West Coast to play a primetime game, so be it.
You're a good team. Hopefully you play well. And as far as Seattle's fine, that's interesting. Think about this, Johnny Seattle. The flight to San Francisco is like two fifteen ish, right, twenty two fifteen that's a little longer than that. You think it's wait for us, no, no, no, for Seattle, Seattle yea yea yeah, yeah, yeah, it's that's more than two, that's right, but not much more, that's correct. That's their shortest flight ever. Yeah, that's that's nothing to them, all right. So when they go to La Arizona, those are longer, obviously, and then they go to East Coast gate East coast teams back to back weeks. Sometimes they'll stay on the East Coast. They travel a lot on a Friday, the Rams, all those West Coast teams very often, I think most of the time when they go east, when they have to go three hour time zone difference, still travel on a Friday, get acclimated, and then buzz back after the game. That's a lot of travel. You want to talk where and tear. Those teams go through way more than anybody, you know. The Eagles and Giants take the train to each other. Yeah, exactly, I mean that, I mean they showed I can't remember.
They saw graphic the other day about the number of miles that each team was traveling. And Seattle's always gonna travel the most, always gonna travels, always especially when they have.
If they've got NFC East, AFC East, right, that is a ton of stuff for them to deal with. And like I said, I mean taking the train to an NFL game. What is this, Joe Don Baker and the natural whatever you got, man out, I.
Take a train. We can take a train. We get that bullet train from here to Dallas.
We play the Cowboys.
I'll take it all right, we got there's two more primetime games that Nerding on NFL has scheduled for. I don't know if he's right, but it's kind of fun talk about it. If he's right, do you want to hear those? You want to take a break and come back to me to tease it.
We'll tease those, tease it.
There's two possible correct leaks possible.
It's the best we got till seven pm. Fots possible, correctly possible, you never know.
Also, a Texans opponent, they'll be going down the road to face this team.
They've never beaten this team on the road. They made a huge splash today. We'll tell you about that as well. Next here on Texans Radio. Texans schedule release video And this is not one where you want to get the information about the schedule from This is one of the fun ones that all the teams do. It's this unofficial competition among the teams to one up each other in the schedule release video madness.
We've had some good ones over the years. The tech Bo Bowl one was awesome. One year we did a football remember backyard football? Yeah, that was the one. Right. The year we did Game of Thrones, three other teams did. Yeah.
I saw that A couple of the video guys were mad at me because I would not allow This is when I ran the whole department. I would not allow us to use the music. I said, I don't want to get my ass sued. Okay, I do not. I do not want to get to it. And guess what happened. They all got sued. So yeah, I felt like we dodged a bull. I said, it's not worth it. So we had like sounds like Game of Thrones music, like you know, just changed or two notes off whatever I did just there by the way, a cappella was not Game of Thrones like, So I apologize for that, all right, you tell me. Jacksonville, Florida man who's allegedly got the whole schedule and putting it out on Twitter, NFL nerd. That's the account on x SO. He claims to have the entire league schedule.
Now he's got it all laid out, some leaks, so these are totally uncompect.
He took leaks and turned it into a damn Niagara Falls.
Texan's fans are going nuts, read it all over social media everywhere, trying to figure out if this could be true.
But you said he had four primetime game.
Yes, we've already discussed two.
Week two, Okay, home Tampa Bay Monday night. Okay, Week seven at Seattle Monday night.
I just can't believe that. But again, I guess it's possible, possible, gotta be possible, gotta be possible.
The next primetime game, yeah, occurs on a Thursday night at home.
I like that.
The Buffalo Bills Week twelve, that's what he says. Buffalo Bills Bills Thursday night here. Really Wow, We're gonna make the Bills come here on a.
Thursdays are gonna have to travel Wednesday.
I'm a Bills fan, I'm not happy with that, or a Bills player not happy with that. Again, I don't know about these leaks, but Okay, I figured the Texans, we're gonna get a Monday, a Thursday, a Sunday, and then throw in one more. Yeah, probably a Monday, not another Thursday.
I would think, uh, oh boy, yeah, there's one more. There's one more. There's one more. Two weeks later, two weeks after the bill. Weeks after the bill. So who does he have us playing on the road Sunday night? Oh football? Oh boy?
Baltimore, the Kansas City Chiefs. Okay, their prime time huh? One of how many primetime games?
All right? So how many primetime games does NFL nerd Okay have the Chiefs playing? I want to call this.
