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Speaker 1: Welcome to everybody to a Friday edition, bye week, off week,

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Speaker 1: whatever you want to call an edition. Just know that

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Speaker 1: being here nonetheless. S I am John Harris Football and

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Speaker 1: this Friday, this beautiful Friday. And I hope, my hope

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Speaker 1: you guys are on your way to a high school

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Speaker 1: playoff game. I know, my buddy, I've had one last night.

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Speaker 1: My good friend Mikes are lion coaching over at tom

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Speaker 1: Ball with a big win they had last night, so

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Speaker 1: I know they're moving on to the second round of

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Speaker 1: the playoffs. And I love Texas high school plaoff time,

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Speaker 1: Absolutely love it. So get on out see a game

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Speaker 1: this weekend. I mean I will see one. It'll be

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Speaker 1: the one I'm calling on Saturday. Now. It's a college game,

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Speaker 1: but it's a championship game, nonetheless, and that is over

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Speaker 1: in Hutsville, where I will have Sam Houston State Bearcats

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Speaker 1: for the FCS Playoffs is at hand. If Sam wins,

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Speaker 1: they get it. If Eastern Kentucky wins, they gotta win.

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Speaker 1: I think another game next week to be able to

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Speaker 1: get it. So Championship ballgame, and I have the opportunity

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Speaker 1: night to go down to something really really special my

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Speaker 1: good friend Don Sanders, who is a long time a

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Speaker 1: lum fan supporter, friend of the Sam Houston State Bearcats.

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Speaker 1: If you've been there, you know the baseball stadium is

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Speaker 1: and he said, Hey, I got something that you and

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Speaker 1: to Huntsville Wednesday night for the ring ceremony, And I

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Speaker 1: was like absolutely. I called three games in the spring

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Speaker 1: This would be my third one on Saturday against Eastern Kentucky.

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Speaker 1: And I always look forward to going up to Huntsville

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Speaker 1: and being around the program. I love Casey Keeler, and

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Speaker 1: I've gotten to know everybody at sam Houston because I've

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Speaker 1: But it was such a cool ceremony. We got to

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Speaker 1: go through the new facility there, and sam Houston State

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Speaker 1: a very very cool thing. So I was glad to

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Speaker 1: athletic director Bobby Williams had suggested to the players that

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Speaker 1: And so these players are coming around, there's just the

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Speaker 1: to coach Keeler, but not the players, and so this

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Speaker 1: with that ring ceremony. I've never got to do anything

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Speaker 1: But man, that I'll tell you that was just it

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Speaker 1: I don't know if it'll be up on the site,

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Speaker 1: the players, staff, everybody involved with Sam Houston State University

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Speaker 1: is just it's unbelievable. It really really is. All Right

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Speaker 1: tonight on the show, the first hour, we're gonna celebrate

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Speaker 1: the young guys on this team, guys that we hope

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Speaker 1: are going to end up being around for a long time.

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Speaker 1: Nico Collins, Roy Lopez, Brevin Jordan. Then we will have

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Speaker 1: a little in the lab with me and Drew, and

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Speaker 1: then I will do my weekly NFL pick straight up

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Speaker 1: there for you. So we're gonna kick it off with

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Speaker 1: Nico Collins, didn't play in twenty twenty, showed off at

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Speaker 1: like practice all right. So Brandon Cooks had been asked

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Speaker 1: and he said that you did not look like a

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Speaker 1: always I don't criticize it. He's my boss and all.

426
00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:42,840
Speaker 1: But I'm like, Okay, you're not getting that guy in

427
00:19:42,920 --> 00:19:45,000
Speaker 1: the third round. He's probably gonna go in the second.

428
00:19:45,160 --> 00:19:49,040
Speaker 1: All that one his last version of vander mock I

429
00:19:49,119 --> 00:19:51,920
Speaker 1: think it was three point zero. He in the seventh

430
00:19:52,040 --> 00:19:57,240
Speaker 1: round had actually selected Roy Lopez Junior to the Texans.

431
00:19:57,760 --> 00:20:00,000
Speaker 1: So when I saw the Texas had drafted Roy Lowe

432
00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:02,200
Speaker 1: Pez Junior, Mark didn't realize it right away. I was like,

433
00:20:02,480 --> 00:20:05,200
Speaker 1: you got one. Look, I mean, I do all the

434
00:20:05,320 --> 00:20:07,480
Speaker 1: draft stuff and you got this one. This is awesome.

435
00:20:07,480 --> 00:20:10,440
Speaker 1: Maybe he was really as he should be happy. I

436
00:20:10,560 --> 00:20:14,080
Speaker 1: called John Grenard the year before he called Roy Lopez,

437
00:20:14,119 --> 00:20:16,840
Speaker 1: and both guys are gonna end up making a significant

438
00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:20,640
Speaker 1: impact on this defensive line, hopefully for a long time

439
00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:26,399
Speaker 1: to come. Now, when it was put on social media,

440
00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:31,240
Speaker 1: the fact that Roy Lopez wants to be a wrestler,

441
00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:35,879
Speaker 1: which he was a wrestler in high school. Now amateur wrestling,

442
00:20:36,320 --> 00:20:39,360
Speaker 1: professional wrestling, two totally different things. But I could see

443
00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:42,959
Speaker 1: Roy Lopez Junior down the road being a professional wrestler. Well,

444
00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:47,119
Speaker 1: when I got put on social media, The Rock took notice.

445
00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:52,640
Speaker 1: Dwayne Johnson took notice of Roy Lopez, and I think

446
00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:55,280
Speaker 1: it probably made all of our years old. My goodness,

447
00:20:55,359 --> 00:20:58,560
Speaker 1: The Rock knew about this. He saw us in social

448
00:20:58,640 --> 00:21:03,240
Speaker 1: media and responded, and that friends is really really cool.

449
00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:07,200
Speaker 1: So let's talk to Roy Lopez Junior. Our good friend

450
00:21:07,280 --> 00:21:10,800
Speaker 1: Deep City sat down and dep is the one person

451
00:21:10,840 --> 00:21:14,280
Speaker 1: in our building that can get these players kind of

452
00:21:14,320 --> 00:21:17,600
Speaker 1: out of their shell. And that's what she did with

453
00:21:17,760 --> 00:21:20,639
Speaker 1: our man, Roy Lopez. This is great stuff. It's deep slant.

454
00:21:21,080 --> 00:21:24,200
Speaker 1: Roy Lopez with Deep City, Smith says, he's been really

455
00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:25,920
Speaker 1: impressed with what you've been able to do so far.

456
00:21:26,080 --> 00:21:27,639
Speaker 1: But for you, what do you think has been the

457
00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:30,879
Speaker 1: toughest part about adjusting to playing in the NFL? Right?

458
00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:33,640
Speaker 1: I mean the toughest part is just you know, as

459
00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:35,720
Speaker 1: a job now, you know, so you don't have school,

460
00:21:35,760 --> 00:21:37,880
Speaker 1: you don't have study all and all that, you know college,

461
00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:40,760
Speaker 1: but you know so, but also that's at the same time,

462
00:21:40,840 --> 00:21:43,200
Speaker 1: that's the best part. You know, you have to talk

463
00:21:43,280 --> 00:21:45,119
Speaker 1: football all day. You know, you watch field, you go

464
00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:48,080
Speaker 1: to meetings and and you know, you just get better,

465
00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:51,120
Speaker 1: you know, And that's the biggest thing, is uh right now?

466
00:21:51,320 --> 00:21:53,159
Speaker 1: You know, like you said, you know, being a rookie,

467
00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:55,640
Speaker 1: that's all you gotta do is just get better week

468
00:21:55,680 --> 00:21:58,240
Speaker 1: after week. And you know, numbers will come and and

469
00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:01,399
Speaker 1: everything like that. So you know, when I reflect on

470
00:22:01,480 --> 00:22:04,720
Speaker 1: my weeks and watch film, I just want to make

471
00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:07,040
Speaker 1: sure I get better individually and be able to help

472
00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:10,000
Speaker 1: my team and the D line as a whole because

473
00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:11,920
Speaker 1: and then they you know, that's my job, you know,

474
00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:14,359
Speaker 1: to just help the team win. Yeah, you don't have

475
00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:17,280
Speaker 1: to study for like a math test or write a

476
00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:18,680
Speaker 1: paper or anything like that. You just got you just

477
00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:21,440
Speaker 1: go to your meetings and learn about football. Lovey said

478
00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:23,520
Speaker 1: that you're obviously you're really you're good against the run,

479
00:22:23,600 --> 00:22:25,560
Speaker 1: but he said that he was impressed with your pass

480
00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:27,520
Speaker 1: rush and he said the thing that impressed him was

481
00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:30,240
Speaker 1: that you could pass rush. So he said, not a

482
00:22:30,320 --> 00:22:32,520
Speaker 1: knock against you, but it's not really something that you

483
00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:34,960
Speaker 1: were asked to do a lot of in college. So

484
00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:37,520
Speaker 1: how have you worked on that aspect of your game.

485
00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:39,800
Speaker 1: I know it's been early so far, right, but you

486
00:22:39,880 --> 00:22:42,320
Speaker 1: know a lot a lot of people don't really know,

487
00:22:42,560 --> 00:22:45,000
Speaker 1: like my college road and stuff like that. But you know,

488
00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:47,440
Speaker 1: I started in Mexico State and there I played three

489
00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:49,600
Speaker 1: technique and I even played some five technique. You know.

490
00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:51,920
Speaker 1: That's just d n you know, and just trying to

491
00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:54,680
Speaker 1: get what I want and do pass us. You know,

492
00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:56,639
Speaker 1: I always try to tell people I'm good at pass us.

493
00:22:56,680 --> 00:22:58,040
Speaker 1: I can pass us. You know, I'm not just a

494
00:22:58,119 --> 00:23:02,280
Speaker 1: run stopper. So I've always joked with my coaches, you know,

495
00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:04,920
Speaker 1: at the collegiate level, even here, you know, Bobby Kane,

496
00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:08,040
Speaker 1: we still joke about it to this day. And I

497
00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:09,920
Speaker 1: can pass for us now, I can do it, you know,

498
00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:12,200
Speaker 1: if you want to see someone a third down, you know,

499
00:23:12,359 --> 00:23:16,640
Speaker 1: but you know, he just gives me a smile. I like, um,

500
00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:19,679
Speaker 1: you know there's there's like you said this this uh,

501
00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:23,240
Speaker 1: this D Line Corps is very talented. It's fun to

502
00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:26,399
Speaker 1: steal things from them and do it in practice and

503
00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:28,760
Speaker 1: look at him and laugh and smile like, yeah, I

504
00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:31,680
Speaker 1: just did your moves like it's okay, but uh, you know,

505
00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:33,560
Speaker 1: I do it, and we joke about it. We laugh

506
00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:36,960
Speaker 1: and and uh yeah, I'm part of a great group

507
00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:39,199
Speaker 1: of d Lineman that kind of feeds off of each other.

508
00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:41,280
Speaker 1: You're taking some of their moves, but I haven't seen

509
00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:44,320
Speaker 1: anyone attempt your salsa moves. Because you busted out that

510
00:23:44,359 --> 00:23:47,359
Speaker 1: salsa dance in the preseason. How good of a dancer

511
00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:51,680
Speaker 1: are you? Oh? Is there more? I feel like there's

512
00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:53,920
Speaker 1: probably more than just the few steps that we see

513
00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:56,119
Speaker 1: out there on the field. Well, I could dance, but

514
00:23:56,200 --> 00:24:02,120
Speaker 1: I can't dance something. My family's gonna laugh. But it's

515
00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:03,719
Speaker 1: not like an extent. You're not gonna bust out an

516
00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:05,879
Speaker 1: extended salta if you ever like rant it back for

517
00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:07,399
Speaker 1: a touchdown or anything like that. We're not going to

518
00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:09,320
Speaker 1: see something like that. Oh no, y'all are gonna see

519
00:24:09,359 --> 00:24:12,760
Speaker 1: something totally different. I don't know yet, work on it,

520
00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:16,280
Speaker 1: but a touchdown that's a different celebration. All right. You're

521
00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:19,119
Speaker 1: really talented, because I've heard you also can throw down

522
00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:21,920
Speaker 1: In the kitchen. You're a pretty good cook. Have you

523
00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:23,639
Speaker 1: had a chance to cook for the d Lineman yet?

524
00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:27,680
Speaker 1: I haven't yet, but I plan to. I'm not that great,

525
00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:30,320
Speaker 1: but I do like to cook. My family is a big, big,

526
00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:34,240
Speaker 1: big cooking family. We throw down, So I definitely ask

527
00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:36,359
Speaker 1: them for some some advice and what to cook the

528
00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:38,040
Speaker 1: D line. But I will I want to cook. I

529
00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:39,720
Speaker 1: want to cook the D line of dinner. Well that's

530
00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:41,159
Speaker 1: what I was going to ask you, was when you

531
00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:43,120
Speaker 1: do cook for the D lineman, what's the spread gonna

532
00:24:43,119 --> 00:24:45,679
Speaker 1: look at? Is gonna be uh like, what's the menu

533
00:24:45,840 --> 00:24:49,639
Speaker 1: gonna be a Mexican a Mexican type you know dish.

534
00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:52,680
Speaker 1: It's gonna be tacos, gonna be INA's be rice and

535
00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:56,080
Speaker 1: beans and some chips and some sausa, you know, so um,

536
00:24:56,560 --> 00:24:58,520
Speaker 1: you know, be able to have them eat you know,

537
00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:01,040
Speaker 1: what I eat and what I I can't eat, you know,

538
00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:03,440
Speaker 1: at the same time. So you know, during season, you

539
00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:05,520
Speaker 1: gotta watch what you eat, so I can't. I can't

540
00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:08,480
Speaker 1: be eating that stuff too much. But um, definitely gonna

541
00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:11,200
Speaker 1: have them over and have some uh some some cornthin

542
00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:14,720
Speaker 1: theeas and and cheese and give them some grease, you know,

543
00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:17,359
Speaker 1: for for the advertite. But well, you you went to

544
00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:19,359
Speaker 1: school in New Mexico. I've been in New Mexico before

545
00:25:19,359 --> 00:25:21,240
Speaker 1: they've got like New Max and then in Texas they've

546
00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:23,080
Speaker 1: got Text Max. Yeah, so how do you how do

547
00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:25,399
Speaker 1: I mean you're you seem like a food condostour. How

548
00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:28,600
Speaker 1: do those two compare? Oh, Mexican food. Yeah, the food

549
00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:31,840
Speaker 1: is amazing in Las Scruces in Mexico as a restern

550
00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:34,840
Speaker 1: states at but the food is it's really good. In

551
00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:37,240
Speaker 1: New Mexico. It was one of the better parts to

552
00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:39,960
Speaker 1: go to the Mexico States for the food. But but

553
00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:43,440
Speaker 1: now Houston, the text mex here is great, you know.

