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What's up, everybody.
Welcome into Texas All Access Matchup Edition. I am your host, John Harris, Football Analyst, sideline reporter, and as I opened my mouth to speak, it is a little weary because we got back dark thirty from Dallas DFW Airport. Maybe it's FW Airport, I don't know. It took a long time to get to the airport last night, but didn't mind because we were flying home from Dallas for the first time ever with a w for the Texans. The Cowboys may call themselves America's team, but the Houston Texans are Texas team and kicked their tail up and down the field all night long, thirty four.
To ten man. It was awesome.
Now matchup twenty four hours later, a little less than twenty four hours later. We have so much to get through in this game, because there were more than eleven moments on each side, and you know, on Texans Access Matchup Edition we look back at especially wins, and because there are so many on both sides, I don't want to leave anything on the cutting room floor. I want there to be equal opportunities for both defense and special teams, and special teams gets to go with the defense.
This week and offense. So I'm doing all three.
To eleven for both, and we're gonna celebrate the hell out of this win over the Dallas Cowboys.
Man, what a night. Just everything that went with it. The crowd is incredible.
I know there are times when you're gonna hear some of these plays in moments from this game, and you're gonna hear the reaction which you don't normally get on the road.
You know, most road games, you know, you.
Hear this silence, you know when I always love on the road, when the offenses on the field and the defense, the defensive.
Crowd, the home crowd.
Is going nuts and then all of a sudden, CJ it's a dart for a first down and it's just.
Like ahh, it's it's just stops.
And you know, there were moments of that last night, but not many because the Texas fans were able to respond every time a big play was made. Now, I always have a hard time in my head do I feature the offense first to the defense the special teams first, and so typically I flip a coin, but I'm going with the defense to start this show, because that unit was incredible, especially in the second half. So Alton eleven defense and special teams against the Cowboys starts at number eleven. In the second half, it's twenty to ten. Texas have got to lead. They kicked a field goal in the second half. The Cowboys got a drive going and got stopped. Aubrey hits a sixty four yard bomb. Now, because of the scoreboard, the video board being so good, I didn't need to be back there for field goals this week, which Mark pointed out to me, which I'm like, okay, So I got to watch them in the sidelines. I see that ball, I see that the full parabola, and I'm telling you that ball is bombed. He hits that from seventy I mean it was a flat out bomb. But Derek Barnett had a penalty. He had a head slap as they called it. Well, the Cowboys did the smart thing. I know everybody's kind of you took the three off the board. No, the Cowboys did the right thing. You take the three off the board, and you gotta trust that you're gonna get your points in the form of seven or kick a shorter field goal a little bit later. So the Cowboys took the points off the board. Moved it down, got a huge third down catch from seeding Lamb, like right in front of me, two yards short of a fourth down, a two yard short first down, bringing up fourth down, and the Cowboys decided to go for it. Bad move, folks, especially bad call. Roll into the right trying to avoid the pass rush. Not good, not good, but a great place to start or all throm eleven and number eleven a fourth down stop in the third quarter.
Fourth to two at the Texans eight.
Lamb right side, Stingley will watch him, rush takes the snap, steps to the right.
He's in trouble. He throws and incomplete and a flag is down.
It's in the backfield. Could it be a hold? Oh boy, If it is, they'll decline it, of course.
Holding offense to eighty six Uphills declined. The Opal play this first down, Houston.
So a thank you to Derek Bardnett. The three points came off the board. Dallas drove after picking up the free fifteen and a free first down, but the Texans get the Cowboys to turn it over on downs.
What a stop by the defense, great pass rush, secondary, tremendous.
I mean, it was it was like that all night.
It really was, and it came up big that made it twenty to ten. Texas offense did little bit to get the ball out of there and the defense will take care of it. But keep in mind that Derek Burnett fifteen yard penalty that took the points off the board ended up being a good thing in two respects. We'll get to the second one a little bit later, but let's get to number ten. This defense is flying around Cowboys run game, did zilch, which kind of hoped that that was going to be the case, and thought it would be the case because they'd been really struggling the run game all year long. But I don't think it's because they lack of running back. I think last night it was more about the Texans defense. Henry Toto has been playing some incredible football. Number ten. Here's Henry with a TfL.
First down Cowboys at the Houston forty three yard line. Rush in the gun, dattle to his right, two receivers left Lamb in the slot on that side, Nobody to the right spawned forward in motion to the left of tight end handoff. Doubtll tripped up in the backfield, and Henry make sure it's a TfL by the league's leading TfL team, the Houston Texans, has doubt goes back where it's second and long.
Okay, we're gonna get the number nine right here.
