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Speaker 1: What's going on? Everybody. Welcome into a Monday edition of

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Speaker 1: Texas All Access from the Hunday Texans Radio Studio. I

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Speaker 1: am your host, John Harris, football analyst, sideline reporter. Very

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Speaker 1: happy to be with you, and well, we got a

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Speaker 1: jam show coming up. We're gonna hear from your head

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Speaker 1: coach and ours, Lovey Smith. We love getting the opportunity

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Speaker 1: to speak with the headball coach. So we got Lovey Smith.

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Speaker 1: And the NFL Top one hundred player list has been announced.

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady's at number one. I'm gonna get Mark Vandemer's

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Speaker 1: thoughts on that. Where did AFC South players end up

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Speaker 1: on the list? What was the highest? The highest number

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Speaker 1: five Jonathan Taylor. So we'll talk a little bit about

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Speaker 1: that and the Colts after a little bit. It's been

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Speaker 1: some news in the NFL. Jimmy Garoppolo's actually staying with

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Speaker 1: forty nine ers. Mark and I talked about that this morning,

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Speaker 1: and I actually bought up the thought of keeping an

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Speaker 1: insurance playing that being Jimmy Garoppolo, and I was right.

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Speaker 1: I was right. Jimmy Garoppolo staying with the San Francisco

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Speaker 1: forty nine ers for the year. The Jaguar has made

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Speaker 1: a deal Levisca Chennault going to the Panthers. Texans are

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Speaker 1: in the process of getting the roster down. We have

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Speaker 1: more information about that tomorrow. The date, well, the time

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Speaker 1: is three PM. That's the key date to get down

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Speaker 1: to the fifty three man roster. But it'll be ongoing.

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Speaker 1: The fifty three man roster is not a static boom done.

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Speaker 1: It is always fluid and moving. And the man in

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Speaker 1: charge of leading that fifty three man roster into battle

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Speaker 1: every Sunday is Lovey Smith and Mark and I had

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

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Speaker 1: today joining us now Texans Radio's head coach, Lovey Smith.

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Speaker 1: Coach tell us what this week is like, no game

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Speaker 1: you got thirteen days before the opener. Kind of recovery

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Speaker 1: a little bit, that's a big part of it. Guys

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Speaker 1: have gone through an awful lot of course, name but

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Speaker 1: you know, establishing the rosters we go forward, but continuing

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Speaker 1: to grow as a foot all team. I mean, we

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Speaker 1: just got through a practice this morning, so that's important.

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Speaker 1: Keep everything going. For the most part, we're healthy and

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Speaker 1: that excitement of you know, first game of the year

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Speaker 1: is coming quickly is there, I would say more excitement,

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Speaker 1: But is there more excitement because it is a divisional

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Speaker 1: opponent and it's a divisional opponent that is thought to

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Speaker 1: be the best in the division, the Annapolis Colts. Is

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Speaker 1: there more excitement because of that? Coach? I think you

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Speaker 1: can easily say it's more excitement for that and not

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Speaker 1: only you know, division opponent one that dominated us last year,

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Speaker 1: So for us too, I mean, we think we're a

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Speaker 1: better ball club and every step along the way that

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Speaker 1: that we're better, but we need to do it now.

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Speaker 1: Versus a Colt, we know that they're a good football

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Speaker 1: team in a lot of areas, but we're excited about

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Speaker 1: playing them to see exactly where we are. So training camp,

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Speaker 1: media fans, we're able to watch a lot of practice

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Speaker 1: nowctices are closed. Coach, And do you work on getting

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Speaker 1: better at football and those things or game planning combination?

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Speaker 1: I'm sure, but how do you handle all that? For sure,

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Speaker 1: we want to continue to develop as players. We're not

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Speaker 1: there yet, but you know, the preseason, most teams are

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Speaker 1: going to do a lot of things differently. There's game

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Speaker 1: playing in Bob right, now, absolutely, we've already started it.

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Speaker 1: We know again, we know who our opponent is. So

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Speaker 1: a lot of things that we didn't do in the preseason.

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Speaker 1: Of course, we'll be doing the regular season and you

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Speaker 1: can start honing in on those things now, coach, the

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Speaker 1: CBA doesn't allow you to have a bunch of padded

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Speaker 1: As a coach that wants his team to be physical

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Speaker 1: and win physically, how does that change things for you

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Speaker 1: the Cult in particular, but just for a whole season

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Speaker 1: in practice you really can't practice being physical. Yeah, I'm

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Speaker 1: So I believe in that we didn't tackle, we didn't

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Speaker 1: can still be a physical ball club. Guys know when

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Speaker 1: you just really can't. So that's just a part of it.

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Speaker 1: But our mindset that we have should always be about

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Speaker 1: being physical. As we set our roster up, it's about

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Speaker 1: being physical. You should mention being a boxing fan. Ay,

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Speaker 1: do you use boxing analogies as you talk to the

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Speaker 1: team and be who's your boxer? I we use every

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Speaker 1: a little bit. But you know, I'm coming a little

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Speaker 1: bit older. So of course Ali Frazier, George Foreman is

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Speaker 1: box I'm kind of you a sea fighter. Now yeah, now,

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Speaker 1: all right, very good coaches. He get the roster down

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Speaker 1: to fifty three. I know, the practice squad of sixteen players,

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Speaker 1: that you want to keep that have been with you

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Speaker 1: throughout camp. What is it like practicing today and tomorrow

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Speaker 1: that process as well. What is that like? What can

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Speaker 1: you share with us? Well, it's challenging, but you mentioned

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Speaker 1: one international player, So where's about the seventy that we

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Speaker 1: get down to the next two days will be more challenging.