554
00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:46,120
Speaker 1: And you know, I've only gone like two times because

555
00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:47,600
Speaker 1: like I said, I gotta watch what I eat when

556
00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:50,240
Speaker 1: I'm out here, especially during season. But you know, I've

557
00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:53,120
Speaker 1: gotten a couple of places and it you know, blue

558
00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:56,160
Speaker 1: expectations away from the jump. So you know, I grew

559
00:25:56,240 --> 00:25:58,080
Speaker 1: up in Arizona, so I never really had too much

560
00:25:58,160 --> 00:26:02,040
Speaker 1: tex mex But once I came out here, I experienced it,

561
00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:04,200
Speaker 1: it experienced it, and I understood whatever it was. You

562
00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:06,280
Speaker 1: see what the hype is about. Okay. So one of

563
00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:08,040
Speaker 1: the things that we know about you, and I know

564
00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:09,680
Speaker 1: we've talked about it over and over again, is that

565
00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:12,399
Speaker 1: you're a wrestler, which is kind of a big deal

566
00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:14,800
Speaker 1: because we've got like four or five wrestlers on this team,

567
00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:17,000
Speaker 1: which I don't think I ever remember having so many

568
00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:19,480
Speaker 1: seeing so many guys that have had wrestling backgrounds. But

569
00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:23,760
Speaker 1: I had heard that you used to watch professional wrestling

570
00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:28,000
Speaker 1: growing up. So who was your favorite wrestler and why? Yeah,

571
00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:31,080
Speaker 1: it was The Rock And okay, yeah it was. I

572
00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:33,360
Speaker 1: mean that's a favorite though. You know, I'm a fan favorite,

573
00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:36,280
Speaker 1: so I always watched him. I was Raven Stereo, okay,

574
00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:39,280
Speaker 1: all the big names, you know, but it was definitely

575
00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:41,359
Speaker 1: a Rock. I had a little TV that had its

576
00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:45,280
Speaker 1: own VHS system at the bottom and too young for

577
00:26:45,359 --> 00:26:48,520
Speaker 1: a VHS system. Oh but you know at the time,

578
00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:50,480
Speaker 1: you know, we didn't have, you know, enough for a

579
00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:52,399
Speaker 1: flat screen in my room, you know, so we just

580
00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:55,120
Speaker 1: had a little box TV. It was about this high

581
00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:57,840
Speaker 1: and at the bottom it had a little VHS spot

582
00:26:58,280 --> 00:27:00,800
Speaker 1: and I just pop in. It was really called The Rock,

583
00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:02,560
Speaker 1: you know. I just popped in a little The Rock

584
00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:04,760
Speaker 1: video and I'd watch it. I don't know how many

585
00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:07,159
Speaker 1: times a day. But I had a little action figure,

586
00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:12,240
Speaker 1: you know Rock. Oh man, my family's gonna laugh on this. Okay.

587
00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:14,960
Speaker 1: So so since you, since you love professional wrestling and

588
00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:16,879
Speaker 1: you were a wrestler, I feel like, have you ever

589
00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:20,399
Speaker 1: thought about what your professional wrestling name might be no,

590
00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:23,919
Speaker 1: I have you must have it. But what would your

591
00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:27,040
Speaker 1: character be if you did professional wrestling? Oh man, I

592
00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:30,360
Speaker 1: don't know. It'd be something something uh something big though,

593
00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:32,840
Speaker 1: like you know, kind of like how the Big Show

594
00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:34,840
Speaker 1: and the Undertaker where you know, I'd like to I'd

595
00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:37,040
Speaker 1: like to take over the scene if I ever were

596
00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:40,000
Speaker 1: to get in that field. But yeah, definitely not. I

597
00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:42,640
Speaker 1: probably yeah, I probably want to be like a tag team.

598
00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:45,920
Speaker 1: I probably do. You want to be your own act? Right? Maybe?

599
00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:49,360
Speaker 1: Like I don't know, you do the salsa, you could

600
00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:52,480
Speaker 1: be like the salsa and like you got to have

601
00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:54,840
Speaker 1: a backstore, you know, like you could be like like

602
00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:58,200
Speaker 1: a part time salsa instructor who's looking for revenge. I

603
00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:00,040
Speaker 1: don't know what would check out a walk out to

604
00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:02,520
Speaker 1: be like us? Also, yeah, you like salsa out to

605
00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:05,320
Speaker 1: the to the ring um which you gotta have a

606
00:28:05,359 --> 00:28:10,760
Speaker 1: finishing move right, fould love it? I feel like you gotta.

607
00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:12,720
Speaker 1: I mean you're like the Rock is a triple threat.

608
00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:15,200
Speaker 1: You're like a triple dot. You got the cooking you've got,

609
00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:18,479
Speaker 1: you've got the dancing, you've got playing football like you've

610
00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:20,359
Speaker 1: got a lot. You've got a lot to draw off

611
00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:24,040
Speaker 1: of right. Yeah. Um, my sister and her husband, you know,

612
00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:27,560
Speaker 1: my brother in law are actually very big ww fans,

613
00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:30,120
Speaker 1: so I'm sure they've thought about it. I'm sure they've

614
00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:32,879
Speaker 1: thought about what's sort of finishing move I have. So

615
00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:35,040
Speaker 1: you know, I can ask them and I'm sure they'll

616
00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:37,159
Speaker 1: give me some good ideas. But there's a there's a

617
00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:39,560
Speaker 1: guy has long hair and they always like used to

618
00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:41,640
Speaker 1: joke about me, you know, with my hair and him.

619
00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:43,640
Speaker 1: I forget his name right now, but there are a

620
00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:45,440
Speaker 1: lot of well like back in the day when it

621
00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:47,680
Speaker 1: was WWF, there were a lot of wrestlers from wrong hair.

622
00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:49,080
Speaker 1: I feel like you got the whole look going on.

623
00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:51,720
Speaker 1: This is something Roy, I'm gonna be disappointed if you

624
00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:55,360
Speaker 1: don't come up with a nickname, a backstory, and a

625
00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:58,160
Speaker 1: finishing move for yourself at some point in your career,

626
00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:00,800
Speaker 1: because it's you. Just you fit the bill really well.

627
00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:03,440
Speaker 1: All right, So is this giving you any ideas for

628
00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:07,600
Speaker 1: potential celebrations? Oh man for a touchdown? Yeah, I feel

629
00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:09,720
Speaker 1: like we've done the salsa. We've talked about cooking, we

630
00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:12,680
Speaker 1: talked about wrestling. Yeah. The thing is, if I score

631
00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:15,800
Speaker 1: a touchdown, it'll definitely be a group celebration. Right, It's

632
00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:17,800
Speaker 1: not just gonna be an individual because I like, you know,

633
00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:21,720
Speaker 1: like your wrestling career, right, you see on TV, you know,

634
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:24,320
Speaker 1: in the whole defense gets in the line and they

635
00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:26,760
Speaker 1: start doing something or they do like a bowling skater,

636
00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:31,160
Speaker 1: are really funny, you know, So that's definitely something you know,

637
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Speaker 1: I would try to do, you know, if the touchdowns

638
00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:37,440
Speaker 1: in my future, Um, I would like to get everybody

639
00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:39,960
Speaker 1: incorporated that way. It's funny. You know, we can record,

640
00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:42,320
Speaker 1: I'll keep it you know, forever and be able to

641
00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:44,040
Speaker 1: look at it and laugh and everybody look back on

642
00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:46,360
Speaker 1: it and laugh and uh hopefully make like the team

643
00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:48,760
Speaker 1: highlight tape and all this. Oh, I think for sure

644
00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:50,040
Speaker 1: it will. All right, What about for you for the

645
00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:51,640
Speaker 1: rest of the year, What are some of the things

646
00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:53,200
Speaker 1: that you want to work on to really get better

647
00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:55,240
Speaker 1: here in your rookie year, right? You know it goes

648
00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:57,320
Speaker 1: back to just being better every week. I just want

649
00:29:57,360 --> 00:29:59,640
Speaker 1: to improve every week. Where that's stopping the run, rushing

650
00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:02,080
Speaker 1: the past, sir, you know, holding the bag, you know,

651
00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:03,640
Speaker 1: that's all that's all I want to do. I want

652
00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:05,920
Speaker 1: to keep improving that way, you know, when I go

653
00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:08,160
Speaker 1: to bed at night, and you know, I can be

654
00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:10,720
Speaker 1: happy with you know, and look myself in the mirror

655
00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:13,360
Speaker 1: and say, you know, I improved, and whether it's watching

656
00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:16,000
Speaker 1: film and and you know, talking to the beds, and

657
00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:18,920
Speaker 1: you know, sometimes I might ask too many questions because

658
00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:20,680
Speaker 1: I'm just in their ear, you know, I just want

659
00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:23,800
Speaker 1: to know, and uh, you know, I talked to Jacob

660
00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:26,200
Speaker 1: Marn a lot. I talked Lee Collins a lot, talked

661
00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:28,520
Speaker 1: to Vincent Taylor a lot, you know, and I just

662
00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:30,360
Speaker 1: try to learn, you know, because they've been in it.

663
00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:32,400
Speaker 1: You know, the average time in the NFL, I think

664
00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:34,960
Speaker 1: it's three years, you know, so and all these guys

665
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:37,480
Speaker 1: are past their years. So they're doing something right, you know.

666
00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:39,800
Speaker 1: So it's good to ask questions and learn from them

667
00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:41,920
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, just kind of pick their brains

668
00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:44,160
Speaker 1: and just keep growing. So that way, you know, when

669
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Speaker 1: I'm in their shoes five six, seven years downline, hopefully

670
00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:50,120
Speaker 1: you know, God blessing me to play that long, you know,

671
00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:51,560
Speaker 1: I'll be able to tell the rookies you know, I

672
00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:53,920
Speaker 1: was in your shoes. You know, I can answer your questions,

673
00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:56,040
Speaker 1: you know. So that's what I look forward to. Well,

674
00:30:56,040 --> 00:30:58,440
Speaker 1: we're looking forward to seeing more of you this season, Broy,

675
00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:03,480
Speaker 1: always a pleasure, thanks for joining us. Back in twenty sixteen.

676
00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:07,440
Speaker 1: I remember the Texans. I can't remember if the Texas

677
00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:09,280
Speaker 1: had six and seventh round picks. I know they didn't

678
00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:12,600
Speaker 1: have many at that point, so they had moved out

679
00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:15,240
Speaker 1: of the six and seventh round. And the last pick

680
00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:17,719
Speaker 1: of the twenty sixteen draft was a young man by

681
00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:21,840
Speaker 1: the name of DJ Reader. And I had known DJ's story.

682
00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:25,960
Speaker 1: I knew all about it, what had happened to his dad,

683
00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:29,600
Speaker 1: him walking away from football. But I also watched the

684
00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:34,120
Speaker 1: Senior Bowl. DJ Reader completely and totally wrecked dudes. So

685
00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:36,240
Speaker 1: when I thought back to that twenty sixteen draft, a

686
00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:39,000
Speaker 1: few years later, it had Will Fuller, had Nick Martin,

687
00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:43,120
Speaker 1: had Braxton Miller, you had Tyler Irvin. You had the

688
00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:45,120
Speaker 1: safety from West Virginia whose name, off the top of

689
00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:49,080
Speaker 1: my head I kJ Dillon. And yet it was that

690
00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:52,880
Speaker 1: last pick of the twenty sixteen draft. I thought, this

691
00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:56,880
Speaker 1: dude's a player. He is a really, really good player.

692
00:31:57,560 --> 00:32:03,240
Speaker 1: Last pick of the draft. Fast forward five years, DJ

693
00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:06,960
Speaker 1: Reader became one of the better interior players, basically priced

694
00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:09,720
Speaker 1: himself out of any money the Texans had. Is making

695
00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:12,280
Speaker 1: hi up thirteen fourteen million a year, turning himself into

696
00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:15,840
Speaker 1: the player we all knew he could be. You insert

697
00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:19,520
Speaker 1: ROYD Lopez as the last pick in the Texans twenty

698
00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:22,800
Speaker 1: twenty one draft, and he's doing the same thing. Now

699
00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:26,800
Speaker 1: Is he doing it like DJ? Well? DJ didn't start

700
00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:31,000
Speaker 1: until about halfway through that twenty sixteen season, and then

701
00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:34,520
Speaker 1: he was only playing with Vince wilf Borg kind of

702
00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:37,760
Speaker 1: in and out, if you will. He wasn't a full

703
00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:42,680
Speaker 1: time starter. He became one. Roy has become a starter earlier.

704
00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:45,520
Speaker 1: Now does it pan out the same way that Roy

705
00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:49,760
Speaker 1: continues to be disruptive as DJ was hopefully the last

706
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Speaker 1: pick in the draft twenty sixteen. DJ reader last pick

707
00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:55,640
Speaker 1: in the draft twenty twenty one, Roy Lopez. Those two

708
00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:58,840
Speaker 1: dudes are showing they are well well worth the pick.

709
00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:00,600
Speaker 1: Another guy who's well worth the pick in the fifth

710
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Speaker 1: round was Brevin Jordan. We'll talk to the rookie next

711
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Speaker 1: right here in Texans All Access, Farrent, Texans All Access, Farrent,

712
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Speaker 1: Texans All Welcome back this Friday issue of Texans All

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Speaker 1: Access from the Hounday Texans Radio Studio. I am John Harris,

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Speaker 1: your host. It's time to catch up with our third

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Speaker 1: rookie tonight. That is Brevin Jordan sat down with DEP City.

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Speaker 1: He had a little quiz later in this segment DP Takeaway.

717
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Speaker 1: How has the season been for you so far? It's

718
00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:27,760
Speaker 1: been good. It's been a learning curve. You know. I'm

719
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Speaker 1: under guys like Jordan Aikans and Anthony all Claire and

720
00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:33,400
Speaker 1: Farrell Brown, even guys like quiz Man, I mean the room.

721
00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:36,720
Speaker 1: I mean, they're they're leaders, they're true pros. So being

722
00:33:36,760 --> 00:33:38,960
Speaker 1: able to learn under those guys, I mean, Aikans is

723
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Speaker 1: twenty nine. I'm only twenty one years old. So to

724
00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:43,600
Speaker 1: get a different, a more grown aspect on how to

725
00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:45,840
Speaker 1: be a pros has been really helpful. I love that

726
00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:48,120
Speaker 1: you said you almost threw up after you scored the

727
00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:52,320
Speaker 1: first touchdown. Yeah you didn't though. That's great, That's that

728
00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:55,239
Speaker 1: would have been interesting. Any other big moments in your

729
00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:58,000
Speaker 1: life that have induced that sort of reaction from you?

730
00:33:58,080 --> 00:34:00,720
Speaker 1: Have you ever before? Yeah? So the first game my

731
00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:04,800
Speaker 1: sophomore season in college against Florida, So I scored and

732
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:06,600
Speaker 1: they we brought out the touchdown rings. That was the

733
00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:08,680
Speaker 1: first year we brought out the touchdown rings, and I

734
00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:10,880
Speaker 1: stood up in Legit had the same feeling, but I

735
00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:14,160
Speaker 1: kept it strong. The player had to keep it moving.

736
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Speaker 1: That's pretty good. I think, yeah, you don't want that

737
00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:18,560
Speaker 1: on the highlight reel, not at all. All. Right, So

738
00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:20,920
Speaker 1: you were inactive for the first seven games and then

739
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:24,040
Speaker 1: you got to start in week eight. So you know

740
00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:26,239
Speaker 1: what is that like? When you're preparing for the game

741
00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:27,879
Speaker 1: all the way up to Sunday you don't get to play.

742
00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:29,640
Speaker 1: I mean, how much does that help you in your preparation,

743
00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:32,919
Speaker 1: your pre game rituals, just getting ready to actually play?

744
00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:34,839
Speaker 1: How much did that really set you up for when

745
00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:36,440
Speaker 1: you actually did go out there and play. Oh, it

746
00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:38,840
Speaker 1: helped me a lot. It had me ready to go

747
00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:41,480
Speaker 1: at all times. I mean going into the week every

748
00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:43,960
Speaker 1: week since I since I started playing it last week,

749
00:34:44,520 --> 00:34:47,480
Speaker 1: I've taken the approach that I'm playing. So every week

750
00:34:47,520 --> 00:34:50,080
Speaker 1: I'm preparing and I'm studying the notes and the game

751
00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:53,080
Speaker 1: plan as much as as if I'm playing. So being

752
00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:55,200
Speaker 1: being in the locker room before the game, not suiting up,

753
00:34:55,200 --> 00:34:56,919
Speaker 1: but I'm seeing how guys are moving. I'm seeing Brandon

754
00:34:56,960 --> 00:35:00,440
Speaker 1: Cook's constantly doing band work, and Farrell's jump rope in

755
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:02,480
Speaker 1: and just all these guys just have different rituals, and

756
00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:05,000
Speaker 1: so I was just slowly picking it all up, and

757
00:35:05,080 --> 00:35:06,520
Speaker 1: then you know, when it was game time, I was

758
00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:08,600
Speaker 1: ready to go. Did you pick up a ritual for yourself?

759
00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:10,440
Speaker 1: Did you have one when you're at Miami? I did so.

