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Speaker 1: What has happened?

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Speaker 2: Everybody, and welcome into a Friday edition of Texans All

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Speaker 2: Access from Monday Texans Radio Studio. I'm your host, John Harris,

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Speaker 2: football analyst, sideline reporter for your Houston Texans, and it

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Speaker 2: is a bye week.

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Speaker 1: It has been quiet. It has been well.

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Speaker 2: I mean on Thursday and Friday, our business ops gets

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Speaker 2: the day's off and a bye week, so it's been

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Speaker 2: really really quiet. No players, no coaches, a few people rehabbing.

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Speaker 2: Maybe that hardly any if any business ops people in

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Speaker 2: a building. But we still got radio to do, and

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Speaker 2: so we will do it for you. I will take

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Speaker 2: you up until eight o'clock and then Mark's got.

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Speaker 1: An extra special edition.

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Speaker 2: Of Texans All Access as he has every Friday night

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Speaker 2: from eight to nine, So we got you for the

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Speaker 2: next three hours.

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Speaker 1: Now a bye week, they're in.

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Speaker 2: A whole lot going on, so we'd like to look

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Speaker 2: back at some of the great interviews that we've had.

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Speaker 2: Maybe you missed it the first time, so so be

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Speaker 2: fresh to you. And it's eight height end. First segment.

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Speaker 2: This is great stuff because we're gonna hear from a

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Speaker 2: player and a coach. We're gonna hear from Kate Stover

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Speaker 2: player rookie. Great interview. Then we're gonna hear from his coach,

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Speaker 2: Jake Morland, coach in a tremendous interview. Both of them

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Speaker 2: are Great's a great way to start off the show.

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Speaker 2: So let's start right here with Kate Stover on with

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Speaker 2: me and Mark.

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Speaker 3: Kate.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to use the word tougher because it

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Speaker 2: makes it sound like it's a negative, But in your

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Speaker 2: first year in the NFL, what's been a bigger challenge

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Speaker 2: the mental part of it or the physical part of it?

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Speaker 4: Early on, I feel like mental was definitely a part

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Speaker 4: of it.

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Speaker 5: Just moves faster.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, everything just moves faster, and people move faster, and

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Speaker 4: I mean each game just keep getting more comfortable and

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Speaker 4: more comfortable and more opportunity to do something. And then

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Speaker 4: things just really start to slow down. And I'm starting

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Speaker 4: to start feel like his a game start to slot

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Speaker 4: for me.

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Speaker 6: But what about the mental part of it?

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Speaker 7: I mean, you're out there doing a lot of work,

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Speaker 7: a lot of different things, the blocking element, pass receiving,

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Speaker 7: you have to know everything the whole offense.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: No, I mean I.

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Speaker 4: Kind of look at that like a kind of a compliment.

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Speaker 4: Balance with you that they're asking a rookie to be

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Speaker 4: able to go and move, and I do a lot

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Speaker 4: of moving. I'm always moving here, in motion here and

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Speaker 4: moving here, and I like doing it. I enjoy playing

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Speaker 4: that way. It just takes a lot, I mean takes

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Speaker 4: a lot during the week to really get yourself prepared

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Speaker 4: to play fast on Sunday.

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Speaker 2: In a tight end room, you lose Brevin. You guys

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Speaker 2: have pretty tight tight end room. What's that room like this?

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Speaker 4: No doubt it's really good, even I mean really obviously

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Speaker 4: really sad losing Brevin. He was really instrumental to me

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Speaker 4: during camp and stuff. Just him and Dalton both just

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Speaker 4: really really good dudes, and honestly they could have not

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Speaker 4: been good dudes to me obviously, yep. So just have

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Speaker 4: them do that and have Teaking back now. I mean

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Speaker 4: I didn't really know Teaking that well during camp, but

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Speaker 4: now since he's been back, like I would say, I'm

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Speaker 4: pretty close and good friends with that kid. So it's

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Speaker 4: just really good to have such good people in the

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Speaker 7: I'm sure we discussed this, but Jake Morland, your tight

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Speaker 7: Ends coach, was an original Texan, so you can ask

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Speaker 7: before the team ever played a game.

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Speaker 6: So that's interesting stuff right there.

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Speaker 7: But talk to us a little bit about the offense

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Speaker 7: because you mentioned during the week it's a.

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Speaker 6: Lot of work.

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Speaker 7: Do you bring the playbuck home and you go over

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Speaker 7: all this stuff, because, like you said, you're out there

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Speaker 7: moving a lot and it's noticeable.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's a lot. But then again, I mean,

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Speaker 4: this is your job, no, right, I mean I guess

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Speaker 4: in the lesser terms, I mean I watched my pops

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Speaker 4: five o'clock till eight o'clock at night. Like, right, if

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Speaker 4: for studying my place for a couple hours.

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Speaker 5: And now I'm pretty sure I got it pretty good.

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Speaker 4: You don't have class, No class, I mean that's your

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Speaker 4: got it right. You don't have study hours or anything

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Speaker 4: like that. So this is I mean, I just kind

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Speaker 2: Now, as a famous Buckey once said, you don't have

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Speaker 2: to play school anymore, so you don't have to worry

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Speaker 2: about that from from that standpoint, primetime games now gooper

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Speaker 2: Ohio State. You got them at all kinds at all

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Speaker 2: times throughout the day, eleven, two thirty and at night. Right,

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Speaker 2: But just being in primetime games is something that we

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Speaker 2: haven't seen around here for a few years. What's kind

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Speaker 2: of that nighttime element? Like for you guys, is add

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Speaker 2: a little bit more juice to it? Is it that

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Speaker 2: the night game here like we did against Chicago?

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Speaker 1: What's that kind of nighttime experience?

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Speaker 4: The hardest part of a nighttime game is waiting around

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Speaker 4: all day. Yeah, that's awful, I mean to me, that's why,

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Speaker 4: like a lot of players, you don't like playing at

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Speaker 4: got to keep yourself. You gotta keep yourself calm, right.

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Speaker 4: You can't wake up and be ready to rock, because

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Speaker 4: if you do, then you have to burn yourself out before, right,

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Speaker 4: Like there were times in college where early on I

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Speaker 4: would do that and you're like, I don't got no legs,

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Speaker 4: Like why are my legs on it? It's because you're

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Speaker 4: you got to relax. And that's I mean, one of

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Speaker 4: the harder parts for me is just growing up and

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Speaker 4: just relaxing and being like, dude, it's coming.

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Speaker 9: Just relax.

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Speaker 1: You got to keep the adrenaline kind of low, right.

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Speaker 4: You can't, I mean, because you can only handle so

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Speaker 4: much during out the day, you know what I mean. Like,

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Speaker 4: I didn't be able to go out there through warm

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Speaker 4: and then if you do it right, you're feeling damn good.

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Speaker 5: Eight o'clock kids.

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Speaker 6: Over with us.

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Speaker 7: When you were in college, what were some of the

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Speaker 7: louder environments you played in? Obviously at home it was loud,

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Speaker 7: but as an offense, you got to deal with all

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Speaker 6: Here you've dealt with it.

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Speaker 7: Green Bay, Minnesota, obviously the Jet game, but I would

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Speaker 7: think Minnesota was probably number one, right as far as.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that was just yeah Minnesota, and it's the one

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Speaker 4: game I try and forget about.

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Speaker 5: For the rest of my life.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but I would say that was my here you go,

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Speaker 4: wake up, big fella. So that was good for me

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Speaker 4: to grow up in that aspect of that game. But

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Speaker 4: as far as noise wise, loud of state, I've ever

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Speaker 4: been in this Penn State and it's really close.

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Speaker 7: Okay, Yeah, I mean Mark knows. Yeah, I used to

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Speaker 7: work there a long time ago. But your boys got

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Speaker 3: They did, They got it done.

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Speaker 4: I just remember, like I mean, obviously anybody's played their

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Speaker 4: rattle to like the core. Yeah, that wow, the noise

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Speaker 4: of that, especially with if they if they get some

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Speaker 2: Back that life gets extinguished very quickly against the Buckeyes lately.

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Speaker 1: Uh, that's for sure.

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Speaker 2: Would I know you don't want to you know, the

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Speaker 2: Minnesota game, it was a tough one and it's probably

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Speaker 2: one that you know, you play a ten twelve year career,

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Speaker 6: Would that would taught me some lessons?

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Speaker 2: So I know it's it's one that you probably will

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Speaker 2: never want to forget in a sense because it'll probably

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Speaker 2: continue to drive you at some point, which you already know.

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Speaker 2: But did you have and have you had kind of

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Speaker 5: That was it, that was it considered.

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Speaker 4: That whole game was kind of like because up to

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Speaker 5: I've not played on the line yet in a full NFL.

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Speaker 7: Game, right, in a full game. Yeah, but you had

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Speaker 4: Mean, But like that was just from the backfield, a

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Speaker 4: like you know what I mean, and Breven goes down. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: and then they moved me to the why and like

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Speaker 4: mean normally like in college, I was always all right,

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Speaker 4: that's also something that's never gonna happen again.

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Speaker 7: It's so different, huh from practice because practice you're getting

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Speaker 7: the look team. You're not blowing the guy up in

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Speaker 7: the same way obviously as you're gonna be the game,

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Speaker 7: he's not. He's not gonna have what he's gonna have

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Speaker 7: against you.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and even more like I I it's hard to describe,

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Speaker 4: but like when you're really like that was my first

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Speaker 4: game being in there, our first snapping game, right right,

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Speaker 4: and I've never been in that like that to me

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Speaker 4: was a really big Like whether it's a start, I

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Speaker 4: don't know what you consider it, but like I was

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Speaker 4: the first guy out there with the first team offense, right,

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Speaker 4: that's my NFL career, And I was like that was

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Speaker 4: big to me, know what I mean. I'm proud up

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Speaker 4: and you can forget and then you're like, god darn it,

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Speaker 4: he came a little kid again.

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Speaker 5: Just felt like I was six years old again that yeah.

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Speaker 2: But I mean, like you said, look, those things happen,

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Speaker 2: but you have lined up at fullback, you've lined up

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Speaker 2: at eh, you lined up at why, You've moved around,

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Speaker 2: and it feels like just watching kid, you've gotten really

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Speaker 2: kind of comfortable to split blocking where you're coming across.

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Speaker 2: I thought against Green Bay, I thought we were gonna

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Speaker 2: pop that one at second and twelve. You came across

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Speaker 2: and took out Preston Smith, and I thought that was

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Speaker 1: But that part of your.

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Speaker 2: Game really seemingly has been very very good kind of

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Speaker 2: blocking on the move. Do you feel kind of more comfortable?

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Speaker 2: Have you gotten more comfortable doing that as you've gotten here?

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Speaker 4: I mean, some of those dudes are and college guys

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Speaker 7: So in high school, Kate Stiver with US, you played

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Speaker 7: What do you miss about that side of the football

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Speaker 4: if you don't make the play on defense, that's your fault, right,

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Speaker 4: On offense, a lot of this has to come down

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Speaker 5: Am I even in the progression on this route?

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Speaker 4: Thanks you you can. I feel like on defense you

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Speaker 7: Mean, Right, you need to know where to go. But

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Speaker 3: A little more.

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Speaker 4: There's so much more finesse of right, and you try

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Speaker 4: And this dude's coming. He's cross cutting the back line

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Speaker 5: Right.

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Speaker 4: He's blocking on outside, so he's going to stick you right.

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Speaker 4: On defense, it's the same thing, except when you get

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Speaker 4: excited making a one yard stop as opposed to making

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Speaker 7: All right, So along those lines, in a way, you're

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Speaker 6: For your high school. Right, that's where I was going

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Speaker 7: I once heard Doug Flutie, famous Heisman Trophy winning football players, saying,

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Speaker 6: Right, how did you enjoy that versus football?

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Speaker 2: And CJ was really good too. Well, that's what I

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Speaker 2: was going to ask you. Do you guys ever play

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Speaker 5: Video gat he's a great basketball player.

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Speaker 2: So if you guys ever got one on one or

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Speaker 3: I can tell you. So we had we had.

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Speaker 4: Like a three quarter half court inside our facilitio hostile boys.

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Speaker 5: Right like hardwood floor, nice like.

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Speaker 4: It was awesome, right, Okay, And that was honestly some

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Speaker 4: It was some of the best basketball I've ever seen

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Speaker 5: And if there was a.

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Speaker 3: It would have been.

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Speaker 4: Everybody had been like Holy moly, because I mean it's

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Speaker 5: It's not like your.

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Speaker 4: Typical I mean it's like, yeah, everybody's playing defense. Everybody

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Speaker 2: You always had to be you always had to look

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Speaker 1: You always look out for that guy.

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Speaker 4: That actually was obviously we've had a couple of rolled angles,

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Speaker 4: I can't remember what year it was, but there was

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Speaker 4: those guys like a two offseason guy forgetting Yeah, three

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Speaker 1: We know what happened.

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Speaker 6: Okay, thanks a lot for joining us, sppreciate you guys.

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Speaker 5: Thanks love.

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Speaker 2: And the man that is leading him in that tight

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Speaker 2: We've had such great interviews with Jake over the years

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Speaker 6: Mark joining us now at studio.

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Speaker 7: It's Texans tight ends coach and original Texan and former

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Speaker 7: it's always great to visit with you, and let's talk

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Speaker 9: Coach.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, for sure, you know Kay's doing a great job.

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Speaker 10: I think the whole room is really doing a great job.

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Speaker 10: anybody who's in the tight end's room, they know that

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Speaker 10: So it's a very fun and exciting place to be

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Speaker 10: And going back to your original question, what Kate has

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Speaker 2: Does that make it more I don't know if exciting

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Speaker 1: You got to know all the different routes.

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Speaker 2: It's kind of like you got your hand in everything

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Speaker 1: Does that make it more fun to coach? The position?

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Speaker 3: That's exactly right?

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Speaker 10: And that's actually exactly what I tell these guys, and

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Speaker 10: And so we cross train everybody because if kid breaks

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Speaker 2: Dalton seems like a pretty chill, kind of quiet guy

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Speaker 10: But he definitely had a different look in his eye,

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Speaker 10: You know, he hasn't been targeted, maybe as much as

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Speaker 7: Yeah, Jake Morland coaches ends for the Texans. The point

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Speaker 7: pass wants to catch all the passes. But you mentioned

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Speaker 7: all the dirty work that you have to do that's

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Speaker 7: utterly important. Is there a sense that or do you

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Speaker 7: have to remind everybody that, hey, this is seen by

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Speaker 7: all the important people in your career, right the other teams,

447
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Speaker 7: this team, whether you end up another place or not.

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Speaker 7: As you're coaching guys in training camp and whatnot, do

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Speaker 7: you need to remind them of that sometimes one hundred percent?

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Speaker 10: I mean, I mean, of course, guys, you know, especially

451
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Speaker 10: on this level, everybody, Hey guy, I'm open on every play.

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Speaker 10: You're not open on every play, even though you think

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Speaker 10: you're open on every play. I get it, but that's

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Speaker 10: how competitive these guys are, right, So in order to

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Speaker 10: keep on keep on fueling that competitive drive, you want

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Speaker 10: to let them know that when you get your opportunity,

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Speaker 10: you have to maximize it, and you never know when

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Speaker 10: that opportunity is going to come. It's like, you know,

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Speaker 10: you play seventy plays in a game, and there's probably

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Speaker 10: five or six of those plays that are really going

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Speaker 10: to determine the outcome. The problem is you don't know

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Speaker 10: when those plays are going to show up. So if

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Speaker 10: you're not able to perform on every single play that

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Speaker 10: you're in, then you might miss your opportunity. And that's

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Speaker 10: the thing that we talk about the most in our

466
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Speaker 10: room is the progress is part of the process, right

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Speaker 10: and as we continue to progress through the season, are

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Speaker 10: we able to sustain everything that we need to do

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Speaker 10: play in and play out? So because you never know

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Speaker 10: when that one play is going to be the turning

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Speaker 10: point in.

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Speaker 2: The game, coach almost feel like there should be some

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Speaker 2: delineation at some point between using the word rookie and

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Speaker 2: using the year first year guy, because I feel like

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Speaker 2: they're no longer rookies because they've been playing a lot.

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Speaker 2: What have you seen from Caid since he matured from

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Speaker 2: a rookie to a first year player. He's lined up

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Speaker 2: almost everywhere. He's done a little bit of everything, including

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Speaker 2: being one of the Special teams players of the week.

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Speaker 2: What has he done as a rookie for you guys,

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Speaker 2: and what kind of growth have you seen in Kate?

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Speaker 10: Well, I think it starts with his approach the guy.

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Speaker 10: He showed up in a professional kind of a manner,

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Speaker 10: you know what I mean. Sometimes you have to kind of,

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Speaker 10: let's say, coach guys into say hey, this is how

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Speaker 10: we perform, this is how we study, these are the

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Speaker 10: things that we have to do. And Caid was pro

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Speaker 10: as soon as he walked through the doors, right. So

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Speaker 10: his mental ability to grasp the offense has been fantastic.

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Speaker 10: That's why we're able to move him around and do

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Speaker 10: the things that we're able to do. His physical presence

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Speaker 10: has allowed him to also not only be in the offense,

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Speaker 10: but also become a real live player for us in

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Speaker 10: special teams.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 10: And so when you're a tight end, especially in this level,

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Speaker 10: you have to be able to perform both in special

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Speaker 10: teams and on the offense.

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Speaker 3: For whatever that looks.

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Speaker 10: Like for that particular week, and I think he's just

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Speaker 10: really embraced his role. Whatever we ask him to do,

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Speaker 10: he's going to do it to the best of his ability.

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Speaker 10: And he's very coachable. He wants to be coached, he

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Speaker 10: wants to be pushed, and he really wants to be

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Speaker 10: the best at what he's doing.

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Speaker 2: And I thought he was really open with us. We

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Speaker 2: had him in here, what maybe three four weeks ago,

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Speaker 2: and he actually brought it up. We didn't really want

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Speaker 2: to go there, and he brought He was the one

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Speaker 2: who brought up the Minnesota game, and he talked about

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Speaker 2: the lessons he learned from that Minnesota game that he

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Speaker 2: is then applying going forward.

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Speaker 1: Did you see that same thing, coach.

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Speaker 2: I mean, that was a tough game for him, a

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Speaker 2: tough time against John Gernard in particular.

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Speaker 1: Did you kind of see that same thing from him,

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Speaker 1: because he talked.

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Speaker 2: About it very openly about how that was a real

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Speaker 2: learning lesson for him that added kind of to his

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Speaker 2: tool kit as he moved forward, exactly.

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Speaker 10: And again I go back to these guys that are

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Speaker 10: in my room. They are pros, and they really have

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Speaker 10: a great approach to the game and they know that

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Speaker 10: there are things even if we lose, okay, quote unquote lose,

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Speaker 10: you lose a play, you lose a game, whatever, that

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Speaker 10: looks like, there's going to be lessons that you can

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Speaker 10: derive from that, and then if you're able to apply

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Speaker 10: it as you move on through the season. I think

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Speaker 10: that's why we are where we are now. We went

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Speaker 10: through some adversity over the last few weeks, not only

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Speaker 10: going all the way back to Minnesota, but as a team,

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Speaker 10: you know, everybody faces injuries. Get that, well, we probably

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Speaker 10: lost a couple of games that most people think that.

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Speaker 3: We should have won, including us.

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Speaker 10: Okay, fine, well, what can we learn from that and

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Speaker 10: apply now as we continue to move on and we

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Speaker 10: start getting into December, because that's when where we really

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Speaker 10: need to be playing our best ball.

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Speaker 3: Yep.

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Speaker 7: Jake Morland tight ends coach for the Texans. All right,

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Speaker 7: so you played tight end, you played the position you

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Speaker 7: played in the league, and then you started coaching. So

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Speaker 7: when did that or how was that evolution for you?

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Speaker 7: Where the satisfaction is I'm teaching somebody else and I

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Speaker 7: see them do something well and it just lights a

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Speaker 7: fuse for me. It really satisfies me, and I want

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Speaker 7: to pursue this forever.

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Speaker 10: It was something that I did not want to do

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Speaker 10: by one hundred percent. Did not want to be a coach.

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Speaker 10: In fact, when I got done playing, I was completely

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Speaker 10: done with football. Didn't want anything to do with football.

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Speaker 10: And then I was asked to come and be part

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Speaker 10: of a staff with one of my quarterback from college,

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Speaker 10: and I said, I'm going to help you out for

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Speaker 10: this fall, and that's it, and then I'm done. And

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Speaker 10: from the first moment that I stepped on the field,

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Speaker 10: I knew that this is what I was supposed to do.

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Speaker 10: It was very hard for me at first to be

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Speaker 10: able to articulate the things that I wanted my players

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Speaker 10: to be able to do. For whatever reason, I had

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Speaker 10: been able to just do things naturally. I couldn't really

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Speaker 10: explain to you why or how. I just knew how

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Speaker 10: things needed to be done. Well, now I need to

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Speaker 10: put it into a real, live English language to be

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Speaker 10: able to articulate to somebody that they understand that they

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Speaker 10: can go and perform. And so that was a very

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Speaker 10: very hard thing for me to do early in my

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Speaker 10: career and as I've gone to different places. The Air

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Speaker 10: Force Academy is the best example because even though those

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Speaker 10: guys are the smartest guys, they're the bravest guys. I

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Speaker 10: mean all of the above. They're made up of all

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Speaker 10: the right stuff, But you have a very small window

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Speaker 10: that you have to get all the information to.

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Speaker 3: These guys in.

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Speaker 10: And by the way, they're also worried about, you know,

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Speaker 10: aeronautical engineering and protecting our country and all these other things.

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Speaker 10: Football is, you know, down the lists quite a bit

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Speaker 10: for these guys. But it made me a better coach

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Speaker 10: because I needed to be very concise in the information

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Speaker 10: that I was giving them so that they could go

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Speaker 10: out and make it perform. So everywhere that I've been

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Speaker 10: I've been able to learn different things, learn different techniques.

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Speaker 10: And also you got to figure out what pushes the

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Speaker 10: guy's buttons and how do guys learn. Some guys learn

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Speaker 10: through paper, some guys learn through video, some guys learn

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Speaker 10: through walk through and so you have to be able

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Speaker 10: to manipulate all of those things so everybody can be

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Speaker 10: on the same page.

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Speaker 1: And as a coach. Now it's now technology.

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Speaker 2: How do you you know with the new technology, because

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Speaker 2: back when we were coaching, like you're drawing it up

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Speaker 2: on pads, you know, it was on paper as all

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Speaker 2: you do.

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Speaker 1: But I'm telling you that coaching bug hits. Man.

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Speaker 2: When it strikes, it's like holy cow, definitely strike.

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Speaker 1: Yes, it does strike like a lightning bolt. All right.

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Speaker 1: Coming up next, one.

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Speaker 2: Of the more seasoned coaches, if you will, on this

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Speaker 2: staff is the guy that we met for the first

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Speaker 2: time when he walked into our studio, and that's Bill Davis,

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Speaker 2: Linebacker's coach. I mean, you talk about a guy that's

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Speaker 2: been around and he's seen some things. Man, he's absolutely awesome.

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Speaker 2: We had a great time talking to him. Bill Davis's

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Speaker 2: next right here in Texans All Access. Welcome back to

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Speaker 2: Texans All Access. I'm your host, John Harrits, Football Analyst,

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Speaker 2: sideline reporter, and this is my eleventh year of being

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Speaker 2: in this role for the Texans. Absolutely love it. Couldn't

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Speaker 2: think of anything else I'd rather do on a day

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Speaker 2: to day basis. Every single year, as and I remember

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Speaker 2: Bill Brian just talking about this, every single team is

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Speaker 2: a different team. Twenty three, twenty twenty three teams different

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Speaker 2: than twenty twenty four. And yeah, there was a lot

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Speaker 2: of carryover. The's a lot of players back from twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty three, but it's always a new team. And with

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Speaker 2: a new team, every year comes new players, new coaches, rookies,

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Speaker 2: free agents, you know, coaches that are coming to Houston

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Speaker 2: for the first time. And we ran into one of

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Speaker 2: those guys, linebackers coach Bill Davis. And I'll be really honest,

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Speaker 2: when the coach took the job, I'd heard the name,

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Speaker 2: I knew he'd been around, but really wasn't totally completely

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Speaker 2: immersed in his story. And when I found out we're

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Speaker 2: gonna interview him, like, Okay, I'm gonna go check out

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Speaker 2: his background, Like, oh.

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Speaker 1: My gosh, yeah, I forgot he was here. Oh man,

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Speaker 1: I can't. Oh yeah he was there too. Oh man.

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Speaker 2: He coached this guy, Bill Davis has been around and

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Speaker 2: seen some things. He has done a great job with

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Speaker 2: these linebackers. And when he sat down, we had one

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Speaker 2: hell of a time talking with him about his history

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Speaker 2: being with the Texans, this group of linebackers he's got.

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Speaker 2: This was some really fun stuff with Bill Davis, linebackers

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Speaker 2: coach for your Houston Texans.

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Speaker 7: Joining us right now in studio. Bill Davis, linebackers coach

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Speaker 7: for your Texans.

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Speaker 1: How's it going, coach, It's going great.

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Speaker 11: Just came off the practice field, excited about how the

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Speaker 11: guys are working.

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Speaker 2: Coach, when Devin White comes in, whether this really isn't

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Speaker 2: about Devin so much as it is just a new

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Speaker 2: player coming in in the middle of the season. Because

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Speaker 2: you've been around the NFL for a long time, I

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Speaker 2: know the goal is probably, hey, let's get this guy

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Speaker 2: on the field as soon as possible. But how do

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Speaker 2: you kind of go about that process of getting a

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Speaker 2: guy up to speed with something new, like learning this

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Speaker 2: particular defense.

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Speaker 9: So there's a lot of things that factor in.

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Speaker 11: For instance, a disease came to us, but it had

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Speaker 11: been in San Francisco's Yeah, you know the system before,

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Speaker 11: so the words instantly turned to where he knew exactly

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Speaker 11: what they meant. Devon is not so Devon's coming from

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Speaker 11: two different systems that we run. So now there's a

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Speaker 11: lot of all, right, here's what we call this hook

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Speaker 11: curl buzz, cover three, cover four, and here's what you

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Speaker 11: called it, and we just have to It's like teaching

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Speaker 11: somebody to speak Spanish from German or England. You know,

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Speaker 11: you've got the same meanings, but you've got to figure

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Speaker 11: out the words that apply, and then you dive down

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Speaker 11: a little bit deeper into specific techniques, and we call

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Speaker 11: them tools or adjustments that we make win. An offense

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Speaker 11: is attacking our cover three in a certain way where

662
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Speaker 11: we have a couple of tools to beat how they're

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Speaker 11: attacking us. Well, he's got to learn not only our

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Speaker 11: cover three, but the tools that live within that cover three.

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Speaker 11: And that's where the deeper dive takes longer to really

666
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Speaker 11: trust that he can help you win the game and

667
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Speaker 11: not hurt you because he just is in a situation

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Speaker 11: he hasn't covered yet. We have all these OTA's, all

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Speaker 11: the training camp, all these practices. These guys stack and

670
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Speaker 11: they've gone through all those problems and they can say, oh, yeah,

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Speaker 11: I remember in spring when that happened. I remember in preseason.

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Speaker 11: Devin doesn't have any of that. So we just have

673
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Speaker 11: to take him at the pace that'll go. We'll start

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Speaker 11: in small packages that are real familiar to him and

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Speaker 11: then and we'll grow a needed.

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Speaker 9: Ye every situation is different, guys.

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Speaker 7: Sure, Bill Davis with US linebackers coach for the Texans,

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Speaker 7: you've been a defensive coordinator. You've coached linebackers for a

679
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Speaker 7: long time though in this league. What about the evolution

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Speaker 7: of the linebacker in the NFL. We've done shows with

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Speaker 7: with Ted Johnson. We had Brian Cushing on this team,

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Speaker 7: though those guys a little bigger. Seems like the sizes

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Speaker 7: are changing. What do you think overall coaches, the way

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Speaker 7: the linebacker position has evolved.

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Speaker 11: So basically, what happens if you look at it through

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Speaker 11: this real simple ends that the more big people the

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Speaker 11: offense has on the field, the more big people we

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Speaker 11: put on defensively, the more smaller fast people, the more

689
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Speaker 11: smaller fast defensive players we play. And what's happened over time,

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Speaker 11: And I've been in three decades now and even longer.

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Speaker 11: When I was a kid and a ball boy, there

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Speaker 11: was always the big players. When I say big, there

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Speaker 11: was multiple tight end sets. There was always a fullback

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Speaker 11: in everybody's offense. So everything was big, and our linebackers

695
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Speaker 11: were two fifty two fifty five. That's what we looked for.

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Speaker 11: Could you stop the run first? And over time the

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Speaker 11: offenses have morphed into more pass heavy and in order

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Speaker 11: to be better in their past, they get smaller, faster,

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Speaker 11: quicker guys. So what we've done with the linebackers, especially

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Speaker 11: the inside, is now what used to be a two

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Speaker 11: forty five. That's what the weight and the size six '

702
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Speaker 11: three doesn't necessarily run real fast, but can stop the run.

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Speaker 11: That is no longer what we're looking for now it's

704
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Speaker 11: gone smaller and smaller, faster, quicker. The first thing I

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Speaker 11: look for is can he run and cover?

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Speaker 7: Right?

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Speaker 11: Because seventy percent of what he has to do is

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Speaker 11: coverage and thirty percent stop the run.

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Speaker 9: So where at that place? So we have to evolve.

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Speaker 3: What was a safety.

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Speaker 9: When I first started in the league is now a linebacker?

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Speaker 3: All right?

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Speaker 7: So could Jamiico Ryans be an all era linebacker? Could

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Speaker 7: he play in any era?

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Speaker 9: Absolutely? Okay? Good ass?

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Speaker 11: And I don't only say that because he's the boss.

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Speaker 11: I say that because of who Damiico is. And he's

718
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Speaker 11: right at the end between He is big enough to

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Speaker 11: handle the run and stop the run. He's athletic and

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Speaker 11: fast enough to cover. You put him in coverage like

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Speaker 11: they can't go Christian McCaffrey coverage.

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Speaker 9: That's that's a rare coverage.

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Speaker 11: Anyway you put a safety on a kid like that,

724
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Speaker 11: now you're okay, our safety is going to have trouble.

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Speaker 11: So there's different variations of who that running back is

726
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Speaker 11: week the week who the tight end is, and you

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Speaker 11: find your matchup linebacker wise the one that we match

728
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Speaker 11: up with better.

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Speaker 7: Were you attempted to suit him up last week with

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Speaker 7: the kid?

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Speaker 3: All right?

732
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Speaker 7: Bill Davis with US linebackers coach for the Texans. Are

733
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Speaker 7: you mentioned you have some history in this league? Coach,

734
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Speaker 7: and I have a lot of places I can go here,

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Speaker 7: but I want to start here. You're with Dom Capers

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Speaker 7: in Carolina, the very first head coach in Texans history,

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Speaker 7: and you're with him in Carolina.

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Speaker 6: Had some success with him.

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Speaker 7: You were coaching linebackers and Kevin Green and Lamar Lathan

740
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Speaker 7: finished one and two in sacks. That's incredible stuff. But

741
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Speaker 7: what was it like being with Dom and Carolina?

742
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Speaker 8: So?

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Speaker 11: I started in Pittsburgh with Dom yep So when my

744
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:32,600
Speaker 11: first broke in the league, it was Pittsburgh Steel As

745
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Speaker 11: he was a coordinator, went on to be the head

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Speaker 11: coach of the expansion Panthers, and I was just outside

747
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Speaker 11: linebacker coach. Vic Fanguel was a coordinator. So I've really

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Speaker 11: been blessed with the coaches that I've been able to

749
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Speaker 11: be around. And Dom Capers is an absolute mentor of mine.

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Speaker 11: He has been there for me the whole career. I've

751
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Speaker 11: learned most of my defensive ball from Dom. My first

752
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Speaker 11: seven years were with Dom. He's outstanding human being. Him

753
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Speaker 11: and Karen are two of my favorite people on planet Earth.

754
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Speaker 11: But when we were in Carolina and we took that expansion,

755
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Speaker 11: I've been with two expansion teams, Carolina and the Browns.

756
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Speaker 9: And the first expansion team they gave the league, gave us.

757
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Speaker 1: And Jackville everything.

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Speaker 9: It wasn't fair to the rest of the league. We

759
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Speaker 9: thought of one would be fair to us.

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Speaker 11: We were loaded in free agency, we had an unlimited checkbook,

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Speaker 11: and we had two picks in every round. The week

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Speaker 11: we both went to the championship games after year two,

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Speaker 11: so it was a real quick ascent. Then later on

764
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Speaker 11: I was in Cleveland for the expansion and they took

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Speaker 11: all of those away from us, right, so it was

766
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Speaker 11: a little bit different animal. But with Dom and Bill

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Speaker 11: Poli and those guys put together a heck of a

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Speaker 11: team and it was fun to the Probably one of

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Speaker 11: the biggest accomplishments of my career as a coach was

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Speaker 11: having Lamar Lath and Kevin Green finished first and second

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Speaker 11: in the NFL and sacks, and they were starters in

772
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Speaker 11: the Pro Bowl, and it was a year that was

773
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Speaker 11: a lot of fun. But those players were really committed.

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Speaker 11: Like this group I have now is how hard do

775
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Speaker 11: they work? In practice? Tells you what kind of players

776
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Speaker 11: you have and they don't all work the same. But

777
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Speaker 11: those guys back when we were wanting two work, they

778
00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:07,080
Speaker 11: earned what they You get what you earn, and they

779
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Speaker 11: earned those that first and second coach.

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Speaker 2: You mentioned it earlier about being a ball boy when

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Speaker 2: you were growing up, So you've been around this thing

782
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Speaker 2: for a real long time. Thinking back to when you

783
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Speaker 2: were a kid and you were doing that, did you

784
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Speaker 2: ever think it would materialize into this? Was that kind

785
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Speaker 2: of the impetus for Oh, yeah, I'm gonna be in

786
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Speaker 2: the NFL, I'm going to be a coach.

787
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Speaker 1: This is what I'm gonna do.

788
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Speaker 2: How did that experience as being a ball boy kind

789
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Speaker 2: of project forward into what you do now?

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Speaker 9: I was so blessed my upbringer.

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Speaker 11: My father's first job was with the Philadelphi Eagles in

792
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Speaker 11: nineteen seventy six. We Dick for Meal, Wow and Vince

793
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Speaker 11: Papali actually the whole Invincible. Yeah, it was all right

794
00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:44,920
Speaker 11: then when we were there and I was a ball boy,

795
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Speaker 11: so I was in a locker room and experience all

796
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Speaker 11: of it. Ron Jaworski and those guys coach for meal,

797
00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:52,720
Speaker 11: watching him coach and the grind you put the players through.

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Speaker 11: And then I was also able to go to the

799
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Speaker 11: Miami Dolphins when my dad was with Don Shula. So

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Speaker 11: I'm now a ballboy with Don Shula. And here the

801
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Speaker 11: ball boys are are Jerry Sandusky, who's radio for Baltimore now,

802
00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:11,959
Speaker 11: David Schula, Mike Shula, Orangebarger's son David. We had henting.

