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Speaker 1: Happy Friday, everybody. We are about forty eight hours away

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Speaker 1: from Chiefs v. Texans for the eleventh time since twenty fifteen.

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Speaker 2: Welcome into Texans.

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Speaker 1: All Access John Harris alongside the voice of the Texans,

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Speaker 1: Mark vandermir Yeah. How's that sound. I got on the

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Speaker 1: sidelines in twenty fourteen, which you know because you hired me.

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Speaker 1: Twenty fifteen, we faced the Chiefs in the opener and

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Speaker 1: the closure. Then we faced them in sixteen seventeen, twice

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Speaker 1: in nineteen started the season the COVID year, played them

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Speaker 1: here in twenty twenty two, twice in twenty twenty four,

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Speaker 1: and we are back at Arrowhead in twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 3: The Texans PR staff does not list the results of

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Speaker 3: the entire series.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 3: They list the record Chiefs lead the all time series

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Speaker 3: regular season eight to five.

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Speaker 2: They list regular seasons regular season.

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Speaker 3: They list all the games from twenty sixteen on when

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Speaker 3: the Texans won nineteen to twelve. That was the Week

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Speaker 3: two game, as Waller, that was a hell of a game.

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Speaker 1: That was he the twelve physical game. I remember that

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Speaker 1: we got beat up in that game.

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Speaker 3: This could be like nineteen to twelve on Sunday night.

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Speaker 3: This could be one of the Coast games. It could

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Speaker 3: also be in the twenties somewhere, because who knows. We'll

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Speaker 3: find out together on Sunday night. But it's interesting how

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Speaker 3: they do that. They don't want to list the entire series. Now,

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Speaker 3: before that, you had a nice victory in two thousand

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Speaker 3: and four. Yep, that was the Coast to Coast Marcus

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Speaker 3: Arrowhead at Arrowhead.

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Speaker 4: Yep.

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Speaker 3: Right, you had the two thousand and seven Week one

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Speaker 3: that was job debut.

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Speaker 2: You want to know a little house debut. Yeah, my debut.

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Speaker 1: That's my very first game, my very first Texans game

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Speaker 1: I ever saw. We had actually driven from Baton Rouge.

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Speaker 1: We saw Saturday night in Death Valley, we saw LSU

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Speaker 1: Virginia Tech.

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Speaker 2: And it is a funny story.

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Speaker 3: Can I guess the size of John Bernado's hangover during

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Speaker 3: the game? Wait a minute, did he work it? No,

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Speaker 3: he was done by then on the sideline because he

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Speaker 3: was with the station.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, Well so Saturday night, the game's seven o'clock.

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Speaker 1: We had done our show Friday in a driving thunderstore.

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Speaker 2: Well that's when you're in the trailer or something.

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Speaker 1: We were just outside this RV and it is lightning

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Speaker 1: popping everywhere. Mark, we stayed on in a miracle of

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Speaker 1: all miracles, at fifteen sixty we somehow stayed on until

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Speaker 1: I stepped on like the last thirty seconds of the show.

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Speaker 2: I stepped on the power strip and cut it off.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, So we go to the game, and then

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Speaker 1: of course you can't move in Baton Rouge after the game.

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Speaker 1: So it isn't until we get back to where we

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Speaker 1: were staying till like two in the morning, and all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden, we get this call at like seven

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Speaker 1: thirty in the morning from the aforementioned John Granado, Hey,

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Speaker 1: you to need to be a Texans game.

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Speaker 2: We're like, dude, we're in Baton Rouge.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he had already taken off from Baton Rouge to

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Speaker 1: go to the game.

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Speaker 2: So we're like, all right, I guess we're the Chiefs game.

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Speaker 1: My wife is ready to kill me at that point

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Speaker 1: because I've been that weekend in Matton Ruge and how

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Speaker 1: I gotta go to Texas game. And we got there,

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Speaker 1: I think just about the time when Andre caught a

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Speaker 1: deep ball yep, the lock caught a deep perception in

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Speaker 1: his career in the first half of that game, and

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Speaker 1: that's about when we got there, and then we watched

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Speaker 1: the Texans win. I think it was like twenty to three.

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Speaker 4: I mean that's pretty.

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Speaker 3: Chiefs were enjoyable. They were enjoyable because we beat them

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Speaker 3: a lot. Twenty ten Week six beat them on to

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Speaker 3: come from behind her shot, finding Andre Johnson and then

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Speaker 3: stopping Trent Green. And well, Travis Johnson Trent Green game

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Speaker 3: was earlier than that. That might have been the two

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Speaker 3: thousand and seven game.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Trent Green. The Trent Green Travis Johnson game was

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Speaker 3: I thought, oh, you're right, I'm thinking Trent Green as

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Speaker 3: a Chief You're right he was with Miami.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what am I saying?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 3: That was two thousand and six, then Kubiak's first win.

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Speaker 2: I would think no one trapped the way that.

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Speaker 3: We also played them in seven though, and in eight

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Speaker 3: three years in a row. Did we please an Archie state.

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Speaker 1: We've had periods of, yeah, of playing the Chiefs, like

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Speaker 1: my first time he gets the Chiefs is you open?

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Speaker 2: Fifteen?

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Speaker 1: Then we played in the playoff game here, Then sixteen

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Speaker 1: we played them here too. Then seventeen we played them

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Speaker 1: them and then nineteen played them in nineteen that's when

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Speaker 1: we started going there. So it's twice nineteen there, twenty there,

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Speaker 1: twenty two was here, but then twenty four twice there.

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Speaker 1: So we've gone to Arrowhead a few different times.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: I know people like, well, why every three years we

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Speaker 1: alternate back and forth with divisions in the AFC. But

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Speaker 1: if you match up with them at the top ear division, right,

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Speaker 1: then you have to play them. And the way it

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Speaker 1: works is you played like Buffalo. That's why Buffalo has

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Speaker 1: come here twice, right, Because now I think the twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty four game were we playing the AFC?

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Speaker 3: Yes, we Welayland up there, ye Dolphins, So that was

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Speaker 3: a scheduled Bill's trip. I explained this to somebody this week,

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Speaker 3: and I said, just think of it like this. Why

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Speaker 3: did Brady and Manning play each other every year? They

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Speaker 3: were finishing first every year?

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Speaker 2: That's right.

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Speaker 3: Why do Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes have

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Speaker 3: a round robin every year? Because they always win the

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Speaker 3: division at least lately. So there it is, so Arrowhead

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Speaker 3: it is again, yeap, and this time it's December. Oh

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Speaker 3: wait a minute, last time it was December and January.

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Speaker 3: So I like that, Johnny. I like that they're used

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Speaker 3: to the cold. I like that they're used to the fans.

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Speaker 3: They're used to it. I feel like it was just

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Speaker 3: a few months ago, because it basically was, you know,

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Speaker 3: in our lifespan, it's a shorter percentage, right, they're younger,

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Speaker 3: but still I remember being on the field prior to

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Speaker 3: the playoff game in January like it was yesterday. It's

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Speaker 3: just so fresh in my mind. It was freezing cold

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Speaker 3: and getting ready for a big one. Anybody who played

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Speaker 3: in that game, those games last year, they will not

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Speaker 3: be swayed by the environment. They're fully prepared for that.

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Speaker 3: So in that way, it's almost like you're in the division.

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Speaker 3: What do we always talk about when you're in somebody's division.

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Speaker 3: You're not scared of going to their place. Now, they

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Speaker 3: might beat you, they might be better than you, but you're

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Speaker 3: not intimidated by the environment like you would be.

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Speaker 2: Oh, we never go to Seattle.

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Speaker 3: We never go to New England when they had Brady,

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Speaker 3: and maybe may will turn it into that as well.

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Speaker 3: Kansas City if you don't go there much, My gosh,

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Speaker 3: Arrowhead is so intimidating. But our guys are gonna be

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Speaker 3: ready for that part of it? Will they be ready

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Speaker 3: o's and the Jimmy and Joe's that the Chiefs are

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Speaker 3: going to present on Sunday night.

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Speaker 1: As long as they don't turn it over, that thing's

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Speaker 1: going to be a sixty minute ballgame.

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Speaker 2: At worst.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be a sixty minute ball game. Now, if

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Speaker 1: they turn it over a couple times to us, we

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Speaker 1: have a good shot, I think of beating them by

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Speaker 1: fourteen to seventeen if they turn it over to us.

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Speaker 1: If we turn over to them, this thing is going

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Speaker 1: to be a nail bier all the way through. Oh gosh,

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Speaker 1: all the way through. Yeah, you'd be hard pressed to

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Speaker 1: stay in it. You cannot give them short field. You

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Speaker 1: did that last week against the Colts. Think about this

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Speaker 1: winning streak. You gave the Colts a short field, they

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Speaker 1: scored a touchdown. Right now, you responded right away, that correct,

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Speaker 1: But think about the other games. Two of the other

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Speaker 1: three you gave up return for scores and you fumble

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Speaker 1: a kickoff return in the Jags game. You made some

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Speaker 1: mistakes in this four game winning streak, and they're all

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Speaker 1: close wins, and they could have been a lot more

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Speaker 1: lopsided in your favors had you not made those errors.

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Speaker 2: So don't make those errors.

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Speaker 3: Now. It's easier said than done. They're a really good

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Speaker 3: team phases, they're going to be all over it. I mean,

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Speaker 3: this is their circle the Wagons, last house on the

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Speaker 3: left game. They've got to get it done. And for

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Speaker 3: the Houston Texans, it's a chance to make a statement.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So how about this little nugget? You ready for this? Ready?

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Speaker 1: On Sunday, the Broncos go to Las Vegas take on

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Speaker 1: the Raiders. You'll see why this is important a second. Okay,

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Speaker 1: that would seem like a win for the Broncos because

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Speaker 1: the Raiders like it. Hot Raiders a win. But going so,

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Speaker 1: if we beat the Chiefs, Yeah, and the Broncos beat

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Speaker 1: the Raiders, it's not a guarantee it the Broncos win

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Speaker 1: will not, so.

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Speaker 2: They're eliminated from the division title.

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Speaker 1: They are eliminated from the division title if we beat

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Speaker 1: them and the Broncos win, because the Broncos at that

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Speaker 1: point would be eleven and two, that would move the

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Speaker 2: That's five games are only four left. Now.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't mean that the Chargers can't catch the Broncos,

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Speaker 1: but it would mean that the Chiefs would not be

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Speaker 1: able to win the division for the first time since.

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Speaker 2: Twenty sixteen, twenty fifteen, twenty fifteen, because they won it

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Speaker 2: in twenty six sixteen.

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Speaker 4: That's right.

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Speaker 1: They came here for the playoff game as a wildcard

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Speaker 1: to fifteen. Then they started winning it with Alex Smith

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Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen, won it again in seventeen but lost

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Speaker 1: to the Titans, and then the Mahomes zero took over

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Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen. They have been to the AFC Championship

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Speaker 1: Game every single year in the Mahomes eero.

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Speaker 3: This is you know, people talk about this as a

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Speaker 3: pivotal game, playoff wise, of course, of course, narrative wise,

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Speaker 3: it's so pivotal because if the Chiefs lose this game,

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Speaker 3: everyone's gonna say it's over.

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Speaker 2: It's over for them, and what kind of team are

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Speaker 2: they really?

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Speaker 3: Are they game for making another big run or are

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Speaker 3: they really on the edge of the cliff and they're

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Speaker 3: gonna fall off the cliff on Sunday night, And that's

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Speaker 3: really going to be it. They could still make a

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Speaker 3: run late, but they'll need a ton of help and

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Speaker 3: the odds are very much against them.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I expect their best effort, Johnny. They're coming off the

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Speaker 3: Mini by they will be good to go. Now do

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Speaker 3: they have playoff fatigue? Super Bowl fatigue? All these extra

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Speaker 3: games they've played over the years, wear and tear. Does

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Speaker 3: that affect them? I think it does affect some teams.

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Speaker 3: I think the Eagles are feeling the heat of that

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Speaker 3: because they've had these postseason runs, but maybe not to

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Speaker 3: the degree that the Chiefs might or could. The Chiefs

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Speaker 3: have responded very well throughout this run. They're the Houston

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Speaker 3: Astros with this run, right, It's exactly right. I mean

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Speaker 3: they've won three rings, the Astros won two. But you

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Speaker 3: ALCS in the league semi finals, as the Chiefs have been.

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Speaker 1: You know you're building to eighty seven, you get to

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Speaker 3: I saw a game with them in ninety two, fall

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Speaker 3: Of playoff football. Now, he's incredible. Nineteen in Philly, twenty

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Speaker 2: That stinks. You face them a bunch.

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Speaker 3: It just feels so different facing that twenty fifteen Chiefs

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Speaker 2: I'll never forget how.

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Speaker 1: Calm I know what I really how calm and how

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Speaker 2: We beat these guys here last time. We'll be okay, boy,

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Speaker 3: He was the only one who felt that way, and

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Speaker 3: I'm glad I was felt that way. You know, I

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Speaker 2: It just didn't happen.

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Speaker 3: we'd beaten them before by possessing the football. Can we

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Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, I agree, and that's why I was so

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Speaker 1: Yeah twenty twenty four, Like, look, we just get back

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Speaker 1: So I remember that that little story. It was just

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Speaker 3: All Right, coach a game of this magnitude, how important

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Speaker 2: Stay focused?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we have to remain focus. That's the key. We

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Speaker 3: How much does it help that you were there just

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Speaker 6: Our guys are familiar with it. It's not new to

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Speaker 5: We understand the environment, we understand the team that we're

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Speaker 3: I want to start with special teams on the field

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it'll be huge, Right if we understand for our

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Speaker 4: Like that'll be the key.

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Speaker 5: Our guys have to kick away emy all right, and Tommy,

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Speaker 6: We have to make all of our kicks count.

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Speaker 3: How tough is it to deal with their defense up front?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, they do a lot of different things where you

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Speaker 3: Your ground game has been improving. That's really gonna help

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Speaker 5: It's improved a lot with the variety and we've added

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Speaker 5: Now it's can we get some even bigger explosive runs?

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Speaker 6: I think we've been blocking it well.

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Speaker 3: A lot of people don't talk about Mahomes as a

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Speaker 6: And our guys.

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Speaker 5: Prepared great all week, so I'm excited to see him

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Speaker 5: cut it, lose.

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Speaker 2: Great stuff. Thanks a lot, coach, Thanks Mark, all right,

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Speaker 2: great stuff for Demiko and Mark.

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Speaker 1: Let's get to Greg Bailey, who is going to speak

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Speaker 8: So going home to Kansas City, Man, you told us

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Speaker 2: What will that moment.

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Speaker 8: Be like for both of you to share that NFL

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Speaker 9: I ain't seen my dukes in a while, so for

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Speaker 9: at this point in my life, knowing that it you know,

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Speaker 9: it took a lot of focus and determination and uh

443
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Speaker 9: just hard work really and the will to do it. So,

444
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Speaker 9: like I said, I'm happy that I'm going back home

445
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Speaker 9: and playing in front of my family.

446
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Speaker 8: You smile when you talk about Mom. What what role

447
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Speaker 8: has she played in your life and in your career?

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Speaker 9: Mom is like superman man. She did everything. She took

449
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Speaker 9: care of me, she guided me, told me right from wrong,

450
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Speaker 9: and she's just a strong woman, you know what I'm saying.

451
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Speaker 9: So seeing that as a young man, seeing her work

452
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Speaker 9: so hard, it just makes me want.

453
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Speaker 2: To go harder.

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Speaker 8: I know that you want to go back and play.

455
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Speaker 8: You guys want to play well. You want to win

456
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Speaker 8: as a team. What will that take against a really

457
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Speaker 8: good cam the City team.

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Speaker 9: I mean really, its just take you know, us believing

459
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Speaker 9: in each other, just sticking to the game plan, just

460
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Speaker 9: being confident going out there and playing free, believing in

461
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Speaker 9: the game plan and the coaches put in front of us.

462
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Speaker 9: And what better way to do it? Than the whole

463
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Speaker 9: in front of the whole world in Kansas City, Arrowhead,

464
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Speaker 9: So a really big game for us.

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Speaker 8: You have come a long way since your first NFL game.

466
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Speaker 8: Where do you think you've made the most progress along

467
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Speaker 8: that offensive line? For you individually?

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Speaker 9: Uh, I think just mentally, just getting acclimated, understanding the

469
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Speaker 9: different schemes, Understanding what defense are trying to do, Understand

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Speaker 9: what I need to do, how I need to play

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Speaker 9: at my best and.

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Speaker 4: What does that look like.

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Speaker 9: So I put some good tape out there, I got

474
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Speaker 9: some bad tape out there. So I just want to

475
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Speaker 9: continue to go up and keep it sending as a player.

476
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Speaker 8: And what do you have to do to be successful

477
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Speaker 8: against that Kansas City front that has caused so many people,

478
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Speaker 8: so many problems.

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Speaker 9: I mean, all of our guys have fit physical, So

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Speaker 9: I mean, we just gotta come with it. We know

481
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Speaker 9: they're gonna play hard, they know we're gonna play hard.

482
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Speaker 9: We know it's gonna be a physical game. We know

483
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Speaker 9: it's a big game because it's the next one. So

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Speaker 9: you know, kudos ol guys. They've been doing good, you know,

485
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Speaker 9: the linebackers, everybody in the secondary. So we're definitely looking

486
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Speaker 9: forward to it all excited about the game.

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Speaker 8: Every time we talk to you, you mentioned the brotherhood amongst

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Speaker 8: the offensive line, amongst your teammates. Describe that for fans,

489
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Speaker 8: what is that inside this Texans locker room.

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Speaker 9: I mean, it's what you see when we go out there,

491
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Speaker 9: we play, and you see those big plays. You see

492
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Speaker 9: those the big runs that Woody or Chubb or those

493
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Speaker 9: guys make out. There really just five guys playing playing

494
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Speaker 9: as one. You know, when you listen to a band,

495
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Speaker 9: everybody's playing on the same accord, playing on the same note,

496
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Speaker 9: and you can kind of hear somebody is not doing that.

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Speaker 9: So just having each other back mentally, and uh, going

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Speaker 9: out there playing for each other, playing for htown, playing

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Speaker 9: you know, just playing hard.

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Speaker 2: I know it's a special night for you. Man. Have fun.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, I appreciate it.

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Speaker 10: Man.

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Speaker 1: All right, great stuff there from Ariante and Greg Bailey. Okay,

504
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Speaker 1: we got to dive into this game in depth. We

505
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Speaker 1: kind of scratched the surface, but now it's time to

506
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Speaker 1: dive into double matchups, matches, firms, sleepers. We got it all.

507
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Speaker 1: If you want to watch it, go to YouTube because

508
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Speaker 1: then you can see our pretty faces. You want to listen,

509
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Speaker 1: but keep it right here for our game preview.

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Speaker 3: Game preview the Texans at Kansas City. This is the

511
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Speaker 3: big one. Houston seven and five, Chiefs six and six,

512
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Speaker 3: and Johnny, I'm gonna say it, throw the records out.

513
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Speaker 3: We know what this is about. This is a playoff

514
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Speaker 3: game in that it's more like a double elimination tournament

515
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Speaker 3: at this point. Now the Chiefs might look at that differently,

516
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Speaker 3: but I really feel like you're in a mini tournament

517
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Speaker 3: down the stretch here with so many AFC teams and

518
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Speaker 3: the Texans looking to keep the momentum going, riding a

519
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Speaker 3: four game winning streak in a place that's very tough

520
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Speaker 3: to play at, and you're battling.

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Speaker 2: The rulers of the AFC, and I think that's the

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Speaker 2: biggest thing.

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Speaker 1: You're playing at a place, say you traditionally basically you're

524
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Speaker 1: oer for Mahomes other than twenty nineteen, the one game

525
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Speaker 1: in October. Other than that, when you've gone up there,

526
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Speaker 1: and I want to I mean nineteen went up there twice,

527
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Speaker 1: lost the second one, twenty we lost, twenty three, we lost,

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, twenty four. We lost both. When we have

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Speaker 1: faced the Chiefs, it's not gone well. And in large

530
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Speaker 1: part hasn't gone well because fifteen starts pulling out of

531
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Speaker 1: his bag of tricks some of the things.

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Speaker 2: Oh we thought he was down, but no, he throws.

533
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Speaker 1: He throws a touchdown last year, I mean Mario Edwards

534
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Speaker 1: had him. His knee was inches from the ground. He

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Speaker 1: finds Kelsey for a backbreaking touchdown. It's playing him against

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Speaker 1: eighty seven and Andy Reid in that building in the

537
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Speaker 1: cold at night. Now, of those things I just mentioned,

538
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Speaker 1: all of them have been thorns in our side, right

539
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Speaker 1: between Mahomes, Kelsey Reid at night on the road, Arrowhead

540
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Speaker 1: against that particular just the team in general. All those things,

541
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Speaker 1: they're not the demons aren't completely.

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Speaker 2: Exercised if you win.

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Speaker 1: But getting a win shows hey, we can go beat

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Speaker 1: anybody anytime, anywhere.

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Speaker 2: Just spot the ball and we're ready to go.

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Speaker 3: Let's go Modello matchup. Now, let's start here. You're gonna

547
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Speaker 3: talk about facing their defense because of all the things

548
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Speaker 3: you mentioned, Steve Spagnulo is one of them that you

549
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Speaker 3: can add to the mix because it's very tough to

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Speaker 3: deal with that defense.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the defense is tough to deal with.

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Speaker 1: My Modela matchup with this game, the two guards ed

553
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Speaker 1: Ingram and Titus Howard against Chris Jones. And I said

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Speaker 1: this before, I said it going into the Tennessee Titans game,

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Speaker 1: if Titus had to move into guard, I'm okay with that,

556
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Speaker 1: because Titus loves the opportunity to go against Jeffrey Simmons.

