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Speaker 1: What's up everybody?

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Speaker 2: Happy Monday, coming at you Texans All Access.

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Speaker 1: Glad to be with you.

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Speaker 2: I'm your host, John Harris, Football analyst, sideline reporter for

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Speaker 2: your Houston Texans Now getting ready for the Los Angeles

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Speaker 2: Chargers on Saturday, three point thirty kick NRG Stadium.

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Speaker 1: Cannot wait.

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Speaker 2: It is play off time and we'll have a fun

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Speaker 2: time talking about the playoffs. What happened yesterday at Tennessee

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Speaker 2: and we kick it off with our good friend on Dre.

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Speaker 1: Where here we go.

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Speaker 3: Dre and we all like that opening drive. Good way

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Speaker 3: to get it started and set the tone for the day.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was a perfect way to kind of go

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Speaker 4: into the week of preparation for the playoffs. You want

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Speaker 4: to see the team clicking on all cylinders, and I

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Speaker 4: think that's what happened, from the quarterback to receivers, the

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Speaker 4: running back, you know with Joe Mixon, the offensive line.

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Speaker 4: I like the configuration of it, and it was just

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Speaker 4: a perfect way to kind of in the regular season

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Speaker 4: and get yourself ready for the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of good things yesterday. Was there anything

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Speaker 2: that stood out? And I don't know there are many

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Speaker 2: of them. Pierce's running you know CJ with that first drive,

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Speaker 2: Maybe I'll just ask this.

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Speaker 1: What do you think of Davis? We haven't seen Davis.

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Speaker 2: Play or get a chance to run the offense the

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Speaker 2: way that he was able to yesterday. And we've said

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Speaker 2: it in the preseason we thought Davis was really improved,

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Speaker 2: but he didn't obviously get a chance to show that

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Speaker 2: because CJ has played every single game. What did you

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Speaker 2: think about Davis and going into the playoffs knowing, Hey,

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Speaker 2: if you got to go to Davis, do you feel

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Speaker 2: pretty good about what he was able to give you yesterday?

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Speaker 2: And you wouldn't want to SEJ to be out, but

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Speaker 2: at least you could rely on Davis.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I liked what I saw, and you see the improvement.

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Speaker 4: His ball jumps out of his hand. He's always had,

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Speaker 4: he always has thrown a good ball, but it just

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Speaker 4: seems to have a little, you know, a little more

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Speaker 4: realizes that he's one play away from being in the game,

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Speaker 4: and so he's prepared. He goes in, he operates the offense,

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Speaker 4: the ball moves around, you can see him going through progressions.

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Speaker 4: I don't know if I said it on the area yesterday,

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Speaker 4: or we said it during a commercial break, but I

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Speaker 5: I think he could start for a couple of teams.

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Speaker 4: Definitely the team that we played yesterday, Davis Milt could

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Speaker 4: be the starter there for sure.

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Speaker 5: So you know, you like the.

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Speaker 4: Fact that he's got some experience now that he does

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Speaker 4: know the offense. Is his second year in the offense

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Speaker 4: as well, and he could take over the team and

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Speaker 4: get you a win or two if need be during

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Speaker 4: the playoffs.

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Speaker 5: If something would have happened to CJ.

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Speaker 3: Dre Damian Pierce, I want to see some carries if

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Speaker 3: possible in the postseason. It's great to see Mixing out there.

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Speaker 3: Mixing is the man. But to have Pierce able to

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Speaker 3: do what he did yesterday, and we know that's in him.

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Speaker 3: We've seen it before in twenty twenty two. We saw

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Speaker 3: the long run against New England. We've seen kickoff turns

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Speaker 3: that pop like against Baltimore even where he won the

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Speaker 3: run and the rest of it. What are your thoughts

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Speaker 3: on Pierce's contribution.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that was one of the things Johnny asked me.

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Speaker 4: What I was impressed by or part of his question

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Speaker 5: Certainly that it's the speed, the breakaway speed.

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Speaker 4: Once he hits the line of scrimmage and gets to

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Speaker 4: the second level. He just left safeties flat footed and

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Speaker 5: Yard touchdown run. But he does don't kickoff returns as well.

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Speaker 4: And I've said all along that really good kick returners

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Speaker 4: are willing to sacrifice their bodies. And by that, you

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Speaker 4: see a scene, you got to hit it because they

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Speaker 4: open and close in a hurry. The really good ones,

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Speaker 4: the male Graze of the world, the what's the young

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Speaker 4: man's name that just went in the Hall of Fame

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Speaker 4: from Miami, Devin Hester.

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Speaker 5: You see those types.

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Speaker 4: I played with one James Dixon, who was in the

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Speaker 5: The Cowboys and the Cardinals.

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Speaker 4: They just hit the scene and they don't care about

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Speaker 5: And that's the type of player.

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Speaker 4: Damien pierces as well, Joe Mixon getting to a thousand

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Speaker 5: Impressed by that, Nico getting to.

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Speaker 4: A thousand yards yesterday, and both of them got there

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Speaker 4: quickly on the first draft so that you could rest them.

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Speaker 5: Those are some of the things that were really really

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Speaker 2: Okay, this one's for both of you going into the playoffs?

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Speaker 2: How important was yesterday to, as Dimiko said, get ball

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Speaker 2: right to play football the way that he wants it

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Speaker 2: played in a swarm mentality on both sides of the

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Speaker 2: ball special teams. How important do you think that just

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Speaker 2: little bit of momentum that they gained dre is helpful

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Speaker 2: going into the playoffs?

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Speaker 1: Mark, and I want your answer.

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Speaker 4: To really helpful, because you want to go in with

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Speaker 4: a good taste in your mouth knowing that you can

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Speaker 4: get it done, without the question in the back of

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Speaker 4: your head if we can get it done.

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Speaker 5: You know, we know we can. Let's go do it.

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Speaker 4: And we just proved it not only to everyone else,

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Speaker 4: but to ourselves, which is the most important part of

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Speaker 4: the whole deal. And so I think it was extremely

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Speaker 4: important that you go in with a win. It was

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Speaker 4: extremely important to go into the playoffs with a ten

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Speaker 4: win season rather than just a nine and eight record

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Speaker 4: and a losing streak.

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Speaker 5: And so all of that got turned around or turned

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Speaker 5: upside down. Yesterday. It was a nice performance from.

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Speaker 4: Both sides of the ball of out at times they

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Speaker 4: dominated Tennessee when they need it to.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I really thought Johnny and we talked about it,

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Speaker 3: that maybe they should sit the starter, as if you will,

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Speaker 3: you can't sit everybody. We talked about this. It's only

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Speaker 3: a fifty three man roster, but I thought CJ Mix

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Speaker 3: and d'anil will, et cetera. But clearly the head coach

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Speaker 3: called this right. He made the right decision. It worked

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Speaker 3: out great, and we'll see how well it works out

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Speaker 3: on Saturday, of course, but I feel like drey Fields,

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Speaker 3: you cannot go in as far as what yesterday brought

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Speaker 3: you with a better situation. Now, better situation overall would

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Speaker 3: be to have home field advantage throughout it. I get

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Speaker 3: it you lost some games prior to that, but for

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Speaker 3: what you could do last week and yesterday, it really

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Speaker 3: couldn't have gone any better for you. So he called

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Speaker 3: it right, did it right? You feel good about the situation.

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Speaker 3: The joy was back. Let's see what happens against the Chargers.

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Speaker 4: And part of that mark is players are routine based.

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Speaker 4: They are on a routine and when you break the routine.

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Speaker 4: Bat Bans happened, so you want to keep them on

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Speaker 4: a routine. How you get to the stadium, how you

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Speaker 4: how you play, you know it.

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Speaker 5: Just all of that goes into it.

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Speaker 4: And they got a chance to at least feel that,

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Speaker 4: and then you pull them back and get them ready

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Speaker 5: And it's a short beak with a Saturday game. So

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Speaker 5: I think all of that matters. And Demico he knows

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Speaker 5: that as well as.

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Speaker 4: Anyone because he's one of the best players they ever

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Speaker 4: played for this franchise.

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Speaker 3: All right, thoughts on the Chargers, Drey, here they are.

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Speaker 3: They beat the Raiders thirty four to twenty to lock

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Speaker 3: up that spot. Well, they have their spot, but to

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Speaker 3: lock up the slot of playing the Texans on Saturday afternoon.

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Speaker 3: What are your thoughts? Justin Herbert was in the playoffs

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Speaker 3: just two years ago. Obviously they missed last year. Now

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Speaker 3: you got Jim Harbaugh coaching the team. Dobbins is back

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Speaker 3: nine hundred yard rusher. The numbers offensively for the Chargers

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Speaker 3: are similar to the Texans. Actually, what are you thinking?

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Speaker 3: Here is your face? I keep wanting to say, San

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Speaker 3: Diego I'm not.

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Speaker 1: Going to do it.

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Speaker 3: I hate saying LA. I'm just gonna say the Charger

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Speaker 3: on Saturday.

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Speaker 4: Dollars every time either of the three of us see

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Speaker 4: I'm dan. I know I'm gonna roll right off my tongue.

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Speaker 3: So what do you think of them as the match

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Speaker 3: I think.

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Speaker 4: It's a tough matchup. This is a good football team

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Speaker 4: on both sides. They got a quarterback that the elite.

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Speaker 4: He's thrown just under four thousand yards, the twenty three

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Speaker 4: touchdown passes, but he doesn't turn it over. I think

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Speaker 4: it's only three exceptions he's thrown all year.

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Speaker 5: And then you look at JK. Dobbs being healthy again.

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Speaker 4: When he's healthy, he's as good as he back in

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Speaker 4: the league, and he finished with just over nine hundred

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Speaker 5: But they've got other compliments.

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Speaker 4: Herbert can pull it down and make it's with his legs,

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Speaker 4: so he gives you something extra to have to worry

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Speaker 4: about and work on. And this week where the preparation

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Speaker 4: receiving was Ladd mccabee is. He's all, but he gets

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Speaker 4: open and that's where Herbert is looking. He had over

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Speaker 4: eleven hundred dollars this year. Got guys, I think it's

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Speaker 4: four or five that have for four five hundred yards

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Speaker 4: where he could spread ball around.

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Speaker 5: He's not just throwing the one guy.

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Speaker 4: Defensively, they've been playmakers, especially linebacker Kenley has just about

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Speaker 4: one hundred and fifty tackles or so, and leaves the

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Speaker 4: group that the guy that we know DJ di compairment

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Speaker 4: is that he had seasons on both sides.

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Speaker 5: Well, this is a good sound football.

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Speaker 4: Team, good experience coach who has taken to the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 3: Before you look at Lad McConkie, Johnny eleven hundred and

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Speaker 1: This dude is really hot right now.

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Speaker 3: Seven touchdown catches on the year, which is not a

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Speaker 3: crazy number, but what sticks out is eighty two catches

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Speaker 3: for eleven forty nine and Quentin Johnson he's the guy

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Speaker 3: with all.

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Speaker 1: The drops right he well he was he did I know?

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Speaker 3: He had an amazing catch yesterday.

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Speaker 2: Let me say this about lat McConkie, and let me

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Speaker 2: say this in the best way I possibly can. When

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Speaker 2: you see him, you will think, ooh, he's just a

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Speaker 2: possession receiver. He's just a possession receiver. I'm telling you

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Speaker 2: right now, Lad McConkie might be the fastest player in

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Speaker 2: the field on Saturday.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he is that. He's that good. So if you think, ah,

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Speaker 1: he's just a possession receiver, look at him. Dude runs

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Speaker 1: four to three, legit for three. He can fly. So

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Speaker 1: do not get it twisted. Lad McConkie can absolutely go Drake.

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Speaker 2: I just saw a highlight of Bryce Young, never showing

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Speaker 2: Bryce on Good Morning Football and showing what he did

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Speaker 2: against Atlanta yesterday, and it feels like Bryce is kind

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Speaker 2: of the poster child now for Hey, look, you don't

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Speaker 2: give up on guys that you thought were pretty talented

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Speaker 2: come out.

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Speaker 1: Dre about Bryce Young.

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Speaker 4: You don't learn and then if you're constantly changing coaches

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Speaker 3: I don't know what they're doing about quarterback Anthony Richardson.

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Speaker 4: I was kind of surprised, actually, but I understand what

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Speaker 5: The Steelers. They don't fire coaches.

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Speaker 5: To coach through that.

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Speaker 4: Very few situations or owners are willing to do that

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Speaker 4: And that's exactly what it started out as, even though

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Speaker 4: So you gotta have some patients. I actually commend them

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Speaker 4: that's important enough for Anthony Richardson to make some progress.

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Speaker 2: Okay, there's six playoff games. Let's take ours. Out of

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Speaker 2: the mixes for both of y'all. Okay, can't pick the

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Speaker 2: same game. Trey's going first.

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Speaker 6: Okay.

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Speaker 2: That means there are five playoff games taking place starting Saturday.

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Speaker 2: Obviously we have the Texas invitations. People want to call

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Speaker 3: Okay, No, if you can't get to the game, listen

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Speaker 2: Well yeah that but yeah, watching listen learn how to

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Speaker 1: Okay, so they're five other games.

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Speaker 2: I want you guys to pick the most likely upset,

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Speaker 1: The five games? Your five games.

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Speaker 2: Steelers at Ravens on Saturday, Broncos Bills, Packers, Eagles, Commanders

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Speaker 1: Which of the.

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Speaker 2: I like the home team and all those but there's

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Speaker 1: Which one do you think?

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Speaker 2: What's the most likely upset Steelers, Ravens, Broncos, Bills, Packers, Eagles, Commanders, Bucks, Vikings, Rams, Dre.

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Speaker 1: You get a chance to go first, I might.

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Speaker 4: Take the layup and I'm gonna go Commanders over the Buccaneers, Okay,

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Speaker 4: And I just think they're hot enough right now. I

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Speaker 1: Boy.

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Speaker 3: The Ravens are a nine and a half point favorite

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 3: And honestly, if the Steelers somehow pull it off, I

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Speaker 3: but I won't be shocked because it's a rivalry, it's

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Speaker 3: And I know it's worked out this year to the

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Speaker 3: so that's big Johnny. If I got to pick one,

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Speaker 3: you know, it's interesting with bow Knicks playing as well

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Speaker 3: and I think green Bay can throw it around and somehow,

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Speaker 1: So Russell Wilson, that.

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Speaker 4: Be a tragedy though, with Philly getting upset at home

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Speaker 5: He doesn't get the record, and they get.

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Speaker 4: Bounced in the first round, they may run everybody out

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Speaker 3: Dre, How do you feel about the record though, because

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Speaker 3: Johnny Conchrand. When it comes to the OJ rushing single

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Speaker 5: He he did was unbelievable.

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Speaker 4: In fourteen they did was yeah, really unbelievable because of

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Speaker 5: And you know, I don't know. I asked you guys yesterday.

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Speaker 4: Have there been guys that have gone back to back

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Speaker 4: But I know when Barry did it, it was special

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Speaker 4: Who knows if he'd have gotten it yesterday or not,

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Speaker 5: Took with the Texans yesterday.

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Speaker 4: You give him the necessary amount of time and if

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Speaker 5: Happen, he get the starters out of there.

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Speaker 4: But I would have kept him in the rhythm that

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Speaker 2: I would pick a third unique game. I'm going to

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Speaker 1: I just think there.

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Speaker 2: And if you can do that, Sam darn Let the

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Speaker 3: They will invade that building like they invaded. But still

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Speaker 2: Gonna help Sam Darnold if he if he shows like

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Speaker 4: Night, Aaron Glynn opened up the blueprint last night in

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Speaker 4: terms of how to how to defend the Vikings. They

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Speaker 4: They had one player who's but they kept saying it,

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Speaker 5: I mean ins and outs. Yeah, and he.

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Speaker 5: Win that game.

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Speaker 4: That is probably the most likely of all the games.

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Speaker 4: And I know I picked Tampa to be up to

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Speaker 5: Would would if you look at it.

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Speaker 4: The Rams are at home, they don't have to travel

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Speaker 4: an embarrassing loss to Detroit and the blueprint is now

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Speaker 4: there of how to beat them.

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Speaker 3: Dre. We all had a blast with everything around the

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Speaker 3: a great showing for brothers in arms. Now this week

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Speaker 3: the playoffs continue in the final four. They don't call

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Speaker 7: Thoughts, oh man, you want my truth or yeah, you

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Speaker 7: are to be political because I think Arizona State should

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Speaker 4: There are moments in that game and I covered it am.

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Speaker 4: I broadcasted that game on ESPN Radio. There was a

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Speaker 4: In regulation, there would have been no overtime and then

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00:21:06,520 --> 00:21:09,520
Speaker 4: the catch by the young man.

447
00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:12,199
Speaker 5: Transferred from the University of Houston.

448
00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:16,680
Speaker 4: There was a movement in the gold Matthew Gold from

449
00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:19,960
Speaker 4: the clear Lake area. He on that catch, the balls

450
00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:22,320
Speaker 4: moving around and you can clearly see it. That should

451
00:21:22,320 --> 00:21:24,480
Speaker 4: have gone to replay as well, and it didn't. That

452
00:21:24,640 --> 00:21:27,359
Speaker 4: was a fourth down play that Texas converted on. So

453
00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:31,120
Speaker 4: with that being said, it's it's now over with and

454
00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:34,040
Speaker 4: done and we've got the four that that are left.

455
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Speaker 4: But I sure thought Arizona State put on one hell

456
00:21:37,200 --> 00:21:40,159
Speaker 4: of a show last weekend, and and I commend the

457
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Speaker 4: head coach there. I know him well, We've got to

458
00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:45,680
Speaker 4: know each other this season. But it's gonna be a

459
00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:49,200
Speaker 4: heck of a deal. I think the committee wanted blue

460
00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:52,800
Speaker 4: bloods in the in the first playoff with twelve teams,

461
00:21:53,040 --> 00:21:54,119
Speaker 4: they got four.

462
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Speaker 5: Blue bloods in both games.

463
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Speaker 1: Who do you like.

464
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Speaker 5: To finish? Should?

465
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Speaker 4: I like Ohio State the way they've kind of bounced

466
00:22:02,480 --> 00:22:07,359
Speaker 4: back after the Michigan loss, the way they're playing defensively. Uh,

467
00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:10,360
Speaker 4: they're throwing it around, they're running it against whoever they

468
00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:12,800
Speaker 4: have in front of them. Are Ohio State's gonna be

469
00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:15,800
Speaker 4: tough to be And Uh, I just I like him.

470
00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:18,600
Speaker 4: I like Chip Kelly and the way he is, you know,

471
00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:21,720
Speaker 4: gone from head coach to now offensive coordinator. He's back

472
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Speaker 4: as a play caller and what he wants to do

473
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Speaker 4: step away from head coaching duties for a while and

474
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Speaker 4: uh and I think he's on point with what they

475
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Speaker 4: have going on there. So I like Ohio State really

476
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Speaker 4: to win it all.

477
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Speaker 3: And I know you've known Chip since he was what

478
00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:37,720
Speaker 3: at New Hampshire, right, Yeah, he was.

479
00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:40,439
Speaker 4: The offensive coordinator you New Hampshire. And I used to

480
00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:43,800
Speaker 4: kid him about having the broadcast games from that birdhouse

481
00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:47,560
Speaker 4: where you climb up these stairs with your backpack on

482
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Speaker 4: and into.

483
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Speaker 5: This little bitty present.

484
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Speaker 8: Boss.

485
00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:55,560
Speaker 5: It's like you're getting ready to go hunt deer.

486
00:22:56,320 --> 00:22:59,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. I can't believe it.

487
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Speaker 1: I've never talked about this.

488
00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:03,080
Speaker 3: I've been there too, that New Hampshire press box.

489
00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:05,760
Speaker 1: I'm lifting a heavy radio equipment up there.

490
00:23:06,040 --> 00:23:08,600
Speaker 3: Total hazard, by the way, I mean, this is a

491
00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:13,320
Speaker 3: major insurance risk for that university. I'm sure they fixed

492
00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:15,520
Speaker 3: it up, I would hope. Since then, anyway, Drake, thanks

493
00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:17,840
Speaker 3: a lot. Looking forward to Saturday afternoon.

494
00:23:18,440 --> 00:23:20,399
Speaker 5: Yeah, it'll be here before we know it, guys, So

495
00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:21,240
Speaker 5: looking forward to it.

496
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Speaker 2: I remember one time I went to a game Steven

497
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Speaker 2: f that we were in a closed booth or like

498
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Speaker 2: I don't even know if it wasn't really enclosed, but

499
00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:34,520
Speaker 2: we we had like metal walls around us and I'm

500
00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:38,200
Speaker 2: walking up to the stadium and a bolt of lightning

501
00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:40,639
Speaker 2: hit I swear to hit the stadium, and I was

502
00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:41,920
Speaker 2: scared out of my mind.

503
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Speaker 1: I was scared doing the entire game. We have a rain,

504
00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:47,520
Speaker 1: but it was it was dicey, man.

505
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Speaker 2: So yeah, sometimes sometimes you get to some games that

506
00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:53,560
Speaker 2: get little dicey. I did a Lamar mcney State game

507
00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:58,320
Speaker 2: one time with Butch Elsander and he was great. It

508
00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:00,560
Speaker 2: was so much fun, but there was like a thirty

509
00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:03,560
Speaker 2: mile an hour win or more throughout the entire game.

510
00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:05,800
Speaker 2: It was blowing all of our work papers, all our

511
00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:07,280
Speaker 2: stat sheets everything.

512
00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:09,400
Speaker 1: Because we were up on the top of the stadium.

