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Speaker 1: What's happened? Everybody?

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Speaker 2: Welcome in too Wednesday edition of Texans All Access from

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Speaker 2: the at Texans Radio Studio.

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Speaker 1: I am your host.

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Speaker 2: John Harris, Football on a sideline reporter, and I can't

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Speaker 2: tell you how excited I am to be on the

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Speaker 2: radio tonight because that means that Texans have continued playing

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Speaker 2: and a playoff game Saturday, three point thirty NRG Stadium

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Speaker 2: against the Cleveland Browns, a team that I said after

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Speaker 2: we played them three weeks ago, that's the best team

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Speaker 2: that we saw a year.

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Speaker 1: Ravens. How many playoff teams did we play?

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Speaker 2: Ravens, Browns, Steelers, Those are three I can take off

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Speaker 2: the top of my head, Buccaneers, maybe anybody that I missed.

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Speaker 2: But that's a pretty good start right there. Of the

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Speaker 2: teams at Texas played, the Browns are the best team

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Speaker 2: that we saw. Now, we caught the Ravens early, so

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Speaker 2: you know, we maybe had seen them later in the year,

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Speaker 2: maybe I would have a different thought.

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Speaker 1: But from what we saw this year, brown they were unbelievable.

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Speaker 2: And you're gonna have to go up against that eight

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Speaker 2: hundred pound gorilla on Saturday and you have to bust

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Speaker 2: them right in the mouth and hopefully the Texans are

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Speaker 2: gonna do that. So we got a lot to do

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Speaker 2: on the show this evening such that we can start

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Speaker 2: talking about this game, and we'll do that with Executi

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Speaker 2: Vice President Football Ops GM, Nick Cassario.

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Speaker 1: We have him on a little bit.

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Speaker 2: We have the Slant this week with Shelby Coppage. She

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Speaker 2: got up with Shaq Mason, Shaquille Elijah Wan Mason. We're

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Speaker 2: also gonna have Iron Eagle, and this is gonna be

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Speaker 2: a pretty interesting and cool moment, I would think for

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Speaker 2: the Eagles, not the Philadelphia Eagles. Iron and Noah Noah

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Speaker 2: his son will call the game for NBC with Todd Blackledge.

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Speaker 1: I in will call the game for Westwood.

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Speaker 2: One on radio, And of course you know that the

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Speaker 2: one you should be listening to is Mark Vannimir Andre

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Speaker 2: Wearing myself calling a game here on Sports Radio six

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Speaker 2: to ten. But Iron Eagle called a couple of our

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Speaker 2: games this year and knows our team pretty well. Mark

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Speaker 2: had a chance to catch up with him, and that's

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Speaker 2: gonna be a fun interview. We also got in the lab.

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Speaker 2: We got an injury report that came out. What does

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Speaker 2: that mean?

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Speaker 1: We've had some shocking around the NFL and college football news.

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Speaker 1: We'll get to that a little bit later.

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Speaker 2: So, like I said, we got plenty to do, and

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Speaker 2: with a win against Sidneapolis Colts, it means we could

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Speaker 2: continue to do the show, which is awe some, very

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Speaker 2: awesome and glad that I'm here, and hopefully I'm here

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Speaker 2: for the next four or five weeks.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to break between now and the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 2: I want to go all the way there, keep doing shows,

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Speaker 2: keep doing what we've been doing, and keep this ride

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Speaker 2: going for as long as humanly possible. It will be tough.

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Speaker 2: There's no doubt the Browns are as good a team.

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Speaker 2: Like I said, as there's the NFL. I saw power

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Speaker 2: ranking today and I'm a number three, so got your

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Speaker 2: hands full, and that was behind the Ravens and Niners.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, hands are full.

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Speaker 2: Excuse me on Saturday against Joe Flacco and the Browns.

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Speaker 2: Plenty of storylines obviously in this game, and one of

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Speaker 2: them was sort of starting by Jason lackinfora earlier which

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Speaker 2: if you ask John McLean, he's got a different name

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Speaker 2: for him. I've never taken one ounce of what Jason

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Speaker 2: lackanfora has said with any grain of truth. But when

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Speaker 2: he threw it out there about Nick Cassio and New England,

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Speaker 2: all that kind of stuff. Man, I was so glad

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Speaker 2: that Nick shot that down on Seth and Sewan's show,

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Speaker 2: because I love Nick. I love getting Nick on the

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Speaker 2: air with us. We have a good time with him.

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Speaker 2: We can laugh with him, we can get serious, we

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Speaker 2: stuff talking with Nick Caseio. And we have that interview

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Speaker 2: for you now, talking about the Colts win, talking about

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Speaker 2: the Browns, talking about a lot of things with Nick Cassio.

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Speaker 1: Right here with me and Mark, let's go.

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Speaker 3: Well here with us in the Hundai Texans Radio studio.

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Speaker 3: It's executive vice president and general manager Nick Cassio. Nick,

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Speaker 3: congratulations on winning the AFC South As we head to

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Speaker 3: the postseason. A lot to talk about first, reflect on

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Speaker 3: winning a division championship for us if you could.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a culmination of a lot of work and

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Speaker 4: a lot of effort by a lot of people. Really

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Speaker 4: February March and preparation for the twenty twenty three season.

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Speaker 4: Coaching staff has done an unbelievable job getting the players

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Speaker 4: ready on a week to week basis. We've given ourselves

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Speaker 4: I think the support staff and everybody that's involved in

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Speaker 5: We've talked about that.

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Speaker 4: So it's a culmination of a lot of work by

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Speaker 4: in a position. So excited about the opportunity that's in

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Speaker 1: Nick.

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Speaker 2: We couldn't have had more polar opposite feelings and games

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Speaker 2: around going, well, I didn't expect that.

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Speaker 1: I thought we were probably in much better shape.

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Speaker 2: Those not representative of us, but man, oh wow, and

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Speaker 2: that was just such a kick to the junk if

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Speaker 2: you will. Week eighteen, Holy cow, we're going to the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: Eby subret in the locker room, When and at what

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Speaker 2: point did you kind of feel like, you know what,

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Speaker 2: I think we got something here. Did you ever kind

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Speaker 2: of I know, you never really stop because you just

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Speaker 1: This moment of you know what, I think we got something?

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Speaker 4: Really, I think when you kind of evaluate your team

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Speaker 5: An opportunity to be competitive.

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Speaker 4: We had a combination of some young players who had

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Speaker 4: And in the end, it comes down to just a

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Speaker 4: the duration of a long year. I mean, it's seventeen

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Speaker 4: There's a lot that can happen. You really try not

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Speaker 4: In a player had the right mindset and right attitude

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Speaker 4: that's the reason where we are here today.

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Speaker 3: Not to get overly metaphysical here, Nick, but it's so

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Speaker 3: positive around here. You feel that, and I think it's

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Speaker 3: reflected in winning these close games. You had ten games

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Speaker 3: and that's a huge difference in the record of the season.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, these games are about execution and belief.

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Speaker 4: So do you believe that you can actually win a

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Speaker 4: Like there's no other way around it. You have to

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Speaker 2: Nick, I'm enamored with starting the game with a bomb,

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Speaker 2: and I don't know that we gotta started that one

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Speaker 4: Really, the first two series are kind of a microcosm

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Speaker 4: but that's really emblematic of it, say number one our

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Speaker 1: Nick.

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Speaker 3: There are more players to talk about, but putting Nico

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Speaker 3: Collins in the spotlight here. You drafted him third round

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Speaker 3: his third season. How gratifying is that to see for

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Speaker 3: you having drafted him? And can you discuss his growth

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Speaker 3: in addition to him.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, You're always happy for the players when they have success.

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Speaker 4: On Nico's worked really hard, put a lot of time

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Speaker 4: and there's some things that we modify. We've talked about

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Speaker 4: he brought that with him from San Francisco, and then

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Speaker 4: you saw it manifest itself into Nico's play. I mean,

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Speaker 2: Nick, The one thing that you and I talked a

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Speaker 4: then to play to Nico, we had a certain coverage

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Speaker 2: I know we're pumped about the game on Saturday, but

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Speaker 1: That's what's next.

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Speaker 2: Well, what's next is Cleveland, And thankfully there is gaming

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Speaker 1: We're gonna do more shows. The more we win, the

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Speaker 2: So I typically at this point ask you, okay, give

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Speaker 2: to ask, how are they different than than Indianapolis? But

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Speaker 1: What kind of goes into this one against the Browns? Sure?

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Speaker 4: It's not too dissimilar to kind of move went through

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Speaker 2: Nick, You've been part of a lot of really big

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Speaker 4: So let's not do anything different. Go through your normal

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Speaker 3: I know what I was doing Sunday afternoon and how

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Speaker 4: wife went to church. I really didn't flipped the game

440
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Speaker 4: on until kind of later in a day anyways, kind

441
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Speaker 4: of at the end. So it just gives you a

442
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Speaker 4: little more clarity about all, right, here's where we we

443
00:18:21,640 --> 00:18:24,159
Speaker 4: know we were in. We didn't really know when and

444
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Speaker 4: where we were gonna play. Then once the result of

445
00:18:26,640 --> 00:18:29,480
Speaker 4: that game came through and okay, then our preparation and

446
00:18:29,520 --> 00:18:31,399
Speaker 4: focus shifts kind of to Cleveland. There a little bit,

447
00:18:31,440 --> 00:18:33,560
Speaker 4: and so you kind of shift gears, so at least

448
00:18:33,600 --> 00:18:35,560
Speaker 4: you have a little bit more clarity. But I mean,

449
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Speaker 4: I think you saw around the league. I mean, this

450
00:18:37,920 --> 00:18:40,160
Speaker 4: league is as comp probably as competitive as years there's

451
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Speaker 4: been in a long time, and you just have.

452
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Speaker 5: To what it shows.

453
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Speaker 4: You have to go out there each week and if

454
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Speaker 4: U X, the team that executes the best is typically

455
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Speaker 4: gonna win. And the records they matter, but any end,

456
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Speaker 4: they really don't matter.

457
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Speaker 6: Nick.

458
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Speaker 7: I know what.

459
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Speaker 2: My dad's a high school coach long at the time

460
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Speaker 2: ago when we got to the playoffs, he was advanced

461
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Speaker 2: scouting two three, four weeks in advance. As you approached

462
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Speaker 2: the playoffs, and I know we've talked about this, you

463
00:19:04,840 --> 00:19:07,440
Speaker 2: and your group have been well ahead with preparation. Had

464
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Speaker 2: you started on any of the other teams and thoughts before, like, hey,

465
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Speaker 2: we got to be ready just in case. Had you

466
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Speaker 2: kind of started any of that with the scenarios that

467
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Speaker 2: were out there.

468
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Speaker 4: Yeah, no, you have to allocate resources and personnel for

469
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Speaker 4: that and have contingency plans in place. So I think

470
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Speaker 4: the focus of the coaching staff and the players is

471
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Speaker 4: obviously on the opponent. But there was three potential teams

472
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Speaker 4: that we could play, one of which we were familiar

473
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Speaker 4: with because we just played them a few weeks ago,

474
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Speaker 4: so maybe you don't have to spend as much time

475
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Speaker 4: as kind of updating their personnel what's changed since we

476
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Speaker 4: played them. But as far as Buffalo and Kansas City

477
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Speaker 4: were concerned, there was an opportunity possibility we would play

478
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Speaker 4: those teams, so we would have to go through just

479
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Speaker 4: our normal preparation and process. So whoever was as signed

480
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Speaker 4: to those teams kind of went through an advanced scout

481
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Speaker 4: of the teams. We actually had somebody at the Buffalo

482
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Speaker 4: Miami game last night because that potentially could have some ramification.

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Speaker 4: So not that that game doesn't necessarily matter, but at

484
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Speaker 4: least we have more information. So in the event that

485
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Speaker 4: we do win our game against Cleveland, then we're prepared

486
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Speaker 4: for what the next opportunity might be. So it's a

487
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Speaker 4: balance of we understand what's at hand, but we also

488
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Speaker 4: kind of have to have eyes and there's folks and

489
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Speaker 4: people that we allocate towards that absolutely well.

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Speaker 3: Speaking of allocating resources, as you advance here and here

491
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Speaker 3: we are week one of the playoffs, it I'll put

492
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Speaker 3: it in air quotes shortens your off season because you

493
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Speaker 3: have things to do to get ready for the draft,

494
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Speaker 3: free agency. How does this affect what you do in

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Speaker 3: those areas.

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Speaker 4: It does, but it doesn't mark. So you're in this

497
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Speaker 4: kind of window regardless of what happens. This is kind

498
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Speaker 4: of the All Star period. So you're starting to see

499
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Speaker 4: some of the All Star games. There's a few. I

500
00:20:42,040 --> 00:20:44,320
Speaker 4: think there was neither one last week, but then a

501
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Speaker 4: few weeks you have the Shrine, you have the Senior Bowl.

502
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Speaker 4: So we already have people kind of allocated. We've kind

503
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Speaker 4: of gone through what we need to get accomplished. We

504
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Speaker 4: have the opportunity to interview those players. Really, what you

505
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Speaker 4: have to do is figure out when are the coaches

506
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Speaker 4: eventually going to get involved. We know they're going to

507
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Speaker 4: be involved at some point, but right now the focus

508
00:21:01,760 --> 00:21:04,760
Speaker 4: is on on getting a team ready to play. So

509
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Speaker 4: but we can also there's plenty of work that we

510
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Speaker 4: can kind of do in advance. Really, the next I

511
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Speaker 4: would say data circle on the calendar will be the

512
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Speaker 4: underclassman declaration. I think that's coming up either end of

513
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Speaker 4: this week or the following week. Okay, here the group

514
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Speaker 4: that's eligible. Here are the players that are sort of

515
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Speaker 4: on the fence. Okay, this group's going back, this group's

516
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Speaker 4: in a transfer portal. All right, here are the players

517
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Speaker 4: that are eligible. Say, there's a good chance we've probably

518
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Speaker 4: done work on eighty five ninety percent of those players

519
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Speaker 4: from an evaluation standpoint. Now we can do a little

520
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Speaker 4: bit deeper dive and have the opportunity to maybe interview

521
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Speaker 4: some of them at the All Star Game. So it's

522
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Speaker 4: just a matter of how you allocate your resources, who's

523
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Speaker 4: involved in that understanding at some point, everybody's going to

524
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Speaker 4: have a hand in it. And then just making sure

525
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Speaker 4: that we're prepared the end of April, which you know,

526
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Speaker 4: we're pretty confident that we will be.

527
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Speaker 2: Nick, you and Demiko have used the phrase we'll figure

528
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Speaker 2: it out a number of times. We've talked about that,

529
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Speaker 2: and it's funny because I was using that phrase a

530
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Speaker 2: lot with my wife, like when we were moving out,

531
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Speaker 2: like we'll figure out out, figure it out, figure it out,

532
00:22:01,119 --> 00:22:02,760
Speaker 2: figure it out. And so when you brought that up,

533
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Speaker 2: I was like, Okay, resonated with me. So I ask

534
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Speaker 2: you this. We've talked about this a little bit this year.

535
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Speaker 2: How did you and Demico figure it out? Because you

536
00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:14,840
Speaker 2: guys came from different trees, whatever you want to call it,

537
00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:18,840
Speaker 2: and yet came together and figured it out to get

538
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Speaker 2: a team to the playoffs plus seven.

539
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Speaker 1: You know what you guys were able to do.

540
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Speaker 2: We've talked about the draft, the free agents you brought in,

541
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Speaker 2: the players you brought in middle of the year that

542
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Speaker 2: you never thought, like Tier Tart's gonna play for us

543
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Speaker 2: in week seventeen eighty, You're like, really, how did you

544
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Speaker 2: guys figure it out?

545
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Speaker 5: Trust? Communication, and respect.

546
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Speaker 4: So I think if you have those elements in a relationship,

547
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Speaker 4: then you can kind of lean on one another in

548
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Speaker 4: their respective areas. Demiko is I would say, just a

549
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Speaker 4: gifted human being, Like there are not too many people

550
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Speaker 4: like Demiko Ryans and the way he is day to day,

551
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Speaker 4: his consistency, the way he relates to the players, the

552
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Speaker 4: way he put the staff together, ability to each week

553
00:23:01,320 --> 00:23:03,840
Speaker 4: look at the opportunity in front of us and try

554
00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:06,359
Speaker 4: to make the most. Whatever the situation is, good, bad,

555
00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:09,640
Speaker 4: whatever happened, Let's turn the page. And he just has

556
00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:13,800
Speaker 4: so much juice, so much energy, And you have to

557
00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:16,160
Speaker 4: be able to lean on each other and know kind

558
00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:19,640
Speaker 4: of when to push, when to pull back, when to insert.

559
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Speaker 4: But regardless of what's going on. There's always open dialogue

560
00:23:23,359 --> 00:23:25,879
Speaker 4: and communication. So when it comes to players coming on

561
00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:30,040
Speaker 4: and off the team, his input is as important as anybody.

562
00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:31,520
Speaker 4: So we're not going to just bring players in in

563
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Speaker 4: a vacuum. So here's a situation. So part of my

564
00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:37,320
Speaker 4: responsibility is to understand what are our options. Here's some

565
00:23:37,359 --> 00:23:39,920
Speaker 4: contingencies here are opt Well, if you do this well,

566
00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:42,520
Speaker 4: then the trickle down effect is this. So I think

567
00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:45,520
Speaker 4: we've been open and honest with each other. The utmost

568
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Speaker 4: respect and appreciation, admiration for him for the job that

569
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Speaker 4: he's done. I mean, he's earned everything. He's put the

570
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Speaker 4: team in the position that we're in. Can't say enough

571
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Speaker 4: great things about the job that he's done, and certainly

572
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Speaker 4: appreciated for the relationship that we've been able to cultivate

573
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Speaker 4: here through however many months we've been together.

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Speaker 3: The nick as we air this on Radio one more

575
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Speaker 3: for you, It's Wednesday, also known as way Back Wednesday.

576
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Speaker 3: So let's go way back here. We're in the playoffs.

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Speaker 3: Do you have a playoff memory to share with us

578
00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:14,360
Speaker 3: from John Carroll? As you were the signal caller, the

579
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Speaker 3: field general.

580
00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:18,399
Speaker 4: I didn't realize we were going there, went way back.

581
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Speaker 5: Yeah, so it's funny.

582
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Speaker 4: My fondest memory probably so our nineties and ninety seventeen.

583
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Speaker 4: So we qualified for the playoffs and then we played

584
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Speaker 4: Handover Hanover College in a first round of the playoffs,

585
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Speaker 4: and we were fortunate enough to win that game, and

586
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Speaker 4: that was the first playoff win in a school's history. Really, yeah,

587
00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:41,720
Speaker 4: it was the first playoff win in the school's history.

588
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Speaker 4: So certainly grateful and thankful to be a part of that.

589
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Speaker 4: Don win a playoff game. John threw a touchdown pass

590
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Speaker 4: to Josh McDaniels in that game on so yeah, so

591
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Speaker 4: people have fun with that and then it's funny now,

592
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Speaker 4: but at the time it wasn't. So once you qualify

593
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Speaker 4: with the postseason, there's random drug test thing that takes place.

594
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Speaker 4: So after the game x number of players, I grab you,

595
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Speaker 4: so I was selected for the postgame drug testing. So

596
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Speaker 4: I had been drinking gatorade and throughout the course of

597
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Speaker 4: the game, so the test wasn't registering. So and if

598
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Speaker 4: you the test, you can't register a test in any form,

599
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Speaker 4: then they counted as a negative or positive and then

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Speaker 4: you will be able to play the next week. So

601
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Speaker 4: we finished the game whatever time in the afternoon, so

602
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Speaker 4: the rest of the team left, so I had to

603
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Speaker 4: stay back and hand over with the trainer, and it

604
00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:32,880
Speaker 4: took six hours before they're able.

605
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Speaker 5: To say you're also set samples. So stayed with the trainer,

606
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Speaker 5: drove back. It's like at five to six hour drive.

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Speaker 4: I think I got home at like one p thirty

608
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Speaker 4: two o'clock in the morning from the playoff game, was

609
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Speaker 4: able to play next week. Now we got our ass

610
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Speaker 4: kicked the fallowing week against mynt union.

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Speaker 3: But because you didn't have any sleep away god.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, so that's I would say my fondest playoff memory.

