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Speaker 1: Hello Texans, Welcome to the show. As we are twenty

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Speaker 1: four hours passed the Monday night football game with the

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Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Buccaneers and looking forward to Jacksonville and looking

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Speaker 1: forward to a visit with the head coach. It's going

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Speaker 1: to happen right here, right now, because the show got

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Speaker 1: preempted yesterday by the actual game and pregame show. So

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Speaker 1: brought to you by AMG Bank, the official business bank

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Speaker 1: of the Houston Texans. Let's have it. Head coach Tamiko

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Speaker 1: Ryans talking about things he saw that he liked, Things

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Speaker 1: he didn't like, things he wants to improve.

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Speaker 2: The snapshot, Yeah, overall snapshot. What I like?

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Speaker 3: I like from our special teams unit right the way

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Speaker 3: our special teams unit, you know, really ignited a fire

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Speaker 3: in our team. They gave us a chance to win

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Speaker 3: the game, like Noel returning the football there, did an

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Speaker 3: outstanding job of setting the team up to be able

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Speaker 3: to get a block punt. They're in the pressure to

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Speaker 3: punt another time. Really outstanding job to force a missfield goal. Hey,

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Speaker 3: you talk about impact plays and a special teams game.

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Speaker 3: That was huge for us. Offensively, What I liked we

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Speaker 3: got an the end zone. We did get an the

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Speaker 3: end zone, which we didn't do the first week. So

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Speaker 3: definitely taking strides there. CJ to Nico that connection, really

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Speaker 3: nice touchdown there, seeing Chubb run the football. Well again

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Speaker 3: another wee can get in the end zone. Some positives there. How,

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Speaker 3: our communication, how urgent we were getting in and out

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Speaker 3: of the huddle right to give ourselves the time that

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Speaker 3: we needed. Thought that was improvement from week one. And defensively,

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Speaker 3: I just thought we improved on the third downs as

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Speaker 3: we continue to progress through the game. Didn't start great,

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Speaker 3: but third down we did improve on the third down,

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Speaker 3: giving ourselves a chance to get off the field to

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Speaker 3: get the offense the ball back chase.

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Speaker 4: When you're driving home, just kind of in your thoughts.

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Speaker 5: I don't know if you have as long as drive

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Speaker 5: as I do, but I was in my thoughts the

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Speaker 5: whole way. Was there something that kind of in the

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Speaker 5: back of your mind that you kept thinking about, like, man,

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Speaker 5: if this man, this one thing is just kind of

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Speaker 5: stuck right there about that game. Is there one of

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Speaker 5: those for you?

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Speaker 3: I wish it was just one, but yeah, I think

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Speaker 3: the thing that stuck to me was just just like

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Speaker 3: man tackling, Like that's the part that just continued to

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Speaker 3: eat at me is just like the tackling when we

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Speaker 3: tackle really well the first week and you come out

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Speaker 3: the second week and it's not good enough, right, and

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Speaker 3: it wasn't winning football. And ultimately that's what the game

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Speaker 3: came down to, is tackling. So that's the one that

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Speaker 3: know we can do it.

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Speaker 2: It's just a matter of, man, are you consistently dialed?

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Speaker 6: Then?

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Speaker 2: How bad do you want to get the guy down?

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Speaker 3: How urgent are you to wrap guys up like a

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Speaker 3: lot of times trying to tackle with one arm, which

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Speaker 3: doesn't work in this league. And our guys know that, right.

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Speaker 3: We didn't need more evidence to show that it doesn't work.

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Speaker 3: It doesn't work, so we gotta wrap guys up, take

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Speaker 1: Coach, I'm going to go in no particular order here.

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Speaker 1: At the end of the game, there you are kind

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Speaker 1: of in a clock conundrum because do you call timeouts

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Speaker 1: to hope to save a little time, yet you want

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Speaker 1: to keep them out of the end zone you hope

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Speaker 1: they run out of time. It's kind of a tough

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Speaker 1: situation to play, right when they're driving down the field.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, tough situation to play.

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Speaker 3: Mark The main thing and everything is well, you're not

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Speaker 3: thinking the other side, like we're gonna give up a

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Speaker 3: the game, it was a thinking just let's end the

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Speaker 3: game defensively. We just need four stops to end the game.

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Speaker 3: And that was a thought process, and we had them

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Speaker 3: there four and ten we had them again, like Baker

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Speaker 3: made a play, We didn't make a play, didn't execute

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Speaker 2: Theirs just hey, what do you do?

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Speaker 4: All right?

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Speaker 2: You keep going forward? All right?

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Speaker 3: Now we got four new downs. Let's go right right

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Speaker 3: and we sit back, play our coverage, allow four guys

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Speaker 3: to tackle and running back again. A couple of checkdown plays,

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Speaker 5: Coach I always loved seeing growth from young players, and

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Speaker 5: last night Wood he does some good things Jalen Knowles

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Speaker 5: you talked about in your press conference. Jalen, No, the

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Speaker 5: return game. He has two kickoff returns. The part return

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Speaker 5: is a great one, which I'm still trying to understand

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Speaker 5: what they threw the flag for and then picked it up.

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Speaker 5: Thankfully they did. Yo Ja Higgins has the one across

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Speaker 5: the middle. That's really good. Ariante's doing some good things

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Speaker 3: Point, Our young guys are doing an awesome job right

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Speaker 3: us by a rookie left tackle. He's doing a really

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Speaker 3: nice job. He's improving. Thought he had a much better

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Speaker 3: week this week of just training and just finishing his

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Speaker 3: one on one matchup is what I challenged him on

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Speaker 3: an explosive returner for his explosive playmaker, he just needed

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Speaker 2: He proved it on on Monday Night. He showed that capability.

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Speaker 2: We just got to continue to give him more opportunities.

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Speaker 3: Woody made an explode gotta check down pass, makes an

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Speaker 3: Higgins is doing a nice job as well with the

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Speaker 3: young guys just not the game not being too big

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Speaker 3: they're making the plays that they're supposed to make.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what'd you think of the one two punch of

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Speaker 1: Nick Chubb and Woody Marx and also Chubb being in

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Speaker 1: there and some i'll put it in air quotes obvious

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Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.

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Speaker 3: I really like the combination what I'm saying between Woody

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Speaker 3: he's done a really outstanding job in the pass protection.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 3: He saved us on one of our play action passes

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Speaker 3: last week versus the Rams to pick up an edge Blitzer.

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Speaker 3: This week, just how strong, how stout he is picking

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Speaker 3: So we got to give him more opportunities on passing situations,

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Speaker 3: second and third down to put him in those spots more.

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Speaker 4: Coach, I would imagine the challenge.

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Speaker 5: Oh and two when you look at it in reality,

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Speaker 5: two playoff teams from last year you lost on the

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Speaker 5: road where you had a chance getting in the red zone.

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Speaker 5: Last night had all kinds of chances to win that

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Speaker 5: game against two very good teams. How do you, as

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Speaker 5: confidence that you remind guys, Look, we're a really good

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Speaker 5: football team. We haven't played like it all the time.

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Speaker 5: We've played like it some of the time, and we

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Speaker 5: haven't got a break to go our way. We're eventually

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Speaker 5: going to have that. How do you get them to

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Speaker 5: not lose confidence that they are the team that.

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Speaker 4: They really are?

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Speaker 2: Ye?

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Speaker 3: For me, man, I'm the stabilizer here right, and it's

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Speaker 3: what's the truth.

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Speaker 2: I know how it feels.

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Speaker 3: I know it doesn't feel It doesn't feel great to

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Speaker 3: matter is we've had.

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Speaker 2: Some really good plays when we do it the right way.