This is fascinating. Look at the chief schedule. So he started in Brazil national TV window. Yeah, he says, we two.
They have Philly, but that's it's a regular game, the regular game, Fox and CVS game.
They do need some good matchups, don't get that one? Yeah?
Then they have a Sunday Night at Giants.
Then they're home against Baltimore, which again will probably be a three twenty five game. Then they get Monday night at Jacksonville.
Sunday night.
What home Detroit?
Stop the press. Chiefs to Jacksonville on Monday Night. I'm starting to doubt the credibility. Why would the league do this? Oh you know why. ESPN kind of get screwed with the Monday night schedule a little bit. They'll throw in some man because they have to have Fox and CBS getting great something. NBC, even though NBC doesn't pay as much as Disney NBC, they've always taken good care of them on Sunday.
Night, marking over a span of six weeks.
Yeah, they'll play two Sunday night games in two Monday night games.
Well, it's the chief.
The two Sunday night games are at Giants home Detroit. The Monday night games are at Jacksonville Home. Commanders.
Is there if Travis Kelsey breaks up with Taylor Swift opt out clubs in the deal.
Okay, even after that, then you go down a little bit.
Then they play Dallas and Thanksgiving, they play US on Sunday night at home. Then they play Christmas Day against the Denver Broncos.
Boy, they are loaded. They loaded with national windows. But would be the case? Yeah, I guess.
Yeah.
When I look at this, the fact that it's color coded, you can kind of see where the NFL wants their games if I were to tell you the NFC East.
It is loaded. It is loading with National TV one.
Now that Washington's good again, you knew this would be the case. Are the defending champs. The Giants are the Giants even when they Dallas always gets Dallas.
Yeah, new York market, the Giants are gonna get their fair share because you get.
Any kind of number in New York, that's a lot of numbers. That's the biggest market in the country.
So according according to this, yeah, take the Cowboys starting in week nine, Monday night Arizona, Week ten, bye, Week eleven, Monday Night at Las Vegas, Week twelve home Philly, nothing or a Sunday game, yeah, then Kansas City on Thanksgiving, after that a Thursday night at Detroit. Then after that a Sunday night against the Vikings, after that home game against the Chargers that's on Sunday, then Christmas against Washington. They have a national TV window in one, two, three, four, five, six games, And I could promise you if Dallas is any good, that Dallas Philly game will be the three twenty five game on that that particular day and Week twelve.
But what if Dallas sucks like last year? Yeah, you get stuck with all these games do but people still like watching the Cowboys lose.
That's now, that's true against.
That's the brand, But that's it.
But like the NFC East, how many at count forer Dallas one two three four five six seven eight eight National TV Windows Philly one two three, four, five six seven seven for Philly, Washington keep Ready one two three four, five six seven eight.
Washington has more than Philly.
Yeah, crazy, unbelievable, But I mean it's it's a bet you're making. I mean, obviously three teams nfcas and your focus is on those streets.
Is Washington more interesting than Philadelphia? Because Jayden Daniels Is he more exciting than Jalen Hurts. I don't want to disrespect Jalen Hurts, local guy and he wins, so I'll go with Jailen Hurts. But Daniels is exciting. Now, what if they have some sort of comeback to Earth sort of situation here?
Yeah, definitely.
I mean it has always a risk here. It's the NFL.
There's always a chance that you have teams that you didn't think we're gonna be good at all that turn out to be good. It happens every year, or you have teams that you thought were gonna be great and they turn out to be terrible, like.
The Jags, like the Cowboys when Da gets hurt. Yeah exactly.
Yeah, I mean not just because the deck getting hurt, because he was playing last year and they were still struggling mightily. Now they might have righted the ship at some point or won enough games to be semi relevant at the end of the season.
So do you want to know, uh what Nerding on NFL? Because who knows whether this is right or not? H some things we are skeptical of. Would you like to know when the bye week is?
All? Right? Yeah?
Tell me when Nerding at whatever his name is Nerding on NFL has the Texans bye week?
Am I going to be upset about this? Just tell me this. I don't know about that. I don't know.
I don't know because last year it was what week fourteen? Yeah, I was a little upset about that. It was thirteen straight game. So what are you gonna give me this year for the bye? At least this guy from Jacksonville Week six? That's so early, that's so early? Well, was it in twenty twenty three? Demiko's first year. Was it six or seven?
Or five? Uh? Ridiculous? Was six? It was six? I think I think it was the same thing. Last year.
