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Speaker 1: What's going on? Everybody. Welcome into a tgi F edition

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Speaker 1: of Texas All Access from the Monday Texans Radio Studio.

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Speaker 1: I'm Heros John Ayres, football analyst and sideline reporter and

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Speaker 1: got to speak from the diaphram tonight. Gotta get that base.

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Speaker 1: So if it does sound like I'm trying to go low,

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Speaker 1: i am because I'm kind of gassed out tonight with

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Speaker 1: all the radio. I did four hours this morning with cecil.

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Speaker 1: I think I did six or seven Wednesday. I think

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Speaker 1: I did six on Thursday, and we're gonna have a

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Speaker 1: little six hours show tonight. Well, actually sorry, four hours

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Speaker 1: this morning, two hours tonight on New Year's Eve. Appreciate

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Speaker 1: you guys being with me. Happy New Year, because I

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Speaker 1: guarantee you by the time we get around eight o'clock,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna absolutely forget that it is December thirty first,

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. Gonna kick twenty twenty one out the door,

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Speaker 1: which I'm happy with, and hopefully we start twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: two in the best way on Sunday against the San

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Speaker 1: Francisco forty nine ers as we travel to take them

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Speaker 1: on in Santa Clara at Levi's Stadium. Slash home game

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Speaker 1: for the forty nine Ers, last road game for the Texans,

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Speaker 1: just the fifth meeting of these two teams, coming up

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Speaker 1: on Sunday after noon. Now, we got a lot on

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Speaker 1: the show this evening. We as always, will hear from

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Speaker 1: David Culley, who caught up with Mark Vanimer to talk

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Speaker 1: about the forty nine Ers and everything to expect in

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Speaker 1: this particular game. We will also hear from Keana Martin,

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Speaker 1: who covers the nine Ers forty nine ers dot com.

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Speaker 1: She's a team reporter there. We'll have my Keys to

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Speaker 1: the game. We'll also have a Drew's Dozen with Jacob Martin.

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Speaker 1: We will have a deepy sinew deep slant Interview of

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Speaker 1: the week with Rex Birkhead. We will have my predictions

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Speaker 1: straight up and against the spread. Now, Cecil and I

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Speaker 1: Cecil short, we got into some of these, we didn't

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Speaker 1: get all the way in, and we got our good

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Speaker 1: friends Caesar's Rewards, who would like for us to get

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Speaker 1: all the way in. Seeson's Rewards for every way you play,

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Speaker 1: love Caesar's Rewards for being on board this year. A

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Speaker 1: big thanks to them. So we'll pick all those games.

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Speaker 1: Then we'll close it down with DREWD. Dorty's final word,

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Speaker 1: and again it is with Jacob Martin talking about the

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Speaker 1: forty Niners San Francisco forty nine ers, not the University

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Speaker 1: of Charlotte forty nine ers, which it's very easy to

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Speaker 1: get confused. But it's Jimmy Garoppolo, it's Jerry Lance, who

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Speaker 1: I don't think we're gonna find out until at least Saturday,

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Speaker 1: So that's gonna be definitely one to watch for sure.

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Speaker 1: So we'll break it all down as much as we

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Speaker 1: New Year's He appreciate again you guys being with me.

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Speaker 1: So let's kick it off like we always do with

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Speaker 1: the head coach of your Houston Texans, and that is

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Speaker 1: David Culley. Mark take it away. What was it like

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Speaker 1: getting ready for this one without knowing who they were

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Speaker 1: going to play? A quarterback? They have different styles that

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Speaker 1: you know Jimmy and Lance are two different type quarterbacks.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't change what they do offensively marked, but what

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Speaker 1: it does changes is obviously one guy's a lot more

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Speaker 1: difference in the players, but there's no difference mark in

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Speaker 1: us more in our pass game, Well, you're better than

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Speaker 1: And that's a that's a tribute to first and second down.

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Speaker 1: And we feel like we'd be good there. And you

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Speaker 1: pass catcher's hands. Field position is premium, especially in a

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Speaker 1: You're exactly right, and they are kind of like we are.

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Speaker 1: We want to control the ball. We want to be

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Speaker 1: This football team here too, likes to do that. Also,

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Speaker 1: they like to control the tempo. They're not in up

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Speaker 1: Thanks for the information, Coach, good luck. Thank you very much, Mark.

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Speaker 1: Happy New Year to you. Happy New Year, and a

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Speaker 1: happy New Year to both Coach and Mark. Love you guys.

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Speaker 1: See you on Monday for the Coach's Show. Lets have

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Speaker 1: on Sunday. It's Enemy Sidelines presented by Microsoft Kanada. Martin,

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Speaker 1: forty nine Ers senior reporter, is my guest this week.

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Speaker 1: Can'da great to see you out there on the West coast.

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Speaker 1: How's it been. It's going good. It's good to see you,

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Speaker 1: all right, Demiko, like are you going to kind of

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Speaker 1: change things or things gonna kind of remain the same,

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Speaker 1: And he said, you know, like things were working. It's

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Speaker 1: kind of like that saying if it ain't broke, don't

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Speaker 1: fix it. That's kind of how Damiko Ryan's kind of

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Speaker 1: stepped into this role. But he did say, but I

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Speaker 1: will have a sprinkle of something that is my own,

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Speaker 1: and that seems to have really taken well with the guys.

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Speaker 1: Even talking to Fred Warner and he said, you know what,

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Speaker 1: I can't think of a guy who was better at

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Speaker 1: this role with us on this defense than Damiko Ryan's

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Speaker 1: being a former player as you guys know, and just

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Speaker 1: what he brings his knowledge his experience to the entire

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Speaker 1: defensive unit. The guys have really taken well to what

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Speaker 1: he does and we've been able to kind of see

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Speaker 1: the benefits of that, especially as of Layton some of

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Speaker 1: these games, these amazing fourth down stops they've been having.

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Speaker 1: That was last week. The same thing was a week

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Speaker 1: prior they played Seattle a couple of weeks ago, and

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Speaker 1: they didn't have a first down for the entire or

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Speaker 1: a new first down for the entire first half. So

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Speaker 1: it's just the way that this team has been playing

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Speaker 1: for him. I think it's really special because some of

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Speaker 1: the guys do say that, you know, we want not

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Speaker 1: only do we want to play for ourselves and our teammates,

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Speaker 1: but we want to make sure we're putting our best

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Speaker 1: product on the field for Demiko because he deserves it.

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Speaker 1: The way that he's kind of taken this defense and

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Speaker 1: made it his own while still like keeping the fundamentals

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Speaker 1: that Robert Sala had. The guys really appreciate that, and

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Speaker 1: they love playing for a guy like him. Well, he's

457
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Speaker 1: just one of the familiar faces that the Texans we'll

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Speaker 1: see on Sunday when they face the forty nine Ers.

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Speaker 1: Kenna Martin Canna, thank you so much for the time,

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Speaker 1: looking forward to the game on Sunday. Likewise, can't wait

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Speaker 1: till Sunday, no doubt. We're all pupped up for Sunday

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Speaker 1: as a Texas travel to take on the San Francisco

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Speaker 1: forty nine ers locally here in Houston. The game will

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Speaker 1: kick at three oh five. If you happen to be

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Speaker 1: traveling out to the West coast, what you might San

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Speaker 1: Francisco might be one of those trips. Haven't gone out

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Speaker 1: there a couple of times. Let's see oh four and thirteen.

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Speaker 1: I believe we're oh five and thirteen. I think those

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Speaker 1: are the last two times that the Texas have gone

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Speaker 1: out there. I think the only win they have it

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Speaker 1: was in two thousand and nine, which I believe was

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Speaker 1: back in Houston. So if you'ven going out there, great

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Speaker 1: kicks out one oh five out there, So you gotta

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Speaker 1: kind of work backwards a couple hours, and then when

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Speaker 1: you fly back here, you gotta go forwards a couple

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Speaker 1: of hours. I mean, I feel in some sense like

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Speaker 1: I'm doing a John Madden impression. Rip coach, man, Wow,

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Speaker 1: that one man losing John Madden Betty White in the

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Speaker 1: same week, man gut punches galore to the best entertainers

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Speaker 1: you're gonna find in any walk of life. Man, that one.

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Speaker 1: Those two hit hit pretty hard. But one oh five

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Speaker 1: out West three or five here last row game of

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Speaker 1: the year, and so we got to figure out how

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Speaker 1: Texas are gonna win. And we do that with our

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Speaker 1: keys to the game. I'll have those for you next

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Speaker 1: right here at Texans All Access. Here at Texans All Access,

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Speaker 1: here at Texas tell you what. It's been a fun day.

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Speaker 1: I started the day with you at six am on

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Speaker 1: Sports Radio six ten, filling in for Sean Pendergass and

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Speaker 1: Seth Pain alongside my guy, Cecil Shorts. We had a

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Speaker 1: blast this morning. I know I did. I hope Cecil did.

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Speaker 1: But what we really we laugh, We had some good

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Speaker 1: or yours And now you're finishing the day with me

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Speaker 1: on Texans All Access. That's pretty hard cool now. One

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Speaker 1: thing that I found out actually in the last week

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Speaker 1: is Cecil has taken a job. Should have taken a job.

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Speaker 1: I think he's found his calling. Actually he was a

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Speaker 1: great football player, but he's a tremendous leader and he's

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Speaker 1: created with kids. Well, he's an assistant principal over it

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Speaker 1: at a local private school here and he's perfect for that. Now.

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Speaker 1: I used to be the private school too. I was

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Speaker 1: a teacher, and I'm calling all my Houston area teachers

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Speaker 1: out there. You want to bring a little Texans football

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Speaker 1: to your classrooms, then sign up for Toros Matros presented

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Speaker 1: by Conico Phillips Toros Matros is a video series designed

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Speaker 1: to help third and fourth graders learn how to tackle

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Speaker 1: math in the classroom. All you gotta do is go

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Speaker 1: to Houston Texans dot com slash Toros Math Drills to

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Speaker 1: learn more. Look, I know, teachers, you're on break right now,

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Speaker 1: and you deserve a break until at least the middle

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Speaker 1: of January. With everything you had to go through the

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Speaker 1: last couple of years, I know how hard that's been.

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Speaker 1: I can only imagine what it's like to do zoom teaching,

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Speaker 1: distance learning, all that kind of stuff. Did you guys

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Speaker 1: handle it to Toro's Matros a little bit of help,

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Speaker 1: So big thanks to Conical Phillips for being on board. Okay,

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Speaker 1: it's type bar a kiss game and the Texans coming

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Speaker 1: to this one against San Francisco four and eleven and

519
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Speaker 1: at twelve point underdog against Jimmy Garoppolo. Trey Lance, who

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Speaker 1: is it going to be? That takes over at quarterback?

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Speaker 1: And once it takes over, it sounds like something saying

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Speaker 1: thinking it's Trey Lance. I think it's Trey Lance. I

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Speaker 1: said this morning, was talking to cecil. I don't know

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Speaker 1: that playing Jimmy Garoppolo does you anything. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if it doesn't any good. And my point being, Jimmy's

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Speaker 1: got a ceiling on what he on what he can do.

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Speaker 1: So Jimmy might get them to the play offs and

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Speaker 1: they may win a game. I mean, maybe they go

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Speaker 1: on to run. I don't I don't know, but Jimmy's

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Speaker 1: not gonna be the quarterback in twenty twenty two. You know,

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Speaker 1: draft a quarterback at number three and then sitting year

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Speaker 1: after year, two years in a row. I could see

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Speaker 1: him sitting for a year, but you gotta start seeing

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Speaker 1: some return in your investment. I would imagine they want

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Speaker 1: to see Trey Lance. So this might be the convenient

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Speaker 1: spot to Trey Lance is in Jimmy Garoppolo out. I

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Speaker 1: know he's been dealing with that hand issue. Now, it

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Speaker 1: did sound like on Thursday that Jimmy was able to

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Speaker 1: practice and do a few things. But then again, who's

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Speaker 1: to say. If I'm them, I'm playing Trey Lance. If

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Speaker 1: I'm the Texans, I'm expecting Trey Lance. So let's talk

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Speaker 1: about our keys to the game and how the Texans

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Speaker 1: are gonna take down the forty nine ers. So let's

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Speaker 1: start with facing that forty nine ers offense. But first,

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Speaker 1: before I dive in, I need my music. Give my

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Speaker 1: music cranked up. Jay, Let's go there. It is all right,

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Speaker 1: here we go. Forty nine ers. Offense is very interesting.

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Speaker 1: They run for one hundred twenty four yards per game.

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Speaker 1: That's seventh in the NFL. They passed for two hundred

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Speaker 1: and forty four yards per game. It's thirteenth. Middle of

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Speaker 1: the back total offense or top ten. Three hundred and

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Speaker 1: sixty eight point one yards per game, tenth in the league.

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Speaker 1: They've given up the ball twenty one times if they've

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Speaker 1: given it up more than they should. They have Pro

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Speaker 1: Bowl talent and Deebo Samuel's a receiver, talk about him.

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Speaker 1: George Kittle at tight end, we'll talk about him. Try

557
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Speaker 1: Williams and left tackle, one of the best in the business.

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Speaker 1: These edge rushers for the Texans are gonna get all

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Speaker 1: they can handle, a big seventy one out on the edge.

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Speaker 1: They are an interesting bunch offensively. So let's get to

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Speaker 1: the keys. Number one. Is it Trey Lance's offense? Is

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Speaker 1: it Jimmy Garoppolo's offense? And that will matter because the

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Speaker 1: wrinkles that they'll have for Trey Lance in Jimmy Garoppolo's offense.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna make that whole thing look different as opposed

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Speaker 1: to being us purely Trey Lance's offense. Like if Jimmy's

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Speaker 1: running an offense, they might bring in Trey Lance to

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Speaker 1: run a play here there. But when it's Trey Lance's offense,

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Speaker 1: I think you're gonna see a lot more RPOs. You're

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Speaker 1: gonna see a lot more zone read, You're gonna see

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Speaker 1: a few mixed in quarterback runs. The last time Trey

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Speaker 1: Lance started, he started against Arizon the Cardinals. I think

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Speaker 1: it's Week five, and the Cardinals end up winning that

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Speaker 1: one at home seventeen to ten. San Francisco didn't put

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Speaker 1: up a ton of numbers or a ton of points.

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Speaker 1: Obviously just ten Lance would make a play here there,

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Speaker 1: But he looked like a rookie that wasn't and hadn't

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Speaker 1: played in almost two years. He had one start in

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Speaker 1: August of twenty twenty for one game in the fall,

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Speaker 1: then NDSU his ALM later at his school, North Dakota State,

580
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Speaker 1: moved their seasons in the spring to play for a championship,

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Speaker 1: so he won a championship in Nor Dakota State in

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Speaker 1: January of twenty twenty. Then he played that one game

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Speaker 1: in August due to COVID season, and so he didn't

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Speaker 1: start a getting until Week five and hasn't started since.

