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Speaker 1: Welcome to everybody to Wednesday edition of Texans All Access

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Speaker 1: on this beautiful, beautiful Wednesday evening. Glad you're spending a

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Speaker 1: looking forward to Sunday. I think I'm ready for this one,

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Speaker 1: Mark Van of Beer Mark Take it away. Paul. Great

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Speaker 1: actually right before you know, the the pandemic purge in March,

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Speaker 1: I had a chance to chat with dam a little

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Speaker 1: bit in February, early March, you know, right around combine time,

431
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Speaker 1: and man, he's just um and you know, and I

432
00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:20,680
Speaker 1: don't know what you remember about him, but just just

433
00:23:20,720 --> 00:23:24,159
Speaker 1: a very smiley, peaceful man, a man very secure in

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Speaker 1: his faith, very you know, very open with talking about

435
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Speaker 1: scripture and the Gospel, and I'm really into that, and

436
00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:34,960
Speaker 1: you know, so he's just a very kind man. He's

437
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Speaker 1: a wonderful guy, Paul. The day he was fired, he

438
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Speaker 1: still did his Coaches Show. That's what kind of man

439
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Speaker 1: he is. And it was an awesome show, as you

440
00:23:43,359 --> 00:23:45,720
Speaker 1: can imagine. We had a lot of memories to discuss

441
00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:48,800
Speaker 1: and his coaching history is just incredible. Paul Allen with

442
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Speaker 1: us Voice of the Vikings Okay, where are we at now?

443
00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:56,000
Speaker 1: And the career evaluation of Cousins. You know, it's it's

444
00:23:56,040 --> 00:23:59,560
Speaker 1: weird because in facets of the first game against Green

445
00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:03,320
Speaker 1: Bay at home but no fans, he was really really good,

446
00:24:03,359 --> 00:24:06,359
Speaker 1: and then there were some problems. I thought it was

447
00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:11,840
Speaker 1: below average at best against Indianapolis, and then mostly he

448
00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:15,359
Speaker 1: threw some wonderful, wonderful passes in the Titans game, you know,

449
00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:19,120
Speaker 1: but he also threw that bad pick and then our

450
00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:21,040
Speaker 1: final two drives. Man, we're trying to win it. It

451
00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:23,200
Speaker 1: was just terrible and there were just you know, the

452
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Speaker 1: bad snaps and stuff like that. So you know, it's

453
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Speaker 1: Kirk's been an illegal while and a lot of people

454
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Speaker 1: are focusing on no preseason, like like for the Texans, man,

455
00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:36,320
Speaker 1: it's when I started deep diving your squad. One of

456
00:24:36,359 --> 00:24:38,080
Speaker 1: the first things that jumped out of me is the

457
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Speaker 1: offensive coordinator has had one season of calling plays, if

458
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Speaker 1: he even does that. But the defensive coordinator and the

459
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Speaker 1: special teams coordinator, it's the first year for them with

460
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Speaker 1: not calling games in the preseason. Are you kidding me?

461
00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:54,960
Speaker 1: I mean, that's unbelievably tough. So I have a high

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Speaker 1: level of respect for those guys doing what they're doing.

463
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Speaker 1: But it's not just new players or rookies or players

464
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Speaker 1: who have gone to other teams who are missing those

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Speaker 1: preseason reps, in those preseason practices. You know, maybe Cousins

466
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Speaker 1: needed the time he would play in preseasons games one, two,

467
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Speaker 1: and three to get up to speed. So now that

468
00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:21,440
Speaker 1: those three games are done, and you know what we

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Speaker 1: saw from rookie Justin Jefferson, it's clear he needed preseason.

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Speaker 1: He's come together. You know, we got a bunch of

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Speaker 1: young corners who really really struggled early. They're getting better

472
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Speaker 1: and Cousins is getting better too. But from a comfortability standpoint,

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Speaker 1: quite honestly, I think he just missed preseason. All right.

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Speaker 1: So Justin Jefferson has that breakout game, who does he

475
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Speaker 1: remind you of who's played this game? If anybody you

476
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Speaker 1: know he where's number eighteen? It's convenient to go to

477
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Speaker 1: Sydney Rice two thousand and nine season with Barb. Sydney

478
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Speaker 1: was taller than Justin. But the reason I say Sydney

479
00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:02,240
Speaker 1: is we, for whatever the reason, Mark have not thrown

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Speaker 1: many fifty fifty balls around here. And you know, I'm

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Speaker 1: not trying to get Texans fans to belabor maybe their

482
00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:12,760
Speaker 1: favorite player, DeAndre Hopkins no longer being there. But just

483
00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:15,440
Speaker 1: think about Watson throwing up at fifty fifty to Hopkins

484
00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:19,320
Speaker 1: and how good DeAndre and players like that are. Well

485
00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:22,120
Speaker 1: with Diggs and feeling, we just never did it now

486
00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:27,919
Speaker 1: with Jefferson, unbelievable leaping ability and there was an outbreaking

487
00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:31,720
Speaker 1: route to the left of Cousins where Kirk dropped in

488
00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:34,720
Speaker 1: a dime. But it was fifty fifty with Malcolm Butler

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Speaker 1: and the body control, leaping ability and composure Justin had

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Speaker 1: on that play to win the fifty fifty. That was

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Speaker 1: unbelievably eye opening to me. A that we're starting to

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Speaker 1: do that and b the poise he had when he

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Speaker 1: brought it down. So you know, I think the Sydney

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Speaker 1: Rice would be the answer man. All right, tell me

495
00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:58,600
Speaker 1: about the Vikings defense. What do you see in so far?

496
00:26:58,720 --> 00:27:01,679
Speaker 1: Obviously too many went to the opponent, But tell me

497
00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:04,320
Speaker 1: what the upside is as we march on through the season. Here,

498
00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:07,840
Speaker 1: well in Zimmer's rain here I and we never have

499
00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:13,080
Speaker 1: seen anything like this. He's unbelievably good coaching defense. Now,

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00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:16,439
Speaker 1: I mean, in case the audience or you don't remember

501
00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:20,480
Speaker 1: I mean in our New Orleans playoff game, he pulled

502
00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:23,440
Speaker 1: off one of the fantastic tricks that I've ever seen,

503
00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:25,720
Speaker 1: you know, up to them. I saw it all week

504
00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:29,320
Speaker 1: during practice, but again, you need to see it work

505
00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:32,480
Speaker 1: before you can say that it was a novel idea.

506
00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:35,760
Speaker 1: He took defensive ends Daniel Hunter and Everson Griffin and

507
00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:39,440
Speaker 1: moved him inside for the whole first app Breeze had

508
00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:42,399
Speaker 1: no idea what was coming, and Andrew's pete and Larry

509
00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:46,800
Speaker 1: Warford couldn't handle him, So that right there dictated the

510
00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:49,760
Speaker 1: tempo of the game. Zimmer does stuff like that. That's

511
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Speaker 1: how ingenious he can be. Now with this defense, No

512
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Speaker 1: Denil Hunter. First three games, they trade a second and

513
00:27:56,359 --> 00:27:59,000
Speaker 1: a fifth for Unique and Gakway. You know more about

514
00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:01,479
Speaker 1: him than me, but we're starting to figure out. You know,

515
00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:04,160
Speaker 1: pass rush setting up moves looks to be really good.

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00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:08,159
Speaker 1: A couple of sacks, striped sacks in successive games, and

517
00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:13,119
Speaker 1: it's coming together. But you know they're they're they're with Unique.

518
00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:15,800
Speaker 1: You know, I think you need a complimentary guy so

519
00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:18,760
Speaker 1: he can really do his thing. Our defensive line pass

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00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:23,359
Speaker 1: rush has basically been non existent. Outside of Ingogway. We

521
00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:27,840
Speaker 1: lose bar for the season. Eric Kendricks like Bernard Rick McKinney,

522
00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:30,800
Speaker 1: they came out of the same draft. They're both incredibly good.

523
00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:34,880
Speaker 1: I think Eric's the best pass covering linebacker in the NFL,

524
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Speaker 1: maybe this side of Daryus Leonard. Then in the secondary,

525
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Speaker 1: the safety's Harrison Smith and Anthony harris Um. They're both really,

526
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Speaker 1: really good. At twenty two, Smith had an unbelievably good

527
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Speaker 1: game against Tennessee. Now you get to the corners, the

528
00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:53,360
Speaker 1: familiar names Xavier Rhodes, whom you'll see with the Colts,

529
00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:57,720
Speaker 1: and Trey Waynes and Mackenzie Alexander they're all gone. So

530
00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:01,960
Speaker 1: now you draft Jeff Adney from TCU. Played nine plays

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Speaker 1: against the Packers, had a rough, rough game against s

532
00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:08,880
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers in Indianapolis, had a rough quarter and a

533
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Speaker 1: half against Tannehill. Then it clicked. He started to get better,

534
00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:16,560
Speaker 1: and so Gladne's coming together. The other side of that

535
00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:19,640
Speaker 1: third year guy holding Hill college free agent. You know

536
00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:22,520
Speaker 1: who's doing okay. But the best corner they have is

537
00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:26,880
Speaker 1: Cam Danceler, a third round pick from Mississippi State, and

538
00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:29,400
Speaker 1: he hasn't played the last two games. So I told

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Speaker 1: you ma'am. You know in this nearly two decades, I've

540
00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:34,760
Speaker 1: done this with these injuries right now, I've never seen

541
00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:37,360
Speaker 1: anything like it in my career. That is so tough.

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00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:39,320
Speaker 1: Paul Allen, voice of the Vikings, with us a couple

543
00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:41,520
Speaker 1: more for you. You played the Colts, it did not

544
00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:44,280
Speaker 1: go well. You were at Indie giving a little scouting

545
00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:46,240
Speaker 1: report on them. How do they look? Was it just

546
00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:48,280
Speaker 1: a bad day for the Vikings or can they be

547
00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:52,880
Speaker 1: that good? Well? With the with the Indianapolis Colts, you

548
00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:55,640
Speaker 1: know the obviously that offensive line which you know more

549
00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:59,760
Speaker 1: about than me. I mean, the Frank Reich and that staff.

550
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:04,040
Speaker 1: He took Clinton Nelson, the best overall offensive lineman in

551
00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:08,360
Speaker 1: the NFL any position, and they're so good at identifying

552
00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:10,920
Speaker 1: one or two players that they just want to mash on.

553
00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:13,800
Speaker 1: But when you're hurt like us, it made it easier

554
00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:16,840
Speaker 1: for them. So Nelson dictated a lot of things in

555
00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:19,960
Speaker 1: the running game that we don't usually see. Thus Taylor

556
00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:23,640
Speaker 1: went for one hundred and change. They lost Paris Campbell

557
00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:26,680
Speaker 1: early in that game. T Y Hilton had a nondescript game.

558
00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:30,920
Speaker 1: This tight end Mooley Cox, the basketball player he got us.

559
00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:33,640
Speaker 1: He's not as good as as we made him look.

560
00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:38,400
Speaker 1: But he had a good game. And you know, Darius Leonard, man,

561
00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:41,000
Speaker 1: I mean it's the first time I've seen him. He's unbelievable.

562
00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:44,160
Speaker 1: And some of these plays he makes him pass coverage

563
00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:46,880
Speaker 1: with just what he takes away and makes you throw

564
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Speaker 1: at other directions. When I watched that game back, I

565
00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:54,280
Speaker 1: was like this, Terius Leonard's unbelievable. All right, Well, thanks

566
00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:57,720
Speaker 1: a lot. I was hoping for a less glowing review

567
00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:02,200
Speaker 1: of them. Paul, what about broadcasting this coronavirus era we're in.

568
00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:06,000
Speaker 1: We see the NBA in the bubble, the NHL, we've

569
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:08,240
Speaker 1: seen all the sports, and obviously the NFL we're handling

570
00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:10,920
Speaker 1: in a specific way radio wise, What do you think

571
00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:14,200
Speaker 1: it's so far, it's okay. I mean, you know, I

572
00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:18,480
Speaker 1: think I think you can appreciate this. That God bless

573
00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:21,320
Speaker 1: the fans, and I wish every stadium was full. And

574
00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:23,640
Speaker 1: at us Bank Stadium, man, with where they put me

575
00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:26,120
Speaker 1: on the thirty behind the Vikings bench, I got fans

576
00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:27,920
Speaker 1: right in front of me, So you know, I've gotten

577
00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:30,440
Speaker 1: to know these people. But when the when when the

578
00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:33,880
Speaker 1: game takes off, you know, it's it's almost like the

579
00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:36,760
Speaker 1: fans turned there because you're so hyper focused on the game.

580
00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:39,200
Speaker 1: So actually when I get into the game, it's okay,

581
00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:44,160
Speaker 1: what's really stunning me, And what's really saddening me is

582
00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:47,720
Speaker 1: during the Star Spangled banner or the anthems. You know

583
00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:52,960
Speaker 1: that that's a very personal, private, quiet, peaceful, prayer laden

584
00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:56,520
Speaker 1: moment and there's a certain stimulation or buzz that usually

585
00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:59,360
Speaker 1: is in the building during that time, and then there's

586
00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:01,960
Speaker 1: not you know, and and you know you've called games

587
00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:05,360
Speaker 1: in Kansas City, it's it's for my taste. It's it's

588
00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:08,920
Speaker 1: my least favorite booth in the NFL because it's enclosed. Right. Um,

589
00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:11,440
Speaker 1: so you just you know, hey, we're at Arrowhead with

590
00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:14,000
Speaker 1: all these Rabbit fans and we can't feel them. It

591
00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:17,680
Speaker 1: just sucks. Um. But you know, with with our home

592
00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:20,840
Speaker 1: games we've had two of them, we close our glass

593
00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:23,080
Speaker 1: because I got the coaches right next to us, so,

594
00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:25,160
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, we have a tendency to get

595
00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:27,800
Speaker 1: loud doing what we're doing, and I respect you know

596
00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:30,280
Speaker 1: that they don't want any distractions or to hear anything.

597
00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:34,480
Speaker 1: But you know, no fans glasses closed. It's it's a

598
00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:37,800
Speaker 1: little sterile been. Okay, we can't We're not winning, so

599
00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:41,000
Speaker 1: that plays into it. Now. The one game I called

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00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:44,600
Speaker 1: off TV against Indianapolis, got the TV copy, got the

601
00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:48,080
Speaker 1: all twenty two. Um, it's okay. I mean, I think

602
00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:50,800
Speaker 1: I did a good job. I had some misidentifications in there.

