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Speaker 1: What's happening everybody.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to a Wednesday edition of Texans All Access from

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Speaker 2: the Honday Texans Radio Studio. I'm your host, John Harris,

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Speaker 2: football analyst, sideline reporter for your Houston Texas with a

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Speaker 2: big one coming up against the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday.

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Speaker 2: Kick us at noon, pregame with Sean and Seth. Then

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Speaker 2: you got Mark Andre and myself with the game, and

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Speaker 2: then afterwards you're gonna have Sean pedergas Clein Stirner for

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Speaker 2: the postgame show. So hopefully you will keep it right

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Speaker 2: here on six ten. A key figure every single week

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Speaker 2: is General manager Nick CASSERI only sat down the studio

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Speaker 2: with us and talk about this one and his favorite

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Speaker 2: Halloween costume.

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Speaker 3: Let's go joining us now at studio Executive vice president

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Speaker 3: and general manager Nick Assario.

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Speaker 1: Nick, good to see you, fellas, good to be here.

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Speaker 1: All right.

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Speaker 3: We've got a huge game with the Colts coming up

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Speaker 3: this week. Massive outing on Sunday. Let's review Green Bay first,

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Speaker 3: you're right there at the end. A lot of things

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Speaker 3: went wrong throughout the day, had a chance to win,

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Speaker 3: unable to pull it out.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's interesting regardless of what happened during the course

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Speaker 4: of the game. There were some upseres, some downs. We

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Speaker 4: did some good things, did some things we probably would

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Speaker 4: like to have back. Still had an opportunity to win

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Speaker 4: the game there in the fourth quarter, went down there

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Speaker 4: kicked the field goal to go up, and then Greenby

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Speaker 4: was able to move the ball and get in position

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Speaker 4: there kicked the game winning field goal with no time left.

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Speaker 4: So we were on the opposite end of basically what

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Speaker 4: happened in Buffalo a few weeks ago. So crad at

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Speaker 4: the Green Bay really good football team, number of good players,

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Speaker 4: very well coached, so we knew it was going to

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Speaker 4: be a challenge going on a road playing against them

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Speaker 4: and the guy. The game kind of played out about

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Speaker 4: how we thought it was going to go. So they

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Speaker 4: made some plays, We made some plays, made a few

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Speaker 4: more plays in a running game than we did in

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Speaker 4: the passing game. Kicking game really kind of kept us

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Speaker 4: in the game between a kicking game and the turnovers

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Speaker 4: of takeaways on defense. So that's all you're really hoping

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Speaker 4: for is have an opportunity to win in the fourth quarter,

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Speaker 4: to put ourselves in a position in the end.

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Speaker 1: Green May made a few more plays.

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Speaker 2: Nick let's talk about those two things. We kind of

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Speaker 2: they're good in the bat of it. Run game really good.

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Speaker 2: I mean, Joe had a number of seams two touchdown

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Speaker 2: runs were really well blocked. Tight ends did a nice job.

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Speaker 2: Pass the protection not as great. Kind of how do

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Speaker 2: you break down those two and how do you I know,

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Speaker 2: it's tough. You're not always going to have them both

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Speaker 2: But the way that the pass protection was versus the

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Speaker 2: way the run blocking was, it was like really good,

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Speaker 4: How do you kind of, I don't know, how do

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Speaker 4: you look at that? Yeah, sure you did. You really

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Speaker 4: have to look at everything. But when you look at it,

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Speaker 4: any end of passing game is about third down. So

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Speaker 4: it goes back to situational football. So our ability to

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Speaker 4: kind of execute situationally in those third down situations. They

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Speaker 4: did a good job stressing some things. We had some

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Speaker 4: errors on our end that are easily fixable and correctable.

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Speaker 4: So there's gonna be some things that pop up during

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Speaker 1: That's part of a job.

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Speaker 4: Go back after the game, Look what do we do well,

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Speaker 4: what are some of the errors we can improve, we

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Speaker 4: what we can carry for the next week, and then

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Speaker 4: what are some things that we're going to do different

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Speaker 4: that are specific to the opponent, which in this case

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Speaker 3: Yeah, because when you run the ball as well as

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Speaker 1: But it didn't go as well as you wanted to

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Speaker 4: Just never really got into probably as good of a

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Speaker 4: had some chunk plays there, completing the Shultz earlier in

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Speaker 1: Then the whole turnover situation.

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Speaker 4: So when you look at that game, Green Bay converted

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Speaker 4: So that's football. You look around the league, that's what

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Speaker 4: it is. When we talk about the Colts, when you

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Speaker 4: look at their season, every game has been a one

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Speaker 1: So that's what this leads about.

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Speaker 3: How important is it for everybody in the organization to

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Speaker 3: look at those positive things and continue to do those

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Speaker 3: not beat yourselves up too much, knowing that maybe you're

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Speaker 4: There's always in natural inclination either way you win, feel

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Speaker 4: the end. In some respects, there are a lot of similarities,

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Speaker 4: so you just maybe your outlook, maybe your mindset a

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Speaker 4: But by and large, look, one team's gonna win, one

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Speaker 1: It happens every week.

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Speaker 4: You got to come in with the right mindset, have

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Speaker 1: Realize the sun came up.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, we should all be excited to be here

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Speaker 1: Or five and two.

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Speaker 2: And there have been years we've been sitting at this

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Speaker 2: from that perspective as well, you know, I'm obligated to

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Speaker 1: I'm asking you Aboutkaylyn Bullock.

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Speaker 2: And I asked this Dimika did the day of what

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Speaker 2: And he said not as much for him calling place,

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Speaker 2: you guys were scouting Kaylin, those are things that you

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Speaker 2: kind of see that you thought would translate to him

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he was. We felt he was kind of a

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Speaker 4: So almost six three, one hundred and ninety pounds runs well,

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Speaker 4: covers a lot of ground. Started his career as a

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Speaker 4: to get his hands on the football at usc regardless

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Speaker 4: So we just felt the overall composition of his skills

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Speaker 4: And even though he's a younger player, he's pretty mature.

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Speaker 4: He goes about his work with the right mindset. Let's

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Speaker 4: and I don't know, he's near the top of the

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Speaker 4: So he's certainly made progress from where he started to

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Speaker 4: his seven games into his career. Whatever it is, he

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Speaker 4: certainly has room for improvement. But he's made an impact

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Speaker 4: when he's been on the field, and it certainly helped

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Speaker 3: Your defense is second in the league in total yards

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Speaker 3: and you go into that game Thinn at linebacker, Jake

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Speaker 3: we talked about Neville a little bit last week. He

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Speaker 3: can you talk about those two, especially Jake acquiring him

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Speaker 4: Really can't say enough great things about those two players

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Speaker 4: mean Nevill let us in tackles, I think Jake was

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Speaker 4: the thing that kind of set him back, but very

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Speaker 4: well thought of, highly well thought of. We actually took

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Speaker 4: the overall person, his intelligence, his instinctiveness, and since he's

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Speaker 4: and that's a good example of a player being ready

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Speaker 4: to take advantage of their opportunity when they're called upon,

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Speaker 4: understanding you really don't know when that's going to take place.

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Speaker 1: Understanding you're going to have a role each game.

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Speaker 4: Day on fourth down, which when you get to the

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Speaker 4: game on fourth down, that's going to give you an

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Speaker 1: So a credit to those players.

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Speaker 4: Credit to Billy Davis and Ben Bowling for the work

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Speaker 4: that they did to get those to get them ready

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Speaker 2: Okay, most of the time, if not all the time

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Speaker 2: one at all, but we were totally confused.

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Speaker 1: During the game.

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Speaker 2: There was that fifteen yard penalty for unsportsmanlike on the

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Speaker 4: One of these nuances of the rules. So other than honestly,

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Speaker 4: It's kind of a nuance sort of his situation. Okay,

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Speaker 2: So it was that was an odd point of the game,

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Speaker 3: You did get some good special teams play though on Sunday,

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Speaker 4: It's a huge part of the game each week. So

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Speaker 4: those plays are going to add up, and honestly, between

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Speaker 1: But isn't he awesome? Nick? I mean, he really put

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Speaker 3: So, But if he did it, he would do it well,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Joe's a really good football player. He's been very

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Speaker 4: He usually is going forward with the football, so whatever

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Speaker 2: Seven weeks ago, he went for one fifty nine against

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Speaker 4: Tac not necessarily go through, but there are some things that,

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Speaker 1: They've won four to their last five. They lost their

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Speaker 4: Every game has been a one score game, so they've

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Speaker 4: I mean Joe went out there and showed while he's

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Speaker 4: significant factor is Josh Downs. So Downs is a really

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Speaker 2: So Stewart played last week at linebacker and ended up

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Speaker 1: Up because a he's got beautiful hair.

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Speaker 2: Secondly, the fact that if he's got to play a

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Speaker 3: No question, there might not be a team in the

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Speaker 2: Nick I always felt like the second division, the second

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Speaker 1: If you won that game, well there was a reason

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Speaker 3: you have to get the trucks out early and set

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Speaker 3: up the hotel early. It's a super short week and

442
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Speaker 3: a pretty long trip.

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Speaker 4: What about that, Yeah, for sure, I mean, the focus

444
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Speaker 4: is obviously on the colts, but we also have other

445
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Speaker 4: people in the organization that are ready for the quick transition.

446
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Speaker 4: To your point, because after the game, I mean, and

447
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Speaker 4: the next day, where we got two days before we

448
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Speaker 4: leave to head to New York, we'll play a good

449
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Speaker 4: Jets team, So the coaches will focus on Indie. You'll

450
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Speaker 4: have operation staff and scouting staff. We'll go through the

451
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Speaker 4: advance process and start to get ready for New York

452
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Speaker 4: and some of the mechanics that are involved there.

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Speaker 1: So you try to stay ahead of the best of

454
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Speaker 1: your ability.

455
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Speaker 4: Understanding you have a short turnaround, so we'll have to

456
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Speaker 4: handle Monday and Tuesday maybe a little bit different than

457
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Speaker 4: we normally do. Wednesday's a travel day and then you

458
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Speaker 4: play Thursday, and it's a long triple. Like you said,

459
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Speaker 4: it's three and change, three and a half hours whatever

460
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Speaker 4: it is. So but you're always trying to kind of

461
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Speaker 4: plan ahead. You'll understand when the schedule comes out that's

462
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Speaker 4: going to show up somewhere. So now we can put

463
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Speaker 4: our action plan in place and kind of get ready

464
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Speaker 4: to go.

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Speaker 2: Nick, this might be more question for next week in

466
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Speaker 2: some sense, but I would imagine the preparation because it

467
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Speaker 2: is such a short week that maybe preparation happens near

468
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Speaker 2: the end of the week as you get ready for

469
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Speaker 2: the Jets. It's the only team that's had a coaching change,

470
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Speaker 2: so there aren't as many games where they just head coach,

471
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Speaker 2: you know, coach whatever it might be. So how do

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Speaker 2: you kind of handle that preparation? Do you look at

473
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Speaker 2: just those couple of games, you look at everything, how

474
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Speaker 2: do you kind of build everything together?

475
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Speaker 1: Because they've had some changes.

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Speaker 2: If DeVonta Adams comes in, they sign Reddick, how does

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Speaker 2: that kind of play in with the fact.

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Speaker 4: They've had a new head coach of Jeff Ulbrick. Yeah, no,

479
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Speaker 4: it's a good question. It kind of goes back to

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Speaker 4: what we usually talk about. All right, if there's any

481
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Speaker 4: new players, starts with a personnel and then just kind

482
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Speaker 4: of look at schematically, how are they playing? You know,

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Speaker 4: when you watch the Jets, which you know I've watched

484
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Speaker 4: the Jets here a handful of games. Is trying to

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Speaker 4: stay ahead schematically, it looks like they're doing some similar things.

486
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Speaker 4: They made some small tweaks, So I think the system

487
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Speaker 4: is a system. You don't really typically do too many

488
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Speaker 4: over arching things. You're not going to drop a new

489
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Speaker 4: system in out of the sky, So maybe take some

490
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Speaker 4: things that are relevant and apply those, and maybe the

491
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Speaker 4: coach has something that he wants to sprinkle in there.

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Speaker 4: But I mean, i'd say systematically, looks like there's a

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Speaker 4: lot of carryover, other than there's some new players that

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Speaker 4: could potentially factor in.

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Speaker 3: All right, So this Sunday is Andre Johnson Hall of

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Speaker 3: Fame Ring Day, Nick, and I wanted to get your

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Speaker 3: impressions from afar of Andre Johnson as you looked at

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Speaker 3: him with the Patriots organization, because that's what he was

499
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Speaker 3: playing when you were at the Patriots organization. So what'd

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Speaker 3: you think? Would you guys think of Andre Johnson? I

501
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Speaker 3: know you guys probably had conversations about all the players

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Speaker 3: in the NFL.

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Speaker 4: I say this with the utmost respect for Dre because

504
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Speaker 4: of how great a player he is, but he was

505
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Speaker 4: a massive pain in the ass to defend because you

506
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Speaker 4: had to allocate extra resources to him. So even if

507
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Speaker 4: you tilted to coverage his direction, or had a double

508
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Speaker 4: or had a call to account for him, there was

509
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Speaker 4: a good chance like he was going to make a place.

510
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Speaker 4: So to have a player that could impact the game

511
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Speaker 4: that way, and I would say him Randy Moss like

512
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Speaker 4: you could put them in that kind of category where

513
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Speaker 4: they change the trajectory of the game. I think the

514
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Speaker 4: thing that stood out about Dre is just the way

515
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Speaker 4: he played, his playing style, his mindset, how strong and

516
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Speaker 4: physical he was, combined with his athleticism. That's the reason

517
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Speaker 4: he was in a Hall of Fame. So we had

518
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Speaker 4: nothing but respect and admiration for Dre and knew in

519
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Speaker 4: order to beat the Texans, if you didn't handle Andre

520
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Speaker 4: like essentially you had no shots. So everything that he's

521
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Speaker 4: earned he deserves. But we had they held him in

522
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Speaker 4: the highest regard without question.

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Speaker 3: He's a unique type right because training camp, he was

524
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Speaker 3: at one practice and I saw him standing right next

525
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Speaker 3: to Stefan Diggs, who's an elite receiver, and Stefan looks

526
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Speaker 3: like his little brother almost.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Andre's that big a target.

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Speaker 4: There's not too many receivers that are built like dre

529
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Speaker 4: like in the history of the game. So which is

530
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Speaker 4: why he was as effective and productive as he was.

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Speaker 2: So when he's at University of Miami, everybody recruits, Everybody

532
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Speaker 2: goes down there, scout's down there, scouts down there all

533
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Speaker 2: the time. I got to thinking about this because twenty

534
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Speaker 2: twenty four in college football has kind of changed a

535
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Speaker 2: little bit. So I've been thinking about this and get

536
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Speaker 2: your opinion. The two service academies are outstanding. Army and

537
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Speaker 2: Navy are incredible.

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Speaker 1: They're unefeated. They're both undefeated.

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Speaker 2: How do you scout them because they know the rules

540
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Speaker 2: are different?

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Speaker 1: Or how do you scout them? Nick same?

542
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Speaker 4: Yeah, no, Differently, you have access, you can still get

543
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Speaker 4: to campus, you can watch practice, and then you'll have

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Speaker 4: a few that will show up, potentially at the All

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Speaker 4: Star Game.

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Speaker 1: A few years ago.

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Speaker 4: I think Andre Carter, who's Yeaston Nata, showed up the

548
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Speaker 4: Army Senior Bowl. So if you're a good football player,

549
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Speaker 4: it's a good chance Jim Nagg's gonna find you and

550
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Speaker 4: you gotta get you down in the Senior Bowl or

551
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Speaker 4: the East West Front reatch you out there. So no

552
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Speaker 4: change again, we've gone through periods what the rules are, are

553
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Speaker 4: they eligible and they're not eligible.

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Speaker 1: Or they're going to be able to play.

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Speaker 4: But I mean what those programs do, I mean, is

556
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Speaker 4: is absolutely incredible. It's a credit to our country, it's

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Speaker 4: a credit to the coaches that are there, and you're

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Speaker 4: just dealing with a different type of individual that essentially

559
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Speaker 4: is representing our country. But they obviously have a lot

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Speaker 4: of good qualities that you would want to have on

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Speaker 4: your football team. So there's really no material change to

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Speaker 4: your process other than I mean, he looks like I mean,

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Speaker 4: they're including Air Force as well. I think all service academies,

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Speaker 4: they're not Army neighbor undefeed, I think Air Force seven

565
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Speaker 4: is good a year as anybody as well.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, have we ever had a service academy player here?

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Speaker 1: I can't remember. I don't remember. Mark would know. If

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Speaker 1: Mark doesn't know, That's why I'm going to the source here.

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Speaker 2: I figured he would be he would be the one

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Speaker 2: good football teams.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, very sometimes we have guys who have been here.

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Speaker 3: I'm thinking, oh, yeah, I forgot about him. But that's

573
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Speaker 3: a long time ago. Okay, Nick, very important hypothetical question

574
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Speaker 3: for you right now, this is crucial. Okay, let's just

575
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Speaker 3: say your daughter's say you have to have a piece

576
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Speaker 3: of Halloween candy, Like, you have to have this.

577
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Speaker 1: What is it gonna be?

578
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Speaker 3: You get to choose his face, You get to choose

579
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Speaker 3: because you're not gonna be here.

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Speaker 1: We're none of that. That's right, we're not.

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Speaker 3: Here for Halloween, but we're gonna come back. They're gonna

582
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Speaker 3: have the candy and you have to eat something that

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Speaker 3: they have.

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Speaker 1: What would you pick my least favorite holiday? I would

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Speaker 1: probably I'd probably take a shot at a tutsi roll. Okay,

586
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Speaker 1: I'd probably take like one on the teeth though, yes, whatever,

587
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Speaker 1: if I.

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Speaker 4: Had to pick one, which I wouldn't because usually the

589
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Speaker 4: instructions are, you have too much candy, we have to

590
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Speaker 4: give away more than half of it, and of course

591
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Speaker 4: they have a nervous breakdown.

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Speaker 1: No we can't, we're gonna eat it. We'll just pick

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Speaker 1: your spots. Man, that's a high tax rate. Do you

594
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Speaker 1: give a way half of it? Really? Three quarters?

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Speaker 4: Like, yeah, you can't eat that much candy over the

596
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Speaker 4: course or many weeks.

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Speaker 1: If you want to keep your teeth, that's probably the

598
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Speaker 1: right thing to do. That's probably the right thing to do.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So if you had to dress up for Halloween,

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Speaker 2: what's your favorite Halloween costume as a kid.

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Speaker 4: Well, I don't dress up often, but if I was

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Speaker 4: forced to dress up when actually my wife and I

603
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Speaker 4: were dating, I had to go to a costume party,

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Speaker 4: you know, at her apartment. So I think I dressed

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Speaker 4: up as like a pilot, like a top gun pilot.

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Speaker 4: So that's all I to do. Was put on like

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Speaker 4: a shirt, a pair of wings, and sunglasses. So I

608
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Speaker 4: really did to do anything, but it looked like I

609
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Speaker 4: was part of the costume party.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, okay, next time it could be Tom Brady.

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Speaker 3: It's pretty good, OKAYIK, thanks a lot for joining us.

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Speaker 1: Good luck this week. Thanks fellas.

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Speaker 2: You know we're always going to get that question in

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Speaker 2: at the end, no doubt, Mark I get back. We'll

615
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Speaker 2: talk about this one against Indianapolis right here in Texans

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Speaker 2: All Access.

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Speaker 1: What's happened? Everybody?

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to Texas All Access on a wonderful Wednesday evening. Boy,

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Speaker 2: we've had plenty of these, and I would tell you

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Speaker 2: I hope we have one on Sunday because we're playing outdoors,

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Speaker 2: but no, we played an energy stadium, so it's all good,

622
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Speaker 2: and hopefully we're inside because it's going to be a

623
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Speaker 2: beautiful day and hopefully a beautiful day for a win

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Speaker 2: over the Indianapolis Colts. John Harris and Mark vandermir with

625
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Speaker 2: you yet again. All right, Mark, it is the Colts.

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Speaker 2: And I always just kind of opened the floor, like

627
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Speaker 2: to open the floor to you when we get the

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Speaker 2: Colts week it's the second one. It's just as important

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Speaker 2: as the first one. So we kind of thought it

630
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Speaker 2: would be week eight. I don't know if we thought

631
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Speaker 2: these teams were five to two, four and three. I

632
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Speaker 2: don't know where we thought the Colts would end up being,

633
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Speaker 2: but they're right where you kind of didn't want them

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Speaker 2: to be. They're kind of in your rear view mirror.

635
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Speaker 2: And Anthony Richardson is back at quarterback, probably gonna get

636
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Speaker 2: Jonathan Taylor back, probably gonna get the Forest Buckner back.

637
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Speaker 2: But just your overall thoughts of it's the Horseshoe at

638
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Speaker 2: Energy Stadium.

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Speaker 1: Well, you know what my thoughts are.

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Speaker 3: And I want some credit here because I've been warning

641
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Speaker 3: people about this one.

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Speaker 1: You have.

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Speaker 3: It's weird because you've been playing, well, you're five and

644
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Speaker 3: two and I know you're not always playing as well

645
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Speaker 3: as you want to. But you've only lost two games,

646
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Speaker 3: and the Colts seemed like a disaster, right Anthony Richards

647
00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:53,199
Speaker 3: sitting now after Week one? You didn't think so. But

648
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Speaker 3: then he's not playing so well, he gets hurt. How

649
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Speaker 3: well can that go with Flacco? I guess better than

650
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Speaker 3: we thought. And then here they are with a chance

651
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Speaker 3: to tie you for the division lead. What I warned everybody,

652
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Speaker 3: never underestimate the Horseshoe. Always respect them, slash. I'm not

653
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Speaker 3: gonna say fear them, but respect them. Have some concern

654
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Speaker 3: over what they're gonna do, because to them, this is

655
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Speaker 3: the season right here. They know a few things. If

656
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Speaker 3: they lose this game, it's a severe uphill climb to

657
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Speaker 3: get any kind of whiff at a postseason possibility. If

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Speaker 3: they win it, they're right with us for the division lead.