760
00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:12,320
Speaker 1: I got in the cottab before the game and I

761
00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:13,759
Speaker 1: was just in there for like twenty minutes. I was

762
00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:15,200
Speaker 1: starting to sway and I didn't want to go out

763
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:16,960
Speaker 1: there a dehydrated, so I went and got Ivy two.

764
00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:19,080
Speaker 1: But getting a hut. Somebody else said they get in

765
00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:20,600
Speaker 1: the hot tub. Chris Moore City did that, and I

766
00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:22,680
Speaker 1: thought that would be relaxing, But I think it's it's

767
00:35:22,719 --> 00:35:24,799
Speaker 1: just to get your muscles warmed up and loose. Right.

768
00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:26,759
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm not sure. I saw a lot of other

769
00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:29,440
Speaker 1: guys doing I'm gonna do? Are you gonna start jump

770
00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:32,160
Speaker 1: for roping? Or maybe? See what now? Yet? With that one,

771
00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:33,879
Speaker 1: I don't know what he's doing with that one. He's

772
00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:36,759
Speaker 1: getting his steps in. Yeah. David Culley said that you

773
00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:38,680
Speaker 1: were a steel when the Texans drafted you in the

774
00:35:38,719 --> 00:35:40,600
Speaker 1: fifth round, but a lot of people thought you would

775
00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:43,080
Speaker 1: get drafted sooner. What was what was that like for

776
00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:45,120
Speaker 1: you just getting drafted? I mean, did you feel like

777
00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:46,799
Speaker 1: you should have gone sooner. Did you have a chip

778
00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:49,080
Speaker 1: on your shoulder? What was what was that whole experience?

779
00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:51,160
Speaker 1: Like the draft process for me, it was very scary,

780
00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:53,440
Speaker 1: to be honest with you, I was. I was. It

781
00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:55,879
Speaker 1: was not a fun I mean, the process going into

782
00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:58,600
Speaker 1: it was fun, but draft day was very It was

783
00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:00,680
Speaker 1: just a lot of anxiety, like I didn't know how

784
00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:02,759
Speaker 1: to feel, how to It was just weird. I mean,

785
00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:04,800
Speaker 1: once the Houston Texans called me, and because Sarry was

786
00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:06,120
Speaker 1: on the phone and call he was on the phone,

787
00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:08,680
Speaker 1: everything just went away. I was just like, I'm using Texan.

788
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:11,040
Speaker 1: I'm gonna show everybody what's up. Did you want to

789
00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:13,680
Speaker 1: throw up? Then? I didn't. As soon as they called me,

790
00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:16,440
Speaker 1: I started to. I just burst it out into It

791
00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:18,520
Speaker 1: was very It was unbelievable. So you weren't disappointed that

792
00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:20,879
Speaker 1: it was the fifth round like you aren't. You had

793
00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:23,480
Speaker 1: no expectation, not at all. You were a three years

794
00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:25,440
Speaker 1: starter at Miami. You said, you worked your way into

795
00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:27,399
Speaker 1: the lineup as a freshman, so you got to start games.

796
00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:29,880
Speaker 1: You chose Miami over a number of different schools, right.

797
00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:32,880
Speaker 1: I saw that you chose Miami were Florida, Florida State, Georgia.

798
00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:35,800
Speaker 1: What made you want to choose Miami over some of

799
00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:37,840
Speaker 1: the other schools. So it was honestly, I had a

800
00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:42,160
Speaker 1: very easy recruiting process. So my top three schools was Miami, Michigan,

801
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:45,719
Speaker 1: and UCLA. So I visited Ucla and it was just

802
00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:48,279
Speaker 1: too much like home to me. It was, you know,

803
00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:50,919
Speaker 1: I'm from Las Vegas. It's a thirty minute flight. Forty

804
00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:53,000
Speaker 1: five minutes. Okay, it was just too much like home.

805
00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:55,879
Speaker 1: And then Michigan it was just I'm from Las Vegas.

806
00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:58,440
Speaker 1: So it was cold out there, like different, too different.

807
00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:00,719
Speaker 1: I to wear snow boots and the snow jack out there.

808
00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:02,759
Speaker 1: And then I went to Miami and you know, at

809
00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:04,279
Speaker 1: the time, they were number two in the country. They

810
00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:06,560
Speaker 1: they were very big on the tight end tradition and

811
00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:08,080
Speaker 1: at the time they were in their tear ten and oh.

812
00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:10,320
Speaker 1: So I was just like, this is awesome. And the

813
00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:12,359
Speaker 1: beach and the palm trees, it was just, well, yeah,

814
00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:14,120
Speaker 1: that's that's gonna be a nice sell. What did you

815
00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:17,560
Speaker 1: ever consider going to school in Texas? No? No, I

816
00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:20,399
Speaker 1: mean I'm not a country guy. I'm like from Las Vegas.

817
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:22,040
Speaker 1: You're from the city. I'm from a huge city. So

818
00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:23,960
Speaker 1: I was like, I need to go. I mean, Houston's

819
00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:26,799
Speaker 1: pretty big. Were you surprised that you are now living

820
00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:29,640
Speaker 1: in Houston? Yeah? I thought when I first got drafted

821
00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:30,960
Speaker 1: to Houston, I thought it was like a lot of

822
00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:34,640
Speaker 1: like cows, you know, farms and stuff. And then when

823
00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:36,359
Speaker 1: I came out here and I heard this like top

824
00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:39,680
Speaker 1: three most diverse cities in America, and just the food

825
00:37:39,719 --> 00:37:42,080
Speaker 1: out there out here is beautiful. I love. Yeah. Yeah, yeah,

826
00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:45,759
Speaker 1: people people went. Houston wins people over really quick, over,

827
00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:47,840
Speaker 1: very really quick, very quick. You said you wanted to

828
00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:49,719
Speaker 1: go to Miami because it was tight end you but

829
00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:52,719
Speaker 1: you're really good as a pass catcher. So why did

830
00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:54,960
Speaker 1: you not ever play wide receiver? Why are you a

831
00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:57,080
Speaker 1: tight end? Um? I give a lot of things to that.

832
00:37:57,160 --> 00:37:59,800
Speaker 1: To my freshman football coach, Rob Bergman, he moved me

833
00:37:59,840 --> 00:38:02,400
Speaker 1: to tighten. So I actually went as in high school. Yes,

834
00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:04,480
Speaker 1: in high school, as a freshman, I wanted to play receiver,

835
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:06,440
Speaker 1: but at the time I was you know, I was

836
00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:08,200
Speaker 1: a six three, two undred pound kid. I was just

837
00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:10,359
Speaker 1: freshman football was Wait, as a freshman, you were two

838
00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:12,319
Speaker 1: hundred pounds. Yeah, I was a kid, but I mean

839
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:15,239
Speaker 1: I was just bigger than everybody. So he just moved

840
00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:16,440
Speaker 1: me to tighten and I stuck with it, and I

841
00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:18,120
Speaker 1: actually really fell in love with the position. Okay, so

842
00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:20,080
Speaker 1: you never had the desire to just be a receiver

843
00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:22,560
Speaker 1: and was catching all right? You you mentioned high school.

844
00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:25,040
Speaker 1: You went to high school in Nevada, Bishop Gorman, which

845
00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:27,920
Speaker 1: is like a powerhouse when it comes to football. I

846
00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:31,880
Speaker 1: think you were part of the ninth straight state title. Honestly,

847
00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:34,320
Speaker 1: I couldn't even tell you. Okay, what was that like

848
00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:36,080
Speaker 1: going to a high school that was just I mean,

849
00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:38,000
Speaker 1: did you guys have scouts out there every single week

850
00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:40,720
Speaker 1: watching your game? We had scouts out there every day almost.

851
00:38:40,719 --> 00:38:43,600
Speaker 1: I mean the reason we were so good in high school,

852
00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:45,719
Speaker 1: Like obviously we have the nice facilities and you know where,

853
00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:47,400
Speaker 1: we're considered a powerhouse. But I think it was the

854
00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:50,160
Speaker 1: camaraderie that the guys in that locker room. Now I'm

855
00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:52,280
Speaker 1: still best friends with all those guys. I mean, Taate, Martell,

856
00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:55,200
Speaker 1: Bubba Bo, didn't Biague Ali Wah, I'm friends with all

857
00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:56,959
Speaker 1: of those guys. It was it was really how close

858
00:38:57,040 --> 00:38:59,520
Speaker 1: we are as close we were as friends. Then I

859
00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:01,840
Speaker 1: learned from what I learned the high school, took it

860
00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:04,120
Speaker 1: to college with me and was just about being closed

861
00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:06,480
Speaker 1: because when you hang out off the field, the connection

862
00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:08,360
Speaker 1: to someone was tighter on the field. All right, And

863
00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:10,600
Speaker 1: there were some famous alumni that went there as well.

864
00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:12,200
Speaker 1: I looked it up because I was like this high school.

865
00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:16,040
Speaker 1: DeMarco Murray, Ronnie Stanley. Have you ever met any famous

866
00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:17,719
Speaker 1: alumni that went to your high school? Have you ever

867
00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:22,120
Speaker 1: in touch of them? Would you consider Cardo broad Is famous? Sure? Sure? Yeah?

868
00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:25,920
Speaker 1: I mean who else? Government is a powerhouse though, So,

869
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:27,880
Speaker 1: I mean a lot of people who are considered I

870
00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:30,600
Speaker 1: guess famous, like, but they've gone they've gone on to

871
00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:33,840
Speaker 1: have professional careers, so they may not be like DeMarco Murray,

872
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:36,120
Speaker 1: but yeah, they've got names in the NFL and they've

873
00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:38,120
Speaker 1: had careers in the NFL. All right. Your dad was

874
00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:40,520
Speaker 1: drafted by the Falcons, and I know you talked about

875
00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:43,560
Speaker 1: this after the Texans drafted you as well, ninth round

876
00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:45,920
Speaker 1: of the nineteen ninety draft, but he never played because

877
00:39:45,960 --> 00:39:49,200
Speaker 1: he suffered a shoulder injury in training camp the preseason.

878
00:39:49,360 --> 00:39:51,800
Speaker 1: Yeah that's pops, man, shout out my pops. He actually

879
00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:54,479
Speaker 1: he passed away my senior year of high school. You know, shat,

880
00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:57,200
Speaker 1: I'm a doctor, a joy you already know. But yeah, man,

881
00:39:57,320 --> 00:39:59,040
Speaker 1: he was. That's why I think we got the lovel

882
00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:01,200
Speaker 1: football from because yeah, he had a he has a

883
00:40:01,320 --> 00:40:04,280
Speaker 1: huge book, like a collection of like old newspaper stuff

884
00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:06,680
Speaker 1: from when he got drafted and you know, sending records

885
00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:08,840
Speaker 1: in high school. So I mean we could, me and

886
00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:10,359
Speaker 1: my two brothers, we got a hold of that book

887
00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:12,480
Speaker 1: and it was over with. We were like, we're playing football.

888
00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:15,480
Speaker 1: What position did your dad play? Played linebacker and tight end, actually,

889
00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:18,840
Speaker 1: but linebacker and tight end. Man. I read somewhere that

890
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:20,680
Speaker 1: when you were five, your mom put you in football

891
00:40:20,680 --> 00:40:22,560
Speaker 1: and she wanted them to play you on defense. That

892
00:40:22,680 --> 00:40:25,080
Speaker 1: was that because of your dad. I don't think it

893
00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:26,520
Speaker 1: was because of my dad. I think it was because

894
00:40:26,520 --> 00:40:28,200
Speaker 1: I was only five years old and I was playing

895
00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:29,880
Speaker 1: up with my older brother he was eight. So I

896
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:32,399
Speaker 1: was just looking like a little little child out there,

897
00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:34,480
Speaker 1: like I was just smaller than everybody. So my mom

898
00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:35,960
Speaker 1: was like, don't put the ball in his hands or

899
00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:38,799
Speaker 1: he's gonna get drilled. Yeah, Beverly Jordan does not play

900
00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:42,040
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. Okay, so um, you mentioned being

901
00:40:42,080 --> 00:40:45,320
Speaker 1: only twenty one years old, you are officially the youngest

902
00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:48,600
Speaker 1: player on this roster. If you know that. July sixteen,

903
00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:51,200
Speaker 1: two thousand. Danny Amendola is the oldest. He's fifteen years

904
00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:54,200
Speaker 1: older than you. I watched Danny Amndola since I was

905
00:40:54,239 --> 00:40:56,399
Speaker 1: like nine years old. I told him that first day

906
00:40:56,400 --> 00:40:57,880
Speaker 1: to tell him. That first day I met him, I

907
00:40:57,880 --> 00:40:59,239
Speaker 1: told him, I was like, I've been watching you since

908
00:40:59,239 --> 00:41:00,880
Speaker 1: I was like nine years old. Did he take that

909
00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:03,080
Speaker 1: as a compliment or b don't make me feel old?

910
00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:05,000
Speaker 1: Everybody says the same thing. I thought, David Donson and

911
00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:07,560
Speaker 1: Brandon Cooks, you've been watching it well, I mean you

912
00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:10,120
Speaker 1: probably could have watched both of these kids, like both

913
00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:11,360
Speaker 1: of these players when you were a kid, because it

914
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:13,680
Speaker 1: really like you are so young, nine ten eleven years old.

915
00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:16,480
Speaker 1: I was watching all these guys. Okay, so you're the

916
00:41:16,520 --> 00:41:18,279
Speaker 1: youngest players. There another player in the locker room that

917
00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:20,759
Speaker 1: you think is really like the youngest at heart, Like,

918
00:41:20,920 --> 00:41:23,480
Speaker 1: let's take age out of it. I would honestly say

919
00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:26,400
Speaker 1: Pharaoh brought at Jordan Nakins truthfully. I mean he's not

920
00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:28,239
Speaker 1: even I'm not even trying to be like I could

921
00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:30,359
Speaker 1: see I mean, Jordan's kind of quiet. I could see

922
00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:34,080
Speaker 1: Pharaoh right, Jordan's quiet, but he's not quiet with the

923
00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:37,680
Speaker 1: tight ends. He's He is a goofball. Okayode is a

924
00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:40,719
Speaker 1: hilarious He's hilarious and same with Pharrell. Pharaoh's personality is

925
00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:43,440
Speaker 1: so big, like I think ARLs twenty seven, twenty years old. Yeah,

926
00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:45,960
Speaker 1: the dudes really like seventeen years old. He loves a

927
00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:47,920
Speaker 1: mess with me, always doing something to me. I'm like,

928
00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:50,319
Speaker 1: all right, dude, all right. So I have been told

929
00:41:50,360 --> 00:41:51,880
Speaker 1: that since you were born in two thousand, you're not

930
00:41:51,920 --> 00:41:53,680
Speaker 1: going to know what these pictures are. I think that

931
00:41:53,760 --> 00:41:55,879
Speaker 1: you're going to know them all so I'm gonna I'm

932
00:41:55,880 --> 00:41:59,239
Speaker 1: gonna show you these pictures, all right. Seriously, is that

933
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:03,360
Speaker 1: a what is? That's the um the little game? The

934
00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:05,600
Speaker 1: little Ah? Hold on, I know what it is. It's

935
00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:07,239
Speaker 1: the case. Isn't that a case for like one of

936
00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:11,000
Speaker 1: the little games? These are floppy discs. You don't know

937
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:14,000
Speaker 1: what these are? No sad? Oh my gosh, okay, okay,

938
00:42:14,040 --> 00:42:18,279
Speaker 1: hang on, what is this? That's a tape recorder? Holy?

939
00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:23,319
Speaker 1: I love how he asked? Am I wrong? Not? Am

940
00:42:23,360 --> 00:42:29,200
Speaker 1: I right? He was wrong? It's a pager? Goode oh man,

941
00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:33,160
Speaker 1: floppy discs and pagers? Hello nineties? My goodness. All right,

942
00:42:33,160 --> 00:42:36,400
Speaker 1: we get back a guy that was ripping it up

943
00:42:36,440 --> 00:42:38,720
Speaker 1: here in the city of Houston in the nineties before

944
00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:41,279
Speaker 1: he ended up going off to college up in the Metroplex.