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Speaker 3: I thought you were going to say you ate a

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Speaker 3: poppy seed muffin something like that. Yeah, exactly, Nick, Thanks

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Speaker 3: a lot, good luck this week.

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Speaker 5: Thanks fellas.

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Speaker 1: Nick told us that story and I was like, you

618
00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:06,320
Speaker 1: gotta be kidding me, and he goes, nope, true story. Man.

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Speaker 2: If Twitter were back in the day, holy cow, Nick

620
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Speaker 2: could have rattled off a bunch of tweets, which I'm

621
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Speaker 2: sure back in the day he wouldn't been on Twitter either.

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Speaker 1: But either way, that is.

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Speaker 2: A phenomenal, phenomenal story and glad that he told it

624
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Speaker 2: with us. Coming up next, another storyteller of a different kind.

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Speaker 2: Shelby Coppage the Slant with Shaquille Elijahuan Mason.

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Speaker 1: That's next the Texans All Access.

627
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Speaker 2: What our next guest was an All American offensive lineman

628
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Speaker 2: at Georgia Tech. I was a massive fan, a huge

629
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Speaker 2: fan of Shaquille Elijauon Mason aka Shaq Mason. And I

630
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Speaker 2: love the fact that Nick Serry went out traded for

631
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Speaker 2: him because he has been a rock, a pillar in

632
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Speaker 2: the middle of this offensive line for the Texans this year.

633
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Speaker 2: With all the different injuries and things that have gone

634
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Speaker 2: on with the Senate, with the right tackle, left guard,

635
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Speaker 2: left tackle, you missed a few games. Shack Mason has

636
00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:09,520
Speaker 2: been that rock. He has been that foundation. And right

637
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Speaker 2: here on Texans All Access with our good friend Shelby Coppage,

638
00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:18,280
Speaker 2: Shack sat down for the slant. There's some great stuff

639
00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:20,119
Speaker 2: here with Shelby and Shack.

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Speaker 8: Welcome to the Slant. I'm Shelby Kapache here with Texans

641
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Speaker 8: guard Shack Mason.

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Speaker 1: Shocked.

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Speaker 8: Big day coming up, Saturday.

644
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Speaker 6: Big Day.

645
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Speaker 8: How you feeling feel good? Before we get into that,

646
00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:32,640
Speaker 8: we were talking you live in Colombia. You're from Columbia, Tennessee.

647
00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:35,800
Speaker 8: Thirty minutes from Nashville, right, so you live there in

648
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Speaker 8: the off season. Okay, how often you go home to

649
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Speaker 8: Nashville or go out in Nashville?

650
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Speaker 6: Fairly?

651
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Speaker 9: I mean I probably go to dinner once a week

652
00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:47,919
Speaker 9: in the city. I'm pretty I'm pretty local guy. So

653
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Speaker 9: I like, I mean, I like being in the Nashville scene.

654
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Speaker 8: I've heard of Ten Roof a lot, is that? Okay?

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Speaker 8: There are some stories from ten Roof. Is that where

656
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Speaker 8: I should go and go to Nashville?

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00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:00,520
Speaker 1: Okay, a good time.

658
00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:03,359
Speaker 8: What about Columbia? What is something that Colombia is known for.

659
00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:04,960
Speaker 6: Uh, Mule Day.

660
00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:08,280
Speaker 9: It's very hard to explain, but it's like it's like

661
00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:14,000
Speaker 9: a big parade celebrating mules, like a mule mules.

662
00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:16,480
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's like everybody.

663
00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:20,480
Speaker 9: There's a lot of stands, good food, and like big parade,

664
00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:24,680
Speaker 9: just a city thing that happens like every the first week.

665
00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:28,920
Speaker 6: Of April every year. Ok It's like a stable in Colombia.

666
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:31,720
Speaker 8: Okay, awesome, Awesome, I love that. Well, you've played in

667
00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:34,080
Speaker 8: a lot of big games and high pressure situations, Like

668
00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:35,760
Speaker 8: when you're going into a game like that, how do

669
00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:38,520
Speaker 8: you decompress or get your mind off the game or

670
00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:39,840
Speaker 8: do you even get your mind off the game.

671
00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:44,360
Speaker 9: You got to me personally, I kind of once playoffs

672
00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:46,480
Speaker 9: usually hit like I put.

673
00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:47,480
Speaker 6: Everything in it.

674
00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:50,560
Speaker 9: Like it's like hypothetically speaking, like put everything in the

675
00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:54,600
Speaker 9: drawer and just press forward, you know, and whatever whatever

676
00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:57,200
Speaker 9: I'm have going on outside of football can wait for

677
00:28:57,720 --> 00:28:59,080
Speaker 9: four or five weeks, you know what I'm saying.

678
00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:03,360
Speaker 6: So I kind of approach it like that. Every every postseason.

679
00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:05,280
Speaker 8: Mule day is a good like end goal you're just getting.

680
00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:08,760
Speaker 8: You'll get some mule day, get rewarded eventually. I saw

681
00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:12,040
Speaker 8: your Instagram and Twitter that you are a big Grizzlies fan.

682
00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:14,200
Speaker 8: You tweet a lot about John Morant. Correct. Is that

683
00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:18,080
Speaker 8: because you're from Tennessee or you like John Morant.

684
00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:19,960
Speaker 6: Or it's because I'm front Tennessee.

685
00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:23,760
Speaker 8: Yeah, plays, I love watching him basketball.

686
00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:25,920
Speaker 6: He just has he's having a season.

687
00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:29,720
Speaker 8: We were talking about that. It's so sad, I know. Yeah,

688
00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:32,080
Speaker 8: he's a great one to watch. Is basketball your other

689
00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:32,640
Speaker 8: favorite sport?

690
00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:34,520
Speaker 6: It is? It's actually my favorite sport.

691
00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:35,960
Speaker 1: Oh really?

692
00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:39,680
Speaker 8: So what made you pick the route football not basketball?

693
00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:43,920
Speaker 9: I played basketball too, but I think my build was

694
00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:45,640
Speaker 9: more football than basketball.

695
00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:47,480
Speaker 6: So it worked out.

696
00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:50,880
Speaker 8: Yeah, Georgia text like we need you over here, buddy basketball?

697
00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:51,400
Speaker 1: Can wait?

698
00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:52,760
Speaker 8: Do you still like play pick up?

699
00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:53,280
Speaker 6: I do?

700
00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:56,480
Speaker 9: I do have a program as well, So oh really

701
00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:58,680
Speaker 9: that's kind of how I stay around the game.

702
00:29:58,840 --> 00:29:59,320
Speaker 1: What do you do?

703
00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:01,080
Speaker 8: What is this about? Program?

704
00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:05,000
Speaker 9: So it's a Tennessee Marathon. It's based out of my hometown.

705
00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:11,600
Speaker 9: It's grade six through eleventh and uh yeah, we go everywhere,

706
00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:15,800
Speaker 9: like travel everywhere. I'm at every tournament And you know

707
00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:17,400
Speaker 9: that's kind of how I stay around basketball.

708
00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:20,480
Speaker 8: You're really involved in your community. Did was it this year?

709
00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:24,560
Speaker 8: The seventh annual Christmas Drive in Columbia Elementary School?

710
00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:26,920
Speaker 6: I saw I pick a different elementary school every year.

711
00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:29,000
Speaker 8: All in Columbia. And what do you do there? For

712
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:29,479
Speaker 8: the Christmas?

713
00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:32,800
Speaker 9: It's you get however many kids it is, they all

714
00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:39,120
Speaker 9: get like six things and you know it's a big,

715
00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:42,480
Speaker 9: big ordeal and it's always the day before they go

716
00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:45,640
Speaker 9: on Christmas break, so you know they get a little

717
00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:46,720
Speaker 9: Christmas at school.

718
00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:48,920
Speaker 6: Then you know you went a home.

719
00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:52,000
Speaker 8: Is your mom big basketball fan? Is that why your

720
00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:53,680
Speaker 8: middle name is the lawjer One?

721
00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:53,960
Speaker 1: Wait?

722
00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:55,000
Speaker 8: Really?

723
00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:55,200
Speaker 1: Oh?

724
00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:57,800
Speaker 8: I love that? What's the story there? When you realize

725
00:30:57,920 --> 00:30:58,840
Speaker 8: you're named after.

726
00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:04,680
Speaker 9: Oh she was a big check and you know came

727
00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:08,600
Speaker 9: a Loves One fan, and I was born in ninety three,

728
00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:11,360
Speaker 9: so that was, you know, around that same era. So

729
00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:16,800
Speaker 9: once I got I think it was like maybe seven

730
00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:19,360
Speaker 9: years old, I kind of I'm like, dang, I'm named

731
00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:21,400
Speaker 9: after two basketball players, you know what I'm saying.

732
00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:22,640
Speaker 6: But it was kind of cool.

733
00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:25,040
Speaker 9: It was always cool growing up because you know, everybody

734
00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:29,240
Speaker 9: knew it, and it was always like, you really named

735
00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:31,600
Speaker 9: after Shack and I he loves One, but.

736
00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:33,760
Speaker 8: Good thing you like basketball? You did, and you'd be

737
00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:35,880
Speaker 8: real annoyed. Probably, yeah, that's awesome. Okay, your mom's like

738
00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:38,000
Speaker 8: a diehard basketball fan. But then when you went to

739
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:41,280
Speaker 8: the NFL, she's like, okay, sweetie, this is still good. Right,

740
00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:48,040
Speaker 8: that's awesome. When you think of Houston, whether it's Texans, Astros, anything, Rockets,

741
00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:49,800
Speaker 8: who's your favorite athlete? Who do you think this is?

742
00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:53,040
Speaker 8: Houston could be present a long time ago.

743
00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:57,760
Speaker 6: Whenever I came one, Yes, that's definitely my first thought.

744
00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:00,200
Speaker 9: Yeah, but I'll go to be because I guess that yus,

745
00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:07,880
Speaker 9: that's what everybody will say. I'll probably say a baseball player.

746
00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:12,640
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, Shull loved everybody. Okay, Killer Bees.

747
00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:17,800
Speaker 6: Was the was it? Craig Bezi. Yeah, that's yeah, sweet,

748
00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:18,280
Speaker 6: that's definite.

749
00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:18,520
Speaker 7: I was.

750
00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:19,920
Speaker 6: I played baseball growing up too.

751
00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:25,480
Speaker 8: So okay, yeah, you played anything else anything? Okay, gymnastics,

752
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:29,320
Speaker 8: don't NFL players. A lot of you guys do ballet

753
00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:31,200
Speaker 8: to help balance.

754
00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:31,520
Speaker 6: A lot of them do.

755
00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:34,080
Speaker 9: A lot of them did like growing up, and their

756
00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:36,440
Speaker 9: parents put them in gymnastics and soccer and things like

757
00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:38,760
Speaker 9: that to help with those type of things.

758
00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:42,760
Speaker 8: Okay, sweet, awesome. And then let's see have your met

759
00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:46,840
Speaker 8: a Keem in person first? Seen him? Obviously very tall,

760
00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:49,640
Speaker 8: but literally when he walks by, it's like overwhelming, how tall?

761
00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:51,760
Speaker 8: And just all the eyes staring at him, like I

762
00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:52,680
Speaker 8: can't how tall are you?

763
00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:55,560
Speaker 6: I'm six two on a great day, but I'm six one.

764
00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:58,200
Speaker 8: It's a great day. Today, Saturday is even better day.

765
00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:02,440
Speaker 8: Can't wait. And you have two super Bowl rings. You've

766
00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:04,400
Speaker 8: already played at the highest level ever when you see

767
00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:06,840
Speaker 8: think of those two games, what's one of the moment

768
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:11,000
Speaker 8: you'll never forget from either of the days?

769
00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:14,960
Speaker 9: Probably the second Super Bowl that was in Atlanta, the

770
00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:19,160
Speaker 9: twenty eight three Uh not against Atlanta, my bad, it

771
00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:23,000
Speaker 9: was against Atlanta. It was actually in Houston, and it

772
00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:25,960
Speaker 9: was the twenty eight three game. We came back and

773
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:30,040
Speaker 9: beat the Falcons. But the most memorable moment was I

774
00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:33,560
Speaker 9: think going into the tunnel at halftime and like we're

775
00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:36,400
Speaker 9: down twenty one to zero or might be twenty one

776
00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:40,040
Speaker 9: to three, and just the feeling of like, Wow, we

777
00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:41,840
Speaker 9: really finna get blew out of the Super Bowl.

778
00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:42,600
Speaker 6: And then once we.

779
00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:45,080
Speaker 9: Got in the locker room, like the whole mood changed

780
00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:47,600
Speaker 9: and everybody was like so it being like you know

781
00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:49,239
Speaker 9: what I'm saying, We just got to make plays and

782
00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:52,000
Speaker 9: you know, it was like a movie and everything just

783
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:53,160
Speaker 9: started going our way.

784
00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:56,200
Speaker 8: So yeah, I remember that first off. I was so confused,

785
00:33:56,280 --> 00:33:58,320
Speaker 8: like this is going to go and I was like, well,

786
00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:02,480
Speaker 8: what now different? Shelby Kabbach here a shock, Mason. Did

787
00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:04,240
Speaker 8: you watch the National Championship?

788
00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:04,720
Speaker 6: I did.

789
00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:07,040
Speaker 8: Who did you have winning Michigan or Washington?

790
00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:08,800
Speaker 6: I have Michigan in Okay, Michigan.

791
00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:11,799
Speaker 8: I like the Harbor Brothers. They're awesome. Yeah, no one's

792
00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:16,200
Speaker 8: better than them. Apparently that their dad says. I love it. Well,

793
00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:19,920
Speaker 8: when you look at some of the greats you've played with,

794
00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:21,719
Speaker 8: and I know it's your first year with Houston and

795
00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:24,160
Speaker 8: you've been in that winning locker room and coming here,

796
00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:27,040
Speaker 8: what's the culture like with the Texans that you see, Oh,

797
00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:29,160
Speaker 8: this is what's making us so successful this year.

798
00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:33,319
Speaker 9: I think everybody bought in like instantly, and I think

799
00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:37,840
Speaker 9: that comes from the first meeting with Demiko, Like you

800
00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:40,360
Speaker 9: could just his energy just you know, it's just it

801
00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:40,879
Speaker 9: just was a.

802
00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:43,319
Speaker 6: Vibe that just transferred throughout the room.

803
00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:46,239
Speaker 9: And you know, when you have a coach that you

804
00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:48,759
Speaker 9: believe in, you want to play for him and you

805
00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:50,400
Speaker 9: want to do well for him, and it kind of

806
00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:53,239
Speaker 9: just spreads and you know that kind of that kind of.

807
00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:56,560
Speaker 6: Took hold very quickly here, which surprised me. Honestly.

808
00:34:56,960 --> 00:34:57,759
Speaker 8: Why did surprise you?

809
00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:03,440
Speaker 9: Just because like it's u you know last year, what

810
00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:06,719
Speaker 9: was the three wins? And for him to come in

811
00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:10,080
Speaker 9: and just attack everything head on and just kind of

812
00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:15,560
Speaker 9: you know, move guys. And I was like, that's it's

813
00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:19,040
Speaker 9: pretty impressive. And you know, I know expectations outside of

814
00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:21,919
Speaker 9: the building were very low and you know, such and such,

815
00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:25,279
Speaker 9: like inside the building, it was just a feel we

816
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:28,400
Speaker 9: had that you know, we knew we could be a

817
00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:29,480
Speaker 9: good football team.

818
00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:32,560
Speaker 8: So if someone told you beginning of season that the

819
00:35:32,640 --> 00:35:35,880
Speaker 8: team would be AFC South Champs would not be surprising.

820
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:38,960
Speaker 8: At all or could you have pictured that happening personally?

821
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:41,120
Speaker 6: I definitely could have pictured that happening.

822
00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:45,640
Speaker 8: And then protecting rookie CJ. Strap being so close to him.

823
00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:50,160
Speaker 8: What characteristics about him make him so successful and being

824
00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:51,920
Speaker 8: so young with that pressure.

825
00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:55,359
Speaker 9: That he's he's a natural leader, like he's a he's

826
00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:58,200
Speaker 9: a guy that you know when he talks, you listen,

827
00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:01,040
Speaker 9: you know, like and they is it. He didn't have

828
00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:04,000
Speaker 9: a forced command like. It was kind of like he

829
00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:07,920
Speaker 9: kind of introduced itself. And you know, and when you

830
00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:10,040
Speaker 9: play well, people follow you as well, so you know,

831
00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:14,279
Speaker 9: but he never kind of he never was a guy

832
00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:17,000
Speaker 9: like it was forced to lead and it was kind

833
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:18,960
Speaker 9: of like a natural thing for him. And that was

834
00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:21,480
Speaker 9: as big for a guy that's, you know what I'm saying,

835
00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:24,280
Speaker 9: a rookie and a quarterback I'm saying in the NFL

836
00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:26,440
Speaker 9: and he just took your head on. He's, you know

837
00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:27,959
Speaker 9: what I'm saying, doing great things for us.

838
00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:31,359
Speaker 8: And you have the accolades that the franchise is looking for.

839
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:32,839
Speaker 8: What do you try to bring in as a leader.

840
00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:34,040
Speaker 8: What's your leadership style?

841
00:36:35,640 --> 00:36:35,920
Speaker 6: Really?

842
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:37,960
Speaker 9: I mean I just kind of I try to I

843
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:42,120
Speaker 9: try to keep guys just focused mentally and like not

844
00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:44,799
Speaker 9: just can't make it too big, you know, like I

845
00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:46,680
Speaker 9: know it's a big deal. You know, I know it's

846
00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:49,600
Speaker 9: a big deal, rightfully so, but at the end of

847
00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:50,920
Speaker 9: the day, I just try to tell the guys in

848
00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:52,799
Speaker 9: the locker room and it's just ball. You know, we've

849
00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:55,440
Speaker 9: been doing this since we were five years old. You know,

850
00:36:55,520 --> 00:36:57,560
Speaker 9: you gotta you kind of you kind of gotta lose

851
00:36:57,560 --> 00:37:00,000
Speaker 9: yourself in the game when the stakes.

852
00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:03,320
Speaker 8: Are the Shelby coppach here with Shack Mason. Robert Woods

853
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:05,359
Speaker 8: was in here earlier and he said that game day,

854
00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:08,240
Speaker 8: you all listen to gospel music, then going to rap.

855
00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:10,719
Speaker 8: What's your what's in your ears? Game day? What do

856
00:37:10,719 --> 00:37:11,120
Speaker 8: you listening to?

857
00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:16,040
Speaker 9: So every game day, as soon as I wake up,

858
00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:19,960
Speaker 9: I turn on gospel. So when I get here, the

859
00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:23,000
Speaker 9: whole ride here is gospel music. Then when I get

860
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:25,839
Speaker 9: in the locker room, the Gospels still playing. And then

861
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:28,960
Speaker 9: when we transition, I turn on you know, I turn

862
00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:32,920
Speaker 9: on rap as well. Usually my whole my whole probably

863
00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:38,640
Speaker 9: from played, say we got a noon game, probably from

864
00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:39,520
Speaker 9: ten o'clock to.

865
00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:44,319
Speaker 6: Eleven, it's nothing but future playing.

866
00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:49,920
Speaker 8: Love a good future song. You're twitter, you always tweet

867
00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:52,160
Speaker 8: I can't even try.

868
00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:55,160
Speaker 1: It because I don't know that's not it.

869
00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:59,040
Speaker 8: I google it and it's a Memphis is this right? Okay?

870
00:37:59,040 --> 00:37:59,880
Speaker 1: Now you get you? What do I?

871
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:03,520
Speaker 8: It's uh okay, but it's like I thought that was

872
00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:05,800
Speaker 8: bird Man there, yeah, we got I thought that was

873
00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:06,600
Speaker 8: man though.

874
00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:09,760
Speaker 6: No, it's it's a it's a big thirty.

875
00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:10,560
Speaker 7: Uh.

876
00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:14,480
Speaker 9: He's a Memphis rapper, Jim Posty, you know, they they

877
00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:17,200
Speaker 9: have a it's just saying and it's kind of like

878
00:38:17,239 --> 00:38:21,279
Speaker 9: a mission complete, like job well done type thing.

879
00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:24,560
Speaker 6: And that's why every every win yea sweet okay.