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Speaker 3: We have some really successful plays when we do it

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Speaker 3: the right way. And now what are those mishaps? Where

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Speaker 3: are we off a little bit when it doesn't go

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Speaker 3: quite how we've coached it right? Our players aren't doing

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Speaker 3: right and show guys, hey, this is how it looks

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Speaker 3: This leads to losing football. This is winning football. So

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Speaker 3: let's just get more on the positive side. Let's make

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Speaker 3: more winning plays, let's make more winning decisions, and we'll

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Speaker 3: be in the win.

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Speaker 1: Call the Well, the lesson was in the game itself

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Speaker 1: in a way, because I know you were disappointed not

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Speaker 1: getting into the end zone with second and goal inside

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Speaker 1: the one, yet you were able to get the lead

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Speaker 1: later on anyway, because you made plays on all three levels.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure, I know that's the big one that

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Speaker 3: comes up on the you know, being there on the

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Speaker 3: I mean we had opportunities. I mean we hit Nico

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Speaker 2: Get stuff.

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Speaker 3: So third down, we went with our playmakers, right CJ

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Speaker 3: and Nico, We went with them. They executed that play

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Speaker 3: in practice perfectly, and come getting into the game we

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Speaker 3: had the same opportunity saying, look, we didn't make the play,

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Speaker 3: and we had the fourth down play which was all

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Speaker 3: miscommunication on the motion and we didn't execute the play properly.

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Speaker 2: So it goes back to like, I know.

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Speaker 3: We're not clo I know we're not far off right

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Speaker 2: Probably guys two guys opening the end zone right there.

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Speaker 4: Coach, maybe along those lines.

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Speaker 5: But your thoughts on how you're thinking, how you've thought

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Speaker 5: CJ has progressed through these first couple of weeks, learning

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Speaker 5: this new offense and kind of leading it.

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Speaker 4: What have you thought about TJ?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, CJ's doing a good job, but like CJ with

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Speaker 3: all of us, like every we got all room for improvement, right,

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Speaker 3: CJ got to pick it up.

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Speaker 2: Everybody else around him has to pick it up.

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Speaker 5: Right.

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Speaker 2: We expect more.

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Speaker 3: We got to do more and just go and do

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Speaker 3: what we've been coached to do and do it the

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Speaker 3: right way, do it with that you know, and everybody

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Speaker 3: do it with a great attitude. Man, we it's so close.

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Speaker 3: That's why I'm it's like her like, man, we're going

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Speaker 3: to I can't believe ohing too. But it's like, man,

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Speaker 1: All right. So Jacksonville, they just lost to the Bengals

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Speaker 3: I think Liam has done a really nice job of

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Speaker 3: They look different, They look much better than they've done

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Speaker 5: I know it's not one hundred percent of now, I

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's been a ton of crossover. I was joking

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Speaker 1: I'm old enough to remember the Dolphins coming in here

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Speaker 3: He just comes to having awareness, right, especially from the

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Speaker 3: And that's the main thing I try to teach our guys,

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Speaker 5: I feel like, I'm glad you brought U Danielle, coach,

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Speaker 3: He has so many, so many moves in his in

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Speaker 3: Let's keep going, Let's keep getting more and the more

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Speaker 1: To it what goes on with certain guys, because Danil

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Speaker 5: Quiet, but kind of like our head coach.

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Speaker 1: Daniel walks around like he's very subdued in a way.

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Speaker 3: All and he's the one guy who can flip that

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Speaker 3: to him, right. I just think back to the free

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Speaker 1: Is game day right here, we go into the AFC South,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the part that makes it exciting. You know,

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Speaker 3: You know their strengths, you know their weaknesses and vice versa.

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Speaker 2: They know they know ours as well.

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Speaker 3: It's almost like training training, Cancel to speak, you guys

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Speaker 2: And so you know, it's no.

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Speaker 5: I don't want to say, are you happy that the

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Speaker 2: It doesn't matter. We can't hold on to this one

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Speaker 3: We gotta press forward, right because we hold on to

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Speaker 1: Call down, how do you handle the situation with a

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Speaker 3: I mean, today, Tuesday be our off day, so players

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Speaker 2: Tomorrow, we won't go through full.

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Speaker 3: Speed practice because it's forty eight hours re moved from

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Speaker 5: Coach, you mentioned flushing it and I've always I always

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Speaker 5: What do what do you do to try and flush it?

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Speaker 4: How do you do?

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Speaker 5: Like, what's the what's the technique for you to get

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Speaker 3: For me, it's going through the film with the coaching staff.

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Speaker 3: to it. We got to fix what we gotta fix.

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Speaker 3: And also tell the coaches day, it's a lot of

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Speaker 3: great things that you can't lose sight of.

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Speaker 2: Man, we lost the game.

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Speaker 3: You can't lose sight of the good things and the

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Speaker 3: improvements that we made, like build on those, clean up

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Speaker 3: what we got to clean up, and let's press forward.

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Speaker 1: All right, Amergy Bank ask coach question of the week,

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Speaker 1: and I think a lot of people can benefit from this.

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Speaker 1: So you tell us, coach, how do you keep throughout

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Speaker 1: these long work days? How do you keep your energy up?

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Speaker 1: How do you keep going keep moving on? What can

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Speaker 1: you share with us?

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Speaker 2: How do I keep my energy going and moving throughout

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Speaker 2: the day?

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Speaker 3: Well, it starts, I have to get a workout in,

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Speaker 3: so I try to get a workout, hit the weights.

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Speaker 4: So first step to noon.

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Speaker 3: Now, first thing in the morning, I'll start with devotion,

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Speaker 3: all right, start with the word to just start the day.

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Speaker 3: And then throughout the day I'm listening to music, listening

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Speaker 3: to worship music while I'm in my offense watching film,

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Speaker 3: just to keep the energy going there. In midday, try

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Speaker 3: to grab a workout or try to go outside and

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Speaker 3: walk around a little bit, just to keep moving, hopefully

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Speaker 3: moving spark some new ideas and thaws in my head.

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Speaker 1: Don't get bogged down at the desk too much.

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Speaker 3: I can't can't be a sitter all day gotta move

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Speaker 3: around all right.

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Speaker 1: Sounds good, coach, Thanks a lot for joining.

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Speaker 4: Uschool like this. Thanks guys enjoying it all right.

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Speaker 1: There's head coach Tamiko Ryans, brought to you by Am

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Speaker 1: G Bank. Coming up, Johnny and I talk about what

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Speaker 1: went down and what needs to go down against the

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Speaker 1: Jaguars on Sunday, and also Sheldon Rankins, a guest on

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Speaker 1: Texans post game. He'll be on this program before we

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Speaker 1: get you ready for Texans matchup a bit later on

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Speaker 1: It's Texans Radio in the hun Day Texans Radio studio,

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Speaker 1: Mark Vandermer and John Harris with you. We heard from

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Speaker 1: head coach Tamiko Ryans in the last and in the

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Speaker 1: next segment you'll hear from Sheldon Rankins, who was a

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Speaker 1: guest on Texans post game with Sean Pendergast and Clint Sturner.

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Speaker 1: So that's coming up as well. And then Texans matchup.

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Speaker 1: Johnny Harris goes over the game, goes over the Jaguars

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Speaker 1: situation and whatever else is happening around the league. Okay, Johnny,

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Speaker 1: this is the first time you and I have had

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Speaker 1: a chance to talk publicly about what went down on

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Speaker 1: Monday night against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who did to

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Speaker 1: the Texans what the Texans did to them two years ago.

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Speaker 1: Score with so little time left, there's nothing you can

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Speaker 1: do about it, and that's what we had to live with.

