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Speaker 1: Happy Friday, everybody. Welcome to Texans All Access from Dead

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Speaker 1: Texans Radio studio, John Harris, alongside the voice of the

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Speaker 1: Texans who's stretching. He's opening up his own capacity, Mark

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Speaker 1: Van Muir, Mark, good evening, How are you. I gotta

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Speaker 1: ask you a strange one to start off, all right,

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Speaker 1: because I saw this tweet and I looked at it

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Speaker 1: and I went, I don't think this is true, But man,

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Speaker 1: it's hard. It's hard to argue was last night one

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Speaker 1: of the better nights of sports? With the way the

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Speaker 1: Falcons Buccaneers game went the same time the Mets and

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Speaker 1: Brewers are putting on a classic last night was last

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Speaker 1: night one of the better nights of sports.

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Speaker 2: Let's just say of twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 3: Well, look from a national basis, yes, but for Astros

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Speaker 3: fans it might be hard to enjoy anything, especially anything

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Speaker 3: in New York team is doing now. I think the

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Speaker 3: Mets are looked upon a little bit differently than the Yankees.

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Speaker 3: Of course, you know, we all want the Yankee to lose.

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Speaker 3: I think I speak for assault Johnny to say we

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Speaker 3: want the Yankees to lose, darn it. And I have

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Speaker 3: some New York fans here but come on, the Mets

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Speaker 3: of the underdog team in New York. However, we all

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Speaker 3: know that the Astros have history with the Mets, and

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Speaker 3: I go back to eighty six. I'm old enough to

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Speaker 3: remember as a young man driving around in my sales territory,

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Speaker 3: listening to Brent Mussberger call the game on CBS Radio,

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Speaker 3: Billy Hatcher going deep that extra innings monster affair that the.

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Speaker 2: Astros ultimately lost.

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Speaker 3: And remember that was like the greatest moment in Astro's

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Speaker 3: history and it was a loss. I mean, I'm not

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Speaker 3: going to say it was the greatest for a long time,

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Speaker 3: but it was a memorable game for a long time,

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Speaker 3: and it was a loss. If they could have won

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Speaker 3: that game, they get to Mike Scott and oh my gosh,

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Speaker 3: they might make the World Series. And now look at them.

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Speaker 3: And by the way, on this note, can I rant here?

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Speaker 2: Of course?

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Speaker 3: Okay, the Astros, we all know what just happened to them.

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Speaker 3: I'm sensing a lack of gratitude here for the run.

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Speaker 2: I just feel it. I know there's anger.

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Speaker 3: There were expectations. You're used to the Astros getting to

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Speaker 3: the LCS. Do you realize that sentence alone, you're used

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Speaker 3: to the Astros getting to the LCS every year. What

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Speaker 3: this is incredible what they just did. And look, I'm

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Speaker 3: a Texan guy telling you this. This is seven consecutive.

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Speaker 3: This is insanely good. And I'm not saying that people

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Speaker 3: don't appreciate it, but it feels like, look, there's disappointment

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Speaker 3: with the recent loss, but they still made the playoffs

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Speaker 3: and won the division. Now, there were times what was

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Speaker 3: the drought between the Clemens pettit Era and twenty fifteen

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Speaker 3: wild card victory over the Yankees? That was a long

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Speaker 3: postseason drought. Yeah, I don't think they were in it

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Speaker 3: in any of decades. Yeah, because that got game without

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Speaker 3: a decade without the postseason.

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean, if you go this way, the Astros

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Speaker 1: became a franchise in nineteen sixty twos at the rate

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Speaker 1: they were cults forty five and turning the Astros, So

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Speaker 1: I still go back to that. In nineteen sixty two,

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Speaker 1: they made a League champion Ship Series. Now, league Championship

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Speaker 1: Series didn't start till seventy, but from seventy until twenty seventeen,

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Speaker 1: right that right, they had made the League Championship Series

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Speaker 1: three times, eighty eighty six two thousand.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, I checked that, checked that they made it four.

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Speaker 2: They made it eighty eighty eighty six, right four? Right

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Speaker 2: four and oh five? Four and oh five? Yeah, four times.

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Speaker 1: This last run they'd been on a seven consecutive consecutive

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Speaker 1: that's crazy Patriots level stuff like football.

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Speaker 3: But I mean, and this is modern baseball. We still

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Speaker 3: have the wildcard, the divisional series. Now, not everybody's in

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Speaker 3: the wildcard round, and it was a game until recently, but.

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Speaker 2: Seven in a row crazy. The first playoff series victory

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Speaker 2: they got was in four yep, the divisional series. Chris Burke,

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Speaker 2: that's right. Oh yeah, Chris Burke, good grief.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, so look, and I know you're not

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Speaker 1: saying this, but it's I think in due time there

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Speaker 1: will be and maybe probably a little faster than I think.

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Speaker 1: But I think people are like, yeah, you know what,

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Speaker 1: you're right, You're right, we had a really good I

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Speaker 1: think it's when the run is over. I think that's

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Speaker 1: the hardest part. Like you see it and you know,

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Speaker 1: but is it the run is over? They could be bad. Well,

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Speaker 1: I mean, at least the consecutive part of it. Are

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Speaker 3: This division looks like it kind of stinks a little

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Speaker 3: bit done right, and maybe maybe the Mariners get better.

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Speaker 3: They got off to a better start this past year,

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Speaker 3: but then it all imploded on them. The point is

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Speaker 3: this what a run? Give them their due. And I'm

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Speaker 3: not saying don't be disappointed with them losing, But to me,

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Speaker 3: the Tigers looked a lot like And Lopez mentioned this too,

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Speaker 3: we were talking off the air. We both had the

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Speaker 3: same take the twenty fifteen Astros. I remember that Wildcard. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: we were at fud Ruckers doing a show now defunct

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Speaker 3: fud Rutgers doing a show, and I just watched the

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Speaker 3: body language and the dugouts that night. The Yankees were like,

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Speaker 3: real the Yankees, and the Astros are jumping up and

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Speaker 3: down in the dugout, are really excited to be there,

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Speaker 3: and they won the game. It was a one game

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Speaker 3: and out situation, and I thought, youth, exuberance, energy, and

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Speaker 3: they're so. They're not just happy to be there, they're so.

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Speaker 3: And the Yankees were disappointed to be there. They thought

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Speaker 3: it was a foregun conclusive win that night. Anyway, the

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Speaker 3: Tigers remind me of that. I'm not saying the Astros

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Speaker 3: are fat and happy, but it just didn't work out

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Speaker 3: for them. And look, the Oilers had a run where

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Speaker 3: they went to the playoffs seven consecutive years with Warren

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Speaker 3: Moon so won three games in that stretch. The Texans

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Speaker 3: would love to have that kind of run. I'm hoping

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Speaker 3: we're on that kind of run right now. But even

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Speaker 3: after the Bill O'Brien era here, it felt like when

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Speaker 3: you had those rough seasons twenty twenty one to twenty two, man,

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Speaker 3: I really liked winning the division, even if the AFC

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Speaker 3: South was having a down year and getting into the postseason.

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Speaker 2: I really enjoyed that. As a matter of fact.

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Speaker 3: That was nice to win, you know, more than you

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Speaker 3: lost and get to the playoffs. That was cool. And

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Speaker 3: now we're in this good era right here. Well, I

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Speaker 1: I think with teams when they get to this point,

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Speaker 1: I remember the Celtics back in the eighties and and this,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's no fault of their own.

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Speaker 2: They had prepared for elder statesman to be on a team.

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Speaker 2: I mean they Robert Parrish and.

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Speaker 1: McHale and Ange and Bird, they were all getting older.

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Speaker 2: I mean all of us are, but you know what

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Speaker 2: I mean, they were all aging.

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Speaker 1: So in eighty six make this move and they get

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Speaker 1: up and they get Lembias, and Lembias is going to

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Speaker 1: change everything because now he's gonna be the bridge between

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Speaker 1: the aging guys and the young guys.

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Speaker 2: And he's gonna be a superstar in the NBA.

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Speaker 1: He dies the day after the NBA Draft, and then

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Speaker 1: you watch the Celtics just get old really fast. I

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Speaker 1: don't sense that with the Astros. I mean, Alvarez is

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Speaker 1: still in his prime. Altwo ve still got plenty of

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Speaker 1: prime years left. What they do with Bregman, I think

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Speaker 1: is going to be really interesting. Tucker had a really

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Speaker 1: bad Playoffs. They'll make moves. You know, they're gonna make moves.

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Speaker 1: What you have to do with those moves is not

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Speaker 1: get desperate. You know, you can't give somebody, well, we

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Speaker 1: want to go give this picture five years and you know,

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Speaker 1: five hundred million dollars because he's going to solve everything.

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Speaker 1: And you're like, yeah, you've got pitching in the pipeline

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Speaker 1: that you not pitching the pipeline. But I don't know

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Speaker 1: if their pipeline is. But Hunter Brown Arraghetti, there's some

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Speaker 1: young dudes that did some good things that Jeff team controlled.

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Speaker 2: They've got a lot of pictures.

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Speaker 1: That if they could get them healthy, my god, they

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Speaker 1: could have a staff, and that's what you want to have.

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Speaker 3: I don't have the numbers in front of you, but

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Speaker 3: it seemed to me that they were pitching pretty well

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Speaker 3: this year, you know, with the guys who was incredible,

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Speaker 3: with the guys who were available. Never mind, who is

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Speaker 3: you know all these guys. I know they have an

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Speaker 3: all star team. You know, yeah that's not playing or whatever, right,

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Speaker 3: But I don't know. I mean, I know we're out

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Speaker 3: here to talk about them, but I think that it's

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Speaker 3: very impressive what they did. People should be grateful. How

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Speaker 3: do we get into this conversation again.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. You said you want to go on

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Speaker 2: a rant, and that was that was my rant.

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Speaker 3: That's gratitude because I'm grateful right now. Every week we

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Speaker 3: have a monster game. Look Minnesota Monster game, Jaguars. That

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Speaker 3: was a monster game.

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Speaker 2: You're in the Jason, Yeah, I gotta win it.

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Speaker 3: You got them wanted to get well, you win it

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Speaker 3: at the wire. Oh you didn't win it the right way.

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Speaker 2: What they won the game?

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Speaker 3: Your quarterback took you down the field. Everybody made plays.

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Speaker 3: Daria good Mawale Bam, let's go three and one. Now

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Speaker 3: you got Buffalo another huge game.

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Speaker 2: And let's see what happens here.

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Speaker 1: I want to say it's the best thing, but to

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Speaker 1: be three and one and feel like, you know what,

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Speaker 1: we haven't even gotten close to reaching our ceiling is

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Speaker 1: a really good feeling in a sense that you know

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Speaker 1: you can play much better, and hopefully this Sunday you're

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Speaker 1: gonna do that. Now, the injury report status report is

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Speaker 1: pretty interesting on both sides, but we'll talk about that

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Speaker 1: in a little bit because right now, Mark Vandermy had

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Speaker 1: a chance to catch up with the head coach of

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Speaker 1: your Houston Texans and get his field to meet.

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Speaker 2: Go Ryans. Here's Mark Demiko.

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Speaker 3: All right, coach, I know for this one and for

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Speaker 3: all of them, really you want to play on the edge,

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Speaker 3: but you want to play clean and how do you

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Speaker 3: work that out?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the biggest thing for us.

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Speaker 5: We're gonna play on the edge, we're gonna be relentless,

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Speaker 5: but the main thing is cleaning our house up. Like

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Speaker 5: we've been playing some sloppy ball, sloppy penalties, and we

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Speaker 5: all know that we've addressed it, and now it's time

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Speaker 5: for us to put that behind us and move forward,

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Speaker 5: playing discipline football.

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Speaker 3: All right, Josh Allen, I know, if you want to

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Speaker 3: bring him down, you better bring some friends, right How

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Speaker 3: important is the pass rush in this game?

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Speaker 5: Pass rush is huge, and the pass rush isn't gonna

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Speaker 5: happen right now. Like we're gonna have to be persistent.

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Speaker 5: You're not gonna get him down right now. It's gonna

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Speaker 5: take multiple guys, but it's gonna take a really great

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Speaker 5: effort from a lot of guys just staying after it.

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Speaker 5: It may not look like it's there right now, right away,

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Speaker 5: but guys just have to keep working, keep working, keep working,

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Speaker 5: and we'll get to them.

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Speaker 3: It seems like Cook sort of flies under the radar,

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Speaker 3: but he's really effective running the football.

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Speaker 4: And Cook is really good player.

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Speaker 5: He does a really good job of you know, whether

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Speaker 5: it's inside the tackles or bouncing it outside, very very

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Speaker 5: good contact balance. It still is like it's gonna take

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Speaker 5: a lot of people to hit Josh Allen's gonna take

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Speaker 5: multiple ha for Cook as well.

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Speaker 4: We just have to play our style. We have to.

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Speaker 5: Swarm on defense, and whoever touches the ball, we have

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Speaker 2: Is that correct?

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Speaker 4: Oh? For sure.

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Speaker 5: I mean we'll line up our guys, how we line

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Speaker 5: They're gonna be exactly where they're supposed to be. They're

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Speaker 5: I think the kickoff will be in the non existent

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Speaker 4: When it time.

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Speaker 3: Coach, Thanks a lot, good luck, Thanks Mark, Happy birthday,

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Speaker 3: Nine? Okay, thirty nine point a candless amount of nine.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully we're going to celebrate your birthday Sunday with a

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Speaker 1: Juice Scrugs. He caught up with Drew Doherty for our

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Speaker 7: Always good to see my friend, and four games in.

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Speaker 7: How you feeling. How's the progression? We saw you start

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Speaker 8: Definitely been fun, just getting back in the center spot

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Speaker 7: What's been the biggest challenge for you getting back in

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Speaker 8: Really just getting everybody on the same page. I think

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Speaker 7: We've heard from you guys, We've heard from head coach

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Speaker 7: Tomiko Ryans, the assistants want to fix the penalties. How

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Speaker 8: Just locking in and being disciplined. Definitely, way too many penalties.

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Speaker 9: No doubt.

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Speaker 7: And the discipline and the locking in happens at noon

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Speaker 9: Go of it. They gave up a lot on the ground.

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Speaker 7: But before that, I mean that's almost a two hundred

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Speaker 8: Definitely just coming in and locking in our game plan.

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Speaker 9: What else do you see from that defense?

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Speaker 8: Definitely the sleeper day Kwan Jones eleven year vet looks

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Speaker 7: I notice you book ended that with some big ten folks.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, day Kwan Jones. Now, I don't know him personally,

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Speaker 7: And I'm guessing you'll be excited to put that h

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Speaker 8: Actually, yeah, I think it's gonna be really cool, man.

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Speaker 7: Which of your teammates do you think is going to

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Speaker 9: CJ is gonna, okay, make some sense. Maybe Tank Dell too.

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Speaker 7: For sure, Juice Scruggs always appreciate the time. Best of

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Speaker 1: Mark we said last week, the offensive line that played well.

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Speaker 2: Maybe a throw to run we always talk.

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Speaker 3: About that, run to pass, pass to run, whatever, move

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Speaker 2: So see if you can take advantage.

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Speaker 2: Cold Bishop back there at safety.

438
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Speaker 1: Now, they may want to play a lot of Cover two,

439
00:18:58,359 --> 00:19:01,320
Speaker 1: Cover six, Cover four, those where they've got two safeties high.

440
00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:03,639
Speaker 1: That's fine, but you can play with their eyes a

441
00:19:03,640 --> 00:19:07,560
Speaker 1: little bit. Young guys are inexperienced guys that you can

442
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Speaker 1: do now.

443
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Speaker 2: I love Bishop.

444
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Speaker 1: I was hoping that Bishop was gonna end up being

445
00:19:10,359 --> 00:19:12,480
Speaker 1: a Texan, but the Bills got them, and the Texans

446
00:19:12,480 --> 00:19:15,000
Speaker 1: were lucky to get Kaylen Bullock a little later at safety.

447
00:19:15,040 --> 00:19:18,520
Speaker 1: But they are stretched at safety, and oh, by the way,

448
00:19:19,119 --> 00:19:22,480
Speaker 1: their corners kind of flipped over to Christian Benford I

449
00:19:22,480 --> 00:19:24,920
Speaker 1: think is a really good player. Russell Douglas has turned

450
00:19:24,920 --> 00:19:27,960
Speaker 1: into so they let Trenavius White go, But I still

451
00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:30,080
Speaker 1: think you can test that secondary even though the passing

452
00:19:30,119 --> 00:19:32,640
Speaker 1: game for the past, defense for them has been good.

453
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Speaker 1: I think it's like top six or top seven in

454
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Speaker 1: the league. I don't know that really anybody's tested them really,

455
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Speaker 1: and especially with their safeties being out, so that I

456
00:19:41,760 --> 00:19:44,560
Speaker 1: think is gonna end up being a big thing. Those

457
00:19:44,600 --> 00:19:47,359
Speaker 1: injuries and how the Texans can take care of them. Now,

458
00:19:47,640 --> 00:19:51,400
Speaker 1: I learned a long time ago that oh this guy's out.

459
00:19:51,440 --> 00:19:53,600
Speaker 1: Oh man, the Texas are gonna take advantage of it. Actually,

460
00:19:53,680 --> 00:19:56,720
Speaker 1: so many times where the replacement comes in and it's like, yeah,

461
00:19:56,760 --> 00:19:59,560
Speaker 1: they didn't miss a beat, but this one it could

462
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Speaker 1: because there's one of the better defensive tackles in the league.

463
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Speaker 2: There's nobody like him on the rest of that roster.

464
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Speaker 3: It's like when you have eleven on ten or whatever

465
00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:08,440
Speaker 3: it is in soccer, when you have the man advantage

466
00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:10,119
Speaker 3: and you're like, this should be easy.

467
00:20:10,160 --> 00:20:10,760
Speaker 2: No, it's not.

468
00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:13,200
Speaker 3: It's not like a power play in hockey or something,

469
00:20:13,520 --> 00:20:17,360
Speaker 3: and it's in NFL football. There's still somebody playing that

470
00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:20,280
Speaker 3: position and they don't have to play. They don't have

471
00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:22,879
Speaker 3: to make every play. They just have to make some

472
00:20:23,119 --> 00:20:25,960
Speaker 3: plays and they can be effective. Sometimes you're gonna be

473
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Speaker 3: on the island. You know, it doesn't matter who you are.

474
00:20:28,440 --> 00:20:31,280
Speaker 3: Cornerback could be on the island. An offensive lineman could

475
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Speaker 3: give up one sack, but it could be a strip

476
00:20:33,200 --> 00:20:35,600
Speaker 3: sack and oh my gosh, the whole game flips because

477
00:20:35,680 --> 00:20:36,720
Speaker 3: you screwed up.

478
00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:38,000
Speaker 2: And that's football.

479
00:20:38,119 --> 00:20:40,119
Speaker 3: But if you hold up in those key spots or

480
00:20:40,119 --> 00:20:42,840
Speaker 3: if the play goes another way, eh, I'm okay on

481
00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:44,960
Speaker 3: this one, And before you know it, you get through

482
00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:47,119
Speaker 3: the bulk of the game and it might not be

483
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Speaker 3: the way you thought as far as the advantage you

484
00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:52,600
Speaker 3: would get in some replacements against some replacements. So yeah,

485
00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:55,320
Speaker 3: we'll see Johnny. I'm the same way. I don't get

486
00:20:55,359 --> 00:20:57,320
Speaker 3: too high or too low on who's in or out.

487
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Speaker 2: Now.

488
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Speaker 3: If a quarterback is like if Josh Allen was playing right,

489
00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:03,159
Speaker 3: I'd say that's a really good thing for the Texans

490
00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:07,160
Speaker 3: to know, Josh, I'd much rather see Mitchell Trubisky, Josh.

491
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Speaker 1: Would I So I know Drey Wait saidre would be like,

492
00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:13,680
Speaker 1: look out, guys, because he really likes Trubisky. But yeah,

493
00:21:13,680 --> 00:21:15,119
Speaker 1: if we could play this game, oout Josh Allen. And

494
00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:18,480
Speaker 1: that's the other thing with Josh, just listening all week

495
00:21:18,520 --> 00:21:20,719
Speaker 1: to guys talk about Josh and just having seen him

496
00:21:20,760 --> 00:21:23,040
Speaker 1: for so long, there are things that he does on

497
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Speaker 1: a football field. I remember being up there in the

498
00:21:25,040 --> 00:21:29,800
Speaker 1: rain and the ball he just he would throw the

499
00:21:29,840 --> 00:21:33,240
Speaker 1: ball just cutting the rain as if it wasn't even there,

500
00:21:33,280 --> 00:21:35,399
Speaker 1: like the wind and the rain weren't even there, and

501
00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:38,440
Speaker 1: he's just hitting I remember hitting digs and it's like, God,

502
00:21:38,560 --> 00:21:42,320
Speaker 1: dang it, this guy is incredible. I remember there was

503
00:21:42,359 --> 00:21:44,120
Speaker 1: a third and third and one or fourth and one

504
00:21:45,119 --> 00:21:48,520
Speaker 1: and they ran a sneak and we jammed it all

505
00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:50,520
Speaker 1: up inside and looked like he wasn't gonna make it,

506
00:21:50,560 --> 00:21:52,720
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden he just saw a little

507
00:21:52,760 --> 00:21:54,680
Speaker 1: bit of a lane and he said, forget this, I'm

508
00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:55,359
Speaker 1: not sneaking it.

509
00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:57,520
Speaker 2: I'm running. He just ran around the side and ended

510
00:21:57,640 --> 00:21:59,000
Speaker 2: running for like ten fifteen yards.

511
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Speaker 1: He just does thing from a football I Q standpoint

512
00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:06,000
Speaker 1: that back in the day, because of the way he played,

513
00:22:06,040 --> 00:22:07,600
Speaker 1: it was a little bit reckless and you're like, oh,

514
00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:09,399
Speaker 1: he's making that decision. Oh my gosh, now you look

515
00:22:09,440 --> 00:22:13,440
Speaker 1: at it and go he's making smart decisions that maybe

516
00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:15,760
Speaker 1: are outside the box, thinking a little bit, but he

517
00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:17,480
Speaker 1: can get away with it because he's that good.