880
00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:26,000
Speaker 8: And I have to say that whenever you have a

881
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:26,760
Speaker 8: good player or something.

882
00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:26,960
Speaker 7: Right.

883
00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:31,880
Speaker 8: So you like Memphis rap young dolf Yogatti, right, I

884
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:34,520
Speaker 8: argue Beary wraps better. E forty too short, But that's

885
00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:35,640
Speaker 8: just my personal preference.

886
00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:38,400
Speaker 6: I think so, but I like I like, I like

887
00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:41,120
Speaker 6: bear But future we.

888
00:38:41,080 --> 00:38:44,400
Speaker 8: Can that's time with me. Well, if you had I'm

889
00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:47,120
Speaker 8: always curious professional athletes, if you had never played football,

890
00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:50,480
Speaker 8: what would you be doing besides fun? I mean like

891
00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:53,680
Speaker 8: getting the bills? What would your job be? What are

892
00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:54,799
Speaker 8: you passionate about?

893
00:38:55,920 --> 00:39:00,160
Speaker 9: I would probably be a something dealing with numbers, like

894
00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:03,480
Speaker 9: because I'm a I always love math throughout school, so

895
00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:08,799
Speaker 9: which is weird. But I always was a math guy,

896
00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:12,120
Speaker 9: so hopefully somewhere around accounting.

897
00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:15,200
Speaker 6: Maybe that sounds way too off for me to do though, But.

898
00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:18,600
Speaker 8: Sweets, so you're like naturally good with numbers and things

899
00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:21,600
Speaker 8: like that. When you see like the score this touchdown,

900
00:39:21,640 --> 00:39:23,400
Speaker 8: YadA YadA, will be good here, you got like already

901
00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:27,200
Speaker 8: equation in your head? Sweet love that. What are some

902
00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:29,200
Speaker 8: hobbies outside of football?

903
00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:30,480
Speaker 6: Bowling?

904
00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:34,080
Speaker 8: Bowling? Okay, I know James Harden was a big bowler

905
00:39:34,120 --> 00:39:34,640
Speaker 8: in Houston.

906
00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:39,520
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, yeah, me L T. Titus, George We we

907
00:39:39,560 --> 00:39:42,040
Speaker 6: bowl often. I usually win.

908
00:39:42,719 --> 00:39:45,520
Speaker 8: But okay, well ask them if that's true.

909
00:39:46,520 --> 00:39:50,919
Speaker 6: But yeah, I like bowling. You know what else?

910
00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:53,120
Speaker 9: Swimming every every house that I'm around, like I have

911
00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:54,040
Speaker 9: to put a pool.

912
00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:56,040
Speaker 6: There, Sweets, I'm I love swimming.

913
00:39:56,239 --> 00:39:58,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, what about it?

914
00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:01,520
Speaker 8: Do you like scary movies? By chance or your movie?

915
00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:01,719
Speaker 2: Guy?

916
00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:02,720
Speaker 8: Watch any movies?

917
00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:05,480
Speaker 6: Uh? Not really?

918
00:40:05,680 --> 00:40:06,640
Speaker 8: Okay? Shows?

919
00:40:06,680 --> 00:40:08,680
Speaker 6: I like thrillers. I mean I'm a thriller movie type

920
00:40:08,680 --> 00:40:10,160
Speaker 6: of Do you.

921
00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:11,080
Speaker 8: Like any TV shows?

922
00:40:11,120 --> 00:40:11,160
Speaker 2: Like?

923
00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:12,799
Speaker 8: What do you do at home when it's an oft en?

924
00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:14,240
Speaker 8: You need decompressed and relax.

925
00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:20,520
Speaker 6: Let's see what was I watching? I just finished both

926
00:40:20,520 --> 00:40:22,080
Speaker 6: of the Top Boys on Netflix.

927
00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:23,960
Speaker 8: I watched it. I need to watch it.

928
00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:27,600
Speaker 9: Great show, great show. It's Top Boy, Summerhouse, and It's

929
00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:32,080
Speaker 9: Top Boy. I just finished those. I just started.

930
00:40:32,239 --> 00:40:37,200
Speaker 8: Uh black Cake, have heard of that either?

931
00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:37,839
Speaker 6: Yeah?

932
00:40:38,080 --> 00:40:39,960
Speaker 8: Okay, I'm gonna watch these. By the way, I love

933
00:40:40,040 --> 00:40:40,520
Speaker 8: my shows.

934
00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:41,920
Speaker 6: I need, I need, I need a review.

935
00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:44,279
Speaker 8: Okay, Okay, I'll keep you updated next time you come

936
00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:48,520
Speaker 8: back to the slant. Okay, so you're decompressed, we got

937
00:40:48,560 --> 00:40:50,560
Speaker 8: your mind off football a little bit. But going back

938
00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:53,400
Speaker 8: going into Saturday, what's something that sticks out to you

939
00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:54,680
Speaker 8: about the Browns?

940
00:40:56,960 --> 00:41:01,000
Speaker 9: They have a great defense, you know, you know, we

941
00:41:01,520 --> 00:41:04,960
Speaker 9: definitely have a task with Miles and Darius and then

942
00:41:05,040 --> 00:41:11,000
Speaker 9: even the interior guys with you got Shelby and Dalvn

943
00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:14,200
Speaker 9: so a worst cut out for us. But we're definitely

944
00:41:14,239 --> 00:41:16,279
Speaker 9: looking forward to the to the challenge of hand. You know,

945
00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:19,520
Speaker 9: we played them two weeks ago, three weeks ago, one

946
00:41:19,560 --> 00:41:23,240
Speaker 9: of them, so definitely looking forward to the to the rematch.

947
00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:27,600
Speaker 8: Sweet and then what's your mentality for does it change

948
00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:30,200
Speaker 8: when the game's bigger, when the stakes are high, or

949
00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:33,720
Speaker 8: it's beginning of the season, But what's the difference.

950
00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:36,960
Speaker 6: I kind of kind of remained the same for me.

951
00:41:37,719 --> 00:41:41,320
Speaker 9: I think I never I never really make it too

952
00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:42,279
Speaker 9: too high or too low.

953
00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:45,200
Speaker 6: I just try to stay even killed and that that's

954
00:41:45,239 --> 00:41:45,840
Speaker 6: what works for me.

955
00:41:46,120 --> 00:41:49,560
Speaker 9: Like, you know, some guys are super you know what

956
00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:50,960
Speaker 9: I'm saying, hype pregame.

957
00:41:51,120 --> 00:41:53,520
Speaker 6: You know, I'm pretty mellow, so.

958
00:41:53,800 --> 00:41:56,080
Speaker 8: I'm shock you're jumping out your seat. I need calm

959
00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:59,239
Speaker 8: down over It's okay. Usually I'm the one jumping on

960
00:41:59,239 --> 00:42:01,240
Speaker 8: my seat, so it works out right now, So it's perfect.

961
00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:03,319
Speaker 8: There were some guys on the field where you don't

962
00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:06,520
Speaker 8: have to even worry about them. They're just like they're

963
00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:08,719
Speaker 8: the clutch teammates that in your eyes.

964
00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:13,320
Speaker 9: To you, uh lt for sure, you don't have to

965
00:42:13,320 --> 00:42:16,879
Speaker 9: worry about anything over there. He's going to cancel out

966
00:42:16,920 --> 00:42:19,600
Speaker 9: whoever he's blocking. So that's somebody that's taken care of

967
00:42:19,719 --> 00:42:24,279
Speaker 9: for sure. Never have to worry about seven at all.

968
00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:32,080
Speaker 9: You know, we go defense sting, you don't got to worry.

969
00:42:33,239 --> 00:42:35,000
Speaker 9: So I mean we got pieces. We got pieces everywhere.

970
00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:36,880
Speaker 6: Honestly, is everywhere.

971
00:42:37,040 --> 00:42:40,480
Speaker 8: I'm pumped for Saturday. What's something about your favorite thing

972
00:42:40,480 --> 00:42:41,720
Speaker 8: about home games here in Houston?

973
00:42:42,160 --> 00:42:43,480
Speaker 6: Favorite about home game.

974
00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:45,239
Speaker 8: Or one of them? Just something you like doesn't be

975
00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:45,799
Speaker 8: number one.

976
00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:47,600
Speaker 6: I honestly like the DJ.

977
00:42:48,080 --> 00:42:53,680
Speaker 9: The DJ we got here because I he does. I

978
00:42:53,719 --> 00:42:56,680
Speaker 9: was in New England for you know, seven years, and

979
00:42:56,760 --> 00:42:58,799
Speaker 9: we didn't really I don't we didn't have a DJ,

980
00:42:58,960 --> 00:43:00,000
Speaker 9: so that was pretty.

981
00:42:59,719 --> 00:43:00,000
Speaker 7: New to me.

982
00:43:00,640 --> 00:43:04,239
Speaker 8: How's the weather change playing here? Are you liking it more?

983
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:07,400
Speaker 8: I'm just picturing absolutely absolutely.

984
00:43:08,239 --> 00:43:10,520
Speaker 9: I think that was the biggest thing from when I

985
00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:12,439
Speaker 9: got the Tampa. When I went to Tampa last year,

986
00:43:12,880 --> 00:43:14,439
Speaker 9: I was like, Okay, I can get used to these

987
00:43:14,480 --> 00:43:16,560
Speaker 9: warm weather places and now I'm here.

988
00:43:16,600 --> 00:43:19,440
Speaker 8: So what's one of What's something you do for your

989
00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:26,480
Speaker 8: off time here in Houston? Any spots you like? Restaurants,

990
00:43:26,719 --> 00:43:27,600
Speaker 8: public pools.

991
00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:32,080
Speaker 6: I'm a big big mass shows guy.

992
00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:34,759
Speaker 8: My favorite that's my.

993
00:43:34,719 --> 00:43:37,400
Speaker 6: Favorite restaurant here for sure, the buttercake.

994
00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:40,680
Speaker 9: Butter Cake. Sometimes I'll even door dash a buttercake.

995
00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:43,200
Speaker 8: That's when you know you've made it. My friend knows

996
00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:45,520
Speaker 8: it too, she goes door dash butter cake. I'm like,

997
00:43:45,520 --> 00:43:48,200
Speaker 8: that's it, yeah, piece of cake. I'm like, okay, goals

998
00:43:48,239 --> 00:43:52,759
Speaker 8: one day. Awesome. Well, we're so excited for Saturday. I

999
00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:55,279
Speaker 8: know you're excited too, and I wish you must have

1000
00:43:55,320 --> 00:43:56,880
Speaker 8: look and used to come back here because I have

1001
00:43:56,880 --> 00:43:57,920
Speaker 8: to give reviews of the shows.

1002
00:43:58,160 --> 00:43:58,759
Speaker 6: Appreciated.

1003
00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:02,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, thoughts stuff there with Shaq and with Shelby Kopics.

1004
00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:06,480
Speaker 2: Appreciate both of them for stopping by the show. Fantastic

1005
00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:08,799
Speaker 2: stuff right there. Okay, we get back. We'll go through

1006
00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:12,399
Speaker 2: the injury report, any kind of news nuggets that we've

1007
00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:15,400
Speaker 2: got about this playoff game against the Browns on Saturday.

1008
00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:16,600
Speaker 1: That's next the Texans.

1009
00:44:16,320 --> 00:44:19,360
Speaker 2: All Access looking back to this Wednesday edition of Texans

1010
00:44:19,440 --> 00:44:22,520
Speaker 2: All Access from Monday Texans Radio Studio. I'm your host,

1011
00:44:22,600 --> 00:44:24,640
Speaker 2: John Harris Football on a sideline report. I know we

1012
00:44:24,640 --> 00:44:26,879
Speaker 2: got to get to the injury report, but I didn't

1013
00:44:26,920 --> 00:44:28,480
Speaker 2: want to bury a.

1014
00:44:28,480 --> 00:44:30,680
Speaker 1: Pretty substantial lead. CJ.

1015
00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:35,560
Speaker 2: Stroud named AFC Offensive Player of the Week for the

1016
00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:38,239
Speaker 2: second time. He was named the Offensive player of the

1017
00:44:38,239 --> 00:44:40,919
Speaker 2: week after his performance against Tampa Bay and week nine.

1018
00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:44,640
Speaker 2: This is the second one against the Colts. That makes

1019
00:44:45,160 --> 00:44:51,799
Speaker 2: six times a Texan has been named offensive, defensive, or

1020
00:44:51,880 --> 00:44:55,759
Speaker 2: special teams player of the week. Blake Cashman got in

1021
00:44:55,800 --> 00:44:59,360
Speaker 2: week six, CJ. Stroud in week nine, Motor Devin Singletary

1022
00:44:59,360 --> 00:45:02,320
Speaker 2: in week ten, Derek Stingley in thirteen against the Broncos

1023
00:45:02,360 --> 00:45:05,520
Speaker 2: Kymie Fairbairn after the Titans first Titans game and then

1024
00:45:05,560 --> 00:45:08,279
Speaker 2: c J. Stroud after the win against the Colts. That

1025
00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:13,280
Speaker 2: is a team record. It's never happened six different times.

1026
00:45:13,760 --> 00:45:17,640
Speaker 2: How about that kind of Wischnico would have got any

1027
00:45:17,719 --> 00:45:19,440
Speaker 2: kind of a co offensive Player of the Week. But

1028
00:45:19,520 --> 00:45:22,880
Speaker 2: either way, congratulations to CJ. And I know if that

1029
00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:25,759
Speaker 2: pisses off Nico and then he goes up on the Browns, Okay, great,

1030
00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:28,840
Speaker 2: that's awesome. That would be fantastic. He went nine for

1031
00:45:28,880 --> 00:45:31,239
Speaker 2: one ninety five and a tuddy and almost had a

1032
00:45:31,280 --> 00:45:34,400
Speaker 2: second one running over Jalen Jones twice. But congratulations to

1033
00:45:34,719 --> 00:45:38,759
Speaker 2: c J. Stroud AFC Offensive Player of the Week. Okay,

1034
00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:42,720
Speaker 2: let's look at this injury report because it's not great,

1035
00:45:43,360 --> 00:45:46,160
Speaker 2: but a little better than yesterday. Yesterday two for six

1036
00:45:46,360 --> 00:45:50,480
Speaker 2: eight nine in the DNP category. Today in the DNP

1037
00:45:50,680 --> 00:45:54,200
Speaker 2: category only five only. That's what we've gotten to. Only

1038
00:45:54,320 --> 00:45:57,040
Speaker 2: Will Anderson Junior with the ankle, Andrew Beck doing that

1039
00:45:57,080 --> 00:46:01,760
Speaker 2: calf issued, Noel Brown the back, John Grenard ankle, Jerry Hughes' ankle.

1040
00:46:02,400 --> 00:46:05,319
Speaker 2: Limited participants like to see guys kind of moved into

1041
00:46:05,320 --> 00:46:09,239
Speaker 2: this category. Maleak with the Hipshellan Rankins with shoulder and

1042
00:46:09,400 --> 00:46:12,880
Speaker 2: Robert Woods moving into that category after not practicing and

1043
00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:15,640
Speaker 2: missing last game against Annapolis Colts. Boy, would be really

1044
00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:18,320
Speaker 2: good to have Bobby Trees back. Michael Dieter dealing with elbow.

1045
00:46:18,360 --> 00:46:19,040
Speaker 1: He is limited.

1046
00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:22,359
Speaker 2: Okay, So players came off the injury report. It's good

1047
00:46:22,360 --> 00:46:25,080
Speaker 2: to see Larmy Tuns off the injury report. Shaq Mason

1048
00:46:25,120 --> 00:46:28,680
Speaker 2: off the injury report. So good stuff there. Now the Browns,

1049
00:46:28,760 --> 00:46:31,319
Speaker 2: holy smokes, they just wanted to keep an eye on.

1050
00:46:31,680 --> 00:46:34,160
Speaker 2: I don't think it's gonna amount to anything really, and

1051
00:46:34,200 --> 00:46:38,280
Speaker 2: that's Mary Cooper. He did not He did not practice again.

1052
00:46:38,920 --> 00:46:40,880
Speaker 2: He's been dealing with the heel issue. He had that

1053
00:46:40,920 --> 00:46:43,960
Speaker 2: heel issue that kept him out of the Jets matchup.

1054
00:46:44,880 --> 00:46:47,360
Speaker 2: Now he wasn't gonna play a week eighteen against the Bengals.

1055
00:46:47,960 --> 00:46:49,799
Speaker 2: They tried to keep as many of their stars out

1056
00:46:49,840 --> 00:46:51,080
Speaker 2: of that game, and for good reason. They had the

1057
00:46:51,120 --> 00:46:54,279
Speaker 2: fifth seed locked up. No they could do so. Mark

1058
00:46:54,280 --> 00:46:58,560
Speaker 2: Cooper did not practice again. Also, place kicker Dustin Hopkins

1059
00:46:58,920 --> 00:47:01,440
Speaker 2: dealing with a left hamster. He pulled that hamstring against

1060
00:47:01,480 --> 00:47:04,920
Speaker 2: the Texans and they didn't they went for two. They

1061
00:47:04,960 --> 00:47:08,000
Speaker 2: went for it because they didn't have Hopkins services, so

1062
00:47:08,280 --> 00:47:09,320
Speaker 2: we'll see if they're able.

1063
00:47:09,160 --> 00:47:09,720
Speaker 1: To do something.

1064
00:47:09,719 --> 00:47:12,120
Speaker 2: If Hopkins is not able to go in this one,

1065
00:47:12,160 --> 00:47:14,920
Speaker 2: et Cedric Tillman dealing with the concussion. He's in concussion protocol,

1066
00:47:14,960 --> 00:47:17,520
Speaker 2: so he did not participate. The Browns have like a

1067
00:47:17,640 --> 00:47:24,080
Speaker 2: dozen guys in limited participants, including Grant Delpitt, who has

1068
00:47:24,200 --> 00:47:27,040
Speaker 2: been brought back to the active roster.

1069
00:47:27,160 --> 00:47:29,560
Speaker 1: We'll see if he is actually active. He's been injured

1070
00:47:29,560 --> 00:47:29,919
Speaker 1: and out.

1071
00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:32,120
Speaker 2: He had to come back off injury reserve, so he

1072
00:47:32,120 --> 00:47:36,399
Speaker 2: would help their safety situation. But the Anthony Bells played

1073
00:47:36,480 --> 00:47:38,759
Speaker 2: very very well in his stead, so we'll keep an

1074
00:47:38,800 --> 00:47:41,759
Speaker 2: eye on that, especially the Marii Cooper news. We'll get

1075
00:47:41,760 --> 00:47:44,200
Speaker 2: the status report tomorrow. We'll have that for All Access

1076
00:47:44,440 --> 00:47:47,840
Speaker 2: tomorrow at six. But coming up, it's been behind the

1077
00:47:47,880 --> 00:47:50,640
Speaker 2: Mike's Iron Eagle, who'll call the game for Westwood One

1078
00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:52,800
Speaker 2: and Mark vanderm You're next on Texans All Access.

1079
00:47:52,960 --> 00:47:54,520
Speaker 1: We got one our down, one our left to go.

1080
00:47:54,600 --> 00:47:57,960
Speaker 2: Right here on Wednesday edition of Texans All Access, a

1081
00:47:58,040 --> 00:47:59,560
Speaker 2: playoff addition.

1082
00:47:59,320 --> 00:48:00,640
Speaker 1: Brought to you by my Man Firm.

1083
00:48:00,640 --> 00:48:03,480
Speaker 2: I'm your host, John Harris, Football antly a sideline reporter

1084
00:48:03,600 --> 00:48:07,200
Speaker 2: for your Houston Texans, so glad to be with you.

1085
00:48:07,239 --> 00:48:09,360
Speaker 1: Went through the injury report in the previous.

1086
00:48:09,640 --> 00:48:13,239
Speaker 2: Uh segment, got my fingers crossed that maybe some of

1087
00:48:13,239 --> 00:48:15,960
Speaker 2: those guys we mentioned in the DMP category will be

1088
00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:18,480
Speaker 2: able to play, but remains to be seen. It would

1089
00:48:18,480 --> 00:48:20,319
Speaker 2: have loved for this game, honestly, it would have loved

1090
00:48:20,320 --> 00:48:22,680
Speaker 2: for this game to have been Monday night, just to

1091
00:48:22,760 --> 00:48:26,200
Speaker 2: get another couple of days, another forty eight hours of

1092
00:48:26,280 --> 00:48:28,960
Speaker 2: getting guys healthy. But that's not the case. Well, and

1093
00:48:28,960 --> 00:48:30,879
Speaker 2: the Brown's got to deal with it. Two Mark Cooper

1094
00:48:30,920 --> 00:48:33,200
Speaker 2: has been dealing with that heel issue since he went

1095
00:48:33,239 --> 00:48:35,080
Speaker 2: for two sixty five against the Texans.