513
00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:13,040
Speaker 2: We didn't have a spot inside the press box and

514
00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:15,520
Speaker 2: we just had this little like I don't know ten

515
00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:17,920
Speaker 2: by ten spot, not even that. It was probably like

516
00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:20,960
Speaker 2: it's like seven by seven and we were in there

517
00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:24,600
Speaker 2: just basically table or equipment, and we man, it.

518
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Speaker 1: Was like ten to seven. The punt was like punts

519
00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:28,000
Speaker 1: were going further.

520
00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:31,040
Speaker 2: Then you know, they were going further with win than

521
00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:32,879
Speaker 2: they were like a normal punt, like a twenty five

522
00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:34,399
Speaker 2: yard punt would be like a fifty yard punt. The

523
00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:36,520
Speaker 2: win was just taking it and it would go the

524
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Speaker 2: other way. Was supposed to be a thirty five yard poe,

525
00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:40,280
Speaker 2: it'd been like a five yard punt. It was crazy

526
00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:42,560
Speaker 2: as well, the craziest games I've ever seen. So yeah,

527
00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:46,520
Speaker 2: there's there have been some games and some pretty interesting

528
00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:50,239
Speaker 2: locations and conditions that you have to deal with that uh,

529
00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:54,440
Speaker 2: don't always end up being like the NFL places where

530
00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:56,280
Speaker 2: we get a chance to do games. So there you go,

531
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Speaker 2: coming up next to guy who's been around the NFL

532
00:24:58,119 --> 00:25:01,080
Speaker 2: for a long time. So good friend John McClain knows

533
00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:03,040
Speaker 2: it better than anybody. He's next to Texas Access.

534
00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:05,680
Speaker 1: Seeing as though it's black money in the NFL.

535
00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:10,000
Speaker 2: There is a lot of news all across the league,

536
00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:12,840
Speaker 2: and no one better to talk about all that, No

537
00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:15,600
Speaker 2: one better to talk about what happened yesterday in Nashville,

538
00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:18,600
Speaker 2: what will happen maybe in the future in Nashville.

539
00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:21,639
Speaker 1: Then our own Jrum McClain, the general.

540
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Speaker 9: Here we go.

541
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Speaker 1: It's the General with me and Mark.

542
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Speaker 3: All right, general ten wins on the season they beat

543
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Speaker 3: the Titans. They handle it the way they handled it.

544
00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:35,000
Speaker 3: As CJ and Mixon leave after the first drive, it

545
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Speaker 3: couldn't have been scripted and performed much better, all things considered,

546
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Speaker 3: your thoughts.

547
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Speaker 8: Well, I wouldn't get too excited over a team that

548
00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:46,400
Speaker 8: was trying to held out. A lot of their players

549
00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:49,920
Speaker 8: pulled a lot. They wanted that first pick overall, but

550
00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:54,680
Speaker 8: you're right, what Texans wanted to accomplish that first drive

551
00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:59,879
Speaker 8: looked like CJ. Stroud from last season. You know, confident, comfortable,

552
00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:03,200
Speaker 8: get rid of the ball quick, and it couldn't have

553
00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:06,040
Speaker 8: been any better. A perfect series for a lead. They

554
00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:10,200
Speaker 8: never relinquished. And defensively, you know, they played a lot

555
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Speaker 8: of backups and they shut down the run. Titan's averaged

556
00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:17,800
Speaker 8: two point seven yards of carry. Longest run was eleven

557
00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:21,480
Speaker 8: Demigo Rice didn't want to give up any big pass plays.

558
00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:25,080
Speaker 8: They did with three minutes left, but that was against

559
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Speaker 8: a bunch of backups in the secondary and offensively, everybody's

560
00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:34,800
Speaker 8: so happy for Damian Peers, not just a nineteen yard

561
00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:38,520
Speaker 8: touchdown run, but the fact that he and Aaron Foster

562
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Speaker 8: the only back in history they have one hundred and

563
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Speaker 8: seventy five or more yards. Everybody loves Peers. People were

564
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Speaker 8: fired up about it. You know, Davis Mills started real fast,

565
00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:54,800
Speaker 8: then he slowed down, but he looked good when he

566
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Speaker 8: got in there in the first half. And Dereck Barnett,

567
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Speaker 8: you know what a terrific condition he was last year,

568
00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:06,480
Speaker 8: and then Nick Cassario re signing him. You know, the

569
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Speaker 8: Texans have defensive linemen, they have linebackers, they have corners.

570
00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:14,520
Speaker 8: They could use a third corner. Of course they need

571
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Speaker 8: a safety, but I think for what for this game?

572
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Speaker 8: And of course the fans are all excited because when

573
00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:27,520
Speaker 8: they see Columbia blue, the Texans see red. So worked

574
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Speaker 8: out really well. Look, they can look back and say,

575
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:33,920
Speaker 8: against the first place schedule, we had the exact same

576
00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:41,919
Speaker 8: record as the season before. And also I believe Texas

577
00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:44,360
Speaker 8: were underdogs to the Browns going into the wild card

578
00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:48,920
Speaker 8: game last year, just as they are against the Chargers.

579
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Speaker 8: So maybe I don't think it'll be a blowout like that,

580
00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:56,440
Speaker 8: but maybe they'll surprise the odds makers and upset the Chargers.

581
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Speaker 5: General.

582
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna read a stat to you. I just want

583
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Speaker 1: you to take this and run with it.

584
00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:08,639
Speaker 2: Tennessee Titans yesterday one sack, two quarterback hits.

585
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Speaker 1: What do you think about that, thoughts.

586
00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:16,959
Speaker 8: Well, I think it's good. I think Harol Landry had

587
00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:20,800
Speaker 8: the one, and I think when did did they? They

588
00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:25,160
Speaker 8: pulled out uh Simmons and sweat right put backups in there.

589
00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:28,080
Speaker 1: Yeah it was until early fourth quarter though. Yeah, they

590
00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:28,919
Speaker 1: were there for a while.

591
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Speaker 8: And so the past protection was good. You know, you

592
00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:35,280
Speaker 8: hope they can keep it up because Chargers have a

593
00:28:35,359 --> 00:28:38,200
Speaker 8: really good pass rush, one of the best defenses in

594
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Speaker 8: the NFL. They got the best blitzing safety in the NFL,

595
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Speaker 8: and Derwin James. I believe Khalil mc and Joey Bosa

596
00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:49,000
Speaker 8: are healthy. I don't think they had a sack yesterday

597
00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:54,800
Speaker 8: in their decisive victory. So and if we know, then

598
00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:59,320
Speaker 8: C J. Stroud gets protected. He's great, and that's been

599
00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:03,320
Speaker 8: an issue season. It wasn't yesterday for him. I thought

600
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Speaker 8: he did a good job stepping up in the pocket,

601
00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:09,160
Speaker 8: rolling out. I thought Davis Mills did a good job

602
00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:12,560
Speaker 8: stepping up in the pocket and making his throws. So

603
00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:16,120
Speaker 8: almost everything went the way you wanted, you know, not

604
00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:19,320
Speaker 8: getting a touchdown on the one yard line, throwing two

605
00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:24,600
Speaker 8: passes that weren't even remotely close, but still that there

606
00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:28,480
Speaker 8: wasn't much that Texans didn't do right in that game

607
00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:31,760
Speaker 8: to build a little confidence and momentum for the Chargers.

608
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Speaker 3: Your level of surprise Jacksonville Peterson out Balki stays, at

609
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Speaker 3: least for now.

610
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Speaker 1: Thoughts on that situation in North Florida General.

611
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Speaker 8: Stunned that they didn't fire Trent Balki too. I saw

612
00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:47,760
Speaker 8: a thing by a long time guy who's covered that

613
00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:51,680
Speaker 8: team said in the building they'd rather have Balky gone

614
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Speaker 8: than Peterson. Balkie's a survivor. That doesn't mean I'm guessing

615
00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:57,920
Speaker 8: if they were going to fire him, they would have

616
00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:01,560
Speaker 8: done both of them. But with Trent Balky running the

617
00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:04,360
Speaker 8: show over there, is that going to keep them from

618
00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:07,240
Speaker 8: getting a top head coach in KNDy. Would you want

619
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Speaker 8: to go in there and work for him? I saw

620
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Speaker 8: a list of the money he spent four hundred million

621
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Speaker 8: dollars in free agent contracts and then and all the

622
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Speaker 8: picks he's at, including number one picks, including first overall

623
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Speaker 8: since he was the GM of the forty nine Ers.

624
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Speaker 8: Two and man, he must be a good talker and

625
00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:33,600
Speaker 8: Seun Khan must love him because he should have been

626
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Speaker 8: fired too.

627
00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:39,120
Speaker 2: The New York Jts Jets Jets Jets requests an interview

628
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Speaker 2: with Texans offensive coordinator Bobby Slowik.

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Speaker 1: What do you think? General?

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Speaker 8: Good for Bobby. He's taking a lot of criticism this

631
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Speaker 8: season for the shortcomings of the offense when most of.

632
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Speaker 6: It a lot of it.

633
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Speaker 8: I guess you know this time last year he was

634
00:30:56,160 --> 00:30:59,920
Speaker 8: the fairhead boy, interviewed for five jobs before he decided

635
00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:04,320
Speaker 8: he needed another year of seasoning, And so I'm happy

636
00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:06,640
Speaker 8: for him. They're interviewing a lot of people. A lot

637
00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:09,520
Speaker 8: of people think they're gonna Aaron Glenn. Aaron has done

638
00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:13,240
Speaker 8: a fantastic job with the most injury reriddle defense in

639
00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:16,840
Speaker 8: the NFL. In that game last night, he couldn't be

640
00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:19,959
Speaker 8: in a better position for a head coaching job. New

641
00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:24,840
Speaker 8: Orleans is interested. But New Orleans not only the Saints bad,

642
00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:29,640
Speaker 8: but their cap situation is terrible. Of course, there's less pressure,

643
00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:32,960
Speaker 8: but he knows all about pressure with the Jets. So

644
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:37,200
Speaker 8: I'm open Aaron Glenn. I'm opening Aaron Glenn gets that job.

645
00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:39,800
Speaker 8: But good for Bobby. I think the fact that other

646
00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:42,880
Speaker 8: teams think he's good enough to get an interview. Mike

647
00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:46,480
Speaker 8: quell some of the controversy about so many people wanted

648
00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:49,320
Speaker 8: him fire to here fans. You know this time last year,

649
00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:52,560
Speaker 8: fans loved him. He didn't get stupid over the off season.

650
00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:56,120
Speaker 8: So no, they're not gonna fire Bobby's slow accare, but

651
00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:58,840
Speaker 8: they are going to make changes, and I can't wait

652
00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:02,280
Speaker 8: to whenever the season is over to see what changes

653
00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:05,160
Speaker 8: to me. Koe Ryans has in a store.

654
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Speaker 3: All right, let's hope the season doesn't end for a while.

655
00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:14,120
Speaker 3: Shane stike In stays. How about that Chris Ballard stays

656
00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:17,360
Speaker 3: at the Horseshoe. What do you think of that situation?

657
00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:20,280
Speaker 8: Well, I never thought they were fired. We talked about

658
00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:24,400
Speaker 8: this last week. You know, I was more surprised that Joe,

659
00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:27,960
Speaker 8: Shane and Brian daball keep their jobs with the Giants

660
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:32,000
Speaker 8: when the team was just so terrible. The Colts are

661
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:37,600
Speaker 8: not terrible, and no matter what Pat McAfee, I guess

662
00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:41,400
Speaker 8: as boycott them. He didn't see him in a sweet yesterday.

663
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Speaker 8: He was ripping Johnathan Taylor last week. Johnathan Taylor has

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Speaker 8: been fantastic for them. I don't understand it. It must

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Speaker 8: be something behind the scenes. But I'd also like to

666
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Speaker 8: know Jim Irsay obviously has to sign off from big

667
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Speaker 8: decisions like taking a quarterback fourth overall. But right now,

668
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Speaker 8: you know, I don't think they're moving on from Anthony Richardson.

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Speaker 8: I think they'll give him another season, consider now little

670
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Speaker 8: he played at Florida, but man, he's been a disappointment.

671
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Speaker 8: Then you see Joe Milton come in for the for

672
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Speaker 8: the Patriots yesterday and look fantastic. Another big guy with

673
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Speaker 8: a big arm, and people will say that's what Anthony

674
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Speaker 8: Richardson should have been.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt. General Deshaun Watson apparently has had a

676
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Speaker 1: set back.

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Speaker 2: With his achilles injury, maybe delaying his twenty twenty five

678
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Speaker 2: arrival or playing or whatever.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say it.

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Speaker 2: Right now, you rate this hot take, Get your sizzle

681
00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:46,360
Speaker 2: fires ready. Deshaun Watson will never play for the Browns again.

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Speaker 8: Well the way they did his contract, yet they redid

683
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Speaker 8: it to move the years forward, so I think he

684
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Speaker 8: will have to be on the team next year, whether

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Speaker 8: he plays or not. So I'm, you know, in a

686
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Speaker 8: perfect world, regain next year and then they cut him

687
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Speaker 8: after next season. I saw speculation this week about trades

688
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Speaker 8: for Watson. I'm thinking Mike God, nobody would want that contract.

689
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Speaker 8: Who'd want him? He's been terrible and then he's not.

690
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Speaker 8: All the bag is win him. I don't know if

691
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Speaker 8: he'll ever play again in the NFL, although you guys

692
00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:24,440
Speaker 8: know there's such a shortage of quarterbacks. Everybody gives somebody ever,

693
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Speaker 8: anybody will give a chance to somebody they think they

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Speaker 8: can help him. But I think he'll be on the roster,

695
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Speaker 8: but there's a good chance he doesn't play.

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Speaker 3: We all know football is not fair, but is it

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Speaker 3: fair that Gerrod Mayo got shown the door after his season?

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Speaker 3: Belichick went five and eleven his first year in New England.

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Speaker 1: What do you think of that?

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Speaker 8: I think it's fair if Mike vrabel is the is available.

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Speaker 8: You know, Mike just seems like a perfect situation there.

702
00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:57,040
Speaker 8: There's been a mussy the rumors that he would come

703
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Speaker 8: in there and bring Josh McDaniels as his op defensive

704
00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:04,840
Speaker 8: coordinator and play caller. McDaniels last year there, Mac Jones

705
00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:07,279
Speaker 8: was a rookie and he looked really good, and I

706
00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:10,640
Speaker 8: think they won ten games and everybody was so fired up.

707
00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:13,040
Speaker 8: Then he left to go to Denver as a head

708
00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:16,240
Speaker 8: coach of Raiders. As a head coach bombed out again

709
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:19,880
Speaker 8: and they haven't been worth a darn on outfense since.

710
00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:23,279
Speaker 8: But they got Drake May. Now they got a guy

711
00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:27,160
Speaker 8: as a backup that that people are like, wow, and

712
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Speaker 8: uh so, I think it's all about Grabel. I read

713
00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:33,600
Speaker 8: a thing while ago from Tom Kerr, who's covered that

714
00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:36,759
Speaker 8: team forever, and he was talking about things going on

715
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Speaker 8: behind the scenes, especially over the last month, and Mayo had.

716
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Speaker 1: To go general. The jobs that are open.

717
00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:53,160
Speaker 2: Bears, Patriots, Jaguars, Saints, Jets, jeffs fix is that the

718
00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:54,640
Speaker 2: best job available right now?

719
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Speaker 1: Which of the five is the best New England?

720
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Speaker 8: Because you have ownership that's been steady proven itself over time.

721
00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:06,040
Speaker 8: You have Drake May quarterback, you have a fourth overall pick.

722
00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:09,680
Speaker 8: Teams at needing a quarterback, Mike trade up help you

723
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Speaker 8: get extra picks. And you know the ownership situation with

724
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Speaker 8: the Jets, the having a GM in Jacksonville, nobody wants

725
00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:21,400
Speaker 8: to work with unless a desperate coach. And Saints that

726
00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:24,480
Speaker 8: just not got they don't have as much talent, They

727
00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:27,800
Speaker 8: have a terrible camp situation. And the Bears. You go

728
00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:31,120
Speaker 8: to the Bears and you're playing in the strongest division

729
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Speaker 8: in the NFL. I look to see if Antonio Piers

730
00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:39,320
Speaker 8: is going to survive because you think about Antonio Piers

731
00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:45,920
Speaker 8: against Andy Reid, Jim Arbaugh and Sean Payton. That's a

732
00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:48,680
Speaker 8: mismatch and they know it. You know, that's a team

733
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Speaker 8: that ought to be going after Rabel. And it's interesting

734
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Speaker 8: Rabel went from first seed to the Titans having the

735
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Speaker 8: top seed. In a matter of him, he was coach

736
00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:02,839
Speaker 8: of the year two bad years and he was out.

737
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Speaker 3: How bad is it in Pittsburgh that slide to end

738
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Speaker 3: the season. Now they go to Baltimore, they're nine and

739
00:37:09,560 --> 00:37:14,040
Speaker 3: a half point underdogs on Saturday Night. Yet I still

740
00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:15,439
Speaker 3: give them a puncher's chance.

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Speaker 1: For sure.

742
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Speaker 3: It's Steel, there's Ravens, and we all know the history

743
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Speaker 3: of this thing.

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Speaker 8: What do you think, Yeah, I don't give any chance whatsoever.

745
00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:25,759
Speaker 8: Because Russell Wilson has been reverting back to who we

746
00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:28,880
Speaker 8: thought he was. And it was nice while it lasted.

747
00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:32,399
Speaker 8: That brain dead play he made running the ball out

748
00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:35,040
Speaker 8: of the downs at the end of the game, using

749
00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:37,880
Speaker 8: or getting tackle, not going out of bounds. Should have

750
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Speaker 8: thrown it away in saved seconds. You don't make plays

751
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:43,640
Speaker 8: like that when you're a veteran Mike Tomlin had won

752
00:37:43,719 --> 00:37:47,080
Speaker 8: the game since two thousand and sixteen in the playoffs.

753
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Speaker 8: So I think they're gonna get just the heck beat

754
00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:53,359
Speaker 8: out of them. Yes, they used to be real good

755
00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:57,680
Speaker 8: against the Ravens, but that worm has turned general.

756
00:37:57,800 --> 00:37:59,600
Speaker 2: I don't know that we've talked about Tennessee. Do you

757
00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:03,640
Speaker 2: expect any surprises there? Do you think Rank Carthon survives

758
00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:05,000
Speaker 2: along with Brian Callahan.

759
00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:09,440
Speaker 8: I thought it was interesting yesterday Joe Cina Anderson tweeted

760
00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:14,240
Speaker 8: about keep your eye on the Titans general managers jobs.

761
00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:18,239
Speaker 8: I'm hearing rumblings in the NFL, in other words, meaning

762
00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:21,840
Speaker 8: that he could be ousted after two seasons. So I

763
00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:24,240
Speaker 8: don't think you get the first pick in the draft

764
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Speaker 8: and Stan pat and so I don't know if it

765
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Speaker 8: be him but Carthon, but I'm sure Ryan Gallahan's coming back.

766
00:38:33,239 --> 00:38:36,600
Speaker 8: But then when if you fire Rank Carpark and he

767
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:39,560
Speaker 8: hired Callahan and the new GM comes, and you guys know,

768
00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:43,040
Speaker 8: the new gms want their guy. They come in with

769
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Speaker 8: a less So the next GM, if they have one,

770
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Speaker 8: he'd have Ryan Callahan for a year. If they struggle,

771
00:38:49,719 --> 00:38:52,839
Speaker 8: he might be out. Just like quarterback coaches, they want

772
00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:56,520
Speaker 8: their own quarterback, and you look at Denver and the

773
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Speaker 8: job Sean Payton's done with bow knicks. It's a great

774
00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:03,480
Speaker 8: example if coaches wanting their guy, if you're good, what

775
00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:04,480
Speaker 8: you can do with them.

776
00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:08,320
Speaker 3: Mike McDaniel's safe, of course. Yeah, losing to the Jets

777
00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:11,359
Speaker 3: was a bad look yesterday and that late window they

778
00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:13,480
Speaker 3: had a chance to get in. I know Huntley's playing.

779
00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:15,480
Speaker 3: He through two picks. They had won five of seven

780
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Speaker 3: even without a plane a lot during a stretch heading

781
00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:23,879
Speaker 3: into that one. Still alive, but now Tyreek wants out.

782
00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:27,040
Speaker 8: Thoughts on the Dolphins, both the GM and head coach

783
00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:30,520
Speaker 8: are back Tyreek Hill quit on his teammates. You know

784
00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:33,399
Speaker 8: there's people like, oh, bring him to the Texans, My god,

785
00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:36,240
Speaker 8: why would you want to guy? They got great culture

786
00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:39,719
Speaker 8: here and anybody that quits on his teammates like that

787
00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:43,480
Speaker 8: and then says he's going for the door, you know

788
00:39:43,640 --> 00:39:45,880
Speaker 8: that's terrible. I mean, if you're going to do it,

789
00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:48,960
Speaker 8: keep it, finish the game, keep it quiet, has to

790
00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:52,200
Speaker 8: be traded after the game, don't go public. It is

791
00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:55,640
Speaker 8: a bad look for a team that if two tongue

792
00:39:55,640 --> 00:39:57,520
Speaker 8: about Lowe had been healthy, what do you play like

793
00:39:57,880 --> 00:40:00,520
Speaker 8: eleven games. I don't know if they can ever count

794
00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:03,600
Speaker 8: on him to be healthy, but that's the way he's

795
00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:07,040
Speaker 8: played one full season in his career, going back to

796
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Speaker 8: Alabama where he was hurt too. I don't know if

797
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Speaker 8: they could ever count on him for a full season.

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Speaker 2: Okay, general, there are six playoff games coming up this weekend.