And I debated whether I wanted to put this in the Ultimate eleven, and then I thought, you know what, I'm absolutely putting this in the Ultimate eleven. And I saw this play happen live and oh, obviously, and I'm sitting there going, Okay, I know they're gonna throw the flag, and we've gotten to a point in the NFL where, well, that man just hit him too damn hard.
I've got to throw a flag.
I have to.
He hit him too hard. And then you see the replay and you're like, come on, man, he hit him in the shoulder and his ease hit him on the other shoulder. And the heat I'm talking about is Jalen Peatrie.
And last week after the Lions game, and I follow a lot of national guys, obviously, but a lot of national guys were talking about how the Texans played the run in particular against the Detroit Lions and shut it down. And one of the things they talked about was how important the secondary was to all that like our secondary guys come up and tackle, they take things on it. And a guy named Ted Winn, who's really really good studies the film and fillowed for a long time, really good at what he does. And he talked about how in his tweet and paraphrasing one of the main reasons is that Kama Kazi Jalen Petree, and he does he plays that game in a Kama Kazi style.
But he's trying, he's now channeling it in the right way.
Well, he gets a flag here at number nine, which he totally did not deserve. But just the reaction to this play and the crowd, the ooh of the hit is just phenomenal.
And because it really was a legal hit and it was acknowledged by everybody. It was us calling the game, it was Joe Buck and Troy Aikman calling the game. It was playing football, and it was Jalen Petrie get a flag for basically hitting a guy too hard. But I put it in here at number nine, here's Kamakazi Petrie.
First down at the Dallas thirty Cooper rush shotgun passes underneath water, hit flaggers down Petrie too much, maybe to the head of Scoonmaker, who gets hit up.
Yeah, they're gonna say he was a defensive player.
Oh, he was fired up.
So this is gonna be a free fifteen yards for the Cowboys.
Oh they're talking for a while here, Maybe they pick it up. You never know.
He hit him from the side. Oh it was a nasty hit, though.
Boy, they should be able to look at this personal foul.
Unnecesser rough this defense number five, it's.
A fifteen yard penalty out of the interplay, automatic first down.
I don't know how you play the game if that's an unnecessary rough this penalty, Dray, shouldn't.
They be able to look at those I don't want to slow down the game too much.
You want to play it like Canada. Huh, where you replay everything?
No, I take that back, but replay assist maybe if it's obvious, and.
I think that's just a normal football hit. It's just a big hit that gets it the officials attention.
I totally understand what Dre was. Sam is a total normal hit. I think he meant say legal hit, but that was not normal. I mean, I think your schoonmaker who caught that pass and he got obliterated by his he's from the inside. But Jalen Petrie with the hit stick. That's the way his highlight hits mentioned. It says hit stick. I love it because that's straight out of Madden.
Man.
I'm telling you, Jalen Peatree played his guts out last night. Now a guy that also played his guts out last night as a young man by the name of Daniil Hunter, a number eight, played his guts out.
Man. But here's a TfL from number.
Fifty five, rush under center, Daddle in the backfield. Second and five from the Dallas forty eight. Here's Daddle and long enough in the backfield. And want to play Deniko, I mean Daniel Daniil Hunter with the backfield blast.
And again the.
Texans lead the league in TFLs. They're gonna do nothing to hurt that tonight. Here so far, Daniel Hunter making a nice play.
All right, It's get to number seven.
And became a time in the second half where athletes talk about getting in a zone. I felt like the defense had found its zone in the especially the fourth quarter, but they took the game over well with one big play.
But they had been doing it pretty much the entire second half. But there came a play.
But they came a time when the texast of twenty seven to ten lead and the Cowboys offense in the line was a sitting duck.
And I felt for.
Him in some sense, especially on this play, because if there's a cowboy that I actually like, and I will say it publicly, and Zach Martin, and Zach has been a rock for that franchise. He doesn't rock the boat. He doesn't say a damn thing. He doesn't get on you know, social media and tout all his great things.
I mean, he's just he's it's the ballplayer. But he's been struggling with some injuries.
But he played last night and he was gutting it out basically until this. And I'm telling you, Cooper Rush never saw Tim Settle never, and Settle absolutely smashes him.
I mean on his sack. You know a lot of times do you drag him down?
I always think about the verbs that Mark uses to describe a sack, and it's, oh, he drags him down, or he catches them from.
Behind, or you know, very rarely do you get the oh, my god, he just destroyed.
Him and planted him into the turf, especially because now it's a fifteen yard penalty. That's essentially what Settle did. This is his fifth sack. That's a career high. Not only is a career high, it's more than double his previous career high. Tim Settle's been playing ball and this sack comes in at number seven, Dallas right up to the line.
Two receivers to the left side, Lamb in the slot, Cooper looking that way. But here comes fer big sack by Tim Settle inside the five yard line.
Settle does the damage.
