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Speaker 1: What's up? Everybody.

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Speaker 2: Welcome into a Wednesday edition, bye week edition of Texans

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Speaker 2: All Access. Quiet in the building, Church mouse just running

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Speaker 2: around all by is lonesome. Probably a few other mice

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Speaker 2: to join him, but it's quiet. Everybody's getting some good

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Speaker 2: R and R. But we got plenty of radio for

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Speaker 2: you this week. We still keep on rocking during to Buy.

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Speaker 2: I'm your host John Harris, footballan OU sideline reporter and

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Speaker 2: glad to be with you because we've got a jam

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Speaker 2: pack show. Tonight. We have a little in the Lab

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Speaker 2: with my man Drew Doherty, will give our cream of

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Speaker 2: the crop from the grim crop players from the game

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Speaker 2: that we just played against the Saints. We'll also look

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Speaker 2: into our underrated players for the rest of the year,

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Speaker 2: which is gonna be interesting to dive into. Mark and

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Speaker 2: I will dive into the opponents for the final eleven

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Speaker 2: games of the year. We'll have a little Deep Slant

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Speaker 2: Red with Will Anderson. This is some really good stuff.

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Speaker 2: Deep got Will Anderson to sing adele so the first time.

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Speaker 2: This is a perfect time to hear it. But we

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Speaker 2: kick off every single Wednesday show with the GM of

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Speaker 2: your Houston Texans, Nick Cassari with one huge caveat before

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Speaker 2: we get to Nick, there is news for your Texans,

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Speaker 2: and it's great news. Blake Cashman named AFC Defensive Player

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Speaker 2: of the week. The last defensive player of the week

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Speaker 2: Tavier Thomas against the Chargers in twenty twenty one. The

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Speaker 2: last defensive player of the week before that was Whitney

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Speaker 2: Merciless all the way back to twenty nineteen. Blake Cashman

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Speaker 2: fifteen tackles a career high passes defense. He had two,

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Speaker 2: he had two TFLs, and he also had one quarterback

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Speaker 2: hit that ended up resulting in a Steven Nelson interception.

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Speaker 2: Congratulations to Blake Cashman for being AFC Defensive Player of

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Speaker 2: the week, the man who signed him. And we actually

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Speaker 2: talk about Cashman with Nick case right here.

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Speaker 3: Here in the hun Day Texans Radio studio. It's executive

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Speaker 3: vice president and general manager Nick Cassario. Nick, Happy bye week,

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Speaker 3: Great to see you, Congratulations on the latest victory and

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Speaker 3: thoughts on that as you head into the buy the

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Speaker 3: Texans ending up at five hundred with a week off.

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Speaker 4: Good to see you both. Uh yeah, always good to

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Speaker 4: go into the buy.

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Speaker 5: After a w SO team played hard on Sunday, made

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Speaker 5: enough plays kind of in all three phases. Offensively in

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Speaker 5: the first half, you know, did a lot of good things.

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Speaker 5: Defensively kind of did enough, kept us, kept us close,

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Speaker 5: and then you know, defense ended up you know, winning

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Speaker 5: a game for us here in the end.

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Speaker 4: I made some plays in the kicking game, kind of

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Speaker 4: limited there.

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Speaker 5: I'd say return opportunities, which is against against that team,

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Speaker 5: is pretty important, especially with you know, John and I

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Speaker 5: talked about this before the.

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Speaker 4: Game, you know, shaheeds.

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Speaker 5: I'd say explosive ability, which showed up on offense.

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Speaker 4: But players fought, did enough things in.

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Speaker 5: The end to win and kind of came down to

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Speaker 5: a hand full of plays and we were able to

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Speaker 5: excet those plays. And it's a hard fought win against

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Speaker 5: a good team. So this week will be about kind

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Speaker 5: of recovery, kind of take an inventory of where we are,

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Speaker 5: say schematically, personnel wise, where we are on the health front.

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Speaker 5: Have a good day of practice, one day of practice

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Speaker 5: here this week, then the players will be off for

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Speaker 5: a little bit and then we'll come back next week

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Speaker 5: and get ready for Carolina. We'll certainly present some challenges

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Speaker 5: on their end. So it's always good to win. Is

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Speaker 5: it hard to win in this league? You never take

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Speaker 5: those for granted. So yeah, you know it's it's good

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Speaker 6: Nick.

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Speaker 2: You've got contributions from a lot of different people across

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Speaker 2: the board. One that I thought played exceptionally well on Sunday,

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Speaker 2: and I'm just I'm curious you make the deal for

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Speaker 2: Blake Cashman a couple of years ago and bring him

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Speaker 2: But what was it about Blake that you really like

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I would say this is a good example of

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Speaker 4: So did a lot of work on Blake.

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Speaker 5: When he was coming out of Minnesota, Jess drafted him

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Speaker 5: Then he got hurt and then kind of been the

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Speaker 5: also with the potential of having the opportunity to play defensively.

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Speaker 5: I think sometimes you have some linebackers there's special teams

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Speaker 5: he'd have an opportunity on defense. He's actually played the

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Speaker 5: Then he has basically his entire career so place. A

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Speaker 5: and that's continued. The big thing with him is just availability.

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Speaker 5: So when he's been available, he's been productive. And he

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Speaker 3: And how about Shaquille Griffin because he came back and

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Speaker 3: paid dividends for you as well. And you told us

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Speaker 3: five yards behind the line of scrimmage and then making

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Speaker 3: big plays. Well he did that on that fourth down,

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Kamara is a tough guy to tackle. I mean,

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Speaker 5: But that was certainly a big play in the game.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure you haven't been asked about this before, but

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Speaker 1: How's he doing? CJ Strout? I think you've heard of him. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: how do you think he's doing.

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Speaker 4: A little bit about him?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, a little bit. What do you think about his progress?

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Speaker 5: That's fart Nick, Yeah, I mean I think from start

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Speaker 5: that was a tough defense. We talked about that, I'd

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Speaker 5: we're gonna see all year. We're gonna see some good ones,

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Speaker 5: but certainly put the Saints up there present some challenges

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Speaker 5: earlier in the game, you know, kind of you know,

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Speaker 5: You know, had a couple of internet throws. He had

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Speaker 5: the interception you know, which he owned, but didn't allow

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Speaker 5: it to affect the overarching you know, progress of the

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Speaker 5: that mental toughness, that mental fortitude to kind of move

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Speaker 5: certainly was an example of it during a game, given

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Speaker 1: Well, he owned it, but he got the ball right

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Speaker 1: back with a first down.

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Speaker 4: Nick.

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Speaker 3: I mean, that's like getting pulled over and then they

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Speaker 3: give you a warning and you can keep going.

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Speaker 1: I mean, really not paying the price for it, right,

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Speaker 1: You're getting rewarded. No, that's like somebody knows that.

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Speaker 3: That happened before, not know anything about that, no experience

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Speaker 5: Huh yeah, No, that was a big play in the game.

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Speaker 5: And I think that's just their overall mindset. And I

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Speaker 5: a learning opportunity as well. On each Thursday, you know,

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Speaker 5: we presented the team. Dino Vasso or secondary coach presents

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Speaker 5: examples of their team, our team. Here are some of

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Speaker 5: So when you go to defense, it's really about attacking

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Speaker 5: That was a huge play in a game. So any

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Speaker 5: playing a game, you really never know what's going to

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Speaker 5: Very I would say a stute played by Nico and

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Speaker 5: that was if there was ever like a team play.

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Speaker 5: There's a good example of a of a team play

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Speaker 3: a moment because you mentioned different things that happen in

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Speaker 3: the team meetings, and we could talk to coach about

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Speaker 1: But you're video guys here, led by Tim.

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Speaker 3: They can put together presentations and have to write because

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Speaker 3: you want to appeal to these players stress things. It's

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Speaker 3: not just a guy up there talking, right, you have

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Speaker 3: presentations you want to give display it in a visual

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Speaker 3: way so they really get the message.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, there's different ways to stimulate a player's mind, and

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Speaker 5: everybody consumes information differently. But if you have something tangible

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Speaker 5: that you can present the team and show the team,

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Speaker 5: and that resonates and sometimes it's a quick hit, it's

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Speaker 5: ten to fifteen minutes. All right, here are some bullets,

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Speaker 5: here are some highlights, here's some examples, and you have

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Speaker 5: Ultimately that's the most important thing. So I think that's

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Speaker 2: Nick, we're gonna save the Panthers scot of report for

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Speaker 2: I know the Panthers having won games, but Bryce has

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and we'll save the scouting report and the Panthers

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Speaker 4: You know, they're probably better team than people realize.

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Speaker 2: So the bye week for everybody is all exciting. Oh

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Speaker 1: I like radio, Yeah, I like so busy.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, try to stay on your routine.

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Speaker 5: I think, try to stay ahead on the opponents, work

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Speaker 1: Yeah, just like us on.

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Speaker 3: Radio, exactly as long as I have coffee, I'm okay, Nick.

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Speaker 3: I'm always fascinated by how close the games are in

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Speaker 1: We're here to win. We want to win.

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Speaker 5: because to your point, Mark, you never know which play

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Speaker 4: So we'll just one play to the next.

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Speaker 5: So each play is important, each week is important. You

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Speaker 5: there was all to the game. So the margins in

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Speaker 2: Nick, One of the things that I know Mark and

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Speaker 3: George Hallis used this Chicago Cardinals back, all right, Nick

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Speaker 5: and truthful and fair. I mean he's more than fair,

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Speaker 5: and he's competitive and he wants to win. So what

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Speaker 5: are the things that are conducive to winning while he's

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Speaker 5: doing things with the right detail, with the right mindset.

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Speaker 5: And don't take a playoff because that play going back

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Speaker 5: to what we talked about Elier that if you take

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Speaker 5: that playoff, that could be the play that's a different

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Speaker 5: between winning and losing. So every play is important. How

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Speaker 5: you do it is important. It's being coached a certain way.

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Speaker 5: So if we want to do it differently, then we'll

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Speaker 5: coach it differently. But don't make it up as you go.

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Speaker 5: I think that's probably the biggest thing, just from a

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Speaker 5: coaching standpoint. You see the player do it a certain way,

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Speaker 5: and then he does something different and then you're kind of wondering,

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Speaker 5: like what happened?

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Speaker 4: So how do we avoid that?

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Speaker 5: But I mean, I've been asked about this, and Demiko

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Speaker 5: has been incredible, you know, every step of the way,

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Speaker 5: and I think the players have responded and respect his

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Speaker 5: viewpoint on a lot of different topics in a lot

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Speaker 5: of different areas. And he's earned the respect of everybody

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Speaker 5: in the building from day one just by being you

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Speaker 5: know who he is, and you know, being consistent on

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Speaker 5: a day to day basis.

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Speaker 2: Nick, when you talk about that one play, for some reason,

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Speaker 2: I go back to special teams. In my head, I

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Speaker 2: go back to special teams and I think about one

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Speaker 2: play from Sunday and I don't know that anybody has

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Speaker 2: talked about it. We talked about it maybe a little

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Speaker 2: bit on the radio. But Cam Johnston's punt from the

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Speaker 2: north to south end, the sixty three yarder was it

469
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Speaker 2: was literally a three point punt because you end up

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Speaker 2: getting and it could have been seven if you just

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Speaker 2: scored from the one. But what has Cam brought since

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Speaker 2: he's been back? What is he brought back to this team?

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Speaker 2: Because we talk about special teams, we talk about it

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Speaker 2: in totality but Cam's bomb, that one in particular, literally

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Speaker 2: led to three points for the Texans.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, the kicking games is usually about field position, so

477
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Speaker 5: the team being control field position, you know, put yourself

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Speaker 5: in a position both offensively and defensively. And the percentages

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Speaker 5: of scoring not scoring, I mean they.

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Speaker 4: Are what they are.

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Speaker 5: But Cam has been a good punter, you know, in

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Speaker 5: this league for a number of years now. There's a

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Speaker 5: reason that you know, we signed him. You know, it's

484
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Speaker 5: a free agent there three years ago wherever it was

485
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Speaker 5: so strong, leg explosive, leg work, really hard to get

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Speaker 5: back to where he is now. One of the probably

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Speaker 5: you know, more important things that he does is the holding.

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Speaker 5: I mean that relationship between the specialist. You can't have

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Speaker 5: good special teams if you don't have good specialists. And

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Speaker 5: I think we're very fortunate and blessed to have three

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Speaker 5: pretty good specialists. And I mean he has performed really

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Speaker 5: well this year and Cam, you know, coming back here

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Speaker 5: last couple of weeks. But when you flip the field

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Speaker 5: like that, you put the offense in a position and

495
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Speaker 5: then we really get the ball I think at the

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Speaker 5: fifty yard line wherever it was turned into scoring opportunities.

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Speaker 5: So you know, it's certainly a big play in the game.

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Speaker 5: You know, I think our coverage units have been, you know,

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Speaker 5: one of our stronger areas. You know, we're top of

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Speaker 5: the league in terms of you know, drive star or

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Speaker 5: some of those things. And even the kickoff against the

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Speaker 5: New Orleans here tackling Shaheed inside of twenty you know,

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Speaker 5: Christian and Neville and execute twist. Now let me tackle

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Speaker 5: inside of twenty, you know, against an explosive return. So

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Speaker 5: those are some of the hidden yardage plays that add

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Speaker 5: up over the course of the game. But you know,

507
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Speaker 5: kicking games important and you know it's going to be

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Speaker 5: a priority as long as we're here because it's gonna

509
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Speaker 5: you know, potentially win or lose you a game, and

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Speaker 5: hopefully it helps us win more games than we lose.

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Speaker 3: All Right, it's bye week, and we brought this up

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Speaker 3: with the coach that you're gonna be in a situation

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Speaker 3: maybe with your daughters where they want to watch TV,

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Speaker 3: want to watch a movie or something. So what movies

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Speaker 3: that they like? Have you enjoyed? Hey, that's a pretty

516
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Speaker 3: good Like Frozen. I like Frozen.

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Speaker 5: Funny you bring that up, Mark, They were actually watching

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Speaker 5: Frozen the other day, Like Our youngest always wants movie night,

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Speaker 5: like every night during the week and well we have

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Speaker 5: school the next day, so yeah, maybe over the weekend

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Speaker 5: in a movie day, but big Frozen fans in the

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Speaker 5: Casario household, so they could watch. I'll probably wander off

523
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Speaker 5: and maybe watch something else, but still be available then

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Speaker 5: around within earshot movie night.

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Speaker 1: What are the snacks on movie night? The Cassaria household.

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Speaker 3: Their snack and they're different and Celery no tip.

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Speaker 6: Nick, thanks a lot. I have a great buy.

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Speaker 4: Thanks fellas man.

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Speaker 1: Who saw Frozen coming Holy cow. I love it, absolutely

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Speaker 1: love it.

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Speaker 2: And I would say comment on the movie snacks for Nick,

532
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Speaker 2: but you know, it's broccoli and carrots and all that

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Speaker 2: kind of stuff.

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Speaker 1: We're just just joshing, just joshing, all right. Our fans

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Speaker 1: is gonna join.

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Speaker 2: Me next as we talk about the final eleven ten opponents,

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Speaker 2: one opponent twice.

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Speaker 1: What's it consists of? We'll talk about that next right

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Speaker 1: here on Texans All Access.

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Speaker 7: What's up?

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Speaker 1: Everybody?

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to Wednesday edition of Texans All Access. John

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Speaker 2: Harris footballing out sideline reporter alongside the voice of the

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Speaker 2: Texans Mark vandermer Mark. If you decided what you're doing

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Speaker 2: this weekend on your.

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Speaker 3: By Well, first of all, Johnny, I can tell I

547
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Speaker 3: can tell that we don't have a game this week

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Speaker 3: because I can tell that there's always energy. I have

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Speaker 3: great energy, and you're doing great and I'm doing great.

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Speaker 3: But you know that we're not playing this weekend, right,

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Speaker 3: we're not broadcasting this weekend.

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Speaker 1: Sense it.

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Speaker 3: You can feel it that. It's a little bit of

554
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Speaker 3: a let's relax a little bit, take a deep breath.

555
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Speaker 3: It's the bye. People are asking me, did the bye

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Speaker 3: come at a good time? You'd rather have the bye later.

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Speaker 3: Let's just be honest, right, you'd rather have the buy.

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Speaker 3: And the coaches, if they were honest, they'd say they

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Speaker 3: wanted two to three weeks from now. But it is

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Speaker 3: what it is. It's like complaining about your schedule. It

561
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Speaker 3: is what it is. You got to deal with it.

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Speaker 3: The buy comes now, and you know what, make the

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Speaker 3: most of it. I think it's good for these rookies

564
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Speaker 3: to get a little break. And I've decided, yeah, I'll

565
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Speaker 3: play little golf, I'll do a little sailing, I'll do

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Speaker 3: a little bit of that stuff, and I'll probably inject

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Speaker 3: red zone into my veins on Sunday, watch some college

568
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Speaker 3: football the day before that, and get right back to

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Speaker 3: it because I can't wait. You know, there are years where.

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Speaker 6: It's a struggle.

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Speaker 3: This is not one of those years, right, And my

572
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Speaker 3: job is never a struggle. I love my job, right,

573
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Speaker 3: just love. I love the broadcast. Love to be in

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Speaker 3: the booth. I'm just talking about what the team is

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Speaker 3: going through this year.

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Speaker 6: Man.

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Speaker 3: You want to be around these guys. You want to

578
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Speaker 3: see what they come up with next. This is really exciting.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's fun.

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Speaker 2: I would imagine for me it's gonna be watching football

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Speaker 2: on Saturday.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a change that's really different for you.

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Speaker 2: My wife is okay with They got back last night

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Speaker 2: from LA had a wonderful flight, And by wonderful, I.

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Speaker 1: Mean not really.

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Speaker 2: Oh gosh, three infants behind them the entire way. You

587
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Speaker 2: know you've been maybe not even infants, but just kicking

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Speaker 2: their chair.

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Speaker 3: Oh ugh, I'll tell you that's that. See, that's controllable.

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Speaker 3: Don't kick the chair. Baby crying is really tough to

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Speaker 3: deal with. I know what irritates everybody, but once you

592
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Speaker 3: go through it once yourself, traveling with a baby, you

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Speaker 3: understand it in a different way. And it sucks, but

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Speaker 3: it's also okay. Let them go through it. They just

595
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Speaker 3: got to deal with it. And I'm not gonna get

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Speaker 3: all upset about it. I'm gonna try to tune it out.

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Speaker 2: But they're here, and I'm happy with that. I'm very,

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Speaker 2: very happy they're here. So we have we'll have some

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Speaker 2: time at some point. Okay, a couple of things that

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Speaker 2: I want to hit. Number one, let's ask you a

601
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Speaker 2: couple of questions. Number One, you said you wish we

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Speaker 2: would have had the bye later. I'm with you. I

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Speaker 2: like a little bit later by but okay, but I'm

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Speaker 2: not stoking about it. You know, it is what it is.

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Speaker 2: In the first six games of the year, how many

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Speaker 2: teams of the six, how many teams have a winning record?

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Speaker 1: Right now? Okay, So Ravens are four.

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Speaker 3: And two, yes, one, yeah, Jaguars four and two, Pittsburgh

609
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Speaker 3: three and two, and that's it right.

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Speaker 2: Everybody else is five hundred, Saints are three and three,

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Speaker 2: Falcus three and three, Colts three and three. Every single

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Speaker 2: team you played in the first six games, five hundred

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Speaker 2: are better. So that's a combined eleven, fifteen, eighteen, twenty four, five, seven,

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Speaker 2: nine and six fifteen four to fifteen combined record of

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Speaker 2: the six teams you face the first six.

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Speaker 3: Games twenty four and fifteen. Yeah, really, yeah, Now let's

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Speaker 3: go to the other half. How many teams do you

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Speaker 3: think in the final eleven? Now again, we'll have to

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Speaker 3: play the Titans twice? Yeah, in that But ten teams

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Speaker 3: you play in the final eleven?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: How many of them have a winning record? How many

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Speaker 1: of them have a winning record? How many you think

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Speaker 1: of a winning record? Of the ten? How many winning record?

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Speaker 1: First six?

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Speaker 7: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Three of the six? How many of the ten? Jags do?

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Speaker 1: Bengals don't? Right, aren't they? Three and three? Angles are

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Speaker 1: three and three?

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Speaker 3: But that's a wolf in sheep's clothing right there, sort

631
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Speaker 3: of play in three record? But the Jags definitely do.

632
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Speaker 3: Who am I missing here? In the division? The culture

633
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Speaker 3: three and three?

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Speaker 2: Uh?

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Speaker 1: Bus three? Next game?

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Speaker 3: Bucks are three and other three and three, three and two.

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Speaker 3: They had a buy already the bucks. The Bucks are one,

638
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Speaker 3: the Jags are another.

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Speaker 2: When you got that data, Florida and what team burned

640
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Speaker 2: us this weekend that we really were mad about Browns?

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Speaker 1: Yes, the Browns, that's it. But now it just shows

642
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Speaker 1: you though.