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Speaker 2: Let's take the Chargers Texans out of it. Which road

800
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Speaker 2: team do you give the best shot of winning? You

801
00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:25,360
Speaker 2: got Steelers, Ravens, you got Commanders, Bucks, You've got Eagles, Packers,

802
00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:29,359
Speaker 2: You've got Vikings, Rams, Oh, Broncos at the Bills. Which

803
00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:31,560
Speaker 2: road team do you give the best shot to winning

804
00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:34,000
Speaker 2: and pulling off a mild upset.

805
00:40:33,719 --> 00:40:34,120
Speaker 6: If you will?

806
00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:39,799
Speaker 8: Vikings number one, their first team win fourteen games and go.

807
00:40:39,840 --> 00:40:40,359
Speaker 5: On the road.

808
00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:44,440
Speaker 8: And then the other one would be the Commanders at Tampa.

809
00:40:44,520 --> 00:40:47,840
Speaker 8: But Tampa beat Philadelphia last year and that was with

810
00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:51,640
Speaker 8: an experienced quarterback in Jalen Arts and Baker Mayfield is

811
00:40:51,719 --> 00:40:53,759
Speaker 8: playing even better and they have a better get this

812
00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:58,239
Speaker 8: running game. And the other one is I think Minnesota,

813
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Speaker 8: unless Sam Darnold was posed by Aaron Glenn and the

814
00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:06,040
Speaker 8: defense of the Lions, I think they'll beat the Rams

815
00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:08,799
Speaker 8: the Rams played the game yesterday that they didn't care

816
00:41:08,840 --> 00:41:11,680
Speaker 8: who they played, and that's fine. You know, that's a

817
00:41:11,719 --> 00:41:14,160
Speaker 8: lot of confidence about Sean mcday and his team and

818
00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:18,239
Speaker 8: his quarterback Matthew Stafford. But I would say Minnesota one

819
00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:19,239
Speaker 8: in Washington two.

820
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean Tampa Bay is a two and a

821
00:41:21,520 --> 00:41:25,080
Speaker 3: half point underdog at home. I'm taking Tampa Bay if

822
00:41:25,120 --> 00:41:30,440
Speaker 3: I yes, yes, I mean I have that here on

823
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Speaker 3: ESPN dot com that they are a two and a

824
00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:34,160
Speaker 3: half point underdog at home, which is ridiculous.

825
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Speaker 8: That's three road teams carrying the Textans, three home teams.

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Speaker 1: Oh wait, wait, no, no, no, I'm wrong, I'm wrong.

827
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Speaker 1: I'm wrong.

828
00:41:41,680 --> 00:41:45,200
Speaker 8: I'm okay. I saw Mines and the Chargers.

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Speaker 6: It is it is?

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00:41:48,040 --> 00:41:49,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, well no, wait a minute, Johnny, do I have

831
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Speaker 1: this wrong?

832
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Speaker 6: Yeah?

833
00:41:50,560 --> 00:41:53,560
Speaker 3: Tampa's a three and a half boy favorite, My bad geez.

834
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Speaker 3: Final thoughts on Chargers Texans Saturday afternoon, three point thirty

835
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Speaker 3: Chargers if you're following this kind of stuff, they are

836
00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:06,080
Speaker 3: a favorite. With Justin Herbert coming in here, Jim Harbaugh

837
00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:10,000
Speaker 3: and the Texans, you know, are they the rejuvenated Texans

838
00:42:10,080 --> 00:42:12,600
Speaker 3: after that win? Look, they felt good about it. They'll

839
00:42:12,640 --> 00:42:14,520
Speaker 3: feel good at practice this week. I don't know what

840
00:42:14,680 --> 00:42:17,400
Speaker 3: that means coming Saturday, but I do think it certainly

841
00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:18,279
Speaker 3: does not hurt.

842
00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:21,520
Speaker 8: What do you think Texans allowed to play the way

843
00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:25,320
Speaker 8: they played against Buffalo, which was their only win against

844
00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:29,520
Speaker 8: defending division champion. They played great in that game. They're

845
00:42:29,560 --> 00:42:31,239
Speaker 8: going to have to do the same thing. I'll never

846
00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:34,920
Speaker 8: forget the last time Chargers were here, justin Herbert played

847
00:42:35,239 --> 00:42:39,640
Speaker 8: great and then Texans won with Rex Bleeping Birdhead having

848
00:42:39,719 --> 00:42:44,040
Speaker 8: the greatest game of his career by far. Nobody understood it,

849
00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:46,720
Speaker 8: but he did. But the reason the Chargers are favorite

850
00:42:47,120 --> 00:42:51,040
Speaker 8: two reasons Harbaugh and Herbert. Herbert's playing great. Harbaugh is

851
00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:55,680
Speaker 8: the second first coach in the Super Bowl era to

852
00:42:55,840 --> 00:42:58,640
Speaker 8: take two teams with losing records to the playoffs in

853
00:42:58,719 --> 00:43:01,239
Speaker 8: his first year with him, He's done a great job.

854
00:43:01,360 --> 00:43:02,520
Speaker 8: They have a great defense.

855
00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:03,239
Speaker 5: JK.

856
00:43:03,520 --> 00:43:06,880
Speaker 8: Dobbins Texans from Lagrange. He's going to have all his

857
00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:10,720
Speaker 8: family there. So itches that the Texans are they capable

858
00:43:10,760 --> 00:43:13,640
Speaker 8: of winning? Of course they're capable of winning this time

859
00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:18,560
Speaker 8: last year, nobody outside NRG Stadium gave them the chance

860
00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:22,160
Speaker 8: to beat the Browns who had just obliterated them, and

861
00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:25,160
Speaker 8: so could they do it again. I don't think they'll

862
00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:28,919
Speaker 8: be obliterating Hardball, but they can certainly win this game

863
00:43:29,360 --> 00:43:33,520
Speaker 8: and show the world that next year they deserve another

864
00:43:33,640 --> 00:43:36,400
Speaker 8: time slot instead of the one that is reserved for

865
00:43:36,520 --> 00:43:37,279
Speaker 8: them every year.

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Speaker 1: Great stuff there from the general. So what else is

867
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Speaker 1: going on that we didn't hit?

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00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:46,759
Speaker 2: The Bengals will be looking for a new defensive coordinator,

869
00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:50,000
Speaker 2: one of the Texans former defensive coordinators and a good

870
00:43:50,040 --> 00:43:52,239
Speaker 2: friend of mine in ours is getting a look at

871
00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:56,200
Speaker 2: a few places. All that and more around the NFL.

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Speaker 2: Next writing our Texans All Access let's go tapping everybody here,

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Speaker 2: welcome back this money at issue of Texas All Access

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Speaker 1: One final segment here before we turn it over to

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Speaker 1: another hour.

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880
00:44:14,280 --> 00:44:17,920
Speaker 2: so we can really kind of just relax and let

881
00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:21,359
Speaker 2: it go for the final two hours of the night

882
00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:23,640
Speaker 2: before it turnout of the area forty five. A lot

883
00:44:23,719 --> 00:44:26,080
Speaker 2: of news around the NFL. First of all, it's at

884
00:44:26,080 --> 00:44:30,320
Speaker 2: the NFL Draft, because I love the draft. Georgia Studs

885
00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:34,880
Speaker 2: have declared Malchi Stark's number one safety on my board

886
00:44:35,520 --> 00:44:39,640
Speaker 2: is declaring for the NFL Draft. Michael Williams, defensive end

887
00:44:39,800 --> 00:44:44,280
Speaker 2: stud edge rusher, He's probably two or three on my board,

888
00:44:44,640 --> 00:44:47,280
Speaker 2: has declared for the NFL Draft.

889
00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:51,279
Speaker 1: So to Georgia's studs get in the draft now.

890
00:44:51,600 --> 00:44:55,440
Speaker 2: A cornerback stud from a few years ago, Jalen Ramsey,

891
00:44:56,080 --> 00:45:01,480
Speaker 2: not real happy with his situation down in Miami, posted

892
00:45:01,520 --> 00:45:05,359
Speaker 2: a long post die tribe whatever you want to call

893
00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:05,719
Speaker 2: it on.

894
00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:08,239
Speaker 1: Instagram or Twitter. I don't know which one X I

895
00:45:08,239 --> 00:45:10,600
Speaker 1: don't know. I'll make it short for you.

896
00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:15,880
Speaker 2: He ended it with know your value, which is his

897
00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:21,040
Speaker 2: past aggressive way of saying I'm out. So it's Tyreek.

898
00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:25,359
Speaker 2: So the Dolphins could be looking for some replacements. We'll

899
00:45:25,360 --> 00:45:28,160
Speaker 2: see what happens. Tyreek has got one more year on

900
00:45:28,239 --> 00:45:31,480
Speaker 2: his deal. I don't know about Ramsey's deal, but things

901
00:45:31,520 --> 00:45:33,400
Speaker 2: are not looking so great down in Miami now. I

902
00:45:33,480 --> 00:45:35,319
Speaker 2: brought up Miami a little while ago because I got

903
00:45:35,320 --> 00:45:40,920
Speaker 2: Anthony Weaver has gotten permission to interview in both Chicago

904
00:45:41,120 --> 00:45:44,040
Speaker 2: and New Orleans. I would love to see Anthony Weaver's

905
00:45:44,080 --> 00:45:45,920
Speaker 2: head coach. I always thought he would be a tremendous

906
00:45:45,920 --> 00:45:48,080
Speaker 2: head coach. Thought He's been a really good defensive coordinator

907
00:45:48,120 --> 00:45:50,239
Speaker 2: for what he had down in Miami. Obviously I had

908
00:45:50,280 --> 00:45:56,000
Speaker 2: to deal with enigmas like Jalen Ramsey, but he did

909
00:45:56,200 --> 00:45:59,480
Speaker 2: a really nice job with that Miami defense. There were

910
00:45:59,600 --> 00:46:01,800
Speaker 2: nights I was like, man, this group is good and

911
00:46:01,880 --> 00:46:04,160
Speaker 2: a lot of it has to do with what Anthony

912
00:46:04,200 --> 00:46:09,359
Speaker 2: Weaver is calling. So Anthony's gonna get a look, as

913
00:46:09,480 --> 00:46:14,360
Speaker 2: will former Texans corner Aaron Glenn. Aaron Glenn getting a

914
00:46:14,520 --> 00:46:19,160
Speaker 2: shot to interview with the Jets, also with the Saints,

915
00:46:19,360 --> 00:46:22,320
Speaker 2: and I believe also with the Bears as well. I

916
00:46:22,400 --> 00:46:26,320
Speaker 2: think the Bears came after both the Lions coordinators, I believe.

917
00:46:26,920 --> 00:46:28,960
Speaker 2: So a lot of things going on. You're hearing some

918
00:46:29,040 --> 00:46:31,120
Speaker 2: of the same names over and over again. Now some

919
00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:35,720
Speaker 2: jobs are staying as they are. Colts, Stichen Ballard staying

920
00:46:36,680 --> 00:46:40,879
Speaker 2: that were rumored out, Titans right now, Ran Carthon, Brian

921
00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:46,800
Speaker 2: Callahan still in Antonio, Pierce Raiders still in Now. That

922
00:46:47,040 --> 00:46:52,359
Speaker 2: can change, and it can change pretty quickly, but as

923
00:46:52,480 --> 00:46:55,480
Speaker 2: of today, that's where it stands with those guys keeping

924
00:46:55,760 --> 00:47:00,560
Speaker 2: their jobs. So five jobs open, as I mentioned him earlier, Jets, Saints, SAgs,

925
00:47:01,680 --> 00:47:06,080
Speaker 2: and then the Patriots and Bears. Hopefully I didn't repeat

926
00:47:06,120 --> 00:47:09,239
Speaker 2: one of those, but those jobs are open. One GM

927
00:47:09,440 --> 00:47:12,640
Speaker 2: job is not open, as the Jaguars as of now.

928
00:47:12,920 --> 00:47:15,400
Speaker 2: We'll see what seat Con finds out in this interview process,

929
00:47:15,640 --> 00:47:17,839
Speaker 2: whether he needs to make a change at GM, as

930
00:47:17,920 --> 00:47:21,600
Speaker 2: he's making a change at head coach. But that remains

931
00:47:21,760 --> 00:47:25,279
Speaker 2: to be seen, and that is my part of the

932
00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:27,640
Speaker 2: first two hours we got. Keep it locked right here.

933
00:47:27,760 --> 00:47:30,040
Speaker 2: Mark will take you through the next hour. We'll see

934
00:47:30,040 --> 00:47:31,839
Speaker 2: it tomorrow and as always, go Texans.

935
00:47:31,520 --> 00:47:34,759
Speaker 3: Hello Texans. Bonus hour tonight. No Monday Night football. There

936
00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:37,120
Speaker 3: will be a Monday night game next week because there

937
00:47:37,160 --> 00:47:39,320
Speaker 3: will be a playoff game. The Texans are obviously not

938
00:47:39,480 --> 00:47:41,319
Speaker 3: in that one. They're in the Saturday at three point

939
00:47:41,320 --> 00:47:44,680
Speaker 3: thirty slate against the Chargers. And I'm wondering, had they

940
00:47:44,719 --> 00:47:47,480
Speaker 3: played the Steelers, would they have gotten the Monday night game?

941
00:47:47,520 --> 00:47:48,879
Speaker 3: Would they have gotten Sunday at noon?

942
00:47:48,920 --> 00:47:49,200
Speaker 10: I don't know.

943
00:47:49,360 --> 00:47:52,880
Speaker 3: The Steelers a big time national brand, the Chargers not

944
00:47:53,080 --> 00:47:56,200
Speaker 3: so much. But the Texans, they don't care. They just

945
00:47:56,239 --> 00:47:59,920
Speaker 3: want to play play ball, keep going, play Saturday, win Saturday,

946
00:48:00,360 --> 00:48:04,600
Speaker 3: keep going against the La Chargers. I'll get used to

947
00:48:04,640 --> 00:48:06,520
Speaker 3: saying that. I know It's been years, but I'm still

948
00:48:06,560 --> 00:48:08,120
Speaker 3: not used to it. We actually did a game out

949
00:48:08,160 --> 00:48:10,840
Speaker 3: there when Philip Rivers was still playing at that soccer

950
00:48:10,960 --> 00:48:14,360
Speaker 3: stadium they played at in Carson and that was a

951
00:48:14,440 --> 00:48:16,719
Speaker 3: weird day in twenty nineteen. So they've been out there

952
00:48:16,800 --> 00:48:19,920
Speaker 3: for numerous years, but I'm still not used to it.

953
00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:22,200
Speaker 3: There's still the San Diego Chargers to me, just like

954
00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:25,040
Speaker 3: the Raiders, Oakland, even LA. You know, if you grew

955
00:48:25,120 --> 00:48:27,720
Speaker 3: up in the eighties or we're a big time NFL

956
00:48:27,800 --> 00:48:29,200
Speaker 3: fan of the eighties, you kind of get used to

957
00:48:29,200 --> 00:48:31,040
Speaker 3: saying the LA Raiders, and they still have a ton

958
00:48:31,120 --> 00:48:33,960
Speaker 3: of fans in LA. By the way, I digress. Let's

959
00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:37,120
Speaker 3: get to our conversation. We caught up with Endy Kalu

960
00:48:37,200 --> 00:48:39,640
Speaker 3: this morning. Now Andy's gonna be in tomorrow and we'll

961
00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:41,600
Speaker 3: talk with Wade Smith about the playoffs and a bunch

962
00:48:41,640 --> 00:48:43,920
Speaker 3: of other things. But here's some of the stuff with

963
00:48:44,239 --> 00:48:47,719
Speaker 3: n D including his thoughts on the Derek Barnett touchdown

964
00:48:47,920 --> 00:48:50,319
Speaker 3: and everything it meant to the team, to the d line,

965
00:48:50,600 --> 00:48:50,880
Speaker 3: all of.

966
00:48:50,920 --> 00:48:53,600
Speaker 9: It, not only does the fire of the whole team

967
00:48:53,680 --> 00:48:55,800
Speaker 9: and fire as of all the old has been guys

968
00:48:55,840 --> 00:48:57,879
Speaker 9: that played in the trenches. You just love to see

969
00:48:58,200 --> 00:49:00,800
Speaker 9: those big defensive linemen one get their hands on the

970
00:49:00,920 --> 00:49:03,759
Speaker 9: ball to show what type of athletes they are by

971
00:49:03,840 --> 00:49:06,120
Speaker 9: running it. But then the flip into the end zone

972
00:49:06,160 --> 00:49:08,600
Speaker 9: with something I'm still not sure exactly what happened, John,

973
00:49:08,640 --> 00:49:10,879
Speaker 9: You probably had a better view, don't. Did he mean

974
00:49:10,960 --> 00:49:13,520
Speaker 9: to flip or was he flipped in it? But either way,

975
00:49:13,600 --> 00:49:15,879
Speaker 9: I mean, I was just smiling from ear to ear

976
00:49:15,960 --> 00:49:17,239
Speaker 9: while that play was going down.

977
00:49:18,040 --> 00:49:22,120
Speaker 2: He's carrying Mason Kinsey on that like he's carrying like

978
00:49:22,239 --> 00:49:25,120
Speaker 2: Kingsey hits him into the twelve yard line and then

979
00:49:25,280 --> 00:49:28,560
Speaker 2: kind of struggling to grab something, and finally by about

980
00:49:28,600 --> 00:49:32,239
Speaker 2: the three or four yard line, Barnett just kind of

981
00:49:32,320 --> 00:49:34,360
Speaker 2: carried him like all right, you're going with me. And

982
00:49:34,640 --> 00:49:36,560
Speaker 2: I don't know if he was trying to suplex Kinsey

983
00:49:36,680 --> 00:49:39,040
Speaker 2: or Kensey was trying to rip the ball or Barnett

984
00:49:39,080 --> 00:49:41,880
Speaker 2: flip it was. It was all really really cool, but

985
00:49:42,040 --> 00:49:46,960
Speaker 2: Indy kind of the camaraderie chemistry part of that was

986
00:49:47,320 --> 00:49:50,960
Speaker 2: how everybody reacted to Derek going and scoring that touchdown

987
00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:53,080
Speaker 2: the second one this year. How much does that worth

988
00:49:53,120 --> 00:49:55,319
Speaker 2: to a team, especially going into the playoffs and kind

989
00:49:55,360 --> 00:49:58,480
Speaker 2: of have a little moment like that in your finale

990
00:49:58,560 --> 00:49:59,200
Speaker 2: as you head.

991
00:49:59,040 --> 00:50:01,400
Speaker 1: Into those big game and the big one against the Chargers.

992
00:50:02,239 --> 00:50:02,919
Speaker 6: No, that's huge.

993
00:50:03,120 --> 00:50:05,279
Speaker 9: It tells you one what the locker room is like.

994
00:50:05,440 --> 00:50:07,720
Speaker 9: You have a bunch of guys, even on the offensive

995
00:50:07,760 --> 00:50:10,120
Speaker 9: side of the ball, getting that excited. Of course, you're

996
00:50:10,120 --> 00:50:12,600
Speaker 9: gonna get excited when your teammate makes a play like that,

997
00:50:12,760 --> 00:50:15,080
Speaker 9: but you can tell it was genuine. That wasn't just

998
00:50:15,200 --> 00:50:18,080
Speaker 9: football like there's a there's a love, there's a bomb

999
00:50:18,160 --> 00:50:19,960
Speaker 9: there with that team. And it also lets you know

1000
00:50:20,120 --> 00:50:23,000
Speaker 9: a lot about Derek Barnett and maybe his story going

1001
00:50:23,040 --> 00:50:26,040
Speaker 9: from a first round pick to potentially being labeled a

1002
00:50:26,160 --> 00:50:28,719
Speaker 9: bust and the Texans pick him up and late last

1003
00:50:28,760 --> 00:50:31,040
Speaker 9: season he really showed his value until what he's.

1004
00:50:30,920 --> 00:50:31,560
Speaker 6: Done this year.

1005
00:50:31,680 --> 00:50:34,680
Speaker 9: So I think, yeah, going into the playoffs, it couldn't

1006
00:50:34,680 --> 00:50:37,719
Speaker 9: have been a better day. Yesterday. I thought that they

1007
00:50:37,719 --> 00:50:40,680
Speaker 9: should arrest everybody, But I love what Dimiko did. He said, no,

1008
00:50:40,960 --> 00:50:42,839
Speaker 9: let me get this offense out there. Let me get

1009
00:50:42,880 --> 00:50:44,960
Speaker 9: my starters out there early on to prove that they

1010
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:47,520
Speaker 9: can drive down on the NFL team and score. They

1011
00:50:47,640 --> 00:50:50,200
Speaker 9: did that, and then your backups they took over from there.

1012
00:50:50,480 --> 00:50:52,799
Speaker 9: You know Derek Barnett, he's a guy who's gonna get

1013
00:50:52,840 --> 00:50:54,840
Speaker 9: some snaps in the playoffs. You got a guy like

1014
00:50:54,960 --> 00:50:57,320
Speaker 9: Damian Pierce, He's gonna get some snaps in the playoffs,

1015
00:50:57,600 --> 00:50:58,400
Speaker 9: and he's shown.

1016
00:50:58,239 --> 00:50:59,440
Speaker 6: You that he is capable.

1017
00:50:59,520 --> 00:51:01,920
Speaker 9: I just I feel like, now you're going into that

1018
00:51:02,000 --> 00:51:04,080
Speaker 9: playoff game with a positive feeling.