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Speaker 1: After the final result, the Bucks driving downfield with Sean

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Speaker 1: White running the ball into the end zone two yard

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Speaker 1: TD for the victory. And your general assessment, Johnny, as

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Speaker 1: you look at that game, because it's a serious situation

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Speaker 1: at zero and two, not impossible, but a serious situation.

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Speaker 1: Much to work on.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, I think the inconsistency as you just you listen

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Speaker 5: to coach after the game, listen to him in the

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Speaker 5: first segment. The consistency of things I think is really

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Speaker 5: kind of frustrating him as it should.

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Speaker 4: Consistency and tackling.

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Speaker 5: I think he's really frustrated with the tackling part, and

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Speaker 5: that gets at the beginning of the year. I think

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Speaker 5: there's always hills and valleys of tackles early in the

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Speaker 5: year when you haven't been fully tackling, that can be

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Speaker 5: kind of an issue. But it's really not a function

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Speaker 5: of the right way of saying this. It's really a

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Speaker 5: function of deciding to hit someone versus tackling someone. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: and you can throw your shoulder into somebody and give

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Speaker 5: it up everything you got. But if a guy's got

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Speaker 5: good contact balance like Bucky Irving, like Rashad White, then

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Speaker 5: they're gonna bounce off of them. And that's kind of

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Speaker 5: what happened a lot of times. I'd like to know

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Speaker 5: what the yards after contact were for the Bucks. Now

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Speaker 5: that doesn't absolve the defensive line and the linebackers for

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Speaker 5: opening some gap. There was that one drive where a

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Speaker 5: Z with a missed field goal drive, whereas Z's I

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Speaker 5: think went out with a I think he.

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Speaker 4: Look, what's what's called when you lose your air? Why

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Speaker 4: am I drawing a blank?

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Speaker 1: Get the wind knocked?

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Speaker 5: The wind knocked out of him, and so that actually

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Speaker 5: kind of slowed the music on that drive. Then they

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Speaker 5: were able to get a stop and then they kicked

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Speaker 5: it off the upright. Okay, good, here we go. Now

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Speaker 5: it's time to dance. I think there have been too

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Speaker 5: many inconsistencies. And defensively, you face seventy two plays.

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Speaker 4: This is the other thing that stood out to me.

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Speaker 5: Defense faced seventy two plays, the offense ran forty six.

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Speaker 1: That's too many though to have to deal with. Yes, well,

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Speaker 1: you would give me the number before the final drive

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Speaker 1: for the Bucks. So after the Texans take the lead,

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Speaker 1: they've only had it for forty What was the.

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Speaker 5: Texans when Chubb ran it in? That was the forty

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Speaker 5: sixth offensive play of the night, Feen text.

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Speaker 1: Not a lot right there. And then the defense had

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Speaker 1: already been on the field for sixty two I think

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Speaker 1: sixty two or sixty three. Sixty two, sixty three replaced,

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Speaker 1: and now you got to go out and make that

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Speaker 1: stop in the final drive. And clearly they almost had it,

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Speaker 1: almost could have would have showed up fourth and ten,

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Speaker 1: but Baker got out of trouble. Baker won tough SB.

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Speaker 1: That guy is a tough bucket of hammers. He is

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Speaker 1: definitely a threat in so many ways. The way he

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Speaker 1: throws the football so intentional.

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Speaker 5: He's got a canon. I don't think people realize I

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Speaker 5: was watching him throw a pregame. He's one of those guys.

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Speaker 5: He's like Bryson to Shamba in a sense that Bryson

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Speaker 5: swings his hardest at everything.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he just whoa.

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Speaker 5: I mean, It's like you feel how violent he is

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Speaker 5: when he swings the club. Baker's like that with every

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Speaker 5: throat when he throws a slant. I mean, like that

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Speaker 5: thing is zipped. So I give him. I give Baker

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Speaker 5: a ton of credit. And I was trading texts last

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Speaker 5: night as I was driving home with TJ. Reeves, who's

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Speaker 5: a sideline reporter, my counterpart, who's a good friend of mine.

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Speaker 5: You got a chance to review him, great, dude, No,

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Speaker 5: the league knows the Bucks, and we were trading some

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Speaker 5: text back and forth and he's he told me a

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Speaker 5: story about Baker. I thought it was just incredible, and

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Speaker 5: he just said, you know, Baker got two years later,

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Speaker 5: he got his revenge, and he goes, I love that guy.

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Speaker 5: And then his next text was Cleveland and Carolina idiots

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Speaker 5: and they I mean, look, Cleveland, has Cleveland sold their

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Speaker 5: quarterback issue? No has Carolina? I don't know. I mean

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Speaker 5: they got Bryce young, but neither one of them have

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Speaker 5: saw their quarterback issue.

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Speaker 4: And they had the guy right in front of him.

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Speaker 5: And Tampa Bay is a one year, four million dollar

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Speaker 5: deal in twenty three and it's turned.

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Speaker 4: Into this and move.

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Speaker 5: I knew once they got the ball. I remember looking

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Speaker 5: up like they got three timeouts and it was like.

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Speaker 4: A minute fifty something.

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Speaker 1: I think it wasn't about time well, it really wasn't

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Speaker 1: about time. I was not going to run out of time.

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Speaker 5: I'm like, this worries me.

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Speaker 1: Even what was it? Second and goal at the two

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Speaker 1: second and goal at the two second goal at two

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Speaker 1: all right, So they could have run nine seconds left

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Speaker 1: another play, Yeah, like a timeout, a quick out three

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Speaker 1: let's say, let's say they didn't convert a quick out,

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Speaker 1: all right, three seconds off six seconds you can run

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Speaker 1: two plays.

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Speaker 5: All right, So they could have run their full lot.

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Speaker 1: They could have run the full a lot man in

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Speaker 1: the time they had left. And wait, didn't they have

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Speaker 1: a timeout or two left?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: They had two left, all right, so they they were shape.

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Speaker 1: It was about downs, not clock, right. I was thinking, well,

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Speaker 1: we can hope all we want that the clock's going

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Speaker 1: to expire. It's not. No, they're not running out of time.

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Speaker 5: The only thing you could have hoped for is they

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Speaker 5: could have run the ball, gotten stuffed, bang a time

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Speaker 5: out and keep going.

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 5: We could have stopped Rashad White. There's a little tussle

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Speaker 5: at the goal line, maybe another couple of ticks go off.

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Speaker 5: But they got time out right there with four seconds left.

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 5: The only thing you really, the only the only luck

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Speaker 5: you could have had was if you punched it away

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Speaker 5: from Rashad White and the ball goes bouncing and bouncing

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Speaker 5: in time it's going and now the clock is.

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Speaker 4: You know, you have that situation.

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Speaker 5: But even at that point, it just it felt as

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Speaker 5: soon as Baker stepped out of the fourth and tent.

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Speaker 5: Once he stepped out of that rush and got the

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Speaker 5: first down, I remember thinking.

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Speaker 4: We're in trouble.

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Speaker 1: Well, I remember thinking trouble and I talked to you

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Speaker 1: about this. This was not the game, by the way,

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Speaker 1: and this is a classic debate whether or not you

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Speaker 1: should call time out earlier if you're Demko Ryans and

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Speaker 1: save some time. Now he talked about it. We asked

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Speaker 1: him about this, and he said, we just wanted to

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Speaker 1: end the game right there. And I get that. I

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Speaker 1: felt like, there's no way they're running out of time.

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Speaker 1: You need to just stop them on downs. You almost

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Speaker 1: did or you didn't do it, and now you need

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Speaker 1: to stop them on downs because clearly they're in four

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Speaker 1: downs territory and they're going to go the whole way.

