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

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Speaker 1: a bye week edition of Texans All Access. John Harris

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Speaker 1: your host football side of the Reporter alongside Mark Vandimir Mark.

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Speaker 1: Good evening. Are you enjoying the buy just yet? While

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Speaker 1: we're working, as you know, Johnny, and still creating content

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Speaker 1: and doing what we do for the Houston Texans organization.

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Speaker 1: And it's a joy to be part of the NFL,

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Speaker 1: even during the bye which comes early. I prefer the body.

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Speaker 1: They don't ask me when they make the schedule and

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Speaker 1: what would you like the buy. I'd like it in

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Speaker 1: early November, late October, that'd be great. But this is fine.

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Speaker 1: This is a little breather. I think that Johnny correct

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Speaker 1: me if I'm wrong. For the rookies, it might be better. Now,

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Speaker 1: why wait until some might hit a wall? Right? And

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Speaker 1: I say might because you never know. But people talk

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Speaker 1: about that rookie wall a lot because you have the

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Speaker 1: pre draft, workout stuff, draft itself, rookie camp, OTAs, all

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Speaker 1: these things. They play in the preseason games more than

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Speaker 1: anybody else probably, And now you get to, okay, we're

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Speaker 1: five games into a season. Good time to take a

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Speaker 1: little rest. Get the legs back and get ready for

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Speaker 1: the final twelve games of the regular season. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: definitely when people talking about sprints and marathons, it's it's

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Speaker 1: definitely a marathon. And we're gonna be kind of in

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Speaker 1: between that. Today's show, it's gonna be part sprint, part marathon.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna ga Kissio joining us. The next segment, you're

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Speaker 1: gonna hear a where are they now? From? A mobi,

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Speaker 1: a Koyer And then if you miss Texas matchup last night,

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Speaker 1: I can get your thoughts on this because I just

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Speaker 1: brought this up. Good show. I did a segment with

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Speaker 1: the inspiration of Damian Pierce's run the other day against

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Speaker 1: the Jacksonville Jaguars. I used the FTP as my guide,

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Speaker 1: so I started with twenty twelve. Okay, twenty twelve through

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, because eleven seasons, well, ten seasons in

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Speaker 1: the five games gotcha best running back runs that you

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Speaker 1: can remember in that time frame, Well, obviously Damian's got

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Speaker 1: one of them. I also gave him a two. I

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Speaker 1: gave him a second one because the seventy five yard

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Speaker 1: run against the Chargers. You gotta put that in there.

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Speaker 1: So from twenty twelve. You've seen every one of you

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Speaker 1: called every single running back run. Yeah, that there is,

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Speaker 1: I say, Aaron in the playoff game. Okay, I'm going

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Speaker 1: in no particular order here. Which playoff game? The first

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Speaker 1: the first one against? Okay, Now, so I started twenty twelve.

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Speaker 1: That's because that's the FTP starts at twenty twelve. Pees. Well,

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Speaker 1: I could have hooked you up with some earlier things.

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Speaker 1: I no, that's like it's like an act of Congress.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to worry about that, Okay, because do

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Speaker 1: you know Steve Slayton once had a seventy one yard

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Speaker 1: touchdown run in this franchise in two thousand and eight

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Speaker 1: against I have to find it, but I just saw

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Speaker 1: it on the stat sheet here. It might have been

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Speaker 1: it was it on Monday night. That would have been

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Speaker 1: legendary to do that. But I will find that for you,

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Speaker 1: all right. So twenty twelve on obviously Lamar Miller ninety

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Speaker 1: seven yard touchdown and the Monday night or against Tennessee

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Speaker 1: and two eighteen, the night we celebrated the life of

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Speaker 1: mister McNair. That run is the to me, the best

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Speaker 1: run in franchise history. Yes, I will put it there

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Speaker 1: because of what it meant that night. Now arians in

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Speaker 1: twenty eleven, which you didn't have in the show last night.

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Speaker 1: That wasn't a playoff game, so that was super cool.

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Speaker 1: Second half icing on the cake, a terrific run, crowd

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Speaker 1: going absolutely nuts. That was great. Also, I mean, that's

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Speaker 1: right there in the top five. Gotta be if you

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Speaker 1: allow yourself to go prior to twenty twelve Slayton Colts

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Speaker 1: on the Road. Oh man, that's why it doesn't like

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Speaker 1: pop out that game. The Texans had the ball in

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Speaker 1: the final drive with Sage Rosenfeld's had the controls but

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Speaker 1: that there's that one. Okay, yes, but think twenty twelve twelve.

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Speaker 1: It's the second longest run in history, the second longest

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Speaker 1: run in the history eighty one yards by justin force set.

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Speaker 1: I'm thanksgiving, but does it really can't? Should there have

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Speaker 1: an asterisk because he was down, got back up, should

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Speaker 1: shorts through the flag and that was automatically reviewable. That

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Speaker 1: review it. He threw the flag by mistakes, so it's

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Speaker 1: a penalty to throw the flag. Who does it hurt

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Speaker 1: But then they changed the rule anyway, right they did.

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Speaker 1: They change it the next year. So yes, justin for set. Okay,

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Speaker 1: that Texans lost twenty fourteen. There were two runs back

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Speaker 1: game five Pittsburgh, Oh up forty five Dallas. Remember the

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Speaker 1: third Arrian had a run that was called back. No,

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Speaker 1: he he had two runs back to back. He broke

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Speaker 1: a thirty three yard run. I knew, I knew there

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Speaker 1: The thirty three yard run he had, really he had

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Speaker 1: and this time he jocked you and said it during

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Speaker 1: And I remember I had those two runs in there

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Speaker 1: So in as a duo, I had those in twenty fourteen.

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Speaker 1: That one hurt light losing a playoff game that stung.

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Speaker 1: It hurt a lot because it was such a great game,

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Speaker 1: went into overtime, played well to come back because weren't

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Speaker 1: never forget it. He runs into score and I look

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Speaker 1: Andrey is just standing there by himself, and there were

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Speaker 1: he's like getting love back. He's given love to them,

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Speaker 1: and it was just really cool. And then it went

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Speaker 1: So you have at least two Bowl game type atmospheres

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Speaker 1: reasons I can't remember, but that'll be a huge day.

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Speaker 1: Everyone will want to be here in the building, no

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Speaker 1: matter what the situation. Back to back, back back weeks

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Speaker 1: Twenty sixteen the Brock year. Yeah, what was a great

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Speaker 1: run in that by Lamar Miller? No? I think Christmas

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Speaker 1: on a missfield goal by Randy thank you, Randy. But

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Speaker 1: I remember that run because that was such a low

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Speaker 1: I mean it was. It was savage, the fuller savage scramble,

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Speaker 1: Titans that day, it was such a grab, such a

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Speaker 1: wife and I were getting ready for Christmas. We're cleaning

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Speaker 1: Twin eighteen was Lamar Milla run. Twenty nineteen. I put

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Speaker 1: you another one from days gone by in a loss

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Speaker 1: though Dominic Davis now known as Dominic Williams. He had

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Speaker 1: a fifty one yard run by Dominic, who again had

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Speaker 1: three great years with the Texans. I mean we could

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Speaker 1: add a whole I could have done a whole show

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Speaker 1: with the Arian runs. And I didn't do twenty twenty eleven.

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Speaker 1: what McLean said the other day, it's the greatest run

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Speaker 1: It's the greatest run that didn't result in a touchdown

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Speaker 1: if you go back, you're gonna find a few. But

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Speaker 1: if you just look at the Arian Foster highlight reel

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Speaker 1: think the runningains Pittsburgh in twenty eleven. Then he cuts back,

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Speaker 1: much anything. So there's probably a few that I missed

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Speaker 1: Godfather Part two. I'd want to get a fifty nine jersey.

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Speaker 1: Texas All Access from the Honday Texans Radio Studio. I'm

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Speaker 1: your host, John Harris Football on a sideline reporter. It's

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Speaker 1: our favorite people in the building, General manager Nick Cassario.

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Speaker 1: He stepped into the hot seat, man, not really, he

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Speaker 1: in studio. Texans general manager Nick Kassio. Nick, welcome, it's

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Speaker 1: the buy So here we are. You said in your

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Speaker 1: in the red area all year when you go back

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Speaker 1: and look at you know, and it's about points. So

425
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Speaker 1: we're able to keep them out of the red area.

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00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:18,080
Speaker 1: They got red area defense. You know, we've done you know,

427
00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:20,199
Speaker 1: top ten or fifteen in the league, whatever it is.

428
00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:21,680
Speaker 1: So being able to keep mine of the end zone,

429
00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:24,000
Speaker 1: be able to get some stops get off the field,

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00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:27,399
Speaker 1: either force a field goal or force some other you

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00:21:27,440 --> 00:21:32,040
Speaker 1: know situation. So and made some plays in the kicking game,

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Speaker 1: I'd say, be able to control field positions, so kind

433
00:21:34,359 --> 00:21:36,639
Speaker 1: of that was a game where hidden yards sort of

434
00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:40,600
Speaker 1: showed up and mattered m and then resulted in a victory. So, um,

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00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:42,280
Speaker 1: it's always good to win. It's hard to win in

436
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Speaker 1: this league. But I think everybody was excited for the

437
00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:50,280
Speaker 1: opportunity to to win, and we earned earned a victory. Um,

438
00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:52,919
Speaker 1: you know, now we got a transition and try to

439
00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:54,840
Speaker 1: improve and continue to improve as a team and then

440
00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:56,439
Speaker 1: get ready for the next challenge in front of us,

441
00:21:56,480 --> 00:21:57,960
Speaker 1: which will be you know, the Raiders here in a

442
00:21:57,960 --> 00:22:00,080
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. Nick, was there any secret saw in

443
00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:02,040
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter? There's been so many close games. I mean,

444
00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:04,440
Speaker 1: you had and lead against the Colts, just tie going

445
00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:07,280
Speaker 1: into the fourth quarter against Broncos Bear the same thing,

446
00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:09,960
Speaker 1: tied in third charges you got it back within three.

447
00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:11,520
Speaker 1: But this when you push over the top, is there

448
00:22:11,560 --> 00:22:13,680
Speaker 1: any sort of secret sauce in the fourth quarter to

449
00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:15,600
Speaker 1: make it sure you got that. Yeah, not necessarily. I

450
00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:17,879
Speaker 1: think it was just we had good execution as a team,

451
00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:20,520
Speaker 1: so we were able to execute. I forget how many

452
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Speaker 1: plays on that particular drive where we scored. I mean,

453
00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:24,680
Speaker 1: everybody wants to talk about, you know, Damien's rown, which

454
00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:26,159
Speaker 1: was you know a big part of that drive, but

455
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Speaker 1: rabble to executing third down. I mean, Walker had the

456
00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:31,480
Speaker 1: personal file penalty, so you know, in the end that

457
00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:33,679
Speaker 1: worked to our advantage. So but it just goes to

458
00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:35,960
Speaker 1: show you, like a play like that, just playing smart

459
00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:38,440
Speaker 1: situational football and not putting your team in a position

460
00:22:39,040 --> 00:22:41,199
Speaker 1: where it could sustain a drive. So we got the

461
00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:43,520
Speaker 1: penalty and they kept the drive moving and then get

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Speaker 1: the ball down there the goal line and be able

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Speaker 1: to finish the drive. So it's saying in the end,

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Speaker 1: nothing magical, but other than we were really execute enough

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Speaker 1: plays to get the ball into the end zone. Well,

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Speaker 1: the third and ten conversion was as big as anything, right,

467
00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:57,760
Speaker 1: because if you don't make that, it's decision time. How

468
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Speaker 1: are you going to handle the situation? And Aikins with

469
00:22:59,880 --> 00:23:04,400
Speaker 1: the catch, it extended for the marker the needed yardage?

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00:23:04,560 --> 00:23:07,200
Speaker 1: What about him? The tight end group and that play

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00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:09,320
Speaker 1: in particular, I know, a double edged question, but we've

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Speaker 1: got time. Yeah, no, it was you know, it was

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Speaker 1: a bank bang play there, so tight throw, tight coverage,

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Speaker 1: and after the catch there was still a yard or

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Speaker 1: two that we had a game to get the sticks. Um,

476
00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:22,760
Speaker 1: and Ache was able to do that. So ACH's taken

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Speaker 1: advantage of his opportunities here in the passing game. UM,

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Speaker 1: I think he only played ten plays but had two

479
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Speaker 1: conversions on third down. Mason played I don't know, twenty

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00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:33,640
Speaker 1: five snaps whatever it was, and Oj and he's played

481
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Speaker 1: a lot of snaps here since you know, we signed

482
00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:37,840
Speaker 1: him there at the beginning of the year. So I

483
00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:40,760
Speaker 1: mean that collectively, that group collectively, as it was worked

484
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Speaker 1: and you know, done enough good things here to kind

485
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Speaker 1: of help us at different points, all three of them. Um.

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Speaker 1: And then even you throw Troy in there, kind of fullback, fullback,

487
00:23:47,520 --> 00:23:50,639
Speaker 1: tight end or that group. I think Troy played the

488
00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:52,760
Speaker 1: most snaps in this game that he had, you know,

489
00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:55,159
Speaker 1: all years. So, UM, you know, at any end, it's

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00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:57,000
Speaker 1: accredit to the players. It's a credit to the coaches

491
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Speaker 1: for being able to go out there execute their job,

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Speaker 1: have enough offense to put those players in a position

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00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:05,920
Speaker 1: to help our team You've mentioned this a few times

494
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Speaker 1: and Nick to us because we always ask you what

495
00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:10,040
Speaker 1: the practice squad and practice squad rules and all that,

496
00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:14,360
Speaker 1: and whenever people mentioned and when we first started talking

497
00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:15,719
Speaker 1: to you, we would talk about the fifty three man

498
00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:17,600
Speaker 1: roster and you were like, who whoa, whoa, whoa whoa,

499
00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:20,240
Speaker 1: sixty nine, sixty nine man roster. If you're here, you're

500
00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:22,399
Speaker 1: going to have an opportunity to play. It felt like

501
00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:24,399
Speaker 1: that game against Jacksonville was a perfect example of that

502
00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:27,240
Speaker 1: because guys that have been contributing a special teams are

503
00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:30,359
Speaker 1: playing on defense. You know, JRM's playing at linebacker. You

504
00:24:30,359 --> 00:24:32,920
Speaker 1: have never playing linebacker. Jake's getting into game at linebacker.

505
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Speaker 1: But the only place you didn't rotate guys was on

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Speaker 1: the offensive line. But you're not going to But it's

507
00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:40,000
Speaker 1: not that we doubted you. But if you're on this roster,

508
00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:42,120
Speaker 1: sixty nine man, you're gonna get on the field at

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Speaker 1: some point. It seems it felt like you got contributions

510
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Speaker 1: from everybody. Is that the way you saw it on Sunday? Yeah?

511
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Speaker 1: And I think and we've been pretty consistent from the beginning,

512
00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:52,160
Speaker 1: even when kind of starting a program, you know, last year,

513
00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:55,560
Speaker 1: if we bring a player in the building, you're going

514
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Speaker 1: to have an opportunity, and you're going to earn your opportunity.

515
00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:01,240
Speaker 1: So and at some point we're gonna need everybody and

516
00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:04,000
Speaker 1: part of your responsibility, regardless if you're on the roster,

517
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Speaker 1: you're on the practice squad, it's to prepare to play.

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00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:09,959
Speaker 1: So your job is prepared to play. I would say,

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00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:12,800
Speaker 1: you know, Mason was an example where not this week,

520
00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:16,840
Speaker 1: but the previous week went through the whole week, really

521
00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:19,240
Speaker 1: hadn't taken a rep. You take most of his reps

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Speaker 1: on the look squad. At the end of the week,

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Speaker 1: we had a situation where like he had to play

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Speaker 1: in a game, so he had to play against the

525
00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:30,560
Speaker 1: Chargers when he hadn't practiced all week. But because it's

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Speaker 1: some of the things that happened to the end of

527
00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:33,840
Speaker 1: the week from a health standpoint, that was the way

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00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:36,400
Speaker 1: that we had to go. So if he's not preparing

529
00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:38,480
Speaker 1: the right way, if he doesn't have the right mindset,

530
00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:40,520
Speaker 1: if he doesn't have the right approach, they's not gonna

531
00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:41,639
Speaker 1: be able to go out there on the field, and

532
00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:44,119
Speaker 1: we're not gonna have enough confidence to put him on

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Speaker 1: the field. So to your question and to your point,

534
00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:50,399
Speaker 1: everybody earns the opportunity to play, and everybody's going to

535
00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:52,440
Speaker 1: have the opportunity to play, and you have to prepare

536
00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:55,240
Speaker 1: for that opportunity to play because you really never know

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00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:56,879
Speaker 1: when that's going to take place. I say one of

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00:25:56,880 --> 00:25:59,399
Speaker 1: the things where a bey the positive things that's come

539
00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:01,200
Speaker 1: out of it, and I think the NFL has done

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00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:03,960
Speaker 1: a great job of recognizing this is the expansion of

541
00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:06,160
Speaker 1: the practice squad rosters. So it's just given you more

542
00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:11,119
Speaker 1: roster flexibility. It gives more players more opportunities, and every

543
00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:13,439
Speaker 1: team has to be judicious with how they use the

544
00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:17,280
Speaker 1: practice squad. So we'll buy buy the rules. Well, we'll

545
00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:19,680
Speaker 1: play within the rules, but we'll try to use them

546
00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:21,600
Speaker 1: to our advantage and be smart and try to make

547
00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:23,760
Speaker 1: the right decision for our team. Nike, it feels like

548
00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:25,919
Speaker 1: every game is a state of the union address on

549
00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:27,959
Speaker 1: where the team is at, where the organization is at.