518
00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:21,800
Speaker 3: I wonder about this game referendum wise, because it feels

519
00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:25,520
Speaker 3: like everyone's ready to bounce if the Texans don't win

520
00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:29,080
Speaker 3: this one, Oh my gosh, absolutely week five. If you

521
00:22:29,119 --> 00:22:31,720
Speaker 3: win this one, they don't send you to the super Bowl.

522
00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:34,280
Speaker 3: If you lose this one, they don't knock you out

523
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Speaker 3: of playoff contention.

524
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Speaker 2: All right, you move on to play New England next week.

525
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Speaker 3: And I'm not going to minimize the amount of football

526
00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:46,080
Speaker 3: pain we will feel if they lose this game.

527
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Speaker 2: And I'll feel it. I think everybody's going to feel it.

528
00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:51,520
Speaker 3: But I'm not going to write things off or make

529
00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:55,199
Speaker 3: declarations about what December is going to be like based

530
00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:59,040
Speaker 3: on this. I might make declarations what September could be like.

531
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Speaker 3: And you have to care whatever you did wrong in

532
00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:03,959
Speaker 3: this game, win or lose after it. But you know,

533
00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:06,320
Speaker 3: it's an early test, there's no doubt. But I think

534
00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:09,160
Speaker 3: if you win this game, I'm not throwing any parades.

535
00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:11,760
Speaker 2: There's no way I'm booking that just yet.

536
00:23:12,119 --> 00:23:14,439
Speaker 3: You have a lot of football to play this season

537
00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:17,240
Speaker 3: and this is just another one out of the seventeen.

538
00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:19,879
Speaker 3: That's a big one. But Johnny, they're all big. I mean,

539
00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:21,879
Speaker 3: next week's gonna be huge in New England going up

540
00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:23,520
Speaker 3: to Gillette and trying to beat that team.

541
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, I'd like I would have liked these games to

542
00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:27,880
Speaker 1: have been flipped. I would have liked to have gone

543
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Speaker 1: to New England this week and then played Buffalo.

544
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Speaker 2: But then you get green Bay on the road.

545
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Speaker 1: I mean, you still got green Bay on the road.

546
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Speaker 1: You would have gone Buffalo home, green Bay on the road.

547
00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:37,000
Speaker 1: I mean, it's still schedules for it.

548
00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:37,840
Speaker 2: It's still tough.

549
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Speaker 1: I mean, that's the thing you don't have, you know,

550
00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:46,520
Speaker 1: Georgia Technical Southern Avenue, you know, University. You know you're

551
00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:49,119
Speaker 1: not facing you're not facing that where you can just

552
00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:50,719
Speaker 1: roll the balls out and be okay.

553
00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:54,080
Speaker 2: I've thought about this and I think it's a hard.

554
00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:56,080
Speaker 2: It's a hard. It's a measuring stick kind of game,

555
00:23:56,160 --> 00:23:56,840
Speaker 2: like where are you?

556
00:23:56,920 --> 00:23:59,879
Speaker 1: But you know, if you lose the game, it's some

557
00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:03,320
Speaker 1: point you did something that wasn't as good as you

558
00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:07,160
Speaker 1: probably wanted it. Especially this team now, our twenty one teams,

559
00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:10,280
Speaker 1: in the twenty two teams, those teams could play extremely well.

560
00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:12,040
Speaker 1: We could lose by ten points, but you could feel

561
00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:13,680
Speaker 1: like I remember the night we played the Fieldolph Eagles.

562
00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:15,520
Speaker 1: I'm like, I think that's the best we could play

563
00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:16,960
Speaker 1: and we still lost that team that was going to

564
00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:18,560
Speaker 1: go to the Super Bowl, And you know, we hung

565
00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:20,520
Speaker 1: in there, we fought, and I remember after that game

566
00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:23,679
Speaker 1: not feeling so horrible, like, yeah, horrible, we lost, but

567
00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:26,119
Speaker 1: not so horrible because I'm like, I feel like we

568
00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:29,520
Speaker 1: played the best game we could possibly play, yeah, and

569
00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:30,359
Speaker 1: we're just we.

570
00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:31,600
Speaker 2: Just can't live up to the Eagles.

571
00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:33,280
Speaker 1: And it was kind of the same way with the

572
00:24:33,359 --> 00:24:35,800
Speaker 1: Chiefs game here and then we went to the Cowboys.

573
00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:38,920
Speaker 1: You know, we played the best we possibly could play,

574
00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:40,760
Speaker 1: came out with the W. If this team plays the

575
00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:43,640
Speaker 1: best it possibly can play, I don't know that there's

576
00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:48,119
Speaker 1: any chance we don't win that game. But if we

577
00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:50,000
Speaker 1: just go in there, we go toe to toe with

578
00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:52,880
Speaker 1: them and we end up losing. And I'm not saying

579
00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:55,760
Speaker 1: I'm okay with losing, but I just want to see

580
00:24:55,760 --> 00:24:58,240
Speaker 1: this team be better. And I know it's kind of

581
00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:00,000
Speaker 1: the old coach speak, but I want to see it better.

582
00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:02,600
Speaker 1: From week four to week five, week five to week six,

583
00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:04,480
Speaker 1: week six to week seven, what were the things that

584
00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:05,919
Speaker 1: we didn't do well in week three, Let's do them

585
00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:07,480
Speaker 1: better in week four. One of the things we didn't

586
00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:09,679
Speaker 1: do better in week four, iss do week five. But

587
00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:12,359
Speaker 1: I want to do the controllables. What are the things

588
00:25:12,359 --> 00:25:15,679
Speaker 1: that we control? We control the penalties, yeah, we control

589
00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:20,640
Speaker 1: our effort, control our energy, catching punts, catching punt, having punts, block, yeah,

590
00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:25,320
Speaker 1: doing lining up properly, all the things that you take

591
00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:28,399
Speaker 1: for granted. You know, if you miss a sack on

592
00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:30,119
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, guess what it's going to happen.

593
00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:31,200
Speaker 2: It's going to happen.

594
00:25:31,359 --> 00:25:35,560
Speaker 1: But lining up properly, not false starting operation type stuff.

595
00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:37,960
Speaker 2: Well, all right, let's let's all be leaned up.

596
00:25:38,119 --> 00:25:41,119
Speaker 3: Play clean on special teams, not even you know, like

597
00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:44,159
Speaker 3: Demko said, if you have a ten yard punt return,

598
00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:46,320
Speaker 3: you know, get a first down on a punt, right,

599
00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:48,840
Speaker 3: get a first down on the return. Don't worry about

600
00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:52,320
Speaker 3: an eighty yard return. Just get a few yards. Yeah, exactly,

601
00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:55,159
Speaker 3: and that makes a big difference over time. So, but

602
00:25:55,240 --> 00:25:58,720
Speaker 3: play clean on special teams. Down a punt inside the tent,

603
00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:02,560
Speaker 3: don't let it roll into the ends, you know, preferably obviously,

604
00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:05,520
Speaker 3: don't fumble, don't muff, and you know, make all your

605
00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:08,600
Speaker 3: makeable field goals. You know, Emy missed a fifty four

606
00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:10,560
Speaker 3: yard and man, so this is only missing the season right,

607
00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:14,240
Speaker 3: exactly the one, and so play clean on special teams.

608
00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:17,119
Speaker 3: Dramatically cut down on the pre snap. You're gonna get

609
00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:19,680
Speaker 3: one or two, I get it. But dramatically cut down

610
00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:22,320
Speaker 3: on the pre snap or the ridiculous holding penalties. I

611
00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:25,280
Speaker 3: don't know if there were ridiculous ones, but just don't hold.

612
00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:27,919
Speaker 3: If you could possibly help it, if you cut your

613
00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:30,600
Speaker 3: penalties in half, play clean on special teams.

614
00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:33,360
Speaker 2: That alone is going to make a big difference in.

615
00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:35,439
Speaker 3: A game like this, because you have Number seven and

616
00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:38,119
Speaker 3: his merry band of pass catchers. They're gonna do some

617
00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:41,479
Speaker 3: they're gonna inflict some damage in chunk plays on this

618
00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:42,080
Speaker 3: bill defense.

619
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Speaker 1: Yeah absolutely, I mean it's and it sounds like we're

620
00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:47,800
Speaker 1: asking for a lot if we were talking.

621
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Speaker 2: To maybe a high school football team.

622
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Speaker 1: Yeah, because there's some times I didn't even put a

623
00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:54,200
Speaker 1: returner back there because I didn't know whether we could

624
00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:54,760
Speaker 1: catch it or not.

625
00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:56,200
Speaker 2: That's not the case here.

626
00:26:56,240 --> 00:27:00,399
Speaker 1: You have professionals so catching punts, doing the doing the

627
00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:03,480
Speaker 1: right things, doing smart things. Oh and here's another one.

628
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:07,640
Speaker 1: It's just going to be an emotional game because it's

629
00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:11,479
Speaker 1: two of the AFC's best on paper going at it.

630
00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:16,600
Speaker 1: You have to keep your emotions under control. Fifteen yard penalties,

631
00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:20,040
Speaker 1: talking trash, point fingers and all that kind of stuff.

632
00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:23,840
Speaker 1: You have got to keep it under control. And remember

633
00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:27,400
Speaker 1: there's another play coming. There's another play coming. That's where

634
00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:31,000
Speaker 1: you get your revenge. You can't fall prey to fifteen

635
00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:33,760
Speaker 1: yard penalties because and I hate to use Nico in

636
00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:35,320
Speaker 1: this one, but I poked him.

637
00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:38,399
Speaker 2: Right in the forehead, you know, and smushed him.

638
00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:41,520
Speaker 1: And it's like you respond to that, well, respond with

639
00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:43,480
Speaker 1: your play, and that's when you go did on the

640
00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:45,440
Speaker 1: very next play. But those are the things you've got

641
00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:49,840
Speaker 1: to avoid, those silly things that really have been plaguing

642
00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:52,280
Speaker 1: this team. Let's clean that up. And a lot of

643
00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:54,760
Speaker 1: that just has to do with emotion and discipline. And

644
00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:56,840
Speaker 1: I think that's the one thing you're gonna have to

645
00:27:56,880 --> 00:27:59,000
Speaker 1: control your emotion. You wearing a new unis, you're wearing

646
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:01,239
Speaker 1: a new helmet. People are going to be fired up.

647
00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:05,640
Speaker 1: The logo on the field is unbelievable. I just, oh

648
00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:07,600
Speaker 1: my god, I saw from the press box today and

649
00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:08,000
Speaker 1: I just.

650
00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:11,159
Speaker 2: I talked to us so cool.

651
00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:13,520
Speaker 3: I talked to our senior VP of marketing, Doug Vosk,

652
00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:15,520
Speaker 3: and I said, this is a you game. You know,

653
00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:18,800
Speaker 3: you came in here a lot of ideas, and I

654
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Speaker 3: know he collaborated with a lot of pH this kind

655
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Speaker 3: of scheme going with the H and all.

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Speaker 2: That, but this was this was something he wanted. He

657
00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:26,680
Speaker 2: wanted that H.

658
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Speaker 3: And it's a great idea because we've talked about it. Uh,

659
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Speaker 3: the H what it means, it's Houston. You know, if

660
00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:35,439
Speaker 3: you go to New York, a lot of people buy

661
00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:37,960
Speaker 3: Yankees hat because it says n y not because they're

662
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Speaker 3: Yankee fans. In LA with the Dodgers, be that. You know,

663
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Speaker 3: they do it here with the Astros, do it with

664
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Speaker 3: the Texans. But we got an H and the H

665
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Speaker 3: on the helmet. My gosh, is it gonna look good?

666
00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:49,440
Speaker 3: But to see it on the field shohining and on Sunday,

667
00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:50,920
Speaker 3: it's gonna be a spectacular.

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Speaker 2: Shit, It's going to be so cool to see.

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Speaker 1: And that's why I say your emotions all of that,

670
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Speaker 1: that it's.

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Speaker 2: Gonna feel like a bill a big game.

672
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Speaker 1: And I said this before, and I remember Mike Tomlins

673
00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:06,160
Speaker 1: saying this, and he still says it to his guys.

674
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Speaker 1: But I remember in America's Game two thousand and eight

675
00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:11,520
Speaker 1: documentary about the Steelers win the Championship. They played a

676
00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:16,560
Speaker 1: schedule that was just, I mean, a jawbreaker from beginning

677
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Speaker 1: to end. And I used to hear the Steelers in

678
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:23,920
Speaker 1: pregame when they were stretching. It's a five star matchup because.

679
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Speaker 2: We're in it.

680
00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:27,560
Speaker 1: And you look at this and it's like, yeah, Josh

681
00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:29,560
Speaker 1: Allen and the Bills are on the other side, But

682
00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:32,200
Speaker 1: this is a five star matchup because we're in this

683
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Speaker 1: game and that's the way our guys have got a

684
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Speaker 1: field and this is our home. These are our new jerseys,

685
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Speaker 1: and we're gonna go out there and drive them off

686
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Speaker 1: the field. But to do that, you have to do

687
00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:45,560
Speaker 1: all of those little things right. But you're gonna take

688
00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:48,680
Speaker 1: focus and discipline, all that stuff that we probably haven't

689
00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:52,680
Speaker 1: played the first four games absolutely with. But it's gonna

690
00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:57,400
Speaker 1: take a disciplined, swarm mentality to go win this football game,

691
00:29:57,640 --> 00:30:00,680
Speaker 1: and that I think is going to be ultimate. The

692
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Speaker 1: team that can just stay away from those mistakes. If

693
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Speaker 1: you can turn Josh in to wyoming Josh and he

694
00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:07,920
Speaker 1: makes a mistake because of it, that would end up

695
00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:09,760
Speaker 1: being the best thing. But it's gonna be one hell

696
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Speaker 1: of football game on Sunday.

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Speaker 2: I think you're ready to do the locker room pregame speech.

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Speaker 2: I'm ready to go. I'm ready to do this one.

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Speaker 3: I sometimes feel like I can do it. Yeah, but

700
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Speaker 3: I think this week you should take it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: And none of these are going to happen. Neither of

703
00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:24,400
Speaker 3: these are going to happen, so it doesn't matter. But

704
00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:26,960
Speaker 3: one other note here. So this is a new look

705
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Speaker 3: for the Texans.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:30,680
Speaker 3: We all know that the uniforms are new, but it's

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00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:33,640
Speaker 3: still deep steel blue, battle red and white. It's just

709
00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:36,200
Speaker 3: another version of it, which is really cool. Yeah, an

710
00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:39,800
Speaker 3: upgraded version of it. This H Town blue uniform. Htown

711
00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:44,120
Speaker 3: uniform is brand new, a new idea. We still have

712
00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:46,880
Speaker 3: battle red, but a new idea. The very first battle

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00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:49,000
Speaker 3: red game in Texans history was in two thousand and

714
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Speaker 3: three and they beat the Carolina Panthers, who were super.

715
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Speaker 2: Bowl bound the super Bowl.

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Speaker 3: Yes, but that was a good Carolina team clearly because

717
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Speaker 3: they went to the Super Bowl. Jake Delome, Texans the

718
00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:02,719
Speaker 3: first time they were battle red, the first time they

719
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Speaker 3: were the H Town uniforms beat the Buffalo Bills.

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Speaker 2: Nice.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, how's it gonna happen? I'll give you those keys

722
00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:11,960
Speaker 1: to the game. A couple of them have got to

723
00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:14,560
Speaker 1: change because the guys that are out for the Bills

724
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Speaker 1: I thought would be in. But we'll discuss those keys next,

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Speaker 1: right hearing Texans All Access.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back, everybody to a frind edition.

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Speaker 1: Of Texans All Access. I'm your host, John Harris, Football

728
00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:26,480
Speaker 1: and out the Sideline Reporter for your use to Texans

729
00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:31,720
Speaker 1: getting ready for the Buffalo Bills on Sunday noon Kick

730
00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:34,880
Speaker 1: Texans Countdown starts at nine.

731
00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:37,440
Speaker 2: That's with Sean Peergass and Seth Payin.

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Speaker 1: You'll hear me, You'll hear Mark, You'll hear Andre and

733
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Speaker 1: any other selected guests on that show that John McClain

734
00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:46,000
Speaker 1: Walls will be there. Then you have the game with Mark,

735
00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:49,080
Speaker 1: Andre and myself, and then you will have the Texas

736
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Speaker 1: postgame Show with Sean Peergas and Clinch Starner. So looking

737
00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:57,120
Speaker 1: forward to that postgame show being a celebration of a

738
00:31:57,160 --> 00:32:01,480
Speaker 1: win that would be really really nice or the Texans. Now,

739
00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:05,080
Speaker 1: how are the Texans going to get to that win? Well,

740
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Speaker 1: let's go into our keys to the game. Let's start

741
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Speaker 1: with my music. I gotta have my music that kind

742
00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:14,520
Speaker 1: of gets me hyped and gets me going, right. I mean,

743
00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:17,480
Speaker 1: I gotta have my music okay, there is okay. Now,

744
00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:21,760
Speaker 1: a couple of things first before we get into the Keys.

745
00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:25,000
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the status report for this game, because

746
00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:30,640
Speaker 1: it's pretty lengthy on both sides. Pretty lengthy, so hang

747
00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:37,560
Speaker 1: on out for the Texans, Derek Barnett, Jerry Hughes. Keep

748
00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:39,520
Speaker 1: in mind, I play the same position defensive end.

749
00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:43,040
Speaker 2: Oh boy. Joe Mixon also out.

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Speaker 1: Three players out for the Texans, four out for the Bills,

751
00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:48,680
Speaker 1: and get the Bills in a second questionable. There are

752
00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:54,000
Speaker 1: six players questionable for the Texans. Jake Hansen hurt us

753
00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:58,040
Speaker 1: back on Wednesday, Titus Howard hurts hamstring on Thursday.

754
00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:00,000
Speaker 2: Damian Pierce was back.

755
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:04,080
Speaker 1: I can't practice the limited capacity today, but he's still questionable.

756
00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:06,960
Speaker 1: Robert Woods dealing with that foot issue, went from a

757
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:10,520
Speaker 1: DNP to limited today, which is moving in the right direction.

758
00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:16,200
Speaker 2: Questionable, also questionable. Kurt Heinish, Dylan Horton.

759
00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:20,240
Speaker 1: So the Texans haven't made a full decision on Kurt

760
00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:24,800
Speaker 1: and Dylan yet. Dylan's on NFI obviously coming back from leukemia.

761
00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:28,720
Speaker 1: Kurt Heinisch went on IR designated to return with a

762
00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:31,000
Speaker 1: calf injury. I believe it was back in training camp.

763
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Speaker 1: Now there's been no speculation one way or the other.

764
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Speaker 1: I could see Kurt before Dylan, just giving Dylan some

765
00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:43,360
Speaker 1: extra time to get himself ready coming off of leukemia,

766
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Speaker 1: beating leukemia, jumping right back on the field a few

767
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Speaker 1: days after he put on pats for the first time

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Speaker 1: since he was diagnosed in November December of last year. Man,

769
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Speaker 1: that would be tough, but you've got no Derek Barnett,

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Speaker 1: You've got no Jerry Hughes. So right now charted defensive

771
00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:03,440
Speaker 1: end is Will Anderson, Dean Hunter, Shod Weaver.

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Speaker 2: That's it.

773
00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:07,760
Speaker 1: Weaver hasn't played much, if at all, out on a field.

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Speaker 1: It's Ben, Jerry, It's been Derek. I mean, it's been

775
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Speaker 1: those two guys. So they got to do something at

776
00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:17,440
Speaker 1: defensive end. We'll see what that ends up being, whether

777
00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:20,799
Speaker 1: Shad Weaver gets a I mean, I don't know what

778
00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:23,120
Speaker 1: they would do. I'm just trying to think through what

779
00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:24,560
Speaker 1: they could do at defensive end.

780
00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:27,759
Speaker 2: You know, they they've got to be able to keep

781
00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:29,759
Speaker 2: pressure on. So we were gonna be one. I don't

782
00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:31,040
Speaker 2: know if Dylan would be another one.

783
00:34:31,200 --> 00:34:33,880
Speaker 1: Another way they could go is Solomon Byrd up from

784
00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:37,680
Speaker 1: the practice squad as a practice squad elevation that could

785
00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:39,360
Speaker 1: happen you.

786
00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:40,360
Speaker 2: Titus Howard's the.

787
00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:44,360
Speaker 1: Other complicated one because he's got a hamstring. Blake Fisher

788
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:47,160
Speaker 1: was ill, but he was a full participate in practice today.

789
00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:51,759
Speaker 1: So if there's no Titus, then Blake more than likely

790
00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:53,719
Speaker 1: steps in a right tackle. Then you have to bring

791
00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:56,480
Speaker 1: up David Sharp from the practice squad to fill in

792
00:34:56,520 --> 00:34:59,680
Speaker 1: that spot. You go with Nick Broker as a tackle

793
00:34:59,719 --> 00:35:01,840
Speaker 1: who did that in training camping, there's probably more of

794
00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:03,560
Speaker 1: a guard. I don't know, ma, There's a lot of

795
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:05,440
Speaker 1: questions that Texans are gonna have to figure out now.

796
00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:06,960
Speaker 1: The Bills aren't going to have to figure them out

797
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:11,040
Speaker 1: as well, because they're without two defensive tackles, Austin Johnson

798
00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:13,960
Speaker 1: being one with an obleak. It's a side and then

799
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:18,279
Speaker 1: and Oliver Houston's own is out of this game with

800
00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:22,600
Speaker 1: a hamstring issue. Complicating those matters are two of the

801
00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:25,160
Speaker 1: key players at key spots. Taylor rap Is out with

802
00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:27,640
Speaker 1: a concussion, so that means they are down to two

803
00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:31,680
Speaker 1: safeties tomorrow, Hamlin and more likely Cole Bishop, the rookie.