1096
00:48:35,160 --> 00:48:36,840
Speaker 1: Now, this is gonna sound kind of.

1097
00:48:36,840 --> 00:48:40,160
Speaker 2: Strange, but I really want Amari Cooper to play in

1098
00:48:40,200 --> 00:48:44,440
Speaker 2: this game because I got a feeling that defense wants

1099
00:48:44,440 --> 00:48:47,239
Speaker 2: a piece, and you know, if he doesn't play, I

1100
00:48:47,280 --> 00:48:49,040
Speaker 2: don't think there's gonna be a letdown on the Texas

1101
00:48:49,120 --> 00:48:51,279
Speaker 2: secondary or anything, but you know there's gonna be as well.

1102
00:48:51,360 --> 00:48:53,960
Speaker 2: You know, Lamark Cooper didn't play, So if the Texans win,

1103
00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:56,120
Speaker 2: it's less than all that kind of stuff. I hope

1104
00:48:56,160 --> 00:49:00,640
Speaker 2: that's not the case. Cooper had missed the jet and

1105
00:49:00,680 --> 00:49:02,920
Speaker 2: it made sense. It was only four days after that

1106
00:49:03,120 --> 00:49:05,560
Speaker 2: performance on Sunday against the Texans on Christmas Eve.

1107
00:49:05,760 --> 00:49:08,720
Speaker 1: So they played four days later on Thursday, five Monday

1108
00:49:08,719 --> 00:49:10,000
Speaker 1: today Thursday.

1109
00:49:09,640 --> 00:49:13,200
Speaker 2: Four days later, and then he wasn't gonna play against

1110
00:49:13,200 --> 00:49:15,839
Speaker 2: the Bengals anyways, because the Browns were resting as many

1111
00:49:15,920 --> 00:49:18,959
Speaker 2: of their injured guys as possible because the game meant nothing.

1112
00:49:18,960 --> 00:49:21,760
Speaker 2: There were a five seed win or lose, so they

1113
00:49:22,239 --> 00:49:24,920
Speaker 2: they played Jeff Driscoll at quarterback. They didn't need to

1114
00:49:24,960 --> 00:49:27,919
Speaker 2: play Amari Cooper at wide receiver either, So a lot

1115
00:49:27,960 --> 00:49:28,399
Speaker 2: going on.

1116
00:49:28,760 --> 00:49:30,480
Speaker 1: Both teams have got to deal with it. Both teams

1117
00:49:30,520 --> 00:49:31,040
Speaker 1: banged up.

1118
00:49:31,880 --> 00:49:33,920
Speaker 2: The Browns have lost both their starting tackles and then

1119
00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:36,920
Speaker 2: a third tackle. The Texans have lost Tank Dell and

1120
00:49:36,920 --> 00:49:41,040
Speaker 2: and others. So we'll see what happens tomorrow. That'll be

1121
00:49:41,080 --> 00:49:43,560
Speaker 2: the status day. And I would imagine there's gonna be

1122
00:49:43,600 --> 00:49:45,440
Speaker 2: a lot of questionable just like there was for the

1123
00:49:45,480 --> 00:49:49,640
Speaker 2: game at Indy. Now, a guy that's not questionable gonna

1124
00:49:49,680 --> 00:49:52,800
Speaker 2: be calling this game for Westwood One.

1125
00:49:53,200 --> 00:49:54,520
Speaker 1: That's Iron Eagle.

1126
00:49:55,160 --> 00:49:57,560
Speaker 2: So we go, men behind the Mics, There're gonna be

1127
00:49:57,560 --> 00:50:00,239
Speaker 2: a lot of Eagles behind the Mics in this. You

1128
00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:04,080
Speaker 2: got Noah Eagle calling the game for NBC. You got

1129
00:50:04,120 --> 00:50:06,880
Speaker 2: Iron Eagle calling the game for Westwood one, and then

1130
00:50:06,880 --> 00:50:09,080
Speaker 2: you got the best in the league, Mark Vandermer calling

1131
00:50:09,120 --> 00:50:12,480
Speaker 2: the game for our own Houston Texans. And Mark caught

1132
00:50:12,560 --> 00:50:15,959
Speaker 2: up with Iron to talk about this game, his son,

1133
00:50:17,160 --> 00:50:20,160
Speaker 2: them doing this game together, yet separate a lot of

1134
00:50:20,160 --> 00:50:22,440
Speaker 2: stuff going on here men behind the Mike's great stuff

1135
00:50:22,520 --> 00:50:23,719
Speaker 2: with Mark and Iron.

1136
00:50:23,480 --> 00:50:26,320
Speaker 3: Eagle joining us now in Texans Radio, it's Iron Eagle

1137
00:50:26,400 --> 00:50:30,080
Speaker 3: who is calling the Texans Cleveland playoff game for Westwood one,

1138
00:50:30,120 --> 00:50:33,120
Speaker 3: But you know, I'm also from CBS and countless other

1139
00:50:33,200 --> 00:50:35,640
Speaker 3: things which we will get into. Iron, how's it going.

1140
00:50:35,760 --> 00:50:37,239
Speaker 3: How do you feel about coming to Houston to do

1141
00:50:37,400 --> 00:50:37,960
Speaker 3: this game?

1142
00:50:38,360 --> 00:50:41,200
Speaker 7: Oh? Excited, really excited. I think there's so many great

1143
00:50:41,239 --> 00:50:44,960
Speaker 7: storylines Mark, in the opening round of the playoffs, but

1144
00:50:45,360 --> 00:50:47,960
Speaker 7: to get it going to be the first one out

1145
00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:50,440
Speaker 7: of the game, you know the build up, you know

1146
00:50:50,640 --> 00:50:54,600
Speaker 7: the intrigue, and then all the narratives. You have real

1147
00:50:55,400 --> 00:50:59,400
Speaker 7: human interest stories on both sides that will play out

1148
00:50:59,480 --> 00:51:02,160
Speaker 7: on Saturday afternoon. So really looking forward to it.

1149
00:51:02,560 --> 00:51:05,400
Speaker 3: And I hear a lot of guys who transition between

1150
00:51:05,560 --> 00:51:08,520
Speaker 3: TV and radio, and I really love the way you

1151
00:51:08,600 --> 00:51:11,040
Speaker 3: do a radio game, I really do. I love your

1152
00:51:11,080 --> 00:51:13,319
Speaker 3: work on TV, of course, but I think you do

1153
00:51:13,360 --> 00:51:17,280
Speaker 3: it very well understanding the differences. But can you explain

1154
00:51:17,320 --> 00:51:19,400
Speaker 3: to the listener what some of those differences are to you?

1155
00:51:19,480 --> 00:51:21,399
Speaker 3: Because you do so many games on CBS, so many

1156
00:51:21,440 --> 00:51:24,600
Speaker 3: other sports as well, But then you have the NFL

1157
00:51:24,719 --> 00:51:26,640
Speaker 3: on Westwood One. What's that like for you?

1158
00:51:27,200 --> 00:51:30,640
Speaker 7: Mark? As you can relate, You try the best. Put

1159
00:51:30,680 --> 00:51:33,879
Speaker 7: yourself in the position of somebody that's in their car

1160
00:51:34,320 --> 00:51:38,319
Speaker 7: and it's a blank canvas. So your job is to

1161
00:51:38,480 --> 00:51:42,640
Speaker 7: now fill in all the blanks for that person. They

1162
00:51:42,719 --> 00:51:47,560
Speaker 7: know nothing. You are the soundtrack. You are providing them

1163
00:51:47,800 --> 00:51:50,680
Speaker 7: with every bit of information that they need. And then

1164
00:51:50,719 --> 00:51:53,400
Speaker 7: there's that very fine line are you giving too much information?

1165
00:51:53,560 --> 00:51:56,799
Speaker 7: Is it too much for them to process? So that's

1166
00:51:56,840 --> 00:51:59,560
Speaker 7: what I'm constantly reminding myself. It really is flipping a

1167
00:51:59,600 --> 00:52:04,080
Speaker 7: switch TV to radio and recognizing what does your audience need.

1168
00:52:04,200 --> 00:52:07,719
Speaker 7: On the flip side, when you're doing TV, pull back, edit,

1169
00:52:08,680 --> 00:52:11,399
Speaker 7: put a period on the end of your sentence, put

1170
00:52:11,400 --> 00:52:15,359
Speaker 7: an exclamation point when necessary, tag what your analyst has

1171
00:52:15,400 --> 00:52:18,799
Speaker 7: to say. And on radio you really have to be

1172
00:52:19,320 --> 00:52:23,719
Speaker 7: cognizant of the details and the small details that can

1173
00:52:23,760 --> 00:52:27,960
Speaker 7: affect how somebody is viewing or visualizing the game. It's

1174
00:52:28,000 --> 00:52:31,000
Speaker 7: really a lot of fun. And obviously you know this

1175
00:52:31,120 --> 00:52:34,040
Speaker 7: because you've lived it for so long. It's the challenge,

1176
00:52:34,120 --> 00:52:38,759
Speaker 7: the challenge every week of trying to stay creative and

1177
00:52:39,080 --> 00:52:43,680
Speaker 7: to truly engage the audience with your voice, with your inflection,

1178
00:52:44,080 --> 00:52:45,600
Speaker 7: and with your vocabulary.

1179
00:52:45,719 --> 00:52:48,560
Speaker 3: Iron Eagle joining us on Texans Radio, give me two

1180
00:52:48,680 --> 00:52:51,799
Speaker 3: or three of the more memorable games you've done this

1181
00:52:51,920 --> 00:52:54,680
Speaker 3: season in the NFL. What stands out to you, What

1182
00:52:54,880 --> 00:52:57,120
Speaker 3: might you take with you past this season.

1183
00:52:57,560 --> 00:53:00,000
Speaker 7: Boy, I don't have to go far in regard to

1184
00:53:00,360 --> 00:53:04,040
Speaker 7: the Houston Texans, because that Houston Tampa Bay game is

1185
00:53:04,080 --> 00:53:06,280
Speaker 7: going to stick out to me, and it might stick

1186
00:53:06,320 --> 00:53:08,960
Speaker 7: out to me for a long time because I think

1187
00:53:09,000 --> 00:53:11,640
Speaker 7: for many people you had already seen it, You had

1188
00:53:11,640 --> 00:53:14,560
Speaker 7: already experienced it, but it might have been the first

1189
00:53:14,600 --> 00:53:17,880
Speaker 7: time that people around the league recognized that this was

1190
00:53:18,000 --> 00:53:21,840
Speaker 7: not a nice story that CJ. Stroud was writing. This

1191
00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:25,360
Speaker 7: was a historic story. What he did in that game

1192
00:53:26,000 --> 00:53:31,080
Speaker 7: leading the team back. He was everything you hope for

1193
00:53:31,160 --> 00:53:34,440
Speaker 7: in a quarterback, not a rookie quarterback, in a quarterback.

1194
00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:38,000
Speaker 7: And I just walked away from that game feeling as

1195
00:53:38,040 --> 00:53:41,960
Speaker 7: if he had superstar potential, and now since that point

1196
00:53:42,239 --> 00:53:45,319
Speaker 7: has lived up to it. This is no fluke. This

1197
00:53:45,560 --> 00:53:49,080
Speaker 7: is the real thing. He's got a command, he's got

1198
00:53:49,080 --> 00:53:52,759
Speaker 7: a presence, he has the respect of his teammates. So

1199
00:53:52,800 --> 00:53:56,680
Speaker 7: that game really does stick with me and will probably

1200
00:53:56,680 --> 00:53:59,520
Speaker 7: stick with me for a long time. I feel like

1201
00:54:00,080 --> 00:54:05,440
Speaker 7: having done this job now for twenty seven years, I've

1202
00:54:05,480 --> 00:54:08,480
Speaker 7: seen some of the great quarterbacks come through the NFL,

1203
00:54:08,600 --> 00:54:10,200
Speaker 7: some of the best to ever do it. And I've

1204
00:54:10,239 --> 00:54:14,000
Speaker 7: been there at the early stages of a Peyton Manning,

1205
00:54:14,160 --> 00:54:18,840
Speaker 7: of a Tom Brady, of Aaron Rodgers. I've done games

1206
00:54:18,880 --> 00:54:22,560
Speaker 7: early in their career and there's just something that makes

1207
00:54:22,560 --> 00:54:27,120
Speaker 7: them different. And CJ qualifies in that category. He just

1208
00:54:27,200 --> 00:54:30,880
Speaker 7: has that it factor. I had a bunch of Cleveland

1209
00:54:30,920 --> 00:54:34,080
Speaker 7: games this year as well, so you know, the irony

1210
00:54:34,120 --> 00:54:38,080
Speaker 7: for me, Mark is to get this matchup. I was

1211
00:54:38,120 --> 00:54:43,799
Speaker 7: there when the Joe Flacco phenomenon really began, and by

1212
00:54:43,800 --> 00:54:47,319
Speaker 7: the way I had Cleveland Houston, it didn't turn out

1213
00:54:47,360 --> 00:54:48,960
Speaker 7: the way that we would have hoped based on the

1214
00:54:48,960 --> 00:54:51,040
Speaker 7: injuries and the fact that CJ didn't play, and it

1215
00:54:51,080 --> 00:54:54,600
Speaker 7: was a combination of case Keenum and Davis Mills in

1216
00:54:54,640 --> 00:54:58,359
Speaker 7: that game. But from the Cleveland side of things, I

1217
00:54:58,400 --> 00:55:02,360
Speaker 7: think it was the first time that Browns fans truly

1218
00:55:02,560 --> 00:55:07,560
Speaker 7: believed that this could work. That Joe Flacco was playing

1219
00:55:07,719 --> 00:55:10,759
Speaker 7: free and easy, and he's at a stage of his

1220
00:55:10,880 --> 00:55:15,919
Speaker 7: career where the stress levels are not that high. He's

1221
00:55:15,960 --> 00:55:18,319
Speaker 7: been through all that, he's done it, He's won at

1222
00:55:18,360 --> 00:55:20,640
Speaker 7: the highest level. He would do the Super Bowl MVP.

1223
00:55:21,080 --> 00:55:23,400
Speaker 7: He got paid the maximum you could get paid at

1224
00:55:23,400 --> 00:55:26,200
Speaker 7: the time as an NFL quarterback, bet on himself as

1225
00:55:26,200 --> 00:55:29,839
Speaker 7: a free agent, and certainly came out a winner. But

1226
00:55:30,400 --> 00:55:34,839
Speaker 7: it's interesting for me that Flacco, who early in his

1227
00:55:34,880 --> 00:55:38,680
Speaker 7: career was constantly in my mind, trying to prove that

1228
00:55:38,800 --> 00:55:43,359
Speaker 7: he belonged in the conversation, that he deserved the recognition.

1229
00:55:43,520 --> 00:55:46,239
Speaker 7: The team got most of its attention based on its

1230
00:55:46,280 --> 00:55:48,600
Speaker 7: defense and won a lot because of the defense, and

1231
00:55:48,640 --> 00:55:51,960
Speaker 7: because of that, Joe got dismissed a little bit, and

1232
00:55:52,040 --> 00:55:54,600
Speaker 7: for him to get the love and adjuration that he's

1233
00:55:54,600 --> 00:55:59,880
Speaker 7: getting now, it is really pretty incredible considering the persona

1234
00:55:59,920 --> 00:56:02,720
Speaker 7: that he had for so many years, and he's handling

1235
00:56:02,760 --> 00:56:06,000
Speaker 7: it incredibly well. I just know from sitting down in

1236
00:56:06,000 --> 00:56:10,919
Speaker 7: our production meetings, Joe is the same guy, but how

1237
00:56:10,960 --> 00:56:12,960
Speaker 7: he's viewed has been very different.

1238
00:56:13,760 --> 00:56:15,200
Speaker 1: Yes, it's incredible.

1239
00:56:15,239 --> 00:56:18,160
Speaker 3: What a story both sides and these Coach of the

1240
00:56:18,239 --> 00:56:22,880
Speaker 3: Year candidates and who deserves it more. Very different situations,

1241
00:56:23,000 --> 00:56:25,360
Speaker 3: very different storylines coming in. I want to ask you

1242
00:56:25,440 --> 00:56:28,959
Speaker 3: about this though your son is calling the TV side

1243
00:56:28,960 --> 00:56:32,240
Speaker 3: of this, and as a father, I feel like going

1244
00:56:32,280 --> 00:56:33,600
Speaker 3: home and beating up my kids.

1245
00:56:33,600 --> 00:56:35,040
Speaker 1: Now I'm just kidding. I feel like.

1246
00:56:37,440 --> 00:56:39,120
Speaker 3: One of my kids would want to be a GM

1247
00:56:39,160 --> 00:56:41,560
Speaker 3: the other wants to be Jimmy Fallon. To have your

1248
00:56:41,560 --> 00:56:43,759
Speaker 3: son want to do what you do and to have

1249
00:56:43,880 --> 00:56:46,040
Speaker 3: him doing it at a high level already, that's got

1250
00:56:46,080 --> 00:56:48,280
Speaker 3: to be so satisfying to you as a dad.

1251
00:56:49,040 --> 00:56:52,799
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, Mark, it's been incredible. It really has the

1252
00:56:52,800 --> 00:56:54,959
Speaker 7: Fact that he had an interest in what I did

1253
00:56:55,520 --> 00:56:58,239
Speaker 7: was more than enough when he was growing up and

1254
00:56:58,360 --> 00:57:01,279
Speaker 7: asked questions and sat in my office while I was

1255
00:57:01,320 --> 00:57:05,040
Speaker 7: doing prep work. And what I noticed with him very

1256
00:57:05,080 --> 00:57:08,360
Speaker 7: early when he would come with me, he'd focus on

1257
00:57:09,360 --> 00:57:14,040
Speaker 7: interesting parts of the process that I wouldn't necessarily would

1258
00:57:14,040 --> 00:57:17,120
Speaker 7: have thought. He would focus in on the dynamic between

1259
00:57:17,160 --> 00:57:21,560
Speaker 7: me and an analyst, or the interaction with others in

1260
00:57:21,600 --> 00:57:24,960
Speaker 7: the booth, a stage manager, a stat person, a spotter,

1261
00:57:25,440 --> 00:57:28,600
Speaker 7: an audio person. When we would drive home after the game,

1262
00:57:28,640 --> 00:57:30,880
Speaker 7: he would ask questions in regards to that, did you

1263
00:57:30,920 --> 00:57:33,080
Speaker 7: know that person beforehand? You seem to know a lot

1264
00:57:33,080 --> 00:57:38,360
Speaker 7: about their life, about their background, about their significant other.

1265
00:57:39,240 --> 00:57:42,320
Speaker 7: That is what struck him and resonated with him, and

1266
00:57:42,360 --> 00:57:45,960
Speaker 7: I think he's carried a lot of that into this

1267
00:57:46,680 --> 00:57:49,360
Speaker 7: next phase of his life and his career, and he

1268
00:57:49,440 --> 00:57:53,480
Speaker 7: realized that it really is a collaborative effort, and it's

1269
00:57:53,480 --> 00:57:58,120
Speaker 7: probably helped him a great deal seeing it being in

1270
00:57:59,280 --> 00:58:02,560
Speaker 7: the actual moment and the osmosis of that, and then

1271
00:58:03,240 --> 00:58:06,880
Speaker 7: obviously the play calling part. There are a lot of similarities.

1272
00:58:07,000 --> 00:58:11,200
Speaker 7: He's listened and consumed so much of what I did.