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Speaker 1: So if he starts, he is going to be rusty,

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Speaker 1: but he's also gonna be pretty fresh with fresh legs.

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Speaker 1: I would expect San Francisco at that point to try

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Speaker 1: and get his run legs involved. Sixteen carries against the Cardinals,

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Speaker 1: I think he's gonna have that. Maybe not a dense sum,

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Speaker 1: but I think he's gonna have around that range. This

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Speaker 1: is a fast Texans defense. They run and they're ultra

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Speaker 1: aggressive and against the running quarterback. That isn't always the

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Speaker 1: greatest recipe. Sometimes it's the perfect recipe. It's the perfect

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Speaker 1: recipe if you're running and flying to the quarterback under control,

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Speaker 1: with bad intentions, but yet under control. And that isn't

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Speaker 1: always the case and hasn't always been the case. There's

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Speaker 1: been a lot of times guys have been sprinting and

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Speaker 1: flying and chasing ghosts, quarterback polls and bootlegs the other

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Speaker 1: way and we got nobody there. They're gonna run boot

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Speaker 1: and a lot of boot They're gonna run excuse me, RPOs,

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Speaker 1: They're gonna run zone reads, They're gonna do everything imaginable

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Speaker 1: with a mobile quarterback once Trey Lance takes over. Now,

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Speaker 1: if by chance, Jimmy Garoppolo does play in this game,

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Speaker 1: which I'm not expecting him to, but if he does

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Speaker 1: play in this game, then you're gonna see a lot

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Speaker 1: of the same things except the quarterback run game. And

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Speaker 1: it is ultra important to hit Jimmy Garoppolo within reason

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Speaker 1: and within the rules, every time he goes back to pass,

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Speaker 1: Make that thumb hurt a little bit, every time he throws,

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Speaker 1: make that body kind of wins, make him flinch when

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Speaker 1: he's throwing. Never know what happens at that particular point.

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Speaker 1: All Right's get the number two key against the Niners,

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Speaker 1: and that is Debo, named after the character in the

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Speaker 1: movie Friday. Deebo. Samuel's Twitter handle is at nineteen problems

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Speaker 1: z and he is more than that for a defense.

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Speaker 1: He is way more than nineteen problems. He feels like

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Speaker 1: he's about three dozen problems. And the thing about it deep,

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Speaker 1: there's so many, so many things he does well. But

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Speaker 1: I compared him to Tyreek Hill this week, at least

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Speaker 1: Tyreek early in his career. Now Tyreek is settled in

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Speaker 1: as a receiver in Kansas City. They're still wrinkles. They

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00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:18,480
Speaker 1: still bring him in orbit motion and throw him flare

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Speaker 1: screens and things of that magnitude. But when Tyreek first

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Speaker 1: got in the league, he was a running back slash

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Speaker 1: receiver that sort of evolved into wide receiver with a

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Speaker 1: little bit of running back, and now it's almost purely

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Speaker 1: wide receiver. Deebo Samuel came into the league as a

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Speaker 1: wide receiver. Then it was kind of an all round

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Speaker 1: wide receiver with a little sprinkle of running back, and

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Speaker 1: now it's almost like sixty forty wide receiver running back.

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Speaker 1: He'll line up in the backfield, they'll toss him the ball,

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Speaker 1: they'll hand it to him on zone runs. He's as

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Speaker 1: good after getting the ball into his hands, whether it's

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Speaker 1: by catch, whether it's by handoff, whether it's by toss sweep,

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Speaker 1: he's as good as anybody you're gonna find. He has

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Speaker 1: two hundred and fifteen pounds built like a brickhouse. Tackling

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Speaker 1: when you get late in the season not always well.

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Speaker 1: First of all, you can't really work on in practice,

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Speaker 1: and in some cases it's what can be an issue

640
00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:17,360
Speaker 1: for defenses. You've got to have a million guys get

641
00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:20,840
Speaker 1: to the ball when Debo's getting in his hands, because

642
00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:23,480
Speaker 1: he'll break the first tackle. But if you hit him

643
00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:25,360
Speaker 1: with one guy, okay, maybe that guy doesn't get him,

644
00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:27,280
Speaker 1: but then boom, boom boom. You know, two, three and

645
00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:29,440
Speaker 1: four hit him. He got an opportunity to slow him down.

646
00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:33,560
Speaker 1: He runs very good routes. He is shrungy, inside runs, slants, glances,

647
00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:37,080
Speaker 1: those kind of things that break inside. He is very

648
00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:39,760
Speaker 1: difficult to stop. But then they put him in a

649
00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:44,280
Speaker 1: backfield and it's like, yo, nineteen's getting the ball. He

650
00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:50,040
Speaker 1: is a problem. Nineteen plus problems Deebo Samuel will become.

651
00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:53,080
Speaker 1: So the biggest thing with Debo is recognized a where

652
00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:56,880
Speaker 1: is he and how can he hurt you from that spot? Okay,

653
00:32:56,920 --> 00:32:59,600
Speaker 1: he's in a backfield. How can he hurt you from

654
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:01,320
Speaker 1: that spot? Well, they can run to sweep, they can

655
00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:03,960
Speaker 1: run zone, they can zone read. There's some things that

656
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:07,120
Speaker 1: they could do with him from the backfield. Understanding where

657
00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:09,520
Speaker 1: he can hurt you and knowing how to slow that down.

658
00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:12,719
Speaker 1: Two massive issues and two massive things of Texas got

659
00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:14,400
Speaker 1: to be aware of. Then he goes out wide at

660
00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:16,160
Speaker 1: wide receiver. Okay, he's out wide receipt. What can he

661
00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:18,760
Speaker 1: do well? He can stack, he can stacking, go and

662
00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:21,920
Speaker 1: go downfield. He can run those slant routes. He widens

663
00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:23,920
Speaker 1: guys out and he cuts underneath them on slants. Now

664
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Speaker 1: he's got the ball in his hands and he's a

665
00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:28,920
Speaker 1: difficult guy to stop. Running the football. Deebo Samuels, go

666
00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:33,080
Speaker 1: see the ball at least fifteen times, at least fifteen

667
00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:36,239
Speaker 1: if not more, in a game that the forty nine

668
00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:39,400
Speaker 1: ers have got to win. Be ready bring your big

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Speaker 1: boy pads because it's time. And it's also time because

670
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Speaker 1: the forty nine ers have a guy by the name

671
00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:48,200
Speaker 1: of George Kittle. Now I can't remember twenty seventeen we

672
00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:50,440
Speaker 1: faced Kittle or not, I can't remember, but either way,

673
00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:51,920
Speaker 1: Kittle has been in and out of the line for

674
00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:53,239
Speaker 1: the last couple of years. But this year he's been

675
00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:57,360
Speaker 1: healthy and he has been a sought after target. However,

676
00:33:57,680 --> 00:34:00,720
Speaker 1: last week against the Tennessee Titans, teams not he only

677
00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:03,520
Speaker 1: had three targets in that game. He will battle the

678
00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:06,160
Speaker 1: line scrimmage. He plays with his long hair and fire,

679
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:12,080
Speaker 1: but out in pass out on pass routes, how do

680
00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:15,000
Speaker 1: you cover him? And that's what the forty nine ers

681
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:18,560
Speaker 1: are going to use personnel changes at person personal matching

682
00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:20,920
Speaker 1: to their advantage. And this is where Lovey Smith and

683
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:23,640
Speaker 1: the Texans defense has really got their have got their

684
00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:26,400
Speaker 1: hands full, because the forty nine ers could put out

685
00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:29,040
Speaker 1: eleven personnel. They could put out three wide receivers, were

686
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Speaker 1: they true running back and kit Will being the only

687
00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:33,360
Speaker 1: tight end? Well, if you matched that by going nickel,

688
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:37,560
Speaker 1: then Kittle's got a nickel on him. He can body

689
00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:39,920
Speaker 1: that guy, whether it's Tavi or Thomas or whoever. Now

690
00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:42,279
Speaker 1: I think Tab is physical enough to kind of hang,

691
00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:44,960
Speaker 1: but man, that's a tough ask to cover Kittle all

692
00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:47,319
Speaker 1: the day because you're trying to match that personnel. Well,

693
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:50,160
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers go twelve personnel, were they true

694
00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:52,400
Speaker 1: running back and two tight ends with Kittle being one

695
00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:54,879
Speaker 1: of them and you know one of the other tight ends,

696
00:34:56,080 --> 00:34:58,440
Speaker 1: Then all of a sudden, do you answer with nickel

697
00:34:58,520 --> 00:35:00,720
Speaker 1: again or do you put your based on the field.

698
00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:02,359
Speaker 1: If you butt you're based on the field, then you're

699
00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:05,360
Speaker 1: gonna end up with an outside linebacker on Kittle. And

700
00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:07,399
Speaker 1: that is going to be where the forty nine ers

701
00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:10,000
Speaker 1: pick at that scab, so to speak. And there are

702
00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:12,080
Speaker 1: very many linebackers, no matter who it is, no matter

703
00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:14,560
Speaker 1: what it's Bobby Wagner, Fred Warner, doesn't matter whether it's

704
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:17,799
Speaker 1: Michael Kendricks or Eric Hendricks. Up with the Minnesota Vikings,

705
00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:20,120
Speaker 1: the best cover linebacker there is in the league, no

706
00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:22,840
Speaker 1: linebackers could be able to stick with Kittle. So the

707
00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:25,319
Speaker 1: Texans have to be aware of how the forty nine

708
00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:28,600
Speaker 1: ers are using their personnel in this game and how

709
00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:31,680
Speaker 1: they're matching that personnel because the forty nine Ers will

710
00:35:31,719 --> 00:35:33,880
Speaker 1: counter by trying to get Kittle involved and trying to

711
00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:38,239
Speaker 1: find Kittle the best mismatch against a linebacker when the

712
00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:41,200
Speaker 1: Texans put their base unit out on the field. But

713
00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:45,240
Speaker 1: like Samuel Kittle, after the catch is a massive issue.

714
00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:49,560
Speaker 1: They've got to hit wrap up and not let a

715
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:52,479
Speaker 1: crosser on thirty seven that's caught at four yards turning

716
00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:55,279
Speaker 1: to eight yards in the first down. Those kind of

717
00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:57,879
Speaker 1: plays are killers. And that's where Debo and that's where

718
00:35:57,920 --> 00:35:59,719
Speaker 1: Kid are big in this game. Where they catch it

719
00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:02,360
Speaker 1: short the sticks but fight through a tackle at sampton

720
00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:05,080
Speaker 1: get a first down. That can't happen in this game,

721
00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:06,360
Speaker 1: all right, So leip it over and look at this

722
00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:08,799
Speaker 1: forty nine Ers defense. Very very good against the run.

723
00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:10,920
Speaker 1: Only give up one hundred and seven point three yards

724
00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:14,680
Speaker 1: per game, that's eleventh in the NFL. Passing yards even better,

725
00:36:14,719 --> 00:36:17,080
Speaker 1: two hundred and eleven point five yards per game, that's

726
00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:19,440
Speaker 1: seventh in the league. They only give up three hundred

727
00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:24,719
Speaker 1: and eighteen point nine yards per game, that's fourth in

728
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Speaker 1: the league. They they are led by a pro bowler

729
00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:29,560
Speaker 1: and a defensive player to your candidate, Nick Bosa. We

730
00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:32,200
Speaker 1: did not face Joey Bosa last week, so this week

731
00:36:32,239 --> 00:36:35,840
Speaker 1: we face Nick Bosa. Eric Rompston inside's an absolute specimen.

732
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:38,120
Speaker 1: Fred Warner might be the best linebacker in the league.

733
00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:41,279
Speaker 1: Josh Norman has had a resurgent season. And the two

734
00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:43,680
Speaker 1: safeties I think are two of the more underrated safeties

735
00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:47,680
Speaker 1: and a really nice safety duo. And Jimmy Ward and

736
00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:50,600
Speaker 1: Jack Whiskey Tart. There's some other names you know, including

737
00:36:50,719 --> 00:36:52,200
Speaker 1: a guy that the name of Charles A. Many who

738
00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:55,480
Speaker 1: comes off the bench. They're very deep up front. So

739
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Speaker 1: what are the keys to beating that forty nine ers defense. Well,

740
00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:00,759
Speaker 1: first of all, we got lucky last week and not

741
00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:04,239
Speaker 1: seeing Joey Bosa, but we will see Nick Bosa now.

742
00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:06,320
Speaker 1: I think Nick is more physical on the edge, especially

743
00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:09,600
Speaker 1: against the run, and he's been better this year getting

744
00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:12,000
Speaker 1: to the quarterback. And the one thing that Bosa does

745
00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:15,919
Speaker 1: extremely well is you speed to power and then use

746
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:20,680
Speaker 1: his hands extraordinarily well. He loves to use the forklift.

747
00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:23,360
Speaker 1: So he'll get into a tackle and he'll grab with

748
00:37:23,480 --> 00:37:26,960
Speaker 1: his outside arm and take that outside arm of the

749
00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:30,719
Speaker 1: tackle and literally forklifted, like lifted up to a point

750
00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:33,680
Speaker 1: where he's got leveraged now, and then he'll either slide

751
00:37:33,719 --> 00:37:36,359
Speaker 1: a rip move and go by, or he'll just take

752
00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:39,000
Speaker 1: that tackle and just drive him right into the quarterback.

753
00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:43,080
Speaker 1: Bosa is gonna need help. He's gonna demand chips, He's

754
00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:46,040
Speaker 1: gonna man double teams. That's gonna take a pass catcher

755
00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:50,120
Speaker 1: out of the pass route and help with Bosa. But

756
00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:53,640
Speaker 1: I'll deal with that as opposed to Bosa going one

757
00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:56,520
Speaker 1: on one against Charlie Hack and drown Christian and getting

758
00:37:56,520 --> 00:37:59,000
Speaker 1: to a tackle or getting to the quarterback free of

759
00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:01,920
Speaker 1: charge after a one on one attempt. They've got to

760
00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:04,759
Speaker 1: help on Bosa. When they run the ball at Bosa,

761
00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:06,239
Speaker 1: they just got to run and hit him with as

762
00:38:06,239 --> 00:38:08,719
Speaker 1: many bodies as possible. That's all they really can do.

763
00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:11,360
Speaker 1: This guy is so good against the run. He plays

764
00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:15,120
Speaker 1: wide runs, outside zones, toss sweeps, pin and polls. He

765
00:38:15,160 --> 00:38:17,320
Speaker 1: plays those so extremely well. You used to have to

766
00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:19,600
Speaker 1: hit him with everything you got and eventually wear him down,

767
00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:24,399
Speaker 1: hopefully by the fourth quarter. Number two. I mentioned this

768
00:38:24,840 --> 00:38:27,080
Speaker 1: when I was reading off the numbers one hundred seven

769
00:38:27,080 --> 00:38:30,520
Speaker 1: point three yards per game the forty nine ers allow.