Now I brought up Zack Martin talking about that sack because Tim Settle went right around him. And a few plays later you could see Zack and he had been dealing with a number of injuries. He ended up coming out of this game and apparently it was I think his other ankle that he ended up hurting. But Settle went one on one with him and just I haven't seen Zach Martin give that up to anybody in his career, and Tim Settle got him. So let's get to number six, and remember talking about that zone. It was like that pass rush was in his zone because you had the big play. We'll get to that a little bit later. You had settle sack and then you had this sack that came a little bit later, and it was the second for Daniel Hunter and he got to Cooper rush, and man, watching Daniel Hunter rush.
The passer is just it's artwork. And I asked that question of him when we signed him, and he's very thoughtful.
With his answers at all times. And I absolutely love watching Daneil Hunter play the game. And I asked him his pass rushing more art than science, and he answered away, A lot of really good pass rushers answer and that is it's a combination of both. And he really put that to the test. And number six Daneil Hunter's second sack of the night.
Third and seven from the Dallas forty nine yard line. Cooper rushing the gun daddle back in the game to his left, three receivers whiteside right, Rush takes the snap.
Here's pressure to.
Daneil Hunter with another sack back at the forty yard line, his second of the night.
Okay, let's get to number five, and I put seven, six and five kind of in this order. It's kind of building to a crescendo, if you will, because like I said, that pass rush was getting after it and it was coming from all angles. In the second half, and once the Texans had completely eliminated the run game.
Cooper rushed through at fifty five times.
God help him, and he just should not be thrown about fifty five times against anybody, but much less this defense. But he's thrown in fifty five times, and the line in front of him has still got some young pieces, but it's a pretty good offensive line. Zach Martin, Terrence Steele, Tyler Smith have been three parts of that line. That line was really good protecting Dak Prescott throughout the last couple of years. But it was shown itself a little bit. And you just heard number seven, Tim Settle, and then a little while later it's Daniel Hunter. And then we get to number five and it's Deniko Autry. He had gone down banged up earlier in the game, but got himself back in the game and got after it to get to Cooper rush for his sack.
And it comes in at number five.
It's fourth down and sixteen from the Dallas forty one empty backfield for Cooper rush. Here's the snap, here's the rush by the Texans.
Ball comes out, Rush has it still sacked.
Big pressure coming through for Denico Autrey. Getting there first, and the Texans pounce on fourth down, they get the turnover on downs, the pass rush paying off big tonight.
Okay, let's get to.
Number four and we finally get to turn it over to special teams. We had Frank Ross, special teams coordinator in here on Tuesday.
I think it was last week.
No, it was later.
It's on Friday. Actually it's on Friday. Can'd of goet?
My day's got all mixed up and all these you know, Thursday, Monday, Sunday night games all over the place. So we had Franklin here on Friday, and I mean Frank was energy to the max as always, but he was really concerned about Camante Turpin and we saw that on an offense, not only on special teams. Texas get a three. I think it was a three, and now on defense they get to stop early Cowboys go back to punt. And I always have this thought whenever the opposing team comes out, Okay, could this be a fake? And I had that set. I had that thought. I'm like, they're three and six, they need something. And so when Brian Anger catches this ball, I'm thinking maybe I always think that, and then Janier Thomas starts leaking down the middle and I see anger rise up like he's gonna throw it. And he'd been with the Texans, so I know he could throw it. I mean, I've seen him throw the ball, just throwing it around with Kayimi and John Weeks, so I knew he could throw it.
And I see.
Janie Thomas and I'm like, son of a buck, they're gonna get this place is gonna get all.
We had a seven tozering lead. This is the last thing we need.
And then out of nowhere, John Metchi comes in and peeled off the line of scrimmage, saw Thomas and blasted him. And it was interesting because in the press conference after the game, Demico Ryans had said and he gets asked this question about this play, and John Metchi in the play off Mechi overall and he said, you know what, During the week, we showed a video to guys and one of the plays that we picked, and I remember this play distinctly. It was in the twenty twenty SEC Championship game and Mac Jones had thrown an interception and the safety Trey Dean for Florida started running it back and as he's running it back, he's like keeping his eye on the inside and also out of nowhere. John Metchi blasted him, blasted him, ball comes out the Batay Smith gets on it.
Mac Jones throws a touchdown on the very next play.
Coach Ryan said they showed that play to the team and that John Metchi showing hey, this is you being physical. This is being physical right here. Well, this is a hit stick moment for John Metchi in a big one. It comes in at number four No.
Steven Simms to night. Robert Woods will get a chance to return this punt. Brian Anger, the former Texan and Jaguar, inside the twenty yard line, ready to deliver seven out, thinks Houston. Ten forty one to go. In the first Dallas got a first down, but then punted. It's a fake punt over the middle and it's caught des short though it's it's a stop by Metchi and the receiver Thomas is short of the first down.
