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Speaker 1: What's happened? Everybody. Welcome to Wednesday of Texans All Access

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Speaker 1: from the Texans Radio Studio. I'm your host, John Harris,

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Speaker 1: football analyst, sideline reporter for your Houston Texans, and we

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Speaker 1: got plenty to do on Titans Week today. You know,

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Speaker 1: Wednesday's our day with Nick Cassario. Uh So we'll have

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Speaker 1: Nick here in a little bit. We'll have little Cutlet

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Speaker 1: with Juice Scrugs as well. Stephan and Zalez a newcomer.

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Speaker 1: You saw her on Texans three sixty, but she's new

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Speaker 1: to the slant. Formerly a deep slant, but now the slant.

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Speaker 1: She sits down with Walter Payton Man of the Year candidate,

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Speaker 1: the Texans representative John Weeks. One of the best dudes

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Speaker 1: you're gonna find on and off the field, and obviously

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Speaker 1: that's what it recognizes. We're also gonna hear from Mike Keith,

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Speaker 1: the longtime voice of the Tennessee Titans. He and Mark

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Speaker 1: they've been calling games since two thousand and two. Mike's

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Speaker 1: been calling him in Tennessee since the team formerly known

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Speaker 1: as the Oilers moved to Tennessee. Had it from there. Longtime. Boys.

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Speaker 1: These guys know each other. That's a great conversation. A

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Speaker 1: little bit later, Drew, Dory and I go in the

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Speaker 1: lab and man, we went all over the place with

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Speaker 1: this one. This is a true in the lab because

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Speaker 1: Drew and I were, boy, we are feeling it. It

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Speaker 1: started with one question that led to something else, that

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Speaker 1: led to something else, that led to something else. So

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Speaker 1: there's a lot going on in that in the lab.

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Speaker 1: We'll have that a little bit later. We gotta look

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Speaker 1: at the injury report and see where it stands. And

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Speaker 1: I can tell you right now not going to be

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Speaker 1: something we love seeing. Not at all. CJ Stroud not

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Speaker 1: at practice today. Still in the concussion protocol. Now, there

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Speaker 1: are different stages or phases in concussion protocol, and you've

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Speaker 1: on to the next phase. So we'll see if CJ

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Speaker 1: is out there on Thursday. He was not out at practice.

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Speaker 1: On Wednesday, he and a number of others were not

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Speaker 1: later in the show, but we got to kick it off.

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Speaker 1: Executi Vice President and general manager of your Houston Texans,

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Speaker 1: Nick Cassario. We always get Nick going a little bit,

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Speaker 1: So here's Nick with me and Mark.

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Speaker 2: And now with us in the Hunday Texans Radio studio,

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Speaker 2: it's Texans executive vice president and general manager Nick Cassario.

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Speaker 3: Nick, welcome, good to.

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Speaker 4: See you, to see you guys.

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Speaker 3: Titan Week, big week back in the division.

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Speaker 2: Let's recap the Jets a little bit before we get

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Speaker 3: What did you see on Sunday?

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Speaker 2: I know it did not go as well as you

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Speaker 2: coming out of this game?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, bottom line.

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Speaker 5: Is we just didn't execute the things that we needed

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Speaker 5: to execute in the game. Give the Jets credit, they

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Speaker 5: made more plays than we did. And you kind of

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Speaker 5: Mark going into the game offensively, defensively, and we really

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Speaker 5: we really didn't deserve to win because we didn't play well.

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Speaker 5: So we have to make some corrections and it's just

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Speaker 5: like any week, kind of have to flush it regardless

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Speaker 5: to make some adjustments and modifications. We'll look at where

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Speaker 1: Nick. All year, you and de Maker two have talked.

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Speaker 1: Whenever we've asked you about injuries, you've albably said, we'll

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you sort of have to react to what happens

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Speaker 2: Well, I think it always points out, and we're two

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Speaker 5: Everybody kind of focuses on quote unquote the stars, but

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Speaker 5: So that's the reality. That's the truth. And you've seen

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Speaker 5: But that's the NFL. That happens to everybody. Every team's

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Speaker 5: It's inevitably each game something happens. You're looking and we'll

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Speaker 4: Anyways, So that's just the NFL.

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Speaker 5: So our responsibility to try to identify players that we

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Speaker 4: Go out there and prepare to play. Everybody has to

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Speaker 5: We're gonna make players inactive, and there's gonna be players

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Speaker 4: At some point you're gonna need everybody. That's the truth.

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Speaker 2: Do you have any players represented by Tommy DeVito's agent?

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Speaker 4: We have his Actually, his agents are really good.

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Speaker 5: Dude, Sean, we've had a good Shawn still is his agent,

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Speaker 5: but we've had a good relationship going back to our

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Speaker 3: Are you inspired by what he wears?

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Speaker 1: Nick?

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Speaker 4: I don't have a fedora like that.

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Speaker 1: If you wear a vest version of that.

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Speaker 1: So nick I feel like the poster child, if you will,

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Speaker 1: for what we've been talking about, being ready for your

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Speaker 1: that's Malcolm Butler, a guy that when he gets the

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Speaker 4: No, it's a great question.

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Speaker 5: It's in I think the way we approach it here

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Speaker 2: Nick, I'm always shouting out about people who make too

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Speaker 2: five players have done it?

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Speaker 3: What did it multiple times? Of course? But what about

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Speaker 3: the kind of year Jonathan Garnard is having for you?

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Speaker 2: I know it's not just about the sacks, it's about

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Speaker 2: We don't know what's going to happen with CJ and

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Speaker 1: Nick. You know, the fans in this town if there's

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Speaker 1: So let's get into scouting report. We haven't seen him

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Speaker 4: Yeah, improving football team they've gone through.

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Speaker 4: So I mean, Jefferies, he's a badass.

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Speaker 5: impact on the game where he completely wrecks the game

438
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Speaker 5: or ruins right. So it's a credit to him, and

439
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Speaker 5: I think his consistency and just his toughness and his

440
00:18:09,480 --> 00:18:11,440
Speaker 5: playing strength and his ability to be a good run

441
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Speaker 5: player and still impact the passing game. That's what kind

442
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Speaker 5: of makes him unique because not everybody can do that.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 1: I hate that guy. I mean, I'm sure he's a

445
00:18:18,440 --> 00:18:20,360
Speaker 1: great guy. I hate seeing him on the other side

446
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Speaker 1: of the field. I mean he's as No, he's actually

447
00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:25,639
Speaker 1: a great guy. I think he's there, Walter guy. I

448
00:18:25,680 --> 00:18:29,840
Speaker 1: mean I just hate seeing him because you I mean,

449
00:18:29,920 --> 00:18:31,840
Speaker 1: last year we ran that gauntlet of all those guys

450
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Speaker 1: we're seeing, from Dexter to uh Simmons who saw him

451
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Speaker 1: twice and then drawn paint to John Allen. So all

452
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Speaker 1: those guys. Of course, Quinn we thrown there from last week.

453
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Speaker 1: I can't stand well, how about Den Dexter.

454
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Speaker 2: Lawrence didn't play Monday night, his team won, Jeffrey Simmons

455
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Speaker 2: didn't play his team one, so you never know what's

456
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Speaker 2: going to happen.

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Speaker 5: Well, it kind of goes back to what we talked about,

458
00:18:50,600 --> 00:18:52,000
Speaker 5: like the depth of your team. You're going to need

459
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Speaker 5: everybody at some point, and everybody has good players. So

460
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Speaker 5: just because you don't have one said player doesn't mean

461
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Speaker 5: you don't have an opportunity to go out there and

462
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Speaker 5: play good football. You have to figure out of way,

463
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Speaker 5: and that's what our job is is to figure out

464
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Speaker 5: it way each week to put ourselves into position to

465
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Speaker 5: have success.

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Speaker 3: Nick, there are seven bowls on Saturday, only seven.

467
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Speaker 4: There's seven. Realize they already started.

468
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Speaker 2: Yes, how do you deploy people this time of year,

469
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Speaker 2: if at all, because these are not the power programs

470
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Speaker 2: playing in these early bowls. I don't know how you

471
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Speaker 2: handle all that because there might be some diamonds in

472
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Speaker 2: the rough there.

473
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Speaker 5: Very selectively, there's probably a good chance that we've probably

474
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Speaker 5: seen just about every player and these respective teams throughout

475
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Speaker 5: the course of the fall. So unless you may there's

476
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Speaker 5: something specific that you need to see live, then you're

477
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Speaker 5: probably not going to go watch the Blue Bonnet Bowl

478
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Speaker 5: or the Liberty Car My Ex Tax Bowl or now

479
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Speaker 5: we have the Bowl coming in n RG the twenty seven,

480
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Speaker 5: so definitely being the tendance for that one. Two pretty

481
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Speaker 5: good teams, so the ability to actually we haven't seen A,

482
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Speaker 5: and I haven't seen A and M this year saw

483
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Speaker 5: Oklahoma State play against Houston. But it's really you have

484
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Speaker 5: to be selective kind of pick and shoes and if

485
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Speaker 5: there's really a reason that you need to be at

486
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Speaker 5: the game.

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Speaker 3: You brought up or it came up.

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Speaker 2: The Walter Payton Man of the Year nominee that is

489
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Speaker 2: John Weeks for the Houston Texans, who's been here for

490
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Speaker 2: a thousand and years and does a very important job.

491
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Speaker 2: And I liken him to a utility. It's the lights,

492
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Speaker 2: it's the plumbing. If it goes off, everything's going to

493
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Speaker 2: go wrong. But you kind of take it for granted,

494
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Speaker 2: sometimes not you, but people that that job has done

495
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Speaker 2: extremely well for so long.

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Speaker 5: If you want to be going the kicking game, it

497
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Speaker 5: all starts with the specialists. And nobody's done a better

498
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Speaker 5: job over the course of his career with his craft

499
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Speaker 5: and his job than John Weeks. And this award isn't

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Speaker 5: about what he does on the football field. Is his

501
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Speaker 5: impact that he's had in the community. But I think

502
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Speaker 5: what it speaks to is just John's consistency and just

503
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Speaker 5: week after week a year after year, and he's reliable

504
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Speaker 5: and you could count on him to do the right thing,

505
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Speaker 5: to be a great teammate and go out there and

506
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Speaker 5: perform his job. And we've been fortunate to be fairly

507
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Speaker 5: productive in the kicking game. And it all starts with

508
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Speaker 5: the good specialists, and John is certainly at the forefront

509
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Speaker 5: of that.

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Speaker 1: I was thinking about this nick last weekend because I'm

511
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Speaker 1: watching You're a Boss put on a helmet on college

512
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Speaker 1: game day as the game day picker, and he puts

513
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Speaker 1: on an old Navy helmet, which was freaking awesome to see.

514
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Speaker 1: But it made me think about the Army Navy game.

515
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Speaker 1: Have you ever been to that game? Have you ever

516
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Speaker 1: been to it and seen it up close? Because it

517
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Speaker 1: wasn't last.

518
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Speaker 5: We have not seen it live, just watched it from afar,

519
00:21:08,520 --> 00:21:11,120
Speaker 5: But there's nothing like it, and everybody that's either been

520
00:21:11,119 --> 00:21:14,119
Speaker 5: to it or experienced it just speaks to the impact

521
00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:16,119
Speaker 5: that it's had. And I think the one thing I

522
00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:17,879
Speaker 5: haven't had the ability to do I haven't done yet

523
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Speaker 5: is actually see a game on campus at West Point.

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Speaker 6: Oh yeah, So.

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Speaker 5: It's that the academy experience. There's nothing like it in

526
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Speaker 5: college football. But even just the pageantry and everything associated

527
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Speaker 5: with that game, when you watch it, it just has

528
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Speaker 5: a different feel and it's it's very unique and there's

529
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Speaker 5: really nothing like it.

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Speaker 2: All Right, So, Nick, we're going to Nashville, I know

531
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Speaker 2: of an open mic night. Maybe that's not where you're

532
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Speaker 2: gonna be.

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Speaker 4: You guys will be there for the karaoke, I'm sure.

534
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Speaker 1: I might know he will.

535
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Speaker 2: But speaking of it's the music capital of the country

536
00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:54,480
Speaker 2: really and country music of course, but have you ever

537
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Speaker 2: put on a cowboy hat here at the rodeo or

538
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Speaker 2: something like that, because I think I don't know if

539
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Speaker 2: you've enjoyed the road deo or gotten to do it

540
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Speaker 2: yet here have you.

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Speaker 5: I have not been on a cowboy hat. We've seen

542
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Speaker 5: the rodeo because they they're here during March, during our

543
00:22:08,520 --> 00:22:10,960
Speaker 5: i'd say off season if you will. So there's a

544
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Speaker 5: lot of traffic, there's a lot of dirt. Yeah, there's

545
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Speaker 5: a lot of activity.

546
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Speaker 4: In the building. So we get displaced.

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Speaker 3: So concerts partake and yeah, so I think the girls

548
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Speaker 3: would like it.

549
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Speaker 4: They probably will.

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Speaker 5: We probably will have a conversation about now, as you

551
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Speaker 5: brought it up, Mar.

552
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Speaker 2: Wear that hat, get the boots. That's good stuff, all right, Nick,

553
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Speaker 2: thanks a lot of good luck this week.

554
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Speaker 4: Thanks fellas.

555
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Speaker 1: Now, we had that conversation with Nick on Tuesday, as

556
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Speaker 1: we always do, always sit around around lunch time with Nick,

557
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Speaker 1: and so we have that conversation. So sometimes transactions happen,

558
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Speaker 1: things happen. Well, something happened as it pertained to Tommy DeVito.

559
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Speaker 1: He won NFC Offensive Player of the Week. How about

560
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Speaker 1: that NFC Offensive Player of the Week, Tommy DeVito, his

561
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Speaker 1: agent shaunts the leto. I just love how Nick, just

562
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Speaker 1: Nick just jumped right into that question. Man, that was

563
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Speaker 1: that was pretty cool? Uh? But yeah, how about the

564
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Speaker 1: two New Jersey quarterback Zach Wilson for the Jets got

565
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Speaker 1: it against us AFC Offensive Player of the Week Tommy

566
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Speaker 1: DeVito NFC Offensive Player of the Week. So some good

567
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Speaker 1: things happening up in New York with their quarterbacks both

568
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Speaker 1: playing in MetLife on Sunday and Monday. Okay, one of

569
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Speaker 1: the guys that would be instrumental on Sunday is Juice

570
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Speaker 1: Scruggs playing that left guard position. See some good things

571
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Speaker 1: from Juice. I know people are the offensive line has

572
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Speaker 1: been very good to be giving up sacks and et cetera,

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Speaker 1: et cetera, And I I'm trying to make sure that

574
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Speaker 1: with Juice, you give him a little bit of a chance.

575
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Speaker 1: The guy who's only played a few games of football,

576
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Speaker 1: especially at left guard the NFL. So he's handling some

577
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Speaker 1: business and he's gonna be standing on business against Tennessee.

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Speaker 1: Now we'll see if Jeffrey Simmons ends up being part

579
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Speaker 1: of that, but it doesn't sound as if you will.

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Speaker 1: At least this game, the game of Houston. Potentially Jeffery

581
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Speaker 1: Simmons is there and he'll give lessons to everybody. Well,

582
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Speaker 1: Quinn Williams gave lessons last week, and Juice did some

583
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Speaker 1: good things against Quinny Williams. There are also some times

584
00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:06,920
Speaker 1: that Quentin got his So let's talk to Juice. Drew

585
00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:08,560
Speaker 1: already caught up with him for a little let in

586
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Speaker 1: the locker room today.

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Speaker 7: Juice Scruggs left guard joins us. Juice, tell me about

588
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Speaker 7: the challenge that awaits with this front seven of the

589
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Speaker 7: Tennessee Titans.

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Speaker 8: Oh yeah, they're a good group, definitely another challenge for us.

591
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Speaker 8: Just got to come out and play our game and

592
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Speaker 8: I should take care of itself.

593
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Speaker 7: Tough one on Sunday, But this is a bounce back

594
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Speaker 7: team all season long. Outside of those first two weeks

595
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Speaker 7: after loss, Texans have played really well this year, haven't they.

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Speaker 6: Right?

597
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Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, we've been playing our ball, but last week

598
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Speaker 8: it wasn't our ball.

599
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Speaker 4: For sure.

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Speaker 8: The results, the score says it all. But we just

601
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Speaker 8: got to come back this week and get back to

602
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Speaker 8: playing our ball.

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Speaker 7: In watching the tape of your work these first few

604
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Speaker 7: weeks and then being in the game, are you recognizing, Hey,

605
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Speaker 7: I'm growing in this area. I'm getting better here. This

606
00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:52,200
Speaker 7: is getting not easier, but I'm advancing us so to speak.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, No, definitely, just as a whole. I feel myself

608
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Speaker 8: getting better like each game and just trying to stack

609
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Speaker 8: days and really just like you said, just trying to

610
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Speaker 8: take a little things and just get better at the

611
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Speaker 8: little things and then eventually it will show up in

612
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Speaker 8: a bigger picture. But just focus on the little things,

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Speaker 8: little details, and hopefully that would lead me to a

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Speaker 8: bigger success.

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Speaker 7: What are some of those little things that you're working

616
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Speaker 7: on focusing on right now?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, right now, just footwork technique and just really at placement.

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Speaker 8: And it's those little things. I know it sounds simple,

619
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Speaker 8: but those little things that can making you a very

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Speaker 8: successful office alignment.

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Speaker 7: I asked this of your fellow rookie, Xavier Hutchinson, your

622
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Speaker 7: rookie also, But clearly you know this is not just

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Speaker 7: some normal rivalry with the Titans and Texans. Correct.

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Speaker 8: I don't know too much about it, but I definitely

625
00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:40,920
Speaker 8: know this is like a big rivalry game for sure.

626
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Speaker 7: Last thing, what are you asking for for Christmas? From Santa?

627
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Speaker 8: What I'm asking I don't really got nothing, to be

628
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Speaker 8: honest with you, I'm not a big I don't really

629
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Speaker 8: like attention, So like I'm not a big GIF guy.

630
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Speaker 8: But if I had to ask for something, probably just

631
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Speaker 8: just some work on my truck.

