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Texans radio analyst and Heisman Trophy winner Andre Ware joins us with his thoughts on the Texans beating the Chargers 44-22.
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00:10All right, welcome in as the drive has turned into the Andre Ware show.
00:15The Andre Ware show is sponsored by ImageNet Consulting.
00:19Andre, fresh off a dub, fresh off that LA sun that you were out in there.
00:24How about it? How are you feeling coming off the bar with a big dub?
00:28And I feel great coming off the bar with a big dub.
00:32I mean, that looked like the varsity against the JV yesterday.
00:37I mean, it was on and popping from the word go.
00:43CJ was special. The offense was special. The defense did its thing.
00:47And throw in special teams as well. I thought it was a complete game.
00:51More so than I've seen at any other time being associated with the Texans.
00:58This was a special, special win.
01:01All right. My guy, Luke Morrow, is in with us.
01:04Clint is out at a golf tournament, of course, in the rain.
01:07In the rain? Is he swimming? He's got his boat today?
01:10I guess, man. He's out there. I'm sure he's going to have excuses of what he shot yesterday.
01:15But Luke is in. He's riding with us.
01:17Remember, ask Andre anything.
01:19Coming up a little bit later on, any questions you have for Andre, sports-related or non-sports-related,
01:24he will answer them.
01:26You know, as you spoke about it, this was maybe the best performance of the season,
01:31especially offensively.
01:32And they've had some good performances this season.
01:35How much do you factor in the opponent,
01:38especially when it comes to the run that the Texans need to make?
01:42They had a good day with the teams around them that they need to pass losing.
01:46But how much of the Chargers do you kind of put into what you saw yesterday?
01:52Well, it's a franchise that's in desperation mode right now.
01:59Their quarterback, Justin Herbert, looked like he has taken a few steps back in his development.
02:08I mean, waiting for routes to come open, staring down routes and things of that sort.
02:13So I put a little bit of it there.
02:16But I also think that they needed a game like this to kind of jumpstart the season.
02:20Had this been on the schedule earlier, I mean, this record and team may look a totally different way
02:27than it looks right now.
02:29But you can't pick and choose that way.
02:31You can only, you know, go by what the league puts out there.
02:34And then from a standpoint of that and what's next, we could obviously look ahead
02:40and, you know, start to check Cleveland and whoever else is in this next three-game run.
02:45But it's in their best interest, obviously, because they are NFL teams.
02:49You don't know which brand or which group's going to show up from week to week
02:53to just take it one week at a time.
02:56And I think that's the approach, the smart approach.
02:58I know it's the boring approach for us,
03:01but that's what they need to think and how they need to react.
03:04We'll focus on the Texans, of course, and they played so well yesterday.
03:07But I do just want to piggyback off that a little bit with the Chargers
03:09because we've been talking about it today both on and off the air, Andre,
03:13of this Chargers team not only being winless but how punchless they've looked too.
03:17I mean, you mentioned varsity versus JV.
03:19You played in the league.
03:20You've covered the NFL for a long time.
03:22I mean, I go back to that 0-16 Lions team.
03:24They had a lot of close games.
03:26They had more fight.
03:27This Chargers, do you recall a team where it almost seems like they've already given up
03:32by the time we've gotten to Week 9,
03:34almost like it looked like for the Chargers yesterday?
03:36I don't recall a team that looks that way, Luke.
03:39And, you know, it's tough.
03:42I mean, as lifeless as they looked at times in that game,
03:45you just knew that, hey, you know, the Texans are getting ready to put one on them.
03:49And once they got things started offensively,
03:52CJ was just a marksman in the way he played.
03:56So it doesn't matter.
03:58They're a pro football team.
03:59Wins are hard to get from week to week.
04:02And when that game first started, it was kind of close for a while before it really –
04:06once it was broken open, it was over, though.
04:08But, you know, the Chargers have no one to blame but themselves.
04:12This was a playoff team last year.
04:13They decided to shake things up on offense.
04:16When you look at the roster, there's talent there, but there's injuries.
04:20Derwin James didn't play on defense.
04:23Rashawn Slater didn't play on the offensive side.
04:25And those two players make a significant difference
04:29in what they do offensively and defensively.
04:32But, hey, it's not the Texans' fault they're without them.
04:35You show up, you play who's there and who's in front of you,
04:38and that's exactly what happened yesterday.
04:40But I have not seen a team take a turn in a very, very, very long time
04:47the way the Chargers have.
04:48Yeah, I'm with you.
04:49You said earlier, I don't know what's happened to Justin Herbert.
04:51I mean, it's head-scratching, Joe.
04:55I mean, head-scratching.
04:57I'm looking at a guy that is staring down route concepts, receivers,
05:03and still going there with the football with two or three defenders around him.
05:07Yeah, I think he's throwing a pick in every game.
05:10I think that's what he has done.
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05:18Andre, is this the best you've seen C.J. Stroud play currently?
05:21Not just in this game.
05:23I started off the show with I just don't think when you take pound for pound
05:27everything that he has around him compared to everyone else,
05:30I think he's playing the quarterback position better than anyone in the AFC right now
05:35with everything that he has around him.