557
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Speaker 1: He loves going against Chris Jones because he knows a

558
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Speaker 1: he's as commid as anybody you've ever met, and he

559
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Speaker 1: knows he can go toe to toe with those guys,

560
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Speaker 1: and he knows what the reaction will be if he

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Speaker 1: shuts one of them down. Chris Jones in a game

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two, albeit Sick didn't register a stat

563
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Speaker 1: against Titus Howard didn't register a stat and I tackled,

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Speaker 1: not an assistant.

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Speaker 2: Tackle, nothing. And then there's edding Ram on the other side.

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Speaker 1: If you think about last year, Titus had moved into

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Speaker 1: left guard. But I don't know if Titus was all

568
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Speaker 1: the way in if you know what I mean, at

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Speaker 1: left guard, and then Shaq Mason was coming back from

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Speaker 1: the injury, or it was Kendrick Green having to go

571
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Speaker 1: against Chris Jones. I like the matchup better with Ed

572
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Speaker 1: playing the way he is against and Titus against Chris Jones.

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Speaker 1: So that to me is the Medela matchup to two

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Speaker 1: Texans guards against Chris.

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Speaker 3: Jones, my Medello matchup everybody against Patrick Mahomes.

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Speaker 2: I mean, come out. You gotta set the edge here.

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Speaker 2: You gotta keep him in the pocket.

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Speaker 3: The guys in the interior can't let him take off

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Speaker 3: up the middle either, because Mahomes is their second leading rusher.

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Speaker 3: As we speak, he is gonna have his all time

581
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Speaker 3: high in rushing yards. He's about forty two yards away

582
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Speaker 3: from breaking his all time mark, and we got a

583
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Speaker 3: lot of games to go, so.

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Speaker 2: He's running the ball more than ever. Now he's got

585
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Speaker 2: to Kareem Hunt has some nice yardage. We all know

586
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Speaker 2: what Pacheco can do. And guess what.

587
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Speaker 3: The receivers have fifteen carries among them, so watch out

588
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Speaker 3: for that stuff as well, all that jet sweep stuff.

589
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Speaker 3: Everything they'd like to do to get the ball in

590
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Speaker 3: the hands of Rashi Rice and company. But let's face it,

591
00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:19,520
Speaker 3: it's all about slowing down Mahomes. But here's some good news.

592
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Speaker 3: Last year when you took him out, especially in the playoffs,

593
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Speaker 3: who wasn't available for the Houston Texans and in the

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Speaker 3: December matchup, noa iss al Shire, no p Tree. Right,

595
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Speaker 3: You've got these guys playing now against that offense, and.

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Speaker 1: That's gonna be big, having Petrie and all that he's

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Speaker 1: able to do and his he's played in the playoff game.

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Speaker 1: But that wasn't a ease. He had banged up his

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Speaker 1: knee earlier. He was not at full strength, and if

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Speaker 1: his ease congratulation disease. Twenty twenty five Texans Walter Paton

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Speaker 1: Man of the Year nominees a fantastic, fantastic representative of

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Speaker 1: that award, just like Jalen was last year. Having those

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Speaker 1: two guys in what they give you defensively is fantastic.

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Speaker 2: Here's a number for you.

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Speaker 1: We talked about this on radio on Tuesday or Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: Twenty three, so Michael George's number, who a lot of

607
00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:06,800
Speaker 1: people think Patrick Mahomes kind of is liking too in

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Speaker 1: the football world. Twenty three is a number of first

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Speaker 1: downs that Patrick Mahomes has scrambled for this year. They

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Speaker 1: played twelve games, so I'm got him do some math

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Speaker 1: for you. Twenty three close to twenty four. That's like

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Speaker 1: two scrambles per game that he's picking up a first

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Speaker 1: down or two first down scrambles.

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Speaker 2: He's picking up per GAMEZ.

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Speaker 1: Think about how many drives that keeps a lot sure,

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Speaker 1: and how many times have we seen that guy scramble

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Speaker 1: for a first down or scramble and then toss the

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Speaker 1: ball and Kelsey's there, toss the ball in Hollywood's there.

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Speaker 2: You've got to bring him down when he scrambles.

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Speaker 1: You cannot allow him to get a throwoff. He did

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Speaker 1: it against Dallas. He's being brought to the ground. He's

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Speaker 1: practically on the ground, and he controls himself, gets himself

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Speaker 1: back up, finds his balance and then hits a big

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Speaker 1: throw down in the field to get them back in.

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Speaker 2: So to me, his scramble ability, you mentioned it. You

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Speaker 2: hit it right off the bat.

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Speaker 1: Everybody's involved in stopping him. Even if you're not thirty

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00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:06,720
Speaker 1: yards from him, you might be involved in having to

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Speaker 1: plaster a receiver to make sure he doesn't hit that

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Speaker 1: throw on.

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Speaker 2: Everybody sees that.

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Speaker 3: Everybody feels frustrated with that Kansas City there on TV

633
00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:17,120
Speaker 3: more than Friends reruns. Yep, so we all know what

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Speaker 3: they can do. Mattress firm sleepers of the game. I've

635
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Speaker 3: got Jalen Petrie. We're like an X factor in this one.

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Speaker 3: We mentioned he didn't play in the match ups last year,

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Speaker 3: but here's Petrie at arrowhead able to make a difference

638
00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:33,840
Speaker 3: because he can go into the backfield, bring down ball carriers,

639
00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:37,160
Speaker 3: bring down mahomes, or make plays in the secondary and

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00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:39,960
Speaker 3: watch the tip balls because they are going to be

641
00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:42,479
Speaker 3: all over the place. The Texans are very long on defense,

642
00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:45,800
Speaker 3: like a basketball team. That's why Bullock gets the carum

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Speaker 3: Sometimes disease. Is it time for disease to get a pick?

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Speaker 3: Fine lined out? Yeah, but I've got Jalen Petrie is

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Speaker 3: my mattress firm sleeper.

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Speaker 1: Tips and overthrows. Got to get those, yep, that's what

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Speaker 1: Tomiko sign that out. Mine's gonna be Jayan Higgins. And

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Speaker 1: there's a major reason for that. First of all, I

649
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Speaker 1: think Higgins has really turned a corner of being a

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Speaker 1: big time factor for this offense. I feel like with

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Speaker 1: Kansas City, McDuffie is gonna go find Nico. That has

652
00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:14,680
Speaker 1: been kind of their m O. McDuffie goes and finds Nico.

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00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:18,520
Speaker 1: Not a playoff game that was definite because really at

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Speaker 1: that point the receiver Cord was kind of beat up, right,

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Speaker 1: and so yeah, Hutch had a really good ballgame, and

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Speaker 1: Metchi had a couple of good plays in that playoff

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Speaker 1: game as well, but they knew it was about stopping Nico. Well,

658
00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:33,160
Speaker 1: now you've got Nico, but then, okay, what do we

659
00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:35,280
Speaker 1: do with Higgins? So if you want to go McDuffie

660
00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:38,000
Speaker 1: on Nico, all of a sudden, Jade Higgins is gone,

661
00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:39,120
Speaker 1: what are you gonna do with him?

662
00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:40,640
Speaker 2: Because he can beat.

663
00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:42,760
Speaker 1: Anybody else that Chiefs have over there to play man

664
00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:43,400
Speaker 1: against him.

665
00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:46,880
Speaker 2: What I'd like to see for Higgins this week? How

666
00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:49,000
Speaker 2: about a deep shot. I'd like to see Higgins with

667
00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:49,560
Speaker 2: a deep shot.

668
00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:51,960
Speaker 1: And I've said this before back in Ota is watching

669
00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:57,680
Speaker 1: a practice, Higgins burned a corner. Football staffer turned to

670
00:29:57,720 --> 00:29:59,400
Speaker 1: me and said, hey, you know that corner is our

671
00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:01,960
Speaker 1: fastest guy, all right, And I got the message, which

672
00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:05,720
Speaker 1: was that rookie just ran away from him. So he's

673
00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:07,120
Speaker 1: got the speed to be able to do it, but

674
00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:09,120
Speaker 1: you gotta have the protection you gotta at the right moment.

675
00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:11,600
Speaker 2: Jadan Higgins can provide that moment.

676
00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:15,080
Speaker 3: Big shot Jayden Higgins, And he's a popular pickup on

677
00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:17,840
Speaker 3: a lot of fantasy teams because he's available in a

678
00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:19,960
Speaker 3: lot of leagues. So Higgins's getting a lot of love

679
00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:22,960
Speaker 3: on that circuit and the Texans they'll get a lot

680
00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:25,360
Speaker 3: of love if they win this one at Kansas City

681
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Speaker 3: Sunday night. Go Texans.

682
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Speaker 1: All right, it's excellent stuff as always from the two

683
00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:34,680
Speaker 1: of us, and it's excellent stuff from Girard Johnson, quarterbacks

684
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Speaker 1: coach for your Houston Texans.

685
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Speaker 2: Girod is next right here in Texans All Access.

686
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to this Friday edition of Texans All Access

687
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Speaker 1: from Monday Texans Radio Studio. I'm your host, John Harrison

688
00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:49,920
Speaker 1: Football and on All the Sideline Reporter. It's time to

689
00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:53,040
Speaker 1: catch up with quarterbacks coach Jerrod Johnson, Mark and I

690
00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:56,280
Speaker 1: sat with him this week, talk about CJ. Stroud, Davis Mills,

691
00:30:56,440 --> 00:31:00,040
Speaker 1: everything going off to the quarterback position, including this the

692
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:03,320
Speaker 1: skuys is in coverage. They're all the rage in the NFL.

693
00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:06,080
Speaker 1: How do you handle those drad handles? All that right

694
00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:08,080
Speaker 1: here with this two on one with me and.

695
00:31:08,120 --> 00:31:11,360
Speaker 3: Mark Quarterbacks coach Jaron Johnson joining us now Texans Radio.

696
00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:12,640
Speaker 2: Hows it going, coach, going good?

697
00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:13,400
Speaker 4: Going good?

698
00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:17,040
Speaker 3: So let's talk about the last game, the return of CJ.

699
00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:19,600
Speaker 2: Stroud. How did you see how things went?

700
00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:22,320
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, ultimately, you know, he came back and

701
00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:23,920
Speaker 7: it was off for a couple of weeks. You know,

702
00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:25,960
Speaker 7: I'm glad he was healthy. I'm glad he was clear mind,

703
00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:27,400
Speaker 7: you know, But he came back.

704
00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:28,720
Speaker 4: He led the group.

705
00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:30,200
Speaker 7: You know, he did a lot of things for us

706
00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:31,960
Speaker 7: in the run game, lot a lot of things for

707
00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:33,760
Speaker 7: us and protections. I mean, it was probably one of

708
00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:35,880
Speaker 7: his better games handling the blitz, But just from a

709
00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:38,160
Speaker 7: maturity standpoint, I mean, he led the team, you know,

710
00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:39,920
Speaker 7: and that made it a place to win. So I

711
00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:41,480
Speaker 7: was happy to get him back out there, happy to

712
00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:43,720
Speaker 7: have some success, happy to get the win, and happy

713
00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:44,240
Speaker 7: to keep going.

714
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Speaker 2: Coach.

715
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Speaker 1: When you're coming up as a quarterback, learning coverages and

716
00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:50,760
Speaker 1: those kind of things, I would imagine it's probably the

717
00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:52,360
Speaker 1: first thing because you're throwing the ball all that kind

718
00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:54,080
Speaker 1: of stuff. How long did it kind of take you

719
00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:57,400
Speaker 1: to understand the run game and how the run game

720
00:31:57,480 --> 00:31:59,800
Speaker 1: goes together with what's called and all that, and how

721
00:31:59,880 --> 00:32:02,040
Speaker 1: is kind of picked up on that over the years.

722
00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:04,840
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, I think every year is different, every

723
00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:07,120
Speaker 7: system is different. I've been fortunate enough to play in

724
00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:09,640
Speaker 7: a lot of different offensive systems, and you know, everybody's

725
00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:12,719
Speaker 7: doing similar things, but maybe how we target the runs,

726
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:16,280
Speaker 7: how you you know, the terminology that you use, how

727
00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:18,120
Speaker 7: you kind of set the table for everybody who to

728
00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:19,000
Speaker 7: block and when to block.

729
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:20,880
Speaker 4: It's different every place.

730
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Speaker 7: But uh, you know, I think he's he's getting that point,

731
00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:25,280
Speaker 7: you know now to where like it's all it's all

732
00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:27,040
Speaker 7: coming together for him where he can have a you know,

733
00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:29,800
Speaker 7: control out there and so you know, it's it's for

734
00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:32,840
Speaker 7: a player, you got to dive into it every year,

735
00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:35,440
Speaker 7: and you know, you there's always more to know, Like

736
00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:37,880
Speaker 7: even as a coach, I'm learning more every every single

737
00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:39,920
Speaker 7: day as well. But you know, he's a sharp kid,

738
00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:42,560
Speaker 7: and he works really hard, and you know he's he's

739
00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:44,720
Speaker 7: definitely trending in the right direction of kind of finding

740
00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:48,200
Speaker 7: that mastery, you know, but us he's given it's hard

741
00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:50,320
Speaker 7: every days. He's he's he's working his tail off and

742
00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:51,160
Speaker 7: he's doing a good job.

743
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Speaker 3: Trod how much in general of playing the position is

744
00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:57,840
Speaker 3: all right, I got to run what's called versus Okay,

745
00:32:57,920 --> 00:33:00,360
Speaker 3: that might not be there, and now I've got to

746
00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:02,800
Speaker 3: create some things. If you can't go through your progression

747
00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:04,600
Speaker 3: or you have to move around that sort of thing.

748
00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:06,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I joke with the I joke with the

749
00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:07,040
Speaker 4: guys all the time.

750
00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:08,520
Speaker 7: It's like that's why they pay them, you know, the

751
00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:10,600
Speaker 7: big bucks, you know, And I think I I would say,

752
00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:13,160
Speaker 7: for lack of better terms, a quarterback, everything's we're going

753
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:15,680
Speaker 7: to pull the trigger or progress league. You know, like

754
00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:18,040
Speaker 7: it's up to your decisions, is up to your instinct

755
00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:19,440
Speaker 7: whether I got to pull the trigger and let the

756
00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:21,400
Speaker 7: ball go or I got to progress on to the

757
00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:23,800
Speaker 7: next one. And you know, we we have reads, we

758
00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:26,400
Speaker 7: have progressions. But but the more time you're out there

759
00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:29,160
Speaker 7: is the more you know instinctively you decide I have

760
00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:31,040
Speaker 7: another second in the pocket to hold on to it,

761
00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:33,600
Speaker 7: the wait for this to develop, or on this play,

762
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:36,080
Speaker 7: on this you know, in this scenario, like the play

763
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Speaker 7: is over, I got to get us to the next

764
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:40,280
Speaker 7: down and throw the ball away. Or you know, I

765
00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:42,600
Speaker 7: have time. I can I can make this guy miss,

766
00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:44,960
Speaker 7: I can scramble. Especially when you're really talented. I think

767
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:47,800
Speaker 7: sometimes talent is a blessing and a curse, because the

768
00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:49,760
Speaker 7: more athletic you are, the stronger your arm is. Like

769
00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:52,200
Speaker 7: you can do really cool things. But it's a matter

770
00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:54,320
Speaker 7: of kind of risk reward, give and take on how

771
00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:57,320
Speaker 7: and when the implement the tools that you have, and

772
00:33:57,800 --> 00:33:59,640
Speaker 7: you know, in this league, it's like a week by

773
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:01,720
Speaker 7: week and like you know, the great ones figure out

774
00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:04,560
Speaker 7: what that threshold is of risk and safety. And I

775
00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:06,280
Speaker 7: think CJ has done a good job with that because

776
00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:08,200
Speaker 7: I mean, he can make special plays that not many

777
00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:10,400
Speaker 7: guys can make. I mean, all of our guys are athletic.

778
00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:12,879
Speaker 7: It's why you like quarterbacks with strong arms. That's why

779
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:15,040
Speaker 7: you like guys who are athletic, because they can do

780
00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:17,040
Speaker 7: some things as coaches that we can't coach, you know,

781
00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:19,360
Speaker 7: And it's just a matter of reps and instinct and

782
00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:21,239
Speaker 7: when it's the right time to do it and when

783
00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:22,360
Speaker 7: the right time to be safe.

784
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Speaker 1: Could you sense and feel draught on Sunday the Russ

785
00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:28,480
Speaker 1: kind of shaking off of CJ? Could you kind of

786
00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:31,760
Speaker 1: see it as as his as the quarterbacks coach? Like, Okay,

787
00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:33,840
Speaker 1: I could see some of it, you know, early in

788
00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:35,480
Speaker 1: the game, maybe ah, he's trying to kind of shake

789
00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:36,800
Speaker 1: this off, because it felt like by the time he

790
00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:38,520
Speaker 1: got the second half, like he's a pretty good rhythm.

791
00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:41,040
Speaker 1: Did you kind of sense and feel like, okay, shaking

792
00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:42,880
Speaker 1: the rust off, Let's stay with it and you'll end

793
00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:44,880
Speaker 1: up being Okay, what was that kind of like Sunday?

794
00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:47,000
Speaker 7: Uh yeah, I mean I actually thought he came out

795
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:49,640
Speaker 7: and played you know, I thought he came out and

796
00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:51,759
Speaker 7: played good kind of like through the entirety of the game.

797
00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:53,759
Speaker 7: And we had some unfortunate things that you know, us

798
00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:55,560
Speaker 7: collectively as an offense, you know, we had some kind

799
00:34:55,560 --> 00:34:58,000
Speaker 7: of self inflicted penalties that you know, there's a bunch

800
00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:00,880
Speaker 7: of places where we could have corrected something there collectively

801
00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:03,239
Speaker 7: as a group. But yeah, I mean I think he

802
00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:04,840
Speaker 7: was on time with the ball. You know, he was

803
00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:07,759
Speaker 7: accurate with this throws. You know that every game you're

804
00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:09,359
Speaker 7: gonna go out there, quarterbacks is gonna have a couple

805
00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:11,000
Speaker 7: of throws they want back. I mean, even the best

806
00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:12,600
Speaker 7: in the world, you're gonna go out there, you're gonna miss.

807
00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:14,359
Speaker 7: Wanted to throw the game, That's just part of it.

808
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:16,759
Speaker 7: But I do think that he kind of settled in

809
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:19,320
Speaker 7: and kind of got back into his rhythm and and

810
00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:20,200
Speaker 7: you know, won the game.

811
00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:22,880
Speaker 3: How about the job Davis Mills did filling in for

812
00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:24,200
Speaker 3: CJ when he was out.

813
00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:25,800
Speaker 7: I mean, Davis is I mean, I think Davis is

814
00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:27,640
Speaker 7: a great player. I've set in this chair before and

815
00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:30,200
Speaker 7: said I think Davis is a starting caliber quarterback in

816
00:35:30,239 --> 00:35:33,480
Speaker 7: the NFL. You know, I think I'm very fortunate to

817
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:35,120
Speaker 7: have guys that are really good in my room. I

818
00:35:35,120 --> 00:35:36,479
Speaker 7: think we have a really good talent. I think Graham

819
00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:38,600
Speaker 7: Mertz is a really good player, a young player that

820
00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:40,840
Speaker 7: has a lot of potential as well. But just Davis,

821
00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:43,000
Speaker 7: you know, he's worked really hard these last couple of years.

822
00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:45,040
Speaker 7: He's been through some adversity when he was playing. He's

823
00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:47,320
Speaker 7: been through some adversity, you know, not wanting the starting

824
00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:49,839
Speaker 7: job when CJ got here and kind of falling into

825
00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:52,640
Speaker 7: the backup role. But man, behind the scenes, he's worked

826
00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:55,720
Speaker 7: really hard. He's a voice in our room. He's always

827
00:35:55,719 --> 00:35:57,520
Speaker 7: what can I do to help mentality? So for him

828
00:35:57,560 --> 00:35:59,600
Speaker 7: to get an opportunity and play well, you know, that's

829
00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:01,319
Speaker 7: all you as a coach, that's all you hope for

830
00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:04,520
Speaker 7: is that, you know, you know, you coach the guys

831
00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:06,760
Speaker 7: and you hope that when their opportunity comes, they seize

832
00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:08,239
Speaker 7: the moment. And he did that, you know, And so

833
00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:10,680
Speaker 7: I'm super confident in our room. You know, CJ is

834
00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:13,520
Speaker 7: our quarterback, you know, but I feel that Davis, you know,

835
00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:15,880
Speaker 7: anytime he goes in there, you know, he has a

836
00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:17,480
Speaker 7: skill set to you know, do whatever you need to

837
00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:17,879
Speaker 7: do as well.

838
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:19,160
Speaker 2: What's going through your mind?

839
00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:22,279
Speaker 3: Third and goal at the fourteen against Jacksonville and he

840
00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:25,040
Speaker 3: takes off and starts running the football for the pilot.

841
00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:27,719
Speaker 7: You know, I'm just like, you know, just just you know,

842
00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:29,400
Speaker 7: at this point, just go make a play, you know,

843
00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:31,920
Speaker 7: and you know, they they we always talk about in

844
00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:33,680
Speaker 7: our room that you know a lot of these teams

845
00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:37,120
Speaker 7: play these match coverages if they cover everybody, and we

846
00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:39,960
Speaker 7: command the pocket forward and generally there's not anybody accounted

847
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:42,080
Speaker 7: for the quarterback, you know, and so like we go

848
00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:44,560
Speaker 7: through our progressions and we run when they cover everybody.

849
00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:47,200
Speaker 7: So these linebackers are going to match match running backs.

850
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:51,160
Speaker 7: You know, it's a coverage. Coverage can dictate our aggressiveness

851
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:54,160
Speaker 7: to run. And they played some match coverage there and

852
00:36:54,239 --> 00:36:56,160
Speaker 7: you know, and at the last line of defense is

853
00:36:56,160 --> 00:36:57,879
Speaker 7: he's using your legs and he did that and made

854
00:36:57,880 --> 00:36:58,240
Speaker 7: a play.