659
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Speaker 3: And their schedule looks a lot more palatable than the

660
00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:38,320
Speaker 3: Texan schedule. In the final what nine games? You know

661
00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:40,159
Speaker 3: Texans have to play the Jets. I don't have to

662
00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:42,080
Speaker 3: recite the Texan schedule. We all know what it is.

663
00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:45,600
Speaker 3: It's tough. So you've got to get this one now. Look,

664
00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:48,320
Speaker 3: you could lose this one and be fine. Down to stretch.

665
00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:51,440
Speaker 3: But man, I'd rather just have this two game edge

666
00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:54,879
Speaker 3: over them, plus you one two against them and the

667
00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:59,440
Speaker 3: rest of the division having major issues Titans basically folding

668
00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:02,080
Speaker 3: the tent, trading off pieces the Jags.

669
00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:04,639
Speaker 1: Are they really much better? Are they really better? Now?

670
00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:06,600
Speaker 3: They beat the Colts and the Patriots. Those are their

671
00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:08,800
Speaker 3: two wins, And look, you're gonna face them again. I

672
00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:12,200
Speaker 3: won't underestimate them when the time comes either. But Johnny,

673
00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:13,560
Speaker 3: this is the horseshoe.

674
00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:16,440
Speaker 1: It is on. You mentioned it rearview mirror. They're gaining

675
00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:16,840
Speaker 1: right on.

676
00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:18,760
Speaker 3: You gotta put the pedal to the metal to extend

677
00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:21,160
Speaker 3: the metaphor, put the pedal to the metal and pull

678
00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:23,280
Speaker 3: away from them and leave them in the dust.

679
00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:26,680
Speaker 1: Bye bye. We're gonna go face the Jets in the Apple. Yes,

680
00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:28,720
Speaker 1: I agree with that. So a couple of things.

681
00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:33,520
Speaker 2: Number one Colts after this game, after they played Texans,

682
00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:36,680
Speaker 2: their game with the Vikings in Week nine got flexed

683
00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:40,239
Speaker 2: to a Sunday night Yeah, so US Bank Stadium on

684
00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:43,720
Speaker 2: a Sunday night carnage against the Vikings. Now, if you

685
00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:46,159
Speaker 2: remember the last time the Colts played the Vikings at

686
00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:48,359
Speaker 2: US Bank Stadium, you remember what happened.

687
00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:51,159
Speaker 3: In twenty sixteen. No, wait a minute, well that's the

688
00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:52,080
Speaker 3: last time we.

689
00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:54,160
Speaker 1: Were there a couple of years ago.

690
00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:57,680
Speaker 3: Oh, because they had the NFC North Viking Matchhow yeah, yeay,

691
00:26:58,359 --> 00:27:00,760
Speaker 3: what happened? Oh they had the big come back again.

692
00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:04,320
Speaker 2: The greatest comeback in NFL history happened against the Colts.

693
00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:06,359
Speaker 2: Against the Colts, they came all the way back and

694
00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:07,040
Speaker 2: won that game.

695
00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:10,320
Speaker 1: That was you have saturdays coaching masterpiece. That was Jeff

696
00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:11,600
Speaker 1: Saturday's coaching masterpiece.

697
00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:15,320
Speaker 2: So they've got a trip to Minnesota, then they get

698
00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:18,280
Speaker 2: the Bills at home, Then they go to the Jets

699
00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:21,320
Speaker 2: on a Sunday night, Then they get the Lions at home.

700
00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:23,720
Speaker 2: Then they go to New England and they get the

701
00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:27,400
Speaker 2: same by week as US. But the last four for them,

702
00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:31,800
Speaker 2: I mean, that's a pretty tough tough stretch. Yeah, US, Vikings, Bills, Jets,

703
00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:35,359
Speaker 2: Lions and of course Patriots. But the final four for

704
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:40,680
Speaker 2: the Colts, for the Colts at Broncos home, Titans at

705
00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:43,440
Speaker 2: Giants home Jags.

706
00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:45,600
Speaker 3: That's not so bad. It's not so bad. I take

707
00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:46,840
Speaker 3: that over our final four.

708
00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:50,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, they if they can muddle their way through, they're

709
00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:53,040
Speaker 2: gonna be right there at the end as always. Here's

710
00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:58,240
Speaker 2: another thing that I found interesting. So the Colts are

711
00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:03,560
Speaker 2: four and three. Yeah, two of those wins are on

712
00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:08,960
Speaker 2: Anthony Richardson's docket, right, Two of those wins are on

713
00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:10,520
Speaker 2: Joe Flacco's docket.

714
00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:10,920
Speaker 1: Right.

715
00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:17,080
Speaker 2: Under Flacco, the offense has averaged or did average, twenty

716
00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:20,800
Speaker 2: seven points a game. They went twenty seven against the

717
00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:24,040
Speaker 2: Steelers and win they scored thirty four, and the loss

718
00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:26,800
Speaker 2: of the Jags they scored twenty and then win over

719
00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:31,560
Speaker 2: the Titans averages twenty seven points game. In the four

720
00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:35,440
Speaker 2: games that Anthony Richardson has started, the Colts have averaged

721
00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:37,960
Speaker 2: eighteen point five points.

722
00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:40,520
Speaker 3: From the high water markers against the Texans at twenty seven.

723
00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:42,880
Speaker 2: At twenty seven, they scored twenty seven, then ten in

724
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:46,000
Speaker 2: Green Bay, twenty one in a win against the Bears,

725
00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:50,400
Speaker 2: and then sixteen the other day against the Dolphins. So yes,

726
00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:52,720
Speaker 2: the high water mark is that game against the Texans

727
00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:56,520
Speaker 2: where he threw three throws where he just just straight

728
00:28:56,560 --> 00:28:59,440
Speaker 2: out of his backside, just I'm throwing this thing sixty

729
00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:03,400
Speaker 2: five yards the field and he's not really gotten back

730
00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:05,160
Speaker 2: to that yet. He was okay in the second half

731
00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:08,000
Speaker 2: against the Dolphins, got to win against the Dolphins team

732
00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:08,800
Speaker 2: that has been.

733
00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:12,000
Speaker 3: Banged up and estimated just yeah, that's a good word.

734
00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:14,520
Speaker 1: That's a great word for what that team is right now.

735
00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:15,960
Speaker 1: With the Miami Dolphins.

736
00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:18,440
Speaker 2: They end up putting out thing sixteen to ten, but

737
00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:23,240
Speaker 2: Richardson averaging as a starter eight and a half points

738
00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:26,240
Speaker 2: less per game than when they have Flacco, and.

739
00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:27,920
Speaker 3: I think in this building it's going to be a

740
00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:30,520
Speaker 3: whole lot better for these Texans. And Dimiko Rans talked

741
00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:33,240
Speaker 3: about it today during his press conference. Communication at home

742
00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:37,040
Speaker 3: better with the old lineman. The whole offensive operation tends

743
00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:40,680
Speaker 3: to function better at NRG as it should on your

744
00:29:40,720 --> 00:29:44,240
Speaker 3: home deck. So supposed to be in at Vikingville or

745
00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:49,160
Speaker 3: Karen Bay Biking. Seriously, those places are tough and it

746
00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:51,960
Speaker 3: did not go well at either place for the Texans overall,

747
00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:53,760
Speaker 3: although they did run it well with mixing, as we

748
00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:56,520
Speaker 3: discussed against the Packers. I think that's a big factor here.

749
00:29:56,840 --> 00:29:59,880
Speaker 3: If I'm the Cults, I'm coming in thinking, well, the

750
00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:02,240
Speaker 3: passing attack, we know it can be very good for

751
00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:05,080
Speaker 3: the Texans, and it wasn't as good as it needed

752
00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:07,520
Speaker 3: to be against Green Bay. But Joe Mixon killed the

753
00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:10,560
Speaker 3: Packers and he killed the Colts and he can do

754
00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:12,640
Speaker 3: it again, yep, and you're gonna be at home now.

755
00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:16,120
Speaker 3: So the cult game plan. You got to find a

756
00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:19,480
Speaker 3: way to slow down or stop Joe Mixon. Now, same

757
00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:22,160
Speaker 3: thing with the Texans Jonathan Taylor. We all know what

758
00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:24,320
Speaker 3: he's capable of, but you held him around a half

759
00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:26,480
Speaker 3: one hundred last time, and you can do the same

760
00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:29,480
Speaker 3: thing again with a similar game plan. I would think

761
00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:33,760
Speaker 3: I don't think that Richardson is crafty enough yet to

762
00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:37,640
Speaker 3: exploit whatever the Texans cook up defensively to try to

763
00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:39,600
Speaker 3: stop the ground game. I just don't think he's there.

764
00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:42,560
Speaker 3: He can launch a couple of throws, Johnny. But I

765
00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:44,440
Speaker 3: mean they've won a couple of games. Matt Taylor, who

766
00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:46,480
Speaker 3: will have on later, talked about they won a couple

767
00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:48,560
Speaker 3: of games where he completes less than ten passes.

768
00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:50,440
Speaker 1: Yes, that's crazy stuff in this league.

769
00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:53,880
Speaker 3: So although the Texans almost won a game if mcmahus misses,

770
00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:56,440
Speaker 3: we're talking about a game in which CJ threw for

771
00:30:56,520 --> 00:30:59,880
Speaker 3: less yards than Osweiler did in that win at Jacksonville.

772
00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:02,360
Speaker 3: In the well, that wasn't the bus game because it

773
00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:04,640
Speaker 3: was Oswelder starting. But in the twenty sixteen matchup in

774
00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:09,640
Speaker 3: North Florida, so anything can happen. I'd never underestimate them.

775
00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:13,160
Speaker 3: You know that you haven't beat them at home since when.

776
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:16,000
Speaker 1: Twenty nineteen Thursday Night twenty nineteen.

777
00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:21,280
Speaker 3: How about this, The Colts have won or tied the

778
00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:25,000
Speaker 3: last four games against the Texans in NRG twenty three,

779
00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:27,880
Speaker 3: twenty two, twenty one, twenty So twenty two is the

780
00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:30,120
Speaker 3: tie they won twenty twenty so nineteen is the one.

781
00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:33,080
Speaker 3: Twenty was the one with the late turnover, late turnover,

782
00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:33,520
Speaker 3: that's right.

783
00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:35,400
Speaker 2: Twenty one we got run out of the building, and

784
00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:38,040
Speaker 2: twenty two is a tie. Twenty three they get the

785
00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:41,680
Speaker 2: fourteen to nothing lead, Anthony Richardson goes out, Minshew comes

786
00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:43,640
Speaker 2: in just dinks and dunks. They beat us thirty one

787
00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:46,840
Speaker 2: to twenty in that game. So the last time we

788
00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:48,920
Speaker 2: beat them was twenty nineteen. That was on a Thursday night.

789
00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:51,880
Speaker 2: Twenty eighteen. We lost both at home. We lost the

790
00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:53,520
Speaker 2: game late in the year. We lost a playoff game

791
00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:56,120
Speaker 2: twenty seventeen. We lost to Sean Right before that game,

792
00:31:57,120 --> 00:31:59,200
Speaker 2: Kobe Brissett went beat us twenty seventeen.

793
00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:02,760
Speaker 1: So since twenty sixteen.

794
00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:05,960
Speaker 2: Only one we have beaten the Colts one time in

795
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:06,880
Speaker 2: our building, and.

796
00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:07,719
Speaker 1: That was a big thirsday.

797
00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:09,640
Speaker 3: When we talked about it the other day, how big

798
00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:11,960
Speaker 3: that victory was the Houston Texans at the time.

799
00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:14,200
Speaker 1: Yes, in twenty nineteen, it was definitely a big one.

800
00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:15,160
Speaker 1: Now on the road.

801
00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:19,600
Speaker 2: In that same timeframe, we in twenty seventeen minute losing,

802
00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:21,880
Speaker 2: but twenty eighteen we won while we were there overtime,

803
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:25,400
Speaker 2: but overtime. Twenty twenty two we won while we were there.

804
00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:27,440
Speaker 2: Twenty twenty three, we won while we were there in

805
00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:30,840
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. So in the same timeframe we won

806
00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:34,560
Speaker 2: one time here against the Colts, we've won four times there.

807
00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:35,720
Speaker 1: Let the good times.

808
00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:40,520
Speaker 3: Listen, the Texans change have been I hesitate to say

809
00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:43,160
Speaker 3: dominating the division because you have to look at twenty

810
00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:46,200
Speaker 3: twenty one and twenty two. But since the Texans have

811
00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:49,880
Speaker 3: started to win the division twenty eleven, yep, they are

812
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:52,440
Speaker 3: the dominant team in the division as far as division

813
00:32:52,520 --> 00:32:53,240
Speaker 3: titles go.

814
00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:56,000
Speaker 1: This is a year where.

815
00:32:55,800 --> 00:33:00,000
Speaker 3: You got look, we talk about expectations and postseason possibility

816
00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:03,520
Speaker 3: and people throw out the super Bowl term and all that. Listen,

817
00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:07,160
Speaker 3: you gotta win the division first, and this is a

818
00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:11,040
Speaker 3: mammoth game along those lines. Yep, that's why to me,

819
00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:14,320
Speaker 3: this is more important than the Detroit game. I know

820
00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:17,560
Speaker 3: everyone's juiced for that game. Everyone's fired up for battle

821
00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:21,280
Speaker 3: Red Night November tenth, when the Detroit Lions come visiting.

822
00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:24,280
Speaker 3: Everyone's super fired up for being on the road Dallas

823
00:33:24,280 --> 00:33:26,760
Speaker 3: Monday night football. This game is way more important than

824
00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:28,960
Speaker 3: those two, way more important.

825
00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:29,880
Speaker 1: Gotta be there, folks.

826
00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:31,800
Speaker 3: Got to get there early to do what Demiko wanted

827
00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:32,920
Speaker 3: to do, which is be loud.

828
00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:37,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely this. So, how many times have the Colts

829
00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:42,280
Speaker 2: won the division since the Texans started winning it in

830
00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:43,000
Speaker 2: twenty eleven?

831
00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:46,480
Speaker 3: Once they won it in oh twice, they won in

832
00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:47,800
Speaker 3: twenty thirteen and twenty fourteen.

833
00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:50,120
Speaker 1: That's it. That's it, that's it. That's the only time

834
00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:53,280
Speaker 1: they won the division. Isn't that crazy? That is nuts?

835
00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:54,920
Speaker 1: That that's nuts. That's crazy.

836
00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:58,920
Speaker 3: Because the Jags wanted in twenty two, the Titans wanted

837
00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:01,280
Speaker 3: in twenty one and twenty.

838
00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:04,880
Speaker 1: Yes, nineteen was us, Yes, thirteen and fourteen it's it.

839
00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:07,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, And seventeen was the Jags because that was the

840
00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:09,839
Speaker 3: year they went to the AFC champion And I met if.

841
00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:12,040
Speaker 2: You ask people around the league and just said over

842
00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:14,520
Speaker 2: that time frame, like you asked that question, I guarantee

843
00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:17,200
Speaker 2: the Texans would be third or fourth in that conversation.

844
00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:19,919
Speaker 3: Well, you know, here's the sad part. Are you ready

845
00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:21,520
Speaker 3: for the sad part? Well, I know what you're gonna say.

846
00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:24,600
Speaker 3: The Texans are the only since they started winning the division,

847
00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:26,799
Speaker 3: they're the only team among the four who have not

848
00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:30,319
Speaker 3: made it to an AFC Championship. I know that is

849
00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:34,120
Speaker 3: so heartbreaking, so tough to swallow, but we're gonna so

850
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:36,799
Speaker 3: needs to be remedied, and preferably this year.

851
00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:39,200
Speaker 2: So you know how that's going to change. Now none

852
00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:42,240
Speaker 2: of those three went to the Super Bowl, and the Texans,

853
00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:43,880
Speaker 2: so we're gonna go to the AFC Championship, win it,

854
00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:45,439
Speaker 2: and go to the super Bowl. And so then we'll

855
00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:48,840
Speaker 2: again kind of right the wrong if you will. So okay,

856
00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:52,319
Speaker 2: sticking with the division. Yeah, so you sent this to me.

857
00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:56,480
Speaker 2: I fell asleep last night thinking about eight o'clock. I

858
00:34:56,520 --> 00:34:59,080
Speaker 2: got back home with the grocery store of my daughter.

859
00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:01,399
Speaker 2: We had dinner and we were watching something. The next

860
00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:03,640
Speaker 2: thing I know, it's ten thirty. I'm like, what happened

861
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:07,080
Speaker 2: to me? I just crashed? So I try and get

862
00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:09,560
Speaker 2: to bed. My dog has me up and down all night,

863
00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:12,399
Speaker 2: Finally one time he has me up. It's like six

864
00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:14,239
Speaker 2: ish or something like that. I'm like, all right, I

865
00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:16,719
Speaker 2: must squeeze out in a half hour sleep and I'll

866
00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:18,279
Speaker 2: go over and check my phone. I got any text,

867
00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:20,600
Speaker 2: And I get a text from you and it says

868
00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:21,520
Speaker 2: it's happening.

869
00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:24,800
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins is being traded to the Chiefs.

870
00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:28,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I it's something that's been kind of thrown

871
00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:31,520
Speaker 2: out there a little bit. It's been talked about, it's

872
00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:34,160
Speaker 2: kind of been, you know, in numerous circles. But when

873
00:35:34,239 --> 00:35:36,160
Speaker 2: Juju Smith Schuster, I saw that he got hurt in

874
00:35:36,239 --> 00:35:37,520
Speaker 2: that game against at nine ers is up.

875
00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:39,560
Speaker 1: M I wonder if I wonder if the wide.

876
00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:42,520
Speaker 2: Receiver talks pick up And then I thought, well, maybe

877
00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:45,960
Speaker 2: Cooper Cup maybe that's more of what they want. But nope,

878
00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:48,080
Speaker 2: they end up going with DeAndre Hopkins. They trade him

879
00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:50,680
Speaker 2: for a fifth that could turn into a fourth. The

880
00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:54,480
Speaker 2: parameters are that the Chiefs have to make it to

881
00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:58,000
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl and hop would have to play sixty

882
00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:01,040
Speaker 2: percent of the place for that fifth turn into a fourth.

883
00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:02,360
Speaker 1: Or they got him cheap.

884
00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:06,799
Speaker 2: Yeah, they got him relatively cheap, considering Maury Cooper went

885
00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:09,560
Speaker 2: to the Bills and you also had de Monta Adams

886
00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:11,440
Speaker 2: going to Jets. Now, I think DeVante of the three

887
00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:14,640
Speaker 2: is he's at a higher level. I think Amri and

888
00:36:14,640 --> 00:36:16,560
Speaker 2: Hopp are kind of the same, to be honest, but

889
00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:18,440
Speaker 2: they're different as far as style.

890
00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:22,279
Speaker 1: Yeah, different stylistically. Sure, what is Hopkins giving you right now? Now?

891
00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:24,400
Speaker 3: For that team, for any team really that he goes to.

892
00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:27,160
Speaker 3: I still think he gives you a pretty safe target.

893
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:28,600
Speaker 1: That's right. I think that's what he gives you.

894
00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:30,399
Speaker 3: But you want to use the word decimated again, They're

895
00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:34,319
Speaker 3: decimated at receiver Chiefs Chiefs. Yeah, they need they need

896
00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:40,239
Speaker 3: somebody is down. Yeah, for Mahomes when he freewheels, when

897
00:36:40,239 --> 00:36:43,080
Speaker 3: he improvises right, this is going to be good because

898
00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:46,160
Speaker 3: hop does it well too, and he scrambles along with

899
00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:48,880
Speaker 3: the quarterback and creates opportunities, and that's going to be

900
00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:51,520
Speaker 3: tough to watch. He caught the big third down play

901
00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:54,440
Speaker 3: in twenty nineteen when the Texans beat the Chiefs at

902
00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:58,120
Speaker 3: Arrowhead with Mahomes and that game memorable matchup. That was

903
00:36:58,239 --> 00:37:00,880
Speaker 3: a little short pass to hop to move the sticks

904
00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:01,600
Speaker 3: and kill the clock.

905
00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:04,120
Speaker 2: That was awesome, I think, And I think it's interesting

906
00:37:04,120 --> 00:37:05,239
Speaker 2: you brought it up because That was one of the

907
00:37:05,239 --> 00:37:07,279
Speaker 2: plays I thought about when I was thinking about Hop

908
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:09,719
Speaker 2: going to Kansas City, because I think one of the

909
00:37:09,719 --> 00:37:12,040
Speaker 2: things that Mahomes could do, because he's got such a

910
00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:14,759
Speaker 2: quick release and pretty accurate with the football. I think

911
00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:17,560
Speaker 2: they can get that quick game going again because Hop

912
00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:19,439
Speaker 2: can make those little catches. He can catch that little

913
00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:23,560
Speaker 2: snag round. Hop's basketball background I think really helps him

914
00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:26,520
Speaker 2: in those scramble drills because he knows how to find himself,

915
00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:28,520
Speaker 2: where to look, where to get himself.

916
00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:30,520
Speaker 1: And then Mahomes also knows.