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Speaker 1: Tomorrow will be the actual day that we start cutting guys,

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Speaker 1: getting the roster down. So we don't practice tomorrow, but

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Speaker 1: have to piece it together a little bit around Thursday,

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Speaker 1: you know, for Thursday's practice will be at full force,

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Speaker 1: ready to go. Coach, you talk about recovery and the

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Speaker 1: first thought is, oh, yeah, the players after a tough preseason,

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Speaker 1: but it's also for coaches too, durnt sort of recovery time.

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Speaker 1: How will the coaches sort of recover with I don't know,

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Speaker 1: will your coaches and you recover to get ready for

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Speaker 1: the season. Well, you know, I recovery is a little

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Speaker 1: we'll take a couple of days here and there to

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Speaker 1: watch high school game. We have coaches with you know,

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Speaker 1: high school athletes playing and all of that. But now

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Speaker 1: it's about to grind the grand and started throughout and

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Speaker 1: you know, even if we're not here, I mean, we're

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Speaker 1: if I'm wrong. But positives from the preseason that you

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Speaker 1: it even during the preseason. That looks to be trending

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Speaker 1: and our team, our defense, our defensive line, they know

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Speaker 1: our defense. They make everything go. We put a big

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Speaker 1: lot of signs from the preseason. Absolutely, we have good depth.

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Speaker 1: We saw that in the preseason and that'll just need

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Speaker 1: to carry on as much as anything. Coach, you got

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Speaker 1: some young players in this roster have never played in

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Speaker 1: an NFL regular season game, where obviously, not only does

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Speaker 1: in the regular in the preseason. For rookies, what's the

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Speaker 1: that volume gets turned up to another three notches. Well,

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Speaker 1: you write a lot of our players, you know, they

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Speaker 1: I don't think that's going to affect them much. You

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Speaker 1: You know in the preseason, you know, our guys have

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Speaker 1: playing an entire game and veterans can talk to them

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Speaker 1: a little bit. But you keep training that way. We

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Speaker 1: playing over twenty. So but our players will adjust. Coach,

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Speaker 1: you've been very clear you're running football team. You want

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Speaker 1: to be physical. You said that your favorite play from

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Speaker 1: that nine yard run by Pierce and the lead blocking

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Speaker 1: twenty one personnel, lead Week. There's no running and hiding everybody.

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Speaker 1: But if you say you're a physical football team some plays,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna have to show it. When you said the

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Speaker 1: lead Week was your favorite player, I almost came out

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Speaker 1: my heartstrings. I went to that play. You can have

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Speaker 1: this play card of a million plays. I mean, you

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Speaker 1: every single scenario broken down. But yeah, you got a

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Speaker 1: pet play though, I mean everybody's that was mine. That

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Speaker 1: play was getting called ten twelve times. But as you

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Speaker 1: get ready for the Colts, coach they've got a new quarterback,

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Speaker 1: but they've got the same coaching staff, so they've got

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Speaker 1: a lot of same personnel, but they got a quarterback

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Speaker 1: that's completely different. As you prepare for that, what becomes

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Speaker 1: more important what they've done in the past, what Matt

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Speaker 1: one particular team. Well, I don't think too much. There's

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Speaker 1: I mean we say that, hey, we're a running football team.

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Speaker 1: If you talk to the coach, they're gonna say we're

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Speaker 1: running football team. They have an excellent tailback. We may

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Speaker 1: get to the run a little different way, but eventualists

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Speaker 1: about them blocking that our defensive line, our front seven,

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Speaker 1: lot of guesswork. Their tailback will get his carries. We

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Speaker 1: than half the season. And when he said that, it

428
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Speaker 1: went WHOA, Oh, Yes, he's right there, Johnny. He's one

429
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Speaker 1: thousand yards in a year and a half. Yeah, one

430
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Speaker 1: more game and he gets there last year, one more

431
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Speaker 1: really good game. He's got no problem getting there. It's

432
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Speaker 1: a weird deal, you know, the AFC South. This is

433
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Speaker 1: running back you Okay, the AFC South because when you

434
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Speaker 1: go back to twenty nineteen and Carlos Hide and doing

435
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Speaker 1: what he did here with the Houston Texans. I wrote

436
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Speaker 1: an article about this. I don't have it in front

437
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Speaker 1: of me, so I apologize. But it's something like they

438
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Speaker 1: occupy eight of the top ten slots over a three

439
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Speaker 1: year period, or you've had guys in those at one

440
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Speaker 1: time or another, something like that. Because you look at

441
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Speaker 1: what James Robinson did for the Jaguars in twenty twenty,

442
00:22:43,359 --> 00:22:45,440
Speaker 1: and then you look at Henry in twenty nineteen also.

