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"  The fourth week of the NFL season saw the Lions keep winning, the Bills finally lose, and Jacksonville forget how yardage arrows work. Meanwhile, down at Reliant Stadium, the Texans beat the Steelers, 17-10, but lost their All-Pro wide receiver Andre Johnson with a bad hamstring. Here to discuss this medical situation (and other matters): identical twins Michelle and Rachel of the Texans \u2014 an aspiring nurse and doctor, obviously. ESQUIRE.COM: First of all, if you don&amp;#039;t mind, a few questions about this whole twins thing. Who&amp;#039;s older? RACHEL: I&amp;#039;m older by seven minutes. ESQ: Which means you&amp;#039;re the boss? RACHEL: No, actually Michelle is the boss. MICHELLE: I think that&amp;#039;s only in cheerleading. I call the shots because I was on the squad last year and this is Rachel&amp;#039;s first year. ESQ: Why didn&amp;#039;t you try out last year, Rachel? RACHEL: I was preparing to be a doctor. I&amp;#039;m taking a year off now to study for the MCAT and I plan to go to medical school next year. I actually just had an interview a couple of days ago. ESQ: You don&amp;#039;t want to be a doctor, Michelle? MICHELLE: No. I think I&amp;#039;m going to pursue nursing. The thought of school for the next 10 years was not appealing to me.  ESQ: Seems like there&amp;#039;s also a height difference. MICHELLE: Yeah, Rachel is taller. She&amp;#039;s like 5&amp;#039;8&amp;quot; and I&amp;#039;m like 5&amp;#039;6&amp;quot;.  RACHEL: I drank more milk growing up.  ESQ: Okay, now to the football. Big win for your team yesterday.  MICHELLE: Yeah. In the past, the Texans have had trouble closing out games like that. I think we finally proved that we could take the next step. We finished strong against a really good Steelers team. ESQ: The Texans are now 3-1. You thinking playoffs? RACHEL: I am. I really think this is our year. I know people get tired of hearing that, but I think it&amp;#039;s true in this case. ESQ: What&amp;#039;s different this year? MICHELLE: I&amp;#039;m really impressed with our defense. We&amp;#039;re getting a lot of pressure on the quarterback. Like this game, we had a lot of sacks. Five of them, in fact. RACHEL: Yeah, it was awesome. We had sack after sack. ESQ: Arian Foster had a great game \u2014 30 carries for 155 yards, including a 42-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter. When he&amp;#039;s healthy, is he the best running back in the league? MICHELLE: Yeah, he is. He&amp;#039;s also our favorite player. RACHEL: But Ben Tate is good, too. ESQ: Foster famously tweeted out an X-ray of his torn hamstring earlier this year. Would you ever do something like that? RACHEL: Maybe. I had to have surgery to repair a ligament in my foot after a ballet injury when I was 18. So if I had a cool X-ray from that, I might&amp;#039;ve shared it. MICHELLE: She shows everybody the scar on her foot. It&amp;#039;s kind of ridiculous. ESQ: Speaking of hamstring injuries, Andre Johnson went down in the second quarter holding his right hamstring... untouched. MICHELLE: We don&amp;#039;t really know how bad it is yet. He did come back out and stand on the sidelines in the second half, so that was a good sign that it&amp;#039;s not too bad. RACHEL: He&amp;#039;s a great player. You could see how much everybody respects him by how they reacted when he went down. Even Steelers players showed concern, and the crowd started chanting his name. ESQ: Mario Williams had a big sack on Ben Roethlisberger on a third down late in the fourth quarter. Biggest play of the game? MICHELLE: That was a huge play. The crowd got so loud at that point, it was awesome.  RACHEL: Whenever Mario makes a big play, the stadium plays the Super Mario Brothers music. It&amp;#039;s great. ESQ: Andy Rooney bid farewell on 60 Minutes last night. Any thoughts? RACHEL: He&amp;#039;ll be back. There&amp;#039;ll be more stuff he wants to complain about. ESQ: Either of you have a Super Bowl pick? MICHELLE: Seems like there are a lot of surprises in the NFL so far this year. I think it&amp;#039;s too early to say who the best teams are. Except of course for our Texans. ESQ: You&amp;#039;re both clinical research assistants right now. Other than maybe an interest in science, what sort of qualities do you look for in a man? MICHELLE: It helps if he&amp;#039;s tall and athletic. And Rachel doesn&amp;#039;t like lazy losers. RACHEL: For me, it comes down to this: You have to work hard. You have to be doing something productive with your life, something you&amp;#039;re excited about. You don&amp;#039;t have to be a doctor or a lawyer, but you should be focused. You should like whatever you do and work hard at it. ESQ: Do you two ever date the same guys? MICHELLE: No, never. But Rachel has to approve of my guy, and I have to approve of her guy. Basically, when you date one of us, you date both of us. RACHEL: But not in that way. (Click here for more on the Texans cheerleaders and their swimsuit calendar.) COMING TUESDAY: The Esquire Monday Night Football Recap... PLUS: Season Predictions with Pom-Poms, Go Inside the Bedroom of an Eagles Cheerleader, and Monday Morning Cheerleader Every Week "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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