917
00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:33,200
Speaker 2: And we'll be honest about Mahomes, he's I think second

918
00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:35,440
Speaker 2: league interceptions maybe first, I can't remember. He's up there

919
00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:39,719
Speaker 2: with Yeah, I think he leads league interceptions. It's not

920
00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:42,560
Speaker 2: the most accurate with the football. Well, they got like Hop,

921
00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:44,439
Speaker 2: you don't have to doesn't matter, it doesn't matter.

922
00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:46,719
Speaker 1: You put it wherever you want it. He's gonna go

923
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:47,120
Speaker 1: get it.

924
00:37:47,280 --> 00:37:49,720
Speaker 3: Have you seen them much though? Have you watched it close?

925
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:52,359
Speaker 3: I haven't watched him a ton. I mean I've watched some.

926
00:37:52,719 --> 00:37:54,600
Speaker 3: You know, they've been on national television a lot. They

927
00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:59,520
Speaker 3: always are it doesn't look right, Kelsey doesn't look right. Uh,

928
00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:03,080
Speaker 3: the whole attack doesn't look quite right. But Checko's hurt, right,

929
00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:05,439
Speaker 3: So that's that's a big part of it as well,

930
00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:07,560
Speaker 3: because he was starting to do really well for them,

931
00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:10,040
Speaker 3: you know, Clyde Edwards a lair, never turned into what

932
00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:11,600
Speaker 3: they really wanted him to, that's correct.

933
00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:13,960
Speaker 1: And that's the thing about these teams.

934
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:15,800
Speaker 3: You know, we always talk about how great the quarterbacks

935
00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:20,120
Speaker 3: are of these of these perennial powers and Patriots and Chiefs. Look,

936
00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:22,399
Speaker 3: they want to run the ball, they want to play

937
00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:24,840
Speaker 3: great defense. They know that it's not just about the

938
00:38:24,840 --> 00:38:28,160
Speaker 3: guys who's throwing the football, and Patrick Mahomes is a

939
00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:29,040
Speaker 3: great example of that.

940
00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:31,080
Speaker 1: His running ability is.

941
00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:34,840
Speaker 3: As big a reason why they are undefeated as the defense,

942
00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:38,840
Speaker 3: and much less to do with his throwing ability, although

943
00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:42,000
Speaker 3: you must respect that. So people tend to go back

944
00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:43,400
Speaker 3: in coverage and he's like, you know what, I can

945
00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:44,759
Speaker 3: go get ten yards here with my legs.

946
00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:45,600
Speaker 1: I'm going to go do that.

947
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:49,720
Speaker 2: Let me read you a little something. Oh boy, okay,

948
00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:56,279
Speaker 2: this is kind of fun. So in twenty seventeen, who

949
00:38:56,360 --> 00:38:58,400
Speaker 2: led the league in rushing twenty seventeen.

950
00:38:58,600 --> 00:38:59,960
Speaker 1: Oh boy, we're going back now.

951
00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:01,839
Speaker 3: Well, I mean just think you don't have to think

952
00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:03,960
Speaker 3: too Henry no, think about the team.

953
00:39:03,960 --> 00:39:08,279
Speaker 1: We're talking about the Chiefs. Oh it was Jamal Charles. No,

954
00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:09,440
Speaker 1: he was gone by then.

955
00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:13,359
Speaker 2: He's come back to the Chiefs. He got released from

956
00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:14,080
Speaker 2: the Kareem Hunt.

957
00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:17,000
Speaker 3: Kareem Hunt led led the league in rush against let

958
00:39:17,080 --> 00:39:17,959
Speaker 3: the league.

959
00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:21,680
Speaker 2: In twenty seventeen. Twenty seventeen. He led the league in rushing,

960
00:39:22,719 --> 00:39:27,640
Speaker 2: let the league in rushing? Okay, who led the league

961
00:39:27,719 --> 00:39:31,399
Speaker 2: in reception? Or who led the league in yardage in.

962
00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:36,440
Speaker 1: Twenty seventeen receiving yardage? Yes not Hop No, but he's closed.

963
00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:37,240
Speaker 1: He was fourth.

964
00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:42,840
Speaker 2: Hop had ninety six catches for thirteen seventy eight. But

965
00:39:43,239 --> 00:39:45,880
Speaker 2: what he did lead the league in was receiving touchdowns

966
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:48,360
Speaker 2: here thirteen okay, twenty seventeen.

967
00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:50,920
Speaker 1: So Hill is with the Chiefs at this point. Yeah,

968
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:52,719
Speaker 1: so Tyreek was with the Chiefs at that point.

969
00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:57,760
Speaker 3: The league with Messer Gardage gained who led tight ends

970
00:39:58,560 --> 00:40:01,960
Speaker 3: in receptions and ti for tds in twenty seventeen, So

971
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:02,800
Speaker 3: that would be Kelsey.

972
00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:06,040
Speaker 2: I saw somebody you tweet this today and I thought

973
00:40:06,080 --> 00:40:08,319
Speaker 2: it was absolutely dead on, But it also was kind

974
00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:11,160
Speaker 2: of like WHOA, And I wonder where this catches.

975
00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:11,359
Speaker 1: Up to him.

976
00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:15,920
Speaker 2: Kareem Hunt Travis Kelcey now DeAndre Hopkins.

977
00:40:16,239 --> 00:40:18,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're relying on those three.

978
00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:22,719
Speaker 2: Guys when seven years ago they were at the top

979
00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:23,280
Speaker 2: of the league.

980
00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:27,359
Speaker 3: Well, and what is the common denominator that's not there

981
00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:29,840
Speaker 3: in that mix with Hill and Kelsey?

982
00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:33,160
Speaker 1: Who was the quarterback? It wasn't Mahome, It was Alex Smith.

983
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:35,680
Speaker 3: Mahomes is on the team, but Smith is playing Smith

984
00:40:35,680 --> 00:40:37,400
Speaker 3: and it was Alex Smith pulling the trigger on all

985
00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:38,040
Speaker 3: that stuff.

986
00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:40,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they did a good job. Remember they came here,

987
00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:44,959
Speaker 2: they were dumbing it. That that was you know, we've

988
00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:48,960
Speaker 2: had well you held you You kept answering back that night, Yes,

989
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:51,560
Speaker 2: and that was what made that game fun. You kept

990
00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:54,600
Speaker 2: answering back when they would do something. And yet it

991
00:40:54,640 --> 00:40:56,640
Speaker 2: was so frustrating because you had lost JJ Watten, you

992
00:40:56,680 --> 00:40:59,200
Speaker 2: had lost Whitney Merciless in that game on the drive.

993
00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:02,520
Speaker 2: So yeah, with plays with employees of each other, and

994
00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:04,960
Speaker 2: so it was frustrating. But the fact you kept answering

995
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:06,919
Speaker 2: back and Will Fuller catching down one in the north

996
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:07,560
Speaker 2: end zone and.

997
00:41:07,680 --> 00:41:10,440
Speaker 1: Was like, yo, weve what we got here.

998
00:41:10,920 --> 00:41:12,720
Speaker 2: I think I want to say, you throw five touchdown

999
00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:13,480
Speaker 2: passes in that game.

1000
00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:15,919
Speaker 1: DeShawn did. Yes, he kept answering back.

1001
00:41:16,040 --> 00:41:18,520
Speaker 2: But I saw somebody tweet that the Chiefs story relying

1002
00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:22,000
Speaker 2: on three guys that were dominant in twenty seventeen, right,

1003
00:41:22,160 --> 00:41:24,120
Speaker 2: be that much more dominant in twenty twenty.

1004
00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:26,480
Speaker 3: This is the danger of looking at a name and

1005
00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:28,880
Speaker 3: thinking that name is going to do something. Hey, we

1006
00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:31,399
Speaker 3: can't let this segment go without talking about another name

1007
00:41:31,480 --> 00:41:33,239
Speaker 3: who's made plays in this league and as a Super

1008
00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:34,600
Speaker 3: Bowl ring and he's now in this team.

1009
00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:35,280
Speaker 1: Devin White.

1010
00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:38,920
Speaker 3: That's right, Devin White at So this is interesting to

1011
00:41:38,960 --> 00:41:41,759
Speaker 3: me because we all know the linebacker health situation has

1012
00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:44,839
Speaker 3: been spotty, to say the least. Yes, with Harris out

1013
00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:46,799
Speaker 3: for a long time, good to see Henry out there

1014
00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:47,640
Speaker 3: in practice.

1015
00:41:48,040 --> 00:41:48,719
Speaker 1: Asease not.

1016
00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:52,040
Speaker 3: But they were pay per thin at linebacker last week,

1017
00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:55,799
Speaker 3: and I absolutely needed to have some help. And we

1018
00:41:55,840 --> 00:41:58,120
Speaker 3: have Neville hewittt on the show tonight as well, playing

1019
00:41:58,120 --> 00:42:01,000
Speaker 3: some linebackers team with the other guys out and obviously

1020
00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:02,640
Speaker 3: great special teams player. But what do you think of

1021
00:42:02,640 --> 00:42:05,520
Speaker 3: Devin White at this stage of his career? The possibilities? Johnny, Yeah,

1022
00:42:05,520 --> 00:42:06,120
Speaker 3: I like it you.

1023
00:42:06,480 --> 00:42:11,200
Speaker 2: I don't think there's anything always like signings when I

1024
00:42:11,239 --> 00:42:14,320
Speaker 2: know a guy's still got some juice, and there really

1025
00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:18,359
Speaker 2: is no downsider risks, right, like, what what would end

1026
00:42:18,440 --> 00:42:19,520
Speaker 2: up being the risk.

1027
00:42:19,320 --> 00:42:22,320
Speaker 1: Of signing he can't play right exactly?

1028
00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:24,680
Speaker 2: And you find it out, you're like, Okay, I mean, look,

1029
00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:26,600
Speaker 2: could could Devin White go out there and miss ten

1030
00:42:26,640 --> 00:42:28,480
Speaker 2: tackles in a game and five of those end up

1031
00:42:28,520 --> 00:42:30,680
Speaker 2: being they before he got to the fourth?

1032
00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:32,200
Speaker 1: Myth tame right exactly?

1033
00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:34,279
Speaker 2: You could tell at that point, But that's not I

1034
00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:37,160
Speaker 2: think what Devin White can do. Devin White can still run,

1035
00:42:37,680 --> 00:42:40,360
Speaker 2: he can still find the football, and he's still got

1036
00:42:41,680 --> 00:42:43,920
Speaker 2: a lot of energy, I'll say it that way, and

1037
00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:46,200
Speaker 2: I think that kind of energy kind of fits with

1038
00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:48,839
Speaker 2: his team. But to Dimiko's point to us, and also

1039
00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:50,640
Speaker 2: in the press conference after the game, we got a

1040
00:42:50,719 --> 00:42:53,680
Speaker 2: channel that we got to channel that energy into playing

1041
00:42:54,120 --> 00:42:56,759
Speaker 2: and not so much in getting somebody's face and that

1042
00:42:56,840 --> 00:42:59,319
Speaker 2: kind of stuff. But I think he's got that kind

1043
00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:04,319
Speaker 2: of he's got that kind of bulldog tenacity that I

1044
00:43:04,320 --> 00:43:07,399
Speaker 2: think could fit with this defense. And you still don't

1045
00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:11,480
Speaker 2: know about Christian Harris, you're not sure about disease. Henry

1046
00:43:11,560 --> 00:43:13,920
Speaker 2: was back at practice, which was great. Nevill who have

1047
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:15,560
Speaker 2: on a little bit later. I thought played really well

1048
00:43:15,560 --> 00:43:17,880
Speaker 2: against the Packers, Jake played pretty well. But at this

1049
00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:20,520
Speaker 2: point in the season, like we've said, I've said this

1050
00:43:20,560 --> 00:43:24,839
Speaker 2: a few times, mark week six through eleven, you don't

1051
00:43:24,880 --> 00:43:27,319
Speaker 2: even want to look at the injury report. I mean,

1052
00:43:27,360 --> 00:43:29,480
Speaker 2: I'll look at the next segment, because I looked at

1053
00:43:29,520 --> 00:43:31,960
Speaker 2: the Colts earlier today, like around lunchtime, and I'm like,

1054
00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:35,520
Speaker 2: oh my god, everybody is did they have nothing to practice?

1055
00:43:35,600 --> 00:43:38,360
Speaker 1: I mean, everybody's d NP. But you look at everybody's

1056
00:43:38,360 --> 00:43:39,319
Speaker 1: injury report, it's that way.

1057
00:43:39,320 --> 00:43:41,680
Speaker 2: And so if you can go and yeah, when you

1058
00:43:41,680 --> 00:43:44,719
Speaker 2: can go find a player like Devin White that I

1059
00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:45,480
Speaker 2: think ends.

1060
00:43:45,320 --> 00:43:48,439
Speaker 1: Up, I think it just bolsters what you've got.

1061
00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:52,520
Speaker 2: And look last year when I don't got Derek Barnett, Look,

1062
00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:54,520
Speaker 2: was it like claiming them on waivers the last like

1063
00:43:54,600 --> 00:43:55,520
Speaker 2: seven eight weeks of the year.

1064
00:43:55,520 --> 00:43:59,000
Speaker 3: And another guy who Philadelphia thought wasn't worth playing, that's right,

1065
00:43:59,040 --> 00:44:01,040
Speaker 3: and he ends up playing. He's still on this team.

1066
00:44:01,640 --> 00:44:04,320
Speaker 3: So you never know about Devin White. They weren't playing

1067
00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:06,839
Speaker 3: him either, but he might have enough left in the

1068
00:44:06,920 --> 00:44:08,600
Speaker 3: in the tank to help you at that spot.

1069
00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:10,480
Speaker 1: Now, maybe you end up not needing him.

1070
00:44:10,520 --> 00:44:12,920
Speaker 3: Maybe everybody comes back healthy and you don't need him,

1071
00:44:12,920 --> 00:44:15,040
Speaker 3: but maybe he could play a little bit, getting some

1072
00:44:15,040 --> 00:44:16,000
Speaker 3: some kind of rotation.

1073
00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:19,200
Speaker 2: I mean, even if I mean DHC last year, We

1074
00:44:19,280 --> 00:44:21,759
Speaker 2: had to get Adrian Amos out here last year, and

1075
00:44:21,800 --> 00:44:23,719
Speaker 2: those guys had to step in in key spots and

1076
00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:24,520
Speaker 2: make place for you.

1077
00:44:24,719 --> 00:44:27,719
Speaker 1: And who knows whether it works with Devin White or not.

1078
00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:28,760
Speaker 1: We'll see how it fits.

1079
00:44:28,840 --> 00:44:30,600
Speaker 2: I mean, Devin White could be in the best shape

1080
00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:33,080
Speaker 2: of his career, he could be the best shape mentally,

1081
00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:35,120
Speaker 2: all that kind of stuff, and it may not just

1082
00:44:35,200 --> 00:44:37,920
Speaker 2: fit for this defense, right, But then again, he might

1083
00:44:37,920 --> 00:44:39,840
Speaker 2: come to this defense and it might fit in perfectly

1084
00:44:39,920 --> 00:44:42,240
Speaker 2: and he ends up, you know, sticking around making plays

1085
00:44:42,239 --> 00:44:44,160
Speaker 2: like like we said, like a guy like Derek Barnett

1086
00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:46,719
Speaker 2: has done. So uh, yeah, it's a I think it's

1087
00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:48,680
Speaker 2: a It's a solid signing with not a whole lot

1088
00:44:48,719 --> 00:44:51,800
Speaker 2: of risk, with the potential of some upside.

1089
00:44:51,880 --> 00:44:54,680
Speaker 1: Look, is it Pro Bowl linebacker Devin White upside? No?

1090
00:44:54,719 --> 00:44:57,120
Speaker 2: Probably not, But it's at least some upside that you

1091
00:44:57,160 --> 00:44:59,560
Speaker 2: can put in there with a group that's been hammered

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Speaker 2: by injury lately.

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Speaker 1: Even though hopefully Henry's on the.

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Speaker 2: Track to getting better because he's back at practice today. Now,

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Speaker 2: the rest of the injury report ain't so pretty, but

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Speaker 2: we'll go through it next right here on Texans All

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Speaker 2: Access TEP. But everybody walking back to Wednesday edition of

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Speaker 2: Texans All Access from London Texans Radio studio.

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Speaker 1: John Harris Football on the sideline reporter.

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Speaker 2: It's time to dive into our injury report this week,

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00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:26,200
Speaker 2: which I will admit not nearly as bad as it

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Speaker 2: was last week.

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Speaker 1: That's a good thing.

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00:45:28,960 --> 00:45:30,719
Speaker 2: Got some guys moving in the right direction. We're not

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Speaker 2: all the way there yet, We've got some guys moving

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00:45:32,960 --> 00:45:36,000
Speaker 2: in the right direction. A couple of those were limited

1107
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Speaker 2: participants in practice today. Henry Totoe the concussion, Kamari Lasser

1108
00:45:40,840 --> 00:45:45,200
Speaker 2: with the shoulder. Those two were limited participants. Now it

1109
00:45:45,520 --> 00:45:49,239
Speaker 2: again doesn't mean they are ready to go. It just

1110
00:45:49,320 --> 00:45:52,800
Speaker 2: means they're moving definitely in the right direction. Now DNP

1111
00:45:53,280 --> 00:45:56,120
Speaker 2: still is Zizel Shier to knee, Steven Simms the back,

1112
00:45:56,200 --> 00:45:58,480
Speaker 2: Jimmy Ward dealing with that growing Robert Woods with the foot.

1113
00:45:58,719 --> 00:46:02,560
Speaker 1: So hopefully we'll see some movement soon with those those four.

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Speaker 2: We've seen those four on here a little bit in

1115
00:46:04,239 --> 00:46:07,120
Speaker 2: the DMP section but also limited for the Texans. Will

1116
00:46:07,120 --> 00:46:09,120
Speaker 2: Anderson Junior with a chest foll Leaf out of Costu

1117
00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:11,120
Speaker 2: with that shoulder we've talked about a little bit, Larrmer

1118
00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:14,319
Speaker 2: Tunso with the ankle. Now, the Colts pretty beat up,

1119
00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:15,960
Speaker 2: but they got a couple of guys that are working

1120
00:46:15,960 --> 00:46:19,640
Speaker 2: their way back. Dmp s Jenard Avery defensive end, Jalen

1121
00:46:19,680 --> 00:46:23,160
Speaker 2: Carly's linebacker Josh Downs deal with both a groin and

1122
00:46:23,239 --> 00:46:26,040
Speaker 2: a tow. He missed the first game. Having been on IR,

1123
00:46:26,680 --> 00:46:28,480
Speaker 2: I would imagine he's gonna do everything possible to play

1124
00:46:28,480 --> 00:46:29,960
Speaker 2: in this one. He's become a key part of that

1125
00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:32,560
Speaker 2: offense as we thought he would be. Ryan Kelly at calf,

1126
00:46:33,080 --> 00:46:37,239
Speaker 2: starting center, Chris Lammon's ankle, Michael Pittman back, Brad Smith neee.

1127
00:46:37,280 --> 00:46:39,279
Speaker 2: My guess is, like the Texans we've seen the last

1128
00:46:39,280 --> 00:46:41,439
Speaker 2: few weeks, those guys are moving to the limited, moveing

1129
00:46:41,520 --> 00:46:43,760
Speaker 2: to the full, and be ready to go on Sunday.

1130
00:46:43,760 --> 00:46:46,719
Speaker 2: It's my thought limited participants. The Forest Buckner has been

1131
00:46:46,760 --> 00:46:49,880
Speaker 2: an IR. He has been moved into the twenty one

1132
00:46:49,960 --> 00:46:52,840
Speaker 2: day window. My guess is this one's hugely important, so

1133
00:46:52,960 --> 00:46:55,520
Speaker 2: he will play. It's my guest he was limited with

1134
00:46:55,520 --> 00:46:57,239
Speaker 2: that ankle. John ta Taylor's was the last couple of

1135
00:46:57,280 --> 00:47:00,760
Speaker 2: high ankle sprain. He was limited as well, but Ashton

1136
00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:05,000
Speaker 2: Doolan and Ejspeed, two guys played big roles in the

1137
00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:08,560
Speaker 2: first game. They were back full at practice. So that

1138
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Speaker 2: is your injury report. Coming up next us learn a

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Speaker 2: little bit more about these Colts with our men behind

1140
00:47:14,200 --> 00:47:16,880
Speaker 2: the mic segment. Matt Taylor, our good friend joins Mark Vandern.

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Speaker 2: Next on Texans All Access.

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Speaker 1: We got one our down, one hour left to go.

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Speaker 2: Right here on a Wednesday edition of Texans All Access

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Speaker 2: from Monday Texans Radio Studio, I'm your host, John Harris,

1145
00:47:26,320 --> 00:47:28,480
Speaker 2: and it's time for this week's stats Challenge, brought.

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Speaker 1: To you by SLB.

1147
00:47:30,560 --> 00:47:34,800
Speaker 2: Visit Houston Texans dot com today to register to take

1148
00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:37,520
Speaker 2: the stats challenge.

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00:47:37,680 --> 00:47:39,320
Speaker 1: Okay, the stat actually.

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Speaker 2: Has to do with wins for your Texans against the

1151
00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:46,319
Speaker 2: Colts at NRG. Now, if you were listening earlier, we

1152
00:47:46,520 --> 00:47:50,120
Speaker 2: gave you this. We gave this to you. But in

1153
00:47:50,200 --> 00:47:54,799
Speaker 2: the last five meetings at NRG Stadium, the Texans are

1154
00:47:54,960 --> 00:48:01,200
Speaker 2: one three and one against the Colts, one three and one.

1155
00:48:01,040 --> 00:48:03,200
Speaker 1: Against the Colts. Yet at Lucas Oil they.