1019
00:51:04,840 --> 00:51:07,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's get into that a little bit more d

1020
00:51:07,520 --> 00:51:09,799
Speaker 3: because I felt the same way. Shouldn't you just rest

1021
00:51:10,000 --> 00:51:14,240
Speaker 3: all the key people? But Demiko rans made the decision

1022
00:51:14,520 --> 00:51:17,879
Speaker 3: and clearly it worked as far as yesterday's game goes

1023
00:51:18,239 --> 00:51:21,880
Speaker 3: and the positive feeling, it felt like all the enjoyment

1024
00:51:22,040 --> 00:51:25,400
Speaker 3: was back with these players. They were playing with the passion, intensity,

1025
00:51:25,640 --> 00:51:28,840
Speaker 3: joy that Demiica wants to see them play with. What

1026
00:51:29,080 --> 00:51:31,640
Speaker 3: does that do for them this week as they get

1027
00:51:31,680 --> 00:51:32,840
Speaker 3: ready to face the Chargers.

1028
00:51:33,800 --> 00:51:35,640
Speaker 9: You know what you go into practice because when it's

1029
00:51:35,640 --> 00:51:37,320
Speaker 9: all said and done, it's all about what you do

1030
00:51:37,520 --> 00:51:40,280
Speaker 9: during the week. And with the way they ended the season,

1031
00:51:40,360 --> 00:51:42,600
Speaker 9: the way they ended that game, Mark, I just get

1032
00:51:42,640 --> 00:51:45,440
Speaker 9: the sense that going into the practice not too tense,

1033
00:51:45,640 --> 00:51:48,600
Speaker 9: you know, not overthinking it. If for some reason they

1034
00:51:48,600 --> 00:51:51,160
Speaker 9: would have lost that game or they didn't play well,

1035
00:51:51,880 --> 00:51:53,719
Speaker 9: there would have been that great cloud over your head.

1036
00:51:53,800 --> 00:51:55,840
Speaker 9: Like man our last four or five games haven't been

1037
00:51:55,960 --> 00:51:59,480
Speaker 9: up to par. You're gonna be overthinking it every snap

1038
00:51:59,560 --> 00:52:01,840
Speaker 9: at practice is you know it's gonna be under scrutiny.

1039
00:52:02,200 --> 00:52:04,080
Speaker 9: Now you're kind of going back to the team that

1040
00:52:04,160 --> 00:52:07,680
Speaker 9: we know in love where they're working hard, they're busting

1041
00:52:07,719 --> 00:52:09,279
Speaker 9: their tail, but they're doing it with a smile on

1042
00:52:09,360 --> 00:52:12,200
Speaker 9: their face, and you don't get so tight to where

1043
00:52:12,239 --> 00:52:14,440
Speaker 9: you don't really let your true talent show. I've been

1044
00:52:14,480 --> 00:52:17,640
Speaker 9: in games where you over because you wanted it so much,

1045
00:52:17,680 --> 00:52:20,520
Speaker 9: you wanted it so bad, and things weren't going your way.

1046
00:52:21,160 --> 00:52:24,400
Speaker 9: You just overthought everything. You practice hard, but it just

1047
00:52:24,600 --> 00:52:26,279
Speaker 9: wasn't there, and you didn't have.

1048
00:52:26,400 --> 00:52:28,800
Speaker 6: That loosey, goosey feels that we like to say. And

1049
00:52:28,880 --> 00:52:30,000
Speaker 6: I think they're getting back to that.

1050
00:52:31,719 --> 00:52:33,800
Speaker 2: What do you think yesterday and d of the offensive

1051
00:52:33,840 --> 00:52:38,719
Speaker 2: line configuration? Juice moved over to right guard, tightest state

1052
00:52:38,800 --> 00:52:42,200
Speaker 2: at left guard. I don't know if there was a

1053
00:52:42,440 --> 00:52:45,320
Speaker 2: sack Davis I think got sacked, but I think that

1054
00:52:45,480 --> 00:52:47,960
Speaker 2: was pretty much Yet the pressure was limited on what

1055
00:52:48,160 --> 00:52:50,400
Speaker 2: they saw on the offensive line of thought played well.

1056
00:52:50,400 --> 00:52:52,920
Speaker 2: What did you think of the offensive line configuration yesterday

1057
00:52:53,280 --> 00:52:55,240
Speaker 2: and you like it going forward against the Chargers.

1058
00:52:56,320 --> 00:52:57,759
Speaker 9: No, I like it, and we have no choice but

1059
00:52:57,960 --> 00:53:01,320
Speaker 9: to like it. Ain't like you mentioned with protection. The

1060
00:53:01,400 --> 00:53:04,640
Speaker 9: only thing that bothered me and I'm sure bothered thousands

1061
00:53:04,680 --> 00:53:08,719
Speaker 9: of Texan fans. You guys are arguably you're you could

1062
00:53:08,800 --> 00:53:12,000
Speaker 9: argue your best offensive player and Lemony Tunsel with you know,

1063
00:53:12,120 --> 00:53:12,920
Speaker 9: two penalties.

1064
00:53:13,120 --> 00:53:14,880
Speaker 6: You just can't have that. You can't have that in

1065
00:53:14,960 --> 00:53:15,440
Speaker 6: the playoffs.

1066
00:53:15,440 --> 00:53:18,040
Speaker 9: I mean, with the way the charges of it been playing,

1067
00:53:18,400 --> 00:53:21,399
Speaker 9: with how hot they are, well three they've won three

1068
00:53:21,520 --> 00:53:24,279
Speaker 9: their last three games, if I'm not mistaken, you can't

1069
00:53:24,320 --> 00:53:27,200
Speaker 9: have those type of penalties, especially when it's coming from

1070
00:53:27,239 --> 00:53:31,600
Speaker 9: your best player. So overall, yeah, definitely like the you know,

1071
00:53:31,719 --> 00:53:34,719
Speaker 9: the offensive line lineup with what we have, but you're

1072
00:53:34,760 --> 00:53:37,120
Speaker 9: gonna need your best player, your most experienced player, to.

1073
00:53:37,120 --> 00:53:37,600
Speaker 6: Play like it.

1074
00:53:38,360 --> 00:53:42,960
Speaker 3: And the mindset it's a new season, discuss that with us.

1075
00:53:43,040 --> 00:53:46,279
Speaker 3: You've been through this the regular season. You did what

1076
00:53:46,440 --> 00:53:49,320
Speaker 3: you did, None of it matters. Now it's a brand

1077
00:53:49,480 --> 00:53:52,000
Speaker 3: new day. How are the guys feeling this week? We

1078
00:53:52,080 --> 00:53:54,480
Speaker 3: talked about the positive results of the game yesterday, but

1079
00:53:54,840 --> 00:53:58,040
Speaker 3: what about the total reset that occurs this time of

1080
00:53:58,160 --> 00:53:59,000
Speaker 3: year for all the teams.

1081
00:53:59,080 --> 00:54:02,080
Speaker 9: Really, no, that's what's great about it. Not only is

1082
00:54:02,120 --> 00:54:05,200
Speaker 9: it a reset, and it truly is, just like you mentioned,

1083
00:54:05,239 --> 00:54:07,880
Speaker 9: an entirely new season, and you get to start that

1084
00:54:07,960 --> 00:54:10,960
Speaker 9: season at home. So you're feeling good about it. You're

1085
00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:15,000
Speaker 9: feeling good. You've got some guys to get some rest,

1086
00:54:15,360 --> 00:54:16,799
Speaker 9: so a lot of those guys are gonna be fresh,

1087
00:54:16,880 --> 00:54:19,160
Speaker 9: Will Anderson, Daniel Hunter, They're gonna be chomping at the

1088
00:54:19,239 --> 00:54:20,960
Speaker 9: bid to get back on the field.

1089
00:54:21,160 --> 00:54:22,880
Speaker 6: I just I think it played out perfectly.

1090
00:54:22,960 --> 00:54:23,080
Speaker 11: Now.

1091
00:54:23,120 --> 00:54:25,840
Speaker 9: You have to take care of business literally starting today

1092
00:54:26,040 --> 00:54:28,760
Speaker 9: until Thursday. And the reason I say Thursday because Friday

1093
00:54:28,840 --> 00:54:31,799
Speaker 9: is gonna be a walk through. Then Saturday you play,

1094
00:54:31,920 --> 00:54:35,840
Speaker 9: so like the work really starts now. I'm a true believer,

1095
00:54:35,960 --> 00:54:38,800
Speaker 9: and you win the games during the week and on

1096
00:54:38,960 --> 00:54:41,400
Speaker 9: Sunday the results just go out and show themselves. So

1097
00:54:41,520 --> 00:54:43,880
Speaker 9: this is where you're really gonna win this game. But

1098
00:54:44,040 --> 00:54:46,960
Speaker 9: the season is O one, o zero zero, and you

1099
00:54:47,080 --> 00:54:49,439
Speaker 9: get your first game at home. I'm telling you, there's

1100
00:54:49,480 --> 00:54:52,440
Speaker 9: a bunch of smiles going around at NRG right now.

1101
00:54:53,320 --> 00:54:56,279
Speaker 2: And they the other side of this, teams that don't

1102
00:54:56,360 --> 00:54:58,720
Speaker 2: do exceeding me well or haven't had a great season

1103
00:54:59,160 --> 00:55:02,760
Speaker 2: or whatever the case might be, and coaches are fired,

1104
00:55:03,000 --> 00:55:04,839
Speaker 2: and we know players are gonna end up losing jobs

1105
00:55:04,880 --> 00:55:07,839
Speaker 2: and all that, but that doesn't happen immediately. You find

1106
00:55:07,880 --> 00:55:09,880
Speaker 2: out maybe in you know, April or May, when you're

1107
00:55:09,920 --> 00:55:12,040
Speaker 2: not brought back for ot it's like, oh man, maybe

1108
00:55:12,120 --> 00:55:14,600
Speaker 2: I'm not coming back to the Texans or the Packers

1109
00:55:14,719 --> 00:55:17,560
Speaker 2: or the Browns or whatever. What's it like for players

1110
00:55:17,680 --> 00:55:22,240
Speaker 2: when they have or they see head coaches, coordinators, position

1111
00:55:22,440 --> 00:55:26,840
Speaker 2: coaches get fired. What's that dynamic like for players? Is

1112
00:55:26,920 --> 00:55:29,200
Speaker 2: it okay, it's just business. You kind of move on

1113
00:55:29,320 --> 00:55:32,719
Speaker 2: to the next Is it case by case basis, like man,

1114
00:55:32,719 --> 00:55:33,719
Speaker 2: I really like that coach.

1115
00:55:33,760 --> 00:55:35,680
Speaker 1: I wish you would have stayed, or wish you could

1116
00:55:35,719 --> 00:55:36,200
Speaker 1: have stayed.

1117
00:55:36,480 --> 00:55:37,920
Speaker 2: What's the kind of what's this day kind of like

1118
00:55:38,520 --> 00:55:41,520
Speaker 2: for the players as they kind of see coaches and

1119
00:55:41,600 --> 00:55:44,920
Speaker 2: people that led them being removed from their positions with

1120
00:55:44,960 --> 00:55:45,440
Speaker 2: their teams.

1121
00:55:46,480 --> 00:55:49,000
Speaker 9: It's literally all of the above. Everything you said pretty

1122
00:55:49,080 --> 00:55:51,080
Speaker 9: much answers the question. Most of the guys know, you

1123
00:55:51,160 --> 00:55:53,680
Speaker 9: know what, this is a business, and as heartless as

1124
00:55:53,719 --> 00:55:55,640
Speaker 9: it may sound, we know as the business. A lot

1125
00:55:55,680 --> 00:55:57,760
Speaker 9: of players are like, well, you know what those coaches

1126
00:55:57,840 --> 00:56:00,480
Speaker 9: have better deals than us. They have guaranteed content. So

1127
00:56:00,640 --> 00:56:02,719
Speaker 9: when you see your guy get fired, you feel bad

1128
00:56:02,760 --> 00:56:04,680
Speaker 9: for him. You never want to be fired. But when

1129
00:56:04,719 --> 00:56:07,160
Speaker 9: it comes to the coaches and it's like, well, he's

1130
00:56:07,160 --> 00:56:09,440
Speaker 9: gonna get paid his full contract, so he's gonna be okay.

1131
00:56:09,840 --> 00:56:12,960
Speaker 9: If it's a position coach, there's some selfish thought like,

1132
00:56:13,080 --> 00:56:14,919
Speaker 9: oh man, that was my guy. He went to bat

1133
00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:17,239
Speaker 9: for me. You know, he's he's the reason why I

1134
00:56:17,320 --> 00:56:18,840
Speaker 9: have my reps. Who am I going to have to

1135
00:56:20,080 --> 00:56:22,400
Speaker 9: you know, follow now, like who's going to be hit

1136
00:56:22,560 --> 00:56:24,480
Speaker 9: the new position coach? Who's going to be the guy

1137
00:56:24,560 --> 00:56:27,000
Speaker 9: that's making the calls as far as naps? And then

1138
00:56:27,040 --> 00:56:30,279
Speaker 9: a lot of position coaches also, especially the younger ones,

1139
00:56:30,400 --> 00:56:33,160
Speaker 9: you you feel like they are your players, You feel

1140
00:56:33,160 --> 00:56:35,200
Speaker 9: like they're your colleagues. So a lot of times that

1141
00:56:35,360 --> 00:56:37,640
Speaker 9: hurts more than when a head coach, because when a

1142
00:56:37,719 --> 00:56:40,560
Speaker 9: head coach, you feel like, okay, it sucks that you

1143
00:56:40,680 --> 00:56:43,359
Speaker 9: got fired, But when it's all said and done, if

1144
00:56:43,400 --> 00:56:45,319
Speaker 9: you signed a four year deal, you're gonna see every

1145
00:56:45,360 --> 00:56:47,759
Speaker 9: penny of it. And this is a business before it's

1146
00:56:47,800 --> 00:56:50,440
Speaker 9: anything else, So you know, you don't feel too bad

1147
00:56:50,520 --> 00:56:53,520
Speaker 9: for him. But it's the young assistant coach, uh, the

1148
00:56:53,640 --> 00:56:54,880
Speaker 9: one that you could go talk to.

1149
00:56:55,120 --> 00:56:55,279
Speaker 11: You know.

1150
00:56:55,760 --> 00:56:58,600
Speaker 6: We were all in the room well when Al Schier talked.

1151
00:56:58,360 --> 00:57:00,480
Speaker 9: About when Damiko Rans was an assistant coach with the

1152
00:57:00,520 --> 00:57:03,399
Speaker 9: San Francisco forty nine ers and Al Shire was going

1153
00:57:03,440 --> 00:57:06,799
Speaker 9: through some personal things in Demico sat mcar with him

1154
00:57:06,800 --> 00:57:09,440
Speaker 9: for two hours and he said, no, literally two hours.

1155
00:57:09,760 --> 00:57:13,239
Speaker 9: You know, no hyperbole, like that's what those assistant coaches do.

1156
00:57:13,440 --> 00:57:15,680
Speaker 9: So you do feel a little bit closer and your

1157
00:57:15,719 --> 00:57:17,920
Speaker 9: heart goes out to when the assistant coaches get let.

1158
00:57:17,920 --> 00:57:25,800
Speaker 3: Go playoff performance, intensity, aggression versus game plan What I

1159
00:57:25,920 --> 00:57:28,840
Speaker 3: hate to say what's more important? Obviously they're both hugely important,

1160
00:57:28,960 --> 00:57:32,640
Speaker 3: but the amount of intensity, the amount it gets turned

1161
00:57:32,720 --> 00:57:33,640
Speaker 3: up this time of year.

1162
00:57:33,680 --> 00:57:34,520
Speaker 1: We talk about.

1163
00:57:34,640 --> 00:57:38,520
Speaker 3: Preseason, a regular season, but regular season of playoffs versus

1164
00:57:38,640 --> 00:57:39,200
Speaker 3: game planning.

1165
00:57:39,280 --> 00:57:42,360
Speaker 1: Can you discuss that in d No, I'll answer that I.

1166
00:57:42,400 --> 00:57:44,920
Speaker 9: Think, look like you said, they're all important, But if

1167
00:57:45,200 --> 00:57:47,440
Speaker 9: you had to choose one, I'll say the game intensity

1168
00:57:47,560 --> 00:57:52,400
Speaker 9: because I never believed that the game could get any

1169
00:57:52,520 --> 00:57:55,520
Speaker 9: faster than the regular season until my first year going

1170
00:57:55,560 --> 00:57:57,560
Speaker 9: to the playoffs and I was like wow, like I

1171
00:57:57,600 --> 00:58:00,320
Speaker 9: don't know how but it just gets notched up. So

1172
00:58:00,720 --> 00:58:02,800
Speaker 9: the game plans, the game plan. Look, if you have

1173
00:58:02,880 --> 00:58:05,400
Speaker 9: the flats, do you have the flats? If you have

1174
00:58:05,520 --> 00:58:07,440
Speaker 9: the A gap, you have the A gap. You know

1175
00:58:07,640 --> 00:58:11,160
Speaker 9: that that's that you can take care of that regardless.

1176
00:58:11,200 --> 00:58:13,680
Speaker 9: But it's that intensity. You have to match that intensity.

1177
00:58:13,720 --> 00:58:14,400
Speaker 6: You have to bring it.

1178
00:58:14,680 --> 00:58:17,600
Speaker 9: You have to make those plays. You know, the passes

1179
00:58:17,640 --> 00:58:21,280
Speaker 9: broken up have to be interceptions. The interceptions for a

1180
00:58:21,400 --> 00:58:24,080
Speaker 9: ten yard game has to be an exception for six

1181
00:58:24,640 --> 00:58:27,240
Speaker 9: not six yards, but six points. Those are the things

1182
00:58:27,280 --> 00:58:30,360
Speaker 9: that kind of get you to the next the next game,

1183
00:58:30,440 --> 00:58:31,640
Speaker 9: the next round of the playoffs.

1184
00:58:31,680 --> 00:58:34,120
Speaker 6: So to answer your question the intensity.

1185
00:58:34,880 --> 00:58:37,280
Speaker 2: Indeed, did you ever have a situation in the playoffs

1186
00:58:37,280 --> 00:58:40,080
Speaker 2: where you played a division team in the playoffs?

1187
00:58:40,120 --> 00:58:41,320
Speaker 1: Did you ever hur of that situation?

1188
00:58:42,920 --> 00:58:45,200
Speaker 9: You know what, I'm gonna have to go back and look,

1189
00:58:45,840 --> 00:58:48,680
Speaker 9: but I don't think so. And today the truth John,

1190
00:58:49,320 --> 00:58:51,840
Speaker 9: when you're in it, you're not really thinking, oh wow,

1191
00:58:51,960 --> 00:58:54,720
Speaker 9: this is different. We're playing you know, division playoff. It's

1192
00:58:54,800 --> 00:58:57,840
Speaker 9: just no that that those guys in different colored jerseys

1193
00:58:57,840 --> 00:58:59,920
Speaker 9: they're trying to send me home. So I would have

1194
00:59:00,160 --> 00:59:01,880
Speaker 9: to go back and see when I was in Philly,

1195
00:59:02,000 --> 00:59:04,720
Speaker 9: did we ever play well, Not doubtas because they sucked

1196
00:59:04,760 --> 00:59:07,240
Speaker 9: so they didn't go to well. But but you know

1197
00:59:07,520 --> 00:59:10,960
Speaker 9: Washington or maybe New York, maybe we played the Giants.

1198
00:59:11,040 --> 00:59:14,400
Speaker 9: But you're not really thinking about, oh, this is a

1199
00:59:14,480 --> 00:59:16,960
Speaker 9: division or they're from this you know conference. It's just

1200
00:59:17,040 --> 00:59:19,080
Speaker 9: like they're trying to send us home and we're trying

1201
00:59:19,080 --> 00:59:20,160
Speaker 9: to get to the Promised Land.

1202
00:59:20,560 --> 00:59:24,160
Speaker 1: So Green Bay's going to Philly on Sunday.

1203
00:59:24,320 --> 00:59:25,040
Speaker 6: Is that a Sunday?

1204
00:59:25,160 --> 00:59:28,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, because Steel's Ravens is Saturday, So Sunday the Packers

1205
00:59:28,480 --> 00:59:29,920
Speaker 2: are taking on the Eagles.

1206
00:59:31,040 --> 00:59:34,080
Speaker 1: What's the environment like for a playoff game in Philly, Indy?

1207
00:59:35,000 --> 00:59:38,120
Speaker 9: Oh, man, I wish you could see me right now.

1208
00:59:38,160 --> 00:59:39,760
Speaker 9: As soon as you ask that question, I just had

1209
00:59:39,800 --> 00:59:43,080
Speaker 9: a huge smile on my face. It's electric. It is

1210
00:59:43,480 --> 00:59:48,080
Speaker 9: like holiday season the whole city because the city itself

1211
00:59:48,280 --> 00:59:50,800
Speaker 9: is in a great city like Houston, so it's just

1212
00:59:51,040 --> 00:59:54,600
Speaker 9: all about the Eagles. So you just feel like it's

1213
00:59:54,640 --> 00:59:57,880
Speaker 9: something in the air. And that cold, gray, disgusting looking

1214
00:59:57,960 --> 01:00:02,560
Speaker 9: aaron Philly, there's just a positive. Everybody's walking around with

1215
01:00:02,640 --> 01:00:06,400
Speaker 9: a smile on their face. The warring mob units, the

1216
01:00:06,560 --> 01:00:08,880
Speaker 9: different my fields are shaking hands during the week of

1217
01:00:08,960 --> 01:00:11,680
Speaker 9: playoffs because all the violence is gonna stop for that week.