443
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Speaker 1: I mean, they had a lot of running backs do

444
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Speaker 1: well here in this division, and it's far more known

445
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Speaker 1: for running backs and quarterbacks right now. Yeah, it is.

446
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Speaker 1: And I asked Nick a question about that at some

447
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Speaker 1: point to get to the playoffs, gonna win your division,

448
00:23:02,119 --> 00:23:04,800
Speaker 1: and you've got to I don't. I mean, his answer

449
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Speaker 1: was great in my mind. I think, look, if you're

450
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Speaker 1: gonna win a division, you gotta stop Henry. So you

451
00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:11,560
Speaker 1: gotta beef up against the run. You gotta stop Taylor,

452
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Speaker 1: you gotta beef up against the run. But if you

453
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Speaker 1: are lucky enough to win the division, then you gotta

454
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Speaker 1: get out to the AFC, and all of a sudden,

455
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Speaker 1: you gotta slow down Burrow, you gotta slow down Herbert,

456
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Speaker 1: you gotta slow down Alan, you gotta slow down Mahomes.

457
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Speaker 1: And so the team that you have constructed to stop

458
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Speaker 1: the run in your division, you now, all of a sudden,

459
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Speaker 1: are you equipped enough to go win the AFC? Playing

460
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Speaker 1: against quarterbacks that's slinging all over the yard. And look,

461
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Speaker 1: I know it's a you know down the road type

462
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Speaker 1: problem might get that, but luxury problem. It is a

463
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Speaker 1: luxury problem down the road. But it's it's a fascinated

464
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Speaker 1: one because we've seen over the years in the NFL,

465
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Speaker 1: whether it was offense or defense. Oh the running shoot here,

466
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Speaker 1: we heard it for years. Oh the running shoot looks

467
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Speaker 1: great in the regular season, but then get in the playoffs.

468
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Speaker 1: Can't score from inside the five, can't make the play

469
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Speaker 1: inside the red zone, all that kind of you gotta

470
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Speaker 1: be able to the ball. And then, of course, you know,

471
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Speaker 1: if they just won one time, maybe some of that

472
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Speaker 1: would have been shut down, but they didn't. Just perpetuated

473
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Speaker 1: that narrative. And I look at this and think, man,

474
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Speaker 1: is that is that a real thing? Like we can

475
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Speaker 1: stop the running this division? We got an opportunity to

476
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Speaker 1: be where we want to be, but then all sudden

477
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Speaker 1: we get out to the AFC other world, and it's like,

478
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Speaker 1: oh my gosh, do we have enough. We're having a

479
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Speaker 1: speed to match up with Josh Allen and the Bills.

480
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Speaker 1: It's a great chiefs. Are the Titans themselves victims of this? Absolutely?

481
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Speaker 1: They have the top speed. They go out in the

482
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Speaker 1: first round. It wasn't like, well, you're facing Joe Burrow, right,

483
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Speaker 1: and you got nine sacks in the game. Was it

484
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Speaker 1: nine or was it six? Why do you have nine?

485
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Speaker 1: In my mind, I'm thinking of David Carr Week two

486
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Speaker 1: against San Diego in two thousand and two. That was

487
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Speaker 1: nine sacks. It was a lot of sacks. They got

488
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Speaker 1: a bunch of sacks nine times nine Ferris Mueller nine times,

489
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Speaker 1: nine times in a postseason game, and a postseason game

490
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Speaker 1: it didn't win. That's unbelievable. It makes the Tannehill situation

491
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Speaker 1: that much more. Are they victims of this? The year

492
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Speaker 1: they had the success on the road against the Patriots

493
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Speaker 1: in the playoffs and then they play the top seeded Titans,

494
00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:11,840
Speaker 1: win that game, but they can't win the shootout with Mahomes? Right?

495
00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:15,800
Speaker 1: Is that because they don't have the quarterback and you

496
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Speaker 1: need that, You need that electric playmaking when you get

497
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Speaker 1: to the postseason stage, and the Bag has had that

498
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Speaker 1: with had that with Burrow. Yeah, I mean, I feel

499
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Speaker 1: in some sense that the guy you have to go

500
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Speaker 1: against Mahomes has got to be able to generate some

501
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Speaker 1: whether it's one play drives or a little bit of magic.

502
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Speaker 1: I mean, Joe Burrow has a huge third down escape

503
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Speaker 1: in that game massive third down escape, he scrambles, he

504
00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:44,760
Speaker 1: gets out of it, but he also threw some absolute

505
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Speaker 1: dimes in that game too. Your quarterback's gonna have to

506
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Speaker 1: carry you in a game against Mahomes or carry you

507
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Speaker 1: against Alan, etc. So yeah, stopping the run is we

508
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Speaker 1: heard I love you say earlier. Stopping the run is

509
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Speaker 1: obviously key, especially against the Colts, especially against the Titans.