1156
00:48:03,239 --> 00:48:05,600
Speaker 2: Won the last four, the last three in a row

1157
00:48:06,440 --> 00:48:08,520
Speaker 2: twenty four, twenty three, twenty two, they won the last

1158
00:48:08,560 --> 00:48:10,160
Speaker 2: three in a row, but they're won three and one,

1159
00:48:10,200 --> 00:48:14,240
Speaker 2: the only win coming in twenty nineteen. So the Texas

1160
00:48:14,280 --> 00:48:17,480
Speaker 2: have been oh three and one the last four at

1161
00:48:17,600 --> 00:48:22,279
Speaker 2: Energy Stadium. That's got to change on Sunday. Well, that's

1162
00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:25,919
Speaker 2: a stat that we've got to change, got to got

1163
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Speaker 2: to not for the stats Challenge. I think it's perfect

1164
00:48:28,400 --> 00:48:30,799
Speaker 2: for the Stats Challenge brought to you by SOB, but

1165
00:48:31,600 --> 00:48:33,279
Speaker 2: we gotta change that around. We got you two three

1166
00:48:33,280 --> 00:48:35,560
Speaker 2: and one after this one. A couple of things. As

1167
00:48:35,560 --> 00:48:38,120
Speaker 2: I mentioned to Mark, we've only beaten the Colts three

1168
00:48:38,200 --> 00:48:40,680
Speaker 2: in a row once, that was the end of fifteen

1169
00:48:40,719 --> 00:48:43,320
Speaker 2: and then the sweep at twenty sixteen. We've only swept

1170
00:48:43,320 --> 00:48:48,279
Speaker 2: the Colts once in twenty sixteen. So no time like

1171
00:48:48,320 --> 00:48:51,360
Speaker 2: the present to come up with a sweep of the

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Speaker 2: Colts on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: Now, the man calling the action, this guy who's been

1174
00:48:55,440 --> 00:48:56,120
Speaker 1: doing it for a while.

1175
00:48:56,160 --> 00:48:59,799
Speaker 2: He's our good friend, Matt Taylor, the voice of the

1176
00:49:00,080 --> 00:49:04,239
Speaker 2: Indianapolis Colts. I and why it's Matt Taylor, tom right

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00:49:04,239 --> 00:49:06,719
Speaker 2: here on meybeyond the Mike's Mark Vanamir joining us.

1178
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Speaker 3: Now it's Matt Taylor, voice of the Indianapolis Colts, who

1179
00:49:10,960 --> 00:49:14,680
Speaker 3: are four and three heading into face the Houston Texans. Matt,

1180
00:49:14,880 --> 00:49:17,399
Speaker 3: we meet again, and this is the earliest these two

1181
00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:19,959
Speaker 3: teams will ever be done with the season series.

1182
00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:21,879
Speaker 1: I don't want to say we'll ever, but have ever

1183
00:49:21,960 --> 00:49:22,440
Speaker 1: been done?

1184
00:49:22,560 --> 00:49:25,319
Speaker 5: How you doing, my friend, I'm great, I'm great. I'm

1185
00:49:25,360 --> 00:49:28,080
Speaker 5: with you. Mark. That's a that's a that's a that's

1186
00:49:28,080 --> 00:49:30,400
Speaker 5: a big misstep right there. I think by the NFL,

1187
00:49:30,480 --> 00:49:32,279
Speaker 5: I mean, you got to reserve at least one of

1188
00:49:32,320 --> 00:49:35,640
Speaker 5: these crucial games, you know, for at least late November December,

1189
00:49:36,080 --> 00:49:38,799
Speaker 5: later in the year. I mean, that week team game

1190
00:49:38,920 --> 00:49:41,840
Speaker 5: last year was epics just because of the ramifications, and

1191
00:49:41,880 --> 00:49:44,879
Speaker 5: you built that into the schedule by you know, back

1192
00:49:44,960 --> 00:49:46,759
Speaker 5: ending it, you know, towards the end of the year.

1193
00:49:46,840 --> 00:49:48,800
Speaker 5: But hey, it is what it is. It's still a

1194
00:49:48,880 --> 00:49:52,000
Speaker 5: huge game, and I think both teams still have aspirations

1195
00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:54,439
Speaker 5: of trying to win the AFC South. So this game

1196
00:49:54,480 --> 00:49:56,160
Speaker 5: on Sunday, Man, it's going to go a long way

1197
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Speaker 5: to that.

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Speaker 1: Let's go Macro here.

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Speaker 3: Matt characterized the Colts for me because none of this

1200
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Speaker 3: surprises me. I'm looking at a franchise that always finds

1201
00:50:04,320 --> 00:50:07,560
Speaker 3: ways to be relevant and in contention in the AFC

1202
00:50:07,640 --> 00:50:10,160
Speaker 3: South despite losing players.

1203
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Speaker 1: Whatever the case may be.

1204
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Speaker 3: But here you are with Anthony Richardson going out, Joe

1205
00:50:15,360 --> 00:50:17,839
Speaker 3: Flacco coming in. Maybe we shouldn't have been surprised based

1206
00:50:17,880 --> 00:50:19,799
Speaker 3: on what Flacco did last year with the Browns, but

1207
00:50:20,280 --> 00:50:23,279
Speaker 3: Richardson's back. Still find a way to win against the Dolphins,

1208
00:50:23,480 --> 00:50:26,120
Speaker 3: not always pretty, but getting the job done and a

1209
00:50:26,160 --> 00:50:27,720
Speaker 3: winning record after seven weeks.

1210
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Speaker 5: Your thoughts overall, Yeah, I think that's a good summary

1211
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Speaker 5: of what you've seen here from the Colts. They've had

1212
00:50:33,800 --> 00:50:37,120
Speaker 5: a lot of injuries on both sides of the ball. Defensively,

1213
00:50:37,160 --> 00:50:39,920
Speaker 5: they're giving up a lot of yards and they're not

1214
00:50:39,960 --> 00:50:43,720
Speaker 5: defending the runs well at all, but they're finding ways

1215
00:50:43,760 --> 00:50:46,279
Speaker 5: to win. And they're four and three. Like you said, so,

1216
00:50:46,320 --> 00:50:48,799
Speaker 5: they've played seven games. All seven of their games have

1217
00:50:48,840 --> 00:50:51,880
Speaker 5: been one score games. So the leading the NFL in

1218
00:50:51,960 --> 00:50:55,880
Speaker 5: terms of close games. And that was kind of the

1219
00:50:55,920 --> 00:50:58,120
Speaker 5: hallmark of the team a year ago is just find

1220
00:50:58,120 --> 00:51:00,600
Speaker 5: a way to win in one score games. Ratch them out.

1221
00:51:00,600 --> 00:51:03,680
Speaker 5: They're not always pretty, they're not always sexy, and that's

1222
00:51:03,760 --> 00:51:06,799
Speaker 5: exactly what last Sunday was against the Miami Dolphins. They

1223
00:51:06,800 --> 00:51:09,759
Speaker 5: won sixteen to ten. It was ugly. There weren't a

1224
00:51:09,800 --> 00:51:11,840
Speaker 5: lot of big plays. There was a lot of running

1225
00:51:11,840 --> 00:51:15,439
Speaker 5: of the football. It was kind of a field position game.

1226
00:51:16,440 --> 00:51:18,839
Speaker 5: But Anthony Richardson is still kind of figuring it out.

1227
00:51:18,880 --> 00:51:21,319
Speaker 5: He's very much up and down. He's getting better week

1228
00:51:21,360 --> 00:51:24,480
Speaker 5: to week. It's all about experience for him. But in

1229
00:51:24,520 --> 00:51:27,560
Speaker 5: the meantime that I think you're playing some complimentary football,

1230
00:51:27,600 --> 00:51:30,480
Speaker 5: they're making some big plays in the fourth quarters which

1231
00:51:30,480 --> 00:51:32,320
Speaker 5: are kind of putting them over the top late in

1232
00:51:32,360 --> 00:51:36,600
Speaker 5: the game. So if you're looking for like the I guess,

1233
00:51:36,160 --> 00:51:39,160
Speaker 5: the sexiest NFL team, or the team that's just gonna

1234
00:51:39,160 --> 00:51:42,400
Speaker 5: blow you away and you're gonna have the most enjoyable

1235
00:51:42,480 --> 00:51:45,560
Speaker 5: time watching. If you're not a fan, that's not the Colts.

1236
00:51:45,640 --> 00:51:47,799
Speaker 5: That's not the team for you so far this year.

1237
00:51:48,480 --> 00:51:51,240
Speaker 5: But they are over five hundred now. With that saying

1238
00:51:51,239 --> 00:51:55,279
Speaker 5: that they haven't played the Chiefs every week, right, they're

1239
00:51:55,320 --> 00:51:57,560
Speaker 5: not playing the Bengals every week or the Texan They

1240
00:51:57,600 --> 00:52:00,880
Speaker 5: played some really bad football teams with some backboard and

1241
00:52:00,920 --> 00:52:04,480
Speaker 5: some bad offenses, and within that they're kind of scratching

1242
00:52:04,520 --> 00:52:07,640
Speaker 5: these games out and starting this weekend down in Houston

1243
00:52:07,760 --> 00:52:10,760
Speaker 5: and then the week after in Minnesota, then Buffalo, the Jets,

1244
00:52:11,680 --> 00:52:14,080
Speaker 5: and then the Lions in the month of November that

1245
00:52:14,320 --> 00:52:16,120
Speaker 5: the schedule for the Colts are really going to start

1246
00:52:16,120 --> 00:52:18,560
Speaker 5: the heat up. But they have been able to kind

1247
00:52:18,600 --> 00:52:20,520
Speaker 5: of take care of business the last couple of games.

1248
00:52:20,520 --> 00:52:23,240
Speaker 5: They've won four of their last five to get themselves

1249
00:52:23,239 --> 00:52:24,040
Speaker 5: in contention. Though.

1250
00:52:24,640 --> 00:52:27,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, So take me through how they're doing it at

1251
00:52:27,080 --> 00:52:30,480
Speaker 3: the quarterback position, because it's very different with Flacco as

1252
00:52:30,480 --> 00:52:33,799
Speaker 3: opposed to Richardson. How are they getting it done on

1253
00:52:33,880 --> 00:52:36,640
Speaker 3: the offensive side. I know it's not a ton of

1254
00:52:36,680 --> 00:52:40,080
Speaker 3: points necessarily, but enough to win more often than not.

1255
00:52:41,080 --> 00:52:44,680
Speaker 5: Well, you're right esthetically in playbook wise, it's completely different

1256
00:52:44,680 --> 00:52:48,040
Speaker 5: when Joe Flacco's in there compared to Anthony Richardson. And

1257
00:52:48,239 --> 00:52:51,280
Speaker 5: Anthony missed two games with an oblique and that continues

1258
00:52:51,320 --> 00:52:53,759
Speaker 5: to be a hot button issue around here in Indianapolis.

1259
00:52:53,840 --> 00:52:56,359
Speaker 5: Is you know, how can he play and get experienced

1260
00:52:56,400 --> 00:53:00,319
Speaker 5: while also staying healthy, right, because he's he's had nine arts,

1261
00:53:00,320 --> 00:53:02,560
Speaker 5: he's been knocked out of four of them, including a

1262
00:53:02,560 --> 00:53:05,879
Speaker 5: game last year down in Houston Week two. So it's

1263
00:53:05,920 --> 00:53:10,560
Speaker 5: all about tapping into his dynamic playmaking ability, using that athleticism,

1264
00:53:11,200 --> 00:53:14,919
Speaker 5: but also being smart and you know, putting him harm's way,

1265
00:53:15,080 --> 00:53:18,800
Speaker 5: you know, himself taking care of himself in terms of

1266
00:53:18,560 --> 00:53:21,440
Speaker 5: of how he's playing and sliding and trying to avoid

1267
00:53:21,480 --> 00:53:25,920
Speaker 5: those big hits. That that's the the franchise conundrum right now.

1268
00:53:25,920 --> 00:53:28,640
Speaker 5: They're still trying to figure that out while also get

1269
00:53:28,719 --> 00:53:31,600
Speaker 5: him getting him as much experience in time on task

1270
00:53:31,640 --> 00:53:32,320
Speaker 5: as possible.

1271
00:53:32,760 --> 00:53:32,880
Speaker 1: Uh.

1272
00:53:33,040 --> 00:53:34,960
Speaker 5: But with Joe Flack go into the ball game in

1273
00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:37,799
Speaker 5: those two games, I mean that it looked like an

1274
00:53:37,800 --> 00:53:42,279
Speaker 5: old school prototypical drop back pocket passer. It was. It

1275
00:53:42,400 --> 00:53:44,719
Speaker 5: was crazy to think that at one point mark when

1276
00:53:44,800 --> 00:53:49,160
Speaker 5: when Joe was in there before Anthony came back, the

1277
00:53:49,200 --> 00:53:51,759
Speaker 5: Colts at the same time had the quarterback with the

1278
00:53:51,800 --> 00:53:54,440
Speaker 5: worst passer rating in the NFL and the quarterback with

1279
00:53:54,480 --> 00:53:57,040
Speaker 5: the best passer rating in the NFL, and and Blacko

1280
00:53:57,239 --> 00:54:00,200
Speaker 5: was on the positive end of that, and it just

1281
00:54:00,280 --> 00:54:03,440
Speaker 5: looks completely different. Complete percentage is way up. That a

1282
00:54:03,440 --> 00:54:05,640
Speaker 5: whole lot of shots down the field, but they're staying

1283
00:54:05,680 --> 00:54:08,560
Speaker 5: on the field, they're they're doing well on third down,

1284
00:54:09,320 --> 00:54:12,720
Speaker 5: staying on schedule. And then with Richardson again, it's that

1285
00:54:12,520 --> 00:54:14,520
Speaker 5: at that at the other end of the spectrum where

1286
00:54:14,880 --> 00:54:17,800
Speaker 5: you know a lot of three and outs, the overall

1287
00:54:17,840 --> 00:54:21,399
Speaker 5: completion percentage is down, but my goodness, the the big

1288
00:54:21,440 --> 00:54:24,600
Speaker 5: playability is just off the charts. If you saw that

1289
00:54:24,640 --> 00:54:27,520
Speaker 5: in Week one where the Colts had three completions over

1290
00:54:27,560 --> 00:54:30,400
Speaker 5: fifty yards against the Texans, That's how they stayed in

1291
00:54:30,440 --> 00:54:33,600
Speaker 5: the game. And with Anthony Richardson this year, mark the

1292
00:54:33,640 --> 00:54:37,120
Speaker 5: Colts have won two games where they completed ten or

1293
00:54:37,160 --> 00:54:41,279
Speaker 5: fewer passes, Like that's unbelievable. I mean, you you you're

1294
00:54:41,320 --> 00:54:43,560
Speaker 5: not going to win long term in the NFL doing that,

1295
00:54:43,640 --> 00:54:45,600
Speaker 5: But they have been able to pull that off because

1296
00:54:45,640 --> 00:54:49,239
Speaker 5: of the big plays and uh, you know, him being

1297
00:54:49,320 --> 00:54:51,879
Speaker 5: able to, you know, make plays with his feet when

1298
00:54:51,920 --> 00:54:55,080
Speaker 5: the passing game is just not there. So it is

1299
00:54:55,160 --> 00:54:57,480
Speaker 5: really kind of confusing right now trying to figure out

1300
00:54:57,480 --> 00:55:00,680
Speaker 5: what Anthony Richardson is to this point. But the he plays,

1301
00:55:00,680 --> 00:55:01,520
Speaker 5: the more they're going to know.

1302
00:55:02,040 --> 00:55:04,600
Speaker 3: One more on the offense, we know went healthy Jonathan

1303
00:55:04,600 --> 00:55:06,799
Speaker 3: Taylor is the best offensive player for the Colts, But

1304
00:55:07,560 --> 00:55:11,640
Speaker 3: take me through who else might impress you on this

1305
00:55:11,719 --> 00:55:13,959
Speaker 3: team as far as an offensive weapon. We know about

1306
00:55:14,000 --> 00:55:18,040
Speaker 3: Pittman Downs, Piers, is it those guys? Is it somebody else?

1307
00:55:18,320 --> 00:55:20,480
Speaker 3: What are you thinking overall here? When you look at

1308
00:55:20,520 --> 00:55:22,440
Speaker 3: the offensive weaponry of Indie.

1309
00:55:22,800 --> 00:55:25,520
Speaker 5: Well, there's two guys, and one of them is Alec Pierce.

1310
00:55:25,560 --> 00:55:27,600
Speaker 5: And I've said, you know, for the last couple of

1311
00:55:27,680 --> 00:55:30,840
Speaker 5: years with this quarterback carousel. You know, last year, obviously

1312
00:55:30,880 --> 00:55:34,719
Speaker 5: it was accentuated with Anthony Richardson missing thirteen games, that

1313
00:55:35,080 --> 00:55:37,600
Speaker 5: there was no player within the Colts offense that was

1314
00:55:37,640 --> 00:55:42,120
Speaker 5: more impacted negatively with the quarterback carousel than Alec Pierce.

1315
00:55:42,200 --> 00:55:45,640
Speaker 5: Because he is a really good deep ball catcher. He

1316
00:55:45,640 --> 00:55:48,399
Speaker 5: can stretch the field, he's got great speed, and I've

1317
00:55:48,440 --> 00:55:52,240
Speaker 5: never seen anybody be able to more successfully just grab

1318
00:55:52,320 --> 00:55:55,000
Speaker 5: fifty to fifty balls and bring him down for big games.

1319
00:55:55,040 --> 00:55:57,560
Speaker 5: And that's exactly what he does. And so the Colts now,

1320
00:55:58,000 --> 00:56:00,880
Speaker 5: with Flaco and Richardson, both of them being willing and

1321
00:56:00,920 --> 00:56:02,759
Speaker 5: able to push the ball down the field in the

1322
00:56:02,800 --> 00:56:05,799
Speaker 5: deep shot game, they're getting the ball to Pierce. I mean,

1323
00:56:06,080 --> 00:56:08,960
Speaker 5: he's averaging over twenty eight yards per catch this year.

1324
00:56:09,000 --> 00:56:11,520
Speaker 5: I mean, that's ridiculous. And he leads to the NFL

1325
00:56:11,600 --> 00:56:15,160
Speaker 5: and that he's got seven touchdowns for his career and

1326
00:56:15,320 --> 00:56:18,600
Speaker 5: five of those seven scores have been over thirty yards

1327
00:56:18,600 --> 00:56:21,680
Speaker 5: in terms of the ball traveling in the air to him,

1328
00:56:22,280 --> 00:56:25,799
Speaker 5: So he is I think back and very much in

1329
00:56:25,880 --> 00:56:28,279
Speaker 5: focus for the first time in his career in year three,

1330
00:56:28,760 --> 00:56:30,319
Speaker 5: coming out of the draft a couple of years ago

1331
00:56:30,360 --> 00:56:32,640
Speaker 5: out of Cincinnati. And then the other guy is more

1332
00:56:32,640 --> 00:56:35,399
Speaker 5: of a possession guy. That's Josh Downs, and he didn't

1333
00:56:35,440 --> 00:56:37,520
Speaker 5: have a big game last week. In fact, they only

1334
00:56:37,560 --> 00:56:39,800
Speaker 5: target him a couple times. He only had one catch,

1335
00:56:40,120 --> 00:56:42,960
Speaker 5: which was really kind of confusing. He's been really big

1336
00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:45,680
Speaker 5: in the slot. He's like their third down possession guy.

1337
00:56:46,280 --> 00:56:48,040
Speaker 5: They're able to kind of stay on the field by

1338
00:56:48,080 --> 00:56:51,440
Speaker 5: force feeding him. But in the three games prior to

1339
00:56:51,560 --> 00:56:55,000
Speaker 5: last week, he had twenty four combined catches and most

1340
00:56:55,000 --> 00:56:57,759
Speaker 5: of them are either producing a first down or a touchdown.

1341
00:56:58,520 --> 00:57:00,799
Speaker 5: So he's back healthy. He didn't pla week one. He

1342
00:57:00,840 --> 00:57:03,160
Speaker 5: was dealing with the high ankle sprain in that first

1343
00:57:03,160 --> 00:57:05,120
Speaker 5: game of the season against the Texans. But he's gonna

1344
00:57:05,160 --> 00:57:07,480
Speaker 5: play in this game and he's really important for the

1345
00:57:07,520 --> 00:57:10,960
Speaker 5: Colts in terms of their sustainability on the field to

1346
00:57:11,000 --> 00:57:15,520
Speaker 5: convert third downs and just move the chains and keep

1347
00:57:15,520 --> 00:57:18,120
Speaker 5: that defense for the Colts on the sideline that has

1348
00:57:18,400 --> 00:57:21,920
Speaker 5: had such a hard time stopping third downs of the

1349
00:57:22,000 --> 00:57:24,200
Speaker 5: Roan and keeping that point total down. So those two

1350
00:57:24,240 --> 00:57:27,360
Speaker 5: guys outside of Taylor really really important for the Colts.

1351
00:57:27,840 --> 00:57:30,640
Speaker 3: All right, let's go over some stars on the defense

1352
00:57:30,760 --> 00:57:32,400
Speaker 3: and maybe give me a guy or two that we

1353
00:57:32,440 --> 00:57:35,440
Speaker 3: don't talk about much that should be getting more attention.

1354
00:57:35,880 --> 00:57:38,880
Speaker 5: Well, you know, attention wise in this game. DeForest Buckner

1355
00:57:38,920 --> 00:57:41,480
Speaker 5: has a good chance of coming back off of injured reserve.

1356
00:57:41,560 --> 00:57:44,080
Speaker 5: He's been out since Week two with the high ankle sprain.

