and Hey everybody welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Matthew Collar here and

joining me my favorite Texans writer Rivers McCown was formerly of football

outsiders when Football Outsiders existed,

NBC Sports Edge, Rivers Macaun.com,

where he mused for many years about the struggling Houston Texans.

And now Rivers, you get to write about the wonderful Houston Texans that are the darling of the NFL ball during this off season.

And I would have brought you on to talk ball with you any time, because you are one of my favorite football writers but it just so happens that there is this

intersection now between the Minnesota Vikings and the Houston Texans that none of us saw coming.

So first of all, how we feel it about the Houston Texans, man,

to go into the playoffs last year,

CJ Stroud after climbing through miles and miles of not good football to emerge

like Shawshank Redemption.

It's gotta be fun, cover the Texas now. They pick six Joe Flacko twice in that first

playoff game and the second time I threw my kid up in the air my kid is now

eight months old back then you can do the math like four or five

months old and he cried. He cried really hard and that was that was very funny. It's something I'm going to rub in his face when he grows up for sure.

Yeah, I mean this is this has been wild.

It's

right fear, kind of how that Texans' writers fear has grown

as I've been kind of more detached doing that stuff this year.

And yeah, CJ Stroud is, I mean, even when we had Deshaun Watson, that was, you know, a different kind of interesting, a different kind of amazing when he was still, you know, somebody you wanted to feel good about but

but CJ just he's got so much so much awareness of everything it's it's

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