945
00:42:41,360 --> 00:42:43,919
Speaker 1: My Andrew Doherty, he's with me next for a little

946
00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:48,680
Speaker 1: in the lab right here in Texas All Access. We've

947
00:42:48,719 --> 00:42:51,600
Speaker 1: got one hour down, one hour left to go on

948
00:42:51,760 --> 00:42:56,480
Speaker 1: this beautiful Friday evening of Texans All Access. I am

949
00:42:56,560 --> 00:43:00,319
Speaker 1: your host football Anald Silo reporter John Harrison's so glad

950
00:43:00,400 --> 00:43:04,439
Speaker 1: to be with you. Whether you call it the bye

951
00:43:04,480 --> 00:43:07,960
Speaker 1: week or the off week, guess what, it doesn't freaking matter.

952
00:43:08,719 --> 00:43:11,319
Speaker 1: Well matters the Texas game on Sunday. So we all

953
00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:13,880
Speaker 1: gotta figure out, like what are we gonna do? What

954
00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:15,759
Speaker 1: do we do? Well, most of us are gonna watch

955
00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:18,480
Speaker 1: the red zone. Probably some of us might say, you

956
00:43:18,480 --> 00:43:21,040
Speaker 1: know what, I'm going to the beach or you know what,

957
00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:24,480
Speaker 1: I'm going to brunch, although for some people it's just

958
00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:26,680
Speaker 1: breakfast because that's just when they get up in the afternoon.

959
00:43:27,320 --> 00:43:30,120
Speaker 1: So either way, Texas don't play, they will play the

960
00:43:30,160 --> 00:43:34,360
Speaker 1: following week in Tennessee at one I think Nashville is

961
00:43:34,360 --> 00:43:35,840
Speaker 1: on the eastern top, So if you're in Nashville, I

962
00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:37,600
Speaker 1: think it's one pm local time, but it'd be noon

963
00:43:37,719 --> 00:43:40,840
Speaker 1: here for New Kicking. Then after that three straight home games,

964
00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:44,520
Speaker 1: and I'm telling you right now, I can't wait. After

965
00:43:44,640 --> 00:43:49,040
Speaker 1: we played the Patriots, we went road, Colts, road Cardinals,

966
00:43:49,520 --> 00:43:55,480
Speaker 1: We came home for one game, then played Miami, then

967
00:43:55,600 --> 00:44:01,919
Speaker 1: Buy then at Tennessee. So from October ninth, tenth, something

968
00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:05,240
Speaker 1: like that, I can't remember exactly today, from the Patriots

969
00:44:05,320 --> 00:44:10,239
Speaker 1: game all the way to the Sunday heading into Thanksgiving week,

970
00:44:11,040 --> 00:44:17,480
Speaker 1: we would have played one home game, one one. There

971
00:44:17,520 --> 00:44:21,000
Speaker 1: will be more Disney on Ice performances in that time

972
00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:24,960
Speaker 1: Energy Stadium. Then we will have played home games. So

973
00:44:25,440 --> 00:44:29,160
Speaker 1: thankfully during the holiday season we will be here for

974
00:44:29,239 --> 00:44:31,919
Speaker 1: the most part, five to the last seven at home.

975
00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:34,960
Speaker 1: The only two road games, the final two will be

976
00:44:35,080 --> 00:44:38,640
Speaker 1: Jacksonville and San Francisco when we've been too, when we

977
00:44:38,719 --> 00:44:41,640
Speaker 1: haven't been two since twenty thirteen. So got that to

978
00:44:41,680 --> 00:44:44,960
Speaker 1: look forward to in the final seven weeks. You also,

979
00:44:45,040 --> 00:44:47,279
Speaker 1: if you're a teacher, have Monday to look forward to

980
00:44:48,200 --> 00:44:50,800
Speaker 1: when you get to kiddos back in the classroom. So

981
00:44:50,960 --> 00:44:53,680
Speaker 1: what do you do well if you teach third fourth

982
00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:57,960
Speaker 1: grade math? How about a little Toros math ros presented

983
00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:01,640
Speaker 1: by Conico Phillips. Toros Math. The video series design to

984
00:45:01,719 --> 00:45:04,560
Speaker 1: help those third and fourth graders learn how to tackle

985
00:45:04,680 --> 00:45:07,080
Speaker 1: math in the classroom. All you gotta do is go

986
00:45:07,120 --> 00:45:11,839
Speaker 1: to Houston Texas dot com slash Toros Matris to learn more. Now,

987
00:45:11,880 --> 00:45:15,360
Speaker 1: if you wandering, does it really work? I can't speak

988
00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:18,880
Speaker 1: to Toros Mathrols exactly, but I can tell you that

989
00:45:19,040 --> 00:45:22,240
Speaker 1: I've done that before my classroom. I didn't in physics.

990
00:45:23,080 --> 00:45:26,320
Speaker 1: I brought it in football into the classroom. I wrote

991
00:45:26,360 --> 00:45:30,000
Speaker 1: an entire test based on and we at the time

992
00:45:30,040 --> 00:45:32,879
Speaker 1: I was living in Jacksonville on the Florida Georgia game,

993
00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:39,760
Speaker 1: and put it all in football terms, used football terms.

994
00:45:41,120 --> 00:45:43,319
Speaker 1: I don't know, Maybe it was coincidence, but the kids

995
00:45:43,360 --> 00:45:45,160
Speaker 1: did better on that test than they did in any

996
00:45:45,200 --> 00:45:49,240
Speaker 1: other tests the rest of the year. That taught me something.

997
00:45:49,640 --> 00:45:52,520
Speaker 1: Bring football to your classroom. You'll get them to learn math, physics,

998
00:45:52,640 --> 00:45:55,520
Speaker 1: whatever it is. Now. I don't know if that works

999
00:45:55,560 --> 00:45:58,680
Speaker 1: in English, but it definitely works in math and physics.

1000
00:45:58,800 --> 00:46:03,480
Speaker 1: I can absolutely promise you that. All Right, Each every week,

1001
00:46:03,560 --> 00:46:06,120
Speaker 1: Drew Doherty and I we sit down and we do

1002
00:46:06,239 --> 00:46:08,719
Speaker 1: the in the Lab podcast and we talk about any

1003
00:46:08,840 --> 00:46:12,080
Speaker 1: number of things we did that We talked about one

1004
00:46:12,120 --> 00:46:14,279
Speaker 1: thing in particular, I haven't talked too much about, but

1005
00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:17,120
Speaker 1: we hit that early and it was really about my

1006
00:46:17,239 --> 00:46:21,040
Speaker 1: afternoon on Sunday last Sunday against the Miami Dolphins. Take

1007
00:46:21,080 --> 00:46:23,799
Speaker 1: a listen. It's in Lab Drew Doherty and myself, John

1008
00:46:23,840 --> 00:46:30,680
Speaker 1: Harris in the Lab, a Texans podcast that takes a

1009
00:46:30,920 --> 00:46:34,360
Speaker 1: different look at things. Drew Doherty and John Harris have

1010
00:46:34,480 --> 00:46:38,720
Speaker 1: their lab coats and goggles on and the Bunsen burners burning.

1011
00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:43,000
Speaker 1: Here's Drew. Hey man, it's by week. You're just chilling

1012
00:46:43,040 --> 00:46:47,520
Speaker 1: on the beach. Man. I wish era cham the beach, Drew.

1013
00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:49,800
Speaker 1: I mean it is nice, and we'll say, let me

1014
00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:51,879
Speaker 1: Houston if at least give a Galveston in a short

1015
00:46:51,880 --> 00:46:56,120
Speaker 1: amount of time. And I wish, I wish I were there.

1016
00:46:56,239 --> 00:46:58,400
Speaker 1: But you know what, gonna be working this weekend. I

1017
00:46:58,480 --> 00:47:03,360
Speaker 1: got Sam Houston and Eastern Kentucky. At noon on Saturday,

1018
00:47:03,440 --> 00:47:05,920
Speaker 1: I'd be working. My buddy Tom Franklin sweet so I

1019
00:47:06,239 --> 00:47:09,400
Speaker 1: call that game. So I'll be working. But maybe Sunday

1020
00:47:09,520 --> 00:47:11,440
Speaker 1: might take Jack down to the beach and just kind

1021
00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:13,359
Speaker 1: of sit and chill and watch on all the games

1022
00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:15,360
Speaker 1: on my phone on red Zone. That just shows you

1023
00:47:15,440 --> 00:47:18,439
Speaker 1: how much life has changed. Man. You can watch Red

1024
00:47:18,520 --> 00:47:20,880
Speaker 1: Zone on your phone no matter where you are. It's crazy.

1025
00:47:21,239 --> 00:47:23,160
Speaker 1: We can just look at the ocean, you always do that,

1026
00:47:23,280 --> 00:47:26,719
Speaker 1: or the Gulf. Excuse me, the Gulf of Mexico. That's true. Yeah,

1027
00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:29,160
Speaker 1: let's talk a little bit about Sunday. But let's talk

1028
00:47:29,160 --> 00:47:32,440
Speaker 1: about what you did. Because you we're not on the

1029
00:47:32,520 --> 00:47:35,920
Speaker 1: sidelines like you normally are on a radio broadcast for

1030
00:47:36,160 --> 00:47:39,399
Speaker 1: the Houston Texans. You were up in the booth next

1031
00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:42,320
Speaker 1: to Vandermere. Yeah, what was that? Like, how did it

1032
00:47:42,360 --> 00:47:45,239
Speaker 1: all come about? Give the lowdown, give the background, how

1033
00:47:45,320 --> 00:47:49,200
Speaker 1: much fun was it? Etc? So on? Yeah, it was.

1034
00:47:50,040 --> 00:47:51,800
Speaker 1: You know, Mark told me, told me for sure on

1035
00:47:51,880 --> 00:47:55,720
Speaker 1: Friday because Andre was going to be out and unable

1036
00:47:55,760 --> 00:47:57,840
Speaker 1: to do it. So he just said, you're up. And

1037
00:47:58,640 --> 00:48:01,360
Speaker 1: I know he was. I knew, and I know Mark,

1038
00:48:01,440 --> 00:48:03,839
Speaker 1: I knew he was panicking about it, like, oh my god,

1039
00:48:03,920 --> 00:48:06,319
Speaker 1: you know what's gonna happen. And I mean, I've done

1040
00:48:06,360 --> 00:48:07,839
Speaker 1: plenty of college games, Like I just said, I've got

1041
00:48:07,840 --> 00:48:09,880
Speaker 1: the same Houston I did. I did three same Houston

1042
00:48:09,920 --> 00:48:12,040
Speaker 1: games in the spring. I've already done two of them

1043
00:48:12,120 --> 00:48:15,239
Speaker 1: this fall due moment, So I've you know, really got

1044
00:48:15,280 --> 00:48:18,840
Speaker 1: a lot more reps uh at calling the game and

1045
00:48:19,600 --> 00:48:21,000
Speaker 1: you know me, I mean I sit at home and

1046
00:48:21,280 --> 00:48:23,680
Speaker 1: you know, talk to the TV and all that kind

1047
00:48:23,680 --> 00:48:25,000
Speaker 1: of stuff. So I've been kind of working on it

1048
00:48:25,040 --> 00:48:27,200
Speaker 1: for a while. So you know, we get to Miami

1049
00:48:27,280 --> 00:48:29,960
Speaker 1: to talk to the TV in public. Just yes, yes,

1050
00:48:30,080 --> 00:48:31,440
Speaker 1: I do, I do, I have and I have no

1051
00:48:31,520 --> 00:48:33,560
Speaker 1: issue with that, nor do I I don't. I don't

1052
00:48:33,560 --> 00:48:35,600
Speaker 1: know some other people do. But but yeah, I got

1053
00:48:35,640 --> 00:48:39,440
Speaker 1: to stand, uh stand literally next to Mark and we

1054
00:48:39,520 --> 00:48:41,640
Speaker 1: were in this tiny, tiny booth and it was funny

1055
00:48:41,640 --> 00:48:43,239
Speaker 1: because Mark and said a couple of times about how

1056
00:48:43,320 --> 00:48:46,200
Speaker 1: he didn't like the booth in Miami. But you know,

1057
00:48:46,320 --> 00:48:50,120
Speaker 1: once the ball was kicked off, it was here's what

1058
00:48:50,200 --> 00:48:52,920
Speaker 1: I see, and and roll with it and just try

1059
00:48:53,000 --> 00:48:54,920
Speaker 1: to do what I what you and I doing in

1060
00:48:55,040 --> 00:48:57,799
Speaker 1: lab you know, have a little fun, try and make

1061
00:48:57,840 --> 00:49:00,320
Speaker 1: sure that I make my points clear. Not I'd have

1062
00:49:00,640 --> 00:49:05,399
Speaker 1: you know, proper subject verb agreement with everything, and uh

1063
00:49:05,960 --> 00:49:09,040
Speaker 1: and you know that the hard part, I guess, so

1064
00:49:09,160 --> 00:49:10,839
Speaker 1: to speak, is that you know a lot of people

1065
00:49:10,880 --> 00:49:14,080
Speaker 1: that I know would would normally have listened or would listen.

1066
00:49:14,160 --> 00:49:17,040
Speaker 1: They're they're watching the game, so they're they're just gonna

1067
00:49:17,080 --> 00:49:19,840
Speaker 1: take it in that way. But um, it was, it was,

1068
00:49:20,280 --> 00:49:23,400
Speaker 1: really it was. It was enjoyable. I really enjoy it.

1069
00:49:23,600 --> 00:49:25,880
Speaker 1: It's a different view obviously, you know how I am.

1070
00:49:26,080 --> 00:49:28,680
Speaker 1: Being down the sidelines slot you can see, but being

1071
00:49:28,760 --> 00:49:30,319
Speaker 1: up a little higher there's a lot you can see.

1072
00:49:30,360 --> 00:49:32,680
Speaker 1: You can see the coverages and and things which I

1073
00:49:32,840 --> 00:49:35,000
Speaker 1: like to look at, having played defensive back many many

1074
00:49:35,320 --> 00:49:38,239
Speaker 1: years ago, so I could see a lot more from

1075
00:49:38,320 --> 00:49:43,200
Speaker 1: that perspective. But I wasn't totally sure, like how nervous

1076
00:49:43,239 --> 00:49:46,600
Speaker 1: I would be. Um and really, um, you know, I

1077
00:49:47,080 --> 00:49:49,560
Speaker 1: always hear Ryan Rockett, who is back in the studio

1078
00:49:49,760 --> 00:49:52,040
Speaker 1: produces our games. I hear him say, you know, one

1079
00:49:52,080 --> 00:49:55,920
Speaker 1: minute thirty seconds when a normal, normal situation, and I

1080
00:49:56,040 --> 00:49:58,440
Speaker 1: get like a little butterflies, but you know, we'll be okay.

1081
00:49:59,160 --> 00:50:01,920
Speaker 1: And I just just didn't. I just you know, realized,

1082
00:50:01,960 --> 00:50:04,320
Speaker 1: you know, Mark and I've been doing radio for however

1083
00:50:04,440 --> 00:50:07,040
Speaker 1: long and that's really you know what it was. It's

1084
00:50:07,120 --> 00:50:10,279
Speaker 1: just it's radio with a game going on, and try

1085
00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:12,640
Speaker 1: and bring that to to everybody listening. So it was,

1086
00:50:12,920 --> 00:50:16,160
Speaker 1: it was, really it was. It was fun from from

1087
00:50:16,200 --> 00:50:18,480
Speaker 1: that perspective, not so fun. And I'll come home with

1088
00:50:18,560 --> 00:50:21,399
Speaker 1: a w and that was probably the hardest part when

1089
00:50:21,440 --> 00:50:25,080
Speaker 1: there were emotional plays. My buddy Tyler Suttarth was giving

1090
00:50:25,080 --> 00:50:26,759
Speaker 1: me a little bit of grief a little while ago

1091
00:50:27,080 --> 00:50:29,120
Speaker 1: because he played back one of the sack calls from

1092
00:50:29,160 --> 00:50:31,960
Speaker 1: Mark and I just I was kind of getting excited.