855
00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:00,080
Speaker 1: I've kind of come up with it saying that a

856
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:03,359
Speaker 1: quarterback can be his best checkdown in some in those situations,

857
00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:05,920
Speaker 1: like you're the checkdown, just go, you know, instead of

858
00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:07,920
Speaker 1: you know, everybody's kind of trying to protect and it's.

859
00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:09,480
Speaker 2: Like you're they got their back to you, just go

860
00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:10,399
Speaker 2: You're you're your.

861
00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:13,040
Speaker 1: Best checkdown at that particular moment. Try you kind of

862
00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:16,719
Speaker 1: alluded to it talking about you Graham. What's he what's

863
00:37:16,719 --> 00:37:17,880
Speaker 1: he bring? You know, he's not a guy that we

864
00:37:17,880 --> 00:37:19,400
Speaker 1: talk a lot about because you know, we had him

865
00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:20,880
Speaker 1: in here a few weeks ago and that was great.

866
00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:22,960
Speaker 1: It was so fun to catch up with him and

867
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:26,520
Speaker 1: you understand why he is the NFL and why he's here,

868
00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:28,319
Speaker 1: what he's gone through at Florida and all that.

869
00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:30,560
Speaker 2: But you've seen him grow throughout this year.

870
00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:32,359
Speaker 1: And I know to talk about you know, Davis wins

871
00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:34,319
Speaker 1: three games as a starter and your CJ comes back,

872
00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:35,640
Speaker 1: he's you know, kep one.

873
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:37,360
Speaker 7: But what about Graham? What have you seen in his

874
00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:39,600
Speaker 7: rookie year and his growth? Yeah, I just see his confidence,

875
00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:42,240
Speaker 7: you know, his physical confidence. You know, he had that injury,

876
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:44,080
Speaker 7: so getting back out in the field again and just

877
00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:46,640
Speaker 7: kind of being comfortable and confident with his lower body

878
00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:49,080
Speaker 7: and moving. But you know, I work with Graham you

879
00:37:49,080 --> 00:37:50,680
Speaker 7: know a couple of times a week and and and

880
00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:52,680
Speaker 7: just try to still pour it invest into him as

881
00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:54,680
Speaker 7: well because for me, like my job is to make

882
00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:56,840
Speaker 7: sure every guy in the room is being developed to

883
00:37:56,880 --> 00:38:00,840
Speaker 7: try to maximize their own individual potential right version themselves.

884
00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:03,160
Speaker 7: And you know, and so you know, Graham's in the room,

885
00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:05,840
Speaker 7: and and you know, he's really smart. He asked good questions.

886
00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:07,719
Speaker 7: I mean, he hasn't once again he has what can

887
00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:10,160
Speaker 7: I do to help mentality? But I think just his

888
00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:12,640
Speaker 7: confidence and feeling like, you know, I belong here, I

889
00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:14,960
Speaker 7: can do this. I think that last preseason game really

890
00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:17,480
Speaker 7: kind of gave him some validation to who he was

891
00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:19,520
Speaker 7: as a player because he went through Smith Versity of Florida.

892
00:38:19,520 --> 00:38:19,680
Speaker 4: You know.

893
00:38:19,760 --> 00:38:22,600
Speaker 7: But we're we're we love having Graham around, you know,

894
00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:25,080
Speaker 7: We're confident in him, and you know, I'm glad he's

895
00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:26,839
Speaker 7: here and we'll see, you know, how far he can

896
00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:27,719
Speaker 7: take this thing as well.

897
00:38:27,880 --> 00:38:30,600
Speaker 3: You called plays early on in that final preseason game

898
00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:32,520
Speaker 3: at Detroit with Graham at the controls.

899
00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:33,319
Speaker 2: How was that for you?

900
00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:34,600
Speaker 4: It was fun?

901
00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:36,880
Speaker 7: You know, Demko and Nick gave me the opportunity to

902
00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:38,480
Speaker 7: do that, you know, and so I had out of

903
00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:40,400
Speaker 7: blast doing it, you know. And so it's something that

904
00:38:40,719 --> 00:38:42,680
Speaker 7: you know, I think as a coach and even as

905
00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:44,799
Speaker 7: a player, you inspire to do these things. And so

906
00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:47,200
Speaker 7: anytime you get an opportunity to call the plays on

907
00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:49,000
Speaker 7: the game day at any level, I think it's special.

908
00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:51,400
Speaker 7: And so I was very thankful for that opportunity, and

909
00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:52,960
Speaker 7: I'm glad Graham has some success.

910
00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:55,160
Speaker 1: How much were you fighting York should throw it every play?

911
00:38:57,440 --> 00:38:58,960
Speaker 1: Grahams fire at thirty times?

912
00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:01,080
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, I think all all quarterback guys you

913
00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:03,000
Speaker 7: want to throw it around the yard. But I think that,

914
00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:04,960
Speaker 7: you know, the older I get in this game, and

915
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:07,040
Speaker 7: the and the more like the older I'm the more

916
00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:08,920
Speaker 7: I'm around the game, you understand that, you know, the

917
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:11,200
Speaker 7: quarterback's best friend is a run game and play pass

918
00:39:11,239 --> 00:39:14,000
Speaker 7: and tight ends and and and bass personnel and all

919
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:16,840
Speaker 7: the things you know. And so I think just my

920
00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:18,960
Speaker 7: whole thought process is you want to try to get

921
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:21,680
Speaker 7: as many clear pictures for the quarterbacks as possible, and

922
00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:23,239
Speaker 7: running the ball is the best way to do that.

923
00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:26,680
Speaker 1: Okay, this Sunday, it's the Chiefs. Pretty good defense. We've

924
00:39:26,719 --> 00:39:29,400
Speaker 1: seen them, saw them last year for a couple of times.

925
00:39:29,719 --> 00:39:33,160
Speaker 1: Going up there a little bit colder, but apparently wins

926
00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:35,560
Speaker 1: not gonna be bad. It doesn't look like precipitation. What

927
00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:37,600
Speaker 1: are your thoughts about going up there Sunday and what

928
00:39:38,080 --> 00:39:39,840
Speaker 1: your guys got to do, what CJ's got to do

929
00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:41,160
Speaker 1: going up against that chief defense.

930
00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:43,000
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think just collectively as a group, I mean,

931
00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:44,960
Speaker 7: they just make you be disciplined. You know, it's it's

932
00:39:44,960 --> 00:39:46,719
Speaker 7: a it's a group that's been that they've been in

933
00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:47,879
Speaker 7: that defense for a long time.

934
00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:49,240
Speaker 4: It's a really good coaches.

935
00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:51,640
Speaker 7: But I think the biggest thing is, like every snap,

936
00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:53,840
Speaker 7: the way their scheme is is they're going to test,

937
00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:56,480
Speaker 7: you know, your ability to identify what front there, and

938
00:39:56,600 --> 00:39:58,879
Speaker 7: you know they're gonna send pressures one through first down

939
00:39:58,920 --> 00:40:01,759
Speaker 7: through fourth down. You know, it's protection rules, our side adjustments,

940
00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:04,160
Speaker 7: our hots, you know, our ability to can we get

941
00:40:04,160 --> 00:40:05,799
Speaker 7: into the plays that we want to get into. The

942
00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:07,840
Speaker 7: secondary is going to move every play, you know. So

943
00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:09,399
Speaker 7: we're just gonna test our discipline and so it would

944
00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:10,759
Speaker 7: be a good challenge for us. They're a really good

945
00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:12,680
Speaker 7: team and a really good environment, and I think we'll

946
00:40:12,680 --> 00:40:13,080
Speaker 7: be up for it.

947
00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:15,680
Speaker 2: How hard is it to simulate those things in a

948
00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:18,520
Speaker 2: practice environment or whatever you can do in meeting rooms

949
00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:20,840
Speaker 2: or I don't know if you use virtual reality or whatever,

950
00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:23,839
Speaker 2: but to process all of that very quickly and make

951
00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:25,120
Speaker 2: plays creatively on the fly.

952
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:27,040
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, you try to put it into buckets,

953
00:40:27,040 --> 00:40:28,680
Speaker 7: you know, you try to frame it for the guys,

954
00:40:28,719 --> 00:40:30,560
Speaker 7: and we're going to try to give them every look

955
00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:32,799
Speaker 7: that we've seen on tape. But I think the cool

956
00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:34,719
Speaker 7: part about of kind of how our season's gone and

957
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:36,600
Speaker 7: as you get to this part of the year, is

958
00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:39,440
Speaker 7: you hope you equip the guys with the knowledge to

959
00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:41,680
Speaker 7: where they can make educated decisions when they see things

960
00:40:41,680 --> 00:40:44,920
Speaker 7: they've never seen before, because inevitably, like they're getting paid

961
00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:46,960
Speaker 7: to over there. And that's what this league, as you

962
00:40:46,960 --> 00:40:49,080
Speaker 7: get into this kind of winter football, as you get

963
00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:51,080
Speaker 7: in these meaningful games, as you get to the playoffs,

964
00:40:51,160 --> 00:40:53,319
Speaker 7: is is we're coming up with stuff that they've never seen.

965
00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:55,200
Speaker 7: The defense is going to show us that things that

966
00:40:55,239 --> 00:40:57,000
Speaker 7: we've never seen. And so it's really a test of

967
00:40:57,040 --> 00:41:00,160
Speaker 7: our rules of our discipline to where ideally you whip

968
00:41:00,239 --> 00:41:02,040
Speaker 7: the guys enough to word when they see something they

969
00:41:02,040 --> 00:41:05,200
Speaker 7: haven't seen before, they pull from something, you know, whether

970
00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:06,560
Speaker 7: it's from training camp, and a lot of time that

971
00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:08,319
Speaker 7: comes from our base rules of how we do things

972
00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:11,160
Speaker 7: that given that look, they can make an educated decision

973
00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:14,560
Speaker 7: because it's inevitable to see something on Sunday, you know,

974
00:41:14,640 --> 00:41:16,600
Speaker 7: you haven't seen before. But as coaches, we try to

975
00:41:16,600 --> 00:41:19,440
Speaker 7: give them every look that they put on tape, and

976
00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:21,160
Speaker 7: then every look we think they're going to do. And

977
00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:23,440
Speaker 7: we go back years to try to try to find

978
00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:26,120
Speaker 7: that think tank of these coordinators. But at the end

979
00:41:26,120 --> 00:41:28,560
Speaker 7: of the day, you know, ideally, we hope we've equipped

980
00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:30,480
Speaker 7: these guys with the way of a process and a

981
00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:32,680
Speaker 7: way of thinking that they can operate when they see

982
00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:33,680
Speaker 7: things they haven't seen before.

983
00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:39,360
Speaker 1: Coach, how much of disguise usage have you seen increase

984
00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:41,839
Speaker 1: over the last you know, five, ten, fifteen years since

985
00:41:41,880 --> 00:41:44,520
Speaker 1: you were playing. How much how much more disguise is

986
00:41:44,600 --> 00:41:47,839
Speaker 1: being used now in the league versus years ago.

987
00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:51,160
Speaker 7: It's it's night and day. It's every team has some

988
00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:54,279
Speaker 7: version of disguise. I think the league has gone to

989
00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:57,160
Speaker 7: InVogue to where you know, you pay the pass rushers, right,

990
00:41:57,239 --> 00:42:00,279
Speaker 7: you pay the pass rushers, and you want those guys

991
00:42:00,280 --> 00:42:02,040
Speaker 7: to get home. That's your If you can get to

992
00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:04,719
Speaker 7: the quarterback with four, maybe five guys, you know, you

993
00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:06,320
Speaker 7: can keep all your guys in coverage. And so the

994
00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:08,560
Speaker 7: league has gone to a lot of shell defense. But

995
00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:10,480
Speaker 7: the whole purpose of that, if I can move the picture,

996
00:42:10,960 --> 00:42:13,160
Speaker 7: force the quarterback to hold the ball for a second longer,

997
00:42:13,520 --> 00:42:15,920
Speaker 7: my odds of the rush getting home gets there. So

998
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:18,680
Speaker 7: every team you play now are always constantly trying to

999
00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:20,919
Speaker 7: move the picture on the quarterback. It's something we talk

1000
00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:22,880
Speaker 7: about in our room of like, you know, where do

1001
00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:25,239
Speaker 7: my eyes start? Where do my eyes finished? Like who

1002
00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:27,879
Speaker 7: am I keying to? Kind of give me the accelerated

1003
00:42:27,960 --> 00:42:30,640
Speaker 7: vision of that. And I do think that the defenses

1004
00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:34,120
Speaker 7: have affected the way we teach reads with quarterbacks. You know,

1005
00:42:34,160 --> 00:42:36,600
Speaker 7: all the teams I've been on, and here's because you know,

1006
00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:38,839
Speaker 7: these really good decordinators just spent a lot of time

1007
00:42:38,840 --> 00:42:41,879
Speaker 7: making coverages look the same, and sometimes a quarterback won't

1008
00:42:41,920 --> 00:42:43,680
Speaker 7: know what coverage it is until you know, a couple

1009
00:42:43,719 --> 00:42:46,040
Speaker 7: of seconds into the down and then now we got

1010
00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:48,040
Speaker 7: to operate. So the defense has done a really good

1011
00:42:48,120 --> 00:42:49,960
Speaker 7: job of disguising is kind of in vogue in the

1012
00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:51,920
Speaker 7: league right now, and I think that the offenses are

1013
00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:55,200
Speaker 7: responding with our versions to kind of beat that as well.

1014
00:42:55,440 --> 00:42:58,520
Speaker 3: I'm curious about your opinion with the Aggies, Okay, because

1015
00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:00,040
Speaker 3: here we are in a really different.

1016
00:42:59,719 --> 00:43:03,600
Speaker 2: College football world. It's weird you missed the SEC championship game,

1017
00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:06,040
Speaker 2: but you know, you rest up and get ready for

1018
00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:08,120
Speaker 2: the playoff. You're in it anyway. Your thoughts on the

1019
00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:09,600
Speaker 2: overall situation.

1020
00:43:09,239 --> 00:43:10,719
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean I think they've done a heck of

1021
00:43:10,719 --> 00:43:12,440
Speaker 7: a job up there. I mean I always follows Texas

1022
00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:13,959
Speaker 7: A and M, and it's always has a special place

1023
00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:16,080
Speaker 7: in my heart, you know, being a second generation Aggie.

1024
00:43:16,160 --> 00:43:19,160
Speaker 7: But uh, you know, it's always unfortunate to lose to Texas,

1025
00:43:19,320 --> 00:43:21,200
Speaker 7: you know. But I think the cool thing is is

1026
00:43:21,239 --> 00:43:23,319
Speaker 7: they put themselves in a position to where they can

1027
00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:25,880
Speaker 7: learn from that loss and still play meaningful football. You know,

1028
00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:28,160
Speaker 7: I think you're always trying to win a championship. I

1029
00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:29,920
Speaker 7: think SEC championship is special.

1030
00:43:30,160 --> 00:43:30,319
Speaker 4: You know.

1031
00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:31,840
Speaker 7: I think as you talk to young men, as you

1032
00:43:31,880 --> 00:43:34,640
Speaker 7: talk to teams, like your goal is to always is

1033
00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:36,600
Speaker 7: to always win, you know what I'm saying, And so

1034
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:38,920
Speaker 7: losses are lessons and that's how they got to be.

1035
00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:41,360
Speaker 7: But I think they would rather have beaten Texas and

1036
00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:43,440
Speaker 7: you know, been suiting up for the SEC championship.

1037
00:43:43,440 --> 00:43:45,480
Speaker 4: But football's football. You get knocked down.

1038
00:43:45,520 --> 00:43:47,080
Speaker 7: You got to get back up, and you know, we

1039
00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:49,080
Speaker 7: still got an opportunity and I'll be rooting for him

1040
00:43:49,080 --> 00:43:50,000
Speaker 7: and I wish them the best.

1041
00:43:50,040 --> 00:43:52,239
Speaker 1: What's it like playing in that rivalry game and and

1042
00:43:52,400 --> 00:43:54,240
Speaker 1: m in Texas. I mean, obviously we lost it for

1043
00:43:54,239 --> 00:43:56,239
Speaker 1: what a dozen years or whatever the case might be,

1044
00:43:56,760 --> 00:43:58,520
Speaker 1: but when it came back, it was like, man, it's

1045
00:43:58,520 --> 00:43:59,520
Speaker 1: as spicy as ever.

1046
00:43:59,640 --> 00:44:01,839
Speaker 2: It's feels what's it like playing in that game.

1047
00:44:02,360 --> 00:44:04,400
Speaker 7: It's it's just special, man. I mean, the emotions that

1048
00:44:04,440 --> 00:44:06,000
Speaker 7: are involved, you know. I know, for me, it's like

1049
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:09,000
Speaker 7: a culmination of kind of you know, I've lived my

1050
00:44:09,040 --> 00:44:11,719
Speaker 7: whole life on holiday weekends looking at this game and

1051
00:44:11,960 --> 00:44:14,200
Speaker 7: the guys who played before me, you know, doing it,

1052
00:44:14,239 --> 00:44:16,320
Speaker 7: so get an opportunity to do it. It was almost surreal,

1053
00:44:16,360 --> 00:44:18,520
Speaker 7: like it's like watching it on TV. Sometimes they're like, man,

1054
00:44:18,520 --> 00:44:20,640
Speaker 7: I can't even believe I played in that game, you know.

1055
00:44:20,760 --> 00:44:22,799
Speaker 7: But at the same time, man, it's just I have

1056
00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:24,480
Speaker 7: so much respect for University of Texas.

1057
00:44:24,719 --> 00:44:25,680
Speaker 4: It's a great school. You know.

1058
00:44:25,719 --> 00:44:27,640
Speaker 7: I love my Aggies. But I think the respect is

1059
00:44:27,640 --> 00:44:30,280
Speaker 7: what makes the rivalry what it is. You know, respect

1060
00:44:30,320 --> 00:44:33,439
Speaker 7: that university, respect that team. They've they've been good for years,

1061
00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:35,319
Speaker 7: we've been good, and I think it's one of those things.

1062
00:44:35,560 --> 00:44:38,360
Speaker 7: It's a test for you, but also my family members

1063
00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:41,759
Speaker 7: back home and to have those conversations wrapped around Thanksgiving

1064
00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:44,160
Speaker 7: and emotions of that. I think it's you know, special,

1065
00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:45,719
Speaker 7: and I was very fortunate to get a chance to

1066
00:44:45,719 --> 00:44:46,080
Speaker 7: play it.

1067
00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:48,480
Speaker 2: So we're rotten frank all over you on Saturday after

1068
00:44:48,520 --> 00:44:48,880
Speaker 2: it happened.

1069
00:44:49,040 --> 00:44:50,919
Speaker 4: I mean, I gotta admit, I got to eat some crow,

1070
00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:51,239
Speaker 4: you know.

1071
00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:51,799
Speaker 2: I was.

1072
00:44:51,880 --> 00:44:54,280
Speaker 7: I was, I was peacocking around and all my I'm

1073
00:44:54,320 --> 00:44:55,640
Speaker 7: fully decked out in all the maroom.

1074
00:44:56,320 --> 00:44:56,520
Speaker 11: You know.

1075
00:44:56,640 --> 00:44:59,160
Speaker 7: I got a whole corner of my closet that uh

1076
00:44:59,239 --> 00:45:01,000
Speaker 7: you know, I just pressed by on all these things

1077
00:45:01,040 --> 00:45:03,080
Speaker 7: that pop up on my phone of all the A

1078
00:45:03,120 --> 00:45:04,719
Speaker 7: and M stuff. So I was decked out and all

1079
00:45:04,760 --> 00:45:06,359
Speaker 7: my A and M stuff here, and they just kind

1080
00:45:06,360 --> 00:45:08,160
Speaker 7: of quietly, you know, just like all right, we see

1081
00:45:08,160 --> 00:45:08,520
Speaker 7: how it is.

1082
00:45:08,560 --> 00:45:11,040
Speaker 4: And then, uh, I you know, I had to eat

1083
00:45:11,040 --> 00:45:12,120
Speaker 4: a little crow. They got us.

1084
00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:14,000
Speaker 7: You know, I'm a man of my word, and uh

1085
00:45:14,040 --> 00:45:16,359
Speaker 7: you know they got us, and uh you know so

1086
00:45:16,440 --> 00:45:18,439
Speaker 7: but uh but no, I love where our program is going.

1087
00:45:18,440 --> 00:45:18,600
Speaker 4: Man.

1088
00:45:18,600 --> 00:45:20,480
Speaker 7: I'm always proud to be an Aggie man, and I

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Speaker 7: wish us the best in the playoffs.

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Speaker 3: Coach good luck this weekend. Thanks a lot for joining us,

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Speaker 3: all right, thank you.

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Speaker 2: All great stuff from Girard Johnson.

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Speaker 1: Okay, coming up, as we do it every Friday, the

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Speaker 1: Status Report. We got a few things to discuss as

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Speaker 1: it pertains to both sides of Texans Chiefs on Sunday Night.

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Speaker 1: We'll do that next on Texans All Access. Yes, sir,

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Speaker 1: here we go.

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Speaker 2: Friday Night.

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Speaker 1: All Access got youa covers Houston, Texas getting ready to

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Speaker 1: take on the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday night. Last night,

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Speaker 1: not a good night for the Dallas Cowboys. Dak Prescott struggled,

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Speaker 1: George Pickens struggled a lot. Richard Sherman called him out.

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Speaker 1: Then George Pickens had something to say, Then he deleted

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Speaker 1: his Instagram posts. So yeah, it's another typical day in

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Speaker 1: cowboy Land as the Cowboys lose.

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Speaker 2: Last night. They fought a six six and.

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Speaker 1: One forty four to thirty, climbed back into it, got

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Speaker 1: it to thirty twenty seven.

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Speaker 2: But defense was pretty good against the Chiefs. That great but.