1357
00:57:44,480 --> 00:57:46,680
Speaker 5: Who's got a decent shot at coming back. So that's

1358
00:57:46,720 --> 00:57:50,720
Speaker 5: important for the Colts. Zaire Franklin and EJ. Speed really

1359
00:57:50,760 --> 00:57:55,120
Speaker 5: two good middle linebackers for Indianapolis. But like I said earlier,

1360
00:57:55,120 --> 00:57:58,280
Speaker 5: I mean the biggest problem for this team is surprisingly

1361
00:57:58,320 --> 00:58:00,480
Speaker 5: going into the season, you know, everybody I thought they'd

1362
00:58:00,480 --> 00:58:01,960
Speaker 5: be able to stop the run. It was kind of

1363
00:58:01,960 --> 00:58:05,640
Speaker 5: a strength of theirs last year and it just hasn't

1364
00:58:05,680 --> 00:58:07,760
Speaker 5: shown up at all. I mean, the Colts are dead

1365
00:58:07,840 --> 00:58:11,000
Speaker 5: last and rushing defense. In fact, they have faced the

1366
00:58:11,040 --> 00:58:14,240
Speaker 5: most rushing attempts in the NFL so far this year.

1367
00:58:15,040 --> 00:58:18,600
Speaker 5: Three different teams have ran at least forty times against

1368
00:58:18,640 --> 00:58:21,120
Speaker 5: them in a game. I know the Texans did that

1369
00:58:21,280 --> 00:58:24,520
Speaker 5: back in Week one. Green Bay ran all over them.

1370
00:58:25,080 --> 00:58:28,040
Speaker 5: It's just really kind of confusing why they're not being

1371
00:58:28,080 --> 00:58:31,480
Speaker 5: able to have better success stopping the run. And I

1372
00:58:31,480 --> 00:58:35,400
Speaker 5: think again Buckner's absence has partly played into that. So

1373
00:58:35,600 --> 00:58:37,520
Speaker 5: to get him back this week that would be really

1374
00:58:37,560 --> 00:58:40,800
Speaker 5: really important for the Colts. But that's just the biggest

1375
00:58:40,800 --> 00:58:43,320
Speaker 5: thing they're you know, the third down defense is not

1376
00:58:43,520 --> 00:58:46,560
Speaker 5: very good because teams are running so well on first

1377
00:58:46,560 --> 00:58:49,200
Speaker 5: and second down, they're getting into favorable down and distance,

1378
00:58:50,080 --> 00:58:52,600
Speaker 5: and that has led to the Colts being towards the

1379
00:58:52,600 --> 00:58:54,880
Speaker 5: bottom of the barrel too in time of possession they're

1380
00:58:54,920 --> 00:58:57,800
Speaker 5: on the field, a lot of the defense teams are

1381
00:58:57,800 --> 00:58:59,920
Speaker 5: just trying to pound it against them up front when

1382
00:59:00,160 --> 00:59:02,560
Speaker 5: line of scrimmage. If the Colts are gonna win this

1383
00:59:02,600 --> 00:59:06,240
Speaker 5: game on Sunday, that cannot happen. Joe Mixon cannot have

1384
00:59:06,360 --> 00:59:08,880
Speaker 5: a similar type game that he had back in Week

1385
00:59:08,920 --> 00:59:11,240
Speaker 5: one where he looked like Joe Mixon, you know, coming

1386
00:59:11,280 --> 00:59:14,080
Speaker 5: out of Oklahoma in twenty seventeen and twenty eighteen. So

1387
00:59:14,480 --> 00:59:17,240
Speaker 5: that is a really really big sticking point for this defense,

1388
00:59:17,680 --> 00:59:20,240
Speaker 5: and anybody in the front seven that has anything to

1389
00:59:20,280 --> 00:59:22,000
Speaker 5: do is being able to stop the run and setting

1390
00:59:22,040 --> 00:59:24,080
Speaker 5: the edge has to have a big game for the

1391
00:59:24,120 --> 00:59:24,640
Speaker 5: Colts to win.

1392
00:59:25,040 --> 00:59:27,680
Speaker 3: Matt Taylor, Voice of the Colts with US, what's impressed

1393
00:59:27,720 --> 00:59:30,960
Speaker 3: you about the coaching staff through a year and almost

1394
00:59:30,960 --> 00:59:31,400
Speaker 3: a half.

1395
00:59:31,880 --> 00:59:35,720
Speaker 5: Well, just how creative and how intelligent Shane Stikeen is.

1396
00:59:35,760 --> 00:59:38,720
Speaker 5: The play calling is really really good, and he's been

1397
00:59:38,760 --> 00:59:42,960
Speaker 5: thrown a lot of curve balls between Anthony Richardson and

1398
00:59:43,000 --> 00:59:46,600
Speaker 5: Gardner Minshew and now Joe Flacco. He's had a lot

1399
00:59:46,640 --> 00:59:48,920
Speaker 5: to juggle and he's been able to kind of figure

1400
00:59:48,920 --> 00:59:52,360
Speaker 5: it out with whomever is out there at quarterback, and

1401
00:59:52,400 --> 00:59:54,479
Speaker 5: so they kind of taylor the offense week to week

1402
00:59:54,560 --> 00:59:58,120
Speaker 5: based on who's up. They've had a lot of injuries,

1403
00:59:58,720 --> 01:00:01,800
Speaker 5: but they're scoring routinely over twenty points per game, I mean,

1404
01:00:01,840 --> 01:00:05,320
Speaker 5: believe it or not, despite all this quarterback carousel action

1405
01:00:05,400 --> 01:00:07,560
Speaker 5: they've had, they they've been able to put up points

1406
01:00:07,920 --> 01:00:10,240
Speaker 5: and kind of do their part. I mean, they scored

1407
01:00:10,280 --> 01:00:12,680
Speaker 5: thirty four against Jacksonville on the road with a backup

1408
01:00:12,720 --> 01:00:15,360
Speaker 5: quarterback and Joe Flacco and still lost the games. They

1409
01:00:15,440 --> 01:00:18,439
Speaker 5: did their part of that matchup. And then also too,

1410
01:00:18,600 --> 01:00:21,640
Speaker 5: just the gamesmanship that Shane Styken has. I mean, I

1411
01:00:21,680 --> 01:00:26,040
Speaker 5: know Texans fans probably follow the Colts pretty loosely throughout

1412
01:00:26,080 --> 01:00:27,880
Speaker 5: the course of the of the season. But he does

1413
01:00:27,920 --> 01:00:30,800
Speaker 5: a really good job of knowing when to call timeouts,

1414
01:00:30,800 --> 01:00:34,520
Speaker 5: knowing when to challenge. Shane also has this, I don't

1415
01:00:34,560 --> 01:00:36,640
Speaker 5: know what to call it again, it's probably under the

1416
01:00:36,920 --> 01:00:39,600
Speaker 5: umbrella of gamesmanship, but he has a really good knack

1417
01:00:39,640 --> 01:00:42,520
Speaker 5: of forcing the other team to burn it time out.

1418
01:00:43,000 --> 01:00:46,240
Speaker 5: You know, fourth down, you're acting like you're gonna go forward,

1419
01:00:46,280 --> 01:00:48,280
Speaker 5: then you put on the punt team or the kicking team,

1420
01:00:48,560 --> 01:00:50,360
Speaker 5: and then all of a sudden, here comes the offense

1421
01:00:50,440 --> 01:00:53,040
Speaker 5: back on the field. So it puts the other team

1422
01:00:53,080 --> 01:00:54,800
Speaker 5: on their heels a little bit. They have to burn

1423
01:00:54,800 --> 01:00:57,320
Speaker 5: it time out. That was the case last week against

1424
01:00:57,320 --> 01:01:01,080
Speaker 5: the Dolphins, same kind of situation. McDaniel had to burn

1425
01:01:01,080 --> 01:01:03,320
Speaker 5: a time out and then the Dolphins got the ball

1426
01:01:03,400 --> 01:01:06,840
Speaker 5: back late in the game under two minutes, down by six,

1427
01:01:06,920 --> 01:01:09,160
Speaker 5: and they didn't have a time out and they had

1428
01:01:09,160 --> 01:01:11,240
Speaker 5: no timeouts left because they had to burn one in

1429
01:01:11,280 --> 01:01:14,200
Speaker 5: a situation like that where Shane Stiken forced their hand

1430
01:01:14,560 --> 01:01:17,040
Speaker 5: and made them use a stoppage. So just kind of

1431
01:01:17,080 --> 01:01:19,680
Speaker 5: things like that where he's thinking about the game cerebrally

1432
01:01:20,200 --> 01:01:23,160
Speaker 5: and kind of big picture. He's really kind of elite

1433
01:01:23,240 --> 01:01:26,040
Speaker 5: at that, and just the overall play calling is really

1434
01:01:26,080 --> 01:01:28,520
Speaker 5: really good, regardless of who's in there playing quarterback.

1435
01:01:29,000 --> 01:01:32,600
Speaker 3: Matt, how surprised are you at the Jaguars struggles so far.

1436
01:01:33,840 --> 01:01:36,320
Speaker 5: I'm really surprised. And you know, I think you and

1437
01:01:36,400 --> 01:01:38,720
Speaker 5: I were talking over the summer about, you know, just

1438
01:01:38,760 --> 01:01:41,280
Speaker 5: how much parity there there was gonna be in this

1439
01:01:41,360 --> 01:01:44,960
Speaker 5: division to start the season, and I'm really surprised that

1440
01:01:45,040 --> 01:01:49,680
Speaker 5: the Titans aren't better. I'm surprised way more surprised at

1441
01:01:49,720 --> 01:01:52,600
Speaker 5: the Jaguars, though. I mean, I know they kind of

1442
01:01:52,720 --> 01:01:55,920
Speaker 5: kicked the teeth of the Patriots the other day in London,

1443
01:01:57,160 --> 01:02:00,520
Speaker 5: but you know, they're alto a bad star Colts to

1444
01:02:00,600 --> 01:02:03,000
Speaker 5: go down there in Jacksonville they get their first win

1445
01:02:03,080 --> 01:02:05,000
Speaker 5: of the season, kind of go figure when it comes

1446
01:02:05,000 --> 01:02:08,040
Speaker 5: to that, because historically the Colts don't play well down

1447
01:02:08,080 --> 01:02:12,240
Speaker 5: there for whatever reason. But you know, I'm really surprised

1448
01:02:12,240 --> 01:02:14,720
Speaker 5: that Trevor Lawrence hasn't had a better year. I'm surprised

1449
01:02:14,720 --> 01:02:17,880
Speaker 5: that defense is not better. I think Doug Peterson now

1450
01:02:17,960 --> 01:02:20,680
Speaker 5: after what happened last year, right when they lost five

1451
01:02:20,720 --> 01:02:22,840
Speaker 5: of their last six, when they had to only win

1452
01:02:22,880 --> 01:02:25,240
Speaker 5: the game or two down the stretch to winch the

1453
01:02:25,240 --> 01:02:27,040
Speaker 5: AFC South and they couldn't get it done.

1454
01:02:27,040 --> 01:02:28,240
Speaker 1: And then that's.

1455
01:02:28,080 --> 01:02:31,120
Speaker 5: Coupled with this start this year. I think he's squarely

1456
01:02:31,200 --> 01:02:34,640
Speaker 5: on the hot seat. So they're back after London. I

1457
01:02:34,680 --> 01:02:37,560
Speaker 5: think they have their by this week, but you know,

1458
01:02:37,640 --> 01:02:39,360
Speaker 5: maybe they start to kind of figure it out. But

1459
01:02:39,400 --> 01:02:42,480
Speaker 5: I think their start to the season really kind of

1460
01:02:42,480 --> 01:02:44,440
Speaker 5: put them behind the eight ball and doomed them for

1461
01:02:44,640 --> 01:02:48,320
Speaker 5: contention inside the division. So it's really kind of a

1462
01:02:48,360 --> 01:02:50,440
Speaker 5: two team races of right now between the Colts and

1463
01:02:50,480 --> 01:02:53,120
Speaker 5: the Texans. And that's why this this game on Sunday

1464
01:02:53,200 --> 01:02:54,720
Speaker 5: is just massive for both teams.

1465
01:02:54,840 --> 01:02:57,880
Speaker 1: Do you think the Titans regret letting Derrick Henry slip away?

1466
01:02:58,240 --> 01:03:01,360
Speaker 5: Man? I probably, you know, because the guy still has it.

1467
01:03:01,560 --> 01:03:04,120
Speaker 5: I mean, based on everything that I'm seeing right now

1468
01:03:04,160 --> 01:03:07,520
Speaker 5: with the Ravens, the guy's still running, you know, fierce downhill.

1469
01:03:07,640 --> 01:03:12,440
Speaker 5: As ever, he's still just a complete tackling nightmare for

1470
01:03:12,560 --> 01:03:15,400
Speaker 5: secondary people. He has to come in and you know

1471
01:03:15,440 --> 01:03:17,840
Speaker 5: make that tackle and that third wave of that defense.

1472
01:03:18,360 --> 01:03:20,360
Speaker 5: And just what a great get by the Ravens. Though.

1473
01:03:20,400 --> 01:03:22,720
Speaker 5: To pair him up with Lamar Jackson's kind of like

1474
01:03:22,760 --> 01:03:25,480
Speaker 5: what the Colts want to do between Richardson and Taylor.

1475
01:03:25,760 --> 01:03:28,040
Speaker 5: But the guy still has great speed. I mean he's

1476
01:03:28,040 --> 01:03:31,080
Speaker 5: still got great force and strength, and for my money,

1477
01:03:31,080 --> 01:03:33,320
Speaker 5: he's still a top three running back in the NFL.

1478
01:03:33,600 --> 01:03:35,120
Speaker 1: Matt, great stuff as always.

1479
01:03:35,160 --> 01:03:37,480
Speaker 3: Can't wait to see a Sunday for this big matchup

1480
01:03:37,560 --> 01:03:38,320
Speaker 3: Colts and Texans.

1481
01:03:38,360 --> 01:03:39,360
Speaker 1: We appreciate the time.

1482
01:03:39,640 --> 01:03:41,680
Speaker 5: Hey, my pleasure. Mark, always good to talk to you.

1483
01:03:41,840 --> 01:03:44,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, Matt, bring it up Jonathan Taylor at the end.

1484
01:03:44,600 --> 01:03:47,760
Speaker 2: Just I don't want to hear about Jonathan Taylor because

1485
01:03:47,800 --> 01:03:50,520
Speaker 2: the Texas did growl him in the first one. But

1486
01:03:51,080 --> 01:03:54,520
Speaker 2: at any point he can go off and that always

1487
01:03:54,640 --> 01:03:58,880
Speaker 2: worries me. As we take on the Indianapolis Colts. Okay,

1488
01:03:58,920 --> 01:04:01,600
Speaker 2: we get back. I've Neville Hewitt with us, a guy

1489
01:04:01,640 --> 01:04:06,640
Speaker 2: that could be instrumental in stopping Jonathan Taylor, as he

1490
01:04:06,760 --> 01:04:08,960
Speaker 2: did played very well against Screen Bay Packers.

1491
01:04:08,960 --> 01:04:10,520
Speaker 1: He could start again. We'll see.

1492
01:04:10,760 --> 01:04:12,880
Speaker 2: Don't know how this week is going to transpire, but

1493
01:04:12,920 --> 01:04:14,840
Speaker 2: Neville hewitts joining Mark and I next right here on

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Speaker 2: Texans All Access.

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Speaker 1: What's up, everybody, Welcome back to this show.

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Speaker 2: Appreciate you being with me on a Wednesday Texans All

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Speaker 2: of its hits on special teams. And then last Sunday,

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Speaker 2: on the defensive side of the ball is Neville Hewitt.

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Speaker 1: We had a really fun conversation with Neville. Take a listen,

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Speaker 1: Mark me Neville all right, joining us down studio.

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Speaker 3: It's Neville Hewitt, Linebackers, Special Team superstar.

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01:04:56,600 --> 01:04:58,840
Speaker 1: Neville. Great to have you with us. Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 3: All right, Well, let's talk about playing linebacker a little bit,

1509
01:05:01,560 --> 01:05:03,959
Speaker 3: because obviously you've done that at a very high level

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01:05:04,000 --> 01:05:06,160
Speaker 3: before in the NFL, and on this team a lot

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01:05:06,160 --> 01:05:09,080
Speaker 3: of special teams work and pressed into linebacker duty. What

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Speaker 3: was that like for you to face the Packers and

1513
01:05:11,080 --> 01:05:12,160
Speaker 3: play well against them?

1514
01:05:12,400 --> 01:05:12,880
Speaker 1: It was fun.

1515
01:05:12,880 --> 01:05:15,240
Speaker 6: It was definitely fun. I'm just trying my best to

1516
01:05:15,600 --> 01:05:16,680
Speaker 6: execute the game plan.

1517
01:05:18,000 --> 01:05:18,760
Speaker 1: Was fun.

1518
01:05:19,120 --> 01:05:23,080
Speaker 2: Okay, take us through the interception because from my angle,

1519
01:05:23,480 --> 01:05:25,240
Speaker 2: I had a kind of similar angle to Mark. We're

1520
01:05:25,320 --> 01:05:27,800
Speaker 2: kind of the same line, so we could see Petree,

1521
01:05:28,560 --> 01:05:30,200
Speaker 2: but We didn't know you had the ball until all

1522
01:05:30,200 --> 01:05:31,680
Speaker 2: of a sudden you just take off running with us,

1523
01:05:31,680 --> 01:05:32,640
Speaker 2: take us through the interception.

1524
01:05:32,760 --> 01:05:34,560
Speaker 1: What was I like just taking off down the field.

1525
01:05:34,800 --> 01:05:38,600
Speaker 6: Uh, Ptre's playing this technique perfectly, and I'm being being

1526
01:05:38,640 --> 01:05:40,200
Speaker 6: around the ball where I was supposed to be and

1527
01:05:40,800 --> 01:05:43,840
Speaker 6: he tipps it, catch it all. I see the end zone,

1528
01:05:44,760 --> 01:05:47,800
Speaker 6: I'm running and that's the love. I try to cut inside.

1529
01:05:47,800 --> 01:05:49,040
Speaker 6: He got me around the teen.

1530
01:05:49,320 --> 01:05:51,160
Speaker 3: Did you think about going to Earl Campbell on him

1531
01:05:51,160 --> 01:05:53,120
Speaker 3: because he is the quarterback, to kind of just turn

1532
01:05:53,200 --> 01:05:54,680
Speaker 3: back in and go, okay, I'm gonna turn it into

1533
01:05:54,720 --> 01:05:56,760
Speaker 3: a beast right now, or just you thinking I'm gonna

1534
01:05:56,760 --> 01:05:57,480
Speaker 3: get as far as I can.

1535
01:05:57,840 --> 01:05:59,400
Speaker 6: I'm not gonna get as far as I can. And

1536
01:06:00,160 --> 01:06:01,560
Speaker 6: as soon as I seen them like you got an

1537
01:06:01,560 --> 01:06:03,840
Speaker 6: angle on me to cut inside, I might be able

1538
01:06:03,880 --> 01:06:05,560
Speaker 6: to do him and go score.

1539
01:06:05,760 --> 01:06:07,360
Speaker 1: But you had two other plays during the game that

1540
01:06:07,440 --> 01:06:08,920
Speaker 1: where you got your hand on the ball that were

1541
01:06:08,920 --> 01:06:09,520
Speaker 1: really imported me.

1542
01:06:09,520 --> 01:06:11,760
Speaker 3: In the fourth quarter, that last driver, you get your

1543
01:06:11,800 --> 01:06:13,720
Speaker 3: hand on it, then Dobbs hits it and then Eric

1544
01:06:13,760 --> 01:06:14,840
Speaker 3: almost comes up with it.

1545
01:06:15,040 --> 01:06:17,920
Speaker 2: You played really well in pass coverage. What was it

1546
01:06:18,080 --> 01:06:20,120
Speaker 2: that you kind of just dialed into what they were doing.

1547
01:06:20,240 --> 01:06:21,920
Speaker 2: Just kind of being in your spot where you're supposed

1548
01:06:21,920 --> 01:06:23,360
Speaker 2: to be. What's kind of key to your game on

1549
01:06:23,400 --> 01:06:24,560
Speaker 2: Sunday in that regard.

1550
01:06:24,280 --> 01:06:29,120
Speaker 6: I'm just listening to the coaches playing my technique. You know,

1551
01:06:30,080 --> 01:06:31,640
Speaker 6: some of my technique is for me to be in

1552
01:06:31,640 --> 01:06:33,800
Speaker 6: that window, get some dep and then it's two minute.

1553
01:06:34,720 --> 01:06:36,640
Speaker 6: They were trying to get the ball there, obviously, and

1554
01:06:37,320 --> 01:06:38,320
Speaker 6: it was in the right place.

1555
01:06:38,520 --> 01:06:40,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely were Neville.

1556
01:06:40,040 --> 01:06:43,440
Speaker 3: What's the mentality on special teams because you know you're

1557
01:06:43,480 --> 01:06:45,560
Speaker 3: not going to be out there all the time, but

1558
01:06:45,600 --> 01:06:48,320
Speaker 3: when you are giving an opportunity to make a play,

1559
01:06:48,360 --> 01:06:49,160
Speaker 3: you tend to make them.

1560
01:06:49,200 --> 01:06:50,600
Speaker 1: So what is your mindset?

1561
01:06:50,880 --> 01:06:53,800
Speaker 6: I mean, that's the way special teams is one on one,

1562
01:06:54,000 --> 01:06:56,120
Speaker 6: So whoever wins there one on one the most is

1563
01:06:56,120 --> 01:06:58,600
Speaker 6: going to make the most plays. And so you know,

1564
01:06:58,640 --> 01:07:01,320
Speaker 6: we got our team is built out for lentless strain,

1565
01:07:01,920 --> 01:07:03,960
Speaker 6: and so if you straining the beach your guy in

1566
01:07:04,040 --> 01:07:05,720
Speaker 6: front of you, you going to show up a lot.

