Welcome back to the Meany Kimes show featuring Lenny, the only NFL

podcast where one of the hosts favorite trick play is rolling over.

Then playing dead. That's Lenny, I mean itimes. That's plenty, I mean at times. That generous laugh you just heard

was from a repeat guest. He was last year to talk about the AFC South. Much has changed since then. The biggest thing being that the team that he

covers, the Houston Texans, went from being sort of a scrappy underdog.

Let's see what we got in the rookie quarterback

to a legitimate Super Bowl contender.

D.J. Bienemay, what is it like in Houston right now going into a season where expectations are so unbelievably high for this football team?

Yeah, again, like, again, last year it was, can CJ just be good, right?

If we had questions, how could he handle pressure?

What was this creativity like, outside of the pocket,

things of that nature, and a year later,

now Texans, got a friend I went to college with that is a big Texans fan I played football with.

He believes that Texans are going to get to the AFC championship game minimum, right?

Minimum. Minimum. Minimum. minimum. minimum. championship game minimum right like minimum minimum like like

CJ has created that type of buzz where everybody around the building and

in the fan base feel like they are a legitimate Super Bowl team.

So yeah, that's where we are right now.

And compared to last year where it was like, hey,

just be good.

And we'll just go from from there but now it's see it was so good to where it's like

imagine what it'll be in your two three and four you were optimistic I do remember that from when we spoke you were pretty impressed by what you had seen thus far because we did this we talk I think the

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