That's how you make yourself a valuable player.
If you do it on special teams, you do it now any way you possibly can.
We saw Metchi with a big catch already in this game.
Make this one heck of a stop and the Texans now are sitting in great field position to start their second drive of the game.
Dre put it perfectly.
That is how you continue to be of value to the team.
And it doesn't matter.
And all John Metchi has to do is walk in his receiver room and look across at the og Bobby Trees and go, you know what, that's how you stick in this league.
That's how you do it.
Robert Woods with his blocking, with returns on punts, third down receptions, making plays no matter what you're asked to do, and John Metchie did that last night. Now he may plays offensively, we'll get that in the next segment. But that played special teams man. That was absolutely fantastic. I read the quotes afterwards and Mike McCarthy, head coach Dallas Cowboys for now, had said, yeah, we thought we had a look and then they basically peeled out of it and they beat us right there. Well, they beat them because John Metchi was able to make that play, playing his technique, reading his keys like he.
Was supposed to. His great stuff. All right, it's get to the number three.
And we talked about this guy a little bit, but the pass rush wasn't getting to Cooper rush.
The rush was not after rush.
And I remember in New England I had talked to Daniel Hunter in the locker room and I saw him, and Daniel has that big strip sack against the Patriots right on the thing.
Was the first drive in the.
Second half, when the Patriot had cut that thing to fourteen seven, and you're like, oh God, here we go.
And then Daniel makes that sack. And I remember after the.
Game he said, very matter of fact, Hey, Demko said in the locker room, we needed to get to the quarterback and I just went and got the quarterback. Well, I couldn't help but think about that on this play, because this happened on the very first drive of the second half of the Cowboys. They were getting the ball to start the half, and I asked coach about this at halftime and he said, yeah, we got to get to the quarterback. And I guarantee you he challenged him in the locker room and they responded. And by day I mean fifty five at number three, Danielle Hunter starts off the second half sack party with this sack of Cooper Rush.
Right here, here's a second to nine from the Dallas thirty one Cooper rushing the gun, daddle in motion to the right, Rush takes the snap, looks it over.
He's under pressure, He's gonna be sacked.
Danill brought down Danielle Hunter with a sack on rush.
Excellent job.
He's been close a few times tonight working against Terrence Steele. That time Cooper Rush hat a little bit too comfortable in the pocket and Danille Hunter made him pay for it.
Oh did he ever? What a game by Danille Hunter those two sacks. He was all over the place. I think we played at TfL from earlier. He had what it might have been his best ball game.
I don't know that he's been so good this year, just pressures and everything that he has brought to the party. But he ended up finishing with three tackles, two sacks, three TFLs, three quarterback hurries, a past defence. I mean, he put crooked numbers in a lot of categories that you want to see.
Now. A guy that's also doing that is a guy that on Draft night.
I go back to twenty twenty two and there was all this discussion about Sauce or staying Sting or Sauce, and the Texas had the number three pick, and it took Derek Stingley. And when Sauce Gardner went out and got the Rookie of the Year in the year that Derek was banged up his rookie year, Everybody's like, ah.
Sauce is the guy Sauce.
Like And I was like, man, let's get Sting healthy and then see what happens. And over the second half of last year, Sting was healthy and we saw what happens.
But it takes a little while to.
Kind of break down kind of those narratives that are out there. Well, as we moved into twenty twenty four, those narratives were still there a little bit, but people were starting to kind of couch it a little bit. Even though I was saying Sting's incredible. Watch, He'll be the best corner in the NFL by most people's standards by the end of the year. Well you're listening now, because that dude was tremendous.
Tremendous. He traveled with CD.
Now that doesn't mean that he was on CD the entire time, because the Cowboys would move CD into the slot, and it became obvious earlier that they would get Sting to travel with CD. Then they put CD in motion, so most of CD's action, which was eight for ninety three, really wasn't happening with staying in the vicinity. Well, this play, sting was in the vicinity and the Cowboys came out in a bunch set. And I described this in my Big Play breakdown, which need to read. The Cowboys came out a bunch set. It's essentially a cluster of three receivers and CD was the inside guy. But then right before the snap he motioned outside. So the Cowboys are going to run a little curl flat combination basically, and I guess that coverage. It's almost kind of like a pickplay. But what happened was they wanted Jimmy Ward, the safety, who they thought would go to the flat with the flat route at the tight end, then they would run CD on the curl behind it at the first downstick. The problem was that Jimmy, on his way to cover the tight end of flat ran into CD. So Cooper rushed expects CD to be at the top of the route. Well, CD got knocked off by Jimmy accidentally, and he happened to throw the ball to Derek Stingley. It was one of the easier interceptions for Derek Stingley that said he made big time plays.