550
00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:30,400
Speaker 1: Maybe it's that way in the NFL anyway. But let's

551
00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:32,920
Speaker 1: talk about the passing attack here, because not a high

552
00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:35,159
Speaker 1: volume of yards, but you made the plays when you

553
00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:37,600
Speaker 1: needed to make them better on third down. Some of

554
00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:40,439
Speaker 1: that was on the ground too, Nico, with not a

555
00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:42,360
Speaker 1: fifty eight yard or this week, but with some big

556
00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:44,960
Speaker 1: plays branded as well. Can you talk about that? Yeah,

557
00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:46,760
Speaker 1: I mean it's at a passing game. You know, there

558
00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:49,800
Speaker 1: are some chunk play opportunities. So had some completions on

559
00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:52,040
Speaker 1: p and ten situations, you know, through to come back

560
00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:55,560
Speaker 1: to Nico, through the pod past Nico, and then the

561
00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:57,800
Speaker 1: play on third down near the sideline. You know, it's

562
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Speaker 1: kind of a circus catch. But I would say as

563
00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:03,200
Speaker 1: a quarterback, and you see this all throughout the course

564
00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:05,639
Speaker 1: of the league, um, you just want to give the

565
00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:07,960
Speaker 1: receiver an opportunity to make a play on the ball.

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00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:11,960
Speaker 1: And depending on how the corner is positioned and the

567
00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:14,199
Speaker 1: technique that he's using, it's one or two things that's

568
00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:17,760
Speaker 1: probably gonna happen. Your guy's gonna catch it, or there's

569
00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:20,200
Speaker 1: going to be a penalty, or something's gonna happen unless

570
00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:22,760
Speaker 1: the receive the defensive back is kind of in phase

571
00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:25,560
Speaker 1: and he's able to turn his head back and find

572
00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:28,480
Speaker 1: the ball, which some are more skilled, more equipped to

573
00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:31,360
Speaker 1: do that than others. So I would say the passing

574
00:27:31,359 --> 00:27:34,359
Speaker 1: games had its moments. Um certainly can do a better job,

575
00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:36,399
Speaker 1: you know in that area, and just trying to continue

576
00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:39,840
Speaker 1: to find ways to maybe create some chunk opportunities which

577
00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:42,240
Speaker 1: help shortened drives and move the ball down the field

578
00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:44,840
Speaker 1: with less place. Nick Mark and I had this conversation

579
00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:47,240
Speaker 1: heavy to do with Damien, and it's it's about what

580
00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:50,679
Speaker 1: Damien's doing, but it's it's a bigger conversation, and that

581
00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:54,120
Speaker 1: is with Margaret's talking about with Damien, like, Oh he's

582
00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:56,240
Speaker 1: t well, No he's not. Oh he's tackled. Oh he's not.

583
00:27:56,359 --> 00:27:59,119
Speaker 1: He's keeping fighting through these tackles. As a player on

584
00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:01,000
Speaker 1: the field, when you have a running back like that,

585
00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:03,760
Speaker 1: you know he has a propensity to break tackles like that.

586
00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:07,320
Speaker 1: You have to adapt as a player, knowing, hey, look

587
00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:09,199
Speaker 1: I can't just stand this block two three seconds. I

588
00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:10,600
Speaker 1: gotta be on this thing all the way because he

589
00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:13,879
Speaker 1: might break this thing. Sort of like when in New

590
00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:17,080
Speaker 1: England when you got Moss, when Randy's running rights down

591
00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:20,080
Speaker 1: the field, how long did it take for Tom to understand, Okay,

592
00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:22,359
Speaker 1: he doesn't look like he's open, but it's Randy Moss,

593
00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:23,920
Speaker 1: so he's actually open. How long does it kind of

594
00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:26,719
Speaker 1: take for other players to adjust When you have a

595
00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:28,920
Speaker 1: player like that that does some things they're different than

596
00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:30,800
Speaker 1: what you're used to I think the more you play

597
00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:33,000
Speaker 1: with somebody, you sort of learn to understand some of

598
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:36,320
Speaker 1: the nuances associated with that particular player. So I would

599
00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:39,800
Speaker 1: say your goal offensively if the ball, if it's a

600
00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:41,720
Speaker 1: running player or a passing play, is to finish. So

601
00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:43,920
Speaker 1: the emphasis should be unfinished in the play. So if

602
00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:45,720
Speaker 1: you have to block the run for us, you have

603
00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:47,800
Speaker 1: to block them down safety block him as long as

604
00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:49,200
Speaker 1: you to block him right, and you have to be

605
00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:52,280
Speaker 1: I would say, committed to doing that. So let's say

606
00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:57,000
Speaker 1: player like Moss, so you can't underestimate like his speed

607
00:28:57,280 --> 00:28:59,000
Speaker 1: or whatever it is, so you might have to adjust

608
00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:01,080
Speaker 1: the timing. So a lot of this is when you

609
00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:03,720
Speaker 1: play with somebody for a longer period of time, you

610
00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:05,719
Speaker 1: have better understanding the nuances and some of the things

611
00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:07,600
Speaker 1: that they're capable of doing as a player. And each

612
00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:10,200
Speaker 1: player is different. There's no one player that's the same.

613
00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:15,600
Speaker 1: So part of the education of your teammates is understanding

614
00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:18,800
Speaker 1: each other. So the offensive line, okay, that's the one

615
00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:22,040
Speaker 1: group those five guys have to work cohesively on each

616
00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:24,760
Speaker 1: play in order to have a successful place. So the communication,

617
00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:27,480
Speaker 1: so communication usual, he goes from inside out, so it

618
00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:29,080
Speaker 1: goes from the center to the guard, and you got

619
00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:31,239
Speaker 1: from the guard to the tackle, So that communication from

620
00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:32,720
Speaker 1: the guard of the tackle, then the tackle to the

621
00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:35,320
Speaker 1: tight end if it's a run play. So you're relying

622
00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:37,840
Speaker 1: on a guy next to you and understanding, all right,

623
00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:39,880
Speaker 1: here's kind of how he operates. Here's some of the

624
00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:42,600
Speaker 1: things that he does. Well, maybe you have to adjust

625
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:45,320
Speaker 1: or modify something on your end, but that's part of

626
00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:47,680
Speaker 1: learning each other and that's part of understanding how to

627
00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:50,640
Speaker 1: play football with your teammates. So you were coaching when

628
00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:53,320
Speaker 1: Randy was there, So what does it like to coach

629
00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:56,760
Speaker 1: coach to coach a player who's so good? His name

630
00:29:56,840 --> 00:29:59,960
Speaker 1: is also a verb. Players make coaches coaches don't make play,

631
00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:05,320
Speaker 1: But you're there to guide. And he's a really intelligent

632
00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:09,600
Speaker 1: guy too. Yeah, yes, I have a great Moss anecdote

633
00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:14,040
Speaker 1: and the story. So we we knew he was going

634
00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:16,280
Speaker 1: to help our team once we got through the spring

635
00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:18,520
Speaker 1: and you know, started training camp. So I want to

636
00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:20,160
Speaker 1: say it was a first or second day of training camp,

637
00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:22,800
Speaker 1: runs a post route and he kind of pulls up

638
00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:25,520
Speaker 1: with a little bit of a hamstring issue. So I mean,

639
00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:28,680
Speaker 1: we're literally two days into training camp, so we don't

640
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Speaker 1: see him until the opener against the Jets, so he

641
00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:34,440
Speaker 1: literally he's a couple of days of training camp and

642
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Speaker 1: then until we played the Jets, We're like, all right,

643
00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:37,840
Speaker 1: I'm not really sure how this is going to go.

644
00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:39,960
Speaker 1: So that was kind of fruit we had. You know,

645
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Speaker 1: had Randy, we had Dante Stallwarthy at Gaffney l Welker,

646
00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:44,040
Speaker 1: so we were going to be more of an eleven

647
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Speaker 1: personnel team. You know, Moroney was back, so like we

648
00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:50,479
Speaker 1: had a decent skill group. You know, Tommy was a quarterback.

649
00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:53,200
Speaker 1: So we get into I want to say, we were

650
00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:55,960
Speaker 1: in like thirteen personnel with Randy as a single receiver,

651
00:30:56,480 --> 00:30:59,520
Speaker 1: and we called a pistol route basically where Mosters runs

652
00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:02,280
Speaker 1: down the field and he can freaking pretty much go anywhere.

653
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:05,560
Speaker 1: We hadn't run this played before at all, so put

654
00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:07,600
Speaker 1: Moss on the field. They kind of played it the

655
00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:09,040
Speaker 1: way that we thought we were going to play it.

656
00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:11,920
Speaker 1: And you know, Randy gets going and you know tom

657
00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:15,080
Speaker 1: just like launches the ball down the field and we

658
00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:16,760
Speaker 1: score a touchdown. We all kind of look at each

659
00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:20,720
Speaker 1: other like, oh god, you know, so it worked. Um, yeah,

660
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:24,400
Speaker 1: Randy's is a skilled a receiver. Um, it's probably his

661
00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:27,600
Speaker 1: reason you know, the history NFL very unique what he provided.

662
00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:31,800
Speaker 1: So but each player again has their own strengths as

663
00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:33,800
Speaker 1: real weaknesses, and you just have to figure out how

664
00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:36,200
Speaker 1: to play with that player, and you know, how you

665
00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:39,080
Speaker 1: help each other ultimately is the most important thing. Nick

666
00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:40,680
Speaker 1: after the game. I don't know if you guys, I'm

667
00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:43,400
Speaker 1: sure you guys get this that I'm holding my hands.

668
00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:45,600
Speaker 1: This is the game book Omar hands us to the

669
00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:47,600
Speaker 1: gives these to us, and we obviously look back in

670
00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:50,120
Speaker 1: the things. It's so much of stats and stuff. And

671
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:53,440
Speaker 1: you know, they say stats are for you know, nerds

672
00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:55,400
Speaker 1: and losers, but I don't think that's quite the case.

673
00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:57,160
Speaker 1: But when you grab this and when you get this

674
00:31:57,320 --> 00:31:59,400
Speaker 1: game book, what's the first thing that you look at

675
00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:01,800
Speaker 1: after the game? What's the first stat you want to

676
00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:04,000
Speaker 1: see after the game? I'll add one on top of that.

677
00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:06,080
Speaker 1: Let's say you're looking at an old game that you

678
00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:09,200
Speaker 1: didn't really you don't remember or you didn't see, like

679
00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:11,960
Speaker 1: something from the nineties, and at nineteen ninety six the

680
00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:14,720
Speaker 1: Broncos played Whoever, and I want to see what happened.

681
00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:16,800
Speaker 1: What would be the first thing you'd look at besides

682
00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:20,480
Speaker 1: the score? Yeah, everybody has a different process of what

683
00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:22,720
Speaker 1: they go through, and it's kind of their their postgame

684
00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:27,960
Speaker 1: preparation or evaluation. So really I'll look at the situational elements,

685
00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:31,680
Speaker 1: just kind of third down, red area, turnovers and penalties, Okay,

686
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:33,840
Speaker 1: what happened in those situations, and then you kind of

687
00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:36,720
Speaker 1: fill in some of the other information and then let's

688
00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:38,440
Speaker 1: say feel position is a big part of it. So

689
00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:41,520
Speaker 1: drive start, you know, factors in So do we have

690
00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:44,880
Speaker 1: control of the game, do we you know, the drive

691
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:48,600
Speaker 1: start situation, how did that stack up? Not the transition

692
00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:50,000
Speaker 1: to the kicking game a little bit, but when you

693
00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:51,160
Speaker 1: kind of look at some of the things that we've

694
00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:53,920
Speaker 1: done in the kicking game, So our opponents drive start

695
00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:55,720
Speaker 1: or you know, we're top of the league in terms

696
00:32:55,760 --> 00:33:01,120
Speaker 1: of the opponent us covering the kickoff like we've you know,

697
00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:02,880
Speaker 1: our kickoff team has done a you know, done a

698
00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:06,040
Speaker 1: great job. And it's been i'd say a number of

699
00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:08,320
Speaker 1: different players. I'd say the last couple of weeks, JRM

700
00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:10,320
Speaker 1: is shown up. I'd say MJ has been as consistent

701
00:33:10,360 --> 00:33:12,000
Speaker 1: as any special things player in the league. Has done

702
00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:14,360
Speaker 1: a great job for us as a personal protector um

703
00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:16,560
Speaker 1: and I'd say, you know, Agnew is a really good

704
00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:18,720
Speaker 1: returner and he's hard to tackle in the game space

705
00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:20,280
Speaker 1: on the first one, and you know they got the

706
00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:21,800
Speaker 1: block in the back on that. But then we had

707
00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:23,840
Speaker 1: a couple of tackles inside the twenty. So anytime you

708
00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:27,080
Speaker 1: can spce the offense to start inside the twenty, that's

709
00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:29,000
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a good thing. So I'd say our

710
00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:32,719
Speaker 1: coverage has been probably one of our strengths. Going back

711
00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:35,080
Speaker 1: to your question, like drive start, there's a big part

712
00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:37,720
Speaker 1: of it, and then some of the situational elements. How

713
00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:40,080
Speaker 1: do we handle those because ultimately those are probably going

714
00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:42,280
Speaker 1: to be a big part in winning or losing the game.

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00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:45,120
Speaker 1: All Right, so it's bye week. What are you going

716
00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:48,520
Speaker 1: to do other than watch film and study college players?

717
00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:50,960
Speaker 1: In that kind of you What do you got, Nick?

718
00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:52,680
Speaker 1: What do you have on the agenda for the buyer?

719
00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:56,000
Speaker 1: Watch more film, watch our next two or three opponents? UM,

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00:33:56,320 --> 00:33:59,040
Speaker 1: I think it's important for us to kind of understand

721
00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:01,400
Speaker 1: our team and what are some of the things that

722
00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:03,160
Speaker 1: we're doing well, where are some of the areas that

723
00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:06,520
Speaker 1: we can identify and try to make some incremental improvements.

724
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:09,120
Speaker 1: And then if we may make some incremental improvements, maybe

725
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:11,520
Speaker 1: you can help the overall performance. So I think, really,

726
00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:15,000
Speaker 1: like anything, just staying true to your process, stay consistent,

727
00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:18,120
Speaker 1: try to stay on schedule. We talked about this last

728
00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:20,799
Speaker 1: week a little bit, so the next opponents or kind

729
00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:22,799
Speaker 1: of have played each other here a little bit, right,

730
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:26,239
Speaker 1: So Tennessee played Washington, so we're gonna play both teams

731
00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:28,200
Speaker 1: here over the next you know, four to six weeks,

732
00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:30,120
Speaker 1: so being able to go through that game here a

733
00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:32,040
Speaker 1: little bit. So we obviously had the Vegas game from

734
00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:34,719
Speaker 1: last night in Kansas City, but we've seen them multiple times,

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00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:36,560
Speaker 1: so I'll play against the Chargers, so we've seen them,

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00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:38,919
Speaker 1: so we're gonna work on our preparation for Vegas. I'd

737
00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:42,000
Speaker 1: say Philly's kind of a newer team or newer opponent

738
00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:45,400
Speaker 1: NFC East, so you'll probably maybe have to spend a

739
00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:47,080
Speaker 1: little more time on them. And I mean they're one

740
00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:48,839
Speaker 1: of the best teams in the league and undefeated team

741
00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:50,840
Speaker 1: in the league. So i'd say he's next three to

742
00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:53,080
Speaker 1: four weeks, you know, certainly going to present some challenges,

743
00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:55,239
Speaker 1: So just trying to stay ahead in the preparation and

744
00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:57,880
Speaker 1: then mix in some of the I would say college

745
00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:01,080
Speaker 1: work probably been to and full of games this year,

746
00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:05,400
Speaker 1: seeing some teams live, you know, watch some some players

747
00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:07,920
Speaker 1: in the office had some information come in relative to

748
00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:10,359
Speaker 1: player evaluations from our scouts. So just try to keep

749
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:11,920
Speaker 1: the ball moving forward here a little bit and not

750
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:14,759
Speaker 1: fall behind your preparation. Next week, will we are a

751
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:17,080
Speaker 1: thousand foot view of the Raiders, but I feel like

752
00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:19,280
Speaker 1: you could talk about all thirty two teams in detail.