1567
01:07:06,240 --> 01:07:09,560
Speaker 2: Now, one of the things that I noticed, especially later

1568
01:07:09,560 --> 01:07:11,560
Speaker 2: in the game, and I'm sure you were doing it throughout,

1569
01:07:11,600 --> 01:07:14,680
Speaker 2: but you're very demonstrative about moving guys where they needed

1570
01:07:14,680 --> 01:07:16,680
Speaker 2: to go getting them lined up, especially the front. There

1571
01:07:16,720 --> 01:07:19,960
Speaker 2: was one time where I don't I remember hearing Love

1572
01:07:20,080 --> 01:07:23,120
Speaker 2: say something and then you immediately like grab guys that

1573
01:07:23,120 --> 01:07:26,080
Speaker 2: you go right right, you were taking charge of the defense.

1574
01:07:26,360 --> 01:07:28,160
Speaker 2: Was that kind of your mo going in that you

1575
01:07:28,200 --> 01:07:29,720
Speaker 2: were like, you know what, I'm the captain of defense.

1576
01:07:29,760 --> 01:07:32,000
Speaker 2: I'm calling this thing. I want everybody to respect what

1577
01:07:32,080 --> 01:07:33,760
Speaker 2: I'm saying. How was kind of your mindset as you

1578
01:07:33,800 --> 01:07:35,160
Speaker 2: were going in from that perspective?

1579
01:07:35,240 --> 01:07:38,160
Speaker 6: I mean, it is our responsibility as the linebackers of

1580
01:07:38,240 --> 01:07:40,320
Speaker 6: this defense is to, you know, to run the show

1581
01:07:40,360 --> 01:07:42,000
Speaker 6: and make sure everybody's on the same page.

1582
01:07:42,040 --> 01:07:43,120
Speaker 1: And so as long as.

1583
01:07:43,040 --> 01:07:45,439
Speaker 6: Everybody on the same page and we play our technique right,

1584
01:07:45,640 --> 01:07:48,440
Speaker 6: we're a hard team to beat. And that's that's why

1585
01:07:48,440 --> 01:07:50,480
Speaker 6: I was trying to do feeling in my role and

1586
01:07:50,800 --> 01:07:51,720
Speaker 6: to the best of my ability.

1587
01:07:52,000 --> 01:07:55,160
Speaker 3: Right, you're from Georgia, and we always talk about how

1588
01:07:55,160 --> 01:07:57,760
Speaker 3: many great players come from Texas, Florida, California.

1589
01:07:58,120 --> 01:07:59,640
Speaker 1: Georgia is right up there.

1590
01:07:59,680 --> 01:08:02,880
Speaker 3: I see more NFL players that are from Georgia than ever.

1591
01:08:03,080 --> 01:08:06,720
Speaker 6: Why is that level that's south of the South Man,

1592
01:08:06,840 --> 01:08:10,240
Speaker 6: you know, grow up playing football and everybody can piece

1593
01:08:10,280 --> 01:08:13,160
Speaker 6: at a high level, and you know, you know, you

1594
01:08:13,240 --> 01:08:17,240
Speaker 6: try to represent Georgia, Texas, Florida to the hot spot

1595
01:08:17,280 --> 01:08:18,200
Speaker 6: for football players.

1596
01:08:18,560 --> 01:08:20,720
Speaker 1: Yeah. CJ. The other day he started naming off all

1597
01:08:20,760 --> 01:08:21,800
Speaker 1: these different states.

1598
01:08:21,960 --> 01:08:23,840
Speaker 2: I don't know if he ended up naming Georgia, but

1599
01:08:24,200 --> 01:08:27,840
Speaker 2: I think per capita, Georgia's probably got as many as

1600
01:08:28,000 --> 01:08:30,960
Speaker 2: you could have throughout the league. How did playing there

1601
01:08:31,640 --> 01:08:33,920
Speaker 2: make you a better college player and then turn it

1602
01:08:33,920 --> 01:08:35,160
Speaker 2: into a better NFL player?

1603
01:08:35,400 --> 01:08:38,680
Speaker 6: I mean the competition level is very high there, you know,

1604
01:08:38,800 --> 01:08:40,800
Speaker 6: so you're playing against some of the best of the

1605
01:08:40,840 --> 01:08:43,800
Speaker 6: best players in the world in your state. So you know,

1606
01:08:43,920 --> 01:08:46,680
Speaker 6: these a lot of these guys going Division one, you know,

1607
01:08:47,320 --> 01:08:49,479
Speaker 6: probably got offered a sophomore year high school.

1608
01:08:49,560 --> 01:08:49,720
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1609
01:08:49,800 --> 01:08:54,120
Speaker 6: So just being there, and we moved there when I

1610
01:08:54,160 --> 01:08:55,840
Speaker 6: was in eighth grade. So once we moved here and

1611
01:08:55,880 --> 01:08:59,360
Speaker 6: I just seen they had middle school football. That's different

1612
01:08:59,400 --> 01:09:02,760
Speaker 6: than up North. You're not wearing added football up North.

1613
01:09:02,840 --> 01:09:03,000
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1614
01:09:03,040 --> 01:09:06,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, So you spent time at Georgia Military. Is

1615
01:09:06,840 --> 01:09:09,400
Speaker 3: that what it's called junior college? What was that like?

1616
01:09:09,439 --> 01:09:11,479
Speaker 3: What is it like being in a junior college and

1617
01:09:11,520 --> 01:09:14,519
Speaker 3: you're thinking, well, I want to transfer to a bigger college.

1618
01:09:14,520 --> 01:09:16,800
Speaker 3: You went to Marshall after that. But you don't know

1619
01:09:16,840 --> 01:09:18,519
Speaker 3: if you're going to get there for sure. So what

1620
01:09:18,560 --> 01:09:19,439
Speaker 3: was that like for you?

1621
01:09:20,040 --> 01:09:21,599
Speaker 6: I mean it was just like boot camp. I mean

1622
01:09:21,640 --> 01:09:22,960
Speaker 6: we had to wear we had to be in a

1623
01:09:23,000 --> 01:09:25,040
Speaker 6: cadet corps. So okay, it was one of the best

1624
01:09:25,040 --> 01:09:27,000
Speaker 6: things for me. I would say that wasn't a bad

1625
01:09:27,080 --> 01:09:29,600
Speaker 6: here or anything. I had several Division one scholarships, but

1626
01:09:30,400 --> 01:09:34,200
Speaker 6: it was it gave us structure, time management, and how

1627
01:09:34,240 --> 01:09:35,800
Speaker 6: to be places on time.

1628
01:09:35,880 --> 01:09:36,920
Speaker 1: And it was tough.

1629
01:09:36,960 --> 01:09:38,160
Speaker 6: It was I was like, if we could make it

1630
01:09:38,160 --> 01:09:39,719
Speaker 6: through this, you could do anything in the world.

1631
01:09:39,880 --> 01:09:43,760
Speaker 1: Okay, So real military environment being Georgia military. Then what

1632
01:09:43,840 --> 01:09:46,080
Speaker 1: was Marshall like for you after that? Oh? Man, Marshall

1633
01:09:46,120 --> 01:09:49,720
Speaker 1: was fun. You go from a cadet.

1634
01:09:49,360 --> 01:09:53,040
Speaker 6: Corps to you know, a structure like that to kind

1635
01:09:53,040 --> 01:09:54,360
Speaker 6: of having some freedom.

1636
01:09:54,240 --> 01:09:56,000
Speaker 1: Right, it was it was cool. Man.

1637
01:09:56,120 --> 01:09:58,800
Speaker 2: Would you fall back on your that military training you

1638
01:09:58,840 --> 01:10:00,240
Speaker 2: had for a couple of years You kind of fall

1639
01:10:00,320 --> 01:10:02,240
Speaker 2: back on that in some sense as you become a

1640
01:10:02,280 --> 01:10:05,160
Speaker 2: pro because I think every coach we've had come in here,

1641
01:10:05,320 --> 01:10:07,280
Speaker 2: every player that's come in here, they're talking about the routine,

1642
01:10:07,640 --> 01:10:10,240
Speaker 2: like being routine based, especially during the season and you

1643
01:10:10,280 --> 01:10:13,160
Speaker 2: got to you gotta have your routine. Did getting back

1644
01:10:13,160 --> 01:10:14,760
Speaker 2: in the NFL or getting into the NFL, did that

1645
01:10:14,840 --> 01:10:16,240
Speaker 2: kind of bring that back out of you?

1646
01:10:16,320 --> 01:10:17,719
Speaker 1: Kind of find that routine for yourself.

1647
01:10:17,760 --> 01:10:21,759
Speaker 6: I mean, there's nothing harder than that period at Georgia Military,

1648
01:10:21,800 --> 01:10:25,479
Speaker 6: the two of days that corep just having the just

1649
01:10:25,880 --> 01:10:28,400
Speaker 6: be on the schedule and you have no control of

1650
01:10:28,439 --> 01:10:31,919
Speaker 6: it and being able to go to go to Marshall

1651
01:10:32,479 --> 01:10:34,960
Speaker 6: bring that with me, had the discipline and not I'm

1652
01:10:35,000 --> 01:10:37,240
Speaker 6: not partying every now right here for the party. Once

1653
01:10:37,280 --> 01:10:39,720
Speaker 6: I get to the league, you know, there's guys that

1654
01:10:39,880 --> 01:10:41,439
Speaker 6: have a lot more money than us, you know, that

1655
01:10:41,520 --> 01:10:44,240
Speaker 6: can do more things. So it helped with the discipline

1656
01:10:44,280 --> 01:10:46,120
Speaker 6: of you know, as an adult.

1657
01:10:46,439 --> 01:10:47,280
Speaker 1: Nevill hear it with us.

1658
01:10:47,320 --> 01:10:50,240
Speaker 3: So you sign with the Dolphins undrafted out of Marshall.

1659
01:10:50,560 --> 01:10:53,719
Speaker 3: Did that Georgia Military mindset sort of help you early

1660
01:10:53,760 --> 01:10:56,599
Speaker 3: on because you're not promised anything as an undrafted free

1661
01:10:56,600 --> 01:10:58,040
Speaker 3: agent and you knew you had to do it on

1662
01:10:58,120 --> 01:10:58,799
Speaker 3: special teams.

1663
01:10:58,800 --> 01:10:59,200
Speaker 1: Probably?

1664
01:10:59,280 --> 01:11:01,280
Speaker 6: Right, Yeah, That's what I always say. Everything happens for

1665
01:11:01,320 --> 01:11:03,479
Speaker 6: a reason. So I think part of you know, of

1666
01:11:03,520 --> 01:11:05,880
Speaker 6: the journey was going to the military school, and then

1667
01:11:05,920 --> 01:11:09,479
Speaker 6: once I get to you know, Miami, I'm a undrafted guys.

1668
01:11:09,520 --> 01:11:12,720
Speaker 6: There's four undrafted linebackers in there, and they have to

1669
01:11:13,000 --> 01:11:15,360
Speaker 6: make a decision on who they're going to keep, and

1670
01:11:15,360 --> 01:11:17,200
Speaker 6: they end up keeping I think two of us, two

1671
01:11:17,320 --> 01:11:20,800
Speaker 6: or three of us that year for special teams and

1672
01:11:20,800 --> 01:11:22,800
Speaker 6: they end up you know, getting opportunity to start a

1673
01:11:22,800 --> 01:11:23,679
Speaker 6: few games that year.

1674
01:11:23,800 --> 01:11:25,599
Speaker 1: So that was great for my career.

1675
01:11:25,720 --> 01:11:29,320
Speaker 2: Okay, So this week Indianapolis Colts. You've been around the

1676
01:11:29,320 --> 01:11:31,479
Speaker 2: Texans long enough to know that we don't like the

1677
01:11:31,520 --> 01:11:32,720
Speaker 2: Colts market in particular.

1678
01:11:32,800 --> 01:11:35,360
Speaker 1: Mike Mark hates the Colt. We hate the Colts like

1679
01:11:35,400 --> 01:11:38,240
Speaker 1: poison sports hate. It's a good, healthy hate.

1680
01:11:38,280 --> 01:11:41,559
Speaker 2: So this week, it's Anthony Richardson, It's Jonathan Taylor, It's

1681
01:11:41,560 --> 01:11:42,360
Speaker 2: the Colts again.

1682
01:11:42,479 --> 01:11:44,320
Speaker 1: Back here never what are some of the keys this week?

1683
01:11:44,320 --> 01:11:45,160
Speaker 1: You're going against them.

1684
01:11:45,560 --> 01:11:48,799
Speaker 6: They're a great team, great coach team. You know, they

1685
01:11:48,520 --> 01:11:51,000
Speaker 6: al We always have a good fight going against them.

1686
01:11:51,000 --> 01:11:52,639
Speaker 6: So it's gonna come down to us, you know, our

1687
01:11:52,680 --> 01:11:57,720
Speaker 6: relentless strain, you know, our discipline and playing our keys

1688
01:11:57,760 --> 01:12:00,800
Speaker 6: and doing our technique, and if everybody does their job,

1689
01:12:00,840 --> 01:12:02,680
Speaker 6: we should we'll like the outcome.

1690
01:12:02,520 --> 01:12:04,040
Speaker 3: All right, So we're not going to talk about the

1691
01:12:04,120 --> 01:12:05,960
Speaker 3: Jet game, which is the one after because we will

1692
01:12:06,000 --> 01:12:07,400
Speaker 3: not look ahead. But I want to ask you this

1693
01:12:07,479 --> 01:12:10,519
Speaker 3: question though, because you're with the Dolphins then the Jets.

1694
01:12:10,560 --> 01:12:13,160
Speaker 3: So you face the Dolphins as a Jet, you face

1695
01:12:13,240 --> 01:12:15,479
Speaker 3: the Jets last year as a Texan, and you were

1696
01:12:15,479 --> 01:12:17,920
Speaker 3: with us in twenty one, right, so all right, we

1697
01:12:18,040 --> 01:12:20,519
Speaker 3: saw the Jets then with Zach Wilson. So what is

1698
01:12:20,560 --> 01:12:22,519
Speaker 3: it like when you play a team that you used

1699
01:12:22,600 --> 01:12:23,240
Speaker 3: to play for?

1700
01:12:23,320 --> 01:12:25,000
Speaker 1: What is the Jets like? Because I know we have

1701
01:12:25,040 --> 01:12:26,960
Speaker 1: a couple of former Colts at the very least here.

1702
01:12:27,120 --> 01:12:30,679
Speaker 6: Yes, yeah, let me give you you know, I say

1703
01:12:30,720 --> 01:12:31,960
Speaker 6: that for next week.

1704
01:12:33,479 --> 01:12:34,080
Speaker 1: In general?

1705
01:12:35,760 --> 01:12:40,800
Speaker 6: In general, I mean yeah, you know you look forward

1706
01:12:40,840 --> 01:12:42,519
Speaker 6: to the game, but you know, just like every week

1707
01:12:42,600 --> 01:12:44,680
Speaker 6: is you know, it's another opponent and you got to

1708
01:12:44,680 --> 01:12:47,960
Speaker 6: put out your best your best performance, right every week.

1709
01:12:48,520 --> 01:12:50,120
Speaker 1: What do you think thus far five and two?

1710
01:12:50,360 --> 01:12:53,679
Speaker 2: Kind of overall just your thoughts about where the team is, Neville,

1711
01:12:53,760 --> 01:12:55,960
Speaker 2: as you head into this Indianapolis Colts game, what do

1712
01:12:55,960 --> 01:12:57,720
Speaker 2: you kind of think overall about where the team is

1713
01:12:57,920 --> 01:12:59,960
Speaker 2: and what maybe you'd like him to be going forward.

1714
01:13:01,000 --> 01:13:02,559
Speaker 1: I mean, we're we're in a good spot.

1715
01:13:02,640 --> 01:13:05,280
Speaker 6: I think we just continue to keep on cleaning up

1716
01:13:05,280 --> 01:13:07,759
Speaker 6: the stuff that we messed up and fix our mistakes

1717
01:13:07,760 --> 01:13:12,040
Speaker 6: and you know, really learn from them. But we continue

1718
01:13:12,080 --> 01:13:13,760
Speaker 6: to do that and continue to grow. As the season go,

1719
01:13:13,920 --> 01:13:17,160
Speaker 6: we'll continue to get better. Things are going to come up,

1720
01:13:17,240 --> 01:13:19,280
Speaker 6: and you know, we just have to correct them. Once

1721
01:13:19,280 --> 01:13:20,920
Speaker 6: we correct them, we'll be fine.

1722
01:13:21,280 --> 01:13:23,640
Speaker 3: Is it so different because we said you were with

1723
01:13:23,760 --> 01:13:25,519
Speaker 3: us in twenty one, you have a different coach in

1724
01:13:25,600 --> 01:13:29,320
Speaker 3: twenty two, but you're still here. Then Jamiko Ryan's first year,

1725
01:13:29,360 --> 01:13:32,160
Speaker 3: you guys are on the rise and exciting things happening,

1726
01:13:32,160 --> 01:13:34,479
Speaker 3: making the postseason, winning a playoff game this year, a

1727
01:13:34,520 --> 01:13:36,880
Speaker 3: lot of big expectations, and as Johnny said, you know

1728
01:13:36,960 --> 01:13:39,960
Speaker 3: five and two, is that so strange to have such

1729
01:13:39,960 --> 01:13:42,879
Speaker 3: a different setting every year you're with the Houston Texans.

1730
01:13:43,200 --> 01:13:44,200
Speaker 1: I mean, it's part of it.

1731
01:13:44,240 --> 01:13:46,719
Speaker 6: I mean when she when I got here, it was

1732
01:13:46,760 --> 01:13:49,240
Speaker 6: twenty one, and you know, we just had a new coach,

1733
01:13:49,320 --> 01:13:51,840
Speaker 6: and then I think twenty two, I had another new

1734
01:13:51,880 --> 01:13:56,000
Speaker 6: coach and yeah, yeah there, but you know, we you know,

1735
01:13:56,120 --> 01:13:58,120
Speaker 6: the organization is doing a great job bringing the right

1736
01:13:58,200 --> 01:14:01,559
Speaker 6: people in and everybody you just buying in and that's

1737
01:14:01,600 --> 01:14:03,759
Speaker 6: what it takes for any organs. They have everybody buys

1738
01:14:03,800 --> 01:14:06,679
Speaker 6: in and does their role to the best of their ability,

1739
01:14:07,040 --> 01:14:07,960
Speaker 6: we'll get great result.

1740
01:14:08,000 --> 01:14:08,280
Speaker 1: All right.

1741
01:14:08,320 --> 01:14:10,679
Speaker 3: So friends back home or wherever you used to live,

1742
01:14:10,720 --> 01:14:14,519
Speaker 3: wherever that might be, whether it's New Jersey, Miami, they say, hey,

1743
01:14:14,520 --> 01:14:15,360
Speaker 3: what's Houston like?

1744
01:14:15,439 --> 01:14:16,839
Speaker 1: What is Houston like? Neville?

1745
01:14:16,880 --> 01:14:18,920
Speaker 3: You've been here for four years and now four seasons?

1746
01:14:18,960 --> 01:14:20,320
Speaker 3: What is Houston like? What do you tell them?

1747
01:14:20,400 --> 01:14:23,160
Speaker 6: I was a huge good food depend on what time

1748
01:14:23,200 --> 01:14:25,000
Speaker 6: of the year. I mean, it's gonna be it's gonna

1749
01:14:25,000 --> 01:14:28,719
Speaker 6: be really hot, so you probably won't need the jacket.

1750
01:14:29,360 --> 01:14:31,719
Speaker 6: So I just telling me you pretty much go anywhere

1751
01:14:31,760 --> 01:14:33,880
Speaker 6: man and find a good meal. Depends on what you're

1752
01:14:33,880 --> 01:14:34,280
Speaker 6: looking for.

1753
01:14:34,520 --> 01:14:34,760
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1754
01:14:34,920 --> 01:14:36,720
Speaker 2: Now, we talked about this a little bit back in

1755
01:14:37,520 --> 01:14:39,760
Speaker 2: training camp, and now we're seven games in and then

1756
01:14:39,800 --> 01:14:41,240
Speaker 2: some preseason games as well.

1757
01:14:41,439 --> 01:14:42,720
Speaker 1: How do you like the new kickoff rules?

1758
01:14:42,760 --> 01:14:45,800
Speaker 2: I mean, haven't been as many returns, but you guys

1759
01:14:45,800 --> 01:14:49,160
Speaker 2: have forced a few more returns lately, and it's really

1760
01:14:49,240 --> 01:14:52,479
Speaker 2: kind of showing off our you know, special teams. How

1761
01:14:52,520 --> 01:14:54,240
Speaker 2: good we've been on special teams. But how do you

1762
01:14:54,280 --> 01:14:55,479
Speaker 2: like him? I know one of the things you talked

1763
01:14:55,520 --> 01:14:57,519
Speaker 2: about with me was you thought there might be a

1764
01:14:57,560 --> 01:14:58,720
Speaker 2: lot more punch outs.

1765
01:14:58,479 --> 01:15:01,320
Speaker 1: Because guys, it has fast. How do you like the

1766
01:15:01,360 --> 01:15:04,840
Speaker 1: new kickoff rules? I really me personally, I don't like it.

1767
01:15:05,720 --> 01:15:07,920
Speaker 6: But I mean the way the league is, you gotta

1768
01:15:08,000 --> 01:15:10,000
Speaker 6: you gotta adapt is adapt to die type of thing.