He put it on lock. He's been putting it on lock.
And I was just so grateful that the last couple of weeks that people have gotten a chance nationally to watch twenty four because he's incredible. And here's the thing. He ain't gonna talk about it, you know, gonna put it on social media. That's not sting He's just gonna go out and ball and lock dudes up. And he did that right here, well not really, but it got the pick. But this represents his entire and that's why I put it at number two.
Third and eight at the Houston forty one rush shotgun. Here's the snap rush looking throwing the left side. It's booked off. Here's Derek Stingley Junior taking it to his right to the sideline, turning it upfield and turning it out of bounds.
The sting picked.
And if you don't know what number one is, then while you weren't paying attention last night, I don't know what this play is gonna be titled later.
You know, one sack, two fumbles, you know, Barnett rumbling. I don't know, but i'd love this play even more so.
After the game, I was talking to coach and I asked him about this particular play and a guy like owning up to a mistake and then saying, Coach, I made a mistake.
I owe you one. Derek Barnett.
In the second half of this game, Brandon Aubrey had a sixty four yard bomb. Talked about that, Well, there's a head slap called on Derek Barnett.
Cowboys move up. Eventually they would get stopped on fourth and two at the eight yard line. No damage, but.
Derek Barnett still felt like he owed the Texans one. Well, he got that and then some He went right around the rookie Tyler Geiden knocked the ball out of.
Cooper Rush his hands. Then the fun began.
Because the ball hits the back I think of Terrence Steele the right tackle. It then bounces backwards and Tyler Geiton catches it. So we can give our offensive lineman a little PSA.
Right now, don't just don't gampa Sack's fine.
If the ball starts popping, you just knock it down, I guess, or catch it go down I guess in this case, because you didn't want to fumble, so Tyler Guiden decides he wants to turn into Emmitt Smith, and when he does, Dylan Horton hits him and holds him up, and then Kami Kazi Petrie comes in and blast the ball out and at that point Barnett was able to get back and Petree tried to pick it up after knocked it out, but he couldn't.
But Barnett picked it up. And as he's tear he's tearing down the sidelines. I'm yelling to Mark it's Barnett because there's so much craziness. I just wanted to tell him it was Barnett with the ball, and I'm like, Barnett, Barnett, it was Derek Barnett screaming off with a touchdown. No other play could be number one on this night. Here it is Derek Barnett's.
Strip, then Petre's strip, then Barnett's scoop and score at number one.
Second and six for Dallas from their forty cooper rush with daddle to his left, bunch formation light after motion rush in trouble strip sack, who's got it?
It's still loose, Texas kick it up. Here's Barnett on the run.
Twenty fifteen ten to five touchdown scoop score Derek.
Barnett, Tyler Geydon, thank you very very much.
Does he picked up the strip sacks and tried to run.
Petrie with a great play to disengage the ball from Geiden and it's Barnett that picks it up and puts it in the end zone.
Boy, want to hit by Petrie to jar that ball loose Barnett with the run to the end zone.
All right, that's all through eleven defensive special teams on a really special night in Arlington.
The offense did its thing as well.
We of the all through eleven offensive moments coming up next right here on Texans all access matchup petition nine seconds to play, the Texans trying to put this one on ice Turpen slot left, second and ten inside the Houston twenty seven Cooper rush shotgun handoff duce Von up the middle, brought down inside the twenty yard line Phillips and Hansen and two seconds left.
That's it.
Game over.
The Houston Texans blow out the Dallas Cowboys on the road thirty four to ten. They snapped their two games slide and build their record to seven and four with the Titans at NRG Stadium. Up next, we'll be back to Recapitol at Arlington, Texans with.
A twenty four point win over Dallas.
That's out into baby Monday Night football in Arlington. Your Texans thirty four, those Cowboys ten, first time ever in Arlington, seventh winn of the year, broke a two game losing streak on national television in front of Joe and Troy again. Man, it was awesome. It hit me when Nico has taken off on that run. I'm like, oh my god, Joe Bucket, Troy Ben are seeing Nico Collins score in the first play in consecutive games calling our games. It was absolutely incredible. But I got called back, so that kind of stun But the offense.
Still did its thin So.
We're gonna recap that all right here in Texas All Access Matchup edition of John.
Harrisher host, your weary host.
But yet after it went over Dallas, I would do just about anything, and anything in this case turns into the ultimate eleven offensive plays.
Of the game.