603
00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:53,920
Speaker 1: It was a terrible game. But but you know, I'm

604
00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:57,120
Speaker 1: not going to be the one that complains about every

605
00:32:57,160 --> 00:33:00,240
Speaker 1: little thing because there are too many people like that

606
00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:03,560
Speaker 1: in the world now. And the people to whom you're complaining,

607
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:06,200
Speaker 1: they have a list of fifty things that are bugging

608
00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:08,840
Speaker 1: them to so you just made it fifty one. So

609
00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:11,719
Speaker 1: I've really gotten I've really matured and gotten good at,

610
00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:14,880
Speaker 1: you know, picking my proverbial fights when it comes to

611
00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:18,840
Speaker 1: radio broadcasting, where I can go who I can talk to,

612
00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:23,040
Speaker 1: the whole thing, and I think that's best for everybody involved. Well,

613
00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:26,880
Speaker 1: put great wisdom there, Paul. One more horse racing. What's

614
00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:28,680
Speaker 1: up with that sport? I don't know how you call that,

615
00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:30,840
Speaker 1: I mean, because that's like ten races a day and

616
00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:33,240
Speaker 1: you have the colored helmets or whatever you're doing to

617
00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:37,200
Speaker 1: identify these different horses. That's ridiculous. I think what we

618
00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:39,640
Speaker 1: need to do, ma'am is let me see what's buy

619
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Speaker 1: you Ratama, Sam Houston, Yeah, yeah, Rich Tomas by San Antonio.

620
00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:46,680
Speaker 1: I got to figure out who the announcer is down there,

621
00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:48,240
Speaker 1: and I got to come down there and you and

622
00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:51,480
Speaker 1: I go and maybe for a charity or something we

623
00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:54,000
Speaker 1: have you call a race. I've done quarter horses before,

624
00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:56,160
Speaker 1: like the you know, the hundred yard dash or whatever

625
00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:58,560
Speaker 1: it is. You know, well, that's easy, yeah, I mean

626
00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:01,840
Speaker 1: the quarter horse bits easy because like if I haven't

627
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:04,600
Speaker 1: memorized the silks, you know, and and there, and the

628
00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:07,960
Speaker 1: race is going to be thirteen seconds, it seriously can be.

629
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Speaker 1: And they're racing photo finish. I would never do that,

630
00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:18,120
Speaker 1: but you can do that, um with the breaknesses this weekend.

631
00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:21,160
Speaker 1: Nobody cares about the Triple Crown this year because of

632
00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:24,479
Speaker 1: the the every just out of order in the minds

633
00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:28,400
Speaker 1: of everybody else. But you know when Belmont Derby Preakness

634
00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:31,560
Speaker 1: this weekend, Breeders Cup coming up after that, and you

635
00:34:31,640 --> 00:34:36,359
Speaker 1: know there there are minimal fans or no fans at racetracks,

636
00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:39,399
Speaker 1: and you know that this whole thing actually has helped

637
00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:42,560
Speaker 1: me a little bit into the Viking season because you know,

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Speaker 1: And look, we're used to that to a degree, but

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Speaker 1: I think it helps because secondaries can't give you a

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00:46:08,560 --> 00:46:11,839
Speaker 1: bunch of exotic, different looks and if that's the way

850
00:46:11,880 --> 00:46:14,719
Speaker 1: you want to put like that's natural to you. And

851
00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:16,879
Speaker 1: the way your guys kind of look at things, man,

852
00:46:17,040 --> 00:46:19,759
Speaker 1: do it. Do it. And I've seen the receivers when

853
00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:21,640
Speaker 1: they've been out there. I've seen Will Fuller. I remember

854
00:46:21,719 --> 00:46:23,080
Speaker 1: last year there was a game with Will Fuller and

855
00:46:23,120 --> 00:46:25,000
Speaker 1: Dedrew Hopkins. I saw him look over sidelines. They were

856
00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:26,680
Speaker 1: doing this kind of the universal sign of kind of

857
00:46:26,719 --> 00:46:28,160
Speaker 1: do the same thing, do the same thing, let's go

858
00:46:28,760 --> 00:46:31,200
Speaker 1: and so I'm right with you. To me, that's one

859
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Speaker 1: of the best drives that I have seen, maybe since

860
00:46:34,239 --> 00:46:38,160
Speaker 1: I've been on the sidelines. I'm saying its best drives

861
00:46:38,160 --> 00:46:40,560
Speaker 1: in Texans history. I mean it was so it was

862
00:46:40,640 --> 00:46:42,560
Speaker 1: just like he hit Cooks. I think that was the

863
00:46:42,600 --> 00:46:44,799
Speaker 1: only second down he hit Cooks for a short game

864
00:46:45,120 --> 00:46:47,200
Speaker 1: or you know, seven eight yards. But then it was

865
00:46:47,560 --> 00:46:53,040
Speaker 1: Cobb Akins Cobb Fuller touchdown. I mean it was like boom, boom, boom. Yeah,

866
00:46:54,280 --> 00:46:56,719
Speaker 1: a third down. So you're right, you're my second down.

867
00:46:56,800 --> 00:46:58,520
Speaker 1: But no, you're You're exactly right. They did not face

868
00:46:58,560 --> 00:47:01,239
Speaker 1: the third down. They stay out of those long situations.

869
00:47:01,680 --> 00:47:06,560
Speaker 1: The pass rush was minuscule, and the seawan had time

870
00:47:07,080 --> 00:47:09,880
Speaker 1: and guys may plays and I just feel like this

871
00:47:10,160 --> 00:47:13,360
Speaker 1: group moves fast and best that way. But you know,

872
00:47:13,520 --> 00:47:17,160
Speaker 1: we'll see. So that I'm with you, I think I'm

873
00:47:17,160 --> 00:47:18,439
Speaker 1: gonna go on the other side of the ball because

874
00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:22,759
Speaker 1: I agree totally with you. The other side of the ball.

875
00:47:22,840 --> 00:47:26,759
Speaker 1: To me, they're two non negotiables. One very easy, and

876
00:47:26,840 --> 00:47:28,759
Speaker 1: I'll take kind of a subset of it, and that is,

877
00:47:29,400 --> 00:47:32,160
Speaker 1: you've got to slow down Dalvin Cook because to me,

878
00:47:32,280 --> 00:47:35,279
Speaker 1: everything sort of feeds off of what Dalvin Cook does

879
00:47:35,320 --> 00:47:38,080
Speaker 1: in the run game. Here's the subset of that. When

880
00:47:38,120 --> 00:47:40,719
Speaker 1: everybody talks about Gary Kubiak's offense. They all tell, oh,

881
00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:44,000
Speaker 1: stretch zone, outside zone, who zone, zone, zone zone. I've

882
00:47:44,080 --> 00:47:46,800
Speaker 1: watched the Vikings in just the first half of the

883
00:47:46,880 --> 00:47:52,400
Speaker 1: Titans game. I've seen three different other running game concepts.

884
00:47:53,040 --> 00:47:56,239
Speaker 1: It's not just zone. And even if it's stretched zone,

885
00:47:56,280 --> 00:48:00,239
Speaker 1: there's some wrinkles that they have that still all allow

886
00:48:00,360 --> 00:48:02,600
Speaker 1: it to get free. I mean, they've got a situation

887
00:48:02,960 --> 00:48:05,600
Speaker 1: with outside zone where instead of the whole thing kind

888
00:48:05,640 --> 00:48:08,560
Speaker 1: of moving like this, they take the fullback and so

889
00:48:08,960 --> 00:48:12,680
Speaker 1: the four guys on the guard all the way to

890
00:48:12,760 --> 00:48:15,880
Speaker 1: the right they go like this. The tackle turns like this,

891
00:48:16,760 --> 00:48:18,800
Speaker 1: and then the fullback goes up and takes what the

892
00:48:18,840 --> 00:48:21,239
Speaker 1: tackle is gonna block, and the linebackers are kind of

893
00:48:21,320 --> 00:48:23,880
Speaker 1: like they're kind of lost. And then Dalvin Cook cut

894
00:48:23,920 --> 00:48:25,719
Speaker 1: it back for like a ten yard game. And it's

895
00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:28,160
Speaker 1: like if you go in thinking it's all about zone

896
00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:31,160
Speaker 1: game and that's important to them, but they've got other wrinkles.

897
00:48:31,239 --> 00:48:33,879
Speaker 1: In fact that Dalvin Cook's touchdown run in the first half,

898
00:48:34,640 --> 00:48:37,040
Speaker 1: it's like a thirty nine yard run. It was straight

899
00:48:37,080 --> 00:48:39,080
Speaker 1: out of a power play. It was just a power

900
00:48:39,160 --> 00:48:42,880
Speaker 1: play guard coming around fullback following actually more of a counterplay,

901
00:48:43,400 --> 00:48:47,200
Speaker 1: and they just mowed that side down, guard and fullback

902
00:48:47,280 --> 00:48:51,000
Speaker 1: came around. Cook just followed it thirty nine yard touchdown. Now,

903
00:48:51,880 --> 00:48:54,799
Speaker 1: I don't think Tennessee's defense and all honesty is all

904
00:48:54,920 --> 00:48:57,400
Speaker 1: that good. To be honest, I think they've got a

905
00:48:57,480 --> 00:48:59,799
Speaker 1: couple of really good players, but overall, I don't think

906
00:48:59,800 --> 00:49:02,400
Speaker 1: it's great. Well, don't say that. Wait wait wait wait

907
00:49:02,440 --> 00:49:04,600
Speaker 1: wait wait wait wait, don't say that the Titans fans,

908
00:49:04,640 --> 00:49:07,359
Speaker 1: because Titans fans are talking like this is the eighty

909
00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:12,680
Speaker 1: five Bears. Whatever you give up thirty to Gardner Minshew

910
00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:20,600
Speaker 1: the Dolphins. I'm atting Titan, Rick Titan, Joe Titan, James. Yeah,

911
00:49:20,640 --> 00:49:22,319
Speaker 1: you got three on record. But if you're talking about

912
00:49:22,320 --> 00:49:24,680
Speaker 1: the defense, don't tell me it's that good. Don't tell

913
00:49:24,719 --> 00:49:27,200
Speaker 1: me it's that good. Either way this you have to

914
00:49:27,280 --> 00:49:30,120
Speaker 1: recognize that they're the Vikings are doing some more things

915
00:49:30,719 --> 00:49:33,920
Speaker 1: in the run game than just outside zone UM. And

916
00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:35,279
Speaker 1: to that end, I'd like to see us do a

917
00:49:35,320 --> 00:49:37,799
Speaker 1: few more things outside the zone game, UM and try

918
00:49:37,840 --> 00:49:39,319
Speaker 1: and do a few more things in the run game

919
00:49:39,360 --> 00:49:42,439
Speaker 1: to take advantage of not only David Johnson but also

920
00:49:42,520 --> 00:49:48,359
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson. But it's that defense, And to your point, Drew,

921
00:49:49,280 --> 00:49:53,440
Speaker 1: if you can get europe tempo going and really rolling,

922
00:49:54,440 --> 00:49:58,600
Speaker 1: and it's they have to catch up to you. So

923
00:49:58,719 --> 00:50:00,359
Speaker 1: now they got to throw a little bit more. They

924
00:50:00,440 --> 00:50:02,799
Speaker 1: have to get out of that running game, and now

925
00:50:03,200 --> 00:50:05,279
Speaker 1: you know you can maybe get your defense off the field.

926
00:50:05,320 --> 00:50:07,399
Speaker 1: Now you can be exotic coming after Kirk Cousins because

927
00:50:07,400 --> 00:50:09,239
Speaker 1: he's not gonna hurt you in the run game, so

928
00:50:09,560 --> 00:50:11,600
Speaker 1: you can do some different things. But to me, if

929
00:50:11,640 --> 00:50:14,840
Speaker 1: you don't stop Dalvin Cook, then you're gonna have a

930
00:50:14,880 --> 00:50:16,520
Speaker 1: long day. They've been doing a pretty good job of

931
00:50:16,520 --> 00:50:19,839
Speaker 1: the receivers for the most part, so Feeling and Justin

932
00:50:19,920 --> 00:50:24,120
Speaker 1: Jefferson present a challenge. But if you take away the

933
00:50:24,320 --> 00:50:27,280
Speaker 1: run and make them a little bit more predictable throwing,

934
00:50:27,719 --> 00:50:29,600
Speaker 1: now you can set up to take away Feeling with

935
00:50:29,640 --> 00:50:32,719
Speaker 1: a double team Justin Jefferson with some bracket coverage and

936
00:50:32,800 --> 00:50:34,839
Speaker 1: get some pressure on Kirk Cousins and then it kind

937
00:50:34,840 --> 00:50:38,040
Speaker 1: of all falls into your into your hands at that point, hopefully,

938
00:50:38,480 --> 00:50:42,120
Speaker 1: So fingers crossed Own three versus Own three, the more

939
00:50:42,200 --> 00:50:44,640
Speaker 1: desperate team's gonna win this game, So hopefully the Texans

940
00:50:44,680 --> 00:50:47,800
Speaker 1: are more desperate. All right, let's very quickly wrap this

941
00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:50,520
Speaker 1: up and get very dorky because we were having a

942
00:50:50,680 --> 00:50:54,120
Speaker 1: dork conversation via text before we did all this. Yeah,

943
00:50:54,280 --> 00:50:58,200
Speaker 1: it was who do we miss? Who from the past

944
00:50:58,920 --> 00:51:00,719
Speaker 1: would we love to bring? So I'm gonna give you

945
00:51:00,840 --> 00:51:04,080
Speaker 1: one Texan from a like the best year that he

946
00:51:04,200 --> 00:51:06,640
Speaker 1: had that you'd love to assert on this team. Not

947
00:51:07,400 --> 00:51:09,960
Speaker 1: all I want Andre Johnson. You can choose Andre Johnson,

948
00:51:10,000 --> 00:51:12,080
Speaker 1: but it's gonna be Oh, I want Andre Johnson of

949
00:51:12,200 --> 00:51:14,520
Speaker 1: two thousand and eight. Yeah, I won Andrew Johnson of

950
00:51:14,560 --> 00:51:17,080
Speaker 1: twenty and twelve, or I want Brian Cushing of two

951
00:51:17,120 --> 00:51:20,239
Speaker 1: thousand and nine, so on and so on. So john

952
00:51:20,320 --> 00:51:25,400
Speaker 1: with that, who you bringing back to debian Clowney twenty sixteen.