803
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Speaker 11: We just had a great group of guys and we

804
00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:17,080
Speaker 11: were watching coach Shula coach every day, right and you're

805
00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:19,800
Speaker 11: watching them coach on game Den were Monday Night football.

806
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Speaker 11: I'm the guy with the red ex and I'm the

807
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:24,400
Speaker 11: kid throwing the ball. Listen, coach Schula coach. So from

808
00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:27,280
Speaker 11: from early on it was so much fun to be

809
00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:29,840
Speaker 11: around those guys and in the locker room. The first

810
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Speaker 11: goal was I was going to be a player. I

811
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Speaker 11: was going to be the Hall of Fame and Joe

812
00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:34,920
Speaker 11: mont danas that I was going to be. That didn't

813
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Speaker 11: work out, like I didn't work out for a lot

814
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Speaker 11: of people, and then there was no there was no

815
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Speaker 11: question I was going.

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Speaker 7: In the coach, there was no doubt and we're blessed

817
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Speaker 7: for it because you're the linebackers coach of the Texans. Coach,

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Speaker 7: thanks a lot for joining us, good luck, thanks.

819
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Speaker 9: For having me, guys appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to get him back.

821
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Speaker 2: There's so many things that we didn't even get a

822
00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:54,440
Speaker 2: chance to ask him because we only get the coaches

823
00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:57,720
Speaker 2: for about ten minutes, and so it's there's always stuff

824
00:32:57,720 --> 00:32:59,080
Speaker 2: on the cutter in your floor with all these guys

825
00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:01,880
Speaker 2: are so intriguing, both players and coaches, and we'd love

826
00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:04,040
Speaker 2: for them to come into studio and just chop it

827
00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:07,480
Speaker 2: up with Mark and I. So we appreciate the opportunity

828
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Speaker 2: to talk with all these coaches and players. Thanks to

829
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Speaker 2: Texans pr Omar Everett, Lindsey Ryan, Angelique, Maria. They all

830
00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:18,760
Speaker 2: do such a great job and we are so thankful

831
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Speaker 2: for all of their efforts in getting those coaches to us.

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Speaker 1: Okay, every Friday, even in.

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Speaker 2: A bye week, I gotta make predictions, and just the

834
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Speaker 2: way the show came down today, I'm moving them up

835
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Speaker 2: a little bit and we'll go back and revisit what

836
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Speaker 2: happened in Detroit last night, because man, what a game

837
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Speaker 2: that was Detroit, So we'll look back at that and

838
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Speaker 2: then we'll make picks straight up and against the spread

839
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Speaker 2: for fun for this weekend's games.

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Speaker 1: That's next the Texans All Access. What's happened? Everybody?

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Speaker 2: Walking back to the Friday edition of Texans All Access

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Speaker 2: from the Hunday Texans Radio studio.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, John.

844
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Speaker 2: Harris, football analystilo reporter for your Houston Texans and this

845
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Speaker 2: is well.

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Speaker 1: Typically at the end of.

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Speaker 2: The first hour, we have the status report for the

848
00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:04,680
Speaker 2: game and we start talking a little bit more about

849
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Speaker 2: the game. We've gone through the keys of the game,

850
00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:10,880
Speaker 2: but obviously there's no games, no keys, and no status report.

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Speaker 2: We'll save that for Miami, and that's gonna get all

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00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:14,680
Speaker 2: kinds of interesting when we take on.

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Speaker 1: Miami next week. But that's next week.

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Speaker 2: It's bye week time. Now, that doesn't mean that the

855
00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:23,760
Speaker 2: NFL is not playing, it's just us. There are six

856
00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:28,600
Speaker 2: teams not playing this weekend, the Colts one of them.

857
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Speaker 2: I believe the Ravens are one of those teams, Texas

858
00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:36,000
Speaker 2: being one of those teams, and there are three others.

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Speaker 2: There's six teams on a bye this week, and it's

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Speaker 2: tough to get this buye so late in the year,

861
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Speaker 2: but good to get a weekend to rest, there's no

862
00:34:43,719 --> 00:34:47,080
Speaker 2: question about that. But I'm still gonna make my predictions

863
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Speaker 2: straight up and against the spread because it's fun and

864
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Speaker 2: the way the show kind of is configured, it was

865
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Speaker 2: just better to do it here than to do a.

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Speaker 1: Little bit later. So we're gonna jump on it right now.

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Speaker 1: So give me my music.

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Speaker 2: Let's start last night recapping one of the incredible football

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Speaker 2: games of the year. The Detroit Lions took on the

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Speaker 2: Green Bay Packers. Now, they played in Green Bay the

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00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:18,160
Speaker 2: week right before we played Detroit, and Detroit just went

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00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:20,920
Speaker 2: in there and just smacked him around at Lambeau and

873
00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:21,920
Speaker 2: it wasn't even close.

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Speaker 1: Jordan Love threw a touchdown pass.

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Speaker 2: Excuse me, he did throw a touchdown pass, but it

876
00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:29,640
Speaker 2: was to Kirby Joseph, not to Green Bay Packer.

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Speaker 1: So it was a wild not a wild game in Lambeau.

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Speaker 2: It was a wild game last night, and it started

879
00:35:39,239 --> 00:35:43,880
Speaker 2: with David Montgomery giving Detroit a seven to nothing leap.

880
00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:46,880
Speaker 12: First and Goald Montgomery in the backfield, Lions trying to

881
00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:49,200
Speaker 12: strike first hand off, Montgomery.

882
00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:54,960
Speaker 13: Running to the right walk in touchdown, untouched Montgomery for

883
00:35:55,000 --> 00:36:00,560
Speaker 13: the score and the Lions strike first in this huge

884
00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:02,240
Speaker 13: NFC North battle.

885
00:36:02,719 --> 00:36:05,160
Speaker 1: Jake Bates Fugal gave the Lines a ten to nothing lead.

886
00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:08,080
Speaker 2: Then it was time for the Packers star running back

887
00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:10,360
Speaker 2: Josh Jacobs to cut into.

888
00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:14,440
Speaker 12: The lead, first in goal from the one seventeen pass

889
00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:17,160
Speaker 12: interference calls against the Detroit d this year, most of

890
00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:20,719
Speaker 12: the NFL Jacobs in the backfield handoff. Jacob's running to

891
00:36:20,719 --> 00:36:21,360
Speaker 12: the left.

892
00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:22,640
Speaker 1: He's in touchdown.

893
00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:29,720
Speaker 13: Green Bay answers strong drive the majority on the ground,

894
00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:32,319
Speaker 13: and fittingly, that's how they score it.

895
00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:35,239
Speaker 3: With Jacobs in the end zone.

896
00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:39,439
Speaker 2: That made it ten to seven for Detroit going into

897
00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:43,760
Speaker 2: the second quarter. Later in the second quarter, Jered Goff

898
00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:49,280
Speaker 2: looked like he had scored on a little quarterback sneak

899
00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:53,560
Speaker 2: trap sort of thing, but he had not, so that

900
00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:55,399
Speaker 2: gave Detroit a couple more.

901
00:36:55,280 --> 00:36:58,359
Speaker 1: Opportunities to get any end zone on fourth down.

902
00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:01,640
Speaker 2: They would eventually capitalize and take a seventeen to seven

903
00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:05,200
Speaker 2: lead when Jamir Gibbs ran a little circle route into

904
00:37:05,239 --> 00:37:08,480
Speaker 2: the end zone, wide open seventeen to seven Lions.

905
00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:11,759
Speaker 12: Twelfth play of the drive, the fourth and goal. The

906
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:14,640
Speaker 12: ball is at the two fourteen seconds left in his

907
00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:18,879
Speaker 12: first half, the Kims in the backfield, shotgun, tough looking.

908
00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:23,120
Speaker 13: Brows con it's gams touchdown Lions.

909
00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:27,759
Speaker 1: They go for it on fourth down and they cash in.

910
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:32,680
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that whole go for it on fourth down thing.

911
00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:36,200
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you'll hear more about that. Both good and

912
00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:38,560
Speaker 2: bad for the Lions and just a little bit. But

913
00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:44,480
Speaker 2: the Lions took a seventeen seven lead into halftime. The

914
00:37:44,520 --> 00:37:49,960
Speaker 2: Packers came right out on fire. Jordan Love found Tuckerkraft

915
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:51,640
Speaker 2: to cut that lead to seventeen fourteen.

916
00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:56,080
Speaker 12: Packers bring Chris Brooks into the game, running back out

917
00:37:56,080 --> 00:37:56,839
Speaker 12: a byu.

918
00:37:57,040 --> 00:37:58,040
Speaker 3: Malik heat Is.

919
00:37:58,080 --> 00:38:02,120
Speaker 12: In shotgun on third and ten from the twelve of

920
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:05,919
Speaker 12: Detroit reed motion man to the near side, three receivers left.

921
00:38:07,160 --> 00:38:11,120
Speaker 12: Love gets the snap, steps up, throws end zone. It's

922
00:38:11,239 --> 00:38:13,800
Speaker 12: caught touchdown Tucker Craft.

923
00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:18,840
Speaker 13: Jordan Love hums it in there for a twelve yard

924
00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:20,640
Speaker 13: scorer and the Packers are right.

925
00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:20,960
Speaker 1: Back in it.

926
00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:24,319
Speaker 2: Packers weren't done down by three. They got the ball back.

927
00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:27,120
Speaker 2: It was time for Josh Jacobs to give the Packers

928
00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:29,600
Speaker 2: a twenty one to seventy league snap.

929
00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:33,280
Speaker 3: Love handoff, Jacobs runs it inside.

930
00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:37,759
Speaker 13: And Jacob's gonna take it in for the touchdown contact

931
00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:39,000
Speaker 13: on Jacobs.

932
00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:40,719
Speaker 1: It didn't stop him.

933
00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:45,600
Speaker 12: It barely slowed him down, and somehow the Packers have

934
00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:46,640
Speaker 12: taken the lead.

935
00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:49,680
Speaker 2: The Lions would take the lead back on a Tim

936
00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:52,880
Speaker 2: Patrick touchdown catch. Tim Patrick had a really nice ball game.

937
00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:56,600
Speaker 2: It's glad to see him have that game for the Lions.

938
00:38:56,760 --> 00:38:59,760
Speaker 2: The Lions got the ball back at that point ahead

939
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:04,800
Speaker 2: twenty eight to twenty four. Keep in mind lines ahead

940
00:39:05,160 --> 00:39:09,799
Speaker 2: twenty eight twenty four, But they had the ball at

941
00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:13,000
Speaker 2: their own thirty one yard line and faced a fourth

942
00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:15,680
Speaker 2: and one, and Dan Campbell left his offense out on

943
00:39:15,719 --> 00:39:20,040
Speaker 2: a field they got stuffed and Josh Jacobs will go

944
00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:23,520
Speaker 2: ahead and score and give the Packers a twenty eight

945
00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:27,760
Speaker 2: to twenty four lead. Goff struck again to Tim Patrick

946
00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:31,480
Speaker 2: on a one yard touchdown pass to retake the lead

947
00:39:31,560 --> 00:39:34,440
Speaker 2: thirty one to twenty eight. Mcmahonus hit a field goal

948
00:39:34,440 --> 00:39:37,520
Speaker 2: and tie it at thirty one, and that takes us

949
00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:39,960
Speaker 2: to the end of the game, fourth and one and

950
00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:42,280
Speaker 2: a really interesting decision by Dan Campbell.

951
00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:44,359
Speaker 1: Do I go for it? Do I not?

952
00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:47,400
Speaker 2: There's forty three seconds left in the game. Packers have

953
00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:51,239
Speaker 2: no timeouts, so the Lions can kick it take the

954
00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:53,920
Speaker 2: lead thirty four to thirty one. But they're given the Packers,

955
00:39:54,160 --> 00:39:56,680
Speaker 2: or would have given the Packers a chance to go

956
00:39:56,719 --> 00:39:59,560
Speaker 2: down and tie the ball game, send it overtime. So

957
00:39:59,640 --> 00:40:01,560
Speaker 2: Dan ca Ambill said, you know what, I got the

958
00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:03,520
Speaker 2: best offensive line in the league. I got the best

959
00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:07,040
Speaker 2: running back duo in the league. I will trust them.

960
00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:10,680
Speaker 2: David Montgomery gets the first down, they're able to run

961
00:40:10,719 --> 00:40:13,520
Speaker 2: the clock all the way down and kick on the

962
00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:15,160
Speaker 2: last play of the game.

963
00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:17,680
Speaker 1: Jake Bates did it to the Texans. Could he do

964
00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:20,000
Speaker 1: it to the Packers? Yes, he could.

965
00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:26,360
Speaker 12: It is the rookie Jake Bates trotting onto the field.

966
00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:35,359
Speaker 8: You said his story earlier, Ian, It's really incredible. I mean,

967
00:40:35,440 --> 00:40:39,360
Speaker 8: for people that aren't familiar, the guy really got signed

968
00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:42,279
Speaker 8: because of what he did in the UFL in this

969
00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:43,920
Speaker 8: stadium for whatever.

970
00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:45,800
Speaker 1: The UFL Detroit team's name.

971
00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:49,279
Speaker 3: Is the Michigan Panthers. Yeah, Michigan Panthers. This is the

972
00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:50,920
Speaker 3: Michigan Panthers right now, Jakes.

973
00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:54,120
Speaker 12: This is for the number one seed in the NFC,

974
00:40:55,440 --> 00:40:59,120
Speaker 12: Detroit trying to move to twelve and one on the season.

975
00:40:59,160 --> 00:41:00,759
Speaker 1: This is a thirty five five yard at ten.

976
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:07,240
Speaker 12: Patton to snap it Fox the holder, Jake Bates, rookie kicker,

977
00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:09,960
Speaker 12: the approach, sweeps the.

978
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:14,959
Speaker 1: Leg kick on the way, He's got the Lions win.

979
00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:22,799
Speaker 13: It is a new franchise record eleven straight victories for

980
00:41:22,880 --> 00:41:28,919
Speaker 13: the Detroit Lions. They outlast the Packers thirty four to

981
00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:34,520
Speaker 13: thirty one. Detroit moves to twelve and one, and they

982
00:41:34,640 --> 00:41:37,400
Speaker 13: maintain the number one seed in the NFC.

983
00:41:38,560 --> 00:41:45,920
Speaker 1: The Lions clinch a playoff berth Drama in Detroit, Oh

984
00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:46,560
Speaker 1: yeah baby.

985
00:41:46,600 --> 00:41:48,879
Speaker 2: There was a lot of drama in Detroit, no doubt,

986
00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:50,600
Speaker 2: but the Lions get that win.

987
00:41:51,239 --> 00:41:52,040
Speaker 1: In what a game.

988
00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:57,680
Speaker 2: Fourth down risks. Dan Campbell is not scared, not scared.

989
00:41:57,840 --> 00:42:01,560
Speaker 2: He's ahead, He'll go for a deepen on territory, needing

990
00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:04,440
Speaker 2: to run out the clock. I actually thought he should

991
00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:06,560
Speaker 2: have punned it when they were head by three deep

992
00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:07,360
Speaker 2: of their territory.

993
00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:08,799
Speaker 1: But I thought he did the right thing at the

994
00:42:08,840 --> 00:42:09,399
Speaker 1: end of the game.

995
00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:12,759
Speaker 2: Don't give the Packers a shot because of forty three

996
00:42:12,760 --> 00:42:13,479
Speaker 2: seconds left.

997
00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:16,440
Speaker 1: I mean, I tried to figure out the way.

998
00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:18,840
Speaker 2: To say this, but I felt like the risk was

999
00:42:18,840 --> 00:42:21,160
Speaker 2: minimized because, yeah, the Packers can go down to kick

1000
00:42:21,160 --> 00:42:21,680
Speaker 2: a field.

1001
00:42:21,440 --> 00:42:22,000
Speaker 1: Go and beat you.

1002
00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:24,440
Speaker 2: That's a pretty big risk, but it kind of just

1003
00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:27,839
Speaker 2: felt like overtime at that point, so try to keep

1004
00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:29,440
Speaker 2: it from actually going to overtime.

1005
00:42:29,600 --> 00:42:31,839
Speaker 1: I agreed with him going forward on fourth down.

1006
00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:33,879
Speaker 2: I was listening to the game on mute last night,

1007
00:42:33,880 --> 00:42:36,040
Speaker 2: so I don't know what Alan Kirk had to say,

1008
00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:38,120
Speaker 2: but that's the way I looked at thirty four thirty one.

1009
00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:40,160
Speaker 2: Detroit wins or twelve and one Green Bay falls to

1010
00:42:40,320 --> 00:42:43,320
Speaker 2: nine and four. You heard Iron Eagles say the Lions

1011
00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:46,799
Speaker 2: clinched the playoff spot. They are that much closer to

1012
00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:52,000
Speaker 2: clinching the NFC North, but Minnesota's played really well, so

1013
00:42:52,040 --> 00:42:55,560
Speaker 2: they need Minnesota to do some things. This are they

1014
00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:57,839
Speaker 2: playing this weekend? I mean, there's so many teams on buys. Yeah,

1015
00:42:57,840 --> 00:43:00,160
Speaker 2: the Vikers are playing. Oh yeah, we'll talk about that

1016
00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:02,319
Speaker 2: in just a second. But either way, line's that win.

1017
00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:06,319
Speaker 2: Jared Goff throws three touchdowns for the Lions. Jordan Love

1018
00:43:06,360 --> 00:43:10,200
Speaker 2: made a couple of incredible throws. Montgomery the touchdown, James

1019
00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:12,520
Speaker 2: Williams had eighty yards. Christian Watson was great yet on

1020
00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:14,360
Speaker 2: four one hundred and fourteen yards receiving.

1021
00:43:14,719 --> 00:43:17,480
Speaker 1: The Lions win thirty four thirty one.

1022
00:43:17,520 --> 00:43:20,680
Speaker 2: Okay, let's make these picks straight up and against the

1023
00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:24,080
Speaker 2: spread throughout the league. The Saints are taking on the Giants.

1024
00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:27,960
Speaker 2: These teams are I mean, the Saints, I guess are

1025
00:43:28,040 --> 00:43:32,960
Speaker 2: still in it in the NFC South, but I just

1026
00:43:33,200 --> 00:43:34,839
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know what to expect from

1027
00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:37,160
Speaker 2: the Giants. It's probably Drew Locke, you know, Let's go

1028
00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:39,640
Speaker 2: at Drew Locke to get a cover for the Saints

1029
00:43:39,719 --> 00:43:40,959
Speaker 2: to get a win on the road.

1030
00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:43,279
Speaker 1: It's five and a half to spread, so let's go.

1031
00:43:43,920 --> 00:43:46,800
Speaker 1: Let's go. Saints win. Giants cover, Brown Steelers.

1032
00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:49,040
Speaker 2: They played a few weeks ago and the Browns upset

1033
00:43:49,040 --> 00:43:49,520
Speaker 2: the Steelers.

1034
00:43:49,560 --> 00:43:52,319
Speaker 1: Steelers are six and a half point favorites on the road.

1035
00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:56,680
Speaker 2: Make sure you're watching this on AFC North, Hard Knocks

1036
00:43:56,680 --> 00:43:58,560
Speaker 2: on HBO, because fantastic stuff.

1037
00:43:58,560 --> 00:43:59,400
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go. Steelers win.

1038
00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:02,440
Speaker 2: They're gonna get a little bit of revenge against Jamis

1039
00:44:02,560 --> 00:44:04,640
Speaker 2: Winston and the Browns in a short week play on

1040
00:44:04,640 --> 00:44:06,680
Speaker 2: Monday night, and they gotta go on the road to

1041
00:44:06,680 --> 00:44:08,560
Speaker 2: take on the Steelers. It's a bus ride, so it's

1042
00:44:08,600 --> 00:44:12,719
Speaker 2: not that bad. But Steelers wins. Steelers cover. Kirko is

1043
00:44:12,800 --> 00:44:14,960
Speaker 2: not playing well for the Atlanta Falcons, and now he

1044
00:44:15,040 --> 00:44:17,480
Speaker 2: goes back to take on as former team in Minnesota Vikings.

1045
00:44:17,520 --> 00:44:20,040
Speaker 2: The Vikings favored by six. I think they will jump

1046
00:44:20,160 --> 00:44:23,320
Speaker 2: all over the Falcons and all over Kirk Cousins. Won't

1047
00:44:23,320 --> 00:44:25,600
Speaker 2: be surprised to see Michael Pennix at the end of

1048
00:44:25,600 --> 00:44:28,680
Speaker 2: this one. Minnesota wins and covers the six. The Raiders

1049
00:44:28,960 --> 00:44:32,240
Speaker 2: taking on the Buccaneers. A and O'Connell's playing much much better,

1050
00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:34,719
Speaker 2: but the Buccaneers are right back in the thick of

1051
00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:37,920
Speaker 2: things in the NFC South, Buccaneers are fair by six

1052
00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:40,640
Speaker 2: and a half. They're gonna win this thing and win

1053
00:44:40,719 --> 00:44:44,040
Speaker 2: it by seven or more. Bucks win go to seven

1054
00:44:44,080 --> 00:44:46,160
Speaker 2: and six. That'll be a big one. If the Vikings

1055
00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:49,319
Speaker 2: win like I thought, that puts the Bucks atop the

1056
00:44:49,480 --> 00:44:52,959
Speaker 2: NFC South. Panthers taking on Eagles. The Panthers have played

1057
00:44:53,040 --> 00:44:57,040
Speaker 2: much much better lately, but Eagles are favored by fourteen

1058
00:44:57,480 --> 00:44:58,240
Speaker 2: for a reason.

1059
00:44:58,520 --> 00:45:00,200
Speaker 1: They're gonna win this thing by twenty.

1060
00:45:00,480 --> 00:45:06,120
Speaker 2: Let's go thirty four fourteen winn and cover for the Eagles.

1061
00:45:06,200 --> 00:45:07,160
Speaker 1: Jags Titans.

1062
00:45:08,480 --> 00:45:11,040
Speaker 2: I'd like to see the Titans lose this thing because

1063
00:45:11,040 --> 00:45:12,919
Speaker 2: the Titans have ten losses too, and then both would

1064
00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:13,920
Speaker 2: be out of the playoffs.

1065
00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:14,560
Speaker 3: But either way.

1066
00:45:14,880 --> 00:45:17,640
Speaker 2: Tennessee three and a half point favorite. This probably should

1067
00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:23,279
Speaker 2: be with the Jags playing Mac Jones. I think, man,

1068
00:45:23,360 --> 00:45:25,279
Speaker 2: this is a tough one. I think the Titans are

1069
00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:27,040
Speaker 2: gonna win this thing at home. But at three and

1070
00:45:27,080 --> 00:45:29,439
Speaker 2: a hook, I don't know who I love. So let's

1071
00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:31,839
Speaker 2: go Titans win this, but the Jaguars get inside that number.

1072
00:45:31,920 --> 00:45:36,640
Speaker 2: Let's go twenty to seventeen. Twenty seventeen. Titans win, but

1073
00:45:36,880 --> 00:45:40,440
Speaker 2: Jaguars get a cover. Jets Dolphins down in Miami. Miami

1074
00:45:40,440 --> 00:45:42,880
Speaker 2: favorite by six, coming off that Thanksgiving.

1075
00:45:42,440 --> 00:45:43,720
Speaker 1: Loss to the Packers.

1076
00:45:43,760 --> 00:45:46,960
Speaker 2: They've had the little mini by I think Dolphins arrested.

1077
00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:49,560
Speaker 2: Dolphins favored by six. I think they beat up the Jets.

1078
00:45:49,600 --> 00:45:52,560
Speaker 2: The Jets have just opened a can of quit. Forget

1079
00:45:52,600 --> 00:45:55,400
Speaker 2: about it, it had done. Yeah, they're done. Miami wins

1080
00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:58,560
Speaker 2: this thing by seven or more. Dolphins moved to six

1081
00:45:58,600 --> 00:46:00,760
Speaker 2: and seven with the win, and they get a Seahawks

1082
00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:03,719
Speaker 2: and Cardinals. That's gonna be a funball game in Arizona.

1083
00:46:04,080 --> 00:46:09,120
Speaker 2: Geno Smith played okay for the Seahawks, not great, but

1084
00:46:09,200 --> 00:46:12,880
Speaker 2: then he'll play well enough to make this one close.

1085
00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:15,600
Speaker 2: But in the end, Arizona's gonna come away with the win.

1086
00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:18,320
Speaker 2: I think Arizona's tough to beat at home. Arizona's gonna

1087
00:46:18,320 --> 00:46:21,160
Speaker 2: move to seven and six on the year, and Arizona

1088
00:46:21,200 --> 00:46:23,160
Speaker 2: will cover that two and a half points.

1089
00:46:23,160 --> 00:46:24,160
Speaker 1: That's what their favorite buy.

1090
00:46:24,280 --> 00:46:26,719
Speaker 2: Bill's going on to take a Bill's going out to

1091
00:46:26,880 --> 00:46:30,480
Speaker 2: La one week after clinching the AFC East, but they

1092
00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:33,480
Speaker 2: have designs on that number one seed in the af seed.

1093
00:46:34,239 --> 00:46:36,880
Speaker 2: The Rams just kind of beat up, but the defense

1094
00:46:36,920 --> 00:46:39,000
Speaker 2: plays well. The defense will give it a go for

1095
00:46:39,040 --> 00:46:41,200
Speaker 2: a while, but in the end, the Bills will win

1096
00:46:41,280 --> 00:46:43,680
Speaker 2: this thing. They'll win it by a touchdown. Let's go

1097
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Speaker 2: thirty one twenty four. That'll cover the three and a

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00:46:46,160 --> 00:46:49,120
Speaker 2: half Bill's gonna win and cover out in La. Bears

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00:46:49,160 --> 00:46:52,799
Speaker 2: taking on the forty nine Ers. Two teams are just

1100
00:46:53,040 --> 00:46:55,880
Speaker 2: kind of messes right now. For the forty nine Ers,

1101
00:46:55,880 --> 00:46:59,799
Speaker 2: it's injuries. For the Bears, Matt Eberflu's gone. Now you've

1102
00:46:59,800 --> 00:47:04,640
Speaker 2: got Thomas Brown as zerum head coach and yoc it's

1103
00:47:04,680 --> 00:47:07,600
Speaker 2: been all just it's been crap for the Bears since midseason,

1104
00:47:07,680 --> 00:47:09,040
Speaker 2: since I lost to the Commanders.

1105
00:47:09,239 --> 00:47:09,919
Speaker 1: It's been ugly.

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00:47:10,200 --> 00:47:12,080
Speaker 2: Let's go forty nine Ers to win this thing and

1107
00:47:12,120 --> 00:47:13,640
Speaker 2: cover that three and a half they'll win this thing

1108
00:47:13,680 --> 00:47:16,319
Speaker 2: by ten. Let's go thirty to twenty forty nine, Ers

1109
00:47:16,360 --> 00:47:18,920
Speaker 2: win and get the six and seven Chargers. Chiefs is

1110
00:47:18,920 --> 00:47:22,000
Speaker 2: a wonderful Sunday night game. Chiefs at home. They're favored

1111
00:47:22,040 --> 00:47:25,080
Speaker 2: by four. They played every game right at that number

1112
00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:27,520
Speaker 2: about four, But I think they win this thing by seven.

1113
00:47:27,600 --> 00:47:30,680
Speaker 2: Let's go thirty four to twenty seven. Herbert keeps it close,

1114
00:47:30,760 --> 00:47:34,719
Speaker 2: but the Chiefs win and cover the Monday Night Bengals Cowboys.

1115
00:47:35,320 --> 00:47:36,440
Speaker 2: It's the Simpsons game.

1116
00:47:36,480 --> 00:47:37,399
Speaker 1: It's ud be pretty fun.

1117
00:47:37,640 --> 00:47:40,320
Speaker 2: Since he's favored by five in Dallas, I'm going Dallas

1118
00:47:40,320 --> 00:47:43,120
Speaker 2: in the upset to win and then obviously cover Dallas

1119
00:47:43,200 --> 00:47:46,480
Speaker 2: in and upset. How about that? Okay, that finishes the

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Speaker 2: first hour. We get back. It's time for Frank Ross,

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00:47:49,360 --> 00:47:51,520
Speaker 2: the Boss, to join us next right here in Texans

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00:47:51,560 --> 00:47:53,399
Speaker 2: All Access. We go on our down one are left

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Speaker 2: to go right here on a Friday edition of Texans

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Speaker 2: All Access. I'm your host, John Harris Football Analysts. It's

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00:47:58,360 --> 00:48:01,799
Speaker 2: time to talk to our buddy Frank Ross. Yes, Frank

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00:48:01,880 --> 00:48:04,920
Speaker 2: Ross is the Boss special teams coordinator. We had fun

1127
00:48:04,960 --> 00:48:07,480
Speaker 2: conversation with him back a couple of weeks ago talking

1128
00:48:07,480 --> 00:48:09,600
Speaker 2: about special teams kickoffs could have.

1129
00:48:09,520 --> 00:48:11,920
Speaker 1: Gone off for twenty minutes. We went about five. So

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00:48:11,960 --> 00:48:14,680
Speaker 1: here we go coach Ross with Mark and.

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00:48:15,160 --> 00:48:18,560
Speaker 7: In studio with us now special teams coordinator Frank Ross, coach,

1132
00:48:18,640 --> 00:48:19,239
Speaker 7: Great to see you.

1133
00:48:19,280 --> 00:48:19,799
Speaker 6: How's it going?

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00:48:19,920 --> 00:48:20,560
Speaker 9: Ready to roll?

1135
00:48:20,640 --> 00:48:21,400
Speaker 1: Thanks for having me.

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00:48:21,520 --> 00:48:23,520
Speaker 7: That sounds rather some dude for you. I know we

1137
00:48:23,560 --> 00:48:25,000
Speaker 7: have a few days before the game.

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00:48:25,080 --> 00:48:26,720
Speaker 1: It's about the crescendo, Bill.

1139
00:48:26,719 --> 00:48:29,439
Speaker 7: Yeah, but you have to bring it in practice every day, right,

1140
00:48:29,520 --> 00:48:31,040
Speaker 7: and you want your guys to do that too.

1141
00:48:31,120 --> 00:48:32,759
Speaker 6: During some times you have to work with that.

1142
00:48:33,160 --> 00:48:35,960
Speaker 14: We operate on a full capacity and then you just

1143
00:48:36,040 --> 00:48:37,919
Speaker 14: run out at some point. Right now, we're not running out,

1144
00:48:37,920 --> 00:48:41,600
Speaker 14: so we'll tempo it down when we call it a retirement.

1145
00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:43,839
Speaker 2: So Frank, I think about you a lot of night

1146
00:48:43,880 --> 00:48:47,120
Speaker 2: games because I think about the energy you bring and

1147
00:48:47,200 --> 00:48:50,840
Speaker 2: how hard that must be to like harness that whole

1148
00:48:50,880 --> 00:48:56,200
Speaker 2: thing until seven whatever at night. How tough is that

1149
00:48:57,040 --> 00:48:59,000
Speaker 2: for a guy that has as much energy as you

1150
00:48:59,040 --> 00:49:01,080
Speaker 2: do to just kind of chill and kind of like

1151
00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:04,359
Speaker 2: let it build as opposed to just be amped all

1152
00:49:04,480 --> 00:49:05,720
Speaker 2: day and then run out by halftime.

1153
00:49:05,800 --> 00:49:07,640
Speaker 14: Yeah, that's a great question. Honestly, I know a lot

1154
00:49:07,640 --> 00:49:10,640
Speaker 14: of guys that preferred day games. You wake up, got

1155
00:49:10,640 --> 00:49:14,440
Speaker 14: your routine and start, and there is an element of

1156
00:49:14,680 --> 00:49:18,680
Speaker 14: anxious weight during those those long hours before the game.

1157
00:49:18,800 --> 00:49:21,640
Speaker 14: So everybody's got their own way. I just know this.

1158
00:49:21,680 --> 00:49:23,480
Speaker 14: When the football is kicked off in the NFL, there's

1159
00:49:23,480 --> 00:49:26,319
Speaker 14: nothing better on planet Earth. So it's not something that

1160
00:49:26,360 --> 00:49:27,920
Speaker 14: you have to get hyped up, or if you do,

1161
00:49:28,320 --> 00:49:29,440
Speaker 14: got to find a new line of work.

1162
00:49:29,640 --> 00:49:31,319
Speaker 7: That's a good point, all right, coach, it's time to

1163
00:49:31,320 --> 00:49:34,480
Speaker 7: get the review dynamic kickoff thoughts?

1164
00:49:34,840 --> 00:49:38,040
Speaker 14: Is that the word dynamics still? Yeah, so there's some

1165
00:49:38,040 --> 00:49:40,520
Speaker 14: sarcasm there for anybody who didn't catch that.

1166
00:49:40,600 --> 00:49:43,120
Speaker 1: But I think I think a couple things.

1167
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Speaker 14: One, we have some midseason reports amongst the special teams

1168
00:49:46,760 --> 00:49:51,520
Speaker 14: coaches getting a little inside information here that the injuries

1169
00:49:51,560 --> 00:49:54,759
Speaker 14: are down. Okay, they've accomplished the goals of like, there's

1170
00:49:54,800 --> 00:49:59,080
Speaker 14: no lex injuries or a plummet of those which lex

1171
00:49:59,200 --> 00:50:01,919
Speaker 14: is the lower extre the hamstring pulls on a touch

1172
00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:04,479
Speaker 14: back for your guys that are flying down in case

1173
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Speaker 14: the ball were to be brought out of the end

1174
00:50:06,440 --> 00:50:08,840
Speaker 14: zone a year ago and you pull a hamstring or

1175
00:50:08,880 --> 00:50:13,799
Speaker 14: an unintended collision on a touchback that results in a concussion.

1176
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Speaker 14: So I think the NFL that's you know, one of

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Speaker 14: the main things that definitely at this point seems to

1178
00:50:19,560 --> 00:50:23,480
Speaker 14: be something that's trending positive for the new play. They're

1179
00:50:23,520 --> 00:50:25,840
Speaker 14: definitely gonna be some iterations moving forward, in my opinion,

1180
00:50:25,920 --> 00:50:30,440
Speaker 14: I hope. So there's so many restrictions, right, so two

1181
00:50:30,480 --> 00:50:32,879
Speaker 14: players outside the numbers for the kickoff team, you can't

1182
00:50:32,920 --> 00:50:35,640
Speaker 14: move two players between the numbers and the hash. You

1183
00:50:35,680 --> 00:50:38,640
Speaker 14: can't move two players between the hashes. So that is

1184
00:50:38,719 --> 00:50:44,880
Speaker 14: a landlocked like you are. Your perimeters are standardized, so

1185
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:47,120
Speaker 14: you know that. So the kickoff team says, okay, that

1186
00:50:47,160 --> 00:50:49,879
Speaker 14: backside player, this front side player, they can only get

1187
00:50:49,880 --> 00:50:53,439
Speaker 14: to so many places. Conversely, on the other side, there's

1188
00:50:53,480 --> 00:50:56,360
Speaker 14: not as much flexibility as we thought that would provide

1189
00:50:56,800 --> 00:51:00,360
Speaker 14: these you know, these beautiful swing returns that kind of

1190
00:51:00,640 --> 00:51:03,520
Speaker 14: set left and go right. And then relative to the

1191
00:51:03,600 --> 00:51:06,640
Speaker 14: XFL picture that everybody thought it was gonna be, kickers

1192
00:51:06,640 --> 00:51:08,920
Speaker 14: are better, cover players are better. Yes, So you know

1193
00:51:08,960 --> 00:51:11,399
Speaker 14: you have nevill Hewett flying down the field, alright, flying

1194
00:51:11,400 --> 00:51:13,000
Speaker 14: down the field, it might be a different story no

1195
00:51:13,040 --> 00:51:15,120
Speaker 14: offense to the XFL. It just you know, the guys

1196
00:51:15,120 --> 00:51:18,640
Speaker 14: are moving faster, so it's definitely provided some challenges and

1197
00:51:18,680 --> 00:51:22,600
Speaker 14: it's become a little bit more routinized and standardized. So

1198
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Speaker 14: we're gonna continue to see if it can become more

1199
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Speaker 14: exciting as we move forward with it.