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Speaker 1: Last week, the Texans ran for one hundred and ninety

771
00:38:33,719 --> 00:38:36,279
Speaker 1: minus the one knee that Davis took, was one hundred

772
00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:37,520
Speaker 1: and eighty nine in total, but it was one hundred

773
00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:39,799
Speaker 1: and ninety from the two running backs, Royce Freeman and

774
00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:42,640
Speaker 1: Rex Burkhead, and also Traymont Smith who came in there

775
00:38:42,640 --> 00:38:45,440
Speaker 1: and gave him something on a toss sweep. It would

776
00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:52,320
Speaker 1: be an absolute dream dream to get back two hundred

777
00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:54,480
Speaker 1: ninety yards rushing. We get two hundred nine yards rushing

778
00:38:54,520 --> 00:38:56,960
Speaker 1: in this game. Something has gone incredibly wrong for the

779
00:38:56,960 --> 00:38:58,920
Speaker 1: forty nine ers, or the Texans are in such a

780
00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:00,799
Speaker 1: groove and they're gonna win a running for one hundred

781
00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:03,160
Speaker 1: ninety like they did last week. That's gonna be tough

782
00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:06,080
Speaker 1: going against Bosa, Fred Werner and that defensive front that's

783
00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:09,840
Speaker 1: pretty deep. I don't know if that happens. But but

784
00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:16,319
Speaker 1: the one thing that they were able to do in Jacksonville,

785
00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:18,440
Speaker 1: even though they didn't get two hundred and niney yards rushing,

786
00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:21,600
Speaker 1: they were able to succeed and win on first and

787
00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:25,560
Speaker 1: second down with two three yards. Now that I should

788
00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:29,000
Speaker 1: say win, but they were able to have a modicum

789
00:39:29,040 --> 00:39:32,680
Speaker 1: of success. But that made third and short or third

790
00:39:32,719 --> 00:39:36,719
Speaker 1: and five thirty six very manageable. There were very few

791
00:39:36,719 --> 00:39:39,320
Speaker 1: times they were third and eight or longer because the

792
00:39:39,440 --> 00:39:42,399
Speaker 1: running game just chipped away at little bits here and there,

793
00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:45,239
Speaker 1: and then Davis could pick up the third down. Once

794
00:39:45,280 --> 00:39:48,240
Speaker 1: you get the third five to seven, you know, defensive

795
00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:51,000
Speaker 1: coordinators can't get too exotic at that point, like, man,

796
00:39:52,160 --> 00:39:54,640
Speaker 1: I don't know if I want to start bringing blitz here.

797
00:39:54,880 --> 00:39:57,160
Speaker 1: I know I want to. Now you get the third twelve,

798
00:39:57,239 --> 00:40:00,720
Speaker 1: third and thirteen, Oh yeah, here comes blitz here, it comes,

799
00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:03,600
Speaker 1: dialing it up, here it goes. So if you get

800
00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:06,400
Speaker 1: to third and seven, third and six, you're gonna be

801
00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:08,680
Speaker 1: in much better shape. And the Texas have been converting

802
00:40:08,760 --> 00:40:10,959
Speaker 1: third downs at an amazing clip the last couple of weeks.

803
00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:14,080
Speaker 1: Fifty six percent in Jacksonville, like sixty nine percent last

804
00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:15,640
Speaker 1: week in Large Park is of the way they've been

805
00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:18,480
Speaker 1: able to run a ball. They don't have to repeat

806
00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:22,719
Speaker 1: the success, but they cannot go completely backwards and they

807
00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:26,200
Speaker 1: can't fall behind the sticks. Stay ahead of the sticks,

808
00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:27,920
Speaker 1: even if it's just a little bit, two, three, four

809
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:30,200
Speaker 1: yards at a time, and you got an opportunity. And

810
00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:33,880
Speaker 1: the last key is just attack. In the second half

811
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:37,000
Speaker 1: of the game against the Niners last week, the tensee

812
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:40,239
Speaker 1: Titans went after that secondary. They felt like they could

813
00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:43,640
Speaker 1: protect up front, and they had A J. Brown and

814
00:40:43,680 --> 00:40:46,919
Speaker 1: they went to AJ Brown over and over and over again.

815
00:40:46,960 --> 00:40:48,839
Speaker 1: He had six catches for one hundred twenty one yards

816
00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:50,719
Speaker 1: in touchdown the second half of the forty. Niners had

817
00:40:50,719 --> 00:40:53,799
Speaker 1: no answer. They had no answer for him. Now the

818
00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:55,160
Speaker 1: Texas don't have an A J. Brown, but they got

819
00:40:55,200 --> 00:41:00,840
Speaker 1: a Brandy Cooks. Attack that secondary with a guy Brandon Cooks.

820
00:41:01,160 --> 00:41:03,000
Speaker 1: And if you don't think you know, Brandon is the

821
00:41:03,040 --> 00:41:04,400
Speaker 1: guy that can do that. If you gotta spread the

822
00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:05,920
Speaker 1: wealth a little bit, it's not just Brandon, but you

823
00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:09,800
Speaker 1: got Nico there too, big bodied receiver, Brandy Cooks, speedy receiver.

824
00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:13,799
Speaker 1: These safeties are I think pretty good. I don't know

825
00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:16,920
Speaker 1: that I totally completely respect the corners for San Francisco.

826
00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:18,759
Speaker 1: They had to play rookie last week. Candrey Thomas, a

827
00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:22,600
Speaker 1: corner who is Nico's teammate at Michigan, and Josh Norman

828
00:41:22,640 --> 00:41:25,920
Speaker 1: has had a resurgent season, but I think fast athletic

829
00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:28,799
Speaker 1: receivers could give Hi him issue still. So if they

830
00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:31,680
Speaker 1: can protect Bosa and keep him out of the face

831
00:41:31,719 --> 00:41:34,200
Speaker 1: of Davis Mills, if they can run the ball on

832
00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:36,479
Speaker 1: first second down, it gets a third and five, third

833
00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:38,960
Speaker 1: and six, and they stay in attack mode. Throwing the

834
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:42,360
Speaker 1: football against the secondary, I think it's okay, but not

835
00:41:43,040 --> 00:41:47,520
Speaker 1: overly tremendous. If they keep that mindset, they could throw

836
00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:49,879
Speaker 1: the football I think against the secondary like the Titans did.

837
00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:51,960
Speaker 1: Everybody in the brother knew the types were thrown and

838
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:55,200
Speaker 1: bought a j Brown, and Tannehill kept sticking it to him.

839
00:41:55,239 --> 00:41:57,719
Speaker 1: He kept making plays. That's gotta be the way it is.

840
00:41:57,800 --> 00:41:59,759
Speaker 1: You gotta know he's throwing at the Brandy Cooks and

841
00:42:00,280 --> 00:42:04,919
Speaker 1: will still succeeds. Give him time, give him space, give

842
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:08,400
Speaker 1: him fair opportunities third and six or less, second and

843
00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:11,120
Speaker 1: five or less. I think you'll see what Davis Mills

844
00:42:11,120 --> 00:42:12,759
Speaker 1: can do. All right, those are your keys to a

845
00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:15,360
Speaker 1: win over the San Francisco forty nine ers. When we

846
00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:19,360
Speaker 1: get back, it's a double dip, a Trews dozen and

847
00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:23,799
Speaker 1: a deep slant Drews dozen with Jacob Martin, a deep

848
00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:26,600
Speaker 1: slant with the aforementioned Rex Burkhead. That's all next, as

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Speaker 1: we kick off the second hour of this edition of

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Speaker 1: Texans All Axis. It's all Axis, All Axis. We put

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Speaker 1: one hour in the books. We got a one hour

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Speaker 1: left to go right here on a Friday edition, a

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Speaker 1: rocking New Year's Eve edition of Texans All Access. I

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Speaker 1: am Dick Clark aka John Harris, football Analyst, sideline reporter,

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Speaker 1: and if you remember who Dick Clark is, then you

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Speaker 1: are an old like me. Maybe a dated reference, says

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Speaker 1: Mark likes to call it, but happy New Year at everybody.

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Speaker 1: We're that much closer to twenty twenty two. Starting a

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Speaker 1: new year. It always feels refreshing, revitalizing, and hopefully that

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Speaker 1: will start in Santa Clara on Sunday as the Texans

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Speaker 1: take on the San Francisco forty nine ers. The eight

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Speaker 1: and seven San Francisco forty nine ers in eight and

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Speaker 1: seven forty nine ers teams starting potentially a rookie at

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Speaker 1: quarterback at eight and seven forty nine ers team looking

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Speaker 1: to knock at the playoff door, and hopefully the Texans

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Speaker 1: could be the playoff grim reaper for the San Francisco

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Speaker 1: forty nine ers on Sunday. There are two guys that

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Speaker 1: are gonna play big roles in seeing that happens. So

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Speaker 1: let's do a little Drews dozen to start with Jacob Martin,

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Speaker 1: Drew take it away. Happy New Year's friends, and happy

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Speaker 1: New Year to you, Jacob Martin. It's strength to be

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Speaker 1: with you here on a Drews doesn't. It's been quite

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Speaker 1: some time since you and I have done one of these,

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Speaker 1: the year of a veteran of this. So first things first,

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Speaker 1: since it is twenty twenty two on the way, are

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Speaker 1: you a New Year's resolution guy? And it's so, what

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Speaker 1: is your twenty twenty two resolution? You know, I don't

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Speaker 1: like to think like obviously, I'm a big I'm big

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Speaker 1: on goals, you know. So I set goals, you know,

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Speaker 1: every year, whether it's a long term or short term.

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Speaker 1: But resolution, I don't know what if I necessarily like

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Speaker 1: change who I am as a person. You know. I

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Speaker 1: try to stay as organic as possible. I think when

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Speaker 1: you are your one true self you can get better

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Speaker 1: being honest with yourself. So you know, just really just

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Speaker 1: be better in all aspects and whether that's football, you know,

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Speaker 1: personal relationships, you know, business relationships, faith, family, you know.

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Speaker 1: I just want to see a growth in myself and

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Speaker 1: those around me. For for twenty twenty two, December eleventh

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Speaker 1: is your birthday, so belated happy birthday to you. Did

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Speaker 1: you also know that it's International Mountain Day? I did

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Speaker 1: not know the International Mountain Day. I thought, what's your

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Speaker 1: favorite mountain of all time? And why my favorite mountain

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Speaker 1: of all time? You know, I'm a Colorado guy, so

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say Pike speaks. There you go, that's a

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Speaker 1: cool one, YEA. I knew you would be a good

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Speaker 1: guy to ask because A, it's on your birthday, the

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Speaker 1: holiday be you grew up in Colorado. Ce he played

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Speaker 1: in Seattle for a little bit, and there's mountains there,

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Speaker 1: so you had and I know d you travel a lot,

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Speaker 1: so I don't know if you'd seen mountains in the past.

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Speaker 1: So I like that you stuck close to your hometown.

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Speaker 1: Pike speak. It's a good one. I like it. Are

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Speaker 1: you a mountains guy or a beach guy? Most definitely

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Speaker 1: I've been to more mountains and I've been a beaches

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Speaker 1: for sure. Is that right? Not to be labored? December eleventh?

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Speaker 1: But it's also International Tango Day? Do you know how

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Speaker 1: to tango? No? But I will ask way Lopez when

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Speaker 1: I get to work tomorrow. He's a pretty good dancer,

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Speaker 1: isn't he? Oh? Dude? That skilled? Skilled? Does he do

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Speaker 1: anything else besides the salsa da dancing he does? After

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Speaker 1: the sack? You see that in a locker room. He

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Speaker 1: has a mean gritty Other than that, you know he's

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Speaker 1: good at dance and app it's a house music to tech. Now,

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Speaker 1: how about you? You don't tango? But are you a

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Speaker 1: good dancer? Otherwise? I like to think so. I like

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Speaker 1: to think I'm a dancer. Okay, what type of dancing

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Speaker 1: do you do? I can do it all man, So

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Speaker 1: I'm not afraid. The only thing I don't know how

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Speaker 1: to do this tango. Once I learned that, you know that,

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Speaker 1: i'd be pretty I think I consider myself pretty rewounded. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the repertoire will be complete once you add in the tango.

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Speaker 1: It's good to know one of the things I like.

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Speaker 1: There's many things I like about you, Jacob, But One

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Speaker 1: of the things I like about you is a lot

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Speaker 1: of times on game day you show up dressed in

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Speaker 1: western wear and you kind of you put your own

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Speaker 1: twist on it. You get pretty crazy with it sometimes.

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Speaker 1: So with that in mind, how many cowboy hats do

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Speaker 1: you own? Oh? I don't know. I've given so many

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Speaker 1: away over over the past three years in Houston. Really yeah,

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Speaker 1: I got all the linebackers hats. Last year, I gave

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Speaker 1: a couple of way friends and family. So currently in

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Speaker 1: my closet right now, probably maybe have five or seven hats. Wow. Wow,

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Speaker 1: that's really goods. Like you've got felt ones. You've got

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Speaker 1: straw ones, different colors too, don't you. Oh yeah, fell

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Speaker 1: in straw you know you got you gotta be right

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Speaker 1: for the season. So how often did you buy some

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Speaker 1: for yourself? Because you talked about giving some away? But

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Speaker 1: how did you buy something for yourself unless like something

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Speaker 1: you know, not fixable. Typically on the basic color, you know,

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Speaker 1: I have like the brown, the dark brown, like chocolate fell,

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Speaker 1: the black, felt, the great fell, the silver, belly felt,

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Speaker 1: the tans, and then you then you have your straws,

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Speaker 1: your traditional straw hats. I don't know, I would probably

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Speaker 1: sat by a hat. You know, I'm a bottle on

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Speaker 1: yet this year I'll probably get one, probably in the

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Speaker 1: next few weeks before Rodeo comes around. Did you get

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Speaker 1: a chance to go to the Rodeo, because you've got

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Speaker 1: here in nineteen August September and there was a little

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Speaker 1: bit of Rodeo in twenty twenty before COVID shut things that.

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Speaker 1: Did you get to go to any any shows there

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Speaker 1: in early twenty I was actually at the Rodeo. I

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Speaker 1: was at the Rodeo probably like three days straight, right

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Speaker 1: at the beginning, right after the cookoff. That makes me

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Speaker 1: happy because I remember you and I were set to

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Speaker 1: walk through the carnival and have fun and do that.

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Speaker 1: I do that every year, and it was the day

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Speaker 1: that the Rodeo got shut down. It was Yes, I

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Speaker 1: do remember that. Yah. Yeah. Any how many Cowboy boots

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Speaker 1: do you own county pairs? That's a tough one. I've

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Speaker 1: purchased a few pairs this year, so I'm not sure

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Speaker 1: what that bring my total too, maybe maybe five or

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Speaker 1: six as well. And you got lots of options if

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Speaker 1: you want to have a Western warre. That's good to

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Speaker 1: good to know you're in the right town for all that.

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Speaker 1: So favorite country and Western act is country western act?

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Speaker 1: Is this? Like? What what does that entail? Like? Rodeo

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Speaker 1: country sinkers, like country talking rodeo clowns, you know, country music.

