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NFL Daily with Gregg Rosenthal

Week 8 Preview, Dolphins-Texans Recap

NFL Daily with Gregg Rosenthal

NFL

Sports, Football

4.512.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2018

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

In a room filled with enthusiastic heroes – Dan Hanzus, Gregg Rosenthal, Marc Sessler & Chris Wesseling – react to Deshaun Watson’s magnificent five-touchdown performance on TNF (:30). The heroes then examine Week 8’s slate of match-ups, including – the vengeance-seeking Eagles duking-it-out with the downward spiraling Jags in London (12:10), the Bears aim to bounce back against the Jets following last weekend’s heartbreaker to New England (22:30), a battle of .500 teams in Seattle and Detroit (30:30), Mahomes gears up for round two versus Denver (34:00), can the A-Rod-lead Packers hand LAR their first loss of the season (58:15) & lastly, Drew Brees marches into Minnesota for an decisive SNF bout (1:02:30)!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Lots of keeps, floats wide open touchdown.

0:05.0

Texans, Jordan Thomas, pass, Amendolo, double pass.

0:10.0

Receiver is open, that's great for the touchdown.

0:14.0

Watson standing back there alone and speaking of alone.

0:18.0

There's Hopkins. Hopkins, touchdown.

0:22.0

Uh oh, the Houston Texans are coming on.

0:27.0

Dan Hans is here, the around the NFL podcast.

0:30.0

Ride in solo here.

0:32.0

Gonna throw it to me and the rest of the boys previewing all the week, nine games in just a few minutes, but we're gonna start with Thursday night football, a 42 to 23 win for the Houston Texans and it could not have been more impressive, especially on the offensive side of the ball for Houston.

0:49.0

Deshaun Watson playing one of his best games as a pro, maybe his best game as a pro, a complete 16 of 20 passes, 239, five touchdowns, no turnovers, a pass rating of 156.

1:03.0

He had, here's a stat, here's a good stat you like for your quarterback had more touchdown passes than in completions.

1:11.0

The Dolphins really had no answer for Watson and that is my big takeaway from this game is that Watson blew out his ACL during a practice on November 2nd of last year.

1:28.0

So we're coming up on the one year anniversary.

1:31.0

This is the first time where I was watching him play and I thought to myself, okay, this is the guy is college coach called him the next MJ or I guess the first MJ football.

1:43.0

So we're, you know, it's a weird thing.

1:46.0

And this Deshaun Watson, this version is the guy that took the league by storm last year, his ability to keep plays lives with his legs.

1:56.0

A couple of big scrambles in this game.

1:59.0

Just one big scramble, about 14 yards and it was a big conversion and he kept numerous plays live with his feet, including some of his touchdown passes.

2:07.0

Watson played tremendously well in this game and a Texans left for dead at 0 and 3 and statistically in history is instructive usually at 0 and 3 team.

2:18.0

It's all over, but here we are. Five wins in a row. They have control of the AFC South.

2:23.0

I know they've had issues with the Patriots historically, especially in the playoffs, but guess what?

2:32.0

When you look at the AFC playoff picture, I think it's time to take the Texans seriously because I think they are not at New England's level, not at Kansas City's level.

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