1273
00:58:11,360 --> 00:58:14,520
Speaker 7: He was such a huge basketball fan and a NET fan,

1274
00:58:14,600 --> 00:58:17,360
Speaker 7: having done those games for so many years, so I

1275
00:58:17,400 --> 00:58:23,520
Speaker 7: can catch little similarities in how he approaches a call

1276
00:58:23,800 --> 00:58:26,920
Speaker 7: or how he puts a little stamp at the end

1277
00:58:26,920 --> 00:58:29,360
Speaker 7: of it. And then on the football side this past

1278
00:58:29,440 --> 00:58:32,520
Speaker 7: year watching him on Big ten games with Todd Blackledge

1279
00:58:32,720 --> 00:58:35,800
Speaker 7: and Catherine Tappan on the NBC package, Mark, to be

1280
00:58:35,840 --> 00:58:38,919
Speaker 7: perfectly honest with you, it was screwing up my Saturday nights.

1281
00:58:38,920 --> 00:58:41,680
Speaker 7: I used to have like a solid two hours to

1282
00:58:41,680 --> 00:58:45,240
Speaker 7: do my prep the final depths of my prep, and

1283
00:58:45,520 --> 00:58:48,320
Speaker 7: I found myself on Saturday night watching these games and saying, man,

1284
00:58:48,480 --> 00:58:51,480
Speaker 7: I've got stuff to do, and now it's ten eleven

1285
00:58:51,520 --> 00:58:54,760
Speaker 7: at night. So that was the only downside of it

1286
00:58:54,800 --> 00:58:56,680
Speaker 7: that I ended up watching a lot of those games

1287
00:58:56,720 --> 00:58:59,800
Speaker 7: and it threw off my schedule. But it's been a blast,

1288
00:58:59,840 --> 00:59:03,520
Speaker 7: and for my family, it's been beyond cool.

1289
00:59:04,200 --> 00:59:07,160
Speaker 3: It's every bit as great of a story as anything

1290
00:59:07,160 --> 00:59:09,360
Speaker 3: we have going on on the field on Saturday. I

1291
00:59:09,360 --> 00:59:12,120
Speaker 3: think it's wonderful. I an Eagle with us on Texans

1292
00:59:12,200 --> 00:59:18,400
Speaker 3: Radio NCAA Final Four. You're the guy now and it

1293
00:59:18,440 --> 00:59:21,680
Speaker 3: has to feel incredible. But share with us your thoughts

1294
00:59:21,760 --> 00:59:24,480
Speaker 3: as you headed to this stretch once the NFL's done

1295
00:59:24,520 --> 00:59:26,440
Speaker 3: and you really focus in on basketball.

1296
00:59:27,160 --> 00:59:32,200
Speaker 7: Yeah, Mark, it's so interesting as the years progress, how

1297
00:59:32,520 --> 00:59:38,600
Speaker 7: I've tried to divvy up my responsibilities and normally I

1298
00:59:38,640 --> 00:59:41,760
Speaker 7: get right into college basketball when NFL ends and I

1299
00:59:41,800 --> 00:59:46,080
Speaker 7: get on that ride, but I'm also simultaneously juggling NBA

1300
00:59:46,240 --> 00:59:50,320
Speaker 7: responsibilities between the nets and TNT. And as you know,

1301
00:59:50,480 --> 00:59:53,960
Speaker 7: and as you've done throughout your career, there's this compartmentalization

1302
00:59:55,000 --> 00:59:59,680
Speaker 7: of preparation and then getting locked in on what it

1303
00:59:59,760 --> 01:00:02,880
Speaker 7: is you're doing that day, and then turning the page

1304
01:00:02,880 --> 01:00:05,200
Speaker 7: and getting locked in on what you're doing the next day.

1305
01:00:05,720 --> 01:00:09,000
Speaker 7: The one difference that I've found this year compared to

1306
01:00:09,080 --> 01:00:15,040
Speaker 7: previous years is when I'm watching TV, you know, eating

1307
01:00:15,080 --> 01:00:17,720
Speaker 7: dinner or after dinner, and you have a couple hours

1308
01:00:17,760 --> 01:00:23,480
Speaker 7: maybe to kill. I have found myself going towards the

1309
01:00:23,560 --> 01:00:26,960
Speaker 7: college hoop scene more than I did in the past,

1310
01:00:27,040 --> 01:00:30,240
Speaker 7: where I'll take in fifteen minutes of the game and

1311
01:00:30,760 --> 01:00:33,440
Speaker 7: hope some of it soaks in. You have no idea

1312
01:00:33,520 --> 01:00:36,080
Speaker 7: who you're going to get in the NCAA tournament, and

1313
01:00:36,120 --> 01:00:38,160
Speaker 7: it doesn't even matter. You can't even say, well, i'll

1314
01:00:38,240 --> 01:00:41,720
Speaker 7: just learn the top twenty teams. You might get one

1315
01:00:41,760 --> 01:00:46,919
Speaker 7: of them in your opening round. So part of what

1316
01:00:46,960 --> 01:00:49,360
Speaker 7: we do is broadcasters, you want to get ahead, you

1317
01:00:49,400 --> 01:00:53,360
Speaker 7: want to feel like you're prepared, and it's impossible to

1318
01:00:53,480 --> 01:00:56,680
Speaker 7: do that for the NCAA tournament because of the randomness

1319
01:00:56,720 --> 01:01:01,160
Speaker 7: of selection Sunday. So I know that going in, I

1320
01:01:01,280 --> 01:01:06,160
Speaker 7: still love the challenge of it, but it's not going

1321
01:01:06,240 --> 01:01:08,680
Speaker 7: to be that big of a difference from what I've

1322
01:01:08,720 --> 01:01:12,240
Speaker 7: done in previous years. I'll prepare the same way. My

1323
01:01:12,320 --> 01:01:15,280
Speaker 7: partners will be different. Bill Rafteri, Grant Hills, Tracy Wolfson,

1324
01:01:15,360 --> 01:01:20,440
Speaker 7: all three really close friends, great people and terrific teammates,

1325
01:01:21,080 --> 01:01:24,680
Speaker 7: and they'll be a oh, by the way, extra weekend

1326
01:01:24,720 --> 01:01:26,960
Speaker 7: on the back end of it. And that's how I'm

1327
01:01:27,080 --> 01:01:28,040
Speaker 7: trying to approach it.

1328
01:01:29,080 --> 01:01:32,760
Speaker 3: I an eagle joining us at Syracuse. You came from

1329
01:01:32,800 --> 01:01:35,760
Speaker 3: New House. You're one of those guys, so share with

1330
01:01:35,880 --> 01:01:39,200
Speaker 3: us some of your classmates or guys who graduated maybe

1331
01:01:39,240 --> 01:01:40,840
Speaker 3: a year before or after you.

1332
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Speaker 7: Yeah. So the one that really hits because of the

1333
01:01:49,440 --> 01:01:52,840
Speaker 7: impact that he had on me was Mike Turrico. Mike

1334
01:01:52,960 --> 01:01:54,920
Speaker 7: was a few years older than me. I met him

1335
01:01:54,960 --> 01:01:58,320
Speaker 7: at a high school football game, literally the first week

1336
01:01:58,360 --> 01:02:02,640
Speaker 7: of my sophomore year. Who stand by himself on the sideline.

1337
01:02:02,640 --> 01:02:05,120
Speaker 7: He had just taken a job at a CBS affiliate

1338
01:02:05,120 --> 01:02:10,960
Speaker 7: in Syracuse at WTVH, and I introduced myself to him.

1339
01:02:11,080 --> 01:02:13,600
Speaker 7: It was me and a buddy went over and said hello.

1340
01:02:13,760 --> 01:02:16,120
Speaker 7: We were covering it for one of the college radio stations.

1341
01:02:16,280 --> 01:02:19,120
Speaker 7: Struck up a conversation and all of a sudden, we're

1342
01:02:19,160 --> 01:02:21,800
Speaker 7: talking to him for thirty minutes. Realized that we grew

1343
01:02:21,880 --> 01:02:25,400
Speaker 7: up probably about ten minutes away from one another in Queens,

1344
01:02:25,400 --> 01:02:28,000
Speaker 7: New York. I was from Forest Hills, he was from Bayside,

1345
01:02:29,040 --> 01:02:33,320
Speaker 7: and a friendship began, and not just a friendship in

1346
01:02:33,440 --> 01:02:35,920
Speaker 7: the traditional way, but a professional friendship as well. I

1347
01:02:36,040 --> 01:02:41,680
Speaker 7: ended up interning for him, learning under him, working for

1348
01:02:41,760 --> 01:02:45,000
Speaker 7: him as a producer on both the TV side and

1349
01:02:45,040 --> 01:02:50,800
Speaker 7: on the radio side. And I look back now and

1350
01:02:51,280 --> 01:02:57,000
Speaker 7: realized that a lot of my main tenants of this

1351
01:02:57,200 --> 01:03:00,400
Speaker 7: business came from him, of how to approach you, how

1352
01:03:00,400 --> 01:03:05,600
Speaker 7: to treat people, and how to handle yourself in situations.

1353
01:03:05,680 --> 01:03:09,760
Speaker 7: So that's the one that really had such a huge

1354
01:03:09,800 --> 01:03:12,440
Speaker 7: impact on me. But there were a lot of really

1355
01:03:12,480 --> 01:03:16,000
Speaker 7: talented people that I learned from that were ahead of me.

1356
01:03:16,160 --> 01:03:19,240
Speaker 7: Dave Ryan who works at CBS Sports Network, Dot Sherman

1357
01:03:19,280 --> 01:03:22,920
Speaker 7: who works at ESPN, Kevin Martinez who is out in

1358
01:03:23,000 --> 01:03:28,600
Speaker 7: Seattle with the Mariners as their VP of Marketing. There's

1359
01:03:28,640 --> 01:03:32,640
Speaker 7: a gentleman by the name of Sean Coulthard that was

1360
01:03:32,760 --> 01:03:36,960
Speaker 7: at Syracuse at the time, really talented, and I thought

1361
01:03:37,000 --> 01:03:40,200
Speaker 7: to myself, Man, this guy he's going places in this business.

1362
01:03:40,280 --> 01:03:43,680
Speaker 7: And some of your listeners and viewers may know him

1363
01:03:44,120 --> 01:03:49,240
Speaker 7: as Michael Cole now with the WWE as their main broadcaster.

1364
01:03:49,720 --> 01:03:54,360
Speaker 7: Really talented dude that just took it in another direction

1365
01:03:54,800 --> 01:03:59,040
Speaker 7: and is huge within his field. So there were a bunch,

1366
01:04:00,720 --> 01:04:05,120
Speaker 7: but there were so many, and it was the atmosphere

1367
01:04:05,120 --> 01:04:09,280
Speaker 7: and environment mark that pushed everybody to be the best

1368
01:04:09,320 --> 01:04:13,400
Speaker 7: that they could be. I really do look back on

1369
01:04:13,440 --> 01:04:17,000
Speaker 7: that time and realized there was a certain standard and

1370
01:04:17,080 --> 01:04:20,680
Speaker 7: if you were not meeting that standard, you would not

1371
01:04:20,840 --> 01:04:26,200
Speaker 7: make it within the Syracuse New House waer radio community.

1372
01:04:26,800 --> 01:04:32,320
Speaker 7: So it did force you to really up your game.

1373
01:04:32,680 --> 01:04:35,800
Speaker 7: Even at an early stage of life. You felt the

1374
01:04:35,800 --> 01:04:39,480
Speaker 7: competition and you felt the pressure of having to go

1375
01:04:39,560 --> 01:04:42,600
Speaker 7: out and polish your skills, improve and perform.

1376
01:04:44,440 --> 01:04:46,840
Speaker 3: And I've got two quick ones for you, just too

1377
01:04:46,920 --> 01:04:51,000
Speaker 3: all right, yep. First, give me a sport that maybe

1378
01:04:51,040 --> 01:04:54,000
Speaker 3: you haven't called, or maybe called once in college, or

1379
01:04:54,040 --> 01:04:58,040
Speaker 3: something that you wouldn't mind trying out at some point

1380
01:04:58,080 --> 01:05:02,160
Speaker 3: maybe in the future, something that's if it's cricket for me,

1381
01:05:02,200 --> 01:05:05,920
Speaker 3: it would be Premier League soccer, or maybe the voice

1382
01:05:05,920 --> 01:05:07,520
Speaker 3: of the Maple Leafs or something like that.

1383
01:05:07,920 --> 01:05:08,920
Speaker 5: But what is it from you?

1384
01:05:09,000 --> 01:05:13,480
Speaker 1: Is there anything out there that's kind of unique? Maybe curling?

1385
01:05:13,520 --> 01:05:15,480
Speaker 1: I don't know, but what is it give me that?

1386
01:05:17,480 --> 01:05:24,080
Speaker 7: Obviously I've done the football, basketball, tennis, golf, track and field,

1387
01:05:24,840 --> 01:05:31,320
Speaker 7: volleyball thing. I I had a chance at one point

1388
01:05:31,320 --> 01:05:35,640
Speaker 7: in my career, Mark I was offered twenty Mets games

1389
01:05:36,080 --> 01:05:39,600
Speaker 7: for Sports Channel, the old Sports Channel, And it's the

1390
01:05:39,640 --> 01:05:43,120
Speaker 7: only time that my wife, Elisa, who was a saint

1391
01:05:43,560 --> 01:05:47,840
Speaker 7: and would not be in this position in life without her,

1392
01:05:48,320 --> 01:05:51,800
Speaker 7: the only time when I brought that to her attention,

1393
01:05:52,120 --> 01:05:57,320
Speaker 7: that she said, are you crazy? Because it was the

1394
01:05:57,360 --> 01:05:59,760
Speaker 7: only time I had off during the year. I had

1395
01:06:00,160 --> 01:06:03,520
Speaker 7: at that time maybe three four weeks off in the summer,

1396
01:06:03,680 --> 01:06:06,479
Speaker 7: and then that would have replaced that and our kids

1397
01:06:06,480 --> 01:06:09,280
Speaker 7: were very young and maybe our kids were four and

1398
01:06:09,400 --> 01:06:13,680
Speaker 7: two at the time. So it's the one thing I

1399
01:06:13,720 --> 01:06:17,200
Speaker 7: look back on that I would have really enjoyed. I know,

1400
01:06:17,520 --> 01:06:20,120
Speaker 7: I grew up a huge Mets fan. That was the

1401
01:06:20,240 --> 01:06:23,040
Speaker 7: dream to one day beat Bob Murphy, Ralph kin Er,

1402
01:06:23,160 --> 01:06:27,320
Speaker 7: Lindsay Nelson in the New York area, and I did

1403
01:06:27,560 --> 01:06:30,800
Speaker 7: turn it down, And it would be the one thing

1404
01:06:30,880 --> 01:06:33,800
Speaker 7: that I'll probably look back in my career and say, man,

1405
01:06:33,840 --> 01:06:36,880
Speaker 7: I would have loved to have seen where that could

1406
01:06:36,920 --> 01:06:37,320
Speaker 7: have gone.

1407
01:06:38,440 --> 01:06:40,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you'd be so good at baseball, but

1408
01:06:40,760 --> 01:06:43,120
Speaker 3: you're so good at everything. And I'm not just blowing

1409
01:06:43,160 --> 01:06:44,200
Speaker 3: smoke here. It's a fact.

1410
01:06:44,560 --> 01:06:45,919
Speaker 1: I had one more for you.

1411
01:06:46,480 --> 01:06:49,520
Speaker 3: People always ask me who you're broadcasting heroes, and I've

1412
01:06:49,520 --> 01:06:51,920
Speaker 3: got so many, and it's different sports, different guys in

1413
01:06:51,960 --> 01:06:54,840
Speaker 3: different sports, and some of them are very niche. But

1414
01:06:55,000 --> 01:06:57,400
Speaker 3: what do you say when people ask you that question.

1415
01:06:57,560 --> 01:07:00,000
Speaker 3: Give me two or three guys that you grew up

1416
01:07:00,160 --> 01:07:02,880
Speaker 3: up thinking, Oh my gosh, that is really a big

1417
01:07:02,880 --> 01:07:04,560
Speaker 3: influence on me. I want to be like him.

1418
01:07:04,600 --> 01:07:05,000
Speaker 6: Maybe.

1419
01:07:06,040 --> 01:07:08,960
Speaker 7: Yeah. In New York market, it was Marv Albert. He

1420
01:07:09,080 --> 01:07:11,240
Speaker 7: was doing everything. He was doing the mix, he was

1421
01:07:11,280 --> 01:07:15,840
Speaker 7: doing the Rangers, he was doing NBC, NFL heard him

1422
01:07:15,880 --> 01:07:18,000
Speaker 7: a lot on Jets games locally in New York. He

1423
01:07:18,080 --> 01:07:20,760
Speaker 7: was doing the pregame on the baseball package. He was

1424
01:07:20,800 --> 01:07:23,560
Speaker 7: doing boxing. That was another sport that I had done.

1425
01:07:23,680 --> 01:07:27,040
Speaker 7: I didn't include that. Boxing I found very interesting, by

1426
01:07:27,080 --> 01:07:30,560
Speaker 7: the way. I had never been to a boxing match

1427
01:07:30,640 --> 01:07:34,120
Speaker 7: prior to calling my first one, and I showed up

1428
01:07:34,200 --> 01:07:39,000
Speaker 7: in Vegas. It was David Tua against Obed Sullivan, and

1429
01:07:39,080 --> 01:07:45,320
Speaker 7: I realized ringside that everyone's putting like a piece of

1430
01:07:45,360 --> 01:07:48,240
Speaker 7: paper over their open cup, like, what is this? Is

1431
01:07:48,240 --> 01:07:51,360
Speaker 7: this a weird boxing thing that they do? And then

1432
01:07:51,600 --> 01:07:55,000
Speaker 7: after the first punch that David Tua threw at Obed

1433
01:07:55,080 --> 01:07:59,600
Speaker 7: Sullivan and mucus and blood landed in my drink and

1434
01:07:59,640 --> 01:08:03,120
Speaker 7: on my I was like, oh that makes sense now

1435
01:08:03,440 --> 01:08:09,120
Speaker 7: to cover your drink. So Marv was it? Al Michaels

1436
01:08:09,800 --> 01:08:14,040
Speaker 7: was certainly someone that I looked up to Bob Costas

1437
01:08:14,480 --> 01:08:16,800
Speaker 7: when I got to college and Bob was starting to

1438
01:08:16,840 --> 01:08:20,520
Speaker 7: really hit it. I just thought he had the perfect

1439
01:08:20,560 --> 01:08:26,080
Speaker 7: blend of skills and was as articulate a communicator as

1440
01:08:26,080 --> 01:08:28,679
Speaker 7: I had ever seen in my career. And I would

1441
01:08:28,720 --> 01:08:33,760
Speaker 7: put Vern Lunquist in there in how he came across

1442
01:08:33,800 --> 01:08:36,400
Speaker 7: in his broadcast that it was him, It was genuine,

1443
01:08:36,760 --> 01:08:39,639
Speaker 7: it was organic, it was him. There was no difference

1444
01:08:39,680 --> 01:08:43,599
Speaker 7: between on air Vern and off air Vern, same guy.

1445
01:08:44,080 --> 01:08:48,439
Speaker 7: And I aspired to be that. And I realized recently

1446
01:08:48,880 --> 01:08:50,960
Speaker 7: when I was thinking about this, that there's someone that

1447
01:08:51,000 --> 01:08:54,280
Speaker 7: I've admitted through the years that I'd love to put

1448
01:08:54,280 --> 01:08:57,519
Speaker 7: on that list, and that's Brent Musberger, who I just

1449
01:08:57,560 --> 01:09:02,600
Speaker 7: thought had a talent and a skill for capturing the

1450
01:09:02,720 --> 01:09:06,360
Speaker 7: drama of a moment, the build up, whether it was

1451
01:09:06,400 --> 01:09:08,479
Speaker 7: the pregame show, and then as a play by play man,

1452
01:09:08,520 --> 01:09:11,120
Speaker 7: he just had he had that knack. He knew how

1453
01:09:11,120 --> 01:09:13,800
Speaker 7: to get to the nitty gritty of the most important

1454
01:09:13,840 --> 01:09:16,559
Speaker 7: part of the moment in the call. And I have

1455
01:09:16,640 --> 01:09:19,920
Speaker 7: a lot of respect for what he did over the

1456
01:09:19,920 --> 01:09:23,479
Speaker 7: course of his career, and I realized now looking back

1457
01:09:23,560 --> 01:09:27,280
Speaker 7: on it, that he had a much bigger impact on

1458
01:09:27,600 --> 01:09:31,040
Speaker 7: me as a young broadcaster than I probably realized at

1459
01:09:31,040 --> 01:09:31,400
Speaker 7: the time.