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Speaker 1: But whatever team you're gonna play, you gotta be able

511
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Speaker 1: to slow down the run. And in some cases, and

512
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Speaker 1: some teams like the Chiefs that don't run the ball excessively,

513
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Speaker 1: just completely eliminate it from the game plan. Just completely

514
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Speaker 1: totally take it away in the first half and make

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Speaker 1: them a one dimentional team and then maybe they play

516
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Speaker 1: into your hands a little bit more. In the AFC

517
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Speaker 1: South in the top one hundred five Colts Kennymore at

518
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Speaker 1: eighty two, who I love, DeForest Buckner at sixty six,

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Speaker 1: and Mark I think once we get to next week,

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Speaker 1: we'll start talking more a little bit more about the

521
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Speaker 1: keys of the game and all that kind of stuff.

522
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Speaker 1: But if the Texans to our point about running game

523
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Speaker 1: on their side, they're not gonna be able to run

524
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Speaker 1: the ball if they don't block Buckner and Grover Stewart,

525
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Speaker 1: if they can't occupy those guys up front, then it's

526
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Speaker 1: gonna be a long, long, freaking day. They won't be

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Speaker 1: able to throw it either, because that'll be pressure up

528
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Speaker 1: the middle. Right, the interior of the Texans offensive line

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Speaker 1: has to do the job. Britt hasn't played the entire preseason.

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Speaker 1: Kenyan Green looked really good in the limited action he

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Speaker 1: had in the third pre Plants Person gamepage. J cann

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Speaker 1: is hanging in there, I think based on the fact

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Speaker 1: that Britt didn't play, it must mean they feel really

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Speaker 1: good about what they've seen out of Justin Britt in practice.

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Speaker 1: So let's just hope that you're up to the task here.

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Speaker 1: You know, you'd rather open against an opponent where you can,

537
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Speaker 1: you know, project a better situation inside. But maybe this

538
00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:22,800
Speaker 1: is just what you need. Yeah, just go up against goliath.

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Speaker 1: I know they didn't win the division, but they are

540
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Speaker 1: your goliath very much, since you've only beaten them nine

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Speaker 1: times in the history of the franchise. Go up against

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Speaker 1: the Colts opening day. I'd rather even play them up there, Johnny,

543
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Speaker 1: I'd rather be up there than here. Just get it done.

544
00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:37,960
Speaker 1: Up there, take your shot, but you know what this

545
00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:42,800
Speaker 1: place will be in Fuego on September eleventh, noon kicks

546
00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:45,359
Speaker 1: CBS Tickets at Houston Texans dot Com. One thing I

547
00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:47,239
Speaker 1: will say, A j can't play at Jacksonville. So he's

548
00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:49,800
Speaker 1: seen the Colts before. Britt played here last year. You

549
00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:54,280
Speaker 1: saw the Colts twice with Kenyan Green. There's almost this naive,

550
00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:58,200
Speaker 1: like football naive ata that I'm almost glad that he has.

551
00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:01,479
Speaker 1: So he doesn't understand, Hey, ninety nine and ninety are

552
00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:03,359
Speaker 1: really good. I mean, he's gonna know that. He's gonna

553
00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:05,400
Speaker 1: be told that a million times, but he's just gonna

554
00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:08,560
Speaker 1: go out there and do his thing and be knocks

555
00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:11,040
Speaker 1: one of them on their wallet. He's gonna be like, yeah, whatever,

556
00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:13,479
Speaker 1: you know, just football, And I kind of want him

557
00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:15,679
Speaker 1: to feel that way. Just let your games speak for

558
00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:18,960
Speaker 1: itself going against these guys. Don't get intimidated as supports

559
00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:21,080
Speaker 1: Putner and Grows. Let us do that. What about us

560
00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:23,200
Speaker 1: do that? But you just go ball, Just hit a

561
00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:24,760
Speaker 1: guy right in a rip cage. What do you think

562
00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:27,440
Speaker 1: of the cults tendency to get off to slow starts

563
00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:32,280
Speaker 1: in seasons under Frank Reich. Let's continue that trend, shall we? Yeah,

564
00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:35,040
Speaker 1: And if it's Matt Ryan his first game, I could

565
00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:38,120
Speaker 1: see it. I could absolutely I could absolutely see on

566
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Speaker 1: the road. Yeah, on the road, everybody's trying to stop

567
00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:44,479
Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor, but Ryan can do some damage. You got Pittman.

568
00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:47,920
Speaker 1: They're gonna use them in creative ways. But here's what

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Speaker 1: they don't have. And and I don't have to say why,

570
00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:54,480
Speaker 1: right they? I don't say they suggest Paris Campbell has

571
00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:56,520
Speaker 1: never been able to stay healthy. I don't even know

572
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Speaker 1: what he can bring to the party. He's supposed to

573
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Speaker 1: bring speed and dynamic ability on the field, but he's

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Speaker 1: never played. He's played I think one quarter against us

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Speaker 1: in three years. That's it, one quarter against us in

576
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Speaker 1: three years. So who's who scares you? Meaning? Which guy

577
00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:15,720
Speaker 1: do you look at and go who that guy right there?

578
00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:18,120
Speaker 1: Who he could be a problem? Now, Alec Pierce can

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Speaker 1: run is rookie. He's a rookie. So don't takes one

580
00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:26,800
Speaker 1: catch though to spark up do I know? My point

581
00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:29,440
Speaker 1: being that if they had t Y, t Y was

582
00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:31,240
Speaker 1: always the guy that was gonna scare us because he

583
00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:33,200
Speaker 1: can run by anybody. It didn't matter who you had.