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Speaker 7: For real, work on your truck.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and work on my truck. Man, can't go wrong

634
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Speaker 1: with that.

635
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Speaker 7: There you go, all right, Well, Juice Scruggs, appreciate the time.

636
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Speaker 7: Best of luck on Sunday, so I appreciate you.

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Speaker 9: Well.

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Speaker 1: Of course, the man's got a truck. He's living in Houston.

639
00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:09,639
Speaker 1: Now he's gotta have a truck. Man players coming to

640
00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:11,840
Speaker 1: the Texans here in Houston, they're like, I gotta get

641
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Speaker 1: a truck. Ben DeAndre Hopkins had one. You know. JJ

642
00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:17,080
Speaker 1: Watt immediately got one. But it fit for JJ. But

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Speaker 1: I don't quite see hopping a truck, but he loved it.

644
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Speaker 1: So we'll see hop on Sunday right there at Nissan

645
00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:28,320
Speaker 1: Stadium wearing oh boy, the Oilers jersey number ten. Listen,

646
00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:30,800
Speaker 1: those things are sweet. Just be honest, those things are sweet,

647
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Speaker 1: and just hate seeing them on those guys on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of sweet, sweet, Stevanie Gonzales is gonna join us next.

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Speaker 1: She's a newcomer to the Slant. She sits down with

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Speaker 1: Walter Peyton Man of the Year candidate the Texans Representative

651
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Speaker 1: long snapper longest tenured Texan, John Weeks. That's next right

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Speaker 1: here in Texans All Access. What is up, everybody? Welcome

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Speaker 1: back to a Wednesday edition of Texans All Access in

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Speaker 1: Hunday Texans Radio Studio. I'm John Harris, football Analyst, sideline

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Speaker 1: reporter for your Houston Texans and it's time for the Slant. Now.

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Speaker 1: If you know the history of the slant, you know

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Speaker 1: this was the deep Slant for a long time. Dpcity

658
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Speaker 1: or our good friend, did such a great job sitting

659
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Speaker 1: down with the players, getting to know them a little bit,

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Speaker 1: get to know them further. And she was such a

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Speaker 1: great listener when she would do interviews with players and

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Speaker 1: there would be some things that would come out of

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Speaker 1: her just listening to the guys. Well, we've had a

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Speaker 1: number of people do the slant last few weeks. Brandon

665
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Speaker 1: Scott did it for a few weeks. Kennedy Smith was

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Speaker 1: last week. Well, this week we go to Stephanie Gonzalez.

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Speaker 1: She sat down with Walter Payton Man of the Year

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Speaker 1: candidate Texas Representative John Weeks, one of the best dudes

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Speaker 1: in the building. Stephanie could not have had a better

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Speaker 1: person to sit down and chat with check that conversation

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Speaker 1: out right here.

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Speaker 10: Hey, everyone, welcome to the Slant. I'm Stephanie Gonzalez and

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Speaker 10: our next guest needs no introduction, but I'm still going

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Speaker 10: to do it anyway. Texans long snapper John Weeks Welcome.

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Speaker 6: Thank you, thank you very much for having me. I'm excited.

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Speaker 10: Thank you so much. And I know you've been so busy.

677
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Speaker 10: It's been crazy last few months for you. But first

678
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Speaker 10: of all, how are you great?

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Speaker 7: Great?

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Speaker 11: We just got off the practice field. We had a great,

681
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Speaker 11: great practice, you know, getting ready for a really good team.

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Speaker 6: Coming up this weekend.

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Speaker 10: And we have to mention this little thing right here. Oh,

684
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Speaker 10: Walter Peating Man of the Year nominee. That's amazing, that's huge. John.

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Speaker 10: So I saw the video that the awesome media team

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Speaker 10: put together for you. But what did you feel when

687
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Speaker 10: you found out about this nomination?

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Speaker 1: Wow?

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Speaker 11: What a great question. I I was taken away. You know,

690
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Speaker 11: it is something that I don't really have words as

691
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Speaker 11: you can tell, you know, I don't really stutter too

692
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Speaker 11: much over My words are fumble, but it just it

693
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Speaker 11: meant the world to me for the organization to nominate me.

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Speaker 11: First of all, incredibly grateful, especially because I know the

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Speaker 11: men that we have in that locker room and how

696
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Speaker 11: giving all those men are in the community. So to

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Speaker 11: be nominated for that award was absolutely amazing.

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Speaker 10: Anytime for me, when I hear your name, John Weeks,

699
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Speaker 10: I think football and community because you're always out there,

700
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Speaker 10: You're always doing something. And with my years working in sports,

701
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Speaker 10: you know, like ten plus years, I've learned that as

702
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Speaker 10: an athlete you can make such a difference off the field,

703
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Speaker 10: making people smile, making a difference. It's like its own

704
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Speaker 10: superpower and you're using it for good. So what is

705
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Speaker 10: it that keeps you doing stuff in the community.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, you know, something I've brought up many times since

707
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Speaker 11: I've been you know, since I was nominated, people have

708
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Speaker 11: asked me, and something my parents and my grandparents always

709
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Speaker 11: told me was that if you're in a position to

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Speaker 11: give back into better someone's life, it's your job to

711
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Speaker 11: do it. And that's something that the organization has done

712
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Speaker 11: an amazing job allowing me to do. They've been great.

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Speaker 11: Anytime I've asked them or had an idea of something

714
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Speaker 11: I wanted to do to try to help, They've been

715
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Speaker 11: fully supportive. They've been one hundred percent Hi me trying

716
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Speaker 11: to get get involved, and you know, it's it's those

717
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Speaker 11: little things that make uh, you know, you can go

718
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Speaker 11: out there and make a make a kid's day, right,

719
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Speaker 11: just something so simple, just by spending time with them

720
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Speaker 11: and and just talking to them and.

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Speaker 6: And that stuff so important.

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Speaker 11: And it's stuff that I value and stuff that the

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Speaker 11: guys in this team value.

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Speaker 6: And I'm proud to be a part of it.

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Speaker 10: And we were just talking before we started recording about

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Speaker 10: JJ Watson. Oh yeah, upcoming event at Consolation Field.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so.

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Speaker 10: I'm guessing you will be part of that.

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Speaker 6: I'm hoping to be a part of it.

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Speaker 11: Yes, But yeah, JJ is having his charity softball event.

731
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Speaker 11: I believe tickets just went on sale the other day,

732
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Speaker 11: so you should go get those because it's going to

733
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Speaker 11: be a fantastic time as always.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, and you and I met years ago at a

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Speaker 10: charity event. I mean we didn't really talk, but I

736
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Speaker 10: became friends with your WiFi Amanda shout out yes. And

737
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Speaker 10: it's so cool because I I see her posts, right,

738
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Speaker 10: I see you as the dad, the husband, you know,

739
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Speaker 10: sprinkled with a little football. So I'm excited to get

740
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Speaker 10: to know you more and talk about football. And life

741
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Speaker 10: and all that stuff.

742
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Speaker 1: So let's go back in time a little.

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Speaker 6: Okay, let's do it.

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Speaker 1: So let's talk.

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Speaker 10: About you know when little John, no boy, not the Rapper,

746
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Speaker 10: but you What was it like, you know, kind of

747
00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:23,560
Speaker 10: getting introduced to football. How did that happen? How did

748
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Speaker 10: you fall in love with the game?

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Speaker 11: Yeah, you know, so I was a military brat growing up.

750
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Speaker 11: My dad was in the Air Force. We moved around

751
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Speaker 11: a bunch, and I was a very active kid.

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Speaker 6: My parents kind of.

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Speaker 11: Realized that they needed to get me out and they

754
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Speaker 11: needed to kind of get me under control because I

755
00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:42,320
Speaker 11: was one of those little kids that just ran around

756
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Speaker 11: like a crazy person. So they put me in every

757
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Speaker 11: sport they could possibly put me in. So I think

758
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Speaker 11: that's kind of how I got so involved with sports

759
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Speaker 11: and then just kind of fell in love with it,

760
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Speaker 11: fell in love with every sport I played. Yeah, I mean,

761
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Speaker 11: it just it was it was fun. I think I

762
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Speaker 11: started playing football, was introduced to football and a funny play.

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Speaker 6: We were in stationed in Turkey.

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Speaker 11: Oh, and my dad was my football coach, my flag

765
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Speaker 11: football coach. That was probably the first time I think

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Speaker 11: I ever played.

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Speaker 10: Oh that's awesome. And then you ended up playing at Baylor.

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Speaker 6: I did.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, did you ever imagine that you would be playing

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Speaker 10: in the NFL let alone for as long as you

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Speaker 10: have been?

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Speaker 11: You know, It's one of those things when you look back,

773
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Speaker 11: it's always a dream, right. But when I picked up

774
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Speaker 11: the skill of long snapping, I picked it up because

775
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Speaker 11: a coach of mine told me he could give me

776
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Speaker 11: a skill that would get me to college. And I

777
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Speaker 11: knew I wanted to go play college football. I knew

778
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Speaker 11: I wanted to do everything I could to help my

779
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Speaker 11: parents try to earn a scholarship, and he told me

780
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Speaker 11: he could give me a skill to do that.

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Speaker 6: So that's how I actually picked up long snapping.

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Speaker 11: And then once I got to Baylor and I was

783
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Speaker 11: playing in the Big twelve and we were playing really

784
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Speaker 11: good Oklahoma teams and Texas teams and at the time

785
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Speaker 11: Kansas was good and I was going through that process,

786
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Speaker 11: I kind of started to think maybe I had a

787
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Speaker 11: shot because I knew I was playing against guys that

788
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Speaker 11: were going to be playing on Sunday and I was

789
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Speaker 11: holding my own So that was kind of when it

790
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:16,640
Speaker 11: started to creep in. I mean, I'm completely blessed to

791
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Speaker 11: be where I'm at today. With the journey that I've

792
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Speaker 11: been on with it and incredibly grateful.

793
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Speaker 6: But yeah, that's kind of how that that all happen.

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Speaker 1: I love it.

795
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Speaker 10: And it wasn't an easy journey getting here. You've been

796
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Speaker 10: through so many changes, right since twenty ten, there's been

797
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Speaker 10: a long which is what has it been about this

798
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Speaker 10: season that's made it so special.

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Speaker 11: It's just, you know, sometimes there's just a feeling, right,

800
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Speaker 11: I guess that's the best way to put it. And

801
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Speaker 11: you know, with with the beginning of the season, starting

802
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Speaker 11: off with the hiring of you know, coach, getting Dimico

803
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Speaker 11: back in the building, and then what Demiko and the

804
00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:57,160
Speaker 11: entire front of the front office and Nick and all

805
00:33:57,160 --> 00:33:58,960
Speaker 11: those guys were able to do bringing in the talent

806
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Speaker 11: they did through the draft, and then just getting all

807
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Speaker 11: those guys in here and.

808
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Speaker 6: The immediate.

809
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Speaker 11: Process of like kind of coming together as a team

810
00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:13,160
Speaker 11: started to happen. And I think that was kind of that, Okay,

811
00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:15,319
Speaker 11: this could be something special as long as we put

812
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Speaker 11: our head down and we keep working for it. And

813
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Speaker 11: I think that's what we do. We got a great

814
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Speaker 11: group of guys in there that just kind of put

815
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Speaker 11: their head down and work as hard as they possibly

816
00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:25,960
Speaker 11: can and understand, you know what's in front of us,

817
00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:29,960
Speaker 11: and don't take anything for granted and work their tails off.

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Speaker 10: What is your secret? We all want to know to

819
00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:36,480
Speaker 10: just being here for this long, but it's the training, Like, like,

820
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Speaker 10: what do you do?

821
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Speaker 6: I don't know if there is a secret, you know.

822
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Speaker 11: One thing one of my vets always told me was

823
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Speaker 11: that once you get comfortable in this league, you're done.

824
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Speaker 11: And I don't think I've ever been comfortable, you know.

825
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Speaker 11: Unfortunately my journey started a little bit later and I

826
00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:53,319
Speaker 11: was out of football for two years, so I do

827
00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:57,520
Speaker 11: know what life without football was like and where I

828
00:34:57,560 --> 00:34:59,920
Speaker 11: did find something I was passionate about and was able

829
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Speaker 11: to to get back into football. So so things kind

830
00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:05,440
Speaker 11: of worked out for me. I don't really want to

831
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Speaker 11: feel that anytime soon. I love being around the guys,

832
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Speaker 11: I love being in Houston, Texan. I love playing football,

833
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Speaker 11: and I'm going to continue to keep doing it as

834
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Speaker 11: long as I can.

835
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Speaker 10: And I was talking to Mark Andrew Mayer earlier and

836
00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:22,879
Speaker 10: he described you as the glue who's kept the team

837
00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:27,680
Speaker 10: together so many changes. So what do you think it

838
00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:30,799
Speaker 10: is that keeps you just being that team player that

839
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Speaker 10: you know keeps the team together.

840
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Speaker 6: I don't know if you. I mean, I think Mark's

841
00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:37,560
Speaker 6: been a little too nice to be honest with you.

842
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Speaker 11: I think, you know, when it comes to where I

843
00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:46,560
Speaker 11: am now, I want to be as consistent as possible.

844
00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:50,279
Speaker 11: I think as long as I can stay consistent and

845
00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:52,560
Speaker 11: I can be there for these young guys and explain

846
00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:54,480
Speaker 11: to them and try to help them and guide them

847
00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:58,040
Speaker 11: through the ups and downs of a tough NFL season,

848
00:35:58,080 --> 00:36:00,680
Speaker 11: that's that's what I'm lucky enough to be able to do.

849
00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:03,560
Speaker 11: That's kind of my job right now, and I'm just

850
00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:05,200
Speaker 11: trying to do that to the best of my ability.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, and what is your goal? This will for the

852
00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:09,920
Speaker 10: remaining of the season.

853
00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:13,000
Speaker 11: Oh man, The goal for the remainder of season is

854
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:14,520
Speaker 11: probably make it through practice tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: You know.

856
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Speaker 6: Again, I try not to look too far ahead.

857
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Speaker 11: I try to be in the moment as much as possible, because,

858
00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:23,000
Speaker 11: you know, being in the moment is where you need

859
00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:25,040
Speaker 11: to be at in this business because you just never know,

860
00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:28,400
Speaker 11: right anything can happen. So just try to be in

861
00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:31,760
Speaker 11: the moment as much as possible. You know, we understand

862
00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:33,239
Speaker 11: the task that we have in front of us. We

863
00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:35,439
Speaker 11: have a really good team that we're preparing for right now.

864
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:38,920
Speaker 11: You know, none of us are not aware of what

865
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:41,560
Speaker 11: we could do if if we put our heads down

866
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Speaker 11: and really work towards it.

867
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Speaker 6: And I think that's what we're doing.

868
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Speaker 11: And again that's why this group is special, because this

869
00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:48,480
Speaker 11: group understands that and they're willing to put the work in.

870
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Speaker 10: Yeah, and what about a goal off the field, like

871
00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:53,240
Speaker 10: something that you would like to call goal.

872
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Speaker 6: Off the field?

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Speaker 11: You know, I have been lucky enough, and I've talked

874
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Speaker 11: about this with my wife. I've been lucky enough to

875
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Speaker 11: be in this business for a while now, and I

876
00:37:01,040 --> 00:37:03,239
Speaker 11: have got to accomplish a lot of things in my

877
00:37:04,040 --> 00:37:06,840
Speaker 11: time here with the Texans. The only two things that

878
00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:09,319
Speaker 11: have escaped me in my career so far are an

879
00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:12,320
Speaker 11: AC championship game in the super Bowl. And the ultimate

880
00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:14,120
Speaker 11: goal is to bring a Super Bowl to Houston, and

881
00:37:14,160 --> 00:37:15,120
Speaker 11: I want to be a part of that.

882
00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:17,520
Speaker 6: So that's the ultimate goal.

883
00:37:17,880 --> 00:37:20,080
Speaker 11: But right now, the goal is to make sure that

884
00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:23,279
Speaker 11: I prepared properly for tomorrow's practice and get ready to

885
00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:24,160
Speaker 11: roll for a good team.

886
00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:27,160
Speaker 10: Also, we touched a little bit on this earlier about

887
00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:30,480
Speaker 10: just community and whatnot. So do you have any events

888
00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:32,879
Speaker 10: or anything coming up that you would like to mention

889
00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:33,480
Speaker 10: I have.

890
00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:36,520
Speaker 11: A couple of things in the works, a couple of

891
00:37:36,560 --> 00:37:39,319
Speaker 11: things again that the Texans are being amazing with and

892
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:43,759
Speaker 11: helping me with. Nothing that's completely iron down yet I

893
00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:47,560
Speaker 11: am excited. I will be joining Kirsten and her Kirsten's

894
00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:49,680
Speaker 11: Crew tomorrow for her shopping spree, so I'm going to

895
00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:53,600
Speaker 11: go attend that. You know, her foundation and her group

896
00:37:53,640 --> 00:37:56,360
Speaker 11: do a fantastic job with taking kids Christmas shopping, so

897
00:37:56,560 --> 00:37:58,319
Speaker 11: I'll be happy to be a part of that and

898
00:37:58,360 --> 00:38:01,799
Speaker 11: be there for that. But you know it, when when

899
00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:04,000
Speaker 11: an opportunity arises, I try to be there for it.

900
00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:06,960
Speaker 11: And our team does a great job of presaying those

901
00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:09,040
Speaker 11: opportunities for us. And if I can be there, I'll

902
00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:09,359
Speaker 11: be there.

903
00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:12,600
Speaker 10: And what is the best advice that you've received?

904
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:15,080
Speaker 6: The best advice I've received as a.

905
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:17,720
Speaker 7: Player as go with as a player.

906
00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:22,520
Speaker 11: The best advice I ever received I probably got when

907
00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:27,160
Speaker 11: I was struggling to get back in, and.

908
00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:30,680
Speaker 6: That was just never let someone else's perception of you

909
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:33,560
Speaker 6: be your reality. And it was at a.