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Speaker 7: You've answered this before, but it's a new year. So

1201
00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:34,600
Speaker 7: the conversations that take place with coach Ryan's on let's

1202
00:51:34,680 --> 00:51:36,520
Speaker 7: kick it to the one or let's just bash it

1203
00:51:36,520 --> 00:51:39,000
Speaker 7: through the back of the end zone, time of the game,

1204
00:51:39,480 --> 00:51:41,000
Speaker 7: situation with the return man.

1205
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Speaker 6: What goes into all that.

1206
00:51:42,120 --> 00:51:43,920
Speaker 14: Yeah, you kind of hit on some of those things

1207
00:51:43,960 --> 00:51:48,040
Speaker 14: we talked about before. But yardage situation, who's covering for us,

1208
00:51:48,080 --> 00:51:51,080
Speaker 14: what has happened previously or earlier in the game. We

1209
00:51:51,239 --> 00:51:53,919
Speaker 14: mentioned this well just with the local media about Green

1210
00:51:53,960 --> 00:51:56,080
Speaker 14: Bay when we were up there and win one side

1211
00:51:56,080 --> 00:51:57,719
Speaker 14: of the field or the other. All those things are

1212
00:51:57,760 --> 00:52:00,440
Speaker 14: gonna matter. How can we cover how had gone to

1213
00:52:00,480 --> 00:52:02,279
Speaker 14: this point, what do they need to do in the

1214
00:52:02,320 --> 00:52:03,360
Speaker 14: game to get points?

1215
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Speaker 1: So all those are always going to factor.

1216
00:52:06,200 --> 00:52:10,439
Speaker 14: And to mention what you had referenced earlier last week,

1217
00:52:10,560 --> 00:52:13,320
Speaker 14: we were trying to put the ball in play quickly

1218
00:52:13,760 --> 00:52:17,400
Speaker 14: or I would say perfect placement and it goes an

1219
00:52:17,400 --> 00:52:17,839
Speaker 14: inch past.

1220
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Speaker 1: That's a good miss. There's no such thing as good

1221
00:52:20,280 --> 00:52:21,480
Speaker 1: like that is a good miss.

1222
00:52:21,640 --> 00:52:24,040
Speaker 14: So if they don't want to return it, that's their

1223
00:52:24,080 --> 00:52:26,000
Speaker 14: prerogative and we just have to just there.

1224
00:52:26,120 --> 00:52:29,319
Speaker 7: Coach one more for you, the punting game obviously, as

1225
00:52:29,320 --> 00:52:32,520
Speaker 7: far as coverage, putting itself, all of it.

1226
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Speaker 6: Your thoughts on the performance so far this year.

1227
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Speaker 14: Yeah, I think that this season we're playing our best

1228
00:52:37,920 --> 00:52:40,440
Speaker 14: football right now, and I think that showed out Tommy

1229
00:52:40,480 --> 00:52:43,040
Speaker 14: letting it rip with direction hang. We saw the gunners,

1230
00:52:43,280 --> 00:52:46,040
Speaker 14: I mean, other coach coordinators and coaches from other teams

1231
00:52:46,080 --> 00:52:48,080
Speaker 14: are commenting on our gunner play.

1232
00:52:48,239 --> 00:52:49,480
Speaker 1: Mishap early in the season.

1233
00:52:49,480 --> 00:52:51,560
Speaker 14: With protection, I thought we did a great job in

1234
00:52:51,640 --> 00:52:56,280
Speaker 14: protection the last few weeks, not only assignment, but actually

1235
00:52:56,600 --> 00:52:59,920
Speaker 14: physically dominating at the point of attack when rushers are coming.

1236
00:53:00,080 --> 00:53:02,479
Speaker 14: You're not just collecting a rusher, You're striking that guy.

1237
00:53:02,880 --> 00:53:05,560
Speaker 14: And really happy with where that's been. And to be

1238
00:53:05,600 --> 00:53:07,640
Speaker 14: able to flip the field in a big football game

1239
00:53:07,800 --> 00:53:11,280
Speaker 14: like that's everything. So to fight down there cover like banshees,

1240
00:53:11,360 --> 00:53:13,800
Speaker 14: that's what we want every week. I want you guys

1241
00:53:14,080 --> 00:53:16,920
Speaker 14: to as the guys calling the game, I want you

1242
00:53:16,960 --> 00:53:19,840
Speaker 14: to look at the special teams unit and say, those

1243
00:53:19,880 --> 00:53:22,640
Speaker 14: guys are playing violent and fast.

1244
00:53:22,920 --> 00:53:24,680
Speaker 1: I'm fired up, Coach, I'm ready to play next.

1245
00:53:25,400 --> 00:53:26,279
Speaker 6: Let's go call this game.

1246
00:53:26,320 --> 00:53:28,280
Speaker 1: Thanks a lot, Coach, good luck, thanks to you guys.

1247
00:53:28,360 --> 00:53:30,239
Speaker 2: Coming up next is a feel good Friday, and if

1248
00:53:30,280 --> 00:53:33,400
Speaker 2: Frank Ross doesn't make it feel good, Demko Ryans will

1249
00:53:33,640 --> 00:53:36,480
Speaker 2: for sure that's next right here in Texans All Access,

1250
00:53:36,680 --> 00:53:38,920
Speaker 2: Welcome back to this Friday edition of Texans All Access,

1251
00:53:39,000 --> 00:53:43,439
Speaker 2: a bye week Friday All Access Show. Appreciate you being

1252
00:53:43,440 --> 00:53:46,479
Speaker 2: with me John Harris, Football and sideline Reporter for your

1253
00:53:46,600 --> 00:53:50,000
Speaker 2: Houston Texans. But it's also a feel good Friday, so

1254
00:53:50,040 --> 00:53:52,600
Speaker 2: that means Demico Ryans, we had a chance to catch

1255
00:53:52,680 --> 00:53:56,200
Speaker 2: up with coach after the win against Jacksonville before everybody

1256
00:53:56,239 --> 00:53:58,400
Speaker 2: took off for the buye some great stuff and it

1257
00:53:58,440 --> 00:54:00,200
Speaker 2: makes you feel good on a Friday.

1258
00:54:00,280 --> 00:54:02,680
Speaker 1: Let's go coach with me and.

1259
00:54:02,719 --> 00:54:04,360
Speaker 6: Mark joining us in studio.

1260
00:54:04,440 --> 00:54:07,480
Speaker 7: Head Coach, Demiko riants Coach, happy bye week, here.

1261
00:54:07,320 --> 00:54:09,960
Speaker 1: We are, Happy bye week, finally here, finally here.

1262
00:54:10,000 --> 00:54:12,120
Speaker 6: It's only been since mid July, Coach.

1263
00:54:12,200 --> 00:54:14,759
Speaker 7: It's been a long run, but you come into the

1264
00:54:14,800 --> 00:54:17,880
Speaker 7: by having beaten Jacksonville, and let's start there because at

1265
00:54:17,880 --> 00:54:20,279
Speaker 7: the end of the game, you kill the clock with

1266
00:54:20,400 --> 00:54:22,560
Speaker 7: the ground game, and I know you're all fired up

1267
00:54:22,600 --> 00:54:26,000
Speaker 7: about that. Guys blocking Joe running. You got the job done.

1268
00:54:26,120 --> 00:54:26,719
Speaker 7: Ended the game.

1269
00:54:26,800 --> 00:54:27,000
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1270
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Speaker 15: I love to see the way we ended that game

1271
00:54:28,880 --> 00:54:31,239
Speaker 15: right offensively. Did not want to put the defense back

1272
00:54:31,239 --> 00:54:33,200
Speaker 15: out on the field, so they knew we were.

1273
00:54:33,160 --> 00:54:34,600
Speaker 3: Running the ball. We knew were running.

1274
00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:37,680
Speaker 15: He's talking through it with Bobby, He's going with our

1275
00:54:37,719 --> 00:54:39,960
Speaker 15: best run of the day and we show up and

1276
00:54:40,320 --> 00:54:42,800
Speaker 15: it's no more important block on that play than Robert

1277
00:54:42,840 --> 00:54:44,720
Speaker 15: Woods coming into the screen.

1278
00:54:44,840 --> 00:54:45,319
Speaker 3: Robert Is.

1279
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Speaker 15: We put Robert to block their linebacker. He did an

1280
00:54:47,719 --> 00:54:50,960
Speaker 15: exceptional job of blocking him. Our tight ends were great

1281
00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:54,839
Speaker 15: on that play as well, larring me. Excellent jobs lost everybody.

1282
00:54:54,960 --> 00:54:56,600
Speaker 15: Is what we talk about in the run game, getting

1283
00:54:56,600 --> 00:54:59,960
Speaker 15: a hat on a hat and controlling the line of scrimming,

1284
00:55:00,160 --> 00:55:02,320
Speaker 15: moving guys off the line of scrimms. That's how she

1285
00:55:02,560 --> 00:55:04,759
Speaker 15: looked right there, and that was a fun way to

1286
00:55:04,880 --> 00:55:07,319
Speaker 15: end the game, you know, to make sure we're going

1287
00:55:07,360 --> 00:55:10,560
Speaker 15: out in victory formationon and kneeling it out. Love to

1288
00:55:10,560 --> 00:55:11,879
Speaker 15: see that every single time.

1289
00:55:12,200 --> 00:55:15,319
Speaker 2: That's both times on a road Division game. Did it

1290
00:55:15,400 --> 00:55:17,719
Speaker 2: Indian Week one? You did it in Jacksonville finishing it

1291
00:55:17,760 --> 00:55:21,000
Speaker 2: that way and that's so it's fulfilling. But coach, that's

1292
00:55:21,040 --> 00:55:22,640
Speaker 2: ten nice of this to you after the game. That's

1293
00:55:22,680 --> 00:55:26,759
Speaker 2: ten straight road Division wins for the Texans. I don't

1294
00:55:26,800 --> 00:55:28,520
Speaker 2: ask you if there's any secret sauce and or once

1295
00:55:28,600 --> 00:55:31,000
Speaker 2: you give that up, but what is it about playing

1296
00:55:31,160 --> 00:55:33,480
Speaker 2: on the road in the division where you guys sort

1297
00:55:33,520 --> 00:55:35,080
Speaker 2: of light up a little bit and go get wins?

1298
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Speaker 15: I wish it was one thing I could put my

1299
00:55:37,719 --> 00:55:39,879
Speaker 15: head on that it was, you know, one thing here

1300
00:55:39,920 --> 00:55:42,279
Speaker 15: playing on the road, But it's really just the way

1301
00:55:42,320 --> 00:55:46,640
Speaker 15: our guys showed up mentally yesterday. That was that was it.

1302
00:55:46,760 --> 00:55:49,720
Speaker 15: Like we were in a great spot. Everybody was playing

1303
00:55:49,800 --> 00:55:52,319
Speaker 15: to win the game like and that was that's what

1304
00:55:52,360 --> 00:55:55,520
Speaker 15: you felt, the effort right, the mindset, how guys were

1305
00:55:55,520 --> 00:55:58,239
Speaker 15: finishing like that's what it takes every time you line up.

1306
00:55:58,480 --> 00:56:01,319
Speaker 15: We're not playing to not lose, you play to win.

1307
00:56:01,520 --> 00:56:02,959
Speaker 15: And that's that's what I saw.

1308
00:56:03,160 --> 00:56:05,799
Speaker 2: Did you have any concern at all that that might

1309
00:56:05,840 --> 00:56:08,719
Speaker 2: be the case that we've had twelve long weeks this

1310
00:56:08,800 --> 00:56:10,160
Speaker 2: is the thirteenth week.

1311
00:56:10,560 --> 00:56:12,520
Speaker 1: Man, where are they going to be physically? Where are

1312
00:56:12,520 --> 00:56:14,280
Speaker 1: they're going to be? Meantal, did you have a concern

1313
00:56:14,320 --> 00:56:15,960
Speaker 1: about that heading into the game, because.

1314
00:56:15,760 --> 00:56:18,000
Speaker 15: For sure, that's my concern, just when you go at

1315
00:56:18,040 --> 00:56:20,759
Speaker 15: it for such a long time, like it's draining, like

1316
00:56:21,000 --> 00:56:24,560
Speaker 15: especially physically on the body. We play a very physical sport.

1317
00:56:24,880 --> 00:56:27,560
Speaker 15: It's taxing on the body. And a lot of people

1318
00:56:27,600 --> 00:56:29,960
Speaker 15: don't see. I mean, you have these a lot of

1319
00:56:29,960 --> 00:56:31,640
Speaker 15: guys that are going through It may not be a

1320
00:56:31,880 --> 00:56:35,360
Speaker 15: really significant injury, but guys will have these nicks and

1321
00:56:35,480 --> 00:56:37,719
Speaker 15: bumps that they have to kind of fight through all

1322
00:56:37,760 --> 00:56:40,640
Speaker 15: the time, right, And I just have so much respect

1323
00:56:40,719 --> 00:56:43,919
Speaker 15: for the guys knowing that the pounding that they put

1324
00:56:43,920 --> 00:56:46,840
Speaker 15: on their bodies, and to go thirteen straight weeks without

1325
00:56:46,840 --> 00:56:49,320
Speaker 15: taking a break, and it was it was definitely in

1326
00:56:49,400 --> 00:56:51,400
Speaker 15: my mind like that we just have to push through

1327
00:56:51,960 --> 00:56:54,319
Speaker 15: and got to muster how to win even though our

1328
00:56:54,360 --> 00:56:55,840
Speaker 15: guys are physically exhausted.

1329
00:56:56,000 --> 00:56:57,040
Speaker 7: I want to go back to the end of the

1330
00:56:57,040 --> 00:56:58,960
Speaker 7: game for a moment because it's third and five and

1331
00:56:59,000 --> 00:57:01,920
Speaker 7: you said you're best running play, ready to go. But

1332
00:57:02,200 --> 00:57:03,919
Speaker 7: as the head coach, you also have to be ready

1333
00:57:03,920 --> 00:57:05,000
Speaker 7: for those tough decisions.

1334
00:57:05,040 --> 00:57:06,640
Speaker 6: What if it's fourth and one, fourth and.

1335
00:57:06,640 --> 00:57:08,360
Speaker 7: Two, are we gonna pun are we gonna go for

1336
00:57:08,480 --> 00:57:09,959
Speaker 7: it try to end the game that way.

1337
00:57:10,160 --> 00:57:11,680
Speaker 6: You always have to think ahead like that.

1338
00:57:11,840 --> 00:57:14,160
Speaker 15: Yeah, you always have to think ahead. Of course, every

1339
00:57:14,160 --> 00:57:16,000
Speaker 15: play you think this is gonna get the first down,

1340
00:57:16,040 --> 00:57:19,919
Speaker 15: but you're already kind of thinking of head and that situation, Like, man,

1341
00:57:19,960 --> 00:57:23,120
Speaker 15: I'm just whatever our best run is in that situation,

1342
00:57:23,200 --> 00:57:25,800
Speaker 15: I was thinking first down only, like, let's makes it

1343
00:57:25,880 --> 00:57:28,360
Speaker 15: we get But if we you know, we were in

1344
00:57:28,360 --> 00:57:30,160
Speaker 15: that situation and we had to punt the ball.

1345
00:57:30,200 --> 00:57:31,880
Speaker 3: We had to punt it and go play defense.

1346
00:57:32,400 --> 00:57:34,400
Speaker 1: Coach, you gave the offensive line of game ball.

1347
00:57:34,440 --> 00:57:35,640
Speaker 9: We talked about this a little bit.

1348
00:57:35,880 --> 00:57:37,280
Speaker 1: They got a couple of sacks.

1349
00:57:37,040 --> 00:57:41,120
Speaker 2: Early on, early game, early game, running not getting as much,

1350
00:57:41,160 --> 00:57:42,600
Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden, it was that drive

1351
00:57:43,360 --> 00:57:43,960
Speaker 2: in the third quarter.

1352
00:57:44,040 --> 00:57:45,040
Speaker 1: We got this six to six.

1353
00:57:45,120 --> 00:57:47,440
Speaker 2: You had that five play drive and they opened up

1354
00:57:47,520 --> 00:57:49,280
Speaker 2: Joe that long run and they Joe scored in the

1355
00:57:49,320 --> 00:57:51,200
Speaker 2: next one. I feel like after that you really kind

1356
00:57:51,240 --> 00:57:54,200
Speaker 2: of broke the damn in a sense of running the football.

1357
00:57:54,440 --> 00:57:55,800
Speaker 2: When you went back and looked at the tape, how

1358
00:57:55,800 --> 00:57:57,800
Speaker 2: did you kind of assess what the offensive line was

1359
00:57:57,840 --> 00:57:58,240
Speaker 2: able to do?

1360
00:57:58,440 --> 00:57:59,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's that was it.

1361
00:57:59,520 --> 00:57:59,680
Speaker 5: Man.

1362
00:57:59,720 --> 00:58:02,880
Speaker 15: They they stayed after it in the run game, the

1363
00:58:02,920 --> 00:58:05,600
Speaker 15: passing game. Like the protection I thought was really one

1364
00:58:05,640 --> 00:58:08,480
Speaker 15: of our best days of protecting. We got a few

1365
00:58:08,520 --> 00:58:11,040
Speaker 15: of the same pressures we've seen getting forward to a side.

1366
00:58:11,040 --> 00:58:14,320
Speaker 15: I thought our guys handled that really well. They communicated well,

1367
00:58:15,040 --> 00:58:18,480
Speaker 15: but overall they gave CJ toime in the protection piece.

1368
00:58:18,520 --> 00:58:20,640
Speaker 15: In the run game, I think we're just staying after it,

1369
00:58:21,040 --> 00:58:23,680
Speaker 15: staying after and kind of wearing those guys down. I

1370
00:58:23,720 --> 00:58:27,280
Speaker 15: think that's what really made us have a good day.

1371
00:58:27,320 --> 00:58:28,120
Speaker 3: In the running game.

1372
00:58:28,200 --> 00:58:31,160
Speaker 15: I mean, Laramie did a really great job playing physical

1373
00:58:31,640 --> 00:58:34,160
Speaker 15: all game, Juice had one of his better games, saw

1374
00:58:34,160 --> 00:58:38,240
Speaker 15: a step there and improving. Just guys are getting better,

1375
00:58:38,440 --> 00:58:40,760
Speaker 15: and that's what's so cool to see about. You know,

1376
00:58:40,800 --> 00:58:42,640
Speaker 15: where we are at this point in the season, to

1377
00:58:42,720 --> 00:58:46,360
Speaker 15: still speak about how we're improving and getting better down

1378
00:58:46,400 --> 00:58:49,480
Speaker 15: the stretch like that's it's encouraging to see how much

1379
00:58:49,520 --> 00:58:53,160
Speaker 15: better our team can be when everybody's firing on the

1380
00:58:53,200 --> 00:58:53,840
Speaker 15: same cylinder.

1381
00:58:54,000 --> 00:58:56,720
Speaker 7: Does it surprise even you how much of a leader

1382
00:58:56,880 --> 00:58:59,760
Speaker 7: Joe has been for this football team and how effective

1383
00:58:59,800 --> 00:59:02,240
Speaker 7: I'm field as well. I know you're expecting good things,

1384
00:59:02,280 --> 00:59:04,400
Speaker 7: but these are amazing things you're getting.

1385
00:59:04,200 --> 00:59:04,600
Speaker 3: Out of him.

1386
00:59:04,640 --> 00:59:07,320
Speaker 15: Yeah, I mean it's not surprising just watching him when

1387
00:59:07,320 --> 00:59:09,680
Speaker 15: it first came into the building, Like you just feel

1388
00:59:09,680 --> 00:59:13,440
Speaker 15: the guy who had confidence, right, so he was sure

1389
00:59:13,480 --> 00:59:15,760
Speaker 15: that he's gonna turn out. Yo, He's gonna get yards,

1390
00:59:15,760 --> 00:59:18,120
Speaker 15: he's gonna make plays. And you felt that. And he's

1391
00:59:18,160 --> 00:59:21,080
Speaker 15: been the same guy from my first interaction with him

1392
00:59:21,080 --> 00:59:23,720
Speaker 15: when he first stepped in the building until now. Like

1393
00:59:24,280 --> 00:59:26,240
Speaker 15: he brings that swagger I talk about all the time.

1394
00:59:26,240 --> 00:59:29,240
Speaker 15: You bring a swagger in a confidence that he brings.

1395
00:59:29,280 --> 00:59:31,200
Speaker 15: He brings it to our entire group, and I think

1396
00:59:31,280 --> 00:59:34,440
Speaker 15: the old line everyone feedes off it. They're asking, like,

1397
00:59:34,440 --> 00:59:37,400
Speaker 15: can we run the ball again? Because they know what

1398
00:59:37,640 --> 00:59:40,640
Speaker 15: Joe can create even if it's not there. It's one

1399
00:59:40,680 --> 00:59:44,240
Speaker 15: play where the Jacksonville Jaguard they lined up kind of

1400
00:59:44,240 --> 00:59:46,920
Speaker 15: on the wrong side and they got to overload to

1401
00:59:46,960 --> 00:59:49,120
Speaker 15: our left and we're running the ball to the left.

1402
00:59:49,160 --> 00:59:51,040
Speaker 15: But Joe's able to put a foot in the ground

1403
00:59:51,440 --> 00:59:55,240
Speaker 15: and create his own explosive run just by being, you know,

1404
00:59:55,280 --> 00:59:57,800
Speaker 15: a dynamic player playing with great visions. So when you

1405
00:59:57,840 --> 01:00:00,520
Speaker 15: have a guy like that, even though you're into a

1406
01:00:00,560 --> 01:00:03,240
Speaker 15: brick wall, he can hit put his foot in the

1407
01:00:03,280 --> 01:00:04,880
Speaker 15: ground and go make a play on his own.

1408
01:00:04,960 --> 01:00:05,959
Speaker 3: That's big time play.

1409
01:00:06,080 --> 01:00:07,920
Speaker 7: And this is kind of your vision for the offense,

1410
01:00:08,000 --> 01:00:10,160
Speaker 7: right because CJ Is still throwing the ball a lot,

1411
01:00:10,200 --> 01:00:13,480
Speaker 7: your top five in passing yards, your quarterback is and

1412
01:00:13,600 --> 01:00:15,560
Speaker 7: Joe's doing what he's doing third in the league in

1413
01:00:15,640 --> 01:00:17,840
Speaker 7: yards per game. So it's all kind of working together

1414
01:00:17,960 --> 01:00:19,680
Speaker 7: right now. You want to see that continue it is.

1415
01:00:19,720 --> 01:00:23,200
Speaker 15: It's about being having a balance attack right on offense. Right,

1416
01:00:23,240 --> 01:00:24,840
Speaker 15: we can throw it when we need to throw it,

1417
01:00:24,840 --> 01:00:26,560
Speaker 15: and also when you can run the ball, it just

1418
01:00:26,600 --> 01:00:29,240
Speaker 15: makes it easier. Right now, we wanted to lean heavy

1419
01:00:29,280 --> 01:00:32,040
Speaker 15: on our play action pass game versus the Jags. We're

1420
01:00:32,080 --> 01:00:34,600
Speaker 15: only able to do that because of what we can

1421
01:00:34,640 --> 01:00:36,520
Speaker 15: do in the running game. Like you can only get

1422
01:00:36,560 --> 01:00:39,400
Speaker 15: the second level defenders to step up if you're effective

1423
01:00:39,400 --> 01:00:40,840
Speaker 15: at running the football, and so.

1424
01:00:41,880 --> 01:00:44,000
Speaker 3: It goes hand in hand. Right running the.

1425
01:00:43,920 --> 01:00:47,280
Speaker 15: Ball leads to Nico being open in the middle of

1426
01:00:47,320 --> 01:00:50,000
Speaker 15: the field with no defenders around him. So we just

1427
01:00:50,040 --> 01:00:53,200
Speaker 15: continue to work on that, having balance and making sure

1428
01:00:53,280 --> 01:00:55,320
Speaker 15: we're executing on all phases.

1429
01:00:55,480 --> 01:00:58,480
Speaker 2: Katcho's asking about fatigue level at this point of the

1430
01:00:58,480 --> 01:01:01,080
Speaker 2: you're both mental and physical, and you were asked about

1431
01:01:01,800 --> 01:01:02,440
Speaker 2: the rookies.

1432
01:01:02,480 --> 01:01:04,680
Speaker 1: You know, they thirteen year row. I mean, that's tough

1433
01:01:04,680 --> 01:01:06,479
Speaker 1: to learn. They're learning the game.

1434
01:01:08,120 --> 01:01:10,560
Speaker 2: Thought about the rookies that have been on the field,

1435
01:01:11,080 --> 01:01:13,360
Speaker 2: I felt like even though yesterday got beat on the

1436
01:01:13,400 --> 01:01:17,120
Speaker 2: one touchdown, Kamari was involved in the run game all

1437
01:01:17,160 --> 01:01:18,000
Speaker 2: game all like.

1438
01:01:18,080 --> 01:01:19,600
Speaker 1: He was diving into plays.

1439
01:01:19,640 --> 01:01:22,560
Speaker 2: He was there and for our listeners out there, if

1440
01:01:22,560 --> 01:01:24,240
Speaker 2: they want to go see the difference and how you

1441
01:01:24,280 --> 01:01:27,400
Speaker 2: play it as a defensive back, watch the Jaguars defensive

1442
01:01:27,440 --> 01:01:29,160
Speaker 2: back on our last play with Joe Mixon.

1443
01:01:28,920 --> 01:01:29,400
Speaker 3: Around the ball.

1444
01:01:29,440 --> 01:01:30,240
Speaker 1: He won any part of that.

1445
01:01:30,680 --> 01:01:34,480
Speaker 2: Kamari wanted every piece of every Teal jersey that was

1446
01:01:34,480 --> 01:01:37,520
Speaker 2: coming his way. We've talked about what you like about him,

1447
01:01:37,680 --> 01:01:39,640
Speaker 2: but to see him doing that in week thirteen, I

1448
01:01:39,640 --> 01:01:41,080
Speaker 2: thought that was a really big feather in the cap.

1449
01:01:41,120 --> 01:01:42,960
Speaker 2: What do you think about how he played yesterday and

1450
01:01:42,960 --> 01:01:44,440
Speaker 2: when he gave you in the run defense.

1451
01:01:44,520 --> 01:01:47,000
Speaker 15: Yeah, his intensity and the way he shows up as

1452
01:01:47,040 --> 01:01:50,600
Speaker 15: a corner. The physicality is it's unmassed, Like you don't

1453
01:01:50,640 --> 01:01:53,360
Speaker 15: see corners stepping up in the run game the way

1454
01:01:53,440 --> 01:01:57,040
Speaker 15: Kamari does. Like in a way he just flies around

1455
01:01:57,200 --> 01:02:00,600
Speaker 15: to the football like it's fun to watch, and corners

1456
01:02:00,600 --> 01:02:03,880
Speaker 15: are physical and they're tackling. That's the makings of a

1457
01:02:03,920 --> 01:02:06,880
Speaker 15: physical defense. The same on the other side. I talk

1458
01:02:06,880 --> 01:02:10,280
Speaker 15: about Robert and his blocking on the perimeter, Like your

1459
01:02:10,280 --> 01:02:14,120
Speaker 15: receivers are blocking, your corners are tackling. That's physical football,

1460
01:02:14,160 --> 01:02:16,920
Speaker 15: right everybody else on the inside, that's a given. You

1461
01:02:17,040 --> 01:02:19,360
Speaker 15: have to play physical. He won't make it on the inside.

1462
01:02:19,360 --> 01:02:23,160
Speaker 15: But Kamari, Man, he flies around and he is fun

1463
01:02:23,320 --> 01:02:26,400
Speaker 15: to watch, so I love watching him play. He's man,

1464
01:02:26,440 --> 01:02:28,600
Speaker 15: he played a lot of snaps for us, being a rookie.

1465
01:02:28,800 --> 01:02:31,280
Speaker 15: You know, we threw him in there and he's he

1466
01:02:31,320 --> 01:02:33,640
Speaker 15: has n't blinked. He's made a lot of plays for us.

1467
01:02:33,640 --> 01:02:36,360
Speaker 15: He's still growing as a player, but man, I love

1468
01:02:36,440 --> 01:02:37,640
Speaker 15: his intensity on the field.

1469
01:02:37,760 --> 01:02:39,520
Speaker 7: Coach, I know you've been asked a lot about disease,

1470
01:02:39,600 --> 01:02:42,400
Speaker 7: but one thing about his character. You were asked about

1471
01:02:42,400 --> 01:02:45,320
Speaker 7: that as well. This is a phenomenal individual. Johnny and

1472
01:02:45,400 --> 01:02:47,560
Speaker 7: I were so impressed the first time we got to

1473
01:02:47,600 --> 01:02:50,360
Speaker 7: spend some time with him, and anybody would be if

1474
01:02:50,360 --> 01:02:52,120
Speaker 7: they do get that opportunity. I know it was a

1475
01:02:52,200 --> 01:02:55,440
Speaker 7: rough moment yesterday, but what about disease and moving forward

1476
01:02:55,640 --> 01:02:57,160
Speaker 7: and what he means to this football team.

1477
01:02:57,240 --> 01:03:00,560
Speaker 15: Yeah, these means everything to us. He's our leader, especially

1478
01:03:00,560 --> 01:03:02,800
Speaker 15: on the defensive side. He's our leader. He gets our

1479
01:03:02,840 --> 01:03:07,160
Speaker 15: guys going, he's that communicating the communicator on our defense.

1480
01:03:07,160 --> 01:03:10,480
Speaker 15: He's that quarterback of the defense. So he's everything to

1481
01:03:10,560 --> 01:03:13,960
Speaker 15: what we do and how we can be effective. As

1482
01:03:13,960 --> 01:03:16,640
Speaker 15: it takes him right and you don't have that Mike

1483
01:03:16,720 --> 01:03:18,680
Speaker 15: backer out there like you seeing in the game. Yes,

1484
01:03:18,880 --> 01:03:21,520
Speaker 15: we missed him, right, we missed his presence. He was

1485
01:03:21,560 --> 01:03:23,440
Speaker 15: on track to have a really good game, like he

1486
01:03:23,560 --> 01:03:27,080
Speaker 15: had a very productive day within nineteen snaps. I think

1487
01:03:27,080 --> 01:03:30,120
Speaker 15: he had like five tackles, so he's having a productive day.

1488
01:03:30,400 --> 01:03:33,200
Speaker 15: But as he's just the character and the guy he's

1489
01:03:33,400 --> 01:03:36,680
Speaker 15: he's such an amazing guy. He wish, you know, everybody

1490
01:03:36,680 --> 01:03:38,680
Speaker 15: could get to talk to him and know him, but

1491
01:03:38,880 --> 01:03:42,400
Speaker 15: he's he's a guy who wears his heart on his sleeve,

1492
01:03:42,520 --> 01:03:46,360
Speaker 15: like he really cares about others, like not only his teammates,

1493
01:03:46,360 --> 01:03:50,120
Speaker 15: but others like AZ's came from a rough upbringing, so

1494
01:03:50,200 --> 01:03:53,840
Speaker 15: he understands what it's like to not have and he

1495
01:03:53,880 --> 01:03:54,320
Speaker 15: wants to.

1496
01:03:54,240 --> 01:03:57,080
Speaker 3: Make sure he shares and helps others.

1497
01:03:56,840 --> 01:03:59,440
Speaker 15: And it's important to him and that's who he is

1498
01:03:59,480 --> 01:04:01,960
Speaker 15: as a man, and he's caring, he's loving, He's a

1499
01:04:02,080 --> 01:04:06,600
Speaker 15: great guy to talk to, very intelligent young man, and

1500
01:04:06,640 --> 01:04:08,600
Speaker 15: I just I love working with him. I was known

1501
01:04:08,600 --> 01:04:11,600
Speaker 15: his ease in twenty nineteen. I got a lot of

1502
01:04:11,640 --> 01:04:14,880
Speaker 15: conversations with a lot of toss diseases like family to me,

1503
01:04:15,240 --> 01:04:17,320
Speaker 15: Like he means a lot to me, And I know

1504
01:04:17,760 --> 01:04:20,600
Speaker 15: the type of player that he is. He plays physical,

1505
01:04:20,680 --> 01:04:25,960
Speaker 15: he plays fast, and that kind of gets it's shunned

1506
01:04:26,000 --> 01:04:28,760
Speaker 15: because of the game we play now today where people

1507
01:04:28,840 --> 01:04:31,400
Speaker 15: aren't playing as fast and physical as a ease and

1508
01:04:31,480 --> 01:04:33,760
Speaker 15: somebody gets hit and it's like, whoa wait a minute,

1509
01:04:33,960 --> 01:04:36,760
Speaker 15: can you still do that? Like, yeah, it's football. It's

1510
01:04:36,800 --> 01:04:40,120
Speaker 15: still a violent game. It's still a physical game. But

1511
01:04:40,880 --> 01:04:43,480
Speaker 15: you know, we all have a ease back and everything

1512
01:04:43,520 --> 01:04:45,240
Speaker 15: that he's doing, and I've talked to his ease.

1513
01:04:45,320 --> 01:04:46,560
Speaker 3: He's in a good spot.

1514
01:04:46,600 --> 01:04:49,480
Speaker 2: Coach at six to six in the third quarter, and

1515
01:04:49,760 --> 01:04:51,520
Speaker 2: you get the ball after they kick the field goal

1516
01:04:51,560 --> 01:04:54,520
Speaker 2: to tie it, and we've all talked about the second

1517
01:04:54,600 --> 01:04:57,560
Speaker 2: half scoring problems and all that kind of stuff, and

1518
01:04:57,600 --> 01:05:00,040
Speaker 2: then yeah, the screen that goes awry. But then in

1519
01:05:00,080 --> 01:05:02,840
Speaker 2: the next four plays might have been for your better

1520
01:05:02,920 --> 01:05:07,000
Speaker 2: offensive plays. You hit Nico on the route, inside route,

1521
01:05:07,560 --> 01:05:09,560
Speaker 2: Dalton goes up and over somebody.