1093
00:50:32,239 --> 00:50:33,759
Speaker 1: It was one of those I was to be like, oh,

1094
00:50:34,320 --> 00:50:38,359
Speaker 1: and I kind of got caught with oh and then Mark.

1095
00:50:38,520 --> 00:50:41,320
Speaker 1: I thought Mark was talking, and so I started to

1096
00:50:41,360 --> 00:50:43,600
Speaker 1: say like, oh, so it comes off sounding really kind

1097
00:50:43,640 --> 00:50:46,880
Speaker 1: of weird but funny nonetheless, and I think that's the

1098
00:50:46,920 --> 00:50:49,440
Speaker 1: big thing. You just you know, laugh at it. Um,

1099
00:50:49,680 --> 00:50:51,640
Speaker 1: you know, next time that might you know, I don't know,

1100
00:50:51,840 --> 00:50:54,400
Speaker 1: maybe way way down the road and maybe I'd do

1101
00:50:54,520 --> 00:50:57,399
Speaker 1: more games like that. That'll be my signature sack call. Oh,

1102
00:50:57,920 --> 00:51:00,560
Speaker 1: I don't know. It was because Andre is going to

1103
00:51:00,600 --> 00:51:03,120
Speaker 1: be back. It's it's not a permanent thing. But yeah,

1104
00:51:03,160 --> 00:51:04,920
Speaker 1: I thought I got to bring that up. I mean,

1105
00:51:04,960 --> 00:51:07,200
Speaker 1: that's a big deal. You're you're down there, so and

1106
00:51:07,320 --> 00:51:09,759
Speaker 1: you and I traded some texts sometimes we will trade

1107
00:51:09,840 --> 00:51:13,400
Speaker 1: text during games. Yeah, and uh yeah, we traded a

1108
00:51:13,480 --> 00:51:16,239
Speaker 1: few on Sunday. What are you gonna do with this

1109
00:51:16,360 --> 00:51:18,319
Speaker 1: time off? Though? You talked about how you're gonna call

1110
00:51:18,480 --> 00:51:21,239
Speaker 1: the game, and you know, later in the week, there's

1111
00:51:21,719 --> 00:51:24,319
Speaker 1: not as late like Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. There's not as

1112
00:51:24,400 --> 00:51:28,000
Speaker 1: much work as you normally we normally would have during

1113
00:51:28,000 --> 00:51:29,480
Speaker 1: a game week when you have a buy isn't there.

1114
00:51:29,680 --> 00:51:31,200
Speaker 1: You still got stuff because you still got to put

1115
00:51:31,200 --> 00:51:33,839
Speaker 1: the radio shows up, but not as much as as

1116
00:51:33,880 --> 00:51:36,399
Speaker 1: you normally would. Well, if I knew how to share

1117
00:51:36,520 --> 00:51:38,480
Speaker 1: my screen and I don't even know if I know

1118
00:51:38,600 --> 00:51:41,440
Speaker 1: how to do this, but if I could, if I

1119
00:51:41,800 --> 00:51:44,600
Speaker 1: knew how to share my screen, and I'm sure, wait,

1120
00:51:44,719 --> 00:51:49,080
Speaker 1: let's see if I can do this, uh share screen one. Yeah,

1121
00:51:49,120 --> 00:51:50,960
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know if that did anything.

1122
00:51:51,000 --> 00:51:54,239
Speaker 1: I don't know if anybody can see anything. But this,

1123
00:51:54,680 --> 00:51:58,000
Speaker 1: this is this is what I can't do it anyways.

1124
00:51:58,080 --> 00:52:02,160
Speaker 1: Point being, Um, I'm working on my twenty twenty two

1125
00:52:02,280 --> 00:52:04,719
Speaker 1: draft board. That's what I've that is what I've really

1126
00:52:04,800 --> 00:52:07,000
Speaker 1: been working on all day. And I actually have got

1127
00:52:07,160 --> 00:52:10,520
Speaker 1: the linebackers up in front of me, the off the

1128
00:52:10,600 --> 00:52:13,160
Speaker 1: ball linebackers, not the edge guys, but uh, you know

1129
00:52:13,200 --> 00:52:15,880
Speaker 1: guys like the Kobe Jean, the Kobe Dean from Georgia,

1130
00:52:15,960 --> 00:52:18,560
Speaker 1: Brandon Smith from Penn State. You know Devin Lloyd from Utah.

1131
00:52:18,600 --> 00:52:21,640
Speaker 1: Those all be names. Presumably those guys all declare for

1132
00:52:21,719 --> 00:52:25,040
Speaker 1: the draft that everybody's gonna want to They're gonna want

1133
00:52:25,040 --> 00:52:28,200
Speaker 1: to get to know a little bit um and whether

1134
00:52:28,239 --> 00:52:30,000
Speaker 1: the Texas draft linebacker or not. But those are gonna

1135
00:52:30,040 --> 00:52:31,759
Speaker 1: be names that you're here at that position. But that's

1136
00:52:31,760 --> 00:52:33,120
Speaker 1: actually what I've got it up in front of me

1137
00:52:33,239 --> 00:52:37,000
Speaker 1: right now, the linebackers off the ball linebackers. So I've

1138
00:52:37,000 --> 00:52:41,200
Speaker 1: been going through my my draft board database, and you know,

1139
00:52:41,280 --> 00:52:43,920
Speaker 1: during the year, Drew, I just write a lot from

1140
00:52:43,920 --> 00:52:47,040
Speaker 1: my site football takeover dot Com, but then I don't

1141
00:52:47,080 --> 00:52:50,280
Speaker 1: always take that and put it just because of time constraints,

1142
00:52:50,320 --> 00:52:53,280
Speaker 1: I don't always put that back in my draft database.

1143
00:52:53,360 --> 00:52:55,480
Speaker 1: So that's why I've actually been doing all the things

1144
00:52:55,520 --> 00:52:58,799
Speaker 1: I've written different scouting notes and things, I've put them

1145
00:52:58,800 --> 00:53:01,040
Speaker 1: actually in my database and have it on one central

1146
00:53:01,080 --> 00:53:03,440
Speaker 1: location like I always do, so just kind of updating

1147
00:53:03,480 --> 00:53:05,799
Speaker 1: that and having it ready to go. And I feel

1148
00:53:05,840 --> 00:53:07,680
Speaker 1: like I'm further ahead of the game this year, just

1149
00:53:07,800 --> 00:53:11,000
Speaker 1: having watched more done more scouting reports. But that actually

1150
00:53:11,160 --> 00:53:13,360
Speaker 1: is what the bye week is going to be for me,

1151
00:53:13,480 --> 00:53:15,640
Speaker 1: kind of get caught up on some college games I've missed,

1152
00:53:15,640 --> 00:53:17,960
Speaker 1: and you know, do a few more scouting reports as

1153
00:53:18,000 --> 00:53:19,920
Speaker 1: I'm watching games and things like that. How about you.

1154
00:53:20,160 --> 00:53:21,919
Speaker 1: I know you're gonna spend time obviously with the family,

1155
00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:24,720
Speaker 1: but what else you got planned? Yeah, it's mainly family stuff.

1156
00:53:24,800 --> 00:53:29,440
Speaker 1: We've got some final flag football. It could be a

1157
00:53:29,480 --> 00:53:32,040
Speaker 1: Final Flight football game, but it might not if they win.

1158
00:53:32,120 --> 00:53:35,080
Speaker 1: They're playing in the title game a week from Saturday.

1159
00:53:35,160 --> 00:53:37,480
Speaker 1: But yeah, just stuff like that. And then I know

1160
00:53:37,640 --> 00:53:40,960
Speaker 1: I just sent you earlier today one on one I

1161
00:53:41,040 --> 00:53:45,240
Speaker 1: did or where are they now? With Vante Leach. Oh, yes, fullback,

1162
00:53:45,320 --> 00:53:48,640
Speaker 1: the co pilot Santa Claus. Yeah, he wore many hats

1163
00:53:48,680 --> 00:53:50,799
Speaker 1: when he was here. It was a fun conversation. Yeah,

1164
00:53:50,880 --> 00:53:52,799
Speaker 1: I definitely want to check that out. If you can't

1165
00:53:52,840 --> 00:53:55,440
Speaker 1: listen to it on Texans Radio with John, make sure

1166
00:53:55,520 --> 00:53:59,239
Speaker 1: y'all listening or watching right now, go to Houston Texas

1167
00:53:59,280 --> 00:54:01,640
Speaker 1: dotcom or the mobile and it'll be up there if

1168
00:54:01,680 --> 00:54:05,120
Speaker 1: it's not already. And then also got one with Glover Quinn.

1169
00:54:05,800 --> 00:54:08,839
Speaker 1: GQ is five and well he's doing well back here

1170
00:54:09,160 --> 00:54:12,040
Speaker 1: in the Houston area. He too is coaching some football,

1171
00:54:12,320 --> 00:54:14,480
Speaker 1: not flag but some tackle football. But they've got a

1172
00:54:14,520 --> 00:54:16,880
Speaker 1: big game Saturday as well. But we talked about, you know,

1173
00:54:17,040 --> 00:54:19,440
Speaker 1: his time in Juco, back in Mississippi and going to

1174
00:54:19,480 --> 00:54:24,160
Speaker 1: New Mexico, coming here, you know, leaving here, which you

1175
00:54:24,280 --> 00:54:26,120
Speaker 1: and I can agree, and I think most everyone who's

1176
00:54:26,120 --> 00:54:28,320
Speaker 1: ever followed this is one of the big mistakes in

1177
00:54:28,320 --> 00:54:32,120
Speaker 1: the franchise history, was letting Glover go and everything that

1178
00:54:32,239 --> 00:54:35,880
Speaker 1: followed there after Glover went on to Detroit. He became

1179
00:54:35,880 --> 00:54:39,560
Speaker 1: a pro bowler there, yet nineteen interceptions just in Detroit

1180
00:54:39,680 --> 00:54:43,520
Speaker 1: alone finish his career with twenty four total. Nineteen is

1181
00:54:43,520 --> 00:54:47,560
Speaker 1: the number that tops the franchise leaderboard here with Johnathan

1182
00:54:47,640 --> 00:54:51,480
Speaker 1: Joseph Kareem Jackson. So he had a great career in Detroit.

1183
00:54:51,560 --> 00:54:53,279
Speaker 1: But anyways, I got at a conversation with him and

1184
00:54:53,440 --> 00:54:54,839
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get that to you later in the week

1185
00:54:54,880 --> 00:54:57,799
Speaker 1: as well. John where's Glover? Where's Glover coaching right now?

1186
00:54:58,280 --> 00:55:01,720
Speaker 1: Southwest Side? No, I don't want to get too specific

1187
00:55:02,120 --> 00:55:04,320
Speaker 1: the way, but yeah, he's done well, he's you know,

1188
00:55:04,640 --> 00:55:07,960
Speaker 1: he's kind of in the area and that's awesome. Yeah,

1189
00:55:08,120 --> 00:55:10,520
Speaker 1: it's really cool. He's want to bring it up Houston, Texas,

1190
00:55:10,640 --> 00:55:12,759
Speaker 1: you know, he really is you bring you bring up

1191
00:55:12,800 --> 00:55:14,799
Speaker 1: a really you know that that's a that's a great

1192
00:55:14,880 --> 00:55:19,600
Speaker 1: in the lab for Down down the Road Lesson. Yeah,

1193
00:55:19,920 --> 00:55:22,520
Speaker 1: in in the off season talking about kind of pivotal

1194
00:55:23,320 --> 00:55:27,080
Speaker 1: kind of pivotal moves and what they meant. And I

1195
00:55:27,200 --> 00:55:29,960
Speaker 1: think the Glover Quinn one is one of the most

1196
00:55:30,120 --> 00:55:33,920
Speaker 1: underrated ones. The fact that they did not want to

1197
00:55:33,920 --> 00:55:35,640
Speaker 1: bring Glover Quinn back and they want to go and

1198
00:55:35,760 --> 00:55:38,120
Speaker 1: get it read and that just what a disaster that was.

1199
00:55:38,200 --> 00:55:40,440
Speaker 1: And then you see Glover continue to grow, and I

1200
00:55:40,560 --> 00:55:42,840
Speaker 1: think what hurt Glover and and and look, Glover is

1201
00:55:42,880 --> 00:55:44,880
Speaker 1: going to do it. But he started his career at

1202
00:55:44,960 --> 00:55:48,719
Speaker 1: corner right, and it wasn't one of those things where

1203
00:55:48,760 --> 00:55:52,760
Speaker 1: he was not totally successful. You know, he was okay,

1204
00:55:52,920 --> 00:55:55,560
Speaker 1: but he was a rookie learning the game. He creamed Jackson.

1205
00:55:55,640 --> 00:55:57,759
Speaker 1: I mean it was tough. He was He was a

1206
00:55:57,840 --> 00:56:00,279
Speaker 1: good corner. Yeah, he was a good corner that came

1207
00:56:00,360 --> 00:56:02,879
Speaker 1: a really great safety. And I didn't get a chance

1208
00:56:02,920 --> 00:56:05,839
Speaker 1: to get into this with him, but what if way

1209
00:56:05,880 --> 00:56:09,320
Speaker 1: back when, Yeah, they lived him and kareem to safety.

1210
00:56:09,920 --> 00:56:12,839
Speaker 1: You know. But and we're gonna get into this deeper

1211
00:56:13,000 --> 00:56:15,759
Speaker 1: in the off season. It's a promise. It's twofold man,

1212
00:56:16,040 --> 00:56:18,319
Speaker 1: not you know that that decision not to resent him

1213
00:56:18,480 --> 00:56:22,320
Speaker 1: just football wise what it meant, and then locker room wise,

1214
00:56:23,000 --> 00:56:25,560
Speaker 1: psyche wise, but football wise, think about it. You don't

1215
00:56:25,600 --> 00:56:28,640
Speaker 1: sign him, you pay the money to Ed Reid, right,

1216
00:56:29,080 --> 00:56:33,359
Speaker 1: you also draft DJ Sweringer. You also signed the next

1217
00:56:33,480 --> 00:56:37,239
Speaker 1: year Raheem More or two years later, Raheem More. Spent

1218
00:56:37,280 --> 00:56:38,880
Speaker 1: a lot of money on safeties when you could have

1219
00:56:38,960 --> 00:56:41,719
Speaker 1: just kept and spent money on the guy who was

1220
00:56:41,760 --> 00:56:43,480
Speaker 1: already in the system. I'm already playing pretty well and

1221
00:56:43,719 --> 00:56:46,279
Speaker 1: on his way up. I'm with you. I hated to

1222
00:56:46,320 --> 00:56:48,080
Speaker 1: see a GQ go And at the time I was

1223
00:56:48,120 --> 00:56:49,759
Speaker 1: in a different radio station, and the guy at the

1224
00:56:49,840 --> 00:56:53,680
Speaker 1: radio station, the producer at the radio station, knew somebody

1225
00:56:53,880 --> 00:56:56,480
Speaker 1: very close to Glover and he was kind of updating me,

1226
00:56:57,040 --> 00:56:59,480
Speaker 1: and so I knew before we got the free agency

1227
00:56:59,560 --> 00:57:01,680
Speaker 1: that Globe it was probably gone. I think there are

1228
00:57:01,680 --> 00:57:04,480
Speaker 1: people in Houston itt we're worried about it. I had

1229
00:57:04,560 --> 00:57:07,080
Speaker 1: pretty much heard from him though he's not coming back,

1230
00:57:07,160 --> 00:57:08,960
Speaker 1: and I just thought, man, it is just he wanted

1231
00:57:09,000 --> 00:57:13,759
Speaker 1: to he says, Man, this is so difficult because I

1232
00:57:13,920 --> 00:57:18,120
Speaker 1: think the move of Kareem Jackson was three years too late.