804
00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:32,400
Speaker 2: Out of Utah.

805
00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:35,680
Speaker 1: They're hurting there, but but it does look like they'll

806
00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:39,200
Speaker 1: probably get Terrell Bernard back to play one linebacker spot

807
00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:42,120
Speaker 1: in Toronto, Johnson to play the nickel spot, so that's

808
00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:44,720
Speaker 1: at least good news. Now they're both questionable, so we'll see,

809
00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:48,200
Speaker 1: but they're without ed Oliver Taylor, Rapp and Khalila Shakir

810
00:35:48,239 --> 00:35:51,240
Speaker 1: and those especially, I mean those three have been huge

811
00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:53,880
Speaker 1: RAP just because they got rid of their safeties this

812
00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:57,279
Speaker 1: offseason with the thought that Rap and mar Hamlet would

813
00:35:57,320 --> 00:36:01,880
Speaker 1: take over RAP and Cole Bishop, either those three guys, Hamblin, Bishop,

814
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:03,040
Speaker 1: Rap would take over.

815
00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:05,560
Speaker 2: Well, Wraps now out. Now it's down to those two.

816
00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:10,759
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be dicey goings for each team at

817
00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:12,359
Speaker 1: that point. All right, let's get to the keys. Then

818
00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:15,400
Speaker 1: let's talk about the Bills offense. One hundred and ten

819
00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:17,760
Speaker 1: yards per game on the ground, seventeenth to the NFL.

820
00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:19,919
Speaker 1: They're passing for one hundred and ninety six yards per game,

821
00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:23,600
Speaker 1: that's twentieth in the NFL. Obviously, led by MVP candidate

822
00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:27,799
Speaker 1: Josh Allen James could get running back has been a

823
00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:30,160
Speaker 1: really nice fine basically for them.

824
00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:31,759
Speaker 2: They got him in second round a few years ago

825
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:32,799
Speaker 2: and they finally.

826
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Speaker 1: Start using him last year when they get to that

827
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:38,080
Speaker 1: second but tight ends they're very good, and the offensive

828
00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:39,919
Speaker 1: line Dean Dawkins is ready to go. He's been doing

829
00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:41,759
Speaker 1: a hamstring but he's gonna be ready to go. So

830
00:36:41,760 --> 00:36:44,960
Speaker 1: they should have their full line in front of Josh

831
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Speaker 1: Allen ready facing a defensive.

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00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:49,560
Speaker 2: End pairing of Will Anderson and Daniel Hunter.

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Speaker 1: But after that, a bunch of questions marks all right,

834
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Speaker 1: it's get to the keys. Number one, it's MVP Josh,

835
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Speaker 1: not Wyoming Josh. Now, after the twenty twenty playoff game

836
00:36:58,320 --> 00:37:02,799
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen season, I saw an article that it was

837
00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:05,399
Speaker 1: only Josh's second year in the league, but you'd seen

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00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:07,160
Speaker 1: a lot of progress from Josh in twenty nineteen. But

839
00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:09,080
Speaker 1: in that second half of the playoff game against US,

840
00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:11,120
Speaker 1: he really referred it back to being Wyoming Josh. He

841
00:37:11,120 --> 00:37:13,200
Speaker 1: flipped the ball behind his head one time. He just

842
00:37:13,239 --> 00:37:15,440
Speaker 1: didn't take care of the ball. He held on to

843
00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:17,680
Speaker 1: it too long. He just didn't make good decisions. It

844
00:37:17,719 --> 00:37:20,040
Speaker 1: was Wyomy Josh, just like he looked at Wyoming.

845
00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:21,400
Speaker 2: He is not that anymore.

846
00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:24,960
Speaker 1: He's smart, he's poised, he's tough, he'll run it, he'll

847
00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:29,200
Speaker 1: pump bake you. You've got to deal with Josh Allen

848
00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:31,160
Speaker 1: in a major way. You'd like to keep him in

849
00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:33,600
Speaker 1: the pocket. You'd like to force him left if he

850
00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:35,800
Speaker 1: gets out of the pocket, but that's not always possible.

851
00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:38,240
Speaker 1: But what you're gonna have to do is really put

852
00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:42,000
Speaker 1: some shots on him legal when he gets out of

853
00:37:42,040 --> 00:37:44,719
Speaker 1: the pocket, that's really your hope. And if he is

854
00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:47,920
Speaker 1: running towards the sideline, you can't assume he's gonna run

855
00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:50,480
Speaker 1: out of bounds. Defensive backs have to stay deeper into

856
00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:53,080
Speaker 1: the deepest than this one. There's no question now Number

857
00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:56,560
Speaker 1: two dunkin kid. Bill's drafted him at twenty twenty three

858
00:37:56,560 --> 00:37:58,799
Speaker 1: in the first round. I remember thinking, well, boy, this

859
00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:01,960
Speaker 1: could get dicey because Kinkaty is one of those players

860
00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:04,040
Speaker 1: that you're not really sure how to treat him. Is

861
00:38:04,040 --> 00:38:06,440
Speaker 1: he a tight end, is the wide receiver? In certain sets,

862
00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:07,799
Speaker 1: he's kind of one or the other.

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00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:09,000
Speaker 2: Certain sets he's both.

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00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:11,000
Speaker 1: Kind of the way he's lined up. So the Texans

865
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:13,279
Speaker 1: are gonna have to figure out how they're gonna stop

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00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:17,920
Speaker 1: Dalton Kincaid and where he's lined up, where they're gonna

867
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Speaker 1: how they're gonna treat him depending on where he lines up.

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Speaker 2: So he creates a lot of issues for defenses.

869
00:38:23,440 --> 00:38:26,000
Speaker 1: And finally, eliminate the chef. The chef is James Cook.

870
00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:29,600
Speaker 1: He's been cooking since Joe Brady took over. They get

871
00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:32,799
Speaker 1: him about fifteen to sixteen touches a game, and he's

872
00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:36,040
Speaker 1: really really good in the screen game. Texas have to

873
00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:38,960
Speaker 1: take something away. If they're gonna let him run for

874
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:40,400
Speaker 1: a million yards and they have to take away the

875
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:43,120
Speaker 1: screen game. They've got to be cognizant of James Cook.

876
00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:46,120
Speaker 1: Where he's lined up, where is he in relation to Kinkaid,

877
00:38:46,239 --> 00:38:48,239
Speaker 1: What can they do with one another in the passing game.

878
00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:51,000
Speaker 1: James Cook becomes a big factor in this game because

879
00:38:51,080 --> 00:38:54,719
Speaker 1: there's no Khalil Shakir here would be my fourth key.

880
00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:58,120
Speaker 1: Knowing that Shakier would be out this Curtis Samuel more

881
00:38:58,120 --> 00:39:01,080
Speaker 1: than likely steps into that role for Khalil Shakurra.

882
00:39:01,160 --> 00:39:01,720
Speaker 2: He's different.

883
00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:06,759
Speaker 1: He's not as like Shakira is crafty and tough and

884
00:39:06,880 --> 00:39:09,480
Speaker 1: really good hands. Samuel is a former running back, so

885
00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:12,239
Speaker 1: he's got some explosiveness and some twitch, but he doesn't

886
00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:15,120
Speaker 1: quite have the receiver acumen that Shakira does. But I

887
00:39:15,120 --> 00:39:18,440
Speaker 1: would imagine we'll see number one Curtis Samuel a bunch

888
00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:19,880
Speaker 1: in this past game, all right, it's get to the

889
00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:20,560
Speaker 1: Bills defense.

890
00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:21,759
Speaker 2: They give up one.

891
00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:24,440
Speaker 1: Hundred and fifty seven yards per game on the ground

892
00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:27,479
Speaker 1: thirtiethe in the NFL now only one hundred and sixty

893
00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:28,520
Speaker 1: five yards per game in the year.

894
00:39:28,520 --> 00:39:29,440
Speaker 2: That's six to the NFL.

895
00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:31,480
Speaker 1: And they're like the middle of the pack total yards

896
00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:33,160
Speaker 1: three hundred twenty two yards per game.

897
00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:34,000
Speaker 2: But here's the big key.

898
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:37,960
Speaker 1: They've generated seven turnovers thus far and they've only fumbled

899
00:39:37,960 --> 00:39:40,600
Speaker 1: the ball twice and Allen has not thrown any interceptions,

900
00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:43,520
Speaker 1: so that means they're plus five in turnover margin.

901
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:44,600
Speaker 2: That's huge.

902
00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:47,600
Speaker 1: Now, one of the biggest keys that I have, I

903
00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:48,640
Speaker 1: have two keys.

904
00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:54,000
Speaker 2: One was one was oh I did not.

905
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:57,279
Speaker 1: Have Khali Shakira as a key, but one key defensively,

906
00:39:57,280 --> 00:39:59,040
Speaker 1: It's gonna have to change and the Bills are gonna

907
00:39:59,040 --> 00:40:02,040
Speaker 1: have to understand what to do without Ed Oliver and

908
00:40:02,080 --> 00:40:05,360
Speaker 1: without Austin Johnson. So the Texans, we're gonna face a

909
00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:07,399
Speaker 1: guy in Oliver that they really hadn't faced all year.

910
00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:10,799
Speaker 1: Most of the guys they've been facing three ten, three fifteen, you.

911
00:40:10,719 --> 00:40:13,960
Speaker 2: Know, good power, size, things like that. But Oliver's got

912
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:15,000
Speaker 2: a different level of quickness.

913
00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:15,800
Speaker 4: He is out.

914
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:18,240
Speaker 1: He will not play in this game in a return

915
00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:21,319
Speaker 1: to the city of Houston. So that's a major key

916
00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:23,799
Speaker 1: that he is out. So let's start with the key

917
00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:26,840
Speaker 1: of mister underrated. Now, Russell Wilson, you've seen.

918
00:40:26,719 --> 00:40:29,040
Speaker 2: It, mister u limited.

919
00:40:29,239 --> 00:40:31,839
Speaker 1: Well, I think Christian Benford, the corner for the Buffalo Bills.

920
00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:36,280
Speaker 1: Walk to a mirror and say, mister under raded. Christian Benford,

921
00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:38,200
Speaker 1: if you haven't paying attention, is one of the better

922
00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:39,880
Speaker 1: corners in this league.

923
00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:41,200
Speaker 2: I wouldn't be.

924
00:40:41,239 --> 00:40:45,600
Speaker 1: Surprised if there's some traveling with Christian Benford and Nico Collins.

925
00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:47,080
Speaker 2: Maybe try and match him up.

926
00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:50,440
Speaker 1: I don't know that Benford stay with Nico, but he

927
00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:53,640
Speaker 1: plays at a very high level, very smart, physical, good

928
00:40:53,640 --> 00:40:58,160
Speaker 1: ball skills, doesn't get overly grabby or handsy. Christian Benford

929
00:40:58,200 --> 00:40:59,439
Speaker 1: is one of the better DB's in the league.

930
00:40:59,480 --> 00:40:59,840
Speaker 2: Nobody knows.

931
00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:02,640
Speaker 1: Pay attention to number forty seven. He is him in

932
00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:05,640
Speaker 1: that secondary for sure. And I talked about at Oliver

933
00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:08,120
Speaker 1: is a key because he's not there. Now, this is

934
00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:11,360
Speaker 1: the key for the Texans offense. They gotta handle guys

935
00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:14,800
Speaker 1: that they're probably more depth at blocking as opposed to

936
00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:15,520
Speaker 1: guy like Get Oliver.

937
00:41:15,640 --> 00:41:18,319
Speaker 2: So this run game, the Texans has got to take off.

938
00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:19,879
Speaker 2: I don't know who's starting a running back. I don't

939
00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:20,640
Speaker 2: know who's available.

940
00:41:20,680 --> 00:41:23,840
Speaker 1: We know Joe's not, so Damian Pierce is available, If

941
00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:28,400
Speaker 1: Cam Akers available, Daria Goombwala we know he is, and

942
00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:30,880
Speaker 1: maybe JJ Taylor maybe not, don't know, depending on what

943
00:41:30,880 --> 00:41:33,000
Speaker 1: happens to David Pierce. They gotta running rock Man, and

944
00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:35,839
Speaker 1: they got to run it where Ed Oliver would have been.

945
00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:39,560
Speaker 1: And finally I mentioned the safety situation for the Bills.

946
00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:42,160
Speaker 1: Safety situation for the Bills is not great. So Texas

947
00:41:42,200 --> 00:41:44,880
Speaker 1: have to challenge that. They got to challenge tomorrow Hamlet.

948
00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:48,040
Speaker 1: They got to challenge Cole Bishop. Are those guys' eyes

949
00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:50,120
Speaker 1: gonna be in the right spot? Are those guys gonna

950
00:41:50,160 --> 00:41:53,960
Speaker 1: be overly conservative and playing deeper than they normally would

951
00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:55,479
Speaker 1: because they don't want to get beat over the top.

952
00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:59,799
Speaker 1: They gotta challenge those safeties, whether it's they're playing too deep,

953
00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:02,279
Speaker 1: catching their meat routs in front of them, they're playing

954
00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:04,399
Speaker 1: too shallow, go over the top of them. It's gonna

955
00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:06,560
Speaker 1: be a tough ball game for those safeties, guys that

956
00:42:06,600 --> 00:42:08,919
Speaker 1: haven't had a lot of experience. Hamlin since twenty twenty

957
00:42:08,960 --> 00:42:11,480
Speaker 1: two when he got injured, and then Cole Bishop has

958
00:42:11,520 --> 00:42:14,440
Speaker 1: not started in the NFL, so his first game is

959
00:42:14,480 --> 00:42:16,800
Speaker 1: gonna have to go against CJ. Stroud, Diggs, Coles Adell.

960
00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:18,799
Speaker 1: That is gonna end up being a good thing for

961
00:42:18,840 --> 00:42:22,920
Speaker 1: the Texans hopefully, So they are your keys to the game.

962
00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:23,640
Speaker 2: All Right, we get back.

963
00:42:23,680 --> 00:42:25,359
Speaker 1: We gotta do our predictions because We've got a jam

964
00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:28,480
Speaker 1: pack second hour, so I'm doing my NFL predictions that

965
00:42:28,560 --> 00:42:29,640
Speaker 1: we are going to fly.

966
00:42:30,120 --> 00:42:30,840
Speaker 4: So get ready.

967
00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:35,879
Speaker 2: That's next. I'm Texans All Access. All right, it's time

968
00:42:35,960 --> 00:42:36,880
Speaker 2: to roll, baby.

969
00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:38,920
Speaker 1: We gotta get it done because we got a lot

970
00:42:38,960 --> 00:42:43,200
Speaker 1: of NFL games this weekend, and thankfully we got four

971
00:42:43,239 --> 00:42:45,600
Speaker 1: teams on a buy so that'll help me get this

972
00:42:45,719 --> 00:42:48,040
Speaker 1: into a final segment. Appreciate you being with me on

973
00:42:48,080 --> 00:42:50,840
Speaker 1: Texans All Access. I'm your host, John Harris, football analyst,

974
00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:54,239
Speaker 1: sideline reporter for your Houston Texans, And man, did we

975
00:42:54,239 --> 00:42:57,320
Speaker 1: have a gym last night on Thursday night? Holy smokes

976
00:42:57,360 --> 00:42:59,560
Speaker 1: thirty six thirty. The Falcons get it done.

977
00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:00,080
Speaker 2: I was wrong.

978
00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:01,600
Speaker 1: I had the Bucks. I thought the Bucks were gonna

979
00:43:01,640 --> 00:43:03,839
Speaker 1: win that thing. But a lot of credit to Kirk

980
00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:06,719
Speaker 1: Cousins five hundred and nine yards. He's thrown for the

981
00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:11,120
Speaker 1: most yards in a single game, age thirty five plus.

982
00:43:11,160 --> 00:43:14,560
Speaker 2: Man, what a game it was. Buccaneers were really kind

983
00:43:14,560 --> 00:43:15,240
Speaker 2: of in control.

984
00:43:15,320 --> 00:43:18,520
Speaker 1: Bucky Irving fumbled the fourth quarter as they were gonna

985
00:43:18,520 --> 00:43:19,560
Speaker 1: go down and get a fuel goal.

986
00:43:19,600 --> 00:43:22,040
Speaker 2: That probably would have made it difficult for the Falcons.

987
00:43:21,560 --> 00:43:24,520
Speaker 1: To tie it, but didn't happen, didn't get to win.

988
00:43:24,719 --> 00:43:29,360
Speaker 1: Falcons did one by six and covered. Okay, we gotta go,

989
00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:31,279
Speaker 1: so let's do it right here.

990
00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:32,800
Speaker 2: Let's go to London.

991
00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:35,240
Speaker 1: First of all, got the Vikings taken on the Jets.

992
00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:37,759
Speaker 1: Minnesota's faired by two and a half.

993
00:43:37,760 --> 00:43:38,400
Speaker 2: Over in London.

994
00:43:38,440 --> 00:43:40,080
Speaker 1: I do think the Jets will play a little bit better,

995
00:43:40,120 --> 00:43:42,000
Speaker 1: but I just think with all the different things Brian

996
00:43:42,040 --> 00:43:45,040
Speaker 1: Flores can throw at the Jets, and you're traveling to London,

997
00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:46,919
Speaker 1: so you lose a little bit of prep time. Going

998
00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:48,719
Speaker 1: Vikings to win and cover that two and a half

999
00:43:48,760 --> 00:43:50,600
Speaker 1: and get the five and oho. Ravens taking on the

1000
00:43:50,640 --> 00:43:53,680
Speaker 1: Bengals in Cincinnati. Baltimore was faired by two and a half.

1001
00:43:53,520 --> 00:43:55,759
Speaker 1: If the Ravens have found something, I think they win

1002
00:43:55,840 --> 00:43:58,000
Speaker 1: this and win it going away. Kind of feel like

1003
00:43:58,040 --> 00:44:00,440
Speaker 1: the Bengals are fools. Goal that's just that's just me.

1004
00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:03,799
Speaker 1: John de Taylor will not play for the Colts. They

1005
00:44:03,880 --> 00:44:06,920
Speaker 1: never play well in Duval County. They don't know about

1006
00:44:07,120 --> 00:44:10,680
Speaker 1: Anthony Richardson, who'd be playing in Jacksonville, about ninety minutes

1007
00:44:10,719 --> 00:44:13,640
Speaker 1: from his home in Gainesville. Therefore, I'm going with the

1008
00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:16,719
Speaker 1: desperate Jaguars. Jaguars are favored by three. They're gonna win

1009
00:44:16,719 --> 00:44:20,360
Speaker 1: this by seven. Let's go twenty four to seventeen. Jags

1010
00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:23,520
Speaker 1: always beat Colts in Duval County, so we're going with it.

1011
00:44:23,920 --> 00:44:29,959
Speaker 1: Dolphins Patriots, eugh, Patriots are playing in Foxborough. Dolphins going

1012
00:44:30,040 --> 00:44:36,080
Speaker 1: Snoop Huntley again, Patriots going Jacobe Brissette again. This oh boy,

1013
00:44:36,320 --> 00:44:38,480
Speaker 1: I'm not even sure that I know the best way

1014
00:44:38,520 --> 00:44:42,600
Speaker 1: of saying this, but let's just go with Patriots at home.

1015
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:44,640
Speaker 2: As they get ready for the Texans.

1016
00:44:44,719 --> 00:44:47,880
Speaker 1: Patriots are a one point dog, so we're taking Patriots.

1017
00:44:47,920 --> 00:44:50,000
Speaker 2: I don't know what else to do. Brown's taking out

1018
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:50,719
Speaker 2: of commanders.

1019
00:44:51,440 --> 00:44:54,200
Speaker 1: The story was supposed to beat Sean Watson this year,

1020
00:44:54,880 --> 00:44:58,719
Speaker 1: but Jayden Daniels has stolen the headlines from a lot

1021
00:44:58,719 --> 00:45:01,120
Speaker 1: of quarterbacks. They're favorite by three and a half. It'll

1022
00:45:01,120 --> 00:45:04,240
Speaker 1: be the toughest test. I think defensively, Daniels will face.

1023
00:45:04,360 --> 00:45:06,759
Speaker 1: I think that Jim Schwartz is gonna jump all over him.

1024
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:10,640
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with the Browns and upset. Browns win

1025
00:45:10,760 --> 00:45:13,120
Speaker 1: this thing outright. God, I can't believe I'm saying it.

1026
00:45:13,200 --> 00:45:15,200
Speaker 1: The Brown's gonna win this thing out right on the road.

1027
00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:18,000
Speaker 1: They're desperate, they've gotta have a win. I think they

1028
00:45:18,080 --> 00:45:19,160
Speaker 1: rally and get this win.

1029
00:45:19,440 --> 00:45:21,200
Speaker 2: All right. Panthers are taking on the Bears.

1030
00:45:21,200 --> 00:45:23,919
Speaker 1: This was supposed to be number one overalls against one another,

1031
00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:26,960
Speaker 1: Bryce Young against Kayleb Williams. We know what happened with

1032
00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:30,920
Speaker 1: Bryce Young. Now it's Andy Dalton coming to Chicago, Chicago's

1033
00:45:30,920 --> 00:45:33,080
Speaker 1: favorite by four. I think they'll win this thing by

1034
00:45:33,080 --> 00:45:35,480
Speaker 1: seven to ten. Give the Bears a win, get them

1035
00:45:35,480 --> 00:45:38,680
Speaker 1: to three and two. Panthers fall to one and four.

1036
00:45:38,760 --> 00:45:41,920
Speaker 1: Raiders and Broncos are both two and two. Maybe surprising

1037
00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:44,200
Speaker 1: on both sides in some respects. This game will take

1038
00:45:44,239 --> 00:45:46,440
Speaker 1: place in Denvers. The Broncos come off a ten to

1039
00:45:46,480 --> 00:45:47,040
Speaker 1: seven win.

1040
00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:47,600
Speaker 4: In New York.