753
00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:21,359
Speaker 1: Thirty thousand foot view of the Raiders. I know you've

754
00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:24,439
Speaker 1: seen them. Thoughts about facing them in a couple of weeks, Yeah,

755
00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:27,200
Speaker 1: I mean a lot of respect and admiration for I'd

756
00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:29,640
Speaker 1: say a lot of people in that building, in that program.

757
00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:32,200
Speaker 1: I mean, arguably, you know, two of my closest friends

758
00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:35,440
Speaker 1: probably in the league are basically running, you know, running

759
00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:38,200
Speaker 1: a team. And they've got a lot of good people,

760
00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:41,520
Speaker 1: a lot of good coaches, and they're a talented team.

761
00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:43,759
Speaker 1: So I mean they're one and four. I think their

762
00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:47,000
Speaker 1: four losses have been six points or less, so some respects.

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00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:48,960
Speaker 1: I mean, some of their games have been similar to ours.

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00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:52,000
Speaker 1: I mean, so last night comes down to fourth and one,

765
00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:54,200
Speaker 1: you know, and it's a one point game, comes down

766
00:35:54,239 --> 00:35:57,279
Speaker 1: to two point conversion against Tennessee. Did a Chargers games

767
00:35:57,280 --> 00:35:59,400
Speaker 1: probably one game you know, kind of got away from

768
00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:00,880
Speaker 1: them a little bit, and then they were able to

769
00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:03,480
Speaker 1: make up some ground there early. And you know the

770
00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:06,040
Speaker 1: Arizona game, I mean, Murray basically ran around like a

771
00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:09,520
Speaker 1: video game and converted a fourth down and then converted

772
00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:12,160
Speaker 1: a two point conversion from outside of where you normally

773
00:36:12,239 --> 00:36:14,839
Speaker 1: convert the two point conversion. So but I mean, they're

774
00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:17,759
Speaker 1: very talented offensively, a lot of good skill players. I

775
00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:20,160
Speaker 1: mean Crosby, I mean is a menace. Like I think

776
00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:21,839
Speaker 1: that's the best way to describe this Guy's a great

777
00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:24,960
Speaker 1: football player. His story is incredible as well, kind of

778
00:36:25,040 --> 00:36:28,279
Speaker 1: what he's had to deal with and the way he's persevered.

779
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:30,680
Speaker 1: But I mean just a lot of respect and appreciation

780
00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:33,960
Speaker 1: admiration for the people in that building. Um. You know,

781
00:36:33,960 --> 00:36:36,200
Speaker 1: I think they're in good hands. And you know, it's

782
00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:38,480
Speaker 1: a big challenge each week, um, and so we're gonna

783
00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:40,319
Speaker 1: have to prepare ourselves for the challenges that we face

784
00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:42,680
Speaker 1: with their team and with their players. Well. I threw

785
00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:44,959
Speaker 1: passes with Derek Carr when he was in sixth grade

786
00:36:45,040 --> 00:36:48,080
Speaker 1: here on these fields, so you need to scout. I

787
00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:51,600
Speaker 1: knew sixth grade Derek Carr. I'm your guy. I know

788
00:36:51,719 --> 00:36:53,439
Speaker 1: all about it and make a good place to start.

789
00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:55,560
Speaker 1: And uh, one more thing. We do a segment every

790
00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:58,080
Speaker 1: week called more likely to Happen, So more likely to

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00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:01,320
Speaker 1: happen You watching a family move movie with the girls

792
00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:04,160
Speaker 1: or sneaking off and watching a college game in your

793
00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:07,880
Speaker 1: man cave. Oh, that's that's not fair. I don't have

794
00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:10,600
Speaker 1: a man cave. And we have a very open floor plan,

795
00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:14,279
Speaker 1: so the way the office is situated, it's open. So

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00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:16,759
Speaker 1: it's if I'm with everybody, even if I'm in my

797
00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:20,759
Speaker 1: watching the game, So do it so I'm involved. Yeah,

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00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:23,719
Speaker 1: not a big family movie guy. So whatever Charlie wants

799
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:26,360
Speaker 1: to put on the television where we have like different

800
00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:30,560
Speaker 1: viewing appetites, so but whatever she wants, she gets. So

801
00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:33,400
Speaker 1: that's my responsibility being dad. All right, Nick, have a

802
00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:35,960
Speaker 1: great bye week. Thanks a lot. Thanks guys. Oh he's great.

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00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:38,719
Speaker 1: When the general manager, Nick Sarrio steps into studio, we'd

804
00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:41,680
Speaker 1: love getting an opportunity to chat with him weekly right

805
00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:46,080
Speaker 1: here on Texas Radio each and every Wednesday. All right,

806
00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:47,439
Speaker 1: we get back. We got a little bit of news.

807
00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:50,080
Speaker 1: Nick made a couple of moves today, so we'll talk

808
00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:54,480
Speaker 1: about those right here on Texas All Access. Next. Welcome

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00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:56,759
Speaker 1: you back to Wednesday, NITIU of Texas All Access. I'm

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00:37:56,880 --> 00:38:01,360
Speaker 1: John John Harris Football on All Sideline, Porter and Supper

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Speaker 1: Little Texans news if you will. Texans even a bye week,

812
00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:13,600
Speaker 1: Texans making some transaction news. And I actually loved seeing

813
00:38:14,160 --> 00:38:17,640
Speaker 1: this news because it included someone we've been talking about

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00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:20,960
Speaker 1: for a while. When Jordan Nakins came back to the Texans.

815
00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:25,360
Speaker 1: He came back to the practice squad week one teaging

816
00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:28,680
Speaker 1: Equatoriano was banged up. Trying to think if anybody else

817
00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:30,319
Speaker 1: was banged up at that point. The Farrell Brown had

818
00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:32,960
Speaker 1: kind of been banged up at that point, and so

819
00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:35,759
Speaker 1: the tight ends needed a little bit of boost. So

820
00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:37,960
Speaker 1: they had Mason Shrek. They kept him on the practice squad,

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00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:40,359
Speaker 1: but then he also added Jordan Nakins, who had spent

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00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:44,000
Speaker 1: eighteen through twenty one so those four seasons with the Texans.

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00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:47,440
Speaker 1: Texas invited him back, he accepted, came back on the

824
00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:52,799
Speaker 1: practice squad, got in the ballgame in Chicago, first time

825
00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:54,960
Speaker 1: he had been up. Ivan Jordan been banged up, didn't

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Speaker 1: play in that game yet farall yet oj Oj made

827
00:38:57,440 --> 00:38:59,759
Speaker 1: a couple of catches in the first game, so that

828
00:38:59,880 --> 00:39:04,080
Speaker 1: was great addition. So it gets on the field, touchdown catch,

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00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:08,480
Speaker 1: second quarter, first down catch a little later, three catches,

830
00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:12,320
Speaker 1: thirty one yards and a touchdown. Like, man, he just

831
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:14,359
Speaker 1: picked up right where he I don't want to say

832
00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:16,359
Speaker 1: where he left off, because at the end of twenty

833
00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:18,360
Speaker 1: twenty one he's kind of forgotten. Man. I hated that

834
00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:20,640
Speaker 1: because he had always been reliable. You know, I've been

835
00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:23,680
Speaker 1: a guy that you could get the ball too, a

836
00:39:23,719 --> 00:39:28,080
Speaker 1: lotted from ways quarterbacks relied on him. Well, today Jordan

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00:39:28,120 --> 00:39:30,239
Speaker 1: Nakins goes from the practice squad to the active roster

838
00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:34,680
Speaker 1: and man, I just I'm so thrilled. I'm so thrilled.

839
00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:39,319
Speaker 1: And if you look back at what the tight end

840
00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:44,640
Speaker 1: room looked like back during training camp, Parall Brown has

841
00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:49,839
Speaker 1: been waived. You had Brevin Jordan who has been banged up,

842
00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:53,360
Speaker 1: so hopefully we get Brev back before we go to

843
00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:55,359
Speaker 1: his hometown to Las Vegas where he grew up, went

844
00:39:55,360 --> 00:39:58,640
Speaker 1: to Bishop Gorman High School. And it was those two

845
00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:02,480
Speaker 1: a long with Mason Shrek was in training camp. You

846
00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:05,520
Speaker 1: had Seth Green, who was in training camp, a rookie

847
00:40:05,640 --> 00:40:09,560
Speaker 1: from University Houston, trying to think if there's anybody I'm missing,

848
00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:10,960
Speaker 1: And then he had Teagan who was kind of in

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00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:14,279
Speaker 1: and out a training camp. Well, since then, Farrell Brown

850
00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:16,600
Speaker 1: has been waived, Brevin Jordan has been banged up. So

851
00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:19,680
Speaker 1: they brought in Oj Howard two touchdowns first game, Benny

852
00:40:19,760 --> 00:40:22,520
Speaker 1: Struman on the run blocking, and also the past game

853
00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:25,040
Speaker 1: since Jordan Nakins they brought to the practice squad. He

854
00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:28,319
Speaker 1: stepped up. Now he's to the active roster. So you've

855
00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:32,160
Speaker 1: got OJ, You've got Jordan Naikins, You've got Brevin Jordan.

856
00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:35,480
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say right now, that's as good at tight

857
00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:37,279
Speaker 1: end group as they've had in a while. So got

858
00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:39,279
Speaker 1: Mason Shrek there. He adds to that group. And then

859
00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:41,359
Speaker 1: when Teagan's ready to go, and I don't know when

860
00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:43,200
Speaker 1: Tiaguan's gonna be ready to go, but then you throw

861
00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:45,120
Speaker 1: Teak into the mix. Now you got that y in

862
00:40:45,160 --> 00:40:47,520
Speaker 1: line blocker. Plus he had a touchdown catch, he gets

863
00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:48,719
Speaker 1: the ramps, so he's got a little bit of that.

864
00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:50,640
Speaker 1: He's got that club in his bag if you will.

865
00:40:51,080 --> 00:40:54,720
Speaker 1: But the key to me was Jordan Nakins. You have OJ, Jordan,

866
00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:58,040
Speaker 1: Brev those three plus whatever you get from Tiguan, and

867
00:40:58,080 --> 00:41:00,120
Speaker 1: then you've always got Mason on practice squad who has

868
00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:01,239
Speaker 1: come up for a couple of games, has done a

869
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:03,040
Speaker 1: really nice job when he has been brought up. So

870
00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:08,160
Speaker 1: Jordan Nakins goes to the active roster. Congratulations. Now there's

871
00:41:08,160 --> 00:41:11,600
Speaker 1: gotta be some machinations at that point, practice squad roster

872
00:41:11,719 --> 00:41:18,160
Speaker 1: spot open. Texans added Micauld do Treadway from Minnesota, six

873
00:41:18,239 --> 00:41:20,839
Speaker 1: foot four, three hundred and eight pound rookie, twenty five

874
00:41:20,920 --> 00:41:24,000
Speaker 1: year old rookie from out of Minnesota, and you're going,

875
00:41:24,040 --> 00:41:27,480
Speaker 1: what wait, a second defensive lineman, defensive linement. They tight end, Well,

876
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:29,759
Speaker 1: he had Mason Shrek already there, and you got Brevit Jordan,

877
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:32,360
Speaker 1: you know, coming back. So you fill the spot with

878
00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:35,160
Speaker 1: the defensive lineman. Why, well, this is the bad news.

879
00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:40,440
Speaker 1: Michael twe four has been placed on the injured reserve list,

880
00:41:41,520 --> 00:41:44,920
Speaker 1: so he was on the active roster. So you had

881
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:49,400
Speaker 1: Thomas Booker already available there. So Booker's there. So Booker

882
00:41:49,640 --> 00:41:51,800
Speaker 1: probably steps right into at twemp fourth spot. But you

883
00:41:51,880 --> 00:41:55,080
Speaker 1: gotta have some depth behind it, especially in the practice squad.

884
00:41:55,280 --> 00:41:58,440
Speaker 1: So they go get Michael do Treadway from out of Minnesota,

885
00:41:58,719 --> 00:42:02,080
Speaker 1: played the big ten twem or unfortunately goes to the

886
00:42:02,239 --> 00:42:04,840
Speaker 1: injured list. Hate that for big Mike God does some

887
00:42:04,960 --> 00:42:07,279
Speaker 1: good things on the inside, and we'd love to see

888
00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:09,759
Speaker 1: him back on the field, hopefully sooner than later. But

889
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:12,000
Speaker 1: D one four goes to the injured list, might could do.

890
00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:15,320
Speaker 1: Treadway goes to the practice squad, and Jordan Nakins the

891
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:19,200
Speaker 1: big News goes to the active roster from the practice squad.

892
00:42:19,560 --> 00:42:22,320
Speaker 1: Really excited for Ake and hopefully he'll continue to produce

893
00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:24,799
Speaker 1: as he has thus far. All right, we get back.

894
00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:26,960
Speaker 1: We're gonna go a little where are they now with

895
00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:29,480
Speaker 1: no Men behind the Mice because there's no game, So

896
00:42:29,560 --> 00:42:32,359
Speaker 1: Ambia Koye's gonna step in with Drew Doherty. That's next

897
00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:36,160
Speaker 1: on Texans All Access. Welcome you back to the second

898
00:42:36,200 --> 00:42:39,000
Speaker 1: hour of Texans All Access on a wonderful Wednesday evening

899
00:42:39,120 --> 00:42:41,600
Speaker 1: right here in h Town. So glad to be with you.

900
00:42:41,680 --> 00:42:43,800
Speaker 1: I'm John Harris Football, I know a sideline reporter for

901
00:42:43,880 --> 00:42:47,680
Speaker 1: your Houston Texas Now I would normally right here play

902
00:42:48,320 --> 00:42:50,719
Speaker 1: a wonderful interview that we call Men behind the Mikes

903
00:42:50,719 --> 00:42:52,719
Speaker 1: where Mark Vanimer sits down with the play by play

904
00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:54,759
Speaker 1: voice on the other side. So it's the voice, the

905
00:42:54,880 --> 00:42:57,040
Speaker 1: voice the men behind the Mikes. Last week it was

906
00:42:57,080 --> 00:43:00,239
Speaker 1: Frank Frangie, good friend of mine from Jacksonville alongside Mark

907
00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:03,160
Speaker 1: Vannamer This week, no game. So what do you do? Well,

908
00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:06,839
Speaker 1: you go to a little where are they now? Drew

909
00:43:06,920 --> 00:43:09,680
Speaker 1: Doherty steps in and had an opportunity to catch up

910
00:43:09,719 --> 00:43:13,080
Speaker 1: with a Mobia Koya, first round pick for the Texans

911
00:43:13,160 --> 00:43:14,680
Speaker 1: back in two thousand and seven. I don't know if

912
00:43:14,680 --> 00:43:16,920
Speaker 1: you knew this, but Amobi was nineteen when he was drafted.

913
00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:20,960
Speaker 1: I joke because the Mobi was a young guy, and

914
00:43:21,040 --> 00:43:24,400
Speaker 1: that was pretty much said by everybody how young he was.

915
00:43:24,600 --> 00:43:27,839
Speaker 1: Well he's a little older now, but still a young

916
00:43:27,960 --> 00:43:30,399
Speaker 1: man in obviously everybody's eyes as well. I think he's

917
00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:34,640
Speaker 1: thirty four now. My goodness, time has flown by. But

918
00:43:34,800 --> 00:43:37,200
Speaker 1: where is Ambi? Now? What's he doing? Now? Well that's

919
00:43:37,239 --> 00:43:39,400
Speaker 1: what we have Where are they now? With Drew Doherty?

920
00:43:39,480 --> 00:43:41,239
Speaker 1: Drew take it away? All right? Well this is a

921
00:43:41,320 --> 00:43:45,800
Speaker 1: fun one because we've got former Texans defensive linemen a Moobi,

922
00:43:45,920 --> 00:43:49,319
Speaker 1: a Koya. It's where are they now? A Moby? It's

923
00:43:49,360 --> 00:43:51,239
Speaker 1: good to see my friend. What's going on? Man? Where

924
00:43:51,280 --> 00:43:54,040
Speaker 1: are you these days? And what are you doing? What's

925
00:43:54,120 --> 00:43:58,279
Speaker 1: going on? Drew Man? I'm good man, I'm good, old

926
00:43:58,360 --> 00:44:02,560
Speaker 1: Houston until everybody else. Like once I got drafted by

927
00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:04,920
Speaker 1: the Texas and I fell in love with this, with

928
00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:07,480
Speaker 1: this just town, the city, and I retired here. I

929
00:44:07,560 --> 00:44:10,920
Speaker 1: got a daughter here now, So I'm I'm I mean Katie,

930
00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:13,840
Speaker 1: but uh, I mean, but I'm you know, I'm a

931
00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:16,920
Speaker 1: texting for life. What do you what occupies your days? Well,

932
00:44:16,960 --> 00:44:19,600
Speaker 1: you got a job, you retire. What's the deal. What's

933
00:44:19,640 --> 00:44:24,279
Speaker 1: going on? Well? My daughter okay, okay, raising raising Huh.