910
00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:35,560
Speaker 11: Time where there were some rules that were kind of

911
00:38:35,640 --> 00:38:38,640
Speaker 11: keeping me from getting in because a couple teams said

912
00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:40,799
Speaker 11: I was a little too small so I just kind

913
00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:43,439
Speaker 11: of had to keep that in my mind that you know, yes,

914
00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:45,000
Speaker 11: there are going to be teams that think that, but

915
00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:47,240
Speaker 11: I just need one team to give me a shot

916
00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:48,640
Speaker 11: and the rest will take care of itself.

917
00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:50,080
Speaker 6: And thankfully it was Houston.

918
00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:56,799
Speaker 10: And you're awesome both on and off the field, and

919
00:38:56,840 --> 00:38:59,759
Speaker 10: truly I applaud you for everything that you're doing around

920
00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:02,640
Speaker 10: the and for the team. And I'm telling you when

921
00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:05,000
Speaker 10: you're When I say you're a fan favorite, you absolutely are.

922
00:39:05,160 --> 00:39:08,640
Speaker 10: And we'll make sure to vote. Pple can vote by

923
00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:12,560
Speaker 10: going on x which was Twitter and also going to

924
00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:15,000
Speaker 10: NFL dot com slash Man of the Year.

925
00:39:15,120 --> 00:39:16,120
Speaker 6: Yes, ma'am.

926
00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:19,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, man go vote for WEEKSI if anybody deserves it,

927
00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:24,040
Speaker 1: that man deserves it. He's been here since twenty ten, thirteen.

928
00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:26,440
Speaker 1: I think it's a fourteenth season. I'm doing the math correct.

929
00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:32,480
Speaker 1: Fourteenth season. Week sees the absolute best. He's the best.

930
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:35,080
Speaker 1: So glad he was able to step into studio with

931
00:39:35,320 --> 00:39:39,560
Speaker 1: Stephanie Gonzalez and knock the interview out and give us

932
00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:42,719
Speaker 1: the opportunity to hear it right here on Texans All

933
00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:47,719
Speaker 1: Access now coming up. I said this earlier today at practice.

934
00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:50,600
Speaker 1: It was probably one of the most well attended practices

935
00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:55,000
Speaker 1: in season that I've seen in a while. And I

936
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:58,880
Speaker 1: would tell you more cameras at practice to see if

937
00:39:59,640 --> 00:40:02,799
Speaker 1: or if if not a particular player was there at practice.

938
00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:06,160
Speaker 1: CJ Stroud I mentioned earlier. CJ notin at practice today,

939
00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:09,240
Speaker 1: still in the concussion protocol, will probably be in concussion protocol.

940
00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:12,200
Speaker 1: I think it's up in the air as it pertains

941
00:40:12,239 --> 00:40:14,640
Speaker 1: to Sunday's game against the Titans. We all know it's

942
00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:17,920
Speaker 1: an important one. But there's a reason that football has

943
00:40:17,960 --> 00:40:20,279
Speaker 1: eleven guys on the field and you know, forty eight

944
00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:22,719
Speaker 1: on a game day roster. If CJ's unable to go,

945
00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:25,560
Speaker 1: then Davis Mills in case Keenum are gonna have to

946
00:40:25,640 --> 00:40:28,400
Speaker 1: carry that mantle for who's gonna play quarterback? But no

947
00:40:28,480 --> 00:40:32,680
Speaker 1: CJ Stry to practice. He was not alone in not

948
00:40:33,360 --> 00:40:37,719
Speaker 1: participating in practice. The part of me that thinks, oh

949
00:40:37,719 --> 00:40:40,120
Speaker 1: my god, did they have anybody able to practice today?

950
00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:41,880
Speaker 1: Because you know, Wednesday is a rest day for a

951
00:40:41,920 --> 00:40:44,920
Speaker 1: number of the veterans. Let's check that out next to

952
00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:48,560
Speaker 1: injury report what it all means next right here on

953
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Speaker 1: Texans All Access. All Right, welcome back to Wednesday edition

954
00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:54,080
Speaker 1: that Texans All Access I'm your host, John Harris, Football

955
00:40:54,080 --> 00:40:57,240
Speaker 1: and a sideline reporter. Before we get into that injury report,

956
00:40:57,320 --> 00:41:00,960
Speaker 1: let's hear from Xavier Hutchins Sin who caught up with

957
00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:03,160
Speaker 1: Drew Doriday in the locker room.

958
00:41:03,360 --> 00:41:07,080
Speaker 7: All right, wide receiver Xavier Hutchinson another test coming up

959
00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:09,480
Speaker 7: this week? What do you know about this Titans secondary

960
00:41:09,520 --> 00:41:10,640
Speaker 7: is Tecans defense as a whole?

961
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:14,240
Speaker 12: They kind of scheme from the Patriots a little bit obviously.

962
00:41:14,239 --> 00:41:16,200
Speaker 12: You know, they run, you know, certain things that you

963
00:41:16,239 --> 00:41:18,840
Speaker 12: know for their personnel that they have, but you know,

964
00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:20,840
Speaker 12: it's a very good it's very good back end. You know,

965
00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:23,480
Speaker 12: they have a really good offense, defensive line, got really

966
00:41:23,520 --> 00:41:26,800
Speaker 12: good linebackers, their corners and safeties. You know, they fly around,

967
00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:29,200
Speaker 12: they play hard. You can definitely tell on take that.

968
00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:32,319
Speaker 12: You know, they give their everything, and you know that's understandable.

969
00:41:32,440 --> 00:41:34,200
Speaker 12: You know, they're head coach Mike Brabel. You know that's

970
00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:36,160
Speaker 12: how he is. So you know, we expect it to

971
00:41:36,200 --> 00:41:38,760
Speaker 12: be a gritty game. We expect them to play hard

972
00:41:38,920 --> 00:41:41,160
Speaker 12: and fast, and you know, we just have to match

973
00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:41,760
Speaker 12: that energy.

974
00:41:42,040 --> 00:41:44,080
Speaker 7: And I'm guessing you guys are expecting to bounce back

975
00:41:44,239 --> 00:41:45,840
Speaker 7: after what went down in New York, right.

976
00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:48,520
Speaker 12: Yeah, for sure, for sure that wasn't us. Everybody you

977
00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:51,200
Speaker 12: know accepted that that that wasn't us. Can't keep putting

978
00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:52,840
Speaker 12: that up there. You know, this lay in the season

979
00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:54,840
Speaker 12: with you know where we're trying to head to. So

980
00:41:54,960 --> 00:41:56,640
Speaker 12: you know, we just have to put back our head down,

981
00:41:56,760 --> 00:41:59,000
Speaker 12: get back in our books. You know, really just come

982
00:41:59,040 --> 00:42:01,520
Speaker 12: out this Sunday a lot better than we did last Sunday.

983
00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:04,239
Speaker 7: Season high three targets for you last Sunday. You think

984
00:42:04,239 --> 00:42:06,239
Speaker 7: you're growing. How are you growing as a receiver in

985
00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:07,360
Speaker 7: this offense?

986
00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:08,760
Speaker 12: Yeah, I'm definitely growing.

987
00:42:08,960 --> 00:42:09,160
Speaker 9: Really.

988
00:42:09,239 --> 00:42:11,800
Speaker 12: You know, my first you know, real game with real action,

989
00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:13,759
Speaker 12: had a lot of ups and downs in that game,

990
00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:16,160
Speaker 12: obviously going against a great secondary with what you know

991
00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:18,799
Speaker 12: the Jets had, but really just you know, learning again

992
00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:20,879
Speaker 12: where I can make an impact in the game. It's

993
00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:23,560
Speaker 12: definitely different from college. You know, you have to find

994
00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:25,960
Speaker 12: your knicks and next. Everybody's good in this league, so

995
00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:27,440
Speaker 12: you know, you have to find the little things that

996
00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:29,200
Speaker 12: you can win at. I mean, you also have to

997
00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:30,799
Speaker 12: find the little things in which you can excel that

998
00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:33,400
Speaker 12: can help you with everything. So, you know, really just

999
00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:36,520
Speaker 12: learning that and taking everything with the positives, putting everything

1000
00:42:36,520 --> 00:42:39,120
Speaker 12: in perspective, trying to just keep going forward, don't want

1001
00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:40,680
Speaker 12: to take any steps back, So you.

1002
00:42:40,640 --> 00:42:43,080
Speaker 7: Bring up learning the little things, I mean, and doing

1003
00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:44,960
Speaker 7: well at some of those things. Saw that on special teams.

1004
00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:46,319
Speaker 7: We've seen it on the end of rounds as well.

1005
00:42:46,760 --> 00:42:49,200
Speaker 7: I'm guessing kind of like the previous questions happening, they're

1006
00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:50,120
Speaker 7: catching the ball.

1007
00:42:50,120 --> 00:42:53,000
Speaker 12: Right, Yeah, yeah, no it for sure? Is it for sure?

1008
00:42:53,120 --> 00:42:55,040
Speaker 12: Is got to catch it more confidently. Of course, I

1009
00:42:55,360 --> 00:42:57,520
Speaker 12: had a few body catches out there. I mean a

1010
00:42:57,560 --> 00:42:59,320
Speaker 12: part of it was, you know, the conditions, of course,

1011
00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:01,920
Speaker 12: but also you know, just be more confident out there.

1012
00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:03,919
Speaker 12: And I think you know that happened over the course

1013
00:43:03,960 --> 00:43:06,279
Speaker 12: of the game. I got more confident really, you know,

1014
00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:08,560
Speaker 12: believe that, you know, in myself and my abilities to

1015
00:43:08,560 --> 00:43:10,520
Speaker 12: go out there and make plays. Really, just trying to

1016
00:43:10,520 --> 00:43:11,919
Speaker 12: add on top of that again this week.

1017
00:43:12,239 --> 00:43:14,160
Speaker 7: Last thing. I know you're a rookie, but you kind

1018
00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:17,040
Speaker 7: of have at least a little understanding of this rivalry

1019
00:43:17,080 --> 00:43:18,880
Speaker 7: and this sort of history of these two teams, don't you.

1020
00:43:19,080 --> 00:43:19,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, I definitely do.

1021
00:43:20,160 --> 00:43:21,960
Speaker 12: Of course, you know, in any teams in your division,

1022
00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:23,640
Speaker 12: it's going to be a rivalry game, and I know

1023
00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:25,560
Speaker 12: this one is a little bit more. It would be

1024
00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:27,239
Speaker 12: very nice to come out with the win this week,

1025
00:43:27,360 --> 00:43:29,319
Speaker 12: just for everybody, for us, I mean for you know,

1026
00:43:29,360 --> 00:43:31,160
Speaker 12: the fans of course as well. You know, I'm really

1027
00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:33,560
Speaker 12: looking forward to it. Let the best man.

1028
00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:35,440
Speaker 7: Win, I guess always get to talk with the exabers.

1029
00:43:35,440 --> 00:43:37,080
Speaker 7: Thanks so much, thank you, appreciate you man.

1030
00:43:37,680 --> 00:43:43,040
Speaker 1: Now, Xavier Hutchinson does not show up on the injury report, thankfully,

1031
00:43:43,080 --> 00:43:47,840
Speaker 1: because he's probably about the only one. Now. I thought

1032
00:43:48,239 --> 00:43:53,160
Speaker 1: that the Texans injury report would look really bleak, especially

1033
00:43:53,200 --> 00:43:55,879
Speaker 1: in comparison to the Tessee Titans, but that's not the case.

1034
00:43:55,920 --> 00:43:58,520
Speaker 1: These are actually really tough on both sides. Start with

1035
00:43:58,560 --> 00:44:04,720
Speaker 1: your Texans peas today, boy, Will Anderson, Junior ankle, Blake

1036
00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:10,160
Speaker 1: Cashman hamstring, Nico Collins, Calf, George f Hip, c J. Stroud.

1037
00:44:10,200 --> 00:44:15,480
Speaker 1: As we mentioned, concussion, Tabio Thomas hamstring, Laramie Tunsel, Knie

1038
00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:19,799
Speaker 1: ohoh boy. That's not a good list. A lot of

1039
00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:22,279
Speaker 1: heavy hitters there. Hopefully we'll be able to see some

1040
00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:25,400
Speaker 1: of those guys getting back now. Limited participants Noah Brown,

1041
00:44:25,680 --> 00:44:29,799
Speaker 1: maliek Collins, Shack Mason, Henry Totoa and Robert Woods was

1042
00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:34,360
Speaker 1: a not injury related rest day, full participation. How about this.

1043
00:44:34,520 --> 00:44:38,400
Speaker 1: Kyemie Fairbairn is back. That's great, And Dalton Schultz was

1044
00:44:38,440 --> 00:44:41,600
Speaker 1: a full participant in practice today. Now on the Titan side,

1045
00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:45,000
Speaker 1: well boy, the Titans conducted to walk through on Wednesday,

1046
00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:47,719
Speaker 1: December thirteenth. Injury report is only an estimation of a

1047
00:44:47,719 --> 00:44:51,680
Speaker 1: player's participation if there was a full practice, So I

1048
00:44:51,680 --> 00:44:53,560
Speaker 1: would imagine some of these guys will be able to

1049
00:44:53,560 --> 00:44:56,720
Speaker 1: get back. But there's some pretty heavy hitters here as well.

1050
00:44:57,480 --> 00:45:04,120
Speaker 1: Denico Autrey outstanding underrated defensive lineman knee issue, did not participate.

1051
00:45:04,160 --> 00:45:06,759
Speaker 1: Aaron Brewers starting center, deal with the next. Jack Gibbons said,

1052
00:45:06,800 --> 00:45:09,479
Speaker 1: linebacker has played very very well. He with a back issue.

1053
00:45:09,560 --> 00:45:12,799
Speaker 1: Kyle Phillips thought receiver hamstring. Kevin Raider tight end was ill.

1054
00:45:13,080 --> 00:45:16,360
Speaker 1: Terry Tart was a personal day. Jeffrey Simmons is the

1055
00:45:16,360 --> 00:45:17,960
Speaker 1: big one now. The thought is that he's going to

1056
00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:20,720
Speaker 1: be out for well, it was two to three weeks.

1057
00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:24,880
Speaker 1: Two weeks ago, so it sounds as if he'd missed

1058
00:45:24,880 --> 00:45:28,239
Speaker 1: this one, but you never know. He did. DMP and

1059
00:45:28,320 --> 00:45:31,720
Speaker 1: Josh Wiley the tight end DNP, both with knee issues.

1060
00:45:31,760 --> 00:45:35,960
Speaker 1: Limited participants. Daniel Brunskill guard hop got a rest day,

1061
00:45:36,640 --> 00:45:39,600
Speaker 1: Will Levis dealing with an ankle issue, Sean Murphy bunting

1062
00:45:39,640 --> 00:45:42,000
Speaker 1: with a knee, and came on Wallace with a quad.

1063
00:45:42,080 --> 00:45:45,440
Speaker 1: So again that was the Titans side of things as

1064
00:45:45,440 --> 00:45:48,000
Speaker 1: they conducted a walk through on Wednesday, having played the

1065
00:45:48,040 --> 00:45:52,560
Speaker 1: game Monday night in Miami, so coming back from that

1066
00:45:52,640 --> 00:45:56,000
Speaker 1: with a twenty eight twenty seven win. But these injury

1067
00:45:56,000 --> 00:46:01,200
Speaker 1: reports are robust, a lot of heavy hit on both sides,

1068
00:46:01,480 --> 00:46:05,440
Speaker 1: Will Anderson Junior, obviously, CJ Stroud, and Nico Collins, Larie Tunzel.

1069
00:46:05,480 --> 00:46:08,239
Speaker 1: Now Larmie is taking Wednesdays off, I should say taken

1070
00:46:08,280 --> 00:46:11,200
Speaker 1: Wednesdays off. He has gotten Wednesday's rest day to get

1071
00:46:11,239 --> 00:46:13,399
Speaker 1: ready for the rest of the week. You could argue

1072
00:46:13,400 --> 00:46:15,719
Speaker 1: that Blake Cashman has been the best defender for the

1073
00:46:15,719 --> 00:46:18,759
Speaker 1: Texans this year. He's dealing with a hamstring and I

1074
00:46:18,760 --> 00:46:20,839
Speaker 1: think it's reported by Aaron Wilson that it's probably a

1075
00:46:20,880 --> 00:46:23,439
Speaker 1: game or two for cash probably a game or two

1076
00:46:23,440 --> 00:46:26,799
Speaker 1: for tav and that's not great news. So we'll learn

1077
00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:28,480
Speaker 1: a little bit more about CJ through rest of the

1078
00:46:28,480 --> 00:46:31,360
Speaker 1: week and obviously Will Blake and Nico as well, so

1079
00:46:31,360 --> 00:46:33,080
Speaker 1: we'll keep it on on that. But good news Doult

1080
00:46:33,120 --> 00:46:38,560
Speaker 1: Schultz and Kymie Fairbairn both back full participants in today's practice. Okay,

1081
00:46:38,600 --> 00:46:41,200
Speaker 1: we get back. We're gonna go. Men behind the mics,

1082
00:46:41,239 --> 00:46:44,160
Speaker 1: Mark Vandermir, you know, and you know, well, Mike Keith.

1083
00:46:44,200 --> 00:46:46,040
Speaker 1: You may not know, but the voice shoot here and

1084
00:46:46,040 --> 00:46:47,960
Speaker 1: going Wait a second, that sounds familiar. Yes, he's the

1085
00:46:47,960 --> 00:46:50,560
Speaker 1: Titans play by play man. That's next on Texans All Access.

1086
00:46:51,960 --> 00:46:53,640
Speaker 1: We want our down. One hour left to go. Right

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Speaker 1: here on a Wednesday edition of Texans All Access from

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Speaker 1: Monday Texans Radio Studio. I'm your host, John Harry, football analyst,

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Speaker 1: sideline report for your Houston Texans, and it's time to

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Speaker 1: go to our men behind the mics, the two men

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Speaker 1: that will call the game on Sunday in Nashville. You know,

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Speaker 1: on the Texans side, it's my pal, Mark Vandermir. On

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Speaker 1: the Tennessee side, you've probably heard this name before and

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Speaker 1: heard this voice. It will sound familiar. It's Mike Keith. Now.