1041
00:45:48,200 --> 00:45:50,000
Speaker 1: Still can't produce a lot of offense, but man, that

1042
00:45:50,160 --> 00:45:52,879
Speaker 1: defense is getting after the totals thirty five and a half.

1043
00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:55,120
Speaker 1: That's what I would tell you I don't think it'll

1044
00:45:55,120 --> 00:45:56,359
Speaker 1: get above thirty five and a half.

1045
00:45:56,400 --> 00:45:58,400
Speaker 2: I think both teams will struggle to score. But in

1046
00:45:58,440 --> 00:45:59,279
Speaker 2: the end, watch this.

1047
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:06,640
Speaker 1: The Raiders come up with a narrow win sixteen to thirteen.

1048
00:46:06,680 --> 00:46:08,879
Speaker 1: How about that, so they get a little upset. Raiders

1049
00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:11,000
Speaker 1: get to win on the road in Denver. The Cardinals

1050
00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:14,560
Speaker 1: are one and three. They've played well. They're gritty, they're tough,

1051
00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:17,120
Speaker 1: but they have won games. And they got spanked last

1052
00:46:17,160 --> 00:46:19,440
Speaker 1: week by the Commanders. The forty nine Ers started to

1053
00:46:19,440 --> 00:46:21,359
Speaker 1: put that thing in the left lane last week. Still

1054
00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:24,359
Speaker 1: know Christian McCaffrey, but the offense got it done. George Kittle,

1055
00:46:24,360 --> 00:46:27,120
Speaker 1: big touchdown, Jawan Jennings a huge day, brock Perdies found

1056
00:46:27,120 --> 00:46:29,919
Speaker 1: it again. Forty Nineers are fairy by seven and a half.

1057
00:46:29,960 --> 00:46:31,759
Speaker 1: To win this by ten thirty one to twenty one.

1058
00:46:31,800 --> 00:46:33,279
Speaker 1: So let's get the forty nine ers a win and

1059
00:46:33,320 --> 00:46:37,080
Speaker 1: a cover. A great afternoon game. Packers v rams out

1060
00:46:37,120 --> 00:46:40,640
Speaker 1: in so five that place will be green in Gold

1061
00:46:40,760 --> 00:46:41,640
Speaker 1: to the gills.

1062
00:46:42,440 --> 00:46:43,239
Speaker 2: Packers fans are.

1063
00:46:43,160 --> 00:46:46,200
Speaker 1: Gonna love going out to La Not enough she's out

1064
00:46:46,200 --> 00:46:48,560
Speaker 1: there for him to stay, but a lot to like.

1065
00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:51,120
Speaker 1: Green Bay fairy by three. I think green Bay wins this,

1066
00:46:51,160 --> 00:46:53,440
Speaker 1: even though Rams will played better. I think the Packers

1067
00:46:53,520 --> 00:46:55,359
Speaker 1: end up winning this and win it by more than three.

1068
00:46:55,480 --> 00:46:59,120
Speaker 1: Giants Seahawks another afternoon game. Giants will not have elaite neighbors.

1069
00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:01,879
Speaker 1: I think it's really tough. The Seahawks are faired by seven.

1070
00:47:01,920 --> 00:47:03,760
Speaker 1: I think they win this thing by a couple of touchdowns.

1071
00:47:03,840 --> 00:47:07,759
Speaker 1: Let's go thirty five twenty one Seahawks with a win

1072
00:47:07,840 --> 00:47:11,920
Speaker 1: and the cover. Sunday Night Cowboys Steelers. I think the

1073
00:47:11,960 --> 00:47:15,920
Speaker 1: Cowboys are gonna go to Atrasure Stadium and win this

1074
00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:17,960
Speaker 1: thing out right. Pittsford's favored by two and a half. Yes,

1075
00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:19,959
Speaker 1: another Cowboys are a mess, but they've had a little

1076
00:47:19,960 --> 00:47:24,000
Speaker 1: extra time. They had the long week long weekend, the

1077
00:47:24,040 --> 00:47:26,319
Speaker 1: mini bye after they beat the Giants, so they've had

1078
00:47:26,360 --> 00:47:27,000
Speaker 1: a lot of time.

1079
00:47:27,120 --> 00:47:28,759
Speaker 2: Then they're playing a Sunday night game. They should be

1080
00:47:28,760 --> 00:47:31,480
Speaker 2: well rested. I think Cowboys gonna win this thing.

1081
00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:33,840
Speaker 1: Mike Parsons is out, but still I think Cowboys are

1082
00:47:33,840 --> 00:47:35,600
Speaker 1: gonna find a way to upset the Steelers. And then

1083
00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:39,200
Speaker 1: Monday night in Kansas City, the Saints our two and

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Speaker 1: two Chiefs are four and oh Chiefs are faired by

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Speaker 1: five and a half. The mister sheet Rice, but chiefs

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Speaker 1: will get a win. Okay, First hours down, second hours

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Speaker 1: ready to go. We got Johnson Alexander the Houston Chronicle

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Speaker 1: joining us to discuss this one against the Buffalo.

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Speaker 2: Bills on Sunday. That's next on Texans All Access.

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Speaker 1: We got one hour down, one hour left to go,

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Speaker 1: as we are to close it down for this weekend

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Speaker 1: of Texas All Access. Mark's got another hour from eight

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Speaker 1: to nine. If you haven't been paying attention, we gouts

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Speaker 1: from six to eight, eight to nine on a Friday

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Speaker 1: evening as we send you off into the weekend getting

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Speaker 1: ready for a game on Sunday, because at noon against

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. Weis surprise and make this a primetimer.

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Speaker 1: But understand you can't have every game on primetime, but

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Speaker 1: this would this would.

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Speaker 2: Have been a good one.

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Speaker 1: Although I will say both sides have really kind of

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Speaker 1: minimized the whole you know, Stefan.

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Speaker 2: Diggs thing and all that.

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Speaker 1: So I give credit to both sides that really haven't

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Speaker 1: made that more of an issue than I thought national

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Speaker 1: people would make it. We did discuss that with our

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Speaker 1: own guy, our local guy who could be national. He's very,

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Speaker 1: very good that's Jonathan Alexander from the Houston Chronicle.

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Speaker 2: We call up with him and chatted about this game

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Speaker 2: and then some with.

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Speaker 3: Us now in studios. Jonathan Alexander of the Houston Chronicle.

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Speaker 3: All right, Jonathan, before we go anywhere else, set the

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Speaker 3: scene for me, because you and I did that chronicle

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Speaker 3: call on a feed of visual feed Zoom YouTube wherever

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Speaker 3: it was on Tuesday.

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Speaker 2: And what happened late in the call surprise for you.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, a pleasant surprise because we are signing out at

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Speaker 10: the end, and then all of a sudden, Mark Vandermier,

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Speaker 10: the Man of the Hour, gets a surprise visit from

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Speaker 10: Calm Hannah McNair in my office in his office, and

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Speaker 10: we got a chance to ask them bouth a question

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Speaker 10: on the spot, and it made it was already a

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Speaker 10: great call, but then't having that on top of it

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Speaker 10: made it even greater.

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Speaker 2: Little bonus time.

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Speaker 4: That's nice.

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Speaker 2: That was nice, John, You pulled that off or is

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Speaker 2: that just it just happened.

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Speaker 3: They were actually doing surprise and delight for people in

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Speaker 3: the building who worked there, and they walked by my

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Speaker 3: office and they just slid the door open and on

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Speaker 3: this chronicle.

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Speaker 2: It was a live call wasn't recording.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and Jamana hand it just comes right back behind me,

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Speaker 3: of course, and I'm like, okay, let's go in cal two.

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Speaker 3: And then they asked a few questions Jonathan, and I

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Speaker 3: forget the woman's telling Colleen.

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Speaker 2: So it was a lot of funny. Was pretty cool.

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Speaker 2: That's very cool.

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Speaker 6: I'm just going to tell everybody that you plan that.

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Speaker 2: I did not.

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Speaker 3: I did not plan it. I did not plan it,

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Speaker 3: but I wish I did it. Was that's the big

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Speaker 3: nearest for you, though. Added value.

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Speaker 1: That's all you're looking for, Added value, Okay, Jonathan.

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Speaker 2: Your your level of confidence.

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Speaker 1: About what Texans team you will see Sunday against the

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills, and your thoughts on the Bills.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, they're coming off that win over the Jaguars, and

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Speaker 10: I thought that was huge for their psyche for them

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00:50:29,040 --> 00:50:32,640
Speaker 10: to know that, you know, the Minnesota Vikings game, If they,

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Speaker 10: you know, commit penalties like that, they can lose badly.

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Speaker 10: And and it was good to see them get that

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Speaker 10: game winning drive. And I'm sure their confidence is high.

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Speaker 10: But they're playing a really good Bills team this Sunday.

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Speaker 10: I think in my power rankings, I have Bills five,

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Speaker 10: Texans six, I think you could flip flop them, and

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Speaker 10: I think this game will definitely decide that. I think

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Speaker 10: these teams are so close to where they are. The

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Speaker 10: Bills are a tough matchup, and you saw them get

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Speaker 10: beat pretty handedly against the Ravens, who I think are

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Speaker 10: still the criminal cop even though they lost, they were

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Speaker 10: dealing with penalties too, right, But Yeah, it's gonna be

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Speaker 10: a tough matchup in another one of their tougher games

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Speaker 10: to date.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Do you think this is the week they do cut

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Speaker 3: down on the penalties, because last week they cut down

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Speaker 3: on the false starts and the pre snap stuff, but

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Speaker 3: they still had the penalty bug biting them throughout the game,

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Speaker 3: especially at points in the second half.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 10: I think it was a good sign that those pre

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Speaker 10: snap penalties were cut down because they know obviously how

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Speaker 10: to fix them, and hopefully moving forward, they'll continue to

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Speaker 10: be cut down. A lot of the penalties you saw.

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Speaker 10: I think they had six penalties in the fourth quarter,

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Speaker 10: which was not great. Some illegal man downfield. Those are

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Speaker 10: things that you can obviously fix. The holding penalties I saw,

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Speaker 10: you know, changing directions and you know sometimes you fall

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Speaker 10: into those holding penalties. So I do believe this is

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Speaker 10: the game that they cut down on penalties, and it's

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Speaker 10: a game that they're going to have to if they

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Speaker 10: if they want to win.

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen, we saw him in twenty eighteen as a rookie,

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Speaker 1: looked lost. We saw him again to the next season.

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Speaker 1: We saw good Josh Allen. We saw wyoming Josh the

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Speaker 1: second half not so good. We saw him in twenty one.

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Speaker 1: We started to see what the hype was all about.

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Speaker 1: Now we see him at twenty twenty four. He hasn't

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Speaker 1: thrown an interception. He has been running the ball well

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Speaker 1: when he's been asked to run it. He has been

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Speaker 1: making good decisions with the ball. How good is Josh

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Speaker 1: Allen at this point? If you had to quarterback stack

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Speaker 1: these quarterbacks in the league, where's Josh faul amongst that group?

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Speaker 6: Yes's interesting.

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Speaker 10: I think coming into the season, I thought Josh Allen

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Speaker 10: might have a falloff because he lost Gave Davis and

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Speaker 10: Stefan Diggs. Yeah, you know, he's playing at an MVP level,

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Speaker 10: and I think if he continues on the trajectory that

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Speaker 10: he's playing is he will be named MVP. I mean,

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Speaker 10: you can just see he's poison in the pocket and

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Speaker 10: he can do whatever he wants and whatever he wants,

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Speaker 10: and he's able. Obviously, that dual threat ability gives him

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Speaker 10: that extra adage, the fact that he can run with

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Speaker 10: the football in the fact that he can throw it

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Speaker 10: over your head. And I think that's what is a

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Speaker 10: scary part for the Texans, because even though they haven't

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Speaker 10: had mistakes lately, they've shown to be susceptible to the

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Speaker 10: deep ball. Ye even Kamari last year got beat on

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Speaker 10: a double move that Trevor Lawrence fortunately missed him. So

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Speaker 10: I think that is the one kind of concern you

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Speaker 10: have if you're a Texans fan. Having said that, Yeah,

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Speaker 10: Josh Allen is just playing at an incredible level right now.

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Speaker 2: The running game. Are they gonna find it?

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Speaker 3: Are they gonna be able to do it with darray

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Speaker 3: Akers and JJ Taylor? And do you think Darry gets

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Speaker 3: used a little bit more in the running game this

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Speaker 3: week after last week's performance It was so good all around.

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure if he's RB one. But what are

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Speaker 2: your thoughts on?

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Speaker 10: Yeah, I think that's a great point because I looked

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Speaker 10: at the fourth quarter and Darry started to get more

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Speaker 10: touches later on, and I think that was a direct

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Speaker 10: result of him having such a great you know that

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Speaker 10: played at thirty one yard pass play to Darray and

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Speaker 10: he earned playing time from then on. So I could

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Speaker 10: see a little bit more of an almost an even split.

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Speaker 10: I still think Kim Akers would be the first and

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Speaker 10: second down guy, but I think they'll use look to

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Speaker 10: use Darra in a lot more asking situations and a

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Speaker 10: lot more third down situations, and he's They're gonna have

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Speaker 10: to be effective. But I think the key is going

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Speaker 10: to be on the on the offensive line. They're going

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Speaker 10: to have to open up holes for this this running

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Speaker 10: back group.

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Speaker 2: When they're a holes.

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Speaker 10: The running backs have had success, but when they haven't,

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Speaker 10: you know, there's been pressure in the backfield and they've

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Speaker 10: gotten stopped for losses. So it's going to be extremely

1241
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Speaker 10: difficult because obviously, Joe Mixon gives you a level that

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Speaker 10: other running backs can't give you.

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Speaker 6: He'll run you over in a second.

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Speaker 10: He's got good vision, good speed, and Cam Akers and

1245
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Speaker 10: and Dari just aren't at the level. But if the

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Speaker 10: running back can do a good job, I'm not sorry.

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00:54:33,800 --> 00:54:35,400
Speaker 10: If the offensive line can do a good job, I

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Speaker 10: think the running backs can have success.

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Speaker 1: Okay, the fine x factor. However, you choose, Jonathan, give

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Speaker 1: me an X factor in this game. A player, a unit,

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Speaker 1: particular group with some play situation. Give me an X

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00:54:48,920 --> 00:54:51,640
Speaker 1: factor for this game that people should probably be paying

1253
00:54:51,719 --> 00:54:53,879
Speaker 1: attention to if they're not. We know all about Toun

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Speaker 1: Sullen and Oliver and all the great stars in this game.

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Speaker 4: But what's an X factor in this game? You think?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 10: I do think it is the offensive line, like we

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Speaker 10: just talked about, in creating holes for the running running backs.

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Speaker 10: You look at the Bills and how they lost last week.

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Speaker 10: Derrick Henry was unstoppable. Now he is on another level,

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Speaker 10: but he had one hundred and ninety nine rushing yards

1262
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Speaker 10: against him. And he didn't do it by running up

1263
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Speaker 10: the middle. He did it by running on the outside.

1264
00:55:18,120 --> 00:55:21,240
Speaker 10: That's where the majority of his yards came. And obviously

1265
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Speaker 10: the Texans running backs Cam Akers is skillful at that.

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Speaker 10: Joe Mixon can do that. So if the Texans offensive

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Speaker 10: line can open up holes for their running backs and

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Speaker 10: to run and to run. Because the Bills don't give

1269
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Speaker 10: up a ton of yards passing, they're I think six

1270
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Speaker 10: in the league have given up no forty yard pass

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Speaker 10: plays and the second most twenty yard pass plays. So

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Speaker 10: the Texans is going to have to run the ball

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Speaker 10: with efficientcly with efficiency, and take care of it.

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Speaker 2: Jonathan Alexander of The Chronicle joining us.

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Speaker 3: Okay, the Jaguars who we saw last week and the

1276
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Speaker 3: Colts who we saw week one are going to play

1277
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Speaker 3: each other in North Florida, where the Colts never win.

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Speaker 3: So what do you think of this one as tear

1279
00:56:01,080 --> 00:56:04,560
Speaker 3: gimpion practice all week? Richardson what's going on there?

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Speaker 2: I don't know. But what do you make of Coats

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Speaker 2: Jags this weekend?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 10: I think the Jags got to get their first win.

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00:56:10,000 --> 00:56:14,960
Speaker 10: They're on five on four right now, and I know

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00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:16,799
Speaker 10: Doug Peterson's on the hot seat. I don't know if

1286
00:56:16,800 --> 00:56:19,919
Speaker 10: he did some damage by almost by kind of saying

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00:56:19,960 --> 00:56:22,200
Speaker 10: that he thought his offensive coordinator called a good game

1288
00:56:22,239 --> 00:56:25,240
Speaker 10: and it felt like they he shifted blame on the players.

1289
00:56:25,239 --> 00:56:27,560
Speaker 10: I don't know how that will affect things. But you

1290
00:56:27,680 --> 00:56:29,960
Speaker 10: think they're talented enough to get a win, and they

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00:56:29,960 --> 00:56:34,120
Speaker 10: played Detexans close and almost won there. I think the Colts,

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Speaker 10: even though they're playing pretty well. You know Anthony Richinson's

1293
00:56:37,400 --> 00:56:39,320
Speaker 10: doing with a little bit of an injury. Jonathan Taylor

1294
00:56:39,360 --> 00:56:42,399
Speaker 10: is their most important player on offense. I think they

1295
00:56:42,400 --> 00:56:44,040
Speaker 10: could be in for a loss, and I think it

1296
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Speaker 10: could be the Jaguars getting picking up their first win.

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Speaker 1: Okay Johnson, Devontae Adams played out for me?

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Speaker 2: Where does he end up? It feels like everybody's talking

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Speaker 2: about the Jets.

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00:56:53,520 --> 00:56:55,120
Speaker 1: It feels like every's talk about the Saints because of

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Speaker 1: the experienced Aaron Rodgers and Derek Carr, et cetera.

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Speaker 2: How does this play out for Devontae Adams the Raiders?

1303
00:57:00,680 --> 00:57:03,640
Speaker 1: His handstring will keep him from playing this weekend, they say,

1304
00:57:03,640 --> 00:57:06,239
Speaker 1: hamstringing with air quotes? How does this whole thing play

1305
00:57:06,239 --> 00:57:07,840
Speaker 1: out for Devanta Adams and the Raiders?

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Speaker 10: When I think of teams who would try their best

1307
00:57:10,640 --> 00:57:13,400
Speaker 10: to acquire Devanta Adams and that would do it with

1308
00:57:13,520 --> 00:57:16,400
Speaker 10: desperation and give up a little bit more than they should,

1309
00:57:16,440 --> 00:57:19,680
Speaker 10: I think it's the Jets just giving Robert Salah. He's

1310
00:57:19,760 --> 00:57:22,680
Speaker 10: kind of on the hot seat obviously. Devontae Adams played

1311
00:57:22,720 --> 00:57:24,960
Speaker 10: a number of years and had his most successful run.

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Speaker 6: With Aaron Rodgers.

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Speaker 10: Aaron Rodgers, they have not been shy about letting each

1314
00:57:29,600 --> 00:57:32,120
Speaker 10: other know the affinity they have for each other and

1315
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Speaker 10: that they would want to make a move. I think

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Speaker 10: he goes to the New York Jets and we'll I

1317
00:57:37,440 --> 00:57:39,480
Speaker 10: think we'll see a deal before the trade deadline.

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Speaker 6: That is my prediction. I'm sticking with it.

1319
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Speaker 3: Man, doubling down on that's going to be interesting. Jonathan

1320
00:57:44,600 --> 00:57:47,120
Speaker 3: Alexander with us, all right, as a guy who covers

1321
00:57:47,160 --> 00:57:51,120
Speaker 3: this sport and you're a beat reporter, but the national

1322
00:57:51,160 --> 00:57:54,040
Speaker 3: people am I right in saying a lot of people

1323
00:57:54,080 --> 00:57:57,800
Speaker 3: are covering the NFL now on a macro basis kind

1324
00:57:57,800 --> 00:57:59,920
Speaker 3: of like it's the NBA in the sense that this

1325
00:58:00,160 --> 00:58:01,800
Speaker 3: Jiggs versus the Bill's stuff.

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Speaker 2: You know, we live here and we don't feel that.

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00:58:04,440 --> 00:58:06,919
Speaker 3: We don't feel that about Stefan Diggs, but they zoom

1328
00:58:06,960 --> 00:58:09,040
Speaker 3: in on those narratives all the time to try to

1329
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Speaker 3: get hot takes going on the ESPN morning shows and

1330
00:58:12,120 --> 00:58:12,680
Speaker 3: stuff like that.

1331
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Speaker 2: Is that how you see it?

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Speaker 3: It feels very NBA like to me, where the personalities

1333
00:58:17,600 --> 00:58:20,080
Speaker 3: are more important than the teams to some of the media.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, I think I think you hit it right on

1335
00:58:23,400 --> 00:58:27,480
Speaker 10: the nail. It's what sells for those debate shows and

1336
00:58:28,160 --> 00:58:31,920
Speaker 10: national talk shows, but it's not what is reality. I've

1337
00:58:31,960 --> 00:58:34,720
Speaker 10: talked to various players in the locker room as I

1338
00:58:34,720 --> 00:58:37,280
Speaker 10: get set to write a Stephan Diggs feature for Sunday,

1339
00:58:37,880 --> 00:58:41,360
Speaker 10: is they haven't heard Stephan Diggs talk about Buffalo Bills,

1340
00:58:41,360 --> 00:58:43,760
Speaker 10: not once, and he's focused on this team.

1341
00:58:43,800 --> 00:58:45,919
Speaker 6: And I think that's true. I don't think they're lying

1342
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Speaker 6: about that.