1522
01:05:09,680 --> 01:05:11,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then Joe hits the two.

1523
01:05:11,560 --> 01:05:13,880
Speaker 2: Runs back to back, and it felt like that was

1524
01:05:13,960 --> 01:05:17,080
Speaker 2: one of your better drives when you felt like when

1525
01:05:17,160 --> 01:05:19,720
Speaker 2: we felt like you needed one needed and it came

1526
01:05:19,840 --> 01:05:21,760
Speaker 2: up with the big drive. There was that kind of

1527
01:05:21,760 --> 01:05:24,560
Speaker 2: the way that you saw that five play sequence right there,

1528
01:05:24,640 --> 01:05:25,040
Speaker 2: that that.

1529
01:05:25,120 --> 01:05:26,720
Speaker 1: You had to have it and you got it.

1530
01:05:26,920 --> 01:05:28,040
Speaker 3: That's exactly how I saw it.

1531
01:05:28,040 --> 01:05:30,960
Speaker 15: It's been so much talked about our second half offense

1532
01:05:31,040 --> 01:05:33,880
Speaker 15: and the man, we definitely need this drive right now,

1533
01:05:34,320 --> 01:05:38,640
Speaker 15: and our playmakers are top players stood up and made plays,

1534
01:05:38,680 --> 01:05:42,240
Speaker 15: you know, Nico, Dalton, Joe, just for them to make

1535
01:05:42,280 --> 01:05:44,400
Speaker 15: those plays in that moment when we needed it most

1536
01:05:44,480 --> 01:05:46,480
Speaker 15: for us to get I think it was seventeen points

1537
01:05:46,480 --> 01:05:49,520
Speaker 15: in the second half when we haven't been scoring a

1538
01:05:49,560 --> 01:05:51,920
Speaker 15: lot of points in the second Man, it's impressive, and

1539
01:05:52,280 --> 01:05:55,120
Speaker 15: it goes to show like we're still improving, we're still growing,

1540
01:05:55,600 --> 01:05:58,480
Speaker 15: and we can be a good second half team right

1541
01:05:58,520 --> 01:06:00,720
Speaker 15: when we put it all together and just executing that

1542
01:06:00,800 --> 01:06:03,400
Speaker 15: shows right there we needed that drive. Offense stepped up

1543
01:06:03,400 --> 01:06:04,880
Speaker 15: and made it a big drive for us.

1544
01:06:05,000 --> 01:06:06,600
Speaker 7: All Right, it's bye week, but I have a feeling

1545
01:06:06,600 --> 01:06:08,760
Speaker 7: you're not gonna be sitting around in a Hawaiian shirt

1546
01:06:08,800 --> 01:06:11,120
Speaker 7: with an umbrella drink. Coach, I know that you're just

1547
01:06:11,160 --> 01:06:13,680
Speaker 7: spend time with a family, but there's work to do. Also,

1548
01:06:13,800 --> 01:06:15,760
Speaker 7: what about self scouting and all the stuff we hear

1549
01:06:15,800 --> 01:06:17,600
Speaker 7: about teams going through during bye week?

1550
01:06:17,640 --> 01:06:18,680
Speaker 6: What is there about that?

1551
01:06:18,840 --> 01:06:21,600
Speaker 15: Yeah, Well, with the self scouting, you go back through

1552
01:06:22,080 --> 01:06:24,439
Speaker 15: just your season or the last you go back through

1553
01:06:24,480 --> 01:06:26,920
Speaker 15: like the last four to six games to see just

1554
01:06:26,960 --> 01:06:29,120
Speaker 15: the things you've done well and see are there any

1555
01:06:29,160 --> 01:06:31,920
Speaker 15: tendencies that other teams may be picking up on that

1556
01:06:31,960 --> 01:06:34,160
Speaker 15: you can look at with a fresh set eye. Sometimes

1557
01:06:34,200 --> 01:06:37,920
Speaker 15: you get into the monotons this week, game plan onto

1558
01:06:37,960 --> 01:06:41,560
Speaker 15: the next. Sometimes you maybe lose sight on some of

1559
01:06:41,600 --> 01:06:44,960
Speaker 15: those fresh ideas that you need from studying other teams

1560
01:06:45,000 --> 01:06:47,000
Speaker 15: or just really taking a deep dive at yourself.

1561
01:06:47,080 --> 01:06:49,720
Speaker 1: So we'll look at ourselves, see.

1562
01:06:49,600 --> 01:06:53,000
Speaker 15: Where things we've done well, things we can change, and

1563
01:06:53,120 --> 01:06:55,400
Speaker 15: just see, you know, where we can lean in more

1564
01:06:55,560 --> 01:06:59,919
Speaker 15: on certain plays. But it's really a time to ref

1565
01:07:00,360 --> 01:07:02,800
Speaker 15: as coaches, So you can't come back with a set

1566
01:07:02,840 --> 01:07:03,960
Speaker 15: of fresh eyes as well.

1567
01:07:04,120 --> 01:07:06,400
Speaker 6: Coach, thanks a lot, I have a great bank you guys.

1568
01:07:06,280 --> 01:07:08,920
Speaker 2: All right, We get back the ultimate eleven plays and

1569
01:07:09,040 --> 01:07:12,120
Speaker 2: moments from the win over Jacksonville. I'll explain where this

1570
01:07:12,160 --> 01:07:14,600
Speaker 2: comes from next on Texans All Access.

1571
01:07:14,800 --> 01:07:16,200
Speaker 1: We go on final.

1572
01:07:16,040 --> 01:07:18,480
Speaker 2: Segment of this edition of Texans All Access, but we

1573
01:07:18,560 --> 01:07:21,960
Speaker 2: got more eight to nine. Mark's got you for a

1574
01:07:22,000 --> 01:07:23,920
Speaker 2: little bit more before we turn it over to Area

1575
01:07:24,080 --> 01:07:27,040
Speaker 2: forty five, which I don't know if it'll be Sean

1576
01:07:27,080 --> 01:07:30,440
Speaker 2: Bajanni and Patrick Crayton because I know that Sean did

1577
01:07:30,480 --> 01:07:33,080
Speaker 2: the morning show today with Seth, so not totally sure

1578
01:07:33,120 --> 01:07:37,720
Speaker 2: how that's gonna all go. That said, as it's in

1579
01:07:37,800 --> 01:07:40,919
Speaker 2: the previous segment. Every single Tuesday or your show called

1580
01:07:40,920 --> 01:07:44,360
Speaker 2: Texans Matchup, where a lot of time I do a

1581
01:07:44,400 --> 01:07:46,480
Speaker 2: lot of different things with it, but it's really a

1582
01:07:46,520 --> 01:07:48,720
Speaker 2: show that kind of looks back and kind of looking

1583
01:07:48,760 --> 01:07:50,840
Speaker 2: ahead all the same time. One of the things I

1584
01:07:50,920 --> 01:07:52,600
Speaker 2: love to do is I do the ultimate eleven plays

1585
01:07:52,640 --> 01:07:55,600
Speaker 2: in moments from the previous week's game, and thought, you

1586
01:07:55,600 --> 01:07:58,479
Speaker 2: know what, on a bye week Friday, the hell, let's

1587
01:07:58,520 --> 01:08:00,600
Speaker 2: go back and look at the all him to eleven

1588
01:08:00,680 --> 01:08:05,160
Speaker 2: plays of the win over Jacksonville and do it starting

1589
01:08:05,240 --> 01:08:09,280
Speaker 2: right here, no pun intended. As we get to number eleven,

1590
01:08:10,640 --> 01:08:14,040
Speaker 2: score zero zero Texans had to get some points up

1591
01:08:14,040 --> 01:08:17,120
Speaker 2: on the board. Drive stalled probably a little sooner than

1592
01:08:17,160 --> 01:08:19,519
Speaker 2: they wanted to, and out on the field, try to

1593
01:08:19,600 --> 01:08:23,520
Speaker 2: Kayme Fairbairn. And the last time we had seen Kye

1594
01:08:23,960 --> 01:08:26,719
Speaker 2: kick a field goal was that Energy Stadium was thirty yarder.

1595
01:08:26,720 --> 01:08:28,479
Speaker 2: It's when he makes his sleep. And he missed it.

1596
01:08:28,800 --> 01:08:31,800
Speaker 2: And I've never seen Kayemie react to a miss the

1597
01:08:31,840 --> 01:08:34,120
Speaker 2: way that he did that one against Tennessee.

1598
01:08:34,680 --> 01:08:36,240
Speaker 1: So when he tried it out here to line.

1599
01:08:36,120 --> 01:08:38,760
Speaker 2: It up from fifty three, I thought, man, I was

1600
01:08:38,840 --> 01:08:41,639
Speaker 2: cheering so hard for him. Inside, I'm just like, come on, Kymie,

1601
01:08:41,960 --> 01:08:45,360
Speaker 2: come on, baby, knock this one home. And he did.

1602
01:08:46,000 --> 01:08:49,280
Speaker 2: Fifty three yards out. Kymie knocked it home to give

1603
01:08:49,320 --> 01:08:51,160
Speaker 2: the Texas a three to nothing lead. He comes in

1604
01:08:51,800 --> 01:08:53,400
Speaker 2: number eleven and starts us.

1605
01:08:53,320 --> 01:08:56,200
Speaker 1: Off fifty three yard at tech left tash Mark.

1606
01:08:56,240 --> 01:08:58,920
Speaker 7: The snap is down, Fairbar's kick is on the way,

1607
01:08:59,040 --> 01:08:59,840
Speaker 7: and it's good.

1608
01:09:00,080 --> 01:09:01,080
Speaker 1: And the man who has.

1609
01:09:00,960 --> 01:09:04,840
Speaker 7: More fifty yard plus field goals in a season than

1610
01:09:04,880 --> 01:09:08,000
Speaker 7: anyone else in NFL history makes another one to get

1611
01:09:08,040 --> 01:09:11,240
Speaker 7: the first points of the game. Three nothing, Texans fourteen

1612
01:09:11,240 --> 01:09:12,799
Speaker 7: to fifty one to go in the second.

1613
01:09:13,000 --> 01:09:14,200
Speaker 1: All right, it's getting number ten.

1614
01:09:14,320 --> 01:09:17,360
Speaker 2: Now I've told you before, if Texas get beat, I

1615
01:09:17,439 --> 01:09:20,599
Speaker 2: pay homage at number ten for the visitors. But Texas

1616
01:09:20,640 --> 01:09:24,080
Speaker 2: didn't get beat, so I continue, that's right, and we

1617
01:09:24,120 --> 01:09:24,639
Speaker 2: go defense.

1618
01:09:24,680 --> 01:09:24,880
Speaker 3: Here.

1619
01:09:25,640 --> 01:09:30,559
Speaker 2: This play, I think shows the impact of one Tim Settle.

1620
01:09:31,400 --> 01:09:34,200
Speaker 2: This play right here is a play that teams have

1621
01:09:34,280 --> 01:09:36,760
Speaker 2: tried to run onto Texans all year long. Some have

1622
01:09:36,840 --> 01:09:38,840
Speaker 2: had a little bit of success, not a ton but

1623
01:09:38,840 --> 01:09:40,640
Speaker 2: it's a trap play. And with the way that the

1624
01:09:40,680 --> 01:09:44,640
Speaker 2: Texans play their defense up front, defensive guys are penetrating

1625
01:09:44,680 --> 01:09:45,719
Speaker 2: a lot, they're going.

1626
01:09:45,560 --> 01:09:48,720
Speaker 1: A field, it's seemingly easy.

1627
01:09:48,360 --> 01:09:55,840
Speaker 2: To trap them. But Tim Settle played this run absolutely perfectly,

1628
01:09:56,320 --> 01:09:58,800
Speaker 2: blowing it up in the backfield early in the game

1629
01:09:59,120 --> 01:10:01,840
Speaker 2: to set the tone. Great play here, Tim Settle coming

1630
01:10:01,880 --> 01:10:02,960
Speaker 2: in at number ten.

1631
01:10:03,560 --> 01:10:06,560
Speaker 7: Wow, here's Lawrence under center second and eight from the

1632
01:10:06,640 --> 01:10:09,839
Speaker 7: Jacksonville eighteen one back et and they feed him again.

1633
01:10:09,640 --> 01:10:12,200
Speaker 1: And he's up Audrey.

1634
01:10:12,400 --> 01:10:15,720
Speaker 7: Now it wasn't Audrey was settled Settle from his defensive

1635
01:10:15,760 --> 01:10:20,759
Speaker 7: tackle spot, the former Bill just blasting into the backfield

1636
01:10:20,800 --> 01:10:23,000
Speaker 7: and bringing out atn to fourth third in law I.

1637
01:10:22,920 --> 01:10:24,479
Speaker 3: Thought he would have a good day to day.

1638
01:10:24,520 --> 01:10:29,040
Speaker 16: He's been dynamic as an inside pass rusher and starting

1639
01:10:29,040 --> 01:10:32,120
Speaker 16: to show those the run stopping abilities to go along

1640
01:10:32,160 --> 01:10:32,960
Speaker 16: with it all.

1641
01:10:33,080 --> 01:10:36,920
Speaker 1: Let's get to number nine, and it's an appreciation post.

1642
01:10:37,520 --> 01:10:39,840
Speaker 2: I guess that's a thing that the kids doing now

1643
01:10:39,840 --> 01:10:41,840
Speaker 2: a social media I say, kids, I guess I'm probably

1644
01:10:41,880 --> 01:10:44,080
Speaker 2: doing it too. I just probably don't do it as

1645
01:10:44,400 --> 01:10:46,760
Speaker 2: well like the other kids do, but I am doing

1646
01:10:46,800 --> 01:10:51,760
Speaker 2: it here. It's an appreciation for both Joe Mixon and

1647
01:10:51,840 --> 01:10:54,880
Speaker 2: the offensive line. He goes for over one hundred again

1648
01:10:55,320 --> 01:10:58,080
Speaker 2: on the ground. Offensive line I felt like had it's

1649
01:10:58,280 --> 01:11:01,080
Speaker 2: maybe its best game. Gave it two sacks early and

1650
01:11:01,160 --> 01:11:03,840
Speaker 2: then that was it. And then in the second half

1651
01:11:03,880 --> 01:11:09,360
Speaker 2: they really started breaking down the Jaguars defense. So Joe

1652
01:11:09,360 --> 01:11:12,519
Speaker 2: Mixon a couple of great runs here early in the game.

1653
01:11:12,600 --> 01:11:14,240
Speaker 2: You'll hear more from him a little bit later too,

1654
01:11:14,280 --> 01:11:15,559
Speaker 2: But here's Joe number nine.

1655
01:11:16,479 --> 01:11:18,720
Speaker 7: Texans get up to the line first down at the

1656
01:11:18,800 --> 01:11:21,360
Speaker 7: Jaguars twenty one, Stroud on their center with mixing in

1657
01:11:21,360 --> 01:11:21,960
Speaker 7: the backfield.

1658
01:11:23,080 --> 01:11:24,080
Speaker 1: CJ looks it over.

1659
01:11:24,200 --> 01:11:26,519
Speaker 7: Jack's loading up at the line, Stover in motion to

1660
01:11:26,520 --> 01:11:28,920
Speaker 7: the left side, hand off mix and running right, trying

1661
01:11:28,920 --> 01:11:30,920
Speaker 7: to shake by Attackler has a little room along the

1662
01:11:30,960 --> 01:11:33,719
Speaker 7: right side. Bye fifteen ten and push to the bounds

1663
01:11:33,720 --> 01:11:35,040
Speaker 7: at the eight yard line.

1664
01:11:35,080 --> 01:11:35,719
Speaker 1: First down.

1665
01:11:35,840 --> 01:11:39,920
Speaker 7: Run Johnson with the tackle and the Texans have a

1666
01:11:40,080 --> 01:11:43,080
Speaker 7: first in goal after that thirteen yard pickup by Joe

1667
01:11:43,120 --> 01:11:47,200
Speaker 7: mix at his best run of the day, IRV Smith

1668
01:11:47,280 --> 01:11:50,400
Speaker 7: lined up left CJ under center with Mixing in the backfield.

1669
01:11:50,479 --> 01:11:52,720
Speaker 1: First down at the Jacksonville thirty two yard line.

1670
01:11:52,760 --> 01:11:54,720
Speaker 7: Stover in motion to the left and they toss it

1671
01:11:54,760 --> 01:11:56,960
Speaker 7: to mix and running that way, trying to turn the corner,

1672
01:11:57,240 --> 01:11:59,559
Speaker 7: and does gets up the left sideline across the twenty

1673
01:11:59,560 --> 01:12:02,080
Speaker 7: five going to mark him out where close to a

1674
01:12:02,160 --> 01:12:02,639
Speaker 7: first down?

1675
01:12:02,720 --> 01:12:03,360
Speaker 1: He's got it.

1676
01:12:03,720 --> 01:12:05,280
Speaker 6: Ten yard run, Joe Mix it.

1677
01:12:06,520 --> 01:12:09,280
Speaker 2: All right, Let's get to the oat shoe and it's

1678
01:12:09,479 --> 01:12:13,439
Speaker 2: Jimmy War Jimmy stepping into that nickel position, and a

1679
01:12:13,439 --> 01:12:15,519
Speaker 2: couple of years ago, there's ayah, there's a lot of

1680
01:12:15,520 --> 01:12:18,000
Speaker 2: consternation coming from Jimmy when he's playing in San Francisco

1681
01:12:18,200 --> 01:12:19,320
Speaker 2: and he didn't want to play the nickel.

1682
01:12:19,360 --> 01:12:20,360
Speaker 1: You want to play safety.

1683
01:12:20,600 --> 01:12:23,240
Speaker 2: And he's been playing safety here for the first couple

1684
01:12:23,320 --> 01:12:25,599
Speaker 2: of years and only stepped into a nickel role when

1685
01:12:26,000 --> 01:12:30,000
Speaker 2: something was going on with that position. A little bit

1686
01:12:30,000 --> 01:12:32,000
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty three, then he got banged up Mistress

1687
01:12:32,120 --> 01:12:34,360
Speaker 2: of the Year. But twenty twenty four that's been Jaalen

1688
01:12:34,400 --> 01:12:37,400
Speaker 2: Petrie's position, and Jalen has rocked it. Jalen has been

1689
01:12:37,439 --> 01:12:41,479
Speaker 2: absolutely fantastic, but lost him to injury, and that's a

1690
01:12:41,520 --> 01:12:44,439
Speaker 2: gutting injury, I mean, just a cut punch injury for

1691
01:12:44,439 --> 01:12:46,640
Speaker 2: a number of different reasons. But Jimmy knows how to

1692
01:12:46,640 --> 01:12:49,720
Speaker 2: play that position, and he plays the run like a

1693
01:12:49,960 --> 01:12:53,439
Speaker 2: monster when he is at that nickel spot. So number eight,

1694
01:12:53,479 --> 01:12:58,439
Speaker 2: here's Jimmy and oh yeah, I can hear Jimmy. Let's

1695
01:12:58,439 --> 01:12:59,240
Speaker 2: see if you know what movie.

1696
01:12:59,240 --> 01:13:01,760
Speaker 7: That's from Bigsby in the backfield Lawrence and they gotten

1697
01:13:01,760 --> 01:13:02,840
Speaker 7: first down Jackson from there.

1698
01:13:02,840 --> 01:13:04,000
Speaker 1: Twenty four here's bigs be.

1699
01:13:04,400 --> 01:13:09,439
Speaker 7: Tripped up in the backfield by Jimmy Ward. A TfL. Wow,

1700
01:13:09,640 --> 01:13:10,840
Speaker 7: great job by Jimmy.

1701
01:13:10,880 --> 01:13:14,240
Speaker 16: There are times that you know when he's playing this

1702
01:13:14,360 --> 01:13:17,559
Speaker 16: Petrie role and down in the box, this is what

1703
01:13:17,600 --> 01:13:18,439
Speaker 16: he likes to do.

1704
01:13:19,280 --> 01:13:21,920
Speaker 3: He there a TfL.

1705
01:13:21,439 --> 01:13:24,640
Speaker 16: For Jimmy Ward as he brings down Bigsby, who is

1706
01:13:24,800 --> 01:13:26,960
Speaker 16: tough to bring down at times.

1707
01:13:27,200 --> 01:13:30,800
Speaker 2: All right, let's get to number seven, and this was

1708
01:13:30,880 --> 01:13:32,840
Speaker 2: one of my favorite drives of the game.

1709
01:13:34,240 --> 01:13:34,920
Speaker 1: I don't.

1710
01:13:35,160 --> 01:13:37,760
Speaker 2: I don't really know why, other than it felt like

1711
01:13:37,800 --> 01:13:41,040
Speaker 2: the offense was finding its way, it was finding its rhythm.

1712
01:13:41,040 --> 01:13:44,840
Speaker 2: There was a nice, you know, smooth wave to it.

1713
01:13:44,960 --> 01:13:47,080
Speaker 2: You know, it wasn't rocky and all over the place.

1714
01:13:47,120 --> 01:13:48,799
Speaker 1: It just felt like it was really smooth.

1715
01:13:49,400 --> 01:13:49,519
Speaker 7: Uh.

1716
01:13:49,640 --> 01:13:53,280
Speaker 2: And CJ was throwing the pigskin man. He was doing

1717
01:13:53,320 --> 01:13:57,599
Speaker 2: a tremendous job throwing it. These three passes came on

1718
01:13:57,760 --> 01:14:01,240
Speaker 2: this one drive. Joe catches one of the backfield for nine.

1719
01:14:01,600 --> 01:14:05,479
Speaker 2: Then John Metchi caught one and I thought he was

1720
01:14:06,200 --> 01:14:08,280
Speaker 2: I didn't think he was down, so I'm like, John,

1721
01:14:08,320 --> 01:14:09,080
Speaker 2: get up and run.

1722
01:14:09,120 --> 01:14:10,360
Speaker 1: Well he did, and they.

1723
01:14:10,240 --> 01:14:11,559
Speaker 2: Got the first down, but then they had to move

1724
01:14:11,560 --> 01:14:15,360
Speaker 2: it back because apparently Antonio Johnson grazed him with the pinky.

1725
01:14:16,160 --> 01:14:18,840
Speaker 2: And then the final one and I always love being

1726
01:14:18,880 --> 01:14:21,760
Speaker 2: in position for these. This was an out route to

1727
01:14:21,800 --> 01:14:25,679
Speaker 2: Nico Collins on the last one, and Nico is running

1728
01:14:26,120 --> 01:14:29,680
Speaker 2: right at me, And I always wonder how hard it

1729
01:14:29,760 --> 01:14:32,960
Speaker 2: is for officials with that toe tap on the sideline,

1730
01:14:33,800 --> 01:14:36,439
Speaker 2: and I just happened to be right the right spot

1731
01:14:36,800 --> 01:14:39,920
Speaker 2: and being down there. As much as I am, I

1732
01:14:40,040 --> 01:14:42,240
Speaker 2: can train my eyes, and I have trained my eyes

1733
01:14:42,320 --> 01:14:44,639
Speaker 2: like watch his feet like I didn't see Nico catch

1734
01:14:44,680 --> 01:14:45,840
Speaker 2: the ball, He just looked at the feet. Did he

1735
01:14:45,880 --> 01:14:48,680
Speaker 2: get him in bank bank, Yes, got the toe tapper in.

1736
01:14:49,520 --> 01:14:52,400
Speaker 2: But it happened so fast. Man, I could see why

1737
01:14:52,439 --> 01:14:55,400
Speaker 2: officials aren't able to see that a lot of times

1738
01:14:55,439 --> 01:14:56,559
Speaker 2: because they're down the field.

1739
01:14:56,600 --> 01:14:59,240
Speaker 1: They're not right at that right spot where I happen

1740
01:14:59,280 --> 01:14:59,479
Speaker 1: to be.

1741
01:14:59,560 --> 01:15:01,720
Speaker 2: But man, it's one of those things that I won't

1742
01:15:01,760 --> 01:15:04,639
Speaker 2: forget because it's one of the reasons I love being

1743
01:15:04,680 --> 01:15:06,719
Speaker 2: down there because you see the action, like I see

1744
01:15:06,760 --> 01:15:10,360
Speaker 2: his feet go bang bang, and it's awesome. So on

1745
01:15:10,400 --> 01:15:12,920
Speaker 2: this drive, the Texas put points up on the board

1746
01:15:13,320 --> 01:15:16,200
Speaker 2: and they did it after these three throws from c J.

1747
01:15:16,320 --> 01:15:19,519
Speaker 2: Stroud to Joe Mixon, John Metchi and Nico Collins.

1748
01:15:19,880 --> 01:15:24,000
Speaker 7: Nico Collins short side right, CJ. Stroud shotgun with twenty eight,

1749
01:15:24,120 --> 01:15:27,719
Speaker 7: Joe mix into the backfield. Stroud fakes the gift. CJ

1750
01:15:27,880 --> 01:15:30,599
Speaker 7: has time, pumps throws to Mix in right side forty

1751
01:15:30,600 --> 01:15:33,120
Speaker 7: five and out of mounts with the forty two yard line,

1752
01:15:33,160 --> 01:15:36,880
Speaker 7: they pick up nine. The coverage by a Lucan on

1753
01:15:37,040 --> 01:15:40,120
Speaker 7: the running back mix in who could do it through

1754
01:15:40,160 --> 01:15:43,479
Speaker 7: the air on the ground any which way you please.

1755
01:15:44,400 --> 01:15:48,680
Speaker 7: Houston taking its sweet time huddling up. Metsch Nico and

1756
01:15:48,760 --> 01:15:53,160
Speaker 7: del go widside right, Stroud and the gun. Second down

1757
01:15:53,160 --> 01:15:57,400
Speaker 7: in fourteen for the Texans. Here's CJ in the pocket pumping,

1758
01:15:57,520 --> 01:16:00,800
Speaker 7: CJ scrambling. CJ in trouble, gets out of the jam,

1759
01:16:00,880 --> 01:16:04,640
Speaker 7: throws and this is caught by Metchi rolling catch inside

1760
01:16:04,640 --> 01:16:07,000
Speaker 7: the thirty two and he never got tagged down. Gets

1761
01:16:07,080 --> 01:16:10,080
Speaker 7: up and runs for the first down, and they'll mark

1762
01:16:10,160 --> 01:16:11,599
Speaker 7: him at the twenty six yard line.

1763
01:16:11,640 --> 01:16:13,559
Speaker 16: I think it was Tank dell Over telling him eight,

1764
01:16:13,920 --> 01:16:15,400
Speaker 16: you weren't touched, Get up and run.

1765
01:16:15,800 --> 01:16:18,280
Speaker 1: Yep, he didn't have the first down at the time.

1766
01:16:18,479 --> 01:16:23,320
Speaker 7: Monterk Brown brought him down and they'll mark him at

1767
01:16:23,320 --> 01:16:25,439
Speaker 7: the twenty six yard line. It's a nineteen yard pass

1768
01:16:25,479 --> 01:16:30,120
Speaker 7: play to John Metshie, first down at the Jacksonville twenty

1769
01:16:30,160 --> 01:16:30,880
Speaker 7: nine yard line.

1770
01:16:30,880 --> 01:16:33,200
Speaker 1: Offset Ie formation pierces in the game.

1771
01:16:36,040 --> 01:16:38,400
Speaker 7: CJ fakes to give a boot to the right side,

1772
01:16:38,400 --> 01:16:41,840
Speaker 7: there's pressure, He scrambles out further right, throws down field.

1773
01:16:41,920 --> 01:16:46,120
Speaker 7: It's Nico toe Tapper in the red zone, sixteen yard line,

1774
01:16:46,360 --> 01:16:50,000
Speaker 7: first down, Houston Texans, thirteen yards.

1775
01:16:51,439 --> 01:16:54,479
Speaker 2: All right, let's get to number six and at number

1776
01:16:54,560 --> 01:16:57,479
Speaker 2: six at put number four Kamari Lassiter.

1777
01:16:58,040 --> 01:17:00,960
Speaker 1: Now I is the game is going on.

1778
01:17:01,360 --> 01:17:04,320
Speaker 2: I'm watching Kamari and I'm like, man, that dude's playing fearless,

1779
01:17:04,320 --> 01:17:07,719
Speaker 2: Like that's Kareem Jackson like stuff, diving into the phrase,

1780
01:17:07,960 --> 01:17:12,960
Speaker 2: you know, being forced contained on runs making tackles at

1781
01:17:13,000 --> 01:17:17,439
Speaker 2: number six is a TfL for Kamari. So I'm gonna

1782
01:17:17,479 --> 01:17:19,040
Speaker 2: play that for you. Then I want you to listen

1783
01:17:19,080 --> 01:17:21,919
Speaker 2: to the clip of a question that I asked Demiko

1784
01:17:22,120 --> 01:17:23,840
Speaker 2: about Kamaria after the game.

1785
01:17:23,880 --> 01:17:24,439
Speaker 1: But take a listen.

1786
01:17:24,479 --> 01:17:27,840
Speaker 2: This is at number six, Kamori last with a five yard TfL.

1787
01:17:28,320 --> 01:17:30,160
Speaker 7: Here's Jones and the gun. I'm third and three from

1788
01:17:30,200 --> 01:17:33,559
Speaker 7: the Houston seventeen. Jones takes the snap, hands off to Etn,

1789
01:17:33,680 --> 01:17:35,920
Speaker 7: running to the right side, lasting or chasing him down

1790
01:17:35,920 --> 01:17:37,880
Speaker 7: and pushing him out of allens at the twenty one

1791
01:17:37,960 --> 01:17:39,240
Speaker 7: yard line and loss on the player.

1792
01:17:40,160 --> 01:17:44,040
Speaker 1: There was a tough handoff here between Jones.

1793
01:17:43,680 --> 01:17:46,120
Speaker 7: Who tripped as he got the ball to Etn and

1794
01:17:46,200 --> 01:17:49,440
Speaker 7: the Texans blew up the plate immediately.

1795
01:17:49,040 --> 01:17:50,800
Speaker 1: Forcing a loss. Fourth down.

1796
01:17:50,840 --> 01:17:52,800
Speaker 7: They'll obviously go for it, but now it's fourth and

1797
01:17:52,840 --> 01:17:55,080
Speaker 7: eight instead of fourth and three or less.

1798
01:17:55,920 --> 01:17:58,080
Speaker 1: I absolutely love this dude, I'm telling you. I love

1799
01:17:58,120 --> 01:17:58,840
Speaker 1: Kamara Lasser.

1800
01:17:58,880 --> 01:18:01,360
Speaker 2: I love the way he plays, loved him at Georgia,

1801
01:18:02,000 --> 01:18:03,759
Speaker 2: and I was so glad that he became a Texan.

1802
01:18:03,800 --> 01:18:06,200
Speaker 2: But the one thing that really has stood out, I

1803
01:18:06,200 --> 01:18:08,200
Speaker 2: mean he covers well, I mean he's competitive, I mean

1804
01:18:08,240 --> 01:18:10,160
Speaker 2: all that kind of stuff, But he comes up and hits,

1805
01:18:10,200 --> 01:18:12,599
Speaker 2: he strikes. He wants to play physical out on the edge,

1806
01:18:12,960 --> 01:18:14,719
Speaker 2: and so that stood out to me in the game

1807
01:18:14,760 --> 01:18:19,639
Speaker 2: against Jacksonville. So I asked Demiko Ryans about that particular thing,

1808
01:18:19,680 --> 01:18:20,760
Speaker 2: and this is what he had to say.

1809
01:18:20,880 --> 01:18:23,360
Speaker 15: Yeah, his intensity and the way he shows up as

1810
01:18:23,360 --> 01:18:26,960
Speaker 15: a corner. The physicality is it's unmatched. Like you don't

1811
01:18:27,000 --> 01:18:29,720
Speaker 15: see corners stepping up in the run game the way

1812
01:18:29,760 --> 01:18:33,400
Speaker 15: Kamari does like and the way he just flies around

1813
01:18:33,520 --> 01:18:36,320
Speaker 15: to the football like it's fun to watch. And when

1814
01:18:36,320 --> 01:18:39,880
Speaker 15: your corners are physical and they're tackling, that's the makings

1815
01:18:39,880 --> 01:18:42,479
Speaker 15: of a physical defense. The same on the other side,

1816
01:18:42,560 --> 01:18:45,479
Speaker 15: I talk about Robert and his blocking on the perimeter,

1817
01:18:45,720 --> 01:18:48,559
Speaker 15: Like your receivers are blocking, your corners are tackling. That's

1818
01:18:48,560 --> 01:18:52,200
Speaker 15: physical football, right everybody else on the inside, that's a given.

1819
01:18:52,280 --> 01:18:54,080
Speaker 15: You have to play physical. He won't make it on

1820
01:18:54,120 --> 01:18:57,640
Speaker 15: the inside. But Kamari, Man, he flies around and he

1821
01:18:57,840 --> 01:19:00,880
Speaker 15: is fun to watch, so I love love watching him play.

1822
01:19:00,920 --> 01:19:02,840
Speaker 15: He's made play a lot of snaps for us, being

1823
01:19:02,880 --> 01:19:04,800
Speaker 15: a rookie. You know, we threw him in there and

1824
01:19:04,840 --> 01:19:06,920
Speaker 15: he's he has him blinked. He's made a lot of

1825
01:19:06,960 --> 01:19:10,080
Speaker 15: plays for us. He's still growing as a player, but man,

1826
01:19:10,120 --> 01:19:11,719
Speaker 15: I love his intensity on the field.

1827
01:19:11,880 --> 01:19:15,439
Speaker 2: All right, Let's get to number five and it's that man,

1828
01:19:15,560 --> 01:19:18,960
Speaker 2: Nico Collins, and I love seeing Nico get involved in

1829
01:19:19,000 --> 01:19:21,640
Speaker 2: the game early on. But I find fascinating is that

1830
01:19:21,640 --> 01:19:23,679
Speaker 2: one of his better games was the first one against

1831
01:19:23,720 --> 01:19:25,720
Speaker 2: Annapolis Colts. He had six catches for one hundred and

1832
01:19:25,720 --> 01:19:28,800
Speaker 2: seventeen yards, but he really didn't get involved until the

1833
01:19:28,880 --> 01:19:32,120
Speaker 2: deep ball in the second quarter. But he got involved

1834
01:19:32,160 --> 01:19:36,400
Speaker 2: early in this one against the Jacksonville Jaguars, and that

1835
01:19:36,479 --> 01:19:38,599
Speaker 2: probably was the right thing to do. In the first matchup,

1836
01:19:38,800 --> 01:19:40,680
Speaker 2: he had twelve catches for one hundred and fifty one

1837
01:19:40,760 --> 01:19:44,120
Speaker 2: yards in a tuddy and they got him involved early

1838
01:19:44,720 --> 01:19:48,200
Speaker 2: early in this one. First, he had this fifteen yarder

1839
01:19:48,200 --> 01:19:49,880
Speaker 2: to kick off his receiving.