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Speaker 1: Mark gave me a little preview of this before, you know,

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Speaker 1: sometime today, and I thought it was pretty interesting. They

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Speaker 1: they have a conversation about the Oilers jerseys and kind

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Speaker 1: of the whole deal that went with it. And all

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Speaker 1: that kind of stuff and give you some background on it,

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Speaker 1: so people in Houston are a little bit more informed,

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Speaker 1: if you will. I know, there's a lot of intense

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Speaker 1: emotions as it pertains to the jerseys, the fact that

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Speaker 1: the Titans will be wearing them. I asked Drew In

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Speaker 1: in the lab. But you'll hear a little bit later

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Speaker 1: to Houstonians doing in the lab. How are we gonna

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Speaker 1: feel when we see the word oilers in the end

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Speaker 1: zone and we see those jerseys. I mean, we grew

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Speaker 1: up that was our team. I mean I still have

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Speaker 1: Oilers hats in gear, so that's gonna be kind of weird.

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Speaker 1: But Mike Keith gets into that with Mark Vandermire right

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Speaker 1: here on men behind the mics, let's go, Mike.

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Speaker 3: Great to have you on.

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Speaker 2: Congratulations on the win, mind and I football knocking off

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Speaker 2: the Dolphins, and I know it's a short week, but

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Speaker 2: it's got to be a week filled with energy for

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Speaker 2: the Titans as they get ready for this home game.

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Speaker 9: First of all, Mark, good to be joining you in

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Speaker 9: the Happy holidays to you and yours. It is good.

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Speaker 9: It is good. We've had certainly a tough run on

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Speaker 9: the road for over a year, and so to go

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Speaker 9: to Miami and to surprise a lot of people and

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Speaker 9: win in a very strange way was a lot of

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Speaker 9: fun and it kind of built on some things this

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Speaker 9: team's been working on for quite some time, and now

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Speaker 9: they see if they can keep it up. The team

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Speaker 9: did some good things in the Indianapolis geme lost that

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Speaker 9: game in an unusual manner, and then they win this

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Speaker 9: game in an unusual manner, and so now they're going

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Speaker 9: to try to see if they can play a normal game.

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Speaker 2: All right, Well, let's start with Will Levis as far

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Speaker 2: as the Titans go. I know it's not all about him,

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Speaker 2: but he is a focal point right now as you

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Speaker 2: start the rookie quarterback, What are you seeing so far

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Speaker 2: in the development? And everybody noticed that for a touchdown

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Speaker 2: pass game to launch his career, and I know it's

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Speaker 2: been a little bit of a rocky road since then,

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Speaker 2: but what a great performance against the Dolphins.

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Speaker 3: What do you see in Mike?

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Speaker 9: He's growing up and I think this is probably a

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Speaker 9: little sooner mark than they wanted to get him in there.

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Speaker 9: But when he finally became the starter on October the

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Speaker 9: twenty ninth, he had been with the organization for six months,

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Speaker 9: and so he had been in that quarterback room. He

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Speaker 9: had been around Ryan Tannehill. They had been able to

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Speaker 9: take their time with him. He had a quad injury

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Speaker 9: at the end of training camp, which sort of slowed

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Speaker 9: his progress, but he had been working very regularly. They

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Speaker 9: had an idea of what they had in him. They

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Speaker 9: had gotten to know him. They'd certainly worked on some

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Speaker 9: things with him about understanding that in the pro game, hey,

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Speaker 9: you're gonna make mistakes, You've got to get over it.

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Speaker 9: You've got to be even tempered. And that was something

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Speaker 9: at Kentucky. He would get down on himself. You know,

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Speaker 9: he would make a mistake and then he would take

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Speaker 9: it very hard, which you like in a way because

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Speaker 9: you know he's a guy who cares deeply. But at

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Speaker 9: the same time, you have to be able to let

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Speaker 9: it go. And I think Monday Night was a great

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Speaker 9: example of Betty to a bad interception in the first quarter,

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Speaker 9: he made a bad pitch in the fourth quarter, and

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Speaker 9: yet he just kept playing. And his physical talent is undeniable.

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Speaker 9: Now teams have tape on him and so they're able

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Speaker 9: to make adjustments to him. He's having to adjust back,

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Speaker 9: but Mark, I would say, so far, so good. I

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Speaker 9: don't think anybody's you know, proclaiming anything or saying it's

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Speaker 9: all fixed or it's all great, or you know, whatever

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Speaker 9: the case may be. In a world where we like to,

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Speaker 9: you know, sort of make snap proclamations about anything, you know,

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Speaker 9: hot takes whatever. I think the Titans are quietly, very

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Speaker 9: pleased with where he is and understand there's more work

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Speaker 9: to be done. And I think Will Levis is the

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Speaker 9: same way, Mark, And that's the best part of this

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Speaker 9: story so far.

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Speaker 2: Mike Keith, voice of the Titans, joining us Derrick Henry.

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Speaker 2: What are we getting out of Derrick Henry? Now he

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Speaker 2: looks pretty much the same to me. Maybe you're not

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Speaker 2: getting as many long runs whatever. He's just so keyed on, Mike,

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Speaker 2: Yet he still manages to gain a ton of yards,

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Speaker 2: averaging four point one eight seventy five on the year.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, he's doing fine. And you're right, they're keying on

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Speaker 9: him and this offensive line has issues. But here he

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Speaker 9: was the other night, and that the Titans are in

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Speaker 9: a situation where he rushes seventeen times for thirty four yards.

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Speaker 9: But you know what he did. He scored two touch

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Speaker 9: He scored the game winning touchdown, and he was as

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Speaker 9: happy after that game as any of his one hundred

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Speaker 9: and fifty two hundred yard games because he knew he

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Speaker 9: contributed in the way he could help. If he's lost anything,

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Speaker 9: it's not much. He can still really play and he's

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Speaker 9: in a bit of a different role. He understands that

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Speaker 9: with Taja Spears, because Taja is the best partner he's

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Speaker 9: ever had since he became the lead back. He gets it.

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Speaker 9: I think he understands where he is. But guess what,

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Speaker 9: He's going to finish the year with twelve thirteen hundred yards.

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Speaker 9: And I think most teams would be happy to have

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Speaker 9: a twelve or thirteen hundred yard back.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so.

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Speaker 2: And when you drafted Spears in Nashville, we were all

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Speaker 2: bummed out because we all really liked Taja Spears. And

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Speaker 2: I was also bummed out when DeAndre Hopkins signed with

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Speaker 2: the Tennessee Titans, because you know, we love hop here

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Speaker 2: and to watch him as spry as he is right now,

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Speaker 2: he looks about as good as he could possibly look

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Speaker 2: at this age. And it must be a little freaky

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Speaker 2: for you because he's had some big games against the

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Speaker 2: Titans and now he's having some big games for you.

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Speaker 9: It's funny. I mean, it is a it's a funny

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Speaker 9: world that we live in because he absolutely tortured us

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Speaker 9: for years. I mean, he didn't just play good against us,

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Speaker 9: he tortured us. And then he went to Arizona and

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Speaker 9: his first game with the Cardinals, he tortured us. So

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Speaker 9: I finally got a chance to sit down with him

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Speaker 9: not long ago. We were talking about he goes, yeah,

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Speaker 9: he goes, it's kind of freaky, he said. It's a

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Speaker 9: little different. But I think he's having a good time

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Speaker 9: on this team. He likes Rabel and you know, they

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Speaker 9: knew each other from their time together with the Texans,

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Speaker 9: and so they have a good personal relationship. The Titans

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Speaker 9: manage him very well, which is something that they do

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Speaker 9: well with veterans. They do it with Henry, they do

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Speaker 9: it with Hopkins, They've done it with Jeffrey Simmons, on

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Speaker 9: and on and on. You just see that. And so, yeah,

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Speaker 9: he's playing well. He had a good game the other night,

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Speaker 9: seven catches for one hundred and twenty four yards and

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Speaker 9: a what a breath of fresh air for a guy

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Speaker 9: like Will Levis to have a receiver that's going to

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Speaker 9: the Hall of Fame that you can count on in

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Speaker 9: this way, and I think to me, that's the part

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Speaker 9: that DeAndre Hopkins is enjoying the most. Is much like

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Speaker 9: his time with Deshaun Watson where he sort of broke

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Speaker 9: him into the league in that way being his guy.

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Speaker 9: He's doing the same thing for Will Levis, which is

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Speaker 9: really cool to see it. It's interesting to watch a

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Speaker 9: professional in this way do it the way he does

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Speaker 9: it every single day and you understand why he is

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Speaker 9: the special player that he is. You know, from Afar

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Speaker 9: being tortured by him, we knew he was good, but

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Speaker 9: to watch him work every day in practice, it's really

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Speaker 9: fascinating and gives a lot of insight into why he's

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Speaker 9: the career he's head.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, always a quarterback's best friend, Mike. What about that

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Speaker 2: defense because we see some of the names we know,

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Speaker 2: oh so well. You see Harold Landry, Jeffrey Simmons. I

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Speaker 2: know we missed the last game, Daniko Autry. There are

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Speaker 2: some new guys as well.

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Speaker 1: Though.

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Speaker 2: What are you getting out of that Titan D They've

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Speaker 2: had a pretty good year.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, the statistics will tell you it's not been bad

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Speaker 9: and if you saw them on Monday night with how

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Speaker 9: they contained Miami, that's pretty much the story of their season.

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Speaker 9: They've rushed the passer pretty well, They've kept teams out

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Speaker 9: of the end zone pretty well. The disappointment in this

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Speaker 9: defense is we thought they had a chance at the

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Speaker 9: beginning of the year to be dominant, and they have

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Speaker 9: not been. They have not had the number of takeaways

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Speaker 9: that we had hoped. They've just not had the big

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Speaker 9: plays that we had hoped. But they've been very solid,

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Speaker 9: and had the Titans offense been better, I think that

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Speaker 9: might have given the defense a chance to be better

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Speaker 9: because I think some teams offensively have been able to

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Speaker 9: keep things more basic due to the fact that the

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Speaker 9: Titans have had problems until the last two weeks scoring

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Speaker 9: And you know this mark You've been around the league

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Speaker 9: for a long long time. When an offense and opposing

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Speaker 9: offense doesn't have to take a lot of chances to

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Speaker 9: win the game, they're not going to. So the end

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Speaker 9: result is the opposing defense has less chances to make

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Speaker 9: things happen, and I think that's been part of the

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Speaker 9: issue for the Titans this year. But you know, the

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Speaker 9: defense did a great job the other night, they essentially

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Speaker 9: did not give up a touchdown an offensive touchdown to

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Speaker 9: the Dolphins, one was on an interception return, and the

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Speaker 9: two late ones came when the Dolphins only had to

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Speaker 9: drive nineteen yards for the fourteen points. So pretty good

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Speaker 9: job by them overall.

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Speaker 2: Mike, let's look at the division here for a moment,

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Speaker 2: then we'll get back to this game. What are your

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Speaker 2: thoughts on what you're seeing from the Colts now, because

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Speaker 2: to me, it's pretty disturbing that they're still very much

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Speaker 2: in this thing and they've suffered through everything they've suffered

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Speaker 2: through with Jonathan Taylor, losing Anthony richardson, all of that,

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Speaker 2: yet here they are still very much in the mix

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Speaker 2: heading into the final four games.

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Speaker 9: They're good on defense. You know, they've had good people

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Speaker 9: and they've kind of continued to put that together in

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Speaker 9: particular with their rotation in the front four on defense.

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Speaker 9: And then Zire Franklin is having a monster year at linebacker.

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Speaker 9: I mean he's taken over for Darius Leonard and he's

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Speaker 9: now that guy for them, which is why they could

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Speaker 9: let Darius Leonard go offensively. I think at this moment

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Speaker 9: they're probably better off with Garner Minshew Now we'll see

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Speaker 9: what happens next year, because Anthony Richardson will almost have

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Speaker 9: to start all over again. I think they wanted him

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Speaker 9: to battle through that rookie year and learn and grow

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Speaker 9: and all those sorts of things. And then he gets

1298
00:58:07,520 --> 00:58:12,240
Speaker 9: hurt and ironically in the game against US, and they'll

1299
00:58:12,240 --> 00:58:14,760
Speaker 9: go back to him next year, but he'll still have

1300
00:58:14,880 --> 00:58:18,040
Speaker 9: a ton that he will have to learn, having just

1301
00:58:18,120 --> 00:58:23,240
Speaker 9: basically played a month, and Minchew manages them better now.

1302
00:58:23,840 --> 00:58:26,160
Speaker 9: I think does a good job with with all of that.

1303
00:58:26,480 --> 00:58:29,600
Speaker 9: He he gets who he is and he understands who

1304
00:58:29,640 --> 00:58:31,760
Speaker 9: he has to be in that offense, and you know,

1305
00:58:31,760 --> 00:58:33,640
Speaker 9: he's got a guy that can that he can lean

1306
00:58:33,680 --> 00:58:36,640
Speaker 9: on in Michael Pittman, and the rookie Downs is a

1307
00:58:36,920 --> 00:58:39,680
Speaker 9: really good player. He was a guy that you know,

1308
00:58:39,760 --> 00:58:41,920
Speaker 9: I was sitting there thinking, oh, man, if the Titans

1309
00:58:41,960 --> 00:58:44,760
Speaker 9: could get him, that would be a really good player.

1310
00:58:44,880 --> 00:58:48,520
Speaker 9: Josh Downs is really nice and gives them a kind

1311
00:58:48,560 --> 00:58:51,080
Speaker 9: of a different element. And I think Steiken gets where

1312
00:58:51,120 --> 00:58:54,000
Speaker 9: they are too. Mark I'm pretty impressed with the way

1313
00:58:54,040 --> 00:58:58,120
Speaker 9: he has coached that team. You know, that's one of

1314
00:58:58,120 --> 00:59:01,040
Speaker 9: the things you see in the league. It's easy to

1315
00:59:01,040 --> 00:59:03,760
Speaker 9: be a good coach, But you've got to coach the

1316
00:59:03,800 --> 00:59:06,840
Speaker 9: team you have well, and he has coached the team

1317
00:59:06,960 --> 00:59:11,720
Speaker 9: he has very well, which I think, unfortunately for both

1318
00:59:11,800 --> 00:59:14,120
Speaker 9: of us, that doesn't bode well for what he's going

1319
00:59:14,240 --> 00:59:17,480
Speaker 9: to do with them moving forward as they get better.

1320
00:59:18,320 --> 00:59:20,760
Speaker 2: Mike Keith's voice of the Titans with US Jaguars have

1321
00:59:20,840 --> 00:59:24,520
Speaker 2: lost back to back. Texans had a field goal attempt

1322
00:59:24,520 --> 00:59:26,720
Speaker 2: bounce off the crossbar that would have tied the game

1323
00:59:26,720 --> 00:59:28,840
Speaker 2: at the end of regulation with a chance to maybe

1324
00:59:28,840 --> 00:59:31,680
Speaker 2: win an overtime. Who knows you're going to host them

1325
00:59:31,720 --> 00:59:35,200
Speaker 2: to end the regular season here. How much trouble are

1326
00:59:35,240 --> 00:59:37,680
Speaker 2: they in, Mike, and how good can they be?

1327
00:59:38,800 --> 00:59:41,800
Speaker 9: I think to worry for them right now more than

1328
00:59:41,840 --> 00:59:45,760
Speaker 9: anything else is they're having some injury issues that they

1329
00:59:45,800 --> 00:59:51,280
Speaker 9: haven't had the last two years. And last year they

1330
00:59:51,280 --> 00:59:54,640
Speaker 9: were so healthy. They were amazingly healthy. They did not

1331
00:59:54,840 --> 00:59:59,480
Speaker 9: lose a starter until Week eighteen when they played the

1332
00:59:59,520 --> 01:00:02,160
Speaker 9: Titans on Saturday night to get into the playoffs, and

1333
01:00:02,680 --> 01:00:06,880
Speaker 9: Robinson got hurt and couldn't play in the playoffs. You know,

1334
01:00:06,720 --> 01:00:11,000
Speaker 9: you have some of this that you see as we

1335
01:00:11,040 --> 01:00:14,680
Speaker 9: go through November and get into December, the injuries chip

1336
01:00:14,720 --> 01:00:18,720
Speaker 9: away the guys who've been having to play are not

1337
01:00:18,880 --> 01:00:21,680
Speaker 9: quite as good, and they're a little banged up having

1338
01:00:21,720 --> 01:00:24,480
Speaker 9: to play more snaps. And I think that's kind of

1339
01:00:24,480 --> 01:00:26,960
Speaker 9: where Jacksonville is right now. I think they're trying to

1340
01:00:27,040 --> 01:00:33,160
Speaker 9: fight through this tough period. The question with Lawrence too

1341
01:00:33,200 --> 01:00:36,000
Speaker 9: and the ankle, and he's had the knee all year,

1342
01:00:36,200 --> 01:00:38,880
Speaker 9: and you know, where is he at this point? He

1343
01:00:38,920 --> 01:00:43,280
Speaker 9: played very well against US, really really played well against

1344
01:00:43,360 --> 01:00:47,800
Speaker 9: US last month. But we'll see, you know, down the stretch,

1345
01:00:47,880 --> 01:00:51,720
Speaker 9: we'll see exactly what they look like and are they

1346
01:00:51,840 --> 01:00:56,760
Speaker 9: able to maintain the pace with where they are health wise?

1347
01:00:56,840 --> 01:00:59,920
Speaker 9: They they're probably the most talented team in the division,

1348
01:01:00,760 --> 01:01:03,920
Speaker 9: but you know, as we know, that doesn't always win it.

1349
01:01:04,760 --> 01:01:07,400
Speaker 3: Who's the best team in the AFC? Not record wise,

1350
01:01:07,480 --> 01:01:10,400
Speaker 3: but who would be your pick? If it's not the Titans, Mike,

1351
01:01:11,280 --> 01:01:12,480
Speaker 3: you know, I think.