So it started number twelve on the offense and it starts here with CJ. Stroud to Tank Dell and when you look at the stat sheet. This is what really stood out to me on the stat sheet when you look at it. And I know what you say about stats, but it was awesome to look at the numbers for each receiver. Dalton Schultz five for thirty three, Dell four for fifty four, Nico four fifty four, Metchi three for thirty three, Mixing two for forty four, Stover two for fifteen, Robert Woods two for thirteen, Darry Goombali won for eleven. I mean it was just quality stuff up and down. Well here's that. Well one of his four came in a big time in the second half. Out found Tank Dell for a big twelve yard game and one's.
Called second and a long five across the Houston twenty nine yard line with Stroud in the gun, Mixing to his right, Dell slot right. Two receivers stacked CJ throws over the middle, rolling catch across the forty one yard line, Tank Dell first down Houston.
Been nice to get him involved in this thing.
All right, it's get the number ten. I put this one at number ten.
We had a fun discussion with this on the air at the time this happened. This was late in the game and the Cowboys weren't really raising the white flag, but you could tell with their actions that they wanted really no more of the Texans physicality, especially offensively.
So take a listen. This is at number ten.
This is late in the game, and there's a dust up another one and the offensive line is basically pissed off, and it went on for a while. But it was so great to see the physicality. Really, I want to say, rear, it's ugly, it was reard, it's pretty head because we'd love seeing this and it was awesome. And also check out our discussion of everything that happened on this simple run play and flag started flying.
Second and nine at the Dallas fourteen Stroud Uther Center.
Mix in in the.
Backfield, here's Joe again, a wall of Dallas defenders. Joe cuts back and dives to the ten yard line.
Mix in four yard.
Runs, tap down, third Yo and Lilstra pushing and shoving, more action. A flag comes in, several flags, three, four or five, a melee, Texans and Cowboys mixing, and the mix.
I think every official with a flag threw one.
Shaq Mason getting his face in there. All right, let's go down of the field. Johnny, how do you see it?
Yeah, Shaq Mason a little fire.
I don't know what got it going, but Shaq was in there mixing up.
He actually blocked all the way to the whistle, and I think it ticked off Mazie Smith.
It's been like this all night. Look at it. One, two, three, four, five flags, two towels, uh mouthguard.
And they're still close enough, Johnny where they're smelling each other's breath right.
About now, Yeah, exactly, I have to break that up.
This might be offsetting.
I don't know, but you know what, guys, I gotta say, I don't mind seeing this fight in the Texans and you're hearing the Texans crowd listen to them.
Yeah, I mean most of the Cowboy fans are gone.
It's it's beautiful to see all the red foul stadium.
Right, So third ball, personal foul defense number thirteen, number thirty five and number fifty eight at number seven, personal foul offense number seventy eight goes all those fouls offset We're rolling the next down.
Dude, turn down an exchange rate here. You've got multiple fouls of the defense.
One of the arms.
We gotta leave the country first, Big guy. Okay to get the exchange rate third.
Down and five, and the Texans knew was to be offsetting and they got their third damn personnel in there.
I'm wondering, Canada, if that's right. You get three files to one, there's a carryover where it's it's an automatic two, and you get thirty yards.
Man to fight here Friday night. This is a better one tonight. I had no doubt about that. I'm telling you.
It was fun to watch seeing Shak Mason's you know, anger streak, his blue streak come out. Man, it was who That was nice. That was really nice to watch. So I put it number ten. That was that was fun. Okay, let's get to number nine.
And this was a key play and it should have been even more so, but Daria Goombwally makes one of the better catches of the year on the screen. It's incredible. So I had to put it right here at number nine because it's just I could. I could st the bass floating and he just sticks out one hand and he makes this catch that's incredible, and Texas ended up not being able to capitalize on it. But I just thought it was great, so I put it at number nine, Darya Goombwally.
On this third and long, they set up the screen. Dari with a great one handed.
Catch at the forty cups inside thirty five and down.
At the thirty yard line. Not enough for the first down.
He's three yards shy, But what an effort by Daria Gunbowale.
What an effort by c J. Stroud just to get that off. I mean it was an all out blitz and he's able to just put it up in the area of Daria Gumbowale and Dari sends it to about no fourth down in about two or three two and a half three yards here.
All right, it's get the number eight and a guy that just consistently gets better and better and better. He finished the game with three catches for thirty three yards, all three in big spots. He had a tackle on special teams that stopped the fourth down fake by the Cowboys. John Metchi's playing some really good football and I put him right here at number eight.
With these two catches, Texans have it first down short of their forty CJ throwing over the metal hits Matshi in Cowboy territory, twisted down at the.
Forty five yard line of down.
So the Texans back to back successful pass plays, really three in a row. Malik Hooker with the stop the former cold that's a sixteen yard play to Metchi Parsons left side of the defense. Titus will watch him empty backfield after motion second to eighteen at the Dallas twenty.
Here cj calling for the ball. Here's the snap.
