WEBVTT - GM Nick Caserio exclusive and more | Texans All Access

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to everybody to a Wednesday edition of Texans All Access,

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<v Speaker 1>a bye week edition of Texans All Access. John Harris

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<v Speaker 1>your host football side of the Reporter alongside Mark Vandimir Mark.

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<v Speaker 1>Good evening. Are you enjoying the buy just yet? While

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<v Speaker 1>we're working, as you know, Johnny, and still creating content

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<v Speaker 1>and doing what we do for the Houston Texans organization.

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<v Speaker 1>And it's a joy to be part of the NFL,

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<v Speaker 1>even during the bye which comes early. I prefer the body.

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<v Speaker 1>They don't ask me when they make the schedule and

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<v Speaker 1>what would you like the buy. I'd like it in

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<v Speaker 1>early November, late October, that'd be great. But this is fine.

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<v Speaker 1>This is a little breather. I think that Johnny correct

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<v Speaker 1>me if I'm wrong. For the rookies, it might be better. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>why wait until some might hit a wall? Right? And

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<v Speaker 1>I say might because you never know. But people talk

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<v Speaker 1>about that rookie wall a lot because you have the

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<v Speaker 1>pre draft, workout stuff, draft itself, rookie camp, OTAs, all

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<v Speaker 1>these things. They play in the preseason games more than

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<v Speaker 1>anybody else probably, And now you get to, okay, we're

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<v Speaker 1>five games into a season. Good time to take a

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<v Speaker 1>little rest. Get the legs back and get ready for

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<v Speaker 1>the final twelve games of the regular season. Yeah, it's

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<v Speaker 1>definitely when people talking about sprints and marathons, it's it's

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<v Speaker 1>definitely a marathon. And we're gonna be kind of in

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<v Speaker 1>between that. Today's show, it's gonna be part sprint, part marathon.

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<v Speaker 1>We're gonna ga Kissio joining us. The next segment, you're

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<v Speaker 1>gonna hear a where are they now? From? A mobi,

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<v Speaker 1>a Koyer And then if you miss Texas matchup last night,

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<v Speaker 1>I can get your thoughts on this because I just

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<v Speaker 1>brought this up. Good show. I did a segment with

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<v Speaker 1>the inspiration of Damian Pierce's run the other day against

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<v Speaker 1>the Jacksonville Jaguars. I used the FTP as my guide,

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<v Speaker 1>so I started with twenty twelve. Okay, twenty twelve through

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<v Speaker 1>twenty twenty two, because eleven seasons, well, ten seasons in

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<v Speaker 1>the five games gotcha best running back runs that you

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<v Speaker 1>can remember in that time frame, Well, obviously Damian's got

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<v Speaker 1>one of them. I also gave him a two. I

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<v Speaker 1>gave him a second one because the seventy five yard

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<v Speaker 1>run against the Chargers. You gotta put that in there.

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<v Speaker 1>So from twenty twelve. You've seen every one of you

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<v Speaker 1>called every single running back run. Yeah, that there is,

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<v Speaker 1>I say, Aaron in the playoff game. Okay, I'm going

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<v Speaker 1>in no particular order here. Which playoff game? The first

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<v Speaker 1>the first one against? Okay, Now, so I started twenty twelve.

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<v Speaker 1>That's because that's the FTP starts at twenty twelve. Pees. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>I could have hooked you up with some earlier things.

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<v Speaker 1>I no, that's like it's like an act of Congress.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't want to worry about that, Okay, because do

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<v Speaker 1>you know Steve Slayton once had a seventy one yard

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<v Speaker 1>touchdown run in this franchise in two thousand and eight

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<v Speaker 1>against I have to find it, but I just saw

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<v Speaker 1>it on the stat sheet here. It might have been

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<v Speaker 1>it was it on Monday night. That would have been

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<v Speaker 1>legendary to do that. But I will find that for you,

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<v Speaker 1>all right. So twenty twelve on obviously Lamar Miller ninety

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<v Speaker 1>seven yard touchdown and the Monday night or against Tennessee

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<v Speaker 1>and two eighteen, the night we celebrated the life of

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<v Speaker 1>mister McNair. That run is the to me, the best

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<v Speaker 1>run in franchise history. Yes, I will put it there

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<v Speaker 1>because of what it meant that night. Now arians in

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<v Speaker 1>twenty eleven, which you didn't have in the show last night.

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<v Speaker 1>That wasn't a playoff game, so that was super cool.

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<v Speaker 1>Second half icing on the cake, a terrific run, crowd

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<v Speaker 1>going absolutely nuts. That was great. Also, I mean, that's

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<v Speaker 1>right there in the top five. Gotta be if you

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<v Speaker 1>allow yourself to go prior to twenty twelve Slayton Colts

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<v Speaker 1>on the Road. Oh man, that's why it doesn't like

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<v Speaker 1>pop out that game. The Texans had the ball in

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<v Speaker 1>the final drive with Sage Rosenfeld's had the controls but

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<v Speaker 1>couldn't win for the first time ever in India. So

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<v Speaker 1>that there's that one. Okay, yes, but think twenty twelve twelve.

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<v Speaker 1>It's the second longest run in history, the second longest

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<v Speaker 1>run in the history eighty one yards by justin force set.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm thanksgiving, but does it really can't? Should there have

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<v Speaker 1>an asterisk because he was down, got back up, should

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<v Speaker 1>have been down and changed the rule in the NFL

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<v Speaker 1>shorts through the flag and that was automatically reviewable. That

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<v Speaker 1>rule never made any sense to me. I took it

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<v Speaker 1>that day. But wait a minute, I know they automatically

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<v Speaker 1>review it. He threw the flag by mistakes, so it's

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<v Speaker 1>a penalty to throw the flag. Who does it hurt

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<v Speaker 1>to throw the flag? Well, you insulted us by insinuating

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<v Speaker 1>that we would need to review this play. That's automatically reviewable.

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<v Speaker 1>But then they changed the rule anyway, right they did.

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<v Speaker 1>They change it the next year. So yes, justin for set. Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna give you. I'll give you the year. You

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<v Speaker 1>may not get this one, okay, because it's a game

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<v Speaker 1>that Texans lost twenty fourteen. There were two runs back

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<v Speaker 1>to back runs in twenty fourteen and they lost. Think

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<v Speaker 1>game five Pittsburgh, Oh up forty five Dallas. Remember the

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<v Speaker 1>third Arrian had a run that was called back. No,

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<v Speaker 1>he he had two runs back to back. He broke

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<v Speaker 1>a thirty three yard run. I knew, I knew there

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<v Speaker 1>was a point in the game. I knew there was

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<v Speaker 1>a point in the game where he makes two runs.

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<v Speaker 1>The thirty three yard run he had, really he had

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<v Speaker 1>great blocking on a thirty three yard run. But in

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<v Speaker 1>the very next play, they ran the very same play,

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<v Speaker 1>and this time he jocked you and said it during

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<v Speaker 1>your call. He jocked a dB. I mean there was

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<v Speaker 1>laundry left on the field because that guy was grabbing

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<v Speaker 1>ghosts and Arian jocked him in it got in the

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<v Speaker 1>end zone. I remember us taking the lead. I think

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<v Speaker 1>it was six to three, and I think that gave

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<v Speaker 1>us the lead of ten to six if I remember right.

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<v Speaker 1>And I remember I had those two runs in there

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<v Speaker 1>because I thought those runs, the thirty three yard run

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<v Speaker 1>was well blocked. He showed everything the very next run,

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<v Speaker 1>so it was kind of a back to back thing.

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<v Speaker 1>So in as a duo, I had those in twenty fourteen.

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<v Speaker 1>That one hurt light losing a playoff game that stung.

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<v Speaker 1>It hurt a lot because it was such a great game,

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<v Speaker 1>went into overtime, played well to come back because weren't

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<v Speaker 1>they down. They came back to force overtime. And I

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<v Speaker 1>remember when I think when Arion ran into score, I'll

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<v Speaker 1>never forget it. He runs into score and I look

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<v Speaker 1>over and on our sideline, so he went to right,

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<v Speaker 1>We're on the left side, and I just watched Andre

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<v Speaker 1>Johnson all by himself because the dB had gone. They

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<v Speaker 1>had gone to go try and help on a tackle,

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<v Speaker 1>Andrey is just standing there by himself, and there were

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<v Speaker 1>this this group, huge, massive group of red shirted cowboy

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<v Speaker 1>Texans fans and he is just pumping his fist and

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<v Speaker 1>he's like getting love back. He's given love to them,

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<v Speaker 1>and it was just really cool. And then it went

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<v Speaker 1>to overtime. All right. So it's great that you play

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<v Speaker 1>them again this year in December up there, because I think,

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<v Speaker 1>no matter what the record is, that's a huge games.

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<v Speaker 1>So you have at least two Bowl game type atmospheres

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<v Speaker 1>coming up that one because you're gonna bring a lot

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<v Speaker 1>of battle red clad Texans fans and Cleveland here for

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<v Speaker 1>reasons I can't remember, but that'll be a huge day.

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<v Speaker 1>Everyone will want to be here in the building, no

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<v Speaker 1>matter what the situation. Back to back, back back weeks

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<v Speaker 1>in December, getting ready grief? Um next run twenty sixteen.

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<v Speaker 1>Twenty sixteen the Brock year. Yeah, what was a great

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<v Speaker 1>run in that by Lamar Miller? No? I think Christmas

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<v Speaker 1>Eve night Alfred Blue. Yes, that's a good run. Yeah, alright,

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<v Speaker 1>good runned Alfred Blue. You signed Lamar Miller and Brock

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<v Speaker 1>to be the guys, and that night you have Tom

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<v Speaker 1>Savage and Alfred Blue doing the job, clinching the division

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<v Speaker 1>on a missfield goal by Randy thank you, Randy. But

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<v Speaker 1>I remember that run because that was such a low

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<v Speaker 1>scoring game, twelve to ten, and that was a four

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<v Speaker 1>play drive. It was the best the offense had looked.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean it was. It was savage, the fuller savage scramble,

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah savage, the Hopkins blue twenty four yard run touchdown.

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<v Speaker 1>And the place. What I loved listening to those calls

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<v Speaker 1>was the sound in the noise it made in your

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<v Speaker 1>call was just it was Chris to see electricity knowing

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<v Speaker 1>you can clinch the division. Because the Jags beat the

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<v Speaker 1>Titans that day, it was such a grab, such a

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<v Speaker 1>great that's it's one of my favorite days of my

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<v Speaker 1>adult life. It was such a fun day because my

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<v Speaker 1>wife and I were getting ready for Christmas. We're cleaning

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<v Speaker 1>the house. She's watching the Jags Titans. She knows, so

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<v Speaker 1>she's watching the game in the kitchen. I'm watching it

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<v Speaker 1>out and she was. She was ahead of the game,

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<v Speaker 1>so she would hear something or see something to start cheering,

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<v Speaker 1>and I'm like, what happened? And I look up and

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<v Speaker 1>I would see it happen in our game. And then

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<v Speaker 1>we I was up late watching the game, like two

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<v Speaker 1>in the morning, you know, early Christmas Day. It was incredible.

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<v Speaker 1>Twin eighteen was Lamar Milla run. Twenty nineteen. I put

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<v Speaker 1>this run in there because it was the key run

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<v Speaker 1>in the game. We didn't clinch the Vision, but beating

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<v Speaker 1>Tennessee in twenty nineteen, got that run from Carlos hide

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<v Speaker 1>over the left side that gave us a lead. We'd

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<v Speaker 1>taken the lead on Still's touchdowns. They tied it at fourteen.

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<v Speaker 1>We got the ball back and the fourth quarter or

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<v Speaker 1>late in the third and Carlos bounced to run out

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<v Speaker 1>to the side scored. That was that was the difference

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<v Speaker 1>in the win over Tennessee in nineteen that we were

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<v Speaker 1>able to clinch the Vision next week at Tampa Bay.

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<v Speaker 1>But at the ginning that win at Tennessee was big.

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<v Speaker 1>So it was those and then twenty twenty twenty run one.

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<v Speaker 1>Trying to find a run in those two years, Um,

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<v Speaker 1>that's tough. Not gon final to twenty twenty. David Johnson

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<v Speaker 1>nineteen yard or against the Kansas City Chiefs on opening

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<v Speaker 1>one of his first runs of the year. And the

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<v Speaker 1>thought was all right, David Johnson, but it didn't quite

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<v Speaker 1>work out the way you wanted it too. I'll give

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<v Speaker 1>you another one from days gone by in a loss

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<v Speaker 1>though Dominic Davis now known as Dominic Williams. He had

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<v Speaker 1>a fifty one yard run against the Bengals on the road,

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<v Speaker 1>and that was the longest in team history. That was

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<v Speaker 1>year two of franchise history. I remembered that game. But

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<v Speaker 1>a fifty one yard run by Dominic, who again had

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<v Speaker 1>three great years with the Texans. I mean we could

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<v Speaker 1>add a whole I could have done a whole show

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<v Speaker 1>with the Arian runs. And I didn't do twenty twenty eleven.

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<v Speaker 1>I just went by twenty twelve. That's the thing about

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<v Speaker 1>what McLean said the other day, it's the greatest run

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<v Speaker 1>in franchise history. Then he put a disclaimer on it.

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<v Speaker 1>It's the greatest run that didn't result in a touchdown

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<v Speaker 1>in franchise history. But it was a great run on Sunday,

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<v Speaker 1>a twenty yarder by our buddy Damian Pierce. But yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>if you go back, you're gonna find a few. But

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<v Speaker 1>if you just look at the Arian Foster highlight reel

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<v Speaker 1>from opening Day two thousand and ten alone, you're gonna

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<v Speaker 1>find a bunch in that game. Yeah there there, I

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<v Speaker 1>mean just that that opening game. But there were so

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<v Speaker 1>many runs you're like, oh, do you see that? I

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<v Speaker 1>mean he would drop a dead leg. I mean, I

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<v Speaker 1>think the runningains Pittsburgh in twenty eleven. Then he cuts back,

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<v Speaker 1>he starts left and he cuts all the way back.

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<v Speaker 1>I think it was ten to ten and he makes

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<v Speaker 1>that run. Now, like whoa. This guy can do pretty

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<v Speaker 1>much anything. So there's probably a few that I missed

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<v Speaker 1>along the way, but as I started with twenty twelve,

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<v Speaker 1>that was That was pretty much where I ended up going.

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<v Speaker 1>It's fun to talk about though. It's fun to have

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<v Speaker 1>a running back where you can have these discussions. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>where does that measure up? How does it measure up?

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<v Speaker 1>So I thought about this degree of difficulty because it

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<v Speaker 1>wasn't the length of run. It was the amount of

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<v Speaker 1>broken tackles on the run that really sold it. And

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<v Speaker 1>we complained about the angry runs segment. Oh, good morning,

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<v Speaker 1>Kyle Brant. Really, I think wanted Damian Pierce to win,

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<v Speaker 1>but the cohorts on the table did not pick Damian

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<v Speaker 1>Pierce because they're New York people. They're not really New

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<v Speaker 1>York people, but they work in New York and their

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<v Speaker 1>New Jersey ights now or whatever, And that was terrible

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<v Speaker 1>Quinnon Williams hit Tyreek Hill and Tyreek is going to

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<v Speaker 1>be a jet. Oh give me a break. Twenty pounds

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<v Speaker 1>and tyreeks one seventy five. It's physics. Yeah, exactly, stop

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<v Speaker 1>it go to class. My god, big that. I was

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<v Speaker 1>so mad. I found that out as I was driving,

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<v Speaker 1>and I called Tyler Marcott and I was like, do

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<v Speaker 1>we need have a response because this is awful. I

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<v Speaker 1>think the PR department here was none too happy with

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<v Speaker 1>Good Morning Football over that. Oh I was not happy.

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<v Speaker 1>But that's the world we live in. We're complaining about

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<v Speaker 1>not getting the scepter. Yeah, well, nice to get the scepter.

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<v Speaker 1>Henry and Jonathan Daylor get it. We get a scepter.

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<v Speaker 1>We're gonna hang it up in the lobby. Heck yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>but big spotlight on that thing, you kid. But made

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<v Speaker 1>me thinks I'm watching just watching Damian the other day

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<v Speaker 1>and this is one of the things I heard a

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<v Speaker 1>lot in Houston last year. Whose jersey would you go get?

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<v Speaker 1>Whose jersey would you go get? I got a feel

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<v Speaker 1>in October thirtieth, will we come in this building? They're

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<v Speaker 1>gonna be a whole heck of a lot more. Number

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<v Speaker 1>thirty one jerseys in that building we've seen in a while.

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<v Speaker 1>There were no Tristan decouse and there were some David

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<v Speaker 1>Johnson's not a whole lot, but they're gonna be some

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<v Speaker 1>thirty one jerseys in that building, my friend, Yeah, ag,

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<v Speaker 1>some people might have some the old Reebok Aaron Glenn, Yeah, Clause,

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<v Speaker 1>just take the name plate off and just slap pierced

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<v Speaker 1>on that to Aaron. I don't know, maybe others, but

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<v Speaker 1>but I got feel they're gonna be a few more

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<v Speaker 1>thirty one ers. And what made me think about this

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<v Speaker 1>was watching back on the game copy when he makes

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<v Speaker 1>that run, camera pans to a fan in the stands.

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<v Speaker 1>Now it could have been family, I don't I don't know,

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<v Speaker 1>but he had a battle red thirty one on and

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<v Speaker 1>they just flashed right to him. And that got me thinking, oh, man,

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<v Speaker 1>October thirtieth, when the Titans come in here, how many

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<v Speaker 1>thirty one jersey is gonna be out there? I'm gonna

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<v Speaker 1>see if And then I started thinking about, man, there

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<v Speaker 1>there's a good handful of because I thought about it myself,

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<v Speaker 1>like if I had if I hadn't have money to

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<v Speaker 1>go in there and get a jersey and could wear

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<v Speaker 1>it and felt good wearing it as a fifty year

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<v Speaker 1>old man. Which one would I choose? Because you got

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<v Speaker 1>you got five? Thirty one, twenty four, twelve, love twelve,

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<v Speaker 1>Um I would I would wear five. I'd wear five

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<v Speaker 1>right now. Five looks good. I mean, I love them all,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, they're all my guys. But I'd probably get

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<v Speaker 1>a five if you've said you got you have to

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<v Speaker 1>buy a jersey today because I like, Um, he's local,

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<v Speaker 1>he's a leader. You know, pierces all those things too,

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<v Speaker 1>except local. But Pierce is a leader just by what

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<v Speaker 1>he's doing, you know. And I don't want to get

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<v Speaker 1>into who's the leader or whatever, but you know, Petree's Pettree. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I think twenty four is gonna sell a bunch. Hey, Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I would buy twenty four for sure because I was

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<v Speaker 1>my number of college. Yeah, I think twelve is a

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<v Speaker 1>good option here. Uh, the Jersey exchange is going very well,

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<v Speaker 1>by the way. That's where I was going with forty

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<v Speaker 1>four percent discount. And vander kid wants to participate now

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<v Speaker 1>because he has a certain jersey, yeah that he wants

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<v Speaker 1>to exchange. But what does he want to get? He

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<v Speaker 1>wants to get Metchi He very clear. Is good. He

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<v Speaker 1>wants a mess. He loves Metschi and he can't wait

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<v Speaker 1>for Metchi to play. And I'm like, well, you're gonna

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<v Speaker 1>have to wait a little longer here. But well wait,

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<v Speaker 1>you don't have an number eight jersey in the mothball somewhere.