1460
01:09:32,240 --> 01:09:35,519
Speaker 3: You are looking live. Yeah, that kind of stuff. It

1461
01:09:35,520 --> 01:09:37,760
Speaker 3: gives you chill still when you think about that.

1462
01:09:37,960 --> 01:09:42,800
Speaker 10: Yes, wonderful and Mark he just knew, he knew how

1463
01:09:42,840 --> 01:09:45,360
Speaker 10: to hit the button at the right time.

1464
01:09:45,720 --> 01:09:47,960
Speaker 7: He just had that skill. And I think that's what

1465
01:09:48,120 --> 01:09:51,360
Speaker 7: all of us cruelly try to aspire to. I know,

1466
01:09:52,000 --> 01:09:55,559
Speaker 7: with you having obviously done so many Texans games through

1467
01:09:55,600 --> 01:09:57,880
Speaker 7: the years, so you do all your prep, and part

1468
01:09:57,920 --> 01:10:02,560
Speaker 7: of that prep is listening back to content and consuming

1469
01:10:02,680 --> 01:10:05,800
Speaker 7: content throughout the week, and your passion for what you

1470
01:10:05,920 --> 01:10:10,400
Speaker 7: do comes through every week. You care, you care about

1471
01:10:10,439 --> 01:10:13,360
Speaker 7: the product, you care about the listener, you care about

1472
01:10:13,400 --> 01:10:18,240
Speaker 7: what you're covering, and that part of the equation has

1473
01:10:18,360 --> 01:10:22,280
Speaker 7: to be there. If you're not feeling that from the broadcaster,

1474
01:10:23,080 --> 01:10:26,280
Speaker 7: then there's something missing, there's a void, and that that's

1475
01:10:26,280 --> 01:10:30,599
Speaker 7: a really important part of this. I hope as younger

1476
01:10:30,640 --> 01:10:34,120
Speaker 7: broadcasters come through the ranks, they realize that there has

1477
01:10:34,240 --> 01:10:37,639
Speaker 7: to there has to be a connection with what they're doing,

1478
01:10:38,240 --> 01:10:40,280
Speaker 7: and the hope is that it does resonate with the

1479
01:10:40,360 --> 01:10:41,320
Speaker 7: viewer or the listener.

1480
01:10:41,760 --> 01:10:45,519
Speaker 3: Great stuff. I We really appreciate the time. What a

1481
01:10:45,560 --> 01:10:48,280
Speaker 3: wonderful visit. Look forward to seeing you on Saturday and

1482
01:10:48,640 --> 01:10:52,000
Speaker 3: catching up again sometime soon, and it's really been my pleasure.

1483
01:10:52,040 --> 01:10:53,599
Speaker 1: So thank you very much for joining us.

1484
01:10:54,040 --> 01:10:58,559
Speaker 7: Ditto Mark. Always great being with you and even more importantly,

1485
01:10:58,560 --> 01:11:01,080
Speaker 7: always great seeing So I'm looking for that on Saturday.

1486
01:11:01,560 --> 01:11:05,000
Speaker 2: That was fantastic stuff with Iron Eagle and Mark Vandermier.

1487
01:11:05,040 --> 01:11:07,120
Speaker 1: Can't wait for Saturday for.

1488
01:11:07,160 --> 01:11:11,519
Speaker 2: Those two plus Iron's son Noah to call the game

1489
01:11:11,560 --> 01:11:14,080
Speaker 2: for NBC. But hopefully you guys will be tuned into

1490
01:11:14,160 --> 01:11:16,080
Speaker 2: US on Sports Radio six ten, And by US, I

1491
01:11:16,080 --> 01:11:17,719
Speaker 2: mean Mark andre Ware and myself.

1492
01:11:17,880 --> 01:11:18,800
Speaker 1: We'll have the call for you.

1493
01:11:18,880 --> 01:11:23,080
Speaker 2: We've got pregame with Sean and Seth and then US

1494
01:11:23,479 --> 01:11:25,840
Speaker 2: and then postgame and hopefully it's a joyce one with

1495
01:11:25,880 --> 01:11:29,360
Speaker 2: Sean Pendergast and Clint Stirner, so looking forward to that.

1496
01:11:29,400 --> 01:11:32,720
Speaker 1: We're also looking forward to a little in the Lab.

1497
01:11:32,439 --> 01:11:35,240
Speaker 2: Where Drew and I get dorky and geeky and kind

1498
01:11:35,240 --> 01:11:37,679
Speaker 2: of talk about numbers and all kinds of different stuff.

1499
01:11:37,680 --> 01:11:40,599
Speaker 1: We'll have for you next right here in texanst All Access. Yes, sir,

1500
01:11:40,680 --> 01:11:41,799
Speaker 1: it's in the lab.

1501
01:11:41,920 --> 01:11:45,599
Speaker 2: Time in the Lab, myself, John Harris, foot play Outsideline Report.

1502
01:11:45,640 --> 01:11:47,880
Speaker 2: Appreciate you being here with me as I host this

1503
01:11:47,960 --> 01:11:52,360
Speaker 2: show and my good friend Drew Doherty. Hopefully you guys

1504
01:11:52,360 --> 01:11:56,800
Speaker 2: have been listening to our little discussions. After the game,

1505
01:11:56,920 --> 01:11:59,960
Speaker 2: Drew and I literally walked off Lucas Oil Stadium's field

1506
01:12:00,280 --> 01:12:02,439
Speaker 2: talking about the win over the Colts. I didn't say

1507
01:12:02,439 --> 01:12:05,799
Speaker 2: a whole lot because I was still just stunned, excited, happy,

1508
01:12:05,840 --> 01:12:07,280
Speaker 2: as probably partially crying.

1509
01:12:07,360 --> 01:12:09,040
Speaker 1: I don't know, was that all kinds of emotions.

1510
01:12:09,080 --> 01:12:11,840
Speaker 2: So make sure you're checking that out in the lab,

1511
01:12:11,960 --> 01:12:15,880
Speaker 2: check out that podcast wherever podcasts are readily available. But

1512
01:12:16,080 --> 01:12:19,040
Speaker 2: Drew and I got together to talk about the Colts

1513
01:12:19,080 --> 01:12:21,559
Speaker 2: win and then what's coming up against the Browns.

1514
01:12:21,720 --> 01:12:24,000
Speaker 10: You know what we're not doing right now, We're not

1515
01:12:24,720 --> 01:12:29,559
Speaker 10: interviewing our counterparts from other cities. Saying, Hey, what can

1516
01:12:29,600 --> 01:12:32,120
Speaker 10: you tell me about ever Roajiro?

1517
01:12:33,520 --> 01:12:33,720
Speaker 1: Hey?

1518
01:12:33,760 --> 01:12:38,960
Speaker 10: What makes what makes Jonathan Gannon a leader of men?

1519
01:12:39,520 --> 01:12:39,760
Speaker 5: Hey?

1520
01:12:40,360 --> 01:12:43,360
Speaker 10: Why would Hines Ward be a good head coaching choice

1521
01:12:43,360 --> 01:12:44,880
Speaker 10: even though he's never been a head coach at any

1522
01:12:44,960 --> 01:12:50,920
Speaker 10: level here for the Houston Texans. How sweet is that?

1523
01:12:51,680 --> 01:12:54,599
Speaker 10: And I don't mean to like because everything else has

1524
01:12:54,640 --> 01:12:57,920
Speaker 10: been covered about how phenomenal this season has been, how

1525
01:12:58,640 --> 01:13:01,879
Speaker 10: thrilling this last week end was. And I say weekend

1526
01:13:01,960 --> 01:13:04,920
Speaker 10: because Sunday was pretty damned fun too, you know, in

1527
01:13:04,960 --> 01:13:07,760
Speaker 10: that delirium of staying up so late and get home

1528
01:13:07,800 --> 01:13:09,880
Speaker 10: so late and then seeing the Titans take care of

1529
01:13:09,880 --> 01:13:13,880
Speaker 10: the Jags. But I just it's the perspective of things,

1530
01:13:13,920 --> 01:13:19,360
Speaker 10: because we have been shell shocked from twenty twenty one

1531
01:13:19,800 --> 01:13:23,720
Speaker 10: in twenty two, and to have such a flip is

1532
01:13:24,080 --> 01:13:27,080
Speaker 10: just delicious. We're not focused on the draft yet, we

1533
01:13:27,080 --> 01:13:30,479
Speaker 10: don't know where the Texans are picking. Texans win this weekend,

1534
01:13:30,640 --> 01:13:32,760
Speaker 10: they might have a better way. They will have a

1535
01:13:32,760 --> 01:13:37,040
Speaker 10: better draft pick than the Cleveland Browns will, or really

1536
01:13:37,040 --> 01:13:39,880
Speaker 10: the Cardinals will because they have the Cleveland Browns draft pick.

1537
01:13:41,040 --> 01:13:44,559
Speaker 10: It's just so wonderful that, at least for one more week,

1538
01:13:44,720 --> 01:13:46,799
Speaker 10: you don't have to talk about any of that stuff.

1539
01:13:47,080 --> 01:13:48,920
Speaker 10: And you're certainly not gonna have to talk about anything

1540
01:13:49,000 --> 01:13:53,960
Speaker 10: coaching wise, head coaching wise, because Demico has been mouth

1541
01:13:54,000 --> 01:13:59,759
Speaker 10: to mouth resuscitation for this franchise. But yeah, one more time,

1542
01:14:00,360 --> 01:14:02,280
Speaker 10: how delicious is this week?

1543
01:14:02,479 --> 01:14:07,519
Speaker 1: Right now? I I'm kind of out of loss for

1544
01:14:07,560 --> 01:14:08,719
Speaker 1: words in some sense. True.

1545
01:14:08,800 --> 01:14:10,840
Speaker 2: I mean, as you were going through those things, I mean,

1546
01:14:11,160 --> 01:14:13,880
Speaker 2: you know, I put the prayer hands up, like thank you.

1547
01:14:15,120 --> 01:14:19,320
Speaker 2: I've gone to three straight Senior Bowls, in which when

1548
01:14:19,360 --> 01:14:22,480
Speaker 2: I was at the Senior Bowl at two of them.

1549
01:14:23,000 --> 01:14:25,800
Speaker 2: At two of them, our coach was named or the

1550
01:14:25,880 --> 01:14:30,320
Speaker 2: were rumors of our coach being named. Demiko was actually

1551
01:14:30,400 --> 01:14:33,719
Speaker 2: named the coach the Wednesday of the Senior Bowl and

1552
01:14:34,840 --> 01:14:37,720
Speaker 2: I was in Mobile. I was in Mobile listening to

1553
01:14:38,640 --> 01:14:41,559
Speaker 2: Sports RAYO six ten on the Odyssey app and listening

1554
01:14:41,600 --> 01:14:44,920
Speaker 2: to everybody breakdown to candidates and then hearing, Okay, it's

1555
01:14:44,920 --> 01:14:47,559
Speaker 2: going to be David Kully as the head coach. The

1556
01:14:47,600 --> 01:14:49,840
Speaker 2: only year that I came back to the Senior Bowl

1557
01:14:49,880 --> 01:14:52,679
Speaker 2: we still didn't have a coach was twenty twenty two.

1558
01:14:54,120 --> 01:15:00,679
Speaker 2: But I'm die Lovey smith uge, so i I've chosen

1559
01:15:00,720 --> 01:15:03,519
Speaker 2: to stay down at Dauphine Island because we can kind

1560
01:15:03,520 --> 01:15:05,880
Speaker 2: of get away down there, and it's about a forty

1561
01:15:05,880 --> 01:15:08,040
Speaker 2: five minute drive. It's basically like a commute in Houston,

1562
01:15:08,080 --> 01:15:10,080
Speaker 2: so it's no bigger, but it's a forty five minute drive.

1563
01:15:10,200 --> 01:15:12,080
Speaker 2: But I like it kind of clear my head, but

1564
01:15:12,120 --> 01:15:13,439
Speaker 2: I go kind of you kind of go to back

1565
01:15:13,720 --> 01:15:15,120
Speaker 2: the back roads of Alabama.

1566
01:15:15,479 --> 01:15:19,000
Speaker 1: You do, Where was where was Forrest Gump from.

1567
01:15:20,000 --> 01:15:22,080
Speaker 10: Green Bow, Alabama?

1568
01:15:22,160 --> 01:15:26,000
Speaker 1: Yeah? Where was? Uh? Where was Bubba from? By al

1569
01:15:26,920 --> 01:15:27,759
Speaker 1: buy the battery?

1570
01:15:27,920 --> 01:15:30,040
Speaker 2: We drive You got to drive through by a the battery,

1571
01:15:31,040 --> 01:15:32,719
Speaker 2: then to go through the Alabama towns.

1572
01:15:32,720 --> 01:15:35,240
Speaker 1: And so I'm driving through these small Alabama towns.

1573
01:15:35,280 --> 01:15:38,719
Speaker 2: There's a Dollar General, there's our favorite like gas station

1574
01:15:39,200 --> 01:15:44,639
Speaker 2: plus grocery store called Careers, and I'm listening to them

1575
01:15:44,680 --> 01:15:48,880
Speaker 2: talk about we're interviewing Josh McCown today. And then McClain

1576
01:15:48,880 --> 01:15:51,000
Speaker 2: would come on and he was like, how crazy is this?

1577
01:15:51,120 --> 01:15:53,320
Speaker 2: And all these different things are happening, And then it

1578
01:15:53,360 --> 01:15:55,280
Speaker 2: comes to is Lovey Smith And that happened when I

1579
01:15:55,320 --> 01:15:57,880
Speaker 2: got back. But two of the three years, a coach

1580
01:15:57,960 --> 01:16:00,640
Speaker 2: was named while I'm at the Senior Bowl, So I

1581
01:16:00,640 --> 01:16:02,360
Speaker 2: don't even get a chance to meet Tomiko until we

1582
01:16:02,360 --> 01:16:03,280
Speaker 2: get to Indianapolis.

1583
01:16:03,360 --> 01:16:04,759
Speaker 1: Ironically for the combine.

1584
01:16:04,760 --> 01:16:07,720
Speaker 2: That's the first time that I met Tomiko was in Indianapolis.

1585
01:16:07,760 --> 01:16:09,360
Speaker 10: Well, we never you never met him as a player.

1586
01:16:09,360 --> 01:16:11,559
Speaker 10: I never met as a player. Okay, met him as

1587
01:16:11,600 --> 01:16:14,160
Speaker 10: a player. So learn something new about you today, Yeah, exactly.

1588
01:16:14,760 --> 01:16:17,160
Speaker 10: Hopefully I've kind of you know, made up time. But

1589
01:16:17,880 --> 01:16:20,519
Speaker 10: that's that's sole fact.

1590
01:16:20,880 --> 01:16:23,880
Speaker 2: Kind of knew that for a while and figured and

1591
01:16:24,040 --> 01:16:26,120
Speaker 2: hope that if it went well, that you know, we

1592
01:16:26,120 --> 01:16:28,679
Speaker 2: wouldn't have to think about a GM higher or head

1593
01:16:28,720 --> 01:16:31,679
Speaker 2: coach hire for for a while. And hopefully that's the case.

1594
01:16:32,240 --> 01:16:35,320
Speaker 2: But just to you, Drew, you just said it perfectly

1595
01:16:35,720 --> 01:16:38,880
Speaker 2: did not have to. Hey tell us about Isiro ever,

1596
01:16:39,400 --> 01:16:43,439
Speaker 2: Hey tell us about you know, Josh McCown. Why why

1597
01:16:43,439 --> 01:16:45,080
Speaker 2: do you think Josh McCown would be a good hire

1598
01:16:45,160 --> 01:16:48,240
Speaker 2: though he's never coached and all that, all that, all

1599
01:16:48,240 --> 01:16:51,400
Speaker 2: that noise that went with it. It's like it's like

1600
01:16:51,439 --> 01:16:54,240
Speaker 2: somebody just walked over, Well actually it was the McNair

1601
01:16:54,280 --> 01:16:56,840
Speaker 2: family walked over and just turned a dial down and

1602
01:16:56,960 --> 01:16:58,960
Speaker 2: just turned it all the way off and just said,

1603
01:16:58,960 --> 01:17:02,240
Speaker 2: we don't need that noise anymore. And now all of

1604
01:17:02,240 --> 01:17:05,439
Speaker 2: a sudden, you can build an organization going forward in

1605
01:17:05,520 --> 01:17:08,760
Speaker 2: the way that the McNair family would like, the way

1606
01:17:08,800 --> 01:17:14,400
Speaker 2: that cal Hannah and Cale's mother Janis would like moving

1607
01:17:14,439 --> 01:17:18,000
Speaker 2: forward with positivity, with people that believe in each other,

1608
01:17:18,920 --> 01:17:21,960
Speaker 2: people that love each other, and a team that is

1609
01:17:22,000 --> 01:17:24,559
Speaker 2: going to be representative of I think about this team

1610
01:17:24,600 --> 01:17:24,880
Speaker 2: a lot.

1611
01:17:25,000 --> 01:17:28,360
Speaker 1: Drew that Bob would have.

1612
01:17:28,280 --> 01:17:29,040
Speaker 6: Loved this team.

1613
01:17:29,240 --> 01:17:32,080
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he would have loved this team. He would

1614
01:17:32,120 --> 01:17:36,160
Speaker 2: have loved everything about this team. And it's just been

1615
01:17:36,840 --> 01:17:39,760
Speaker 2: I think when he drew up what he wanted the

1616
01:17:39,800 --> 01:17:40,879
Speaker 2: Texans to be.

1617
01:17:40,840 --> 01:17:43,479
Speaker 1: This is the this is the team that he he

1618
01:17:43,600 --> 01:17:44,200
Speaker 1: thought about.

1619
01:17:44,320 --> 01:17:48,400
Speaker 2: And the fact that Demiko and Nick have as the

1620
01:17:48,439 --> 01:17:50,439
Speaker 2: phrase I would like to use all your will figure

1621
01:17:50,439 --> 01:17:53,120
Speaker 2: it out. They've figured things out, how to work together,

1622
01:17:53,439 --> 01:17:55,479
Speaker 2: how to get the right pieces in place, how to

1623
01:17:55,520 --> 01:17:57,880
Speaker 2: take pieces that you've got and make them work better.

1624
01:17:58,920 --> 01:18:00,639
Speaker 1: It's been it's been a credible ride.

1625
01:18:00,680 --> 01:18:03,200
Speaker 2: But you know the other thing is, you know we're

1626
01:18:03,960 --> 01:18:06,800
Speaker 2: we're doing in the lab talking about a game on Saturday.

1627
01:18:06,840 --> 01:18:09,439
Speaker 1: When they're a very winnable games.

1628
01:18:09,040 --> 01:18:10,559
Speaker 2: At home, and I'm gonna say this, I'm gonna love

1629
01:18:10,640 --> 01:18:15,360
Speaker 2: this one final verbal bomb at all the UH draft

1630
01:18:15,920 --> 01:18:20,080
Speaker 2: geeks and nerds and well, you don't trade a future

1631
01:18:20,160 --> 01:18:22,840
Speaker 2: pick when it's gonna be number two or number three

1632
01:18:22,880 --> 01:18:23,559
Speaker 2: in the draft.

1633
01:18:23,800 --> 01:18:26,679
Speaker 1: What do you do in Houston's so dumb.

1634
01:18:27,320 --> 01:18:30,760
Speaker 2: Nope, we drafted elite talent and number two and at

1635
01:18:30,840 --> 01:18:34,640
Speaker 2: number three. We drafted elite leaders at number two and

1636
01:18:34,760 --> 01:18:39,240
Speaker 2: number three, And Nick and the personnel staff and the

1637
01:18:39,320 --> 01:18:42,200
Speaker 2: Miko and the coaching staff came through with a draft

1638
01:18:42,200 --> 01:18:45,719
Speaker 2: that will always remember. Guys that contributed up and down

1639
01:18:45,800 --> 01:18:50,480
Speaker 2: the draft, all the way throughout, that made huge plays.

1640
01:18:51,520 --> 01:18:54,280
Speaker 2: So all you, as you said, Drew, all you suckers

1641
01:18:54,760 --> 01:18:59,240
Speaker 2: that are like, hey, what are they doing? Well, we

1642
01:18:59,280 --> 01:19:01,519
Speaker 2: went on Saturday. I guess who's drafting in front of US?