1343
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Speaker 10: I think I'm sure it means something to Stefan Diggs obviously, sure,

1344
00:58:50,520 --> 00:58:53,800
Speaker 10: but he's not making it a big thing, right. We

1345
00:58:53,840 --> 00:58:55,600
Speaker 10: talked to him in the locker room yesterday and he

1346
00:58:55,600 --> 00:58:58,040
Speaker 10: said it's not a big deal. So I think they'll

1347
00:58:58,080 --> 00:59:00,800
Speaker 10: go into this hoping that they get a and then

1348
00:59:01,080 --> 00:59:03,160
Speaker 10: after if they get a win, then they'll celebrate and

1349
00:59:03,200 --> 00:59:05,800
Speaker 10: then they'll talk at a little joke. But I don't

1350
00:59:05,840 --> 00:59:08,960
Speaker 10: think it's this big Stefan Diggs versus Bill's thing. I

1351
00:59:08,960 --> 00:59:11,360
Speaker 10: think that's a little bit overblown. And this is obviously

1352
00:59:11,400 --> 00:59:13,800
Speaker 10: what people are talking about on First Taking and some

1353
00:59:13,880 --> 00:59:14,640
Speaker 10: of the other shows.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the shouty shows, as people have called him the

1355
00:59:17,600 --> 00:59:23,240
Speaker 1: shouty shows. Speaking of Diggs and Nico and Tank. Thus far,

1356
00:59:23,280 --> 00:59:26,120
Speaker 1: it's been Nico, we STEP's got his touches. Think Steph

1357
00:59:26,160 --> 00:59:28,560
Speaker 1: as what twenty four to twenty five catches, which projects

1358
00:59:28,560 --> 00:59:30,800
Speaker 1: to a little bit over over one hundred, which I

1359
00:59:30,840 --> 00:59:32,400
Speaker 1: think we said, Man, you know, it'd be tough for him

1360
00:59:32,400 --> 00:59:33,760
Speaker 1: to get a hundred, but that's what he's on pace for.

1361
00:59:34,320 --> 00:59:36,240
Speaker 1: How do you think Tank gets worked back into the

1362
00:59:36,280 --> 00:59:39,360
Speaker 1: offense in some respects? He's had a few carries on

1363
00:59:39,480 --> 00:59:42,640
Speaker 1: reverses and things, but a couple of plays have been

1364
00:59:42,680 --> 00:59:43,160
Speaker 1: called back.

1365
00:59:43,000 --> 00:59:44,200
Speaker 2: For penalties that they've hit him on.

1366
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Speaker 1: How do you think Tank if he plays on Sunday,

1367
00:59:46,120 --> 00:59:48,000
Speaker 1: how do you think he gets incorporated back into this thing?

1368
00:59:48,680 --> 00:59:51,760
Speaker 10: Yeah, I've seen him really try to find different ways

1369
00:59:51,760 --> 00:59:54,560
Speaker 10: to keep Tank involved. I could potentially see him being

1370
00:59:54,640 --> 00:59:56,840
Speaker 10: used in the return game just to kind of get

1371
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Speaker 10: him going, get his confidence, make sure he's still included.

1372
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Speaker 10: You know a lot of the ways they used Tank

1373
01:00:02,600 --> 01:00:04,600
Speaker 10: last year was in the deep ball game and then

1374
01:00:04,600 --> 01:00:07,800
Speaker 10: with exposive plays, and those plays just aren't there anymore.

1375
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Speaker 6: Obviously.

1376
01:00:08,920 --> 01:00:10,919
Speaker 10: Teams are playing a lot of too high shell cover

1377
01:00:11,000 --> 01:00:13,600
Speaker 10: to to prevent that from happening. And I'm sure that's

1378
01:00:13,640 --> 01:00:16,320
Speaker 10: frustrating for Tank. But CJ talked about it earlier this

1379
01:00:16,360 --> 01:00:19,200
Speaker 10: week that they are going to be purposeful and trying

1380
01:00:19,200 --> 01:00:20,960
Speaker 10: to get him the ball in whichever way. So I

1381
01:00:20,960 --> 01:00:23,520
Speaker 10: think you may just see the Texans alter the way

1382
01:00:23,520 --> 01:00:27,480
Speaker 10: they use Tank Dell than previously, and and I think

1383
01:00:27,520 --> 01:00:29,640
Speaker 10: what they've done with Nico Collins is actually great and

1384
01:00:29,800 --> 01:00:31,680
Speaker 10: using him a lot in the intermediate game and let

1385
01:00:31,840 --> 01:00:34,440
Speaker 10: him go get the yards after catching. That's obviously worked

1386
01:00:35,000 --> 01:00:37,280
Speaker 10: against that cover two defense, So I think they'll probably

1387
01:00:37,320 --> 01:00:40,120
Speaker 10: try to find various ways to utilize Tank in the

1388
01:00:40,160 --> 01:00:40,600
Speaker 10: same way.

1389
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Speaker 3: So, Jonathan, now that the Astros lost, are you getting

1390
01:00:43,480 --> 01:00:44,520
Speaker 3: a lot of people saying.

1391
01:00:44,280 --> 01:00:46,120
Speaker 2: Hey, can we help you out with the Texans beat?

1392
01:00:46,480 --> 01:00:49,520
Speaker 10: Of course, that's that's always how it goes. But no,

1393
01:00:49,760 --> 01:00:54,320
Speaker 10: it's you know, Astros are the talker talker around town,

1394
01:00:54,400 --> 01:00:56,960
Speaker 10: and now that they've lost, I definitely expect to see

1395
01:00:56,960 --> 01:01:01,720
Speaker 10: more media members here and more help as the Texans

1396
01:01:01,760 --> 01:01:04,680
Speaker 10: become the focus of everybody in this city's attention.

1397
01:01:04,760 --> 01:01:06,560
Speaker 3: All right, Jonathan, what do you have going into the chronicle?

1398
01:01:06,600 --> 01:01:08,160
Speaker 3: You mentioned a Diggs Colin.

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Speaker 10: Gotta Digs Stefan Diggs story on Sunday and also, you know,

1400
01:01:13,440 --> 01:01:16,600
Speaker 10: I wrote a story about haircuts and the importance of it. Yeah,

1401
01:01:16,760 --> 01:01:20,040
Speaker 10: among Texans players. Was did pretty well, but we're turning

1402
01:01:20,040 --> 01:01:22,160
Speaker 10: it into a podcast. That's just a sneak peak, but

1403
01:01:23,320 --> 01:01:25,440
Speaker 10: we'll have that coming up this weekend.

1404
01:01:25,600 --> 01:01:28,960
Speaker 3: Haircuts Okay, Frank Ross involved in this.

1405
01:01:29,240 --> 01:01:32,720
Speaker 6: No Frank Ross involved the haircut pod.

1406
01:01:33,400 --> 01:01:37,080
Speaker 3: Frank freaking place Satra, it'd be cool anyway, Jonathan, thanks

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01:01:37,160 --> 01:01:37,840
Speaker 3: left for joining us.

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01:01:37,840 --> 01:01:38,520
Speaker 6: Thanks for having me.

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01:01:38,840 --> 01:01:40,880
Speaker 2: Oh man, we should have got a little Frankie cuts

1410
01:01:40,880 --> 01:01:41,200
Speaker 2: in there.

1411
01:01:41,600 --> 01:01:44,080
Speaker 1: Frank Cross is the man, and hopefully special teams start

1412
01:01:44,080 --> 01:01:45,600
Speaker 1: play a little better this weekend.

1413
01:01:45,680 --> 01:01:47,800
Speaker 2: It really get on track. It's always been really good

1414
01:01:47,880 --> 01:01:49,480
Speaker 2: units under Frank Cross, so it's.

1415
01:01:49,320 --> 01:01:51,560
Speaker 1: Been a little unusual for these four. I know it's

1416
01:01:51,600 --> 01:01:53,400
Speaker 1: been him probably pulling his hair out for some of

1417
01:01:53,440 --> 01:01:55,080
Speaker 1: the things that have happened. But they'll get it right

1418
01:01:55,200 --> 01:01:58,440
Speaker 1: this week. Need to get it right this week for sure.

1419
01:01:58,480 --> 01:02:02,439
Speaker 1: All right's men be Mike's coming up next? Chris Brown, No,

1420
01:02:02,560 --> 01:02:06,200
Speaker 1: not that Chris Brown, our our friend, Bill's play by

1421
01:02:06,240 --> 01:02:10,439
Speaker 1: play man officially made the number one play by play

1422
01:02:10,440 --> 01:02:13,320
Speaker 1: man for the Bills this year is Chris Brown for

1423
01:02:13,360 --> 01:02:15,200
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. He's next with Mark right here in

1424
01:02:15,200 --> 01:02:16,040
Speaker 1: Texans All Access.

1425
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Speaker 2: What's happened? Everybody?

1426
01:02:17,720 --> 01:02:18,200
Speaker 1: TG?

1427
01:02:18,400 --> 01:02:20,000
Speaker 2: I thank god it's Friday.

1428
01:02:20,040 --> 01:02:22,080
Speaker 1: Think out is a football Friday man, All kinds of

1429
01:02:22,120 --> 01:02:25,400
Speaker 1: football going on. Our guy, Andre Ware has his Alma

1430
01:02:25,480 --> 01:02:27,160
Speaker 1: manor Houston taking on TCU tonight.

1431
01:02:27,360 --> 01:02:29,600
Speaker 2: Friday night football has been kind of awesome, not kind

1432
01:02:29,600 --> 01:02:32,240
Speaker 2: of awesome. It's been awesome awesome all year long.

1433
01:02:32,280 --> 01:02:34,320
Speaker 1: So check out some college football if you're not going

1434
01:02:34,320 --> 01:02:35,920
Speaker 1: to a high school game. I know the high school

1435
01:02:35,920 --> 01:02:37,720
Speaker 1: games going on. Man, I wish here you could go,

1436
01:02:37,760 --> 01:02:39,760
Speaker 1: But obviously I'm tied up with this whole radio thing,

1437
01:02:40,040 --> 01:02:42,200
Speaker 1: so I gotta work. But I would love to go

1438
01:02:42,240 --> 01:02:45,160
Speaker 1: see some high school football. So some do some football

1439
01:02:45,160 --> 01:02:47,440
Speaker 1: watching on a Friday evening. And as you're watching, as

1440
01:02:47,480 --> 01:02:50,240
Speaker 1: you're driving to those games, I'm glad you're with me

1441
01:02:50,400 --> 01:02:52,440
Speaker 1: right here on Sports Radio six ten or listening to

1442
01:02:52,480 --> 01:02:55,000
Speaker 1: the Odyssey. Appy the way you're taking in, I appreciate.

1443
01:02:55,040 --> 01:02:56,840
Speaker 1: It's time for my meybe behind the Mike's one of

1444
01:02:56,920 --> 01:02:59,480
Speaker 1: my favorite segments all week. And we got a newbie.

1445
01:02:59,640 --> 01:03:01,680
Speaker 1: Not my Van, He's been around for a while, but

1446
01:03:01,800 --> 01:03:05,600
Speaker 1: Chris Brown is the new permanent play by play man

1447
01:03:05,600 --> 01:03:08,040
Speaker 1: for the Buffalo Bills, so this is his first journey.

1448
01:03:08,040 --> 01:03:11,960
Speaker 1: I'm men behind the mics with Mark Vandmir Tikolas joining us.

1449
01:03:12,000 --> 01:03:14,840
Speaker 3: Now is the voice of the Buffalo Bills, Chris Brown.

1450
01:03:14,920 --> 01:03:15,680
Speaker 2: Chris, how's it.

1451
01:03:15,680 --> 01:03:16,800
Speaker 11: Going going pretty well?

1452
01:03:16,880 --> 01:03:18,560
Speaker 3: Good to be with you, great to have you on

1453
01:03:18,720 --> 01:03:21,560
Speaker 3: and I know it's a bumpy ride always in the NFL.

1454
01:03:21,600 --> 01:03:23,920
Speaker 3: You're coming off a bumpy one with the Ravens, but

1455
01:03:24,600 --> 01:03:26,960
Speaker 3: overall with the Bills three and one start, what's your

1456
01:03:27,000 --> 01:03:29,800
Speaker 3: assessment through It's not quite a quarter of the season

1457
01:03:29,880 --> 01:03:32,520
Speaker 3: now with the seventeen games. I don't like that awkwardness.

1458
01:03:32,720 --> 01:03:35,040
Speaker 3: But what is your assessment so far with the Bills?

1459
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Speaker 2: Chris?

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Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean, I think the offense in terms of

1461
01:03:38,280 --> 01:03:42,760
Speaker 11: the passing game is probably trending ahead of schedule, just

1462
01:03:42,800 --> 01:03:45,080
Speaker 11: in terms of all the newness that four new receivers

1463
01:03:45,160 --> 01:03:48,400
Speaker 11: in that receiver room and the timing of the passing

1464
01:03:48,440 --> 01:03:51,640
Speaker 11: game had been pretty impressive before. You know, they kind

1465
01:03:51,640 --> 01:03:54,880
Speaker 11: of got tripped up in Week four at Baltimore, just

1466
01:03:54,960 --> 01:03:57,040
Speaker 11: kind of ran into a buzzsaw of a Ravens team

1467
01:03:57,080 --> 01:04:00,680
Speaker 11: that was lying in wait and really just played as

1468
01:04:00,720 --> 01:04:02,880
Speaker 11: close to a perfect game as you could expect, and

1469
01:04:03,360 --> 01:04:06,720
Speaker 11: the Bills were far from that themselves, just in terms

1470
01:04:06,760 --> 01:04:09,160
Speaker 11: of their pre snap communication on both sides of the ball,

1471
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Speaker 11: and really Baltimore just played with a lot more physicality.

1472
01:04:13,800 --> 01:04:16,680
Speaker 11: They just brought it and wanted the line of scrimmage

1473
01:04:16,920 --> 01:04:20,720
Speaker 11: Prior to that, Buffalo's offensive line had done exceptionally well

1474
01:04:21,320 --> 01:04:25,000
Speaker 11: in protecting Josh Allen in clearing lanes for the run game.

1475
01:04:25,680 --> 01:04:28,960
Speaker 11: They had been extraordinarily productive. They were the highest scoring

1476
01:04:28,960 --> 01:04:32,560
Speaker 11: team in football before last week, and you know, defensively

1477
01:04:32,640 --> 01:04:35,280
Speaker 11: they were able to at least hold it down using

1478
01:04:35,320 --> 01:04:38,760
Speaker 11: splash plays like sacks and takeaways. But last week we

1479
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Speaker 11: kind of saw some cracks in the armor, knowing they're

1480
01:04:42,200 --> 01:04:44,880
Speaker 11: going with backups at the second level of their defense

1481
01:04:44,920 --> 01:04:48,000
Speaker 11: with Matt Mlano to Rel Bernard and their nickel corner

1482
01:04:48,080 --> 01:04:50,560
Speaker 11: Tarren Johnson all out for the better part of the

1483
01:04:50,640 --> 01:04:53,000
Speaker 11: last three weeks and they're not going to get Milano

1484
01:04:53,040 --> 01:04:53,880
Speaker 11: back till December.

1485
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Speaker 4: All right.

1486
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Speaker 3: I know you get lots of questions about Stefan Diggs

1487
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Speaker 3: and he's our guy. Now obviously, tell me about these

1488
01:05:00,800 --> 01:05:03,919
Speaker 3: receivers and how that's worked out, because it looks pretty

1489
01:05:03,960 --> 01:05:04,680
Speaker 3: good so far.

1490
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Speaker 11: Yeah, it's a much more democratic wide receiver room, if

1491
01:05:08,560 --> 01:05:11,880
Speaker 11: you will, And it's because there really isn't an alpha

1492
01:05:11,920 --> 01:05:14,600
Speaker 11: dog number one receiver like it had been the last

1493
01:05:14,640 --> 01:05:17,560
Speaker 11: four years with Digs in the room, and so what

1494
01:05:17,600 --> 01:05:20,320
Speaker 11: that has done and I don't know that this was

1495
01:05:20,760 --> 01:05:23,600
Speaker 11: purposeful I think it's just kind of shaken out this way.

1496
01:05:24,440 --> 01:05:29,080
Speaker 11: But I think Josh Allen is playing more freely, if

1497
01:05:29,080 --> 01:05:31,439
Speaker 11: that's a way to describe it. I think he did

1498
01:05:31,480 --> 01:05:35,560
Speaker 11: feel compelled to make sure he was getting defind his

1499
01:05:35,720 --> 01:05:40,120
Speaker 11: targets through the course of a game. And it's interesting

1500
01:05:40,160 --> 01:05:42,680
Speaker 11: because the Green Bay Packers kind of took this approach

1501
01:05:42,760 --> 01:05:45,919
Speaker 11: last year with their receiving corps. They drafted a lot

1502
01:05:45,920 --> 01:05:48,080
Speaker 11: of young players over the last couple of years at

1503
01:05:48,160 --> 01:05:50,720
Speaker 11: tight end and receiver. And I heard Jordan Love in

1504
01:05:50,760 --> 01:05:53,680
Speaker 11: training camp this past summer set. He loves it because

1505
01:05:53,920 --> 01:05:57,720
Speaker 11: he just plays the play. He's not beholden to anybody

1506
01:05:57,760 --> 01:06:01,800
Speaker 11: to get them targets, get them involved in the game plan.

1507
01:06:02,360 --> 01:06:04,840
Speaker 11: And I think Josh is experiencing that with this group.

1508
01:06:05,120 --> 01:06:08,120
Speaker 11: He's just dropping back and throwing it to the open guy.

1509
01:06:08,240 --> 01:06:10,920
Speaker 11: He's just playing the play. There's just this new found

1510
01:06:10,960 --> 01:06:13,480
Speaker 11: freedom I think that we see in Josh Allen in

1511
01:06:13,480 --> 01:06:14,120
Speaker 11: the passing game.

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Speaker 3: Chris Brown, the voice of the Buffalo Bills, joining us,

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Speaker 3: what about the running game, James Cook, how's that working out?

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Speaker 3: Last year, we enjoyed the presence of Devin Singletary is

1515
01:06:22,600 --> 01:06:24,960
Speaker 3: now with the Giants, so I know your two years

1516
01:06:25,200 --> 01:06:27,840
Speaker 3: removed from him, but what about Cook and the rest

1517
01:06:27,880 --> 01:06:30,080
Speaker 3: of the ball carriers. I know Allen figures in big

1518
01:06:30,120 --> 01:06:30,960
Speaker 3: in the rushing attack.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, I think Cook may have had the quietest sixteen

1520
01:06:34,680 --> 01:06:37,040
Speaker 11: hundred yards from scrimmage season in the history of the

1521
01:06:37,120 --> 01:06:40,280
Speaker 11: NFL last year, and he's picked up right where he's

1522
01:06:40,320 --> 01:06:44,040
Speaker 11: left off. I think he's the most dynamic weapon on

1523
01:06:44,080 --> 01:06:46,960
Speaker 11: the offense for the Bills, maybe short of Georgia, short

1524
01:06:46,960 --> 01:06:50,440
Speaker 11: of Josh Allen, and they're not afraid to use him.

1525
01:06:50,480 --> 01:06:53,120
Speaker 11: I think the only reason they didn't use him more

1526
01:06:53,200 --> 01:06:55,080
Speaker 11: last week is they got behind too much on the

1527
01:06:55,120 --> 01:06:58,240
Speaker 11: scoreboard and just started taking to the air a little

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01:06:58,240 --> 01:07:01,400
Speaker 11: bit more. But Cook is is an instrumental part of

1529
01:07:01,440 --> 01:07:05,520
Speaker 11: this offense. He's good as a tone setter and to

1530
01:07:05,600 --> 01:07:08,840
Speaker 11: balance out their offense. I mean, before last week, Joe

1531
01:07:08,920 --> 01:07:11,520
Speaker 11: Brady was running the ball fifty seven percent of the time,

1532
01:07:11,600 --> 01:07:14,680
Speaker 11: and it's due largely to the strength of their offensive

1533
01:07:14,720 --> 01:07:17,800
Speaker 11: line and Cook as a decision maker in the run game.

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01:07:18,440 --> 01:07:21,320
Speaker 11: He's patient when he needs to be, and he's decisive

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01:07:21,360 --> 01:07:23,040
Speaker 11: in hitting the hole when he needs to be. He's

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01:07:23,080 --> 01:07:25,600
Speaker 11: just he's got great vision and then his four to

1537
01:07:25,600 --> 01:07:28,040
Speaker 11: four to two speed allows him to even pull away

1538
01:07:28,040 --> 01:07:30,160
Speaker 11: from defensive bacts when he's in the open field or

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01:07:30,520 --> 01:07:33,040
Speaker 11: into the secondary. So he's a critical weapon.

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01:07:32,800 --> 01:07:35,120
Speaker 3: For them, all right, Chris, Now let's talk about the defense.

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01:07:35,160 --> 01:07:37,800
Speaker 3: You mentioned some of the injuries, and I know there's

1542
01:07:37,840 --> 01:07:40,480
Speaker 3: pass rush there. You look at Rousseau and Miller and

1543
01:07:41,000 --> 01:07:42,880
Speaker 3: Dorian Williams leading the team in tackles.

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01:07:42,920 --> 01:07:44,520
Speaker 2: What about that side of the football.

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01:07:45,400 --> 01:07:47,400
Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean, like I said, they were kind of

1546
01:07:47,400 --> 01:07:51,520
Speaker 11: holding it together, you know, not having Bernard, Tarren Johnson

1547
01:07:51,560 --> 01:07:54,040
Speaker 11: and Milano in the lineup. I mean, the second level

1548
01:07:54,040 --> 01:07:57,960
Speaker 11: of their defense was completely decimated early in the season,

1549
01:07:58,280 --> 01:08:01,920
Speaker 11: and they were using a four formidable pass rush and

1550
01:08:02,120 --> 01:08:06,160
Speaker 11: good run defense to kind of stay ahead of opposing offense.

1551
01:08:06,200 --> 01:08:07,800
Speaker 11: And they were putting them in long down in distant

1552
01:08:07,800 --> 01:08:12,200
Speaker 11: situations and that allowed their penetrating front four to get home,

1553
01:08:12,440 --> 01:08:15,640
Speaker 11: put pressure on the passer, force turnover, sacks, those kinds

1554
01:08:15,640 --> 01:08:18,759
Speaker 11: of things. It was a lot harder last week against

1555
01:08:18,840 --> 01:08:22,200
Speaker 11: Derrick Henry, who kept them in favorable down in distance,

1556
01:08:22,320 --> 01:08:25,240
Speaker 11: was getting first downs before they even got to third down.