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Speaker 1: If we're going country music, then i'd probably go Lee Bryce. Okay,

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Speaker 1: probably my my my favorite artist, Lee Bryce. I like

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Speaker 1: Ford to Georgia Lyon, you know, Zach Brown Band, Jason

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Speaker 1: Alde and all those guys. But Lee Bright spar Far

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Speaker 1: is my favorite country art. Okay. First concert you ever

975
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Speaker 1: went to was what WHOA? I don't know, maybe maybe

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Speaker 1: Schoolboy Q, maybe whis Khalifa or something like that back

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Speaker 1: in the day. All right, that's a pretty good one.

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Speaker 1: What's the best concert you've ever seen? Best concert I've

979
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Speaker 1: ever seen? I would say when Beyonce and jay Z

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Speaker 1: came to Seattle. It's a pretty big one. A couple

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Speaker 1: of types right there. Okay, we've asked every single one

982
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Speaker 1: of your teammates's questions. We gotta get your thoughts on it.

983
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Speaker 1: What's your favorite exercise in the weight room and your

984
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Speaker 1: least favorite exercise in the weight room? Favorite exercise probably

985
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Speaker 1: power plane. Least favorite exercise I don't really know. I

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Speaker 1: don't really hate any exercise of this to be hones

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Speaker 1: with you, I kind of kind of want to be

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Speaker 1: head so maybe conditioning. No one likes to run, so

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Speaker 1: Brandon Cooks just recently he doesn't like pull ups. We've

990
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Speaker 1: heard planks from a few of your teammates. And then

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Speaker 1: all the big guys dislike squats, and all the skill

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Speaker 1: guys kind of dislike this is stereotypically, but all the

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Speaker 1: skill guys pretty much disliked the bench, so I can see.

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Speaker 1: I can see why big guys, you know, don't like

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Speaker 1: squat you know sometimes, you know, I think if we're

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Speaker 1: in season working out those end season i'd agree with

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Speaker 1: that squatting sucks and season. You know, no one, no

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Speaker 1: one enjoys squatting on Monday after the game. But pretty

999
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Speaker 1: much to a man, every quarterback and running back and

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Speaker 1: wide receiver said squats when Ingram was here. Ingram says,

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Speaker 1: because they like, we're in those short shorts so they

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Speaker 1: can show off the quads. So that's and wouldn't make sense.

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Speaker 1: What's the most overrated food in the world. Overrated food

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Speaker 1: in the world, stuffing. Thanksgiving stuffing is the most overrated

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Speaker 1: food and almushy, there's no need for it. No need

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Speaker 1: for it. Okay, who invented it? What's the most underrated

1007
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Speaker 1: food in the world. Underrated food in the world? Barbecue, man,

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Speaker 1: I'd say barbecue. Barbecue is underappreciated. When you have a

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Speaker 1: quality barbecue, you can eat it all day. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: ribs guy, brisket guy, everything brisket and sausage. I'll eve

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Speaker 1: ribbed and stuff like that. Being um, big big on brisket.

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Speaker 1: It's a good call. You know. I'm gonna finish this

1013
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Speaker 1: by making a statement, not giving you a question. I

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Speaker 1: think Italian sausage has been left out and that should

1015
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Speaker 1: be added to a lot of barbecue joints. As you think, so,

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Speaker 1: I think. So. Have you ever had Italian like smoked

1017
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Speaker 1: Italian sausage? Yeah, man, I think it's really good. You guys.

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Speaker 1: Get the fennel seeds, a little bit spice, you know.

1019
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Speaker 1: Like I'm big on Italian sausae. My favorite food, Italian food.

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Speaker 1: So I don't know, I don't know how I feel

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Speaker 1: about that with might as well, just like guess, like eating,

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Speaker 1: you know, grilling a brat werst, if you grill it,

1023
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Speaker 1: if you grill it the right way though, Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's good. Your Pepper's an onions guy with these Italian sausages.

1025
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well my wife is Italian, so okay, okay,

1026
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Speaker 1: I get the good stuff when I eat the big

1027
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Speaker 1: meals with her families. Jacob Martin, it's always fun doing

1028
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Speaker 1: these with you. You're a great sport. You always have

1029
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Speaker 1: a good, thoughtful answer for everything I ask, and I

1030
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Speaker 1: really do appreciate it. I wish you the best of

1031
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Speaker 1: luck this weekend, the best of luck the rest of

1032
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Speaker 1: the season. I hope you have a fun year at

1033
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Speaker 1: the rodeo and can't wait to tuck again. Sometimes to

1034
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Speaker 1: the sound good than appreciation. Drew Man got the funky

1035
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Speaker 1: music and oh what Drews does in there with Jacob Martin.

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Speaker 1: All Right, each week I have the opportunity to play

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Speaker 1: a Drews dozen, and of course we'll hear from Jacob

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Speaker 1: Martin later with our final work. Because it Drews does,

1039
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Speaker 1: it's not about football, it's about everything that's not football.

1040
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Speaker 1: Kind of gives you a peek behind a curtain, if

1041
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Speaker 1: you will. So Drew always sends me the interview that

1042
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Speaker 1: he does with that particular player, this week's Jacob Martin,

1043
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Speaker 1: and then DP sends me her slant interview of the week,

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Speaker 1: and this week it's with the FedEx Ground Player of

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Speaker 1: the Week. Yeah. Absolutely, Rex Burkhead sat down with Deep City.

1046
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Speaker 1: Had fun time. Listen to this interview. Take a listen

1047
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Speaker 1: Rex Burkhead with Deep City. It's a Deep Slant Interview

1048
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Speaker 1: of the week. It's the Deep Slant one on one

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Speaker 1: presented by Explaniting my guests this week running back Rex Birkhead,

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Speaker 1: Year nine. Rex. First off, how are you feeling after

1051
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Speaker 1: Sunday's game? I mean, that was it was quite a

1052
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Speaker 1: lot that you did out there on the field. So

1053
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Speaker 1: how does the body feel this week? Yeah, I actually

1054
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Speaker 1: feel not too bad, feel pretty good. You know, offensive

1055
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Speaker 1: line to a great job keeping some big hits off

1056
00:52:40,400 --> 00:52:44,200
Speaker 1: of me. So yeah, looking forward to San Francisco this

1057
00:52:44,239 --> 00:52:46,680
Speaker 1: week and get after it again. Yeah, a career day

1058
00:52:46,680 --> 00:52:48,920
Speaker 1: for you. I mean, you've had two rushing touchdowns in

1059
00:52:48,920 --> 00:52:51,840
Speaker 1: a game before, but you've never had two rushing touchdowns

1060
00:52:51,880 --> 00:52:54,800
Speaker 1: plus one hundred and forty nine yards on the ground.

1061
00:52:54,840 --> 00:52:57,040
Speaker 1: I mean, I have to imagine after the season this

1062
00:52:57,120 --> 00:52:59,240
Speaker 1: team has had just sort of running the ball, getting

1063
00:52:59,239 --> 00:53:01,640
Speaker 1: the thing, getting the going on the ground had to

1064
00:53:01,640 --> 00:53:05,200
Speaker 1: feel extra special. Yeah, it did. You know, that's something

1065
00:53:05,440 --> 00:53:07,640
Speaker 1: we took as a challenge kind of you know, all year,

1066
00:53:07,760 --> 00:53:10,080
Speaker 1: really getting a game where we established that run game

1067
00:53:10,120 --> 00:53:12,799
Speaker 1: early on, being physical not only in the first quarter

1068
00:53:12,840 --> 00:53:15,800
Speaker 1: but all four quarters. And the offensive line did that,

1069
00:53:15,800 --> 00:53:18,920
Speaker 1: and not only them, the receivers out why blocking the

1070
00:53:18,960 --> 00:53:21,920
Speaker 1: tight ends, you know, also all game long, doing it

1071
00:53:21,960 --> 00:53:24,160
Speaker 1: from the get go and making you know, my job

1072
00:53:24,200 --> 00:53:27,160
Speaker 1: easy reading the holes and finding them. Yeah, just a

1073
00:53:27,200 --> 00:53:31,960
Speaker 1: great collective effort by everyone on offense. Really after the game, though,

1074
00:53:32,040 --> 00:53:34,960
Speaker 1: Davis Mills, someone handed you a ball and said it

1075
00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:37,680
Speaker 1: was from Davis, and you were asked about it in

1076
00:53:37,680 --> 00:53:40,439
Speaker 1: your postgame press conference and you were not quite sure

1077
00:53:40,480 --> 00:53:42,319
Speaker 1: what it was about. I'm wondering if you got any

1078
00:53:42,360 --> 00:53:44,880
Speaker 1: clarification on the ball. Did Davis Mills give you the

1079
00:53:44,920 --> 00:53:47,880
Speaker 1: game ball after the game? He did, Yeah, So I

1080
00:53:47,920 --> 00:53:49,719
Speaker 1: didn't know at the time. You know, someone came up

1081
00:53:49,760 --> 00:53:51,040
Speaker 1: to me and just handed to me and said, hey,

1082
00:53:51,120 --> 00:53:53,320
Speaker 1: Davis wanted to be sure you got this, And so

1083
00:53:53,880 --> 00:53:55,960
Speaker 1: I end up talking to him about it and he's like, yeah, man,

1084
00:53:56,160 --> 00:53:57,839
Speaker 1: you played your tail off. Just wanted to give you

1085
00:53:58,160 --> 00:54:02,320
Speaker 1: a game ball. So, you know, pretty cool, special by him,

1086
00:54:02,360 --> 00:54:04,400
Speaker 1: you know, and also to have that maturity level at

1087
00:54:04,600 --> 00:54:06,520
Speaker 1: you know as a rookie as well, just to seeing

1088
00:54:06,520 --> 00:54:09,600
Speaker 1: the big picture, you know, the whole game, and you know,

1089
00:54:09,640 --> 00:54:12,319
Speaker 1: it's this nice compliment from him. So he played a

1090
00:54:12,360 --> 00:54:14,799
Speaker 1: great game, let us down the field multiple times, and

1091
00:54:15,040 --> 00:54:17,920
Speaker 1: you know, made some unbelievable throws. Yeah, you'll forever be

1092
00:54:17,960 --> 00:54:21,399
Speaker 1: linked with Davis now for his first and his second

1093
00:54:21,600 --> 00:54:24,839
Speaker 1: career wins in NFL history. The week before his first

1094
00:54:24,840 --> 00:54:27,120
Speaker 1: career win in Jacksonville, I actually wrote a story about

1095
00:54:27,160 --> 00:54:29,880
Speaker 1: you because you had forty one yards rushing on the ground,

1096
00:54:29,920 --> 00:54:32,799
Speaker 1: which you know isn't just such a staggering stat but

1097
00:54:33,200 --> 00:54:35,160
Speaker 1: the way in which you did it with the rain

1098
00:54:35,200 --> 00:54:38,040
Speaker 1: pounding down and you were injured. I think a lot

1099
00:54:38,080 --> 00:54:39,759
Speaker 1: of us thought you were not going to even play

1100
00:54:39,800 --> 00:54:43,320
Speaker 1: in Jacksonville, but you really pushed through with your toughness

1101
00:54:43,320 --> 00:54:46,280
Speaker 1: and everything, and Davis called you a fighter after the game.

1102
00:54:46,840 --> 00:54:49,440
Speaker 1: What was that game like for you mentally, emotionally, and

1103
00:54:49,480 --> 00:54:51,359
Speaker 1: then to go through that and then to come out

1104
00:54:51,400 --> 00:54:53,279
Speaker 1: with the win. I'm sure that it had to feel

1105
00:54:53,280 --> 00:54:55,440
Speaker 1: really good, But well, what was that week like for

1106
00:54:55,480 --> 00:54:57,880
Speaker 1: you in that game in particular? Yeah, you know, like

1107
00:54:57,920 --> 00:55:00,319
Speaker 1: you said, the best thing about is we won the game,

1108
00:55:00,520 --> 00:55:02,640
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, a lot of guys are dealing

1109
00:55:02,680 --> 00:55:05,560
Speaker 1: with bumps and bruises at this time of year, and so,

1110
00:55:05,880 --> 00:55:07,839
Speaker 1: you know, I was just doing my best to fight

1111
00:55:07,920 --> 00:55:09,640
Speaker 1: through um, you know what I had going on and

1112
00:55:09,640 --> 00:55:11,880
Speaker 1: go out there and put my best foot forward. And uh,

1113
00:55:12,239 --> 00:55:14,200
Speaker 1: you know, it was one of those, you know, condition

1114
00:55:14,280 --> 00:55:16,359
Speaker 1: games where you know, the run game needed to be

1115
00:55:16,640 --> 00:55:19,080
Speaker 1: physical and we needed to do a good job in

1116
00:55:19,120 --> 00:55:21,799
Speaker 1: that area, and we did and fortunately it came out

1117
00:55:21,840 --> 00:55:24,040
Speaker 1: to win. All right. So in Sunday's game against the Chargers,

1118
00:55:24,040 --> 00:55:26,720
Speaker 1: Traymon Smith got to carry and apparently he'd been lobbying

1119
00:55:26,800 --> 00:55:28,560
Speaker 1: with Tim Kelly to try to get a carry. What

1120
00:55:28,680 --> 00:55:32,160
Speaker 1: did you think of his first NFL rushing attempt? Yeah,

1121
00:55:32,200 --> 00:55:35,560
Speaker 1: he did well. You know, he too got outside as

1122
00:55:35,600 --> 00:55:38,319
Speaker 1: fast as possible. You know, I think after his kick

1123
00:55:38,360 --> 00:55:40,799
Speaker 1: returned for a touchdown last week, he you know, that

1124
00:55:40,880 --> 00:55:43,360
Speaker 1: was kind of his uh you know, showcase there that

1125
00:55:43,400 --> 00:55:45,960
Speaker 1: he could possibly do something on offense, and TK had

1126
00:55:45,960 --> 00:55:47,520
Speaker 1: faith in Rome to go out there and do it,

1127
00:55:47,600 --> 00:55:50,319
Speaker 1: and he made a nice game for us. Yeah, he

1128
00:55:50,360 --> 00:55:52,040
Speaker 1: said he's not sure if he wants to do it again,

1129
00:55:52,080 --> 00:55:54,400
Speaker 1: but he did say the toughest part about playing running

1130
00:55:54,440 --> 00:55:56,600
Speaker 1: back his pass protection. Because he had done it a

1131
00:55:56,640 --> 00:55:58,960
Speaker 1: few years ago in the preseason. Would you agree that

1132
00:55:58,960 --> 00:56:02,720
Speaker 1: that's the toughest part of playing your position. Yeah, definitely,

1133
00:56:03,520 --> 00:56:06,280
Speaker 1: you know, I think because you're throwing the mental aspect

1134
00:56:06,360 --> 00:56:08,560
Speaker 1: of it as well, you know, making sure you're seeing

1135
00:56:08,600 --> 00:56:10,960
Speaker 1: the whole field and you know, not only being on

1136
00:56:11,000 --> 00:56:13,000
Speaker 1: the right guy, but having their correct technique when you

1137
00:56:13,000 --> 00:56:14,719
Speaker 1: get there. And a lot of times you're blocking guys

1138
00:56:14,719 --> 00:56:17,200
Speaker 1: who are are much bigger than you. So yeah, you

1139
00:56:17,320 --> 00:56:19,920
Speaker 1: just got to be um, you know, willing to do it,

1140
00:56:20,120 --> 00:56:22,640
Speaker 1: able to do it, and make sure you're on your

1141
00:56:22,640 --> 00:56:24,399
Speaker 1: p's and q's and when you're doing it. Yeah, that's

1142
00:56:24,400 --> 00:56:26,160
Speaker 1: one of the things about your game, Wrex that we

1143
00:56:26,200 --> 00:56:27,759
Speaker 1: hear a lot about is that you bring a lot

1144
00:56:27,800 --> 00:56:30,600
Speaker 1: of versatility to the ground game with everything they're able

1145
00:56:30,600 --> 00:56:33,480
Speaker 1: to do it, even when it comes to rushing or

1146
00:56:33,520 --> 00:56:37,239
Speaker 1: receiving or pass protection. And you credited your dad for

1147
00:56:37,320 --> 00:56:41,240
Speaker 1: really teaching you about the position. Now, your dad played fullback, correct,

1148
00:56:41,320 --> 00:56:44,120
Speaker 1: what did he teach you about playing running back? Yeah?