1840
01:19:49,479 --> 01:19:52,679
Speaker 7: Game, first down from the Houston sixteen. Stroud under center

1841
01:19:52,800 --> 01:19:56,000
Speaker 7: mixing in the backfield. Shroud throws back to his left

1842
01:19:56,040 --> 01:19:59,160
Speaker 7: after looking right, and here's a pass to Nico breaking

1843
01:19:59,160 --> 01:20:01,000
Speaker 7: a tackle and take it man with him across the

1844
01:20:01,040 --> 01:20:04,000
Speaker 7: thirty to the thirty one yard line. Savage with the tackle,

1845
01:20:04,320 --> 01:20:06,759
Speaker 7: took a little sleigh ride with Nico Collins.

1846
01:20:06,920 --> 01:20:10,160
Speaker 1: First down, Houston fifteen yards.

1847
01:20:10,240 --> 01:20:14,320
Speaker 16: I hope the time that he missed doesn't hurt him,

1848
01:20:14,400 --> 01:20:17,320
Speaker 16: because I think he's putting together not only a Pro

1849
01:20:17,400 --> 01:20:20,920
Speaker 16: Bowl season, but an All Pro season. That's that's how

1850
01:20:20,960 --> 01:20:24,160
Speaker 16: good I think Nico Collins has been and what he

1851
01:20:24,320 --> 01:20:26,040
Speaker 16: means to this Texans offense.

1852
01:20:26,479 --> 01:20:28,840
Speaker 2: And then a little while later, he was running the

1853
01:20:28,840 --> 01:20:33,920
Speaker 2: deep over route and Tyson Campbell couldn't stay with him, stumbled, fell, slip,

1854
01:20:33,960 --> 01:20:38,400
Speaker 2: whatever it was, Nico wide open, big forty yard game

1855
01:20:38,479 --> 01:20:40,599
Speaker 2: that helped set up the first score of the game.

1856
01:20:40,640 --> 01:20:44,679
Speaker 1: Here's CJ to Nico. It's the second part of number five.

1857
01:20:45,280 --> 01:20:48,519
Speaker 7: Nico Collins short side left, Stroud under center, first down,

1858
01:20:48,560 --> 01:20:54,000
Speaker 7: Texans at their twenty five offset I formation. CJ back

1859
01:20:54,040 --> 01:20:58,439
Speaker 7: to throw, looking looking, firing downfield and wide open. Nico

1860
01:20:58,479 --> 01:21:01,479
Speaker 7: across the forty five right side and spun down at

1861
01:21:01,479 --> 01:21:06,120
Speaker 7: the thirty five yard lineup Jacksonville big play to number twelve,

1862
01:21:07,080 --> 01:21:10,960
Speaker 7: the hit by Monterrek Brown. This is good for forty yards.

1863
01:21:11,200 --> 01:21:13,960
Speaker 7: All right, Let's get to number four and move on

1864
01:21:14,280 --> 01:21:16,040
Speaker 7: to the fourth quarter.

1865
01:21:16,120 --> 01:21:21,240
Speaker 2: Early in the fourth quarter, talking about a sixteen to

1866
01:21:21,320 --> 01:21:23,520
Speaker 2: six game at this point.

1867
01:21:24,080 --> 01:21:26,800
Speaker 1: And the Texans have shown a lot more in.

1868
01:21:26,760 --> 01:21:29,519
Speaker 2: The second half. Kick the kick field goal at a touchdown.

1869
01:21:29,960 --> 01:21:32,280
Speaker 2: They've taken a sixteen to six league. Defense is holding

1870
01:21:32,320 --> 01:21:34,519
Speaker 2: the jag Jags not really doing much with mac Jones

1871
01:21:34,520 --> 01:21:37,080
Speaker 2: at this particular point. I think I gotta put more

1872
01:21:37,120 --> 01:21:38,840
Speaker 2: points on the board, right, They gotta get more up

1873
01:21:38,880 --> 01:21:39,400
Speaker 2: on the board.

1874
01:21:39,720 --> 01:21:43,160
Speaker 1: And it was this drive right here that I loved.

1875
01:21:43,280 --> 01:21:45,599
Speaker 1: I loved this drive CJ.

1876
01:21:46,280 --> 01:21:48,160
Speaker 2: They didn't just go to a shell and just let

1877
01:21:48,240 --> 01:21:50,599
Speaker 2: CJ hand off the show. CJ is gonna sling it,

1878
01:21:51,080 --> 01:21:54,160
Speaker 2: and so two throws here on this drive that gave.

1879
01:21:54,000 --> 01:21:55,320
Speaker 1: Them a twenty three to six league.

1880
01:21:55,320 --> 01:21:58,920
Speaker 2: First, it was the deep out from CJ to Tank

1881
01:21:59,040 --> 01:22:01,920
Speaker 2: for twenty three yards. This was a nice, nice ball

1882
01:22:02,240 --> 01:22:04,280
Speaker 2: pitching catch, perfectly done right here.

1883
01:22:07,000 --> 01:22:08,599
Speaker 1: CJ. Stroud under center.

1884
01:22:09,080 --> 01:22:13,640
Speaker 7: Stroud fakes to give CJ throwing downfield and God is

1885
01:22:13,720 --> 01:22:16,960
Speaker 7: man at the thirty two yard line. Tank Dell first

1886
01:22:17,040 --> 01:22:22,080
Speaker 7: down Texans. Nice play of twenty three yards to the

1887
01:22:22,160 --> 01:22:24,519
Speaker 7: second year receiver out of the University of Houston.

1888
01:22:24,600 --> 01:22:27,200
Speaker 16: Yeah, and he beat a pretty good defender. He's been

1889
01:22:27,200 --> 01:22:31,240
Speaker 16: in this league a while. In Ronald Darby from the

1890
01:22:31,280 --> 01:22:35,960
Speaker 16: writer at Florida State in Tallahassee, now in his tenth year.

1891
01:22:36,720 --> 01:22:38,680
Speaker 1: The second part of number four.

1892
01:22:40,040 --> 01:22:44,080
Speaker 2: Takes me back to the game against Jacksonville last year

1893
01:22:44,120 --> 01:22:49,240
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three, Week three. Tank had a big catch

1894
01:22:49,720 --> 01:22:52,880
Speaker 2: down the field that got Damien within the got Damien

1895
01:22:52,960 --> 01:22:56,960
Speaker 2: one yard touchdown. Late in the game, Tanks wide open

1896
01:22:57,000 --> 01:22:59,360
Speaker 2: on a third and three CJ hit some ballgame put

1897
01:22:59,360 --> 01:23:01,200
Speaker 2: thirty seven up on the board, beat the Jacks.

1898
01:23:01,320 --> 01:23:03,880
Speaker 1: Both of those were broken coverages.

1899
01:23:04,800 --> 01:23:06,920
Speaker 2: So in the offseason when the Jaguars went out and

1900
01:23:06,960 --> 01:23:10,160
Speaker 2: got Ryan Nielson as a defensive coordinator, who I thought

1901
01:23:10,200 --> 01:23:13,080
Speaker 2: was a fine defense coordinator with the aon Falcons, I thought, Okay,

1902
01:23:13,080 --> 01:23:15,360
Speaker 2: those days are over. They're not gonna blow coverages. Well,

1903
01:23:15,720 --> 01:23:18,080
Speaker 2: let me introduce you to the second part of number four.

1904
01:23:18,439 --> 01:23:20,799
Speaker 2: The Texans came out a bunch set three wide receivers

1905
01:23:20,800 --> 01:23:24,320
Speaker 2: over to the right side, and a very simple concept.

1906
01:23:24,560 --> 01:23:27,040
Speaker 2: As Dalton Schultz said, this is like training camp, like

1907
01:23:27,280 --> 01:23:32,759
Speaker 2: day one install, John Metchi drives up and across. Nico

1908
01:23:32,840 --> 01:23:35,840
Speaker 2: goes vertical, and because Mechi had gone across, he took

1909
01:23:35,840 --> 01:23:37,760
Speaker 2: like three, like three guys went with him. I don't

1910
01:23:37,760 --> 01:23:40,240
Speaker 2: know why three guys went with him. The corner stayed

1911
01:23:40,280 --> 01:23:43,799
Speaker 2: with Nico. Dalton went out to the flat and Dalt's

1912
01:23:43,880 --> 01:23:44,120
Speaker 2: on the.

1913
01:23:44,040 --> 01:23:48,040
Speaker 1: Flat gone, hey, hey, hey, hey, CJ. I'm over here.

1914
01:23:48,240 --> 01:23:49,880
Speaker 1: Well that was not the first read.

1915
01:23:50,080 --> 01:23:52,639
Speaker 2: So CJ went through his reads and like Mechi, no, Nico,

1916
01:23:52,760 --> 01:23:56,439
Speaker 2: no Dalton, Oh my god, and then zip zipped it

1917
01:23:56,479 --> 01:23:59,040
Speaker 2: out to Dalton gets to the end zone. This would

1918
01:23:59,080 --> 01:24:01,000
Speaker 2: be the last touch of the day, gave to Texas

1919
01:24:01,040 --> 01:24:02,040
Speaker 2: a twenty three to six lead.

1920
01:24:02,160 --> 01:24:03,880
Speaker 1: This is the second part of number four.

1921
01:24:03,960 --> 01:24:04,240
Speaker 9: CJ.

1922
01:24:04,360 --> 01:24:05,799
Speaker 1: Stroud to Dalton Schultz.

1923
01:24:06,880 --> 01:24:10,280
Speaker 7: Third down and ten from the Jags twenty two yard line.

1924
01:24:10,880 --> 01:24:14,160
Speaker 7: Stroud shotgun one pack, daring bunch formation right.

1925
01:24:14,280 --> 01:24:17,520
Speaker 6: CJ takes the snap. Here's pressure Stroud flowing.

1926
01:24:17,120 --> 01:24:21,600
Speaker 1: To his right. He's got his man, Schultz. Five touchdown Houston.

1927
01:24:23,040 --> 01:24:25,120
Speaker 1: CJ to Schultz.

1928
01:24:26,600 --> 01:24:29,559
Speaker 7: And that's the second second half touchdown of this game.

1929
01:24:31,479 --> 01:24:33,920
Speaker 2: For all intents and purposes, at this point, the game

1930
01:24:34,080 --> 01:24:36,160
Speaker 2: was done. Yes, the Jaguars tacked on a couple of

1931
01:24:36,200 --> 01:24:40,040
Speaker 2: touchdowns to get it twenty three to twenty, but game

1932
01:24:40,120 --> 01:24:42,559
Speaker 2: was over at that point that Texas were able to

1933
01:24:42,560 --> 01:24:45,680
Speaker 2: hold on. But we'll get to a few more end

1934
01:24:45,720 --> 01:24:47,600
Speaker 2: of the game's sort of situations.

1935
01:24:47,680 --> 01:24:48,280
Speaker 3: But I'm goen.

1936
01:24:48,320 --> 01:24:52,479
Speaker 2: We go back to the first half for number three,

1937
01:24:52,560 --> 01:24:55,840
Speaker 2: and I'm just I just happened to be watching this

1938
01:24:55,920 --> 01:24:59,679
Speaker 2: particular route because I see Derek stingly press man against

1939
01:24:59,680 --> 01:25:02,160
Speaker 2: Bran Thomas Junior, and I'm like, oh, yeah, these are

1940
01:25:02,240 --> 01:25:04,800
Speaker 2: things I'd love to watch from field level, just man

1941
01:25:04,880 --> 01:25:09,400
Speaker 2: and man one on one and Thomas takes off and

1942
01:25:09,439 --> 01:25:11,920
Speaker 2: I'm like, I know stink can run, but I love

1943
01:25:11,960 --> 01:25:15,040
Speaker 2: when sting trails a little bit because he's just gauging.

1944
01:25:15,120 --> 01:25:16,679
Speaker 1: It's like he's ready to pounce.

1945
01:25:17,160 --> 01:25:19,160
Speaker 2: He takes a look up, sees where the ball is,

1946
01:25:19,240 --> 01:25:22,600
Speaker 2: he's where he is, looks back like he's managing all this.

1947
01:25:22,680 --> 01:25:25,679
Speaker 2: So as he's running, staying in phase with Brian Thomas Junior,

1948
01:25:26,040 --> 01:25:28,800
Speaker 2: Trevor Lawrence thought he had him, threw it deep.

1949
01:25:29,600 --> 01:25:32,559
Speaker 1: Derek Stingley goes up over the top and.

1950
01:25:32,600 --> 01:25:35,559
Speaker 2: Takes it away for his third interception of the year,

1951
01:25:35,640 --> 01:25:37,639
Speaker 2: and it comes in at number three.

1952
01:25:38,000 --> 01:25:40,479
Speaker 7: I'm third and eleven Lawrence in the gun, gets the snap.

1953
01:25:40,560 --> 01:25:43,000
Speaker 7: He's got a lot of time now. He throws long Dawnfield,

1954
01:25:43,080 --> 01:25:45,839
Speaker 7: got a man downfield, but it's intercepted by Derek Stinglee

1955
01:25:45,960 --> 01:25:49,920
Speaker 7: Junior running to his right thirty forty forty five fifty

1956
01:25:50,000 --> 01:25:51,000
Speaker 7: cutting to the left.

1957
01:25:50,840 --> 01:25:52,759
Speaker 1: Side of the field. That crossed a forty five.

1958
01:25:52,640 --> 01:25:55,400
Speaker 7: Yard out of the forty three as the hit is

1959
01:25:55,439 --> 01:25:59,280
Speaker 7: made by bigsby Derek Stinglee Junior with that takeaway.

1960
01:25:59,600 --> 01:26:03,320
Speaker 16: It's been a while, but now that's interception number three

1961
01:26:04,040 --> 01:26:06,840
Speaker 16: on the season for Stingley. Had a couple of his

1962
01:26:06,960 --> 01:26:10,839
Speaker 16: hands on a couple before this one in previous games.

1963
01:26:11,200 --> 01:26:15,479
Speaker 16: But that's what he does. He entices quarterbacks to throw

1964
01:26:15,560 --> 01:26:18,479
Speaker 16: over his head. But he's got closing speed and he

1965
01:26:18,560 --> 01:26:22,519
Speaker 16: knows exactly where he is in reference to the receiver

1966
01:26:23,400 --> 01:26:26,120
Speaker 16: and the football, and he can turn it on and

1967
01:26:26,240 --> 01:26:28,080
Speaker 16: close and finish.

1968
01:26:27,840 --> 01:26:31,479
Speaker 2: Close and finish is the exact right way to put

1969
01:26:31,520 --> 01:26:34,400
Speaker 2: exactly what Derek Stingley did right there at number three.

1970
01:26:34,479 --> 01:26:38,400
Speaker 2: I mean, just a tremendous play going up over the

1971
01:26:38,439 --> 01:26:42,280
Speaker 2: top to make that catch for a third interception of

1972
01:26:42,320 --> 01:26:42,679
Speaker 2: the year.

1973
01:26:43,200 --> 01:26:45,280
Speaker 1: Probably should have about six or seven at this point.

1974
01:26:45,280 --> 01:26:47,800
Speaker 2: I don't know why teams continue to try him, but

1975
01:26:48,439 --> 01:26:50,360
Speaker 2: they do and they're paying the price for it.

1976
01:26:51,280 --> 01:26:52,519
Speaker 1: And that was his third interception.

1977
01:26:52,680 --> 01:26:55,479
Speaker 2: Hopefullys putting together an all Pro year, worst case of

1978
01:26:55,520 --> 01:26:58,880
Speaker 2: Pro Bowl year. He definitely deserves it, no doubt. Okay,

1979
01:26:59,400 --> 01:27:02,960
Speaker 2: number two, number one. I went back and forth and

1980
01:27:03,120 --> 01:27:07,200
Speaker 2: I settled on this order. I'm not sure why. I

1981
01:27:07,360 --> 01:27:08,840
Speaker 2: think I know why. I'll tell you about it at

1982
01:27:08,920 --> 01:27:12,880
Speaker 2: number one, But at number two, to me is a

1983
01:27:13,040 --> 01:27:16,519
Speaker 2: five play drive when it's six to six. The Jaguars

1984
01:27:16,560 --> 01:27:18,599
Speaker 2: had kicked the field goal to start the second half

1985
01:27:19,160 --> 01:27:21,800
Speaker 2: after the Texans gone three and out start the second half,

1986
01:27:21,880 --> 01:27:23,840
Speaker 2: and kind of thought, son of a bee, here we

1987
01:27:23,960 --> 01:27:24,320
Speaker 2: go again.

1988
01:27:24,960 --> 01:27:25,679
Speaker 1: I can't do anything.

1989
01:27:25,760 --> 01:27:29,120
Speaker 2: Second half offense is just gonna go into hibernation again

1990
01:27:29,160 --> 01:27:31,720
Speaker 2: in the second half. But the Texas got the ball

1991
01:27:31,840 --> 01:27:35,120
Speaker 2: tied six to six. On the first down of this drive,

1992
01:27:35,880 --> 01:27:38,800
Speaker 2: they threw a screen and something looked weird about the screen.

1993
01:27:38,880 --> 01:27:41,320
Speaker 2: The ball then gets tipped. Savage dives for it. You

1994
01:27:41,400 --> 01:27:44,040
Speaker 2: can't get it, and I just remember thinking, man, that

1995
01:27:44,160 --> 01:27:47,280
Speaker 2: looks so ugly. God, can we get it going? And

1996
01:27:47,360 --> 01:27:50,479
Speaker 2: then all of a sudden it switched.

1997
01:27:50,800 --> 01:27:51,320
Speaker 3: The flip.

1998
01:27:51,640 --> 01:27:56,720
Speaker 2: The switch got flipped and four plays later, the Texans

1999
01:27:56,920 --> 01:28:00,960
Speaker 2: were in the end zone. First, it was a throw

2000
01:28:01,000 --> 01:28:03,559
Speaker 2: from CJ. Stroud to Nico Collins across the middle.

2001
01:28:04,120 --> 01:28:06,880
Speaker 7: Second and ten Texans from their thirty six to sixth

2002
01:28:06,960 --> 01:28:09,120
Speaker 7: game in the third, Stroud shotgun.

2003
01:28:09,320 --> 01:28:11,520
Speaker 1: Here's the snap, CJ firing.

2004
01:28:11,280 --> 01:28:13,719
Speaker 7: Over the middle, and he's got his man, Nico Collins,

2005
01:28:13,720 --> 01:28:16,680
Speaker 7: across the fifty to the forty seven yard line, and

2006
01:28:16,880 --> 01:28:18,439
Speaker 7: Nico is slow.

2007
01:28:18,280 --> 01:28:18,640
Speaker 1: To get up.

2008
01:28:18,680 --> 01:28:19,479
Speaker 6: He's hitting the head.

2009
01:28:19,880 --> 01:28:22,559
Speaker 3: Here's got hit in the back of the head, and.

2010
01:28:24,320 --> 01:28:27,880
Speaker 16: They may force him to the sideline is to get

2011
01:28:28,000 --> 01:28:28,400
Speaker 16: checked out.

2012
01:28:28,439 --> 01:28:29,400
Speaker 3: He's going on his own.

2013
01:28:29,560 --> 01:28:31,920
Speaker 7: Yeah, He's running off the field and Jared Wayne's gonna

2014
01:28:32,000 --> 01:28:37,280
Speaker 7: check in. Cisco had the hit on Collins, who's at

2015
01:28:37,360 --> 01:28:41,000
Speaker 7: the sideline holding his head. Twenty two yard play to

2016
01:28:41,080 --> 01:28:43,719
Speaker 7: the Jags forty eight yard line. Gotta move the football

2017
01:28:44,000 --> 01:28:45,640
Speaker 7: six to six, game, nine twenty five to.

2018
01:28:45,680 --> 01:28:48,840
Speaker 1: Go in the third. Then CJ found Dalton Schultz out

2019
01:28:48,880 --> 01:28:49,679
Speaker 1: in the right flat.

2020
01:28:50,120 --> 01:28:54,080
Speaker 2: Dalton leaped over a defensive back, got hammer by Traymon Walker.

2021
01:28:54,320 --> 01:28:57,960
Speaker 2: I'm laughing because Dalton's okay, but his post on Twitter

2022
01:28:58,080 --> 01:29:01,080
Speaker 2: afterwards was pretty awesome. It's from Hallidagan Night's the movie,

2023
01:29:01,120 --> 01:29:05,840
Speaker 2: which I love he talked about yep and his car's

2024
01:29:05,920 --> 01:29:07,880
Speaker 2: flying in the air, and that's what he Dalton felt

2025
01:29:08,040 --> 01:29:09,920
Speaker 2: when he was up in the air on this one.

2026
01:29:10,080 --> 01:29:12,320
Speaker 1: But he made the catch, ain't got a first down.

2027
01:29:12,600 --> 01:29:14,720
Speaker 1: It's the second play of this little four play run.

2028
01:29:15,200 --> 01:29:18,240
Speaker 7: Here's Stroud under center at the Jags forty eight first

2029
01:29:18,320 --> 01:29:19,759
Speaker 7: and ten CJ fakes.

2030
01:29:19,560 --> 01:29:21,080
Speaker 1: The Gibb throws back to his right.

2031
01:29:21,160 --> 01:29:25,200
Speaker 7: Shultz forty five hurdles a man across the forty first down.

2032
01:29:25,280 --> 01:29:28,240
Speaker 1: To the thirty seven yard line and he's down.

2033
01:29:28,520 --> 01:29:29,519
Speaker 3: He's slow to get up.

2034
01:29:30,320 --> 01:29:34,040
Speaker 16: Tried to hurtle someone and came right down on his shoulder,

2035
01:29:35,000 --> 01:29:39,280
Speaker 16: his shoulder and his neck, and boy, that is painful for.

2036
01:29:39,400 --> 01:29:42,120
Speaker 7: You're trying to make a play, Dre, but you sacrifice

2037
01:29:42,160 --> 01:29:47,040
Speaker 7: the body. And he's definitely holding his throat area as

2038
01:29:47,120 --> 01:29:50,559
Speaker 7: he gets up on his knees. And the medical team

2039
01:29:50,680 --> 01:29:53,200
Speaker 7: comes out to take a look, led by head athletic

2040
01:29:53,280 --> 01:29:56,439
Speaker 7: trader Roland Ramirez, and now we're looking at a replay.

2041
01:29:57,840 --> 01:29:58,080
Speaker 1: Boy.

2042
01:29:58,120 --> 01:30:01,080
Speaker 7: He hurdles Darby, but Darby gets hold of his left

2043
01:30:01,160 --> 01:30:04,840
Speaker 7: leg and he comes down hard, elbow and head on

2044
01:30:05,000 --> 01:30:09,920
Speaker 7: the ground as Pravon Walker got on top of him

2045
01:30:09,960 --> 01:30:10,960
Speaker 7: as he was coming down.

2046
01:30:12,360 --> 01:30:15,959
Speaker 2: Then it was time for Joe Mixon and the offensive

2047
01:30:16,040 --> 01:30:19,240
Speaker 2: line and the tight ends and the wide receivers, and

2048
01:30:19,320 --> 01:30:22,080
Speaker 2: I bring them all in because at various points in

2049
01:30:22,160 --> 01:30:24,760
Speaker 2: this game, the wide receivers and tight ends blocked their

2050
01:30:24,840 --> 01:30:28,280
Speaker 2: guts out, so they all always gets the recognition. But

2051
01:30:28,439 --> 01:30:30,519
Speaker 2: on this play, the old line did a tremendous job.

2052
01:30:30,600 --> 01:30:33,800
Speaker 2: On his zone play, Kate Stover hammered the backside with

2053
01:30:33,920 --> 01:30:37,560
Speaker 2: Laromy Tunsell. Joe cuts it back. The corner got in

2054
01:30:37,720 --> 01:30:40,400
Speaker 2: way too far. Joe cut outside of him. Thirty yards later,

2055
01:30:40,400 --> 01:30:42,120
Speaker 2: He's got the ball at the six yard line. It's

2056
01:30:42,160 --> 01:30:44,439
Speaker 2: the third part of number two first.

2057
01:30:44,280 --> 01:30:46,479
Speaker 7: Down at the thirty seven yard line of the Jags.

2058
01:30:46,560 --> 01:30:50,479
Speaker 7: Stroud under center, with Mixon in the backfield. Jagg's loading

2059
01:30:50,600 --> 01:30:54,960
Speaker 7: up the box. Here Dwayne short side right handoff Mixon

2060
01:30:55,040 --> 01:30:59,000
Speaker 7: starting right, cutting left thirty five thirty twenty five twenty

2061
01:30:59,040 --> 01:31:02,160
Speaker 7: to the left sideline and out of bounce inside the ten.

2062
01:31:02,240 --> 01:31:06,280
Speaker 1: First and goal Houston. Joe mixing his biggest run of

2063
01:31:06,320 --> 01:31:06,719
Speaker 1: the ten.

2064
01:31:06,720 --> 01:31:09,880
Speaker 16: Got all he could get, and with Darnelle Savage and

2065
01:31:09,920 --> 01:31:14,160
Speaker 16: a couple of other Jaguar defenders giving chase, he goes, well,

2066
01:31:14,280 --> 01:31:16,040
Speaker 16: I got all I can get. You got an angle,

2067
01:31:16,080 --> 01:31:19,280
Speaker 16: I'm just gonna step out of bounds right here. That's

2068
01:31:19,320 --> 01:31:21,879
Speaker 16: a nice run by Joe Mixon.

2069
01:31:22,200 --> 01:31:26,080
Speaker 7: Thirty yard run on the cutback, first and goal inside

2070
01:31:26,160 --> 01:31:26,679
Speaker 7: the seven.

2071
01:31:27,240 --> 01:31:30,719
Speaker 2: Okay, mark clarified at the seven, not quite the six,

2072
01:31:30,840 --> 01:31:34,040
Speaker 2: but either way, it was one more play and this

2073
01:31:34,240 --> 01:31:36,200
Speaker 2: time they didn't cut it back to the left.

2074
01:31:36,479 --> 01:31:39,320
Speaker 1: They just ran it to the left and they ran

2075
01:31:39,479 --> 01:31:40,320
Speaker 1: this beautifully.

2076
01:31:40,439 --> 01:31:43,439
Speaker 2: Larimy tons up on Ventrel Miller, Kate stole Over the

2077
01:31:43,520 --> 01:31:44,920
Speaker 2: great block on the edge.

2078
01:31:45,240 --> 01:31:46,520
Speaker 1: Juice on the inside.

2079
01:31:46,560 --> 01:31:49,639
Speaker 2: I mean, this play is blocked beautifully, and Joe Mixon

2080
01:31:49,760 --> 01:31:52,200
Speaker 2: sauntered in for a touchdown. They gave the Texans a

2081
01:31:52,320 --> 01:31:55,639
Speaker 2: thirteen to six lead, and it was just the second

2082
01:31:56,320 --> 01:32:01,080
Speaker 2: touchdown in the second half since the New England game. Man,

2083
01:32:01,160 --> 01:32:04,719
Speaker 2: this was awesome stuff from Joe Mixon, the offensive line,

2084
01:32:04,760 --> 01:32:06,080
Speaker 2: everybody involved in this one.

2085
01:32:06,240 --> 01:32:07,719
Speaker 1: To finish up number two.

2086
01:32:08,960 --> 01:32:11,160
Speaker 7: Stroud and the gun mix into his right, first and

2087
01:32:11,240 --> 01:32:14,799
Speaker 7: goal inside the seven, bunch formation right for the Texans.

2088
01:32:14,880 --> 01:32:17,920
Speaker 6: Stover in motion to left handoff, Joe running left.

2089
01:32:17,800 --> 01:32:22,719
Speaker 1: Across the five to the goal line. Touchdown Joston Joe Mixon.

2090
01:32:24,680 --> 01:32:26,839
Speaker 1: The Texans take the lead.

2091
01:32:30,040 --> 01:32:33,240
Speaker 7: And when they needed it most, there is the shot

2092
01:32:33,280 --> 01:32:35,920
Speaker 7: in the arm known as Joe mixon thirty yard run

2093
01:32:36,400 --> 01:32:39,559
Speaker 7: to set up first and goals seven yard run, Hello,

2094
01:32:39,760 --> 01:32:40,280
Speaker 7: end zone.

2095
01:32:41,240 --> 01:32:44,680
Speaker 2: So that leads me to number one. And I know

2096
01:32:44,760 --> 01:32:46,880
Speaker 2: you probably think in No. Eighty a second, I played

2097
01:32:46,920 --> 01:32:50,439
Speaker 2: both touchdowns. I mean I played pretty much every CJ.

2098
01:32:50,560 --> 01:32:54,800
Speaker 2: Stroud to Nico Collins pass. CJ to Nico, got the

2099
01:32:54,880 --> 01:32:59,519
Speaker 2: touchdown to Schultz, Like what haven't I played the finish?

2100
01:33:00,640 --> 01:33:04,559
Speaker 2: The finish of this game was maybe the most important

2101
01:33:04,600 --> 01:33:07,840
Speaker 2: thing because it brought back that Week one feeling of

2102
01:33:07,960 --> 01:33:12,439
Speaker 2: being in Indianapolis up to you got the ball, Can

2103
01:33:12,520 --> 01:33:14,160
Speaker 2: you keep your defense off the field?

2104
01:33:14,960 --> 01:33:18,280
Speaker 1: Yes? Can you get a first down and then maybe

2105
01:33:18,439 --> 01:33:21,080
Speaker 1: another first down? Yes? And yes.

2106
01:33:22,040 --> 01:33:27,479
Speaker 2: On these two runs, Joe Mixon stuck a stake in

2107
01:33:27,560 --> 01:33:29,720
Speaker 2: the ground and said, Nope, we're finishing this game. The

2108
01:33:29,840 --> 01:33:32,200
Speaker 2: defense is not going back on a field that was

2109
01:33:32,240 --> 01:33:36,479
Speaker 2: a weary entire defense, and the offensive line, the tight ends,

2110
01:33:36,920 --> 01:33:41,479
Speaker 2: Robert Woods and Joe Mixon made sure that this one

2111
01:33:41,800 --> 01:33:44,519
Speaker 2: was going to end with them in victory formation at

2112
01:33:44,640 --> 01:33:48,040
Speaker 2: number one. Joe Mixon's, well, we'll start number one at

2113
01:33:48,040 --> 01:33:52,000
Speaker 2: two parts number one, he gets his fourteen yard run

2114
01:33:52,120 --> 01:33:56,760
Speaker 2: for a first down to put the Jaguars in peril.

2115
01:33:57,240 --> 01:33:59,360
Speaker 1: I formation behind CJ. Stroud.

2116
01:33:59,439 --> 01:34:03,800
Speaker 7: Second and two from the Houston thirty. Here's Woods in

2117
01:34:03,880 --> 01:34:08,479
Speaker 7: motion to the left. CJ takes the snap handoff, Mixon

2118
01:34:08,640 --> 01:34:11,280
Speaker 7: running left, has a little hole thirty five forty left

2119
01:34:11,360 --> 01:34:13,200
Speaker 7: sideline and brought down at the forty.

2120
01:34:13,000 --> 01:34:13,880
Speaker 1: Four yard line.

2121
01:34:14,280 --> 01:34:20,720
Speaker 7: Joe Mixon Cisco with the hit, first down, run fourteen yards, reload.

2122
01:34:20,880 --> 01:34:25,520
Speaker 2: And then needing five yards to shut it down completely.

2123
01:34:26,280 --> 01:34:29,840
Speaker 2: Texas handed to Joe three tight ends on the field.

2124
01:34:30,439 --> 01:34:32,040
Speaker 2: Full back in the backfield Kate.

2125
01:34:32,000 --> 01:34:33,720
Speaker 1: Stover old school pro.

2126
01:34:34,120 --> 01:34:38,360
Speaker 2: I just run lead sown to the left side and

2127
01:34:38,520 --> 01:34:40,880
Speaker 2: go finish it. And that's what they did. And this

2128
01:34:41,040 --> 01:34:42,519
Speaker 2: is the second part of number one.

2129
01:34:43,000 --> 01:34:45,320
Speaker 1: As CJ will get up to the line of scrimmage

2130
01:34:45,439 --> 01:34:46,160
Speaker 1: I formation.

2131
01:34:46,439 --> 01:34:49,719
Speaker 7: Third down and five across the Houston forty nine yard line.

2132
01:34:49,840 --> 01:34:53,439
Speaker 7: Mixon the tailback. Here's the toss to Joe running left,

2133
01:34:53,720 --> 01:34:56,960
Speaker 7: has room. He's got it across the forty two to

2134
01:34:57,080 --> 01:34:57,760
Speaker 7: the forty one.

2135
01:34:58,240 --> 01:34:59,160
Speaker 1: That's gonna do it.

2136
01:34:59,520 --> 01:35:02,160
Speaker 7: The tech he says, we'll kill the clock and they

2137
01:35:02,200 --> 01:35:09,920
Speaker 7: will beat Jacksonville today. Toss to Joe Mixon, got the blocks,

2138
01:35:10,080 --> 01:35:12,600
Speaker 7: got the run, got the first down, and got the.

2139
01:35:12,960 --> 01:35:17,600
Speaker 2: W tremendous stuff, tremendous UL three eleven, and man, what

2140
01:35:17,800 --> 01:35:18,639
Speaker 2: a fun, fun.

2141
01:35:18,560 --> 01:35:20,920
Speaker 1: Show it's been to put together, even on a bye week.

2142
01:35:21,000 --> 01:35:23,559
Speaker 2: Appreciate everybody that was involved on my guys back at

2143
01:35:23,560 --> 01:35:24,559
Speaker 2: Sports Radio six ten.

2144
01:35:24,640 --> 01:35:25,320
Speaker 1: Thank you so much.

2145
01:35:25,400 --> 01:35:28,120
Speaker 2: We'll see you on Monday as we gear up for

2146
01:35:28,160 --> 01:35:30,720
Speaker 2: the Miami Dolphins in the final stretch of the twenty

2147
01:35:30,800 --> 01:35:31,559
Speaker 2: twenty four season.

2148
01:35:31,600 --> 01:35:33,400
Speaker 1: Seeing that everybody, and as always, go Texans.

2149
01:35:33,600 --> 01:35:37,719
Speaker 7: Hello Texans, Welcome to the Bonus Hour, the weekly Bonus

2150
01:35:37,760 --> 01:35:40,360
Speaker 7: Hour of Texans Radio. Here Friday night, eight o'clock. We

2151
01:35:40,479 --> 01:35:42,959
Speaker 7: huddle together. If you're listening to this on a podcast

2152
01:35:43,080 --> 01:35:46,160
Speaker 7: later on, well we appreciate that as well. But we've

2153
01:35:46,200 --> 01:35:48,559
Speaker 7: got a lot to get to tonight because it's been

2154
01:35:48,560 --> 01:35:51,759
Speaker 7: a busy night already. You already heard from Nick Cassario, Jamiko, Ryan's,

2155
01:35:51,840 --> 01:35:54,960
Speaker 7: numerous coaches, players, all of it in the first couple

2156
01:35:55,000 --> 01:35:57,040
Speaker 7: of hours. It's bye week, so we're sort of reviewing

2157
01:35:57,080 --> 01:35:59,840
Speaker 7: some of our content. Obviously, we talked a lot this

2158
01:36:00,040 --> 01:36:03,640
Speaker 7: week about the suspension and everything else. Look back to

2159
01:36:03,720 --> 01:36:05,679
Speaker 7: it on Monday when this team gets back to work

2160
01:36:06,040 --> 01:36:08,679
Speaker 7: and prepares for the Miami Dolphins in those three games

2161
01:36:08,720 --> 01:36:10,760
Speaker 7: that they have in eleven days. It is gonna be

2162
01:36:11,040 --> 01:36:14,080
Speaker 7: huge coming up starting Monday, and it's all gonna go

2163
01:36:14,240 --> 01:36:16,200
Speaker 7: very fast from there, the final four games of the

2164
01:36:16,280 --> 01:36:19,360
Speaker 7: season and then the postseason. But you're not there yet,

2165
01:36:19,800 --> 01:36:20,679
Speaker 7: you haven't clinched.