1233
00:57:18,720 --> 00:57:23,200
Speaker 1: I think if you put Kareem Jackson back there, ye man, Yeah,

1234
00:57:23,240 --> 00:57:24,600
Speaker 1: I mean, how however you want to look at it,

1235
00:57:24,840 --> 00:57:26,520
Speaker 1: But if you would have put Kareem Jackson back at

1236
00:57:26,560 --> 00:57:29,000
Speaker 1: safety with Glover Quinn and then Quentin Dempson, kept those

1237
00:57:29,080 --> 00:57:31,479
Speaker 1: three together and those are your three guys that handle

1238
00:57:31,560 --> 00:57:34,080
Speaker 1: your safety position, you would have been rock solid from

1239
00:57:34,120 --> 00:57:38,400
Speaker 1: twenty eleven all I mean for for god knows how long.

1240
00:57:38,520 --> 00:57:41,360
Speaker 1: I meant. I'd say seven years too. I mean they

1241
00:57:41,360 --> 00:57:43,920
Speaker 1: should have in retrospect, and it's so easy to say this,

1242
00:57:44,360 --> 00:57:46,720
Speaker 1: but in retrospect, you should have done it in eleven. Yeah,

1243
00:57:47,520 --> 00:57:50,400
Speaker 1: I mean Kareem I thinks. I mean in Denver he's

1244
00:57:50,400 --> 00:57:52,600
Speaker 1: been a tremendous safety and I know how I know

1245
00:57:52,720 --> 00:57:54,480
Speaker 1: how guys are when they played a position like look,

1246
00:57:55,040 --> 00:57:56,680
Speaker 1: and I think Jayalen Ramsey will go through this at

1247
00:57:56,760 --> 00:57:59,480
Speaker 1: some point. He's so uber talented, but he's gonna get

1248
00:57:59,480 --> 00:58:01,360
Speaker 1: to that point where he's like, you know, cornerback is

1249
00:58:01,440 --> 00:58:03,560
Speaker 1: and Nichols not, I gotta go back safety. Well, he

1250
00:58:03,600 --> 00:58:06,280
Speaker 1: played safety in college. Kreem never did. But you just

1251
00:58:06,440 --> 00:58:08,320
Speaker 1: tell the skills you had. But if you had those

1252
00:58:08,360 --> 00:58:10,680
Speaker 1: three guys, yeah, I mean, you have been set at

1253
00:58:10,680 --> 00:58:12,720
Speaker 1: the safety position for a long time. Instead, you spent

1254
00:58:12,760 --> 00:58:15,880
Speaker 1: a lot of money on Raheem More that didn't work out. Luckily,

1255
00:58:15,920 --> 00:58:19,280
Speaker 1: you got Quentin Damps, you know, over on the Walmart

1256
00:58:19,440 --> 00:58:23,439
Speaker 1: bargain bin in the twenty fifteen training camp three weeks

1257
00:58:23,520 --> 00:58:26,280
Speaker 1: in and what he turned into for you at that

1258
00:58:26,400 --> 00:58:28,840
Speaker 1: particular position. You know, you went out and got tiring,

1259
00:58:28,880 --> 00:58:31,480
Speaker 1: but you weren't able to keep him. But you know,

1260
00:58:31,640 --> 00:58:34,400
Speaker 1: if you could have kept healthy Kevin Johnson, A J.

1261
00:58:34,600 --> 00:58:37,720
Speaker 1: Boyer and J Joe such that Cream could have moved

1262
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Speaker 1: to safety, your secondary would have been even more lights

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Speaker 1: out than it was back in fifteen sixteen seventeen. Fun

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Speaker 1: stuff is always there with Drew Doherty and myself, John Harris,

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Speaker 1: the In the Lab crew. Go check out all of

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Speaker 1: our podcast vander Meer's View, Deep Slant, you've heard a

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Speaker 1: few of those with our rookies tonight, and then of

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Speaker 1: course what Drew and I do with In the Lab.

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Speaker 1: Go check out our Texans pod cast. Okay, when we

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Speaker 1: get back, it's my favorite segment all week. That's when

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Speaker 1: I get to be competitive and challenge myself with every

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Speaker 1: single NFL game, straight up and against the spread. No

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Speaker 1: Texans game, so I don't have any heart or head

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Speaker 1: to have to battle to make a pick. But I

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00:59:20,160 --> 00:59:22,200
Speaker 1: got all the other games in the NFL. That's coming

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Speaker 1: up next right here on Texans All Access Excess Excess,

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Speaker 1: Oh baby, welcome back Friday Night, Texans All Access on

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Speaker 1: a bye week, off week, whatever you call it. I

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Speaker 1: am your host for this show, as I have been

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Speaker 1: the last seven years. This makes eight years from six

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Speaker 1: to eight. During a season, you heard my voice and

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Speaker 1: hopefully you will continue to hear my voice if it

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00:59:49,680 --> 00:59:51,680
Speaker 1: doesn't go out on me because I get pumped. I

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Speaker 1: get jacked to do my weekly pick them straight up

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Speaker 1: and against the spread, now brought to you by my

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Speaker 1: friends at Caesar's Rewards. For every way you play, Caesar's

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Speaker 1: Rewards is where you go. Yeah, they jumped on and

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Speaker 1: I can't thank them enough for their help with giving

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Speaker 1: me the opportunity to do these picks and have sponsor.

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Speaker 1: It's really really cool. I like having friends, I like

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Speaker 1: having sponsors. So let's get into this now. Each and

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Speaker 1: every week I tell you I don't pick against my

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Speaker 1: heart in my head, you know, blah blah blah. I

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Speaker 1: don't have to do that this week because no Texans

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01:00:35,120 --> 01:00:36,760
Speaker 1: game will wait until they play the Titans, and the

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Speaker 1: Titans I got a big one. We will get to

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Speaker 1: that actually, very very early in our game predictions. I

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Speaker 1: feel just first glance, I feel like it's probably not

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Speaker 1: the type of weekend where you go, oh, I got

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Speaker 1: this game, I got that game. I got this game.

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Speaker 1: I got that game. However, that's the weekend, and those

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Speaker 1: are the weekends that you have to be most aware of.

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Speaker 1: Those are the ones where you're like, look out, yeah,

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01:01:13,360 --> 01:01:16,520
Speaker 1: it might look like two and seven versus I don't

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01:01:16,560 --> 01:01:20,280
Speaker 1: know seven and one, but look out. Just like last

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Speaker 1: week the Bills and Jaguars, I know I missed that one.

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01:01:24,760 --> 01:01:27,040
Speaker 1: I know full well I missed that one. And I

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01:01:27,240 --> 01:01:30,360
Speaker 1: think there was any chance in eighties that after thirty

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Speaker 1: one to seven up in Seattle, after a bye week

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Speaker 1: before that, jacksonl Jaguars are gonna turn around, hold the

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Speaker 1: Bills to six points and score nine and win the

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Speaker 1: game by three five field goals. I'm telling you, And

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Speaker 1: I said this to my friend Don Sanders the other

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Speaker 1: night and some Brett it's the best reality show going

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Speaker 1: the NFL. All right, let's get these picks going. I

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Speaker 1: need my music and it's time to rock, as Mark

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Speaker 1: to say, all right, we're going north up forty five

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Speaker 1: to Arlington, where the Dallas Cowboys got absolutely blitzed by

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Speaker 1: the Broncos. The Teddy Bridgewater Broncos. The Broncos that were

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Speaker 1: four and four came into Arlington and spanked at Cowboys,

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Speaker 1: and it was bad. I think it ended up being

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Speaker 1: thirty to sixteen, but it was maybe worse than that.

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Speaker 1: Now the chicky Falcons are coming to town. And by chicky,

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Speaker 1: I mean you have no idea. The Falcons should have

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Speaker 1: won in Miami, but actually did win in Miami. The

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01:02:42,560 --> 01:02:44,720
Speaker 1: Falcons had other opportunities. Why should have lost, but they

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01:02:44,760 --> 01:02:46,760
Speaker 1: wanted They had opportunities they should have won, but they lost,

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01:02:47,360 --> 01:02:50,160
Speaker 1: which makes them four and four, which probably makes about

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Speaker 1: the most sense. Matt Ryan's playing out of his gourd.

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Speaker 1: He's been unbelievable. However, Dallas is a nine point favorite.

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Speaker 1: Remember when I said earlier about games this weekend, be

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Speaker 1: very very careful. Now Dallas is playing at home and

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Speaker 1: they're probably gonna bounce back. So I feel confidence level

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Speaker 1: on this eight point seven five that the Cowboys will

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Speaker 1: get the win and they will get to cover. But

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Speaker 1: it's not gonna be my much thirty seven, twenty seven,

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Speaker 1: thirty one, twenty one, thirty eight, twenty, it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be ten points and it's just barely gonna

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Speaker 1: get over. I don't think it's gonna get much over

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Speaker 1: than that. But the Cowboys will bounce back, dack back

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Speaker 1: in the fold for a second week. I think they'll

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Speaker 1: find the rhythm again. Cowboys will move to seven to two,

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01:03:44,520 --> 01:03:46,840
Speaker 1: Falcons will fall to four and five. But again, every

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Speaker 1: time I talk about the Falcons, I gotta kudos Arthur Smith.

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01:03:49,200 --> 01:03:50,760
Speaker 1: I think he's doing a whale of a job. Matt

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01:03:50,920 --> 01:03:54,520
Speaker 1: Ryan has done and gets played incredibly well. I can

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Speaker 1: see the Falcons staying in this for a little bit,

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Speaker 1: but the Cowboys will run off at the end and

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Speaker 1: get the win and the cover. Now that Titans game

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01:04:03,600 --> 01:04:08,200
Speaker 1: is in Nashville and it's the Saints coming to town

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Speaker 1: with Trevor Simeon as the starting quarterback. Sean Payton announced

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Speaker 1: that earlier on Friday that Trevor Simeon would be the

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Speaker 1: starting quarterback. Taysom Hill will stay in his Swiss Army

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Speaker 1: Knife role. However, Simeon will not have Alvin Kmara. He's

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Speaker 1: already without Michael Thomas who has had a setback with

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Speaker 1: his injuries. He's gonna have surgery, I believe. So there's

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Speaker 1: no Michael Thomas the receiver. Now there's no Alvin Kamara.

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Speaker 1: The Titans are favored by three, and the game's in Nashville,

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Speaker 1: and typically the home team gets a three point bump.

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Speaker 1: So if you're doing the math, Vegas feels like the

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Speaker 1: Saints and the Titans are even. I don't think that,

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Speaker 1: not with Camara out of this game. Now, with Michael

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Speaker 1: Thomas out of this game. I know Derrick Henry's not

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Speaker 1: in this game. And I said the other night, I

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Speaker 1: do think there's gonna be some regression back to the

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Speaker 1: well the new mean for the Titans, but I don't

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Speaker 1: think it happens here because I don't think the Saints

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01:05:17,120 --> 01:05:19,960
Speaker 1: can take advantage of it. So I'm gonna go with

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Speaker 1: the Titans to win this thing and cover that three

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Speaker 1: and hope that in doing so, it's a physical game,

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Speaker 1: they get beat up a little bit, and then we

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Speaker 1: swoop in next week after the buy we clip them.

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Speaker 1: That's what I'm hoping for. So let's go Titans to

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Speaker 1: win and to cover that three to move to eight

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Speaker 1: and two, which I believe would be the best record

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Speaker 1: in the AFC. My goodness, AFC South Battle in Indy.

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Speaker 1: The Jags, fresh off that win against the Buffalo Bills,

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Speaker 1: taking on the Indianapolis coach which, by the way, keep

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Speaker 1: your eyes peeled for this if you have HBO or

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Speaker 1: HBRO Max the seventeenth Hard Knocks in season. I mean,

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Speaker 1: they came up with such a great name, Hard Knocks

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01:06:04,720 --> 01:06:07,680
Speaker 1: in Season, like they couldn't come up with anything else. Well,

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Speaker 1: that's what they came up with. They've been following around

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Speaker 1: the Innneapolis Colts, so I think one of the first

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Speaker 1: games they were at was our game against them. So yeah,

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01:06:15,920 --> 01:06:18,560
Speaker 1: who knows when t Y Hilton went off. They'll be

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Speaker 1: there for this one. I can't wait to see the

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Speaker 1: result on the seventeenth. But just to heads up, I

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Speaker 1: like good programming, so I'm trying to help you out.

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01:06:27,800 --> 01:06:30,680
Speaker 1: Culture four and five. They just came off a win

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Speaker 1: against the New York Jets last Thursday, so they had

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Speaker 1: a little bit of a mini buy. Now they get

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01:06:36,440 --> 01:06:38,520
Speaker 1: ready for the Jaguars, hot off the win against the Bills,

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01:06:38,640 --> 01:06:42,960
Speaker 1: Innapolis favored by ten and a half. I think the

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01:06:43,120 --> 01:06:46,080
Speaker 1: Colts are going to smoke the Jags. I think the

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Speaker 1: Jags will have a hard time stopping Jonathan Taylor. I

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01:06:50,440 --> 01:06:54,720
Speaker 1: think Carson Wentz he won't be throwing touchdowns too offensive linemen.

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01:06:55,200 --> 01:06:57,880
Speaker 1: But I do think Michael Pittman will get in the

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Speaker 1: end zone. Cults are gonna win this thing. I'm saying

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Speaker 1: twenty eight fourteen something along those lines. That's more than

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01:07:05,440 --> 01:07:10,120
Speaker 1: ten and a half. So let's go Colts cover and

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Speaker 1: win at home over Trevor and the Jags. All Right,

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01:07:15,640 --> 01:07:21,920
Speaker 1: this game, on the surface a few weeks ago didn't

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01:07:21,960 --> 01:07:26,720
Speaker 1: look like much. It really didn't other than it's Bill

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01:07:26,800 --> 01:07:31,240
Speaker 1: Belichick returning to his first head coaching job the city

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01:07:31,280 --> 01:07:34,720
Speaker 1: he lived in that was Cleveland with Browns v. Patriots.

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01:07:36,000 --> 01:07:40,120
Speaker 1: But the Browns shipped out of all Beckham junior out

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01:07:40,920 --> 01:07:44,080
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield and the offense hit a different gear against

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Speaker 1: the Bengals last week. And Mac Jones for the Patriots

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Speaker 1: has been as hot as any quarterback, really getting the

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Speaker 1: Patriots to a few wins. And the game actually the

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Speaker 1: game not in Cleveland, It's in Foxborough, so the Browns

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01:07:57,680 --> 01:08:00,520
Speaker 1: have to go on the road. And by the way,

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01:08:00,960 --> 01:08:05,720
Speaker 1: the Browns will be playing without Nick Chub and the

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01:08:05,840 --> 01:08:09,560
Speaker 1: metric Felton so with no Chubb, well, okay, we can

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01:08:09,640 --> 01:08:11,320
Speaker 1: chase things up. We got Felton and use them out

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01:08:11,320 --> 01:08:13,320
Speaker 1: the backfield, use them in a weapon X role. We're

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01:08:13,360 --> 01:08:17,360
Speaker 1: gonna go that's out too. Kareem Hunt gonna be the guy.

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01:08:17,800 --> 01:08:21,160
Speaker 1: They still have the Ernest Johnson. So I'm not gonna

1420
01:08:21,200 --> 01:08:25,080
Speaker 1: cry my beer or anyone will for the Browns. But

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01:08:25,160 --> 01:08:28,519
Speaker 1: the Patriots have played very, very well, and I think

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01:08:28,560 --> 01:08:32,280
Speaker 1: the Patriots continue this. I think mac Jones will riddle

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01:08:32,400 --> 01:08:35,759
Speaker 1: that Browns defense and the Browns will have to resort

1424
01:08:36,200 --> 01:08:40,320
Speaker 1: to some exotic blitzes, multiple blitzes. I think Matt continues

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01:08:40,360 --> 01:08:43,320
Speaker 1: to beat that. I think the Patriots favored by two

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01:08:43,320 --> 01:08:46,920
Speaker 1: and a half. I think the Patriots covered that two

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01:08:46,960 --> 01:08:49,600
Speaker 1: and a half and get the win. It's gonna be

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01:08:49,680 --> 01:08:55,880
Speaker 1: relatively high scoring, but I'm going thirty five thirty one

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01:08:57,000 --> 01:09:00,439
Speaker 1: Patriots win over the Browns with no Job. I think

1430
01:09:00,479 --> 01:09:03,920
Speaker 1: Baker airs it out a little bit more, gets everybody involved,

1431
01:09:05,280 --> 01:09:07,559
Speaker 1: but the Patriots are gonna pull this win off at home.