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<v Speaker 1>I know, Wait a minute, here, here's the deal. Here's

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<v Speaker 1>what the vander kids have. They got a lot of eighties, right,

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<v Speaker 1>a lot. You've got a picture of Luke Vandermere as

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<v Speaker 1>a nine month old in an eighty jersey. Okay, as

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<v Speaker 1>a nine month old in two thousand and six, he's

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<v Speaker 1>wearing number eighty. Eighty has been the most popular number

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<v Speaker 1>in the household by far. I don't think we've ever

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<v Speaker 1>gone well. I think we had one quarterback, but that's it. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>And there's been a ten. You know, there's been a

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<v Speaker 1>ten or two. There's an eighty with VanderMeer on the back.

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<v Speaker 1>That's what he wanted. Yeah, Andre won't mind if I

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<v Speaker 1>do that, right, So, Luke VanderMeer was wearing an eighty

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<v Speaker 1>with vandermir on the back. And I'm sure some of

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<v Speaker 1>the people have seen him around stadium wearing that. But

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<v Speaker 1>that's been a while I think Liam's ready to put

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<v Speaker 1>that one on now. Yeah, she's a good One's a

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<v Speaker 1>great one. He's inspired by Metchi and he loves he

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<v Speaker 1>loves when he did at Alabama. Wants to see what

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<v Speaker 1>he's gonna do here. Is inspired by the recovery. Loved

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<v Speaker 1>the feature that we did. It's still on Houston Texans

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<v Speaker 1>dot com. Check it out. Such a great feature. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>so so good. Yeah, I'm gonna put that all a

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<v Speaker 1>player's show soon enough here on a Tuesday night. We're

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<v Speaker 1>gonna get all the Metchi sound from that feature and

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<v Speaker 1>get it together. And obviously he's very busy. Sean Seth

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<v Speaker 1>we're talking about that this morning about I don't know

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<v Speaker 1>how they got how this guy brought up. I think

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<v Speaker 1>maybe because they were talking to Nick, who will have

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<v Speaker 1>in our next segment. But they were talking to Kissario

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<v Speaker 1>and then afterwards we're talking about the draft and oh,

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<v Speaker 1>I think John McClain was on it. They were talking

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<v Speaker 1>about the draft and I think, as it sits right now,

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<v Speaker 1>it's eleven picks. I think it's eleven picks. That that uh, well,

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<v Speaker 1>whatever Texas is going to end up being eleven. No,

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<v Speaker 1>it's not that we don't won't stay the same. But

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<v Speaker 1>we do know one thing. One of the quote unquote

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<v Speaker 1>as they do air quotes on radio, the one of

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<v Speaker 1>the draft picks will be John Metchi because not playing

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<v Speaker 1>this year, having him next year, it's almost like you

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<v Speaker 1>get an extra draft pick. But he's had the whole

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<v Speaker 1>year to learn the system, to know where the building is,

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<v Speaker 1>you know where things aren't a building, no personalities in

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<v Speaker 1>the building, all that kind of stuff. He'll have a

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<v Speaker 1>leg up there, but it's just an opportunity to get

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<v Speaker 1>on the field at that point. But it's like having

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<v Speaker 1>an extra draft pick having John Metchi out there. Now

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<v Speaker 1>we've seen that before with with other rookies, but just

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<v Speaker 1>I think a guy like Metchi coming in at receiver

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<v Speaker 1>helping that group out. I mean, I can't wait to

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<v Speaker 1>see what he does. But it's like getting an extra

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<v Speaker 1>draft pick next year. So whatever he ends up with,

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<v Speaker 1>eight picks, nine picks, whatever it is, you throw John

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<v Speaker 1>Metchi on there, and you get like an extra draft

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<v Speaker 1>pick as it pertains to the draft. But the way

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<v Speaker 1>down the room, if he could somehow be available at

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<v Speaker 1>the start of training camp, that would be huge. Oh

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<v Speaker 1>I would love to see it. I mean Obviously, the

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<v Speaker 1>health is the most important thing. Don't see if he

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<v Speaker 1>can get there and take it from their football wise health,

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<v Speaker 1>health is the most important thing, says Hyman Roth from

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<v Speaker 1>Godfather Part two. I'd want to get a fifty nine jersey.

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<v Speaker 1>I know that sounds sort of but to me, you said, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>this is just some left to the offensive line. Seventy eight.

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<v Speaker 1>I'd wear Laramie jersey for sure. I still see this

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<v Speaker 1>the fifty nine and I do a double tip. Yeahstand,

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<v Speaker 1>I've been around so long, Johnny that sometimes I'll see

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<v Speaker 1>a number and for no reason, like on the practice

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<v Speaker 1>field or something, I'll see like thirty eight. I'll be

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<v Speaker 1>like Pete Fagins, wait in it, that's so many thirty

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<v Speaker 1>eights ago. But it just pops into my mind. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>especially if the players bodies dimensions are similar. Yeah, Like,

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<v Speaker 1>I don't look at Sting and think j Joe. They

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<v Speaker 1>just look they just looked. They look different, right, But

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<v Speaker 1>if there's similarities in the way that guys look like, oh,

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<v Speaker 1>it throws me out. That one doesn't bother me for

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<v Speaker 1>some reason. Sometimes oh man, now I'm gonna forget who

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<v Speaker 1>wore fifty in the early days. But I want to

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<v Speaker 1>say Charlie Anderson. Yeah, Charlie Anderson was like, oh seven,

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<v Speaker 1>that's when I that's when I got here, like oh seven.

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<v Speaker 1>So I'll see a certain number and it'll just take

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<v Speaker 1>me there, like fifty does that. Thirty one always used

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<v Speaker 1>to take me back to Aaron. I'm kind of past

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<v Speaker 1>that now, yeah, but I still think about that because

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<v Speaker 1>now this is a very prominent thirty one we have

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<v Speaker 1>growing for Yeah, no doubt. But yeah. Fifty nine also

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<v Speaker 1>fifty nine to me in Houston, like people call it

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<v Speaker 1>sixty nine now, No, it's fifty nine south, those freeways

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<v Speaker 1>fifty nine. Oh. You know, people are new to the

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<v Speaker 1>city when they refer to fifty nine sixty nine. When

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<v Speaker 1>they at sixty nine, I'm like, what, no, fit Okay, Yes,

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<v Speaker 1>I was a freeway, Okay, it is an interstate. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>It's funny because I still have to translate. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>I've only been here twenty one years. I still have

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<v Speaker 1>to translate, uh Northwest Freeway East tex. Wait a minute,

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<v Speaker 1>that's that's fifty nine north right east Tex. Okay, got it? Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>the Gulf Freeway, all right, got it? Forty five south.

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<v Speaker 1>I like the numbers better. I do like the numbers better.

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<v Speaker 1>I just hate the fact that it went from fifty

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<v Speaker 1>nine to sixty nine. So fifty nine. Hey, it's Kenyon,

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<v Speaker 1>but be it also represents Houston, you know, especially leaving

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<v Speaker 1>on the southwest side like I did beyond the Land

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<v Speaker 1>of Sugar. I was down there in Richard Rosenberg. So

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<v Speaker 1>fifty nine took you all the way from Richard Rosenberg,

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<v Speaker 1>took you allway into Houston, went to downtown. We can

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<v Speaker 1>get to downtown much, but fifty nine meant a lot

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<v Speaker 1>to us growing up, and mcknyon green is meaning a

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<v Speaker 1>lot to this offensive line as we go forward. Now

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<v Speaker 1>we mentioned Nick Kissario a little earlier. He will join

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<v Speaker 1>us next me Mark, Nick, Mark it down, stay here.

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<v Speaker 1>It's Texas All Access. Welcome back this Wednesday issue of

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<v Speaker 1>Texas All Access from the Honday Texans Radio Studio. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>your host, John Harris Football on a sideline reporter. It's

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<v Speaker 1>time to get to our weekly interview with one of

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<v Speaker 1>our favorite people in the building, General manager Nick Cassario.

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<v Speaker 1>He stepped into the hot seat, man, not really, he

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<v Speaker 1>just stepped into the third seat next to myself and

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<v Speaker 1>Mark Vanamir. We wax poetic about a number of things

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<v Speaker 1>including Randy Moss. Here we go, joining us. Now we're

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<v Speaker 1>in studio. Texans general manager Nick Kassio. Nick, welcome, it's

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<v Speaker 1>the buy So here we are. You said in your

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<v Speaker 1>press conference you earned the record you have. It's it's

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<v Speaker 1>almost like the old parcels thing. You are what your

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<v Speaker 1>record says you are. You've been right there in all

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<v Speaker 1>these games. It seems like in the Jacksonville game you

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<v Speaker 1>did make those plays in the fourth quarter that you

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<v Speaker 1>really coveted. Yeah, any we were able to finish the game.

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<v Speaker 1>So six sixth, they're kind of going into the fourth quarter.

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<v Speaker 1>We're able to get the ball down near the goal

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<v Speaker 1>line and then able to put the ball in the

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<v Speaker 1>end zone, and then we're able to get some stops

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<v Speaker 1>there at the end of the game to you know,

0:21:02.440 --> 0:21:04.360
<v Speaker 1>come out with the win. So it was a good

0:21:04.359 --> 0:21:08.040
<v Speaker 1>team effort. Did enough offensively, i'd say defensively, which I

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<v Speaker 1>would say for the most part, we've been pretty good

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<v Speaker 1>in the red area all year when you go back

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<v Speaker 1>and look at you know, and it's about points. So

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<v Speaker 1>we're able to keep them out of the red area.

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<v Speaker 1>They got red area defense. You know, we've done you know,

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<v Speaker 1>top ten or fifteen in the league, whatever it is.

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<v Speaker 1>So being able to keep mine of the end zone,

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<v Speaker 1>be able to get some stops get off the field,

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<v Speaker 1>either force a field goal or force some other you

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<v Speaker 1>know situation. So and made some plays in the kicking game,

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<v Speaker 1>I'd say, be able to control field positions, so kind

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<v Speaker 1>of that was a game where hidden yards sort of

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<v Speaker 1>showed up and mattered m and then resulted in a victory. So, um,

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<v Speaker 1>it's always good to win. It's hard to win in

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<v Speaker 1>this league. But I think everybody was excited for the

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<v Speaker 1>opportunity to to win, and we earned earned a victory. Um,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, now we got a transition and try to

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<v Speaker 1>improve and continue to improve as a team and then

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<v Speaker 1>get ready for the next challenge in front of us,

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<v Speaker 1>which will be you know, the Raiders here in a

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<v Speaker 1>couple of weeks. Nick, was there any secret saw in

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<v Speaker 1>the fourth quarter? There's been so many close games. I mean,

0:22:02.040 --> 0:22:04.440
<v Speaker 1>you had and lead against the Colts, just tie going

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<v Speaker 1>into the fourth quarter against Broncos Bear the same thing,

0:22:07.320 --> 0:22:09.960
<v Speaker 1>tied in third charges you got it back within three.

0:22:10.000 --> 0:22:11.520
<v Speaker 1>But this when you push over the top, is there

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<v Speaker 1>any sort of secret sauce in the fourth quarter to

0:22:13.760 --> 0:22:15.600
<v Speaker 1>make it sure you got that. Yeah, not necessarily. I

0:22:15.600 --> 0:22:17.879
<v Speaker 1>think it was just we had good execution as a team,

0:22:17.920 --> 0:22:20.520
<v Speaker 1>so we were able to execute. I forget how many

0:22:20.520 --> 0:22:22.600
<v Speaker 1>plays on that particular drive where we scored. I mean,

0:22:22.640 --> 0:22:24.680
<v Speaker 1>everybody wants to talk about, you know, Damien's rown, which

0:22:24.720 --> 0:22:26.159
<v Speaker 1>was you know a big part of that drive, but

0:22:26.920 --> 0:22:28.879
<v Speaker 1>rabble to executing third down. I mean, Walker had the

0:22:28.880 --> 0:22:31.480
<v Speaker 1>personal file penalty, so you know, in the end that

0:22:31.800 --> 0:22:33.679
<v Speaker 1>worked to our advantage. So but it just goes to

0:22:33.720 --> 0:22:35.960
<v Speaker 1>show you, like a play like that, just playing smart

0:22:36.000 --> 0:22:38.440
<v Speaker 1>situational football and not putting your team in a position

0:22:39.040 --> 0:22:41.199
<v Speaker 1>where it could sustain a drive. So we got the

0:22:41.240 --> 0:22:43.520
<v Speaker 1>penalty and they kept the drive moving and then get

0:22:43.520 --> 0:22:45.120
<v Speaker 1>the ball down there the goal line and be able

0:22:45.119 --> 0:22:46.639
<v Speaker 1>to finish the drive. So it's saying in the end,

0:22:46.680 --> 0:22:50.360
<v Speaker 1>nothing magical, but other than we were really execute enough

0:22:50.440 --> 0:22:52.840
<v Speaker 1>plays to get the ball into the end zone. Well,

0:22:52.840 --> 0:22:55.600
<v Speaker 1>the third and ten conversion was as big as anything, right,

0:22:55.640 --> 0:22:57.760
<v Speaker 1>because if you don't make that, it's decision time. How

0:22:57.800 --> 0:22:59.800
<v Speaker 1>are you going to handle the situation? And Aikins with

0:22:59.880 --> 0:23:04.400
<v Speaker 1>the catch, it extended for the marker the needed yardage?

0:23:04.560 --> 0:23:07.200
<v Speaker 1>What about him? The tight end group and that play

0:23:07.240 --> 0:23:09.320
<v Speaker 1>in particular, I know, a double edged question, but we've

0:23:09.359 --> 0:23:12.399
<v Speaker 1>got time. Yeah, no, it was you know, it was

0:23:12.440 --> 0:23:15.200
<v Speaker 1>a bank bang play there, so tight throw, tight coverage,

0:23:15.280 --> 0:23:17.520
<v Speaker 1>and after the catch there was still a yard or

0:23:17.520 --> 0:23:20.439
<v Speaker 1>two that we had a game to get the sticks. Um,

0:23:20.480 --> 0:23:22.760
<v Speaker 1>and Ache was able to do that. So ACH's taken

0:23:22.840 --> 0:23:25.320
<v Speaker 1>advantage of his opportunities here in the passing game. UM,

0:23:25.400 --> 0:23:27.520
<v Speaker 1>I think he only played ten plays but had two

0:23:27.520 --> 0:23:31.000
<v Speaker 1>conversions on third down. Mason played I don't know, twenty

0:23:31.000 --> 0:23:33.640
<v Speaker 1>five snaps whatever it was, and Oj and he's played

0:23:33.640 --> 0:23:35.800
<v Speaker 1>a lot of snaps here since you know, we signed

0:23:35.880 --> 0:23:37.840
<v Speaker 1>him there at the beginning of the year. So I

0:23:37.880 --> 0:23:40.760
<v Speaker 1>mean that collectively, that group collectively, as it was worked

0:23:40.760 --> 0:23:42.760
<v Speaker 1>and you know, done enough good things here to kind

0:23:42.760 --> 0:23:45.080
<v Speaker 1>of help us at different points, all three of them. Um.

0:23:45.160 --> 0:23:47.479
<v Speaker 1>And then even you throw Troy in there, kind of fullback, fullback,

0:23:47.520 --> 0:23:50.639
<v Speaker 1>tight end or that group. I think Troy played the

0:23:50.680 --> 0:23:52.760
<v Speaker 1>most snaps in this game that he had, you know,

0:23:52.800 --> 0:23:55.159
<v Speaker 1>all years. So, UM, you know, at any end, it's

0:23:55.160 --> 0:23:57.000
<v Speaker 1>accredit to the players. It's a credit to the coaches

0:23:57.040 --> 0:23:59.000
<v Speaker 1>for being able to go out there execute their job,

0:23:59.359 --> 0:24:02.560
<v Speaker 1>have enough offense to put those players in a position

0:24:03.480 --> 0:24:05.920
<v Speaker 1>to help our team You've mentioned this a few times

0:24:05.880 --> 0:24:07.639
<v Speaker 1>and Nick to us because we always ask you what

0:24:07.680 --> 0:24:10.040
<v Speaker 1>the practice squad and practice squad rules and all that,

0:24:10.720 --> 0:24:14.360
<v Speaker 1>and whenever people mentioned and when we first started talking

0:24:14.359 --> 0:24:15.719
<v Speaker 1>to you, we would talk about the fifty three man

0:24:15.840 --> 0:24:17.600
<v Speaker 1>roster and you were like, who whoa, whoa, whoa whoa,

0:24:17.800 --> 0:24:20.240
<v Speaker 1>sixty nine, sixty nine man roster. If you're here, you're

0:24:20.280 --> 0:24:22.399
<v Speaker 1>going to have an opportunity to play. It felt like

0:24:22.400 --> 0:24:24.399
<v Speaker 1>that game against Jacksonville was a perfect example of that

0:24:24.480 --> 0:24:27.240
<v Speaker 1>because guys that have been contributing a special teams are

0:24:27.240 --> 0:24:30.359
<v Speaker 1>playing on defense. You know, JRM's playing at linebacker. You

0:24:30.359 --> 0:24:32.920
<v Speaker 1>have never playing linebacker. Jake's getting into game at linebacker.

0:24:33.600 --> 0:24:35.440
<v Speaker 1>But the only place you didn't rotate guys was on

0:24:35.480 --> 0:24:38.040
<v Speaker 1>the offensive line. But you're not going to But it's

0:24:38.040 --> 0:24:40.000
<v Speaker 1>not that we doubted you. But if you're on this roster,

0:24:40.160 --> 0:24:42.120
<v Speaker 1>sixty nine man, you're gonna get on the field at

0:24:42.119 --> 0:24:44.240
<v Speaker 1>some point. It seems it felt like you got contributions

0:24:44.240 --> 0:24:46.320
<v Speaker 1>from everybody. Is that the way you saw it on Sunday? Yeah?