934
00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:27,560
Speaker 1: I still have my nonprofit foundation, the Mobile Corey Foundation,

935
00:44:27,760 --> 00:44:29,960
Speaker 1: and uh it's not as active as it was while

936
00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:32,760
Speaker 1: I was a player, but we're still doing some things.

937
00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:35,120
Speaker 1: And um yeah, people want to find out more information

938
00:44:35,719 --> 00:44:38,920
Speaker 1: or Facebook or on Instagram, so can reach out to

939
00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:42,200
Speaker 1: me on those two and uh yeah, so just just

940
00:44:42,360 --> 00:44:46,520
Speaker 1: two for now. Man obviously stilling golf everything, texting and

941
00:44:46,719 --> 00:44:52,640
Speaker 1: so yeah you know that league, little league? Yeah, what sport?

942
00:44:52,719 --> 00:44:55,359
Speaker 1: What are you doing? Well? Football? A little football? Okay,

943
00:44:56,239 --> 00:45:00,359
Speaker 1: little football and uh yeah, buddy of mine, Andrew a dean,

944
00:45:00,440 --> 00:45:03,520
Speaker 1: he played at Katie High as well. He asked me

945
00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:06,440
Speaker 1: to join his uhs his team and help him out,

946
00:45:06,520 --> 00:45:08,960
Speaker 1: have him out. So that's been fun so far. So

947
00:45:09,080 --> 00:45:11,560
Speaker 1: what's that like? Because how old are these kids and

948
00:45:11,760 --> 00:45:14,960
Speaker 1: what exactly are you are you? I'm guessing your coach

949
00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:19,719
Speaker 1: help coach defense? What did he do? Okay, yeah yeah

950
00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:22,880
Speaker 1: yeah yeah yeah yeah. So it's fine, it's fun. Uh,

951
00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:25,360
Speaker 1: gotta have a lot of patience for sure, and h

952
00:45:26,040 --> 00:45:28,640
Speaker 1: but I enjoy it. Well, let's take us back down

953
00:45:28,719 --> 00:45:33,000
Speaker 1: memory lane. You're coming out of Louisville and what was

954
00:45:33,200 --> 00:45:35,920
Speaker 1: draft day like for you? Because the Texans take you,

955
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:38,480
Speaker 1: you know, the first round, you're their first pick. It's

956
00:45:38,480 --> 00:45:41,719
Speaker 1: the first pick of the Rick Smith as general manager era.

957
00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:45,399
Speaker 1: Where were you? How did you find out? What happened? Oh? Well,

958
00:45:45,480 --> 00:45:48,759
Speaker 1: I got invited to UM coming to New York, but

959
00:45:48,880 --> 00:45:51,320
Speaker 1: I decided I wanted to U stay at home and

960
00:45:51,680 --> 00:45:54,320
Speaker 1: do a family and France for that this time, I

961
00:45:54,400 --> 00:45:58,360
Speaker 1: was getting all kind of projections as far as UM Lena,

962
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:03,160
Speaker 1: a couple of visits places. The funny thing was the Texas.

963
00:46:03,320 --> 00:46:05,400
Speaker 1: I didn't take a visit to the Texas. There. They

964
00:46:05,520 --> 00:46:09,200
Speaker 1: interviewed me during the combine, but I had no idea

965
00:46:09,360 --> 00:46:12,879
Speaker 1: it was gonna pick. That's how crazy the drafts man like, Yeah, yeah,

966
00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:16,400
Speaker 1: the mock drafted the mock class for a reagent. But

967
00:46:16,520 --> 00:46:19,680
Speaker 1: you never knew, and so I was. I was thinking

968
00:46:19,880 --> 00:46:23,600
Speaker 1: at first, uh Tampa Bay because I had played UH

969
00:46:23,840 --> 00:46:26,560
Speaker 1: at the Senior Bowl and uh it was he had

970
00:46:26,640 --> 00:46:29,839
Speaker 1: coached UH who was the coach with the South team

971
00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:32,239
Speaker 1: day and I had performed real good. It did like

972
00:46:32,440 --> 00:46:35,880
Speaker 1: me to said available, I'm gonna take you. So um,

973
00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:38,640
Speaker 1: I was. I was shocked. And then Black Petrainer, who

974
00:46:38,719 --> 00:46:41,239
Speaker 1: was my coach and in college, it just got to

975
00:46:41,360 --> 00:46:44,600
Speaker 1: job in Atlanta. At the time, I thought he was

976
00:46:44,640 --> 00:46:47,719
Speaker 1: gonna take me at eight UM with at that time

977
00:46:47,800 --> 00:46:50,680
Speaker 1: the Atlanta and UH he staturally had switched picks because

978
00:46:50,680 --> 00:46:55,800
Speaker 1: that's how they got a shot shoe and uh. So

979
00:46:56,400 --> 00:46:59,120
Speaker 1: by the time eighth they came in Atlanta to take me,

980
00:46:59,239 --> 00:47:00,800
Speaker 1: I was like, I had no idea what I was

981
00:47:00,800 --> 00:47:03,480
Speaker 1: gonna go next. So when I got there, called a

982
00:47:03,640 --> 00:47:07,600
Speaker 1: three two call and uh rickuld Uh spoke to me

983
00:47:08,280 --> 00:47:09,680
Speaker 1: and I was just I was, I was, I was.

984
00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:11,799
Speaker 1: I was excited on the inside, but I didn't want

985
00:47:11,800 --> 00:47:14,239
Speaker 1: to show it an outside when it was I was,

986
00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:17,680
Speaker 1: I was. I was ecstatic, oh man, And from there

987
00:47:17,840 --> 00:47:21,080
Speaker 1: what happens. I mean, you get picked. Obviously, you celebrate

988
00:47:21,120 --> 00:47:23,000
Speaker 1: with the family and friends and all that stuff. But

989
00:47:23,080 --> 00:47:26,200
Speaker 1: then how soon before you're in Houston kind of not

990
00:47:26,560 --> 00:47:29,040
Speaker 1: for good, but you obviously visit the team and do

991
00:47:29,120 --> 00:47:31,360
Speaker 1: the press conference that next day, but then you go

992
00:47:31,480 --> 00:47:34,080
Speaker 1: back home after that. When did you come to town,

993
00:47:35,239 --> 00:47:37,640
Speaker 1: you know for rookie camp and setting things up and

994
00:47:37,719 --> 00:47:41,359
Speaker 1: what was that like for you? I think we only

995
00:47:41,400 --> 00:47:43,920
Speaker 1: got like a few weeks, a week or two, I

996
00:47:44,040 --> 00:47:45,759
Speaker 1: want to say, and then we had to come in

997
00:47:45,840 --> 00:47:49,400
Speaker 1: for a rookie mini camp and it was cool. It

998
00:47:49,480 --> 00:47:51,640
Speaker 1: was cool. It was still warm, and it was still

999
00:47:51,680 --> 00:47:53,800
Speaker 1: like you know, the weather was was was was was

1000
00:47:54,239 --> 00:47:56,600
Speaker 1: great during that time. It was the spring when I

1001
00:47:56,719 --> 00:47:58,759
Speaker 1: got when I got my welcome to Houston weather, it

1002
00:47:58,920 --> 00:48:01,960
Speaker 1: was training camp. Yeah, at first two I think I

1003
00:48:02,040 --> 00:48:04,320
Speaker 1: want to say, hey, rookie relcome to the NFL. Was

1004
00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:07,399
Speaker 1: actually recording me then, So that clicked is somewhere out there.

1005
00:48:07,800 --> 00:48:12,040
Speaker 1: But the first two of the practice, I think I

1006
00:48:12,160 --> 00:48:15,520
Speaker 1: lost like fifteen pounds that day. Oh my gosh. Yeah,

1007
00:48:15,960 --> 00:48:19,759
Speaker 1: So that was like my welcome to Houston humidity and

1008
00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:24,399
Speaker 1: I had to get an ib and everything. But uh yeah,

1009
00:48:24,520 --> 00:48:26,920
Speaker 1: used to it, yeah, used to it. Yeah, you do,

1010
00:48:27,160 --> 00:48:30,120
Speaker 1: or you get shipped out. So you go through that

1011
00:48:30,200 --> 00:48:32,120
Speaker 1: first training camp and then you kind of start with

1012
00:48:32,200 --> 00:48:34,759
Speaker 1: a bang. You've got three sacks within that first month.

1013
00:48:35,360 --> 00:48:37,880
Speaker 1: What was it like when you you finally hit the

1014
00:48:38,040 --> 00:48:41,200
Speaker 1: field for the first time and you're playing in NFL

1015
00:48:41,320 --> 00:48:44,520
Speaker 1: game action. You joke about that welcome to the NFL moment,

1016
00:48:44,600 --> 00:48:46,960
Speaker 1: being in training camp and being so hot. But what

1017
00:48:47,080 --> 00:48:50,319
Speaker 1: about on the field, what was your first yeah, I'm

1018
00:48:50,320 --> 00:48:53,439
Speaker 1: in the big leagues now type of moment. I want

1019
00:48:53,480 --> 00:48:57,479
Speaker 1: to say it was the very first you're the first

1020
00:48:57,520 --> 00:49:03,160
Speaker 1: OT as the first um mandatory OTAs the first training camp.

1021
00:49:03,239 --> 00:49:06,520
Speaker 1: One of those I noticed the speed change. Yeah, college

1022
00:49:07,239 --> 00:49:09,440
Speaker 1: to the pros um that was the very first thing

1023
00:49:09,480 --> 00:49:13,120
Speaker 1: I knows the speed of the game. Um, everybody is quicker, rights,

1024
00:49:13,120 --> 00:49:16,759
Speaker 1: fasten and the whole technique ordeal about it. So um

1025
00:49:16,920 --> 00:49:20,120
Speaker 1: yeah that that was probably the the first thing I

1026
00:49:20,280 --> 00:49:23,080
Speaker 1: know for sure I recognize as the speed of the game.

1027
00:49:23,400 --> 00:49:26,400
Speaker 1: And how different changed from high school of college and

1028
00:49:26,440 --> 00:49:30,040
Speaker 1: college to the NFL. Yeah, yeah, kind of off the

1029
00:49:30,360 --> 00:49:33,320
Speaker 1: subject of football, but how good was it that you

1030
00:49:33,360 --> 00:49:36,680
Speaker 1: were picked by Houston seeing as how the city of

1031
00:49:36,760 --> 00:49:41,239
Speaker 1: Houston there's there's a pretty sizable Nigerian population, and you

1032
00:49:41,320 --> 00:49:43,320
Speaker 1: know that that's your roots as far as your family

1033
00:49:43,360 --> 00:49:46,359
Speaker 1: and everything, right, How beneficial was that for you having

1034
00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:49,120
Speaker 1: some folks who knew a little bit about your background

1035
00:49:49,160 --> 00:49:51,959
Speaker 1: and could relate. Oh, it was, it was. It was huge.

1036
00:49:52,160 --> 00:49:56,640
Speaker 1: Um my dad actually um prior to him um having

1037
00:49:56,800 --> 00:50:00,200
Speaker 1: us a game bager avinesc when he u when he

1038
00:50:00,320 --> 00:50:02,600
Speaker 1: was when he was in the US, Houston was where

1039
00:50:02,680 --> 00:50:04,520
Speaker 1: he went to Tsu and the Prey of View. This

1040
00:50:04,600 --> 00:50:07,600
Speaker 1: is where he graduator before he went back in Nigeria,

1041
00:50:08,160 --> 00:50:12,440
Speaker 1: met my mom and had us. So when when the

1042
00:50:12,560 --> 00:50:14,600
Speaker 1: when when the call came in and the pig came in,

1043
00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:16,759
Speaker 1: he was the most ecstatic because he was like, I'm

1044
00:50:17,719 --> 00:50:21,560
Speaker 1: going back to you know, my roots. And for me,

1045
00:50:22,520 --> 00:50:25,520
Speaker 1: I was just in shock. And uh. But then as

1046
00:50:25,560 --> 00:50:28,000
Speaker 1: soon as I got here, Um, I had already I

1047
00:50:28,600 --> 00:50:32,520
Speaker 1: only visited Houston once on a family visit. This is like,

1048
00:50:32,760 --> 00:50:35,320
Speaker 1: uh while I was in college. And then when I

1049
00:50:35,400 --> 00:50:38,920
Speaker 1: got here, I just remembered the huge Africa and I

1050
00:50:39,080 --> 00:50:42,520
Speaker 1: especially Nigeria and uh presidence. I was like, okay, well

1051
00:50:42,600 --> 00:50:48,239
Speaker 1: this is I feel home. That's awesome. Yeah. So moving on,

1052
00:50:48,800 --> 00:50:50,920
Speaker 1: what was that first month of the regular season, like,

1053
00:50:51,080 --> 00:50:54,080
Speaker 1: for you take me through that. It was great because

1054
00:50:54,239 --> 00:50:58,640
Speaker 1: I had the rookie of the of the of the

1055
00:50:58,920 --> 00:51:01,520
Speaker 1: month old ward and the first game I didn't have

1056
00:51:01,560 --> 00:51:03,080
Speaker 1: any sack. In the first of the second game, I

1057
00:51:03,120 --> 00:51:05,719
Speaker 1: had two sacks, And it's that coming in and come

1058
00:51:05,760 --> 00:51:08,480
Speaker 1: in and then I hit a long and you just

1059
00:51:08,600 --> 00:51:12,080
Speaker 1: talk about the NFL man and you know, but um,

1060
00:51:12,760 --> 00:51:16,480
Speaker 1: but the very first month, first call of the first

1061
00:51:16,920 --> 00:51:20,960
Speaker 1: half of the first half of our rookie year was

1062
00:51:21,120 --> 00:51:26,960
Speaker 1: just splendid. Yeah. And then moving into you know, oh

1063
00:51:27,200 --> 00:51:30,360
Speaker 1: you get here at oh seven, Texans finish a five hundred.

1064
00:51:30,719 --> 00:51:33,120
Speaker 1: They do so the next year as well, oh nine,

1065
00:51:33,920 --> 00:51:36,520
Speaker 1: they go nine and seven. That was a real different

1066
00:51:36,600 --> 00:51:39,120
Speaker 1: year because you guys start out and you go into

1067
00:51:39,120 --> 00:51:42,360
Speaker 1: the by at five and three. Never been that successful

1068
00:51:42,400 --> 00:51:44,200
Speaker 1: going into a bye or at a midway point of

1069
00:51:44,239 --> 00:51:46,439
Speaker 1: the season, come out of the by and you guys

1070
00:51:46,680 --> 00:51:49,520
Speaker 1: lose four in a row to go under five hundred

1071
00:51:49,560 --> 00:51:51,799
Speaker 1: by two games, and then you've closed out with four

1072
00:51:51,880 --> 00:51:54,279
Speaker 1: straight wins and you win that game on the last

1073
00:51:54,320 --> 00:51:57,040
Speaker 1: game of the season against the Patriots, And if some

1074
00:51:57,160 --> 00:51:59,200
Speaker 1: things had fallen the right way and some other games

1075
00:51:59,239 --> 00:52:01,880
Speaker 1: around the NFL, Texans would have been in the playoffs.

1076
00:52:02,040 --> 00:52:03,799
Speaker 1: What was it like being a part of that kind

1077
00:52:03,800 --> 00:52:07,360
Speaker 1: of like flipping the script turning the table. It was.

1078
00:52:07,880 --> 00:52:10,920
Speaker 1: It was an emotional role customer show for sure, because

1079
00:52:11,600 --> 00:52:14,279
Speaker 1: you know we we we felt good. We feel like,

1080
00:52:14,400 --> 00:52:16,840
Speaker 1: you know, we were making him some some some leadway in.

1081
00:52:17,680 --> 00:52:19,600
Speaker 1: It just tells you about the NFL man and it

1082
00:52:19,640 --> 00:52:21,960
Speaker 1: gives Sunday you gott you know, you gotta bring it

1083
00:52:22,080 --> 00:52:24,280
Speaker 1: all and uh and that's then about the pro sports,

1084
00:52:24,840 --> 00:52:29,719
Speaker 1: especially in football. So yeah, it was. It was promising.

1085
00:52:29,760 --> 00:52:33,239
Speaker 1: It was definitely promising. But the turnout wasn't what we wanted.

1086
00:52:33,400 --> 00:52:35,680
Speaker 1: But I know, I know for a fact we gave it.

1087
00:52:35,840 --> 00:52:38,840
Speaker 1: We gave it a lot like Kubiak, definitely he coached

1088
00:52:38,880 --> 00:52:41,759
Speaker 1: as well. Yeah, definitely as well. Yeah, what are your

1089
00:52:41,800 --> 00:52:45,000
Speaker 1: memories of him? Uh? Hands down him? I love you.

1090
00:52:45,120 --> 00:52:47,040
Speaker 1: The best two head coaches I had in my as

1091
00:52:47,360 --> 00:52:52,200
Speaker 1: my my uh my playing career. Um, no doubt he. Uh.