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Speaker 1: Good, could not hold the Lions in check. The Lions

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Speaker 1: are all over the place. But a big piece of

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Speaker 1: news for the Lions they lose Brian Branch with a

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Speaker 1: torn achilles. He went down on a kind of controversial

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Speaker 1: offensive pass interference, calling the end zone, and while people

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Speaker 1: were kind of arguing that, they went, hey, hey, hey, hey,

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Speaker 1: one of your better defensive players is down in the

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Speaker 1: end zone. And then a concern obviously went to Brian Branch.

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00:46:47,760 --> 00:46:51,240
Speaker 1: Some controversial stuff last night officiating wise as well, the safety.

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00:46:51,480 --> 00:46:53,480
Speaker 1: A lot of people barking it wasn't then they saw

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Speaker 1: a final angle. Oh then Terry McCauley said, oh yeah, yeah,

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00:46:56,120 --> 00:46:58,400
Speaker 1: yeah it was. It was not a safety. So a

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Speaker 1: lot of things going on. Hopefully Sunday will be without

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Speaker 1: controversy either way. It's a Texas take on the chief

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Speaker 1: from an officiating standpoint, But you know, a.

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Speaker 2: Man can dream. All right, let's get to the status report.

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Speaker 1: It came out today as it always does with a

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Speaker 1: Sunday game on Friday, and I don't know if I'm

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Speaker 1: surprised by anything. The Texas will have two players out,

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Speaker 1: Jamal Hill Jalen Reid. Jamal has been dealing with a

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00:47:25,040 --> 00:47:28,799
Speaker 1: hamstring for a little bit now and Jalen Reid with

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00:47:28,920 --> 00:47:32,080
Speaker 1: that forearm. And if you remember it's been talked about,

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00:47:32,560 --> 00:47:36,480
Speaker 1: Jalen apparently had an issue at Penn State where he

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00:47:36,520 --> 00:47:38,399
Speaker 1: had a plate put in his arm, and so when

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00:47:38,440 --> 00:47:41,200
Speaker 1: he came up on the tackle the other day. Apparently

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00:47:41,280 --> 00:47:44,360
Speaker 1: he got hit, so something in that plate snap, a

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00:47:44,440 --> 00:47:48,040
Speaker 1: screw snap, something kind of got off kilter. So hopefully

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Speaker 1: they can get that fixed and done for Jalen Reid

1138
00:47:51,840 --> 00:47:55,479
Speaker 1: and he can get back as soon as possible because

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00:47:55,480 --> 00:47:59,000
Speaker 1: the Texans do have a little bit of a.

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Speaker 2: Safety issue without him.

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00:48:01,200 --> 00:48:04,640
Speaker 1: Look, Jalen Petrie being back helps a lot because I

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00:48:04,680 --> 00:48:07,319
Speaker 1: can put Miles Bryant back at safety, so you at

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00:48:07,440 --> 00:48:09,879
Speaker 1: least can feel confident because Miles knows what he's doing

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00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:11,919
Speaker 1: back there. I mean last year when he plays played

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00:48:11,920 --> 00:48:15,760
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs, you didn't have Petrie, Jimmy Ward.

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Speaker 1: You had to go Miles. Brian and Miles been in

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00:48:18,040 --> 00:48:19,719
Speaker 1: a couple of nice plays in that game. But it's

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Speaker 1: nice that Petrie and Bryant in the game.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: The big question we already know Tim Settle has gone

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00:48:25,680 --> 00:48:28,400
Speaker 1: to ir who missed the rest of the year with

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Speaker 1: a foot issue. I don't know how they'll handle that,

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Speaker 1: coach said. In fact, I think he said to us

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Speaker 1: and the coaches show early this week they like to

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Speaker 1: take nine d linemen to the game. Well, they've got

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Speaker 1: eight right now. Three on the inside. They've got five

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00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:47,160
Speaker 1: on the outside, and depending on how you classified an

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00:48:47,200 --> 00:48:50,440
Speaker 1: Eco Autry inside outside combo, he's kind of the inside

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Speaker 1: outside combo.

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Speaker 2: So we'll see.

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Speaker 1: Now they added Solomon Byrd to the fifty three man roster,

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Speaker 1: we'll see if Solomon ends up being active on Sunday night.

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Speaker 2: He is, it might mean that Dylan Horton.

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Speaker 1: Nico Autry played a little bit more on the inside

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Speaker 1: to kind of make up for the loss of Tim Settle.

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Speaker 1: Now they are not Tim Settle, but Niko's played a

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Speaker 1: lot on the inside. Dylan in college did play some

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Speaker 1: of the inside, so we'll see how they handle that.

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00:49:15,239 --> 00:49:16,799
Speaker 1: But Corner is the one we got to keep an

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Speaker 1: eye on. Kamari Lassiter was a limited participant at practice today.

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00:49:21,040 --> 00:49:22,440
Speaker 1: We did see him out there. He's dealing with that

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Speaker 1: foot issue. He's listed as questionables, pretty much what I

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Speaker 1: thought it was gonna be. He's questionable. But Will Hamson, Junior,

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Speaker 1: Nico Autry, Trent brown Wood, he marks all full participants.

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Speaker 2: They have no game status. They are ready to go.

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Speaker 1: So Jamail Hill, Jalen Reid out impact your special team,

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Speaker 1: So let's keep an eye on that. Kamari Lassiter questionable

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Speaker 1: if he's not able to go. It's probably gonna be

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00:49:45,040 --> 00:49:47,560
Speaker 1: Tremont Smith. You have a mere speed who's got some

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00:49:47,640 --> 00:49:50,840
Speaker 1: good length. He's tremendous on special teams. In fact, he

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Speaker 1: was one of the Texans Special Teams Players of the

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Speaker 1: Week last week. A mere speed. So if he's got

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00:49:56,040 --> 00:49:59,000
Speaker 1: play corner, he'll play corner. He is big and long

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Speaker 1: and that could help. Okay, Now the Chiefs. Chiefs only

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Speaker 1: had two players out, Chris Roland Wallace, a dB and

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Speaker 1: Nico Romeo, who had that return last year against the

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Speaker 1: Texas to start the game. He was limited today in

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00:50:17,719 --> 00:50:21,759
Speaker 1: practice after being a full participant on Thursday and a

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Speaker 1: full participant on Wednesday. But they added a concussion, so

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Speaker 1: he apparently had Friday got a concussion, so he is

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Speaker 1: out of the game. So we'll have to keep an

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Speaker 1: eye on the chief returners without Romeo. Roland Wallace special

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Speaker 1: team of defensive back. Now here's where it gets interesting.

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Speaker 1: Trey Smith doubtful. Pro Bowl guard doubtful. Juwan Taylor starting

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Speaker 1: right tackle doubtful. Now I've said this before and I'll

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Speaker 1: say it again, and I'll say it for these two.

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Speaker 1: I have never seen doubtful turn into active on game

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Speaker 1: day since twenty fourteen. Since I've been doing this, I

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Speaker 1: cannot remember a doubtful finding a way to the field

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Speaker 1: on Sunday more on game day.

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Speaker 2: Never seen it.

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Speaker 1: So if that is indeed the case, that Tray Smith

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Speaker 1: Juwan Taylor doubtful more than likely out That means no

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Speaker 1: Josh Simmons, no Tray Smith, no Juwan Taylor. We kind

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Speaker 1: of talked about it all week. It means they'll have

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Speaker 1: two tackles, jan Ye Morris and Jalen Moore. They'll have

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Speaker 1: Kliendo at guard again. Texas faced him last year when

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Speaker 1: he was at guard, and then everything else will be

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Speaker 1: the same. Suama Taya will be at the other guard,

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Speaker 1: Creed Humphrey at center now Sumataya still getting used to

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Speaker 1: playing guard. Caliendo is definitely a backup. And you've got

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Speaker 1: the two guys on the outside and Jaylen Moore and

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Speaker 1: Janya Morris.

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Speaker 2: This could be tough with the chiefs now cry my

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Speaker 2: beer about it.

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Speaker 1: Just let you know it could be tough for them. Okay,

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Speaker 1: we gotta talk to Josh and Alexander the Chronicle. I

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Speaker 1: will ask him about his grade that he gave C. J.

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Speaker 2: Stroud. It's a good answer.

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Speaker 1: I think it was a great answer, kind of put

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Speaker 1: them on the spot, but he answered, well, we'll have

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Speaker 1: that for you.

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Speaker 2: Next to Texans All Access.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna want our down one our left to go

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Speaker 1: right here on Friday, isshear of Texans All Access. I'm

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Speaker 1: your host, John Harris, Football on a sideline reporter for

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Speaker 1: your Houston Texans.

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Speaker 2: It's time to catch up with one of our good friends.

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Speaker 1: Great reporter from the Houston Chronicle, Jonathan Alexander.

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Speaker 2: Joining us right now.

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Speaker 3: Jonathan Alexander from the Houston Chronicle. And Jonathan, let's start here.

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Speaker 3: It's a rhetorical question, but I want you to answer it.

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Speaker 3: How big is this game?

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Speaker 12: It's their most important game in the season. I feel

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00:52:35,520 --> 00:52:37,680
Speaker 12: like I've told myself this every.

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Speaker 2: Week, but it's true.

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Speaker 4: But it is true. Particularly with this game.

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Speaker 12: The Chiefs are a game behind the Texans, and if

1239
00:52:47,440 --> 00:52:50,120
Speaker 12: they win this they'll have the same record, but the

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00:52:50,160 --> 00:52:53,600
Speaker 12: Chiefs will have the tiebreaker and is a very close

1241
00:52:53,960 --> 00:52:58,200
Speaker 12: AFC race for these frontal wildcard spots. So that's what

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Speaker 12: makes this game important. And then the other is the

1243
00:53:00,520 --> 00:53:03,280
Speaker 12: Texans haven't really beaten the Chiefs in recent years, definitely

1244
00:53:03,280 --> 00:53:06,960
Speaker 12: not in the Demico Ryans era, and a win like this.

1245
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Speaker 12: He kind of helps with the psyche, the mental block

1246
00:53:11,600 --> 00:53:14,759
Speaker 12: that could persist when you lose to a team over

1247
00:53:14,800 --> 00:53:15,160
Speaker 12: and over.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I'm gonna bring up something and I know you

1249
00:53:17,520 --> 00:53:19,239
Speaker 1: might get mad at me for this, and you know

1250
00:53:19,400 --> 00:53:19,960
Speaker 1: you're my guy.

1251
00:53:20,160 --> 00:53:22,640
Speaker 2: I think you're fantastic. I'm glad you're in Houston.

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00:53:23,040 --> 00:53:24,960
Speaker 1: When you went back and watched the Colts game, did

1253
00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:26,759
Speaker 1: you have a different thought on the grade you gave

1254
00:53:26,840 --> 00:53:29,600
Speaker 1: CJ after the game because you game a C after

1255
00:53:29,640 --> 00:53:31,879
Speaker 1: the game When you went back and rewatched it, did

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00:53:31,880 --> 00:53:33,440
Speaker 1: you think differently about it?

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Speaker 3: Could CJ visit you during office hours as the professor

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00:53:36,640 --> 00:53:38,400
Speaker 3: and like beg for a better grade?

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00:53:38,480 --> 00:53:38,640
Speaker 2: Right?

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00:53:38,680 --> 00:53:40,640
Speaker 4: How could you d knowledge?

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00:53:41,719 --> 00:53:44,319
Speaker 12: I guess it depends on like how you agree, Like

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00:53:44,360 --> 00:53:46,920
Speaker 12: would you graded on a curve considering this is his

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00:53:47,000 --> 00:53:51,160
Speaker 12: first game back from the concussion. If you do grade

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Speaker 12: it on the curve, I'd easily give him a B. Now,

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00:53:53,800 --> 00:53:56,040
Speaker 12: if you graded according to CJ. Strouds standards and the

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Speaker 12: standards we expect from him, I would bump it up

1267
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Speaker 12: to a C plus. Yeah, you know, I thought he

1268
00:54:00,120 --> 00:54:02,560
Speaker 12: played very well in the second half, made a lot

1269
00:54:02,560 --> 00:54:05,239
Speaker 12: of clutch throws on third down, I think I saw

1270
00:54:05,280 --> 00:54:07,799
Speaker 12: some stat that he was six of seven on third

1271
00:54:07,840 --> 00:54:11,439
Speaker 12: down and those weren't small third downs, right. I thought

1272
00:54:11,440 --> 00:54:14,120
Speaker 12: the interception was a little bit careless, like it was

1273
00:54:14,160 --> 00:54:16,319
Speaker 12: open at first. He was late on it. You could

1274
00:54:16,320 --> 00:54:18,600
Speaker 12: tell he was rusty in the first half. But he

1275
00:54:18,640 --> 00:54:21,240
Speaker 12: did enough to help the Texans win and that was important.

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00:54:21,320 --> 00:54:24,000
Speaker 12: So if I had if we're wearing on the curve,

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Speaker 12: you to be if we're not, it's a C plus.

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00:54:26,840 --> 00:54:30,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, fair enough. Now what about the Chiefs?

1279
00:54:30,960 --> 00:54:35,160
Speaker 3: Patrick mahomes this version of Kansas City that we are

1280
00:54:35,200 --> 00:54:39,000
Speaker 3: seeing six and six, but they're all still there. Kelsey's there.

1281
00:54:39,080 --> 00:54:42,120
Speaker 3: You got Rashid Rice there, you got Carl Loftus and

1282
00:54:42,480 --> 00:54:46,000
Speaker 3: Chris Jones on defense, you got McDuffie. You have the Chiefs,

1283
00:54:46,040 --> 00:54:48,719
Speaker 3: the coaching staff here, you are at their place and

1284
00:54:48,719 --> 00:54:50,640
Speaker 3: they're coming off the mini by what do you think?

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Speaker 12: Yeah, the Chiefs to me are still one of the

1286
00:54:53,280 --> 00:54:56,399
Speaker 12: most dangerous teams in the NFL. You know, they might

1287
00:54:56,440 --> 00:54:58,160
Speaker 12: have a six and six record, but they have a

1288
00:54:58,200 --> 00:55:02,279
Speaker 12: plus seventy six point differential. You know, it says a

1289
00:55:02,360 --> 00:55:05,239
Speaker 12: lot that they may be in their losses just a

1290
00:55:05,280 --> 00:55:07,600
Speaker 12: few points one or two plays here, from winning it,

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Speaker 12: and we were saying that about the Texans. You know,

1292
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Speaker 12: early in the season, so we know what Patrick Mahomes is,

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Speaker 12: cap love. He was playing at the MVP level earlier

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Speaker 12: in the season, still.

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Speaker 4: Playing at a high level.

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Speaker 12: Had a really good game despite their loss last week

1297
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Speaker 12: to the Cowboys, their defense's experience, giving Steve Spagnola and

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Speaker 12: what he's been able to do. Andy Reid is an

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Speaker 12: experienced coach. I take them as serious as I take

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Speaker 12: them any other team. I still think they're one of

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Speaker 12: the more impressive teams in the league, even though they've

1302
00:55:39,440 --> 00:55:42,359
Speaker 12: had a rough go and just haven't really finished well

1303
00:55:42,400 --> 00:55:43,359
Speaker 12: at the end of games this year.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Johnathan, I give you either worse situation. Either you

1305
00:55:47,600 --> 00:55:50,640
Speaker 1: can only have one of these. Either you're completely and

1306
00:55:50,960 --> 00:55:54,560
Speaker 1: totally shut down the running back run game. Completely shut

1307
00:55:54,560 --> 00:55:57,160
Speaker 1: down the Chiefs running back run game like they get

1308
00:55:57,239 --> 00:56:00,560
Speaker 1: nothing maybe thirty yards, just shut it down, or you

1309
00:56:00,640 --> 00:56:06,040
Speaker 1: completely shut out Chris Jones defensive tackle in twenty twenty two.

1310
00:56:06,719 --> 00:56:08,719
Speaker 1: He had no stats. Now he's sit going in the game,

1311
00:56:08,719 --> 00:56:10,279
Speaker 1: but the Texas did a pretty good job on him.

1312
00:56:10,480 --> 00:56:12,319
Speaker 1: Texas took that game to overtime with the team that

1313
00:56:12,360 --> 00:56:14,239
Speaker 1: wasn't that great at that time. So you can either

1314
00:56:14,360 --> 00:56:18,600
Speaker 1: completely shut down the Chiefs running game nothing, or you

1315
00:56:18,640 --> 00:56:20,640
Speaker 1: can completely shut down Chris Jones. Now it doesn't mean

1316
00:56:20,640 --> 00:56:23,600
Speaker 1: you to stop everybody else, but you shut down Chris Jones,

1317
00:56:24,200 --> 00:56:24,719
Speaker 1: which one.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, I think the Chiefs running game is not that

1319
00:56:27,360 --> 00:56:28,880
Speaker 12: good at all. I think they have one of the

1320
00:56:28,920 --> 00:56:30,839
Speaker 12: worst rush in the Texan the league. I mean, they're

1321
00:56:30,880 --> 00:56:34,120
Speaker 12: solid in the red zone, but I think Chris Jones

1322
00:56:34,120 --> 00:56:36,480
Speaker 12: can wreck a game and he could provide problems for

1323
00:56:36,520 --> 00:56:38,840
Speaker 12: this offense if he gets going, if they don't focus

1324
00:56:39,000 --> 00:56:43,520
Speaker 12: on him. It was interesting two years ago or three

1325
00:56:43,600 --> 00:56:46,399
Speaker 12: years ago, when Levie Smith was a coach, they put

1326
00:56:46,520 --> 00:56:50,080
Speaker 12: Titus Howard at guard to take care of Chris Jones,

1327
00:56:50,120 --> 00:56:52,120
Speaker 12: and he did a great job against it. And I

1328
00:56:52,160 --> 00:56:54,680
Speaker 12: remember that off the top of my head. But yeah,

1329
00:56:54,719 --> 00:56:57,240
Speaker 12: I think the key is stopping Chris Jones. Don't let

1330
00:56:57,280 --> 00:56:59,440
Speaker 12: that defensive line beat them again to prest pressure. We

1331
00:56:59,440 --> 00:57:01,840
Speaker 12: saw what happened when they gave up eight secs. I

1332
00:57:01,880 --> 00:57:04,359
Speaker 12: think the defense is going to handle this business. I

1333
00:57:04,360 --> 00:57:07,640
Speaker 12: don't think you're able to beat this Texans defense without

1334
00:57:07,680 --> 00:57:13,200
Speaker 12: a complimentary offense. So the key for me, most important

1335
00:57:13,239 --> 00:57:13,840
Speaker 12: for me is stopping.

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Speaker 3: Chris Jones, how would you characterize the Texans defense? You

1337
00:57:17,760 --> 00:57:20,120
Speaker 3: have five games to go and they're getting a lot.

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Speaker 2: Of love right now.

1339
00:57:21,000 --> 00:57:24,240
Speaker 3: This could be, as far as the Texans go, historically

1340
00:57:24,280 --> 00:57:28,480
Speaker 3: great relative to themselves, but it could be historically great

1341
00:57:28,600 --> 00:57:31,280
Speaker 3: relative to this century of NFL defenses. They could be

1342
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Speaker 3: right up there with the very best. But where do

1343
00:57:33,760 --> 00:57:35,800
Speaker 3: you put them right now, Jonathan, And where do you

1344
00:57:35,800 --> 00:57:36,400
Speaker 3: think it's going?

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Speaker 12: Yeah, this is one of the best defenses definitely of

1346
00:57:39,840 --> 00:57:43,160
Speaker 12: the past decade. Like they're up there with the Legion

1347
00:57:43,200 --> 00:57:47,800
Speaker 12: of Boom in how you know, elite they've been because

1348
00:57:47,840 --> 00:57:50,960
Speaker 12: they have weapons at every level, whether that's on the

1349
00:57:51,000 --> 00:57:54,640
Speaker 12: defensive line, the secondary, those two groups are elite. And

1350
00:57:54,680 --> 00:57:56,840
Speaker 12: then the linebackers have played very well this year. They've

1351
00:57:56,840 --> 00:58:00,720
Speaker 12: improved significantly too, is easy Alshai here is al Shire

1352
00:58:00,800 --> 00:58:03,040
Speaker 12: is having a great year this year as well. So

1353
00:58:03,760 --> 00:58:06,120
Speaker 12: you know, I think this is one of the best

1354
00:58:06,480 --> 00:58:11,520
Speaker 12: team defenses that we've seen come out of Houston in history,

1355
00:58:11,600 --> 00:58:13,560
Speaker 12: and definitely one of the best in the past two

1356
00:58:13,600 --> 00:58:14,680
Speaker 12: decades that we've seen.

1357
00:58:15,200 --> 00:58:17,520
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna ask you another kind of either or

1358
00:58:17,680 --> 00:58:22,280
Speaker 1: question to degree you can't pick like this game is

1359
00:58:22,400 --> 00:58:25,200
Speaker 1: eliminated Texas Chiefs. You can't pick either one of those

1360
00:58:25,240 --> 00:58:29,720
Speaker 1: teams who wins the AFC and goes to the super Bowl.

1361
00:58:30,400 --> 00:58:32,360
Speaker 1: But you can't pick either one of the two teams

1362
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Speaker 1: playing Sunday Night.

1363
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Speaker 4: That's a good question.

1364
00:58:34,800 --> 00:58:37,280
Speaker 1: Which team wins the AFC and goes to the super

1365
00:58:37,320 --> 00:58:39,360
Speaker 1: Bowl If it's not one of these two teams playing

1366
00:58:39,360 --> 00:58:39,959
Speaker 1: Sunday Night.

1367
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Speaker 3: It's a really tough one. It's really tough.