1352
01:01:12,280 --> 01:01:17,600
Speaker 9: It's probably going to end up being Baltimore. The team

1353
01:01:17,640 --> 01:01:20,880
Speaker 9: that I think is really interesting is Cleveland though you know,

1354
01:01:21,000 --> 01:01:24,280
Speaker 9: if they and I don't know if Flack Oak can

1355
01:01:24,320 --> 01:01:27,200
Speaker 9: hold up or you know, who's going to play quarterback

1356
01:01:27,280 --> 01:01:30,360
Speaker 9: for them, But their defense is so good, Mark, I mean,

1357
01:01:30,360 --> 01:01:33,919
Speaker 9: they are so good. You know, they're one of those

1358
01:01:33,960 --> 01:01:37,280
Speaker 9: teams in that one off situation in the playoffs, you

1359
01:01:37,400 --> 01:01:41,040
Speaker 9: do not want to play. Ironically, they're almost like the

1360
01:01:41,160 --> 01:01:45,480
Speaker 9: Ravens were back, you know, fifteen twenty years ago. You

1361
01:01:45,720 --> 01:01:49,320
Speaker 9: just you just don't want to play them because, I mean,

1362
01:01:49,360 --> 01:01:51,360
Speaker 9: you could get a day where they can hold you

1363
01:01:51,400 --> 01:01:55,880
Speaker 9: to one hundred yards. They're that good. So I don't know.

1364
01:01:55,920 --> 01:01:58,320
Speaker 9: I mean, I think it's more wide open than it

1365
01:01:58,360 --> 01:02:00,880
Speaker 9: has been. I think on the other side, San Francisco's

1366
01:02:00,960 --> 01:02:03,600
Speaker 9: the best team. I think that's going to become clear.

1367
01:02:04,040 --> 01:02:07,840
Speaker 9: Dallas may be taking a step. But in our conference,

1368
01:02:08,040 --> 01:02:10,800
Speaker 9: I think it's more wide open. If you ask me

1369
01:02:11,400 --> 01:02:15,080
Speaker 9: today to give you an answer, my best answer is Baltimore.

1370
01:02:15,600 --> 01:02:17,720
Speaker 3: Okay, I've got one more for you. Here.

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Speaker 2: As the Texans and Titans meet on Sunday, I was

1372
01:02:21,680 --> 01:02:25,040
Speaker 2: thinking about all the moments in this rivalry. I was

1373
01:02:25,080 --> 01:02:28,200
Speaker 2: thinking of the eight game here mostly Texans wins, Mike,

1374
01:02:28,440 --> 01:02:31,800
Speaker 2: because it's my perspective, thirteen twelve victory against the thirteen

1375
01:02:31,800 --> 01:02:34,480
Speaker 2: and three Titans team team that would go thirteen to three,

1376
01:02:34,640 --> 01:02:37,560
Speaker 2: That oh nine game Week two that was wild with

1377
01:02:37,640 --> 01:02:40,280
Speaker 2: the bench brawl and everything like that. I think of

1378
01:02:40,320 --> 01:02:42,840
Speaker 2: all it at Cortland Finnegan, and then I zoom it

1379
01:02:42,880 --> 01:02:46,560
Speaker 2: into today because Dimiko Ryan's played in this rivalry and

1380
01:02:46,640 --> 01:02:50,000
Speaker 2: now it really feels like it's on again and the

1381
01:02:50,000 --> 01:02:54,959
Speaker 2: Oilers uniforms will be worn on Sunday. What about that vibe?

1382
01:02:54,960 --> 01:02:57,240
Speaker 2: Because you've been through it once already this year. Do

1383
01:02:57,320 --> 01:03:00,760
Speaker 2: the Nashville fans embrace that. It's kind of a weird

1384
01:03:00,840 --> 01:03:03,000
Speaker 2: dynamic to me, the way the whole thing is, but

1385
01:03:03,160 --> 01:03:04,760
Speaker 2: it is what it is, and we're going to enjoy

1386
01:03:04,840 --> 01:03:06,840
Speaker 2: it and see how it plays out.

1387
01:03:07,000 --> 01:03:10,640
Speaker 9: They just more than anything else, they love the look,

1388
01:03:11,560 --> 01:03:17,160
Speaker 9: you know, because everybody loves retro in everything now. And

1389
01:03:16,840 --> 01:03:19,480
Speaker 9: when they came out and they had a chance to

1390
01:03:19,520 --> 01:03:24,440
Speaker 9: see them, people just went wild over the look. Ironically,

1391
01:03:24,680 --> 01:03:28,040
Speaker 9: in the two years that we played in Tennessee as

1392
01:03:28,080 --> 01:03:32,400
Speaker 9: the Oilers, we never wore the blue jerseys at home.

1393
01:03:33,440 --> 01:03:37,160
Speaker 9: We only wore them. This is very strange. We wore

1394
01:03:37,240 --> 01:03:41,280
Speaker 9: them in a game Miami in September when they wore

1395
01:03:41,360 --> 01:03:45,800
Speaker 9: their whites, and then we wore them on Thanksgiving ninety

1396
01:03:45,840 --> 01:03:50,120
Speaker 9: seven at Dallas because Dallas wears white at home, and

1397
01:03:50,440 --> 01:03:54,600
Speaker 9: they chose the organization chose to wear the white jerseys

1398
01:03:54,760 --> 01:03:58,480
Speaker 9: in ninety seven and ninety eight, because from a mental standpoint,

1399
01:03:58,520 --> 01:04:01,520
Speaker 9: they wanted the team to always think, hey, we're the

1400
01:04:01,600 --> 01:04:04,280
Speaker 9: road team. You know, we're at We're not in our home.

1401
01:04:04,360 --> 01:04:06,720
Speaker 9: We're having to play away. We're going to be strong,

1402
01:04:06,800 --> 01:04:09,360
Speaker 9: and we're not going to make any excuses whatever. So

1403
01:04:09,440 --> 01:04:13,320
Speaker 9: when people walked into Nissan Stadium on October twenty ninth

1404
01:04:13,400 --> 01:04:18,000
Speaker 9: and saw the jerseys, they went crazy and they really

1405
01:04:18,040 --> 01:04:21,800
Speaker 9: do look fantastic, and so the kids are buying them

1406
01:04:21,920 --> 01:04:25,640
Speaker 9: like crazy. I mean, the team store can't keep them

1407
01:04:25,680 --> 01:04:28,280
Speaker 9: all of that, and I think that's been more of

1408
01:04:28,320 --> 01:04:31,920
Speaker 9: the overall vibe than anything else. You know, it's not

1409
01:04:32,080 --> 01:04:35,400
Speaker 9: about I mean to our ownership group and to the

1410
01:04:35,440 --> 01:04:38,400
Speaker 9: people who I was an oiler, so I know, and

1411
01:04:38,720 --> 01:04:42,600
Speaker 9: it means something to me. But from the fan perspective,

1412
01:04:42,760 --> 01:04:45,280
Speaker 9: it's just, man, this is cool that we're getting to

1413
01:04:45,360 --> 01:04:48,440
Speaker 9: live in the retro, and the retro is so cool.

1414
01:04:48,600 --> 01:04:52,000
Speaker 9: So we'll see, you know, it's been It was fun

1415
01:04:52,160 --> 01:04:56,200
Speaker 9: that day and we'll see exactly how the stadium looks

1416
01:04:56,920 --> 01:05:00,480
Speaker 9: come Sunday. Will they do the oil Derek in the

1417
01:05:00,480 --> 01:05:02,440
Speaker 9: middle of the field like they did for the earlier

1418
01:05:02,520 --> 01:05:04,400
Speaker 9: game and things like that. I don't know, you know,

1419
01:05:04,640 --> 01:05:08,520
Speaker 9: I don't know was that was homecoming weekend, and so

1420
01:05:08,720 --> 01:05:11,560
Speaker 9: with all the Oilers back in town, they decked out

1421
01:05:11,720 --> 01:05:13,240
Speaker 9: Nissan Stadium in o Whilers.

1422
01:05:13,880 --> 01:05:18,640
Speaker 2: Mike Finally, former Oiler and Tennessee Titan, Frank Wichek, passed

1423
01:05:18,680 --> 01:05:20,160
Speaker 2: away last weekend.

1424
01:05:20,200 --> 01:05:21,840
Speaker 3: I know you worked with him in the booth, you

1425
01:05:21,920 --> 01:05:22,600
Speaker 3: knew him well.

1426
01:05:23,120 --> 01:05:25,640
Speaker 2: My condolences to you, and I know that he had

1427
01:05:25,680 --> 01:05:28,480
Speaker 2: a great career on and off the field for the organization.

1428
01:05:29,200 --> 01:05:32,120
Speaker 9: Yeah, thanks for saying that, Marks, It's been a rough week.

1429
01:05:34,000 --> 01:05:38,520
Speaker 9: Frank is probably the most popular player in this part

1430
01:05:38,560 --> 01:05:43,000
Speaker 9: of our history because when the team moved to Tennessee,

1431
01:05:43,280 --> 01:05:45,600
Speaker 9: he was the guy who got out in the community

1432
01:05:45,640 --> 01:05:49,040
Speaker 9: the most early on, and he was doing all of

1433
01:05:49,080 --> 01:05:51,640
Speaker 9: those community events at a time that he was one

1434
01:05:51,640 --> 01:05:54,360
Speaker 9: of the best tight ends in the NFL, and so

1435
01:05:54,520 --> 01:05:59,000
Speaker 9: he combined that sort of big personality with a guy

1436
01:05:59,080 --> 01:06:02,280
Speaker 9: who was catching sixty passes for six hundred yards and

1437
01:06:02,320 --> 01:06:06,760
Speaker 9: go into Pro Bowls. And then after his playing career ended,

1438
01:06:07,200 --> 01:06:10,480
Speaker 9: he immediately went into the talk show business and he

1439
01:06:10,600 --> 01:06:13,600
Speaker 9: was very good at that. His talk show was hilarious

1440
01:06:14,400 --> 01:06:19,120
Speaker 9: and was the topic of everybody every day. And then

1441
01:06:19,400 --> 01:06:21,720
Speaker 9: you know, he was on Titan's radio for twelve years

1442
01:06:21,760 --> 01:06:25,760
Speaker 9: as well as our as our analysts, and so Titans

1443
01:06:25,800 --> 01:06:30,480
Speaker 9: fans had him for twenty seasons as a player and

1444
01:06:30,520 --> 01:06:34,680
Speaker 9: as a broadcaster, and that bond with him is such

1445
01:06:34,840 --> 01:06:37,400
Speaker 9: that we've we've never had, even with Steve McNair and

1446
01:06:37,480 --> 01:06:40,520
Speaker 9: Eddie George and some of our other grades, there was

1447
01:06:40,560 --> 01:06:44,880
Speaker 9: nobody as close to the heart of the of the

1448
01:06:44,960 --> 01:06:49,920
Speaker 9: player or of the fan base as Frank Whycheck. And

1449
01:06:50,440 --> 01:06:52,600
Speaker 9: I don't know if this is an app comparison, but

1450
01:06:52,680 --> 01:06:57,200
Speaker 9: it feels like how the Texans fans feel about JJ Watt.

1451
01:06:58,240 --> 01:07:03,520
Speaker 9: And that's that closeness, that love, you know, just more

1452
01:07:03,560 --> 01:07:07,560
Speaker 9: than anything else, not only loving the player, but loving

1453
01:07:07,600 --> 01:07:11,960
Speaker 9: the person and loving the personality. And you will still

1454
01:07:12,000 --> 01:07:15,360
Speaker 9: see eighty nine jerseys at games, You'll still see him

1455
01:07:15,360 --> 01:07:18,640
Speaker 9: everywhere you go because he meant so much to people.

1456
01:07:18,720 --> 01:07:25,439
Speaker 9: So for the Titans family to lose him, it, I mean,

1457
01:07:25,480 --> 01:07:30,280
Speaker 9: it is just crushing. And this week has been in

1458
01:07:30,360 --> 01:07:34,240
Speaker 9: many ways just awful. I mean, you hear the great

1459
01:07:34,280 --> 01:07:37,920
Speaker 9: stories about him and there it's fun, but just the

1460
01:07:38,000 --> 01:07:42,040
Speaker 9: shock that he's not with us anymore. I really don't

1461
01:07:42,080 --> 01:07:44,400
Speaker 9: know how to describe it other than there's a hole

1462
01:07:44,400 --> 01:07:45,040
Speaker 9: in our hearts.

1463
01:07:45,480 --> 01:07:49,400
Speaker 2: Very well, said Mike, and once again our sympathies and condolences,

1464
01:07:49,480 --> 01:07:51,960
Speaker 2: and we'll see what happens Sunday. I'm sure they're going

1465
01:07:52,000 --> 01:07:55,200
Speaker 2: to honor Frank and we look forward to that and

1466
01:07:55,280 --> 01:07:57,600
Speaker 2: seeing you in the booth on Sunday, my friend, as

1467
01:07:57,640 --> 01:07:59,840
Speaker 2: the Texans and Titans get together. Thanks so much for

1468
01:07:59,880 --> 01:08:01,680
Speaker 2: the time, Mike, appreciate the visit.

1469
01:08:01,840 --> 01:08:03,440
Speaker 9: My pleasure, Mark, thanks for having me.

1470
01:08:04,160 --> 01:08:08,040
Speaker 1: Frank Whitcheck alrip, what a great dude. And obviously when

1471
01:08:08,040 --> 01:08:11,240
Speaker 1: it comes to football, in football memories, everybody remembers the

1472
01:08:11,320 --> 01:08:14,840
Speaker 1: Music City miracle, which Mike called in his famous call

1473
01:08:15,600 --> 01:08:18,320
Speaker 1: that there are no flags on the field and Tennessee

1474
01:08:18,360 --> 01:08:21,240
Speaker 1: was gonna win that game. Frank Whitcheck makes that lateral

1475
01:08:21,320 --> 01:08:24,200
Speaker 1: pass across to Kevin Dyson, and I mean, I can

1476
01:08:24,280 --> 01:08:26,720
Speaker 1: still see it in my memories. Frank fifty two years old,

1477
01:08:26,720 --> 01:08:29,000
Speaker 1: and that obviously hits close to home because I am

1478
01:08:29,080 --> 01:08:31,599
Speaker 1: one year I'm actually a few months away from being

1479
01:08:31,600 --> 01:08:34,639
Speaker 1: fifty two. So thoughts and prayers to the White Czech

1480
01:08:34,720 --> 01:08:38,800
Speaker 1: family and just a sad situation. And they'll honor him

1481
01:08:38,880 --> 01:08:43,320
Speaker 1: on Sunday with us in the building. That's that's my guess.

1482
01:08:43,520 --> 01:08:45,920
Speaker 1: I imagine they would. He was just a beloved figure

1483
01:08:45,960 --> 01:08:50,200
Speaker 1: there in Nashville. Frank Whitecheck passing at the age of

1484
01:08:50,400 --> 01:08:53,360
Speaker 1: fifty two. All right, we get back. We're gonna go

1485
01:08:53,800 --> 01:08:57,120
Speaker 1: in the Lab right here with Drew Doherty and myself

1486
01:08:57,280 --> 01:09:00,800
Speaker 1: on Texans All Access day right where you are, Yes, sir,

1487
01:09:00,880 --> 01:09:04,200
Speaker 1: It's on Texans All Access from Moday, Texans Radio Studio.

1488
01:09:04,280 --> 01:09:07,080
Speaker 1: I'm your host, John Harris, Football on the Sideline Reporter

1489
01:09:07,640 --> 01:09:11,320
Speaker 1: and one half of the In the Lab podcast crew.

1490
01:09:12,160 --> 01:09:14,639
Speaker 1: The other half of that, the better half is Drew Doherty,

1491
01:09:15,160 --> 01:09:18,920
Speaker 1: Texas TV host all around great dude. And we started

1492
01:09:19,040 --> 01:09:21,280
Speaker 1: in the Lab a long time ago, and our mission

1493
01:09:21,439 --> 01:09:22,960
Speaker 1: on in the Lab, and why it's called in the

1494
01:09:23,000 --> 01:09:24,880
Speaker 1: Lab is that we get a little wacky. We'd like

1495
01:09:24,920 --> 01:09:27,280
Speaker 1: to throw some combinations together, you know, like you would

1496
01:09:27,479 --> 01:09:29,599
Speaker 1: in a science lab. You know, Hey, let's throw this together,

1497
01:09:29,680 --> 01:09:32,320
Speaker 1: let's put this with this, Let's see what happens. What

1498
01:09:32,400 --> 01:09:35,080
Speaker 1: if we just got really nerdy and geeky like you

1499
01:09:35,200 --> 01:09:38,400
Speaker 1: do in the lab. And trust me, I'm an engineering major.

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Speaker 1: I've seen geeks. I am one. I know it. I'm

1501
01:09:41,880 --> 01:09:45,360
Speaker 1: fine with it. I'm okay with it. So this one

1502
01:09:45,840 --> 01:09:47,720
Speaker 1: kind of went in that direction. We kind of threw

1503
01:09:47,760 --> 01:09:49,479
Speaker 1: some stuff on the wall, and then all of a sudden,

1504
01:09:49,479 --> 01:09:52,080
Speaker 1: this thing took a left turn and then it circled back,

1505
01:09:52,280 --> 01:09:55,000
Speaker 1: and then you turned and we got it all in.

1506
01:09:55,280 --> 01:09:57,640
Speaker 1: This is it great? In the lab? It starts with

1507
01:09:57,800 --> 01:09:59,400
Speaker 1: Drew asking this.

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01:10:00,200 --> 01:10:03,120
Speaker 7: To talk you and me, John Harris, and normally the

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01:10:03,160 --> 01:10:06,479
Speaker 7: table of contents goes like this. We do a what

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01:10:06,560 --> 01:10:08,760
Speaker 7: if I told you?

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01:10:07,840 --> 01:10:08,680
Speaker 1: What I told you?

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Speaker 7: We do a cream of the Crop award winner the crop,

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01:10:14,600 --> 01:10:16,640
Speaker 7: and then we get going, I'm not doing it what

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01:10:16,640 --> 01:10:18,240
Speaker 7: if I told you because I don't want to remember

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01:10:18,240 --> 01:10:20,040
Speaker 7: what just happened Sunday. I was there, I saw it.

