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Speaker 1: In the Lab, a Texans podcast that takes a different

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Speaker 1: look at things. Drew Doherty and John Harris have their

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Speaker 1: lab coats and goggles on and the Bunsen burners burning.

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Speaker 1: Here's Drew.

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Speaker 2: Hello. This is a peaceful, calming, tranquill buy edition of

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Speaker 2: In the Lab. I can't talk like that.

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Speaker 3: No, you can't talk like that, especially on radio and podcast,

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Speaker 3: not at all, Drew.

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Speaker 4: No, but we'll start it out like that and we'll

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Speaker 4: have a fun time. You me and you listener, viewer both.

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Speaker 4: Thank you for joining John and myself. It's the three

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Speaker 4: of us and we're gonna chitchat a little bit. John,

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Speaker 4: Texans for the first time in one hundred and forty

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Speaker 4: nine days. Well that's not true. Let's say this first

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Speaker 4: time all regular season on a Sunday or Monday or

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Speaker 4: Thursday or Saturday or whatever. I'm not gonna play a

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Speaker 4: game this week. They're one of six teams not doing so.

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Speaker 4: The Colt's also not doing so, the Ravens also not

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Speaker 4: doing so.

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Speaker 2: So they're off. They began practicing.

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Speaker 4: Remember they started a week or so before everybody else

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Speaker 4: because they played that Hall of Fame game against the Bears.

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Speaker 4: So the Bears and the Texans started before everyone else.

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Speaker 4: So one hundred and forty nine days since that July

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Speaker 4: eighteenth training camp practice, which was the first one. That

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Speaker 4: was a long time ago. Things are much much different.

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Speaker 4: But they're off and it comes at a perfect time.

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Speaker 4: You've talked about it both in print on air. You

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Speaker 4: need a break, John, But the players, the coaches, they've

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Speaker 4: got to do that mental reset.

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Speaker 2: We'll see how this is.

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Speaker 4: They've never had a at least in my memory, the

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Speaker 4: Texans have never had a break this late the season.

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Speaker 4: The idea was cool, it's a late break, it'll be perfect,

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Speaker 4: just in time for the playoff push. Maybe it is,

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Speaker 4: Maybe it will be. I heard Ross Tucker on with

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Speaker 4: Peyton Pendergass this morning. He talked about how, you know,

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Speaker 4: the Eagles had their bye around week five. At that

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Speaker 4: point there were two and two and they haven't lost since.

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Speaker 4: They right, they checked some things, they did someself scouting

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Speaker 4: and they realized we're gonna do this, this and this,

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Speaker 4: and it's paid off for them and wins and losses

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Speaker 4: just since then. Maybe that happens for the Texans, but

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Speaker 4: it's nice to have some time off in.

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Speaker 3: It, John, Man, it is uh that time off hasn't

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Speaker 3: happened yet, but just to know that it can and

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Speaker 3: it's happening. After the win over the Jacksonville Jaguars, and look,

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Speaker 3: I know, people eight and five, whatever.

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Speaker 4: I take a win over the Northbrook Raiders going unto

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Speaker 4: a buy I win Ratford Spartan's.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Springwood's Tigers, Jersey Village.

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Speaker 4: Falcons, it doesn't matter. Give me, give me a big

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Speaker 4: piss couple nights. Just feel, just feel we're good about it. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: look it was a it was twenty three six. I

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Speaker 4: felt like the game was not safely in hand, but

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Speaker 4: he did what you had to do to get out

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Speaker 3: And just being around the team in the last few

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Speaker 3: weeks as we are, we could see the fatigue level.

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Speaker 3: You can see it, you can sense it. We felt it,

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Speaker 3: we feel it. It's a game every single week. It's

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Speaker 3: just and look, we love the games, there's no question.

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Speaker 3: Love the games, love everything about what we do. But

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Speaker 3: thirteen in a row is tiring, really tiring. So this

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Speaker 3: they say the buye comes at a good time. I

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Speaker 3: think the buye for the Eagles was much needed in

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Speaker 3: week five and I'm glad you brought that up. They

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Speaker 3: really got their stuff together during the bye and now

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Speaker 3: they're on a good run. Now we'll playing nine twelve

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Speaker 3: straight and then going into the playoffs.

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Speaker 5: Will that impact them from a standpoint, We'll see.

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Speaker 3: We'll playing thirteen in a row for us, you know,

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Speaker 3: give us issue in the playoffs because you know if

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Speaker 3: we get to the playoffs, because you know, it's just

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Speaker 3: too many in a row. You just didn't have enough

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Speaker 3: time to recover. You know, We'll see. But just got

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Speaker 3: to take the buy when you can get it. But

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Speaker 3: I think, I don't know. I think there's a better

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Speaker 3: by season. You're gonna have eighteen games, Yeah, you need

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Speaker 3: eighteen games to I wouldn't mind that, honestly, I would.

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Speaker 5: I wouldn't mind.

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Speaker 3: You know, when I went to seventeen, I know it

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Speaker 3: a lot longer than just one game extra of the season.

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Speaker 3: So you sit eight and five, You beat Dallas and

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Speaker 3: Dallas the first time ever, You beat New England and

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Speaker 3: uh here, and you beat them up really in that game.

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Speaker 3: You know, you had two games you lost to NFC

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Speaker 5: Field goals that just eat the buy in certain situations.