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Speaker 3: However, everybody's so bunched in it's basically a five hundred league.

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Speaker 3: Bell O'Brien used to say, it's an eight and eight league. Johnny, Yeah,

645
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Speaker 3: he's kind of right about that. Yeah, it is. I

646
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Speaker 3: mean everybody's just kind of chunked up in the middle there,

647
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Speaker 3: and you have a few at the top and a

648
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Speaker 3: few at the bottom. It's like this giant bell curve, right,

649
00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:27,960
Speaker 3: you know, you have the edges, but the ones in

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Speaker 3: the middle. That's where the Texans are right now. It's

651
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Speaker 3: better than being on the other end of things. But

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Speaker 3: they want to move up into the upper rachel at

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Speaker 3: and we'll see what it takes.

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Speaker 2: What is the combined record of the ten opponents that

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Speaker 2: the Texans will play in the final eleven games.

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Speaker 3: Oh, it's probably not good because they're Titans twice and

657
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Speaker 3: that ruins things for you.

658
00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:47,560
Speaker 2: Are correct now, I told you for the first six

659
00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:50,440
Speaker 2: games it was twenty four to fifteen.

660
00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:51,680
Speaker 1: Yeah.

661
00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:57,320
Speaker 2: The final ten teams twenty five and thirty nine, twenty

662
00:28:57,400 --> 00:29:00,520
Speaker 2: five and twenty five and thirty nine now helped out

663
00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:05,320
Speaker 2: by Panthers zero and six, Cardinals one and five, Broncos

664
00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:07,960
Speaker 2: one and five, and then the Titans two and four.

665
00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:13,400
Speaker 2: So I counted them into twice. So it's it's it's

666
00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:15,680
Speaker 2: odd because I was listening to Sean and Seth and

667
00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:17,200
Speaker 2: as I was listening today, I don't I don't know

668
00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:19,000
Speaker 2: if they were they were saying this, but just as

669
00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:23,680
Speaker 2: they were talking, it just got me thinking about what's

670
00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:27,960
Speaker 2: coming up in these final eleven games and the possibilities.

671
00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:30,360
Speaker 1: Look, we know we've seen this team.

672
00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:33,040
Speaker 2: I mean last year after the bye we lost nine straight,

673
00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:36,000
Speaker 2: nine straight.

674
00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:41,480
Speaker 8: You know how we get through that, you know, So, look,

675
00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:47,760
Speaker 8: things can go sideways, there's no question, but it could

676
00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:50,480
Speaker 8: also get really really interesting in the second half.

677
00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:53,600
Speaker 3: Well, you have utter faith than I do about them

678
00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:56,680
Speaker 3: being able to be competitive in all these games.

679
00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:58,160
Speaker 1: Right, And that is key.

680
00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:00,440
Speaker 3: And last year I thought they were head they have

681
00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:02,480
Speaker 3: in a lot of games, but they just didn't have

682
00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:06,000
Speaker 3: the horses, the tools, the coaching to get over the top.

683
00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:07,600
Speaker 3: And I don't want to slam those guys. I mean, look,

684
00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:09,200
Speaker 3: they did the best they could. It was just a

685
00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:12,719
Speaker 3: tough situation. Forget about that. We know that they have

686
00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:14,959
Speaker 3: the goods right now to get over the top at

687
00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:17,440
Speaker 3: the end of these games, will they Well, it all

688
00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:20,120
Speaker 3: depends on performance, right, And they didn't perform down the

689
00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:23,000
Speaker 3: stretch the way they needed to the Saints they did.

690
00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:25,080
Speaker 3: I think they're gonna have a lot of games like this.

691
00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:27,360
Speaker 3: I'm not saying every single one. I think they'll have

692
00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:29,640
Speaker 3: some games like the Jags game of the Pittsburgh game,

693
00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:31,600
Speaker 3: but they'll also have games like they had the last

694
00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:33,360
Speaker 3: couple of weeks where it's gonna come down to big

695
00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:36,000
Speaker 3: plays in the fourth quarter, because that's how this league is.

696
00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:38,200
Speaker 1: Eight and to eight league. Fourth quarter league.

697
00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:40,640
Speaker 3: Who's gonna make the big plays on third down, down

698
00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:43,640
Speaker 3: the stretch, offense or defense. And they'll have a lot

699
00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:45,680
Speaker 3: of those games in these final eleven.

700
00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:48,400
Speaker 2: Here's what's interesting. I just kind of going in the

701
00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:53,880
Speaker 2: AFC Texas cit in three and three. AFC East you

702
00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:56,120
Speaker 2: have three of the four teams three or three are better.

703
00:30:56,840 --> 00:31:01,520
Speaker 2: AFC West you only have two. Everybody's three and three

704
00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:04,320
Speaker 2: are better. AFC South three teams are three and three

705
00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:07,560
Speaker 2: are better. This thing will start getting you know, stretched

706
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:10,600
Speaker 2: out a little, you know, a little bit at a time.

707
00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:13,480
Speaker 2: But the rest of the division is obviously has to

708
00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:16,440
Speaker 2: go through the AFC North and play play those particular teams.

709
00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:18,800
Speaker 2: The Bengals being three and three, I mean, that's a

710
00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:21,120
Speaker 2: little bit of it's a little bit of fools gold

711
00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:21,640
Speaker 2: in some sense.

712
00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:23,480
Speaker 1: Joe's been banged up and.

713
00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:26,560
Speaker 2: There I would imagine we've got what one week this

714
00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:29,960
Speaker 2: week Panthers Bears, Bengals. So we're looking at, you know,

715
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:31,680
Speaker 2: a month before we have to go there, a little

716
00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:33,520
Speaker 2: less than a month we have to go there and

717
00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:35,240
Speaker 2: play them in Cincinnati.

718
00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:37,280
Speaker 1: Burrow getting hot again.

719
00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:42,440
Speaker 2: Like, oh uh, that gets it gets exciting. I'll ask

720
00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:46,040
Speaker 2: you this because I've thought about this as well, playoffs

721
00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:47,080
Speaker 2: down the road, all that kind of stuff.

722
00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:50,560
Speaker 1: Won't worry about that. But say the Texans.

723
00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:53,120
Speaker 2: We'll say that Texas win the next couple of games,

724
00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:56,640
Speaker 2: they get to five and three to any of these

725
00:31:56,720 --> 00:31:57,480
Speaker 2: games the.

726
00:31:57,440 --> 00:31:58,760
Speaker 1: Rest of the year get flexed.

727
00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:03,240
Speaker 3: Okay, do you think Cincinnati is too early? Because it's

728
00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:07,120
Speaker 3: week ten? Right, it's week ten. What's December like?

729
00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:13,720
Speaker 2: So here's here's the way it looks after the bye Panthers, Bucks, Bengals, Cards,

730
00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:16,040
Speaker 2: Let's say no, just let's just.

731
00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:16,840
Speaker 1: Let's go with it.

732
00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:18,080
Speaker 6: None of those get flexed.

733
00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:20,000
Speaker 1: No, they I don't know nothing that they get flexed.

734
00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:22,440
Speaker 2: Let's say that you go, let's say you win three,

735
00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:25,840
Speaker 2: you win your home games, the Cards, Bucks, you beat

736
00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:28,560
Speaker 2: pants on the road struggle against the Bengals, lose that one,

737
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:30,880
Speaker 2: you walk out of there three and one, you're sitting

738
00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:34,280
Speaker 2: at six and four going into the Jacks. Okay, I

739
00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:36,240
Speaker 2: think there's a possibility that one getting flex. I gotta

740
00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:38,000
Speaker 2: see what else is on the schedule and what they're

741
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:42,360
Speaker 2: gonna dump. Yeah, because whatever point currently scheduled might be

742
00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:44,560
Speaker 2: a lot better than that might not, because we know

743
00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:46,160
Speaker 2: the Giants play every week.

744
00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:50,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, prime time in primetime. It feels like it. I'm

745
00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:52,680
Speaker 3: watching the Giants all the time. Do we need to

746
00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:54,440
Speaker 3: be subjected to this? Denver?

747
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:57,280
Speaker 1: Christopher mad Doug Russo went off on.

748
00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:00,959
Speaker 3: Tenver and they're gonna give you Denver thanks Now, the

749
00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:03,760
Speaker 3: Thanksgiving games are complicated because you can't flex out of

750
00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:06,560
Speaker 3: those Thanksgiving games, right and Monday night football that is

751
00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:09,920
Speaker 3: too early, So it's not gonna happen with Denver. I

752
00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:12,480
Speaker 3: think Denver plays on Monday night Thanksgiving week or something

753
00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:12,760
Speaker 3: like that.

754
00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:14,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Thanksgiving. I don't think those are going to

755
00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:17,560
Speaker 2: end up moving so that week. That's week twelve. So

756
00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:20,040
Speaker 2: let's say Jacks get on, get on a little bit

757
00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:22,000
Speaker 2: of a run. We got a little bit of a run.

758
00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:24,680
Speaker 2: Texans are six and four.

759
00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:25,160
Speaker 7: It's c J.

760
00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:29,680
Speaker 2: Stroud, chance for a primetime here's your Sunday Night and

761
00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:33,280
Speaker 2: your Monday Night games in week twelve. Now, the first one,

762
00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:36,720
Speaker 2: it's kind of tough. It's Ella, It's Baltimore in the Chargers,

763
00:33:36,760 --> 00:33:40,040
Speaker 2: It's Ravens Chargers, it's Lamar, it's Lamar versus.

764
00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:42,560
Speaker 3: They're not removing that one because the Ravens are going

765
00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:44,040
Speaker 3: to hang in there at the very least, and so

766
00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:45,960
Speaker 3: will Herbert. They're gonna find a way to win some

767
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:48,080
Speaker 3: of these games. And I know they're a dysfunctional team,

768
00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:50,840
Speaker 3: because come on, that can get.

769
00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:52,320
Speaker 1: It Sunday night matchup. But men, typically is what I.

770
00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:55,880
Speaker 2: Still want to watch, Herbert. It's in La in La. Yeah,

771
00:33:56,120 --> 00:34:00,840
Speaker 2: here's your Monday night game. Okay, Chicago Minnesota out, get

772
00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:02,360
Speaker 2: rid of it. Get rid of It's out?

773
00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:02,760
Speaker 1: Now?

774
00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:06,280
Speaker 2: Is there a more intriguing game before that? Green Bay

775
00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:07,480
Speaker 2: Detroit right now?

776
00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:08,040
Speaker 1: Not as much.

777
00:34:08,160 --> 00:34:11,560
Speaker 2: Washington, Dallas, San Francisco, Seattle could very well be in

778
00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:12,960
Speaker 2: Washington Dallas.

779
00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:14,640
Speaker 6: Will is Dallas allowed?

780
00:34:14,680 --> 00:34:16,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're allowed to go over the max of course

781
00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:19,000
Speaker 3: they Oh yeah, it's Dallas and Washington can be very competitive.

782
00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:20,600
Speaker 3: Look what they did to Atlanta A week after the

783
00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:21,279
Speaker 3: Texans lost.

784
00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:23,680
Speaker 2: There could see that. Oh no, no, so that's this

785
00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:25,680
Speaker 2: that's the oh this is the Thanksgiving week.

786
00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:28,239
Speaker 1: Okay, oh yeah, that's Thanksgiving, so forget about Thanksgiving. Yeah,

787
00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:33,920
Speaker 1: all right, so that's not gonna happen. So Titans, Browns, Titans, Browns, No, no, no, no,

788
00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:36,880
Speaker 1: I'm just going through the list. Titans won't be flexed.

789
00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:39,440
Speaker 2: I wouldn't imagine no with the Texans. What if the

790
00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:42,520
Speaker 2: Texans keep winning and the Browns keep winning, but that

791
00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:45,239
Speaker 2: didn't get it for Christmas Eve? Though, they're not like that.

792
00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:47,640
Speaker 2: They're not gonna change it. I'll tell you what could

793
00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:50,200
Speaker 2: happen if the cults somehow got hot and I don't

794
00:34:50,200 --> 00:34:53,520
Speaker 2: see it happening hot enough to where the Jaguars are

795
00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:55,920
Speaker 2: not a factor to win the division. I have final weekend.

796
00:34:56,320 --> 00:35:01,120
Speaker 3: That's a Saturday sundayle game. It's automatically flexible. So at

797
00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:03,240
Speaker 3: some point they'll tell the Texans you're playing on Saturday

798
00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:06,680
Speaker 3: or Sunday. I thought that could be if those two

799
00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:09,200
Speaker 3: teams are vying for the division, they might do what

800
00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:10,960
Speaker 3: they did last year with the Jags and the Titans,

801
00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:13,680
Speaker 3: where you're playing for the division championship on the final

802
00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:16,759
Speaker 3: weekend Saturday. I could see them doing something like that,

803
00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:19,880
Speaker 3: but that's a we're a long way from there journey, no,

804
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:22,760
Speaker 3: I know, absolutely, and a lot of things have to happen.

805
00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:24,760
Speaker 1: When you're in the by you start thinking about sure.

806
00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:25,480
Speaker 4: Quote unquote.

807
00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:29,640
Speaker 3: Second, if this were a golf tournament, right, it's still

808
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:32,640
Speaker 3: Friday on the back nine. If this were a golf

809
00:35:32,680 --> 00:35:36,239
Speaker 3: tournament like a PGA championship, it's Friday and the back

810
00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:39,360
Speaker 3: nine you're doing well, you're a little behind. You do

811
00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:42,000
Speaker 3: what you're playing well, and can you finish strong on

812
00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:46,239
Speaker 3: Friday and on moving Saturday. Really makes some strides here,

813
00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:48,879
Speaker 3: and that would be November, right, right, right, and then

814
00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:51,840
Speaker 3: the final day is December and beyond you know, what

815
00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:54,080
Speaker 3: are you doing in that final round? So we got

816
00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:56,839
Speaker 3: a ways to go. It's the Bill O'Brien Thanksgiving weekend thing.

817
00:35:57,280 --> 00:35:59,640
Speaker 3: Talk to me on Thanksgiving where they at. I just

818
00:35:59,680 --> 00:36:01,680
Speaker 3: take that have a chance to you know, at the

819
00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:04,280
Speaker 3: very least here, win one, lose one kind of rhythm

820
00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:07,200
Speaker 3: and maybe a whole lot better with the players, they're

821
00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:09,839
Speaker 3: getting back and guys starting to play better. The thing

822
00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:12,200
Speaker 3: that concerns me, and we'll talk about this a lot,

823
00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:15,719
Speaker 3: is rookie wall because it is a factor. We talk

824
00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:18,840
Speaker 3: about these rookies with the pre combined workouts and the combine,

825
00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:21,080
Speaker 3: then the OTAs and the rookie camp and all the

826
00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:22,960
Speaker 3: extra rookie rookie rookie stuff they have to do.

827
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:26,080
Speaker 1: There's no break for the rookies. So are they gonna

828
00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:26,400
Speaker 1: hold up?

829
00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:30,160
Speaker 3: They have almost a full college season from right now

830
00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:33,480
Speaker 3: to play this. They better get some rest, some sleep,

831
00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:36,040
Speaker 3: some shut eye this weekend. I don't want to see

832
00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:40,640
Speaker 3: any Gucci posting or whatever whom I referring to.

833
00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:41,560
Speaker 9: Who could I.

834
00:36:41,760 --> 00:36:45,160
Speaker 1: Pass no idea. I don't know where that one came from.

835
00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:51,840
Speaker 2: I don't have no idea Lamborghini driving.

836
00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:54,319
Speaker 3: You notice how that's picked back up now that they won,

837
00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:57,120
Speaker 3: And I don't know what's going on, but it's going

838
00:36:57,120 --> 00:36:58,160
Speaker 3: on whatever.

839
00:36:58,239 --> 00:37:02,680
Speaker 1: I mean, think about it. Season, a college season.

840
00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:08,160
Speaker 2: Is it's thirteen weeks, it's twelve games with one by

841
00:37:08,239 --> 00:37:10,759
Speaker 2: it's thirteen weeks. Well, you're about to embark on an

842
00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:13,279
Speaker 2: eleven game season coming up.

843
00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:14,160
Speaker 1: I mean, it's two.

844
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:17,440
Speaker 2: Weeks short and you've already played six games, so you

845
00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:22,640
Speaker 2: brought it up. Is the most intriguing player to come

846
00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:27,120
Speaker 2: off ir Derek Stingley, yes or no? And if you

847
00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:30,879
Speaker 2: say yes, because maybe it's obvious because we all want

848
00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:34,040
Speaker 2: to see this thing come back. Who's the next player

849
00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:38,200
Speaker 2: you're most intrigued seeing come off IR? If if they

850
00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:40,319
Speaker 2: could ultimately come off of IR, because I have one

851
00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:41,720
Speaker 2: in particular, Juice.

852
00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:44,400
Speaker 1: Nope, I mean yeah, I'm excited about you.

853
00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:46,520
Speaker 2: I don't want to say no because then it sounds

854
00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:47,719
Speaker 2: like I'm dismissive of that.

855
00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:51,560
Speaker 1: But IR are just coming back, Tank Dell coming back

856
00:37:51,640 --> 00:37:52,040
Speaker 1: coming back?

857
00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:55,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean Tanks, but Tank's been around guys that

858
00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:56,840
Speaker 2: have missed some time due to IR.

859
00:37:57,080 --> 00:37:57,640
Speaker 6: Give me one.

860
00:37:58,520 --> 00:38:02,920
Speaker 3: Hassan Ridgeway, Well, when is he going to So he

861
00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:04,920
Speaker 3: got hurt in the Ravens game, right, so that was

862
00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:05,399
Speaker 3: week one.

863
00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:08,680
Speaker 1: Now, I don't know to the extent I don't know.

864
00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:11,520
Speaker 1: I don't know surgery is involved. I don't know any

865
00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:13,200
Speaker 1: of that that would He's so awesome if you can

866
00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:13,640
Speaker 1: get him.

867
00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:16,319
Speaker 2: If you can get us on Ridgeway back, if you

868
00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:22,000
Speaker 2: can get him go especially I think Panthers, Bucks Bay.

869
00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:23,760
Speaker 1: I'm just thinking of the teams they got to face.

870
00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:27,280
Speaker 2: Having him ready for that Jags game would be hugely

871
00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:29,880
Speaker 2: important with the way that ETN is running the football.

872
00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:32,120
Speaker 3: Is running the mast very well. I think he's the

873
00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:34,960
Speaker 3: difference maker for them right now. Everybody's raving about Lawrence

874
00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:37,160
Speaker 3: has made some good throws, But why did they get

875
00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:38,640
Speaker 3: so hot after looking?

876
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:39,239
Speaker 1: Ah?

877
00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:42,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, Now they lost to the Chiefs seventeen nine. Then

878
00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:44,360
Speaker 3: they lost to the Texans and that was a shocker

879
00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:47,880
Speaker 3: for them, and they've been shocked into playing well in

880
00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:50,680
Speaker 3: the last three games. But I still I don't want

881
00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:52,319
Speaker 3: to say I don't believe. I think they can do

882
00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:54,520
Speaker 3: a lot of damage. I'm with you, I'm not sure

883
00:38:54,520 --> 00:38:56,600
Speaker 3: that I totally believe in me either. To be honest, Well,

884
00:38:56,600 --> 00:38:58,880
Speaker 3: that's shaping up to be a huge game here. That's

885
00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:00,919
Speaker 3: why you want to get tech its Houston Texans dot

886
00:39:00,920 --> 00:39:03,480
Speaker 3: Com because you have to be here. This is so

887
00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:06,480
Speaker 3: much fun right now and all the work they've done

888
00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:09,040
Speaker 3: to improve the game day experience, which has already been

889
00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:11,160
Speaker 3: fantastic over the years, but it's even better now. It's

890
00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:12,880
Speaker 3: the best it's ever been. And now you have this

891
00:39:12,960 --> 00:39:15,759
Speaker 3: Demico team to watch and enjoy, and you have back

892
00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:17,520
Speaker 3: to back wins you're coming off and then you get

893
00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:19,799
Speaker 3: the Buccaneers coming in here with a Baker Mayfield that

894
00:39:20,120 --> 00:39:21,920
Speaker 3: you don't know what you're gonna get. He is Forrest

895
00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:24,399
Speaker 3: comes a box of chocolate. He could be pretty good,

896
00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:26,680
Speaker 3: but he could also throw you one or two and

897
00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:27,600
Speaker 3: have a nice day.

898
00:39:27,760 --> 00:39:32,080
Speaker 2: He can be the whip strawberry chocolate, dark chocolate coated one.

899
00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:34,480
Speaker 1: He can be the nugat one. I mean, you just

900
00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:35,960
Speaker 1: never know what you're gonna up getting.

901
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:36,200
Speaker 7: Now.

902
00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:37,960
Speaker 2: For me, I like all of them, as you can

903
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:41,360
Speaker 2: see by my build, but some ridgeways the one to

904
00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:44,800
Speaker 2: me that I look at an ir and go, you know, look,

905
00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:48,759
Speaker 2: I'd love to have juice back. I think the question becomes,

906
00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:51,840
Speaker 2: now that you've had this offensive line together.