953
00:51:28,000 --> 00:51:30,800
Speaker 1: I think if clown the way Clownie played in sixteen

954
00:51:30,880 --> 00:51:33,879
Speaker 1: after JJ got hurt was maybe the best football I've

955
00:51:33,880 --> 00:51:36,000
Speaker 1: seene in play. You could maybe even say twenty seventeen

956
00:51:36,040 --> 00:51:38,960
Speaker 1: as well, But I felt like in twenty sixteen, after

957
00:51:39,080 --> 00:51:41,440
Speaker 1: JJ got hurt, I felt like Clownie's game just went

958
00:51:41,520 --> 00:51:44,960
Speaker 1: to a totally different level. And there's so much you

959
00:51:45,040 --> 00:51:46,520
Speaker 1: could do with him in the run game, in the

960
00:51:46,600 --> 00:51:50,040
Speaker 1: run defense, and teams really had to account for that.

961
00:51:50,719 --> 00:51:53,960
Speaker 1: And look, we know that he he was never and

962
00:51:54,160 --> 00:51:57,239
Speaker 1: is never gonna be this great pass rusher, but he's

963
00:51:57,280 --> 00:52:00,040
Speaker 1: so dynamic and unique that I think that's something and

964
00:52:00,160 --> 00:52:03,279
Speaker 1: that the defense could use, could use right now. Is

965
00:52:03,320 --> 00:52:06,400
Speaker 1: just that that twenty sixteen Clowney. I don't think he's

966
00:52:06,400 --> 00:52:08,319
Speaker 1: playing at that level now, and I don't know they

967
00:52:08,360 --> 00:52:11,120
Speaker 1: played at that level last year. But a twenty sixteen Pooh,

968
00:52:11,239 --> 00:52:13,680
Speaker 1: he was a whole different dude. So I would say,

969
00:52:13,719 --> 00:52:16,279
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen Clowney, What what do you say? I like

970
00:52:16,440 --> 00:52:18,920
Speaker 1: that one. So if you're gonna put that Clowney there,

971
00:52:19,120 --> 00:52:23,240
Speaker 1: that takes him away from me. So you've added that Clowney.

972
00:52:23,960 --> 00:52:30,560
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with two eleven Jonathan Joseph. Oh, let's

973
00:52:30,600 --> 00:52:32,880
Speaker 1: gets a great one. I mean it's either that or

974
00:52:32,960 --> 00:52:35,120
Speaker 1: two thousand and two Aaron Glen as far as maybe

975
00:52:35,160 --> 00:52:39,000
Speaker 1: the best corner year of all time in franchise history.

976
00:52:39,080 --> 00:52:40,520
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna go with Jjoe just because I know

977
00:52:40,600 --> 00:52:43,160
Speaker 1: Jjoe better and was there to see it firsthand. So

978
00:52:43,200 --> 00:52:46,000
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do that. We're gonna add Clowney and prime

979
00:52:46,120 --> 00:52:48,279
Speaker 1: Jjoe Prime Clowney to that defense, and I think that

980
00:52:48,520 --> 00:52:49,799
Speaker 1: that will solve a lot of problems because I think

981
00:52:49,840 --> 00:52:51,920
Speaker 1: Bradley Robey's playing pretty well. I think so too. Can

982
00:52:51,960 --> 00:52:55,000
Speaker 1: you get two really good corners like that, yep, along

983
00:52:55,080 --> 00:52:58,840
Speaker 1: with more pass rush and disruptiveness and yep, um messing

984
00:52:58,920 --> 00:53:01,080
Speaker 1: up the run game of other teams? Yeah, cool with that?

985
00:53:01,160 --> 00:53:03,239
Speaker 1: You cool with that? Absolutely? I mean I was very

986
00:53:03,280 --> 00:53:05,399
Speaker 1: cool with that. I was thinking about maybe adding two

987
00:53:05,480 --> 00:53:10,120
Speaker 1: thousand eleven Antonio Smith for a variety of reasons, but

988
00:53:10,120 --> 00:53:11,400
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with I'm gonna go with some help

989
00:53:11,480 --> 00:53:14,120
Speaker 1: on the outside because you addressed the front seven. Yep.

990
00:53:14,480 --> 00:53:17,480
Speaker 1: Absolutely done. Those definitely would be a couple of great

991
00:53:17,480 --> 00:53:21,040
Speaker 1: additions back to this team from those two years. Those

992
00:53:21,080 --> 00:53:24,719
Speaker 1: guys were absolutely dominant in those years, no question about it.

993
00:53:24,840 --> 00:53:27,560
Speaker 1: But we'll see what this group has on Sunday, and

994
00:53:27,719 --> 00:53:31,520
Speaker 1: hopefully it will stay on Sunday. We do know Steelers

995
00:53:31,560 --> 00:53:33,360
Speaker 1: and Titans are getting moved. We talked about that in

996
00:53:33,440 --> 00:53:37,480
Speaker 1: our hot reads. We don't think that this one will

997
00:53:37,520 --> 00:53:40,040
Speaker 1: get moved because all the vikings have tested negative. So

998
00:53:40,520 --> 00:53:43,200
Speaker 1: fingers crossed this one stays on Sunday at noon and

999
00:53:43,280 --> 00:53:46,719
Speaker 1: everybody in Minnesota, in Tennessee, Pittsburgh, and Houston all stay

1000
00:53:46,800 --> 00:53:48,560
Speaker 1: healthy and all four teams can get on the field

1001
00:53:49,000 --> 00:53:51,680
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00:53:54,520 --> 00:53:58,000
Speaker 1: the Texans, Mark Vanamir, will talk about this one on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: we brought a lot of spark for this organization. The

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Speaker 1: one hour left to go. Right here on a Wednesday

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Speaker 1: edition of Texans All Access from the Honday Texans Radio Studio.

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Speaker 1: On a beautiful, beautiful evening, And I know that there

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Speaker 1: is no one other than our next guest who loves

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Speaker 1: an evening like this more than Mark Vanderveer, the Voice

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Speaker 1: of the Texans. Mark, Happy wonderful Wednesday to you. Oh

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Speaker 1: my gosh, Johnny. I mean, everybody in Houston is thinking,

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Speaker 1: if we're like this all the time, all our homes

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Speaker 1: would be worth four times as much. Maybe they're not

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Speaker 1: thinking that, but they're thinking it is incredible. It's so

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Speaker 1: delightful out It's just pure delight and it would be

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Speaker 1: great if it was like this all the time, but

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Speaker 1: I think we appreciate it more. This is kind of

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Speaker 1: like our springtime, you know. I liken it too, when

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Speaker 1: you're up north and you have the thaw and then

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Speaker 1: the springtime. This is the cool down in the springtime,

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Speaker 1: you know, even though it's technically fall, I get it,

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Speaker 1: but it's sort of in reverse here in Houston. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's been really nice and hopefully it stays that way

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Speaker 1: for the next few days. Mark, I've mentioned earlier with

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Speaker 1: your interview with Paul Allen, I start thinking about man

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Speaker 1: I remember I met Paul for the first time at

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Speaker 1: the Combine and then it hit me, was like, that's

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01:02:07,520 --> 01:02:11,760
Speaker 1: really the last time that we've done anything of a

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01:02:12,000 --> 01:02:16,680
Speaker 1: big group sort of aspect, and that was at the Combine.

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Speaker 1: I loved meeting Paul Allen. Jeff Joniac, we know Mike Keith,

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01:02:22,400 --> 01:02:25,800
Speaker 1: we know Frank Matt from the Colts, Matt Taylor, but

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Speaker 1: Paul Allen is the one. I think just because I've

1143
01:02:27,680 --> 01:02:31,960
Speaker 1: heard his game calls so often in the past, that

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01:02:32,040 --> 01:02:35,040
Speaker 1: I was more intrigued meeting maybe than any others. I

1145
01:02:35,320 --> 01:02:38,640
Speaker 1: really enjoy listening to Paul Allen now, never more than you,

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01:02:39,280 --> 01:02:41,040
Speaker 1: But I just love it when you get him on

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01:02:41,040 --> 01:02:44,200
Speaker 1: the air. I think he is so fantastic to listen

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Speaker 1: to your vibe when you talk to him. Did you

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Speaker 1: get the vibe that, yeah, they feel like they can

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01:02:48,920 --> 01:02:51,280
Speaker 1: get out of this tailspin, or this is just a

1151
01:02:51,360 --> 01:02:53,520
Speaker 1: blip on the radar screen or does he see some

1152
01:02:53,640 --> 01:02:55,960
Speaker 1: bigger issues Because I got the feeling we talked to

1153
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Speaker 1: him at the Combine he wasn't as dead that on

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Speaker 1: the Vikings being a double digit win team. What was

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Speaker 1: your reaction talking to him this time? Well't remember at

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Speaker 1: the Combine he was really worried about their cap situation

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01:03:07,920 --> 01:03:09,320
Speaker 1: and that they wouldn't be able to hang on to

1158
01:03:09,400 --> 01:03:11,960
Speaker 1: a lot of these players ultimately anyway, maybe not this year,

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01:03:12,040 --> 01:03:15,240
Speaker 1: but going down the line. And then, you know, I

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Speaker 1: just think that if I'm then them, It's this way

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Speaker 1: in life and in sports. You put yourself in the

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Speaker 1: shoes of the opponent, right or the shoes of the

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Speaker 1: other person that you're dealing with. And if I put

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Speaker 1: myself in the Viking shoes, They've you know, the media,

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Speaker 1: everybody involved with the Vikings organization. I'm sure the coaches

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Speaker 1: aren't saying this publicly, but I'm thinking, well, gee, the

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Speaker 1: Texans give up a lot of rushing yards or I

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Speaker 1: can run the football. I should be able to run

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Speaker 1: on the Texans. That's what the Vikings are probably thinking.

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Speaker 1: And I've got Dalvin Cook in this Kubiak running game.

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Speaker 1: I can run on them, not tax my defense so much,

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01:03:48,920 --> 01:03:51,160
Speaker 1: which has a lot of young players and injuries and everything,

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01:03:51,680 --> 01:03:53,440
Speaker 1: and maybe get out of there with a win and

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Speaker 1: I can get well. Now, I know the Texans fandom

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01:03:57,760 --> 01:04:00,240
Speaker 1: fan base they're thinking of it differently, but that's how

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Speaker 1: I look at it. I think that's how they see it,

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Speaker 1: Johnny that they're gonna run the ball on the Texans.

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Speaker 1: So Anthony Weaver knows be ready because it's coming. I mean,

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Speaker 1: here it is. You know, this is why it earth.

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01:04:12,000 --> 01:04:14,440
Speaker 1: I'm coming and I'm bringing Dalvin Cook with me. So

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Speaker 1: we'll see how that goes on Sunday. You better be

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Speaker 1: ready to stop them. Well, the thing about it, Mark,

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01:04:19,200 --> 01:04:22,720
Speaker 1: and I've thought a lot about this, and look, first

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01:04:23,040 --> 01:04:25,840
Speaker 1: you can I don't want to do this because it's

1185
01:04:25,920 --> 01:04:29,000
Speaker 1: making excuses, but I've kind of thought through this week

1186
01:04:29,080 --> 01:04:33,360
Speaker 1: one against Clyde edwardy Lair tackling atrocious twenty miss tackles

1187
01:04:33,760 --> 01:04:37,200
Speaker 1: that led to the running game just bleeding the Texans

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Speaker 1: dry that night. Over the next two weeks, the Ravens

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Speaker 1: and Steelers, I don't want to say that the Texans

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01:04:43,280 --> 01:04:46,040
Speaker 1: were the eighty five Bears through the first three quarters,

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01:04:46,880 --> 01:04:51,600
Speaker 1: but they were in some sense holding their own until

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Speaker 1: it felt like late in the third, early in the fourth,

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01:04:55,200 --> 01:04:58,520
Speaker 1: the damn broke in the Ravens game. The dam broke

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Speaker 1: on the fourth and one when they put Ingram in

1195
01:05:00,680 --> 01:05:04,040
Speaker 1: the Wildcap. It felt like maybe you could sort of

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01:05:04,080 --> 01:05:06,880
Speaker 1: see it coming in the Steelers game, but then the

1197
01:05:06,960 --> 01:05:09,040
Speaker 1: Steelers just did the same thing. They just bled you

1198
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Speaker 1: dry in the second half, and both situations, you had

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Speaker 1: so few offensive plays in the second half that if

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01:05:17,120 --> 01:05:19,160
Speaker 1: you can even up the play count by the time

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01:05:19,240 --> 01:05:21,400
Speaker 1: you get to the second half, maybe we're a little

1202
01:05:21,400 --> 01:05:25,080
Speaker 1: bit more rest bit some rest. This defense can be

1203
01:05:25,920 --> 01:05:29,120
Speaker 1: better able to handle Dalvin Cook and the running game.

1204
01:05:29,280 --> 01:05:34,280
Speaker 1: Now that has yet to bear fruit, and we'll see

1205
01:05:34,320 --> 01:05:37,880
Speaker 1: whether that's the case. But to me, the best defense

1206
01:05:37,960 --> 01:05:40,800
Speaker 1: for Dalvin Cook is going to end up being Deshaun

1207
01:05:40,880 --> 01:05:45,560
Speaker 1: Watson and the offense keeping Dalvin Cook on the sideline,

1208
01:05:45,880 --> 01:05:49,360
Speaker 1: keeping cousins on the sideline and keeping them there for

1209
01:05:49,440 --> 01:05:51,840
Speaker 1: a while and see if they can't flip the script.

1210
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Speaker 1: And that is, let's see if the Vikings can handle this.