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Speaker 1: And now, look, you could have banged a timeout or

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Speaker 1: two and saved yourself some time, and then they get

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Speaker 1: a first down and then now they're in complete clock control,

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Speaker 1: which they kind of were anyway the way it turned out.

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Speaker 1: But that's not what lost to the game clock management

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Speaker 1: at all. I mean, that's not it, because I'm not

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Speaker 1: even sure I'm right about the theory of calling timeouts

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Speaker 1: and saving some time because you know, maybe they score

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Speaker 1: from the forty yard line and now all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: you got a you know, thirty seconds left, forty seconds left,

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Speaker 1: and CG can work magic the way he did in

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Speaker 1: the previous matchup. The point is this, you had the lead,

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Speaker 1: you couldn't make the stop. That's what it boils down

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Speaker 1: to in crunch time. But before that, you had ball

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Speaker 1: at the thirty five yard line following the block, and

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Speaker 1: you come away with za yard drive and three points

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Speaker 1: between that and second and goal inside the one that's

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Speaker 1: net three points for your team. That's unacceptable, and I'm

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Speaker 1: sure that's even discussed in the conference rooms today.

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Speaker 5: We cannot have this.

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Speaker 1: Should you have kicked a field goal on fourth and one,

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying you should have, I mean, hindsight, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I wish you did, because now with the end result

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Speaker 1: says three more points winsay the game. But that's not

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Speaker 1: what it's about. It's really about executing. When you have

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Speaker 1: that goal to go and move the ball. You hit

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Speaker 1: the ball the thirty five yard line, you can't move

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Speaker 1: it a foot. That was really tough to take that

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Speaker 1: goodness for Fairbaarons field goals. Now he wants to keep

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Speaker 1: the ball.

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Speaker 5: Out of the end zone and the kickoff got to change.

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Speaker 5: I mean, he's it's it's tough, and you got all

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Speaker 5: the monum in the world after that first drive and

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Speaker 5: then you go right on the field and then you

659
00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:09,960
Speaker 5: kick it and give it to him out to the

660
00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:14,360
Speaker 5: thirty five field. It hasn't clicked for the players. When

661
00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:19,040
Speaker 5: the offensive defense come out, they congregate around the twenty yeah.

662
00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:21,000
Speaker 5: I mean it's like, no, no, no, y'all got to move

663
00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:23,520
Speaker 5: fifteen yards that way.

664
00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:27,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right. It's like it's yelling their system to

665
00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:29,800
Speaker 1: be around the twenty twenty five yard. They're not even

666
00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:32,479
Speaker 1: used to the thirty Yeah, never mind the thirty five, right,

667
00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:35,440
Speaker 1: And that's why it's so damaging. You've got to take

668
00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:36,000
Speaker 1: your chance.

669
00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:37,400
Speaker 5: I know.

670
00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:40,160
Speaker 1: It's got to be tough for him to lighten up

671
00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:42,240
Speaker 1: and just pooch it. It's not really a pooch, but

672
00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:45,280
Speaker 1: it's kind of a joke. It's the goll of the

673
00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:49,360
Speaker 1: equivalent of you need to hit your seven iron because

674
00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:51,400
Speaker 1: there's trees and you can't go too high with the

675
00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:53,320
Speaker 1: pitching wedge, so you just kind of tap your seven

676
00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:56,160
Speaker 1: iron like eighty one hundred yards and chip it.

677
00:29:56,160 --> 00:29:58,520
Speaker 5: It's a chip, not a kick. So I had a theory.

678
00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:02,400
Speaker 5: I thought about this in this shower. Thoughts come to

679
00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:05,040
Speaker 5: me in the shower. Well, most people, Yes, what about

680
00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:09,920
Speaker 5: somebody else kicking off? Here's why, Gil though, I know,

681
00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:12,920
Speaker 5: But but somebody else with no leg kicking as hard

682
00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:15,520
Speaker 5: as they can? Yeah, but how far would that kick get?

683
00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:19,320
Speaker 1: Well, I'm it's interesting, But you need to control the ball, Johnny,

684
00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:22,280
Speaker 1: and at least he can do that. He's gonna learn.

685
00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:23,320
Speaker 1: Hold on, he's gonna learn.

686
00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:25,560
Speaker 5: Yeah, what about Dara.

687
00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:30,240
Speaker 1: Dara kicking off? I think Daria's agent would like this.

688
00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:33,520
Speaker 5: I just throw it out there because I feel like

689
00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:37,080
Speaker 5: the kickoff now does not have to be this. Gordon,

690
00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:39,480
Speaker 5: did you see how Cardi was kicking him from the

691
00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:43,240
Speaker 5: rams When I went back and watched the end zone view,

692
00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:47,160
Speaker 5: He's just dooinking it. He was hitting knuckleballs. Yeah, like

693
00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:50,480
Speaker 5: the ball was moving all over the place, hitting in

694
00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:51,200
Speaker 5: the landing zone.

695
00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:52,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, he had movement on it.

696
00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:55,800
Speaker 5: It's almost like you have to have a completely different

697
00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:59,640
Speaker 5: kicking mindset to kick off now than you do kicking field.

698
00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:03,320
Speaker 1: Goals any camp. Fairbarn was trying those low squib brothers,

699
00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:04,880
Speaker 1: but those are hard.

700
00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:09,160
Speaker 5: To land hard. Listen, it's harder than we're It's a

701
00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:12,520
Speaker 5: lot harder to do than what we're saying, right, you know.

702
00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:17,280
Speaker 5: But that's something that just as a professional kicker, he's

703
00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:18,600
Speaker 5: going to have to do going forward.

704
00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:22,160
Speaker 4: I have a cake giving up fifteen yards in this case.

705
00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:23,760
Speaker 1: It's too much field position. I want to talk to him,

706
00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:26,560
Speaker 1: but I got to think that there's a concern that

707
00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:29,360
Speaker 1: if you don't put enough on it, Oh, they're gonna

708
00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:30,840
Speaker 1: catch it at the fifteen and now what.

709
00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:33,960
Speaker 5: But I'm okay with that because that risks are going

710
00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:34,720
Speaker 5: really beyond that.

711
00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:36,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll take that risk because all right, so they

712
00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:39,320
Speaker 1: get it at the thirty, it's better than the thirty five, right,

713
00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:39,720
Speaker 1: that's right?

714
00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:40,040
Speaker 2: Right.

715
00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:44,719
Speaker 1: How about Noel Knowle's returns. The first one was gorgeous

716
00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:46,880
Speaker 1: and the second one to the thirty four whatever whatever

717
00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:49,000
Speaker 1: it was, He averaged the thirty five yard line. The

718
00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:50,080
Speaker 1: first two returns.

719
00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:51,479
Speaker 4: How about the one point return.

720
00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:53,960
Speaker 5: I think it was in the south end where he

721
00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:58,520
Speaker 5: caught it and did you see him completely pause?

722
00:31:59,200 --> 00:31:59,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, hit the brake.

723
00:32:00,280 --> 00:32:04,440
Speaker 5: So that's when I realized, and I said it to

724
00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:06,720
Speaker 5: you guys, I mean obviously at that point he had

725
00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:08,320
Speaker 5: already returned. I'm like, no, this guy needs to be

726
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:13,160
Speaker 5: our returner. That showed me how comfortable he was to

727
00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:18,040
Speaker 5: absolutely freeze, to take a look and then go all

728
00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:22,360
Speaker 5: right here I go. That to me was like whoa, Yeah,

729
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:25,920
Speaker 5: that's that's advanced stuff to like catch it and then

730
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:27,120
Speaker 5: take a look and then go.