907
00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:54,240
Speaker 3: In this yes form for the last couple of weeks,

908
00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:57,160
Speaker 3: do you put juice right in there or disrupt that?

909
00:39:57,360 --> 00:40:00,799
Speaker 2: I don't know, but if you feel like if you

910
00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:03,200
Speaker 2: feel like you're putting juice in there and you're upgrading,

911
00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:05,399
Speaker 2: especially in the run game, then I think you have

912
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:06,680
Speaker 2: to absolutely consider it.

913
00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:07,319
Speaker 1: But here's the thing.

914
00:40:07,719 --> 00:40:10,640
Speaker 2: This is what I think the performance of the offensive

915
00:40:10,640 --> 00:40:13,719
Speaker 2: line last week in particular than a bye week. If

916
00:40:13,760 --> 00:40:17,040
Speaker 2: you buy them more time, you're buying juice more time.

917
00:40:17,640 --> 00:40:19,680
Speaker 2: You're buying him more time with a hamstring. And the

918
00:40:19,719 --> 00:40:22,279
Speaker 2: thing is having a having a hamstring issue. I've had

919
00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:26,040
Speaker 2: one during a season. It's never really right until you

920
00:40:26,120 --> 00:40:29,439
Speaker 2: get a significant amount of time off. Well, the more

921
00:40:29,560 --> 00:40:32,520
Speaker 2: time you give juice to be able to get back

922
00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:35,839
Speaker 2: from that, then the closer to one hundred percent he's

923
00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:37,080
Speaker 2: going to be. And then all of a sudden, you've

924
00:40:37,080 --> 00:40:39,319
Speaker 2: got a guy that you're bringing in who's not all

925
00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:42,239
Speaker 2: beat up. And if you're buying him more time than

926
00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:45,200
Speaker 2: he doesn't play eleven weeks, he can play eight nine weeks.

927
00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:48,319
Speaker 2: But I just you know, the you know how fee

928
00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:50,000
Speaker 2: about offensive line continuity is a big thing.

929
00:40:50,080 --> 00:40:52,600
Speaker 1: They finally have found, they found and you want.

930
00:40:52,520 --> 00:40:54,400
Speaker 3: To see these guys play a bunch of games together

931
00:40:54,560 --> 00:40:56,719
Speaker 3: to get that rhythm going that we talk about. And

932
00:40:56,760 --> 00:40:59,200
Speaker 3: what stinks about the offensive line as a position group.

933
00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:02,160
Speaker 3: If we're talking about a defensive lineman, will you work

934
00:41:02,200 --> 00:41:03,799
Speaker 3: them in for a few SNAr here or there, And

935
00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:07,160
Speaker 3: that just happens. It's a substitution position group offensive line.

936
00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:09,760
Speaker 3: It's not like that, Hey, take this series at guard.

937
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:11,600
Speaker 3: You don't want to see that on the O line.

938
00:41:11,960 --> 00:41:14,200
Speaker 3: This is five fingers in the glove and all of

939
00:41:14,239 --> 00:41:16,440
Speaker 3: that stuff. So I don't know what you do with him.

940
00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:18,399
Speaker 3: Let me ask you this though, if they needed help,

941
00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:19,960
Speaker 3: and I don't want to see them need help, but

942
00:41:19,960 --> 00:41:22,880
Speaker 3: if they did need help at guard, is Juice or

943
00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:26,600
Speaker 3: Patterson the more natural guard? If they determine that, all right,

944
00:41:26,600 --> 00:41:28,319
Speaker 3: we're gonna put one of these guys at guard because

945
00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:29,320
Speaker 3: we need help at guard.

946
00:41:29,600 --> 00:41:31,640
Speaker 6: This is what's tricky? Is that for a hypothetic Okay,

947
00:41:31,680 --> 00:41:31,960
Speaker 6: so this.

948
00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:37,720
Speaker 2: Is where it gets tricky to me because Patterson played

949
00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:42,200
Speaker 2: guard at Notre Dame. His last season he played center

950
00:41:42,360 --> 00:41:47,279
Speaker 2: up to that. Jarrett to me, is a center, but

951
00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:52,080
Speaker 2: he has worked out at guard, but his game is

952
00:41:52,239 --> 00:41:56,719
Speaker 2: more to me about playing center. At guard, I think

953
00:41:56,760 --> 00:42:00,239
Speaker 2: you have to move people, and you have to move

954
00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:02,279
Speaker 2: significantly heavy people.

955
00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:03,360
Speaker 6: And Scrugs can do that.

956
00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:06,320
Speaker 1: I think Scruggs does that a little bit better.

957
00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:11,160
Speaker 2: Scrugs is incredibly strong upper body torque strength, and that's

958
00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:13,440
Speaker 2: why when you face an odd front team where you've

959
00:42:13,480 --> 00:42:16,319
Speaker 2: got a nose tackle that he's got to handle, I

960
00:42:16,320 --> 00:42:19,319
Speaker 2: think Juice is more apt to handle that than Jared is.

961
00:42:19,640 --> 00:42:22,520
Speaker 2: But Jared played guard last year where Scruggs played center

962
00:42:22,560 --> 00:42:27,680
Speaker 2: at Penn State. But I think Juice's strength and his

963
00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:32,920
Speaker 2: movement skills, he's a better fit at guard and leaving Patterson.

964
00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:34,799
Speaker 2: If you're gonna play both of them, then he's a

965
00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:37,120
Speaker 2: better fitted guard leaving Patterson at So.

966
00:42:37,239 --> 00:42:38,880
Speaker 3: They continue to play well, they're not gonna do that

967
00:42:38,920 --> 00:42:41,200
Speaker 3: because they like Tight as a guard. But if something

968
00:42:41,200 --> 00:42:42,960
Speaker 3: would happen to a fan and then you move Tight

969
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:44,840
Speaker 3: his back right, you have a guard spot over. But

970
00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:47,040
Speaker 3: who knows what happens. Look, we get a long way

971
00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:48,520
Speaker 3: to go and a lot of different things can happen.

972
00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:50,080
Speaker 3: It'll just be good to have Juice back. And the

973
00:42:50,080 --> 00:42:52,160
Speaker 3: same thing can be said about Derek Stingley Junior in

974
00:42:52,200 --> 00:42:56,000
Speaker 3: the secondary because with Shaquille Griffin playing well, good, now

975
00:42:56,040 --> 00:42:58,360
Speaker 3: you can work sting back in as he gets healthy

976
00:42:58,400 --> 00:42:58,839
Speaker 3: and see he.

977
00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:01,600
Speaker 2: Doesn't have to play every single snap exactly. And I

978
00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:04,360
Speaker 2: always thinking about JJ in those regards JJ Watt. I

979
00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:07,440
Speaker 2: mean JJ didn't want to come off the field. I

980
00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:09,120
Speaker 2: mean he didn't want to come off the field, like

981
00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:10,840
Speaker 2: they would have to pry him off the field or

982
00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:13,719
Speaker 2: it'd have to be fifty seven, fifty one to ten

983
00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:16,840
Speaker 2: against the Titans, is seventeen whatever it was, and before

984
00:43:16,840 --> 00:43:18,279
Speaker 2: he would come off the field because the game was

985
00:43:18,320 --> 00:43:21,319
Speaker 2: over at that point. I'm not going to sit here

986
00:43:21,400 --> 00:43:23,640
Speaker 2: and say that that you know, that was what contributed

987
00:43:23,640 --> 00:43:25,200
Speaker 2: to JJ getting banged up and all that kind of

988
00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:27,839
Speaker 2: stuff over the years. But I do think you can

989
00:43:27,880 --> 00:43:30,880
Speaker 2: preserve a guy's career a little bit better by getting

990
00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:32,840
Speaker 2: them off the field, especially when they're dealing with a

991
00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:35,840
Speaker 2: hamstring issue like like Derek has, and when you have

992
00:43:35,960 --> 00:43:39,000
Speaker 2: a couple of corners like Steven in Shack. What it

993
00:43:39,040 --> 00:43:42,560
Speaker 2: also allows you to do is do some different Nickel coverages.

994
00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:45,320
Speaker 1: Like if you want to play five DB's back there.

995
00:43:45,320 --> 00:43:47,040
Speaker 2: It doesn't always have to be oh, you're playing the

996
00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:49,959
Speaker 2: Nickel Tybier Thomas or graylend Arnold like the other day

997
00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:52,439
Speaker 2: they ended up putting Jimmy Ward down at Nickel. Yeah,

998
00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:55,120
Speaker 2: and if you have three corners, you can you know,

999
00:43:55,239 --> 00:43:57,920
Speaker 2: let's say you're facing I don't know what team throws

1000
00:43:57,920 --> 00:43:59,880
Speaker 2: the ball around pretty well.

1001
00:44:00,120 --> 00:44:02,280
Speaker 1: Let's say, oh, I don't know, say the Browns.

1002
00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:04,200
Speaker 2: Say the Browns just throwing it around pretty well, and

1003
00:44:04,239 --> 00:44:06,359
Speaker 2: they've got three receivers on the field, and you all

1004
00:44:06,360 --> 00:44:08,200
Speaker 2: to lock those guys up. You can play the three

1005
00:44:08,239 --> 00:44:11,040
Speaker 2: corners together, you know, as your quote unquote Nickel. So

1006
00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:16,879
Speaker 2: the number of the variety of sub package looks when

1007
00:44:16,880 --> 00:44:19,240
Speaker 2: you just throw Derek Stingley back into the mix, healthy

1008
00:44:19,239 --> 00:44:20,279
Speaker 2: sting back into the mix.

1009
00:44:20,719 --> 00:44:23,480
Speaker 1: Man, It gets kind of interesting back to the center situation.

1010
00:44:23,680 --> 00:44:25,120
Speaker 3: You know what, this reminds me of a little bit

1011
00:44:25,120 --> 00:44:28,000
Speaker 3: when Greg Manz played that entire rookie year of his

1012
00:44:28,120 --> 00:44:29,120
Speaker 3: as an undrafted guy.

1013
00:44:29,160 --> 00:44:31,120
Speaker 1: When they drafted Nick Martin, he got hurt.

1014
00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:33,240
Speaker 3: Now he was on season ending ir at the time,

1015
00:44:33,600 --> 00:44:35,319
Speaker 3: but Mans had to fill in the whole year, and

1016
00:44:35,320 --> 00:44:37,280
Speaker 3: you went nine and seven. You weren't a great offense

1017
00:44:37,320 --> 00:44:39,360
Speaker 3: that year, but look, you went nine and seven and

1018
00:44:39,400 --> 00:44:41,440
Speaker 3: won the division, and you had Lamar Miller for the

1019
00:44:41,440 --> 00:44:43,400
Speaker 3: first time in the lineup because they acquired him in

1020
00:44:43,440 --> 00:44:44,080
Speaker 3: the offseason.

1021
00:44:44,440 --> 00:44:46,520
Speaker 1: So it reminds me a little bit of that.

1022
00:44:46,680 --> 00:44:48,520
Speaker 3: A guy you didn't expect to have to play a

1023
00:44:48,520 --> 00:44:50,880
Speaker 3: lot is playing all the time, and Jared Patterson and

1024
00:44:50,920 --> 00:44:52,360
Speaker 3: do it a good job. You're three and three on

1025
00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:54,960
Speaker 3: a team that wasn't expected to be by the pundits.

1026
00:44:55,320 --> 00:44:59,640
Speaker 3: And I'm writing a whole piece on pundits and power rankings, rankings,

1027
00:45:00,160 --> 00:45:03,359
Speaker 3: popping on the micro flopping Peter Piper picked up never mind.

1028
00:45:03,760 --> 00:45:06,640
Speaker 3: So that is something that I look at here to

1029
00:45:06,719 --> 00:45:10,080
Speaker 3: compare the past and the present and look for situations

1030
00:45:10,080 --> 00:45:12,360
Speaker 3: where things can work because I'm a positive thinker.

1031
00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:15,160
Speaker 2: To use another P word, Yes, you are a positive thinker,

1032
00:45:15,320 --> 00:45:19,719
Speaker 2: Mark Vandermiir. Positive is not what's happening in Indianapolis right now.

1033
00:45:19,760 --> 00:45:21,440
Speaker 9: Two big pieces.

1034
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:24,160
Speaker 2: Of information coming out from the Annapolis coach will go

1035
00:45:24,160 --> 00:45:25,760
Speaker 2: around the NFL and hit those two.

1036
00:45:25,600 --> 00:45:27,240
Speaker 1: Next right here on Texans All Access.

1037
00:45:28,400 --> 00:45:30,600
Speaker 2: What's up, everybody, Welcome back to this Wednesday edition of

1038
00:45:30,680 --> 00:45:33,440
Speaker 2: Texans All Access. I'm your host, John Harris, Football Analyst,

1039
00:45:33,480 --> 00:45:35,920
Speaker 2: sideline reporter. It's time to go around the NFL. We

1040
00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:39,920
Speaker 2: got plenty of news. Let's start Indianapolis where the Indianapolis

1041
00:45:39,920 --> 00:45:45,120
Speaker 2: Colts has decided Anthony Richardson will have shoulder surgery and

1042
00:45:45,280 --> 00:45:46,840
Speaker 2: that will shelf.

1043
00:45:46,680 --> 00:45:48,480
Speaker 1: Him for the season.

1044
00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:53,200
Speaker 2: The only way to fix this significant AC joint injury. Now,

1045
00:45:53,239 --> 00:45:55,680
Speaker 2: speaking of somebody that's had that injury, I get it.

1046
00:45:56,120 --> 00:45:58,960
Speaker 2: If it gets even worse, especially your throwing arm, you

1047
00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:03,560
Speaker 2: gotta take care of it. But Indianapolis, Anthony Richardson out

1048
00:46:03,800 --> 00:46:09,960
Speaker 2: for the season, significant ac joint injury, season ending shoulder surgery.

1049
00:46:10,040 --> 00:46:12,080
Speaker 1: Now, having.

1050
00:46:13,360 --> 00:46:16,600
Speaker 2: Watch QB, one one of my favorite documentaries, Anthony Richardson

1051
00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:19,040
Speaker 2: has his shoulder surgery for our shoulder issue for a

1052
00:46:19,160 --> 00:46:24,040
Speaker 2: while a while, so they're finally doing something about it now.

1053
00:46:24,200 --> 00:46:26,440
Speaker 1: Other Colts news. I think it was late last night.

1054
00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:31,480
Speaker 2: Grover Stewart out six weeks. It's positive for PDS. He

1055
00:46:31,600 --> 00:46:36,040
Speaker 2: is out for six weeks. Ough tough news there for

1056
00:46:36,080 --> 00:46:40,400
Speaker 2: Indianapolis to lose Richardson for the season, Stuart for six weeks.

1057
00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:44,680
Speaker 2: The Cardinals, and this may affect the Texans. The Cardinals

1058
00:46:44,840 --> 00:46:49,640
Speaker 2: will open the twenty one day window for Kyler Murray

1059
00:46:50,360 --> 00:46:54,000
Speaker 2: slow process to ramp him up. Murraynitzer in the team

1060
00:46:54,040 --> 00:46:56,480
Speaker 2: as rapport, tweeted Maria. The team will be smart with

1061
00:46:56,520 --> 00:46:58,960
Speaker 2: his return from ACL tear. But he is back on

1062
00:46:59,160 --> 00:47:03,000
Speaker 2: the practice field. Texans could see him in a few weeks.

1063
00:47:03,040 --> 00:47:05,440
Speaker 2: All right, we get back Drew and I went in

1064
00:47:05,480 --> 00:47:08,400
Speaker 2: the lab, cream of the croppers and underready players to

1065
00:47:08,480 --> 00:47:10,480
Speaker 2: watch for the remainder of this season.

1066
00:47:10,520 --> 00:47:13,560
Speaker 1: That's next the Texans All Access. We got one our down,

1067
00:47:13,640 --> 00:47:14,960
Speaker 1: one hour left to go.

1068
00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:18,360
Speaker 2: Here on a Wednesday edition of Texans All Access.

1069
00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:20,200
Speaker 1: Appreciate you being here with me.

1070
00:47:20,200 --> 00:47:22,760
Speaker 2: I'm John Harris Footballanto, a sideline reporter for your Houston

1071
00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:27,080
Speaker 2: Texans and man. Tough news for the Indianapolis Colts. Losing

1072
00:47:27,160 --> 00:47:29,960
Speaker 2: Anthony Richardson for the whole year. But that shoulder has

1073
00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:31,719
Speaker 2: been an issue dating back to this day, as at

1074
00:47:31,719 --> 00:47:32,680
Speaker 2: gains the Least Side.

1075
00:47:33,160 --> 00:47:34,840
Speaker 1: And I knew.

1076
00:47:34,640 --> 00:47:36,800
Speaker 2: That there was an issue back then because I followed

1077
00:47:36,800 --> 00:47:38,440
Speaker 2: the show QB one and I knew that he was

1078
00:47:38,600 --> 00:47:40,960
Speaker 2: one of the three quarterbacks for that year. It never

1079
00:47:41,719 --> 00:47:43,719
Speaker 2: showed up though that it was a COVID year, so

1080
00:47:43,760 --> 00:47:46,000
Speaker 2: they you know, well it was twenty nineteen, but they

1081
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:49,400
Speaker 2: were the COVID graduation year and so they never played

1082
00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:49,920
Speaker 2: that show.

1083
00:47:50,040 --> 00:47:52,239
Speaker 1: And then I just happened to stumble upon it on tub.

1084
00:47:52,680 --> 00:47:54,279
Speaker 2: I didn't even know what tub was, but I guess

1085
00:47:54,320 --> 00:47:58,239
Speaker 2: it's like free documentaries with commercials whatever. The QB one,

1086
00:47:58,719 --> 00:48:01,200
Speaker 2: like the fourth season popped up and there's Anthony Richardson

1087
00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:04,480
Speaker 2: Bryce Young on that show, and it's kind of interesting

1088
00:48:04,560 --> 00:48:05,359
Speaker 2: to watch both of them.

1089
00:48:05,560 --> 00:48:06,440
Speaker 1: Richardson had that.

1090
00:48:06,440 --> 00:48:09,680
Speaker 2: Shoulder issue as far back as twenty nineteen when he

1091
00:48:09,680 --> 00:48:12,040
Speaker 2: was in high school. He had to cut off like

1092
00:48:12,120 --> 00:48:14,719
Speaker 2: I think half the season that he had to lose

1093
00:48:14,760 --> 00:48:16,320
Speaker 2: because of that shoulder back then.

1094
00:48:16,719 --> 00:48:18,440
Speaker 1: So they're doing something about Indianapolis.

1095
00:48:18,480 --> 00:48:20,239
Speaker 2: It'll be out for the rest of the year, but

1096
00:48:20,640 --> 00:48:23,000
Speaker 2: Indianapolis and it depends on you.

1097
00:48:22,960 --> 00:48:23,319
Speaker 1: Look at this.

1098
00:48:24,080 --> 00:48:26,120
Speaker 2: If Gardner Mitchew gets in there, he's won a lot

1099
00:48:26,120 --> 00:48:29,120
Speaker 2: of games. But if he doesn't do well, well, they'll

1100
00:48:29,160 --> 00:48:30,840
Speaker 2: just have a top pick and then they can do

1101
00:48:30,880 --> 00:48:33,160
Speaker 2: whatever they want. They can package it, they can move it,

1102
00:48:33,880 --> 00:48:36,680
Speaker 2: get a pile of picks for teams coming up for quarterbacks.

1103
00:48:37,040 --> 00:48:39,160
Speaker 2: They could also if they don't think Anthony Richardson is

1104
00:48:39,160 --> 00:48:40,640
Speaker 2: the guy, which I don't know why they would.

1105
00:48:40,440 --> 00:48:43,120
Speaker 1: Think that, they could end up drafting another quarterback. So

1106
00:48:43,239 --> 00:48:43,640
Speaker 1: we'll see.

1107
00:48:43,640 --> 00:48:45,640
Speaker 2: I think Minshew wins enough games for them to be

1108
00:48:45,760 --> 00:48:48,279
Speaker 2: five to six wins and not in the top ten,

1109
00:48:48,360 --> 00:48:51,520
Speaker 2: but they still can because of the quarterbacks coming into

1110
00:48:51,520 --> 00:48:55,239
Speaker 2: this draft, presumably they can take whatever pick they end

1111
00:48:55,320 --> 00:48:57,200
Speaker 2: up with and maybe move it for a.

1112
00:48:57,120 --> 00:48:59,480
Speaker 1: Package of picks because they have Richardson. Now, will he

1113
00:48:59,560 --> 00:49:00,719
Speaker 1: be healthy, we don't know.