We talked about how there was thirteen games in a row. Now, there were a lot of other factors. We started camp ten days early than everybody else.
Yeah, you know we had that.
You had an extra preseason game, then thirteen games in a row.
Yeah, add all that to the thirteen games in a row. Right, that was tough.
Now you'll play five games before the bye, but then play twelve consecutive after it.
What it's so extreme?
Last year you had this, Now you have this allegedly reportedly.
I don't know.
It's weird because just looking across there are only three teams of the week eight bye. What there are only three teams of the week nine by.
When Joe Burrow wanted to take a break, the whole league has a weekend off like Joe.
No, no, no, no, no, no, let me take just such a gen z answer. I know it. Just take a break. We need a mental health take a break.
No no, no, no, no, that's not the way this thing works.
I mean it's.
Built perfectly for several teams to have a week off here and there, and then everybody goes. Now, Joe has a point in this, Johnny, what if you made all the buyes the middle four weeks.
Okay, see, I think that's what you should do.
And then you just said, we're just gonna go No, it's too much, stop me, stop me. It's work, all right. So how many teams you have thirty two teams? You have eight teams off? Let's just go even here. Eight teams off a week for a four week period. That's too many teams off per a week for each of those weeks. Yeah, because now AB now, CBS and NBC on Sunday, I'm sorry, let's go back the afternoon network. CBS, Fox are gonna be pissed because Sunday.
Night they're gonna get like Titans Jags at three twenty five.
Yeah, exactly. And the Sunday night needs to eat, and Thursday night needs to eat. Yeah, and Monday needs something.
Listen, there are a lot of days in trips and visits that have to be fed. Just looking at the top of how he said the spreadsheet, Thursday night, Sunday Night, Monday night, Saturday.
At the end of the year, you've got Saturday or Sunday.
You got those Saturday games on top of a Brazil trip, an Ireland trip, London trips, Berlin trip trip.
Minnesota is going Ireland London, right, I mean, now you're away from your family for a long time. Unless they do the old Thursday ruski. They'll probably do that. They'll fly out Thursday night for Ireland for Ireland. Altho it's from Minnesota. Yeah, they you can do it for Ireland Ireland play a Sunday.
They travel to London, stay in London for the week playing, come Sunday, take a buy. And that's what I was saying we should do.
Now it's obviously not as long a trip, not along a flight. Yeah, that's what I was saying. Which is you gonna happen.
If for playing the Rams, but you can open The Colts have the same deal. They got to play the Chargers and the Rams on the West Coast. However, no are they playing the Falcons in Europe. They're playing the Falcons in Germany, in Germany in Berlin. Yeah. Yeah, the Colts mirror us. Whatever we do, the Colts do.
So we play at Rams at Chargers, they play at Rams at Chargers I'm telling.
You, we follow the league closer than anybody, or as close as anybody, yep. And the International Games to keep reminding myself where they are. I was talking to somebody yesterday.
It's gonna grow mark, it's gonna get even, it's gonna get eight.
It's already how many games are over there now seven It's gonna be impossible to keep track ruse average fan, even the well educated above average fan. I was talking to somebody yesterday. They said, oh, they're going back to Munich. I said, actually, they're going to Berlin, which is very different. It's like saying we're going to Philadelphia. No, you're not, You're going to Atlanta. It's it's like that. Yeah.
I mean that's like a distance necessarily, but in mentality, and it's a different German city.
Yeah. So the Kansasity Chiefs is tweeted out this is funny.
It says, can you walk across the Panama Canal asking for a friend? And it has the map of from Arrowhead all the way down to the stadium in Brazil Arena Corinthians if you walk four and twenty three miles.
If you were to walk in it would takes sixty two days.
If you start now, you're in good shape to get the opener.
Get there for the opener now.
I'm sure there's nothing in your way. Nothing, and get to South America.
I don't even know.
I mean maybe the run. Can you go across the Panama Canal? So yeah, James Palmer said this. He said the NFL will have the game in Brazil between the Chiefs Chargers live on YouTube. Bring the NFL to a worldwide audience for free on YouTube and YouTube TV.
Say I love YouTube TV. I know some people that don't.
It marks YouTube's first time as a live NFL broadcaster. And I saw earlier where I think the CBS crew will be doing that game.
So take the other night. I'll give it again in case you missed it. Folks.