731
00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:28,600
Speaker 4: I'm gonna settle these dudes up. Watch this.

732
00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:34,400
Speaker 5: He's the return guy punts kickoffs. I don't care who

733
00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:38,040
Speaker 5: else is on this roster. Fourteen is the returner, no

734
00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:39,600
Speaker 5: doubt in the story.

735
00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:42,840
Speaker 1: He's the return Okay, it'll be interesting when Barrios gets bad,

736
00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:45,280
Speaker 1: I get it. What they do with him? Do they

737
00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:48,440
Speaker 1: replace Tremont Smith on the kick return team because they

738
00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:51,400
Speaker 1: have Noll back there with Smith right now? Does Smith

739
00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:55,200
Speaker 1: get replaced by Burrios because hey, Smith can return it too.

740
00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:59,560
Speaker 5: But Barrios isn't a kickoff returner like he's a punt returner. Okay,

741
00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:02,680
Speaker 5: But now that I've seen with Sjalen what he can do,

742
00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:10,960
Speaker 5: no like I watching him return last night when at night,

743
00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:13,720
Speaker 5: that is not a clean look when you're looking up there,

744
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:17,680
Speaker 5: it's not lit up and all like. That's a tough catch.

745
00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:19,400
Speaker 5: I was watching some of those punts. I'm like, man,

746
00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:22,800
Speaker 5: it's hard to see him. He handled that beautifully. He's

747
00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:25,840
Speaker 5: got a different gear that fifty three yarder when he

748
00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:29,120
Speaker 5: got out to the outside. I mean, he it's not

749
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:33,360
Speaker 5: Tank Dell levels of electric. But when you you felt

750
00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:36,520
Speaker 5: I felt the crowds start to rise when he broke out,

751
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:41,000
Speaker 5: like they the fans got completely excited for what that

752
00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:43,320
Speaker 5: guy can do. Yeah, I should, and that's not the

753
00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:45,480
Speaker 5: only reason I keep him back there, But I think

754
00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:49,160
Speaker 5: he puts more pressure on on anybody else that we're

755
00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:49,720
Speaker 5: gonna face.

756
00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:52,600
Speaker 1: What are the statistical odds of winning a game when

757
00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:55,640
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter you block a punt and you

758
00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:58,400
Speaker 1: get a fifty three whatever it was yard putt return.

759
00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:01,120
Speaker 1: What are the statistic odds of winning the game. It's

760
00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:03,440
Speaker 1: gotta be ninety eight percent that you're gonna win that game.

761
00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:05,760
Speaker 5: I'd like to know how many times that's happened. Block

762
00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:09,799
Speaker 5: a punt fifty plus punt return. I don't know, but

763
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:11,560
Speaker 5: I knew. I knew it. I said to you guys

764
00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:13,839
Speaker 5: in your ears, I felt like he was gonna return one.

765
00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:17,360
Speaker 5: Because what happens after a block? What happens after a

766
00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:18,160
Speaker 5: punk gets blocked?

767
00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:18,839
Speaker 4: What do you hey?

768
00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:20,880
Speaker 5: We got to show up the front. We gotta make

769
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:24,320
Speaker 5: sure we got no leakage. So those guys don't get out. Yeah,

770
00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:26,440
Speaker 5: and so they're slow to get out. And that's why

771
00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:29,279
Speaker 5: I was like, if he hits this ball pretty low

772
00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:32,239
Speaker 5: trajectory compared to what he had been punting, I think

773
00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:34,600
Speaker 5: Jalen's got a chance at this because I knew they

774
00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:35,919
Speaker 5: were gonna be late getting out.

775
00:34:36,160 --> 00:34:37,160
Speaker 4: Isn't they were.

776
00:34:37,040 --> 00:34:39,359
Speaker 1: Isn't the block where they ran that swinging gate thing

777
00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:41,080
Speaker 1: or whatever it was where they were spread out and

778
00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:43,319
Speaker 1: then they're all bunch in tight they did that.

779
00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:44,480
Speaker 5: But I don't know if that was in the block,

780
00:34:44,520 --> 00:34:45,120
Speaker 5: I can't remember.

781
00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:47,319
Speaker 1: I was thinking, what are you doing when teams get

782
00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:47,880
Speaker 1: cute like that?

783
00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:50,799
Speaker 5: At least don't get cute, just win, And that's what

784
00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:54,520
Speaker 5: I That's that's kind of my my overall point. You know,

785
00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:57,720
Speaker 5: it doesn't have to be pretty. You gotta just find

786
00:34:57,760 --> 00:35:00,400
Speaker 5: ways to win, especially against playoff teams. It was kind

787
00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:02,120
Speaker 5: of my you know, my thoughts in the open, like

788
00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:04,920
Speaker 5: the Texas were ten, a ten win team. In twenty

789
00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:08,879
Speaker 5: twenty four we beat the Buffalo Bills, a great win,

790
00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:11,120
Speaker 5: but that was our one winning. It's a playoff team.

791
00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:15,520
Speaker 5: And I think you know in Houston, we all you know, hey,

792
00:35:15,520 --> 00:35:17,400
Speaker 5: the national people don't give us respect. It's like we

793
00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:21,000
Speaker 5: got this kind of nationally got to win these games though, Yes, exactly,

794
00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:21,480
Speaker 5: you had to win.

795
00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:24,040
Speaker 1: You have to win these games last year to get

796
00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:26,280
Speaker 1: that kind of respect. You had to beat at least

797
00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:29,239
Speaker 1: either the Chiefs or the Ravens late, right, and you

798
00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:31,319
Speaker 1: did knock off the Chargers in the playoffs, which I

799
00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:33,840
Speaker 1: think created a lot of buzz going into the offseason.

800
00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:35,960
Speaker 1: That's a good Charger team. Well they're playing right now,

801
00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:38,239
Speaker 1: that's right. So that's a good Charger team. And you

802
00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:41,719
Speaker 1: absolutely walloped. Then you peaked at the right time, if

803
00:35:41,719 --> 00:35:44,120
Speaker 1: you will. Now the following week you didn't quite peak,

804
00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:47,480
Speaker 1: but that was the peak beating the Chargers. Now you're

805
00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:50,520
Speaker 1: owing two, you were owing to two years ago. You

806
00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:52,680
Speaker 1: were we know the history, you were owing three and

807
00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:55,919
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen ran off nine in row you were owing

808
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:58,640
Speaker 1: two and twenty fifteen plus two and five and still

809
00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:01,359
Speaker 1: won the division. Anyway, I'm not saying that's automatically going

810
00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:04,840
Speaker 1: to happen here, but there's no epitaph on the season

811
00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:06,799
Speaker 1: at oh and two, and Coach Ryan's, as you heard

812
00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:08,360
Speaker 1: him say in the last segment, he's not going to

813
00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:10,799
Speaker 1: have it. They want to play well this weekend. They

814
00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:13,440
Speaker 1: got a great chance to play well at Jacksonville. This

815
00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:16,120
Speaker 1: is not a pushover Jacksonville team. They want this one

816
00:36:16,239 --> 00:36:19,800
Speaker 1: so bad. In Jacksonville, they're making deals with George Burns

817
00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:24,280
Speaker 1: on a red jacket. They are doing whatever Elizabeth Hurley

818
00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:29,799
Speaker 1: called one David reference Elizabeth Hurley, they are definitely doing

819
00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:30,239
Speaker 1: whatever it.

820
00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:32,719
Speaker 5: Takes an al Pacino in some movie.

821
00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:35,279
Speaker 1: That was the Devil's advocate, but he didn't make a deal.