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Speaker 1: That he's gonna run by Annie and everybody. As he proved,

585
00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:39,360
Speaker 1: especially in the game up there in Week six or

586
00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:41,960
Speaker 1: seven or whatever it was last year. He's done on

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Speaker 1: the field. I'm not gonna say that the cults are slow,

588
00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:47,480
Speaker 1: but I don't look at their outside receivers and go, yeah,

589
00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:52,680
Speaker 1: they they're impressive. I just I'm not buying him just yet.

590
00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:54,280
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm gonna sell out. I'm gonna stop the

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Speaker 1: run and see if I'm gonna make Matt Ryan on

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Speaker 1: that day, Yes, the twenty sixty V I'm gonna make

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Speaker 1: him beat me. Two eight's not gonna be I'm gonna

594
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Speaker 1: do everything possible for two eight to not beat me.

595
00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:05,600
Speaker 1: And if they got to do with play action and

596
00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:08,400
Speaker 1: beat us over the top, hey, so be it. You'll

597
00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:10,920
Speaker 1: hit one. We'll give you, don't give you one, but

598
00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:14,120
Speaker 1: you're gonna get got At some point. You just hope

599
00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:16,640
Speaker 1: that it's not enough. You just can't let them hit

600
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Speaker 1: you over the top like they did in Indie last year.

601
00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:21,160
Speaker 1: Hit over the top, hit over the top and all

602
00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:24,360
Speaker 1: because guys aren't playing zone coverage properly. And then once

603
00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:26,000
Speaker 1: they've hit you with those, then they hit you with

604
00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:28,960
Speaker 1: Taylor eighty five, though you gotta shut one of them

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Speaker 1: completely and totally down, and hopefully it ends up being

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Speaker 1: john Ta Taylor, because I think they feed off of

607
00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:38,640
Speaker 1: how physical they are up frore. But once you slow

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Speaker 1: down Taylor, provided you can do that, you have to

609
00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:45,360
Speaker 1: find a way to make Matt Ryan feel old, thirty

610
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Speaker 1: seven years old. You gotta go hit the snot out

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Speaker 1: of him at defense. Get pressure with the front four.

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Speaker 1: Like you said, not have to send extra people. Let's

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Speaker 1: get them in third and medium long at the very least,

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Speaker 1: and see what happens. We're join keys to the game

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00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:01,760
Speaker 1: already and it's third teen days away. My gosh, I know.

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Speaker 1: Quinn Nelson comes in at twenty eight and Shaquille Leonard

617
00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:09,840
Speaker 1: comes in at eighteen. Jonathan Taylor comes in at five.

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00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:12,760
Speaker 1: So the Colts ended up with five in the top

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Speaker 1: one hun no Jaguars, no Texans, Titans end up getting three. Wait,

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Speaker 1: you're telling me Brandon Cooks is not one of the

621
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Speaker 1: top one hundred players in this league, you know? Fans?

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Speaker 1: Okay whatever? No, I okay, that's it's a great point.

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Speaker 1: This is this is the part that I always get

624
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Speaker 1: into is because I love putting together in my alternate

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Speaker 1: eleven and oh this guys should have been this guy. Okay,

626
00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:37,360
Speaker 1: who are you taking out? So let's look at the receivers.

627
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Speaker 1: So I'm going from the bottom up. Would you take

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00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:43,360
Speaker 1: Brandy Cooks over Ceede Lambs CD came at number ninety five?

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Speaker 1: Look ceedee Lamb is an explosive type of Lambs low.

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00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:53,720
Speaker 1: Actually right, but but the consistency. I still think Cooks

631
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Speaker 1: is underwear rated. Go on, Odell Beckham Junior at ninety

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Speaker 1: here we go. This is this is the players. I mean,

633
00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:03,520
Speaker 1: it's the players that come up with it. Next wide

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00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:06,800
Speaker 1: receiver is wow. So Odebeckham Junior is at ninety. The

635
00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:11,920
Speaker 1: next wide receiver on the list Jalen Waddle. Where gonna

636
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Speaker 1: see him? Wait a second, sixty three? That's that's pretty high.

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00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:18,520
Speaker 1: That's pretty high. Yeah, that's He just burst out of

638
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Speaker 1: the scene last year with a lot of catches. I

639
00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:22,800
Speaker 1: get it. He's super reliable. You know who else is

640
00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:26,760
Speaker 1: super reliable? Brandon Cooks? Yeah, very much reliable. I think

641
00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:29,400
Speaker 1: Obj is a really great receiver. I've said in the

642
00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:32,200
Speaker 1: past I thought he got too much credit for what

643
00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:35,520
Speaker 1: he's doing based on the fact that he was largely unavailable.

