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Ten teams played this weekend. Ten teams, ten takes. Doesn't that sound perfect to you? Let's just line them all up. One take for every team in ten minutes or less. I say or less, but it'll never be less. It'll always be exactly ten minutes. You want to go? Let's go. Team number one, take number

one, Texans. Texans defense won the weekend. And I mean that. I think they were the best thing in any team in any game. They were also the team that made the most people in media look stupid when you do the classic lineup of free game show prediction picks and you put the logos at the bottom of the screen. For example, hand up. I picked every game right this weekend, including the commanders

winning in Tampa. Every example, hand up.

I picked every game right this weekend, including the commanders winning in Tampa. Every game with one exception, I picked the Chargers to win in Houston. They were road favorites. You probably picked them. Everybody I know picked them. And then the Houston defense picked them apart. Did you understand the power of this Houston defense? And you should because if you're listening right now and you consume the NFL, you're going to be hearing a lot about them this

week because they go to Arrowhead for the next game. And there's going to be a lot of discussion. Not only is C.J. Stroud up to it, can the Texas defense take down the chiefs? Here's a pretty cool thing about the Texas defense. So you already know you've heard this, the Justin Herbert through threeceptions all season and threw four in this game. He's never even thrown three in an NFL game before. He's never even thrown three in a college game before. He's never thrown three in a high school game before. And he just threw four in the biggest game of his career. Set Herbert aside, is it about the Texas defense? Is that the reason that he did that? The guy who never gets sacked, never throws picks, end up doing a whole bunch of both. Do you know, they made him play the worst game of his career, just like the Houston Texans made Jared Gough throw five picks and maybe the worst game of his career. They made Josh Allen play maybe the worst game of his career earlier this year, and same as Tuaua. How about a young quarterback, an athletic guy, very talented, Anthony Richardson, the Texas defense made him tap out of the game. He actually said,

get me out of here. That was against this Texan defense that now goes to the Chiefs. Now, Patrick Mahomes beat them. Lamar Jackson beat them. That's two teams. They could ostensibly have to play. One team that they definitely have to play. That will be the question for the next several days. Can the Texans defense stop Patrick Mahomes? The answer is probably no, because it's January and Mahomes just beast on everybody. Take number two, Chargers. So I just mentioned the stuff about Herbert. The Chargers are such an easy target and people like laughing at them. It was a really horrific performance. And yet I kind of go Pollyanna on them.

I could jump on and say Herbert, this, Herbert, that.

And I did in the last take.

Fact is, though, is that I give their season a B.

B is pretty good.

They more than doubled their win total.

They got into a playoff game.

They got annihilated fine.

But the Chargers mattered this year.

The Chargers were a thing. Jim Harbo was the thing. Justin Herbert had a fantastic regular season. How many times can you say the Chargers mattered and their quarterback had a fantastic regular season? It doesn't happen very much. The Chiefs win would have been nice. Showing up in a playoff game would have been nice. I still give them a B and I don't care. Take number three, Ravens. They're not good. They're not great. They're not excellent. They're scary. They're a scary team. I almost got a little nervous watching them at home. The way that they run the ball and the way that Derek Henry does his thing and Lamar does his thing, and remembering that they just did that without their best receiver. Zayflower's not even playing in the game. That's supposed to affect your offense. It's supposed to affect the way the defense covers you and supports the run. I don't have affected anything. I look at that team and it's a kind of thing where if you're a mother or a father of someone on the other team and they start running that ball. You're like,

get my kid off the field. It's like a parent in a viral video running onto like a Pop Warner

League because they let some kid who's twice the way to the other kids run around and truck everybody.

Get my kid off the field. Drag him off there. They're such a scary team, so physically dominant.

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