1149
00:56:44,320 --> 00:56:46,520
Speaker 1: Well he was kind of a running back slash fullback,

1150
00:56:46,600 --> 00:56:48,920
Speaker 1: you know, back in the day. He got a lot

1151
00:56:48,920 --> 00:56:51,719
Speaker 1: of carriers, was involved in the run game, and so yeah,

1152
00:56:51,719 --> 00:56:54,160
Speaker 1: He always preached versatility to me. He said, the more

1153
00:56:54,200 --> 00:56:56,319
Speaker 1: you can do, the longer you can play. So you

1154
00:56:56,320 --> 00:56:58,759
Speaker 1: know where that was in pass protection or catching the

1155
00:56:58,800 --> 00:57:01,680
Speaker 1: ball of the backfield. You know, coaches love guys who

1156
00:57:01,680 --> 00:57:03,920
Speaker 1: can do multiple things, and so that was something he

1157
00:57:04,000 --> 00:57:06,279
Speaker 1: preached to me at an early age. And you know

1158
00:57:06,360 --> 00:57:09,200
Speaker 1: something I've taken pride in my whole career. Your dad

1159
00:57:09,239 --> 00:57:11,040
Speaker 1: didn't play a long time in the NFL, but he

1160
00:57:11,080 --> 00:57:13,200
Speaker 1: did get a chance to play with Dan Marino. Do

1161
00:57:13,239 --> 00:57:16,760
Speaker 1: you remember any good Dan Marino stories that he told, uh,

1162
00:57:17,120 --> 00:57:20,160
Speaker 1: you know, nothing, no crazy stories, but he said, you know,

1163
00:57:20,240 --> 00:57:21,680
Speaker 1: he enjoyed it. You know, he got to play for

1164
00:57:21,680 --> 00:57:23,520
Speaker 1: Don Shula, who's the head coach there at the time,

1165
00:57:23,560 --> 00:57:27,720
Speaker 1: as well, and so he enjoyed his experience. Um, you know,

1166
00:57:27,880 --> 00:57:31,120
Speaker 1: it wasn't that long, but definitely a lot of memories

1167
00:57:31,160 --> 00:57:33,720
Speaker 1: he took from it. And uh, you know, playing for

1168
00:57:34,000 --> 00:57:36,720
Speaker 1: or with Dan Marino, of course is a pretty special

1169
00:57:36,760 --> 00:57:40,400
Speaker 1: in itself. Yeah. And then now he works for the FBI,

1170
00:57:40,520 --> 00:57:43,280
Speaker 1: or he did work for the FBI after football. Uh

1171
00:57:43,680 --> 00:57:46,400
Speaker 1: he did. Yeah, he did retire from that and now

1172
00:57:46,440 --> 00:57:50,000
Speaker 1: has his own own business. Yeah. All right, Well, you

1173
00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:52,320
Speaker 1: know we've noticed at some of the home games, or

1174
00:57:52,400 --> 00:57:55,000
Speaker 1: most of the home games, there's a little cheering section

1175
00:57:55,600 --> 00:57:58,680
Speaker 1: a bunch of people wearing number twenty eight jerseys. Would

1176
00:57:58,680 --> 00:58:02,640
Speaker 1: those be? Are those your parents? Is that your family? Probably? So? Yeah,

1177
00:58:02,800 --> 00:58:06,080
Speaker 1: probably the parents. Um, you know my wife and uh,

1178
00:58:06,320 --> 00:58:08,560
Speaker 1: you know, my oldest son. He came to a game,

1179
00:58:08,920 --> 00:58:11,320
Speaker 1: you know, a few weeks ago as well, So yeah,

1180
00:58:11,360 --> 00:58:13,560
Speaker 1: we uh you know, they're up in Dallas, got a

1181
00:58:13,600 --> 00:58:16,080
Speaker 1: lot of family and friends around, so got a pretty

1182
00:58:16,080 --> 00:58:19,000
Speaker 1: good crowd there. Yeah. Have they been able to I mean,

1183
00:58:19,080 --> 00:58:20,880
Speaker 1: now that you're in Houston, it makes sense for them

1184
00:58:20,880 --> 00:58:22,720
Speaker 1: to be able to come down to Houston and watch

1185
00:58:22,720 --> 00:58:25,120
Speaker 1: your games. But over the course of your career, were

1186
00:58:25,160 --> 00:58:27,240
Speaker 1: your parents were your family? I mean your family obviously

1187
00:58:27,280 --> 00:58:29,000
Speaker 1: was living with you, But were your parents able to

1188
00:58:29,040 --> 00:58:30,800
Speaker 1: attend a lot of your games? Or is this really

1189
00:58:30,840 --> 00:58:34,040
Speaker 1: a first for them? Uh? Yeah, they they've always made

1190
00:58:34,040 --> 00:58:35,919
Speaker 1: a point to try to come out to as many

1191
00:58:35,960 --> 00:58:37,920
Speaker 1: as possible. Um, of course, it makes it a lot

1192
00:58:37,960 --> 00:58:40,080
Speaker 1: easier when it's just a short drive from Dallas. Um,

1193
00:58:40,320 --> 00:58:42,760
Speaker 1: you know here now and so it is nice. It's

1194
00:58:42,880 --> 00:58:45,120
Speaker 1: nice for them, and you know, also much of you know,

1195
00:58:45,360 --> 00:58:48,120
Speaker 1: friends I grew up with and then um, you know

1196
00:58:48,280 --> 00:58:50,200
Speaker 1: went to school with who were able to come as well.

1197
00:58:50,240 --> 00:58:53,000
Speaker 1: Now all right, well you didn't grow up in Houston,

1198
00:58:53,000 --> 00:58:54,440
Speaker 1: you grew up in the Plano area. But you're back

1199
00:58:54,440 --> 00:58:56,600
Speaker 1: in Texas now off for a really long time. What

1200
00:58:56,680 --> 00:59:01,040
Speaker 1: did you miss most about living here? Oh? Man, you

1201
00:59:01,120 --> 00:59:05,920
Speaker 1: know right now? I mean eighty degree weather during December

1202
00:59:06,080 --> 00:59:08,520
Speaker 1: is uh, you know, pretty nice, pretty awesome. You know,

1203
00:59:08,560 --> 00:59:10,760
Speaker 1: I'm a warm weather guy for sure. I don't mind

1204
00:59:10,760 --> 00:59:12,840
Speaker 1: playing in the cold at all, but just the day

1205
00:59:12,880 --> 00:59:16,800
Speaker 1: to day, you know, warm weather is it's pretty nice. Yeah.

1206
00:59:16,880 --> 00:59:19,240
Speaker 1: It makes up for all those crazy days during training

1207
00:59:19,280 --> 00:59:22,120
Speaker 1: camp to get some nice, eighty degree pleasant weather in December, right,

1208
00:59:22,400 --> 00:59:25,800
Speaker 1: oh yeah, absolutely? All right, Rex, well looking forward to

1209
00:59:25,880 --> 00:59:27,760
Speaker 1: what you can do here for the last few games

1210
00:59:27,760 --> 00:59:30,680
Speaker 1: of the season. Congrats on the big wins and best

1211
00:59:30,760 --> 00:59:33,000
Speaker 1: of luck. Thank you so much. If you would have

1212
00:59:33,040 --> 00:59:35,160
Speaker 1: told me but the way the season was going, not

1213
00:59:35,240 --> 00:59:40,640
Speaker 1: even last week at this time and staid after week sixteen,

1214
00:59:41,280 --> 00:59:45,000
Speaker 1: Rex Birkhead is going to win the FedEx Ground Player

1215
00:59:45,680 --> 00:59:50,360
Speaker 1: of the Week, I would have thought you were on crack.

1216
00:59:50,960 --> 00:59:53,440
Speaker 1: I would have said, there's no way. The only way, man,

1217
00:59:53,560 --> 00:59:55,400
Speaker 1: only the window of the ward. You gotta be one

1218
00:59:55,800 --> 00:59:59,520
Speaker 1: one thirty, couple of tuddies something like that. We have

1219
00:59:59,680 --> 01:00:02,520
Speaker 1: stiff one thirty and how long you're how long? So

1220
01:00:02,600 --> 01:00:05,280
Speaker 1: here's here's here's a recap. So Rex went for one

1221
01:00:05,520 --> 01:00:10,400
Speaker 1: forty nine, right, the most yards that Texan has run

1222
01:00:10,440 --> 01:00:14,920
Speaker 1: for in the last seven seasons. No, yes, all right,

1223
01:00:14,960 --> 01:00:17,440
Speaker 1: seven seasons. No no no, no, dating back to the day.

1224
01:00:17,480 --> 01:00:21,360
Speaker 1: I gotta do my math twenty eighteen on American soil,

1225
01:00:21,440 --> 01:00:23,880
Speaker 1: that is because in twenty nineteen we went to London,

1226
01:00:23,960 --> 01:00:27,720
Speaker 1: carloside a one hundred and sixty. So if you're keeping

1227
01:00:27,760 --> 01:00:30,040
Speaker 1: on American soil, which you know you could twist it

1228
01:00:30,080 --> 01:00:33,080
Speaker 1: however you want. The last time that a Texan had

1229
01:00:33,120 --> 01:00:35,440
Speaker 1: anywhere near one hundred and forty nine yards in a

1230
01:00:35,520 --> 01:00:38,480
Speaker 1: game it was Lamar Miller on Monday Night against the

1231
01:00:38,520 --> 01:00:41,200
Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans, and he accounted for one hundred and sixty

1232
01:00:41,240 --> 01:00:43,400
Speaker 1: two yards in that game, ninety seven of them on

1233
01:00:43,400 --> 01:00:47,200
Speaker 1: one run. So he accounted for well over fifty percent

1234
01:00:47,520 --> 01:00:50,560
Speaker 1: of his total on one run. Rex did not. His

1235
01:00:50,680 --> 01:00:52,840
Speaker 1: longest run was thirty six yards on one forty nine.

1236
01:00:52,840 --> 01:00:54,240
Speaker 1: So if you're the map that the del carried, the

1237
01:00:54,280 --> 01:00:56,640
Speaker 1: one moved the two so at this dropped this down,

1238
01:00:56,880 --> 01:01:01,640
Speaker 1: it's about twenty five percent roughly, So Rex was Rex

1239
01:01:01,720 --> 01:01:06,040
Speaker 1: was banging away. He had consistent chunkyards. Lamar had a

1240
01:01:06,320 --> 01:01:12,720
Speaker 1: massive long run. But hundred yard rushers they're so easy

1241
01:01:12,920 --> 01:01:18,720
Speaker 1: Rex Week seventeen, this year, last year Week sixteen against

1242
01:01:18,760 --> 01:01:23,040
Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Bengals, David Johnson, and then in twenty nineteen

1243
01:01:23,600 --> 01:01:26,680
Speaker 1: Carlos Hide did it I think three times against Jacksonville,

1244
01:01:27,000 --> 01:01:31,040
Speaker 1: against Kansas City, and then also against Tennessee in the

1245
01:01:31,080 --> 01:01:33,439
Speaker 1: game that we had to have at Nashville to help

1246
01:01:33,480 --> 01:01:36,520
Speaker 1: clinch the AFC South. So one hundred yard rushers have

1247
01:01:36,640 --> 01:01:40,600
Speaker 1: not been plentiful the last couple of seasons. And then

1248
01:01:40,600 --> 01:01:42,240
Speaker 1: you go back to twenty eighteen. Lamar had a few

1249
01:01:42,320 --> 01:01:44,000
Speaker 1: hundred yard games in that season. He had I thought

1250
01:01:44,000 --> 01:01:46,040
Speaker 1: he had a decent season in twenty eighteen. We lost him.

1251
01:01:46,040 --> 01:01:48,920
Speaker 1: In twenty nineteen the preseason he had Carlos Hide step

1252
01:01:49,000 --> 01:01:52,240
Speaker 1: up and step in. They're pretty interesting for the running backs.

1253
01:01:52,360 --> 01:01:56,160
Speaker 1: Hopefully one hundred yard games become more than norm than not.

1254
01:01:56,960 --> 01:01:58,480
Speaker 1: But this is gonna be a tough not to crack

1255
01:01:58,520 --> 01:02:00,760
Speaker 1: against the forty nine ers. But Rex Burke, I know

1256
01:02:01,560 --> 01:02:04,160
Speaker 1: if anybody's gonna be able to do it, he's a hammerhead.

1257
01:02:04,200 --> 01:02:07,200
Speaker 1: He is going to keep the sticks moving with the

1258
01:02:07,240 --> 01:02:11,040
Speaker 1: way that he charges head full force. So looking forward

1259
01:02:11,120 --> 01:02:14,000
Speaker 1: to that. All right, Outside of the Texans game this weekend,

1260
01:02:14,560 --> 01:02:20,320
Speaker 1: there are fifteen other NFL games, none Thursday, none Saturday,

1261
01:02:21,000 --> 01:02:25,240
Speaker 1: all Sunday, and one Monday. I will pick them all

1262
01:02:25,280 --> 01:02:27,480
Speaker 1: straight up and against the spread. Next right here on

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Speaker 1: Texans all Access Excess excess, Yes, sir, we have reached

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Speaker 1: that time in this show where we get competitive. Yes.