644
00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:40,640
Speaker 1: Hurt a lot and it just seemed like anywhere. Yeah,

645
00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:42,960
Speaker 1: So there was a lot of that. I was really

646
00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:45,840
Speaker 1: comparing Hopkins to him at the time, thinking Hopkins was

647
00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:49,400
Speaker 1: getting shut out of the notoriety by ob J who

648
00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:52,480
Speaker 1: was in that NFL one hundred wedding reception type commercial,

649
00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:55,080
Speaker 1: which I really took exception to. I get it because

650
00:32:55,080 --> 00:32:56,800
Speaker 1: they wanted to have the catch. But we had a

651
00:32:56,800 --> 00:32:59,120
Speaker 1: guy here who caught the ball better than he did. Yeah, absolutely,

652
00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:01,360
Speaker 1: and caught it the ball that year in that stadium

653
00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:05,560
Speaker 1: better than he did. Yeah. While at sixty three, Mike

654
00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:08,440
Speaker 1: Evans at fifty three. I think Mike is the most

655
00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:11,560
Speaker 1: criminally underrated receiver in the league. Or I heard. I

656
00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:14,600
Speaker 1: heard a good story about him this weekend. Mike Evans Evans,

657
00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:20,520
Speaker 1: he bought uniforms. So Galveston played, And I might get

658
00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:22,480
Speaker 1: this wrong, so I apologize if I get the story wrong.

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00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:27,720
Speaker 1: Galveston Ball played, Yes, Yeah, played a game in Galveston's

660
00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:33,080
Speaker 1: Central attire, all right. Galveston Galveston Central was an African

661
00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:37,520
Speaker 1: American stye and they were honoring that school very cool,

662
00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:42,200
Speaker 1: and they needed uniforms, and he bought uniforms for the school.

663
00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:46,600
Speaker 1: Mike Evans was on record as saying he went to he.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there have been numerous Buccaneers that have crop

665
00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:53,840
Speaker 1: rated this. So Chris Godwin was an unrestricted free agent

666
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:56,800
Speaker 1: after twenty twenty, right and Mike had signed a big

667
00:33:56,840 --> 00:34:01,000
Speaker 1: deal a few years prior, and Mike went to Bruce

668
00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:07,479
Speaker 1: Arians and said, take my money, pay him and keep him. Wow,

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Speaker 1: And he wasn't heat. There have been there have been

670
00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:13,880
Speaker 1: I think BA told the story, but multiple people corroborated it,

671
00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:16,600
Speaker 1: and Evans kind of played it down. But he's like, whatever,

672
00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:18,640
Speaker 1: you need to pay him to keep him. And BA

673
00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:20,919
Speaker 1: was like, we're not taking a dime for Brady didn't

674
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:24,239
Speaker 1: step up. There's no island in Fiji being promised by

675
00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:27,000
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers. I don't know. I don't know. Speaking of Hopkins,

676
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:29,680
Speaker 1: he comes in at thirty seven. He's the next highest

677
00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:32,680
Speaker 1: wide receiver. And then you've got a glott of wide receivers,

678
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:35,879
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen at thirty five, Stefan Diggs at twenty six,

679
00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:38,960
Speaker 1: Jamar Chase at twenty four. That's low. Jamar's excellent debo

680
00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:44,000
Speaker 1: at nineteen, Justin Jeffers seventeen, Tyreek at fifteen, Damonte Adams

681
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:48,080
Speaker 1: at seven, Cooper Cup's highest raided receiver at number four.

682
00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:50,279
Speaker 1: So Shabrain had been in there in front of a

683
00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:53,200
Speaker 1: guy like Obj. I think so. I think Ceedee Lamb

684
00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:55,440
Speaker 1: is underrated. I think he should have been higher than

685
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Speaker 1: ninety five. But you know, give him a full year

686
00:34:57,560 --> 00:34:59,239
Speaker 1: with ACT this year and see where the Cowboys end

687
00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:00,640
Speaker 1: up going. Wait, and he had full year with DAC

688
00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:05,200
Speaker 1: last year. How'd that go? Well, they had twelve wins.

689
00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:08,040
Speaker 1: You know, everyone remembers the playoff meltdown. Okay, it wasn't

690
00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:10,320
Speaker 1: quite a meltdown. If they get the ball spiked properly,

691
00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:12,400
Speaker 1: they have a chance to win that football game. But

692
00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:16,360
Speaker 1: they mishandled the final few seconds. Well, the official was, listen,

693
00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:20,200
Speaker 1: you can't leave that to chance. You need a little

694
00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:22,040
Speaker 1: bit of a buffer, right, you want to get the

695
00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:25,239
Speaker 1: spike down with one second to go? How about two seconds?

696
00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:28,359
Speaker 1: Slide a little earlier? Stop me. Cooper Cup at number four,

697
00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:32,520
Speaker 1: top receiver? True, right now he is, and you have

698
00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:35,319
Speaker 1: to give him his due for what he's done. But

699
00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:37,960
Speaker 1: it could be different this year. Chase might go off

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00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:40,200
Speaker 1: in a completely different way. In his second year, he

701
00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:43,319
Speaker 1: had a phenomenal rookie campaign, not as many catches as

702
00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:45,400
Speaker 1: some of the other guys, but the yak and the

703
00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:49,440
Speaker 1: yards per catch outstanding. But maybe this year it is

704
00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:52,760
Speaker 1: just you know, a one hundred and ten for whatever.