0:24:46.359 --> 0:24:49.280
<v Speaker 1>And I think and we've been pretty consistent from the beginning,

0:24:49.320 --> 0:24:52.160
<v Speaker 1>even when kind of starting a program, you know, last year,

0:24:53.480 --> 0:24:55.560
<v Speaker 1>if we bring a player in the building, you're going

0:24:55.640 --> 0:24:58.159
<v Speaker 1>to have an opportunity, and you're going to earn your opportunity.

0:24:58.400 --> 0:25:01.240
<v Speaker 1>So and at some point we're gonna need everybody and

0:25:01.440 --> 0:25:04.000
<v Speaker 1>part of your responsibility, regardless if you're on the roster,

0:25:04.080 --> 0:25:06.800
<v Speaker 1>you're on the practice squad, it's to prepare to play.

0:25:07.200 --> 0:25:09.959
<v Speaker 1>So your job is prepared to play. I would say,

0:25:10.080 --> 0:25:12.800
<v Speaker 1>you know, Mason was an example where not this week,

0:25:12.800 --> 0:25:16.840
<v Speaker 1>but the previous week went through the whole week, really

0:25:16.880 --> 0:25:19.240
<v Speaker 1>hadn't taken a rep. You take most of his reps

0:25:19.320 --> 0:25:21.560
<v Speaker 1>on the look squad. At the end of the week,

0:25:21.760 --> 0:25:24.040
<v Speaker 1>we had a situation where like he had to play

0:25:24.040 --> 0:25:26.679
<v Speaker 1>in a game, so he had to play against the

0:25:26.800 --> 0:25:30.560
<v Speaker 1>Chargers when he hadn't practiced all week. But because it's

0:25:30.600 --> 0:25:31.600
<v Speaker 1>some of the things that happened to the end of

0:25:31.640 --> 0:25:33.840
<v Speaker 1>the week from a health standpoint, that was the way

0:25:33.840 --> 0:25:36.400
<v Speaker 1>that we had to go. So if he's not preparing

0:25:36.440 --> 0:25:38.480
<v Speaker 1>the right way, if he doesn't have the right mindset,

0:25:38.520 --> 0:25:40.520
<v Speaker 1>if he doesn't have the right approach, they's not gonna

0:25:40.520 --> 0:25:41.639
<v Speaker 1>be able to go out there on the field, and

0:25:41.640 --> 0:25:44.119
<v Speaker 1>we're not gonna have enough confidence to put him on

0:25:44.160 --> 0:25:47.159
<v Speaker 1>the field. So to your question and to your point,

0:25:47.200 --> 0:25:50.399
<v Speaker 1>everybody earns the opportunity to play, and everybody's going to

0:25:50.440 --> 0:25:52.440
<v Speaker 1>have the opportunity to play, and you have to prepare

0:25:52.440 --> 0:25:55.240
<v Speaker 1>for that opportunity to play because you really never know

0:25:55.280 --> 0:25:56.879
<v Speaker 1>when that's going to take place. I say one of

0:25:56.880 --> 0:25:59.399
<v Speaker 1>the things where a bey the positive things that's come

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<v Speaker 1>out of it, and I think the NFL has done

0:26:01.200 --> 0:26:03.960
<v Speaker 1>a great job of recognizing this is the expansion of

0:26:03.960 --> 0:26:06.160
<v Speaker 1>the practice squad rosters. So it's just given you more

0:26:06.280 --> 0:26:11.119
<v Speaker 1>roster flexibility. It gives more players more opportunities, and every

0:26:11.160 --> 0:26:13.439
<v Speaker 1>team has to be judicious with how they use the

0:26:13.440 --> 0:26:17.280
<v Speaker 1>practice squad. So we'll buy buy the rules. Well, we'll

0:26:17.320 --> 0:26:19.680
<v Speaker 1>play within the rules, but we'll try to use them

0:26:19.720 --> 0:26:21.600
<v Speaker 1>to our advantage and be smart and try to make

0:26:21.640 --> 0:26:23.760
<v Speaker 1>the right decision for our team. Nike, it feels like

0:26:23.800 --> 0:26:25.919
<v Speaker 1>every game is a state of the union address on

0:26:25.920 --> 0:26:27.959
<v Speaker 1>where the team is at, where the organization is at.

0:26:28.040 --> 0:26:30.400
<v Speaker 1>Maybe it's that way in the NFL anyway. But let's

0:26:30.440 --> 0:26:32.920
<v Speaker 1>talk about the passing attack here, because not a high

0:26:33.000 --> 0:26:35.159
<v Speaker 1>volume of yards, but you made the plays when you

0:26:35.200 --> 0:26:37.600
<v Speaker 1>needed to make them better on third down. Some of

0:26:37.640 --> 0:26:40.439
<v Speaker 1>that was on the ground too, Nico, with not a

0:26:40.480 --> 0:26:42.360
<v Speaker 1>fifty eight yard or this week, but with some big

0:26:42.400 --> 0:26:44.960
<v Speaker 1>plays branded as well. Can you talk about that? Yeah,

0:26:45.040 --> 0:26:46.760
<v Speaker 1>I mean it's at a passing game. You know, there

0:26:46.760 --> 0:26:49.800
<v Speaker 1>are some chunk play opportunities. So had some completions on

0:26:49.880 --> 0:26:52.040
<v Speaker 1>p and ten situations, you know, through to come back

0:26:52.040 --> 0:26:55.560
<v Speaker 1>to Nico, through the pod past Nico, and then the

0:26:55.560 --> 0:26:57.800
<v Speaker 1>play on third down near the sideline. You know, it's

0:26:57.840 --> 0:27:00.159
<v Speaker 1>kind of a circus catch. But I would say as

0:27:00.160 --> 0:27:03.200
<v Speaker 1>a quarterback, and you see this all throughout the course

0:27:03.240 --> 0:27:05.639
<v Speaker 1>of the league, um, you just want to give the

0:27:05.680 --> 0:27:07.960
<v Speaker 1>receiver an opportunity to make a play on the ball.

0:27:08.280 --> 0:27:11.960
<v Speaker 1>And depending on how the corner is positioned and the

0:27:12.080 --> 0:27:14.199
<v Speaker 1>technique that he's using, it's one or two things that's

0:27:14.240 --> 0:27:17.760
<v Speaker 1>probably gonna happen. Your guy's gonna catch it, or there's

0:27:17.800 --> 0:27:20.200
<v Speaker 1>going to be a penalty, or something's gonna happen unless

0:27:20.240 --> 0:27:22.760
<v Speaker 1>the receive the defensive back is kind of in phase

0:27:23.119 --> 0:27:25.560
<v Speaker 1>and he's able to turn his head back and find

0:27:25.600 --> 0:27:28.480
<v Speaker 1>the ball, which some are more skilled, more equipped to

0:27:28.520 --> 0:27:31.360
<v Speaker 1>do that than others. So I would say the passing

0:27:31.359 --> 0:27:34.359
<v Speaker 1>games had its moments. Um certainly can do a better job,

0:27:34.520 --> 0:27:36.399
<v Speaker 1>you know in that area, and just trying to continue

0:27:36.440 --> 0:27:39.840
<v Speaker 1>to find ways to maybe create some chunk opportunities which

0:27:39.840 --> 0:27:42.240
<v Speaker 1>help shortened drives and move the ball down the field

0:27:42.280 --> 0:27:44.840
<v Speaker 1>with less place. Nick Mark and I had this conversation

0:27:44.960 --> 0:27:47.240
<v Speaker 1>heavy to do with Damien, and it's it's about what

0:27:47.320 --> 0:27:50.679
<v Speaker 1>Damien's doing, but it's it's a bigger conversation, and that

0:27:50.880 --> 0:27:54.120
<v Speaker 1>is with Margaret's talking about with Damien, like, Oh he's

0:27:54.160 --> 0:27:56.240
<v Speaker 1>t well, No he's not. Oh he's tackled. Oh he's not.

0:27:56.359 --> 0:27:59.119
<v Speaker 1>He's keeping fighting through these tackles. As a player on

0:27:59.320 --> 0:28:01.000
<v Speaker 1>the field, when you have a running back like that,

0:28:01.080 --> 0:28:03.760
<v Speaker 1>you know he has a propensity to break tackles like that.

0:28:05.080 --> 0:28:07.320
<v Speaker 1>You have to adapt as a player, knowing, hey, look

0:28:07.320 --> 0:28:09.199
<v Speaker 1>I can't just stand this block two three seconds. I

0:28:09.200 --> 0:28:10.600
<v Speaker 1>gotta be on this thing all the way because he

0:28:10.680 --> 0:28:13.879
<v Speaker 1>might break this thing. Sort of like when in New

0:28:13.920 --> 0:28:17.080
<v Speaker 1>England when you got Moss, when Randy's running rights down

0:28:17.119 --> 0:28:20.080
<v Speaker 1>the field, how long did it take for Tom to understand, Okay,

0:28:20.119 --> 0:28:22.359
<v Speaker 1>he doesn't look like he's open, but it's Randy Moss,

0:28:22.359 --> 0:28:23.920
<v Speaker 1>so he's actually open. How long does it kind of

0:28:23.920 --> 0:28:26.719
<v Speaker 1>take for other players to adjust When you have a

0:28:26.760 --> 0:28:28.920
<v Speaker 1>player like that that does some things they're different than

0:28:28.960 --> 0:28:30.800
<v Speaker 1>what you're used to I think the more you play

0:28:30.840 --> 0:28:33.000
<v Speaker 1>with somebody, you sort of learn to understand some of

0:28:33.000 --> 0:28:36.320
<v Speaker 1>the nuances associated with that particular player. So I would

0:28:36.359 --> 0:28:39.800
<v Speaker 1>say your goal offensively if the ball, if it's a

0:28:39.840 --> 0:28:41.720
<v Speaker 1>running player or a passing play, is to finish. So

0:28:41.760 --> 0:28:43.920
<v Speaker 1>the emphasis should be unfinished in the play. So if

0:28:43.960 --> 0:28:45.720
<v Speaker 1>you have to block the run for us, you have

0:28:45.760 --> 0:28:47.800
<v Speaker 1>to block them down safety block him as long as

0:28:47.800 --> 0:28:49.200
<v Speaker 1>you to block him right, and you have to be

0:28:49.400 --> 0:28:52.280
<v Speaker 1>I would say, committed to doing that. So let's say

0:28:52.400 --> 0:28:57.000
<v Speaker 1>player like Moss, so you can't underestimate like his speed

0:28:57.280 --> 0:28:59.000
<v Speaker 1>or whatever it is, so you might have to adjust

0:28:59.080 --> 0:29:01.080
<v Speaker 1>the timing. So a lot of this is when you

0:29:01.120 --> 0:29:03.720
<v Speaker 1>play with somebody for a longer period of time, you

0:29:03.760 --> 0:29:05.719
<v Speaker 1>have better understanding the nuances and some of the things

0:29:05.760 --> 0:29:07.600
<v Speaker 1>that they're capable of doing as a player. And each

0:29:07.600 --> 0:29:10.200
<v Speaker 1>player is different. There's no one player that's the same.

0:29:10.280 --> 0:29:15.600
<v Speaker 1>So part of the education of your teammates is understanding

0:29:15.680 --> 0:29:18.800
<v Speaker 1>each other. So the offensive line, okay, that's the one

0:29:18.840 --> 0:29:22.040
<v Speaker 1>group those five guys have to work cohesively on each

0:29:22.080 --> 0:29:24.760
<v Speaker 1>play in order to have a successful place. So the communication,

0:29:25.240 --> 0:29:27.480
<v Speaker 1>so communication usual, he goes from inside out, so it

0:29:27.520 --> 0:29:29.080
<v Speaker 1>goes from the center to the guard, and you got

0:29:29.320 --> 0:29:31.239
<v Speaker 1>from the guard to the tackle, So that communication from

0:29:31.240 --> 0:29:32.720
<v Speaker 1>the guard of the tackle, then the tackle to the

0:29:32.720 --> 0:29:35.320
<v Speaker 1>tight end if it's a run play. So you're relying

0:29:35.360 --> 0:29:37.840
<v Speaker 1>on a guy next to you and understanding, all right,

0:29:37.960 --> 0:29:39.880
<v Speaker 1>here's kind of how he operates. Here's some of the

0:29:39.880 --> 0:29:42.600
<v Speaker 1>things that he does. Well, maybe you have to adjust

0:29:42.680 --> 0:29:45.320
<v Speaker 1>or modify something on your end, but that's part of

0:29:45.400 --> 0:29:47.680
<v Speaker 1>learning each other and that's part of understanding how to

0:29:47.680 --> 0:29:50.640
<v Speaker 1>play football with your teammates. So you were coaching when

0:29:50.880 --> 0:29:53.320
<v Speaker 1>Randy was there, So what does it like to coach

0:29:54.000 --> 0:29:56.760
<v Speaker 1>coach to coach a player who's so good? His name

0:29:56.840 --> 0:29:59.960
<v Speaker 1>is also a verb. Players make coaches coaches don't make play,

0:30:02.360 --> 0:30:05.320
<v Speaker 1>But you're there to guide. And he's a really intelligent

0:30:05.360 --> 0:30:09.600
<v Speaker 1>guy too. Yeah, yes, I have a great Moss anecdote

0:30:09.640 --> 0:30:14.040
<v Speaker 1>and the story. So we we knew he was going

0:30:14.120 --> 0:30:16.280
<v Speaker 1>to help our team once we got through the spring

0:30:16.320 --> 0:30:18.520
<v Speaker 1>and you know, started training camp. So I want to

0:30:18.520 --> 0:30:20.160
<v Speaker 1>say it was a first or second day of training camp,

0:30:20.200 --> 0:30:22.800
<v Speaker 1>runs a post route and he kind of pulls up

0:30:22.880 --> 0:30:25.520
<v Speaker 1>with a little bit of a hamstring issue. So I mean,

0:30:25.560 --> 0:30:28.680
<v Speaker 1>we're literally two days into training camp, so we don't

0:30:28.760 --> 0:30:31.920
<v Speaker 1>see him until the opener against the Jets, so he

0:30:32.000 --> 0:30:34.440
<v Speaker 1>literally he's a couple of days of training camp and

0:30:34.440 --> 0:30:36.280
<v Speaker 1>then until we played the Jets, We're like, all right,

0:30:36.280 --> 0:30:37.840
<v Speaker 1>I'm not really sure how this is going to go.

0:30:38.360 --> 0:30:39.960
<v Speaker 1>So that was kind of fruit we had. You know,

0:30:40.160 --> 0:30:42.640
<v Speaker 1>had Randy, we had Dante Stallwarthy at Gaffney l Welker,

0:30:42.720 --> 0:30:44.040
<v Speaker 1>so we were going to be more of an eleven

0:30:44.120 --> 0:30:48.280
<v Speaker 1>personnel team. You know, Moroney was back, so like we

0:30:48.360 --> 0:30:50.479
<v Speaker 1>had a decent skill group. You know, Tommy was a quarterback.

0:30:50.600 --> 0:30:53.200
<v Speaker 1>So we get into I want to say, we were

0:30:53.200 --> 0:30:55.960
<v Speaker 1>in like thirteen personnel with Randy as a single receiver,

0:30:56.480 --> 0:30:59.520
<v Speaker 1>and we called a pistol route basically where Mosters runs

0:30:59.560 --> 0:31:02.280
<v Speaker 1>down the field and he can freaking pretty much go anywhere.

0:31:03.200 --> 0:31:05.560
<v Speaker 1>We hadn't run this played before at all, so put

0:31:05.680 --> 0:31:07.600
<v Speaker 1>Moss on the field. They kind of played it the

0:31:07.640 --> 0:31:09.040
<v Speaker 1>way that we thought we were going to play it.

0:31:09.200 --> 0:31:11.920
<v Speaker 1>And you know, Randy gets going and you know tom

0:31:12.040 --> 0:31:15.080
<v Speaker 1>just like launches the ball down the field and we

0:31:15.160 --> 0:31:16.760
<v Speaker 1>score a touchdown. We all kind of look at each

0:31:16.800 --> 0:31:20.720
<v Speaker 1>other like, oh god, you know, so it worked. Um, yeah,

0:31:21.000 --> 0:31:24.400
<v Speaker 1>Randy's is a skilled a receiver. Um, it's probably his

0:31:24.480 --> 0:31:27.600
<v Speaker 1>reason you know, the history NFL very unique what he provided.

0:31:28.800 --> 0:31:31.800
<v Speaker 1>So but each player again has their own strengths as

0:31:31.840 --> 0:31:33.800
<v Speaker 1>real weaknesses, and you just have to figure out how

0:31:33.880 --> 0:31:36.200
<v Speaker 1>to play with that player, and you know, how you

0:31:36.360 --> 0:31:39.080
<v Speaker 1>help each other ultimately is the most important thing. Nick

0:31:39.120 --> 0:31:40.680
<v Speaker 1>after the game. I don't know if you guys, I'm

0:31:40.720 --> 0:31:43.400
<v Speaker 1>sure you guys get this that I'm holding my hands.

0:31:43.440 --> 0:31:45.600
<v Speaker 1>This is the game book Omar hands us to the

0:31:45.840 --> 0:31:47.600
<v Speaker 1>gives these to us, and we obviously look back in

0:31:47.680 --> 0:31:50.120
<v Speaker 1>the things. It's so much of stats and stuff. And

0:31:50.680 --> 0:31:53.440
<v Speaker 1>you know, they say stats are for you know, nerds

0:31:53.440 --> 0:31:55.400
<v Speaker 1>and losers, but I don't think that's quite the case.

0:31:55.640 --> 0:31:57.160
<v Speaker 1>But when you grab this and when you get this

0:31:57.320 --> 0:31:59.400
<v Speaker 1>game book, what's the first thing that you look at

0:31:59.480 --> 0:32:01.800
<v Speaker 1>after the game? What's the first stat you want to

0:32:01.880 --> 0:32:04.000
<v Speaker 1>see after the game? I'll add one on top of that.

0:32:04.280 --> 0:32:06.080
<v Speaker 1>Let's say you're looking at an old game that you

0:32:06.160 --> 0:32:09.200
<v Speaker 1>didn't really you don't remember or you didn't see, like

0:32:09.320 --> 0:32:11.960
<v Speaker 1>something from the nineties, and at nineteen ninety six the

0:32:12.080 --> 0:32:14.720
<v Speaker 1>Broncos played Whoever, and I want to see what happened.