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01:10:20,040 --> 01:10:21,280
Speaker 7: I don't need to see it again. I don't you're

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01:10:21,320 --> 01:10:23,840
Speaker 7: talking about again. That was ugly. You g l y

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01:10:24,120 --> 01:10:27,479
Speaker 7: and got no alibi whatever you want to say. That's stunk,

1519
01:10:27,800 --> 01:10:31,599
Speaker 7: and you lose some players that game. So John Harris,

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01:10:31,960 --> 01:10:36,280
Speaker 7: we're going to do a vintage in the Lab right now,

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01:10:37,120 --> 01:10:38,840
Speaker 7: and I'm hitting you with this. There is no what

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01:10:38,880 --> 01:10:41,280
Speaker 7: if I told you this week. Instead, we will do

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01:10:41,280 --> 01:10:43,679
Speaker 7: a cream of the Crop award winner for next week's game.

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01:10:44,439 --> 01:10:47,280
Speaker 7: But we're going to start out with this. Texans have

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01:10:47,400 --> 01:10:50,000
Speaker 7: some injuries that they're gonna have to deal with maybe

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01:10:50,080 --> 01:10:54,400
Speaker 7: a lot, maybe not, but probably a fair amount. To

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01:10:54,400 --> 01:11:00,519
Speaker 7: be conservative, you can take two players from their prime

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01:11:01,840 --> 01:11:04,800
Speaker 7: any position in NFL history. They can both be on defense,

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01:11:04,840 --> 01:11:06,679
Speaker 7: they can both be on offense. You can do one defense,

1530
01:11:06,760 --> 01:11:09,599
Speaker 7: one offense. So whatever you want. You can add any

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01:11:09,640 --> 01:11:12,880
Speaker 7: two players in their prime to this team this week.

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Speaker 1: Who you're adding, John, I am going to add one

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01:11:17,880 --> 01:11:21,760
Speaker 1: player that actually played for the Tennessee Titans, okay. I'm

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01:11:21,760 --> 01:11:24,280
Speaker 1: going to add another player that actually played with this

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01:11:24,360 --> 01:11:29,200
Speaker 1: particular player okay. And I'm going to add two players

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01:11:30,400 --> 01:11:36,320
Speaker 1: that became famous and successful when a particular person in

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01:11:36,360 --> 01:11:43,400
Speaker 1: the building was working for a particular organization. So I,

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01:11:43,479 --> 01:11:47,600
Speaker 1: not knowing CJ's hrout status, not knowing Nico Collins status,

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01:11:47,960 --> 01:11:53,080
Speaker 1: am going to add Tom Brady, and I'm going to

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Speaker 1: add in his prime Randy Moss. So give me two

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01:11:57,160 --> 01:12:02,800
Speaker 1: thousand and seven Tom Brady and Randy Moss for this

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01:12:02,840 --> 01:12:08,240
Speaker 1: weekend against the I've almost said Tennessee Oilers hate me

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01:12:08,320 --> 01:12:11,280
Speaker 1: for that. No, Tennessee Titans. I'll never hear me say

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01:12:11,280 --> 01:12:13,719
Speaker 1: Tennessee Oilers. They can man.

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01:12:13,600 --> 01:12:15,280
Speaker 7: That's who they are this weekend, John, You're playing the

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01:12:15,280 --> 01:12:16,480
Speaker 7: Tennessee Oilers.

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01:12:16,240 --> 01:12:19,400
Speaker 1: I thought about let me hold on. I gotta ask

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01:12:19,439 --> 01:12:21,200
Speaker 1: you this. I gotta ask you this, because this is

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01:12:21,240 --> 01:12:27,040
Speaker 1: gonna happen when you and I to Houstonians walk in

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01:12:27,080 --> 01:12:30,400
Speaker 1: that stadium and you look at the field and there's

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01:12:30,439 --> 01:12:34,320
Speaker 1: an oil Derek painted at midfield and there's oilers in

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01:12:34,400 --> 01:12:37,679
Speaker 1: the end zone. Have you thought about what you're going

1553
01:12:37,720 --> 01:12:38,960
Speaker 1: to feel when you see that.

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Speaker 7: I've built up enough of a tallous that it just

1555
01:12:43,680 --> 01:12:46,479
Speaker 7: doesn't affect me anymore. I love the oilers. No woman

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01:12:46,520 --> 01:12:48,880
Speaker 7: will ever break my heart like the Oilers broke my

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01:12:48,960 --> 01:12:51,679
Speaker 7: heart in the early nineties. I was born during Lovely Blue.

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01:12:51,760 --> 01:12:54,080
Speaker 7: I don't remember it. I don't remember I don't you

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01:12:54,120 --> 01:12:55,439
Speaker 7: know that was all going on while I was a

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01:12:55,439 --> 01:12:58,479
Speaker 7: little kid and a baby. My first memories of the

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01:12:58,520 --> 01:13:01,160
Speaker 7: Oilers were not good ones, because they were really bad

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01:13:01,240 --> 01:13:03,599
Speaker 7: in between Love You Blue and the Run and Shoot Days,

1563
01:13:04,360 --> 01:13:07,639
Speaker 7: so bad that you know you sign Warren Moon. All

1564
01:13:07,720 --> 01:13:10,600
Speaker 7: those first round picks kind of come to fruition and

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01:13:11,000 --> 01:13:15,160
Speaker 7: develop around him. During some awful seasons, games blacked out

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01:13:15,320 --> 01:13:20,080
Speaker 7: locally on a pretty routine basis, and so I got

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Speaker 7: into the Oilers when they were really good eighty seven

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01:13:23,240 --> 01:13:28,799
Speaker 7: through ninety three, but then in ninety four they showed

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01:13:28,880 --> 01:13:31,519
Speaker 7: and that organization showed they were not serious about winning.

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01:13:31,680 --> 01:13:33,519
Speaker 7: You know, they got rid of Warren Moon. You're not

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01:13:33,520 --> 01:13:36,479
Speaker 7: serious about winning if you go from Moon to God

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01:13:36,479 --> 01:13:39,240
Speaker 7: bless him. I love Cody Carlson, but he's not a

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01:13:39,280 --> 01:13:42,519
Speaker 7: Hall of Fame quarterback. And everything fell apart, and I

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01:13:42,840 --> 01:13:45,559
Speaker 7: think I kind of checked out on him after they left.

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01:13:45,800 --> 01:13:48,519
Speaker 7: Let Warren Moon go. I don't remember. I think so

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01:13:48,520 --> 01:13:49,920
Speaker 7: they were two and fourteen and I think they went

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01:13:49,960 --> 01:13:52,320
Speaker 7: eight and eight the rest rest of the time there here.

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Speaker 7: But I was checked out, and I think a lot

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01:13:55,200 --> 01:13:56,240
Speaker 7: of other people were too.

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Speaker 1: Sure.

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01:13:56,720 --> 01:13:59,840
Speaker 7: There's this revisionist history, like people didn't wear jerseys and

1582
01:14:00,360 --> 01:14:05,000
Speaker 7: as much oilers gear around town in at least in

1583
01:14:04,760 --> 01:14:07,160
Speaker 7: the eighties and the nineties, that was not a big

1584
01:14:07,200 --> 01:14:10,439
Speaker 7: thing like you see now with no matter where you live,

1585
01:14:11,200 --> 01:14:12,920
Speaker 7: NFLT that that was not a huge deal.

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01:14:13,240 --> 01:14:15,160
Speaker 1: That was not also a Houston thing, you know, that

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01:14:15,360 --> 01:14:18,720
Speaker 1: was that was pretty much generational. We were starting to

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01:14:18,840 --> 01:14:24,840
Speaker 1: see the explosion of you know, T shirts, gear things

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01:14:24,840 --> 01:14:28,439
Speaker 1: of that. Jerseys You didn't wear jerseys, you you couldn't

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01:14:28,479 --> 01:14:31,000
Speaker 1: get you couldn't get a jersey to wear. Now you

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01:14:31,000 --> 01:14:33,519
Speaker 1: see jerseys at games. I'd like to know the numbers

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01:14:33,560 --> 01:14:35,760
Speaker 1: of people that would end up wearing the jerseys at

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01:14:35,760 --> 01:14:37,599
Speaker 1: a particular game. So if we have seventy one thousand

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01:14:37,600 --> 01:14:39,400
Speaker 1: in the building for a game, how many of them

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01:14:39,400 --> 01:14:40,120
Speaker 1: are wearing.

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Speaker 7: A jersey of a particular player, Say what, thirty thousand?

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01:14:44,040 --> 01:14:46,559
Speaker 1: Probably, I would probably say it's a decent number. It's

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01:14:46,600 --> 01:14:48,439
Speaker 1: a it's a really decent number. Now there are some

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01:14:48,479 --> 01:14:51,320
Speaker 1: people that wear like the other day we were we

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01:14:51,320 --> 01:14:55,080
Speaker 1: were going into the stadium and as I was walking

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01:14:55,120 --> 01:14:57,400
Speaker 1: into the stadium, I saw a guy in a Josh

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01:14:57,479 --> 01:15:01,160
Speaker 1: Dobbs number fifteen minutes at a Viking's jury. So we

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01:15:01,240 --> 01:15:03,519
Speaker 1: started this with Chris Jones, our former engineer on the

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01:15:03,600 --> 01:15:07,439
Speaker 1: radio broadcast. And Jones was great and we had to

1605
01:15:07,520 --> 01:15:10,639
Speaker 1: leave game. He still is. It's fantastic. Jones's doing great.

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01:15:11,520 --> 01:15:14,400
Speaker 1: And Jones and I would try and pick out It

1607
01:15:14,520 --> 01:15:16,120
Speaker 1: was a kind of challenge between us to pick out

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01:15:16,120 --> 01:15:19,960
Speaker 1: the most obscure and stupid jersey at a particular game,

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01:15:20,479 --> 01:15:25,080
Speaker 1: whether it was for that particular team or most of

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01:15:25,120 --> 01:15:27,040
Speaker 1: the time it was for a team that wasn't there.

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01:15:27,720 --> 01:15:29,200
Speaker 1: Like you'd see there was one time there was a

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01:15:29,240 --> 01:15:31,479
Speaker 1: guy in a Roberto clemeny Jersey, and as much as

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01:15:31,520 --> 01:15:34,760
Speaker 1: I love Roberto Clemene, like you had a football game

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01:15:34,800 --> 01:15:37,200
Speaker 1: and you were Roberto Clemene twenty one Jersey, Like, what

1615
01:15:37,280 --> 01:15:39,800
Speaker 1: are you doing? So we always used to do that.

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01:15:39,960 --> 01:15:42,400
Speaker 7: So it was tough for Sunday that a lot of

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01:15:42,439 --> 01:15:43,719
Speaker 7: people were in raincoats and stuff.

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01:15:43,760 --> 01:15:45,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it was hard to tell. It was definitely

1619
01:15:45,840 --> 01:15:48,240
Speaker 1: hard to sell because everybody was covered up by the

1620
01:15:48,680 --> 01:15:49,240
Speaker 1: by the rain.

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01:15:49,320 --> 01:15:49,479
Speaker 6: It was.

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01:15:49,640 --> 01:15:51,800
Speaker 1: It was a bit much. It was a bit much

1623
01:15:51,880 --> 01:15:55,120
Speaker 1: of rain that I didn't enjoy and nobody did. And

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01:15:55,360 --> 01:15:58,559
Speaker 1: maybe that was a part of it. Drew on Sunday said,

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01:15:58,560 --> 01:16:00,000
Speaker 1: we wouldn't talk about it, don't really want to talk

1626
01:16:00,000 --> 01:16:02,880
Speaker 1: talk about it. But yeah, give me, going back to

1627
01:16:02,960 --> 01:16:07,600
Speaker 1: the question, give me Tom Brady and Randy Moss. I

1628
01:16:07,640 --> 01:16:12,680
Speaker 1: wouldn't mind Randy Moss with our receiver group. Yeah, throw

1629
01:16:12,760 --> 01:16:14,760
Speaker 1: him in that mix. Man, You've got the mix of

1630
01:16:14,840 --> 01:16:17,120
Speaker 1: Nico Collins and Tank Dell all on one individual.

1631
01:16:17,439 --> 01:16:19,479
Speaker 7: You can never go wrong putting Randy Moss in any

1632
01:16:19,479 --> 01:16:22,599
Speaker 7: wide receiver group, no matter how depleted or full strength

1633
01:16:22,640 --> 01:16:24,080
Speaker 7: it is. I mean, it's gonna be fine. I actually

1634
01:16:24,120 --> 01:16:26,600
Speaker 7: had Randy Moss as one of my choices. Yep, and

1635
01:16:27,960 --> 01:16:29,960
Speaker 7: I went with the challenge of just rolling with either

1636
01:16:30,600 --> 01:16:34,479
Speaker 7: Mills or Keenum as quarterback. And we don't know, we haven't.

1637
01:16:34,720 --> 01:16:37,519
Speaker 7: Everybody's asking about when Stroud coming back, and I doubt

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01:16:37,560 --> 01:16:39,559
Speaker 7: he comes back Sunday. I would not expect to see

1639
01:16:39,640 --> 01:16:42,479
Speaker 7: him Sunday. And then the next question was one's Nico

1640
01:16:42,720 --> 01:16:45,599
Speaker 7: Collins coming back? And that's a legitimate question. Nothing has

1641
01:16:45,680 --> 01:16:49,719
Speaker 7: been said really in a major manner about Will Anderson.

1642
01:16:50,040 --> 01:16:52,920
Speaker 7: How healthy is he? Is he coming back, whether he

1643
01:16:53,000 --> 01:16:55,840
Speaker 7: comes back or not, Let's give some more fangs to

1644
01:16:55,920 --> 01:17:00,599
Speaker 7: the pass rush. How about Reggie White? Did I interested

1645
01:17:00,600 --> 01:17:01,280
Speaker 7: you Reggie White?

1646
01:17:01,320 --> 01:17:02,639
Speaker 1: You could interested me in a Reggie White?

1647
01:17:02,760 --> 01:17:05,000
Speaker 7: The guy you can't go wrong ever putting him in

1648
01:17:05,080 --> 01:17:07,439
Speaker 7: any defensive front seven.

1649
01:17:07,760 --> 01:17:11,000
Speaker 1: JJ Watt has said on record, and in fact, I'm

1650
01:17:11,040 --> 01:17:13,320
Speaker 1: glad you said that because there's a thirty for thirty

1651
01:17:13,360 --> 01:17:15,680
Speaker 1: called the Minister of Defense. Yeah, we were discussing that

1652
01:17:15,840 --> 01:17:20,800
Speaker 1: on Wednesday night. That's gonna be awesome and JJ, I

1653
01:17:20,880 --> 01:17:23,559
Speaker 1: think JJ does an interview for that for that. Uh

1654
01:17:23,760 --> 01:17:26,559
Speaker 1: here hero, Yeah, I mean he grew up in Wisconsin, Milwaukee,

1655
01:17:26,560 --> 01:17:29,600
Speaker 1: Wisconsin at the time, where Reggie was. I mean, this

1656
01:17:29,720 --> 01:17:31,600
Speaker 1: is blasphemous, and I know Reggie would get mad at me.

1657
01:17:31,760 --> 01:17:31,920
Speaker 10: He was.

1658
01:17:32,040 --> 01:17:34,639
Speaker 1: He was a use of football god to those people.

1659
01:17:34,880 --> 01:17:36,760
Speaker 1: You know, he came to Green Bay at a time,

1660
01:17:37,080 --> 01:17:39,640
Speaker 1: you know, free agency had just kicked off, really and

1661
01:17:39,840 --> 01:17:43,200
Speaker 1: so who's who's choosing to go to Green Bay? Well

1662
01:17:43,280 --> 01:17:46,040
Speaker 1: Reggie White did. And because Reggie White did, all of

1663
01:17:46,040 --> 01:17:47,720
Speaker 1: a sudden, that team started turning the corner, and then

1664
01:17:47,800 --> 01:17:49,680
Speaker 1: more players wanted to go play in Green Bay. And

1665
01:17:49,760 --> 01:17:52,200
Speaker 1: it's and I'll be honest, it's not always easy for

1666
01:17:52,880 --> 01:17:57,479
Speaker 1: Packers to be in Green Bay. It's it's the smallest city,

1667
01:17:58,560 --> 01:18:02,360
Speaker 1: it's not the most diverse area of the country, and

1668
01:18:02,439 --> 01:18:04,479
Speaker 1: so that always plays a role. But Reggie White chose

1669
01:18:04,560 --> 01:18:06,559
Speaker 1: to go there. He chose to go play for Mike

1670
01:18:06,560 --> 01:18:08,720
Speaker 1: Holmgren and alongside Brett Farvan. I've been a lot to

1671
01:18:08,800 --> 01:18:11,360
Speaker 1: Packers fans. And on top of it, he was just

1672
01:18:12,040 --> 01:18:14,479
Speaker 1: you know, a smile, brighten up the room. And JJ

1673
01:18:14,920 --> 01:18:19,080
Speaker 1: is on record he said he's the greatest defensive player

1674
01:18:19,120 --> 01:18:22,240
Speaker 1: there's ever been, bar none. And for JJ to say that,

1675
01:18:22,520 --> 01:18:26,280
Speaker 1: a player that people in Houston think is the greatest

1676
01:18:26,320 --> 01:18:29,160
Speaker 1: defensive player of all time, for him to say that, Okay,

1677
01:18:29,200 --> 01:18:31,840
Speaker 1: I'll roll with that because Reggie was nasty. Reggie was

1678
01:18:31,880 --> 01:18:34,040
Speaker 1: absolutely nasty. He had he had one of the greatest

1679
01:18:34,120 --> 01:18:38,000
Speaker 1: pass rush moves of all time. He had what was

1680
01:18:38,040 --> 01:18:41,160
Speaker 1: called a hump move, and so what he he was

1681
01:18:41,200 --> 01:18:43,080
Speaker 1: really the only guy that could do it because he

1682
01:18:43,280 --> 01:18:45,559
Speaker 1: was fast enough to beat you on the high side.