Stroud scooting forward, dumps it off right side across the fifteen and a stiff farm out of bounds at the ten yard line, basically the original line of scrimmage. It's Metchi with the catch and run, and it makes a third.
Down to the bat eight.
All right, Fretnott with this next one, because you're gonna hear a lot of Joe Mixon. Guy had three touchdowns, ran for over one hundred yards. He was on one. He was Scott Van Pelt's guest after the game. That shows you the impact that he had in this one. But I love this seventeen yard run in the fourth quarter that really was kind of putting it to the Cowboys.
This is tremendous stuff from Joe. Comes in at number seven.
Stover and motion to the left, mixing into the backfield. Strout under center on second down to me a little toss to Joe running left looking for the corner, has it twenty five twenty and brought down across the fifteen yard line. Thomas the first man there. Wilson helps on the finish. Joe gets to the fifteen yard line first out of the red zone.
Yeah, a nice block by Stover who secured the corner for Joe Mixon and that's the block that got him around the edge.
Mixing gets to the one hundred yard mark tonight seventeen, carries one hundred two yards, his six to one hundred.
Yard rushing game this season.
He and Saquon Barkley lead the NFL in that category.
All right, it's get to number six and it's time for Tank Dell. There's LEO contact penalty on this, but it didn't matter because Cjstrive found his guy Tank Dell down the field for a big, big gain of twenty six yards. This would help set up a Joe Mixon touchdown a little bit later.
We'll get to that in a second.
But comes in number six, Tank from CJ for twenty six big yards.
Strout and the gun Mixing in the backfield with them first down at the Dallas forty five yard line. CJ will throw looking firing downfield to his left, flag down Tank Deel with the catch sliding down at the twenty yard line, tag by Butler.
Let's see what the flag is for in the secondary.
Meaning maybe a hold against whomever was trying to check Xavier Hutchinson. Let's be sure about this. That's a heck of a throw there by CJ.
Stroud ball at the nineteen yard line, and.
I figured, because well, you're gonna ask, and I like symmetry, and I like order that catch from Tank. Help the Texans move the ball down in the one yard line, and that's where Joe Mixon would score one of his three on the night.
Comes in number.
Five, Mixing the man in the backfield, Stroud under center, second and goal inside the one. CJ gets the snap. Here's Mixing running to the right. He's got all day runs across the goal line. Two tds on the evening for Monday Night mixing.
And he's just toying with Josh Butler, just toying with it.
Yeah, and he gives the signal of you're too small, too small to check me.
Well, what a night. Joe Mixon is off to.
So as you get the number four, I had kind of this internal debate. Guy scores three touchdowns like Joe did, like, which one's more important? As I'm ranking them in the eleven, Like you know, it gets kind of tough.
So I tried my best.
But here was my theory with how I went about this. He had three touchdowns? Which one was the most important? Was it the first one?
Was it? The last one? Was it the best one? And I don't know which one falls into which category to be honest, but I kind of felt like the one yard run, great, great move out to the outside.
That's a great move. There's one yard run. Joe's done that a million times. Then the last one of the night was the kapper. It was the first offensive touchdown since the New England game, so I gave it the number two status of the three. But then in ranks right here at number four, here's Joe his third touchdown of the night. And listen to the Texans fans in the background.
Baxon and I stover and mix in first and goal from the one handoff Joe whiteside run, He's in touchdown.
Patrick Joe Mixon scores.
And the Texans celebrate the end zone and the battle red faithful.
Shear them on here in Arlington.
Oh, they have not left, my friend, They are here and the lower bowl.
Hey, it is just field with rid.
Thirty three points on the board for Houston. It's an onslaught here as the Texans get an offensive second half touchdown for the first time since the New England game.
Barnett got the other.
That's right, Derek Barnett had the other.
He was number one on defense in special teams Ultimate eleven. Is Joe Mixon gonna be number one? Well, we haven't gotten there yet. We haven't gotten there yet, but we will at some point. But that was Joe Mixon's third touchdown of the night.
That was fun to see.
Okay, we're gonna stay with Joe number three, but in a different way. I mentioned this with screens.
The Texans have had a big play, a big explosive play on screens throughout the year, and a lot of them have been courtesy of one Joe Mixon.
CJ goes back to pass, he would end up finding Joe Mixon. Now there's a penalty on this, and we were all concerned.
I saw it right away. I was trying to tell the guys they caught a penalty and overshown because he went low on an offense lineman. That you can't do.
But that's what Overshown did. He tried to go low on the lineman to like knock them down and see if he could get to Joe Mixon. That's a penalty. That's what the penalty was for. Didn't matter. Joe just took off running big thirty seven yard gain. Joe Mixon on the screen from CJ strout comes in at number three.