1092
00:52:52,760 --> 00:52:54,799
Speaker 1: What I liked about both of them is they they

1093
00:52:54,960 --> 00:52:59,919
Speaker 1: treated you as as a man first and play a second. Yeah. Yeah,

1094
00:53:00,120 --> 00:53:02,759
Speaker 1: remind folks about your Lovey Smith connection. We knew about

1095
00:53:02,760 --> 00:53:05,399
Speaker 1: the Kubiak connection. Use your head coach here, But after

1096
00:53:05,480 --> 00:53:07,560
Speaker 1: you leave the Texans, what was it like you played

1097
00:53:07,560 --> 00:53:10,719
Speaker 1: for love Smith for a little bit more? Were the circumstances. Yeah,

1098
00:53:10,840 --> 00:53:12,960
Speaker 1: so uh yeah, I played, I was. I was in

1099
00:53:13,040 --> 00:53:15,680
Speaker 1: Chicago with the Love You in twenty eleven and twenty twelve.

1100
00:53:16,200 --> 00:53:19,680
Speaker 1: So it was just uh going from an offensive minded

1101
00:53:19,800 --> 00:53:23,440
Speaker 1: head coach to a defensive minded head coach. But they,

1102
00:53:23,680 --> 00:53:26,960
Speaker 1: like I said, they both did you you know, as

1103
00:53:27,000 --> 00:53:30,719
Speaker 1: a man first then a player and uh them they

1104
00:53:30,800 --> 00:53:33,080
Speaker 1: did they did you respect. That's what That's what I

1105
00:53:33,160 --> 00:53:36,239
Speaker 1: really liked about about both of them. Yeah. Who do

1106
00:53:36,280 --> 00:53:39,359
Speaker 1: you keep in touch with Texans wise from your your

1107
00:53:39,400 --> 00:53:44,640
Speaker 1: playing days? Um? Antonio Smith for sure? All right? Right yeah,

1108
00:53:45,440 --> 00:53:47,920
Speaker 1: uh uh Demiko until he got the you know, the

1109
00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:50,440
Speaker 1: the defensive coaching dad job national it's hard to get

1110
00:53:50,520 --> 00:53:53,640
Speaker 1: hold of. Yeah, he's coaching all the time. Yeah exactly.

1111
00:53:54,080 --> 00:53:59,279
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, Jacobi actually just saw him. He's coaching as

1112
00:53:59,320 --> 00:54:02,479
Speaker 1: well now too with the mistake and then they played

1113
00:54:02,480 --> 00:54:08,600
Speaker 1: at t out of him. Uh Zack dows uh case

1114
00:54:08,600 --> 00:54:13,040
Speaker 1: he stuttered, Um, just about all the guys still keep well.

1115
00:54:13,040 --> 00:54:17,600
Speaker 1: Of course were through the the uh nflo Legends group

1116
00:54:21,080 --> 00:54:23,440
Speaker 1: that way Chester. I tell him, you know, when is

1117
00:54:23,440 --> 00:54:27,839
Speaker 1: he gonna run from me? Because I know you're reading

1118
00:54:27,920 --> 00:54:29,960
Speaker 1: my mind, because I was gonna say, well, he knows

1119
00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:34,920
Speaker 1: just about everybody doesn't. He yeah, just just you know,

1120
00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:39,120
Speaker 1: we we practiced against each other a lot. Start out attack,

1121
00:54:39,320 --> 00:54:42,879
Speaker 1: so um, defuse attack on it. So yeah, man Chester,

1122
00:54:42,960 --> 00:54:47,319
Speaker 1: that's my guy. Man all right, he brought him up.

1123
00:54:47,360 --> 00:54:50,360
Speaker 1: So I gotta gotta ask you, what's your favorite Antonio

1124
00:54:50,480 --> 00:54:54,279
Speaker 1: Smith memory? Because that guy has a personality that is

1125
00:54:54,400 --> 00:54:56,560
Speaker 1: about as big as the state of Texas. I mean,

1126
00:54:56,640 --> 00:55:02,040
Speaker 1: that thing is enormous. His personality. Oh m would probably

1127
00:55:02,120 --> 00:55:04,440
Speaker 1: just be his his first couple of days when he

1128
00:55:04,520 --> 00:55:07,600
Speaker 1: came to us, um, you know, Arizona and just kind

1129
00:55:07,600 --> 00:55:09,880
Speaker 1: of left that. I think they just they just lost

1130
00:55:09,960 --> 00:55:14,200
Speaker 1: the um the Steelers in the Super Bowl, the stealing bow.

1131
00:55:14,320 --> 00:55:18,040
Speaker 1: So he just brought that that that that dog mentality

1132
00:55:18,160 --> 00:55:19,880
Speaker 1: of of wanting to go out there and I know

1133
00:55:20,000 --> 00:55:23,440
Speaker 1: he experienced it just recently so that that that really

1134
00:55:23,480 --> 00:55:25,560
Speaker 1: helped out in the locking room for show and then

1135
00:55:25,680 --> 00:55:28,520
Speaker 1: he was He's just a loose guy, you know. When

1136
00:55:28,560 --> 00:55:30,120
Speaker 1: it was time to work, it was time to working.

1137
00:55:30,160 --> 00:55:31,560
Speaker 1: When he was signed to play, it was time to play.

1138
00:55:32,440 --> 00:55:46,000
Speaker 1: What's your favorite Texans memory overall? O, man, I want

1139
00:55:46,000 --> 00:55:54,520
Speaker 1: to say, uh, the Monday night game probably oh oh oh,

1140
00:55:54,600 --> 00:55:59,080
Speaker 1: I definitely got one. What is it? Andre? And courting

1141
00:55:59,120 --> 00:56:02,400
Speaker 1: a Filicky, what was your vantage point? Take me through this,

1142
00:56:02,560 --> 00:56:05,960
Speaker 1: what happened? What you see? I was? I was. I

1143
00:56:06,040 --> 00:56:08,600
Speaker 1: was because he had kind of been knowing to be

1144
00:56:08,840 --> 00:56:12,160
Speaker 1: a brulant, like you know right, I mean, and and

1145
00:56:12,560 --> 00:56:15,360
Speaker 1: I just gave he reached the straight show because it

1146
00:56:15,480 --> 00:56:17,920
Speaker 1: takes a lot to reach the show. For that play today,

1147
00:56:18,160 --> 00:56:20,640
Speaker 1: we all know Andre, he's sure all this guy he

1148
00:56:20,719 --> 00:56:23,800
Speaker 1: could never ever bean. So once that came about, everybody

1149
00:56:23,840 --> 00:56:28,840
Speaker 1: dow was that okay, he had enough? I was. I

1150
00:56:28,920 --> 00:56:30,960
Speaker 1: was on the side. I was with the officers on

1151
00:56:31,120 --> 00:56:33,080
Speaker 1: day on the sideline and we could just sense he

1152
00:56:33,239 --> 00:56:38,320
Speaker 1: was coming and then interrupted and po I was like, hey, calling,

1153
00:56:38,360 --> 00:56:41,320
Speaker 1: you had to coming, fight you buddy. I mean that

1154
00:56:41,760 --> 00:56:45,800
Speaker 1: that is a special level of agitation because you you

1155
00:56:45,880 --> 00:56:48,839
Speaker 1: bring it up. But just Andre is the calmest guy,

1156
00:56:49,160 --> 00:56:52,120
Speaker 1: and how you could never see that happening, but that

1157
00:56:52,280 --> 00:56:54,960
Speaker 1: guy got it out of him. And it's it's remarkable.

1158
00:56:55,000 --> 00:56:56,960
Speaker 1: I mean, it's remarkable that you were able to not

1159
00:56:57,080 --> 00:57:01,200
Speaker 1: you that he was able to get him. So Rile, Yeah,

1160
00:57:01,560 --> 00:57:04,360
Speaker 1: like we're talking about the guy who I mean, I

1161
00:57:04,719 --> 00:57:07,120
Speaker 1: thought he talks more now, but like back then an

1162
00:57:07,360 --> 00:57:11,279
Speaker 1: then talk at all. So that it was like, who

1163
00:57:11,480 --> 00:57:16,320
Speaker 1: who is this? So that's your favorite memory has a Texan?

1164
00:57:16,640 --> 00:57:20,280
Speaker 1: And since you brought up Andre Johnson, why does Andre

1165
00:57:20,480 --> 00:57:23,080
Speaker 1: Johnson belong in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in

1166
00:57:23,240 --> 00:57:27,560
Speaker 1: your mind? I mean the the you know they say

1167
00:57:27,960 --> 00:57:31,040
Speaker 1: numbers don't lie, the numbers itself. Just it's just you know,

1168
00:57:31,080 --> 00:57:34,400
Speaker 1: what he's put out there. I let alone could tell her.

1169
00:57:34,480 --> 00:57:37,320
Speaker 1: But you know what he was able to do, you

1170
00:57:37,400 --> 00:57:40,680
Speaker 1: know with with you know, I'm telling we had a

1171
00:57:40,720 --> 00:57:44,800
Speaker 1: quarterback at Charlotte was quarterback. Yeah, So what he's able

1172
00:57:44,880 --> 00:57:50,040
Speaker 1: to do and it's it's just it's just remarkable. And

1173
00:57:50,160 --> 00:57:52,800
Speaker 1: I was shockling he didn't get in last year, but

1174
00:57:53,720 --> 00:57:56,640
Speaker 1: he better being this this next one. Amen, he better,

1175
00:57:56,960 --> 00:57:59,800
Speaker 1: he better, that's for sure. Well what's next for you? Man?

1176
00:58:00,080 --> 00:58:03,760
Speaker 1: What's what's the future hole for you? Mobi? Um, I'm

1177
00:58:03,960 --> 00:58:07,640
Speaker 1: I'm I'm definitely I'm thinking do more in the coaching

1178
00:58:07,680 --> 00:58:09,560
Speaker 1: now that you know I started doing the coaching with

1179
00:58:09,600 --> 00:58:12,560
Speaker 1: the kids. Uh there maybe some of them some media

1180
00:58:13,160 --> 00:58:15,120
Speaker 1: stuff as well, so I might be coming that longer.

1181
00:58:15,760 --> 00:58:18,640
Speaker 1: What you're in doing some more stuff man, So anything

1182
00:58:18,680 --> 00:58:22,720
Speaker 1: involving football, sit down, I still have the heart as

1183
00:58:22,760 --> 00:58:24,480
Speaker 1: far as what I was doing while I was um

1184
00:58:25,480 --> 00:58:30,400
Speaker 1: active poplarizing football in Africa and uh ocuman yours, he's

1185
00:58:30,440 --> 00:58:32,440
Speaker 1: been picked it up and doing a real job with

1186
00:58:32,560 --> 00:58:35,320
Speaker 1: that what he's doing, So might jump on board with

1187
00:58:35,400 --> 00:58:38,520
Speaker 1: damagement and with what they're doing and just anywhere I

1188
00:58:38,560 --> 00:58:41,840
Speaker 1: can be a part of growing the game globally. Um,

1189
00:58:42,440 --> 00:58:44,959
Speaker 1: of all the five major sports, American football is still

1190
00:58:45,600 --> 00:58:49,760
Speaker 1: you know, the fifth when it comes to global and

1191
00:58:50,120 --> 00:58:54,480
Speaker 1: it just overall everything. So let's uh, let's let's let's

1192
00:58:54,600 --> 00:58:56,800
Speaker 1: I'm working and get that to be number one, because

1193
00:58:57,520 --> 00:58:59,600
Speaker 1: it's it's been, it's viewed, it's view the whole of

1194
00:58:59,640 --> 00:59:02,320
Speaker 1: the world like it's it's really being beautiful over Like

1195
00:59:03,120 --> 00:59:07,280
Speaker 1: I'm being like, it's surprising to hear when you when

1196
00:59:07,560 --> 00:59:10,440
Speaker 1: you call back home a year, you're talking about football

1197
00:59:10,440 --> 00:59:14,200
Speaker 1: and it's like, wow, it's growing for sure. And you've

1198
00:59:14,280 --> 00:59:17,520
Speaker 1: been to Nigeria a few times in the last decade,

1199
00:59:17,560 --> 00:59:21,240
Speaker 1: haven't you. Yeah, doing no. As soon as I got drafted,

1200
00:59:21,800 --> 00:59:24,680
Speaker 1: I started my nonprofit and uh half of it is

1201
00:59:25,200 --> 00:59:27,920
Speaker 1: was was giving back home to Nigeria and what I

1202
00:59:28,000 --> 00:59:30,560
Speaker 1: was trying to do. And uh so you know, since

1203
00:59:30,600 --> 00:59:33,040
Speaker 1: I had the brain illness in twenty thirteen, I'm kind

1204
00:59:33,080 --> 00:59:35,760
Speaker 1: of you know skill, scale back on the nonprofit stuff

1205
00:59:35,840 --> 00:59:39,760
Speaker 1: obviously to focus on my health. But now that I'm

1206
00:59:39,800 --> 00:59:44,040
Speaker 1: feeling all the way, you know, back, I want to

1207
00:59:44,080 --> 00:59:46,600
Speaker 1: get back to get to get the foundation back to

1208
00:59:46,760 --> 00:59:48,800
Speaker 1: what it was when I was prior to the illness.

1209
00:59:49,560 --> 00:59:51,560
Speaker 1: That's great. Yeah, I remember going I think it was

1210
00:59:51,640 --> 00:59:56,760
Speaker 1: twenty and ten maybe, uh, going with you to a

1211
00:59:56,920 --> 00:59:59,920
Speaker 1: warehouse like can near the Heights and you I think

1212
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:02,680
Speaker 1: you had like a shipment of books going back to Yeah,

1213
01:00:02,840 --> 01:00:05,320
Speaker 1: that was Yeah, it was a pretty big undertaking for sure.

1214
01:00:05,960 --> 01:00:08,320
Speaker 1: Oh for sure, for sure. So that all that stuff

1215
01:00:09,680 --> 01:00:12,760
Speaker 1: we're working on, getting that, getting that, going back, going

1216
01:00:12,960 --> 01:00:16,480
Speaker 1: on getting this, using this the same platform. So give

1217
01:00:16,560 --> 01:00:20,920
Speaker 1: the legend players and the current active players our opportunity

1218
01:00:20,960 --> 01:00:23,400
Speaker 1: to go back home and uh and give back. It's

1219
01:00:23,440 --> 01:00:27,200
Speaker 1: not just it's not just Nigeria, all of Africa. One

1220
01:00:27,240 --> 01:00:29,800
Speaker 1: of the good guys a Mobia Koya. It's always fun

1221
01:00:29,880 --> 01:00:31,440
Speaker 1: talking with you, my friend. It was great seeing you

1222
01:00:31,520 --> 01:00:33,320
Speaker 1: at the game. It's great to see you now and

1223
01:00:33,600 --> 01:00:37,720
Speaker 1: it's always fun hearing your story. It's it's a unique

1224
01:00:37,760 --> 01:00:41,560
Speaker 1: one in so many different ways. So I'll take care

1225
01:00:41,560 --> 01:00:46,480
Speaker 1: of yourself. Yeah, Manual TV again together sound good? No doubt,

1226
01:00:46,600 --> 01:00:48,080
Speaker 1: no doubt. I want to come back home for sure.

1227
01:00:48,360 --> 01:00:51,720
Speaker 1: Uh the kids from Buffalo almost beat my record. I

1228
01:00:52,160 --> 01:00:53,800
Speaker 1: still got it, but I'm sure it's gonna evation to

1229
01:00:53,840 --> 01:00:57,560
Speaker 1: get broken. As far as the youngest player ever, oh yeah, yeah, yeah,

1230
01:00:58,480 --> 01:01:01,280
Speaker 1: I did bring that up. We gotta, we gotta. Let's

1231
01:01:01,320 --> 01:01:03,560
Speaker 1: rewind because you were nineteen years old when you were

1232
01:01:03,640 --> 01:01:06,040
Speaker 1: drafted by the Texans. I mean, how does a nineteen

1233
01:01:06,080 --> 01:01:10,320
Speaker 1: year old fit into an NFL locker room? Initially it's

1234
01:01:10,400 --> 01:01:13,240
Speaker 1: it's it's I don't think anybody. Everybody can do it.

1235
01:01:13,360 --> 01:01:16,640
Speaker 1: But I think it's that that's some kids nowadays. Like

1236
01:01:17,040 --> 01:01:20,560
Speaker 1: I can nausea Harris, Yeah he could. I could see

1237
01:01:20,600 --> 01:01:23,080
Speaker 1: him playing if he didn't, you know, come in in

1238
01:01:23,200 --> 01:01:24,840
Speaker 1: time he gave me. I could see him coming in

1239
01:01:24,920 --> 01:01:27,600
Speaker 1: the nineteen It's just it's some kids. I could tell

1240
01:01:28,120 --> 01:01:30,080
Speaker 1: that that they probably could that could have done it.