They're doing this because number one, they don't need to charge extra for this YouTube correct. They will make plenty of money on the commercials. They'll have a national window. They want as many people as possible to tune into YouTube and more season meaning older viewers to put YouTube on their living room flat screen. And a lot of people have never done that. Now I've done it. I've got a young kid, though I don't know if I would have done it unless.
I had occasion to do it because of him.
We watched the We watched a movie on YouTube by my flat screen recently, Pistol Pete. I couldn't find it anywhere else. There's this Pistol Pete movie. H Yeah, it's just about Crystal Pete in the eighth grade. My kid plays basketball and it's a pistol. It's yeah, and it's very it's kind of after school specialist, but it's really good for that. And we watched it on YouTube by my flat screen. So yeah, we've done it, and a lot of people have done. A lot of people listening right now saying, really, that's a big deal. It is a big deal. They want the older viewer to pop onto YouTube in addition to everything else they're going to get out of this game, which is worldwide instant distribution.
That's why they love Netflix too.
When they eventually go to an international schedule, they're going to create this bidding more between YouTube and Netflix because those are the two that can give you automatic international distribution without any geo fencing problems or anything at all.
Has the most subscribers.
YouTube is the biggest change in the world outside of Google itself, and they're owned by Google.
I have an idea for Netflix.
What I have an idea and it would tie perfectly, you know how on on HBO Max, like when there was.
A big boxing match.
Yeah, and then they would do that show twenty four to seven.
Yeah, they would kind of go behind.
The seeds as they were building up to the game and then building up to the boxing match. They should do that for Netflix. Netflix should do like a Chargers, a Chief Chargers, like building up to that game, have somebody watching, people would watch. It would be like, you know, it'd be like Hard Knocks. You know, I guarantee you people would watch it.
Absolutely.
That's the come on Netflix if you're doing all kinds of other documentaries, and.
Look, before people think that kills your season. The teams that played there last year did pretty well. Green Bay made the playoffs and the Eagles won the Super Bowl. So you have that, you have that to look forward to. I did not get to pay off the other t's, which was textans opponent making a big splash today. So let's get to that next and we'll set you up with a schedule release. It's coming up in about sixteen minutes less than sixteen minutes, the schedule will be out and the Texans ticket office is ready for business. Houston, Texans dot com. Check it out. It's Texans Radio. Oh yeah, great to have you with us. All right, better get to this now. Baltimore, the Texans will be there this year road game with the Ravens. Have never beaten Baltimore in Baltimore. They had one year left out of the Derek Henry contract, but decided to extend the deal. Why why do they extend the deal because we all think, all right, Maybe we don't all think this. I think, and I thought this about Brady too. Maybe he's the Brady of running backs. I always felt, Brady, you know, another year or two, it's gotta be over. And I was probably saying that in twenty seventeen. So maybe I'm way off on Henry sign him now, I guess. But really, he's a running back. You have another year with him, for sure, I know it's a contract year. He'd probably want to stay. Maybe he wouldn't, and then you get into a bidding war. I'm talking myself into resigning him right now now or signing that extension.
What are your thoughts on it?
I just think he's different than anybody else's play that position. Like he has shown no signs of slowing down at all, and we've seen him work like he.
He Texas able to totally shut him down in twenty twenty three in two.
Games and then because he ran behind a got off offensive line.
But he still has as his quarterback. What did he have that year? A lot? Still had a lot of year.
He was over a thousand yards, but he you know, the Texas run defense was good that year. Wasn't the best thing ever, But I felt like twenty three's run defense was maybe a little better than twenty four's, especially when we played them.
They couldn't do anything against us.
So in twenty twenty three, Henry had like a eleven one hundred and sixty seven yards right, one point two per.
Care and he had like twenty against US total something like that.
He saw the.
Worst days the way you spending a certain number of carries and how few are ards he had right in the.
History of the league.
I think it was the worst day considering the about of carry as they gave him because they kept thinking, oh, this one's gonna pop. But in twenty two last year, he said, you know what, I'm going to run for over nineteen hundred.
Yards five point naper carry. Okay, he's playing next to Lamar Jackson. I mean it's a you know, he not only like to that to that end. He's playing, he's playing behind a good offensive line. He's playing with Lamar Jackson that always takes a defender.
Out of the box whenever you're playing him.
So he's not running against eight nine man boxes safeties that are within eight yards of the line of scrimmage because they didn't fear the passing game or they don't fear the quarterback like they fear.
We all fear Lamar Jackson.
Now it makes Henry that much more difficult to stop. And I'll be honest, nineteen hundred yards rushing last year. Now he's in the second year of that system.