1114
00:49:01,400 --> 00:49:03,799
Speaker 2: I would imagine coming back to Macy joints separation, it's

1115
00:49:03,800 --> 00:49:05,799
Speaker 2: gonna be tough, but I would imagine he'll get back

1116
00:49:05,840 --> 00:49:07,520
Speaker 2: in due time, be able to throw over the summer

1117
00:49:07,560 --> 00:49:10,520
Speaker 2: and be ready for twenty twenty four. But again remains

1118
00:49:10,520 --> 00:49:12,680
Speaker 2: to be seen. But the Grover Stewart lost for six games,

1119
00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:16,400
Speaker 2: that's tough. Stuart and Buckner to me, have been the

1120
00:49:16,440 --> 00:49:19,960
Speaker 2: most difficult duo this year. In other years they are

1121
00:49:19,960 --> 00:49:22,000
Speaker 2: in a top three or four, like last year they

1122
00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:25,920
Speaker 2: were in there with Dexter and Dexter Lawrence and Leonard Williams, Theron,

1123
00:49:25,960 --> 00:49:27,000
Speaker 2: Paige Jonathan Allen.

1124
00:49:27,360 --> 00:49:29,920
Speaker 1: This year they're kind of all on their own as

1125
00:49:29,920 --> 00:49:30,960
Speaker 1: far as duos that.

1126
00:49:30,920 --> 00:49:33,759
Speaker 2: The Texas got to face. He'll be back based on

1127
00:49:33,760 --> 00:49:36,040
Speaker 2: the math six games. He'll be back week a team

1128
00:49:36,040 --> 00:49:40,280
Speaker 2: when the Texas playing, But Anthony Richardson will not Kyler Murray.

1129
00:49:40,320 --> 00:49:43,520
Speaker 2: That's an interesting one him coming back. We'll see twenty

1130
00:49:43,560 --> 00:49:45,360
Speaker 2: one day window. Now they get to the end of

1131
00:49:45,360 --> 00:49:48,440
Speaker 2: the twenty one day window and they're not ready to

1132
00:49:48,480 --> 00:49:51,480
Speaker 2: bring him up or make him active, then he goes on.

1133
00:49:51,520 --> 00:49:53,359
Speaker 2: I already misses the rest of the year. Now, that's

1134
00:49:53,400 --> 00:49:55,640
Speaker 2: what I've kind of thought all along they might be doing.

1135
00:49:56,560 --> 00:49:58,480
Speaker 1: But we'll see. The Cardinals are a plucky group.

1136
00:49:58,640 --> 00:50:00,440
Speaker 2: They've kept it really close with a lot of really

1137
00:50:00,440 --> 00:50:03,359
Speaker 2: good football teams and they ended up getting one win,

1138
00:50:03,520 --> 00:50:05,600
Speaker 2: that being against the Dallas Cowboys. So we'll see what

1139
00:50:05,640 --> 00:50:08,080
Speaker 2: the Cardinals end up doing with Kyler Murray going forward.

1140
00:50:08,080 --> 00:50:11,640
Speaker 2: But they've opened that twenty one day practice window for

1141
00:50:11,920 --> 00:50:14,800
Speaker 2: him in Arizona. All right, let's focus on the Texans

1142
00:50:14,800 --> 00:50:17,840
Speaker 2: here because we're gonna go in the lab with Drew

1143
00:50:18,120 --> 00:50:21,440
Speaker 2: Doherty and myself. We talk about a creamy the croppers

1144
00:50:21,440 --> 00:50:25,120
Speaker 2: for the Saints game, and who are underrated players to

1145
00:50:25,400 --> 00:50:28,640
Speaker 2: watch for the remaining eleven games.

1146
00:50:28,960 --> 00:50:32,600
Speaker 10: Let's go Drew, three and three and the way we've

1147
00:50:32,640 --> 00:50:35,759
Speaker 10: gone about seeing this team getting with three and three.

1148
00:50:36,320 --> 00:50:39,120
Speaker 10: This is really fun. I joked about it when we

1149
00:50:39,600 --> 00:50:43,640
Speaker 10: taped Extra Points this week with vandermir And and d Kalu.

1150
00:50:43,800 --> 00:50:45,440
Speaker 10: You're a guest on the show a lot. What was

1151
00:50:45,440 --> 00:50:47,640
Speaker 10: a great guest, But I joked, do you kind of

1152
00:50:47,680 --> 00:50:49,759
Speaker 10: wake up in the morning sometimes in wonder? Was this

1153
00:50:49,960 --> 00:50:52,520
Speaker 10: just a dream that we actually got Demiko Ry he's

1154
00:50:52,560 --> 00:50:55,719
Speaker 10: actually the head coach. This happened because it seemed too

1155
00:50:55,760 --> 00:50:57,640
Speaker 10: good to be true, and then it happened, and then

1156
00:50:58,000 --> 00:50:59,440
Speaker 10: it seemed too good to be true the way the

1157
00:50:59,480 --> 00:51:02,520
Speaker 10: draft went down, and it's kind of shaken out nicely

1158
00:51:02,560 --> 00:51:05,239
Speaker 10: through six and I know there's eleven games left. I

1159
00:51:05,239 --> 00:51:06,799
Speaker 10: don't want to get too far ahead of myself, but

1160
00:51:06,840 --> 00:51:09,560
Speaker 10: the Texans are a good team now. John, It's awesome.

1161
00:51:09,640 --> 00:51:11,239
Speaker 10: I'm loving this, you know, what.

1162
00:51:11,280 --> 00:51:13,600
Speaker 2: Ends up happening to Drew And I not the right

1163
00:51:13,640 --> 00:51:15,920
Speaker 2: way of saying this, but I woke up on Monday

1164
00:51:16,320 --> 00:51:19,200
Speaker 2: and I had to remind myself, Oh, yeah we won.

1165
00:51:19,560 --> 00:51:23,799
Speaker 2: Over the last three years, we've just been so conditioned

1166
00:51:24,120 --> 00:51:28,040
Speaker 2: Monday we lost. No matter what happened, we lost. It

1167
00:51:28,120 --> 00:51:29,920
Speaker 2: was just that way we were conditioned to kind of

1168
00:51:29,920 --> 00:51:31,920
Speaker 2: think that way. I had to kind of remind myself

1169
00:51:32,280 --> 00:51:35,680
Speaker 2: on Monday, like, yeah, we won, Yeah we won this game.

1170
00:51:35,719 --> 00:51:37,319
Speaker 1: We're three and three, and you know.

1171
00:51:37,280 --> 00:51:41,200
Speaker 2: It was There's the one thing about it, Drew that

1172
00:51:41,239 --> 00:51:42,879
Speaker 2: there's so many different things, I guess I should say,

1173
00:51:42,920 --> 00:51:45,200
Speaker 2: but one thing that really stood out to me was

1174
00:51:46,360 --> 00:51:50,319
Speaker 2: the joy on the sideline, the excitement on the sideline

1175
00:51:50,960 --> 00:51:55,960
Speaker 2: and fans getting into the game again. And we've had

1176
00:51:56,000 --> 00:52:00,759
Speaker 2: so many different faces come through our building business ops

1177
00:52:00,760 --> 00:52:03,959
Speaker 2: in particular, even in football ops too. You know guys

1178
00:52:03,960 --> 00:52:06,960
Speaker 2: that have come out with football ops. You know, equipment guys, trainers,

1179
00:52:06,960 --> 00:52:08,359
Speaker 2: you know people we've gotten to know over the last

1180
00:52:08,400 --> 00:52:09,040
Speaker 2: couple of years.

1181
00:52:09,080 --> 00:52:10,840
Speaker 1: And I mean even players.

1182
00:52:11,360 --> 00:52:13,720
Speaker 2: I remember we were talking to a player this was gosh,

1183
00:52:13,760 --> 00:52:16,680
Speaker 2: I don't remember, probably back media days, back in June,

1184
00:52:17,360 --> 00:52:19,560
Speaker 2: and we were talking about you know, playing at Energy Stadium.

1185
00:52:19,560 --> 00:52:21,320
Speaker 1: We're like, look, man, this thing rocks.

1186
00:52:21,880 --> 00:52:24,640
Speaker 2: And they're like really, because the last two three years,

1187
00:52:24,680 --> 00:52:26,200
Speaker 2: what did they see? And it was a COVID year

1188
00:52:26,239 --> 00:52:28,120
Speaker 2: And then there was twenty one and then twenty two

1189
00:52:28,160 --> 00:52:32,520
Speaker 2: and either one of those years were really good. I'm like, yeah,

1190
00:52:32,600 --> 00:52:35,319
Speaker 2: this place so rock and you're starting to see that

1191
00:52:35,360 --> 00:52:37,840
Speaker 2: and fuel that again. I would like for the volume

1192
00:52:37,840 --> 00:52:40,080
Speaker 2: of fans to increase, but the fans that are in there,

1193
00:52:40,440 --> 00:52:42,719
Speaker 2: they're leaving everything they've got in that building, man, and

1194
00:52:42,760 --> 00:52:44,719
Speaker 2: it's great, and these players are feeding off it and.

1195
00:52:44,960 --> 00:52:47,360
Speaker 1: There's just such a good, joyous vibe.

1196
00:52:47,440 --> 00:52:50,600
Speaker 2: Now, like you said, they're eleven games left, but this

1197
00:52:50,680 --> 00:52:53,680
Speaker 2: is the time where you step back and go, okay.

1198
00:52:54,800 --> 00:52:56,759
Speaker 2: I don't know how many people expected us to be

1199
00:52:56,760 --> 00:52:59,160
Speaker 2: three and three. I mean, who had us three and

1200
00:52:59,239 --> 00:53:03,320
Speaker 2: three through six? There were some people, I know CBS

1201
00:53:03,320 --> 00:53:07,200
Speaker 2: Sports had us at seven and ten, But even at

1202
00:53:07,239 --> 00:53:10,319
Speaker 2: seven and ten, did they think we'd be three and

1203
00:53:10,400 --> 00:53:14,120
Speaker 2: three versus the schedule that included the Ravens, the Steelers,

1204
00:53:14,320 --> 00:53:18,360
Speaker 2: the Saints, the Falcons, and of course the Colts. I

1205
00:53:18,360 --> 00:53:20,279
Speaker 2: don't know that anybody would have had us three and three.

1206
00:53:20,320 --> 00:53:23,880
Speaker 2: I mean, even your most ardent supporters, even you and I,

1207
00:53:24,040 --> 00:53:25,479
Speaker 2: we want to see the Texas do well.

1208
00:53:25,560 --> 00:53:28,560
Speaker 1: I mean, look, if you.

1209
00:53:28,480 --> 00:53:30,640
Speaker 2: Get to two and four, you gotta feel good because

1210
00:53:30,640 --> 00:53:33,040
Speaker 2: of what you got coming back on the second half

1211
00:53:33,040 --> 00:53:34,680
Speaker 2: of the schedule or the other half of the schedule.

1212
00:53:34,719 --> 00:53:36,200
Speaker 1: I guess I don't know how you want to say

1213
00:53:36,200 --> 00:53:38,480
Speaker 1: that it's not really a half, but I'm calling it

1214
00:53:38,480 --> 00:53:38,920
Speaker 1: a chunk.

1215
00:53:39,640 --> 00:53:40,240
Speaker 9: Yeah, a chunk.

1216
00:53:40,920 --> 00:53:42,560
Speaker 2: We had like a small chunk and big chunks. So

1217
00:53:42,600 --> 00:53:43,880
Speaker 2: we got the small chunk out of the way and

1218
00:53:43,880 --> 00:53:46,640
Speaker 2: then we got a big chunk. But because we have

1219
00:53:46,800 --> 00:53:50,719
Speaker 2: nine home games, we end up having six or six

1220
00:53:50,800 --> 00:53:52,839
Speaker 2: and five six six home, five road.

1221
00:53:53,560 --> 00:53:55,279
Speaker 1: Then you know, hopefully that'll bode well.

1222
00:53:55,320 --> 00:53:58,280
Speaker 2: I think these guys are getting excited about playing at home,

1223
00:53:59,000 --> 00:54:00,879
Speaker 2: and I think that that's gonna help.

1224
00:54:00,960 --> 00:54:03,120
Speaker 1: And look, it's not gonna be a rose garden.

1225
00:54:03,719 --> 00:54:05,399
Speaker 2: Look, we got a lot of rookies that are gonna

1226
00:54:05,400 --> 00:54:10,160
Speaker 2: be playing the longest season of their lives. So how

1227
00:54:10,160 --> 00:54:12,759
Speaker 2: do they react? How does CJ react? You know, in

1228
00:54:12,800 --> 00:54:17,040
Speaker 2: game fourteen fifteen sixteen, you know those are gonna be

1229
00:54:17,080 --> 00:54:19,080
Speaker 2: there's gonna be difficult games for the rookies and getting

1230
00:54:19,120 --> 00:54:21,560
Speaker 2: by them, and hopefully this games are gonna mean something.

1231
00:54:21,640 --> 00:54:22,960
Speaker 1: So there's a lot to do.

1232
00:54:23,719 --> 00:54:25,920
Speaker 2: But if we don't step back, and after all that

1233
00:54:25,960 --> 00:54:27,879
Speaker 2: we've been through the last three years of particular, Drew

1234
00:54:28,160 --> 00:54:30,480
Speaker 2: kind to step back and go, you know what, I'm happy.

1235
00:54:30,160 --> 00:54:31,239
Speaker 1: To be here at three and three.

1236
00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:36,320
Speaker 10: I'm two. I'm two. I knew when when Demiko was

1237
00:54:36,400 --> 00:54:38,920
Speaker 10: hired and he started assembling that coaching staff, I knew,

1238
00:54:39,440 --> 00:54:40,880
Speaker 10: this is gonna be a better team no matter what,

1239
00:54:41,480 --> 00:54:43,480
Speaker 10: no matter what happens in the draft, this team will

1240
00:54:43,480 --> 00:54:45,640
Speaker 10: be better. This will be team will be improved. Now.

1241
00:54:45,640 --> 00:54:48,279
Speaker 10: I thought in after the draft, I thought, Okay, there's

1242
00:54:48,280 --> 00:54:50,200
Speaker 10: gonna be some lumps. You're gonna take your lumps. It's

1243
00:54:50,200 --> 00:54:53,480
Speaker 10: gonna be uh tough. But I'm not stunned by the start.

1244
00:54:53,520 --> 00:54:56,440
Speaker 10: Getn't predict it, but I'm not stunned by it. It

1245
00:54:56,440 --> 00:54:58,880
Speaker 10: makes sense to me based on what we've seen, and

1246
00:54:58,920 --> 00:55:03,040
Speaker 10: it's it's also del just because as you know, I'm

1247
00:55:03,040 --> 00:55:06,680
Speaker 10: a dork about the mock draft trackers. I compile all

1248
00:55:06,719 --> 00:55:11,200
Speaker 10: those and really, since what was the draft April twenty eight,

1249
00:55:11,200 --> 00:55:14,640
Speaker 10: twenty ninth, so basically since May one out then basically

1250
00:55:14,680 --> 00:55:16,479
Speaker 10: since May one until about a week or two ago,

1251
00:55:16,719 --> 00:55:20,399
Speaker 10: every all but maybe two or three of the mock

1252
00:55:20,520 --> 00:55:23,360
Speaker 10: drafts that coming out early had the Texans in the

1253
00:55:23,400 --> 00:55:26,279
Speaker 10: one or the two slot. Really the Cardinals picking because

1254
00:55:26,280 --> 00:55:28,440
Speaker 10: they assume know the Texans are gonna be one of

1255
00:55:28,480 --> 00:55:30,400
Speaker 10: the two worst teams. They're not anywhere near that, And

1256
00:55:30,440 --> 00:55:34,160
Speaker 10: that's delicious. So I love love to seeing that. All Right,

1257
00:55:34,719 --> 00:55:37,600
Speaker 10: cream of the crop of the crop? Who do we

1258
00:55:37,640 --> 00:55:41,040
Speaker 10: got for you against the Saints? Who was your cream

1259
00:55:41,080 --> 00:55:41,640
Speaker 10: of the cropper?

1260
00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:43,000
Speaker 11: Clean of the crop?

1261
00:55:43,360 --> 00:55:46,000
Speaker 2: Well, I kind of feel like I'm gonna leave one

1262
00:55:46,080 --> 00:55:48,200
Speaker 2: for you, So I'm gonna go with one maybe off the.

1263
00:55:48,120 --> 00:55:50,719
Speaker 1: Beaten path a little bit. Okay, I think there are

1264
00:55:50,719 --> 00:55:51,879
Speaker 1: a few players that you can take.

1265
00:55:51,920 --> 00:55:54,520
Speaker 2: Maybe the one that that I believe you're gonna take

1266
00:55:55,400 --> 00:56:01,239
Speaker 2: because you straight cash homie, I'm gonna go with Sheldon Rankings.

1267
00:56:01,600 --> 00:56:02,360
Speaker 10: It's a good one.

1268
00:56:02,800 --> 00:56:05,960
Speaker 2: And I know Sheldon got his first sack of the year,

1269
00:56:06,960 --> 00:56:09,480
Speaker 2: but to me, it's more than that it was. It's

1270
00:56:09,520 --> 00:56:12,440
Speaker 2: the way he's played the last few weeks and he's

1271
00:56:12,480 --> 00:56:15,600
Speaker 2: sort of toiling in anonymity, which I hate because he's

1272
00:56:15,640 --> 00:56:18,920
Speaker 2: playing his guts out, and I know when I know

1273
00:56:18,960 --> 00:56:21,759
Speaker 2: what ends up happening with free agency, people equate free

1274
00:56:21,760 --> 00:56:27,640
Speaker 2: agency dollars to some quantitative metric, pay him fifty million

1275
00:56:27,600 --> 00:56:31,400
Speaker 2: dollars a year, oh twenty sacks like in that's not

1276
00:56:31,440 --> 00:56:34,799
Speaker 2: a position. That's not that's not what that position calls for.

1277
00:56:34,840 --> 00:56:39,560
Speaker 2: What that position calls for is disruption, suit dominated the

1278
00:56:39,560 --> 00:56:41,680
Speaker 2: point of attack, and Sheldon's done that, and he's done

1279
00:56:41,680 --> 00:56:43,799
Speaker 2: it very quietly, but you start he's starting to make

1280
00:56:43,800 --> 00:56:45,840
Speaker 2: a little bit of noise. And I thought he was

1281
00:56:45,920 --> 00:56:48,400
Speaker 2: tremendous against the Saints. I in fact saught him out

1282
00:56:48,400 --> 00:56:50,000
Speaker 2: of locker room because I wanted to tell him that

1283
00:56:50,840 --> 00:56:54,400
Speaker 2: the sack was great. The sack was It's Aaron Donald's

1284
00:56:54,520 --> 00:56:57,600
Speaker 2: jumped through cross the chop move. But then he didn't

1285
00:56:57,680 --> 00:57:00,400
Speaker 2: quite get all the way through it. But when he

1286
00:57:00,520 --> 00:57:04,000
Speaker 2: landed kind of with this jump jump through, he burst

1287
00:57:04,080 --> 00:57:07,719
Speaker 2: right past Suza Ruiz and then snatched Derek Carr down.

1288
00:57:07,719 --> 00:57:09,719
Speaker 2: I mean that was I mean, he snatched at two

1289
00:57:09,800 --> 00:57:11,399
Speaker 2: hundred and ten pound man just right.

1290
00:57:11,320 --> 00:57:13,280
Speaker 1: To the ground like Rekable.

1291
00:57:14,440 --> 00:57:17,280
Speaker 2: I just feel like he's playing as good a ball

1292
00:57:17,280 --> 00:57:20,480
Speaker 2: as possibly could be. And maybe I'm glossing over Malik Collins,

1293
00:57:20,480 --> 00:57:21,840
Speaker 2: who I know has played very very well.

1294
00:57:21,840 --> 00:57:23,480
Speaker 1: You got half a sack to the day. Malik has

1295
00:57:23,480 --> 00:57:25,120
Speaker 1: played well. But I think we talk about.

1296
00:57:25,000 --> 00:57:26,320
Speaker 6: Malik a lot.

1297
00:57:26,560 --> 00:57:29,240
Speaker 2: I don't think we've or anybody really has mentioned how

1298
00:57:29,240 --> 00:57:30,800
Speaker 2: well Sheldon Rankins is playing.

1299
00:57:31,240 --> 00:57:33,000
Speaker 1: So like our friends.

1300
00:57:32,760 --> 00:57:35,040
Speaker 2: Landry and John say, nobody talking about guy. Maybe that's

1301
00:57:35,080 --> 00:57:37,360
Speaker 2: me with Sheldon Rankins. But I think Sheldon Rankins has

1302
00:57:37,400 --> 00:57:41,320
Speaker 2: been freaking awesome for this team and been great. And

1303
00:57:41,360 --> 00:57:44,840
Speaker 2: you talked about his comments in the locker room about hey,

1304
00:57:44,840 --> 00:57:48,920
Speaker 2: we're not We're not here to rebuild, man, We're winning games.

1305
00:57:49,000 --> 00:57:50,920
Speaker 2: We're here to be a factor in this whole thing.

1306
00:57:51,000 --> 00:57:53,800
Speaker 2: And I love that mentality. I love what Sheldon Rankins

1307
00:57:53,840 --> 00:57:54,720
Speaker 2: has given this team.