1211
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Speaker 1: And I think the one thing mark about the Vikings

1212
01:05:56,240 --> 01:05:58,240
Speaker 1: pretty interesting because when you talk to people heading into

1213
01:05:58,280 --> 01:06:02,640
Speaker 1: the year, everybody's like, oh man at Vikings defense. But

1214
01:06:02,760 --> 01:06:05,560
Speaker 1: in all honesty, the twenty nineteen Vikings defense was already

1215
01:06:05,640 --> 01:06:09,720
Speaker 1: showing signs of wear and tear. They didn't rank in

1216
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Speaker 1: any major category above fourteenth or fifteenth in the league,

1217
01:06:15,040 --> 01:06:18,000
Speaker 1: so they were already showing some wear and tear. And

1218
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Speaker 1: then really they've kind of been hit with it, especially

1219
01:06:21,200 --> 01:06:23,880
Speaker 1: with some of the injuries, some of the departures prior

1220
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Speaker 1: to this year, They've been hit with it hard. And

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Speaker 1: just like us, they have faced three teams combined record

1222
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Speaker 1: eight and one. So the similarities in these two teams

1223
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Speaker 1: coming into this game, I think are there. I mean,

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Speaker 1: both head coaches twenty fourteen starts, both teams had wild

1225
01:06:43,320 --> 01:06:46,200
Speaker 1: card weekend wins last year, both are oh and three,

1226
01:06:47,000 --> 01:06:50,600
Speaker 1: both are desperate for a win obviously, and both teams

1227
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Speaker 1: have become owen three against eight and one records of

1228
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Speaker 1: their opponents. So do we really know what either team is.

1229
01:07:00,800 --> 01:07:03,280
Speaker 1: I don't know. I do know this. I'm glad this

1230
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Speaker 1: game is in Houston with our fans, And I know

1231
01:07:06,240 --> 01:07:10,360
Speaker 1: that sounds strange, but I just feel like in a

1232
01:07:10,720 --> 01:07:13,200
Speaker 1: game of oh and three teams where there's so much

1233
01:07:13,280 --> 01:07:14,640
Speaker 1: really on the line, because you go to on four.

1234
01:07:14,680 --> 01:07:18,040
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about it in a second, it's it's

1235
01:07:18,160 --> 01:07:21,200
Speaker 1: virtually over for having an opportunity to go to the playoffs,

1236
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Speaker 1: if we're thinking that far ahead. But I think just

1237
01:07:25,400 --> 01:07:28,800
Speaker 1: a little bit of juice from the crowd from thirteen thousand,

1238
01:07:28,880 --> 01:07:32,000
Speaker 1: three hundred, just a little bit of juice I think

1239
01:07:32,080 --> 01:07:34,560
Speaker 1: can help this team at some point, and I think

1240
01:07:34,640 --> 01:07:37,800
Speaker 1: they'll feed off it, and I'm looking forward to that. Yeah,

1241
01:07:38,120 --> 01:07:41,240
Speaker 1: I hope it does. I hope that's a difference maker

1242
01:07:41,280 --> 01:07:42,560
Speaker 1: for them. I think it's a great point you make

1243
01:07:42,600 --> 01:07:45,880
Speaker 1: about the level of competition, the weight class that these

1244
01:07:45,920 --> 01:07:49,439
Speaker 1: teams have been in the first couple of the first

1245
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Speaker 1: few weeks. Although I look at the Vikings and the

1246
01:07:52,440 --> 01:07:55,000
Speaker 1: Texans have a way stronger case because we don't know

1247
01:07:55,080 --> 01:07:57,080
Speaker 1: how good the Cults are. I'm just gonna go out

1248
01:07:57,120 --> 01:07:58,680
Speaker 1: on a limb and think the Colts aren't as good

1249
01:07:58,680 --> 01:08:01,160
Speaker 1: as the Ravens or the Chiefs, and I don't think

1250
01:08:01,200 --> 01:08:04,640
Speaker 1: the Titans are either. But all that being said, the

1251
01:08:04,720 --> 01:08:07,880
Speaker 1: Packers might be unbelievable. Who knows. But all that being said,

1252
01:08:08,520 --> 01:08:10,920
Speaker 1: you don't know how bad or how good they can be.

1253
01:08:11,960 --> 01:08:14,720
Speaker 1: They've made mistakes, a lot of self inflicted wounds, a

1254
01:08:14,760 --> 01:08:17,880
Speaker 1: lot of wounds inflicted by the opponent. If you say,

1255
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Speaker 1: I'm not saying they're relatively even, but if you go

1256
01:08:20,960 --> 01:08:23,960
Speaker 1: down that road, A big difference here is a quarterback.

1257
01:08:24,240 --> 01:08:26,599
Speaker 1: Right now. The Texans might not have the ground game

1258
01:08:26,680 --> 01:08:30,000
Speaker 1: overall that the Vikings have, but they have Deshaun Watson,

1259
01:08:30,400 --> 01:08:33,280
Speaker 1: and as soon as Deshaun Watson gets involved, I think

1260
01:08:33,320 --> 01:08:35,000
Speaker 1: a little bit more of the running game. I mean,

1261
01:08:35,240 --> 01:08:38,720
Speaker 1: you know, it's funny. It's the irony here is. You know,

1262
01:08:38,880 --> 01:08:41,920
Speaker 1: for years we say, listen, it's okay to run it

1263
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Speaker 1: a little bit, but don't want to run it too much.

1264
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Speaker 1: Don't want to expose yourself and threaten injury to yourself

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Speaker 1: to your quarterback. But on the other hand, you need

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Speaker 1: some of that. You need some of that from him,

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Speaker 1: especially when other stuff isn't working, because the defense hates it.

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Speaker 1: What's the one thing you hate when you're watching a

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Speaker 1: game and you want to your team stop the opponent

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Speaker 1: of whatever team it is, when the quarterback runs out,

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Speaker 1: you're like, oh my gosh, it's almost unfair. It should

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Speaker 1: be like flag football, not allowed to run if you're

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Speaker 1: the quarterback. Darn it? And so should we count five Mississippi.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, but that the defense hates that because

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Speaker 1: very often it's an unaccounted for kind of weapon or

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Speaker 1: I think we need some of that, Johnny. I think

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Speaker 1: we you know, you gotta get a win no matter what.

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Speaker 1: If they win three nothing on Sunday, I'll be throwing

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Speaker 1: a parade. I mean, I'll be so happy. Just get

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Speaker 1: the streak over with and get moving in the proper direction.

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Speaker 1: You can fix things on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, whatever. You

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Speaker 1: can fix things next week from a three zo win

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Speaker 1: a whole lot better than you can a thirty to

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Speaker 1: nothing lost or whatever. Twenty seven loss doesn't matter. You

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Speaker 1: can mix those things. Hey, look, it doesn't matter. We

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Speaker 1: just got to win. And we haven't experienced the win

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Speaker 1: since January early January of twenty twenty. So yeah, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna We're gonna celebrate any kind of win. And I

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Speaker 1: think to your point, Mark, I went back and I

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Speaker 1: just looked at the numbers on drive starters and first

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Speaker 1: downs for the Texans, and in going back and looking

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Speaker 1: at it against Pittsburgh, this team needs to start drives

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Speaker 1: much better than they've been starting them. But to that end,

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Speaker 1: they had they had this ten drive starters, they had

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Speaker 1: one of eight yards and one of five yards. Overall

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Speaker 1: in ten drives, they had negative two total yards to

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Speaker 1: drive starts. Oh my gosh, So getting that's just shocking. Yes,

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Speaker 1: And they always talk about how important that first play

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Speaker 1: is of a drive just to get you yes, yet

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Speaker 1: the right tone, get a little positive yardage, keep going.

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Speaker 1: Look when they run it for two or three yards

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Speaker 1: sometimes if they can pay at least, it's positive. But

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Speaker 1: if they're negative in total yards in all their drive

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Speaker 1: starters in the in the game, well you don't have

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Speaker 1: to look very much further than that to see why

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Speaker 1: you lost the game while you weren't able to move

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Speaker 1: the ball the way you need it to. The eight

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Speaker 1: yarder came on the seventy seventy five yard drive right

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Speaker 1: for the half through. The Brandon Cooks got the second

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Speaker 1: in two and then they were cooking. The five yarder

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Speaker 1: was the Shawn Watson on a scramble. Now, I don't

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Speaker 1: want him on a scramble. I'd rather him just be

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Speaker 1: on a designed run of some sort. But either way,

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Speaker 1: I'll take it. But that goes to your point of

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Speaker 1: dialing up the Sean and making sure that you're getting

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Speaker 1: something from him in the run game, which leads me

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Speaker 1: to this. Let me ask you a question right now,

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Speaker 1: and we have to ask Bill O'Brien this, and look,

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Speaker 1: he'll answer it. And I know we've talked about it

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Speaker 1: a little from time to time, but everybody listening right

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Speaker 1: now is wondering why don't they do hurry up more?

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Speaker 1: Why don't they do ka gun Jim Kelly, you know,

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Speaker 1: greatest show on turf. Whatever. Look, I know they're not

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Speaker 1: these offenses right now, but they have that in their bag.

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Speaker 1: Why don't they pull that out and swing it? Go

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Speaker 1: with the hurry up when you least expect it. It's

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Speaker 1: midway to the first quarter, Bam. And I know they

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01:12:25,360 --> 01:12:28,040
Speaker 1: hurry to the line very often, Johnny, but things kind

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Speaker 1: of bogged down. Why why don't they go hurry up

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01:12:31,280 --> 01:12:34,439
Speaker 1: offense more often? I'm with you. I am absolutely a

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Speaker 1: thousand percent with you. And Drew Dorty made that comment.

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Speaker 1: He said, when we did our in the Lab podcast,

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Speaker 1: we're talking about non negotiables. What are the non negotiables

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Speaker 1: things you've got to have? He said, you know what,

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Speaker 1: john that drive before the end of a half that

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Speaker 1: too minute, wasn't even too minute. It wasn't even one

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Speaker 1: minute drive. They have the ball a minute fourteen and

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01:12:53,720 --> 01:12:56,840
Speaker 1: scored with twenty four seconds left, and they did it

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Speaker 1: obviously using timeouts. I get that, but still they seventy

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Speaker 1: five yards bang bang bang bang bang done. I mean

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Speaker 1: it was like that. Andrew said, that's what we need

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Speaker 1: to go with, that's what we need to see, and

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Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, I'm thinking, what is they're thinking why

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Speaker 1: they wouldn't do that as it because they want to

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Speaker 1: be a little more deliberate kill clock. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: don't know. I'm just I'm hypothesizing here. But we're gonna

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Speaker 1: talk to Bill O'Brien about this on Monday, for sure. Yeah, no,

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Speaker 1: no doubt. I don't I don't know. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I think maybe you're not fully comfortable in it. Maybe

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Speaker 1: you're not totally sure what personnel grouping you're gonna get.

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Speaker 1: But here's the thing. I think Bill O'Brien would like

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Speaker 1: to be able to do it. And I think that's

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Speaker 1: gonna be something that after seeing the success of that

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Speaker 1: drive and going back and looking at how they were

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Speaker 1: doing it, I would imagine that's what they're gonna want

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Speaker 1: to do maybe a little bit more of this week.

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Speaker 1: I mean I would if I went through and went, man,

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Speaker 1: what was my most successful drive and why was it successful? Well, man,

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Speaker 1: here it is protection, good, good clean routes. Got rid

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Speaker 1: of the ball quickly and moved up and down the

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Speaker 1: field in a clean way, and we did it with

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Speaker 1: some up tempo. I think that's what we should do.

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Speaker 1: Now to your point, do you have to do it

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Speaker 1: every single down? No, but I do think that every

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Speaker 1: offense has to find an identity of some sort. Every

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Speaker 1: great offense, does you know, greatest show on turf k

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Speaker 1: Gun offense. You mentioned that Kansas City values the innovation

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Speaker 1: and I don't want to say trickery because it's not

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Speaker 1: really trickery, but it's just the way that they package

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Speaker 1: things is different from everybody else. The Ravens have that

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Speaker 1: run game. Well, how do you separate yourself as an offense?

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Speaker 1: You separate it with maybe some up tempo. I think

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Speaker 1: one other thing, Mark can get your thoughts in this

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Speaker 1: real fast before we have to go. I think the

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Speaker 1: impact of Duke Johnson. I think having Duke Johnson back,

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Speaker 1: and I hope he's back, I think that will help

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Speaker 1: some of the things that they want to do. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I know, I like that one an awful lot, Johnny.

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Speaker 1: One more for you though. On the touchdown pass to Fuller,

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Speaker 1: that was single coverage right, it was so? Is that

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01:14:58,120 --> 01:15:02,240
Speaker 1: something that he saw very quickly where the Steelers caught

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01:15:02,479 --> 01:15:05,639
Speaker 1: sort of flat footed because of the hurry up, because

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Speaker 1: you could imagine they'd probably want help on Will. And

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Speaker 1: if if I'm Watson and I've got single with Will,

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Speaker 1: it's not like single with Hot necessarily. But it's pretty

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Speaker 1: darn good. I mean, that was not an easy catch,

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Speaker 1: wasn't It wasn't a really high degree of difficulty. But

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Speaker 1: when that ball was coming in there, I thought, oh,

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Speaker 1: please hang out of this because I knew that the

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Speaker 1: DV was right there with him, and I was worried

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Speaker 1: about a lot of physical contact and maybe the ball

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Speaker 1: coming loose. But he made the catch. Let's see another day.

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Speaker 1: So hopefully Mark, we see a little bit more of

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Speaker 1: that up Temple. Mark appreciate it. Thank you very much,

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Speaker 1: Red Diamond knows perfects, not easy our karaoke skills. At

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Speaker 1: least we have our day jobs, our family photo take

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01:20:09,920 --> 01:20:14,080
Speaker 1: number eighty two. Even our radio commercial has the occasional glintlitch.

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Speaker 1: So we'll stick to what we have perfected. Our Red

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01:20:17,120 --> 01:20:21,599
Speaker 1: Diamond tea no shortcuts, no concentrates, perfectly crafted from actual

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Speaker 1: tea leaves and water. After all, at Red Diamond, we

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01:20:24,920 --> 01:20:29,479
Speaker 1: think tea should taste like well, Tea Red Diamond. We're

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01:20:29,680 --> 01:20:35,200
Speaker 1: perfect at Tea. He's the general, John McLean. They're not

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01:20:35,320 --> 01:20:38,040
Speaker 1: looking at Old Thomas. Old Thomas is out. They had

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01:20:38,040 --> 01:20:40,920
Speaker 1: a lot of internal discussion and before he had a

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01:20:41,000 --> 01:20:43,880
Speaker 1: chance to work out, they sent him all. So they'll

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01:20:43,920 --> 01:20:47,160
Speaker 1: do something to get a third safety. Maybe they'll bring

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01:20:47,240 --> 01:20:50,000
Speaker 1: somebody up from the practice squad or sign another veteran.