0:32:14.760 --> 0:32:16.800
<v Speaker 1>What would be the first thing you'd look at besides

0:32:16.880 --> 0:32:20.480
<v Speaker 1>the score? Yeah, everybody has a different process of what

0:32:20.520 --> 0:32:22.720
<v Speaker 1>they go through, and it's kind of their their postgame

0:32:22.920 --> 0:32:27.960
<v Speaker 1>preparation or evaluation. So really I'll look at the situational elements,

0:32:28.200 --> 0:32:31.680
<v Speaker 1>just kind of third down, red area, turnovers and penalties, Okay,

0:32:31.720 --> 0:32:33.840
<v Speaker 1>what happened in those situations, and then you kind of

0:32:33.880 --> 0:32:36.720
<v Speaker 1>fill in some of the other information and then let's

0:32:36.720 --> 0:32:38.440
<v Speaker 1>say feel position is a big part of it. So

0:32:38.760 --> 0:32:41.520
<v Speaker 1>drive start, you know, factors in So do we have

0:32:41.800 --> 0:32:44.880
<v Speaker 1>control of the game, do we you know, the drive

0:32:45.000 --> 0:32:48.600
<v Speaker 1>start situation, how did that stack up? Not the transition

0:32:48.640 --> 0:32:50.000
<v Speaker 1>to the kicking game a little bit, but when you

0:32:50.080 --> 0:32:51.160
<v Speaker 1>kind of look at some of the things that we've

0:32:51.200 --> 0:32:53.920
<v Speaker 1>done in the kicking game, So our opponents drive start

0:32:54.120 --> 0:32:55.720
<v Speaker 1>or you know, we're top of the league in terms

0:32:55.760 --> 0:33:01.120
<v Speaker 1>of the opponent us covering the kickoff like we've you know,

0:33:01.160 --> 0:33:02.880
<v Speaker 1>our kickoff team has done a you know, done a

0:33:02.960 --> 0:33:06.040
<v Speaker 1>great job. And it's been i'd say a number of

0:33:06.080 --> 0:33:08.320
<v Speaker 1>different players. I'd say the last couple of weeks, JRM

0:33:08.400 --> 0:33:10.320
<v Speaker 1>is shown up. I'd say MJ has been as consistent

0:33:10.360 --> 0:33:12.000
<v Speaker 1>as any special things player in the league. Has done

0:33:12.040 --> 0:33:14.360
<v Speaker 1>a great job for us as a personal protector um

0:33:14.440 --> 0:33:16.560
<v Speaker 1>and I'd say, you know, Agnew is a really good

0:33:16.600 --> 0:33:18.720
<v Speaker 1>returner and he's hard to tackle in the game space

0:33:18.800 --> 0:33:20.280
<v Speaker 1>on the first one, and you know they got the

0:33:20.320 --> 0:33:21.800
<v Speaker 1>block in the back on that. But then we had

0:33:21.800 --> 0:33:23.840
<v Speaker 1>a couple of tackles inside the twenty. So anytime you

0:33:23.960 --> 0:33:27.080
<v Speaker 1>can spce the offense to start inside the twenty, that's

0:33:27.280 --> 0:33:29.000
<v Speaker 1>I mean, that's a good thing. So I'd say our

0:33:29.080 --> 0:33:32.719
<v Speaker 1>coverage has been probably one of our strengths. Going back

0:33:32.760 --> 0:33:35.080
<v Speaker 1>to your question, like drive start, there's a big part

0:33:35.120 --> 0:33:37.720
<v Speaker 1>of it, and then some of the situational elements. How

0:33:37.760 --> 0:33:40.080
<v Speaker 1>do we handle those because ultimately those are probably going

0:33:40.160 --> 0:33:42.280
<v Speaker 1>to be a big part in winning or losing the game.

0:33:42.920 --> 0:33:45.120
<v Speaker 1>All Right, so it's bye week. What are you going

0:33:45.200 --> 0:33:48.520
<v Speaker 1>to do other than watch film and study college players?

0:33:48.560 --> 0:33:50.960
<v Speaker 1>In that kind of you What do you got, Nick?

0:33:51.040 --> 0:33:52.680
<v Speaker 1>What do you have on the agenda for the buyer?

0:33:52.720 --> 0:33:56.000
<v Speaker 1>Watch more film, watch our next two or three opponents? UM,

0:33:56.320 --> 0:33:59.040
<v Speaker 1>I think it's important for us to kind of understand

0:33:59.200 --> 0:34:01.400
<v Speaker 1>our team and what are some of the things that

0:34:01.440 --> 0:34:03.160
<v Speaker 1>we're doing well, where are some of the areas that

0:34:03.280 --> 0:34:06.520
<v Speaker 1>we can identify and try to make some incremental improvements.

0:34:06.560 --> 0:34:09.120
<v Speaker 1>And then if we may make some incremental improvements, maybe

0:34:09.120 --> 0:34:11.520
<v Speaker 1>you can help the overall performance. So I think, really,

0:34:12.320 --> 0:34:15.000
<v Speaker 1>like anything, just staying true to your process, stay consistent,

0:34:15.160 --> 0:34:18.120
<v Speaker 1>try to stay on schedule. We talked about this last

0:34:18.160 --> 0:34:20.799
<v Speaker 1>week a little bit, so the next opponents or kind

0:34:20.800 --> 0:34:22.799
<v Speaker 1>of have played each other here a little bit, right,

0:34:23.000 --> 0:34:26.239
<v Speaker 1>So Tennessee played Washington, so we're gonna play both teams

0:34:26.280 --> 0:34:28.200
<v Speaker 1>here over the next you know, four to six weeks,

0:34:28.280 --> 0:34:30.120
<v Speaker 1>so being able to go through that game here a

0:34:30.160 --> 0:34:32.040
<v Speaker 1>little bit. So we obviously had the Vegas game from

0:34:32.080 --> 0:34:34.719
<v Speaker 1>last night in Kansas City, but we've seen them multiple times,

0:34:34.719 --> 0:34:36.560
<v Speaker 1>so I'll play against the Chargers, so we've seen them,

0:34:36.600 --> 0:34:38.919
<v Speaker 1>so we're gonna work on our preparation for Vegas. I'd

0:34:38.920 --> 0:34:42.000
<v Speaker 1>say Philly's kind of a newer team or newer opponent

0:34:42.800 --> 0:34:45.400
<v Speaker 1>NFC East, so you'll probably maybe have to spend a

0:34:45.400 --> 0:34:47.080
<v Speaker 1>little more time on them. And I mean they're one

0:34:47.080 --> 0:34:48.839
<v Speaker 1>of the best teams in the league and undefeated team

0:34:48.840 --> 0:34:50.840
<v Speaker 1>in the league. So i'd say he's next three to

0:34:50.920 --> 0:34:53.080
<v Speaker 1>four weeks, you know, certainly going to present some challenges,

0:34:53.120 --> 0:34:55.239
<v Speaker 1>So just trying to stay ahead in the preparation and

0:34:55.360 --> 0:34:57.880
<v Speaker 1>then mix in some of the I would say college

0:34:57.920 --> 0:35:01.080
<v Speaker 1>work probably been to and full of games this year,

0:35:01.320 --> 0:35:05.400
<v Speaker 1>seeing some teams live, you know, watch some some players

0:35:05.440 --> 0:35:07.920
<v Speaker 1>in the office had some information come in relative to

0:35:08.080 --> 0:35:10.359
<v Speaker 1>player evaluations from our scouts. So just try to keep

0:35:10.400 --> 0:35:11.920
<v Speaker 1>the ball moving forward here a little bit and not

0:35:12.000 --> 0:35:14.759
<v Speaker 1>fall behind your preparation. Next week, will we are a

0:35:14.800 --> 0:35:17.080
<v Speaker 1>thousand foot view of the Raiders, but I feel like

0:35:17.080 --> 0:35:19.280
<v Speaker 1>you could talk about all thirty two teams in detail.

0:35:19.480 --> 0:35:21.359
<v Speaker 1>Thirty thousand foot view of the Raiders. I know you've

0:35:21.400 --> 0:35:24.439
<v Speaker 1>seen them. Thoughts about facing them in a couple of weeks, Yeah,

0:35:24.520 --> 0:35:27.200
<v Speaker 1>I mean a lot of respect and admiration for I'd

0:35:27.239 --> 0:35:29.640
<v Speaker 1>say a lot of people in that building, in that program.

0:35:29.760 --> 0:35:32.200
<v Speaker 1>I mean, arguably, you know, two of my closest friends

0:35:32.320 --> 0:35:35.440
<v Speaker 1>probably in the league are basically running, you know, running

0:35:35.480 --> 0:35:38.200
<v Speaker 1>a team. And they've got a lot of good people,

0:35:38.560 --> 0:35:41.520
<v Speaker 1>a lot of good coaches, and they're a talented team.

0:35:41.640 --> 0:35:43.759
<v Speaker 1>So I mean they're one and four. I think their

0:35:43.760 --> 0:35:47.000
<v Speaker 1>four losses have been six points or less, so some respects.

0:35:47.080 --> 0:35:48.960
<v Speaker 1>I mean, some of their games have been similar to ours.

0:35:49.040 --> 0:35:52.000
<v Speaker 1>I mean, so last night comes down to fourth and one,

0:35:52.360 --> 0:35:54.200
<v Speaker 1>you know, and it's a one point game, comes down

0:35:54.239 --> 0:35:57.279
<v Speaker 1>to two point conversion against Tennessee. Did a Chargers games

0:35:57.280 --> 0:35:59.400
<v Speaker 1>probably one game you know, kind of got away from

0:35:59.440 --> 0:36:00.880
<v Speaker 1>them a little bit, and then they were able to

0:36:00.920 --> 0:36:03.480
<v Speaker 1>make up some ground there early. And you know the

0:36:03.560 --> 0:36:06.040
<v Speaker 1>Arizona game, I mean, Murray basically ran around like a

0:36:06.160 --> 0:36:09.520
<v Speaker 1>video game and converted a fourth down and then converted

0:36:09.560 --> 0:36:12.160
<v Speaker 1>a two point conversion from outside of where you normally

0:36:12.239 --> 0:36:14.839
<v Speaker 1>convert the two point conversion. So but I mean, they're

0:36:14.960 --> 0:36:17.759
<v Speaker 1>very talented offensively, a lot of good skill players. I

0:36:17.840 --> 0:36:20.160
<v Speaker 1>mean Crosby, I mean is a menace. Like I think

0:36:20.200 --> 0:36:21.839
<v Speaker 1>that's the best way to describe this Guy's a great

0:36:21.880 --> 0:36:24.960
<v Speaker 1>football player. His story is incredible as well, kind of

0:36:25.040 --> 0:36:28.279
<v Speaker 1>what he's had to deal with and the way he's persevered.

0:36:28.440 --> 0:36:30.680
<v Speaker 1>But I mean just a lot of respect and appreciation

0:36:30.760 --> 0:36:33.960
<v Speaker 1>admiration for the people in that building. Um. You know,

0:36:33.960 --> 0:36:36.200
<v Speaker 1>I think they're in good hands. And you know, it's

0:36:36.200 --> 0:36:38.480
<v Speaker 1>a big challenge each week, um, and so we're gonna

0:36:38.480 --> 0:36:40.319
<v Speaker 1>have to prepare ourselves for the challenges that we face

0:36:40.400 --> 0:36:42.680
<v Speaker 1>with their team and with their players. Well. I threw

0:36:42.760 --> 0:36:44.959
<v Speaker 1>passes with Derek Carr when he was in sixth grade

0:36:45.040 --> 0:36:48.080
<v Speaker 1>here on these fields, so you need to scout. I

0:36:48.200 --> 0:36:51.600
<v Speaker 1>knew sixth grade Derek Carr. I'm your guy. I know

0:36:51.719 --> 0:36:53.439
<v Speaker 1>all about it and make a good place to start.

0:36:53.680 --> 0:36:55.560
<v Speaker 1>And uh, one more thing. We do a segment every

0:36:55.600 --> 0:36:58.080
<v Speaker 1>week called more likely to Happen, So more likely to

0:36:58.200 --> 0:37:01.320
<v Speaker 1>happen You watching a family move movie with the girls

0:37:01.600 --> 0:37:04.160
<v Speaker 1>or sneaking off and watching a college game in your

0:37:04.200 --> 0:37:07.880
<v Speaker 1>man cave. Oh, that's that's not fair. I don't have

0:37:07.960 --> 0:37:10.600
<v Speaker 1>a man cave. And we have a very open floor plan,

0:37:10.880 --> 0:37:14.279
<v Speaker 1>so the way the office is situated, it's open. So

0:37:14.440 --> 0:37:16.759
<v Speaker 1>it's if I'm with everybody, even if I'm in my

0:37:17.800 --> 0:37:20.759
<v Speaker 1>watching the game, So do it so I'm involved. Yeah,

0:37:20.920 --> 0:37:23.719
<v Speaker 1>not a big family movie guy. So whatever Charlie wants

0:37:23.760 --> 0:37:26.360
<v Speaker 1>to put on the television where we have like different

0:37:26.440 --> 0:37:30.560
<v Speaker 1>viewing appetites, so but whatever she wants, she gets. So

0:37:30.800 --> 0:37:33.400
<v Speaker 1>that's my responsibility being dad. All right, Nick, have a

0:37:33.440 --> 0:37:35.960
<v Speaker 1>great bye week. Thanks a lot. Thanks guys. Oh he's great.

0:37:35.960 --> 0:37:38.719
<v Speaker 1>When the general manager, Nick Sarrio steps into studio, we'd

0:37:38.760 --> 0:37:41.680
<v Speaker 1>love getting an opportunity to chat with him weekly right

0:37:41.760 --> 0:37:46.080
<v Speaker 1>here on Texas Radio each and every Wednesday. All right,

0:37:46.080 --> 0:37:47.439
<v Speaker 1>we get back. We got a little bit of news.

0:37:47.560 --> 0:37:50.080
<v Speaker 1>Nick made a couple of moves today, so we'll talk

0:37:50.080 --> 0:37:54.480
<v Speaker 1>about those right here on Texas All Access. Next. Welcome

0:37:54.480 --> 0:37:56.759
<v Speaker 1>you back to Wednesday, NITIU of Texas All Access. I'm

0:37:56.880 --> 0:38:01.360
<v Speaker 1>John John Harris Football on All Sideline, Porter and Supper

0:38:01.440 --> 0:38:06.080
<v Speaker 1>Little Texans news if you will. Texans even a bye week,

0:38:06.160 --> 0:38:13.600
<v Speaker 1>Texans making some transaction news. And I actually loved seeing

0:38:14.160 --> 0:38:17.640
<v Speaker 1>this news because it included someone we've been talking about

0:38:17.680 --> 0:38:20.960
<v Speaker 1>for a while. When Jordan Nakins came back to the Texans.

0:38:21.400 --> 0:38:25.360
<v Speaker 1>He came back to the practice squad week one teaging

0:38:25.560 --> 0:38:28.680
<v Speaker 1>Equatoriano was banged up. Trying to think if anybody else

0:38:28.800 --> 0:38:30.319
<v Speaker 1>was banged up at that point. The Farrell Brown had

0:38:30.360 --> 0:38:32.960
<v Speaker 1>kind of been banged up at that point, and so

0:38:33.120 --> 0:38:35.759
<v Speaker 1>the tight ends needed a little bit of boost. So

0:38:35.840 --> 0:38:37.960
<v Speaker 1>they had Mason Shrek. They kept him on the practice squad,

0:38:37.960 --> 0:38:40.359
<v Speaker 1>but then he also added Jordan Nakins, who had spent

0:38:40.520 --> 0:38:44.000
<v Speaker 1>eighteen through twenty one so those four seasons with the Texans.

0:38:44.400 --> 0:38:47.440
<v Speaker 1>Texas invited him back, he accepted, came back on the

0:38:47.520 --> 0:38:52.799
<v Speaker 1>practice squad, got in the ballgame in Chicago, first time

0:38:52.840 --> 0:38:54.960
<v Speaker 1>he had been up. Ivan Jordan been banged up, didn't

0:38:55.000 --> 0:38:57.400
<v Speaker 1>play in that game yet farall yet oj Oj made

0:38:57.440 --> 0:38:59.759
<v Speaker 1>a couple of catches in the first game, so that

0:38:59.880 --> 0:39:04.080
<v Speaker 1>was great addition. So it gets on the field, touchdown catch,

0:39:05.400 --> 0:39:08.480
<v Speaker 1>second quarter, first down catch a little later, three catches,

0:39:08.560 --> 0:39:12.320
<v Speaker 1>thirty one yards and a touchdown. Like, man, he just

0:39:12.480 --> 0:39:14.359
<v Speaker 1>picked up right where he I don't want to say

0:39:14.360 --> 0:39:16.359
<v Speaker 1>where he left off, because at the end of twenty

0:39:16.440 --> 0:39:18.360
<v Speaker 1>twenty one he's kind of forgotten. Man. I hated that

0:39:18.760 --> 0:39:20.640
<v Speaker 1>because he had always been reliable. You know, I've been

0:39:20.640 --> 0:39:23.680
<v Speaker 1>a guy that you could get the ball too, a

0:39:23.719 --> 0:39:28.080
<v Speaker 1>lotted from ways quarterbacks relied on him. Well, today Jordan

0:39:28.120 --> 0:39:30.239
<v Speaker 1>Nakins goes from the practice squad to the active roster

0:39:30.360 --> 0:39:34.680
<v Speaker 1>and man, I just I'm so thrilled. I'm so thrilled.

0:39:35.960 --> 0:39:39.319
<v Speaker 1>And if you look back at what the tight end

0:39:39.480 --> 0:39:44.640
<v Speaker 1>room looked like back during training camp, Parall Brown has

0:39:44.680 --> 0:39:49.839
<v Speaker 1>been waived. You had Brevin Jordan who has been banged up,

0:39:50.080 --> 0:39:53.360
<v Speaker 1>so hopefully we get Brev back before we go to

0:39:53.480 --> 0:39:55.359
<v Speaker 1>his hometown to Las Vegas where he grew up, went

0:39:55.360 --> 0:39:58.640
<v Speaker 1>to Bishop Gorman High School. And it was those two

0:39:59.560 --> 0:40:02.480
<v Speaker 1>a long with Mason Shrek was in training camp. You

0:40:02.600 --> 0:40:05.520
<v Speaker 1>had Seth Green, who was in training camp, a rookie

0:40:05.640 --> 0:40:09.560
<v Speaker 1>from University Houston, trying to think if there's anybody I'm missing,

0:40:09.560 --> 0:40:10.960
<v Speaker 1>And then he had Teagan who was kind of in

0:40:11.200 --> 0:40:14.279
<v Speaker 1>and out a training camp. Well, since then, Farrell Brown

0:40:14.360 --> 0:40:16.600
<v Speaker 1>has been waived, Brevin Jordan has been banged up. So

0:40:16.680 --> 0:40:19.680
<v Speaker 1>they brought in Oj Howard two touchdowns first game, Benny

0:40:19.760 --> 0:40:22.520
<v Speaker 1>Struman on the run blocking, and also the past game

0:40:22.640 --> 0:40:25.040
<v Speaker 1>since Jordan Nakins they brought to the practice squad. He

0:40:25.120 --> 0:40:28.319
<v Speaker 1>stepped up. Now he's to the active roster. So you've

0:40:28.360 --> 0:40:32.160
<v Speaker 1>got OJ, You've got Jordan Naikins, You've got Brevin Jordan.