1557
01:08:26,439 --> 01:08:29,080
Speaker 11: So it'll be interesting to see what Houston's approach is

1558
01:08:29,200 --> 01:08:32,639
Speaker 11: to that. Now, as I mentioned, Darrell Bernard, their starting

1559
01:08:32,640 --> 01:08:37,200
Speaker 11: middle linebacker, started practicing last week. He had a pectoral

1560
01:08:37,240 --> 01:08:39,519
Speaker 11: injury suffered in Week two, but fortunately it was only

1561
01:08:39,520 --> 01:08:44,480
Speaker 11: a strain, not a tear. So it's looking and trending

1562
01:08:45,200 --> 01:08:48,120
Speaker 11: toward him having a chance to play this week, I believe,

1563
01:08:48,160 --> 01:08:50,200
Speaker 11: and if that's the case, that is a huge win

1564
01:08:50,880 --> 01:08:52,800
Speaker 11: for Buffalo if he can be in the lineup because

1565
01:08:52,800 --> 01:08:55,760
Speaker 11: he's their defensive captain. You could argue he was their

1566
01:08:55,800 --> 01:08:58,360
Speaker 11: defensive MVP last year as a first year starter in

1567
01:08:58,400 --> 01:09:03,400
Speaker 11: a second season, the defense takes a noticeable upgrade if

1568
01:09:03,400 --> 01:09:05,839
Speaker 11: he is in the lineup, So it's something to monitor

1569
01:09:05,920 --> 01:09:07,960
Speaker 11: through the course of this practice week.

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01:09:08,960 --> 01:09:12,040
Speaker 3: What is this era like, Chris, and I know you've

1571
01:09:12,120 --> 01:09:14,880
Speaker 3: recently relatively taken over as the voice of the Bills,

1572
01:09:14,920 --> 01:09:15,479
Speaker 3: but you've been.

1573
01:09:15,320 --> 01:09:16,679
Speaker 2: Involved for a long time.

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01:09:17,120 --> 01:09:21,240
Speaker 3: When you look at Josh Allen being drafted and getting

1575
01:09:21,240 --> 01:09:23,439
Speaker 3: to the playoffs in twenty nineteen, of course the Texans

1576
01:09:23,439 --> 01:09:26,640
Speaker 3: and Bill's met that postseason. Just being able to be

1577
01:09:26,760 --> 01:09:29,719
Speaker 3: in it year after year. I know there's always pressure

1578
01:09:29,760 --> 01:09:32,360
Speaker 3: they haven't been to the super Bowl yet, but this

1579
01:09:32,520 --> 01:09:35,920
Speaker 3: era of Bill's football is really it's to be looked

1580
01:09:35,960 --> 01:09:38,400
Speaker 3: at in a great light. I know It's not that

1581
01:09:38,520 --> 01:09:41,080
Speaker 3: Jim Kelly Bill's going to four Super Bowls and all that,

1582
01:09:41,240 --> 01:09:43,479
Speaker 3: but you are in it every year. How do the

1583
01:09:43,520 --> 01:09:46,880
Speaker 3: fans feel about it? The media, the entire Bills nation,

1584
01:09:47,040 --> 01:09:47,799
Speaker 3: Bill's mafia.

1585
01:09:48,360 --> 01:09:50,720
Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean, it's one of the most loyal fan

1586
01:09:50,800 --> 01:09:55,160
Speaker 11: bases in the league. So when you're this competitive on

1587
01:09:55,200 --> 01:09:58,160
Speaker 11: a year in, year out basis, you even get the

1588
01:09:58,200 --> 01:10:02,680
Speaker 11: casual fans jumping on board. So let's just say that

1589
01:10:03,280 --> 01:10:05,439
Speaker 11: the hype train for the Bills has been full for

1590
01:10:05,479 --> 01:10:07,479
Speaker 11: a while here, and you know, you look at the

1591
01:10:07,560 --> 01:10:10,080
Speaker 11: year over year success. I mean, the Bills and the

1592
01:10:10,120 --> 01:10:11,840
Speaker 11: Chiefs are the only two teams that have made the

1593
01:10:11,840 --> 01:10:14,760
Speaker 11: playoffs each of the last five years, so they've been

1594
01:10:14,880 --> 01:10:17,280
Speaker 11: right there. It's just Mahomes and the Chiefs that have

1595
01:10:17,360 --> 01:10:19,639
Speaker 11: kind of stood in their way along with everybody else.

1596
01:10:19,680 --> 01:10:22,880
Speaker 11: I mean, the Chiefs are everybody else's problem too, but

1597
01:10:22,960 --> 01:10:25,920
Speaker 11: they've been the main sticking point for Buffalo getting over

1598
01:10:25,960 --> 01:10:29,559
Speaker 11: the hump. So you know that's the task again this season,

1599
01:10:29,680 --> 01:10:32,080
Speaker 11: by the looks of things here in the early going.

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01:10:32,840 --> 01:10:35,120
Speaker 11: But yeah, I mean, I think they believe that the

1601
01:10:35,160 --> 01:10:38,000
Speaker 11: Bills can be contenders again. And you know, as long

1602
01:10:38,080 --> 01:10:41,200
Speaker 11: as you got seventeen back there you have reason, you know,

1603
01:10:41,240 --> 01:10:42,639
Speaker 11: it's reasonable to believe that.

1604
01:10:43,720 --> 01:10:48,080
Speaker 2: Big arrival for the Bills the Jets of the Patriots.

1605
01:10:47,520 --> 01:10:51,120
Speaker 11: Well, I think it's I think it's because the Patriots

1606
01:10:51,120 --> 01:10:54,679
Speaker 11: have fallen off here. They're not really a rival anymore,

1607
01:10:55,800 --> 01:10:58,400
Speaker 11: you know, ever since Tom Brady left and now Belichick's gone,

1608
01:10:58,479 --> 01:11:01,400
Speaker 11: and they're kind of a different entity in the division.

1609
01:11:01,960 --> 01:11:04,040
Speaker 11: I think the Dolphins would like to claim they're the

1610
01:11:04,080 --> 01:11:08,280
Speaker 11: biggest rival of the Bills, but that really hasn't been

1611
01:11:08,320 --> 01:11:12,720
Speaker 11: a rivalry. I mean, Bill fans call Bill's Dolphins the

1612
01:11:12,760 --> 01:11:15,920
Speaker 11: Who's your Daddy? Game? Because Josh Allen has been the

1613
01:11:15,960 --> 01:11:19,600
Speaker 11: Dolphins daddy in the last twelve or thirteen matchups. I

1614
01:11:19,640 --> 01:11:22,879
Speaker 11: think he's twelve and one, So that's not really a rivalry.

1615
01:11:22,920 --> 01:11:25,559
Speaker 11: And I don't think the Jets rivalry has really gotten

1616
01:11:25,560 --> 01:11:28,559
Speaker 11: off the ground with Rogers yet because he lasted four

1617
01:11:28,600 --> 01:11:30,479
Speaker 11: plays last year and then was out of the mix.

1618
01:11:31,080 --> 01:11:33,519
Speaker 11: So I don't know who you can say they really

1619
01:11:33,600 --> 01:11:37,000
Speaker 11: have a true rival right now, just in terms of

1620
01:11:37,000 --> 01:11:39,320
Speaker 11: the competitiveness between teams. But yeah, if I had to

1621
01:11:39,320 --> 01:11:41,760
Speaker 11: pick a team, it'd probably be the Jets because that

1622
01:11:41,840 --> 01:11:45,200
Speaker 11: defense always seems to give the Bills offense problems and

1623
01:11:45,240 --> 01:11:47,680
Speaker 11: that's what keeps the games close, you know. And now

1624
01:11:47,680 --> 01:11:49,960
Speaker 11: with Rogers in the fold, and you know they'll have

1625
01:11:50,000 --> 01:11:52,000
Speaker 11: to play them the week after they played the Texans

1626
01:11:52,000 --> 01:11:54,920
Speaker 11: on Monday Night Football at that live stadium, so they'll

1627
01:11:54,920 --> 01:11:57,200
Speaker 11: focus on this one. But yeah, that'll be a biggie

1628
01:11:57,240 --> 01:11:57,920
Speaker 11: in week six.

1629
01:11:58,360 --> 01:11:58,640
Speaker 4: All right.

1630
01:11:58,760 --> 01:12:01,599
Speaker 3: A few Buffalo questions, if I may, Chris Chris Brown,

1631
01:12:01,680 --> 01:12:04,080
Speaker 3: Voice of the Bills with us. First of all, is

1632
01:12:04,120 --> 01:12:06,960
Speaker 3: the resentment real that the Bills actually play in New

1633
01:12:07,040 --> 01:12:09,200
Speaker 3: York State and the Giants and Jets do not.

1634
01:12:10,120 --> 01:12:13,080
Speaker 11: I think it's more of a thing that Bills fans

1635
01:12:13,120 --> 01:12:16,280
Speaker 11: wear as a badge of honor, like we are the

1636
01:12:16,280 --> 01:12:19,639
Speaker 11: only team in New York State kind of thing. Some

1637
01:12:19,720 --> 01:12:22,000
Speaker 11: will even go as far as referring to them as

1638
01:12:22,439 --> 01:12:25,479
Speaker 11: the New Jersey Jets and the New Jersey Giants. So

1639
01:12:26,479 --> 01:12:28,840
Speaker 11: it's more of a fan thing, I think, than a

1640
01:12:28,840 --> 01:12:29,880
Speaker 11: player to player thing.

1641
01:12:30,439 --> 01:12:34,000
Speaker 3: Now we know the Sabers exist, So what NBA team

1642
01:12:34,120 --> 01:12:38,360
Speaker 3: and Major League Baseball teams do Buffalo fans follow?

1643
01:12:38,400 --> 01:12:39,960
Speaker 2: Where do they gravitate toward?

1644
01:12:40,560 --> 01:12:46,200
Speaker 11: So it's interesting because baseball wise, it's very divided, and

1645
01:12:46,400 --> 01:12:49,600
Speaker 11: if you think geographically, if you know where Buffalo is

1646
01:12:49,640 --> 01:12:51,720
Speaker 11: in New York State. It's the extreme western end of

1647
01:12:51,720 --> 01:12:58,200
Speaker 11: the state. So you could have Red Sox fans, Yankees fans,

1648
01:12:58,680 --> 01:13:04,519
Speaker 11: Toronto Blue Jays, Pittsburgh Pirates fans, and Cleveland Indians fans,

1649
01:13:04,600 --> 01:13:07,040
Speaker 11: because if you put a pin in the map of

1650
01:13:07,080 --> 01:13:11,200
Speaker 11: where Buffalo is, it is relatively in between all of

1651
01:13:11,240 --> 01:13:15,599
Speaker 11: those places. But I would say majority wise, it's Yankees

1652
01:13:15,640 --> 01:13:19,240
Speaker 11: and Red Sox here, which obviously spells for a lot

1653
01:13:19,240 --> 01:13:22,439
Speaker 11: of arguments and bars around here. You know, if both

1654
01:13:22,479 --> 01:13:25,080
Speaker 11: teams are in the playoffs. Knowing the Yankees Red Sox.

1655
01:13:24,920 --> 01:13:29,360
Speaker 3: Rivalry, okay, and Niagara Falls, we all know about it

1656
01:13:29,439 --> 01:13:31,920
Speaker 3: and you probably drive by it. So maybe this isn't

1657
01:13:31,920 --> 01:13:33,880
Speaker 3: the best question, But very often you live in a

1658
01:13:33,920 --> 01:13:36,800
Speaker 3: place that has a gigantic tourist attraction and people don't

1659
01:13:36,800 --> 01:13:40,200
Speaker 3: go who live there. Do people go to Niagara Falls

1660
01:13:40,240 --> 01:13:41,360
Speaker 3: who live in Buffalo.

1661
01:13:41,880 --> 01:13:43,439
Speaker 11: I mean, I think they might take it in for

1662
01:13:43,479 --> 01:13:47,599
Speaker 11: a day in the summertime, you know, I think it's

1663
01:13:47,680 --> 01:13:50,679
Speaker 11: like a been there, done that thing. I'm sure most

1664
01:13:50,680 --> 01:13:53,400
Speaker 11: Western New Yorkers have spent the day there at least once.

1665
01:13:55,080 --> 01:13:56,800
Speaker 11: But yeah, I don't know if it's something that people

1666
01:13:56,840 --> 01:13:59,479
Speaker 11: are frequenting every weekend if you will. I mean, it's

1667
01:14:00,040 --> 01:14:01,519
Speaker 11: what is it one of the a wonders of the world?

1668
01:14:01,600 --> 01:14:04,400
Speaker 11: I think so? Yeah. I mean it's obviously a major

1669
01:14:04,439 --> 01:14:08,519
Speaker 11: tourist attraction. Fifty years ago was a honeymoon capital. So

1670
01:14:08,920 --> 01:14:11,360
Speaker 11: I don't know if people still do that, but yeah,

1671
01:14:11,400 --> 01:14:14,160
Speaker 11: I mean it's still pretty spectacular, even when you consider

1672
01:14:14,200 --> 01:14:17,920
Speaker 11: that they divert like half of the water the hydro

1673
01:14:18,000 --> 01:14:21,240
Speaker 11: electric power, so what you see going over the falls

1674
01:14:21,320 --> 01:14:23,400
Speaker 11: is really only about fifty percent of the water that

1675
01:14:23,520 --> 01:14:24,519
Speaker 11: used to back in the day.

1676
01:14:25,439 --> 01:14:27,280
Speaker 2: That's incredible. I did not know that.

1677
01:14:27,479 --> 01:14:31,320
Speaker 3: All right, One more for you. Buffalo wings. Everybody knows

1678
01:14:31,360 --> 01:14:34,320
Speaker 3: about them. Everybody loves them. How much of a thing

1679
01:14:34,400 --> 01:14:36,680
Speaker 3: is it within the city or is it kind of

1680
01:14:36,720 --> 01:14:38,640
Speaker 3: like Philly cheese steak where you can find it, but

1681
01:14:38,680 --> 01:14:41,799
Speaker 3: it's a lot of touristy stuff. How do buffalo wings

1682
01:14:42,080 --> 01:14:43,240
Speaker 3: fit in Buffalo?

1683
01:14:44,120 --> 01:14:50,160
Speaker 11: Oh, it's It's probably the number one food topic in

1684
01:14:50,200 --> 01:14:53,440
Speaker 11: this city because there have been a lot of places

1685
01:14:53,479 --> 01:14:58,080
Speaker 11: that have you know, moved outside the rails. You know

1686
01:14:58,160 --> 01:15:01,240
Speaker 11: of regular wings. I mean, I'm not talking just barbecue,

1687
01:15:01,240 --> 01:15:04,080
Speaker 11: which I know people in Texas know all too much about,

1688
01:15:04,160 --> 01:15:08,240
Speaker 11: but you know, Cajun, honey butter, barbecue wings. I mean

1689
01:15:08,280 --> 01:15:10,519
Speaker 11: you could you can find just about any kind of

1690
01:15:10,560 --> 01:15:14,640
Speaker 11: wing here. I don't think they're going all California with it,

1691
01:15:14,720 --> 01:15:18,960
Speaker 11: like pineapple and stuff like that. But there are like

1692
01:15:19,240 --> 01:15:23,920
Speaker 11: hundreds of varieties of wings here, and there are ardent

1693
01:15:24,000 --> 01:15:27,840
Speaker 11: debates over the best wing spots in Buffalo, and people

1694
01:15:27,880 --> 01:15:30,840
Speaker 11: will get pretty heated about that, maybe even more than

1695
01:15:30,920 --> 01:15:34,400
Speaker 11: like Yankees Red Sox type arguments. People argue over the

1696
01:15:34,400 --> 01:15:38,519
Speaker 11: best wing joints here. And you know, much like I

1697
01:15:38,560 --> 01:15:41,200
Speaker 11: was telling you about how they wear, being the only

1698
01:15:41,479 --> 01:15:43,519
Speaker 11: NFL team in New York State is a badge of honor.

1699
01:15:43,560 --> 01:15:47,600
Speaker 11: Wings is kind of like the stamp for a Buffalonian.

1700
01:15:47,720 --> 01:15:50,760
Speaker 11: Like you know your wings, you have your spots, and

1701
01:15:51,000 --> 01:15:52,800
Speaker 11: you don't deviate from that very much.

1702
01:15:53,320 --> 01:15:56,000
Speaker 3: Well, we have them here too, but I'm sure they're

1703
01:15:56,200 --> 01:15:58,360
Speaker 3: much more authentic in the city of Buffalo.

1704
01:15:58,479 --> 01:16:00,720
Speaker 2: Chris, I so much for join us a great one

1705
01:16:00,760 --> 01:16:03,759
Speaker 2: on Sunday. All right, take care, Mark, there is Chris Brown.

1706
01:16:03,800 --> 01:16:06,080
Speaker 1: If your Bills fan out there listening to Texans all Access,

1707
01:16:06,080 --> 01:16:09,000
Speaker 1: well thank you. But that guy is he's awesome, man.

1708
01:16:09,200 --> 01:16:13,240
Speaker 1: He is absolutely a gem man. We've got to know him.

1709
01:16:13,320 --> 01:16:14,960
Speaker 1: A little bit the last couple years. See him at

1710
01:16:15,000 --> 01:16:17,799
Speaker 1: Combine things like that. So Chris Brown, best luck except

1711
01:16:18,000 --> 01:16:20,400
Speaker 1: on Sunday. All right, we get back. It's here from

1712
01:16:20,439 --> 01:16:24,000
Speaker 1: the man himself. It's our Friday Good Feelings with the

1713
01:16:24,040 --> 01:16:24,839
Speaker 1: Miko Ryans.

1714
01:16:24,880 --> 01:16:26,320
Speaker 2: That's next on Texans All Access.

1715
01:16:30,439 --> 01:16:32,639
Speaker 1: We are one final segment of this edition of Texans

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01:16:32,640 --> 01:16:35,240
Speaker 1: All Access from Monday, Texans Radio Studio. I'm your host,

1717
01:16:35,280 --> 01:16:39,160
Speaker 1: John Harris, football analyst, sideline reporter for your Houston Texans

1718
01:16:39,400 --> 01:16:42,200
Speaker 1: and it's a football feel good Friday, which means we

1719
01:16:42,320 --> 01:16:45,080
Speaker 1: end the show with the Miko Ryans.

1720
01:16:45,160 --> 01:16:47,240
Speaker 2: Here's the Miko chatting up with me.

1721
01:16:47,320 --> 01:16:50,879
Speaker 3: And Mark joining us now at studio. Head coach, Demico

1722
01:16:51,000 --> 01:16:52,479
Speaker 3: Ryans coach, how's it going.

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01:16:52,360 --> 01:16:54,040
Speaker 4: Hey, going great, Good to see you guys. I love

1724
01:16:54,080 --> 01:16:54,720
Speaker 4: the jacket too.

1725
01:16:55,160 --> 01:16:57,880
Speaker 2: No, well, it's reping h Town week. So here we go.

1726
01:16:57,920 --> 01:16:59,519
Speaker 2: We're repping. We'll get to that now.

1727
01:16:59,560 --> 01:17:02,360
Speaker 3: I want to be with a quote, whatever it takes,

1728
01:17:02,680 --> 01:17:06,559
Speaker 3: whoever it takes, however long it takes, finish with a win,

1729
01:17:06,960 --> 01:17:08,360
Speaker 3: Demiko Ryan's twenty twenty four.

1730
01:17:08,680 --> 01:17:12,160
Speaker 2: Okay, so expand on that. Obviously that was the case

1731
01:17:12,160 --> 01:17:12,959
Speaker 2: against Jacksonville.

1732
01:17:13,040 --> 01:17:13,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was the case.

1733
01:17:14,040 --> 01:17:16,879
Speaker 5: We talked about it going into this week, how everybody's

1734
01:17:16,880 --> 01:17:20,240
Speaker 5: else talking about how Jacksonville was in desperation mode they

1735
01:17:20,240 --> 01:17:22,120
Speaker 5: needed to win, and then speaking to my guys on

1736
01:17:22,200 --> 01:17:25,040
Speaker 5: Saturday night, I was like, we're in desperation mode, like

1737
01:17:25,080 --> 01:17:27,280
Speaker 5: we need this win bad. And it was just a

1738
01:17:27,320 --> 01:17:31,840
Speaker 5: reminder like you don't know whoever is going to show

1739
01:17:31,920 --> 01:17:33,679
Speaker 5: up and make the play of the game, Like which

1740
01:17:33,800 --> 01:17:35,720
Speaker 5: play is it? I was going through our team meaning

1741
01:17:35,720 --> 01:17:37,320
Speaker 5: it's like, oh, this is the play of the game.

1742
01:17:37,439 --> 01:17:39,840
Speaker 5: Jalen Petrie with the PBu, this is the.

1743
01:17:39,760 --> 01:17:40,519
Speaker 4: Play of the game.

1744
01:17:40,680 --> 01:17:44,920
Speaker 5: Foley and Mario with the stuff on the quarterback draw,

1745
01:17:45,439 --> 01:17:48,200
Speaker 5: or Eric Murray would a stop on third down darray.

1746
01:17:48,520 --> 01:17:52,519
Speaker 5: It's like every single guy whoever suited up for is

1747
01:17:52,760 --> 01:17:55,400
Speaker 5: it would be whoever whoever we needed to make the

1748
01:17:55,479 --> 01:17:56,679
Speaker 5: play at that time.

1749
01:17:57,160 --> 01:17:58,679
Speaker 4: We needed to make the play to win a game,

1750
01:17:58,720 --> 01:18:00,160
Speaker 4: and however we needed to do it.