1308
00:57:55,040 --> 00:57:55,919
Speaker 10: Yeah, that's a good choice.

1309
00:57:55,920 --> 00:57:56,240
Speaker 4: I like that.

1310
00:57:56,280 --> 00:57:58,400
Speaker 10: It's a good cream of the cropper. I'm gonna go

1311
00:57:58,480 --> 00:58:02,880
Speaker 10: with like you said, cash me outside Lake Cashman.

1312
00:58:03,560 --> 00:58:05,520
Speaker 7: Yep, the cream of the crop.

1313
00:58:05,440 --> 00:58:07,680
Speaker 10: Doesn't get much better than that. In a week, fifteen

1314
00:58:07,760 --> 00:58:11,480
Speaker 10: tackles a couple of pass breakups, the big big stop

1315
00:58:11,520 --> 00:58:14,560
Speaker 10: at the end with Shaq Griffin. He's everywhere and this

1316
00:58:14,600 --> 00:58:16,160
Speaker 10: is who we've seen. This is what we've seen from

1317
00:58:16,240 --> 00:58:20,680
Speaker 10: him all since late July. That's who Blake Cashman has been.

1318
00:58:21,120 --> 00:58:25,480
Speaker 10: He was picking passes off during the early days of

1319
00:58:25,520 --> 00:58:27,520
Speaker 10: training camp. He had the injury, so we missed some

1320
00:58:27,560 --> 00:58:31,800
Speaker 10: preseason time. But he was a disruptive force, a playmaker,

1321
00:58:31,880 --> 00:58:34,800
Speaker 10: a difference maker, just like we saw the other day.

1322
00:58:35,120 --> 00:58:38,800
Speaker 10: And he told me back in May, back in late July,

1323
00:58:39,040 --> 00:58:42,680
Speaker 10: he said, listen, they they came in, these new coaches

1324
00:58:43,280 --> 00:58:45,680
Speaker 10: and they identified some things. He looked at the tape

1325
00:58:45,680 --> 00:58:49,560
Speaker 10: and they said, you're gonna play strong strong side the

1326
00:58:49,560 --> 00:58:50,560
Speaker 10: same linebacker spot.

1327
00:58:50,600 --> 00:58:51,200
Speaker 4: I don't you know.

1328
00:58:51,240 --> 00:58:53,800
Speaker 10: He'd been kind of cross trained at every position on

1329
00:58:53,840 --> 00:58:56,920
Speaker 10: the inside or the off ball linebacker, whichever defense you

1330
00:58:56,960 --> 00:58:58,720
Speaker 10: want to call. But he kind of had to know

1331
00:58:58,800 --> 00:59:01,520
Speaker 10: all of them, and they said, forget that, focus on

1332
00:59:01,800 --> 00:59:06,200
Speaker 10: strong the sam spot, own the Sam spot. And he's

1333
00:59:06,240 --> 00:59:09,040
Speaker 10: done that, and it's a defense he played in, kind

1334
00:59:09,040 --> 00:59:12,200
Speaker 10: of started in, not started in, but he began his

1335
00:59:12,280 --> 00:59:15,000
Speaker 10: career in with the Jets under Robert Salah, you know

1336
00:59:15,040 --> 00:59:16,720
Speaker 10: that that year he was there, and then he comes

1337
00:59:16,720 --> 00:59:19,240
Speaker 10: here for a year or so, he's under Levey. He's

1338
00:59:19,280 --> 00:59:22,640
Speaker 10: having a great, great start to this season. He's a

1339
00:59:22,720 --> 00:59:24,680
Speaker 10: good choice. He's my cream of the croper. I'm gonna

1340
00:59:24,680 --> 00:59:28,440
Speaker 10: go to play cashman. So let's move on over this

1341
00:59:28,560 --> 00:59:31,680
Speaker 10: final eleven. Who's your under the radar Textan to watch.

1342
00:59:31,680 --> 00:59:33,600
Speaker 10: He kind of just gave us one in Sheldon Rankins.

1343
00:59:33,640 --> 00:59:36,000
Speaker 10: So this last eleven who we got to keep our

1344
00:59:36,040 --> 00:59:36,360
Speaker 10: eyes on?

1345
00:59:36,360 --> 00:59:36,760
Speaker 9: And CJ.

1346
00:59:36,800 --> 00:59:39,280
Speaker 10: Stroud is an obvious choice. But let's go under the radar.

1347
00:59:39,760 --> 00:59:43,520
Speaker 2: Well, there's one name that stands out to me, and

1348
00:59:44,920 --> 00:59:48,560
Speaker 2: I think when I say his name of real, well he's.

1349
00:59:48,360 --> 00:59:50,880
Speaker 1: Not under the radar. But who the hell is talking

1350
00:59:50,880 --> 00:59:55,240
Speaker 1: about Shaq Mason? Really? Nobody, Oh there's problems in the

1351
00:59:55,280 --> 00:59:57,080
Speaker 1: run game. Well, it's this guy.

1352
00:59:57,160 --> 00:59:57,440
Speaker 7: It's that.

1353
00:59:57,600 --> 01:00:00,840
Speaker 2: It's it's like, I mean, it's off, it's the lines issue.

1354
01:00:00,880 --> 01:00:03,160
Speaker 2: I mean, nobody really is talking about how well Shack's playing.

1355
01:00:03,160 --> 01:00:04,440
Speaker 2: I mean when they ran the ball well in that

1356
01:00:04,440 --> 01:00:06,760
Speaker 2: first half and there were a couple of blocks that

1357
01:00:06,880 --> 01:00:10,720
Speaker 2: Shaq had that just I mean I could feel them from.

1358
01:00:10,520 --> 01:00:11,680
Speaker 7: Where I was in the sideline.

1359
01:00:11,680 --> 01:00:14,120
Speaker 2: I mean, he really popped guys when he was pulling

1360
01:00:14,160 --> 01:00:18,160
Speaker 2: around and making blocks. And look, hast been perfect. It's

1361
01:00:18,200 --> 01:00:19,640
Speaker 2: not going to be and it hasn't been. I mean,

1362
01:00:19,640 --> 01:00:21,720
Speaker 2: the results in the run game have not been tremendous.

1363
01:00:21,720 --> 01:00:25,720
Speaker 2: But I just feel like Shack Mason and I don't

1364
01:00:25,760 --> 01:00:29,000
Speaker 2: know how this configuration of the line will go. I

1365
01:00:29,040 --> 01:00:31,760
Speaker 2: know two things I know Laramy Tunssel will play left tackle,

1366
01:00:31,800 --> 01:00:34,040
Speaker 2: and A Shack Mason will play right guard. And I

1367
01:00:34,040 --> 01:00:36,480
Speaker 2: don't want to take Laramie for granted ever, but Laramie.

1368
01:00:36,520 --> 01:00:38,640
Speaker 2: We talked about Laramie a lot. I don't want to

1369
01:00:38,680 --> 01:00:41,280
Speaker 2: take Shack Mason for granted either, because what he's brought

1370
01:00:41,280 --> 01:00:43,720
Speaker 2: to this team, you know, it makes you wish man.

1371
01:00:43,760 --> 01:00:46,720
Speaker 2: I wish we had him three four years ago because

1372
01:00:46,920 --> 01:00:49,720
Speaker 2: he's he's something else. I mean, he is just an

1373
01:00:49,760 --> 01:00:53,760
Speaker 2: exceptional player. Great feet can fit into any of the

1374
01:00:53,800 --> 01:00:55,400
Speaker 2: scheme that you want. If you want to run some

1375
01:00:55,520 --> 01:00:58,520
Speaker 2: zone game and do it with Devin Singletary, okay, you

1376
01:00:58,560 --> 01:01:01,120
Speaker 2: want to run some power gap stuff where he's got

1377
01:01:01,120 --> 01:01:03,400
Speaker 2: to pull around, Shaq does and you do that with

1378
01:01:03,480 --> 01:01:06,560
Speaker 2: Damian Pierce Man, he's good and Shack's.

1379
01:01:06,200 --> 01:01:06,600
Speaker 1: Good at that.

1380
01:01:06,840 --> 01:01:10,120
Speaker 2: So and I think whoever plays center, whether that Jared

1381
01:01:10,160 --> 01:01:12,440
Speaker 2: continues at center where the juice comes back, I don't

1382
01:01:12,480 --> 01:01:14,600
Speaker 2: know how that's gonna all go together. I really don't

1383
01:01:14,640 --> 01:01:16,520
Speaker 2: don't know whether Titus will bounce back over to right

1384
01:01:16,560 --> 01:01:18,800
Speaker 2: tack or not. I just know that the one guy

1385
01:01:19,160 --> 01:01:21,160
Speaker 2: that has been in the lineup from the day he

1386
01:01:21,200 --> 01:01:24,120
Speaker 2: got here and hasn't been out of that lineup is

1387
01:01:24,160 --> 01:01:27,400
Speaker 2: Shaq Mason, and he's gotten better and better in the scheme.

1388
01:01:27,480 --> 01:01:29,120
Speaker 2: And I saw him in the locker room the other

1389
01:01:29,240 --> 01:01:32,280
Speaker 2: day and I he's got such a bright smile and

1390
01:01:32,280 --> 01:01:35,320
Speaker 2: he just it just feels like a lot of these veterans.

1391
01:01:35,840 --> 01:01:38,160
Speaker 2: I can imagine there were some veterans that are kind

1392
01:01:38,160 --> 01:01:40,400
Speaker 2: of like, yeah, I'm gonna sign with Houston, and there

1393
01:01:40,400 --> 01:01:43,280
Speaker 2: were some people going, what are you doing? I'm sure

1394
01:01:43,320 --> 01:01:45,640
Speaker 2: they got questioned by a lot of people like why

1395
01:01:45,680 --> 01:01:47,800
Speaker 2: are you going there? What are you gonna do there?

1396
01:01:47,840 --> 01:01:49,920
Speaker 2: And you look up and you see these veterans. I

1397
01:01:49,920 --> 01:01:52,880
Speaker 2: mean Robert Woods told Tyd Dunn like, yeah, I like

1398
01:01:52,920 --> 01:01:54,040
Speaker 2: it here. I'd like to stay here.

1399
01:01:54,840 --> 01:01:58,520
Speaker 1: And I think, by the way, those yeah very good.

1400
01:01:59,640 --> 01:02:01,200
Speaker 1: So there's just a lot there.

1401
01:02:01,200 --> 01:02:04,160
Speaker 2: And I just get the impression that Shaq likes being

1402
01:02:04,200 --> 01:02:05,760
Speaker 2: with Titus, he likes being with Laramie.

1403
01:02:05,760 --> 01:02:08,800
Speaker 1: I mean, I see those three together, They're like everywhere together.

1404
01:02:08,840 --> 01:02:10,480
Speaker 2: And I just feel like Shaq brings so much to

1405
01:02:10,480 --> 01:02:14,600
Speaker 2: that offensive line that we just haven't talked about. And

1406
01:02:14,640 --> 01:02:16,360
Speaker 2: maybe some of that is just how many people are

1407
01:02:16,400 --> 01:02:18,560
Speaker 2: watching the offensive line. I mean, I'm the dork or

1408
01:02:18,600 --> 01:02:21,560
Speaker 2: the group, so I do it, but I love it

1409
01:02:21,560 --> 01:02:23,320
Speaker 2: because that, to me is where the game is played,

1410
01:02:23,320 --> 01:02:25,440
Speaker 2: and I think Shack has played it very very well.

1411
01:02:25,560 --> 01:02:28,400
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna go under the radar to the final

1412
01:02:28,440 --> 01:02:32,080
Speaker 2: eleven Shaq Mason in latch barks. I don't know how

1413
01:02:32,120 --> 01:02:33,680
Speaker 2: that configuration is gonna go.

1414
01:02:34,600 --> 01:02:36,800
Speaker 10: That's good, and it's been There's been so many iterations

1415
01:02:36,800 --> 01:02:39,440
Speaker 10: of the line so far this year. So he's been

1416
01:02:39,480 --> 01:02:42,120
Speaker 10: the glue. He's been the you know he and hard

1417
01:02:42,200 --> 01:02:44,960
Speaker 10: enough to believe Jared Patterson have been the constance.

1418
01:02:44,560 --> 01:02:46,120
Speaker 4: There, constant on the inside.

1419
01:02:46,200 --> 01:02:51,160
Speaker 10: Yeah, all right, I I guess you can't really say

1420
01:02:51,200 --> 01:02:53,160
Speaker 10: this under that, but I'm gonna make him under the radar.

1421
01:02:53,560 --> 01:02:57,640
Speaker 10: Derek Stingley Junior whenever he returns, ok, he returns what

1422
01:02:57,760 --> 01:03:00,320
Speaker 10: sort of pieces he to the puzzle there? On defense?

1423
01:03:00,360 --> 01:03:02,800
Speaker 10: I thought he had started out and looked very nice

1424
01:03:03,200 --> 01:03:05,560
Speaker 10: in what he had done in the first first part

1425
01:03:05,560 --> 01:03:07,560
Speaker 10: of his season that he played in and he was

1426
01:03:07,600 --> 01:03:11,000
Speaker 10: looking good, I thought, So you add him to a

1427
01:03:11,040 --> 01:03:13,600
Speaker 10: secondary I think that has performed very nicely so far,

1428
01:03:14,080 --> 01:03:17,680
Speaker 10: a defense that has performed very nicely so far. Stephen

1429
01:03:17,720 --> 01:03:20,240
Speaker 10: Nelson's been outstanding. And now you add in Stingley with

1430
01:03:20,280 --> 01:03:23,360
Speaker 10: what we think he can be and who he has been.

1431
01:03:23,920 --> 01:03:25,960
Speaker 10: Give me gimme Sting. Let's see what that does, and

1432
01:03:26,000 --> 01:03:28,080
Speaker 10: then let's see what that does for the pass rush.

1433
01:03:28,200 --> 01:03:30,200
Speaker 10: You got a better coverage, a little bit better coverage,

1434
01:03:30,240 --> 01:03:32,680
Speaker 10: and that's no knock on anybody else, but let's see

1435
01:03:32,720 --> 01:03:34,000
Speaker 10: what he does with you when you got your full

1436
01:03:34,000 --> 01:03:35,480
Speaker 10: deck in the secondary.

1437
01:03:35,040 --> 01:03:39,080
Speaker 2: There absolutely I think you know, it's interesting when you

1438
01:03:39,080 --> 01:03:42,440
Speaker 2: bring up, you know, a guy like Sting, because you know,

1439
01:03:42,560 --> 01:03:44,040
Speaker 2: guys that right now are on IR.

1440
01:03:44,080 --> 01:03:45,400
Speaker 1: I kind of out of side, out of mind. I

1441
01:03:45,440 --> 01:03:45,760
Speaker 1: hate that.

1442
01:03:45,960 --> 01:03:49,000
Speaker 2: But you know, Sound Ridgeways a guy we haven't talked about,

1443
01:03:49,040 --> 01:03:51,560
Speaker 2: and what could he bring back to this defensive line.

1444
01:03:51,600 --> 01:03:54,720
Speaker 2: Two Scruggs we haven't seen in a while, and hopefully

1445
01:03:54,720 --> 01:03:56,680
Speaker 2: we'll get a chance to see him soon. And when

1446
01:03:56,680 --> 01:03:58,960
Speaker 2: we do, we're going to see a different type of

1447
01:03:59,080 --> 01:04:01,680
Speaker 2: center than Jared Patterson. And I don't know if they'll

1448
01:04:01,800 --> 01:04:04,640
Speaker 2: just move Juice to guard uh and Titus's over. I

1449
01:04:04,680 --> 01:04:06,400
Speaker 2: don't know, but but those guys that are kind of

1450
01:04:06,440 --> 01:04:08,600
Speaker 2: an IR right now, and you're going, oh man.

1451
01:04:08,600 --> 01:04:10,680
Speaker 1: I forgot about Yeah, I forgot about Ridgeway.

1452
01:04:10,720 --> 01:04:13,800
Speaker 2: Actually had to tell myself today like, oh yes, on

1453
01:04:13,960 --> 01:04:15,120
Speaker 2: Ridgeways on on ir.

1454
01:04:15,200 --> 01:04:16,400
Speaker 1: Hopefully he can come back.

1455
01:04:16,960 --> 01:04:20,240
Speaker 2: Soon because he he's got the size and the girth

1456
01:04:20,320 --> 01:04:22,360
Speaker 2: that we don't have on that On that defensive line,

1457
01:04:22,400 --> 01:04:26,560
Speaker 2: we've got quickness and athleticism, some strength, we don't have size,

1458
01:04:26,600 --> 01:04:28,480
Speaker 2: and Ridgeway at least gives us a little bit of that.

1459
01:04:28,560 --> 01:04:29,960
Speaker 1: So you know, bring it up Stingly.

1460
01:04:30,000 --> 01:04:32,080
Speaker 2: I think it's a great one, Drew, because kind of

1461
01:04:32,080 --> 01:04:33,800
Speaker 2: forgot about it with the way Stephen Nelson is Shack

1462
01:04:33,840 --> 01:04:36,520
Speaker 2: Griffin of played. But if you add Sting to those two,

1463
01:04:37,040 --> 01:04:38,760
Speaker 2: now all of a sudden, you got something. Man, you

1464
01:04:38,880 --> 01:04:39,800
Speaker 2: definitely have something.

1465
01:04:40,240 --> 01:04:44,040
Speaker 10: What you're gonna see is I mean probably as soon

1466
01:04:44,080 --> 01:04:46,640
Speaker 10: as this next game, because you have the this Sunday

1467
01:04:46,680 --> 01:04:48,320
Speaker 10: off and then you know a week from Sunday you're

1468
01:04:48,320 --> 01:04:52,040
Speaker 10: in Carolina. You're gonna see some really notable names on

1469
01:04:52,080 --> 01:04:55,600
Speaker 10: the inactives list, Guys that are really have been contributors

1470
01:04:55,640 --> 01:04:59,200
Speaker 10: and will contribute to most teams. There's just you know

1471
01:04:59,240 --> 01:05:01,280
Speaker 10: a glot of people, so they're gonna be the odd

1472
01:05:01,360 --> 01:05:03,400
Speaker 10: men out for that game, and that's gonna switch. That'll

1473
01:05:03,480 --> 01:05:05,840
Speaker 10: change about around a bunch, and you know, other guys

1474
01:05:05,880 --> 01:05:08,760
Speaker 10: are gonna get get injured to take those spots. But

1475
01:05:10,080 --> 01:05:11,520
Speaker 10: it's gonna be one of those things where you have

1476
01:05:11,560 --> 01:05:15,720
Speaker 10: that good problem in which there's good players that aren't

1477
01:05:15,760 --> 01:05:18,400
Speaker 10: gonna play because you've you're starting to build up that

1478
01:05:18,440 --> 01:05:19,000
Speaker 10: quality depth.

1479
01:05:19,040 --> 01:05:22,520
Speaker 1: But anyway, that's absolutely you hit it.

1480
01:05:22,600 --> 01:05:26,880
Speaker 10: Absolutely, My dude, always good to talk with. You have

1481
01:05:27,000 --> 01:05:29,440
Speaker 10: a great weekend off. I'm guessing you're just what you're

1482
01:05:29,440 --> 01:05:31,880
Speaker 10: gonna jet to Fiji something like that, just chilling the

1483
01:05:31,880 --> 01:05:32,440
Speaker 10: beach for a.

1484
01:05:34,040 --> 01:05:35,320
Speaker 1: I might chill out the beach, but it might be

1485
01:05:35,520 --> 01:05:36,479
Speaker 1: that get helps in beach.

1486
01:05:37,120 --> 01:05:37,720
Speaker 9: My daughter.

1487
01:05:38,120 --> 01:05:40,240
Speaker 2: My wife and daughter are coming in on Tuesday night,

1488
01:05:40,400 --> 01:05:42,960
Speaker 2: so I'm excited about that. They'll be here for a week,

1489
01:05:42,960 --> 01:05:43,959
Speaker 2: which would be kind of fun.

1490
01:05:44,880 --> 01:05:48,640
Speaker 10: Me, my wife, Vita, and I and the five staples

1491
01:05:48,680 --> 01:05:52,320
Speaker 10: in my head. We're gonna go to Maine and uh,

1492
01:05:52,440 --> 01:05:54,480
Speaker 10: we're gonna have a nice We're gonna see some foliage

1493
01:05:54,600 --> 01:05:55,560
Speaker 10: up in New England.

1494
01:05:55,600 --> 01:05:57,240
Speaker 1: So you're going to Maine. Wow?

1495
01:05:57,920 --> 01:05:58,120
Speaker 7: Yeah.

1496
01:05:58,320 --> 01:05:58,680
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1497
01:05:58,840 --> 01:06:00,720
Speaker 10: She's always wanted to go. You know, I have two

1498
01:06:00,800 --> 01:06:02,800
Speaker 10: but she's like, we're going. This is what we're doing.

1499
01:06:03,600 --> 01:06:04,840
Speaker 10: So she says, I.

1500
01:06:06,360 --> 01:06:06,880
Speaker 7: I can't wait.