1769
01:15:10,040 --> 01:15:12,400
Speaker 6: You know, just like you. You can't do certain hits anymore,

1770
01:15:12,600 --> 01:15:14,719
Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying. You can't tackle a quarterback

1771
01:15:14,720 --> 01:15:16,400
Speaker 6: of laying on them. So it's either you know, you

1772
01:15:16,439 --> 01:15:17,880
Speaker 6: just have to adapt with the league, and that's how

1773
01:15:17,880 --> 01:15:19,960
Speaker 6: you end up staying around. If you can't adapt, you

1774
01:15:20,000 --> 01:15:21,280
Speaker 6: can find yourself out of it.

1775
01:15:21,439 --> 01:15:23,680
Speaker 3: All right, Nevill, Well, thanks for the visit. We appreciate it.

1776
01:15:23,760 --> 01:15:26,080
Speaker 3: Best of luck this Sunday and the rest of the season.

1777
01:15:26,280 --> 01:15:27,120
Speaker 1: Thank you appreciate.

1778
01:15:27,200 --> 01:15:31,400
Speaker 2: So there was blast catching up with Neville Hewitt right

1779
01:15:31,439 --> 01:15:34,559
Speaker 2: here in the Hyundai Texans radio studio.

1780
01:15:34,640 --> 01:15:36,519
Speaker 1: Appreciate him for stopping by.

1781
01:15:36,520 --> 01:15:38,160
Speaker 2: All Right, we go one segment left time to go

1782
01:15:38,240 --> 01:15:40,880
Speaker 2: In the lab, Drew and I talked about the game

1783
01:15:40,920 --> 01:15:42,800
Speaker 2: against the Packers a little bit, then we talked about

1784
01:15:42,800 --> 01:15:48,639
Speaker 2: the cream of the Croppers against the Indianapolis Colts. I

1785
01:15:48,720 --> 01:15:53,160
Speaker 2: actually picked something a little different today. I didn't pick

1786
01:15:53,720 --> 01:15:56,880
Speaker 2: one player like I typically do. I picked something different

1787
01:15:57,200 --> 01:15:58,600
Speaker 2: see if you can figure it out. Well, listen to

1788
01:15:58,640 --> 01:16:00,800
Speaker 2: that next right here in Texans All Access. We got

1789
01:16:00,800 --> 01:16:04,120
Speaker 2: one final segment of this edition of Texans All Access

1790
01:16:04,320 --> 01:16:08,160
Speaker 2: from the Hyundai Texans Radio studio. I'm your host, John Harris,

1791
01:16:08,400 --> 01:16:12,400
Speaker 2: football analyst, Siline reporter for your Houston Texans, and it's

1792
01:16:12,400 --> 01:16:15,120
Speaker 2: time for in the Lab.

1793
01:16:15,680 --> 01:16:17,680
Speaker 1: Drew and I went into lab and I.

1794
01:16:17,680 --> 01:16:19,800
Speaker 2: Don't know we got as dorky as we typically do,

1795
01:16:19,960 --> 01:16:22,160
Speaker 2: but we had to break down some things from the

1796
01:16:22,200 --> 01:16:25,120
Speaker 2: Green Bay game and then we had to look forward

1797
01:16:25,120 --> 01:16:27,960
Speaker 2: to this Indianapolis Colts game. Let's take a listen to that.

1798
01:16:28,040 --> 01:16:30,120
Speaker 2: We'll go do some news around the NFL before we

1799
01:16:30,200 --> 01:16:31,559
Speaker 2: do that. It's getting the lab right here.

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01:16:31,760 --> 01:16:34,639
Speaker 7: John, It's good to see you all right, Yeah, it's

1801
01:16:34,680 --> 01:16:37,400
Speaker 7: good to be with you too, watching us or listening

1802
01:16:37,439 --> 01:16:41,880
Speaker 7: to us, the three of us enjoying this podcast and

1803
01:16:42,400 --> 01:16:47,839
Speaker 7: bad taste in the mouth from last week and judging

1804
01:16:47,920 --> 01:16:50,040
Speaker 7: by some of the stuff we've thought, some of the

1805
01:16:50,080 --> 01:16:52,880
Speaker 7: stuff we've heard, some of the stuff we've said. Man,

1806
01:16:52,920 --> 01:16:56,519
Speaker 7: you thought that Texans lost by about three touchdowns and

1807
01:16:56,560 --> 01:16:59,680
Speaker 7: then it's weird because you lost on.

1808
01:16:59,680 --> 01:17:03,120
Speaker 1: A game winning walk off field goal.

1809
01:17:04,400 --> 01:17:06,560
Speaker 7: And I'm not saying I'm not absolving any of the

1810
01:17:06,560 --> 01:17:09,400
Speaker 7: stuff because there were some bad things, very bad things

1811
01:17:09,439 --> 01:17:13,080
Speaker 7: Texans did, but it's still it's it's that's why this

1812
01:17:13,720 --> 01:17:19,280
Speaker 7: league is the best league of all time any sport anywhere,

1813
01:17:20,080 --> 01:17:25,679
Speaker 7: because it's so razor thin and I don't know, it's

1814
01:17:25,760 --> 01:17:27,800
Speaker 7: it's been done before, and it's been done before by

1815
01:17:27,800 --> 01:17:30,519
Speaker 7: the Texans. But you go plus three and turn over

1816
01:17:30,560 --> 01:17:34,240
Speaker 7: to French one and you still lose. And that's that speaks,

1817
01:17:34,280 --> 01:17:38,360
Speaker 7: I think, more broadly to how amazing this league is.

1818
01:17:38,360 --> 01:17:39,840
Speaker 7: And nobody wants to hear that. And I'm not gonna

1819
01:17:39,920 --> 01:17:43,040
Speaker 7: keep beating that dead horse. But it's just so weird, man,

1820
01:17:43,200 --> 01:17:46,479
Speaker 7: like the Plexans Texans played the way they did, or

1821
01:17:46,479 --> 01:17:50,040
Speaker 7: the Plexans tade the way they did, but they they

1822
01:17:50,120 --> 01:17:54,200
Speaker 7: still lost, they still almost won. You know, you understand

1823
01:17:54,240 --> 01:17:56,360
Speaker 7: what I'm Yeah, I mean it. You know I've been

1824
01:17:56,439 --> 01:17:58,599
Speaker 7: I'm not trying to sugarcoat and that I'm not gonna.

1825
01:17:58,600 --> 01:17:59,920
Speaker 7: I don't want to thirty more.

1826
01:17:59,840 --> 01:18:01,519
Speaker 1: So, you know what, you know what Drew.

1827
01:18:01,520 --> 01:18:03,200
Speaker 2: If you do try and sugarcode in any way, shape

1828
01:18:03,280 --> 01:18:05,040
Speaker 2: or form, you know, we get a called a homer

1829
01:18:05,200 --> 01:18:08,040
Speaker 2: or or you know you're biased, or you know whatever,

1830
01:18:08,080 --> 01:18:08,840
Speaker 2: the case might be, and.

1831
01:18:08,920 --> 01:18:12,400
Speaker 1: I'm not sugar coating, and it's more about like the league. Yeah, yeah,

1832
01:18:12,600 --> 01:18:13,439
Speaker 1: I understand.

1833
01:18:13,479 --> 01:18:16,000
Speaker 2: I'm just I'm just warning you because the second that

1834
01:18:16,200 --> 01:18:20,320
Speaker 2: you say something could have been one way and it wasn't,

1835
01:18:20,439 --> 01:18:22,480
Speaker 2: then all of a sudden you get skewered.

1836
01:18:22,640 --> 01:18:25,040
Speaker 1: And I'm like, it's.

1837
01:18:24,920 --> 01:18:27,280
Speaker 2: It's been kind of an interesting reaction to the to

1838
01:18:27,320 --> 01:18:30,160
Speaker 2: the loss, and I'm a little bit perturbed by it

1839
01:18:30,240 --> 01:18:32,680
Speaker 2: in a certain way, just kind of based on what

1840
01:18:32,760 --> 01:18:34,880
Speaker 2: you said. You know, it's a really it's a really

1841
01:18:34,920 --> 01:18:38,240
Speaker 2: difficult league to win in, and you know, I was

1842
01:18:38,360 --> 01:18:39,719
Speaker 2: very clear during the broadcast.

1843
01:18:39,760 --> 01:18:43,439
Speaker 1: It was very clear on Texas Monday. It was you can't.

1844
01:18:43,640 --> 01:18:45,479
Speaker 2: You can't go through a game and give up eleven

1845
01:18:45,520 --> 01:18:47,800
Speaker 2: TFLs and your quarterback sacked four times and think you're

1846
01:18:47,800 --> 01:18:50,880
Speaker 2: gonna win a game, even when you go three three

1847
01:18:51,000 --> 01:18:53,479
Speaker 2: zero plus three and turnover margin, even though your defense

1848
01:18:53,560 --> 01:18:57,840
Speaker 2: plays a relatively solid ball game, holding the Packers like

1849
01:18:58,040 --> 01:19:01,920
Speaker 2: fifty yards under their season after ridge total yardage wise,

1850
01:19:02,360 --> 01:19:05,920
Speaker 2: and your special teams plays its guts out. You know

1851
01:19:06,040 --> 01:19:09,280
Speaker 2: you Yet you're on the road in a very difficult

1852
01:19:09,360 --> 01:19:11,360
Speaker 2: place to play against a team that's foreign to one

1853
01:19:11,360 --> 01:19:13,360
Speaker 2: of the better teams in the league, a top ten team,

1854
01:19:13,720 --> 01:19:18,960
Speaker 2: and you come up with one tipped interception on the

1855
01:19:19,040 --> 01:19:21,800
Speaker 2: last drive that was that close, that hits Eric Murray's hands.

1856
01:19:21,840 --> 01:19:23,640
Speaker 2: If you're able to tip that to yourself and complete it,

1857
01:19:23,640 --> 01:19:25,639
Speaker 2: you win a game. You steal that game. And then

1858
01:19:25,680 --> 01:19:29,320
Speaker 2: what are you saying? That's your point about razor things?

1859
01:19:29,520 --> 01:19:32,040
Speaker 7: Tell you what you're saying. What you're saying is, boy,

1860
01:19:32,160 --> 01:19:34,040
Speaker 7: the Sexans have a lot of stuff they can clean up,

1861
01:19:34,080 --> 01:19:35,840
Speaker 7: but it's sure nice to clean it up with a win,

1862
01:19:35,880 --> 01:19:37,679
Speaker 7: which is that we're saying earlier in the season. They've

1863
01:19:37,760 --> 01:19:41,200
Speaker 7: lived and they not died, but they fell by the sword,

1864
01:19:41,479 --> 01:19:42,240
Speaker 7: same sort of way.

1865
01:19:42,320 --> 01:19:48,080
Speaker 2: But to that, to that end, I'm I'm relatively frustrated

1866
01:19:48,120 --> 01:19:52,639
Speaker 2: with the reaction to a loss of the Green Bay

1867
01:19:52,640 --> 01:19:54,920
Speaker 2: Packers and the Texans gone up and lost of the Patriots,

1868
01:19:55,439 --> 01:19:59,120
Speaker 2: Oh okay, like, but when loss of the Packers, and

1869
01:19:59,360 --> 01:20:01,920
Speaker 2: I'm not saying that losing is acceptable, and I'm by

1870
01:20:02,000 --> 01:20:04,479
Speaker 2: no means was I happy leaving lambeau Field. I was

1871
01:20:04,479 --> 01:20:07,599
Speaker 2: probably more upset than anybody, considering, you know, the things

1872
01:20:07,600 --> 01:20:09,760
Speaker 2: that I was to think, the people that I had

1873
01:20:09,760 --> 01:20:12,000
Speaker 2: to deal with on Saturday, but just the reaction to it,

1874
01:20:12,560 --> 01:20:15,000
Speaker 2: and and the reaction in some sense to I know,

1875
01:20:15,080 --> 01:20:17,720
Speaker 2: some of the things that I've I've pointed out from

1876
01:20:17,760 --> 01:20:22,200
Speaker 2: watching the game. It's it's really to me, it's it's

1877
01:20:22,200 --> 01:20:27,680
Speaker 2: been really frustrating to see that to you know, to

1878
01:20:27,760 --> 01:20:30,360
Speaker 2: be five and two and to feel like this is

1879
01:20:30,360 --> 01:20:32,559
Speaker 2: a one in five team and Deshaun Watson's quarterbacking it.

1880
01:20:32,760 --> 01:20:34,200
Speaker 1: That's not the case. You know.

1881
01:20:34,240 --> 01:20:36,120
Speaker 2: It's a five and two team that has struggled at times,

1882
01:20:36,160 --> 01:20:38,479
Speaker 2: it has not found it's its way at times. But

1883
01:20:38,520 --> 01:20:41,960
Speaker 2: it's five and freaking two and want some damn good

1884
01:20:42,040 --> 01:20:45,200
Speaker 2: ball games. So you know what, let it right itself.

1885
01:20:45,320 --> 01:20:48,680
Speaker 2: Go beat the Colts and now you're six and two. Relax,

1886
01:20:49,280 --> 01:20:52,639
Speaker 2: drink a freaking beer like a medello. Okay, and go

1887
01:20:52,720 --> 01:20:53,680
Speaker 2: relax a little bit.

1888
01:20:54,400 --> 01:20:57,560
Speaker 7: Well, since you bring that up, let's absolve everything and

1889
01:20:57,640 --> 01:21:00,519
Speaker 7: let's raise a medello to Andre Johnson. And because we're

1890
01:21:00,560 --> 01:21:04,320
Speaker 7: celebrating the Pro Football Hall of Famer this weekend, he's

1891
01:21:04,360 --> 01:21:08,880
Speaker 7: getting his ring this weekend. And somebody that I talked

1892
01:21:08,920 --> 01:21:11,479
Speaker 7: with in the hall, I can say her name. It's

1893
01:21:11,520 --> 01:21:14,760
Speaker 7: Candice Maybury. She deals with Andre Johnson, a lot of

1894
01:21:14,800 --> 01:21:17,600
Speaker 7: the former players that played here and she does a

1895
01:21:17,600 --> 01:21:21,080
Speaker 7: fantastic job, and she put together some great stuff up

1896
01:21:21,120 --> 01:21:23,960
Speaker 7: there in Canton this August. But she just about twenty

1897
01:21:23,960 --> 01:21:26,599
Speaker 7: minutes ago before we about five minutes before we started

1898
01:21:26,640 --> 01:21:27,880
Speaker 7: taping this, she said.

1899
01:21:28,080 --> 01:21:31,559
Speaker 1: Can I stop you really quick and just tell you.

1900
01:21:31,479 --> 01:21:33,920
Speaker 7: How weird it is and how awesome it is to say,

1901
01:21:34,800 --> 01:21:36,720
Speaker 7: I still can't believe it, but Andrey Johnson's finally in

1902
01:21:36,760 --> 01:21:37,639
Speaker 7: the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

1903
01:21:37,640 --> 01:21:41,360
Speaker 1: And I know exactly what she means. I know it now.

1904
01:21:41,400 --> 01:21:45,760
Speaker 7: When I'm writing stuff on a website, I try as

1905
01:21:45,840 --> 01:21:48,639
Speaker 7: much as I can in every way possible to say

1906
01:21:49,520 --> 01:21:51,840
Speaker 7: pro Football Hall of Famer Andre Johnson before everything, not

1907
01:21:51,880 --> 01:21:55,040
Speaker 7: Texans wide receiver, not all time Pro Football Hall of Famer, and.

1908
01:21:55,000 --> 01:21:57,160
Speaker 1: It's so or he should be in the Hall of Fame.

1909
01:21:57,280 --> 01:22:00,320
Speaker 7: I get a little inside tingle smile going I get

1910
01:22:00,320 --> 01:22:00,720
Speaker 7: to do that.

1911
01:22:00,880 --> 01:22:02,519
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be fun.

1912
01:22:03,200 --> 01:22:04,840
Speaker 7: A lot of his former teammates, a lot of former

1913
01:22:04,880 --> 01:22:09,200
Speaker 7: Texans north of eighty former Texans former players, gonna be

1914
01:22:09,240 --> 01:22:12,280
Speaker 7: here this weekend for the celebration. He'll get his ring

1915
01:22:12,360 --> 01:22:14,320
Speaker 7: at the half. There's gonna be all sorts of fun

1916
01:22:14,400 --> 01:22:17,880
Speaker 7: videos throughout the game. I imagine where we hear from Andre,

1917
01:22:18,080 --> 01:22:22,120
Speaker 7: former players and whatnot later today for shooting this on Wednesday.

1918
01:22:22,240 --> 01:22:25,439
Speaker 7: On Wednesday a Goat Talk, which is if you haven't

1919
01:22:25,479 --> 01:22:27,600
Speaker 7: seen it, please check these out. This will be the

1920
01:22:27,600 --> 01:22:29,760
Speaker 7: third one that's been released. We've got a bunch in

1921
01:22:29,840 --> 01:22:32,639
Speaker 7: the can that will come out later. But he's talked

1922
01:22:32,680 --> 01:22:35,160
Speaker 7: with Chris Carter, who's the wide receiver of the Pro

1923
01:22:35,160 --> 01:22:37,799
Speaker 7: Football Hall of Famer. Knocked on the door and told him, hey, buddy,

1924
01:22:37,960 --> 01:22:42,000
Speaker 7: you're joining me in Canton. Congratulations. Back in January, he

1925
01:22:42,040 --> 01:22:45,160
Speaker 7: did a Goat Talk with Andre and Jonathan Joseph, former

1926
01:22:45,200 --> 01:22:48,599
Speaker 7: Pro Bowl corner and one of Dre's best friends. Dre

1927
01:22:48,920 --> 01:22:51,360
Speaker 7: and JJO host these things and they just basically ask

1928
01:22:51,520 --> 01:22:54,280
Speaker 7: questions of people. They also did one with Michael Irvin.

1929
01:22:54,400 --> 01:22:57,600
Speaker 7: It was dynamite. It's one of the best hours you

1930
01:22:57,640 --> 01:23:00,680
Speaker 7: will ever It's so much fun and the stuff they

1931
01:23:00,680 --> 01:23:03,960
Speaker 7: covered phenomenal. But the one coming out this week today

1932
01:23:04,760 --> 01:23:08,200
Speaker 7: is with Gary Kubiak. So that's a pretty fun one.

1933
01:23:08,479 --> 01:23:10,840
Speaker 7: And think about it. We've said it a few times

1934
01:23:10,840 --> 01:23:12,800
Speaker 7: on the show. You've said it a few times with

1935
01:23:12,920 --> 01:23:17,280
Speaker 7: Vandermier over the years. Two thousand and eight, Ish Kubiak

1936
01:23:17,360 --> 01:23:20,760
Speaker 7: was the head coach Demiko Ryans was playing get Dan

1937
01:23:20,840 --> 01:23:24,160
Speaker 7: Rolovsky as a backup nine. He's not a coach, but

1938
01:23:24,200 --> 01:23:27,200
Speaker 7: he's a football mind. And then on the coaching staff,

1939
01:23:27,280 --> 01:23:32,639
Speaker 7: you also had way down the line, you had you know, Lafloor.

1940
01:23:32,840 --> 01:23:35,439
Speaker 7: You had Robert Sala who just got fired, but still

1941
01:23:35,439 --> 01:23:37,840
Speaker 7: he was a head coach in the NFL. He's gonna pride,

1942
01:23:38,040 --> 01:23:39,600
Speaker 7: good chance he's the head coach again. He's gonna be

1943
01:23:39,600 --> 01:23:42,519
Speaker 7: a DC again. He had h McDaniel. You know, you

1944
01:23:42,600 --> 01:23:45,840
Speaker 7: had Kyle Shanahan as your offensive court. I mean there

1945
01:23:45,880 --> 01:23:47,400
Speaker 7: was a collection of talent there and he talks a

1946
01:23:47,400 --> 01:23:50,040
Speaker 7: little bit about it in this in this episode. That

1947
01:23:50,200 --> 01:23:55,000
Speaker 7: is pretty fun and yeah, go talk John. We've had

1948
01:23:55,000 --> 01:23:57,160
Speaker 7: a fun time with this thing. Shaquille O'Neil was in

1949
01:23:57,240 --> 01:24:00,360
Speaker 7: the building a week ago, the big Aristotle. That was

1950
01:24:00,400 --> 01:24:03,639
Speaker 7: a pretty explosive hour and change where he was talking

1951
01:24:03,640 --> 01:24:04,840
Speaker 7: with those guys. So it's gonna be fun.

1952
01:24:04,920 --> 01:24:07,639
Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely cool. It's been cool to see those goat

1953
01:24:07,680 --> 01:24:08,240
Speaker 1: talks for sure.

1954
01:24:08,400 --> 01:24:11,840
Speaker 7: Yeah, all right, Indianapolis colts come to town. So let's

1955
01:24:12,960 --> 01:24:17,920
Speaker 7: let's do our cream of the Crop award winner crop. Yeah,

1956
01:24:17,960 --> 01:24:20,840
Speaker 7: thank you much, A man ready savage. If the Texans

1957
01:24:20,880 --> 01:24:24,880
Speaker 7: moved to six and two on the season. It will

1958
01:24:24,880 --> 01:24:28,920
Speaker 7: be because they've beaten the Indianapolis Colts. So who will

1959
01:24:28,920 --> 01:24:31,080
Speaker 7: have been the cream of the Crop award winner for

1960
01:24:31,160 --> 01:24:34,439
Speaker 7: that game? John, in your mind, your cream of the

1961
01:24:34,439 --> 01:24:38,560
Speaker 7: cropper because we don't know yet about DeForest Buckner, we

1962
01:24:38,600 --> 01:24:40,519
Speaker 7: don't know yet about Jonathan Taylor. But I'm just gonna

1963
01:24:40,520 --> 01:24:42,400
Speaker 7: bet since they're the Colts, those guys are gonna be back.