1751
01:18:00,800 --> 01:18:03,720
Speaker 5: It was not in the faston that you would like

1752
01:18:03,800 --> 01:18:06,439
Speaker 5: to do it, but a offense needed to drive down

1753
01:18:06,560 --> 01:18:09,479
Speaker 5: milk the clock like till that's what they took.

1754
01:18:09,600 --> 01:18:10,719
Speaker 4: Defense you needed to.

1755
01:18:10,720 --> 01:18:13,559
Speaker 5: Win, and in the four minute mode you needed to

1756
01:18:13,560 --> 01:18:14,920
Speaker 5: get the offense to ball back.

1757
01:18:15,000 --> 01:18:17,400
Speaker 4: We did it. Tommy we needed a pun a great ball.

1758
01:18:17,280 --> 01:18:19,519
Speaker 5: To flip the fiit we did it like and so

1759
01:18:20,240 --> 01:18:24,040
Speaker 5: it was whoever it was, whatever, however long it was.

1760
01:18:24,640 --> 01:18:27,719
Speaker 4: I didn't want it to be on those lines that long.

1761
01:18:27,800 --> 01:18:32,559
Speaker 5: But no overtime, overtime, finished, finished with points, no overtime, coach.

1762
01:18:33,479 --> 01:18:35,920
Speaker 1: That last drive was kind of interesting because it feels

1763
01:18:35,960 --> 01:18:38,880
Speaker 1: like it goes from a two minute drive to a

1764
01:18:38,920 --> 01:18:43,040
Speaker 1: four minute drive, which are completely different ways of approaching it.

1765
01:18:43,560 --> 01:18:45,760
Speaker 1: When did that kind of kind of happened for you?

1766
01:18:45,880 --> 01:18:47,559
Speaker 1: Was it to throw the Nico when you're like, okay,

1767
01:18:47,560 --> 01:18:50,040
Speaker 1: we're at least in field goal range, then maybe we

1768
01:18:50,160 --> 01:18:52,040
Speaker 1: gotta go a little bit four minute mode here? How

1769
01:18:52,040 --> 01:18:54,360
Speaker 1: did you kind of handle that last drive from a

1770
01:18:54,400 --> 01:18:55,439
Speaker 1: game management standpoint?

1771
01:18:55,680 --> 01:18:58,480
Speaker 5: Right, that's the strategy from that standpoint. You want to

1772
01:18:58,479 --> 01:19:00,920
Speaker 5: press forward to get across midfield, and then you want

1773
01:19:00,920 --> 01:19:04,280
Speaker 5: to get into the red area. And so that explosive

1774
01:19:04,360 --> 01:19:06,400
Speaker 5: t Niko over the field, over the middle of the

1775
01:19:06,439 --> 01:19:09,200
Speaker 5: field that got us into the red zone. And so

1776
01:19:09,680 --> 01:19:12,680
Speaker 5: there's kind of hey, let's pump the brakes a little bit, like,

1777
01:19:12,880 --> 01:19:15,960
Speaker 5: let's keep moving the ball four let's run it want

1778
01:19:16,160 --> 01:19:19,240
Speaker 5: In that situation, I think Jacksonville still had two timeouts.

1779
01:19:19,640 --> 01:19:22,960
Speaker 5: So that point, our strategy is we want to score,

1780
01:19:23,160 --> 01:19:24,920
Speaker 5: but we want to leave them with as least time

1781
01:19:24,960 --> 01:19:27,720
Speaker 5: as possible. So make sure we get a completion. Know

1782
01:19:27,760 --> 01:19:30,120
Speaker 5: we're running the ball to make them burn their time out.

1783
01:19:30,479 --> 01:19:33,000
Speaker 5: All right, they burn one, run it again, make sure

1784
01:19:33,000 --> 01:19:35,040
Speaker 5: they burn the time out, and then we want to

1785
01:19:35,080 --> 01:19:37,600
Speaker 5: burn the time out under thirty seconds and then have

1786
01:19:37,640 --> 01:19:39,200
Speaker 5: a couple of cracks at the end zone.

1787
01:19:38,960 --> 01:19:41,680
Speaker 3: There you mentioned Darre obviously caught the game winner, but

1788
01:19:41,720 --> 01:19:44,200
Speaker 3: that run to get you inside the ten and other

1789
01:19:44,280 --> 01:19:46,280
Speaker 3: plays throughout the game, and this is out a day

1790
01:19:46,320 --> 01:19:48,040
Speaker 3: where you don't have Joe, you don't have Damian.

1791
01:19:48,080 --> 01:19:49,080
Speaker 2: Guys got to step up.

1792
01:19:49,240 --> 01:19:50,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, God stepped up.

1793
01:19:50,280 --> 01:19:53,840
Speaker 5: And you know, no got more important than Darre, right

1794
01:19:53,920 --> 01:19:57,160
Speaker 5: with him just being dependable, being trustworthy, being where he's

1795
01:19:57,160 --> 01:19:59,920
Speaker 5: supposed to be, whether it's he helped out and protect

1796
01:20:00,960 --> 01:20:04,800
Speaker 5: with as a back coming out of the backfield, but

1797
01:20:04,920 --> 01:20:06,840
Speaker 5: also just check downs. He was I think he had

1798
01:20:06,880 --> 01:20:10,880
Speaker 5: four cats, four targets, four catches over fifty yards. It

1799
01:20:11,000 --> 01:20:13,559
Speaker 5: was just he was the outlet when the defense, when

1800
01:20:13,600 --> 01:20:17,200
Speaker 5: the defense took away the deep digs and the deep.

1801
01:20:17,040 --> 01:20:18,160
Speaker 4: Ball that we were trying to throw.

1802
01:20:18,439 --> 01:20:20,160
Speaker 5: Cej was able to check the ball down a dar

1803
01:20:20,280 --> 01:20:23,000
Speaker 5: rate and he was able to turn a checkdown into

1804
01:20:23,040 --> 01:20:25,679
Speaker 5: first downs and that's very important for US coach.

1805
01:20:25,720 --> 01:20:28,600
Speaker 1: One of my favorite plays and I saw it up

1806
01:20:28,600 --> 01:20:31,160
Speaker 1: on the video border was happening, and I always I've

1807
01:20:31,160 --> 01:20:33,439
Speaker 1: thought about You talk about swarm mentality, and I think

1808
01:20:33,479 --> 01:20:35,120
Speaker 1: immediately for a lot of people to swarm mentally, Oh,

1809
01:20:35,160 --> 01:20:37,200
Speaker 1: you think defense defense. You know there's eight guys going

1810
01:20:37,240 --> 01:20:39,160
Speaker 1: to the ball and all that kind of stuff. But

1811
01:20:39,160 --> 01:20:40,920
Speaker 1: I also feel like it can come from the offense. And

1812
01:20:41,560 --> 01:20:43,800
Speaker 1: there's a throw to Nico on the sideline where he

1813
01:20:43,880 --> 01:20:46,400
Speaker 1: runs into Johnson like literally right in front of you.

1814
01:20:46,760 --> 01:20:49,160
Speaker 2: And I saw how energized you got from that.

1815
01:20:49,520 --> 01:20:51,600
Speaker 1: How much energy did you take from just seeing that

1816
01:20:51,640 --> 01:20:52,880
Speaker 1: physical stuff from Nico?

1817
01:20:53,360 --> 01:20:56,559
Speaker 5: Man, That's everything When we talked about wes R style

1818
01:20:56,600 --> 01:20:59,920
Speaker 5: of play, Like I want receivers finishing in bound. I

1819
01:21:00,040 --> 01:21:03,120
Speaker 5: don't want receivers running out of bounds, giving defenders a

1820
01:21:03,280 --> 01:21:05,640
Speaker 5: down off like you finished through them and get as

1821
01:21:05,680 --> 01:21:09,000
Speaker 5: many yards as possible. And Nico exhibits that every single

1822
01:21:09,000 --> 01:21:11,280
Speaker 5: time he steps on the fields. Well, I love Nico

1823
01:21:11,640 --> 01:21:14,400
Speaker 5: as a player, like he brings his all each and

1824
01:21:14,520 --> 01:21:17,080
Speaker 5: every game and the way he finished on the sideline

1825
01:21:17,120 --> 01:21:19,160
Speaker 5: is how I want every ball carry. You finish, you

1826
01:21:19,200 --> 01:21:22,160
Speaker 5: finish forward and you delivered a blow to the defender.

1827
01:21:22,400 --> 01:21:23,719
Speaker 2: What does it say about him?

1828
01:21:23,800 --> 01:21:27,160
Speaker 3: He's drafted in twenty twenty one, and you see some

1829
01:21:27,360 --> 01:21:29,840
Speaker 3: elements of it and then you take over. You get

1830
01:21:29,920 --> 01:21:33,000
Speaker 3: CJ in here. It explodes last year with him and

1831
01:21:33,120 --> 01:21:35,519
Speaker 3: obviously the greatest start ever for a Texans receiver this

1832
01:21:35,600 --> 01:21:38,320
Speaker 3: year through four games receiving yards. What does it say

1833
01:21:38,320 --> 01:21:40,320
Speaker 3: about him and the work he's put in to improve.

1834
01:21:40,360 --> 01:21:41,920
Speaker 3: I know you want to see guys get better all the.

1835
01:21:41,880 --> 01:21:45,160
Speaker 5: Time, sure, and Nico he's man. He's shown that, Like

1836
01:21:45,200 --> 01:21:47,120
Speaker 5: you talk about getting better and put in the work in.

1837
01:21:47,800 --> 01:21:50,000
Speaker 5: Like one thing that says some parts just his size,

1838
01:21:50,040 --> 01:21:54,040
Speaker 5: first and foremost, he's a big, physical receiver, and now

1839
01:21:54,080 --> 01:21:57,240
Speaker 5: you people don't realize how fast he is. He's probably

1840
01:21:57,240 --> 01:21:59,720
Speaker 5: one of the fastest guys as well. And then just

1841
01:21:59,760 --> 01:22:03,439
Speaker 5: as mindset of just being working hard, being deliberate in

1842
01:22:03,520 --> 01:22:07,000
Speaker 5: practice and working on that, just being consistent and reliable.

1843
01:22:07,360 --> 01:22:07,960
Speaker 4: He's done that.

1844
01:22:08,040 --> 01:22:10,400
Speaker 5: He's put that work in and now he's one of

1845
01:22:10,400 --> 01:22:11,719
Speaker 5: the best receivers in the NFL.

1846
01:22:11,800 --> 01:22:13,920
Speaker 1: And Cut you asked us about you at your pressure

1847
01:22:13,960 --> 01:22:16,439
Speaker 1: about you know, Daniel said something in locker room about

1848
01:22:16,840 --> 01:22:19,680
Speaker 1: in essence coach got into us a little bit that

1849
01:22:19,760 --> 01:22:20,799
Speaker 1: we needed to respond.

1850
01:22:21,320 --> 01:22:24,559
Speaker 2: What was that about? And what response did you get?

1851
01:22:24,680 --> 01:22:26,920
Speaker 1: I mean it felt like statistically you could see it

1852
01:22:26,920 --> 01:22:29,519
Speaker 1: because I think their last fifteen plays, I think it

1853
01:22:29,600 --> 01:22:30,800
Speaker 1: was they it was eleven.

1854
01:22:30,520 --> 01:22:33,160
Speaker 2: And twelve toll yards something like that. It was crazy.

1855
01:22:33,360 --> 01:22:35,760
Speaker 1: But what was that moment about and what was kind

1856
01:22:35,760 --> 01:22:37,160
Speaker 1: of the message that you want to deliver it to

1857
01:22:37,200 --> 01:22:38,439
Speaker 1: them that you wanted to see on the field.

1858
01:22:38,600 --> 01:22:41,200
Speaker 5: Yeah, that moment is for me as a coach. I

1859
01:22:41,200 --> 01:22:45,320
Speaker 5: can just feel energy and just watching how we were playing.

1860
01:22:45,360 --> 01:22:47,800
Speaker 5: Some of the runs that got out on us, it

1861
01:22:47,840 --> 01:22:50,960
Speaker 5: was just uncharacteristic of us, Like we set the edds

1862
01:22:51,439 --> 01:22:52,960
Speaker 5: and we don't set the EDGs and they get a

1863
01:22:53,000 --> 01:22:56,040
Speaker 5: run for twenty two yards, Like we supposed to be

1864
01:22:56,080 --> 01:22:58,720
Speaker 5: sticky in coverage. We're just letting guys run by us

1865
01:22:58,760 --> 01:23:01,720
Speaker 5: and that's not who we are defensively. And then as

1866
01:23:01,720 --> 01:23:04,160
Speaker 5: the guys come over to the sideline, I just you know,

1867
01:23:04,240 --> 01:23:07,040
Speaker 5: guys were looking down and feeling dejectives like man, what

1868
01:23:07,120 --> 01:23:09,599
Speaker 5: do we I It was that moment where us like

1869
01:23:09,680 --> 01:23:12,160
Speaker 5: what are we doing? Like we got to snap out

1870
01:23:12,160 --> 01:23:13,880
Speaker 5: of this funk or whatever we're in. We got to

1871
01:23:13,920 --> 01:23:16,040
Speaker 5: snap out of it and we got to pick it up.

1872
01:23:16,160 --> 01:23:18,320
Speaker 5: Get the energy right so we can win a ball game.

1873
01:23:18,760 --> 01:23:21,639
Speaker 5: We can't be feeling sorry for ourselves now wait till

1874
01:23:21,640 --> 01:23:23,639
Speaker 5: the game is over and we lose. And they were

1875
01:23:23,680 --> 01:23:26,720
Speaker 5: talking about the corrections. No, get it fixed right now,

1876
01:23:26,760 --> 01:23:29,960
Speaker 5: and I just wanted them to feel where I was,

1877
01:23:30,040 --> 01:23:32,559
Speaker 5: the urgency that I had, the desperation that I had

1878
01:23:32,600 --> 01:23:33,200
Speaker 5: to get a win.

1879
01:23:33,320 --> 01:23:34,679
Speaker 4: And that's how it should be every week.

1880
01:23:35,160 --> 01:23:38,160
Speaker 3: How much of football is that that fire, that energy

1881
01:23:38,200 --> 01:23:40,479
Speaker 3: that you need. You want to be schematically right, but

1882
01:23:40,560 --> 01:23:43,840
Speaker 3: you have to play with some extra aggression on Sundays, right.

1883
01:23:43,760 --> 01:23:46,599
Speaker 5: And you have to And that's where all teams don't

1884
01:23:46,640 --> 01:23:49,160
Speaker 5: play that way, and that's where I feel like we haven't.

1885
01:23:49,200 --> 01:23:52,519
Speaker 5: We can have an edge on our opponent. We're gonna

1886
01:23:52,560 --> 01:23:55,360
Speaker 5: play it right schematically, and then you play with that

1887
01:23:56,160 --> 01:24:00,679
Speaker 5: extra energy, that enthusiasm, right, the extra effort, like more

1888
01:24:00,720 --> 01:24:04,120
Speaker 5: guys showing up to the pole. Not only defense knocking

1889
01:24:04,120 --> 01:24:06,680
Speaker 5: a pile bag, but offensive line, Are you showing up?

1890
01:24:06,720 --> 01:24:09,599
Speaker 5: Are you pushing the pole forward? Like it's when you

1891
01:24:09,640 --> 01:24:13,280
Speaker 5: do that team starting like man, how can we there's

1892
01:24:13,360 --> 01:24:16,040
Speaker 5: too many of them. How can we stop these guys

1893
01:24:16,080 --> 01:24:19,320
Speaker 5: like they are truly all over the place. They're playing hard,

1894
01:24:19,360 --> 01:24:22,920
Speaker 5: they're playing relentless, and some teams are starting to bag

1895
01:24:22,960 --> 01:24:23,880
Speaker 5: down when you do that.

1896
01:24:24,880 --> 01:24:26,599
Speaker 1: I want to talk about something if you don't mind

1897
01:24:26,720 --> 01:24:28,200
Speaker 1: that we talked about in the post game, and I

1898
01:24:28,200 --> 01:24:31,720
Speaker 1: thought about this all the way home, about just that

1899
01:24:31,800 --> 01:24:35,960
Speaker 1: moment it's fourth and one, changing quarters, You go all

1900
01:24:35,960 --> 01:24:37,559
Speaker 1: the way down on the other side of the field,

1901
01:24:37,680 --> 01:24:39,720
Speaker 1: and they could think about it, but you could think

1902
01:24:39,720 --> 01:24:42,360
Speaker 1: about it. You talk to your guys, you remind them,

1903
01:24:42,400 --> 01:24:43,920
Speaker 1: and there's so many things I would imagine that you

1904
01:24:43,960 --> 01:24:46,360
Speaker 1: want to remind you guys, Hey remember this, remember this.

1905
01:24:46,479 --> 01:24:48,439
Speaker 2: You've only got a small amount of time.

1906
01:24:48,920 --> 01:24:50,960
Speaker 1: But can you take us through that moment of them

1907
01:24:51,040 --> 01:24:52,720
Speaker 1: changing the cord you just had to staying knocked that

1908
01:24:52,800 --> 01:24:53,439
Speaker 1: pass away.

1909
01:24:53,720 --> 01:24:55,960
Speaker 2: Now it's fourth down. Are they gonna kick it? Are

1910
01:24:55,960 --> 01:24:57,720
Speaker 2: they not? Can you take us through the kind of

1911
01:24:57,720 --> 01:24:58,280
Speaker 2: that moment.

1912
01:24:58,160 --> 01:25:00,679
Speaker 1: That thought process that you had before full and Mario

1913
01:25:00,720 --> 01:25:01,680
Speaker 1: got that stop right.

1914
01:25:01,760 --> 01:25:04,000
Speaker 5: Well, it starts with the big run that they had

1915
01:25:04,080 --> 01:25:06,240
Speaker 5: and for them to get into the red area, it

1916
01:25:06,320 --> 01:25:09,400
Speaker 5: was already like, okay, it's for down. Territory, like they're

1917
01:25:09,439 --> 01:25:11,719
Speaker 5: gonna try to score a touchdown on this, so let's

1918
01:25:11,720 --> 01:25:14,720
Speaker 5: win third down. You can't get too excited about the

1919
01:25:14,760 --> 01:25:17,800
Speaker 5: win on third down, but steam outstanding play by him

1920
01:25:18,320 --> 01:25:21,960
Speaker 5: and then quarter ins and it's like, Okay, I'm talking

1921
01:25:22,000 --> 01:25:25,160
Speaker 5: to Dino. Dino works out does our red zone preparation

1922
01:25:25,200 --> 01:25:27,880
Speaker 5: throughout the week. Hey what are you thinking? I'm thinking sneak?

1923
01:25:27,920 --> 01:25:30,240
Speaker 5: What do you It's like, well, where are they on

1924
01:25:30,280 --> 01:25:32,240
Speaker 5: the field. So there's a lot of conversation going back

1925
01:25:32,240 --> 01:25:34,599
Speaker 5: and forth with the coaches, but I'm just like, man,

1926
01:25:34,600 --> 01:25:37,280
Speaker 5: they're running quarterback sneak. If he's on the center, it's

1927
01:25:37,320 --> 01:25:41,479
Speaker 5: sneak empty, probably quarterback draw. So let's you know, we

1928
01:25:41,560 --> 01:25:44,280
Speaker 5: made an adjustment there with our defensive tackles to get

1929
01:25:44,280 --> 01:25:47,040
Speaker 5: them tighter, and Disease did a really great job of

1930
01:25:47,080 --> 01:25:52,120
Speaker 5: communicating to those guys of hey, just stay inside, Like

1931
01:25:52,200 --> 01:25:54,880
Speaker 5: whatever you do, stay inside. So the Disease and his

1932
01:25:54,960 --> 01:25:59,320
Speaker 5: communication Foley and Mario of actually executing it, it was

1933
01:25:59,400 --> 01:26:00,680
Speaker 5: a man, what a.

1934
01:26:00,640 --> 01:26:03,479
Speaker 3: Play, But you felt like, no way they're throwing it

1935
01:26:03,560 --> 01:26:05,400
Speaker 3: right here. You expected the quarterback draw.

1936
01:26:05,600 --> 01:26:08,360
Speaker 5: No way there, And Azse even brought it up like

1937
01:26:08,520 --> 01:26:10,160
Speaker 5: and while we were in the Huddy Bought Hey. When

1938
01:26:10,160 --> 01:26:13,439
Speaker 5: I was in Tennessee, Trevor, he just dust this on

1939
01:26:13,479 --> 01:26:16,519
Speaker 5: his own. He would reach so Asease was thinking it

1940
01:26:16,600 --> 01:26:19,519
Speaker 5: like so it's it made us even more powerful when

1941
01:26:19,520 --> 01:26:22,160
Speaker 5: the players have some thoughts in their minds too, of

1942
01:26:22,200 --> 01:26:23,800
Speaker 5: what type of plays to anticipate.

1943
01:26:23,880 --> 01:26:26,200
Speaker 1: How strong is that for players? We talked about this,

1944
01:26:26,320 --> 01:26:28,599
Speaker 1: Mark and I for a long time. Players that have recall,

1945
01:26:29,080 --> 01:26:30,960
Speaker 1: imagine you have that you can think back to a

1946
01:26:31,040 --> 01:26:33,320
Speaker 1: play that you had back in you know, two thousand

1947
01:26:33,320 --> 01:26:35,240
Speaker 1: and nine when you were playing against a particular team.

1948
01:26:35,520 --> 01:26:37,360
Speaker 1: But how important is that for a player to have

1949
01:26:37,520 --> 01:26:40,040
Speaker 1: that recall and be able to share it with his teammates.

1950
01:26:40,280 --> 01:26:42,000
Speaker 4: It's very important and interesting.