Second to nine at the Texans thirty two with three receivers to the wide side right Stroud under center, mix him in the backfield. Here's Woods in motion to the left. CJ fakes to give here's pressure. CJ dumps it off. Mix in left side, looking for blockers out to the left. Forty forty five, stays in bounds, flag down forty and drag down at the ballast thirty yard line.
Kendricks with a stop.
It might come back.
Let's see personal foul ill like a low block defense number thirteen.
That's a fifty yard unaway. I had a van will play automatic first down.
Over shown the longhorn with the ticket and the Texans cash in with a big play plus the extra they got to the thirty or close to it, and they're walking inside the twenty to the sixteen yard line up Dallas.
All right, it's get to number two.
And man, it was good to see Nico Collins back son on the first play call back. But then later in the game, Nico catches one of those famous digs across the middle and just takes off running and it was just so good to see.
And I had to put it at number two because Nico's back. Baby.
Let's call it second and six at the Dallas forty five yard line, nine to forty five to go in the third quarter, seventeen to ten Houston CJ and the gun on second and six at the Dallas forty five. Here's the snap pocket collapsing CJ throwing over the middle, Nico across the twenty and fifteen and down.
At the eleven yard line.
Big play to Collins and the tackle made by Butler.
Four catches for fifty four yards. Really and tell you the impact in Nico Collins. It's one of his worst outputs of the year and actually in a probably a year and a half. But on that night, when his snap count was being managed a little bit.
It was good to see him have that play well.
After he scored on the first play and it was called back, Texas said, that's okay. We'll get a drive going take down with a couple of catches Joe Metchi. In fact, Metchi is a third down catch that's set up our play number one and Joe Mixon's first touchdown of the night, forty five yards to the house. It's number one and all through eleven offensive plays right here.
At the forty five yard line of Dallas first and ten handoff, Mixon starts, white, cuts back left, has worn thirty twenty five twenty fifteen to ten to five rock and roll touchdown Joe Mixon and no flanks.
Forty five yard TV run Monday Night.
Mixon, all right, that's gonna do it. Ultimate eleven Defense, Ultimate eleven Special Teams, Ultimate eleven offense. Awesome stuff in all win over the Cowboys. Now, what else happened in Week eleven? The fastest three.
Minutes of radio coming up next right here on Texans All Access Matchup Edition Step and Everybody one final segment of Texas All Access Matchup addition, and it's time to go around the NFL in week eleven.
So give me my music, let's go. Thursday night, the Eagles get an eight point win against the Commanders. Eagles now nine and two. We shoot an eight and two as they get to eight point win. Commanders fall twice to the State of Pennsylvania. They are now seven and four.
The Steelers had a big win, one of the biggest wins of the weekend.
They beat the Ravens eighteen sixteen.
They moved to eight and two as the Ravens fall the seven and four, same record as the Texas Lamar Jackson won and four against the Steelers in his five starts. The Lions, good Lord Jared Goff and his offense scored seven straight possessions. It went touchdown, touchdown, touchdown, touchdown, touch down, touchdown, touchdown, field goal. That's how that game ended, I mean ridiculous, fifty two to six over the Jags.
Jags now two to nine. Rams with a big win over the Patriots in Foxboro. The Saints got a Taysom Hill special. He scored every way imaginable against the Browns. Threw it, he ran it, he blocked for it, he caught.
It was ridiculous. Anthony Richardson was great for the Colts. I mean, I gotta say it. He was tremendous in his return to the starting lineup. They beat the Jets twenty eight twenty seven.
It cost GM Joe Douglas' job, so both Robert Sala and Joe Douglas out as the Jets fall to three and eight. Indy gets the five and six.
The Vikings smashed the Titans, and I mean smashed him. At first it looked like maybe the Titan. Nope, it was gonna be Vikings all day, twenty three to thirteen. Vikings now eight and two, Titans two and eight, and they will be coming to Energy Stadium on Sunday. The Dolphins took care of the Raiders thirty four to nineteen. The Packers in a great game in the afternoon, block a field goal.
Carl Brooks gets three fring fingers on a Cairo Santos game winning field goal attempt blocks it. Packers continue to own the Bears twenty to nineteen. The Broncos were dominant against the Falcons thirty eight to six. The Seahawks got a Geno Smith scramble touchdown in the late seconds to beat the Niners in Santa Clara. The Bills, man, what a ballgame. This was.
Josh Allen's twenty six yard touchdown run seals it thirty to twenty one. Chiefs no longer undefeated, Bills are now nine to two. My goodness, Chargers with stood a huge comeback from the Bengals and win that thing thirty four to twenty seven.
What a weekend.
It was culminated on Monday night by your Texans beating the Dallas Cowboys. That's gonna do it. Appreciate you guys listening, See you next time and as always, go Texans.