0:40:32.880 --> 0:40:35.480
<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna say right now, that's as good at tight

0:40:35.560 --> 0:40:37.279
<v Speaker 1>end group as they've had in a while. So got

0:40:37.320 --> 0:40:39.279
<v Speaker 1>Mason Shrek there. He adds to that group. And then

0:40:39.320 --> 0:40:41.359
<v Speaker 1>when Teagan's ready to go, and I don't know when

0:40:41.440 --> 0:40:43.200
<v Speaker 1>Tiaguan's gonna be ready to go, but then you throw

0:40:43.280 --> 0:40:45.120
<v Speaker 1>Teak into the mix. Now you got that y in

0:40:45.160 --> 0:40:47.520
<v Speaker 1>line blocker. Plus he had a touchdown catch, he gets

0:40:47.520 --> 0:40:48.719
<v Speaker 1>the ramps, so he's got a little bit of that.

0:40:49.040 --> 0:40:50.640
<v Speaker 1>He's got that club in his bag if you will.

0:40:51.080 --> 0:40:54.720
<v Speaker 1>But the key to me was Jordan Nakins. You have OJ, Jordan,

0:40:55.200 --> 0:40:58.040
<v Speaker 1>Brev those three plus whatever you get from Tiguan, and

0:40:58.080 --> 0:41:00.120
<v Speaker 1>then you've always got Mason on practice squad who has

0:41:00.160 --> 0:41:01.239
<v Speaker 1>come up for a couple of games, has done a

0:41:01.280 --> 0:41:03.040
<v Speaker 1>really nice job when he has been brought up. So

0:41:03.280 --> 0:41:08.160
<v Speaker 1>Jordan Nakins goes to the active roster. Congratulations. Now there's

0:41:08.160 --> 0:41:11.600
<v Speaker 1>gotta be some machinations at that point, practice squad roster

0:41:11.719 --> 0:41:18.160
<v Speaker 1>spot open. Texans added Micauld do Treadway from Minnesota, six

0:41:18.239 --> 0:41:20.839
<v Speaker 1>foot four, three hundred and eight pound rookie, twenty five

0:41:20.920 --> 0:41:24.000
<v Speaker 1>year old rookie from out of Minnesota, and you're going,

0:41:24.040 --> 0:41:27.480
<v Speaker 1>what wait, a second defensive lineman, defensive linement. They tight end, Well,

0:41:27.480 --> 0:41:29.759
<v Speaker 1>he had Mason Shrek already there, and you got Brevit Jordan,

0:41:30.000 --> 0:41:32.360
<v Speaker 1>you know, coming back. So you fill the spot with

0:41:32.360 --> 0:41:35.160
<v Speaker 1>the defensive lineman. Why, well, this is the bad news.

0:41:35.480 --> 0:41:40.440
<v Speaker 1>Michael twe four has been placed on the injured reserve list,

0:41:41.520 --> 0:41:44.920
<v Speaker 1>so he was on the active roster. So you had

0:41:45.000 --> 0:41:49.400
<v Speaker 1>Thomas Booker already available there. So Booker's there. So Booker

0:41:49.640 --> 0:41:51.800
<v Speaker 1>probably steps right into at twemp fourth spot. But you

0:41:51.880 --> 0:41:55.080
<v Speaker 1>gotta have some depth behind it, especially in the practice squad.

0:41:55.280 --> 0:41:58.440
<v Speaker 1>So they go get Michael do Treadway from out of Minnesota,

0:41:58.719 --> 0:42:02.080
<v Speaker 1>played the big ten twem or unfortunately goes to the

0:42:02.239 --> 0:42:04.840
<v Speaker 1>injured list. Hate that for big Mike God does some

0:42:04.960 --> 0:42:07.279
<v Speaker 1>good things on the inside, and we'd love to see

0:42:07.360 --> 0:42:09.759
<v Speaker 1>him back on the field, hopefully sooner than later. But

0:42:10.000 --> 0:42:12.000
<v Speaker 1>D one four goes to the injured list, might could do.

0:42:12.120 --> 0:42:15.320
<v Speaker 1>Treadway goes to the practice squad, and Jordan Nakins the

0:42:15.440 --> 0:42:19.200
<v Speaker 1>big News goes to the active roster from the practice squad.

0:42:19.560 --> 0:42:22.320
<v Speaker 1>Really excited for Ake and hopefully he'll continue to produce

0:42:22.480 --> 0:42:24.799
<v Speaker 1>as he has thus far. All right, we get back.

0:42:24.800 --> 0:42:26.960
<v Speaker 1>We're gonna go a little where are they now with

0:42:27.200 --> 0:42:29.480
<v Speaker 1>no Men behind the Mice because there's no game, So

0:42:29.560 --> 0:42:32.359
<v Speaker 1>Ambia Koye's gonna step in with Drew Doherty. That's next

0:42:32.440 --> 0:42:36.160
<v Speaker 1>on Texans All Access. Welcome you back to the second

0:42:36.200 --> 0:42:39.000
<v Speaker 1>hour of Texans All Access on a wonderful Wednesday evening

0:42:39.120 --> 0:42:41.600
<v Speaker 1>right here in h Town. So glad to be with you.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm John Harris Football, I know a sideline reporter for

0:42:43.880 --> 0:42:47.680
<v Speaker 1>your Houston Texas Now I would normally right here play

0:42:48.320 --> 0:42:50.719
<v Speaker 1>a wonderful interview that we call Men behind the Mikes

0:42:50.719 --> 0:42:52.719
<v Speaker 1>where Mark Vanimer sits down with the play by play

0:42:52.800 --> 0:42:54.759
<v Speaker 1>voice on the other side. So it's the voice, the

0:42:54.880 --> 0:42:57.040
<v Speaker 1>voice the men behind the Mikes. Last week it was

0:42:57.080 --> 0:43:00.239
<v Speaker 1>Frank Frangie, good friend of mine from Jacksonville alongside Mark

0:43:00.320 --> 0:43:03.160
<v Speaker 1>Vannamer This week, no game. So what do you do? Well,

0:43:03.360 --> 0:43:06.839
<v Speaker 1>you go to a little where are they now? Drew

0:43:06.920 --> 0:43:09.680
<v Speaker 1>Doherty steps in and had an opportunity to catch up

0:43:09.719 --> 0:43:13.080
<v Speaker 1>with a Mobia Koya, first round pick for the Texans

0:43:13.160 --> 0:43:14.680
<v Speaker 1>back in two thousand and seven. I don't know if

0:43:14.680 --> 0:43:16.920
<v Speaker 1>you knew this, but Amobi was nineteen when he was drafted.

0:43:18.400 --> 0:43:20.960
<v Speaker 1>I joke because the Mobi was a young guy, and

0:43:21.040 --> 0:43:24.400
<v Speaker 1>that was pretty much said by everybody how young he was.

0:43:24.600 --> 0:43:27.839
<v Speaker 1>Well he's a little older now, but still a young

0:43:27.960 --> 0:43:30.399
<v Speaker 1>man in obviously everybody's eyes as well. I think he's

0:43:30.400 --> 0:43:34.640
<v Speaker 1>thirty four now. My goodness, time has flown by. But

0:43:34.800 --> 0:43:37.200
<v Speaker 1>where is Ambi? Now? What's he doing? Now? Well that's

0:43:37.239 --> 0:43:39.400
<v Speaker 1>what we have Where are they now? With Drew Doherty?

0:43:39.480 --> 0:43:41.239
<v Speaker 1>Drew take it away? All right? Well this is a

0:43:41.320 --> 0:43:45.800
<v Speaker 1>fun one because we've got former Texans defensive linemen a Moobi,

0:43:45.920 --> 0:43:49.319
<v Speaker 1>a Koya. It's where are they now? A Moby? It's

0:43:49.360 --> 0:43:51.239
<v Speaker 1>good to see my friend. What's going on? Man? Where

0:43:51.280 --> 0:43:54.040
<v Speaker 1>are you these days? And what are you doing? What's

0:43:54.120 --> 0:43:58.279
<v Speaker 1>going on? Drew Man? I'm good man, I'm good, old

0:43:58.360 --> 0:44:02.560
<v Speaker 1>Houston until everybody else. Like once I got drafted by

0:44:02.600 --> 0:44:04.920
<v Speaker 1>the Texas and I fell in love with this, with

0:44:05.040 --> 0:44:07.480
<v Speaker 1>this just town, the city, and I retired here. I

0:44:07.560 --> 0:44:10.920
<v Speaker 1>got a daughter here now, So I'm I'm I mean Katie,

0:44:11.000 --> 0:44:13.840
<v Speaker 1>but uh, I mean, but I'm you know, I'm a

0:44:13.880 --> 0:44:16.920
<v Speaker 1>texting for life. What do you what occupies your days? Well,

0:44:16.960 --> 0:44:19.600
<v Speaker 1>you got a job, you retire. What's the deal. What's

0:44:19.640 --> 0:44:24.279
<v Speaker 1>going on? Well? My daughter okay, okay, raising raising Huh.

0:44:24.400 --> 0:44:27.560
<v Speaker 1>I still have my nonprofit foundation, the Mobile Corey Foundation,

0:44:27.760 --> 0:44:29.960
<v Speaker 1>and uh it's not as active as it was while

0:44:29.960 --> 0:44:32.760
<v Speaker 1>I was a player, but we're still doing some things.

0:44:32.840 --> 0:44:35.120
<v Speaker 1>And um yeah, people want to find out more information

0:44:35.719 --> 0:44:38.920
<v Speaker 1>or Facebook or on Instagram, so can reach out to

0:44:39.000 --> 0:44:42.200
<v Speaker 1>me on those two and uh yeah, so just just

0:44:42.360 --> 0:44:46.520
<v Speaker 1>two for now. Man obviously stilling golf everything, texting and

0:44:46.719 --> 0:44:52.640
<v Speaker 1>so yeah you know that league, little league? Yeah, what sport?

0:44:52.719 --> 0:44:55.359
<v Speaker 1>What are you doing? Well? Football? A little football? Okay,

0:44:56.239 --> 0:45:00.359
<v Speaker 1>little football and uh yeah, buddy of mine, Andrew a dean,

0:45:00.440 --> 0:45:03.520
<v Speaker 1>he played at Katie High as well. He asked me

0:45:03.600 --> 0:45:06.440
<v Speaker 1>to join his uhs his team and help him out,

0:45:06.520 --> 0:45:08.960
<v Speaker 1>have him out. So that's been fun so far. So

0:45:09.080 --> 0:45:11.560
<v Speaker 1>what's that like? Because how old are these kids and

0:45:11.760 --> 0:45:14.960
<v Speaker 1>what exactly are you are you? I'm guessing your coach

0:45:15.120 --> 0:45:19.719
<v Speaker 1>help coach defense? What did he do? Okay, yeah yeah

0:45:19.800 --> 0:45:22.880
<v Speaker 1>yeah yeah yeah yeah. So it's fine, it's fun. Uh,

0:45:23.440 --> 0:45:25.360
<v Speaker 1>gotta have a lot of patience for sure, and h

0:45:26.040 --> 0:45:28.640
<v Speaker 1>but I enjoy it. Well, let's take us back down

0:45:28.719 --> 0:45:33.000
<v Speaker 1>memory lane. You're coming out of Louisville and what was

0:45:33.200 --> 0:45:35.920
<v Speaker 1>draft day like for you? Because the Texans take you,

0:45:36.400 --> 0:45:38.480
<v Speaker 1>you know, the first round, you're their first pick. It's

0:45:38.480 --> 0:45:41.719
<v Speaker 1>the first pick of the Rick Smith as general manager era.

0:45:42.000 --> 0:45:45.399
<v Speaker 1>Where were you? How did you find out? What happened? Oh? Well,

0:45:45.480 --> 0:45:48.759
<v Speaker 1>I got invited to UM coming to New York, but

0:45:48.880 --> 0:45:51.320
<v Speaker 1>I decided I wanted to U stay at home and

0:45:51.680 --> 0:45:54.320
<v Speaker 1>do a family and France for that this time, I

0:45:54.400 --> 0:45:58.360
<v Speaker 1>was getting all kind of projections as far as UM Lena,

0:46:00.080 --> 0:46:03.160
<v Speaker 1>a couple of visits places. The funny thing was the Texas.

0:46:03.320 --> 0:46:05.400
<v Speaker 1>I didn't take a visit to the Texas. There. They

0:46:05.520 --> 0:46:09.200
<v Speaker 1>interviewed me during the combine, but I had no idea

0:46:09.360 --> 0:46:12.879
<v Speaker 1>it was gonna pick. That's how crazy the drafts man like, Yeah, yeah,

0:46:13.000 --> 0:46:16.400
<v Speaker 1>the mock drafted the mock class for a reagent. But

0:46:16.520 --> 0:46:19.680
<v Speaker 1>you never knew, and so I was. I was thinking

0:46:19.880 --> 0:46:23.600
<v Speaker 1>at first, uh Tampa Bay because I had played UH

0:46:23.840 --> 0:46:26.560
<v Speaker 1>at the Senior Bowl and uh it was he had

0:46:26.640 --> 0:46:29.839
<v Speaker 1>coached UH who was the coach with the South team

0:46:29.880 --> 0:46:32.239
<v Speaker 1>day and I had performed real good. It did like

0:46:32.440 --> 0:46:35.880
<v Speaker 1>me to said available, I'm gonna take you. So um,

0:46:36.280 --> 0:46:38.640
<v Speaker 1>I was. I was shocked. And then Black Petrainer, who

0:46:38.719 --> 0:46:41.239
<v Speaker 1>was my coach and in college, it just got to

0:46:41.360 --> 0:46:44.600
<v Speaker 1>job in Atlanta. At the time, I thought he was

0:46:44.640 --> 0:46:47.719
<v Speaker 1>gonna take me at eight UM with at that time

0:46:47.800 --> 0:46:50.680
<v Speaker 1>the Atlanta and UH he staturally had switched picks because

0:46:50.680 --> 0:46:55.800
<v Speaker 1>that's how they got a shot shoe and uh. So

0:46:56.400 --> 0:46:59.120
<v Speaker 1>by the time eighth they came in Atlanta to take me,

0:46:59.239 --> 0:47:00.800
<v Speaker 1>I was like, I had no idea what I was

0:47:00.800 --> 0:47:03.480
<v Speaker 1>gonna go next. So when I got there, called a

0:47:03.640 --> 0:47:07.600
<v Speaker 1>three two call and uh rickuld Uh spoke to me

0:47:08.280 --> 0:47:09.680
<v Speaker 1>and I was just I was, I was, I was.

0:47:09.760 --> 0:47:11.799
<v Speaker 1>I was excited on the inside, but I didn't want

0:47:11.800 --> 0:47:14.239
<v Speaker 1>to show it an outside when it was I was,

0:47:14.320 --> 0:47:17.680
<v Speaker 1>I was. I was ecstatic, oh man, And from there

0:47:17.840 --> 0:47:21.080
<v Speaker 1>what happens. I mean, you get picked. Obviously, you celebrate

0:47:21.120 --> 0:47:23.000
<v Speaker 1>with the family and friends and all that stuff. But

0:47:23.080 --> 0:47:26.200
<v Speaker 1>then how soon before you're in Houston kind of not

0:47:26.560 --> 0:47:29.040
<v Speaker 1>for good, but you obviously visit the team and do

0:47:29.120 --> 0:47:31.360
<v Speaker 1>the press conference that next day, but then you go

0:47:31.480 --> 0:47:34.080
<v Speaker 1>back home after that. When did you come to town,

0:47:35.239 --> 0:47:37.640
<v Speaker 1>you know for rookie camp and setting things up and

0:47:37.719 --> 0:47:41.359
<v Speaker 1>what was that like for you? I think we only

0:47:41.400 --> 0:47:43.920
<v Speaker 1>got like a few weeks, a week or two, I

0:47:44.040 --> 0:47:45.759
<v Speaker 1>want to say, and then we had to come in

0:47:45.840 --> 0:47:49.400
<v Speaker 1>for a rookie mini camp and it was cool. It

0:47:49.480 --> 0:47:51.640
<v Speaker 1>was cool. It was still warm, and it was still

0:47:51.680 --> 0:47:53.800
<v Speaker 1>like you know, the weather was was was was was

0:47:54.239 --> 0:47:56.600
<v Speaker 1>great during that time. It was the spring when I

0:47:56.719 --> 0:47:58.759
<v Speaker 1>got when I got my welcome to Houston weather, it

0:47:58.920 --> 0:48:01.960
<v Speaker 1>was training camp. Yeah, at first two I think I

0:48:02.040 --> 0:48:04.320
<v Speaker 1>want to say, hey, rookie relcome to the NFL. Was

0:48:04.360 --> 0:48:07.399
<v Speaker 1>actually recording me then, So that clicked is somewhere out there.

0:48:07.800 --> 0:48:12.040
<v Speaker 1>But the first two of the practice, I think I

0:48:12.160 --> 0:48:15.520
<v Speaker 1>lost like fifteen pounds that day. Oh my gosh. Yeah,

0:48:15.960 --> 0:48:19.759
<v Speaker 1>So that was like my welcome to Houston humidity and

0:48:20.800 --> 0:48:24.399
<v Speaker 1>I had to get an ib and everything. But uh yeah,

0:48:24.520 --> 0:48:26.920
<v Speaker 1>used to it, yeah, used to it. Yeah, you do,

0:48:27.160 --> 0:48:30.120
<v Speaker 1>or you get shipped out. So you go through that

0:48:30.200 --> 0:48:32.120
<v Speaker 1>first training camp and then you kind of start with

0:48:32.200 --> 0:48:34.759
<v Speaker 1>a bang. You've got three sacks within that first month.

0:48:35.360 --> 0:48:37.880
<v Speaker 1>What was it like when you you finally hit the

0:48:38.040 --> 0:48:41.200
<v Speaker 1>field for the first time and you're playing in NFL

0:48:41.320 --> 0:48:44.520
<v Speaker 1>game action. You joke about that welcome to the NFL moment,

0:48:44.600 --> 0:48:46.960
<v Speaker 1>being in training camp and being so hot. But what

0:48:47.080 --> 0:48:50.319
<v Speaker 1>about on the field, what was your first yeah, I'm

0:48:50.320 --> 0:48:53.439
<v Speaker 1>in the big leagues now type of moment. I want

0:48:53.480 --> 0:48:57.479
<v Speaker 1>to say it was the very first you're the first

0:48:57.520 --> 0:49:03.160
<v Speaker 1>OT as the first um mandatory OTAs the first training camp.