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Speaker 5: So you you know, was.

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Speaker 3: Bill Parcells, you are what your record, we are, And look,

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Speaker 3: you probably could have had another couple of games going

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Speaker 3: with this four game stretch, the three games in particular Miami,

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Speaker 3: of pointing to those games, like all right, let's get

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Speaker 3: You win on Sunday, Colts lose to the Broncos. I

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Speaker 3: think that's who they're playing.

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Speaker 2: You've got the fee. Yeah, that's a tough game.

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Speaker 5: I mean it is. It's very tough, very tough game.

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Speaker 2: That's tough.

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Speaker 5: So it's gonna be tough for the Colts. It's gonna

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Speaker 2: But just take care of business. Take care of business.

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Speaker 3: Just keep winning games, and eventually you'll get to a

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Speaker 3: And I feel like that second half offensively, like, okay,

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Speaker 3: I would have liked to have seen one more touchdown

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Speaker 3: what you got. You got seventeen points in the second half.

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Speaker 3: You ran it well, you closed the game down. Nico

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Speaker 5: So it was good.

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Speaker 2: John.

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Speaker 4: Think about it, in all our years watching games together

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Speaker 2: Yeah, with which they have.

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Speaker 4: They've won the big game for you, and then they've

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Speaker 4: and then or the offense has walked off with the lead.

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Speaker 4: But you know the game ends with them not having

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Speaker 4: And that's not an easy thing to do. It doesn't matter,

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Speaker 4: let's just uh, let's let's work work on that positive.

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Speaker 4: You've got the break, you ran when you needed to,

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Speaker 4: so you've got some time off. So we're not gonna

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Speaker 4: do any cream of the crop, thank you much, A man, savage.

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Speaker 4: Don't need that today because there's no game to be played.

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Speaker 4: But we'll do it next week. So instead, John, I'm

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Speaker 4: gonna hit you with a few little numbers. You do

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Speaker 4: buy the numbers during the season. I texted you this morning.

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Speaker 4: I said, Hey, homie, I'm gonna I'm gonna spell you

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Speaker 4: for this. Yeah, I got some little interesting ones. Okay, okay, okay.

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Speaker 2: Four different Texans have run for a touchdown this year.

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Speaker 2: Mix And obviously has one. Steph Yeah, Stefan Diggs, that's

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Speaker 5: Forget camp Akers ran for one? Did he not?

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Speaker 2: There? You go? Oh and surely CJ. Stroud snuck one in.

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Speaker 5: NOJ. CJ is not run one in.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So those those are the four guys who've run first.

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Speaker 3: That long Touchdow run against New England. Great play by

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Speaker 4: Seven games with one hundred yards on the ground or more,

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Speaker 2: That's Joe Mixon. That's what he's done this year.

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Speaker 4: In your wildest dreams, nobody thought Joe Mixon was going

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Speaker 4: about every time he goes out on the field. Seven games, John,

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Speaker 4: and he's missed three, Yeah, seven out of ten. That

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Speaker 5: He's eight eighty seven.

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Speaker 3: He's got the second most touchdowns in his career with eleven.

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Speaker 5: He had thirteen touchdowns in twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 2: That's a cad A score. So he's got a dozen

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Speaker 5: Right right?

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Speaker 3: Uh and he had how many he had? He had

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Speaker 5: Is that right?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's got four games left now hopefully it's just

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Speaker 3: playoffs and then seeding doesn't you know, keeps here from

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Speaker 3: really having to play the last game against Tennessee. Either way,

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Speaker 3: he's one hundred and thirteen yards away from one thousand.

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Speaker 5: His best year was twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 3: That's the year kind of referenced thirteen rushing touchdowns, one

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Speaker 3: two hundred and five yards you'll said, three receiving touchdowns.

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Speaker 3: So he's not the one. The only thing that they've

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Speaker 3: kind of thought that Joe would get a few more

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Speaker 5: I thought that was gonna be a little bit more.

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Speaker 3: But because they've give him the ball as much as

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Speaker 3: He's gotten the touches that I thought he would get.

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Speaker 3: He's been phenomenal. You're absolutely right. I think it very

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Speaker 3: treating question, Drew is who's been more valuable to the offense,

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Speaker 3: Joe Mixon or Nico Collins.

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Speaker 5: That's a really tough question to answer. I'm glad.

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Speaker 4: It's a goodman to have and question to ponder.

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Speaker 2: It's really good.

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Speaker 3: It's into that corner where Marc and Andre are up

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Speaker 3: There's just a lot happening on that particular play, and

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Speaker 5: Not there yet, need another one.

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Speaker 4: Got a ways to go until we're thirty one to

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Yeah, we've been rolling there.

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Speaker 5: I like the Matthew just did. That's really good.

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Speaker 2: This I didn't use my fingers, use that brain of yours.

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Speaker 5: Look at the big brain on Drew.

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Speaker 4: All right man, good to be with you. Thank you

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Speaker 4: again for listening and watching you right there. Yeah you,

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Speaker 4: it's right. Put that finger back at yourself. We appreciate you.

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Speaker 4: We'll be back again next week, previewing a big game

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Speaker 4: against a good opponent.

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Speaker 2: Those Miami Dolphins. Nothing to sneeze that. We'll see you

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Speaker 2: then