1683
01:18:45,560 --> 01:18:47,920
Speaker 1: If he's rushing defensive end, he was fast enough to

1684
01:18:47,960 --> 01:18:49,720
Speaker 1: beat you on the high side. So he would get

1685
01:18:49,920 --> 01:18:52,200
Speaker 1: he would beat a guy with some speed, then the

1686
01:18:52,240 --> 01:18:54,600
Speaker 1: guy would anticipate that, and at the last minute he

1687
01:18:54,680 --> 01:18:58,400
Speaker 1: would take his inside arm and literally club a guy

1688
01:18:58,439 --> 01:19:01,640
Speaker 1: out of the way, lost out of the way. So

1689
01:19:02,080 --> 01:19:06,400
Speaker 1: this two minute vignette that JJ is talking to during

1690
01:19:06,439 --> 01:19:11,360
Speaker 1: the interview, they're showing b roll of Reggie White using

1691
01:19:11,400 --> 01:19:15,160
Speaker 1: the hump move. On three hundred and fifteen plus. I mean,

1692
01:19:15,400 --> 01:19:17,200
Speaker 1: hun big was Larry Allen. Larry Allen was like.

1693
01:19:17,240 --> 01:19:20,320
Speaker 7: Three forty benched like EUNDs, and he did that.

1694
01:19:20,400 --> 01:19:22,559
Speaker 1: To Larry Allen, who many think is the greatest guard.

1695
01:19:22,600 --> 01:19:24,320
Speaker 1: I think he's the greatest guard's ever played. I mean,

1696
01:19:24,320 --> 01:19:26,840
Speaker 1: he was incredible, and he did that to Larry Allen

1697
01:19:27,240 --> 01:19:30,040
Speaker 1: and you're just watching them. Oh, okay, maybe JJ's right.

1698
01:19:30,160 --> 01:19:34,920
Speaker 1: So yeah, Randy Moss and Reggie White for for damn sure,

1699
01:19:34,960 --> 01:19:37,679
Speaker 1: I think we're we're definitely sure on Randy Moss. Yeah,

1700
01:19:38,600 --> 01:19:40,360
Speaker 1: without a dime, we could have. You know, look, there's

1701
01:19:40,360 --> 01:19:41,920
Speaker 1: a there's a there's a ton we could have gone

1702
01:19:42,000 --> 01:19:43,679
Speaker 1: with at that point.

1703
01:19:43,800 --> 01:19:47,240
Speaker 7: Matthews would be a nice one, just as a screw

1704
01:19:47,360 --> 01:19:52,040
Speaker 7: you to Tennessee. Oh good, Yeah, Laro Campbell, it's ad

1705
01:19:52,040 --> 01:19:53,800
Speaker 7: one I just popped into my head. Earl Campbe would

1706
01:19:53,800 --> 01:19:54,320
Speaker 7: have been a good one.

1707
01:19:54,439 --> 01:19:56,000
Speaker 1: I think Bruce would have made some sense, you know,

1708
01:19:56,160 --> 01:19:59,439
Speaker 1: rolling with Devin and Damien, but having Bruce Matthews. Here's

1709
01:19:59,479 --> 01:20:02,280
Speaker 1: your question, where would you play Bruce Matthews? You wouldn't

1710
01:20:02,280 --> 01:20:03,160
Speaker 1: play my left tackle, I.

1711
01:20:03,160 --> 01:20:03,840
Speaker 7: Don't think no.

1712
01:20:04,160 --> 01:20:05,120
Speaker 1: But where would you play him?

1713
01:20:06,080 --> 01:20:07,680
Speaker 7: Any place? Any of the other four?

1714
01:20:07,760 --> 01:20:10,240
Speaker 1: You could be up for a I think I would

1715
01:20:10,280 --> 01:20:11,519
Speaker 1: take the experience at center.

1716
01:20:11,680 --> 01:20:12,880
Speaker 7: Yeah, he was good there.

1717
01:20:13,040 --> 01:20:15,400
Speaker 1: I think center would have been a great, great spot.

1718
01:20:15,439 --> 01:20:17,080
Speaker 1: I think he was great there as his career. It's

1719
01:20:17,120 --> 01:20:20,280
Speaker 1: just interesting how go He just kept moving inside tackle

1720
01:20:20,720 --> 01:20:22,760
Speaker 1: to guard to center, and he ended up I think

1721
01:20:22,960 --> 01:20:24,800
Speaker 1: he was all proed up three different positions, wasn't he

1722
01:20:24,840 --> 01:20:25,479
Speaker 1: any He got a.

1723
01:20:25,479 --> 01:20:28,280
Speaker 7: Pro bowler at all five? Yeah, all pro Yeah, like

1724
01:20:28,360 --> 01:20:30,880
Speaker 7: you said, that's amazing. Indulge me just a little bit

1725
01:20:30,920 --> 01:20:34,599
Speaker 7: more about Reggie White. Okay, So, final college season nineteen

1726
01:20:34,640 --> 01:20:37,960
Speaker 7: eighty three at Tennessee. Yep, he doesn't show up what

1727
01:20:38,680 --> 01:20:40,880
Speaker 7: he didn't play in nineteen eighty four. His first stats

1728
01:20:40,920 --> 01:20:43,800
Speaker 7: in the NFL nineteen eighty five, comes into the league,

1729
01:20:43,920 --> 01:20:48,200
Speaker 7: only starts twelve games in nineteen eighty five, gets thirteen sacks,

1730
01:20:48,560 --> 01:20:52,479
Speaker 7: has one hundred combined tackles. John but eighty four, I

1731
01:20:52,560 --> 01:20:54,240
Speaker 7: guess just he wasn't any good. He was out on

1732
01:20:54,280 --> 01:20:56,639
Speaker 7: the street. No, he was playing in the us USFL USFL.

1733
01:20:56,960 --> 01:20:59,639
Speaker 7: So imagine if he just show boats he was good

1734
01:20:59,720 --> 01:21:02,320
Speaker 7: enough to have better than a sack per game as

1735
01:21:02,640 --> 01:21:05,920
Speaker 7: in his rookies true rookie season in eighty five and

1736
01:21:06,040 --> 01:21:09,160
Speaker 7: eighty four. Let's just conservatively say he's not gonna do that,

1737
01:21:09,320 --> 01:21:11,519
Speaker 7: but he's still gonna be pretty good. Let's say he

1738
01:21:11,560 --> 01:21:16,000
Speaker 7: still gets another twelve thirteen sacks that year. So from

1739
01:21:16,080 --> 01:21:20,320
Speaker 7: eighty five his first season, he has thirteen sacks, Next

1740
01:21:20,400 --> 01:21:27,240
Speaker 7: year eighteen sacks, next year twenty one, Next year eighteen eleven, fourteen, fifteen, fourteen, thirteen.

1741
01:21:27,320 --> 01:21:30,320
Speaker 7: You gotta go to nineteen ninety four, his second year

1742
01:21:30,360 --> 01:21:33,000
Speaker 7: in Green Bay. Find the first season of his career

1743
01:21:33,520 --> 01:21:38,759
Speaker 7: that he doesn't have double digit sacks. Nine straight seasons

1744
01:21:38,800 --> 01:21:41,479
Speaker 7: to start his career with ten sacks or more on

1745
01:21:41,720 --> 01:21:45,120
Speaker 7: two thirty four, five, six, seven, How many after that straight?

1746
01:21:45,479 --> 01:21:48,080
Speaker 7: Then he had a twelve sax season in ninety five

1747
01:21:48,439 --> 01:21:50,840
Speaker 7: on eleven sacks season. In ninety seven and ninety eight

1748
01:21:50,880 --> 01:21:54,439
Speaker 7: he hit sixteen sacks. And then he retires in ninety nine,

1749
01:21:54,560 --> 01:21:57,960
Speaker 7: comes back, plays two thousand with the Panthers, gets five

1750
01:21:58,000 --> 01:22:00,599
Speaker 7: and a half there, finishes with one hundred ninety eight

1751
01:22:00,640 --> 01:22:03,799
Speaker 7: sacks John, and one more thing, one more thing. Nineteen

1752
01:22:03,840 --> 01:22:07,000
Speaker 7: eighty seven, Regi only played twelve games.

1753
01:22:07,040 --> 01:22:07,559
Speaker 1: What's the deal?

1754
01:22:07,720 --> 01:22:07,800
Speaker 3: Right?

1755
01:22:08,280 --> 01:22:11,120
Speaker 7: Exactly in the strike season, he only plays twelve games.

1756
01:22:11,160 --> 01:22:18,160
Speaker 7: He's still he still has twenty one sacks. John. The

1757
01:22:18,280 --> 01:22:20,720
Speaker 7: best best JJ Watt ever did when he was a

1758
01:22:20,800 --> 01:22:24,840
Speaker 7: freaking comet. JJ Watt in twelve and in fourteen he

1759
01:22:24,920 --> 01:22:27,880
Speaker 7: had twenty point five sacks. Of those seasons each each year.

1760
01:22:28,080 --> 01:22:30,880
Speaker 1: In nineteen eighty seven, the strike year he had, he

1761
01:22:30,960 --> 01:22:32,160
Speaker 1: had twelve games.

1762
01:22:31,840 --> 01:22:36,400
Speaker 7: Twelve games, twenty one sack sacks. Had a fumble recovery.

1763
01:22:36,200 --> 01:22:38,520
Speaker 1: For sanity, that's absolutely insanity.

1764
01:22:38,840 --> 01:22:39,600
Speaker 7: Four fumbles.

1765
01:22:39,760 --> 01:22:42,120
Speaker 1: Well, he stole one from Doug Williams. I remember that.

1766
01:22:42,920 --> 01:22:44,599
Speaker 1: I mean he literally stole the ball. And I can't

1767
01:22:44,600 --> 01:22:46,040
Speaker 1: remember if that was eighty seven or eighty eight, but

1768
01:22:46,120 --> 01:22:48,519
Speaker 1: he literally stole the ball from him. He went to

1769
01:22:48,560 --> 01:22:50,679
Speaker 1: sack him, and all of a sudden, big dudes running

1770
01:22:50,680 --> 01:22:53,719
Speaker 1: the other way, and it was Kelly Green jerseys, which

1771
01:22:55,080 --> 01:22:57,960
Speaker 1: they should have those full time. Yes, those are those

1772
01:22:57,960 --> 01:23:04,320
Speaker 1: are fantastic jerseys. But Reggie was and the fact that

1773
01:23:05,040 --> 01:23:07,479
Speaker 1: he could win as a three hundred pound four to

1774
01:23:07,560 --> 01:23:11,439
Speaker 1: three defensive end and then jump inside like like JJ

1775
01:23:11,600 --> 01:23:14,720
Speaker 1: would like JJ, JJ would do that. Now JJ did

1776
01:23:14,760 --> 01:23:19,200
Speaker 1: a little bit more of his with his quickness and

1777
01:23:21,439 --> 01:23:24,240
Speaker 1: his agility. As you always called him a jungle cat.

1778
01:23:24,960 --> 01:23:27,840
Speaker 1: Reggie had that power because that helped move. I mean

1779
01:23:27,840 --> 01:23:29,880
Speaker 1: he had some speed, don't get me wrong, but his

1780
01:23:30,200 --> 01:23:35,120
Speaker 1: was power and strength and leverage. He was so damn powerful.

1781
01:23:36,040 --> 01:23:38,479
Speaker 1: And it's just, you know, it's interesting, like thinking about

1782
01:23:38,479 --> 01:23:41,439
Speaker 1: players like that Reggie White as I'm growing up and

1783
01:23:41,479 --> 01:23:44,880
Speaker 1: you're watching him and you're like that dude's like he's

1784
01:23:45,000 --> 01:23:48,320
Speaker 1: crazy good. And then you're like, well, I ever, you

1785
01:23:48,400 --> 01:23:50,840
Speaker 1: don't think this at the time. I guess you're like

1786
01:23:50,920 --> 01:23:54,800
Speaker 1: I guess everybody just is like Reggie White, right, You're no, no,

1787
01:23:55,040 --> 01:23:57,960
Speaker 1: not everybody is like Reggie White. In fact, nobody is

1788
01:23:58,080 --> 01:24:00,920
Speaker 1: like Reggie White. And I think that's because you feel like,

1789
01:24:01,760 --> 01:24:04,200
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know. Maybe if I'm I'm a

1790
01:24:04,600 --> 01:24:07,160
Speaker 1: young adult, I mean college and I'm watching him do things,

1791
01:24:07,960 --> 01:24:10,040
Speaker 1: maybe I cherish it a little bit more like no, no, no,

1792
01:24:10,200 --> 01:24:14,120
Speaker 1: This dude's a freakazoid. He's doing things that nobody should

1793
01:24:14,160 --> 01:24:15,559
Speaker 1: be doing, and yet he's still doing them.

1794
01:24:16,080 --> 01:24:19,240
Speaker 7: Reggie White, Rest in peace, Gone too soon the age

1795
01:24:19,280 --> 01:24:21,679
Speaker 7: of forty three. Man, he died back in two thousand

1796
01:24:21,680 --> 01:24:24,840
Speaker 7: and four. Crazy stuff. But that's who we would add

1797
01:24:25,040 --> 01:24:27,880
Speaker 7: if we could, in our prime or in their prime,

1798
01:24:28,439 --> 01:24:33,120
Speaker 7: put somebody out there, two players or the Texans this Sunday. Okay,

1799
01:24:33,240 --> 01:24:36,759
Speaker 7: let's talk in the real world. Back to reality on Monday.

1800
01:24:36,800 --> 01:24:40,439
Speaker 7: After the Texans beat the Tennessee Oilers. Who are you

1801
01:24:40,520 --> 01:24:41,800
Speaker 7: going to say is you're a Cream of the Crop

1802
01:24:41,840 --> 01:24:43,439
Speaker 7: award winner for Houston, John.

1803
01:24:45,040 --> 01:24:49,599
Speaker 1: Melik Collins. I like that, Malik Collins. It's a tough,

1804
01:24:50,200 --> 01:24:56,160
Speaker 1: tough task against Derrick Henry and rushing Will Levis, and

1805
01:24:56,439 --> 01:24:59,000
Speaker 1: that puts a real tough onus. I think on the

1806
01:24:59,120 --> 01:25:03,040
Speaker 1: inside guys, and on Monday night, I felt like the

1807
01:25:03,120 --> 01:25:07,960
Speaker 1: Titans controlled Christian Wilkins and Siler. But I feel like

1808
01:25:08,120 --> 01:25:12,960
Speaker 1: Maleak is more explosive than Siler for sure, and I

1809
01:25:13,080 --> 01:25:17,439
Speaker 1: think that he's on par with Wilkins. But they've got

1810
01:25:17,520 --> 01:25:20,800
Speaker 1: to create pressure up in will Levis's face. Lewis did

1811
01:25:20,880 --> 01:25:23,320
Speaker 1: a really nice job of delivering the ball at the

1812
01:25:23,640 --> 01:25:29,200
Speaker 1: very last minute half second. It was crazy, like, man,

1813
01:25:29,520 --> 01:25:32,760
Speaker 1: he wow, he got rid of that ball. How did

1814
01:25:32,800 --> 01:25:35,639
Speaker 1: he do that? He had probably four or five big

1815
01:25:35,800 --> 01:25:38,439
Speaker 1: throws where it looked like a dolphin was about to

1816
01:25:38,560 --> 01:25:41,400
Speaker 1: sack him and or get a hit on him. And

1817
01:25:41,560 --> 01:25:44,599
Speaker 1: right as they're hitting him, the ball's getting out. Malik's

1818
01:25:44,600 --> 01:25:46,479
Speaker 1: got to get there a half step faster and make

1819
01:25:46,520 --> 01:25:48,559
Speaker 1: sure that he's getting the sacks on will Lewson. Here's

1820
01:25:48,560 --> 01:25:50,200
Speaker 1: the other thing. Levis is a big dude. He's a

1821
01:25:50,240 --> 01:25:52,320
Speaker 1: strong guy, so you got to bring him to the ground.

1822
01:25:52,800 --> 01:25:56,320
Speaker 1: But the flip side is you also have to get

1823
01:25:56,400 --> 01:25:59,439
Speaker 1: off blocks and help on Derrick Henry. It's going to

1824
01:25:59,479 --> 01:26:01,640
Speaker 1: be one thing for the defensive lineman. It's one thing

1825
01:26:01,720 --> 01:26:05,880
Speaker 1: for the defensive lineman to occupy blocks, but against Henry,

1826
01:26:05,960 --> 01:26:08,320
Speaker 1: you've got to help on tackles because it's that much

1827
01:26:08,360 --> 01:26:09,400
Speaker 1: more difficult to tackle.

1828
01:26:09,920 --> 01:26:12,360
Speaker 7: Good choice. We were just talking about guys with lots

1829
01:26:12,400 --> 01:26:14,800
Speaker 7: of sacks. Reggie White was one of them. JJ Watt,

1830
01:26:14,840 --> 01:26:17,840
Speaker 7: we brought him up. JJ had double digit sacks for

1831
01:26:17,920 --> 01:26:22,200
Speaker 7: the Texans five different times. Mario Williams did it twice

1832
01:26:22,320 --> 01:26:24,240
Speaker 7: two thousand and seven, two thousand and eight. He also

1833
01:26:24,280 --> 01:26:26,600
Speaker 7: had Connor Barwin hit like eleven and a half and

1834
01:26:26,640 --> 01:26:30,280
Speaker 7: twenty eleven, and then Whitney twenty sixteen, Whitney merciless, he

1835
01:26:30,320 --> 01:26:33,160
Speaker 7: had double digit sacks. So it's the only four until

1836
01:26:33,640 --> 01:26:37,400
Speaker 7: Jonathan Garnard Sunday got too. So my guy for this Sunday,

1837
01:26:37,400 --> 01:26:39,880
Speaker 7: I want Grenard because we don't know, like we said,

1838
01:26:39,920 --> 01:26:41,800
Speaker 7: we don't know if will Anderson's gonna suit up if

1839
01:26:41,800 --> 01:26:44,360
Speaker 7: he is certainly not at full strength, and nobody's at

1840
01:26:44,360 --> 01:26:47,040
Speaker 7: full strength ever, I know that, but he's diminished a

1841
01:26:47,080 --> 01:26:50,400
Speaker 7: little bit. So John, let's get after like you're saying

1842
01:26:50,720 --> 01:26:53,000
Speaker 7: you need him leak up the middle for the dual

1843
01:26:53,040 --> 01:26:55,639
Speaker 7: action of getting after the quarterback but really also stuffing

1844
01:26:55,720 --> 01:26:58,120
Speaker 7: up Derrick Henry not getting a full out of steam.