2166
01:36:21,000 --> 01:36:21,680
Speaker 1: You gotta do it.

2167
01:36:22,240 --> 01:36:24,720
Speaker 7: The Colts they can't help you this weekend because they

2168
01:36:24,760 --> 01:36:25,880
Speaker 7: have a bye as well.

2169
01:36:26,400 --> 01:36:27,200
Speaker 1: That's the fact.

2170
01:36:27,320 --> 01:36:29,759
Speaker 7: So Texans and Colts they do a lot of things together,

2171
01:36:30,000 --> 01:36:34,439
Speaker 7: Like they'll always play the same NFC Division teams on

2172
01:36:34,600 --> 01:36:37,800
Speaker 7: the road in the same year. So the Colts went

2173
01:36:37,880 --> 01:36:41,000
Speaker 7: to Green Bay already those kinds of things. They went

2174
01:36:41,080 --> 01:36:45,519
Speaker 7: to Minnesota and they relived the blown lead of what

2175
01:36:45,720 --> 01:36:47,800
Speaker 7: was that last year? My gosh, it seems like a

2176
01:36:47,920 --> 01:36:50,200
Speaker 7: lot longer ago than that, but that's the case.

2177
01:36:50,360 --> 01:36:50,719
Speaker 1: Anyway.

2178
01:36:51,000 --> 01:36:54,040
Speaker 7: In this hour, we'll hear from David Fletcher, later general

2179
01:36:54,120 --> 01:36:58,360
Speaker 7: manager of the Kinders Texas Bowl. But first Andre War

2180
01:36:58,360 --> 01:37:01,280
Speaker 7: at Indy Kalou. They're on every week Exans Monday. Indeed

2181
01:37:01,320 --> 01:37:04,000
Speaker 7: does the preseason color commentary, Andrey does you know what

2182
01:37:04,080 --> 01:37:07,120
Speaker 7: Andrey does? He does color commentary and the Texans radio network.

2183
01:37:07,160 --> 01:37:08,640
Speaker 7: He's got a game tomorrow, I think is the MAC

2184
01:37:08,720 --> 01:37:12,400
Speaker 7: Championship in Detroit. Anyway, we had a lengthy visit went

2185
01:37:12,520 --> 01:37:18,160
Speaker 7: over a bunch of things regarding the Texans, regarding their lives,

2186
01:37:18,479 --> 01:37:20,479
Speaker 7: a whole bunch of other stuff. We are going to

2187
01:37:20,600 --> 01:37:23,240
Speaker 7: jump in mid conversation, and we were talking about, of

2188
01:37:23,360 --> 01:37:26,439
Speaker 7: all things, the Dallas Cowboys when they used to do

2189
01:37:26,560 --> 01:37:29,040
Speaker 7: that offensive line up and down move. We were talking

2190
01:37:29,040 --> 01:37:32,599
Speaker 7: about old school football stuff. We were talking about coaches

2191
01:37:32,640 --> 01:37:35,360
Speaker 7: like bum Phillips and Don Schulette and the branding of

2192
01:37:35,439 --> 01:37:38,439
Speaker 7: those guys, Tom Lantry. So we started off with that

2193
01:37:38,600 --> 01:37:40,760
Speaker 7: Dallas part of the conversation. Remember they used to do

2194
01:37:41,040 --> 01:37:44,679
Speaker 7: in the offensive lineman up and down before the snap.

2195
01:37:45,479 --> 01:37:47,599
Speaker 7: Why don't any Why doesn't anybody do that anymore?

2196
01:37:47,600 --> 01:37:49,559
Speaker 3: I don't know's it used to look sweet as all

2197
01:37:49,600 --> 01:37:51,240
Speaker 3: get up. Yeah, it really loved it.

2198
01:37:51,400 --> 01:37:51,599
Speaker 5: Man.

2199
01:37:51,800 --> 01:37:54,680
Speaker 16: It was kind of emulated in the in the you

2200
01:37:54,840 --> 01:37:58,799
Speaker 16: playing sandline football, grass live football, whatever.

2201
01:37:58,560 --> 01:37:59,880
Speaker 3: You want to call it. We do it on the

2202
01:38:00,040 --> 01:38:00,640
Speaker 3: street as well.

2203
01:38:00,720 --> 01:38:02,639
Speaker 16: And if play the game where if you get close

2204
01:38:02,680 --> 01:38:04,840
Speaker 16: to the grass, that's when you can hit a guy. Yes,

2205
01:38:08,560 --> 01:38:10,840
Speaker 16: you never go towards the sideline because that's when they

2206
01:38:10,880 --> 01:38:12,000
Speaker 16: can unload on you.

2207
01:38:12,400 --> 01:38:15,320
Speaker 3: But it was that was just sweet. I bet it's

2208
01:38:15,439 --> 01:38:17,000
Speaker 3: creative it was sweet.

2209
01:38:17,080 --> 01:38:19,559
Speaker 16: It was They were the first to really use, uh

2210
01:38:19,800 --> 01:38:24,120
Speaker 16: start using really technology to help in scouting players and

2211
01:38:24,240 --> 01:38:26,599
Speaker 16: things of that sort, and you know, streamlining a lot

2212
01:38:26,680 --> 01:38:26,840
Speaker 16: of it.

2213
01:38:27,120 --> 01:38:30,519
Speaker 7: I got to say that that era of football coaches

2214
01:38:30,680 --> 01:38:32,400
Speaker 7: had brand identity.

2215
01:38:32,560 --> 01:38:33,400
Speaker 1: Bum Phillips.

2216
01:38:33,840 --> 01:38:37,960
Speaker 7: Bum Phillips was his own brand, Tom, his own brand,

2217
01:38:38,080 --> 01:38:40,040
Speaker 7: Chuck Nole, you know these guys.

2218
01:38:40,880 --> 01:38:44,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was exactly right.

2219
01:38:45,080 --> 01:38:47,880
Speaker 7: Don Shula his face is a logo. I mean it's

2220
01:38:47,920 --> 01:38:51,560
Speaker 7: one of those guys, right. His grandson, Chris Shula is

2221
01:38:51,600 --> 01:38:53,519
Speaker 7: the defensive coordinator for the Rams, and they were here

2222
01:38:53,560 --> 01:38:55,800
Speaker 7: for practice this summer and he kind of has that

2223
01:38:55,960 --> 01:38:59,200
Speaker 7: Shula face, you know, those those jaws, the same way

2224
01:38:59,280 --> 01:39:05,320
Speaker 7: with a hat exactly, Paul Brown, Lombardi. And remember when

2225
01:39:05,400 --> 01:39:07,320
Speaker 7: Mike Nolan wanted to wear a tie when he was

2226
01:39:07,360 --> 01:39:09,080
Speaker 7: head coach of the forty nine ers and they actually

2227
01:39:09,160 --> 01:39:11,040
Speaker 7: let him do it because his dad did it.

2228
01:39:11,439 --> 01:39:13,759
Speaker 6: And there should be more of that. I like Demiko

2229
01:39:13,880 --> 01:39:15,080
Speaker 6: with the red dry fit.

2230
01:39:15,200 --> 01:39:19,320
Speaker 16: He usually wears the red coach at at Minnesota pj

2231
01:39:19,479 --> 01:39:21,240
Speaker 16: F College.

2232
01:39:22,000 --> 01:39:22,840
Speaker 3: He wears a time like.

2233
01:39:24,479 --> 01:39:27,760
Speaker 7: See that's good, Harball as the Michigan coach kind of

2234
01:39:27,800 --> 01:39:29,000
Speaker 7: had that brand look.

2235
01:39:29,760 --> 01:39:32,560
Speaker 16: Was in his mind you know, thought he was resurrect

2236
01:39:32,600 --> 01:39:36,479
Speaker 16: and yeah, something he just started to look like him,

2237
01:39:36,600 --> 01:39:39,799
Speaker 16: dressed like him, had that academic like everything.

2238
01:39:40,439 --> 01:39:41,080
Speaker 1: It was crazy.

2239
01:39:41,240 --> 01:39:43,559
Speaker 17: Yeah, the Belichick was probably the last one with that brand.

2240
01:39:43,640 --> 01:39:47,240
Speaker 17: With the cutoff sweatshirt. Yeah, the hoodie, Yeah, the hoodie

2241
01:39:47,400 --> 01:39:49,360
Speaker 17: and the cut off sleeves.

2242
01:39:49,720 --> 01:39:51,320
Speaker 7: And now it feels like the league makes them all

2243
01:39:51,360 --> 01:39:53,840
Speaker 7: wear the same thing on Sundays. It feels like it's

2244
01:39:53,880 --> 01:39:56,960
Speaker 7: just you know, but Demiko, I like the red dry fit. See,

2245
01:39:57,120 --> 01:39:59,439
Speaker 7: I'm gonna tell the equipment guys here. I'm gonna tell

2246
01:39:59,520 --> 01:40:03,240
Speaker 7: Darwin he should always have red. Okay, that's that's what

2247
01:40:03,320 --> 01:40:04,120
Speaker 7: we should lobby for.

2248
01:40:05,040 --> 01:40:06,200
Speaker 3: He always has no.

2249
01:40:06,360 --> 01:40:08,200
Speaker 1: But he some games.

2250
01:40:08,920 --> 01:40:10,639
Speaker 6: I think he was wearing the salute to service.

2251
01:40:10,880 --> 01:40:13,439
Speaker 16: I wonder is one of those closer attention to this.

2252
01:40:13,760 --> 01:40:15,720
Speaker 16: Yeah you wear red until you get beat.

2253
01:40:16,160 --> 01:40:19,639
Speaker 3: Yeah you beat again, you switch back.

2254
01:40:19,960 --> 01:40:23,720
Speaker 7: Yeah, don't mess with a winning street. But question for

2255
01:40:23,840 --> 01:40:25,439
Speaker 7: both of you guys, because you know we're just here

2256
01:40:25,520 --> 01:40:27,680
Speaker 7: talking all right, this is the Players Show, but no

2257
01:40:27,760 --> 01:40:30,559
Speaker 7: player availability this week. So we've got a former player

2258
01:40:30,640 --> 01:40:33,559
Speaker 7: andre Ware and any Kalou of course, but you guys,

2259
01:40:33,560 --> 01:40:35,559
Speaker 7: as former players, both of you have this in common.

2260
01:40:35,600 --> 01:40:40,320
Speaker 7: You've built great careers after playing NFL football, right, great

2261
01:40:40,360 --> 01:40:44,679
Speaker 7: careers and different careers. All right, Dre obviously great broadcaster.

2262
01:40:44,840 --> 01:40:46,880
Speaker 7: I know you have other interests too, You're not going

2263
01:40:46,960 --> 01:40:48,760
Speaker 7: to talk about them, and I know you have other

2264
01:40:48,840 --> 01:40:52,080
Speaker 7: things going on. You got other irons in the fire

2265
01:40:52,360 --> 01:40:56,160
Speaker 7: or whatever. Yeah, but anyway, what does that take? And

2266
01:40:56,360 --> 01:40:59,920
Speaker 7: why don't more guys set themselves up better for post play?

2267
01:41:01,040 --> 01:41:03,799
Speaker 7: It's difficult because I know you have to pour yourself

2268
01:41:03,840 --> 01:41:06,280
Speaker 7: into your pro football career. But as we all know,

2269
01:41:06,640 --> 01:41:08,920
Speaker 7: no matter what age you retire, even Tom Brader, you're

2270
01:41:08,920 --> 01:41:11,479
Speaker 7: still a pretty young man relatively. I mean he might

2271
01:41:11,520 --> 01:41:14,519
Speaker 7: be on you know, the oldest one, but most guys

2272
01:41:14,560 --> 01:41:17,240
Speaker 7: are in their thirties at best. If you're in your thirties, hell,

2273
01:41:17,320 --> 01:41:20,120
Speaker 7: you've had a tremendous career. When you retire, what does

2274
01:41:20,160 --> 01:41:20,439
Speaker 7: it take?

2275
01:41:21,000 --> 01:41:23,280
Speaker 17: Well, the reason why a lot of guys don't prepare

2276
01:41:23,320 --> 01:41:26,840
Speaker 17: themselves and you know their blessing is their curse. You

2277
01:41:26,920 --> 01:41:29,160
Speaker 17: have to be a little bit detached from reality to

2278
01:41:29,320 --> 01:41:31,720
Speaker 17: make it to the NFL. You have to have a

2279
01:41:31,880 --> 01:41:34,880
Speaker 17: mindset where most average people are the common person are

2280
01:41:34,880 --> 01:41:37,000
Speaker 17: going to be like, man, he's crazy. You know, how's

2281
01:41:37,000 --> 01:41:39,280
Speaker 17: this kid from Dickinson think he's gonna win the Heisman

2282
01:41:39,479 --> 01:41:40,920
Speaker 17: when he goes to you of age. But you have

2283
01:41:41,000 --> 01:41:43,560
Speaker 17: to have that unrealistic mindset just to make it to

2284
01:41:43,600 --> 01:41:46,120
Speaker 17: the NFL. And I also think that hurts you because

2285
01:41:46,160 --> 01:41:48,760
Speaker 17: while you're in the NFL, you're thinking, oh, I'm going

2286
01:41:48,840 --> 01:41:51,080
Speaker 17: to sign three more contracts, I'm gonna sign the one

2287
01:41:51,120 --> 01:41:53,760
Speaker 17: hundred million dollar deal, and I don't really have to

2288
01:41:53,840 --> 01:41:57,000
Speaker 17: worry about life after football because you feel like you're

2289
01:41:57,040 --> 01:41:58,800
Speaker 17: gonna be great and that's what got you there. But

2290
01:41:58,920 --> 01:42:01,840
Speaker 17: it's tough to throw in being real with yourself. So

2291
01:42:02,000 --> 01:42:04,120
Speaker 17: for me, I can't speak for anybody else, and everyone

2292
01:42:04,240 --> 01:42:07,559
Speaker 17: has a different story. Being an undersized fifth round pick

2293
01:42:07,720 --> 01:42:10,720
Speaker 17: from Rice. I even go in, as stupid as it

2294
01:42:10,760 --> 01:42:13,160
Speaker 17: may sound, I went into the NFL thinking I'm going

2295
01:42:13,200 --> 01:42:14,800
Speaker 17: to be a Hall of Famer. You know, we can

2296
01:42:14,920 --> 01:42:16,840
Speaker 17: laugh about it now, but I really thought I was

2297
01:42:16,880 --> 01:42:19,720
Speaker 17: gonna be a Hall of Famer. Yeah, yeah, that's the mentality.

2298
01:42:20,120 --> 01:42:22,040
Speaker 17: And after a while, I said, Okay, you know what

2299
01:42:23,320 --> 01:42:26,360
Speaker 17: reality hit after like year five or six. You know,

2300
01:42:26,400 --> 01:42:27,920
Speaker 17: I want to play as long as I can, but

2301
01:42:28,000 --> 01:42:30,040
Speaker 17: I also want to make sure when I'm done playing,

2302
01:42:30,080 --> 01:42:31,840
Speaker 17: I don't have to work for anybody. So then that's

2303
01:42:31,880 --> 01:42:34,400
Speaker 17: when I started, you know, when got my real estate

2304
01:42:34,520 --> 01:42:36,519
Speaker 17: license and became a broker in the off season and

2305
01:42:36,640 --> 01:42:39,599
Speaker 17: started buying apartments houses. I still thought I could be great,

2306
01:42:39,960 --> 01:42:42,120
Speaker 17: but I just knew that the end was gonna come.

2307
01:42:42,280 --> 01:42:44,040
Speaker 17: But with some of these players, especially the ones that

2308
01:42:44,120 --> 01:42:47,400
Speaker 17: start early on, you know, they're not thinking about what

2309
01:42:47,560 --> 01:42:49,519
Speaker 17: am I going to do in ten years. Their thought

2310
01:42:49,640 --> 01:42:52,080
Speaker 17: is I'm going to sign three four deals, be set

2311
01:42:52,160 --> 01:42:54,439
Speaker 17: for life and not have to worry about life after football.

2312
01:42:54,880 --> 01:42:58,080
Speaker 17: And I understand it because I was there. But at

2313
01:42:58,200 --> 01:43:01,400
Speaker 17: some point you do have to start thinking about life

2314
01:43:01,520 --> 01:43:04,639
Speaker 17: after and it's never easy. Even when I had things

2315
01:43:04,680 --> 01:43:07,880
Speaker 17: set up when I was done in two thousand and nine,

2316
01:43:08,560 --> 01:43:12,000
Speaker 17: it still took a couple of years to accept the

2317
01:43:12,080 --> 01:43:14,000
Speaker 17: fact that I wasn't a football player anymore.

2318
01:43:14,479 --> 01:43:16,479
Speaker 16: It's a great way to put it because I'm jotting

2319
01:43:16,520 --> 01:43:20,000
Speaker 16: down some notes and the one thing I think a

2320
01:43:20,080 --> 01:43:23,560
Speaker 16: lot of players miss when they are drafted, when and

2321
01:43:23,880 --> 01:43:28,599
Speaker 16: family members really miss this that are around a player

2322
01:43:29,160 --> 01:43:32,559
Speaker 16: after he's drafted and he's in the NFL, that it's

2323
01:43:32,680 --> 01:43:36,160
Speaker 16: never your decision when it's over. Everybody goes into it

2324
01:43:36,280 --> 01:43:39,040
Speaker 16: thinking I'm going to retire at this age and do it.

2325
01:43:39,080 --> 01:43:42,640
Speaker 16: I think you got this beautiful picture mapped out, and

2326
01:43:43,000 --> 01:43:46,680
Speaker 16: it's never your decision when it's over with, And it

2327
01:43:46,800 --> 01:43:49,360
Speaker 16: can be over as early as after high school. It

2328
01:43:49,439 --> 01:43:52,840
Speaker 16: can be over after you're done in college, or you're

2329
01:43:53,120 --> 01:43:55,760
Speaker 16: lucky and you get to play x amount of years

2330
01:43:55,800 --> 01:43:59,360
Speaker 16: in the NFL. But at some point somebody's going to

2331
01:43:59,400 --> 01:44:02,679
Speaker 16: say you're not good enough. And guys have a hard

2332
01:44:02,800 --> 01:44:05,720
Speaker 16: time accepting that. Then you got to be real with

2333
01:44:05,760 --> 01:44:09,519
Speaker 16: yourself when it's over, and they keep chasing it for

2334
01:44:09,600 --> 01:44:12,480
Speaker 16: a while, or keep trying to live the same lifestyle

2335
01:44:12,960 --> 01:44:16,559
Speaker 16: they live when they were playing, And there's a lifestyle

2336
01:44:16,600 --> 01:44:18,840
Speaker 16: you have to live when you're playing to know that

2337
01:44:18,920 --> 01:44:21,120
Speaker 16: you're setting yourself up for later on in life.

2338
01:44:21,479 --> 01:44:24,080
Speaker 3: You're not spending it. You're not you know, the guy

2339
01:44:24,160 --> 01:44:25,440
Speaker 3: that's buying the bottle.

2340
01:44:25,240 --> 01:44:27,840
Speaker 16: Every bottle service every time you guys go out and

2341
01:44:28,320 --> 01:44:30,559
Speaker 16: have a good time, or you're you know, you're taking

2342
01:44:30,640 --> 01:44:33,720
Speaker 16: care of the bill. Every money runs out. You can

2343
01:44:33,800 --> 01:44:35,760
Speaker 16: spend it making millions, you can run. It can run

2344
01:44:35,800 --> 01:44:36,120
Speaker 16: out on you.

2345
01:44:36,280 --> 01:44:38,960
Speaker 6: What's the percentage of lottery winners who go bankrupt?

2346
01:44:39,120 --> 01:44:42,240
Speaker 3: It's winners.

2347
01:44:42,479 --> 01:44:44,320
Speaker 16: And then you got to you gotta get into something

2348
01:44:44,400 --> 01:44:47,439
Speaker 16: that you're passionate about, that you really you really love

2349
01:44:47,560 --> 01:44:51,479
Speaker 16: to do, and it's not a lot of guys find

2350
01:44:51,520 --> 01:44:55,479
Speaker 16: themselves chasing what they used to make and that can

2351
01:44:55,560 --> 01:44:57,000
Speaker 16: get you in a lot of trouble as well. You

2352
01:44:57,080 --> 01:45:00,320
Speaker 16: start chasing money. Yeah, you got to have taken carry

2353
01:45:00,320 --> 01:45:03,080
Speaker 16: yourself on the front end while you're playing. That gives

2354
01:45:03,120 --> 01:45:06,760
Speaker 16: you the opportunity to really hand pick what you want

2355
01:45:06,800 --> 01:45:09,400
Speaker 16: to do in your next career and then from there

2356
01:45:09,880 --> 01:45:11,639
Speaker 16: you find something that you're passionate about.

2357
01:45:11,760 --> 01:45:16,240
Speaker 17: I'll say this, there's a lot of positive and successful examples,

2358
01:45:16,680 --> 01:45:19,320
Speaker 17: but you know, we tend to focus on the negatives,

2359
01:45:19,360 --> 01:45:20,800
Speaker 17: and a lot of the guys that I know who

2360
01:45:20,840 --> 01:45:24,400
Speaker 17: are having success post playing career, they're not the biggest names,

2361
01:45:24,560 --> 01:45:26,480
Speaker 17: so they kind of, you know, had my mentality.

2362
01:45:26,560 --> 01:45:30,000
Speaker 16: But it's kind of like the guys that you played

2363
01:45:30,040 --> 01:45:32,800
Speaker 16: with in college. The stars aren't the ones that are

2364
01:45:32,880 --> 01:45:34,920
Speaker 16: necessarily go on to do X, Y and Z and

2365
01:45:35,000 --> 01:45:37,759
Speaker 16: run corporations exactly and become doctors.

2366
01:45:37,920 --> 01:45:40,880
Speaker 3: It's the walkomeicker guys played.

2367
01:45:41,000 --> 01:45:45,280
Speaker 16: They're the most successful, more successful in terms of the

2368
01:45:45,439 --> 01:45:49,200
Speaker 16: life or lifestyles that that were on the call on

2369
01:45:49,280 --> 01:45:49,880
Speaker 16: your teams in.

2370
01:45:49,880 --> 01:45:52,240
Speaker 7: College, and often coaches are like that too. Not all

2371
01:45:52,280 --> 01:45:55,320
Speaker 7: the time, but that often happens. Dray, how did you know?

2372
01:45:55,640 --> 01:45:58,720
Speaker 7: How did you because you handled yourself well? How did

2373
01:45:58,800 --> 01:46:01,040
Speaker 7: you know how to handle yourself as far as being

2374
01:46:01,080 --> 01:46:05,479
Speaker 7: a pro and then transitioning into not being a professional

2375
01:46:05,520 --> 01:46:07,120
Speaker 7: athlete anymore and building your life.

2376
01:46:08,240 --> 01:46:10,880
Speaker 16: I think it just goes back to how you were raised.

2377
01:46:11,840 --> 01:46:15,040
Speaker 16: There's there's an arrogance that can come with playing professional

2378
01:46:15,120 --> 01:46:18,400
Speaker 16: sports that you have to get over once it's once

2379
01:46:18,439 --> 01:46:23,160
Speaker 16: it's once you're done. I've seen guys that have acted

2380
01:46:23,280 --> 01:46:26,439
Speaker 16: like a holes while they were playing, and then all

2381
01:46:26,479 --> 01:46:28,880
Speaker 16: of a sudden they need to get into a certain

2382
01:46:28,960 --> 01:46:32,759
Speaker 16: industry and people remember how you acted when you were playing.

2383
01:46:33,160 --> 01:46:36,639
Speaker 16: So I just respect everybody, and that's how I did

2384
01:46:36,680 --> 01:46:39,040
Speaker 16: it along the way, when you're at your highest peak,

2385
01:46:39,479 --> 01:46:43,080
Speaker 16: and as you're transitioning, you you're the same way, And

2386
01:46:43,560 --> 01:46:46,200
Speaker 16: I would say, just be consistent and the way you

2387
01:46:46,320 --> 01:46:49,559
Speaker 16: treat people so that doors will open for you. Because

2388
01:46:49,600 --> 01:46:52,880
Speaker 16: you were in d Kalu or Mark Vandermer, this awesome

2389
01:46:53,000 --> 01:46:56,280
Speaker 16: quarterback that played X amount of years. Oh heck, yeah,

2390
01:46:56,320 --> 01:46:59,479
Speaker 16: he's trying to transition into what we're doing. Yeah, that

2391
01:47:00,240 --> 01:47:02,200
Speaker 16: is a little bit easier to open, and you can

2392
01:47:02,280 --> 01:47:04,200
Speaker 16: kind of handpick which one you want to go through.

2393
01:47:04,600 --> 01:47:07,439
Speaker 16: But if you're the a hole, those doors don't open

2394
01:47:07,960 --> 01:47:13,720
Speaker 16: nearly as fast. Yeah, I mean yeah, people remember, they

2395
01:47:13,840 --> 01:47:18,639
Speaker 16: remember interactions. Will I will meet somebody in my weekly

2396
01:47:18,840 --> 01:47:22,160
Speaker 16: travels that I've met fifteen twenty years ago, and I

2397
01:47:22,240 --> 01:47:25,120
Speaker 16: took a picture with their daughter and spent time. But

2398
01:47:25,640 --> 01:47:27,439
Speaker 16: you know, I knew the car was getting ready to

2399
01:47:27,560 --> 01:47:29,479
Speaker 16: leave and you were in a hurry, but you you

2400
01:47:29,600 --> 01:47:31,880
Speaker 16: took the time to take this picture with my daughter.

2401
01:47:32,120 --> 01:47:34,920
Speaker 16: They show it to you and they're appreciative of it.

2402
01:47:35,320 --> 01:47:38,800
Speaker 16: And so that's that's kind of an example of if

2403
01:47:38,880 --> 01:47:42,080
Speaker 16: you needed that guy, you don't treat everybody the same

2404
01:47:42,120 --> 01:47:44,639
Speaker 16: because you don't know when you're gonna need somebody.

2405
01:47:45,360 --> 01:47:46,960
Speaker 7: It's got to be tough, though. When you guys were

2406
01:47:47,000 --> 01:47:50,000
Speaker 7: players and people want a picture.

2407
01:47:49,800 --> 01:47:52,000
Speaker 16: Or a crap, I signed every one of them if

2408
01:47:52,040 --> 01:47:57,479
Speaker 16: I could, because one some day they're gonna stop asking. Yeah,

2409
01:47:57,640 --> 01:47:59,800
Speaker 16: And that's that's kind of how how I tell my

2410
01:48:00,400 --> 01:48:01,880
Speaker 16: so is, well, why do you sign all of them?

2411
01:48:01,960 --> 01:48:05,880
Speaker 16: And this that because one day they won't ask, but

2412
01:48:06,040 --> 01:48:08,080
Speaker 16: you want to keep them asking. But the fastest way

2413
01:48:08,120 --> 01:48:10,360
Speaker 16: they won't ask is to say no, and then that

2414
01:48:10,479 --> 01:48:12,960
Speaker 16: starts to spread itself around.

2415
01:48:12,800 --> 01:48:14,200
Speaker 3: And all the way to the internet and all that

2416
01:48:14,360 --> 01:48:16,639
Speaker 3: Now that gets spread pretty quick.

2417
01:48:16,800 --> 01:48:19,679
Speaker 7: And dy Kalu and Andre Ware visiting on Texans Radio

2418
01:48:19,760 --> 01:48:21,560
Speaker 7: this week, and we're gonna have more of that conversation

2419
01:48:21,680 --> 01:48:25,280
Speaker 7: coming up, including stuff about the booth, stuff about Andre's

2420
01:48:25,360 --> 01:48:27,640
Speaker 7: high school career. Why did he choose football? He was

2421
01:48:27,720 --> 01:48:31,160
Speaker 7: drafted in baseball as well, also played basketball. Are all

2422
01:48:31,200 --> 01:48:34,280
Speaker 7: the kids playing three sports these days? No, most of

2423
01:48:34,360 --> 01:48:36,320
Speaker 7: them are not. We'll talk about all that stuff. It's

2424
01:48:36,360 --> 01:48:38,960
Speaker 7: coming up here on Texans Radio. Great to have you

2425
01:48:39,080 --> 01:48:42,160
Speaker 7: listening tonight to the Bonus hour of Texans Radio Friday night,

2426
01:48:42,200 --> 01:48:43,880
Speaker 7: eight o'clock hour. We go over some of the best

2427
01:48:43,960 --> 01:48:46,599
Speaker 7: content of the week and Andre Wear and dy Kloud's

2428
01:48:46,640 --> 01:48:50,560
Speaker 7: visit outstanding. Let's continue with some of that conversation with

2429
01:48:51,240 --> 01:48:54,639
Speaker 7: going back to Dickinson High School. Andre's high school career,

2430
01:48:54,800 --> 01:48:57,960
Speaker 7: drafted in baseball, played basketball.

2431
01:48:57,560 --> 01:48:59,920
Speaker 1: Obviously played a little football. Let's dig it.

2432
01:49:00,160 --> 01:49:02,000
Speaker 3: Mark wants to go way back. He was to go

2433
01:49:02,080 --> 01:49:02,839
Speaker 3: way back.

2434
01:49:03,680 --> 01:49:07,000
Speaker 7: Because I love these stories because, uh, Dickinson High School

2435
01:49:07,280 --> 01:49:09,800
Speaker 7: and you played for dub Ferris, that was your coach

2436
01:49:10,280 --> 01:49:12,679
Speaker 7: and when we did the morning show together from seven

2437
01:49:12,720 --> 01:49:14,960
Speaker 7: through oh nine, which, man, as I say that, it

2438
01:49:15,040 --> 01:49:17,360
Speaker 7: sounds like a long time ago down Dre, Oh my gosh,

2439
01:49:17,439 --> 01:49:19,200
Speaker 7: but it feels like ten minutes ago that we did that.

2440
01:49:19,280 --> 01:49:22,680
Speaker 3: Show eighteen years ago. Man, that's holy crap. And I

2441
01:49:22,760 --> 01:49:27,479
Speaker 3: remember listening to you everything. Yeah, that flies by you,

2442
01:49:27,600 --> 01:49:28,200
Speaker 3: but you you.

2443
01:49:28,240 --> 01:49:30,439
Speaker 7: Would impart and it was great. And I gotta say this,

2444
01:49:31,240 --> 01:49:34,439
Speaker 7: Dre was an excellent morning host. Excellent.

2445
01:49:35,080 --> 01:49:38,320
Speaker 3: So once I learned how to wake up, once you

2446
01:49:38,400 --> 01:49:38,960
Speaker 3: learned how to drink.

2447
01:49:39,240 --> 01:49:42,400
Speaker 6: Once I once I corrupted you with coffee, and I'm.

2448
01:49:42,240 --> 01:49:45,080
Speaker 3: Still drinking it to this. Sorry twenty something years later.

2449
01:49:45,240 --> 01:49:47,840
Speaker 7: Sorry, that's sorry, but I'm not I'm not just saying

2450
01:49:47,880 --> 01:49:50,760
Speaker 7: this because you're here. I just think that people got

2451
01:49:50,800 --> 01:49:52,640
Speaker 7: to know a different side of you, right, you know,

2452
01:49:52,720 --> 01:49:57,439
Speaker 7: they knew you as the Heisman Trophy winner, NFL guy broadcaster, great,

2453
01:49:57,560 --> 01:50:02,000
Speaker 7: great game broadcaster, national TV, Texans Radio great, but just

2454
01:50:02,080 --> 01:50:04,040
Speaker 7: being able to tell stories, you know, sit there for

2455
01:50:04,120 --> 01:50:07,080
Speaker 7: four hours a day and tell stories and Dub Ferris,

2456
01:50:07,120 --> 01:50:10,400
Speaker 7: your high school coach playing at Dickinson, the Gators, all

2457
01:50:10,520 --> 01:50:13,640
Speaker 7: that stuff. There were people calling and who remembered you

2458
01:50:13,760 --> 01:50:14,599
Speaker 7: from those days.

2459
01:50:15,000 --> 01:50:16,080
Speaker 1: But what would those.

2460
01:50:15,960 --> 01:50:19,800
Speaker 7: Days like playing high school ball there and Dickinson. They've

2461
01:50:20,000 --> 01:50:22,720
Speaker 7: kind of improved the facility since just a little bit, just.

2462
01:50:22,760 --> 01:50:23,240
Speaker 3: A little bit.

2463
01:50:23,600 --> 01:50:26,880
Speaker 16: No, it's it's fabulous and Dickinson will always be home

2464
01:50:26,960 --> 01:50:31,000
Speaker 16: for me. It's why, like I don't understand how guys

2465
01:50:31,120 --> 01:50:34,679
Speaker 16: transferred so much in college, because where do you call home,

2466
01:50:35,240 --> 01:50:38,080
Speaker 16: you know, after you played in eight places or however

2467
01:50:38,200 --> 01:50:39,240
Speaker 16: many they're playing now.

2468
01:50:39,640 --> 01:50:41,240
Speaker 3: But it's a special place for me.

2469
01:50:41,479 --> 01:50:44,679
Speaker 16: I got the chance to go to breakfast last week

2470
01:50:44,760 --> 01:50:47,439
Speaker 16: with Coach Ferris, and he and Miss Ferris, and we

2471
01:50:47,520 --> 01:50:50,040
Speaker 16: were in San Antonio, had a game that night, and

2472
01:50:50,160 --> 01:50:52,559
Speaker 16: we sat down and got I wish we had more time,

2473
01:50:52,680 --> 01:50:54,040
Speaker 16: you know. It was just one of those where I

2474
01:50:54,120 --> 01:50:58,080
Speaker 16: had a late morning zoom production meeting for the game

2475
01:50:58,200 --> 01:51:01,160
Speaker 16: that night and had had to zoom or get.

2476
01:51:01,040 --> 01:51:01,479
Speaker 3: Out of there.

2477
01:51:02,000 --> 01:51:06,479
Speaker 16: But he is as passionate about the game of football

2478
01:51:06,920 --> 01:51:11,360
Speaker 16: as as he's ever was. I wish that every young

2479
01:51:11,479 --> 01:51:14,800
Speaker 16: man that puts a helmet on will have the relationship

2480
01:51:15,160 --> 01:51:18,479
Speaker 16: that I have with my high school coach, because it's

2481
01:51:18,560 --> 01:51:22,559
Speaker 16: a special one in a sense that when I was young,

2482
01:51:22,760 --> 01:51:26,479
Speaker 16: he became kind of my father figure and he calls

2483
01:51:26,600 --> 01:51:27,120
Speaker 16: me his son.