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01:20:50,360 --> 01:20:52,720
Speaker 1: I don't know who it is. I just know bid

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01:20:52,760 --> 01:20:56,600
Speaker 1: Pearl Thomas has a big issue. John McLean. He's exclusively

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Speaker 1: on Houston's Sports Leader sports Radio six ten Radio six ten,

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01:21:02,560 --> 01:21:06,280
Speaker 1: Radio six ten. What are the experts predicting about this

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01:21:06,439 --> 01:21:10,840
Speaker 1: week's big game? Extra Points Saturday nights at ten thirty

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01:21:11,080 --> 01:21:15,559
Speaker 1: or after the late local news on ABC thirteen. Welcome

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01:21:15,600 --> 01:21:19,000
Speaker 1: back everybody in this Wednesday edition of Texans All Access,

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01:21:19,200 --> 01:21:22,160
Speaker 1: and it's time to go to the far North. Well

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01:21:22,360 --> 01:21:26,040
Speaker 1: like yeah as farging going United States up to Minneapolis,

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01:21:26,160 --> 01:21:30,160
Speaker 1: Minnesota to talk to writer for Vikings dot Com, Eric

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01:21:30,439 --> 01:21:34,759
Speaker 1: Smith and DP and Eric dove deep into this matchup

1495
01:21:34,840 --> 01:21:38,120
Speaker 1: that we'll see at noon on Sunday. Such a weird

1496
01:21:38,200 --> 01:21:41,160
Speaker 1: start to this season already, but these two teams sitting

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01:21:41,200 --> 01:21:44,160
Speaker 1: at OZ and three obviously not where they wanted or

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01:21:44,280 --> 01:21:46,960
Speaker 1: expected to be heading into week for But here we are.

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Speaker 1: How's it going, Eric, It's gone good, DP. How are you.

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01:21:50,040 --> 01:21:52,640
Speaker 1: I'm I'm okay. I think after Sunday one of us

1501
01:21:52,680 --> 01:21:55,960
Speaker 1: will be much happier. I'd be lying if I didn't say,

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01:21:56,000 --> 01:21:59,240
Speaker 1: I hope it's me. But let's talk about this Minnesota

1503
01:21:59,320 --> 01:22:01,479
Speaker 1: Vikings team, because it's a team that we don't face

1504
01:22:01,560 --> 01:22:05,599
Speaker 1: too often. They've put up some pretty impressive offensive numbers,

1505
01:22:05,720 --> 01:22:08,599
Speaker 1: especially in that Week three loss. We're rooting for the Vikings.

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01:22:08,640 --> 01:22:12,200
Speaker 1: They're playing the Titans, but thirty or more points in

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01:22:12,320 --> 01:22:15,960
Speaker 1: two of their three losses. What's been ailing the Vikings

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01:22:16,040 --> 01:22:18,840
Speaker 1: through this slow start to the season and what are

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01:22:18,840 --> 01:22:21,479
Speaker 1: the positives? Yeah, you know, it's funny that you mentioned

1510
01:22:21,760 --> 01:22:24,880
Speaker 1: slow start because that's actually been the Vikings kryptonite so far.

1511
01:22:25,160 --> 01:22:27,120
Speaker 1: And it's been a slow start in the first half

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01:22:27,640 --> 01:22:31,559
Speaker 1: the entering Week three. Entering the game against the Titans,

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01:22:31,760 --> 01:22:34,960
Speaker 1: the Vikings had a point differential of minus thirty one

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01:22:35,360 --> 01:22:37,400
Speaker 1: in the second quarter and they just really couldn't get

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01:22:37,400 --> 01:22:40,000
Speaker 1: out of their own way. They had they took a safety,

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01:22:40,080 --> 01:22:42,920
Speaker 1: and back to back weeks, you know, they had turnovers

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01:22:43,000 --> 01:22:46,479
Speaker 1: and penalties and they really just didn't give themselves a

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01:22:46,640 --> 01:22:49,120
Speaker 1: chance with kind of poor performances in the second quarter,

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01:22:49,600 --> 01:22:52,400
Speaker 1: and as a result, they trailed at halftime and kind

1520
01:22:52,439 --> 01:22:54,000
Speaker 1: of had to play catch up with kind of why

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01:22:54,080 --> 01:22:56,920
Speaker 1: the point total were a little inflated in the second half.

1522
01:22:57,360 --> 01:22:59,960
Speaker 1: And then Sunday against the Titans, we actually played well

1523
01:23:00,120 --> 01:23:02,120
Speaker 1: on the first half and had a seventeen to nine

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01:23:02,240 --> 01:23:04,640
Speaker 1: lead at the break, but it was kind of the

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01:23:04,680 --> 01:23:07,400
Speaker 1: opposite and it was the fourth quarter that doomed us,

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01:23:07,840 --> 01:23:10,479
Speaker 1: and we had a five point lead, was six and

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01:23:10,479 --> 01:23:13,280
Speaker 1: a half minute to go, and both sides of the

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01:23:13,320 --> 01:23:16,200
Speaker 1: ball couldn't couldn't close it out. The offense couldn't add

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01:23:16,200 --> 01:23:19,080
Speaker 1: any points or kind of drained the clock and the

1530
01:23:19,200 --> 01:23:21,800
Speaker 1: defense couldn't make a stop and the Titans kick too late,

1531
01:23:22,120 --> 01:23:24,639
Speaker 1: late and long field goals and so we lost by one.

1532
01:23:25,600 --> 01:23:28,200
Speaker 1: Some positive you know, it was a big game for

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01:23:28,320 --> 01:23:31,120
Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson in week three and now it's good to see.

1534
01:23:31,520 --> 01:23:34,040
Speaker 1: And then Dalvin Cook, our running back who just signed

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01:23:34,040 --> 01:23:37,559
Speaker 1: an extension, has looked good all season. And then on defense,

1536
01:23:38,080 --> 01:23:40,400
Speaker 1: a player that you guys might know well is unique

1537
01:23:40,439 --> 01:23:43,200
Speaker 1: and Gackway. We got in a trade from Jacksonville just

1538
01:23:43,320 --> 01:23:46,519
Speaker 1: before the season, He's had a strip stack and back

1539
01:23:46,560 --> 01:23:48,360
Speaker 1: to back game, so it seems like he's settling in

1540
01:23:48,479 --> 01:23:51,320
Speaker 1: pretty well. Yeah, the Texans facing a lot of their

1541
01:23:51,680 --> 01:23:56,679
Speaker 1: former divisional opponents on defense this year. Strangely enough, Kirk Cousins,

1542
01:23:56,800 --> 01:23:58,640
Speaker 1: let's talk about him, because it's hard not to think

1543
01:23:58,640 --> 01:24:00,839
Speaker 1: about the Vikings and not think of about their quarterback.

1544
01:24:01,520 --> 01:24:05,040
Speaker 1: Five touchdowns, six interceptions so far through twenty twenty. He

1545
01:24:05,200 --> 01:24:09,479
Speaker 1: had only six interceptions for all of twenty nineteen. What's

1546
01:24:09,520 --> 01:24:12,479
Speaker 1: been ailing Kirk Cousins and what does he need to

1547
01:24:12,520 --> 01:24:15,280
Speaker 1: do to really turn things around and take that next step.

1548
01:24:16,400 --> 01:24:19,800
Speaker 1: It's depriving that he already had six interceptions, like he

1549
01:24:19,840 --> 01:24:22,240
Speaker 1: said he had that last year and fifteen games that

1550
01:24:22,320 --> 01:24:24,760
Speaker 1: he started. You know, some of it's been a little

1551
01:24:24,760 --> 01:24:26,519
Speaker 1: bit of bad luck where the ball has hit off

1552
01:24:26,600 --> 01:24:29,479
Speaker 1: his receiver's hands and kind of bounced right to the defense.

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01:24:30,600 --> 01:24:32,599
Speaker 1: You know, like I mentioned earlier, we've trailed a lot

1554
01:24:32,760 --> 01:24:34,360
Speaker 1: so far this season, so we've kind of had to

1555
01:24:34,720 --> 01:24:36,280
Speaker 1: try to throw it down the field and make some

1556
01:24:36,439 --> 01:24:38,519
Speaker 1: plays and that's something that he usually doesn't do or

1557
01:24:38,600 --> 01:24:42,000
Speaker 1: kind of forced the ball. And because we've trailed and

1558
01:24:42,360 --> 01:24:44,080
Speaker 1: we've needed to pass the ball, a lot more than

1559
01:24:44,160 --> 01:24:46,800
Speaker 1: we would like to. The pressure's kind of been on

1560
01:24:46,920 --> 01:24:49,160
Speaker 1: Kirk to make a play, and you know, when the

1561
01:24:49,240 --> 01:24:51,600
Speaker 1: defense knows you're passing there, they're kind of ready for that.

1562
01:24:52,560 --> 01:24:55,000
Speaker 1: And at the end of Sunday's game against the Titans,

1563
01:24:55,040 --> 01:24:56,519
Speaker 1: he kind of threw one up. I think it was

1564
01:24:56,640 --> 01:24:58,760
Speaker 1: fourth and twenty four and it's kind of needed to

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01:24:58,840 --> 01:25:00,560
Speaker 1: chuck it up and hope to get a down and

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01:25:01,240 --> 01:25:04,240
Speaker 1: that path was intercepted. So some of them had been

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01:25:04,280 --> 01:25:06,160
Speaker 1: a little bit fluky, some of them have been bad

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01:25:06,240 --> 01:25:08,920
Speaker 1: throws by Kirk. But yeah, there's six picks are surprising,

1569
01:25:09,200 --> 01:25:11,960
Speaker 1: and you know that that probably need to change if

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01:25:12,000 --> 01:25:14,800
Speaker 1: the offense want to be more consistent and if a

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01:25:14,840 --> 01:25:18,240
Speaker 1: team want to get a win on Sunday. Yeah, you

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01:25:18,360 --> 01:25:21,200
Speaker 1: mentioned Dalvin Cook, who's really off to a hot start.

1573
01:25:21,280 --> 01:25:24,400
Speaker 1: Signed that contract extension. He currently ranks third in the

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01:25:24,520 --> 01:25:27,519
Speaker 1: NFL in rushing yards that two hundred and ninety four

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01:25:27,600 --> 01:25:31,160
Speaker 1: yards through the first three games, averaging six point one

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01:25:31,280 --> 01:25:34,840
Speaker 1: yards per carry, four rushing touchdowns. It's quite impressive what

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01:25:34,920 --> 01:25:38,120
Speaker 1: Cook's been able to do so far when he's involved.

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01:25:38,720 --> 01:25:42,320
Speaker 1: How does he make that Vikings offense more explosive. He's

1579
01:25:42,400 --> 01:25:44,679
Speaker 1: probably you know, other than what we saw from Justin

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01:25:44,760 --> 01:25:48,439
Speaker 1: Jefferson Sunday, he's probably the most explosive offensive player that

1581
01:25:48,520 --> 01:25:51,360
Speaker 1: we have, and we've seen that now for over a season.

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01:25:51,439 --> 01:25:54,519
Speaker 1: He made it for Pro Bowl last year in twenty nineteen,

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01:25:54,600 --> 01:25:57,679
Speaker 1: he had over eleven hundred rushing yards and sixteen rushing

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01:25:57,720 --> 01:26:01,120
Speaker 1: touchdowns or starry thirteen rushing touchdowns. So he's proven when

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01:26:01,160 --> 01:26:03,839
Speaker 1: healthy he can be a playmaker. And that hot started

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01:26:03,920 --> 01:26:07,840
Speaker 1: you mentioned had been the focal point now. So the

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01:26:07,920 --> 01:26:10,000
Speaker 1: way the Vikings have kind of built their offense is

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01:26:10,080 --> 01:26:12,200
Speaker 1: that they want to run the ball and kind of

1589
01:26:12,240 --> 01:26:14,880
Speaker 1: build off play action path is to move down the field,

1590
01:26:15,439 --> 01:26:17,960
Speaker 1: and Dalvin is the main focal point of that right

1591
01:26:18,040 --> 01:26:20,920
Speaker 1: because he's the main running back. So when he gets going,

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01:26:21,240 --> 01:26:24,080
Speaker 1: that helped Kirk Cousins as well with with kind of

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01:26:24,080 --> 01:26:27,200
Speaker 1: setting up the play action pathes. So Dalvin is it

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01:26:27,360 --> 01:26:29,360
Speaker 1: looked at it almost like the faith of the offense

1595
01:26:29,439 --> 01:26:32,280
Speaker 1: and perhaps maybe the faith of the franchise right now.

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01:26:32,680 --> 01:26:35,800
Speaker 1: And he's played well, you know, he had a career

1597
01:26:35,880 --> 01:26:37,880
Speaker 1: game on Sunday with you know one hundred and I

1598
01:26:37,920 --> 01:26:40,280
Speaker 1: think with one hundred and eighty one rushing yards, which

1599
01:26:40,320 --> 01:26:41,920
Speaker 1: with the career best and he had a pair of

1600
01:26:42,000 --> 01:26:44,200
Speaker 1: thirty nine yard runs and he really kind of took

1601
01:26:44,280 --> 01:26:46,960
Speaker 1: control of the game. It was just unfortunate that the

1602
01:26:47,080 --> 01:26:50,280
Speaker 1: Vikings couldn't pull out a win. You mentioned Justin Jefferson

1603
01:26:50,320 --> 01:26:51,960
Speaker 1: a few times. I'm gonna get to him in a second,

1604
01:26:52,000 --> 01:26:54,679
Speaker 1: but I think the big offseason story obviously was training

1605
01:26:54,720 --> 01:26:57,400
Speaker 1: White Steffon Diggs, who was such a huge part of

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01:26:57,520 --> 01:27:00,479
Speaker 1: that receiving corps. How did the Vikings of make up

1607
01:27:00,560 --> 01:27:02,360
Speaker 1: for that loss? Just give me sort of an overall

1608
01:27:02,880 --> 01:27:04,720
Speaker 1: view of what they did to make up for him,

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01:27:04,760 --> 01:27:07,760
Speaker 1: and how do you replace a guy like Diggs. Yeah,

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01:27:07,840 --> 01:27:09,920
Speaker 1: they drafted Jefferson, you know, he was a first round

1611
01:27:09,960 --> 01:27:13,960
Speaker 1: pick with the pick that they got from from the Bills,

1612
01:27:13,960 --> 01:27:17,000
Speaker 1: and that trade with Diggs. You know, Adam steel And

1613
01:27:17,080 --> 01:27:20,000
Speaker 1: is still here, so he's looked at the number one guy.