1643
01:19:02,160 --> 01:19:06,040
Speaker 2: US drafting in front of every the Arizona Cardinals who

1644
01:19:06,040 --> 01:19:08,679
Speaker 2: have the pick. So sorry Arizona. I kind of like Arizona.

1645
01:19:08,680 --> 01:19:11,400
Speaker 2: I'll be honest. I like what Jonathan Gannon's done. I

1646
01:19:11,400 --> 01:19:13,080
Speaker 2: think he's done a really good job. I think Moni's

1647
01:19:13,080 --> 01:19:15,439
Speaker 2: done a good job bringing into players that fit. They

1648
01:19:15,479 --> 01:19:18,559
Speaker 2: got young OC, good DC. So this really has nothing

1649
01:19:18,600 --> 01:19:21,200
Speaker 2: to do with Arizona. Arizona made a deal they would

1650
01:19:21,280 --> 01:19:23,400
Speaker 2: make a hundred times out of one hundred, I'd make

1651
01:19:23,439 --> 01:19:25,959
Speaker 2: that deal if I'm Arizona's a good deal for Arizona.

1652
01:19:26,600 --> 01:19:29,400
Speaker 2: It just worked out that we got an elite talent

1653
01:19:29,439 --> 01:19:32,719
Speaker 2: in Will Anderson, and an elite leader and an elite

1654
01:19:32,720 --> 01:19:35,400
Speaker 2: tone setter, and hopefully he's going to be as close

1655
01:19:35,439 --> 01:19:37,200
Speaker 2: to one hundred percent as he can be for Saturday.

1656
01:19:37,240 --> 01:19:39,760
Speaker 2: I don't think he's gonna be, but like he did

1657
01:19:39,840 --> 01:19:41,160
Speaker 2: up in India, I think he's gonna try and give

1658
01:19:41,160 --> 01:19:42,040
Speaker 2: it a go and do what he can.

1659
01:19:42,160 --> 01:19:44,000
Speaker 10: Yeah, and you'll take that. You'll take that over, take

1660
01:19:44,040 --> 01:19:46,519
Speaker 10: it over. What what is behind him? Is the big

1661
01:19:46,600 --> 01:19:48,960
Speaker 10: boom goes on behind him? Yeah, we'll get into that

1662
01:19:49,000 --> 01:19:50,840
Speaker 10: a little bit later. But we got to do a

1663
01:19:50,880 --> 01:19:56,439
Speaker 10: What if I told you because win in dramastic, as

1664
01:19:56,520 --> 01:19:59,760
Speaker 10: Scottie Pippen would say, not dramatic, not drastic, but dramastic

1665
01:20:00,120 --> 01:20:04,400
Speaker 10: fashion twenty three to nineteen, John, what if I told

1666
01:20:04,439 --> 01:20:07,160
Speaker 10: you the Texans we're gonna have uh, we're going to

1667
01:20:07,240 --> 01:20:10,559
Speaker 10: allow safety. What if I told you I told you

1668
01:20:10,600 --> 01:20:13,680
Speaker 10: that around seven o'clock, right before kickoff at seven to

1669
01:20:13,720 --> 01:20:15,920
Speaker 10: fifteen the other night. What if I told you, hey, John,

1670
01:20:16,720 --> 01:20:18,679
Speaker 10: you know how we haven't had a one hundred yard

1671
01:20:18,800 --> 01:20:23,200
Speaker 10: rusher against this all season long? Well, our guy Jonathan

1672
01:20:23,240 --> 01:20:25,960
Speaker 10: Taylor is going to tote the rock thirty times for

1673
01:20:26,000 --> 01:20:28,200
Speaker 10: one hundred and eighty eight, and they're gonna get two

1674
01:20:28,240 --> 01:20:31,519
Speaker 10: two seven on the ground As a team.

1675
01:20:31,600 --> 01:20:34,040
Speaker 1: You wouldn't have felt too good, would you. I would

1676
01:20:34,040 --> 01:20:36,000
Speaker 1: not have. Yeah, I did not have.

1677
01:20:36,160 --> 01:20:38,240
Speaker 10: On top of that, John Texans are gonna also lose

1678
01:20:38,320 --> 01:20:41,120
Speaker 10: time of possession, which, hey, Mike Leach, if I'd asked

1679
01:20:41,160 --> 01:20:45,360
Speaker 10: him about timeout, it's the stupidest stat, most miningless stat.

1680
01:20:45,439 --> 01:20:48,040
Speaker 10: There is no I will I'd rather win the scoreboard

1681
01:20:48,080 --> 01:20:51,920
Speaker 10: than the tone of anyways, rest in peace, coach. What

1682
01:20:52,000 --> 01:20:55,040
Speaker 10: if I had told you those three things? You give

1683
01:20:55,120 --> 01:20:57,559
Speaker 10: up a safety, you allow two two seven on the ground.

1684
01:20:57,760 --> 01:21:00,000
Speaker 10: Two to seven was also a fun sitcom on Saturday

1685
01:21:00,160 --> 01:21:03,200
Speaker 10: Night on NBC back in the eighties. Uh, and then

1686
01:21:03,200 --> 01:21:05,320
Speaker 10: you lose time of a session. Other than that, I'm

1687
01:21:05,479 --> 01:21:07,880
Speaker 10: kind of reaching for things that didn't go your way.

1688
01:21:08,800 --> 01:21:10,240
Speaker 10: But what if I'd have told you those things?

1689
01:21:10,760 --> 01:21:15,160
Speaker 2: I would have said that we would have flown home

1690
01:21:16,360 --> 01:21:19,960
Speaker 2: on locker clear out day on Sunday. It would have

1691
01:21:19,960 --> 01:21:22,599
Speaker 2: absolutely been locker clear out Day. I mean I would

1692
01:21:22,640 --> 01:21:25,840
Speaker 2: have been wait, read that again, safety to twenty seven

1693
01:21:26,240 --> 01:21:28,839
Speaker 2: like no, no, no, no, no, no, Yeah, but you counted

1694
01:21:28,840 --> 01:21:32,960
Speaker 2: it with a massively clutch got drive in the fourth

1695
01:21:33,760 --> 01:21:38,280
Speaker 2: a massive starts start. You can be clutched early.

1696
01:21:38,240 --> 01:21:39,760
Speaker 1: Incredible start.

1697
01:21:40,000 --> 01:21:41,800
Speaker 2: And then I felt like there was one you know,

1698
01:21:42,360 --> 01:21:44,880
Speaker 2: I felt like in the first half Drew. I know

1699
01:21:44,960 --> 01:21:46,519
Speaker 2: Taylor had eighty yards I think and I think it

1700
01:21:46,520 --> 01:21:49,120
Speaker 2: was eighty yards in the first half, but I didn't

1701
01:21:49,160 --> 01:21:51,240
Speaker 2: feel like he was gashing us. I didn't feel like

1702
01:21:51,280 --> 01:21:52,120
Speaker 2: he was killing us.

1703
01:21:52,400 --> 01:21:54,320
Speaker 1: She got them on third down. Yeah, you were.

1704
01:21:54,240 --> 01:21:57,080
Speaker 2: Stopping them on Thirdlelune. Yeah, they were terrible on third down,

1705
01:21:57,080 --> 01:21:59,599
Speaker 2: which is great. I just felt like he wasn't really

1706
01:21:59,760 --> 01:22:01,920
Speaker 2: hurt the Texans in the first half, and I said

1707
01:22:01,920 --> 01:22:03,640
Speaker 2: as such. And then the third quarter that's when I

1708
01:22:03,680 --> 01:22:05,799
Speaker 2: got worried because now he's getting chunks.

1709
01:22:05,800 --> 01:22:08,160
Speaker 1: Then he gets the long touchdown run. I'm thinking, oh no,

1710
01:22:08,320 --> 01:22:08,880
Speaker 1: here we go.

1711
01:22:09,720 --> 01:22:11,559
Speaker 2: But there's a play with about two minutes left in

1712
01:22:11,560 --> 01:22:15,920
Speaker 2: the third quarter, and it was Clille Davis knifing into

1713
01:22:16,000 --> 01:22:20,679
Speaker 2: the backfield and stopping Johnson Taylor for a loss probably

1714
01:22:20,680 --> 01:22:21,479
Speaker 2: about three or four yard.

1715
01:22:21,560 --> 01:22:23,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a big play.

1716
01:22:23,120 --> 01:22:25,960
Speaker 2: And that to me was when it kind of flipped

1717
01:22:25,960 --> 01:22:29,120
Speaker 2: back the other way where Taylor was not getting those

1718
01:22:29,200 --> 01:22:32,040
Speaker 2: chunks he was getting two three yards, but it was

1719
01:22:32,080 --> 01:22:35,439
Speaker 2: not He was not getting much after that. So it

1720
01:22:35,520 --> 01:22:39,000
Speaker 2: was like and I likened it to a boxing match

1721
01:22:39,880 --> 01:22:41,120
Speaker 2: with the Miko after the game.

1722
01:22:41,280 --> 01:22:43,560
Speaker 1: He liked that analogy, so I felt good with it.

1723
01:22:42,960 --> 01:22:45,160
Speaker 2: It was like the first four or five rounds we

1724
01:22:45,160 --> 01:22:46,760
Speaker 2: were kind of control, you know, we took a couple

1725
01:22:46,800 --> 01:22:47,680
Speaker 2: of shots, but.

1726
01:22:47,720 --> 01:22:48,960
Speaker 1: Man, we landed bombs.

1727
01:22:49,000 --> 01:22:52,080
Speaker 2: We landed that like Rocky four bomb on Drago, like bang,

1728
01:22:52,200 --> 01:22:55,200
Speaker 2: like oh the Russians cut, you know. We landed that

1729
01:22:55,280 --> 01:22:59,120
Speaker 2: with the seventy five yard bomb, and we controlled the

1730
01:22:59,120 --> 01:23:01,280
Speaker 2: next three four rounds and all of a sudden, around six,

1731
01:23:02,439 --> 01:23:06,120
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, it's like Drago woke up. He's

1732
01:23:06,240 --> 01:23:09,760
Speaker 2: like hammering, hammering, Like we can't catch our breath. Ten

1733
01:23:09,800 --> 01:23:11,760
Speaker 2: seconds left in the round, and we're lucky to just

1734
01:23:11,800 --> 01:23:14,200
Speaker 2: hang on. But then all of a sudden we kind

1735
01:23:14,200 --> 01:23:16,400
Speaker 2: of find our second win and Khalil Davis kind of

1736
01:23:16,439 --> 01:23:19,880
Speaker 2: works himself out of the corner and hits back, and

1737
01:23:19,920 --> 01:23:22,520
Speaker 2: now all of a sudden, you're like, okay, and now

1738
01:23:22,600 --> 01:23:26,000
Speaker 2: you're swapping you know, punches for the next few rounds.

1739
01:23:26,160 --> 01:23:28,200
Speaker 2: And Matt Gay helped us with that fifty seven yard

1740
01:23:28,280 --> 01:23:31,639
Speaker 2: off the upright field goal and drum telling you I'm

1741
01:23:31,640 --> 01:23:33,800
Speaker 2: standing on the upright, I'm watching that ball as it's

1742
01:23:33,920 --> 01:23:36,599
Speaker 2: coming towards me, and about ten yards away, that thing

1743
01:23:36,680 --> 01:23:39,240
Speaker 2: started bending right like that thing was good. I was

1744
01:23:39,280 --> 01:23:41,720
Speaker 2: about to tell market's good, like damn it. He hit it,

1745
01:23:42,280 --> 01:23:43,920
Speaker 2: and then I see it start to leak a little bit,

1746
01:23:44,080 --> 01:23:46,920
Speaker 2: like whoa boy, is that thing going in? And then

1747
01:23:46,960 --> 01:23:49,000
Speaker 2: I'm thinking it's going wide right, like oh, and then

1748
01:23:49,040 --> 01:23:50,920
Speaker 2: he hits the upright. It's like one of those things like,

1749
01:23:51,280 --> 01:23:53,400
Speaker 2: oh damn, it's good. Oh no, he's gonna be wide right,

1750
01:23:53,400 --> 01:23:55,479
Speaker 2: oh up right back, And then it was just all

1751
01:23:55,520 --> 01:23:58,080
Speaker 2: happening all at once. But then Texas went down and

1752
01:23:58,120 --> 01:24:01,360
Speaker 2: scored and kicked the field. That's when you'd started stopping them.

1753
01:24:01,960 --> 01:24:04,479
Speaker 2: You forced the field goal at ten. CJ got a

1754
01:24:04,520 --> 01:24:06,000
Speaker 2: couple of runs in to get you a little closer

1755
01:24:06,040 --> 01:24:08,000
Speaker 2: than Kymie bang at fifty one yarder, and now you're

1756
01:24:08,040 --> 01:24:10,120
Speaker 2: up seventeen to fourteen. You're like, look, the game's not over,

1757
01:24:10,720 --> 01:24:13,439
Speaker 2: but maybe we stopped the bleeding. Now we can go

1758
01:24:13,439 --> 01:24:16,000
Speaker 2: in around ten, eleven, twelve, and now we're on equal

1759
01:24:16,040 --> 01:24:18,080
Speaker 2: footing and maybe we can knock them out. Maybe not,

1760
01:24:18,280 --> 01:24:20,040
Speaker 2: but let's just take care of our business and see

1761
01:24:20,080 --> 01:24:22,080
Speaker 2: if we can win these last couple rounds of the fight.

1762
01:24:22,160 --> 01:24:23,280
Speaker 1: And the Texans definitely did.

1763
01:24:23,520 --> 01:24:26,880
Speaker 10: Man, it's great minds thinking alike, because I can't it

1764
01:24:26,920 --> 01:24:31,200
Speaker 10: was either Desmond King or Brevin Jordan. I was interviewing

1765
01:24:31,200 --> 01:24:34,840
Speaker 10: them in the locker room and I said, this was like,

1766
01:24:34,880 --> 01:24:38,200
Speaker 10: you guys each landed haymakers throughout. You guys take the lead. Yeah,

1767
01:24:38,240 --> 01:24:39,760
Speaker 10: but they punched back and got their way. This is

1768
01:24:39,800 --> 01:24:41,519
Speaker 10: a It might have been Desmon because he's like, yeah,

1769
01:24:41,520 --> 01:24:42,479
Speaker 10: that's a good team.

1770
01:24:42,240 --> 01:24:42,760
Speaker 6: That we beat.

1771
01:24:42,840 --> 01:24:45,519
Speaker 10: Yeah, you know, they're a good bunch, and absolutely drops

1772
01:24:45,520 --> 01:24:45,920
Speaker 10: to them.

1773
01:24:46,320 --> 01:24:47,160
Speaker 1: It did.

1774
01:24:47,200 --> 01:24:49,640
Speaker 10: It felt like a heavyweight fight, and it was so

1775
01:24:49,760 --> 01:24:53,920
Speaker 10: much fun. And now the Browns way we go. Here

1776
01:24:53,960 --> 01:24:56,240
Speaker 10: we go, and let's set the table and let's remind

1777
01:24:56,240 --> 01:25:00,120
Speaker 10: folks everyone knows CJ. Stroud didn't play in the first one.

1778
01:25:00,360 --> 01:25:03,799
Speaker 10: Will Anderson did not plan the first one. Jonathan Garnard

1779
01:25:03,840 --> 01:25:06,040
Speaker 10: played three snaps in the first one, so your two

1780
01:25:06,040 --> 01:25:10,040
Speaker 10: best pass rushers were not on the field and things

1781
01:25:10,040 --> 01:25:13,360
Speaker 10: were tough. Also, Derek Barnett, if he was playing, he

1782
01:25:13,439 --> 01:25:16,559
Speaker 10: was still just kind of settling in. And Derek Barnett

1783
01:25:16,640 --> 01:25:19,760
Speaker 10: has been whipping all sorts of you know what over

1784
01:25:19,760 --> 01:25:23,479
Speaker 10: the last month. He Grenard and two other just killers

1785
01:25:23,680 --> 01:25:25,240
Speaker 10: from around the NFL. I can't remember who the other

1786
01:25:25,280 --> 01:25:28,360
Speaker 10: two are, but they are top that PFF rankings list.

1787
01:25:28,360 --> 01:25:30,640
Speaker 10: And yes, PFF doesn't always get it right, but a

1788
01:25:30,720 --> 01:25:32,840
Speaker 10: lot of times they do, and I think in that case,

1789
01:25:32,840 --> 01:25:34,559
Speaker 10: they got it right. He's been having a fun time.

1790
01:25:35,160 --> 01:25:38,519
Speaker 10: Lake Cashman's back, he's playing. He was out against the Browns,

1791
01:25:39,240 --> 01:25:42,760
Speaker 10: so there's lots of help back on the way. And

1792
01:25:42,800 --> 01:25:46,439
Speaker 10: I don't see Amari Cooper having the game he had here.

1793
01:25:46,800 --> 01:25:49,479
Speaker 10: I think that he's gonna get his, but he's not

1794
01:25:49,479 --> 01:25:50,040
Speaker 10: going to get it.

1795
01:25:50,040 --> 01:25:52,360
Speaker 1: Like that, right, you hop Yeah.

1796
01:25:52,400 --> 01:25:55,720
Speaker 10: So with all these things in mind, with a Saturday

1797
01:25:55,760 --> 01:26:02,320
Speaker 10: afternoon playoff game, here, who on Sunday are we going

1798
01:26:02,360 --> 01:26:04,600
Speaker 10: to be talking about? This was our Cream of the

1799
01:26:04,600 --> 01:26:07,439
Speaker 10: Crop award winner, John Who's going to have a day

1800
01:26:07,600 --> 01:26:09,759
Speaker 10: for the Texans the cream of the crop.

1801
01:26:10,240 --> 01:26:12,320
Speaker 1: Now, I'm going to pick a guy.

1802
01:26:13,280 --> 01:26:16,400
Speaker 2: And part of this is emotional, okay, part of this

1803
01:26:16,720 --> 01:26:19,799
Speaker 2: is I desperately want this to happen.

1804
01:26:20,800 --> 01:26:25,479
Speaker 1: Part of it is retribution, okay. And that man's name

1805
01:26:25,520 --> 01:26:26,280
Speaker 1: is Jalen Petrie.

1806
01:26:26,760 --> 01:26:31,000
Speaker 2: All right, I like against the Browns when a Mario

1807
01:26:31,000 --> 01:26:36,320
Speaker 2: Cooper has that seventy five yard touchdown, the presumed thought

1808
01:26:36,479 --> 01:26:39,000
Speaker 2: was that Jalen was supposed to help on Amari Cooper

1809
01:26:39,040 --> 01:26:42,439
Speaker 2: on that play and double cover him and didn't blew

1810
01:26:42,479 --> 01:26:46,479
Speaker 2: the coverage and Cooper scores and that gave them a

1811
01:26:46,479 --> 01:26:48,960
Speaker 2: twenty two to seven leaded half, and you know frustration

1812
01:26:49,160 --> 01:26:50,200
Speaker 2: from that point forward.

1813
01:26:51,280 --> 01:26:52,280
Speaker 1: So Jalen didn't.

1814
01:26:52,040 --> 01:26:53,320
Speaker 2: Play a lot of that game, and when we played

1815
01:26:53,360 --> 01:26:56,880
Speaker 2: like eighteen or nineteen plays over the next couple of weeks,

1816
01:26:56,920 --> 01:27:00,559
Speaker 2: I've seen a different Jalen Petrie. It composed, under control,

1817
01:27:00,800 --> 01:27:05,120
Speaker 2: yet like a controlled aggression. He had a great TfL

1818
01:27:05,520 --> 01:27:09,599
Speaker 2: in the fourth quarter I think I think it's fourth

1819
01:27:09,680 --> 01:27:12,800
Speaker 2: quarter on Taylor that was I mean, it just it

1820
01:27:12,840 --> 01:27:15,719
Speaker 2: was perfect. He got in position, he didn't he didn't

1821
01:27:15,960 --> 01:27:18,760
Speaker 2: dive and just dirt dive, try to take out knees.

1822
01:27:18,800 --> 01:27:23,000
Speaker 2: He went to wrap up Taylor with the knees, got

1823
01:27:23,080 --> 01:27:24,759
Speaker 2: him down for like a one or two yard loss.