0:49:03.239 --> 0:49:06.520
<v Speaker 1>One of those I noticed the speed change. Yeah, college

0:49:07.239 --> 0:49:09.440
<v Speaker 1>to the pros um that was the very first thing

0:49:09.480 --> 0:49:13.120
<v Speaker 1>I knows the speed of the game. Um, everybody is quicker, rights,

0:49:13.120 --> 0:49:16.759
<v Speaker 1>fasten and the whole technique ordeal about it. So um

0:49:16.920 --> 0:49:20.120
<v Speaker 1>yeah that that was probably the the first thing I

0:49:20.280 --> 0:49:23.080
<v Speaker 1>know for sure I recognize as the speed of the game.

0:49:23.400 --> 0:49:26.400
<v Speaker 1>And how different changed from high school of college and

0:49:26.440 --> 0:49:30.040
<v Speaker 1>college to the NFL. Yeah, yeah, kind of off the

0:49:30.360 --> 0:49:33.320
<v Speaker 1>subject of football, but how good was it that you

0:49:33.360 --> 0:49:36.680
<v Speaker 1>were picked by Houston seeing as how the city of

0:49:36.760 --> 0:49:41.239
<v Speaker 1>Houston there's there's a pretty sizable Nigerian population, and you

0:49:41.320 --> 0:49:43.320
<v Speaker 1>know that that's your roots as far as your family

0:49:43.360 --> 0:49:46.359
<v Speaker 1>and everything, right, How beneficial was that for you having

0:49:47.160 --> 0:49:49.120
<v Speaker 1>some folks who knew a little bit about your background

0:49:49.160 --> 0:49:51.959
<v Speaker 1>and could relate. Oh, it was, it was. It was huge.

0:49:52.160 --> 0:49:56.640
<v Speaker 1>Um my dad actually um prior to him um having

0:49:56.800 --> 0:50:00.200
<v Speaker 1>us a game bager avinesc when he u when he

0:50:00.320 --> 0:50:02.600
<v Speaker 1>was when he was in the US, Houston was where

0:50:02.680 --> 0:50:04.520
<v Speaker 1>he went to Tsu and the Prey of View. This

0:50:04.600 --> 0:50:07.600
<v Speaker 1>is where he graduator before he went back in Nigeria,

0:50:08.160 --> 0:50:12.440
<v Speaker 1>met my mom and had us. So when when the

0:50:12.560 --> 0:50:14.600
<v Speaker 1>when when the call came in and the pig came in,

0:50:15.000 --> 0:50:16.759
<v Speaker 1>he was the most ecstatic because he was like, I'm

0:50:17.719 --> 0:50:21.560
<v Speaker 1>going back to you know, my roots. And for me,

0:50:22.520 --> 0:50:25.520
<v Speaker 1>I was just in shock. And uh. But then as

0:50:25.560 --> 0:50:28.000
<v Speaker 1>soon as I got here, Um, I had already I

0:50:28.600 --> 0:50:32.520
<v Speaker 1>only visited Houston once on a family visit. This is like,

0:50:32.760 --> 0:50:35.320
<v Speaker 1>uh while I was in college. And then when I

0:50:35.400 --> 0:50:38.920
<v Speaker 1>got here, I just remembered the huge Africa and I

0:50:39.080 --> 0:50:42.520
<v Speaker 1>especially Nigeria and uh presidence. I was like, okay, well

0:50:42.600 --> 0:50:48.239
<v Speaker 1>this is I feel home. That's awesome. Yeah. So moving on,

0:50:48.800 --> 0:50:50.920
<v Speaker 1>what was that first month of the regular season, like,

0:50:51.080 --> 0:50:54.080
<v Speaker 1>for you take me through that. It was great because

0:50:54.239 --> 0:50:58.640
<v Speaker 1>I had the rookie of the of the of the

0:50:58.920 --> 0:51:01.520
<v Speaker 1>month old ward and the first game I didn't have

0:51:01.560 --> 0:51:03.080
<v Speaker 1>any sack. In the first of the second game, I

0:51:03.120 --> 0:51:05.719
<v Speaker 1>had two sacks, And it's that coming in and come

0:51:05.760 --> 0:51:08.480
<v Speaker 1>in and then I hit a long and you just

0:51:08.600 --> 0:51:12.080
<v Speaker 1>talk about the NFL man and you know, but um,

0:51:12.760 --> 0:51:16.480
<v Speaker 1>but the very first month, first call of the first

0:51:16.920 --> 0:51:20.960
<v Speaker 1>half of the first half of our rookie year was

0:51:21.120 --> 0:51:26.960
<v Speaker 1>just splendid. Yeah. And then moving into you know, oh

0:51:27.200 --> 0:51:30.360
<v Speaker 1>you get here at oh seven, Texans finish a five hundred.

0:51:30.719 --> 0:51:33.120
<v Speaker 1>They do so the next year as well, oh nine,

0:51:33.920 --> 0:51:36.520
<v Speaker 1>they go nine and seven. That was a real different

0:51:36.600 --> 0:51:39.120
<v Speaker 1>year because you guys start out and you go into

0:51:39.120 --> 0:51:42.360
<v Speaker 1>the by at five and three. Never been that successful

0:51:42.400 --> 0:51:44.200
<v Speaker 1>going into a bye or at a midway point of

0:51:44.239 --> 0:51:46.439
<v Speaker 1>the season, come out of the by and you guys

0:51:46.680 --> 0:51:49.520
<v Speaker 1>lose four in a row to go under five hundred

0:51:49.560 --> 0:51:51.799
<v Speaker 1>by two games, and then you've closed out with four

0:51:51.880 --> 0:51:54.279
<v Speaker 1>straight wins and you win that game on the last

0:51:54.320 --> 0:51:57.040
<v Speaker 1>game of the season against the Patriots, And if some

0:51:57.160 --> 0:51:59.200
<v Speaker 1>things had fallen the right way and some other games

0:51:59.239 --> 0:52:01.880
<v Speaker 1>around the NFL, Texans would have been in the playoffs.

0:52:02.040 --> 0:52:03.799
<v Speaker 1>What was it like being a part of that kind

0:52:03.800 --> 0:52:07.360
<v Speaker 1>of like flipping the script turning the table. It was.

0:52:07.880 --> 0:52:10.920
<v Speaker 1>It was an emotional role customer show for sure, because

0:52:11.600 --> 0:52:14.279
<v Speaker 1>you know we we we felt good. We feel like,

0:52:14.400 --> 0:52:16.840
<v Speaker 1>you know, we were making him some some some leadway in.

0:52:17.680 --> 0:52:19.600
<v Speaker 1>It just tells you about the NFL man and it

0:52:19.640 --> 0:52:21.960
<v Speaker 1>gives Sunday you gott you know, you gotta bring it

0:52:22.080 --> 0:52:24.280
<v Speaker 1>all and uh and that's then about the pro sports,

0:52:24.840 --> 0:52:29.719
<v Speaker 1>especially in football. So yeah, it was. It was promising.

0:52:29.760 --> 0:52:33.239
<v Speaker 1>It was definitely promising. But the turnout wasn't what we wanted.

0:52:33.400 --> 0:52:35.680
<v Speaker 1>But I know, I know for a fact we gave it.

0:52:35.840 --> 0:52:38.840
<v Speaker 1>We gave it a lot like Kubiak, definitely he coached

0:52:38.880 --> 0:52:41.759
<v Speaker 1>as well. Yeah, definitely as well. Yeah, what are your

0:52:41.800 --> 0:52:45.000
<v Speaker 1>memories of him? Uh? Hands down him? I love you.

0:52:45.120 --> 0:52:47.040
<v Speaker 1>The best two head coaches I had in my as

0:52:47.360 --> 0:52:52.200
<v Speaker 1>my my uh my playing career. Um, no doubt he. Uh.

0:52:52.760 --> 0:52:54.799
<v Speaker 1>What I liked about both of them is they they

0:52:54.960 --> 0:52:59.919
<v Speaker 1>treated you as as a man first and play a second. Yeah. Yeah,

0:53:00.120 --> 0:53:02.759
<v Speaker 1>remind folks about your Lovey Smith connection. We knew about

0:53:02.760 --> 0:53:05.399
<v Speaker 1>the Kubiak connection. Use your head coach here, But after

0:53:05.480 --> 0:53:07.560
<v Speaker 1>you leave the Texans, what was it like you played

0:53:07.560 --> 0:53:10.719
<v Speaker 1>for love Smith for a little bit more? Were the circumstances. Yeah,

0:53:10.840 --> 0:53:12.960
<v Speaker 1>so uh yeah, I played, I was. I was in

0:53:13.040 --> 0:53:15.680
<v Speaker 1>Chicago with the Love You in twenty eleven and twenty twelve.

0:53:16.200 --> 0:53:19.680
<v Speaker 1>So it was just uh going from an offensive minded

0:53:19.800 --> 0:53:23.440
<v Speaker 1>head coach to a defensive minded head coach. But they,

0:53:23.680 --> 0:53:26.960
<v Speaker 1>like I said, they both did you you know, as

0:53:27.000 --> 0:53:30.719
<v Speaker 1>a man first then a player and uh them they

0:53:30.800 --> 0:53:33.080
<v Speaker 1>did they did you respect. That's what That's what I

0:53:33.160 --> 0:53:36.239
<v Speaker 1>really liked about about both of them. Yeah. Who do

0:53:36.280 --> 0:53:39.359
<v Speaker 1>you keep in touch with Texans wise from your your

0:53:39.400 --> 0:53:44.640
<v Speaker 1>playing days? Um? Antonio Smith for sure? All right? Right yeah,

0:53:45.440 --> 0:53:47.920
<v Speaker 1>uh uh Demiko until he got the you know, the

0:53:48.000 --> 0:53:50.440
<v Speaker 1>the defensive coaching dad job national it's hard to get

0:53:50.520 --> 0:53:53.640
<v Speaker 1>hold of. Yeah, he's coaching all the time. Yeah exactly.

0:53:54.080 --> 0:53:59.279
<v Speaker 1>Uh yeah, Jacobi actually just saw him. He's coaching as

0:53:59.320 --> 0:54:02.479
<v Speaker 1>well now too with the mistake and then they played

0:54:02.480 --> 0:54:08.600
<v Speaker 1>at t out of him. Uh Zack dows uh case

0:54:08.600 --> 0:54:13.040
<v Speaker 1>he stuttered, Um, just about all the guys still keep well.

0:54:13.040 --> 0:54:17.600
<v Speaker 1>Of course were through the the uh nflo Legends group

0:54:21.080 --> 0:54:23.440
<v Speaker 1>that way Chester. I tell him, you know, when is

0:54:23.440 --> 0:54:27.839
<v Speaker 1>he gonna run from me? Because I know you're reading

0:54:27.920 --> 0:54:29.960
<v Speaker 1>my mind, because I was gonna say, well, he knows

0:54:30.000 --> 0:54:34.920
<v Speaker 1>just about everybody doesn't. He yeah, just just you know,

0:54:35.000 --> 0:54:39.120
<v Speaker 1>we we practiced against each other a lot. Start out attack,

0:54:39.320 --> 0:54:42.879
<v Speaker 1>so um, defuse attack on it. So yeah, man Chester,

0:54:42.960 --> 0:54:47.319
<v Speaker 1>that's my guy. Man all right, he brought him up.

0:54:47.360 --> 0:54:50.360
<v Speaker 1>So I gotta gotta ask you, what's your favorite Antonio

0:54:50.480 --> 0:54:54.279
<v Speaker 1>Smith memory? Because that guy has a personality that is

0:54:54.400 --> 0:54:56.560
<v Speaker 1>about as big as the state of Texas. I mean,

0:54:56.640 --> 0:55:02.040
<v Speaker 1>that thing is enormous. His personality. Oh m would probably

0:55:02.120 --> 0:55:04.440
<v Speaker 1>just be his his first couple of days when he

0:55:04.520 --> 0:55:07.600
<v Speaker 1>came to us, um, you know, Arizona and just kind

0:55:07.600 --> 0:55:09.880
<v Speaker 1>of left that. I think they just they just lost

0:55:09.960 --> 0:55:14.200
<v Speaker 1>the um the Steelers in the Super Bowl, the stealing bow.

0:55:14.320 --> 0:55:18.040
<v Speaker 1>So he just brought that that that that dog mentality

0:55:18.160 --> 0:55:19.880
<v Speaker 1>of of wanting to go out there and I know

0:55:20.000 --> 0:55:23.440
<v Speaker 1>he experienced it just recently so that that that really

0:55:23.480 --> 0:55:25.560
<v Speaker 1>helped out in the locking room for show and then

0:55:25.680 --> 0:55:28.520
<v Speaker 1>he was He's just a loose guy, you know. When

0:55:28.560 --> 0:55:30.120
<v Speaker 1>it was time to work, it was time to working.

0:55:30.160 --> 0:55:31.560
<v Speaker 1>When he was signed to play, it was time to play.

0:55:32.440 --> 0:55:46.000
<v Speaker 1>What's your favorite Texans memory overall? O, man, I want

0:55:46.000 --> 0:55:54.520
<v Speaker 1>to say, uh, the Monday night game probably oh oh oh,

0:55:54.600 --> 0:55:59.080
<v Speaker 1>I definitely got one. What is it? Andre? And courting

0:55:59.120 --> 0:56:02.400
<v Speaker 1>a Filicky, what was your vantage point? Take me through this,

0:56:02.560 --> 0:56:05.960
<v Speaker 1>what happened? What you see? I was? I was. I

0:56:06.040 --> 0:56:08.600
<v Speaker 1>was because he had kind of been knowing to be

0:56:08.840 --> 0:56:12.160
<v Speaker 1>a brulant, like you know right, I mean, and and

0:56:12.560 --> 0:56:15.360
<v Speaker 1>I just gave he reached the straight show because it

0:56:15.480 --> 0:56:17.920
<v Speaker 1>takes a lot to reach the show. For that play today,

0:56:18.160 --> 0:56:20.640
<v Speaker 1>we all know Andre, he's sure all this guy he

0:56:20.719 --> 0:56:23.800
<v Speaker 1>could never ever bean. So once that came about, everybody

0:56:23.840 --> 0:56:28.840
<v Speaker 1>dow was that okay, he had enough? I was. I

0:56:28.920 --> 0:56:30.960
<v Speaker 1>was on the side. I was with the officers on

0:56:31.120 --> 0:56:33.080
<v Speaker 1>day on the sideline and we could just sense he

0:56:33.239 --> 0:56:38.320
<v Speaker 1>was coming and then interrupted and po I was like, hey, calling,

0:56:38.360 --> 0:56:41.320
<v Speaker 1>you had to coming, fight you buddy. I mean that

0:56:41.760 --> 0:56:45.800
<v Speaker 1>that is a special level of agitation because you you

0:56:45.880 --> 0:56:48.839
<v Speaker 1>bring it up. But just Andre is the calmest guy,

0:56:49.160 --> 0:56:52.120
<v Speaker 1>and how you could never see that happening, but that

0:56:52.280 --> 0:56:54.960
<v Speaker 1>guy got it out of him. And it's it's remarkable.

0:56:55.000 --> 0:56:56.960
<v Speaker 1>I mean, it's remarkable that you were able to not

0:56:57.080 --> 0:57:01.200
<v Speaker 1>you that he was able to get him. So Rile, Yeah,

0:57:01.560 --> 0:57:04.360
<v Speaker 1>like we're talking about the guy who I mean, I

0:57:04.719 --> 0:57:07.120
<v Speaker 1>thought he talks more now, but like back then an

0:57:07.360 --> 0:57:11.279
<v Speaker 1>then talk at all. So that it was like, who

0:57:11.480 --> 0:57:16.320
<v Speaker 1>who is this? So that's your favorite memory has a Texan?

0:57:16.640 --> 0:57:20.280
<v Speaker 1>And since you brought up Andre Johnson, why does Andre

0:57:20.480 --> 0:57:23.080
<v Speaker 1>Johnson belong in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in

0:57:23.240 --> 0:57:27.560
<v Speaker 1>your mind? I mean the the you know they say

0:57:27.960 --> 0:57:31.040
<v Speaker 1>numbers don't lie, the numbers itself. Just it's just you know,

0:57:31.080 --> 0:57:34.400
<v Speaker 1>what he's put out there. I let alone could tell her.

0:57:34.480 --> 0:57:37.320
<v Speaker 1>But you know what he was able to do, you

0:57:37.400 --> 0:57:40.680
<v Speaker 1>know with with you know, I'm telling we had a

0:57:40.720 --> 0:57:44.800
<v Speaker 1>quarterback at Charlotte was quarterback. Yeah, So what he's able

0:57:44.880 --> 0:57:50.040
<v Speaker 1>to do and it's it's just it's just remarkable. And

0:57:50.160 --> 0:57:52.800
<v Speaker 1>I was shockling he didn't get in last year, but

0:57:53.720 --> 0:57:56.640
<v Speaker 1>he better being this this next one. Amen, he better,

0:57:56.960 --> 0:57:59.800
<v Speaker 1>he better, that's for sure. Well what's next for you? Man?

0:58:00.080 --> 0:58:03.760
<v Speaker 1>What's what's the future hole for you? Mobi? Um, I'm

0:58:03.960 --> 0:58:07.640
<v Speaker 1>I'm I'm definitely I'm thinking do more in the coaching

0:58:07.680 --> 0:58:09.560
<v Speaker 1>now that you know I started doing the coaching with

0:58:09.600 --> 0:58:12.560
<v Speaker 1>the kids. Uh there maybe some of them some media

0:58:13.160 --> 0:58:15.120
<v Speaker 1>stuff as well, so I might be coming that longer.