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Speaker 1: So this is my favorite part of the show when

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Speaker 1: I get an opportunity to challenge myself. It's funny this

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Speaker 1: morning when I was doing Payton pendergasted this morning with

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Speaker 1: Cecil Shorts. When I brought up this segment. It's so

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Speaker 1: funny because I was like, Cecil, we're gonna compete against

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Speaker 1: each other, and He's like, all right, let's go. I'm

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Speaker 1: telling you, man, when dudes that are used to being

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Speaker 1: competitive anybody, I'm men and women are used to being

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01:02:59,600 --> 01:03:02,040
Speaker 1: competitive and then they don't have that competition, they're like,

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01:03:02,200 --> 01:03:06,000
Speaker 1: like they used to anything that resembles competition, they dive

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01:03:06,480 --> 01:03:10,000
Speaker 1: right in. It was fun. So I did some of

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Speaker 1: these picks earlier in the day, but we didn't get

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Speaker 1: too far through because we were just we get to

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01:03:14,240 --> 01:03:16,640
Speaker 1: a game and we start chatting about it. We didn't

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Speaker 1: get much done. So I figured, you know what, let's

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01:03:19,280 --> 01:03:21,160
Speaker 1: do it. I do it for my friends and Seeson's

1281
01:03:21,200 --> 01:03:26,240
Speaker 1: rewards for every way you play. Let's pick them straight

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01:03:26,320 --> 01:03:30,520
Speaker 1: up and against the spread. Let's go. Let's start in Buffalo.

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01:03:31,920 --> 01:03:34,000
Speaker 1: Oh wait a second, they get my music. Yeah, there

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01:03:34,040 --> 01:03:35,600
Speaker 1: it is, I hear in the background. It's it's good,

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Speaker 1: it's good. We're all good. The Bills are taking on

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01:03:38,200 --> 01:03:41,520
Speaker 1: the Falcons. Now. The Bills are seemingly back on track.

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01:03:42,040 --> 01:03:44,400
Speaker 1: There was a lull there about a week eleven, week

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01:03:44,440 --> 01:03:46,360
Speaker 1: twelve when they played the Patriots at home on a

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Speaker 1: Monday night. Couldn't move the ball effectively in the wind,

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01:03:49,000 --> 01:03:51,960
Speaker 1: couldn't stop the Patriots run game. Yeah, man, are these

1291
01:03:51,960 --> 01:03:55,120
Speaker 1: the real Bills? What's gonna happen? Well, they found themselves again.

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Speaker 1: Bills fourteen and a half point favorites over a team

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01:03:59,600 --> 01:04:04,480
Speaker 1: still playoff race. I think Vegas is saying, Falcons, they've overachieved.

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01:04:04,680 --> 01:04:08,720
Speaker 1: You've done a great job, but you've overachieved, And I

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01:04:08,760 --> 01:04:10,919
Speaker 1: think that's probably about right. But when it's that high,

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Speaker 1: I'm going with that home team. I'm going with the Bills.

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Speaker 1: I think the Falcons a dome Southern team playing outside

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Speaker 1: in Buffalo, that's an issue. I'm going Bills thirty one

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01:04:21,360 --> 01:04:23,440
Speaker 1: fourteen here. That'll cover the fourteen and a half. The

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01:04:23,480 --> 01:04:27,560
Speaker 1: Bills get to win number ten and with a Patriots

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01:04:27,640 --> 01:04:29,480
Speaker 1: lost and they can't clinch it, I don't think. I

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01:04:29,480 --> 01:04:32,240
Speaker 1: think they gotta get to next week two because they

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01:04:32,240 --> 01:04:35,040
Speaker 1: split that season series. So Bills get to win and

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01:04:35,160 --> 01:04:37,160
Speaker 1: stay in the driver's seat in the AFC East, at

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01:04:37,200 --> 01:04:43,520
Speaker 1: least for the time being. G Man taken on Chicago Bears. Really,

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01:04:44,400 --> 01:04:47,640
Speaker 1: I mean the Bears will try out Nick Foles. So

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01:04:48,240 --> 01:04:52,840
Speaker 1: Nick Foles against Mike Glennon. Good lord, I'll go Foles

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01:04:53,080 --> 01:04:56,080
Speaker 1: Bears a fair by six at home. They'll win. They'll

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01:04:56,120 --> 01:05:02,200
Speaker 1: win by twenty, so be twenty seven to six. I

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01:05:02,320 --> 01:05:05,960
Speaker 1: was twenty one close enough. So there you go. Chiefs Bengals.

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01:05:06,200 --> 01:05:10,720
Speaker 1: Game of the day. The Bengals nine and six, and man,

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01:05:11,040 --> 01:05:17,360
Speaker 1: they are hot. I mean I'm talking hot. Five hundred

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01:05:17,400 --> 01:05:19,840
Speaker 1: twenty five yards for Joey b last week. They got

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01:05:19,840 --> 01:05:22,919
Speaker 1: three receivers that could eventually catch a thousand yards worth

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01:05:22,920 --> 01:05:26,920
Speaker 1: of passes this year. But it's the Chiefs. I think

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01:05:26,960 --> 01:05:31,840
Speaker 1: the Bengals landsome Haymakers early. I think they land Haymakers early,

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01:05:32,280 --> 01:05:36,640
Speaker 1: but it can't last and the Chiefs eventually outscore them.

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Speaker 1: This feels forty to twenty eight. Chiefs are favored by four.

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01:05:41,680 --> 01:05:44,360
Speaker 1: I think the Chiefs are going to cover that four.

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Speaker 1: Give the Chiefs they win in Cincinnati and at twelve

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Speaker 1: and four stay in a driver's seat for the number

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Speaker 1: one seed in the AFC. In fact, Bazette clinched the

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01:05:55,880 --> 01:05:59,240
Speaker 1: AFC number one seed. I think it's going to if

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01:05:59,280 --> 01:06:01,520
Speaker 1: they haven't l is. I'm trying to look at the records.

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01:06:01,880 --> 01:06:03,960
Speaker 1: I think that probably will do it if it hasn't

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Speaker 1: been done already. So Chiefs number one seed, they'll get

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01:06:06,640 --> 01:06:09,200
Speaker 1: to win number twelve where they're winning the cover over

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Speaker 1: the Bengals. The Titans and the Dolphins are gonna play

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01:06:14,040 --> 01:06:19,040
Speaker 1: on a Mushfield Bowl game in Nashville a couple of nights.

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Speaker 1: Last night, what's tonight? That's right? Last night Thursday night,

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01:06:22,240 --> 01:06:24,240
Speaker 1: the field was a mess. Guys were slipping all over

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01:06:24,280 --> 01:06:26,360
Speaker 1: the place in a bowl game. Then they're gonna play

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01:06:26,360 --> 01:06:29,680
Speaker 1: on it on Sunday after a bowl game Thursday, late

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01:06:29,720 --> 01:06:33,400
Speaker 1: evening or late afternoon early evening, it's gonna be a mess.

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Speaker 1: That means it's gonna go to the mutters. Well, Miami

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01:06:36,400 --> 01:06:37,720
Speaker 1: has been running the ball a little bit better with

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01:06:37,800 --> 01:06:41,560
Speaker 1: Duke Johnson and Philip Lindsay heard of them. The Titans

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01:06:41,600 --> 01:06:43,800
Speaker 1: can run the football, and I think that's what's gonna

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01:06:43,800 --> 01:06:46,280
Speaker 1: pull this out. It's gonna be close, though the numbers

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01:06:46,280 --> 01:06:49,120
Speaker 1: three and a half. That hook changes things. I'm taking

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01:06:49,120 --> 01:06:50,760
Speaker 1: the Titans to win, but I think the Dolphins good

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01:06:50,760 --> 01:06:54,440
Speaker 1: aside the three. As the Titans win the AFC South,

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01:06:55,600 --> 01:07:00,600
Speaker 1: therefore come to Houston with nothing to gain with a win,

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01:07:01,280 --> 01:07:03,600
Speaker 1: so I guess, yeah, the Titans can't catch the Chiefs.

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01:07:04,400 --> 01:07:06,120
Speaker 1: I don't think it's gonna happen, but they could catch

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01:07:06,160 --> 01:07:07,880
Speaker 1: the Chiefs. But the Titans are gonna get that win,

1347
01:07:08,120 --> 01:07:10,880
Speaker 1: win the AFC South, and they come to Uston with

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01:07:11,000 --> 01:07:13,920
Speaker 1: nothing to play for, and at that point maybe try

1349
01:07:13,960 --> 01:07:16,000
Speaker 1: out the JB team will see, but the Dolphins will

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01:07:16,080 --> 01:07:18,080
Speaker 1: keep it close and get inside that three and a half,

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01:07:18,080 --> 01:07:22,000
Speaker 1: the Titans will get the W. Speaking of w's needed,

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01:07:22,040 --> 01:07:25,240
Speaker 1: the Indianapolis Colts needed W in the worst way. Now

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01:07:25,280 --> 01:07:28,280
Speaker 1: we're all on Carson Wentz watch at this point because

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01:07:28,280 --> 01:07:31,720
Speaker 1: he's on the COVID reserve list. So does Wentz start

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01:07:32,120 --> 01:07:34,840
Speaker 1: or are the rains handed over to Sam Ellinger. Honestly,

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Speaker 1: I'd like to see what Ellinger does. He's facing a

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01:07:37,640 --> 01:07:43,120
Speaker 1: Raiders defense that's decent, not great. Did a good job

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Speaker 1: against the Broncos last week, but it's not a great defense.

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01:07:46,560 --> 01:07:49,280
Speaker 1: And Ellinger presents a few more issues. Now, can he

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01:07:49,360 --> 01:07:51,800
Speaker 1: make some key throws? I think they'll try and protect

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Speaker 1: him with some of those throws if he does start.

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Speaker 1: I think the Coults will win this game, and even

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01:07:56,600 --> 01:07:58,600
Speaker 1: with Ellenor, I think they're winning by ten. It feels

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Speaker 1: like thirty twenty, twenty seven, seventeen, something of that magnitude.

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Speaker 1: Indiappo Indiappos will win this thing. They'll get to ten

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Speaker 1: wins and they'll solidify that wild card position with the

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Speaker 1: win over the Raiders, who'll fall to eight and eight.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of the Patriots, I mentioned him earlier. The Patriots

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Speaker 1: are taken on the Jaguires. Patriots are sixteen point favorites

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Speaker 1: at home. It's a pretty tough nut to crack, but

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Speaker 1: we saw the Texans go to Jacksonville to do to

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Speaker 1: Jacksonville win by fourteen Patriots or nine at six. I

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01:08:27,840 --> 01:08:30,960
Speaker 1: think the Patriots can cover that number. There's a question

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Speaker 1: mark whether Trevor Lawrence will start. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: that was just a rumor. I don't know, if that

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01:08:35,240 --> 01:08:37,880
Speaker 1: was just somebody being sarcastic. I don't know. But Trevor

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Speaker 1: Lawrence doesn't start. I don't think the Jacks are gonna score.

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01:08:41,439 --> 01:08:45,040
Speaker 1: So let's give the Patriots to win and a cover

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01:08:45,360 --> 01:08:47,439
Speaker 1: of that sixteen, because they could easily win this thing

1380
01:08:47,479 --> 01:08:50,360
Speaker 1: seventeen to nothing. So I'm going with that Patriots win

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01:08:50,479 --> 01:08:53,439
Speaker 1: and cover against the Jacks at home. The Jets get

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01:08:53,439 --> 01:08:57,880
Speaker 1: a visit from the Buccaneers. Good God, Tampa Bay is

1383
01:08:57,920 --> 01:09:01,639
Speaker 1: a thirteen point favorite on the road, and that's not enough.

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01:09:01,760 --> 01:09:04,720
Speaker 1: The Bucks need this one to try and catch the Packers.

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01:09:05,520 --> 01:09:08,160
Speaker 1: So the Bucks are gonna blow out the Jets. This

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01:09:08,240 --> 01:09:11,400
Speaker 1: is gonna be big thirty four thirteen. Then I'll cover

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01:09:11,479 --> 01:09:15,080
Speaker 1: the thirteen and give the Bucks Twin number twelve, the

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01:09:15,080 --> 01:09:18,240
Speaker 1: Eagles take on the Washington football team. We talked about

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01:09:18,240 --> 01:09:20,800
Speaker 1: this one this morning and talked about Jalen Hurts. He's

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01:09:20,800 --> 01:09:22,720
Speaker 1: done a really nice job. I think the Eagles are

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01:09:22,720 --> 01:09:24,519
Speaker 1: gonna win this game with Jalen Hurts. I think they'll

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01:09:24,560 --> 01:09:27,760
Speaker 1: cover the four and a half and the Eagles are

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01:09:27,760 --> 01:09:29,360
Speaker 1: gonna move to nine and seven. And I know a

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Speaker 1: lot of people said, man, who's that coming from the Eagles?

1395
01:09:31,640 --> 01:09:34,240
Speaker 1: Mike Irvan did. I'm not always the biggest fan of

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01:09:34,280 --> 01:09:36,880
Speaker 1: the playmaker on TV, but on a Thursday Night game

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01:09:36,920 --> 01:09:40,080
Speaker 1: about five or six weeks ago, he pointed out how

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01:09:40,320 --> 01:09:43,240
Speaker 1: the Eagles schedule, Hey, there's an opportunity here for the

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Speaker 1: Eagles to maybe start making some noise here. That was

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Speaker 1: about three or four weeks ago, and I remember listening

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01:09:48,560 --> 01:09:51,479
Speaker 1: to it thinking, man, that's the most reasoned statement I've

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01:09:51,479 --> 01:09:53,519
Speaker 1: heard him make, and he's dead on. That's exactly what

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01:09:53,560 --> 01:09:55,519
Speaker 1: the Eagles have done. They'll win, they'll cover that four

1404
01:09:55,560 --> 01:09:57,240
Speaker 1: and a half, and the Eagles will get to nine

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01:09:57,479 --> 01:10:01,479
Speaker 1: and seven. The Rams and the Ravens now out about

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01:10:01,600 --> 01:10:03,360
Speaker 1: I don't know, five six weeks ago, this looked like

1407
01:10:03,720 --> 01:10:05,200
Speaker 1: this is going to be a game that gets moved

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01:10:05,200 --> 01:10:08,640
Speaker 1: to Sunday night. Nope, Rams taken on the Ravens lamars

1409
01:10:09,280 --> 01:10:12,680
Speaker 1: the questionable for the Ravens. Getting in back would help

1410
01:10:12,720 --> 01:10:14,679
Speaker 1: the Ravens, although Tyler Hunter has done a nice job,

1411
01:10:14,880 --> 01:10:16,800
Speaker 1: but the Rams does have too much firepower. The Rams

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01:10:16,840 --> 01:10:20,479
Speaker 1: are five and a half point favorite in Baltimore. I

1413
01:10:20,520 --> 01:10:23,320
Speaker 1: think I'll lay the points, take the Rams to win

1414
01:10:23,479 --> 01:10:26,040
Speaker 1: and to cover, and the Rams get to twelve and

1415
01:10:26,120 --> 01:10:29,080
Speaker 1: four as the Buccaneers get to twelve and four, which

1416
01:10:29,120 --> 01:10:32,559
Speaker 1: will force the Packers to have to get the thirteen

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01:10:32,600 --> 01:10:34,479
Speaker 1: and three to maintain the number one seed. We'll get

1418
01:10:34,479 --> 01:10:36,759
Speaker 1: to them in a little bit. Rams win and cover.