1614
01:27:20,680 --> 01:27:22,680
Speaker 1: But you know, I mentioned the Vikings who want to

1615
01:27:22,720 --> 01:27:25,240
Speaker 1: run the ball a lot. We also rely heavily on

1616
01:27:25,360 --> 01:27:27,680
Speaker 1: our tight ends and we like to go two and

1617
01:27:27,800 --> 01:27:29,840
Speaker 1: three tight end sets and really kind of go heavy

1618
01:27:30,360 --> 01:27:33,800
Speaker 1: and kind of you know, work in that run play action,

1619
01:27:34,160 --> 01:27:37,200
Speaker 1: as I said before, But the tight ends haven't gotten

1620
01:27:37,280 --> 01:27:40,800
Speaker 1: too involved this year, and that's been surprising too. You know,

1621
01:27:40,960 --> 01:27:44,760
Speaker 1: Kyle Rudolph and Irv Smith have been targeted a few times,

1622
01:27:44,800 --> 01:27:47,120
Speaker 1: and Rudolph had a tuckdown catch Sunday, but it's not

1623
01:27:47,240 --> 01:27:49,960
Speaker 1: the production you would expect. So hopefully that can change

1624
01:27:50,040 --> 01:27:52,719
Speaker 1: going forward to kind of help offset the loss of digs.

1625
01:27:52,960 --> 01:27:55,360
Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson, I mean as a rookie, he's really making

1626
01:27:55,400 --> 01:27:57,839
Speaker 1: a name for himself. One hundred seventy five yards receiving

1627
01:27:58,640 --> 01:28:01,799
Speaker 1: so far and that huge seventy one yard touchdown against

1628
01:28:01,800 --> 01:28:05,160
Speaker 1: the Titans. What's Jefferson's role in the offense look like?

1629
01:28:05,320 --> 01:28:06,519
Speaker 1: I mean, we all thought it was going to be

1630
01:28:06,560 --> 01:28:08,920
Speaker 1: a tough year for rookies, but you know, he might

1631
01:28:08,960 --> 01:28:12,200
Speaker 1: be proving people wrong. How does he sort of compliment

1632
01:28:12,280 --> 01:28:15,200
Speaker 1: what feeling brings to the game. Yeah, I think what

1633
01:28:15,320 --> 01:28:18,639
Speaker 1: we saw on Sunday was a breakout game for Jefferson

1634
01:28:18,760 --> 01:28:20,920
Speaker 1: and not just really in his stat you know, seven

1635
01:28:21,040 --> 01:28:23,559
Speaker 1: catchers for one seventy five and a touchdown that look

1636
01:28:23,640 --> 01:28:26,960
Speaker 1: number to kind of speak for themselves. But he played

1637
01:28:27,680 --> 01:28:29,600
Speaker 1: most of the game. I think his snap count was

1638
01:28:29,640 --> 01:28:32,400
Speaker 1: about an eighty percent or so, and he started for

1639
01:28:32,520 --> 01:28:34,080
Speaker 1: the first time this season. He had kind of been

1640
01:28:34,120 --> 01:28:36,559
Speaker 1: looked at it the number three guy through the first

1641
01:28:36,600 --> 01:28:39,800
Speaker 1: two games and had I think five total receptions through

1642
01:28:39,840 --> 01:28:42,840
Speaker 1: two games. So we've kind of worked him along and

1643
01:28:42,920 --> 01:28:46,200
Speaker 1: brought him along slowly. But you know, we started O

1644
01:28:46,360 --> 01:28:48,599
Speaker 1: two and the offense County did a jolt, and our

1645
01:28:48,720 --> 01:28:50,840
Speaker 1: offensive coaches were like, you know, we feel he'd ready,

1646
01:28:50,920 --> 01:28:53,000
Speaker 1: Let's start him on Sunday and see how he does then.

1647
01:28:53,080 --> 01:28:55,240
Speaker 1: And he broke out. He had a great game, you know,

1648
01:28:55,400 --> 01:28:57,800
Speaker 1: and I think, you know, you obviously can't expect one

1649
01:28:57,880 --> 01:28:59,960
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy five yards in a score every game,

1650
01:29:00,280 --> 01:29:03,080
Speaker 1: but it just showed that that potential is there. And

1651
01:29:03,720 --> 01:29:07,439
Speaker 1: you know, his role now is clearly the number two receiver,

1652
01:29:07,920 --> 01:29:10,880
Speaker 1: you know, and potentially one A, one B with feeling,

1653
01:29:10,920 --> 01:29:12,559
Speaker 1: which is what we had with Gage for so long.

1654
01:29:13,320 --> 01:29:16,519
Speaker 1: And what's nice about Jefferson is that he can line

1655
01:29:16,600 --> 01:29:19,160
Speaker 1: up all over the field. He's not just a flot guy,

1656
01:29:19,479 --> 01:29:22,320
Speaker 1: not just an outside guy. I saw a tweet the

1657
01:29:22,400 --> 01:29:24,400
Speaker 1: other day where his route tree and where he lined

1658
01:29:24,479 --> 01:29:26,160
Speaker 1: up he was. He was all over the place and

1659
01:29:26,800 --> 01:29:28,960
Speaker 1: that kind of keeps the defense guessing, and we kind

1660
01:29:29,000 --> 01:29:32,439
Speaker 1: of saw that on Sunday. Well, two of the Texans

1661
01:29:32,720 --> 01:29:36,200
Speaker 1: former coaches really the only two coaches in Texans history

1662
01:29:36,640 --> 01:29:39,240
Speaker 1: will be at an RG stadium on Sunday. Dom Capers

1663
01:29:39,280 --> 01:29:42,919
Speaker 1: who's on the defensive coaching staff, and then Gary Kubiak,

1664
01:29:43,000 --> 01:29:45,920
Speaker 1: who is the play caller offensive coordinator. He'll be back

1665
01:29:46,560 --> 01:29:49,720
Speaker 1: at an RG stadium. So what is it like having

1666
01:29:50,040 --> 01:29:52,840
Speaker 1: Cubs there as offensive coordinator? You know he's on that

1667
01:29:52,920 --> 01:29:55,760
Speaker 1: staff last year, But how has that offense changed now

1668
01:29:55,840 --> 01:29:59,400
Speaker 1: that he's in charge and calling the plays? Yeah, for golf,

1669
01:29:59,439 --> 01:30:01,880
Speaker 1: Gary the gray guy, I'm sure if you've had any

1670
01:30:01,920 --> 01:30:04,640
Speaker 1: interaction with him, he's he's a great guy that he

1671
01:30:04,920 --> 01:30:07,519
Speaker 1: had the Texas roots and he's just great to talk to.

1672
01:30:08,120 --> 01:30:11,360
Speaker 1: But the offense hasn't changed too much since Kevin to

1673
01:30:11,479 --> 01:30:13,679
Speaker 1: Fansky left and now the head coach of the Browns.

1674
01:30:14,200 --> 01:30:16,600
Speaker 1: The way it worked in twenty nineteen is that the

1675
01:30:16,680 --> 01:30:19,640
Speaker 1: fancy with the offensive coordinator and Gary was like a

1676
01:30:19,760 --> 01:30:22,800
Speaker 1: senior offensive advisors like he kind of would looked at

1677
01:30:22,840 --> 01:30:25,120
Speaker 1: as like a mentor for Kevin in its first year

1678
01:30:25,120 --> 01:30:27,639
Speaker 1: as the play caller, and you know, both had heavy input.

1679
01:30:27,680 --> 01:30:29,960
Speaker 1: It was Kevin who called the plays, but you know,

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01:30:30,000 --> 01:30:31,960
Speaker 1: why wouldn't you want Gary kind of had your right

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Speaker 1: hand man. You've got You've got four total Super Bowls,

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Speaker 1: and when Kevin left and Gary was promoted, not much

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Speaker 1: has changed. He often kind of looks the same. You know,

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Speaker 1: Gary had a high influence last year and he's just

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Speaker 1: called him plays now and you know, it pretty similar.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, let's talk about this Vikings defense because

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Speaker 1: it's generally been pretty good under Mike Zimmer, but really

1688
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Speaker 1: they've struggled this year, allowing us about an average of

1689
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Speaker 1: thirty four points per game and four hundred and forty

1690
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Speaker 1: yards per game on average. What's the biggest area or

1691
01:31:02,760 --> 01:31:06,280
Speaker 1: need for concern for the Vikings defense? You mentioned Yannick

1692
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Speaker 1: and Gokway he's there now too. You know, what's it

1693
01:31:09,040 --> 01:31:11,800
Speaker 1: going to take for the defense to get things turned around? Yeah,

1694
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Speaker 1: I think we're seeing some signs of progress from the defense,

1695
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Speaker 1: even though the number don't look great. You know, like

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Speaker 1: you said, we've allowed over thirteen hundred yards and over

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Speaker 1: one hundred points so far, and that's that's not what

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Speaker 1: the what coach Zimmers used to, not with the veterans

1699
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Speaker 1: on the Vikings defense is used to around here. I mean,

1700
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Speaker 1: we've had a good run for the last five or

1701
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Speaker 1: six years, but this year was always going to be

1702
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Speaker 1: a little bit different because of the Rofter turnover. I mean,

1703
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Speaker 1: I think we lost somewhere around nine players on defense,

1704
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Speaker 1: and a few of those were starters, and the majority

1705
01:31:42,640 --> 01:31:45,960
Speaker 1: of those came at cornerback. We lost Davia Rhodes and

1706
01:31:46,479 --> 01:31:49,320
Speaker 1: Trey Wayne to McKinsey Alexander, So we brought in, you know,

1707
01:31:49,560 --> 01:31:52,320
Speaker 1: a couple of draft picks there and first rounder Jeff

1708
01:31:52,360 --> 01:31:55,120
Speaker 1: Gladdeney and third rounder Camera Dantler and had a few

1709
01:31:55,200 --> 01:31:58,799
Speaker 1: other young cornerbacks left over. But the group, the cornerback

1710
01:31:58,840 --> 01:32:00,800
Speaker 1: group at too young. I mean, Mike Hughes is the

1711
01:32:00,880 --> 01:32:03,800
Speaker 1: oldest player there and he's twenty three years old, and

1712
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Speaker 1: that's a lot to ask of someone that young to

1713
01:32:06,040 --> 01:32:09,200
Speaker 1: be looked at it the veteran of that group. And

1714
01:32:09,439 --> 01:32:11,560
Speaker 1: because of that, Coach Simmer has said, you know, the

1715
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Speaker 1: Vikings have a great safety tandem, and Harrison Smith and

1716
01:32:15,320 --> 01:32:19,080
Speaker 1: Anthony Harris and those guys are kind of being relied

1717
01:32:19,160 --> 01:32:22,720
Speaker 1: on to help out the young corners on the back end. Well,

1718
01:32:22,720 --> 01:32:25,000
Speaker 1: if they are being focused on that, it's kind of

1719
01:32:25,080 --> 01:32:29,600
Speaker 1: tough to focus on the defensive front and kind of

1720
01:32:29,640 --> 01:32:31,240
Speaker 1: help out the run game. So it's almost like a

1721
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Speaker 1: catch twenty two. That's the phrase that Coach Nimmer you

1722
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Speaker 1: after Sunday's game. You know, at this point he had

1723
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Speaker 1: to kind of pick did they help the young corners

1724
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Speaker 1: and path and the passing game, or did they kind

1725
01:32:41,479 --> 01:32:43,720
Speaker 1: of bring everyone up and help against the run. So

1726
01:32:44,360 --> 01:32:46,560
Speaker 1: it's been a mixed bag so far with how the

1727
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Speaker 1: defense has performed. But with so many young guys, especially

1728
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Speaker 1: at corner and new faces, you know, the hope is

1729
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Speaker 1: it's the whole unit just kind of progresses as the

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Speaker 1: season goes along. Well, I was going to ask you

1731
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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty. It sounds like you've really got a

1733
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Speaker 1: long list to choose from. But if you had to

1734
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1735
01:33:06,760 --> 01:33:10,120
Speaker 1: the season, who's who's really stood out to you? Yeah?

1736
01:33:10,240 --> 01:33:13,080
Speaker 1: I won't say Jefferson because because we talked about yes, yeah,

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Speaker 1: and he's been a big one. And I won't stay

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Speaker 1: Dance or either because while he started in week one,

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Speaker 1: he didn't play played the last two weeks with with

1740
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Speaker 1: with an injury. So I'm actually gonna go with the

1741
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Speaker 1: other perch round pick that we had, and that's cornerback

1742
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Speaker 1: Jeff gladen. He he started the last two weeks and

1743
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Speaker 1: I think he looks fine. And you know it, like

1744
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Speaker 1: we said it, with how weird this year has been

1745
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1746
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Speaker 1: You know, he's shown me flat that he's going to

1748
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1749
01:33:47,160 --> 01:33:49,280
Speaker 1: see it right now, maybe he's not a star right now,

1750
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Speaker 1: but I saw some plays on Sunday against the Titans

1751
01:33:51,600 --> 01:33:54,560
Speaker 1: where he really gets it and he stood out. And

1752
01:33:54,840 --> 01:33:56,479
Speaker 1: so that's the hope. Like I said that, that he

1753
01:33:56,640 --> 01:33:58,960
Speaker 1: progressive and you know that he just keeps growing and

1754
01:33:59,120 --> 01:34:00,759
Speaker 1: by the end of the year and in the future,

1755
01:34:01,320 --> 01:34:04,000
Speaker 1: you know, the Biking to have a reliable starter at cornerback.