822
00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:39,400
Speaker 1: He was he was being dealt with Ciano Reeves. Elizabeth

823
00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:43,880
Speaker 1: Hurley has Brendan Fraser in that I Be Deviled, I

824
00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:46,719
Speaker 1: think it's called and she makes a deal with him.

825
00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:49,719
Speaker 1: So he offers it up George Burns and oh god,

826
00:36:49,719 --> 00:36:52,360
Speaker 1: you devil offers it up with Ted Watts name that

827
00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:54,640
Speaker 1: nobody remembers. He was in the show soap again a

828
00:36:54,719 --> 00:36:56,960
Speaker 1: dated reference. Excuse me, I made an I Dream of

829
00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:59,200
Speaker 1: Genie reference last night because there was a player named

830
00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:04,120
Speaker 1: Anthony Nelson and Larry Hagman's character You find me. So

831
00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:07,239
Speaker 1: I still owe you that money. So let me give

832
00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:09,160
Speaker 1: you a hot take. I want you to rate this one.

833
00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:09,520
Speaker 2: Do it.

834
00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:14,440
Speaker 4: I don't know if I'm.

835
00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:15,800
Speaker 5: I feel like and I'm not sure when this happens,

836
00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:19,520
Speaker 5: but I feel like when it's it's gonna click into

837
00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:22,319
Speaker 5: place and we're gonna have a double digit win, a

838
00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:26,600
Speaker 5: double digit point margin win, and that'll be the one

839
00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:28,799
Speaker 5: that gets us on a run. Maybe not like twenty

840
00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:31,200
Speaker 5: eighteen nine in a row, but it's gonna put us

841
00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:33,080
Speaker 5: on a run where it's gonna be really tough to

842
00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:33,480
Speaker 5: beat us.

843
00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:36,280
Speaker 1: Okay, but when is that gonna happen? Maybe this weekend.

844
00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:38,400
Speaker 4: I'm hoping it's this weekend.

845
00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:41,320
Speaker 5: I'm hoping we play a team that's, you know, flawed

846
00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:43,319
Speaker 5: a little bit. I think Jackson's flaught a little bit.

847
00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:47,480
Speaker 5: They're good, though, ETM. They're athletic, they're athletic, and they're talented. Yea,

848
00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:50,120
Speaker 5: I will give you they're athletic and talented. I don't

849
00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:51,880
Speaker 5: know how good a team they are, but They are

850
00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:55,480
Speaker 5: a very athletically gifted team, for sure, they.

851
00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:58,520
Speaker 1: Are, and hopefully that they still have it in the

852
00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:00,360
Speaker 1: backs of our minds that they're not so us to

853
00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:03,279
Speaker 1: win this thing. That's somehow, some way that Texans will

854
00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:06,719
Speaker 1: pull it out. Because people I joke about Jacksonville and

855
00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:09,040
Speaker 1: the Texans success against them and all that, and I'm

856
00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:11,200
Speaker 1: just being facetious here because I know they have to

857
00:38:11,239 --> 00:38:14,520
Speaker 1: earn these wins, that's the thing about it. And Jacksonville

858
00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:17,279
Speaker 1: was just in here two years ago winning a game

859
00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:19,880
Speaker 1: against CJ. Stroud and the Houston Texans. No, I know

860
00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:21,799
Speaker 1: you did what you did last year, but you got

861
00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:23,440
Speaker 1: to find a way to do it again because here

862
00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:25,840
Speaker 1: it comes. You're in the division now and it ain't easy,

863
00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:29,439
Speaker 1: all right. Coming up, Sheldon Rankins on the postgame show

864
00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:32,400
Speaker 1: Texans Post Game with Sean and Clint. We're gonna have

865
00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:34,640
Speaker 1: that conversation for you and get you ready for Texans

866
00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:38,399
Speaker 1: matchup tonight. It's Texans Radio. Final segment on the show

867
00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:42,239
Speaker 1: Tonight Texans Radio. Sheldon Rankins was on Texans Post Game

868
00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:45,640
Speaker 1: with Sean Pendergast and Clint Sterner after the Texans game

869
00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:49,279
Speaker 1: against Tampa Bay and here's that conversation Rankins talking about

870
00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:50,800
Speaker 1: the final drive what went wrong.

871
00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:53,359
Speaker 6: It really just comes down to, man, we just got

872
00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:57,360
Speaker 6: to make plays when when the opportunities present themselves. Felt like,

873
00:38:57,560 --> 00:39:02,520
Speaker 6: you know, from a calling personnel's standpoint, you know, we

874
00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:05,880
Speaker 6: were dialed in and you know, at the end of

875
00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:10,439
Speaker 6: the day, playing a division champ, you know, a really

876
00:39:10,440 --> 00:39:13,239
Speaker 6: good team. You know, we're not gonna act like you know,

877
00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:17,640
Speaker 6: Tampa's a slouch. You know they're they're extremely talented team bakers,

878
00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:20,600
Speaker 6: are extremely talented quarterback. They got playmakers all over the place.

879
00:39:20,680 --> 00:39:24,160
Speaker 6: So in a close game like that where obviously we

880
00:39:24,200 --> 00:39:26,160
Speaker 6: feel like, you know, we should have walked out of

881
00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:28,279
Speaker 6: there with that win, a close game like that, you

882
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:31,120
Speaker 6: gotta gotta find a way to make those plays when

883
00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:33,360
Speaker 6: they present themselves, because you know, if you don't, a

884
00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:35,480
Speaker 6: team like that will find a way to capitalize and

885
00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:36,239
Speaker 6: make you pay for it.

886
00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:38,680
Speaker 7: Sure, I think the thirty rushes for one hundred and

887
00:39:38,719 --> 00:39:40,760
Speaker 7: sixty nine yards, I mean they almost had six yards

888
00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:43,799
Speaker 7: of carry right there, and and what what what's the

889
00:39:43,880 --> 00:39:47,640
Speaker 7: answer to fixing to fixing that with with the defense,

890
00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:50,000
Speaker 7: I mean, we know you guys are in upfield penetrating

891
00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:52,120
Speaker 7: style of defense and so there's obviously you got to

892
00:39:52,160 --> 00:39:53,759
Speaker 7: give to win a little bit there, But what is

893
00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:56,960
Speaker 7: what's the what's the answer to that issue that that

894
00:39:57,040 --> 00:39:57,920
Speaker 7: rear to tell today?

895
00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:00,600
Speaker 6: Yeah, look, I think you know obviously you know a

896
00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:02,920
Speaker 6: little more once I you know, kind of watch the tape,

897
00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:05,359
Speaker 6: but just you know, from from you know, just being

898
00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:07,120
Speaker 6: out there, there's a lot of leaky yardage. You know,

899
00:40:07,160 --> 00:40:09,280
Speaker 6: there's a lot of times where you know, we're hitting

900
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:12,640
Speaker 6: a guy at you know, maybe a game of two,

901
00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:15,720
Speaker 6: but you know he's you know, slipping off and falling

902
00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:18,600
Speaker 6: forward for another three. Now there's now second and five.