2484
01:51:27,240 --> 01:51:29,559
Speaker 3: Now and I call him Dad and things of that sort.

2485
01:51:29,640 --> 01:51:32,360
Speaker 16: It's a deep relationship that you know, my father passed

2486
01:51:32,360 --> 01:51:34,439
Speaker 16: when I was six years old, So I learned a

2487
01:51:34,520 --> 01:51:37,599
Speaker 16: lot in a short period of time from him. From

2488
01:51:37,640 --> 01:51:40,160
Speaker 16: the time I met him in seventh grade, he had

2489
01:51:40,240 --> 01:51:43,240
Speaker 16: my attention. We came in as freshman and he sits

2490
01:51:43,320 --> 01:51:46,200
Speaker 16: us down on this mat where I've seen numerous guys

2491
01:51:46,280 --> 01:51:49,240
Speaker 16: throw up from off season workouts, and he tells me,

2492
01:51:49,600 --> 01:51:51,840
Speaker 16: tells all of us, it's either my way or I'm

2493
01:51:51,840 --> 01:51:53,600
Speaker 16: going to get you out of here, and if you

2494
01:51:53,640 --> 01:51:57,280
Speaker 16: want to play, you adapt. And I wish things were

2495
01:51:57,360 --> 01:52:00,800
Speaker 16: that more so that way. In today world you can't

2496
01:52:01,040 --> 01:52:03,960
Speaker 16: even talk to kids like that, And nowadays he'd run.

2497
01:52:03,840 --> 01:52:06,200
Speaker 3: You off for ear rings and things of that sort.

2498
01:52:06,280 --> 01:52:09,559
Speaker 16: And it was just he I think he's I forget

2499
01:52:09,600 --> 01:52:12,200
Speaker 16: the number that he told me in his first class

2500
01:52:12,400 --> 01:52:14,479
Speaker 16: that he had there, but by the time it may

2501
01:52:14,520 --> 01:52:17,280
Speaker 16: have been seventy something players, and by the time they

2502
01:52:17,360 --> 01:52:20,160
Speaker 16: got out of camp and offseason and he had twenty two.

2503
01:52:20,520 --> 01:52:24,240
Speaker 16: They went both ways and they were competitive, but that's

2504
01:52:24,280 --> 01:52:27,080
Speaker 16: the individual he was. So a lot of how I

2505
01:52:27,240 --> 01:52:30,400
Speaker 16: am is because of how he was and how I

2506
01:52:30,600 --> 01:52:31,400
Speaker 16: got it from him.

2507
01:52:31,880 --> 01:52:32,479
Speaker 3: He was tough.

2508
01:52:33,479 --> 01:52:36,280
Speaker 16: That's the way I coached. But he was fair and

2509
01:52:36,400 --> 01:52:40,320
Speaker 16: he always let you know up front what his expectations were.

2510
01:52:40,840 --> 01:52:43,439
Speaker 16: And so when coaches coached that way and they tell

2511
01:52:43,520 --> 01:52:45,880
Speaker 16: you and they're honest with you, and they're upfront with you,

2512
01:52:45,880 --> 01:52:48,320
Speaker 16: you can deal with it because now you know. Now

2513
01:52:48,320 --> 01:52:50,680
Speaker 16: I've got the blueprint, I know what I need to

2514
01:52:50,720 --> 01:52:54,080
Speaker 16: go do. But when you're dishonest, that's when players don't

2515
01:52:54,080 --> 01:52:56,880
Speaker 16: trust you and you have a lot of animosity in

2516
01:52:56,920 --> 01:53:01,160
Speaker 16: the locker room. But that was never that way for me, Dickinson.

2517
01:53:01,240 --> 01:53:04,360
Speaker 16: The way things turned out, I would not change one

2518
01:53:04,479 --> 01:53:08,800
Speaker 16: thing about how I grew up, how I played, how

2519
01:53:08,880 --> 01:53:11,360
Speaker 16: we won our lost games. It was an experience and

2520
01:53:11,400 --> 01:53:14,800
Speaker 16: I think you win, you gain more from losing, and

2521
01:53:14,920 --> 01:53:17,599
Speaker 16: you learn more from losing than you ever will winning

2522
01:53:18,040 --> 01:53:19,599
Speaker 16: because you won't change if you're winning.

2523
01:53:20,080 --> 01:53:20,880
Speaker 3: You know what's interesting.

2524
01:53:21,040 --> 01:53:23,120
Speaker 17: I'm on the outside looking in, but my sons have

2525
01:53:23,200 --> 01:53:26,200
Speaker 17: played against Dickinson, and I believe this started with your coach.

2526
01:53:26,320 --> 01:53:29,479
Speaker 17: The culture he said, I've left every time we've played Dickinson.

2527
01:53:29,479 --> 01:53:32,479
Speaker 17: It's been multiple times, thinking, God, dog, they're physical, they

2528
01:53:32,520 --> 01:53:36,080
Speaker 17: play hard, they play hard, they're physical, and they battle

2529
01:53:36,240 --> 01:53:39,040
Speaker 17: and as you're telling this story, I'm thinking, I bet

2530
01:53:39,120 --> 01:53:40,080
Speaker 17: you that's where it started.

2531
01:53:40,280 --> 01:53:42,040
Speaker 16: And he created that film the kind of laid the

2532
01:53:42,080 --> 01:53:45,639
Speaker 16: groundwork for that stuff. Coach Nelson is and here very

2533
01:53:45,720 --> 01:53:48,320
Speaker 16: close to this day as well. Coach Nelson I think

2534
01:53:48,479 --> 01:53:52,880
Speaker 16: is the head of the High School Coaches Association and

2535
01:53:52,960 --> 01:53:56,040
Speaker 16: they meet in San Antonio, I think every year. But

2536
01:53:57,240 --> 01:53:59,280
Speaker 16: you know, it's one of those things where if you

2537
01:53:59,400 --> 01:54:01,439
Speaker 16: go down there to play a game, you're gonna know

2538
01:54:01,520 --> 01:54:03,880
Speaker 16: you played in the football game. And they're they're a

2539
01:54:03,920 --> 01:54:07,080
Speaker 16: little bigger and faster than we were. But we were small,

2540
01:54:07,520 --> 01:54:10,759
Speaker 16: quick and tough, and that was that was how we played.

2541
01:54:11,040 --> 01:54:13,360
Speaker 7: So you played baseball, you played basketball too, right, and

2542
01:54:13,479 --> 01:54:15,360
Speaker 7: so you played all three sports.

2543
01:54:15,160 --> 01:54:16,960
Speaker 6: And ran track and ran track.

2544
01:54:17,320 --> 01:54:19,479
Speaker 3: So I would I would run a track meet on

2545
01:54:19,600 --> 01:54:22,639
Speaker 3: a Saturday morning and then that night go pitch. Oh

2546
01:54:22,720 --> 01:54:23,280
Speaker 3: my gosh.

2547
01:54:23,439 --> 01:54:26,160
Speaker 16: And it's it's crazy in today's world with all this.

2548
01:54:26,680 --> 01:54:29,639
Speaker 16: You know, you got to specialize in this specialization where

2549
01:54:29,920 --> 01:54:32,080
Speaker 16: you got to get down to one sport and that's

2550
01:54:32,120 --> 01:54:33,240
Speaker 16: the only one that you should.

2551
01:54:33,360 --> 01:54:34,240
Speaker 3: You should play.

2552
01:54:34,520 --> 01:54:38,040
Speaker 16: Every sport helps the other. Track helps with football, that's

2553
01:54:38,040 --> 01:54:41,040
Speaker 16: where you gain your speed. Basketball helps with hand and

2554
01:54:41,120 --> 01:54:44,040
Speaker 16: eye coordination, all of that stuff. So it's it's uh,

2555
01:54:44,680 --> 01:54:47,480
Speaker 16: I think it's a it's you're doing kids a disservice

2556
01:54:48,080 --> 01:54:50,600
Speaker 16: by not allowing them to play everything. And then you

2557
01:54:50,680 --> 01:54:52,440
Speaker 16: get to high school you figure out which one or

2558
01:54:52,480 --> 01:54:54,400
Speaker 16: two that that you want to play or if you

2559
01:54:54,440 --> 01:54:56,640
Speaker 16: want to keep doing what I did and played all

2560
01:54:56,800 --> 01:54:57,280
Speaker 16: play all.

2561
01:54:57,240 --> 01:54:58,320
Speaker 2: Four do it?

2562
01:54:58,840 --> 01:55:02,800
Speaker 7: Wow, well baseball you were really good at baseball and

2563
01:55:02,920 --> 01:55:03,640
Speaker 7: you were drafted.

2564
01:55:03,760 --> 01:55:07,800
Speaker 6: Yeah, so take us through that. How baseball worked for

2565
01:55:07,880 --> 01:55:10,720
Speaker 6: you getting drafted and you didn't consider it.

2566
01:55:10,920 --> 01:55:13,480
Speaker 16: I didn't even consider it because my mom said, hey,

2567
01:55:13,520 --> 01:55:15,240
Speaker 16: you're going to college. And it was a non it

2568
01:55:15,360 --> 01:55:18,840
Speaker 16: was a it was non negotiable. But I could throw

2569
01:55:18,880 --> 01:55:21,800
Speaker 16: it back. Then I could pitch. I played in the

2570
01:55:21,880 --> 01:55:25,720
Speaker 16: district that had really talented players in it. Randy Pryor

2571
01:55:26,080 --> 01:55:27,800
Speaker 16: went off to A and m Kirk dressing door for

2572
01:55:27,960 --> 01:55:31,320
Speaker 16: ended up in the A's rotation and when we played Parland,

2573
01:55:31,400 --> 01:55:33,880
Speaker 16: both of them played at Periland High School. When we

2574
01:55:34,040 --> 01:55:36,880
Speaker 16: played them, it was it was it was packed and

2575
01:55:37,000 --> 01:55:40,080
Speaker 16: a lot of scouts there. I remember the scout from

2576
01:55:40,120 --> 01:55:43,200
Speaker 16: the Dodgers at the time telling me that I'd run

2577
01:55:43,280 --> 01:55:46,120
Speaker 16: the fastest time from home to first that he that

2578
01:55:46,240 --> 01:55:49,720
Speaker 16: he timed at that point, and so baseball was my grandfather.

2579
01:55:49,920 --> 01:55:51,880
Speaker 16: If he God bless his soul, he would tell you

2580
01:55:52,040 --> 01:55:54,480
Speaker 16: to this day that he thought it would be baseball

2581
01:55:54,560 --> 01:55:56,919
Speaker 16: that I would play professionally.

2582
01:55:56,560 --> 01:55:57,200
Speaker 3: Not football.

2583
01:55:57,680 --> 01:56:00,800
Speaker 16: And I think football became one of those things where

2584
01:56:01,640 --> 01:56:06,480
Speaker 16: I wanted to play quarterback. I knew that it didn't

2585
01:56:06,520 --> 01:56:09,720
Speaker 16: have a long life, my lifeline, but I wanted to

2586
01:56:09,760 --> 01:56:12,720
Speaker 16: play it anyway. And so when I was a youngster

2587
01:56:12,840 --> 01:56:16,240
Speaker 16: in seventh grade, I loud talked my way into basically

2588
01:56:16,320 --> 01:56:19,000
Speaker 16: a tryout outside the coach's office. I said, God, I

2589
01:56:19,000 --> 01:56:21,320
Speaker 16: wish he would let me play quarterback, just to give

2590
01:56:21,360 --> 01:56:21,880
Speaker 16: me a shot.

2591
01:56:22,240 --> 01:56:22,840
Speaker 3: And he heard me.

2592
01:56:22,960 --> 01:56:25,600
Speaker 16: Coach Holmes heard me, and so the next day at

2593
01:56:25,680 --> 01:56:28,000
Speaker 16: practice he asked me to stay after and I was

2594
01:56:28,120 --> 01:56:29,360
Speaker 16: just like, oh damn, he's getting ready.

2595
01:56:29,600 --> 01:56:30,000
Speaker 3: He heard me.

2596
01:56:30,320 --> 01:56:32,240
Speaker 16: He's getting ready to run me to death. He just

2597
01:56:32,320 --> 01:56:34,800
Speaker 16: wanted to see me throw. And after that he moved

2598
01:56:34,800 --> 01:56:37,720
Speaker 16: me to quarterback. That was kind of the really yeah,

2599
01:56:38,120 --> 01:56:40,480
Speaker 16: But I was set to play at U of H.

2600
01:56:41,040 --> 01:56:44,800
Speaker 16: I broke my arm my freshman year, so obviously I

2601
01:56:44,840 --> 01:56:46,320
Speaker 16: had to get I was there to play football. I

2602
01:56:46,360 --> 01:56:48,440
Speaker 16: had to get my spot back and went through the

2603
01:56:48,520 --> 01:56:50,320
Speaker 16: spring rather than playing baseball that spring.

2604
01:56:50,520 --> 01:56:52,360
Speaker 17: Let me ask you that. Obviously, we grew up in

2605
01:56:52,400 --> 01:56:54,520
Speaker 17: two different areas. I grew up in San Antonio, you're

2606
01:56:54,520 --> 01:56:57,200
Speaker 17: in Dickinson. But like you, I'm a multiple sport guy,

2607
01:56:57,800 --> 01:57:00,880
Speaker 17: track basketball, but baseball was never even on my radar,

2608
01:57:01,200 --> 01:57:03,920
Speaker 17: So like, how was it introduced to you? And you know,

2609
01:57:03,960 --> 01:57:06,360
Speaker 17: I don't want to make this controversial bit. I always

2610
01:57:06,400 --> 01:57:06,680
Speaker 17: loved it.

2611
01:57:06,720 --> 01:57:08,960
Speaker 16: We played what was it stickball or whatever with a

2612
01:57:09,040 --> 01:57:11,840
Speaker 16: tennis ball and a bat and growing up and I

2613
01:57:12,280 --> 01:57:14,600
Speaker 16: loved it so much that I would talk guys into

2614
01:57:15,440 --> 01:57:17,600
Speaker 16: playing me two on one where you had one base

2615
01:57:17,680 --> 01:57:19,680
Speaker 16: and I tried. You know, if I got them out,

2616
01:57:19,680 --> 01:57:21,880
Speaker 16: I would bat. You know, I would never get out

2617
01:57:21,960 --> 01:57:25,360
Speaker 16: because they couldn't catch me. And it just became a

2618
01:57:25,480 --> 01:57:27,360
Speaker 16: love when I was For me at about the age

2619
01:57:27,360 --> 01:57:30,400
Speaker 16: of eight, when I started playing, and my grandparents would

2620
01:57:30,400 --> 01:57:33,520
Speaker 16: take me to games for practice, I had two coaches

2621
01:57:33,600 --> 01:57:38,160
Speaker 16: that would pick me up. Jim and Matt Baker were

2622
01:57:38,240 --> 01:57:41,600
Speaker 16: my little league baseball coaches. My second year, they moved

2623
01:57:41,640 --> 01:57:43,840
Speaker 16: me up. We had a it was a tear system,

2624
01:57:43,920 --> 01:57:47,000
Speaker 16: the American Texas and National League. I went from the

2625
01:57:47,040 --> 01:57:50,200
Speaker 16: American League playing my first year on the machine to

2626
01:57:50,320 --> 01:57:53,360
Speaker 16: the National League where you just skip right over the

2627
01:57:53,400 --> 01:57:55,360
Speaker 16: league and you're you're in the best of the best.

2628
01:57:55,640 --> 01:57:57,680
Speaker 16: And I played in that league for three straight years.

2629
01:57:58,040 --> 01:58:02,280
Speaker 16: That's where my taste for baseball all came from. And

2630
01:58:03,320 --> 01:58:05,040
Speaker 16: they would put me on the back of a truck,

2631
01:58:05,520 --> 01:58:07,480
Speaker 16: pick me up, take me to practice, put me on

2632
01:58:07,600 --> 01:58:09,920
Speaker 16: that same truck, bring me back home. I jump off,

2633
01:58:10,320 --> 01:58:12,840
Speaker 16: thank them, and do the same thing the next day.

2634
01:58:13,200 --> 01:58:16,280
Speaker 16: And so that's why to this day, if kids need

2635
01:58:16,360 --> 01:58:21,160
Speaker 16: a ride that play for me, I what's it called,

2636
01:58:22,880 --> 01:58:26,080
Speaker 16: I reciprocate, I pay it forward, I go back and

2637
01:58:26,760 --> 01:58:29,520
Speaker 16: uh and hopefully they will do the same thing for

2638
01:58:29,640 --> 01:58:33,280
Speaker 16: some kid once they become coaches or they're influential in

2639
01:58:33,360 --> 01:58:36,800
Speaker 16: a kid's life. But that's how that's why I do it,

2640
01:58:36,880 --> 01:58:38,800
Speaker 16: and that's why I do some of the things I

2641
01:58:38,920 --> 01:58:39,960
Speaker 16: do for the kids that play for.

2642
01:58:40,000 --> 01:58:42,120
Speaker 3: You brought up a memory we don't see.

2643
01:58:42,280 --> 01:58:45,120
Speaker 17: I used to have a coach, Coach Washington, pick us

2644
01:58:45,200 --> 01:58:47,200
Speaker 17: up for a track and we had like eight people

2645
01:58:47,240 --> 01:58:49,480
Speaker 17: in the back of a pickup going across town.

2646
01:58:49,640 --> 01:58:52,920
Speaker 3: And we don't even think about it, but I've that

2647
01:58:53,080 --> 01:58:56,000
Speaker 3: you get a big ticket as long as you put together.

2648
01:58:56,840 --> 01:58:58,680
Speaker 3: If somebody's riding in the back.

2649
01:58:58,880 --> 01:59:02,120
Speaker 17: But it was so normal back then, like people literally

2650
01:59:02,120 --> 01:59:03,600
Speaker 17: there'll be like eight of us in the back of

2651
01:59:03,640 --> 01:59:05,720
Speaker 17: a pick up, not even thinking what you're doing.

2652
01:59:06,120 --> 01:59:08,839
Speaker 16: All the time a truck and let's go to Galveston.

2653
01:59:08,920 --> 01:59:11,080
Speaker 16: We jump in the back. You're riding next to us,

2654
01:59:11,200 --> 01:59:12,000
Speaker 16: a police.

2655
01:59:11,720 --> 01:59:14,480
Speaker 3: Officer way back and keep going.

2656
01:59:15,000 --> 01:59:17,480
Speaker 17: So I wonder when, I wonder when I'll google this

2657
01:59:17,600 --> 01:59:19,280
Speaker 17: after the show when it became a law that you

2658
01:59:19,320 --> 01:59:22,280
Speaker 17: couldn't do it, because that was just the norm. It

2659
01:59:22,360 --> 01:59:23,400
Speaker 17: was like, Oh, I got to pick up so I

2660
01:59:23,440 --> 01:59:26,240
Speaker 17: could take ten people. Okay, eight of y'all are fitting.

2661
01:59:26,000 --> 01:59:26,320
Speaker 3: In the back.

2662
01:59:26,320 --> 01:59:27,840
Speaker 6: I don't think I put on a seatbelt till I

2663
01:59:27,880 --> 01:59:28,520
Speaker 6: was twenty five.

2664
01:59:28,840 --> 01:59:30,480
Speaker 3: You know, I probably still.

2665
01:59:31,840 --> 01:59:35,960
Speaker 16: My son is reminded me that, yeah, yeah, And I

2666
01:59:36,120 --> 01:59:38,800
Speaker 16: know I know exactly how many times it will do

2667
01:59:38,920 --> 01:59:41,520
Speaker 16: it and how long it actually does it ten seconds

2668
01:59:41,880 --> 01:59:44,160
Speaker 16: and then once it stops, it'll it's ten seconds off.

2669
01:59:44,240 --> 01:59:46,720
Speaker 16: Then it'll come back. After about four times of that,

2670
01:59:47,160 --> 01:59:49,480
Speaker 16: it's it'll shut off. So I just have to get

2671
01:59:49,520 --> 01:59:51,240
Speaker 16: through the first four four deans.

2672
01:59:51,240 --> 01:59:53,120
Speaker 7: Now I feel naked without it, though, it's like I

2673
01:59:53,200 --> 01:59:54,720
Speaker 7: gotta put it out. I don't know, it's strange.

2674
01:59:54,760 --> 01:59:57,400
Speaker 17: Well, we talked about dre playing baseball. Mark, have you

2675
01:59:57,440 --> 01:59:58,560
Speaker 17: ever called baseball games?

2676
01:59:58,760 --> 01:59:58,960
Speaker 3: Yeah?

2677
01:59:58,960 --> 02:00:02,440
Speaker 17: I have when I for me and I became a

2678
02:00:02,480 --> 02:00:04,800
Speaker 17: big baseball fan maybe eight years ago when I had

2679
02:00:04,840 --> 02:00:08,400
Speaker 17: my radio show and I read Joe Morgan's book Baseball

2680
02:00:08,440 --> 02:00:10,440
Speaker 17: for Dummies, And once I learned about the games within

2681
02:00:10,520 --> 02:00:11,760
Speaker 17: the game, I really appreciated it.

2682
02:00:12,000 --> 02:00:13,800
Speaker 6: So you tell me you're an Astros front runner.

2683
02:00:15,360 --> 02:00:15,560
Speaker 2: Big.

2684
02:00:16,200 --> 02:00:18,760
Speaker 17: So when I listened to the games on the radio,

2685
02:00:19,160 --> 02:00:21,920
Speaker 17: I love how they're just literally having a conversation, like, really,

2686
02:00:22,640 --> 02:00:23,240
Speaker 17: is it tougher?

2687
02:00:23,440 --> 02:00:25,879
Speaker 3: Is it easier calling baseball versus football?

2688
02:00:25,920 --> 02:00:28,480
Speaker 6: I think it's a lot harder in many ways. I

2689
02:00:28,600 --> 02:00:29,960
Speaker 6: love calling a lot.

2690
02:00:29,840 --> 02:00:34,440
Speaker 3: Of field time, a lot of film between pitches, between

2691
02:00:34,520 --> 02:00:35,120
Speaker 3: that bats.

2692
02:00:35,280 --> 02:00:36,360
Speaker 6: I've never done Major League.

2693
02:00:36,360 --> 02:00:38,600
Speaker 7: Okay, I did the Hurricanes. We won the National Championship

2694
02:00:38,640 --> 02:00:40,440
Speaker 7: in O one. I was able to call those games.

2695
02:00:40,960 --> 02:00:44,080
Speaker 7: And college is different because it feels like every count

2696
02:00:44,160 --> 02:00:47,440
Speaker 7: goes full, you know, and the plink of the aluminum bat.

2697
02:00:47,560 --> 02:00:51,560
Speaker 7: It's not as romantic a radio sport as Major League Baseball.

2698
02:00:51,840 --> 02:00:54,600
Speaker 7: The wooden bat, the sound of the wooden bat versus

2699
02:00:54,800 --> 02:00:58,760
Speaker 7: plink of the aluminum bat just changes the dynamics of

2700
02:00:58,840 --> 02:01:01,000
Speaker 7: that being a radio sport. Now, you're right, it is

2701
02:01:01,120 --> 02:01:04,440
Speaker 7: a big conversation and a lot of nothing happens, but

2702
02:01:04,520 --> 02:01:06,839
Speaker 7: then all of a sudden, all hell breaks loose. Baseball's

2703
02:01:06,840 --> 02:01:08,360
Speaker 7: where all of a sudden, the ball's over here, and

2704
02:01:08,600 --> 02:01:11,960
Speaker 7: it's the one sport where as the announcer you have

2705
02:01:12,240 --> 02:01:14,520
Speaker 7: to take your eye off the ball. Every other sport

2706
02:01:14,560 --> 02:01:16,400
Speaker 7: that I call, you cannot take.

2707
02:01:16,280 --> 02:01:18,800
Speaker 1: Your eye off the ball. But baseball you have to

2708
02:01:18,880 --> 02:01:20,280
Speaker 1: look who's rounding third?

2709
02:01:20,360 --> 02:01:22,240
Speaker 7: Here comes the throw? Are they gonna you know, you

2710
02:01:22,400 --> 02:01:25,240
Speaker 7: have to look at what's happening with the dynamics. And

2711
02:01:25,400 --> 02:01:27,560
Speaker 7: it's it's weird for me because I didn't grow up

2712
02:01:27,600 --> 02:01:30,160
Speaker 7: playing it or watching it. So a long story there,

2713
02:01:30,600 --> 02:01:33,560
Speaker 7: so it's not for a lot of guys. It's part

2714
02:01:33,600 --> 02:01:37,839
Speaker 7: of their DNA. It's really the Shakespeare of radio sports.

2715
02:01:37,960 --> 02:01:38,840
Speaker 1: I mean, it is a.

2716
02:01:39,240 --> 02:01:42,800
Speaker 6: Great radio sports storyte Yeah, but I love Andy.

2717
02:01:42,880 --> 02:01:44,560
Speaker 7: There's nothing like being on the air with this guy

2718
02:01:44,600 --> 02:01:46,960
Speaker 7: on a Sunday afternoon, and it's just it feels like.

2719
02:01:47,240 --> 02:01:48,160
Speaker 16: War, you know.

2720
02:01:48,640 --> 02:01:52,000
Speaker 7: There it is, it's the battle and everything is fever pitch,

2721
02:01:52,120 --> 02:01:54,840
Speaker 7: Oh my gosh, lives hang in the balance.

2722
02:01:55,320 --> 02:01:55,960
Speaker 1: It's huge.

2723
02:01:56,360 --> 02:02:01,240
Speaker 7: I can't shake that feeling it's too big to ignore,

2724
02:02:01,440 --> 02:02:03,000
Speaker 7: you know, and even though we only get to do

2725
02:02:03,120 --> 02:02:06,320
Speaker 7: twenty of them a year, plus playoffs preferably, it just

2726
02:02:06,400 --> 02:02:08,680
Speaker 7: feels like there's no way I would drop that. There's

2727
02:02:08,920 --> 02:02:11,879
Speaker 7: no way I would let the event of the NFL

2728
02:02:12,000 --> 02:02:13,320
Speaker 7: Weekly game go away.

2729
02:02:13,920 --> 02:02:15,240
Speaker 6: It's just too big, it's too good.

2730
02:02:15,280 --> 02:02:17,160
Speaker 17: I think I've told you this before, Mark, but I

2731
02:02:17,160 --> 02:02:19,800
Speaker 17: haven't told Andre. And we all know teenagers are in

2732
02:02:19,880 --> 02:02:22,440
Speaker 17: their own world. But one day we're driving back, so

2733
02:02:22,480 --> 02:02:25,000
Speaker 17: we're listening to y'all during the Texan game, and my

2734
02:02:25,160 --> 02:02:28,400
Speaker 17: teenage son said, man, just out of the blue, Man,

2735
02:02:28,440 --> 02:02:30,360
Speaker 17: they do a good job. I feel like I'm seeing

2736
02:02:30,440 --> 02:02:30,840
Speaker 17: the game.

2737
02:02:31,120 --> 02:02:31,560
Speaker 3: Oh wow.

2738
02:02:32,360 --> 02:02:38,240
Speaker 17: And I said, oh wow, like you actually said something profound. Yeah, exactly, exactly.

2739
02:02:38,280 --> 02:02:41,880
Speaker 17: Appreciate that, no doubt, because you know it. In radio,

2740
02:02:41,960 --> 02:02:43,920
Speaker 17: all you're trying to do is paint the picture. Yeah,

2741
02:02:44,040 --> 02:02:48,680
Speaker 17: And it's the why it happened. From my aspect, He's

2742
02:02:48,760 --> 02:02:51,800
Speaker 17: the setup guy, and I'm there to tell why certain

2743
02:02:51,880 --> 02:02:54,200
Speaker 17: things happen and when they happen. And it's been a

2744
02:02:54,480 --> 02:02:59,200
Speaker 17: great twenty three year crush between us and I look

2745
02:02:59,280 --> 02:03:02,000
Speaker 17: forward to another. You canna be around twenty three more years.

2746
02:03:02,320 --> 02:03:09,000
Speaker 7: Hell, yeah, wheel, I'm going I'm going out on a gurney.

2747
02:03:09,320 --> 02:03:11,040
Speaker 16: Yeah, I'm gonna need one of those little things with

2748
02:03:11,120 --> 02:03:13,879
Speaker 16: wheels and to give me to give me to the elevator.

2749
02:03:13,960 --> 02:03:16,240
Speaker 7: I like it it to like, I'll tell you what's

2750
02:03:16,280 --> 02:03:18,520
Speaker 7: going on, and then Trey's just gonna fill in all

2751
02:03:18,600 --> 02:03:20,320
Speaker 7: the Like if it's a painting, I'm just got I

2752
02:03:20,400 --> 02:03:22,800
Speaker 7: got the pencil, sketch and he's gonna paint brush all

2753
02:03:22,840 --> 02:03:25,400
Speaker 7: the colors in there and make it pretty and tell you,

2754
02:03:25,600 --> 02:03:27,320
Speaker 7: you know, show you exactly how it is.

2755
02:03:27,960 --> 02:03:29,560
Speaker 6: And uh, and that's our goal, you know.

2756
02:03:29,680 --> 02:03:32,200
Speaker 7: But we've always I think we had chemistry from the

2757
02:03:32,360 --> 02:03:35,680
Speaker 7: very beginning, and it's only you know, it's years that

2758
02:03:35,760 --> 02:03:36,920
Speaker 7: we're like an old married couple.

2759
02:03:37,040 --> 02:03:39,400
Speaker 1: Now it's like I know, okay, you go ahead, I'll

2760
02:03:39,440 --> 02:03:42,000
Speaker 1: go ahead. It's just it's a great way.

2761
02:03:42,200 --> 02:03:43,840
Speaker 3: Every blue moon, I'll step on it.

2762
02:03:44,200 --> 02:03:47,320
Speaker 16: But I knew right away that to kind of stay

2763
02:03:47,360 --> 02:03:50,880
Speaker 16: in my lane, you know, fig figure out his voice

2764
02:03:50,960 --> 02:03:53,160
Speaker 16: inflections and when he's wrapping up. And that's the thing

2765
02:03:53,200 --> 02:03:56,600
Speaker 16: about a relationship like like this and working with a

2766
02:03:56,640 --> 02:03:58,680
Speaker 16: guy for a long time, you got to kind of

2767
02:03:58,720 --> 02:04:00,920
Speaker 16: figure out what he does, what he likes to do

2768
02:04:01,040 --> 02:04:04,040
Speaker 16: when he's gonna rap his thoughts before you get dive

2769
02:04:04,200 --> 02:04:06,520
Speaker 16: right in and a lot of guys get excited and

2770
02:04:06,640 --> 02:04:08,880
Speaker 16: caught up in the game, and all of a sudden

2771
02:04:08,880 --> 02:04:10,760
Speaker 16: you hear him stepping on each other all the time.

2772
02:04:11,200 --> 02:04:13,560
Speaker 16: But we've never had really had that problem. I've done

2773
02:04:13,600 --> 02:04:16,400
Speaker 16: it in excite out of excitement a couple of times.

2774
02:04:16,480 --> 02:04:18,480
Speaker 7: But I do like it when he adds something though,

2775
02:04:18,600 --> 02:04:21,520
Speaker 7: like that, like put them back of the trunk last

2776
02:04:22,200 --> 02:04:26,120
Speaker 7: right around this, Remember, I mean, it's good, It's good

2777
02:04:26,160 --> 02:04:30,320
Speaker 7: here Dred the very first touchdown in Texans history, David Carter,

2778
02:04:30,440 --> 02:04:30,960
Speaker 7: Billy Miller.

2779
02:04:31,400 --> 02:04:33,920
Speaker 6: You hear Dre goo like he just he does.

2780
02:04:34,160 --> 02:04:37,080
Speaker 7: He makes a sound, and there's something beautiful about that,

2781
02:04:37,360 --> 02:04:41,640
Speaker 7: like the emotion of it. And this week Mixing runs

2782
02:04:41,680 --> 02:04:45,800
Speaker 7: for the first down and Dre's like ball gape and

2783
02:04:45,880 --> 02:04:48,400
Speaker 7: it's just perfect, you know, that little that little accent.

2784
02:04:48,560 --> 02:04:50,960
Speaker 7: You know, it's just I look at the aesthetics of

2785
02:04:51,040 --> 02:04:52,960
Speaker 7: this whole thing. Anyway, All right, there it is some

2786
02:04:53,080 --> 02:04:56,120
Speaker 7: of our conversation with Indy Kalu and Andre where this

2787
02:04:56,400 --> 02:05:00,520
Speaker 7: week now David Fletcher, general manager of the Kinders Texas Bowl,

2788
02:05:00,560 --> 02:05:03,000
Speaker 7: coming up, talking about the new sponsor and everything else

2789
02:05:03,440 --> 02:05:06,320
Speaker 7: bowl wise, because it's happening on New Year's Eve. You

2790
02:05:06,360 --> 02:05:07,920
Speaker 7: don't want to miss that. It's going to be a

2791
02:05:08,040 --> 02:05:10,600
Speaker 7: daytime game on New Year's Eve. They'll give you all

2792
02:05:10,640 --> 02:05:13,080
Speaker 7: the details. It's coming up next on Texans All Access.

2793
02:05:14,360 --> 02:05:17,320
Speaker 7: The final segment of the show is about football, but

2794
02:05:17,360 --> 02:05:20,040
Speaker 7: it's college football, not the Texans who are on a pie,

2795
02:05:20,120 --> 02:05:24,440
Speaker 7: of course, but something very Texans related. Because the Texas

2796
02:05:24,560 --> 02:05:28,200
Speaker 7: Bowl has been such a great thing over the years,

2797
02:05:28,280 --> 02:05:31,360
Speaker 7: one of the best bowls out there that I guess

2798
02:05:31,400 --> 02:05:36,000
Speaker 7: we used to say the highest attended non BCS bowl.

2799
02:05:36,280 --> 02:05:39,640
Speaker 7: There are all these other statistics relaying how successful this

2800
02:05:39,760 --> 02:05:43,840
Speaker 7: Bowl has been, and this Bowl has constantly been recognized

2801
02:05:43,880 --> 02:05:47,160
Speaker 7: as having the best Bowl Week event the Rodeo Bowl. Anyway,

2802
02:05:47,200 --> 02:05:49,839
Speaker 7: why am I talking about it? David Fletcher, general manager

2803
02:05:49,880 --> 02:05:52,040
Speaker 7: of the Bowl for a long time now, visited with

2804
02:05:52,160 --> 02:05:55,480
Speaker 7: John Harris this week and they talked about the new sponsor.

2805
02:05:55,560 --> 02:05:58,720
Speaker 7: It's the Kinders Texas Bowl right now. What's Kinders about?

2806
02:05:58,920 --> 02:06:01,880
Speaker 1: What is the bull likely to have this year?

2807
02:06:02,120 --> 02:06:05,280
Speaker 7: Well, you're gonna find out on Sunday afternoon. David Fletcher

2808
02:06:05,320 --> 02:06:06,240
Speaker 7: will tell you all about that.