1824
01:27:25,840 --> 01:27:28,320
Speaker 1: I think Jalen Petrie can be a big, big figure.

1825
01:27:28,360 --> 01:27:33,840
Speaker 2: Now he's gonna have to cover in Djoku at certain times.

1826
01:27:33,880 --> 01:27:35,760
Speaker 2: He's gonna have to maybe cover Harrison Bryan at times.

1827
01:27:35,760 --> 01:27:37,719
Speaker 2: Maybe he's gonna have to cover slot receivers at times.

1828
01:27:38,640 --> 01:27:40,280
Speaker 2: And I know he did get the lous contact the

1829
01:27:40,320 --> 01:27:43,400
Speaker 2: other the other night, tough one. But those are the

1830
01:27:43,400 --> 01:27:45,200
Speaker 2: things that he's gonna have to do. He's gonna have

1831
01:27:45,200 --> 01:27:48,160
Speaker 2: a lot on his plate again. But I feel like

1832
01:27:48,200 --> 01:27:50,360
Speaker 2: the way that he's played the last couple of games,

1833
01:27:51,080 --> 01:27:53,920
Speaker 2: I feel like this is that opportunity to just settle

1834
01:27:53,960 --> 01:27:55,719
Speaker 2: in and play, and he's gonna have to remind himself.

1835
01:27:55,720 --> 01:27:58,240
Speaker 1: And I'll give you this kind of quick personal story.

1836
01:27:59,520 --> 01:28:01,639
Speaker 2: When I was a I was a junior high school

1837
01:28:02,200 --> 01:28:04,960
Speaker 2: and we played team called Bras's Sport and they add

1838
01:28:05,240 --> 01:28:05,880
Speaker 2: the Pirates.

1839
01:28:06,320 --> 01:28:11,880
Speaker 1: Yeah six nine bis. Bras Suport was a pirates y, right, brass?

1840
01:28:11,880 --> 01:28:13,719
Speaker 1: What was something else? I can't remember what they were. Anyways,

1841
01:28:16,280 --> 01:28:17,360
Speaker 1: I had I had lit them up.

1842
01:28:17,360 --> 01:28:19,880
Speaker 2: In the first game we go down there to win

1843
01:28:19,920 --> 01:28:23,679
Speaker 2: the district, I went one for nine and I'm I'm pressing,

1844
01:28:23,880 --> 01:28:26,559
Speaker 2: I can't find a bucket, I'm just everything.

1845
01:28:26,640 --> 01:28:29,120
Speaker 1: I just scing horribly that night for me. We end

1846
01:28:29,200 --> 01:28:30,080
Speaker 1: up losing the game by two.

1847
01:28:30,160 --> 01:28:32,680
Speaker 2: If I make two buckets, if I go three for nine,

1848
01:28:32,720 --> 01:28:35,880
Speaker 2: we win the game and win the district. Anyways, we

1849
01:28:35,960 --> 01:28:38,360
Speaker 2: get an upset win like after that game, I'm just like,

1850
01:28:39,040 --> 01:28:40,960
Speaker 2: I was pressing so hard. My dad was just like, look,

1851
01:28:41,000 --> 01:28:43,599
Speaker 2: you gotta relax, you gotta relax and play. So we

1852
01:28:43,640 --> 01:28:46,640
Speaker 2: had one more game to play this season, played it,

1853
01:28:46,840 --> 01:28:49,479
Speaker 2: we won it, and because Bradsport lost, we met them

1854
01:28:49,479 --> 01:28:53,679
Speaker 2: in a playoff game. And in that game, I just rely.

1855
01:28:53,800 --> 01:28:55,720
Speaker 2: I just was like, I gotta I gotta relax, I

1856
01:28:55,760 --> 01:28:57,439
Speaker 2: gotta make shots. If I don't have it, I got

1857
01:28:57,439 --> 01:28:59,080
Speaker 2: to give it up somebody with a better shot. And

1858
01:28:59,160 --> 01:29:01,200
Speaker 2: I ended up kind of finding myself. So we then

1859
01:29:01,240 --> 01:29:05,080
Speaker 2: play Brass's Sport in a playoff game. It's a winning

1860
01:29:05,120 --> 01:29:08,000
Speaker 2: in situation, and I'm just like, I can't force it,

1861
01:29:08,080 --> 01:29:12,240
Speaker 2: just relax, gotta play, but I want retribution. And the

1862
01:29:12,240 --> 01:29:14,400
Speaker 2: second quarter I went six for six. I scored all

1863
01:29:14,400 --> 01:29:16,320
Speaker 2: my points in the second quarter and kind of turned

1864
01:29:16,320 --> 01:29:19,760
Speaker 2: the game and all just because just relax, you know.

1865
01:29:20,000 --> 01:29:23,400
Speaker 2: But I did want that revenge. But getting revenge sometimes

1866
01:29:23,840 --> 01:29:26,479
Speaker 2: is like the worst thing you could want, because you

1867
01:29:26,520 --> 01:29:28,519
Speaker 2: start stressing and press. The best thing you can do

1868
01:29:28,600 --> 01:29:31,160
Speaker 2: is just relax. You know what they're gonna do, and

1869
01:29:31,280 --> 01:29:33,800
Speaker 2: just play. Yeah, and hopefully that's what he ends up doing.

1870
01:29:34,280 --> 01:29:34,880
Speaker 1: I like that.

1871
01:29:34,960 --> 01:29:37,320
Speaker 10: I like that Jalen Petrick that long story, dude. No,

1872
01:29:37,400 --> 01:29:39,320
Speaker 10: I like long stories. That's what this podcast is for.

1873
01:29:39,640 --> 01:29:42,280
Speaker 10: And before we move on to my choice, I just

1874
01:29:42,320 --> 01:29:46,200
Speaker 10: want folks to hear this so much fun answer that

1875
01:29:46,240 --> 01:29:48,880
Speaker 10: I that Petree gave me in the locker room with

1876
01:29:49,000 --> 01:29:51,760
Speaker 10: cigars folks wafting around, I said, how are you going

1877
01:29:51,800 --> 01:29:54,840
Speaker 10: to celebrate on the plane? And I'm sure I sounded

1878
01:29:54,880 --> 01:29:59,160
Speaker 10: like Walter Cronkite, but you know, dorky Walter Cronkite. And

1879
01:29:59,280 --> 01:30:01,559
Speaker 10: Adrian Amos Safety is right next to him as well,

1880
01:30:01,720 --> 01:30:03,920
Speaker 10: and he kind of chimes in on this. But this

1881
01:30:04,000 --> 01:30:06,760
Speaker 10: is my Q and A last Q and A with

1882
01:30:07,000 --> 01:30:09,719
Speaker 10: Petree talking about the plane ride home and what's gonna happen.

1883
01:30:09,880 --> 01:30:11,559
Speaker 10: It's gonna be the most fun plane ride ever.

1884
01:30:11,880 --> 01:30:13,360
Speaker 5: Oh for shure, we're finna be lit.

1885
01:30:13,400 --> 01:30:16,920
Speaker 9: You know, we're gonna have some good food, some good

1886
01:30:16,960 --> 01:30:19,479
Speaker 9: apple juice with some cranberry juice all that.

1887
01:30:19,640 --> 01:30:22,280
Speaker 1: Like, we're finna be lit, some sprid, some sprite. Like

1888
01:30:22,360 --> 01:30:22,880
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying.

1889
01:30:22,880 --> 01:30:25,439
Speaker 9: We're going soda tonight, like we're not playing with it.

1890
01:30:25,479 --> 01:30:27,840
Speaker 1: Ain't no water or no good light. Gatorade. Gator Light

1891
01:30:28,000 --> 01:30:28,920
Speaker 1: is soda.

1892
01:30:28,600 --> 01:30:31,720
Speaker 10: Tonight Jalen Peatree, congrats on the victory. Appreciates you man,

1893
01:30:32,040 --> 01:30:35,040
Speaker 10: all right, There's probably some jokes in there that I

1894
01:30:35,520 --> 01:30:37,840
Speaker 10: went straight over my head, but nonetheless I loved it.

1895
01:30:37,880 --> 01:30:39,640
Speaker 10: I thought it was fun and that's awesome, and I

1896
01:30:40,040 --> 01:30:42,200
Speaker 10: know that was a fun plane ride home observedly so

1897
01:30:42,320 --> 01:30:46,040
Speaker 10: for Jalen Petree, love your choice for him. I have

1898
01:30:46,200 --> 01:30:49,360
Speaker 10: gone on record a few different times saying this year

1899
01:30:49,640 --> 01:30:55,600
Speaker 10: feels a lot like twenty eleven. Many similarities. One similarity

1900
01:30:56,160 --> 01:30:58,519
Speaker 10: that I'm gonna apply to this one. I could see

1901
01:30:59,560 --> 01:31:06,320
Speaker 10: a breakout a lah JJ Watts picks six, a breakout performance.

1902
01:31:07,439 --> 01:31:12,080
Speaker 10: I'm gonna go two from either or maybe both Will

1903
01:31:12,160 --> 01:31:17,960
Speaker 10: Anderson Junior or and or Derek Stingley. I could see

1904
01:31:18,000 --> 01:31:21,280
Speaker 10: one of them having like two picks, two stacks, forced

1905
01:31:21,280 --> 01:31:23,479
Speaker 10: fumble a picks, something like that. I could see them

1906
01:31:23,520 --> 01:31:27,400
Speaker 10: having a day and really opening eyes and reminding and

1907
01:31:27,520 --> 01:31:30,599
Speaker 10: making folks remember, Yeah, those guys are the third overall

1908
01:31:30,640 --> 01:31:32,559
Speaker 10: pick for a really damn good reason.

1909
01:31:32,600 --> 01:31:33,760
Speaker 5: So I'm gonna go with one of them.

1910
01:31:33,800 --> 01:31:37,439
Speaker 10: That's there's nothing I don't know matchup wise, and I'm

1911
01:31:37,800 --> 01:31:40,559
Speaker 10: I just have a gut like one of them is

1912
01:31:40,600 --> 01:31:45,200
Speaker 10: going to erupt and make his mark.

1913
01:31:45,439 --> 01:31:48,400
Speaker 5: So yeah, I don't like it.

1914
01:31:49,200 --> 01:31:51,320
Speaker 10: It's funny because I'm a reason to it, but I

1915
01:31:51,360 --> 01:31:52,040
Speaker 10: just kind of have that.

1916
01:31:51,960 --> 01:31:54,439
Speaker 1: Feeling I almost pickedingly, I almost picked thing.

1917
01:31:54,560 --> 01:31:56,800
Speaker 10: He's gonna be called up. I mean, he's yeah, and

1918
01:31:56,920 --> 01:31:59,280
Speaker 10: he doesn't trail a guy the whole. They don't just

1919
01:31:59,320 --> 01:32:02,599
Speaker 10: say hey, go Cooper. But he's gonna get his shots

1920
01:32:02,600 --> 01:32:03,599
Speaker 10: at Cooper from time to time.

1921
01:32:03,720 --> 01:32:06,160
Speaker 2: And that's not something that I think if you ask

1922
01:32:06,200 --> 01:32:08,640
Speaker 2: sting he'd do it. Yeah, and he would love to

1923
01:32:08,640 --> 01:32:11,600
Speaker 2: do it. It's just not something that is not in

1924
01:32:11,640 --> 01:32:13,320
Speaker 2: the defense. De Miko has not done that. I do

1925
01:32:13,360 --> 01:32:17,880
Speaker 2: think they're all defenses aren't that way either, correct? Correct,

1926
01:32:18,120 --> 01:32:20,479
Speaker 2: And you know, based on how you know different things,

1927
01:32:21,680 --> 01:32:23,080
Speaker 2: the defense works.

1928
01:32:24,360 --> 01:32:26,639
Speaker 1: You know. I think back to the Jets with Darrell Reeves.

1929
01:32:26,720 --> 01:32:30,320
Speaker 2: The reason Revis went all over the place was Rex

1930
01:32:30,360 --> 01:32:32,200
Speaker 2: Ryan was playing cover won the entire time, man and

1931
01:32:32,240 --> 01:32:33,200
Speaker 2: man the whole entire time.

1932
01:32:33,240 --> 01:32:35,519
Speaker 1: So it's like, Okay, Texas don't play man and man

1933
01:32:35,560 --> 01:32:35,920
Speaker 1: a lot.

1934
01:32:36,200 --> 01:32:38,960
Speaker 2: So those secondary players have got to work in concert

1935
01:32:39,000 --> 01:32:41,360
Speaker 2: with one another. And if Stingley is going to where

1936
01:32:41,360 --> 01:32:43,320
Speaker 2: Cooper is and say Cooper goes in the slot, well

1937
01:32:43,320 --> 01:32:45,280
Speaker 2: that could mess up kind of his own coverage of playing.

1938
01:32:45,360 --> 01:32:46,680
Speaker 1: So there's a lot of things that go into it.

1939
01:32:47,439 --> 01:32:49,360
Speaker 2: I do think there's a way that you can handle

1940
01:32:49,400 --> 01:32:52,200
Speaker 2: that depending on where Cooper lines up. If Cooper goes

1941
01:32:52,200 --> 01:32:54,240
Speaker 2: to Stingley's side, okay, let's Sting have him one on

1942
01:32:54,240 --> 01:32:56,840
Speaker 2: one and then roll your coverage other way. If Sting

1943
01:32:56,920 --> 01:32:59,880
Speaker 2: goes to Nelson's side and you feel like Steven needs

1944
01:32:59,880 --> 01:33:03,519
Speaker 2: some help, roll some help that way and give him help.

1945
01:33:03,520 --> 01:33:05,439
Speaker 2: When Cooper's on that side, let's staying handle the other

1946
01:33:05,479 --> 01:33:08,120
Speaker 2: side by himself. So it's a lonely island to be

1947
01:33:08,200 --> 01:33:11,360
Speaker 2: on first thing, but that might be what he's got

1948
01:33:11,360 --> 01:33:14,920
Speaker 2: to do against his team. And I was so close

1949
01:33:14,960 --> 01:33:16,800
Speaker 2: to say in Stanley and I thought about Petrion and

1950
01:33:16,840 --> 01:33:18,600
Speaker 2: I was like, you know what, I think retribution for

1951
01:33:18,720 --> 01:33:21,120
Speaker 2: him would be really, really sweet, and I think they

1952
01:33:21,200 --> 01:33:24,640
Speaker 2: need it. Considering no Jimmy Ward, no Eric Murray, no

1953
01:33:25,560 --> 01:33:27,840
Speaker 2: m J. Stewart, they were down so many safeties. But

1954
01:33:27,920 --> 01:33:30,880
Speaker 2: DC's played well, Kareem's played well. And here's the other thing.

1955
01:33:30,920 --> 01:33:34,040
Speaker 2: I'll say, one one final thing I would love to

1956
01:33:34,080 --> 01:33:35,559
Speaker 2: see early in this game, Drew.

1957
01:33:35,720 --> 01:33:37,040
Speaker 1: I would love to see Kareem.

1958
01:33:37,920 --> 01:33:42,000
Speaker 2: I'd love to seekareem jackson Mide just pop them whether

1959
01:33:42,040 --> 01:33:43,960
Speaker 2: the ball comes out or not, but just to let

1960
01:33:44,000 --> 01:33:46,599
Speaker 2: them know, Hey, y'all gonna be floating around his secondary

1961
01:33:46,640 --> 01:33:49,439
Speaker 2: all day and if you do, I'm back here and

1962
01:33:50,000 --> 01:33:52,599
Speaker 2: you're about to get hit. And just that little bit

1963
01:33:52,640 --> 01:33:56,200
Speaker 2: of hesitation that it can cause can create some problems.

1964
01:33:56,200 --> 01:33:59,519
Speaker 2: So Drew, I'm just really excited. I don't want to

1965
01:33:59,520 --> 01:34:00,679
Speaker 2: say we're playing with house money.

1966
01:34:00,680 --> 01:34:00,920
Speaker 1: I don't.

1967
01:34:00,920 --> 01:34:03,120
Speaker 2: I don't want to kind of take that, but I

1968
01:34:03,160 --> 01:34:05,759
Speaker 2: no chance. We kind of are playing with house money.

1969
01:34:05,760 --> 01:34:05,960
Speaker 6: Man.

1970
01:34:06,120 --> 01:34:09,519
Speaker 2: We're three, three thirteen one last year, Like the hell,

1971
01:34:09,680 --> 01:34:12,599
Speaker 2: look at us now. So they're eighteen teams watching, including

1972
01:34:12,600 --> 01:34:13,599
Speaker 2: the Jacksonville Jaguars.

1973
01:34:13,680 --> 01:34:16,720
Speaker 10: Hi, guys, don't forget our friends, the Colts and the

1974
01:34:16,760 --> 01:34:17,360
Speaker 10: Titans too.

1975
01:34:17,439 --> 01:34:19,799
Speaker 1: Oh Hi guys, yeah, smell you set the combine.

1976
01:34:20,040 --> 01:34:22,120
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, we'll see people at the combine. It just

1977
01:34:22,160 --> 01:34:25,280
Speaker 2: won't be Mike Rabel. That is gonna be very interesting.

1978
01:34:25,320 --> 01:34:26,080
Speaker 1: We're going to talk.

1979
01:34:25,920 --> 01:34:29,280
Speaker 2: About that and what else has rocked the football world,

1980
01:34:29,320 --> 01:34:31,440
Speaker 2: both NFL and college today.

1981
01:34:31,720 --> 01:34:34,080
Speaker 1: My goodness, that's next that Texas All Access.

1982
01:34:34,240 --> 01:34:36,320
Speaker 2: All right, we got a little shorty here at the

1983
01:34:36,360 --> 01:34:39,360
Speaker 2: back end of a Wednesday edition of Texas. All access

1984
01:34:39,360 --> 01:34:41,800
Speaker 2: been jam packed with a lot of stuff going on.

1985
01:34:41,920 --> 01:34:43,920
Speaker 2: A lot of thanks going out to all the people

1986
01:34:43,920 --> 01:34:47,320
Speaker 2: that participated in a show, Shack Mason, Shelby, Coppage, Drew Doherty,

1987
01:34:47,360 --> 01:34:50,400
Speaker 2: of course, Mark Vandermier, Nick Casserio, Iron Eagle, and all

1988
01:34:50,439 --> 01:34:51,080
Speaker 2: of you for listening.

1989
01:34:51,360 --> 01:34:53,679
Speaker 1: Really appreciate that. Now I said, we go around.

1990
01:34:53,680 --> 01:34:56,479
Speaker 2: In the NFL, there have been three monster moves and

1991
01:34:56,560 --> 01:34:58,559
Speaker 2: coaching the last forty eight hours. It started with Mike

1992
01:34:58,680 --> 01:35:04,439
Speaker 2: Rabel in Tennessee relieved of his duties. In Seattle, Pete

1993
01:35:04,520 --> 01:35:09,639
Speaker 2: Carroll stepping away. I don't know if the owners thought

1994
01:35:09,960 --> 01:35:11,320
Speaker 2: it was the right move. I don't know, but Pete

1995
01:35:11,360 --> 01:35:13,880
Speaker 2: Carroll no longer the head coach with Seattle Seahawks. Seems

1996
01:35:13,920 --> 01:35:15,519
Speaker 2: like he's gonna stay on as an advisor, so that

1997
01:35:15,640 --> 01:35:18,519
Speaker 2: job is now open. And in the world of college football,

1998
01:35:18,960 --> 01:35:23,600
Speaker 2: Nick Saban is retiring as the head coach at the

1999
01:35:23,680 --> 01:35:25,440
Speaker 2: University of Alabama.

2000
01:35:25,960 --> 01:35:28,240
Speaker 1: Holy cow. I was shocked.

2001
01:35:28,320 --> 01:35:31,080
Speaker 2: Maybe not shocked like one of those by itself, but

2002
01:35:31,280 --> 01:35:34,120
Speaker 2: all together in the last forty eight hours, my goodness,

2003
01:35:34,280 --> 01:35:37,320
Speaker 2: crazy days going on. Appreciate you guys being here. We

2004
01:35:37,360 --> 01:35:39,720
Speaker 2: will see you tomorrow right here at six o'clock a

2005
01:35:39,800 --> 01:35:42,200
Speaker 2: Texans All Access and as always go Texans