1501
01:06:07,640 --> 01:06:08,680
Speaker 9: Maye is off now.

1502
01:06:08,720 --> 01:06:11,400
Speaker 1: It's the best to me in summer. But if you're

1503
01:06:11,440 --> 01:06:12,160
Speaker 1: going in the fall.

1504
01:06:12,560 --> 01:06:16,320
Speaker 2: You're right, the foliage is gonna be freaking awesome, really good.

1505
01:06:16,560 --> 01:06:19,160
Speaker 10: Yeah, John, always fun with you have a good one,

1506
01:06:19,640 --> 01:06:20,040
Speaker 10: all right?

1507
01:06:20,080 --> 01:06:24,240
Speaker 2: Of course, great stuff from me. Uh Andrew on in

1508
01:06:24,480 --> 01:06:26,439
Speaker 2: the lab. You don't talk about great stuff? How about

1509
01:06:26,480 --> 01:06:28,120
Speaker 2: Will Anderson singing Adele?

1510
01:06:28,240 --> 01:06:31,200
Speaker 1: Now it's only for three seconds, but you'll hear it.

1511
01:06:31,400 --> 01:06:35,200
Speaker 2: Here Will Anderson singing Adele with Deep Situ on our

1512
01:06:35,240 --> 01:06:37,160
Speaker 2: Deep Slant Interview of the Week that's next on Texans

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01:06:37,240 --> 01:06:40,280
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Speaker 2: Texas All Access FRO. I'm not at Texans Radio Studio.

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Speaker 2: I am John Harris Football. I know a sideline reporter

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Speaker 2: and in my Harris one hundred last year, number one

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Speaker 2: at the top.

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Speaker 1: Was Will Anderson Junior.

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Speaker 2: I've become even more of a fan because he sings adele.

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Speaker 1: Don't believe me.

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Speaker 2: Listen to this Deep Slant interview with Deep City of

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Speaker 2: Will Anderson Junior.

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Speaker 12: The Deep sent one one presented by Exfinity.

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Speaker 13: Our guests this week, Will Anderson number three overall.

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Speaker 12: Pick how's it going.

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Speaker 14: I'm doing goods going great? Thank you for having me.

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Speaker 14: I appreciate you. But it's been a blessing. It's been

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Speaker 14: fun so far. I'm just ready to see what else

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Speaker 14: the season hopes for us.

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Speaker 12: I'm wearing my new balanced shoes.

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Speaker 13: I dug these up because you've got a new balance

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Speaker 13: to repeat. I was like, I have some new balances.

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Speaker 13: Congrats on that. I just saw the announcement came out

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Speaker 13: what like a week or two ago. Yes, okay, So

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Speaker 13: how did that come about? Are you just like an

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Speaker 13: it's an interesting choice of brands, I would.

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Speaker 6: Say, well, I'm all about being different.

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Speaker 14: So like I just feel like, you know, most guys,

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Speaker 14: you know, they go at Nike or somebody else, and

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Speaker 14: I'm always talking about going this different route and also

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Speaker 14: like new balances on the beliefs and values that I

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Speaker 14: have for you know, myself, with my family and being

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Speaker 14: in the community and everything like that, and just being innovative.

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Speaker 14: And that's something that they've been doing really well, you know,

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Speaker 14: just innovating new things like new fashions, new designs, and

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Speaker 14: I'm all for so I was really excited to be

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Speaker 14: partners with them and try to you know, come up

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Speaker 14: with the cleat and then they like have us like

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Speaker 14: making our own cleats, own designs on fats and everything.

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Speaker 14: Like that, just being hands on. So it's really exciting

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Speaker 14: and really fun.

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Speaker 13: It's like what's old is new again because I remember

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Speaker 13: when New Balance was really in.

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Speaker 12: I mean, I'm a little bit showing my age here

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Speaker 12: and now it's new again.

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Speaker 13: And you I was reading this great story in the

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Speaker 13: Athletic about how you're super into thrift store shopping.

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Speaker 12: Yes, so you do like old is new again.

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Speaker 13: So okay, so how did you get into thrifting and

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Speaker 13: what do you think about the thrift scene in Houston.

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Speaker 14: Yeah, so it originally started with my grandmother. Her name

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Speaker 14: was Betty Child. And at first I just used to

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Speaker 14: go to like get all the old toys and everything

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Speaker 14: like that. But then as I got older, I was

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Speaker 14: like hold on, like they got some good pieces in here.

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Speaker 14: And then like me and my friends just used to

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Speaker 14: go all the time and like get like all types

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Speaker 14: of like vintace jackets, vintage pants and stuff like that.

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Speaker 14: And what's really cool is like New Balance their shoes.

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Speaker 14: It goes perfect with like it does yeah, like boot

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Speaker 14: cut pants and everything like that, like the baggy look.

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Speaker 14: So it's really fun and exciting just to you know,

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Speaker 14: eventu around different like lanes of clothing and different like

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Speaker 14: lanes of like other brands you know that can connect

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Speaker 14: with New balance really well?

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Speaker 13: Okay, but is it not hard to find your size

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Speaker 13: and a thrift store, like sizing is already tricky, and

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Speaker 13: then you're not, you know, an average size guy, You're huge,

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Speaker 13: So how do you find your size?

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Speaker 14: So I'll go for the oversized look, okay, I always

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Speaker 14: try to go over yeah, over oversize, so like it's

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Speaker 14: never really easy to find like a straight thirty eight,

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Speaker 14: so sometimes I have to go up to like a

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Speaker 14: forty or forty You.

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Speaker 12: Get it taken in?

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Speaker 13: Yeah, okay, and I and I read that you also

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Speaker 13: take some of some of your teammates also like thrifting.

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Speaker 13: Who else do you think is big into that scene?

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Speaker 7: Yeah?

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Speaker 14: All of them? I went with. Who is that I

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Speaker 14: went with that one day? Dang No, it wasn't one

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Speaker 14: of my teammates. It was one of my friends that came.

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Speaker 14: But I know a couple I've seen sting at one

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Speaker 14: of the thrift stores that he was there.

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Speaker 12: Okay, he likes drift, seen him, I heard likes to

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Speaker 12: thrij likes to thrift.

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Speaker 14: Took the time I went was with one of my

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Speaker 14: friends from back home but I know, like I've seen

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Speaker 14: CJ there and CJ.

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Speaker 13: I mean, see, which city do you think has got

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Speaker 13: a great thrift store scene.

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Speaker 7: I gotta say Georgia, of course.

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Speaker 12: Georgia really okay, But Houston.

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Speaker 14: Has a lot of great thrifting stores here, Like Thrifted

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Speaker 14: Threads is one that you probably read that, yeah, that

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Speaker 14: I've been to, but it's some other ones. Like I

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Speaker 14: was like, oh wow, like y'all got a lot of

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Speaker 14: vinceed stuff in here. I'll be back on one of

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Speaker 14: these offers.

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Speaker 12: Really, yeah, okay, and you find some good stuff.

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Speaker 14: Yeah, a lot of great stuffy So is that what

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Speaker 14: you were on game day?

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Speaker 13: Or do you buy your stuff? Seems pretty high fashion.

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Speaker 13: I don't think you're writing those the thrift stores. So

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Speaker 13: what's your fashion aesthetic?

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Speaker 14: Like? My fashion aesthetic is just really calm, cool and collected.

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Speaker 14: I don't really like being really flashy, but I feel

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Speaker 14: like sometimes some of the old stuff flashy to me,

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Speaker 14: Like what my flashy is versus what somebody else flashy

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Speaker 14: is is really different.

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Speaker 7: I kind of just like I like cut off shirts

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Speaker 7: a lot.

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Speaker 14: The outfit that you've seen me wear this past Saturday,

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Speaker 14: I got like five more shirts just like that, and

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Speaker 14: I have some other brands like do you are and

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Speaker 14: stuff like that that's cut off to I mean, for me,

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Speaker 14: it's really just what I feel comfortable in, you know

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Speaker 14: what I'm saying, Like what I want to wear?

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Speaker 13: All Right, So you look really comfortable showing up to

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Speaker 13: the game. You're obviously very comfortable in the game. Let's

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Speaker 13: talk about the first few games of the season. I mean,

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Speaker 13: you blocked a field goal, which is amazing. It seemed

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Speaker 13: like you could have had two blockfield goals.

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Speaker 12: What about that?

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Speaker 13: Like Drew Doherty was in here earlier and he said,

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Speaker 13: you got to ask, Will did that hurt blocking the

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Speaker 13: field goal? And I was like, I didn't even notice

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Speaker 13: what part of your body was it? Your hand, your wrist?

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Speaker 12: Like how did you even block it?

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Speaker 14: Everybody keep saying that it didn't hurt. Like surprisingly, I

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Speaker 14: thought it was because we were like coming to like

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Speaker 14: the preparation that whole week. We was like, oh, we're

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Speaker 14: going to block a field goal, we know, really, and

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Speaker 14: like we didn't, Like I didn't get my hands on

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Speaker 14: in practice and I never got my hand on the

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Speaker 14: field goal, but I was like the force of this ball.

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Speaker 14: I wonder how it was gonna feel And honestly, it

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Speaker 14: just felt like I was playing volleyball. I just went

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Speaker 14: out darre and smacked it down. But I also think

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Speaker 14: it was like the agenaum too, so like I probably

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Speaker 14: didn't feel nothing.

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Speaker 12: You didn't have any bruises or any pain afterwards.

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Speaker 7: Oh it was fine.

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Speaker 13: When did you learn that that was a skill set

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Speaker 13: that you had, that you were able to jump up

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Speaker 13: and block field goals like that?

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Speaker 14: It probably started when I used to have to go

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Speaker 14: practice with my sisters at volleyball practice.

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Speaker 13: Really okay, so you would try to block their shots

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Speaker 13: or were you actually playing with them?

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Speaker 7: I was actually playing with them. It was fun.

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Speaker 13: Yeah, okay, And what about just the first four games, Like,

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Speaker 13: have you had your welcome to the NFL moment?

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Speaker 12: You've played some pretty big names so far.

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Speaker 14: Yeah, a few times. You know, it's a part of

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Speaker 14: the game. You know, you get a shot here and there.

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Speaker 14: You know what I'm saying, that somebody block you here

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Speaker 14: and there. But like, I feel like coach Dimiko does

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Speaker 14: a really good job with the intensity of practice, making

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Speaker 14: sure that we're really prepared going into a game, knowing

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Speaker 14: how fast we need to play, how physical we need

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Speaker 14: to be. And then plus just being in Alabama. You know,

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Speaker 14: practice is very physical there. So the transition from Alabama

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Speaker 14: to the league, it's kind of just it's been like

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Speaker 14: an easy transition, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 7: Like, guys are way bigger.

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Speaker 14: You know what I'm saying, But the physicality is always

1678
01:12:49,120 --> 01:12:50,719
Speaker 14: going to be the physicality, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 7: So I just got to give a.

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Speaker 14: Big shout out to the coaching staff and plus the

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Speaker 14: players that we have here that just want to keep

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Speaker 14: getting better. They want to have the intensity every day

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01:12:57,000 --> 01:12:59,080
Speaker 14: in practice, knowing that it's going to make us better

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Speaker 14: on Sunday.

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Speaker 13: Yeah, you were you were a leader of the locker

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Speaker 13: room at Alabama, you are a captain. Now you're a

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Speaker 13: captain here. I wonder what is that like as a

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Speaker 13: rookie when you're the team. I mean, obviously you and c. J. Stroud,

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Speaker 13: But you know what is it like when you're a

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Speaker 13: rookie but you're a captain, you're a leader, but yet

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Speaker 13: you're still kind of young. You know what is that

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01:13:16,080 --> 01:13:17,400
Speaker 13: dynamic like in the locker room?

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Speaker 7: Man? It's honestly great, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 14: Like, of course you're a little nervous sometimes because you

1695
01:13:21,800 --> 01:13:24,360
Speaker 14: got Vets that's fightly been in the league like ten years,

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Speaker 14: and then you have a rookie that haven't even played

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01:13:26,360 --> 01:13:28,479
Speaker 14: a snap of football yet, but yet he's a captain.

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01:13:28,920 --> 01:13:31,040
Speaker 14: But I think it's just about the preparation and how

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Speaker 14: hard you work every day. And when guys see that,

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Speaker 14: When God see a humble guy, a guy that works

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01:13:35,240 --> 01:13:38,519
Speaker 14: hard every day, a guy that doesn't complain, that's hongry

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01:13:38,560 --> 01:13:40,360
Speaker 14: that you know wants it. You know, I think they

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01:13:40,439 --> 01:13:41,840
Speaker 14: just respect them, you know what I'm saying. So I

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01:13:41,840 --> 01:13:43,760
Speaker 14: think it's just that level of respect in the locker room.

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Speaker 7: Man. But I see it as like everybody being leaders.

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01:13:46,000 --> 01:13:46,280
Speaker 7: You know that.

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Speaker 14: Yeah, I got to see on my chest, But everybody

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Speaker 14: leads in a different way, and everybody does a good

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01:13:50,240 --> 01:13:52,960
Speaker 14: job of, you know, making sure that everybody's doing what

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01:13:52,960 --> 01:13:55,240
Speaker 14: they need to do, like holding each other accountable on

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01:13:55,240 --> 01:13:56,800
Speaker 14: one thing, like I said today was like a match

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Speaker 14: me thing. It's the same thing that we used to

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01:13:58,200 --> 01:14:00,519
Speaker 14: say at Alabama, And like we've been doing a really

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01:14:00,520 --> 01:14:02,720
Speaker 14: good job of just matching each other's energy out on

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01:14:02,760 --> 01:14:04,360
Speaker 14: the field, you know what I'm saying. Like everybody on

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Speaker 14: the top of everything. So it's been fun to watch

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Speaker 14: and fun to be a part of.

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Speaker 13: One of the first things I learned about you was

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Speaker 13: that your nickname was the Terminator and that you just

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01:14:12,680 --> 01:14:14,800
Speaker 13: have this like transformation when you're on the field and

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Speaker 13: like sitting here talking to you, you're just like, so chill,

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01:14:17,479 --> 01:14:19,880
Speaker 13: We're just have a cripstore shopping and like all this

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01:14:19,920 --> 01:14:23,680
Speaker 13: fun stuff. But when does that transformation take place for you?

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01:14:23,720 --> 01:14:26,400
Speaker 13: Because I heard you are relentless on the field. In fact,

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Speaker 13: Amiko Ryan's during Ota said we almost have to hold

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01:14:29,720 --> 01:14:32,280
Speaker 13: Will back like he's so intense. But for you personally,

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Speaker 13: when does it? When do you go from this will

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Speaker 13: to that terminator? Is it like what part of game

1729
01:14:36,320 --> 01:14:37,920
Speaker 13: day gets you into that mindset?

1730
01:14:38,120 --> 01:14:40,000
Speaker 14: Really, just as soon as it's like that helmet and

1731
01:14:40,000 --> 01:14:42,000
Speaker 14: shoulder pass get on, even when I walk in and

1732
01:14:42,000 --> 01:14:43,680
Speaker 14: do it, it's just a switch that goes like it's

1733
01:14:43,720 --> 01:14:45,760
Speaker 14: business time. You know what I'm saying, Everything that you've

1734
01:14:45,760 --> 01:14:48,040
Speaker 14: put in through the whole week leading up into this moment,

1735
01:14:48,120 --> 01:14:50,120
Speaker 14: like it's time to go put on display and go,

1736
01:14:50,200 --> 01:14:51,920
Speaker 14: you know, go out there and play ball, Go out

1737
01:14:51,920 --> 01:14:54,240
Speaker 14: there and you know, do your job for you, not

1738
01:14:54,280 --> 01:14:56,559
Speaker 14: only yourself, but for your teammates and for this whole team.

1739
01:14:56,600 --> 01:14:59,120
Speaker 14: So that's just kind of the switch that gets flipped.

1740
01:14:59,240 --> 01:15:00,720
Speaker 14: I got to go out there do a job not

1741
01:15:00,760 --> 01:15:02,680
Speaker 14: only for me, not only for what I got going on,

1742
01:15:02,720 --> 01:15:04,600
Speaker 14: but for the dude beside me, because he's counting on

1743
01:15:04,640 --> 01:15:06,479
Speaker 14: me to do my job, and I'm not gonna go

1744
01:15:06,520 --> 01:15:08,120
Speaker 14: out here and you know, not do my job, you

1745
01:15:08,120 --> 01:15:09,880
Speaker 14: know what I'm saying. So that's all the things that

1746
01:15:09,920 --> 01:15:12,160
Speaker 14: go through my head, like, Yeah, I gotta go ball

1747
01:15:12,200 --> 01:15:13,519
Speaker 14: for this dude right here because I know hes gonna

1748
01:15:13,520 --> 01:15:14,360
Speaker 14: give me everything he got.

1749
01:15:14,360 --> 01:15:15,840
Speaker 7: And that's that switch that flips for me.

1750
01:15:16,040 --> 01:15:18,240
Speaker 13: So have you ever met the real terminator? Have you

1751
01:15:18,240 --> 01:15:22,360
Speaker 13: ever met Arnold Schwartzenegger? You haven't, Okay, but you're You've

1752
01:15:22,360 --> 01:15:25,240
Speaker 13: got his nickname and you got a chain one cele

1753
01:15:25,680 --> 01:15:28,000
Speaker 13: I feel like that has to happen one celebrity that

1754
01:15:28,040 --> 01:15:28,439
Speaker 13: you have met.

1755
01:15:28,479 --> 01:15:30,519
Speaker 12: And I was super jealous this offseason. You knew what

1756
01:15:30,520 --> 01:15:32,960
Speaker 12: I'm going to say. You're laughing. Who do you think

1757
01:15:32,960 --> 01:15:33,519
Speaker 12: I'm gonna say?

1758
01:15:33,560 --> 01:15:36,519
Speaker 7: Adele? Yes, all right?

1759
01:15:37,240 --> 01:15:39,040
Speaker 13: I felt like I don't know who's the I don't

1760
01:15:39,040 --> 01:15:40,600
Speaker 13: know if you're the bigger Adell fan or she's the

1761
01:15:40,600 --> 01:15:41,720
Speaker 13: bigger Willy Anderson fan.

1762
01:15:41,800 --> 01:15:44,280
Speaker 12: It seemed like she was like a really a big

1763
01:15:44,320 --> 01:15:46,599
Speaker 12: fan of yours at the Lakers game. Can what happened?

1764
01:15:46,720 --> 01:15:47,639
Speaker 12: How did you guys meet?

1765
01:15:47,920 --> 01:15:50,519
Speaker 14: I mean, she was just so down to earth, just

1766
01:15:50,920 --> 01:15:54,240
Speaker 14: great spirits, great energy, She's just an awesome human being.

1767
01:15:54,400 --> 01:15:56,280
Speaker 14: Like it's you know, like usually like oh well, we

1768
01:15:56,320 --> 01:15:58,960
Speaker 14: don't know celebrities, but she was very welcoming. She just

1769
01:15:59,000 --> 01:15:59,960
Speaker 14: had the biggest smile.

1770
01:16:00,200 --> 01:16:03,240
Speaker 12: Up to you and you went up to her. Yes,

1771
01:16:03,320 --> 01:16:04,720
Speaker 12: and you are a big adel.

1772
01:16:04,479 --> 01:16:07,000
Speaker 14: Fan a little bit? Yeah, yeah, I know a lot

1773
01:16:07,040 --> 01:16:08,320
Speaker 14: of her song. Yeah, of course.

1774
01:16:08,439 --> 01:16:10,960
Speaker 13: Okay, and I said the scene, I have to know

1775
01:16:10,960 --> 01:16:12,840
Speaker 13: how this happens. Okay, so what happened? You're at the

1776
01:16:12,920 --> 01:16:14,519
Speaker 13: Lakers game. You guys are court side?

1777
01:16:14,800 --> 01:16:17,479
Speaker 14: Yes, And I was with the people from my agency

1778
01:16:17,479 --> 01:16:19,200
Speaker 14: and we walked over there so they can let me

1779
01:16:19,200 --> 01:16:19,720
Speaker 14: meet a deal.

1780
01:16:20,800 --> 01:16:22,280
Speaker 7: And I went over there to meet her.

1781
01:16:22,160 --> 01:16:24,280
Speaker 14: And like we just start talking, you know, we was

1782
01:16:24,280 --> 01:16:25,880
Speaker 14: just getting to know each other whatever like that.

1783
01:16:26,479 --> 01:16:28,000
Speaker 12: And what did you guys talk about?

1784
01:16:28,200 --> 01:16:30,200
Speaker 14: We were just talking about like life and stuff like that,

1785
01:16:30,320 --> 01:16:32,760
Speaker 14: like nothing like like nothing too crazy, just like hey,

1786
01:16:32,760 --> 01:16:34,960
Speaker 14: I'm Will I played for you know, the Texans and

1787
01:16:34,960 --> 01:16:37,759
Speaker 14: everything like that. And the reason why she was smiling

1788
01:16:37,840 --> 01:16:39,679
Speaker 14: that hard in the picture actually because I was singing.