05:39Someone told me to put the crack pipe down, and I told him I will not.
05:43But is this the best you've seen him?
05:46Well, I don't know what flavor you're smoking, but I'll smoke it with you
05:49because it's by far, man, the best I've seen him play by far.
05:56It's not even close.
05:56And if you want to figure it out for yourself, get to the games early enough,
06:02especially when he's at home, and watch him go through his warm-up session.
06:06When he comes out before everybody else and he's just throwing around,
06:10getting his body ready to go.
06:12It is entertaining.
06:14It is spot on.
06:16He is extremely accurate.
06:18And the thing about it is it looks so effortless,
06:21the way he's throwing the football.
06:23I mean, it looks as though he's getting ready to get his head knocked off at
06:27times, sitting in the pocket, and letting it go at the very last minute.
06:31And it's as accurate as you can get it.
06:33And you mess around and give him a clean pocket,
06:36and he will just dart you to death.
06:38That's what we're witnessing.
06:39I don't know that – sure, he's never played on a level like this.
06:43I'm not sure another quarterback, Texans quarterback,
06:47has thrown the football like CJ's doing it right now.
06:50Real quick, Andre.
06:52One thing that I think I don't give him credit enough for,
06:55and I don't think he gets enough credit because when you think of the players
07:00that do this, it's the Mahomes, it's Allen, Caleb Williams now recently.
07:05But, hey, man, he's a problem when he gets off script and gets out of the pocket.
07:10And what he's able to do when the play breaks down,
07:14he makes a ton of plays outside of the pocket.
07:18And normally I just don't think you would put him in that boat.
07:23But, man, a couple of times yesterday just making stuff happen
07:27and the throws that he made when the play broke down.
07:31Yeah, he makes so many plays show within the pocket and the structure of the offense
07:38that when things break down, you just don't account for him being able to do those things,
07:45like take off and run.
07:46And he's got enough speed in which he can hurt a defense.
07:49He can cause concern for when a defensive coordinator is getting frustrated.
07:54He's going to get frustrated at some point because he's got everything covered up.
07:58And then, oh, yeah, we're in man-to-man, but CJ escapes the pocket,
08:01and he runs for 10, 12 yards.
08:04He's very capable of doing that.
08:06He's very capable of them using him in the run game if need be.
08:12And that's an area that I don't think they've really kind of scratched yet.
08:18They'll eventually get to that where he's part of it just to make plays with his legs.
08:22But he's so good within the structure of what they're doing now
08:26and has gotten comfortable within that structure that it is back-breaking when he does take off.
08:34Does it help from – so, like, Stroud this year is attempting 35 pass attempts per game,
08:39which would be a career high.
08:40It's up almost 20% from last year.
08:42Even yesterday, despite that score.
08:44They threw it about 60% of the time yesterday, and that's even with them
08:48than just simply running the football for the last quarter and a half.
08:51All that said, the question being, does it help a quarterback, whether it's confidence
08:55or, like, even rhythm-wise, if it's more of a pass-happy offense
08:59or the offense is going through that quarterback more often than simply, you know,
09:03just the run game and handing it off more often?
09:05I think it helps, Luke, more because you want to get a guy settled into a game
09:10as quickly as you can.
09:11And my guess is that with C.J., it's completions.
09:15When he hits a couple in a row, and the earlier, the better.
09:18So, you don't want to start a game where it's, you know, heavy run,
09:21where you're running the ball five or six times.
09:23He'll eventually – I mean, he starts to get bored in that situation.
09:26Who wouldn't?
09:27But when you hit the first completion, whether it's a slant or a hitch or, you know,
09:31a curl or just a swing pass, whatever it is, and you start to – now I can build on
09:36that.
09:36And that's how the mind of a quarterback works.
09:39Let me build on what we have going here.
09:42And, as well, how many of them can I complete in a row?
09:46But C.J. is that way.
09:47He is a pass-first guy.
09:48I was – believe it or not, I needed to run the football, get hit,
09:52and then I settled into a game.
09:54He is – it wasn't completions.
09:55But he's totally the opposite way, where it's a completion, and then, you know,
10:00everything else comes with it.
10:02And he gets himself flowing within what's going on in the game.
10:05But they have kind of uncorked what it is to get him going.
10:10I just hope if 35 pass attempts a game is what it takes to win.
10:15What did Al Davis say?
10:16Just win, baby.
10:17Throw the ball 35 times and let's just win.
10:20By the way, just seeing it's announced,
10:22Deshaun Watson is going to get the start for the Browns.
10:24Of course he is, man.
10:26I listen to people driving home.
10:28I was listening to a talk show last night,
10:31and they were talking about Shadour starting this week.
10:33I'm like, his role, and they said it before he was even announced the starter.
10:38His role is the backup.
10:40And when a coach stands on the table like that,
10:43you know that he's going back to the starter because you don't lose your job
10:47because of injury.
10:48And that's what took place.
10:49There was no doubt in my mind Deshaun was going to start this game,
10:53especially against the Texans.
10:55All right, coming up, ask Andre anything.