1241
01:01:30,560 --> 01:01:34,440
Speaker 1: But yeah, the Edmund kids. But Bubbalo he always beat me. Man,

1242
01:01:34,560 --> 01:01:40,040
Speaker 1: So you still got it. I like it. I like

1243
01:01:40,160 --> 01:01:43,480
Speaker 1: it's a great record to hold man. All right, Well, Amobi,

1244
01:01:44,000 --> 01:01:46,200
Speaker 1: awesome to see you, and let's do this again soon.

1245
01:01:46,280 --> 01:01:49,040
Speaker 1: Sounding good, I'll be bad. I'll be bad. Go Texas. Baby,

1246
01:01:49,080 --> 01:01:53,000
Speaker 1: you go Texas, Go Texans, Go. Amobia Koya. This has

1247
01:01:53,040 --> 01:01:56,320
Speaker 1: been where are they now? One of us stuff there

1248
01:01:56,360 --> 01:02:01,840
Speaker 1: with Drew Doherty and Amobia Koya, Texans defensive lineman, first

1249
01:02:01,920 --> 01:02:04,560
Speaker 1: round pick back in two thousand and seven. That was

1250
01:02:04,640 --> 01:02:07,160
Speaker 1: my first year here, and so Amobia Koya is a

1251
01:02:07,200 --> 01:02:09,000
Speaker 1: name that resonates because it was my first training camp.

1252
01:02:09,000 --> 01:02:11,240
Speaker 1: I got a chance to see the rookie up close.

1253
01:02:11,400 --> 01:02:13,200
Speaker 1: All right, Another rookie that we're getting a chance to

1254
01:02:13,200 --> 01:02:17,520
Speaker 1: see up close is Damien Pierce. Damien's twenty yard tackle

1255
01:02:17,640 --> 01:02:22,000
Speaker 1: breaking run inspired me to look back a little bit

1256
01:02:22,240 --> 01:02:24,280
Speaker 1: and find some of the great runs over the last

1257
01:02:24,320 --> 01:02:26,680
Speaker 1: ten to eleven years. That's next right here on Texans

1258
01:02:26,720 --> 01:02:30,240
Speaker 1: All Access wing Back this Wednesday issue the Texans All

1259
01:02:30,280 --> 01:02:33,280
Speaker 1: Access from Monday Texans Radio Studio. I am John Harris

1260
01:02:33,320 --> 01:02:38,800
Speaker 1: Football on a sideline reporter and your Schlumberge Stats Challenge

1261
01:02:39,400 --> 01:02:45,160
Speaker 1: of the week. That stat is seventeen. Now it sounds

1262
01:02:45,200 --> 01:02:46,760
Speaker 1: just like a random number, right, Well, there was a

1263
01:02:46,840 --> 01:02:50,080
Speaker 1: number for this player broadcast Wilder War seventeen. No. Seventeen

1264
01:02:50,680 --> 01:02:55,480
Speaker 1: is the number of broken tackles that Damian Pierce had

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Speaker 1: on Sunday at Jacksonville that's in a Mets number of

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Speaker 1: broken tackles, and he had seven of them on one run. Now,

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Speaker 1: that run was inspiration for me thinking back to some

1268
01:03:10,760 --> 01:03:13,040
Speaker 1: of the great runs that I have seen from running

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01:03:13,080 --> 01:03:16,360
Speaker 1: backs for the Texans over the past ten to eleven years.

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Speaker 1: So I thought, let's look back a little bit at

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Speaker 1: those runs. But it all started because of the run

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Speaker 1: that Damien made against the Jaguars. Here's that Damian Pierce

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Speaker 1: run courtesy of the Voice of the Texans, Mark Vandimir.

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Speaker 1: Second and five from the twenty two piers again over

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01:03:35,680 --> 01:03:40,320
Speaker 1: the middle, twenty breaks a tackle, fifteen ten gang tackle

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01:03:40,400 --> 01:03:42,320
Speaker 1: inside the five. Does he stay on his feet? He

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01:03:42,400 --> 01:03:44,919
Speaker 1: does down of the two yard line. What a run

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01:03:45,040 --> 01:03:48,680
Speaker 1: by Damian Pierce. Got out of trouble again and again

1279
01:03:48,800 --> 01:03:52,960
Speaker 1: until Cisco brings him down first in goal. Texans. Now,

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01:03:53,000 --> 01:03:54,880
Speaker 1: I've done a pretty good job, I guess because games

1281
01:03:54,920 --> 01:03:56,240
Speaker 1: have been a little bit more stressful, I' done a

1282
01:03:56,240 --> 01:03:58,400
Speaker 1: pretty good job of kind of holding things in, just

1283
01:03:58,680 --> 01:04:01,000
Speaker 1: letting things unfold. I don't have kind of those moments

1284
01:04:01,040 --> 01:04:02,720
Speaker 1: like I used to the first few years, or I

1285
01:04:02,840 --> 01:04:05,920
Speaker 1: was losing in on every single play. I lost it

1286
01:04:06,000 --> 01:04:09,439
Speaker 1: on app play. That's one of my favorite running back

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01:04:09,720 --> 01:04:13,440
Speaker 1: runs of all time. I mean not just the Texans,

1288
01:04:13,480 --> 01:04:15,200
Speaker 1: but of all times. So it got me thinking as

1289
01:04:15,200 --> 01:04:17,320
Speaker 1: we were flying home, but I'm thinking about how many

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01:04:18,000 --> 01:04:21,080
Speaker 1: running backs have had a run maybe not similar, because

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01:04:21,080 --> 01:04:22,200
Speaker 1: I don't know if there's any one of them that

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01:04:22,240 --> 01:04:24,440
Speaker 1: you can go back and go, yeah, that run right there,

1293
01:04:24,560 --> 01:04:28,920
Speaker 1: broke tackles, multiple tackles, got it down into one in

1294
01:04:29,000 --> 01:04:31,280
Speaker 1: a poor game, all that kind of stuff. So I

1295
01:04:31,360 --> 01:04:32,560
Speaker 1: thought about that. I was like, yeah, I think I

1296
01:04:32,600 --> 01:04:33,920
Speaker 1: could find I think I can find a few. So

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Speaker 1: on my server, I have this this FTP server, and

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01:04:37,800 --> 01:04:41,440
Speaker 1: on that server it has all of our game audio,

1299
01:04:42,680 --> 01:04:44,720
Speaker 1: all of our radio shows, everything that we've done on

1300
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Speaker 1: radio with Sports Radio six ten, matchup shows, interviews, everything,

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01:04:49,840 --> 01:04:51,640
Speaker 1: It's all there on the FTP. Now it only goes

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Speaker 1: back to twenty twelve, So if I want to go

1303
01:04:53,280 --> 01:04:58,160
Speaker 1: get anything from before twenty twelve, it's yeah, it's it's

1304
01:04:58,160 --> 01:04:59,880
Speaker 1: an Act of Congress, and I'm just like, you know,

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01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:02,280
Speaker 1: I'm not really up for an Act of Congress, So

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01:05:02,520 --> 01:05:06,000
Speaker 1: let's focus from twenty twelve through twenty twenty two. Also,

1307
01:05:06,120 --> 01:05:09,160
Speaker 1: because I got on the sidelines of twenty fourteen, so

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01:05:09,520 --> 01:05:11,480
Speaker 1: I've seen every one of these runs, except for the

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01:05:11,560 --> 01:05:13,520
Speaker 1: first one. Now I saw it as the game was happening.

1310
01:05:13,560 --> 01:05:16,840
Speaker 1: Of course. I was in Deston, Florida in twenty twelve

1311
01:05:17,240 --> 01:05:19,600
Speaker 1: for Thanksgiving. I had gotten a few days off and

1312
01:05:20,360 --> 01:05:23,400
Speaker 1: my wife said, look, I'll you can watch football all weekend,

1313
01:05:23,400 --> 01:05:24,520
Speaker 1: but I want to get out of Dodge. I want

1314
01:05:24,560 --> 01:05:26,480
Speaker 1: to go to the beach. Let's go to Destin. So okay, cool,

1315
01:05:26,720 --> 01:05:31,000
Speaker 1: packed up, kids, go to deston Thanksgiving Day twenty twelve

1316
01:05:31,080 --> 01:05:34,040
Speaker 1: on the couch watching the Texans against the Detroit Lions.

1317
01:05:34,600 --> 01:05:37,920
Speaker 1: And it's not going well, not going well at all,

1318
01:05:38,720 --> 01:05:41,520
Speaker 1: but the Texans are keeping it relatively close. And then

1319
01:05:41,600 --> 01:05:43,360
Speaker 1: they got one of the biggest breaks and one of

1320
01:05:43,360 --> 01:05:46,440
Speaker 1: the more controversial runs. But the second longest run in

1321
01:05:46,480 --> 01:05:51,040
Speaker 1: the history of the franchise happened right here as Justin

1322
01:05:51,120 --> 01:05:54,840
Speaker 1: for Set broke through the line, didn't think he was down,

1323
01:05:55,600 --> 01:05:58,440
Speaker 1: took off running for the end zone, scored a touchdown,

1324
01:05:58,680 --> 01:06:01,720
Speaker 1: and immediately Jim Schwartz through the challenge flag and as

1325
01:06:01,760 --> 01:06:05,200
Speaker 1: a result, it was a penalty on the Lions for

1326
01:06:05,320 --> 01:06:07,480
Speaker 1: delay of game. Because it was a score, it was

1327
01:06:07,520 --> 01:06:11,000
Speaker 1: automatically challenged. The rule was changed the next year. Well

1328
01:06:11,080 --> 01:06:14,360
Speaker 1: luckily it wasn't changed on that day because this run

1329
01:06:14,400 --> 01:06:17,520
Speaker 1: would have been called back. But justin foreset with eighty

1330
01:06:17,560 --> 01:06:20,800
Speaker 1: one yards in twenty twelve against the Detroit Lions has

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01:06:20,880 --> 01:06:22,920
Speaker 1: to make the list A given the length and be

1332
01:06:23,120 --> 01:06:25,880
Speaker 1: given the importance on Thanksgiving Day in this win over

1333
01:06:25,920 --> 01:06:28,800
Speaker 1: the Lions. Second and ten for the Houston nineteen, here's

1334
01:06:28,800 --> 01:06:30,320
Speaker 1: a gift of for set. A cut back to the

1335
01:06:30,480 --> 01:06:32,840
Speaker 1: right across the twenty five. He's down at the twenty

1336
01:06:32,880 --> 01:06:35,520
Speaker 1: six yard line and he was never tagged. He gets

1337
01:06:35,640 --> 01:06:38,960
Speaker 1: up forty fifty forty a Detroit the thirty to the right,

1338
01:06:39,040 --> 01:06:43,640
Speaker 1: twenty five twenty fifteen ten five touchdown, just in four set.

1339
01:06:44,200 --> 01:06:47,600
Speaker 1: They thought they had them down, but they didn't. Eighty

1340
01:06:47,720 --> 01:06:52,920
Speaker 1: one yards and a red flag comes out in a

1341
01:06:53,080 --> 01:06:57,600
Speaker 1: big hurry out of the pocket of Jim Schwartz. So

1342
01:06:57,760 --> 01:07:01,360
Speaker 1: that red challenge flag was actually a penal twenty twelve,

1343
01:07:01,400 --> 01:07:04,600
Speaker 1: it was, and so the touchdown counted. The Texans ended

1344
01:07:04,640 --> 01:07:08,320
Speaker 1: up winning that game in overtime in twenty twelve. And

1345
01:07:08,440 --> 01:07:10,880
Speaker 1: it's the one run on my list that I didn't see.

1346
01:07:10,920 --> 01:07:14,360
Speaker 1: So my first year was twenty fourteen, and we had

1347
01:07:14,480 --> 01:07:17,080
Speaker 1: gone to Dallas this week five Texans three and one,

1348
01:07:17,120 --> 01:07:19,840
Speaker 1: at that point had gotten a couple of wins, or

1349
01:07:19,880 --> 01:07:22,919
Speaker 1: at least start the year against the Washington The artist

1350
01:07:22,960 --> 01:07:25,840
Speaker 1: formula noticed the Redskins then went out to Oakland beat

1351
01:07:25,880 --> 01:07:28,960
Speaker 1: Oakland lost the Giants to one beat Buffalo, so three

1352
01:07:29,000 --> 01:07:32,600
Speaker 1: and one going into Dallas. But the first half had

1353
01:07:32,640 --> 01:07:36,360
Speaker 1: fallen behind that terribly, but had fallen behind, and it

1354
01:07:36,480 --> 01:07:39,960
Speaker 1: was in the second half when Arian Foster took over.

1355
01:07:40,120 --> 01:07:41,960
Speaker 1: And he took over on this drive, and there were

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01:07:42,000 --> 01:07:45,720
Speaker 1: two runs back to back. Texas were at I believe

1357
01:07:45,720 --> 01:07:50,040
Speaker 1: their forty eight yard line and Arian Foster went off.

1358
01:07:50,240 --> 01:07:54,080
Speaker 1: These two runs were just glorious. A thirty three yarder

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01:07:54,520 --> 01:07:57,320
Speaker 1: where he shook a dB and then a fifteen yard

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01:07:57,360 --> 01:07:59,200
Speaker 1: touchdown where he did the same thing. He gave him

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01:07:59,200 --> 01:08:01,080
Speaker 1: that dead lag audience. These are two of the best

1362
01:08:01,200 --> 01:08:04,920
Speaker 1: runs that I had seen from Arian Foster up close

1363
01:08:05,480 --> 01:08:08,480
Speaker 1: in Dallas in twenty fourteen. Handoff are and running left,

1364
01:08:08,520 --> 01:08:10,880
Speaker 1: has a big hole forty five forty thirty five thirty

1365
01:08:10,960 --> 01:08:13,280
Speaker 1: left sideline cuts inside twenty fifteen to out of a

1366
01:08:13,400 --> 01:08:18,240
Speaker 1: fourteen yard live Foster rupts first out of the red zone.

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01:08:18,800 --> 01:08:21,640
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick looks it over, takes the snap, the gift to

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01:08:21,720 --> 01:08:24,080
Speaker 1: air and again running to the left, little cut inside

1369
01:08:24,120 --> 01:08:26,879
Speaker 1: the ten to five to the goal live touchdown, Kiston

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01:08:27,840 --> 01:08:32,679
Speaker 1: Arry and Foster gives the Textans the lead fifteen yard run.

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Speaker 1: Now this sounds like a game at NRG Stadium right now.

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01:08:37,920 --> 01:08:40,439
Speaker 1: Mante Co is sick. I mean he just left the

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01:08:40,560 --> 01:08:44,479
Speaker 1: dude grasping for air. That was just awesome. Those two

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01:08:44,600 --> 01:08:48,360
Speaker 1: runs were absolutely incredible. It's fast forward a couple of years.

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Speaker 1: People forget this run, but I remember this because of

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01:08:51,640 --> 01:08:54,120
Speaker 1: the four play drive. There was a there was a

1377
01:08:54,200 --> 01:08:57,200
Speaker 1: throat of Fuller, there was a sneak, there was a

1378
01:08:57,280 --> 01:08:59,400
Speaker 1: throat of Hopkins, and the ball was sitting at the

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Speaker 1: twenty four yard line. On Christmas Eve night against the

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Speaker 1: Cincinnati Bengals in twenty sixteen, Texans down need to score.

1381
01:09:11,240 --> 01:09:13,200
Speaker 1: I mean it was a must that they get the

1382
01:09:13,280 --> 01:09:15,920
Speaker 1: ball in the end zone down four, ten to six,

1383
01:09:17,439 --> 01:09:20,080
Speaker 1: and Tom Savage turned around, handed the ball to Alfred

1384
01:09:20,160 --> 01:09:24,040
Speaker 1: Blue and Alfred with the game winning score from twenty

1385
01:09:24,120 --> 01:09:27,280
Speaker 1: four yards out, and I to the left of Savage,

1386
01:09:27,320 --> 01:09:29,479
Speaker 1: whos in the gotten first down at the Cincinnati twenty

1387
01:09:29,520 --> 01:09:31,880
Speaker 1: four yard line. Blue and fedor Witz in the backfield.