705
00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:58,319
Speaker 1: It goes in a completely stellar direction and he's the

706
00:35:58,360 --> 00:35:59,680
Speaker 1: top guy in the league. I don't know, it could

707
00:35:59,719 --> 00:36:02,160
Speaker 1: be some else. Burrow throws the T Higgins, Tyler Boyd

708
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:05,440
Speaker 1: and Jamar Chase. Yeah, and Joe mixing out of the backfield.

709
00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:08,920
Speaker 1: C j Uzama, Oh no Zama today Texans don't play them.

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00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:13,080
Speaker 1: That's good, good, good year to This is definitely to

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00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:18,239
Speaker 1: definitely next year, next year up there, yeah, Cincinnati. Yeah,

712
00:36:18,239 --> 00:36:20,720
Speaker 1: because twenty twenty was here. That's a Brandon Allen joint.

713
00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:24,000
Speaker 1: We haven't seen Joe Burrow up close yet. Looking forward

714
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:26,520
Speaker 1: to that. We have not seen Joe Burrow up close.

715
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Speaker 1: It's fun watching these. Also next year at Baltimore in

716
00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:34,319
Speaker 1: that division. Yeah wait, yeah, right, yeah, because they were

717
00:36:34,320 --> 00:36:35,759
Speaker 1: here a week two and two. Oh, that's right, because

718
00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:37,520
Speaker 1: we went up there seventeen for the Monday night game.

719
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Speaker 1: Adam at twenty nine. Is because we both won the

720
00:36:40,040 --> 00:36:45,319
Speaker 1: division in eighteen. Okay, yeah, such a I don't know

721
00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:48,640
Speaker 1: that man. Nineteen that was a hellscape. That was just

722
00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:52,319
Speaker 1: I wanted to be anywhere else but there. Deshan got

723
00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:55,160
Speaker 1: sacked on that first series and like we are in

724
00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:57,280
Speaker 1: a world of hurt. I got a bad feeling about

725
00:36:57,280 --> 00:36:59,480
Speaker 1: this one. It's started before the game when Mike Adams

726
00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:03,680
Speaker 1: got not the bleep out oh yeah, ups in warm ups,

727
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:06,280
Speaker 1: in what I mean? And then he saw Jacobe Jones

728
00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:08,600
Speaker 1: on the sideline before the game. Andre and I took

729
00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:10,200
Speaker 1: a picture with us. It was great to see the

730
00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:13,080
Speaker 1: former Texan, but oh he's a former Raven and that's

731
00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:15,440
Speaker 1: where he had more success. He had the ring there.

732
00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:17,880
Speaker 1: So the top ten Tom Brady, Aaron Donald, Aaron Rodgers,

733
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Speaker 1: Cooper Cup, Jonathan Taylor, t J. Watt comes in at six.

734
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Speaker 1: Vote Adams will see him this year. He comes at seven.

735
00:37:24,520 --> 00:37:27,040
Speaker 1: Mahomes will see him too, Jayla Ramsey at nine, and

736
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Speaker 1: mahomes teammate Chevis Kelsey, who we will also see, came

737
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Speaker 1: in at number ten. So we will face Brady, no Donald,

738
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Speaker 1: no Rogers, no Cup, no Taylor twice, Wat no DeVante once, Mahomes, yes, Ramsey,

739
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Speaker 1: no Kelsey, Yes. Oh boy. It's gonna be fun facing

740
00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:50,600
Speaker 1: that roster players this year, as is getting a little

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00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:52,719
Speaker 1: time with the general John McClean that's next the Texan

742
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Speaker 1: Til Access. Yes, yes, we're going FIS segment right here,

743
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Speaker 1: and I'm on DA days Texans All Access. I am

744
00:38:01,719 --> 00:38:05,200
Speaker 1: John Harris. It's time to turn it over to John McClaine,

745
00:38:05,719 --> 00:38:10,040
Speaker 1: who joined us and gave us two thoughts, well actually

746
00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:14,160
Speaker 1: three on this Texas roster heading into cut down day tomorrow.

747
00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:17,479
Speaker 1: The two things that impressed me the most, we'll say

748
00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:20,840
Speaker 1: three my player upgrades on each of the pregame shows

749
00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:24,520
Speaker 1: the last two weeks was Davis Mills, because Davis Mills

750
00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:27,520
Speaker 1: had not done squat in the first two games, and

751
00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:30,120
Speaker 1: the way you could look at it, he could say

752
00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:34,200
Speaker 1: he went seven series and before touchdown, or you could

753
00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:36,800
Speaker 1: say he had touchdown drives on three of his last

754
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:40,000
Speaker 1: seven series, which was much more impressive. And then he

755
00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:42,399
Speaker 1: made a good throw in the end zone that wasn't

756
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:46,440
Speaker 1: intercepted because two guys made great defensive plays. So I

757
00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:50,120
Speaker 1: thought Mills looking better, considering he's the most important player

758
00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:53,319
Speaker 1: on the team, was the best thing that happened to

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00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:57,279
Speaker 1: the Texas, especially going against forty nine ers starters. And

760
00:38:57,320 --> 00:39:01,319
Speaker 1: then Kenyan Green. I went back and watched the take

761
00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:05,600
Speaker 1: twice and I focused on him, and I thought there

762
00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:08,120
Speaker 1: wasn't anyway he could play only once in preseason be

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00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:11,640
Speaker 1: a starter. Well, he will start against the Calls because

764
00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:15,000
Speaker 1: he is the most dominant run blocker that I've seen

765
00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:18,400
Speaker 1: this preseason. You guys mentioned it, and a lot of

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00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:21,640
Speaker 1: the plays he would hit a guy and then he

767
00:39:21,640 --> 00:39:24,600
Speaker 1: would go into the next level and take out a guy.