1789
01:16:39,720 --> 01:16:42,240
Speaker 14: I had right right before that, I had sung like

1790
01:16:42,240 --> 01:16:45,000
Speaker 14: two songs with hers and yes to.

1791
01:16:45,000 --> 01:16:48,360
Speaker 12: Her, what did you sing?

1792
01:16:48,880 --> 01:16:52,800
Speaker 14: I saw Rolling in the Deep, and then I saw uh,

1793
01:16:52,840 --> 01:16:55,280
Speaker 14: my Little Love or her new album that she's just dropped,

1794
01:16:55,640 --> 01:16:57,519
Speaker 14: and like it just cracked her.

1795
01:16:57,520 --> 01:17:00,240
Speaker 13: Well, you know what I'm gonna ask, now, can you

1796
01:17:00,240 --> 01:17:02,360
Speaker 13: You've got to sing one of those? I want to

1797
01:17:02,400 --> 01:17:04,960
Speaker 13: know what made her smile so big? Because I'm obsessed

1798
01:17:05,000 --> 01:17:08,080
Speaker 13: with a deel. Well, was like, I did not know

1799
01:17:08,200 --> 01:17:10,519
Speaker 13: this is where this was going, just a little bit

1800
01:17:10,640 --> 01:17:10,960
Speaker 13: like I have.

1801
01:17:11,600 --> 01:17:13,840
Speaker 12: I won't look at you if that makes you listen nervous.

1802
01:17:13,760 --> 01:17:20,799
Speaker 14: Okay, rolling then the day.

1803
01:17:22,120 --> 01:17:24,760
Speaker 12: I'm just so tickled. Oh that's fantastic. I was so

1804
01:17:24,960 --> 01:17:28,120
Speaker 12: jealous of you, but so happy for you. I've seen

1805
01:17:28,120 --> 01:17:29,240
Speaker 12: her concerts. She's amazing.

1806
01:17:29,520 --> 01:17:32,800
Speaker 13: Another guy that you met, JJ wuck. So what was

1807
01:17:32,800 --> 01:17:34,240
Speaker 13: that like? Were you starstruck?

1808
01:17:34,479 --> 01:17:36,479
Speaker 12: Was it? What was what was it like just meeting

1809
01:17:36,560 --> 01:17:37,360
Speaker 12: him for the first time?

1810
01:17:37,520 --> 01:17:39,800
Speaker 14: Well, that wasn't my first time meeting him. Yeah, he's

1811
01:17:39,840 --> 01:17:45,599
Speaker 14: been I met JJ a couple of months back when

1812
01:17:45,600 --> 01:17:46,240
Speaker 14: he was here.

1813
01:17:46,400 --> 01:17:49,960
Speaker 7: Oh okay, and we exchanged well, Bert sent me his.

1814
01:17:49,840 --> 01:17:51,639
Speaker 12: Information at Burke defensive coordinator.

1815
01:17:51,760 --> 01:17:55,160
Speaker 14: Yes, And like he's been a great mental for me

1816
01:17:55,960 --> 01:17:58,559
Speaker 14: and whatever I need, Like I see him clips of film,

1817
01:17:58,880 --> 01:18:01,040
Speaker 14: anything like that, he all helps me with. So just

1818
01:18:01,080 --> 01:18:03,840
Speaker 14: having a guy like JJ watt Man, it's like I

1819
01:18:03,880 --> 01:18:06,040
Speaker 14: don't take that for granted at all. It just goes

1820
01:18:06,080 --> 01:18:08,280
Speaker 14: back to show you, like how these people are just

1821
01:18:08,320 --> 01:18:10,280
Speaker 14: so down to earth and willing to help. I'm just

1822
01:18:10,280 --> 01:18:13,000
Speaker 14: so appreciative because he could be doing anything, like he's retired,

1823
01:18:13,000 --> 01:18:15,040
Speaker 14: he could be doing anything he wants right now, but

1824
01:18:15,120 --> 01:18:18,320
Speaker 14: like he's spending time talking with me, helping me and

1825
01:18:18,400 --> 01:18:20,400
Speaker 14: everything like that, and like he came to talk to

1826
01:18:20,400 --> 01:18:23,519
Speaker 14: the team before we had played the Stealers, right, And

1827
01:18:23,800 --> 01:18:25,640
Speaker 14: one thing I really just took away from that was like,

1828
01:18:25,920 --> 01:18:28,519
Speaker 14: don't take this moment for granted. And like God has

1829
01:18:28,520 --> 01:18:31,479
Speaker 14: put so many like great blessings in my life and

1830
01:18:31,640 --> 01:18:33,760
Speaker 14: great people in my life and surrounding me by great

1831
01:18:33,760 --> 01:18:36,120
Speaker 14: men and women in my life, and to have somebody

1832
01:18:36,120 --> 01:18:38,320
Speaker 14: like JJ Man, it's just been such a blessing because

1833
01:18:38,320 --> 01:18:41,840
Speaker 14: he's an awesome person and I just can't thank him

1834
01:18:41,920 --> 01:18:43,960
Speaker 14: enough for everything that he's done for me so far.

1835
01:18:44,120 --> 01:18:45,680
Speaker 13: I mean, it just seems like yesterday that he was

1836
01:18:45,720 --> 01:18:47,800
Speaker 13: starting out in the league. I mean, when I started here,

1837
01:18:47,840 --> 01:18:49,720
Speaker 13: he was so young in his career and to see

1838
01:18:49,760 --> 01:18:52,479
Speaker 13: him going up in the Ring of Honor, it's just crazy.

1839
01:18:52,520 --> 01:18:54,120
Speaker 12: But he said that he asked you if.

1840
01:18:54,000 --> 01:18:55,800
Speaker 13: You had any questions for him, and you didn't have

1841
01:18:55,800 --> 01:18:56,920
Speaker 13: any questions for him.

1842
01:18:57,000 --> 01:18:59,559
Speaker 12: So do you have you come up with your questions?

1843
01:18:59,600 --> 01:18:59,880
Speaker 1: You know what?

1844
01:19:00,000 --> 01:19:01,479
Speaker 13: Do you want to ask him? Or do you feel

1845
01:19:01,479 --> 01:19:03,160
Speaker 13: like you'll just go play by play?

1846
01:19:03,280 --> 01:19:05,680
Speaker 14: No, I've been asking him questions. Yeah, We've been texting it.

1847
01:19:05,680 --> 01:19:08,000
Speaker 14: I've been asking him questions about everything. So we good,

1848
01:19:08,040 --> 01:19:09,559
Speaker 14: we we We're good.

1849
01:19:09,880 --> 01:19:12,160
Speaker 1: Good now, man, I love that interview so much.

1850
01:19:12,280 --> 01:19:16,800
Speaker 2: Will and Deep here on Texans All Access now. After

1851
01:19:16,840 --> 01:19:20,880
Speaker 2: the game on Sunday, Blake Casherman put together an AFC

1852
01:19:21,000 --> 01:19:24,479
Speaker 2: Defensive Player of the Week performance and then he sat

1853
01:19:24,640 --> 01:19:27,479
Speaker 2: with Clint Stirner and Sean Pendergast to talk all about it.

1854
01:19:27,560 --> 01:19:29,240
Speaker 2: What have that for you next? If you missed it,

1855
01:19:29,320 --> 01:19:30,840
Speaker 2: I know I did. I want to hear it next.

1856
01:19:30,880 --> 01:19:33,639
Speaker 2: Right here in Texans All Access, we got one final

1857
01:19:33,680 --> 01:19:36,160
Speaker 2: segment of this edition of Texans All Access. I'm your

1858
01:19:36,160 --> 01:19:38,559
Speaker 2: host John Harris, Football and outside of the reporter. We're

1859
01:19:38,560 --> 01:19:40,679
Speaker 2: saving it for the AFC Defensive Player of the Week,

1860
01:19:41,200 --> 01:19:45,080
Speaker 2: Blake Cashman. He joined Sean and Clint after the game

1861
01:19:46,120 --> 01:19:48,519
Speaker 2: in which he was named AFC Defensive Player of the Week.

1862
01:19:48,560 --> 01:19:52,439
Speaker 2: Fifteen tackles, two passes, defense tackle, two tackles for a loss,

1863
01:19:52,720 --> 01:19:57,280
Speaker 2: one quarterback hit that induced an interception. Incredible game by

1864
01:19:57,320 --> 01:20:01,920
Speaker 2: Blake Cashman. Let's hear from him recounting his Sunday.

1865
01:20:01,840 --> 01:20:03,360
Speaker 9: Blake, congratulations on the win.

1866
01:20:03,439 --> 01:20:05,040
Speaker 15: I was just saying to Clint, I'm like, Man, there's

1867
01:20:05,040 --> 01:20:07,639
Speaker 15: more crooked numbers on your box score than the debt ticker.

1868
01:20:07,479 --> 01:20:08,960
Speaker 9: In Times Square. Man, you got a lot of crooked

1869
01:20:09,040 --> 01:20:11,960
Speaker 9: numbers in that box score. How you feeling, Man, feeling good?

1870
01:20:12,960 --> 01:20:14,960
Speaker 11: You know, to be three and three going into the

1871
01:20:14,960 --> 01:20:17,720
Speaker 11: by coming off a hard fought win like that, you know,

1872
01:20:17,760 --> 01:20:19,439
Speaker 11: those those are type of games that you know, paid

1873
01:20:19,479 --> 01:20:22,760
Speaker 11: dividends later in the year. You know, it tells you

1874
01:20:22,800 --> 01:20:25,040
Speaker 11: really what kind of team you are, uh so, really

1875
01:20:25,040 --> 01:20:27,840
Speaker 11: happy with how the guys played. And I was just

1876
01:20:27,840 --> 01:20:30,479
Speaker 11: saying to people in the locker room, you know, five

1877
01:20:30,520 --> 01:20:32,120
Speaker 11: years in the NFL, now, I've never been in this

1878
01:20:32,160 --> 01:20:34,760
Speaker 11: position and have had three wins at this point, in

1879
01:20:34,760 --> 01:20:35,200
Speaker 11: my career.

1880
01:20:35,240 --> 01:20:35,960
Speaker 4: So it feels good.

1881
01:20:36,000 --> 01:20:38,679
Speaker 11: And you know, now it's just about remaining focused and

1882
01:20:38,760 --> 01:20:42,000
Speaker 11: you know, practicing and playing at a consistent level. And

1883
01:20:42,080 --> 01:20:44,280
Speaker 11: that's everyone in the team to uh, you know, keeping

1884
01:20:44,280 --> 01:20:45,200
Speaker 11: this scene in the right direction.

1885
01:20:45,320 --> 01:20:48,120
Speaker 16: Well, congrats on the three doves, bro, congrats this early. Man,

1886
01:20:48,120 --> 01:20:50,880
Speaker 16: that's that's big at nothing like winning. What uh we

1887
01:20:50,880 --> 01:20:52,880
Speaker 16: were just talking before you came in here that this

1888
01:20:53,040 --> 01:20:56,320
Speaker 16: defense seems to be a defense where of course all

1889
01:20:56,320 --> 01:20:58,080
Speaker 16: of you guys are individually, like you talked about your

1890
01:20:58,120 --> 01:21:02,160
Speaker 16: box score, are playing well, but collectively as a group,

1891
01:21:02,560 --> 01:21:04,720
Speaker 16: the word swarm was thrown around. You're like, oh, yeah,

1892
01:21:04,720 --> 01:21:06,640
Speaker 16: it's good some coach speak. Okay, it's cool from the

1893
01:21:06,640 --> 01:21:08,840
Speaker 16: outside looking in that he is, But when I watch

1894
01:21:08,880 --> 01:21:11,240
Speaker 16: you guys play, there's no doubt about it. Man, it's

1895
01:21:11,280 --> 01:21:13,439
Speaker 16: there is The swarm mentality is real. How do you

1896
01:21:13,479 --> 01:21:14,920
Speaker 16: get how do you what do you attribute that to?

1897
01:21:15,040 --> 01:21:17,000
Speaker 16: You guys all be on the same page, no matter

1898
01:21:17,000 --> 01:21:19,240
Speaker 16: whether it's starters in there, how many guys are injured,

1899
01:21:19,439 --> 01:21:21,840
Speaker 16: whoever gets plugged in, boy, you guys continue to play

1900
01:21:21,840 --> 01:21:22,960
Speaker 16: fast and be on point.

1901
01:21:23,160 --> 01:21:26,639
Speaker 11: It's, you know, an attitude defense, and it's demanded every

1902
01:21:26,720 --> 01:21:29,240
Speaker 11: day when we're in this building and we go out

1903
01:21:29,240 --> 01:21:32,320
Speaker 11: and practice and play. You know, we're not worried about

1904
01:21:32,760 --> 01:21:35,479
Speaker 11: you know, mistackles. What we're focused on is when that

1905
01:21:35,560 --> 01:21:39,400
Speaker 11: ball is handed off or thrown to check down like

1906
01:21:39,800 --> 01:21:42,679
Speaker 11: you were playing that foot in the ground, taking your

1907
01:21:42,720 --> 01:21:45,360
Speaker 11: correct angle and you are sprint tackling to guy. And

1908
01:21:45,560 --> 01:21:47,280
Speaker 11: you know, we wanted to show up on tape that

1909
01:21:47,320 --> 01:21:51,160
Speaker 11: this defense of physical defense and a violent defense, because

1910
01:21:51,240 --> 01:21:52,240
Speaker 11: you know, that's what it's all about.

1911
01:21:52,320 --> 01:21:52,960
Speaker 4: Swarm baby.

1912
01:21:53,040 --> 01:21:55,599
Speaker 16: Yeah, yeah, well look he said it. So we were

1913
01:21:55,640 --> 01:21:57,240
Speaker 16: again talking about you before we come in here. Not

1914
01:21:57,320 --> 01:21:59,240
Speaker 16: only do you appear to be in the in the

1915
01:21:59,280 --> 01:22:01,439
Speaker 16: camera a lot, that you arrive pretty violently.

1916
01:22:01,479 --> 01:22:02,320
Speaker 6: What's What's I mean?

1917
01:22:02,400 --> 01:22:03,760
Speaker 16: Is that just a testament to what you do on

1918
01:22:03,800 --> 01:22:06,679
Speaker 16: a daily basis or is that something you take pride

1919
01:22:06,720 --> 01:22:08,240
Speaker 16: in or I mean, because you're you got a chance,

1920
01:22:08,560 --> 01:22:11,360
Speaker 16: especially in today's league, no offense, but but it's it's

1921
01:22:11,400 --> 01:22:13,559
Speaker 16: not it's not quite as physical as it used to be, right,

1922
01:22:13,880 --> 01:22:16,080
Speaker 16: but you you get there and and and instead of

1923
01:22:16,160 --> 01:22:18,400
Speaker 16: just two hand tapping somebody out of bounds, you're you're

1924
01:22:19,040 --> 01:22:19,959
Speaker 16: arriving violently.

1925
01:22:20,040 --> 01:22:21,840
Speaker 6: What's has that always been your mentality?

1926
01:22:22,240 --> 01:22:22,479
Speaker 7: Yeah?

1927
01:22:22,720 --> 01:22:24,880
Speaker 11: Uh, you know I think especially as a defensive player,

1928
01:22:25,040 --> 01:22:28,000
Speaker 11: you know, you want guys, your opponents to feel you

1929
01:22:28,720 --> 01:22:31,479
Speaker 11: because you know, every hit, every blow throughout the game,

1930
01:22:31,920 --> 01:22:33,880
Speaker 11: that adds up when you get to the fourth quarter.

1931
01:22:34,360 --> 01:22:37,439
Speaker 11: You know, receivers if a quick inside pass, you know

1932
01:22:37,920 --> 01:22:39,680
Speaker 11: they may be tiptoeing in that route because they don't

1933
01:22:39,680 --> 01:22:41,599
Speaker 11: want to get hit. Or a back might be tiptoeing

1934
01:22:41,600 --> 01:22:43,639
Speaker 11: through the hole because they don't want to get hit anymore.

1935
01:22:44,160 --> 01:22:45,840
Speaker 11: So you know, it's just a little things like that

1936
01:22:45,880 --> 01:22:48,680
Speaker 11: in a football game that honestly like add up to

1937
01:22:48,720 --> 01:22:52,360
Speaker 11: be big things, but it's really but just owning that

1938
01:22:52,360 --> 01:22:56,080
Speaker 11: that uh mentality and attitude UH to play with and

1939
01:22:56,160 --> 01:22:58,320
Speaker 11: you know you see it and on our full defense

1940
01:22:58,439 --> 01:23:01,680
Speaker 11: just you know, playing island and like I said, you

1941
01:23:01,680 --> 01:23:05,479
Speaker 11: know it's an expectation to play physical and violent on

1942
01:23:05,479 --> 01:23:08,400
Speaker 11: this defense. So if you're not doing that, you know

1943
01:23:08,439 --> 01:23:09,479
Speaker 11: you might not be on the pield.

1944
01:23:10,840 --> 01:23:13,960
Speaker 15: Blake Blake Cashman and Texans linebacker joining us here take

1945
01:23:14,040 --> 01:23:16,640
Speaker 15: us through the fourth and four on their second to

1946
01:23:16,720 --> 01:23:19,200
Speaker 15: last possession where they you know, I guess they could

1947
01:23:19,200 --> 01:23:20,760
Speaker 15: have kicked a field goal there they wanted to, but

1948
01:23:20,800 --> 01:23:22,559
Speaker 15: they're going for the touchdown because they would have still

1949
01:23:22,560 --> 01:23:24,639
Speaker 15: needed a touchdown there. So it's about five minutes left

1950
01:23:24,640 --> 01:23:27,040
Speaker 15: in the game fourth and four and they throw the

1951
01:23:27,040 --> 01:23:29,080
Speaker 15: ball out to Kamara and you and Shack ended up

1952
01:23:29,080 --> 01:23:29,559
Speaker 15: making the play.

1953
01:23:29,560 --> 01:23:32,080
Speaker 9: Take us through what was going on on that play.

1954
01:23:32,680 --> 01:23:36,120
Speaker 11: So we were in a cover two, but we were

1955
01:23:36,200 --> 01:23:40,519
Speaker 11: showing man and I was kind of up near the

1956
01:23:40,520 --> 01:23:44,080
Speaker 11: line of scrimmage, kind of shows matched up on you know,

1957
01:23:44,120 --> 01:23:46,960
Speaker 11: one of the best play makers for one tomorrow and

1958
01:23:47,640 --> 01:23:49,479
Speaker 11: early in the game they had hit I think it

1959
01:23:49,520 --> 01:23:51,360
Speaker 11: was Thomas on a quick slant. He was a single

1960
01:23:51,400 --> 01:23:55,360
Speaker 11: receiver to my side. So with beat it fourth and short,

1961
01:23:55,360 --> 01:23:57,280
Speaker 11: I was thinking, you know, Carr might go back to

1962
01:23:57,320 --> 01:24:02,400
Speaker 11: that that option, so ball snap. I just quickly dropped

1963
01:24:02,520 --> 01:24:05,680
Speaker 11: my angle to take away that window, knowing the ball

1964
01:24:05,960 --> 01:24:09,120
Speaker 11: probably had to be out quick. And uh, you know,

1965
01:24:09,200 --> 01:24:12,599
Speaker 11: as I dropped back, I seen the running back flair

1966
01:24:13,120 --> 01:24:15,360
Speaker 11: and if it wasn't there, you know, car likes to

1967
01:24:15,360 --> 01:24:17,639
Speaker 11: get rid of the ball quick, so why not put

1968
01:24:17,640 --> 01:24:19,840
Speaker 11: it in forty one's hand and let one of your

1969
01:24:19,840 --> 01:24:21,800
Speaker 11: best playmakers try to pick it up with his legs.

1970
01:24:22,360 --> 01:24:23,960
Speaker 1: But obviously that play is made because of shock.

1971
01:24:24,320 --> 01:24:28,360
Speaker 11: He came down, you know, great tracking on the play

1972
01:24:28,439 --> 01:24:31,240
Speaker 11: came down, you know, smacked him, slowed him up, and

1973
01:24:31,439 --> 01:24:33,240
Speaker 11: you know, just you know, me running the ball, just

1974
01:24:33,280 --> 01:24:35,519
Speaker 11: having that mindset to you know, always finish on ball

1975
01:24:35,560 --> 01:24:38,200
Speaker 11: Carres and you know, get him out of bounds, get

1976
01:24:38,240 --> 01:24:38,559
Speaker 11: to stop.

1977
01:24:38,680 --> 01:24:40,360
Speaker 9: Yeah, huge play stop on that one.

1978
01:24:40,400 --> 01:24:42,800
Speaker 15: And then obviously Steven gets the interception to close things

1979
01:24:42,800 --> 01:24:46,439
Speaker 15: out last week's game. You guys, you know Atlanta was

1980
01:24:46,479 --> 01:24:48,040
Speaker 15: able to drive down and get that field goal on

1981
01:24:48,080 --> 01:24:50,519
Speaker 15: you guys, what was the what was the conversation like

1982
01:24:50,560 --> 01:24:52,880
Speaker 15: on the sideline before those last few drives making sure,

1983
01:24:52,960 --> 01:24:55,120
Speaker 15: especially the last drive, making sure that you don't want

1984
01:24:55,120 --> 01:24:56,639
Speaker 15: to repeat of what happened last week.