It could be even more dangerous.
Okay, with another thousand, let's just call it a thousand this year. Okay, he gets to he gets close to tenth, he gets to eleventh on.
The all time rushing list.
Really, yeah, let's say he goes for three thousand more yards. That'll put him in the top five. He'll pass Adrian Peterson.
It's about right, and here's the thing. The first couple of years of his career, he really didn't do anything.
Yeah, it was it really was not. It was really not much.
Because DeMarco Murray he was doing the exoty whatever it was.
Tomarco Murray, and then he just couldn't kind of find his footing. He had that seventy five yard run against US in seventeen, but it was like, eh, that really wasn't much there. And then on Thursday night against Jacksonville he had that ninety nine yard run against Jacksonville and it was like that set everything off.
Broke the seal.
That was it, all of a sudden.
From that point forward, you're dealing with this absolute monster.
I'm with you, he is different than any everybody else's.
I just feel like worth that much. He's getting up there now, so is it worth it? But I guess you know, when you look at this all time running back list and you look at the names between him and where he has to go to get to the top five, and you're looking at Curtis Martin and Ladenium, Tomlinson, him Back and Dickerson and all these guys, he's one of those guys.
You know, he's different than there's no doubt he's I've never feared a running back, and I'll say that fear of respect, like the biblical fear. I've never feared a running back the way I do Derrick Henry.
Yeah, whenever he goes, whenever he gets the ball, I hold and look, we're we have some serious PTSD from two hundred yard games that he had like four in a row against us. And it wasn't our best team though, I'll get it twisted, but we were not very good. Yet when he got the football, it's like, oh damn, I could just I remember seeing him break through the line in twenty twenty and at ninety four yard run, and it was like we had one guy step out of his gap. Not surprising him was that cutting inn, but he stepped out of his gap and he's gone, you're not running him down. I thought we had fast guys. Fast guys were chasing after him and not catching him. And he just wasn't the identity of that team for so long. And then he goes to another team where they've got a similar identity, but they do.
Everything that much better.
Plus his quarterback is Lamar Jackson, who could very easily be a three time MVP right now, he's got two, could have very easily gotten a third last year.
But that said, I think I don't think it's a bad move at all.
I mean, you feel like that's a pretty good bet because Henry has stayed relatively healthy for the most part, and that element of he and Lamar together, man.
It scares me to death.
It absolutely scares me to death with those two back there and the fact that we have to go play. You said it, we have now won a Baltimore. We have not won at Seattle.
And haven't beaten Lamar Jackson, haven't beaten Lamar Jackson.
So you win, you beat the Ravens, you will have done both, beat Lamar Jackson and knocked him off up in Baltimore. And that to me is kind of a I don't know, statement game, but just kind of a gauge It's a temperature gauge game.
Where are you? How good are you?
Because I think Baltimore is going to be good again. So when does NFL nerds say we're going to Baltimore.
Week five, Week five, last game before the bye.
According to Nerding on NFL, he's got us in an early buy.
We'll see and you know what we're gonna know in six minutes, Johnny, in less than six minutes.
Six minutes. Dougie Fresh were on.
All right, So few a few notes here, schedule videos, the fun ones coming out at seven o'clock, texting, social media platforms.
You gotta check them out.
I can't mention huge Houston based or Houston originated celebrity that we've never done anything with, and that to my knowledge, I still haven't figured this out yet. Really, it's huge. It's gonna be good. Now I've had all these wrong guesses. People are texting me and stuff.
I had one in my mind and then I realized, oh man, George Foreman passed away this past spring.
Well I love George Forman.
Yeah, so that was the first one that came to my butt. Then I was like, wait a second with Ais So he did some stuff with us back for the very first Playoff game that I was a part twenty fifteen.
Yeah, he did the video, yeah, which is great. It was really cool.
Cool, No, Davis, all right, so those videos come out, Johnny and I will be on YouTube on the Texans page with reaction to the schedule, So you don't want to miss that. That's gonna be a seven ish, so we'll talk about the schedule, and I'm sure Area forty five they're going to talk about the schedule as well because the schedule's out, and they'll react everything else going out in the world of sports. And that is it for the show. Enjoy getting the schedule. Houston Texas dot com for all the information you need. Check out ticket availability and everything else, travel opportunities. The dates are coming up in minutes. Thank you Chris for producing. We've been live here on the hun Day Texans Radio Studio. Have a great night, Go Texans.