0:58:15.760 --> 0:58:18.640
<v Speaker 1>What you're in doing some more stuff man, So anything

0:58:18.680 --> 0:58:22.720
<v Speaker 1>involving football, sit down, I still have the heart as

0:58:22.760 --> 0:58:24.480
<v Speaker 1>far as what I was doing while I was um

0:58:25.480 --> 0:58:30.400
<v Speaker 1>active poplarizing football in Africa and uh ocuman yours, he's

0:58:30.440 --> 0:58:32.440
<v Speaker 1>been picked it up and doing a real job with

0:58:32.560 --> 0:58:35.320
<v Speaker 1>that what he's doing, So might jump on board with

0:58:35.400 --> 0:58:38.520
<v Speaker 1>damagement and with what they're doing and just anywhere I

0:58:38.560 --> 0:58:41.840
<v Speaker 1>can be a part of growing the game globally. Um,

0:58:42.440 --> 0:58:44.959
<v Speaker 1>of all the five major sports, American football is still

0:58:45.600 --> 0:58:49.760
<v Speaker 1>you know, the fifth when it comes to global and

0:58:50.120 --> 0:58:54.480
<v Speaker 1>it just overall everything. So let's uh, let's let's let's

0:58:54.600 --> 0:58:56.800
<v Speaker 1>I'm working and get that to be number one, because

0:58:57.520 --> 0:58:59.600
<v Speaker 1>it's it's been, it's viewed, it's view the whole of

0:58:59.640 --> 0:59:02.320
<v Speaker 1>the world like it's it's really being beautiful over Like

0:59:03.120 --> 0:59:07.280
<v Speaker 1>I'm being like, it's surprising to hear when you when

0:59:07.560 --> 0:59:10.440
<v Speaker 1>you call back home a year, you're talking about football

0:59:10.440 --> 0:59:14.200
<v Speaker 1>and it's like, wow, it's growing for sure. And you've

0:59:14.280 --> 0:59:17.520
<v Speaker 1>been to Nigeria a few times in the last decade,

0:59:17.560 --> 0:59:21.240
<v Speaker 1>haven't you. Yeah, doing no. As soon as I got drafted,

0:59:21.800 --> 0:59:24.680
<v Speaker 1>I started my nonprofit and uh half of it is

0:59:25.200 --> 0:59:27.920
<v Speaker 1>was was giving back home to Nigeria and what I

0:59:28.000 --> 0:59:30.560
<v Speaker 1>was trying to do. And uh so you know, since

0:59:30.600 --> 0:59:33.040
<v Speaker 1>I had the brain illness in twenty thirteen, I'm kind

0:59:33.080 --> 0:59:35.760
<v Speaker 1>of you know skill, scale back on the nonprofit stuff

0:59:35.840 --> 0:59:39.760
<v Speaker 1>obviously to focus on my health. But now that I'm

0:59:39.800 --> 0:59:44.040
<v Speaker 1>feeling all the way, you know, back, I want to

0:59:44.080 --> 0:59:46.600
<v Speaker 1>get back to get to get the foundation back to

0:59:46.760 --> 0:59:48.800
<v Speaker 1>what it was when I was prior to the illness.

0:59:49.560 --> 0:59:51.560
<v Speaker 1>That's great. Yeah, I remember going I think it was

0:59:51.640 --> 0:59:56.760
<v Speaker 1>twenty and ten maybe, uh, going with you to a

0:59:56.920 --> 0:59:59.920
<v Speaker 1>warehouse like can near the Heights and you I think

1:00:00.000 --> 1:00:02.680
<v Speaker 1>you had like a shipment of books going back to Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>that was Yeah, it was a pretty big undertaking for sure.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh for sure, for sure. So that all that stuff

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<v Speaker 1>we're working on, getting that, getting that, going back, going

1:00:12.960 --> 1:00:16.480
<v Speaker 1>on getting this, using this the same platform. So give

1:00:16.560 --> 1:00:20.920
<v Speaker 1>the legend players and the current active players our opportunity

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<v Speaker 1>to go back home and uh and give back. It's

1:00:23.440 --> 1:00:27.200
<v Speaker 1>not just it's not just Nigeria, all of Africa. One

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<v Speaker 1>of the good guys a Mobia Koya. It's always fun

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<v Speaker 1>talking with you, my friend. It was great seeing you

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<v Speaker 1>at the game. It's great to see you now and

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<v Speaker 1>it's always fun hearing your story. It's it's a unique

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<v Speaker 1>one in so many different ways. So I'll take care

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<v Speaker 1>of yourself. Yeah, Manual TV again together sound good? No doubt,

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<v Speaker 1>no doubt. I want to come back home for sure.

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<v Speaker 1>Uh the kids from Buffalo almost beat my record. I

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<v Speaker 1>still got it, but I'm sure it's gonna evation to

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<v Speaker 1>get broken. As far as the youngest player ever, oh yeah, yeah, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I did bring that up. We gotta, we gotta. Let's

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<v Speaker 1>rewind because you were nineteen years old when you were

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<v Speaker 1>drafted by the Texans. I mean, how does a nineteen

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<v Speaker 1>year old fit into an NFL locker room? Initially it's

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<v Speaker 1>it's it's I don't think anybody. Everybody can do it.

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<v Speaker 1>But I think it's that that's some kids nowadays. Like

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<v Speaker 1>I can nausea Harris, Yeah he could. I could see

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<v Speaker 1>him playing if he didn't, you know, come in in

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<v Speaker 1>time he gave me. I could see him coming in

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<v Speaker 1>the nineteen It's just it's some kids. I could tell

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<v Speaker 1>that that they probably could that could have done it.

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<v Speaker 1>But yeah, the Edmund kids. But Bubbalo he always beat me. Man,

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<v Speaker 1>So you still got it. I like it. I like

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<v Speaker 1>it's a great record to hold man. All right, Well, Amobi,

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<v Speaker 1>awesome to see you, and let's do this again soon.

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<v Speaker 1>Sounding good, I'll be bad. I'll be bad. Go Texas. Baby,

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<v Speaker 1>you go Texas, Go Texans, Go. Amobia Koya. This has

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<v Speaker 1>been where are they now? One of us stuff there

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<v Speaker 1>with Drew Doherty and Amobia Koya, Texans defensive lineman, first

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<v Speaker 1>round pick back in two thousand and seven. That was

1:02:04.640 --> 1:02:07.160
<v Speaker 1>my first year here, and so Amobia Koya is a

1:02:07.200 --> 1:02:09.000
<v Speaker 1>name that resonates because it was my first training camp.

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<v Speaker 1>I got a chance to see the rookie up close.

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<v Speaker 1>All right, Another rookie that we're getting a chance to

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<v Speaker 1>see up close is Damien Pierce. Damien's twenty yard tackle

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<v Speaker 1>breaking run inspired me to look back a little bit

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<v Speaker 1>and find some of the great runs over the last

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<v Speaker 1>ten to eleven years. That's next right here on Texans

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<v Speaker 1>All Access wing Back this Wednesday issue the Texans All

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<v Speaker 1>Access from Monday Texans Radio Studio. I am John Harris

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<v Speaker 1>Football on a sideline reporter and your Schlumberge Stats Challenge

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<v Speaker 1>of the week. That stat is seventeen. Now it sounds

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<v Speaker 1>just like a random number, right, Well, there was a

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<v Speaker 1>number for this player broadcast Wilder War seventeen. No. Seventeen

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<v Speaker 1>is the number of broken tackles that Damian Pierce had

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<v Speaker 1>on Sunday at Jacksonville that's in a Mets number of

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<v Speaker 1>broken tackles, and he had seven of them on one run. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>that run was inspiration for me thinking back to some

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<v Speaker 1>of the great runs that I have seen from running

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<v Speaker 1>backs for the Texans over the past ten to eleven years.

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<v Speaker 1>So I thought, let's look back a little bit at

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<v Speaker 1>those runs. But it all started because of the run

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<v Speaker 1>that Damien made against the Jaguars. Here's that Damian Pierce

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<v Speaker 1>run courtesy of the Voice of the Texans, Mark Vandimir.

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<v Speaker 1>Second and five from the twenty two piers again over

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<v Speaker 1>the middle, twenty breaks a tackle, fifteen ten gang tackle

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<v Speaker 1>inside the five. Does he stay on his feet? He

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<v Speaker 1>does down of the two yard line. What a run

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<v Speaker 1>by Damian Pierce. Got out of trouble again and again

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<v Speaker 1>until Cisco brings him down first in goal. Texans. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>I've done a pretty good job, I guess because games

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<v Speaker 1>have been a little bit more stressful, I' done a

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<v Speaker 1>pretty good job of kind of holding things in, just

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<v Speaker 1>letting things unfold. I don't have kind of those moments

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<v Speaker 1>like I used to the first few years, or I

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<v Speaker 1>was losing in on every single play. I lost it

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<v Speaker 1>on app play. That's one of my favorite running back

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<v Speaker 1>runs of all time. I mean not just the Texans,

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<v Speaker 1>but of all times. So it got me thinking as

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<v Speaker 1>we were flying home, but I'm thinking about how many

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<v Speaker 1>running backs have had a run maybe not similar, because

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know if there's any one of them that

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<v Speaker 1>you can go back and go, yeah, that run right there,

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<v Speaker 1>broke tackles, multiple tackles, got it down into one in

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<v Speaker 1>a poor game, all that kind of stuff. So I

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<v Speaker 1>thought about that. I was like, yeah, I think I

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<v Speaker 1>could find I think I can find a few. So

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<v Speaker 1>on my server, I have this this FTP server, and

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<v Speaker 1>on that server it has all of our game audio,

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<v Speaker 1>all of our radio shows, everything that we've done on

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<v Speaker 1>radio with Sports Radio six ten, matchup shows, interviews, everything,

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<v Speaker 1>It's all there on the FTP. Now it only goes

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<v Speaker 1>back to twenty twelve, So if I want to go

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<v Speaker 1>get anything from before twenty twelve, it's yeah, it's it's

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<v Speaker 1>an Act of Congress, and I'm just like, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not really up for an Act of Congress, So

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<v Speaker 1>let's focus from twenty twelve through twenty twenty two. Also,

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<v Speaker 1>because I got on the sidelines of twenty fourteen, so

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<v Speaker 1>I've seen every one of these runs, except for the

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<v Speaker 1>first one. Now I saw it as the game was happening.

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<v Speaker 1>Of course. I was in Deston, Florida in twenty twelve

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<v Speaker 1>for Thanksgiving. I had gotten a few days off and

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<v Speaker 1>my wife said, look, I'll you can watch football all weekend,

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<v Speaker 1>but I want to get out of Dodge. I want

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<v Speaker 1>to go to the beach. Let's go to Destin. So okay, cool,

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<v Speaker 1>packed up, kids, go to deston Thanksgiving Day twenty twelve

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<v Speaker 1>on the couch watching the Texans against the Detroit Lions.

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<v Speaker 1>And it's not going well, not going well at all,

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<v Speaker 1>but the Texans are keeping it relatively close. And then

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<v Speaker 1>they got one of the biggest breaks and one of

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<v Speaker 1>the more controversial runs. But the second longest run in

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<v Speaker 1>the history of the franchise happened right here as Justin

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<v Speaker 1>for Set broke through the line, didn't think he was down,

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<v Speaker 1>took off running for the end zone, scored a touchdown,

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<v Speaker 1>and immediately Jim Schwartz through the challenge flag and as

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<v Speaker 1>a result, it was a penalty on the Lions for

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<v Speaker 1>delay of game. Because it was a score, it was

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<v Speaker 1>automatically challenged. The rule was changed the next year. Well

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<v Speaker 1>luckily it wasn't changed on that day because this run

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<v Speaker 1>would have been called back. But justin foreset with eighty

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<v Speaker 1>one yards in twenty twelve against the Detroit Lions has

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<v Speaker 1>to make the list A given the length and be

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<v Speaker 1>given the importance on Thanksgiving Day in this win over

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<v Speaker 1>the Lions. Second and ten for the Houston nineteen, here's

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<v Speaker 1>a gift of for set. A cut back to the

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<v Speaker 1>right across the twenty five. He's down at the twenty

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<v Speaker 1>six yard line and he was never tagged. He gets

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<v Speaker 1>up forty fifty forty a Detroit the thirty to the right,

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<v Speaker 1>twenty five twenty fifteen ten five touchdown, just in four set.

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<v Speaker 1>They thought they had them down, but they didn't. Eighty

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<v Speaker 1>one yards and a red flag comes out in a

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<v Speaker 1>big hurry out of the pocket of Jim Schwartz. So

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<v Speaker 1>that red challenge flag was actually a penal twenty twelve,

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<v Speaker 1>it was, and so the touchdown counted. The Texans ended

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<v Speaker 1>up winning that game in overtime in twenty twelve. And

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<v Speaker 1>it's the one run on my list that I didn't see.

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<v Speaker 1>So my first year was twenty fourteen, and we had

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<v Speaker 1>gone to Dallas this week five Texans three and one,

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<v Speaker 1>at that point had gotten a couple of wins, or

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<v Speaker 1>at least start the year against the Washington The artist

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<v Speaker 1>formula noticed the Redskins then went out to Oakland beat

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<v Speaker 1>Oakland lost the Giants to one beat Buffalo, so three

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<v Speaker 1>and one going into Dallas. But the first half had

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<v Speaker 1>fallen behind that terribly, but had fallen behind, and it

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<v Speaker 1>was in the second half when Arian Foster took over.

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<v Speaker 1>And he took over on this drive, and there were

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<v Speaker 1>two runs back to back. Texas were at I believe

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<v Speaker 1>their forty eight yard line and Arian Foster went off.

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<v Speaker 1>These two runs were just glorious. A thirty three yarder

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<v Speaker 1>where he shook a dB and then a fifteen yard

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<v Speaker 1>touchdown where he did the same thing. He gave him

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<v Speaker 1>that dead lag audience. These are two of the best

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<v Speaker 1>runs that I had seen from Arian Foster up close

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<v Speaker 1>in Dallas in twenty fourteen. Handoff are and running left,

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<v Speaker 1>has a big hole forty five forty thirty five thirty

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<v Speaker 1>left sideline cuts inside twenty fifteen to out of a

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<v Speaker 1>fourteen yard live Foster rupts first out of the red zone.

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<v Speaker 1>Fitzpatrick looks it over, takes the snap, the gift to

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<v Speaker 1>air and again running to the left, little cut inside

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<v Speaker 1>the ten to five to the goal live touchdown, Kiston

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<v Speaker 1>Arry and Foster gives the Textans the lead fifteen yard run.

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<v Speaker 1>Now this sounds like a game at NRG Stadium right now.

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<v Speaker 1>Mante Co is sick. I mean he just left the

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<v Speaker 1>dude grasping for air. That was just awesome. Those two

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<v Speaker 1>runs were absolutely incredible. It's fast forward a couple of years.

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<v Speaker 1>People forget this run, but I remember this because of

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<v Speaker 1>the four play drive. There was a there was a

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<v Speaker 1>throat of Fuller, there was a sneak, there was a

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<v Speaker 1>throat of Hopkins, and the ball was sitting at the

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<v Speaker 1>twenty four yard line. On Christmas Eve night against the

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<v Speaker 1>Cincinnati Bengals in twenty sixteen, Texans down need to score.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean it was a must that they get the

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<v Speaker 1>ball in the end zone down four, ten to six,

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<v Speaker 1>and Tom Savage turned around, handed the ball to Alfred

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<v Speaker 1>Blue and Alfred with the game winning score from twenty

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<v Speaker 1>four yards out, and I to the left of Savage,

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<v Speaker 1>whos in the gotten first down at the Cincinnati twenty

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<v Speaker 1>four yard line. Blue and fedor Witz in the backfield.

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<v Speaker 1>But I'm two receivers to the right handoff, Blue to

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<v Speaker 1>the left side, cuts it off twenty fifteen ten five

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<v Speaker 1>Brooke and roll touchdown, Texans Puston retext the lead, twenty

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<v Speaker 1>four yard touchdown run Alfred Blue. That one gets forgotten

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<v Speaker 1>because that was just not a great offensive team in

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<v Speaker 1>twenty sixteen, so you forget about that one. But that

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<v Speaker 1>twenty four yard run was one of the longer runs

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<v Speaker 1>that year and a hugely important one, obviously in a

1:09:59.160 --> 1:10:01.320
<v Speaker 1>game they ended up twelve ten. That was the game

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<v Speaker 1>winning touchdown, the last points in that night, and it's

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<v Speaker 1>one of my favorite nights, one of my favorite just

1:10:06.680 --> 1:10:11.080
<v Speaker 1>games the entire day Christmas Eve, watching the Jaguars beat

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<v Speaker 1>the Titans, meaning that game was for the division struggling

1:10:14.600 --> 1:10:17.200
<v Speaker 1>a little bit in that game, clowning was incredible, but

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<v Speaker 1>it coming down to that four play drive after a

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<v Speaker 1>brand La Fell ninety yard touchdown where the Bengals finally

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<v Speaker 1>took the lead and the Texans took it back with

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<v Speaker 1>that drive culminating with that run by Alfred Blue. Now

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<v Speaker 1>another two years forward, let's go to twenty eighteen Monday

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<v Speaker 1>Night football. Tennessee. Titans founder Bob McNair had passed away

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<v Speaker 1>over the weekend this game was as emotionally got Titans

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<v Speaker 1>up ten nothing early, but the Texans getting right back

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<v Speaker 1>in the ball game. They'd gotten a fourth in one

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<v Speaker 1>stop at the three yard line, excuse me, two yard line,

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<v Speaker 1>so the ball sat stuffed them right there. Never forget that.

1:10:56.360 --> 1:11:00.720
<v Speaker 1>Linebackers bang bang stuffed Luke Stocker, full black slash tight

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<v Speaker 1>end for the Titans. The week before, Justin Reid had

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<v Speaker 1>gone one hundred one yards and a pick six, and

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<v Speaker 1>I remember saying during a break, I was like, man,

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<v Speaker 1>with fourth and one, I thought, guys, could we get

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<v Speaker 1>a ninety eight or one hundred yard pick six again?

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<v Speaker 1>Can we have that? Well, it was two plays that

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<v Speaker 1>got them there to stop and then this run, the

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<v Speaker 1>longest run in Texans history, ninety seven yards by Lamar

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<v Speaker 1>Miller and what it called by Mark Vannimer. I didn't

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<v Speaker 1>hear it at the time because I'm freaking out as

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<v Speaker 1>Lamar's run down the field. When I did Texans match

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<v Speaker 1>up the following week, which we call Texas replay at

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<v Speaker 1>the time, I heard the call for the first time

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<v Speaker 1>and I just got choked up. It's an incredible call

1:11:37.760 --> 1:11:40.240
<v Speaker 1>by Mark and an incredible run by Lamar Miller in

1:11:40.280 --> 1:11:42.920
<v Speaker 1>twenty eighteen against the Titans. First down for the Texans

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<v Speaker 1>three and here's Miller over a right guard has a

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<v Speaker 1>little round Brexit tackle ten fifteen, twenty right side, twenty five, thirty,

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<v Speaker 1>He's still the sideline, the forty to fifty. He's gonna

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<v Speaker 1>go all the way, the thirty, the twenty, the ten,

1:11:55.800 --> 1:12:03.880
<v Speaker 1>the five rocket roll touchdown stand ninety seven yards. That

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<v Speaker 1>once for you, Bob. But I never never not get

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<v Speaker 1>choked up when I hear Mark say that that one's

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<v Speaker 1>for you, Bob. I just I still, I mean, it's

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<v Speaker 1>it'll go down in the pantheon from Mark for a call.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, it was just tremendous, and we talked about

1:12:20.120 --> 1:12:22.439
<v Speaker 1>that over the years. But the run was so good.

1:12:22.520 --> 1:12:24.439
<v Speaker 1>I mean, Lamar found a little bit of a scene.