1388
01:09:31,920 --> 01:09:34,720
Speaker 1: But I'm two receivers to the right handoff, Blue to

1389
01:09:34,800 --> 01:09:37,400
Speaker 1: the left side, cuts it off twenty fifteen ten five

1390
01:09:37,640 --> 01:09:43,719
Speaker 1: Brooke and roll touchdown, Texans Puston retext the lead, twenty

1391
01:09:43,760 --> 01:09:47,559
Speaker 1: four yard touchdown run Alfred Blue. That one gets forgotten

1392
01:09:47,640 --> 01:09:50,360
Speaker 1: because that was just not a great offensive team in

1393
01:09:50,520 --> 01:09:53,600
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, so you forget about that one. But that

1394
01:09:53,720 --> 01:09:55,559
Speaker 1: twenty four yard run was one of the longer runs

1395
01:09:55,840 --> 01:09:59,080
Speaker 1: that year and a hugely important one, obviously in a

1396
01:09:59,160 --> 01:10:01,320
Speaker 1: game they ended up twelve ten. That was the game

1397
01:10:01,360 --> 01:10:03,400
Speaker 1: winning touchdown, the last points in that night, and it's

1398
01:10:03,439 --> 01:10:06,439
Speaker 1: one of my favorite nights, one of my favorite just

1399
01:10:06,680 --> 01:10:11,080
Speaker 1: games the entire day Christmas Eve, watching the Jaguars beat

1400
01:10:11,120 --> 01:10:14,599
Speaker 1: the Titans, meaning that game was for the division struggling

1401
01:10:14,600 --> 01:10:17,200
Speaker 1: a little bit in that game, clowning was incredible, but

1402
01:10:17,280 --> 01:10:19,479
Speaker 1: it coming down to that four play drive after a

1403
01:10:19,680 --> 01:10:22,439
Speaker 1: brand La Fell ninety yard touchdown where the Bengals finally

1404
01:10:22,479 --> 01:10:24,400
Speaker 1: took the lead and the Texans took it back with

1405
01:10:24,439 --> 01:10:27,680
Speaker 1: that drive culminating with that run by Alfred Blue. Now

1406
01:10:28,360 --> 01:10:31,479
Speaker 1: another two years forward, let's go to twenty eighteen Monday

1407
01:10:31,520 --> 01:10:36,599
Speaker 1: Night football. Tennessee. Titans founder Bob McNair had passed away

1408
01:10:37,120 --> 01:10:41,040
Speaker 1: over the weekend this game was as emotionally got Titans

1409
01:10:41,160 --> 01:10:44,360
Speaker 1: up ten nothing early, but the Texans getting right back

1410
01:10:44,720 --> 01:10:47,400
Speaker 1: in the ball game. They'd gotten a fourth in one

1411
01:10:47,600 --> 01:10:52,519
Speaker 1: stop at the three yard line, excuse me, two yard line,

1412
01:10:52,720 --> 01:10:56,240
Speaker 1: so the ball sat stuffed them right there. Never forget that.

1413
01:10:56,360 --> 01:11:00,720
Speaker 1: Linebackers bang bang stuffed Luke Stocker, full black slash tight

1414
01:11:00,840 --> 01:11:03,680
Speaker 1: end for the Titans. The week before, Justin Reid had

1415
01:11:03,720 --> 01:11:05,240
Speaker 1: gone one hundred one yards and a pick six, and

1416
01:11:05,280 --> 01:11:07,679
Speaker 1: I remember saying during a break, I was like, man,

1417
01:11:08,040 --> 01:11:09,960
Speaker 1: with fourth and one, I thought, guys, could we get

1418
01:11:09,960 --> 01:11:12,080
Speaker 1: a ninety eight or one hundred yard pick six again?

1419
01:11:12,120 --> 01:11:14,160
Speaker 1: Can we have that? Well, it was two plays that

1420
01:11:14,320 --> 01:11:17,400
Speaker 1: got them there to stop and then this run, the

1421
01:11:17,479 --> 01:11:21,479
Speaker 1: longest run in Texans history, ninety seven yards by Lamar

1422
01:11:21,640 --> 01:11:24,639
Speaker 1: Miller and what it called by Mark Vannimer. I didn't

1423
01:11:24,680 --> 01:11:26,160
Speaker 1: hear it at the time because I'm freaking out as

1424
01:11:26,240 --> 01:11:29,639
Speaker 1: Lamar's run down the field. When I did Texans match

1425
01:11:29,760 --> 01:11:32,040
Speaker 1: up the following week, which we call Texas replay at

1426
01:11:32,080 --> 01:11:34,040
Speaker 1: the time, I heard the call for the first time

1427
01:11:34,560 --> 01:11:37,639
Speaker 1: and I just got choked up. It's an incredible call

1428
01:11:37,760 --> 01:11:40,240
Speaker 1: by Mark and an incredible run by Lamar Miller in

1429
01:11:40,280 --> 01:11:42,920
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen against the Titans. First down for the Texans

1430
01:11:43,200 --> 01:11:45,360
Speaker 1: three and here's Miller over a right guard has a

1431
01:11:45,400 --> 01:11:48,960
Speaker 1: little round Brexit tackle ten fifteen, twenty right side, twenty five, thirty,

1432
01:11:49,160 --> 01:11:52,080
Speaker 1: He's still the sideline, the forty to fifty. He's gonna

1433
01:11:52,120 --> 01:11:55,519
Speaker 1: go all the way, the thirty, the twenty, the ten,

1434
01:11:55,800 --> 01:12:03,880
Speaker 1: the five rocket roll touchdown stand ninety seven yards. That

1435
01:12:04,080 --> 01:12:10,320
Speaker 1: once for you, Bob. But I never never not get

1436
01:12:10,400 --> 01:12:12,479
Speaker 1: choked up when I hear Mark say that that one's

1437
01:12:12,479 --> 01:12:14,639
Speaker 1: for you, Bob. I just I still, I mean, it's

1438
01:12:14,880 --> 01:12:17,880
Speaker 1: it'll go down in the pantheon from Mark for a call.

1439
01:12:18,000 --> 01:12:20,080
Speaker 1: I mean, it was just tremendous, and we talked about

1440
01:12:20,120 --> 01:12:22,439
Speaker 1: that over the years. But the run was so good.

1441
01:12:22,520 --> 01:12:24,439
Speaker 1: I mean, Lamar found a little bit of a scene.

1442
01:12:24,600 --> 01:12:27,760
Speaker 1: Blocking was great. He avoided Vaccaro and then sprinted to

1443
01:12:27,800 --> 01:12:29,320
Speaker 1: the end zone. And what I loved about it as

1444
01:12:29,360 --> 01:12:31,639
Speaker 1: Lamar and I talked about this earlier in the year

1445
01:12:31,880 --> 01:12:33,439
Speaker 1: because he had kind of taken a little bit of

1446
01:12:33,520 --> 01:12:35,000
Speaker 1: grief for not getting all the way to the end

1447
01:12:35,040 --> 01:12:36,360
Speaker 1: zone on some of these runs. I mean, Lamar was

1448
01:12:36,360 --> 01:12:38,200
Speaker 1: a fast dude, and so when he broke out in

1449
01:12:38,200 --> 01:12:41,400
Speaker 1: the open me he told me there was nobody gonna

1450
01:12:41,400 --> 01:12:43,439
Speaker 1: catch him at that point. He was gonna run as

1451
01:12:43,479 --> 01:12:44,800
Speaker 1: fast as he needed to get all the way in

1452
01:12:44,800 --> 01:12:46,360
Speaker 1: the end zone. So he didn't take any more ribbing

1453
01:12:46,360 --> 01:12:49,280
Speaker 1: in the locker room. Oh man, Well, our next run

1454
01:12:49,479 --> 01:12:52,400
Speaker 1: happened again against the Tights. Now this wasn't the greatest run,

1455
01:12:52,439 --> 01:12:56,840
Speaker 1: but I remember the game itself. I mean, twenty nineteen,

1456
01:12:56,840 --> 01:13:00,599
Speaker 1: we had gone to Tennessee and it was cruise Tennessee

1457
01:13:00,760 --> 01:13:03,400
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen was starting to, you know, kind of rear

1458
01:13:03,439 --> 01:13:05,120
Speaker 1: back a little bit and kind of find itself and

1459
01:13:05,240 --> 01:13:08,960
Speaker 1: really become a factor. MAYFC South we had gone there.

1460
01:13:09,040 --> 01:13:11,160
Speaker 1: Kenny Still has caught two touchdowns early in the game,

1461
01:13:11,439 --> 01:13:14,719
Speaker 1: jumped out front, then John hu Smith and made some plays.

1462
01:13:15,240 --> 01:13:18,360
Speaker 1: Titans tied the ball game. Oh man, but the Texas

1463
01:13:18,439 --> 01:13:20,559
Speaker 1: gotta drive going and handed the ball to Carlos Hide.

1464
01:13:20,840 --> 01:13:23,519
Speaker 1: He bounced in, he bounced out. He scored this touchdown

1465
01:13:23,560 --> 01:13:27,040
Speaker 1: and ended up being essentially the AFC South clinching touchdown

1466
01:13:27,400 --> 01:13:30,880
Speaker 1: in Tennessee. Carlos Hide in twenty nineteen. First of all,

1467
01:13:30,920 --> 01:13:34,240
Speaker 1: at the ten split backs Watson and the gun. Watson

1468
01:13:34,280 --> 01:13:36,920
Speaker 1: hands off to Hide, wading to the left, Carlos has

1469
01:13:37,000 --> 01:13:41,280
Speaker 1: the five Carlos to the pylon, he's in touchdown justuston

1470
01:13:41,720 --> 01:13:45,479
Speaker 1: ten yard TD run l Guapo for the league. Now,

1471
01:13:45,560 --> 01:13:47,840
Speaker 1: any Foster made this list in twenty fourteen with two

1472
01:13:47,920 --> 01:13:50,799
Speaker 1: runs in the same game on the same drive. Damian

1473
01:13:50,880 --> 01:13:54,320
Speaker 1: Pierce is making it for his tackle breaking run against

1474
01:13:54,720 --> 01:13:57,360
Speaker 1: the Jacksonville Jaguars. But how can we forget this that

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01:13:57,520 --> 01:14:01,439
Speaker 1: happened the week before against the LHR Here, first down

1476
01:14:01,520 --> 01:14:05,799
Speaker 1: from the Houston twenty five yard line. Backs Offset Mills

1477
01:14:05,960 --> 01:14:08,760
Speaker 1: with the toss to Pierce right side as a block

1478
01:14:08,800 --> 01:14:11,200
Speaker 1: across the thirty thirty five to the outside forty, the

1479
01:14:11,360 --> 01:14:14,920
Speaker 1: fifty by sideline, the forty of the Chargers, the thirty

1480
01:14:15,120 --> 01:14:21,360
Speaker 1: twenty ten five brook and roll touchdown Houston seventy five yards,

1481
01:14:23,439 --> 01:14:28,040
Speaker 1: Damian Pearce all the way. So it's just a handful

1482
01:14:28,120 --> 01:14:30,880
Speaker 1: of the great runs by the Texans running backs over

1483
01:14:31,120 --> 01:14:34,200
Speaker 1: last ten to eleven years. Justin for Set Carlos, eyed

1484
01:14:34,479 --> 01:14:37,920
Speaker 1: Alfred Blue, and then Arian Foster Damian Pierce getting on

1485
01:14:38,000 --> 01:14:40,479
Speaker 1: that list as well. So that was fun to take

1486
01:14:40,560 --> 01:14:44,160
Speaker 1: a little look back at those runs over the last

1487
01:14:44,400 --> 01:14:47,479
Speaker 1: decade plus. All right, coming up, my man Drew Doherty's

1488
01:14:47,479 --> 01:14:49,160
Speaker 1: gonna stop by and join me for a little in

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01:14:49,280 --> 01:14:51,479
Speaker 1: the lab to close this show down. That's next the

1490
01:14:51,560 --> 01:14:54,960
Speaker 1: Texans All Access. We got one funnal segment of this

1491
01:14:55,120 --> 01:14:58,280
Speaker 1: edition of Texans All Access from the Unday Texans Radio studio.

1492
01:14:58,439 --> 01:15:01,519
Speaker 1: I am John Harris Ball and Outside that reporter and

1493
01:15:01,600 --> 01:15:05,360
Speaker 1: also one half of the famed podcast duo on in

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01:15:05,439 --> 01:15:09,000
Speaker 1: the Lab, alongside my partner Drew Doherty. So let's bring

1495
01:15:09,000 --> 01:15:11,000
Speaker 1: it in. It's in the lab. Time to close down

1496
01:15:11,080 --> 01:15:13,640
Speaker 1: this Wednesday and night take it away. Bye week is

1497
01:15:13,880 --> 01:15:16,200
Speaker 1: upon us, but there's no buy for in the lab.

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01:15:16,560 --> 01:15:20,000
Speaker 1: This is Drew, you're John, and we are excited to

1499
01:15:20,120 --> 01:15:24,240
Speaker 1: talk Texas football. And John, we typically do a cream

1500
01:15:24,280 --> 01:15:27,639
Speaker 1: of the crop crop and we're gonna do that today.

1501
01:15:27,680 --> 01:15:29,439
Speaker 1: But what we're gonna do is we're gonna have our

1502
01:15:29,520 --> 01:15:33,479
Speaker 1: cream of the crop candidate for the first five weeks

1503
01:15:33,520 --> 01:15:36,240
Speaker 1: of the season, each of us, and then we'll also

1504
01:15:36,360 --> 01:15:38,840
Speaker 1: each have a guy who needs to be a cream

1505
01:15:38,880 --> 01:15:41,439
Speaker 1: of the cropper for the final twelve. Hasn't done so

1506
01:15:41,680 --> 01:15:44,959
Speaker 1: yet but could possibly have been, you know, an alternate

1507
01:15:45,120 --> 01:15:47,559
Speaker 1: or needs to be one basically for the final twelve.

1508
01:15:47,640 --> 01:15:49,479
Speaker 1: But first of all, you're doing okay, I'm doing okay.

1509
01:15:49,600 --> 01:15:52,840
Speaker 1: Any fun plans. No, No, this is gonna be one

1510
01:15:52,880 --> 01:15:55,040
Speaker 1: of the greatest weekends of college football maybe ever. The

1511
01:15:55,160 --> 01:16:00,160
Speaker 1: games are just insane, Yeah, absolutely insanity. Tennessee Alabama, I'm

1512
01:16:00,240 --> 01:16:03,040
Speaker 1: both undefeated playing in Knoxville. I mean, it's that's gonna

1513
01:16:03,040 --> 01:16:07,120
Speaker 1: be just bonkers. TCU, Oaklahma State both undefeated. I think games.

1514
01:16:07,160 --> 01:16:10,320
Speaker 1: It's you know, it's a Fort Worth that's gonna be bonkers.

1515
01:16:10,400 --> 01:16:12,640
Speaker 1: TCU with the big win last week. I about that

1516
01:16:12,680 --> 01:16:16,120
Speaker 1: catch by that receiver Quentin Johnston, number seventeen overall and

1517
01:16:16,120 --> 01:16:17,760
Speaker 1: the Harris one hundred. Pains me to say it as

1518
01:16:17,760 --> 01:16:20,559
Speaker 1: an SMU grad, but that was a heck of a catch.

1519
01:16:21,040 --> 01:16:22,639
Speaker 1: You just got a receiver too, by the way. Yeah,

1520
01:16:22,800 --> 01:16:27,519
Speaker 1: dude by name Rashi Rice. Oh look good in these colors.

1521
01:16:27,920 --> 01:16:31,000
Speaker 1: Yeah he would. I wish he and the Ponies had

1522
01:16:31,040 --> 01:16:33,439
Speaker 1: looked better on Wednesday night. Yeah, that was fun. It's

1523
01:16:33,439 --> 01:16:35,960
Speaker 1: a Wednesday night game. That's Florida. That's the problem. If

1524
01:16:35,960 --> 01:16:37,360
Speaker 1: we'll go to the Friday night game. They got a

1525
01:16:37,439 --> 01:16:39,200
Speaker 1: Navy and our buddy Andre where is gonna be calling it?

1526
01:16:39,320 --> 01:16:42,080
Speaker 1: So we got that right. Navy. Um, they've they've given

1527
01:16:42,160 --> 01:16:45,360
Speaker 1: the Ponies problems over the years, so anyways I could.

1528
01:16:45,600 --> 01:16:47,360
Speaker 1: That's neither here nor there. But let's talk about a

1529
01:16:47,439 --> 01:16:51,639
Speaker 1: cream of the crop, thank you, macho man. A cream

1530
01:16:51,680 --> 01:16:54,479
Speaker 1: of the crop candidate for the first five weeks. And

1531
01:16:54,600 --> 01:16:57,240
Speaker 1: let's rule out the obvious guy. No, Damian Pierce. We

1532
01:16:57,640 --> 01:16:59,760
Speaker 1: pick Damian Pierce. You can't pick Damian Pierce. We both

1533
01:16:59,840 --> 01:17:02,639
Speaker 1: I think would have picked him, right, I mean yeah,

1534
01:17:02,840 --> 01:17:04,960
Speaker 1: in the aggregate for five games. Yeah, And let me

1535
01:17:05,000 --> 01:17:08,160
Speaker 1: tell you about Damian Pierce off the field. From what

1536
01:17:08,280 --> 01:17:12,320
Speaker 1: I've seen, unprovoked, he's bringing up when asked about his performances,

1537
01:17:12,360 --> 01:17:14,519
Speaker 1: He's bringing up welves. It was the line helping me

1538
01:17:14,600 --> 01:17:17,559
Speaker 1: do this. My head, my running backs coach, Danny Barrett's

1539
01:17:17,560 --> 01:17:19,240
Speaker 1: helping me out. All the veterans are helping me out.