1964
01:24:42,439 --> 01:24:44,040
Speaker 1: I'll just assume they're gonna play. Now.

1965
01:24:44,200 --> 01:24:46,600
Speaker 7: I could be wrong, sure, but let's just count on

1966
01:24:46,640 --> 01:24:49,400
Speaker 7: those guys being back, and Anthony Richardson is the quarterback.

1967
01:24:50,000 --> 01:24:52,320
Speaker 7: There's lots of ways you could go with this about

1968
01:24:52,520 --> 01:24:56,160
Speaker 7: Texans needing to defend or offend against some of those guys.

1969
01:24:56,720 --> 01:24:58,840
Speaker 1: I've tried to think the right way to say this.

1970
01:25:00,280 --> 01:25:04,000
Speaker 2: Because I don't even feel like the cream of the

1971
01:25:04,080 --> 01:25:08,800
Speaker 2: crop is actually a player this week. And I don't

1972
01:25:08,840 --> 01:25:12,240
Speaker 2: know exactly how I need to say this, Shrew, but

1973
01:25:13,080 --> 01:25:15,000
Speaker 2: I feel like the cream of the crop for the

1974
01:25:15,040 --> 01:25:21,920
Speaker 2: Texans has to be offensive line cohesion. It's it's almost

1975
01:25:21,960 --> 01:25:25,519
Speaker 2: all five of them, you know. Individually. I feel like

1976
01:25:25,640 --> 01:25:29,360
Speaker 2: Laramie will hold his own fine, but I feel like

1977
01:25:30,720 --> 01:25:35,960
Speaker 2: the five guys up front have got to have better communication,

1978
01:25:36,040 --> 01:25:38,479
Speaker 2: as Debika Ryan's pointed out, They've got to be on

1979
01:25:38,520 --> 01:25:41,960
Speaker 2: the same page more often. They've got to make sure

1980
01:25:42,120 --> 01:25:45,000
Speaker 2: that there are not free runners at CJ.

1981
01:25:45,160 --> 01:25:45,599
Speaker 1: Stroud.

1982
01:25:46,960 --> 01:25:50,679
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's a particular person this week,

1983
01:25:50,760 --> 01:25:52,960
Speaker 2: Drew and I and I don't know the right way

1984
01:25:52,960 --> 01:25:55,960
Speaker 2: of saying it other than I just call it offensive

1985
01:25:55,960 --> 01:25:56,760
Speaker 2: line cohesion.

1986
01:25:56,920 --> 01:26:00,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, is that because speak about it?

1987
01:26:00,040 --> 01:26:04,640
Speaker 7: Something's not cohesive. Something's gonna change too. Demico all but

1988
01:26:04,800 --> 01:26:07,680
Speaker 7: said it in his Monday press conference without saying it right.

1989
01:26:07,880 --> 01:26:09,719
Speaker 7: He was asked, He's like, well, everything's on the table,

1990
01:26:09,760 --> 01:26:13,680
Speaker 7: and that said, friends, most of you know this, but

1991
01:26:13,920 --> 01:26:16,679
Speaker 7: if you don't, I mean, something's gonna change, whether it's

1992
01:26:16,720 --> 01:26:20,120
Speaker 7: personnel wise, somebody's we're gonna see something different.

1993
01:26:20,200 --> 01:26:21,839
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would say exactly.

1994
01:26:21,880 --> 01:26:24,720
Speaker 2: And so because of taking that into account too, like

1995
01:26:24,760 --> 01:26:27,840
Speaker 2: you don't know exactly what five it's gonna be and

1996
01:26:27,880 --> 01:26:30,120
Speaker 2: how the five are gonna be constructed. I just know

1997
01:26:30,200 --> 01:26:33,200
Speaker 2: that on Sunday there will be five guys wearing these

1998
01:26:33,280 --> 01:26:35,800
Speaker 2: two blue jerseys that are going to be asked to

1999
01:26:35,880 --> 01:26:36,639
Speaker 2: create holes.

2000
01:26:36,400 --> 01:26:38,439
Speaker 1: For Joe mixing, which they did a good job of.

2001
01:26:38,840 --> 01:26:44,559
Speaker 2: But more importantly, they've got to pass protect and look

2002
01:26:44,640 --> 01:26:46,840
Speaker 2: like they know what they're doing. And when a team

2003
01:26:46,920 --> 01:26:50,599
Speaker 2: brings four rushers and it beats six, I don't care

2004
01:26:50,680 --> 01:26:53,280
Speaker 2: how the four they're jumping loops and they're running around

2005
01:26:53,320 --> 01:26:56,000
Speaker 2: in circles or whatever. But when four end up beating

2006
01:26:56,080 --> 01:26:59,400
Speaker 2: six and it's not just one guy getting through, sometimes

2007
01:26:59,400 --> 01:27:04,800
Speaker 2: it's two get through, and something is really wrong and

2008
01:27:04,840 --> 01:27:07,200
Speaker 2: that's got to get fixed. And Tomiko pointed that out.

2009
01:27:07,600 --> 01:27:10,800
Speaker 2: So to that end, there are a number of things

2010
01:27:10,840 --> 01:27:14,599
Speaker 2: that you can do as it pertains to changes, but

2011
01:27:14,640 --> 01:27:16,240
Speaker 2: probably the easiest.

2012
01:27:15,760 --> 01:27:18,400
Speaker 1: One is on the easiest.

2013
01:27:18,439 --> 01:27:20,559
Speaker 2: It's not the easiest to change people in out of lineup,

2014
01:27:20,640 --> 01:27:22,719
Speaker 2: especially because this line has been starting and staying together

2015
01:27:22,720 --> 01:27:24,639
Speaker 2: for the last how many of weeks. But you start

2016
01:27:24,640 --> 01:27:27,880
Speaker 2: talking about the personnel that's out there, like, Okay, who's

2017
01:27:27,960 --> 01:27:31,479
Speaker 2: the biggest culprit, What is the biggest issue. Let's see

2018
01:27:31,520 --> 01:27:34,000
Speaker 2: if we can't start narrowing it down, like if this

2019
01:27:34,040 --> 01:27:35,640
Speaker 2: guy comes out, we put this guy in, do we

2020
01:27:35,640 --> 01:27:37,840
Speaker 2: still have the same issues. Yep, still got the same issues. Okay,

2021
01:27:37,880 --> 01:27:40,679
Speaker 2: well then it's something else. So what is that something else?

2022
01:27:40,720 --> 01:27:42,519
Speaker 2: And so you've got to get to the bottom of

2023
01:27:42,520 --> 01:27:45,000
Speaker 2: this issue because the Texas are five and two, as

2024
01:27:45,000 --> 01:27:48,000
Speaker 2: I've pointed out hopefully eloquently, but those two losses have

2025
01:27:48,000 --> 01:27:50,280
Speaker 2: of coming games in which the offensive line has struggled,

2026
01:27:50,640 --> 01:27:53,120
Speaker 2: struggled doing different things, and the game against the Vikings

2027
01:27:53,120 --> 01:27:56,360
Speaker 2: it was a struggle a to protect Cjstrid, but also

2028
01:27:56,560 --> 01:27:58,840
Speaker 2: to get lined up properly, to do the proper things.

2029
01:27:58,880 --> 01:28:00,640
Speaker 2: From an operations standpoint, at the end of the day,

2030
01:28:00,640 --> 01:28:04,040
Speaker 2: it wasn't penalties. It was just who do we block

2031
01:28:04,160 --> 01:28:06,200
Speaker 2: on any given play? And then the wins get He

2032
01:28:06,240 --> 01:28:09,559
Speaker 2: got worked up front confusing with their loops and twists,

2033
01:28:09,600 --> 01:28:11,519
Speaker 2: and the Texans didn't pick it up. So to me,

2034
01:28:12,000 --> 01:28:15,200
Speaker 2: the cream of the cropper must be offensive line cohesion. Okay,

2035
01:28:15,280 --> 01:28:17,160
Speaker 2: I knew I took a lot off the play there,

2036
01:28:17,160 --> 01:28:18,519
Speaker 2: because there were times where you and I have said

2037
01:28:18,560 --> 01:28:19,240
Speaker 2: the same position.

2038
01:28:19,800 --> 01:28:21,559
Speaker 1: I took a lot off there with the offensive line,

2039
01:28:21,560 --> 01:28:23,800
Speaker 1: so I know that he still left my choice open,

2040
01:28:23,840 --> 01:28:24,519
Speaker 1: which is perfect.

2041
01:28:24,760 --> 01:28:30,320
Speaker 7: Okay, this close, and if you're listening, I'm making put

2042
01:28:30,400 --> 01:28:33,040
Speaker 7: my thumb and my forefinger together, real tight.

2043
01:28:33,520 --> 01:28:34,200
Speaker 1: Is close.

2044
01:28:35,040 --> 01:28:37,680
Speaker 7: Tank Dell was to catching a touchdown there on the

2045
01:28:37,680 --> 01:28:40,080
Speaker 7: opening drive, and if that happens, I wonder what the

2046
01:28:40,080 --> 01:28:43,200
Speaker 7: rest of the the calculus of the game is.

2047
01:28:45,360 --> 01:28:45,840
Speaker 1: He was close.

2048
01:28:45,840 --> 01:28:47,840
Speaker 7: A few other times he was wide open. CJ just

2049
01:28:47,920 --> 01:28:50,000
Speaker 7: couldn't see him or get the ball to him or whatever.

2050
01:28:50,720 --> 01:28:52,960
Speaker 7: I think Tank Dell has a nice game. I just

2051
01:28:53,000 --> 01:28:56,280
Speaker 7: think he had a rougher game against the Packers and

2052
01:28:57,000 --> 01:28:58,559
Speaker 7: because of the way it was going, he didn't get

2053
01:28:58,920 --> 01:29:01,360
Speaker 7: get his chances later. I think Tank Dell has a

2054
01:29:01,400 --> 01:29:04,559
Speaker 7: good game because I think the Packers are well aware

2055
01:29:04,840 --> 01:29:07,000
Speaker 7: of what Joe Mixon did to them, and they're gonna

2056
01:29:07,040 --> 01:29:10,599
Speaker 7: do everything they possibly can to make that not happen. Colts, Yeah,

2057
01:29:10,600 --> 01:29:12,320
Speaker 7: excuse me, the Colts in Week one. In Week one,

2058
01:29:12,360 --> 01:29:16,200
Speaker 7: packers are aware of too. Indeed, Yeah, which that's another

2059
01:29:16,200 --> 01:29:19,320
Speaker 7: story in itself Joe Mixon, but they're very aware of that.

2060
01:29:19,439 --> 01:29:22,880
Speaker 7: They also remember Stefan Diggs getting the two touchdowns. So

2061
01:29:22,920 --> 01:29:24,519
Speaker 7: I don't think they're gonna forget. I don't think they're

2062
01:29:24,520 --> 01:29:26,920
Speaker 7: gonna shy away from. But I think Tankdale gets his

2063
01:29:27,000 --> 01:29:29,120
Speaker 7: this week. He was kind of starting to make that move.

2064
01:29:29,160 --> 01:29:31,800
Speaker 7: I thought last week, and you know, this is what

2065
01:29:31,840 --> 01:29:33,599
Speaker 7: he did last year. He would have really good games

2066
01:29:33,640 --> 01:29:35,320
Speaker 7: and then just the ball would go to other people.

2067
01:29:35,920 --> 01:29:38,000
Speaker 7: That totally won the case last year because the ball

2068
01:29:38,040 --> 01:29:40,439
Speaker 7: did come his way early, but I think Tank Dell

2069
01:29:40,600 --> 01:29:43,040
Speaker 7: makes some impact plays in this one, and that's who

2070
01:29:43,080 --> 01:29:46,559
Speaker 7: I'm going with. I do not think anything bad is

2071
01:29:46,560 --> 01:29:48,640
Speaker 7: going on with it. I just think he's it's just

2072
01:29:48,720 --> 01:29:50,200
Speaker 7: I think he's gonna go off. I think he's gonna

2073
01:29:50,240 --> 01:29:51,760
Speaker 7: have a good game. And that's who my Cream of

2074
01:29:51,800 --> 01:29:54,600
Speaker 7: the Crop Award winner shall be.

2075
01:29:55,040 --> 01:29:55,519
Speaker 1: All right.

2076
01:29:55,640 --> 01:29:58,160
Speaker 7: This is Texans in the Lab presented by Infinity. We're

2077
01:29:58,160 --> 01:30:00,880
Speaker 7: having a fun time doing this with you. It's me

2078
01:30:01,040 --> 01:30:03,360
Speaker 7: and it's john and it's you. Thank you so much

2079
01:30:03,400 --> 01:30:07,519
Speaker 7: for watching celebrate Andre Johnson this weekend because he's getting

2080
01:30:07,520 --> 01:30:09,519
Speaker 7: his Pro Football Hall of Fame ring, and I love

2081
01:30:09,960 --> 01:30:12,000
Speaker 7: It's not getting old, man, it's not getting old that

2082
01:30:12,040 --> 01:30:14,759
Speaker 7: he's a Pro Football Hall of Famer. Maybe it will someday,

2083
01:30:14,760 --> 01:30:16,439
Speaker 7: but I don't think it's gonna be for me.

2084
01:30:16,560 --> 01:30:16,760
Speaker 1: Man.

2085
01:30:16,960 --> 01:30:20,200
Speaker 7: It's so much fun that he's a Pro Football Hall

2086
01:30:20,200 --> 01:30:21,880
Speaker 7: of Famer and we get to celebrate him.

2087
01:30:22,080 --> 01:30:24,200
Speaker 1: Excited about it. Yeah, man, I love it. I think

2088
01:30:24,200 --> 01:30:26,280
Speaker 1: it's great and it's been great.

2089
01:30:26,320 --> 01:30:28,400
Speaker 2: And whenever you're the first to have done something, that's

2090
01:30:28,600 --> 01:30:30,280
Speaker 2: that's why we talk about the twenty eleven team the

2091
01:30:30,280 --> 01:30:32,360
Speaker 2: way that we do and you talk about the first

2092
01:30:32,479 --> 01:30:35,479
Speaker 2: surest to do things. Yeah, twenty eleven team was the

2093
01:30:35,479 --> 01:30:37,760
Speaker 2: first to do it. Andre is the first to do it.

2094
01:30:37,840 --> 01:30:42,240
Speaker 2: So uh yeah, absolutely, all right, So long friends. Yeah,

2095
01:30:42,240 --> 01:30:46,320
Speaker 2: appreciate you guys listening to in the lab right there.

2096
01:30:46,360 --> 01:30:48,320
Speaker 2: If you're gonna check it on YouTube and see us,

2097
01:30:48,320 --> 01:30:50,560
Speaker 2: you can do that on YouTube as well. Okay, a

2098
01:30:50,600 --> 01:30:54,400
Speaker 2: few notes, man, It was a really noteworthy day around

2099
01:30:54,439 --> 01:30:55,759
Speaker 2: the NFL started the morning.

2100
01:30:55,880 --> 01:30:57,439
Speaker 1: We talked about this a little bit in the first segment.

2101
01:30:57,520 --> 01:31:01,080
Speaker 2: DeAndre Hopkins traded to the Kansas City Chiefs for a

2102
01:31:01,200 --> 01:31:03,960
Speaker 2: fifth conditional fourth if he If the Chiefs get to

2103
01:31:03,960 --> 01:31:08,479
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl and hot play sixty percent of the plays,

2104
01:31:08,880 --> 01:31:10,880
Speaker 2: it turns into a fourth, but it probably will be

2105
01:31:11,040 --> 01:31:11,879
Speaker 2: a fifth.

2106
01:31:12,040 --> 01:31:14,360
Speaker 1: Good move, I think for the Kansas City Chiefs, and.

2107
01:31:14,880 --> 01:31:17,040
Speaker 2: Thankfully he gets out of the AFC South, although we

2108
01:31:17,080 --> 01:31:20,320
Speaker 2: do have to see the Chiefs down the road. Another trade,

2109
01:31:21,040 --> 01:31:25,400
Speaker 2: the Seahawks sent Jerome Baker in a fourth rounder to

2110
01:31:25,520 --> 01:31:28,120
Speaker 2: the Titans for Ernest Jones the fourth. Now, if you remember,

2111
01:31:28,160 --> 01:31:30,840
Speaker 2: Ernest Jones was picked up in a trade by the

2112
01:31:30,880 --> 01:31:34,040
Speaker 2: Titans earlier from the Rams. Well, if you don't hit

2113
01:31:34,120 --> 01:31:36,639
Speaker 2: at the Rams, just trade the Seahawks. That's an indivision thing.

2114
01:31:36,640 --> 01:31:40,720
Speaker 2: They probably didn't want to do that. So the Seahawks say,

2115
01:31:41,000 --> 01:31:44,640
Speaker 2: get Ernest Jones the fourth back, maybe an upgrade linebacker.

2116
01:31:44,680 --> 01:31:46,639
Speaker 2: They've been trying to get things to work with Jerome Baker.

2117
01:31:46,680 --> 01:31:49,320
Speaker 2: Maybe it didn't work as well, so the Titans get

2118
01:31:49,320 --> 01:31:53,759
Speaker 2: Baker in a fourth for Ernest Jones, who came from

2119
01:31:53,920 --> 01:31:58,960
Speaker 2: the Rams. So those two deals taking place on Wednesday,

2120
01:31:59,479 --> 01:32:02,519
Speaker 2: you also will have the twenty twenty three number one

2121
01:32:02,760 --> 01:32:08,320
Speaker 2: overall pick back in the starting lineup for the Carolina Panthers.

2122
01:32:08,360 --> 01:32:12,720
Speaker 2: That would be one Bryce Young Modern Day High School, Alabama,

2123
01:32:12,920 --> 01:32:18,960
Speaker 2: Carolina Panthers, starting for Carolina against Denver, oh Boy after

2124
01:32:19,080 --> 01:32:21,639
Speaker 2: Andy Dalton, the current starter, was involved in a car

2125
01:32:21,680 --> 01:32:24,479
Speaker 2: crash resulting his sprained right thumb.

2126
01:32:24,560 --> 01:32:27,599
Speaker 1: That's Andy's throwing hand. That is tough.

2127
01:32:28,280 --> 01:32:31,720
Speaker 2: So Dave canal'sman with the media today and said that

2128
01:32:31,720 --> 01:32:33,880
Speaker 2: they're gonna do everything possible to get Dalton up to

2129
01:32:33,920 --> 01:32:35,759
Speaker 2: a point where he can back up Bryce. But Bryce

2130
01:32:35,840 --> 01:32:40,320
Speaker 2: will be the starter against the Denver Broncos. Young said,

2131
01:32:40,320 --> 01:32:43,479
Speaker 2: it's obviously difficult. I think regardless of walk of life,

2132
01:32:43,520 --> 01:32:45,000
Speaker 2: you can relate to this. Trying to do the right

2133
01:32:45,000 --> 01:32:47,439
Speaker 2: things and be consistent what you do. Definitely there were

2134
01:32:47,439 --> 01:32:49,880
Speaker 2: some struggles. I'm not the only person going through something.

2135
01:32:49,920 --> 01:32:51,680
Speaker 2: I'm not the only person struggling. I just have to

2136
01:32:51,720 --> 01:32:54,080
Speaker 2: continue to be consistent. I will tell you this. I

2137
01:32:54,120 --> 01:32:56,320
Speaker 2: don't know where Bryce Young goes with what he does,

2138
01:32:57,040 --> 01:32:58,960
Speaker 2: but Bryce Young has handled this about as well as

2139
01:32:58,960 --> 01:33:02,840
Speaker 2: he possibly could, about as well as he possibly could.

2140
01:33:02,840 --> 01:33:07,519
Speaker 2: It's been kind of inspiring in some sense what he's

2141
01:33:07,560 --> 01:33:10,920
Speaker 2: been able to do. One person's really really excited down

2142
01:33:10,960 --> 01:33:12,519
Speaker 2: on South floor. That would be Tyreek Hill.

2143
01:33:12,680 --> 01:33:16,360
Speaker 1: Why because Tuatunguavaya Loa is back.

2144
01:33:17,800 --> 01:33:20,240
Speaker 2: Tyreek said to the media today, We're back, baby, start

2145
01:33:20,240 --> 01:33:22,040
Speaker 2: me this week. So he's given some advice to the

2146
01:33:22,040 --> 01:33:26,759
Speaker 2: fantasy football owners out there. Strike up the Bleeping band said, Tyreek,

2147
01:33:26,800 --> 01:33:27,639
Speaker 2: We're back baby.

2148
01:33:28,160 --> 01:33:30,880
Speaker 1: So yeah, Tyreek's really not me.

2149
01:33:30,880 --> 01:33:32,640
Speaker 2: He was voted by the players nut one player in

2150
01:33:32,680 --> 01:33:35,120
Speaker 2: the league and then two got hurt and they just

2151
01:33:35,160 --> 01:33:35,679
Speaker 2: couldn't give.

2152
01:33:35,600 --> 01:33:36,960
Speaker 1: Him the ball. Stoopunt lee.

2153
01:33:37,560 --> 01:33:40,400
Speaker 2: Whatever they trotted out there was just not right for them.

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Speaker 2: But Tua sounds like he is going to be back.

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Speaker 2: He's in line to start this Sunday against the Cardinals.

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Speaker 2: After having a concussion we'll see if he is indeed

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Speaker 2: back on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: So there you go. That's the show. Appreciate you guys

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Speaker 1: for being here.

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Speaker 2: Appreciate Matt Taylor, thank him for being here, Neville Hewett,

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Speaker 2: of course, Nick Kasseri, our guy, Toro, Mark vandermir to

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Speaker 2: Drew Doherty, to all of you part of this show.

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Speaker 1: Really appreciate it. We'll see you tomorrow and as always,

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Speaker 1: go Texans.