1218
01:00:11,800 --> 01:00:15,360
Speaker 9: But it's just it's something that's truly in the air,

1219
01:00:15,840 --> 01:00:19,920
Speaker 9: and everybody is on board and excited, even if you

1220
01:00:20,000 --> 01:00:21,640
Speaker 9: know some of the years we kind of limped into

1221
01:00:21,680 --> 01:00:24,640
Speaker 9: the playoffs. Once you get in and in Philly, it

1222
01:00:24,840 --> 01:00:26,640
Speaker 9: is just a beautiful thing. But I will say this,

1223
01:00:27,120 --> 01:00:30,480
Speaker 9: and this is a good thing. Typically players are like, hey,

1224
01:00:30,480 --> 01:00:32,160
Speaker 9: I'm doing this for my family. I'm doing it for

1225
01:00:32,240 --> 01:00:34,919
Speaker 9: the guys in the locker room. When you were in Philadelphia,

1226
01:00:35,040 --> 01:00:37,880
Speaker 9: you felt the pressure of the fan base, like you

1227
01:00:38,240 --> 01:00:40,600
Speaker 9: definitely put that on your priority list, Like, man, if

1228
01:00:40,640 --> 01:00:42,760
Speaker 9: we lose this game, it's it's gonna be hard to

1229
01:00:42,800 --> 01:00:45,000
Speaker 9: walk around town. It's gonna be a little bit embarrassing

1230
01:00:45,600 --> 01:00:48,600
Speaker 9: because they're so vesting, they're so invested in the team.

1231
01:00:49,840 --> 01:00:53,360
Speaker 3: What do you think Demiko Ryans is learning as he

1232
01:00:53,520 --> 01:00:55,960
Speaker 3: goes here as a head coach. This is back to

1233
01:00:56,080 --> 01:00:59,200
Speaker 3: back season's ten wins division championships. We know that this

1234
01:00:59,360 --> 01:01:02,160
Speaker 3: season is some rough spots. There's no question about that.

1235
01:01:02,720 --> 01:01:04,520
Speaker 3: We don't have to go over all the rough spots,

1236
01:01:04,920 --> 01:01:07,200
Speaker 3: but here you are, what do you think he's going

1237
01:01:07,320 --> 01:01:10,960
Speaker 3: through as a head coach? Year two, because look, we

1238
01:01:11,000 --> 01:01:14,280
Speaker 3: all have to learn. He's learning, he's getting better. He's

1239
01:01:14,320 --> 01:01:16,800
Speaker 3: the first one to say that he is. It's an

1240
01:01:16,920 --> 01:01:20,040
Speaker 3: education for him as he's embarked on these first couple

1241
01:01:20,080 --> 01:01:21,760
Speaker 3: of seasons as a head coach. What are your thoughts

1242
01:01:21,760 --> 01:01:22,640
Speaker 3: on that subject, ND.

1243
01:01:23,600 --> 01:01:26,160
Speaker 9: I think he knows this because he's a wise young

1244
01:01:26,280 --> 01:01:29,800
Speaker 9: man in my eyes. But just the experience of you know,

1245
01:01:30,000 --> 01:01:33,160
Speaker 9: last year the honeymoon season, everybody patting him on the back.

1246
01:01:33,680 --> 01:01:35,000
Speaker 6: This year you had times.

1247
01:01:34,840 --> 01:01:36,840
Speaker 9: Where people are saying he needs to fire this guy,

1248
01:01:37,200 --> 01:01:39,840
Speaker 9: or even some ridiculous calls, oh he should be fired.

1249
01:01:40,160 --> 01:01:42,840
Speaker 9: I don't think anybody would common sense actually believe that,

1250
01:01:43,120 --> 01:01:45,920
Speaker 9: but I actually heard it on the radio airwaves. So

1251
01:01:46,040 --> 01:01:49,360
Speaker 9: I think he's experiencing like if you ask him, hey,

1252
01:01:49,640 --> 01:01:52,360
Speaker 9: will this happen? If this happens, like will the will

1253
01:01:52,440 --> 01:01:55,120
Speaker 9: there be this reaction? If this is a result, he'll know.

1254
01:01:55,520 --> 01:01:58,080
Speaker 9: But just for him to experience it, I think it's

1255
01:01:58,160 --> 01:02:02,360
Speaker 9: it's teaching him the field. Okay, one minute they love you,

1256
01:02:02,480 --> 01:02:05,160
Speaker 9: the next minute they hate you, to truly learn how

1257
01:02:05,200 --> 01:02:07,160
Speaker 9: to block out the noise, whether it's good or bad.

1258
01:02:07,200 --> 01:02:09,040
Speaker 9: So I think he's just kind of learning that you

1259
01:02:09,200 --> 01:02:11,920
Speaker 9: have to stay even kill, which he's always done. But

1260
01:02:12,040 --> 01:02:14,040
Speaker 9: but I think now he's actually feeling it as a

1261
01:02:14,040 --> 01:02:15,240
Speaker 9: head coach, if that makes sense.

1262
01:02:16,280 --> 01:02:19,840
Speaker 3: How about this the people hired the year Dimico got

1263
01:02:19,920 --> 01:02:23,440
Speaker 3: hired twenty twenty three? Have these people? How have these

1264
01:02:23,480 --> 01:02:26,240
Speaker 3: people done so far? And just just a quick sentence.

1265
01:02:26,360 --> 01:02:30,200
Speaker 3: Jonathan Cannon, Arizona. Okay, I mean not bad for a

1266
01:02:30,240 --> 01:02:32,880
Speaker 3: while this year, but a bad finish. Yeah, bad finish, right,

1267
01:02:32,960 --> 01:02:39,680
Speaker 3: Carolina Panthers trash, Sean Payton, Denver, Broncos. Oh, pretty good,

1268
01:02:39,760 --> 01:02:46,360
Speaker 3: pretty good? Yeah, Shane Stiking from Indianapolis.

1269
01:02:48,840 --> 01:02:51,600
Speaker 6: Dice put in a bad position. I don't think he's

1270
01:02:51,600 --> 01:02:53,440
Speaker 6: been putting in a bad position with that quarterback.

1271
01:02:53,960 --> 01:02:57,320
Speaker 3: Okay, that's it. They're only five hires that year. Was

1272
01:02:57,400 --> 01:02:59,040
Speaker 3: Dko the sixth? Or was he the fifth? He's the

1273
01:02:59,120 --> 01:03:02,560
Speaker 3: Viker the fifth. I feel those teams wanted to Miko. Ironically,

1274
01:03:02,640 --> 01:03:06,080
Speaker 3: Denver wanted Tomko and they settled for Sean Payton.

1275
01:03:06,240 --> 01:03:09,040
Speaker 1: Okay, this one's for both of you. The NFL posted

1276
01:03:09,080 --> 01:03:10,560
Speaker 1: this picture. It's really it's really cool.

1277
01:03:10,760 --> 01:03:13,240
Speaker 2: It says name an NFL team with a more iconic trio,

1278
01:03:13,800 --> 01:03:16,880
Speaker 2: and it's Detroit and it shows flavor flave.

1279
01:03:17,320 --> 01:03:19,200
Speaker 1: Barry Sanders and Eminem.

1280
01:03:19,640 --> 01:03:23,160
Speaker 2: Now Eminem is wearing a T shirt and I looked

1281
01:03:23,160 --> 01:03:25,240
Speaker 2: at I was like, oh, that's Brian Branch and I

1282
01:03:25,360 --> 01:03:27,960
Speaker 2: was like, man, how cool if you're Brian Branch that

1283
01:03:28,240 --> 01:03:32,040
Speaker 2: Eminem is wearing a shirt with you on it.

1284
01:03:32,760 --> 01:03:33,760
Speaker 1: So this one's for both of you.

1285
01:03:34,440 --> 01:03:39,440
Speaker 2: What famous person would you want wearing an Indie Clue

1286
01:03:39,720 --> 01:03:43,520
Speaker 2: or Mark Vandermir's shirt that would represent like they're wearing

1287
01:03:43,560 --> 01:03:45,000
Speaker 2: that shirt because they loved you.

1288
01:03:45,120 --> 01:03:47,280
Speaker 1: Which entertainer would you want it to be? And d

1289
01:03:47,600 --> 01:03:48,560
Speaker 1: do you have an answer for that?

1290
01:03:50,040 --> 01:03:59,000
Speaker 6: Oh, that's strong, I know how times And that's okay.

1291
01:04:00,120 --> 01:04:02,640
Speaker 11: Then she's tying it up in the front. You know

1292
01:04:02,720 --> 01:04:07,080
Speaker 11: how they do that little yep? Yeah, that's you. You

1293
01:04:07,200 --> 01:04:10,320
Speaker 11: went in that direction, Yeah, fell from Good Times?

1294
01:04:10,480 --> 01:04:11,000
Speaker 10: I love it.

1295
01:04:11,280 --> 01:04:14,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll pick Jimmy Walker. No, I'm not gonna pick

1296
01:04:14,200 --> 01:04:16,520
Speaker 3: Jimmy Walker. If I was going to go in that direction,

1297
01:04:16,920 --> 01:04:18,320
Speaker 3: I would pick Cindy Crawford.

1298
01:04:18,560 --> 01:04:19,080
Speaker 1: I don't care.

1299
01:04:19,400 --> 01:04:23,520
Speaker 3: You know, look any age Cindy Crawford wearing my shirt

1300
01:04:23,680 --> 01:04:24,640
Speaker 3: because I don't have a jert.

1301
01:04:24,720 --> 01:04:26,520
Speaker 1: I need you all to have a DAT pretty soon

1302
01:04:26,600 --> 01:04:28,439
Speaker 1: because you are thinking, I know it's.

1303
01:04:28,440 --> 01:04:31,080
Speaker 3: Terrible, but but if I was actually going to go

1304
01:04:31,240 --> 01:04:34,840
Speaker 3: like Heroes of Mine. I think Jimmy Page at least

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Speaker 3: has a play.

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Speaker 1: Page came out with his guitar and had Mark vandermir

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01:04:39,800 --> 01:04:40,320
Speaker 1: Roll on it.

1308
01:04:40,400 --> 01:04:42,560
Speaker 3: If Jimmy Page told me I'll listen to the games,

1309
01:04:42,680 --> 01:04:45,440
Speaker 3: I think you're very good. Listen that. I don't know,

1310
01:04:45,800 --> 01:04:49,120
Speaker 3: just shut it down, shut it down. That would be

1311
01:04:49,160 --> 01:04:51,280
Speaker 3: the best thing ever ending. By the way, Jimmy Page

1312
01:04:51,440 --> 01:04:53,000
Speaker 3: lead guitarist led Zeppelin.

1313
01:04:52,760 --> 01:04:53,640
Speaker 1: Okay, I know I.

1314
01:04:55,160 --> 01:04:55,919
Speaker 6: Didn't know the group.

1315
01:04:56,480 --> 01:04:59,680
Speaker 3: He was a musician, Okay, And I think he's in Austin.

1316
01:04:59,760 --> 01:05:03,000
Speaker 3: If I I'm not mistaken, I think, yeah, how about that.

1317
01:05:03,080 --> 01:05:04,200
Speaker 3: I think everybody lives in Austin.

1318
01:05:04,480 --> 01:05:06,640
Speaker 2: He gets up on stage at a concert Houston has

1319
01:05:06,720 --> 01:05:08,760
Speaker 2: your face on again rock and roll.

1320
01:05:09,000 --> 01:05:11,720
Speaker 3: Don't even tease me with that. He's playing Cashmere Or

1321
01:05:11,720 --> 01:05:15,960
Speaker 3: if Dan Fouts told me that or Fluty, that'd be

1322
01:05:16,000 --> 01:05:16,360
Speaker 3: big too.

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01:05:16,400 --> 01:05:22,800
Speaker 1: That's that would be Bill O'Brien. Yeah, drop the drop.

1324
01:05:22,840 --> 01:05:26,640
Speaker 3: The Johnny's my guy. Okay, and d thanks so much

1325
01:05:27,080 --> 01:05:31,439
Speaker 3: for joining us. We'll catch it up tomorrow. All there's

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01:05:31,480 --> 01:05:34,360
Speaker 3: our buddy n D. Kalou from this morning Fun Conversation

1327
01:05:34,680 --> 01:05:37,880
Speaker 3: here on Texans Radio and coming up Jamiko Ryans. You

1328
01:05:37,960 --> 01:05:39,640
Speaker 3: heard him earlier on the show. Oh wait a minute,

1329
01:05:39,640 --> 01:05:41,320
Speaker 3: you missed it. We'll have some of the best of

1330
01:05:41,480 --> 01:05:45,880
Speaker 3: to Meeko on the program next his conversation Here in

1331
01:05:45,880 --> 01:05:49,640
Speaker 3: the Hunday Texans Radio studio. It's Texans Radio keeping and

1332
01:05:49,760 --> 01:05:52,400
Speaker 3: rolling here in this bonus hour of Texans Radio tonight

1333
01:05:52,480 --> 01:05:54,760
Speaker 3: with no Monday Night Football, which is weird, by the way.

1334
01:05:54,880 --> 01:05:57,120
Speaker 3: I mean, I love doing this show, but it's weird

1335
01:05:57,200 --> 01:05:59,520
Speaker 3: not to have Monday Night football. One of the interesting

1336
01:05:59,560 --> 01:06:02,160
Speaker 3: things that being in the playoffs, or just having the

1337
01:06:02,200 --> 01:06:05,000
Speaker 3: playoffs occur no matter what team you're a fan of,

1338
01:06:05,840 --> 01:06:09,120
Speaker 3: is that, hey, not everybody's playing anymore. That's so special

1339
01:06:09,360 --> 01:06:11,280
Speaker 3: when you're in it. But it's also kind of sad

1340
01:06:11,360 --> 01:06:13,439
Speaker 3: because you love it when the whole league plays because

1341
01:06:13,440 --> 01:06:16,680
Speaker 3: there's so much going on. But it has to end somehow, right,

1342
01:06:16,760 --> 01:06:19,960
Speaker 3: We have to get into this crescendo of the season,

1343
01:06:20,160 --> 01:06:22,440
Speaker 3: and you want to be part of it. The Texans

1344
01:06:22,440 --> 01:06:24,560
Speaker 3: are part of it. Saturday at three thirty, they take

1345
01:06:24,600 --> 01:06:27,920
Speaker 3: on the Chargers. Now here's a bunch of our conversation

1346
01:06:28,040 --> 01:06:30,720
Speaker 3: with Demko Ryans earlier. In the next segment, you're gonna

1347
01:06:30,760 --> 01:06:33,200
Speaker 3: hear from Mario Edwards and Davis Mills. But right now,

1348
01:06:33,640 --> 01:06:35,960
Speaker 3: Johnny and I in studio with the Miko Ryans, and

1349
01:06:36,000 --> 01:06:39,280
Speaker 3: we started the conversation talking about, hey, this was a

1350
01:06:39,360 --> 01:06:42,360
Speaker 3: big week. It really was, as it turns out, and

1351
01:06:42,400 --> 01:06:44,160
Speaker 3: there was a lot of debate about how to handle this.

1352
01:06:44,280 --> 01:06:46,520
Speaker 3: Do you rest guys, do you not rest guys? Well,

1353
01:06:46,920 --> 01:06:49,439
Speaker 3: they decided to play there guys and then they pulled

1354
01:06:49,480 --> 01:06:52,040
Speaker 3: them and it could not have worked out much better.

1355
01:06:52,280 --> 01:06:55,800
Speaker 3: Stroud six for six mix in and Nico go over

1356
01:06:55,800 --> 01:06:58,880
Speaker 3: a thousand yards a piece. You get some rhythm in

1357
01:06:58,960 --> 01:07:02,120
Speaker 3: the offense, you play well top to bottom, not perfect,

1358
01:07:02,240 --> 01:07:03,960
Speaker 3: but well enough to get the victory and get your

1359
01:07:04,040 --> 01:07:06,000
Speaker 3: tenth victory. Here's to be Ko Ryans.

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Speaker 12: I'm really proud of our guys for how they handled

1361
01:07:08,880 --> 01:07:11,480
Speaker 12: the week versus Tennessee. I know a lot of you know,

1362
01:07:11,600 --> 01:07:13,479
Speaker 12: things are in the era of shit. You rest guys,

1363
01:07:13,560 --> 01:07:16,360
Speaker 12: who's playing? How long are they playing? And man, the

1364
01:07:16,440 --> 01:07:18,280
Speaker 12: way our guys attacked it, you know, it's a lot

1365
01:07:18,400 --> 01:07:21,560
Speaker 12: weather in play like oh it's on the rain and snow,

1366
01:07:21,760 --> 01:07:24,680
Speaker 12: like the way our guys attacked the week. Really proud

1367
01:07:24,720 --> 01:07:27,680
Speaker 12: of them. They were really singular focused. As coach, whatever

1368
01:07:27,760 --> 01:07:30,240
Speaker 12: you got like, let's go, like, however long you want

1369
01:07:30,280 --> 01:07:31,479
Speaker 12: me to play, I'll play.

1370
01:07:32,000 --> 01:07:35,040
Speaker 10: And when you have that mindset, like, good things happen.

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01:07:35,160 --> 01:07:37,360
Speaker 12: So to see our offense go out that first drive

1372
01:07:37,440 --> 01:07:40,840
Speaker 12: and drive down the field, really positive drive, a lot

1373
01:07:40,880 --> 01:07:42,560
Speaker 12: of great things that happened in the finish with the

1374
01:07:42,600 --> 01:07:45,360
Speaker 12: score there then Ekos and couldn't have drawn it up

1375
01:07:45,400 --> 01:07:48,600
Speaker 12: any better than that, And I'm like, okay, guys, that's enough, right,

1376
01:07:49,120 --> 01:07:51,400
Speaker 12: get get guys out of there. But proud of that.

1377
01:07:51,560 --> 01:07:53,600
Speaker 12: The defense, I thought they did a really nice job

1378
01:07:53,680 --> 01:07:57,360
Speaker 12: as well. A Z's getting back out, getting into action,

1379
01:07:58,480 --> 01:08:01,160
Speaker 12: getting reable to get Devin White a little more action

1380
01:08:01,520 --> 01:08:05,080
Speaker 12: this time around. So just overall, guys played well. Different

1381
01:08:05,080 --> 01:08:07,120
Speaker 12: guys were able to show up, make some plays. New

1382
01:08:07,200 --> 01:08:10,760
Speaker 12: guys Solomon burd was able to play in his first

1383
01:08:10,880 --> 01:08:14,280
Speaker 12: NFL game and make a play to help us, Derry

1384
01:08:14,320 --> 01:08:17,320
Speaker 12: Barnett showing up with another testdown.

1385
01:08:18,080 --> 01:08:19,200
Speaker 6: So it was just a lot it was.

1386
01:08:19,520 --> 01:08:20,320
Speaker 10: It was a fun day.

1387
01:08:20,680 --> 01:08:23,040
Speaker 12: It's an exciting time, a lot of plays being made,

1388
01:08:23,080 --> 01:08:24,800
Speaker 12: a lot of guys getting in on the fun.

1389
01:08:25,240 --> 01:08:27,960
Speaker 10: So I'm really proud of how we finished this season.

1390
01:08:28,240 --> 01:08:28,479
Speaker 1: Coulch.

1391
01:08:28,479 --> 01:08:30,040
Speaker 2: You said it last week and I wish I knew

1392
01:08:30,040 --> 01:08:31,880
Speaker 2: exactly how you said it, but basically it was get

1393
01:08:31,960 --> 01:08:36,559
Speaker 2: ball right, like get your fundamentals together, get go back

1394
01:08:36,600 --> 01:08:39,400
Speaker 2: to the basics and get the basis kind of taking

1395
01:08:39,479 --> 01:08:42,040
Speaker 2: care of tackling, blocking, all those kind of things. But

1396
01:08:42,840 --> 01:08:44,160
Speaker 2: one of the things I talked to Mark about it

1397
01:08:44,240 --> 01:08:48,080
Speaker 2: felt like, you know, just the offense operationally, just getting

1398
01:08:48,120 --> 01:08:50,880
Speaker 2: up to the line of scrimmage quickly, everybody.

1399
01:08:50,479 --> 01:08:51,439
Speaker 1: With a sense of urgency.

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Speaker 2: Did you feel like you kind of got that from

1401
01:08:53,760 --> 01:08:55,800
Speaker 2: the guys yesterday on both sides of the ball, that

1402
01:08:55,920 --> 01:08:59,880
Speaker 2: there was a focus on the discipline, on the fundamentals,

1403
01:09:00,080 --> 01:09:01,840
Speaker 2: the things that they can definitely handle and work on

1404
01:09:01,960 --> 01:09:02,360
Speaker 2: during the week.

1405
01:09:02,600 --> 01:09:05,320
Speaker 12: I definitely felt that the fundamentals were right, Like it

1406
01:09:05,520 --> 01:09:08,600
Speaker 12: just comes to blocking, tackling, like catching the football, like

1407
01:09:08,640 --> 01:09:12,040
Speaker 12: the simple things of football that will never go away, right,

1408
01:09:12,160 --> 01:09:14,599
Speaker 12: and you can never lose sight of them as well,

1409
01:09:14,640 --> 01:09:16,519
Speaker 12: because those are the same things. You don't do them

1410
01:09:16,600 --> 01:09:19,160
Speaker 12: the right rate, the right way, then they can cause

1411
01:09:19,200 --> 01:09:21,800
Speaker 12: you some harm. So it's always the focus on the

1412
01:09:21,840 --> 01:09:24,360
Speaker 12: fundamentals for me, and we did a great job of that,

1413
01:09:24,960 --> 01:09:26,639
Speaker 12: you know, particularly with our offensive line.

1414
01:09:26,760 --> 01:09:28,920
Speaker 10: Just how you know we were targeting right.