1540
01:17:19,439 --> 01:17:21,760
Speaker 1: Think about it. When Rex Burkheads scored his touchdown a

1541
01:17:21,800 --> 01:17:23,200
Speaker 1: week or two ago, who's the first guy on the

1542
01:17:23,280 --> 01:17:26,760
Speaker 1: field came off the bench to run and celebrate and

1543
01:17:27,760 --> 01:17:30,920
Speaker 1: thank Rex Burkhead and cheer with Rex Burkhead. He's just

1544
01:17:31,080 --> 01:17:34,800
Speaker 1: a joy in that regard to see. I mean, I

1545
01:17:34,840 --> 01:17:39,320
Speaker 1: remember after his first game, the preseason one where he

1546
01:17:39,479 --> 01:17:43,080
Speaker 1: punished people and got about nine yards per he had

1547
01:17:43,320 --> 01:17:46,040
Speaker 1: a ring of reporters around him in the post game,

1548
01:17:46,640 --> 01:17:49,920
Speaker 1: and his locker is up against the wall near one

1549
01:17:49,960 --> 01:17:52,200
Speaker 1: of the exits on one end of the locker room,

1550
01:17:52,960 --> 01:17:56,840
Speaker 1: and Lovey Smith was leaving for the night. He'd already

1551
01:17:56,840 --> 01:18:00,160
Speaker 1: done his press conference, and Lovey was getting a water

1552
01:18:00,240 --> 01:18:03,280
Speaker 1: from the cooler. And he looks over and sees Pierce

1553
01:18:03,920 --> 01:18:06,680
Speaker 1: and love He's a pretty stoic guy for the most part.

1554
01:18:06,760 --> 01:18:08,640
Speaker 1: He raised his eyebrows, had had a little bit of

1555
01:18:08,680 --> 01:18:09,800
Speaker 1: a glint in his eye, a little bit of a

1556
01:18:09,920 --> 01:18:14,160
Speaker 1: smile when he saw Pierce talking. Now, normally a lot

1557
01:18:14,200 --> 01:18:16,920
Speaker 1: of coaches they see a rookie chit chatting and the

1558
01:18:17,040 --> 01:18:20,559
Speaker 1: Golden Court, They're like, not the case. I mean, Damian

1559
01:18:20,600 --> 01:18:23,960
Speaker 1: Pierce is something special. He keeps this up, He's going

1560
01:18:24,000 --> 01:18:26,679
Speaker 1: to be extra special. And Texans fans are gonna love

1561
01:18:27,280 --> 01:18:30,320
Speaker 1: love They already do, but love it even more. And

1562
01:18:30,439 --> 01:18:31,760
Speaker 1: one more thing before I turn it over to you

1563
01:18:31,920 --> 01:18:36,720
Speaker 1: about Damian Pierce. His run amazing. And somebody replied, hey,

1564
01:18:36,800 --> 01:18:39,320
Speaker 1: just give him number thirty four already like Earl Campbells

1565
01:18:39,360 --> 01:18:42,639
Speaker 1: number thirty four, to which I replied with the Tony

1566
01:18:42,720 --> 01:18:48,240
Speaker 1: Montana take relax, So yeah, retort, we are Nick Serio

1567
01:18:48,360 --> 01:18:50,599
Speaker 1: say that on Monday, after the game gets the Jaguars,

1568
01:18:50,640 --> 01:18:53,839
Speaker 1: He's in the weight room squatting four twenty five. It's amazing.

1569
01:18:54,040 --> 01:18:56,120
Speaker 1: I mean, stolen Ryanish. If you want to talk about

1570
01:18:56,120 --> 01:19:02,360
Speaker 1: thirty four's yeah, kimelis one. Yeah, I'm saying that this squatting, yeah, yeah, yeah,

1571
01:19:02,640 --> 01:19:05,120
Speaker 1: I mean Nolan. Nolan made that popular in the nineties.

1572
01:19:05,160 --> 01:19:07,799
Speaker 1: Man guy in his forties. I mean, he was just incredible.

1573
01:19:07,880 --> 01:19:10,880
Speaker 1: But I think there's so many things about Damian that

1574
01:19:11,880 --> 01:19:14,479
Speaker 1: I love. I think one of them happened after he

1575
01:19:14,560 --> 01:19:17,200
Speaker 1: scored a touchdown the other day. He made a b

1576
01:19:17,439 --> 01:19:21,680
Speaker 1: line like he ran faster over to Laramie Tunsel than

1577
01:19:21,760 --> 01:19:25,640
Speaker 1: he did on his tackle breaking run. He ran right

1578
01:19:25,680 --> 01:19:28,439
Speaker 1: over to Laramie. Now, Bambridge, George is about three hours

1579
01:19:28,439 --> 01:19:32,040
Speaker 1: away from Jacksonville. Laramie's from Lake City, Florida, with the

1580
01:19:32,080 --> 01:19:35,920
Speaker 1: Lake City Columbia High School, and that is considered in

1581
01:19:36,000 --> 01:19:39,320
Speaker 1: the Jacksonville area. Whenever we always did Greater Jacksonville stats,

1582
01:19:39,320 --> 01:19:41,639
Speaker 1: they would include everybody in Jacksonville area. Well, they always

1583
01:19:41,640 --> 01:19:44,680
Speaker 1: included Columbia. So Lake City is kind of considered a

1584
01:19:44,800 --> 01:19:48,800
Speaker 1: Jacksonville like a far West, like think of the furthest West.

1585
01:19:48,840 --> 01:19:52,680
Speaker 1: I mean even beyond Katie that's still considered maybe seely. Yeah,

1586
01:19:53,280 --> 01:19:56,599
Speaker 1: it's kind of that distance from from Jacksonville Lake City

1587
01:19:56,680 --> 01:19:59,400
Speaker 1: is so. I don't know if if Damien did it

1588
01:19:59,479 --> 01:20:01,720
Speaker 1: for that reason or whatever, but he makes a bee

1589
01:20:01,760 --> 01:20:04,400
Speaker 1: line over to Laramie and hands him the ball. Like

1590
01:20:04,680 --> 01:20:07,240
Speaker 1: you know, Laramie is a Laramie is a very composed,

1591
01:20:07,439 --> 01:20:11,320
Speaker 1: very cool cat. Doesn't really get rattled by much, just

1592
01:20:11,640 --> 01:20:15,200
Speaker 1: very chill. Listen to Shade before the game. He's different, dude.

1593
01:20:15,439 --> 01:20:18,280
Speaker 1: He took that ball from Damian and spiked it with

1594
01:20:18,400 --> 01:20:22,000
Speaker 1: everything he's got. Our our Twitter handle, Texas Twitter handle

1595
01:20:22,080 --> 01:20:24,240
Speaker 1: had that picture in black and white. It's gorgeous and

1596
01:20:24,320 --> 01:20:26,439
Speaker 1: it's right at the point where he's the bauls coming

1597
01:20:26,439 --> 01:20:27,680
Speaker 1: out of his hand and hitting ground. I mean that

1598
01:20:27,720 --> 01:20:29,439
Speaker 1: thing went up. I mean, I don't know, manny yards

1599
01:20:29,439 --> 01:20:32,360
Speaker 1: in the air. But just the thought that Damien was

1600
01:20:32,439 --> 01:20:35,879
Speaker 1: that excited to bring the ball to him, to Laramie

1601
01:20:35,960 --> 01:20:38,040
Speaker 1: and let him spike it, I thought was really really cool.

1602
01:20:38,040 --> 01:20:39,400
Speaker 1: And he's done that. He did that on his um

1603
01:20:40,160 --> 01:20:42,960
Speaker 1: his uh do you have another touch I'm want to

1604
01:20:43,000 --> 01:20:45,599
Speaker 1: see he had another touchdown where he did that as well,

1605
01:20:45,720 --> 01:20:47,120
Speaker 1: and he got it to his lineman may have been

1606
01:20:47,120 --> 01:20:48,920
Speaker 1: in the preseason, but I just love the way he

1607
01:20:48,960 --> 01:20:50,559
Speaker 1: looks out for his lineman, all the way he talks

1608
01:20:50,560 --> 01:20:54,040
Speaker 1: about his lineman, all the way he flex praise, and

1609
01:20:54,240 --> 01:20:55,760
Speaker 1: he's just he's been fun to watch. But in the

1610
01:20:55,840 --> 01:20:58,599
Speaker 1: aggregate for through five games, there's no doubt it's it's

1611
01:20:58,640 --> 01:21:02,720
Speaker 1: Damien Pierce. So let's move beyond Damien. Who's your guy?

1612
01:21:03,320 --> 01:21:05,640
Speaker 1: I mean, I really want to, I really want to

1613
01:21:05,680 --> 01:21:10,080
Speaker 1: say Jalen Petrie. Okay, but I'm gonna leave that on

1614
01:21:10,200 --> 01:21:11,640
Speaker 1: the plate for you if you'd like it, all right,

1615
01:21:11,880 --> 01:21:14,719
Speaker 1: because I am going to go with the aforementioned Laramy Tunsel.

1616
01:21:15,640 --> 01:21:18,240
Speaker 1: I think Laramie has been really, really good. Now there

1617
01:21:18,320 --> 01:21:20,720
Speaker 1: have been there have been some plays that I know

1618
01:21:20,840 --> 01:21:23,479
Speaker 1: Laramy would like to have back. We none of us

1619
01:21:23,520 --> 01:21:26,400
Speaker 1: are gonna know what the Texas protection was against the Colts.

1620
01:21:26,439 --> 01:21:28,640
Speaker 1: They gave up that sack from b J Speed that

1621
01:21:28,720 --> 01:21:30,680
Speaker 1: gave him the fumble, and you know they were able

1622
01:21:30,680 --> 01:21:32,840
Speaker 1: to do something with that. Nobody's gonna I mean, some

1623
01:21:32,920 --> 01:21:35,760
Speaker 1: people think, oh, maybe it was maybe Lary's supposed to that.

1624
01:21:35,920 --> 01:21:37,479
Speaker 1: We don't know. We don't know what the protection scheme was.

1625
01:21:37,520 --> 01:21:39,320
Speaker 1: A lot of times when we think we know what

1626
01:21:39,439 --> 01:21:41,400
Speaker 1: it is. We don't really know. They have a particular

1627
01:21:41,920 --> 01:21:44,160
Speaker 1: scheme called and there's probably a block or two that

1628
01:21:44,240 --> 01:21:46,400
Speaker 1: he probably wishes he could have had in the run game.

1629
01:21:46,439 --> 01:21:50,439
Speaker 1: But man, he has been fantastic in the run game,

1630
01:21:50,760 --> 01:21:53,280
Speaker 1: better than I think I can remember seeing him, and

1631
01:21:53,360 --> 01:21:54,760
Speaker 1: I thought he was really good. The other day he

1632
01:21:54,800 --> 01:21:57,320
Speaker 1: had a key block on that run of Damien's they

1633
01:21:57,360 --> 01:21:59,800
Speaker 1: ran a power play, and so so he's improved. In

1634
01:21:59,840 --> 01:22:03,200
Speaker 1: the question, Laremy blocked down on Roy Robertson Harris and

1635
01:22:03,280 --> 01:22:05,880
Speaker 1: moved him out of the way. And that distance that

1636
01:22:06,000 --> 01:22:09,000
Speaker 1: he moved Roy Robertson Harris was enough because Tyler Johnson

1637
01:22:09,080 --> 01:22:11,080
Speaker 1: was getting just enough ray Seon Jenkins. So is that

1638
01:22:11,280 --> 01:22:14,400
Speaker 1: that gap? If that gap isn't there, it's just to stop.

1639
01:22:14,479 --> 01:22:17,920
Speaker 1: It's gonna be third and five. But because Laramie down

1640
01:22:18,000 --> 01:22:20,960
Speaker 1: blocked and because Johnson got enough of Jenkins, that's enough

1641
01:22:21,000 --> 01:22:22,920
Speaker 1: for Daming to fight through any kind of arm tackle

1642
01:22:23,800 --> 01:22:25,479
Speaker 1: and then get to the secondary. And once he got

1643
01:22:25,520 --> 01:22:28,120
Speaker 1: to the secondary, then he started embarrassing everybody. But I

1644
01:22:28,200 --> 01:22:31,600
Speaker 1: feel like Laramie has been really really good. Now are

1645
01:22:31,640 --> 01:22:33,719
Speaker 1: there players like I said that he'd like that back

1646
01:22:33,920 --> 01:22:35,760
Speaker 1: that I feel like he could have done a little

1647
01:22:35,760 --> 01:22:38,720
Speaker 1: bit more with because he is Laramie Tunseil. Sure, but

1648
01:22:39,400 --> 01:22:41,760
Speaker 1: I think it's been very, very evident how much we

1649
01:22:41,840 --> 01:22:44,479
Speaker 1: missed Laramie last year. After Week five he got hurt

1650
01:22:44,520 --> 01:22:46,400
Speaker 1: in that Patriots game and then we didn't have for

1651
01:22:46,439 --> 01:22:49,680
Speaker 1: the rest of the year. But he's playing at a

1652
01:22:50,320 --> 01:22:53,479
Speaker 1: top notch Pro Bowl like level, and I'm glad. Over

1653
01:22:53,600 --> 01:22:57,000
Speaker 1: the offseason, I remember seeing him tweet something. Pff IT

1654
01:22:57,080 --> 01:22:59,320
Speaker 1: put out their their top tackles or something, and they

1655
01:23:00,000 --> 01:23:02,519
Speaker 1: basically came up with a classification like a lead Pro

1656
01:23:02,600 --> 01:23:05,360
Speaker 1: Bowl level, above average starter or something like that, and

1657
01:23:05,479 --> 01:23:07,760
Speaker 1: they labeled him like an above average starter or something,

1658
01:23:07,800 --> 01:23:09,800
Speaker 1: and he was kind of like, Okay, you'll see And

1659
01:23:10,080 --> 01:23:13,560
Speaker 1: he's really been showing that through five games. So he

1660
01:23:14,479 --> 01:23:16,559
Speaker 1: is such a key because when you start going down

1661
01:23:16,640 --> 01:23:19,599
Speaker 1: the list of players that the Texans are gonna face,

1662
01:23:20,560 --> 01:23:23,320
Speaker 1: think about what they've already faced, and think about what

1663
01:23:23,400 --> 01:23:25,559
Speaker 1: he's gonna face. We go out to Las Vegas, He's

1664
01:23:25,560 --> 01:23:28,160
Speaker 1: gonna face Chandler Jones and Max Crosby, you know, further

1665
01:23:28,240 --> 01:23:29,720
Speaker 1: on down the list, gonna face the Eagles. I mean,

1666
01:23:29,720 --> 01:23:31,479
Speaker 1: they got a million guys they can throw out there

1667
01:23:31,640 --> 01:23:33,960
Speaker 1: Hassan Reddick, a guy with a bunch of speed. He's

1668
01:23:34,000 --> 01:23:37,120
Speaker 1: gonna see off the edge. You see the Titans. Now

1669
01:23:37,160 --> 01:23:38,840
Speaker 1: they don't have Harold Landry, but they still have got

1670
01:23:38,880 --> 01:23:42,240
Speaker 1: the Nikatre who rushes from the outside. Some bud dupree

1671
01:23:42,400 --> 01:23:46,120
Speaker 1: for the Titans. He's gonna see Josh Allen and Trayvon

1672
01:23:46,200 --> 01:23:49,000
Speaker 1: Walker again. We face the Jaguars every single week. He

1673
01:23:49,160 --> 01:23:52,000
Speaker 1: is facing some dude out on the outside and he's

1674
01:23:52,040 --> 01:23:53,800
Speaker 1: holding his own. And I think Laramy has been the

1675
01:23:53,880 --> 01:23:55,479
Speaker 1: best of the lineman this year. And I think the

1676
01:23:55,600 --> 01:23:58,280
Speaker 1: line off the line group overall has taken their game

1677
01:23:58,320 --> 01:24:00,160
Speaker 1: to a different level. And I think Damien's help that.

1678
01:24:00,560 --> 01:24:03,160
Speaker 1: But I think they've also up their play too, and

1679
01:24:03,200 --> 01:24:05,840
Speaker 1: I think that's helped. And I think it will help

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Speaker 1: this offense get better and better as they get more

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Speaker 1: in syncle with one another. I like it. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: go with Nico Collins as Michael Cream of the Cropper.

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Speaker 1: So far like it now. I can promise you that

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Speaker 1: at that point Drew made some very salient points about

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Speaker 1: Nico Collins, but you're gonna have to listen to the

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Speaker 1: rest of it. Wherever you get your podcasts, go download

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Speaker 1: and the Lab. You can listen to all of it

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Speaker 1: in its entirety wherever you get your podcast. A big

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Speaker 1: thanks to Drew, to Amobia Koya, to Mark Vanomer, to

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Speaker 1: Nick Caserio, to all of you for listening with Thank

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Speaker 1: you so much. We will see you tomorrow. Yes, bye week,

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Speaker 1: But Texans Radio never stops, same bat time, same bat channel,

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Speaker 1: right here in Sports Radio six ten. We'll see you

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Speaker 1: that everybody, and as always, go Texans