1951
01:26:42,040 --> 01:26:43,920
Speaker 5: You say that most of the recall happens on a

1952
01:26:43,960 --> 01:26:48,439
Speaker 5: bad place, so it shows plays I remember like, oh, man,

1953
01:26:48,479 --> 01:26:52,680
Speaker 5: I gave him a testown. Yeah, but you never forget that,

1954
01:26:53,400 --> 01:26:56,160
Speaker 5: I say, you never forget the scars like in those scars,

1955
01:26:56,200 --> 01:26:58,760
Speaker 5: you never forget and you know it was just you

1956
01:26:58,840 --> 01:27:01,439
Speaker 5: talk about executing it. We man, we needed a play

1957
01:27:01,520 --> 01:27:04,559
Speaker 5: votes right there after the gut punch of just seeing

1958
01:27:04,560 --> 01:27:07,840
Speaker 5: that run go for as long as it went. I mean, man,

1959
01:27:07,880 --> 01:27:10,360
Speaker 5: what a what a what a play for folio Mario

1960
01:27:10,439 --> 01:27:12,200
Speaker 5: to stand up when we need it, for Foley to

1961
01:27:12,200 --> 01:27:12,559
Speaker 5: make that.

1962
01:27:12,520 --> 01:27:13,840
Speaker 4: Play versus his old team.

1963
01:27:14,160 --> 01:27:16,519
Speaker 5: We always talk about guys, you go against your old team,

1964
01:27:16,560 --> 01:27:18,640
Speaker 5: you want to kind of be the reason why you

1965
01:27:18,680 --> 01:27:21,920
Speaker 5: win the game. And Foley he showed he was one

1966
01:27:21,960 --> 01:27:23,360
Speaker 5: of the reasons why we won that game.

1967
01:27:23,760 --> 01:27:26,360
Speaker 3: We had a ZS in a preseason TV production meeting

1968
01:27:26,400 --> 01:27:28,840
Speaker 3: and Johnny literally asked him, when you look in the mirror,

1969
01:27:28,880 --> 01:27:31,639
Speaker 3: do you see to Meeka Ryan, So do you look

1970
01:27:31,680 --> 01:27:34,640
Speaker 3: for yourself and players sometimes those attributes that you had

1971
01:27:34,680 --> 01:27:35,240
Speaker 3: as a player.

1972
01:27:35,439 --> 01:27:38,519
Speaker 5: No, I try to keep myself out of I mean,

1973
01:27:38,600 --> 01:27:41,519
Speaker 5: for me, I just want guys who really really enjoyed

1974
01:27:41,560 --> 01:27:44,080
Speaker 5: playing football. And I think it starts there when you

1975
01:27:44,120 --> 01:27:47,040
Speaker 5: really enjoy what you do and you're not just doing

1976
01:27:47,080 --> 01:27:49,240
Speaker 5: it because you can do it, like you really have

1977
01:27:49,400 --> 01:27:52,840
Speaker 5: passion behind it and you have a desire to get better.

1978
01:27:53,080 --> 01:27:54,960
Speaker 4: Like those are the guys I want to be around.

1979
01:27:55,040 --> 01:27:56,760
Speaker 4: And we have you talk about.

1980
01:27:56,479 --> 01:27:58,280
Speaker 5: God, we have so many guys on our team and

1981
01:27:58,520 --> 01:28:01,679
Speaker 5: like that, even like Joe Mixon digs the guys we've

1982
01:28:01,760 --> 01:28:05,240
Speaker 5: added a ZS like guys who show that type of

1983
01:28:05,400 --> 01:28:06,400
Speaker 5: passion for the game.

1984
01:28:07,080 --> 01:28:08,479
Speaker 4: Those are the guys I want to be around.

1985
01:28:08,760 --> 01:28:14,760
Speaker 1: No, it's true, It's true. He sees you and it is.

1986
01:28:14,720 --> 01:28:16,400
Speaker 2: I mean, you just watch him play. But coach, I

1987
01:28:16,439 --> 01:28:17,360
Speaker 2: think about his ease.

1988
01:28:17,800 --> 01:28:20,680
Speaker 1: You know, one of the things just watching him and

1989
01:28:20,800 --> 01:28:23,200
Speaker 1: just listening him, seeing him deliver the message in the

1990
01:28:23,240 --> 01:28:26,200
Speaker 1: huddle before the game, that he plays with that pack,

1991
01:28:26,280 --> 01:28:28,880
Speaker 1: he plays with, that swarm, you know, mentality you talk

1992
01:28:28,920 --> 01:28:30,519
Speaker 1: about all the time. I mean, that's a guy that

1993
01:28:30,760 --> 01:28:33,679
Speaker 1: I would imagine watching whether it's San Francisco or Tennessee.

1994
01:28:33,720 --> 01:28:36,240
Speaker 1: That stunk watching him at Tennessee last year. But it's

1995
01:28:36,280 --> 01:28:39,200
Speaker 1: beside the point. But now can you see that sort

1996
01:28:39,240 --> 01:28:41,120
Speaker 1: of rub off on the other players, Like can you

1997
01:28:41,160 --> 01:28:42,639
Speaker 1: see that sort of rubbing off on Henry?

1998
01:28:42,640 --> 01:28:44,519
Speaker 2: Now that those two have been together a little bit.

1999
01:28:44,680 --> 01:28:47,599
Speaker 4: And without a doubt, you need that that leader.

2000
01:28:47,640 --> 01:28:50,160
Speaker 5: You need that quarterback like CJ is a quarterback on

2001
01:28:50,200 --> 01:28:52,160
Speaker 5: the oh, you need that quarterback on the defense.

2002
01:28:52,600 --> 01:28:53,600
Speaker 4: And that's where A.

2003
01:28:53,720 --> 01:28:56,360
Speaker 5: Z's has done an outstanding job this year of being

2004
01:28:56,400 --> 01:28:59,439
Speaker 5: that leader, being that voice where it's not always coming

2005
01:28:59,479 --> 01:29:02,280
Speaker 5: from myself off as a coach. But I know the

2006
01:29:02,400 --> 01:29:04,640
Speaker 5: disease is going to deliver the right message. I know

2007
01:29:04,720 --> 01:29:06,600
Speaker 5: he's going to get the guys going. He's going to

2008
01:29:06,680 --> 01:29:09,120
Speaker 5: rally the truths and we need to be rallied. And

2009
01:29:09,520 --> 01:29:11,400
Speaker 5: you know, guys are going to feel his passion, they're

2010
01:29:11,400 --> 01:29:13,679
Speaker 5: going to feel his energy. And it's not only talk

2011
01:29:14,000 --> 01:29:16,280
Speaker 5: like it's substance because he's going to back it up

2012
01:29:16,600 --> 01:29:19,719
Speaker 5: with playing our style of ball. He's going to play physical,

2013
01:29:19,800 --> 01:29:23,320
Speaker 5: relentless like and that's what matters most when players see

2014
01:29:23,320 --> 01:29:26,200
Speaker 5: the style that you play with and the talk just

2015
01:29:26,400 --> 01:29:27,360
Speaker 5: backs it up as well.

2016
01:29:27,640 --> 01:29:28,360
Speaker 2: Coach CJ.

2017
01:29:28,479 --> 01:29:31,040
Speaker 3: Stroud, I don't even know what to ask the thoughts

2018
01:29:31,080 --> 01:29:35,640
Speaker 3: on st end of the game, it felt like, all right,

2019
01:29:35,680 --> 01:29:37,759
Speaker 3: this is going to happen. In fact, I was surprised

2020
01:29:37,800 --> 01:29:39,519
Speaker 3: it didn't happen with five plus to go. But your

2021
01:29:39,520 --> 01:29:41,519
Speaker 3: defense getst the ball back one more time. You knew

2022
01:29:41,520 --> 01:29:43,280
Speaker 3: you needed it, you got it. You made it all

2023
01:29:43,320 --> 01:29:43,680
Speaker 3: work out.

2024
01:29:43,960 --> 01:29:46,600
Speaker 5: It's the thing for me, Mark, it's the calm and

2025
01:29:46,640 --> 01:29:50,000
Speaker 5: the result. In that moment, it was like, it's the

2026
01:29:50,160 --> 01:29:52,960
Speaker 5: calm for me that sets him apart, and just being

2027
01:29:52,960 --> 01:29:55,599
Speaker 5: such a young quarterback for him to have that type

2028
01:29:55,640 --> 01:29:59,439
Speaker 5: of resolve as a young player and methodically just drive

2029
01:29:59,520 --> 01:30:02,680
Speaker 5: us down to feel and not waiver like it was.

2030
01:30:02,880 --> 01:30:06,559
Speaker 5: It's this confidence that he's exuding confidence in a manner

2031
01:30:06,760 --> 01:30:10,000
Speaker 5: like Okay, this is this is gonna happen. Like let's

2032
01:30:10,120 --> 01:30:13,240
Speaker 5: watching him work. It gives me confidence just watching the

2033
01:30:13,280 --> 01:30:16,280
Speaker 5: way he's operating on the sideline and just hoping he

2034
01:30:16,320 --> 01:30:19,320
Speaker 5: finds Nico down there somewhere to make a play. And

2035
01:30:19,360 --> 01:30:24,200
Speaker 5: I mean, you can't say enough about you know, a

2036
01:30:24,240 --> 01:30:27,160
Speaker 5: young quarterback playing the way he's playing. This is probably

2037
01:30:27,520 --> 01:30:29,800
Speaker 5: this game versus the Jacks, probably the best game he's

2038
01:30:29,840 --> 01:30:32,400
Speaker 5: had since he's been with us. It's just him, just

2039
01:30:32,840 --> 01:30:35,519
Speaker 5: the little things of just trying to play in the pocket,

2040
01:30:35,760 --> 01:30:38,840
Speaker 5: like when it's not there, having the micro movements in

2041
01:30:38,920 --> 01:30:41,679
Speaker 5: the pocket to step up that's not there, then escaping

2042
01:30:42,200 --> 01:30:42,960
Speaker 5: like and he was.

2043
01:30:43,320 --> 01:30:45,519
Speaker 4: He was very calm the entire game.

2044
01:30:45,560 --> 01:30:47,639
Speaker 5: He went through all of his progressions the right way,

2045
01:30:48,160 --> 01:30:51,200
Speaker 5: like got us out of some bad plays. There's just

2046
01:30:51,840 --> 01:30:54,439
Speaker 5: over and over again, we needed plays, We needed guys

2047
01:30:54,439 --> 01:30:55,040
Speaker 5: to step up.

2048
01:30:55,160 --> 01:30:56,559
Speaker 4: You know, CJ did that for us.

2049
01:30:56,640 --> 01:31:00,000
Speaker 1: But you think, what's what's telling about your your team?

2050
01:31:00,000 --> 01:31:02,080
Speaker 1: It was not just this year, but last year too.

2051
01:31:02,240 --> 01:31:05,120
Speaker 1: The second half was not going really well for the offense, right,

2052
01:31:05,120 --> 01:31:06,960
Speaker 1: and I know, too many three and outs to your

2053
01:31:06,960 --> 01:31:09,080
Speaker 1: liking and like you said earlier, the defense was not

2054
01:31:09,160 --> 01:31:11,880
Speaker 1: playing the way that you thought they should player that

2055
01:31:11,920 --> 01:31:12,679
Speaker 1: they could play.

2056
01:31:12,920 --> 01:31:14,400
Speaker 2: And yet when.

2057
01:31:14,240 --> 01:31:17,240
Speaker 1: You needed the drive, all the penalties won us one

2058
01:31:17,320 --> 01:31:19,760
Speaker 1: way you stayed ahead of the sticks and you move

2059
01:31:19,840 --> 01:31:23,280
Speaker 1: the ball. Is that a lesson for your offense to say, hey,

2060
01:31:23,320 --> 01:31:26,559
Speaker 1: this is how good we can be. Guys, let's take

2061
01:31:26,600 --> 01:31:28,840
Speaker 1: these things away and see what we can be and

2062
01:31:28,840 --> 01:31:30,080
Speaker 1: how scary that offense can.

2063
01:31:30,120 --> 01:31:32,240
Speaker 5: That's the approach, and that's what I showed you, guys,

2064
01:31:32,280 --> 01:31:34,720
Speaker 5: Like it's not a matter of not being able to

2065
01:31:34,720 --> 01:31:37,759
Speaker 5: move the football, Like we can move the football and

2066
01:31:37,840 --> 01:31:40,880
Speaker 5: we move it in those two minute drives and situate like, well,

2067
01:31:40,920 --> 01:31:44,240
Speaker 5: let's continue to we're explosive offense. But when we get

2068
01:31:44,240 --> 01:31:47,760
Speaker 5: out of our own way, whether it's penalties or it's

2069
01:31:48,160 --> 01:31:50,960
Speaker 5: guys not executing the call the right way, like when

2070
01:31:51,000 --> 01:31:53,600
Speaker 5: we clean those things up, like we can be a

2071
01:31:53,720 --> 01:31:57,040
Speaker 5: very explosive offense, and they're shown that. Now we don't

2072
01:31:57,120 --> 01:31:59,120
Speaker 5: like all the three and owls and the punts there

2073
01:31:59,160 --> 01:32:00,000
Speaker 5: in the second half.

2074
01:32:00,200 --> 01:32:02,559
Speaker 4: But like you said, whatever it took, like it took a.

2075
01:32:03,800 --> 01:32:05,840
Speaker 5: Two minute drive at the end of the game to

2076
01:32:06,000 --> 01:32:08,200
Speaker 5: win it, Like, okay, we're able to do that.

2077
01:32:08,360 --> 01:32:10,479
Speaker 4: Now, let's clean up all the other stuff.

2078
01:32:10,520 --> 01:32:13,080
Speaker 5: So in games like this, if we don't have to

2079
01:32:13,080 --> 01:32:16,200
Speaker 5: be in these situations, let's not make ourselves have to

2080
01:32:16,320 --> 01:32:18,040
Speaker 5: come back in these syple drives.

2081
01:32:18,160 --> 01:32:20,760
Speaker 3: I'm wondering when you open up training camp twenty twenty five,

2082
01:32:21,360 --> 01:32:23,479
Speaker 3: part of your speech can be, Hey, you never know

2083
01:32:23,520 --> 01:32:26,120
Speaker 3: what's gonna happen because we had an offset eye with

2084
01:32:26,200 --> 01:32:29,920
Speaker 3: Daria and British Brooks and no one could have predicted

2085
01:32:29,960 --> 01:32:31,960
Speaker 3: that as twenty twenty fourth to start a training camp

2086
01:32:32,080 --> 01:32:34,280
Speaker 3: with the game on the line, time running out and

2087
01:32:34,320 --> 01:32:35,120
Speaker 3: you made it all work.

2088
01:32:35,120 --> 01:32:40,040
Speaker 4: Wow, oh man, what I couldn't believe that.

2089
01:32:40,080 --> 01:32:41,960
Speaker 3: But it shows you everybody is so important and you

2090
01:32:42,040 --> 01:32:43,799
Speaker 3: never know who's gonna be able to contribute.

2091
01:32:43,840 --> 01:32:44,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, you never knowing this.

2092
01:32:45,120 --> 01:32:48,320
Speaker 5: That's why I never try to predict, like who makes

2093
01:32:48,360 --> 01:32:51,120
Speaker 5: the team or this guy he's a lock, and you

2094
01:32:51,200 --> 01:32:53,479
Speaker 5: have to have that like no, you let it all

2095
01:32:53,520 --> 01:32:56,479
Speaker 5: play out, and hoe coach always teld me it all

2096
01:32:56,520 --> 01:32:59,120
Speaker 5: sort of self out. It always does, like you can't

2097
01:32:59,120 --> 01:33:02,400
Speaker 5: worry about oh, have too many receivers at this spot

2098
01:33:02,520 --> 01:33:05,040
Speaker 5: or got we don't have enough guys here? Is like

2099
01:33:05,640 --> 01:33:08,120
Speaker 5: just give it time and it always sources itself out

2100
01:33:08,160 --> 01:33:11,240
Speaker 5: and have Brooks and Darrey in there for the game

2101
01:33:11,280 --> 01:33:15,160
Speaker 5: winning play. No one would expected that to begin in

2102
01:33:15,160 --> 01:33:15,840
Speaker 5: the training camp.

2103
01:33:15,840 --> 01:33:17,600
Speaker 1: I mean, Dannis, you go over here, is trying to

2104
01:33:17,600 --> 01:33:20,160
Speaker 1: get us to twenty twenty five already.

2105
01:33:20,160 --> 01:33:22,760
Speaker 3: I think about all the work you put it in

2106
01:33:23,040 --> 01:33:25,840
Speaker 3: the offseason and then you have moments like that because

2107
01:33:25,840 --> 01:33:28,880
Speaker 3: you're looking for that slight edge and these games are

2108
01:33:28,920 --> 01:33:29,960
Speaker 3: decided by that edge.

2109
01:33:29,880 --> 01:33:30,519
Speaker 4: Right they are.

2110
01:33:30,560 --> 01:33:33,400
Speaker 5: And that's where it's so important for players to understand,

2111
01:33:33,520 --> 01:33:36,960
Speaker 5: Like whatever your role is on a team, like just

2112
01:33:37,120 --> 01:33:38,960
Speaker 5: own your role and do it to the best of

2113
01:33:39,000 --> 01:33:43,000
Speaker 5: your ability. Like you can't worry about playtime and or

2114
01:33:43,040 --> 01:33:46,160
Speaker 5: get in the ball and like how many stats you're like,

2115
01:33:46,200 --> 01:33:49,080
Speaker 5: that doesn't matter. Like just line up, be were you're

2116
01:33:49,120 --> 01:33:51,439
Speaker 5: supposed to be, play as hard as you can play,

2117
01:33:51,600 --> 01:33:53,479
Speaker 5: and you will make the plays as you're supposed to make.

2118
01:33:53,920 --> 01:33:55,680
Speaker 3: You brought this up at your press conference, not to

2119
01:33:55,680 --> 01:33:58,519
Speaker 3: bring up the P word, but penalties. But sometimes they're

2120
01:33:58,560 --> 01:34:00,479
Speaker 3: gonna happen, right, You're gonna make a mist or maybe

2121
01:34:00,479 --> 01:34:01,599
Speaker 3: you're just trying to make a play.

2122
01:34:01,680 --> 01:34:01,840
Speaker 2: Right.

2123
01:34:01,960 --> 01:34:04,200
Speaker 3: Not all penalties are a total disaster, but you want

2124
01:34:04,200 --> 01:34:05,320
Speaker 3: to cut down on those overall.

2125
01:34:05,400 --> 01:34:06,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure.

2126
01:34:06,040 --> 01:34:07,920
Speaker 5: You want to cut down on you know, the things

2127
01:34:07,920 --> 01:34:11,439
Speaker 5: we can't control, like false start, jumping off side, those

2128
01:34:11,479 --> 01:34:14,679
Speaker 5: things can't control. Some of the penalties that get kind

2129
01:34:14,680 --> 01:34:17,559
Speaker 5: of throwing an offensive line aren't always the offensive line,

2130
01:34:17,680 --> 01:34:20,360
Speaker 5: like a couple of those with where CJ has to

2131
01:34:20,400 --> 01:34:23,440
Speaker 5: get the ball out quicker right, So we're not downfield.

2132
01:34:23,479 --> 01:34:25,800
Speaker 5: We got illegal man downfield a couple times. Not really

2133
01:34:25,880 --> 01:34:30,000
Speaker 5: on the offensive line. That's on us structurally right offensively,

2134
01:34:30,120 --> 01:34:32,400
Speaker 5: get the ball out quicker, get us in the right

2135
01:34:32,400 --> 01:34:35,200
Speaker 5: play call on the cup. So penalties are a team thing,

2136
01:34:35,320 --> 01:34:38,240
Speaker 5: but the ones we can't control, we definitely have to

2137
01:34:38,320 --> 01:34:39,200
Speaker 5: control those.

2138
01:34:39,000 --> 01:34:39,280
Speaker 2: All right.

2139
01:34:39,320 --> 01:34:42,040
Speaker 3: The MG Bank ask coach question of the week. It's

2140
01:34:42,080 --> 01:34:44,640
Speaker 3: Repid h Town week. All right, we're repid h Town,

2141
01:34:44,760 --> 01:34:47,519
Speaker 3: all right. So you got to Houston in two thousand

2142
01:34:47,520 --> 01:34:51,240
Speaker 3: and six, yes, so tell me what's special about Houston

2143
01:34:51,320 --> 01:34:51,760
Speaker 3: to you?

2144
01:34:52,000 --> 01:34:55,880
Speaker 2: This city, h Town. You've seen it and you've been.

2145
01:34:55,760 --> 01:34:58,439
Speaker 3: Away then you've come back, So give me your thoughts

2146
01:34:58,479 --> 01:34:59,840
Speaker 3: overall on Houston, coach.

2147
01:35:00,120 --> 01:35:02,960
Speaker 5: Yeah, the biggest thing for me with Houston is, you know,

2148
01:35:03,000 --> 01:35:05,240
Speaker 5: coming here in two thousand and six and being here

2149
01:35:05,280 --> 01:35:10,560
Speaker 5: forever long now, it's just the people, right it's just genuine,

2150
01:35:10,760 --> 01:35:14,639
Speaker 5: good hearted people like that that treat every They treat

2151
01:35:14,720 --> 01:35:17,439
Speaker 5: everybody the right way. I've always been shown love here

2152
01:35:17,479 --> 01:35:21,120
Speaker 5: in Houston, from fans, from my church family, like it's

2153
01:35:21,160 --> 01:35:22,439
Speaker 5: just always been love.

2154
01:35:22,600 --> 01:35:24,360
Speaker 4: And I just really.

2155
01:35:24,120 --> 01:35:28,120
Speaker 5: Appreciate the realness of all the people here in Houston.

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Speaker 5: Very diverse city, neighbors of all different backgrounds, different culture,

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Speaker 5: but you still Houston always feels like home, like no

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Speaker 5: matter where we all come from, Like when you're in Houston,

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Speaker 5: you feel like anybody you run into is like family.

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Speaker 4: And that's the unique part about Houston.

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Speaker 2: I really love and I know Houston loves that.

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Speaker 1: Man to a big thanks to Damiko, to Mark, to Drew,

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Speaker 1: to Juice, to John Alexander, to Chris Brown, to all

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Speaker 1: you for listening my guys at six ten.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for see on Sun Day and

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Speaker 2: as always, go Texans.