1845
01:26:58,880 --> 01:27:02,280
Speaker 7: Let's see you, Jonathan Garnard, keep doing what you're doing.

1846
01:27:02,360 --> 01:27:03,480
Speaker 7: Get two sacks.

1847
01:27:03,720 --> 01:27:07,280
Speaker 1: Facing a rookie, facing a rookie Jalen Duncan from Maryland

1848
01:27:07,360 --> 01:27:10,160
Speaker 1: facing a rookie. So uh JG. You're right, he's got

1849
01:27:10,280 --> 01:27:11,400
Speaker 1: to have a big one for sure. Good ones.

1850
01:27:11,600 --> 01:27:13,680
Speaker 7: Been fun to see him, you know, succeed the way

1851
01:27:13,720 --> 01:27:16,080
Speaker 7: he has because he had the eight sex season a

1852
01:27:16,080 --> 01:27:17,800
Speaker 7: couple of years ago, only played in a dozen games.

1853
01:27:17,840 --> 01:27:20,880
Speaker 7: And yep, he's been healthy. He's been flourishing this year.

1854
01:27:21,400 --> 01:27:22,560
Speaker 7: I always love doing this with you.

1855
01:27:22,720 --> 01:27:22,960
Speaker 2: John.

1856
01:27:23,320 --> 01:27:25,599
Speaker 7: Don't want to talk about the Jets anymore. Let's get

1857
01:27:25,640 --> 01:27:28,160
Speaker 7: a win in Tennessee. I didn't ask you, you know,

1858
01:27:28,160 --> 01:27:30,600
Speaker 7: how are you are you gonna feel about seeing.

1859
01:27:30,360 --> 01:27:31,439
Speaker 3: The I don't know.

1860
01:27:31,920 --> 01:27:33,760
Speaker 7: I always, like I said, I'm callous to it.

1861
01:27:33,880 --> 01:27:35,679
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just I think I'm kind of the same.

1862
01:27:36,240 --> 01:27:38,360
Speaker 7: I think it'll probably they're doing this just a jab

1863
01:27:38,439 --> 01:27:38,720
Speaker 7: at us.

1864
01:27:38,840 --> 01:27:41,080
Speaker 1: I know, And that's that's probably the biggest reason why

1865
01:27:41,120 --> 01:27:43,719
Speaker 1: probably riles me up a little bit. But because Tennessee

1866
01:27:43,720 --> 01:27:46,280
Speaker 1: fans don't care exactly, I really would like to. I

1867
01:27:46,320 --> 01:27:48,679
Speaker 1: would like to just stuff a win down their throats.

1868
01:27:48,920 --> 01:27:50,639
Speaker 1: That would that would be kind of nice, That would

1869
01:27:50,640 --> 01:27:52,160
Speaker 1: be kind of nice. But I just want to see

1870
01:27:52,240 --> 01:27:55,639
Speaker 1: us go play well and play much better. For here's

1871
01:27:55,680 --> 01:27:57,639
Speaker 1: what I here, there's what I'd like, Drew. I don't

1872
01:27:57,640 --> 01:27:59,719
Speaker 1: want to see perfect, but I want to see sixty

1873
01:27:59,760 --> 01:28:02,160
Speaker 1: minut it's of consistent solid football from this team on

1874
01:28:02,200 --> 01:28:04,800
Speaker 1: both sides at the ball. Yeah, and we've not gotten that.

1875
01:28:05,280 --> 01:28:09,040
Speaker 1: We've gotten a good half here, We've gotten a good

1876
01:28:09,280 --> 01:28:12,200
Speaker 1: game from one side of the ball. The last time

1877
01:28:12,240 --> 01:28:16,679
Speaker 1: we really saw all phases come together was against the Steelers,

1878
01:28:17,200 --> 01:28:20,439
Speaker 1: and we what four It came together on both sides

1879
01:28:20,479 --> 01:28:23,360
Speaker 1: for sixty minutes. It needs to come together, all of

1880
01:28:23,439 --> 01:28:25,600
Speaker 1: it for sixty minutes. I'm not saying you gotta go

1881
01:28:25,600 --> 01:28:28,040
Speaker 1: down to score touchdowns every drive, but you know, put

1882
01:28:28,080 --> 01:28:29,880
Speaker 1: points up on the board as many drives as possible.

1883
01:28:29,920 --> 01:28:32,040
Speaker 1: Don't turn the ball over and then play your ass

1884
01:28:32,080 --> 01:28:34,160
Speaker 1: off on defense. But do it for sixty minutes. Yeah,

1885
01:28:34,439 --> 01:28:37,560
Speaker 1: sixty flip in minutes. No breakdowns, no going on on

1886
01:28:37,600 --> 01:28:41,000
Speaker 1: your own doing things. Just play solid, smart football for

1887
01:28:41,080 --> 01:28:42,280
Speaker 1: sixty minutes and see where you are.

1888
01:28:42,479 --> 01:28:42,800
Speaker 7: I like that.

1889
01:28:43,200 --> 01:28:43,360
Speaker 9: You know.

1890
01:28:43,439 --> 01:28:46,120
Speaker 7: One more thing, this offense. I think we can agree

1891
01:28:46,360 --> 01:28:48,760
Speaker 7: for a variety of reasons for at a variety of

1892
01:28:48,800 --> 01:28:52,560
Speaker 7: different levels. It's better than last year. Superior to the

1893
01:28:52,640 --> 01:28:54,880
Speaker 7: offense we've seen the last couple of years. But really

1894
01:28:54,920 --> 01:28:57,120
Speaker 7: I think the last decade this is a better offense.

1895
01:28:58,000 --> 01:29:01,519
Speaker 7: I also think natural progres ession wise, Davis Mills is

1896
01:29:01,600 --> 01:29:04,479
Speaker 7: probably a better quarterback than what we saw last year

1897
01:29:04,680 --> 01:29:07,599
Speaker 7: in his rookie season. I think being in this scheme,

1898
01:29:07,680 --> 01:29:11,400
Speaker 7: being around these guys, case Keenum, this coaching staff, I

1899
01:29:11,479 --> 01:29:15,599
Speaker 7: think Davis Mills has also had a gig of improvement

1900
01:29:15,720 --> 01:29:18,320
Speaker 7: there as well. I think you're going to see better

1901
01:29:18,520 --> 01:29:20,840
Speaker 7: Davis Mills when he goes out there. I don't know

1902
01:29:20,880 --> 01:29:22,639
Speaker 7: what that means. I don't know how how much better

1903
01:29:22,720 --> 01:29:26,599
Speaker 7: that that makes the team perform, But I do think

1904
01:29:26,640 --> 01:29:29,760
Speaker 7: you're going to see a better Davis Mills in this

1905
01:29:29,960 --> 01:29:33,120
Speaker 7: offense than what you're accustomed to seeing over the last

1906
01:29:33,120 --> 01:29:35,439
Speaker 7: few years. And don't don't forget Davis Mills had a

1907
01:29:35,479 --> 01:29:38,240
Speaker 7: pretty good game last time he suited up and played

1908
01:29:38,240 --> 01:29:41,519
Speaker 7: in a real game that week, a team victory at

1909
01:29:41,720 --> 01:29:42,760
Speaker 7: Indianapolis last year.

1910
01:29:42,880 --> 01:29:46,800
Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, And he beat Tennessee on Christmas Eve Day

1911
01:29:46,960 --> 01:29:50,840
Speaker 1: as well. So it's it's a better defense I think

1912
01:29:50,880 --> 01:29:54,479
Speaker 1: for Tennessee since. But if there's no Jeffrey Simmons, you

1913
01:29:54,560 --> 01:29:57,640
Speaker 1: know who's to say, who's to say? So, you know,

1914
01:29:57,680 --> 01:30:00,400
Speaker 1: hopefully he will remain out of this one. That'll be

1915
01:30:00,439 --> 01:30:02,320
Speaker 1: a big side relief. And then you know, we'll wait

1916
01:30:02,360 --> 01:30:04,080
Speaker 1: for Wednesday and see what the injury report brings and

1917
01:30:04,120 --> 01:30:05,240
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen with the squad.

1918
01:30:05,520 --> 01:30:07,680
Speaker 7: Amen, John always enjoyed talking with you.

1919
01:30:08,040 --> 01:30:10,280
Speaker 1: Well, I thank you, Drew. I enjoyed talking with you

1920
01:30:10,640 --> 01:30:13,680
Speaker 1: as well. Yeah, there's some good stuff in there, but

1921
01:30:13,760 --> 01:30:16,400
Speaker 1: we we went all around it. And yet tonight I

1922
01:30:16,439 --> 01:30:20,280
Speaker 1: can't wait the Minister Defense thirty for thirty on ESPN

1923
01:30:20,520 --> 01:30:23,960
Speaker 1: about Reggie White and apparently it dives into more of Reggie,

1924
01:30:24,360 --> 01:30:27,439
Speaker 1: you know, behind the scenes, off the field, our religion

1925
01:30:27,600 --> 01:30:32,320
Speaker 1: really impacted Reggie. Really sounds like a really good thirty

1926
01:30:32,320 --> 01:30:35,479
Speaker 1: for thirty. Can't wait Head thirty for thirty Saturday night

1927
01:30:35,560 --> 01:30:38,559
Speaker 1: after the Heisman the Great Heisman Race of nineteen ninety seven,

1928
01:30:38,600 --> 01:30:40,599
Speaker 1: which was kind of interesting how they did that one.

1929
01:30:40,640 --> 01:30:42,800
Speaker 1: I'm curious to see how they do this one. I'm

1930
01:30:42,880 --> 01:30:45,640
Speaker 1: sure you will see our favorite textan or a lot

1931
01:30:45,680 --> 01:30:48,479
Speaker 1: of your favorite text and JJ watt on there. He

1932
01:30:48,640 --> 01:30:51,040
Speaker 1: was born in Wisconsin, lived in Wisconsin while Reggie was

1933
01:30:51,040 --> 01:30:53,880
Speaker 1: wrecking shop, and was very easy to look up to

1934
01:30:53,960 --> 01:30:57,439
Speaker 1: Big number ninety two. And the one clip I saw

1935
01:30:57,520 --> 01:31:00,000
Speaker 1: on social media today or yesterday, I can remember which

1936
01:31:00,040 --> 01:31:03,559
Speaker 1: one it was, but it showed JJ talking and then

1937
01:31:03,600 --> 01:31:07,240
Speaker 1: the b roll was Reggie White using his hunt move,

1938
01:31:07,320 --> 01:31:10,599
Speaker 1: which is absolutely awesome. Quinn Williams through that hump move

1939
01:31:10,880 --> 01:31:13,559
Speaker 1: on a Texans offensive lignment on Sunday and it was gross,

1940
01:31:13,920 --> 01:31:18,000
Speaker 1: like like gross. It was so powerful and so cool,

1941
01:31:18,080 --> 01:31:19,560
Speaker 1: and I've seen very few people that can do that.

1942
01:31:19,640 --> 01:31:22,600
Speaker 1: John Allen does that. Jonathan Allen with the Commanders does that.

1943
01:31:23,400 --> 01:31:26,080
Speaker 1: Hardly anybody else does it. Reggie White started at thirty

1944
01:31:26,640 --> 01:31:29,320
Speaker 1: years ago, so I can't wait to see that. All Right,

1945
01:31:29,320 --> 01:31:31,400
Speaker 1: we're gonna go around the NFL some of the stories

1946
01:31:31,439 --> 01:31:36,120
Speaker 1: that are hitting in the league, including AFC, NFC offensive

1947
01:31:36,240 --> 01:31:41,280
Speaker 1: players the week. Texans somehow well found themselves in the

1948
01:31:41,479 --> 01:31:44,320
Speaker 1: midst of at least one of them. We'll touch on

1949
01:31:44,439 --> 01:31:49,120
Speaker 1: those next right here on Texans All Access. All right,

1950
01:31:49,200 --> 01:31:51,559
Speaker 1: let's go round the NFL. Right here on a Wednesday

1951
01:31:51,640 --> 01:31:54,080
Speaker 1: edition of Texans All Access. I am John Harris, shows

1952
01:31:54,120 --> 01:31:58,559
Speaker 1: appreciate you being here with me. A couple of non

1953
01:31:59,280 --> 01:32:02,920
Speaker 1: week game game week items. The NFL is gonna play

1954
01:32:02,920 --> 01:32:05,040
Speaker 1: a game in South Powell, Brazil. How about that twenty

1955
01:32:05,080 --> 01:32:10,439
Speaker 1: twenty four. Now, apparently the Dolphins are like areas of

1956
01:32:10,479 --> 01:32:14,599
Speaker 1: the world are tied into certain teams, like we are

1957
01:32:14,640 --> 01:32:20,360
Speaker 1: connected to Mexico City. The Dolphins are connected to Spain

1958
01:32:21,360 --> 01:32:23,920
Speaker 1: and Brazil. Now they're the only team connected to Spain.

1959
01:32:24,000 --> 01:32:26,920
Speaker 1: Now to Brazil. Sorry, they've got another team that's connected

1960
01:32:26,920 --> 01:32:30,080
Speaker 1: to Spain. But in twenty twenty fourth they're playing that

1961
01:32:30,160 --> 01:32:33,040
Speaker 1: game there. It's more likely an NFC team. My guess

1962
01:32:33,120 --> 01:32:36,080
Speaker 1: is they'll want the Cowboys. Now there's a chance that

1963
01:32:36,120 --> 01:32:39,800
Speaker 1: Texans could play the Cowboys next year. I know you're like,

1964
01:32:39,840 --> 01:32:42,880
Speaker 1: wait a second, every four years, No, it's remember the

1965
01:32:43,000 --> 01:32:47,920
Speaker 1: seventeenth game is you play the team that finishes in

1966
01:32:48,000 --> 01:32:51,840
Speaker 1: the same spot as you in the standings from two

1967
01:32:51,920 --> 01:32:54,720
Speaker 1: years prior or the year before, the year before. We

1968
01:32:54,800 --> 01:32:59,400
Speaker 1: play the NFC East. So if the Cowboys win a division,

1969
01:32:59,400 --> 01:33:01,960
Speaker 1: we win a division, will play. If the Cowboys finished second,

1970
01:33:02,080 --> 01:33:04,080
Speaker 1: we finished second, will play. I don't know, maybe that

1971
01:33:04,120 --> 01:33:06,559
Speaker 1: game will be in South Powlo, Brazil, but we'll see.

1972
01:33:06,640 --> 01:33:09,759
Speaker 1: My guess is it's an MC team, but the Dolphins

1973
01:33:09,760 --> 01:33:11,200
Speaker 1: are the one that's tied there, so I don't know.

1974
01:33:11,320 --> 01:33:13,000
Speaker 1: We'll see what happens. But there will be a game

1975
01:33:13,000 --> 01:33:15,479
Speaker 1: in South Palo Brazil. There will also be a game

1976
01:33:15,840 --> 01:33:19,200
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, California, in twenty twenty seven. It's called

1977
01:33:19,200 --> 01:33:22,800
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. Yes, LA gets it, five years after

1978
01:33:23,280 --> 01:33:26,280
Speaker 1: having their last Super Bowl at SOFI Stadium over there

1979
01:33:26,280 --> 01:33:31,280
Speaker 1: in Inglewood. So the super Bowl going back to LA

1980
01:33:32,080 --> 01:33:36,599
Speaker 1: twenty twenty seven, that'll be Super Bowl sixty one. Good god,

1981
01:33:36,960 --> 01:33:39,600
Speaker 1: super Bowl sixty one. The first one I remember is

1982
01:33:39,680 --> 01:33:44,599
Speaker 1: Super Bowl eleven. Good man, Holy smokes. There are teams

1983
01:33:44,640 --> 01:33:48,720
Speaker 1: that can clinch playoff berths this week. The Ravens, the Cowboys,

1984
01:33:48,880 --> 01:33:53,919
Speaker 1: the Lions, and the Eagles can all clinch a playoff

1985
01:33:54,200 --> 01:33:58,519
Speaker 1: berth this weekend. For the Ravens, they are all kinds

1986
01:33:58,560 --> 01:34:03,000
Speaker 1: of there's like not scenario night scenarios that have got

1987
01:34:03,120 --> 01:34:05,519
Speaker 1: to happen, or nine things that could happen they clinch

1988
01:34:05,920 --> 01:34:11,400
Speaker 1: a playoff birth. For example, Baltimore wins, Denver loses or ties,

1989
01:34:11,560 --> 01:34:15,360
Speaker 1: Buffalo loses or ties, that gets him in. We're actually

1990
01:34:15,400 --> 01:34:19,679
Speaker 1: mentioning here too, the third scenario. Baltimore wins, Denver loses

1991
01:34:19,720 --> 01:34:23,000
Speaker 1: their ties, Pitts, I'm sorry, Denver loser ties, Houston loses

1992
01:34:23,040 --> 01:34:26,200
Speaker 1: their ties. That gets them a playoff berth, so I

1993
01:34:26,200 --> 01:34:30,320
Speaker 1: don't know. Clinching playoff berths in week fifteen would be

1994
01:34:30,479 --> 01:34:33,759
Speaker 1: kind of cool. That will not happen for your Houston Texans,

1995
01:34:34,280 --> 01:34:37,679
Speaker 1: even if they're able to win in Tennessee, which hopefully

1996
01:34:37,840 --> 01:34:40,160
Speaker 1: they do big Thanks a lot of people on today's show.

1997
01:34:40,680 --> 01:34:43,080
Speaker 1: We gotta thank Mark Vanderberg, I think Nick Cassario, gotta

1998
01:34:43,080 --> 01:34:46,640
Speaker 1: thank Stephanie Gonzalez and John Weeks, Walter Peyton, Man of

1999
01:34:46,680 --> 01:34:49,680
Speaker 1: the Year candidate Texans Representative Drew Doherty of course, and

2000
01:34:50,000 --> 01:34:53,400
Speaker 1: Titan's voice Mike Keith. We'll see tomorrow everybody, and as always,

2001
01:34:53,479 --> 01:34:54,040
Speaker 1: go Texans.