1415
01:09:29,080 --> 01:09:32,960
Speaker 12: We picked up the pressures really well, quarterbacks, making the

1416
01:09:33,080 --> 01:09:36,560
Speaker 12: right reads on hot answers versus blitz. Just all the

1417
01:09:36,680 --> 01:09:39,720
Speaker 12: things that you talk about, you want to see done efficiently,

1418
01:09:40,240 --> 01:09:43,320
Speaker 12: like that was done on Sunday. Now you just for me,

1419
01:09:43,439 --> 01:09:46,160
Speaker 12: it's like, can we continue that? We have to continue that.

1420
01:09:46,280 --> 01:09:48,559
Speaker 12: It has to carry over right into the playoffs.

1421
01:09:48,720 --> 01:09:50,360
Speaker 3: Well, we know you want to see the guys play

1422
01:09:50,400 --> 01:09:53,439
Speaker 3: with joy, and you saw that when Barnett scores the

1423
01:09:53,520 --> 01:09:55,800
Speaker 3: bench empties. I know you don't want the penalty, but

1424
01:09:55,840 --> 01:09:59,880
Speaker 3: it all worked out. And also Joe Mixing and Siege

1425
01:10:00,080 --> 01:10:01,960
Speaker 3: j in the huddle at one point they had the

1426
01:10:02,040 --> 01:10:03,920
Speaker 3: coaches on, but they were out there with the guys

1427
01:10:03,960 --> 01:10:05,960
Speaker 3: and it just seemed like everybody was having a good time.

1428
01:10:06,040 --> 01:10:07,360
Speaker 1: How important is that part of it?

1429
01:10:07,920 --> 01:10:10,720
Speaker 12: That that's the most important piece to me, Because if

1430
01:10:10,760 --> 01:10:15,040
Speaker 12: you're having a good time, the energy comes from execution.

1431
01:10:15,280 --> 01:10:17,679
Speaker 12: So when you execute, that's when you're gonna have energy,

1432
01:10:17,800 --> 01:10:21,120
Speaker 12: and you can have a lot of energy. You're making

1433
01:10:21,160 --> 01:10:23,880
Speaker 12: a lot of plays and it's gonna be this overflow

1434
01:10:23,920 --> 01:10:28,479
Speaker 12: of enthusiasm, and that's what you saw yesterday. Nobody even

1435
01:10:28,760 --> 01:10:30,800
Speaker 12: pulled CJ out of the game, pulled Joe out of

1436
01:10:30,880 --> 01:10:32,920
Speaker 12: the game, but they weren't out of the get. They

1437
01:10:32,960 --> 01:10:36,120
Speaker 12: were more into the I was bumping into Joe. Joe's

1438
01:10:36,200 --> 01:10:37,960
Speaker 12: on the fields. But man, we're gonna get a penalty.

1439
01:10:38,000 --> 01:10:40,040
Speaker 12: You need to you need to back up. So he

1440
01:10:41,120 --> 01:10:46,280
Speaker 12: still is out there, encouraging our entire offense. CJ's talking today, encouraging,

1441
01:10:46,720 --> 01:10:49,000
Speaker 12: like that's what it is about. Will Anderson got a bit.

1442
01:10:49,320 --> 01:10:50,800
Speaker 12: I got to give him a big fine. He got

1443
01:10:50,880 --> 01:10:51,479
Speaker 12: us a penalty.

1444
01:10:52,600 --> 01:10:54,960
Speaker 10: Running on the field and street clothes.

1445
01:10:55,479 --> 01:10:58,040
Speaker 12: You look up like, coach, Oh, I'm sorry, No, Will,

1446
01:10:58,160 --> 01:11:00,639
Speaker 12: you got a big fine coming. But just to see

1447
01:11:00,720 --> 01:11:04,599
Speaker 12: those guys and how excited they were to see Barnett

1448
01:11:04,880 --> 01:11:07,840
Speaker 12: get in the end though I just normally I'm running

1449
01:11:07,880 --> 01:11:09,479
Speaker 12: down the sideline, but I couldn't even.

1450
01:11:09,360 --> 01:11:10,800
Speaker 10: Tell I see it's this guy up there.

1451
01:11:11,160 --> 01:11:14,439
Speaker 12: Offense did everybody's running and I was like wow, Like

1452
01:11:14,560 --> 01:11:16,920
Speaker 12: that's what I talk about, that special bond, special team.

1453
01:11:17,080 --> 01:11:20,400
Speaker 12: Everybody excited to see each other make plays Like that

1454
01:11:20,600 --> 01:11:22,719
Speaker 12: was it right there. Man, It was fun to watch

1455
01:11:22,800 --> 01:11:26,000
Speaker 12: and fun to see our guys just man, that love

1456
01:11:26,120 --> 01:11:28,360
Speaker 12: they have for each other, that's the makings of a

1457
01:11:28,400 --> 01:11:29,080
Speaker 12: really great team.

1458
01:11:29,160 --> 01:11:31,000
Speaker 1: I remember when Georgia and Florida played each other.

1459
01:11:31,320 --> 01:11:33,960
Speaker 2: Zoe seven and Georgia was kind of down in the

1460
01:11:34,040 --> 01:11:36,879
Speaker 2: dumps and Mark Rick told him, no matter what happens,

1461
01:11:37,120 --> 01:11:40,000
Speaker 2: you go celebrate the touchdown and they're like a one

1462
01:11:40,080 --> 01:11:42,080
Speaker 2: yard no chan Marino and the whole.

1463
01:11:42,080 --> 01:11:45,360
Speaker 1: Entire sideline left and their flags everywhere.

1464
01:11:45,439 --> 01:11:47,360
Speaker 2: But Rick said, after the season, as they kind of

1465
01:11:47,400 --> 01:11:49,560
Speaker 2: got hot, He's like that moment kind of turned it

1466
01:11:49,640 --> 01:11:51,920
Speaker 2: around because he saw a guys starting to have that

1467
01:11:52,200 --> 01:11:55,519
Speaker 2: joy of playing together with one another, which I thought

1468
01:11:55,640 --> 01:11:57,320
Speaker 2: was really really cool when he said that, That's what

1469
01:11:57,400 --> 01:12:00,439
Speaker 2: made me think about that yesterday. But me, you said

1470
01:12:00,439 --> 01:12:03,680
Speaker 2: a little bit earlier coach talking about maintaining the fundamentals

1471
01:12:03,720 --> 01:12:07,360
Speaker 2: and maintaining the discipline. You always want to obviously keep

1472
01:12:07,439 --> 01:12:10,880
Speaker 2: that insight, but then a playoff game comes and you're like, oh,

1473
01:12:11,080 --> 01:12:13,920
Speaker 2: the playoff game, so much emotion, so much on the line.

1474
01:12:14,200 --> 01:12:15,720
Speaker 1: How do you kind of balance the two of.

1475
01:12:15,760 --> 01:12:18,800
Speaker 2: Look, yes, it is important, but you got to make

1476
01:12:18,880 --> 01:12:21,519
Speaker 2: sure that you maintain the stuff that we always talk

1477
01:12:21,560 --> 01:12:22,240
Speaker 2: about day to day.

1478
01:12:22,240 --> 01:12:23,880
Speaker 1: How do you kind of balance that out going into

1479
01:12:23,920 --> 01:12:24,240
Speaker 1: this week?

1480
01:12:24,360 --> 01:12:26,240
Speaker 12: Yeah, you don't lose sight it for me and to

1481
01:12:26,479 --> 01:12:28,880
Speaker 12: make sure guys understand the importance. And I think I

1482
01:12:28,920 --> 01:12:32,160
Speaker 12: don't have to overstate the importance because everybody understands that.

1483
01:12:32,400 --> 01:12:35,240
Speaker 12: Now I lean more into of, Okay, what is it

1484
01:12:35,320 --> 01:12:38,080
Speaker 12: truly gonna take for us to win the game? Because

1485
01:12:38,120 --> 01:12:39,439
Speaker 12: at the end of that's all we want to do,

1486
01:12:40,040 --> 01:12:42,120
Speaker 12: like is win the game. So what is that going

1487
01:12:42,200 --> 01:12:44,559
Speaker 12: to take? And that's going to fall back on, Hey,

1488
01:12:44,760 --> 01:12:48,080
Speaker 12: what's our fundamentals? Like our eyes right, are we making

1489
01:12:48,120 --> 01:12:51,000
Speaker 12: the proper reads, We're blocking the right guy, communicating right?

1490
01:12:51,120 --> 01:12:53,920
Speaker 10: So all of those things, that's what is.

1491
01:12:53,920 --> 01:12:56,160
Speaker 12: Going to be with the heightened intensity of the game,

1492
01:12:56,240 --> 01:12:59,240
Speaker 12: the speed of the game, Man, are you and it

1493
01:12:59,320 --> 01:13:01,760
Speaker 12: comes down to the ball a snap, like, are you

1494
01:13:01,880 --> 01:13:03,880
Speaker 12: in the right place? Are you doing the right thing?

1495
01:13:04,439 --> 01:13:06,719
Speaker 12: And are you doing it as fast and as physical

1496
01:13:06,800 --> 01:13:09,640
Speaker 12: as you can possibly do it? That's what's gonna be

1497
01:13:09,960 --> 01:13:13,240
Speaker 12: the deciding factor in the game. So that's where my

1498
01:13:13,400 --> 01:13:15,120
Speaker 12: focus leans heavily towards that.

1499
01:13:15,320 --> 01:13:17,840
Speaker 3: A few more things about the Tennessee game. Damian Pierce

1500
01:13:17,920 --> 01:13:19,720
Speaker 3: playing as well as he did. You always know you

1501
01:13:19,760 --> 01:13:22,720
Speaker 3: can use Damian Pierce, but that was really nice to

1502
01:13:22,800 --> 01:13:25,000
Speaker 3: see that long run and all the other plays he

1503
01:13:25,120 --> 01:13:27,360
Speaker 3: made throughout the game. He had the nice return Also

1504
01:13:27,439 --> 01:13:29,640
Speaker 3: in the Ravens game, before that, so you have an

1505
01:13:29,640 --> 01:13:32,040
Speaker 3: added weapon. I mean, I know you've had him, but

1506
01:13:32,400 --> 01:13:34,640
Speaker 3: it's different as you're headed to the postseason with that

1507
01:13:34,720 --> 01:13:35,400
Speaker 3: kind of performance.

1508
01:13:35,479 --> 01:13:35,920
Speaker 8: Yeah, it is.

1509
01:13:36,120 --> 01:13:39,000
Speaker 12: I mean when you see that type of performance, everybody understands,

1510
01:13:39,080 --> 01:13:41,960
Speaker 12: like DP has had those performances before, right, you just

1511
01:13:42,040 --> 01:13:44,160
Speaker 12: have to give him more opportunities. And that's where it

1512
01:13:44,240 --> 01:13:46,680
Speaker 12: comes down to, can we get him the ball more,

1513
01:13:46,720 --> 01:13:48,600
Speaker 12: getting more touches. We see what he can do in

1514
01:13:48,680 --> 01:13:51,479
Speaker 12: the return game. He's really been dynamic, one of the

1515
01:13:51,560 --> 01:13:54,719
Speaker 12: best kick returners in the league with the explosive plays

1516
01:13:54,760 --> 01:13:57,400
Speaker 12: that he's made there and then out of the backfield, Like,

1517
01:13:57,520 --> 01:13:59,920
Speaker 12: how can we balance that to get him more touches,

1518
01:14:00,080 --> 01:14:03,719
Speaker 12: get Joe touches. Just all about whatever it takes. Whoever

1519
01:14:03,840 --> 01:14:08,040
Speaker 12: can touch the football and be explosive make plays for us.

1520
01:14:08,080 --> 01:14:09,320
Speaker 10: That's what we need to lean into.

1521
01:14:09,479 --> 01:14:13,040
Speaker 12: And DP showed his entire team yesterday that he could

1522
01:14:13,040 --> 01:14:14,080
Speaker 12: still make those plays.

1523
01:14:14,280 --> 01:14:16,320
Speaker 2: Coach, one of the things that Mark and I talked

1524
01:14:16,360 --> 01:14:19,720
Speaker 2: about earlier this morning was when you have a game

1525
01:14:19,880 --> 01:14:21,840
Speaker 2: like that yesterday and you're trying to keep some guys

1526
01:14:22,040 --> 01:14:24,720
Speaker 2: healthy and you know, CJ. Joe come out of the game,

1527
01:14:24,840 --> 01:14:26,960
Speaker 2: it was like that defensively as well. You get other

1528
01:14:27,000 --> 01:14:29,800
Speaker 2: guys opportunities to go in that maybe you haven't played

1529
01:14:29,800 --> 01:14:31,800
Speaker 2: a whole lot. You mentioned your press or Solomon Byrd

1530
01:14:31,880 --> 01:14:33,680
Speaker 2: got to play an NFL game for the first time.

1531
01:14:34,080 --> 01:14:35,960
Speaker 2: When you see those young guys go out there and

1532
01:14:36,080 --> 01:14:38,519
Speaker 2: they're doing some good things, What did you think about that?

1533
01:14:38,720 --> 01:14:40,720
Speaker 2: From Solomon BRD and some of the guys that we

1534
01:14:40,760 --> 01:14:42,720
Speaker 2: haven't seen a whole lot, do you feel like they

1535
01:14:42,760 --> 01:14:44,640
Speaker 2: went in and took advantage of their opportunity to did

1536
01:14:44,680 --> 01:14:45,160
Speaker 2: some good things.

1537
01:14:45,360 --> 01:14:45,840
Speaker 10: Yeah, I did.

1538
01:14:45,960 --> 01:14:48,720
Speaker 12: You know the one thing I want those guys to

1539
01:14:49,360 --> 01:14:51,920
Speaker 12: always understand, like it's still ball, don't make.

1540
01:14:51,840 --> 01:14:52,880
Speaker 10: It more than what it is.

1541
01:14:53,080 --> 01:14:57,000
Speaker 12: And I think Solomon just how he's rushed it just

1542
01:14:57,080 --> 01:14:59,439
Speaker 12: shows guys, like all the work you put in throughout

1543
01:14:59,479 --> 01:15:02,679
Speaker 12: the year, like this practice squad or you're just going through,

1544
01:15:03,280 --> 01:15:05,160
Speaker 12: you can never lose sight. You don't get caught up

1545
01:15:05,160 --> 01:15:07,519
Speaker 12: in the monotony of just so I'm just practicing, I'm

1546
01:15:07,560 --> 01:15:11,040
Speaker 12: practicing and now oh you get the call. Now you're up, Like,

1547
01:15:11,479 --> 01:15:14,879
Speaker 12: have you been practicing in a deliberate manner to prepare

1548
01:15:14,920 --> 01:15:17,960
Speaker 12: yourself for that opportunity when the time comes.

1549
01:15:18,000 --> 01:15:20,160
Speaker 10: And I think Solomon is a guy who's man.

1550
01:15:20,240 --> 01:15:23,360
Speaker 12: He's out there consistent every day, working hard, taking every rep,

1551
01:15:23,479 --> 01:15:26,960
Speaker 12: giving our offense a great look, and it's deliberate, like

1552
01:15:27,120 --> 01:15:30,240
Speaker 12: he's making sure he's working on his skills, not just

1553
01:15:30,439 --> 01:15:32,519
Speaker 12: going through the motion. And now he goes in the

1554
01:15:32,600 --> 01:15:35,360
Speaker 12: game and he's able to benefit from all the reps

1555
01:15:35,400 --> 01:15:37,000
Speaker 12: he's gotten versus our first team.

1556
01:15:37,080 --> 01:15:39,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, you left the old line out there a little

1557
01:15:39,120 --> 01:15:41,679
Speaker 3: bit longer than some of the other guys in that group.

1558
01:15:41,760 --> 01:15:43,080
Speaker 3: A new setup for that group.

1559
01:15:43,200 --> 01:15:46,280
Speaker 12: What about that performance, Yeah, that left those guys out,

1560
01:15:46,360 --> 01:15:49,560
Speaker 12: you know, tightest Juice getting just more reps at the

1561
01:15:49,600 --> 01:15:52,439
Speaker 12: guard position. With Juice at the right guard, you know,

1562
01:15:52,640 --> 01:15:55,120
Speaker 12: still waiting to see what will happened with Shaq. I

1563
01:15:55,200 --> 01:15:58,080
Speaker 12: thought Juice came back and he didn't miss a beat,

1564
01:15:58,200 --> 01:16:00,360
Speaker 12: Like it was good to have him back. Thought, those

1565
01:16:00,400 --> 01:16:02,719
Speaker 12: guys did a really good job of just being firmed

1566
01:16:03,160 --> 01:16:05,720
Speaker 12: in the interior of our pocket, and that's where we

1567
01:16:05,840 --> 01:16:09,160
Speaker 12: need the most improvement, especially versus those two guys, versus

1568
01:16:09,240 --> 01:16:12,200
Speaker 12: Sweat and Simmons, guys who are big guys, Massac who

1569
01:16:12,200 --> 01:16:14,280
Speaker 12: can move the pocket. It was a really good test

1570
01:16:14,360 --> 01:16:16,600
Speaker 12: for us there to see how we can hold up

1571
01:16:16,880 --> 01:16:19,160
Speaker 12: and give our quarterback confidence that he can step up

1572
01:16:19,200 --> 01:16:21,599
Speaker 12: in the pocket. It's only going to be right if

1573
01:16:21,640 --> 01:16:24,360
Speaker 12: our guards and our center can do a great job

1574
01:16:24,439 --> 01:16:26,880
Speaker 12: of having a firm pocket. So one of those guys

1575
01:16:27,080 --> 01:16:30,000
Speaker 12: get more reps. Blake, young player on the right side.

1576
01:16:30,120 --> 01:16:32,280
Speaker 12: Just wanted him to get as many reps as possible.

1577
01:16:32,520 --> 01:16:35,040
Speaker 12: He can't get enough reps. And I just I like

1578
01:16:35,160 --> 01:16:37,559
Speaker 12: his playst I saw something different from Blake yesterday, how

1579
01:16:37,600 --> 01:16:41,280
Speaker 12: he was finishing plays, especially in run plays, finishing down,

1580
01:16:41,720 --> 01:16:44,639
Speaker 12: pushing the pot fit Like that's what I want to see,

1581
01:16:44,880 --> 01:16:48,599
Speaker 12: Like I want to see that nastiness from offensive lineman.

1582
01:16:48,680 --> 01:16:50,280
Speaker 12: That's how I want you to see you finished. And

1583
01:16:50,439 --> 01:16:52,600
Speaker 12: I was encouraging to see Blake finish the way he

1584
01:16:52,640 --> 01:16:53,320
Speaker 12: finished yesterday.

1585
01:16:53,360 --> 01:16:55,120
Speaker 1: As you were saying that, I got me think, Yeah,

1586
01:16:55,120 --> 01:16:56,280
Speaker 1: that's swarmy behavior.

1587
01:16:56,439 --> 01:16:58,719
Speaker 2: Like as I watch guys now, like I text market,

1588
01:16:59,080 --> 01:17:02,000
Speaker 2: I got swarming Like, I guess that's the adjective I

1589
01:17:02,240 --> 01:17:02,760
Speaker 2: used for him.

1590
01:17:03,280 --> 01:17:05,000
Speaker 1: Okay, Coachester was the end of the regular season.

1591
01:17:05,000 --> 01:17:06,760
Speaker 2: We're gonna get to the playoffs in a second, but

1592
01:17:06,960 --> 01:17:09,639
Speaker 2: let's leave the regular season behind with this right here.

1593
01:17:10,280 --> 01:17:13,200
Speaker 2: Do you have a favorite moment from the seventeen weeks

1594
01:17:13,240 --> 01:17:15,160
Speaker 2: of the regular season, is there one that stands out

1595
01:17:15,200 --> 01:17:16,440
Speaker 2: from the regular season.

1596
01:17:16,880 --> 01:17:18,040
Speaker 1: More more than any others?

1597
01:17:18,200 --> 01:17:24,600
Speaker 12: Favorite moment would have to be the Kayomi kick versus Buffaloe.

1598
01:17:23,720 --> 01:17:25,120
Speaker 10: To get the win, and that was that was the

1599
01:17:25,200 --> 01:17:27,320
Speaker 10: big moment, the big one for me. Okay, good?

1600
01:17:27,439 --> 01:17:30,160
Speaker 3: What about just being able to win ten games back

1601
01:17:30,240 --> 01:17:32,960
Speaker 3: to back division championships back to back. We're not done

1602
01:17:33,040 --> 01:17:36,519
Speaker 3: yet here, but for where you are right now, that's

1603
01:17:36,600 --> 01:17:39,040
Speaker 3: a good step. You're playing a first place schedule and

1604
01:17:39,200 --> 01:17:41,160
Speaker 3: you hit the postseason with double digit wins.

1605
01:17:41,320 --> 01:17:42,719
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean always.

1606
01:17:43,000 --> 01:17:45,560
Speaker 12: I took time yesterday to just you know, reflect on

1607
01:17:45,680 --> 01:17:49,040
Speaker 12: that in the first two years, being able to you know,

1608
01:17:49,960 --> 01:17:52,120
Speaker 12: hit your goal and always the first the goal is

1609
01:17:52,200 --> 01:17:54,800
Speaker 12: to make the playoffs, right, you do that by winning

1610
01:17:54,840 --> 01:17:57,360
Speaker 12: your division. So to be able to do that two

1611
01:17:57,439 --> 01:18:00,600
Speaker 12: seasons in a row, Man, I'm thankful, thankful for this

1612
01:18:00,960 --> 01:18:03,880
Speaker 12: uh to be in this spot, leading this team, and

1613
01:18:04,160 --> 01:18:06,040
Speaker 12: we're hitting in the right direction. A lot of a

1614
01:18:06,080 --> 01:18:07,920
Speaker 12: lot of young guys, a lot of talented guys, a

1615
01:18:07,960 --> 01:18:11,640
Speaker 12: lot of special guys who are hard workers, and so

1616
01:18:11,760 --> 01:18:13,400
Speaker 12: I'm happy to do it with the guys we do

1617
01:18:13,479 --> 01:18:16,280
Speaker 12: it with. Thankful for the opportunity that man we're in

1618
01:18:16,360 --> 01:18:17,759
Speaker 12: postseason football again.