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01:09:07,680 --> 01:09:11,360
Speaker 1: That makes the Patriots six and four and the Browns

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01:09:11,400 --> 01:09:15,000
Speaker 1: would move to five and five. Wow, did I just

1434
01:09:15,080 --> 01:09:16,840
Speaker 1: do that? I just picked the Patriots over the Browns.

1435
01:09:17,080 --> 01:09:19,040
Speaker 1: Now I know, most every other year I would have,

1436
01:09:19,520 --> 01:09:23,720
Speaker 1: but this year, yikes, I really like what I see

1437
01:09:23,760 --> 01:09:26,000
Speaker 1: with mac Jones. I just did not give him as

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01:09:26,080 --> 01:09:27,840
Speaker 1: much cut ahead him at number thirty and my Harris

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01:09:27,920 --> 01:09:30,559
Speaker 1: one hundred. Maybe she had him a little bit higher,

1440
01:09:31,520 --> 01:09:36,000
Speaker 1: not thirty, not number one, but no number thirty. No, boy,

1441
01:09:36,120 --> 01:09:38,479
Speaker 1: well you miss every now and again. All right, let's

1442
01:09:38,479 --> 01:09:42,840
Speaker 1: move on to another AFC East battle. This time it's

1443
01:09:42,920 --> 01:09:48,200
Speaker 1: in the meadowlands. Oh oh, geez, I just Bills taking

1444
01:09:48,280 --> 01:09:50,400
Speaker 1: on the Jets. I don't know. For some reason, I

1445
01:09:50,479 --> 01:09:52,840
Speaker 1: saw Bills and I don't know why. I got excited,

1446
01:09:52,880 --> 01:09:55,519
Speaker 1: and there's such Jets. Sorry about that. Yeah, it's gonna

1447
01:09:55,520 --> 01:09:57,439
Speaker 1: be a blow up. The Bills are gonna bounce back

1448
01:09:57,560 --> 01:09:59,599
Speaker 1: and they're favorite by twelve and a half. They're gonna

1449
01:09:59,640 --> 01:10:02,680
Speaker 1: house the Jets. Mike White will get to start for

1450
01:10:02,760 --> 01:10:05,000
Speaker 1: the Jets. That's gonna be fun. He came out of

1451
01:10:05,080 --> 01:10:09,240
Speaker 1: that game Thursday against the Colts and that's slowed down

1452
01:10:09,320 --> 01:10:11,840
Speaker 1: the Jets offense when Josh Johns had to go in,

1453
01:10:12,320 --> 01:10:14,000
Speaker 1: Mike why to put up some points on the board.

1454
01:10:14,200 --> 01:10:15,840
Speaker 1: I think the Bills are gonna put a whole heck

1455
01:10:15,880 --> 01:10:18,400
Speaker 1: of a lot more. Look for a forty burger from

1456
01:10:18,400 --> 01:10:21,320
Speaker 1: the Bills in a big win and a cover over

1457
01:10:21,680 --> 01:10:27,680
Speaker 1: the Jets. Jets, Jets. All right, it's go to Pittsburgh, right,

1458
01:10:27,760 --> 01:10:32,280
Speaker 1: told Mark Vannimer last night, I think the Pittsburgh Steelers

1459
01:10:33,320 --> 01:10:35,080
Speaker 1: are one team I would not want to face the

1460
01:10:35,160 --> 01:10:38,640
Speaker 1: first round. Now. I don't think the Steelers can win

1461
01:10:38,680 --> 01:10:42,639
Speaker 1: the FC overall. I don't think they win three playoff games.

1462
01:10:43,040 --> 01:10:45,800
Speaker 1: I don't whether they they're not well, they could get

1463
01:10:45,840 --> 01:10:48,280
Speaker 1: the buy, I guess. I don't think it's gonna happen.

1464
01:10:48,600 --> 01:10:50,600
Speaker 1: But the Pittsburgh the Steelers are not a team I

1465
01:10:50,640 --> 01:10:52,240
Speaker 1: want to see. If the Steelers got a wild card

1466
01:10:52,479 --> 01:10:54,360
Speaker 1: the last thing, if I went to the vision that

1467
01:10:54,479 --> 01:10:58,120
Speaker 1: I want to see, or the Steelers coming to my house, well,

1468
01:10:58,160 --> 01:11:00,400
Speaker 1: the Lions will be going to the Steelers house. And

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01:11:00,520 --> 01:11:04,280
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh's favored by eight. The Lions have played extremely hard

1470
01:11:04,320 --> 01:11:07,800
Speaker 1: for Dan Campbell. They give it up. They should be

1471
01:11:07,880 --> 01:11:11,599
Speaker 1: two and six. Two last second field goals have put

1472
01:11:11,640 --> 01:11:13,240
Speaker 1: the lines at o and eight, and that's unfortunate. I

1473
01:11:13,240 --> 01:11:15,679
Speaker 1: want to see Dan Campbell gonna win. It won't happen here, though,

1474
01:11:16,240 --> 01:11:19,320
Speaker 1: I will give them credit. They will get to cover,

1475
01:11:19,439 --> 01:11:22,320
Speaker 1: they will get inside the eight. This is twenty four

1476
01:11:22,520 --> 01:11:25,599
Speaker 1: twenty Steelers win. I don't think they'll have to come

1477
01:11:25,680 --> 01:11:29,360
Speaker 1: from behind, but I do think the Steelers will pull

1478
01:11:29,400 --> 01:11:32,679
Speaker 1: out the win. Twenty four twenty that's pretty good. Pittsburgh

1479
01:11:33,120 --> 01:11:34,800
Speaker 1: not gonna cover the eight. Detroit will cover the eighth,

1480
01:11:34,840 --> 01:11:37,160
Speaker 1: but Pittsburgh gets to win. It's all all that matters

1481
01:11:37,240 --> 01:11:39,960
Speaker 1: to the Steelers, but it's not all that matters to

1482
01:11:40,120 --> 01:11:43,880
Speaker 1: you if you go to Caesar's rewards. All right, Buccaneers

1483
01:11:43,920 --> 01:11:47,720
Speaker 1: taking a Washington football team. Last year, this matchup was

1484
01:11:47,760 --> 01:11:50,360
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. This year, it's a six and two

1485
01:11:50,400 --> 01:11:52,160
Speaker 1: team and gets a two and six team, and the

1486
01:11:52,280 --> 01:11:56,599
Speaker 1: Washington football team is going nowhere. That's why Tampa Bay

1487
01:11:56,600 --> 01:11:59,200
Speaker 1: on the road is favored by nine and a half. Now,

1488
01:11:59,240 --> 01:12:01,519
Speaker 1: I remember what I say earlier in the show, Ah,

1489
01:12:01,960 --> 01:12:05,920
Speaker 1: look out for those big spreads. This would be No,

1490
01:12:06,360 --> 01:12:10,160
Speaker 1: this is not one of those where Washington will have

1491
01:12:10,280 --> 01:12:15,439
Speaker 1: a shot. Tampa Bay goes into Washington and does even

1492
01:12:16,080 --> 01:12:19,880
Speaker 1: more damage than Tampa Bay did in a playoff game.

1493
01:12:20,520 --> 01:12:23,599
Speaker 1: Could see playoff Lenny. No, I don't think you will

1494
01:12:23,640 --> 01:12:25,799
Speaker 1: see that, but I do think you'll see Tom Brady

1495
01:12:26,680 --> 01:12:29,200
Speaker 1: throw for a lot of yards against Washington's defense that

1496
01:12:29,400 --> 01:12:31,720
Speaker 1: just as a shell of what it was last year.

1497
01:12:32,040 --> 01:12:36,400
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay wins and covers that nine and a half.

1498
01:12:36,600 --> 01:12:39,160
Speaker 1: All right, this game is a fun one as we

1499
01:12:39,240 --> 01:12:42,160
Speaker 1: get into the afternoon games. Yet one, two, three, we

1500
01:12:42,240 --> 01:12:47,160
Speaker 1: have four afternoon games, this one on Fox two NFC teams.

1501
01:12:47,920 --> 01:12:52,880
Speaker 1: The Carolina Panthers are taken on the Arizona Cardinals. Now

1502
01:12:53,760 --> 01:12:57,680
Speaker 1: the Cardinals are favored by ten and a half. And

1503
01:12:59,040 --> 01:13:04,759
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray he did practice today. Now it does appear

1504
01:13:04,840 --> 01:13:08,439
Speaker 1: that DeAndre Hopkins will be a game time decision. Hop

1505
01:13:08,720 --> 01:13:16,360
Speaker 1: doesn't miss a lot of games. However, without Hopkins, without Murray,

1506
01:13:16,800 --> 01:13:22,519
Speaker 1: the Cardinals went out to San Francisco and blasted, blasted

1507
01:13:22,560 --> 01:13:27,679
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers. So at home, if Kyler's back,

1508
01:13:27,720 --> 01:13:30,559
Speaker 1: I would imagine the Cardinals are gonna stay in that group.

1509
01:13:30,840 --> 01:13:34,320
Speaker 1: For the Panthers, PJ Walker will get the start. But

1510
01:13:34,560 --> 01:13:37,639
Speaker 1: the news where Carolina is that Cam Newton is back.

1511
01:13:38,320 --> 01:13:42,240
Speaker 1: How long does it take for Cam to take over

1512
01:13:42,360 --> 01:13:45,280
Speaker 1: at quarterback? With Sam Darnell? Have it gone an ir

1513
01:13:45,560 --> 01:13:49,120
Speaker 1: and PJ Walker there? Now? I like PJ. Walker. We

1514
01:13:49,200 --> 01:13:52,599
Speaker 1: saw him with the Roughnecks and the XFL. I think

1515
01:13:52,640 --> 01:13:55,920
Speaker 1: he can do some things and I think he could

1516
01:13:55,960 --> 01:14:00,280
Speaker 1: put some pressure on the Cardinals. It won't be enough, however,

1517
01:14:01,000 --> 01:14:03,720
Speaker 1: it won't be enough to win, but I do think

1518
01:14:03,760 --> 01:14:05,640
Speaker 1: it will be enough to get inside the ten and

1519
01:14:05,680 --> 01:14:09,680
Speaker 1: a half. So let's ride the PJA Walker train. This

1520
01:14:09,880 --> 01:14:12,400
Speaker 1: will not be an upset. Maybe flirt with it for

1521
01:14:12,439 --> 01:14:15,120
Speaker 1: the first three quarters, but in the end, with Kyler

1522
01:14:15,280 --> 01:14:19,680
Speaker 1: playing hop potentially playing, Cardinals will pull out to win

1523
01:14:20,280 --> 01:14:25,160
Speaker 1: at home. Cardinals just gotta hope those fans are into it,

1524
01:14:25,280 --> 01:14:27,680
Speaker 1: give a true home field advantage, and if they do,

1525
01:14:28,040 --> 01:14:32,280
Speaker 1: the Cardinals will move to nine and one. Just go

1526
01:14:32,400 --> 01:14:36,360
Speaker 1: out to La. I mentioned LA. It makes me sad

1527
01:14:36,560 --> 01:14:39,599
Speaker 1: my family's out there, although my girls are coming home tuesday.

1528
01:14:39,680 --> 01:14:41,800
Speaker 1: My wife, my daughter are coming home tuesday, so I

1529
01:14:41,960 --> 01:14:44,479
Speaker 1: am pumped. But they could be in the building for

1530
01:14:44,560 --> 01:14:48,080
Speaker 1: this one. Because the Vikings take on the Chargers. Now

1531
01:14:48,160 --> 01:14:53,040
Speaker 1: Vegas says this as Chargers three. But again, when Vegas

1532
01:14:53,080 --> 01:14:56,240
Speaker 1: puts it at three, they're essentially saying the home team

1533
01:14:56,280 --> 01:14:58,560
Speaker 1: at three, they're essentially saying these teams are even, and

1534
01:14:58,600 --> 01:15:00,880
Speaker 1: we're not totally sure, but the home team gets a

1535
01:15:00,960 --> 01:15:04,479
Speaker 1: three point bump. We think these teams are even. I

1536
01:15:04,840 --> 01:15:08,959
Speaker 1: don't think that. And then you've got this Dalvin Cook situation,

1537
01:15:10,160 --> 01:15:12,720
Speaker 1: and he will play this week for the Vikings, and

1538
01:15:12,840 --> 01:15:16,080
Speaker 1: there's a lot to work through with that situation. Legally

1539
01:15:16,600 --> 01:15:19,479
Speaker 1: said as many times, especially in the situation here, I

1540
01:15:19,560 --> 01:15:22,360
Speaker 1: don't know anything about the law. I won't speak to

1541
01:15:22,479 --> 01:15:26,519
Speaker 1: it at all. He told me he's playing. He's playing,

1542
01:15:26,640 --> 01:15:29,040
Speaker 1: and he will put some pressure on the Chargers, no doubt.

1543
01:15:29,720 --> 01:15:32,360
Speaker 1: But I do think coming back home, Justin Herbert and

1544
01:15:32,400 --> 01:15:34,479
Speaker 1: the Chargers are gonna put a number up on the

1545
01:15:34,560 --> 01:15:38,240
Speaker 1: board against the Vikings. Expect high scoring, but the Chargers

1546
01:15:38,280 --> 01:15:43,280
Speaker 1: to win and to cover that three over Minnesota out

1547
01:15:43,479 --> 01:15:48,720
Speaker 1: in La Scott to Denver with the Broncos had a

1548
01:15:48,920 --> 01:15:52,559
Speaker 1: massive win last week against the Dallas Cowboys. I think

1549
01:15:52,600 --> 01:15:55,240
Speaker 1: at one point it was thirty to seven. I think

1550
01:15:56,400 --> 01:16:00,600
Speaker 1: just blew him out Teddy Bridgewater. It was outstanding. The

1551
01:16:00,720 --> 01:16:04,000
Speaker 1: interesting part of this is that Denver is only favored

1552
01:16:04,160 --> 01:16:08,559
Speaker 1: at home by one and a half. Now, I don't

1553
01:16:08,600 --> 01:16:10,120
Speaker 1: know if I have any kind of rule for this,

1554
01:16:10,920 --> 01:16:14,360
Speaker 1: but any team that comes from the East coast West,

1555
01:16:14,640 --> 01:16:17,320
Speaker 1: especially late in a year, and has to play in

1556
01:16:17,560 --> 01:16:20,600
Speaker 1: altitude when it could potentially be cold, and I know

1557
01:16:20,720 --> 01:16:23,000
Speaker 1: Philly's kind of used to that, but the altitude is

1558
01:16:23,000 --> 01:16:26,040
Speaker 1: the big thing, and the Broncos are coming off a win.

1559
01:16:26,760 --> 01:16:28,799
Speaker 1: I don't know at one and a half. That's basically

1560
01:16:28,840 --> 01:16:31,360
Speaker 1: a pick them and I pick the Broncos. So I'm

1561
01:16:31,400 --> 01:16:35,680
Speaker 1: picking the Broncos to do it again. Now that's a

1562
01:16:35,760 --> 01:16:39,080
Speaker 1: stretch two because I'm expecting Teddy Bridgewater having a big

1563
01:16:39,120 --> 01:16:43,000
Speaker 1: ball game. But that's gonna happen. Lebroncos win in their

1564
01:16:43,000 --> 01:16:45,400
Speaker 1: first game back home without von Miller. Will get to

1565
01:16:45,520 --> 01:16:47,920
Speaker 1: him in a second. Lebroncos are gonna move to six

1566
01:16:48,000 --> 01:16:50,800
Speaker 1: and four with a win against the Eagles straight up

1567
01:16:50,800 --> 01:16:54,719
Speaker 1: and covering that one and a half. Then Sunday afternoon,

1568
01:16:55,160 --> 01:16:58,720
Speaker 1: Seahawks Packers, my man Sean Pendergass, his wife Amy will

1569
01:16:58,720 --> 01:17:01,200
Speaker 1: be there. That's a good thing. Bye week you get

1570
01:17:01,200 --> 01:17:03,160
Speaker 1: a chance to do that. It's gonna be a fun

1571
01:17:03,240 --> 01:17:08,360
Speaker 1: one because mister Unlimited is back for the Seahawks. Yes,

1572
01:17:08,479 --> 01:17:12,519
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson is back to the Seahawks in Green Bay

1573
01:17:13,080 --> 01:17:15,280
Speaker 1: in the state of Wisconsin where Russell played his final

1574
01:17:15,479 --> 01:17:21,360
Speaker 1: year of college ball, and Aaron Rodgers could be back.