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11:00sports or non-sports related.
11:02That's coming up here in just a bit.
11:04All right, Andre, did you see and sense any differences?
11:07We talked about this last week.
11:08Maybe we see maybe some changes in some form coming off the bye week
11:14once you kind of self-evaluate yourself.
11:16Did you notice anything different either side of the ball
11:19with the Texans yesterday?
11:21Yeah, Les, six-man, a sixth offensive lineman.
11:24That was the first thing I noticed.
11:26It did happen a couple of times yesterday, but there was less of that.
11:31And I think I saw an identity finally to what this offense should be
11:37and the manner in which and the way it's going.
11:40And that's going to be pass, first, run, second.
11:44Obviously, Woody Marks had a decent game.
11:47I think it's somewhere around 70 yards, 70-plus yards or so,
11:50which, you know, you obviously need more than that.
11:53I said if the Texans got to 124, which the Chargers were giving up,
11:59I would take that right now and run with it.
12:01And they got close to that.
12:03Tank Dale being more involved in this offense, that's a difference
12:07because though he played against the Giants, there were more snaps,
12:11and I think that's going to continue to build itself.
12:17Defensively, the pass rush got home yesterday.
12:20Now, you can say it's against the Chargers, but they weren't getting there
12:23and really changing the course of a game prior to yesterday's game.
12:29Yesterday, they all started to eat eight sacks in that game,
12:33tied a franchise record.
12:34So there are plenty of things to look at.
12:36Different guys on special teams, Stover being down
12:39and a climb being elevated is another part.
12:44So we knew there were players somewhere, somehow,
12:47that would get opportunities that hadn't gotten opportunities
12:51before the bye week.
12:53All right.
12:54Ask Andre anything.
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13:00Text on coming in, Andre.
13:02When was your – or what was your welcome to the NFL moment?
13:07Oh, boy, I was a couple years in, actually,
13:10and then I got hit playing the Giants by, of all people, Dave Dorson,
13:15God rest his soul, in one of the first CTE cases.
13:20But he caught me good right under the chin.
13:22I was throwing a corner route to Robert Clark.
13:25Threw it, completed it, but as soon as I let it go,
13:27and I'm not sure that ball was even off my fingertip,
13:30he caught me right under the chin.
13:32I couldn't see anything but white, and in my helmet,
13:36a pass play was being called, and I banged a timeout.
13:39I'm getting cussed all the way to the sideline
13:41for banging the timeout in my headset.
13:44And I told Miles at the time that, hey, if you call a run,
13:47I could see enough to turn around and hand the ball off,
13:49but did you see how hard I just got hit?
13:52I can't see a thing right now.
13:54And so that was my welcome to the NFL moment,
13:57facing the Giants in the Meadowlands.
13:59There it is.
14:00Ask Andre anything.
14:01Andre, is it bad that I seek out bigger women
14:05and give them compliments on their appearance
14:07because I don't think they normally get compliments?
14:11Yeah, no, it's not bad.
14:13I mean, if that's your flavor, that's your flavor.
14:15That's your taste.
14:15Roll with it, man.
14:16Accept it.
14:17And there's nobody you got to apologize to for that.
14:21And, you know, big girls need love, too.
14:23That's what they say, right, Joe?
14:25Well, listen, here's my thing.
14:27If you legitimately are giving them a real compliment, I think it's all right.
14:34Yeah, you mean it.
14:36If you just see them and say, oh, there's a big woman,
14:38I don't think she normally gets compliments, let me say something to her.
14:41I think that's messed up.
14:43All right, Andre, I had a situation where I was out here just minding my own
14:47business, trying to get my walk run in, and somebody pulled up and let their window
14:51down just because I'm a little heavy and said to me, you're doing a great job.
14:54Keep going at it.
14:55No, I don't want to hear that.
14:56Leave me alone.
14:57You don't do that for the normal people running around.
14:58I feel like that's a similar thing.
15:00If she looks good, yeah, I think that's admirable.
15:04But if you're just doing it because, no, I don't think she normally gets compliments,
15:08let me jump in and lie to her.
15:09Hey, that's kind of messed up.
15:11That's a great comp, man.
15:13That is a great comp.
15:16Oh, my goodness.
15:17I don't know.
15:18Someone texted in and said, Andre, when is Lester Hayes going to the Hall of Fame?
15:24Oh, my gosh.
15:24Should have been in the Hall of Fame, right?
15:26Mr. Stickham himself.
15:29Great player.
15:30Great player.
15:31Should have been in a long time ago.
15:33I mean, there are a lot of Raiders from that era that have been inducted into the Hall of Fame.
15:37Lester certainly should be in.
15:40No doubt about it.
15:41All right, Andre.
15:42Hopefully they can, listen, if they can beat the Browns who are in front of them next week
15:47when we talk, then I think this season gets a little bit more serious.
15:51Now you feel like, all right, it's potentially in front of you with the rest of your schedule.
15:56So this is a huge game coming up, and we'll talk to you about it next week.
16:00Absolutely.
16:01Talk to you guys then.
16:02All right.
16:02That's Andre Ware.
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