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Speaker 12: I know, I know exactly, I honestly, even though I

1369
00:58:47,040 --> 00:58:50,800
Speaker 12: don't have the biggest faith in bo Nicks as a quarterback,

1370
00:58:50,920 --> 00:58:53,680
Speaker 12: I think the defense is elite and can carry the

1371
00:58:53,760 --> 00:58:56,800
Speaker 12: Broncos as long as Bonnicks doesn't do anything crazy, which

1372
00:58:56,800 --> 00:58:59,280
Speaker 12: he doesn't have a tendency to do anything crazy. He's

1373
00:58:59,320 --> 00:59:02,480
Speaker 12: just not in the elite quarterback But I think he's

1374
00:59:02,480 --> 00:59:05,520
Speaker 12: good enough. And with the Broncos defense, I definitely think

1375
00:59:05,520 --> 00:59:08,800
Speaker 12: they're top three defense in the league. So if I

1376
00:59:08,840 --> 00:59:11,080
Speaker 12: had to say from the AFC, I picked the Broncos.

1377
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Speaker 2: Okay, how about this hot take? Okay, rate this hot take?

1378
00:59:14,560 --> 00:59:16,200
Speaker 1: Kind of going along with what I just said, The

1379
00:59:16,240 --> 00:59:18,160
Speaker 1: winner of Sunday Nights game wins the AFC.

1380
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Speaker 3: I mean, that's at least well, Kansas City has the

1381
00:59:24,000 --> 00:59:24,800
Speaker 3: pedigree here.

1382
00:59:25,040 --> 00:59:27,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, if Kansas City gets in, who's going to want

1383
00:59:27,040 --> 00:59:27,480
Speaker 2: to play them?

1384
00:59:27,480 --> 00:59:29,680
Speaker 3: But I'll tell you what, the winner of Sunday Night's

1385
00:59:29,680 --> 00:59:30,920
Speaker 3: game is going to get a lot of love on

1386
00:59:30,920 --> 00:59:34,200
Speaker 3: the hot take shows to win the AFC, including the Texans.

1387
00:59:34,200 --> 00:59:36,320
Speaker 3: Of course, if the Texans win this game, there are

1388
00:59:36,320 --> 00:59:37,600
Speaker 3: going to be a lot of people saying they can

1389
00:59:37,680 --> 00:59:39,440
Speaker 3: ride this thing all the way through because it'll be

1390
00:59:39,520 --> 00:59:41,680
Speaker 3: impressive that they beat the Chiefs in that environment. Rate

1391
00:59:41,760 --> 00:59:44,680
Speaker 3: my hot take, I would give it a two and

1392
00:59:44,680 --> 00:59:48,320
Speaker 3: a half. OK to Jonathan, how would you rate the

1393
00:59:48,440 --> 00:59:52,360
Speaker 3: environment at Arrowhead Stadium versus other stadiums you've been to?

1394
00:59:52,880 --> 00:59:55,560
Speaker 2: Is this the toughest? And not just because of the

1395
00:59:55,600 --> 00:59:58,560
Speaker 2: team you're playing, but just in general? How do you

1396
00:59:58,640 --> 00:59:59,000
Speaker 2: see it?

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00:59:59,600 --> 01:00:04,040
Speaker 12: I think is top three, maybe number two. You can

1398
01:00:04,120 --> 01:00:08,000
Speaker 12: switch it off with the Seattle's crowd. In Minnesota's crowd

1399
01:00:08,040 --> 01:00:11,320
Speaker 12: is definitely number one, and maybe that's just because you

1400
01:00:11,360 --> 01:00:14,520
Speaker 12: can hear that loud horn the open air press box.

1401
01:00:15,120 --> 01:00:18,640
Speaker 12: But the Kansas City is definitely top three. You know

1402
01:00:18,760 --> 01:00:22,600
Speaker 12: the weather effects games as well, is super cold, loud.

1403
01:00:22,720 --> 01:00:27,720
Speaker 12: Those fans are are are die hard fans, especially with

1404
01:00:27,760 --> 01:00:31,200
Speaker 12: Patrick Mahomes being there is definitely one of the top

1405
01:00:31,240 --> 01:00:33,800
Speaker 12: stadiums in the loudest stadiums and the hardest environment is

1406
01:00:33,840 --> 01:00:34,240
Speaker 12: to play in.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Jonathan, I'm just gonna read you a statement. I

1408
01:00:37,720 --> 01:00:39,480
Speaker 1: want you to take it wherever you want to go.

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01:00:39,600 --> 01:00:42,720
Speaker 1: Whether the statement is just crazy to think about, whether

1410
01:00:42,760 --> 01:00:44,200
Speaker 1: it'll stay this way.

1411
01:00:44,440 --> 01:00:47,880
Speaker 2: Whether you think this is you know, the future.

1412
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Speaker 1: The Chicago Bears are the number one seed in the

1413
01:00:52,360 --> 01:00:55,120
Speaker 1: NFC right now.

1414
01:00:55,800 --> 01:01:01,120
Speaker 12: Go I think that they're the hottest team in the NFC.

1415
01:01:01,800 --> 01:01:05,560
Speaker 12: Are they the best team? I don't think so, but

1416
01:01:05,640 --> 01:01:08,439
Speaker 12: I do believe I think the Packers are a more

1417
01:01:08,440 --> 01:01:11,800
Speaker 12: talented team than them. There's another team I'm forgetting off

1418
01:01:11,800 --> 01:01:14,280
Speaker 12: the top of my head, Rams, the Rams. I think

1419
01:01:14,360 --> 01:01:17,560
Speaker 12: the Packers and the Rams are more talented than the Bears,

1420
01:01:17,560 --> 01:01:19,200
Speaker 12: and if I saw them in the head to head matchup,

1421
01:01:19,240 --> 01:01:20,880
Speaker 12: I would pick both of those teams ahead of them.

1422
01:01:20,920 --> 01:01:23,080
Speaker 12: But they are the hottest team right now, and they're

1423
01:01:23,080 --> 01:01:25,760
Speaker 12: feeling really confident and Ben Jackson is doing a tremendous

1424
01:01:25,840 --> 01:01:26,960
Speaker 12: job as the head coach there.

1425
01:01:27,080 --> 01:01:30,080
Speaker 3: Jonathan, who wins between the Colts and the Jaguars in

1426
01:01:30,200 --> 01:01:34,880
Speaker 3: North Florida on Sunday.

1427
01:01:33,280 --> 01:01:36,240
Speaker 12: You know, I think the Colts might win that game.

1428
01:01:36,320 --> 01:01:38,880
Speaker 12: I think those two teams are gonna split, but I'll

1429
01:01:38,920 --> 01:01:41,360
Speaker 12: pick the Colts to win that game. I think coming

1430
01:01:41,360 --> 01:01:43,920
Speaker 12: off that loss to the Texans, they'll probably be a

1431
01:01:43,960 --> 01:01:46,120
Speaker 12: little bit fired up. I think Jacksonville has had a

1432
01:01:46,360 --> 01:01:50,280
Speaker 12: few close games recently and a few games against some

1433
01:01:51,360 --> 01:01:54,720
Speaker 12: not so great talented teams, so I think they'll the

1434
01:01:54,800 --> 01:01:56,439
Speaker 12: Colts to catch them off guard and beat them.

1435
01:01:56,480 --> 01:01:58,680
Speaker 3: So I know you're asked this on other shows you're on.

1436
01:01:58,920 --> 01:02:01,240
Speaker 3: Can the Texans do it? Can they win the AFC South?

1437
01:02:01,560 --> 01:02:04,120
Speaker 4: Absolutely? I mean, especially if they win this game.

1438
01:02:04,200 --> 01:02:06,880
Speaker 12: If they win this game, I'm picking them to win

1439
01:02:06,920 --> 01:02:09,320
Speaker 12: the AFC South without a doubt. And then if you

1440
01:02:09,320 --> 01:02:12,360
Speaker 12: look at it, if they win this game, the Jaguars lose,

1441
01:02:12,800 --> 01:02:15,880
Speaker 12: They're in the AFC South League. So what's the only

1442
01:02:15,960 --> 01:02:18,920
Speaker 12: thing keeping them from really winning is if they have

1443
01:02:19,000 --> 01:02:21,480
Speaker 12: a hiccup against the Cardinals or the Raiders, which I

1444
01:02:21,520 --> 01:02:25,160
Speaker 12: don't think will happen, or they lose to the Colts

1445
01:02:25,200 --> 01:02:28,600
Speaker 12: in Week eighteen, and Demiko Ryan's record against the Colts

1446
01:02:28,600 --> 01:02:31,040
Speaker 12: since he's been here pretty good, they ain't good, So

1447
01:02:31,800 --> 01:02:35,480
Speaker 12: you know, I really believe if the Texans win this

1448
01:02:35,520 --> 01:02:36,960
Speaker 12: game against the Chiefs, I'm calling it.

1449
01:02:37,000 --> 01:02:38,200
Speaker 4: They win the AFC South.

1450
01:02:38,280 --> 01:02:42,040
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm gonna go with me on this one because

1451
01:02:42,040 --> 01:02:44,120
Speaker 1: this is kind of one of those kind of hot

1452
01:02:44,160 --> 01:02:44,960
Speaker 1: take moments.

1453
01:02:45,080 --> 01:02:46,840
Speaker 2: Okay, I don't I'm.

1454
01:02:46,640 --> 01:02:48,680
Speaker 1: Not sure that totally believe it. So you guys gotta

1455
01:02:48,880 --> 01:02:51,080
Speaker 1: kind of talk me into this or talk me out

1456
01:02:51,080 --> 01:02:55,320
Speaker 1: of this. But Joe Burrow is back. Went to Baltimore

1457
01:02:55,440 --> 01:02:58,040
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving night hammered the Ravens.

1458
01:02:58,840 --> 01:02:59,120
Speaker 2: Yep.

1459
01:03:00,680 --> 01:03:03,560
Speaker 1: I know they're four and eight, but the Steelers in

1460
01:03:03,680 --> 01:03:06,520
Speaker 1: Ravens are both six and six. There's just two games

1461
01:03:06,920 --> 01:03:11,720
Speaker 1: left now. They ended up beating the Steelers once and

1462
01:03:11,760 --> 01:03:14,200
Speaker 1: lost to the Steelers once, so they split with the Steelers.

1463
01:03:14,800 --> 01:03:17,120
Speaker 1: They right now have the head to head against the Ravens.

1464
01:03:17,680 --> 01:03:24,200
Speaker 1: The Bengals have at Bills home, Ravens at Miami Sunday

1465
01:03:24,280 --> 01:03:28,840
Speaker 1: Night home, Arizona home Cleveland. Hot take, the Bengals are

1466
01:03:28,840 --> 01:03:32,320
Speaker 1: gonna come back and win that thing. At eight and nine,

1467
01:03:32,760 --> 01:03:34,360
Speaker 1: the Bengals will win the AFC North.

1468
01:03:34,560 --> 01:03:35,280
Speaker 2: Is that crazy?

1469
01:03:35,960 --> 01:03:37,680
Speaker 12: I don't know if it's crazy, but I don't think

1470
01:03:37,680 --> 01:03:38,280
Speaker 12: it'll happen.

1471
01:03:38,720 --> 01:03:39,600
Speaker 2: It's a lot to ask.

1472
01:03:39,720 --> 01:03:42,080
Speaker 12: Yeah, the Bengals defense is not good. I mean, they

1473
01:03:42,080 --> 01:03:44,919
Speaker 12: did a good job against the Lamar Jackson, but they've

1474
01:03:44,960 --> 01:03:47,800
Speaker 12: had some really bad games that have so I don't

1475
01:03:47,840 --> 01:03:51,200
Speaker 12: see them being consistent across the final stretch of the season.

1476
01:03:51,280 --> 01:03:54,840
Speaker 3: This Buffalo game could be forty two to forty. This game,

1477
01:03:54,880 --> 01:03:57,800
Speaker 3: for sure could be that kind of shootout.

1478
01:03:57,880 --> 01:03:59,520
Speaker 2: Burrow's beating them in at Buffalo.

1479
01:03:59,680 --> 01:04:03,120
Speaker 3: Yeah before Look, I wouldn't put it past him. It's

1480
01:04:03,160 --> 01:04:06,000
Speaker 3: such a long journey through the final five games, but

1481
01:04:06,160 --> 01:04:09,840
Speaker 3: that game against Baltimore impressed me. Lamar Jackson cannot move

1482
01:04:09,880 --> 01:04:11,120
Speaker 3: the way he usually does.

1483
01:04:11,040 --> 01:04:13,320
Speaker 2: And he misspracticed earlier this week.

1484
01:04:13,400 --> 01:04:16,040
Speaker 3: That's a big problem for him.

1485
01:04:16,200 --> 01:04:17,520
Speaker 2: That's a big problem because.

1486
01:04:17,280 --> 01:04:20,480
Speaker 3: If he can't run, Henry's not exactly who he was.

1487
01:04:20,920 --> 01:04:22,960
Speaker 3: They know that everyone's making a big deal about the

1488
01:04:23,000 --> 01:04:26,080
Speaker 3: lack of carries for Henry last week. You can't carry

1489
01:04:26,080 --> 01:04:27,880
Speaker 3: the ball if your team is off the field on

1490
01:04:27,920 --> 01:04:30,960
Speaker 3: third down, you know you lose those downs. Anyway, Jonathan,

1491
01:04:31,000 --> 01:04:32,440
Speaker 3: what do you have going out of the Houston Chronicle

1492
01:04:32,480 --> 01:04:32,760
Speaker 3: for us?

1493
01:04:33,600 --> 01:04:36,840
Speaker 12: I'll continue in my mental health series that I've been

1494
01:04:36,880 --> 01:04:39,880
Speaker 12: writing in the past three weeks or so, so please

1495
01:04:39,960 --> 01:04:43,120
Speaker 12: check that out. And then on Thursday, who posted a

1496
01:04:43,160 --> 01:04:47,840
Speaker 12: story on how players keep warm again. So that was

1497
01:04:48,320 --> 01:04:49,800
Speaker 12: a pretty fun story right there.

1498
01:04:49,960 --> 01:04:52,440
Speaker 1: Trust me, I'm gonna be reading that Friday night Saturday

1499
01:04:52,480 --> 01:04:54,760
Speaker 1: morning before we leave. Make sure that I am good

1500
01:04:55,000 --> 01:04:57,960
Speaker 1: to go, because this could be cold for me. I mean,

1501
01:04:58,000 --> 01:04:59,479
Speaker 1: I'm not going to getting a chance to move around

1502
01:04:59,520 --> 01:05:01,040
Speaker 1: as much as the guys do on the field, and

1503
01:05:01,080 --> 01:05:01,720
Speaker 1: I don't know big.

1504
01:05:01,800 --> 01:05:04,280
Speaker 2: Pads to cover me so I can stay warm, y'all.

1505
01:05:04,480 --> 01:05:06,760
Speaker 1: Someone else who's got to stay warm is number seven

1506
01:05:07,600 --> 01:05:12,760
Speaker 1: in both warmth physically but also staying hot throwing the football.

1507
01:05:13,080 --> 01:05:15,680
Speaker 1: CJ was on with Pat McAfee. Some good stuff came

1508
01:05:15,720 --> 01:05:17,160
Speaker 1: out of that. We'll have for you next right here

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Speaker 1: in Texans All Access Stepping everybody, Welcome back to Friday

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Speaker 1: edition of Texans All Access as we are just under

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Speaker 1: forty eight hours from kickoff Texans Chiefs. We got the

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Speaker 1: game for you on Sports Radio six ten, Mark, Andre

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01:05:38,720 --> 01:05:42,560
Speaker 1: and myself will carry you through the game pregame, Texans Countdown,

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01:05:42,720 --> 01:05:45,120
Speaker 1: Sean and Seth through a hell of a job. I'll

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01:05:45,200 --> 01:05:47,280
Speaker 1: jump on there about four point thirty five, Mark and

1516
01:05:47,280 --> 01:05:48,840
Speaker 1: Andre a little bit later. We got all kinds of

1517
01:05:48,840 --> 01:05:50,680
Speaker 1: guests on that show, and Shawn and Seth dough a

1518
01:05:50,680 --> 01:05:54,080
Speaker 1: hell of a job with it. Then game broadcast, postgame

1519
01:05:54,760 --> 01:05:57,320
Speaker 1: got Sean and Clint take you through. They take calls,

1520
01:05:57,520 --> 01:05:59,360
Speaker 1: you get kind of interesting. Never get a chance to

1521
01:05:59,400 --> 01:06:02,120
Speaker 1: hear them because we are on the bus going to

1522
01:06:02,160 --> 01:06:04,520
Speaker 1: the plane, getting on the plane, flying home. So we

1523
01:06:04,560 --> 01:06:07,160
Speaker 1: won't get home till dark thirty. But yeah, it is

1524
01:06:07,200 --> 01:06:09,040
Speaker 1: what it is. As we come home with a W.

1525
01:06:09,040 --> 01:06:12,440
Speaker 1: Won't matter now we have not flown home from Kansas City.

1526
01:06:12,840 --> 01:06:17,600
Speaker 1: Would they win in a long time? October of twenty nineteen,

1527
01:06:18,040 --> 01:06:23,080
Speaker 1: we went there on a wonderful, wonderful weather day, find

1528
01:06:23,080 --> 01:06:26,680
Speaker 1: a cloud, not one in the sky. Got bumped a

1529
01:06:26,720 --> 01:06:29,160
Speaker 1: little bit early. Tyreek Hill made a couple of great plays.

1530
01:06:29,200 --> 01:06:32,160
Speaker 1: I remember him coming off of injury that the Texas

1531
01:06:32,160 --> 01:06:35,000
Speaker 1: fought back. Carlos Hyde a uappo. He had a great game.

1532
01:06:35,320 --> 01:06:37,800
Speaker 1: He ran the ball, stuffed it down her throat, took

1533
01:06:37,840 --> 01:06:39,360
Speaker 1: over the fourth quarter. I remember they had like three

1534
01:06:39,440 --> 01:06:41,200
Speaker 1: drives in the fourth quarter, like three to three and

1535
01:06:41,240 --> 01:06:44,200
Speaker 1: outs or something like that, and took over. And then

1536
01:06:44,520 --> 01:06:46,920
Speaker 1: Sean hit hop on fourth down. So we keep the

1537
01:06:46,960 --> 01:06:49,840
Speaker 1: ball running out at the two minute warning and went home.

1538
01:06:49,640 --> 01:06:50,080
Speaker 4: With a W.

1539
01:06:50,280 --> 01:06:54,920
Speaker 1: Now we've only gone Arrowhead and won twice once in

1540
01:06:54,960 --> 01:06:57,560
Speaker 1: two thousand and four and that game in twenty nineteen.

1541
01:06:58,080 --> 01:07:02,440
Speaker 1: Overall regular season RAC is eight and five had the

1542
01:07:02,480 --> 01:07:05,680
Speaker 1: playoffs in there. Texas at Las, says we I talked

1543
01:07:05,680 --> 01:07:10,360
Speaker 1: about earlier twenty fifteen, twenty nineteen, twenty twenty four. Not

1544
01:07:10,440 --> 01:07:12,000
Speaker 1: in the mood to go up there and lose on

1545
01:07:12,120 --> 01:07:15,720
Speaker 1: Sunday night with all that is on the line. Now,

1546
01:07:17,280 --> 01:07:19,680
Speaker 1: Chiefs got a lot on line too. Chiefs lose, their

1547
01:07:19,680 --> 01:07:23,680
Speaker 1: playoff hopes are eh, not great. I said it's to

1548
01:07:23,720 --> 01:07:29,200
Speaker 1: mark earlier. If we win and the Broncos win, then

1549
01:07:29,240 --> 01:07:33,040
Speaker 1: the Chiefs cannot win the AFC West for the first

1550
01:07:33,080 --> 01:07:39,960
Speaker 1: time since twenty sixteen. If we win and the Broncos win,

1551
01:07:40,800 --> 01:07:43,120
Speaker 1: then that would put five games a distance with only

1552
01:07:43,160 --> 01:07:45,800
Speaker 1: four to play. Now, the Chargers could still catch the Broncos,

1553
01:07:46,360 --> 01:07:48,920
Speaker 1: but hopefully we'll have a we'll have the hand and

1554
01:07:49,000 --> 01:07:51,840
Speaker 1: knock it off the Chargers a couple of days after Christmas.

1555
01:07:52,360 --> 01:07:53,800
Speaker 2: Well, I guess we don't even know what that game

1556
01:07:53,840 --> 01:07:54,200
Speaker 2: is gonna be.

1557
01:07:54,280 --> 01:07:57,720
Speaker 1: But after Christmas, and keep the Chargers away from the Broncos,

1558
01:07:57,720 --> 01:08:00,600
Speaker 1: and we'll have the Broncos win that division, which would

1559
01:08:00,640 --> 01:08:03,400
Speaker 1: be the first time for them since twenty fifteen. That

1560
01:08:04,040 --> 01:08:06,760
Speaker 1: we won't know, but if we win, we'll know Sunday

1561
01:08:06,800 --> 01:08:09,000
Speaker 1: night we walk off that field whether the AFC West

1562
01:08:09,000 --> 01:08:10,720
Speaker 1: can be won by the Kansas City Chiefs or it's

1563
01:08:10,720 --> 01:08:13,720
Speaker 1: still an uphill battle. Whether we lose or winning that game,

1564
01:08:13,760 --> 01:08:16,080
Speaker 1: it's still an uphill battle for the Chiefs. Broncos have

1565
01:08:16,120 --> 01:08:19,000
Speaker 1: got some toughies. They got to play the Jags. They

1566
01:08:19,080 --> 01:08:20,560
Speaker 1: do have to play Kansas City again, they got to

1567
01:08:20,560 --> 01:08:25,640
Speaker 1: play the Chargers. But all that being said, the Chiefs,

1568
01:08:26,720 --> 01:08:28,360
Speaker 1: I think I basically gotta win out and hope for

1569
01:08:28,439 --> 01:08:30,360
Speaker 1: a lot, a lot, a lot of help to win

1570
01:08:30,360 --> 01:08:32,120
Speaker 1: a division. It's gonna be tough. I'd like to put

1571
01:08:32,160 --> 01:08:34,520
Speaker 1: them out of their misery. Let them think about wildcard

1572
01:08:34,520 --> 01:08:36,880
Speaker 1: and wildcard only. But even at that point Texas win,

1573
01:08:37,120 --> 01:08:40,599
Speaker 1: their playoff probability is about ten percent, and that would

1574
01:08:40,600 --> 01:08:43,560
Speaker 1: be kind of nice. Knock them out of the playoffs basically,

1575
01:08:44,080 --> 01:08:45,760
Speaker 1: and then go take care of business as well.