1575
01:17:21,960 --> 01:17:27,000
Speaker 1: Could The earliest he'd come back is Saturday. That's gonna

1576
01:17:27,000 --> 01:17:28,960
Speaker 1: be one to watch. Green Bay's favorite by three and

1577
01:17:29,000 --> 01:17:30,800
Speaker 1: a half, and I think the assumption there is that

1578
01:17:31,040 --> 01:17:34,840
Speaker 1: Rogers will make it back for this game. But if

1579
01:17:34,840 --> 01:17:37,280
Speaker 1: it's got to be Jordan Love again, and last week

1580
01:17:37,320 --> 01:17:41,559
Speaker 1: the Packers struggled with Love in just his first start

1581
01:17:41,680 --> 01:17:45,639
Speaker 1: and playing time in the NFL true playing time against

1582
01:17:45,720 --> 01:17:47,439
Speaker 1: the Chiefs. And we'll get to them in a second.

1583
01:17:48,400 --> 01:17:50,040
Speaker 1: I don't really know how to feel about this one.

1584
01:17:51,160 --> 01:17:55,280
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson coming off the thumb green Bay with and

1585
01:17:55,400 --> 01:17:57,479
Speaker 1: I know Green Bay really wanted Odell Beckham junior and

1586
01:17:57,560 --> 01:18:00,320
Speaker 1: more than him. In a second, I'm gonna a role

1587
01:18:00,360 --> 01:18:02,960
Speaker 1: with the home team, say, I'm not sure I'm gonna

1588
01:18:02,960 --> 01:18:05,800
Speaker 1: go with Green Bay. I don't like that hook at

1589
01:18:05,880 --> 01:18:09,600
Speaker 1: three and a half. So you know what half bleep it.

1590
01:18:09,680 --> 01:18:13,839
Speaker 1: I'm going Packers to win and Packers to cover. Chiefs

1591
01:18:13,960 --> 01:18:20,880
Speaker 1: taken on the Raiders in Allegiance Sunday Night. Raiders a

1592
01:18:21,080 --> 01:18:23,960
Speaker 1: dog at home, two and a half point favorite for

1593
01:18:24,000 --> 01:18:25,680
Speaker 1: the Chiefs, and I think the Chiefs this is when

1594
01:18:25,680 --> 01:18:31,519
Speaker 1: the Chiefs start kind of rounding the corner and start

1595
01:18:32,000 --> 01:18:35,639
Speaker 1: just knocking the narratives out of the way. Oh, Patrick Mahomes,

1596
01:18:35,800 --> 01:18:38,479
Speaker 1: is this pick it out? He's fine. They beat the

1597
01:18:38,600 --> 01:18:40,280
Speaker 1: Raiders last year on a Sunday night. I think it

1598
01:18:40,320 --> 01:18:42,080
Speaker 1: was a Sunday night game. Is Sunday night or Monday night,

1599
01:18:42,320 --> 01:18:45,680
Speaker 1: and it was a fabulous game. Travis Kelsey caught the

1600
01:18:45,760 --> 01:18:48,759
Speaker 1: game winner as Jonathan Abram blew a coverage for the Raiders,

1601
01:18:48,920 --> 01:18:51,559
Speaker 1: and the Chiefs won. I think the Chiefs win again.

1602
01:18:51,600 --> 01:18:56,400
Speaker 1: I think it's time the Raiders. My goodness, how many more?

1603
01:18:57,680 --> 01:18:59,720
Speaker 1: How many? How much more? Can it take? First it

1604
01:18:59,800 --> 01:19:02,040
Speaker 1: was John Gruden, then it was Henry Ruggs, and then

1605
01:19:02,120 --> 01:19:04,240
Speaker 1: this week it was Damon Arnett. I think I catch

1606
01:19:04,320 --> 01:19:05,600
Speaker 1: us up to the Raiders. I think it caught up

1607
01:19:05,600 --> 01:19:08,000
Speaker 1: to him last week a little bit against the g Men.

1608
01:19:08,200 --> 01:19:10,160
Speaker 1: They lost on the road. I think the Chiefs get

1609
01:19:10,240 --> 01:19:13,240
Speaker 1: him at home. And this is where the Raiders season takes,

1610
01:19:13,600 --> 01:19:17,439
Speaker 1: from a record perspective, a different turn. It's already been

1611
01:19:17,520 --> 01:19:20,160
Speaker 1: taking a different turn, if you will, with all the

1612
01:19:20,240 --> 01:19:22,000
Speaker 1: things that have happened off the field. And know by

1613
01:19:22,040 --> 01:19:24,280
Speaker 1: the way, John Gruden is deciding to sue the NFL

1614
01:19:24,400 --> 01:19:27,960
Speaker 1: and that is not going to be good for a

1615
01:19:28,240 --> 01:19:31,000
Speaker 1: lot of people throughout the league. And then Monday Night,

1616
01:19:31,680 --> 01:19:33,720
Speaker 1: the Rams are taken on to forty nine ers in

1617
01:19:34,439 --> 01:19:37,360
Speaker 1: San Francisco. The Rams are favored about three and a

1618
01:19:37,360 --> 01:19:41,160
Speaker 1: half on the road. It should be the debut of

1619
01:19:41,320 --> 01:19:45,879
Speaker 1: von Miller. It might be the debut of Odell Beckham junior.

1620
01:19:46,920 --> 01:19:52,720
Speaker 1: But Sean McVeigh was sort of I don't want to

1621
01:19:52,760 --> 01:19:55,840
Speaker 1: say chickie, but he was like, I don't know. He

1622
01:19:55,960 --> 01:19:57,800
Speaker 1: was not committal. That's the word I'm looking for. He

1623
01:19:57,920 --> 01:20:00,840
Speaker 1: was not committal to whether OBJ would Last week we

1624
01:20:00,920 --> 01:20:03,320
Speaker 1: thought Vonham was gonna play against the Titans. They had

1625
01:20:03,400 --> 01:20:06,800
Speaker 1: him inactive. They needed him because the Titans housed them.

1626
01:20:07,640 --> 01:20:10,160
Speaker 1: This week, I think the Rams go to the forty

1627
01:20:10,240 --> 01:20:13,880
Speaker 1: nine ers on Monday night and get the win, which

1628
01:20:14,080 --> 01:20:15,799
Speaker 1: in saying, oh a lot. The forty nine ers aren't

1629
01:20:15,840 --> 01:20:20,240
Speaker 1: great and they got housed last week by a Kyler

1630
01:20:20,360 --> 01:20:24,880
Speaker 1: Murray less Cardinals team at home. So Clock his ticket

1631
01:20:24,920 --> 01:20:26,960
Speaker 1: for the Niners to do something, but I don't think

1632
01:20:27,520 --> 01:20:30,920
Speaker 1: this is the night it happens. Although how about this,

1633
01:20:31,680 --> 01:20:34,080
Speaker 1: Rams are gonna go get to win, but I think

1634
01:20:34,120 --> 01:20:35,840
Speaker 1: the Niners will get inside that three and a half.

1635
01:20:35,920 --> 01:20:38,559
Speaker 1: That hook helps me twenty four twenty one. So I'm

1636
01:20:38,600 --> 01:20:40,599
Speaker 1: taking the Rams to win, the forty Niners to cover.

1637
01:20:40,920 --> 01:20:45,160
Speaker 1: And those are your NFL picks for this week brought

1638
01:20:45,200 --> 01:20:47,479
Speaker 1: to you by Caesar's rewards. All right, we'll go around

1639
01:20:47,560 --> 01:20:50,920
Speaker 1: the NFL next. Any loose ends I left out there,

1640
01:20:51,080 --> 01:20:53,439
Speaker 1: I'll pick him up on the flip side, right. Aaron

1641
01:20:53,479 --> 01:20:56,400
Speaker 1: Texans All Access at Aaron Texans All Access at Aaron

1642
01:20:56,439 --> 01:20:58,800
Speaker 1: Texans All Access. We got one falls segment of this

1643
01:20:58,880 --> 01:21:03,440
Speaker 1: Friday edition of Texans All Access from Nonda Texas Radio Studio.

1644
01:21:03,920 --> 01:21:08,400
Speaker 1: I'm your host, John Harris, football analyst, sideline reporter for

1645
01:21:08,560 --> 01:21:12,080
Speaker 1: your Houston Texas Glad to be with you. As I said,

1646
01:21:12,200 --> 01:21:18,000
Speaker 1: we will go around the league. Something's some of these

1647
01:21:18,080 --> 01:21:20,880
Speaker 1: I hit, some of them I didn't for the week.

1648
01:21:20,960 --> 01:21:23,240
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people obviously play fantasy football,

1649
01:21:23,240 --> 01:21:26,519
Speaker 1: so they always want to know, Hey, what can I

1650
01:21:26,720 --> 01:21:30,240
Speaker 1: expect from my particular team. I'll try and run down

1651
01:21:30,760 --> 01:21:34,599
Speaker 1: these as fast as I possibly as fast as possibly can.

1652
01:21:34,680 --> 01:21:39,519
Speaker 1: In Tampa Bay, Rob Gronkowski Antonio Brown are out for

1653
01:21:39,680 --> 01:21:43,920
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers. Gronkle to back a B with an ankle.

1654
01:21:44,040 --> 01:21:48,120
Speaker 1: They are both out of Tampa Bay's game this weekend.

1655
01:21:48,280 --> 01:21:53,360
Speaker 1: Seattle said running back Chris Carson, running back, We'll not play.

1656
01:21:53,880 --> 01:21:56,400
Speaker 1: So I know Chris Carson has been for some people

1657
01:21:56,520 --> 01:22:00,000
Speaker 1: kind of a sleeper fantasy guy. He is out this weekend.

1658
01:22:00,120 --> 01:22:04,040
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson's back in. Chauncey Gardner Johnson, not a fantasy

1659
01:22:05,200 --> 01:22:07,920
Speaker 1: guy at all, plays safety nickel for the Saints. He

1660
01:22:08,080 --> 01:22:11,040
Speaker 1: is out for the New Orleans Saints. As I mentioned earlier,

1661
01:22:11,080 --> 01:22:15,200
Speaker 1: Alvin Kamara is out, Miles Garrett, Donovan, People's Jones return

1662
01:22:15,280 --> 01:22:17,280
Speaker 1: to practice should be available, but like I said, Nick

1663
01:22:17,360 --> 01:22:21,160
Speaker 1: chub Demitric Felton both out of that game. Hop's gonna

1664
01:22:21,160 --> 01:22:23,800
Speaker 1: be a game time decision for the Cardinals. It looks

1665
01:22:23,960 --> 01:22:27,680
Speaker 1: like Murray is going to be ready to play in

1666
01:22:27,920 --> 01:22:31,559
Speaker 1: that one. Ryan Tannehill miss practice today, but the status

1667
01:22:31,680 --> 01:22:36,519
Speaker 1: report said nothing and so that's usually a good sign

1668
01:22:36,600 --> 01:22:41,400
Speaker 1: that Ryan Tannehill for the Titans will be back. Surprisingly,

1669
01:22:41,600 --> 01:22:43,960
Speaker 1: Julio Jones is questionable with a hamstring, but my guess

1670
01:22:44,080 --> 01:22:46,719
Speaker 1: is he will play. I mentioned Sam Donald a little

1671
01:22:46,720 --> 01:22:49,640
Speaker 1: bit of talking about Cam Newton. He is expected to

1672
01:22:49,720 --> 01:22:52,360
Speaker 1: miss four to six weeks. Sam Donald is with that

1673
01:22:52,800 --> 01:22:55,439
Speaker 1: shoulder injury. And if you missed it, one of the

1674
01:22:55,479 --> 01:22:58,920
Speaker 1: more controversial plays of last week, Brian Burns had his

1675
01:22:59,000 --> 01:23:03,400
Speaker 1: ankle twisted by Mac Jones after I think it was

1676
01:23:03,400 --> 01:23:08,000
Speaker 1: an interception. Mac apparently thought the ball was in his

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Speaker 1: hands and he was trying to tackle him. I don't

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01:23:09,520 --> 01:23:12,519
Speaker 1: know who knows Mac played at Bowl, so there's there's

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01:23:12,560 --> 01:23:17,280
Speaker 1: no telling exactly, but Burns is questionable with that ankle.

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Speaker 1: David Bachtiari, all pro left tackle for the Packers, was activated,

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Speaker 1: but we'll probably not play in that game for the

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Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers. Tyrant Smith will not play for the

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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys. That left tackle, Chase Claypool, let's go back

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01:23:33,920 --> 01:23:38,080
Speaker 1: to fantasy, will not play against the Lions on Sunday.

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01:23:38,120 --> 01:23:40,160
Speaker 1: So things to do is win, but the Lions end

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Speaker 1: up covering and it will help to not have for

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Speaker 1: the Lions' sake to not have Chase Claypool in the lineup.

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01:23:46,400 --> 01:23:49,800
Speaker 1: Irban Meyers said, James Robinson running back is more than

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01:23:50,000 --> 01:23:54,519
Speaker 1: likely good to go against the Colts. Trevor Lawrence good

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Speaker 1: to go, as is Cam Robinson, Miles Jack, t Y

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Speaker 1: Hilton will play Sunday. Oh, get him on your fantasy team. People,

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01:24:02,439 --> 01:24:05,839
Speaker 1: get him on your fantasy team. Do not get Curtis

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Speaker 1: Samuel or the Washington football team on your fantasy team.

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01:24:10,080 --> 01:24:14,639
Speaker 1: He's yeah out and almost never playing for the Washington

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01:24:14,680 --> 01:24:18,880
Speaker 1: football team. So let's see fighting hit a couple of

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01:24:18,920 --> 01:24:21,600
Speaker 1: these others. Jamal Williams running back for Lions, will not

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Speaker 1: play into their fantasy impact here. George Kittle was back

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01:24:28,439 --> 01:24:33,200
Speaker 1: at practice and Elijah Mitchell we're both limited Friday's practice.

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Speaker 1: Keep your fingers crossed. That's gonna have to be a

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Speaker 1: wait and see for the forty nine ers. For those

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01:24:36,960 --> 01:24:41,320
Speaker 1: two are probably the biggest weapons outside of Deebo Samuel

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01:24:41,840 --> 01:24:45,000
Speaker 1: that the forty nine ers have. So keep an eye

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01:24:45,040 --> 01:24:47,840
Speaker 1: on Elijah Mitchell and George Kittle. Elijah Mitchell I told

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01:24:47,880 --> 01:24:50,240
Speaker 1: you about him this last off season Draft office season

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01:24:50,240 --> 01:24:52,880
Speaker 1: and told you look at this back from Louisiana. Loved him,

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01:24:52,920 --> 01:24:54,640
Speaker 1: and now he's killing it for the forty nine ers.

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Speaker 1: All right. Gotta thank Brevin Nico Roy dpcity who do

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01:24:58,360 --> 01:25:00,880
Speaker 1: all those interviews. Drew doord I gotta think well man,

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Speaker 1: Chris Backett Studio, you are the very best. Have a

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Speaker 1: great weekend ESPN. Plus you can see me there covered

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Speaker 1: same Houston and Eastern Kentucky. Other than that'd be there

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Speaker 1: eight o'clock sharp, Texans Monday, as we start a new

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Speaker 1: week right here on Sports Radio six ten. See that

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Speaker 1: everybody does always go Texans