768
00:39:24,719 --> 00:39:27,480
Speaker 1: So he was taking out two players per play, and

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00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:30,080
Speaker 1: that's why they took him with the fifteenth pick. But

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00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:32,839
Speaker 1: he is going to be a butt kicker. And if

771
00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:36,120
Speaker 1: that running game against forty nine ers is reminiscent of

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00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:38,680
Speaker 1: what we're going to see in a regular season when

773
00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:43,320
Speaker 1: justin Breton, Larremie Tounsell are back and then Kenyan Green's

774
00:39:43,360 --> 00:39:46,799
Speaker 1: in the lineup, boy, that bodes well for the running game.

775
00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:50,360
Speaker 1: I thought Marlin back averaging five point five yards of carry,

776
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Speaker 1: that's the first time I've been impressed with anything he's done. That.

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Speaker 1: Damien Pierce and I've been talking about him since the

778
00:39:56,760 --> 00:39:59,759
Speaker 1: day they were drafted and telling fantasy people to be

779
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:02,879
Speaker 1: all over him. So the running game, which of course

780
00:40:03,040 --> 00:40:05,560
Speaker 1: is worse than the league last year, worse than team history,

781
00:40:06,040 --> 00:40:11,920
Speaker 1: could be vastly improved. And defensively, the guy Kurt heinis

782
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:15,080
Speaker 1: has made the team, Big Honie, that guy just keeps

783
00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:19,560
Speaker 1: making plays and I know they love he Smith beach

784
00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:22,200
Speaker 1: around the bush on some of these guys. There's no

785
00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:25,040
Speaker 1: way they're exposing him to waivers to put him on

786
00:40:25,080 --> 00:40:29,000
Speaker 1: the practice squad after how good Big Honies looked in

787
00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:32,960
Speaker 1: the preseason and it was start to finish. So they

788
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:36,640
Speaker 1: guys of depth in the defensive line. But I think

789
00:40:36,680 --> 00:40:39,480
Speaker 1: the thing of defensively will be watching the most against

790
00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:43,040
Speaker 1: the Colts as how does Matt Ryan attack of secondary

791
00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:47,279
Speaker 1: with four new starters, which is rare general we were

792
00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:48,960
Speaker 1: talking about a little bit, so you're listening to you

793
00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:51,279
Speaker 1: heard the question I asked Mark, and that is, if

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Speaker 1: let's just say you make two claims of some sort,

795
00:40:53,840 --> 00:40:56,800
Speaker 1: whether it's a waiver claim, whether it's a trade, whether

796
00:40:56,840 --> 00:40:59,680
Speaker 1: it's signing a vested veteran, but you come up with

797
00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:03,040
Speaker 1: two guys that you bring into the fifty three man roster,

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00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:07,040
Speaker 1: Not so much of the guys themselves, but the positions.

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Speaker 1: What positions do you think Nicossario Lovey Smith would target

800
00:41:11,160 --> 00:41:14,160
Speaker 1: with those two on the fifty three man roster going forward,

801
00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:17,160
Speaker 1: First and foremost is the one he made the only

802
00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:20,400
Speaker 1: trade for in the preseason, it didn't work out. He

803
00:41:20,640 --> 00:41:23,800
Speaker 1: tried to get a blocking tight end Shane from Miami

804
00:41:24,239 --> 00:41:27,120
Speaker 1: and he's a blocking tight end and he couldn't pass

805
00:41:27,160 --> 00:41:29,600
Speaker 1: his physical and then Miami takes him back and puts

806
00:41:29,680 --> 00:41:34,120
Speaker 1: him on injured reserve. So if Nkessario thought they needed

807
00:41:34,719 --> 00:41:38,040
Speaker 1: a blocking tight end at that point, that's when Farrell

808
00:41:38,080 --> 00:41:41,120
Speaker 1: Brown was healthy. And I think that they still need

809
00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:46,200
Speaker 1: a blocking tight end now. Maybe they think Te Torriano

810
00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:50,440
Speaker 1: is going to fill that bill, and because if you

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00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:54,200
Speaker 1: expose him to waivers, you might lose him to another

812
00:41:54,239 --> 00:41:57,400
Speaker 1: team that had a great on him. But they still

813
00:41:57,480 --> 00:42:00,480
Speaker 1: need a blogging tight end. That group is banged up.

814
00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:03,120
Speaker 1: We'll see what happens over the next twenty four forty

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Speaker 1: eight seventy two ninety six hours as a fifty three

816
00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:09,760
Speaker 1: man roster starts to take shape. Big thanks to John

817
00:42:10,120 --> 00:42:12,880
Speaker 1: to Mark too, Lovey to all of you. Thank you

818
00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:14,920
Speaker 1: so much. We'll see tomorrow and as always, go Texans