1576
01:08:45,800 --> 01:08:46,479
Speaker 2: Get the eight and five.

1577
01:08:46,560 --> 01:08:50,160
Speaker 1: Ooh man, stop me having too good a time, Okay.

1578
01:08:50,360 --> 01:08:54,120
Speaker 1: CJS Drive was on with Pat McAfee earlier this week.

1579
01:08:54,160 --> 01:08:56,200
Speaker 1: We pulled a snippet out of there, and we started

1580
01:08:56,400 --> 01:09:02,280
Speaker 1: here with CJ's respond to bouncing back.

1581
01:09:02,120 --> 01:09:04,320
Speaker 2: And how it started not so great.

1582
01:09:04,960 --> 01:09:06,920
Speaker 1: It started to bounce back and starting to play some

1583
01:09:06,920 --> 01:09:08,280
Speaker 1: good football and get in rhythm.

1584
01:09:08,360 --> 01:09:09,960
Speaker 13: Yeah, of course, you know, we didn't start off, you know,

1585
01:09:10,000 --> 01:09:11,800
Speaker 13: the way we wanted to. You know, we lost you know,

1586
01:09:11,920 --> 01:09:15,760
Speaker 13: five games you know in between one score. But I think,

1587
01:09:15,800 --> 01:09:17,759
Speaker 13: you know, other than you know, looking down on ourselves

1588
01:09:17,800 --> 01:09:19,760
Speaker 13: about it, you know, as a positive, you know, to

1589
01:09:19,800 --> 01:09:22,559
Speaker 13: fix some issues and then we start winning these close

1590
01:09:22,600 --> 01:09:24,640
Speaker 13: games against these really good teams. You know, we'll be

1591
01:09:24,680 --> 01:09:27,000
Speaker 13: able to you know, take the next leap to you know,

1592
01:09:27,040 --> 01:09:28,200
Speaker 13: get to where we want to go, and that's the

1593
01:09:28,200 --> 01:09:31,040
Speaker 13: playoffs and then go from there. So you know, I thought,

1594
01:09:31,080 --> 01:09:34,559
Speaker 13: you know, yesterday was was a really good start for us,

1595
01:09:34,600 --> 01:09:37,240
Speaker 13: you know, at least for me coming back. And I thought,

1596
01:09:37,240 --> 01:09:39,280
Speaker 13: you know, we answered the bell against a really you know,

1597
01:09:39,360 --> 01:09:41,680
Speaker 13: really good team with the coach there, you know, have

1598
01:09:41,720 --> 01:09:43,200
Speaker 13: a really good defense, and you know we're playing really

1599
01:09:43,200 --> 01:09:45,760
Speaker 13: well offensively. But like you said, our defense man has

1600
01:09:45,800 --> 01:09:48,400
Speaker 13: you know, been you know, a rock and you know, just.

1601
01:09:48,439 --> 01:09:49,240
Speaker 6: The best in the league.

1602
01:09:49,240 --> 01:09:50,840
Speaker 13: From you know, I practice against them, so I know

1603
01:09:50,880 --> 01:09:52,280
Speaker 13: how hard it is to go against them.

1604
01:09:52,600 --> 01:09:55,680
Speaker 9: Go ahead, Yeah, see, j Obviously it's actually about the

1605
01:09:55,880 --> 01:09:57,320
Speaker 9: Stroudhouse that we just saw this picture.

1606
01:09:57,360 --> 01:09:58,000
Speaker 6: What is it about?

1607
01:09:58,080 --> 01:10:01,040
Speaker 14: Like you seem to play very well in the confines

1608
01:10:01,040 --> 01:10:03,719
Speaker 14: of Lucas Oil. What is it about that good sight lines,

1609
01:10:03,760 --> 01:10:05,519
Speaker 14: like a good bit, Like what is it? It seems like

1610
01:10:05,600 --> 01:10:08,200
Speaker 14: you just obviously you play well all the time, but

1611
01:10:08,240 --> 01:10:11,080
Speaker 14: whenever you come into the Loudhouse, as Pat likes to

1612
01:10:11,120 --> 01:10:12,880
Speaker 14: call it, you seem to do, you know, take it

1613
01:10:12,920 --> 01:10:13,559
Speaker 14: to another level.

1614
01:10:13,600 --> 01:10:14,880
Speaker 6: It's the name of the place.

1615
01:10:16,200 --> 01:10:16,439
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1616
01:10:16,520 --> 01:10:19,320
Speaker 13: I always just saying, like the level of focus, you know, uh,

1617
01:10:19,560 --> 01:10:21,120
Speaker 13: maybe it goes up a little more just because it's

1618
01:10:21,160 --> 01:10:24,840
Speaker 13: the divisional opponent. And you know, my boys, I hear

1619
01:10:24,920 --> 01:10:28,120
Speaker 13: you know, he's always mad at me and he always

1620
01:10:28,160 --> 01:10:30,360
Speaker 13: talking crazy, so maybe turn me up just a little bit.

1621
01:10:30,840 --> 01:10:32,800
Speaker 13: And so I know he's gonna hear this and he's

1622
01:10:32,840 --> 01:10:36,080
Speaker 13: gonna hate it. But you know, after the game, we're

1623
01:10:36,080 --> 01:10:38,200
Speaker 13: always cool, but daring it. Me and him go at

1624
01:10:38,240 --> 01:10:40,680
Speaker 13: it pretty good. But it's just odd of competition. So

1625
01:10:40,840 --> 01:10:42,760
Speaker 13: you know, I think it turns me up a little

1626
01:10:42,800 --> 01:10:45,160
Speaker 13: bit more. And I think, you know, my old line

1627
01:10:45,200 --> 01:10:47,880
Speaker 13: hears it and they want to play harder. So you know,

1628
01:10:47,920 --> 01:10:50,599
Speaker 13: it's just a division rival, you know, and in those games,

1629
01:10:50,600 --> 01:10:52,360
Speaker 13: you know, you're gonna be talking back and forth and

1630
01:10:52,720 --> 01:10:55,000
Speaker 13: you know, having worse for one another. And I think

1631
01:10:55,000 --> 01:10:57,760
Speaker 13: maybe that you know terms of sub but yeah, I

1632
01:10:57,920 --> 01:10:59,559
Speaker 13: just try to, you know, just be focused every play.

1633
01:10:59,680 --> 01:11:01,559
Speaker 13: You know, don't want to know every play, and you'll

1634
01:11:01,560 --> 01:11:02,120
Speaker 13: take it from there.

1635
01:11:02,280 --> 01:11:03,240
Speaker 6: It's something sleep baby.

1636
01:11:03,520 --> 01:11:05,720
Speaker 10: We gotta play you guys again. We gotta play you

1637
01:11:05,720 --> 01:11:07,840
Speaker 10: guys again. It's it's gonna mean a lot. And let's

1638
01:11:07,840 --> 01:11:10,280
Speaker 10: just let sej strologist go a little bit. You got

1639
01:11:10,280 --> 01:11:12,600
Speaker 10: this moxie about you know, you're duck footed and you go.

1640
01:11:12,760 --> 01:11:14,880
Speaker 10: He'll tell I was watching you walk because you're right

1641
01:11:14,880 --> 01:11:16,880
Speaker 10: in front of our suite. Whether it's a touchdown happening

1642
01:11:16,920 --> 01:11:19,000
Speaker 10: on the other side, you got a full seut. You're

1643
01:11:19,320 --> 01:11:21,720
Speaker 10: by yourself. You're over there, just have your time. That

1644
01:11:21,840 --> 01:11:24,360
Speaker 10: old lineman comes running over to you. Your walk is

1645
01:11:24,479 --> 01:11:27,240
Speaker 10: just that filled with or. I mean, you are your

1646
01:11:27,320 --> 01:11:30,640
Speaker 10: franchise QB brother, It is uh, it is cool to

1647
01:11:30,720 --> 01:11:32,280
Speaker 10: watch you kind of do your thing. Now, let's talk

1648
01:11:32,320 --> 01:11:34,840
Speaker 10: about the quarterback position and everything that you've gone through

1649
01:11:34,840 --> 01:11:35,120
Speaker 10: this year.

1650
01:11:35,120 --> 01:11:35,680
Speaker 6: Go ahead, de bud.

1651
01:11:35,840 --> 01:11:38,160
Speaker 11: Yeah, on that note, being a franchise QB, obviously you

1652
01:11:38,160 --> 01:11:39,719
Speaker 11: were banged up and you had to kind of watch

1653
01:11:39,760 --> 01:11:42,360
Speaker 11: the game from a different perspective you used to being

1654
01:11:42,400 --> 01:11:45,040
Speaker 11: out there. What's that relationship like with Davis Milby call

1655
01:11:45,120 --> 01:11:47,439
Speaker 11: him Dougie Mills, But what's the relationship were like with

1656
01:11:47,560 --> 01:11:49,720
Speaker 11: him off the field with you guys.

1657
01:11:50,560 --> 01:11:51,320
Speaker 2: That's my brother, bro.

1658
01:11:51,560 --> 01:11:55,280
Speaker 13: Like he's He's been a really great leader for me

1659
01:11:55,479 --> 01:11:58,960
Speaker 13: come into the league. I thought, you know, coming in,

1660
01:11:59,240 --> 01:12:01,240
Speaker 13: you know, fighting for the same position. You know, he

1661
01:12:01,320 --> 01:12:03,120
Speaker 13: always showed me love still and I try to do

1662
01:12:03,160 --> 01:12:05,000
Speaker 13: the same, and he's made me better. I feel like

1663
01:12:05,000 --> 01:12:07,880
Speaker 13: I made him better. We have our QB dinners that

1664
01:12:07,920 --> 01:12:10,519
Speaker 13: we do, you know, and we had a lot. His wife,

1665
01:12:10,680 --> 01:12:12,320
Speaker 13: you know, is a really good friend of mine as well.

1666
01:12:12,360 --> 01:12:14,760
Speaker 13: And his family, you know, I meet them, you know,

1667
01:12:14,800 --> 01:12:16,719
Speaker 13: every time they come to the games and stuff.

1668
01:12:16,760 --> 01:12:17,960
Speaker 4: So that's my brother man.

1669
01:12:17,960 --> 01:12:20,080
Speaker 13: I always support him always, you know, him on and

1670
01:12:20,320 --> 01:12:22,479
Speaker 13: I just think it's funny that people ask these questions now,

1671
01:12:22,600 --> 01:12:25,160
Speaker 13: just you know, because he's you know, he had you know,

1672
01:12:25,280 --> 01:12:27,040
Speaker 13: some really good games, and you know it's something that

1673
01:12:27,120 --> 01:12:28,280
Speaker 13: like I root that on.

1674
01:12:28,400 --> 01:12:28,720
Speaker 4: I want.

1675
01:12:29,080 --> 01:12:30,960
Speaker 13: I think he's the starter in the NFL, you know,

1676
01:12:31,040 --> 01:12:32,920
Speaker 13: and I think, you know, he's proven that.

1677
01:12:33,160 --> 01:12:35,439
Speaker 6: It feels like you guys have a great culture down there.

1678
01:12:35,479 --> 01:12:37,120
Speaker 6: On that note, Connor has a question for you.

1679
01:12:37,280 --> 01:12:40,320
Speaker 15: Yeah, CJ. Yesterday and throughout this four game win streak,

1680
01:12:40,400 --> 01:12:42,599
Speaker 15: Jayden Higgins and Woody Marks have really come alive.

1681
01:12:42,760 --> 01:12:43,479
Speaker 6: Two rookies.

1682
01:12:43,640 --> 01:12:47,400
Speaker 15: Nick Cassio once again in his bag, How what have

1683
01:12:47,479 --> 01:12:49,840
Speaker 15: you seen from them as the season has gone on,

1684
01:12:50,040 --> 01:12:53,080
Speaker 15: just developing as a wide receiver and running back and

1685
01:12:53,160 --> 01:12:56,639
Speaker 15: their contributions to the offense during this win streak.

1686
01:12:57,240 --> 01:12:57,400
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1687
01:12:57,400 --> 01:13:00,439
Speaker 13: I always remember my rookie year and like being thrown

1688
01:13:00,520 --> 01:13:02,160
Speaker 13: on the fire and kind of just thinking of a

1689
01:13:02,280 --> 01:13:05,120
Speaker 13: lot like time on task. You know, it's like some things,

1690
01:13:05,160 --> 01:13:07,000
Speaker 13: you know, are better when you just get thrown in

1691
01:13:07,040 --> 01:13:09,120
Speaker 13: the fire. You have to figure it out. And I thought,

1692
01:13:09,160 --> 01:13:12,480
Speaker 13: you know they've they've figured it out pretty early. So

1693
01:13:12,720 --> 01:13:14,240
Speaker 13: you know, wood he has been an anchor, you know,

1694
01:13:14,320 --> 01:13:16,040
Speaker 13: in a running game, and you know it's created a

1695
01:13:16,040 --> 01:13:18,120
Speaker 13: lot of you know, big, big time running.

1696
01:13:17,840 --> 01:13:18,679
Speaker 4: Plays for us.

1697
01:13:19,280 --> 01:13:20,560
Speaker 13: And then on top of that, you know Higg is

1698
01:13:20,560 --> 01:13:22,280
Speaker 13: out there, you know, and he's he has a lot

1699
01:13:22,280 --> 01:13:25,160
Speaker 13: on his plate blocking and you know, running routes, and

1700
01:13:25,240 --> 01:13:26,720
Speaker 13: I thought he's done a great job of that and

1701
01:13:26,760 --> 01:13:29,000
Speaker 13: you know, clean body language, and you know, it hasn't

1702
01:13:29,000 --> 01:13:31,040
Speaker 13: been overnight. A lot of conversations that I have with

1703
01:13:31,080 --> 01:13:33,479
Speaker 13: those guys, just you know, being that I was just

1704
01:13:33,520 --> 01:13:34,960
Speaker 13: a rookie you know, two years ago.

1705
01:13:35,439 --> 01:13:35,600
Speaker 2: You know.

1706
01:13:35,640 --> 01:13:38,160
Speaker 13: It just shows that you know, like I understand, you

1707
01:13:38,160 --> 01:13:40,439
Speaker 13: know what they're going through. And I think the main

1708
01:13:40,479 --> 01:13:43,439
Speaker 13: thing is like confidence, you know, with that being a rookie,

1709
01:13:43,600 --> 01:13:45,240
Speaker 13: you know, so you can keep your confidence. Man, this

1710
01:13:45,640 --> 01:13:47,840
Speaker 13: is the same game plays since we were ten eleven

1711
01:13:47,880 --> 01:13:50,200
Speaker 13: years old. It's just you know, at a different scale.

1712
01:13:50,320 --> 01:13:52,679
Speaker 13: So the confidence that you bring each and every day,

1713
01:13:52,720 --> 01:13:55,040
Speaker 13: you know, and the preparation you know, all you know

1714
01:13:55,080 --> 01:13:56,799
Speaker 13: as up to you know, how you play on Sundays.

1715
01:13:57,000 --> 01:13:59,600
Speaker 1: Rookies have played with a lot of confidence, especially offensively.

1716
01:14:00,120 --> 01:14:00,599
Speaker 2: Jalen Read.

1717
01:14:00,640 --> 01:14:02,559
Speaker 1: It was great to get him in there and would

1718
01:14:02,560 --> 01:14:04,400
Speaker 1: have loved to have seen him continue to play because

1719
01:14:04,400 --> 01:14:06,920
Speaker 1: I think he's just gonna send now he's off the

1720
01:14:07,160 --> 01:14:09,760
Speaker 1: previous injury, but now he's got to deal with this

1721
01:14:09,840 --> 01:14:12,760
Speaker 1: forum injury. And we'll see how the Texans go about

1722
01:14:12,800 --> 01:14:15,760
Speaker 1: it with their secondary especially the Kamari Lassiter banged up.

1723
01:14:15,800 --> 01:14:18,200
Speaker 1: But you can see it offensively and you can see

1724
01:14:18,520 --> 01:14:20,719
Speaker 1: how the confidence is growing at Jade Higgins.

1725
01:14:21,280 --> 01:14:23,439
Speaker 2: How it's and I hope it continues with.

1726
01:14:23,479 --> 01:14:27,519
Speaker 1: Jalen Knowle getting him a little bit more reps, try

1727
01:14:27,560 --> 01:14:29,280
Speaker 1: and get him the ball a little bit more, especially

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Speaker 1: going back to his hometown. Areata Erstreet going back to

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01:14:31,840 --> 01:14:34,679
Speaker 1: this hometown and plus Graham Mertz going back to this hometown.

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Speaker 1: So three of the Texans rookies came out of Kansas,

1731
01:14:36,800 --> 01:14:39,040
Speaker 1: the Kansas City area, even though they went to three

1732
01:14:39,040 --> 01:14:42,840
Speaker 1: different schools, that all said their confidence is showing no

1733
01:14:43,000 --> 01:14:46,240
Speaker 1: doubt out on the field and hopefully that'll continue on

1734
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Speaker 1: Sunday evening. Okay, it's a feel good Friday. You know

1735
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Speaker 1: what that means. We got to hear from the man himself.

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Speaker 1: Cap Number fifty nine, Tbeka. Ryan's your head coach, my

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01:14:57,160 --> 01:14:59,519
Speaker 1: head coach. The only way we can finish a show

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01:14:59,520 --> 01:15:02,679
Speaker 1: on Friday. We'll do that next in Texas All Access.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back, everybody.

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Speaker 2: It's a feel good Friday ed issue of Texans All Access.

1741
01:15:07,880 --> 01:15:11,920
Speaker 1: And you know what that means. I'm your host, Steenie

1742
01:15:11,960 --> 01:15:14,080
Speaker 1: John Harris Football on the Sideline Report. I appreciate you

1743
01:15:14,160 --> 01:15:17,120
Speaker 1: being here and I want to leave the show happy.

1744
01:15:17,200 --> 01:15:19,240
Speaker 2: I want to feel good and to do.

1745
01:15:19,240 --> 01:15:22,360
Speaker 1: That as we have basically started last year and continued

1746
01:15:22,400 --> 01:15:25,200
Speaker 1: on last segment of my two hours tonight. We got

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01:15:25,240 --> 01:15:28,000
Speaker 1: more coming up, Kate Stover, You're gonna hear from you

1748
01:15:28,040 --> 01:15:31,280
Speaker 1: here from Yakub Johnson. Mark'll have you for the next hour.

1749
01:15:31,880 --> 01:15:33,880
Speaker 1: But I want to feel good. I want to leave

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01:15:33,880 --> 01:15:37,240
Speaker 1: the studio feeling good. And that means Tamiko Ryans right

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01:15:37,439 --> 01:15:38,400
Speaker 1: here with.

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Speaker 3: Us in studio, head coach, Tamiko Ryan's coach. Great to

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01:15:41,040 --> 01:15:42,559
Speaker 3: see it, Congratulations on the victory.

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01:15:42,600 --> 01:15:43,839
Speaker 6: Thank you, Great to see you. Guys.

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Speaker 3: All right here we are. It's Chiefs Week, big one,

1756
01:15:46,600 --> 01:15:48,720
Speaker 3: and we'll talk about that. But let's talk about the

1757
01:15:48,720 --> 01:15:51,800
Speaker 3: Colts game first, going up to Indianapolis, and you got

1758
01:15:51,800 --> 01:15:54,960
Speaker 3: accomplished what you needed to You got the victory and

1759
01:15:55,280 --> 01:15:57,320
Speaker 3: made the big plays at the moment of truth.

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Speaker 6: Now that was the key to the game.

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01:15:59,360 --> 01:16:01,800
Speaker 5: I thought we did a great job on third down,

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01:16:01,960 --> 01:16:05,519
Speaker 5: the critical down, third down offense and defense. We made

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01:16:05,520 --> 01:16:08,160
Speaker 5: plays we needed to make and defensively get into two

1764
01:16:08,200 --> 01:16:11,759
Speaker 5: big fourth down stops. Those were the plays of the game.

1765
01:16:11,960 --> 01:16:14,519
Speaker 5: Right they're in position to score, there to go for it.

1766
01:16:14,600 --> 01:16:17,800
Speaker 5: We stopped them in their own territory. That was huge

1767
01:16:17,800 --> 01:16:20,040
Speaker 5: plays in the game and just how we also how

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01:16:20,040 --> 01:16:22,519
Speaker 5: he finished the game offensively being able to run the

1769
01:16:22,560 --> 01:16:26,040
Speaker 5: clock out. Just thought, overall, we did what we needed

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Speaker 5: to do. I thought CJ's first game back, he stepped in,

1771
01:16:29,439 --> 01:16:32,160
Speaker 5: did some really you know, good things with the football,

1772
01:16:32,240 --> 01:16:35,679
Speaker 5: finding a lot of different receivers. He did a really

1773
01:16:35,760 --> 01:16:38,519
Speaker 5: nice job of managing the game. Like I said yesterday,

1774
01:16:38,520 --> 01:16:41,360
Speaker 5: if some throws he probably won't back, and that's also

1775
01:16:41,600 --> 01:16:43,920
Speaker 5: the russ from being out for three weeks.

1776
01:16:44,280 --> 01:16:44,920
Speaker 6: That happens.