1756
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Speaker 1: All right, good stuff, Looking forward to the matchup Texans

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Speaker 1: kickoff at noon. That's going to do it for this

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Speaker 1: week's enemy sideline. Eric, thank you so much for the

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Speaker 1: time and look forward to seeing you again soon. Thank

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Speaker 1: you thanks for having me. Great stuff there from Dbcity

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Speaker 1: That something, all right, let's get into it. Favorite thing

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Speaker 1: Is your all time favorite Houston Rockets? Oh, I'd probably

1888
01:41:48,560 --> 01:41:50,960
Speaker 1: say growing up it was this, you know, the franchise

1889
01:41:51,040 --> 01:41:53,400
Speaker 1: Steve Francis. You know Steve Francis, you know him and

1890
01:41:53,479 --> 01:41:56,599
Speaker 1: Contino Mobley growing up watching them, you know, I definitely

1891
01:41:56,640 --> 01:41:58,920
Speaker 1: say that that was probably the time where I really

1892
01:41:59,000 --> 01:42:00,880
Speaker 1: was paying desisition to the h rock Is the most.

1893
01:42:00,920 --> 01:42:03,320
Speaker 1: And then obviously Tea Mack coming out there. But I'll

1894
01:42:03,320 --> 01:42:05,600
Speaker 1: say Steve franchise, Yeah, that's a good one. You know,

1895
01:42:05,680 --> 01:42:08,200
Speaker 1: it's you and I were just talking off camera about

1896
01:42:08,400 --> 01:42:10,280
Speaker 1: the pandemic and some of the things you've missed out

1897
01:42:10,360 --> 01:42:13,720
Speaker 1: on here in the office. A year ago at training camp,

1898
01:42:13,960 --> 01:42:16,040
Speaker 1: the franchise was out of the training camp practice, just

1899
01:42:16,120 --> 01:42:18,519
Speaker 1: hanging out watching just pretty cool. Now. That would have

1900
01:42:18,520 --> 01:42:19,840
Speaker 1: been dope to see him, you know what I'm saying,

1901
01:42:19,840 --> 01:42:21,960
Speaker 1: and actually just to say what up to him? Yeah,

1902
01:42:22,000 --> 01:42:23,840
Speaker 1: he would have liked that. He seemed like a really

1903
01:42:24,120 --> 01:42:25,920
Speaker 1: fun guy. He was just having a good time and

1904
01:42:26,240 --> 01:42:31,439
Speaker 1: watching the guys work out. Okay, favorite non rocket Houston

1905
01:42:31,560 --> 01:42:36,400
Speaker 1: athlete who's at That's a tough one. That's a tough one.

1906
01:42:36,760 --> 01:42:39,320
Speaker 1: Uh well, I'm I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go La.

1907
01:42:39,439 --> 01:42:42,000
Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be a male avenue, right of course. Not. Yeah,

1908
01:42:42,040 --> 01:42:44,280
Speaker 1: I'll say I'll say Britney Griner because she went to

1909
01:42:44,360 --> 01:42:46,519
Speaker 1: Namas with me, She went to All d Damas with me.

1910
01:42:46,720 --> 01:42:48,840
Speaker 1: She's holding it down, I think with the Phoenix. You

1911
01:42:48,920 --> 01:42:51,840
Speaker 1: know the team in Phoenix, Yah, the Mercury. So I'll

1912
01:42:51,880 --> 01:42:55,000
Speaker 1: say Britney Griner. How the same grain or how close?

1913
01:42:55,040 --> 01:42:56,720
Speaker 1: He was one year younger than me? Yeah, she was

1914
01:42:56,720 --> 01:42:58,479
Speaker 1: a class oh nine, I was class oh wait. So

1915
01:42:58,680 --> 01:43:00,680
Speaker 1: you knew about her because I was out in Luve

1916
01:43:00,760 --> 01:43:04,840
Speaker 1: with Texas covering uh sports out there, and we knew

1917
01:43:04,840 --> 01:43:07,320
Speaker 1: about her then because I covered the Lady Raiders Texas

1918
01:43:07,360 --> 01:43:10,840
Speaker 1: Tech basketball. But definitely matter what, I still remember her

1919
01:43:11,000 --> 01:43:12,640
Speaker 1: in her high school games. We played most of the

1920
01:43:12,800 --> 01:43:15,080
Speaker 1: same nice but you know, she she was big time

1921
01:43:15,160 --> 01:43:16,960
Speaker 1: even in high school. And when she would dunk, you know,

1922
01:43:17,040 --> 01:43:19,320
Speaker 1: the whole whole arena, you know, the whole old gym

1923
01:43:19,360 --> 01:43:22,400
Speaker 1: would go crazy. So yeah, BG, I definitely say, BG.

1924
01:43:22,760 --> 01:43:25,559
Speaker 1: Could you dunk? Oh yeah, I definitely did in high school?

1925
01:43:25,560 --> 01:43:26,680
Speaker 1: You know what, I don't know, you know, getting a

1926
01:43:26,720 --> 01:43:28,479
Speaker 1: little older now I can still get up there. But

1927
01:43:28,520 --> 01:43:30,559
Speaker 1: you know, you gotta throw me a ooh. How old

1928
01:43:30,600 --> 01:43:33,600
Speaker 1: were you when you were first able to dunk? Probably

1929
01:43:33,840 --> 01:43:38,760
Speaker 1: fourteen fourteen? Okay, greatest dunker of all time? Great one.

1930
01:43:38,800 --> 01:43:41,680
Speaker 1: I mean, even though he's never entered the contest. It's

1931
01:43:41,720 --> 01:43:46,160
Speaker 1: easy to say Lebron, but the way the way Vince Carter,

1932
01:43:46,360 --> 01:43:48,040
Speaker 1: you know, would would light up the gym, you know

1933
01:43:48,080 --> 01:43:50,439
Speaker 1: what I'm saying anytime he was coming down the lane.

1934
01:43:50,479 --> 01:43:55,200
Speaker 1: I mean it's spectacular. You see the way Westbrook, you know,

1935
01:43:55,280 --> 01:43:56,880
Speaker 1: for his side to be able to just go down

1936
01:43:56,960 --> 01:43:59,280
Speaker 1: there and see a smash on anybody when he's going

1937
01:43:59,320 --> 01:44:01,160
Speaker 1: through the lane. But I'll probably give it to the

1938
01:44:01,240 --> 01:44:03,280
Speaker 1: bench quarter. That's a good one. I mean, he took

1939
01:44:03,320 --> 01:44:06,519
Speaker 1: that guy's soul and its back in two thousand, so

1940
01:44:06,920 --> 01:44:09,240
Speaker 1: that that's always a valid choice. You can go Jordan

1941
01:44:09,280 --> 01:44:11,920
Speaker 1: if you want to go old school spun Web as well.

1942
01:44:12,439 --> 01:44:15,080
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, absolutely, I'm showing my age here, so I'll

1943
01:44:15,080 --> 01:44:18,439
Speaker 1: just sput Web is definitely a guy you probably got

1944
01:44:18,520 --> 01:44:20,400
Speaker 1: to con see. That's one of the best. There we go,

1945
01:44:20,680 --> 01:44:22,799
Speaker 1: all right, what are your what are some of your nicknames?

1946
01:44:25,120 --> 01:44:29,320
Speaker 1: Mike T Mikey Team, go back to high school? MT three.

1947
01:44:29,360 --> 01:44:31,679
Speaker 1: I was a quarterback well number three in high school,

1948
01:44:31,720 --> 01:44:34,960
Speaker 1: so that that one probably carried or carried with me

1949
01:44:35,040 --> 01:44:36,720
Speaker 1: for a long time. I was number three in college too,

1950
01:44:36,760 --> 01:44:39,600
Speaker 1: so they took the nickname as well. It stayed with

1951
01:44:39,680 --> 01:44:42,160
Speaker 1: me for a minute, so MT three. Yeah, man, So

1952
01:44:42,400 --> 01:44:44,280
Speaker 1: Jacob the Juker I used to you know, I was

1953
01:44:44,360 --> 01:44:47,120
Speaker 1: known for my juke moves in high school. So I'll

1954
01:44:47,120 --> 01:44:50,160
Speaker 1: probably say those are the top ones. Jacob the juker. Huh.

1955
01:44:51,120 --> 01:44:53,120
Speaker 1: I like that word at the Jacob from was it

1956
01:44:53,200 --> 01:44:56,840
Speaker 1: just my middle name? Okay? Day? So yeah, and people

1957
01:44:56,920 --> 01:44:59,280
Speaker 1: like Richard Sherman calls me Jake all the time, like

1958
01:44:59,320 --> 01:45:03,080
Speaker 1: he's very few people will call me Jake, but yeah,

1959
01:45:03,680 --> 01:45:05,840
Speaker 1: is close friends and people from high school. They always

1960
01:45:05,840 --> 01:45:07,559
Speaker 1: make fun of me, and I use that nickname Jake

1961
01:45:07,640 --> 01:45:09,599
Speaker 1: or Jacob the Juker. I don't think that's a nickname

1962
01:45:09,640 --> 01:45:10,920
Speaker 1: that can be made fun of. I think that's an

1963
01:45:10,960 --> 01:45:15,160
Speaker 1: awesome nickname, joke, absolute, it's awesome. Man. I might call

1964
01:45:15,200 --> 01:45:17,360
Speaker 1: you Jacob the Juker in private. If if that's it,

1965
01:45:17,439 --> 01:45:18,760
Speaker 1: I gotta get the ball in my hand, you know,

1966
01:45:18,840 --> 01:45:21,200
Speaker 1: you know, find overturn pick six or something. You know

1967
01:45:21,200 --> 01:45:22,800
Speaker 1: it's I can sew him off a little bit, make

1968
01:45:22,840 --> 01:45:24,920
Speaker 1: it happen, dude, Come on, be able to use it.

1969
01:45:25,000 --> 01:45:29,040
Speaker 1: That's great. Ukers a good one. Okay. Who is your

1970
01:45:29,240 --> 01:45:34,559
Speaker 1: favorite famous Houstonian of all time? Not to be an athlete,

1971
01:45:34,760 --> 01:45:39,600
Speaker 1: anybody that's tough. I don't know. I don't know. I

1972
01:45:39,640 --> 01:45:41,840
Speaker 1: don't know, I don't I don't know, man. I mean,

1973
01:45:41,960 --> 01:45:44,920
Speaker 1: we've got a lot of famous people from Houston. Um,

1974
01:45:46,479 --> 01:45:49,640
Speaker 1: I don't know, dud I mean, is it easy to

1975
01:45:49,720 --> 01:45:51,759
Speaker 1: say beyond I'm gonna go Beyonce. I'm gonna go Beyonce

1976
01:45:51,880 --> 01:45:54,559
Speaker 1: just because she's holding it down? Right? Yeah? That works? Yeah,

1977
01:45:54,600 --> 01:45:58,439
Speaker 1: this is your These are your answers Beyonce, right. I mean, Unfortunately,

1978
01:45:58,439 --> 01:46:00,599
Speaker 1: I grow up with three older sisters, Drew, so I've

1979
01:46:00,680 --> 01:46:03,400
Speaker 1: listened to way more Destiny's Child and Beyonce then I

1980
01:46:03,479 --> 01:46:05,200
Speaker 1: was I really want to like give credit and let

1981
01:46:05,280 --> 01:46:07,280
Speaker 1: people know about but I definitely, I definitely know a

1982
01:46:07,320 --> 01:46:10,799
Speaker 1: lot of Beyonce. Solid child. So all right, three older sisters?

1983
01:46:11,080 --> 01:46:13,320
Speaker 1: What was he? So? How old? How much older was

1984
01:46:13,360 --> 01:46:16,600
Speaker 1: the oldest and what were the different The oldest is

1985
01:46:16,640 --> 01:46:19,760
Speaker 1: eleven years older than me okay, and the youngest, uh,

1986
01:46:20,080 --> 01:46:22,320
Speaker 1: she's one year three months older than me. Okay, and

1987
01:46:22,360 --> 01:46:23,840
Speaker 1: then he had one in between. But the old one

1988
01:46:23,880 --> 01:46:26,120
Speaker 1: in between, she's six. That's like a second mother in

1989
01:46:26,200 --> 01:46:28,800
Speaker 1: a way. Oh yeah, absolutely absolutely so. Yeah, I mean

1990
01:46:28,920 --> 01:46:30,479
Speaker 1: it was it was tough growing now, but at the

1991
01:46:30,560 --> 01:46:32,240
Speaker 1: same time, I didn't really have to do too much.

1992
01:46:34,200 --> 01:46:37,040
Speaker 1: That's good stuff. How much do you still talked with him? Oh? Yeah,

1993
01:46:37,080 --> 01:46:38,840
Speaker 1: I mean we're super closed. We got a group group

1994
01:46:38,920 --> 01:46:41,479
Speaker 1: said group thread. You know, we keep in contact daily.

1995
01:46:41,960 --> 01:46:46,040
Speaker 1: What do they call you, Michael? Jacob? I I do

1996
01:46:46,240 --> 01:46:48,400
Speaker 1: not like it. Do not use that, drew a matter

1997
01:46:48,400 --> 01:46:50,360
Speaker 1: of fact, like Grace that don't even don't even put

1998
01:46:50,400 --> 01:46:52,840
Speaker 1: that on there. But Michael, that's family. I'm not going

1999
01:46:52,880 --> 01:46:55,600
Speaker 1: to intrude in family. You're still Jacob the juker to me,

2000
01:46:56,720 --> 01:46:58,439
Speaker 1: I'll stay away from that, but I could I like

2001
01:46:58,640 --> 01:47:02,320
Speaker 1: that that they do use the full that's very familial,

2002
01:47:02,479 --> 01:47:05,599
Speaker 1: that's very mutherly. You know they're gonna call you Michael Jacob.

2003
01:47:05,640 --> 01:47:08,880
Speaker 1: All right, Okay, let's rank these from the very worst

2004
01:47:09,000 --> 01:47:12,960
Speaker 1: is number one to the least worst. Worst things about

2005
01:47:13,080 --> 01:47:17,080
Speaker 1: the city of Houston are heating, humidity, yes, slime in

2006
01:47:17,160 --> 01:47:22,000
Speaker 1: the ice machine, our mosquitoes, and our traffic. What's the worst?