1619
01:18:17,960 --> 01:18:19,479
Speaker 10: Now what do we do with it?

1620
01:18:19,840 --> 01:18:20,000
Speaker 6: Right?

1621
01:18:20,000 --> 01:18:22,519
Speaker 12: And that's always that's always my message to our guys.

1622
01:18:22,960 --> 01:18:24,800
Speaker 12: You punch your ticket, you're in now, how do you

1623
01:18:24,960 --> 01:18:28,040
Speaker 12: maximize that opportunity? And we have to redeem the time

1624
01:18:28,120 --> 01:18:30,800
Speaker 12: that we have, right, you can. You can count the

1625
01:18:30,880 --> 01:18:33,000
Speaker 12: days or make the days count, right, we have to

1626
01:18:33,080 --> 01:18:36,759
Speaker 12: make each day count and if we make it count

1627
01:18:36,920 --> 01:18:39,920
Speaker 12: the right way, we'll get more so, and that's that'll

1628
01:18:39,960 --> 01:18:42,320
Speaker 12: be our message to our guys, like, let's we know

1629
01:18:42,439 --> 01:18:44,840
Speaker 12: we have something special. I feel it in our locker room.

1630
01:18:44,880 --> 01:18:48,760
Speaker 12: I feel the connection, Like we don't want this to end,

1631
01:18:49,400 --> 01:18:52,080
Speaker 12: so let's keep it. Let's keep it going by playing football,

1632
01:18:52,640 --> 01:18:55,480
Speaker 12: playing it with great enthusiasm, with that swarm mentality.

1633
01:18:55,640 --> 01:18:58,280
Speaker 2: It's a Saturday yet, because I'm ready to go. I'm

1634
01:18:58,280 --> 01:18:59,560
Speaker 2: ready to go, but I know you got work to do.

1635
01:18:59,640 --> 01:19:02,879
Speaker 2: So let's let's start talking about those playoffs and the opponent,

1636
01:19:03,520 --> 01:19:06,160
Speaker 2: the Los Angeles Chargers was very deliberate about saying that

1637
01:19:06,439 --> 01:19:10,160
Speaker 2: almost the SD word. Los Angeles Chargers coach, You've seen

1638
01:19:10,240 --> 01:19:14,880
Speaker 2: Lamar Jackson, You've seen Josh Allen, Jared Goff, Patrick Mots.

1639
01:19:14,640 --> 01:19:18,519
Speaker 1: You've seen the great quarterbacks. This year now comes Justin Herbert.

1640
01:19:19,240 --> 01:19:22,640
Speaker 2: Why is he such a great quarterback and why is

1641
01:19:22,680 --> 01:19:25,519
Speaker 2: he a really good fit for that offense in Los Angeles?

1642
01:19:25,680 --> 01:19:28,519
Speaker 12: And Justin stands out as a great quarterback different from

1643
01:19:28,520 --> 01:19:30,320
Speaker 12: the other guys. I think a lot of the other

1644
01:19:30,439 --> 01:19:35,000
Speaker 12: guys get you know, they get highlighted for their ability

1645
01:19:35,080 --> 01:19:38,519
Speaker 12: to move and create extend plays, like Justin does that

1646
01:19:38,720 --> 01:19:41,519
Speaker 12: to a certain extent, but mainly he's to me like

1647
01:19:41,760 --> 01:19:45,040
Speaker 12: the old school like pocket passers, who's really he's trying

1648
01:19:45,040 --> 01:19:48,040
Speaker 12: to identify coverages pre snap, trying to get you to

1649
01:19:48,400 --> 01:19:51,840
Speaker 12: break your disguise, and he's running the play cock down

1650
01:19:52,000 --> 01:19:54,280
Speaker 12: to the last second so he can figure out the coverage.

1651
01:19:54,280 --> 01:19:55,960
Speaker 12: And you know, he does a really good job of

1652
01:19:56,080 --> 01:19:59,320
Speaker 12: trying to stay in the pocket and make the right throws. Understand,

1653
01:19:59,360 --> 01:20:01,639
Speaker 12: he tries to get the coverage to make sure he's

1654
01:20:01,720 --> 01:20:04,000
Speaker 12: right to make the right throw. So he's different in

1655
01:20:04,080 --> 01:20:06,479
Speaker 12: that manner of he's not running all over the place

1656
01:20:06,600 --> 01:20:10,400
Speaker 12: like Lamar or Josh Allen, even you know Mahomes for that.

1657
01:20:10,760 --> 01:20:12,920
Speaker 12: But he stays in the pocket and he makes some

1658
01:20:13,000 --> 01:20:14,960
Speaker 12: really good decisions with the football. I think that's where

1659
01:20:15,000 --> 01:20:18,000
Speaker 12: he stands out as well. He's not throwing a lot

1660
01:20:18,000 --> 01:20:20,400
Speaker 12: of interceptions. Think he has three interceptions on the year.

1661
01:20:20,760 --> 01:20:23,360
Speaker 12: So protecting the football really well in your quarterback and

1662
01:20:23,400 --> 01:20:26,240
Speaker 12: protects the football, you're always gonna put your team in

1663
01:20:26,320 --> 01:20:30,680
Speaker 12: position to be successful. When he's doing that, they run

1664
01:20:30,760 --> 01:20:33,360
Speaker 12: the ball efficiently behind him as well. Good run scheme,

1665
01:20:33,520 --> 01:20:36,679
Speaker 12: good offensive line at the tackle position. Probably their strengths

1666
01:20:36,760 --> 01:20:40,360
Speaker 12: at the tackle with Slater and with Aught, two really

1667
01:20:40,439 --> 01:20:41,320
Speaker 12: good tackles there.

1668
01:20:41,640 --> 01:20:44,320
Speaker 10: So they and they got a core guys, that's right.

1669
01:20:44,479 --> 01:20:46,200
Speaker 12: And the guy that jumps off the tape to me

1670
01:20:46,400 --> 01:20:49,599
Speaker 12: is Lad McConkie, Like, I love watching this table when

1671
01:20:49,640 --> 01:20:51,840
Speaker 12: he's coming out of Georgia. It's like, man, can we

1672
01:20:52,240 --> 01:20:54,000
Speaker 12: find a way to get this guy? Like he's the

1673
01:20:54,040 --> 01:20:57,280
Speaker 12: electric and he's proven that in the NFL, just one

1674
01:20:57,320 --> 01:20:59,720
Speaker 12: of the better route runners in the league that you

1675
01:20:59,720 --> 01:21:03,120
Speaker 12: will from that slot position, a really smart player, and

1676
01:21:03,240 --> 01:21:06,000
Speaker 12: him and Justin they found that connection and they've been

1677
01:21:06,080 --> 01:21:06,960
Speaker 12: making a ton of plays.

1678
01:21:07,200 --> 01:21:10,439
Speaker 3: It's efficient the right word for their offense because Herbert

1679
01:21:10,439 --> 01:21:12,040
Speaker 3: has thrown for a lot more yards than he's thrown

1680
01:21:12,080 --> 01:21:13,760
Speaker 3: for this year. But you mentioned it, he's not turning

1681
01:21:13,800 --> 01:21:15,800
Speaker 3: the ball over. They run the football. They're trying to

1682
01:21:15,840 --> 01:21:18,040
Speaker 3: be balanced. It's a different approach with Jim Harbor.

1683
01:21:18,200 --> 01:21:19,120
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's a different approach.

1684
01:21:19,200 --> 01:21:22,280
Speaker 12: You can tell that's that hardball mentality watching Michigan for

1685
01:21:22,360 --> 01:21:25,000
Speaker 12: the past couple of years and back with the forty

1686
01:21:25,120 --> 01:21:28,599
Speaker 12: nine er, like it's methodical, like let's take our time,

1687
01:21:28,840 --> 01:21:32,240
Speaker 12: let's run the football. They'll get in probably a lot

1688
01:21:32,320 --> 01:21:35,800
Speaker 12: of big personnel groupings where they have two tight ends,

1689
01:21:35,920 --> 01:21:38,360
Speaker 12: two backs on the field or three tight ends, like

1690
01:21:38,680 --> 01:21:40,760
Speaker 12: they're gonna get We're gonna see more big groupings and

1691
01:21:40,840 --> 01:21:42,680
Speaker 12: base They are just gonna run the football. They can

1692
01:21:42,800 --> 01:21:45,439
Speaker 12: try to get in manageable third downs, but they take

1693
01:21:45,520 --> 01:21:47,840
Speaker 12: their time, and I think that's where they kind of

1694
01:21:47,920 --> 01:21:50,760
Speaker 12: just lean on people in that first half is kind

1695
01:21:50,800 --> 01:21:51,160
Speaker 12: of close.

1696
01:21:51,240 --> 01:21:52,880
Speaker 10: In the second half they.

1697
01:21:52,880 --> 01:21:54,840
Speaker 12: Kind of run away with a couple games like they

1698
01:21:54,880 --> 01:21:57,840
Speaker 12: did Hear versus the Raiders, just because they just stay

1699
01:21:57,880 --> 01:21:59,639
Speaker 12: with it. They don't make a lot of mistakes, don't

1700
01:21:59,680 --> 01:22:02,559
Speaker 12: make a lot of negative plays, and kind of shorten

1701
01:22:02,640 --> 01:22:05,240
Speaker 12: the game from that standpoint of their defense. On the

1702
01:22:05,280 --> 01:22:08,040
Speaker 12: flip side, they do such a great job of getting

1703
01:22:08,080 --> 01:22:10,400
Speaker 12: off the field on third down, playing really good in

1704
01:22:10,479 --> 01:22:13,599
Speaker 12: the red zone, so they they limit the amount of points.

1705
01:22:13,640 --> 01:22:16,560
Speaker 12: They're the top scoring defense in the NFL. So with

1706
01:22:16,680 --> 01:22:20,800
Speaker 12: that combination of methodically moving the ball down field offensively

1707
01:22:21,000 --> 01:22:24,640
Speaker 12: limiting points on defense, that's why they're here in the playoffs.

1708
01:22:24,360 --> 01:22:26,120
Speaker 2: Because when you go to the other side of you

1709
01:22:26,200 --> 01:22:27,719
Speaker 2: talking about the defense for a little bit on focus

1710
01:22:27,760 --> 01:22:31,360
Speaker 2: on Derwin. Derwin James is dring the type of player

1711
01:22:31,439 --> 01:22:34,520
Speaker 2: that in certain situations you might treat them like a linebacker,

1712
01:22:34,600 --> 01:22:36,640
Speaker 2: and then there are certain situations where you treat them

1713
01:22:36,680 --> 01:22:39,200
Speaker 2: like a safety. So it maybe changes protection or it

1714
01:22:39,320 --> 01:22:42,160
Speaker 2: changes you know, who's responsible for what in the run game.

1715
01:22:42,280 --> 01:22:43,840
Speaker 1: Is he a kind of player that you have to

1716
01:22:43,960 --> 01:22:44,439
Speaker 1: do that too.

1717
01:22:45,200 --> 01:22:48,679
Speaker 12: Yeah, he's watching the tape like he's if he's anywhere

1718
01:22:48,760 --> 01:22:51,599
Speaker 12: close to the box the count, we got to account

1719
01:22:51,680 --> 01:22:54,280
Speaker 12: for him like he's blitzing. And there a lot of

1720
01:22:54,360 --> 01:22:56,479
Speaker 12: times they don't even try to hide it where a

1721
01:22:56,560 --> 01:22:57,639
Speaker 12: guy is trying to show.

1722
01:22:57,520 --> 01:22:58,960
Speaker 10: Coverage and bliss like Derwin.

1723
01:22:59,080 --> 01:23:01,960
Speaker 12: Literally, he's probably lined up on the line of scrimmage

1724
01:23:02,000 --> 01:23:04,960
Speaker 12: like in the outside linebacker position more so than any

1725
01:23:05,200 --> 01:23:07,680
Speaker 12: defensive back that I've seen this year. And it's not

1726
01:23:07,800 --> 01:23:10,919
Speaker 12: only you know that he's blitzing, but man, he's long, athletic,

1727
01:23:11,040 --> 01:23:13,479
Speaker 12: he's fast, and he's still making plays even though guys

1728
01:23:13,560 --> 01:23:15,920
Speaker 12: know he's coming, but we have to make sure we

1729
01:23:16,000 --> 01:23:18,760
Speaker 12: account for him. He could be linedbacker, safety, like, we

1730
01:23:18,920 --> 01:23:20,400
Speaker 12: just have to make sure we account for him and

1731
01:23:20,439 --> 01:23:21,439
Speaker 12: really protect the edge.

1732
01:23:21,720 --> 01:23:24,200
Speaker 3: Earlier, Coach, you talked about speed in the postseason when

1733
01:23:24,240 --> 01:23:28,000
Speaker 3: we talk about regular season versus preseason speed. Now you

1734
01:23:28,080 --> 01:23:31,360
Speaker 3: get to the postseason versus regular season, what's the difference

1735
01:23:31,479 --> 01:23:32,040
Speaker 3: in speed?

1736
01:23:33,000 --> 01:23:36,000
Speaker 12: It takes up a bit. I want to make sure

1737
01:23:36,280 --> 01:23:38,559
Speaker 12: that's the one thing to make sure our young guys understand.

1738
01:23:38,720 --> 01:23:41,680
Speaker 12: Like it's a different speed, it's a different intense like

1739
01:23:41,800 --> 01:23:45,280
Speaker 12: every play it's a little more intense, like different from

1740
01:23:45,280 --> 01:23:47,920
Speaker 12: the regular season where you have some games where you

1741
01:23:48,040 --> 01:23:50,360
Speaker 12: know you kind of not that it's slow ever, but

1742
01:23:50,880 --> 01:23:54,280
Speaker 12: it's just that intensity factor. You just feel it like different,

1743
01:23:54,320 --> 01:23:56,200
Speaker 12: and if you're not ready for it can shock you.

1744
01:23:56,680 --> 01:23:58,960
Speaker 12: And I've you know, seen some young guys you get

1745
01:23:59,040 --> 01:24:02,240
Speaker 12: in the playoffs and it's like, oh, like, man, that

1746
01:24:02,720 --> 01:24:04,800
Speaker 12: their route is happening a little fat that run, That

1747
01:24:04,920 --> 01:24:07,000
Speaker 12: old lineman is up on me a little faster. That

1748
01:24:07,120 --> 01:24:09,880
Speaker 12: safety is blitzing a little faster than I expect her.

1749
01:24:09,920 --> 01:24:12,400
Speaker 12: Then I saw fence. Well, you have to know right now,

1750
01:24:12,840 --> 01:24:15,200
Speaker 12: everything it's on the line. Like I say, win or

1751
01:24:15,240 --> 01:24:17,920
Speaker 12: go home. It's on the line. So everybody is playing

1752
01:24:18,000 --> 01:24:21,639
Speaker 12: that way. So everybody have to understand, Hey, let's roll.

1753
01:24:21,880 --> 01:24:24,680
Speaker 12: They're fast, We're fast too. Well, let's be on it,

1754
01:24:24,840 --> 01:24:29,320
Speaker 12: I think. And the speed also Mark is also mentally like, man,

1755
01:24:29,400 --> 01:24:31,879
Speaker 12: how quick are you to see this formation?

1756
01:24:32,080 --> 01:24:32,120
Speaker 3: Is?

1757
01:24:32,360 --> 01:24:34,240
Speaker 12: How quick are you to see duran is on the line?

1758
01:24:34,479 --> 01:24:37,560
Speaker 12: Make the adjustment? Like mentally, it speeds up. Physically it

1759
01:24:37,640 --> 01:24:39,519
Speaker 12: speeds up. You have to be prepared for it.

1760
01:24:39,680 --> 01:24:41,960
Speaker 1: What do you remember from your first playoff game as

1761
01:24:41,960 --> 01:24:42,280
Speaker 1: a player?

1762
01:24:42,720 --> 01:24:47,599
Speaker 12: Oh, first playoff game, it's that at the bals yep here.

1763
01:24:48,320 --> 01:24:50,679
Speaker 12: The one thing I remember, it's the JJ Watt that's down.

1764
01:24:52,520 --> 01:24:54,920
Speaker 12: I can never forget that player, you know, standing behind

1765
01:24:55,000 --> 01:24:57,840
Speaker 12: seeing JJ picked the ball off and see it. Man,

1766
01:24:58,000 --> 01:25:00,639
Speaker 12: I'll never forget how crazy it went in the stands,

1767
01:25:00,720 --> 01:25:03,599
Speaker 12: how crazy our fans went when JJ made that play.

1768
01:25:03,880 --> 01:25:05,960
Speaker 12: It's the one that always It'll stick with me forever,

1769
01:25:06,120 --> 01:25:08,880
Speaker 12: and you know, it's kind of what we need this week.

1770
01:25:09,000 --> 01:25:13,080
Speaker 12: And like as I talked about, you know, the playoff atmosphere,

1771
01:25:13,120 --> 01:25:15,720
Speaker 12: getting a home game and why it's important, Like it's

1772
01:25:15,760 --> 01:25:19,200
Speaker 12: important because you home field advantage is that crowd noise

1773
01:25:19,240 --> 01:25:22,479
Speaker 12: that you have, especially with a quarterback like Justin who

1774
01:25:22,560 --> 01:25:25,200
Speaker 12: wants to check at the line of scrimmage. He wants

1775
01:25:25,240 --> 01:25:27,960
Speaker 12: to get into the right play. So, man, how loud

1776
01:25:28,040 --> 01:25:31,080
Speaker 12: can our fans be when they're in the huddle they're

1777
01:25:31,120 --> 01:25:33,960
Speaker 12: coming out of huddle? Like, as much noise as you

1778
01:25:34,000 --> 01:25:36,320
Speaker 12: guys can make. We need it this week for sure.

1779
01:25:36,280 --> 01:25:38,160
Speaker 1: Coach, we need you waving your arms on the side.

1780
01:25:39,280 --> 01:25:40,080
Speaker 10: They won't see me now.

1781
01:25:40,160 --> 01:25:42,120
Speaker 1: That worked last year. That worked last year.

1782
01:25:42,200 --> 01:25:42,600
Speaker 5: I like that.

1783
01:25:43,160 --> 01:25:45,320
Speaker 1: You're getting the crowd going, whatever it takes.

1784
01:25:45,680 --> 01:25:46,160
Speaker 6: I'm with it.

1785
01:25:46,360 --> 01:25:46,680
Speaker 1: All right.

1786
01:25:46,720 --> 01:25:50,920
Speaker 3: There's the head coach coming up, Mario Edwards, Junior Davis Mills,

1787
01:25:51,080 --> 01:25:53,759
Speaker 3: more from Damiico Rimes, and Greg Bailey from ABC thirteen

1788
01:25:53,840 --> 01:25:56,519
Speaker 3: Inside the Game. It's all coming up here on Texans Radio.

1789
01:25:57,439 --> 01:25:59,639
Speaker 3: All right, final segment of the night. With no Monday

1790
01:25:59,760 --> 01:26:02,240
Speaker 3: Night game tonight. Like I pointed out earlier on Monday Night,

1791
01:26:02,320 --> 01:26:05,479
Speaker 3: playoff game next week. But let's do this. Greg Bailey

1792
01:26:05,560 --> 01:26:08,639
Speaker 3: on Inside the Game ABC thirteen Sunday Night's ten thirty five,

1793
01:26:08,680 --> 01:26:11,439
Speaker 3: a show you must watch. He catches up with players

1794
01:26:11,479 --> 01:26:14,000
Speaker 3: and the head coach after the game. So let's get

1795
01:26:14,040 --> 01:26:17,400
Speaker 3: to this conversation, Davis Mills comes in, plays a bunch

1796
01:26:17,760 --> 01:26:20,080
Speaker 3: against the Tennessee Titans, and Mills does well in the

1797
01:26:20,080 --> 01:26:23,599
Speaker 3: AFC South on the road. Let's see in twenty twenty two,

1798
01:26:24,560 --> 01:26:27,320
Speaker 3: his last year as a starter, he won all three

1799
01:26:27,520 --> 01:26:29,680
Speaker 3: AFC South games on the road. Now, I know you

1800
01:26:29,720 --> 01:26:32,240
Speaker 3: didn't want him to win that regular season finale at Indy,

1801
01:26:32,400 --> 01:26:35,360
Speaker 3: but he did on that fourth and long made the plays,

1802
01:26:35,600 --> 01:26:38,120
Speaker 3: made the two point conversion throw as well, and he

1803
01:26:38,200 --> 01:26:40,360
Speaker 3: also beat the Titans and the Jags on the road

1804
01:26:40,760 --> 01:26:43,559
Speaker 3: that year. He also beat the Jags on the road

1805
01:26:43,600 --> 01:26:46,639
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty one, so four game road winning streak

1806
01:26:46,720 --> 01:26:48,760
Speaker 3: in the AFC South for Mills. Now, he didn't start

1807
01:26:48,800 --> 01:26:51,559
Speaker 3: the game against the Titans in the regular season finale

1808
01:26:51,680 --> 01:26:54,519
Speaker 3: this year, but he played a bunch, so kind of

1809
01:26:54,560 --> 01:26:57,320
Speaker 3: a pitcher of record, if you will. Anyway, Greg Bailey

1810
01:26:57,360 --> 01:26:59,240
Speaker 3: caught up with Davis Mills afterwards.

1811
01:27:00,240 --> 01:27:03,360
Speaker 13: Does the overall performance tell you, Davis about where this

1812
01:27:03,479 --> 01:27:04,879
Speaker 13: team is heading into the postseason.