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Speaker 5: But I felt like he also grew in a sense,

1778
01:16:47,720 --> 01:16:49,559
Speaker 5: so he had some as I call him, sack saber

1779
01:16:49,680 --> 01:16:52,280
Speaker 5: plays or the defender is on him and he just

1780
01:16:52,439 --> 01:16:56,200
Speaker 5: dirted the ball like he's he's growing, he's making good decisions,

1781
01:16:56,439 --> 01:16:58,840
Speaker 5: and he's continuing to progress and get better. So I'm

1782
01:16:58,840 --> 01:17:02,400
Speaker 5: excited for where he started and now looking forward to

1783
01:17:02,479 --> 01:17:04,519
Speaker 5: his next week to see how how much of a

1784
01:17:04,520 --> 01:17:05,400
Speaker 5: step he contained.

1785
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Speaker 1: Could you talk about CJ from the physical aspect and

1786
01:17:08,760 --> 01:17:11,920
Speaker 1: the rust, how much from the mental aspect? Is the

1787
01:17:12,000 --> 01:17:13,880
Speaker 1: rust having to shake off as well? Because one thing

1788
01:17:13,880 --> 01:17:15,360
Speaker 1: you said your press conference stood out to me, and

1789
01:17:15,360 --> 01:17:19,080
Speaker 1: you said that you spied their blitzes, so change protections

1790
01:17:19,120 --> 01:17:22,200
Speaker 1: to get those stopped and they stop blitzing.

1791
01:17:22,280 --> 01:17:23,840
Speaker 2: Because you were starting to pick them up.

1792
01:17:24,439 --> 01:17:28,040
Speaker 1: How much of the rush shaking off part is the

1793
01:17:28,080 --> 01:17:30,479
Speaker 1: mental part of Okay, I got to go back to

1794
01:17:30,520 --> 01:17:34,200
Speaker 1: reading defenses on the regular with them about to come

1795
01:17:34,240 --> 01:17:34,640
Speaker 1: sack me.

1796
01:17:34,680 --> 01:17:36,960
Speaker 2: How much of the is the mental part for CJ

1797
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Speaker 2: getting over that?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, the mental part is, Hugh.

1799
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Speaker 5: I also think our coaches did a really great job

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Speaker 5: Kaylee and his staff. They did a great job of

1801
01:17:45,200 --> 01:17:48,200
Speaker 5: working on those things in practice and our walkthroughs when

1802
01:17:48,240 --> 01:17:51,479
Speaker 5: we're slowing it down and we're truly just teaching, like

1803
01:17:51,520 --> 01:17:54,360
Speaker 5: in our meetings, how we go through the protection meetings

1804
01:17:54,360 --> 01:17:56,719
Speaker 5: and I think we just we handled it really well

1805
01:17:56,920 --> 01:17:59,400
Speaker 5: this week, and the guys were locked in. They're attentive,

1806
01:17:59,760 --> 01:18:02,280
Speaker 5: and the same things that we talked about in the meetings.

1807
01:18:02,320 --> 01:18:03,920
Speaker 5: They came up on the field and it's like it's

1808
01:18:03,920 --> 01:18:06,000
Speaker 5: that final exam, like you have to pass it. You

1809
01:18:06,040 --> 01:18:08,040
Speaker 5: gotta be on it, and they did a great job

1810
01:18:08,040 --> 01:18:10,760
Speaker 5: of communicating. O line did a great job in Our

1811
01:18:10,800 --> 01:18:13,040
Speaker 5: backs did a great job picking up the blizzers as well.

1812
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Speaker 3: And speaking of the backs, coach the running game, it's

1813
01:18:15,640 --> 01:18:18,240
Speaker 3: not like a high volume yard per carry average, but

1814
01:18:18,280 --> 01:18:19,240
Speaker 3: you're stuck with it.

1815
01:18:19,320 --> 01:18:21,240
Speaker 2: You ram for over one hundred yards. You did what

1816
01:18:21,360 --> 01:18:22,120
Speaker 2: needed to be done.

1817
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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's funny, you know some of those runs where

1818
01:18:25,360 --> 01:18:28,960
Speaker 5: they got guys running through, like they got linebackers running through,

1819
01:18:29,439 --> 01:18:31,280
Speaker 5: you got possible TFLs.

1820
01:18:31,360 --> 01:18:32,519
Speaker 6: It's easy to say, oh, we.

1821
01:18:32,520 --> 01:18:35,360
Speaker 5: Got to scrap the run right and start just throwing

1822
01:18:35,400 --> 01:18:37,719
Speaker 5: it more. But I like how Kayley continued to stay

1823
01:18:37,720 --> 01:18:40,080
Speaker 5: with the run. We changed up some of the runs

1824
01:18:40,160 --> 01:18:42,799
Speaker 5: we had some schematically, like we started to go outside

1825
01:18:42,880 --> 01:18:45,679
Speaker 5: zone a little bit more, started to go more toss plays,

1826
01:18:45,720 --> 01:18:48,559
Speaker 5: trying to get on the perimeter. So even though it

1827
01:18:48,560 --> 01:18:51,040
Speaker 5: doesn't look great on some a couple plays like, you

1828
01:18:51,120 --> 01:18:53,280
Speaker 5: still have to stay with it and keep the variety

1829
01:18:53,360 --> 01:18:55,400
Speaker 5: there to keep the defense on the heels. And that's

1830
01:18:55,400 --> 01:18:57,680
Speaker 5: what we did and we were able to turn out

1831
01:18:57,680 --> 01:18:59,680
Speaker 5: some really good yard it's by getting the ball on

1832
01:18:59,680 --> 01:19:01,840
Speaker 5: the per a little bit more. What he did a

1833
01:19:01,840 --> 01:19:04,840
Speaker 5: great job on a perimeter run of cutting back, so

1834
01:19:05,280 --> 01:19:08,400
Speaker 5: we got Nico a run for a first touchdown, first

1835
01:19:08,400 --> 01:19:11,360
Speaker 5: wrestling touchdown. So it was just really cool things of

1836
01:19:11,400 --> 01:19:13,240
Speaker 5: how we mix it up in the run game. Getting

1837
01:19:13,320 --> 01:19:16,439
Speaker 5: chubbed in a wildcat formation allow him to run. So

1838
01:19:16,920 --> 01:19:19,280
Speaker 5: I just like the variety of things that we're doing.

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01:19:19,479 --> 01:19:21,760
Speaker 1: Coach, I know if we were to sit here and say, hey,

1840
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Speaker 1: what do you like about your team, and you'd say toughness, physicality, resilient,

1841
01:19:27,200 --> 01:19:30,120
Speaker 1: those are all traits. I think you'd want to see

1842
01:19:30,200 --> 01:19:32,960
Speaker 1: your team, and you have seen your team. Yesterday might

1843
01:19:32,960 --> 01:19:36,280
Speaker 1: have been the best case of resilience. When they came

1844
01:19:36,320 --> 01:19:39,040
Speaker 1: down and score a touchdown, boom, turned right back around

1845
01:19:39,280 --> 01:19:41,360
Speaker 1: and went score a touchdown. Then they tied it at

1846
01:19:41,400 --> 01:19:45,640
Speaker 1: thirteen after the interference, and then Warren's touchdown, Boom, you

1847
01:19:45,680 --> 01:19:48,840
Speaker 1: go right back down and score again. Offensively to bounce back,

1848
01:19:48,880 --> 01:19:51,879
Speaker 1: and then the defense after they'd scored, okay, we're gonna stop.

1849
01:19:51,760 --> 01:19:53,920
Speaker 2: Him twice holding to the field going the last two drives.

1850
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Speaker 1: Resilience seemed to be kind of the key offensively, all Right,

1851
01:19:57,360 --> 01:19:59,760
Speaker 1: you're gonna score, we're gonna answer, and we're gonna show

1852
01:19:59,760 --> 01:20:01,760
Speaker 1: our resilience to go back and take the lead from you.

1853
01:20:01,960 --> 01:20:03,840
Speaker 6: And it was cool to see. It was cool to

1854
01:20:03,960 --> 01:20:04,640
Speaker 6: just feel it too.

1855
01:20:04,720 --> 01:20:07,800
Speaker 5: From our sideline. It was everybody was just even q.

1856
01:20:08,400 --> 01:20:12,840
Speaker 5: You felt the confidence amongst our sideline, like the offense did.

1857
01:20:12,840 --> 01:20:16,240
Speaker 5: They moved the ball really really well, fairly, had a

1858
01:20:16,240 --> 01:20:19,439
Speaker 5: lot of chunk plays. Defense was getting off on third

1859
01:20:19,479 --> 01:20:22,200
Speaker 5: down making some stops. We were attacking the football. Jalen

1860
01:20:22,320 --> 01:20:25,439
Speaker 5: had a couple passes he was so you felt like, okay,

1861
01:20:25,479 --> 01:20:28,760
Speaker 5: we're kind of in control here of the game. And

1862
01:20:28,960 --> 01:20:32,000
Speaker 5: you know when you feel that way, it's like, okay,

1863
01:20:32,120 --> 01:20:35,759
Speaker 5: no matter what happens, I feel like we made plays before,

1864
01:20:36,040 --> 01:20:37,040
Speaker 5: We'll go do it again.

1865
01:20:37,439 --> 01:20:41,960
Speaker 3: What about your new reserve quarterback Cade Stover? Very interesting stuff.

1866
01:20:42,040 --> 01:20:42,559
Speaker 2: It worked.

1867
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Speaker 3: I know it didn't work at the end on the

1868
01:20:43,920 --> 01:20:45,760
Speaker 3: third and fourth down, but on the third it looked

1869
01:20:45,800 --> 01:20:47,920
Speaker 3: to us like you had it but whatever. But it

1870
01:20:47,960 --> 01:20:50,200
Speaker 3: was creative, it was different, and it was effective.

1871
01:20:50,600 --> 01:20:50,800
Speaker 6: Yeah.

1872
01:20:50,880 --> 01:20:54,439
Speaker 5: That goes to also just coaching. You try to switch

1873
01:20:54,479 --> 01:20:57,040
Speaker 5: things up. Things haven't worked that we tried before, so

1874
01:20:57,080 --> 01:21:00,439
Speaker 5: you gotta not keep doing the same things. And so

1875
01:21:00,600 --> 01:21:02,360
Speaker 5: that was a play that we wanted to do. Kate

1876
01:21:02,439 --> 01:21:04,840
Speaker 5: had done it before, he was on the center before,

1877
01:21:04,960 --> 01:21:07,200
Speaker 5: so try to throw that in and it worked.

1878
01:21:07,240 --> 01:21:09,439
Speaker 6: It was effective for us. I'm with you.

1879
01:21:09,560 --> 01:21:11,559
Speaker 5: I think we got the we got the first down

1880
01:21:11,640 --> 01:21:14,519
Speaker 5: our third and this I was like, no, do that again.

1881
01:21:14,680 --> 01:21:17,719
Speaker 5: If that that wasn't the yard, like, let's try that again.

1882
01:21:17,880 --> 01:21:21,639
Speaker 5: So I really liked just changing it up, giving given

1883
01:21:21,680 --> 01:21:24,879
Speaker 5: the defense something else to you know, try to defend

1884
01:21:24,880 --> 01:21:26,120
Speaker 5: that they haven't seen from us.

1885
01:21:26,240 --> 01:21:28,960
Speaker 1: We're you're a little worried that they tried it beforehand

1886
01:21:29,000 --> 01:21:30,599
Speaker 1: and they watched it because he's.

1887
01:21:32,200 --> 01:21:33,400
Speaker 6: No I said, we're going to do it better.

1888
01:21:33,520 --> 01:21:37,000
Speaker 2: Don't worry, no worries because you've always I've always wondered this.

1889
01:21:37,320 --> 01:21:43,000
Speaker 1: And as a defensive coach, team wins the coin toss

1890
01:21:43,280 --> 01:21:46,400
Speaker 1: and they say we want the ball. I would think

1891
01:21:46,439 --> 01:21:49,280
Speaker 1: for your guys yesterday when they said that, I would

1892
01:21:49,320 --> 01:21:52,719
Speaker 1: imagine it's like, whoa, they want the ball against us

1893
01:21:52,840 --> 01:21:55,640
Speaker 1: to start the game. What's the feeling like for you

1894
01:21:55,720 --> 01:21:58,639
Speaker 1: and the defensive staff and the defensive players like, oh,

1895
01:21:59,160 --> 01:21:59,320
Speaker 1: is it?

1896
01:21:59,439 --> 01:22:01,479
Speaker 2: Is it? Oh? They want to test us? Or is

1897
01:22:01,520 --> 01:22:03,600
Speaker 2: it just okay? We got to go play ball? Or

1898
01:22:03,680 --> 01:22:04,160
Speaker 2: mix the both.

1899
01:22:04,280 --> 01:22:07,400
Speaker 5: For us, it was let's go play ball. It's something

1900
01:22:07,400 --> 01:22:10,479
Speaker 5: that Shane has actually done a lot, you know, throughout

1901
01:22:10,479 --> 01:22:12,519
Speaker 5: the season where he's taking the ball and it's kind

1902
01:22:12,520 --> 01:22:15,200
Speaker 5: of it's been their game plan of how they've gotten

1903
01:22:15,200 --> 01:22:16,920
Speaker 5: the lead on a lot of teams. They take the

1904
01:22:16,960 --> 01:22:20,240
Speaker 5: ball early and they try to get up a school early.

1905
01:22:20,600 --> 01:22:22,800
Speaker 5: They try to have you playing from behind. So that

1906
01:22:22,960 --> 01:22:24,400
Speaker 5: was that's been as strategy.

1907
01:22:24,400 --> 01:22:25,519
Speaker 6: It's work form before.

1908
01:22:25,880 --> 01:22:28,639
Speaker 5: But our defense did a really nice job of shutting

1909
01:22:28,680 --> 01:22:30,120
Speaker 5: that down very quickly.

1910
01:22:31,280 --> 01:22:34,160
Speaker 3: I know you like seeing great defense, but also great

1911
01:22:34,200 --> 01:22:37,880
Speaker 3: defense is thirteen play drives. Fourteen play drives to keep

1912
01:22:37,920 --> 01:22:41,000
Speaker 3: the other team's offense off the field. And even if

1913
01:22:41,000 --> 01:22:42,800
Speaker 3: you don't get a touchdown, you held the ball for

1914
01:22:42,800 --> 01:22:45,320
Speaker 3: a long time, and you've done it numerous times this year.

1915
01:22:45,320 --> 01:22:48,360
Speaker 3: You're a very high time of possession team in this league,

1916
01:22:48,360 --> 01:22:49,639
Speaker 3: top three or something like that.

1917
01:22:50,000 --> 01:22:51,320
Speaker 2: So what about that part of things?

1918
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Speaker 6: Coach? I love that bar.

1919
01:22:53,120 --> 01:22:55,840
Speaker 5: You know, it's uh where we control the game, and

1920
01:22:55,920 --> 01:22:59,040
Speaker 5: we control it just not by being in a rush.

1921
01:22:59,200 --> 01:23:01,439
Speaker 5: As I tell our guys, I want to methodically just

1922
01:23:01,560 --> 01:23:04,599
Speaker 5: drive down the field, take our time, methodically drive down

1923
01:23:04,600 --> 01:23:08,000
Speaker 5: the field, just get positive plays, whatever that looks like.

1924
01:23:08,040 --> 01:23:10,160
Speaker 5: We don't have to always go for the chunk play,

1925
01:23:10,200 --> 01:23:13,600
Speaker 5: explosive play, just throwing it up a fifty to fifty ball. No,

1926
01:23:13,760 --> 01:23:17,479
Speaker 5: Let's let's methodically get guys open, Let's make great decisions

1927
01:23:17,520 --> 01:23:20,040
Speaker 5: with the football. Let's mix in our run, our play

1928
01:23:20,080 --> 01:23:23,240
Speaker 5: action pass, and let's just drive down and once we

1929
01:23:23,280 --> 01:23:25,160
Speaker 5: get across man field, now we're in striking.

1930
01:23:25,160 --> 01:23:26,400
Speaker 6: This is now let's go score.

1931
01:23:27,000 --> 01:23:29,320
Speaker 5: I feel like, we can also finish some of these

1932
01:23:29,400 --> 01:23:32,360
Speaker 5: drives better by finishing in the end zone. They're doing

1933
01:23:32,360 --> 01:23:35,519
Speaker 5: a great job of driving controlling the game, but now

1934
01:23:35,560 --> 01:23:37,840
Speaker 5: it's even better when you can control the game and

1935
01:23:37,920 --> 01:23:39,799
Speaker 5: finish the drive with seven points.

1936
01:23:39,960 --> 01:23:41,120
Speaker 2: We talked all last week.

1937
01:23:41,320 --> 01:23:44,160
Speaker 1: We knew what job number one was for the defense,

1938
01:23:44,200 --> 01:23:46,280
Speaker 1: so was stopping twenty eight. When you look back at

1939
01:23:46,320 --> 01:23:49,640
Speaker 1: the film, coach A, how well do you think you

1940
01:23:49,680 --> 01:23:52,519
Speaker 1: did in that regard and b holding him twenty one

1941
01:23:52,560 --> 01:23:54,479
Speaker 1: to eighty five feels pretty good.

1942
01:23:54,840 --> 01:23:56,920
Speaker 6: What was the key in doing that and the key

1943
01:23:56,960 --> 01:23:58,360
Speaker 6: to stopping the raw? It was tackling.

1944
01:23:58,720 --> 01:24:03,160
Speaker 5: I thought everybody tackled really well, even on the Probably

1945
01:24:03,160 --> 01:24:05,280
Speaker 5: my favorite player of the game is the fourth down

1946
01:24:05,400 --> 01:24:08,880
Speaker 5: one that they fumbled the snap on the tight end sneak.

1947
01:24:08,920 --> 01:24:10,439
Speaker 6: They fumbled the snap, and.

1948
01:24:10,560 --> 01:24:14,240
Speaker 5: Just watch how all of our guys just finished and tackled,

1949
01:24:14,640 --> 01:24:17,200
Speaker 5: Like that's what the defense looks like, right, And that's

1950
01:24:17,400 --> 01:24:19,720
Speaker 5: Jonathan Taylor Again, I would say he's one of the

1951
01:24:19,760 --> 01:24:23,800
Speaker 5: better best backs in our league because he's just so elusive.

1952
01:24:23,920 --> 01:24:26,080
Speaker 6: He starts the ball frost side and he can cut

1953
01:24:26,120 --> 01:24:27,080
Speaker 6: back in any gap.

1954
01:24:27,160 --> 01:24:30,000
Speaker 5: So you have to remain patient, remained disciplined, and I

1955
01:24:30,040 --> 01:24:31,880
Speaker 5: thought our guys did that for the most part. A

1956
01:24:31,880 --> 01:24:34,320
Speaker 5: couple of runs got out on us when we weren't

1957
01:24:34,320 --> 01:24:36,600
Speaker 5: disciplined in our gaps, but when we were where we

1958
01:24:36,640 --> 01:24:38,720
Speaker 5: were supposed to be and we tackled well, there was

1959
01:24:38,760 --> 01:24:39,880
Speaker 5: nowhere for them to run the ball.

1960
01:24:39,960 --> 01:24:42,120
Speaker 2: What about second and two when you come up with

1961
01:24:42,160 --> 01:24:45,160
Speaker 2: a big TfL with Mario and Will and now it's

1962
01:24:45,200 --> 01:24:46,800
Speaker 2: third and seven and they don't get it.

1963
01:24:46,880 --> 01:24:48,679
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's that's where we wanted to be. You wanted

1964
01:24:48,680 --> 01:24:51,519
Speaker 5: to create some negative plays on the early downs. Get

1965
01:24:51,560 --> 01:24:54,400
Speaker 5: them in third and seventh plus. That's where they didn't

1966
01:24:54,439 --> 01:24:57,360
Speaker 5: live much where they've been successful as an offense. They

1967
01:24:57,400 --> 01:25:00,200
Speaker 5: lived in third and two to five a lot. When

1968
01:25:00,200 --> 01:25:01,840
Speaker 5: you had third and two to five, you have everything

1969
01:25:01,840 --> 01:25:03,559
Speaker 5: at your dispose. You can run the ball, you can

1970
01:25:03,600 --> 01:25:06,599
Speaker 5: do play action, you have everything. So for us getting

1971
01:25:06,640 --> 01:25:09,280
Speaker 5: him in third and seven plus making him have to

1972
01:25:09,400 --> 01:25:12,160
Speaker 5: drop back, we felt like that would be our a

1973
01:25:12,320 --> 01:25:13,280
Speaker 5: vanas in his game.

1974
01:25:13,400 --> 01:25:16,120
Speaker 6: And you know, our defense did a really nice job

1975
01:25:16,160 --> 01:25:16,840
Speaker 6: with third down.

1976
01:25:16,920 --> 01:25:20,720
Speaker 2: And you only ended up with one sack. Yeah, that's

1977
01:25:21,080 --> 01:25:21,639
Speaker 2: kind of normal.

1978
01:25:22,400 --> 01:25:24,400
Speaker 1: We've talked about this for a long time, coach that

1979
01:25:24,680 --> 01:25:28,759
Speaker 1: you know sometimes the defensive story isn't told through sacks

1980
01:25:28,800 --> 01:25:31,880
Speaker 1: when guys are dropping back. How did you feel like

1981
01:25:31,920 --> 01:25:35,559
Speaker 1: the pass rush was effective with Daniel knowing that he

1982
01:25:35,600 --> 01:25:37,800
Speaker 1: was a little banged up watching warms, didn't look like

1983
01:25:37,800 --> 01:25:40,240
Speaker 1: he's moving around all that well. Was that something that

1984
01:25:40,280 --> 01:25:42,040
Speaker 1: you guys, I don't want to say, pray to palm.

1985
01:25:42,280 --> 01:25:44,160
Speaker 1: Was that something that you guys took into account as

1986
01:25:44,200 --> 01:25:46,200
Speaker 1: you were rushing him that it wasn't going to quite

1987
01:25:46,240 --> 01:25:48,120
Speaker 1: be like Josh Allen the week before, that you could

1988
01:25:48,160 --> 01:25:50,760
Speaker 1: do some different things against him because he maybe wasn't

1989
01:25:50,800 --> 01:25:52,639
Speaker 1: moving as well as he had before in the season.