2809
02:06:06,840 --> 02:06:08,360
Speaker 18: We have spent a lot of time this year with

2810
02:06:08,440 --> 02:06:12,160
Speaker 18: our partners at ESPN in trying to find since since

2811
02:06:12,280 --> 02:06:18,280
Speaker 18: Tax Act moved on. And so you can officially introduce

2812
02:06:18,840 --> 02:06:24,360
Speaker 18: as the executive director of the Kinders Texas Bowl. Very

2813
02:06:24,480 --> 02:06:29,520
Speaker 18: excited to welcome Kinders, one of the leading sauce and

2814
02:06:29,600 --> 02:06:33,120
Speaker 18: seasoning companies in the United States, as our new title sponsor,

2815
02:06:33,360 --> 02:06:38,560
Speaker 18: officially announced today. And boy, Johnny, I cannot think of

2816
02:06:38,680 --> 02:06:42,080
Speaker 18: a better complimentary partner.

2817
02:06:43,440 --> 02:06:46,240
Speaker 3: Than partner. But just like the.

2818
02:06:46,400 --> 02:06:50,960
Speaker 18: Idea of tailgating and food and the passion that runs

2819
02:06:51,040 --> 02:06:53,280
Speaker 18: deep for football and food in this city, and to

2820
02:06:53,400 --> 02:06:57,280
Speaker 18: have a premium brand like Kinders that can enhance that

2821
02:06:57,440 --> 02:07:01,360
Speaker 18: experience out here come December thirty first and beyond, this's

2822
02:07:01,360 --> 02:07:02,680
Speaker 18: gonna be a lot of fun fletch.

2823
02:07:02,880 --> 02:07:05,040
Speaker 2: So you and I haven't had a chance to talk

2824
02:07:05,080 --> 02:07:07,320
Speaker 2: because we've been kind of, you know, missiles in the night.

2825
02:07:07,400 --> 02:07:11,720
Speaker 1: We're all over the place. And it was on Tuesday

2826
02:07:11,760 --> 02:07:13,520
Speaker 1: when Nikossari was doing his press conference.

2827
02:07:13,560 --> 02:07:15,600
Speaker 2: I looked over on the far side and I could

2828
02:07:15,640 --> 02:07:18,440
Speaker 2: see these big black canisters.

2829
02:07:18,480 --> 02:07:21,760
Speaker 1: They look like the buckets you get from like home

2830
02:07:21,840 --> 02:07:23,080
Speaker 1: Depot that you do work with.

2831
02:07:23,840 --> 02:07:26,080
Speaker 2: And I look over there and I'm like, I can't

2832
02:07:26,280 --> 02:07:28,680
Speaker 2: I can't tell I didn't want to go walking over there,

2833
02:07:28,680 --> 02:07:30,680
Speaker 2: and I'm like, what are these buckets? Well, then we

2834
02:07:31,000 --> 02:07:34,000
Speaker 2: had Nick coming studio for his interview, went back out

2835
02:07:34,000 --> 02:07:34,760
Speaker 2: of the buckets were gone.

2836
02:07:34,760 --> 02:07:36,320
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, dang, I wonder what that was.

2837
02:07:36,720 --> 02:07:39,640
Speaker 2: And then I saw this little card sitting on one

2838
02:07:39,680 --> 02:07:42,200
Speaker 2: of the tables and it just sat on behalf of

2839
02:07:42,240 --> 02:07:45,600
Speaker 2: the Texas Bowl. Lon Star Sports Entertainment and ESPN Events,

2840
02:07:46,080 --> 02:07:48,640
Speaker 2: we are thrilled to announce Kinders as the new title

2841
02:07:48,680 --> 02:07:52,440
Speaker 2: sponsor of the twenty twenty four Kinders Texas Bowl. And

2842
02:07:52,560 --> 02:07:55,800
Speaker 2: I was like, Oh, that's what that was and it

2843
02:07:55,880 --> 02:07:58,080
Speaker 2: was black bands. So first of all, hey, can I

2844
02:07:58,120 --> 02:07:59,440
Speaker 2: get one of those black bands because I got a

2845
02:07:59,440 --> 02:08:02,400
Speaker 2: feeling that they're probably filled with seasonings and rubs and

2846
02:08:02,440 --> 02:08:03,520
Speaker 2: everything that Kinders has.

2847
02:08:05,120 --> 02:08:07,200
Speaker 1: Two, how did this come about?

2848
02:08:07,440 --> 02:08:09,600
Speaker 2: Because I'm always I'm always intrigued, you know, I am

2849
02:08:09,680 --> 02:08:12,640
Speaker 2: about coming of the Bull process, everything that goes with

2850
02:08:12,720 --> 02:08:14,600
Speaker 2: the bull, the bull swag, all that kind of stuff.

2851
02:08:14,920 --> 02:08:18,320
Speaker 2: You know, I'm always intrigued with this tax had Tax

2852
02:08:18,400 --> 02:08:19,960
Speaker 2: Act had been the sponsor for a couple of years.

2853
02:08:20,040 --> 02:08:22,280
Speaker 2: We've had Academy for a couple of years. Now Kinders

2854
02:08:22,400 --> 02:08:24,680
Speaker 2: gets on board. How did this all kind of come

2855
02:08:24,760 --> 02:08:25,680
Speaker 2: to be if you will.

2856
02:08:25,760 --> 02:08:28,840
Speaker 18: Yeah, well let me answer your first question absolutely, Yes,

2857
02:08:29,040 --> 02:08:31,200
Speaker 18: buckets for you and buckets for many.

2858
02:08:31,520 --> 02:08:31,640
Speaker 3: Yes.

2859
02:08:31,760 --> 02:08:35,640
Speaker 18: Look, the this is a really unique and a really

2860
02:08:35,760 --> 02:08:38,480
Speaker 18: fun opportunity to be a part of. From from our chair,

2861
02:08:38,920 --> 02:08:42,520
Speaker 18: you know, we worked with our partners at ESPN to

2862
02:08:43,280 --> 02:08:47,520
Speaker 18: really try and find a fit around our Texas Bowl

2863
02:08:47,680 --> 02:08:52,560
Speaker 18: entitlement that just enhanced the experience for everybody involved. And

2864
02:08:52,640 --> 02:08:55,360
Speaker 18: as I mentioned in the outset, the passion that Kinders

2865
02:08:55,400 --> 02:08:59,320
Speaker 18: has for food seventy five years of making the best

2866
02:09:00,280 --> 02:09:03,640
Speaker 18: and spices out there is something that is very evident

2867
02:09:03,720 --> 02:09:07,240
Speaker 18: and will be very complementary to the experience that you

2868
02:09:07,360 --> 02:09:10,840
Speaker 18: see around college football. For Kinders, this is a really

2869
02:09:10,960 --> 02:09:14,560
Speaker 18: unique opportunity for them. A major sauce and seasoning brand,

2870
02:09:14,760 --> 02:09:19,440
Speaker 18: really a challenger brand that's built an incredible base of

2871
02:09:19,960 --> 02:09:24,000
Speaker 18: loyal and passionate followers, the number two brand in the

2872
02:09:24,080 --> 02:09:26,879
Speaker 18: country in sauces and seasoning. So they're looking to continue

2873
02:09:26,920 --> 02:09:31,160
Speaker 18: to grow and this is their first major national sponsorship.

2874
02:09:31,240 --> 02:09:34,280
Speaker 18: They're targeting college football, and with good reason. We know

2875
02:09:34,400 --> 02:09:37,120
Speaker 18: how important tailgating is to that culture. We know how

2876
02:09:37,160 --> 02:09:42,120
Speaker 18: important is to whether you're homegating or tailgating. You want

2877
02:09:42,160 --> 02:09:44,600
Speaker 18: your game day to be at the top, and having

2878
02:09:44,640 --> 02:09:47,400
Speaker 18: a partner like Kinders that can help enhance that experience

2879
02:09:47,440 --> 02:09:50,320
Speaker 18: is something that's gonna be really cool. College football is

2880
02:09:50,360 --> 02:09:53,440
Speaker 18: where they're going, and you saw it as part of

2881
02:09:53,480 --> 02:09:56,839
Speaker 18: the announcement. They are also the official sauce and seasoning

2882
02:09:56,920 --> 02:09:59,960
Speaker 18: of the College Football Playoff. They're working on a significant

2883
02:10:00,080 --> 02:10:04,320
Speaker 18: and have a significant media profile multimedia rights deal with

2884
02:10:04,600 --> 02:10:06,040
Speaker 18: ESPN as.

2885
02:10:05,960 --> 02:10:07,080
Speaker 3: Part of this relationship.

2886
02:10:07,520 --> 02:10:09,760
Speaker 18: So as this was all coming together, you got a

2887
02:10:09,840 --> 02:10:12,960
Speaker 18: real opportunity to to work with a brand that's creative,

2888
02:10:13,000 --> 02:10:16,320
Speaker 18: that's innovative, that's trying to you know, build their niche,

2889
02:10:16,560 --> 02:10:19,440
Speaker 18: trying to grow them their their brand, and using the

2890
02:10:19,560 --> 02:10:23,240
Speaker 18: platforms of college football some big ones at that to

2891
02:10:23,360 --> 02:10:23,600
Speaker 18: do it.

2892
02:10:24,120 --> 02:10:25,240
Speaker 3: We're really excited.

2893
02:10:25,400 --> 02:10:27,800
Speaker 18: This is a multi year relationship and it's one that

2894
02:10:28,240 --> 02:10:30,520
Speaker 18: you know, we're just beginning, but it's one that we

2895
02:10:30,680 --> 02:10:34,560
Speaker 18: already feel will will really, as I said, create a

2896
02:10:34,760 --> 02:10:39,920
Speaker 18: complementary experience, an enhanced experience for fans at our game

2897
02:10:40,000 --> 02:10:43,080
Speaker 18: and at college football tailgates all throughout the next few seasons.

2898
02:10:43,240 --> 02:10:45,760
Speaker 1: I like that we're homegating too. Was good and I've

2899
02:10:45,800 --> 02:10:47,680
Speaker 1: not heard that before. That's pretty good.

2900
02:10:47,760 --> 02:10:47,920
Speaker 10: You know.

2901
02:10:48,560 --> 02:10:52,280
Speaker 2: Stuff over here, Executive director of the Kinders Texas Pol

2902
02:10:52,360 --> 02:10:57,800
Speaker 2: David Fletcher here with me, fletch. The title sponsor is

2903
02:10:57,920 --> 02:11:00,120
Speaker 2: obviously it was a big deal. I mean and I

2904
02:11:00,240 --> 02:11:02,120
Speaker 2: talked and probably a couple weeks ago and to say,

2905
02:11:02,120 --> 02:11:04,120
Speaker 2: hey man, let's get out talk some college football and

2906
02:11:04,160 --> 02:11:06,879
Speaker 2: goes and you told me, well, we got the announcement

2907
02:11:07,000 --> 02:11:09,720
Speaker 2: coming up, I think for a title sponsor. So let's

2908
02:11:09,720 --> 02:11:11,480
Speaker 2: wait a couple of weeks. You were dead on it

2909
02:11:11,600 --> 02:11:15,839
Speaker 2: happens this week. Congratulations for that. But you also announced

2910
02:11:15,840 --> 02:11:18,920
Speaker 2: that there's more stuff that's happening with the Bowl game

2911
02:11:19,080 --> 02:11:22,200
Speaker 2: in and around music concerts. Because one of the things

2912
02:11:22,240 --> 02:11:24,240
Speaker 2: that I love about what you've done with the Bowl

2913
02:11:24,680 --> 02:11:27,040
Speaker 2: is you've made it more than just the sixty minute

2914
02:11:27,040 --> 02:11:28,560
Speaker 2: football game. And you know how I am a football

2915
02:11:28,600 --> 02:11:30,640
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you know, I love about six minut football

2916
02:11:30,800 --> 02:11:32,560
Speaker 2: all the other stuff. Kind of like all right, but

2917
02:11:32,840 --> 02:11:36,160
Speaker 2: you've put so much into the events that go into

2918
02:11:36,920 --> 02:11:40,160
Speaker 2: the Kinders Texas Bowl. What do you have for the

2919
02:11:40,320 --> 02:11:43,080
Speaker 2: fans that you can announce and give to us right

2920
02:11:43,160 --> 02:11:47,200
Speaker 2: here on top of giving us the Kinders texta Bowl announcement?

2921
02:11:47,400 --> 02:11:49,839
Speaker 6: Well, ball week is always fun for the teams.

2922
02:11:49,880 --> 02:11:54,200
Speaker 18: It's fun for the administrators, a true celebration of a

2923
02:11:54,280 --> 02:11:56,360
Speaker 18: college football that is bowl season, and each of the

2924
02:11:56,960 --> 02:11:59,200
Speaker 18: each of the different bowls try and find their unique

2925
02:11:59,240 --> 02:12:03,960
Speaker 18: angles summer private, summer public. You know, we'll certainly put

2926
02:12:04,000 --> 02:12:06,560
Speaker 18: our Bowl Week up against anybody's in the country and

2927
02:12:07,480 --> 02:12:10,240
Speaker 18: as one of the best, and rightfully so. College football

2928
02:12:10,320 --> 02:12:12,560
Speaker 18: is so important to this community. Houston one of the

2929
02:12:12,600 --> 02:12:16,120
Speaker 18: premier destinations. But it's not just about football. It's about

2930
02:12:16,160 --> 02:12:21,760
Speaker 18: showcasing Houston, showcasing what it's like to be a Houstonian.

2931
02:12:21,840 --> 02:12:27,160
Speaker 18: And we've got an incredible melding of cultures and different

2932
02:12:27,200 --> 02:12:30,160
Speaker 18: elements that make Houston so unique, the most diverse community America,

2933
02:12:30,160 --> 02:12:32,200
Speaker 18: and we try and highlight those. We reach back to

2934
02:12:32,280 --> 02:12:35,280
Speaker 18: the Western heritage with our Rodeo Bowl, which is a

2935
02:12:35,320 --> 02:12:38,720
Speaker 18: private event, but it's one of the premier events in

2936
02:12:38,840 --> 02:12:42,840
Speaker 18: the country. It's been named multiple times the best Bowl

2937
02:12:42,920 --> 02:12:45,720
Speaker 18: Week event in the country, and that's very much in

2938
02:12:45,840 --> 02:12:49,000
Speaker 18: part to our partnership with the Houston Livestock Show in Rodeo,

2939
02:12:49,040 --> 02:12:51,520
Speaker 18: which knows a thing or two about putting on a rodeo,

2940
02:12:52,600 --> 02:12:55,640
Speaker 18: and that event has really become a signature and a

2941
02:12:55,760 --> 02:12:58,400
Speaker 18: staple each and every week, but as you look to

2942
02:12:58,520 --> 02:13:02,720
Speaker 18: some of the other events that we do, community is

2943
02:13:02,760 --> 02:13:04,160
Speaker 18: a big part of what we're doing.

2944
02:13:04,200 --> 02:13:04,960
Speaker 3: Community impact.

2945
02:13:05,080 --> 02:13:07,440
Speaker 18: We work with the Pelching Children Center throughout the year

2946
02:13:08,200 --> 02:13:10,840
Speaker 18: and supporting their efforts as the largest children's charity here

2947
02:13:10,880 --> 02:13:13,240
Speaker 18: I'm sorry, the oldest children's charity here in Houston and

2948
02:13:13,320 --> 02:13:15,680
Speaker 18: the largest provider of foster and adoptive services in the

2949
02:13:15,720 --> 02:13:18,200
Speaker 18: state of Texas. And there are many, many Bull Week

2950
02:13:18,280 --> 02:13:21,840
Speaker 18: interactions and events that the players, the coaches get to

2951
02:13:21,920 --> 02:13:25,120
Speaker 18: have with the kids and the families of that organization.

2952
02:13:25,640 --> 02:13:28,360
Speaker 18: But when it comes to having fun, Look, this game's

2953
02:13:28,400 --> 02:13:31,280
Speaker 18: on New Year's Eve. It's a day game, which we're

2954
02:13:31,440 --> 02:13:35,440
Speaker 18: really excited about. The night before we've got we announced

2955
02:13:35,520 --> 02:13:38,680
Speaker 18: yesterday Tyler Farr is headlining our car Bock kickoff concert

2956
02:13:38,800 --> 02:13:42,880
Speaker 18: presented by Kroger. Free concert for all fans that want

2957
02:13:42,920 --> 02:13:47,200
Speaker 18: to come out and just experience Bowl Week and come

2958
02:13:47,240 --> 02:13:48,920
Speaker 18: out and do it with some great Texas music, some

2959
02:13:49,040 --> 02:13:51,760
Speaker 18: great food over at the Rustic Downtown. You can get

2960
02:13:51,760 --> 02:13:55,960
Speaker 18: your tickets free tickets for that event at Kinderstexas Bowl

2961
02:13:56,000 --> 02:13:59,880
Speaker 18: dot com. And there is this little thing about Game Day, right,

2962
02:14:00,080 --> 02:14:02,480
Speaker 18: we have an event. We have a big weekend ahead

2963
02:14:02,560 --> 02:14:05,760
Speaker 18: with selections Sunday coming up, and game day out here

2964
02:14:05,880 --> 02:14:08,520
Speaker 18: is going to be spectacular. The Who's the Brothers are

2965
02:14:08,560 --> 02:14:12,240
Speaker 18: going to headline uh Carbock Love Street Text Fest on

2966
02:14:13,360 --> 02:14:17,560
Speaker 18: on Tuesday morning. Game days at the kick is at

2967
02:14:17,600 --> 02:14:21,200
Speaker 18: two thirty Central times, so we have a real opportunity

2968
02:14:21,800 --> 02:14:25,720
Speaker 18: for this community and for people traveling in. You know,

2969
02:14:25,760 --> 02:14:27,560
Speaker 18: if you want to start your New Year's Eve and

2970
02:14:27,640 --> 02:14:29,560
Speaker 18: have a great night, no better place if you're a

2971
02:14:29,600 --> 02:14:31,320
Speaker 18: college football fan than to do it right here with

2972
02:14:31,360 --> 02:14:33,360
Speaker 18: a two thirty kick. If this is what you want

2973
02:14:33,400 --> 02:14:34,680
Speaker 18: to do for New Year's Day, and there are a

2974
02:14:34,680 --> 02:14:36,680
Speaker 18: lot of families, a lot of people that you know, hey,

2975
02:14:36,760 --> 02:14:40,160
Speaker 18: we'll let the well, we'll let We'll let the partygoers

2976
02:14:40,200 --> 02:14:41,000
Speaker 18: go out and have their fun.

2977
02:14:41,360 --> 02:14:44,120
Speaker 1: Come out here, have a great time, you get your

2978
02:14:44,240 --> 02:14:45,240
Speaker 1: your day started right.

2979
02:14:45,400 --> 02:14:49,160
Speaker 18: And all of those opportunities will be available starting on

2980
02:14:49,560 --> 02:14:52,520
Speaker 18: Sunday when we go on sale with tickets Kinderstexas Bowl

2981
02:14:52,560 --> 02:14:55,360
Speaker 18: dot com. And when we do that, Johnny, we will

2982
02:14:55,360 --> 02:14:57,760
Speaker 18: shortly thereafter announce who's going to be playing in the game.

2983
02:14:57,800 --> 02:14:59,320
Speaker 1: Okay, so let's get to that a little bit.

2984
02:15:00,000 --> 02:15:00,360
Speaker 2: I know that.

2985
02:15:02,080 --> 02:15:04,560
Speaker 1: I have what I want to see in the game.

2986
02:15:05,640 --> 02:15:08,680
Speaker 2: I'm sure you probably have what you'd like to see

2987
02:15:08,800 --> 02:15:11,480
Speaker 2: in the game, and I don't want you to say that,

2988
02:15:11,680 --> 02:15:14,000
Speaker 2: and I might say mine later on. I know I

2989
02:15:14,000 --> 02:15:17,120
Speaker 2: don't want you because coming from the executive director of

2990
02:15:17,160 --> 02:15:19,560
Speaker 2: the game, it's a little different if you're like, hey,

2991
02:15:19,640 --> 02:15:23,880
Speaker 2: I want this. But first of all, to clarify, as

2992
02:15:23,920 --> 02:15:26,480
Speaker 2: it pertains the choices, you pick the Big twelve school,

2993
02:15:26,680 --> 02:15:30,040
Speaker 2: that's right, and the SEC comes from that comes from

2994
02:15:30,040 --> 02:15:31,360
Speaker 2: the SEC ESPN side.

2995
02:15:31,440 --> 02:15:31,720
Speaker 3: Correct.

2996
02:15:31,800 --> 02:15:36,800
Speaker 2: Okay, So how much as you're watching this college football playoff?

2997
02:15:37,280 --> 02:15:41,200
Speaker 2: How much of that is impacting you? For example, if

2998
02:15:41,240 --> 02:15:46,000
Speaker 2: there are three SEC schools versus four, does that impact

2999
02:15:46,240 --> 02:15:48,800
Speaker 2: what could happen in the game? Or at that point

3000
02:15:48,920 --> 02:15:51,320
Speaker 2: is it not as important how many are getting in

3001
02:15:51,360 --> 02:15:52,360
Speaker 2: the college football playoff?

3002
02:15:52,440 --> 02:15:55,600
Speaker 1: Because it looks like the Big twelve probably getting one.

3003
02:15:56,240 --> 02:15:58,680
Speaker 2: So I would imagine you're probably gonna have a nice

3004
02:15:58,680 --> 02:16:00,720
Speaker 2: little choice for your game. How do you kind of

3005
02:16:00,720 --> 02:16:02,400
Speaker 2: look at this comor football playoff and how does that

3006
02:16:02,480 --> 02:16:05,240
Speaker 2: play a role in in the Kinders Texas Bowl.

3007
02:16:05,560 --> 02:16:07,840
Speaker 18: Well, we're learning, I mean this is the first, this

3008
02:16:08,000 --> 02:16:11,080
Speaker 18: is the first we're to go. We're building the plane

3009
02:16:11,080 --> 02:16:14,240
Speaker 18: as it flies. But in all honesty, you know, it

3010
02:16:14,320 --> 02:16:16,800
Speaker 18: starts with our conference partners. You mentioned a Big Twelve

3011
02:16:16,800 --> 02:16:21,120
Speaker 18: and SEC, two elite conferences geographically relevant. It's helped this

3012
02:16:21,400 --> 02:16:24,680
Speaker 18: game be a huge part of the college football calendar

3013
02:16:24,720 --> 02:16:26,960
Speaker 18: and the events calendar, not only here in Houston but

3014
02:16:27,000 --> 02:16:30,720
Speaker 18: around the country for over a decade now. We're very

3015
02:16:30,760 --> 02:16:34,160
Speaker 18: excited to have that relationship continuing this year and to

3016
02:16:34,280 --> 02:16:37,320
Speaker 18: have an opportunity to look at who from those two

3017
02:16:37,360 --> 02:16:39,080
Speaker 18: elite conferences is going to be able to play in

3018
02:16:39,120 --> 02:16:41,800
Speaker 18: our game come New Year's eve Day. When you look

3019
02:16:41,879 --> 02:16:45,680
Speaker 18: at the College Football Playoff, obviously the expansion this year

3020
02:16:45,959 --> 02:16:48,200
Speaker 18: is a new element that we're all looking at as

3021
02:16:48,240 --> 02:16:51,120
Speaker 18: it relates to bowlseason. I think as you look at

3022
02:16:51,200 --> 02:16:54,360
Speaker 18: the two conferences that we are aligned with, the Big

3023
02:16:54,480 --> 02:16:57,760
Speaker 18: Twelve in the SEC, certainly have an eye on how

3024
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Speaker 18: those conference championship games go this way weekend. But but

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Speaker 18: ultimately both of those have tremendous programs that have that

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02:17:07,040 --> 02:17:08,720
Speaker 18: have played at a high level this year.

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Speaker 3: So when we look at what might be available and what.

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Speaker 18: Might be the case for our matchup come New Year's

3029
02:17:15,400 --> 02:17:18,560
Speaker 18: eve Day, we love the options that are sitting out there.

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Speaker 18: I mean, there's just so much good football in both conferences.

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Speaker 18: You know, obviously there is a lot of transition. There

3032
02:17:25,240 --> 02:17:29,480
Speaker 18: are a lot of elements that people talk about, nil transfer, portal,

3033
02:17:29,879 --> 02:17:32,440
Speaker 18: you know, coaching changes that all impact those elements.

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Speaker 3: Look at it.

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Speaker 18: The two conference partners we have both have many teams

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Speaker 18: that performed at an elite level this year. Both have

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02:17:41,080 --> 02:17:44,440
Speaker 18: a number of opportunities for us that are geographically relevant.

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Speaker 18: And when we look at the pool that we might

3039
02:17:46,600 --> 02:17:49,920
Speaker 18: have here, can't be anything but excited about what what

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Speaker 18: could possibly come to us coming of the New Year's

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Speaker 18: eve Day.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there there are some there are some really nice options.

3043
02:17:57,200 --> 02:17:59,039
Speaker 2: As I started looking at it, each and every week

3044
02:17:59,080 --> 02:18:02,960
Speaker 2: I write for for l s C newsletter and it

3045
02:18:03,080 --> 02:18:06,160
Speaker 2: gets sent out, and at the very end the last

3046
02:18:06,240 --> 02:18:08,840
Speaker 2: probably two three weeks, I started I bring back in

3047
02:18:09,000 --> 02:18:11,080
Speaker 2: the options, like, okay, are these are the teams? And

3048
02:18:11,120 --> 02:18:12,640
Speaker 2: as I started putting on the teams of like, oh,

3049
02:18:12,680 --> 02:18:15,200
Speaker 2: that team could look really good. I mean even as

3050
02:18:15,280 --> 02:18:19,000
Speaker 2: crazy as an SEC team like Florida. But I know Florida,

3051
02:18:19,800 --> 02:18:22,320
Speaker 2: they're probably more set with you know, a Bowl over Florida.

3052
02:18:22,360 --> 02:18:25,080
Speaker 2: But Florida's got a quarterback from Willis like right here

3053
02:18:25,200 --> 02:18:26,440
Speaker 2: just outside the city of Houston.

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02:18:26,680 --> 02:18:28,640
Speaker 1: So it's like, man, there might be a draw with that.

3055
02:18:28,920 --> 02:18:34,320
Speaker 2: So it's even if it's not geographically you know, a

3056
02:18:34,440 --> 02:18:37,040
Speaker 2: Texas Tech or a TCU or an Arkansas or what

3057
02:18:37,160 --> 02:18:37,840
Speaker 2: Oklahoma or.

3058
02:18:37,840 --> 02:18:39,800
Speaker 1: Whatever it could be, which it could very well be,

3059
02:18:40,080 --> 02:18:41,000
Speaker 1: could be any of those.

3060
02:18:41,760 --> 02:18:43,200
Speaker 2: But even if it's like you know, like I said

3061
02:18:43,240 --> 02:18:46,200
Speaker 2: of Florida, Man, you get DJ Langway in here, a

3062
02:18:46,280 --> 02:18:48,480
Speaker 2: guy from just outside of Houston. So there's gonna be

3063
02:18:48,480 --> 02:18:50,320
Speaker 2: a connection in some way, shape or form, which I

3064
02:18:50,440 --> 02:18:53,560
Speaker 2: can't wait to see how it all gets put together.

3065
02:18:53,760 --> 02:18:56,520
Speaker 2: You mentioned a couple of times Fletch game gets moved

3066
02:18:56,720 --> 02:19:01,160
Speaker 2: to December thirty, first two thirty kickoff, and that obviously

3067
02:19:01,320 --> 02:19:05,000
Speaker 2: is a big day in college football. Again, I mean,

3068
02:19:05,040 --> 02:19:07,080
Speaker 2: it's a massive day in college football.

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02:19:07,080 --> 02:19:07,320
Speaker 1: Again.

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Speaker 2: How do you feel about a and I'm trying to remember,

3071
02:19:09,959 --> 02:19:12,280
Speaker 2: is this the first time that has been played during

3072
02:19:12,360 --> 02:19:12,680
Speaker 2: the day?

3073
02:19:12,920 --> 02:19:15,080
Speaker 1: And how do you feel about that? Just for the

3074
02:19:15,160 --> 02:19:17,760
Speaker 1: game itself, for that event itself being at two thirty,

3075
02:19:18,040 --> 02:19:18,600
Speaker 1: we're thrilled.

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02:19:18,879 --> 02:19:21,560
Speaker 18: I mean, it's an incredible real estate in the college

3077
02:19:21,600 --> 02:19:25,320
Speaker 18: football landscape. As I mentioned earlier, it's a holiday, great

3078
02:19:25,400 --> 02:19:28,720
Speaker 18: day for local college football fans and just people in

3079
02:19:28,800 --> 02:19:30,959
Speaker 18: general are looking to have a good time to come here, you.

3080
02:19:30,959 --> 02:19:32,280
Speaker 3: Know, call out the NRG Stadium.

3081
02:19:32,360 --> 02:19:34,640
Speaker 18: Tickets start as low as twenty five dollars, so it's

3082
02:19:34,640 --> 02:19:38,120
Speaker 18: an affordable option, but we also have all the premium

3083
02:19:38,160 --> 02:19:43,160
Speaker 18: elements too. That, unto itself, is a really important element

3084
02:19:43,200 --> 02:19:46,360
Speaker 18: of why we're so excited about this this opportunity. But

3085
02:19:46,520 --> 02:19:49,520
Speaker 18: you look at the college football landscape. Anybody who follows

3086
02:19:49,560 --> 02:19:51,680
Speaker 18: the sport knows as close as you can be to

3087
02:19:51,959 --> 02:19:54,800
Speaker 18: New Year's Day, the better it is in terms of

3088
02:19:54,879 --> 02:19:58,480
Speaker 18: the visibility, in terms of the TV audience, in terms

3089
02:19:58,520 --> 02:20:01,560
Speaker 18: of the impact you can make. And this year for us,

3090
02:20:01,720 --> 02:20:04,760
Speaker 18: what really I think ultimately we were most excited about

3091
02:20:04,879 --> 02:20:07,440
Speaker 18: is an opportunity to be the lead in for the

3092
02:20:07,480 --> 02:20:11,280
Speaker 18: first ever quarterfinal. The Fiesta Bowl will be New Year's

3093
02:20:11,280 --> 02:20:14,760
Speaker 18: Eve night, and that's a first ever, which is always

3094
02:20:14,800 --> 02:20:16,680
Speaker 18: exciting to be part of. We get to be that

3095
02:20:16,840 --> 02:20:20,560
Speaker 18: lead in on ESPN with two elite conference partners in

3096
02:20:20,600 --> 02:20:23,320
Speaker 18: a great matchup. I think it's going to translate into

3097
02:20:23,400 --> 02:20:27,000
Speaker 18: a really good day business wise, a really great day

3098
02:20:27,080 --> 02:20:29,880
Speaker 18: in terms of the visibility for our community. And we

3099
02:20:30,000 --> 02:20:33,039
Speaker 18: think from an experience perspective, we're certainly working as hard

3100
02:20:33,040 --> 02:20:36,000
Speaker 18: as we possibly can to emulate that here at game

3101
02:20:36,080 --> 02:20:38,320
Speaker 18: day and make sure that we live up to that expectation.

3102
02:20:38,480 --> 02:20:41,600
Speaker 18: But all in all, it's a fantastic development. I'm bullish

3103
02:20:41,680 --> 02:20:44,640
Speaker 18: on us being in this position in the near term

3104
02:20:45,040 --> 02:20:48,560
Speaker 18: going forward, but most importantly, I'm really bullish about the

3105
02:20:48,640 --> 02:20:52,560
Speaker 18: opportunity to bring this to Houston on that day with

3106
02:20:52,760 --> 02:20:55,720
Speaker 18: this platform and see what it can do for our community.

3107
02:20:56,040 --> 02:20:58,400
Speaker 2: Did the College Football Playoff Committee get it right putting

3108
02:20:58,440 --> 02:21:02,000
Speaker 2: Alabama in front of Miami? Nah, you don't have to

3109
02:21:02,040 --> 02:21:05,199
Speaker 2: answer that question. Don't answer that question. That's a loaded question.

3110
02:21:05,600 --> 02:21:07,840
Speaker 2: I wouldn't put you on the spot like that. I

3111
02:21:07,920 --> 02:21:10,200
Speaker 2: think Alabama's better at Miami, but that's just me. Mar

3112
02:21:10,280 --> 02:21:12,920
Speaker 2: Vander might be very, very disappointed in me for saying that.

3113
02:21:13,280 --> 02:21:15,120
Speaker 2: But I think Alabama would have beat Miami in a

3114
02:21:15,200 --> 02:21:17,040
Speaker 2: head to head on a neutral field, and then I

3115
02:21:17,080 --> 02:21:19,840
Speaker 2: would put them ahead of Miami as it were. Fletch,

3116
02:21:19,920 --> 02:21:24,600
Speaker 2: I cannot wait for selection Sunday. It's weird because we

3117
02:21:24,840 --> 02:21:27,760
Speaker 2: usually have a game. Yeah, we usually have a game,

3118
02:21:27,879 --> 02:21:30,440
Speaker 2: and so you, if I remember correctly, you pop in

3119
02:21:30,560 --> 02:21:33,320
Speaker 2: the pet postgame show, you announce it with the guys

3120
02:21:33,720 --> 02:21:34,560
Speaker 2: on postgame show.

3121
02:21:35,160 --> 02:21:37,080
Speaker 1: So how are we gonna announce this on Selection Sunday.

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Speaker 18: Well, there's this little thing called the Internet and social

3123
02:21:40,000 --> 02:21:44,199
Speaker 18: media and ESPN i've heard has a pretty good reach,

3124
02:21:44,360 --> 02:21:48,119
Speaker 18: so you know it'll be okay. So we're gonna be okay.

3125
02:21:48,320 --> 02:21:52,160
Speaker 18: We are really excited about Selection Sunday. This this Sunday afternoon,

3126
02:21:52,520 --> 02:21:55,640
Speaker 18: tickets going on sale as I mentioned that day as well,

3127
02:21:55,840 --> 02:22:00,560
Speaker 18: Kinders Texas Bowl dot com or on Ticketmaster's.

3128
02:21:59,440 --> 02:22:02,000
Speaker 7: David Fletch, thank you're visiting with Johnny Harris on Texans

3129
02:22:02,040 --> 02:22:04,200
Speaker 7: All Access talking about the Kinders Texas Bowl.

3130
02:22:04,240 --> 02:22:05,360
Speaker 1: That's going to do it for the show.

3131
02:22:05,920 --> 02:22:08,360
Speaker 7: All of the shows are in podcasts form at Houston

3132
02:22:08,400 --> 02:22:11,960
Speaker 7: Texas dot com, Apple, Spotify, wherever you get your podcasts.

3133
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Speaker 1: So have a great weekend.

3134
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Speaker 7: Don't forget Area forty five is coming up next talking

3135
02:22:16,120 --> 02:22:18,400
Speaker 7: about all the day's news and what is to come

3136
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Speaker 7: this weekend. Another big football fiesta this weekend. Have a

3137
02:22:22,520 --> 02:22:24,440
Speaker 7: great night everyone, Go Texans.