2007
01:47:22,080 --> 01:47:27,120
Speaker 1: What's the least I'll say, I'll start with the least

2008
01:47:27,160 --> 01:47:30,360
Speaker 1: worst is the slime, and and I don't I'll say, yeah,

2009
01:47:30,560 --> 01:47:34,720
Speaker 1: I know I cared about that. Yeah, No, after that,

2010
01:47:34,960 --> 01:47:38,679
Speaker 1: probably worse. It has to be the humidity, heating humidity,

2011
01:47:38,760 --> 01:47:41,120
Speaker 1: it has to be the worst. Okay, then we'll go,

2012
01:47:41,800 --> 01:47:45,599
Speaker 1: was it traffic? What was the third man? Mosquitoes Mosquite? Yeah,

2013
01:47:45,640 --> 01:47:48,120
Speaker 1: I'll go traffic, and then the mosquitos third. Yeah, you

2014
01:47:48,200 --> 01:47:51,080
Speaker 1: just put them off on the right exactly. Yeah, but

2015
01:47:51,160 --> 01:47:53,720
Speaker 1: the mosquitoes aren't problem those rankings. But I just wanted

2016
01:47:53,720 --> 01:47:56,360
Speaker 1: to see where he stood with the heat, humidity versus

2017
01:47:56,400 --> 01:47:59,080
Speaker 1: the traffic that use it's places of people going Okay,

2018
01:47:59,120 --> 01:48:01,400
Speaker 1: let's let's do positives. Let's not bang on our city

2019
01:48:01,439 --> 01:48:04,479
Speaker 1: too much. Someone from out of town comes here that

2020
01:48:04,520 --> 01:48:06,439
Speaker 1: you're close with that, you're friends with that. You're right,

2021
01:48:06,640 --> 01:48:09,479
Speaker 1: you want to show them a good time. What place

2022
01:48:09,840 --> 01:48:14,720
Speaker 1: did you take them to eat? Above pads? Yeah, Barbado Yeah,

2023
01:48:14,720 --> 01:48:16,560
Speaker 1: I mean and most people have heard, oh, what's that

2024
01:48:16,640 --> 01:48:19,479
Speaker 1: Papa's change? You know, I said, Barbecubu, I'm like, papados

2025
01:48:19,520 --> 01:48:22,000
Speaker 1: gotta take you there? Um. I mean, you know a

2026
01:48:22,040 --> 01:48:23,840
Speaker 1: lot of people have been hearing a lot about Turkey

2027
01:48:23,920 --> 01:48:25,640
Speaker 1: leg hut. So you know you want you want to,

2028
01:48:25,720 --> 01:48:27,160
Speaker 1: you know, send them, send him some a couple of

2029
01:48:27,200 --> 01:48:29,599
Speaker 1: new places, uh, going now you want to tell them,

2030
01:48:29,800 --> 01:48:31,720
Speaker 1: you know, Midtown, you know, pre COVID, you know, I say,

2031
01:48:31,720 --> 01:48:33,559
Speaker 1: hopefully you're gonna get back to that, you know at

2032
01:48:33,600 --> 01:48:36,200
Speaker 1: some point. And then I think State forty eight is store.

2033
01:48:36,240 --> 01:48:38,000
Speaker 1: And then you know, kick up a little bit saying, hey,

2034
01:48:38,520 --> 01:48:39,960
Speaker 1: can you know, can we can we go and get

2035
01:48:40,000 --> 01:48:43,240
Speaker 1: some reservations there? So probably those are the places I'll

2036
01:48:43,240 --> 01:48:46,439
Speaker 1: take some mitown good choices. All. Now, now I'm hungry. Okay,

2037
01:48:47,040 --> 01:48:50,160
Speaker 1: let's rank the famous Thomas's and you're included. Okay, we're

2038
01:48:50,200 --> 01:48:52,559
Speaker 1: doing lots of rankings today. So we've got Michael Thomas,

2039
01:48:53,400 --> 01:48:58,040
Speaker 1: We've got big hurt Frank Thomas, We've got Dave Thomas,

2040
01:48:58,160 --> 01:49:01,639
Speaker 1: founder of Wendy's yea yea, Jonathan Taylor, Thomas the actor

2041
01:49:01,720 --> 01:49:06,040
Speaker 1: from Home Improvement, and Thomas the Train. What's the rankings

2042
01:49:06,120 --> 01:49:08,160
Speaker 1: went through five? I mean, I don't know. Thomas the

2043
01:49:08,240 --> 01:49:10,320
Speaker 1: Train has an impacted so many lives, you know, like

2044
01:49:10,439 --> 01:49:12,160
Speaker 1: young En though, so he probably number one. You know,

2045
01:49:12,200 --> 01:49:15,720
Speaker 1: you just gotta Starret Beer, Um, you know, let me

2046
01:49:15,800 --> 01:49:18,599
Speaker 1: see that big heart, Frank Thomas. You know, I think

2047
01:49:18,880 --> 01:49:21,960
Speaker 1: for me does my personal ranking, I'll put him at two. Okay.

2048
01:49:22,320 --> 01:49:24,240
Speaker 1: A lot of people have watched Home Improved. Man, you

2049
01:49:24,280 --> 01:49:27,919
Speaker 1: probably put him at three, okay. Wendy's it's a good restaurant,

2050
01:49:27,960 --> 01:49:30,519
Speaker 1: good chain, you know. Four. And then you know there's

2051
01:49:30,520 --> 01:49:32,519
Speaker 1: some some guy that went to nim at high school.

2052
01:49:32,600 --> 01:49:35,200
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like like Stanford trying trying

2053
01:49:35,200 --> 01:49:36,800
Speaker 1: to make make make a career in the NFL. Yo,

2054
01:49:36,880 --> 01:49:39,120
Speaker 1: you put him at finest. You're so modest, man, You're

2055
01:49:39,160 --> 01:49:41,799
Speaker 1: so modest. You rank yourself. But I'll take those rankings

2056
01:49:41,880 --> 01:49:43,960
Speaker 1: as your rankings, and I like it. Okay. Thomas the

2057
01:49:44,000 --> 01:49:46,800
Speaker 1: Tank Engine, my my seven year old son. There was

2058
01:49:46,800 --> 01:49:49,240
Speaker 1: about a two year span where that's all he wanted

2059
01:49:49,280 --> 01:49:51,120
Speaker 1: that's all very watch. That's all he played with, so

2060
01:49:51,320 --> 01:49:54,920
Speaker 1: absolutely good rankings are Okay, before a game, what music

2061
01:49:55,040 --> 01:49:58,360
Speaker 1: are you listening to? Great question. I start off the

2062
01:49:58,560 --> 01:50:01,960
Speaker 1: morning with gospel. I wake up, I'm listening to gospel.

2063
01:50:02,000 --> 01:50:03,519
Speaker 1: You can give my mind right, that's really every morning,

2064
01:50:03,560 --> 01:50:06,760
Speaker 1: but game day for sure. And then yeah, it turns

2065
01:50:06,840 --> 01:50:09,400
Speaker 1: up a little bit. I got a game. They play list.

2066
01:50:09,439 --> 01:50:11,600
Speaker 1: It goes from anywhere from getting your mind right with

2067
01:50:11,720 --> 01:50:15,040
Speaker 1: some J Coole, some Kendrick Lamore, Nipsey hustle. But then

2068
01:50:15,080 --> 01:50:17,120
Speaker 1: it turns up. You know, it's a little oozy in there.

2069
01:50:17,240 --> 01:50:20,760
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's a lot of a lot of

2070
01:50:20,840 --> 01:50:23,040
Speaker 1: fast being you know, nor Rabbits, Gunner and stuff like that.

2071
01:50:23,200 --> 01:50:25,479
Speaker 1: So we're pretty much what ever everybody's listening to it

2072
01:50:25,560 --> 01:50:27,479
Speaker 1: in the locker room. But I go from like something

2073
01:50:27,560 --> 01:50:30,880
Speaker 1: that's real, like, uh, what's the what's the word I'm

2074
01:50:30,920 --> 01:50:33,320
Speaker 1: looking for? Conscious trying to get your mind right, you

2075
01:50:33,439 --> 01:50:35,080
Speaker 1: on them over like trying to get something done, to

2076
01:50:35,160 --> 01:50:36,600
Speaker 1: all right, let's just turn up, get to get you,

2077
01:50:36,680 --> 01:50:38,479
Speaker 1: you know what's saying, your blood pumping, get the juice

2078
01:50:38,520 --> 01:50:42,040
Speaker 1: is flowing. You gotta do that. Sure, Okay, describe your

2079
01:50:42,200 --> 01:50:46,479
Speaker 1: very first car, right, my very first car. Man, So

2080
01:50:46,640 --> 01:50:49,400
Speaker 1: I had dreams of you know, Candy pain trying to

2081
01:50:49,439 --> 01:50:51,880
Speaker 1: put some forward, you know, some swings on car. But now,

2082
01:50:52,080 --> 01:50:56,160
Speaker 1: like my first one was a Board Explore, older model,

2083
01:50:56,240 --> 01:50:58,800
Speaker 1: like had to be like ninety eight, and uh, you

2084
01:50:58,880 --> 01:51:00,880
Speaker 1: know I had and I didn't really even get it

2085
01:51:00,960 --> 01:51:02,759
Speaker 1: until I went to college, when I went to Stanford

2086
01:51:02,880 --> 01:51:05,599
Speaker 1: because high school, I drove like my parents' car. Yeah,

2087
01:51:05,600 --> 01:51:07,600
Speaker 1: well no, what was that? Oh okay, well, I mean

2088
01:51:07,680 --> 01:51:09,479
Speaker 1: that's my parents car. It was a it was a

2089
01:51:09,680 --> 01:51:11,960
Speaker 1: Ford Expedition, but I don't really count that because it

2090
01:51:12,000 --> 01:51:13,920
Speaker 1: wasn't there. I'm talking about the first one I got.

2091
01:51:15,320 --> 01:51:17,439
Speaker 1: I use my little stipend check to get it. Was

2092
01:51:17,479 --> 01:51:19,760
Speaker 1: a Ford Explorer. It had to be like a ninety eight,

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Speaker 1: ninety nine. He was an older model. Got what I could.

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Speaker 1: I'm so Houston. I put some twelves in there. Put

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Speaker 1: some beat, so I'm in Stanford beat banging everybody. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: Mike's from Houston. I got some playing zero Jay, I

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Speaker 1: mean Jay Doug. It was crazy man out there and

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Speaker 1: Paulo bang. It's perfect. That's great, man. Okay, If you

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Speaker 1: were not an NFL player right now, what would your

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Speaker 1: career be what would you be doing? Man, it's that

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Speaker 1: that's a great thing. Probably U somewhere in like business,

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Speaker 1: either doing like commercial real estate or some type of

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Speaker 1: investment or even with I'll keep it even light but

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Speaker 1: serious because I could have minored in this at Stanford

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Speaker 1: acting was I had opportunities to act obviously sports you know,

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Speaker 1: uh was probably a career, you know, the path I

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Speaker 1: took the opportunities there. Did you did you ever act

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Speaker 1: in any plays or anything? Yeah, it's a funny thing.

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Speaker 1: I started in one play my junior year. He had

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Speaker 1: like a lot of tracks in at Stanford college year

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Speaker 1: my pro day. Oh, go ahead, I'm sorry. It was

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Speaker 1: in college junior yeah, in college. Yeah. Also, okay, what

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Speaker 1: play was it? It was? It was like dark comedy

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Speaker 1: or dark humor. It was what was it? A Killer Joe?

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Speaker 1: Killer Joe that they actually had a movie with, wasn't

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Speaker 1: it Matthew McConaughey, But he like started a movie but

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Speaker 1: like it's dark humor. But I changed the whole concept

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Speaker 1: of the movie by starting in it, and it was

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Speaker 1: like a school hit and whatnot. But I do have

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Speaker 1: one regret train for pro day. I had the opportunity

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Speaker 1: to start in The Color Purple, the musical play. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: at Stanford, and you know, they wanted me to do it,

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Speaker 1: like the whole campus wanted me to do it, and

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Speaker 1: I turned it down. It was like, no, I gotta

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Speaker 1: focus on pro day. I'm trying, you know, you find

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Speaker 1: a way to get drafted. You know. I ended up

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Speaker 1: going on drafted, So it really didn't matter. But the

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Speaker 1: reason why regretted is because Oprah Winfrey actually came to

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Speaker 1: campus helped put on the production, and I'm like, all right,

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Speaker 1: I turned on the opportunity. You know what I'm saying

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Speaker 1: that that could have been a part of something even

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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying like greater and probably would

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Speaker 1: have still took them took my path to try to

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Speaker 1: get to the NFL anyway, So yeah, I regret that.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if she wanted, but I know she

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Speaker 1: she was nominated for an Oscar for when she was

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Speaker 1: in that movie, right, absolute movie. Yeah, that's wow, that's what.

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Speaker 1: So you're in what was it Killer Joe? Well? What

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Speaker 1: else before that? Were you in any plays in high school? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I was. I was all they plays in

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Speaker 1: high school? Yeah, a couple of couple of plays and

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Speaker 1: took theater or took a bunch of theater classes that

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Speaker 1: stand for yeah, yeah it was. That was pretty cool.

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Speaker 1: They wanted me to monit minor in it or like

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Speaker 1: major in it, but that just wasn't. Yeah, it wasn't

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Speaker 1: a path that took. I think that's great. Man. Did

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Speaker 1: you sing it all? Like? Would you all do musicals too?

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Speaker 1: Or I didn't? I didn't. I mean I probably could have.

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Speaker 1: And that's kind of another reason why I didn't do it.

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Speaker 1: Do the color promle. I was like, no, I don't

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Speaker 1: want to do I don't want to sing. I probably

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Speaker 1: could have. That's all I say. I say, you figure

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Speaker 1: out a way to keep pursuing that avenue, you know,

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Speaker 1: take advantage of the because there's you got. There's gonna

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Speaker 1: You might see me in something I doubt. I don't

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Speaker 1: doubt that I would. I think that's cool, man. Okay,

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Speaker 1: let's wrap it up. Last thing that you cooked? What

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Speaker 1: is it? I mean my wife she might see this

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Speaker 1: well no great for me, but unfortunately from my wife.

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Speaker 1: I mean she takes like the load for that, you

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