1813
01:27:05,080 --> 01:27:06,280
Speaker 14: I think we're in a really good spot.

1814
01:27:07,160 --> 01:27:09,719
Speaker 15: Obviously, ending the season on a win against the divisional opponent,

1815
01:27:10,200 --> 01:27:12,960
Speaker 15: finishing nine defeated on the road in the division, finishing

1816
01:27:13,080 --> 01:27:15,360
Speaker 15: with ten wins it's big time. I think it's a

1817
01:27:15,400 --> 01:27:17,760
Speaker 15: good confidence build are going in the next week when

1818
01:27:17,800 --> 01:27:19,200
Speaker 15: it really mattered, when it really.

1819
01:27:19,120 --> 01:27:21,400
Speaker 14: Matters, yep. Absolutely. What do you think about Damian Pearson

1820
01:27:21,439 --> 01:27:22,760
Speaker 14: the big run? What was your view on that?

1821
01:27:23,120 --> 01:27:25,800
Speaker 15: I thought he stepped up big time. I mean ninety

1822
01:27:25,800 --> 01:27:27,840
Speaker 15: two yards. It kind of reminds me of his rookie

1823
01:27:27,880 --> 01:27:30,439
Speaker 15: yar when he had the seventy five yarder same way

1824
01:27:30,520 --> 01:27:32,479
Speaker 15: on the right side. I think it might have been

1825
01:27:32,479 --> 01:27:34,040
Speaker 15: in LA when we were playing the Chargers.

1826
01:27:35,160 --> 01:27:35,920
Speaker 6: But it's exciting.

1827
01:27:36,000 --> 01:27:39,479
Speaker 15: Obviously, the offensive line blocked extremely well to get that

1828
01:27:39,560 --> 01:27:42,200
Speaker 15: run game going, and our tight ends or receivers did

1829
01:27:42,200 --> 01:27:44,040
Speaker 15: a really good job as well helping out with that.

1830
01:27:44,160 --> 01:27:45,760
Speaker 15: And DP ran hot hard all day.

1831
01:27:46,280 --> 01:27:48,320
Speaker 13: You found a nice rhythm with some of the guys

1832
01:27:48,560 --> 01:27:51,840
Speaker 13: who may not get that many targets normally Metchi amongst them.

1833
01:27:52,240 --> 01:27:54,679
Speaker 13: What did you think about his contribution and his ability

1834
01:27:54,720 --> 01:27:56,160
Speaker 13: to contribute in the postseason as well.

1835
01:27:56,600 --> 01:27:58,760
Speaker 15: I'm excited for him. I think he continues to show

1836
01:28:00,080 --> 01:28:01,760
Speaker 15: show what he can do every week, and he keeps

1837
01:28:01,800 --> 01:28:05,040
Speaker 15: getting better. He's a really good target running across the

1838
01:28:05,080 --> 01:28:08,160
Speaker 15: field and sure handed. I mean it exciting when he

1839
01:28:08,200 --> 01:28:10,439
Speaker 15: gets on his hands I think he did a good job,

1840
01:28:10,479 --> 01:28:11,800
Speaker 15: and a lot of those other guys stepped up and

1841
01:28:11,840 --> 01:28:13,000
Speaker 15: made some big time plays as well.

1842
01:28:13,200 --> 01:28:16,080
Speaker 13: As you're having success today, I really enjoyed watching the bench.

1843
01:28:16,120 --> 01:28:17,680
Speaker 13: A lot of guys really fired up for you. What

1844
01:28:17,720 --> 01:28:20,280
Speaker 13: does that tell your fans about this team and kind

1845
01:28:20,320 --> 01:28:22,040
Speaker 13: of the vibe going into the postseason.

1846
01:28:22,520 --> 01:28:24,840
Speaker 15: I think we're an extremely close team and have only

1847
01:28:24,880 --> 01:28:27,040
Speaker 15: gotten closer as the season's gone on, and I think

1848
01:28:27,120 --> 01:28:29,439
Speaker 15: we're in a really good spot heading into next week.

1849
01:28:29,840 --> 01:28:32,360
Speaker 13: Do you enjoy getting out there, showing your wears and

1850
01:28:32,400 --> 01:28:33,679
Speaker 13: playing real awfully well today?

1851
01:28:33,880 --> 01:28:34,439
Speaker 6: Oh for sure.

1852
01:28:35,040 --> 01:28:37,960
Speaker 15: I think we got fortunate that the weather held out

1853
01:28:38,080 --> 01:28:39,760
Speaker 15: and we actually had a pretty nice day out there.

1854
01:28:39,880 --> 01:28:41,599
Speaker 15: But it was a lot of fun getting back out

1855
01:28:41,640 --> 01:28:44,320
Speaker 15: there and kind of picking up the rhythm that CJ

1856
01:28:44,479 --> 01:28:46,439
Speaker 15: left the game with and going out and getting a win.

1857
01:28:46,640 --> 01:28:49,400
Speaker 14: Congratulations, we'll see you in the playoff, Davis. Thank you, Bud.

1858
01:28:49,560 --> 01:28:52,599
Speaker 3: There's Gregged Davis Mills also in the locker room, Melee.

1859
01:28:52,920 --> 01:28:55,559
Speaker 3: Mario Edwards had a sack in this one. He's played

1860
01:28:55,600 --> 01:28:57,880
Speaker 3: in this league for a decade and he's never been

1861
01:28:57,920 --> 01:29:01,800
Speaker 3: to the postseason. Johnny Harris's with the defensive lineman Mario

1862
01:29:01,960 --> 01:29:03,000
Speaker 3: Edwards Junior.

1863
01:29:02,880 --> 01:29:05,240
Speaker 1: Mario just getting to win the ten wins? How's it

1864
01:29:05,320 --> 01:29:06,320
Speaker 1: feel feels good?

1865
01:29:06,360 --> 01:29:06,519
Speaker 5: Man?

1866
01:29:06,640 --> 01:29:09,040
Speaker 16: Especially especially I haven't been to the playoffs in almost

1867
01:29:09,439 --> 01:29:11,280
Speaker 16: nine years. This is the second time in ten years,

1868
01:29:11,320 --> 01:29:12,439
Speaker 16: so it feels good to be a part of a

1869
01:29:12,479 --> 01:29:13,400
Speaker 16: team going.

1870
01:29:13,240 --> 01:29:13,839
Speaker 6: To the postseason.

1871
01:29:13,880 --> 01:29:15,360
Speaker 2: Now, we knew we were going to the postseason, but

1872
01:29:15,400 --> 01:29:17,240
Speaker 2: how important was it for you guys to kind of

1873
01:29:17,280 --> 01:29:19,719
Speaker 2: get that taste in the Baltimore game out and played

1874
01:29:19,760 --> 01:29:20,559
Speaker 2: well today game.

1875
01:29:20,920 --> 01:29:22,479
Speaker 16: You want to always go into the postseason on a

1876
01:29:22,520 --> 01:29:24,840
Speaker 16: hot note. So we took a little step back with

1877
01:29:24,960 --> 01:29:26,760
Speaker 16: Baltimore Ravens that we wanted to put our best fook

1878
01:29:26,800 --> 01:29:28,760
Speaker 16: for just one with the Titans, and we came out

1879
01:29:28,840 --> 01:29:30,640
Speaker 16: strong and played fast and finished strong too.

1880
01:29:30,720 --> 01:29:32,160
Speaker 5: So it's good to go into the postseason on a

1881
01:29:32,200 --> 01:29:32,519
Speaker 5: hot note.

1882
01:29:32,680 --> 01:29:34,519
Speaker 1: Titans got a nice little drive going, and then you

1883
01:29:34,680 --> 01:29:36,600
Speaker 1: stopped it with that sack. Take me through how you

1884
01:29:36,680 --> 01:29:37,439
Speaker 1: got to the quarterback?

1885
01:29:37,920 --> 01:29:38,120
Speaker 9: Man.

1886
01:29:38,400 --> 01:29:40,080
Speaker 16: We called a play and it was a thrash where

1887
01:29:40,080 --> 01:29:41,559
Speaker 16: you just basically run through some one's face.

1888
01:29:41,600 --> 01:29:43,960
Speaker 5: And I ran through there and the quarterback happened to

1889
01:29:43,960 --> 01:29:45,320
Speaker 5: be right there, so I was able to follow off

1890
01:29:45,360 --> 01:29:45,639
Speaker 5: on him.

1891
01:29:45,840 --> 01:29:48,080
Speaker 1: Okay, I gotta ask you this, as.

1892
01:29:47,960 --> 01:29:51,519
Speaker 2: A member of the d line room watching Derek Barnett

1893
01:29:51,640 --> 01:29:54,960
Speaker 2: run down the sideline with another football, what are you

1894
01:29:55,040 --> 01:29:55,639
Speaker 2: guys thinking?

1895
01:29:56,080 --> 01:29:56,280
Speaker 5: Man?

1896
01:29:56,560 --> 01:29:57,120
Speaker 1: Another six?

1897
01:29:57,200 --> 01:29:58,880
Speaker 16: Every time he touches the ball, he knows what to

1898
01:29:59,000 --> 01:29:59,280
Speaker 16: do with it.

1899
01:29:59,320 --> 01:29:59,720
Speaker 6: He put it in.

1900
01:30:00,680 --> 01:30:02,720
Speaker 2: How excited are you for next week? I know we

1901
01:30:02,760 --> 01:30:04,720
Speaker 2: got to celebrate you got the twenty five rule, all

1902
01:30:04,720 --> 01:30:06,880
Speaker 2: that kind of stuff. But to get back to the playoffs, Mario,

1903
01:30:07,000 --> 01:30:09,360
Speaker 2: as a veteran guy that's seen some things and been around,

1904
01:30:09,920 --> 01:30:11,400
Speaker 2: how cool is it going to be next week?

1905
01:30:11,439 --> 01:30:13,080
Speaker 1: Whether it's Saturday or Sunday and the just hop in

1906
01:30:13,160 --> 01:30:13,839
Speaker 1: there for the playoffs?

1907
01:30:14,040 --> 01:30:14,920
Speaker 16: It was very cool man.

1908
01:30:14,960 --> 01:30:15,080
Speaker 6: You know.

1909
01:30:15,200 --> 01:30:17,320
Speaker 16: Now it's time, you know, teams to remember play late

1910
01:30:17,439 --> 01:30:18,760
Speaker 16: November and December and things like that.

1911
01:30:18,920 --> 01:30:20,639
Speaker 5: So it's good to be out there on those teams.

1912
01:30:20,920 --> 01:30:23,280
Speaker 1: Mark, congratulations, hell the season man cat away for next week.

1913
01:30:23,320 --> 01:30:24,280
Speaker 6: Thank you, thank you, thank you.

1914
01:30:24,640 --> 01:30:26,880
Speaker 3: Love hearing from Mario Edwards Junior, because you know his

1915
01:30:26,960 --> 01:30:28,840
Speaker 3: dad played in the league, played for the Cowboys and

1916
01:30:28,880 --> 01:30:31,240
Speaker 3: played with Travis Johnson at Florida State. Actually that's a

1917
01:30:31,320 --> 01:30:33,400
Speaker 3: mind blower to me because it makes me feel kind

1918
01:30:33,439 --> 01:30:36,599
Speaker 3: of seasoned, if you will. Anyway, back to Greg Bailey

1919
01:30:36,640 --> 01:30:39,040
Speaker 3: from Inside the Game on ABC thirteen Sunday Nights ten

1920
01:30:39,080 --> 01:30:42,599
Speaker 3: thirty five. He visits with Demiko Ryans after every game.

1921
01:30:42,680 --> 01:30:45,439
Speaker 3: Here's his conversation with the head coach following the win

1922
01:30:45,680 --> 01:30:46,360
Speaker 3: at Tennessee.

1923
01:30:46,600 --> 01:30:48,519
Speaker 13: Dimiko, after your tenthse win of the season, what is

1924
01:30:48,560 --> 01:30:49,880
Speaker 13: your message to your football team?

1925
01:30:50,640 --> 01:30:53,360
Speaker 12: Just so proud of our guys is to get double

1926
01:30:53,439 --> 01:30:56,320
Speaker 12: digit wins for back to back season. So I'm very

1927
01:30:56,400 --> 01:30:58,320
Speaker 12: proud of our guys. Know how hard that is to

1928
01:30:58,439 --> 01:31:02,080
Speaker 12: do in the NFL. So it's a message of just

1929
01:31:02,680 --> 01:31:05,880
Speaker 12: being proud man, grateful for the guys that.

1930
01:31:05,920 --> 01:31:06,600
Speaker 5: We get to work with.

1931
01:31:06,640 --> 01:31:08,320
Speaker 12: I got a special group of guys in there, just

1932
01:31:08,360 --> 01:31:12,280
Speaker 12: specially young men, so always just grateful and thankful to

1933
01:31:12,400 --> 01:31:14,080
Speaker 12: be in a position to serve these guys.

1934
01:31:14,200 --> 01:31:16,000
Speaker 10: It's just it's a blessing, man.

1935
01:31:16,280 --> 01:31:17,439
Speaker 5: I never take that for granted.

1936
01:31:17,640 --> 01:31:21,439
Speaker 13: That first unit offense CJ six for six, mixing over

1937
01:31:21,479 --> 01:31:23,840
Speaker 13: a thousand yards and Nico over a thousand yards?

1938
01:31:23,960 --> 01:31:26,320
Speaker 14: Was that about perfect? For one drive for that group.

1939
01:31:26,520 --> 01:31:27,320
Speaker 10: That's about perfect.

1940
01:31:27,360 --> 01:31:28,679
Speaker 5: You can't draw it up any better.

1941
01:31:28,720 --> 01:31:31,120
Speaker 12: It's kind of what I envisioned for an offense and

1942
01:31:31,160 --> 01:31:33,040
Speaker 12: what I wanted to see when I talk about them

1943
01:31:33,120 --> 01:31:35,280
Speaker 12: going out, playing the game the right way, being efficient

1944
01:31:35,320 --> 01:31:37,680
Speaker 12: on the offense. To have that first drive go the

1945
01:31:37,720 --> 01:31:40,120
Speaker 12: way it went, it couldn't have worked out any better.

1946
01:31:40,240 --> 01:31:42,839
Speaker 12: So really proud of the way that they handled themselves

1947
01:31:42,920 --> 01:31:45,120
Speaker 12: o line. The way they block was really nice. CJ

1948
01:31:45,360 --> 01:31:48,240
Speaker 12: thought he did a really nice job just being efficient,

1949
01:31:48,439 --> 01:31:53,680
Speaker 12: making smart plays with the footballs as overall is just exactly.

1950
01:31:53,439 --> 01:31:54,840
Speaker 5: How I wanted this game to go.

1951
01:31:55,280 --> 01:31:58,080
Speaker 12: To get those guys, you know, moving in the right direction,

1952
01:31:58,600 --> 01:32:01,160
Speaker 12: making some positive plays and being able to get all

1953
01:32:01,200 --> 01:32:03,360
Speaker 12: of our starters out while they were healthy.

1954
01:32:03,479 --> 01:32:04,960
Speaker 6: So everything worked to plan.

1955
01:32:05,479 --> 01:32:08,320
Speaker 13: Damian Peerce's performance has kind of two layers. Number one,

1956
01:32:08,400 --> 01:32:10,720
Speaker 13: he's brilliant with the football in his hands, and number two,

1957
01:32:11,200 --> 01:32:14,880
Speaker 13: his teammate's reaction to his success says a lot about him.

1958
01:32:15,520 --> 01:32:17,120
Speaker 13: What can fans take from that?

1959
01:32:17,880 --> 01:32:22,120
Speaker 12: Everybody loves DP on the team. He's definitely He's a

1960
01:32:22,160 --> 01:32:25,200
Speaker 12: guy who brings energy every day. Everybody wants to see

1961
01:32:25,240 --> 01:32:27,680
Speaker 12: him do well, and as you can see from our

1962
01:32:27,760 --> 01:32:30,240
Speaker 12: sideline how everybody is going crazy when he breaks the

1963
01:32:30,320 --> 01:32:33,720
Speaker 12: long run. Everybody's excited to see DP because he deserves it.

1964
01:32:34,040 --> 01:32:37,240
Speaker 12: He works hard, he doesn't complain, doesn't say much but

1965
01:32:37,640 --> 01:32:40,280
Speaker 12: he works hard and he man, he maximized the opportunities

1966
01:32:40,360 --> 01:32:43,559
Speaker 12: he got today. So very proud of VP for really

1967
01:32:44,120 --> 01:32:45,840
Speaker 12: carrying the team running the football today.

1968
01:32:46,000 --> 01:32:47,680
Speaker 13: So is his run the run of the day or

1969
01:32:47,760 --> 01:32:49,439
Speaker 13: is Derek Barnette the run of the day on the

1970
01:32:49,479 --> 01:32:50,919
Speaker 13: fumble return for six.

1971
01:32:50,880 --> 01:32:53,800
Speaker 12: Oh man dp's run is definitely the run of the day.

1972
01:32:53,880 --> 01:32:56,679
Speaker 12: To run for as long as he did without getting caught,

1973
01:32:56,760 --> 01:33:00,120
Speaker 12: that was impressive. Derek had a little clear pasth have

1974
01:33:00,240 --> 01:33:03,439
Speaker 12: to get there, but it was both guys. Derek proud

1975
01:33:03,479 --> 01:33:07,000
Speaker 12: of him. Two sacks and they take the football away.

1976
01:33:07,000 --> 01:33:09,120
Speaker 12: I think he did it in Dallas where he got

1977
01:33:09,160 --> 01:33:13,679
Speaker 12: the sackphone more recovery and again this man, it's fun

1978
01:33:13,720 --> 01:33:16,599
Speaker 12: to see just different guys stepping up making plays. Talk

1979
01:33:16,640 --> 01:33:21,240
Speaker 12: about DP, Darrick Barnett, I mean rookie Solomon Berd gets

1980
01:33:21,280 --> 01:33:23,760
Speaker 12: in and it makes a nice play. So it was

1981
01:33:23,920 --> 01:33:27,320
Speaker 12: really a cool game from that standpoint of being able

1982
01:33:27,400 --> 01:33:29,479
Speaker 12: to get a lot of guys in and get time,

1983
01:33:29,600 --> 01:33:31,680
Speaker 12: but to see those guys go out and really make

1984
01:33:31,720 --> 01:33:32,800
Speaker 12: plays to help the team.

1985
01:33:34,360 --> 01:33:36,320
Speaker 10: So that's how you build your depth, that's how you

1986
01:33:36,400 --> 01:33:38,120
Speaker 10: know we had a really good team last one.

1987
01:33:38,200 --> 01:33:40,000
Speaker 13: It's a long road to get to the postseason. You

1988
01:33:40,120 --> 01:33:42,920
Speaker 13: guys are there now. What do you like about the

1989
01:33:43,000 --> 01:33:45,600
Speaker 13: way your team is performing as you enter the playoffs for.

1990
01:33:45,600 --> 01:33:46,519
Speaker 14: A back to back season.

1991
01:33:46,920 --> 01:33:49,360
Speaker 12: What I like about our team is our guys are

1992
01:33:49,400 --> 01:33:52,080
Speaker 12: confident and who they are. They know what it takes

1993
01:33:52,160 --> 01:33:55,120
Speaker 12: to win, right, whether it's tight, whether we're up like,

1994
01:33:55,360 --> 01:33:58,200
Speaker 12: they know what it takes to win. We've been battle

1995
01:33:58,280 --> 01:34:01,400
Speaker 12: tested in many different forms this year, you know, and

1996
01:34:01,960 --> 01:34:04,439
Speaker 12: you know we learned from some where we didn't come

1997
01:34:04,479 --> 01:34:06,519
Speaker 12: out on top to where if we get in those

1998
01:34:06,560 --> 01:34:09,680
Speaker 12: situations again, we know how to handle our sales accordingly

1999
01:34:09,840 --> 01:34:11,400
Speaker 12: to get up to come out with the win.

2000
01:34:11,640 --> 01:34:14,160
Speaker 10: So our guys are battle tested, they're ready to go.

2001
01:34:14,320 --> 01:34:17,360
Speaker 12: And at this time of years, who's the best team

2002
01:34:17,720 --> 01:34:20,120
Speaker 12: on sun whenever we play and I can't say Sunday

2003
01:34:20,479 --> 01:34:23,439
Speaker 12: whenever we play, Like, who's the best team for three

2004
01:34:23,479 --> 01:34:25,400
Speaker 12: and a half hours, right, that's all that matters.

2005
01:34:25,479 --> 01:34:26,840
Speaker 5: And our guys are ready to go.

2006
01:34:27,040 --> 01:34:28,600
Speaker 14: Congratulations, we look forward to it.

2007
01:34:28,720 --> 01:34:28,960
Speaker 5: Thank you.

2008
01:34:29,080 --> 01:34:31,400
Speaker 3: All right, there's Greg Bailey with Tamiko Ryans after the

2009
01:34:31,439 --> 01:34:34,599
Speaker 3: win at Tennessee, and tomorrow Wade Smith and nd Kalu.

2010
01:34:34,680 --> 01:34:37,120
Speaker 3: We'll chop it up at six to talk about the

2011
01:34:37,240 --> 01:34:39,960
Speaker 3: Texans and the playoffs against the Chargers. It's going to

2012
01:34:40,000 --> 01:34:43,160
Speaker 3: be fun. Then seven o'clock Texans match up with Johnny Harris.

2013
01:34:43,479 --> 01:34:46,759
Speaker 3: Thanks for listening all night long. Detexans Radio Area forty

2014
01:34:46,840 --> 01:34:48,880
Speaker 3: five coming up next, Go Texans,