903
00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:20,720
Speaker 6: You know, play calling is you know for an offense

904
00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:23,359
Speaker 6: is extremely different. You know, second and eight versus second

905
00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:25,359
Speaker 6: and five. You know, they're ahead of the change, they

906
00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:27,279
Speaker 6: can kind of call whatever they want. You know, you

907
00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:29,760
Speaker 6: got a team like you know you saw and those

908
00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:32,280
Speaker 6: you know, uh, those drives where we kept them second

909
00:40:32,280 --> 00:40:34,960
Speaker 6: and eight, second nine, second and eleven that stuff. You know,

910
00:40:35,680 --> 00:40:37,960
Speaker 6: we're able to kind of tee off and kind of

911
00:40:38,040 --> 00:40:40,560
Speaker 6: you know, limit what they're able to do. Uh, you know,

912
00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:43,800
Speaker 6: but when a team is as good as Tampa is

913
00:40:44,080 --> 00:40:46,560
Speaker 6: is playing you know within rhythm, you know, second and five,

914
00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:49,719
Speaker 6: second and four, they're ahead of the change, or they

915
00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:52,480
Speaker 6: can kind of call whatever they want favorable situations, and

916
00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:56,719
Speaker 6: you know it kind of uh, you know, just kind

917
00:40:56,719 --> 00:40:58,239
Speaker 6: of keep showing your toes a little bit. You know,

918
00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:01,719
Speaker 6: So for us not allowing that leaky yardage. You know,

919
00:41:01,760 --> 00:41:04,160
Speaker 6: if if we got a guy stopped in the hole

920
00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:06,360
Speaker 6: for a two yard game, you know, he's got to

921
00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:08,840
Speaker 6: go down for a two yard game. You know, you know,

922
00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:10,920
Speaker 6: that'll go a long way. And just you know, keeping

923
00:41:10,920 --> 00:41:14,080
Speaker 6: teams behind the sticks and allowing our aggressiveness and you know,

924
00:41:14,120 --> 00:41:18,000
Speaker 6: in our tax style to kind of you know, really,

925
00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:19,960
Speaker 6: you know, just just kind of be empowered.

926
00:41:20,360 --> 00:41:21,480
Speaker 2: What we're talking to.

927
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:25,479
Speaker 9: Texans defensive tackle Sheldon Rankins, This game in the first

928
00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:27,279
Speaker 9: quarter and a half looked like it was gonna look

929
00:41:27,320 --> 00:41:30,000
Speaker 9: like the twenty twenty three game, thirty nine thirty seven

930
00:41:30,040 --> 00:41:32,719
Speaker 9: early on, and then the game really settled down on

931
00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:35,360
Speaker 9: both sides. What was it about the first two drives

932
00:41:35,360 --> 00:41:38,240
Speaker 9: for Tampa and then the subsequent really almost two quarters

933
00:41:38,239 --> 00:41:40,440
Speaker 9: that you guys shut them down. What kind of adjustments

934
00:41:40,440 --> 00:41:41,040
Speaker 9: were you guys making.

935
00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:42,960
Speaker 6: Yeah, listen, I don't I don't even think it was.

936
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:44,960
Speaker 6: It was so much, you know, a lot of adjustments

937
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:47,080
Speaker 6: you know, we came over. You know, we were able

938
00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:51,280
Speaker 6: to kind of identify kind of how they were hitting us,

939
00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:54,400
Speaker 6: you know, whether it was certain runs or you know,

940
00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:57,480
Speaker 6: certain ways they were trying to scheme up things and

941
00:41:57,560 --> 00:42:00,319
Speaker 6: how they were blocking certain things with you know, kind

942
00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:02,399
Speaker 6: of bumping our guys out of gaps and certain things

943
00:42:02,520 --> 00:42:05,840
Speaker 6: like that. So, uh, just coming back and emphasizing, you know,

944
00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:08,040
Speaker 6: the things we talk about through throughout the week, you know,

945
00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:10,680
Speaker 6: being stout in the run game and you know everybody,

946
00:42:10,760 --> 00:42:13,640
Speaker 6: you know, kind of just doing their job. You know,

947
00:42:13,680 --> 00:42:17,919
Speaker 6: I think you know, Monday night, you know, first home game,

948
00:42:18,080 --> 00:42:20,640
Speaker 6: you know, emotions are high. You know, guys are flying

949
00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:23,600
Speaker 6: around trying to make plays. But you know, sometimes you

950
00:42:23,640 --> 00:42:24,960
Speaker 6: can get a little out of whack. So you know,

951
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:26,759
Speaker 6: those first couple of drives weren't us. You know, I

952
00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:29,480
Speaker 6: think once we settled in and you know, really you know,

953
00:42:29,560 --> 00:42:32,719
Speaker 6: got back down to our basics, our fundamentals and what

954
00:42:32,719 --> 00:42:34,560
Speaker 6: we're known to do, we.

955
00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:35,240
Speaker 8: Have some success.

956
00:42:35,320 --> 00:42:38,160
Speaker 6: So obviously, you know, the way the game works, you

957
00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:40,279
Speaker 6: can't take out those first two drives, you know, if

958
00:42:40,320 --> 00:42:42,839
Speaker 6: we you know, we wish we could, but we gotta

959
00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:43,359
Speaker 6: start better.

960
00:42:43,480 --> 00:42:45,920
Speaker 8: And I think that's you know, as simple as it is.

961
00:42:45,960 --> 00:42:46,960
Speaker 8: You know, we got to start better.

962
00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:49,799
Speaker 6: We can't allow a team as talented as that uh

963
00:42:49,840 --> 00:42:52,279
Speaker 6: to put those drives together to to put points on

964
00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:54,399
Speaker 6: the board and kind of keep us behind eight ball.

965
00:42:54,520 --> 00:42:56,239
Speaker 8: So we gotta start better.

966
00:42:56,360 --> 00:42:59,319
Speaker 6: But you know, I think, you know, once we settled in,

967
00:42:59,400 --> 00:43:01,719
Speaker 6: you know, you saw how you know, how good we

968
00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:03,920
Speaker 6: can really be. But the end of the day, man,

969
00:43:03,920 --> 00:43:05,799
Speaker 6: you just got to make those plays when when they

970
00:43:05,840 --> 00:43:06,640
Speaker 6: present themselves.

971
00:43:06,880 --> 00:43:10,200
Speaker 7: Texans defensive tackle Sheldon Rankings joining us on Texans Post

972
00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:14,399
Speaker 7: game show. You know, look, we we do radio four

973
00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:16,040
Speaker 7: hours a day, so we got a lot of talking

974
00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:20,200
Speaker 7: to do. Nine he's gonna come up, but h and fans,

975
00:43:20,200 --> 00:43:21,680
Speaker 7: you know, I mean, well, look we're gonna talk about

976
00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:23,960
Speaker 7: this for a week, right and I think before we

977
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:25,719
Speaker 7: get to digging into the weeds, we talked about this

978
00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:28,560
Speaker 7: early in the postgame show. Is this the way this

979
00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:31,919
Speaker 7: organization is built, the way this roster is built, is

980
00:43:31,960 --> 00:43:34,960
Speaker 7: if the offense, if the game unfolds and they hand

981
00:43:35,120 --> 00:43:37,840
Speaker 7: the defense a lead with three or four minutes in

982
00:43:37,880 --> 00:43:40,920
Speaker 7: the game, that's the ideal situation. Is that Is that

983
00:43:41,040 --> 00:43:41,759
Speaker 7: crazy to think?

984
00:43:41,880 --> 00:43:42,120
Speaker 4: Is that?

985
00:43:42,280 --> 00:43:44,319
Speaker 7: Is that kind of the approach with I know, a

986
00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:46,799
Speaker 7: team you want to win, But is that that's the

987
00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:47,600
Speaker 7: approach the way this.