1990
01:25:52,720 --> 01:25:55,320
Speaker 5: Yeah, knowing he wasn't moving as well, so we probably

1991
01:25:55,400 --> 01:25:57,840
Speaker 5: fired a few more pressures than we would normally run,

1992
01:25:58,680 --> 01:26:01,040
Speaker 5: and so we didn't get the sacks per se, But

1993
01:26:01,080 --> 01:26:02,680
Speaker 5: I felt like we got the pressure on it to

1994
01:26:02,680 --> 01:26:04,760
Speaker 5: make him speed up his throws, and that's what we

1995
01:26:04,920 --> 01:26:05,599
Speaker 5: wanted him.

1996
01:26:05,439 --> 01:26:07,880
Speaker 6: To do, speed up the throws. It worked for us.

1997
01:26:07,880 --> 01:26:10,040
Speaker 5: Our guys are in position, they were making plays on

1998
01:26:10,080 --> 01:26:13,160
Speaker 5: the ball, tackling when we needed to tackle. But uh,

1999
01:26:13,560 --> 01:26:15,439
Speaker 5: and I feel like also it's just when we had

2000
01:26:15,479 --> 01:26:18,320
Speaker 5: some one on one opportunities on the early downs in

2001
01:26:18,360 --> 01:26:20,920
Speaker 5: the play action passing game, Like, we got to be

2002
01:26:20,960 --> 01:26:22,920
Speaker 5: able to win those one on ones a little bit better.

2003
01:26:23,000 --> 01:26:26,439
Speaker 5: So it's still there's some improvements to be made on

2004
01:26:26,640 --> 01:26:29,240
Speaker 5: our d line when we have the one on one rushes,

2005
01:26:29,280 --> 01:26:31,280
Speaker 5: there are some opportunities where I felt like we could

2006
01:26:31,280 --> 01:26:32,479
Speaker 5: have closed it out a little bit better.

2007
01:26:32,720 --> 01:26:34,920
Speaker 3: Coach, in your press conference, you talked about your central

2008
01:26:34,960 --> 01:26:37,559
Speaker 3: message this week and maybe a lot of weeks, which is, yeah,

2009
01:26:37,560 --> 01:26:39,800
Speaker 3: you're happy you won, but you feel like there's more

2010
01:26:39,840 --> 01:26:40,760
Speaker 3: meat on the bone there.

2011
01:26:40,840 --> 01:26:42,479
Speaker 2: You can play better than.

2012
01:26:42,360 --> 01:26:43,960
Speaker 6: You have no doubt about it.

2013
01:26:44,000 --> 01:26:44,160
Speaker 1: Man.

2014
01:26:44,240 --> 01:26:47,040
Speaker 5: You always want to get to win first, and that's

2015
01:26:47,040 --> 01:26:49,479
Speaker 5: the first thing. So we got the win great, and

2016
01:26:49,520 --> 01:26:52,160
Speaker 5: now is to come back. And as we're really dissecting

2017
01:26:52,200 --> 01:26:55,640
Speaker 5: the tape and looking at it, it's like, man, we

2018
01:26:55,720 --> 01:26:58,240
Speaker 5: can be so much better, Like how do we give

2019
01:26:58,280 --> 01:27:00,960
Speaker 5: this play up when we work this or how can

2020
01:27:01,040 --> 01:27:04,040
Speaker 5: we have this penalty where we're not It's like so

2021
01:27:04,200 --> 01:27:07,120
Speaker 5: many little things I know we can improve upon as

2022
01:27:07,160 --> 01:27:09,240
Speaker 5: a team, which we as a coach is that we're

2023
01:27:09,280 --> 01:27:12,519
Speaker 5: just talking is low hanging fruit. It's small things that

2024
01:27:12,560 --> 01:27:14,880
Speaker 5: we can just nip in the bud that I know.

2025
01:27:14,920 --> 01:27:17,960
Speaker 5: We have a really great team and they're still even

2026
01:27:18,040 --> 01:27:20,599
Speaker 5: better out there. For us, we just got to make

2027
01:27:20,640 --> 01:27:23,559
Speaker 5: sure we're locked in every single time we line up,

2028
01:27:23,600 --> 01:27:25,840
Speaker 5: make sure we're locked in, make sure we're doing all

2029
01:27:25,840 --> 01:27:28,479
Speaker 5: of those little things, because that's what's gonna happen the

2030
01:27:28,479 --> 01:27:30,840
Speaker 5: bigger these games get down the stretch, it is gonna

2031
01:27:30,840 --> 01:27:32,400
Speaker 5: come down to the fine details.

2032
01:27:32,520 --> 01:27:33,960
Speaker 2: As a coach, you're the teacher.

2033
01:27:34,360 --> 01:27:37,080
Speaker 3: So the students, if you will, are doing better than

2034
01:27:37,120 --> 01:27:37,719
Speaker 3: they did earlier.

2035
01:27:37,800 --> 01:27:40,960
Speaker 2: This season, you see a trend getting better.

2036
01:27:41,479 --> 01:27:44,080
Speaker 5: Grades are getting better. I'm grading is getting better. We're

2037
01:27:44,120 --> 01:27:46,800
Speaker 5: doing a great job. So we gotta gotta keep going up.

2038
01:27:46,960 --> 01:27:49,519
Speaker 5: And that's one thing you want to see in a season,

2039
01:27:49,640 --> 01:27:52,080
Speaker 5: right you. It's not about how you start, but it's

2040
01:27:52,080 --> 01:27:54,559
Speaker 5: about who are you becoming as a team, how you grow,

2041
01:27:54,600 --> 01:27:56,840
Speaker 5: and how you getting better. And I really love the

2042
01:27:56,880 --> 01:28:00,400
Speaker 5: growth of our team. Uh O line and sell In

2043
01:28:01,160 --> 01:28:05,160
Speaker 5: doing some really good things. I mean CJ the quarterback,

2044
01:28:05,240 --> 01:28:08,920
Speaker 5: Davis playing well. CJ's playing playing goods first game back.

2045
01:28:09,040 --> 01:28:13,960
Speaker 5: So our receivers, they're playing, different guys making huts, making plays.

2046
01:28:14,200 --> 01:28:15,160
Speaker 6: Higgins nak.

2047
01:28:15,280 --> 01:28:17,880
Speaker 5: It's like a lot of different guys making plays. And

2048
01:28:18,200 --> 01:28:20,080
Speaker 5: I see the growth of our team. I see where

2049
01:28:20,160 --> 01:28:22,559
Speaker 5: we are and now here down the stretch is just

2050
01:28:22,600 --> 01:28:26,400
Speaker 5: about remaining locked in, just one at a time, controlling

2051
01:28:26,400 --> 01:28:29,360
Speaker 5: what we control one at a time, finishing with the win.

2052
01:28:29,800 --> 01:28:32,479
Speaker 5: Whatever it takes, however it looks, it doesn't matter, just

2053
01:28:32,520 --> 01:28:33,160
Speaker 5: finish with the win.

2054
01:28:33,560 --> 01:28:36,479
Speaker 1: Could you know I'm contractually obligated to ask you about tackling,

2055
01:28:36,560 --> 01:28:38,280
Speaker 1: but we already got into it a little bit about

2056
01:28:38,280 --> 01:28:41,000
Speaker 1: this one. So I'm gonna ask my question looking forward.

2057
01:28:41,479 --> 01:28:43,640
Speaker 1: Because the guy we play Sunday night we all know

2058
01:28:43,880 --> 01:28:45,880
Speaker 1: very well, and one of the things that he does

2059
01:28:46,160 --> 01:28:50,080
Speaker 1: best is exploit bad tackling. And that's Patrick Mahomes when

2060
01:28:50,080 --> 01:28:52,800
Speaker 1: he gets out of the pocket, whether it's escaping and

2061
01:28:52,880 --> 01:28:55,240
Speaker 1: tackle to make a throat, escaping a tackle to scramble

2062
01:28:55,320 --> 01:28:58,559
Speaker 1: for twenty how important does the tackling become just I

2063
01:28:58,560 --> 01:29:01,639
Speaker 1: know the running backs are good, but on him in general,

2064
01:29:02,120 --> 01:29:04,120
Speaker 1: how big is the tackling got to be and how

2065
01:29:04,120 --> 01:29:05,840
Speaker 1: good is the tackling have to be to slow him

2066
01:29:05,880 --> 01:29:07,439
Speaker 1: down from making those type plays.

2067
01:29:07,520 --> 01:29:09,479
Speaker 5: Yeah, the main thing with the tackling with him is

2068
01:29:09,560 --> 01:29:13,200
Speaker 5: you never never assume right, Never assume that you know

2069
01:29:13,240 --> 01:29:15,920
Speaker 5: he's throwing the ball, never assume that he's like, just

2070
01:29:15,960 --> 01:29:18,920
Speaker 5: go finish. You're a play like if he's scrambling out

2071
01:29:18,960 --> 01:29:20,880
Speaker 5: of the pocket, and make sure you just have body

2072
01:29:20,920 --> 01:29:23,680
Speaker 5: on body, making sure you're clean with him going out

2073
01:29:23,680 --> 01:29:26,479
Speaker 5: to play, always understanding he can throw the ball at

2074
01:29:26,520 --> 01:29:29,920
Speaker 5: any given time. He's not really looking to scramble and

2075
01:29:30,000 --> 01:29:32,720
Speaker 5: run the ball like he is looking to throw the ball.

2076
01:29:32,760 --> 01:29:36,439
Speaker 5: His eyes are always downfield, so secondary has to be

2077
01:29:36,479 --> 01:29:38,839
Speaker 5: aware of that, making sure you're sticky on your covers

2078
01:29:38,840 --> 01:29:40,880
Speaker 5: and the guys who are rushing, you know, kind of

2079
01:29:40,920 --> 01:29:44,320
Speaker 5: similar to the Josh Allen piece. He's a bigger player,

2080
01:29:44,640 --> 01:29:46,880
Speaker 5: strong guy. Just have to make sure you finish.

2081
01:29:47,720 --> 01:29:50,519
Speaker 3: Coach, I know that you played them twice late last year,

2082
01:29:50,560 --> 01:29:54,120
Speaker 3: December and January. It's cold, it's going to be cold

2083
01:29:54,160 --> 01:29:56,880
Speaker 3: this weekend. It was cold last year. You're used to it,

2084
01:29:56,920 --> 01:29:59,439
Speaker 3: going up to Arrowhead Stadium in a good way. How

2085
01:29:59,439 --> 01:30:02,479
Speaker 3: does that help you knowing the environment, knowing what you're

2086
01:30:02,520 --> 01:30:04,120
Speaker 3: gonna be dealing with on Sunday night.

2087
01:30:04,240 --> 01:30:06,960
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm excited for it because, like you said, Mark,

2088
01:30:07,120 --> 01:30:09,040
Speaker 5: like we're used to you know what it is. You

2089
01:30:09,080 --> 01:30:11,600
Speaker 5: know the environment. We've been there before. We were just

2090
01:30:11,640 --> 01:30:15,479
Speaker 5: there last year two games. It shouldn't be new to anyone,

2091
01:30:15,680 --> 01:30:18,080
Speaker 5: Like what the how that environment is gonna be and

2092
01:30:18,160 --> 01:30:21,519
Speaker 5: if we can just focus on playing better football in

2093
01:30:21,600 --> 01:30:25,120
Speaker 5: Kansas City and finishing like that last game we had,

2094
01:30:25,160 --> 01:30:28,519
Speaker 5: we just we're close. The closes is gonna map. Those

2095
01:30:28,560 --> 01:30:30,840
Speaker 5: games are always going to be close. Kansas City really

2096
01:30:30,880 --> 01:30:33,799
Speaker 5: great football team. They've won a ton of Super Bowls

2097
01:30:33,800 --> 01:30:36,439
Speaker 5: here over the past few years. Like it's gonna be

2098
01:30:36,479 --> 01:30:41,360
Speaker 5: about playing four quarters of football, discipline, fundamental focus, and

2099
01:30:41,439 --> 01:30:42,479
Speaker 5: finishing the right way.

2100
01:30:43,200 --> 01:30:45,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, these guys, I mean, they've got so many different

2101
01:30:45,320 --> 01:30:47,080
Speaker 1: guys we could ask you about, but I want to

2102
01:30:47,120 --> 01:30:50,120
Speaker 1: ask you about a group that I think everybody's talked

2103
01:30:50,120 --> 01:30:51,760
Speaker 1: about for a long time, and it feels like this

2104
01:30:51,800 --> 01:30:53,679
Speaker 1: group is kind of settling in Coach and you mentioned

2105
01:30:53,680 --> 01:30:55,000
Speaker 1: them a little bit. I want to talk about the

2106
01:30:55,040 --> 01:30:59,679
Speaker 1: offensive line and what that group coming together and playing

2107
01:30:59,760 --> 01:31:03,080
Speaker 1: together and what you're seeing with them having some continuity

2108
01:31:03,160 --> 01:31:05,479
Speaker 1: kind of game after game being that same five.

2109
01:31:05,520 --> 01:31:07,280
Speaker 5: And what you see is you can see, you know,

2110
01:31:07,400 --> 01:31:11,120
Speaker 5: just better communication up front, whether it's handling a game,

2111
01:31:11,160 --> 01:31:14,200
Speaker 5: whether it's Tightest and Tay on the left side, Like

2112
01:31:14,240 --> 01:31:17,800
Speaker 5: if you sense an alignment, Tightest can communicate with Tay

2113
01:31:17,960 --> 01:31:21,240
Speaker 5: and on Hey expect that this te game is coming

2114
01:31:21,240 --> 01:31:23,160
Speaker 5: and we can pick it up the right way, whether

2115
01:31:23,200 --> 01:31:24,439
Speaker 5: it's on the right side.

2116
01:31:24,520 --> 01:31:26,000
Speaker 6: You know, you have Trent and.

2117
01:31:26,240 --> 01:31:29,080
Speaker 5: Ed they're working double teams just being on it, or

2118
01:31:29,600 --> 01:31:31,760
Speaker 5: Jake and Ed in the middle working doubles. It's just

2119
01:31:32,040 --> 01:31:35,800
Speaker 5: when you work with a guy consistently, you would expect that, hey, I.

2120
01:31:35,800 --> 01:31:37,519
Speaker 6: Know how we're playing.

2121
01:31:37,920 --> 01:31:41,479
Speaker 5: We have that kind of you know, unsaid communication or

2122
01:31:41,520 --> 01:31:43,720
Speaker 5: it's non verbal. We can just say I know how

2123
01:31:43,720 --> 01:31:45,840
Speaker 5: we're fitting this, I know where we're going to And

2124
01:31:45,880 --> 01:31:47,679
Speaker 5: the more and more we can do that, the better

2125
01:31:47,720 --> 01:31:50,960
Speaker 5: we can be. And again, offensive line wise, I think

2126
01:31:51,479 --> 01:31:53,840
Speaker 5: we've done some good things the past two weeks, but

2127
01:31:54,120 --> 01:31:57,360
Speaker 5: again there's still some better things we can do when

2128
01:31:57,360 --> 01:31:59,600
Speaker 5: it comes to getting up to the second level on

2129
01:31:59,600 --> 01:31:59,880
Speaker 5: the line.

2130
01:32:00,560 --> 01:32:02,240
Speaker 3: Coach, every few weeks, you know, I like to ask

2131
01:32:02,280 --> 01:32:04,880
Speaker 3: you how you handle practice, because here we are in

2132
01:32:04,920 --> 01:32:08,080
Speaker 3: December now and five weeks to go in the regular season,

2133
01:32:08,240 --> 01:32:12,000
Speaker 3: So how do you handle practice? The physicality of such

2134
01:32:12,240 --> 01:32:14,000
Speaker 3: being later in the year.

2135
01:32:13,880 --> 01:32:17,680
Speaker 5: Now, Yeah, the physicality it tones down right now at

2136
01:32:17,720 --> 01:32:20,240
Speaker 5: this point of the season. I got they know how

2137
01:32:20,240 --> 01:32:23,439
Speaker 5: to tackle, they should, they should, they better know how

2138
01:32:23,479 --> 01:32:27,719
Speaker 5: to tackle now, but don't really want that physical grind

2139
01:32:27,760 --> 01:32:30,240
Speaker 5: on their bodies. The seasons are long, as we know it,

2140
01:32:30,600 --> 01:32:33,080
Speaker 5: so as we get later in the season, how handle

2141
01:32:33,160 --> 01:32:36,920
Speaker 5: practice is just more mentally focused on understanding what are

2142
01:32:36,960 --> 01:32:39,400
Speaker 5: you facing like trying to get those plays. Not so

2143
01:32:39,560 --> 01:32:43,000
Speaker 5: much of the physicality of putting on the past block

2144
01:32:43,040 --> 01:32:45,960
Speaker 5: and tackling, but it's just understanding mentally where you need

2145
01:32:46,000 --> 01:32:47,879
Speaker 5: to be and get in as many reps as possible.

2146
01:32:47,960 --> 01:32:52,160
Speaker 1: Okay, I remember hearing Peyton Manning have done this many

2147
01:32:52,200 --> 01:32:54,320
Speaker 1: many years ago when he anticipated rain.

2148
01:32:54,479 --> 01:32:55,960
Speaker 2: He would go out and he dunked.

2149
01:32:55,720 --> 01:32:57,920
Speaker 1: The balls in water and then you throw water log

2150
01:32:58,040 --> 01:32:59,760
Speaker 1: passes throughout just to get used to it.

2151
01:33:00,800 --> 01:33:02,559
Speaker 2: What can you do for cold, especially in.

2152
01:33:02,479 --> 01:33:04,960
Speaker 1: The environment we live in, Coach, is there anything to

2153
01:33:05,040 --> 01:33:07,120
Speaker 1: mimic the cold? Can you put the put the balls

2154
01:33:07,120 --> 01:33:09,200
Speaker 1: in the freezer? And that's what CJ and the receivers

2155
01:33:09,320 --> 01:33:11,800
Speaker 1: you know, practice with. But what what can you do?

2156
01:33:11,880 --> 01:33:14,160
Speaker 1: Is there anything that you can do to be prepared

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Speaker 1: for a decently cold night?

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Speaker 6: Hey?

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Speaker 5: If anybody has any tips, let me know. Well for me,

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Speaker 5: I'm inntally this. Hey, you got a man up three hours,

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Speaker 5: let's go to work. No matter what the conditions are,

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Speaker 5: you man up, especially with the cold weather. Hey, put

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Speaker 5: on something warm, not too warm, put on enough where you're.

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Speaker 4: Not worried about it.

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Speaker 5: And my mindset is always, Man, you go in the game,

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Speaker 5: it's like you got to psych yourself out mentally. Also

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Speaker 5: it's like, I'm not worried about the weather, Like put

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Speaker 5: that behind you is going to be cold, get over it.

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Speaker 6: Now, what are you going to do? It's cold for

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Speaker 6: them as well.

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Speaker 3: Coach, we know you like to make these videos every week,

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Speaker 3: and sometimes you tell us what you put in these

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Speaker 3: videos for the players because you like to teach with video, right,

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Speaker 3: it helps people's attention spans and whatever.

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Speaker 2: It gets the message across.

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Speaker 3: But from the game against the Colts, I think the

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Speaker 3: Ingram block.

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Speaker 2: Okay, there are certain.

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Speaker 3: Moments we talked about the TfL on second down and two.

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Speaker 3: What other things stood out to you is moments from

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Speaker 3: that game where you might say, hey, Tim, show this.

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Speaker 6: Man, that is a good one.

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Speaker 3: There's anybody else help you with that? Like coaches have

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Speaker 3: suggestions and things like that.

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Speaker 5: When I go up, the coaches will have some suggestions

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Speaker 5: of plays that they have and I already have my

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Speaker 5: list of plays that I want to show, and then

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Speaker 5: they kind of pare it down with all the coordinators

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Speaker 5: will give me clips, but it's a I think a

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Speaker 5: mere speed showing up his first like his first rep,

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Speaker 5: you know as a text and showing up splitting the

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Speaker 5: splitting the double team on the pun and going down

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Speaker 5: and making a play. I thought that was that was

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Speaker 5: a huge play show of course, is I mean hughes

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Speaker 5: block he knocks the go off his feet.

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Speaker 6: Definitely showing that one.

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Speaker 5: Uh some of the CJ the keeper rolling to our right,

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Speaker 5: rolling to our sideline and the throw to cast over. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: great kids, right, So it's a it's a lot of

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Speaker 5: good there's a lot of nice plays in there, a

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Speaker 5: lot of physical plays as well.

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Speaker 6: Kamari always showing up. I got the heat.

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Speaker 5: He fired and blitzed on one play and hit hit

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Speaker 5: Daniel Jones and see their sideline they're looking like, oh

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Speaker 5: what happened with the corner blitz Like. So it's some

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Speaker 5: really good things that happened all across and there's always

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Speaker 5: some fine details that you can see also with you know,

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Speaker 5: how guys are celebrating people on the sideline. May see

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Speaker 5: Johnny over here celebrating yeah man.

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Speaker 1: The team meeting as well, Yeah yeah, I got so

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Speaker 1: I got my celebration.

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Speaker 2: Can I make it? Can I make one suggestion?

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Speaker 6: Bring it on?

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Speaker 2: There was a there was a new linebacker that played

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Speaker 2: the other day.

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Speaker 1: I had not seen him play a linebacker throughout this year,

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Speaker 1: Number fifty one, new linebacker.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, from the middle. Can we put that one

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Speaker 2: on there as well?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? That on that damn right, it's on there, and

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Speaker 1: hopefully there's more of that coming on Sunday night. We'll

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Speaker 1: see you then, everybody, and as always, go Texans.