1985
01:24:57,040 --> 01:24:59,080
Speaker 11: It was you know, we we said, this is where

1986
01:24:59,080 --> 01:25:01,360
Speaker 11: great defenses are made times like this, and you know

1987
01:25:01,520 --> 01:25:04,320
Speaker 11: every player understands that. A lot most NFL games, you know,

1988
01:25:04,360 --> 01:25:07,400
Speaker 11: they come down to that last possession. But you know,

1989
01:25:07,840 --> 01:25:09,760
Speaker 11: the guys on this defense, you know, we wouldn't want

1990
01:25:09,800 --> 01:25:12,639
Speaker 11: it any other way. We want that opportunity. Hey, put

1991
01:25:12,680 --> 01:25:14,519
Speaker 11: it on our back, let us finish this game out.

1992
01:25:14,880 --> 01:25:18,479
Speaker 11: And uh, you know, before we took the field, you know,

1993
01:25:18,520 --> 01:25:21,120
Speaker 11: we just talked about you know, it was loud in there,

1994
01:25:21,160 --> 01:25:23,920
Speaker 11: so we talked about, you know, we're gonna be giving

1995
01:25:23,960 --> 01:25:26,120
Speaker 11: different looks, showing man but dropping his zone.

1996
01:25:26,120 --> 01:25:27,240
Speaker 9: We're gonna be bringing.

1997
01:25:27,000 --> 01:25:30,360
Speaker 11: A lot of pressure, but those pressure directions change based

1998
01:25:30,400 --> 01:25:34,080
Speaker 11: off you know, the formation and an emotion. So we

1999
01:25:34,120 --> 01:25:36,680
Speaker 11: really had to be on our details and just you know,

2000
01:25:36,760 --> 01:25:40,599
Speaker 11: execute our communication across the field, you know, so if

2001
01:25:40,600 --> 01:25:43,040
Speaker 11: the D line knows what's going on and the secondary

2002
01:25:43,040 --> 01:25:45,640
Speaker 11: not what's going on, and uh, you know, we were

2003
01:25:45,680 --> 01:25:48,240
Speaker 11: able to battle and uh finish that one out, and

2004
01:25:48,360 --> 01:25:49,840
Speaker 11: you know, I'm so proud of everyone played.

2005
01:25:50,160 --> 01:25:52,920
Speaker 6: Do you guys, I mean, I know you're in the

2006
01:25:52,960 --> 01:25:53,360
Speaker 6: heat of it.

2007
01:25:53,400 --> 01:25:55,000
Speaker 16: Man, you're three and three, and hell you're trying to

2008
01:25:55,000 --> 01:25:56,880
Speaker 16: win a Super Bowl, right, I mean, but do you

2009
01:25:57,280 --> 01:26:01,720
Speaker 16: guys talk about openly talk about are y'all aware of Hey, man, y'all,

2010
01:26:01,720 --> 01:26:05,320
Speaker 16: are Ultimate really a young team that the word rebuilding

2011
01:26:05,439 --> 01:26:09,040
Speaker 16: is in the phase of rebuilding with the Texans? I

2012
01:26:09,040 --> 01:26:12,120
Speaker 16: think big picture, Do you guys, do y'all even think

2013
01:26:12,160 --> 01:26:14,400
Speaker 16: about that? What's the mindset? Because I mean I love it.

2014
01:26:14,439 --> 01:26:16,760
Speaker 16: I love talking about it because y'all's trajectory. It's like, yeah,

2015
01:26:16,800 --> 01:26:19,599
Speaker 16: they're good, they were good today. But the reality is, man,

2016
01:26:19,640 --> 01:26:22,120
Speaker 16: of where y'all are as a whole, as an entire team. Hell,

2017
01:26:22,160 --> 01:26:25,160
Speaker 16: you could be tenfold better in six weeks. Do you

2018
01:26:25,240 --> 01:26:27,080
Speaker 16: guys openly talk about that or is it just a

2019
01:26:27,120 --> 01:26:28,280
Speaker 16: day to day grind.

2020
01:26:28,600 --> 01:26:28,720
Speaker 7: Oh?

2021
01:26:28,800 --> 01:26:32,240
Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean we we definitely discuss it. And I

2022
01:26:32,280 --> 01:26:33,840
Speaker 11: don't think there's a guy in that locker room that

2023
01:26:33,840 --> 01:26:36,280
Speaker 11: doesn't believe how great a football team we can be.

2024
01:26:36,360 --> 01:26:38,599
Speaker 11: You know, a team that can win the division, being

2025
01:26:38,680 --> 01:26:41,960
Speaker 11: the playoffs and you know, compete with anybody else in

2026
01:26:41,960 --> 01:26:44,479
Speaker 11: the league. And I ain't given Sunday, So you know,

2027
01:26:44,520 --> 01:26:46,679
Speaker 11: we have all the As a defensive player, we believe,

2028
01:26:47,000 --> 01:26:49,160
Speaker 11: you know, we're one of the best defenses and we're

2029
01:26:49,160 --> 01:26:52,160
Speaker 11: going to prove that as a season continues. And then

2030
01:26:52,800 --> 01:26:55,439
Speaker 11: you know, having the offense like we have, how productive

2031
01:26:55,439 --> 01:26:57,320
Speaker 11: they've been, you know, we have so much faith in

2032
01:26:57,360 --> 01:26:59,040
Speaker 11: them that you know they're going to get it done

2033
01:26:59,560 --> 01:27:02,880
Speaker 11: and put up points. So you know, we we have,

2034
01:27:03,160 --> 01:27:05,200
Speaker 11: you know, a lot of a lot of belief and

2035
01:27:05,320 --> 01:27:08,040
Speaker 11: you know we're all you know, in it together and

2036
01:27:08,280 --> 01:27:10,439
Speaker 11: have a lot of confidence about about the rest of

2037
01:27:10,439 --> 01:27:10,840
Speaker 11: the season.

2038
01:27:10,960 --> 01:27:13,799
Speaker 15: Texans linebacker Blake Cash been joining us for you personally.

2039
01:27:14,160 --> 01:27:15,760
Speaker 15: I mean, you're having a great season. You've been doing

2040
01:27:15,760 --> 01:27:17,519
Speaker 15: this since training camp. I know you had the hamstring

2041
01:27:17,560 --> 01:27:19,920
Speaker 15: for a while. But before you before you got banged up,

2042
01:27:20,320 --> 01:27:22,200
Speaker 15: it felt like you were making picks every day out

2043
01:27:22,240 --> 01:27:25,560
Speaker 15: there at training camp. What is it about this defense,

2044
01:27:25,840 --> 01:27:28,320
Speaker 15: this coaching staff? What is it about this season so

2045
01:27:28,439 --> 01:27:30,960
Speaker 15: far where everything seems to be clicking for Blake Cashman.

2046
01:27:32,439 --> 01:27:37,240
Speaker 11: Honestly, it's just been you know, coaches demanding me to

2047
01:27:37,520 --> 01:27:41,320
Speaker 11: perfect the details of whatever the call is, whatever scheme

2048
01:27:41,360 --> 01:27:44,200
Speaker 11: you know we're running. But you know, I've just kind

2049
01:27:44,240 --> 01:27:45,320
Speaker 11: of just embraced it all.

2050
01:27:46,800 --> 01:27:47,599
Speaker 9: You know, some of it.

2051
01:27:47,720 --> 01:27:48,960
Speaker 4: You know, as a player, you're like.

2052
01:27:48,960 --> 01:27:51,720
Speaker 11: Oh, it's coaching being so nitpicky about that, Like I

2053
01:27:51,800 --> 01:27:54,640
Speaker 11: barely backed up in that cover. But like it's you know,

2054
01:27:54,720 --> 01:27:57,160
Speaker 11: it's the devil's in the details and every little thing

2055
01:27:57,200 --> 01:27:58,800
Speaker 11: adds up to be a big thing in this game.

2056
01:27:58,880 --> 01:28:02,120
Speaker 11: So you know, just embrace it all, embracing the coaching

2057
01:28:02,200 --> 01:28:04,719
Speaker 11: and the staff you know has done a great job

2058
01:28:04,720 --> 01:28:07,600
Speaker 11: at just you know, we talk about there's football one

2059
01:28:07,680 --> 01:28:10,400
Speaker 11: o one, three oh one, five on one, and they

2060
01:28:11,000 --> 01:28:14,400
Speaker 11: really are able to you know, as a player starts

2061
01:28:14,439 --> 01:28:17,439
Speaker 11: to get a good grass on on the defense or

2062
01:28:17,439 --> 01:28:21,080
Speaker 11: able to take the next level, and you know, by

2063
01:28:21,320 --> 01:28:23,200
Speaker 11: being a student game, it just it allows you to

2064
01:28:23,240 --> 01:28:26,600
Speaker 11: get put in positions to you know, make plays.

2065
01:28:26,960 --> 01:28:30,000
Speaker 6: Blake, you you uh, you got caught in in Uh.

2066
01:28:30,080 --> 01:28:31,280
Speaker 16: I don't know if it's some kind of man or

2067
01:28:31,280 --> 01:28:33,640
Speaker 16: if you were carrying him in his zone against Jacksonville

2068
01:28:34,120 --> 01:28:37,000
Speaker 16: on Ridley and I'm watching the game and I'm like, hey,

2069
01:28:37,000 --> 01:28:38,360
Speaker 16: Blake did a hell of a job right there.

2070
01:28:38,360 --> 01:28:39,439
Speaker 6: But I don't, I don't know that I want to

2071
01:28:39,439 --> 01:28:40,120
Speaker 6: see that too much.

2072
01:28:40,160 --> 01:28:42,879
Speaker 16: The linebacker matched up on it, on the team's best receiver.

2073
01:28:43,640 --> 01:28:46,760
Speaker 16: But it seems like we see that pretty often with you.

2074
01:28:46,840 --> 01:28:48,439
Speaker 16: I mean, is that I don't I don't. I don't

2075
01:28:48,560 --> 01:28:51,559
Speaker 16: recall seeing it with the other linebackers. Is that something

2076
01:28:51,600 --> 01:28:53,360
Speaker 16: that you just have the ability to do that, or

2077
01:28:53,400 --> 01:28:55,160
Speaker 16: is that something that's part of the plan or or

2078
01:28:55,200 --> 01:28:58,200
Speaker 16: do you just feel comfortable running vertical with guys?

2079
01:28:58,400 --> 01:28:58,799
Speaker 2: Uh?

2080
01:28:58,960 --> 01:29:01,519
Speaker 11: You know the coaches, you know, I think they they

2081
01:29:01,600 --> 01:29:04,240
Speaker 11: believe in me in that position. They feel confident to

2082
01:29:04,240 --> 01:29:07,640
Speaker 11: put me in that position to you know, guard whoever's

2083
01:29:07,960 --> 01:29:10,840
Speaker 11: you know out there at number two. But you know,

2084
01:29:10,880 --> 01:29:13,680
Speaker 11: it's it's these fire zone pressures that you know we're

2085
01:29:13,720 --> 01:29:17,000
Speaker 11: able to get home on. We've had success on them,

2086
01:29:17,040 --> 01:29:19,679
Speaker 11: but you know, we've also been pretty good at covering

2087
01:29:19,760 --> 01:29:21,599
Speaker 11: we've worked at. I mean, we work it every week,

2088
01:29:21,960 --> 01:29:25,439
Speaker 11: multiple times throughout the week, and it's very fun, but

2089
01:29:25,560 --> 01:29:29,320
Speaker 11: it's not always easiest. But I just went through my rules,

2090
01:29:29,360 --> 01:29:31,960
Speaker 11: you know, on that, I think it's taste of hill.

2091
01:29:31,960 --> 01:29:36,160
Speaker 11: At number two, Condensed splits us talking to you know,

2092
01:29:36,240 --> 01:29:38,200
Speaker 11: our Mike Henry saying, you know, we got a zone

2093
01:29:38,240 --> 01:29:38,960
Speaker 11: it going on here.

2094
01:29:39,160 --> 01:29:42,280
Speaker 9: You know, we got a with condensedments.

2095
01:29:42,360 --> 01:29:45,240
Speaker 11: You know, we're we're We've got eyes on all three receivers.

2096
01:29:45,439 --> 01:29:47,080
Speaker 11: You know, I'm gonna take the first out. He's got

2097
01:29:47,080 --> 01:29:51,000
Speaker 11: first in, Corn's got first high and uh, of.

2098
01:29:50,960 --> 01:29:52,320
Speaker 9: Course forty one steps in.

2099
01:29:52,560 --> 01:29:55,040
Speaker 11: I'm outside leverage, which means I gotta step I got

2100
01:29:55,080 --> 01:29:57,639
Speaker 11: a step in to get inside leverage on the snap,

2101
01:29:58,120 --> 01:30:02,519
Speaker 11: so he ball snapped Margo's in, so I'm already aligned

2102
01:30:02,520 --> 01:30:04,799
Speaker 11: with outsiders, so I got to work an inside leverage.

2103
01:30:04,800 --> 01:30:07,439
Speaker 11: And of course, as I'm working in Casey just started

2104
01:30:07,520 --> 01:30:10,120
Speaker 11: taking off. And he's a great athlete and great player.

2105
01:30:10,680 --> 01:30:12,120
Speaker 11: And as soon as he took off and like the

2106
01:30:12,160 --> 01:30:15,920
Speaker 11: balls coming this way. But you know, for me, I

2107
01:30:16,000 --> 01:30:19,080
Speaker 11: just understand that, you know, he had me beat there

2108
01:30:19,080 --> 01:30:21,280
Speaker 11: for a second, but it was about the recovery and

2109
01:30:21,320 --> 01:30:22,960
Speaker 11: just not panic doing the balls in there, because I

2110
01:30:23,040 --> 01:30:24,720
Speaker 11: knew it had to be a perfect throw for him

2111
01:30:24,760 --> 01:30:27,800
Speaker 11: to complete it. But if not, like I was gonna

2112
01:30:27,800 --> 01:30:29,439
Speaker 11: have an opportunity to play through the hands and rake

2113
01:30:29,479 --> 01:30:32,040
Speaker 11: it out. And you know, I was able to make

2114
01:30:32,080 --> 01:30:34,559
Speaker 11: a play, and I'm glad I did because that would

2115
01:30:34,560 --> 01:30:36,680
Speaker 11: have been a big explosive on me.

2116
01:30:37,680 --> 01:30:41,000
Speaker 9: I don't want that any big plans for the bye week.

2117
01:30:41,520 --> 01:30:45,160
Speaker 11: Honestly, just hanging out, relaxing and you know, just get

2118
01:30:45,200 --> 01:30:47,600
Speaker 11: my body back ready for whatever it is.

2119
01:30:47,640 --> 01:30:50,840
Speaker 15: Eleven week sprint, Yeah, yeah, eleven games left Caroline after

2120
01:30:50,880 --> 01:30:51,280
Speaker 15: the bye week.

2121
01:30:51,400 --> 01:30:52,840
Speaker 9: Yeah, good deal, good deal.

2122
01:30:53,280 --> 01:30:55,000
Speaker 15: You know you were rated the number one linebacker in

2123
01:30:55,000 --> 01:30:57,200
Speaker 15: football and Pro Football Focus coming into this. We give

2124
01:30:57,200 --> 01:30:59,040
Speaker 15: any nerds to go to Pro Football Focus in your

2125
01:30:59,080 --> 01:31:00,600
Speaker 15: inner circle of friends texted you that.

2126
01:31:00,640 --> 01:31:01,400
Speaker 9: Were you aware of that?

2127
01:31:01,640 --> 01:31:04,760
Speaker 11: Yeah, I've had some people tweeting at me showing me

2128
01:31:04,840 --> 01:31:05,479
Speaker 11: that stuff.

2129
01:31:06,880 --> 01:31:07,040
Speaker 7: You know.

2130
01:31:07,080 --> 01:31:10,880
Speaker 11: I think Pro Football Focus at at one point one

2131
01:31:10,920 --> 01:31:13,800
Speaker 11: game a few years ago had me like it was

2132
01:31:14,120 --> 01:31:16,080
Speaker 11: I think it was like Week eight or something like

2133
01:31:16,160 --> 01:31:20,759
Speaker 11: Week eight's worst coverage Linebackers, but Cashman and every every

2134
01:31:20,800 --> 01:31:24,160
Speaker 11: play was like this like zone concept to run me out,

2135
01:31:24,240 --> 01:31:26,599
Speaker 11: but like it was still my zone. But I with

2136
01:31:26,640 --> 01:31:29,479
Speaker 11: my job, so I'm like, I don't look too much

2137
01:31:29,520 --> 01:31:30,040
Speaker 11: into it.

2138
01:31:31,360 --> 01:31:33,080
Speaker 16: You don't how much. You don't how much I appreciate it.

2139
01:31:33,080 --> 01:31:35,080
Speaker 16: As a former player, I fight PFF all the time.

2140
01:31:35,080 --> 01:31:36,360
Speaker 16: You don't know how much I appreciate that.

2141
01:31:36,800 --> 01:31:37,000
Speaker 7: Man.

2142
01:31:38,200 --> 01:31:40,200
Speaker 11: You have here heard stories and of course you know

2143
01:31:40,280 --> 01:31:41,320
Speaker 11: when it's it's something, when.

2144
01:31:41,160 --> 01:31:43,360
Speaker 9: It's good, you're like, yeah, like I own, yeah, of

2145
01:31:43,439 --> 01:31:44,280
Speaker 9: course I never one.

2146
01:31:44,680 --> 01:31:47,160
Speaker 11: But if if I'm not, it's like now they don't

2147
01:31:47,160 --> 01:31:49,280
Speaker 11: know what's going on. But you know, we laugh as

2148
01:31:49,280 --> 01:31:51,720
Speaker 11: played because there's times where you'll have a player that's

2149
01:31:51,800 --> 01:31:53,439
Speaker 11: graded out at ninety percent.

2150
01:31:53,720 --> 01:31:54,479
Speaker 9: Awesome game.

2151
01:31:55,120 --> 01:31:56,080
Speaker 11: People are tweeting at it.

2152
01:31:56,120 --> 01:31:57,200
Speaker 9: They're tweeting out it's great.

2153
01:31:57,320 --> 01:31:58,960
Speaker 11: But then you know, you come in on Monday after

2154
01:31:59,000 --> 01:32:00,680
Speaker 11: the film's great and the coach as you great at

2155
01:32:00,720 --> 01:32:01,479
Speaker 11: like seventy two.

2156
01:32:02,960 --> 01:32:07,280
Speaker 9: You know exactly what the coach coach. You see, so

2157
01:32:08,200 --> 01:32:09,519
Speaker 9: but you know it's it's great.

2158
01:32:09,560 --> 01:32:12,280
Speaker 11: And for me, it just trying to you know, take

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Speaker 11: it week by week and you know, just be on

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Speaker 11: my details and play hard.

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Speaker 7: Well.

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Speaker 15: It matches the eye test, the Pro Football Focus score.

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Speaker 15: You're having a great year, great game today. Congratulations on

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Speaker 15: the win. Blake, appreciate you stopping by man. Thanks, thank you,

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Speaker 15: I appreciate it all right, good stuff.

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Speaker 2: Yes, Sean, it was good stuff from Blake cast. What

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Speaker 2: a performance for him on Sunday. And now everybody gets

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Speaker 2: the bye to relax, uh and get ready for the

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Speaker 2: Carolina Panthers Sunday the twenty ninth in Charlotte, Texas of

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Speaker 2: are one and one. It's only a third time they

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Speaker 2: ever played a regular season game in Charlotte.

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Speaker 1: Looking forward to that.

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Speaker 2: A big thanks to everybody in the show, Clinton, Sean,

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Speaker 2: that postgame interview with Blake, Cashman, Will Anderson, Dbcity, Drew Doherty,

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Speaker 2: of course, Mark vandermir and Nick Caserio. Thank you so

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Speaker 2: much everybody. We will see you tomorrow. We're still here. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's the bye week, but we're still doing radio. Mark

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Speaker 2: and I'll have you from six to seven tomorrow night.

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Speaker 2: General will be joining us. We'll break down so more

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Speaker 2: likely to happen as we lead you up to Jaguar Saints.

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Speaker 2: That's gonna be a fun game. Let's go Saints. They

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Speaker 2: want to say that last week, but I'm saying it

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Speaker 2: this week. Need the Saints to get a win over

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Speaker 2: the Jags. On Thursday Night. Does Trevor Lawrence play? Oh,

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Speaker 2: that's a big story. A lot of quarterback news in

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Speaker 2: the AFC South with the Jags with Trevor Lawrence and

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Speaker 2: then with the Colts Anthony Richardson, a lot of great

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Speaker 2: stuff and great stuff from you for listening.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much. We'll see you next time and

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Speaker 1: as always, Go Texans.