988
00:43:48,280 --> 00:43:51,920
Speaker 6: We as a defense we put on our back. You know,

989
00:43:51,960 --> 00:43:55,080
Speaker 6: we feel like if we're giving the opportunity to close

990
00:43:55,080 --> 00:43:59,000
Speaker 6: out the game, we are confident that we're going to

991
00:43:59,080 --> 00:44:02,080
Speaker 6: do that. Obviously, we didn't get that done tonight, and

992
00:44:02,520 --> 00:44:04,480
Speaker 6: we'll watch the tape and kind of figure out, you know,

993
00:44:04,880 --> 00:44:07,640
Speaker 6: where we can be better at and and make the corrections.

994
00:44:07,680 --> 00:44:09,080
Speaker 8: But you're one hundred percent right.

995
00:44:09,120 --> 00:44:12,000
Speaker 6: We're a team that feels like as a defense that

996
00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:14,200
Speaker 6: you know, if if they put us back on the

997
00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:17,520
Speaker 6: field and after our offense has given us a lead,

998
00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:21,560
Speaker 6: you know we're gonna end the game. And unfortunately we

999
00:44:21,560 --> 00:44:23,560
Speaker 6: weren't able to get that done. But you know that

1000
00:44:23,560 --> 00:44:26,719
Speaker 6: that won't stun our confidence, that that won't change our

1001
00:44:26,760 --> 00:44:29,520
Speaker 6: mentality about you know how we feel like we're supposed

1002
00:44:29,520 --> 00:44:30,760
Speaker 6: to finish and close games.

1003
00:44:31,120 --> 00:44:32,560
Speaker 8: Uh, because that's the type of team we are.

1004
00:44:32,760 --> 00:44:36,280
Speaker 2: Sheldon rankins joining us. How are you feeling physically?

1005
00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:37,920
Speaker 9: I know last year was a tough year for you

1006
00:44:37,920 --> 00:44:41,879
Speaker 9: in Cincinnati with health issues. You look like you're doing great,

1007
00:44:41,960 --> 00:44:43,560
Speaker 9: You're playing like you're doing great, But tell.

1008
00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:44,560
Speaker 2: Us how how are you feeling?

1009
00:44:44,920 --> 00:44:46,319
Speaker 8: I feel great. You know.

1010
00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:51,960
Speaker 6: Last year was to sum it up, hell yeah, I

1011
00:44:51,960 --> 00:44:55,240
Speaker 6: mean it was. It was as bad as I've honestly

1012
00:44:55,280 --> 00:44:57,440
Speaker 6: ever felt in my life. And I've been through you know,

1013
00:44:57,880 --> 00:45:00,920
Speaker 6: two Achilles ruptures and all types others, you know, so

1014
00:45:01,880 --> 00:45:04,440
Speaker 6: it was as bad as I've ever felt. So to

1015
00:45:04,480 --> 00:45:07,480
Speaker 6: be able to come back from that and be back

1016
00:45:07,520 --> 00:45:10,800
Speaker 6: in a place that you know, I love to be playing,

1017
00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:12,279
Speaker 6: you know, with a group of guys I love to

1018
00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:15,399
Speaker 6: play with. It feels amazing, you know, to be able

1019
00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:18,439
Speaker 6: to go out there and go to battle with those

1020
00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:22,880
Speaker 6: guys and and be counted on, you know, I think, uh,

1021
00:45:23,040 --> 00:45:25,600
Speaker 6: you know, for myself as a player, mean, it's a

1022
00:45:25,680 --> 00:45:28,680
Speaker 6: year ten for me. You know, to be still looked

1023
00:45:28,680 --> 00:45:32,560
Speaker 6: at as a key contributor, you know, first, second, third

1024
00:45:32,640 --> 00:45:35,719
Speaker 6: down when you know when money needs to be made,

1025
00:45:35,880 --> 00:45:38,120
Speaker 6: you know they you know, they they look at me

1026
00:45:38,200 --> 00:45:39,319
Speaker 6: and be like, we need you.

1027
00:45:40,920 --> 00:45:41,880
Speaker 8: Feels amazing. You know.

1028
00:45:41,880 --> 00:45:43,920
Speaker 6: It feels amazing to still be able, not only to

1029
00:45:43,960 --> 00:45:45,560
Speaker 6: be looked at like that, but then to be able

1030
00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:47,560
Speaker 6: to go out there and be able to come through.

1031
00:45:47,719 --> 00:45:50,479
Speaker 9: So we We've had Will Anderson on this postgame show

1032
00:45:50,640 --> 00:45:52,400
Speaker 9: several times over the last couple of years, and I

1033
00:45:52,440 --> 00:45:54,239
Speaker 9: know during his rookie year, he would bring you up

1034
00:45:54,600 --> 00:45:57,120
Speaker 9: as a guy that it was, you know, a mentor

1035
00:45:57,200 --> 00:45:59,839
Speaker 9: or a big brother to him. You're gone for a year, right,

1036
00:45:59,880 --> 00:46:01,480
Speaker 9: you were here for his rookie year. You come back

1037
00:46:01,480 --> 00:46:03,279
Speaker 9: and it's this version of will Now do you feel

1038
00:46:03,280 --> 00:46:05,359
Speaker 9: like you how long you feel like you were away for?

1039
00:46:05,520 --> 00:46:07,200
Speaker 9: Like coming back and seeing this version of it?

1040
00:46:07,320 --> 00:46:07,880
Speaker 2: Yeah?

1041
00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:08,160
Speaker 5: Yeah.

1042
00:46:08,200 --> 00:46:11,560
Speaker 8: I mean I think he's made huge strides.

1043
00:46:11,760 --> 00:46:11,920
Speaker 5: You know.

1044
00:46:11,920 --> 00:46:14,839
Speaker 6: I think a lot of his first year, you know,

1045
00:46:14,880 --> 00:46:17,360
Speaker 6: me and him was just you know, getting him to

1046
00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:20,279
Speaker 6: understand the emotions of NFL season. You know, I think

1047
00:46:20,320 --> 00:46:23,520
Speaker 6: he's been so used to you know, for lack of

1048
00:46:23,560 --> 00:46:28,080
Speaker 6: a better you know word, just kicking everybody's ass in

1049
00:46:28,080 --> 00:46:32,319
Speaker 6: front of them, and he still did, you know, as

1050
00:46:32,320 --> 00:46:34,160
Speaker 6: a rookie, and I think, you know, it just didn't

1051
00:46:34,360 --> 00:46:37,720
Speaker 6: sometimes you know, maybe the sack numbers weren't there or whatever,

1052
00:46:37,880 --> 00:46:41,279
Speaker 6: you know, but just kind of getting him to understand, man, like,

1053
00:46:42,040 --> 00:46:45,319
Speaker 6: just keep going, just keep going. Look, every everything you

1054
00:46:45,360 --> 00:46:47,120
Speaker 6: want to achieve is going to be right there. Just

1055
00:46:47,680 --> 00:46:49,520
Speaker 6: you know, I think the biggest thing, you know, I

1056
00:46:49,560 --> 00:46:52,160
Speaker 6: got on him about as a rookie was I'm like, dude,

1057
00:46:52,280 --> 00:46:56,560
Speaker 6: just focus on winning rushes, Sacks come, pressures come, quarterback

1058
00:46:56,640 --> 00:46:59,520
Speaker 6: hits come, but like if you don't win, the rush

1059
00:46:59,560 --> 00:47:00,200
Speaker 6: doesn't matter.

1060
00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:03,680
Speaker 1: There's Sheldon Rankins on Texans Post Game with Clint Sterner

1061
00:47:03,680 --> 00:47:07,120
Speaker 1: and Sean Pendergast coming up Texans matchup, and we'll be

1062
00:47:07,160 --> 00:47:09,479
Speaker 1: back at six tomorrow with Nick Cassario and a whole

1063
00:47:09,520 --> 00:47:11,080
Speaker 1: lot more on Texans Radio