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01:10:37,120 --> 01:10:40,200
Speaker 1: You have Matt Stafford throwing three touchdowns, one each to

1420
01:10:40,320 --> 01:10:44,160
Speaker 1: ob j Van Jefferson and Cooper Cup AFC West Battle.

1421
01:10:44,200 --> 01:10:46,160
Speaker 1: The Chargers are coming off the loss to the Texans.

1422
01:10:46,360 --> 01:10:49,720
Speaker 1: They take on the Broncos seven to eight Broncos. Broncos

1423
01:10:49,760 --> 01:10:52,040
Speaker 1: lost only scored thirteen points and a loss to the

1424
01:10:52,120 --> 01:10:54,479
Speaker 1: Raiders in Las Vegas. They go back on the road

1425
01:10:54,479 --> 01:10:57,599
Speaker 1: to La. The Chargers are seven and a half point favorite.

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01:10:58,080 --> 01:11:01,280
Speaker 1: I think it's a little rich considering the Chargers have

1427
01:11:01,360 --> 01:11:04,679
Speaker 1: been banged up, COVID issues, etc. I think the Chargers

1428
01:11:04,680 --> 01:11:06,840
Speaker 1: are just looking get a win, get back off the Schny.

1429
01:11:06,920 --> 01:11:08,920
Speaker 1: They lost a couple in a row. Chargers will win this,

1430
01:11:09,240 --> 01:11:11,439
Speaker 1: but the Broncos will get inside that seven and a half.

1431
01:11:11,520 --> 01:11:14,200
Speaker 1: It will be twenty seven twenty. I think he could

1432
01:11:14,200 --> 01:11:15,559
Speaker 1: be on all boards a seven, but it won't go

1433
01:11:15,600 --> 01:11:18,719
Speaker 1: past the seven and a half Chargers win, Broncos get

1434
01:11:18,800 --> 01:11:22,200
Speaker 1: the cover. Then in the afternoon. This game is great.

1435
01:11:22,520 --> 01:11:25,920
Speaker 1: This game is great, great, great, as long as the

1436
01:11:26,000 --> 01:11:28,600
Speaker 1: real Cardinals show up. The Arizona Cardinals a ten and

1437
01:11:28,640 --> 01:11:30,519
Speaker 1: five taken on the Cowboys. Now I could see the

1438
01:11:30,560 --> 01:11:34,000
Speaker 1: Cowboys skunking him because Kyler Murray, Oh my god, he's

1439
01:11:34,040 --> 01:11:37,000
Speaker 1: just been abysmal, and the whole well, the Cardinals have

1440
01:11:37,080 --> 01:11:41,120
Speaker 1: been abysmal. He is beat up, he looks beat up,

1441
01:11:41,400 --> 01:11:44,840
Speaker 1: he looks confused. Cliff Kingsbury has lost his swagger. You

1442
01:11:45,160 --> 01:11:47,439
Speaker 1: call it that cowbos a favory by six. I think

1443
01:11:47,439 --> 01:11:49,240
Speaker 1: the Cowboys win is by ten. I think this is

1444
01:11:49,240 --> 01:11:51,360
Speaker 1: thirty to twenty. I think that Dallas defense does a

1445
01:11:51,479 --> 01:11:54,360
Speaker 1: number on Cliff and the Cardinals give the Cowboys win

1446
01:11:54,439 --> 01:11:59,080
Speaker 1: number twelve as well. Panthers taken on the Saints. Saints

1447
01:11:59,080 --> 01:12:01,120
Speaker 1: are fairy by six and a half. Half, Yeah, why not?

1448
01:12:01,200 --> 01:12:03,880
Speaker 1: They're at home. Saints win and cover the six and

1449
01:12:03,880 --> 01:12:07,160
Speaker 1: a half Lions Seahawks, same thing, two teams just waiting

1450
01:12:07,200 --> 01:12:09,439
Speaker 1: for the end of the season. Seattle's favor by seven

1451
01:12:09,479 --> 01:12:10,960
Speaker 1: and a half. Let's get the lines to win on

1452
01:12:11,000 --> 01:12:12,800
Speaker 1: the road. How about that they get a win on

1453
01:12:12,840 --> 01:12:16,439
Speaker 1: the road, right, get them to three twelve and one? Yeah,

1454
01:12:16,560 --> 01:12:19,439
Speaker 1: why not upset Special Lions over the Seahawks. Sunday Night,

1455
01:12:20,000 --> 01:12:23,280
Speaker 1: Vikings take it on the Green Bay Packers. Packers are

1456
01:12:23,280 --> 01:12:26,160
Speaker 1: favor by thirteen. I think the Vikings are ready to

1457
01:12:26,200 --> 01:12:27,960
Speaker 1: pack it in. I think they've been ready to pack

1458
01:12:28,000 --> 01:12:30,360
Speaker 1: it in. I think Justin Jefferson kind of called them

1459
01:12:30,360 --> 01:12:32,680
Speaker 1: on their nonsense a little bit last week. I think

1460
01:12:32,680 --> 01:12:34,240
Speaker 1: they're ready to pack it in. They'll play heart a

1461
01:12:34,280 --> 01:12:36,920
Speaker 1: Green Bay for a while, but Aaron Rodgers and Company

1462
01:12:36,920 --> 01:12:40,080
Speaker 1: will pull away. Packers win by seventeen thirty four to seventeen,

1463
01:12:40,479 --> 01:12:42,920
Speaker 1: so they're gonna win and a cover. And on Monday Night,

1464
01:12:43,160 --> 01:12:47,559
Speaker 1: Browns Steelers Baby might be the last game in hinds

1465
01:12:47,560 --> 01:12:49,880
Speaker 1: Field for Ben Roethlisberger, And for that reason, I'm going

1466
01:12:50,000 --> 01:12:52,880
Speaker 1: Steelers in an upset over the Cleveland Browns. All Right,

1467
01:12:52,880 --> 01:12:55,679
Speaker 1: we get back. We gotta get Drew Dordy's final word,

1468
01:12:55,920 --> 01:12:59,840
Speaker 1: the final all access word in the Counter Year twenty

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Speaker 1: two one with Jacob Martin. That's next of Texans axis.

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Speaker 1: That's next the Texans axis. We got one final segment

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Speaker 1: of this Friday at issue of Texans All Access in

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Speaker 1: New Year's Eve evening edition of Texans All Access. A

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Speaker 1: lot of great things have happened on December thirty first.

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Speaker 1: In the past. For me, it was my very first

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Speaker 1: official date with my wife back in nineteen ninety four,

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01:13:21,960 --> 01:13:24,439
Speaker 1: so you can do the math on how long ago

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Speaker 1: that was. There's probably some of the cool things that happened.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah on December thirty first, nineteen eighty seven. My

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Speaker 1: in my well, the finger that you put up to

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Speaker 1: show somebody you don't like them, it's now forever crooked

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Speaker 1: because I got a car accident. So that happened on

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Speaker 1: December thirty first. It was in the hospital. I'sp in

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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty seven, in a hospital with my hand looking

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Speaker 1: like Jimmy Garoppolo's, So that happened on December thirty first.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, some crazy stuff has happened on December thirty first.

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Speaker 1: But hopefully tonight calm quiet, get ready to take off

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Speaker 1: for Santa Clara in the morning and play the forty

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Speaker 1: nine Ers on Sunday as we kick off the New

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Speaker 1: Year twenty twenty two. Now, before we get to Drew

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Speaker 1: Doherty's final word, I don't know if I mentioned the transactions.

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Speaker 1: I think I've got the injury port in the first

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01:14:19,240 --> 01:14:22,080
Speaker 1: segment where I always like to do my news, but

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Speaker 1: I don't know that I got to the transaction list

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01:14:25,080 --> 01:14:26,519
Speaker 1: and one of the piece of news I think. I

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01:14:26,960 --> 01:14:29,280
Speaker 1: don't think I got too yesterday either or today even

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01:14:30,080 --> 01:14:34,200
Speaker 1: transaction wise, the Texans did activate Malie Collins from the

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Speaker 1: COVID nineteen list. Now Coach Calli talked about whether he

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Speaker 1: could be available and he mentioned wasn't totally sure where

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Speaker 1: his conditioning level would be. And again, COVID hits people

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Speaker 1: in so many different ways. Some guys get hit with

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01:14:49,160 --> 01:14:52,640
Speaker 1: it hard, really hard, depending on maybe they've got a

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01:14:52,640 --> 01:14:59,280
Speaker 1: previous condition, or there's munemun immune compromised, their immunation system

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01:14:59,360 --> 01:15:01,840
Speaker 1: is compromised. I'm Adam struggling at the end of the

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01:15:01,880 --> 01:15:03,960
Speaker 1: show man. It's been a long day, but you get

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01:15:04,000 --> 01:15:07,160
Speaker 1: my point. So some guys can slide right back in

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01:15:07,280 --> 01:15:09,439
Speaker 1: and be ready to go. We'll see him. Leech's ready

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01:15:09,479 --> 01:15:11,880
Speaker 1: to go, but he has been activated from the reserve

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01:15:11,920 --> 01:15:17,360
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen list. Two players were subsequently placed on the

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Speaker 1: reserve COVID nineteen list, tight End Anthony Arclaire and Kevin

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01:15:22,640 --> 01:15:27,240
Speaker 1: pr Lewis. Those two are put on the reserve COVID

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01:15:27,400 --> 01:15:33,200
Speaker 1: nineteen list, and the Texans waived Xavier Williams, defensive lineman

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Speaker 1: who played last week Big number sixty nine, and they

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01:15:36,320 --> 01:15:39,200
Speaker 1: waived him because they're getting a number of guys back

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01:15:39,320 --> 01:15:42,479
Speaker 1: on the defensive line. So that ends up being good

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01:15:42,520 --> 01:15:46,479
Speaker 1: news in a sense for the depth of defensive line.

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01:15:46,520 --> 01:15:48,600
Speaker 1: Obviously not so great news for Xavier Williams. Hate to

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Speaker 1: see him go. That's a That's a massive, dude, Holy smokes.

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01:15:52,360 --> 01:15:55,080
Speaker 1: I was just from Afar. I was like, my god,

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01:15:55,160 --> 01:15:58,080
Speaker 1: he is massive. Now. One of the piece of news

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01:15:58,320 --> 01:16:03,280
Speaker 1: that came out yesterday, and I believe it was yesterday, Lee,

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01:16:03,280 --> 01:16:05,439
Speaker 1: it came out early in the morning, but I don't

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Speaker 1: remember mentioning it on the morning show, and I don't

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Speaker 1: remember mentioning it on All Access last night. But I

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Speaker 1: gotta hit up my guy. Brandon Cooks. Houston Texans wide

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Speaker 1: receiver Brandon Cooks has been named a finalist for the

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one Art Rooney Sportsmanship Award. The award is

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Speaker 1: presented each year to an NFL player who best demonstrates

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01:16:28,640 --> 01:16:32,639
Speaker 1: the qualities of on field sportsmanship, including fair play, respect,

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01:16:32,640 --> 01:16:37,360
Speaker 1: for the game and opponents and integrity In competition, a

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Speaker 1: player is selected from each of the four divisions AFC East, Northwest,

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Speaker 1: North Southeast West, NFC North Southeast West. So Brandon Cooks

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Speaker 1: was the representative of the AFC South. That was cool.

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01:16:52,640 --> 01:16:55,799
Speaker 1: AFC East was Josh Allen, quarterback of the Buffalo Bills.

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Speaker 1: AFC oh Yeah, AFC East also has Miami Dolphins, Jason mccordy,

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Speaker 1: New England Patriots, Matthew Slater from the FC. So I

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Speaker 1: guess four of them came from the AFC. I say, all,

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Speaker 1: I don't have to come from the same division, but

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Speaker 1: four from the AFC Cooks, Josh Allen, Jason mccordy, Matthew Slater.

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01:17:13,640 --> 01:17:16,559
Speaker 1: Four came from the NFC Lavante David of the Bucks,

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01:17:17,320 --> 01:17:21,599
Speaker 1: Cameron Jordan's Saints, Kyle Uschek who will play on Sunday

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01:17:21,640 --> 01:17:25,360
Speaker 1: for the forty nine Ers Ivy Leaguerett and Adam Delon

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01:17:25,680 --> 01:17:29,480
Speaker 1: from the Minnesota Vikings. So Brandy Cooks amongst some pretty

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01:17:29,560 --> 01:17:33,599
Speaker 1: heavy company there for the Art Rooney the twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: one Art Rooney Sportsmanship Award, and I could absolutely second

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01:17:37,600 --> 01:17:42,400
Speaker 1: that love seeing Brandon up for that award. He absolutely

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01:17:42,800 --> 01:17:45,320
Speaker 1: deserves it, whether he gets it or not. I mean, look,

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01:17:45,520 --> 01:17:49,720
Speaker 1: when it comes to awards, the word deserve really can

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01:17:49,760 --> 01:17:52,439
Speaker 1: apply to everybody who's up for the award. So it'll

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01:17:52,439 --> 01:17:54,479
Speaker 1: be interesting to see who gets it. But hopefully Brandy

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01:17:54,520 --> 01:17:56,599
Speaker 1: Cooks is going to get some serious consideration for that

1551
01:17:56,640 --> 01:17:59,519
Speaker 1: because he is everything you want to professional, he's everything

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01:17:59,520 --> 01:18:02,440
Speaker 1: you want to player, and he's definitely a great sportsman,

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01:18:02,640 --> 01:18:05,439
Speaker 1: no doubt. Now another guy who is a tremendous sportsman

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01:18:06,040 --> 01:18:09,800
Speaker 1: is Jacob Martin. It's time for Drew Doherty's final word.

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01:18:10,280 --> 01:18:14,400
Speaker 1: The final All Access word in twenty twenty one is

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01:18:14,479 --> 01:18:17,000
Speaker 1: Drew Dougherty and Jacob Martin. Drew take it away. This

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Speaker 1: pregame interview is powered by Reliant. We've got defensive lineman

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Speaker 1: Jacob Martin with us. Jacob, it's great to be with

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01:18:22,880 --> 01:18:25,880
Speaker 1: you and you guys are getting set for a game

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01:18:25,920 --> 01:18:27,400
Speaker 1: against the forty nine ers and we're going to get

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01:18:27,400 --> 01:18:29,320
Speaker 1: into that in just a sect. But let's start things

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01:18:29,360 --> 01:18:33,240
Speaker 1: off with this three takeaways last Sunday. I know that's

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01:18:33,240 --> 01:18:36,200
Speaker 1: the goal each Sunday, but how sweet was that to

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01:18:36,240 --> 01:18:38,120
Speaker 1: be a part of that as a defense and how

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01:18:38,200 --> 01:18:40,320
Speaker 1: much sweeter was it to finally see you guys get

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01:18:40,320 --> 01:18:42,120
Speaker 1: in the end zone for the first time this year.