1:12:24.600 --> 1:12:27.760
<v Speaker 1>Blocking was great. He avoided Vaccaro and then sprinted to

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<v Speaker 1>the end zone. And what I loved about it as

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<v Speaker 1>Lamar and I talked about this earlier in the year

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<v Speaker 1>because he had kind of taken a little bit of

1:12:33.520 --> 1:12:35.000
<v Speaker 1>grief for not getting all the way to the end

1:12:35.040 --> 1:12:36.360
<v Speaker 1>zone on some of these runs. I mean, Lamar was

1:12:36.360 --> 1:12:38.200
<v Speaker 1>a fast dude, and so when he broke out in

1:12:38.200 --> 1:12:41.400
<v Speaker 1>the open me he told me there was nobody gonna

1:12:41.400 --> 1:12:43.439
<v Speaker 1>catch him at that point. He was gonna run as

1:12:43.479 --> 1:12:44.800
<v Speaker 1>fast as he needed to get all the way in

1:12:44.800 --> 1:12:46.360
<v Speaker 1>the end zone. So he didn't take any more ribbing

1:12:46.360 --> 1:12:49.280
<v Speaker 1>in the locker room. Oh man, Well, our next run

1:12:49.479 --> 1:12:52.400
<v Speaker 1>happened again against the Tights. Now this wasn't the greatest run,

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<v Speaker 1>but I remember the game itself. I mean, twenty nineteen,

1:12:56.840 --> 1:13:00.599
<v Speaker 1>we had gone to Tennessee and it was cruise Tennessee

1:13:00.760 --> 1:13:03.400
<v Speaker 1>twenty seventeen was starting to, you know, kind of rear

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<v Speaker 1>back a little bit and kind of find itself and

1:13:05.240 --> 1:13:08.960
<v Speaker 1>really become a factor. MAYFC South we had gone there.

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<v Speaker 1>Kenny Still has caught two touchdowns early in the game,

1:13:11.439 --> 1:13:14.719
<v Speaker 1>jumped out front, then John hu Smith and made some plays.

1:13:15.240 --> 1:13:18.360
<v Speaker 1>Titans tied the ball game. Oh man, but the Texas

1:13:18.439 --> 1:13:20.559
<v Speaker 1>gotta drive going and handed the ball to Carlos Hide.

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<v Speaker 1>He bounced in, he bounced out. He scored this touchdown

1:13:23.560 --> 1:13:27.040
<v Speaker 1>and ended up being essentially the AFC South clinching touchdown

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<v Speaker 1>in Tennessee. Carlos Hide in twenty nineteen. First of all,

1:13:30.920 --> 1:13:34.240
<v Speaker 1>at the ten split backs Watson and the gun. Watson

1:13:34.280 --> 1:13:36.920
<v Speaker 1>hands off to Hide, wading to the left, Carlos has

1:13:37.000 --> 1:13:41.280
<v Speaker 1>the five Carlos to the pylon, he's in touchdown justuston

1:13:41.720 --> 1:13:45.479
<v Speaker 1>ten yard TD run l Guapo for the league. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>any Foster made this list in twenty fourteen with two

1:13:47.920 --> 1:13:50.799
<v Speaker 1>runs in the same game on the same drive. Damian

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<v Speaker 1>Pierce is making it for his tackle breaking run against

1:13:54.720 --> 1:13:57.360
<v Speaker 1>the Jacksonville Jaguars. But how can we forget this that

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<v Speaker 1>happened the week before against the LHR Here, first down

1:14:01.520 --> 1:14:05.799
<v Speaker 1>from the Houston twenty five yard line. Backs Offset Mills

1:14:05.960 --> 1:14:08.760
<v Speaker 1>with the toss to Pierce right side as a block

1:14:08.800 --> 1:14:11.200
<v Speaker 1>across the thirty thirty five to the outside forty, the

1:14:11.360 --> 1:14:14.920
<v Speaker 1>fifty by sideline, the forty of the Chargers, the thirty

1:14:15.120 --> 1:14:21.360
<v Speaker 1>twenty ten five brook and roll touchdown Houston seventy five yards,

1:14:23.439 --> 1:14:28.040
<v Speaker 1>Damian Pearce all the way. So it's just a handful

1:14:28.120 --> 1:14:30.880
<v Speaker 1>of the great runs by the Texans running backs over

1:14:31.120 --> 1:14:34.200
<v Speaker 1>last ten to eleven years. Justin for Set Carlos, eyed

1:14:34.479 --> 1:14:37.920
<v Speaker 1>Alfred Blue, and then Arian Foster Damian Pierce getting on

1:14:38.000 --> 1:14:40.479
<v Speaker 1>that list as well. So that was fun to take

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<v Speaker 1>a little look back at those runs over the last

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<v Speaker 1>decade plus. All right, coming up, my man Drew Doherty's

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<v Speaker 1>gonna stop by and join me for a little in

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<v Speaker 1>the lab to close this show down. That's next the

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<v Speaker 1>Texans All Access. We got one funnal segment of this

1:14:55.120 --> 1:14:58.280
<v Speaker 1>edition of Texans All Access from the Unday Texans Radio studio.

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<v Speaker 1>I am John Harris Ball and Outside that reporter and

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<v Speaker 1>also one half of the famed podcast duo on in

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<v Speaker 1>the Lab, alongside my partner Drew Doherty. So let's bring

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<v Speaker 1>it in. It's in the lab. Time to close down

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<v Speaker 1>this Wednesday and night take it away. Bye week is

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<v Speaker 1>upon us, but there's no buy for in the lab.

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<v Speaker 1>This is Drew, you're John, and we are excited to

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<v Speaker 1>talk Texas football. And John, we typically do a cream

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<v Speaker 1>of the crop crop and we're gonna do that today.

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<v Speaker 1>But what we're gonna do is we're gonna have our

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<v Speaker 1>cream of the crop candidate for the first five weeks

1:15:33.520 --> 1:15:36.240
<v Speaker 1>of the season, each of us, and then we'll also

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<v Speaker 1>each have a guy who needs to be a cream

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<v Speaker 1>of the cropper for the final twelve. Hasn't done so

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<v Speaker 1>yet but could possibly have been, you know, an alternate

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<v Speaker 1>or needs to be one basically for the final twelve.

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<v Speaker 1>But first of all, you're doing okay, I'm doing okay.

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<v Speaker 1>Any fun plans. No, No, this is gonna be one

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<v Speaker 1>of the greatest weekends of college football maybe ever. The

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<v Speaker 1>games are just insane, Yeah, absolutely insanity. Tennessee Alabama, I'm

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<v Speaker 1>both undefeated playing in Knoxville. I mean, it's that's gonna

1:16:03.040 --> 1:16:07.120
<v Speaker 1>be just bonkers. TCU, Oaklahma State both undefeated. I think games.

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<v Speaker 1>It's you know, it's a Fort Worth that's gonna be bonkers.

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<v Speaker 1>TCU with the big win last week. I about that

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<v Speaker 1>catch by that receiver Quentin Johnston, number seventeen overall and

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<v Speaker 1>the Harris one hundred. Pains me to say it as

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<v Speaker 1>an SMU grad, but that was a heck of a catch.

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<v Speaker 1>You just got a receiver too, by the way. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>dude by name Rashi Rice. Oh look good in these colors.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah he would. I wish he and the Ponies had

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<v Speaker 1>looked better on Wednesday night. Yeah, that was fun. It's

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<v Speaker 1>a Wednesday night game. That's Florida. That's the problem. If

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<v Speaker 1>we'll go to the Friday night game. They got a

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<v Speaker 1>Navy and our buddy Andre where is gonna be calling it?

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<v Speaker 1>So we got that right. Navy. Um, they've they've given

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<v Speaker 1>the Ponies problems over the years, so anyways I could.

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<v Speaker 1>That's neither here nor there. But let's talk about a

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<v Speaker 1>cream of the crop, thank you, macho man. A cream

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<v Speaker 1>of the crop candidate for the first five weeks. And

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<v Speaker 1>let's rule out the obvious guy. No, Damian Pierce. We

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<v Speaker 1>pick Damian Pierce. You can't pick Damian Pierce. We both

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<v Speaker 1>I think would have picked him, right, I mean yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>in the aggregate for five games. Yeah, And let me

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<v Speaker 1>tell you about Damian Pierce off the field. From what

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<v Speaker 1>I've seen, unprovoked, he's bringing up when asked about his performances,

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<v Speaker 1>He's bringing up welves. It was the line helping me

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<v Speaker 1>do this. My head, my running backs coach, Danny Barrett's

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<v Speaker 1>helping me out. All the veterans are helping me out.

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<v Speaker 1>Think about it. When Rex Burkheads scored his touchdown a

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<v Speaker 1>week or two ago, who's the first guy on the

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<v Speaker 1>field came off the bench to run and celebrate and

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<v Speaker 1>thank Rex Burkhead and cheer with Rex Burkhead. He's just

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<v Speaker 1>a joy in that regard to see. I mean, I

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<v Speaker 1>remember after his first game, the preseason one where he

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<v Speaker 1>punished people and got about nine yards per he had

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<v Speaker 1>a ring of reporters around him in the post game,

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<v Speaker 1>and his locker is up against the wall near one

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<v Speaker 1>of the exits on one end of the locker room,

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<v Speaker 1>and Lovey Smith was leaving for the night. He'd already

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<v Speaker 1>done his press conference, and Lovey was getting a water

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<v Speaker 1>from the cooler. And he looks over and sees Pierce

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<v Speaker 1>and love He's a pretty stoic guy for the most part.

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<v Speaker 1>He raised his eyebrows, had had a little bit of

1:18:08.680 --> 1:18:09.800
<v Speaker 1>a glint in his eye, a little bit of a

1:18:09.920 --> 1:18:14.160
<v Speaker 1>smile when he saw Pierce talking. Now, normally a lot

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<v Speaker 1>of coaches they see a rookie chit chatting and the

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<v Speaker 1>Golden Court, They're like, not the case. I mean, Damian

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<v Speaker 1>Pierce is something special. He keeps this up, He's going

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<v Speaker 1>to be extra special. And Texans fans are gonna love

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<v Speaker 1>love They already do, but love it even more. And

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<v Speaker 1>one more thing before I turn it over to you

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<v Speaker 1>about Damian Pierce. His run amazing. And somebody replied, hey,

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<v Speaker 1>just give him number thirty four already like Earl Campbells

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<v Speaker 1>number thirty four, to which I replied with the Tony

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<v Speaker 1>Montana take relax, So yeah, retort, we are Nick Serio

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<v Speaker 1>say that on Monday, after the game gets the Jaguars,

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<v Speaker 1>He's in the weight room squatting four twenty five. It's amazing.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, stolen Ryanish. If you want to talk about

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<v Speaker 1>thirty four's yeah, kimelis one. Yeah, I'm saying that this squatting, yeah, yeah, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I mean Nolan. Nolan made that popular in the nineties.

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<v Speaker 1>Man guy in his forties. I mean, he was just incredible.

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<v Speaker 1>But I think there's so many things about Damian that

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<v Speaker 1>I love. I think one of them happened after he

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<v Speaker 1>scored a touchdown the other day. He made a b

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<v Speaker 1>line like he ran faster over to Laramie Tunsel than

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<v Speaker 1>he did on his tackle breaking run. He ran right

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<v Speaker 1>over to Laramie. Now, Bambridge, George is about three hours

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<v Speaker 1>away from Jacksonville. Laramie's from Lake City, Florida, with the

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<v Speaker 1>Lake City Columbia High School, and that is considered in

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<v Speaker 1>the Jacksonville area. Whenever we always did Greater Jacksonville stats,

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<v Speaker 1>they would include everybody in Jacksonville area. Well, they always

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<v Speaker 1>included Columbia. So Lake City is kind of considered a

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<v Speaker 1>Jacksonville like a far West, like think of the furthest West.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean even beyond Katie that's still considered maybe seely. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>it's kind of that distance from from Jacksonville Lake City

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<v Speaker 1>is so. I don't know if if Damien did it

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<v Speaker 1>for that reason or whatever, but he makes a bee

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<v Speaker 1>line over to Laramie and hands him the ball. Like

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<v Speaker 1>you know, Laramie is a Laramie is a very composed,

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<v Speaker 1>very cool cat. Doesn't really get rattled by much, just

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<v Speaker 1>very chill. Listen to Shade before the game. He's different, dude.

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<v Speaker 1>He took that ball from Damian and spiked it with

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<v Speaker 1>everything he's got. Our our Twitter handle, Texas Twitter handle

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<v Speaker 1>had that picture in black and white. It's gorgeous and

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<v Speaker 1>it's right at the point where he's the bauls coming

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<v Speaker 1>out of his hand and hitting ground. I mean that

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<v Speaker 1>thing went up. I mean, I don't know, manny yards

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<v Speaker 1>in the air. But just the thought that Damien was

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<v Speaker 1>that excited to bring the ball to him, to Laramie

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<v Speaker 1>and let him spike it, I thought was really really cool.

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<v Speaker 1>And he's done that. He did that on his um

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<v Speaker 1>his uh do you have another touch I'm want to

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<v Speaker 1>see he had another touchdown where he did that as well,

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<v Speaker 1>and he got it to his lineman may have been

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<v Speaker 1>in the preseason, but I just love the way he

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<v Speaker 1>looks out for his lineman, all the way he talks

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<v Speaker 1>about his lineman, all the way he flex praise, and

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<v Speaker 1>he's just he's been fun to watch. But in the

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<v Speaker 1>aggregate for through five games, there's no doubt it's it's

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<v Speaker 1>Damien Pierce. So let's move beyond Damien. Who's your guy?

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, I really want to, I really want to

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<v Speaker 1>say Jalen Petrie. Okay, but I'm gonna leave that on

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<v Speaker 1>the plate for you if you'd like it, all right,

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<v Speaker 1>because I am going to go with the aforementioned Laramy Tunsel.

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<v Speaker 1>I think Laramie has been really, really good. Now there

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<v Speaker 1>have been there have been some plays that I know

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<v Speaker 1>Laramy would like to have back. We none of us

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<v Speaker 1>are gonna know what the Texas protection was against the Colts.

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<v Speaker 1>They gave up that sack from b J Speed that

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<v Speaker 1>gave him the fumble, and you know they were able

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<v Speaker 1>to do something with that. Nobody's gonna I mean, some

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<v Speaker 1>people think, oh, maybe it was maybe Lary's supposed to that.

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<v Speaker 1>We don't know. We don't know what the protection scheme was.

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<v Speaker 1>A lot of times when we think we know what

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<v Speaker 1>it is. We don't really know. They have a particular

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<v Speaker 1>scheme called and there's probably a block or two that

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<v Speaker 1>he probably wishes he could have had in the run game.

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<v Speaker 1>But man, he has been fantastic in the run game,

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<v Speaker 1>better than I think I can remember seeing him, and

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<v Speaker 1>I thought he was really good. The other day he

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<v Speaker 1>had a key block on that run of Damien's they

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<v Speaker 1>ran a power play, and so so he's improved. In

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<v Speaker 1>the question, Laremy blocked down on Roy Robertson Harris and

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<v Speaker 1>moved him out of the way. And that distance that

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<v Speaker 1>he moved Roy Robertson Harris was enough because Tyler Johnson

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<v Speaker 1>was getting just enough ray Seon Jenkins. So is that

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<v Speaker 1>that gap? If that gap isn't there, it's just to stop.

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<v Speaker 1>It's gonna be third and five. But because Laramie down

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<v Speaker 1>blocked and because Johnson got enough of Jenkins, that's enough

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<v Speaker 1>for Daming to fight through any kind of arm tackle

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<v Speaker 1>and then get to the secondary. And once he got

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<v Speaker 1>to the secondary, then he started embarrassing everybody. But I

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<v Speaker 1>feel like Laramie has been really really good. Now are

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<v Speaker 1>there players like I said that he'd like that back

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<v Speaker 1>that I feel like he could have done a little

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<v Speaker 1>bit more with because he is Laramie Tunseil. Sure, but

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<v Speaker 1>I think it's been very, very evident how much we

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<v Speaker 1>missed Laramie last year. After Week five he got hurt

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<v Speaker 1>in that Patriots game and then we didn't have for

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<v Speaker 1>the rest of the year. But he's playing at a

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<v Speaker 1>top notch Pro Bowl like level, and I'm glad. Over

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<v Speaker 1>the offseason, I remember seeing him tweet something. Pff IT

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<v Speaker 1>put out their their top tackles or something, and they

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<v Speaker 1>basically came up with a classification like a lead Pro

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<v Speaker 1>Bowl level, above average starter or something like that, and

1:23:05.479 --> 1:23:07.760
<v Speaker 1>they labeled him like an above average starter or something,

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<v Speaker 1>and he was kind of like, Okay, you'll see And

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<v Speaker 1>he's really been showing that through five games. So he

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<v Speaker 1>is such a key because when you start going down

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<v Speaker 1>the list of players that the Texans are gonna face,

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<v Speaker 1>think about what they've already faced, and think about what

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<v Speaker 1>he's gonna face. We go out to Las Vegas, He's

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<v Speaker 1>gonna face Chandler Jones and Max Crosby, you know, further

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<v Speaker 1>on down the list, gonna face the Eagles. I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>they got a million guys they can throw out there

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<v Speaker 1>Hassan Reddick, a guy with a bunch of speed. He's

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<v Speaker 1>gonna see off the edge. You see the Titans. Now

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<v Speaker 1>they don't have Harold Landry, but they still have got

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<v Speaker 1>the Nikatre who rushes from the outside. Some bud dupree

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<v Speaker 1>for the Titans. He's gonna see Josh Allen and Trayvon

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<v Speaker 1>Walker again. We face the Jaguars every single week. He

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<v Speaker 1>is facing some dude out on the outside and he's

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<v Speaker 1>holding his own. And I think Laramy has been the

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<v Speaker 1>best of the lineman this year. And I think the

1:23:55.600 --> 1:23:58.280
<v Speaker 1>line off the line group overall has taken their game

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<v Speaker 1>to a different level. And I think Damien's help that.

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<v Speaker 1>But I think they've also up their play too, and

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<v Speaker 1>I think that's helped. And I think it will help

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<v Speaker 1>this offense get better and better as they get more

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<v Speaker 1>in syncle with one another. I like it. I'm gonna

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<v Speaker 1>go with Nico Collins as Michael Cream of the Cropper.

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<v Speaker 1>So far like it now. I can promise you that

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<v Speaker 1>at that point Drew made some very salient points about

1:24:16.760 --> 1:24:18.680
<v Speaker 1>Nico Collins, but you're gonna have to listen to the

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<v Speaker 1>rest of it. Wherever you get your podcasts, go download

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<v Speaker 1>and the Lab. You can listen to all of it

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<v Speaker 1>in its entirety wherever you get your podcast. A big

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<v Speaker 1>thanks to Drew, to Amobia Koya, to Mark Vanomer, to

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<v Speaker 1>Nick Caserio, to all of you for listening with Thank

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<v Speaker 1>you so much. We will see you tomorrow. Yes, bye week,

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<v Speaker 1>But Texans Radio never stops, same bat time, same bat channel,

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