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Speaker 1: Oh man, that is huge. Love. He's big on takeaways,

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01:18:45,800 --> 01:18:48,360
Speaker 1: even bigger on defensive scores, you know. And to have

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Speaker 1: Tt join me as a defensive scorer, you know, I

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01:18:51,760 --> 01:18:55,000
Speaker 1: recorded the safety or the season, so that counts as points.

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01:18:55,200 --> 01:18:58,200
Speaker 1: Great to see guys step up and Phil rolls of.

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01:18:58,280 --> 01:19:01,120
Speaker 1: They weren't typically used to playing, like I say, every Sunday.

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01:19:01,120 --> 01:19:02,840
Speaker 1: You know, any get into Sunday. You know, it's the

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Speaker 1: best team that shows up. It's awesome to be there

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01:19:05,520 --> 01:19:07,320
Speaker 1: and see those guys ball out and be a part

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Speaker 1: of it. Awesome. I'm glad you made that distinction because

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01:19:10,160 --> 01:19:11,880
Speaker 1: I've actually been good about it. I've said, he's the

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Speaker 1: first texted to score a touchdown on defense the season

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01:19:14,640 --> 01:19:17,479
Speaker 1: years did of course get that safety earlier in the year.

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01:19:17,880 --> 01:19:20,960
Speaker 1: What have you learned about yourself in this defense this year?

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01:19:21,240 --> 01:19:23,120
Speaker 1: Who you are as a player? You know, I think

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01:19:23,200 --> 01:19:25,000
Speaker 1: this year, out of all my years I've been in

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01:19:25,040 --> 01:19:27,439
Speaker 1: the league so far, this year really reminded me that

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01:19:27,439 --> 01:19:30,240
Speaker 1: that football is just football. I grew up through high

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01:19:30,240 --> 01:19:33,200
Speaker 1: school through college playing true deepens event and I being

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01:19:33,200 --> 01:19:35,920
Speaker 1: in coverage very often. When I first got to the league.

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01:19:35,960 --> 01:19:38,240
Speaker 1: I'm very versatile, you know, I can. I can. I

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01:19:38,320 --> 01:19:40,360
Speaker 1: like to think that I can do a lot, and

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01:19:40,400 --> 01:19:42,280
Speaker 1: I can do it all, and I can adapt whatever

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01:19:42,320 --> 01:19:44,840
Speaker 1: the system is or wherever the scheme is. And I

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01:19:45,120 --> 01:19:47,280
Speaker 1: really think about just proved that to myself. You know

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01:19:47,439 --> 01:19:49,360
Speaker 1: that football is football. I've been in the day. You

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01:19:49,400 --> 01:19:51,439
Speaker 1: always seem to be around the quarterback, around the ball.

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01:19:51,640 --> 01:19:54,160
Speaker 1: Let's talk about this offense you're going against all signs

1595
01:19:54,200 --> 01:19:56,479
Speaker 1: of pointing to Trey Lance being the guy under center.

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01:19:56,640 --> 01:19:59,880
Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo did not even practice on Thursday, So tell

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01:20:00,120 --> 01:20:03,000
Speaker 1: me a little bit about the quarterback and facing a

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01:20:03,080 --> 01:20:05,519
Speaker 1: rookie and facing a guy with his skill set that

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01:20:05,600 --> 01:20:07,919
Speaker 1: you guys have seen a little bit of on tape.

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01:20:08,000 --> 01:20:09,320
Speaker 1: You know, at the end of the day, whether it's

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01:20:09,600 --> 01:20:12,160
Speaker 1: Jimmy ju or if it's Trey Lance, I just think

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01:20:12,200 --> 01:20:14,400
Speaker 1: of as an old quarterback to get after. But with

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01:20:14,479 --> 01:20:17,280
Speaker 1: Trey Lanz, you know that the kids special gives a size.

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01:20:17,680 --> 01:20:19,160
Speaker 1: He has the speed, you know, and he is the

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01:20:19,240 --> 01:20:22,200
Speaker 1: arm talent. Really, I'm really just excited to play. You know,

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01:20:22,200 --> 01:20:24,240
Speaker 1: I haven't played San Fran a long time on the

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01:20:24,280 --> 01:20:26,400
Speaker 1: Bear in a while. I'm also excited just to see

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01:20:26,479 --> 01:20:29,200
Speaker 1: see Trey Lance play if he does play, or apparently

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01:20:29,240 --> 01:20:32,160
Speaker 1: he's exciting to watch and in person, you know, he's

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01:20:32,160 --> 01:20:34,519
Speaker 1: awesome to watch on TV. So just a great competitor

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01:20:34,600 --> 01:20:37,439
Speaker 1: looking forward to compete against those guys on Sunday. For

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01:20:37,479 --> 01:20:39,720
Speaker 1: old people like me, when you watch the forty nine

1613
01:20:39,800 --> 01:20:42,400
Speaker 1: ers operate, you can't help but be reminded of that

1614
01:20:42,520 --> 01:20:46,120
Speaker 1: Gary Kubiak offense. You see lots of bootlegs, you see

1615
01:20:46,160 --> 01:20:48,439
Speaker 1: lots of play action. Tell me about the forty nine

1616
01:20:48,479 --> 01:20:50,240
Speaker 1: ers run game. It's pretty impressive if you look at

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Speaker 1: the stats and look at how they've distributed the ball there.

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01:20:53,200 --> 01:20:56,400
Speaker 1: Oh man, they just have every run you know in

1619
01:20:56,439 --> 01:20:58,240
Speaker 1: the book. This is like real football, you know, when

1620
01:20:58,240 --> 01:21:00,519
Speaker 1: you're playing a pro style. You know, for Tion, you

1621
01:21:00,560 --> 01:21:03,880
Speaker 1: know twenty one personnel, it's twelve personnel type team. You

1622
01:21:03,920 --> 01:21:06,120
Speaker 1: know they love to use. They're tied end towards Kittle,

1623
01:21:06,160 --> 01:21:08,400
Speaker 1: another amazing player in this league because had a lot

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01:21:08,439 --> 01:21:10,240
Speaker 1: of success. They got a big old line and big

1625
01:21:10,320 --> 01:21:12,240
Speaker 1: physical old line they'd like to run behind, and you

1626
01:21:12,240 --> 01:21:14,040
Speaker 1: know that's how they set up those deep shots down

1627
01:21:14,080 --> 01:21:16,320
Speaker 1: the fields, set up off their run game. The real

1628
01:21:16,360 --> 01:21:18,960
Speaker 1: test of many defenses. Your ability to stop the run.

1629
01:21:19,040 --> 01:21:20,320
Speaker 1: And if you can stop the run and make a

1630
01:21:20,320 --> 01:21:23,120
Speaker 1: team one dimensional, you know, the bullets and to have phone.

1631
01:21:23,160 --> 01:21:24,960
Speaker 1: You just brought up Kittle and we heard your defensive

1632
01:21:25,000 --> 01:21:27,679
Speaker 1: coordinator Love Smith talking all about him and raving about

1633
01:21:27,720 --> 01:21:30,639
Speaker 1: him earlier this week. Tell me about another guy who's

1634
01:21:30,680 --> 01:21:33,679
Speaker 1: somebody that you can rave about as well. In Deebo Samuel.

1635
01:21:34,040 --> 01:21:36,280
Speaker 1: He lines up in the backfield and get six plus

1636
01:21:36,360 --> 01:21:39,000
Speaker 1: per pop and then he can get the ball thrown

1637
01:21:39,040 --> 01:21:40,679
Speaker 1: to him as well and do a lot of damage

1638
01:21:40,720 --> 01:21:42,920
Speaker 1: that way. How special a talent is he and how

1639
01:21:43,280 --> 01:21:45,800
Speaker 1: do you guys have to account for him? Deebo is

1640
01:21:45,800 --> 01:21:48,559
Speaker 1: another special guy. He's not built like a your typical

1641
01:21:48,560 --> 01:21:50,400
Speaker 1: wide receiver. You know, it's a real big legs, you know,

1642
01:21:50,520 --> 01:21:53,559
Speaker 1: real strong and fast physical you know after the catch.

1643
01:21:53,840 --> 01:21:56,000
Speaker 1: They like to use them as much as they possibly can.

1644
01:21:56,080 --> 01:21:57,760
Speaker 1: There's another guy I'm excited to compete against. You know,

1645
01:21:57,760 --> 01:22:00,160
Speaker 1: it's a real it's real test for our defense. We

1646
01:22:00,160 --> 01:22:03,120
Speaker 1: are able to stop these guys and getting them to

1647
01:22:03,439 --> 01:22:05,800
Speaker 1: third and long situations, you know, more favorable downs for

1648
01:22:05,840 --> 01:22:07,559
Speaker 1: our defense. You know, by the end of the day,

1649
01:22:07,560 --> 01:22:09,599
Speaker 1: man football s football. But you know we get paid

1650
01:22:09,600 --> 01:22:11,760
Speaker 1: to do. They get paid too, really, just looking for

1651
01:22:11,760 --> 01:22:14,080
Speaker 1: another opportunity to compete. Man, let's talk about how you're

1652
01:22:14,160 --> 01:22:17,360
Speaker 1: powering game day. What time do you go to bed

1653
01:22:17,479 --> 01:22:21,519
Speaker 1: at night before noon kickoff? I'm probably in bed, probably

1654
01:22:21,560 --> 01:22:24,120
Speaker 1: around ten o'clock. I'll probably watched my last little bit

1655
01:22:24,120 --> 01:22:27,120
Speaker 1: of film for like fifteen minutes, fifteen twenty minutes, and

1656
01:22:27,200 --> 01:22:29,599
Speaker 1: I'm typically asleep by ten thirty. And then on game

1657
01:22:29,680 --> 01:22:31,320
Speaker 1: day and boardings like I don't really I don't know

1658
01:22:31,320 --> 01:22:33,559
Speaker 1: what it is, but ever since I played high school football,

1659
01:22:33,560 --> 01:22:35,360
Speaker 1: I haven't been able to really sleep in, So I'm

1660
01:22:35,400 --> 01:22:38,679
Speaker 1: typically up sometimes five thirty, sometimes you know, six o'clock,

1661
01:22:39,080 --> 01:22:40,880
Speaker 1: and I'm kind of just like just up, you know,

1662
01:22:40,960 --> 01:22:44,280
Speaker 1: just thinking, preparing mentally, feeling my body and stretching and

1663
01:22:44,320 --> 01:22:48,160
Speaker 1: things like that as I get ready for kickoff. How

1664
01:22:48,240 --> 01:22:49,559
Speaker 1: much are you able to eat? What do you eat

1665
01:22:49,600 --> 01:22:52,160
Speaker 1: for breakfast? So we do something standard, maybe a couple

1666
01:22:52,120 --> 01:22:55,720
Speaker 1: of eggs over easy or over medium, cheepieces of French toe,

1667
01:22:55,840 --> 01:22:58,920
Speaker 1: some strawberries, probably about like six ounces of coffee. It's

1668
01:22:58,920 --> 01:23:02,320
Speaker 1: about it. Slight breakfast, get you set for game day? Okay,

1669
01:23:02,320 --> 01:23:04,639
Speaker 1: final thing? What do you listen to? Is there any

1670
01:23:04,640 --> 01:23:07,880
Speaker 1: certain bit of music or certain songs or playlist that

1671
01:23:07,960 --> 01:23:10,840
Speaker 1: gets you going. I'm more of a calm guy, you know.

1672
01:23:10,840 --> 01:23:13,960
Speaker 1: I'm trying to stay pretty calm before the game because

1673
01:23:14,080 --> 01:23:16,480
Speaker 1: I've been told on the psychopath, you know, on the sidelines,

1674
01:23:16,520 --> 01:23:20,200
Speaker 1: So try to stay as calm as possible before kickoff.

1675
01:23:20,240 --> 01:23:22,639
Speaker 1: So I could be listening to anything from Kurt Franklin

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Speaker 1: gospel or Ritha Franklin smooth jazz, anything, really, you know,

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Speaker 1: something that's slow and tempo, calming for sure. All right,

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01:23:31,000 --> 01:23:32,720
Speaker 1: since you brought it up, in what ways are you

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01:23:32,720 --> 01:23:35,080
Speaker 1: a psychopath? Do you think? I don't really know, man,

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01:23:35,120 --> 01:23:38,080
Speaker 1: I'm just excited to play football. I just love everything

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01:23:38,120 --> 01:23:40,640
Speaker 1: about it, you know. I love the Camados sidelines, I

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01:23:40,720 --> 01:23:42,679
Speaker 1: love having fun, making jokes, and you know I suppose

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01:23:42,760 --> 01:23:46,120
Speaker 1: about I'm really just enjoy enjoy it out there. I'm

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01:23:46,120 --> 01:23:49,280
Speaker 1: not really filter anything I say, kind of kind word vomitan.

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01:23:49,360 --> 01:23:52,160
Speaker 1: Who knows what I'm gonna say next, So hashtag no filter?

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Speaker 1: All right, Jacobark's best of luck against the forty nine ers.

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Speaker 1: We hope you guys bring home another win and we

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01:23:57,720 --> 01:24:00,800
Speaker 1: will talk to you again very very soon. Thanks. Well.

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01:24:00,840 --> 01:24:05,320
Speaker 1: There is Texans All Access for the calendar year. Twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty one is now in the books. Well, we have

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Speaker 1: a full week next week leading up to the Tennessee

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Speaker 1: Titans finale, but from a candle calendar year perspective, twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty ones in the books. I can't thank you enough

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01:24:19,160 --> 01:24:23,040
Speaker 1: because we don't do this without you. Whether you listen

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01:24:23,120 --> 01:24:25,200
Speaker 1: because you like your listen because you want to find

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Speaker 1: follow things that we say. Either way, you're listening and

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Speaker 1: we appreciate that support. Everybody at Sports Radio six ten.

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01:24:32,080 --> 01:24:35,920
Speaker 1: They make for great partners. To Mark, to DP, to Drew,

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Speaker 1: our content team, to our digital team, to my really

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Speaker 1: good friend Amanna Caffey, who I bother each and every night,

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Speaker 1: sending files, sending articles. She is an absolute champion. Absolutely

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01:24:50,040 --> 01:24:52,559
Speaker 1: love her. Love everybody in our department. Love you guys

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Speaker 1: in Houston. Let's go get a w on Sunday against

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01:24:55,000 --> 01:24:57,120
Speaker 1: the forty nine or shock the world again. And the

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01:24:57,280 --> 01:24:59,720
Speaker 1: last week everybody was shocked to see the Texans get

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01:24:59,720 --> 01:25:01,560
Speaker 1: a win. Let's go do it again in San Francisco.

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Speaker 1: That would be awesome. We'll see you on Sunday. Thank

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Speaker 1: you again. You'll have a happy new year, a safe

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01:25:10,080 --> 01:25:13,839
Speaker 1: new year, and as always, go Texans. Sens